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Contains 17 Results:

Education, 1939 - 1976

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSA 283, Series 2
Scope and Contents This series includes materials documenting Jerry Ross' coursework at Purdue University, including ROTC training and certificate of meritorious achievement - "Outstanding Basic Cadet" award, a two page reflection on "My Career in the Air Force;" reports and research material from his master's thesis, and training material from Maxwell Air Force Base and Gunter Air Force Base. Ross' United States Air Force special orders and documents are included, along with a few Air Force training items....
Dates: 1939 - 1976

Resources, training material, certificates, programs, reports and special orders, 1945 - 1969

 Sub-Series — Box: 2
Identifier: MSA 283, Series 2, Sub-Series 1
Scope and Contents From the Series: This series includes materials documenting Jerry Ross' coursework at Purdue University, including ROTC training and certificate of meritorious achievement - "Outstanding Basic Cadet" award, a two page reflection on "My Career in the Air Force;" reports and research material from his master's thesis, and training material from Maxwell Air Force Base and Gunter Air Force Base. Ross' United States Air Force special orders and documents are included, along with a few Air Force training items....
Dates: 1945 - 1969

Herzberg, G. Atomic spectra and atomic structure (rev. ed.). New York: Dover Publications. , 1945

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSA 283, Series 2, Sub-Series 1, File 1
Scope and Contents From the Series: This series includes materials documenting Jerry Ross' coursework at Purdue University, including ROTC training and certificate of meritorious achievement - "Outstanding Basic Cadet" award, a two page reflection on "My Career in the Air Force;" reports and research material from his master's thesis, and training material from Maxwell Air Force Base and Gunter Air Force Base. Ross' United States Air Force special orders and documents are included, along with a few Air Force training items....
Dates: 1945

Hawkins, G.A. Thermodynamics. (2nd edition). New York, New York: John Wiley and Sons, Incorporated, 1951

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 3
Identifier: MSA 283, Series 2, Sub-Series 1, File 3
Scope and Contents

Hawkins was Professor of Thermodynamics at Purdue University.

Dates: 1951

Zucrow, M. J. Report on progress and planning for gas turbine and jet propulsion program at Purdue University. Lafayette, Indiana: School of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University , 1958

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 4
Identifier: MSA 283, Series 2, Sub-Series 1, File 4
Scope and Contents From the Series: This series includes materials documenting Jerry Ross' coursework at Purdue University, including ROTC training and certificate of meritorious achievement - "Outstanding Basic Cadet" award, a two page reflection on "My Career in the Air Force;" reports and research material from his master's thesis, and training material from Maxwell Air Force Base and Gunter Air Force Base. Ross' United States Air Force special orders and documents are included, along with a few Air Force training items....
Dates: 1958

Jastrow, R. & Newell, H. E. Why land on the moon? Washington, D.C.: National Aeronautics and Space Administration: United States Government Printing Office., 1963

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 5
Identifier: MSA 283, Series 2, Sub-Series 1, File 5
Scope and Contents From the Series: This series includes materials documenting Jerry Ross' coursework at Purdue University, including ROTC training and certificate of meritorious achievement - "Outstanding Basic Cadet" award, a two page reflection on "My Career in the Air Force;" reports and research material from his master's thesis, and training material from Maxwell Air Force Base and Gunter Air Force Base. Ross' United States Air Force special orders and documents are included, along with a few Air Force training items....
Dates: 1963

Flight Certificate, Jet Flight in a T-33 Aircraft at Maxwell Air Force Base, Headquarters Air University, July 16, 1968

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 8
Identifier: MSA 283, Series 2, Sub-Series 1, File 8
Scope and Contents From the Series: This series includes materials documenting Jerry Ross' coursework at Purdue University, including ROTC training and certificate of meritorious achievement - "Outstanding Basic Cadet" award, a two page reflection on "My Career in the Air Force;" reports and research material from his master's thesis, and training material from Maxwell Air Force Base and Gunter Air Force Base. Ross' United States Air Force special orders and documents are included, along with a few Air Force training items....
Dates: July 16, 1968

My Career in the Air Force, by Jerry L. Ross , circa 1968

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 9
Identifier: MSA 283, Series 2, Sub-Series 1, File 9
Scope and Contents

Two page reflection by Ross on his future in the Air Force; "A" grade indicated on the first page.

Dates: circa 1968

Programs, Air Force ROTC Field Training, "Dining - In" (officers open mess) and Commencement Exercise, Gunter Air Force Base, Alabama, August 1 and 3, 1968

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 10
Identifier: MSA 283, Series 2, Sub-Series 1, File 10
Scope and Contents From the Series: This series includes materials documenting Jerry Ross' coursework at Purdue University, including ROTC training and certificate of meritorious achievement - "Outstanding Basic Cadet" award, a two page reflection on "My Career in the Air Force;" reports and research material from his master's thesis, and training material from Maxwell Air Force Base and Gunter Air Force Base. Ross' United States Air Force special orders and documents are included, along with a few Air Force training items....
Dates: August 1 and 3, 1968

Special orders and documents, Department of the Air Force, Headquarters 3800th Air Base Wing (AU), Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama and Gunter Air Force Base, Alabama, April - August, 1968

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 11
Identifier: MSA 283, Series 2, Sub-Series 1, File 11
Scope and Contents From the Series: This series includes materials documenting Jerry Ross' coursework at Purdue University, including ROTC training and certificate of meritorious achievement - "Outstanding Basic Cadet" award, a two page reflection on "My Career in the Air Force;" reports and research material from his master's thesis, and training material from Maxwell Air Force Base and Gunter Air Force Base. Ross' United States Air Force special orders and documents are included, along with a few Air Force training items....
Dates: April - August, 1968

Graduate study in business, test scores, November 1969

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 13
Identifier: MSA 283, Series 2, Sub-Series 1, File 13
Scope and Contents From the Series: This series includes materials documenting Jerry Ross' coursework at Purdue University, including ROTC training and certificate of meritorious achievement - "Outstanding Basic Cadet" award, a two page reflection on "My Career in the Air Force;" reports and research material from his master's thesis, and training material from Maxwell Air Force Base and Gunter Air Force Base. Ross' United States Air Force special orders and documents are included, along with a few Air Force training items....
Dates: November 1969

Certificate, Pi Tau Sigma, National Honorary Mechanical Engineering Fraternity, Purdue University, Purdue Beta Chapter, December 7, 1969

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 14
Identifier: MSA 283, Series 2, Sub-Series 1, File 14
Scope and Contents From the Series: This series includes materials documenting Jerry Ross' coursework at Purdue University, including ROTC training and certificate of meritorious achievement - "Outstanding Basic Cadet" award, a two page reflection on "My Career in the Air Force;" reports and research material from his master's thesis, and training material from Maxwell Air Force Base and Gunter Air Force Base. Ross' United States Air Force special orders and documents are included, along with a few Air Force training items....
Dates: December 7, 1969

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...
Dates: 1940 - 2013; Majority of material found within 1970 - 2000