He was a talented engineer and possessed a brilliant mind, but the characteristics that showed through most brilliantly were his total humanitarianism and his massive integrity.
He was an humble man and lived more simply than any of his employees.
He was a manager who created a multimillion dollar business based on the principle that the individual is more than the "organization."
He has a will beyond compare, and while lying weak and helpless, his thoughts were not of himself but of his employees of Cumberland.
He was small in stature but his blue eyes could cut the biggest and strongest of us down to size. He was a southern boy from Tennessee who won the hearts of New England.
He had a sparkling wit and a brilliant smile that revealed the inner glow in the man.
He was not a strong man, yet he worked longer and harder than any of us. If we have failed, it was perhaps because we regarded him as Tennyson regarded his immortal brook--"Men may come and men may go, but the brook goes on forever."
His thoughts were always of the future. He was the eternal optimist and if he were permitted a final word to us, perhaps it would be like this,--"Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again; wisely improve the present--it is thine; go forth and meet the shadowy future without fear and with an manly heart."--(Longfellow)
--Prepared by the employees of the Cumberland Engineering Company