BIOS
GEORGE SHEA
GEORGE SHEA, author of “Chester Chester Chester” is an actor, playwright, environmental activist and children’s author. His plays have been produced in New York, Williamstown and around the U.S.
His solo climate change play, “Dr. Keeling’s Curve” starring *M*A*S*H* veteran, Mike Farrell, has been sponsored by the Sierra Club and performed in theaters and on college campuses nationally.
George Shea
JOE WILSON
There never would have been a Xerox without the faith, determination and enlightened leadership of Joe Wilson who despite numerous disappointments and setbacks, never wavered in supporting the invention’s development. Later, as the first president of Xerox, his enlightened moral vision and superb business skills made Xerox a highly respected major U.S. corporation.
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Wilson died from a massive heart attack in 1971, only three years after Chester. Most subsequent Xerox chief executives with the exception of Anne Mulcahey (2001—2009), lacked Wilson’s spirit and boldness and the company fell into a long decline from which it did not recover. The major damage was the now unbelievable failure of Xerox management in the early 1980’s to act on the iconic revolutionary technological developments by Xerox’s world class scientists and engineers at XeroxParc: namely the personal computer, laser printer, computer mouse, graphical user interface and corporate computer network.
The end came in 2018, when it was announced that Xerox was being acquired by Fuji Film.
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Click here for the rest of Chester’s story and Wilson’s indispensable role In bringing it to fruition.
Joe Wilson
Dorris Hudgins Carlson
DORRIS HUDGINS CARLSON
Chester met Dorris Hudgins in 1945 and they were married three months later. Dorris could see through walls and had psychic faculties that fascinated Chester and moved him to support research at Duke University on extra sensory perception (ESP) and and also at the University of Virginias, scientific research into reincarnation and the survival of the human spirit after death. Always a seeker, he also took a deep interest in eastern religions and embraced Vedanta.
Chester & Dorris Carlson