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Secretary of the Air Force nominated
Washington, D. C. (AFNS)— President Clinton has announced his
intention to nominate Dr. Sheila E. Widnall, an associate provost at
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), to be Secretary of
the Air Force, White House officials said July 2.
If confirmed by the Senate, Widnall would be the first woman to
head a branch of the U.S. Armed Forces.
Widnall, 54, was a member of the U.S. Air Force Academy’s board
of visitors from 1978 - 84 and was chairman of the board from 1980
- 82. She also served on advisory committees to the former military
airlift command at Scott Air Force Base (AFB), Illinois and Wright-
Patterson AFB, Ohio.
A native of Tacoma, Washington, Widnall is known internation-
ally for her work in fluid dynamics, particularly in the areas of aircraft
turbulence and the spiraling airflows called vortices created by
helicopters.
In addition to being an associate provost, Widnall is a professor of
aeronautics and astronautics at MIT. She was the first MTT alumna
appointed to the faculty in the school of engineering, and the first
woman to chair the entire MIT faculty from 1979 - 80.
Widnall received both a bachelor’s and master’s degree in aeronau-
tics and astronautics from MIT in 1961, and a doctor of science degree
in 1964 — the same year she joined the faculty as an assistant
professor. She became an associate professor in 1970 and a professor
in 1974.
Widnall and her husband, William, also an aeronautical engineer,
have two children and live in Lexington, Massachusetts.
15-year retirement program
Washington, D. C. (NNS) — Commanders with at least two year’s
time in grade, lieutenant commanders passed over for promotion to
commander, and senior chief and master chief petty officers in 61
overmanned ratings will be eligible for the new 15-plus year retire-
ment program recently approved by the Department of Defense.
The Temporary Early Retirement Authority (TERA) permits the
services to retire selected personnel who have between 15 and 20
years of service. They receive full retirement benefits but a somewhat
smaller monthly payment.
Use of TERA in the enlisted ranks will be limited to trimming
paygrades and specialities that are overmanned. Those who have
applied for the Voluntary Seperation Incentive (VSI) or Special
Seperation Benefit (SSB) can cancel that request and apply for TERA
instead. More detailed information can be found in NAVADMIN
111/93.
A road map for life
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By Chaplain Leslie A. Cola^o
If you are looking for a formula to live by,
a certainty, a place to anchor your troubles, a
road map for life, then here is one of the finest
condensations of accumulated knowledge on
how to cope with tomorrow. It is just what we
need today. Poet Henry van Dyke wrote:
“If a man would make his record true
the following things he must do,
think without confusion clearly,
love your fellow man securely,
act from honest motives purely,
trust in heaven and God securely.”
Let us focus on the things we can do now
that are important: that we use our precious
moments on earth to the fullest extent, using
our talents for good; that we think straight,
use logic, sift facts from fantasy, and act on
our best information; and then resist the
temptation to blame ourselves for calamities
over which we have no control.
We live in a country (U.S.A.) which is as
diverse as it is vast. Here we have dug and
built, plowed and planned, conceived and
created the world’s greatest arena of opportu-
nity. In each of our hands is a part of our
neighbor’s destiny. We can feed them or kill
them, we can degrade them or upgrade them,
we can free them or enslave them. Let us
strive to motivate and inspire, to raise by
example our neighbor’s horizon.
Anhonest day’s work, a good sound effort!
Too many today would work eight hours and
sleep eight hours, but they want to do it at the
same time. It is still thrilling to hear someone
say you did a good job. How magnificent the
observation that here is an honest person on
whom you can depend!
Under attack from all sides, the heritage of
faith is our only anchor. For thousands of
years, monks and scholars have mediated
throughout a lifetime without doubting. The
greatest minds that have existed on earth
have said there is more than this world. Many
of the world’s most eminent psychiatrists and
psychologists have said that faith offers the
only stability for the human personality.
TODAY, more than ever before, the human
person reaches out for a New Damascus!
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