Gilbert Claus Walter

My father was a story teller by nature and an engineer by passion.

He experienced more in the first ten years of his life than most people experience in their entire lives. By the age of 10 he had survived polio and the Holocaust. He had lost nearly all of his extended family and his closest brother.

At 13 his was one of the first Bar Mitzvahs in Berlin after the Nazis tried so hard to exterminate the Jews. At 15 his father died and he boarded a ship to the United States of America.

Between 21 and 30 he had several jobs and joined the military as a civilian engineer and eventually got his dream job at Lockheed and helped design parts of the Cheyenne helicopter, the Deep Sea Rescue Vehicle, the L-1011, and the SR-71 “Blackbird”.

He loved his work but quit when he realized that it had moved from needed defense to very dangerous over building that threatened our existence. He joined the technology world working at Atari, ROLM, Memorex and Unisys. He focused his work on product safety and became leading expert in OSHA and UL.

He eventually started his own consulting firm, Safety Compliance Engineering. He continued consulting through his sixties and into his seventies. He loved being a grandfather and spent quality time with every one of his grandkids. He was great at what he believed was his most important job ever.

His life was filled with joy and would want you to invite a stranger to sit with you at lunch today and learn about their life. He would want to you vote for people who believe that our country was a home for those who need a new beginning regardless of their country of origin. He believed you could better.