*** Welcome to piglix ***

Wayne E. Meyer

Wayne E. Meyer
AdmWayneEMeyer.jpg
Retired Rear Admiral Meyer at a ceremony on November 27, 2006 honoring the unplugging of the 100th Aegis Weapon System in preparation for delivery to Bath, Maine for installation in DDG 108. At the ceremony, The Chief of Naval Operations announced that DDG-108 would be named the USS Wayne E. Meyer in his honor.
Born (1926-04-21)April 21, 1926
Brunswick, Missouri, U.S.
Died September 1, 2009(2009-09-01) (aged 83)
Buried at Arlington National Cemetery
(Section 8, Site 10252)
Allegiance  United States of America
Service/branch  United States Navy
Rank US-O8 insignia.svg Rear Admiral
Awards
Spouse(s) Margaret (deceased)
Anna Mae
Other work Consultant

Rear Admiral Wayne E. Meyer (April 21, 1926 – September 1, 2009) is regarded as the "Father of Aegis" for his 13 years of service as the Aegis Weapon System Manager and later the founding project manager of the Aegis Shipbuilding Project Office. He retired from the United States Navy in 1985 as the Deputy Commander for Weapons and Combat Systems, Naval Sea Systems, Naval Sea Systems Command and Ordnance Officer of the Navy.

Wayne E. Meyer was born to Eugene and Nettie Meyer in Brunswick, Missouri, on April 21, 1926. His first four years of school were in Warden District School (eight grades in one room with a wood stove) under Helen Duncan. His father and family were livestock and grain farmers, plowing the land referred to by locals as the "gumbo". Meyer's father Eugene was displaced in the drought and the Great Depression and lost everything in 1935. He and his family of four children moved eleven miles into clay country five miles North of Brunswick. Wayne and siblings were enrolled in St. Boniface Catholic School, a 2-room schoolhouse. Sister Mary Joann was his teacher for the next four years with grades five through eight combined in one room.

Enrolled in the 140-pupil Brunswick High School in 1939, his primary teacher (and principal) was Miss Edith Marston. Under her tutelage, he and three other boys had been prepared by her to take a three-day Armed Services competitive exam in January 1943, which all passed. In April they were called to Kansas City to examine their physical fitness for enlistment in a competitive college program created by President Roosevelt, called the V-12 in the Navy. Meyer passed the exam.

Meyer graduated from the University of Kansas in 1946 as a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Electrical Engineering. He also held a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering and a Master of Science degree (M.S.) in Aeronautics and Astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School.


...
Wikipedia

...