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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.
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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.
Rouleau was stationed at
Adair Air Force base near
Corvallis.
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