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Harold Edward Poole

In Memory of

Harold Edward Poole

1930-2011

Born Jan 26, 1930, Harold Edward Poole attended William Byrd High School in Vinton, VA.

Class of 1950
Jan 26, 1930 - Jul 28, 2011
Served four years in the Army Air Corps before attending college at Virginia Polytechnic Institute. He attended Ohio Northern University where he graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree. He went to work as an aerospace engineer with NASA in Langley, Virginia, in the infancy of the space program and aided with putting the first men on the moon and later designing and conducting scientific experiments aboard America's space shuttle programs. He was involved in establishing dynamics of the Viking mission to Mars.
His favorite poet was Robert Frost.