IN LOVING MEMORY OF
George Curtis
Sponsler Iii
December 2, 1927 – August 18, 2008
Obituary
George Curtis Sponsler III
(December 2, 1927 – August 18, 2008)
George C. Sponsler passed away August 18, 2008 at Winchester Medical Center after a long battle with Parkinson's disease.
Dr. Sponsler was born in Collingswood, New Jersey on December 2, 1927 to George C. Sponsler Jr. and Mary Grace Hollinberger. His wife of almost 53 years, Bridget Ruth Sponsler of Leesburg, three children: Freda Jennings-Ellinghaus of Leesburg, Naomi S. Bechtold of Carmel, Indiana and Curtis Sponsler, Ocoee, Florida, six grandchildren and four step-grandchildren survive him.
After graduating from Calvin Coolidge High School in Washington, D.C. where he was a member of the varsity tennis team he enrolled in a special Engineering Physics program at Princeton University. From Princeton he was awarded Ph.D. (1952), M.A. (1951) and B.S.E. (1945) Degrees, the latter with highest honors. Dr. Sponsler was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, an RCA Undergraduate Scholar, a Sayre and a GE National Coffin Fellow in graduate school. He was also awarded a J.D. from The George Washington University National Law Center in 1981.
Highlights of Dr. Sponsler's career include being selected as an IEEE Congressional Fellow serving Senator Paul Simon as science advisor. He was a member of the Science Policy Task Force, advising President Carter, and also acted as Chairman, Washington, DC foreign policy study group for the Coalition for a Democratic Majority. He ran Law, Mathematics and Technology, Inc., a multidisciplinary policy consulting company. Previous positions also included Executive Secretary of the National Academy of Sciences' National Research Council Division of Engineering; Director of IBM Federal Systems Division's Center for Exploratory Studies; Chief Scientist and Director of Technical Analysis and Operations Research for the US Navy Bureau of Ships; Senior Staff member of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Lincoln Laboratory; and Liaison Officer of Electronics with the Office of Naval Research Branch Office in the U.S. Embassy, London. Dr. Sponsler was a long time member of the Cosmos Club.
A funeral service will be held at St. James Episcopal Church, Leesburg, Virginia on Friday, August 22 at 10:30 am. A reception will be held following the service at the Parish Hall.
In lieu of flowers the family has requested that contributions be made to the National Parkinson Foundation, 1501 NW 9th Avenue, Miami, FL 33136-1494 or online at www.parkinson.org.
(December 2, 1927 – August 18, 2008)
George C. Sponsler passed away August 18, 2008 at Winchester Medical Center after a long battle with Parkinson's disease.
Dr. Sponsler was born in Collingswood, New Jersey on December 2, 1927 to George C. Sponsler Jr. and Mary Grace Hollinberger. His wife of almost 53 years, Bridget Ruth Sponsler of Leesburg, three children: Freda Jennings-Ellinghaus of Leesburg, Naomi S. Bechtold of Carmel, Indiana and Curtis Sponsler, Ocoee, Florida, six grandchildren and four step-grandchildren survive him.
After graduating from Calvin Coolidge High School in Washington, D.C. where he was a member of the varsity tennis team he enrolled in a special Engineering Physics program at Princeton University. From Princeton he was awarded Ph.D. (1952), M.A. (1951) and B.S.E. (1945) Degrees, the latter with highest honors. Dr. Sponsler was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, an RCA Undergraduate Scholar, a Sayre and a GE National Coffin Fellow in graduate school. He was also awarded a J.D. from The George Washington University National Law Center in 1981.
Highlights of Dr. Sponsler's career include being selected as an IEEE Congressional Fellow serving Senator Paul Simon as science advisor. He was a member of the Science Policy Task Force, advising President Carter, and also acted as Chairman, Washington, DC foreign policy study group for the Coalition for a Democratic Majority. He ran Law, Mathematics and Technology, Inc., a multidisciplinary policy consulting company. Previous positions also included Executive Secretary of the National Academy of Sciences' National Research Council Division of Engineering; Director of IBM Federal Systems Division's Center for Exploratory Studies; Chief Scientist and Director of Technical Analysis and Operations Research for the US Navy Bureau of Ships; Senior Staff member of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Lincoln Laboratory; and Liaison Officer of Electronics with the Office of Naval Research Branch Office in the U.S. Embassy, London. Dr. Sponsler was a long time member of the Cosmos Club.
A funeral service will be held at St. James Episcopal Church, Leesburg, Virginia on Friday, August 22 at 10:30 am. A reception will be held following the service at the Parish Hall.
In lieu of flowers the family has requested that contributions be made to the National Parkinson Foundation, 1501 NW 9th Avenue, Miami, FL 33136-1494 or online at www.parkinson.org.
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