Mr. Bud Mills

On April 20, 1935, a precocious little boy was born to Olcott and Betty Mills in Westerly, Rhode Island. Raised by his very British grandparents, Ted and Elizabeth Marsh, "Bud," as he preferred to be called, demonstrated a keen intellect and an inquisitive spirit at an early age; he graduated high school early, ditched his nomination to Annapolis, and ran away to join the Army. Testing off the charts in the Army, he was chosen to join an elite corps of radio/electronics engineers, where his interests and training eventually led to a career in television. Bud was instrumental in developing the technology at RCA in the '50s which led to the advent of the electron microscope and to color television, and slow-motion filming technology as used in the NFL. A lifelong career in television included stints at Telemation, Angeneaux, and Ikegami, where Bud's sales and technology leadership was critical in establishing the Japanese firm as the world leader in hand-held field news cameras. He would later serve as...