JPL Office of the Director Entertainment Account Collection, 1980-1982.

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JPL Office of the Director Entertainment Account Collection, 1980-1982.

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The collection contains interoffice memoranda regarding the JPL Entertainment Account, from Helen Benedict, Administrative Assistant to the Director, to Vern Evenson, Accounting Section Manager, Section 631. The memoranda document the amount of reimbursible funds paid to people or charged to the JPL Entertainment Account. The reimbursable events included retirement parties, relocation, business lunch meetings, Executive Council Retreats, and other business-related events. There are monthly folders from July to September 1982, and two individual folders covering the Entertainment Account for events held at the Athenaeum between January 1980 and September 1982 and regarding the Voyager Project between May and October 1981. The Athenaeum records include a statement from the Athenaeum to the JPL Directors Account, and a corresponding memorandum by Mary Lyle, Administrative Assistant to the Director on statements from January 1980 to February 1981, or Helen Benedict on statements from April 1981 to September 1982, to Vern Evenson. There is also a file for charges against the Voyager account. The expenses included a Voyager picnic and family night, and expenses for the family of Thomas Mutch, and putting together a scrapbook commemorating Mutch. Mutch was a geologist at Brown University and key geologist for the Viking Landers before becoming NASA Associate Administrator for Space Science in 1979. He died while mountain climbing in the Himalayas in October 1980. Also in June 1981 a symposium, "Voyager and the Mind of Man," was staged, with speakers Ray Bradbury, Walter Sullivan of the New York Times, and Dr. Philip Morrison of MIT.

0.3 cubic ft. (5 folders)

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Jet Propulsion Laboratory Library and Archives

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