Ham radio call - W9JZA
Got Shep his first job at steel mill
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| [ Courtesy: Steve Glazer - 05-03-2016 ]
Gilbert George ("Gil") Galambus was born on March 22, 1898, in Murray City, Ohio, but spent most of his life in Indiana, living in Hammond -- including at 6830 California and 6713 Arkansas avenues -- while Shep was growing up there. Gil worked as a technical designer for his entire career at Inland Steel and Youngstown Sheet and Tube, from which he retired in 1964 as a supervisor. He married Florence Gertrude Pruss on April 26, 1919, and raised three children, including Raymond George ("Ray") Galambus, who attended Hammond High with Shep. Gil passed away at age 97 on February 2, 1996, in Portage, Indiana.
Gil's passion was ham radio, and he was one of the best-known amateur-radio stations in northwest Indiana for many years. He operated with the call W9JZA from 1932 until his death. It was at Gil's house that Shep first spoke with someone -- W9PLW (Roy in nearby Gary, Indiana) -- using ham radio. Shep sometimes spoke of how Gil was instrumental in his becoming a ham-radio operator, including on his WOR radio broadcasts of January 24, 1963, January 6, 1965, and May 1, 1968 . |
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