St. Regis senior Connolly earns Gaylord Green Scholarship
Gaylord Green lived in Haugan and graduated from St. Regis High School in 1958. He received an appointment to the Air Force Academy where he graduated with a degree in engineering science, followed by a master’s in aeronautics/astronautics at Stanford. He had a successful career in the Air Force.
Green had a major role in ending the Cold War and he is credited with inventing the Global Positioning System (GPS).
“I received no money from that [creating the GPS] other than my Air Force salary as those were my Air Force assignments,” he humbly shared. “After my Air Force retirement, I made my money starting a company to support Stanford and NASA to verify the theory of relativity [curvature and rotation of space].”
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