Distinguished Engineering Alumnus
Award Recipient
William E. Angelo — 2006
A native of Forsyth County, N.C., William E. Angelo received his bachelor's degree in chemical engineering with honors in 1942 from North Carolina State University. After graduation, he joined the General Defense Corporation in Point Pleasant, W.V., as a chemist. He later transferred to Edgewater, N.J., where he was a foreman in a sulfuric acid plant. Following transfers to East St. Louis, Ill., and Chicago, Bill joined Algonquin Chemical in Dubuque, Iowa, another sulfuric acid manufacturer.
In 1948, he moved to Bristol, Tenn., where he met and married his wife of 35 years, the late June Hicks, and began work at S.E. Massengill, a pharmaceutical company that was bought by Beecham in 1971. For most of his career, Bill led the engineering department overseeing major projects, including moving the penicillin compounding and packaging facilities from Piscataway, N.J.; remodeling the animal vaccine plant in Whitehall, Ill.; and managing the design and construction of an office building at the Bristol site. Bill retired in 1985 with 37 years of service.
In 1996 Bill and his brother, Jim, established the Ernest James and Ethel Hudgins Angelo Memorial Scholarship in memory of their parents. The endowment supports scholarships for four students pursuing engineering degrees with an interest in environmental engineering. He lives in Bristol, Tenn.
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