PHOTO: Justin Giessman & Dick Horowitz.
Dick Horowitz, former chief pilot for Wings of Hope and vice president of the Greater St. Louis Flight Instructors Association, presented the James G. Byrnes Award posthumously to A.C. “Butch” Giessman. Butch was a longtime Wings of Hope board member who passed away in 2020. His son, Justin Giessman, is now on the Wings of Hope board and accepted the award recognizing his father for outstanding contributions to the aviation community.