Arthur Witters, Builder of USAF Academy, Dies

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Arthur G. Witters, among the first construction graduates of the University of Florida, a retired U.S. Air Force colonel and a key figure in managing design, construction and early operation of the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo., died on April 16 in Orlando at age 91. The cause was pulmonary fibrosis, says Richard C. Witters, his son and president of design firm Witters & Bank. After his 1941 degree and World War II service as a decorated fighter pilot, Witters studied architectural engineering at Iowa State University, where he developed the Air Force Academy's design concept for his master's thesis. The former West Point instructor was the academy's first installations director. He worked with the planned facility's outside designer and builders once Con- qff we GO gress approved construction funds (right), the aca in 1954.