William Wirt Turner

Background

Turner, William Wirt was born on November 27, 1889 in Matville, West Virginia, United States. Son of Captain William and Martha Dolliver (Hinchman) Turner.

Education

AB, Morris Harvey College, Charleston, West Virginia, 1911; Bachelor of Science in Architecture, University of Notre Dame, 1916; Master of Architecture, University of Notre Dame, 1918.

Career

Member of staff, Center Senior High School, South Bend, Indiana, 1929-1935; assistant professor architecture, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, 1936-1939; associate professor, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, 1940-1944; head department engineering drawing, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, 1942-1957; professor engineering drawing, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, 1945-1957; emeritus, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, since 1957.

Works

• book

  • Integrated problems in engineering drawing and descriptive geometry

Politics

All human life is sacred and created by God and therefore, we must see all human life as significant and valuable. When governments implement the death penalty, then the life of the convicted person is devalued and all possibility of change in that person’s life ends.

Views

The family is the basic human community through which persons are nurtured and sustained in mutual love, responsibility, respect, and fidelity.

Membership

Member American Society Engineering Education, Masons (Scottish Rite, Shriner).

Connections

Married Grace Luella Robertson, June 23, 1921 (deceased April 1960). Children, William, Virginia Ann Hull. Married second, Julia Dickinson Secrest, March 22, 1962.

Father:

Captain William Turner

Mother:

Martha Dolliver (Hinchman) Turner

Spouse:

Grace Luella Robertson

Spouse:

second