Newsletter of the College of Architecture at Texas A&M University
Oscar W. Stewart, an outstanding alumnus of Texas A&M's College of Architecture, died Dec. 23 after a brief coronary illness.
Stewart, who earned a Bachelor of Science in Architectural Construction in 1949, retired as CEO of the structural division of Trinity Industries in 1990.
He spent his entire 41-year career in the steel industry with Houston's Mosher Steel Co. and served 14 years on the Board of Directors of the American Institute of Steel Fabricators. Mosher was acquired by Trinity Industries in 1973 and became known as Trinity's structural division.
Stewart, who endowed several scholarships in the college's departments of architecture and construction science, also served 14 years on the board of directors of the American Institute of Steel Construction.
While a student at Texas A&M, he was a member of the Texas Delta Chapter of Tau Beta Phi, an honorary engineering fraternity. He was also the 1949 recipient of the Outstanding Construction Student Award of the Houston chapter of the Associated General Contractors of America.
Stewart served in the U.S. Marine Corps in World War II and the Korean War.
- Posted: Jan. 21, 2010 -
