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Box 1

 Container

Contains 5 Collections and/or Records:

Youth, 1952 - 1965

 Series — Box: 1
Identifier: MSA 283, Series 1
Scope and Contents The savings account booklet in this series signifies the hard work Ross undertook for his college education. Entries go back to his youth and continue throughout his high school years. The booklet includes entries from his parents, Donald and Phyllis Ross. Also included is a Crown Point Bulldogs license plate and football programs from Ross' time as a player during high school.
Dates: 1952 - 1965

Booklet; savings account, The First National Bank of Crown Point, Crown Point, Indiana, ("Jerry Lynn Ross or Phyllis Ross or Donald Ross" typed inside) , 1952 - 1965

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSA 283, Series 1, File 1
Scope and Contents From the Series: The savings account booklet in this series signifies the hard work Ross undertook for his college education. Entries go back to his youth and continue throughout his high school years. The booklet includes entries from his parents, Donald and Phyllis Ross. Also included is a Crown Point Bulldogs license plate and football programs from Ross' time as a player during high school.
Dates: 1952 - 1965

Crown Point Bulldogs license plate, circa 1965

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Identifier: MSA 283, Series 1, File 2
Scope and Contents From the Series: The savings account booklet in this series signifies the hard work Ross undertook for his college education. Entries go back to his youth and continue throughout his high school years. The booklet includes entries from his parents, Donald and Phyllis Ross. Also included is a Crown Point Bulldogs license plate and football programs from Ross' time as a player during high school.
Dates: circa 1965

Football programs, Crown Point High School, September - October 1965

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Identifier: MSA 283, Series 1, File 3
Scope and Contents Includes five programs from Ross' time as a member of the football team.
Dates: September - October 1965

Jerry L. Ross papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSA 283
Scope and Contents The Jerry L. Ross papers document Ross' student life at Purdue, his test flight engineer work, and NASA career as an engineer and astronaut. The collection includes Purdue coursework and memorabilia; papers from Ross' work at Edwards Air Force Base, Wright Patterson Air Force Base, and Test Pilot School; NASA Space Shuttle training, mission documents and mission related scrapbooks, memorabilia, and flight crew films and interviews, along with documents and maps from Ross' work on Space Shuttle...
Dates: 1940 - 2013; Majority of material found within 1970 - 2000