Letter to the Editor

I saw the Terre Haute Air Fair 2007 pictures in the recent issue and it got me to thinking… after the pain and dizziness subsided, I thought about a Thorn item thanking all the Rose students who volunteered to help at the show. I don’t know if this is Thornworthy, but I thought I’d send it along.

I would like to thank all of the Rose students who worked the show. From my best count (which isn’t that great), there were over 40 students working on the Flight Line, Security, the Airport VIP Tent, and Pyro. I got many compliments on the excellent work you did, and the show was better because of your participation.

Flight Line Operations was clearly the best job (because they worked for me) as this group was tasked with keeping the aircraft and people from hurting each other. We also got to push aircraft around and meet the occasional pilot. Security is a thankless job - you are typically telling people to do something different or telling them something they don’t want to hear. The Airport VIP tent was the job closest to the flight line and in the shade, but it was probably the busiest of the assignments for the entire show. But Pyro - now this is a special job. This group got to set charges and fuel and do all the fun stuff it took to make the giant explosions. They got to take part in setting a world record wall of fire and, in general, got to do stuff that very few people outside the pyro industry ever do. Talk to some of these students and you get the feeling that this was a cool job.

I just wanted to pass along that the VIP tent supervisor, the Pyro guys, and the Ramp guys were all very appreciative and complimentary of the work you did.

Thanks from me too. The Flight Line volunteers made my job easier.



Bill Foraker

Assistant Director of Development