Emmett has shown similar dedication to volunteerism. In fact, if there were an Alamo PC award for Time in Service, he would certainly qualify. He was the first volunteer to man the office at the Petroleum Center, followed a few months later by Charlie Black. Working with Dvora Mathews, Emmett and Charlie sometimes found themselves the only ones fielding the voice mail queries. “Volunteers could perhaps work for a couple of months and then something else would come along,” explained Emmett. The two of them kept at it, though, and continue to this day: Emmett on Monday mornings, Charlie Monday afternoons.

And, according to others ‘in the know,’ Emmett has worked extra shifts when needed, helped out both Dvora Mathews and Linda Bianchi with the paperwork which seems to flourish in any organization, and was part of the moving crew when the Petroleum Center offices were vacated. He also helped Dvora with the Novice SIG when she led that class. At Central Park, Emmett has helped with furniture assembly and arrangement, generally getting the current Resource Center set up and presentable.

Those of you with a military background may know Emmett as Colonel Thornell. Charlie Black did. In fact, Emmett’s and Charlie's paths have crossed many times before, beginning about 1966, during the Vietnam war years. (With both an undergraduate degree and a Masters in Fine Arts [emphasis on sculpture]. In the wisdom of the administrative powers that be Emmett was the perfect candidate to run a Medical Supply Depot out of the 12^th Air Force Hospital, supplying seven to eight small hospitals along the route.) During this tour, Charlie turned up in Oahu when Emmett and Charlie did a week of R&R there. I didn't ask Emmett whether Charlie was on the scene at any of his other duty stations, which included the Surgeon General's Office in Washington D.C., the ATC at Randolph AFB, and what was then the War College at Maxwell AFB.