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KC Stoever
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posted 08-05-2008 12:02 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for KC Stoever   Click Here to Email KC Stoever     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
We have a nice new essay up by a former KSC engineer. He plays an online-based game called geocaching and devised one just for Scott Carpenter Park, in Boulder, Colorado.

See "Scott's Corner" for the new essay, just posted today to scottcarpenter.com.

MarylandSpace
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posted 08-05-2008 12:59 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for MarylandSpace   Click Here to Email MarylandSpace     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Hi Kris, That was a fun and interesting essay to read. I enjoyed it.

Garry

FFrench
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posted 08-05-2008 01:01 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for FFrench     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Nice article - thanks. David is a fascinating guy who, amongst other things, found the singed Q-ball cover after Apollo 11's Saturn V lifted off the pad...

I didn't know about the rocketship slide for kids in Scott Carpenter Park until I read that article, but went online and found a few images. A great bit of 1960s-retro sculpture with a fun practical use!

golddog
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posted 08-06-2008 03:54 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for golddog     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Hello Ms Stoever,

I recently finished reading For Spacious Skies and just read the recommended essay and the second essay on your dad's website about his mother Toye. I am curious as to how her name is pronounced - is it pronounced "TOY" or "TOY-EH"? I have never seen the name before so am just curious as to how you should pronounce it.

Many thanks Golddog

KC Stoever
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posted 08-06-2008 09:29 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for KC Stoever   Click Here to Email KC Stoever     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Golddog,

Thanks for the inquiry about Toye (Florence Noxon Carpenter), the mother of Scott Carpenter. Her name is pronounced toy. I imagine the "e" was added to distinguish it from the simple noun.

Five girls were born to Victor and Clara Noxon (Ella, Edith, Frances, Florence, and Alice). The nickname for Florence came about because Frances, age two, struggled with the flor sound in "Florence," upon learning the name of her new baby sister.

Frances's comical attempts at approximating the name produced a sound much like "toy." The name, spelled with an "e," stuck.

BTW, Boulder has honored another notable Boulderite with a Boulder plaque. His name is Arleigh A. Burke (b. 1901), and he, like Toye (b. 1900), was a Boulder Prep graduate. Burke went on to the Naval Academy and a storied naval career.

As CNO in 1959, it fell to a livid Admiral Burke to call the skipper of the Hornet in the middle of the night. Captain White, apparently, didn't much like the mysterious orders his air intelligence officer had received. Burke didn't much like the skipper's attitude. Scott Carpenter was on an airplane to Albuquerque's Lovelace Clinic the next day.

I have always wondered whether Admiral Burke ever made the Toye-Noxon-and-Boulder-Prep connection after he intervened to permit the promising naval candidate, Scott Carpenter, to report for Project Mercury selection testing at the Lovelace clinic.

golddog
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posted 08-06-2008 02:16 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for golddog     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Thanks for that Ms Stoever,

Sounds like that might perhaps have been a career limiting move on the part of Captain White!!!

The USN also named a class of destroyer after Admiral Burke - I believe the RAN (Royal Australian Navy) had a couple of the class serve with them.

many thanks Golddog

KC Stoever
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posted 08-06-2008 06:15 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for KC Stoever   Click Here to Email KC Stoever     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
[Hastening to add]--We Carpenters love the skipper and understand from his very gracious widow, Mrs. Eleanor White, that he went on to have a brilliant career and become a full admiral.

Which is amazing, when you think about it --having lost his air intelligence officer and all, on the eve of sea trials!

Back on topic: here's a nice link to a recent story on Scott Carpenter Park.

Lou Chinal
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posted 08-06-2008 09:59 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Lou Chinal   Click Here to Email Lou Chinal     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Kris-

I enjoyed the artical on 'Geocaching', sounds like a good way to spend the day with the kids. Might I suggest an even exchange a proof-of-visit signature for a proof-of-visit signature(by Carpenter). The kids would bring the Carpenter autograph into school and show it around. It would be a good jumping off point to talk about his part in the space program and the space program in general.

-Lou

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