Rulison Archer III:  

Life If you are seeing this on the Seabreeze Page I added my dad to the Seabreeze page and it has tied it self to my page as our names are the same except that he was a 2nd and I am a 3rd. Please jump to below if you are on the Mainland page. Seabreeze High School This is my dads page. Rulison(RED)Archer II,he was a member of the 1937 Seabreeze graduating class. He was in the automobile business as the American Austin and Bantam dealer in Daytona in the late 30's. He also was the Pontiac dealer located on N. Ridgewood at the corner of 2nd ave in the 40's. He later worked at the Midway on the boardwalk and had several Radio & TV repair shops. MAINLAND HIGH SCHOOL Rulison "Arch" Archer III is a native of Daytona Beach, Florida. He attended Mainland High School with the Class of 1958 and as a youngster helped his dad in Radio & Television Repair Service and Amusement Arcades on the Boardwalk. He joined the U.S. Army and became a radio repairman serving in Japan and Korea. Upon return to the states he was an instructor at the Southeastern Signal School at Ft. Gordon, Georgia and then became a NIKE Missile computer technician in the Dallas, Texas area until' his separation from service. He was then a Daytona Beach Police Officer for a short time. Arch worked for several aerospace firms during the GEMINI/ APOLLO days and was involved in such programs as the GEMINI 4 flight, the first controlled from the MISSION CONTROL CENTER in Houston. He was also there for the GEMINI 6 & 7 flights which were the first rendezvous in space. During APOLLO he participated in the first Saturn 5 launches AS50l & AS502 at Cape Canaveral. For the first manned flight of APOLLO 7 he worked in Mission Control and was involved in the first live televis...Expand for more