Career
Kay also has many patents and designs related to window coverings. Kay has designed things in many different industries including manufacturing, bathroom fixtures, automotive, space, furniture, and musical instruments. On Kay"s 21st Birthday he was commissioned as an ensign to the United States. Navy and was later appointed to the position of Lieutenant
Jg United States Navy Gunnery Officer on a destroyer.
Kay worked on interesting projects throughout his life, he worked as a project engineer on the first fiberglass Corvette bodies at Molded Fiberglass. He worked as a design engineer on Minuteman missiles at Hercules and Thiokol.
He was partner at Associated Design Company which was later purchased by American Standard. Kay was born June 5, 1932 to Virgil LeRoy Ruggles and Emma Lucille Cazier in Pocatello, Idaho.
Kay graduated from South High School in 1949 on his 17th birthday, he later graduated from the University of Utah in 1953 with a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Design.
