United Flight 93 was scheduled to depart at 8:00am, but the Boeing 757 did not depart until 42 minutes later due to runway traffic delays. He left home at 6:15 am the next morning, to take an early flight from Newark to San Francisco to meet with representatives of the Sony Corporation at 1:00pm, planning to return on a red-eye flight that night. His wife was due the following January with their third child.
While Beamer could have left that night for a Tuesday business meeting in California, he opted instead to spend time with his family. They returned home on Monday, September 10, at 5 pm (EST). In 2001, he earned a five-day trip to Italy with his wife for being a top sales performer. Flight 93īeamer's work forced him to travel up to four times a month, sometimes for as long as a week. In 2000, the Beamers moved to Cranbury, New Jersey, with their two sons. He was a staunch fan of the Chicago Cubs, Chicago Bulls and Chicago Bears. Beamer also played on the church softball team. Within months, Beamer was promoted to account manager.īeamer and Lisa taught Sunday school at Princeton Alliance Church for six years, and worked in youth ministry.
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in June 1993.īeamer married Brosious on May 14, 1994, in Peekskill, New York, and they moved to Plainsboro, New Jersey, where Beamer began working with Oracle Corporation, selling systems applications and database software as a field marketing representative. Their first date was November 2, 1991, the 10-year anniversary of which they had been planning to celebrate at the time of his death.īeamer subsequently worked for Wilson Sporting Goods while taking night classes at DePaul University, earning an M.B.A. While at Wheaton College he met Lisa Brosious, his future wife, during a senior seminar class. He continued to play baseball and as a senior became captain of the basketball team. At Wheaton College he majored initially in medicine before switching to business. He returned home to Illinois and transferred to Wheaton College, a Christian university.
After David was promoted to vice president of Amdahl's California headquarters, the family moved, and Beamer spent his senior year at Los Gatos High School, just south of San Jose, California.īeamer attended Fresno State University, where he majored in physical therapy and played baseball, in the hopes of playing professionally, but injuries he suffered in an automobile accident ended these plans. He was elected class vice president in his junior year. He attended Wheaton Academy, a Christian high school, from 1983 to 1985, where he excelled in the same sports. The family relocated to Poughkeepsie, New York, and then to Wheaton, Illinois, a suburb west of Chicago, where David worked at Amdahl, a computer technology company.īeamer attended Wheaton Christian Grammar School, where he played baseball, basketball, and soccer. Beamer and his two sisters, Melissa and Michele, were raised "with a strong biblical value system and work ethic". Todd Beamer was born on November 24, 1968, in Flint, Michigan, to David Beamer, an IBM sales representative, and Peggy Jackson Beamer, a muralist, the middle child of three and only son.
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