Joseph Groth
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Joseph Groth

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AUTHOR Biography Joseph Groth A native of St. Ansgar, Iowa, Joseph Groth as a boy trapped beaver and muskrats, caught catfish, hunted, and gathered gooseberries on the Groth homestead north of town on the Cedar river. His great-grandfather, Assor Holstenson Groth, was part of the group of Norwegians that founded it in 1854. Groth's interest in Lewis and Clark began as a pre-teenager when he accompanied his parents on a motor trip that traced their Corps of Discovery's route starting from a paternal great-aunt's farm near Bismarck, North Dakota, and the Mandan villages. It followed their trail to a maternal great-aunt's farm in Moscow, Idaho, in Shoshone Native American Indian territory, and on to the Pacific ocean. As a teen-ager, Groth spent several summers canoeing in the Quetico wilderness area portaging the Canadian border lakes north of Ely, Minnesota. He was also a starting halfback on the St. Ansgar High School football team that was undefeated his senior year. Like Lewis and Clark, Groth also became a captain. He enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps shortly after graduating from high school, and became a sergeant. Groth then attended the University of Minnesota on a football scholarship and the GI Bill. He graduated from the School of Journalism with a minor in Humanities. The day after receiving his bachelor of arts degree he was recalled to active duty by the U.S. Marine Corps, and served during the Korean conflict as an intelligence officer with the Second Marine Air Wing. He was a captain when he was honorably discharged from the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve. Groth's continued interest in aviation resulted in his becoming executive assistant to the president of Winzen Research - a research and development company where he participated in the U.S. Air Force Man High I and II world record high altitude balloon flights of Captain Joe Kittinger and Major David Simons. He subsequently joined Hughes Aircraft Company in Culver City, California, after Winzen Research developed a radar reflective balloon for use as targets for the radar guided air-to-air missiles Hughes was then developing for the U.S. Air Force. Groth conceived the use of a synchronous communications satellite to network television programming to cable TV systems while manager of commercial diversification for Hughes Aircraft Company's Research and Development Group. He subsequently convinced Teleprompter Corporation's vice president of engineering Hubert J. Schlafly to fund development of a pioneering microwave transmission system to interconnect cable TV systems. That led to Teleprompter Corporation's chairman and president Irving B. Kahn's decision to join with Hughes in creating joint ventures to seek and develop cable TV systems in Manhattan and Los Angeles. At Kahn's invitation, Groth joined Teleprompter, and as general manager of Teleprompter Manhattan Cable he successfully executed the first satellite transmission of a television program celebrating Israel's 25th anniversary that linked Tel Aviv to Teleprompter Manhattan Cable. At Teleprompter Manhattan, Groth also produced the first "Live from Lincoln Center" telecast using low-light level TV cameras originally developed for the Hughes Surveyor lunar landing program. It validated Lincoln Center's executive producer John Goberman's theory that "live" TV broadcasts could be successfully executed with the existing house lighting in the New York State Theater. In 1972 with attorney Robert Youdelman's assistance, Groth negotiated the first e-book contract for the electronic distribution rights to Adam Smith's best selling book The Money Game. To televise it, Groth had each chapter typed on a Teleprompter scroll that he then rotated for 24 hours per day in front of a fixed TV camera. Because the Teleprompter Manhattan system was built with dual coaxial cables, it had 42 vacant TV channels, and he chose to show Adam Smith's book on one listed in TelePrompTer Manhattan's monthly program guide that he named the "E-BOOK CHANNEL." Previously, Groth was nominated by Hughes to attend and subsequently graduated from the University of Southern California School of Business Managerial Policy Institute executive development program. It was conceived and headed by economist Dr. Preston Martin who later became deputy chairman of the Federal Reserve Board under President Ronald Reagan. After leaving Teleprompter and Hughes, Groth became executive vice president and chief operating officer of General Optronics Corp. - a venture capital-funded start-up that was the first company to commercialize semiconductor lasers for communications and instrumentation. He also served as president of its wholly-owned laser printer subsidiary - Holoscan Corporation that developed a 26 page per minute laser printer using a hologram scanning mechanism. Groth was a founding director and subsequently president and chairman of the board of the Electronic Sales and Marketing Association, and a member of the Electronic Industries Association Microwave Committee. As chairman of its Microwave Components Subcommittee, he successfully introduced the collection of monthly sales statistics from manufacturers to accurately determine the size of the total microwave market. Following his retirement, Groth became interested in writing a biography of Albert Gallatin. While researching Gallatin's papers at New York University, he came across a letter Captain Meriwether Lewis wrote Gallatin requesting help in preparing for his expedition. That reawakened his interest in Lewis and Clark, and Groth decided to write a syndicated daily newspaper column to coincide with the 200th anniversary of their voyage. To do so, he transcribed the handwritten notes in their journals to make certain there were entries for each day of the journey. In doing so, Groth discovered Captain Meriwether Lewis did not start writing daily journal entries until April 7th, 1805, when he left Fort Mandan. That represented the birth of what became The Lewis and Clark Chronicles. Joseph Groth is married to Nancy Flynn Groth, a poet. Her published poems include Airdance, Sister to the Sea, City Snowfall, and A Sailor's Requiem. They currently reside in Wilmington, Delaware.
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