| On leaving Eniwetok I was assigned to Truax Field, Madison. WI. While there I was promoted to M/Sgt. and a year later took the exams for Regular W/O. Was appointed a W/O in June of 1954. Assigned to Loan AFEX, France in March 1956, and reassigned to HQ. 2nd Weather Wing, Germany mid year of 1957. While there I was introduced to electronics and enrolled in a DeVry course, which I completed before returning to the US in 1960. I was then assigned to HQ, 4th Weather Wing, Colorado Springs, CO, and simultaneously enrolled with U of CO with a major in Electronic Engineering. My classes resulted in me getting more and more involved in weather sateilites; specifically TIROS and later NIMBUS. |  Don Rowinski |
Received my BS in 1963 and in early 1964. I was sent to a Factory School in Melbourne, FL for 12 weeks of training. After completion I assembled a team and we were sent to Vietnam to operate a satellite read-out station in support of MACV.
I was returned to the States in Nov. of 1965, hospitalized at Fitzsimmons General in Denver and retired for disability 6 April 1966 as a CW04.
I began working for Hewlett/Packard and stayed with them until 1972. Left them for Tektronix in Oregon in 1972 and worked as a design engineer in their Medical Equipment Division. My claim to fame is a patent on a Neonatal Physiological Monitor with an Apnea readout and recorder.
Retired for the last time in June of 1989, and until recently devoted myself to hobbies, golf, and volunteerism.
Don Rowinski
