Unveiled in Lexington KY -2011
Miss Kentucky State/Bunnie, P51 Mustang Horse Project
to Honor the Tuskegee Airmen strolling at the Blue Grass Airport
2010 NABVET Award - (National Association of Black Veterans)
AWARDS -&- HONORS
• Commissioned "Honorary" Kentucky Colonel
• 2004 V.A. Medical Center Achievement Award (Louisville, KY)
• 2005 Paducah - N.A.A.C.P. Achievement Award
• 2005 Honorary DUKE of Paducah Award
• 2005 Alben Barkley Distinguished Citizen Award McCracken County
• 2006 Tuskegee Airmen,Inc. Outstanding Service Award
• 2007 FEDEX African-American Diversity Forum
• 2008 U.S. Dept of Energy Award
• 2010 Keys-to-the-City of Wilmore, KY and Nicholasville, KY
• 2010 N.A.B.V.E.T. Image Award
• 2011 2012 and 2013 President's Volunteer Program Certificate through IBM
• 2011 Kentucky House of Representatives Certificate of Valor
• 2011 Kentucky Senate Certificate of Valor
• 2012 General Electric - Aviation Achievement Award
• 2012 Commissioned "Honorary" Kentucky Admiral
• 2012 Chicago DoDo Chapter of TAI Achievement Award
• 2012 Tuskegee Airmen, Inc. Central Region Award
• 2013 Grand Forks (ND) A.F.B. Award of Appreciation
MAJOR MILESTONES
• Thousand of students in grades 3-12 and college have received oral history from "Uncle Ron’s"
Powerpoint presentations.
• Developed a traveling museum, for use throughout Kentucky and a permanent exhibit at the Aviation
Museum of Kentucky.
• Lobbied during the 2007 Kentucky General Assembly to designate Fayette County I-75 as the
Tuskegee Airmen Memorial Trail. In 2010 this designation was extended to the entire KY I-75
corridor of 191 miles.
• Presides over the only Kentucky chapter of the Tuskegee Airmen, "B/Gen. Noel F. Parrish Chapter".
(Memberships are open to all interested parties, youth and military personnel).
• Commissioned "Honorary" Kentucky Colonel
• 2004 V.A. Medical Center Achievement Award (Louisville, KY)
• 2005 Paducah - N.A.A.C.P. Achievement Award
• 2005 Honorary DUKE of Paducah Award
• 2005 Alben Barkley Distinguished Citizen Award McCracken County
• 2006 Tuskegee Airmen,Inc. Outstanding Service Award
• 2007 FEDEX African-American Diversity Forum
• 2008 U.S. Dept of Energy Award
• 2010 Keys-to-the-City of Wilmore, KY and Nicholasville, KY
• 2010 N.A.B.V.E.T. Image Award
• 2011 2012 and 2013 President's Volunteer Program Certificate through IBM
• 2011 Kentucky House of Representatives Certificate of Valor
• 2011 Kentucky Senate Certificate of Valor
• 2012 General Electric - Aviation Achievement Award
• 2012 Commissioned "Honorary" Kentucky Admiral
• 2012 Chicago DoDo Chapter of TAI Achievement Award
• 2012 Tuskegee Airmen, Inc. Central Region Award
• 2013 Grand Forks (ND) A.F.B. Award of Appreciation
MAJOR MILESTONES
• Thousand of students in grades 3-12 and college have received oral history from "Uncle Ron’s"
Powerpoint presentations.
• Developed a traveling museum, for use throughout Kentucky and a permanent exhibit at the Aviation
Museum of Kentucky.
• Lobbied during the 2007 Kentucky General Assembly to designate Fayette County I-75 as the
Tuskegee Airmen Memorial Trail. In 2010 this designation was extended to the entire KY I-75
corridor of 191 miles.
• Presides over the only Kentucky chapter of the Tuskegee Airmen, "B/Gen. Noel F. Parrish Chapter".
(Memberships are open to all interested parties, youth and military personnel).
July 17, 2010 Unveiling of the expansion of the Tuskegee Airmen Memorial Trail on I-75
