Box 100
Container
Contains 96 Collections and/or Records:
Certificate, Blume High School, Wapakoneta, Ohio, In Recognition of Outstanding Work in Band (three years), Neil Armstrong, May 16, 1946
Item — Box: 100, Folder: 12, Item: 11
Identifier: MSA 5, Series 2, Sub-Series 1, Sub-Group 1, File 12, Item 11
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
This sub-series contains materials collected and compiled by Viola L. Armstrong about or related to her son, Neil A. Armstrong. Of note is a scrapbook which contains significant items from Armstrong's childhood, teenage years and beyond. Among the items in the scrapbook are Armstrong's first grade artwork, cards, clippings, elementary and high school grades, certificates, programs from school events, membership cards, scout history, a common logarithms notebook, a history assignment, war ration...
Dates:
May 16, 1946
Certificate, Blume High School, Wapakoneta, Ohio, In Recognition of Outstanding Work in Appointment to Boys State, Neil Armstrong, May 16, 1946
Item — Box: 100, Folder: 12, Item: 12
Identifier: MSA 5, Series 2, Sub-Series 1, Sub-Group 1, File 12, Item 12
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
This sub-series contains materials collected and compiled by Viola L. Armstrong about or related to her son, Neil A. Armstrong. Of note is a scrapbook which contains significant items from Armstrong's childhood, teenage years and beyond. Among the items in the scrapbook are Armstrong's first grade artwork, cards, clippings, elementary and high school grades, certificates, programs from school events, membership cards, scout history, a common logarithms notebook, a history assignment, war ration...
Dates:
May 16, 1946
Certificate of Award, Neil Armstrong, State Department of Education, Honorable Mention in The Bowling Green State University District, General Scholarship Test for High School Seniors, March 7 - 8, 1947
Item — Box: 100, Folder: 12, Item: 13
Identifier: MSA 5, Series 2, Sub-Series 1, Sub-Group 1, File 12, Item 13
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
This sub-series contains materials collected and compiled by Viola L. Armstrong about or related to her son, Neil A. Armstrong. Of note is a scrapbook which contains significant items from Armstrong's childhood, teenage years and beyond. Among the items in the scrapbook are Armstrong's first grade artwork, cards, clippings, elementary and high school grades, certificates, programs from school events, membership cards, scout history, a common logarithms notebook, a history assignment, war ration...
Dates:
March 7 - 8, 1947
Certificate of Award, Neil Armstrong, State Department of Education, Sixth in Auglaize County, General Scholarship Test for High School Seniors, March 7 - 8, 1947
Item — Box: 100, Folder: 12, Item: 14
Identifier: MSA 5, Series 2, Sub-Series 1, Sub-Group 1, File 12, Item 14
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
This sub-series contains materials collected and compiled by Viola L. Armstrong about or related to her son, Neil A. Armstrong. Of note is a scrapbook which contains significant items from Armstrong's childhood, teenage years and beyond. Among the items in the scrapbook are Armstrong's first grade artwork, cards, clippings, elementary and high school grades, certificates, programs from school events, membership cards, scout history, a common logarithms notebook, a history assignment, war ration...
Dates:
March 7 - 8, 1947
Certificate of Award, Neil Armstrong, State Department of Education, The Bowling Green State University District, Ninth - Division II in Physics, May 3, 1947
Item — Box: 100, Folder: 12, Item: 15
Identifier: MSA 5, Series 2, Sub-Series 1, Sub-Group 1, File 12, Item 15
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
This sub-series contains materials collected and compiled by Viola L. Armstrong about or related to her son, Neil A. Armstrong. Of note is a scrapbook which contains significant items from Armstrong's childhood, teenage years and beyond. Among the items in the scrapbook are Armstrong's first grade artwork, cards, clippings, elementary and high school grades, certificates, programs from school events, membership cards, scout history, a common logarithms notebook, a history assignment, war ration...
Dates:
May 3, 1947
Letter from Armstrong to, “Dear mother an all,” undated (childhood letters Armstrong wrote while staying at his grandparent’s home), undated
Item — Box: 100, Folder: 12, Item: 16
Identifier: MSA 5, Series 2, Sub-Series 1, Sub-Group 1, File 12, Item 16
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
This sub-series contains materials collected and compiled by Viola L. Armstrong about or related to her son, Neil A. Armstrong. Of note is a scrapbook which contains significant items from Armstrong's childhood, teenage years and beyond. Among the items in the scrapbook are Armstrong's first grade artwork, cards, clippings, elementary and high school grades, certificates, programs from school events, membership cards, scout history, a common logarithms notebook, a history assignment, war ration...
Dates:
undated
Letter from Armstrong to, “Dear mother an all", undated
Item — Box: 100, Folder: 12, Item: 17
Identifier: MSA 5, Series 2, Sub-Series 1, Sub-Group 1, File 12, Item 17
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
This sub-series contains materials collected and compiled by Viola L. Armstrong about or related to her son, Neil A. Armstrong. Of note is a scrapbook which contains significant items from Armstrong's childhood, teenage years and beyond. Among the items in the scrapbook are Armstrong's first grade artwork, cards, clippings, elementary and high school grades, certificates, programs from school events, membership cards, scout history, a common logarithms notebook, a history assignment, war ration...
Dates:
undated
Letter from Armstrong's grandmother to his parents, while Neil was staying with them, undated
Item — Box: 100, Folder: 12, Item: 18
Identifier: MSA 5, Series 2, Sub-Series 1, Sub-Group 1, File 12, Item 18
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
This sub-series contains materials collected and compiled by Viola L. Armstrong about or related to her son, Neil A. Armstrong. Of note is a scrapbook which contains significant items from Armstrong's childhood, teenage years and beyond. Among the items in the scrapbook are Armstrong's first grade artwork, cards, clippings, elementary and high school grades, certificates, programs from school events, membership cards, scout history, a common logarithms notebook, a history assignment, war ration...
Dates:
undated
Note, "A gold star for getting the most red stars on the blackboard", undated
Item — Box: 100, Folder: 12, Item: 19
Identifier: MSA 5, Series 2, Sub-Series 1, Sub-Group 1, File 12, Item 19
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
This sub-series contains materials collected and compiled by Viola L. Armstrong about or related to her son, Neil A. Armstrong. Of note is a scrapbook which contains significant items from Armstrong's childhood, teenage years and beyond. Among the items in the scrapbook are Armstrong's first grade artwork, cards, clippings, elementary and high school grades, certificates, programs from school events, membership cards, scout history, a common logarithms notebook, a history assignment, war ration...
Dates:
undated
Cursive note, written by Armstrong, with letter grade of an A, "Neil dog cat K.O.G.", undated
Item — Box: 100, Folder: 12, Item: 20
Identifier: MSA 5, Series 2, Sub-Series 1, Sub-Group 1, File 12, Item 20
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
This sub-series contains materials collected and compiled by Viola L. Armstrong about or related to her son, Neil A. Armstrong. Of note is a scrapbook which contains significant items from Armstrong's childhood, teenage years and beyond. Among the items in the scrapbook are Armstrong's first grade artwork, cards, clippings, elementary and high school grades, certificates, programs from school events, membership cards, scout history, a common logarithms notebook, a history assignment, war ration...
Dates:
undated
Cursive note, written by Armstrong, with letter grade of an A+, "Neil dog apple cat", undated
Item — Box: 100, Folder: 12, Item: 21
Identifier: MSA 5, Series 2, Sub-Series 1, Sub-Group 1, File 12, Item 21
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
This sub-series contains materials collected and compiled by Viola L. Armstrong about or related to her son, Neil A. Armstrong. Of note is a scrapbook which contains significant items from Armstrong's childhood, teenage years and beyond. Among the items in the scrapbook are Armstrong's first grade artwork, cards, clippings, elementary and high school grades, certificates, programs from school events, membership cards, scout history, a common logarithms notebook, a history assignment, war ration...
Dates:
undated
Daily Schedule Card, Neil Armstrong, Grade 9, Blume High School, Wapakoneta, Ohio, undated
Item — Box: 100, Folder: 12, Item: 22
Identifier: MSA 5, Series 2, Sub-Series 1, Sub-Group 1, File 12, Item 22
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
This sub-series contains materials collected and compiled by Viola L. Armstrong about or related to her son, Neil A. Armstrong. Of note is a scrapbook which contains significant items from Armstrong's childhood, teenage years and beyond. Among the items in the scrapbook are Armstrong's first grade artwork, cards, clippings, elementary and high school grades, certificates, programs from school events, membership cards, scout history, a common logarithms notebook, a history assignment, war ration...
Dates:
undated
Poem, "The Star of Christmas," [Recitation, Neil], undated
Item — Box: 100, Folder: 12, Item: 23
Identifier: MSA 5, Series 2, Sub-Series 1, Sub-Group 1, File 12, Item 23
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
This sub-series contains materials collected and compiled by Viola L. Armstrong about or related to her son, Neil A. Armstrong. Of note is a scrapbook which contains significant items from Armstrong's childhood, teenage years and beyond. Among the items in the scrapbook are Armstrong's first grade artwork, cards, clippings, elementary and high school grades, certificates, programs from school events, membership cards, scout history, a common logarithms notebook, a history assignment, war ration...
Dates:
undated
Address card from The Commandant, Ninth Naval District, Great Lakes, Illinois, August 26, 1948
Item — Box: 100, Folder: 13, Item: 1
Identifier: MSA 5, Series 2, Sub-Series 1, Sub-Group 1, File 13, Item 1
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
This sub-series contains materials collected and compiled by Viola L. Armstrong about or related to her son, Neil A. Armstrong. Of note is a scrapbook which contains significant items from Armstrong's childhood, teenage years and beyond. Among the items in the scrapbook are Armstrong's first grade artwork, cards, clippings, elementary and high school grades, certificates, programs from school events, membership cards, scout history, a common logarithms notebook, a history assignment, war ration...
Dates:
August 26, 1948
Correspondence to Mr. S.K. Armstrong from Robert F. Jones, Congress of the United States of America, House of Representatives, 4th District, Ohio, thanking Armstrong for clipping about Neil, July 2, 1947
Item — Box: 100, Folder: 13, Item: 2
Identifier: MSA 5, Series 2, Sub-Series 1, Sub-Group 1, File 13, Item 2
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
This sub-series contains materials collected and compiled by Viola L. Armstrong about or related to her son, Neil A. Armstrong. Of note is a scrapbook which contains significant items from Armstrong's childhood, teenage years and beyond. Among the items in the scrapbook are Armstrong's first grade artwork, cards, clippings, elementary and high school grades, certificates, programs from school events, membership cards, scout history, a common logarithms notebook, a history assignment, war ration...
Dates:
July 2, 1947
Bulletin of Information, U.S. Navy - U.S. Marine Corps, College Training Programs, Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps and Naval Aviation College Program, 1947
Item — Box: 100, Folder: 13, Item: 3
Identifier: MSA 5, Series 2, Sub-Series 1, Sub-Group 1, File 13, Item 3
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
This sub-series contains materials collected and compiled by Viola L. Armstrong about or related to her son, Neil A. Armstrong. Of note is a scrapbook which contains significant items from Armstrong's childhood, teenage years and beyond. Among the items in the scrapbook are Armstrong's first grade artwork, cards, clippings, elementary and high school grades, certificates, programs from school events, membership cards, scout history, a common logarithms notebook, a history assignment, war ration...
Dates:
1947
Public Auction sale bill, picture of farm inside with note, "This is where I lived with my grandparents, 1909-1916, VA.", November 9, 1985
Item — Box: 100, Folder: 13, Item: 4
Identifier: MSA 5, Series 2, Sub-Series 1, Sub-Group 1, File 13, Item 4
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
This sub-series contains materials collected and compiled by Viola L. Armstrong about or related to her son, Neil A. Armstrong. Of note is a scrapbook which contains significant items from Armstrong's childhood, teenage years and beyond. Among the items in the scrapbook are Armstrong's first grade artwork, cards, clippings, elementary and high school grades, certificates, programs from school events, membership cards, scout history, a common logarithms notebook, a history assignment, war ration...
Dates:
November 9, 1985
Poem, "Viola," by Edie Kirk and "Neil Armstrong's Boyhood Crisis," by Mrs. Stephen Armstrong, as told to Lorraine Wetzel, Guideposts, magazine, circa 1990
Item — Box: 100, Folder: 13, Item: 5
Identifier: MSA 5, Series 2, Sub-Series 1, Sub-Group 1, File 13, Item 5
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
This sub-series contains materials collected and compiled by Viola L. Armstrong about or related to her son, Neil A. Armstrong. Of note is a scrapbook which contains significant items from Armstrong's childhood, teenage years and beyond. Among the items in the scrapbook are Armstrong's first grade artwork, cards, clippings, elementary and high school grades, certificates, programs from school events, membership cards, scout history, a common logarithms notebook, a history assignment, war ration...
Dates:
circa 1990
Letter to "Dear Steve and Family," from "Fred & Diane Pepple", undated
File — Box: 100, Folder: 14
Identifier: MSA 5, Series 2, Sub-Series 1, Sub-Group 1, File 14
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
This sub-series contains materials collected and compiled by Viola L. Armstrong about or related to her son, Neil A. Armstrong. Of note is a scrapbook which contains significant items from Armstrong's childhood, teenage years and beyond. Among the items in the scrapbook are Armstrong's first grade artwork, cards, clippings, elementary and high school grades, certificates, programs from school events, membership cards, scout history, a common logarithms notebook, a history assignment, war ration...
Dates:
undated
Original binder , undated
File — Box: 100, Folder: 15
Identifier: MSA 5, Series 2, Sub-Series 1, File 15
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
This sub-series contains materials collected and compiled by Viola L. Armstrong about or related to her son, Neil A. Armstrong. Of note is a scrapbook which contains significant items from Armstrong's childhood, teenage years and beyond. Among the items in the scrapbook are Armstrong's first grade artwork, cards, clippings, elementary and high school grades, certificates, programs from school events, membership cards, scout history, a common logarithms notebook, a history assignment, war ration...
Dates:
undated
Lions Club, Wapakoneta Community Birthday Calendar , circa 1969
File — Box: 100, Folder: 8
Identifier: MSA 5, Series 2, Sub-Series 1, Sub-Group 1, File 8
Scope and Contents
(Picture of honorary member Armstrong on the front.)
Dates:
circa 1969
Issue of Easter Seals, The Helping Hand, volume 38, front page article, "Edwards, Armstrong To Open 1973 Ohio Annual Campaign", February 1973
File — Box: 100, Folder: 9
Identifier: MSA 5, Series 2, Sub-Series 1, Sub-Group 1, File 9
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
This sub-series contains materials collected and compiled by Viola L. Armstrong about or related to her son, Neil A. Armstrong. Of note is a scrapbook which contains significant items from Armstrong's childhood, teenage years and beyond. Among the items in the scrapbook are Armstrong's first grade artwork, cards, clippings, elementary and high school grades, certificates, programs from school events, membership cards, scout history, a common logarithms notebook, a history assignment, war ration...
Dates:
February 1973
Clipping, "Blume High Band to Present Annual Concert on Friday Evening" , April 8, 1947
Item — Box: 100, Folder: 10, Item: 1
Identifier: MSA 5, Series 2, Sub-Series 1, Sub-Group 1, File 10, Item 1
Scope and Contents
(Includes picture of band.)
Dates:
April 8, 1947
Cover page from the Observer, "Wish You Were Here: travel guide for the first tripper to take a ticket to the moon" , July 13, 1969
Item — Box: 100, Folder: 10, Item: 2
Identifier: MSA 5, Series 2, Sub-Series 1, Sub-Group 1, File 10, Item 2
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
This sub-series contains materials collected and compiled by Viola L. Armstrong about or related to her son, Neil A. Armstrong. Of note is a scrapbook which contains significant items from Armstrong's childhood, teenage years and beyond. Among the items in the scrapbook are Armstrong's first grade artwork, cards, clippings, elementary and high school grades, certificates, programs from school events, membership cards, scout history, a common logarithms notebook, a history assignment, war ration...
Dates:
July 13, 1969
Clipping, "Pray for mission’s safety: Two women here played role in life of Neil Armstrong," by Glenn Schotten, July 15, 1969
Item — Box: 100, Folder: 10, Item: 3
Identifier: MSA 5, Series 2, Sub-Series 1, Sub-Group 1, File 10, Item 3
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
This sub-series contains materials collected and compiled by Viola L. Armstrong about or related to her son, Neil A. Armstrong. Of note is a scrapbook which contains significant items from Armstrong's childhood, teenage years and beyond. Among the items in the scrapbook are Armstrong's first grade artwork, cards, clippings, elementary and high school grades, certificates, programs from school events, membership cards, scout history, a common logarithms notebook, a history assignment, war ration...
Dates:
July 15, 1969