Michigan State University, Purdue University, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the University of Illinois and the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor all made.
A Lake Zurich resident and former Motorola engineer said he hopes to make his hometown a center for tech innovation by consolidating his consulting company, light manufacturing operation and nonprofit into a new development near the village s downtown.
David Burton Olin, aged 94, died on December 20, 2022, in Two Harbors, Minnesota. David was born in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, in 1928. He graduated from Greenway High School in Coleraine in 1946 and immediately enlisted in the US Navy. After his discharge, he attended Itasca Junior College in Coleraine for one year and then Purdue University in Lafayette, Indiana, graduating in 1952 with the highest distinction in civil engineering. He worked for two years for US Steel in Virginia, Minnesota, as a mine engineer before returning to Purdue to teach and to earn a Master’s Degree in structural engineering.