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Abstract

Maughan Mason first got involved with simulation in 1953 at the White Sands Missile Range, where they had Beckman, Mid-Century, Reeves, Goodyear, and EAI analog equipment. In 1959 he joined ThiocoZ, where he established and managed an analog simulation facility. In 1966 he went digital (sort of) by joining IBM, first at Huntsville and since at Palo Alto. Maughan has been a stalwart of SCS (nee SCi) activities since his Thiocol days, having served as chairman of the Rocky Mountain Simulation Council (which he helped form) and later the Southeastern Simulation Council. He is a Past President (1962-64) and Life Member of our society and has made more valuable contributions to it and to simulation than can be credited here. Along the way, Maughan became interested in and made notable contributions to an allied art (literally), computer-aided art, which he has shown worldwide (and as the frontispiece of this editor's book Simulation, McGraw-HiZZ., 1968).