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September 2003 Stanley B. and Rosella Welch
The late Stanley Welch, a native of Fort Wayne, Ind., was a senior systems engineer for General Electric Co. and held scores of patents for his work with microwave and self-cleaning ovens during his more than 40 years with the company in Fort Wayne, Bridgeport, Conn., Schenectady, N.Y., and Louisville. Stanley Welch was mayor of Hurtbourne Acres in Kentucky for nearly 25 years, and the Stanley B. Welch Park was dedicated to him in 1998. He passed away on Aug. 25, 2001. His wife, Rosella Welch, also a Fort Wayne native, lives in Louisville. She is a former elementary school teacher who holds a bachelor's degree in education from the University of Louisville. Stanley Welch earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Purdue University in 1942. Since 2002 Rosella Welch has provided an annual donation to Purdue that has enabled the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering to administer merit-based scholarships to nearly 50 students. She also has given a significant, deferred gift to support the scholarship program. Rosella Welch worked in libraries to help put her husband through school at Purdue, continuing a family legacy that began in 1901, when his father, Alfred F. Welch, graduated from Purdue with an electrical engineering degree. Two of Stanley Welch's brothers also hold electrical engineering degrees from Purdue. The couple raised three children: John of Washington, D.C., Susan of Palo Alto, Calif., who received a bachelor's degree from Purdue in 1968, and Joanne of Anchorage, Alaska. Writer: Emil Venere, (765) 494-4709, venere@purdue.edu Related Web site: |
