Russell Rulon Bateman Personal History Guide Lines

EARLY LIFE

HIGH SCHOOL YEARS ARMY NAVY AIR FORCE

 

CONVAIR & ASTRONAUTIC
GENERAL DYNAMICS
OTHER EMPLOYMENT STATE OF UTAH BONNEVILLE COMMUNICATIONS CIVIL AIR PATROL

 

LDS CHURCH FRIENDS AUTO OWNED AMATEUR RADIO MILITARY AMATEUR RADIO

 

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH        

Experiences of Russell R. Bateman

I am told that you first write down  thing you can remember that you have done in your life time,. Then work to document each of these experiences.

UNDER CONSTRUCTION

4th of July celebration Washington D. C. Mall - Went to the

Acropolis,  Athens, Greece (include the Parthenon)  Visited

Air Scout-  1944

Associated Public Communications Officers - A members of a National Committee -

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American Radio Relay League - (ARRL) long time member.

At Sea on ships - (Destroyers- Henley DD762, Meredith DD890 and Ellison DD864) one continuous year

Attacked by gang of about 15 young boys (around 12 -17 years of age)- Palermo, Sicily (Sicilia,) Italy

Artic Circle - Visited Artic Circle in Alaska and Norway (Member of the Royal Order OF Blue Noses)

Bob Hope/ Marylyn Monroe show, Piccadilly Circus - London England Sat on the front row at a USO type show.

Boy Scout Tenderfoot, second class, First Class

Bountiful, Utah - lived there 13 years.

CAP repeater first in the United States - First one to be licensed, installed  and operated the US.

Cape Kennedy Space Center Florida  - Senior Escort for Civil Air Patrol Cadets to the

Cedar City, Utah lived lived there 2 years

Chinese Code -  intercept operator. U. S. Navy Security Group

Children - Four Great kids - Russ Jr, Randy, Nedra and Nesya

Citizen Band SIAC ( State industrial Advisory Committee) national committee member, setting up the guidelines for the 27 MHz band.

Coast Guard National Search and Rescue School, Governor Island, N. Y. Graduated from the - 11 July 1970

Colorado River - River running through the Grand Canyon.

Coliseum, Roma, Italy Visited

Convair Consulted Voltee Air Craft -  Employee (F102, F106, R3Y, T29, Sea Dart, Pogo Stick, etc)

Cyrillic Code (Russian) trained intercept operator.. U. S. Navy Security Group

Design Awards - Convair

Dixie College - attended

Del Mar, California -(Del Mar Mesa)  lived near

Eiffel Tower, Paris France - Visited

Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) # 33420 Certification 29 June 1974

Emergency Landing on Umnack Island, Alaska due to loss of Hydraulics' on four Engine Aircraft (Navy R5D)

Emergency Medical Technician Training - Graduated 29 June 1974

Entripid Battleship - (sister ship to the Bizmark) German.  Saw it while capsized in Norwegian Cove (1951)

Farmer - Lived on Farm north of Idaho Falls, Idaho

Fire Arms Dealer License number 87-699

Find Ribbon - Earned for locating (from the air) a Mail Plane that had been lost for three months

FM Broadcast Translator 94.3 MHz Owner & Licensee

Garland, Utah - Lived there 1 year

General Dynamics - San Diego -  Design Engineer - Supervisor - Atlas Missile Systems

High School - Graduated Twice (Woodward High & Dixie High)

High Altitude Chamber Test -Completed Training - Phoenix Az

Japan (28 days) Senior Escort for Civil Air Patrol Cadets

KSUB Radio Station - worked for - Was Engineer for first broadcast out of St. George

KSL - TV Station - (Bonniville International)  worked for 15 years

Littleton, Colorado -  (Denver) lived in

LDS Service Missionary - Service missionary - St. George Temple Visitors Center

LDS Service Missionary - St. George Regional Family History Training Center

LDS Mission - St. George Temple Visitors Center and Historic Sites - Assistant to director

LDS Service Missionary - Cove Fort Historic Site

London, England - (Navy Department) Stationed out of

Lost at Sea - feeling when my ship was blown a way while I swimming in the Mediterranean Ocean. For a period of time I could not see the ship or any other people,

Married a beautiful "Red Head" 1954 - Myrna Gaye Barton

Master M-men - Completed requirements 1953

Master M-men-Gleaner - Elected President - San Diego Area 1953

Maxwell Air Force Base .Staff College, Alabama - Graduated

Meritorious Service Award - U. S. Air Force

Exceptional Service Award - U. S. Air Force

Mission Coordinators School - Hamilton Air force Base, California - Graduated

Mobile Communication Center for the State of Utah Designed and built a 29 passengers type bus into a

Modern Style Store custodian -which was a ladies dress shop 1945

Morgan, Utah - Lived in

Mountain State Telephone - Worked for (8 years)

Movie Theater Manager - Gaiety Theater St. George, Utah 1948

Movie Theater Projectionist Utah, Parks, Gaiety, Wadworth.... Radio City, Adak, Alaska

National City, California - Lived in

NASA Space Center, Houston Texas - Senior Escort for Civil Air Patrol Cadets

National Search and Rescue Organization Served as First Secretary  (Hal Foss - Washington was president, Blair Nelson as Vice President.)

National Search and Rescue Conference- First in US .- Served as chairman for Conference - Salt Lake City, Utah

National Civil Air Patrol Communications Committee- Lobbied board to permit Radio Repeater Operation

NEC Broadcast Transmitter School. Tokyo Japan Graduated from 26 June 1987

Offered a beautiful young girl if I would take her to the United States - Salonica (Thessalonica) , Greece

Pistol shooting team - 1952 - was a members of a

President Mc Kay - Was alone with - for about 15 minutes - 16th Street Chapel - Washington D. C.

Pope, Roma, Italy, was close enough that he offered me his "Ring to kiss" ( a Catholic special honor)

Queen of Greece - met and talked with her at reception for our Ship at Athens Greece

Radio Society of Great Britain - member of the

Roddy Mc Dowell - Played and associated with- on Cedar Mountain while he was filming "My Friend Flicka  (1944)

Russian Boarder - Few along the Norwegian/Russian Boarder in a Norwegian PBy5. 1951

Russian Cyrillic code intercept operator

Salt Lake City, Utah - (Rose Park)  lived in

St. George, Utah - Lived in

State of Utah - Emergency Services (Civil Defense) - Employee - 15 years

San Diego, California - lived there 13 years

San Diego State College - attended

San Diego Junior college - AA Degree 

State Of Utah - Search and Rescue Coordinator - Served as

State of Utah - Warning Plan - 1970 Wrote and published 1970

State of Utah - Radio conversion from low band to high band. - Wrote the conversion plan - 1971

Time Square in New York City on New Years Eve 1951

Tom Ex- Met with a popular Movie Star in Idaho Falls, Idaho (1935)

U S Air Force MARS, Region 5 Staff  Member (Five States - Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho, Washington.)

UCLA (at San Diego) - attended

University of Utah - attended

University of Denver, - attended

Washington, D. C. -  Lived there twice -  (while stationed at Cheltenham, MD and the Naval Security Headquarters )

Washington DC Monument - 1951 Claimed up the steps of the

Water Boy - 1996 Wagon Train  Cove Fort to Cedar City

 www.stgeorgelive.org - webmaster

 www.sonsofutahpioneers.info webmaster

 www.covefort.com webmaster

 www.stgeorgetemplevisitorscenter.org   webmaster

www.familyhistorycenter.org   webmaster

 www.utahsdixie.info -   webmaster

Weber State College - Met the requirements for graduation -

Words Fair Vancouver, Canada - Visited

World Fair - London, England 1951 Visited

 

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