Gary Thomas Trevorrow
born 1953
Grass Valley Group, 1972 to 2002: production test technician, then manufacturing supervisor
- Born
- 19 June 1953, Grass Valley, California
Donald and Marilyn's elder son. He drew a number in the draft lottery on 2 February 1972, the last one ever held, and was never called, because nobody from that drawing was: the final induction call went out on 7 December 1972 and the authority to induct expired the following June. Three weeks after the lottery he went into the electronics company that had started in the town in 1959, and he stayed thirty years, through the Tektronix merger of 1974, through the sale that closed in September 1999, and out in 2002. His father dug gold out of the hill and he tested television switchers a mile from it.
Accomplishments
- Thirty years at the Grass Valley Group1972
From 1972 to 2002, the last eleven as a manufacturing supervisor. He was there for the Tektronix merger in 1974, for the sale that closed on 24 September 1999, and for the Thomson acquisition in 2002 that ended his part of it.
- Set up and struck the Mill Street stage for Cornish Christmas, nineteen Decembersabout 1988
Cornish Christmas has run in downtown Grass Valley since 1967, on Friday evenings from the day after Thanksgiving through December, and the Cornish Carol Choir sings in the street at it.
- Kept his mother photocopies of the 1921 Empire Mine payroll2019
For forty years, in a drawer, and handed them to his daughter in 2019. This archive actually starts there.