There are also more pictures from the 2000s in the Travel and Dani posts.
Disney Milestones
Linda with Marty Sklar at her 20th year service awards dinner for Walt Disney Imagineering. She got the man’s ring, figuring she’d been doing a man’s job for 20 years.Linda was shocked at the 2002 Walt Disney Imagineering Engineering Awards dinner, when she won this award for Outstanding Performance.Linda holds her 25-year statuette of Tinkerbell at the Walt Disney Imagineering Service Awards Dinner, November, 2004.Linda speaking about Theme Park Engineering at Windermere Preparatory School. (l to r) Cameron, Cory, Linda, Dani, Christina, Dan
From Linda’s 2002 Outstanding Performance Award:
Linda is in a unique position, providing show control engineering and systems for many WDI projects in Florida. Linda has earned a reputation for being able to get the job done, even when the budget is less than the cost of a Diet Coke. Through all of this, she always maintains a positive can-do attitude. Linda ought to be commended for her Outstanding Performance.
Early 2000s
Linda was proud of the tree, Christmas 2000Halloween, 2001Halloween, 2001Tucker, January 2002At last it can be revealed… what REALLY happens to the cookies and milk on Christmas Eve.We’ve got our work cut out for us at the fair! I’ve been judging wines since 1992. This is the 2002 batch, with Jeanne Burgess and Mary Studt.
Lego League (2001-2002)
In 2001 I started teaching Lego League after hours at Windermere Prep.
Lego League 2001The playfieldJanuary 2002Week 2, 2002
25th Anniversary (2003)
Our 25th anniversary, celebrated at the Ritz Carlton Amelia Island.
Fort ClinchPlaying miniature golf in Fernandina BeachDinner at the Ritz Carlton Dining Room and a lovely dessert to commemorate the occasionChristmas Eve 2003 at Victoria and Albert’s
Figure Sculpting (2003-2004)
In October 2003 I began taking a figure sculpting class at Crealde School of Art.
Work in progress, with the model, Harmony, in the backgroundThe finished sculpture
50th Birthdays & Milestones
In early 2005 Dani asked for a home theater for her birthday. I remodeled an upstairs bedroom, taking the theme from her fascination with all things Star Trek. Not shown: the glowing starfield ceiling.Steve’s 50th birthdayFor Linda’s 50th birthday I gave her the control panel she designed for the Indiana Jones Stunt Theater at Disney/MGM Studios!The Indy controls were recently upgraded — after more than a decade of use — and this panel turned up on eBay. Before opening it, Linda actually guessed it was a Disney control panel!Linda and Chris Senchak designed this system, which became the standard architecture for all stunt theaters that followed, around the world.A lovely dinner in Luma’s private dining room on my 51st birthday. John & Debbie Henline, Martin Chaney, and Suzanne Taix joined us.
Later 2000s
At the Charlotte Martin concert at The Social in downtown Orlando, September 30, 2007Thanksgiving in Williamsburg, 2007April 2009 – The great staff at Alcorn McBride turned my office into It’s a Small World to welcome me back after my hospital stay. My favorite feature was the CD player drawer that rocked the teeter-totter!Thanksgiving dinner in Evanston 2009. Linda found it a challenge fixing dinner with an oven that would only hold the turkey, but it turned out beautifully.Ready for the new decade, New Years Eve 2009
