Thank You!
The Rattler/Firebird Association would like to thank those who helped make the 2004 reunion so special. The list includes the following people and we apologize if we missed anyone. Please feel free to let us know if we did. The descriptions of what these people did is necessarily brief, but the work they did was certainly not. Last, but not least, we'd like to thank all of those who attended the reunion. Without all of you there would be no point in having reunions. Thanks!
- National Director:
- Ron Seabolt (EM 66-67) for more things than we can begin to list here.
- Secretary/Treasurer:
- Chuck Carlock (WO 67-68) for untold work and for amassing our display material that included a Rattler slick and a Firebird gunship.
- Reunion Committee Chairman:
- Vic Bandini (WO 68-69)
- Donations:
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- Bill DiDio's (EM 68-69) LZNam, Vietnam Veterans Memorial Bowie Knife and case
- David (WO 66-67) and Paula O'Quinn, Airline Tickets
- Joe Kline Aviation Art, Prints (and for ongoing support through the years)
- Memorial Service:
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- Eric Kilmer (WO 69-70)
- Col. Whiz Broome (WO 69)
- BG Larry Gillespie (USA Ret.)[OF 65-66]
- Security:
- Doug Womack (WO 70-71)
- Drivers for moving the helicopters and displays:
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- Chuck Carlock
- Ron Seabolt
- Jim Miller
- Bob Wright
- Dewayne Williams
- Daniel Patterson
- Photographer:
- Wilkie Boyd (Ron's brother-in-law)
- Company Store:
- Kay Seabolt (Ron's wife)
- Two outgoing members of the board of directors:
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- Jim Miller (WO 67-68)
- Jaak Sepp (EM 67-68)
- Two new members of the board of directors:
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- Vic Bandini (WO 68-69)
- David O'Quinn
- Webmaster:
- Gary White (OF 68-69) even though all he did was show up and drink the beer!
It should also be mentioned that Benny Goodman (WO 68-69) was very helpful to the staff before and during the reunion and that Jim Pauls of MOAA was a big help in setting up the golf outing. Joe Schenke also provided some great additional photos.
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