Jack Houck '56
Outstanding Achievement in a Chosen Profession
Jack Houck, a member of the 50 Year Class, was nominated for this award by his class. His most notable achievement in high school was being selected to attend both the District and State bands his freshman through senior years as a trombone player. He also sang in the Glee Club. Jack attended the University of Michigan and graduated with both a Bachelor of Science and Masters of Science in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering. He was selected to be a member of Tau Beta Pi, an engineering honor society.
He went to work for the Douglas Aircraft Company in 1961. That company merged with McDonnell Aircraft to become McDonnell Douglas and then merged with Boeing Aircraft. Initially he worked on missile defense programs which led to being selected as one of the authors of the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT) in 1972 with the Soviet Union on anti-ballistic missile defense systems. He continued managing defense and intelligence programs for 22 years. He finished his engineering career as the risk manager for all of Boeing's satellite programs. He retired after 42 years with basically the same aerospace company.
After being exposed to Remote Viewing as an intelligence gathering tool at the SALT talks, he became interested in research on how the human brain and mind work. Jack is the originator of Psychokinesis (PK) Parties, and is recognized as one of the foremost authorities in the world on the subject. He has given 375 of these workshops for over 18,000 people since 1981, and maintained an extensive database providing documentation of people's ability to exercise "mind over matter". Jack has also researched phenomenon such as Remote Viewing, Firewalking and correlation of electroencephalogram (EEG) measurements with various types of high performance individuals. Many of the papers documenting his research are found on his website: www.JackHouck.com
He is now concentrating on technologies for alternative healing.
He went to work for the Douglas Aircraft Company in 1961. That company merged with McDonnell Aircraft to become McDonnell Douglas and then merged with Boeing Aircraft. Initially he worked on missile defense programs which led to being selected as one of the authors of the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT) in 1972 with the Soviet Union on anti-ballistic missile defense systems. He continued managing defense and intelligence programs for 22 years. He finished his engineering career as the risk manager for all of Boeing's satellite programs. He retired after 42 years with basically the same aerospace company.
After being exposed to Remote Viewing as an intelligence gathering tool at the SALT talks, he became interested in research on how the human brain and mind work. Jack is the originator of Psychokinesis (PK) Parties, and is recognized as one of the foremost authorities in the world on the subject. He has given 375 of these workshops for over 18,000 people since 1981, and maintained an extensive database providing documentation of people's ability to exercise "mind over matter". Jack has also researched phenomenon such as Remote Viewing, Firewalking and correlation of electroencephalogram (EEG) measurements with various types of high performance individuals. Many of the papers documenting his research are found on his website: www.JackHouck.com
He is now concentrating on technologies for alternative healing.