{"id":27618,"date":"2024-01-15T02:20:31","date_gmt":"2024-01-15T02:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saj.pachecostudios.com?p=27618"},"modified":"2024-01-15T02:20:33","modified_gmt":"2024-01-15T02:20:33","slug":"lone-star-flight-museum-names-pete-olson-chairman-of-the-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/state-news\/texas\/lone-star-flight-museum-names-pete-olson-chairman-of-the-board\/%20","title":{"rendered":"Lone Star Flight Museum Names Pete Olson Chairman of the Board"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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On January 1, 2024, former U.S. congressman Pete Olson was\nnamed Chairman of the Board of the Lone Star Flight Museum. The Board of\nDirectors unanimously elected Olson to the position on December 4, 2023. He\nsucceeds Scott Rozzell, who had served as board chair for the past nine years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rozzell led the museum\u2019s move from Galveston Island to\nEllington Airport in 2017 after Hurricane Ike had severely damaged the Museum\nand destroyed numerous historic aircraft. Under the guidance of Rozzell and\nmuseum president and CEO Doug Owens, Lt. Gen. (ret), the re-imagined museum has\novercome unique challenges and achieved numerous successes since opening at\nEllington.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“It has been an honor and privilege to serve as Chair\nof the Lone Star Flight Museum’s Board of Directors and I’m proud of the great\nstrides made by the Museum over the last nine years. The museum has become one\nof the premier aviation history and STEM education facilities in Texas. All of\nthis was made possible by the hard work of our Board, our talented staff,\ndedicated volunteers, and the support of our generous donors. The board has\nchosen an excellent Chair in Pete Olson. With his background in public service,\nfirst as a naval aviator and later as a member of Congress for 12 years, Pete\nhas the experience and skill set to accelerate the Museum’s upward trajectory.\nI look forward to serving with Pete as he assumes his new role.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Owens added, \u201cScott has been instrumental in the museum\u2019s\nevolution over the past nine years, and I thank him for his leadership,\npartnership and friendship. Through both challenges and successes, he\u2019s been a\nsteady hand and it\u2019s been a privilege to work with him. I am very happy he is\nstaying engaged with us. Scott leaves the Chair in great hands, and I am very\nexcited and look forward to working with Pete Olson as we continue offering a\nworld-class flight museum and STEM education center to our visitors. Pete\nbrings a wealth of experience and enthusiasm to the Chair, and we look forward\nto his leadership and many great years ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Olson will lead the 22-member board and work alongside Owens\nand the museum staff on both short- and long-term goals to build upon the\nmuseum\u2019s successes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Olson said, \u201cI am so honored and extremely humbled to have\nbeen nominated by Scott and I\u2019m grateful for the support of Doug and our entire\nboard. I grew up in Clear Lake Forest and graduated from Clear Lake High School\nin 1981. Watching and hearing military and NASA training flights flying\noverhead from Ellington were part of my daily life It\u2019s what inspired me to\nbecome a U.S. Navy pilot after finishing law school.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He added, \u201cI had the privilege of working with the Lone Star\nFlight Museum team as their representative in Congress for twelve years. I\ntoured the museum in Galveston after Ike\u2019s destruction, so I know how far our\nmuseum has come in such a short time. Scott and Doug have greatly strengthened\nour museum with record attendance, additions of NASA training systems, newly\nacquired and visiting aircraft, and a robust science, technology, engineering,\nand mathematics (STEM) program, inspiring young people toward careers in STEM\nand aviation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I intend to build upon these successes as we embark on a new\ncampaign to dramatically expand our education programs and exhibits while\nmaking our financial position even stronger for our future. Our board members\nare the best \u201cwingmen\u201d a chairman could ask for, and together, we will achieve\nall of our goals.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On January 1, 2024, former U.S. congressman Pete Olson was named Chairman of the Board of the Lone Star Flight Museum. The Board of Directors unanimously elected Olson to the position on December 4, 2023. He succeeds Scott Rozzell, who had served as board chair for the past nine years. Rozzell led the museum\u2019s move […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-texas"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27620,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27618\/revisions\/27620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}