I didn’t know Danny all that well. He was a face and a name recognizable to me among many that roamed the halls and classrooms of AHS. It wasn’t until after I took flight training as a PE class at CU that I re-acquainted myself with Danny. Having used up all my PE class allotted flight time, I stopped by Jefferson County airport in Broomfield (now Rock Mountain Metropolitan Airport - BJC) looking for a flight school to continue my training and stumbled across Danny. I have to say I was surprised to find Danny in a flight school setting offering flight training. I had never realized from our limited interactions at AHS, that Danny had an interest in aviation. We flew several flights polishing up my stick & rudder skills and doing cross country work before I ran out of money for flight training (a common occurrence back then) and shortly thereafter, found myself in Houston. It wasn’t until I found the website for reunion that I found out that Danny had passed. Saddened and curious to know more, I did what we all do, I Google him – I found out he was quite the entrepreneur with several businesses in aviation and ceramics. Having found Danny years ago in that flight school at Jeffco I realized I had gotten the chance to see him in the early days of his entrepreneurship.