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Markow, George Robert

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Title Ordinary Seaman (Officer Candidate UNTD) (RCNVR)
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Birth 07/03/1925 Death 28/05/2014
Place Toronto Place Hartford
Area ON Area CT
Country Canada Country USA
 
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Biography
He graduated from the University of Toronto in 1947 with a Bachelors degree in electrical engineering. He became a US citizen in 1948, started his career with Bailey Meter (now Bailey Controls, Cleveland, OH), and joined IBM in 1954. Between 1954 and 1960, George was awarded seven technical patents. He was IBM’s Space Systems Manager from 1964-1966, and retired in 1981 after 26 years.
 
Military Service
He was appointed as an Ordinary Seaman (Officer Candidate UNTD) RCNVR 1943. In 1943-1945 he served in HMCS York for UNTD. (He was demobilized.)
 
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Anecdotes
Bill Clearihue reports that "At the beginning of the school year in September 1945, it was no longer compulsory to be enrolled in the COTC or UNTD and many elected to be discharged. George Markow was not one of them. He entered his 4th UNTD year at that time. Upon graduation in the Spring of 1947, there is no record of any subsequent Naval service and indeed his obit indicates that he headed south almost immediately. He appears to have had an interesting career at IBM."
 
References
Bill Clearihue (Nominal List UNTD); http://potterfuneralhome.com/?p=1945;
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2014-12-04 00:00:00

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