While browsing my digital copies of Space News Roundup a few days ago, I found this obituary for one of Langley's female Computers:
Space News Roundup, 1 May 1963, page 4-A
Obituary
Texie Belle Miller, former Langley Research Center employee and wife of Jules M. Miller, Research Staff Office, died March 24 in Dixie Hospital after an illness of 3 weeks.
Born February 21, 1921 in Boykin, she received a A.B. Degree in Mathematics from Longwood College in 1942 and joined the Center staff on July 1, 1942 as an assistant computer in the Full Scale Tunnel. She transferred to East Computers on May 21, 1945 and resigned October 1, 1946.
In addition to her husband she is survived by three sons, John Malcolm, Jerald Felts and Warren Scott.
What does the AB in "A.B. Degree in Mathematics" stands for?
Also, has anyone ever heard of a source of originals of the newsletters that could be contacted online for clarification? When the reports of Mercury missions were published, a portrait of the astronaut was printed lightly among the text on the first page, but the online copies are strictly black and white, so parts of the portraits obscure text. Such as (see the last line):
Space News Roundup, Vol. 2, No. 16, 29 May 1963, page 1
Cooper wraps up one-day flight during MA-9
Project Mercury does it again; pin-point splashdown despite last-minute difficulties
A host of last-minute hitches in otherwise smooth operations failed to keep Astronaut L. Gordon Cooper from his appointed rounds, May 15. He made 22 of them, spent a day and a half in space, calmly accepted the failure of his electrical system late in the flight, and brought Faith 7 down by hand a mile closer to the prime recovery ship than did his predecessor, Astronaut Walter Schirra.
When it was all over, he summed it up in two words "[obscured] great."
http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/history/roundups/roundups.htm