Construction veteran C. Terry Dooley, founder of the ACE Mentor Program affiliate in Los Angeles, died Sept. 27 at age 90. The civil engineer was named ENR California’s Legacy Award winner in 2017.
Since Dooley formed the program in 2002, more than 1,500 students in 27 high schools have enrolled in the program, which exposes them to careers in architecture, construction and engineering through team mentoring by volunteer practitioners. The group, now known as ACE Mentor Los Angeles/Orange Counties, has awarded over $1.4 million worth of college scholarships to date.