Aaroe, William Henry : 1920-1992

Name: William Henry Aaroe

Occupation: State government official
Born: Perth Amboy, New Jersey, 18-Jun-1920
Died:

Son of Christian Peter and Hilda (Petersen) Aaroe

Education: Bachelor of Science in Sanitary Engineering, Rutgers University, 1942; Master of Public Health, University of Michigan, 1960

Married: Mildred Isabella Ramsay, 21-Sept-1946
Children: Wendy Lou, William C.

Field engineer water waste surveys Pitometer Company, Incorporated, New York City, 1948-50; engineer public water supplies and stream pollution control New Jersey Department of Health, Trenton, 1950-57, with radiation protection division, 1958-62, chief radiological health program, 1962-70; deputy director, Office Radiation Control, City of New York, 1970-74; chief occupational and radiological health, City of Philadelphia, 1974-77; director Industrial Hygiene Division, West Virginia Department of Health, South Charleston, 1977-; guest lecturer, Rutgers University Extension, 1960-70, Manhattan College, 1972, New York University Medical Center, Sterling Forest, New York, 1973; adjunct assistant professor environmental medicine New York University, 1973-76.  President Metuchen (N.J.) Citizens Committee for Public Schools, 1956-58.  Served with USNR, 1943-62; sanitary engineering director United States Public Health Service

Club(s): Reserve Member American Water Works Association, American Industrial Hygiene Association, American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (chairman waste disposal committee), Health Physics Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Commissioned Officers Association United States Public Health Service, Air Pollution Control Association (chairman Regulations Committee), American Nuclear Society (chairman Part H of the suggested state regulations for the control of radiation).

Author: Contributed articles on fluoridation of water, radioactivity monitoring.

Home Address: 5308 Pamela Circle, Cross Lanes, WV  25313
Office Address: State Health Department of Industrial Hygiene Division 151, 11th Avenue, South Charleston, WV  25303

~ Who's Who in the South and Southwest, 18th Edition, 1982-1983, Page 1

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