staffs. He first gave the talk in September 1969, and subsequently presented it an average of once every 8.5 days for 36 years (!). Calvin J. Holtkamp ’50 was a veteran of the US Air Force and served in World War II in the European Theater. He received an MS in Physics at Ohio State and worked as an engineer for Westinghouse. In his career he received 38 patent awards, and submitted over 120 invention disclosures. After graduating from Otterbein, Thomas R. Bromeley ’51 earned an MS in industrial administration from Carnegie Mellon University and served in the US Navy. He then enjoyed a long career as a publisher, manufacturer and financier whose business interests involved newspaper publishing, radio broadcasting, stainless steel fabrication and utilization, and information technology. He was CEO and chairman of Top Line Corporation and Allegheny Bradford Corporation. He served on the executive committees of the University of Pittsburgh, Bradford Hospital and the Chautauqua Institution, and was a member of the Otterbein Board of Trustees for many years, serving as Chairman from 1995-2005. He was named Distinguished Alumnus in 2002.
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