Donors

We gratefully acknowledge donations from the following individuals, groups and organiziations to honor smokejumpers killed in action:

Platinum Donors ($300 or more)

• Boise Area Smokejumpers
• Fred Cooper (North Cascades '62)
• Fred Donner (Missoula '59) - In memory of my good friends John Rolf (Missoula '57) and Gary Williams (Missoula '59), two fellow upstate New Yorkers who were killed in a Ford Tri-Motor crash at Moose Creek, August 4,1959
• Fred Rohrbach (Missoula '65)
• Jonathan L. Scott (McCall '48)

Gold Donors ($150 - $299)

• Jerry Dixon (McCall'71)
• Grangeville Smokejumpers
• Tom Kovalicky (Missoula '61)
• Stanley Linnertz (Missoula '61)
• Larry Lufkin (Cave Junction '63)
• Redding Area Smokejumpers
• Roland Stoleson (Missoula '56)

Silver Donors ($1 - $149)

• Anonymous. - A gift in honor of the memory of Bill Martin (LaGrande, '79) who gave me another chance and in honor of Bob Beckley (Redmond, '83) who saw an opportunity and took it. Two men who are forever in my heart
• Edward K. Courtney (Missoula '58)
• Wade Erwin (Missoula'59)
• Carl Gidlund (Missoula '58)
• George Gowen (Missoula '54)
• North Idaho Forest Service Retirees

NOTE: The NSA has fabricated 13 plaques to be distributed to the nine active BLM and Forest Service smokejumper bases, the National Interagency Fire Center and three museums. Each plaque has cost the NSA $300. Life member Fred Rohrbach has pledged that, for each $900 donated for the plaques, he will donate an additional $300. Checks should be written to the NSA and endorsed for "KIA Plaques." Mail them to NSA treasurer Dean Longanecker, P.O. Box 643, Waterville, WA 98858-0643. Thank you.