F C Bock Class of 1958

Upon graduating with a BSME from the University of Nebraska in 1939 my father accepted a position with General Electric in Pittsfield, MA. In 1954 after three stints in Pittsfield, two in Schenectady, NY, one in Bridgeport, CT and one in Louisville, KY he left GE for Jones and Lamson. He had been recruited by HL Andrews, president of J&L, with/for whom he worked as a welding engineer when both were with GE in Bridgeport. He commuted from Pittsfield to Springfield where he lived in a rented room at 33 Common Street during the week. He did this from late '54 until the end of the '54/'55 school year. The entire family moved to Springfield in late June 1955. We rented the bottom floor of 31 Orchard Street. Without telling me, in the fall of '58 they bought the house built by Bob Labonte at 22 Mark Street and moved into it before Christmas. Didn't work. I still found them when I came home from Purdue for that first vacation.