Howard Dydedock AK9F, Maury Shumaker W4HYB and Clay Melhorn N9IO meet at Family Table restaurant 9-21-2008. |
| The BBCHS Academic
Foundation has announced their 2008 Alumnus of the Year choice is Maury
Shumaker W4HYB of Manassas, Virginia.
Maury, a graduate of the class of 1953 and past president of the Kankakee Area Radio Society spoke at BBCHS during our historic ARISS contact with ISS expedition 12 commander Bill McArthur KC5ACR on the International Space Station in March 2006. Maury was Vice-Director of the Space Shuttle Challenger accident investigation committee and was involved in the historic Martin Marietta Titan I and Titan II projects among many others. Maury was nominated
for the award by Jim Schreiner K9BIG, a Science Instructor at Bradley-Bourbonnais
Community High School and KARS member.
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