People

[ed.: Following are initials of individuals who appear in the text of Cleveland Hopkins’ private and work journals from his work with MIT’s Lincoln Lab, the Army and Air Force, the FAA, and other governmental and private sector military-industrial organizations. Some remain unidentified while others are speculative.]

AA – Al W. Armentis (colleague, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Division 2)
AF – Aubyn Freed (colleague, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Division 2)
AL – Alfred Kedy MacKenzie (relative, CH’s brother-in-law)
BB – Bob Bergman
Bernard Ramm – Baptist Theologian
Prof. Bose – Professor Amar Bose
BS –
CHH – Dr. Charles Howard Hopkins (CH’s brother, Professor of History, author of “John R. Mott, 1865-1955”)
Col. Bavaro – Col. Michael Francis Bavaro (1916-2001), Army Liaison Office, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Col. Darnell –
Col. Jensen – next door neighbor at Elmendorf Air Force Base; Commander 5th Combat Communications Group (Air Force)
Col. Middlekauff – Col. Darwin C. Middlekauff, Researcher at Ballistic Systems Division (BSD) at Norton Air Force Base (recipient of Air Force’s Research and Development award in 1963)
Col. Small –
Dr. Overhage – Head of Airborne Division, MIT Radiation Lab; Head of MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Dr. Frank Bothwell – Director of Center for Naval Analysis; Professor, Northwestern University; Naval Ordnance Test Laboratory (Polaris Missile development)
Dr. Fubini – Dr. Eugene G. Fubini
Dr. J. R. Pierce – author of “The Beginnings of Satellite Communication,” senior research scientist at Bell Laboratories.
Dr. Wiesner – Jerome B. Wiesner, MIT
Dr. Wells (WW) – Dr. Walter M. Wells III, developer of a model-based object recognition algorithm (colleague, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Division 2)
EK –
General McCormack
General Ostrander – Major General Don Richard Ostrander (1914 – 1972), Vice Commander of the Ballistic Systems Division, Air Force Systems Command, El Segundo, California; Commander of the Office of Aerospace Research
Gleason Archer – Dr. Gleason Leonard Archer, Jr.
HJM – Hugh Jordan Miser “A pioneering practitioner, consultant, editor, educator and philosopher in operational research and systems analysis.” (colleague, MIT Lincoln Laboratory)
HJO – Harold John Ockenga, family friend, Pastor of Park Street Church
HS – Howard Schuck (colleague, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Division 2) (Cornell, ’42)
Jack Dargin – (neighbor, and carpool partner)
JFN –
Jack Pugh – Alexander “Jack” Pugh, graduate of the MIT Electrical Engineering Department hired by Jay Forrester in the Industrial Dynamics Group; co-author (1981) “Introduction to System Dynamics Modeling with Dynamo.” (colleague, MIT)
Jim Petersen – friend at Park Street Church
John Cheever – friend at Park Street Church
JHH – Josef H. Halberstein
JH/JFH –
JLV –
JR – Joe Resnick
KO – Ken Olsen (family friend, President of Digital Equipment Corporation)
Mr. Halaby – Najeeb Halaby, second administrator at FAA
LCH – Lillian Christine Hopkins (née MacKenzie, CH’s wife)
Mary – Mary Caroline MacKenzie (relative, sister-in-law)
Rabun Wood – former colleague, now at Martin Marietta
RCP –
RJB –
Dr. Robert C. Seamans – Associate Director of NASA
Prof. Stevens – Professor Kenneth Stevens (MIT)
Adlai Ewing Stevenson II – US representative to the UN Security Council during Cuban Missile Crisis
Shockley – William Bradford Shockley Jr.
VAN – Dr. V. Alexander Nedzel (colleague, Director, Group 22 Lincoln Laboratory)
Valerian Zorin (USSR Representative to the UN Security Council during Cuban Missile Crisis)
Woody Strodel – friend at Park Street Church (on Board of Christian Education Committee)
WN –
WW – Walter Wells (colleague at Lincoln Laboratory, Division 2)
WZL –

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