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LEROY E. MOELLER
Since
being appointed to the post of Superintendent for the City of Alhambra Water
Department in 1958, Mr. Leroy E. Moeller has shown himself to be a competent
executive, and by his training and experience singularly qualified him for the
important position he holds.
Mr.
Leroy E. Moeller, born on July 25, 1915, in Worthington, Minnesota, is the son
of Leonard G. and Elizabeth (Johnson) Moeller.
His father operated a soda bottling plant in Worthington, but is now
retired and lives with his wife in Los Angeles.
The brother of Mr. Moeller is a resident of Anaheim.
When
Leroy E. Moeller was four years old, the family moved to California and settled
in Los Angeles. After attending
elementary school and Fremont High School in Los Angeles, he took a series of
courses in Engineering at the California Institute of Technology under the War
Training Office and at the University of California, Extension Division in Los
Angeles.
He
met Marjorie French, an Alhambra girl, who attended Alhambra High School, and
who was active in drama and later in the Alhambra High School Booster
Club. On October 9, 1938, they were
married in the First Methodist Church in Pasadena, California. They have one son, Ronald Eldred Moeller, a
graduate of Alhambra High School, who attends East Los Angeles City College.
The
Moeller’s moved to Alhambra in 1939. Mr.
Moeller worked for the New Market Meat Packing Company in Vernon for ten
years. He left this job in 1943 to do
research and development work for the California Institute of Technology in
Pasadena. From February, 1945 to 1946,
during World War II, Mr. Moeller served in the United States Navy and at the
end of the war worked in the circulation department of the Navy News in Guam.
Since
1946 he has worked for the City of Alhambra.
His first job was in the Engineering Department, working with the
surveying crew. Then he worked as a
civil engineering draftsman, and in 1948 began his career in the Water
Department, starting as Assistant Engineer.
In 1958 he was appointed Superintendent of the City of Alhambra Water
Department, with offices in the City Hall, a position he has held for the past
three years.
Mr.
Moeller is a member of the American Water Works Association; a member of the
Los Angeles City and County Engineers Association, and a member of the Southern
California Utilities Association.
He
is also a member of the Temple City Toastmasters Club, and serves on the Board
of Control of the Alhambra Exchange Club.
Fraternally he is a member of the Alhambra Masonic Lodge No. 322, and
the Alhambra High Twelve Club, a Masonic social organization.
Mr.
Moeller’s special hobby is woodworking.
Transcribed by
V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source:
Historical Volume & Reference Works Including Alhambra, Monterey Park,
Rosemead, San Gabriel & Temple City, by Robert P. Studer,
Pages 480-481, Historical Publ., Los Angeles, California. 1962.
© 2013 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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