Posted by ROBERT DESIO on October 25, 2012:

CARL WAS ONE OF MY CLOSEST FRIENDS AT GENEVA HIGH SCHOOL AND THEN 1 SEMESTER AT HOBART COLLEGE AT WHICH TIME I WENT INTO THE AIR CORPS AND CARL LATER WENT TO WEST POINT. IN HIGHT SCHOOL HE WAS NOT ONLY A GREAT STUDENT BUT ALSO A FINE TENNIS PLAYER AND ON THE HIGH SCHOOL VARSITY TEAM. STRANGELY HE DIDNT PLAY LACROSSE IN HIGH SCHOOL AND GENEVA HIGH WAS A HOT BED FOR LACROSSE AS WAS HOBART COLLEGE. AMAZINGLY CARL WAS AN ALL AMERICAN AT HOBART. YEARS LATER AFTER I LEFT THE AIR CORPS AND UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE WORK IN PHYSICS AT RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE I THEN WENT TO WOKK AT IBM FOR THE NEXT 32 YEARS. DURING THIS PERIOD I RETURNED TO GENEVA HIGH FOR REUNIONS, THE EARLEST BEING ON OUR 50TH REUNION. I SAW CARL AT EACH OF THESE REUNIONS, AT WHICH TIME HE WAS AT LAWRENCE RADIATION LAB. HE NEVER LET ON TO HIS SUCCESS ALTHOUGH WE TALKED MUCH ABOUT TECHNOLOGY AND WE HAD SOME GOOD DEBATE. CARL WAS A TRUE GEM AND ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO HAD A WONDERFUL SENSE OF HUMOR. I WISH WE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO SEE EACH OTHER AFTER THOSE EARLY YEARS AT GENEVA HIGH SCHOOL. MY OTHER CLOSE FRIEND AT GENEVA HIGH WAS BILL GLUNZ WHO ALSO WENT TO WEST POINT AND WAS KILLED IN KOREA..I VISITED A MEMORIAL MARKER FOR HIM IN HAWAII YEARS LATER....CARLS FAMILY SHOULD BE SO PROUD OF HIM.... BOB DESIO

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