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To whom it may concern!
I left Clayesmore in 1939 and went on to New Trier High School inWinnetka Illinois USA.
I remember few names of my fellow boys, namely: Wilson, J.C.G.C. (Teddy) Edwards (33-44), Cox and Roberts. I can visualise many more faces. I got a good start in mathematics and science from Simpson, Verrinder and Moore. I also remember others, i.e. King, Spinney and Appleby.
John Simpson interested me in gliding and I am still gliding (I was up last Sunday - March 29th).
I went to a couple of Universities, Queen's in Kingston Ontario Canada and Brookly Poly and ended up with a bachelor's degree in applied maths. I have bummed around and done my share of slinging hash. I spent 2 years in the Arcticon a seven-man weather as a radiosonde technician ("Balloon Buster"), a couple of months in Saskatchewan on a geophysical survey as a "Jug Hussler" (putting out geophones, known as jugs) for seismic exploration, two trips on the Canadian Weather ship at station "PAPA" in the Pacific and I did my share of slinging hash. I did a trip around South Africa as a radio operator (Sparks) on the City of Canterbury". Back to Canada and a job for two years (the longest so far) with Atomic Energy of Canada Limited at Chalk River Ontario. While with AECL I went to Mount Evans Colorado to work on a cosmic ray experiment. At Mount Evans I met this graduate student from MIT, and in 1956 we got married, which accounts for me being in the USA.
In October of 1956 I got a job with Bell Labs, and have been here ever since by whatever name (American Bell, ATT Labs, ....) and now Lucent. I have been retired for about 5 years and am still working as a consultant and still having fun doing it. Its surprising how new ideas keep coming up in the same of things. I have about 28 patents granted, 4 more filed and 2 more in the works. My area is the Signal Processing part of data transmission.
Regards
Bill (CW) Farrow(38-41)