Notes & News Ted Strong honored for fifty years of skydiving A Huge Pat on the Back via Email

Celebrating Ted's 50 Years of Skydiving

All staff members of SE, well, almost all, the fizzy face is Bill Booth, long time business competitor and friend. We put together a six way round and geeked at each other for a couple of thousand feet. Sara had the lowest number of jumps with 60. Fun jump for all. Left to right, Frank Deazley, head of R&D; Mike Rinaldi, Sales Manager; Tom Noonan, Tandem Administrator at SE; Ted Strong , President, SE; Bill Booth, President of United Parachute Technologies; Bill Morrissey, Tandem Administrator (1984-2001), now Consultant for SE; Sara Poremski, Ted's Administrative Assistant at SE.

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We recently received this via e-mail:

From: William Stapleton
Date: April 28, 2008 8:14:58 PM EDT
To: sales@strongparachutes.com
Subject: HUGE PAT ON THE BACK!!!!!!

I just wanted to write this to admire you for your actions concerning the
small dropzone in Ireland.  I am a fun jumper from NY, with a minmal 150
jumps.  I have no connection to your equipment nor the the irish dropzone.  I
am simply amazed at your compassion.  I will be writing to the USPA to suggest
some kind of recognition for your wondorous deeds.  In a time where business'
have become driven by money and not satisfaction of customers you have risen
to the cream of the crop.  I have heard things about your equipment at
dropzones, some not so good, but I will honestly never listen to it again ( I
feel most of the things said is more a high school popularity contest, and not
a quality of equipment issue, which is unfortunate).  Hopefully this story
reaches the masses so everyone can see what type of company you are.  You
should truly feel extremely good about yourselves as you have become better
people because of this.  Your dedication to the sport has been shown through
this amazing 'good samaritan' story.
 
Walk proud gentlemen (and ladies) as you are true heroes.
 
Blue skies!!!
 
Billy Stapleton 
B-30169 

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