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[[File:Plotkin-delaRee-Gaetz.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Gaetz (right) with Roy Plotkin and Gerry de la Ree]]
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(February 4, 1923 -- September 9, 2007)
 
(February 4, 1923 -- September 9, 2007)
  
Roderick Ruskin Gaetz was a [[Vancouver]]-born [[fan]] whose family moved to [[Seattle]] a few months after his birth, and then to Westwood, NJ before the [[War]]. He helped organized the [[Solaroids]]. In his mundane life he seems to have been an engineer; he was credited in 1971 as one of two inventors on a Canadian patent owned by Uniroyal.
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'''Roderick Ruskin Gaetz''' was a [[Vancouver]]-born [[fan]] whose family moved to [[Seattle]] a few months after his birth, and then to Westwood, [[New Jersey]] around 1934. He helped organized the [[Solaroids]]. In his [[mundane]] life he seems to have been an engineer; he was credited in 1971 as one of two inventors on a Canadian patent owned by Uniroyal.
  
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* [https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/islandora/object/ui%3Ahevelin_9547 "The Autobiography of Roderick R. Gaetz"], ''[[Sun Spots]]'' #11, October 1940, page 10
 
* [https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/235047479/roderick-r-gaetz Roderick Gaetz at Find a Grave]
 
* [https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/235047479/roderick-r-gaetz Roderick Gaetz at Find a Grave]
  
 
{{person | born=1923 |died=2007}}
 
{{person | born=1923 |died=2007}}
 
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Revision as of 10:33, 12 February 2024

Gaetz (right) with Roy Plotkin and Gerry de la Ree in 1940

(February 4, 1923 -- September 9, 2007)

Roderick Ruskin Gaetz was a Vancouver-born fan whose family moved to Seattle a few months after his birth, and then to Westwood, New Jersey around 1934. He helped organized the Solaroids. In his mundane life he seems to have been an engineer; he was credited in 1971 as one of two inventors on a Canadian patent owned by Uniroyal.


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