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- Gilbert was president of Miehle, Goss, Dexter, a printing manufacturing
firm. It was bought and became a division of Rockwell International sometime
in the 1980's. He then became CEO of GATF, the Graphic Arts Technical
Foundation, in Pittsburgh where he stayed until retiring.
Economic and Financial Consulting Incorporated
Gilbert Bassett, Ph.D.
Gilbert Bassett is Professor of Economics at the University of Illinois at
Chicago, where he specializes in Econometrics. Dr. Bassett has made
fundamental theoretical contributions in the areas of regression quantities
and robust estimation which could occur as rate issues, and he is in addition
an outstanding applied econometrician. He has also performed extensive
research in assessing the potential economic impacts of storing high leven
nuclear waste material. Dr. Bassett holds a Ph.D. degree from the University
of Michigan.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Pennsylvania, 29 Jul 1991
Gilbert W. Bassett
Gilbert W. Bassett, 68, former executive director of the Graphic Arts
Technical Foundation in Pittsburgh, died of a heart attack Saturday in
Holland, Mich.
Mr. Bassett, of Oakland, retired in 1988 after 14 years as head of the
foundation, which is an international printing research and educational
institute with 3,000 members. Before joining the foundation, he was president
of MGD Graphic Systems in Chicago, a division of Rockwell Internationa
Mr. Bassett was a former board member of the National Printing Equipment and
Supply Association, which he also served as vice president.
He graduated from the former Carnegie Institute of Technology with a degree in
printing management and received a master's degree in business administration
from the University of Chicago.
Surviving are his wife, Jean; four sons, Gilbert W. Jr. of Clarendon Hills,
Ill., John of St. Louis, Robert of Western Springs, Ill, and Thomas of Coral
Springs, Fla.; and two sisters, Nancy and Barbara.
Friends may call from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. tomorrow at McCabe Brothers Inc.
Funeral Home, 6214 Walnut St., Shadyside. Burial will be private.
Contributions may be made to the Gilbert W. Bassett Scholarship Fund, Graphic
Arts Technical Foundation, 4615 Forbes Ave., Pittsburgh 15213.
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Bassett Family Association Database
1923 - 1991 (68 years)
d. Deceased