Background
Griffin, Walter Wanzel was born on October 29, 1926 in Morgan, Georgia, United States. Son of Walter Wright and Trudy Myrtle (Rice) Griffin.
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Walter Wanzel Griffin
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Bachelor of Electrical Engineering, Alabama Polytechnic Institute, 1947.
Career
Field test engineer power systems operations, Tennessee Valley Authority, Knoxville, 1948-1960; instrument engineer EGCR nuclear project, Tennessee Valley Authority, Oak Ridge, 1960-1966; nuclear engineer communications design, Tennessee Valley Authority, 1966; instrument engineer engineering laboratory, Tennessee Valley Authority, Norris, 1966-1969; instrument engineer, supervisor instrumentation section, data service branch, Tennessee Valley Authority, Knoxville, 1969-1977; instrument engineer, quality assurance coordinator data services branch, Tennessee Valley Authority, Knoxville, 1977-1988.
Achievements
Membership
President Sunday school, First Christian Church, Knoxville, 1951, president Christian Men's Fellowship, 1981-1984. With United States Army Air Force, 1945. Senior member Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
Member Instrument Society of America (secretary-treasurer 1980, 82-90), Tennessee Valley Authority Engineers Association (section vice president 1956, valleywide chairman salary data analysis committee 1959), Knoxville Technology Society (bulletin editor 1972-1973), Tennessee Valley Authority National Management Association, Optimist Club (president Knoxville club 1975), Optimist International (lieutenant governor 1977 governor-elect 1989, governor 1990 Tennessee district).
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Married Mary Jane Ragsdale, January 20, 1951. Children: Vince, Glenn, Edwin.
