Joy Riley, who served as administrative assistant tofiue UTEPpresidents, retired in 1985 after twenty-one years of service. Dr. Joseph Ray hired her when she read back to him a sample of his shorthand. She also worked with Joseph R. Smiley, Milton Leech, Arleigh B. Templeton, and Haskell Monroe. As a graduate student in 1984, Victor Rodriguez redesigned this assembly machine for adapters used in containers for gases such as oxygen or nitrogen. He took on the project for Ohio Medica I Products, a division of Air Co Inc., the first member of the Manufacturing Engineering Consortium of UT EI Paso. As a result of his work, the machine's production rate was increased about forty percent. When he completed his master's degree, Rodriguez was employed by Ohio Medical.
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