Bill Rujevcan

Directly attributable to this website and the reunion activities, I have been able to re-connect with the most wonderful woman in the world who I love very much and who is better known to Hobart Brickies as Kimberly Berry. I am fortunate that Kim has taken me up on my offer to live in California and be a part of my and my girls' lives. On New Year's eve 2009, I proposed to Kimberly, who accepted, and amidst the backdrop of the Pacific Ocean on a gorgeous summer night on September 10, 2010, we were married. She has made me the happiest man in the world! You know the saying, two Brickies are better than one!

I have lived in California since graduating college in 1983. I have been involved in US Air Force space projects including space shuttle, Titan rocket and DOD satellite programs while in the Air Force until 1991. I worked for myself for 6 years in real estate related endeavors, and then joined Boeing in 1998 and have worked on an international project with Russian, Ukrainian and Norwegian companies, called Sea Launch, where we launch large commercial satellites (like XM Radio, DirecTV, Dish Network) on an ocean based platform at the equator. I am a Mission Director for Sea Launch and run the launch countdown operations (www.sea-launch.com).

As I had no date for the senior prom nor a girlfriend, I asked my friend Kim Berry if she would like to go and she accepted. Between my asking Kim to the prom, and the prom itself, I subsequently became involved with another girl. I then asked Kim if she wouldn't mind allowing me to go to the prom with my new girlfriend while I helped find her another date. She has silently suffered over this for 30 years.

Stories with Jeff Coons and Bill Cook are too numerous to note and not rated for this website.