Hello friends,
this is John's son Eric.
I wish to thank you all for your kind thoughts as you post them on this site. I am so happy that my father was loved and respected by a great group of people.
We will sorely miss the type of man who will learn, help, teach, share, bullshit with and argue with you.
He was a genius, but did not really let you know. He much preferred to help as much as he thought you could handle and let you learn from your mistakes. That train of thought led to some intersting mistakes on my part growing up....
He held many patents from his days as a research engineer. He invented the LED light while researching lasers. He was given one of the first scanning electron microscopes that did not function and made it work. He was responsible for the silicon wafer machines that cost over a million each and was sent to install them in different parts of the world.
He loved growing tobacco, talking about it, drying it, trying whatever it took for a better harvest. It was a great pastime these last couple of years.
In the end, cancer defeated him, but on his terms. He just chose not to eat, rather than let cancer take away his dignity. He was unbelievably strong and stubborn of mind.
He did not suffer and he would not want his friends to as well. I am posting one of my favorite pictures of him, please remember him fondly.
He would never have wanted money wasted on flowers, he was a CT Yankee and that would make no sense to him.
He would say have a puff on your cigar, raise a sip of workhorses' special stuff that comes out of chlorox bottle and enjoy.
Eric
this is John's son Eric.
I wish to thank you all for your kind thoughts as you post them on this site. I am so happy that my father was loved and respected by a great group of people.
We will sorely miss the type of man who will learn, help, teach, share, bullshit with and argue with you.
He was a genius, but did not really let you know. He much preferred to help as much as he thought you could handle and let you learn from your mistakes. That train of thought led to some intersting mistakes on my part growing up....
He held many patents from his days as a research engineer. He invented the LED light while researching lasers. He was given one of the first scanning electron microscopes that did not function and made it work. He was responsible for the silicon wafer machines that cost over a million each and was sent to install them in different parts of the world.
He loved growing tobacco, talking about it, drying it, trying whatever it took for a better harvest. It was a great pastime these last couple of years.
In the end, cancer defeated him, but on his terms. He just chose not to eat, rather than let cancer take away his dignity. He was unbelievably strong and stubborn of mind.
He did not suffer and he would not want his friends to as well. I am posting one of my favorite pictures of him, please remember him fondly.
He would never have wanted money wasted on flowers, he was a CT Yankee and that would make no sense to him.
He would say have a puff on your cigar, raise a sip of workhorses' special stuff that comes out of chlorox bottle and enjoy.
Eric
