Paul Box, Willa Wilcox Mylroie-Fassett, Rich Romer

Our District has recently lost three distinguished members.  We will miss these colleagues and friends:

Paul Box (1923-2012) was a recipient of ITE’s Burton W. Marsh Distinguished Award. His memorial service will be held in Scottsdale, Arizona July 29th. He is perhaps best known as author of the “Manual of Traffic Engineering Studies” that was on the bookshelves of just about everyone in our industry a few decades ago. Paul chaired many committees, notably the ITE Recommended Practice for Residential Subdivision Streets, Driveway Design and Location, Urban Major Street Design, and Parking Facility Location and Design. We encourage you to read his final publication, entitled “Elements of Retail Shopping Center Design“.

Willa Wilcox Mylroie-Fassett (1917-2012), an ITE Honorary Member, should be remembered in our district for, among other things, helping to organize the WesternITE Journal, being the first woman elected president of Western District (then Western Section) in 1970, being the first woman elected to ITE’s International Board of Direction, and influencing the change in ITE’s name to Institute of Transportation Engineers. She served for many years with the Washington State Department of Highways. She attended our 2003 Annual Meeting in Seattle to receive our District’s Lifetime Achievement Award.

Rich Romer (1950-2012) was our District’s president in 1997-1998, and the ITE International President in 2006. He worked for the City of Scottsdale AZ, the City of Palm Desert CA, Clark County NV, and Orth-Rodgers & Associates in Las Vegas. Our Annual Meeting in Santa Barbara was dedicated to Rich’s memory by then-president Alyssa Reynolds, who was recruited out of college to Nevada by Rich.  The family has indicated their wish to have memorial contributions made to the Nevada Cancer Institute, One Breakthrough Way, Las Vegas, NV USA 89135

Please consider making a contribution to the ITE 80th Anniversary Fund in fond memory of Paul C. Box, Willa Wilcox Mylroie-Fassett, and/or Richard T. Romer, payable to the Institute of Transportation Engineers, 1627 Eye Street, NW, Suite 600, Washington, DC 20006.