Albert Gerald Sayre

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Gerry loading an antenna, MacGregor Arctic Expedition, Etah, Greenland, 1937

Gerry's QSL card from the MacGregor Arctic Expedition

Albert Gerald Sayre (1897 – September 6, 1990) was an American Radioman, Radio Amateur, Teacher and Arctic Explorer.

Gerry served in the US Navy as Radioman during World War I and was a Commander in the US Naval Reserve. He was living in Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York, and working as a teacher at the Storm King School in Newburg, New York, when he signed on as radio operator/engineer for the MacGregor Arctic Expedition that took place between July 1, 1937 and October 4, 1938.

After the expedition, Sayre lived in Arlington County, Virginia, and worked as an instructor at the US Naval Academy. He retired to Milton, Wisconsin in the 1960s and passed away, at age 92 years, on September 6, 1990.

[edit] Sources

• Inglis, Robert: "A Scout Goes North", 1938
• MacGregor, Clifford J.: "Monthly Weather Review", October 1939
• Sallach, David L. "NJ Historical Commission Newsletter", February 1977
• Vogel, Hal: "Ice Cap News", Nov-Dec 1977
• Vogel, Hal: "They Brought Their Own Storms", 1977

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