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PATRICK EUGENE HAGGERTY
1914-1980
BY J. ERIK JONSSON
PATRICK EUGENE HAGGERTY died in Dallas, Texas, on October 1,
1980, following a brief illness. At that time he was Honorary Chair-
man and General Director of Texas Instruments Incorporated,
which he led with vigor, technical skill, sensitivity, and wisdom and
where his career developed for thirty-five years.
Pat Haggerty was widely known as a warm, kind, and gentle
man, not without a touch of Irish temper when faced with obstacles
to achievements or principles. He was a humanist, a moral and
deeply religious man, an inquisitive scholar of keen intellect and
extraordinary reasoning powers. He was an avid reader and a will-
ing and perceptive listener, whose self-education was wide ranging
and never waned or faltered. For example, when he decided to sail
his 45-foot sloop, the BAY BEA, in a transatlantic ocean race, he
studied into the wee morning hours to master the navigational
knowledge required. This somehow is characteristic of his intensity
in all matters as well as proof that even for relaxation, he chose a
challenge.
Pat Haggerty was esteemed and respected by colleagues and com-
petitors alike. From him and his example, thousands of men and
women gained strength and inspiration to contribute in their own
ways to society, its people, and its institutions. His influence was
thus immeasurable. The stamp of his leadership, innovative mind,
and disciplined application of energy and time on achievements
beneficial to society is deep and enduring.
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MEMORIAL TRIBUTES
His sense of organization and his system approaches to manage-
ment of difficult and complex problems were peerless. An engineer
and scientist of broad vision, his leadership in bringing technological
developments into practical application beneficial to mankind is
indisputable, his record indelible.
He was a man whose interest in society as well as his corporation
went deep, whose understanding of corporate, national, and inter-
national problems motivated him to make contributions beyond the
reach of others less versatile, less daring, less disciplined, less
focused, and less determined. In work and in leisure he chose to do
only those things that would be productive.
The standards he set for himself and for others were of the highest
order, and yet he was a realist. In a paper delivered in November
1979, entitled "The Corporation and The Individual," he closed
with this statement: "We can overcome energy shortages, imper-
sonal organizations, alienation. But we can only do it slowly, with
persistence, with discipline, and, most of all, with wisdom."
He approached all endeavors in these ways, from attaining Eagle
Scout rank in his youth, throughout his active life.
Pat Haggerty was born on March 17, 1914, in Harvey, North
Dakota, and was the son of a railroad telegrapher. He received a
B.S. degree in electrical engineering in 1936 from Marquette Uni-
versity, where his grade average was the highest ever attained at that
time. During his senior year he served as a Cooperative Student
Engineer with the Badger Carton Company, Milwaukee, which he
joined full time upon graduating. At Badger he quickly progressed
to become Assistant General Manager with full responsibility for all
. . .^ . . . . .
engineering, manufacturing, and administrative functions, except
sales. He left Badger in 1942 to join the U.S. Naval Reserve,
advancing to Lieutenant prior to his discharge in 1945. For most of
those years he served the Electronics Production Branch of the
Bureau of Aeronautics with responsibility for overseeing procure-
ment and production of certain naval airborne electronic equip
meet.
In November 1945 he joined Geophysical Service Inc. (GSI),
Dallas, Texas, as General Manager of its Laboratory and Manufac-
turing Division. GSI pioneered the use of the reflection seismograph
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for location of oil and gas reserves. It evolved into Texas Instruments
Incorporated after deliberate goals were set—to diversify the busi-
ness, initially via the design and manufacture of equipment for
national defense, and to become a good, big company. Annual sales
in 1946 totaled $2.8 million. In 1979 the company had net sales of
$3.2 billion.
It was Pat Haggerty who recognized the way electronics would be
revolutionized and proposed that the fledgling enterprise become a
licensee of Bell Telephone Laboratories for manufacture of transis-
tors. Always a team man as well as a leader, he selected, developed,
and led the group of scientists and engineers whose work enabled
Texas Instruments to manufacture germanium and silicon transis-
tors, in commercial quantities and approximately two years ahead of
other licensees. To create initial markets for the germanium devices,
he called for the design of the first pocket radio. He led the Texas
Instruments team that achieved its design and aided a company
based in Indianapolis to manufacture and market it.
Since the commencement of its careful, deliberate goal setting, a
principal Texas Instruments objective has been to be on the leading
edge of technology. Its breakthrough in the transistor field led to
other technological advances, via major investments in new technol-
ogies, innovations, and systems approaches to management.
Included in its "firsts" were the invention of the integrated circuit;
introduction of a new digital technique for geophysical exploration
that now is the world standard; development of a clad metal system
that helped solve both U.S. and foreign coinage problems in the
mid-1960s; invention of the miniature electronic calculator; and the
first "computer on a chip," which made possible today's generation
of calculators, and computers, at popular prices. Mr. Haggerty was
a pivotal leader in these efforts and those that shaped Texas Instru-
ments growth choices for the future. Until his death, he articulated
the potential of electronics and its benefits to mankind.
Mr. Haggerty was elected Executive Vice-President and Director
of Texas Instruments in 1951, President in 1958, and Chairman of
the Board of Directors in 1966. He served in the latter position until
his retirement and election as Honorary Chairman and General
Director in April 1976.
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MEMORIAL TRIBUTES
Pat Haggerty shared his capabilities, talents, and concerns
widely in business associations, in education, and in technical soci-
eties. He was a coleader in the merger of the Institute of Radio
Engineers and the American Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers. Following their merger, he served two years as Director
of the resultant Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
(IEEE) and was subsequently elected a Fellow of IEEE.
His leadership qualities and contributions to education were rec-
ognized by honorary degrees or distinguished service awards by The
Catholic University, Marquette University, North Dakota State
University, Polytechnic Institute of New York, Rensselaer Polytech-
nic Institute, University of Dallas, University of Notre Dame, and
University of Wisconsin. For a number of years until shortly before
his death, he was Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Rockefeller
University. He was also a longtime Trustee and influential leader in
the development of the University of Dallas, a twenty-f~ve-year-old
institution committed to excellence.
Other recognitions accorded his achievements include the Elec-
tronic Industries Association's Medal of Honor; Founder's Award,
IEEE; Industrial Research Institute Medalist; John Fritz Medalist;
WEMA Medal of Achievement; and the Henry Laurence Gantt
Medal (ASME & AMA). He was a Fellow of the American Associa-
tion for the Advancement of Science and a Knight Commander of
the Equestrial Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem.
Mr. Haggerty was a member at various times of the Business
Council; Defense Science Board; President's Science Advisory
Committee; National Commission on Technology, Automation and
Economic Progress; and President's Nuclear Safety Oversight Com-
mittee.
He was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineer-
ing (NAE) in 1965 and served various terms as a member of NAE
Committees on Membership, Gifts, and Endowments, and one
term as Chairman of the NAE Nominating Committee. He served
three years each as a member of the NAE Committee on Public
Engineering Policy and as a member of the NAE Council.
He wrote many papers for publication in managerial and techni-
cal society journals as well as for universities.
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A man for all seasons, Pat Haggerty felt his own achievements
resulted solely from commitments he perceived as his personal
responsibilities. For himself he penned this prayer: "God, grant me
the grace to fulfill with wisdom, justice, respect, humility and human-
ity my duties to all for whom and to whom I am responsible. "
Pat Haggerty was a devoted family man. He is survived by his
wife, Beatrice, their five children, and thirteen grandchildren.
Clearly his prayer embraced them and his corporate family as well as
a larger society of men, women, and children.
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