Memorial Tributes Volume 6 (1993) / Chapter Skim
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L. Eugene Root
L. Eugene Root
Pages 190-195
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from a hometown woman whose newspapers he had delivered. While at the university, Gene was a rushing guard on the football varsity, a member of Delta Upsilon fraternity, president of the honor society, freshman handbook editor, en cl a student government leader.
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Air Force to study strategic bombing needs which evolved into the nonprofit RAND Corporation for studying national security problems. Secretary of Defense James Forrestal assignecI Gene and then-Colonel Donald Putt to write Standard Aircraft Characteristics, the basic text for quoting aircraft performance.
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There were major universities nearby California, Stanford, Santa Clara, and San Jose State—plus a ready pool of employees. So in 1956 MSD moved from Van Nuys, building its main plant in Sunnyvale and laboratories in Palo Alto, a true Silicon Valley pioneer.
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Besides NAE, his memberships inclucled the Operations Research Society of America, Society of Automotive Engineers, American OrcinanceAssociation, ElectronicsIndustriesAssociation, California Society of Professional Engineers, ant! National Society of Professional Engineers.
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