We submit for the Wall of Honor our parents, Rose Hartley and Arthur G. Stedman, Jr., their love of flight has inspired us throughout our lives. The core values of the Civil Air Patrol they joined in their youth were passed on to us throughout our lives: Integrity, Volunteer Service, Excellence, and Respect. This is their story.
Arthur G. Stedman, Jr., the only child of Elsie Maczis & Arthur G. Stedman, Sr. born February 19, 1929 in Baltimore, soloed in an Ercoupe in 1946 out of the Baltimore Municipal Airport; he was a junior at Calvert Hall High School. Art graduated to flying his own Globe Swift, his pride and joy, he logged about 300 hours between 1946 and 1950. He was a member of the Civil Air Patrol while in high school. He worked as a line boy driving a 1200 gallon fuel truck at Baltimore Harbor Field (now known as Dundalk Marine Terminal). In 1949, he met his wife of over 50 years, Rose Hartley, at the Westminster airport.
Rose Hartley, the youngest of 10 children born to George & Sophie Hartley on February 13, 1931, soloed in 1948 in a Cessna 120. She was a junior at Catholic High at the time. Rose logged 100 hours in the Piper Cub she owned with another female flyer. She was a member of the Civil Air Patrol while in high school, and remembers climbing on roofs to paint directional information for flyers with the Civil Air Patrol. Rose worked for the Army Air Force Exchange after graduating from Catholic High. When she met Art, he flew her through a Loop in his Globe Swift and she was on cloud nine. They married on October 27, 1951.
Art and Rose stopped flying to start a family, but their love of flight and the space program never dwindled. As a family we camped out in our living room at 1658 Northbourne Road in Baltimore, Maryland to watch Neil Armstrong walk on the moon on July 20, 1969. That year for their anniversary, Arthur gave Rose a moonstone ring with the date of the moon walk engraved inside.
The waterskiing boat they raised us on to love the Chesapeake Bay may have been named "Dun Fly'n", but they never stopped inspiring us to reach for the stars.