Homepage for Joseph Wunderlich II
Hometown: Olney section of Philadelphia
10/19/26 to 11/09/08
BS Engineering (University of Houston)
MS Mathematics (Pennsylvania State University)
U.S. Army (World War II; South Pacific)
Texas Air National Guard (Navigator)
25 years Engineering Experience (Apollo and other aerospace projects):
- 10 years Burroughs
Computer Company (now Unisys Computers)
- 10 years Philco-Ford
Company (which became Ford Aerospace)
- 5 years Bendix Company
Projects included suspension system for Lunar Rover, major satellite projects (supervising 90 engineers),
and one of the very first fiber optic applications (presented ideas to Pentagon)
15 years Teaching Experience (University and High School Physics and Calculus)
Family Pictures:
1929 with my dad ( Joseph I ) who designed Locomotives for 50 years:
Going fishing with my dad in 1935:
Me in the army (south Pacific), and graduating from college:
Me skiing, and my wife
Selma
(we met as President and VP of a Nuemann Club chapter in Philadelphia):
Me with my first son Joseph III
(now a professor of Computing, Engineering, and Architecture at Elizabethtown College):
and here he is grown up with his son
Joseph IV:
and here is my grandson Joseph IV
with his sister Anna
at my daughter
Mary's wedding:
My sons David, Joseph IV
, and Chris, my wife Selma
, and my daughter
Mary:
My children David and Joseph III:
My children Mary
and Chris:
Me with my wife Selma
and one of our first grandchildren (Jessica or Rachael?) in 1988:
My youngest grandchildren
Joseph IV
and Anna
at the NASA Kennedy Space Center in 2008
in front of a Saturn V rocket (type used for Apollo missions):
The NASA Kennedy Space Center rocket garden:
My Hobbies:
- Photography
- Gardening
STORIES told to my son Joseph