Parks College Grads

[plnegoofy]

Just wondering if there are any fellow Parks College Alumni out there in this forum.

Thanks

 

[8HourPilot]

Not a grad, but there was this hot girl on Park's flight team about 3 years ago........wonder what happened to her?

 

[ifly34]

Parks grad of Dec '92. Don't get back to STL much anymore. Just the 6 month rides at FlightSafety.

Brian

 

[ALCOHOLIC]

Another one

You are not a real Parks grad unless you went to school in Cahokia....

 

[AWACoff]

I graduated from Parks in '99. Yeah, I have to agree with the previous poster...if you weren't puking drunk after a night at the Bat Cave or Stooges, you aren't a real Parks grad.

There aren't a lot of Parks grads in the cockpit from what I have seen. Only 7 out of my class made it to the airlines. Luckily I had
Andora as my instructor for 2.5 years. She's the best. Does anybody know if she got her 1st Class yet?

 

[Mesabi Miner]

Parks College, May, 1996. Didn't fly with Parks, but opted for the meteorology major. Picked up a few ratings on the side with Billy Bahmhuter and Downtown Air (scare) Service at CQX. You just can't beat the old Cahokia campus, the grass strip, Stooges and Pops! (the pleasant smell of Monsanto and Cerro Copper will also be embedded in my mind forever. Quite a few Mesaba pilots from Parks...

 

[TEZ]

Graduated from Parks August 1996.

Hey AWACoff I had Andora as my instuctor for my CFI. She was great. I heard she was now the Assistant or the Chief Flight Instructor, but I am not for sure. I haven't been by there in years
and I am still in the St. Louis area...shame on me.
I sure do miss the TB9...........not.....man those things were slow.
I swear we had birds passing us on cross countries.

Tom

 

[plnegoofy]

Glad to see there are a couple of us out there...I graduated in '03...yeah I am not a "True" parks grad cause by then the campus was on the other side of the river with SLU. However, to answer some of your questions, Andora is the Chief Flight Instructor now...Loring and the rest of them are ACI's, they got 5 new seminoles in my last years and got rid of the mooneys and the 310's...just a new update for 'yall. I am a flight instructor right now in NE PA. What do, or who do you guys/gals work for? If you need updates on anything else let me know

 

[cathal]

You're all forgetting PT's Centreville, amateur night. If you never made it there, you never had the whole experience the East side had to offer. That, and having one hand on the Stooge's wall and the other on the college fence while "going." I'll never forget reading about the excellence award given to Cahokia High about their day care program.
Ahh, foggy memories. I don't know if I should block them out or try to remember them.
I graduated in '96 too, and there were NO hot chicks. And most folks that were serious about being an airline pilot that went to school with me are now airline pilots- I think 90% of us are at Mesaba.
ABG all the way!
Oh, and I voted NO!

 

[RichO]

Went to Parks back in the Cahokia days from 90-92......did the meteorology/flying thing........boy, those were the days......don't you guys miss the dorms?? I remember keeping the dominos pizza guy pretty busy with that special they had for us.......oh, and there was one hot girl pilot there, but I don't remember her name, I believed she ended up flying for Hooters corp or something, I think she worked there through college........nice!!!

 

[pilotdad]

LMAO
Went to Parks in '67. Transferred to SIU Carbondale. Did not major in aviation though. You guys are pups. None of you can even imagine "Pappy Horn" who taught engineering drawing. Mercury Hall was quite new then. Only one female student on the campus at that time. By those were the good old days.

 

[Davi8r]

I was there in the early 70s. Lived in the old dorm one year and off-campus another. I'm flying RJs for SkyWest now and my ex roommate is with AirTran. Another buddy from Parks is a 737 captain with AmericaWest.

We had a few hot gals when I was there. Too bad I was more into flying then - the ever responsible CFI up at dawn and off to the airport every Saturday morning (left a lot behind on Friday nights!) How many people on this forum ever landed their airplane at Parks (and I don't mean CPS)?

-- Dave A.
Pacer N7135D

 

[Trash8Mofo]

Re: Another one

You are not a real Parks grad unless you went to school in Cahokia....

I still have one of the broken gates from the parking lot.....No, I dont, but I wish I had. Grad 2000

 

[Cows Go Moo]

Hey, it's nice to see a thread about something other than some regional disgracing the profession or some other union/contract bitch fest.

I'm a former Parks student and instructor. I do STL overnights frequently and manage to catch up with my buddies who still live there. Many are at TSA, the hometown favorite. Andora is skillfully keeping the ship afloat as Chief FI. I had lunch with her just a couple weeks ago, and yes, she's flying again (big yay!). Parks is doing well and their enrollment is increasing. I weep over the switch of aircraft, though. They got rid of all the M20Js and C310 a few years ago in lieu of Seminoles to do both the complex and multi time. Terrible. The Tampicos are still there, and they rule.

I'm a Mesa ERJ dood now. Not very many Parks guys here... most have moved on to a major just in time, unfortunately, to get furloughed in the post 9-11 downswing.

So were any of you at the save-the-old-campus ralleys in the quad in the Spring of '95? I was. Boy, we were dumb. I still have a Parks College Defense Coalition flyer in a scrapbook somewhere. And a big "I Love Cahokia" sticker on my guitar case.

Slayer!

 

[cathal]

Having transferred to Parks from a large university I thought it was great that they were moving the campus. I was in one of the last groups to actually graduate from the Cahokia campus, May '96. Never went to a rally because I didn't think it should be saved.

 

[pilotdad]

Forgot to mention that back in '67 hamburgers at the commissary at Parks were a quarter and I think gasoline was about the same price. Talking about the old dorms. A new student came in from out of state. I guess admin figured his parents would not come so they had put him in one of the "old" dorms. When he showed up for orientation, his parents had come with him and they pulled him out of the college when they saw the dorm.

For the guy who went there in the early 70's do you remember a Gary Mattingly? He might have been there about that time.

 

[AAPilot]

Went to Parks back in the Cahokia days from 90-92......did the meteorology/flying thing........boy, those were the days......don't you guys miss the dorms?? I remember keeping the dominos pizza guy pretty busy with that special they had for us.......oh, and there was one hot girl pilot there, but I don't remember her name, I believed she ended up flying for Hooters corp or something, I think she worked there through college........nice!!!

I beleive her name was Tracy? She was hot! I graduated in 1993 and live in Chi town now...Did anyone in here ever have Paul N. as a RA in Holloran Hall, building D? That guy was a freak!!

 

[catIIIc]

I graduated in May of 97. I was in the last class to graduate from the Cahokia Campus, I also did the Meteorology and flying thing. Great school, great friends, great campus.

Take care
CatIIIc

 

[RichO]

Tracy, that might be it, I remembered she was dating one of the flight instructors...........but, she was nice!!!!

 

[Davi8r]

For the guy who went there in the early 70's do you remember a Gary Mattingly? He might have been there about that time.

That name is ringing a faint bell. I'll ask my friend if he remembers.

 

[site41]

I graduated from Parks in May 1999... I spent two years on the old campus and two years on the new campus.... I spent many nights at Stooges and than hopping over to Pop'N'Pizza for some food. I fly for CoEx now and I have been back to STL many times since graduation to visit friends and campus....

Just thought I would throw my two cents in...

Site41

 

[expressjetdork]

Site 41??? who are you???? I went to Parks, finished in 95,I think, and then instructed there for 2 years. I've been here at xjet since feb 99.

Ahhh, STOOGES! TKE parties at SLU on Weds, Dwan washing his nuts in the sink every night, Patricia Stevens college skanks, KEYS and then BBC Bladder Busters on THURS, Wild Bill, and anyone remember Bob the fireman on 1st floor South (92-93 I think). And how bout Brian S's cult like debriefings? Oh and does anyone remember the legendary dance duo, DELTA FORCE???

 

[expressjetdork]

Davi8

Landed there twice, once in an Ercoupe, and the other time in a TB9-er! **CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED** those power lines on to the Southwest were tall!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Brett Hull]

Was there from '93 to '96. Didn't graduate, though. Too much hockey. Oops!

Anyone know Mike Baummer? Mesaba, maybe. If so, point him this way and have him PM me.

 

[cathal]

I know mike- dont know if anyone's told him about you, but he's here at Mesaba. I'll let him know.
A Former Mr. Parks

 

[AWACoff]

I flew at Lakes for a while after graduating Parks in December of '98. I'm at Air Wisconsin on the Bac146 now. I've never landed at Parks but I did take a mooney on a 200kt low pass (not sure how low but it sure made Andora nervous) during the annual airshow. It's kinda wierd flying head on at a formation of warbirds...whoops.

Now here's the real question...who's landed at that private grass strip a couple miles to the south of CPS? Better yet, did anybody ever land on the levy during a checkout from Downtown (sc)air?

What's with the freak of a chief pilot having you land deadstick on the sod farms during a checkout?! The rental rate was right though...CHEAP.

 

[Cows Go Moo]

Now here's the real question...who's landed at that private grass strip a couple miles to the south of CPS?

Columbia-Sackman is what it's called, I think. It appeared on charts as a private field for years, and then suddenly it didn't. At least on the one I had. A STL Class B chart came out early 1999 or so and listed it as an ordinary public-use turf field (just like Highland, if you've ever been there). I did some homework and looked for NOTAMs and called the FSS and found nothing. So, as a Parks instructor, I felt compelled to do the responsible thing and started landing there with my students. I mean, really... it was just a waste of a great field if we didn't. I found out later, if memory serves, that it was a mistake and was supposed to have remained a private field. At least it explains why that strange man was waving his arms at us when we landed there and took off again.