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
aleutian islands are situated in the north pacific ocean, forming a chain which extends about 1200 miles west, southwest of alaska toward siberia to form the southern boundary of the bering sea. the aleutians constitute part of a territory of alaska, usa. a volcanic origin, there are numerous cones on the chain, many of them still active. the coasts are rocky and rise immediately from the water in steep, bold mountains. the aleutians are the storm hub of the western world. a permanent low pressure area prevails there. cold air masses from the polar regions flow with a shearing effect against the warm, moisture laden air masses over the japanese current to form cyclonic disturbances. t because of the earth s rotation, the disturbances move from west to east and this phenomenon constitutes one of the most dangerous weapons in the arsenal of our unmeenemies, for it allo the japanese to move behind the curtain of a storm. in the early days of june, 1942, they employed this adva
this is the title of my new of warhe untold story and peace and aid for the hungry of europe. i m going to show you two images of this first read this is the first one from the america first committee, which was anti-interventionist at some people would say isolationist. we will take a look at these and go back. committee tom the defend america against the allies. to aid them. everything i will say today about the relief efforts are within the context of the battle over intervention and anti-intervention. i don t think america first is really has received the intention it deserves. the justice has done some good work on it. it s usually written off as a isolationist, but it is a key factor. they want to express their thanks to herbert hoover. at least in the family level, the people he fed, there is remembrance, but has world war ii clouded our understanding of the importance of world war i? yes. the shadow of world war i h
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