Retired Navy Captain [John C. Gebhard] Joins Cornell Staff.
The Ithaca Journal, Oct 1 1949, P. 3, with photo
"John C. Gebhard, retired U.S. Navy captain who supervised the construction of the Naval Training Center at Sampson and other building projects for the Navy during World War 2, has joined the faculty of the School of Civil Engineering at Cornell.
A Cornell graduate of the Class of 1919, Captain Gebhard retired this year after a 28-year career in the Navy's Engineering Corps, He has been named an assistant professor.
In addition to the $50 million project at Sampson, which was completed on a 6-month schedule, Captain Gebhard directed the wartime construction of airfields, docks and a submarine base in Puerto Rico and a network of air-fields, for naval air training bases at Pensacola, Fla.
From 1945-47 he was design manager in the Navy's Bureau of Yards and Docks, and from 1947 until this year he served as public works officer, office-in-charge of construction and district civil engineer for the Ninth Naval District, at Great Lakes, Ill.
A second lieutenant in the Army coast artillery reserve in World War 1, he was with Bethlehem Steel Bridge Corporation before he entered the Navy in 1921."