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Dianna Borsi O'Brien. From Melon Fields to Moon Rocks
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Melon Fields
Chapter 2. The Early Days at Home
Chapter 3. Taking Care of Each Other
Hated Task
No Bad Memories
Chapter 4. Coshocton High School
Chapter 5. Ohio State University and the Stadium Scholarship Dormitory
A New World
Hard Work Continues
More Changes
Chapter 6. An Attractive Lady
Romance
A Tough Crowd
Chapter 7. The Inspector
Down the Aisle
Chapter 8. Missouri Valley College, Marshall, Missouri
Chapter 9. Back to OSU, 1945-46
Chapter 10. Finally a Father
Chapter 11. State Chemist and Professor at the University of Missouri
In Charge
A New Life
Chapter 12. Chemistry in Agriculture
A Money Maker
A New Lab
Chapter 13. Creating a Team
A Heady Brew
Key to Success
Chapter 14. A Day in the Experiment Station
The Bad With the Good
Chapter 15. Family Man
A Whirlwind
Chapter 16. Cosmo Club
Quarry Heights
Chapter 17. SMAC Machines
Chapter 18. A Better Way
Chapter 19. A Library of Instruments
Off to Washington
Research Council Plan
Chapter 20. Solving Problems with Gas Chromatography
How Gas-Liquid Chromatography Works
A Bridge
Chapter 21. Preparing for the Moon
New Direction
Chapter 22. Back Home
In Ohio
Investments
Chapter 23. Starting a New Company—ABC Labs
A Fork in the Road
Humble Beginnings
Imitation: A Sincere Form of Business
A Tough Start
Chapter 24. Night Classes
Chapter 25. Chromatography and the Moon
Precautions Pay Off
The Samples Arrive
A Lot of Nothing
NASA: A Ticket to the World
Chapter 26. Family Matters
Chapter 27. Awards Roll In, Moon Mystery Solved
Moon Mystery Resolved
Moments of Panic
Chapter 28. Charles Becomes a Grandfather
Chapter 29. ABC Labs Grows Up
Chapter 30. A New Frontier: Cancer
New Colleagues
More Money
Biomarkers: A New World
Chapter 31. Family
Pensacola
The Unthinkable
Chapter 32. Moving On
A Few Good Memories
Travel
Chapter 33. A Final Fight for His Son
Chapter 34. Cancer Strikes at Home
Chapter 35. Preparing for Retirement
Chapter 36. More Family Adventures
Chapter 37. Cancer Research Center
Another Thank-You Letter
Hardly Retiring
Retirement Celebration
Chapter 38. His Other Child: ABC Labs
Who Is in Charge?
Retirement Troubles
Change at the Top
Chapter 39. Beyond ABC Labs
Family Matters
Chapter 40. ABC Labs, New Name, New Game
Takeover Worries
A Hot Summer
The Secret Letter
Stepping Down
Ousted
Greek Tragedy
A Long Battle
May 1, 1992 Agreement
The Fight Continues
Who Won?
Chapter 41. A Bumpy Ride
Top to Bottom
Chapter 42. New Beginnings
Chapter 43. Changing
Trouble at ABC Labs
Chapter 44. Dreams Coming True
Another Dream
Chapter 45. Losses and Looking Ahead
Back to Work, Starting with NASA
From the Melon Fields to the Moon
A New Book, a New Mission
Growth at ABC Labs
Book Basics
Melon Fields
Gallery
Endnotes
Index of Search Words. A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q, R
S
T
U
V, W
X, Y. Z
Acknowledgements
About the Author
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How did this book come about?
The first time I heard about Charles W. Gehrke was when his son Jon Gehrke called me. He said he and his sister Susan Gehrke Isaacson were looking for a writer to work with his father to write a book about his life. His father, he said, had been planning on writing a book about his life for years, but now it was time to get started. They’d just buried their mother, Charles’s wife, who had died on their sixty-fifth wedding anniversary. They even had a title for the book, he said, “From the Melon Fields to the Moon.”
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In our meetings, he’d rattle off names and telephone numbers from memory of people I should contact. During those years, I interviewed dozens of people from his past, and I uncovered things that surprised both of us. When I uncovered audio recordings of a radio show that revealed him predicting they’d find life on the Moon, we were both surprised. He and history had forgotten how unusual and precarious the first Moon missions were for both those involved and for those back on earth. At the time of the Moon missions, many had feared that they’d bring back some kind of terrible, sinister pathogen that would wipe out life on Earth, but time and history had erased those fears—until the recording of Charles on that radio show brought it all back.
Along the way, we also had a lot of laughs. When I fact-checked his rendition of his time at Missouri Valley College, where he said he was head of the Chemistry Department, I reported back that he was the only person in the Chemistry Department and he retorted with a snort of righteousness, “Well, I was still head of the department.”
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