St. Regis senior Connolly earns Gaylord Green Scholarship
Jack Connolly is the recipient of the Gaylord Green Scholarship for the 2023-2024 school year. Merry Mueller, Mineral County Treasurer and Secretary of Schools, is the administrator of the grant which is awarded on a business plan that would fit the character of the county. Gaylord Green graduated from St, Regis High School and invented the Global Positioning System. (Monte Turner/Mineral Independent)
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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