About

C. Edwin (Trzeciak) Tracy

One of seven children, C. Edwin (Trzeciak) Tracy, has long wanted to share his father’s story with the world. After retiring from his career as a research scientist with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), he finally had the time to go through the various materials (photos, poems, songs, newspaper articles, maps) he’d collected and saved over the years, and realized there was a much bigger story to tell. It was no longer just his family’s and Tata’s journey but also the tale of South River, the town where he grew up.

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This is Tracy’s first book, in which he relished delving into the history of his youth and details like what rock n’ roll music was playing and how it influenced the American psyche. At the age of twenty he married and left his hometown of South River to attend and graduate from The College of New Jersey (TCNJ). He worked for 12 years as a Research Associate  at the RCA- David Sarnoff Research Center in Princeton NJ and then 37 years at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, CO as a Senior Scientist specializing in materials research (retiring in 2017). Even though he and his wife of 60 years, Cathy, have lived in Colorado for 45 years, the family stays close with regular phone calls and visits, during which they all fondly reminisce Tata and his tenets.

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