Votaw, 1947 Corks and Curls
Martin Votaw (October 2, 1925 – August 6, 2015),[1] of McLean, Virginia and Santa Barbara, California, was a member of the Virginia Glee Club during the Glee Club 1946-1947 season. Graduating in 1947, he was also a member of AIEE and the track team.[2]
Mr Votaw was a communications satellite scientist who began his career at the United States Naval Research Lab, where he worked on the Vanguard, Galactic Radiation and Background (GRAB) and LOFTI 1 satellites. He joined Comsat in 1963, where he helped design the first communications satellite and oversaw the production of Comsat satellites. He later worked for Satellite Business Systems and International Maritime Satellites.[3]
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- ↑ "Martin J. Votaw". US Public Records Index, 1950-1993 (Ancestry.com). https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=1732&h=290037065&ssrc=pt&tid=76534742&pid=34512908840&usePUB=true. Retrieved 2020-11-01.
- ↑ Corks and Curls. Corks and Curls. 1947. p. 81. https://v3.lib.virginia.edu/catalog/uva-lib:2251047.
- ↑ "In Memoriam". UVA Magazine. Winter 2015. http://uvamagazine.org/inmemoriam/decade/1940s_winter_2015. Retrieved 2016-02-24.