JPL Executive Council Collection, 1960-1982.

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JPL Executive Council Collection, 1960-1982.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/733100161

The collection contains materials distributed to and generated by the JPL Executive Council, dated primarily between 1975 to 1980. The materials include items distributed and/or discussed at Executive Council meetings, memoranda, Executive Council meeting minutes and summaries, agendas, Executive Council Retreat and Mini-Retreat agendas, minutes and summaries, and correspondence, reports, memoranda, copies of journal and newspaper articles, and ephemera that were generally presented as attachments to the record of the meeting. Meeting minutes of three Executive Council committees are also represented in the collection. The committees were the Solar System Exploration Executive Committee (later the Space Science and Exploration Executive Committee), the UtilitarianProjects Executive Committee, and the Institutional Executive Committee. Half of the subject files were originally filed chronologically, while half were filed with the meeting minutes or summary of the meeting they pertained to. This arrangement has been retained, with a chronological subject file series as well as attachments to the meetings in the Executive Council meetings series.

7.5 cubic ft. (340 folders).

Jet Propulsion Laboratory Library and Archives

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Jet Propulsion Laboratory Library and Archives

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