JOHN MURRAY (1921-2015)
From the Jan. 6, 2015, Chicago Tribune "Weather forecast firm took industry by storm" by Joan Giangrasse Kates.
John Murray started, with a partner, a small weather forecasting service after serving as a military meteorologist during World War II. The firm became the source of highly specialized forecasts for major industries as well as regular people.
He died December 9, 2015, at age 94.
His partner was Dennis Trettel, cofounder of Murray and Trettel. Both were veterans Army Air Force weather officers who used their expertise gained in war for peace time. They gave companies specific real-time weather, better than what the Weather Bureau, now the National Weather Service was doing.
--GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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