Jerome Arthur Pechillo [SEP] position held
Jerome Arthur Pechillo
Jerome Arthur Pechillo, T.O.R. (May 16, 1919 – January 1, 1991) was an American missionary and bishop of the Catholic Church. He served as the Prelate of Coronel Oviedo in Paraguay from 1961 to 1976, and auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Newark from 1976 to 1991.
Biography.
Born in Brooklyn, New York, Pechillo was ordained a priest for the Third Order Regular of St. Francis of Penance on June 10, 1941. He was named the Prelate of Coronel Oviedo on
Henry Edwin Sever Chair of Engineering, which at that time was a new endowed professorship. He held this position until 2006. In 2004 he won the Arthur Holly Compton Faculty Achievement Award, which is similar to the Founder's Day Distinguished Faculty Award but more selective. In 2006 Turner was named the Barbara J. and Jerome R. Cox Professor of Computer Science for "advancing the relationship between theory and practice in the design of digital systems." In 2007 he received an Alumni Achievement Award from the School of Engineering and Applied Science