Joel Barnet BLOOM ²

  Noted events in his life were:

1. Residence: Blacksburg, Virginia. ¹

2. Graduation, 1963, Virginia Polytechnic Institute. ¹ Joel received a degree in naval architecture.

3. Residence: Philadelphia. ¹

4. Profession: Philadelphia Naval Shipyard. ¹ Joel was a naval architect.

5. Profession: US Army Corps of Engineers, Philadelphia. ¹ Joel was a naval architect.

6. Residence: Hampton, Virginia. ¹

7. Employment: U.S. Navy David Taylor Model Basin, Langley AF Base & Bethesda, Virginia. ¹

8. Residence: Alexandria, Virginia. ¹

9. Residence: Chantilly, Virginia. ¹

10. Employment, 1972-1986, Navy Department. ¹ Joel was "chief naval architect and Naval Systems department head."

11. Employment, 1986-2003, Office of the Secretary of Defense, Pentagon, Washington, DC. ^{1 3 4 5} Joel was "in charge of and provided oversight for all operational testing and evaluation...of naval vessels," etc.

My clearest memory of Joel was of a rather large and complex plastic model of an aircraft carrier on which he was working.

I later recall hearing from his mother that he was a GS14.

Joel was the earliest family member who did a family tree.

12. Residence, Nov 3, 2001, Springfield, Virginia. ⁶

13. Profession, 2003-2005, J.J. McMillan Co., Alexandria, Virginia. ¹ Joel was a naval architect.

Joel married June BYINGTON, daughter of Claude Marshall BYINGTON and Georgia NEWMAN, on Dec 15, 1962 in Sparta, North Carolina.¹ (June BYINGTON was born in 1941 in Jonesville, Virginia ^{1 7}.)