Arthur Harry Wunderlich

AUTOBIOGRAPHY

This document was found in a stack of old papers after Arthur's death in 1989.
It was apparently written in 1948 at the request of his mother Erma Bryan Wunderlich,
possibly to be included in the Bryan Family History. I thought it would
provide interesting insight into to the character of the 20 year old Art.
--Karen Wunderlich Stezowski


I was born on the seventh day of September, 1927, in the town of Johnson City, N.Y. I have light brown hair, blue eyes, stand five feet ten inches, and weigh 170 pounds.

At the age of five I started school, and I spent the next twelve years doing the things that are typical of a grade school and high school fellow; I was among the top half of my class and was always interested in mathematics and physics.

Athletically; I was a member of the varsity squad in football and took part in all other types of sports.

For entertainment I attended several dances and parties, and always enjoyed a good movie or athletic contest. At the age of seventeen, I graduated from Johnson City High School, in the January class of 1945. During this time and to the present day, I believe and will continue to believe in religion and a clean way of life, this is due I believe, to the proper bringing up in a good respectable home. Immediately after graduation, I enlisted in the Army Specialized Training Reserve Program and in February, 1945 I started classes in the B 60 at Rutgers University. After completing three terms I left the University for active service.

As a member of the Army of the United States, I was sent to Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Where I took basic training. At completion, I was sent to the Army Engineers Aerial Photo topography coarse which was three months in length and dealt with the principals and applications of terrestrial Photogrammetry. I graduated second in a class of Forty seven and was held over for the purpose of instructing in the coarse I had just completed. Since then, I have been lecturing and instructing on the theory of stereoscopy and its relation to the mechanics, opperations and applications of the stereocomparograph along with the computation and preparations of terrestrial maps. In my spare time, at nights and weekends, I have been working at the Post Library as librarian, and have been taking Army night class in Calculus.

In May of this year, I will be discharged from the Army and I am hoping to enter Syracuse University in September to continue my education in Photogrammety.



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