Les Goodwin, 93, a well-known presence on the electrical circuit for 50 years, died on March 25 in Boulder, Colo. Along with a long stint as a sales rep for NAED’s TED magazine toward the end of his electrical career, he worked for Arrow-Hart, the Gedney Co., and Cooper Industries. According to an obituary in The Boulder Daily Camera posted on April 28 at www.legacy.com, Goodwin was preceded in death by his wife Sidney in May 2009 and by his parents. He is survived by his son Gaines Goodwin (Sue) of Boulder, CO; daughter Sidney E. Goodwin of Broomfield, CO; and 3 grandchildren Meg Goodwin Daker (Casey), Jim Goodwin (Kelli) and Joe Goodwin (Marybeth), all of Denver, CO.
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Jim Lucy has been wandering through the electrical market for more than 30 years, most of the time as an editor for Electrical Wholesaling, Electrical Marketing newsletter and CEE News. During that time he and the editorial team for the publications have won numerous national awards for their coverage of the electrical business. He showed an early interest in electricity, when as a youth he had an idea for a hot dog cooker. Unfortunately, the first crude prototype malfunctioned and the arc nearly blew him out of his parents' basement. Before becoming an editor for Electrical Wholesaling magazine and Electrical Marketing, he earned a BA degree in journalism and a MA in communications from Glassboro State College, Glassboro, NJ., which is formerly best known as the site of the 1967 summit meeting between President Lyndon Johnson and Russian Premier Aleksei Nikolayevich Kosygin, and now best known as the New Jersey state college that changed its name in 1992 to Rowan University because of a generous $100 million donation by N.J. zillionaire industrialist Henry Rowan. Jim is a Brooklyn-born Jersey Guy happily transplanted in the fertile plains of Kansas for the past 20 years.