It was an eventful night last Thursday at the Christa McAuliffe Space Center's Honors Night. Several honors were bestowed by Mr. James Porter, along with a few of the Center's set directors. Those honors will be highlighted over then next few weeks on The Troubadour. Today we want to make a big announcement heard first at Honor's Night.
The Starship Phoenix has a New Set Director
Mason Perry Receiving the Phoenix Microphone from Jordan Smith
Jordan Smith recently graduated with a degree in computer programming and is actively seeking professional employment. Anticipating the move might come before the next Honor's Night, Jordan decided to pass the microphone before his official retirement. Mr. Porter invited all staff to apply for the position of Phoenix Set Director. Applicants were interviewed and a final decision was made.
Attention, prepare for an important announcement. Hear Ye, Hear Ye. Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears. Dominus Jameses Maximus Porterillius decrees that Mason Perry be appointed Set Director of the Starship Phoenix; so let it be written, so let it be done (forgive me blending my histories, it was done for effect).
In a ceremony stretching back to the earliest days of the Space Center, Jordan Smith - the current Set Director handed the ship's flight director microphone, spittal and all, to the new Set Director. Mason accepted the microphone signalling his acceptance of the calling and his willingness to steer the ship along the course set by the Jordan's hard work and firm hand on the rudder.
Mason is an outstanding gentleman, scholar, and good judge of science fiction simulator stories. Jordan trained him well and is pleased with the appointment.
Mason's first decree was a changing of the Phoenix logo. For the past several weeks Mason was in design mode, sketching the logo then making a color change here and a tuck there. He just happened to have his new logo on hand to show everyone at Honor's Night.
Being a current Space Center Cassini Flight Director, I have early access to bits of news. One afternoon I asked Mason to put the logos up on the ship's two front monitors to see how it dressed the room. What do you think?
I like the logo. The seven feathers represent the seven stations on the ship. Mason has done well, but then he always has.
This makes Mason the Phoenix's Sixth Set Director.
1. Megan Warner
2. Alex Anderson
3. Dave Daymont
4. Miranda Rendell
5. Jordan Smith
6. Mason Perry
Congratulations Mason Perry on your appointment to Phoenix Set Director and a heartfelt Thank You! to Jordan Smith for doing a bang up job transitioning the Phoenix from the old Space Center to the new. Your mark Jordan will be on the ship as long as she flies.
More on the Space Center's Honor's Night next week.
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