[Vision2020] January 28, 1986

[Sue Hovey]

I will never, never forget that moment.  It was my prep period right after 
the beginning of school at MHS.    Bill Frye and I were sitting in the staff 
room watching the lift off with several other folks who had the same prep. 
We were so proud to have a teacher as a crew member, and she was going to be 
doing lessons with students during the coming days.  Other teachers 
throughout the school were watching with their classes.  Not all the rooms 
had tv sets so some of the classes had been combined for those who wanted to 
watch.  I remember seeing and not really believing for those long moments--I 
think it was Bill Frye who said, "there's trouble," and then we knew. 
Strange...but I don't remember much about the rest of the day and my 
students, but somehow we got through it.

I had met the ten finalists during the NEA Representative Assembly in July. 
On the day their names were to be released we got a bit of a heads up that 
two were from Idaho--Barbara Morgan from McCall and a teacher from Boise.  I 
had just gotten elected to the NEA Executive Committee and someone from the 
Boise Statesman interviewed the three of us.  What a treat for me....just 
lucky enough to share a moment with two real stars.

After the Challenger Disaster Barbara Morgan became the Teacher In Space and 
continued her training, but she didn't get to make her mission and teach her 
lessons until last year.

The Ellison Onizuka Memorial and Space Museum is here on the Big Island. 
Christa McAuliff, the Teacher in Space who perished in the Challenger,  was 
from New Hampshire.

Sue Hovey

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Hansen" <thansen at moscow.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 9:31 AM
Subject: [Vision2020] January 28, 1986


> January 28 1986
>
> We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them, as they prepared
> for their journey and waved good-bye and "slipped the surly bonds of
> earth" to "touch the face of God."
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Challenger_flight_51-l_crew.jpg
>
> The crew of Challenger flight 51-l:
>
> Michael J. Smith
> Dick Scobee
> Ronald McNair
> Ellison Onizuka
> Christa McAuliffe
> Gregory Jarvis
> Judith Resnik
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9maWcIatweM
>
> Seeya round town, Moscow.
>
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
>
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