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EAGLES, from 4 dation’s Capital Campaign. This pledge allowed building the new museum!” to encourage STEM education. To that end, they
the FTHF to qualify for a $300,000 matching Appreciating the stratospheric environment the award two scholarships per year in amount of
One member of the panel, Tony Bevacqua, was grant from the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation. “I $2,000 to a student studying in the engineering
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enough money to break ground outside the gates (builder of the Red Bull Stratos capsule) and FTHF lerton Memorial Scholarship was Joseph Lopez,
craft. Bevacqua was asked if he would go on a of Edwards AFB,” said Chairwoman Lisa Gray. Board 1st Vice Chairman, designed and built the a senior in Mechanical Engineering at CSU Long
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2045.

Dave Kerzie, who was the 1986 recipient of

the Iven C. Kinchloe Award as the industry’s

Test Pilot of the Year for his work in perform-
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thought for a moment that he once thought a red

glow was a bomb blast. Fortunately, it was the

moon rising. “It was one of the most beautiful

things I’ve ever seen,” said Kerzie. After viewing
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how small he was in the scheme of life. “I’m not

a tree hugger,” he claims, but after witnessing a

total undercast created by contrails of commercial

aircraft far below him, he wondered how much

man was affecting the environment.

“This is the reason I come to these gatherings,”

added Joe Sobczak, current Flight Test Captain at

United Airlines, who along with Research Test Pi-

lot and Director, Safety and Mission Assurance at

NASA Armstrong, Dana Purifoy, (also a former

U-2 Test Pilot) shared emcee duties throughout

the evening. Pilots shared some details of mis-
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Historical Foundation Trustee Jens Neelsen
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Jamieson for a pledge of $50 thousand from the

Glen and Lois Jamieson Family Fund to the Foun-

Antelope Valley Symphony Orchestra and Master Chorale | Antelope Valley College Concert Choir

David Newby, Artistic Director

Classical Christmas Stars of Tomorrow Ode to Joy

December 12, 2015 | 8 pm March 26, 2016 | 8 pm May 21, 2016 | 8 pm

Johann Sebastian Bach, Cantata 147, “Herz und Bach Competition Winners Antelope Valley Symphony Orchestra
Mund und Tat und Leben” Recital | 7 pm Antelope Valley Master Chorale
Francis Poulenc, Gloria Concerto Competition Winners, TBA Antelope Valley College Concert Choir
Beethoven, Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, Op. 123
With its timeless chorus “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring,” Winners of the AVSOMC’s 2016 Gail Newby Concerto
Bach’s Advent cantata offers a beautiful start to the Competition join the orchestra. Beethoven’s inclusion of choir in his final symphony
holiday season. helped establish it as a unique masterwork. Based
Poulenc’s masterwork for chorus and orchestra, Bach Competition winners perform a prelude recital on Friederich Schiller’s An die Freude, the symphony
Gloria, is a masterwork of sonority and color. at 7 pm. is a universal acclimation of brotherhood.

Tickets for each performance:
$20 | Senior, Military, AVC Staff $18 | Youth (Under 18), AVC Students $10

Antelope Valley College Performing Arts Theatre | 3041 West Ave. K, Lancaster, CA 93536 | (661) 722-6580 | tickets.avc.edu

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