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Murmurs: Biden Bundler List Doesn’t Include Any Likely Ambassadors In other news: Blumenauer wants an e-bike tax credit. Biketown? More like Snow City. (Brian Burk) Updated February 17
BIDEN BUNDLER LIST DOESN T INCLUDE ANY LIKELY AMBASSADORS: As President Joe Biden s administration begins filling political appointments, The Washington Post this week speculated on whom he might name to ambassadorships, noting that big donors often get prime posts. (One recent example: Portland hotelier Gordon Sondland, a Trump donor appointed ambassador to the European Union. Sondland s now working on a tell-all book.) Just four Oregonians made the list of the 800 individuals or couples who raised $100,000 or more for Biden: Columbia Sportswear general counsel Peter Bragdon, Portland General Electric executive Nidhi J. Tha
Charles Henry Moore Charles Henry Moore, 85, of Hillsboro, passed away Friday, Jan. 8, 2021 at his home.
He was born Nov. 8, 1935 in Leesburg, the son of the late Ted and Doris (Murphy) Moore.
He was a faithful believer in Jesus Christ and served Him at the Mt. Olive Church of Christ for nine years as a young man; 32 years at the Hillsboro Church of Christ, where he and Janet helped establish a successful deaf ministry; and for the last nine years was active in the loving fellowship of the First United Methodist Church in Hillsboro.
He was educated at the Ohio School for the Deaf in Columbus, where he attended up through the 11th grade, stopping due to his father’s terminal diagnosis of lung cancer. That occurrence required him to gain full-time employment in the workforce to help support the family.
selected by nasa to be the first lady astronaut trainees or f.l.a.t.s, called the mercury 13, as they underwent the same tests their male counterparts, the mercury 7 astronauts. these women never flew a nasa mission. miss funk was interviewed as part of the nasa johnson space center oral history collection. this is about 50 minutes. this is carol butler and i m doing an oral history for the nasa history office with wally funk, retired ntsb investigator, senior flight instructor, chief pilot, wonderful woman of aerospace. thank you for joining us today. thank you very much for having me. to begin, if we could talk briefly about your early career and your interest in aviation developing and how you moved forward into the aerospace career as a woman. well, aerospace really was not a name in my young life, but flying airplanes was. and i got my first try at flying, just pure flying, by flying my superman cape off my daddy s barn when i was about 5 years old. and then i
and your interest in aviation developing and how you moved forward into the aerospace career as a woman. well, aerospace really was not a name in my young life, but flying airplanes was. and i got my first try at flying, just pure flying, by flying my superman cape off my daddy s barn when i was about 5 years old. and then i was allowed to make airplanes out of blocks of wood and hang them from my ceiling. when i went on it to college, i was allowed to take flying as my mother had dearly loved flying and her father wouldn t allow her to, so they encouraged me then to go on into my aviation career. i was at a girls school for two years, got my private there. then i went on to oklahoma state university who was the best flight school in the united states at that time from, say, the mid- 50s on to the 70s and i m an international judge for safe con, performances forral schools, universities and colleges, so now i m giving back the safety that i ve learned over my 44 years of