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CARL ACCARDO'S ACHIEVEMENTS
Editor, The Coast Star:
This very month, in a tribute worthy of General Douglas MacArthur, no less
than the Emperor of Japan formally proclaimed to the world that one Carl
Accardo, a physicist and former Wall Township resident, was a National
Treasure of the Empire! A foreigner from Wall Township .-a National Treasure
- incredible!
For more
than several years, Carl Accardo was engaged in critical scientific research
at the now historic Camp Evans Signal Laboratories situated in Wall Township,
along side of the celebrated Dr. Stanley Kronenberg and Dr. George Brucker,
extraordinary individuals in the midst of a group of brilliant research
scientists.
It should
be remembered that long before the very first astronaut, at a time when
space-travel was merely a theory, the conceptual promise was advanced at
Evans Signal Laboratories by three unheralded, faceless, yet determined
and dedicated individuals.
The essential
bridge from the industrial age to the still merging infor-mation age remains
a lasting and significant legacy to their worthy efforts.
Rather
fittingly, Carl Accardo's residence was on Diana Road, Wall Township, less
than a stones throw from the now world renowned radar scope appropriately
christened "Diana," eventually recognized as the "Santa Maria," of space
exploration.
He personified
professionalism and ethics and was the very essence of "voie de vie," -
to my unwashed circle of friends that equates with "humor and giving to
others:'
Coincidental
with the U.S. subsequently relinquishing governmental dominance in scientific
research and development, Carl Accardo relo-cated and joined the staff
of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, his alma-mater, and after
two decades, and for good cause, became known as "M.I.T.'s man in the Orient,"
and it was in that capacity he personally continues to advise and consult
with Japan's foremost leaders of industry, collectively, and astoundedly,
ranked third as a economic world power.
It became
obvious that Japanese culture is unified by strong family values; the veneration
of the elderly; and the maintaining of an abiding conviction in the imperative
of learning, particularly scientific knowledge.
Accordingly,
there is purposeful and constant public extolling of the virtues of scientific
achievement. That this public policy is highly effective we have but to
consider that at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, arguably the
peerless seat of scientific learning in the world, Oriental students comprise
28 percent of that illustrious institution's enrollment.
Hopefully,
there is some how encouragement, or inducement, here for certain Shore
school districts to take a second look, or perhaps the first serious look,
at the need to advocate, then initiate or expand, scientific related courses
of study, especially in the lower grades, its importance cannot be over
stated.
Massive
armies and mighty navies can no longer insure our children's liberty and
freedom, it remains the supremacy of our scientific knowledge to provide
that guarantee.
Further,
by this conclusionary opinion, be it known that Carl Accardo's far, far
greatest achievement was to manage, somehow, to marry my Aunt Edna Ertle,
then a Wall Township public school teacher.
GENE ERTLE JR.
Crestview Road, Wall Township
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