And then there was Joe Moyer.

I first met Joe Moyer in 1964 when we both started working for American Cryogenics, a new company created by Standard Oil of New Jersey, (later Exxon), by combining several regional oxygen and industrial gas companies into an Atlanta-based conglomerate. Standard Oil also wanted to have a cryogenics capability to exploit the international market for liquid natural gas, LNG that they believed (30 years prematurely) was coming.  SONJ had attracted people with a cryogenics background from all over the country who, together with the employees of the acquired companies, comprised the Atlanta staff. Continue reading →

And then there was Lord Allerton.

George William Allies Allerton entered the House of Lords in 1925 and was a Conservative member until his death in 1991.   I have written in my auto-biographical Memories in this same blog of my relationship with Dr. Jack Hunt.  I started in 1941 as his regular week-end caddy at Peterborough-Milton Golf Club not far from where I lived and as I aged I graduated from caddy to chauffer-caddy and ultimately to chauffer-golf companion.  I was a junior member of Luffenham Heath Golf Club in Rutland county not far from Liecester and I played on Sundays with Dr. Hunt, Lord Allerton and one of two doctors from the near-by Luffenham RAF fighter air base. Continue reading →

And then there was Don Emig.

In January 1958, when Doris and I moved with four year old Nigel and two year old Nick from Montreal to Rowayton, CT so that I could commute to New York, we joined the United Church of Rowayton.  There we first met the pastor, Donald W. Emig.  The church met at the old school house on a small hill by the last mile of the Five Mile River on its way to the Long Island Sound. Continue reading →

And then there was Geoff Haselden.

My undergraduate life started in 1944 in the Chemical Engineering Department of Imperial College in London. I should have graduated with a B. Sc. in 1948 as the top 50% of my class did but I was in the bottom 50% and we lost our deferment from the military draft as soon as the war ended in May 1945.  We were very promptly drafted to make room for the influx of returning soldiers, sailors and airmen who all had the British equivalent of the G.I. Bill, giving them money for four years of college.  Continue reading →

And then there was Doris Dewing.

On September 1st, 1939, Two days before war was declared, eleven year old Doris Dewing and her eight year old brother, Arthur got on a train leaving London for an unknown destination. They each had a label with their name attached to them and they each carried a single bag and their gas-mask.  Their parents joined a throng at the station with questions but got no answers.  ( There is a book written about this mass evacuation of children from the city to safe-guard them from the imminent bombing.  It is called, “No Time to Say Goodbye”).  Continue reading →

And then there was Bob Vesco

In 1963, when I was President of the Two-by Two Club of the United Church of Rowayton, CT the club secretary was Pat Vesco and, because she didn’t have a baby sitter for her four children, the committee met at Pat’s house. That is when I first met Bob Vesco.  He seemed a pleasant sort of chap, if seemingly thinking of other matters.  I next met bob when I found myself sitting next to him as we rode the New Haven Line to Grand Central Station.  This time, he was quite chatty, cross examining me about my job.  He said he was a salesman for extruded aluminum and I ater found that he worked for Olin Matheson in New York   He told me he was only making $12,500 a year and he could not live on that.  At the time, I was making $13,500 and that was the last time I made more than Vesco.

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