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Private Organization | Burns & Roe, Inc. was an international engineering and construction firm owned by the Roe family, which employed George K. Pender as a sales representative who established its West Coast division. |
Burns & Roe, Inc. was an international engineering and construction corporation. It was a family corporation owned by Kenneth A. Roe and his family. According to his 1999 obituary, George K. Pender joined Burns & Roe, Inc. in Oradell, New Jersey, New Jersey, as a sales representative after working for Aerojet in Los Angeles, and was responsible for establishing a West Coast division for the firm.1 Cheri Seymour wrote that he was a former Director of the Pacific Ocean area for Burns & Roe, Inc., and a Senior Engineer Consultant to the company.2
Under Kenneth A. Roe's leadership, Burns & Roe, Inc. was involved in major projects, including the engineering design and construction of the United States Fast Breeder Nuclear Reactor Plant in conjunction with Westinghouse Electric Corporation, which was responsible for the nuclear system supply of steam. At the time, the construction value of Burns & Roe, Inc.'s business backlog exceeded six billion U.S. dollars.2
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College of the Holy Cross, Holy Cross Magazine, "In Memoriam," Summer 1999, entry for George K. Pender (died Jan. 6, 1999). Archived copy: https://web.archive.org/web/20040812105331/http://www.holycross.edu/departments/publicaffairs/hcm/summer99/in_memoriam/1927.html ↩︎
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Seymour, Cheri. The Last Circle: Danny Casolaro’s Investigation into the Octopus and the PROMIS Software Scandal. First Edition. TrineDay, 2010. ↩︎