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Harriett Dunlap BRADSHAW 1873-1960 |
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Samuel Phillips VERNER 1873-1943 |
Ida Florence WERNER 1881-1930 |
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Harry Bonnell BRADFORD 1870-1952 |
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Laura Battle VERNER 1912-1989 |
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Henry Knight BRADFORD 1907-1993 |
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Phillips Verner BRADFORD 1940-___ |
Phillips graduated from the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore in 1962 with a Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, where he also served as President of the Wilson Hall residence (named for Pres. Woodrow Wilson) in his Senior Year. He then graduated from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville VA with the Master of Electrical Engineering Degree in 1964. At the Univ. of VA, he had a perfect 4.0 grade average and was named a Newcomb Fellow. In 1968 he graduated with a doctorate in Engineering Science, Electrical Engineering, from Columbia University in New York City. The graduation ceremony, conducted by President Kirk was held in The Cathedral of St. John, rather than on the campus because the campus was overtaken by rebellious students protesting the War in Viet Nam. His thesis was on the subject of microwave emission from electron beam generated plasma. While at Columbia University, he was awarded the distinction of membership in Sigma Xi, the honorary scientific and engineering fraternity.
Prior to graduation from Columbia, Phillips worked as Member of the Technical Staff of the Bell Telephone Laboratories in 1967. Realizing that the Bell Laboratories had begun a long-term change in its character as the result of the breakup of its parent company, AT&T Corp., and following his better interests, took the unusual step of entering into a career on Wall Street, while preserving a scientific role as a Visiting Fellow at Princeton University in its Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. On Wall Street, he served as a securities analyst for Dominick & Dominick for three years and then moved to Merrill Lynch as the first head of an analytical team for technology-based company investment analysis.
During the energy crisis years, Phillips accepted an executive staff position at Ametek, Inc., where he had previously served in a significant role, identifying Ametek as a good investment value in the alternative energy field. This career step led to a period, in the late 1970s, when he developed a strong interest in the field of solar energy and helped to develop energy conserving products for Ametek and later for Phelps Dodge Industries, the manufacturing arm of one of the world's largest copper producers. At Ametek he co-authored the Ametek Solar Energy Handbook, and at Phelps Dodge, he oversaw the design and production of a copper solar absorber plates and oversaw the construction of a factory for this purpose in Anaheim CA. He is the co-inventor of the process that was used for the manufacture of such plates and he became a Patent Agent, licensed to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. In this capacity he served Phelps Dodge in other inventions, the most notable of which deals with the vitrification of waste foundry sand to prevent environmentally harmful leachates from escaping into ground water.
In 1988, he completed a manuscript, which was published in 1992 by St. Martin's Press, with co-author, Harvey Blume, an historical work: Ota Benga -The Pygmy in the Zoo, about an unusual incident involving his name-sake maternal grandfather, Samuel Phillips Verner.
From the early 1980s to the late 1990s, Phillips held various positions in public service. First, he served as the Director for Corporate Research at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, next as the Executive Director of the Kansas Advanced Technology Commission under Governor John Carlin, which Phillips converted to a quasi-public corporation, the Kansas Technology Enterprise Corp. (KTEC). This position ended when the governorship of Kansas changed hands. For a year, Phillips served as the Administrative Director of the Center for Advanced Technology in Computers and Information Systems at his alma mater, Columbia University, which was a program of the New York State Science and Technology Foundation. from 1989-1999 he served as the Executive Director of the Colorado Advanced Technology Institute (CATI), which is an agency of the state of Colorado. For most of the time during his public service career, Phillips was a member of the Science and Technology Council of the States and served on its Executive Committee. He has ask served on the Boards of the Japan America Society of Colorado, the Colorado Medical Devices Association, and TIRE-TAP, a granting agency for the study of technologies used in recycling used motor tires.
Currently, Phillips is retired from formal employment. He serves as the President and owner of Sunrise Ventures, Inc., and teaches several courses as an Adjunct Instructor at the Colorado School of Mines.