to civilians in 1990, the US Army Decoration for Meritorious Civilian Service. He was also a member of the SERA team that won a worldwide competition among Rockwell plants and received the Rockwell International Corporation Chairman's Team Award in 1993. In 1994 the Cahners R&D Magazine presented the SERA team with the prestigious national R&D100 Award as one of the top 100 new products of the year. In 1996, Dr. Bobbio received the R&D100 award for PADS. Education He graduated from the University of Maryland College Park with a B.S. (1960) and M.S. (1967) in mechanical engineering with emphasis on stress wave theory, inelastic deformation theory, and advanced machine design. He also completed 670 hours of in-service training focusing on program management, contract management, quality control, producibility, finances, configuration management, motivation, contract law, and value engineering. Honors US Army Research Laboratory Associated Achievement Award for Technology Transfer, 1996 Cahners Magazine R&D 100 Award, 1994 Rockwell International Corporation Chairman's Team Award, 1993 US Army Decoration for Meritorious Civilian Service, 1990 US Army Harry Diamond Laboratories John A. Ulrich Award for Managerial Leadership, 1989 US Army Harry Diamond Laboratories Inventor of the Year, 1982 Background George K. Lucey Jr. (nicknamed Stormy) was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, on November 13, 1937, to Phyllis Claire Curott and George Kenneth Lucey. Soon after WWII (1947) the father became one of the first overseas navigators for Trans World Airlines and the family was moved to Rome, Italy. Stormy and his older sister attended elementary school at the Overseas School of Rome in the villa of the recently deceased dictator, Benito Mussolini. TWA relocated the family at the onset of the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, to Heliopolis, near Cairo Egypt. The children attended the Heliopolis Sporting Club and the English School of Cairo (1948–51) until a British firefight with Egyptians in Ismaïlia resulted in Black Saturday riots that burned hundreds of buildings in Cairo (26 January 1952) and the 23 July Revolution that deposed King Farouk. For safety, the family moved outside Cairo to Maadi, where the children attended the Cairo American School (1952–53) and the Maadi Sporting Club. Once a home was built in Colesville MD, the family returned to America in 1953, where both children graduated from Sherwood High School and the University of Maryland. The sister, Margo Lucey won the Miss District of Columbia beauty contest and later was the first runner-up to Miss