Ricardo Muniz [obituary]

Summary form only given, as follows. Members of PTGBTR will note with sadness the untimely death of Ricardo Muniz on Saturday, November 17, 1962, in Montefiore Hospital, New York, New York. At the age of 52, he had retired three months previously as the Director of Engineering and Co-ordinator of Manufacturing of the Magnavox Company of Fort Wayne, Indiana. His prior executive positions included responsibility as general manager of Westinghouse Radio-TV Division in Canada and in Metuchen, New Jersey; he pioneered in TV production immediately after World War II as general manager at A.B. Dumont Laboratories, following research and development work in TV at his Munston firm, and work on direction-finding equipment during the war. Mr. Muniz was a Senior Member (\´49) of the I.R.E., and of the Administrative Committee of the PTGBTR. The many loyal friendships he made are numbered in both the academic and industrial worlds. He served as a teacher at the Brooklyn Technical High School, and as an assistant Director of what is now the New York City Community College. In addition to writing articles in Radio-Electronics and other magazines, he inspired and assisted substantially with material help for the text on "Electronic Instrumentation" to be published in April, 1963, by Prentice-Hall. The whole course of his varied productive activities was marked by his impressive ability to make and keep devoted friends. Surviving are his widow, the former Lydia Andreozzi, two sons, Richard and Donald, and three grandchildren.