Russell Crooks:  

Greetings Class of 1965 Here is my contact information: Russell S. Crooks, Class of 65 310 Lakeside Drive Grand Island, NE 68801 I'm a Veteran and served in the US Army 1966 to 1969. I was in West Germany for about two years and finished active duty at Ft. Carson, CO where I was a technical equipment supervisor, Green machine repair. On completion of military service I was hired by NASA and worked for Bendix Field Engineering on the whole Apollo Manned Space Flight Program, Goldstone, CA. What can I say, every day was thrill to be at work. When the Apollo mission was spooling down I was interviewed and hired by the Civil Engineering Division at the Marine Base and worked there for a year. In 1974 I transferred from Defence Department to Transportation and worked for the FAA. First a technician on the coast just north of LA. In three years was promoted to area Manager at Santa Barbara. Lived in Santa Barbara on the Beach then Oxnard and Ventura. My next challenge was a technical inspector at the GS-13 level in the FAA Regional Office in Los Angeles My area of responsibility was all of California, Arizona, Nevada and the Pacific Rim. After three long years of endless paperwork and travel I went back to field maintenance and was promoted to the FAA Resident Director in Pago Pago, American Samoa where I was director of maintenance and supervised the Air Traffic Control system. This position required frequent travel throughout the Pacific including the the other Samoan Islands, Hawaii and Guam. occasionally to the mainland to LA, DC and FL for meetings and training. Lived in Ventura and Pago Pago AS. On completion of my overseas tour I returned to Los Angeles and managed Employee Involvement and Labor Relations for about nine-hundred employees. In 1992 was promoted to Manager of the Nebraska FAA Sector office. Loved the Mid-West. FAA reorganized in 1996 and sent me to Kansas City, MO and I found field work again this time in Fairbanks, Alaska. In Fairbanks I was the...Expand for more