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  1. Jeffery Tyree Dunn: Birth: 5 Jan 1965 in Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee, United States. Death: 4 May 1979 in Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee, United States

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1. Title:   Hermitage Memorial Gardens, Hendersonville, TN
Page:   Tombstone, 10 July 1999
Author:   Records and or photos (see details)
Publication:   Hermitage Memorial Gardens, 535 Shute Ln, Hendersonville, TN 37075-5848, 1.615.889.0361

Notes
a. Note:   When Jack was small he lived with our grandparents and he and my Uncle Kenneth were about the same age. He lived with them probably until my mom married my dad. He never knew that his natural father was Elton McElyea (I never knew the name until the end of 1995). He was enough older that we never really knew each other until I was an adult.
  The first house that I remember was the place on Essex. It had a basement room with it's own private door to the outside. Jack had that room and I always thought that it was because he played the drums for the West High School band and he would then be able to practice away from the rest of the house. I suppose he also liked being separated because much later he told me that my dad was always meaner than a snake' to him.
  He was an excellent student even while working long hours too. He was an usher at the Green Hills Theater and worked at White Way Cleaners. He was able to buy his own car by the time he was sixteen. On top of that he was in the Civil Air Patrol and the De Molay and because of his activities he had a hard time getting up in the morning. One of the methods mom devised to wake him was to send Charles downstairs with a water pistol to squirt him. I don't know how often it happened but I do remember it did.
  After high-school Jack got an appointment to the Coast Guard Academy. The first summer in the Coast Guard Academy was a highlight for him. He sailed on the Eagle (the Coast Guard's "tall ship") to Bermuda. He often talked of that summer. I think he was there for about two years when he came up against some sort of qualification he couldn't pass, maybe it was the fact that his eyes were not 20/20 and he wouldn't be able to fly. Flying was always a strong goal for him. He loved planes and flying.
  After the academy he enlisted in the Air Force and served his entire four year tour as an instructor at Lowry Air Force Base in Denver. And after that he went to Vanderbilt to become an architect. He worked as a draftsman the entire time he was in school but he never worked as an architect. Instead he earned a degree in physics with a mathematics minor.
  Later he worked for Nashville Bridge which was a division of St Louis Ship Co. As he moved up with the company, he was transferred to the corporate headquarters in St Louis. Jack became the President of the Dixie Dredge division of the company. Dixie Dredge did the majority of it's business outside of the country - mostly to the middle east and southwest Asia and Jack was often overseas.
  As an adult he wanted to learn to play the banjo so he taught himself to play. I can remember he and Jack Jr playing the banjo together.
  One of the basic things about Jack was that life seemed to always give him lemons and he always made lemonade. And he loved to fly!
  As an adult he would stand by the fence at Berry Field and watch the planes. He used the last of his VA Benefits to take flying lessons. As smart as he was he was never a showoff but I remember how proud and happy he was when he bought his Piper Cherokee. When he was in failing health and could no longer fly solo I thought he was so pleased because his wife took flying lessons so that she could go with him and let him fly his plane. [Elizabeth Dunn Schuck]
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  «b»Resume of Qualifications and Experience of JACK T DUNN«/b»
 JACK T. DUNN 12971 Burning Bush Court St. Louis, Missouri 63141 (314) 878-0256 OBJECTIVE
 Association with a progressive organization in an EXECUTIVE level capacity where my education, manufacturing and engineering expertise will unite with my sales and management experience into a mutually beneficial relationship.
  QUALIFIED BY
 An excellent technical education
  Strong track record of:
 Top level (CEO) management with P&L responsibility
 Sales of major capital equipment
  Extensive overseas travel and contract negotiation
  Experience as:
 Chief engineer Sales manager Engineering computer facility manager Manager of management information and control system (MICS) development
  CAREER HISTORY
  Have been promoted to successively more responsible positions in management, sales and engineering
  Since 1971
  Dixie Dredge Corporation, Division of Pott Industries
 Manufacturer of dredging machines, $8,000,000 Gross
  PRESIDENT
  Appointed to reverse trends of: lack of profits... serious warranty problems… product inefficiency... increasing overhead expenses
  Reversed negative and downward trending profits Sales increased in excess of 400% while decreasing SG&A Sustained profits and high ROI to present date Recruited and trained sales and estimating staff VICE PRESIDENT OPERATIONS
  Complete responsibility for engineering and production for two plant operation
  Set up shop overhead and budget plus systems to control Re-designed equipment to eliminate weak spots in prior designs. . . eliminated serious warranty problems standardized designs
  Set up procedures for control of production costs in labor and material
  1968-1971
  Nashville Bridge Company
 Major inland ship building and bridge building firm
  MANAGER MICS DEVELOPMENT
  Supervised analysts/programmers/consultants in development of complete, automated Management Information and Control System which included purchasing, inventory control, production planning and scheduling, cost accounting and cash flow
  Company derived significant cost savings and improved profitability
  DIVISIONAL SALES MANAGER
  Recruited, trained and supervised sales staff for new division
 Exceeded $2,000,000 sales first year Set up worldwide system of agents 1967-1968
  American Marine and Machinery Company
 Manufacturer of dredging machines
  CHIEF ENGINEER
  Supervised engineering staff of 12; performed traditional role of Chief Engineer
  Installed automated bill of materials system 1967-1962
  AVCO, Corporate Aerospace Structures Division
 Manufacturer of major aircraft subassemblies
  MANAGER AEROSPACE ENGINEERING COMPUTER FACILITY
  Supervised development of mathematical rationale and computer programs for many applications... trajectory analysis. . .mathematical lofting... automatic control of machine tools.. .redundant structures analysis
  Presented numerous technical papers on mathematical lofting and engineering application
  Performed aircraft stress analysis by manual and computer means
  GRADUATE OF
  Vanderbilt University - A.B. Physics/Mathematics Post Graduate courses in Business Administration
  AFFILIATIONS
  Member of Missouri-Kansas Export Council of Department of Commerce; Board of Directors, Manufacturers Division, NSGA; Board of Directors, World Dredging Association
  PERSONAL
  Born November 20, 1936... married... two children
 Hobbies: aviation, golf, skiing, tennis and music
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  The following poem was read at Jack's funeral.
  HIGH FLIGHT
  Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth
 And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
 Sunward I've climbed and joined the tumbling mirth
 Of sun-split clouds - and done a hundred things
 You have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swung
 High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there,
 I've chased the shouting wind along and flung
 My eager craft through the footless halls of air.
 Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
 I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
 Where never lark, or even eagle, flew;
 And while with silent, lifting mind I've trod
 Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.
  [John Gillespie Magee Jr.]


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