Name Howard Gerrish Role Author | Died June 12, 1988 | |
Books Transistor Electronics: Basic Instruction in Electricity and Electronics, with Major Emphasis on Solid State Components | ||
Howard H. Gerrish (December 10, 1910 – June 12, 1988) was an author and teacher whose influence extended widely through the technology and electronics community of the early 1960s-80s. He authored and co-authored numerous books that taught, and continue to teach, electronics. He taught for twenty-four years at three California State Colleges/Universities: Chico, San Jose and Humboldt. He was born in Lisbon, Maine.
Contents
Written works include
Brown, Walter Charles, Drafting, Wagner, Willis H. Woodworking, Boyd, T. Gardner. Metalworking, Gerrish, Howard H. Electricity. Goodheart - Willcox, 1965 [c1964]
Publisher: Farmingdale, N.J. : Buck Engineering Co., 1968
While a professor of Industrial Arts at SJSC and a member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Career
He served as a captain in the US Army during World War II — Arrivals noted in the Field Artillery Journal, May 1945, include 1st Lt. Howard H. Gerrish, Department of Air Training. He graduated from the University of Michigan in 1946 and earned his Master's from Wayne State in 1953. He started teaching at San Jose State in 1961 in Industrial Arts at SJSU. He worked at Humboldt State, 1969–1972, where they named a lab for him, the Gerrish Electronics Laboratory, Jenkins Hall. He retired in 1972.
In addition, he was an avid organ player, starting by playing the background music in silent movie theaters. He built and operated his own "Ham Radio" station. Upon retirement, he and his wife, Virtue, lived in Sedona, Arizona.