Jack Howell, third-year President of the General James R. McCarthy Chapter in Daytona Beach, Florida, has a strong desire to teach children. A retired Marine colonel, Howell excels in all aspects of teaching. He was the selected the "Teacher of the Year” in 2000 by the Florida Region, "Teacher of the Year in 2001-2002 and 2002-2003" by the Jean Ribault Senior High School in Jacksonville, Florida, the A. Scott Crossfield National "Teacher of the Year,” inducted into the "Crown Circle" by the National Congress of Aerospace Education in 2001 and selected the Aerospace Education Foundation's 2002 Christa McAuliffe National Teacher of the Year.

Howell is also involved in another student program as a Director for the Teens-In-Flight program in Palm Coast, Florida. Teens-In-Flight provides flight training and aviation maintenance scholarships to teens that lost a parent in the Global War on Terrorism or is the teen of a parent who was wounded in action and is disabled.

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