B6 APG News • December 19, 2019

2020

1950

1960

1970

1980

1990

2000

2010

THIS WEEK IN APG HISTORY

By YVONNE JOHNSON, APG News

(Right) Pfc. Donald Weaver of the 523rd Military Police Company hands a visitor’s pass to a mysterious white-

bearded stranger who stopped at Aberdeen Proving Ground’s Maryland Gate.

10 Years Ago: Dec. 17, 2009

50 Years Ago: Dec. 17, 1969

25 Years Ago: Dec. 21, 1994

Take a look back in time as the APG News explores what made the headlines around APG during this week 10, 25 and 50 years ago. This week’s APG News masthead is from 1971.

(Right) Joseph Vervier, physicist and technical director of the Edgewood Research, Development

and Engineering Center, speaks to about 400 scientists and engineers from all over the world during the 14th Annual Scientific Conference on

Chemical and Biological Defense Research.

(Left) Belinda Mier chooses an angel for Operation Angel Tree at the Main Post Exchange. Participants purchase and donate gifts for the person whose name is selected.

(Left) Edgewood Arsenal employees, Alfred and Juanita Luebben of the Medical Research Laboratory and the Chemical Research Laboratory, respectively, enjoy discussing their daughter, Broadway and television star, Anita Gillette, from Baltimore.

(Right) Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley announces the start of a $40 million Aberdeen Proving Ground interchange project during a press conference near the Aberdeen Walmart on Route 40. Col. Augustus

Owens II, deputy commander, CECOM Life Cycle Management Command (Forward) and Harford

County Executive David Craig were in attendance.

(Left) The Prophet Enhanced vehicle secured by Product Manager Prophet Arizona rolled off the assembly line in October 2009. The vehicle comes in Mine Resistant Ambush Protected and High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle variants to enhance signal intelligence gathering capability.