Frederick I. Ordway III

Frederick Ira Ordway III was born in New York City and raised in Maine. He studied geosciences at Harvard University. He spent several years in graduate study at the University of Paris and other universities in Europe. He worked at a mining company and later for the rocket fuel company Reaction Motors. He spent three years as a technical adviser on the film *2001: A Space Odyssey*. From 1970-1973 he was a faculty member at The University of Alabama in …