The Alumni Magazine for Worcester Polytechnic Institute. (WPI)
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8 Fall 2014 Keeper of the Legacy While thumbing through the new WPI Journal I hap- pened to notice the half photo with the name ST Williams un- der it. ST, as he was known, was my grandfather. I have become the keeper of his legacy items, which include over 100 patents and various other memorabilia. Along the way to becoming the president of Scovill Manufacturing, he was an engineer for the SAE, Victor Talking Machines (which became RCA), the Navy, and Schrader Valve (a division of Sco- vill). His protégé at Scovill was Malcom Baldridge of the Bal- dridge National Quality Award. He also was given the Goddard Award, which now sits on my desk. I thought you might get a kick out of this remnant from his archives: a 1915 tuition bill. Needless to say, times have changed. Good article. KEN KOLKEBECK '72 Letters to the Editor EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, ALUMNI RELATIONS Peter A. Thomas CHIEF MARKETING OFFICER Amy M. Morton EDITOR Doreen Manning dmanning@wpi.edu ASSOCIATE EDITORS Peggy Isaacson Joan Killough-Miller CONTRIBUTING EDITOR Judith Jaeger ART DIRECT0R Kaajal Asher CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Karen Appold, Alison Baitz, Michael Blanding, Amy Crawford, Dave Greenslit, Kate Silver, Julia Quinn-Szcesuil, Joshua Zaffos PRODUCTION MANAGER Dianne Vanacore PHOTOGRAPHERS Ben Bocko, Mathew Burgos, Chris Churchill, Kathleen Dooher, Edward Linsmier, Steven Meckler, Enrique Pino ILLUSTRATORS Stephanie Dalton Cohan, Dan Page WPI Journal (ISSN 1538-5094) ©2014 is published quar- terly by Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in con- junction with the WPI Alumni Association. Periodical postage paid non-proft at Worcester, Massachusetts, and additional entry offces. Issues are mailed to all known WPI alumni living within the U.S. as a beneft of having graduated from WPI. This publication is guided by WPI's principles of free expression and accepted standards of good taste. Opinions expressed are those of the signed contributors and do not represent the opinion or offcial position of WPI or its offcers. POST- MASTER: Please send address changes, Form 3579, to WPI Journal, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 100 Institute Road, Worcester, MA 01609-2280. Correspond with WPI Journal WPI Journal 100 Institute Road - Boynton Hall Worcester, Massachusetts 01609 wpijournal@wpi.edu 508-831-4971 Submit Class notes: classnotes@wpi.edu WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE VOL. 111, NO. 1 Lighting Up Memories Your photo of the Lightpainting on page 48 of the Summer 2014 issue was colorful, but the caption is what caught my eye. My association with Walter Knapp and son Steve was more of a personal nature than Greek. Thanks to his kindness, I spent my sophomore, junior, and senior year living with his widowed mother. At the time, I was told it was to keep an eye on her but I now suspect it was another side of his caring for students. Enduring runny scrambled eggs every morning, mowing the lawn in the fall and spring, shoveling the winter snow, and washing windows with newspaper was repaid with scheduled Monday nights across the street at Walter's house to watch Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In, snowshoeing up Mt. Wachusett with Walter and Steve, or some other weekend activity in addition to the luxu- ry accommodations. His mother was a wonderful and spirited woman who really took care of me and my fu- ture wife on the occasional weekend. Thanks for bring- ing back those memories. BOB MEADER '68 Hey, alumni ... what did you like about the Journal this month? Did anything make you grimace? What would you like to see more of? What could you do without? Y'know what? We'd like to hear about it—we can take it, I promise! We strive to produce an engaging magazine that shares the wonderful world of WPI with you, so drop us a line at wpijournal@wpi.edu or directly to me, Doreen Manning, WPI Journal, 100 Institute Road, Worcester MA 01609, and tell us what we can do better—or what we're nailing on the head. I'll share it with our staff and, potentially, with our readers on this page next issue.