In Honor of Joy & Paul Arthur

In Honor of Joy and Paul Arthur. White Sands Missile Range Museum Patrons. In January 2016, the White Sands Missile Range Historical Foundation received word from the Joy and Paul Arthur estate that the couple had left a third of a million dollars to the museum. Paul and Joy are well known individuals from the White Sands community as they both worked full careers here spanning many decades. They are the only married couple in the missile range's hall of fame., Over the years many individuals, organizations and businesses have contributed financially to support the museum through the historical foundation. This was the largest single amount ever given and Joy and Paul intended it to help in building a new permanent structure for the museum. The large sum enabled the historical foundation, after many years, to reach its monetary construction goal., Coupled with the generous donations of so many other missile range supporters, the historical foundation quickly contacted the Army and initiated plans to add a new building to the museum's footprint. The exhibit hall houses a new, concise story line for the history of the missile range backed by new exhibits of White Sands artifacts. Thanks to Joy and Paul Arthur, the hall was finished in late 2019., Joy Arthur, an electrical engineer, started work at White Sands in 1958. She was the first female engineer employed at the missile range., Joy spent most of her career with the Army Research Laboratory at White Sands. She was known as a national leader as a researcher in finding the vulnerabilities of Army systems to warfare countermeasures. Her work gave Army leadership confidence that America's young men and women being thrust into harm's way would have the most dependable and best equipment available. She retired in 2005. Her hall of fame title reads, "Research Electronic Engineer.", Paul Arthur was an electrical engineer and started his career at White Sands in 1956. In addition to his civilian missile range time, Paul was in the Naval Reserve and rose to the rank of rear admiral., Paul started in the Missile Flight Safety Office and then moved onto working with test projects. He was more of a manager than researcher and quickly moved up. Eventually he attained the position of technical director and deputy to the commanding general and retired from there in 2004. His hall of fame title reads, "Tester-Director-Mentor."