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I've seen many names in this resurrection of the thread that I've met in person and/or talked with online. Obviously there are the founding fathers of the hobby as well, but I'll take a slightly different track in this post.
For me, specifically related to my modern rocketry, its a guy named Steve. Regretfully, I don't recall Steve's last name, but when I went to my first club launch, I felt very out of place. Not that the club was doing anything wrong, but I was just a guy driving up the grass runway for the first time and had never heard of something bigger than an E. I didn't want to mess up.
Steve was prepping an MPR at the back of his car and looked up from time to time and saw that I just seemed out of place and not sure what to do (I was an adult, but probably appeared to be an 8 year old kid, confused and not sure what to do). He stopped what he was doing, walked over and introduced himself. We talked for a minute and he offered to show me how to prep an MPR. I watched, learned and he said 'Come on, you brought some rockets, lets go fly' or something similar. That motivated me to get to it and I felt quickly that I was a new club member, not a club visitor.
I saw Steve for a good number of launches over the next few years, but after a while I didn't see him again. He was a genuine good guy and I hope he just moved on to a different hobby or a different location. Hopefully if any ROCC members here from the early to mid-2000's are reading, you can remind me of his last name and maybe fill in on how he is doing if you know.
I wouldn't be involved in club rocketry, most likely, if it weren't for Steve's outreach to me as a neophyte and I still fly a few of the tricks he taught me that day on each rocket (long shock cord with tape, etc., nothing revolutionary but nothing I would have learned from an Estes kit for example).
Hope you're doing well Steve. Hope to see you at a launch again soon.
Sandy.
For me, specifically related to my modern rocketry, its a guy named Steve. Regretfully, I don't recall Steve's last name, but when I went to my first club launch, I felt very out of place. Not that the club was doing anything wrong, but I was just a guy driving up the grass runway for the first time and had never heard of something bigger than an E. I didn't want to mess up.
Steve was prepping an MPR at the back of his car and looked up from time to time and saw that I just seemed out of place and not sure what to do (I was an adult, but probably appeared to be an 8 year old kid, confused and not sure what to do). He stopped what he was doing, walked over and introduced himself. We talked for a minute and he offered to show me how to prep an MPR. I watched, learned and he said 'Come on, you brought some rockets, lets go fly' or something similar. That motivated me to get to it and I felt quickly that I was a new club member, not a club visitor.
I saw Steve for a good number of launches over the next few years, but after a while I didn't see him again. He was a genuine good guy and I hope he just moved on to a different hobby or a different location. Hopefully if any ROCC members here from the early to mid-2000's are reading, you can remind me of his last name and maybe fill in on how he is doing if you know.
I wouldn't be involved in club rocketry, most likely, if it weren't for Steve's outreach to me as a neophyte and I still fly a few of the tricks he taught me that day on each rocket (long shock cord with tape, etc., nothing revolutionary but nothing I would have learned from an Estes kit for example).
Hope you're doing well Steve. Hope to see you at a launch again soon.
Sandy.
