Ralph Fisher

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Acc. to the 1930 US Census, he lived with his parents and brother Robert in Saugus, MA.

After high school, Ralph took a course at the Boston Trade School, and then worked at Pratt & Whitney in East Hartford, CT, running tests on aircraft engines. He entered the Naval Reserve on 19 Apr 1944 and served for a time in active duty; he was discharged on 3 Mar 1946. Until 1950 he worked for the Boston & Maine Railroad. He entered active duty again on 5 Sep 1952, and returned to the B & M until about 1953. After this he worked for Lincoln Labratories, then affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where we worked on created printed circuits using photographic procedures (this process was obtained by IBM and Hewlett-Packard, and these circuits were used in the early warning DEW line in the high Arctic). Around this time they were living in Bedford, near Hanscom Field. For a time he worked for Printed Electronics in Natick, but this company soon failed; afterward he was a design draftsman for HiCon Eastern for a few years before moving on to Concord Control on Soldiers Field Road in Brighton. For a period he traveled around the country servicing equipment made by Concord Control. After this he worked as a design engineer for Ocean Research Equipment, based originally in Martha's Vineyard and then in Falmouth, MA. For a time after this he worked making printed cables for Panametrics in Waltham, MA; here was an electronic technician, and then worked in the astrophysics division. During the 1970s he served as museum curator for Edaville Railroad in South Carver, MA, before returning to Panametrics. Finally, in the early to mid-1980s he worked as a janitor at Silver Lake High School in Kingston.

Died in the mid-afternoon on 26 Aug 2005 at Jordan Hospital in Plymouth, MA, aged 85 years. The cause of death was Eastern Equine Encephalitis.