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Charles Howard Vollum
Charles Howard Vollum
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government. Later, for the quality of his subsequent work on a precision mortar locator while stationed at the Evans Signal Corps Laboratories in Belmar, New Jersey, he was awarded the Oak Leaf Cluster of the Legion of Merit.
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During the company's first forty years, its sales volume grew from a meager few thousand clolIars during the first year to an annual volume of roughly $~.4 billion. Interestingly, when Vollum founded Tektronix, he hoped for little more than to offer employment to thirty or forty Oregonians.
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Vollum received a number of honorary degrees from institutes of higher education. These included the doctor of science degree from the University of PortIanct anct from the Oregon Graduate Center, the doctor of laws degree from Lewis ant!
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