Allen Wiant

My experience at the Physics Dept at Miami was divided in to 2 parts: 1) My freshman year in 1942-43 where I was introduced to Physics in the Physics 150 course by Doc Edwards, Dept Chair, and Ralph Snyder, a grad assistant or maybe an instructor. It was a five credit hour course with a two hour lab each week and was very intense...  Then I left for the war.  My experience during the war included some time as an instructor in the Ordnance School at Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD, and as a maintenance technician at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific for the first Atomic Bomb test after the war. 2) Following the war, I re-enrolled at Miami in 1946.  I was a member of Sigma Pi Sigma the Physics Honorary.  My army experience gave me a real advantage when it came to Physics lab work!  I graduated in June 1949 with an AB degree in Physics and Math.

Upon graduation from Miami (with a family already), I went to work as an electronics Engineer at Bell Aircraft Corp. in Buffalo, NY for about 10 years rising to the position of Chief of the Rocket test center that was located outside Niagara Falls. In 1960, I moved to Portsmouth, RI to become the Division Manager of Quality and Reliability for Raytheon's Submarine Signal Division where I remained until I retired in 1987. Since then I moved to Florida and then, recently, to Texas where I now reside. While in Florida I became the Volunteer Coordinator for AARP's Tax Aide Program Gulf Region with responsibility for the operations of tax counselors for FL, GA, MS and AL. I am now fully retired and 84 years old.