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Mr. E. Joseph Franczak
Civil Engineering Technician
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E. Joseph Franczak started work at White Sands Missile
Range in 1952 as an engineering aide. Over the years he advanced in rank and
responsibility and was soon recognized as the range's authority on
instrumentation facilities. At the time of his death on December 6, 1973,
Franczak was a civil engineering technician with the National Range
Directorate.
During his entire tenure of Federal service, Franczak
was noted as a man willing to take on responsibilities which were far in
excess of those normally assigned at his rank. Letters of endorsement from his
former supervisors for the Hall of Fame nomination attest to this. They are
uniform in their praise of Franczak's expertise and ability to get any job
done.
When he died, Franczak had just completed one of his
most important tasks at WSMR as project engineer for the range photo
processing facility. The project involved the complete stripping and
reconstruction of one photo lab and the refurbishing of another. All of the
engineering design criteria were based upon his work. He designed the facility
so materials and data moved in a rational and simplified manner, so processes
were located to cut costs and time, so human errors had little effect, and so
quality was emphasized and control easily maintained. As the project evolved
everyone relied on Franczak's input. He, in turn, monitored the operation to
insure the work met the range's needs.
While involved in many range projects and receiving
many awards he was always reluctant about recognition. Whatever his work or
the time required, he considered it all just part of the regular working day.
Despite this modesty, Franczak has created a niche for himself in the history
of White Sands. During his 21 years here, he either designed or helped design
and approve 90 percent of the approximately 3,000 National Range
instrumentation sites. He is also responsible for naming half of the sites.
Most of the range's instrumentation sites as well as
some of the major resources and permanent buildings are a standing monument to
Franczak.
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