PS Magazine staff operations recently moved into new offices
in this recently refurbished building on Redstone Arsenal (Huntsville, Alabama). The space
allocated to the publication’s activities faces the second set of windows from
the near-front corner of the building pictured above.
PS has been located at Redstone Arsenal since June
of 1993. Its move there followed a four-step circuitous routing from Aberdeen
Proving Ground, Maryland (June 1951-January 1956) to Raritan Arsenal, New
Jersey (January 1967-October 1962) to Fort Knox, Kentucky (October 1962 to July
1973) to Lexington-Blue Grass Army Depot (July 1973 to June 1993).
The picture below shows
the general PS Magazine
office area.
Stuart Henderson, PS production manager, is pictured, at right, in his new
space, and, below, escorting visitors through the new publication offices.
The picture below shows
the spacious access way outside the PS offices.
These photos were made
available through the courtesy of Creed Henderson, Stuart’s son.
An interesting
footnote—for the first time since the autumn of 1953, the PS Magazine editor (Jon Pierce, ninth in the succession of
editors) has an honest-to-goodness real office, door and all! Sixty years ago,
Jim Kidd, as editor, and I, as his managing editor, made a drastic and
deliberate change to the then existing culture of the publication by converting
the office layout to a newsroom “bullpen” arrangement (as I described in detail
in Will Eisner and PS Magazine).
The PS program continues as an element of the US Army Logistics Support Activity (LOGSA), under the US Army Materiel Command, all located at Redstone Arsenal.
-—p.e.f.
UPCOMING POSTINGS:
¶ The Return of Master Sergeant Bull Dozer
¶ PS Magazine's Immediate Military Commander
¶ A View of PS at the Four-Star Level
¶ Best of PS by Perspective Instructional Communications
¶ A Covey of Connies—World War II to Today
