A Brother's Story

WHAT WOULD BE a Grissom Classic without a classic Grissom?

        Happily, Club members need not experience such an event. Reason: On June 21 the Club will be honored to host
LOWELL and BOB-
ETTE GRISSOM on the occasion of their second visit to the Classic.

Lowell is Gus' younger brother, and is the youngest of Dennis and Cecille Grissom’s four children. He grew up in Mitchell, Ind., and graduated from Mitchell High and Indiana U.

            Lowell and Bobette are the parents of two children, John and Susan.

            He began a career with McDonnell-Douglas in 1961, a career that put him to work as director of sales and marketing in the Information Systems Group. The career sent the Grissoms to several posts within the United States until he retired, in 1987. As he was retiring from McDonnell-Douglas, he became president of Professional Event Planners, Inc., a job he held until 2010.

            Grissom has been a director of the Astronaut Memorial Foundation since 1995. He currently serves as a member of the board of trustees for AMF, a member of the board of the Apollo 1 Memorial Foundation, and as an advisor to the board of the Space Museum, in Bonne Terre, Mo.

Grissom has spoken nationally about his famous brother and the U.S. space program, and has appeared in the Discovery Channel documentaries "When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions" and "Liberty Bell 7: The Lost Spacecraft," and “The Boilermakers: Gus Grissom,” produced by Mr. John Doty and Purdue University.

            The Purdue Club Welcomes both of you as all of us salute and celebrate together yet again!