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D.A.
Weaver
Class of 1996
Background:
D.A. Weaver, the fourth of nine children of Dennis P. Weaver
and his wife, the former Margaret Burke, was born February
12, 1916, at South Waverly, Sayre, Pennsylvania. In due course,
he worked his way through Penn State University with summer
jobs on two railroads and an iron mine. He completed a master's
degree six months before Pearl Harbor and spent the next three
years overseas with the British Eighth Army in Africa and
Italy, and with the Free French in France and Germany. A portion
of that experience has been captured in a history entitled
The Saga of Section Six, to which D.A. Weaver contributed
a chapter of "Vignettes," published in 1994 by the
American Field Service, AFS Archives and Museum, 220 West
42nd Street, New York, New York, 10017 U.S.A.
Professional
Experience:
Like most safety professionals of his generation, D.A. Weaver
got started in safety by getting a job. He was hired by Markel
Service, Highway Transportation Specialists, and assigned
to work with Professor Amos E. Neyhart (Hall of Fame inductee,
Class of 1988) at Penn State University on a pioneer program
to curtail truck accidents on the highway. Since then, safety
evolved into varied curricula at most major universities supported
by an ever-growing library of fundamental texts. D.A. Weaver
contributed to this expansion by teaching at Penn State University
for three years, at Purdue University for seven years, at
Northwestern University Traffic Institute for one year, and
for sixteen years as director of policyholder education for
Wausau Insurance Companies. He contributed by innumerable
lectures across the nation, and in Australia and New Zealand.
His innovative courses in safety management yielded several
articles and publications. He closed his active career by
practicing what he had preached, serving as safety manager
at a complex enterprise, the Transportation Test Center in
Pueblo, Colorado.
Career
Highlights:
In 1990, D.A. Weaver was named a Fellow of the American Society
of Safety Engineers to honor the cumulative impact of his
work on two generations of safety professionals. In his career,
he worked for or with, and learned from, no less than thirty
safety "greats" now immortalized in The Safety and
Health Hall of Fame International, or honored as Fellows of
ASSE. His articles were incorporated, with generous credit,
in books by Ted Ferry and by Frank Bird (both Hall of Fame
inductees) and by Dr. Dan C. Petersen and Jack ReVelle. In
retirement, he clarified the copyright of Technic of Operations
Review - TOR Analysis, with the cooperation of Wausau Insurance
Companies, to make TOR Analysis available to all, and he continued
his life work and dedication to safety in local and national
organizations.
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