More from my Radiation Files. And I do mean mine — I bought these a few hours ago at an estate sale in RPV. Twenty or so booklets mostly put out by the Atomic Energy Commission in the early 1960s. Almost all of them neatly inscribed by Jean Miller. Makes you wonder who she was. Two of the handbooks are from Atomic Weapons Training Group at Sandia Base in New Mexico (involved in the Manhattan Project and later weapons development) and are marked FOR RESIDENT INSTRUCTION ONLY.
So using my Google Fu, I think it very likely that this is her wedding announcement. It mentions she was a Tri-Delt at UNM and married a physicist working for the Atomic Energy Commission at Sandia Base. There’s also coverage of the wedding itself (she wore Chantilly lace and a pretty face). There’s some other references to her singing on base as a soloist (and at UNM), and some very vague references to her working at Sandia. Not clear in what role, but secretarial seems more likely than technical.
The little NASA booklet is interesting as well. Published one month after Glenn’s orbital flight, it lays out other projects, from Gemini and Apollo to Pioneer and Voyager (“An unmanned spacecraft to orbit Mars and Venus.”) Oh, and NERVA. There’s also a Westinghouse Quick Reference News Map of the world, with hotspots like Germany and Vietnam highlighted. Maddeningly it seems to be undated, but pretty clearly early 1960s as well.
Great stuff!
