Stephen Greer:  

Hi Ruskin guys and girls and particularly the Class of '61. After leaving Ruskin I studied Electrical Engineering at the "Missouri School of Mines" at Rolla Missouri. It's called the Missouri University of Science and technology these days. I was graduated in '66 with a BSEE. I went to work for Westinghouse Electric Company out of St. Louis specializing in heavy industrial automation and control. Siemens Energy and Automation's acquired my division of Westinghouse in 1998. I worked for Siemens until retiring in June of 2009 with 43 total years in the industry. I've designed and commissioned Hot and Cold Steel Rolling Mill Control Systems for industry here in the USA and for customers in quite a number of places through out the world. I've done with quite a bit of s work in many other areas of heavy and light industry as well. After about a year and a half with Westinghouse (in 1968) I was drafted into the US-Army. It was the middle of the Vietnam War, but the Army never sent me out of the country. I did some very interesting research with the US Army Bio-Mechanical Research Institute in Silver Spring Maryland. I was directly attached to USAMRIID - United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Disease in Frederick, MD. That's the institute that been in the news a lot over the years for its work with biological agents. The news is often negative but the reality is something most Americans would be proud of. I know I'm proud to have worked with this unit. I've been married to Millie Maberry Greer for over 50 years. We met while I was stationed in Washington DC. Millie is a Nurse Educator and was the director of the N...Expand for more