#26) Help - Anyone Remember Herman Schultheis (1949 - 1955)?

Following is my response to an e-mail request for information about a fellow Libravet. If you can provide any additional information, please contact John Canemaker at NYU.  Mr. Canemaker is an animation historian and the author of ten books on the subject. He is also the winner of both an Academy Award and an Emmy for his work. Currently he is writing a book about Mr. Schultheis' work at the Disney studio in the Special Process/Effects and Camera Lab. You may view a short, but excellent, video about one of his Disney books by clicking here.

Hi John,

I did a search of the 300+ Librazettes (Librascope's company newsletter) on our web-site, and found a very interesting two-page article in the July, 1953 issue about Herman Schultheis' trip to Mexico. There are also five other Librazettes, including the March - April, 1956 issue which has a sad story about his strange disappearance in 1955.

I'll post your e-mail on our Librascope Memories - News Blog, and we'll see if any of our Libravet readers remember Herman.

Hope this helps you.

Carl

----- Original Message -----

From: "John Canemaker" <john.canemaker@nyu.edu>

To: <soren.cng@gmail.com>

Sent: Sunday, May 08, 2011 7:30 PM

Subject: Seeking Libravets for Research Information

8 May 2011 

Dear Carl Sorensen,
I am doing research on an engineer named Herman Schultheis, who worked for Librascope from 1949 - 1955. Your website Librascope Memories has proven very informative and I hope you will be able to help me further. I am seeking to contact any former Librascope employees who may have known or worked with Mr. Schultheis or have memories of him.  I hope you might help me contact the Libravet community.
Thank you for your interest.
John Canemaker
120 West 70 Street
9-D
New York, N.Y. 10023
212/874-7462
john.canemaker@nyu.edu

#25) Next "Has Beens" Lunch is Wednesday May 18, 2011

To: All Librascope "Has Beens" - aka Libravets,
 

You are all invited to the next "Has Beens" Luncheon which will be held on Wednesday May 18, at the Hill Street Cafe in Burbank. The restaurant is located at 3301 N. Glenoaks Blvd., Burbank, CA 91504. We have a reservation for 11:45 AM and a prearranged menu for $15.00 per person. The price includes a choice of entree, soft drink beverage, tax, and gratuities. You are on your own for bar drinks.

Please RSVP to me (Ralph) by Monday May 16th. I need a head count for the restaurant. 

All Libravets are welcome, so please pass this invitation on. My e-mail address list for Libravets is limited, and may not be up to date. 

Ralph Simon
ralph3222@aol.com

http://www.hillstreetcafeonline.com/

#24) Help - Currently Lost Libravets

To update our master Libravet mail list, we've compiled a list of people that we have lost contact with and we need your help. If you have any information that may be helpful, including an e-mail address, phone number, or address, please let Georgine or myself know. My Gmail address is in the upper right hand corner of this Blog, and you already have Georgine's.

There are certainly many other lost Libravets, so please contact us if you know the name of anyone else that may not be receiving our mailings, or know about our web-sites. If they are not already on our active mailing list, we will add them to the currently lost list.

Please note that some of the "lost" Libravets are members of Facebook and/or LinkedIn, so you may be able to contact them for us in that way.

Click here to view the lost list. Note, this list is updated continuously, so it is always current.

Thanks for your help,
Carl

#23) News from Mark Derksen at Manassas

The other day, I received the following e-Mail from Mark Derksen at Manassas. As you can see, he has been busy working on some important and interesting programs.

Hello Carl,

I guess the few of us remaining here could be considered the “remnant of Librascope” because technically we are still the same company in a new location.  I think there are probably 10 – 12 of us still here.  Things are going well and I’m keeping busy.

I have been working International Submarines since 2006 and am the Weapons SME (Subject Matter Expert).  My main focus has been the Spanish S80 submarine and I have also been working the Brazil 209 upgrade that is now undergoing sea acceptance tests.  The S80 is still a couple of years from being launched.  I am also just now starting a weapons upgrade to the Walrus class submarine for the Royal Netherlands Navy.

I originally came here as the SME of the NBC (now called CBRN) programs and successfully completed the MICAD program in early 2001.  Subsequent to that the BAWS program gained new life internationally and I supported systems for the Czech Republic, Germany, Canada, and the largest by far, Japan.  I spent a fair amount of time in Japan training the Japanese soldiers.  I transferred back to International submarines when S80 started because of my previous weapons experience on U.S. submarines and the Australian submarine.

I hope you’re enjoying your retirement and are doing all the things you wanted to do before you retired.

Later,

Mark

#22) Some Interesting Viewer Statistics

Now that the number of Pageviews for this Blog have just passed 5,000, I checked the Blog's viewer statistics and discovered the following:
1) Pageviews by Countries: Nearly all of the pageviews were from the USA; however, the number 2 was Iran with 130 pageviews or about 2.6%! Next was Malaysia with only 13 (0.26%), China 11, Canada 10, Sweden 9, UK 7, Germany 5, Austrailia 2, and Brazil with 2.
2) Pageviews by Browsers: Internet Explorer 75%, Safari 13%, Firefox 8%, Chrome 2%, and all others less than 1% each.
3) Pageviews by Operating Systems: Windows 85%, Macintosh 7%, iPad 4%, and all others less than 1% each.

Interesting!

#21) An Interesting LGP-30 Web-Site

John Gustafson recently discovered a web-site which documents some widely unknown early (1956-60) Librascope history related to the LGP-30 computer (which he worked on when he first came to Librascope in 1955). According to the web-site, an LGP-30 was the computer used by Ed Lorenz in discovering the Butterfly Effect which founded the science of Chaos (aka Chaos Theory). Here's the LGP-30 link, which includes or links to other Librascope related memorabilia:

http://hst250.history.msu.edu/wiki-online/index.php/LGP-30

You'll also be amazed to read of the LGP-30's contribution to so many early programming languges.

#20) $10,000 for a Librascope Balance Computer in a Display Case?

An original Librascope Balance Computer, mounted in an attractive display case suitable for mounting on a wall, has been posted on Craig's List for $10,000 or best offer. You may see the posting at:

http://losangeles.craigslist.org/sfv/clt/2292457359.html
 
The current owner recently acquired the unit from a friend who bought it at an auction about ten years ago.

More than one of these display units were built by Librascope. One is displayed at each of the Libravet Reunions, and another is said to be on display in Washington DC. Also, Libravets may remember there was one on display in the main lobby of Building 8. Others are unaccounted for.

#19) Librascope Now On Qwiki

View Librascope and over 3,000,000 other topics on Qwiki.

#18) New! 366 Libravet Photo-Movie Now On-Line.

From 1980 through 1989, there were 366 Libravet service award photos published in the Librazettes. Those 366 photos were recently cropped, collected, and put into a slide-show movie format with background music. The resulting 24 minute photo-movie was then published, and is now available for viewing on the Internet. The name of the web-site is Carl’s Gallery, which may be new to some viewers.

Each photo has the Libravet’s name, year the photo was published, and the years of Librascope service being awarded. Service awards were made every 5 years, but unfortunately some Libravets were camera shy when their time came. Consequently, some Libravets had two photos taken during this 10 year period, while others had only one or none. You will note that a few Libravets received awards for 40 years of service!

To view this new photo-movie click here. Next, scroll down to the Movie section on the web-site, and select the “Libravets 1980 - 1989” movie. While you are on the web-site, you will note that there are several other Librascope photo albums and movies that may have been updated since you last saw them.

My thanks to Ray Hand for preparing the 366 photos. To view an index of all the names in alphabetical order click here.

Enjoy,

Carl

#17) "Librascope Document Errors" List

When using the powerful Librascope Search function included on the Librascope Memories web-site, it is important to realize that there are, for example, spelling errors in the Librazettes that can affect your search results. To reduce this problem, a new document with all the errors currently known to exist, along with their corrections, has been added to the Librascope Search database stored on-line.

To illustrate how this will help, assume you want to search for Nick "Costantini". Initially, all the Librazettes and other documents that include his name correctly spelled will appear in the search results, along with this new "Librascope Document Errors" document. When viewed, this new document will list all the additional documents where Nick's name is misspelled as, say, Constantini.

The Librascope Document Errors" document may be viewed by clicking here. Please let us know if you find any errors that we should add to this list.