Uwe
Uwe Hans Bruno Lewandowski
An Immigrant Who Lived the American Dream
Uwe Hans Bruno Lewandowski (known as Bruno) was born January 22, 1937 in Lagerdorf, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany to Anne Margareta Wilma Hinz and Hermann Konrad Lewandowski. He had no sisters or brothers. Mr. Lewandowski died in his own home in Appomattox, at his own request, with his wife and his daughter on March 5, 2010 of leukemia.
He experienced World War II as a child with the loss of his father on the Russian front and the loss of all adult males in his family. As opportunities for education or employment were slim in postwar-torn Europe, he applied in 1950 to immigrate to the United States. After a wait of three years, due to the U. S. quota requirement, he left Germany at the age of 16. Mr. Lewandowski arrived in New York City, entered high school in Jamaica, New York, learned English and graduated valedictorian of his high school class.
With the support of a mentor teacher, he applied and was accepted at Pratt Institute, R. P. I. and Clarkson University. He entered Clarkson University, Potsdam, New York in 1955 and graduated with a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering in 1959. While attending Clarkson University, he was the captain of the soccer team, a member of the fraternity Karma (later Pi Kappa Phi) and ROTC. As a member of the soccer team, Bruno was awarded the best center forward by the National Soccer Coaches Association and placed on the All-New York Soccer Team, as well as being chosen as a candidate for All American. His record of being the highest single game goal scorer has never been broken at Clarkson.
Bruno Lewandowski married his wife, Betty Jean Gray on May 22, 1959. Betty is a graduate of the State University of New York and Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut with teaching experience of 50 years at elementary, middle school, high school and colleges in nine states and in Europe and the Middle East. Her most recent educational endeavor was at CVCC in Appomattox. Their 53 years of shared companionship and 50 years of marriage proved to be a wonderful relationship. They have one child, Tania Ann Lewandowski, who after graduate studies and serving as an active duty officer in the US Coast Guard, is now a lead Marine Fisheries Biologist for NOAA in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
Bruno voluntarily served as a military intelligence officer in the United States Army from 1960-63 in the 501st Engineer Detachment in USAREUR assigned to Heidelberg, Germany. He made many missions to Africa, within Europe and behind the Iron Curtain. In addition, he was chosen to be the Captain and center forward for the Armed Forces Soccer Team and played against such countries as Morocco, Turkey, Germany and many others until an injury forced him to resign from soccer. He was honorably discharged from the Inactive Standby Reserves with the rank of Captain in 1969.
After his career in the Army, he returned to the United States and embarked upon a career in both military and commercial jet engines. His professional experience included employment with Pratt and Whitney Aircraft, General Electric Company, Saudi Arabian Airlines (Saudia), MTU Maintenance GmbH, The Flying Tiger Line, Cooper Airmotive, and American Airlines. While employed by Pratt and Whitney Aircraft, he received a Master\"™s Degree in Business Administration from the University of Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut.
He founded and operated \"Avion Technologies\" in 1991, a commercial aviation consultancy. Additionally, he founded, edited and published \"World Aero-Engine Review,\" a monthly newsletter for commercial air transport and jet propulsion. In 1996-97, he authored feature stories selected by The Royal Aeronautical Society of Great Britain as a finalist for its Aerospace Journalist of the Year Awards competition. In 1998, Bruno served as Adjunct Instructor at California\"™s Sonoma State University Business School. His final professional endeavor was writing technical articles for British transport and jet propulsion journals.
Mr. Lewandowski felt he had lived the \"American Dream\" by being given the opportunity for further education, serving his country (became a citizen in 1959) both in military and commercial/business capacities. He traveled to every continent except Antarctica and found the world amazing, exciting and absolutely a place to be explored. He felt the world was like a book — and if one stayed home \"" one had only read one page. Mr. Lewandowski read the whole book!
Mr. Lewandowski was a humanist and regarded the rational individual in high value. He dedicated his life to individual creativity and his own moral development. Outside of his wife and daughter, his greatest love was his library and the hundreds of books contained within. It was in those books he found inspiration, understanding, guidance and love of the varieties and beauty of nature, ideas and human beings. It was these values that influenced and inspired his daughter Tania to pursue knowledge and be an independent thinker, for which she is forever thankful.
He had friends in many countries and before his death was noting whether he could count them on his fingers. He concluded that these true friends made him a rich man. Bruno Lewandowski had lived the \"American Dream.\"
Tharp Funeral Home & Crematory, Lynchburg, is assisting the family, 434-237-9424.
Uwe Hans Bruno Lewandowski (known as Bruno) was born January 22, 1937 in Lagerdorf, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany to Anne Margareta Wilma Hinz and Hermann Konrad Lewandowski. He had no sisters or brothers. Mr. Lewandowski died in his own home in Appomattox, at his own request, with his wife and his daughter on March 5, 2010 of leukemia.
He experienced World War II as a child with the loss of his father on the Russian front and the loss of all adult males in his family. As opportunities for education or employment were slim in postwar-torn Europe, he applied in 1950 to immigrate to the United States. After a wait of three years, due to the U. S. quota requirement, he left Germany at the age of 16. Mr. Lewandowski arrived in New York City, entered high school in Jamaica, New York, learned English and graduated valedictorian of his high school class.
With the support of a mentor teacher, he applied and was accepted at Pratt Institute, R. P. I. and Clarkson University. He entered Clarkson University, Potsdam, New York in 1955 and graduated with a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering in 1959. While attending Clarkson University, he was the captain of the soccer team, a member of the fraternity Karma (later Pi Kappa Phi) and ROTC. As a member of the soccer team, Bruno was awarded the best center forward by the National Soccer Coaches Association and placed on the All-New York Soccer Team, as well as being chosen as a candidate for All American. His record of being the highest single game goal scorer has never been broken at Clarkson.
Bruno Lewandowski married his wife, Betty Jean Gray on May 22, 1959. Betty is a graduate of the State University of New York and Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut with teaching experience of 50 years at elementary, middle school, high school and colleges in nine states and in Europe and the Middle East. Her most recent educational endeavor was at CVCC in Appomattox. Their 53 years of shared companionship and 50 years of marriage proved to be a wonderful relationship. They have one child, Tania Ann Lewandowski, who after graduate studies and serving as an active duty officer in the US Coast Guard, is now a lead Marine Fisheries Biologist for NOAA in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
Bruno voluntarily served as a military intelligence officer in the United States Army from 1960-63 in the 501st Engineer Detachment in USAREUR assigned to Heidelberg, Germany. He made many missions to Africa, within Europe and behind the Iron Curtain. In addition, he was chosen to be the Captain and center forward for the Armed Forces Soccer Team and played against such countries as Morocco, Turkey, Germany and many others until an injury forced him to resign from soccer. He was honorably discharged from the Inactive Standby Reserves with the rank of Captain in 1969.
After his career in the Army, he returned to the United States and embarked upon a career in both military and commercial jet engines. His professional experience included employment with Pratt and Whitney Aircraft, General Electric Company, Saudi Arabian Airlines (Saudia), MTU Maintenance GmbH, The Flying Tiger Line, Cooper Airmotive, and American Airlines. While employed by Pratt and Whitney Aircraft, he received a Master\"™s Degree in Business Administration from the University of Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut.
He founded and operated \"Avion Technologies\" in 1991, a commercial aviation consultancy. Additionally, he founded, edited and published \"World Aero-Engine Review,\" a monthly newsletter for commercial air transport and jet propulsion. In 1996-97, he authored feature stories selected by The Royal Aeronautical Society of Great Britain as a finalist for its Aerospace Journalist of the Year Awards competition. In 1998, Bruno served as Adjunct Instructor at California\"™s Sonoma State University Business School. His final professional endeavor was writing technical articles for British transport and jet propulsion journals.
Mr. Lewandowski felt he had lived the \"American Dream\" by being given the opportunity for further education, serving his country (became a citizen in 1959) both in military and commercial/business capacities. He traveled to every continent except Antarctica and found the world amazing, exciting and absolutely a place to be explored. He felt the world was like a book — and if one stayed home \"" one had only read one page. Mr. Lewandowski read the whole book!
Mr. Lewandowski was a humanist and regarded the rational individual in high value. He dedicated his life to individual creativity and his own moral development. Outside of his wife and daughter, his greatest love was his library and the hundreds of books contained within. It was in those books he found inspiration, understanding, guidance and love of the varieties and beauty of nature, ideas and human beings. It was these values that influenced and inspired his daughter Tania to pursue knowledge and be an independent thinker, for which she is forever thankful.
He had friends in many countries and before his death was noting whether he could count them on his fingers. He concluded that these true friends made him a rich man. Bruno Lewandowski had lived the \"American Dream.\"
Tharp Funeral Home & Crematory, Lynchburg, is assisting the family, 434-237-9424.
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