Saturday, March 6, 2021
Hi, I met Rudy five years ago when I was helping a local family put its house on the National Register of Historic Places. He had worked with the original owner of that house at the Research Lab and was very helpful in describing the period when he and a lot of other GE people were building homes in Niskayuna.
He was a great deal of fun to talk to and very helpful. I thought you might like his memory of that time:
"We’re not the greatest generation but what happened was, we were confined during the war to a specific activity, namely make the war win. And we didn’t do all the other things that young people would do, kind of like a wound-up spring. When the war ended, we let go. And we did everything, all the young stuff. Nothing was impossible. If you thought about something, you figured out a way to do it, no matter what. And we all had similar interests, so we all had a lot of fun together."
I think he never stopped having fun. He lived a very good life.
