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Former Embry-Riddle President Jack R. Hunt Inducted into Florida Aviation Hall of Fame
Daytona Beach, FL, June 2, 2011
Jack R. Hunt
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s former president Jack R. Hunt was inducted into the Florida Aviation Hall of Fame at the Florida Air Museum at the Sun ‘n Fun Air Show May 21.
Hunt, who died in 1984, was Embry-Riddle’s longest-serving president. He was represented at the induction ceremony by his widow Lynn Hunt-Doten and her husband, former Embry-Riddle vice president Eric Doten.
Hunt served as president of Embry-Riddle from 1963 to 1984, during which he relocated the school from Miami to Daytona Beach and watched it become accredited as a full university. In 1970, he established the early stages of what later became the university’s Worldwide Campus and in 1978 he purchased the former Prescott College in Arizona to create Embry-Riddle’s second residential campus.
Even before he came to Embry-Riddle, Hunt was a significant figure in aviation. In 1957, he commanded the Navy blimp ZPG-2 “Snow Bird” on the longest unrefueled, trans-Atlantic flight in history. For this achievement, he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross by Fleet Admiral “Bull” Halsey and later the Harmon Trophy by President Eisenhower.
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, the world's largest, fully accredited university specializing in aviation and aerospace, is a nonprofit, independent institution offering more than 40 baccalaureate, master's and Ph.D. degree programs in its colleges of Arts and Sciences, Aviation, Business and Engineering. Embry-Riddle educates students at residential campuses in Daytona Beach, Fla., and Prescott, Ariz., and through the Worldwide Campus with more than 150 locations in the United States, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. The university is a major research center, seeking solutions to real-world problems in partnership with the aerospace industry, other universities and government agencies. For more information, visit http://www.embryriddle.edu, follow us on Twitter (@EmbryRiddle) and facebook.com/EmbryRiddleUniversity, and find expert videos at YouTube.com/EmbryRiddleUniv.
