by Lorraine
B.
My grandfather, Mathias Remesch, lived in Hungary where he was a master
cabinetmaker and business owner. He immigrated to the United States in 1905 and
was employed by the Glenn L. Martin Company in Cleveland, Ohio. When the
facility moved to Maryland, he set up the first tool room at Middle River.
For five generations, my family has been
fortunate to have continuous employment at Middle River, and it all began with Mathias
(first generation). The lineage includes my parents, Frank and Violet Remesch (second
generation); my brothers, Frank and Raymond Remesch, and myself (third
generation); my daughter, Nancy, and her husband, William (fourth generation);
and my granddaughter, Stephanie, who interned in 2009 (fifth generation).
Yes, I was part of the 100-year history of the
Glenn L. Martin Company and saw significant changes in the industry. Some of
the legacy has been in the books, and some of it is not written. I witnessed
the manual typewriter and adding machine changing to the computer age and the
thousands of single machines in the shop changing to a single N/C programmed
machine doing 50 operations. Talks about dress-down day, the guys in the shop
were required to wear white shirts and ties (some wore aprons).
What a great company it was to work for and I
conclude with my congratulations to Lockheed Martin on 100 years!
