Jack Logan Bellamy, Aerospace Engineer

Jack Logan Bellamy, EE 46, of Scotts Valley, Calif., on June 1. Bellamy was an aerospace engineer who considered his greatest professional accomplishment the five Milstar satellites currently orbiting the earth. Bellamy joined the U.S. Navy in 1944 and was stationed in Hawaii at the end of WWII. Bellamy earned an electrical engineering degree in 1946 from Tech, where he was a member of Kappa Alpha Order fraternity, the same fraternity as his son and grandson. Bellamy earned a master’s degree in electrical engineering from Cornell University in 1950 and did graduate work at Stanford University during the 1960s. He began his career as an aerospace engineer working for North American and Dalmo-Victor, followed by 35 years at Lockheed Martin designing antennas for satellites. Among his many interests, he was a published author of scientific material; a playwright; an actor in community theatre; a farmer; a breeder of goats, dogs and cats; and a wine maker.

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