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In a site for testing soils, a legacy takes root April 27, 2021
Professor Donald Wallace, Norwich faculty member for 55 years, honored with naming of Juckett Hall engineering lab
Don Wallace’s reputation preceded him, and succeeded him. The mechanical engineering professor spent 55 years teaching at Norwich University, long enough to coach students who’d meet, wed and send more students his way (their children), sometimes twice over. All who entered Wallace’s classroom abandoned hope of an easy ride; he was exacting.
But as President Dr. Mark Anarumo and Wallace’s colleagues related last month, Wallace was tough out of love and wisdom. He knew the world was taxing and wanted his students, whether they became engineers or not, to handle it and thrive. When he died in November 2018, Wallace left not only a crowd of grateful graduates, but a legacy. He donated $3 million to the university’s David Crawford School of Engineering for lab upgrades and other nee