Harry Downing Temple This is Me

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1. 1. The New River Current Online

   www.newrivervalley.com/news/fe - [Cached]

   Published on: 10/13/1999   Last Visited: 9/7/2000

   Located on the southern edge of the Tech campus and north of the Corporate Research Center, the airport started as a federally funded emergency landing strip for commercial airplanes, said Harry Temple, a historian of Tech's Corps of Cadets. The airport was officially founded in 1931 and the still-used main hangar was built nine years later.
   
   Once a haven for barnstorming biplanes, the airport became an Army Air Corps training facility during World War II, Temple said. It has long served as a classroom for amateur pilots and sometime base for the Civil Air Patrol, as its general aviation business has soared.
   
   But the university has been unable to keep up with the demand for the airport's services. Last year, 30, 000 take-offs and landings occurred at the airport, up from 19, 258 in 1992.

2. 2. Virginia Tech Alumni Association

   www.vatechalumni.com/classring - [Cached]

   Published on: 4/19/2003   Last Visited: 1/1/2006

   The Class of 2000 chose to honor Colonel Harry Downing Temple '34, an unofficial historian for Virginia Tech and a member of his class's Ring Committee - one of the orginals.

3. 3. Tech corps of cadets loses historian, friend

   www.roanoke.com/roatimes/news/ - [Cached]

   Published on: 2/26/2004   Last Visited: 2/26/2004

   BLACKSBURG - The four years that Harry Temple spent as a cadet in Blacksburg helped inspire him to spend 28 years creating a massive six-volume history of the corps at Virginia Tech.