
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.
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.
Mr. Deane serves as a Director and 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, the American Aviation Historical Society, and was former president of the Massachusetts Aviation Historical Society. Mr. Deane 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.
Mr. Dini serves as Treasurer of Massachusetts Air and Space Museum. He is currently president of Air Credit Alliance, Inc., an aviation finance consulting company, and sits on several boards. He has been directly involved in aviation finance for over forty years. Owner of several aircraft acquisition and marketing companies, he has written many articles on aircraft finance and presented at a number of national and international aviation finance symposia. As former trustee of Daniel Webster College, he chaired its finance committee, and is former chairman of the Lexington (MA) School Committee. Mr. Dini is a pilot and an officer in the Civil Air Patrol and served in the U.S. Navy reserves. He holds a B.S. in finance from Northeastern University and M.S. degree from Lesley University.
Mr. Fredkin serves as a Director 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.
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.
Mr. Gillogly serves as President of MASM. His background includes extensive professional experience in the aerospace industry. Previously he was Director of Professional Services and Director of Business Development at Windmill International, senior associate at Booz Allen Hamilton, Program Director for the Defense Data Network at Bolt, Beranek and Newman. He retired from the US Air Force as a colonel where he held senior acquisition positions including DCS for Personnel for AF Systems Command (now AFMC), Deputy DCS for Technology, Plans and Programs, program director for AF space and missile, aircraft, and C4I systems, including Electronic Systems Center’s Joint STARS; Director of the Worldwide Military Command and Control System Improvement Program (WIS). He managed development of the B-1 F101 Engines and Titan III Solid Rocket Motors. As aircraft maintenance officer he was responsible for the readiness and deployment of bomber, tanker and support aircraft. Before the Air Force, he was a project engineer with Underwriters Laboratories, an independent quality testing company. Mr. Gillogly holds a B.S. degree in Engineering Science from the University of Notre Dame and a M.S. degree in Systems Management from the University of Southern California. He also is a graduate of the National War College and completed the Air Force (AF) Education-with-Industry curriculum in astronautics and space vehicle management.
Mr. Graham serves as an advisor to 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. Mr. Graham served thirty years as a staff member of the Massachusetts Aeronautics Commission, where he was appointed Acting Director, before retiring as Deputy Director. A long-time Secretary of the Aero Club of New England, he also served a two-year term as its President. He served as a Naval aviator both 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 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.
Mr. McDuffie serves as special Advisor to the Museum. 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.
Mr. McGlynn serves as Clerk/Secretary of the Mass Air & Space Museum and is a member of the steering committee. He has served for years with the USS Constitution Museum in Boston as an Overseer and trustee. He also serves on the MIT Space Policy and Society Group. As an author, he has written numerous articles on space and maritime history published both on the web and in space flight magazines. Passionate about bringing understanding for the need to study math and science to local school children, Mr. McGlynn created the One Giant Leap Foundation. As a founder and a director his job is to help bring current NASA astronauts to the elementary and middle schools of Eastern Massachusetts to discuss how their math and science studies lead them to outer space. Mr. McGlynn is president of the McGlynn, Hall & Clinton Insurance Agencies in Sudbury, and he resides in Weston.
Mr. Morin serves on the Museum Education Committee of the MASM. He is currently President and a director of the Massachusetts Aviation Historical Society, and teaches several programs in area schools which emphasize industrial theory and math skills. Having done extensive research in the history of US Naval aviation, Mr. Morin is Vice President of the Naval Airship Association, a 24 year member of the US Naval Institute, and the American Air Museum in Duxford, UK. He has been an industry advisor for an industrial technology and marketing programs, and has over 33 years experience in engineering and marketing in the capital goods industry. Mr. Morin worked for a major machinery manufacturer in the packaging and bottling industries and formerly owned a company which imported packaging machinery while serving as a principal in an international consulting firm with clients in the UK, Europe, and Ukraine supporting import and export programs. He currently resides in Plymouth, and is a private pilot.
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.
Mr. Mundo serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors. 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.
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.
David G. Price is Associate Dean of Aviation at Bridgewater State University. He was former Dean of Aviation at Daniel Webster College in New Hampshire where he earned his BS and MBA in Aviation management.
Upon graduation from DWC, Mr. Price worked for several years as a corporate pilot and Certified Flight Instructor and hosted a television program called "Take Off", inspiring him to teach Physics and AP Physics in southern New Hampshire. He is a certified Advanced Ground Instructor and was honored at the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics as the 2006 teacher of the Year as well as the Federal Aviation Administration's 2006 Teacher of the Year.
Mr. Price is past President of the Massachusetts Aviation and Space Education Council (MASEC) as well as a founding officer of the New Hampshire Aviation and Space Education Council (NHASEC). During the summer months, he directs Aviation Career Education (ACE) Camps for the Federal Aviation Administration throughout Massachusetts and New Hampshire and is an active member of the National Association of Flight Instructors (NAFI).
Gordon Schimmel serves on the MASM Education Committee. He has presented workshops at the National Science Teachers Association for more than a decade and is a recipient of the 2009 Strickler Aerospace Education Leadership Award, presented by the National Coalition for Aviation and Space Education. He is Co-Principal Investigator for a NASA aerospace education project with the Children's Museum of Indianapolis, and a consultant to the Academy of Model Aeronautics.
Dr. Schimmel served as Assistant Superintendent of Schools in Falmouth, Massachusetts for six years, and as superintendent of schools in Mansfield, Connecticut for twenty-one years. His professional life began with two years as a Peace Corps teacher in Morocco and, upon his return, as a member of the training staff for Tunisia-bound volunteers at Brown University. He later joined the staff for three years at Peace Corps Headquarters in Washington, D.C., supervising volunteer training programs for the Offices of Training and Volunteer Support.
His graduate work at the University of Massachusetts Center for International Education focused on women’s education and self-help schools in Uganda, East Africa. Following graduation, he served three years as Executive Director of the Hitchcock Center for the Environment in Amherst, Massachusetts, followed by service with the Massachusetts State Department of Education as a Program Officer, supervising federally-funded innovative programs for the gifted, the arts, and early childhood education.
Dr. Schimmel has co-authored two nationally-distributed curricula to teach aviation history, applied physics and math to elementary, middle and high school students. Inventing Flight, a Telly Award-winning program created to Celebrate the 2003 Wright Brothers Centennial of Flight, and AeroLab, funded by Alcoa Foundation, which have been used by teachers in school districts around the country for several years.
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.
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.
