"I look at Roger as a soldier with a pen when he sat on a high perch and gave a commentary and opinion that depicted us as human, that showed us as normalin'School Daze, ' " Jackson said.
The company started in the temperature-controls business in 1885, two years after its founder, Warren S. Johnson, a professor at the State NormalSchoolin Whitewater, Wisconsin, received a patent for the electric room thermostat.