Updated May 9, 2012

Our Page Links

The following are links to pages on this website, those with underlines are currently functional:

About us

APRIL 2012 LUNCH MEETING & PHOTOS

Retiree List

Retiree News

Retiree Deaths information

Retiree Memorial Page

2011 Events Schedule

2011 Fall Golf Tournament Pictures & winners

Other Retiree Groups' Websites

ex-Macs

St. Louis Sages

OTHER LINKS

Mr. MAC - A Tribute

McDonnell Gemini Virtual Exibit, Western Historical Manuscript Collection - USML

The Space Museum, Bonne Terre Missouri, Committed to Education

Boeing St. Louis Veterans Task Force

Send Email to:

Earl Robb

Welcome to the

MAC's Old Team

Website

You are invited to visit Mac's Old Team's website, created for all MDC/Boeing retirees like you, from your input.

Grab a cup of your favorite beverage and spend some time checking out our pages, follow our links, and looking at the pictures. Please provide any comments, corrections, or suggestions about how to make this website more enjoyable to you. Let us know how you are doing by sending information about yourself and/or other retired teammates, we want this page to be "your home page." We would like to hear about how and what our buddies are doing in retirement, and this is a good way to share that information. Send us an email at the links to the lower left, and we will put it on this website so that all can share it.

You are invited to join us at the monthly lunch meetings which are held on the second Wednesday of each month - except July and August and December. Dates and locations will be posted on this web page. WELCOME!

MACS OLD TEAM GOLF TOURNAMENT
WEDNESDAY MAY 16, 2012
Bear Creek Golf Club in Wentzville, MO
Shotgun Scramble Tee-off @ 8:00 AM
$50 per person - - Single players are welcome
Send check payable to: David Szukalski
339 Elmcrest Drive, Ballwin MO 63011-2529
Any questions? Call 636-227-5581 or email: dszukalski@charter.net

Click here to see flyer with details:

2012 SPRING GOLF TOURNAMENT FLYER
Click here to see the ROSTER (those who have signed up thus far) 2012 Spring Tournament

2012 SPRING GOLF TOURNAMENT ROSTER
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Click here to see results of 2011 Fall Tournament

2011 FALL GOLF TOURNAMENT RESULTS

50th ANNIVERSARY OF MANNED ORBITAL SPACE FLIGHT (GLENN FLIGHT)

NASA will sponsor an event to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Manned Orbital Flight on Sat 18 Feb 2012 at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The celebration will consist of several events from Noon to 7:30PM, EST. Astronauts John Glenn and Scott Carpenter will take part from 4:00PM to 5:30PM, EST.
Parts of these proceedings may be televised on the NASA TV Channel (Channel 289 on DIRECT TV)
"Old" MAC space guys living in the area will be joined by some folks from the St Louis area to participate in the celebration. Should be fun.
The following Macs Old Teammates are planning to be there.
Richard and Mary Lou Ampleman
George and Ann Baldwin
Norman F.Beckel Jr
Clay and Helen Flynn
Cal and Shelly Moser
Dean and Carol Purdy
Roy and Carolyn Reitter
Jerry L. and Sandy Roberts
Robert P. Schepp
Raymond and Judy Tucker
Robin and Carolyn Wagoner

MERCURY LIBERTY BELL 7 50th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION - July 21-23, 2011


Revised Aug 5 2011
The 50th Anniversary celebration of Gus Grissom's Mercury Liberty Bell 7 flight was held in Mitchell, IN the boyhood home of Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom.

Several of MAC's Old Team and spouses, attended and participated in the celebration and tribute to Gus Grissom's accomplishments and active role very early in the space age established a very solid "foundation" for manned space exploration.

From Macs Old Team, thanks to Mayor Dan Terrell, City of Mitchell, and his Planning Committee including Christina Lambton; Earl Mullins, Pres. Space Museum, Bonn Terre, MO, and the Grissom family for the invitation to attend and participate in this tribute. We all feel very fortunate to be involved in this tribute and sincerely enjoyed the opportunity get together and trade stories of the early space days. WE HAD A BALL!

The MAC teammates who participated in this Liberty Bell 7 celebration and tribute is reported in two articles in the TMtimes newspaper. Click here to see those articles:

MERCURY LIBERTY BELL 7 50th ANNIVERSARY

Recent News about Teammates

Please send us something about your life in retirement
we will post in on the "Retiree News Page" for all to enjoy.

3/7/12
Gaza Balaz
Gaza Balaz worked at MAC for 40yrs, before passing away in 1981.
His daughter, Michelle Balaz, would like to learn more about
her father through memories retired colleagues might have.
Can you help her?
Please click here for her letter and photos:

GAZA BALAZ - MAC TEAMMATE FOR 40 YEARS

2/21/12
Eugene "Gene" Stifel
Meets old buddies at KSC, 50th Anniversary of Mercury Orbital flight.
See his note on "Retiree News Page"

12/23/11
Retired Mac's Old Team Engineers involved in the Hexagon Satellite can now tell their story after 40+ years of secrecy.
See the the press story on "Retiree News Page"

Ronald "Ron" Russell news 11/09/11
Ron retired 30 Apr, 2011 after 47 1/2 year career. See his note on "Retiree News Page"

Robert T. "Bob" West retired 1997. See his note on "Retiree News Page"

John Ritland - Welcome! 09/09/11

Wayne Lowe reflects about the success of the Harpoon missile program. 04/02/11

Harry Merriwether news about his DC3 memorial experience 03/15/11
Ken Foster news 03/02/11

Paul K. Adams WWII Honor Flight to Washington DC 06/26/10

Joe Dobronski news 06/13/10


Wayne Lowe 03/01/10
Museum Visit to the KSCosmosphere

Andrew (Andy) Anzanos 2-15-10

Al Grossman 2/15/10 - WWII Honor Flight

Anthony "Tony" Venezia - retires 01/01/09

Charley Sherman - WWII Honor Flight 10/18/09

Hans Roensch 9/1/09

Wayne Lowe - News from Kansas 8/26/09

Jackie Tate retires after 45 years.

Al Grossman news Jan 21 2009

Tom Bytnar retires after 44 1/2 years.

Joe Bell wins & sets new track records

Tom "TL" Henesey retires May 2008

Ray Hayne

Jerry Yelch

Don Nash

Charlie Headley

Glenn Salisbury

Larry Merritt

George Scism

Nelson Weber

Charlie Marschner

H. "Luge" Luetgen

For details, see
Retiree News Page

Recent Deaths & Obituaries
(within last 1 yr period)

Kilmer, Lemoyne L. "Pete" 04/29/12
Student, Louis J. Jr. 04/18/12
Dake, Charley 04/16/12
Covinsky, Neal E. 04/15/12
Thomas, Alexander "Alex" 04/11/12
Steele, John Raymond 04/10/12
Fleming, William "Bill" Andrew 04/09/12
McDonnell, Sanford "Sandy" 3/19/12
Rogger, William Robert "Bob" 2/20/12
Sherman, Charles A. "Charley" 2/10/12
McVey, Francis Daniel 1/26/12
Guenther, Lawerence W. 1/11/12
Manuele, Jacob B. 1/4/12
Pohlman, Ronald W. 1/3/12
Badley, Benjamin R. "Tony" 1/2/12
Lutz, Harry D. 01/11/12
Roman, Andrew "Andy" 01/04/12
Beck, Frank 12/22/11
Pace, William Eugene 12/24/11
Chipley, Franklin "Frank" 12/14/11
Wang, Emile Shih-Jien 12/13/11
Pohlmann, Harry William 12/06/11
Welsh, Edward C. 12/06/11
Jarrett, Alfred L. 12/01/11
Voelker, John L. 11/29/11
Hippisley, Charles "Chuck" 11/24/11
Eaton, Larry Leroy 11/13/11
Gaines, Robert "Bob" D. 10/30/11
Peters, Ed 10/27/11
Rawlings, John W. 10/27/11
McDonald, Ed 10/24/11
Bruno, Ray 10/25/11
Bauer, Les 10/17/11
Schafer, Melvin 10/18/11
Reiling, Henry E. Jr. 10/14/11
Harter, Emmett A. 10/12/11
White, Kermit 10/6/11
McCormick, Charles W. Jr. "Chuck" 10/6/11
Fults, Floyd 9/25/11
Watkins, Melvin C. 9/27/11
Palcheff, George 9/12/11
Mueller, David Bell 9/19/11
Kettenbach, Louis A. 9/18/11
Venegoni, John H. "Cass" 9/16/11
Kelly, Patrick "Pat" 9/11/11
Klefisch, Theodore J. 9/3/11
Berry, Steven R. 9/2/11
Jay, James L. 9/./11
Rezabek, Paul 8/30/11
Wienold, Carl 8/27/11
Graham, Bob 8/21/11
Mizerny, Michael 8/20/11
Arink, William "Bill" 8/17/11
Lewis, Robert W. "Bob" 8/15/11
Knox, Ralph 8/13/11
Monti, Frank 8/11/11
Marchand, Sandra L. 8/5/11
Thies, William A. "Bill" 8/1/11
Blake, Robert "Beaver" 7/27/11
Pashia, Cecil W. 7/19/2011
Caldwell, Richard D. "Rich" 7/16/11
Misuraca, Joe Sr. 7/16/2011
Rucker, D. C., Jr. 7/10/11
Scott, Theresa "Terry" Woods 7/8/11
Esker, Andrew "Ted" 6/28/11
Jackson, James Rodney "Jim" 6/26/11
Laurenson, Robert M. "Butch" 6/9/11
Schaff, James "Jim" 6/10/11
Crabtree, Don 6/8/11
Rafter, Paul 6/7/11
Killoren, Robert A. Sr. "Bob" 5/28/11
Martinez, Joe 5/26/11
Ziegler, James 5/8/11
Eschenbrenner, John 5/3/11
Myers, Larry 4/11/11
Reading, Paul 4/10/11
Chamberlain, Robert Emil "Bob" 4/6/11

For details, see
Death and Obituary page