| OSSC HISTORIAN - Tom Godfrey - |
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Tom Godfrey was named the OSSC's 18th Fellow at the June, 1999 meeting of the Board of Directors. He was presented with a commemorative plaque at the October 6, 1999 OSSC meeting. Click here to see the new Tom Godfrey Fellows Profile. |
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| Thomas E. Godfrey |
Pacific Crossing LLP - Optical
Designer |
Thomas
Erwin Godfrey was OSSC President in 1973-4, having started as
Arrangements Chairman in 1969 at the request of then-President Don
Nicholson, and serving as Treasurer, Secretary and Vice
President. He graduated with a BS in Engineering Physics from the
University of Illinois in 1960, came to work for Northrop Corporation
in Hawthorne, California. He took Walter Wallin's Optics Classes,
and courses in servomechanisms, mathematics, at UCLA. Tom worked
many years at Northrop as an engineer and manager in optics and
electro-optics. In 1994 Northrop Grumman was formed. Tom
took an early retirement offer that December, but was back by May 1995
as a "jobshop" optical design, which he continues to do
part-time. During 1995-6, OSSC President David Kramer asked Mr.
Godfrey to find out which OSSC Fellows were alive, or their death
date. That request was later expanded to include writing "Fellows
Profiles". The next President, Susan Raffensperger asked Tom to
become the first OSSC Historian. Profiles have been written,
published in the OSSC