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Residence Halls
— Roy E. Downham Hall
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Roy Downham is the newest residence hall on campus and is the Learning Community theme. It is larger than the other
residence halls on campus with almost 190 students compared to 60, and it has some special features.
Roy Downham Hall is equipped with a computer room, an exercise room,
a music practice room, an academic quiet study room, a large
kitchen, and two common lounges. Roy Downham was built in 1994 and makes up a community by itself.
About the man: Roy E. Downham was born in Antigo, Wisconsin, and in 1946 graduated from Clintonville High School.
A Navy veteran, he attended the University of Wisconsin on the G.I. Bill. He received his bachelor of science degree
in mechanical engineering with honors in June 1952. His long and prolific professional career started with The Trane
Company of La Crosse shortly after graduation and included engineering positions with Ansul Chemical Company, Marinette,
and Overly's Inc., of Neenah. While with Ansul during the late 1950's, Mr. Downham taught engineering drawing and
descriptive geometry courses at the UW center in Marinette. In 1969 he co-founded TEC Systems, Inc., in De Pere, and
served as its president until retirement in 1982. In 1986 Mr Downham founded Advance Systems, Inc., (ASI) in Green Bay,
for the design and manufacture of high-velocity air flotation dryers and related web-handling equipment for the graphic
arts, converting, and paper industries.
Mr. Downham is credited as the inventor of the first disposable dry chemical fire extinguisher. He was instrumental
in the development of high velocity hot air dryers for graphic arts, converting, and paper industries, and was the
designer of the first compact flotation air dryer used in graphic arts for the drying of web offset printed webs.
Mr. Downham holds numerous patents relating to air dryers and flotation devices.
Along with Robert Schaefer, James Temp, Donald Long and the late John I. Robishaw, Mr. Downham founded the nonprofit
board, University Village Housing, Inc. to develop residence hall housing for students at the University of
Wisconsin-Green Bay. Mr. Downham has shared his substantial professional engineering knowledge during both planning
and construction phases of the University's ten original halls, and the newest which bears his name. For more than a
decade, he has given freely of his expertise and worked closely with architects and contractors to assure that the highest
quality housing is provided for students of the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay.
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