Gerry Myers Awesome idea. That must have taken you forever to scan all those. How did you remember everyone’s name? We’d love to go to an Edwards Reunion but the chances are pretty slim. Two kids in college and two still at home. I’ve wanted to organize a mini-reunion in Alabama for awhile since a bunch of us still live here so I’ll let you know if I get around to it. Man do those photos bring me back. That was the funnest time. Young people living in California on per diem. It couldn't get any better. 
Lunch in Huntsville-Greg Clark, Dennis Harlan, Gerry Myers, Glenn Bryant, and Jim Killion Jeff Todd Hi Jim! Just wanted to check in! Jack Ostberg forwarded your email to me! Great to see those pics! I have one of you, Jack, Mike Kraus and I in Mexico one year I need to get scanned and forward to you! I'm working USAF Tanker here in Wichita. Here is a pic of my 25 Yr dinner...you might recognize some of the boys! 
Jeff Todd at his 25th Anniversary of Boeing employment. Jeff in center front with dark plaid shirt and kaki pants. Deborah S Rabidoux (Engle) That is a great website and brings back so many memories. I live in Huntington Beach and would love to have a chance to reunite with all the folks from the B-52 days. That was the best program ever. I think it was a one-time event that we were all fortunate enough to share. Bob Davey That was a trip down memory lane. The "good old days" that even sounds old! 25 year anniversary; YIKES I can believe it! I haven't changed a bit..... a nice full head of hair :-) Now Quiv is another story, I golf with him all the time, you only thought he talk'd smack before! and Mr.. Floyd those short shorts are a real fashion statement. No wonder Debbie married you Cook's bachelor party, weren't we all out watching him with a "bit of the stomach flu" Good thing Mike Grant's picture didn't show Matt and Bob at the other end passed-out too. Thank you Jim for this effort, this is fantastic. Mark McLauchlin Wow, what a blast from the past - and Jim, thanks for the effort putting all of this together. I know I have lots of photos of those days gone by, I'll make an effort to find them and send some scans to you for the website. Wallee and I still live in Seattle - she's retired now and living a life of fun and leisure. I just passed my 25th anniversary with Boeing back at the end of May, it just doesn't seem that long ago... I'm working in Fleet Technical Services, as the Warranty Engineer representing Fleet Support for all of the Boeing Everett wide body jets.
Wallee's boys are all grown up and gone - Michael, as you may remember, did a stint in the US Navy and then went to work in the private sector. He and his wife, Angela, now reside in Reno, Nevada, along with their two children - Samantha (10 years old) and Joshua (8 years old) - so yes, we're grandparents. LOL. Wallee's youngest, Matthew, works for Boeing here in Everett out on the 787 assembly line in the hydraulic systems functional test area. He lives just a couple of miles from work and about 9 miles from where Wallee and I reside.
I still hear from George Papp on occasion but it's been a while since the last time we talked. He's living in Applegate, CA. near where his son and daughter are located.
BTW, if anyone knows how to get ahold of Alan Raetz, I'd appreciate hearing from you... As far as I can tell, he's fallen off the face of the earth?
If anyone has a Facebook page, feel free to add me to your list. UserTel: 425-486-6275
UserWeb: http://mysite.verizon.net/evernhamms91/hamradio.htm Jeanine Chambers Taking a trip down memory lane was awesome! Wow...those are some interesting pictures! Remember the Boeing picnic in California City in 1985? After the picnic was over, all the beer and wine was taken to someone's house in California City and the party continued on that evening. The party was on a Sunday and I think I was among the few who showed up to work the next day...boy, was I dragging! I arrived in the Antelope Valley in February 1985. I remember being at a going away party in October 1991 at a Mexican restaurant for someone and a newscast on the television showed the Sec. of Defense, Dick Cheney announcing a Stop Work on the SRAM II. I was on the SRAM II for one year after I left the B-52 program. Well, we came back to work on Monday, and we weren't allowed to do anything for 60 days, except get our resumes ready and find another job. I left the Antelope Valley Dec. 26, 1991, heading to Boeing Huntsville, AL and have been here every since. I worked on Space Station for 15 years -- 2 years in Reliability and Maintainability and 13 years in Software Configuration Management (SCM). I have been on the GMD program for a little over 3 years and worked in Proposal Management for 3 years. With the restructuring of the GMD program and layoffs on Sept. 17, 2009, I left Proposal Management and was re-assigned back into SCM on August 7, 2009 on the GMD program. I hired in with Boeing in Wichita on August 27, 1984. I've been married for 13 years to Ralph Chambers, a fine southern gentleman originally from Mobile, AL. I have two grand children, Anna 14 (from David 39) and Jonathon 5 1/2 months old (from Susan 34). I plan on working another 3 to 7 years if the good Lord is willing. Hope to hear from you all! Darlene Miller & Mike After Edwards Mike and I went on to the B2 program in Palmdale. So secret then! Mike had over 800 folks on that program. Mike wanted to retire at 55 so both of us transferred to Renton, WA. Had to get retirement $$ out of California. Of all things, I went to the 777 group designing hydraulics. Both worked for a couple years,, then off we went to our "easy living life".
Mike, being a lover of golf, decided he wanted to play golf so we toured the US for two years, just trying to qualify for a big bucks tournament. Did not work out so well, so he got a PGA card and now we "Snowbird" to Tucson. Golf every day! We live in NW Tucson right on the golf course. Tucson National. We are both very healthy and have fun everyday. My gaud, I will be 70 this year and Mike turns 73 in December. Old Farts!!! Ha.
We have traveled the world and loved every minute. Our last adventure was cruising thru the Panama Cannel. 
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Our home on Lake Morton, Kent WA |
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Sunrise on Lake Morton, Kent, WA |
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Dan Wininger Jim,
This is Weninger replying back to your e-mail that has finally made it to me. Yes, there are a couple of pictures of me on your website. Brings back memories.
I'm here in OKC working on the B-1 program with Kearn and Cook. Calvin Hashimoto is manager of the contractor logistics support group over in the other building. I see him every once in awhile.
I get out to Long Beach every once in awhile. As a matter of fact, I was out there last month for my fiance's son's wedding.
Good to hear from you.
Daniel Weninger
Ph: 405-610-3333 Jim Killion Pre 1984 Arrival: I graduated from college and went to work for Boeing in February 1984, in Wichita as a design engineer. I was assigned to the MDS project, an on board flight test data processing and recording on a hard drive system. This was one of the first flight qualified hard drive systems on any aircraft, a milestone in itself. The project manager, Dave Eslinger, asked me to go to Edwards to support this project. I was assigned to the flight test group, managed by Duane Bennett. I worked in Wichita from February to my departure in August. It is always hard to leave friends, even if friends I had just met a few months earlier. I became close to many in Wichita and felt it was only a short time project in California. I also have a lot of family in LA so it would be an opportunity to connect with them for a year and return, wow was that a failed plan, twenty five years later and I am still in LA. I arrived in Lancaster on September 1, 1984. The big news was the Rockwell test pilot was killed in a B1B crash at Edwards the day I arrived. I checked in to the Desert Inn hotel on Sierra Highway. The Desert Inn is still open as of a month ago. 1984 After arriving, the weekends were playing tourist, Universal, Sea World.... This was the time for all of us to get together and get to know each other. The year ended with a record snowfall, it started while we were at work and continued for the next day or so. Dave Cole and I drove home together in my 4x4 with the winch I just installed a few days earlier. We had a blast pulling the snow driving neophytes out of the ditches. A few days later, we were off for the Chirstmas holiday.  After the Mojave-After leaving the B2 program in March in 1991, I started a new job in the Commercial Avionics Systems, or CAS for Boeing in Seattle. I was in a design group there for two years, designing a circuit board and on the design team for the box that is on every 777 today. It was a fun and satisifying project to end my tenure at Boeing, after 10 years. After leaving Boeing, I started working for Mentor Graphics in LA, which I am still here now. Today-I am still working for Mentor Graphics as an Senior Applications Engineer-Consultant, working out of the El Segundo, CA office, and in our Mil-Aero group. One of my biggest customers is Boeing. I mostly support the Southern California sites but also do some work in St Louis and Kent, WA. I have been with Mentor since leaving Boeing in 1993. I live in LA, about halfway between Hollywood and downtown, just off the famous Sunset Blvd. I am an avid Dodger fan, season ticket holder and attend over 50 of the 81 games a year. For more information, please visit my website at www.tudo-bom.com/jim. |
