VOL 22 NO 7 THE CHINA LAKER Business Name Special points of interest: Who Was: Dr. Emory L Ellis President Ronald Reagan Who Was... 1 President’s Message 1 Presidential Timeline 3 Public Relations Corner 4 Fundraising/Grants 4 Gift Shop News 4 Building Committee 6 Dinner Auction Flyer 7 Inside this issue: Now overgrown in the once busy old duplex housing area at China Lake is a short three-block long Ellis Street, running between Parsons Road and North Lauritsen Road, named for Dr. Emory L. Ellis. Who was Ellis? Early Years. Little information is available on Ellis’ early life, but census records show that he was born in Grayville, Illinois on October 29, 1906, to Walter Ellis, a medical doctor, and his wife Bertha Ellis. By 1920 he was living with his mother and sister in San Diego, California. He applied in 1925 to attend California Institute of Technology (CalTech) and received his B.S. degree in Chemistry in 1930. He was involved in a variety of un- WHO WAS: Dr. Emory L. Ellis By Jack Latimer, Director Emeritus April/May 2017 President’s Message by Alice Campbell We are ON THE MOVE ! We need lots of Volunteers! Some volunteer activities are eligible tax deductions. Consult your tax adviser for details for a 501(C)(3) non-profit. Committees needing your help: Greeters/Docents, Dinner Auc- tion, Public Relations Events/Booth, Artifacts/Displays, Phase 1 Move, Operations/Volunteers, Pioneers Trading Cards, Development/Fundraising/Grants, Phase 1 Building/Landscaping, Membership/Facebook/Website, Written History, Lecture Series, Gift Shop, Newsletter. Contact Nancy Kiren for more information, (760) 939-3530 or email chinalakemuseum@mediacombb.net dergraduate activities including the Chem Club and was the editor of the California Tech student newspaper. He went on to obtain his M.S. degree in 1932 and his Ph.D. in biochem- istry in 1934. He worked for a year at the U. S. Department of Agriculture’s Food and Drug Ad- ministration. Then, in 1936, he returned to CalTech and conduct- ed postdoctoral research. He did basic cancer research under a grant, and chose viruses as a means to study carcinogenesis, specifically those that attacked bacteria known as bacteriophage. In 1938 he was joined by Max Delbrück (a subsequent Nobel Prize winner) who had been seeking an organism for the study of the struc- ture of the gene. Ellis and Delbrück published a groundbreaking paper, (continued page 2) Newsletter Editor - Bettye Moody , OCR Text: VOL 22 NO 7 THE CHINA LAKER Business Name Special points of interest: Who Was: Dr. Emory L Ellis President Ronald Reagan Who Was... 1 President’s Message 1 Presidential Timeline 3 Public Relations Corner 4 Fundraising/Grants 4 Gift Shop News 4 Building Committee 6 Dinner Auction Flyer 7 Inside this issue: Now overgrown in the once busy old duplex housing area at China Lake is a short three-block long Ellis Street, running between Parsons Road and North Lauritsen Road, named for Dr. Emory L. Ellis. Who was Ellis? Early Years. Little information is available on Ellis’ early life, but census records show that he was born in Grayville, Illinois on October 29, 1906, to Walter Ellis, a medical doctor, and his wife Bertha Ellis. By 1920 he was living with his mother and sister in San Diego, California. He applied in 1925 to attend California Institute of Technology (CalTech) and received his B.S. degree in Chemistry in 1930. He was involved in a variety of un- WHO WAS: Dr. Emory L. Ellis By Jack Latimer, Director Emeritus April/May 2017 President’s Message by Alice Campbell We are ON THE MOVE ! We need lots of Volunteers! Some volunteer activities are eligible tax deductions. Consult your tax adviser for details for a 501(C)(3) non-profit. Committees needing your help: Greeters/Docents, Dinner Auc- tion, Public Relations Events/Booth, Artifacts/Displays, Phase 1 Move, Operations/Volunteers, Pioneers Trading Cards, Development/Fundraising/Grants, Phase 1 Building/Landscaping, Membership/Facebook/Website, Written History, Lecture Series, Gift Shop, Newsletter. Contact Nancy Kiren for more information, (760) 939-3530 or email chinalakemuseum@mediacombb.net dergraduate activities including the Chem Club and was the editor of the California Tech student newspaper. He went on to obtain his M.S. degree in 1932 and his Ph.D. in biochem- istry in 1934. He worked for a year at the U. S. Department of Agriculture’s Food and Drug Ad- ministration. Then, in 1936, he returned to CalTech and conduct- ed postdoctoral research. He did basic cancer research under a grant, and chose viruses as a means to study carcinogenesis, specifically those that attacked bacteria known as bacteriophage. In 1938 he was joined by Max Delbrück (a subsequent Nobel Prize winner) who had been seeking an organism for the study of the struc- ture of the gene. Ellis and Delbrück published a groundbreaking paper, (continued page 2) Newsletter Editor - Bettye Moody , China Lake Museum,China Laker - Newsletter,China Laker 2010s,China Laker 2017,Newsletter Apr 2017 rev 11 .pdf,Newsletter Apr 2017 rev 11 .pdf Page 1, Newsletter Apr 2017 rev 11 .pdf Page 1