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Chemistry grad worked for IBM in USA

Re: Spring/Summer 2011 issue
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I just received my copy of the Alumni Gazette and was very interested in your stories on IBM Canada and the Western grads who contributed so much to that company.

I was born and lived in London, Ontario, Canada and on leaving the army attended Western, graduating with the 1950 chemistry class.

I then went to the University of Connecticut for my graduate work, staying at UCon for several years on the faculty before I joined IBM in the early 1960s and spent 25 years in San Jose, California ending at the Almaden Research Center in that city.

During my career at IBM, I visited the facility in Toronto a number of times and met several of the people mentioned in your articles without realizing their Western backgrounds.

Robert Cox, BSc’50 (Chemistry)
Ashland, Oregon
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