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his EMBA degree at Baldwin Wallace College in 1993.
He served in Army Reserve until 1957. His first job after
college was in Cleveland and he’s been in Lakewood since
1950.
He was co-owner of West Shore Electric in Lakewood for
many years and one of the founding fathers of the Northeast
Ohio Electrical Contractors Association (NOECA), now
a part of the Independent Electrical Contractors (IEC),
a national trade association for merit shop electrical
contractors. He was the IEC Executive Director for the
NOECA chapter at the time of death.
Harry was a long time foster parent and always very
active in the community. He had been a New Rochelle
and Bay Village Boy Scout leader, Cleveland Free Clinic
volunteer, and the Beck Center. Harry was treasurer of the
Lakewood Foundation, a private not for profit organization
that supports special community projects, and a Lakewood
Foundation Representative on the Lakewood Commission
on Aging. Harry loved playing bridge, golf, and traveling.
He is survived by his wife, Sheila Brown Bailey, daughter
Lisa Lieben and her husband, John Veverka, and step
granddaughter Kate Veverka, step son Clark Bailey, step
daughter Kathleen Bailey, step daughter Gayle Bailey
Ruggiero and her husband Erasmo Ruggiero, step
grandchildren Abbygayle, Oliver and Joseph Ruggiero.
Arun Madan
, 1946-2013:
Arun graduated from Reading
University in 1967 and went
on to earn his PhD in physics
from the University of Dundee
in 1973. Arun’s professional
achievements are immense.
While
studying
for
his
PhD, Arun helped discover
hydrogenated
amorphous
silicon which paved the way
for the first thin film transistor. He established Glasstech
Solar, Inc. in 1984 which later became Solar Cells Inc. and
then First Solar. In 1989, Arun started MVSystems, Inc. and
served as President and CEO for 23 years.
Over the course of his career, Arun published over
150
scientific papers and co-authored an advanced
semiconductor textbook that is used at several universities
and has been translated into Russian. Through his work,
Arun led teams of scientists/engineers in multi-disciplinary
programs involving thin film semiconductors and product
development. This includes solar cells, thin film transistors,
nuclear particle detectors, tin oxide coatings, Zinc Oxide,
photosensor imaging arrays, etc. He is also the holder of 14
basic patents on thin film semiconductor technology as well
as advanced vacuum semiconductor deposition systems.
The machines developed at MVSystems Inc. have been
sold to companies and universities all over the world.
IN MEMORIUM
