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'X Man and Space Dedicated Students Attend Florida's Space Age College BY LEON DANIEL Cape Canaveral -IWD- You won't find any halls of ivy at the nation's only space en gineering college.' But you will find at Bre vard Engineering College, about 20'miles down the coast, is a faculty made up of some of the nation's -top scientists I and engineers. -j The part-time instructors lecture in classrooms filled with dedicated students whose ; average age. is 30. Most of the students and nearly all the faculty members are employed at missile and space technological centers at Cape Canaveral and Patrick Air Force Base, Sparked by space-race in dustries which have grown up aiong me coast near the cape, Brevard Is the first college in the United States' to offer a master of science degree in space techology. Write Own Textbooks Vine - covered walls would seem out of place at Brevard, where theories chalked on a blackboard may be used the next day in dealing with a real missile-tracking situ ation. With the rapid advance in space science, some of the school's teachers must write their own textbooks. While five-year-old Brevard may' be too young to have tra ditions, it is sophisticated enough to offer such lofty courses as celestial mechanics, space medicine and a long list of subjects in higher mathe matics. The college was established in 1958 by Dr. Jerome Keuper, now its president, and a group of scientists who worked with Keuper for the Radio Cor poration of America Service Company. Keuper said they started the college because they saw the need for still higher education for the well-educated people in the space field. "We learned that many scholars and other space ex perts hesitated to come to Cape Canaveral because they could not continue their stud ies here," Keuper said: Of the school's 700 students, Keuper said about 165 are graduate engineers working for master degrees. The rest of the students are undergrad uates, some of whom are tak ing a few special courses and others who are -working' to ward a bachelor of science degree. Keuper takes great pride in his ability to slretoh his edu cation dollars, which he spends a good part of his time soliciting from -private sour ces. "We built this building we are in now for $7 a square foot," he said proudly, adding that other school buildings in the area have cost . twice as much. "What we need now is some body who wants to have his name on a new library build ing," Keuper said. "I believe we could build it for S60.000. We already have the books." Watches Costs Closely Keuper keeps a light rein on operation costs. He, a single faculty member, a clerk and a janitor are the only full time employees- at the. col lege. 1 gave the impression he would Keuper said the school, so j not turn it down if it were far, has received no local, j offered. state or federal , aid, but he Keuper said all of the major companies near, here working to progress in their fields on government missile con- Many of these companies tracts approve of the college make donations to the .school as a way for their employees as well as pay the tuition of their employees, he said. Keuper, a 42-year-old native of Newport, Ky., who holds a bacholor of science degree in physics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a masters degree in physics from Stanford University, said he is in the education field to stay. -"I intend to devote the rest of my life to building the best space-science' college in the world right liere," he said. SECTION B PACES 1 to 8 Medford Tribune, ; MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY. JULY.ll, 1963 Canby Couple Killed in Crash By United Press International A two-car collision south of Oregon City Wednesday night took the lives of a Canby cou ple and injured two of their grandchildren. The victims were William E. Schaeffer, 58, and his wife. Florence. 5b. i Injured in the crash were Lynette L. Hage. 10, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hage, Portland, and Billy Schaeffer, 6. son of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Shaeffer, Can by. The girl was reported in serious condition at a Port land hospital. State police said the Schaef fer car collided with one driv en 'by Frederick E. Mittel stadt of Oregon City. Mittel siadt was unhurt. The crash occurred on U.S. Highway onp. nnrth nf New Era. Oregon traffic accidents also took a third life Wednes day when Air Force Sgt. Lu fin Rnhrrt Rouleau. 28. of Monmouth died in a Portland hospital. He was injured Tuesday when his car collid A.4 with nno driven bv Mrs. Avis VanDolah, 45, of Silver- i ton near Salem. 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