A MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oregon. Tuesday, August 5, 1958
Boy Designer of Rocket Plan
Finds Scholarships Difficult
New York 1TD The , for Johnny's college somehow
trouble wth being a 12-year-old
scientist even if you do
design a manned satellite so
similar to top secret Pentagon
plans that you have to under
go a security check is that
it just doesn't pay enough.
Thafs the complaint of Jona
than "Johnny Orovitz, boy
space expert.
Squirming restlessy on a
divan in the comfortably-furnished
living room of his fam
ily's three-bedroom house in
Kew Garden Hills, the pudgy,
brown-haired lad admitted
. readily in an interview that
he had enjoyed all the public
acclaim accorded him.
But he said so far none of
it had brought him any closer
to acquiring the funds needed
to attend the California Insti
tute of Technology, where he
hopes to become a real "space
engineer."
"It isn't that we're any
more mercenary than anybody
else," his short, plump, black
haired mother, Mrs. Beatrice
Orovitz, 43, said.
"It's just that it takes every
cent we earn in our little
women's wear shop to get
along. We'll find the money
when the time comes, but we
were disappointed when all
the fanfare about him pro
duced not even a single
scholarship offer."
Jonathan, who acquired the
"space bug" last November
when Russia sent its dog
carrying Sputnik II aloft, got
an idea early in June and
promptly drew a three-foot-long,
cardboard-mounted plan
for a satellite rocket capable
of taking a man into space
for two weeks and then re
turning him safely to earth.
Then he typed out a letter
and sent the whole works to
Roy W. Johnson, director of
the Advanced Research Proj
ects Agency, the Pentagon's
new space coordinating organ
ization. A few days later he got the
first reaction in an entirely
unexpected form. A govern
ment gentleman from Wash
ington came to call on him
and spent several hours asking
searching questions.
"There must be a thousand
different ways to ask 'who
helped you with this' and he
used every one of them," Mrs.
Orvoitz recalled. "He finally
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became convinced that the
whole business came right out
of Johnny's skull and went
back to Washington."
Twe weeks later, Jonathan
got a' letter from Johnson
praising his design and con
taining a paragraph that
solved, so far as Mrs. Orovitz
is concerned, the mystery sur
rounding the visitor from
Washington.
"Your design has all the
elements of a workable sys
tem and, in fact is not very
different from one of a num
ber of systems that have been
under consideration," Johnson
wrote.
"I didn't have a college ed
ucation and I don't know what
Johnny is talking about half
the time," said Mrs. Orovitz,
"but I caught on to this all
right. They thought somebody
in the Pentagon had leaked
some information which even
tually got to Johnny. Can you
imagine that?"
Johnson also wrote that he
had turned Jonathan's design
over to the National Science
Foundation and that's where
the build-up to a big let-down
began.
Passes out Scholarships
The entire Orvoitz family
including Jonathan's father,
Louis, 51, a pommercial artist
turned storekeeper, and anoth
er son, David, 9, who can't
decide between big league
baseball or singing like Elvis
Presley gathered around a
brand new encyclopedia.
They discovered that the
National Science Foundation,
established in 1950, not only
gives cash grants to scientifc
undertakings, but also passes
out scientific scholarships. All
of them jumped to the con
clusion that a scholarship was
what Johnny would get.
Disillusionment came fast
when they contacted the
foundation. The organization,
it seems, has money for
scholarships for post-graduate
work, beginning at the pre-
The Family Council
Editor's note: The Family Council consists of a Judge, a psychiatrist,
three clergymen, a newspaper editor, a women's editor and two writers.
Each article is a summary of an actual report. The Family Council does
not give advice; it merely reports on Droblems that have been dealt
with by responsible agencies and counselors.
S. Our daughter
up with a wild
Harvey
has taken
crowd.
Ethel S They aren't
bad as people say.
as
Harvey S. My wife and
I are heartbroken. Our 20-year-old
daughter, a clever,
pretty girl, has taken up with
a terrible crowd of friends.
These young girls and boys
are well known in our com
munity for drinking, reckless
driving and wild parties.
We can't understand why a
well brought up girl should
turn against everything she
had been taught.. If she were
16, we would say she is just
a crazy kid and we'd be able
to put the lid on her.
But she is old enough to
know better. If we try to con
trol her, she threatens to
leave home.
doctorate level, but nothing
for a boy still in junior high
school.
The parents thought fleet
ingly about settling Johnny
on a television quiz show, but
Mrs. Orovitz put her foot foot
down.
"I simply won't stand for
it," she said. "To begin with
I have no way of knowing
just how thorough Johnny's
knowledge is, and I do know
he's a tempermental child.
Suppose he missed the very
first .question, which he very
well might. Can you imagine
what this would do to him
after this fame?"
In the meantime, Jonathan
is much too busy to worry
about where his college tui
tion and expenses will come
from. There are his studies
when school opens again, sum
mer day camp now, studying
everything about space flight
that he can lay his hands on,
designing of a larger and more
advanced satellite and trying
to wheedle a new bicycle from
his mother.
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1958 43 TON MILES
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We are very much afraid
of what influence all this will
have on our four younger
children, and we sometimes
almost wish she would leave
home and not bring disgrace
on us all. Yet we are afraid of
what will happen if she goes
away now.
, Ethel S. My parents say
they are just worried about
my welfare, yet they have
said more than once they
would be relieved if I got out
of the way and didn't become
a bad influence on their little
darlings.
It just happens that the
crowd I have been going out
with is the first group I have
really felt happy with. I was
always the shy type and did
not make friends easily, but
this group took me in from
the first.
It is true that this crowd
has a bad reputation in our
community yet they aren't as
bad as people say. I haven't
seen half of the awful things
I have heard about from
others.
For myself, I haven't done
anything seriously wrong and
I don't intend to. I just want
to have some fun while I'm
young enough to enjoy it. My
parents : are too strait-laced
and only care about the
Joneses.
The Council There is
very little parents can do to
control the conduct of a 20-year-old
woman or man. We
suspect that Ethel would like
to have her parents control
her a bit, but this isn't pos
sible and. she should recognize
that she must accept full re
sponsibility for her own
actions.
Individuals like Ethel who
seek the company of social
outcasts or undesirables are
usually plagued by a deep
seated sense of inferiority.
Ethel's statement that she
never made friends easily
and she is happy with this
group because they took her
in from the first is a dead
giveaway of her sense of fail
ure and frustration in accept
able sqpiety.
Why should a girl from a
good home feel like an out
cast in acceptable 'society?
Well, she could be suffering
from a kind of hangover of
the childish feeling .that she
was rejected by her ' parents
when they brought other chil
dren into the home. '
Such an individual often
seeks acceptance in a group
that represents some kind of
rebellion against authority.
Ethel should try to under
stand her own motives a little
better before she gets so deep
ly involved with this unac
ceptable group that she can
no longer, find the friends she
really wants to be with.
She shows that her stand
ards for herself are high and
she should recognize that
with such standards and her
good upbringing, she can
never have much fun with
the group she describes.
(Copyright 1958.
General Features Corp.)
Council on Aged
Calls For Session
A meeting of the executive
board of the Rogue Valley
Council on the Aging has been
called for 3 p.m., Thursday,
according to Frank Glonning,
council chairman. .
On the agenda will be a
report on a survey of commu
nities in this area as to what
they are 'doing for older peo
ple. This includes employ
ment, specialized placement
service, counseling on person
al retirment problems, recre
ation facilities, special educa
tion and health services.
Plans will be made also for
a special meeting the last
week in August. Howard C.
Heylauff of the Federal Hous
ing administration is expec
ted to be in Medford. He will
discuss plans with the coun
cil on authorization of a low
cost housing project for sen
ior citizens of this county.
The state council will have
an exhibit at the state fair
in Salem showing all the ac
tivities for the aging, it was
reported. i
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