Don served during WW II in Italy with the 3133 Signal Company Special. After his discharge from the Army, in March, 1946, with the rank of SGT, he returned to the University of Maine, and graduated in 1948. He got a job at Western Electric in New York City, and in 1950 married Una Jean "Dene" MacDonald, whom he'd met in college. They settled in Ridgewood, NJ, and became the parents of three sons.
A 1959 newspaper article described some of his work at Western Electric. As chief of the buildings and antennas engineering department, he embarked that year on a 6,000 mile inspection tour of the Arctic. Western Electric was the prime commercial contractor for the US Ballistic Missile Early Warning System, and Don had made numerous trips to sites in Canada, Alaska, and the Aleutians relating to the early warning projects in 1955.
Their sons were active in Boy Scouting, and the family loved to sail.
When Western Electric moved their corporate headquarters to Greensboro, NC, sometime in the 1970s, the family relocated to North Carolina as well. Don became manager of patent licensing at Western Electric, and was also an active member of the Amateur Radio Club, continuing the interest in radio that had been triggered by his wartime service.
A 1959 newspaper article described some of his work at Western Electric. As chief of the buildings and antennas engineering department, he embarked that year on a 6,000 mile inspection tour of the Arctic. Western Electric was the prime commercial contractor for the US Ballistic Missile Early Warning System, and Don had made numerous trips to sites in Canada, Alaska, and the Aleutians relating to the early warning projects in 1955.
Their sons were active in Boy Scouting, and the family loved to sail.
When Western Electric moved their corporate headquarters to Greensboro, NC, sometime in the 1970s, the family relocated to North Carolina as well. Don became manager of patent licensing at Western Electric, and was also an active member of the Amateur Radio Club, continuing the interest in radio that had been triggered by his wartime service.
Don served during WW II in Italy with the 3133 Signal Company Special. After his discharge from the Army, in March, 1946, with the rank of SGT, he returned to the University of Maine, and graduated in 1948. He got a job at Western Electric in New York City, and in 1950 married Una Jean "Dene" MacDonald, whom he'd met in college. They settled in Ridgewood, NJ, and became the parents of three sons.
A 1959 newspaper article described some of his work at Western Electric. As chief of the buildings and antennas engineering department, he embarked that year on a 6,000 mile inspection tour of the Arctic. Western Electric was the prime commercial contractor for the US Ballistic Missile Early Warning System, and Don had made numerous trips to sites in Canada, Alaska, and the Aleutians relating to the early warning projects in 1955.
Their sons were active in Boy Scouting, and the family loved to sail.
When Western Electric moved their corporate headquarters to Greensboro, NC, sometime in the 1970s, the family relocated to North Carolina as well. Don became manager of patent licensing at Western Electric, and was also an active member of the Amateur Radio Club, continuing the interest in radio that had been triggered by his wartime service.
A 1959 newspaper article described some of his work at Western Electric. As chief of the buildings and antennas engineering department, he embarked that year on a 6,000 mile inspection tour of the Arctic. Western Electric was the prime commercial contractor for the US Ballistic Missile Early Warning System, and Don had made numerous trips to sites in Canada, Alaska, and the Aleutians relating to the early warning projects in 1955.
Their sons were active in Boy Scouting, and the family loved to sail.
When Western Electric moved their corporate headquarters to Greensboro, NC, sometime in the 1970s, the family relocated to North Carolina as well. Don became manager of patent licensing at Western Electric, and was also an active member of the Amateur Radio Club, continuing the interest in radio that had been triggered by his wartime service.
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