Albert Gerald Sayre was an American

United States

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 Radioman

Radioman

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, Radio Amateur

Amateur radio

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, Teacher

Teacher

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 and Arctic

Arctic

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 Explorer.

Gerry served in the US Navy as Radioman during World War I

World War I

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 and was a Commander

Commander

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 in the US Naval Reserve. He was living in Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York, and working as a teacher at the Storm King School

Storm King School

Established as the Cornwall Heights School in 1867 by Louis P. Ledoux, an Amherst graduate and pastor of the Cornwall Presbyterian Church, the school was later known as the Stone School during the time it was directed by Dr. Carlos H. Stone. In 1923, during the tenure of Headmaster Alvan P...

 in Newburg, New York, when he signed on as radio operator/engineer for the MacGregor Arctic Expedition

MacGregor Arctic Expedition

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 that took place between July 1, 1937 and October 4, 1938.

After the expedition, Sayre lived in Arlington County, Virginia

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, and worked as an instructor at the US Naval Academy. He retired to Milton, Wisconsin

Milton, Wisconsin

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in the 1960s and died, at age 92, on September 6, 1990.

Sources

• Inglis, Robert: "A Scout Goes North", 1938
• MacGregor, Clifford J.: "Monthly Weather Review", October 1939
• Sallach, David L. "NJ Historical Commission Newsletter", February 1977
• Vogel, Hal: "Ice Cap News", Nov-Dec 1977
• Vogel, Hal: "They Brought Their Own Storms", 1977