VT Stories Oral History with George Fox, May 19, 2017 (Ms2016-015)

VT Stories Oral History with George Fox, May 19, 2017 (Ms2016-015)

George Fox, born in Charleston, West Virginia, grew up in a Virginia Tech household. His father from Virginia Polytechnic Institute for industrial engineering in 1941 and claimed that their extended family has more than twenty graduates. Consequently, George did not have a choice in choosing schools, and went to Virginia Polytechnic in 1960 for mechanical engineering. After graduating in 1964, he enlisted in the Air Force as an aircraft engineering officer. He stayed for four years, then worked in General Electric Company for the rest of his career.

In this interview, George Fox shares many stories from rat to senior year, including being one of the original cannon boys, shooting steam whistles, flooding the third floor showers, and putting cadets in laundry machines. Also in this interview, he talks about his time in the service, working after, and campus life.

Permission to publish material from the VT Stories Oral History Collection must be obtained from Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech.

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Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries, Virginia Tech

Ren Harman

George Fox

Holtzman Alumni Center, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA

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