This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/YW.2ADI/4141 Message Board Post: GLENN JOHNSTON, WORKED ON WINDSHIELD COATING FOR SHUTTLE Published on March 2, 1996 © 1996- The Press Democrat PAGE: B2 Glenn Lawrence Johnston of Windsor watched with special interest as the Space Shuttle flights returned safely to earth landings. As a registered professional quality engineer at Optical Coating Laboratories in Santa Rosa at one point, he helped develop the glass coating that protects the shuttle windshields on re-entry. Optical Coating was a subcontractor on the shuttle project. Johnston, 63, died Tuesday at a Santa Rosa hospital after fighting cancer for 20 months. His most recent stay in Sonoma County lasted 25 years. He had lived in Santa Rosa after graduating from high school in Eureka in 1949. His wife, Carolyn Johnston of Windsor, said he earned a bachelor's degree in Business at Humboldt State prior to enlisting in the Navy during the Korean War. After the war, he earned a master's degree in quality systems at San Jose State. Johnston's work as a registered professional quality engineer also included early warning radar and quality systems at the San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank and the Bank of California. At the banks, he perfected the flow of paperwork and currency that saved the establishments millions of dollars through more efficient operations. He also was a senior fellow of the American Society of Quality Control, a life member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, last in Windsor; and a past chairman of the American Society of Quality Control's San Francisco Section. Johnston was an avid reader and computer buff. He also enjoyed bridge and gardening. His wife said he was ``a gentle and devoted husband and father, and a loyal friend.'' Besides his wife, he is survived by his daughters, Rebecca Johnston Quilici of San Francisco, and Carrie Johnston of San Jose; and sisters, Floy Dittmar of Santa Rosa, and Bobbie Babcock of San Jose. Memorial services will be 2 p.m. today at Daniels Chapel of the Roses in Santa Rosa. Private inurnment will be at Santa Rosa Memorial Park. Memorial contributions may be made to Home Hospice of Sonoma County, 1110 North Dutton Ave., Santa Rosa 95401.