A flush above the rest: Tryck Nyman Hayes celebrates 55 years of building Alaska.

• Author: Resz, Heather A.
• Position: ANNIVERSARY

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Flush a toilet anywhere in the Anchorage Bowl, then remember it's Frank Nyman who deserves the thanks for the efficient watery dispatch of decades of human waste.

The pioneering Anchorage engineer said he considers his work on the Point Woronzof Wastewater Treatment Facility his biggest professional contribution to the city.

"The template hasn't changed over the years. Just updates," Nyman said.

He came to Alaskain 1950, chasing his mother's unfulfilled dreams from Montana to Anchorage, he said.

"My mother wanted to migrate to Alaska with the colony bunch. But she couldn't talk Dad into it," Nyman said. He was a young boy then, but his hunger for adventure in Alaska only seemed to grow with time, he said.

Even after three years of military service in the European Theater during World War II, college and beginning a fledgling engineering career in Montana, Nyman still harbored Alaska dreams.

Opportunity knocked in the form of an ad in a Seattle paper seeking an engineer for the City of Anchorage.

As city engineer, Charles W. Tryck had placed the ad for an engineer. Nyman responded, was hired and spent the next eight years working in the engineering department helping to build the city's infrastructure, such as water and wastewater systems and roads.

He'd come to Alaska to secure a job so he could marry the young woman he loved and establish a home. After their marriage in 1953, Marge Nyman moved to Anchorage to join Frank.

It's the same year that Tryck left the city to join a consulting business--Rutledge, Johnston & Associates--founded in 1951 by two men he knew from his university days.

After Rutledge's death in the winter of 1952-53 from a previously unknown heart condition, and Johnston's death in 1957, Frank Nyman joined the firm and its name changed when he became a partner in 1958, creating Tryck, Nyman and Associates. Two years later Joe L. Hayes joined them, becoming Tryck, Nyman and Hayes. Its name changed again in 1991 when the firm incorporated as Tryck Nyman Hayes Inc.

Tryck Nyman Hayes is a professional Alaska corporation delivering client satisfaction in engineering, surveying, landscape architecture and environmental services.

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This year marks Nyman's 50th year with the company, but it's been 55 since years Tryck joined the firm when Rutledge and Johnston retired from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers District Office to begin their own consulting firm.

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