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Dale Osborn

Dale says he graduated from CHS as summa cum nerd.  Come on now, everybody knows that Fred Benford was the chief nerd! Dale was really bright.  Son of a school teacher.  Graduated from OSU with a degree in Electrical Engineering.  He says no one wanted to hire him so he joined the Navy and became a fighter pilot.  He says it beat going to work.  He says the nine years were mostly fun dampened by the early stages of the Viet Nam war.  He planned to make the Navy a career, then retire after twenty years and maybe teach physics in Utah .  He loved the beauty and hunting and fishing opportunities of the state.  Smart guy … missed more tours in Viet Nam !

But fate entered.  He decided to get out of the Navy and go to work for a living (his words).  He said he was obsolete as an engineer and fighter aircraft flight test experience was the only marketable asset he had, and Hughes Aircraft Company, in Culver City , CA offered him a job.  He said he needed the money so he took the job.  He said it was fun … flying and working to develop and test airborne radar systems and missiles.  Then Howard Hughes died and General Motors bought the company and the fun largely went out of it.  He said he hung on until he could get a cheap, brass-plated-parachute bailout in 1993.  Now he strives to live the life of a gentleman sportsman.  In the Spring and Fall he goes to his small house on Grand Lake and Summer and Winter in his coastal foothills home in Ventura County , CA .

Through all those adventures he was accompanied by two wives: sequentially Donna Mae Owens CHS classmate for 10+ years and Stephanie his wife since 1973.  He has one fine son, Stephen Scott Osborn who is a school teacher in Seattle … and several excellent dogs.

Last updated 01/06/16