Obituary: Steve Waller, Industry veteran who worked for Electrical Wholesaling, EC&M and NAED

Steve Waller, a well-known electrical industry veteran who worked EC&M and Electrical Wholesaling magazines the National Association of Electrical Distributors (NAED), and in the electrical manufacturing community, passed away on March 9 at age 64 in Cheshire, CT
March 17, 2017

Steve Waller, a well-known electrical industry veteran who worked EC&M and Electrical Wholesaling magazines the National Association of Electrical Distributors (NAED), and in the electrical manufacturing community, passed away on March 9 at age 64 in Cheshire, CT. 
According to his obituary in the New Haven Register, he leaves behind wife of 43 years, Diane; his daughter, Tracy Pearsall; two grandchildren; and two brothers, Jack and Bob. Steve was an U.S. Army veteran who spent 18 months in Turkey during the Vietnam War and a graduate of Central Connecticut State University and Rensselaer Polytechnical Institute. He was a top salesperson, a wonderful storyteller, and a great friend to all who had the good fortune work with him.

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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.