Joseph Anthony Mankowski

Great memories. Dated Joe on his senior year at Draper.

I attended Draper High School with Joe. I remember his love of cars and joined him and his parents at Fonda Raceway. He was a great friend and I know you miss him very much. Donna Becker Lawton

A great friend and colleague for more than 50 years. Joe was a highly skilled designer with high personal standards that were evident throughout his work. I was happy to work with him for all those years. And happy that he was a member of our extended family. Good years. He’ll be missed.

I worked with Joe as a fellow designer for about 16 years. Many fond memories of working together, his design leadership and inspiration, always pushing the envelope and getting away with it in a quiet and sensitive manner.

From Bob Ivers:
Some background: Joe joined the Corning Inc. design group as an industrial designer from the office of George Nelson in NYC. He was an innovative and talented designer who always brought an unusual solution and perspective to complex product design problems. When Corning embarked upon the medical instrument business, Joe concentrated his product design work on blood gas systems working with development and manufacturing engineers. However, he worked directly for the VP...

Joe - you were what I consider a "true friend". I have many fond memories of our "tradeshow life" - the deadlines, the budgets, creating the impossible, pulling all-nighters to make it happen! You were a great co-worker as well as "my friend".

I will miss his colorful Jeep at his favorite location for ferroequinology. It has been named "Mankowski's Mound" at Erwin. He will be missed.