"By the time he was in high school, his favorite subject was science, under the direction of department head and Dean of Boys John Grover Crites, a master of science education from Ohio State University."
"Elliot See, the only other civilian in the group besides Armstrong, was a 1949 graduate of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy; just months before becoming an astronaut, he finished a master of science degree at the University of California at Los Angeles."