I first met Harold McMaster, the man Fortune once called America’s “glass genius,” in the early 1980’s. That meeting, and that man, led to a powerful impact on my life and career — and the Toledo, Ohio economy.
Michael Ferrari, the then-interim president of Bowling Green State University, called me and said ‘I have a local scientist I’d like you to meet.’
That led to my late wife Sue and I meeting Harold and Helen McMaster over lunch at a County Club in Perrysburg, Ohio. The idea was that Harold McMaster would receive an honorary degree from BGSU, and the hope was that he would make a donation for our Physical Sciences Laboratory building then under construction on campus. Indeed, he was to give the university $250,000 and we purchased a state-of-the-art spectrometer for the new building.
But Harold, the founder of the hugely successful firm…
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