Hudson River Hero Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger Named 2010 Rose Parade Grand Marshal
By John Stephens
Published: Thursday, November 5th, 2009
Hero pilot Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger has been named as the 2010 Rose Parade grand marshal. Sullenberger gained international fame and recognition after successfully landing a crippled airliner in the Hudson River after taking off from New York’s LaGuardia Airport. Following takeoff, the US Airways plane was hit by a flock of geese, causing the aircraft to lose power to both of it’s jet engines. The Tournament of Roses announced the selection on its Facebook “fan page” shortly after the announcement at the Tournament House in Pasadena.
Sullenberger was raised in Denison, Texas and had a distinguished career flying aircraft for the military before becoming a commercial pilot. Sullenberger now has over 40 years of commercial flying experience, with the most recent 29 of those serving as a captain at US Airways.
Since the incident, Sullenberger has become an ad-hoc spokesman for airlines pilots and employees across the country, many of whom are underpaid and extremely overworked. His whistle-stop media tour has included appearances on most every major radio and T.V. network, including a recent stopover at local NPR affiliate KPCC to discuss the airline industry with “Air Talk” host Larry Mantle.
Last year, it was television’s Cloris Leachman who was given the honor of presiding over the popular parade, and past grand marshals have included actors, astronauts, writers, artists, athletes and political figures.
Early Grand Marshals were local heroes, many of them Tournament organizers. The first Grand Marshal from outside Pasadena was San Francisco Mayor James Rolph in 1930, and as the Tournament grew, so did the stature of its Grand Marshals. Mary Pickford, Earl Warren, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Gregory Peck, Bob Hope, Erma Bombeck, Henry "Hank" Aaron, the Apollo 12 astronauts, John Wayne, Frank Sinatra, Kate Smith, Gerald Ford, Lee Iaccoca, James Stewart, Pele and Angela Lansbury are just a few of the distinguished individuals who have held the honored position. 1966 Grand Marshal Walt Disney rode in the Parade with Mickey Mouse, and Edgar Bergen brought Charlie McCarthy along in 1940. Shirley Temple, who was a 10-year old movie star when she led the 50th Rose Parade returned as diplomat Shirley Temple Black to serve as Grand Marshal of the Tournament’s Centennial celebration in 1989.
Here’s a list of all past Rose Parade Grand Marshals:
2009 Cloris Leachman
2008 Emeril Lagasse
2007 George Lucas
2006 United States Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor
2005 Mickey Mouse
2004 John Williams
2003 Bill Cosby
Art Linkletter
Fred Rogers
2002 Regis Philbin
2001 Tom Brokaw
2000 Roy E. Disney
1999 Buzz Aldrin
Shirley Temple Black
Jackie Robinson (posthumously)
David L. Wolper
1998 Carol Burnett
1997 Carl Lewis & Shannon Miller
1996 Kermit the Frog
1995 Juan "Chi Chi" Rodriguez
1994 William Shatner
1993 Angela Lansbury
1992 His Grace, Cristobol Colon
Congressman Ben Nighthorse Campbell
1991 Bob Newhart
1990 Senator John Glenn
1989 Shirley Temple Black
1988 Gregory Peck
1987 Pele
1986 Erma Bombeck
1985 Lee A. Iacocca
1984 Danny Kaye
1983 Merlin Olsen
1982 Jimmy Stewart
1981 Lorne Greene
1980 Frank Sinatra
1979 Lathrop K. Leishman
1978 Gerald R. Ford
1977 Roy Rogers & Dale Evans
1976 Kate Smith
1975 Henry L. "Hank" Aaron
1974 Charles M. Schulz
1973 John Wayne
1972 Lawrence Welk
1971 Reverend Billy Graham
1970 Apollo 12 Astronauts
-Alan L. Bean
-Charles Conrad, Jr.
-Richard F. Gordon, Jr.
1969 Bob Hope
1968 Everett Dirksen
1967 Thanat Khoman
1966 Walt Disney
1965 Arnold Palmer
1964 Dwight D. Eisenhower
1963 Dr. William H. Pickering
1962 Albert D. Rosellini
1961 William F. Quinn
1960 Richard M. Nixon
1959 E. L. "Bob" Bartlett
1958 Robert Gordon Sproul
1957 Eddie Rickenbacker
1956 Charles E. Wilson
1955 Earl Warren
1954 General William F. Dean
1953 Richard M. Nixon
1952 Medal of Honor Men
-Maj. Carl Sitter
-Capt. Lewis Millet
-Lt. Stanley Adams
-Lt. Thomas Hudner
-Capt. Raymond Harvey
-Sgt. Ernest Kouma
-Sgt. Joseph Rodriguez
1951 Cpl. Robert S. Gray (For Gen. Eisenhower)
1950 Paul G. Hoffman
1949 Perry Brown
1948 Gen. Omar Bradley
1947 Bob Hope
1946 Adm. William Halsey
1945 Herbert Hoover
1944 Amos Alonzo Stagg
1943 Earl Warren
1942 Kay Kyser
1941 E. O. Nay
1940 Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy
1939 Shirley Temple
1938 Leo Carillo
1937 Eugene Biscailuz
1936 James V. Alfred
1935 Harold Lloyd
1934 Adm. William S. Sims
1933 Mary Pickford
1932 William May Garland
1931 Gen. C. S. Farnsworth
1930 James Rolph
1929 Marco Hellman
1928 John McDonald
1927 Dr. C.D. Lockwood
1926 Col. L. J. Mygatt
1925 Lewis H. Turner
1924 Col. George S. Parker
1923 H.L. Gianetti
1922 Harold Landreth
1921 W. A. Boucher
1920 Frank G. Hogan
1919 Frank Hunter
1918 Dr. Z. T. Malaby
1917 Dr. C. D. Lockwood
1916 Dr. Francis F. Rowland
1915 M. S. Pashgian
1914 Charles Daggett
1913 Leigh Guyer
1912 E. H. Groenendyke
1911 Dr. Ralph Skillen
1910 Dr. Francis F. Rowland & Prof. Charles F. Holder
1909 Walter S. Wright
1907 Dr. Ralph Skillen
1908 Dr. Ralph Skillen
1906 John B. Miller
1904 & 1905 Dr. Francis F. Rowland
1902 & 1903 C. C. Reynolds
1900 & 1901 Charles Daggett
1898 & 1899 Martin H. Weight
1896 & 1897 Edwin Stearns
1895 Dr. H. H. Sherk
1894 Dr. Francis F. Rowland
1893 No Grand Marshal
1892 Dr. Francis F. Rowland
1891 No Grand Marshal
1890 Dr. Francis F. Rowland
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