Ray Keating

It’s been an interesting 42 years, to say the very least. Twice married, four sons, two of which I adopted from my first wife’s first marriage. The oldest son, Kevin, is an attorney in Santa Barbara CA. The next oldest, Brian, is an Assistant Professor Of Physics at the University of California, San Diego. Funded by the National Science Foundation, he designed and built an infrared telescope capable of observing background radiation leftover from the “Big Bang”. He’s been to South Pole Station twice, to Mauna Kea on the Big Island of Hawaii, and, ,just recently, to the high Atacama Desert region of Chile to install these instruments. He was a winner of the Presidential Early Career Award For Scientists and Engineers in 2009. The third oldest, Nick, is a 2011 graduate of the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, NY and is currently working for the Ritz-Carlton Hotel of Los Angles, CA. The youngest, Chris, is an automotive technician for a Hyundai dealership in Courtlandt Manor, NY.

Raymond Keating — “Automatic”

“Ray will be remembered as the man who barely got to classes on time, and then spent most of class time standing in the back to stay awake. On the flight line, Automatic will be remembered as ‘Mr. Dispatcher’ for his unceasing accuracy in filling out 900’s.

…As an individual and a motivated flyer, we wish him all the best in the real Air Force (if there is really such a thing).”

71-01 Yearbook, page 39.