Jon mark beilue biography
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Highway to Harvard
by Jon Mark Beilue
Two Caprock students are headed to America’s most renowned university—thanks to their focus, their intellect, and their community.... Read more.
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Jon Mark Beilue: The great escape — at 8,000 feet History professor Paul Clark also has classroom in a cockpit
Dr. Tom Hickman, a retired local OB-GYN, planted the seed into West Texas A&M University history professor Dr. Paul Clark.
“I call him ‘The Grand Duke of Aviation,’ and he pulled me aside one day,” Clark said. “He said, ‘Look, Clark, there are a lot of good stick-and-rudder guys out there, but not many who are instructors who are good stick-and-rudder guys. I’d like for you to consider being certified flight instructor.”
It’s not just to say Clark never had any interest, just never really considered it. Now a respected pilot was asking him to consider it.
“I thought, well, maybe I could give it a try,” Clark said.
That was in 2018. About a year ago, Branson Cruse, who graduated Dec. 10 from WT with a degree in ag business and economics, saw a flyer on flight instruction in the Engineering Building. In March, Brandon Nelson saw that same flyer in Old Main.
It was a temptation for two students with an itch to fly that was too great to ignore.
Their instructor is surely the only one in the country who is a tenured university professor whose emphasis is East Asian studies.
“He is very knowledgeable, very knowledgeable,” said Nelson, who earned his pilot’s lice
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