TABLE OF CONTENTS

Title Page

Preface

Prologue . Why I am writing this book
What I Believe About God

Chapter 1A. Where we came from... (1620-1913)
Dad’s Ancestry
Grandma Butman
Mother’s Forebears
Grandpa Phelps
Mother and Dad

Chapter 1B. . . . Where we have gotten to (1913-2007)
Mother and Dad
Marion’s Families
Margaret’s Families
Herbert Francis, Jr.’s Families
Mary Josephine’s Families

Chapter 2. The First Eight Years (1913-1921)
The Family Moves to Philadelphia
Preschool Years in Laurel
We Move to Riverdale
I Start to School
My Early Home Life
Good Old Summertimes
Two Other Incidents

Chapter 3. Growing Up (1921-1930)
I Start Attending Washington Schools
Sickness Strikes
My First Long-Distance Trip
Seventh, Eighth and Ninth Grades
Dad Builds a New House
I Acquire a Brother-in-Law
I Start at Tech High
I Enter the Printing Business
My First Date
Sunday School and Church
Margaret’s Wedding
We Move to the Cleveland Avenue House
High School Graduation

Chapter 4. Three Careers (1930-1935)
First Jobs
Citizen Soldier
Printer’s Devil
College Student
My Three-Career Sophomore Year
A Blind Date
Hooked By Cupid
How I Looked at Life at 21

Chapter 5. Printer (1935-1940)
I Become a Journeyman Printer
Night Work — Day School
An Officer and a Gentleman
Deep Dark Secret
Wedding Bells
Our Wedding Trip
Sailing the Matrimonial Seas
College Graduate
War in Europe
1940 — the Year of Anticipation

Chapter 6. World War 11(1941-1945)
Inducted Into Federal Service
Soldiering at Fort Bliss
Transferred to the Coast Artillery School
Pearl Harbor
Camp Davis
Camp Haan
Hawaiian Defense Command
Battalion Commander
Brigade Operations Officer
The War Is Over
Reflections

Chapter 7. Graduate Student at Harvard (1946-1948)
“Gangplank” Promotion
We Become New-Englanders
My First Year at Harvard
Second Academic Year
Full-Time Study — Full-Time Job
Third Academic Year
My Thesis Computation
Orals and Language Qualification
Dr. Herbert F. Mitchell, PhD
Reflections

Chapter 8. Professor at Webb Institute (1948-1949)
The New York Times
Command and General Staff College
Consulting for Eckert-Mauchly

Chapter 9. With Univac in Philadelphia (1949-1953)
I Join the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation
Director, Computational Analysis Laboratory
Active Duty for Korea
Univac Is Accepted by Census
The H-Bomb Calculation
Life in Rural Philadelphia
Eisenhower’s Election Landslide Predicted
Work in Philadelphia

Chapter 10. We Move to New York (1953-1956)
Transferred to New York City
The Big Apple
Life in the Fast Lane
“Automatic” Programming
Univac Makes the Big Time
General MacArthur
Our Programmers Make Good
The Minneapolis Computer Development
IBM Wakes Up to the Computer Age
We Move to Norwalk
The New York Univac Service Bureau
I Become Active in the Professional World
Our First European Trip
Hurricane Connie Nightmare
Merger With the Sperry Corporation
We move to Los Angeles

Chapter 11. Three Eventful Years (1956-1958)
My Most Important Interview
Church Work
Family Life in California
West Coast Univac Representative
Special Representative of the Vice President for Sales
The Air Materiel Command Contest
Back to New York

Chapter 12. Circling the Atlantic (1958-1959)
The Best Laid Plans
England, France, Holland, Germany, France, Italy
Austria, Yugoslavia, Greece, Turkey, Syria, Jordan
The Holy Land and Lebanon
Lynne Caruthers Wedding
From Top to Bottom of Africa by Car
Egypt
The Sudan
Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe
South Africa in 1959
Crossing the South Atlantic
Brazil
What Might Have Been God’s Purposes in This Trip

Chapter 13. Four Jobs in Two Years (1959-1960)
Business Trip to England
Assistant Director of Product Planning
We Move to Princeton
Eastern Systems Sales Manager for Honeywell
Western Systems Sales Manager for Honeywell

Chapter 14. Circling the Pacific (1960)
Alaska
Korea
Japan
Taiwan
Hong Kong
The Philippines
Thailand
Calcutta, India
Nepal
India and Pakistan
Sri Lanka (Ceylon)
Singapore and Jakarta
Australia
New Zealand
Fiji
Hawaii

Chapter 15. Honeywell, Collins, Teleregister (1961-1962)
The Tokyo Christian Crusade
Logical Designer at Collins Radio Company
We Move to Orange
We Move Back to North Hollywood
Church Split
The Charismatic Movement
Dad’s Death
The Teleregister Corporation

Chapter 16. Teleregister/Bunker-Ramo/TRW (1962-1967)
Vice President for Advanced Research
The American Broadcasting Company Request
Will and Mary Francis Go to College
Bunker-Ramo Is Formed
Proposed as Computer Consultant to NASA
Will Marries Judy Wasson
Chuck Corwin Asks for Help
The NASA Information Retrieval Contract
Invited to Leave Bunker-Ramo
Senior Systems engineer at TRW
Three Months in Honolulu

Chapter 17. Four Exciting Years With NASA (1967-1971)
We Move to the Washington Area
The Goddard Space Flight Center
First Space-Film Evangelism Trip to Japan
Life in Suburban Maryland
Mrs. Chapman Passes Away
Mother’s 88th Birthday Family Reunion
The First Moon Shot — Christmas Eve 1968
Second Space-Film Evangelism Trip to Japan
Mary Francis Remarries
Neil Armstrong and “Buzz” Aldrin Land on the Moon
Space-Film Evangelism in the Caribbean
Apollo 13
In Mexico With Chuck Corwin
Our First Grandchild Is Born
Apollo 15
Possibility of Retirement

Chapter 18. Space-Film Evangelism — Part I (1971-1973)
Self-Supporting Missionary
Third Space-Film Evangelism Trip to Japan
Second Caribbean Space-Film Evangelism Trip
First Space-Film Evangelism Trip to Mexico
A Busy Two Weeks With Pastor Reyes
We Go to Guatemala
Difficulties in Southern Mexico
Touring the US and Canada by Trailer
Emily Margaret Mitchell Is Born
Second Space-Film Evangelism Trip to Mexico: Monterrey and Guadalajara, Torreon and Chihuahua
Third Caribbean Space-Film Evangelism Trip
Third Mexican Space-Film Evangelism Trip
I Visit the Baptist Foreign Mission Board
Cuernavaca
Vacation in Acapulco
Back in Cuernavaca
Guadalajara
Back Again in Cuernavaca
Puebla
The Gulf Coast
Return to Nashville

Chapter 19. Space-Film Evangelism — Part 11(1973-1974)
First Baptist Space-Film Evangelism Trip — Europe
West Germany
Spain
Portugal
France
Belgium
Austria
Italy
Germany, Switzerland and the US
Summer 1973
Second Baptist Space-Film Evangelism Trip — Far East
Korea
Japan (Southern Baptists)
Japan (Chuck Corwin)
Taiwan
Hong Kong
Thailand
Malaysia and Singapore
Indonesia
Philippines
Christmas Interlude
Fourth Mexican Space-Film Evangelism Trip
Here, There and Everywhere
Third Space-Film Evangelism Trip to Dominican Republic
Mary Charlotte and I Tour Europe for Our Third Visit
A Slow Summer
Third Baptist Space-Film Evangelism Trip — Europe and Africa . .
Belgium — France — Italy
Spain
Ghana
Nigeria
Benin (then Dahomey)
Ivory Coast
Senegal

Chapter 20. Space-Film Evangelism — Part 111 (1975)
Second Space Film Evangelism Trip to Africa
Transvaal
Natal
Orange Free State
Cape Province
Transvaal
Zimbabwe
Malawi
Zambia
Kenya and Tanzania
Ghana
Ivory Coast
Liberia
Senegal
South Africa, Here We Come
Space-Film Evangelism in Argentina
Evaluation of Four Years of Space-Film Evangelism
Summary of Space-Film Evangelism for Four Years 1971-1975

Chapter 21. Lecturer at the University of Cape Town (1976-1978)
We Settle In
Holiday in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe)
Life in Cape Town
Mother’s Death
Holiday in the US
Mary Jo and Clyde Visit Us
We Prepare to Go Home

Chapter 22. Florida or Cape Town (1978-1983)
We Locate in Homestead, Florida
We Tour the US and Mexico
We Return to South Africa for a Visit
We Prepare to return to Cape Town
Two More Years in Cape Town

Chapter 23. Computer Consultant to OMF ((1983-1986)
Visit to Singapore
At Work in Singapore
Around the World to Gather Data
The Problem at Robesonia
I Begin the Implementation of FREDA
Into Production at Last
The Second Family Reunion
Back to South Africa Once Again
Mary Charlotte’s Illness
I Become Involved in Church Work
Our Fiftieth Wedding Anniversary

Chapter 24. More Globe Trotting (1986-1989)
I Become an Elder at the Redlands Community Church
Four Months “Down Under, Hawaii, USA
Church Treasurer
Missionary Video Taping Trip 1989
South Africa
Nairobi, Kenya
Ivory Coast
Back in Nairobi
Tanzania
India
Java, Indonesia
Ambon, Indonesia
Sentani, Indonesia
We Move to Cape Coral

Chapter 25. The Not-So-Gay Nineties (1990-1997)
A Most Difficult Year
Visit to Alaska June-July 1991
We Move to Gulf Coast Village
Several Years of Events only to Others
Peoples Republic of China 1994
Hawaii and California
Third Family Reunion
Israel, England and South Africa
Church Work Team to Ecuador
Visiting Our Christmas Card List

St. James Massacre

Chapter 26. Mary Charlotte Has a Stroke (1998-2000)
Lightning Strikes
Mary Charlotte Breaks Her Leg
Mary Charlotte Breaks Her Leg -- Again
Our Fourth Family Reunion
Mary Charlotte Returns to Our Apartment
We Are Evicted
Mary Charlotte ‘Stubs’ Her Toes
Mary Charlotte’s Final Hours
Mary Charlotte's Memorial Service
We Bury Mary Charlotte’s Ashes

Chapter 27. 2000 — Life as a Widower (2000-2001)
The First Month
Church Sponsored Trip to Haiti
Visit With Mary Jo in Michigan
Trip to South Africa
Introducing Some of My Closest Friends
What Next?

Chapter 28. 2001 — The year of the 9/11 Tragedy
Our Fifth Family Reunion
I Visit My California friends
The 9/11 Attack
Speaking tour of Tyrannus Halls in India
Pune
Mysore
Orissa
Dimapur
Shillong
Delhi

Chapter 29. 2002 AND MY PHILADELPHIA STORY
Tom Henney's Death and Funeral
Preparation for My Seminar
My Philadelphia Story — The Genesis of NASA RECON

Chapter 30. 2003 — A Most Active Year
Seminar Presentations in South Africa
Preparations
Accommodations
Teaching Bible Studies
Meadowridge Baptist Church
St. James Church
Other Venues
Trip to Visit My Family
Visit to Grave Site
Visit with Will and Judy
Visit with Mary and Paul
Visit with Mark and Cristina
Visit with Mary Jo and the Balches

Chapter 31. 2003-2004 — INTERN IN HAITI AT AGE 90
Mary Jo's Final Illness
First Two weeks in Haiti
Mary Jo's Memorial Service
Some of Other People at HAFF
The Political Upheaval in Haiti

Chapter 32. 2004 — I MOVE TO THE COUNTRY NEAR ECHO
Back to the US
Margaret's Death
The Sixth Family Reunion
- At the Gravesite of Margaret and Mary Jo
- The Balch Family
- The Caruthers Family
- The Henney Family
- The Huff Family
- The Mitchell Family
- The Memorial Service for Margaret
- Saturday Night
Hurricane Charley
Life in the Country
The Rest of the Year 2004
Christmas Visit with Emily and Family

Chapter 33. 2005-6
Second Sale of Condo
Winter and Spring, 2005
Emily Becomes Mrs. Clayton
Life at Westbay
I Visit Will and His Family

Chapter 34. WHERE DO I GO FROM HERE?
Thinking Back on my Life
What my church life has meant to me
Evangelical Presbyterian Church (EPC) (Cape Coral)
North Fort Myers Presbyterian Church (NFMPC)

Chapter 35. HAFF AND ECHO
What HAFF Has Meant to Me
What ECHO Has Meant to Me

EPILOGUE

APPENDICES



Appendix A. Index of Family names

Appendix B. Index of Other names

Appendix C. PHOTO ALBUM
Our Family's Friends
Our California Friends
Our South Africa Friends
Other International Friends
Our Homestead Friends
Our Cape Coral Friends
Our North Fort Myers Presbyterian Church Friends
Missionaries I Have Known

Appendix D. ST. JAMES MASSACRE

Appendix E. WILL'S PAPER: "THE GENESIS OF NASA RECON"
Abstract
Design and Development of On-line Bibliographic Retrieval Systems, 1964-1966
Dr. Herbert F. Mitchell and the Direct Electronic Library
Bibliographic Information at the NASA Scientific and Technical Information Facility
The Bunker-Ramo Version of RECON
In Retrospect

Appendix F. NORTH FORT MYERS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

Appendix G. OVERVIEW OF HAFF'S MINISTRIES

Appendix H. WHAT ECHO IS — NETWORKING GLOBAL HUNGER SOLUTIONS

Appendix I. PERSONAL TESTIMONY FROM DR. PRICE
The Short Story
The More Complete Story
Guidance on Determining God's Calling
What the Bible Teaches About Becoming a Christian

Appendix J. STAN DOERR — NEW ECHO CEO

Appendix K. LANNY MOORE'S BATTLE WITH CANCER

Appendix L. SUDDEN DEATH OF DON LANGENBERG

Appendix M. HENNEY FAMILY TRAVELS


Appendix N. HISTORY OF PLYMOUTH COLONY

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