Oct. 14, 2011 – The late Dr. George Inger has bequeathed a very generous donation to Mountain View Humane, a collaborative effort of the Montgomery County Friends of Animal Care & Control, the Humane Society of Montgomery County, the Roanoke Valley SPCA and the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine. According to Kelly Cass, director and founder of Mountain View Humane, the bequest will help subsidize surgeries, enable the purchase of surgical instruments, and provide the means for a lift gate for the organization's transport truck.  The bequest will be called the Dr. George R. Inger Spay It Forward Fund.  

Dr. Inger had a distinguished career as a professor and researcher in the field of aerospace engineering, and as a consultant in the field of aerothermodynamics. He taught at Virginia Tech in the 1970's and most recently served as a Visiting Professor in the Aerospace & Ocean Engineering department at Virginia Tech. He occupied the Glenn Murphy Chair of Engineering at Iowa State University for many years and also served at the University of Colorado and West Virginia University.  He held prior industrial research positions at McDonnell-Douglas Aerospace Corporation, Bell Aircraft, and the GM Research Laboratories. Over his career he published over 100 papers, and became a pioneer in the basic theory of high temperature chemically reacting gas flows and propulsion in space.