I am now 94 years old, and my story with the Glenn L.
Martin Company begins in 1949. I worked as a junior layout engineer.
Approximately two years later, I was elevated to a senior layout engineer. Not
long after, l was sent to Orlando, Florida, to help open an interim facility,
close to Cape Canaveral. The company was in the process of building a plant in
Florida. I was fortunate to be asked to be the plant layout supervisor, and I
accepted. In the interim facility, we set up a line to manufacture the Bullpup
missile and the Lacrosse missile. I have many memories of Mr. Martin and Mr.
George Bunker, who succeeded him as company president. It wasn’t long after
that, when the company bought American-Marietta out of Georgia. If you look in
the archives, you will see the book written by Mr. Harwood called Raise Heaven and
Earth. I was the very first person transferred from the Baltimore plant to
Florida. I was put out to pasture in other words I was laid off in 1957. I
could tell many more stories about the company, but I guess this was enough.
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