Husband: Acie Newton

   Born: 10 JUN 1914      at: Boise, Ada, Idaho¹ ³ 
Married:  3 SEP 1938      at: San Francisco, San Francisco, California¹ 
   Died: 29 NOV 1991      at: Placerville, El Dorado, California¹ ²  
 Father: Delta Frederick Newton
 Mother: Clemma Ruth Christenot
        Other Spouses:
 

   Wife: Lois Anna May Schooley

   Born:  1 DEC 1916      at: Austin, Cass, Missouri  
   Died: 25 AUG 2007      at: Placerville, El Dorado, California  
 Father: Austin Elwood Schooley
 Mother: Anna May Tenbrook
        Other Spouses:
 

CHILDREN


   Name: Lynette Yvonne Newton
   Born: 20 NOV 1940      at: San Francisco, San Francisco, California¹
   Died:                  at: 
Spouses: Bernard Parks   Thomas James Burgett   Eric Vesley



   Name: Jerise Ronelle Newton
   Born: 16 Nov 1942      at: Oakland, Alameda, California¹
   Died:                  at: 



   Name: Ronald Clarke Newton
   Born: 17 DEC 1945      at: , Alameda, California¹ ² 
   Died: 19 FEB 1946      at: Alameda, Alameda, California¹ ²  


SOURCES & NOTES


 1 Newton Family Bible

 2 California Deaths Data Base at Rootsweb

   NEWTON  ACIE  06/10/1914  CHRISTENOTT  M  IDAHO  EL DORADO  11/29/1991 77 yrs
   NEWTON  RONALD  CLARK  12/17/1945  --  NEWTON  M  CALIFORNIA  ALAMEDA(01)
     02/19/1946    02 mos  

 3 He said so. 



            Acie: He was good at math; dogs loved him; he liked to fish. 

     During World War II, we lived in Alameda. Acie was a civilian airplane mechanic
  at the Alameda Naval Air Station. 
     After the war, we moved to Redwood City; he worked very briefly at the Red 
  Feather Plant as a machinist. 
     Then he went to Stanford University. He worked in a small machine shop in a
  basement there, his first job in research & development. His bosses were a couple
  of physicists. Perhaps they needed a bright technician to build new devices to
  test whatever it was that physicists wanted to know next. Acie was bright. He may
  not have known any physics then ... but he had a talent for research. He knew why
  you would want to do certain tests. He sometimes had his own good ideas about the
  implementation. 
     So they sent him to school. He learned some formal math and metallurgy. Besides
  math, he'd always had a keen interest in rocks, minerals and metals. Acie was not
  too smart about most things ... mundane or social things. He would often play with
  math problems in his spare time for the fun of it.
     That work at Stanford was probably a forerunner to the later work at SLAC, but
  on a tiny scale. He worked there for 9 or 10 years. 
     About 1955, he went to work for Aerojet in Nimbus, just outside of Sacramento.
  Seems to me Sputnik came later than that, so I don't know if Aerojet was doing
  rockets then or jets. 
     1958-'59. He took a leave of absence and worked about 9 months for Dalmo Victor
  in Monterey on Cannery Row. It was quiet down there, not yet a huge tourist area.
  Indeed, the Cannery Row of 1958 was still much as in Steinbeck's novel. 
     Back to Aerojet in '59 when they were well into rocket testing. After John
  Kennedy was shot, the space contracts went to Texas. Aerojet had no work and laid
  off nearly everyone.
     Acie was out of work for the 1st time in my life. But I think SLAC snapped him
  up before the end of '64. Acie worked there for 17 years. A minor stroke retired
  him, else he would have worked there til he died. He loved his work.

                 Stanford Linear Accelerator, Palo Alto, California:
            founded in 1962, the linear accelerator was completed in 1966.

  They do research in particle physics; the Dept of Energy foots the bill. Since 1976,
  SLAC has garnered 3 Nobels and a Wolf Prize in physics. We believe that Dr. Martin
  Perl included Acie's name on a few of their patents.



     Ronald: The Doctor said he would not live, because his heart had only three
  compartments. 

     Recollections by Jerise Newton 

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