Remembrances of Ken Elbaum
 

Don Shrader:

Sad news indeed. Ken worked for me as one of my associates for several years after his retirement from the Air Force. He was a good guy. Each time I saw him at one of the AFMMAA Annual meetings, he would promise that, “Yes, we will get together for dinner real soon.” I hoped he would show up for one of our luncheons. I did not realize he was quite that old. I learned a lot from him.

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Dennis Wisnosky:

Kenney was a true gentleman. We did nothing professionally during my time running ICAM within ManTech.  He was Metals and there was always competition between the kids of ICAM and the real divisions. We were a program office. There was especially competition with Metals. But not with Kenny. And really not really beneath the surface of the gruff Hank Johnson. Those guys knew how to work the system. I didn't. Once at the end of a fiscal year, I was talking to Kenny about running out of time to get a PR through. He said, "Henry has a secret drawer."  The drawer was open.

 

But, that is not how I best remember Kenny.  His wife Libbey was a Neurologist.  She was just as beautiful as Kenny. In one conversation, I was probably in tears, I told him that our oldest daughter had a hearing problem that the GP thought was a brain tumor.  She was 12. Kenny got his wife involved and she immediately did some tests. It was, and is, a non-life-threatening congenital issue that she inherited from my mother. At age 60, my daughter still remembers the kindness.

 

God Speed Kenny and your beautiful wife,