IN MEMORIUM

Maurice Albertson, PhD — August 30, 1918 - January, 11th, 2009

Dr. Maurice Albertson was at Colorado State University for more than 50 years where he had been Director of the Research Foundation (Vice-President for Research), Director of International Programs, and Professor of Civil Engineering.

His professional fields were environmental engineering, the hydrogen economy, water resources engineering, irrigation engineering, hydropower engineering, low-cost and low-energy sustainable wastewater treatment, constructed wetlands for wastewater treatment and international development--specializing in sustainable village-based development.

He had served as a consultant to the World Bank, the UNDP, AID, UNESCO, the Peace Corps and other agencies on projects and programs dealing with environmental engineering, water and sanitation, water resource development, on-farm water management, appropriate technology, village development, small industry development, and research and education. He published in more than 200 publications.

He was known as the creator / co-founder of the Peace Corps in 1960, and creator of VillageEarth.org.

He loved the mountains of Colorado and was an active member of the Colorado Mountain Club well into his eighties.

He will be greatly mourned.

"We need to be motivated by service as well as by profit," Albertson once said. "We serve best by finding out what people want and helping them work to realize their dreams, not by going into a country and telling villagers what they need." (From Today@Colorado State, Thursday, January 22, 2009: CSU mourns passing of legendary Peace Corps co-founder Maurice L. Albertson)