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Appendix A: Tribute to J. Herbert Holloman
Appendix A: Tribute to J. Herbert Holloman
Pages 101-103
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Herb Hollomon inspired the founding of this Academy, so, in a way, he has touched the lives of all of us here today. The topic and the speakers of this symposium could not be more appropriate to his memory—they represent values and interests that he deeply held; he would truly relish the scope, the depth and the vision of today's speakers though I am sure he would also lay down a fiery challenge to each of them as he always did to those around him.
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He organized his group of 125 or so scientists and engineers into sections devoted to basic research, to invention, and to development; innovative breakthroughs were supposed to march through this assembly line and on to profits for General Electric. Now whatever else might be said, there is no doubt about the scientific and technical impact of the group that Herb assembled in the 1950s.
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But, what might have been intrusive curiosity in another person was commitment in Hollomon—commitment to you, to what you were, to what you might become, to what you could do to change the world. I did not see him often in later years, after his stroke—but when I did, the biggest and saddest change other than the paralysis itself was that even with his still-undiluted intensity about the world, his interest in your personal affairs no longer burned as brightly.
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