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GIFT REPORT 2006: Spangler expands his investments in the College of Engineering

Harvey Spangler is a common name on the College of Engineering campus. You’ll see it on the list of donors to the Engineering Centers Building. It’s known to students who receive Spangler scholarships and faculty who receive the Spangler Technology Enhanced Instruction Award. Chemical and Biological Engineering Professor Michael Graham currently holds a Harvey D. Spangler Professorship.

Soon, another professorship will bear Spangler’s name.

Spangler is endowing a second professorship and considers this gift, and his many others to the College of Engineering, an investment.

“It’s an investment in the future of our country, really,” Spangler says. “As a nation and as a college we have to be able to compete in the world. The college can compete much better if they have great faculty than if they don’t. It’s about as simple as that.”

Spangler graduated from UW-Madison in 1956 with a BS in chemical engineering and a commission in the United States Army Corps of Engineers. He worked for what is now the Exxon Research & Engineering Co. in New Jersey. Initially he focused on fluid catalytic cracker operating problems, and later designed various refinery and chemical plants.

In 1979 Spangler was selected to be a member of the Ammonia Safety Committee, a subcommittee of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AICHE), and was the committee chair in 1985. He also was chair of the AICHE Safety and Health Division in 1989. He retired in 1991.

Spangler says one of the most pleasant gifts he received after graduating from the College of Engineering in 1956 was the knowledge that he had graduated from one the top-rated universities in the country. His support ensures today’s students will continue to receive that same gift.

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