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Donald Bellamy Sinclair
Pages 310-315

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... become best known as a leacler in the development anct manufacture of modern electronic test systems for use in electrical and semiconcluctor manufacturing, field service, ant] engineering clesign applications.
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... . As an un(lergracluate in MIT's cooperative course in electrical engineering, he spent his cooperative school terms with the New York Telephone Company, the Bell Telephone Laboratories, and the Western Electric Company.
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From page 313...
... It specifically describes his work regarding the equipping and testing of aircraft for Ferret missions, and it also details his initial flight experiences as the RRL representative on the first operational flights to Europe of the Ferret test airplane. This aircraft was used for nighttime excursions into the hostile territory of the Mediterranean theater to determine the location, coverage, characteristics, and tactics of enemy grounct and airborne racier.
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... He recognized that a much stronger program in the basics of the curriculum was required, that teachers with quite different skills needed to be recruited, that teacher compensation had to increase significantly, and that without a broad base of public support, which he helped achieve, the school committee could not accomplish these community goals. At the university level, Don Sinclair was a member of the Corporation Visiting Committee for the Electrical Engineering Department at MIT and the Visiting Committee at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and he served on the Advisory Board of Northeastern University ant!
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... He also served as director of the National Shawmut Bank of Boston, the Shawmut Association, Inc., and the Liberty Mutual Insurance Company of Boston. His legacy evolved primarily from his ability to evaluate issues quickly, compromise justly between immediate popular beliefs ant]
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