Memorial Wing - Dave Fritzsche

We should be finalizing our plans for the chapter memorial wing.  Here is the information I had as of last summer.  Tom Worth will also need to be included.

Dave

EAA Chapter 326 Memorial Wing

Here is a breakdown of the projected costs for our memorial wing.  The total cost will depend upon whether we engrave bricks for the members we can identify who have died, 8 shown below, or if we also include the 28 founding members names with no dates for them.  The eight will include birth and death dates and the N number of one aircraft if they owned one.  Either way, the memorial will consist of 96 bricks with room for expansion.  As members pass, their names will be engraved on one of the plain bricks.  The bricks will be engraved by the same company that engraved the bricks for Puyallup's Pioneer Park.  It was my understanding that the memorial is to be funded entirely by the chapter with no contributions requested from the departed member's families.

Several decisions need to be made before the memorial becomes a reality.

1.  How are we going to fund the memorial?

2.  When will the memorial be built?

3.  Who is going to help build the memorial?

4.  Who is going to haul the materials? (bricks will need to go to engraver and then to Thun.

Dave

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Material costs -- Deceased members for whom we have names and life dates:

Joseph C. Andrews, 1936-2012, N122JA

Howard S "Bud" Blancher, 1932 - November 20, 2007, N41950 (1941 Luscombe)

Raymond Kealoha Blatt, June 6, 1937 - December 18, 2006, N147DM

John Edward Brick, September 26, 1940 - August 1, 2014, N474JB

Hugh C. Farmer, February 25, 1928 - May 13, 2014

William Joseph Lucas, April 7, 1935 - October 24, 2014

Burdette Lloyd Skinner, August 9, 1937 - September 26, 2009, N5137A

David A. Vermeersch, March 28, 1960 - September 6, 2011, N569DP

Material costs 8 members who have died

96 bricks @ 1 =                                          $96.00

Engraving for 8 bricks 19/brick for three lines          152.00

1 memorial marker 12 x 24                                150.00

3 Paver edge restraints @ 10.66 =                         31.98

20 Paver edge spikes @ .81 =                              16.20

1 bag interlocking joint sand                              5.00

2 bags Bedding sand (1 inch deep) - @ 3.55 =               7.10

16 bags 3/4" minus crushed rock (4 inches deep) - @6.01 = 96.16

                                            Total       $554.44

Extra cost to include founding members with one line engraved:

engraving for 28 bricks                                  $476

Each wing measures 32" x 48" or 16" x 96" depending on direction bricks are laid.  I am tending to favor the 16" by 96" direction.

We will need to rent some type of tamping tool to pack the rock and brick.

There is a informative video on creating a patio which pertains to our memorial in structure.  It is in two parts at the following URLs:

Day 1--www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0D_E4CCNik

Day 2--www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTF56OlM8hg