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The grandson of immigrants from Scandinavia, Bob was born on March 24, 1930 at McKeepsort, Pennsylvania--in the heartland of the American steel industry. A starting tackle on an undefeated 1947 McKeesport High School football team, his promising athletic career was abruptly terminated by a permanently disabling shoulder separation prior to his playing in the first annual "Shriner's North-South Championship" game (played in Miami's Orange Bowl on Christmas Eve, 1947). Subsequently working as a laborer in a steel mill during his summer vacations to help finance his Penn State education, he received a BS degree in Electrical Engineering in 1952, and then started a 43-year professional career that was interrupted only by his service in the US Army Transportation Corps (1955-57). Eventually becoming the senior member of a team of engineers that developed the first microprocessors for controlling the electronic motors for steel-rolling mills, he achieved the rank of Fellow Design and Development Engineer in the Automotive Drive Systems Division at Westinghouse Electric Corporation (1952-1990), and then at its successor, AEG Automation Corporation (1990-95).