Madison Living March 2015

March 2015

Tough Technology MaxVision creates computers ready for the front lines

Military Outreach YMCA program provides services to veterans, soldiers and their families

The wait is over Taziki’s Mediterranean Café opens a location in Madison

Profiles in

Courage A special edition honoring patriotism, sacrifices and accomplishments in the Madison community

Three-peat Looking back on Madison Academy’s third state football championship

MANAGEMENT Alan Brown President & Publisher EDITORIAL Katie McDowell Editor

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Gregg Parker Staff Writer Nick Sellers Staff Writer Jen Fouts-Detulleo Photographer MARKETING Kim Maracigan Marketing Consultant Tina Tarbox Marketing Consultant CUSTOMER SERVICE Tammy Overman Customer Service PRODUCTION Jamie Dawkins Design

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IN THE BIZ TOUGH TECHNOLOGY

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HEALTH KIDS FIRST

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MILITARY OUTREACH

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EDUCATION A LIFE OF SERVICE

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READY TO REZONE?

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BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT

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PROFILES IN COURAGE

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SPORTS THE ROAD TO THE CHAMPIONSHIP

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OUT AND ABOUT

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Detailed planning leads to perfect fit for Cooks’ house WRITTEN BY GREGG L. PARKER PHOTOGRAPHS BY JEN FOUTS-DETULLEO 4 Madison Living

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illiam G. and Dr. Emily Cook proved that planning defines a home to perfectly fit the family.

“Madison residents can find an environment suitable for them. Terrific architects and builders can help build the house right for you.

Design process is key,” Will said. Their house “isn’t the biggest or most glamorous, but it’s the right place for our family.”

“We wanted ... to enjoy our house, not maintain an overpowering residence. We targeted flexible-use space, maximum living space on the main floor and open areas,” Emily said.

Originally, the Cooks worked with two separate architects during a two-year period for another neighborhood. Unfortunately, their plans and lot didn’t jive.

They approached Woodland Homes, which had a similar design plan and “was willing to make adjustments making it almost identical.” They sold the original lot.

“We found Woodland to be super to work with,” Emily said. “We got just the home we wanted at the right price. A great value.”

Realtor Sherry Dinges of Keller Williams “stuck with us for the long haul. We couldn’t have made it through this process without her,” Emily said.

“Anyone who starts a project designing a home needs advice of an experienced realtor.”

The Cooks’ cul-de-sac in the Foxfield neighborhood has mature trees and rolling hills.

Their “modified Craftsman” home has brown-brick exterior with stone accents. The entry, front and columns follow Craftsman style.

With 3,800 square feet, the home has four bedrooms (one handicap accessible), media room and family/kitchen combo. Approximately 18 by 20 feet, a large room for dining/library/flexible use spans the home’s front. This room’s table seats 12 to accommodate formal meals, conferences and school projects.

“We call it the ‘Jefferson room.’ We got the idea from Thomas Jefferson’s house, Monticello,” Emily said. The family “likes to hang out together. We didn’t want walls that could be barriers to family time or conversation.”

The upstairs has one bedroom, media room, office nook and separate HVAC. The stairwell has an insulated door, allowing the Cooks to close off the second floor when they become empty-nesters.

For interior colors, Emily “wanted the house to feel like a breath of fresh air.” Main walls are blue/ pale gray. Wood floors and cabinets are natural without stain. Windows and transoms without

LEFT: The Cooks enjoy a combined family room and kitchen area for family gatherings.

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CLOCKWISE FROM TOP: The house’s modified Craftsman architecture uses multiple gables, brown brick and stone accents. Entrance columns reflect true Craftsman style. A stoneware tea service is ready to serve guests in the Cook home.

For the main walls, the Cooks chose a pale blue/ gray, only distinguishable in hue at abutments with white trim.

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panes give open, clean lines.

Deviating from Craftsman, the master bath’s floors and shower have black/gray slate tile. Walls are pale gold/yellow, “based on the Hagia Sophia, a basilica built in 500 A.D. in Constantinople ... evoking the feel of an ancient and peaceful place,” she said.

Sentimental family antiques add character. Emily’s grandfather built a large armoire and kitchen table.

Her great-great-grandmother’s trunk is made of rough pine. Their younger son’s bed has been in her family for six generations.

Emily’s mother bought a sideboard in New Orleans “on a whim” and shipped it to them. As a Gulf War veteran, Will brought home several rugs. Overall, furnishings are “casual or old-style Southern,” Emily said.

Their “work-in-progress” yard will capture family heritage. Emily has planted a camellia that her aunt rooted from her great-grandparents’ house.

From Will’s grandmother’s property, they have

a grape holly, peony, spirea, day lilies, elephant ears and canna lilies. Apple trees will grow from specimens saved from Emily’s family farm in Mississippi. Future plantings include a muscadine vine and quince, pomegranate and fig trees.

Emily teaches at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. The Cooks own QED Analytics Inc., and Will contracts analytical services with Missile Defense Agency’s Engineering Directorate.

Sixteen-year-old son Jack is a James Clemens High School sophomore interested in robotics.

Sarah Grace, 13, is a Liberty Middle School eighthgrader active with volleyball and basketball. Sixyear-old son Davis is a first-grader at Madison Elementary School.

Emily is a Junior League of Huntsville sustainer, Madison Hospital Women’s Council member and volunteer in Madison schools. Will is Alabama’s admissions coordinator for the U.S. Naval Academy.

They are active members of First Baptist Church Huntsville.

CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: The Cooks’ large “Jefferson Room” gives flexible use for formal meals, conferences and school projects.

Cabinetry in natural wood following Craftsman style gives clean lines and an open feel. The Cook family includes 16-year-old Jack, from left, six-yearold Davis, 13-year-old Sarah Grace, Emily and Will. A one-of-akind rustic headboard distinguishes this bedroom’s decor.

Pottery and a vintage photograph decorate this shelf. A chess board with elaborately carved pieces is ready for a game.

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LET’S EAT

The wait is over

Taziki’s Mediterranean Café opens a location in Madison WRITTEN BY CHARLES MOLINEAUX PHOTOGRAPHS BY JEN FOUTS-DETULLEO AND CONTRIBUTED

ABOVE: Selling more than 2,000 dishes at the Taziki’s Birmingham area restaurant, “Friday Pasta” has turned into Taziki’s signature dish (although it’s now served on Saturday and Sunday, too). “It’s a must get,’” said Torres.

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odrigo Torres delights in the double takes.

As owner of Madison’s brand new Greek restaurant Taziki’s Mediterranean, Torres reported frequent intrigued stares as dishes go by, especially Taziki’s signature Friday Pasta.

“People stare at it,” he laughed. They say ‘What is that? What is that?’ We carry our food to the table low and everybody sees it. The presentation, that’s what sells every dish.”

Rolling out familiar favorites such as gyros,

hummus and Greek salads, plus its own special Taziki’s sauce and a list of different and rotating daily specials to keep the Mediterranean-loving palate intrigued, Torres found the restaurant’s place a comfortable, sparsely occupied, niche.

“There are very few Greek restaurants here,” he observed. “Very few and the ones that there are, are small and some of them, the customer service is not there.”

Torres oversaw the opening of Taziki’s Jan. 27 in the newly completed shopping strip just west of the Madison Living 9

CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: Blanca and Rodrigo Torres at Taziki’s Mediterranean in Madison.

“We prep over 100 items every single day,” declared founder Keith Richards.

“Everything we make, we make to order. It’s fresh.

No fryers, no freezers, no microwaves.” Beyond its cool décor, Tazikis aims for a warm ambience.

Even the Taziki’s beef feast which features... well... beef, goes for a splash of color.

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Shoppes of Madison on Highway 72. It marks the 12th restaurant in the Taziki’s family to operate in Alabama but only the second in Madison County.

The first, located on Whitesburg Drive in Huntsville, opened in 2008 and the new addition received close scrutiny by Taziki’s founder Keith Richards.

“Now we’re in Madison, finally,” Richards exclaimed. “We’ve been concentrating on this area for four or five years and I think we should have been here four of five years ago!”

Richards launched four or five Taziki’s as Taziki’s Greek Fare in Birmingham in 1998. As the business grew, some Greeks took exception to the application of the label “Greek” to some of the restaurants’ flourishes so the name was changed to

“Mediterranean” … just as the world was discovering the health benefits of the Mediterranean diet.

“It’s healthy,” Richards said. “Everybody’s looking out for the healthy aspect of it. And we can offer that every day.”

Richards also emphasized fresh, from-scratch cooking.

“We prep over 100 items every single day,” he said.

“Everything we make, we make to order. It’s fresh.

No fryers, no freezers, no microwaves.”

“We prep in the morning,” said Torres as a new batch of onions hissed on the grill. “We prep in the night, just to get through our shift. Next day, all over again, prep in the morning and prep in the night.”

In addition to fresh ingredients, Torres declared a

LEFT: Taziki’s is the first tenant in its brand new building on 72, an advantage, managers say, as Madison residents look to explore new businesses. ABOVE: A wall separates the seating areas from the customers in line.

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CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: A dish of hummus with veggies instead of pita turns a gluten free dish into a colorful plate. The new Taziki’s on Highway 72 employs more than 45 workers, said owner Rodrigo Torres, from across Madison, Huntsville, Harvest and Athens.

The menus warrant extra attention because Taziki’s rotates its offerings to stay fresh.

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dedication to keep the menu fresh and interesting for repeat customers too, with Taziki’s daily specials.

Portobello sandwich, mushrooms, chicken, red peppers and Swiss for Monday.

Turkey club ciabatta with aioli mayo, lettuce and tomato for Tuesday.

Spanakopita rollups with spinach, chicken and feta cheese in a tortilla for Wednesday.

Taziki’s grilled tilapia slaw and spicy sauce on a taco for Thursday.

And Friday Pasta for Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, featuring grilled chicken, tomato, feta and basil on a bed of lettuce.

“That’s a ‘must-get,’” Torres beamed. “It’s extremely healthy.”

In one of Taziki’s more established locations, Friday Pasta can sell more than 2,000 servings a day on days when it’s offered.

Torres predicted a windfall for the new restaurant’s neighbors as Taziki’s begins its now customary practice of local store marketing, offering lunches

for up to 10 people at area offices, clinics and other businesses to encourage word-of-mouth advertising.

“It works very well,” he said. “We grew our sales in Huntsville 40 percent every year, just from our local store marketing.”

Richards offered high hopes for the restaurant’s location, just east of Madison Hospital where it is the first tenant to occupy its newly constructed space, next door to an almost-as-new Dunkin Donuts.

“It’s all new to the public,” he explained. “People are going to see what’s new. We’ve tried older, or second generation markets and it’s hard to get out in front of them because it’s kind of old. This is new to everybody. So visibly, I think it’s going to be perfect.”

IN THE BIZ

Tough technology Madison’s MaxVision creates computers ready for the front lines.

WRITTEN BY CHARLES MOLINEAUX PHOTOGRAPHS BY JEN FOUTS-DETULLEO

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soldier can be a pretty rugged guy,” said Tim Kavanagh, noting that in the high-technology world of the 21st century, soldiers end up in primitive battles against some pretty familiar old enemies: heat, cold, dust, dirt, grit … moisture!

“They can make it tough on electronic systems and they’ll fail. So they want something that won’t fail.”

“Something that won’t fail” became the objective of Madison’s MaxVision Computers as it works to provide military computer solutions applicable not just inside the air conditioned walls of Redstone Arsenal, or the Pentagon, but in the field, thousands of miles from home.

As MaxVision’s Vice President of Sales, Kavanaugh found the company’s niche a logical one as modern military forces sought durable hardware for increasingly complex tasks, such as reviewing complex satellite imagery, or operating unmanned aircraft.

“These are deployable,” Kavanagh said, “going forward, downrange in places like Iraq, Afghanistan, places where regular computers can’t handle the harsh environments.”

With products like MaxVision’s MaxPac 8261 XL Dual Xeon Modular Multi-Screen Workstation, the company courts highly specialized military clients like the U.S. Army’s Shadow unmanned

ABOVE: MaxVision CEO Bruce Imsand (right) with Vice President of Sales Tim Kavanaugh (left).

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aerial vehicle (UAV) program and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Special Operations Communications and the U.S Marine Corps. Its contract with Textron Systems to support the Shadow program has become a company mainstay.

“We went through a development cycle and a test cycle and now we’re in a production cycle,” said senior program manager Chuck Levin, “which is great because The Shadow is a very well-received UAV system and we have backlog up to 2017 now for this product.”

You can put it in a TOC (tactical operations center) type situation,” added Kavanagh. “And you can pull imagery off the satellites, and the troops can look at the terrain by using the high-end graphics to see where they’re going with their mission.”

Pumping normally flimsy computers into tough-guy machines was a change in direction for MaxVision, which had been in business since 1993, Kavanagh explained. Its mobile systems were originally aimed at computer-aided design and ABOVE: The company pulls its components together in its facility on Production computer-aided manufacturing fields, but military Avenue in Madison, which execs call an ideal location. “The rent space is clients discovered the machines’ weaknesses. inexpensive,” Kavanaugh said. “We’re an integrator of computers. We don’t have to be in any sort of large industrial or high technology park in Huntsville.”

“They were succumbing to the elements,” he OPPOSITE PAGE: The company pulls its components together in its production said. “So they needed something that was a little facility in Madison, which execs call an ideal location. more sealed up and filtered that would help out the longevity of the project.”

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“A soldier can be a pretty rugged guy. They can make it tough on electronic systems and they’ll fail. So they want something that won’t fail.”

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ABOVE: MaxVision’s computer creations are meant to be as tough as they look while providing computer power, portability and ease of setup. “To emplace it, you just put it on whatever rock or stand or table that you have,” said Program Manager Chuck Levin.

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The computers need to be portable, also. “To emplace it, you just put it on whatever rock or stand or table that you have,” laughed Levin as he touted the company’s “fully enclosed, ruggedized, highperformance, dual-display computing system,” as described on the company’s website.

“You can wash this one off with a hose,” he said, noting that the company’s portable ground control station had to meet brutal specifications.

“They had no shelter from the environment,” he said. “This thing could be deployed anywhere from minus 32° Celsius (25° below 0 Fahrenheit) up to 60° Celsius (140° Fahrenheit). Plus they wanted these two 22-inch, high-bright displays as part of it.

So we developed the solution.”

Barrages of brutal physical conditions aside, MaxVision has tried to adapt further to tougher financial storms as short-term sequestration and long-term leaner military budgets threaten future business.

“We’re establishing a lot in the international community: Germany, Australia, Norway, England,” Kavanaugh said.

The company is also courting the oil and gas industry, where a sealed computer could be a lifesaver when the atmosphere around it is literally explosive.

“We’re knocking on the door,” Levin said.

HEALTH

Kids First Alabama Pediatric Dental Associates aim to please target demographic

WRITTEN BY NICK SELLERS PHOTOGRAPHS BY JEN FOUTS-DETULLEO AND CONTRIBUTED

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he giant blue rocket conspicuously situated on Hughes Road and bearing the four letters – APDA – is unmistakable for those who travel the major north-south artery in Madison City.

What the staff at Alabama Pediatric Dental Associates hopes, however, is for the landmark to bring in patients.

APDA has been around since 1964 and, in addition to the Madison clinic on Hughes Road, boasts offices in Hampton Cove and Decatur. The staff of pediatric dentists and orthodontists rotates among the three offices. Dr. Dick Butler asserted, however, that the Madison office tends to stay the busiest.

Dr. Marcus Moss stressed the difference in taking a child to a kid-friendly office such as APDA as opposed to a general dentist.

“We’re just 100 percent geared towards the kids,” Moss said. “When they come in here, they’re going to see kids just like them, and that usually puts them at ease.”

The office boasts a game room and a host of other distractions to help calm any nerves young children might have.

“Our biggest goal right now is for the kids to be comfortable,” Dr. Todd Lackey said. “We want them to actually be excited about seeing the dentist.”

In addition to orthodontic services, the office

CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: A kidfriendly waiting area with games helps put the young patients at ease before a visit with the dentists at APDA. Large, spacious areas with plenty of friendly stuffed animals offer children peace of mind.

Assistants demonstrate a typical visit to APDA. The location of Hughes Road offers high visibility to commuters.

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TOP: Dr. Marcus Moss gets to work on a patient. ABOVE: Front row from left, Dr. Dean Brandon, Dr. Paul Sproul and Dr. Marc Masterson; back row from left, Dr. Dick Butler, Dr. Todd Lackey, Dr. Marcus Moss and Dr. Kevin Tesseneer.

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runs the whole gamut in classic preventive dental care for children. Teeth whitening, mouth sealants and applications of topical fluorides are offered at the clinic, in addition to other treatments aimed at “trying to make the kids into great adult patients,” Lackey said.

Full tours of the facility and any other information are readily available for parents of prospective patients at APDA. Dr. Paul Sproul, one of the two orthodontists, said the clinic is always willing to make the entire process easy for the children and parents.

“We are very proud of our clinical dentistries and our customer service here,” Sproul said. “We want the experience to be positive for the kids.”

While cavities and, possibly, root canals don’t often enter the picture in early childhood for most patients, the doctors at APDA stressed the need for early dental care to prevent those problems.

“We want the kids to say, ‘When can I go to the dentist again?’” Lackey exclaimed.

The Alabama Pediatric Dental Associates Madison office is located at 24 Hughes Road. More information, including services offered, patient testimonials and options for payment can be found at alabamapediatricdentists.com. The Madison office can be contacted at 256-772-7373.

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HEALTH

Military Outreach YMCA program provides services to veterans, soldiers and their families

WRITTEN BY MARY ANNE SWANSTROM | PHOTO CONTRIBUTED

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ore than 150 years ago, two American institutions bonded on the battlefield with the common goal of improving the lives of their neighbors fueled by a passion for their country. Predating the American Red Cross by 20 years, the Young Men’s Christian Association – the YMCA – provided relief services to soldiers engaged in the Civil War. The Y continues the tradition of serving men and women in the Armed Forces along with their families to this day, and for 105 years in North Alabama, the Heart of the Valley YMCA has reached out to soldiers and veterans in our community by offering free programs and services designed to encourage individuals and strengthen families.

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“Coming to the Y relieves a lot of stress, and it has been really helpful for the kids to have some place to go, too,” said Kelly Bulman, a Hogan Y member, homeschool mom, and spouse of a previously deployed soldier. With family 800 miles away in Pennsylvania and her husband half a world away in Afghanistan, Kelly appreciates the opportunities afforded her by the Y. “They love the Kids’ Gym and swim classes, and it gives me a break to focus on taking care of myself,” she said.

YMCA Military Outreach includes: uFor deployed soldiers, three months of free membership before and after deployment and free membership for their families while they are serving abroad. uMembership assistance for active duty military, reservists and veterans. uScholarships for children of military

ABOVE: Kelis Massey canoes at the YMCA Camp Cha-La-Kee on Lake Guntersville.

families to YMCA Camp Cha-La-Kee. uAnnual YMCA Veterans Prayer Breakfast. uYMCA at 256-705-9622 or stop by the branch to sign up for the challenge or join.

A life of

EDUCATION

service

Frederick ends Navy flying, enters field of education WRITTEN BY GREGG L. PARKER PHOTOGRAPHS BY JEN FOUTS-DETULLEO AND CONTRIBUTED

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PREVIOUS PAGE: Students in Madison “are blessed with strong parental involvement at home, easily the strongest factors in any teenager’s academic accomplishment,” Frederick said. ABOVE LEFT: Frederick used this image as his official command photograph while serving in Naples, Italy from 2002 to 2005.

ABOVE RIGHT: During Naval Flight Officer training, Frederick experienced his own version of “An Officer and a Gentleman” with a no-nonsense drill instructor.

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fter a U.S. Navy career, Dave Frederick is training teenagers to handle the world’s challenges as other generations have done before them.

A native Madisonian, Frederick witnessed the Space Race’s apex first-hand in the mid-1960s.

“Many influences in my life predisposed me favorably to naval service,” Frederick said. His father reminisced about Navy ROTC days. They watched the Blue Angels fly at Huntsville’s new airport.

Led by those impressions, Frederick asked the Navy recruiting office if they needed aviators. “The rest, as they say, was history. All tests showed I was an ideal candidate for flight training,” he said.

However, the post-Vietnam “draw-downs caused a glut of pilots.” He faced a 14-month wait. Then, Frederick was offered an immediate training slot for Naval Flight Officer.

“I jumped at the offer and headed off to Pensacola (for) my own personal ‘An Officer and a Gentleman’ experience, complete with genuine U.S. Marine Corps drill instructors ... scarier than Lou Gossett’s depiction in the movie,” Frederick said.

He trained for A-6E Intruder jets, with successive three-year tours in Virginia Beach, Va. as junior officer, flight instructor and middle-grade lieutenant.

“An awesome experience ... pilot and bombardier worked side-by-side in the cockpit,” he recalled. “We trained ... in pitch blackness through the Blue Ridge Mountains.”

Frederick declined his chance to leave the military.

“I was doing something important. The Navy was on the Cold War’s front lines with the Soviet Union.

We routinely confronted them at sea,” he said. In 1989, he graduated from U.S. Naval War College at Newport, R.I. While flying 26 bombing missions in Operation Desert Storm over Iraq, Frederick had an epiphany: His focus on “executing a difficult challenge to highest standards” shifted to doing his best for ground troops. “I’m very satisfied my true motivation was so.”

Obviously, danger is inherent in combat, but training was almost as risky. “Twenty-four fellow aviators who I knew well were killed in the aircraft – one-third by enemy action but others in training mishaps,” he said. “Training and combat flying require the highest level of awareness.”

His command assignments then led to Omaha, Neb.; Whidbey Island, Wash.; Naples, Italy for NATO duty; Millington, Tenn.; and Naples again as Commanding Officer. After three more years in Millington as Chief of Staff, he retired in 2008 as captain.

“I always took pride in representing our nation” and “American values of international cooperation and promotion of universal human values,” Frederick said. “Working side-by-side with colleagues was rewarding, as were assignments as commanding officer.”

Facing retirement, Frederick thought “long and hard” about middle age. His fervent interest in science convinced him to become a teacher.

“The frequently poor state of science literacy in our country is a sad thing. I felt I would continue being of service to my country by fighting that through education,” Frederick said.

He pursued substitute teaching while earning master’s degrees from Mississippi State and Alabama A&M universities.

His past five-and-a-half years as a physics teacher at Bob Jones and James Clemens high schools have been personally rewarding.

“I know what a great team is like,” he said. “Science departments at both are fully loaded with outstanding teachers with total dedication and professionalism.”

He’s optimistic. Madison students “are blessed with strong parental involvement at home, easily the strongest factors in any teenager’s academic accomplishment.”

Around 1975, he and wife Donna met as employees at SuperValu grocery on Old Madison Pike. Donna pursued a career in helping young Navy families and now is “a devoted servant” to their church, along with Village of Promise and as a Weight Watchers leader.

The Fredericks’ daughters are Angela, elementary school librarian in Nashville, Tenn., and Caroline, kindergarten teacher in Fayetteville, Ark. with husband Luke and daughter, Kinsley, 3.

CLOCKWISE FROM TOP: Dave Frederick teaches physics, aerospace engineering and introduction to engineering design at James Clemens High School. Frederick, his wife Donna and daughters Angela and Caroline wait before his routine training flight from Naval Air Station, Whitbey Island, Washington in 1994. In 1996, Frederick is shown during a television interview after returning from deployment to the Arabian Gulf with his A-6E squadron.

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EDUCATION

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Ready to rezone?

School system considers rezoning thanks to steady growth in elementary schools

he mid-year growth The growth overall is right on par report is out for with our projections. Our enrollMadison City Schools ment gains grow the equivalent of a and the results show new elementary school about every steady enrollment gains in all of our three to four years. schools.

Redrawing school boundary lines With our elementary schools now at is an essential part of managing Dr. Dee growth. The key is keeping that 92.3 percent of capacity, it’s time to Fowler start thinking again about rezoning. growth positive. The Board has Growth is good. It’s the sign of a already purchased property for healthy city and school district. Our chalfuture school district use and we recently lenge is to manage that growth wisely. If had discussions with bond counsel about we don’t, it’s self-correcting and the growth financing future capital needs. Rezoning goes away. We will not stand for disparities will allow us to balance our elementary in quality among schools. populations while making bigger plans on Our director of student services, Dennis facilities.

James, presented the growth study to the We work very hard in Madison City to Board of Education in late January. The ensure that all of our schools are performstudy shows enrollment up since the start ing well in preparing our students. The of this school year by 215 students for a Board and I strive to provide only the best total of 9,706 students. principals and teaching resources and re-

invest in our buildings to the extent possible.

All of latest growth was within a percentage point or two among schools. Zones from the last elementary rezoning two years ago are following predictions at almost every school.

I can assure you that any rezoning effort will be transparent and involve plenty of public input. Past rezonings have involved a cross representation of stakeholders from every school district to ensure that every sector of the school system has a voice.

We believe that every single child in our growing district deserves the very best educational experience possible. Regular maintenance of our zones helps us to provide that level of service at every school.

Dr. Dee O. Fowler is Superintendent of Education for Madison City Schools.

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or Delourdes Booker, memories of her late son Ryan could be landmines almost as treacherous as any on a battlefi eld, and equally unexpected, even two years after his death.

“It’s like riding a roller coaster blindfolded,” she explained. “You never know how you’re going to feel.”

Now active with Madison County Gold Star families, relatives of service members who’ve died on duty, Booker met with surviving relatives from across the state in Montgomery in Feburary.

“The Gold Star families get together to share their stories,” she said. “It’s therapy, basically.”

It was January 2013 when Booker got the stunning news. SPC Ryan Winkelmann, 24, had died, not in the war zone of Iraq where he served two tours, but back home in the United States. She can recite the dates without any need for notes or reminder.

“It was January 6, 2013,” she related. “We got the body back on the 15th. We buried him on the 17th.”

A graduate of Bob Jones High School, Winkelmann had been popular as an athlete and showed his valor when he went to Iraq, receiving numerous decorations for his service.

“He just didn’t talk about it a whole lot,” his mother noted. “He saw a lot of stuff over there and it was pretty

FROM LEFT, ON PREVIOUS PAGE: Delourdes Booker holds a photo of her late son, Ryan Winkelmann. Winkelmann in uniform. ABOVE LEFT: Winkelmann’s funeral and burial coincided with a dusting of snow in Huntsville on Jan. 17, 2013. ABOVE RIGHT: Soldiers lay Winkelmann to rest at Huntsville Memory Gardens.

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bad.”

The bright side of his service was the Iraqi children he encountered, who touched his heart as an oldest child himself.

“He said the only thing good about that country was the kids,” Booker said. “He’s got four sisters and two brothers and every picture he sent home was with a bunch of kids. That was the only thing that kept him sane over there.”

SPC Winkelmann’s instincts to protect and save came to the fore as he worked as an expert rifleman and mortar tech, riding in the heavily armored Striker vehicles, often targeted by roadside bombs. In one attack during his first tour, an IED sent his Striker careening into a river and Winkelmann hurt his back struggling to wrench the vehicle open to rescue his comrades.

It was after his return that Winkelmann faced a very different attack, a deadly reaction to cleaning chemicals as he worked in an Army barracks, his mother explained.

Winkelmann had been serving, ironically, in the 3rd US Infantry Regiment, the “Old Guard,” the Army’s elite honor guards for solemn occasions such as funerals at Arlington National Cemetery. It was then that his family had to take that painful, solemn visit from army officials to deliver the news.

“I knew what it was,” Booker said. “My kids were calling saying there were military people at my door. I told them to go upstairs and not answer the door. My heart just hit my feet. It was pretty terrifying. I just said, ‘He’s dead.’ And they said, ‘Yes, he is.’”

Madison came through for the grieving family and

showed how treasured Winkelmann really was, Booker recalled, from the Old Guard representatives who came to see him off, to the rumbling motorcycles of the Patriot Riders who escorted his hearse, to a crowd of 400 who turned out for the viewing.

“He was popular in the Madison area, the military and the Madison community,” she said. “We were really into sports. We had a really big extended family.”

Today, Booker maintains and nurtures that extended family with her involvement in the Gold Star families, most of whom lost their military loved ones in combat but some, like her son, suffered accidents while serving.

“Gold Star families are really starting to get recognized,” she said, while realizing the struggle of families like hers can go on for a long time.

“That first year, we met a mother and father,” she recalled. “They had lost their son in Vietnam and she was describing how they came together. Even after all this time, it was so vivid in their minds.”

Booker said the day of her son’s funeral still haunts her whenever she visits St. Mary of the Visitation in Huntsville.

“It’s hard to go to that church because I still see his casket up there,” she said.

A more bittersweet, sometimes wrenching reminder awaits when she goes to see her grandchildren, Winkelmann’s 6-year-old daughter and his one-and-ahalf year old son, born after Winkelmann’s death.

“He looks exactly like Ryan,” she said. “His eyes are exactly the same. I can see that’s part of Ryan looking at me. He’d want to maintain the closeness that we have.”

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CLOCKWISE FROM ABOVE: Maria and Philip Alterizio will celebrate their 68th wedding anniversary on October 4, 2015. In 1942, Alterizio was photographed at the USO in Ohio. In 1945, Alterizio served in the Military Police in Germany.

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hilip Alterizio lucky. Stationed Allied invasion survived World

considers himself in Italy during the of Normandy, he War II without a

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“The Army gives you a job to do, and you do the best you can,” Alterizio said modestly.

Rising every day at 5 a.m., 92-year-old Alterizio raises and lowers the American flag daily at his home.

He usually takes a one-mile walk and religiously completes calisthenics. An avid reader, Alterizio holds a commanding knowledge of history.

By 8 a.m., he has cooked breakfast for himself and wife Maria. They will celebrate their 68th wedding anniversary on Oct. 4, 2015.

Growing up in New Jersey in the late 1920s, Alterizio enjoyed watching parades and admired soldiers marching down the street. However, he realized his parents would never sign for him to join the Army.

In 1939 at 17 years old, he was eligible to join the National Guard. Two years after enlisting, World War II started. “On Sept. 16, 1940, (the country) mustered the National Guard into federal service,” Alterizio said.

Alterizio’s unit was stationed in Italy when allied forces landed in Normandy on June 6, 1944 ...

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the landing as “encouragement.”

Leaving Italy, his unit landed at St. Maxine and advanced throughout France’s Alsace region. “The heaviest fighting in southern France was at St. Die and Selestat,” Alterizio said. Eventually, he transferred to the 103rd Division Military Police.

“Before we got there, the Germans poured gasoline into houses (at a concentration camp) and burned them.” Alterizio can still recall the stench of burned corpses. “I try to get it out of my mind. I have flashbacks,” he said.

Alterizio has kept photographs of those war atrocities but has never shown them to Maria or daughters Diane and Sue. Alterizio encountered the most danger in Germany.

“This lone bomber dropped a bomb and missed us by 100 yards ... a little too close for comfort,” Alterizio said.

His unit advanced to Landsberg and then into Innsbruck, Austria until the war ended. “The Germans had their people directing traffic. We took a traffic solider under arrest, and I started directing traffic,” Alterizio said. After six years in service, he was discharged as Private First Class.

Almost 67 years later in 2011 at an Atlanta ceremony, the country of France bestowed the Legion of Honor award to Alterizio and 12 other World War II veterans from Alabama and Georgia. Their honor recognizes service that ushered in France’s freedom.

“The French said, ‘We were hopeless, and you people came.’ I had never looked at it that way,” Alterizio said. “I dedicated the medal to all the boys

that did not get home. I am a custodian of the medal for them. They’re the men who really should have it.”

In other recognition, in 2014 Alterizio received the “Solider for Life” pin, which honors retired veterans for service, sacrifice and exemplary lifestyles.

Brigadier General L.L. Thurgood personally visited the Alterizio home to present the honor.

Alterizio also received a coin with George Washington’s prophetic inscription from 1781: “Willingness with which our young people ... serve in any war shall be directly proportional to how they perceive veterans ... were treated and appreciated.”

Furthermore, Thurgood made Alterizio an honorary member of the U.S. Space Command. At a command dinner, Alterizio sat at the head table with the brigadier general. “He introduced me, and I got a standing ovation. That was something else. No other country would do that for a lowly Private First Class,” Alterizio said.

The Alterizios’ daughter Diane Cardwell and husband John live in Atlanta; their son Philip Reid and wife Kim of Holly Springs, N.C. have a son, Ryan, 8.

Daughter Sue Helms and husband Larry live in Madison. Their daughter Allison Logan and husband Jeremy live in San Antonio, Texas. Daughter Kristen Barnes and six-year-old son Skyler are Madison residents.

A 32nd-degree Mason, Philip Alterizio retired from Eastern Airlines as an air freight handler. The Alterizios are members of the United Methodist Church.

LEFT: Philip Alterizio receives the “Soldier for Life” pin from General L.L. Thurgood. RIGHT: His unit advanced through Alsace Lorraine in southern France in 1944.

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f there is an event, ceremony or other matter involving veterans in the area around Redstone Arsenal, Madison resident and United States Army veteran Max Bennett can most likely be found there.

Since retiring from the service, Bennett has taken an active role in area groups committed to improving the lives of veterans and veterans’ families, including the Huntsville – Redstone Chapter of the Association of the U.S. Army, the North Alabama Veterans and Fraternal Organizations Coalition and the U.S. Army Warrant Officers Association, to name a few.

Bennett was the youngest son of a large family in a tiny town in Indiana called Plainville. Bennett’s older brothers all served in the military, making Bennett eager to continue on with his family’s legacy.

“My brothers all came down [to visit] in uniform, so seeing that was a big influence on me,” Bennett said.

So, in March 1985, Bennett enlisted in the Army and went through basic training at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo. and soon became a calibration specialist. It was a few years later, though, where he discovered his real calling in the Army as a warrant officer.

“I like to have things in my own hands, and I was able to do that with being a warrant officer,” Bennett said.

Bennett served overseas in Haiti in 1994 as a detachment commander as part of Operation Restore

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LEFT: Bennett in patriotic garb in front of the Huntsville Veterans Memorial.

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CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: Bennett with the local chapter of the U.S. Army Warrant Officers Association at a ramp build in cooperation with CASA Madison County.

Bennett with local news anchor Lee Marshall, who together broadcast the Huntsville - Madison County Veterans Day Parade. From left, Steve Seamen, Joe Shiver, Johnie Keeter and Max Bennett at the U.S. Army Warrant Officer Association in Fort Bragg, N.C. Bennett and son, Alexander, ring the bell for the Salvation Army.

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Hope and also served as commander of the Saudi Arabia and Kuwait detachments in the aftermath of the Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia in 1996.

He also served in Korea and eventually wound his way to Redstone Arsenal, where he retired in 2006 as a Chief Warrant Officer 4 after more than 21 years of service.

It was then that he became part of, and organized, groups to give back to veterans in the area, in addition to the other volunteer organizations Bennett was involved in during his time in the service.

Bennett served as president of the North Alabama Veterans and Fraternal Organizations Coalition (NAVFOC) from 2010–12. He was also master of ceremonies for the 2014 Veterans Dinner in downtown Huntsville and provided live commentary on the Veterans Day parade for Channel 48.

Bennett’s dedication to service has not gone unnoticed. Bennett was named the 2009 Huntsville –

Madison County Veteran of the Year and also received the Veteran of the Year nod from the Rotary Club of Madison in 2014.

One project Bennett has continually been a part of is the Care Assurance System for the Aging and Homebound (CASA) Wheelchair Ramp Builds, which is a service done for homebound individuals over the age of 60. Once a month, Bennett volunteers and helps coordinate a crew to construct wheelchair ramps for area citizens who are in need of the service.

“Anybody with any skill level can contribute to this,” Bennett said.

Having raised three children, with one working as a paralegal, one set to graduate law school in the spring and one studying chemical engineering at Auburn University, Bennett praised Madison City for its schools and community spirit.

“I could have chosen anywhere on the planet to retire, and I chose Madison,” Bennett said.

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hether they’re dealing with fl ying bullets, roadside bombs, severe injuries … or perhaps the strain of repeated relocations or the looming threat of sequestration, Redsone Arsenal’s military and civilian personnel have the option of calling in spiritual support much like asking for air or medical support.

“Our job is to shepherd them and guide them,” explained chaplain Chip Fields of Madison. “We work to give them hope and remind them that there is a god who loves them and cares for them.”

As Deputy Command Chaplain for Redstone’s Army Material Command, AMC, Fields becomes advisor and counselor for troops up and down the chain of command, as well as for the majority civilian workforce.

“I have orders to provide for exercise of religion for soldiers and to take care of their families and authorized civilians,” he said.

Technically a lieutenant colonel, Fields is simply “Chaplain” most of the time as he preaches Sunday services as part of the regular rotation at the post’s chapel and conducts weekly Bible study. And while the Bible study is conducted at the AMC headquarters at Redstone, it’s also webcast live by video teleconferencing, VTC, to AMC sites around the country.

“We do have people watching on VTC,” Fields said. “We have people calling in by phone and listening at their desks.”

That kind of broad outreach is a big part of Fields’ duties. Besides training for all of Redstone’s corps of chaplains, he also ends up on the road doing site visits, providing counsel, guidance, administrative and spiritual help at facilities far afield.

“AMC has impact, either directly or indirectly, in all 50 states,” he pointed out. “We have depots and arsenals all spread out all over.

We have impact in 144 countries around the world.”

Beyond such sprawling projects as interstate site visits, or the national prayer breakfast held in February at the Summit (formerly the Officers’ Club), Fields says his duties often distill down to the intimate challenges

LEFT: Chaplain Chip Fields.

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of individual soldiers’ and civilians’ spiritual lives with such services as hospital visits or grief and marital counseling. The chaplains conduct marriage retreats for couples under the title “Strong Bonds,” aimed at military couples, as well as marriage conferences for civilians.

“There’s a lot of pressure on families because there are lots of moves,” he said. “There’s a lot of separation and, if there are any weaknesses in a relationship, it will exacerbate normally over separation. So you have marital problems that soldiers work through.”

The demand for empathy and uplift saw a sharp uptick as the brutal budget realities of the past two years became part of that stress with

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cutbacks, layoffs and furloughs throwing up still more anxiety for the military and military-civilian communities.

“You’ll notice a little more stress than at other times, about the future. We’re there as a resource,” Fields said.

And then there are those actually marching into battle. A veteran of service in Afghanistan himself, Chaplain Fields granted that the tenor of his spiritual discussions can become starkly different for even familiar personnel facing the prospect of combat.

“Those about to go into harm’s way, their values suddenly change,” he said. “It’s strange because they start talking about things they never

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have before. One of those things is death. Another is family. Soldiers don’t normally think about those things in the everyday humdrum life as they’re going about their normal day but as they’re’ being sent into a hostile fire zone, they do. The demand for chaplains and spiritual support goes way up.”

The old aphorism “There are no atheists in the foxholes” is not one Fields cares for, nor does he use it.

“It doesn’t matter if you’re in combat,” he said. “If you’re a civilian here in a cubicle, every soul is important and precious. Everyone has his own set or problems and everyone needs a chaplain.”

As a clergyman, Fields is a Baptist minister but often reaches out to other denominations, offering first and foremost an open door. “It’s always good when you talk,” he said. “When you keep something in, it festers.

It’s like a sore or a wound. If you open it up, it might hurt. But it gets better.”

CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: Chaplain Fields speaks to a group at Redstone Arsenal. A wide variety of people is reflected in the audience.

Fields routinely spreads the Good News in weekly bible study sessions. He is seen by those in person and via teleconference worldwide. Fields at Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan. Fields in uniform. Redstone Arsenal garrison commander Bill Marks, left, with Fields.

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adison police offi cer Terry Johnson has a long history of service to his country, community and family and he does it all through a quiet and fi rm demeanor.

He remembers the diff erent paths he could have taken after graduating high school, and he chose the one with the least wriggle room.

“For an average person, there was no way to get out of there,” Johnson said of his hometown of Franklin, Tenn., a suburb of Nashville.

So, soon after Johnson graduated from high school in 1980, he enlisted in the United States Army. Johnson’s basic training took him to Fort Knox, Ky., far away from the poverty-stricken environment in which he was raised. After basic training, Johnson was transferred to Fort Bliss in Texas before serving a tour overseas in Germany for several years.

After shuffling back and forth from Germany to the U.S., Johnson eventually deployed to Kuwait as part of Operation Desert Storm in 1990 and was part of one of the last units to exit the area. Johnson still served in the area in six-month increments as part of a task force after the Gulf War ended, but retired in 2002 in order to spend more time with his wife, who was battling cancer at the time, and his two children.

Johnson’s wife has battled three rounds of cancer, including a brain tumor and two bouts of thyroid cancer, losing sight in one of her eyes.

“She is in full remission now, and she lives her life day-by-day,” he said.

For the first two years of Johnson’s civilian life after his retirement from the Army, he served at the Limestone Correctional Facility in Harvest. He then landed a job with the Madison Police Department, where he has served as a patrol officer for nearly 12 years.

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PREVIOUS PAGE: Previous page: Johnson at his work office as a Madison Police patrolman.

RIGHT: Johnson in service overseas.

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“Your diversity with people allows you to be in control,” Johnson said of how his past experiences help him in his current position. “The military still plays a role with the things that I do now.”

Johnson also furthers himself in other areas of his life. As a member of St. Luke Christian Church in Huntsville, Johnson made the decision “about two years ago” to begin the process of becoming a deacon there.

The pastor of the church, T.C. Johnson, is also retired military and served on Redstone Arsenal.

“There’s always someone you can help, and the church is good at allowing you do to that,” Johnson said.

Johnson has also found time to study at Columbia College on the Arsenal, where he is two classes shy from obtaining a bachelor’s degree in business administration.

“Why not take it and use it?” Johnson inquired, as he is not sure how he will utilize the degree in his professional life just yet. “If it helps me in a lot of ways, then that’s great. The best reason to get a degree is because you can be productive in life.”

Johnson has two children – a son, who attends Southern Union Community College, and a daughter, who works at Cornerstone Pediatrics. He has one grandchild.

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s a “career Army wife,” Jeanne Welt believes today’s military families, including her sons’ families, face more demands than earlier generations.

Jeanne accompanied husband John to all assignments ... from Germany and the United Kingdom to Texas, Washington and Georgia.

Furthermore, her father was a career Air Force veteran; she had lived in Florida, Georgia, Oklahoma, Germany and South Carolina before graduating from high school.

Jeanne works as secondary instructional specialist for Madison City Schools. Previously, she was the district’s high school coordinator. She was instructional partner and assistant principal at Bob

Jones High School. She taught English at Liberty Middle School for 12 years.

Her honors include National Board Certified Teacher; Madison Secondary Teacher of the Year (twice); District 8 Teacher of the Year; and finalist, Alabama Teacher of the Year.

After high school, Jeanne accompanied her parents to Germany. Deciding to stay, she earned her first college degree. Three years later, she met John in Kaiserslautern, Germany -- while on a date with his West Point classmate.

For six weeks, John tried to contact Jeanne.

Eighteen months later, they married. “Ironically, we linked up with this same classmate at their 40th West Point reunion last October,” Jeanne said.

After West Point, John completed numerous

CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: Jeanne Welt has three generations of military men in her life: (from left) brother-inlaw Colonel Retired Bill Clingempeel; nephew Sergeant First Class Chris Clingempeel; father Chief Master Sergeant Retired Aubrey Tillman; son Major David Welt; son Captain Michael Welt; and husband Lieutenant Colonel Retired John Welt. Jeanne Welt works as Secondary Instructional Specialist for Madison City Schools.

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ABOVE: Returning from Afghanistan, Captain Michael Welt reunites with his son Samuel.

courses, including Command and General Staff College in Kansas and Army War College in Pennsylvania. While John was deployed to Desert Storm, she earned teaching certification.

The Welts enjoyed time in Germany and England, along with Washington, California, Pennsylvania and Georgia.

However, they disliked El Paso, Texas with underpar schools, desert environment, crime, drugs and poverty, she said. Luckily, the unit’s closeness was like family away from home.

John Welt retired from the U.S. Army as lieutenant colonel in 1996. He now works at COLSA Corporation as the Advanced Research Center’s program manager.

The Welts’ sons are Major David Welt, 33, at Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas, Nev., and Captain Michael Welt, 29, at Moody Air Force Base in Valdosta, Ga. Both are U.S. Air Force Academy graduates.

While two siblings rarely graduate from the academy, David and Michael devoted their high school careers to prepare for appointment, Jeanne said.

David and wife Summer’s daughters are Aubrey, 5, and Everly, 2. Michael and wife Brittany’s son Samuel, 2, is expecting a sibling in June.

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2014 Patriot’s Mosaic on display at the Huntsville Depot

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CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: Major David Welt’s family investigates the rear compartment of a F-16 Fighter. Captain Michael Welt, Samuel and Brittany Welt stand in front of a PAVHawk helicopter at Moody Air Force Base in Valdosta, Georgia. In August 1990, John Welt stands with his sons David and Michael at Fort Stewart, Georgia in Hinesville. John and Jeanne Welt, at back right, enjoy a cruise with their sons’ families.

Jeanne and her daughters-in-law face similar challenges: constantly changing jobs, starting over with friends, physicians ... even hair stylists, isolation from relatives and parenting demands.

Summer Welt agrees. “It’s difficult to have any kind of career,” she said. “Building seniority is next to impossible. Sometimes, even getting hired is difficult.”

Basically, spouses become single parents. “Uprooting children and starting new ... is challenging,” Summer said. Irregular routines cause soldiers to miss holidays and birthdays, even when at ‘home.’ “Expense of moving is an issue ... restocking a fridge/freezer, buying or selling a car,” Summer said.

Brittany’s major struggle has been rapid transitioning, seamlessly from co-parent in a “nuclear” family to single mom. “I pride myself on filling roles,” Brittany said.

An attorney, Brittany has put her law career on hold. Every move requires re-certification, both timeintensive and expensive.

However, those sacrifices made it possible for John, David and Michael to serve their country.

As a soldier, John felt great pride after defeating Sadam Hussein’s Republican Guard Divisions to

free Kuwait in 1991. John and Jeanne felt fulfilled representing our country in England on exchange with the British Army.

David’s pride can soar in “peaceful times when you can just sit and be at peace.” When deployed, soldiers remember a comfortable place like “home, family property, peaceful mountainside or beach.”

Michael’s ultimate patriotism occurred while flying combat rescue missions in Afghanistan’s Helmand River Valley. We “recovered injured personnel, sometimes under fire.” He saw “many individuals from every corner of America under difficult conditions helping someone they’ve never met.”

Jeanne is proud of her sons’ sacrifices. “I’m equally proud of my daughters-in-laws,” she said. “Sometimes as a society, we forget about the load they carry.”

Her husband and father’s military “aren’t the same military young men and women of today serve in.

Their sacrifices are tremendous,” Jeanne said.

Jeanne was in the delivery room with Summer when Aubrey was born; David was flying missions in Iraq. “I’m committed to doing whatever it takes ... as they defend this great country we’re privileged to live in,” Jeanne said.

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The Road to the Championship Looking back on Madison Academy’s third charmed football season WRITTEN BY NICK SELLERS PHOTOGRAPHS BY PAULETTE BERRYMAN

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The Road to the Championship

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he Madison Academy Mustangs took the field in 2014 with fairly lofty expectations. Returning four-star running back Kerryon Johnson, senior quarterback Blake Coward and rising junior Malik Miller, Madison Academy was poised to win a third straight championship under head coach Eric Cohu.

The first team standing in the way of that goal was the Leeds Green Wave, the team the Mustangs defeated in the 2013 state championship game. The game, already set for a sweltering hot day, was turned up a few degrees due to the presence of ESPNU, which televised the Aug. 22 contest to a national audience.

The Mustangs were dealt a surprising, if not shocking, loss, to the Green Wave, 27-24. Leeds was able to drive the ball down to the 12-yard line, where Morgan Coston booted through the winning field goal as time expired to give Madison Academy its first loss in 25 games.

“It hurts, but at the same time I know it’s week one,” Johnson said after the loss. “We have 14 more weeks, hopefully, to get better and better. We always knew from the start we were going to be a team that gets better as the season gets along; we have a young team.”

Johnson’s words rang prophetic three-and-a-half months later, as the Mustangs beat their next 14 opponents by an average score of 49.9 – 13.6, including a 70 – 34 win over Dale County in the Class 3A state championship game on Dec. 4, to hoist the trophy for an unprecedented third straight year.

After the Mustangs got back on the winning track Aug. 29 against out-of-state Maplewood 45-12, the Mustangs steamrolled their next seven opponents, all Region foes, to solidify their No. 1 state ranking and earn a top seed in the AHSAA playoffs.

The first round of the playoffs provided a 56-7 win over visiting Winston County. The next week, as temperatures dipped into the low 20s, the Mustangs welcomed the Piedmont Bulldogs to Madison.

Piedmont took the Mustangs to overtime in the 2013 playoffs and played them to a 14-14 tie in the first half in 2014, but the Mustangs tightened up on defense in the second half and rode Johnson and Miller to the finish line at 42-20.

Suspensions from a fight during the previous week’s game kept Walter Wellborn from making the third round an even contest for Madison Academy, as the Mustangs thumped the Panthers 56-8 in Anniston. The next week would prove to be the Mustangs’ toughest win.

The day after Thanksgiving, Cohu and his team traveled to Glencoe to take on the undefeated Yellow Jackets. Tied at 28-28 late in the game, the Yellow Jackets had the ball in Mustang territory and threatened a go-ahead score. Glencoe turned the ball over on downs, and the ‘Stangs drove the ball the other way to set up a 34-yard field goal by Nathan Geis that would prove to be the game winner.

PREVIOUS PAGE CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: The Madison Academy Mustangs before a game. Malik Miller shoves off a Glencoe opponent. Emerson Brooks at the state title game. Malik Miller glides into the end zone. Mustang coaches share a moment before a game.

BOTTOM, FROM LEFT: Kerryon Johnson in action against Leeds.

Malik Miller as he steps off the bus for the state championship game.

Madison Academy runs out before the second-round of the playoffs against Piedmont.

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CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: Head coach Eric Cohu addresses the players after a game. Cole Tomlinson runs back an interception against Dale County. Quarterback Blake Coward (7) surveys Dale County’s defense in the state title game.

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CLOCKWISE FROM TOP: The Mustangs celebrate their third straight title. Madison Academy battles Dale County blockers. Malik Miller outruns Dale County defenders.

Friends and family members at Auburn’s Jordan-Hare Stadium show their support before the game.

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Madison Academy’s last game was on an unseasonably warm day at Auburn’s Jordan– Hare Stadium against Dale County and Jamarius Henderson who, a week earlier, set the state record for rushing yards in one season.

The Mustangs gave up more points than they had all season, but it mattered not in the end, as Johnson exploded for 179 yards and four touchdowns on the ground. He was named the game MVP, the Gatorade Player of the Year for Alabama and, eventually, Mr. Football.

He finished the season with 1,659 rushing yards and 25 touchdowns on the ground. Johnson added 598 receiving yards and eight touchdowns through the air and had six interceptions as a starting safety,

returning half of those picks for touchdowns.

Johnson was not the only rusher Madison Academy could rely on. Miller cemented himself as a solid fourstar prospect throughout the season as he received more carries. KiKi Matthews, Blake Wimberly, Bronson Schad and Alex Carpenter also proved to be reliable ball carriers in the season.

Coward, the meticulous, but talented, game manager, did enough to balance the offense when needed.

And the Mustangs’ eight starters on defense, as did the rest of the players and coaching staff, met the skyhigh expectations of the 2014 season for Madison Academy and lay claim to yet another AHSAA state title.

Connect 2015 Attendees were treated to a sold-out event at the Davidson Center Jan. 30 for the annual Madison Chamber of Commerce production, Connect 2015.

1. Chamber of Commerce executive director Elaine Ballew, Mary Lynne Wright, and Chenny Cargile.

2. Mickey and Steve Smith.

3. Marcia and Dee Fowler.

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5. Terri and Greg Johnson.

6. Larry Muncey, Curtis and Susan Potts.

7. Emily and John Peck.

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