through our doors first and maybe she will come back here to give a lecture of her own someday. before spro deuintroducing our i m really excited to let you know we have a special guest who was able to join us at the last moment. her name is marion lee johnson. she was one of the space program s hidden figures. ms. johnson was an engineer at nasa s marshall space flight center in huntsville, alabama, working for boeing, the sponsor for tonight s event. she worked on the team that determined the path, the parts of the thsaturn 5, would take, the rocket fell back to earth. their work was vital for safety planning. after boeing and successful career in computer technology she now teaches the next generation of computer workers. please join me in recognizing and welcoming ms. marion lee johnson. [ applause ] like ms. johnson, tonight s speakers certainly know what it s like to blaze trails and defy expectations. throughout this year s 50th anniversary celebrations of the apollo
today s presenter, mark obmascik. mark is a native of chicago southside. he s a graduate from the medill school of journalism at northwestern. he started his career working for the miami herald and after a year or so came to denver as a reporter for the denver post. he was the lead writer for the team that won the pulitzer prize for the denver post for covering the tragic columbine high school shooting in april of 2005. he had been covering the political scene for the post on candidates running for senate and other environmental stories and things get pretty ugly with some of those things. he was exhausted from working the graveyard shift when a colleague suggested he write a feature story for a notable retiring law professor at the university of denver, dr. thompson marsh who was an enthusiastic, avid ornithologist. mark himself had always been interested in birds, but it was the birders who fascinated him. thus he wrote a book about the people who had the time and w
on may 11, 1943, about 12,500 u.s. soldiers landed on atule island, alaska to force out a japanese army that had occupied the area for almost a year. fought in the harsh climate and terrain the battle of at&t u as one of the blood attu. next, journalist mark tells the story of experiences of a japanese medic and an american officer in his book the storm on our shores, one island, two soldiers, and the forgotten attle of world war ii. he started his career working for the miami herald and after a year or so came to denver as a reporter for the denver post. he was the lead writer for the team that won the pulitzer prize for the denver post for covering the tragic column bine in april 2005. he had been covering the political scene for the post on candidates running for senate and other environmental stories and things get pretty ugly with ome of those things. he was exhausted from working the graveyard shift when a colleague suggested he write a feature story for a notable
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