Joseph F. Dowling

Joseph F. Dowling, 87, died Friday May 20th at the Garden Terrace Nursing Home in Chatham. Funeral Services will be private. Arrangements by Wm. A. Bradley & Son Funeral Home. For further information or to send a message of condolence, go to www.bradleyfuneralhomes.com . A resident of Summit since 1981, Mr. Dowling was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. where he attended St Vincent Ferrer's Grammar School and St Augustine's Diocesan High School and was awarded an academic scholarship to Manhattan College's School of Engineering. His studies at Manhattan College were interrupted by World War II, with service in the United States Army Signal Corps from l943 to 1946 in China and India. Returning to civilian life he resumed his studies at Manhattan College, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Electrical Engineering. He also pursued additional undergraduate and postgraduate studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, N.Y.U.'s Graduate School of Business, The Wharton School, Rutgers, and Stanford University. Mr. Dowling joined the Bell System as an Assistant Engineer with the New York Telephone Company, serving in a variety of engineering functions before transferring to A. T. & T. Corporate Headquarters. There, his assignments included providing advice and assistance to the Bell Operating Companies in the areas of Systems Planning and Construction Programming. A transfer to the Program Planning Division of the Western Electric Company provided exposure to the manufacturing arm of Bell System. Returning to A.T. &T. Corporate Headquarters, he filled a number of positions concerned with long-range planning, cost determination, and rate-making. He retired from A.T. &T. in l984 as Director –Tariffs and Costs. Mr. Dowling was a Senior Life Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers. He was elected to Tau Beta Pi, the Engineering Honor Society and was a retired Registered Professional Engineer, licensed to practice in the State of New York. Surviving are his wife, Helen, of 56 years; a sister Marilyn O'Reilly and her husband Martin; a sister in law Marie McDowell and her son Robert McDowell. He was predeceased by a son John; his brother in law John McDowell and nephew Thomas McDowell. Contributions in memory of Joseph may be made to Summit Volunteer First Aid Squad, PO Box 234, Summit, NJ 07902; American Red Cross – Cross Roads Chapter, 2805 N. Navarro St., Suite 500, Vitoria TX 77901 or Prostate Cancer Foundation, 1259 /fourth St, Santa Monica, CA 90401