David's Life

Got Born

12/28/1926

Winston-Salem NC, Mother Ruth, Father Melville

Met Jody Kamm

February 1962

Married to Jody Kamm

4/28/1962 - 2019-12-29

Moved to Huntsville, AL

1962-05-01

First child Kamm Born

3/22/1963

Second Child Robert Born

2/26/1965

Third Child Vickery Born

1/2/1967

Moved to Houston, TX

1967-07-01

Returned to Seattle, WA

1977-01-01

St. Barnabas Parish

1977-01-01 - Present

Volunteer Monroe State Penitentiary

1986-01-01 - 1988-12-01

Retired From Boeing

1995-12-01

First Grandchild Naya Prongay-McCall

2003-07-01

Second Grandchild Holly Prongay

2006-09-01

Third Granchild Talia Prongay

2008-08-01

Beloved Wife Jody dies

2019-12-29

Survives Covid

2021-05-01

World Events

Women's Right to Vote

1920-01-01

Prohibition

1920-01-17 - 1933-12-05

Global Population 2,000,000,000

1927-01-01

Television Commercially Available

1927-01-01

Lindberg solos the Atlantic

1927-05-01

Stock Market Crash

1929-10-01

Great Depression

1932-01-01 - 1938-06-30

Talking Movies Snow White, Gone With the Wind

1937-06-30

World War II

1939-09-01 - 1945-08-01

Pearl Harbor

12/7/1941

Tupperware

1942-01-01

Atomic Bomb Trinity Test

1945-07-16

Los Alomos, NM

End of World War II

August 1945

Super Sonic Flight

1947-10-01

Transistor Invented

1947-12-01

First Credit Card-Diners Club

1950-01-01

Global Population 2,500,000,000

1950-01-01

Korean War

1950-06-25 - 1953-07-27

First Hydrogen Bomb

1952-10-31

U.S. Involvement in Vietnam

1956-01-01 - 1973-10-01

Sputnik Launched

1957-10-01

Global Population 3,015,000,000

1960-01-01

Seattle World's Fair

1962-04-01 - 1962-10-01

Global Population 4,070,000,000

1975-01-01

Global Population 5,050,000,000

1987-01-01

Internet

1993-10-01 - present

Global Population 6,007,000,000

1998-01-01

iPhone

2007-06-29

Global Population 7,000,000,000

2011-01-01

COVID Pandemic

2020-03-01 - 2022-04-01

Global Population 8,000,000,000

2022-01-01

Education and Career

Graduated R.J. Reynold HS, Winston-Salem, NC

1944-06-01

Graduated VPI

June 1950

MIT Master's in Aeronautical Engineering

1950-09-01 - 1952-06-01

Bomarc Missile-Guidance

1952-09-01 - 1955-06-01

Saturn V Program

1962-04-01 - 1973-12-01

Panama Canal System Inegration Contract

1974-06-01 - 1976-06-01

Space Shuttle

1976-06-01 - 1977-01-01

757 767 Digital Flight Deck

1977-01-01 - 1983-05-01

Bainbridge Choral

1990-01-01

Boeing Events

Boeing Company Founded

1916-07-15

Seattle, WA

Boeing 247 Passenger Plane

1933-06-30

Boeing Clipper

1938-06-15

B17

1939-01-01

B52

1952-04-15

Boeing 707

1957-12-20

Bomarc Missile-Guidance

1959-01-01

727 Enters Service

1963-02-09

737 Enters Service

1967-04-09

First Saturn V Flight-Dad work on first stage engines

1967-11-09

Apollo 8 in Lunar Orbit-Dad works on guidance, not much sleep

1968-12-01

Apolo 11 lands on moon-Dad worked on guidance

1969-07-01

First Widebody 747

1969-09-01

First Lunar Rover-Dad's team worked on controls

1971-07-31

First Space Shuttle Columbia

1981-04-12

First 767 Flight-Dad's team produced the first all digital flight deck for commercial aircraft

1981-06-26

757 Flies

1982-09-01

Last 707

1991-04-30

First 777 flight-Dad's team were lead system integration and test

1994-06-12

777 gets over the water certification-First Twin jet

1995-06-01