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Tom Glasser posted a condolence
Monday, February 2, 2015
Dear Terwilliger Family,
I was sorry to hear about your loss. My story of George goes back to 1951 when George and I and others were on the GE Advanced Engineering Program. I was on my second Test assignment and had been assigned to the new Switchgear Testing Laboratory at the GE plant in Philadelphia, PA. My supervisor/mentor was George. My recollection is that George was a fairly recent graduate of CIT but had impressed the Lab Manager to the point where George had been given significant responsibility. So I reported to George and he quickly showed me how smart he was, and so, I absorbed as much training as I could from him. I remember George giving me rides to the Lab on occasion(I had no car) and learned that he was quite an aggressive driver in his brand new(?) Oldsmobile. I am a little fuzzy about George's assignments after I left Philadelphia, but we took the last session of the A Course in Pittsfield where I had an assignment, but George and others in the Schenectady A course commuted to Pittsfield for the weekly class. Ruth and I had been engaged and were married June 28, 1952 in Silver Spring, Maryland. While we had invited the whole A class in Pittsfield, we were surprised and delighted that three of them came to the wedding- George, Paul Barnico, and Paul Hess. It had to have been a trip of at least 8 hours each way.
Our paths diverged after that since George graduated from the Electrical C Course and I from the Mechanical C Course. It is rather strange that while we both lived within a 10 mile range of one another, our paths never crossed again except for one time- we met at the wake of Lou Champlain and I cannot remember what the connection was between the two.
In any event I wanted to share my fond memories of George with you. I extend my deep sympathy to you and hope that your memories of George will offset the grief you must be experiencing.
My warmest regards,
Tom Glasser
