Through the years, for whatever reason, Cookie had about a half-dozen of us, unbeknown to each other, scanning the same sets of photos. No negatives, just photos. When he finally agreed to have some CD's put out, we had to cull all the duplicates, triplicates, sometimes even four or five of the same picture. Then we had to identify almost all the pictures because he had "saved" the images from the engineering department, but he hadn't "saved" the list that identified the locations. We finally narrowed the collection to 1,200 images, about 1,000 of which we were finally able to identify.
This whole project, which culminated in the six CD's we offer, took almost a year of hard work, and there's a whole list of dedicated people who need to be thanked, including but not limited to George Lortz, Max Foltz, Dave Ritenour, Joe Land, Tom Kepshire, Gene Remaly, Pete Pedigo, Steve Dolzall, no doubt you Mark, and several others whose names elude me right now. Cookie's name was on the CD's, because he "saved" the images, but they're available to everyone because of the hard work and dedication of those I mention above. / Ron
