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| Gerald Keerbs is the fourth man from the left. He is wearing his trademark bow tie. |
Here is how a Keerbs came to live in California:
After graduating from Purdue University in 1956 with a Bachelor's of Science in Civil Engineering, Dad was lured West to California in the late 1950s or early 1960s by an employment offer from Northrup. By 1965, he was working for The Aerospace Corporation. He spent 28 years there until he retired in 1993.
Much of the work Dad did for The Aerospace Corporation was classified, which means he could not talk about it at home. But as time moves on and those secrets become declassified, we might get a better glimpse at what he did.
Case in point: I found a document entitled A Study of Buckling and Snapping Under Dynamic Load, Prepared by M.H. Lock of the Applied Mechanics Division, Laboratory Operations at the Aerospace Corporation dated December 1967.
In the foreword is this mention of our Dad:
"The author expresses thanks to Mr. Gerald Keerbs of the Computation and Data Processing Center for assistance in the numerical phases of this study."
Perhaps through the magic of the Internet, the other men in this photo or their relatives might stumble across this post and leave me a comment with their names and confirmation of the location where this picture was taken.
