PEORIA MAGAZINE April 2022

National Bank in Chicago, where he pioneered drive-through banking. He also oversaw the inception of instant loans and open credit accounts. In 1965, he received the Horatio Alger Award, which honors people – including the lofty likes of Dwight Eisenhower, Ronald Reagan, Gerald Ford, Ray Kroc and Buzz Aldrin –who rose fromhumble beginnings to great success. LEE GARMES (MAY 27, 1898 – AUG. 31, 1978) Garmes left Peoria for Hollywood, where he became one of the few cinematographers whose careers stretched from silent films to the modern era. Garmes worked with the directors Howard Hawks and Alfred Hitchcock, and filmed a considerable portion of “Gone with the Wind.” Toward the end of his life, he became one of the early proponents of video technology. In 1972, Technicolor hired him to shoot the short film “Why,” a prototype to test if video would be used for feature films. Today, more than 90 percent of major releases are shot on video.

PATRICK H. WINSTON (FEB. 5, 1943 – JULY 19, 2019):

She is most renowned for her famous “visual cliff ” experiments – how far would babies crawl to what looked like a cliff when called by their mothers? — that led to a new understanding of perceptual development in infants. In 1992, President George H.W. Bush awarded her the National Medal of Science.

Even as a boy, Winston was curious about science and technology, including how each could explore what it means to be human. Af ter earning his doctorate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he joined the faculty of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in 1970. From 1972 to 1997, he served as the director of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. His studies led to keen insights into the nature of communication. His “How to Speak” lecture, now available on YouTube, became a 40-year tradition at MIT. PHOTO CREDIT RICHARD A. WHITING : (Sanborn96) and other considerations: https://commons.wikimedia.org/ wiki/File:Richard_A._Whiting.jpg ELEANOR GIBSON : Association for Psychological Science: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/ File:Eleanor_Gibson_(1993).jpg JAMES GLIMM : (Konrad Jacobs) and other con siderations: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/ File:James_Glimm.jpg PATRICK WINSTON : https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=Unzc731iCUY and other considerations: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pat rick_Winston_2018.jpg WTVP, compiled the information for this story. His sources included The New York Times, the Horatio Alger Association, geekwire.com, the American Psychological Association, feministvoices.com, “The Cinema in Flux: The Evolution of Motion Picture Technology from the Magic Lantern to the Digital Era,” mathshistory.st andrews.ac.uk, Stony Brook University, wikipedia.org, legacy.com, popularsong. org, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Phil Luciano , a senior writer/columnist for Peoria Magazine and content contributor to public television station

JAMES G. GLIMM (BORN MARCH 24, 1934)

As a boy, Glimm relocated with his family to New Jersey. In 1959, he earned his doctorate in mathematics from Columbia University and eventually joined Stony Brook University, where he remains to this day. He has made award-winning contr ibutions in the areas of nonlinear analysis and quantum field theory. TheU.S.DepartmentofEnergyadopted Glimm’s front-track methodology for shock-wave calculations. In 2002, President GeorgeW. Bush awarded him the National Medal of Science

ELEANOR JACK GIBSON (DEC. 7, 1910 – DEC. 30, 2002)

Eleanor Jackwas born intoamiddle-class family. Her father sold hardware and her mother was a homemaker. At Smith College, she was drawn to psychology, a field fraught with gender discrimination. Still, shemade great contributions to the field, sometimes with her psychologist husband, James Gibson.

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