A bit of reminiscing by JVM: Dr. Dolch was hired 'early on' (late 1950's?) by Dr. Lindquist to work on Lindquist's 'Electronic Brain' invention (as dubbed by the local press) - the World's first high-speed electro-optical scoring machine located in the north-end basement room of the U of I East Hall building. When I returned to MRC as a full-time engineer in early 1959, I became well acquainted with John, and admired his technical prowess in electronics, despite his formal education being in a rather loosely related field. Another nostalgic aside: My family and I moved from Albuquerque, NM back to Iowa City to join MRC in early 1959 (as noted above) two years after my SUI BSEE graduation on 2 FEB 1957. Having owned a comfortable 2-BDR brick home in Albuquerque, purchased for $8,750, I was shocked at the price of comparable housing in Iowa City. I'll never forget Dolch's amusingly cynical comment to me when I was complaining about this issue to him: he looked me directly in the eye and said, "Oh, sure, you can buy a nice home in Iowa City for $10,000 - how big is your dog?". Well, some things never change! Incidentally, I discovered that several of my newly joined engineering and technician co-workers at MRC had recently purchased their 3-BDR homes - 1,000 square feet more or less - for the princely sum of around $14,000, or less. I have a photo of John Dolch in my JVM archives which was taken in the 'Electronic Brain' room. He died unexpectedly at a relatively young age in 1977, leaving his wife Ann and two young daughters as survivors. See the following website for an excellent historical overview of the U of I Computer Center: http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/~fleck/history.html, Item 1, Box: 1. John V. McMillin II Papers, RG99.0023. University of Iowa Archives. https://aspace.lib.uiowa.edu/repositories/3/archival_objects/254218 Accessed February 24, 2025.