Joseph G. Dahms, born February 7, 1925, passed away February 24, 2014. A U.S. Marine Corps veteran of World War II, Dahms attended Notre Dame and Cornell Universities through the V-12 program, created to grant bachelor's degrees to future officers drawn from both the U.S. Navy and the Marine Corps. He achieved the rank of Captain before being honorably discharged in 1958, and then worked as a civilian with the astronaut training program at Johnsville Naval Air Development Center in Warminster. Johnsville possessed the world's largest centrifuge, which played an important role in Mercury, the first U.S. human space flight program and the follow-on Gemini and Apollo programs. Alan Shepard, John Glenn, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were among the astronauts who participated in the training. During this period, he also attended Temple University and the University of Pennsylvania on the GI Bill, where he received his Bachelor and then Master of Arts in English. He went on to serve as Public Affairs Officer at Johnsville and then left government employment to start his own business, Technical Writers Service. When he retired from his business, he served as adjunct faculty member in the Mathematics Department at Temple University through 2010. He is survived by former wife Charlotte Dahms, nee Dolan and sons Joseph, Matthew (Deborah), Christian (Sue) and Jonathan (Chong Ye), daughters Mary Lou and Eve (Timothy Gulla), brother Paul, grandchildren Megan, Gregory, Amanda, Jane, Anneliese, Madeleine, Juliana, Jarrett, Nathan, Natalie, Bradford, Randi, Samantha and Alexander and great-grandchild Lyell. He was predeceased by his parents, Mary Eva and CharlesDahms, brothers Charles, Bill, and Donald, sisters Marie, Helen and Margaret (Sister Marie deLourdes) and sons, Stephen and Gerard. Relatives and friends are invited to a memorial service at the Unitarian Universalist Church at Washington Crossing, 268 Washington Crossing-Pennington Road, Titusville, NJ 08560 on Sunday, March 2, 2014 at 3:00 p.m. In lieu of flowers, donations in his memory may be made to the American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU, 125 Broad Street, 18th Floor, New York NY 10004, www.aclu.org or the Newtown Friends Home and Village in Newtown, PA, Friends Home, 50 South Congress Street, Newtown, PA 18940, www.friendshomeandvillage.org.

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