Richard Loehn received his BS in Physics and Math from the University of Louisiana-Lafayette and was hired by NASA to work at the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston, developing specific star charts to be used by the astronauts during the Gemini and early Apollo missions. This was his dream job, allowing him to fly the simulators with the crews in order to train them in performing these experiments during the mission, in addition to manning one of the flight consoles while the crew was in orbit. He was transferred to Boeing Aerospace in New Orleans where the Saturn V lunar booster was built. There he designed equipment which sent starting commands to this Saturn booster at lift-off.
While working at Boeing, Richard attended graduate school at LSUNO, conducting research in nuclear magnetic and paramagnetic resonance, which was a forerunner to the MRI now used in the medical field.
Richard began work for South Central Bell as an entry level design engineer in New Orleans, his hometown, and retired after 28 yrs as a VP in senior management of this Fortune 50 corporation. His career took him to headquarters in Birmingham, to Jackson, Mississippi, back to Birmingham and ultimately to Atlanta.
As part of his continuing education, he received an Executive MBA in Business from LSU, an Executive MBA in Arts and Humanities from Williams College in Massachusetts and did post graduate engineering studies at Stanford University in California.
Richard and his wife Charlotte have been married for 43 years and have two daughters and three grandchildren, all of whom attend St. Benedict Catholic Church in Duluth. They consider themselves very blessed.
Volunteer work throughout the years has included Crisis Line, Adult Literacy tutoring, board member of the Mississippi Museum of Art and Goodwill Industries, as well as founding Board President of the Johns Creek Arts Center. Richard is excited about adding the Johns Creek Symphony Orchestra to this group and is committed to helping it grow in the North Fulton area.
