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Wall of Honor Level:
Air and Space Patron

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Born on Gramercy Park, New York City, (a gift to the city by his great-great-great grandfather), he was graduated from The Rumsey Hall School, The Taft School and The Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His military service consisted of two years at Citizens' Military Training Camp, two years in the Army ROTC program before getting his commission as a Second Lieutenant in the Army Air Corps. He went through the only two-engine advanced flying school at the time, (1941). During World War II, he was a pilot in the Navigator Training School at Turner Field, a pilot instructor in the four-engine school at Smyrna, Tennessee and an instructor of four-engine crews at Biggs Field in El Paso, Texas. Following that he was the commander of the 424th Bomb Squadron (H) in the 13th Air Force. During the Korean Conflict, he served in Combat Operations at the Far East Air Forces Headquarters in Tokyo. Following that war, he taught in the Air Force ROTC at MIT and then served in various positions in systems procurement at Hanscom Air Force Base and the Pentagon, before retiring in 1967.
In retirement he restored antique (high wheeled) bicycles and founded a company to make wheelchairs and ski chairs for handicapped athletes.