Victor J. Andrew

[2] Andrew recalls that his mother didn’t specifically require him to study anything, but instead would incorporate lessons on various subjects during everyday life.

He would begin to construct things with whatever he could find, such as discarded electrical parts from the city dump.

[2] After graduating with a Bachelor of Science in 1926 he moved on to become a junior engineer at the United States Army Signal Corps Laboratories at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey.

Although he hated the social values of New Jersey, claiming they were “stuck up”, he soon met his future wife, Aileen Sharkey.

After working in Fort Monmouth for fifteen months, he applied for graduate school at the University of Chicago for his master's degree, with the intention of acquiring a PhD.

He moved to Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts to work for Westinghouse Electric at the firm’s x-ray tube facility.

However, with the WWII ban on new station construction not much consulting was needed, so the Andrew Corporation quickly shifted their focus to manufacturing.

Manufacturing for the U.S. military helped the corporation grow in ways it never had when its sole customer base was civilian.

Victor and his wife, Aileen, adopted two children: Edward John and Juanita Andrew Hord.

[citation needed] Victor J. Andrew passed away on October 30, 1971, in his home in Claremont, California.