- Date Of Birth: January 5, 1924
- Date Of Death: November 5, 2016
- State: Connecticut
Born January 5, 1924 in Roanoke VA, the first born of William Thurmond Harvey and Helen Lindsay Barger Harvey, born so late her sisters teased that she was putting them on. He attended public schools in Stollings WV where his mother was too often his teacher. He graduated in 1940 from Logan High School and attended Bluefield College in Bluefield, VA, transferring to Virginia Polytechnic Institute (VA Tech) in Blacksburg, VA then, in the Navy’s V-7 program, finished at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (“called that because they didn’t know how to spell ‘euuyeuck'”), then Midshipmen’s School at Great Lakes near South Bend, IN from which he graduated as an ensign. At the end of the war he returned to his beloved VA Tech for graduate school.
