padded info on his early influences/p table style=background-color: white; color:black; col class='diff-marker' / col class='diff-content' / col class='diff-marker' / col class='diff-content' / tr valign='top' td colspan='2' style=background-color: white; color:black;← Previous revision/td td colspan='2' style=background-color: white; color:black;Revision as of 11:36, 12 February 2009/td /tr tr td colspan=2 class=diff-linenoLine 1:/td td colspan=2 class=diff-linenoLine 1:/td/trtr td class=diff-marker /td td style=background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;div{{Expand|date=January 2009}}/div/td td class=diff-marker /td td style=background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;div{{Expand|date=January 2009}}/div/td/trtr td class=diff-marker /td td style=background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;/td td class=diff-marker /td td style=background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;/td/trtr td class=diff-marker-/td td style=background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;div'''Maurice Lee Maury Albertson''' (Aug. 30, 1918 – January 11, 2009)lt;refgt;http://www.denverpost.com/ci_1143864...torylt;/refgt;, PhD, civil engineer, a teacher of water resources management over a long career (starting in 1947) at Colorado State University (CSU)(Fort Collins) and former head of the CSU Research Foundation (CSURF), was born and grew up in Hays, KS. There he learned from his father about helping others in a rural environment. albertson eventually headed all research projects at CSU. He was a graduate of Iowa State University at Ames, where he received his Ph.D., and span style=color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;has /spana D.Phys.Sc. degree from the University of Grenoble in France. His first wife, Dolly, died in 1976. His second wife, Audrey Faulkner, who survived him, is co-author on some of his publications. /div/td td class=diff-marker+/td td style=background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;div'''Maurice Lee Maury Albertson''' (Aug. 30, 1918 – January 11, 2009)lt;refgt;http://www.denverpost.com/ci_1143864...torylt;/refgt;, PhD, civil engineer, a teacher of water resources management over a long career (starting in 1947) at Colorado State University (CSU)(Fort Collins) and former head of the CSU Research Foundation (CSURF), was born and grew up in Hays, KS. There he learned from his father about helping others in a rural environment span style=color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;and living a life based on the Sermon on the Mount. Having witnessed economic hardship at the time of the Great Depression and seeing the effect of prolonged drought, he was inspired to focus on water resources.lt;refgt;http://www.aol.com.au/tv/story/Mauri...ndex/span.span style=color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;htmllt;/refgt; /spanAlbertson eventually headed all research projects at CSU. He was a graduate of Iowa State University at Ames, where he received his Ph.D., and span style=color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;received /spana D.Phys.Sc. degree from the University of Grenoble in France. His first wife, Dolly span style=color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;(Myrtle Marie Campbell originally of Waterloo, IA)/span, died in 1976. His second wife, Audrey Faulkner, who survived him, is co-author on some of his publications. /div/td/trtr td class=diff-marker /td td style=background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;/td td class=diff-marker /td td style=background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;/td/trtr td class=diff-marker /td td style=background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;divAlbertson has been credited with changing the face of U.S. volunteerism.lt;refgt;http://www.voanews.com/english/archi....cfmlt;/refgt; He recalled that the phone rang at 2 AM on a 1961 morning, and that when he answered he found himself talking to Sargent Shriver, first director of the Peace Corps. Shriver was calling to ask him about a CSURF study on creating a youth volunteer group. Shriver apologized for the hour, but said he'd been working on the program all night and had worked his way to albertson on his list of people to call. He wanted albertson to come to Washington immediately. The CSURF research albertson oversaw was used in setting up the Peace Corps. The Peace Corps remained true to the original vision in Albertson's opinion. [3]/div/td td class=diff-marker /td td style=background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;divAlbertson has been credited with changing the face of U.S. volunteerism.lt;refgt;http://www.voanews.com/english/archi....cfmlt;/refgt; He recalled that the phone rang at 2 AM on a 1961 morning, and that when he answered he found himself talking to Sargent Shriver, first director of the Peace Corps. Shriver was calling to ask him about a CSURF study on creating a youth volunteer group. Shriver apologized for the hour, but said he'd been working on the program all night and had worked his way to albertson on his list of people to call. He wanted albertson to come to Washington immediately. The CSURF research albertson oversaw was used in setting up the Peace Corps. The Peace Corps remained true to the original vision in Albertson's opinion. [3]/div/td/tr!-- diff generator: wikidiff2 srv167 2009-02-12 11:36:28 --!-- diff cache key enwiki:diff:version:1.11a2:oldid:269936960:newid:2 70201856 --/table