[List] Obit of VU Alumnus Sam Vance

[Cecil Stokes]

*A story I had not heard is in the current VU alumni magazine:
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*SAMUEL LEDCREIGli VANCE, *BE'5E3, of Huntsville, Ala., Aug. 22, 2024.-- 
He joined Thiokol Chemical Corp. in 1959. where he worked on propellants 
and explosives. Sam and his wife, Dolores, welcomed two sons: Ledcreigh 
Stuart in 1963 and William Huntoon in 1966. Early in his career, Sam 
brought home strips of propellant and on July 4, shot them out of a 
homemade launcher. The strips fired off at great speed, and being 
flexible, performed exciting aerobatics before burning out. This 
practice ended in 1969, when one of the strips rocketed into a 
neighbor's bush, vaporizing it on contact. Fortunately. their home 
exterior V12.5 brick, so the damage was limited to the foliage. After 
that, his boys were allowed only sparklers. He is survived by his son 
Stuart and Stuart's wife, Teri, a granddaughter and two great-grandsons.**

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