At the age of ten, he moved with his parents to a farm in Delaware County near Ostrander where he completed his elementary and high school education. He matriculated at Ohio State University from 1925 graduating in 1929 with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering degree. He was granted a Guggenheim Fellowship to permit graduate work on this subject, and received a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering degree in 1930.
He was the Director of the Radar Laboratory for the Bell Telephone Laboratories from 1958 to 1968. Born in Clyde, Ohio, on December 17, 1906. In his senior year, his thesis, "An Electromagnetic Altimeter" was on the subject of a frequency modulated radio altimeter for aircraft.
He primarily worked under the direction of Professor West. L. Everitt.
While at Ohio State, he joined the Alpha Nu Chapter of Pi Kappa Phi fraternity and is considered a notable Pi Kappa Phi. This report made recommendations for the future of the Nation"s air navigation and traffic control system.
He was responsible for the development of all of the radars of the Nike Zeus Anti-Missile Missile Defense System including being responsible for field support, test planning, and data analysis for the Zeus radars in operation at Ascension Island in the South Atlantic: White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, and Kwajalein Atoll Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean. He was also responsible for the development of the Missile Site Array Radar of the Nike X Anti-Missile Defense System.
1961, he was appointed by the Federal Aviation Administration Administrator Najeeb Halaby to be a member of Project Beacon, a group which published the "Report of the Task Force on Air Traffic Control" in October 1961. He was a member of the Millburn Township New Jersey (U.S.) School Board for many years and was president of the board for four of those years.
