First Annual Dawson Drop

First Annual Dawson Drop First Annual Dawson Drop
On June 11, 1995, my dad made his first static-line parachute jump. Amazingly, this was his 65th birthday! I jumped with him, this being my second jump. As a matter of fact, the whole fam damily jumped! My first jump was one year earlier on my 40th birthday. Over the winter I talked up the experience and dad said that if I could do it on my 40th, he could do it on his 65th. So we planned the "family outing".

We spent most of that beautiful June Saturday, in class learning how to arrive safely on the ground and what to do "if.....". After all of the appropriate training, we jumped. Dawsons that jumped were:

Dad (on his 65th birthday)
Roger (Dad's younger brother)
myself
Bill (my brother, his second jump)
Jim (my brother)
Dan (another brother)
John (yet another brother)
Lisa Marie (John's wife)
On the ground supporting us were: my mom Pearl, my wife Laura, Roger's wife Terri, Dan's wife Amy, and Dan's daughter Miranda.

Below is the front page of the Oshkosh Northwestern.

Click HERE to read the text of the article.
Click HERE to see the picture in color as it was in the article.

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