[ Editor’s note: VT is currently structured on a triple generational model. The seniors are of the late WWII, early Cold War era, like Lee Wanta and Clinton Bastin who went from Georgia Tech into Marine Officer Candidate school, and his brilliance in engineering had him working soon after at the Atomic Energy Commission, (AEC), an acronym no one ever sees any more.
Next we have the Vietnam era batch, the core of VT numerically, the baby boomers… and then another crew that is mid-fortyish. As I build out the staff from VT readers who are volunteering from all over the world, we are getting a diversified age group, including some younger people who will be the fourth generation. We expect this to contribute to our being around a long time.