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Volume 29, Number 6, June 2012 Orlando, Florida

REALM News—June 2012— Retired Employees Association of Lockheed Martin of Central Florida

Lockheed Martin announces corporate leadership changes Bob Stevens To Retire; Board Elects Chris Kubasik CEO and Marillyn Hewson President and COO

Lockheed Martin announced that Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Bob Stevens, 60, informed the board of directors of his plans to retire as CEO after 25 years of service with the company. President and Chief Operating Officer Chris Kubasik, 51, will succeed Stevens as CEO effective January 1, 2013. Subject to election by shareholders and approval by the board, Stevens will remain chairman through January 2014.

The board also elected Marillyn A. Hewson, 58, to succeed Kubasik as president and COO, effective January 1, 2013. Hewson’s successor as executive vice president of Lockheed Martin’s Electronic Systems business area will be announced later this year.

“Continuous global economic and security challenges have created a new reality in which leadership with a long-term view can provide a sustained competitive advantage,” Stevens said. “Chris and Marillyn are superbly well prepared to guide the continuous evolution of Lock-heed Martin’s strategies and operating concepts in ways that will allow us to simultaneously address the evolving needs of customers and the expectations of shareholders.”

Leadership Changes. Continued on page 4

“Leadership with a long-term view can provide a sustained

competitive advantage.”

“Bob Stevens has had an extraordinarily distinguished career, working tirelessly on be-half of Lockheed Martin’s cus-tomers, shareholders and em-ployees by applying his full spectrum leadership to build a strategically focused company with a portfolio shaped to meet the challenges of today’s global security environment,” said Douglas H. McCorkindale, Lockheed Martin’s lead director.

“Throughout his tenure, Bob and the board have focused on developing talent and assuring a high-quality succession plan as a

Full Spectrum Leadership

Corporate culture change takes place in two ways: It grows from the bottom up, as shifting social and economic realities weave their way into the fabric of an organization. And it flows from the top down, as leaders recognize the inevita-ble changes taking place in the world and shape them to serve the best inter-ests of the organization and everybody who is part of it.

Full Spectrum Leadership is Lockheed Martin’s model for promoting and accel-erating the latter type of change - the type that allows the company to create its own destiny and ensure that it will continue to thrive in the face of new competitive challenges.

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The format and content of REALM News are con-trolled solely by REALM and not by Lockheed Martin. Lockheed Martin Corporation makes no representation with re-spect to, and is in no way liable for what is published herein.

REALM Communications direc-tor, mailing list, REALM roster Ed Jones [email protected] 407-859-3766 REALM News managing editor Andrea J. Lawrence [email protected] 407-340-8602 REALM News distribution Alan Courney [email protected] 407-876-4574

Membership, Care and Concern, and “Where Are They Now?” Ann Hartle [email protected] 407-862-8282 Travel and special events Joe Boler [email protected] 407-293-6549 REALM general mailing address Lockheed Martin REALM PO Box 1184 Windermere, FL 34786-1184

Executive Committee (through January 2013) Chairman ....................... Harold Cates ............407-855-8246 ..... [email protected] President ........................ Bill Rivera ................321-783-1256 ..... [email protected] 1st Vice President .......... Ben Drexler ..............407-293-5957 ..... [email protected] 2nd Vice President ........ Bob Wood ................407-855-2891 ..... [email protected] Secretary ........................ Shirley Jones ............407-859-3766 ..... [email protected] Assistant Secretary ........ Jackie Keller ............407-857-2237 ..... [email protected] Treasurer ....................... Bill Drown ...............863-424-9470 .... [email protected] Assistant Treasurer ........ open Directors (through January of year shown) 2015 ............................... Joe Boler ..................407-293-6549 ..... [email protected] 2015 ............................... Ed Jones ...................407-859-3766 ..... [email protected] 2014 ............................... Gerry Shoaf ..............407-876-4090 ..... [email protected] 2014 ............................... Marty Harris .............407-469-1939 ..... [email protected] 2013 ............................... Nancy Hulcher .........407-851-7404 ..... [email protected]

REALM Points of Contact

REALM Board of Directors

Schedule Linda Schaidt [email protected] 407-880-3121 Memorabilia Gerry Shoaf [email protected] 407-876-4090

Coming Events June 19 ................. Lunch Bunch at Westerley’s

at MetroWest Country Club

July 24 ................... Lunch Bunch at Zellwood Station

August .................. Lunch Bunch at Rio Pinar Country Club

August 16 .............. Lockheed Martin Centennial

September 11 ........ Lunch Bunch at Errol Es-tates Country Club, Apopka

October 14-21 ...... Caribbean Cruise on Free-dom of the Seas

October 20 ............ Lockheed Martin and REALM United Way Day of Caring in Central Florida

October 22 ............. REALM Annual Meeting at Lockheed Martin Global Training and Logistics

December .............. Trip to Alhambra Dinner Theater in Jacksonville

President’s Message By Bill Rivera

We have begun the annual election process for the REALM board of directors. The nominat-ing committee is soliciting mem-bers to be placed on this year’s election ballot. All Executive board member positions are one-year terms and as such all are up for election. In addition, two Directors are to be elected: Di-rector of Administration and Member Support and Director of Special Projects. Directors are elected for 3-year terms and two are elected each year. Please visit our website at www.realm-fl.org to learn more about our organ-izational structure and board member duties. The links are found in the box labeled “About This Web Site.”

Although not elected, our club depends on committee vol-unteers to support our activities. Our volunteers have worked diligently over the years and made significant contributions to the success of REALM. Many of our volunteers have been ful-filling the same duties for 10 years or more and are at a point where they feel it is time to pass their baton to someone else. We’re looking for enthusiastic people who have basic computer skills. If you fit the bill, we’re looking for you!

Although each member plays a pivotal role in identify-ing what REALM offers its

members, people on the board and the committees are key to transforming those ideas into programs, activities, and ser-vices. I strongly encourage giv-ing serious consideration to be-coming a candidate for one of this year’s elected positions or volunteer to serve on one of the committees. If you would like to run or nominate someone for the elected board positions, contact the Nominating Committee Chairman Joe Boler at 407-293-6549 or [email protected]. For those wishing to volunteer to support a committee, please con-tact the appropriate director.

At the February board meet-ing, Todd Catella, at Joe and Barbara Ripino’s invitation, explained the Honor Flight pro-gram and the local Honor Flight of Central Florida (HFCFL) hub. This hub is a new chapter of the Honor Flight Network volunteer organization dedicated to honor-ing World War II veterans by flying them to Washington, D.C., to visit their memorial at no cost to the veteran. Although this program is open to all veter-ans, top priority is given to WW II survivors and other veterans who may be terminally ill.

On March 24, Garth Meyers and other WW II veter-ans from the Space Coast area went to Washington, D.C., as part of the Honor Flight Pro-gram. Garth said it was a fantas-tic experience and each partici-pant was shown a lot of appre-ciation for their service. He also said this special event should not be missed. Garth encourages every REALM WW II veteran to take advantage of one of the Honor Flights. This program is a small tribute for those WW II veterans who gave so much.

For more information about and how one can support this worthwhile tribute to veterans, visit their web site at www.honorflightcentralflorida.org At the site, you will find HFCFL veteran, guardian and volunteer applications and contact infor-mation.

“Not everything that counts can be counted.

And not everything that can be counted,

counts.” Albert Einstein

REALM News—June 2012—

cornerstone of good corporate governance. As a result, incredi-bly talented leaders like Chris and Marillyn are ready to as-sume greater responsibilities.”

Both Kubasik and Hewson have led the Electronic Systems business area, which is the or-ganization to which Orlando-based business units—Missiles and Fire Control and Global Training and Logistics—report.

Chris Kubasik has served as president and COO since Janu-ary 2010, and he has served with Stevens in the executive office of the chairman since October 2011. He previously was execu-tive vice president of the Elec-tronic Systems business area and, earlier, the corporation’s chief financial officer.

Kubasik received an execu-tive engineering certificate from Carnegie Mellon University in 2008 and completed the Systems Acquisition Management Course for Flag Officers at the Defense Acquisition University in 2004. He received his bache-lor’s degree in accounting from the University of Maryland in

1983. Kubasik serves on the USO Board of Governors and the University of Maryland College Park Foundation’s Board of Trustees.

Marillyn Hewson was named executive vice president of the Electronic Systems business area in January 2010. In serving the company for 29 years, she has held leadership positions on the corporate staff and in three of the corporation’s four businesses.

Hewson earned her bache-lor’s degree in business admini-stration and a master’s degree in economics from the University of Alabama. She also attended the Columbia Business School and Harvard Business School executive development pro-grams. She chairs the Sandia Corporation board of directors and she serves on the board of DuPont. Hewson is a member of the Association of the United States Army Council of Trustees and the University of Alabama’s Culverhouse College of Com-merce and Business Administra-tion Board of Visitors.

After serving as chief finan-cial officer, Bob Stevens was named president in 2000, and became CEO in 2004. He serves on the international advisory boards of the Atlantic Council and the British-American Busi-ness Council and he is on the executive committee of the Aerospace Industries Association board of governors. He is a member of the Council on For-eign Relations, lead director of the Monsanto Company, and a member of the board of directors of the Congressional Medal of Honor Foundation. A U.S. Ma-rine Corps veteran, Stevens has been honored by numerous mili-tary, professional, business and industry groups.

Leadership Changes. Continued from Page 1.

Chris Kubasik

Marillyn Hewson

Leadership

Effective leadership at Lockheed Martin isn’t only about getting results. It’s about getting results in the right way. Our leaders are ex-pected to continually promote ethi-cal behavior, support diversity, and make decisions that protect the health and safety of employees as well as the natural environment through Full Spectrum Leadership.

Ultimately, every one of us is a leader, because we all control the attitudes and behaviors of at least one person - ourself - and we set an example for our colleagues. Lockheed Martin is striving to es-tablish the tools and reinforce the values that provide everyone with rewarding work in a safe and sup-portive environment. But it’s up to each one of us as individuals to embrace the culture we’re creating.


The REALM golf group disbanded several years ago, but retirees can still join fellow retirees and other non-Lockheed Martin retirees in a group called Dusty’s Duffers. The Duffers have been in existence for more than 20 years and many retirees are mem-bers. There are approximately 150 total members and typically 70 to 100 play each week on golf courses all over central Florida, usually paying less than $30 per round with free range balls included. We also enjoy a year-end party that includes a modi-fied team scramble, a meal with door prizes and

money awards for the lowest team scores.

The Duffers have four handicap groupings and each has cash prizes for the lowest three net scores. There is also an optional skins contest for each grouping. A skin won means the player had the low-est score within his or her handicap group on a given hole after taking the handicap into account.

April Highlights: On April 11, Tom Umbel had a “hole-in-one” on the par 3 sixth hole at Royal St. Cloud Golf Club

Golfers keep busy on Central Florida links By Roy Ray

REALM Recreation

Date Course & No. Players Lockheed Martin Retiree Participants (Net Score) Winners

April 4 Timacuan (105)

Carmine Spina (67), Ron Johnson (71), Tom Simmonds (91), Roy Ray (67), Terry Northup (73), Dick McCoy (76), Mike Redlin (80), Bill Drown (81), Frank Walker (74), Char-lie Jones (79), Fred Dittmaier (81), Tom Umbel (84), Dave Lamsens (85),Bruce Bryant (86), and Phil Morrison (87)

Carmine Spina (tied 3rd A Flt) Roy Ray (tied 2nd B Flt) Frank Walker (3rd D Flt) Skins – Bill Drown (1), Frank Walker (1), Dave Lamsen (1), Fred Dittmaier (1), Charlie Jones (1)

April 11 Royal St. Cloud (80)

Ron Johnson (74), Roy Ray (78), Mike Redlin (78), Terry Nortup (82), Bill Drown (81), Frank Walker (68), Tom Um-bel (72), Charlie Jones (76), Dave Lamsens (77), Mike Smith (80), Fred Dittmaier (81), and Phil Morrison (82)

Frank Walker (2nd D Flt) Tom Umbel (tied 3rd D Flt) Skins - Terry Northup (1), Bill Drown (1), Mike Smith (1), Tom Umbel (2), Fred Dittmaier (1), Phil Morrison (1)

April 18 Sanctuary Ridge (99)

Tom Simmonds (78), Ron Johnson (82), Mike Redlin (72), Raul Llamas (75), Terry Northup (80), Bill Drown (72), Charlie Jones (66), Frank Walker (68), Phil Morrison (75), Tom Umbel (80), and Dave Lamsens (83)

Charlie Jones (1st D Flt) Frank Walker (2nd D Flt) Skins – Tom Simmonds (1), Frank Walker (2), Charlie Jones (1), Phil Morrison (1)

April 25 Sugarloaf Mountain (97)

Ron Johnson (70), Carmine Spina (76),Tom Simmonds (92), Roy Ray (70), Terry Nortup (72), Geff Ferguson (82), Mike Redlin (85), Bill Drown (75), Bruce Bryant (71),Tom Umbel (76), Phil Morrison (80), Charlie Jones (84), Fred Dittmaier (86), Dave Lamsens (88), and Frank Walker (92)

Ron Johnson (4th A Flt) Roy Ray (tied 1st B Flt) Terry Nortup (3rd B Flt) Bill Drown (3rd C Flt) Bruce Bryant (1st D Flt) Tom Umbel (2nd D Flt) Skins – Terry Northup (2), Roy Ray (1), Phil Morrison (1), Charlie Jones (1), Tom Umbel (1)

April Golf Activities

Dick McCoy remains our leading golf win-ner this year through March and has won $166! The biggest winner among all the Duffers has won $253.

April Golf Play Date Course

May 2 Timacuan May 9 Red Tail Ma 16 Black Bear May 23 Eagle Dunes May 30 Arlington Ridge

If you are interested in learn-ing more about Dusty’s Duffers, please contact Phil Morrison at [email protected] to receive the user name and password to access our website at www.dustysduffers.com. The website lists all the courses we will play in 2012 and also has a membership form. There is a $25 membership fee that is used to offset the cost of the year end party and cover operating costs.


2012 First Quarter Bridge Results Announced By Ben Drexler

Contrary to most of the continental U.S. where the “April showers followed by May flowers” adage applies, April is usually the year’s driest month in central Florida. This year is no excep-tion but with the added condition that no rain worth mentioning fell in January, February or March, and the temperatures have been unusually high as well. Undaunted by the dead and dying lawns, however, the Bridge group posted a good attendance for April. April 6 had 15 players plus one missing; the remaining weeks each had 20 players present. The annual sum-mer exodus to the Appalachians and beyond and to the beach houses has not yet begun. We have some faithful players who have been troubled by health issues that we hope will be speed-ily resolved so they can again enjoy our weekly sessions.

A series of tabulations below show the top five scores for each week of April, the top five scores for the month and the cumulative quarterly average scores that are 5000 or greater when the player has participated in half or more of the playing opportunities.

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Our players did not lack for snacks during the April playing days. Ed Barton noted his birthday with a deluge of donuts on April 13. (I don’t think Ed’s birthday was actually ON Friday the 13th..) Natalie Staschke celebrated husband Ralph’s birthday

with generous quantity of her famous home-baked cupcakes on April 20, and Ruth Courney brought in three boxes of mixed donuts and pastries on April 27 to mark her birthday.

Highest Five Scores for Each Week of April 2012 April 6 April 13 April 20 April 27

Natalie Staschke 6740 Sam Crigler 7710 Bob Fiebrandt 6900 John Lampe 6850

Marv Christianson 6170 Marv Christianson 7180 Dean Cherry 5790 Mary Jansson 6490

Lynette Di Berardino 5830 Lynette Di Berardino 6630 Ken Breiding 5700 Lynette Di Berardino 6410

Norma Christianson 5530 John Lampe 6550 Loretta Fiebrandt 5670 Marv Christianson 6140

Loretta Fiebrandt 5250 Carol Bobrowski 6350 Natalie Staschke 5630 Rob Hinsey 5830

Highest Five Scores for the Month

We play REALM Bridge each non-holiday Friday at the Orlando Beardall Senior Center located at the northwest corner of Gore Street and Delaney Avenue near downtown Orlando. Play starts at 9:30 a.m. Ten rounds of four hands each are played, ending at about 2:30 to 3:00 p.m. Cards, scorepads, tallies, regular and decaf coffee are furnished at no charge. Players bring a lunchtime sandwich to eat while continuing the play. There is no charge for membership.

REALM members, including spouses are invited to participate. Contact Loretta or Bob Fiebrandt at 407-894-6895 or Arnie or Babs Greenwood at 407 857-3996 for information or to reserve your seat.

Players Having Cumulative Average Score of 5000 or Higher for Half or More

Order Name Score Date First Sam Crigler 7710 April 13

Second Marvin Christianson 7180 April 13

Third Bob Fiebrandt 6900 April 20

Fourth John Lampe 6850 April 27

Fifth Natalie Staschke 6740 April 6

Name Cum Average No. Plays Lynette Di Berardino 6290 3

Marv Christianson 6185 4

John Lampe 5957 3

Sam Crigler 5317 3

Bob Fiebrandt 5150 4

Natalie Staschke 5095 4

Ed Barton 5055 4


Recent donors:

Gerry Goodwin Stella L. Malone James Mathena

Betty Winslow (Feb. and Apr.)

You just need your own reason!

Some of us give blood because we were asked by a friend.

Some know that a family member or a friend might need blood some day.

Some believe it is the right thing we do.

Whatever your reason, the need is constant and your contribution is important for a healthy and reliable blood supply. And you’ll feel good know-ing you've helped change a life.

Some Health Benefits

You will receive a mini-physical that checks:

Pulse

Blood pressure

Body temperature

Hemoglobin

What Can You Expect?

Come prepared.

Have a light meal and plenty to drink.

Bring your donor card, driver’s license or two other forms of identification.

Bring the names of medications you are tak-ing.

Sylvia Williamson Abney is REALM’s blood bank coordinator. Please send her a note when you donate so she can keep a record.

[email protected]@[email protected]

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You don’t need a special reason to give blood!

Community Service

New Members James DeRose

Travel

1. October 14-21 – Cruise the western Caribbean on the luxurious Freedom of the Seas. Contact Joe Boler or Bill Bowden for more information and to sign up.

2. November – Trip to Jekyll Island and Beaufort S.C. Information will be in the newsletter shortly.

3. December 2012 – Trip to the Alhambra Dinner Theater in Jacksonville, Fla., to see the play White Christmas. The date and more information will be published soon.

4. We are also planning trips to St. Augustine and Anna Maria Island.

By Joe Boler


Last month, REALM News teased you, dear readers, with a story about the Lockheed UFO case. In 1953, Lockheed’s chief engineer, the famous Clarence “Kelly” Johnson, father of the SR-71 and creator of the Skunk Works, and a company flight test crew aboard a Constellation WV-2, saw something in the sky they could not identify. Johnson wrote it up and sent it to the Air Force, which tersely declared it to be a lenticular cloud forma-tion. Many UFO aficionados balk at what they consider an overly simplistic and predictable Government response. Author and skeptic Lance Moody did his own investigation and these are the results. My knowledge of lenticular clouds was limited; I don’t think I have ever seen one in the sky but I have seen many photos of lenticular clouds, usually in UFO books. Most UFO authorities agree that lenticular clouds do sometimes cause UFO reports. But since lenticular formations are relatively rare, these mis-taken reports must also be pretty rare. And anyway, the photos I had seen of this type of cloud didn’t really seem to have much in common with the Lockheed testimony. So I agreed that the cloud explanation seemed unlikely, especially after seeing the best evidence presentation of the case, which was faithfully parroted by other UFO web sites. I decided to delve into the actual evidence, the testimony of the men, and found a disturbing trend. In the video here it was obvious that the evidence was

being looked at from one particu-lar perspective, a pro-UFO one, and evidence that didn’t tend to lead to a UFO conclusion was often being ignored or misinter-preted. Here are some of the things I object to in this account:

The film takes the words of the witnesses literally, when the meaning may have been figura-tive. For instance, several of the witnesses describe the object as

looking like a flying wing headed straight at them, which could reasonably be interpreted as a featureless ellipse, much like Johnson described. Indeed all of the witnesses agree that they could discern no details in the black shape. Notice how the video takes this description and runs with it, clearly showing a flying wing-type aircraft. But now it isn’t flying straight at us: we see it in the video from a low-angle. The object stops looking like a flying wing and actually becomes a flying wing with de-tails that none of the witnesses ever reported.

One of the most obvious ex-amples of how the video goes for maximum ooga-booga instead of truth is demonstrated in the de-scriptions of the “departure” of the object and how long that event lasted. Here is how the actual witnesses estimated that time:

Can you believe it?

The not-so spooky story of the Lockheed UFO By Lance Moody

The white shaded area defines where the object might have been, ac-cording to Kelly Johnson's testimony. The green and blue lines enclose the area in which the plane may have been. The red shaded area is where the plane was when the object was first sighted. The film referenced above uses a sort of faux-science to suggest that the location of the ob-ject can be accurately triangulated by using the known location of John-son at his ranch and the location of the plane. In reality, the testimony does not allow us to know precisely where the plane was, much less its vector to the dark object.

See the “pro-UFO” case for your-self on YouTube Search terms: Kelly Johnson UFO Case


“In 90 seconds from the time it started to move, the ob-ject had completely disap-peared.”

“In the space of about one minute it grew smaller and dis-appeared.”

“In probably an elapsed time of somewhere around a minute, the object had reduced in size to a mere speck and disappeared.”

“In just a minute or two it completely disappeared.”

So far so good. The wit-nesses all seem in agreement of the basic time it took for the ob-ject to disappear. Two viewed the object almost continuously so their estimates are probably the most important ones. But now we come to one last esti-mate:

“...in a time, in the order of 10 seconds, [the object] disap-peared from view.”

Can you guess which esti-mate was used in the film and

presented as absolutely precise and enabling them to create all sorts of other amazing figures like 130g acceleration? That’s right. They chose the 10-second figure! This is UFO science at its most impressive!

A Solution?

One thing that did strike me as I read the accounts is that these men weren’t trying to fab-ricate anything. They seemed to be honestly attempting to report what they saw without embel-lishment.

One of their first guesses as to the nature of the object was that it was a cloud.

“Thinking it was a lenticular cloud, I continued to study it,” stated Johnson.

“I saw what I thought was a small cloud,” commented one of the aircraft crew members.

After viewing it for a while,

they all decided that it couldn’t be a cloud, mainly because its edges were too distinct. Indeed most of the images I have seen of lenticular clouds still look more or less like clouds. So I was fairly amenable to abandon-ing the lenticular explanation.

But then I came across a startling photo shown on the next page.

This photo, taken in Wyo-ming, shows a very compact lenticular cloud much more like what the men described seeing in 1953. Of course, this is still clearly a cloud. But I began to wonder what this cloud might have looked like from much fur-ther away. In the photo above, either the cloud is very large or the camera is very close to it. It fills a good portion of our visual field. This was not the case for the Lockheed witnesses. John-son doesn’t say how large the

Kelly Johnson’s original sketch of the event

Lockheed UFO. Continued on next page.


object was in the sky but he strongly implies that it was rather small, comparing it to an aircraft flying near Point Mugu, some 30 miles away. From my work in visual effects, I know that taking an object with fuzzy edges like a cloud and making it smaller causes the edges to be-come more distinct. So I decided to simulate what the same cloud might have looked like from much further away. This is not a real photo; it was created as a demonstration using Photoshop.

This is much more like what the men described. The edges of this cloud are now so distinct that it loses its cloud properties and just becomes a dark object with no discernible detail. In other words, it looks exactly like what was being described by the Lockheed witnesses. And note that I used the entire real cloud to make this image, including the wispy tail on the left. But details like the tail disappear as you get further away (here simu-lated by making the cloud smaller). Another detail that vastly improves the illusion of a solid object is the silhouette ef-fect caused by the brilliant sun-set, exactly the same conditions during the Lockheed sighting

“...[T]he sun had gone down

below the horizon but the sky was red and this object was per-fectly silhouetted against this red background,” stated one crew-member.

So now I began to think that there could be something to the cloud idea but there were still some issues to consider. Other than its distinctness, what else convinced the men that they weren’t seeing a cloud?

Well, there isn’t much. John-son says that the fact that it did-n’t move was one factor. This may show that Johnson wasn’t really very familiar with lenticu-lars, which very often hang in the sky held motionless by two opposing air masses until they dissipate.

Of course, one other part of the account must be addressed: the departure. As I looked at vid-eos of lenticular clouds dissipat-ing, I noticed how, as the clouds got smaller, there was sometimes the impression that they were moving away.

This is part of my working theory of the case: that the de-parture was actually the dissi-pation of the cloud.

The way that the witnesses described the departure certainly fits in with this theory.

“[T]he object had reduced in size to a mere speck, and then disappeared.”

Lockheed UFO. Continued from previous page.

Photo Courtesy Mark Meyer Pho-tography (photo-mark.com)

This photo has been manipulated in Photoshop for demon-stration purposes only.

Lockheed UFO. Continued on next page.

“I suddenly realized it was moving away from us heading

straight west. In the space of about one

minute it grew smaller and

disappeared.”


Want to see some fantastic lenticular cloud formations? Check YouTube. Search terms: UFO Lenticular Cloud

“When I got the glasses fo-cused on the object, it was al-ready moving behind the first layer of haze. I gathered its speed was very high, because of the rate of fore-shortening of its major axis.”

Johnson also reported that the object took a long shallow climb (this was not reported by the men in the plane, interest-ingly). I am suggesting that this apparent climb is also caused by the dispersing cloud as the top or bottom disappeared unevenly.

One nagging issue for me was that I honestly had no idea how long it would take for a cloud to dissipate. The theory requires it to be around a minute. I started work on writing this article without knowing the an-swer to this question but I knew that this one issue could invali-date the whole idea.

Lockheed UFO. Continued from previous page.

Final Thoughts

I hope the reader doesn’t feel that I am suggesting that these witnesses were ignoramuses. I’m not. I think all of the witnesses did an incredible job of reporting the facts as best they could. The theory above postulates that sev-eral factors came together that did fool the witnesses:

1. Compact lenticular cloud.

2. Silhouetted against bril-liant red sunset.

3. Seen from enough dis-tance that the edges became to-tally smooth.

In short, I am suggesting that nature conspired to create a sort of illusion that fooled these ob-servers.

Old Secret. Continued from page 22 First designed by Skunk Works engineers, the Sea Shadow was built inside a massive barge in Red-wood City, Calif., so it wouldn’t be exposed to orbit-ing Soviet spy satellites.

The vessel was built under tight secrecy through the combined efforts of Lockheed Martin, the Navy and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA. The Sea Shadow cost about $50 million to build, and the total cost of the program over 10 years was about $195 million, according to GlobalSecurity.org, a website for military policy research.

It was never intended for combat, so it was never designated as “USS,” the Navy said. Rather, the Sea Shadow was an experimental ship to test military hardware.

“It was an important proving ground for technolo-gies in automated ship control, advanced structures, crew reduction, sea keeping and stealth,” said

Melissa Dalton, spokeswoman for Lockheed Martin. “Sea Shadow’s angular hull — reminiscent of Lock-heed Martin’s F-117 fighter jet — demonstrated that ships could reduce their radar signatures.”

The Sea Shadow’s strange shape deflects radar waves in various directions.

The angled sides also help the ship remain stable in very rough water, which is key because the Sea Shadow sits in the water like a catamaran and doesn’t have traditional rudders to steer it. Diesel-electric engines attached to the submerged twin hulls help control steering.

The vessel doesn’t have much room for a large crew. It had only 12 bunks, one microwave oven, a refrig-erator and a table.


June Lunch Bunch

Westerly’s Restaurant at MetroWest Golf Club overlooking the 18th green and Lake Hiawassee Tuesday, June 19, 2012, 11:00 a.m.

2100 South Hiawassee Road

Orlando, FL 32835 (407) 299-1099

Cost $20 per person including tax and gratuity

Pay in advance upon reserving your place.

There’s no need to get dressed up. The atmosphere is casual and relaxing!

June Lunch Bunch

Entrée Choices Chef’s award-winning Chicken Crepes. Thin and light pancakes stuffed with chicken and covered with a delicious and delicate cream sauce, served with Basmati Rice Pilaf and Julienne Vegetables Fresh Salmon. Served with triple citrus coating and sauce, served with chef’s choice of accompaniments Grilled Skirt Steak served with chef’s choice of accompaniments..

All entrées are served with rolls and butter, coffee and iced tea, chef’s choice of desserts. Full cash bar available. How to get there:

From I-4 traveling west from downtown, exit onto Conroy Rd., turning right at the top of the ramp, going west. About 2 miles, at Hiawassee Rd. (large intersection) turn right, heading north. At fourth traffic light, Lake Debra Drive, turn left into MetroWest Golf Club and follow the road to the clubhouse.

From SR 408 (E-W Expressway) heading west from downtown, exit at Hiawassee Rd, turning left to go south. Proceed about 2 mi through three traffic lights and one firehouse flasher to the fourth traffic light. Turn right into Lake Debra Drive to the clubhouse.

For more information and to reserve your place:

Contact Ben and Clarice Drexler, [email protected] or 407-293-5957. Please mail checks payable to Ben Drexler and send to 4915 Calle de Sol, Orlando, 32819 before June 16. Include your entrée choice (below).

June Lunch bunch

Name

Name

Chicken

Chicken

Salmon

Salmon

Steak

Steak

Circle Your Choice


July Lunch Bunch

$18.00 per person$18.00 per person$18.00 per person Includes tax and gratuity

Pay in advance to reserve your place

Casual dress

For more information and to re-serve your place, please contact

Dave or Lynn Hayworth at [email protected]

Zellwood StationZellwood StationZellwood Station Whistle Stop Whistle Stop Whistle Stop RestaurantRestaurantRestaurant

2126 Spillman Drive Zellwood, Florida

Phone: 407-866-0000 Tuesday, July 24, 2012

11:00 a.m.

MenuMenuMenu Buffet style

House salad with choice of ranch or Italian dressing

Rolls and butter Entrées

Chicken Cordon Bleu Baked Fish Meatloaf

Vegetables and Roasted Potatoes

Tea, Coffee, Water Chef’s Choice Dessert

DirectionsDirectionsDirections From Apopka or SR 429

Head north on US 441 ap-proximately 5 miles

Zellwood Station is on the right at the first traffic light

Gated Community

Zellwood Station is a gated community. You will stop at

the security station and re-ceive a pass from the guard. A list of names will be pro-vided to the Security station.

Clip below and make your check payable to Dave Hayworth for $18 per person no later than Thursday, July 12 and mail to Dave Hayworth, 2648 Grassmere Circle, Zellwood, FL 32798

July Lunch BunchJuly Lunch BunchJuly Lunch Bunch

Name

Name

We will We will We will attend!attend!attend!


Bill passed away on April 18th. A memorial mass was held for him on April 25th at St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church in Apopka, Florida. Follow-ing is his Eulogy written and spoken so eloquently by his son, Mike.

“Good Morning.

“On behalf of my mother, sisters and myself, I would like to thank you for coming to celebrate dad’s life with us today. We have been deeply touched by the outpouring of love, prayers and sup-port you have shown all of us in this very difficult time. We cannot thank you enough.

“The passing of anyone is not an easy thing but when it is your dad, well—it’s your dad. Dad loved mom and all of us kids and his grand kids very much and expressed it in many ways. But dad also loved Jesus Christ. Dad had worked his whole life to reach his ultimate goal and he accomplished that goal last Wednesday, April 18th. when he left this earthly world to enter into the Kingdom of God and I think he may have even gotten the ‘Express Pass.’

“You always hear the saying about how life comes ‘full circle’ or the ‘circle of life.’ Well dad has now completed his circle so let’s take a look at how we all got to this celebration today.

“William Henry Brockman (Bill, Billy, Mr. B or better known to so many of our friends and family as ‘Big Bill’) was born on May 4, 1934, to a working-class family in Dayton, Ohio. He was the youngest of four children and had three older sisters who are all here with us today. Dad grew up in a Catholic household that had a lot of faith and belief in God. He attended Catholic schools all the way through high school. I think he said there were nine kids in his senior class.

“Dad was a very spiritual man and he knew his Lord and Savior. At age six dad would walk across the street every morning and attend daily mass and then go to school. At age eight he scheduled an appointment to meet with the pastor to discuss a possible life in the Priesthood. On that day the pas-tor never showed up so he scheduled it again and then he didn’t show up the second time. I think this

might have been dad’s first sign from God saying ‘Hey; you are not going to be a priest,’ and obvi-ously I’m quite thankful for that. Until he got sick a month ago dad still prayed on his knees every night—I mean every night, wherever he was. That is devotion.

“Dad loved sports of all kinds and tried the stan-dard football, basketball and baseball. The first two were not real successful so he focused his efforts on baseball. He loved baseball and was an avid Cincin-nati Reds fan. He lettered all four years in high school and played semi-pro ball his senior summer.

“I know this may sound odd, but dad was a shy kid throughout high school. He knew mom then but they had never dated. Mom was two years younger and had her eye on this tall kid, Billy, who wouldn’t have anything to do with her. It wasn’t until mom was a junior in high school and dad was a freshman in college that they first dated. ‘Mom’ asked dad to her high school dance and he said ‘yes’. After the dance he walked her home and he asked if he could give her a kiss good night. Mom said … well ... ‘yes’ and she knew he was the one. Dad went on to complete college and received his degree in Indus-trial Engineering from General Motors Institute. He saw mom now and then but nothing was ever really serious. Upon graduation, he went into the Army, which brought him to Orlando to work for the Army at the Martin Company. Dad went back to Ohio for Christmas in 1958 and ran into mom. They spent the entire break together and before leaving dad said to her, ‘Why don’t we just get married?’ Guess what mom? After that first kiss dad knew, too. In May 1959 they married and moved to Orlando to start their new life together. They made many friends with whom they are still great friends and so many of you are here with us today. As children we grew up knowing all these couples and it has always been a great inspiration to me to see almost all of you still married these 50+ years later. What a great example that was for all of us kids. And I thank you for that.

“After the military, dad was hired direct by Mar-tin Marietta. He ended up spending his entire 33 years career there—something we don’t see much of today. In 1962 they started their own family and by 1970 they were finished: five kids, all two years apart. Dad loved us kids and was always a proud

Where Are They Now? Edited by Ann Hartle

Bill Brockman Kingdom of Heaven

WATN? Continued on next page.


papa and always there for us with a big hug. Dad loved his hugs and kisses. Dad was very affection-ate to us but also to everyone he met. Did I mention dad liked hugs? Dad always said that raising five kids certainly had its challenges (I’m not mention-ing names) but he would not have had it any other way.

“Dad retired at age 58. I’m like, ‘Great! Now I have to beat that and retire before that age.’ Dad certainly enjoyed his retirement for almost 20 years. He and his bride (as he would always call mom) were able to travel around the world. They traveled by air, sea and 5th wheel. Dad loved the RV life and crisscrossed the entire county—from Alaska to Newfoundland. While in retirement dad got to watch all of us get married, have kids and create

lives of our own. He loved it. He loved all of you grandchildren and great grandchildren very much. He loved his time at the beach with us watching all the kids run around and watch-ing us try to find our

way as new parents. He always had words of wisdom for us if we wanted them.

“Dad was always a very organized and handy person. Growing up as a kid I loved to watch him fix everything. He really enjoyed being ‘Tim, the Tool Man.’ I’m told that with his organization came a little bit of OCD and that he may have passed a little bit of that on to a few of his kids. I didn’t real-ize until I was thinking about this that when we would be on vacation and my sisters would yell to me ‘settle down Big Bill’ that they were actually paying me a huge compliment.

“During retirement dad also loved his golf. He played twice a week right up until five weeks ago. He played mostly with a group of retired Martin employees called the ‘Bloom Group’ and many of

you are here today. I can tell you that dad loved his times with you. I would ask dad, “So how was golf today?” and he would say, “Well, the lunch was great!” If you ever played golf with dad you could always tell which golf ball was his. No, it wasn’t because it was always the one down the middle I can assure you. It was always the one with the signature ‘Big B’ written on it. If you play golf in Central Florida I can assure you there are plenty of ‘Big B’ balls still around. As a token for his golfing bud-dies, I have confiscated the ‘Big B’ golf balls from his bag and I will have a basket of them at the recep-tion. This way you can take a little part of ‘Big B’ with you the next time you hit the links.

“While this day is about family and celebrating dad’s life, it is also about all of you here today. Dad has touched everyone in this church in some way, either directly or through one of us children. So, I thought it would be nice to share your thoughts about dad. I called and asked many of you to give me one or two words that would describe dad. Well, this is what I got:

“When we look back at anyone’s life we always

see the year they were born and the year that they died with a dash in between. 1934-2012, 1955-1999 etc… When you take a closer look, it is not the num-bers that matter here, it is all about the dash in be-tween the numbers and how we fill that dash. We heard here today how dad filled that dash. What will our dash say about us?

“Dad, ‘Big Bill’ … we love you and will miss you but we will celebrate you today and always for the ‘DASH’ that you gave to all of us.”

WATN? Continued from previous page.

Caring Grounded Mentor Best Friend Faithful Integrity Tough Guy Devoted Husband Committed Understanding Strong Awesome Example Loving Counselor Young at Heart Loyal Funny Good Man Spiritual Advisor Devoted Solid A Second Dad Warm Genuine Family Man Good Friend Affectionate Fair Positive And the list went on…

“While in retirement dad got

to watch all of us get married, have

kids and create lives of our own.

He loved it.”


Many REALM members joined with Bill Brockman’s family and friends in celebrating his life and honoring his leg-acy.

Bill left a bountiful inheritance to those who worked with him. Just as his son Mike eulogized, his colleagues in work and retirement showed their gratitude and shared good memo-ries of the time they spent with Bill. Photos continued on next page.

Smiling faces... Honoring Bill Brockman’s life and legacy

Veronica & Max Mittelhammer with Ted Sloan (standing)

Bill and Nancy Brockman (photo taken at a

REALM event)

Nancy Brockman (center) with Phyllis and Bud Yeager

Marlene and Larry Glaser

Ron Schoenherr (Nancy Brockman’s brother)

with George Harrison

Sybil Adkins and Rita Vanatta

Suzanne and Tom Pickens with Andy Schaidt (standing)

June and Walt Wagner; Ruth and Alan Courney; Fran and Roger Beckner

Bob and Erma Rawa (photo taken at another time)


Other Lockheed Martin retirees in attendance but not pictured are:

Jan Holbrook Josephine May Mike Martin Steve Gordon Ken Williams Joye and Leo Schafers Joan and Ed VanAkin

Photos by Ann Hartle

Cheryl and Linda Schaidt with Ann Hartle

Clare & Fred Hasler

Wanda Wardell, Doris and John Hils and Bob Riemer

Honoring Bill. Continued from previous page.

Charlene and J.T. Blanton

Marie and Jack Dart

Linda and Andy Schaidt

Roberta & Ray Kerkhoff


ARTHUR and NANCY AHLIN their 55 th married 6 3 1957 in BALTIMORE MD

JACK and GAYLA ASHFORD their 15 th married 6 21 1997 in KEY WEST FL

JACK and MARY ANN AURAND their 54 th mar-ried 6 7 1958 in CHARLES CITY IOWA

GENE and BARBARA BAKER their 47 th married 6 12 1965 in SARASOTA FL

RICHARD and SARAH BARBIER their 54 th mar-ried 6 14 1958 in FT. WAYNE IN

LUTHER and JEWELL BARFIELD their 71 st married 6 21 1941 in ROSSVILLE GA

JOHN and MARIE BARNEY their 66 th mar-ried 6 1 1946 in RALEIGH NC

DONALD and GRACE BARNHART their 59 th married 6 5 1953 in SPRINGFIELD OH

PHILLIP and ANNE BARTLING their 56 th mar-ried 6 9 1956 in GAINESVILLE FL

BUNNY and ROSE BAZENSKY their 21 st mar-ried 6 15 1991 in ORLANDO FL

DICK and WILMA BEEKMAN their 60 th mar-ried 6 8 1952 in RENVILLE MN

PAUL and LINDA BETHKE their 17 th married 6 3 1995

DOROTHY and NICHOLAS BLACKWELL their 56 th married 6 16 1956 in BALTIMORE MD

JOSEPH and JAN BLUM their 34 th married 6 24 1978 in CLARMONT FL

RUSSELL and MARY ELLEN BOICE their 55 th married 6 18 1957 in LUBBOCK TX

JOSEPH W. and ALICE B. BOLER their 59 th married 6 6 1953 in FALL RIVER MA

ANITA and PAUL BRACEY-KESLING their 27 th married 6 29 1985 in ORLANDO FL

LLEWELLYN and CAROLYN BRADLEY their 58 th married 6 6 1954 in HAYDEN AL

WILLIAM and JOSEPHINE BREGEL their 54 th married 6 6 1958 in ORLANDO FL

RICHARD and CYNTHIA BYLE their 25 th mar-ried 6 23 1987 in ORLANDO FL

HAROLD and ALICE CAMPION their 63 rd married 6 25 1949 in TAMPA FL

KIM and PAM CASHMER their 36 th married 6 12 1976 in LAS VEGAS NV

JAMES and ILA CLONTZ their 54 th married 6 28 1958 in ORLANDO FL

MARGARETTE and JOHN COPELAND their 57 th married 6 29 1955

BRUCE and NORMA DE BORD their 52 nd mar-ried 6 5 1960 in ST. CLOUD FL

PAUL and ANN DE COSTER their 48 th married 6 27 1964 in CONCORD MA

LESLIE and CONSTANCE DEATHERAGE their 53 rd married 6 27 1959 in GRANITE CITY IL

DAVID and CARMEN DEEDS their 40 th married 6 24 1972 in JACKSONVILLE FL

DALE and MARY DIBBLE their 63 rd married 6 26 1949 in PORTSMOUTH VA

EDWARD and BARBARA DOMBROWSKI their 60 th married 6 21 1952 in BUFFALO NY

ROBERT and MARY DOUD their 41 st married 6 5 1971 in DENVER CO

LEHMAN and DOROTHY DRIVER their 51 st married 6 17 1961 in ORLANDO FL

FRED and JANE FALLMAN JR their 56 th mar-ried 6 1 1956 in SYLACAUGA AL

BERT and SHIRLEY FERNANDEZ their 53 rd married 6 27 1959 in FALLS CHURCH VA

BOB and LORETTA FIEBRANDT their 64 th married 6 24 1948 in SALT LAKE CITY UT

RICHARD and BEVERLY FIFER their 43 rd mar-ried 6 21 1969 in LAKELAND FL

MYRON and LYNN FRIEDMAN their 40 th mar-ried 6 10 1972 in LANDO SC

THOMAS and Joyce FURR their 44 th married 6 15 1968

GEORGE and HAPPY GAFFORD their 46 th mar-ried 6 11 1966

JOHN and SHIRLEY GALIK their 52 nd married 6 18 1960 in BRECKSVILLE OH

CALVIN and NANCY GATEWOOD their 56 th married 6 2 1956 in INDIAN HEAD MD

KERMIT and MAXINE GAY their 53 rd married 6 27 1959 in CHAMBLEE GA

June Anniversaries


June Anniversaries JAMES and SHARON GIBBONEY their 53 rd married 6 20 1959 in WESTERN SPRINGS IL

LARRY and MARLENE GLASER their 48 th mar-ried 6 13 1964 in TWO RIVERS WI

RAY and CONSTANCE HERBERT their 52 nd married 6 18 1960 in JACKSONVILLE FL

GENE and ELVA HOKE their 54 th married 6 7 1958 in WASHINGTON DC

JOEL and MARIA HORRELL their 24 th married 6 11 1988

SANDY and Q. B. HULSEY their 46 th married 6 3 1966 in ORLANDO FL

SANDRA and LARRY HULTS their 18 th married 6 3 1994 in ORLANDO FL

ROBERT and BONNIE HURRING their 52 nd married 6 18 1960 in ORLANDO FL

CHARLES and PHYLLIS INSLEY their 54 th mar-ried 6 14 1958 in BALTIMORE MD

CLYDE and DOLORES JACKSON their 53 rd married 6 22 1959 in CINCINNATI OH

JERRY and BETTY JACKSON their 50 th married 6 23 1962 in APOPKA FL

CHARLES and MILDRED JOHNSON their 56 th married 6 23 1956 in ELKTON MD

RODERICK and SHELLEY KISER their 36 th married 6 19 1976 in LAS VEGAS NV

MARTIN and CLAIRE KOSHAR their 56 th mar-ried 6 24 1956 in NANUET NY

FRANK and GWEN KOVACIK their 45 th married 6 30 1967 in MAITLAND FL

DONALD and MARLENE LAMBING their 58 th married 6 13 1954 in AKRON OH

JERRY and ANNE LAUER their 63 rd married 6 11 1949

ALBERT and JACQUELINE LeBOEUF their 37 th married 6 28 1975 in ORLANDO FL

SEYMOUR and ANNE LEIBOWITZ their 58 th married 6 5 1954 in TUCSON AZ

JOHN and DOROTHY LEVELL SR. their 57 th married 6 11 1955 in BEL AIR MD

BETTY and JOE LITTLE their 47 th married 6 26 1965 in WAUKEGAN IL

DAVID and MARCIA LONG their 45 th married 6 10 1967 in ORLANDO FL

WILLIAM and DOROTHY MAGEE their 46 th married 6 4 1966 in BROOKLYN NY

ROBERT and JOANNE MARSHALL their 65 th married 6 15 1947 in NASHVILLE TN

CHARLES and HELEN MARTIN their 61 st mar-ried 6 9 1951 in NOTTINGHAM ENGLAND

ROBERT and NANCY MARTIN their 56 th mar-ried 6 2 1956 in ORLANDO FL

LAWRENCE and ANTOINETTE MARTINY their 55 th married 6 1 1957 in OLEAN NY

JOSEPH and CARMEN Mc MAHAN their 57 th married 6 25 1955 in DULUTH MN

ROBERT and KATHLEEN MELLOR their 40 th married 6 10 1972

RAYMOND and JAMIELEE MICHEL their 6 th married 6 25 2006 in WINTER PARK FL

CHARLES and BONNIE MILLER their 41 st mar-ried 6 19 1971 in PHILIDELPHIA PA

CLIFFORD and KEIKO MILLS their 54 th married 6 10 1958

EVELYNE and DEAN MITCHELL their 52 nd married 6 17 1960 in WINTER PARK FL

MILAN and GAIL MONCLA JR their 29 th mar-ried 6 25 1983 in ORLANDO FL

THOMAS and PATRICIA MOORE their 46 th married 6 11 1966 in GREENEVILLE TN

NICHOLAS and RAMONA NARUSHKO their 58 th married 6 26 1954 in BALTIMORE MD

EUGENE and JANICE NATOLI their 55 th mar-ried 6 22 1957 in ARLINGTON MA

RICHARD and CARLEEN NEWELL their 52 nd married 6 11 1960 in ORLANDO FL

WILLIAM and MARIE O'CAIN their 51 st married 6 17 1961 in ORLANDO FL

NEIL and ELIZABETH OWEN their 52 nd married 6 25 1960 in ORLANDO FL

ROBERT and DELORE PARKS their 51 st married 6 24 1961 in SPARTA WI

Anniversaries. Continued on next page.


WILLIAM and MYRA PARRISH their 63 rd married 6 4 1949 in DOTHAN AL

WALT and HATTIE PATTON their 11 th married 6 23 2001

DAVID and HELEN PEASE their 59 th married 6 26 1953 in WINCHESTER VA

TIMOTHY and LINDA RADEL their 47 th married 6 7 1965

THOMAS and JOAN RAINEY their 51 st married 6 17 1961 in ORLANDO FL

JOHN and DOROTHY RAMSAY their 53 rd mar-ried 6 28 1959 in SANFORD FL

JOSEPH and BARBARA RIPINO their 41 st mar-ried 6 5 1971 in LONG ISLAND NY

FRANK & and ELIZABETH RIZZI their 49 th married 6 22 1963 in BRONX NY

DAN and SHARON ROBERTSON their 35 th mar-ried 6 24 1977 in EVERGREEN CO

WALTON and CAROLYN ROBINSON their 56 th married 6 16 1956 in ORLANDO FL

PAUL and CINDY RUSHWORTH their 31 st mar-ried 6 11 1981 in WINTER PARK FL

FREDRICK and CARMELA SCHILDWACHTER their 55 th married 6 15 1957 in BALTIMORE MD

BLAIR and JOY SCHLENDER their 55 th married 6 16 1957 in BENTON HARBOR MI

JOSEPH and MYRA SEINBERG their 48 th mar-ried 6 14 1964 in BROOKLYN NY

NANCY and DONALD SHOLLENBARGER their 45 th married 6 24 1967 in CHARLES CITY IA

MARLIN and JOANN SLOAN their 58 th married 6 11 1954 in ATLANTA GA

THEODORE and ROSE ANN SLOAN their 55 th married 6 22 1957 in DAYTON OH

LARRY and ALICE SPENCE their 29 th married 6 11 1983 in BRISTOL TN

JOHN and MARTHA STAGG JR their 50 th mar-ried 6 23 1962 in WINTER GARDEN FL

NICKY and MIKE SWELFER their 50 th married 6 2 1962 in ORLANDO FL

DAVID and ANN THOMAS their 63 rd married 6 12 1949 in BALTIMORE MD

THOMAS and JOAN TOMASETTI their 51 st married 6 3 1961 in McGUIRE AFB NJ

ROBERT and JANICE VAUGHAN III their 56 th married 6 6 1956 in PIKEVILLE KY

WALTER and JUNE WAGNER their 61 st mar-ried 6 2 1951 in BUFFALO NY

RONALD and ROSA WAGNER their 57 th mar-ried 6 25 1955

WALTER and MILDRED WALDOW their 66 th married 6 23 1946 in BALTIMORE MD

EDWARD and MARY WALTHER their 20 th mar-ried 6 26 1992 in Kissimmee FL

FRANK and ROSEMARIE WEYER their 56 th married 6 17 1956 in MORVEN GA

KENNETH and BARBARA WHITAKER their 47 th married 6 25 1965 in N.ATTLEBORO MA

GERARD and THERESA WICKLIN their 61 st married 6 12 1951 in ATLANTA GA

JAMES and MISHELL WILLIAMS their 45 th married 6 24 1967 in MELBOURNE FL

WILLIAM and LOIS WILLSON JR. their 58 th married 6 12 1954 in DUNDALK MD

JACK and MARJORIE WING their 61 st mar-ried 6 16 1951 in LEIGHTON IA

JAMES and BEVERLY WISNER their 45 th mar-ried 6 3 1967 in MUSCLESHORES AL

BOB and DOT WOOD their 71 st married 6 8 1941 in PARKVILLE MD

June Anniversaries


Fans and followers of Lockheed Martin’s social media accounts might have noticed the corpora-tion is using some new platforms to better share the Lockheed Martin experience with the online community.

LM Tomorrow for iPad

Lockheed Martin Communica-tions launched LM Tomorrow™, a science and engineering app that provides insight into some of the corporation’s most inno-vative technologies and how they work. The goal is to inspire a new generation of scientists, en-gineers and technologists by sharing our world and work with them. The free iPad® app can be downloaded from the App StoreSM.

“We’re excited about this new way of telling the Lockheed Martin story,” said Ginny Vasan, Vice President of Corporate Identity. “The way we consume information has changed drasti-cally in the last five years and as a technology leader, it’s impor-tant for us to adapt quickly, stay ahead of that curve, and find new ways to engage with our audi-ences.”

Tweetups Continue, Storify Added

Building on the success of the corporation’s first Tweetup with the Dec. 13, 2011, final F-22 Raptor rollout, the company hosted a second Tweetup as part of the 4,500th F-16 delivery ceremony in Fort Worth on April 3. The 13 Tweetup participants

attended the ceremony, toured the F-16 factory, learned about the Fort Worth site history, and flew in the F-35 cockpit demon-strator.

“With both the F-22 and the F-16 Tweetups, we saw over-whelmingly positive results—each generated between 700 and 800 tweets that resulted in more than 1 million impressions on Twitter,” said Joe LaMarca, Vice President of Aeronautics Com-munications.

Communications has also intro-duced Storify to the social media mix as a way to capture content from many online networks to tell one cohesive story. The F-16 Tweetup Storify includes content from Tweetup participants, Flickr, YouTube and online news articles.

Facebook Timeline Introduced In late March, Lockheed Martin adopted Facebook’s Timeline format, which allows brands to tell their story from the begin-ning using “Milestones.” Time-line also personalizes users’ ex-perience with brands by promi-nently displaying how many friends like the brand, as well as friends’ public mentions of re-lated topics.

“As we gear up for our Centen-nial celebration, we’re using Timeline to share 100 years of Lockheed Martin’s aerospace, defense and technology history displayed in an engaging, visu-ally-appealing design,” noted Vasan.

More to Come

Lockheed Martin held a third Tweetup in conjunction with the 2012 USA Science and Engi-neering Festival in Washington, D.C., April 28-29. This offered Lockheed Martin Twitter follow-ers exclusive access to the Festi-val’s “Sneak Peek” event on April 27, where they enjoyed the many interactive exhibits before the crowds arrived.

Retirees can follow the @LockheedMartin Twitter ac-count and watch for the #LMTweetup and #SciFest hashtags to participate in the conversation online.

iPad is a trademark of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. App Store is a service mark of Apple Inc.

Sharing the Lockheed Martin experience through new tools

Is social media Greek to you? Interested in learning about what it is and how you can use it?

Want to know how to Skype with your grandkids?

We can get a group to-gether to share social media basics and help you get set up with new capa-bility. Drop a note to [email protected]

The only computer skills you need are the basics: how to turn on your com-puter and how to launch your Internet browser.


For Sale

Lovingly used; low miles — a sweet deal

For sale: An exotic, once top-secret radar-evading ship, dubbed the Sea Shadow, that was built by one of the world’s largest defense contractors during the height of the Cold War.

Specifications: about 68 feet wide, 164 feet long and around 563 tons.

Price: $139,200 or best of-fer.

If interested, please con-tact the General Services Administration at its web-site: gsaauctions.gov.

That’s the sales pitch from the U.S. Navy, which — after five years of trying and failing to donate the stealthy Sea Shadow to a museum — is now selling the ship for scrap metal in an online auction.

But there’s a catch. To win the auction, the successful bidder must agree to dismantle and scrap the Sea Shadow within six months — and not keep it for a Sunday sail. Perhaps that’s why as of Wednesday after-noon, there were only ten bids made — the highest being $139,100.

The sinister-looking ship, which when viewed straight on looks like Darth Vader’s menacing black mask, was designed by Lockheed Martin at its famed Skunk Works facility to baffle enemy radars as it slithered through the seas on night missions.

The Navy, which took delivery of the vessel in 1985, is ready to let it go.

“It is not cost effective for the Navy to maintain the ship in an inactive condition any longer, and the ship no longer serves any operational or research purpose,” said Navy spokesman Christopher Johnson. “Our only disposition option is dismantling and recycling.”

The Sea Shadow, a 164-foot ship built during the Cold War and capable of evading radar, is being sold to the highest bidder after Navy efforts to donate it to a museum failed.

Lockheed Martin photoLockheed Martin photo

Old Secret. Continued on page 11.


By Ann Hartle

According to Sandy Hulsey, she and her husband Q.B. are just taking it one day at a time. As mentioned in the March issue of the REALM News, Q.B. is suffer-ing from a malignant brain tumor and cancer in his right lung. Re-cently, he enjoyed two wonder-ful weeks of feeling good, but now is back to feeling lousy. He is taking chemo treatments for his brain tumor every other week, but they are not treating

his lung cancer at this time. He’ll return to the lung oncologist in July, at which time they’re hop-ing to receive good news. Sandy asks that we continue to pray for her husband and family.

As mentioned in the October 2011 issue of REALM News, Bill Abney suffered a stroke on Au-gust 7. Just three months later, on November 10, he had recov-ered enough to walk down the aisle with his long-time, cher-ished Significant Other, Sylvia

Williamson. Recently he spent four days in the hospital where they concentrated on increasing his appetite. He is at home now but is very weak, in spite of Syl-via’s delicious home-cooked meals three times a day! Sylvia and Bill would like to thank eve-ryone for their thoughts, cards, and phone calls, but most of all for their prayers during this diffi-cult time.

Care and Concern

Ann Hartle is the point of contact to keep everyone informed about REALM

members. You can contact Ann at [email protected]

or call her at 407-862-8282

Keep in touch ...

In Memoriam Sidney Stark ................................... February 8

AvaNelle Blankenship ................... March 9

Kenneth Lester ............................... April 8

William Gilbrook ........................... April 9

Laura (a/k/a Jaunita) Cloutier ........ April 13

William (Bill) Brockman ............... April 18

Harold Wilson ................................ April 19

Orville (Butch) Ramsey ................. April 22

Patrick Riazzi’s wife, Carole .......... April 23

Miriam Stucznski .............................. April 24

John Koblasz’s widow, Marie ........... April 24 Pat Schoppmeyer’s husband, Dick ...................................... April 25

Richard (Dick) Brandstetter .............. April 27


More than one hundred people at-tended this great event and thanked our hosts, Dot and Bob Wood.


Harold and Sue Cates

Norma and Bruce DeBord

Ben and Clarice Drexler

Lynette and Tom Goslin

Arnie and Babs Greenwood

Joe and Alice Boler

Bea and Toni Stimmel

Dick and Wilma Beekman Ruth and Al Courney

Hosts Dottie and Bob Wood

Mary Logvin and Tom White

Walt and June Wagner

April 18 Lunch Bunch at the Catfish Place in St. Cloud


Garth Meyers and Susan Averill (Schaidt)

Ed and Shirley Jones

Sam and Gail Crigler

Rich and Rose Reeves

Linda and Andy Schaidt

Lynn Richman and Andre Duval

David Stone and Ann Hartle

Chris Gandy and Bob Stover

Jan Branson and Nancy Shollenbarger

Trudy and Jerry Weiss

Ila and Jim Clontz


Hugh Laumen Barbara Foshee and Sybil Adkins

Max and Veronica Mittelhammer

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