I received a call from out of the blue Sunday evening that I thought I might share with you:
John Nielsen, one of the founding members of the Chicago SOAR club, emcee of the many SOAR NATS banquets and the man who decimated Schwinn Corp. each year to bring adminitrative assistants (we called them secretaries back then)to perform the scoring for the SOAR NATS called me. John is 79 years old, has lived all over the country, had been flying some quarter scale (J-3 Cubs on floats), took up and gave up full scale sailing on the Great Lakes and is now renovating some of his original sailplanes, two that he flew at the first international soaring event held in Doylestown PA before soaring was an official event in AMA OR FAI. Seems John was surfing the web and came across the LSF website (SilentFlight.org)and recognized my name as a potential nominee for office, followed the links and read my bio and decided to call. John is interested in rejoining AMA and SOAR once some pesky cataracts are taken care of and he returns to Illinois from his Florida winter compound in the Spring. He even wanted to find out what his original LSF number and level were (both long forgotten) and he's interested in some of the "woody" events Ray Hayes is promoting. We spent over an hour talking about all the changes in the sport since the early 70's, the mutual friends, some passed on, some still active, and the 30 years just melted away. What a great sport that fosters relationships that transcend generations like this. ===== Tom (TK) Kallevang Wheeling, IL SOAR, LSF #303 Level V __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off.
