david ashley tillman

Text for the Gatheringus.com website for David Ashley Tillman: Dave combined being a scholar and an engineer, an engineer who could operate power systems as well as design and analyze processes and operations. I met him in 1992 when his company in Sacramento submitted a winning proposal to EPRI in response to our requesting proposals to assess biomass power technologies. (Stan Harding was part of the team that Dave proposed.) The company was Envirosphere, later Foster Wheeler, and eventually Foster Wheeler in New Jersey. I learned later that the excellent winning proposal was what he had personally written while on a long flight to Korea. He became a friend as well as a contractor, and both our technical collaboration and our friendship continued after 2003, that is after I was an independent consultant rather than an EPRI project manager. After the 2016 election politics was added to our conversation topics, and then, a year or so ago, Christian faith and Bible texts were also added. His most recent long phone call to me included a critique of a biomass energy technology I was working on and also comments on my writing for my discussion group at First Presbyterian Church in Palo Alto. He was more interested in the Bible and the church group. In fact, about six months ago at his request, I had bought for him, as an online purchase and delivered to Darek's address, a large-print edition of the Bible. Per his instructions, the Bible was King James Version, and he had said several times, "I can read Elizabethan English." Evan Hughes