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Current and in-training pilots from Oklahoma State University were celebrated at the Sept. 16 football game against South Alabama as part of the College of Education and Human Sciences’ Fly Orange initiative.

Current and in-training pilots were part of the festivities with two OSU Cirrus SR-20 airplanes flying over Boone Pickens Stadium during the national anthem. The aircraft departed from the new, state-of-the-art Ray and Linda Booker OSU Flight Center, located just south of Stillwater Regional Airport.

One plane was flown by pilot Branden Adams, a recent graduate and certified flight instructor, with professional pilot student Dash Ahlstrom at his side as co-pilot, and certified flight instructor Conor Gass flew the other plane with professional pilot student Dana Friend serving as co-pilot.

Ahlstrom shared what the experience of flying over a crowd-filled BPS was like.

“My job was timing everything, so only when we were passing over BPS did I look outside. I couldn't see it directly below us, so we used Bennett Hall as our mark to start the break. After we'd flown over I was free to look down in our turn toward the stadium and it was incredible,” he said.

“Seeing the smoke from the fireworks and knowing we'd hit the mark, watching the crowd move and seeing the band spell OSU with remarkable precision from above was awesome. It was truly a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and I'm glad the work we put into it played out exactly like we imagined.”

Friend recently became a certified flight instructor and is set to graduate in May 2024.

“Our love of aviation brings us together," Friend said. "Whether you're part of the Flying Aggies, our competition flying team, a student organization like OSU Women in Aviation or OSU American Association of Airport Executives, there's a place for new and old students alike to feel welcome.”

The celebration showcased the Aviation and Space program, which has made OSU a premier destination for future pilots and aviation leaders. With four undergraduate degree options in professional pilot, aviation management, aerospace security and technical service management, the program is home to more than 450 students in CEHS.

Adams said that the aviation program at OSU has a strong reputation.

“Being one of the oldest collegiate pilot programs in the country, it has grown exponentially over the past several years due to the necessity for pilots in the aviation industry," he said. "OSU Aviation has an extremely long and rich history with the Flying Aggies and Flight Team, which provide numerous networking opportunities for students to become more engaged in their future industry."

Friend shared what sets OSU’s aviation program apart from others is the student culture.

“OSU is a major university, and there are so many things to participate in outside of classes that give students the opportunity to enjoy the college experience,” Adams said.

Two professional pilot alumni who are commercial pilots were recognized alongside the flyover pilots.

A Stillwater native, Ryan Josey is a 2014 graduate of the program and now works for FedEx Express as a Boeing 757 captain.

After graduating, Josey was a flight instructor in Oklahoma before becoming a corporate pilot based in Austin, Texas. Upon accumulating enough hours for a commercial ATP rating, he joined SkyWest Airlines as a first officer on the CRJ 200/700/900 aircraft series before a promotion to captain on the same jets in just two years.

He captained the jets for another two years before accepting a captain’s position with FedEx Express, where he hopes to remain until his retirement.

Josey notes OSU’s professional pilot program as invaluable to his development as a professional aviator.

“OSU is where I was introduced to aviation through my first discovery flight and where I completed all my formal flight training through CFI,” he said.

“Not only did I learn the skills necessary to become a pilot, but I made great connections with fellow students who have all helped in my career development in one way or another. Most of those peers have become lifelong friends who I remain in regular communication with.”

As a result of his experience as an undergraduate student and his ties to the Stillwater community, Josey began pursuing a master’s degree in aviation and space studies last year.

His advice for aspiring pilots? Stay connected.

“You'll be surprised by how your Oklahoma State connections remain significant throughout a corporate or commercial aviation career," he said. "The industry is broad but the network of people is relatively small.”

Alumna KD McCloy graduated in 2021 and has been a first officer for SkyWest Airlines since January 2022.

Since she began flying at OSU, her career aspiration has been to work for Southwest Airlines and she will realize that dream when she begins training for her new position there in November.

McCloy remembers her time at OSU fondly.

“As a student with no immediate family in the aviation industry, OSU became the family that could answer all my questions and prepare me to become a professional aviator,” she said.

“The community of generous staff, students and alumni that are involved with the program gave me much needed support. I found great value in seeking out mentors and asking questions of alumni and people who had the job I was interested in to learn from their experiences.”

CEHS Dean Jon Pedersen; Dr. Chad Depperschmidt, head of the School of Educational Foundations, Leadership and Aviation; Lance Fortney, Flight Center manager; and associate professor in aviation and space Dr. Jon Loffi join the group as representatives of the college.

Move over Neil Lane. Tayshia Adams was spotted jewelry shopping with Luke Gulbranson at Tiffany & Co. in New York City.

In photos obtained by Page Six from the Sunday, May 14, outing, the 32-year-old former Bachelorette can be seen trying on rings as the 39-year-old Bravo alum looked on. The outlet reports that the pair weren’t shy about PDA during the shopping spree.

Adams and Gulbranson have yet to publicly comment on their relationship but have been spotted together in NYC several times in 2023. His former Summer House costar Lindsay Hubbard subtly confirmed their romance when she posted a pic of the duo holding hands on Easter last month. After she deleted the post, Hubbard, 36, raised even more eyebrows.

“I did not know they were holding hands until everyone started commenting and was like, ‘Oh, they’re holding hands!’ And I was like, ‘Oh s—t, they’re holding hands!’” Hubbard told Andy Cohen about the incident, hinting that she was asked to remove the snap from her Instagram. “But I understand what it’s like to be in the public and the pressure that you feel from viewers and fans [and] everywhere.”

The former publicist compared the situation to the early days of her relationship with now-fiancé Carl Radke. “When Carl and I started dating we were just trying to keep it as private as possible because you want to enjoy those moments, so I understand,” she said on Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen.

While it’s unclear whether Adams was looking for sparklers with Gulbranson because she is ready to take the next step, it wouldn’t be her first engagement ring. The former ABC star married her college sweetheart, Josh Bourelle, in February 2016. The twosome filed for divorce in October 2017.

“It’s not hard at all [to talk about the divorce on The Bachelorette] because it’s definitely something that I’ve experienced in the past and it led me to today,” Adams told Us Weekly before she made her debut as the season 16 Bachelorette in November 2020. “But I don’t want it to define me because it doesn’t define me. It’s just something that I grew from and I learned from.”

One month later, viewers watched her accept a proposal from Zac Clark. The twosome called it quits in November 2021.

“Him and I both know the truth and where we stand, and I’ve actually never said anything in the media about our relationship except for [that] we’re no longer together,” Adams explained to Us in December 2022. “And I know people might think otherwise, but that’s literally the only statement we’ve ever given out. I think that’s just something about maturity and how we decided to proceed and yeah, at the end of the day, no one else needs to know anything else.”

She added at the time that she was cautious about being in another public romance. “I think that’s another lesson I’ve learned is I really wanna protect that in the future, and kind of, maybe, keep it quiet and under wraps for a minute and then maybe let the people in on the news after a little while,” Adams said. “People are private investigators. I don’t even know how they figure out half the things they do now.”

Manhattan’s forward-thinking, full-service real estate firm, Adams & Co. (Adams), has announced that Recursive Research, Inc, a crypto currency fund, has signed a 5,186-square-foot lease at 121 East 24^th Street taking the entire seventh floor.

“121 East 24^th Street is an ideal building for tech-focused tenants looking to be in the heart of the Flatiron neighborhood which has been widely recognized as the center of Silicon Alley,” Jeff Buslik, Executive Managing Director of Adams & Co. “We have been seeing more and more technology and crypto companies moving to this area as it has transformed into New York’s technological hub. For Recursive Research, this space offered an office that could fit the company’s growing business and be easily accessible to employees.”

Jeff Buslik and Bradley Cohn of Adams & Co. represented the landlord, Kofler Associates and Steven Evans of Platinum Properties represented the tenant in the transaction. Asking rent was approximately $52 per square-foot.

Located on 24^th Street between Park and Lexington, 121 East 24^th Street is an 12-story building built in 1942. It features full-floor office spaces with high, open ceilings and central A/C. 121 East 24^th is conveniently placed near many subway lines including the 6, F, M, N, Q, R and W trains.

For more information about Adams and 121 East 24^th Street, visit https://www.adamsre.com/products/121-east-24th-street

Greenbridge Finance, a private finance company focused on the origination of loans for commercial real estate acquisitions and recapitalizations, and Deutsche Bank have co-originated $150 million to refinance The Reef in Downtown Los Angeles.

Greenbridge Finance is a wholly owned subsidiary of Greenbridge Investment Partners, a fully integrated commercial real estate platform that acquires and repositions underperforming properties to become “best-in-class” assets across all commercial real estate sectors. The loan joins a list of major company acquisition and leasing milestones over the last six months. Greenbridge’s principals include Sean Hashem and Fareed Kanani and partner Josh Farahi.

“Greenbridge applies a similar investment philosophy to its property portfolio and loan book,” said Sean Hashem, principal with Greenbridge Investment Partners and Greenbridge Finance. “Knowing long-term market trends and fundamentals are always essential considerations, but we look beyond the numbers. We spend time understanding an asset’s potential, learning the needs of its tenants and projecting future profits for both. We immerse ourselves in the local neighborhood and often observe community virtues or friction that impact an asset’s ultimate success. These criteria revealed The Reef’s long-term viability as a business and a borrower.”

Located at 1933 South Broadway near the 10 and 110 freeways and walking distance from the Expo and Blue light rail lines, The Reef offers over 800,000 rentable square feet of creative habitat tailored to meet the needs of the innovators, entrepreneurs, and diverse creators.

The 12-floor plus basement building unites LA Mart, the largest gift, home, and design resource in the West; Maker City LA, a workspace for creative businesses and entrepreneurs; and Magic Box, which offers facilities for media production, events, and experiential marketing. The property’s long-term tenants and short-term renters of event space include fashion, technology, media, design and the arts, and trade show producers small and large to collaborate and flourish in our spaces.

“Los Angeles is the global epicenter of creativity and there is a steady pipeline of demand for space to work. The building’s design and location make it an ideal location to launch and grow creative businesses,” Hashem added.

The Reef joins a growing list of current and former borrowers of Greenbridge’s short-term, floating rate capital and long term, fixed-rate financing for property acquisitions and recapitalizations of existing assets.

Greenbridge offers a variety of non-recourse loans ranging from $5 million-$200 million with loan-to-value and loan-to-cost ratios of up to 85% on all property types — office, retail, hotel, industrial, multifamily, mobile home, self-storage and mixed-use — in all markets across the United States. Greenbridge offers the ability to structure the entire capital stack of commercial real estate loans including senior, B-note, mezzanine and preferred equity.

For more information or to speak with Greenbridge Finance about financing options, contact 310-273-2277.

STARKVILLE, Miss.—A new book published by a Mississippi State faculty member reflects on a yet untold perspective of the Civil Rights Era in the Magnolia State.

MSU Professor James H. “Jim” Adams and co-author Natalie G. Adams, a University of Alabama professor, wrote their look at school desegregation in the state with the intention that it will lead to fresh discussion about Mississippi’s public-school system.

“We come from a long line of public school teachers who instilled in us an unwavering commitment to public schools. This book is an extension of their dedication,” Jim Adams said. “We are grateful for their influence and hope the book is a tribute to each of their legacies.”

Seven years of archival research and more than 100 oral history interviews led to “Just Trying to Have School: The Struggle for Desegregation in Mississippi,” published in 2018 by University Press of Mississippi. The book features oral histories of more than 100 parents, students, community leaders, school board members, principals and superintendents who worked during desegregation of Mississippi’s schools.

A professor in MSU’s Department of Instructional Systems and Workforce Development, Jim Adams was a ninth-grader at DeKalb High School during the first year of school desegregation in Kemper County. Natalie, a professor of social and cultural studies in education at UA, was a third-grader in 1970 when her elementary school in rural north Louisiana was desegregated. Their parents were white educators who made the decision to leave their children in public schools at a time when many of their friends were fleeing to newly opened private academies.

Jim Adams said that while several teachers and students have written personal memoirs about their experiences in a particular locale during this time period, no other book has been written combining the voices of educators, parents and students statewide.

Sid Salter, a longtime Mississippi journalist who now serves as MSU’s chief communications officer and director of public affairs, said the book examines and preserves “the history of one of the most important and impactful events of the previous century in Mississippi and the Deep South.”

In reviewing the book, Salter writes, “Massive school desegregation was a national political issue, but in Mississippi it was intensely personal and produced far-reaching changes in the state’s communities. The unsung heroes of this dramatic social and educational transformation were the teachers and administrators?both black and white?in Mississippi’s public school districts. The Adamses have lovingly and faithfully captured this poignant narrative in this exemplary book.”

Jim Adams teaches MSU courses such as Diversity in Work and Educational Environments and History and Philosophy of Vocational and Technical Education with research interests in post-secondary educational programs for marginalized students, diversity issues in the work place, work in a post-industrial society, GED programs in high school settings, multicultural education in higher education, and leadership issues in higher education settings. He has published articles in the Journal of Career and Technical Education, International Journal of Instructional Media, Journal of Interactive Learning Research, and Journal of Critical Education Policy Studies.

Natalie Adams also serves as director of the New College interdisciplinary liberal arts program at UA. She is co-author of “Cheerleader! An American Icon” and co-editor of “Geographies of Girlhood: Identities In-Between.”

Copies of “Just Trying to Have School” are available from the University Press of Mississippi at http://www.upress.state.ms.us/books/2186 or from other online booksellers.

MSU is Mississippi’s leading university, available online at www.msstate.edu.

In addition to starring in David O. Russell’s 2013 movie “American Hustle,” Christian Bale says he served as a “mediator” between the director and co-star Amy Adams.

Bale, 48, told GQ in a cover story published Wednesday that reports claiming he intervened on Adams’ behalf during production were true.

“I did what I felt was appropriate, in very Irv style,” he explained, referencing his character in the dramatization of the FBI’s Abscam sting operation in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

“If I can have some sense of understanding of where it’s coming from, then I do tend to attempt to be a mediator,” he went on. “That’s just in my nature, to try to say, ‘Hey, come on, let’s go and sit down and figure that out. There’s gotta be a way of making this all work.'”

An email emerged during the 2014 Sony Pictures hack between journalist Jonathan Alter and his brother-in-law, then-Sony CEO Michael Lynton, in which the former claimed Russell, 64, “so abused” Adams on the film’s set.

“His abuse and lunatic behaviour are extreme even by Hollywood standards,” Alter wrote to Lynton.

Adams, 48, addressed the claim in 2016, describing Russell’s work ethic as “mania.” In an interview with British GQ, the actress recalled the director “yelling” at her and making her cry almost daily.

“He was hard on me, that’s for sure. It was a lot,” she said at the time. “I was really just devastated on set.”

Despite what went on behind the scenes, Bale said he doesn’t look back on the project with tainted eyes.

“You’re dealing with two such incredible talents there,” he told GQ for the magazine’s November cover story.

“Look, if I feel like we got anywhere close — and you only ever get somewhere close to achieving; our imagination is too incredible to ever entirely achieve it — but if you get anywhere close to it, and when you’re working with people of the crazy creative talent of Amy or of David, there are gonna be upsets. But they are f–king phenomenal.”

He added, “Also, you got to remember, it was the nature of the characters as well. Right? Those characters were not people who back down from anything, right?”