Birth date: Jan 21, 1934 Death date: May 27, 2023
Tsu Yin Soong, 92, has been called home by our Heavenly Father on May 27, 2023, peacefully in his sleep. Born in Kaifeng, Henan, China, to Tung Soong and Yu Hsui Lee. He came to pursue advanced studies at the University of Missour Read Obituary
Norman (we called him Yeh Yeh) was a wonderful father-in-law to me and a wonderful grandfather to my children. He was good to my parents when they were alive, and he was good to all of us. He was a generous man and a great conversationalist. I'll miss him.
He was a very nice person and awesomely smart may he be one with the creator
It has been said that the true greatness of a man is not measured by the lands he holds, the wealth he has accumulated or the recognition of his accomplishments, but rather in the number of lives he positively impacted. By that measure, Norm was truly a great man. I thank God that I was one of those lives.
Barney Martin
Norm was a great teacher and mentor to myself and all of the young engineers that worked under his supervision. In an era where the only computer was in the main office and there were no fax machines, the data input for the available programs had to be mailed to the main office and the results mailed back. I remember him teaching me how to be able to continue working on the design while waiting for results by designing the girders based on increases in stress based on the anticipated section properties and their location in the structure. Also as Modjeski and Masters normally was awarded difficult projects to design and had challenging problems to solve, one of the key skills I learned from Norm was problem solving techniques for the unique challenges that the projects presented. Finally, he also always emphasized the importance of the project’s geometry. I remember early in my career him describing the special horizontal geometry conditions of the steel box girder interchange in Baton Rouge in which due to the curvature and the superelevation of the roadway, the centerline of bents and the centerline of the bridge do not coincide in the curved portions of the roadway. When the design of the Huey P Long approach spans was done 30+ years later, the same conditions existed and due to his teaching we knew exactly how the layout of the geometry had to be done.
