MechSE alumnus William Vavrik (BSME '57) passed away on June 12 at the age of 91.
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MechSE alumnus William Vavrik (BSME ’57) passed away on June 12 at the age of 91.
During his career, Mr. Vavrik was a design engineer for Northern Illinois Gas Company and an instructor at the Institute of Gas Technology, a division of the Illinois Institute of Technology.
“I worked my way through college. All the money came from my own pocket, working part-time jobs and through summer,” Vavrik said at the time. “There were a lot of other students who were getting scholarships, but I didn’t qualify for one. So I thought that was one avenue where I had wished I had support, and I hoped someday I would be able to support a student in a similar financial situation as I had been.”