Hey, Papa

About the Book

When a six-year-old asked her grandfather, “Hey, Papa, what was your favorite fast food when you were growing up?” a barrage of stories about Tim Glennon’s early and professional life emerged. His own childhood curiosity about an electrical outlet developed into a lifetime of electronics engineering work. Glennon presents in this book tales and anecdotes both amusing and factual. With digressions into technical aspects of his electronics engineering products that related to historical events, this selective memoir extends far beyond stories of interest to his five grandchildren. Rather, it records significant activities and characters, describing briefly Glennon’s journey through education, work, family, friends, and achievements. Recounting many events familiar to the generation that lived through the 1930s and 1940s, Glennon records here his memories without intending to change or distort the facts. His memoir includes his marriage and raising of two talented and accomplished sons, developing retirement hobbies from long-standing interests, and now enjoying five grandchildren as they share with him their knowledge of twenty-first-century technology.

About the Author

Tim Glennon was born in Gary, Indiana, and worked as an electronics engineer for Rockwell Collins, Raytheon, Delco Electronics, E-Systems, Raytheon, and DataPath; where he did hardware and system design for various types of military communications equipment. While in the U.S. Army, Tim attended three military electronics schools and was later a civilian electronics instructor at the field artillery school in Fort Sill, Oklahoma. He authored papers in the fields of Radar Warning receivers, and Night Vision Lighting, and a magazine article on a portable power system. He holds three patents and a Ham Radio Extra Class license with a call sign of KQ4TQ. In his retirement he enjoys ham radio on 20 and 40 meters, woodworking, homebrew electronics. Tim and his wife, Sondra, live in Roswell, Georgia, where they enjoy being involved in the lives of their two sons and five grandchildren.