Memoir
from a Greatest Generation

Table of Contents

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• A Memoir Decision 5
• Life is All in One Big Package 5
• Birth Difficult, Survival Unlikely 9
• Viola 15
•     A Trip to Viola
• Great Depression One 24
•     On the Edge of Rebellion 29
•     FDR's Alphabet of Programs
• Maine Township High School
• Family during Depression Times 34
•     Brother Lester Loren Clark
•     Irene Murton Clark
•     John Mason Clark
• My Path From Bugs to Chips 37
•     Chemistry Lite
•     Microscopy Little
• A Path to Travel 43
•     Vacuum pump and glass blowing
•     Sprengler-type Vacuum Pump
•     An Explosive End -- on to New Projects 48
• Piano Lessons 49
• Radio 50
•     Amateur radio equipment.
•     The Ghost of Thomas Alva Edison
•     From Vacuum Tube to Transistor
• The Draft Board and the Navy 57
•     Train Tours of the U.S.
• The Greatest Generation 60
• Race in America 61
•     Quarters on an Aircraft Carrier
•     Eye Contact Only
• Time in the Navy 64
•     Torpedo Squadron VT4
•     A Tragic Loss
•     A Cruise to Hawaii and More Losses
•     Kamikaze's Hit the Essex and Bunker Hill
•     Henry and Shirley lost in Indochina
•     VT4's Last Losses
•     My Most Disturbing Memory 73
•     The Bunker Hill is Hit Again
•     The Victory Parade
• Whirlwind Courtship -- Mary 78
• The Atomic Bombs 80
•     Differing Points of View
• Return to Northwestern 81
•     The GI Bill
•     Back to the Slide Rules
• Bell Telephone Laboratory 83
•     High-Frequency Power Transistors
•     Other Tasks at B.L.
•     The M2012 Impossible Transistor
• The Greatest Generation Escapes 88
•     Pacific "Semiconductors" Inc. 90
•     Special People
•     An Invited Article on Power Transistors 93
•      HPA : Hewlett-Packard Associates
• A Letter to the Editor 95
• Microwave Associates 98
• The Micromanipulator Company 100
• Trip to Europe for Micromanipulator 102
• Cornwall, England and Paris for Mary 103
• Miscellaneous Experiences 104
•     Computers -- Commodore 64
•     "Investing" -- The Stock Market
•     Athletics for a Non-Athlete
•     The Scientology Exploration
•     The Turkish Era -- Islam
• Book Writing for Fun and Learning 109
•     Homosexuality: Causes and Cures:
•     A Bill of Rights for the 21st Century
•     Get Rich in Small Business
•     The Healing Wisdom of Dr. P. P. Quimby
•     Greater America in the Age of Rebellion
•     Memoir from a Greatest Generation
• Obama 13
•     What Next? Great Depression Two?
• Afghanistan "Victory" or "Defeat" ?
• Appendix 115
• Chronology
• The Greatest Generation: by Tom Brokaw
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