He developed Electrical Porcelain with transmission engineers at GE. His family continued to work at Building 68 in Schenectady for decades. William's son Frank Cermak advanced insulator design into the mid 20th century.
When Rex Harrison accepted his Academy Award for My Fair Lady (1964), he dedicated it to his two fair ladies, Audrey Hepburn and Julie Andrews both who had played Eliza Doolittle with him.
BURKS, MARY FAIR (d. 1991) Mary Fair Burks, an English professor and scholar of African-American literature, was the founder and first president of the Women's Political Council, the grass-roots organization that initiated and helped lead the year-long Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott (1955-56).