Cassius M. Clay died on December 4, 2007 at University Hospital.
He is survived by his wife of fifty years, Joan Higgins Clay; brothers, Harris Clay of Augusta and Landon Clay, Peterborough, New Hampshire; and five nephews.
Clay was born in New York November 29, 1923. He grew up in Augusta, where his family had long been associated with the textile industry. He attended the Middlesex School in Concord, Massachusetts, where he won the Henry David Thoreau prize and afterwards graduated from M. I. T. with degrees in physics and electrical engineering.
During WWII he worked with the Harvard Underwater Sound Laboratory and was instrumental in developing sonar devices to detect and destroy German submarines off the U.S. coast and in the North Atlantic.
He returned to Augusta after the war and was vice president of the John P. King Manufacturing Company. A colleague referred to him as a "walking efficiency expert," able to save the company and its employees vast amounts of energy and time by reworking the structure of the mill, improving work schedules and varying machinery use and placement. The company's products sold world wide.
Later, he was a medical physicist at the Medical College of Georgia where he worked to reduce certain hazards in X-ray technology and helped introduce medical computer language to incoming students.
A man of diverse interests and scientific knowledge, he was admired for his ability to simplify complicated problems for a generation of students and physicians.
He served on the boards of several banks and corporations, was a member of the Rotary Club, Richmond Academy Board of Trustees, and other local organizations.
The Augusta Chronicle-December 10, 2007
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Copyright (c) 2007 The Augusta Chronicle
He is survived by his wife of fifty years, Joan Higgins Clay; brothers, Harris Clay of Augusta and Landon Clay, Peterborough, New Hampshire; and five nephews.
Clay was born in New York November 29, 1923. He grew up in Augusta, where his family had long been associated with the textile industry. He attended the Middlesex School in Concord, Massachusetts, where he won the Henry David Thoreau prize and afterwards graduated from M. I. T. with degrees in physics and electrical engineering.
During WWII he worked with the Harvard Underwater Sound Laboratory and was instrumental in developing sonar devices to detect and destroy German submarines off the U.S. coast and in the North Atlantic.
He returned to Augusta after the war and was vice president of the John P. King Manufacturing Company. A colleague referred to him as a "walking efficiency expert," able to save the company and its employees vast amounts of energy and time by reworking the structure of the mill, improving work schedules and varying machinery use and placement. The company's products sold world wide.
Later, he was a medical physicist at the Medical College of Georgia where he worked to reduce certain hazards in X-ray technology and helped introduce medical computer language to incoming students.
A man of diverse interests and scientific knowledge, he was admired for his ability to simplify complicated problems for a generation of students and physicians.
He served on the boards of several banks and corporations, was a member of the Rotary Club, Richmond Academy Board of Trustees, and other local organizations.
The Augusta Chronicle-December 10, 2007
Edition: All
Page: B04
Copyright (c) 2007 The Augusta Chronicle
Cassius M. Clay died on December 4, 2007 at University Hospital.
He is survived by his wife of fifty years, Joan Higgins Clay; brothers, Harris Clay of Augusta and Landon Clay, Peterborough, New Hampshire; and five nephews.
Clay was born in New York November 29, 1923. He grew up in Augusta, where his family had long been associated with the textile industry. He attended the Middlesex School in Concord, Massachusetts, where he won the Henry David Thoreau prize and afterwards graduated from M. I. T. with degrees in physics and electrical engineering.
During WWII he worked with the Harvard Underwater Sound Laboratory and was instrumental in developing sonar devices to detect and destroy German submarines off the U.S. coast and in the North Atlantic.
He returned to Augusta after the war and was vice president of the John P. King Manufacturing Company. A colleague referred to him as a "walking efficiency expert," able to save the company and its employees vast amounts of energy and time by reworking the structure of the mill, improving work schedules and varying machinery use and placement. The company's products sold world wide.
Later, he was a medical physicist at the Medical College of Georgia where he worked to reduce certain hazards in X-ray technology and helped introduce medical computer language to incoming students.
A man of diverse interests and scientific knowledge, he was admired for his ability to simplify complicated problems for a generation of students and physicians.
He served on the boards of several banks and corporations, was a member of the Rotary Club, Richmond Academy Board of Trustees, and other local organizations.
The Augusta Chronicle-December 10, 2007
Edition: All
Page: B04
Copyright (c) 2007 The Augusta Chronicle
He is survived by his wife of fifty years, Joan Higgins Clay; brothers, Harris Clay of Augusta and Landon Clay, Peterborough, New Hampshire; and five nephews.
Clay was born in New York November 29, 1923. He grew up in Augusta, where his family had long been associated with the textile industry. He attended the Middlesex School in Concord, Massachusetts, where he won the Henry David Thoreau prize and afterwards graduated from M. I. T. with degrees in physics and electrical engineering.
During WWII he worked with the Harvard Underwater Sound Laboratory and was instrumental in developing sonar devices to detect and destroy German submarines off the U.S. coast and in the North Atlantic.
He returned to Augusta after the war and was vice president of the John P. King Manufacturing Company. A colleague referred to him as a "walking efficiency expert," able to save the company and its employees vast amounts of energy and time by reworking the structure of the mill, improving work schedules and varying machinery use and placement. The company's products sold world wide.
Later, he was a medical physicist at the Medical College of Georgia where he worked to reduce certain hazards in X-ray technology and helped introduce medical computer language to incoming students.
A man of diverse interests and scientific knowledge, he was admired for his ability to simplify complicated problems for a generation of students and physicians.
He served on the boards of several banks and corporations, was a member of the Rotary Club, Richmond Academy Board of Trustees, and other local organizations.
The Augusta Chronicle-December 10, 2007
Edition: All
Page: B04
Copyright (c) 2007 The Augusta Chronicle
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