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George C. Loehr received a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering degree from Manhattan College in 1962, and a Master of Arts in English Literature from New York University in 1964. He began his engineering career in transmission planning with the Consolidated Edison Company of New York in 1962, and completed the GE Power Systems Engineering Course in 1965. Following the 1965 Northeast Blackout, he was actively involved in a wide range of follow-up activities, and chaired the committee which completed a computer simulation of the event the first such successful simulation of a wide-spread power failure in North America.