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Here are just a few of the images from the 2010 Pioneers Reunion. Go to the Photo Gallery to see more. If you have some images you would like me to post, send them to linda@skydivereunions.com.

Don't forget to go to www.flickr.com/photos/lee_guilfoyle/ This is a site put together by Lee Guilfoyle and is dedicated to photos from the 1950's, 1960's and 1970s. It is a great history of what was going on during those times. Check it out and plan to spend some time there. It is addicting. You can email Lee at lee.guilfoyle@gmail.com.

Pioneers Jump Stories

Send me your jump story and I will post. Send to linda@skydivereunions.com.

Please send either in the body of your email or in a word document. Then all I have to do is copy and paste. I am working on formatting so you can post yourself but right now the only way to get your jump story posted is to send to me.

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Tuesday, 23 February 2010

William Driver

One deceased jumper I think we missed is William Driver D-162, a true pioneer of the sport. Bill did all of his jumping in Colorado and never rose to any prominence in the sport. Along with Jim Arender and myself, he participated in Colorado's first successful double baton pass in mid-February of 1962. When I last spoke to Bill, just before my hosting the reunion in Vegas a few years ago, he was in a hospital recovery ward following a colon cancer operation. His telephone number was subsequently cancelled and i assume he didn't make it. Bill

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