MG: Rowan was an engineer, raced sailboats, flew planes, believed in hard work, free enterprise. GS: You know, he would run around in, um, scuffed shoed and trousers not worried about that. MG: Rowan built Inductotherm into a multinational corporation, thousands of employees around the world, and he became a very wealthy man although you wouldn't have known it. And kept branching out and acquired some companies and it kind of, it grew like topsy, but he worked very, very hard at it and hired good people. GS: He started the company, basically, in our garage and then, he sold his first job to the Mint, which was kind of fun, and then the second job to GE and, and the furnaces just got bigger and bigger and now some of them are 50 ton, uh, they're just huge. They make industrial furnaces from melting metal.
She now runs the company her father started in 1953, it's called Inductotherm. MG: That's Rowan's daughter, Ginny Smith. And had a loud voice, strong presence and, yeah, he was uhÔøΩ Ginny Smith: He was 6 foot 1 or so, not, not a huge football player size and, you know, 180 pounds, you know, thin but not skinny. I want to understand why he didn't become everyone's hero why Hank Rowan example didn't spread beyond Glassboro, New Jersey. I never met him, but he's a hero of mine.
This episode is my eulogy for Hank Rowan. You're listening to Revisionist History, my podcast about things overlooked and misunderstood. Then in the evening, students from the local college gathered around his statue holding candles and sang for him as earnestly as only college kids can. When Hank Rowan died in December of 2015, there was a huge memorial service.
Whenever Hank Rowan came to Glassboro, he was mobbed like a rock star which probably embarrassed him because he wasn't given to those kinds of displays.
It's of a man named Henry Rowan he liked to be called Hank. Malcolm Gladwell: In Glassboro, New Jersey, a little community half an hour south of Philadelphia, there's a statue right by the road as you drive into town. My Little Hundred Million with Malcolm GladwellĮpisode 6| Season 1| Revisionist History Length: 39 min | Released: Transcripts for the entire Season 1 and Season 2 podcasts of Revisionist History are available here.
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