City Says Goodbye To Fred Mammel, Other Retirees

City Says Goodby To Fred Mammel, Other Retirees

By Glen Harris 

CITY GOVERNMENT REPORTER

Thirteen retiring City Hall employes, including Superintendent of Public Works Fredrick A. Mammel, took their final bows at a City Hall employee recognition banquet Friday night.

Mammel will be leaving the post he has held for the past 19 years at the end of this month, ending 30 years with the city, all in its public works operation.

The 55-year-old civil engineer joined the department immediately following graduation from the University's School of Engineering. The former Bay City resident went through the ranks from design engineer to civil engineer to senior engineer before being named assistant superintendent in 1954 and taking over the top job in 1958.

FOR MOST of that reign Mammel headed the .largest and most varied department in City Hall. Before a reorganization two years ago Mammel was responsible for Ann Arbor’s refuse collection and landfill operation, its storm and sanitary sewer systems and all street construction and maintenance operations.

The reorganization consolidated all traffic and street programs into the Streets, Traffic and Parking Department. That still left Mammel responsible for all refuse and sewer projects, including initial implementation of the $43 million sewer plant expansion slated to begin this fall.

A Navy man who served with the Seabees on Guam at the end of World War II, Mammel was named “engineer of the year” in 1973 by the local chapter of a national engineering society.

He has also served as president of Downtown Kiwanis, a Boy Scout commissioner, president of the Citizens Safety and Traffic Council and is a former superintendent of the St. Paul Sunday School.

Friday night's banquet, at Roma Hall, honored both the new and previous retirees, plus present employees who have been with the city for 20 years or more. Included in those honored were 29 persons who have worked with the city 30 years or more.

News photo by Larry E. Wright

Mammel At Retirement Dinner