Anne B. Baddour

Anne Bridge Baddour is the first woman pilot to fly as an Experimental Research Pilot for the MIT Lincoln Laboratory Flight Test Facility, doing airborne research for the Department of Defense and Federal Aviation Administration. In this job from 1977 to 1997, she flew standard civilian aircraft, in the cabin of which had been installed new technology projects for communications, radar, navigation, and lasers. Ms. Baddour's previous activities included manager, pilot, administrative assistant, ferry pilot, flight dispatcher, aviation consultant, corporate pilot, and aviation instructor. She competed in 16 air races, beginning in 1954, and established 27 national and international world speed records. She currently or has served on the board of directors of the Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum, Boston University Library Special Collections, Villa Viscaya, and the Miami Maritime Museum.

She is also a member of the Ninety-Nines, Inc. and the Society of Experimental Test Pilots, as well as a long-standing member of Aero Club of New England, where she served in numerous capacities, including serving on its Board of Directors from 1977 to 2002, establishing several scholarships, and serving as an advisor. Ms. Baddour was recognized in 2005 by Women In Aviation International for her pioneering work in aviation and aerospace. She holds a B.A., with honors, from Pine Manor College.

SHEILA M. BAUER

Shelia M. Bauer, pilot and educator, was the Federal Aviation Administration's national aviation and space education programs manager. She joined the agency in 1990, working as the New England Region's aviation education program manager. She entered Revere Aviation Inc., a full-service aviation company started by her father which originally operated the Revere Airport. She rose to the president's position, nine years later. Once employed at FAA in 1990, Shelia continued to share her experience, ideas and passion for aviation with the network of organizations, governmental and academia. Shelia was instrumental in the development and implementation of numerous state and regional aviation and space education councils. She was responsible for the development of FAA's first aviation education Web site in 1997, and her oversight and management of the Web site continues today. In addition to her leadership responsibilities for FAA's Aviation and Space Education Programs, in 2003, Shelia spear-headed the agency's outreach efforts for the Centennial of Flight (C.O.F.) celebrations. Shelia has been awarded numerous awards for her efforts to promote aviation.

WILLIAM J. DEANE

Mr. Deane serves as a Director and First Vice President of the MASM. He is a retired Senior Vice-President of the Shawmut Bank of Boston and presently is a consultant on payment systems and an aviation historian. He has also served as a Director / Advisor / and a member with several organizations including the American Red Cross of Mass Bay, the Ames Committee of Melrose [a charitable trust], the Aero Club of New England, and the American Aviation Historical Society. He is currently President of the Massachusetts Aviation Historical Society. Bill is also an active volunteer working with local historical societies and museums on their aeronautical archives. He is a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps where he served as an air traffic controller. Mr. Deane resides in Melrose, MA.

NORMAN J. FREDKIN

Mr. Fredkin serves as a Director and Treasurer of the MASM. He most recently served as the manager of the Raytheon Flight Test Facilities at Hanscom Field in Bedford, MA and at Holloman AFB in New Mexico. He also served as a long time member of the Hanscom Field Advisory Commission and is a former Chairman of the Massachusetts Aeronautics Commission. Mr. Fredkin was named the "Aviation Man-of-the-Year" by the Massachusetts Airport Managers Association and was awarded the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association Presidential Citation for his continuous and outstanding support of general aviation. He is retired from a career in the United States Air Force, where he flew 260 air combat missions in Korea and Viet Nam. Mr. Fredkin resides in Carlisle, MA.

JOHN GARABEDIAN

Mr. Garabedian serves as a Director of the MASM and is also in the dual role of a non-paid business consultant to the Museum. He is a highly respected radio and television broadcaster who has founded, built, and operated radio and television stations as well as national radio and television networks. He currently hosts Open House Party, a national weekend radio show heard on 150 radio stations from Maine to California. He is an active pilot and is currently serving as the President of the Cape Area Pilots Association. Additionally, Mr. Garabedian maintains a private collection of some twenty pre-WW II General Aviation aircraft at homes in Southborough and Falmouth, MA, and Cabot, VT, each with adjoining private landing strips. He has restored all of his aircraft to museum quality status and flies many of them on a frequent basis. It is anticipated that Mr. Garabedian will play a major role in the area of membership development within the MASM. Mr. Garabedian is a year round resident of Cape Cod.

DAVID W. GRAHAM

Mr. Graham serves as a Director and Second Vice President of the MASM. He is currently a consultant to the firm of Jacobs-Edwards & Kelsey in the firm’s Boston office, where he has specialized in airport safety issues throughout the northeastern United States during the past ten years. Mr. Graham served thirty years as a staff member of the Massachusetts Aeronautics Commission, where he was appointed Acting Director, before retiring as the Commission’s Deputy Director. A long-time Secretary of the Aero Club of New England, he also served a two-year term as its President before reverting to the position of Secretary. Prior to retirement from military service, he served as a Naval Aviator on active duty and in the Naval Reserve where he was a Command Pilot in both patrol and transport aircraft. Mr. Graham is a member of the Massachusetts Aviation Historical Society and the American Air Museum in Duxford, UK. He has served on the Board of Governors of the Boston-based Wardroom Club for the past twenty-three years, four of which were as its President. Mr. Graham resides in Marblehead, MA

DANIEL McDUFFIE

Mr. McDuffie serves as a Director and Secretary of the MASM. He retired in 2006 after serving 34 years as the Administrator of three large Boston area teacher-related union benefit funds. Mr. McDuffie is a Certified Employee Benefit Specialist and is a member of the International Society of Certified Employee Benefit Specialists, having served a term as the President of its Greater Boston Chapter. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the American Prepaid Legal Services Institute in Chicago and is a frequent speaker at national conferences on the subject of Prepaid Legal Services. In the military, Mr. McDuffie served a 35-year career with the United States Air Force and the Massachusetts Air National Guard having achieved the rank of Colonel at the time of his retirement. He has been a longtime Director of the Massachusetts Air National Guard Historical Association, where he presently serves as the President of the Board. Mr. McDuffie brings a wealth of business and military administrative experience to the MASM. He currently resides in Andover, MA.

TIMOTHY MULDOON

Mr. Muldoon has a background in both his civil engineering consulting work as well as his experience as a curator serve the Committee well in two areas. He is a member of the museum site selection and design sub-committee, and in addition is responsible for establishing the liaison and membership affiliations with the various museum associations. Mr. Muldoon presently serves as part time curator of the MA Air National Guard Historical Association Museum at Otis ANG Base. He is a member of the following organizations: MA ANG Historical Assoc.; MA Air and Space Assoc.; Society of American Archivists; New England Archivists; Association of State and Local History Organizations. Mr. Muldoon makes his home in Medford, MA.

ALBERT J. MUNDO

Mr. Mundo serves as a Director and President of the MASM. Following service as a fighter pilot in the U.S. Air Force and the MA Air National Guard, Mr. Mundo commenced a thirty four year career with TWA, retiring as a 747 International Captain with over twenty thousand hours of flight time. During his airline career he served on numerous committees of the Air Line Pilots Assoc. [ALPA] including contract negotiations, pilot seniority mergers, and a ten year period as Chairman of the pilots' retirement plan investment committee. He is a member of the MA ANG Historical Assoc. for which organization he wrote and produced an official unit history film. He is a Director of the MA ANG Historical Assoc. and member of: the Air Force Assoc.; Order of Daedalians; F-86 Sabre Pilots Assoc.; TWA Retired Pilots Assoc.; MA Aviation Historical Society, Aero Club of N.E.; American Air Museum, Duxford, U.K.; Royal Air Force Club, London; and the Wardroom Club of Boston. Mr. Mundo resides in Marblehead.

GEORGIA ELAINE PAPPAS

Ms. Pappas started flying when she was 18 years old at Hanscom Field, Bedford, MA, and has been a member of the Ninety-Nines since obtaining her pilot’s license. She has held numerous chapter positions and currently serves as Governor for the New England Section. Georgia is retired from Massport where she worked at Logan International Airport for over 30 years, and in 1976 was the first female to hold the position of Operations Supervisor/Manager. During those years, she was also employed by major Boston radio stations as a Skyway Traffic Reporter, where she broadcast live, on-the-spot traffic reports from both fixed wing and helicopter aircraft flying over metropolitan Boston. She has served on the Presidential Women’s Advisory Committee on Aviation, appointed by FAA Administer John H. Shaffer. Georgia is the proud owner of a 1979 Grumman Tiger which is based at Hanscom Field, Bedford, MA.v

DAVID MEERMAN SCOTT

Mr. Scott is a well-known marketing and public relations expert, private businessman, and a bestselling author of The New Rules of Marketing & PR. He is an expert in the field of space vehicles and instrumentation and maintains an important private collection of artifacts from the Apollo program. Mr. Scott’s success in marketing and public relations for such firms as NewsEdge Corporation and Knight-Ridder have brought him personal recognition and numerous professional awards, among them a Platinum PR Award and the Gold Quill for Business Communication. Having completed the basic communications and publicity plan for the museum, Mr. Scott, as Director of Space Exhibits will now focus on future planning for exhibits and acquisition of artifacts for inventory and display purposes. It is anticipated that he will again resume a communications role once the museum is up and running. Mr. Scott resides in Lexington, MA and his marketing blog is one of the world's most popular.

ROBERT SEGAL

Mr. Segal serves as Chairman of the Site Planning and Museum Design Committee. He has been a part of numerous grant proposals, submissions, and awards for projects in which he was the designer, including NEH, NEA, Getty Foundation and Rockefeller Foundation. His installations have included content that has ranged as far afield as The Louvre, the British Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Reichsmuseum, and the Getty Museum. He was an integral member of the team which designed and oversaw the total renovation and reinstallation of the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA. His clients include the Worcester Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts of the Rhode Island Scholl of Design, MIT, Colby College, and Babson College. He has extensive experience with aviation museum and displays that among others include: The Museum of Flight of the Experimental Aircraft Association; The Museum of Soaring of the National Soaring Society; The National Air and Space Museum; and Air Force One. He has designed other projects for AT&T, Teradyne Corporation, State Street Bank, National Park Service, and the Army Corps of Engineers. In addition to his direct responsibility for site planning, Mr. Segal will be overseeing all Museum land utilization, plus exterior and interior design of the museum facilities. Mr. Segal is also an active private pilot and resides in Arlington, MA.

Deirdre O’Connor

Deirdre O’Connor is currently an accountant with Murray & Quill, PC, a law firm in Winchester specializing in Estate Planning and real estate transactions. In her “free” time, she is a a dispatcher for the East Coast Aero Club at Hanscom Field In Bedford. An Aero Club of New England Director and member since 1992, Ms. O’Connor has served as past Vice President, past Secretary (2002-2004), as Chairman of the annual scholarship auction and dinner, as dinner chairman for the annual meeting and state awards banquet, and she is a member of the Cabot Operating Committee. She us a commercial pilot with multi-engine and instrument ratings and holds a private single-engine seaplane rating. Ms. O’Connor is a member of the 99's, EAA Chapter 106, the Massachusetts Aviation Historical Society, Affiliate Director and Secretary of the New England Helicopter Council and part-time Dispatcher for East Coast Aero Club. Retired Owner/Operator $3 Million Retail Party Supply Stores.