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My husband, Jim Stockman, is looking for his birth father. He found his birth mother about fifteen years ago, but he has not found his birth father yet. His birth mother does not know much about his birth father, but this is what she has shared with us:

He went by the name of: *Buddy Taylor*
He was a *Master Sergeant in the Air Force*.
He was stationed at an AFB in Arkansas.
There were two divisions stationed at *Little Rock AFB the* *summer of 1957* :
*- 384th Bombardment Wing, Medium*
*- 825 Strategic Aerospace Division* (we do not know which he would have been in)
He had *red hair*.
Jim's birth mother is: Doris.
They met the summer of 1957 in Arkansas. Jim was born March 19, 1958, full-term.
Jim was conceived around June, 1957.
Doris worked as a waitress at a local bar and grill with dancing.
Doris met Buddy at this local bar and grill while she was working.
Doris said the bar and grill might have been in Blytheville Arkansas.

If you know of any information or how to learn of any information, we would be greatly appreciative. I do not believe they were in a relationship.

You can email Jim and Ann at lookingforbuddytaylor@gmail.com

On 04 April 2010 I received this message from Jack Bixler:

I was googling Bob Persing and came across your site with the pictures at LRAFB. I was stationed there from Oct 1955 until July 1956. I was friends with Persing, Nnat, Rusnak, Dellinger and Pitcavage..Also there was Jim Kinsey, Jim (Hank) Snow and Cerosky. Kinsey and Cerosky were married while there in a double ceremony. The last time I saw Persing was when I worked in Cleveland and he was attending Oberlin College. It was great coming across your website.

Jack Bixler

He gave permission to supply his email address to any of the "named airmen" above. I'm at frank@fsheff.com.

Meanwhile, back at the LRAFB barracks ...

Here you can see the dislocated, homesick young Airmen escaping into activity.

In the Gary Player outfit is Menominee, Michigander Ronald J. Lupien. He was the only one of the four who had ever actually golfed on a links. Deep in a backswing, maybe his first ever, is Chuck McDaniel, Columbus, Ohio. Your OBedient Servant, wearing an icky 50s California shirt and an embarrassed grin, looks past Texan Jacky R. Smith, whose face is actually on the front of his head, and not pointed our way.

Lupien eventually dragged Conrad Ward and me to a local public course where we enjoyed the fine weather. Ward got an evil sunburn through his shirt. Lupien was very patient. I shot a memory-assisted 116.

A few weeks later the same trio hit the municipal course near War Memorial Stadium in Little Rock. Site of The Fighting Razorbacks' sentimental victories. One of the tees was above the stadium rim, and the green was down there at the bottom of a steep hill. Lupien recommended a seven iron. I think it was way too much club. I sliced that sucker up and into the concrete bowl, where it could be heard for what seemed like minutes, making that not-unpleasant whangg-whangg-whangg ringing sound you can sometimes find in tunnels and handball courts. I took another swing, and eventually scored 106.

I golfed once more, two years later, on the Base course at Barksdale. I carded a 96. Quit while I was ahead. For once.

Lupien was a rhythm man, a drummer. He bought bongos and played them with drumsticks. "Loop," he was called, or "Ronny-John," and he had some interesting things to say about Adolph Hitler. His musical idol was Barrett Deems, whom he saw when Louis Armstrong played near his place.

There was something loose he did with his wrists when he walked, and something Charlie Chaplin about his walk.

Another view of Lupien, with Bob Munns looking on.

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