Jack Phillips, Jr and Jack" Phillips, Sr. in 1938
Adirondack Daily Enterprise, September 27, 2003Born: April 28, 1917
Died: August 27, 2014
Married: Alice Ward
Children: John, Andrew, Joseph
John J. "Jack" Phillips was a "chemical engineer, amateur climatologist, author, United States Army Reserve major (retired) and, yes, rocket scientist." His long-time family camp at 20 Moir Road on Lake Colby had once been a speakeasy, called Colby Lake Lodge, begun by his father in 1924.
Phillips published a book titledSuppressed Science in 2006, with a discussion on pages 90-92 of a biological treatment for tuberculosis developed by Prof. Friedrich Franz Friedman, M.D. in Germany in 1903. An attempt to introduce this treatment at the Algonquin Hotel in Saranac Lake was scuttled. Historic Saranac Lake has a copy of Phillips' book. A subsequent book, Suppressed Medical Science: the Key to Lower Cost and Higher Quality Medical Care, was published in 2011.
Adirondack Daily Enterprise, September 3, 2014
John J. "Jack" Phillips
John J. “Jack” Phillips, 97, of Saranac Lake, died Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2014, at Albany Medical Center in Albany.
He was born to the late John and Marie Phillips on April 28, 1917, in New York City. He married Alice Ward in Brighton, Massachusetts on July 7, 1951.
Jack studied chemical engineering at MIT and business administration at Harvard, and achieved multiple academic degrees, SB ’38, SM ’40, MBA ’51. He was an emeritus member of both the American Chemical Society and Sigma Xi.
Jack served as an officer in the Army Air Corps during World War II. He retired from military service as a major, USAR. He also worked for the National Space Administration and then with NASA. He was associated with the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs.
He is survived by his sons: John, Andrew and Joseph; and grandchildren Eric, Nicholas, Zachary and Ryan. He had friendships, too numerous and widespread to mention. He was loved by many and will be missed.
Intelligent, resolute, altruistic.
Funeral arrangements are in care of the Fortune-Keough Funeral Home in Saranac Lake. A graveside funeral service will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 6 at St. Bernard’s Cemetery in Saranac Lake.
See also:
- Adirondack Daily Enterprise, September 27, 2003, Howard Riley, The Good, the Bad and the Entertaining
