Honoring Joe Hopkins

We met up with Deb and Jim Cartwright at the hotel. Then we drove together to the camp site that held the dinner honoring Joe Hopkins and Ed Robinson. Ed’s father, Joe was the founder of Moody Aviation back in 1966. This is Moody Aviation 80th year.

We came for the evening because of Joe Hopkins impact on Glenn’s life. While Glenn was a HS student at Ben Lippen boarding school in Asheville, NC and Joe challenged him to pursue aviation. We later connected with Joe when he would come to Santa Cruz, Bolivia and host safety seminars under Mission Safety International,

We sat with Becky and Neil DeBois. Becky is Willard and Minnie Binder (Table Rock, Nebraska), friends of Don and Shirley Stewart. She even mentioned that she was at our wedding in 1980.

Glenn was at Moody Aviation with Jim learning aircraft maintenance together. Cecil Bedford and a few others were in Glenn class that showed up for this recipient “Distinguish Moody Alumni Service
Award”.

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