George T Geiser, a lifelong ATO brother, was born In Johnstown Pa. in 1920 and passed away June 3 2019 at the age of 98.
He enrolled in Penn State in 1938 and graduated in the spring of 1942 with a degree in finance and commerce. After graduation and WWII, he had a long career with Westinghouse Electric Corp. spending the last 25 years at Headquarters in Pittsburgh with responsibilities all around the globe.
It was important that George get back to his fraternity so in recently he visited the Penn State House. He shared stories with his current brothers and memories of life in a fraternity 80 years ago. Things were in many ways different but in many ways the same.
In 1939 the house was new and unseasoned by 80 years of fraternity life. There were overstuffed leather chairs, oriental rugs, and a grand piano that George played regularly accompanying fraternity socials. There was a housemother who kept an eye on the young men and oversaw dinners in Jacket and tie. They took their studies seriously and their socializing as well! George told stories of the price of a keg and how they settled in with them regularly on the side porch in the springtime.
While walking through the house they ended up in the front left second-story corner room that he lived in for three years. He told his young brothers that he had been on the top bunk studying chemistry when the word came that Pearl Harbor had been attacked. Life changed for everyone that day and as they continued the tour George went room by room telling who lived in each room and where and in what capacity many of them had fought and in some cases died during the war.
George was married to Jane Royer of Kane Pa in 1947 and the family, including 3 children followed his Westinghouse career with stops in Sharon and Edgewood Pa. and Columbus Ohio. They settled in the Upper St Clair suburb of Pittsburgh in 1960 where he resided until his death.