Harold K. Hoskins, Sr.

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

Harold K. Hoskins, Sr. (1927-2012) was an American pilot and Tuskegee Airman. He was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal in 2007. In 1945, he joined the U.S. Army at age18 and learned to fly at Alabama's Tuskegee Air Field. In 1971, he retired as a U.S. Air Force lieutenant colonel after logging 9500 flight hours. Hoskins later became assistant vice president of student affairs at California State University at Hayward.