Bruce Davey
Mailing Address:
31616 Canyon Creek
Evergreen, CO 80439
Phone: 303 674-8213
thedaveys@msn.com
Kids:
Hannah
Nathan
Hailey
I graduated from the US Naval Academy in 1969, and went to flight training for the Navy in Pensacola, FL as an Ensign. While I was there I got my Masters degree in Aero Systems at the University of West Florida. I got my wings in early 1971, and stayed in Kingsville, TX for two years as an instructor in Advanced Jet Training. I got married to a gal that I had met at USNA, and moved to Virginia Beach, VA to fly F-4 Phantoms. When I went on cruise aboard the USS Saratoga in 1974, my wife moved to Georgia, to get her Masters at U of GA, met a cool guy in Landscape Architecture, and divorced me. I finished three years in F4’s, and went to Washington DC to work in the Department of Naval Personnel. I was there for a little over a year when I was selected to the Blue Angels, the US Naval Fight Demonstration Squadron, as it is officially known. After three years there, I got out of the Navy, as a Lt. Cdr, and came back to Idaho for ten of the best months of my life. I lived in McCall most of the time, and skied, ran, biked, sailed, and met my wonderful wife whom God had prepared for me from the beginning. Her name is Leigh, and she is from McCall. I got hired by Eastern Airlines, and we lived in Chicago for a short time and then moved back to the house that I had owned in Pensacola in the Blues. We lived there for nine years until Eastern went out of business. I was able to get a job with United Airlines, and we eventually moved to our present home in Evergreen, CO. By that time, we had two children, Hannah and Nathan. They were six and four when we arrived in CO.
Four years later, we had our last child, Hailey, in Evergreen. I am old and used up a bit, but Leigh is still beautiful and the children are wonderful. Hannah is married and will graduate in Mechanical Engineering from Colorado School of Mines next year. She is a track star, and is the NCAA Div II National Champion in the 3000m Steeplechase. She is married to a really cool graduate of CSM, Ryan, who is a surface physics (whatever that is) postgrad student. Nathan has just finished his first year at the Naval Academy. He is just like me, except that he is gentle, 6’4”, extremely talented athlete, sweet, handsome, and much more of a pleasant person to be around than I ever was. (There are many of you who will attest to this I know.) Anyway, you might be able to tell that I am in awe of my first two children. Hailey is the light of our lives. She has everything within her that any parent could ask for. I am so thankful that we have this last blessing. She is eleven, and, like most third kids, is ahead of the power curve on social development.
Leigh and I have had good and average times. We have had a lot more good than average, but they have both been there. The last couple of years have been a bit of a trial with United slowly going down the tubes, and health, sickness and death in our family. (I suspect that this is a common theme for us all, isn’t it?) I am required to retire from civil aviation at age 60, so we are trying to figure out how that all comes together. It seems like just last week that I was driving a ’55 Chevy and feeling good about life if I had two dollars and a ¼ tank. I miss that feeling, desperately, as I write the words.
I look forward to seeing you, and I mourn the passing of Ann Cline, who as a girl took notes for me, and as a woman, unknowingly, gave, through her bulk e-mails, the picture of the generous and loving person that I knew in high school.
My admiration to the organizers-Mrs. Hungerford would not, however, be pleased with the spelling of the spelling of “alphabetical” in the name index tab.
Love to all
Bruce