Central Michigan Life

Issue date: 1/7/08 Section: News

Tom Nothstine, Mount Pleasant resident and recent assistant city engineer retiree, stands with some of his surveying gear in the backyard of his Mount Pleasant home Friday afternoon. Nothstine ended his career in surveying and engineering Dec. 31 after 25 years of working across the nation, going to school at Oklahoma State for civil engineering, helping lay out the port vessel of a nuclear reactor in Decanter, Ala., and ending with a job in Mount Pleasant as the assistant city engineer. [Click to enlarge]

Tom Nothstine always did the best job he could when working for the citizens of Mount Pleasant until the day he retired.

"He is very dedicated to his work," said Duane Ellis, the Mount Pleasant public works director and city engineer. "He's a quality-conscious individual."

Nothstine, 64, was the city engineer for a quarter-century before he retired Dec. 31.

Some of his accomplishments include numerous improvements to the city's infrastructure, such as surveying for new buildings and the Gravel Street Paving Program.

"I'm proud we could get a lot of construction," Nothstine said.

The 1961 Okemos High School graduate went to Michigan State University for three years before transferring to Oklahoma State University. He graduated from OSU in 1968 with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering.

After job stints in Alabama and Flint, Nothstine came to Mount Pleasant and became an engineer.

Nothstine said city engineers were not in high numbers when he came to Mount Pleasant 25 years ago.

"When I came here, they had no engineers working for the city," he said.

Nothstine worked to keep the city as modern as possible, said Julie Courtney, an administrative staff member who worked with Nothstine.

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