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URS names Becker senior

vice president

Dan Becker, a member of the Colfax High School class of 1973 who has been employed with URS Corporation for 34 years, has been named senior vice president of the company’s power group with responsibility for accounting and finance functions. Becker, who earned a degree in accounting from Eastern Washington University, for the last four years has been finance director for the corporation’s Sellafield Nuclear Complex in West Columbia, England.

His wife is the former Kim Small of Colfax. They plan to return to the United States where he will begin his new as...