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Douglas Neckers: Easter Island and Toledo Doug Neckers One of the valuable gifts older people contribute to society is a collective memory about personalities and events that occurred in a community in the past. My own collective memory about some fascinating Toledo-area people, who tangled in an epic lawsuit, surfaced a few weeks ago. That lawsuit went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. My memory got an unexpected jog when I watched, as I usually do, Judy Woodruff s PBS News Hour program. A final story from her Arts Canvas featured the classical pianist Mahani Teave, 38, who grew up on Easter Island, part of Polynesia. About 2,000 miles off the coast of Chile, it is one of the most remote places on Earth. Called Rapa Nui in the Polynesian language, the island has a population of barely 7,000 people. It s famous for those mysterious giant stone statues, the moai, created by the ancient Rapa Nui people. ....
February 17, 2021 Norman Nitschke, a leader in developing safety glass fabrication processes and standards, died on Feb. 14 at the age of 100 at his home in Perrysburg, Ohio. In his decades-long career in glass, Nitschke was instrumental in advancing glass fabrication technologies, in particular glass tempering for the automotive and architectural industries. He is listed as inventor or coinventor on over 40 glass industry patents. Nitschke began his career at Sun Oil Co. and L.O.F Glass, before partnering with Harold McMaster in 1951. Their partnership provided engineering and executive management to several glass industry ventures. Their first company, Permaglass Inc., introduced and promoted tempered automotive glass, which is used in nearly all vehicles in the United States today. Permaglass Air Float furnaces were sold to several large international glass companies and to Chrysler and Ford Motor Co. ....