Mayflower Luncheon 

May 19, 2012

11:30 A.M.

 

Our spring meeting will be held at MCAS Miramar.

    Kathy and Russell Loftman

     will give a presentation on

     Our Ancestor's Weapons

Marcia Maloney, Deputy Governor South, will be installing the 2012-2014 San Diego Colony Board of Assistants.

Jim Blauer, State Scholarship Chair, will bring his tables of Pilgrim "wares" to sell. 

Social Hour: 11:00 AM

Meeting begins at 11:30

Lunch served at noon:

Menu:

Sliced Marinated Sirloin Steak, Caesar Salad with Garlic Croutons, Rice Pilaf, Fresh Vegetables, Biscuits with Butter, Vanilla Bean Ice Cream with Chocolate Syrup and Beverage

Alternate entree: Fruit Plate

Price $24.00

(All are welcome, but Reservations  ARE REQUIRED , questions call  760-639-3895)

 

Updated 14 April 2012

Introduction to Speakers...

 Kathy Loftman is a member of our Mayflower colony and is the recording secretary.  She is also Senior Vice President and the Corporate Director of Program Execution for Science Applications International Corporation where she has worked for the last 31 years.  Her career began in nuclear targeting at the Rand Corporation.  She joined SAIC and worked on many different programs ranging from strategic planning, alternative energy, proton cancer treatment, electro-optic surveillance, vibration cancellation, to logistics.  She was the event planning program manager for the City of San Diego for the Super Bowl and the Republican National Convention. She has received recognition in industry as a TWIN award recipient and was named as one of the 25 influential women in project management throughout the world by Project Management Institute.  She is the past president of Athena, promoting women in science and technology, teaches program management at UCSD, and regularly provides key note presentations at Program Management conferences throughout the United States. 

 She holds an MBA from George Mason University.

 Kathy’s interest in genealogy was encouraged by both of her grandmothers who collected family history.  She has been an avid on-line family history researcher for the past ten years.  She has three proven Mayflower ancestors, and she has 20 proven Revolutionary War patriots, with the goal to get to 30! 

 Russ Loftman is the President of Image Information of Idaho, a small engineering consulting firm.  He has worked on projects in the aerospace industry for the past 50 years, ranging from the 2^nd, 3^rd, and 4^th stages of the Explorer launch vehicle to current space-based camera systems.  As an electro-optics engineer, he worked with Dr. Jim Miller to design and build the first space-based CCD camera, has participated in nuclear tests in the South Pacific, developed atmospheric sounding rockets, served in the military in Naval Air, and supported base defense in the Vietnam era as a civilian.

Russ holds an MS in aerospace and mechanical sciences from Princeton University.

Growing up in a law enforcement family, he developed an early interest in firearms with a special interest in “cowboy” weapons from the late 1800’s and later in the evolution of military firearms from the beginnings of gunpowder to current automatic weapons.  The weapons on display today offer a history of the development of military small arms over the last 200 years.

Given the ground they will cover in this presentation, Russ and Kathy ask that you hold your questions to the end of the presentation.  They have provided you with a note sheet so that you may jot down your thoughts and questions.  Also, you are welcome to come up after the presentation and hold (but not fire!) one of the weapons our ancestors would have used.

L- R: Ray Raser, Norma Gherrity, Gail Raser, Kathleen Loftman, Dorothy Schwaner, Sue Johnson, Jan Landt.