Richard A. Vanderhoof ‘39

Richard A. Vanderhoof ‘39 (d) graduated from the Case School of Applied Science with a degree in Civil Engineering. He started his career in 1939 with the Tennessee Valley Authority, and then entered the Marines Officers Candidates Class on the eve of World War II, rising to Major and finally a full Colonel until retirement from the reserves in 1977. After the war, he resumed his civil engineering career in Cincinnati serving with the Corps of Engineering, the Federal Water Pollution Control Administration and the Environmental Protection Administration. He retired in 1982 as Director of the Metropolitan Sewer District in Greater Cincinnati.

The Opal J. and Richard A. Vanderhoof ’39 Scholarship Fund was established in 1996 to provide undergraduate scholarship support to students in the department of Civil Engineering. They also provided support for a named professorship in Civil Engineering.