William R Owens

In 1963Sep, my parents drove me to Western Reserve University in Cleveland OH.  One of the incoming graduate students was Bill Owens.

All the incoming first year students took the same classes.  So we hung out togehter.  We all stayed at the Graduate House on Carnegie afair.

Bill had gone to Wesleyan University in Connecticut.  His adviser was John K Major, the chairman of the physics department.  His area of study was Mossbauer Effect.

Before Bill did his PhD thesis, John K Major left WRU and went to work for NSF.

Bill did his post-doc at Tulane.  When he went looking for a permanent job, he could not find one in the USA.  We went to work at the Catholic Pontifical University in Rio de Janeiro.

After returning to the USA, he worked for DoD in Florida,  He later moved to Stone Mountain GA.  He worked at GTRI in the area of infrared.

In 1995Sep, after I was laid off in Pittsburgh in 1995Aug, I came to work in Atlanta.  I lived with him and his wife until 1995Nov.

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On the Friday before Christmas 1969, Sharyn and I left College Station TX in the morning.  That evening we arrived in NOLA.  We stayed that night in a b&b created in a beautiful old house on St Charles.  We also went to a very upscale restaurant where we had the rehearsal dinner for Bill's wedding.  Afterward Sharyn, Bill and his fiance went down to the French Quarter for the evening.

I slept in the next day.  Late afternoon we went to a Unitarian church.  The marriage was done in the upper level.  I was best man.  Sharyn was matron of honor.

After the short ceremony, we went downstairs and had a short reception.  We then hit the road for Cincinnati.

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