User:Mark Sublette

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C. Mark Sublette, born at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio in 1956, grew up in an Air Force family and moved around the country with his father Major Richard A. Sublette's assignments. His mother is Dr. Julia Wright Sublette. He has two brothers, Carey Patrick, of Rancho Cucamonga, California, and Wright Daniel, of Fort Walton Beach, Florida. His sister, Sylvia Judith Sublette Bennett, passed away 14 April 2007, age 45, at her home in Fort Walton Beach after a long illness. Funeral arrangements were handled by the Sandifer Funeral Home in Westminster, South Carolina, with meet and greet at the home on Tuesday, May 1, 2007 from 9:30 to 10:45 a.m., and a graveside service at 11 a.m. in the Westminster First Baptist Church Memorial Park. Kathryn L. Young sang at the service.

Public schooling in Lubbock, Texas (1961-63), (where he was baptized in the First Christian Church in 1962), Westminster, South Carolina (August 1963), Falls Church, Virginia (1963-68), Redlands, California (1968-72) with high school graduation in Fort Walton Beach, Florida in 1974. Member of the Boy Scouts of America, 1968-1974, achieving the rank of Life. Member of the Order of the Arrow, ATSA lodge, San Bernardino Council. Red Cross volunteer, Redlands, 1970-72. Volunteer hose hauler for the California Division of Forestry, brushfires, San Bernardino County, 1971. Attended Clemson University, South Carolina (1974-75, 1977-1980) as a history major and communications minor but did not graduate. A member of the Clemson Tiger Band for six years, playing French Horn and Mellophone. Member of Mu Beta Psi music honor fraternity, Delta Chapter. Current member of the Clemson Alumni Band. Extensive media training at The Tiger, the campus student newspaper, TAPS, the annual, and WSBF-FM, the student radio station. Thanks to being spoiled by the WSBF library, he now has collection of some three thousand albums and c.d.s. Wrote for the Clemson Messenger as a news reporter and Accent section editor, August-December 1980. Freelance coverage of the shooting of President Ronald Reagan from George Washington University Hospital, Washington Circle, Washington, D.C., March 30, 1981, carried on the South Carolina News Network.

He speaks rudimentary German and a smattering of Japanese.

A resident of the Washington, D.C. area since 1981, he lives in Falls Church, Virginia and has served for eighteen years as a sleeping car attendent with Amtrak, and prior to that was the Washington station manager for the American-European Express luxury train. His Amtrak service has been primarily on the Capitol Limited between Washington and Chicago. He has been featured in news coverage about Amtrak in the Washington Post and the Chicago Tribune and on CBS News Eye On America with Bob Orr. He wrote a news column about the CSX railroad company for RailNews magazine for several years and has contributed news and photos to a variety of transportation and military publications. He has been a contributor to Lars Olausson's C-130 Production List since 1976. He maintains an ongoing interest in military subjects, amongst others. He has been a volunteer at the Claude Moore Colonial Farm in Langley, Virginia for eighteen years. Sublette is also a member of the Sons of the American Legion, Post 130, Falls Church, Virginia, and a charter member of the Men's Auxiliary, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Post 8241, McLean, Virginia. He maintains memberships in the Society of Armament Museum Friends, the Berlin Airlift Historical Foundation, the Clemson University Tiger Band Association, IPTAY, Friends of the Reedy River, the Demento Society, and is proud to know Dr. Demento personally. He is ordained by the Church of the Subgenius as the Reverend Elijah Bailey. The most handsome man he has ever met is Paul Newman, married to Greenville, South Carolina resident, Joanne Woodward. But James Earl Jones was the most entertaining celebrity he has encountered in his travels.

Sublette serves as one of four administrators on the ClemsonWiki project.

"Verloren ist nur, wer sich selbst aufgibt" ("Lost are only those who give up themselves") - Hans Ulrich-Rudel

Statler: "I loved it!" Waldorf: "So what? You also loved World War II."

"You got time to breathe, you got time for music." - Briscoe "Pa" Darling

[edit] Barnstar

Knowing what it is like to be consumed with completing a list I present you with this.Cheers--Looper5920 07:44, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

		The Barnstar of Diligence
		I award this Barnstar of Diligence to Mark Sublette for his dedication to the List of C-130 Hercules crashes having made over 450 edits during a 7 month period to make this list what it is today. Cheers — Looper5920 07:44, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikiwings

		Wikiwings
		I hereby bestow upon Mark Sublette the honor of Wikiwings in recognition of his tireless ambition to give the Wikipedia community a complete and accurate record of all C-130 losses. Mark, Congratulations on a job well done! BQZip01 22:26, 28 March 2007 (UTC)