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VAN B. BRUNER JR., FAIA
Architect/Owner
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Born in Washington D.C.
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Early Education - Alabama, North
Carolina & Washington D.C.
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Secondary Education - Woodbury High
School, Woodbury NJ
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College Education - University of
Michigan, Ann Arbor Michigan 1957-1954 BS in Design
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Drexel Evening College - 8 yrs.
night school -Philadelphia PA. 1957 - 1965 BS in
Architecture
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USAF Pilot 1954 - 1957 -
Flew
T-33 Jet/Co Pilot in KC97 SAC Command Honorable Discharge 1957 Captain
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During College and Air Force periods
- Track Scholarship @ U of
M Holder of 65
yard Indoor Dirt Track World's Record in High
Hurdles Ran in 1952 Olympic Trials in Los Angeles, Calif. (made it to the
finals) Ran in 1965 Olympic Trials - did not place in the finals (hung track shoes
up)
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Inducted in the Woodbury High School
Sports Hall of Fame
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Inducted in Gloucester County, NJ
Sports Hall of Fame
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National Technical Association
"Architect of the Year" 1997
- Member of Sigma Pi Phi
Fraternity - Delta Epsilon Boule
- Member of Full Gospel
Business Men's Fellowship International
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE IN EDUCATION
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Department Chairman and Professor of
Building Construction Engineering Technology Department of Spring
Garden Institute of Technology Philadelphia, Pa.
- 10 yrs
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Visiting Lecturer at the following
Universities and Colleges - MIT, Cornell Univ., Howard Univ., Honolulu
Hawaii Univ., Harvard Univ., Tuskegee Ala., under exchange student
program
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10 years on National AIA Scholarship
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Member of Advisory Board of newly
formed School of Architecture at the New
Jersey Institute of Technology - Newark NJ
PROFESSIONAL ARCHITECTURE CAREER
- Started private practice in
Pa - 1965
- Started private practice in
NJ - 1968
- Member of American
Institute of Architects (AIA)
- Former National
Vice-President of the American Institute of Architects (2) yrs.
- Elected to College of
Fellows in the American Institute of Architects
- Former member of the
National Board of Directors AIA
- Former member of National
AIA National Policy Task Force Committee
- Former member of National
AIA Judicial Board
- Charter member of the
National Organization of Minority Architects
- Recipient of the American
Institute of Architect's Whitney M. Young Citation
- Recipient of the New Jersey
Society of Architect's
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