Memorial Tributes Volume 24 (2022) / Chapter Skim
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WILLIAM R. GOULD
WILLIAM R. GOULD
Pages 140-145
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GOULD SUBMITTED BY THE NAE HOME SECRETARY W ILLIAM RICHARD GOULD was born on Halloween in 1919 in Provo, Utah. He was born at home, in an adobe house, to Pauline Eva (née Feser)
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As an ensign in the US Naval Reserve, Bill was sent to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Dartmouth University for graduate courses in engineering. After this advanced training, he was stationed at the Long Beach Naval Shipyards, where he served throughout World War II as a trials officer in charge of testing the propulsion machinery of ships before their departure for war zones.
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In the early 1980s he informed employees that Edison's policy was "to devote our corporate resources to the accelerated development of a wide variety of future electrical power sources which are renewable rather than finite." He called on employees to develop alternative sources such as windmills, solar panels, and fuel cells, and opened the door to the acceptance of third-party independent power producers. Among large-scale projects, he helped lead the construction of the Pacific Intertie, a major electricity transmission line linking Southern California to the Pacific Northwest, and the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, a 2200-megawatt power station in San Diego County. For its forward-looking advances, in 1982 the company was awarded the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement, cited as "the first major utility in the United States to establish as policy a shift to alternate and renewable energy sources [and with]
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Nielsen Johnson, an elementary school classmate who in the third grade had reached out a supporting hand while Bill stuttered through a class recitation. Like Bill, Millie had lost her spouse; after a short courtship they married and lived happily together until Bill's death March 11, 2006, at the age of 86.
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" he said. Then looking at Erlyn, he added, "Paraphrasing Emily Dickinson, all I know about love, is that love is all there is." Bill Gould was an incredible man, known and appreciated for his professional ability, integrity, and most of all his humanity.
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