Background
LaDue, Wendell Richard was born on October 1, 1894 in Mount Pleasant, Ohio, United States. Son of Charles Garrison and Clara Elizabeth (Duncan) LaD.
LaDue, Wendell Richard was born on October 1, 1894 in Mount Pleasant, Ohio, United States. Son of Charles Garrison and Clara Elizabeth (Duncan) LaD.
Bachelor of Science in C.E., University Southern California, 1918. Doctor of Engineering, University Akron, 1963.
With National Tube Company and Wheeling Corrugating Company (West Virginia), 1912-1914. Draftsman to design engineer and engineer Bureau Waterworks Improvement, Akron, Ohio, 1919-1933. Engineer to superintendent and chief engineer Bureau Water Supply, 1933-1942.
Superintendent and chief engineer Bureau Water and Sewerage, 1942-1953, Bureau Water Supply, 1954-1963. Now consultant sanitary engineer Akron. Chairman water and sewerage development committee National Safety Council, 1950-1962.
Member 5 man advisory panel on water facilities Federal Civil Defense Administration, 1950, special consultant on water supply, 1951-1953. Member water and sewerage industry and committee, member engineers joint council committee on National Water Policy, 1950. Member advisory committee Ohio Water Resources Board, 1958-1960.
Chairman municipal water supplies sub-committee Governor's Advisory Committee on Ohio's Water Resources, 1954-1960. Member Ohio Water Commission, 1962-1970, president, 1962, 64, 67, 70. Director Cuyahoga Watershed Council, 1955-1963.
Member advisory committee College Engineering, University Akron, since 1954, organizer, conductor course on engineering management of water utilities to numerous foreign nationals, 1963-1970. Member National Defense Executive Reserve, 1958-1978. Member task group continuity production planning for water and sewerage facilities United States Department Commerce.
Consultant water utility management Agency for International Development. Chairman board directors 3-Rivers Watershed District, 1966-1979. Member Ohio Recreation Resources Commission, 1966-1972.
Member water supply works group Great Lakes Basin Commission, 1968. Chairman Northeast Ohio Water Plan Advisory Committee, 1970-1972. Member advisory committee Akron Children's Zoo, since 1972.
Consultant Akron Metropolitan Park Board, since 1955.
Trustee American Sanitary Engineering Inter-Society Board, Inc., 1955-1959. Trustee Summit County Museum National History, since 1974. Served in United States Navy bureau construction and repair, 1917-1919.
Member war ration board, citizens Navy committee 1942-1945. Member American Water Works Association (life member, honorary member, trustee Central States section 1934-1937, organizer Ohio section 1937, national director 1940-1942, 45-50, 49-63, vice president 1945-1946, president 1946-1947, chairman committee water works administration 1947-1963, Distinguished Public Service award 1969, representative President's Committee Industrial Safety 1950-1956, representative engineers joint council for advancement of sanitary engineering Ohio and American Forestry Association), American Society of Civil Engineers (life member, trustee Cleveland section, founder and president Akron section 1947-1948), National Society Professional Engineers (chairman municipal division, Ohio section 1946-1947), American Public Works Association (chairman water works committee 1947), Akron Council Engineering and Science Societies (co-founder, vice president 1946-1947, Distinguished Service award 1962), Water Pollution Control Federation, Inter American Association Sanitary Engineers, Sigma Alpha Epsilon. Clubs: Masons (Akron) (32 degree), Shriners (Akron), Knight Templar (Akron), Rotary (Akron) (president 1942-1943).
International Torch (president Akron chapter 1941), Congress Lake Country, Akron City, Portage County (member greens and grounds committee 1972– ).
Married Carrie Tina Bachmann, April 5, 1920 (deceased April 1957). Married Dorothy Kline Courtney, September 18, 1959 (deceased September 1978).