CONNECTIONS
If this page doesn't mean anything to you, don't worry about it.

However, if you recognize any of the names and acronyms on this page, feel free to send me an e-mail with your recollections.

GRAND RAPIDS

Claire-Lise Baldwin
Peter Ruark

  Mike Newhaus
Erick Smith
Greg Pedersen

KISD COMPUTERS

If you were familiar with KISD computers, drop me a line.

Hints: Circa 1979 - 1980. Grand Rapids. HP 2000. DEC PDP-11/70.

FLYING OFFICER JIM CAVANAUGH
What ever happened to Flying Officer Jim Cavanaugh of the Chicago Police Department?

I don't think it was in a helicopter crash, since I know of only two Chicago officers who died in crashes:

  • ("Flying Officer") Leonard Baldy, May 2, 1960 (while doing WGN traffic reports, details here)
  • ("Eye in the Sky") Irv Hayden, October 10, 1971 (in a WGN helicopter crash, details here)

Chicago closed their two-helicopter operation in 1979.

Updates from 2004:

He's alive and well. He's retired and lives with his wife in a suburb just outside of Chicago.

and

As a committed 40+ year listener of WGN, I believe Cavanaugh is still doing traffic on occasion but is more or less a sub. I went to Gordon Tech High School in Chicago, just across the Chicago river from the (then) WGN radio studios, and because of my interest in radiio (I later owned 4 stations) I remember WELL the days that both Baldy died (in 1960) and Hayden - ini 1971. Hayden lived across the street from a music teacher of mine (I believe on Moody or Marmora St.).

1976 - 1979 LICENSE PLATES
Wisconsin plates D2G 683, P3C 204 and LF4 249, IZ 3820.


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