From the obituary of Princeton engineering professor Norman Sollenberger:
… Sollenberger was a fine teacher who deeply cared for his students, according to colleagues. He once devoted many hours to ensuring a young civil engineering student from Hong Kong, a rarity in the 1950s, would graduate. That engineer, Gordon Y.S. Wu, went on to help found a major Hong Kong-based construction firm. When he returned to Princeton years later to announce a record-breaking $100 million gift to the University, the first person Wu asked to visit was Sollenberger.
April 19th, 2009 at 12:27PM
I believe he is the namesake of Wu Hall, one of the buildings of Princeton’s Butler College.
April 20th, 2009 at 7:06AM
Cast your bread upon the waters….
April 20th, 2009 at 10:47AM
One of Sollenberger’s other accomplishments during his 10 years (1961-1971)as chair of Civil Engineering at Princeton was to develop the linkages between engineering and the humanities as reflected in the work of scholars like David P. Billington, whom Sollenberger encouraged to join the department.