BSEE Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY 1954 - 1958. Eta Kappa Nu, Electrical Engineering Honor Society, President, Scabbard and Blade, Vice President, Lambda Iota Fraternity, Varsity Baseball '56-'58, Co-Captain 1958, Batting Average Trophy .323 1958
MS University of Rochester, NY 1969 - 1970, Master of Science in Business Administration (Systems Analysis)
DUNN, Earl Norman was born on 30 July 1936 at the Jenness farm on Glover Road, Barton, VT. Earl is the third son of Dorothy May JENNESS and Lloyd Ernest DUNN who were living in Sutton, VT in the 'old white house' across U.S. Route 5 from the U.S. Bobbin & Shuttle plant on Bean Pond at Perry Station of the Canadian Pacific Railroad near Willoughby. Earl grew up there and attended Highland School, a typical VT one-room school house, from 1942 to 1949 (walked the mile and a half to school each day, even in the Northern VT winters). He moved with the family to Tupper Lake, NY in 1949 where he attended Tupper Lake High School and played football, basketball, baseball, and won the Northern NY Table Tennis Championship in 1954. Earl was president of the Freshman and Junior class, member of the National Honor Society, won the Clarkson Mathematics award, and won the Northern NY Mathematics contest at St. Lawrence University as a Junior. The winner normally received a four year scholarship to St. Lawrence. However, after discussions, the sponsor, Pi Mu Epsilon, the Mathematics Honor Society, decided to give the scholarship to the Senior who came in second based on the rationale that Earl had a chance the next year. Earl attended Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY on two scholarships, one for American History and one for Baseball, graduating in 1958 with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering. He was elected a member of Eta Kappa Nu, the Electrical Engineering Honor Society, President of the Scabbard and Blade, Vice President, Lambda Iota Fraternity, Co-Captain of the baseball team in 1958, and won the batting average trophy that year with a .323 average. (No slouch on the base path either, once, at Clarkson, he got on first, stole second, third, and home!) Earl obtained a Master of Science in Operations Research/Systems Analysis from the University of Rochester, NY in 1970. After graduating from Clarkson in 1958, Earl went to Washington state and worked for the Bonneville Power Administration as a test engineer on dams along the Columbia River and substations throughout Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Montana West of the Rocky Mountains. He experienced some outstanding trout fishing in Northern Montana. Earl entered the Army in 1959 as a Signal Officer and played baseball at FT Monmouth that summer. He was sent to Germany where he married Gisela Ilse EITNER on 18 April 1961 in Basel, Switzerland. He served in the Nike Hercules air defense of Dallas-Ft. Worth, TX, was loaned to NASA to work on the Apollo project, and served two tours in Viet Nam. He graduated from Command and General Staff College at Ft. Leavenworth, KS in 1969. Earl was the Commander of the 440th Signal Battalion and Post Commander of ambrei-Fritche Kaserne in Darmstadt, Germany from 1974 through 1975. He retired from the Army in 1979; first worked for ooze-Allen and Hamilton, then in 1981 went to work at the MITRE Corporation, a not-for-profit research and development center, in Northern VA. He leads the Command Center Engineering Group; one of Earl's most interesting jobs has been to design the Secretary of Defense's Crisis Coordination Center in the Pentagon. One of his current tasks is to improve the communications suite on Air Force One to insure secure voice and video teleconferencing between the President and key members of Government from any location in the world. Earl was active in the church and school activities while his sons grew up. Earl was head of the Church Youth Group for several years, president of the PTA multiple years, and was selected a Life-Time Me
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