John Charles Gates

Background

Gates, John Charles was born on November 14, 1948 in Waltham, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Lloyd Sterns and Lorretta Muriel Gates.

Education

Student, Carnegie Institute of Technology, 1966-1967; Bachelor of Science in Speech, Emerson College, 1971.

Career

Senior lighting designer, Capron Lighting Company, Inc., Needham, Massachusetts, 1971-1979; senior lighting director, New England Production Services, Needham, 1979-1982; owner, senior lighting consultant, Gates Service Group, Inc., Natick, Massachusetts, since 1982. Teaching consultant Armed Forces Network, Frankfurt, 1979. Lecturer workshops and seminars, since 1972.

Adjunct lecturer Boston University, since 1992.

Achievements

• John Charles Gates has been listed as a noteworthy Lighting director, consultant by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member International Commission on Illumination, USNC/ International Commission on Illumination, Society Motion Picture & television Engineers (former governor), National Academy television Arts and Sciences (former treasurer Boston chapter, Emmy awards 1989, 97), Illuminating Engineering Society (former manager New England, Guth Memorial Award Excellence 1980), International television Association, American National Standards Institute, United States Institute Theater Technology.

Connections

Married Cheryln Ann Frost, September 11, 1971. Children: Emily Ann, Jeremy John.

Father:

Lloyd Sterns Gates

Mother:

Lorretta Muriel Gates

Spouse:

Cheryln Ann Frost

child:

Jeremy John Gates

child:

Emily Ann Gates