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Ray
Warren is an Ambassador from Longmont, Colorado. Ray
grew up in Illinois and like so many youth, was sure
that he wanted to be an astronaut. He scrap booked all
the articles he could find in newspapers and magazines,
on each of the manned Mercury, Gemini and Apollo missions.
Another hobby was building scale model rockets. Ray
received a lowered grade when he turned in a model of
the Vostok rocket for his geometry project which was
to demonstrate geometric shapes. The teacher thought
it was a store bought plastic model (when confronted,
the teacher marveled and gave full credit).
Ray is currently employed in the computer industry and
teaches computer applications and programming at a local
community college in the evenings. Ray is an active
member in the Longmont Astronomical Society and Longmont
Amateur Radio Club. Ray served as shuttle driver to
the 90 inch Jelm telescope near Laramie, Wyoming at
the annual Weekend Under the Stars (WUTS). He also participated
in a scheduled Amateur Radio contact for school children
with astronaut Jim Voss who was aboard the International
Space Station.
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