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Hubert J. Hub Schlafly of Stamford died on April 20 after a brief illness. Born Aug. 14, 1919, in St. Louis, he was 91 years old.
Schlafly worked as an inventor and is best known for his part in developing the teleprompter with Irving Berlin Kahn and Fred Barton, Jr. and as co-founder of the TelePrompTer Corporation. The teleprompter was first used in 1950 by the cast of The First Hundred Years, a soap opera. He also developed the first pay television system allowing subscribers to order special programming.
Schlafly graduated from Notre Dame University in 1941 with a degree in electrical engineering and spent several years working at General Electric and the MIT Radiation Laboratory. In 1947, he went to Twentieth Century Fox as the director of television research.
He is survived by many who consider him their Uncle Hub and many beloved friends. His wife of 59 years, Leona Lee Martin Schlafly, died in 2003.
A Mass was celebrated on Tuesday, April 26, at Saint Mary Parish in Greenwich. He was buried Thursday in Louisville, N.Y., next to his wife.
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