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SEPTEMBER Table of Contents around town 04 Middlebury Milestones 05 Community Calendar 06 Boys & Girls Club: Celebrating 10 Years! 08 Outdoor Living: Seeds, Acorns, & Pods! 09 Middlebury Parks Department Update 10 American Legion Spotlight: Jon Witmer 25 Chamber of Commerce 24 Someone You Should Know: David Black 27 Business Directory feature stories 12 Feature Story: Cliff Pequet; Still Making it All by Hand 16 Middlebury Fall Festival 21 Gloria Salavarria: To Jump or Not to Jump schools 14 Marching Band: Step up to the Beat 26 Athletics coupons 29 Deals in Middlebury
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Creating something takes time and patience. In this month’s inMiddlebury, we look at what it takes to create something. One story is about an individual, Cliff Pequet, a leatherworker and cordwainer (we’ll give you the definition for that in the story), who makes amazing shoes, boots and more out of leather. He does it all by hand, the way it has been done for centuries. There are only a few still doing this type of work in the whole country, and the end product is nothing short of amazing. The other is more of a group effort. A very large group of about 150 NHS students and their director who have been working over the summer to create a show. The NHS Marching Raiders are putting the finishing touches on their 2016 show, “Nevermore,” with all eyes on reaching the state contest in late October. It is a blend of music and precision marching that is a thrill to see on the field. Make sure you attend a home football game this year to see what they have made. We hope these stories will motivate you to try your own hand at creating something. –Guy Thompson, Editor
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Celebrating 10 Years! For Unit Director Cristina Klotz, this September marks the beginning of her 10th year with the Boys & Girls Club of Middlebury. Klotz began her career with the Boys & Girls Club of Middlebury as a part-time education director in 2003, at a time when the Boys & Girls Club was still fairly young and located in the Crystal Valley Missionary Church. “I accepted the position as education director after graduating from college,” remembers Klotz. “At that time, we were serving 130 children per day.” Klotz was promoted to program director in 2007 and served in that role until being promoted this year to the Middlebury Unit director. Throughout her career, Klotz has seen the club evolve into a major community youth center, moving from the church in 2006 to the standalone facility on Northridge Drive where it now serves an average of 300 children each day.
A meaningful career Despite changes in location and membership numbers, Klotz says her favorite aspect of her work has stayed the same – the children. “I love watching our club members grow, learn new skills and succeed in what they do,” explains Klotz. “It’s always amazing to see former members who are now young adults come back to say hi or tell us they realize now how important the Boys & Girls Club is to them.” Through her years overseeing the club’s afterschool programs, Klotz has seen firsthand the impact the Boys & Girls Club makes on the lives of the children who attend. Currently, she oversees one of her favorite programs – STEM Mentoring, which pairs club members with adult mentors from the community and introduces them to Science, Technology, Engineering and Math through hands-on learning experiences.
“I love our STEM program because it teaches big concepts like engineering and technology through easy-tounderstand, real-life learning activities,” says Klotz. “Through playing Quick Ball with their mentors, our 6- to 9-year-old participants were able to not just learn math this summer, but also learn why math is important and how it’s used in everyday scenarios, like sports.”
Thankful for her service Boys & Girls Club programs like STEM are only successful and possible because of caring adults and professionals like Cristina Klotz. The Middlebury community is lucky to have such an amazing advocate for youth and looks forward to seeing the amazing work she will accomplish in the next 10 years!
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Seeds, Acorns, & Pods! As we approach fall, the forest floor and nearby meadows will be lined with seeds, acorns, and pods. This natural reseeding process provides us opportunities to explore and interact with nature. Here are a few options: • Make homemade paper and add seeds to the process. “Plant” the paper to see what grows. Start a seed collection with nature around you.
• Mandalas made from seeds, acorns, pods, and berries are a fun way to show patterns, repetition, etc.
• Pull a long, old sock over your child’s shoe and take a hike. Investigate all the seeds the sock picked up along the way. Plant the whole sock and see what grows and/or sprout it in a plastic bag. • Make a seed collection, with various seeds from plants in your area.
Hickory nuts can be abundant in fall.
• Sort and categorize seeds. Use your own collection and/or use a 15-bean mix adding in a few special seeds of your own. Egg cartons make great sorting bins! Explore textures, colors, sizes, dispersal methods, etc. • Count with seeds and acorns. • Use chalk Venn diagrams to compare and contrast different seeds and acorns. • Eat them! Have a seed buffet, with a variety of edible dried berries and seeds such as raisins, dried mulberries, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, and more! • Feed the birds. Make edible nature art for the birds and other animals by making a garland with their favorites or freeze seeds and berries in ice cubes for ice sculptures. Make bird feeders with pinecones, peanut butter, and birdseed. • Make natural dyes. Black walnuts make a great brown. • Plant a native garden with seeds from nearby walks. Milkweed is a great addition to help with Monarch butterflies!
Seed collections are an excellent way to learn about our plants.
Locally, we have many options in our yards and natural spaces to explore seeds, pods, and acorns. After interacting with them, leave them to reseed and feed the animals. < Gull boys explore seeds.
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Jon M. Witmer U.S. Army – Specialist 4. 19651967 – Active Duty; 1967-1971 – Army Reserve Basic training at Ft. Knox, Ky.; Advanced Individual Training (AIT) at Ft. Dix, New Jersey; Pentagon – Defense Support Agency Headquarters; Ft. Sheridan, Ill.
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Memories of Service: Following AIT, Witmer went to work at the Pentagon as part of the Defense Atomic Support Agency, the remains of the Manhattan Project. “At the time, there were developing uses of atomic energy for civilian and military use,” Witmer said. Among the things the agency did was monitor the U.S. atomic testing program. In January 1966, two planes collided over the Mediterranean Sea and dropped two unarmed nuclear weapons. “We went into lockdown,” Witmer recalled. “We didn’t see the light of day for four days. They brought our meals, cots to sleep on.” Witmer also recalled a time when his parents, along with Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Varns, were at the Pentagon and they
met the general he worked for. And, to his amazement, the general spent time visiting with them just outside of the offices. Following his active service time, Witmer served at Ft. Sheridan in Illinois with the Reserve.
After Service: Witmer worked at Varns and Hoover in Middlebury as a teen and returned there following his military service until he was 26 and he went to work for Coachmen. He married his wife Carol in 1981, and they have two daughters and four granddaughters. Witmer was treated for cancer through the Veterans Administration. “They do a fantastic job for us,’ he said. Witmer is a member of Middlebury American Legion Post 210, where he serves as Post Chaplain and is part of the Middlebury Post’s funeral detail. He also takes care of the rifles at the Middlebury Legion and he and his wife drive the Middlebury Post’s float in area parades.
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Still making it all by hand by Guy Thompson
Cliff Pequet is a leatherworker. More specifically, a cordwainer, someone who makes new shoes out of new leather. The process is long, taking upwards of 36 hours to make a shoe, and involves over 280 separate steps. It takes patience. An eye for detail. And a love for the craft. Pequet, who is from Middlebury, works as he talks to visitors that come through his shop, The Center for Traditional Arts, located on Morton St. in Shipshewana. He usually gets in the first question, “where are you from?” Then the visitors start asking questions. About the shoes. Boots. Belts. And the varied collection of items dating back to the Revolutionary War period that pack the space. There is really almost too much to take in. Meanwhile, Pequet works pieces of leather into shape. Taps pegs and nails to hold the pieces in place.
Arriving in Middlebury “My horse needed shoes by the time we got to Middlebury,” Pequet recalled of his arrival in Middlebury in 1972. He met a blacksmith south of town, near SR 4 and SR 13, named Ezra Harshberger. Pequet was “heading south” from Michigan with his horse, with no thought of where he might end up. “Ezra told me about a house nearby,” Pequet said, and he had found a home. 12 inMiddlebury Magazine | SEPTEMBER 2016
Pequet had been doing some blacksmithing work up in Michigan and got leatherwork experience while in college. He worked with Ezra as a blacksmith and made maple syrup in the spring. “He was like a grandfather, a mentor, to me. He was a real great friend,” Pequet recalled. Later on, Pequet would apply to work as a blacksmith at Sauder Village near Archibold, Ohio, but they had just filled that position. “I had mentioned leatherwork in my application and they decided to open a leather shop,” Pequet said. “That’s where I learned to make shoes.”
Learning the skills At Sauder Village, Pequet demonstrated a variety of leatherworking skills but visitors kept asking if he made shoes. He didn’t, at first. “I taught myself to do shoes and boots,” he said. He took shoes apart to see how they were made. Then he participated in a visiting craftsman program with Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia. During the off season at Sauder, he would go to Williamsburg to learn from their craftsmen. “I learned how I should have been doing it,” he said. At Williamsburg, he worked in both the harness shop and the shoe and boot shop. “I really enjoyed making shoes.
I found it particularly challenging,” Pequet stated. He worked at Sauder Village for almost six years. He would later travel to festivals and shows around the country with his leatherwork, shoes, and boots. “I traveled around, but always radiating from the Middlebury area,” he added. At the shows, he would also pick up items that ranged in age from the Revolutionary War to the late 1800s, which now populate his shop.
A shop and workshop Eight years ago, Pequet moved into a space near the Blue Gate Restaurant, where he could work on and sell leather goods. Then, six years ago, he moved into the location on Morton St. The space is packed with the items he collected on his travels. Goods made by other craftsmen. Shoes and boots. Belts and wallets. And Pequet’s workspace. The back third of the shop is overrun with rolls of leather. A bench filled with unique tools, awls, and projects in process. It is a shop that is in use. Pequet doesn’t travel to too many shows or festivals these days, although he will be at Stones Trace in Ligonier on Sunday, Sept. 11.
The term “cordwainer” was first used in the 1300s and denoted hand-stitched goods. Now, Pequet and almost 80 others are part of the Honorable Society of Cordwainers. Of those, less than 15 are making new shoes and boots. “It takes a passion for making footwear,” Pequet noted. One boot can have five different types of hand stitching, he pointed out. In today’s world, where things are made to be used and then disposed of, his shoes and boots stand out as items made to last and last. It is quality over quantity with everything he makes. “They were manufacturing at a time when hand work was the meaning of manufacturing. Those different time periods took different techniques,” he added. And Pequet is interested in helping others to continue the craft. He offers classes on leatherworking and cordwaining. Others at the center offer classes on tinsmithing, coppersmithing, clacksmithing, and woodworking. It is a craft that keeps us in touch with how things were once made – by hand and made to last, and even outlast us. And the passion for the craft shows in every piece Pequet puts out to sell.
Honorable Society of Cordwainers “Eighty-seven percent of shoes are made in other countries and are not made to be repaired,” Pequet said. “The shoes I make are made to be repaired.” By using pegs and nails, the shoe’s sole and heel can be repaired or replaced. But he doesn’t do repairs. That, technically, falls to “cobblers.”
Stylish and historical shoes, left, and boots, right, take up to a week each to make by hand, the way it has been done for centuries.
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Step to the beat
by Guy Thompson
It’s 90 degrees and very humid out here. And standing on the asphalt behind Northridge High School, it feels much, much hotter.
xylophones and special instruments, has grown, taking two large trailers to transport equipment to the field. “The front sideline percussion is playing 20-times the notes they did 10 years ago,” Zook said. That adds even more depth to the show. “Micah Detweiler, our percussion instructor, has increased their skills so much,” Zook said.
But no one complains. The 154 Northridge High School Marching Band members move quietly, instruments up, faces tense with concentration, as a loud, electronic “tick, tick, tick” fills the air. They reach the end of a section and stop. “Fix,” says NHS Marching Band Director Brad Zook from the observation tower.
Then there is the color guard under the direction of Brittany Rogers, adding flair and color to the show. “She’s done a great job with them,” Zook stated.
A few band members shift one way or another. Check their position relative to the others. “Again,” Zook says and the band scrambles back to their starting positions to run through a single, 30-second section of their show. And they will do it again. And again. They are seeking perfection. It’s only 78 days until the state marching band competition. This is Zook’s 14th year as band director for Northridge High School. He came to NHS because “I thought this school always had tremendous potential for growth,” he said. The band had the numbers, he added, but he saw room for improvement with the band’s performance. The work begins in the middle school, with Zook working with Northridge Middle School Director Bryce Cone. “He’s done an amazing job with the middle school band,” Zook stated. That gives him a base to build from when students come into the high school as freshmen. “The playing ability increases dramatically with the middle school kids coming in,” Zook noted. The size of the band has increased as well. Eight years ago, the band had just under 100 members. Now, with over 150 on the field, “it is so much easier to generate excitement and affect a big sound,” Zook said. The “excitement” comes from those moments when the band produces “big volume,” as Zook describes it, and specific drill forms, such as when the entire band marches straight toward the audience. The shows have changed over the years, becoming faster and more challenging with even more drill moves. Other areas have increased as well, Zook points out. The front percussion, the section that lines up along the sideline with 14 inMiddlebury Magazine | SEPTEMBER 2016
As the band scrambles back into place in practice, Drum Major Breanne Friskney, a senior at NHS, moves around the other band members, checking spacing when they pause or watching the drill formations take shape. Later, she’ll be up on the stand on the sideline, keeping perfect time as they go through the drills again and again. For Friskney, who has been in band since the 6th grade, this is the place she enjoys the most. “It’s a really cool thing to do and it’s helped me be a better person,” she said. But, she adds, “It’s not about just myself.” This is, in every sense of the word, a team. “The band as a whole matters. If you take one person out, that can mean moving on or not,” she noted. Each spot is mapped out, with each band member having his or her specific spot to be on each beat of every song. And if someone is absent, or not in their spot, it shows like a missing tooth. Those spots were planned months earlier by Zook, who began designing the 2016 show in December of last year. “I pick the music and then develop the theme around that,” he
It’s a long road to the state marching band competition, and it starts with long practices in the NHS parking lot.
two weeks. “Those two weeks are very important. I’m very pleased how it’s gone. We have a very hardworking group,” Zook added. Meanwhile, parents from the band boosters are helping with building props to be used in the show. “Our boosters are tremendous. They help raise money. Help with logistics. Provide food,” Zook lists. All of this effort – from the musicians, color guard, percussion, parents, and Zook – is focused on one show: the state competition on October 29 at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. The band has competed at the state contest eight of the last 11 years, finishing as high as 6th. To reach state, they have to advance from regional and semistate. “Most of the kids, sophomores and older, know what it takes to make state finals,” Zook said. “The freshmen come in and recognize that. That’s how you build the program.”
Members of the NHS Marching Band Percussion Section keep everyone on the same beat as they rehearse this year’s show.
said. This year, the theme is based around the Edgar Allen Poe poem “The Raven,” and is called “Nevermore.” Toward the end of the school year, once he knows who will be in the band for the coming year, he begins to lay out the marching formations, assigning each person to a spot for each moment of the show. The band members get the music at the end of the school year and practice at home and return in late July and early August for two weeks of practice, working throughout the day to master the drills. “They did an awesome job learning their music on this. I’m very proud of them,” Zook said.
And it takes a lot of work. Often out in the sun on hot summer days. “It’s really tiring and draining,” Friskney said. With this her last year in the band, she admits that she probably won’t pursue marching band in college. “I love this band so much, I want to leave the experience of it here,” she said, adding that marching with another band just wouldn’t be the same. The NHS Marching Raiders’ first contest is September 10 at Goshen. They will also perform their show at NHS home games throughout the season. The color guard adds more movement and color to the NHS Marching Band’s performance on the field.
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Fall Festival Fall Festival Photos: Kris Mueller
The arrival of September means the Fall Festival is just around the corner. This year’s Middlebury Fall Festival will be held September 16 and 17 in the downtown parks. The parks will be filled with artisans and crafters with a wide variety of pieces for sale. Food vendors will be on site as well. Friday evening will feature a wonderful fireworks show on the grounds of the Essenhaus Inn campus. There will be musical entertainment throughout the weekend offering a delightful backdrop for the sights and activities. Saturday will have a Cornhole Tournament and Baking Contest. All downtown shops will be open extended hours during the festival for shopping convenience. Further details and updates about the festival can be found on Facebook by searching for Middlebury Fall Festival. 16 inMiddlebury Magazine | SEPTEMBER 2016
*This schedule was correct as of 8-19-16. To check for updated information, visit www.MiddleburyFestivals.com.
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To Jump or Not to Jump by Gloria Salavarria
I’m afraid of heights. In fact, I don’t like getting up on a stepladder to change a light bulb and as such, I put compact fluorescent bulbs in all the overhead lights in my house to make sure the task of changing a light bulb is done less often. I hate going anywhere near a window in a skyscraper and you’ll never catch me doing a bungee jump. However, my fear of heights doesn’t carry over into flying around in aircraft – mainly because there are no vertical lines between me and the ground to give me a true sense of just how high up I am and so flying doesn’t bother me. Everything down there on the ground looks unreal. Those are just toy cars down there and look at how tiny those houses are! They are just a scene that someone has artfully put together with model trees, houses, and vehicles on a tabletop. I started flying early in life, mainly because I hated housework and knew that if I hung out with my Dad, I could avoid housework. When he wasn’t working, Dad hung out a lot at airports and so did I – from the time I was 11 years old until I left home for college. Dad’s fear was different. Instead of fearing heights, he feared not knowing how to properly handle himself in an emergency – say like if the plane’s engine conks out and all of a sudden he has to land the aircraft safely without the benefit of an engine. He began his life in the air by first learning how to fly gliders – planes without engines – and it made sense. If ever he were to find himself in an emergency in which a single-engine plane’s engine conked out, well – he would be flying a glider but one with a shorter glide path ratio and thus he would be in a better position to land his aircraft safely. We never found ourselves in that situation but at least Dad was well prepared to handle it if it did happen. Learning not to panic in an emergency was a lesson we kids had to learn as Dad didn’t have much tolerance for emotional meltdowns when anyone in our family was under stress. On more than one occasion, throughout my childhood, I heard him say, “If you don’t stop that whining, I’ll give you a real good reason to whine!”
And so I spent the summer of my 11th year with Dad at the Frankfort, Mich., airport where he learned how to fly gliders and I learned how to be a passenger in a two-seater glider. Since gliders have no engine for takeoff, most of our flights began with winch tows but we also took the more expensive airplane tow for higher altitude, longer duration flights. The cheaper winch tow was performed by a tractor engine parked at the far end of the airport runway and it became my job to grab the hook end of the cable and run the cable down to the opposite end of the runway and hook the cable beneath the nose of the glider. Once we were inside the glider, Dad would signal and the tractor started spinning the cable drum and we’d get launched into the air like a kite – climbing to the point where we’d begin to porpoise and then Dad would release the cable and the flight would suddenly smooth out to a peaceful floating along on the air currents with only the whistle of the wind flowing over the wings as we drifted off in search of thermals – upward flowing air currents from the ground that we used to gain altitude and maintain ourselves for as long as possible in the air before we’d have to land. However, before we left home for the airport, we would always read the flight of birds in the sky above us. If the seagulls or the buzzards were flapping their wings, we didn’t bother to go to the airport that day, but if they floated on their wings, then we got into the truck and headed to the airport knowing that conditions were good for flying gliders, too. Flying gave us a period of peace – when all of our worldly troubles were left on the ground and so we enjoyed that moment of grace we had of being above it all. It was a time when my troubled Dad was mellow and relaxed, and so flying made me relax and forget my fear of heights. SEPTEMBER 2016 | inMiddlebury
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mind can imagine what can happen to a human body if things go wrong up in the air and one had to jump out of an airplane only to find out that the parachute wouldn’t open. I don’t mind flying but the idea of treading air scares the bejeebers out of me! Later, when Dad bought his own plane, a Citabria two-seater tail dragger, we had an airplane that was much lighter and much easier to glide down to earth safely should the engine conk out but still, we didn’t take any chances. We were just as meticulous when doing our pre-flight inspections on the Citabria as we were on the Cessna. By watching everything my Dad did in the air, I quietly learned how to fly and the next year, when Dad started training for his private pilot’s license in single-engine aircraft, I again went along for the ride – this time in a four-seater Cessna 172. After Dad qualified and got his private pilot’s license (a license that entitled him to fly single-engine aircraft with passengers on board, but he couldn’t charge them for the flight), he decided to test me. One day when we were flying, he turned over the controls to me and told me to fly us back to the airport. We always flew out of a small town airport at Empire, Mich., (no control tower there) because it was the base for the Falcon Aero Club – the club to which my Dad belonged and from which he rented the club’s Cessna 172. Dad was the kind of guy that expected a kid to do whatever he told us to do and so I took over the controls and flew us back to the airport but as we circled in preparation for a landing, I expected Dad would take over the controls and land the plane. Instead, he told me to land it and so I did. We didn’t run out of runway. We didn’t break anything or kill anybody – and we walked away from a not perfect but a very good first time landing. Flying was Dad’s sport. I was Dad’s backup – in case Dad became disabled all of a sudden and needed someone to land us safely.
By then, I had a lot of flight hours but still, the idea of jumping out of an airplane with a parachute remained on my short list of things in life that I didn’t want to do. It’s been a while now and for most of my life, I haven’t given any thought until recently about jumping out of a plane with a parachute and it was only because I attended an air show at the main airport in Toledo, Ohio. There I sat firmly on the ground and watched young guys jump out of a perfectly good airplane and for no reason other than to show off their bravery and their parachuting skills. I was a good deal less concerned while watching pilots at that airshow taking planes through aerobatic snap rolls, hammer head stalls and a whole host of other weird ways to stunt-fly an airplane because my Dad used to do that in the Citabria whenever he got bored with straight and level flying. The guys jumping out into thin air were members of the U.S. Army’s Golden Knights elite parachuting team and they jumped out of their comfort zone – not just once but twice during the air show. (You have to wonder at the sanity of guys like that!) Unlike me, they were young and very athletic – and not gifted with an overactive imagination. At least the parachutes nowadays look more like a glider and so the chute offers more control over where one will land – wind currents permitting, that is. Back when I was a kid, parachutes were the basic round ones like those used during WWII and I remember watching guys parachuting into Normandy during the 1962 movie, “The Longest Day.”
I learned how to fly but I still had my fear of heights and that didn’t diminish with my experience in the cockpit. I didn’t like flying anywhere near TV towers or any other device that provided a vertical line to the ground and thus a better perspective on just how high up in the air I was while flying.
That movie made me squirm all the more because not only did these guys risk a splat landing, they also risked landing somewhere other than the ground – such as the tops of trees and church steeples, and then there’s the obvious fact that they also could get shot dead by Germans before they even landed.
I also became very meticulous about doing the pre-flight safety checks before we took off. I’ve seen what happens to bugs when a car windshield runs into them and so my
It wasn’t until 1966 when the forerunner of our rectangular high-performance parachutes, the Barish Sailwing parachute, appeared as a better option to those WWII-style parachutes.
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Today’s high performance rectangular parachutes are a vast improvement over the ones from WWII but I’m still not too keen on the idea of stepping out of a perfectly good airplane and letting myself fly without the benefit of wings and a propeller. What my imagination is capable of achieving with the ground rapidly coming toward me is liable to kill me long before I hit the ground – especially now that I have more anatomy to splatter than I did when I was a kid flying with Dad. Still I looked up in the air above the west end of the Toledo Airport and saw these patriotic daredevils jump out of the U.S. Army’s plane at an altitude just below the clouds and then come floating down toward us. Earlier, they had dropped tracers to measure the wind conditions aloft and make sure that conditions were right for them to jump and amaze the crowd who had paid $35 a head at the gate for each adult under the age of 65. (I got by with $11.50 – the advantage not only of being a senior citizen but I paid “online.”) On seeing the streamers released by the Army airplane prior to the jump, official observers on the ground were able to radio back that conditions were good and that the paratroopers could go ahead with the jump. I admired their courage (or is it insanity) but that long descent before pulling the chute open made my skin crawl. Fortunately, all parachutes opened and every man landed safely on the ground, only to do it again later that afternoon. I never got my private pilot’s license. I learned to fly and flew a lot with my Dad because it kept him happy. What my parents earned was not much and we could barely afford to pay for Dad’s flying and so the hours of solo flying that it would have taken for me to get my private pilot’s rating was not in the family budget. As it was, I wanted to go to college more than I wanted a pilot’s license, and even one year of in-state tuition at a public college cost as much as my Dad earned in a year. We all make decisions in our lives as to when we will or will not jump. In my family, we all jumped at the chance to keep Dad happy by allowing him to fly in the hope that he’d come home happy and be less inclined to lose his temper with any of us. Neither Dad nor I ever had to jump out of an airplane. Instead I jumped out of poverty through college and entered into a life where I can do whatever I want to do and not sweat paying the bill. I still fly a lot – in commercial airliners – and commercial airliners do not issue parachutes on boarding. I’m content with that. SEPTEMBER 2016 | inMiddlebury
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“This was a good way to have an impact in the education process. ”
David Black
Position: President, Middlebury Community Schools Board of Education. Board member for eight years, going into his fourth year as Board President. Hometown: Jones, Mich. Moved to Middlebury in 1994. “We moved here for work and church and were looking for another school corporation,” Black stated. Family: Wife Deanne, five sons and one daughter.
Why run for the school board? “Because I had a student in the corporation and I believe in community service,” he said. “This was a good way to have an impact in the education process. I wanted to know more about how education worked. Not the teaching, but the process.” Black quickly saw that the business model for funding education is not similar to that in the private sector. “The private sector looks at profitability. With the schools, you’re always working from behind,” he said. Black has enjoyed the relationships he has built while serving on the school board. “Otherwise, I would not have had that chance,” he noted. One of the big challenges has been working on funding from the state. “It’s a yearly, changing target,” he said. “These are issues that affect everyone in the school corporation.”
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