Glenn DePagter, one of the original engineers who designed Grand Haven's Musical Fountain, recalls its planning and construction. The fountain, which opened as a tourist attraction in 1965, became the largest of its kind in the world. Glenn also gives a detailed description of Grand Haven's first hospital and remembers the influential Loutit family and their home, where his father Isaac worked as a maintenance man. As a young man, Glenn served in World War II and was later employed by Eastern Airlines, where he worked on the first jet engine. He discusses his later career at Keller Tool/Gardner Denver, where he began employment in 1951 as a designer of pneumatic tools, and recalls early analog computer systems.
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