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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] <=====> «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 <=====> 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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