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1940s
William W. Robinson, BA’42, of Honolulu, a retired Navy rear admiral, was awarded the flag flown from the USS Missouri on July 4, 2001. The presentation was made during ceremonies honoring the sixtieth anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor and recognized his contributions to the Veterans Administration in Hawaii.
Edward L. Wells, E’42, of Granby, Connecticut, writes, “I served with the U.S. Army Air Corps as an airplane inspector from 1944 to 1946, then returned to a job in airplane design at the Glenn L. Martin Company in Baltimore. I eventually retired as project engineer from Kaman Aerospace Corporation, in Bloomfield, Connecticut, in 1984 after thirty-four years with that company. Since then, I have traveled in the western United States and Canada, and have lived in Granby for the past fifty years. I enjoy volunteering one morning a week with the local historical society, where I have helped restore antique furniture and farm machinery, constructed a model up-and-down sawmill, and helped in the maintenance of our eighteenth-century buildings.” He sadly adds that his brother, Richard L. Wells, E’43, died on October 20, 2001, after suffering a heart attack a month earlier.
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