United States Achievement Academy - National Award Yearbook (Lexington, KY)

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-5-UNITED STATES ACHIEVEMENT ACADEMYE 2 HALL 0F FAME 3 DR. F. STORY MUSGRAVE Astronaut Skylab Mission Dr. F. Story Musgrave has B.S. degrees in Mathematics and Statistics and in Chemistry, an M.B.A. degree in Opera- tions Analysis and Computer Programming, a doctorate in Medicine and an M.S. degree in Physiology and Biophysics. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1935 but considers Lexington, Kentucky, his home town. Following graduation from high school in 1953, Story entered the U.S. Marine Corps and completed basic training at Parris Island, South Carolina. He then entered the U.S. Naval Airman Preparatory School and the U.S. Naval Avia- tion Electrician and Instrument Technician School in Jack- sonville, Florida. On duty assignments in Korea, Japan, Ha- waii and aboard the carrier USS Wasp in the Far East, he served as an aviation electrician, instrument technician and aircraft crew chief. Dr. Musgrave has flown 110 different types of civilian and military aircraft. He holds instructor, instrument in- structor, glider instructor and airline transport ratings. Also an accomplished parachutist, he has made more than 360 free falls-including over 100 experimental free-fall descents involved with the study of human aerodynamics. In 1967, Dr. Musgrave was selected as a scientist astronaut by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration CNASAJ, where he completed astronaut academic training and a year of military flight training. He worked on the design and development of the Skylab Program, was the backup science-pilot of the first Skylab mission, and was a capsule communicator for the second and third Skylab mis- sions. On the first and second Spacelab Mission Simulations, he was the mission specialist. Dr. Musgrave participated in the design and development of such Space Shuttle equipment as spacesuits, life support systems and manned maneuvering units. From 1979-1982, he was assigned as a test pilot in the space shuttle avionics laboratory. The author of 33 scientific papers in the areas of aerospace medicine and physiology, temperature regulation, exercise physiology and clinical surgery, he has continued clinical and scientific training as a part-time surgeon at the Denver General Hospital and as a part-time professor of physiology and biophysics at the University of Kentucky Medical Cen- ter. An avid athlete, Dr. Musgrave enjoys bicycling, long-dis- tance running, racquetball, scuba diving, and skateboarding. His professional affiliations include membership in the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Civil Aviation Medical Association, the International Acad- emy of Astronautics, the Marine Corps Aviation Associa- tion, the National Aeronautic Association, the National Aerospace Education Council and the New York Academy of Sciences. Dr. Musgrave will serve as mission specialist on STS-6, the first flight of the Shuttle orbiter Challenger.

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HALL OF FAME 13 A. L. TREADWAY High School Basketball Coach One of America's Top Winners DR. JOHN VON NEUMANN Mathematician Games Theorist! lvleteorologist E. B. WHITE Author Noted Essayist LEE TREVINO Golfer Second All-Time Prize Winner LU ACHILLES WALL Agriculture Leader FFA Executive Committee GEORGE WHITFIELD Coach of the Year National High School Baseball JOHN WOODEN Player and Coach Basketball Hall of Fame TED TURNER President Turner Communications Corporation DR. JAMES DEWEY WATSON Zoologist!Biologist Nobel Prize for DNA Research 3 KATHY WHITWORTH Golfer LPGA Hall of Fame DR. C. VANN WOODWARD Noted Historian Pulitzer Prize Winner CICELY TYSON Actress Emmy Award Winner JOHNNY WEISSMULLER Swimmer Olympic Gold Medal Winner JOHN UNITAS Quarterback Football Hall of Fame JERRY WEST Guard Basketball Hall of Fame . ,. -5 'A ., fe a wf- U i.-, IOL J Q ', , tffwziit Qvziii lf - -. :FV u'Q'.w,x'2Y7,E'QAgfj'i,fZ -tif file' - -:Mfg ar ,V s' 2 -f-- 2 -1 s I rs' . ' I - -r- i 'i - I ..,,. A '- .Q igttiaftgfas Y Iiiiaatiigifzl . . 'Z WA DAVE WILLIAMS TED WILLIAMS Outstanding College Golf Outfielder Coach University of Houston HARRY YOUNG Pioneer Agriculturist No-Tillage Farming Baseball Hall of Fame

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NITED STATES ACHIEVEMENT ACADEMY? 5 HALL DF F AM 2 DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. Leader Civil Rights Martin Luther King, Jr., was one of the greatest civil rights leaders this country has ever had. His philosophy of achieving much-needed social change through rational, nonviolent direct action galvanized the conscience of Amer- ica. The movements and marches he led produced lasting ef- fects. The Voting Rights Act of 1965, for example, went to Congress as a result of the Selma to Montgomery march. Dr. King's concept of Somebodiness gave black people and poor people a new sense of worth. His charismatic lead- ership, eloquent speeches and courageous, seliless devotion to civil rights activities inspired millions of people in this nation and abroad. Dr. King was born in 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia. He began school at the age of four, but when his age was discovered, he was forced to stop and had to wait until age six to resume his education. His high scores on college entrance exams, taken when he was a junior in high school, enabled him to enter Morehouse College without formal graduation from Booker T. Washington. Having skipped both the ninth and twelfth grades, Dr. King was 15 when he entered Morehouse. He graduated from Morehouse in 1948 with a B.A. degree in Sociology. In 1951, he received a Bachelor of Divinity degree from Crozer Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania. Studying at the University of Pennsylvania while at Crozer, Martin was elected president of the senior class and delivered the valedictory. He won the Pearl Plafker award as the most outstanding student and the J. Lewis Crozer fellowship for graduate study at a university of his choice. Dr. King then studied Theology at both Boston University and Harvard and obtained his Ph.D. degree in 1955. In his short lifetime, Dr. King was also awarded 20 honorary degrees. Dr. King was ordained a minister at the age of 19, and his involvement with the Church continued for the rest of his life. He married the former Coretta Scott in 1953, and in the next ten years the couple had four children. From 1957-1968, Dr. King was a founder and President of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Among the most prominent of the several hundred awards Dr. King received for his leadership in the Civil Rights Movement are: selection by Time magazine as one of the ten most outstanding personalities of the year in 1957 and as Man of the Year in 1963, recipient of the John F. Kennedy Award from the Catholic Interracial Council of Chicago in 1964, and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize- at age 35 the youngest man and the third black to be so honored-in 1964. Despite all his demanding activities, Dr. King found time to write six books and numerous articles. In The Measure of a Man, he spoke of the meaning of success and the way to view one's lifels work: After he discovers his calling he should set out to do it with all of the strength and power in his being. He should do it as if God Almighty called him at this particular moment in history to do it. He should seek to do his job so well that the living, the dead, or the unborn could not do it better. No matter how small one thinks his life's work is in terms of the norms of the world and the so-called big jobs, he must realize that it has cosmic significance if he is serving humanity and doing the will of God. Dr. King was assassinated by James Earl Ray in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968.