William “Bill” Roman ’51 spent his life providing for others through his work, his family, and his beloved country. He was born to hardworking, immigrant parents—Peter Roman of Rome, Italy, and Ida Salo of Helsinki, Finland. He grew up in San Francisco and worked in his parent’s bakery. Bill was devoted to his parents and helped with the ranch when they retired to Geyserville, California. He left school at age 16 to join the Navy and attended SCU at the urging of his Irish Navy chums. He found faith and converted to Catholicism, which would drive his life of service. He graduated from SCU in 1951 with a degree in civil engineering. Bill married his high school sweetheart, Roxanne, at Mission Santa Clara. He completed a master’s degree in engineering from UC Berkeley while working at Brown and Caldwell. He studied at the University of London, where he and Roxanne enjoyed living and traveling in Great Britain and Europe. They had four rambunctious children, and his career led him from San Francisco to Sacramento to eventually Los Altos. He was a life member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, and his life’s work was in water treatment and water resource management for both Sacramento and Santa Clara Counties. Bill’s projects included flood control, safe drinking water, waste management, and water reclamation. With true excitement, he moved from one water project to the next, including Yosemite, South Lake Tahoe, Diego Garcia, and the San Luis and Aswan dams. When he wasn’t working at his usual job, he was working for the US Army Corps of Engineers and other consultants. He was a member of the Bosnia-Herzegovina NATO Peacekeeping Forces chartered to find clean water for the 10,000 troops stationed there. He later started a second career as a teacher and taught at Gonzaga University, Menlo College, and Foothill College. Bill passed on the values of hard work, education, family participation, and doing for others to his children: Teresa, Michael, Marie, and Steven; grandchildren: John, Peter, Jordan, Gabriel, Juliana, Ashley, and Natalia; and his great-grandchildren: Charlotte and John V. He has influenced his grandchildren’s accomplishments, from education to sports to community service. It was hard to slow Bill down, and when lymphoma hit him, he brought the same drive and determination. He lived another 25 years before being called home peacefully in his sleep on July 8, 2017.