The Van Dycks Genealogy Site

Louis Bevier Van Dyck II (1889–1934) was a graduate of Rutgers University in 1911, and joined the General Electric Company in September, 1918. His career at GE rised to become assistant general auditor, and manager of corporate accounting.
In 1953, he was photographed holding a teletype tape while standing next to an IBM punch‑card system – a symbol of the early digital revolution that allowed GE’s 13 plants to “close their books” on the same day for the first time. Numerically-coded teletype tape receives coded financial statements from GE's 13 plants in 101 cities and 24 states. Time ordinarily lost in mailing reports to Schenectady is saved by overnight teletype service on GE's lease wires, thus permitting all plants to close books the same day. The tape-IBM system also eliminates hours of adding machine work and cuts down on toll calls formerly necessary to take reports delayed or lost in mails.
(Source Museum of Innovation & Science, Schenectady)
He pioneered in modernizing financial and IT systems in GE – helping shape the way large corporations manage data.”
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Peter Cornelius Van Dyck (1917-2008) attended both Union and Amherst College, and earned his degree from the latter as a member of the Class of 1938.
He began his career at General Electric’s credit corporation before taking leave to serve in World War II, in the Pacific Theatre, with the U.S. Army Air Corps engineers. After returning from the war, he joined the GE traveling auditing staff and began a 30 plus year career with the company. He later worked as finance manager and business training instructor, before being appointed general manager in 1961. In 1972 he was promoted to Vice President of GE and was in charge of the Apparatus Service Division, a division with locations around the world. By the late 1970s saw the division grow to 175 service shops in 17 countries that employed 7,000 skilled workers. He traveled extensively to these locations and visited all continents except Antarctica. He retired from General Electric in 1980.
Peter was an understated man, who also cared to share his advice, opinions, and support to his family and friends.
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Dillon Spielman Turney (1915-1990) graduated from Fairfield High School in 1932 and from Iowa State University in 1937 with a degree in electrical engineering.
He was employed by General Electric Co. in Schenectady. He was selected to work for the patent offince in Washington, D.C. Law schooling was interrupted during World War II when he served in the U.S. Navy Buerau of ships in Washington, D.C., and San Francisco. He was retired as a lieutenant commander, and returned to law school at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., where he received a juris doctorate in 1943. Turney returned to Schenectady to work in the GE patent office until he returned to Fairfield to open a general law practice in 1947.
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