The El Paso Lighthouse
Volunteer of the year
2000

Paul Sullenberger

Paul was born in Piqua, Ohio and graduated from Piqua High School in 1934. He moved to Las Cruces, New Mexico to accept a job at the nearby White Sands Proving Ground as an experimental machinist.

Paul worked part-time as a radio announcer for 6 years in Las Cruces while working at White Sands. He completed 35 years in government service, including 7 years with NASA and 2 years as a Sea Bee in the U. S. Navy during World War II. Paul was Chief of Transportation and Mechanical Maintenance Division at time of retirement from White Sands Missile Range in 1983.

After retiring, he built his own home in Anthony, New Mexico that he later sold. He moved to El Paso in 1989 and began volunteering as a radio services reader in 1991.

Paul has 5 children--2 sons and 3 daughters. One daughter and one son are schoolteachers, one daughter is a Tax Collector in Oklahoma, a third daughter is retired and living in Houston, Texas. Another son, as Paul likes to say, is "in jail in Colorado" where he is actually the charge nurse for the Arapahoe County Jail Hospital.

Paul WAS the official "editor" of the El Paso Lighthouse Radio Reading Service and oversaw a dozen broadcast volunteers. Yea, Paul!