In MemoriamRemembering East Span team members and key participants who passed away during the
project period.
1961 - 2013
Toll Bridge Program Oversight Committee
BIMLA RHINEHART
Engineering and Design Advisory Panel
1930 - 2005BRUCE A. BOLT
1923–1998Nicholas Forell
1923 – 2008Gerard F. (Gerry) Fox
1936 – 2010James H. Gates
1919-2006Ben C. Gerwick, Jr.
1912 - 2003T.Y. Lin
1922 – 2005James E. McCarty, Jr.
1924 – 2011Joseph Penzien
1922 – 2009F. Robert (Bob) Preece
1923 – 2007Alexander C. Scordelis
1925 – 2009Thomas Wosser
Other Design and Engineering Contributors
1924–2011Francis Paul “Frank” Bystrowski
1922–2007Jackson Leland Durkee
1940–2012Helmut Krawinkler
1940–2013Raymond R. Morgan
1945-2013Bill Beck
d.2012Iain Scott Hunter
1929–2009Edwin Kerr McNinch
1949–2009R. Gerald “Jerry” Metz, Jr
1945–2006Roy Teal
1965-2010
Engineer
Alec Melkonians
1930-2006
Caltrans Chief Bridge Engineer
James E. (Jim) Roberts
1950-2002
Sr. Transportation Engineer
Arun Sudhakar
1945-2013Ric Erskine
1938-2010Mohamad "Youssef" Hamidi
1959–2013Charles Smith
1948–2012
MTC General Counsel
Francis Chin
1959–2007
CTC, Family Member
Yvonne Maller
1921–2007
Advocate for bike path on Eastern Span
Alexander Zuckermann
1952–2009
Truck driver who veered off the S-curve
Tahir Sheikh Fakhar
1966–1989
Sole Bay Bridge fatality in the Loma Prieta earthquake
Anamafi Moala Kalushia