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:

  1. Photography
  2. Gardening

STORIES told to my son Joseph