Lift - Spring 2013 - (Page 12)
NAVIGATING
HOME
ALUMNI SHARE PERSONAL
JOURNEYS OF CHALLENGE AND
SUCCESS AT ANNUAL REUNIONS
DOMINO EFFECT
The stories in this section highlight the personal
and professional journeys of four of our alumni
who attended either the 2012 Homecoming/Alumni
Weekend in Daytona Beach, Fla., or OctoberWest
in Prescott, Ariz. For some of them, this was their
first visit to campus since graduation; for others,
the pilgrimage “home” is an annual tradition.
All alumni are encouraged to attend homecoming
activities this year on Oct. 3–5 in Prescott and
Nov. 7–9 in Daytona Beach. For more
information visit the eaglesNEST:
www.eraualumni.org/homecoming.
BY SARA WITHROW
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Jody (Fisher) Davis (’03, PC) liked to draw triangleshaped houses as a child. By the third grade, she
was drawing floor plans. “I loved design, she says.
”
When she turned 13, a new infatuation was born.
“I saw the movie Apollo 13 six or seven times in the
theater, Davis says. “I developed an obsession with
”
space and NASA.
”
A family friend, commercial airline pilot Lisa
Wagner (’94, ’02, PC), now deceased, introduced
Davis to Embry-Riddle and helped her discover the
perfect marriage of both her passions: aerospace
engineering. The epiphany set her on the path to a
lucrative and fulfilling career. Now a flight mechanics
technical lead for another project at NASA Langley,
Davis was an integral member of the entry, descent
and landing team for the Mars Science Laboratory
(MSL)/Curiosity rover. At 10:32 p.m. on Aug. 5, 2012
PDT, it was Davis who announced “Tango Delta
Nominal” from the war room at NASA’s Jet Propulsion
Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology—
the first of three final steps confirming Curiosity’s
touchdown on the surface of Mars.
“I was nervous and super excited, she says of the
”
“seven minutes of terror, a phrase coined by NASA
”
representing the time it would take Curiosity to enter
PHOTO BY A STORYBOOK MOMENT PHOTOGRAPHY
Aerospace engineer Jody Davis
(‘03, PC) falls into place at NASA
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Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Lift - Spring 2013
Lift - Spring 2013
Contents
Chatter
Feedback
A Soulful Presence
Riddle Field
Higher Learning
Alumni Weekend/ OctoberWest
Navigating Home
Riding on Real Estate
Doctors’ Remedy
Helping Eagles Fly
Alumni News
Class Notes
Lift - Spring 2013
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