David Downing:
CLASS OF 1958
Lincoln Park High SchoolClass of 1958
Lincoln park, MI
David's Story
Barb and Dave Downing
Barb Mathews and Dave Downing married August 29, 1959 and will celebrate their 49th anniversary this year.
Dave got a BS and MS in Aerospace Engineering at the University of Michigan and his doctoral degree at MIT. Barb worked so Dave could finish his education. They lived in Cambridge and Acton, Massachusetts. Dave worked part time for NASA in Cambridge while at MIT in 1970.
Daughter Kelly was born in Massachusetts on November 5, 1970
After graduating from MIT Dave taught Systems Engineering at Boston University from 1970 to 1974.
In 1974 Dave got an opportunity to work for NASA and the Downing¿s mov...Expand for more
ed to Hampton Virginia.
Jennifer was born in Virginia on May 9, 1975.
Dave left NASA in 1981 and moved to Kansas to teach at the University of Kansas Aerospace Engineering Department. From 1988 to 1999, Dave was the Department Chair. He currently is just a POP, i.e., Plain Old Professor, and will retire from KU in May 2009.
After the girls got into school, Barb took Photo Journalism classes at KU. She also reconnected to community theater work joining the staff of the Lawrence Community Theater. After 16 years working at the theater as their Prop Master, she decided to start a new career as grandmother and lady of leisure.
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