NOBODY WE HAVE SPOKEN TO SO FAR ABOUT THE HODGE HAS HAD ANYTHING BAD TO SAY ABOUT GERALD ZITTER .
AN EVENHANDED AND FAIR MAN, A GENEROUS MAN, A REALLY HARDWORKING MAN, A COMPANY MAN, IN FACT ALMOST ONE MIGHT THINK, A TOO-GOOD-TO-BE-TRUE MAN, BUT WE THINK NOT, BECAUSE SO MANY PEOPLE CANNOT BE WRONG.
THE OTHER DAY, WE TOOK A LITTLE TIME OUT TO SURF THE NET FOR ANY REFERENCE TO GZ, LIKE WE DID FOR MR SHAPLAND & ARB, BUT NOT A THING CAME UP, EXCEPT IN A BLOG CALLED "BLACKWOOD HODGE MEMORIES", AND CONSIDERING WHAT A REALLY DECENT BLOKE GZ APPEARED TO BE, AS YOUR SITE HAD BEEN THE ONLY MENTION, WE FELT QUITE PROUD THAT IT WAS AS A PART OF THE COMPANY THAT HE DID SO MUCH FOR THAT HE WOULD BE REMEMBERED.
GZ DIED IN 1974, IN HIS LATE FORTIES OR EARLY FIFTIES, NO ONE SEEMS TO BE QUITE SURE AT WHAT AGE, AS HE WAS ALSO A PRIVATE MAN. WHATEVER AGE, A GREAT LOSS, NOT ONLY OF THE PERSON, BUT ALSO ANOTHER LINK BROKEN FROM THE ORIGINAL DAYS, AS GZ WAS ALSO A SUNLEY MAN.
1955 photo of GZ when he was Works Controller at Northhampton.
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