David Grimes

David Grimes passed away in 2005, but he left behind a legacy any of us would be proud to call our own. He was a graduate of Allegany High School with the class of 1955 and embarked on a career that would see him, by 1980, Project Manager for Delta Launch Vehicle NASA - Goddard Space Flight Center. By that time he had worked at Goddard for 17 years, and had accepted responsibility for launching most of the free world communications and meteorological satellites. He was a charter member of the Senior Executive Service for the Federal Government. He had received the NASA Exceptional Service Medal in 1974 for managing the Atmosphere Explorer series of spacecraft. Travel to the far east was on his agenda in the fall of 1980; India, Indonesia and Australia were all flying Delta missions into the mid-80s - as far as his information was projected at that time. He was, as you can see, a true rocket scientist.
A few years later - in 1997 - David co-founded Telfonet Communications. The company is listed on the American Stock Exchange. The business distributes high-speed internet service over 60 cycle power lines in homes and commercial buildings. At this writing the company was about to get certified for government and miltary work, especially the Navy/Marine internet. David received the patent as the system's inventor.
As an aside, David and his wife, Susan, were the parents of two sets of twins, who are in their mid to late 40s today.