THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE OF EMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY FALL 2015

SOARING NINETY YEARS • 1926 - 2016 FROM THE INTERIM PRESIDENT

Volume 11, No. 2 Lift, the alumni magazine of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, is published twice annually (spring and fall).

Copyright © 2015 philanthropic investment and research Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Florida/Arizona/Worldwide activity will control our costs while expanding 600 S. Clyde Morris Blvd. Daytona Beach, FL 32114 our ability to prepare students and provide All rights reserved solutions to industry; Senior Vice President of External Relations • Leadership. Placing strong leaders at and Chief Marketing Officer Bill Hampton (‘98, ‘00, DB) our campuses will reorient the President’s Senior Executive Director of Development Office, allowing it to align and act upon Christopher Lambert, J.D. Executive Director of Alumni Relations external partnership opportunities; Bill Thompson (’87, PC) • Academics. Focusing on signature Senior Editorial Director Anthony Brown research areas, enhancing our most viable Editor degree programs and providing enriched Sara Withrow student-life opportunities will prepare Communications Specialists Melanie Stawicki Azam students for a healthy and prosperous Alan Marcos Pinto Cesar

life, characterized by civic engagement, CONTRIBUTORS discovery, adaptability and lifelong learning; Mike Carlson • Globalization. Extending Embry-Riddle’s Yoon Choi, Director of Annual Giving In this issue of , we commemorate the Keith Deaton (’05, ’12, DB), Director of Lift reach in the key emerging aviation markets Alumni Relations approach of Embry-Riddle’s 90th year as in Asia, Latin American and the Middle East Melanie Hanns, Director of University the world’s leader in aviation and aerospace Communications will allow us to equip students with the Molly Justice, Director of Communications, education and training. professional and cultural skills they’ll need Embry-Riddle Worldwide In my several roles that include professor, to excel in today’s more technologically Trish Kabus, Creative Director Jason Kadah, associate dean, associate chancellor, Communications Manager interconnected, globally competitive industry. Paula Kropp, Database Manager associate provost, chancellor, chief operating My goal as interim president will be to Daryl LaBello, Multimedia Producer officer and now interim president, I have ensure that we make substantial progress Thomas S. “Sid” Mann III (‘61, MC, Non-degree) had the fortune of serving Embry-Riddle’s in these areas as we “plant the flag” for the David Massey, Multimedia Producer mission for 25 of those 90 years. In that next phase of our growth and development. Kevin Montgomery, University Archivist time, as you’ll read in this issue, Embry-Riddle Edmund Odartey (’04, ’10, DB), Senior As alumni, you will play a vital role in this Director of Alumni Relations, Daytona Beach has passed many milestones while making progress. Your achievements in industry and Bob Score, Media Production Coordinator steady progress toward the strong position contributions to your university will help Published by McMURRY/TMG, LLC we enjoy today. determine what our university will be in its Senior Content Editor It is from that strong, hard-earned centennial year. Tom Weede Creative Director position that we look to our future—a future And, if the last 10 years are any indication Adele Mulford that will be defined by the “Opportunity of of what’s to come, we should expect to be Senior Art Director Tamara Kopper the Centennial.” extraordinary. I look forward to working with Production Manager Now, within a decade’s reach of our you as we begin this next great chapter in Jenny Babich Production Technology Specialist 100th year, we have the perfect opportunity our university’s history. Sonia Fitzgerald to envision—and ultimately arrive at— Account Manager Mary Jane Sweetland where and what we aspire to be when that Sincerely, centennial arrives. Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity I believe that our progress in the next Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, 10 years will be defined by how well we age, national origin, handicap, veteran’s John R. Watret, Ph.D., FRAeS COVER: STILL-KILRAIN: NASA perform in four key areas: status or sexual orientation. INTERIM PRESIDENT Nonprofit identification: 59-0936101. • Financial strength. Diversifying our Change address, unsubscribe or email the editor at [email protected]. revenue streams through an increase in PRINTED ON RECYCLED PAPER Fall 2015

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IN OTHER WORDS SPECIAL TO THIS ISSUE 5 Miami Memories 20 Onward and Upward Thomas S. “Sid” Mann III (‘61, MC, At the end of a decade of 10 Non-degree), reminisces about his leadership, President Emeritus Embry-Riddle experiences John P. Johnson looks back on an era of innovation and discovery Through WINGS OF LEGACY 6 The Latin American GIVING TO EMBRY-RIDDLE the Decades Department 23 Legacy of Learning A look back at moments in Centenarian “Zalo” Lopez-Garzón James Raisbeck and Raisbeck Embry-Riddle history (’42, MC) was one of the first Engineering endow chair at international students at Embry- Prescott Campus Riddle’s School of Aviation ALUMNI IN ACTION FLIGHT PATH 24 Giving History Its 8 Trailblazer Place Maj. Gen. Stayce Harris Phil Metz (‘81, DB) helps (’87, WW) is proud to walk the path preserve Embry-Riddle’s past set by some of her aviation heroes for future generations

ON THE COVER: 7. John McKay, left, and Miami 13.  Operation Bootstrap 20. Machinist student, circa 1940s 1. Spirit Rock (Prescott Campus) Seaplane Base Banner 14.  Kenneth Tallman 21. Riddle Field, Clewiston, Fla. 2. Norman Knight (‘90, PC) 8. Flying Basketball Squad, 1928 15.  Steve Sliwa 22. Det. 157 Air Force ROTC 3. Jack Hunt 9. John P. Johnson 16. Ernie the Eagle (Daytona Beach Campus) 4. T. Higbee Embry 10.  Isabel McKay 17. Susan L. Still-Kilrain (‘82, DB) 23. International Campus Sign 5. John Paul Riddle 11. George H. Ebbs 18.  ‘Zalo’ Lopez-Garzón 24. 2011 Graduating Class–100,000 6. 2000 National Championship 12. Lockheed F-104 Starfighter No. 19. Professor John Jenkins Alumni Milestone (Daytona Beach Campus) 811 (Prescott Campus) (Prescott Campus)

2 Chatter 4 Feedback 26 Alumni News 32 Class Notes News and notes Embry-Riddle A message from the Find out what READ from the world of alumni and friends Alumni Association, your fellow LIFT Embry-Riddle offer comments upcoming events alumni are up ONLINE! and opinions and more to now JOHNSON: DAVID MASSEY; HARRIS: U.S. AIR FORCE PHOTO/DON PEEK AIR FORCE PHOTO/DON HARRIS: U.S. MASSEY; DAVID JOHNSON:

LIFT FALL 2015 ALUMNI.ERAU.EDU 1 NEWS & NOTES FROM THE WORLD OF EMBRY-RIDDLE Embry-Riddle president retires CHATTER after nearly 12 years of service fter more than a decade of service to the university, Embry-Riddle President and CEO John P. Johnson announced his retirement, effective May 31. ALTIMETER: In 2006, Johnson became Embry- HIGH POINTS AT Riddle’sA fifth university president, after serv- EMBRY-RIDDLE ing as interim president and provost. Under Prescott Campus’ observatory his guidance, the university added dozens was named No. 8 on College Rank.net’s list of the nation’s of degree programs, as well as the nation’s Top 35 Best College Astronomy first doctorate in aviation and first College Observatories. Interim President of Security and Intelligence, and the world’s John R. Watret, left, first commercial space operations degree. Head Coach Steve Ridder was and President Emeritus named Sun Conference Coach John P. Johnson (See related article on page 20.) of the Year. And, DeForest Johnson was named president emeritus Carter (‘15, DB) was named Sun in recognition of his contributions to the Conference Men’s Basketball Player of the Year. The team university. He will continue to act as a university ambassador and a link to the commu- had its best regular season in nity. “I consider Embry-Riddle the pinnacle of my 46-year career,” Johnson says. program history (35-2 overall).

The Daytona Beach Athletics Interim President Named program earned its 16th Embry-Riddle’s Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer WATCH consecutive Sun Conference John R. Watret was named interim president, effective June 1. The retirement celebration video Commissioners Cup, recogniz- Watret, who has been with Embry-Riddle since 1989, is a Fellow ing the best overall program dedicated to in the league. of the Royal Aeronautical Society and executive committee mem- President Emeritus ber of the Global Aerospace Summit Advisory Board. He is also John P. Johnson: The Prescott Golden Eagles an appointed member of the FAA Aviation Aerospace Workforce http://youtu.be/ flight team placed third overall nc09nsmZTwc. and the Daytona Beach Eagles Committee and the University of Florida Online Advisory Board. View photos of flight team tied for fifth at the He holds a Ph.D. and a master’s in mathematics, both from the retirement National Intercollegiate Flying Texas A&M University, and a bachelor’s with honors from Heriot- Association Safety and Flight party: http://on.fb. Evaluation Conference. Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland. A professor and pilot, me/1JQlOHh. he along with wife Elizabeth and daughter Sophie are long-time Prescott Campus’ Phi Beta residents of Ormond Beach, Fla. —Melanie Hanns STUDIO CUP: MICHAEL GOEHRING/IMAGRAFIX MASSEY; DAVID PRESIDENTS: Lambda (PBL) Business Club earned 61 first-place awards at the 2015 PBL Arizona Leadership Conference, out- Embry-Riddle Prescott Athletics Scores Commissioner’s Cup pacing its nearest competitor For the first time in school history, the Embry-Riddle Prescott Eagles Jose Cruz III, 2015 NAIA by 46 first-place awards. Wrestling Individual National topped off a successful athletics year by winning the 2014-15 Cal Champion The 2015 PayScale College ROI Pac Conference Commissioner’s Cup of the National Association of Report ranked Embry-Riddle’s Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA). Prescott Campus No. 1 in The Commissioner’s Cup is awarded to the institution that accumulated Arizona and the Daytona Beach the most points in the previous school year. Points are awarded based on Campus No. 2 in Florida for conference championship finishes, including post-season tournaments. best return on investment for Prescott Campus student-athletes also lead academically. This year, graduates. 17 student-athletes carrying a minimum grade point average of 3.5 (on a 4.0 scale) were named Daktronics-NAIA Scholar-Athletes. Professor William Engblom “We are so proud of the fact that our student-athletes are dominant both and a research team from the Daytona Beach Campus’ on the field and in the classroom,” says Embry-Riddle Prescott Chancellor College of Engineering were Frank Ayers. awarded a $100,000 Phase I Embry-Riddle Prescott’s Athletics Department continues to grow, with NASA Innovative Advanced men’s basketball launching this fall and women’s basketball coming in fall 2016. Concepts grant. —Jason Kadah

2 LIFT FALL 2015 ALUMNI.ERAU.EDU ALTIMETER (CONTINUED) Daytona Beach student- athletes Zac Grotz and Tyler Cyr were drafted by the Students Take Houston Astros and the San Francisco Giants, respectively, during the 2015 Major League Clean Energy Baseball Draft.

Competition Embry-Riddle and the Alliance for System Safety of UAS through Research Excellence to a New Level were selected by the Federal Aviation Administration as mbry-Riddle students are diving EcoCAR 3 the nation’s new Center of deep into diesel emission technol- Another clean energy student proj- Excellence in Unmanned ogy and earning accolades for it. ect at the Daytona Beach Campus, Aircraft Systems. http://bit. ly/1G3HmO1 In April, a multidisciplinary team of the EcoEagles is one of 16 univer- four engineering students enrolled sity teams across North America in the Clean Energy Systems track participating in EcoCAR 3, the latest Eat the Daytona Beach Campus received Department of Energy Advanced Vehicle a $75,000 grant from the Environmental Technology Competition. BY THE NUMBERS Protection Agency to bring its diesel “EcoCAR 3 provides students with emissions test stand to a level of real- a unique opportunity to gain hands-on Where are world application. they now? experience. The team runs like a com- Top states for Marc Compere, associate professor pany: The students get a taste of the real Embry-Riddle of mechanical engineering, says the world while handling the types of proj- Eagles test stand will help automobile manu- ects that they will see much later in their facturers test real-world emissions from careers,” says Patrick Currier, assistant hybrid diesel-electric engines, which professor of mechanical engineering and No. 1 he believes will be necessary to meet the team’s lead faculty adviser. Florida (18,245) strict fuel economy standards in the The EcoEagles have competed in

near future. Emissions are a challenge similar contests since 2008. Later this No. 2 for diesel hybrids, which require selec- year, the team will receive a stock 2016 California (9,166) tive catalyst reduction (SCR) systems to Chevrolet Camaro donated by General meet their targets. Motors for the competition. Their task: “We’re partnering with the engineering to redesign the car into a hybrid-electric No. 3 physics department to apply advanced, vehicle that will reduce environmental Texas (8,949) nonlinear control techniques to improve impact, while maintaining its expected SCR performance,” Compere says. muscle car look and performance. The team won phase one of the It will use one gas-powered, four- No. 4 Virginia (5,656) EPA’s People, Prosperity and the cylinder engine and two electric Planet (P3) competition in 2014 with motors, says Calvin Baker, an its test stand design, earning a $15,000 Embry-Riddle student and EcoCAR 3 No. 5 award. The team used those funds communications manager. Georgia (5,535) to improve the design for this year’s For more: EcoEagles.org. follow-up competition. —Alan Marcos Pinto Cesar

No. 6 Worldwide Campus gains contract for military education in South Korea, Japan Arizona (4,885) Embry-Riddle’s Worldwide The contract allows Embry- director of campus operations Campus started offering face-to- Riddle to provide undergraduate for Embry-Riddle’s Worldwide face aviation degree programs and graduate degree programs Campus, says, “This new award No. 7 to members of the U.S. military to service members and civil- helps us expand our global reach Washington (4,006) stationed at overseas Pacific ians on U.S. military installations by offering degree programs locations in August, with autho- within the Pacific Command’s to the thousands of personnel SOURCE: Embry-Riddle rization from a Department of overseas locations. assigned to this region.” Alumni Database Defense contract. Bob Walton, executive —Molly Justice

LIFT FALL 2015 ALUMNI.ERAU.EDU 3 COMMENTS AND OPINIONS FROM EMBRY-RIDDLE ALUMNI AND FRIENDS Veteran Pride My educational background was very FEEDBACK unique from my classmates. I graduated in 1964 from Tennessee Agricultural & Industrial State University in Nashville, Tenn., with a B.S. in Technical Aeronautics, before enlisting in the U.S. Army. In 1967, I enrolled in Embry-Riddle’s aircraft mainte- FROM THE EDITOR nance program. There were more than 20 students in my class; 19 were vets from the s Embry-Riddle celebrates its 90th Army, Air Force and Navy. anniversary, Lift celebrates its first During our time in school a lot of social decade. Born in the fall of 2005 milestones took place. Dr. Martin L. King Jr. Inaugural edition of Lift, 2005 was assassinated, and George Wallace ran as a 28-page, biannual magazine for president of the United States. We all designed to keep alumni connected to their alma mater and had our opinions on the current events, but our heads were cool and we kept our focus Aaware of opportunities to support its growth, Lift quickly became the on our goals. university’s flagship publication. Today, oury alumni magazine is 10 pages After graduating with my A&P and an associate degree, I took a job at McDonnell larger, and is mailed to 60,000 subscribers. You can also read it online or Douglas Corporation in St. Louis, Mo. on your mobile device. And, this August—to coincide with its first double- Embry-Riddle was the basis for my educa- tional foundation in the aerospace industry, digit anniversary, Lift launched its own dedicated website: lift.erau.edu. and, in 1987, I completed a master’s degree. As always, let us know what you think: [email protected]. This Negro veteran received a great deal of preparation from Embry-Riddle, and —SARA WITHROW, EDITOR I am thankful and blessed. Hats off to a job well done, and, thanks, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. Glenn A. Ball (‘69, DB; ‘87, WW) A.S. Aviation Maintenance Technology Veteran Roots Run Deep object to a particular war or military action. M.S. Aviation Management [Wings of Legacy, Spring 2015] Attacking a student does not demonstrate Strikes a Chord “a sense of patriotism.” It demonstrates a ‘Eagle’-Eyed Alumnus fundamental disrespect for the views of oth- I just got your latest issue of Lift. I noted Article Hits Home ers, and it shows contempt for democracy. on page 1, that Scott Yoak “flies a North The comments made in the article were In the article, Professor Pete Vosbury American P-15 Mustang for a living.” I’ve accurate. I started my education at Embry- (‘69, DB) mentions a vet who responded to never heard of a P-15, but I have heard of a Riddle in Miami in January 1961. My suc- criticism from a fellow student by saying, P-51. I edit Pterogram, the newsletter of the cess and rewards in life are all due to the “indeed, he was trained to kill, but ... his Coast Guard Aviation Association. I’m very well-rounded education that I received at training was used to protect our country and diligent about proofreading. Catching typos Riddle. Who would have thought that when I [the student’s] freedoms.” If your response makes my day. Keep up the great work. received my B.S. in Aeronautical Engineering, to people who burn flags or who have long Retired U.S. Coast Guard Capt. Stephen 33 years later I would retire from a quality hair and earrings is that you fought so that Goldhammer (‘73, WW) assurance management position with a they could have the freedom to do such B.S. Aeronautical Science major electronic defense contractor! things, then don’t complain when they do. David L. Archibald (‘68, DB) Robert Scott Roper (‘87, DB) B.S. Aeronautical Engineering B.S. Aeronautical Science TALK TO US Veteran Actions Questioned EDITOR’S NOTE: To clarify: Wings of Legacy arti- We invite your feedback on Lift The Vietnam War was a divisive issue in the cles are not meant to condone or condemn, content or topics related to the uni- ’60s and ’70s and remains so today. However, but rather to provide an accurate representa- versity. Letters may be edited for there were references in this article that I tion of the events and culture of our univer- style, length and clarity. Submission found unsettling. Specifically, the anecdote sity’s past. Under no circumstances does the does not guarantee publication. about a student who was assaulted by veter- university approve of the described incident, ans who “gave him a ‘very nice’ haircut.” but it does represent the pro-veteran senti- EMAIL: [email protected] An act of violence against a student is ment on campus at the time. Your letter pro- WRITE:  Lift Editor never justified, and it is not something that vides a healthy dose of perspective and an ERAU Alumni Relations should be used in an article to contrast dif- object lesson for a nation that still grapples 600 S. Clyde Morris Blvd. ferences in political opinions. It is possible with supporting its veterans in the wake of Daytona Beach, FL 32114 to be supportive of the U.S. military and still war. Thank you.

4 LIFT FALL 2015 ALUMNI.ERAU.EDU IN OTHER WORDS

Miami Memories

BY THOMAS S. “SID” MANN III (‘61, MC, NON-DEGREE) Thomas S. ‘Sid’ Mann III, It was October 1961, the night before my graduation from October 1961 Embry-Riddle’s Airframe & Powerplant (A&P) Technician course in Miami. Several classmates thought we should leave a class memento, so we assembled a life-sized, stuffed dummy with jeans, shirt and a hat, dangling a few beer cans tied on with string, and it was hoisted up the flagpole facing 27th Avenue. Then Embry-Riddle President Isabel McKay might well have been the first person to see it from her pent - house in the Aviation Building the next morning. The “several classmates” quickly dissolved into one other student and me, and we were promptly invited to Mrs. McKay’s residence. We could see our young lives flash before us, until she accepted our apology and allowed us to graduate. I came to Embry-Riddle 16 months earlier from Massachusetts. After a month in the dorm, I rented a house with two students: one from Greece and the other from Lebanon. About 15 percent of our class were international After graduating, Harold and I got jobs at Avex, a Fixed students. My saddest time at Riddle was when my Lebanese Base Operator (FBO) at the original Tamiami Airport. On our friend died in a Miami hospital from a misdiagnosed first day, the manager led us out the back door where a Twin ruptured appendix. Beech was sitting on the grass. He said, “We have to paint Every month or so we would have mixers. Some were this airplane; you guys have to sand it.” Our introduction to straight-laced dancing events at Barry College for Women in the world of aviation mechanics began with hand sanding Miami Shores, now Barry University. We mixed better with a Twin Beech for about a week or so. the students at Miami’s Jackson Memorial Hospital School of My career at the FBO lasted two months at most. I had Nursing. They would host us on the flat hospital roof with a matured enough to recognize that family was important, so I record player for dancing and the romantic Miami skyline as returned to Massachusetts to do logging and sawmill work. a backdrop. At Embry-Riddle I came to appreciate the order of magni- Crandon Park at nearby Biscayne Key had a segregated tude difference in aviation mechanic disciplines, compared beach at the time. Some weekends there were peaceful “swim- with the work I had completed in shop class at high school, or ins” and it would make the local headlines. During that time, I the maintenance on my 1928 Model A Ford. I learned that study had a black student friend, Sidney Meyers, from Jamaica. One and perseverance are needed to accomplish one’s goals. The day, six to eight of us went up to Hallandale Beach for a swim. vehicles and power equipment used in harvesting, drying, mill- Boys being boys, Sidney and I started wrestling on the sand. ing and selling lumber need proper care as well, and after com - After a few minutes, he had me well pinned and I gave up. As pleting my A&P, I had new confidence in my skills. To this day, I I stood up, I noticed a few other people had gathered around, call into use bits of knowledge that I absorbed at Embry-Riddle. perhaps thinking it was a racial incident. Of course it was not, I sure did get my money’s worth! I eventually became manager just two friends horsing around. of the family lumber business, which my son now runs. One night, a classmate, Harold Hernandez, and I went to All things change, and we with time, but my Embry-Riddle the Miami International Airport (MIA) terminal and rang the experience was a very valuable asset in understanding life, tower buzzer. A voice over the speaker responded, and we people and myself over the years. said we were Embry-Riddle students and wanted to come up and look around. We were acknowledged, “Come on up,” and EDITOR’S NOTE: Mann resides in Sarasota, Fla., with his wife, buzzed in, and we climbed the stairs to witness the spectacle Sandra Trivino. He has three adult sons. For the past eight years of MIA’s tower operation at night. We were in heaven. he has worked part time as a building supervisor.

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LIFT FALL 2015 ALUMNI.ERAU.EDU 5 WINGS OF LEGACY The Latin American Department Centenarian ‘Zalo’ Lopez-Garzón (’42, MC) was one of the first international students at Embry-Riddle’s School of Aviation

The recipient of an Inter-American Aviation Training Program (IAATP) scholarship, Lopez-Garzón immediately feared the worst. “That was the end of the picnic, the end of my aspirations. I went to the embassy and I asked, ‘Will this cancel my scholarship?’ and they said, ‘No, everything goes on in war.’” Lopez-Garzón, who celebrated his 100th birthday in February and is believed to be Embry-Riddle’s oldest living alumnus, was one of 526 students representing countries from all over Central and South America who came to Embry-Riddle in 1941-42 under the federally funded IAATP. Though multiple schools were involved in the program, he picked Embry-Riddle. “The reason I insisted on going to this school in Miami is that the Embry-Riddle School of Aviation was the first international coming together of people from so many countries for the service of aero- nautics in the United States,” he says. Embry-Riddle Archivist Kevin Montgomery confirms Lopez-Garzón’s recollection. Students participating in the IAATP were the first recorded international students to attend Embry-Riddle. Contracted through the Civil Aeronautics Administration and the U.S. State Department, the program created a new education section at the Embry- Riddle Technical School: the Latin American Department. The new department provided a dual education program training both students from South America and U.S. citizens who planned to seek jobs in South America. The students BY ALAN MARCOS PINTO CESAR learned about all aspects of the ground phase of aviation, including power plants, welding, sheet metal, instruments Above, in ascending n the first Sunday in December 1941, Gonzalo and radio. The scholarship provided 2,300 hours of training order: Gonzalo Lopez-Garzón, fourth “Zalo” Lopez-Garzón (‘42, MC) was hosting a over a 16-month term. from left, with other party at a park near his home in Buenos Aires, Latin American Argentina. The celebration, complete with music International Yearbook students attending Embry-Riddle; from his portable radio, was to mark his upcom- It was a dream come true for Lopez-Garzón. The native Lopez-Garzón’s ing departure for the United States to study at Argentinian had been interested in aviation technology Civil Aeronautics Administration Embry-Riddle. Suddenly, from his radio came since he was a child, and he adored American culture, too. identification card a surprise announcement. “They said Japan A gregarious student, he took it upon himself to create the and his Embry-Riddle has attacked the United States at Pearl Harbor,” first-known, student-produced Embry-Riddle class year- diploma. OLopez-Garzón recalls. book. “I had a book and at the end of the courses I asked 6 LIFT FALL 2015 ALUMNI.ERAU.EDU everyone from my core of students for a picture, and everyone wrote MYSTERY HISTORY something about our friendship,” he says. He recently donated the CONTEST leather-bound book to the Embry-Riddle archives as a memorial of its first international students. “The notion of internationality, in my estimation it started right What were there. Embry-Riddle became an international school, but it started with two popular us,” says Lopez-Garzón. “I felt that one day these students should be names for the recognized as the origin of the internationality of the university.” Dean Emeritus Bob Rockett, who led the creation of the university Embry-Riddle archives during his 35-year tenure at Embry-Riddle, says the wartime Aviation Building, training of students from other countries helped put Embry-Riddle which housed on the map and was a significant milestone in the life of what would the School become the world’s largest aviation university. “Zalo was enrolled of Aviation in Embry-Riddle during the most important years of our history. The training of international students during the war took us from a Technical School little for-profit corporation into the university that we are today, and in Miami? the people who built that foundation came from all over the world,” Rockett says.

Career Switch Lopez-Garzón received his diploma in Instructor Mechanics on May 7, Are you an Embry-Riddle history buff? 1943. He returned to Argentina in December of that year, after com- Then here’s your chance to show us your pleting an additional six months of on-the-job training in instrumenta- stuff! Enter our Mystery History Contest for tion repair at Embry-Riddle. Soon after taking a job in the Airframe and a chance to win a copy of Forever an Eagle: Engines Division of the Dirección General del Material Aeronautíco, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University – A he was appointed to lead the Instruments Department. In 1956, he Pictorial History. began teaching aeronautical instrumen- tation classes at the National School of TO WIN: Search the University Archives Aeronautics in Argentina. online (erau.edu/about/archives) for the In addition to aviation, Lopez-Garzón correct answer. Send your response to the had a penchant for interior design. When an opportunity arose in Miami for him email address on the archives webpage and to showcase his design skills, he took a your name will be entered into a random leap of faith. “This design exhibition in drawing held after Sept. 30. Miami invited designers from different countries to come. I participated in the Tarun Patel (’07, WW) of New Jersey is the exhibition, and I won with a portable bar winner of the spring 2015 Mystery History that I designed. From there on I was very Contest. Patel correctly identified retired successful,” he says. WATCH Maj. Gen. Donald J. Strait (HonDoc ’86; ’42, MC, Upon discovering that interior design A video Non-degree) as an Embry-Riddle alumnus was his “true calling,” he pursued it with dedicated by his who is also a flying ace. Strait did his basic a passion. His proudest accomplishment adult children to their flight training in the P-17 at Embry-Riddle Field was to work with Maurice Gusman, a father’s legacy: A gift in Union, Tenn. He went on to complete two Miami philanthropist who chose Lopez- to Zalo Lopez-Garzón combat tours and 122 missions in the P-47 and Garzón to design his Key Biscayne con- on his 100th birthday: P-51 during World War II. He was the leading dominium. Lopez-Garzón’s work became http://youtu.be/ renowned internationally, as well. One of PT0DTBE0XoM ace of the 356th Fighter Group with 13 1/2 his favorite overseas projects was a man- victories. In 1989, he was inducted into the sion built on Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela. New Jersey Aviation Hall of Fame. Another His achievements in the field earned him a lifetime membership alumnus/flying ace is the late Norman “Bud” to the American Society of Interior Designers. In 1972, he retired and Fortier (’43, MC, Non-degree), who trained at took up another hobby: travelling with his wife, Ofelia, now deceased. Embry-Riddle’s Dorr Field. “We traveled to every part of the world except Asia. The farthest east we went was Egypt. The best part of my life was to be able to travel,” Embry-Riddle’s Archives department is he says. dedicated to preserving the memories Lopez-Garzón celebrated his 100th birthday on Feb. 23, 2015, and artifacts belonging to the university’s almost 72 years after graduating from Embry-Riddle. “My brother rich history. lived to 102 years old. Longevity runs in my family,” he says.

EDITOR’S NOTE: Wings of Legacy: The History of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (2010), by Alan R. Bender and Stephen G. Craft, was used as a Explore Embry-Riddle’s past at reference for this article. erau.edu/about/archives.

LIFT FALL 2015 ALUMNI.ERAU.EDU 7 FLIGHT PATH

Trailblazer Maj. Gen. Stayce Harris (’87, WW) of the Air Force Reserve is proud to walk the path set by some of her aviation heroes

BY MIKE CARLSON

ne look at the resume of Maj. Gen. Stayce Harris (‘87, WW) and it’s easy to assume that a career as a military pilot was predes- tined. The daughter of an Air Force techni- cal sergeant, she grew up moving across Retired Brig. Gen. Steven Roser, who became the United States every few years and even a mentor to Harris after she served under his com- spent a handful of tours living overseas. mand in the 14th Military Airlift Squadron, says In high school she began to plot her own there’s an “institutional bias” that can creep into career in the Air Force and was awarded any organization. When a candidate doesn’t look an Air Force ROTC scholarship attending like someone’s preconceived idea of a leader, it can the University of Southern California. be challenging for that person to find acceptance, OBut in her freshman year, an ROTC instructor he explains. Without a precedent of female African- encouraged her to compete for a scholarship for American aviators, Harris was forced to create her undergraduate pilot training. The opportunity was own beachhead within the Air Force. a revelation for her. Until then, she had assumed a “A lot of the life lessons that I have had, I learned career as an engineer would be her role in the Air them early,” she says. “And I am grateful. You have Force, but here was an avenue to travel the world, to trust in yourself and be persistent in your goals no one of her life’s passions, and as the pilot. matter what others may think.” “It was an ‘aha’ moment because this was the Since her undergraduate degree was in engi- first time the Air Force was allowing women in col- neering, Harris wanted to broaden her aviation aper- lege to apply for pilot training,” says Harris. “They ture and learn more than just piloting. She enrolled had already chosen women on active duty to receive in a master’s of aviation management program at the training but we were the first wave of women the Embry-Riddle Campus at Norton Air Force Base, graduating from college [to participate]. I competed Calif. Her experience at Embry-Riddle led to Harris for that scholarship and was accepted. And that developing an important part of her persona and started my life becoming a pilot.” what has become a defining facet of her career: teaching and mentoring others. Female Aviators “One of the greatest benefits was that I was able Women and minorities are historically underrepre- to become an adjunct professor at Embry-Riddle. I sented among military pilots. When Harris began her could give back some of the knowledge and experi- flight training in the early 1980s, she was one of the ences to those earning their bachelor’s degrees,” first African-American female pilots her instructors she says. “Embry-Riddle’s giving me that opportu-

met. This experience was not without its challenges. nity was unique. I really enjoyed that experience.” PEEK AIR FORCE PHOTO/DON U.S.

8 LIFT FALL 2015 ALUMNI.ERAU.EDU Sisters-In- Arms In March 2011, Maj. Gen. Margaret “Maggie” Woodward (’97, WW) made history as the first woman to lead a combat air campaign when she commanded the no-fly zone over Libya, known as Operation Odyssey Dawn. At the same time, then-Brig. Gen. Stayce Harris (’87, WW) served as the Mobilization Assistant to the Commander of U.S. Africa Command. It wasn’t the first time these Embry- Riddle University alum- nae had worked together toward a common cause. “Maggie Woodward Maj. Gen. Stayce Harris is pictured with one of the C-130 Hercules and I go back earlier than aircraft she directs as commander of that,” says Harris. “There the 22nd Air Force, Air Force Reserve was a time at Andrews Command. The aircraft flies a variety of missions to include aerial spraying, Air Force Base when I Hurricane Hunters, troop transport was the commander of and fire suppression. the 459th Air Refueling Wing, Air Force Reserve; Maggie was the com- mander of the 89th Airlift Her Place in History aviator to attain the rank of brigadier general in Wing, Active Duty; and Harris left active duty in 1990 to pursue concur- the Air Force. Last year, she was named the Brig. Gen. Linda McTague rent careers in the Air Force Reserve and as an first female in the Air Force Reserve to lead a was the commander international pilot for United Airlines. With her numbered air force when she was named the of the 113th Wing, Air love of service and unquenchable thirst for travel, commander of 22nd Air Force, Air Force Reserve National Guard. All of us she describes her dual roles as “the best of both Command. She is officially a reservist on full-time were serving at Andrews worlds.” She also became active in organizations orders and has taken a leave of absence with at the same time and we that promote the contributions of female and United Airlines. had great camaraderie.” African-American aviators. “She made it on talent. And she made it During Operation “I consider myself a part of the legacy of trail- despite all kinds of biases,” says Roser, who flew Odyssey Dawn, blazers: the legacy of the Tuskegee Airmen and to Las Vegas at his own expense to see Harris get Woodward, now of the Women Airforce Service Pilots,” she says. pinned with her first star, designating her rank of retired, was stationed “They blazed the trail and I am proud to walk that brigadier general at the time. “And how did she do at Ramstein Air Base path and encourage others to do the same and it? By performing. It’s that simple.” in Germany, while follow their passion.” Harris served from the Harris feels a duty to tell the stories of her Pentagon. The distance predecessors. She believes it is these stories did not diminish Harris’ that will ultimately open the eyes of youth to appreciation for her new worlds of opportunity. She can already “It is wonderful that young fellow history-making see the difference in the next generation of people nowadays don’t see Embry-Riddle graduate. potential pilots. “Maggie and I see each “It is wonderful that young people nowadays any limits to what they want other at conferences and don’t see any limits to what they want to do. to do. And they see more I still applaud her to this And they see more people who look like them day for the great work in the careers that they aspire to,” she says. people who look like them she did leading at that Harris is characteristically quick to praise the in the careers that they time,” says Harris. “She is accomplishments of others but she will have a phenomenal person.” her own entry in the history books. In 2009, aspire to.” she became the first African-American female —MAJ. GEN. STAYCE HARRIS (’87, WW)

LIFT FALL 2015 ALUMNI.ERAU.EDU 9 THROUGH THE DECADES: MOMENTS IN EMBRY-RIDDLE HISTORY

oday, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University is 1926 1927 synonymous • NOVEMBER • T Embry-Riddle with aviation and aerospace secures the around the world. But it wasn’t U.S. Post Office always that way. What began Air Mail contract in 1926 with a businessman, for service from Cincinnati to a barnstormer and a WACO T. Higbee Embry Chicago. on a modest airstrip in southern Ohio would take decades of ups and downs before soaring to become the world’s leader in aviation and aerospace education. With a colorful cast of thousands, set against the turbulence of a corporate merger, a World War and a couple of natural disasters thrown in for John Paul Riddle 1928 good measure, the last 90 years • JULY 29 • Embry-Riddle holds its first at Embry-Riddle have been an graduation exercises. adventure like no other. Like aviation itself, it would take clear T. Higbee Embry and John Paul Riddle sign a contract on Dec. 17, 1925, to form a company in their names at Lunken Field in Cincinnati, and unwavering vision, a gift for Ohio, with Embry as president and Riddle as general manager. The reinvention and a tolerance for company became known as “Cincinnati’s first aviation corporation risk to make Embry-Riddle the to amount to anything.” The Embry-Riddle Flying School begins operating in spring 1926, gaining notoriety a year later after training great university it is today. Here student Frank Shelton to fly solo in only 5 hours and 34 minutes—believed are the key moments that show to be the shortest amount of time at that point. The company slogan you how we made it happen. becomes “If it’s flying we do it; if it’s airplanes, we have them.”

‘FOOTPRINTS’ 1966 1968 President Jack Hunt Doolittle Hall, the A reflection of Embry-Riddle’s announces a 10-year first brick and mortar growth and change, as seen through building program building to be built on its expanding facilities footprint to accommodate the Daytona Beach 6,000 students at Campus, is erected the Daytona Beach (62,325 square feet). Campus.

10 LIFT FALL 2015 ALUMNI.ERAU.EDU 1929 • 1941 • % % % % % % March 22 1940 Embry-Riddle opens the Embry-Riddle’s Flying new Carlstrom Field, the School becomes one of the first first of five fields estab- • OCT. 18 • five schools in the lished for training pilots The first edition of the country to receive (1941-45) for the U.S. Army Embry-Riddle Fly Paper, an “Approved School Air Corps/Army Air Forces a weekly newsletter Certificate” under the and British Royal Air Force. published by the Air Commerce Act. The latter were trained pri- administration from 1940 marily at the No. 5 British to 1957, is produced Flying Training School, and distributed. which opened in • Clewiston, Fla., in 1942, and • NOVEMBER • operated under the 1941 Embry-Riddle expands its Federal Lend-Lease Act. technical school, renames it the Embry-Riddle School • APRIL • of Aviation and moves the Embry-Riddle Aviation Corporation is formed as NOVEMBER part of an agreement of Embry-Riddle establishes the Escola acquisition by the Aviation Técnica de Aviação in São Paulo, Corporation (AVCO). The Brazil, to train Brazilian cadets next year AVCO forms in basic aircraft construction American Airways and and maintenance. In 1944, the Embry-Riddle division operation to the former John McKay buys out John is ultimately absorbed by Fritz Hotel. In 1942, the U.S. Paul Riddle’s interests this new entity. Army Service Command in the Embry-Riddle establishes a training Company, while Riddle detachment at the school. retains interest in the Brazilian school, which in 1946 • OCTOBER • transitions to a John Paul Riddle partners nationally operated with attorney John McKay and school. 19 the Embry-Riddle Company is reborn as a seaplane base in Miami with two planes, one flight instructor and one 1944 39 maintenance man. Shortly thereafter, Riddle enters into agreement with the University of Miami to train college students to fly under the 1939 Civilian Pilot Training Program; he leases a hangar at Municipal Airport and expands the training fleet to 15 aircraft.

Isabel McKay

• OCTOBER • • JAN. 1 • Embry-Riddle becomes John McKay one of the first aviation dies and his wife, schools to train veterans Isabel McKay, under the GI Bill®. becomes president of Embry-Riddle.

1968 1970 1971 Aug. 9, the cornerstone for the new $1.4 million July 6, the first The Gill Robb Wilson Flight Center Lindbergh Academic Complex (later called Alphabet Residence Center, the is constructed at the Daytona Soup) is laid at the Daytona Beach Campus. precursor to today’s Beach Campus (29,687 Construction of buildings A, B, C, E, W, the annexes Worldwide Campus, is square feet). Demolished and offices is completed by 1980 (59,613 square feet). established at the U.S. in 2009 and replaced Demolished in 2012 to make way for construction of Army Aviation Center by the new Hagedorn the new College of Arts & Sciences building. in Fort Rucker, Ala. Aviation Complex. 11 • APRIL 23-25 • Embry-Riddle moves from Miami to Daytona Beach, Fla., in what was termed For look at Embry-Riddle’s an interactive storied past, visit the Lift website: lift.erau.edu. GET ALL THE BELLS AND WHISTLES “Operation Bootstrap,” with assistance and support from members of the Daytona Beach community. Just 1956 weeks later, the school reopens Chandler Titus, Embry-Riddle faculty (1953-2006), in Daytona establishes the Embry-Riddle Engine Repair Station as a Beach. means of providing the school’s airframe and powerplant (A&P) students hands-on aircraft maintenance training on certificated airworthy engines that after overhaul • 1966 • would be used within the school’s fleet of flight training At the urging of President Jack Hunt a group of alumni officially form aircraft. To this day, Embry-Riddle continues to be the the Embry-Riddle Alumni Association and apply for nonprofit status with only university that operates an FAA-certified Part 145 the state of Florida. The first Alumni Reunion is held three years later Powerplant Repair Station to facilitate and enhance in 1969 at the Daytona Beach Campus. its A&P student training. In recognition of Titus’s contributions to the university, upon his retirement, the engine repair station was dedicated the “Chandler Titus Engine Repair Station.” 1967 • 1957 • U.S. Navy Cmdr. Embry-Riddle becomes a member Jack Hunt, who would of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics become Embry-Riddle’s 1962 and begins competing in statewide baseball, firstuniversity president, basketball, soccer and wrestling events. pilots the longest nonstop, nonrefueled trans-Atlantic flight in a blimp (9,400

Jack Hunt

• JAN. 1 • statute miles), earning Isabel McKay a Distinguished Flying resigns as president Cross and the 1958 to become chairman Harmon International of ERAI’s Trophy (Aeronaut) for Board of Trustees; his achievement. Jack Hunt • 1959 • is hired to lead • 1968-1969 • Embry-Riddle Embry-Riddle and The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Aeronautical Institute the Hunt Era begins. accredits Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Institute as a (ERAI) is established as a “special purpose institution.” nonprofit corporation.

1973 1975 1984 1986 Oct. 29, the first European Construction of the The Jack R. Hunt Memorial Library The Flight Operations Residence Center opens at $2 million John Paul opens at the Daytona Beach Campus building is constructed the U.S. Army installation in Riddle University Center (47,368 square feet). Demolished in at the Daytona Beach Mannheim (Coleman Barracks), is completed at the July 2015 to make way for a new Campus (5,023 square Germany. Daytona Beach Campus comprehensive library and student feet). Demolished in 2010 (84,133 square feet). union (expected completion 2017). in anticipation of the new Hagedorn Aviation Complex.

12 LIFT FALL 2015 ALUMNI.ERAU.EDU 1965 • APRIL 23 – 25 Operation Bootstrap

IN 1963, NEWLY HIRED PRESIDENT Committee of 100, suggested Jack Jack Hunt knew that in order to call [Daytona Beach City Manager] thrive, Embry-Riddle needed a Norm Hickey. Norm thought it was cohesive campus with direct access a great idea. Besides, they had all of to a runway. With its facilities scat- these old World War II buildings at tered from Opa-locka and Tamiami the airport that could be used.” Airport to 27th Avenue in downtown The Daytona Beach City Miami, Hunt started searching for a Commission voted favorably to lease new home for Embry-Riddle. When 82.5 acres near the airport to Embry- Dade County announced it planned Riddle, with an option to purchase. to close Tamiami Airport, the move Former Daytona Beach City became inevitable. Manager Norm Hickey: “I thought Embry-Riddle had BACKSTORY tremendous potential. I went down Philip “Phil” Elliott Jr. (HonDoc ’04; to the Miami Campus for a visit and ’72, DB, Non-degree), Embry-Riddle there really wasn’t much to see. But I Trustee Emeritus; former member liked Jack Hunt. I felt through Jack’s of the Committee of 100, a group of leadership there was much more Daytona Beach businessmen and the university could accomplish and city leaders organized to bring indus - become, and that the impact of the try and jobs to the area; and former university’s future growth would Embry-Riddle attorney: grow the Daytona Beach community.” “In 1964, Jack Hunt came to Daytona Beach looking for a place to THE MOVE relocate ERAI. I wasn’t on board at first. Moving Embry-Riddle to Daytona I saw the function of the committee Beach was a daunting task, espe- as bringing in commercial businesses, cially because the school had not schools, and I was skeptical at limited finances. The Committee first of Embry-Riddle’s ability to make of 100 and the Jaycees, a local civic it financially. After meeting with group, rallied the community to Jack, I came around. Jack wanted help and the effort became known to temporarily locate in old Naval as “Operation Bootstrap.” the College of Engineering, was a Air Station buildings at the Daytona Jay Adams: student at the time: Beach Airport and to build the new “It meant ‘by the skin of your “At the beginning of the first tri- campus at the Ormond Beach Airport. teeth.’ It was a term people used mester in 1965, a group of us were The attorney who represented both because they knew it was grass standing outside the Embry-Riddle Ormond Beach and Daytona Beach roots, for sure, and it was done by bookstore in Miami, waiting for it to had doubts about the prospects sweat equity and volunteer labor, open. It was there that we saw a notice for the success of ERAI. Relying on and other people’s gasoline and on the corkboard. It read: ‘Notice: As of his advice, the Ormond Beach City trucks. But we felt like we were get - April, 1965, the University will be mov- Commission required certain lease ting something. We were starved for ing to Daytona Beach.’ There was no terms that Jack could not accept." employers and payrolls.” explanation—just ‘We’re moving!’ John C. “Jay” Adams The move began on April 25, 1965, “Many of the students chose not (HonDoc ’08), Embry-Riddle Trustee and was completed three days later. to stay. We had something like 400 Emeritus and former member of Jim Ladesic (’67, DB), who later students enrolled in Miami, but only the Committee of 100: became an Embry-Riddle profes - 283 made it to Daytona—I was one “When Ormond Beach balked, sor and is now associate dean of who made it.” Gary Cunningham, president of the industry relations and outreach for —Sara Withrow

1986 1989 1990 The International Campus moves its October, the Wright NASA donates offices, pictured left, from Bunnell, Fla., Flyer sculpture Lockheed F-104 to Beville Road at Williamson Boulevard is erected at the Starfighter No. 811 in Daytona Beach, the current location of Daytona Beach to the Prescott Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s Campus. Campus. Worldwide Campus headquarters.

LIFT FALL 2015 ALUMNI.ERAU.EDU 13 1978 • AUGUST A Vision for a Western Campus

EMBRY-RIDDLE PRESIDENT JACK HUNT LIKED TO come inherited from the old Prescott College and everything was into his office on Saturdays and open his own mail. One such brown; there was no grass. But we had such a pride and a love Saturday, he noticed a flyer from the U.S. Steelworkers organiza - for this little out-of-the-way place. It was a new endeavor, a tion advertising a “bargain” deal on a 500-plus acre property— new enterprise, and people wanted to be a part of it.” the former home of Prescott College in Prescott, Ariz., which had gone bankrupt. A lienholder on the property, the organization FIRST STUDENTS was seeking an investor. Hunt immediately saw potential in the Steve Kirsch (’80, PC), now a pilot at United Air Lines, was one of land and its collection of abandoned buildings as a prep school the first students to enroll at the new campus. He had spent one for students who struggled with academics; but that idea never year at the Daytona Beach Campus and remembered how differ - took off. Instead, Hunt would find his answer in the overflow ent Prescott was: of flight students at the Daytona Beach Campus and the area’s “You are in the desert; it’s dirty and dry. Then during orienta- 300-plus sunny flying days per year, a perfect combination tion, the nurse says, ‘This is what you do if you get bit by a rattle - resulting in a ready pool of aeronautical science applicants for snake, a tarantula, a scorpion.’” the new campus. But he quickly fell in love with the area’s natural beauty and low-key lifestyle. He and friend Mike Honey (’82, PC) started a THE PRESCOTT PLAN rugby team that competed against other university members Trustee Emeritus John C. “Jay” Adams (HonDoc ’08) remembers: of the Arizona Rugby Union; and Kirsch ended up working at “We had so many flight students coming to Daytona, that most of Prescott’s local restaurants and bars to support himself we told them, ‘You can register for aeronautical science, but through school. you won’t be able to fly until January; however, if you go to “There was no liquor license, so you couldn’t drink a beer Prescott, you’ll be able to fly immediately.’ That’s how it really on campus. So we had keggers. We would get a keg, go off started and then we added engineering out there, and one somewhere and make a bonfire. And the most amazing thing thing and another.” was you’d look up and see every star you could imagine.” Peg Billson (’84, PC), president and CEO of BBA Aviation THE PIONEERS Aftermarket Services, remembers how the decision was made John Jenkins, now a tenured professor, was teaching math - for her to attend the Prescott Campus: ematics part time at Embry-Riddle’s Daytona Beach Campus “I’m graduating from high school in Maryland and it’s time when he was hired as the first faculty member for the Prescott for me to go to Embry-Riddle, and naturally Daytona Beach is Campus. Arriving in the summer of 1978, he recalls opening a lot closer to Maryland than Prescott, Arizona. the campus for its first class of 240 students, five of whom "I argued with my parents about going to Florida over were women: Arizona for months. Then my dad came back from a business “It looked like a ghost town. We had all of eight faculty." trip in Daytona Beach over spring break (in the 1970s!). He Sarah Thomas, director of library services and a 35-year walked through the door, pointed at me and said, ‘You are going employee at the Prescott Campus, arrived in 1980. to Arizona!’ Prescott just fit me like a glove.” “There were the little slump stone brick buildings that were —Melanie Stawicki Azam

1995 1995 1995 1995 The ICI Center/Field The Capt. Willie Miller The Lehman Engineering Robertson Aviation House is constructed Instructional Center, and Technology Center Safety Center is at the Daytona pictured left, opens is built at the Daytona constructed at the Beach Campus at the Daytona Beach Beach Campus (127,706 Prescott Campus (67,559 square feet). Campus (20,415 square square feet). (7,255 square feet). feet).

14 LIFT FALL 2015 ALUMNI.ERAU.EDU • 1975 - 1979 • Embry-Riddle’s College Steve 1970 Sliwa of Continuing Education opens 15 European Residence Centers and 20 • JUNE 9 • U.S. Residence Centers Embry-Riddle • 1977 • Aeronautical Institute The Daytona Beach becomes Embry-Riddle Campus forms the office of Aeronautical University. Graduate Studies to assist It touts a two-college in the management of Virginia-area Worldwide faculty and staff, circa 1997 structure: Aeronautical graduate degrees offered Studies and Aviation through the university’s Technology. College of Continuing REMOTE LEARNING PLANTS SEEDS FOR Education and partner universities/consortia. EMBRY-RIDDLE WORLDWIDE • July 6 • The first Residence Center is established at the U.S. Army Aviation Center in Fort Rucker, Ala., to assist military students in attaining credits for the purpose of future matriculation to the university’s home campus. Two similar centers open later that year: Fort Stewart/Hunter Army Airfield in Alabama, and Fort Wolters, Texas; and in 1971, a fourth center opens at Fort Eustis, Va. In 1973, the Residence Center operation is renamed the College of Continuing Education and its students are no longer required to matriculate to the main campus to complete their degrees.

Air Force ROTC Detachment 157 Jack Thompson, director of the Embry-Riddle Worldwide Campus debuts as the first ROTC program at at Fort Eustis, Va., started as an adjunct faculty member at the Embry-Riddle. Fort Eustis Residence Center in 1974. Recalling those early days, Above: Three of the first African-Americans he says: “From 1974 to 2001, the classes were held in World War to graduate from Det. 157, circa 1982 II ‘temporary’ buildings. Each building had two classrooms on the first floor and one classroom upstairs. Both floors had 8-inch • 1973 • • 1978 • square posts throughout the rooms and some of the students had Embry-Riddle’s College AUGUST to peer around the posts while I conducted class. They weren’t of Continuing Education Embry-Riddle’s Prescott made for classrooms, but for bunks and soldiers. [Furthermore] at begins offering the Campus opens in Arizona university’s first graduate- with 240 students. times you had to stop teaching if your class was on the level program, an M.S. first floor, because you were being drowned out by the boots • 1979 • in Aviation Management, on the stairway to the second floor.” Time magazine article calls through a partnership Embry-Riddle the with the Miami “Harvard of the Sky.” Education Consortium and Biscayne College. President Jack Hunt implements what he calls a “new single university – multiple campus concept” 1 that divides the university into three campuses: the Daytona Beach Campus, the Prescott Campus 9 and the International Campus (later becoming the Worldwide Campus), which includes professional 7 programs, the College of Graduate Studies, the College of Continuing Studies and the External 9 Degree (Independent Studies) Program. BARRY UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES AND SPECIAL COLLECTIONS ARCHIVES UNIVERSITY BARRY

1995 1998 2002 The King Engineering The Villages The College of and Technology Residence Hall Aviation building, Center, pictured (Juniper, Manzanita, pictured left, is left, opens at the Saguaro and The built at the Daytona Prescott Campus Dells) is built at the Beach Campus (20,156 square feet). Prescott Campus (75,313 square feet). (64,813 square feet).

LIFT FALL 2015 ALUMNI.ERAU.EDU 15 1986 APRIL Popular entertainer and comedian 1 Bob Hope delivers the keynote address at the spring commencement ceremony at the Daytona Beach Campus.

Kenneth • 1995 • 9 Tallman The College of Continuing Education/International Campus changes its name JAN. 7 to Extended Campus, 8 Jack Hunt passes away which comprises more and Kenneth Tallman than 100 residence becomes president centers and teaching sites of the university. in 32 U.S. states and five 4 European countries. • 1997 • • 1982 • Susan L. Still-Kilrain International Campus ('82, DB) becomes the first enrollment surpasses both • 1992 • Embry-Riddle alumna/ the Daytona Beach The Daytona Beach Eagles Flight Team wins its NASA astronaut to and the Prescott first National Intercollegiate Flying Association’s go to space campuses with (NIFA) Safety and Flight Evaluation National (STS-83 Columbia). championship. In 1993, the Prescott Golden Eagles Flight Team wins its first NIFA Safety and Susan L. Flight Evaluation National Championship. To date Still-Kilrain students. the Golden Eagles team has tallied nine national • 1987 • championships. The Daytona Beach Campus offers its first graduate programs: M.S. in Aeronautical Engineering, MBA – Aviation, M.S. in Aviation Management and Master Steve Sliwa of Aeronautical Science. • 1998 • • 1991 • Prescott Campus launches George H. Ebbs Steve Sliwa the M.S. in Business becomes becomes president Administration, M.S. in president of of Embry-Riddle Aviation Management and Embry-Riddle. Aeronautical University. the Master of Aeronautical STILL-KILRAIN: NASA Science. • Embry-Riddle’s Daytona George H. Ebbs Beach Campus is reinstated as a member of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics, The wrestling club, which formed in 1988 at the Prescott Campus, becomes that following a 10-year campus’ first intercollegiate sport, competing as a member of the National hiatus of inactivity, and Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA). In 1997, women’s sports begins competing in men’s begin at the Prescott Campus with volleyball. In 1998, Chance Farrar basketball, baseball, (’00, PC) becomes the Prescott Campus’ first NAIA Individual soccer, tennis and golf. National Champion in Wrestling. Seven more NAIA Women’s sports begin in individual wrestling championships would follow. The most 1995 with volleyball. recent was awarded in 2015 to student Jose Cruz III.

2004 2004 2005 2006 The Spirit The Observatory Academic Prescott Campus’ Rock is Complex opens Complex 1 is Visitor Center/ installed at at the Prescott constructed at Administration the Daytona Campus (3,200 the Prescott building opens Beach square feet). Campus (13,028 square Campus. (48,000 square feet). feet).

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LIFT —Sara Withrow Fueled his by passion, Jack Phil Elliott: Phil “The significance of Jack worked to the to end ensureworked to Embry-Riddle’s success. He died in office in 1984 the at age of 65. sibility seriously.” he that took parental respon modern-day Embry-Riddle and learning. He was father the to Hunt for thisHunt for university cannot be others opportunities have to for overstated.” self foremost as a teacher. He wanted Jack’s daughter, Sarah (Hunt) Collins “He valued education and thought of him something unique and done before.” never (’89, an DB), elementary school Title I Teacher “When with Jack got involved Embry-Riddle he a magician inventing, running and financing potential propelled him forward. He was like on Assignment: could see its potential. His passion fulfill to that Lynne Hunt Doten: Jack was driven make to a difference others for in his Jack’s son, Geoff Hunt (’86, executive a site and DB), “‘Have a plan; be dependable’ his were calling cards. and education both“Aviation were passions of Jack’s. HIS PASSION AND LEGACY permission from eight admirals. He had to sell his idea to to sell his idea to had He admirals. eight from permission or one get might he him thought around Those Navy. the tape. red all the with a year take would it and agree to two that accomplishment —an in a day signatures eight got He flight itself.” the rivals career and in his personal life. In 1981, he married Lynne and immediately began the process legally to adopt her children.five multi-vendor supply chain director GE Healthcare, for remembers: isIt unlikely that learned I would have manage to how complex projects, take calculated risks, attend or even college, if his for not influence. When I was 18, adopted at changed.” world whole my Adams:Jay He lived, breathed and on Embry-Riddle, worked except when he was sleeping, and then he was probably dream ing about it.” -

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2006 Dec. 25 , a tornado strikes the Daytona Campus, leveling Beach the aircraft maintenance hangar, damaging Spruance Hall, the main administration building, beyond repair, and inflicting minor damage on three other campus structures. Additionally, 40 training aircraft—two-thirdsThe total of the fleet—are destroyed. damage is $50 administration, faculty million. The and staff rally, however, and by only six days. semester is delayed the spring 2007 OF The Jack Hunt Era Hunt Jack The “Jack was charismatic, capable and very dedicated. dedicated. very and capable charismatic, was “Jack (HonDoc ’04; ’72, (HonDoc Non- DB, Jr. “Phil” Elliott Philip He person. complex a very wise and very a was “He as a worked Jack up in California, Growing Doten, Jack’s Hunt Lynne a forward-thinking was “Jack

THE MAN THE IN1963 JACK HUNT TOOK THE REINS (HonDoc ’08), Embry-Riddle Trustee Trustee Embry-Riddle ’08), (HonDoc Adams C. “Jay” John Hunt: Jack to friend and Emeritus com were people of than a lot a risk taker of more was He Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Institute and turned it on on it turned and Institute Aeronautical Embry-Riddle from it transformed he 21 years next the Over ear. its a Miami to in school flight/technical a 500-student nearly with university accredited fully multi-campus, Jack The presence. a worldwide and students 35,000 man, the of memories but legend, of stuff the is Era Hunt and hearts the in on live still legacy and his passion him. known have to fortunate were who those of minds what of history the at back looked he but with, fortable turn it could he knew just he been and had Embry-Riddle the of a member As something. into it make and around Jack what about worry would we oftentimes board, early torpedoes,’ damn the full ahead, ‘Throttles next. do would was.” Jack how just that’s neighbor former Emeritus, Trustee Embry-Riddle degree), Jack: to friend and than his personality sophisticated more much was suggest.” would friends making of way his easy and in 1942. In Navy U.S. the joining before firefighter Snowbird airship ZPG-2 the commanded he 1957, for records set world flight that a nonstop on 1957). (see Timeline: endurance and distance Barry College from degree a master’s earned Jack working was he in 1964, while university) (now used his thesis, He Embry-Riddle. for of Accreditation Investigation An the to Relative Procedures for , as support Institution Special accreditation Embry-Riddle’s Association Southern the by Schools and Colleges of Colleges. on Commission spouse: surviving For leader. a born and visionary the conduct to in order instance, mission evaluation all-weather get to had he Snowbird, the with HUNT: BARRY UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES AND SPECIAL COLLECTIONS SPECIAL AND ARCHIVES UNIVERSITY BARRY HUNT: feet). (22,486 square Prescott Campus Campus Prescott is built at the is built at the Fabrication building building Fabrication Experimentation and The Aerospace Aerospace The 2006 • 2000 • • 2013 • Embry-Riddle’s men’s Embry-Riddle launches its first Ph.D. programs: The Ph.D. in Embry-Riddle creates the basketball team at Daytona Engineering Physics and the Ph.D. in Aviation, which is the first of its world’s first bachelor’s Beach wins the university’s kind in the nation. In 2013, Embry-Riddle confers its first Ph.D. degrees degree in commercial first NAIA Division II to eight students, five in aviation and three in engineering physics. space operations. National Championship. In 2013, men’s tennis at the • 2014 • Daytona Beach Campus JULY follows suit, winning The Daytona Beach the university’s second Campus’ Athletics NAIA Division II National program is approved for Championship. provisional membership in the National Collegiate • Athletic Association— U.S. News & World Report Division II. ranks Embry-Riddle’s Aerospace Engineering program No. 1 among the nation’s undergraduate aerospace engineering programs without a Ph.D. 2011 • The program has been Embry-Riddle opens ranked No. 1 each year ASIAN EXPANSION the largest university since, through 2014. research telescope in Embry-Riddle’s Worldwide Campus establishes the State of Florida at its its first Asian center in collaboration with Daytona Beach Campus, Singapore Aviation Academy, the training and the Prescott Campus division of the Civil Aviation Authority of launches the nation’s • 2011 • Singapore, offering a Master in Business first College of Security MAY Administration – Aviation degree. Later and Intelligence. • 2006 • Embry-Riddle this year, Embry-Riddle begins offering John P. Johnson becomes surpasses undergraduate degrees in collaboration with president and CEO of the SIM University, including a dual-degree program university. for Republic of Singapore Air Force personnel. alumni. Embry-Riddle’s Daytona Beach Campus also • 2012 • The Prescott Campus creates collaborative degree programs with Athletics program joins three institutions in China. According to then- the California Pacific executive vice president and chief academic Conference. officer for Embry-Riddle Worldwide, John R. Watret: “These moves solidify Embry-Riddle’s position within the rapidly growing aviation John P. Johnson sector in East Asia. Our MBA-A degree provides students with tools to address issues such as aviation business, economics, procurement, • 2015 • logistics, passenger and cargo management, May, President & CEO security and international regulatory systems John P. Johnson retires to help Singapore grow its aviation and and Senior Vice President aerospace stronghold.” and Chief Operating Officer John R. Watret is named interim president of the university.

Alumni and students in Afghanistan, 2011

Worldwide Campus, a dedicated division for student advising and course quality, is created and includes online offerings. It absorbs the formerly named Extended Campus. John R. Watret

2008 2008 2009 2011 2011 2012 The Chris and Steven F. The College of Robertson Aviation The Hagedorn Aviation Complex, which Embry-Riddle’s The Jim W. Udvar-Hazy Library and Business building Safety Center II – includes a Flight Operations Center (33,850 Worldwide Henderson Learning Center opens at at the Daytona Aviation Archives square feet), the Emil Buehler Aviation Campus in Administration and the Prescott Campus Beach Campus opens (4,948 Maintenance Science building (48,680 Asia opens in Welcome Center (35,711 square feet), and the is constructed square feet). square feet) and the Sam Goldman Fleet Singapore. is constructed at Spirit Rock at the Prescott (57,090 square Maintenance Hangar (15,020 square feet), the Daytona Beach Campus is installed. feet). opens at the Daytona Beach Campus. Campus (37,454 square feet). 18 LIFT FALL 2015 ALUMNI.ERAU.EDU • 2000 • National Championship Relived

A FLEDGLING ATHLETICS PROGRAM WITH and I just got it off. At the time, I didn’t think it was a five sports, no facilities of its own, only two years big deal. After the game, I realized ‘the shot’ just took of membership in the National Association of the momentum out of the Ozarks and their crowd. Intercollegiate Athletics and a terrible losing streak Fortunately, I had been in championship games is what Coach Steve Ridder signed onto when he before, so I was focused late in the game.” came to Embry-Riddle in 1989. Eleven years later (2000), he led the Eagles’ men’s basketball team to THE MYSTERY MASCOT its first national basketball championship, defeating At the final buzzer, the score was 75-63, Embry-Riddle. the College of the Ozarks in Branson, Mo. Since then, The celebration ensued, but one thing gave Coach the Eagles have come close to doing it again, with Ridder pause … 14 subsequent visits to the national tournament—but John Phillips (’90, ’92, DB), director of sports mar - that legendary victory still stands as an extraordinary keting (now director of athletics at the Daytona Beach achievement for Embry-Riddle Athletics. Campus), recounts: “Coach Ridder’s brother, Dan, drove all night from THE GAME Kentucky to get to the final game. We didn’t have our Coach Steve Ridder: mascot there, so he decided he wanted to be it. He “We came out of the gates quickly. Our No. 1 goal went to the costume stores, but the closest he could was to control the tempo. We had to take the crowd get to an eagle was combining a Daffy Duck face with out of the game because we only had about a hun - a chicken head. dred fans there. We scored the first shot and never “So this chicken is on the court, he’s in the huddle, fell behind.” he’s all around, and Coach Ridder is wondering why WATCH The Eagles were up 37-26 at the half, but the this chicken is part of our team now. It’s like this the The historic Ozarks’ Bobcats didn’t go down without a fight. With whole game. 2000 National less than 5 minutes left in the game, the Eagles led “Then the game ends. We win the national cham - Championship win by only 3 points. pionship; it’s the greatest moment of his coaching and see the mystery Jason Cruse (’00, DB), who made the first 3-pointer career ... and this chicken is hanging out with every - mascot in action. for the Eagles that day, had broken his left forearm one. And, Coach is saying, ‘Who is this? I want to http://youtu.be/ earlier in the season but ended up coming back and celebrate with my team!’ uOJyUs5mVwU earning the tournament MVP: “So he takes the mascot’s head off and sees that his “The Ozarks started making this run in the sec - brother was there the entire time.” ond half. They played great defense and our shot —Alan Marcos Pinto Cesar clock was running down. Yon Price was 3 or 4 feet behind the 3-point line. He banked the 3-point shot at the [shot clock] buzzer. It killed their momentum.” Yon Price (’00, DB), team captain that season, and one of Cruse’s roommates: “I remember look- ing at the shot clock and seeing there were 3 seconds left. I just needed enough space Compiled by to get a shot off. I tried Sara Withrow in to get open; I go up, cooperation with University Archivist Kevin Montgomery

2014 NEXT STEPS January, the College of Arts & Sciences Building, pictured 2016 October, the STEM Education Center is scheduled to open at the Prescott Campus. left, complete with the largest 2016 December, the Advanced Aerodynamics Lab is set to open at the Embry-Riddle university research telescope Research & Technology Park at the Daytona Beach Campus. in the state of Florida, opens 2017 December , a new comprehensive Student Union and Library building is scheduled to at the Daytona Beach Campus open at the Daytona Beach Campus. (140,000 square feet).

LIFT FALL 2015 ALUMNI.ERAU.EDU 19 20 W and innovative erasinEmbry-Riddle’s history. Johnson aboutoneofthemostmemorable totalk and globaloutreach. national rankings,research andscholarly activity, hasriseninacademic reputation, Embry-Riddle leges andacademicprograms.OnJohnson’s watch, ing facilitiesfirst-of-their-kind andestablishing col- recruiting internationallyrecognized faculty, expand- enrollment anddegreeprograms(from35to80), mission ofany greatacademy: teaching, research and on the “three legsofthestool”thatmake upthe From theoutsetitwas tostrike important abalance changed?Embry-Riddle of culture the has how But years. 10 past the in campuses the of all to changesphysical significant many been Obviously,havethere employmentobtaining withinoneyear ofgraduation. panies, isresponsiblefor 96 percentofourstudents internship placementswithmajoraerospacecom- faculty.talented This earlyopportunity, alongwith students areengagedinresearch projectswithour effect on student success. ofour A largepercentage tive startup companies. allow themtodevelop andcreateuniqueinnova- new knowledge, publishandreceive grantsthatwould inherent expectationtoconductresearch, discover We begantohireworld-class facultywhohadan research-intensivemulti-doctoral granting, university. a Level IV, SACS-accredited institution toaLevel VI, in anexponential way. hasmoved Embry-Riddle from those nobleattributes, buthave expanded onthem als toentertheaerospaceindustry. We have notlost and excellence intheclassroom,preparingindividu already anexcellent institution withafocus onteaching course asanentrepreneurialuniversity. to anotherlevel. istruly Embry-Riddle onapositive staff andstudents, we have takentheuniversity Transformative. Working faculty, withtheoutstanding Why? be? it would whatword, one in administrationyour up sum could you If BROWN ANTHONY BY LIFT In lightofhisretirementinMay, we satdown with These research opportunities have apositive, direct itwas in2003, When IcametoEmbry-Riddle

FALL 2015 SPECIAL TO THIS ISSUE a solidfoundation ofgrowth instudent has madehistoricprogressdeveloping for many years tocome. would placeitonacoursefor growth ning ofavisionfor theuniversitythat 10 years ago,itmarked thebegin- Aeronautical University Embry-Riddle as thefifth presidentandCEOof hen John P. Johnson tookthehelm ALUMNI.ERAU.EDU Under his guidance, Embry-Riddle Under hisguidance,Embry-Riddle -

and discovery looks back on an era of innovation President Emeritus John P. Johnson At the end of a decade of leadership, Onward and Upward

DAVID MASSEY service. For me it was important not to move away from teaching and service—because both are criti- The Johnson Era cally important—but to strengthen research so that Imagine a newly installed university president not only losing the university could stand strong in all three areas his office, but the rest of the building around it. This is what and raise its academic reputation. During the time I John P. Johnson faced in December 2006, when a tornado served as provost (2003-05), I met with each academic ripped through Embry-Riddle’s Daytona Beach Campus on department to establish goals that would strengthen Christmas morning. scholarly productivity. But that storm would set in motion a steady wave of expansion, We worked to establish mutual respect, collegiality, student enhancement and influence for Embry-Riddle around the civility and good faith consultation that led to positive nation and the world. Here are some of the highlights: changes in the criteria for promotion and tenure. Upon discovering that I loved and cared for the institution as much as they did, everything clicked, and the evolution 2008 Embry-Riddle receives the prestigious Collier Trophy process began. for the development and implementation of Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast technology What has been your proudest achievement at Embry-Riddle? 2010 Embry-Riddle establishes its first Ph.D.: a Ph.D. in The growth of the reputation of the university. Engineering Physics Higher education recognizes Embry-Riddle as a strong academic institution with a commitment to Embry-Riddle offers the nation’s first Ph.D. in Aviation excellence in the classroom, public service and the research environment. If you mention Embry-Riddle The John & Maurie Johnson Endowed Scholarship for at any university in the United States, or to colleagues Women is established in the global aerospace industry, they know us. When we offer colloquia or workshops, individuals attend 2011 Embry-Riddle joins Oak Ridge Associated Universities, a from all over the world. consortium of the nation’s top 100 research universities

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Asia Campus You and your wife, Maurie, have become opens its doors in Singapore (see Asian Expansion, ingrained in the Embry-Riddle community. What is your fondest memory of your page 18) time here? 2012 Embry-Riddle’s Daytona Beach Campus adds a women’s All of our best memories have to do with “the Embry- softball program Riddle family”—faculty, staff, students, good friends of the university. Commencements have always been 2013 Embry-Riddle’s Daytona Beach Campus Athletics pro - fond moments for us because they remind us what gram is accepted as a provisional member of NCAA Embry-Riddle is all about. And of course, listening to Division II the AcaFellas sing the alma mater. Embry-Riddle’s Daytona Beach Campus adds a women’s What are your plans for retirement? basketball program We love Embry-Riddle. After many years of interac- tion with the university, we were blessed to develop 2014 Embry-Riddle receives Level VI accreditation from the a lot of friends in the Daytona Beach area. We will be Southern Association of Colleges and Schools retiring nearby. We enjoy the President’s Speaker Series that was University research funding tops $17 million developed under my direction. My busy work and travel schedule limited our athletic event attendance. The university establishes a College of Security and Embry-Riddle has over 17 athletic sports programs, Intelligence at the Prescott Campus, the first of its kind with more on the way. Now we will have time to watch in the nation the Riddle NCAA Division II transition. The real decision in our minds for staying in this The Daytona Beach and Prescott campuses reach all- area is the fact that we will remain close to the univer- time high female student enrollments (19 percent and sity that I had a part in growing. 23 percent respectively)

What message would you like to convey to the Embry-Riddle expands its Aerospace Career Academies more than 120,000 Embry-Riddle Alumni? to over 40 high school campuses This is an outstanding university. Your diploma and Embry-Riddle’s stellar reputation will take you far 2015 Embry-Riddle and the University of South Australia toward your career goals. Use your degree and repre- partner to expand undergraduate and graduate aviation sent the university well. We expect great things from degree opportunities you and we know you will be successful. We have Embry-Riddle’s Prescott Campus adds a men’s basket - no doubt about that. And never forget to “come back ball program home” to visit your campus or to “reach back” to pull up future students with your success.

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50,000 square feet, is expected to start this year. The center will also play a vital role in expanding, promoting and enhancing STEM education through- out the community, says Ayers. Its multimedia immer- sive learning center and planetarium will be open to Strength the public and designed for frequent community use. Area high school and middle school students will be able to visit and explore STEM careers. The learning center and planetarium will augment the Prescott in STEM Campus’ existing observatory complex, which was recently rated by CollegeRank.net as No. 8 among the Support grows for a planned top 35 university observatories nationwide. Building Community education center and planetarium Local real estate developers Jim and Linda Lee have also contributed to the construction of the STEM at the Prescott Campus Education Center. A wall of honor will be erected inside the building and will display their names, as well as the names of all other major donors. “The future of the Embry-Riddle Prescott Campus can’t be separated from the future of Prescott,” says BY MELANIE STAWICKI AZAM Jim Lee, who sits on a steering committee for cam- pus buildings. ”We are very fortunate and pleased to s the Prescott Campus in Arizona continues have Embry-Riddle in our community.” to expand, support is growing for its new- Another supporter of the center, Mark LaPole est project, the Prescott STEM Education (‘84, PC), says he favors the project because it unites Center, which will include a planetarium. all of the STEM education activities under one roof. Supporters of the estimated $17 million Previously, these were scattered across the campus. facility include Prescott community mem- “I also appreciate the outreach goals of the STEM cen- SUPPORT STEM bers, alumni, faculty and staff, and national ter,” says LaPole, whose donation to the project will be You can contribute donors like the Seattle-based Raisbeck matched by his employer, Ball Aerospace. “Opening up to STEM education Foundation, which has given more than the campus for more community and industry involve- at Embry-Riddle, $1 million to name the engineering design ment will improve the university’s profile and strongly too. Contact Steven. studio at the center and endow a professorship (see enhance the quality and diversity of the student body.” [email protected] relatedA article opposite page). Archie M. Dickey, dean of the Prescott Campus’ for information and “It will become a center for the research and College of Arts and Sciences, says the STEM Education for naming opportuni- exploration of science and technology for the campus, Center’s new biology, chemistry and physics labs will ties for the STEM the community and the region,” says Frank Ayers, allow the campus to expand the majors it offers to Education Center. chancellor of the Prescott Campus. include premedical, preveterinary, forensic biology and The state-of-the-art building is aimed at enhancing wildlife science. science, technology, engineering and mathematics The Prescott Campus faculty and staff are also (STEM) education at the university and in the com- excited about the project. In all, nearly $2 million has munity. A robotics lab, multidisciplinary design studio, been raised. forensic biology lab, wildlife science lab, 3-D printing According to LaPole, all of this support for the lab and energy lab are planned, along with chemistry, STEM Education Center and planetarium is having a optics, research, design, mechanical engineering noticeable effect on campus spirit. “There is a power- and general physics labs. Construction of the STEM ful energy on the campus. Smart, optimistic and the Education Center, which is slated to be more than sky-is-not-the-limit thinking is everywhere.”

22 LIFT FALL 2015 GIVINGTO.ERAU.EDU LEGACY OF LEARNING James Raisbeck and Raisbeck Engineering endow chair at “Embry-Riddle Prescott’s Embry-Riddle’s Prescott Campus undergraduate program stands measurably above others

BY MELANIE STAWICKI AZAM of its type in the way that ames Raisbeck has loved engineer- ing since he was a boy growing up it integrates in Wisconsin building soapbox derby various schools cars with washing machine engines. As a flight engineer in the U.S. and their goals.” Air Force, his enthusiasm for design —JAMES RAISBECK shifted toward aviation. “I was hooked, totally hooked on airplanes,” says the CEO and board chairman of Raisbeck Engineering Inc. in Seattle, Wash. JThat love of airplanes has culminated in a $1 million gift from the Raisbeck Foundation to establish the Raisbeck Engineering Design/ Build/Test Endowed Chair at Embry-Riddle. Housed in the Prescott Campus’ College of Engineering, the Raisbeck Chair is the first of its kind at the college. The gift is a continuation of Raisbeck’s enduring interest in aviation and education. In 2013, James and his wife, Sherry, helped establish a permanent home for a science, technology, engineering, mathematics (STEM) and the future,” Ayers says. It will also build on the uni- aviation-focused high school in the Seattle area, now versity’s strong tradition of engineering education, called Raisbeck Aviation High School. scholarship and research, and provide a continuum James says his gift to Embry-Riddle was inspired of aviation education that complements the Prescott by the project-based, multidisciplinary education Campus’ current educational ties with Raisbeck that engineering students receive at the Prescott Aviation High School in Seattle. Campus and the strong leadership of Chancellor Additionally, the Raisbeck Foundation con- Frank Ayers. tributed $75,000 toward the building of the new “Students have broad insight across, for exam- STEM Education Center at the Prescott Campus ple, engineering, piloting and management curricula. (see related article opposite page). The Engineering All of these elements are needed for building skills, Design Studio at the center will be named in which will serve students for a lifetime,” he says. Raisbeck’s honor. The state-of-the-art space will James Raisbeck is an avid supporter The endowed chair will provide funding for a allow for hands-on, team-based capstone engineer- of STEM education. Below, he holds faculty member who excels in teaching design/build/ ing and multidisciplinary design experiences for a model of Australia’s Royal Flying Doctors Service King Air. The Royal test methodologies with teams of students work- students. Raisbeck is also facilitating the donation Flying Doctors’ air ambulance fleet ing together on projects. “This synergy of effort will of a Raisbeck-designed swept blade turbofan pro- is equipped with Raisbeck’s EPIC ensure Embry-Riddle aerospace engineers are the peller from Hartzell Propeller Inc., which will hang Platinum packages, including its Wing Lockers.

MARK MALIJAN best prepared to create the innovative designs of on display in the STEM Education Center.

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PLAY A ROLE Contact Chris.Lambert @erau.edu to learn how you can support Embry-Riddle’s history. Visit Embry-Riddle’s online archives: http://erau.edu/about/ archives

BY MELANIE STAWICKI AZAM

hil Metz (‘81, DB) was a sophomore in high school in Pittsburgh when he saw Giving a small black and white ad for Embry- Riddle Aeronautical University in Popular Science magazine. “I took that ad to my dad and said this is History Its where I want to go to school,” recalls Metz, who started at Embry-Riddle in fall 1976. He didn’t know it then, but Metz would Place play a critical role in the formative years of Embry-Riddle’s Alumni Association and become an Pavid supporter of the university’s Heritage Project, a Phil Metz (’81, DB) helps fund used to preserve and showcase Embry-Riddle’s preserve Embry-Riddle’s past storied history. “The history of aviation and the history of Embry- for future generations Riddle are forever tied together,” says Metz, who is now practice leader for Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty, a major insurance provider for the aviation industry. “I could have supported scholarships or cam- pus buildings, but I never wanted to put my name on anything. Preserving history may be less popular, but it’s important.”

24 LIFT FALL 2015 ALUMNI.ERAU.EDU One of Embry-Riddle’s first alumni directors, Phil Metz, and “He was just a fascinating, fabulous man that I his wife, Anne, whom he met while he was a student at the really looked up to and am honored to have met,” Daytona Beach Campus, are true Embry-Riddle fans. Below: Metz says. “He’d walk into the University Center Phil, standing, enjoys ballooning with friends, including Jon Downey (‘87, DB), U.S. Head of Aviation for Allianz, kneeling. and all of the conversation changed. It was like a god walked in.” Another Embry-Riddle icon Metz encountered was then Dean of Student Affairs Bob Rockett. Now dean Campus Memories emeritus, Rockett is a fan of Embry-Riddle history and When Metz arrived on campus, the administration established and led the Heritage Project in the 1990s. building was in an old military barracks building, the Rockett’s passion for Embry-Riddle history soon parking lot was a former runway and female students overflowed to Metz, who began contributing regularly were few and far between. to the Heritage Project and hasn’t stopped since. “I “There were 30 women and every guy on cam- wanted to recognize [Bob’s] contributions to that proj- pus knew them by name,” says Metz. Spring break, ect and Embry-Riddle. Bob is a walking Embry-Riddle which drew students from across the country to the history book,” Metz says. local beaches, was a welcome distraction, but it also With an integral role in the early Alumni frequently coincided with Embry-Riddle’s finals week. Association, Metz is part of that history, Rockett says. “Spring break was a very popular time for the “He’s given his time and money to Embry-Riddle. “The fact that guys,” he recalls. “But so many guys were on the He’s got Embry-Riddle in his blood,” Rockett adds. the university beach every day instead of studying—they didn’t “He left this place better than when he found it.” come back the next fall.” has a big role Metz spent two years in the flight program, but Lighter Than Air in the history eventually decided to go into the business side of Aviation is also part of Metz’s personal history—and aviation. He graduated in 1981 with degrees in aero- it consumes his free time. He and his wife of nearly of aviation nautical studies and aviation maintenance technol- 30 years, Anne, took up hot air ballooning as a hobby and aerospace ogy. He took a job at Embry-Riddle as an admissions about 20 years ago. Metz says he enjoys the peace counselor after gradu- and quiet of balloon- is exciting, ation, and in 1982, ing, but also the thrill and I think it’s he was hired to lead of low altitude flying. important for Embry-Riddle’s Alumni “I like flying four feet Association, becoming off the ground with new students to only the second full- the bottom of the know that this is time paid director for basket scraping the that office. scrub brush, scaring where we Five student all the jackrabbits out,” came from.” assistants helped he says with a laugh, him with everything speaking about flying —PHIL METZ (‘81, DB) from annual fundrais- in the northern New ing to publishing the Mexico desert. first alumni directory, Metz left Embry- and organizing the first Riddle in 1986 to pur- campus-sponsored sue an aviation career. homecoming in 1986. He moved to Atlanta, His biggest chal- working in passenger lenge was a lack of services at Midwest resources, but he Express Airlines. In says he learned a 1988, he accepted a variety of skills, from job in aviation insur- graphic design to ance at USAIG. Nine event planning, that years ago, he was he still uses today. offered a job at the “It was all trial and German-based com- error. I had to learn it pany Allianz to be part on the fly,” Metz says. “We got a lot done. I am proud of a team to expand their aviation insurance program of my time there.” to the United States. “It’s been a challenging, rewarding and enjoyable Historic Figures wild ride,” he says. One of his favorite Embry-Riddle memories was And, aviation has been a common theme through- spending time with John Paul Riddle, one of out. “I love aviation—it’s what I do every day,” Metz the university’s founding fathers. Metz met the says. “The fact that the university I went to has a big renowned aviation entrepreneur in the early 1980s, role in the history of aviation and aerospace is exciting, during one of Riddle’s many campus visits as a and I think it’s important for new students to know guest of then-President Jack Hunt. that this is where we came from.”

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WATCH MESSAGE FROM THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION The 2015 Spring Commencement video: hroughout the past 90 years, one thing has remained constant for www.youtube.com/ Embry-Riddle: aviation. The rumble of reciprocating engines, the watch?v=z2vQCtD7T2I riff of a high-speed pass and the thundering concerto of the Space View commencement Shuttle at launch—these are the heartbeats around which Embry- photos here: Riddle was formed and has endured. www.flickr.com/photos/ The instruments may have changed over the years, but the eraualumni/albums response to this music has not. Embry-Riddle alumni gaze skyward when they hear it; they watch, they admire and they dream, even if they’ve seen the miracle of flight thousands of times before. And, it’s not just our pilots who appreciate these sounds. Engineers, aviation business people and financiers, airframe and powerplant techni- cians,T communications and marketing folks, all honor the industry they love and support with a glance up. It’s this shared passion that drives everything Embry-Riddle. The history of aviation and the accomplishments of those who came before inspire our students and alumni to greatness as they envision and orchestrate the future of this ever-evolving arena. In May, an additional 1,200-plus alumni joined our fold. These new gradu- ates are the aviation and aerospace leaders of tomorrow. We at the Alumni Association couldn’t be prouder of our alumni—of all ages. We applaud your efforts every day, and we’re tireless in promoting your achievements. You are the Embry-Riddle name. You share in the Embry-Riddle legacy in perpetuity. Let us know what you’re doing, so we can boast about you to your peers—and to the world. And, help us celebrate our 90th anniversary by sharing the stories and photos of your unique Embry-Riddle experience. Visit this link to upload your story and/or view others’ memories: alumni. erau.edu/erau90. Embry-Riddle Eagles will continue to strive for and reach new heights for the aviation/aerospace industry. We’re excited to see what the next 10, 20, 50, and even the next 90 years will hold for our great university. We may not be around to see it, but someone who shares our passion will. Keep looking up!

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26 LIFT FALL 2015 ALUMNI.ERAU.EDU COMMENCEMENT 2015

GRADUATES RANGED IN AGE FROM: 19 to 76 GRADUATING WITH ACADEMIC HONORS:

DEGREES AWARDED (TOTAL)

FEMALE GRADUATES: Doctoral degrees: 1 239 Bachelor’s degrees: 964 Master’s degrees: 288 MALE GRADUATES: Associate degrees: 34 1,029

NUMBER OF MOST POPULAR MAJORS COUNTRIES BY CAMPUS: REPRESENTED: Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineering 53 (PC) Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineering 114 (DB) Bachelor of Science in 43 Aeronautics 170 (WW)

NOTE: INCLUDES ALL MAY 2015 CEREMONIES (PRESCOTT CAMPUS, DAYTONA BEACH CAMPUS, AND WORLDWIDE CAMPUS: SAN DIEGO, CALIF.; EUROPE; DAYTONA BEACH, FLA.; AND PRESCOTT, ARIZ.)

LIFT FALL 2015 ALUMNI.ERAU.EDU 27 In this role, she worked with pilots to develop train- ing manuals and policies and procedures. She also interfaced with agencies like the Federal Aviation Opening Administration and National Transportation Safety Board and spent time with industry leaders to discuss aircraft design and development. As a chief pilot, Durst is an advocate for the Doors for 3,000 pilots based at DFW. Her job is to listen to the pilots’ needs and try to help them in any way possible. She also serves as a liaison between Women the pilots and other internal departments. Durst has worked other jobs during her 26-year career at American—including check airman on the Airbus A300 and Boeing 737 fleets. And decades after her Pilots Air Force flight training, she still loves to fly—although her current position tends to keep her a little more Kathi Durst (’88, WW) leads “grounded” these days. On Education flight at Dallas/Fort Worth While serving in the Air Force, Durst earned her Master of Aeronautical Science from Embry-Riddle Worldwide. “I chose that degree because I wasn’t sure I was getting out of the military,” she says. In

Kathi Durst the military, a graduate degree was necessary for advancement. Once she left the service, Durst didn’t initially see the correlation between her graduate studies and her work as a commercial pilot. It wasn’t until she became a fleet manager in 2012 that she fully appreciated her master’s degree and the manage- ment lessons she learned. “Having that degree definitely helped me later in life,” she says. “You just never know.”

On Career Advice “If you are a helpful, eager person, good things are going to come to you,” Durst says. Experiences such as education, volunteerism and networking have contributed to her success. Many times, these experiences and personal attributes are just as important as a job candidate’s technical apti- tude, she says. BY MOLLY JUSTICE Over the years, Durst served on the pilot recruit- ment board. She also mentored young pilots through athi Durst (‘88, WW) believes in keeping an Women in Aviation International. Durst is active in open mind. She entered the U.S. Air Force the industry and belongs to organizations such as Academy with intentions of becoming an the National Gay Pilots Association. In 2014, she was orthopedic surgeon. She qualified for fighter named a recipient of the Earl G. Graves Award for pilot training but couldn’t participate because Leadership in Diversity. Honorees are recognized she was a woman. She earned a master’s by American for their efforts as leaders in diversity, degree to advance in the military but ended both at work and in the community. up leaving the service after seven years. “At this point in my life, I want to do whatever I Now Durst is one of four chief pilots for can to help the next generation,” Durst says. “It’s my American Airlines at Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) way of paying it forward in appreciation of women like Airport—the airline’s largest crew base in the world. She the World War II Women Airforce Pilots who preceded Kalso happens to be American’s first female chief pilot me and paved the way for my career interests.” at DFW and the company’s only openly gay chief pilot. Durst is honored by the attention her chief pilot “Keep all doors open. Pursue all things,” Durst says. promotion has drawn. At the same time, she’s also embarrassed by it. “Day to day, I don’t think about the On American Airlines fact that I’m a woman or gay,” she says. “All of my life, Before her recent promotion, Durst spent two years I’ve always tried to be a team player, work hard and as American’s first female fleet manager (Boeing 737). put my nose to the grindstone.”

28 LIFT FALL 2015 ALUMNI.ERAU.EDU SUBORBITAL SPACE Embry-Riddle alumni are pioneering the study of noctilucent clouds

Pete Freeland, left, prepares for a suborbital spaceflight simulation.

BY SARA WITHROW spaceflight, Scallon says PoSSUM brings together his interests and experiences in science, flight and aero- mbry-Riddle alumni are among the first to space medicine. “It’s an undiscovered frontier that I BY THE train as commercial suborbital astronauts, and want to probe,” says Scallon, who earned an M.S. in it’s no surprise that they’re getting some of Engineering Physics at Embry-Riddle and was sched- NUMBERS that training at their alma mater. Jeff Scallon uled to complete a Doctor of Medicine degree in July. Suborbital (‘10, DB), Pete Freeland (‘93, WW) and six Freeland agrees. A senior project engineer at Space Flights other scientist-astronaut candidates spent Northrop Grumman, part-time actor, veteran Air to Date several days at Embry-Riddle’s Daytona Beach Force pilot and three-time finalist for NASA astronaut Campus in February learning crew resource candidacy, he says he doesn’t care how he gets into 2 FLIGHTS BY management principles using a custom space, as long as he gets there. “Going to space is THE X-15 simulation program. They also tested special something I’ve wanted to do since I was 3 years old A rocket-powered, anti-gravity outerwear during simulated zero-gravity watching the astronauts walk on the moon. I’d love to hypersonic research Eflights, courtesy of aerobatic pilot Patty Wagstaff. get an opportunity to go beyond suborbital heights, aircraft operated from The candidates are preparing to fly over Earth’s arc- to work on the International Space Station, or even to 1959 to 1968 by the tic regions in manned reusable suborbital spacecraft to go to Mars.” U.S. Air Force and study noctilucent clouds as part of Project PoSSUM, PoSSUM has yet to acquire a spacecraft, but it NASA a nonprofit international suborbital research program projects its first exploratory flight will be in 2016. of which Embry-Riddle is a member. The clouds, 1 15-MINUTE which reside in the Earth’s mesosphere at altitudes of Embry-Riddle Partnership FLIGHT approximately 83 kilometers above the planet, were The four-day training program at Embry-Riddle in On May 5, 1961, by first observed in 1885 and are believed to be formed February was just the beginning, says Tony Cortés, Alan Shepard in the by water molecules that have collected on meteor par- professor and chair of the Applied Aviation Sciences Mercury-Redstone 3 ticles. Scientists are interested in studying the recent department. The university has signed a memorandum growth of noctilucent cloud banks and their connec- of agreement for ongoing training and research activi- 1 15-MINUTE tion with the greater atmosphere and global climate ties with Integrated Spaceflight Services, the parent FLIGHT trends and their effects on re-entry vehicles. organization of Project PoSSUM. Embry-Riddle’s newly On July 21, 1961, by “PoSSUM is not about space tourism; it’s an developed suborbital space flight simulator technology Virgil “Gus” Grissom in international research program dedicated to the study is key to the agreement. the Mercury-Redstone of global climate,” says PoSSUM Principal Investigator “PoSSUM aligns well with the university’s exist- 4/Liberty Bell 7 Jason Reimuller, who organized the scientist- ing Commercial Space Operations degree, one of the astronaut qualification program at Embry-Riddle. newest and fastest-growing programs on campus,” 1 SOYUZ 18-1 Cortés says. Embry-Riddle students can observe FLIGHT the training activities and participate in joint research Eagle Astronauts on April 5, 1975, which For Scallon, the PoSSUM project is an opportunity projects, and eventually, the suborbital spacecraft was aborted after to become one of a handful of people to experience simulation training that PoSSUM trainees receive will reaching an altitude suborbital flight. “There aren’t that many suborbital be available to students as well. of 180 km flights that have been conducted. It’s a new science,” “We’re creating an elaborate and immersive he says. Historically, there have been only eight sub- environment to be used for collaborative research in 3 MOJAVE orbital flights, with space defined by the Fédération suborbital spaceflight and integrated into the com- Aerospace Venture Aéronautique Internationale as 100 km above the mercial spaceflight curriculum,” Cortés says. SpaceShipOne Earth’s surface. The next PoSSUM Scientist-Astronaut Qualification flights in 2004 A private pilot and member of Astronauts for Hire, Program will occur at Embry-Riddle Oct. 10–14, 2015. a nonprofit organization made up of scientists and Interested individuals may apply online through the

DAVID MASSEY DAVID engineers interested in developing civilian/commercial PoSSUM website: www.projectpossum.org.

LIFT FALL 2015 ALUMNI.ERAU.EDU 29 NINETY YEARS

1926-2016 The ERAU of U: 90 Years of Embry-Riddle t’s your time to reminisce! Help Embry-Riddle celebrate its 90th anniversary (1926-2016) by sharing your memo- ries at alumni.erau.edu/erau90. Read some of our early Isubmissions here.

Big Man on Campus During my three years at Embry-Riddle Prescott, it was not uncommon to see John Paul Riddle strolling the campus, often in white tennis shorts and shoes and a preppy sweater. He was still playing tennis in his early 80s. One day he stopped me out- side the library and said, “I want to know what they’re teaching you around here, so John Paul Riddle answer these questions: Do you know who Lincoln Beachey was?” I replied, “Yes sir, Brigitte Lakah and Lorenzo ‘Enzo’ Vito Galicia he was the first pilot to master the loop.” John Paul Riddle Seemingly impressed, he continued, “Do you know who Barney Oldfield was?” I I want to share took place at the spring responded, “Yes sir, he was a race car driver 1986 Skyfest air show. On the last day of who raced his car against Beachey in an the show, Embry-Riddle was celebrating airplane.” John Paul smiled, shook my hand, its 60th anniversary with a picnic on the and said, “You’re getting a good education University Center grounds. There were here,” and he headed to the courts. fewer buildings on campus then, and the Michael Ehl (‘83, PC) view of the airport was unobstructed. Many students, faculty and staff had gathered to Buck Up Bucko watch the military aircraft depart, most of I remember hearing the high-pitched which had requested and received permis- scream of Professor Bolton driving his “jet sion to do maximum performance takeoffs. powered” car around campus. I remember The best part was the takeoff performed by the Clark Gable look-alike that said jets two AV-8 Harriers. The two aircraft departed were a passing fancy, but recipes would be normally, but then they circled the airfield around forever. I remember Pop Alonso get- and made a low pass down the center of ting on the [Beechcraft] D-18, bucking up, the runway. They slowed as they came undoing his pants belt and buckle and then abeam the school … and stopped! Holding saying, “OK, Bucko, are we going to do this their position above the runway, they pivoted or what?” And most of all, I remember all toward the school and dipped their noses in of my fraternity brothers at Alpha Eta Rho a bow to the school, then they turned back that are all industry leaders and have been down the runway centerline and roared off in At the end of freshman orientation we hold my brothers for all these years. horizontal flight. Perhaps the AV-8s aren’t as an event called “The Olympiad,” which pits Retired U.S. Air Force Maj. Tom Berg (‘70, DB) fast as the F-15s or F-16s that departed DAB freshman halls against each other in field that day, but what they did brought us all to games in a battle for supremacy and awe- Fond Memories our feet shouting at the top of our lungs. We someness. The other RAs and I came up The best years of my life were 1982-1986. could have received no better tribute. Happy with the tradition of face painting the resi- Brigitte Lakah (‘87, DB) 90th Anniversary, Embry-Riddle. And thanks dents and creating chants and battle cries, for the opportunities you have given all of us. which still continues today. The 2011-2012 Skyfest Salute Jeffrey Miller (‘86, WW) mascot for Hall 3 was the Bacon Shark, and Although I’m listed as a Worldwide Campus the 2012-2013 mascot for Hall 4 was the graduate, I spent seven semesters at the Resident vs. Resident Bacon Badger. Both halls came in first place Daytona Beach Campus, and in my heart I was a freshman residential adviser (RA) for for their respective years. I’m a Daytona Beach graduate. The memory Hall 3 (2011-2012) and for Hall 4 (2012-2013). Lorenzo “Enzo” Vito Galicia (‘15, PC)

30 LIFT FALL 2015 ALUMNI.ERAU.EDU NINETY CAREER CORNER YEARS

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MARK YOUR CALENDAR for 2015 SAVE Industry/Career Expos: THURSDAY, OCT. 1 Prescott, Ariz. THE DATE WEDNESDAY, OCT. 7 Daytona Beach, Fla.

OctoberWest Homecoming Weekend and For additional information and job resources: Wings Out West Air Show careerservices.erau.edu. PRESCOTT, ARIZ. Lifelong Learning THURSDAY, OCT. 1 FRIDAY, OCT. 2 SATURDAY, OCT. 3 EMBRY-RIDDLE PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION COURSES • Industry/Career Expo • 26th Annual Alumni • Wings Out West Aircraft Crash Survival Unmanned Aircraft Systems • eagleNIGHT Golf Tournament Air Show Investigation and Analysis Seminar • Alumni Awards Dinner • Fly-in, Static Display Sept. 21–25, 2015 Dec. 8–10, 2015 Prescott, Ariz. Daytona Beach, Fla. • Fireworks • Pancake Breakfast • Blue & Gold Bash Airline Network Planning Fall 2015 Certificate of Oct. 2–3, 2015 Management in Aviation Safety Daytona Beach, Fla. Series: Alumni Homecoming Weekend and Fly-in OSHA & Aviation Ground Safety Unmanned Aircraft Systems Oct. 19–23, 2015 DAYTONA BEACH, FLA. Applications, Operations and Daytona Beach, Fla. Support: Key Topics of Industry Oct. 14–15, 2015 Aviation Safety Program WEDNESDAY, OCT. 7 FRIDAY, OCT. 9 SATURDAY, OCT. 10 San Diego, Calif. Management • Industry/Career Expo • Alumni Return • Fly-In, Oct. 26–30, 2015 • Alumni Networking & to Classes • Static Display & Aviation Logistics & Supply Daytona Beach, Fla. Chain Management Awards Reception • Campus Tours Breakfast Nov. 9–10, 2015 Aircraft Accident Investigation • eagleNIGHT Hangar Daytona Beach, Fla. and Management Party Nov. 2–6, 2015 Aviation Safety Management Daytona Beach, Fla. Systems: Application and Implementation Nov. 17–19, 2015 Register today: alumni.erau.edu/homecoming Daytona Beach, Fla.

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For the most up-to-date list of events, visit alumni.erau.edu/events. SEPT. 5 OCT. 3 NOV. 17–19 DEC. 14 Worldwide Campus Worldwide Campus National Business Aviation Daytona Beach Commencement Commencement Commencement Association Business Aviation Daytona Beach, Fla. Ford Island (Oahu), Hawaii Dallas, Texas Convention & Exhibition Las Vegas, Nev. MARCH 10–12, 2016 SEPT. 12 OCT. 15–17 27th Annual International Women Worldwide Campus FLYING Aviation Expo DEC. 12 in Aviation Conference Commencement Palm Springs, Calif. Prescott Campus Commencement Nashville, Tenn. Seattle, Wash. Prescott, Ariz.

LIFT FALL 2015 ALUMNI.ERAU.EDU 31 surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) Jim Kennedy (‘82, DB) was CLASS flight operations manager, and then appointed Hawaiian Airlines’ director director of ISR flight operations. His of base maintenance. Kennedy brings aviation career began in the Army, more than 25 years of maintenance, NOTES where he flew rotary and fixed-wing engineering and mechanical experi- aircraft at locations around the world. ence to Hawaiian Airlines. Retiring from the Army after 28 years, he then flew the DC-8 and DC-9, Robert DeGennaro (‘83 DB) and was a captain on the 767 for retired from the Federal Aviation To share your Class Notes with Lift and your fel- Airborne/DHL Express. Administration, where he was low alumni, join Embry-Riddle’s online community at employed for 26 years. During that time, he was at John F. Kennedy alumni.erau.edu/join today; or submit your announce- 1980s International Airport (JFK) as an air ments through email to [email protected]. For traffic controller and then became a Ed Thayres (‘80, PC) is a G550 cap- traffic management coordinator. He guidelines, visit alumni.erau.edu/notes_guidelines. tain for EJM based at the airport at finished his career as a supervisor at Teterboro, N.J. Westchester Tower in White Plains, N.Y. He recently started a new career John Mangona (‘81, DB) is vice as the ground management program president and chief information manager at JFK. and compliance officer for Saratoga Hospital in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. Rick Trusis (‘83, DB) was appointed He has been with the organization vice president of Mid-Cabin Programs Career News since 1995. Previously, he worked at Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation. with McDonnell Douglas and Edward member of both the Disabled American Jones in St. Louis, Mo. Art Schmidt (‘84, DB) is senior vice 1950s Veterans and the Special Forces president, head of airline marketing Association. Steven Reed (‘81, DB) was hired for Aviation Capital. Brooks Lovelace (‘50, MC, Non- as the western U.S. division head of degree) was awarded a Bronze Medal Mori Hosseini (HonDoc ‘13; ‘78, ‘79, sales by United Realty, a sponsor of Stephen Blanchette (‘86, PC) has at a ceremony in Washington, D.C., ‘82, DB) is the 2015 recipient of the commercial real estate alternative relocated to the Software Engineering in December 2014, in recognition of Herbert M. Davidson Memorial Award investment programs. Institute’s offices in Arlington, Va. his Civil Air Patrol service along the for Outstanding Community Service. Georgia coast during World War II. The Community Foundation of Volusia & Russell A. Sibley Jr. (‘81, DB) Kristin Incrocci (‘86, DB) founded Flagler, a division of the United Way of is a lawyer in private practice in Sarasota-based Lift Air in October Volusia-Flagler Counties, presents the Tampa, Fla. Sibley practices primar- 2014. The business is an air taxi ser- 1970s honor to individuals demonstrating a ily in the areas of business litigation vice that flies from Sarasota to virtu- career of exceptional service. Hosseini and exceptional student education. ally any destination throughout Florida. Arthur Jacobs (‘74, DB), CEO of is chairman and CEO of Intervest He was recently awarded the AV Valkyrie Consulting Group, has opened Construction Inc., chairman of Embry- Preeminent® peer review rating from David Lincoln (‘89, DB) is currently offices in Singapore and Melbourne, Riddle Aeronautical University’s Board Martindale-Hubbell. working for Delta Air Lines, flying Australia. Jacobs did two tours in of Trustees and chairman of the Board the Boeing 777-200LR. He is based Vietnam as a helicopter pilot and spent of Governors for the State University Wayne Norris (‘82, DB) retired in Detroit, Mich., and resides in two years as the aviation officer for System of Florida. after 33 years of commercial flying, Henderson, Nev. the 10th Special Forces Group. He has including spending the last 10 years an MBA in Marketing Management Darrell Pope (‘78, WW) was promoted as a 767 captain for ABX Air. He is Lee Anne Tait (‘89, WW) was & Organizational Psychology from to vice president of flight operations now operating Norris English Pub and appointed vice president of quality at the University of Florida. He and his at Dynamic Aviation. Pope joined Brewery in Liberty, Ind. Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation. wife and three children currently Dynamic Aviation in 2009 as a pilot, reside in Brentwood, Tenn. He is a life and was promoted to intelligence,

CAMPUS LEGEND MC Miami Campus DB Daytona Beach, Fla. PC Prescott, Ariz. WW Worldwide Campus BFTS No. 5 British Flying Training School Mori Hosseini Jim Kennedy Rick Trusis Kristin Incrocci

32 LIFT FALL 2015 ALUMNI.ERAU.EDU Retired U.S. Lee Anne Tait Tom Dickson Air Force Col. Kelly Goggin Brian Hirshman

Lou Bartolotta, right, with HAI Chairman Gale Wilson Paul Kretschmer Brian Ferguson Lt. Col. Laird Abbott Shareef Al Romaithi, left

John Parker (‘92, WW) is vice from Robins Air Force Base, where he Goggin was most recently the senior 1990s president and general manager of the served as the chief program manager director of legislative liaison, U.S. Integrated Logistics and Modernization for C-17 Sustainment. Abbott will be Cyber Command. Brian Hirshman (‘90, DB) joined division for Northrop Grumman the final commander at the Boeing Aviation Technical Services as Corporation’s Technical Services sector. Long Beach Plant, which will close Lou Bartolotta (‘97, WW) was president, effective May 1, 2015. after C-17 production ends in 2015. honored on March 4, 2015, with the Hirshman has more than 25 years of Rana Das (‘92, DB) is the divisional Helicopter Association International’s experience working in the aerospace vice president and general manager Bhavesh Patel (‘95, PC) is Denver (HAI) 2015 Bell Helicopter Lifetime and aviation industry, most recently of AMETEK MRO Florida, a unit of International Airport’s (DEN) chief Achievement Award. Bartolotta as senior vice president of opera- AMETEK Aerospace & Defense. revenue officer, executive vice presi- earned his helicopter wings in the tions at Southwest Airlines, and as dent in charge of the Commercial, U.S. Army in 1970, which was fol- managing partner at AeroConsulting George R. Macri (‘92, ‘94, WW) Concessions and DEN Real Estate lowed by a one-year tour in Vietnam. Partners LLC. is a quality engineer at The Boeing business unit. Patel previously was He then flew commercial helicopters Company. He works on the Space the director of airport concessions at in pre-revolution Iran and later Tom Dickson (‘90, PC), who is Launch System Heavy Launch Vehicle Tampa International Airport in Florida. in the North Sea out of Scotland. vice president of information tech- at the Michoud Assembly Facility in He enjoyed a 30-year career in nology at Sabre Systems Inc., was New Orleans, La. In December 2014, John Michel (‘96, WW) is president senior management positions in named a 2015 Top IT Pro by the he celebrated his five-year service and chief strategy and innovation the helicopter manufacturing sec- Philadelphia Business Journal. anniversary with Boeing. officer of MV International. Michel tor. The last 26 years were spent joins MV after a 26-year career in the with AgustaWestland (AW) in roles Justine Ruff (‘90, DB) is direc- Brian Ferguson (‘93, DB) recently U.S. Air Force, where most recently including vice president of sales for tor of airports for the Midland began employment as a pilot for he led NATO’s 14-nation effort in North America, vice president of International Air & Space Port in Delta Air Lines. He flies the Boeing Afghanistan to build the $6.7 billion marketing, executive vice president Midland, Texas. 737NG out of Los Angeles. Afghan Air Force. of sales and marketing for North and South America, and senior adviser. Eric Hockman (‘91, DB) was Col. Thomas Hanley (‘94, DB) is Jeremy Baran (‘96, PC) was pro- Bartolotta retired in 2014 from AW named partner of Weiss Serota the senior National Guard adviser to moted to lieutenant colonel in the U.S. and is now principal of L.P. Bartolotta Helfman Cole & Bierman, a U.S. Southern Command. The State Army Reserve and is leaving the Joint & Associates LLC, a vertical lift 58-lawyer firm located in Partnership Program supports theater Enabling Capabilities Command – Joint consultancy. View link for award South Florida. engagement across 27 countries in Planning Support Element to take presentation: www.youtube.com/ the Caribbean, South America and command of the 319th Combat Service watch?v=m1WRnUr_Dvc. Paul Kretschmer (‘92, DB) is a Central America. Support Battalion in Harlingen, Texas. preflight and delivery quality man- Bryant Francis (‘98, DB) is the ager on the 787 Program for The Lt. Col. Laird S. Abbott (‘95, PC) Retired U.S. Air Force Col. Kelly airport director of the Long Beach Boeing Company in Everett, Wash. assumed command of Defense Goggin (‘96, WW) is now direc- Airport in Long Beach, Calif. Contract Management Agency tor of business development for Cedric Rockamore (‘92, ‘96, WW) Boeing Long Beach, where he is Constellation West, an information James “Steve” Gordon (‘98, WW) was promoted to vice president and responsible for contract admin- technology services provider. With was promoted to associate director will oversee operations at American istration services for the C-17 over 26 years of U.S. Air Force and of corporate procurement for the Airlines’ hub in Philadelphia. Globemaster III program. He arrived operational military experience, Army and Air Force Exchange Service

LIFT FALL 2015 ALUMNI.ERAU.EDU 33 Chief Master Sgt. Bryant Francis John Aitken Joseph Montgomery Sean Rogers Paul Gennaro

Rose Marie Norman U.S. Navy Capt. with Bruce Chadbourne Fabio Miguez Jesse Romo Brent George Joseph Rivera Nathaniel Charles Burt

at its headquarters in Dallas, Texas. Matthew C. Kahn (‘02, DB; ‘04, WW) makes him the youngest holder of this Insurance Professional (CAIP) designa- He began civilian service with the is director of the Operations and degree in the world. He is pictured tion. Norman is an aviation broker at exchange after retiring in 2003 from Client Center at Delta Private Jets, with James Hogan, Etihad Airways’ Aon Risk Solutions and is based in the U.S. Air Force. Delta Air Lines’ wholly owned private President and CEO. Dallas. Coincidentally, Embry-Riddle jet subsidiary. Worldwide Campus adjunct faculty John Aitken (‘99, WW) was pro- Bobby McMasters (‘05, WW) was members Bruce Chadbourne and Alex moted to assistant director of aviation Kerry McGovern (‘02, WW) was named interim dean of the College of Wells taught Norman’s final CAIP at Mineta San José International appointed a regional sales manager for Business at Embry-Riddle’s Worldwide course and administered the certifica- Airport in San José, Calif. Aitken has Securaplane Technologies, a supplier of Campus, effective Jan. 2, 2015. A long- tion exam. Both Chadbourne and Wells served as acting assistant director of avionics products for business, commer- time faculty member, McMasters is an were recognized with achievement aviation since 2013, and as deputy cial and military aircraft. He is based in associate professor of business admin- awards at the AIA Annual Conference director of aviation – operations at Miami, Fla., with responsibility for the istration based in Las Vegas, Nev. in May, where Norman also received Silicon Valley’s airport since 2002. He Southeast and Central United States. her official certification. has worked there since 1993. U.S. Navy Capt. Brent “Buddha” Paul Gennaro (‘03, WW) is senior George (‘05, DB) retired on Sept. 1, Jessica (Fekete) Tracey (‘06, DB) vice president of corporate communica- 2014. Completing a 25-year career as was hired at Delta Air Lines and is 2000s tions and chief communications officer a U.S. Naval Test Pilot School graduate flying the MD 88/90 as a first officer. for Voya Financial. and aerospace engineering duty offi- Previously, she spent seven years at Chief Master Sgt. Joseph cer, George served in carrier aviation, Republic Airlines. Montgomery (‘01, WW) was named Fabio Miguez (‘03, DB) was pro- operational and developmental test command chief for the Kirtland Air moted to regional operations manager and evaluation, and aircraft acquisition, Joseph Rivera (‘06, ‘11, WW) Force Base’s 58th Special Operations for FlightSafety. He continues to serve production and overhaul positions. is director of international opera- Wing in New Mexico. as manager of the company’s learning He also served multiple tours as a tions at Gulfstream Aerospace center in Columbus, Ohio. portfolio manager leading spacecraft Corporation. Based in Savannah, Ga., Sean Rogers, Ph.D. (‘01, ‘02, DB) design and acquisition at the National Rivera is responsible for oversight of joined the faculty at Cornell University’s Jesse Romo (‘04, DB) was named air- Reconnaissance Office. Following his Gulfstream’s three international ser- School of Hotel Administration on port director for the city of Manhattan, Navy career, George founded Buddha vice centers in Beijing; Luton, England; July 1. He is teaching courses in human Kan., effective April 27, 2015. He is George Consulting Inc., a Northern and Sorocaba, Brazil. Luton and resources, labor relations, and manage- responsible for the daily management Virginia-based national security man- Sorocaba are currently in operation, ment in hospitality and aviation. and operations of Manhattan Regional agement and leadership consulting firm. while Gulfstream Beijing is expected Airport in Kansas. to begin operations soon. Katadah Abdul Hameed Zaman William D. Steininger-Holmes (‘05, (‘01, DB) is managing director of the Tim Koczur (‘04, WW) is the deputy PC) was selected for promotion to Jesse Quirion (‘07, DB) is the public International Institute for Strategic power manager for the Grand Coulee the rank of major in the Air Force. He works director for the city of Menlo Studies’ Middle East branch. Dam in Grand Coulee, Wash. currently serves as chief of the Atlas V Park, Calif. Avionics and Electrical Systems Branch Benito Avendano (‘02, DB) was Shareef Al Romaithi (‘05, ‘06, with the Space and Missile Systems Air Force Lt. Col. Clayton Percle selected for Lockheed Martin’s Program DB; ‘14, WW), a 31-year-old Etihad Center at Los Angeles Air Force Base. (‘07, WW) became the first active- Manager Talent Initiative, where Airways first officer, has become duty pilot to log 1,000 flight hours in Level 4 and 5 program managers are the first Emirati to obtain a Ph.D. Rose Marie Norman (‘06, DB) the F-22 Raptor. This was achieved groomed for senior program manager in Aviation from Embry-Riddle recently earned the Aviation Insurance in February 2015, at Joint Base and/or executive roles. Aeronautical University, which also Association’s Certified Aviation Elmendorf-Richardson.

34 LIFT FALL 2015 ALUMNI.ERAU.EDU Richard J. Mosler (‘08, PC) is the airport duty manager at Seattle- 2010s Tacoma International Airport (SEA- TAC). He started working at Paine Field Tim Martin (‘10, DB; ‘13, WW) and his in Everett, Wash., in the operations wife, Megan (‘10, DB), welcomed their department in November 2008. From daughter, Brooklyn Ann, on April 15, there, he transitioned to working as 2014. Tim is a senior quality engineer a superintendent of operations at on the F-35 Support Equipment program Los Angeles International Airport. at Lockheed Martin. Megan works as Air Force Lt. Col. Clayton Percle He began working as a duty manager a benefits consultant for NTA Life. The at SEA-TAC in December 2012. family resides in Fort Worth, Texas.

Eric McBride (‘13, WW) and 2010s Danielle McBride welcomed a son, Jacob Allen McBride, on Sept. 18, Rhett Morgan (‘11, DB) is direc- 2014, in Melbourne, Fla. “Jacob is tor of Ailevon Pacific Aviation a healthy and thriving baby boy and Consulting LLC, based in Dallas. He we are so very blessed by this mira- was previously senior manager of cle!” Eric is a first officer for JetBlue Sydney Lynn Balliet Johann and Sarah Schrell and son Finley network planning and performance Airways and the family resides in for Southwest Airlines. West Melbourne, Fla.

Melanie Chatham (‘12, PC) com- pleted her flight control training and is now employed by the International Space Station at NASA-Johnson Marriages/ Space Center in Houston. Engagements Eric and Danielle McBride and son Jacob Brooklyn Ann Martin

Family News 1960s Thomas “Sid” Mann III (‘61, MC, Non-degree) and Sandra Trivino were 1990s married on Feb. 13, 2015, on a locomo- tive at the Florida Railroad Museum Thomas “Sid” Mann III Nathaniel Burt (‘98, DB) and his maintenance facility in Parrish, Fla., and Sandra Trivino Capt. Bryan Beasley and Kelsy Goswick wife, Suzanne, welcomed their second where Mann is a volunteer. They hon- child, Nathaniel Charles “Charlie” eymooned in Bogota, Columbia. The Burt, on May 1, 2015. Charlie joins his couple reside in Sarasota, Fla. big sister Katherine at home in York, Pa. Nathaniel is a principal software engineer and program manager at 2010s Exceptional Software Strategies in Linthicum, Md. Capt. Bryan Beasley (‘10, PC) is currently an F-16 Flight Lead with the U.S. Air Force stationed at Homestead 2000s Air Force Base in Florida. In 2011, he married Kelsy Goswick, originally of Ashley Getz and Clay Buerger Michael Pyrch and Courtney Hergert Phil Balliet (‘02, DB; ‘14, WW) and Prescott, Ariz. his wife, Katey, welcomed their first Vance Air Force Base in Oklahoma, James (‘14, DB) and Adriana child, Sydney Lynn, on June 27, 2014. Ashley Getz (‘10, PC) and Clay where Michael is attending under- (Osegueda) Kimmel (‘14, DB) were Phil is an aviation program manager Buerger (‘09, DB) were married on graduate pilot training. married on Jan. 19, 2015, at Walt Disney supporting the Federal Aviation Oct. 4, 2014, in Silt, Colo. Ashley is an World in Orlando, Fla. The couple met Administration in Washington, D.C. office manager and physical therapy Rohit Narasimhan (‘11, ‘13, DB) right before their freshman year in 2010 aide at PRC Physical Therapy, and and Srinisha “Nisha” Shankar at the Accepted Student’s Day at the Johann Schrell (‘08, DB) and Sarah Clay is a calibration technician for (‘11, DB) were married in May 2015 Daytona Beach Campus. They live in Schrell (‘09, DB) welcomed a happy Encana Oil & Gas. in New Jersey. The couple first met Everett, Wash., where they both work for baby boy, Finley Robert Schrell, on in 2007 at Embry-Riddle’s Daytona The Boeing Company as stress analysts. Feb. 25, 2015. Johann is a research Michael Pyrch (‘11, DB) and Beach Campus. They reside in and development engineer and Sarah Courtney Hergert united in marriage Houston, Texas. is a thermodynamics engineer at UTC on Nov. 23, 2014, in Andalusia, Ala. Aerospace Systems in San Diego, Calif. The couple is currently stationed at

LIFT FALL 2015 ALUMNI.ERAU.EDU 35 EAGLE AUTHORS ON THE BOOKSHELF Andrea Coppick (‘93, PC) authored Georgia Goes to Lunch, an illustrated children’s book. The

story is based on the author’s first James and Adriana (Osegueda) ride in a small airplane and how Rohit Narasimhan and Nisha Shankar Kimmel it inspired her dreams of becom- ing a pilot. Coppick is an airline pilot and a philanthropist. She established the Dare to Dream Scholarship through Women in Aviation International in 2009, which assists women seeking advanced aviation training. “From that first airplane ride, I’ve always Jeremy Sotzen Ernest Arispe Robert Redinger known I wanted to fly. Every flying adventure has been part of an incredible journey, and I love to share that passion with young children,” she says.

Melvin M. Vuk, Ph.D., retired associ- ate professor for Global Security and

Intelligence Studies at the Prescott Lt. Col. John Wright, far left, and Col. Campus, is a contributing author of Matthew Magness, far right, pictured with their respective sons, 2nd Lt. Jonathan the Encyclopedia of U.S. Intelligence, Wright and 2nd Lt. Peter Magness Left to right: Randy Holt, Tim Holt, a two-volume set published December Karen Holt and Ryan Holt 2014, by CRC Press. A reference source for government agencies and research libraries, the encyclopedias also high- light the development and practice of intelligence in the United States. In addition to a print version, the set is available in a continually updated online version. Authored by former intelligence professionals and scholars, the encyclopedia is the first definitive work John Meyers, right, with to record U.S. intelligence, its history, prominent figures Alumni Relations Executive and intelligence agencies, and to feature key events Shaesta Waiz Director Bill Thompson that have shaped the present U.S. intelligence environment.

Retired NASA astronaut and U.S. Air Force Col. Ronald J. Garan Jr. (‘95, WW) authored The Orbital Perspective: Lessons in Seeing the Big Picture from a Journey of 71 Million Miles, published in 2015. Drawing on his experience living and working on the International Space Station and viewing the Embry-Riddle alumni Delta Air Lines group grandeur of Earth from space, Garan’s book functions as a call to action for people to lay political and cultural differences aside to collectively care and feed planet Earth and its people.

Kenneth O. Jenkins (‘11, WW) authored Resilience: Stories of Courage and Survival from Aviation Disasters, published in April 2015. The book explores the personal stories of airplane crash survivors and family members.

Maj. David Panzera Madhav Thaker and Austin Burgess KIMMEL: DISNEY FINE ARTS FINE KIMMEL: DISNEY

36 LIFT FALL 2015 ALUMNI.ERAU.EDU He regularly spends two months a year DB); Kalena Glover (‘13, PC); and Shaesta Waiz (‘10, ‘14, DB) partici- in Antarctica supporting the efforts of Andrea Palacios (‘10, DB). pated in a memorial service honoring the International Scientific Community the life of famed aviatrix Geraldine Other through direct support to the National William Bayliss (‘07, ‘14, PC) “Jerrie” Mock on April 22, 2015. Mock Science Foundation (NSF), Office of piloted the Goodyear Blimp over became the first woman to circum- Lt. Col. John Wright (‘84, DB) and Polar Programs. His unit is the single Super Bowl XLIX, held Feb. 1, 2015, navigate the world solo in 1964. She Col. Matthew Magness (‘91, DB) point provider for heavy airlift in the at the University of Phoenix Stadium died on Sept. 30, 2014, at the age of both gave commissioning speeches at world for the NSF. View the video in Glendale, Ariz. He also piloted the 88. Waiz met Mock in 2014. “She gave the Daytona Beach Campus’ Air Force of his visit here: http://youtu.be/ blimp during Race Week for the 2015 me insights about her trip 51 years ROTC Commissioning Ceremony on MVNSvzhv_FU. Daytona 500 in Daytona Beach, Fla. ago,” says Waiz, who is planning May 10 for their respective sons, 2nd Bayliss is one of 10 Goodyear Blimp a round-the-world trip of her own Lt. Jonathan Wright (‘15, DB) and Laura Smith-Velazquez (‘00, ‘06, pilots in the United States. for 2016. http://dreamssoar.com/ 2nd Lt. Peter Magness (‘15, DB), DB) is one of 100 finalists selected about-shaesta/. who are both headed to U.S. Air Force by Mars One for a future mission to Michael Abebe (‘08, DB) and pilot training. begin colonizing Mars. two other entrepreneurs recently Classmates Austin Burgess (‘14, launched a Kickstarter campaign to DB) and Madhav Thaker (‘14, DB) John Meyers (‘87, DB) donated a Tim Holt (‘01, ‘06, WW), director of promote their product design, Jungle launched a tech company called custom-made, Embry-Riddle-branded STEM Programs at the Embry-Riddle Bowl. Abebe is an aerospace design LetsHang LLC, which features a taxiway light to the Daytona Beach Worldwide Campus, presented both of engineer for The Boeing Company in mobile app that allows users to Campus’ Alumni Relations office in his sons, Randy and Ryan, with their Seattle, Wash. meet people in their area who enjoy March. Meyers salvaged the light from Embry-Riddle degrees at the May 2, the same activities. Port Columbus International Airport. 2015, Prescott Campus commence- A trio of Embry-Riddle alumni are He is a mechanic for American Airlines ment. Also present was Tim’s wife of members of the Stratospheric Explorer Axel Garcia Burgos (‘15, DB) was and part owner of Just Illumination, 25 years and his sons’ mother, Karen. (StratEx) team that made history in accepted into a joint two-year master’s Unique Lighting. October 2014 with a record-breaking, degree program between MIT and A group of Embry-Riddle graduates near-space dive from a high-altitude the Skolkovo Institute of Science and U.S. Air Force Maj. David Panzera who work for Delta Air Lines in balloon at 135,890 feet. Avid skydiver Technology (Skoltech) in Moscow. (‘92, DB), who was commissioned Atlanta, Ga., recently got together for and Google executive Alan Eustace through Embry-Riddle’s Air Force ROTC lunch. Pictured are, left to right, back: performed the near-space dive. Ernest Longtime friend of the university, Det. 157, visited the geographical Pablo Guerrero (‘05, WW); Mazen Arispe (‘10, WW), Jeremy Sotzen Helen Wessel, celebrated her 90th South Pole with the Embry-Riddle Hammoud (‘11, DB); current student/ (‘07, DB) and Robert Redinger (‘87, birthday on July 4, 2015. Fondly Alumni banner, showing that Embry- intern Mateo Tobar; Andri Qosja (‘07, WW) are among those who were known as the “Face of Art at Embry- Riddle Eagles are everywhere! Panzera DB); Mahmoud Khatib (‘06, ‘08, nominated for the 2014 National Riddle” for her transformative gifts is chief pilot for the Active Guard DB); Sam Hammoud (‘10, DB); Juan Aeronautic Association’s Robert J. of art to the university, Wessel was Reserve at the 139th Airlift Squadron, Forero (‘05, DB); front: Jonathan Collier Award for their contributions born in Cincinnati, Ohio. She flew with 109th Airlift Wing at Stratton Air Rabidou (‘12, DB); Ehren Biggers to the StratEx project. her late husband, Robert Wessel, at National Guard Base in Scotia, N.Y. (‘11, PC); Natsu Okiyama (‘07, ‘10, Lunken Field, the birthplace of the Embry-Riddle Company.

1950s John. O. Thompson (‘75, DB) 1990s Nov. 4, 2010 In Memoriam Carl T. Pflanzer (‘56, MC, Marty W. Ogburn (‘96, WW) Non-degree) Bryan W. Schafer (’79, DB) Dec. 19, 2014 Embry-Riddle pays tribute to our Nov. 4, 2014 May 22, 2015 Eagles who have passed. Death notices are published online and in 2000s Lift as they are received/reported to 1960s 1980s the office of Alumni Relations. Send Jessica E. Olmstead (‘00, PC) notifications toeralumni@erau. Albert E. Isaacs (‘67, DB, Professor Emeritus Grover March 19, 2015 edu. For an up-to-date list, visit Non-Degree) Frederick “Fred” Mirgle (‘81, DB) alumni.erau.edu/passings. Feb. 21, 2015 Daytona Beach Campus’ Department Mary B. Thomas (‘00, ‘05, DB) of Aviation Maintenance Science March 11, 2015 July 4, 2015 1940s 1970s Thomas A. Mattee (‘08, WW) Gaylord K. Vasconcellos (‘81, WW) Jan. 22, 2015 Gilbert S. Guinn (‘41, BFTS, Clarence E. O’Bryan (‘72, DB) Jan. 31, 2015 Non-degree) Feb. 23, 2015 Apr. 30, 2014 Jerry L. Brantley (‘83, WW) Other James A. Baerwolf (‘73, DB) Jan. 19, 2015 Aug. 3, 2014 Shawn R. Adelgren (Student, PC) May 2, 2015

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