A "Gold Life Master" in bridge, Mark Batchelder, a Navy veteran & retired engineer, also helped put a man on the moon.
Recorded
April 4, 2017
Archived
April 4, 2017
42:49 minutes
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Id:
APP310363
Description
We discussed Mark's upbringing during the Depression & WWII, his wife & family, his engineering career, & his love of Bridge and basketball!Participants
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Mark Batchelder
Interview By
Keywords
- "New Faces of 1952"
- "Paint Your Wagon"
- 1950s
- Arleigh Burke
- Basketball
- Bridge card game
- Civil engineering
- Destroyer escort
- DUKW or duck boat
- Duplicate bridge
- Fifties
- Gold Life Master in Bridge
- IBM 7090 Computer
- Jan Parker Batchelder
- Langley Lunar Landing Research Facility
- Punch cards
- Structural engineer