Russ College Academy of Distinguished Graduates

John is an accomplished executive with domestic and international experience in operations, sales, product distribution, and marketing with growth organizations. He is a results-oriented, decisive leader with proven success in new market distribution and strategic positioning with a multi-million dollar manufacturing company. John’s strength is the ability to succeed in dynamic, demanding environments while remaining laser focused on collaborative goals.

He has been named USA Today’s Top 50 CEO in small and medium size businesses and has been the subject of a Smart Business cover story titled, “Speed to Market.” In addition to being a graduate of Harvard’s General Management Program, Crum has been responsible for leading 300 UAW employees starting at 30 years old. In his role as CEO, the Seaman Corporation was awarded the “Perfect Engine Award” for being a leader in implementing “Lean” and “Six Sigma.” He also developed a grow strategy that resulted in the fastest growth in company history, while maintaining high employee and customer satisfaction.

Alan Schaaf is founder and CEO of Imgur, the best place to discover the magic of the Internet. Launched in 2009 when Schaaf was an undergraduate at Ohio University, Imgur is the most popular community-powered entertainment platform, reaching 250 million people across the globe. Imgur currently ranks among the top 50 Internet properties in the world, and was called “the best example yet of how a new generation of Internet users prefers to express itself” by Bloomberg Businessweek.

Under Schaaf’s leadership, the company was proudly bootstrapped and profitable for five years, scaling to millions of users before finally receiving $40 million in investment from Andreessen Horowitz in 2014. He brings over a decade of experience to Imgur as a professional coder with a focus on crafting beautiful user experiences and fostering positive online communities. Schaaf has previously been a speaker at TechCrunch Disrupt, PTTOW, A16z Summit, Collision, Web Summit, TEDxWellington, AWS re:Invent, and is a strong advocate in the battle for a free and open Internet.

Jake Sigal is a serial entrepreneur with a passion for solving the world’s most intriguing tech problems. As the founder and CEO of Tome Software in Royal Oak, Michigan, he leads a team of innovator-engineers dedicated to developing custom software applications and mobility technology solutions for Fortune 500 clients.

Jake’s first startup, Livio, created software that connected smartphone apps to vehicles. The company was acquired by Ford Motor Company in 2013. At Tome, Jake’s using his experience in the development of consumer, mobility and automotive technologies to lead a cross-industry effort on a mission to make roads safer for cyclists and scooter operators.

A Midwest native and an Ohio University graduate who holds more than a dozen technology patents, Jake was awarded the Ohio University Foundation’s Konneker Medal for Commercialization and Entrepreneurship in 2017. He remains active as a Consumer Technology Association volunteer and a Techstars startup mentor.

Brig. Gen. Mark Arnold, BSISE ’82, earned his bachelor’s degree in industrial and systems engineering from Ohio University in 1981. He earned his MBA at Cleveland State University and a master’s in strategic studies at the U.S. Army War College.

His more than 37 years of U.S. Army service was primarily in Special Forces (Green Berets). He served three combat tours in Afghanistan and Iraq in special operations task forces as commander of Coalition Special Operations Forces Afghanistan and operations and liaison officer to special mission units Iraq. Other assignments include assistant chief of staff of U.S. Army Special Forces Command, brigade commander, and commanding general of the 100th Division.

Leading dual careers of active service in Army Reserve units and full-time employment in corporate America, Arnold was recruited by GE and served in its aircraft engine business for 10 years before taking a management position with Advanced Drainage Systems, the world’s leading plastic pipe manufacturer. His 14 years there led him to roles as a corporate officer in assignments as vice president of government affairs and market development, then vice president and general manager of international operations.

Arnold then joined Lubrizol, a Fortune 500 company, where he led one of its global business units, before being recruited to be president and CEO of GSE Lining Technologies, a multinational manufacturer that he helped grow, achieving record profits and an initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange. Two years later, he was promoted to be commanding general of the Army’s 100th Division, resigning from GSE in order to finish his military career on active duty.

His military decorations include the Distinguished Service Medal, our nation’s highest award for military service; the Legion of Merit; the Bronze Star Medal; the Combat Infantryman Badge; Master Parachutist Badge; Special Forces Tab; and Ranger Tab. Arnold received Ohio University’s Medal of Merit in 2007 for achievement in business.

Arnold is president of the Special Forces Association’s Ohio chapter, a member of three boards of directors of non-profit organizations, and serves in a professional Ohio fire department. He actively serves on the Russ College Board of Visitors, where he previously served as chair.

Joan Mace began her career in aviation in 1942 building Helldiver aircraft for the Navy during World War II. Pursuing her passion for flying, she became one of the first instructors for Ohio University’s flight instruction program in 1963. Twenty years later, she was named department chair, becoming the first woman to head the aviation department. As chair, she established the Aviation Advisory Board, brought to campus the national honorary aviation fraternity, and oversaw the construction of the Francis Fuller Student Aviation Flight Training Center. Mace was also instrumental in connecting OHIO aviation students to United Airlines’ internship program. Holding the highest FAA license given, the Multiengine Air Transport Pilot Certificate, Mace has received the FAA Wright Brothers Master Pilot Award and the Ninety-Nines Award of Achievement for Contribution to Aviation and is a member of the National Association of Flight Instructors Hall of Fame.

Dan Squiller has led a distinguished career as president and CEO of innovative technology companies. His track record of successful business management started in San Diego, where he grew sales at both Indyme Electronics and St. Bernard Software. Joining Powerware in 1996, he was VP of worldwide OEM programs until acquisition by Invensys in 1998. As president of power components there, Squiller grew revenue to $1.6 billion while shortening the product introduction cycle. Retuning to San Diego in 2003, he began his role as CEO of PowerGenix, which he developed into the world’s top manufacturer of nickel zinc rechargeable batteries. Since 2012, he has worked with GT Advanced Technologies, an innovative creator of crystalline growth solutions for solar, LED, and electronics applications. Squiller serves on multiple industry boards of directors, as well as the advisory board for the Ohio University Robe Leadership Institute.

Helen Crawley-Austin has led a distinguished 25-year career in business management since graduating from Ohio University. In her 13 years at Lucent Technologies, Crawley-Austin led project management teams delivering software and services internationally and went on to become a vice president and division director before branching out into consulting. Crawley-Austin served as chief operating officer for Solutions Associates Consulting, developing partnerships with major food industry clients. In 2013, she founded her own firm, Beyond Consulting Solutions, offering businesses and Fortune 500 companies a range of project and data management, information technology and specialty engineering services.

A recipient of the Women’s Presidents Organization Women of Color Business Award, she is a STEM subcommittee member of Girl Scouts of America and served as foundation chair for her local Jack and Jill of America chapter.

Dick Dickerson, BSCE ’80, has worked in pipeline construction and operations management for 35 years. Dickerson spent 15 years as an engineer and supervisor at Columbia Gas, designing and managing pipeline construction and operations. He founded his own pipeline design and management firm, Utility Technologies International, in 1994 and serves in executive or board roles for Engineered Utility Services, Ross Energy, MRS Corporation and Structured Utility Resources. A past president of the American Society of Highway Engineers, Dickerson is a member of the executive board of the Ohio Gas Association, having served as chairman in 2011 as well. In addition to membership on the Russ College Board of Visitors and the Ohio University Foundation board, Dickerson advises the Russ College Department of Civil Engineering on its departmental advisory board. He is a registered professional engineer in Ohio.

Jim Grote, BSEE ’78, performs advanced materials and avionics research at both the Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright Patterson Air Force Base, where he recently retired after 40 years and now, as an independent consultant, works with various companies and universities worldwide. His studies have included evaluating optical materials for laser gyros, optical lithography, optical interconnects, electro-optic and optical devices. He is currently developing DNA-based biopolymers for electronics and optoelectronics applications. Grote has served as an adjunct professor at the University of Cincinnati, Wright State University and University of Dayton. He is a fellow of the Optical Society of America, the International Society for Optical Engineering, the European Optical Society, and the Air Force Research Laboratory, where he was also honored with numerous awards in avionics and materials and manufacturing. Grote also received the Fritz J. Russ Bioengineering Award from the Dayton chapter of IEEE.

Wai-Kai Chen is widely known for his work with applied graph theory, theory and design of broadband matching networks, and active network and feedback amplifier theory, among many others.

Professor and department head emeritus of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Chen previously taught at Purdue University, the University of Hawaii at Manoa – and at Ohio University’s Russ College from 1967-1981.

Chen has authored more than 280 technical papers and articles, and authored or contributed to more than 40 books.

He has received more than 45 awards, including the Lester R. Ford Award from the Mathematical Association of America, the Alexander von Humboldt Award from Germany, the JSPS Fellowship Award from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, the National Taipei University of Science and Technology Distinguished Alumnus Award, the Ohio University Alumni Medal of Merit for Distinguished Achievement in Engineering Education, the Golden Jubilee Medal, and the Third Millennium Medal from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

Chen, who holds a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois and a diploma from the Taipei Institute of Technology, is a fellow of IEEE, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the China Institute in America. He is a registered Professional Engineer in Illinois.

Jim Edwards worked in government as well as private industries for 41 years after graduating from Ohio University. In his 38 years at Burgess and Niple, he managed the industrial, structural, mechanical, and electrical engineering and architectural groups – also becoming an owner for 22 years and serving as a managing partner for two terms.

During his tenure at Burgess and Niple, he led the design team for Ohio University’s Academic & Research Center.

A guest speaker at Ohio University, Purdue University, Bucknell University, and the Columbus and Cleveland Bar Associations, Edwards also held public service committee appointments awarded by former Ohio Governor Voinovich and Columbus Mayors Lashutka and Coleman.

Edwards, who has served the Russ College as a member of the Chemical Engineering Advisory Board, was co-chair of the committee to establish the Nick Dinos Professorship in Chemical Engineering. He is a current member of the Russ College Board of Visitors.

He has been a registered Professional Engineer in Ohio, Michigan, Oklahoma, Missouri, and Texas.

Jack Myslenski’s career at Parker Hannifin Corporation spanned 35 years, from the time of his graduation from Ohio University, leading to executive vice president of marketing, sales and operations support.

While at Parker , Myslenski served numerous roles, including corporate vice president and operating officer, fluid connectors group president, and many others in which he managed global relations on numerous continents.

Currently, Myslenski frequently works with the Great Lakes Science Center board of directors, and the St. Martin de Porres board of trustees, and is a member and current chairman of the St. Martin de Porres corporate works study board. He is a current member of the Russ College board of visitors and the Department of Engineering Technology and Management advisory board.

His awards include the Living and Giving Award from the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation and the Outstanding Industrial Technologist Award. In November 2011, Parker Hannifin and Ohio University dedicated a new Stocker Center hydraulics student training lab in his honor.

In addition to his Ohio University degree from Ohio University, Myslenski holds an M.B.A. from Case Western Reserve University.

Before retiring, Randall Sadowski served as product manager for scheduling and data-tracking applications for Rockwell Automation. Prior to that, he was director of university relations, chief applications officer, and vice president of consulting services and user education at Systems Modeling Corporation, which he joined after holding faculty positions at Purdue University’s School of Industrial Engineering and the University of Massachusetts.

A fellow of the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE), he served as president at chapter and division levels, and vice president of systems integration at the international level, and founded the annual IIE/RA student simulation contest.

Author of more than 50 technical articles and papers, Sadowski has on the visiting committee for the industrial engineering departments at Lehigh University and the University of Pittsburgh in addition to Ohio University. Sadowski holds a Ph.D. in industrial engineering from Purdue University.

David W. Pidwell, BSEE ’69, MS ’70, received his bachelor’s of science degree in electrical engineering from Ohio University in 1969 and his master’s degree in industrial and systems engineering in 1970. He also completed studies at Stanford University toward a doctorate in engineering economic systems.

A partner with Silicon Valley venture capital firm Alloy Ventures since 1996, Pidwell’s investment activities are concentrated in the computer software industry, primarily with companies that address enterprise information management, the Internet, or software-as-a-service (SaaS, cloud computing) related fields.

Prior to joining Alloy Ventures, Pidwell was CEO of Rasna Corp., a mechanical design automation software company he founded in 1986. The firm was acquired by Parametric Technology Corp. in 1995.

He was also president and general manager of the Mil-Spec computer division of Rolm Corp., having been with the company for fourteen years from the time of its start-up. IBM acquired the company in 1985 with more than 2,500 employees and $1.2 billion in annual revenue.

A faculty member or lecturer with the Stanford University Graduate School of Business since 1999, Pidwell currently serves as a member of the board of directors of Informatica Corp. as well as three privately held corporations. He is also a trustee of the Ohio University Foundation and a member of the university’s Fritz J. and Dolores H. Russ College of Engineering and Technology board of visitors.

Edmund “Ed” K. Cheng, BSE ’72, received his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Ohio University in 1972. He also holds a master’s and doctoral degrees in electrical engineering from the California Institute of Technology.

Cheng began group for several years before venturing out on his own. In 1981, he helped found Silicon Compliers in San Jose, Calif. The company went on to merge with Silicon Design Labs in 1987 before being acquired in 1990 by Mentor Graphics Corporation, where Cheng served as director of strategic programs.

In 1994, Cheng organized the start-up company Anagram in order to develop a circuit simulator with revolutionary capacity, speed, accuracy, and ease-of-use. With Cheng as president and CEO, the company released its pioneering ADM product in 1995 and saw its business increase to more than $20 million annually a year later.

In 1998, Cheng joined Synopsys as vice president of research and development in the epic technology group business unit and was named vice president of marketing for the newly formed silicon engineering business group in 2004.

Currently, Cheng serves as president and CEO of Gradient Design Automation, a position he assumed in 2006. Gradient is a leader in thermal analysis technologies for integrated circuits, which Ed helped to introduce into the industry.

Frederick William “Bill” Englefield, BSCE ’52, graduated from Ohio University in 1952 with a bachelor’s degree in engineering.

In 1961, Englefield and his wife, Janet, started a petroleum products distribution company called Englefield Oil, Inc., out of an office in the basement of their home. The company grew from three service stations and a pickup truck to almost 100 Duke and Duchess convenience stores, more than thirty service stations, two truck stops, five warehouses and three bulk plans. With total sales of about $700 million annually, Englefield Oil, Inc., employs 1,500 individuals. Englefield serves as chairman of the board, while his sons Bill Jr. and Ben fill the role of president.

Englefield also served as president of the Petroleum Marketers Association of America in 1993 and president of the Ohio Petroleum Marketers Association in 1976 and 1977. He remains a member of both organizations, as well as the Society of Independent Gasoline Marketers of America, the National Association of Convenient Stores, the Ohio Society of Professional Engineers, the Newark Area Chamber of Commerce, and the Newark Rotary Club.

Carla E. Lucchino, MSISE ’82, graduated from Ohio University with a master’s degree in industrial and systems engineering in 1982. She also holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from the State University of New York at Binghamton and a master’s degree in national security strategy from the National War College.

Lucchino began her 31-year career with the U.S. Department of Defense as an industrial engineer in the machine shops of the Seneca Army Depot in Romulus, N.Y., before overseeing design, development and production of airborne and ground-based radar systems at the Air Force Plant Representative Office at Westinghouse in Baltimore.

After assignments at the Air Force Systems Command and the Defense Office at Westinghouse, Lucchino was recruited into the Defense Logistics Agency and served as assistant chief of operations management, the assistant executive director of information management, and the staff director of the corporate performance office.

In 1997, Lucchino became deputy commander of the Defense Contract Management Office at Lockheed Martin in Sunnyvale, Calif. She oversaw a team of 126 military and civilian personnel that helped design and produce satellites and missiles for the both the Defense Department and NASA, a $36 billion portfolio that included airborne laser and satellite systems, missile technology and the Hubble Telescope.

In 1999, Lucchino was promoted to the senior executive service and made comptroller and executive director of financial and business operations at the Defense Contract Management Agency, where she oversaw $973 billion in weapon system contracts.

From 2002 to 2010, she served as the Assistant Deputy Commandant of Installations and Logistics at the U.S. Marine Corps headquarters in Washington, D.C., where she presided over all logistics, installations, contracting, small business, business process improvements, and outsourcing, and oversaw the ground equipment depot system during wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

In 2010, Lucchino became the Department of the Navy Assistant for Administration.  Serving under the Secretary of the Navy, she managed the Secretariat’s finances, contracting, information technology, records, security, and Pentagon facilities including the Navy Executive Dining Room.

After retiring from the Defense Department, Lucchino served as interim CEO of Engineering Solutions and Products, held several consulting positions, and spent two years as the Chief of Staff to the CEO of the MITRE Corporation.  She currently resides in Brewster, NY, and continues her consulting work.

Lucchino supported the Russ College as a member of the Board of Visitors and as a member of Ohio University’s Board of Advisors. She has won several performance awards including two Meritorious Civilian Service Awards and the Exceptional Civilian Service Award.

R. Emmett Boyle, MSISE '70, received a master’s degree in industrial systems engineering from Ohio University in 1970. He also holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Youngstown University.

Emmett started his career as a design and development engineer at McDonnell Aircraft Corporation on the Gemini spacecraft project. He then moved to Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Company, progressing through several roles with responsibilities for domestic and international operations and expansion in New Zealand, Australia, Africa and Central Europe, before becoming corporate manager of engineering.

Emmett joined Ormet Corporation of Wheeling, W.Va., as president in 1983 and bought the company in 1986. As chairman and CEO from 1986 to 2004, he led a strategy of modernization, quality improvements and acquisitions, and new, high quality products and technology-based processes. At that time, Ormet was the third largest aluminum producing company in the United States.

As a principal and chairman of The Elmwood Group, a management advisory firm he formed, Emmett leads the firm in providing consulting support to a portfolio of companies with a focus on family-owned and entrepreneurial businesses and those positioned to implement a growth strategy. The Elmwood Group also is structured to pursue potential acquisitions.

Emmett is active in many civic organizations. He served on the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of the Ohio Chamber of Commerce from 1991 to 2005 and was its Chairman from 1995 to 1997. Emmett served as a director of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce from 1997 to 2003 and chaired the U.S. Chamber’s Labor Relations Committee during that time. He served as a director and member of the executive committee of West Liberty State College Foundation, for which he served as chairman from 2000 to 2002 and as a Trustee on the Ohio University Foundation Board of Trustees from 2010 to 2018. He is currently a director of Kinetic Networking LLC and a member of and Chairs the Ohio University Russ College of Engineering Advisory Board.

Joseph “Joe” K. Jachinowski, BSEE '79, received a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Ohio University in 1979. He also holds a master’s degree in electrical engineering from Washington State University.

Joe began his career with Varian Medical Systems in 1981, working on control system design for linear accelerators.

In 1983, he co-founded SEL with former Ohio University professor Dr. Edmund O. Schweitzer III. SEL designs and manufactures digital signal processors used to monitor and control electric power systems. Joe was responsible for software development at SEL, which has grown to be a leading provider of protective relays (with all credit to Dr. Schweitzer).

In 1985, Joe returned to Varian to ultimately manage all systems and software development for its medical division. He then conceived and led the design team for Varian’s most successful medical linear accelerator. Today, that product family treats more patients for cancer annually than any other radiation therapy device.

In 1990, he co-founded IMPAC Medical Systems, becoming chairman, CEO, and president. The world’s leading supplier of clinical and administrative information management systems for the field of cancer care, IMPAC products span the field’s spectrum, including anatomical and clinical pathology, oncology electronic medical records, medical imaging, cancer registry, decision support, and administrative management. Joe led IMPAC through its initial public offering in 2002 before it was sold to Elekta, AB., a Swedish medical device manufacturer.

From 2009 through 2018, Joe was the president and CEO of Mevion Medical Systems. Mevion designs and manufactures proton therapy systems for the treatment of cancer. Mevion revolutionized the proton therapy field with its $20 million device, reducing the cost of proton facilities by a factor of five or more and providing the smallest footprint for a high-energy proton accelerator.

Joe retired from Mevion at the end of 2018 and, when not skiing or fishing, works with an angel investment community in the Boston area looking for new opportunities to enhance healthcare.

E. Louis Overstreet, BSCE '67. Everett Louis “Louie” Overstreet graduated from Ohio University in 1967 with a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering. He also holds graduate degrees in engineering and has been a licensed professional engineer in Alaska, Illinois, Ohio, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Washington, and the District of Columbia.

His 35-year career has ranged from being a staff engineer on the Trans-Alaska Oil Pipeline to general manager of a multimillion-dollar energy company in Chicago. Presently , he serves as CEO of the Urban Chamber of Commerce in Las Vegas, where he is supervising the planning, development, and operation of a multimillion-dollar business incubator, service, and training center. He also spearheaded the raising of hundreds of thousands of dollars in student scholarships.

Louie has served on more than fifty boards, including for the Ohio University Alumni Association and the Russ College Department of Civil Engineering. He currently serves on the Las Vegas Clark County Library Board of Trustees, Las Vegas Clark County Law Library Board, Clark County Regional Business Advisory Council (Chairman), Southern Nevada Workforce Investment Board, and the Board of Directors of the Cleveland-based engineering firm Tyler Companies.

He has authored three books and written more than 500 hundred editorial columns for three different newspapers. The University of Alaska has requested to serve as the repository for his personal papers.

Recently, Louie was recognized by In Business of Las Vegas magazine as a “Person of Influence in Southern Nevada.” He has received more than three dozen community service awards, including from three different governors of Alaska, the National Black Caucus of State Legislators, and for his tenure as a member of the Alaska Pacific University board of trustees.

Connie J. Tobias, AAS '77, BGS '78. Connie J. Tobias received an associate's degree in applied science in 1977 and a bachelor’s degree in aviation in 1978 from Ohio University. In 1982, she completed studies toward a master’s degree in industrial and systems engineering.

In her 30-plus year aviation career, Connie has earned many flight certifications and has flown more than 60 different aircraft, from a 1902 Wright Glider to turbo-props to heavy jets and helicopters. She has held positions as a flight instructor; aviation examiner; pilot for charter, corporate, freight, fire patrol, commuter, regional, and major airlines; and adjunct professor of aviation at Salem College.

Today, she is a U.S. Airways captain with more than 20,000 hours and more than 900 trans-Atlantic crossings.

In 2000, Connie began performing a living history re-enactment of Harriet Quimby, the first licensed woman pilot in the U.S. and the first woman to cross the English Channel.

In 2003, she volunteered as a civilian pilot to fly troops to and from the Middle East during the Iraq war. She became the first woman to successfully fly a 1903 Wright Flyer replica in 2004 in Dayton, Ohio.

Connie has been inducted into the International Forest of Friendship and has received the Ohio University Medal of Merit. In 2004, she was instrumental in Harriet Quimby being enshrined in the National Aviation Hall of Fame. Also in 2004, the National Aeronautic Association awarded Connie the certificate of recognition for her service to the American aviation community by re-enacting the past and teaching future aviators.

She is a member of the Airline Pilots Association, International Society of Women Airline Pilots, Women in Aviation International, Ninety Nines, Ohio University’s Fritz J. and Dolores H. Russ College of Engineering and Technology board of visitors and Department of Aviation advisory board, Ohio University’s national alumni board of directors, and the National Aviation Hall of Fame’s board of nominations.

H. T. Chua, BSEE '59, grew up in Malaysia and Singapore. He received his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Ohio University in 1959 and went on to receive his master’s degree in the same field from the University of California-Berkeley in 1961.

Chua had spent several years designing microelectronic circuits at Fairchild Semiconductor before he was contacted by his former Ohio University classmate, Richard Bohn, BSME '58, MS '60, to join a promising new company, Intel, which at the time had fewer than 60 employees. Together, they developed a 64-bit memory chip (the 3101), Intel's first commercial product. It helped turn the company into a high-tech titan.

In 1975, Chua joined Monolithic Memories. There, he partnered with John Birkner to pioneer a new technology, the trademarked Programmable Array Logic (PAL). The PAL IC was the first successful, commercial programmable logic device that could enable a customer to electrically configure the chip to perform desired functions at the customer's own facilities. This eliminated the need for creating expensive and time-consuming customized chips.

Chua retired from Monolithic Memories in 1987 but was coaxed out of retirement by Birkner to start a new company, Peer Research. The company has developed highly complex, high-performance programmable logic devices, trade named pASIC. pASIC increases the logic power by the order of magnitude of the original PAL, but it consumes only a fraction of electric current to perform the required logic functions. Therefore, it is suitable for virtually unlimited new applications, and thus has brought field-programmable gate arrays to a much wider audience.

More recently, Peer Research changed its name to Quick Logic and went public in 1999. Although finally retired, Chua continues to serve on the company's board as director emeritus. In 2002, Chua, with John Birkner, was inducted into Electronic Design Magazine's Engineering Hall of Fame, alongside the likes of Thomas Edison and Gugliemo Marconi.

Lamar Dale Springer, BSEE '49, served in the U.S. Navy from 1944-1946 as an electronic technicians mate 3/C. He graduated from Ohio University in 1949 with a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering, in addition to having extra Navy credits.

Springer began his career at the National Cash Register Company (NCR) as an electronic research engineer. Early on, he designed several electronic counters. One of his most complex projects was building a Sterling Multiplier to multiply pounds (a scale of 10), shillings (a scale of 20), and pence (a scale of 12) by a decimal of a decimal fraction (our number system generally uses a scale of ten). The system was patented.

Springer then joined the United Shoe Machinery Corp. as a senior electronics engineer, and in 1957, he joined Booz-Allen Applied Research as a contractor for the U.S. Air Force’s Foreign Technology Division. Among his studies under top-secret clearance were problems involving computer data processing, equipment analysis and evaluation, and a digital-data logging system.

In 1960, Springer became a program manager at Data Corporation, which later became a subsidiary of the Mead Corporation, managing design fabrication and control of a large photographic chemical mixing and distribution facility. He was an Air Force consultant on the computer portions of several reconnaissance systems and on various technical projects for the Foreign Technology Division, including computer programming, equipment evaluation, and modification/design/fabrication of electronic hardware. He also managed two laser Doppler programs.

In 1967, he assembled a group of engineers and an attorney who also was an Ohio University alumnus to start Dayton Scientific Inc., a specialty electronic turn-key systems manufacturer. Currently the company’s president, Springer holds five patents jointly or personally. He is a life member of the Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers, a member of the Armed Forces Communications and Electronic Association, and a member of the Society of Automotive Engineers.

Paul Springer, BSEE '39, received his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Ohio University in 1939. He later pursued graduate courses at M.I.T., The Ohio State University, University of Dayton, University of Colorado, and University of Michigan.

Springer began his career at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, in 1942. Working in the aircraft radio laboratory on the development of electronic equipment, he designed antennas for U.S. fighter aircraft that used British-made radar. Springer also was the project engineer for radar and antenna systems used on both atomic bombs dropped on Japan in 1945 during World War II.

In his career at Wright Patterson Air Force base and in other work at universities and commercial laboratories, Springer established programs to reduce radar cross-section. Radar cross-section measures how much radio wave is “reflected” off an airplane to give its location; the less reflection, or radar cross-section, the more difficult it is for radar to “see” the airplane. These programs ultimately were a major factor in the development of the Stealth bomber and Stealth fighter aircraft.

Springer also directed a group researching tropospheric propagation – how radio waves are affected by the lower atmosphere, or troposphere, as they travel from a transmitter to a receiver. This work included the development of microwave refractometers to predict anomalies. Springer also helped research radar cross-section and re-entry propagation, or how radio waves travel from intercontinental ballistic missiles when re-entering the earth's atmosphere.

Before retiring from Wright Patterson in 1974 after what he calls a “most interesting career,” Springer last consulted for the avionics laboratory on radio propagation, antennas, and radar cross-section reduction techniques. After retirement, he served as a private consultant to the U.S. Air Force, designing, developing, and testing an advanced radar antenna system for use on the F-15 aircraft.

Theodore "Ted" S. Zajac, BSEE '52, teamed with his brother, Julius, also an engineer, soon after graduating from Ohio University for a career in the metal machining industry. They agreed for Julius to handle administration, and Ted to handle engineering. Over the years, they would start three companies and save a 400-employee company from liquidation.

The Zajac brothers, with other family members, began their career by establishing the Zalo Manufacturing Company in Cleveland in 1952. In 1958, they started the Manatrol Corporation, also in Cleveland. Zajac was vice president and chief engineer. In 1963, they merged Manatrol into the Perry Fay Company of Elyria, Ohio, and Zajac became senior vice president. He then became director of engineering for two divisions of Parker Hannifin Corporation in 1970, when the company bought Perry Fay.

New products were the foundation of Zajac team’s successes. Ted designed hydraulic valves; hydraulic, high torque motors; pumps; robotic grippers; and often the tooling to produce the products. Awarded many patents in the U.S. and abroad, he credits Ohio University’s engineering courses with enabling him to design the products.

One product the brothers designed and patented was a flow control valve, the Colorflow Valve. Used for controlling the speed of hydraulic and pneumatic cylinders and motors, the valve is today considered the premier product of its kind in the world. Millions have been sold by Parker Hannifin, which acquired the product line from Manatrol.

Upon retiring from Parker Hannifin in 1981, Zajac and his brother founded a new company, Zaytran Corporation, a leading manufacturer of high-performance automation products, grippers, welding locators and hydraulic valves. Zajac’s current position is chairman of the board.

Samuel D. Greiner, '55. With the aid of Sam Greiner, the Ohio University football team won the MAC Championship in 1953. He was drafted by the Bobcats on an athletic scholarship. Greiner, along with fellow engineers Ron Foliano and Tom Lee, played a leading role in the team’s victory. He was a distinguished military graduate and a member of both Tau Beta Pi and Omicron Delta Kappa. In addition, he was president of Theta Chi and served on the Interfraternity Council. During Greiner’s senior year, President Baker invited him to a tea at Cutler Hall where he met his future wife, Dorothy. Greiner says his experience in engineering education, athletics, and extracurricular activities at Ohio University prepared him to be a leader.

After serving two years as a lieutenant in the Army Corps of Engineers, Greiner was employed with Cooper Industries. One of his many duties with the company was to recruit graduate engineers from Midwest universities. This allowed Greiner the opportunity and privilege to return to Ohio University and to speak to young students about careers in engineering. As a result of his outstanding work as a marketing engineer and recruiter, Greiner would be promoted several times, eventually to the position of division president.

The following year, he combined two machinery divisions in Pennsylvania and formed Cooper Penjax. He calls this merger his most fulfilling and satisfying accomplishment. His new company produced small process and oil field compressors as well as engines and pumps. In four years, Greiner would triple sales and increase profits seven fold. He speaks of this feat as his "little-engine-that-could" period. Prior to Greiner’s leadership, Cooper Penjax’s highest-rated product was a two-cylinder, 230 horsepower, integral engine-compressor. He recalls, "With a touch more of Brake Mean Effective Pressure (BMEP) here, a bit more RPM there, and a larger power cylinder for more displacement, this two-cylinder engine grew to 400 HP, an increase of 75 percent. Thermodynamics, strength of materials, machine design, economics, experience, and a team effort made it happen!"

Greiner served as chair of the Diesel Engine Manufacturer’s Association, was a member of the Compressed Air & Gas Institute, and completed Stanford’s Executive Program. In 1980, he joined the Board of Visitors of the Russ College of Engineering and Technology and remained active until 1996. He was a member of Ohio University’s National Alumni Committee and chair of Project ‘85. Through this fund drive, $4.5 million was raised to provide the latest equipment and technology to the new Stocker Center. In 1986, Greiner received the Medal of Merit from the Alumni Association before becoming active in the Third Century Campaign Committee. He and Dorothy are members of the University’s Trustees Academy.

Greiner’s last ten working years were a period of self-employment as an energy management consultant. The Greiners have two children—their son is an attorney in Hong Kong; their daughter is a hydro-geologist in Maryland.

Robert H. Page, BSME '49, graduated from the prestigious Central High School of Philadelphia during World War II. Having previously enlisted in the Army, he was sent to Virginia Military Institute and then to Armed Forces Radio Services for duty in Honolulu, Hawaii. After returning to civilian status, he received a B.S.M.E. degree from Ohio University in 1949 and Ph.D. from the University of Illinois in 1955. He held leadership positions with Esso Research and Engineering Company, as well as the University of Illinois and Stevens Institute of Technology. Page served as the head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Rutgers University for 15 years. Between 1979 and 1983, he was the Dean of Engineering at Texas A&M before becoming the James M. Forsyth Professor of Mechanical Engineering, a position that he held until 1994. Page also served as a consultant to NSF, NBS, NIST, NRC, and companies such as ABB, Boeing, Schering-Plough, Singer, and Xerox.

His research specialty was flow separation analysis and its application to practical problems, work for which he gained international recognition. He was invited to present over 170 lectures, and his publications include over 250 professional papers. He is noted for his research and teaching on non-isoenergetic supersonic base flow, thermodynamic second law solution of subsonic base flow, and impingement jet flows. Under his tutelage and guidance, students were honored for excellence in many areas of engineering. Page noted his principle accomplishments to be the development of strong, successful engineering education programs.

In 1984, Page was honored as the first non-German scientist to be appointed an Honorary Professor at Ruhr University in Bochum, Germany. He continued to assist cooperative research in Germany as well as Australia. He was elected to several scientific societies and was an honorary member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). Elected a fellow of ASME in 1971, he served as a fellow of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics (AIAA), fellow of the Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology (ABET), fellow of the American Astronautical Society (AAS), and fellow of the American Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS). He was a leader on various national task forces and was a past president of the American Society for Engineering Education and past chair of the ASEE Academy of Fellows. He was an elected member of the Pan-American Academy of Engineering.

For his accomplishments, Robert H. Page received numerous awards, including the University of Illinois College of Engineering Alumni Honor Award, the Ohio University Medal of Merit, the James Harry Potter Gold Medal of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and the Ralph Coats Roe Award of the American Society for Engineering Education. From 1981 to 1994, Page served as a member on the Russ College Board of Visitors. He was listed in biographical data sources such as Who’s Who in Engineering, Who’s Who in America, and Who’s Who in the World.

Robert passed away in October 2016, survived by his wife Lola, five children, and eight grandchildren, whom he credited with inspiring many of his successes.

T. Richard Robe, BSCE '55 and MSME '62. In the spring of 1955, Dick Robe received a B.S.C.E. with high honors from Ohio University. Following a brief stint with the General Electric Company, less than a year after graduation he entered the US Air Force as a ROTC commissioned officer and pilot, serving on active duty from 1956 to 1959. His reserve military service would continue until 1985, when he retired as a major. Robe remembers having the opportunity to fly some of the United States’ early supersonic jet fighters in the 50s, as well as serving as an Air Force Academy liaison officer in the 70s. In the 60s, however, Robe focused on academics. While on leave from GE following his active duty, Robe served as an acting instructor and then instructor of civil engineering at Ohio University for three-and-a-half years while completing his master’s in mechanical engineering in 1962. Deciding to remain in academia, he cancelled his GE leave in 1963 and went to Stanford University to continue his graduate education, earning a Ph.D. in engineering mechanics in 1966.

With his doctorate, he would return to the Midwest at the University of Kentucky where he progressed through the ranks from assistant professor to professor in nine years. During his 15 years at Kentucky, he also served for one year in the President’s Office as an American Council of Education fellow and then later served as associate dean for Academic Affairs in the College of Engineering for three years. He would remain there until Ohio University beckoned once again. This time he would be neither a student nor an acting instructor; in 1980, he became dean of the College of Engineering and Technology (1980-1996). During his career, academia would not be Robe’s only interest, merely his most profound. He served as a consultant for a myriad of companies including Westinghouse Air Brake, Liberty Mutual Insurance, IBM, and the Ohio State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers. Robe also served as a directing officer to companies and organizations ranging from the Ohio Aerospace Institute to ABET to Lexington Little League Baseball; he served for 18 years on the Board of Directors of DataBeam Corporation of Lexington, Kentucky—from start-up to successful corporation—before it was acquired by IBM-Lotus in 1998.

As a professor and dean, Robe lists one of his major accomplishments as having had the opportunity to contribute to the education of more than 10,000 engineering students in his 40+ year career in academia. With the extraordinary support of the Stocker Endowment and the College’s Board of Visitors, Dean Robe helped build strong engineering instructional and research programs that have attracted outstanding faculty as well as excellent students, and greatly enhanced the reputation of the Russ College of Engineering and Technology at Ohio University. In 1981, he initiated the College’s selective admission standards to improve the student body and named professorships to strengthen the faculty; both of these initiatives helped lead the way for the rest of the University to follow a few years later. Robe was dean when the College was named in honor of Fritz and Dolores Russ, and commissioned their biographies as well as that of C. Paul Stocker. When the Ohio University Board of Trustees established the T. Richard and Eleanora K. Robe Leadership Institute in 1996, Robe was appointed its first director; through the Institute, he has introduced leadership education into the engineering curriculum of the Russ College.

Robe was designated the Cruse W. Moss Professor of Engineering Education in 1992. He received the Ohio University Medal of Merit in 1993 and the Alumnus-of-the-Year honor from the Ohio University Alumni Association in 1996. In the early- and middle-90s, he worked with Presidents Ping and Glidden and the Russes to establish the international Russ Prize in engineering through Ohio University and the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) to celebrate outstanding engineering achievements. In 2000, he was asked to serve as an advisor to the NAE Russ Prize Selection Committee for the first awarding of this significant engineering honor in February 2001.

Robe continues to return to the Ohio University campus to serve on the Ohio University Foundation Board of Trustees and, each fall quarter, he conducts the Leadership Seminar sponsored by the Robe Leadership Institute.

Raymon B. Fogg Sr., BSCE '53, HON ’14, is president and CEO of Ray Fogg Building Methods, Inc., an engineering, contracting and development firm in Cleveland that he founded in 1959. In the past 58 years, the company has constructed more than 3,700 buildings in northeast Ohio including commercial, industrial, office and recreational properties, plus the development of multiple industrial parks. Ray quickly earned a reputation as an innovator in design and build construction. His techniques in marketing and advanced construction analysis procedures have attained worldwide recognition. He has lectured extensively in Europe and the United States. His lifelong educational and practical background in the construction industry began at age eleven on a heavy construction project with his father, also a civil engineer.

After graduating from high school in Conneaut, Ohio, Ray drove a friend to Athens and "just stayed." As a student at Ohio University, he was a member of the Air Force ROTC and served as president of the OHIO Chapter and the Ohio Student Council of the Ohio Society of Professional Engineers. He was honored as one of four outstanding seniors in his graduating class and was the first Ohio University engineering graduate to have a paper published in The Annual Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers. He says that, "Ohio University helped me make the transition from learning as an assignment to learning as a quest. OHIO gave me both the methods and the insight to continue my lifelong analytical pursuit of my chosen profession, engineering." He received a B.S. in Civil Engineering in 1953.

Ray used the knowledge he gained at Ohio University to benefit others. In addition to his contributions to his own community, he has helped people in need in Central America and Africa. When he heard of the devastation caused by Hurricane Fifi in Honduras in 1974, he flew his own aircraft to deliver high-protein food. He remained, as an engineer and builder, and taught survivors how to reconstruct their villages. After the 1976 earthquake in Guatemala, he and a volunteer work force he had trained in Honduras, taught Guatemalans how to build their new homes. This resulted in the construction of 35,000 homes. In 1981, he went to Somalia as an advisor to Church World Service in coordination with the United Nations, where he developed programs to solve staff and refugee health problems.

Ray has served on numerous civic boards and organizations in Cleveland, including the Greater Cleveland Growth Association, the National Benevolent Association and the Cleveland Inter Church Council. He has served on the boards of church-related homes and shelters for abused or emotionally disadvantaged children and skilled care retirement facilities for older adults. He is known internationally for his work and has served on the boards of several international relief agencies. He is a member of the OHIO Civil Engineering Advisory Board, and ORITE Board. Emeritus member of the Ohio University Foundation Board. In 1997, he was awarded the Medal of Merit and the Alumnus of the Year by the Ohio University Alumni Association.

Ray resides in Cleveland. He has three children, Linda, Kathleen, and Ray, Jr.

Charles R. Stuckey, Jr., BSME '66, HON '05, Chairman of RSA Security Inc. (formerly Security Dynamics Technologies, Inc.) and President of RSA Capital has served as the company’s CEO from January 1987 to January 2000. His background in general management and sales technology spans more than 33 years. Upon graduating from Ohio University, he worked for International Business Machines in various sales positions. He also worked for the Control Data Corporation in various middle and senior management positions. Under his leadership, RSA has grown from 18 employees in 1987 to 1,000 employees in 2000 and is ranked in the top 100 software companies in the world.

RSA, one of the most trusted names in e-Security for over 15 years, helps secure the foundation for e-business through its RSA SecurID two-factor authentication, RSA encryption and its Keon public key management systems. Today ,through various partnering programs, the company has strategic relationships with more than 500 of the industry’s leading companies including 3COM, Apple Computer ,and IBM. With more than 5000 customers worldwide in the areas of banking, government, telecommunications, aerospace industry, university and healthcare, RSA has affected a global presence that includes offices in the U. S., Canada, UK, Germany, France, Sweden, Australia, Japan, Hong Kong and Malaysia.

Chuck, the oldest of six children, was born and raised “just up the road” in Lancaster. He attended O.U. Lancaster while working full time for the Anchor Hocking Glass Corporation. He later commuted to the Athens campus while working part-time jobs in Athens and Lancaster. “I feel my engineering training and experiences at Ohio University were very instrumental in establishing a solid foundation and the discipline necessary for a career in computers and information processing. The work experience while in school was another major part of my college education. The exposure to students from all walks of life and from around the world was invaluable as we expanded our company’s operations internationally. Lastly, the opportunity to take advantage of these experiences at OU and any successes I’ve had could not have happened without the support and understanding of my wife Marilyn and the good “midwestern values” instilled in us as kids by our parents as we grew up” He received a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Ohio University in l966.

Chuck serves on the Board of Directors of RSA Security, and Matrix One. He is Director and Vice Chairman of the Massachusetts Telecommunications Council and a member of the Strategic Planning Committee for the Russ College Board of Visitors.

He and Marilyn reside in Carlisle, Massachusetts and have one daughter, Sherrie.

Thomas E. Wheeler, AA '70 and BSED '71, is President and owner of Component Repair Technologies (CRT). He was a corporate pilot with TRW for nine years before he entered the company's management training program where he held a sales position as Marketing Director in the jet engine parts repair division. When TRW sold his division in 1985, Tom started his own parts repair business, Component Repair Technologies. Today CRT employs 200 people who are experienced in aerospace manufacturing and aircraft overhaul and repair.

Tom credits his Ohio University education and the mentorship of Francis Fuller, Director of the Aviation program from 1963-85, for much of his success in live. "The most gratifying element of starting a small company is to hire people and watch them grow as they take on increasing responsibilities and take over the day to day management of the company. I think part of my willingness to share and delegate responsibility comes from my time at Ohio University, when at 19 years old, I was give the opportunity to fly as captain on the university's aircraft. The trust that Francis Fuller placed in me taught me that if you place your trust in subordinates and give them proper direction they will reward you with performances that exceed your expectations." He received an AA in 1970 and a BSED in 1971 from Ohio University and an MBA in 1985 from Baldwin Wallace College.

Tom has been an enthusiastic leader at Ohio University and great friend to the Aviation Program. His leadership in the Aviation Hangar Project led to the establishment of the Francis Fuller Aviation Training Facility. He initiated and was instrumental in building the David Hoover Memorial Scholarship that benefits majors in aviation.

Tom serves on the Aviation Advisory Board, the Russ College Board of Visitors and is co-chair of the Advancement Committee. He is a member of the Ohio University Trustees Academy. In 1997 he was awarded the Ohio University Medal of Merit by the Ohio University Alumni Association.

Tom and his wife Betsy reside in Willoughby, Ohio and have two daughters, Michelle and Rebecca.

Gerald G. Loehr, BSIE '52, had a rewarding career as an industrial engineering executive with firms developing new technologies in fields ranging from long-range missiles to deep-sea exploration and high-speed computers. Born and raised in Bellfontaine, Ohio, Gerry graduated from Ohio University in 1952 with a Bachelor of Science degree in industrial engineering. He then served for two years as a lieutenant in the United States Air Force. He spent most of his professional career in California.

In his 12 years with Aerojet General, Gerry managed Minuteman and Polaris missile contracts. He later joined Straza Industries which was eventually purchased by Ametek Corporation. Loehr was appointed as executive vice president of western operations for Ametek which included directing operations for 16 companies and 22 plants. The resulting corporation developed new technologies for deep-sea robotic vehicles. Ametek's submersibles were used for purposes ranging from finding sunken treasure or crashed airliners to operating undersea gas and oil wells. He retired from Ametek in 1989 and became chairman and chief executive officer of Tools & Metals, Inc., a supplier for national aeronautical firms. Gerry held those positions until his untimely death in 1997. He was also an investor and board member of two other firms (Aurora Technologies and Myricom Corporation), one involving high-speed computers, the other developing new technologies in medical equipment. According to his wife, Linda, "Gerry thoroughly enjoyed making a success out of a business. He felt engineering was a way for him to pursue an interesting, successful career."

While a student at Ohio University, Gerry was active in the Lambda Chi Fraternity. In later years, he served on the Russ. College's Board of Visitors and Major Gifts Committee, taking a very active role the Third Century Campaign. In 1993 Gerry established the Gerald G. Loehr Professorship. The professorship, currently held by Dr. James R. Fales, was established to recognize sustained performance in teaching, research, scholarship, and service on the part of a faculty member in the Russ College of Engineering and Technology. He received the Ohio University Alumni Association's Medal of Merit in 1994. Gerry also spearheaded the drive for the development of the Robe Leadership Institute which offers students the opportunity to study leadership styles and meet engineers and other entrepreneurs who are successful leaders in their areas of expertise.

In addition to his wife, Linda, Gerry is survived by four children, two stepchildren, and 11 grandchildren.

Rex E. Maiden, BSCE '58, has played a part in many of the civil engineering and structural engineering projects that have improved Ohio University and Athens County over the past 27 years. Rex was raised in Middleport, Ohio and graduated from Ohio University in 1956 with a Bachelor of Science degree in civil engineering.

Rex's first position was with the West Virginia Highway Department. He then moved to the Parkersburg Rig and Reel Company which manufactured bolted steel tanks, 1000' high transmission towers, and pre-engineered buildings. His work with the engineers there fostered his interest in structural design. In 1960, Rex worked as an area engineer for DuPont Corporation at its Parkersburg, West Virginia plant and was eventually transferred to its plant in Seaford, Delaware.

Shortly thereafter, the opportunity arose for Rex to take an acting instructor's position in the civil engineering department at Ohio University. This allowed Rex to pursue his master's degree and still support a growing family. He received his Master of Science degree in structural engineering in 1963. Rex went back to work first for DuPont, and then with a new company, Walker/Parkersburg (a division of Textron, Inc.). In 1971, Rex and his family (wife Nancy and six children) moved to Nelsonville, Ohio so that Rex could take over the family business, Maiden and Jenkins Construction.

Maiden and Jenkins Construction activities include earthmoving, bridge building, pipeline and building construction in southeastern Ohio. The business has grown from one company to four, including Maiden and Jenkins Construction, Black Top Contracting, Nelsonville Consulting and Construction, and B. T. Materials. In 1976 Rex was elected Athens County Engineer, a post he held for three years.

As a student at Ohio University, Rex was a member of Beta Theta Pi fraternity and was registered in the Engineering Directory. He is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers and the American Society of Professional Engineers, and serves on the Department of Civil Engineering's advisory board and the Russ College Board of Visitors. Rex is an active community member, serving on the boards of the Peoples Bank, the Sunday Creek Coal Company, the Hocking Conservancy District, and the Nelsonville Board of Trade. In 1994 he was elected "Person of the Year" by the Nelsonville Area Chamber of Commerce.

When asked about his greatest accomplishments, Rex said, "I do not feel that I have made any great accomplishments in my life. The most important things to me are God, family, the people I love, my friends and being able to share with others. I have been truly blessed."

Howard E. Nolan, BSAE '57. Originally from Dayton, Howard Nolan’s career began when he received his Bachelor of Science degree in architectural engineering from Ohio University in 1957. As a student in the College of Engineering in the 1950s (the only African American student in the college at the time) he received some advice he’s always followed. “Dean E.J. Taylor challenged me either to be a superior engineer or face the fact that I wouldn’t gain acceptance in the field,” Howard recalled. He took up the challenge and in his 40-year career, he has climbed to the top of his profession.

Called to active duty in the United States Air Force in 1958, Nolan spent three years constructing and renovating air fields and base support facilities in Japan, Iwo Jima and Arkansas. Upon discharge, Nolan returned to the Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) as a bridge design engineer. With ODOT, he was involved in some of the most mammoth construction jobs of the century, the building of the interstate highway system. Nolan rose to the post of assistant director of ODOT.

He began a new career in the private sector in 1963 . He established Nolan and Associates Engineers and Planners in Columbus, Ohio. Winning his first major project (an MRI facility for Ohio State University Hospitals) led to the founding of Moody/Nolan Ltd. Architects and Engineers. Today, the company is the fourth largest firm of its kind in central Ohio, and the largest African-American owned firm in the country, with offices in Columbus, Cincinnati, Nashville and Orlando.

Visitors to the Ohio University campus can view some of the firm’s work in the renovation of Copeland Hall and the construction of the new baseball field, as well as part of the widening of U.S. Rt. 50 between Marietta and Athens. Those in Columbus may recognize Moody/Nolan work in the new cancer facility at Riverside Hospital, the Delta and USAir wings at Port Columbus Airport and the Schottenstein Arena.

Howard is a member of the National Society of Professional Engineers, Ohio Society of Professional Engineers, and the Society of American Military Engineers. As a student, Howard was a member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity, participated in ROTC and was a political activist. He has been a member of the Ohio University Board of Trustees and the Department of Civil Engineering’s Advisory board. He received the Ohio University Alumni Association’s Medal of Merit in 1998. He is currently a member of the College Board of Visitors and has established a scholarship. Howard and his wife, Trudy, are the parents of one daughter.

Karol "Karl" A. Ondick, BSEE '55, retired as Vice President of the Research and Engineering Center at Systems Research Laboratories, Inc., in 1996 after a 36-year electrical engineering career. Karl grew up in Lorain, Ohio and graduated from Ohio University in 1955. After graduation, Karl had a two-year assignment in the U. S. Air Force at the National Security Agency to provide engineering support of their large-scale, high-speed, digital computers.

In 1957, Karl joined Systems Research Laboratories (SRL), the fledging company begun by Fritz J. and Dolores H. Russ. Karl has been responsible for numerous projects for SRL and its subsidiaries. Prior positions included director of the company's Engineering Services Group, General Manager of the Autometrix Division, Vice President of the Waste Treatment Center for Systems Technology Corporation, and Manager of SRL's Engineering Services Division. He has also been involved in the design and development of experimental laboratory apparatus used in physiological research. Karl specialized in the design and development of special and general purpose data acquisition and processing systems used in military test and evaluation applications. He has managed projects for various computer and laboratory instrumentation projects for the U.S. Air Force, the Air Force Wright Aeronautical Laboratories and Aerospace Medical Research Laboratory and Aeronautical Systems Division.

About his career at SRL, Karl said, "Fritz and Dolores Russ gave us the freedom to make business decisions. They ran the business and grew the business in a "family" atmosphere. I was able to participate in the company's growth and help build its reputation as an outstanding research and development company."

In 1998 he was inducted into the Fast Pitch Hall of Fame for the Dayton Amateur Softball Commission. He is a member of the Dayton Engineers Club, the Association of Old Crows - Kittyhawk Chapter, SAFE Association, and the Aerospace Medical Association.

While a student at Ohio University, Karl was involved in Phi Kappa Theta fraternity and Air Force ROTC. He currently serves as a member of the College's Board of Visitors and is a member of the Ohio University Foundation Board of Trustees. Karl and his wife, Jo, also sponsor the Karol and Jo Ondick-Manasseh Cutler Scholars Award. They are the parents of one son, Colin.

Donald H. Voelker, BSME '52. Don's expertise in hydraulics has led him to a successful career in the manufacturing industry. A Cleveland native, Don served for two years in the United States Navy before coming to Ohio University. He graduated from Ohio University in 1952 with a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering. When asked about his engineering education, he points to former chairman of the department, Dr. Paul Black, and professor emeritus Lewis Hicks as two individuals who greatly influenced his decision to become a mechanical engineer.

After graduation, Don was hired as a sales engineer trainee for Hydraulic Equipment Company (now Hydreco). He was 25 years old; his territory included the entire Midwest. He was then transferred to Kansas City, Kansas, where he was responsible for sales in 13 states. Eventually, Don was transferred back to the Midwest where his territory included all of Ohio and the surrounding states. In 1957 he began working for Parker Hannifin, covering a six-state area. Don designed and sold hydraulic systems for man-lifting devices, earthmoving equipment, and farm equipment.

In 1960, Don decided to open his own firm, D. H. Voelker and Associates. The company served as a manufacturer's agent for hydraulic equipment. That first year the company grossed $180,000 in sales; in 1989 it grossed six million dollars.

While chairman of D. H. Voelker and Associates, Don and two others began a hydraulic cylinder manufacturing operation in Kansas. The company, now called Great Bend Industries, currently employs 200 people, and in 1998 grossed $420 million in sales. Don looks at Great Bend Industries as his proudest business accomplishment.

Don has always been an enthusiastic supporter of Ohio University. While in college he was a member of the Engineers Club and pledged Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity. Currently he is a trustee on the board of the Ohio University Foundation and serves on the Campaign Steering Committee. He is a member of the Russ College's Board of Visitors. He is immediate past president and co-chair of the National Alumni Board of Directors gifts solicitation committee and chairman of the regional phase of the campaign. In 1990, Don chaired the National Development Committee for Phase III of the Third Century Campaign. He received the Ohio University Alumni Association's Medal of Merit in 1995. He and his wife, Marge, sponsor the Donald H. Voelker Engineering Scholarship for mechanical engineering students at Ohio University. Don and his wife are the parents of three children.

James M. Abraham, BSEE '43 and BSIE '48. Brigadier General James Abraham retired in 1982 from the United States Army after a stellar career of service that spanned 40 years. A registered professional engineer, he currently is active in engineering and management consulting activities. He has recently published a book and is working on two more. In addition to his bachelor of science degrees in both Electrical and Industrial Engineering from Ohio University, he also graduated from the Army Command and General Staff College and the Army War College. He received his first commission from General George Patton. Abraham is credited for developing innovative concepts in ROTC instruction at Ohio University that have been implemented at other universities nationwide. He holds several patents for medium pressure systems and developed several key programs for the U.S. Army.

As a civilian, he has served in industry, education and government. Jim was instrumental in developing a novel method of municipal financing for Ohio’s cities. He has received numerous accolades including Ohio Society Professional Engineers Distinguished Award, induction into the Ohio National Guard Hall of Fame, the European Theater of Operations Medal with Four bronze stars and having the Gahanna Ohio Municipal building named in his honor. Jim fondly recalls “being part of a team of four engineering students who build the first radio station on campus out of parts and a couple of hundred dollars.” He is a member of the Russ College Board of Visitors.

J. David Carr’s, BSIE '42, expertise in the steel industry has sent him around the world as one of the foremost experts in the start-up of new steel plants. Thirteen years after graduating from Ohio University in 1942 with a Bachelor of Science degree in industrial engineering, David graduated from law school and passed the bar. During his 42-year history with the United States Steel Corporation, he worked at many different plants learning the various facets of the industry. In 1969 David was appointed General Manager of US Steel’s Gary, Indiana plant to combine two plants into one. This combination gave the Gary operation the largest steel plant in the United States with more than 28,000 employees, producing more than 10 million tons of steel a year. From there, David went on to hold several Vice Presidential positions with US Steel with responsibilities for building a start-up plant in Taiwan and developing marketing strategies for foreign and domestic markets.

Taking early retirement, David formed several consulting companies including Iron Technologies, which he formed to build five plants to make and sell iron carbide as a charge material for steel making. He serves as President and CEO. Carr has served on many boards and organizations receiving recognition for his community service. He received the Silver Beaver and Silver Antelope awards from the Boy Scouts of America. Dave was awarded the Ohio University Medal of Merit in 1973. He has served on the College Board of Visitors and Major Gifts Committees.

J. David served as a Navy Lt. during WWII and was working on the Invasion of Japan.

As a young man he worked and received his 32nd degree in the Masonic Lodge.

He has served faithfully in the Presbyterian Church and was an Elder as well as President of the church corporation while living in Fox Chapel, Pa.

Carr is now taking it easy living in Woodstock, Ga., with his wife Carol to be close to grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Cruse W. Moss, BSISE '48 and LDD_ENGR '85 (HON), has distinguished himself with over 30 years of engineering, manufacturing and marketing experience in tactical vehicles, transit buses and commercial truck and farm equipment. He holds a bachelor of science degree in industrial engineering and doctorate (honorary) from Ohio University. He began his career with Kaiser-Jeep Corporation and became Executive Vice President. When American Motors purchased Kaiser-Jeep in 1970, Cruse became President of their military truck and bus division and Group Vice President of American Motors. He also served as Chairman of the Council of Trustees for the Association of the United State Army. Cruse later joined White Motor Corporation as President and CEO and Chairman of the Board.

In 1981 he left White Motor to develop General Automotive Corporation and the Patton Corporation, both of which, he founded. He retired in 1996 from General Automotive and currently serves as Chairman of the Board of the Patton Corporation which acquires and manages operating businesses. Moss has been a member of numerous national organizations and corporations including the Society of Automotive Engineers, Economic Club of Detroit and Tau Beta Pi. He is a former Ohio University Foundation Board Trustee, an Ohio University Medal of Merit recipient, and the Ohio University 1995 Alumnus of the Year. He is a member of the Russ College Board of Visitors. Cruse chaired the College’s Major Gifts Committee during the Third Century Campaign and has supported faculty growth and achievement.

Fritz J. Russ, BSEE '42 and LDD-ENGR (HON) '75. Fritz Russ’ innovation, vision and technical abilities launched him into an engineering career that has spanned more than 50 years. Born in Jackson County Ohio, Fritz graduated from Ohio University in 1942 with a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering. During WWII, Fritz was employed with the Naval Research laboratory. He distinguished himself as the developer of an automatic frequency control system for large diesel generators for which he was awarded several patents. In 1955, Fritz left his position as a senior engineer with the U.S. Air Force to start his own company in Dayton with his wife Dolores. Together, they founded Systems Research Laboratories which grew into one of the largest and most productive, independent engineering and technology research firms in the world.

In 1987, the Russ’ sold SRL and Fritz started his own consulting firm, the Russ Venture Group. He has served on many boards of corporations and civic organizations including Wright State University and the Ohio Commodores, and was appointed by President Gerald Ford to a committee formed to study national policy on science, technology, and engineering. Fritz has received many national and state accolades, among them, the E. J. Nutter Award presented on “Fritz Russ Day” in Greene County, Ohio, the naming of the Fritz and Dolores Russ Engineering Center at Wright State University in their honor, the Ohio University Medal of Merit in 1964 and Alumnus of the Year Award in 1983. Russ served as a member of the Ohio University Board of Trustees and the Foundation Board of Trustees. He is a member of the College’s Board of Visitors and served on the College’s Major Gifts Committee. In 1994, Ohio University proudly named the College of Engineering and Technology in honor of Fritz and Dolores Russ’ vision and commitment to education and their generous support of students and faculty at Ohio University.

C. Paul Stocker, BSEE '26 and LDD-ENGR '74 (HON), was an inventive genius and an astute electrical engineer and businessman. His devices were patented in 26 foreign countries. After his graduation from Ohio University in 1926 with a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering, Paul went to work for Bell Laboratories in New York City. During the Depression and mass layoffs, he lost his job. Stocker invented many things but was best know for the Sub Cycle static frequency converter, which was a revolutionary design for the telephone industry. To market his invention, he started his own research and development company in 1936; Lorain Products. The company developed and manufactured hundreds of products for communications and industry and grew to over 1,000 employees and numerous plants in northern Ohio, Canada and Mexico. To this day, the Sub-Cycle remains the longest continuously manufactured part in the telephone industry.

Paul Stocker served on many boards including the Lorain Library Board, Mayor’s Committee on Civic Improvement, and the Lorain National Bank. In 1965, he was named Lorain Man of the Year. Stocker was a member of the Ohio University Board of Trustees from 1958-1972, and served as Chairman. He received the Ohio University Alumni Medal of Merit and 1978. Beth and Paul Stocker were the first couple to be named Alumni of the Year. He was an original member of the College Board of Visitors appointed by Dean Taylor. In 1985, the new building that currently houses the Russ College of Engineering and Technology was named in honor of the Stockers for their generosity of commitment and support for the engineering and technology students and faculty at Ohio University.

Marvin E. White, BSCE '47, has enjoyed a remarkable career in the industrial gas industry. Prior to graduating from Ohio University in 1947 with a bachelor of science degree in civil engineering, he served in the Navy during WWII as a radar technician. After graduation, Marv joined Columbia Gas as an industrial engineer in Mansfield, Ohio. He had attended high school in Athens, Ohio and returned to his hometown in 1953 as District Sales Manager for Columbia Gas where he stayed until 1960. He was transferred to Columbus as Vice President for retail sales and continued to move up within the company. In 1976, White was named Chairman and CEO of Columbia Distribution Companies.

After retiring from Columbia in 1987, Marv co-founded Interstate Gas Supply with his son. IGS is now the largest privately owned gas marketing company in the midwest. Marv was the youngest person to ever be inducted in the American Gas Association’s Hall of Flame. He also received the industry’s most prestigious recognition, the Industrial-Commercial Achievement Award and the Governor’s Award. Marv has also served on boards of numerous community organizations including the United Way, Ohio Chamber of Commerce, Columbus Symphony and the Huntington Bank Board. In 1976 he received the Ohio University Alumni Medal of Merit. He has served as a member of the College’s Board of Visitors and Major Gifts Committee. With an impressive legacy of Ohio University graduates, the White family has supported the expansion efforts of the College.