Preface

Author’s Introduction and Acknowledgments

List of People Interviewed by Author

Book One

The Early Years

Chapter 1 The Texas Setting

Chapter 2 Roots, Growing Up, and the Formative Years of Education

Chapter 3 The Dust Bowl Days and the Great Depression

Chapter 4 Texas Tech College and ROTC

Chapter 5 The Prelude to War

Book One — Suggested Reading

Book Two

The World War II Years

Five Combat Campaigns in Europe

Chapter 6 Beginning a Lifetime Association with the U.S.Army

Chapter 7 Invasion of Europe, D-Day, OMAHA Beach Enclave

Chapter 8 Breakout from the OMAHA Enclave to Liberation of France, the Ardennes, and Crossing the Rhine into Germany

Chapter 9 Allied Victory in Europe, the Army of Occupation, and Heading Home

Book Two — Suggested Reading

Book Three

The Academic Years

Dean of the College of Engineering

and Post-Dean Years

Chapter 10 A Time of Transition

Chapter 11 The Professional Selection of an Academic Career

Chapter 12 Johns Hopkins University

Chapter 13 Development of an Environmental (Sanitary) Engineering

Program and Center for Water Resources Research

Chapter 14 Dean of the College of Engineering

The University of Texas at Austin —1970-1987

Chapter 15 Melding of Teaching, Research and Professional Interests 319

Chapter 16 Changing Pace

Chapter 17 Reflections

Book Three — Suggested Reading

Appendices

Appendix A Sanitary/Environmental History of The University of Texas at Austin

Appendix B The University of Texas at Austin Alumni Magazine, Alcalde, January 1974, and American Academy of Environmental

Engineers, The Diplomate, April 1991

Appendix C Correspondence and Remembrances from Earnest Gloyna’s World War II Comrades in Arms

Appendix D “Memories of War,” Theron “Tex” Lehr

Appendix E Frank Denius Correspondence and Military Recollections WW II

Appendix F Recollections of Colonel Tom Galloway Fergusson World War II Family Historian

Appendix G A Staff Officer’s Story of World War II Service in Europe Tom Gillis, Staff Member, General George Patton’s Third Army

Appendix H “The Way It Was” The World War II Memories of Harry C.Holmes, Jr.

Appendix I Reunion of World War II Veterans of the Ninth Air Force and 820th Engineering Aviation Battalion

Appendix J Retirement of Dean Earnest F.Gloyna, and Letters of Appreciation, 1983 and 1987

Appendix K Supercritical Water Oxidation (SCWO)

Appendix L Recognition Party, Earnest Gloyna’s 70th Birthday, May 1991

Appendix M Related Information

M-1 Continuing the Commitment Annual Report 1986-1987, Excerpts

M-2 The Texas Society of Professional Engineers

M-3 The Exciting World of Engineering, Commencement Address, 2001

M-4 Notes for Defining Role of Deanship

M-5 Special Recognition Bestowed on Gloyna by the Austin Downtown Rotary Club, September 20, 2005, Presented by Vic Mathias

M-6 D.B.Steinman, Founder, National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE)

M-7 Caricatures by Jack Lawrence

M-8 Story of Alec

M-9 Appreciation for the Support and Association

• Dr. Gerard Rohlich

• Dr. J. Tinsley Oden

• Dr. Hans Mark

• Mr. Henry Groppe

M-10 The Beginning: Earnest F.Gloyna and Davis L.Ford, 1963

Appendix N The Earnest F.Gloyna Family

• Biographical Data of Earnest F. Gloyna

• Biographical Data of Agnes Mary Gloyna

• Biographical Data of David Gloyna

• Biographical Data of Lisa Gloyna