DEAR FRIENDS:
This is the eleventh bulletin on progress
of the COMSAT Legacy Project and I have some significant progress to report.
ORGANIZATION
Incorporation of the nonprofit COMSAT Legacy
Foundation will, hopefully, be completed shortly but, in the meantime, Lockheed
has agreed to our use of the COMSAT logo in advance of the incorporation.
Steve Teller has produced a first draft of a Legacy logo for
us.
Videos and Photos
I met this week with the key
workers, Geoff Brown, Mike Hulley, Hale Montgomery and Steve Teller, to review
progress and reorient our future plans for digitizing our COMSAT
collection. We agreed that our first priority would be graphics processing
with paper records to stay on the back burner for now. Steve Teller's
processing center is up and running and between it and Geoff's home office, it
has been possible to digitize over 1000 pictures and 10 videos so
far. These facilities can handle everything except for the celluloid
films which would have to be done commercially at substantial expense.
Hale plans to prepare a solicitation for outside funding of film
conversion. Meanwhile, work on photos, slides and tapes will
continue.
Artifacts
Our artifact collection has been enhanced by a
contribution from John L. Martin. It consists of Marisat and Comstar
models as well as three launch vehicle models.
Web Site
Steve Teller has our web
site, COMSAT-Legacy.org, under construction. There are already several
galleries on line containing the pictures digitized so far. When these
galleries become more complete, we will solicit assistance from COMSAT veterans
and others in identifying the contents of the photos.
Party
COMARA has scheduled it's annual COMSAT reunion at the Army
Navy Country Club on March 23. Last year, we brought a collection of
framed photos and artifacts for viewing by the attendees. This year, Geoff
Brown will provide a Power Point show using 654 of our digitized slides. I
am also planning, subject to satisfactory security arrangements, to bring the
EMMY statuette and the recently acquired models.
Ed Martin
Edward J. Martin
Executive Secretary
7122 Plantation Lane
Rockville, MD 20852
Telephone: (301) 770-0984
Fax: (301) 881-5726
E-mail:
edmartin752@aol.com