Marlyn (Wescoff) Metzler (1922 - 2008)

Born 2 Mar 1922 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Died 7 Dec 2008 at age 86 in Yardley, Bucks, Pennsylvania, United States

Biography

Marlyn (Wescoff) Metzler is Notable.

Marlyn was born in 1922. She graduated from West Philadephia High School in 1938, and in 1942 graduated from Temple University.^[1] After graduation she was hired by the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School of Engineering to perform weather calculations.^[1]

The Moore School of Engineering was funded by the US Army during World War II, and Marlyn was selected as one of the "Top Secret Rosies" to manually calculate ballistic trajectories. She was one of the female human "computers" who sent their complex calculations to the Army's Ballistics Research laboratory at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland. When the Army decided to fund an experimental project in 1945 – the first all-electronic digital computer – Marlyn was one of six women ‘computers’ selected to be its first programmers. In 1997, Marlyn was inducted into the Women in Technology International Hall of Fame with the five other original programmers of the ENIAC.

On 2 Feb 1947, Marlyn married Philip Meltzer in Philadelphia. They were united in marriage by Rabbi Issachar Levin.^[2] The couple raised one son and one daughter. Marlyn Meltzer died in 2008 and is buried in Fountain Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery, Ewing Township, Mercer, New Jersey. ^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Top Secret Rosies: The Female 'Computers' of WWII, film, 2010.
2. ↑ "Pennsylvania, County Marriages, 1885-1950," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q28P-SNG5 : 22 July 2021), Philip Meltzer and Marlyn Wescoff, 2 Feb 1947; citing Marriage, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, multiple County Clerks, Pennsylvania.
3. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/211908992/marlyn-meltzer : accessed 13 February 2022), memorial page for Marlyn Wescoff Meltzer (1922–7 Dec 2008), Find A Grave: Memorial #211908992, citing Fountain Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery, Ewing Township, Mercer County, New Jersey, USA ; Maintained by Ken Ryesky (contributor 48255587).

• Wikipedia:Marlyn Meltzer
• "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KQJF-T83 : 21 January 2020), Marlyn Wescoff in household of Fred Wescoff, Ward 46, Philadelphia, Philadelphia City, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 51-1978, sheet 10A, line 13, family 162, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 3748.
• "Pennsylvania, County Marriages, 1885-1950," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q28P-SNYV : 22 July 2021), Philip Meltzer and Marlyn Wescoff, 22 Jan 1947; citing Marriage, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, multiple County Clerks, Pennsylvania.
• "United States Social Security Death Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JGRH-Y62 : 12 January 2021), Marlyn Meltzer, 04 Dec 2008; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing).
• "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKWP-482M : accessed 13 February 2022), Marlyn Wescoff Meltzer, Trenton, New Jersey, United States, 07 Dec 2008; from "Recent Newspaper Obituaries (1977 - Today)," database, GenealogyBank.com (http://www.genealogybank.com : 2014); citing Times, The, born-digital text.