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'''Victor “Doc” John Andrew''' (August 31, 1902-October 30, 1971) was an electrical engineer and the founder of [[Andrew Corporation]], a world-leading [[telecommunications]] manufacturing company previously located in [[Orland Park, Illinois|Orland Park]], Illinois<ref>{{Cite web |title=Andrew Corp. |url=http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/2548.html |access-date=2024-07-08 |website=www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org}}</ref>. ▼
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== Early Life ==▼
Victor J. Andrew (originally named John Victor Andrew), was born to parents Irving Andrew and Ruby Perkins Andrew in a family farmhouse in [[Medina County, Ohio|Medina County]], Ohio. He entered school at the age of six and continued for four years; the last two years being failures to pass the third grade. His mother then took him out of school and educated him herself. She had worked as a schoolteacher in a one-room schoolhouse for eight years before marrying her husband, Irving<ref name=":1" />.▼
[[File:Victor_J._Andrew.png|thumb|Victor J. Andrew operating a radio station]]
▲'''Victor “Doc” John Andrew''' (August 31, 1902 - October 30, 1971) was an electrical engineer and the founder of [[Andrew Corporation]], a world-leading [[telecommunications]] manufacturing company previously located in [[Orland Park, Illinois|Orland Park]], Illinois.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Andrew Corp. |url=http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/2548.html |access-date=2024-07-08 |website=
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 states “The four years I was out of school were primarily playing, usually alone, going a half mile in various directions from home, generally in the rural areas.” He would eventually return to school at the age of fourteen.▼
In his earlier years, his interest in the physical sciences, particularly the electrical sciences began to grow. His older cousins were amateur radio operators and had given him radio equipment to experiment with. He would begin to construct things with whatever he could find, such as discarded electrical parts from the city dump. At the age of fifteen, he became the first mobile radio serviceman in [[Wooster, Ohio|Wooster]], Ohio. At seventeen he had his own operating amateur radio station<ref name=":1">{{Cite news |last=Cox |first=Russell |orig-date=January 1972 |title=The Andrew Communicator |publication-place=Andrew Corporation}}</ref>.▼
▲Victor J. Andrew (originally named John Victor Andrew), was born to parents Irving Andrew and Ruby Perkins Andrew in a family farmhouse in [[Medina County, Ohio|Medina County]], Ohio. He entered school at the age of six and continued for four years; the last two years being failures to pass the third grade. His mother then took him out of school and educated him herself. She had worked as a schoolteacher in a one-room schoolhouse for eight years before marrying her husband, Irving.<ref name=":1" />
▲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 states, “The four years I was out of school were primarily playing, usually alone, going a half mile in various directions from home, generally in the rural areas.”<ref name=":1" /> He would eventually return to school at the age of fourteen.<ref name=":1" />
== Higher Education, Employment, and the Great Depression ==▼
Andrew began his higher education at [[College of Wooster|The College of Wooster]]. He found interest in the fields of mathematics, physics, and economics. From 1923-1924 he served as chief engineer of WABW radio station owned by the college. Since he had already taken all of the math and science courses offered by the College of Wooster, he did research in association with the U.S. Naval Laboratory in [[Washington, D.C.|Washington D.C.]] on [[Radio propagation|radio wave propagation]]<ref name=":1" />.▼
▲In his earlier years, his interest in the physical sciences, particularly the electrical sciences began to grow. His older cousins were amateur radio operators and had given him radio equipment to experiment with. He would begin to construct things with whatever he could find, such as discarded electrical parts from the city dump. At the age of fifteen, he became the first mobile radio serviceman in [[Wooster, Ohio|Wooster]], Ohio. At seventeen he had his own operating amateur radio station.<ref name=":1">{{Cite news |last=Cox |first=Russell |orig-date=January 1972 |title=The Andrew Communicator |publication-place=Andrew Corporation}}</ref>
▲Andrew began his higher education at the [[
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.
After he graduated with his masters in 1928, he began to look for work, although it was hard to find. He moved to Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts to work for [[Westinghouse Electric Corporation|Westinghouse Electric]] at the firm’s [[x-ray tube]] facility.<ref name=":2">{{Cite book |url=http://archive.org/details/internationaldir0032unse |title=International directory of company histories
After graduating with a PhD in physics in 1932,<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Andrew |first=Victor J. |date=1932-12-01 |title=<nowiki>The Relative Intensities of the $L{\ensuremath{\alpha}}_{1}$, ${\ensuremath{\beta}}_{1}$, ${\ensuremath{\beta}}_{2}$, and ${\ensuremath{\gamma}}_{1}$ Lines in Tantalum, Tungsten, Iridium, and Platinum</nowiki> |url=https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRev.42.591 |journal=Physical Review |volume=42 |issue=5 |pages=591–608 |doi=10.1103/PhysRev.42.591}}</ref>
== Andrew Corporation ==
[[File:Andrew-corporation.svg|thumb|The corporation's logo]]
After leaving his position at Doolittle Radio Inc., Andrew started up the Andrew Company out of the basement of his rented home on January 1, 1937. This was
With himself as board chairman and CEO and his wife Aileen as the president of the company, they decided to relocate the company to a south Chicago suburb, Orland Park so that they would be able to expand more easily. After the war, Andrew began to pursue international trade. He traveled the world to pursue more customers but never lost contact with the original business in Illinois.
== Family ==
Victor and his wife, Aileen, adopted two children: Edward John and Juanita
== Death ==
Victor J. Andrew passed away on October 30, 1971, in his home in Claremont, California. He was buried in Orland Memorial Park Cemetery.<ref name=":
== Legacy ==
Aileen and Victor created the Aileen S. Andrew Foundation in 1947. The foundation offers various grants and scholarships.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Aileen S Andrew Foundation {{!}} Foundation Directory {{!}} Candid |url=https://fconline.foundationcenter.org/fdo-grantmaker-profile/?key=ANDR003 |access-date=2024-07-08 |website=fconline.foundationcenter.org}}</ref>
In 1977, [[Victor J. Andrew High School]] in Tinley Park was named after him with the logo being the Thunderbolts to commemorate Andrew Corporation.<ref>{{Cite web |title=About Andrew / About Andrew |url=https://www.d230.org/domain/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.d230.org%2Fsite%2Fdefault.aspx%3FDomainID%3D244 |access-date=2024-07-08 |website=www.d230.org |language=en}}</ref>
Andrew Corporation became a publicly traded company in 1981.<ref>"Chicago's Top 100". ''Chicago Tribune''. May 3, 1998. [[ProQuest (identifier)|ProQuest]] 2289043420.</ref>
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