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Mike Chapman

Current: Retired Oct 2014. Son Scott and his wife are expecting another child. He now lives in Huntsville. His three year old son is a prankster. My step-daughter now has two children in college.

Future: Planning to travel, read, and travel some more.

    Here I'm doing all three


    Traveling in Copenhagen


Of interest is ice fishing in Barrow, AK.



Family: Married to Carolyn since 1977; son Scott (1978) is a third generation aeronautical engineer with wife Erin (also an aeronautical engineer) and son Liam (2012) Scott now lives in Huntsville, AL; step daughter Allison has two children: Caitlin attending Michigan State and works for MicroSoft in Seattle near us in the summer, and John, a varsity HS basketball player now graduated. I was a Premiere Youth Soccer coach for 12 years. My younger brother Dave won the state HS high jump contest in 1967 with a jump of 6' 5-3/8" and was salutatorian in his class. Brother Mark has two sons, and eldest just married.

EHS: I participated in basketball, track, and band. Valedictorian of my 1965 HS class and track captain.

Education: BS with honors in Mechanical Engineering at Washington State University (WSU), and masters and PhD at the University of Washington in Aeronautics and Astronautics with emphasis in applied mathematics.

Career: Boeing engineer since 1977 in various rocket and spacecraft programs. I currently work on Sea Launch which launches a very large rocket from a converted oil platform placed due south of Hawaii on the equator. Multiple commercial Spacecraft launched. The program was a partnership between Energia (Russia), Yuzhnoye (Ukraine), Kavarner (Norway), and Boeing and requires extensive coordination between all parties. The travel was fun. The program was a direct peace dividend resulting from the end of the cold war. Now, unfortunately, Russia and Ukraine are now not playing nicely. Became a Boeing Technical Fellow in 2000.

40th reunion bio
Family: married in 1977 to Carolyn. Have step-daughter Allison, who now has 2 kids, and son Scott (b. 1978). Also standard poodle, Neeko. Scott is a third generation aeronautical engineer working in LA and Allison is a DOW chemical engineer working in Indianapolis. Carolyn is a retired bank vice president now doing gardening.sewing, traveling, and the good life. Interests: coached premier soccer for 13 years, travel, history & genealogy for last 3 years, physics and sci-fi, and 'getting back into shape like I was in high school'.

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