WINONA, Minn. — The Winona State heating plant support facilities on Mark Street will be named for Gus and Susan Bolon to acknowledge a gift from their son, retired physics prof George Bolon, the university announced. George Bolon, a prominent local aviator, wanted to honor the values he learned from his father, a Greek immigrant and self-taught mechanical engineer, and his mother, a Greek American homemaker who was involved in school and church. George Bolon joined the Winona State faculty in 1968 and taught mostly aviation. He also managed the Winona municipal airport. Earlier he was a U.S. Army captain with the North American Air Defense Command.
