Gladys Towers, Apollo card
newspaper article
Mrs. Gladys Ortlip Towers and her sister Mrs. Mildred Ortlip Keel, 7 Surf Avenue, received an outstanding Christmas card from their nephew, Paul Ortlip, Navy artist on board the Apollo recovery ship, the Ticondoraga at the recent Astronaut splashdown in the Pacific. The card showed the cancellation stamp and seal of the Carrier. This was one of the three commissions from the Navy for Mr. Ortlip to provide paintings of the activities for permanent archive records. Mr. Ortlip resides in Fort Lee, where he has his portrait studio.
The cited information was sourced from Electronic Document (email, file) published by Historical Society of Ocean Grove on January 4th, 1973 <http://www.digifind-it.com/oghs/data/ogt/1973/1973-01-04.pdf> (Ref: p. 5) The author/originator was Ocean Grove Times and Neptune Times. This citation is considered to be secondary evidence, data officially recorded sometime after event.- Source Notes
- Jan 4. 1973
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- Individual: Gladys Ortlip