This is a cursory overview of Stitch's career in the management of laser research. Topics include: Stitch's undergraduate and graduate education; work at Varian, 1953-1965; Hughes Research Laboratories as head of gas maser group, 1956-1961; transfer to Hughes Culver City to head laser range finder program; reflections on the military's management of laser programs; the Hughes-Avco 8th Card program on gas-dynamic lasers; assistant general manager at Korad; reasons for leaving Korad; Head of electro-optical section at Jersey Nuclear Avco Isotopes (joint AVCO-Exxon Nuclear company), from 1974.