Electric Chair!

A prominent family had decided to give their children a book of their family's history. The Patriarch had one problem. Uncle W., the 'Black Sheep' of the family, had been executed by a Prison's electric chair for murder. He carefully handled the situation in the following way, and wrote:

"Uncle W. occupied a chair of applied electronics at one of our nation's leading institutions. He was attached to his position by the strongest of ties. His death came as a true shock."

From there on, they kept the W. as part of their names, and of course the "spinning" art in the family.