Carl Neisser

I was hired away from the Beckman ASID division in Palo Alto by Carl and Larry Sutter to help a struggling Beckman division in Schiller Park, IL, ergo: November 1972. They were taking the lead! At the same time, Carl was running another Beckman division in California and flew into O'hare to review changes of direction he had previously made. Wow, those meetings had meat to them. He was a very strong leader and took no BS. He smelled it in the air and corrected it on the fly! I learned a lot...

My deepest condolences to Rick, Ken, and Drew, and the entire Neisser family. Though I have never met any of you, Carl spoke of you all lovingly and admiringly, often. Carl was a long-time supporter of the Philharmonic Society and I had the great privilege and pleasure of getting to know him over the past 7-8 years. He is absolutely one of the best humans I have ever met. He was filled with optimism, boundless energy and curiosity, and as stated so beautifully in his obituary, a true...