Abstract :
Paul Gaberson was born in Detroit, Michigan, in 1951. He obtained a BS degree in general engineering from Oakland University (Rochester, Michigan) in 1973 and after a short period of employment in the Detroit area suffered the effects of an economic downturn. After a short period of unemployment he joined the Westinghouse Electric Corporation on the student placement program and within three months had settled at the Large Rotating Apparatus Division (LRA) in East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.