Stanley Spiegel, president of military research company
When Stanley S. Spiegel was about to open his firm, his wife, Sheila, said, he decided to name it as an engineer might.
When Stanley S. Spiegel was about to open his firm, his wife, Sheila, said, he decided to name it as an engineer might.
The firm, Esscube Engineering, used his initials - SSS - and for folks like him, she said, "three means a cube."
And so, in naming the firm, as in other matters, "he thought everything in mathematical terms."
On Friday, March 4, Mr. Spiegel, 83, of Marlton, former president of the research firm, based in Haddonfield and then in Southampton, Bucks County, died of kidney failure at his home.
Esscube dealt with economic, sociological and educational research on military matters, Sheila Spiegel said.
In 1981, Mr. Spiegel opened his office in Haddonfield. He closed it to open an office in the mid-1980s in Southampton, to be nearer to his work at the former Willow Grove Naval Air Station.
The firm closed in 1997, his wife said, when he retired.
Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., he graduated from Brooklyn Technical High School in 1949 and earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering at Pratt Institute there in 1953.
He taught engineering and radar management at Fort Monmouth.
Mr. Spiegel began his career as an electrical engineer at Radio Corp. of America in Camden in 1955, his wife said, and in 1960 obtained a patent for his work on a frequency modulator.
Paul Polasky worked with Mr. Spiegel for much of the 1970s at Semcor Inc., first in Cherry Hill and then in Moorestown, where they were engineers.
Their work, Polasky said, was "helping with management of naval projects, helping with analysis" of work from naval laboratories.
Polasky said Mr. Spiegel was a good engineer and manager, "aggressive, ambitious."
After he retired, Mr. Spiegel was vice president of B'nai B'rith Elmwood House, an apartment house for low-income residents in Marlton, where, his wife said, he donated the library room.
And, she said, he was the lead design engineer for the Camden County Holocaust Memorial, which opened in 1981 at Cooper River Park in Pennsauken.
From the late 1990s to the early 2000s, he was an adjunct professor at Camden County College and what is now Rowan College at Burlington County, teaching advanced math and statistics.
He was a member of Tau Beta Pi, the national engineering honor society, and Mensa, which calls itself the international high IQ society.
Besides his wife of 62 years, Mr. Spiegel is survived by daughters Robin Stern and Lauren Schwartz, four grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.
Services were on Sunday, March 6.
Donations may be sent to www.bnaibrith.org.
Condolences may be offered to the family at www.plattmemorial.com.
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