by Dean Joyce Feucht-Haviar on March, 2012 – As I reflect upon it, there is only one person I know who took a direct path from what he said he wanted to do in high school to doing it (and continuing to do it to the present). He wanted to be an airline pilot. I thought his fear of heights might get in the way, but apparently not. He went on to college and then into the Air Force. Before long, he was Captain Kruse and has been flying ever since.