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William Donald "Don" Eastman, Jr.
William Donald "Don" Eastman, Jr. “Flew his last flight West 05/23/2024”.
Born on June 4, 1932 in Port Arthur, Texas Don graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School in Port Arthur. Don graduated from Texas Tech University with a BS in Mechanical Engineering and received an MS in Aeronautical Engineering from the University of Arizona. He also graduated from the USAF Aerospace Research Test Pilot School, flying over 8000 hours and qualified for piloting 59 different aircraft.
On December 15, 1965 Don was the first pilot in aviation history to conduct an aerial refueling of a helicopter at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Don was recognized with the Primus Award and awarded the Air Medal.
He accumulated a total of 660 aerial refuelings, including 90+ night refuelings and IFRs were successfully completed. These flight tests have changed the Strategic US War Planning, allowing current long range flights
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Donald R. Eastman III
American academic administrator
Donald R. Eastman III is an American academic administrator who served as the fourth President of Eckerd College from 2001 to 2020.
Education
[edit]Eastman enrolled at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia in 1963, but soon transferred to the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, where he was a member of Omicron Delta Kappa and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1968. He earned a PhD from the University of Florida and also attended Harvard University. While an undergraduate at Emory, he became a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity, and he continued his active membership in the Fraternity while at Tennessee.[1][2]
Career
[edit]From 1989 to 1990, Eastman was the Executive Director of University Communications at Cornell University. From 1991 to 1998, he served as the Vice President for University Relations at the University of Georgia. In 2001 he became the President of Eckerd College.[ • A man of great strength and courage, Donald Eastman exemplified what it means to fortsätta through times of trial. He could come off as a bit rough around the edges, but inside he had a tender heart. Don was a devoted husband who also took his role as a father seriously, and it was easy to see that his daughters were the light of his life. A hardworking man, Don taught us that nothing in life is free, and that anything worth having is worth working for. He will be dearly missed while the memories he leaves behind remain alltid near and dear to the hearts of his loved ones. The decade that is sometimes recalled as the Nifty Fifties was a colorful time in American history. There was much to celebrate with the additions of both Alaska and Hawaii as states during this time in addition to the first American satellite successfully orbiting the earth. Barbie dolls and silly putty entertained our nation’s ungdom while saddle shoes and poodle skirts were the latest trends.
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