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The Commander-in-Chief’s Trophy, with the Hall of Fame Bowl Trophy inset, symbolize a year of firsts in Falcon football. (See Falcon Sports on page 19.) The Commander-in-Chief’s trophy idea originated with the late General George B. Simler, former commander of the Air Training Command and a former Academy athletic director. The 170-pound, two-and-a-half-feet-tall trophy, sponsored by the alumni associations of the three Academies, is awarded to the Academy which beats the other two during the football season. Navy has claimed the award for six years, Army for two, while two years ended in a tie. This is the first year the Falcons have won the trophy outright since it was created in 1972.

CHECKPOINTS is published quarterly by the Association of Graduates, USAF Academy, Colorado Springs, CO 80840 and printed by Graphic Services of Colorado Springs. It is provided as part of an annual membership package which costs $20. Second-class postage paid at the USAF Academy, Colorado Springs, CO. Opinions expressed in this magazine are those of the authors. They do not necessarily reflect the opinions, policy or attitude of the Association of Graduates, its officers or the editorial staff. The appearance of advertisements in this publication does not constitute an endorsement by the Association of Graduates of the products or services advertised. Copyright © Association of Graduates of the United States Air Force Academy, Winter 1982-1983. ISSN 0274-7391

ATTENTION IN THE AREA

PROMOTIONS TO GENERAL. Congratulations to our graduates who were promoted into or within the general officer ranks this cycle. Brig. Gen. Robert C. Oaks, ’59, was selected for his second star while Colonels Marcus A. Anderson, ’61; David M. Goodrich, ’59; Richard G. Head, ’60; John M. Loh, ’60; Charles A. May, ’59; and Ronald W. Yates, ’60, were named for promotion to brigadier general. The next issue will contain a feature on these individuals.

HEDRICK SCHOLARSHIP FUND. Frank E. Hedrick, Harriet E. Hedrick, and the Beech Aircraft Foundation have donated approximately $100,000 to the Association of Graduates on behalf of the Academy and its graduates. Mr. Hedrick and his wife are well known in aviation circles where he has been president of Beech Aircraft Corporation since 1968. He was appointed vice chairman of the corporation’s board of directors in early 1981 and retired from Beech in July of last year. This generous gift is greatly appreciated by the association and the Academy. The next issue of the magazine will feature an article on the Hedricks.

SECOND ALUMNI COLLEGE A REMINDER. The Second USAFA Alumni College will be from 12 to 18 June of this year. This week of prescribed and elective academics, recreation, social events, and youth activities is built upon the theme, “The Air Force Family.” The program, however, is broad enough to appeal to all graduates, civilian or military, and their families. The academic program will again be held in Fairchild Hall, but lodging will be off base at a cost of approximately $300 for a family of four. The $75 registration fee covers some meals. Join your fellow graduates and their families for this exciting, meaningful week back at USAFA. To receive application materials ineluding the proposed curriculum, send the coupon from the Fall ’82 Checkpoints or contact Major Jim Fujita, Alumni College project officer, USAFA/DFF, Colorado Springs, Colo. 80840, or call autovon 259-4315 or (303) 472-4315.

AOG CHAPTER OFFICERS. The association asks that any chapters who have elected new officers send the list of individuals to our office. We can also provide our new “Chapter Guides” to anyone wishing to form a chapter and the AOG office has the capability to provide address labels for graduates in any given area. Any news received from AOG chapters will be printed in the “Chapter News” section of this magazine.

SABRES AND BLAZER PATCHES AVAILABLE. Cadet sabres are still available through the association for $95, which ineludes shipping costs if mailed stateside. For APO addresses, an extra $4 in shipping fees will cut delivery time in half. Sabres picked up at the office are $85. We also have hand-embroidered AOG patches in silver and blue on a black felt background available from the office at $10 for each patch which includes shipping.

1982 REGISTER. As mentioned in the last magazine, the 1982 Register of Graduates was delayed due to unforseen computerrelated problems. The Register has been mailed from the publisher and the abbreviated format has allowed the association to hold the line on dues. We plan to publish an expanded version of the Register in addition to the current version every four or five years which will be available to members at a discounted price.

MEMBERSHIP RENEWAL NOTICES. Association member ship renewal notices will be mailed in the near future. Dues will remain at $20 a year, with new life memberships still indefinitely suspended. We ask your support of the association by renewing your own membership and getting a graduate friend to join. Associate memberships are available to non-graduates for the same price.

HOMECOMING DATE SET. Homecoming for this year will be the weekend of Sept. 24. The Falcons promise another rousing football game with Brigham Young University, so mark your calendars now. Homecoming registration forms will appear in the summer edition of the magazine; Class Reunions for ’63 and ’73 will be highlighted in the spring issue.

BOARD NOMINA TIONS

Col Wayne F. Kendall

Cadet Flight Surgeon (SGP)

USAF Academy

Colorado Springs, CO 80840

Dear Col. Kendall

In accordance with Article VI of the Bylaws of the Association of Graduates of the USAF Academy, Inc., a nominating committee consisting of yourself as chairman and five members of the association of your choice is appointed. The nominating committee shall no later than 1 March 1983, in accordance with the bylaws, select a slate of candidates and prepare election materials for the Spring 1983 election of 15 directors for four-year terms. In addition, the committee should suggest to the board of directors, candidates for president for inclusion on the same ballot.

Your task is not a simple one:

First: There is an implied general requirement to have equitable representation among various categories of members classes, geographical areas, active duty, retired officers, and civilians.

Second: There is a practical experience that shows that one-third of the directors who are at USAFA when elected have moved away within two years and over two-thirds have moved away within four years.

Third: The bylaws specifically require you to choose nominees and structure an alphabetically-arranged ballot as necessary to insure that as of 1 July 1983 the board (including the president, carry-over and newlyelected directors, but not counting the graduating class director) has the following characteristics:

a. At least 10 directors working at USAFA (as military or civilian).

b. At least 15 directors living close enough to USAFA to participate regularly.

c. At least 15 people on active duty in U.S. Armed Forces.

d. At least six people who graduated from the Class of 1974 or later.

You should analyze the carry-over directors to see how they impact on the above requirements prior to seeking nominees.

In choosing nominees, the committee should carefully weigh the following: past service to the association, prestige, and potential influence on behalf of the association. It is absolutely necessary to nominate only those who are members of the association and who are willing to commit enough of their time, energy, and loyalty to serve in light of their respective duty, jobs, or professions during their tenure of office.

Please note that the bylaws provide for nomination by petition and the ballot should provide for write-in candidates.

I appreciate your willingness to serve in this capacity.

Sincerely yours

JAMES E. SPITTLER, Chairman AOG Board of Directors

Gerhart Scholarship Program

General’s Gift to Fund Graduate Fellowships

A generous gift of $190,000 from the estate of the late Gen. John K. Gerhart to the Association of Graduates will be used to establish the Gerhart Scholar Program which will fund graduate fellowships for Air Force Academy graduates.

The scholarship money donated by General Gerhart, former commander-in-chief of the North American Air Defense Command, will be administered by the Association of Graduates in cooperation with the Academy dean of faculty. Implementation of the fellowship program is scheduled for this year but details are not yet firm.

Retired Air Force Col. Andy Cox, the executor of General Gerhart’s will, presented the gift on Dec. 6, 1982, saying that General Gerhart was extremely fond of the Air Force Academy and hoped that his gift will be the catalyst for additional bequests to benefit the Academy and its graduates.

Maj. Gen. Robert E. Kelley, superintendent, formally accepted the gift noting that the scholarship program will be the culmination of several years of discussions and planning between the Academy, General Gerhart and his estate administrators. General Kelley also expressed the gratitude of the Academy, and in particular, the Cadet Wing and assured Colonel Cox that the bequest would be implemented as General Gerhart had intended.

Mr. James E. Spittler, ’65, chairman of the Association of Graduates Board of Directors, accepted the check for the Association of Graduates and thanked Colonel Cox for his participation in the many hours of meetings and discussions with General Gerhart and Lt. Col. Jim Wheeler, executive director of the Association of Graduates, which led to the bequest.

Lt. Gen. Thomas S. Moorman (USAF, Ret), former Academy superintendent and close friend of General Gerhart, was also on hand for the presentation ceremony.

A similar gift from General Gerhart’s estate has also been presented to the University of Chicago, from which General Gerhart and his wife graduated. That gift will also be used for graduate study.

General Gerhart was born in Saginaw, Mich., on Nov. 27, 1907. He graduated from the University of Chicago in 1928, with a bachelor of philosophy degree.

After graduating from Advanced Flying School at Kelly Field, Texas, he was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Air Corps Reserve Oct. 12, 1929.

General Gerhart’s first tour of duty was at Mitchell Field, N.Y. Various assignments followed, including several years as a flight test pilot in both powered aircraft and gliders. He graduated from the Air Corps Tactical School in April 1941.

Shortly after Pearl Harbor, General Gerhart joined the newlyformed Eighth Air Force. In July 1942, he went to England with the first contingent of the Eighth Air Force. In June 1943, he assumed command of the 95th Bomb Group, Eighth Air Force, and later became commander of the 93rd Combat Bomb Wing, which was comprised of four groups of heavy bombers.

In early 1946, General Gerhart returned to London and Paris for a year as air advisor to the American delegation participating along with major allies in drafting the Balkan and Italian peace treaties.

On return to Washington, D.C. in January 1947, he served as director of the Legislative and Liaison Division, and later as chief of Statistical Services, in the Office of the Comptroller. He also

served as chief of staff for Joint Task Force Three, which conducted the first thermonuclear tests at Eniwetok Atoll in the spring of 1951. During the period of his duty with the Air Force Comptroller, he graduated from Harvard Business School.

General Gerhart was appointed as Joint Chiefs of Staff advisor to the Planning Board of the National Security Council in March, 1953. After two years in that capacity, he was designated chief of the Military Assistance Advisory Group to the United Kingdom.

One year later, General Gerhart became commander of the U.S. Twelfth Air Force in Germany. He returned to the United States in July 1957, to become the first deputy chief of staff, plans and programs, in Air Force Headquarters, with the rank of lieutenant general. On Aug. 1, 1962, he was appointed by President John F. Kennedy to be commander-in-chief of the North American Air Defense Command and he was promoted to the rank of general. He retired from that position in March, 1965.

The general’s decorations included the Distinguished Service Medal with one oak leaf cluster, Silver Star with two clusters, Legion of Merit, Distinguished Flying Cross, Bronze Star, Air Medal with two clusters, French Croix de Guerre with Palm and Belgian Croix de Guerre with Palm. He was rated a command pilot, combat and technical observer.

General Gerhart was a resident of Colorado Springs until his death, Jan. 9, 1981. He was 73 years old.

Friends of General Gerhart and the Air Force who are interested in participating in this trust or establishing a separate program are encouraged to do so.

Those wishing to obtain more information or make a donation should contact the executive director of the Association of Graduates, U.S. Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, Colo. 80840.

Mr. James E. Spittler, ’65, at left, chairman of the Association of Graduates Board of Directors, accepts a $190,000 check from retired Air Force Col. Andy Cox, center, executor of the estate of the late Gen. John K. Gerhart. General Gerhart, former commander-in-chief of the North American Defense Command, left the money to the Association of Graduates tofundscholarshipsfor Academy graduates. Lt. Gen. Thomas S. Moorman, former Academy superintendent and close friend of General Gerhart, assists with the presentation.

Academy Fund Drive Tops $20,000

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$500

Mr & Mrs Leonard W. Lindh

Capt John C. Pemberton

$200

Dr & Mrs Robert W. Wells

$100

Mr & Mrs Gerald F. Aldinger

Mr & Mrs James W. Alexander

Capt John A. Ausink

Mr & Mrs Robert N. Blum

Dr & Mrs Don Bomalaski

Steven D. Clark

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Lt Col & Mrs E.S. Fraser Jr.

Capt Robert S. Fraser

Capt & Mrs Nancy Fritzsche

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Mr & Mrs Charles Gounaud

Capt Kenneth C. Hancock

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Mr Allan R. Hunt

Capt David L. Jareo

Dr Henry S. Jordan Jr.

Col & Mrs Roddie L. Kile

Dr & Mrs Peter Kim

2Lt Timothy J. Kramer

Capt Paul J. Maffey (USAFR)

Lt Gen & Mrs Glen W. Martin

Mr & Mrs Bruce Mosier

Mr James L. Ough MD

2Lt Clifford C. Perrenod

Mr & Mrs Hans Rauschenbach

Mr J. William Reese

Col John F.C. Rhoades

Col (Ret) & Mrs W.T. Riley Jr.

Mr & Mrs Ernest M. Rodriguez

1 Lt Edward A. Sekac

Mr Richard A. Shutack

Mr William H. Simpson

Dr & Mrs Donald F. Specht

Lt Col (Ret) Terry L. Storm

Mr & Mrs Richard R. Stoyle

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Maj Gen Harold W. Todd

Mr Edward K. Vornbrock

Col William T. Williams

Mr & Mrs Ross J. Wilson

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Mr Alvin E. Blumberg Jr.

Capt Rodney L. Boatright

Mr Victor P Bradford

Lt Col Roger E. Carleton

Mr & Mrs Robert Carson

Maj Frank W. Chapman

Capt Linwood N. Chayer

1 Lt John Christopher

Mr William T. Coleman III

Lt Col (Ret) Charles D. Conover

Mr & Mrs George H. Crow

Mr & Mrs Joseph Czabajszki

Capt Philip C. Debruin

Mr James A. Erickson

Lt Col (Ret) & Mrs H.A. Felman

Capt Antonio Ferraro

Capt Gregory J. Findlay

Mr & Mrs James A. Ford

TSgt & Mrs Roy J. Fullerton Jr.

Mr Michael J. Galbreath

Mr & Mrs Jorge Gutierrez

Mr & Mrs Donald Halloran

Mrs Donna M. Hannig

Capt Deane Y. Harimoto

Mr & Mrs G. Robert Harriett

Mr & Mrs Joe Huggler

Lt Col Harold Jacobs (USAFR)

Mr & Mrs Henry C. Johnston

Mr & Mrs John G. Knox

Mr & Mrs John Kobylarz

Maj John B. Laugerman Jr.

Maj Gen & Mrs H.J. Lavell

Mr & Mrs R. Lear

Capt Terry J. Walter Lee

Mrs Emmert C. Lentz

Capt James M. Leonard

Lt Col John S. Lockett

Lt Col Tommy L. Love

MSgt (Ret) & Mrs R.C. Lyons

Col (Ret) & Mrs Arthur Maxfield

Col & Mrs T.J. McAdam

Lt Col Kenneth E. McAlear

Lt Col Walter O. McCants

Dr & Mrs Jackson H. McCarter

Col (Ret) & Mrs P.H. McFarland

Mr & Mrs Edward A. McQuade

Col Craig V. Miller

Capt Steven W. Mungle

Lt Col Joseph M. Narsavage Jr.

Mr David J. Nielsen

Mr & Mrs Raymond G Petrick

Col Wayne C. Pittman Jr.

Col Charles S. Price

Mr John W. Reho

1 Lt Mark F. Reidinger

MSgt (Ret) & Dr F.E. Russell

Mr Alberto Saavedra-Ferrere

Lt Col Jeffrey Schofield

Maj Robert A. Shumway

Capt Michael W. Smith

Mr & Mrs Billy Soong

Capt James W. Spencer

Lt Cmdr (Ret) & Mrs. Lawrence Storm

Mr & Mrs James Y Suizu

Mrs W.C. Sweeney

1 Lt Thomas W. Teigeler

1 Lt William R. Travnick

Col Dean F. Vikan

Mr & Mrs Donald E. Wade

Capt John J. Warner (USAFR)

Lt Col James F. Wheeler

Mr Clifton E. Woodworth

Rev & Mrs John Ziegler Jr.

Mr & Mrs Clarence E. Chapman

Maj John R. Hornor

Col John D. MacArtney

1 Lt Stephen M. Dickson

Capt Ronald P. Furstenau

Mr & Mrs Stephen J. Johnson

Mr & Mrs Clarence R. Kramer

Mr & Mrs Alfred E. Mueller

Lt Col (Ret) & Mrs R.H. Schorsch

2 Lt Thomas Valle

Mr & Mrs R.C. Vanderburgh

Mr Edward T. Abramek

Dr Robert A. Andreotti

Mr Dana C. Arbaugh

Mr & Mrs John M. Baker

Maj Ronald D. Barksdale (USAFR)

Capt Mark R. Barnett

Capt William D. Baxter

Maj William A. Bazar

2Lt Keith W. Beam

Capt Paul C. Beck

Mrs Ruth K. Beck

Lt Col Michael J. Beezley

Michael D. Borysewicz

Mr George S. Bowen

Mr & Mrs John R. Bozek

William F. Brockett

Lt Col Don L. Brooks

Dr & Mrs Edward H. Browne

Lt Col William M Browning Jr.

Mr & Mrs Raymond T. Burger

Capt Kevin P. Burns

Maj Larry F. Bush

Mr & Mrs James A. Calka

Mr & Mrs Jerry C. Campbell

Mr & Mrs James Carey

Capt William T. Carrothers

Maj Daniel B. Cecil

Col & Mrs Harry T. Cerha

Capt James C. Chamberlain

Mr & Mrs William C.S. Char

CMSgt (Ret) & Mrs. R.H. Cline

Mrs Bertha Cochran

Dr & Mrs Thomas D. Conrad

SFC (Ret) & Mrs W.D. Crafton

Col & Mrs V.B. Culberson

Jack L. Cunningham

Mr & Mrs Ray Dankenbring

John C. Diller Jr.

Lt Cmdr & Mrs Melvin W. Dize

2Lt Steven K. Doss

Ms Thelma H. Dunlevy

Sirley L. Eadline

MSgt (Ret) & Mrs R.W. Esslinger

Mrs Joanne M. Filippi

Mr & Mrs Eugene Fitzgerald

Col Robert Y. Foerster

Capt Guy D. Follansbee

MSgt (Ret) & Mrs Franceschini

Col & Mrs Douglas H. Frost

Mr & Mrs G. Fuller III

Mr & Mrs Fred M. Furches Jr.

Capt Mark Gibson

MSgt & Mrs R.A. Godbout

Mr & Mrs William S. Goodhand

Mr & Mrs T.J. Goodman

CWO (Ret) & Mrs G.D. Gortney

Lt Col Robert M. Gravelle

Capt Thomas K. Green

2Lt John F. Griffin

Mr Stephen V. Guenard

Capt Paul F. Guzowski

Mr Ronald A. Hale Jr.

Mr & Mrs Thomas J. Hanlon

Mr & Mrs Milton L. Hanson

Mr & Mrs Robert E. Hare

2Lt James J. Harkins

Mr Wendell J. Harkleroad

Col Melvin L. Harmon (USAFR)

Lt Col James F. Hinkel

Mr & Mrs Robert E. Hodge

Mr & Mrs Stacy W. Hoy

Mr A.W. Hyatt

2Lt Dunning Idle V

Lt Col Edgar A. Jackson

2Lt Kay S. Jackson

Mr & Mrs Maurice Jensen

Mr Arthur H. Johnson

Lt & Mrs Richard E. Johnston (USN, Ret)

Mr & Mrs Herbert R. Jones

Mr & Mrs Carl A. Keil

Maj Roy C. Kessell

Mr & Mrs Wilmer D. Kimmel

Capt Shannon T. Kingsley

Maj Timothy A. Kinnan

Mr & Mrs Alvin Knauf

Lt Col Leonard R. Kruczynski

Mr & Mrs Joseph N. Kruppa

Mr & Mrs Robert C. Laird

2Lt Maria R. Lamagna

2Lt Andrew H. Lamar

1 Lt Lisa A. Lambert

Mr & Mrs Harry A. Larsh

Capt Charles B. Latham

Col Robert J. Lemon

Mr & Mrs Peter J. Lepanto

Mr John Harold Lesher Jr.

Mr & Mrs Thomas E. Lofgren

Mr Terry A Lumme

Mrs Dorothy C. MacArtney

Lt Col Roy B. Marshall III

Mr & Mrs Donald G. McClarin Sr.

Col James L. McCleskey

Mr & Mrs James W. McClure

Mr & Mrs Wladimir Migdal

Capt Gregory R. Miller

Mr & Mrs Kent E. Mitchell

Mr & Mrs L.W. Mitchell Jr.

Mr & Mrs Victor Montijo

Col Sidney E. Moody

Bruce M. Mosier

Mr. James S. Munro

Mr. Michael L. Murphy

Lt Col (Ret) & Mrs A.J. Naigle

Mr & Mrs L.E. Nenna

Mr & Mrs Roy.J. Ott

Mr John R. Phillips

Mr & Mrs Richard J. Poppleton

Mr Christopher Poreda

Mr & Mrs John Bogatschow

Col William F. Rader

Mr & Mrs Terry L. Rarick

lLt Albert E. Reville Jr.

Maj Robert A. Reyling

Lt Col Roger S. Rhoades

Mr & Mrs William E. Rhoden

Maj Stephen M. Roberts

Mr Charles S. Rodgers

2Lt Richard L. Rogers

2Lt Mark A. Roling

Col (Ret) Maxwell W. Roman

Mr & Mrs Joseph Rossillon

Dr & Mrs P.D. Sadler

Mr & Mrs Albert N. Saffold

Mr Thomas J. Salmon

Maj Gen & Mrs John S. Samuel

Mr & Mrs Kenneth G. Sanders

Mr & Mrs J.M.R. Scanlon

Mr & Mrs Earl C. Schofield

Capt (Ret) & Mrs J.B. Scruggs

Mr & Mrs James Sheppard

CMSgt (Ret) James J. Silva

Mr Jeffrey L. Smiley

2Lt Michael B. Smith

Mr Roger E. Smith

Mr & Mrs Samuel E. Snider

Lt Col Stephen S. Sollenberger

Mr & Mrs Earl W.E. Sollmann

Mr & Mrs George Stillman

Capt Thomas R. Straiton

Maj (Ret) & Mrs J. Straton Jr

Maj Jack L. Strickland

Mr & Mrs Ernest V. Swauger

Mr & Mrs Earl L. Taylor

Mr & Mrs Frank J. Thoma

Lt Col (Ret) Addison S. Thompson

1 Lt Paula G. Thornhill

Lt Col James W. Tilley 11

Mr & Mrs Richard D. Trotter

Mr & Mrs M.J. Valovcin

Mr Michael A. Vandette Jr.

CWO & Mrs A.C. Vankleef

Mr & Mrs William J. Veroski

Cmdr (Ret) & Mrs John K. Verser

Capt David A. Wagie

Capt Larry A. Weaver

Lt Col Thomas L. Webster

Col (Ret) John C. Whitman II

Capt Linn E. Wilde III

Mr & Mrs James D. Wiley

Mr & Mrs Elwood O. Wilkinson

Capt James C. Williams

2Lt James R. Willsie

Dr & Mrs Donald Lee Wise

Mr & Mrs Thomas W. Wooley

Mr Farris F. Yates

Col (Ret) Alex D. Zimmerman

Col Edward A. Zompa

Mr & Mrs Ho Yick Au-Yeung

Mr & Mrs Herbert Becker

Dr & Mrs Don S. Blank

Maj (Ret) & Mrs J.J. Britschgi

2Lt Paul E. Bunt

Capt Steven E. Cameron

Capt Charles O. Cornell

2Lt Alice L. Cruz

Lt Col (Ret) & Mrs H.J. Deluca

Capt Luckey M. Dunn

Mr & Mrs Alvaro Duran

Capt William E. Edmondson

Capt Gary P. Fazio

Mr & Mrs F. Leland Franz

Mr & Mrs Earl G. Ford

Col Ralph H. Graham

SMSgt (Ret) & Mrs B. Griffis

Capt David G. Hickman

Col Otto K. Habedank

Capt Robert F. Hall

Capt Michael K. Hathaway

Mr & Mrs Wilfred W. Hoffman

Capt Peter A. Holzgang

Lt Col (Ret) & Mrs W.A. Howard

Mr & Mrs Martin Hrovat

Mr Paul D. Hudgens

Mr & Mrs Malcolm J. Ingalls

1 Lt Jan-Marc Jouas

Mr & Mrs William P. KnoX

2Lt Gail K. Kramer

1 Lt Frederick A. Lankford

Capt Andrew Matarese

Capt Joseph R. McLaughlin

Mr & Mrs Charles C. Mettler

Capt James C. Navarra

Mr James E. O’Day

SFC (Ret) & Mrs Victor M. Palma

Rev & Mrs Henry B. Pickett

Capt Lawrence A. Renfro

Lt Col (Ret) & Mrs C. Reynolds

1 Lt Kenneth F. Rodriguez

Mr & Mrs John E. Ryan Jr.

Capt Daniel B. Schick

SMSgt (Ret) & Mrs R.A. Shook

Maj John A. Skorupa

Capt Robert J. Slusarz

Mr & Mrs Edwin B. Smith

Jeffrey E. Stambaugh

Maj (Ret) & Mrs Thomas Tighe

Mr & Mrs Gordon R. Tobin

Col (Ret) & Mrs T.C. Watkins

Capt Mark T. Whalen

Capt Gary S. Wilson

Maj Gary A. Winterberger

2Lt James B. Winters

Lt J. Shield Wallace

Capt John S. Woodward

Mr & Mrs Karl G. Wuttke

Col Kenneth J. Alnwick

Mr & Mrs Richard P. Belden

Maj John P. Boyer

Capt James E. Carter

Capt David B. Cox

Mr Robert N. Craig

Mr & Mrs Francis P. Early

1 Lt John T. Farquhar

Mr & Mrs Leopold Feliu

Mr. Robert W. Goldin

Lt Col Willie W. Gray Jr.

Lt Col (Ret) & Mrs H.E. Headlee

Mr & Mrs Walter G. Heilmann

Mr & Mrs Heinz A. Lips

Mr Arlon S. Matsunaga

Lt Col James E. McArdle Jr.

Col Donald E. McCarter

Maj Robert J. Mestemaker (USAFR)

Lt Col (Ret) & Mrs John R. Mullady

Maj Jesse U. Overall IV (USAFR)

Capt John Petro

Capt Paul E. Pirog

Capt David E. Schmitz

Capt Samuel L. Shutt

Col (Ret) & Mrs Eben D. Smith

Capt William C. Taliaferro

Mr & Mrs Walter W. Taylor Sr.

Lt Col (Ret) & Mrs O. Treland

Mr & Mrs Charles S. Ullman

Lt Col (Ret) George Vinskey

2Lt Michael R. Watson

Capt (Ret) & Mrs J.T. Yavorsky

Maj Edwin L. Merideth Jr.

MSgt (Ret) & Mrs J.W. Whinery

Mr & Mrs Thomas A. Adkins Jr.

Mr & Mrs Vaughn Benjamin Sr.

Capt David H. Berg

Mr William A. Blumberg

Mr Gary M. Bone

Mr & Mrs Vincent Boragina

Maj (Ret) & Mrs A. Jay Briding

Mr & Mrs A.G. Brozena

Mr & Mrs James P. Burke

Mr & Mrs Louis G. Casale Jr.

Lt Col James S. Clark Jr. (USAFR)

SMSgt (Ret) & Mrs Wayne W. Cox

Mr Stephen D. Cross

1 Lt Philip N. Davis

Mr & Mrs Daniel deCamp

2Lt Robert E. Devaney

Col (Ret) & Mrs W.H. Ebelke

Mr & Mrs Peter D. Edwards

Capt Ronald E. Fly

Mr & Mrs C.W. Follansbee

Mrs Albert Gagliardi Sr.

Col Jon A. Gallo

Mrs Toshiko M. Gaylor

Lt Col (Ret) William H. Gold

Mr & Mrs Eladio Gonzalez

Mr & Mrs Russell E. Goodlin

Mr & Mrs Donald E. Gooley

1 Lt Brian J. Griggs

Mr & Mrs Gilbert L. Grill

Lt Col Robert L. Hayes

1 Lt Michael A. Heaberlin

Mr & Mrs Martin A. Heli

Col Peter J. Hermann (USAFR)

Mr Roger L. Hill

1 Lt Russell D. Hodgkins Jr.

Carolyn Holoviak

Col (Ret) & Mrs J.M. Huffman Jr.

Lt Col Harold J. Icke

Capt Bruce B. Johnston

Col Harold R. Jost (USAFR)

Maj Kerry M. Kelly (USAFR)

Capt K. Klingenberger

Dr & Mrs William Konnert

Dr & Mrs James G. Kornmesser

Mr & Mrs William Lenches Sr.

Mr & Mrs Bernard J. Lillis

Mr Stuart P. Lindner

Col & Mrs Leo P. Mackey

Col (Ret) Donald E. Madonna

Mr & Mrs Donald W. Marg

Lt Col Jack A. Martines

Lt Col (Ret) & Mrs H.M. Mathews

Lt Col Charles R. McCaffrey (USAFR)

Mr & Mrs William T. McConnon

Capt Michael W. McCoy

Col (Ret) & Mrs W.C. McLaughlin

Capt Robert N. Miglin

Mrs Nathan B. Mills

Maj Ronald G. Mills (USAFR)

Mr & Mrs Robert B. Morrison

Lt Col Russell C. Morrison Jr.

Mr & Mrs Edward L. Mullard

Maj John S. Nabil (USAFR)

Lt Col Michael P. Nolan

Mr & Mrs Joseph Nuanes

Maj Dale B. Oderman

2Lt Thomas G. O’Neil

Mr & Mrs Herbert H. Pearson

1 Lt Richard J. Pfautz

Capt Robert E. Rakitis

Mr & Mrs Robert O. Rau

Mr & Mrs Richard J. Zepf

Mr & Mrs William L. Rember Richard Reynolds

Mr & Mrs Herberg L. Richards

Maj William E. Richardson

1 Lt James L. Rodgers

Capt John K. Roll

Mrs Shirley Rosburg

Col William C. Roxby Jr. (USAFR)

Capt Charles B. Schmitz

Lt Col John D. Scott

Mr & Mrs Constantine Semenok

Lt Col Richard E. Siner

Mr & Mrs William H. Smith

Maj & Mrs Richard Spinner

Mr Thomas P. Sporte

SMSgt (Ret) & Mrs H.T. Stern

Capt Ernest St. Gelais

Capt Willard N. Stooke Jr.

MSgt & Mrs C.H. Sullivan

Lt Col (Ret) & Mrs D.H. Swanson

SMSgt (Ret) & Mrs W. Swarsbrook

Mrs Alician Tavernier

Mr & Mrs Eugene J. Thorpe

Mr Eric M. Thorson

Mr & Mrs C.S. Tilden

Mr & Mrs Edmund V. Torres

Mr & Mrs John T. Turner

Col & Mrs John E. Van Duyn

Mr Malcolm Alan Walker

Lt Col & Mrs John M. Walsh

Mr & Mrs Charles S. White

Capt William C. Whiteside (ANG)

Mr & Mrs Gary S. Zellmer

Mr & Mrs Ronald J. Babski

Mr & Mrs Peter Breidt Jr.

1 Lt Brian D. Dobbert

Mr & Mrs Louis DiGuiseppe

Maj David H. Hartmann

Mr & Mrs James A. Hudson

Mr & Mrs Stacy L. Huggins

Capt Ronnie J. Kirschling

Mr & Mrs Joseph A. Lamagna

Capt Calvin R. Lott Jr.

Lt Col Earl S. Mason (USAFR)

Mr Miller

Oderman Family Trust

2Lt Dennis Pearman

CMSgt & Mrs D.O. Poehler

Mr & Mrs William C. Raedy

Maj Fay A. Roe (USAFR)

Capt Edward L. Searles III

Mr & Mrs James L. Treece

Mr & Mrs Walter E. Turner

Col (Ret) & Mrs Barr D. Younker

Mr & Mrs Bill Yuen

Mr & Mrs John D. Zazworsky

Admissions Focuses On 20/20 Vision, Recruiting

By SSgt. Janice C. Worthy Public Affairs Office

Turning out more “true” pilot qualified second lieutenants and focusing more attention on the recruitment of highly qualified cadets were the major goals of the Admissions and Registrar Directorate in 1982.

Finding ways to meet those two goals resulted in alterations that will affect future Academy classes beginning with the Class of 1987.

“One of the changes we’ve worked on this past year,” said Col. Thomas C. Wilkinson, Admissions and Registrar director, “ineluded finding ways to try to bring in at least 70 percent of pilot qualified individuals in each entering class.”

Being fully pilot qualified will soon be a prerequisite for all entering cadets. As it stands now, only a majority of candidates admitted to the Academy must meet the established standards for pilot training. The remaining candidates must meet the Academy medical standards for navigator’s non-rated commissioning.

To be pilot qualified, candidates must have at least 20/20 vision uncorrected in each eye. To help the Admissions Directorate identify individuals who meet this criterion prior to entry, a different eye test has been adopted. It is given to candidates during their qualifying medical examination.

“It’s called the Cycloplegic Refraction Examination. The exam consists of dilating or freezing the muscles in the eye which allows it to be measured for a true visual reading.”

“In previous years we’ve brought in a number of the classes who were pilot qualified with waivers. That means they didn’t have the perfect 20/20 vision,” explained Colonel Wilkinson.

Colonel Wilkinson added that bringing in fully qualified candidates in the pilot area should increase retention since some cadets leave the Academy when they are no longer pilot qualified.

The Admissions and Registrar Directorate has also been investigating methods to select better qualified cadet candidates to increase retention.

“One of the primary programs we’ve been working on is a shift from a passive mode of recruiting. Rather than sit back and wait for letters from young people across the country saying, ‘Hey, I’m interested in attending the Air Force Academy so what do I need to do?’ we’re switching to an active recruiting mode.

“We’re proposing that our liaison officers actively recruit candidates as well as work with recruiting offices whose primary objectives are to recruit Air Force members,” said Colonel Wilkinson.

Previously liaison officers (LOs), some 1800 reserve, active duty and retired Air Force officers, only talked with students who had expressed interest in the Academy. Now the liaison officers have established goals to create interest within high school students for careers as Air Force officers.

“The LOs have been directed by the Academy to set up appointments with junior and senior high schools in their areas, talking with students who might be interested in the Academy,” emphasized the Admissions and Registrar director.

Another area that is being considered to increase retention is to take a closer look at applicants who have participated in scouting and Civil Air Patrol programs and applicants who are dependents of military service members.

“Students who have participated in scouting programs and children of military parents seem to have a higher ambition to remain at the Academy than those who haven’t participated or those who don’t come from a military background. We don’t, however, select students only on that; it is part of the total assessment when their applications are reviewed.

“Those students are exposed to leadership roles and new environments which makes them used to changing situations and helps them adapt more easily to the Academy,” explained Colonel Wilkinson.

The Admission and Registrar Directorate has also changed the cadet candidates’ physical fitness exam. The new exam, called the Candidate Fitness Test (CFT), allows the Academy to better determine the candidates’ ability to handle the physical requirement here. It is also a similar test as that given to cadets during their first year at the Academy.

And what does 1983 have in store for the Admissions and Registrar Directorate? “Our goals for ’83 is to bring in 70 percent of the Class of ’87 and subsequent classes that are fully pilot qualified without waivers, while attending the goals in recruiting minority, female and athletes who meet the Academy’s high academic standards,” Colonel Wilkinson said. (TheFalcon Flyer, January 14, 1983)

New Registrar Named

Col. Thomas C. Wilkinson, former vice commandant of cadets, assumed the post of director of admissions and registrar for the Academy, replacing Col. Warren L. Simmons, who served in the post for the past six years and retired at the end of last year.

Colonel Wilkinson is a graduate of the United States Military Academy and has had varied operational experience as well as a strong background as a squadron and group air officer commanding at the Academy prior to his most recent assignment at the Academy, first as deputy commandant of cadets and then as vice commandant.

He is a graduate of Squadron Officer School, Air Command and Staff College and the Army War College. He also received his master’s degree in public administration from the University of Oklahoma.

After receiving his Air Force commission, Colonel Wilkinson completed pilot training at Malden and Laredo Air Force Bases, Texas, in 1956. From 1956 to 1968, he was a fighter pilot with the 417th Tactical Fighter Squadron (TFS) at Toul-Rosieres AB, France; the 428th TFS at Cannon AFB, N.M.; the 92nd TFS at RAF Bentwaters, England; the 497th TFS at Ubon Royal Thai Air Force Base, Thailand; and the 430th TFS at Homestead AFB, Fla.

(Continued on page 7)

Col. Thomas C. Wilkinson

Col. Warren L. Simmons

Presidential Appointments Two Academy Board Posts Filled

President Ronald Reagan has named Mrs. Lynda Smith of Colorado Springs, Colo., and Mr. Julian Martin Niemczyk of Annandale, Va., to fill the U.S. Air Force Academy Board of Visitors seats vacated by Nevada Gov. Robert F. List and Dr. Wesley W. Posvar, the chancellor at the University of Pittsburgh. Both were appointed to a three-year term on the board.

Mrs. Smith and her husband, Ed, spearheaded a campaign earlier this year at the Academy in cooperation with the Association of Graduates which culminated with the construction and dedication of the Thunderbird Airmanship Overlook. The overlook, which was featured in the summer edition of this magazine, was a way of expressing thanks to the Thunderbirds and the Air Force, she said.

Joining two other women on the 15-member board, Mrs. Smith said, “I feel very grateful that President Reagan would choose to link my life to the Air Force Academy.” She said she looked forward to working with the senior leadership at the Academy and felt that her appointment indicates President Reagan’s ‘‘sensitivity to all women.”

The mother of three children, Mrs. Smith is a graduate of the University of Texas, and also attended Texas Christian University, The University of Hawaii, and the University of Mexico in Mexico City.

In addition to being a volunteer counselor at Penrose Hospital in Colorado Springs, she also serves as an advisor to the chancellor of the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, and on an advisory committee on women’s health care at the University of Colorado in Denver. She is also a member of the presidential commission for the study of ethical problems in medicine and biomedical and behavioral research.

Mr. Niemczyk is the chairman of the executive committee of People to People International, a volunteer organization.

The board of visitors has six presidential appointees with the remaining members being appointed by the vice president and various congressional leaders. The board is currently chaired by Sen. Barry Goldwater of Arizona and includes a Class of 1966 graduate of the Academy, Terrence O’Donnel, who is also a presidential appointee. O’Donnel is a partner in the law firm of Williams and Connolly, Washington, D.C.

(New Registrar: Continued from page 6)

He served as squadron and group air officer commanding at the Academy during a tour from 1969 to 1973, which was followed by an assignment as chief of the Tactical Analysis Division, 7th Air Force/USAAG at Nakhom Phanom Royal Thai Air Force Base, Thailand. He was then assigned as the deputy base commander at Holloman AFB, N.M., followed by duty as the chief of the Human Resources Development Division in the Directorate of Personnel Plans, Hq USAF, at the Pentagon. Following a tour as the 23rd Combat Support Group commander at England AFB, La., he was assigned to the Academy as deputy commandant in 1980 and became vice commandant in July 1981.

Colonel Wilkinson has flown the T-33, F-86, F-100, F-101 and F-4 aircraft. In Southeast Asia, he completed 121 missions, ineluding 100 missions over North Vietnam. He is a command pilot with more than 3,500 flying hours and his decorations include the Distinguished Flying Cross, Air Medal with 10 oak leaf clusters, Meritorious Service Medal with two clusters, Air Force Commendation Medal with one cluster, and the Joint Services Commendation Medal.

Other presidential appointees include former California Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr.; Henry B. Sayler Jr., chairman of the Republican Party of Florida; and Sheila Evans Widnall, professor of aeronautics and astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Vice presidential appointees include Sen. Gary Hart, D-Colo.; Sen. J. Bennett Johnston, D-La.; and Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska. Four members, appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, are Rep. Norman D. Dicks, D-Wash.; Rep. Thomas S. Foley, D-Wash.; Rep. Ken Kramer, R-Colo.; and Rep. J. Kenneth Robinson, R-Va. Rep. Beverly Byron, D-Md., was appointed by the House Armed Services Committee and Senator Goldwater was appointed by the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee.

The board visits the academy annually in the spring and inquires into the morale, discipline, curriculum, instruction, physical equipment, fiscal affairs, academic methods, and other matters relating to the academy.

Colonel Wilkinson and his wife, Helen, have three children, Thomas Jr., Jill, and Joseph.

Colonel Simmons retired after 23 years of active duty service. He began his military career in 1959 as a distinguished graduate of ROTC at Syracuse University, N.Y. He began working as a research physicist at Kirtland AFB, N.M. after earning a master’s degree at California Institute of Technology.

Colonel Simmons has been assigned to the Academy since 1964 as an instructor, assistant professor and associate professor of physics and as a tenured director of counseling and scheduling. He spent a year as an education and training advisor in Vietnam.

“I’m looking forward to retirement,” said Colonel Simmons. “It’s been a good job with great people to work with and for me. There are a lot of things I didn’t get accomplished, but I feel the directorate is in good hands with Colonel Wilkinson.

An avid golfer, bowler, and skiier along with his wife, Leilani, Colonel Simmons summed up his Academy experience by saying, “The Academy is a great place and I am going to highly recommend it to my six-year-old son, Kevin.” The Simmons family intends to remain in the Pikes Peak region.

Mrs. Lynda Smith

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

MORE ON MORTGAGE

Dear Mr. Roth,

I thoroughly enjoyed reading your artide in Checkpoints. I can understand the mortgage lender’s needing to protect themselves with variable-rate mortgages and I’m happy to see someone has found a way to give the homeowner some protection.

I’m wondering if the same philosophy can be used in the opposite direction. Consider the present situation with interest rates signaling a downward trend. A lot of people may be able to handle a sizeable monthly payment but are not willing to enter the market and lock in a high interest rate when the rates may fall in a year or two. 1 understand that variable-rate mortgages have a three to five-year period before the homeowner can reapply for a new mortgage at a lower rate or be forced to accept the higher rates available at that time.

Using your example, would it be possible to get an $80,000 loan at 14 percent for 30 years with a monthly payment of $947.90, and if the interest rates drop, to continue paying the same monthly payment of $947.90, but have the interest computed at the present lower rate and apply the balance to the principal? This looks great from the homeowner’s point of view, because he’s receiving some protection if interest rates do fall. I don’t know how the mortgage lender would view it is it possible?

The fixed-rate mortgage was the standard for many years and now may become a thing of the past. I can foresee your plan working in both directions (interest rates rising and falling), and becoming the new industry standard. It could sure give the housing industry a good boost.

Six months from now I will seriously be looking for a mortgage like you described (and maybe like I described). I would appreciate any comments you might have for homeowners looking for protection if interest rates should continue to fall. Thank you for your time.

Sincerely,

David L. Hovrud, ’74

ROTH RESPONDS

Dear Editor,

David Hovrud’s letter was a thoughtprovoking one. There are two reasons why I do not think his suggestion is feasible.

First, changing the interest rate causes legal and procedural complications. The “Truth in Lending’’ laws require a statement of actual interest rates, and under this suggestion that becomes difficult. Also, mortgages are already complicated to the average borrower, and this is more complicated. The second reason is that the borrower does not really need this feature. He already has an out; he can refinance. Even with penalties, there is a point at which he can improve his situation. The lender had no such option under the old 30-year mortgage contract.

Sincerely,

Michael J.C. Roth, C.F.A., ’63

STAR FLEET ACADEMY

Dear Colonel Wallisch:

I quite enjoyed your article “I Went To School In Colorado” in the most recent Association of Graduates magazine. However, as a “Trekkie” I feel a duty to point out a grievous error of fact in your otherwise outstanding piece.

The Star Fleet Academy is colocated with Star Fleet Headquarters on an artificial planetoid (see accompanying copies). Sorrowfully, neither Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Sulu, nor Lt. Saavik went to the Zoo. Reference: T.O.:01:01:30-36 (Star Fleet Technical Manual).

STAR FLEET TECHNICAL ORDER

FLEET

I quite share your feelings about the superiority of my alma mater but we are dealing with a period where even Aluminum U. becomes a has-been.

Respectfully,

Bob Hart, ’69

WALLISCH AGREES

Dear Bob

Thanks for your letter and the documents. The Trekkies are going to make an honest man of me yet! Not only does the mail continue to arrive in my box, all of it correcting my errors about Star Fleet, but Pat and I have also observed strange lights above our area here in Pittsburgh during the night. They always spell out the same message: “Star Fleet Demands Equal Time.”

Meantime, thanks for taking the time to write. I’m a long way from good old Colorado now, but I hope you and Linda will look me up when I’m back where I belong next year. (Catch me before the Star Fleet Academy puts us out of business!)

Regards,

Bill Wallisch, Lt Col, USAF ACE Fellow, PITT (Tenure Associate Professor, USAFA)

U.S. Jaycees Honor Two Graduates

By Amn. Valerie McGovern Public Affairs Office

The U.S. Jaycees have chosen an instructor at the Academy and a White House Fellow, who formerly taught at the Academy, as two of the “10 Outstanding Young Men of America” for 1983.

Capt. Felix Sanchez and Maj. Frank Klotz, both Academy graduates, are the two officers chosen by the recognition program, which began in 1938. The “10 Outstanding Young Men of America” program recognizes accomplishments and efforts of 10 men between the ages of 18 and 36 annually.

“I’m honored and a little humbled,” said Captain Sanchez, Class of 1971, an instructor of aeronautics. “It’s pretty hard to accept after seeing the people who have won before.”

Capt. Sanchez earned a bachelor’s degree in aeronautical engineering at the Academy. He went on to receive his master’s degree in aerospace engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology, which he attended under an Air Force fellowship.

The 33-year-old Captain believes of his selection, “I really think it is the Jaycees saying that there are a lot of oustanding professionals in the Air Force. They are recognizing the outstanding contributions we are making to the defense of our nation.”

According to Col. Ervin J. Rokke, department head of political science and acting vice dean, “Major Klotz is a superb officer. He has excelled throughout his Air Force career and we are delighted to have had him as a member of Political Science. I see his accomplishment as a beginning of future contributions as he continues his career in the Air Force. He represents precisely the kind of officer this institution seeks to produce.”

After attaining a bachelor’s degree at the Academy, Major Klotz, Class of 1973, earned his master’s and a doctorate, both from Oxford University.

According to Lt. Col. Robert P. Haffa, deputy department head of political science, “We are very pleased for Major Klotz, he did a great deal of work here at the Academy. We are proud for him and are proud to have had him here as a member of the department and of the faculty. He did an excellent job not only in the classroom, but also as the director of last year’s Academy assembly.”

Both men have contributed extraordinary accomplishments to the Air Force.

Captain Sanchez was assigned to Tinker AFB in Oklahoma City as an aeronautical engineer and was selected Junior Officer of the Year for his efforts. After graduation from the Air Force test pilot school as a flight test engineer at Edwards AFB, Calif., Captain Sanchez was assigned to Hill AFB, Utah as test project manager of a $100 million fight test program. He authored a three-volume technical report on the results of the successful program.

In 1979 Captain Sanchez was director of flight test engineering on the Ground-Launched Cruise Missile Test Program. He was responsible for all test planning, flight preparations and the conduct of the flight test. When testing the Cruise Missile, Captain Sanchez succeeded in cutting the costs of the launches. He received the Meritorious Service Medal for his work as mission director during the launches. He was also honored by Air Force Systems Command as the company grade officer of the year for 1982.

Promoted to major three years ahead of his contemporaries, Major Klotz has served as a research assistant to the Department of Defense Committee on Excellence in Education. Major Klotz co-authored Air Force’s Long Range Capabilities Objectives

‘Outstanding Young Man' Capt. Felix Sanchez, a U.S. Jaycees choice for one of the “10 Outstanding Young Men of America, reviews a scale model of the Space Shuttle with C2C

left,

both of Cadet Squadron 40. (U.S. Air Force photo by SSgt. Guido Locati) document in 1977 while assigned to Headquarters Air Force. The next year, he was assigned to the assistant secretary of defense for Manpower, Reserve Affairs & Logistics. In 1980, while at the Academy, he serves as a summer research associate with the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory. Major Klotz designed and taught courses on defense policy, American government and political theory when stationed at the Academy. He became a White House Fellow in 1982 and works as special assistent to deputy secretary of state Kenneth W. Dam. (The Falcon Flyer, January 14, 1983)

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Something Missing?

Galdino Leon,

and C2C Jaime Quiros,

Dean Reviews Academic Progress

By Maj. Tom Mahr Public Affairs Office

The man who guides the Academy’s faculty saw 1982 as a year of stability for the academic program.

“As in the past, we tried to give cadets a broad base of knowledge upon which to build throughout their careers,” explained Brig. Gen. William A. Orth, dean of faculty. “I think they should have a background for both the technological aspects of the Air Force and also the people related aspects of the Air Force.

“Our goal is to make them well-rounded officers and in the process to require the same aspects of character that success in the Air Force does which is diligence; hard work; stick-to-itiveness; the ability to carry something to a successful conclusion, even if it’s not something that you’d choose to be doing at that point in time; and the ability to continue to work on a difficult problem. In short, the concept of duty.”

Achieving these goals was a year-long challenge for the faculty and cadets, alike and one which is really never finished.

The 27th annual Academy Assembly was held in March 1982. Ninety-eight delegates from colleges across the nation joined, cadets in a five-day discussion of The All Volunteer Force (AVF). The conclusion: The AVF is viable and should be retained.

In June, the academy’s academic program ended for approximately 800 members of the Class of 1982.

This class continued the academy’s proven academic tradition. Cadets Heather A. Wilson and David S. Fadok became the 24th and 25th graduates to receive coveted Rhodes Scholarships. Fourteen other graduates received nationally-recognized scholarships.

Seven visiting civilian professors completed their tours at the Academy and eight civilian professors arrived to begin their oneyear tour.

Eighty-four firstclass cadets spent six weeks in the cadet summer research program at various Air Force and DoD research facilities around the world. For the cadets, this was an opportunity to apply the knowledge they learned in the classroom to reallife Air Force problems such as changes to astronauts’ immunity systems in space and the effects of the aurora borealis (“northern lights”) on radio and radar signals.

The challenge of applying classroom knowledge to the solution of Air Force problems was not confined to the summer research program. Throughout the year cadets and instructors teamed up in labs around the Academy to the Air Force’s benefit. The Behavioral Science Laboratory studied the effects of radiation on mice in the hopes of developing a method to counteract this deadly threat. The Aerodynamics Lab examined the aerodynamics of various aircraft now in the Air Force inventory and the models of the future. And the Biology lab worked on a method to detect the risk of cancer before the disease progresses to an irreversible stage.

One of the longest-running research projects at the Academy is to increase the use of computers to aid instruction. The Departments of Astronautics, Aeronautics, Electrical Engineering, English, Foreign Language and Physics all made strides in applying computer technology to the Academy’s academic programs.

The fall semester introduced the nearly 1500 members of the Class of ’86 to the Academy’s academic program and brought changes to various academic departments. Four new permanent professors assumed duties as department heads and the Department of Astronautics and Computer Science was divided into two separate departments.

Brig. Gen. William A. Orth Dean of Faculty

Changes occured in the administration of the academic program as well. The three-year-old academic officer-monitored study program was cancelled to give cadets more responsibility for maintaining an appropriate study atmosphere during Academic Call-to-Quarters. Cadets in academic trouble were enrolled in the mandatory Academy Study Hall program, which was initiated on a trial basis to foster better study habits.

The faculty continued its quest for knowledge in the fall. Three hundred people attended the 10th bi-annual Military History Symposium in October and discussed “The Homefront and War in the 20th Century.”

Five cadets made history when they delivered a cadet research payload to the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral AFS, Fla. on behalf of the more than 400 cadets that participated in the “Scenic Fast” program during the past five years. The cadet payload was scheduled to be carried aboard the “Challenger” Space Shuttle’s maiden flight.

Last year, eight speakers participated in the Distinguished Speakers’ Program. These speakers discussed topics ranging from the black professional to the lessons learned in the Falkland Islands crisis.

The Academy’s 45,000 square foot library expansion was completed just in time for preparing for final exams. The $4.5 million project provided space for over 400 cadets to study, and room to expand library collections and automate various administrative and research activities in the library.

“What’s on the calendar for 1983? General Orth provided this answer: “I would like to see the curriculum continue to evolve so that it provides the best foundation for cadets. I don’t think there are radical changes to be made in the curriculum. The curriculum here in terms of what the Air Force says, our records, and so forth, has been a very successful curriculum. Our goal is to continue to strive to prepare cadets to be effective officers in the Air Force.” {The Falcon Flyer, January 14, 1983)

Grad Among Trio That Conquers Mt. McKinley

by A1C Tom Bernas

Photos by Ted Waltman and Mike Danaher.

(Editor’s note: Capt. Ted Waltman is a 1978 graduate of the Air Force Academy whose parents live in Colorado Springs. The following article was written by A 1C Tom Bernas of the public affairs staff at Edwards Air Force Base and appeared in the July 2, 1982 edition of the base’s Desert Wings newspaper.)

It was sometime around Christmas before last when Capt. Ted Waltman and A1C Mike Danaher crossed paths with Bill Krause, a fellow mountaineer from Los Angeles, while ice climbing frozen waterfalls in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of Central California.

The three began to talk briefly about past rock and ice climbing experiences and it eventually surfaced that both Waltman and Krause had previously taken part in unsuccessful expeditions up the much-traveled West Buttress route to the summit of Mt. McKinley in Alaska.

Before departing, Krause expressed his desire to take another shot at reaching the infamous 20,300-foot South Peak of Mt. McKinley the highest in North America. Only this time he wished to attempt an unprecedented “alpine style” ascent of the East Buttress with a West Buttress descent.

His offer was indeed intriguing for in the nearly 80 years since the first McKinley expedition no one not even the world’s greatest climbers had ever attempted what Krause had suggested. In fact, only three parties had ever risked the more methodical and safe “expedition style” ascent of the East Buttress.

Nonetheless, the airmen expressed their interest in the idea and agreed they should give a try. It especially appealed to Waltman since his prior attempt had come within 1,000 feet of one of the world’s most coveted climbing summits.

Consider them a “little crazy” or just overly zealous, they were simply victims of the same magnetism that has attracted thousands of other novice and professional climbers to the peaks of the McKinley Massif since the early 1900s.

XThe following week the trio met in Los Angeles to arrange the plans that six months later would take them on an unforgettable 30-day trek through a life-threatening hell to the gates of mountaineering heaven. For on June 8, at approximately 2 p.m., Waltman, Danaher and Krause embraced on top of the world. They had done it.

“It was a feeling of utter relief, but one of limited emotion,” stated Waltman. “We were just too exhausted to get excited. We had also been above 18,000 feet too long, which can deteriorate your body organs, we had to descent immediately.”

“We did have time to snap a few pictures, but there was no real time to savor the moment,” added Danaher. “But I can guarantee you, I’ll never forget it for as long as I live.”

To fully appreciate their remarkable feat, one must consider the inherent dangers in scaling McKinley. Despite its sterile, panoramic beauty, it is a veritable prehistoric ocean of ice, rock and snow. Save the occasional raven, McKinley is not fit for habitation.

Named “Denali,” meaning the high one, by ancestors of the Tena Indians, it is unquestionably the home of the most inhospitable terrain and sub-arctic climate on Earth.

In May and June alone, the temperature frequently falls to 30 degrees below zero or less at the base of the mountain, lending itself to inevitable frostbite conditions. The summit of the South Peak reportedly has temperatures somewhere between 50 and 60 degrees below zero. That’s not taking into account the 100-milean-hour winds that continually whip around the numerous ridges, impeding even the most determined climbers from reaching the summit.

In addition, it has the greatest base-to-summit rise of any mountain in the world, some 17,000 feet above the plateau on which it sits. Its snow-line at 4,000 feet is one of the greatest vertical snow covers on Earth.

The mountain, the crown of the McKinley Massif, which has 21 peaks measuring higher than 10,000 feet, also lies in an extremely active earthquake zone. Its glaciers are some of the largest in the world with the Kahiltna Glacier, which lies below the southwest face of the South Peak, stretching for 46 miles. And all the ridges and faces offer the continual threat of crushing avalanches.

To scale the East Buttress “alpine style” also presented some unique challenges for the two airmen and Krause.

“In alpine style, you’re climbing with all of your provisions and gear on your back and without the aid of pre-positioned ropes,” Waltman explained. “In expedition style, the climbers will ascend to a certain location, fixing and securing their rope along the way. They then go back down to their camp to get their gear and then, with the aid of the rope, re-ascend to their next camp. It’s obviously much safer and easier.”

Since alpine climbers carry all their provisions on their backs, some 65 pounds their freeze-dried, high-calorie food is limited. Should bad weather continually impede their ascent it could lead, to the least of their worries, starvation.

On the other hand, if they ascend too quickly pulmonary edema (water in the lungs) or cerebral edema (water in the brain), both symptoms of “climber’s bends” can result, in which an immediate descent is the only cure.

“We had packed 10 full days of rations figuring we could reach the summit in 12 to 14 days and be back down to the 14,000-foot level on the West Buttress in time to find food and fuel among the camps there,” Waltman stated. “Unfortunately, the storms just wouldn’t let up. We were climbing a day, sitting in the tent a day, climbing a day, sitting in the tent a day. It was definitely getting unnerving.”

Just the beginning Krause

“We figured at the most, there would be two or three storms the whole trip, but we ended up sitting in the tent for 13 of the 30 days on the mountain,” Danaher added. “If there was any consolation, it was that we weren’t ascending too fast.”

Their impassioned quest for the summit began Saturday May 14, with the routine flight aboard a Cessna 182 from Anchorage to the West Fork of Ruth’s Glacier at 7,000 feet. That same evening they set up camp approximately one mile from the airstrip outfitted with the best equipment available, some $2,500 worth of personal gear per man, $650 sleeping bags and a $750 three-man tent.

Having managed a good night’s sleep, despite their incessant enthusiasm, the three embarked Sunday afternoon with the help of pleasant weather and easy glacier travel. By 2 a.m. they had reached the 8,000-foot level in the Northwest Fork with virtually no problems. The only real threat to their safety that day were the numerous crevasses (loose snow covering cracks in glaciers, some hundreds of feet deep) throughout Ruth’s Glacier. Waltman was the first to experience the frightening sensation of having the ground unexpectedly collapse.

“It surprised the hell out of me because Mike had just walked over the same spot and nothing happened,” he claimed. “Luckily, I only went in up to my waist and Mike and Bill were able to pull me out.”

Four hours later, they awakened with the goal of reaching the base of the East Buttress summit at 9,000 feet by that evening. A clear, crisp afternoon ensured their ascent and by 10 p.m. they were encamped at one of their many predetermined sites.

“The snow was kind of deep, but the travel was easy because we were able to cart our gear and provisions on sleds until we got to the base of the summit,” Danaher stated.

Anticipating a clear Tuesday morning to begin their unprecedented ascent up the East Buttress, the trio awoke surprisingly to heavy snowfall, their first taste of McKinley’s hostile temperment. For two consecutive days they remained camped at 9,000 feet hoping for a clear day to guide them up the difficult buttress.

By Thursday morning the three set out amid clouding conditions and light snowfall with the intent of pitching their camp at 11,000 feet. Although the weather got increasingly worse through the day, they succeeded after trudging through 8-inch deep snow at 45 degree inclines with their heavy backpacks.

“We had no alternative but to press on because remaining in the valley would have exposed us to the danger of avalanches or

seracs (massive chunks of ice that can break loose, triggering an avalanche),” Waltman said. “Also, you can’t go back down to your camp because of the risk in traversing previous avalanche chutes.”

“We had no trouble falling asleep, that’s for sure,” Danaher added. “The climbing was extremely exhausting.”

Heavy snowfall discounted any prior thoughts of continuing on Friday. By the following morning however, the storm had abated and the trio set out to encounter undoubtedly their most difficult and precarious ice climbing of the entire ascent.

“We began climbing snow and ice-covered slopes with a 55 degree inclination that gradually increased to approximately 75 degrees and sheer ice,” Waltman stated. “Since we weren’t anchored by ropes all we had to keep us from falling was our two ice axes and our crampons on our boots. If one of us had fallen without the other two being anchored we probably would have slid to our deaths.” There was truth in Waltman’s words for on June 4 two Japanese climbers plunged 2,000 feet down the West Rib. They were eventually rescued and transported to a local hospital in coma condition due to head injuries.

Nevertheless, their methodical pace continued until they finally established their camp at 12,700 feet admidst temperatures dipping to 15 degrees below zero.

It was Sunday, May 23, when the fourth storm of their journey foreclosed any intentions of climbing. Worse yet, the supplies of food and fuel, which were getting increasingly smaller, were causing some concern.

“We had been on half rations since the first storm day as a precaution against running out, but we were being delayed too often,” Danaher claimed. “We knew though that if we could get to the 17,000 foot mark there would probably be food and fuel buried there by past expeditions, who had climbed easier routes. It’s pretty common for expeditions to leave extra supplies in order to reduce their weight.”

Unfortunately, it was only the beginning of some extremely difficult days ahead as the mountain began to assert itself with the ferocity and power that had made it a mountaineering legend.

After gaining only 1,000 feet on Monday, tenacious 100 milean-hour winds and heavy snow fall forced the three to take refuge in a huge crevasse for three straight days.

Shelter from the storm Capt. Ted Waltman, ’78, begins to enter a massive crevasse at 12,800feet on the East Buttress to set up a camp along with his two companions to evade a storm.

The edge of “white”

A 1C Mike Danaher kneels perilously at the edge of the East Buttress at 14,100 feet with only his ice axe and crampons to keep him secured.

Sunshine on their shoulders

Waltman captured this early morning shot of fellow mountaineer Bill Krause through the opening of their tent as he took a stroll at 16,000feet on Thayer Ridge.

By Friday, their anxiety to reach the summit of the East Buttress at 14,230 feet had overwhelmed them and they began to move out.

“There was some cloud cover below us, but only clear skies above the whole day, “Danaher stated. “We finally reached the summit late that night after going through some more exhausting 65 degree climbing. But at that point we knew the hard, technical climbing was behind us.

After patiently waiting out a storm on Saturday, the trio embarked on Sunday morning for their seventh pre-determined camp at 16,000 feet and by 5 p.m. were resting in the confines of their tent. In the process, they were treated to one of the myriad majestic spectacles of McKinley as clear skies provided, in Waltman’s words, “an unhindered view for a million miles.” It also provided one of the many ironies in mountain climbing as the day’s blazing sun made them sweat under their heavy clothes.

The first day of June furnished them with a relatively easy walk along Thayer Ridge at 17,000 feet and more importantly the needed fuel they had been seeking. Late that Monday evening they were encamped behind the protection of the ridge at 17,200 feet.

“The skies were crystal clear that night so we ate a big breakfast the next morning expecting to reach Denali Pass at 18,000 feet where food is commonly buried in the ground or hidden under rocks,” Waltman said.

It was to be their only mistake of the entire trek as storms wielding 100 mile-an-hour-plus winds and blinding snow whipped into the Thayer Basin later that morning. They were to remain trapped in their tent for three more consecutive days with barely enough food and fuel to spare among them.

“All we had left by Friday morning was one can of fruit cocktail and a half a pint of white gas,” Danaher explained. “Needless to say, we had to make an attempt at Denali Pass or head down the West Buttress to camps at 14,000 feet. That would have ended the ascent.”

“That was the point of the climb where I feared for my life the most,” he added. “Especially since we had to sit up against the walls of the tent to keep it from blowing apart.”

An obliging break in the storms enabled them to ascend to Denali Pass by 11 p.m. where they expectingly found the food and fuel buried in the snow and ice, under a protruding bamboo pole.

“That probably did more for our spirits than anything because we were on the brink of calling it off,” Waltman said. “We expected to reach the summit of the South Peak in half a day.”

The mountain had not been fairly cooperative however, and wasn’t about to change. Furious, bone-chilling storms had the wind-chill temperature off their hand-held charts for three days.

Once again, they were confronted with calling it off or precariously waiting out the onslaught.

“We had been above 18,000 feet for quite some time, which can cause your body organs to deteriorate from lack of oxygen,” Waltman stated.

It was during the 24th night on the mountain when the skies finally cleared leaving them with the decision to attempt a night ascent of the summit. Unfortunately, the bitter cold convinced them to wait till morning. That same evening, they were to discover later, Peter Habeler, a German climber considered the best in the world, attempted an ascent but failed.

Despite some unfriendly conditions Tuesday morning they decided to “go for it.” Six hours later their relentless persistence had them standing at the peak, surrounded by nothing but blowing snow, only three and one-half degrees from the very tip of the Arctic Circle.

They probably wouldn’t have made it, Waltman later remarked, if it hadn’t been for an avenue of bamboo poles (Wands) stuck in the ground that guided their ascent to the summit.

It appeared a fitting “helping hand” from past expeditions that had conquered the South Peak for the blinding snow may have thrown the trio helplessly off course.

“Nothing but white,” Waltman stated, “couldn’t tell what was up or down.”

With a good night’s sleep under their belts, they set out for the camps at 14,000 feet expecting to get there in a matter of hours. Food, fuel and medical assistance was sure to be there. McKinley seemed to get in a few last licks though by unleashing storms at 17,000 feet that inclined them to construct an ice cave since they feared their tent would not withstand another night of gale force winds. The following day was no better, but again their immediate descent was imperative.

“We had to crouch when we walked due to the 80 mile-an-hour winds, but we eventually made it to 16,000 feet where we saw two Japanese climbers the first people we had seen in 24 days,” Danaher said. “By late afternoon we saw the camps and we all perked up.”

After spending one day there to recuperate from frostbite the three headed down, only to be impeded at 11,000 feet by one more storm on Saturday. The next day they reached the landing strip at Ruth’s Glacier where they flew off after traversing some 28 miles in 30 hellacious days.

Would they ever do it again?

“Considering the cost, it was probably a one-shot deal for me,” Danaher stated.

Waltman wasn’t sure either.

on top of the world

Standin’

This photo captures the essence of Mt. McKinley’s South Peak at 20,300 feet. Danaher amidst nothing but blowing snow.

Many Exercise Benefits Hidden

by Maj. Terry Payton and Lt. Col. Dick Elliott, Analysis Division, Department of Physical Education, USAF Academy

Have you ever asked yourself, “Is regular exercise worth the time it takes?” You’ll have to admit the visible evidence is pretty scarce. Certainly you hear people make claims such as “I sure feel better,” “I’m more alert” or “I’ve got more energy.” Sometime there may be visual evidence such as going from a size 36 waist to 34 or a size 16 dress to size 12, but in most cases the benefits are hidden.

At the Air Force Academy’s Human Performance Laboratory we have recently looked at some of these less evident changes which can be attributed to participation in the Air Force’s Aerobics Program. For seven months 10 instructors in the Physical Education Department accurately recorded their aerobic points. The average points earned were then used in ranking the instructors by level of physical activity.

Since the term aerobic point will be used throughout this article and is possibly not clear to you, a brief explanation may be helpful. Dr. Kenneth Cooper (who developed the Air Force Aerobics Program) used aerobic points to estimate the energy cost of various physical activity; one aerobic point being equivalent to an oxygen cost of approximately seven milliliters of oxygen/kilogram of body weight/minute. For example, to run a six-minute mile requires approximately 42 ml 02/kg/min and is equivalent to six aerobic points (42 divided by 7 6). The following are examples of the aerobic points Dr. Cooper assigned to other activities based on their oxygen cost:

WALKING/RUNNING

1 mile 12 minutes 3 points

1.5 miles 12 minutes 8 points

2 miles 12 minutes 13 points

HANDBALL/RACQUETBALL/SQUASH/BASKETBALL

30 minutes 5 points

60 minutes 11 points

90 minutes 17 points

GOLF/BOWLING - ONE POINT PER HOUR

With this explanation behind us we can now return to the study. After the seven months had elapsed it was found that the instructors fell evenly into two groups those who had averaged more than 30 points per week and those who earned less. Coincidentally, Dr. Cooper found that 30 points per week were necessary to maintain an adequate level of fitness. Our findings appear to support this figure. Of the items relevant to physical

fitness which were investigated, all showed greater shifts in the desired direction for the high-exercise group than for the low group. For the purpose of illustrating some of the beneficial changes which occurred, we will concentrate on two individuals in the high-exercise group. Both individuals were classified as being at an average or slightly above average fitness level prior to initiation of the study. Each exercised once or twice weekly but neither was involved in a regular exercise program. Thus they both were fairly typical of the moderately active middle-aged American male. Subject A was 37 years of age and averaged 61 aerobic points a week during the seven-month period while Subject B, who was 41, averaged 43 points. The table below depicts the changes both of these individuals experienced during the study.

Subject A’s motivation to earn 61 points a week can be attributed in a large part to the results of his pretest blood analysis. The ratio of his total cholesterol/HDL cholesterol indicated a higher than average risk of coronary heart disease (CHD). Following three months of regular exercise, Subject A had reduced this ratio from 6.1 to 2.5 which placed him in a group having less than half the average risk of CHD. During this same period, Subject B also dropped to this lower-risk category.

The importance of shifts in HDL and LDL can’t be overemphasized. Recent studies indicate that the levels of these partides in the blood are a better predictor of CHD than is the total serum cholesterol value. Cholesterol in serum combines with protein, triglycerides and other lipids to form various size particles. The smaller, dense particles are called HDL while the larger, less dense ones are called LDL, with most serum cholesterol being associated with one of these two particles. Although the exact function of these lipoproteins is not known, it is suggested that HDL may play an important part in the transport of cholesterol to the liver for removal from the body. In any event, highlyconditioned individuals tend to have high levels of HDL and low values of LDL. After only three months, Subjects A and B demonstrated very beneficial shifts in these two lipoproteins.

The weight loss of both individuals was approximately one pound per month which indicates that caloric expenditure was greater than caloric intake. This magnitude of weight loss is fairly typical of what is seen with regular moderate intensity exercise when not coupled with diet. In addition, studies have shown that

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THE SECRET LIFE OF WALDO F. DUMBSQUA T

by Don Hall, ’76

Mitchell Hall was alive with the sights and sounds of the NOON MEAL. C/4C Waldo F. Dumbsquat, Warren Heels, and Regs Buch sat at the toughest table in the squadron. They had already been asked the usual knowledge questions such as the number of days until graduation, the next Air Force Day, the movie schedule, and the members of the Academy Parcheesi Team.

Now Waldo had an important mission.

“Mr. Sanchez, may we have some hot water please?’’

“Sorry, this isn’t my table.”

“Mr. Smith, may we have some hot water please.”

“I don’t understand the question, Dumbsquat.”

“Hot water, please, Mr. Rodgers.”

“Sorry neighbor, no more water in Mitchell Hall. The water machine’s broken.”

“Cadet Area, sir, may I make a statement?”

“What is it, Dumbsquat?”

“Mr. Rodgers has informed me that the water machine has broken.”

“That’s weak, mister. Make an appropriate comment on the Form and get me some hot water!”

Waldo looked quizzically at the 0-96. Poetry was tough. The freshman already knew he would never major in the ARTS.

(Exercise Benefits: Continued from page 16)

weight is not lost through exercise unless exercise is performed at least three times a week. The drop in the percentage of body fat also indicates that stored body fat was being utilized for some of the energy requirements. The increase in red blood cells (RBC), hemoglobin (HGB) and hematocrit (HCT) reflect a greater oxygen-carrying capacity of the blood which aids energy production. Oxygen binds to HGB inside the RBCs, thus the value of their increase is evident while HCT is a measure of the packed-cell volume (primarily RBCs) relative to whole blood.

Maj. Terry Payton, one of the subjects in the exercise tests, undergoes a maximum stress test to determine his oxygen consumption. The study was supported by funds from the Seiler Research Lab. Mr. John Scupp assisted in the study by drawing all the blood samples.

Waldo slyly dropped his pen.

“Sir, may I make a low pass and return to altitude?”

“Approved as requested, Dumbsquat.”

The doolie ducked under the table and uttered the mystical phrase “Fast Neat Average, Friendly Good Good.” Immediately the retched form of Waldo exploded into Colonel Dumbsquat, a man who never ate quiche in uniform.

The Colonel strolled over to the nearest Gold Coat.

“If you wish to avoid making box lunches for a living, I advise you to see that each table gets a pot of hot water and fresh jars of Peanut Butter.”

“Right away, sir!”

When the eagles on his shoulders stopped flapping their wings, Colonel Dumbsquat dived under the table and resumed his deformed doolie shape.

“Hot water for the Table Commandant, please, sir!” announced a relieved Waldo.

“Forget the water, Dumbsquat. Get me some coffee instead.”

“Yes, sir. Waiter, may we have some coffee please?”

“Sorry,” said Mr. DiMaggio, “coffee machine’s broken.”

From these results it can be seen there are a number of beneficial affects of exercise that may not be apparent to the person exercising. The one change, weight loss, which you would expect to be evident, could be masked by an increase in muscle tissue which might result in little or no weight reduction. With regular exercise there should be an improvement in the oxygencarrying capacity of the blood due to an increase in both RBCs and HGB. Because their increase is gradual, the individual will be unaware of the change. However, during long bouts of continuous activity, these higher levels will certainly make a difference in performance and reduce stress on the body. Changes in the amount of HDL, LDL and their ratio will definitely go unnoticed, but this change may be the most critical one associated with regular exercise.

There are certain guidelines that should be adhered to if an exercise program is to produce these hidden changes. Based on extensive research, the American College of Sports Medicine has made the following recommendations regarding exercise which should be followed if the changes discussed in this article are to be achieved:

1. Frequency three to five days per week.

2. Intensity 60 percent to 90 percent of maximum heart rate reserve, i.e., the minimum intensity would be .6x (Max HR

Rest HR) + Rest HR.

NOTE: You can roughly estimate your maximum heart rate by subtracting your age from 220. For example, if you are 20 years old and your resting heart rate is 70, then your training intensity should be at least .6 x (200 - 70) + 70 148 beats/minute.

3. Duration 15 to 60 minutes of continuous activity.

4. Mode Any activity which uses large muscle groups such as jogging, swimming, handball or basketball.

Prep School Marks Year of Success

By Amn. Valerie McGovern Public Affairs Office

New systems and programs, a fourth student squadron, athletic achievements and a record retention rate have given the Preparatory School many successful accomplishments and a few changes in the 1982 year.

According to Col. Jock Schwank, ’60, Preparatory School commander, last year was indeed a successful one for the Prep School.

The Class of 1982 had the highest retention rate in the history of the Prep School. Seventy percent of the students graduated.

The Prep School staff is the youngest ever. This youthful staff has made innovative changes in the curriculum and military training programs. For the first time ever the Chemistry Department is conducting lab experiments in the classroom and the Math Department has started a contract grading system in an effort to challenge and motivate the students. The English Department is administering a typing course as well as the Nelson-Denny Reading Test in order to give the students the opportunity to validate cadet typing and reading requirements.

A Professional Military Development Program has also been initiated at the Prep School. The Community Center Library staff continues to expand the number of available resource materials in support of the program.

The Preparatory School Basic Military Training session last August marked the last time the Academy cadet cadre will be involved in either BMT or Basic Cadet Orientation. From now on, the Prep School staff will be totally staffing both programs.

This past year also marked a first for the Prep School by changing to four student squadrons instead of the three in the past.

Prep School sports also had a good year. The Husky football team was 7-1, soccer was 11-1-2 and the cross-country team broke every school record. Women’s basketball was begun, replacing women’s volleyball.

According to Colonel Schwank, “The Preparatory School will continue to produce winners and send them on to the Academy, where they can follow in the footsteps of former Preppies who have gone on to become All-American performers, Cadet Wing commanders, Rhodes Scholars, Clement’s Award Winners and officers who are below-the-zone promotion selectees.” (The Falcon Flyer, January 14, 1983)

Historic Aircraft Motivates Preppies

The Preparatory School received its first aircraft recently. An F-100 carried by a Chinook helicopter from the 179th Aviation Company at Fort Carson, landed on the prep school parade grounds to become a permanent Academy display on January 26, 1983.

“We needed a motivational symbol for the preps to orient them toward operational Air Force careers,” explained Col. Jock Schwank, preparatory school commander.

The F-100, Super Sabre, has served in Europe, Southeast Asia and the United States and has carried at least six different sets of markings on innumerable assignments.

It was delivered to the Air Force in early 1957 and was selected to be on exhibit at the 1967 Paris Air Show. The show was held on the same date of the 30th anniversary of Gen. Charles Lindberg’s historic nonstop transatlantic flight.

Plans were made for “Lindy” to ride in the rear seat on the Bight from McGuire AFB, N.J. to Paris. He could not make the flight, so Maj. (now Brig. Gen., ret.) Robinson Risner, made the flight to Paris.

In September 1961, the F-100 was assigned for duty with the 140th Tactical Fighter Wing at the Colorado Air National Guard unit in Denver. The 140th TFW took very good care of the F-100 during the next six and a half years. When the squadron left for a year’s tour of duty in Southeast Asia, the Super Sabre went along and came back in the spring of 1969.

“The F-100 is a good symbol of the heritage of flight and it’s an Academy symbol, not just the Prep School’s” said Colonel Schwank.

Academy Bound

The F-100 Super Sabre gets a lift to its new home infront of the Academy Prep School. (U.S. Air Force photo by SSgt. Guido Locati)

“The colonel added, “The receipt of the F-100 is the result of the entire Academy’s effort including the help from all the support activities.”

FALCON SPORTS ‘tSJSSr

What It Was, Was (Falcon) Football!

Displaying one of the best running attacks in the nation, the Air Force football team came up with perhaps its greatest season last fall by defying all odds to record an 8-5 season and a victory in the Hall of Fame Bowl.

There have been teams with better records in Falcon football history but none posted as many firsts as did the 1982 team, a unit that parlayed one of the nations most potent offenses into the school’s first winning team in eight years.

After posting a 4-7-0 record in 1981, the Falcons were expected to improve last fall but no one was ready for what the 1982 Falcons achieved.

Here were the firsts achieved by the 1982 Falcons:

The first-ever victory over WAC champion Brigham Young, defeating the Cougars 39-38 in the BYU stadium dedication game in Provo.

The first-ever outright possession of the Commander in Chief’s Trophy, emblematic of service academy football supremacy. The Falcons first defeated Navy 24-21 at home, then went to West Point, N.Y., and downed Army 27-9 to clinch the coveted trophy for the first time.

On Nov. 20, history was again made when Air Force scored its first victory in history over Notre Dame, scoring a 30-17 triumph over the Fighting Irish in a contest at Falcon Stadium that was not as close as the final score indicated.

The Notre Dame victory earned a spot in the Hall of Fame at Birmingham, Ala., on Dec. 31 and the Falcons climaxed an incredible season by coming from behind in the fourth quarter to defeat Vanderbilt 36-28 and record their first-ever bowl victory in four attempts.

The season was a coaching masterpiece for head coach Ken Hatfield, who was named Western Athletic Conference Coach of the Year and added district coaching honors as well.

But it was also a season of individual brilliance with such offensive players as seniors Dave Schreck and Ricard Smith and juniors Marty Louthan, John Kershner, Sean Pavlich and Jeff Kubiak adding their bit to Falcon football history.

Starting with the first game, the Falcons showed off an offensive attack that made the Flexbone one of the most feared words in the nation. The Falcons ran and ran and ran some more, mixed in some passing along the way, and finished as the top offensive team in school history, both in scoring and yardage gained.

Nationally, Air Force finished as the fourth-leading rushing team in the nation with an average of 301.7 per game and the total offense mark of 424.9 yards per game was ninth in the nation.

High-scoring games were the norm and the Falcons tallied 30 or more points in eight of the 13 games played. In all, Air Force football, 1982 style, was some of the most exciting in the nation and with 52 returning lettermen and most of the offensive weapons returning, 1983 shows promise of being just as exciting.

Individually, one of the top offensive players was senior offensive guard Dave Schreck, who was named to The Associated Press All-America third team besides being selected to play in the Hula Bowl in Honolulu in January. He was also an All-Western Athletic Conference first-team selection as were junior fullback John Kershner and junior placekicker Sean Pavlich. In addition, junior quarterback Marty Louthan, junior punter Jeff Kubiak and sophomore defensive tackle Chris Funk were All-WAC second-team selections.

Louthan, a magician when it came to running the Flexbone, accounted for 2,133 yards during the regular season and was a threat both rushing and passing, gaining 796 yards on the ground and 1,337 passing. The top rusher, however, was Kershner, who had 1,056 yards during the regular season before adding 132 more in the Hall of Fame Bowl.

Pavlich was once again the team’s leading scorer with 81 points and set a school mark by making 15 of 18 field goal attempts during the regular season, including best efforts of 55 and 57 yards. Kubiak, who was named to the Academic All-America second team, set a school mark by averaging 43.4 yards per kick, one of the top averages in the nation.

Let’s

Defensively, Funk had 79 tackles, including seven for losses, but junior linebacker Shawn Smith was the top.tackier during the regular season with 144 while junior end Carl Dieudonne was the defensive player of the game in the Hall of Fame Bowl with the an effort that included two key pass interceptions.

In retrospect, 1982 was one of the finest football season in Air Force athletic history and will always be remembered as the “Hall of Fame” year.

go coach

Falcon head coach Ken Hatfield gets a lift off the fieldfrom linebacker Dave Timm, left and center Hugh Funk, following Air Force’s win in the Hall of Fame Bowl. Coach Hatfield summed up his feelings about the Falcon come-from-behind victory, when he said, “If heaven is any better than this, then take me now. (U.S. Air Force Photo by Guido Locati)

Hatfield Feted

Air Force head football coach Ken Hatfield was named the 1982 Western Athletic Conference (WAC) “Coach of the Year’’ and the District 8 “Coach of the Year.” In a preseason poll of WAC Sky Writers, the Falcons were picked to finish no higher than sixth in the WAC. The Falcons ended the season with an overall 8-5 record and 4-3 (third place) in the WAC.

“Several factors contributed to the success of the 1982 Air Force Falcons football season,” said the coach during the final football luncheon after the Falcons defeated Vanderbilt in the Hall of Fame Bowl game. Our players were very unselfish. Following our loss to Hawaii we had little time to prepare for the Hall of Fame Bowl since many of the players were away over the Christmas holiday. Each player chose to work out on his own with the thought for many of them that ‘there is only one’ Hall of Fame Bowl.

“Our defense set a lot of records, unfortunately many of them were for the other team. However, they strongly believed that the next play would be theirs and not once did our players hang their heads. Offensively we always believed we could move the ball on anyone and score in that ‘all important’ fourth quarter. Also, the good Lord smiled on us and kept us free from injuries throughout much of the season.”

After the highlights of the Falcons’ 36-28 victory over Vanderbilt were shown at the luncheon, Coach Hatfield quipped, “The key to success in this game was our ability to ‘bait’ the Commodores into over-confidence at the start of the game...then overtake them in the final quarter.”

A 1965 graduate of the University of Arkansas, Coach Hatfield came to the Academy in December 1977 as offensive coordinator under Bill Parcells following an outstanding career started in 1965 as an assistant at Helena High School in Arkansas. He moved into the college ranks in 1966 as a freshman coach at Army and was there two seasons before becoming freshman and receivers coach at the University of Tennessee. He moved south in 1971 by going to the University of Florida, serving with the Gators as a defensive backfield and offensive backfield coach until moving to the Academy.

He was an outstanding player at the University of Arkansas, lettering three years as a defensive back, earning All-American second-team honors besides being picked for the Academic AllAmerican team. He was All-Southwest Conference in 1964 as a defensive back and three times led the league in punt returns. The 1964 Razorback team claimed the national title and Coach Hatfield played in the 1963 Sugar Bowl and the 1965 Cotton Bowl.

displays his breakaway skills which were so effective against Notre Dame, Vanderbilt, and other Falcon opponents. Louthan accountedfor 796 yards on the ground and 1,337passing during the season. (U.S. Air Force Photo by Guido Locati)

Trophies find new home

The Flail of Fame Bowl Trophy and the Commander-in-Chief’s Trophy were presented to the Cadet Wing in Mitchell Hall on January 5. (U.S. Air Force Photo by SSgt. Guido Locati)

Falcons Honored

Senior guard Dave Schreck and seven other members of the Academy football team have been cited for their excellence during the Falcon’s 1982 football season.

Schreck, who was selected to play in the Hula Bowl, has become the eighth Air Force football player to be awarded at $1,500 post-graduate scholarship from the National Football Foundation and Hall of Fame. Along with other Falcons, he was honored by the Associated Press All-American squad selection committee and the All-Western Athletic Conference.

Majoring in electrical engineering with a 3.45 cumulative grade average, Schreck was one of 11 outstanding scholar-athletes from around the nation to receive the prestigious National Football Foundation and Hall of Fame award.

Besides Schreck, other past Falcon winners of the Hall of Fame scholarships have been Charles Longnecker, ’69; Bob Parker, ’70; Darryl Haas, ’71; Bob Homburg, ’72; Tom Foertsch, ’78; Jim Tubbs, ’79; and Mike France last year.

While in New York City to accept the Hall of Fame scholarship, Schreck was notified of his selection to the Associated Press All-American squad as third-team offensive guard. The 6-4, 250-pound Schreck becomes the 13th Air Force player to be chosen for a major All-American team. Receiving honorable mention from the Associated Press were quarterback Marty Louthan, placekicker Sean Pavlich and fullback John Kershner.

In All-Western Athletic Conference selections, Schreck, Kershner, and Pavlich were named as first-team offensive selectees. Heading up the second-team offensive selectees was Louthan. Center Ricard Smith received honorable mention honors. Defensive tackle Chris Funk and punter Jeff Kubiak were second-team selectees on the All-WAC defensive unit. Linebacker Tom Stanbury received honorable mention defensive honors.

Go Marty!

Quarterback Marty Louthan

Dave Schreck

FALCON FALL SPORTS

With six of nine sports finishing with a winning record, the Air Force Academy fall sports teams won 60 per cent of their varsity contests.

The 11 varsity and junior varsity teams won 80 contests, lost 49 and tied two for 61 per cent.

The women’s cross country (4-0) and women’s golf (2-0) were the only two undefeated teams while the women’s volleyball led the fall sports with 35 wins.

The women’s cross country won the Continental Divide championship and placed sixth in the NCAA Division II championships while soccer and women’s volleyball placed second in their respective leagues.

During the fall, four Falcons received All-American honors senior offensive guard Dave Schreck and punter Jeff Kubiak (football), senior Rita Burr (women’s cross country) and junior Linda Samuelson (women’s volleyball).

The Falcon water polo team finished with an 8-11 record but was ranked 13th in the coaches’ national poll.

A rundown of each sport is as follows:

MEN’S CROSS COUNTRY After a sixth-place finish in the Western Athletic Conference championships in Salt Lake City, the men’s cross country team finished the season with a 2-5 record. Falcon senior Gary Droze was the top Falcon runner in the WAC championships with an llth-place finish in a time of 31:03 over the 10-kilometer course. During the season, the Falcons participated in six invitationals. They placed second in the Southern Colorado and Adams State Invitationals while finishing third in the New Mexico, Colorado and Falcon Invitationals.

WOMEN’S CROSS COUNTRY With a sixth-place finish in the NCAA Division II championships in St. Cloud, Minn., the women’s cross country team completed its season with a 4-0 dual record. In the championships, the Falcons were paced by Rita Burr, who was 25th over the 5,000 meter course in a time of 22:14.5. Burr earned All-American honors for the fourth-straight year with her finish. In addition, the Falcons won the Continental Divide championship and took second place in the South Central Regional championships in Warrensburg, Mo. Other highlights include winning the West Coast Invitational and a second-place showing in the Southern Colorado Invitational.

MEN’S GOLF Competing in a split season, the men’s golf team ended the fall with a 2-1 record. The one loss came at the hands of Army (378-385), ending the Falcon winning streak of

Fullback

defense for yardage. He rushed for 64 yards and one touchdown on 13 carries. Defending for Vanderbilt is cornerback Leonard Coleman, number 31. (U.S. Air Force Photo by SSgt. Guido Locati)

Theresa Blad, number 15, gives her Northern Colorado opponent a run for her money. The A ir Force women’s basketball team, undefeated in their first 11 games, have rolled their statistics to an impressive 14-4 at presstime. The men’s basketball team stood at 8-11 while the ice hockey team logged a 5-17 record. (U.S. Air Force Photo by SSgt. Guido Locati)

dual meets at 55. Highlighting the fall were three first-place finishes out of five outings in the Rocky Mountain Golf Assocation tournaments.

WOMEN’S GOLF With a short fall season, the women’s golf team won both of its matches against Colorado State. Leading the Falcons was team captain Robin Wink.

SOCCER After taking second place in the Rocky Mountain Intercollegiate Soccer League (RMISL) with a 5-1 record, the soccer team finished the season with an 8-9-2 overall record. Selected to the RMISL first team were senior back Doug Hill and junior midfielder Mike Lynch. Lynch, from Fairborn, Ohio, received honorable mention to the 1982 All Far West team.

WOMEN’S TENNIS Finishing the fall season with a 6-3 record, the women’s tennis team will complete its season in the spring. The Falcons participated in the Ft. Worth Clay Court Open in Texas, with senior Chris Duffy finishing third, freshman Barb Drake fifth and sophomore Sherry Currin seventh in singles. Duffy and Tamaron Sharp finished second in the doubles competition. Senior Emily Reigh led the Falcons with a 10-3 singles record during the fall.

WATER POLO Finishing the season with an 8-11 record, the water polo team ended the season ranked 13th in the national coaches’ poll. The Falcons finished sixth place in the national AAU championships in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., and tied for second with a 3-1 record in the Falcon Invitational this year.

WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL Led by Division II AllAmerican Linda Samuelson, the women’s volleyball team finished the season with a 35-15 record. The Falcons took second place in the Continental Divide tournament, losing to Northern Colorado. Named to the all-league team were juniors Samuelson, Cheryl DeVita and freshman Barbara Martin. Highlighting the season were a first-place finish in the Colorado College Tournament, a second place in the Regis Tournament and a third-place showing in the Metro and Southern California tournaments.

More yards for Sundquist

Ted Sundquist, number 38, rips the middle of Vanderbilt’s

Women cagers mark wins

STRIKE UP THE (USAFACADEMY) BAND

by Staff Sgt. Terry Dobbs

Parades, dances, receptions and concerts, not to mention noon-meal formations: none of these Academy and community functions could be complete without the United States Air Force Academy Band. This organization has supported the Academy for 28 years and remains proud and true to its military and musical heritage. The youngest of the service academy bands, the Air Force Academy Band continues its high standards and rich traditions.

Actually, the Air Force Academy Band has its beginnings in a dance band called the “Flying Yanks,” a group started by two enlisted men in England in 1942. These musicians performed their regular military duties during the day, and “gigged” at night under special services. Activated as the 439th Army Air Force Band in 1943, it was eventually redesignated as the 739th Army Air Force Band in March of 1944. As the 739th, the band played everything from radio shows to public relations appearances to victory bond drives for the 8th Air Force.

BAND COMMANDER

Commanding the Academy Band since his appointment in 1975 is Lt. Col. John D. McCord. Colonel McCord succeeds a long line of distinguished conductors at the Academy. Among them are Col. Arnald Gabriel, currently commander/conductor of the United States Air Force Band in Washington, D.C., and Lt. Col. Richard Thurston (retired), currently director of bands at Yale University.

Colonel McCord graduated from Albion College in 1960 with a bachelor of arts degree and began his Air Force career as an enlisted saxophone instrumentalist at Chanute AFB, Ill. Passing the Air Force bandleader’s examination in 1963, the colonel entered Officer Training School and upon graduation, assumed his duties as deputy commander of the “Air Force Band of the West’’ at Lackland AFB, Texas.

The colonel’s previous command assignments have been with Air Force bands at Lowry AFB, Colo; Wiesbaden AB, Germany; Westover AFB, Mass; and Barksdale AFB, La. Prior to his assignment at the Academy, Colonel McCord served as chief, Air Force Bands Branch in Washington, D.C. In this position, he was responsible for the operation and management of the entire Air Force music program.

2nd Lt. Stephen M. Razo, a graduate of the University of Arizona, assumed duties as deputy commander of the USAF Academy Band on January 10, 1983. Lt. Razo is a published composer and has served as a high school band director in southern California and Phoenix, Ariz.

The 739th Band, one of the best bands in Europe during WWII, was deactivated on October 20, 1945. Today’s Air Force Academy Band is the outgrowth of the reactivation of the 739th Air Force Band on May 10, 1955 and its assignment to the United States Air Force Academy.

Bandleaders throughout the Air Force were asked to screen their musicians or the best, musically and militarily. The band’s standards and performance were far above the norm. The same is true today.

More than 60 percent of the current Academy bandsmen have bachelor’s degrees in music performance and education. Many have their master’s degrees and others continue to work on higher courses of study. Other musicians have unsurpassed experience. Auditions are rigorous and competition is keen when openings appear in one of the many groups.

Aside from the day-to-day marching formations, the Air Force Academy Band runs the musical gamut from jazz, and rock’n’roll to classical. Rehearsals and performances fill the musicians’ days to overflowing, but there’s always time to share and enjoy the musical moments.

Today, the Air Force Academy Band is more diversified than the old 739th, but it is proud of its heritage and eager to blaze new trails. The Air Force Academy Band proudly supports the Academy at athletic events, Bluebards’ musicals, cadet wing dances and in community relations. Twenty-eight years proud, the Air Force Academy Band will continue to serve the United States Air Force Academy and the United States with military professionalism and musical integrity. So let’s take a look at these musical ambassadors of the Academy.

Lt. Col. John D. McCord, Academy Band commander, puts his musicians through their paces.

MOODS IN BLUE

One of the most widely traveled groups within the Academy Band is “Moods In Blue.” This unique group blends the show style of Las Vegas and today’s popular hit tunes with Broadway flair. Created and conceived by Lt. Col. McCord, the Moods In Blue is an innovative approach in military music today.

Consisting of 10 singers, a band of 12 members, and lighting and sound personnel, Moods In Blue takes their entertainment all over the nation. They have had the privilege of sharing the stage with entertainers such as Bob Hope, Steve Allen, Jimmy Stewart, Fred MacMurray and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

The group not only does its own special musical arrangements, but creates original costumes and choreography as well. Moods In Blue is an entertainment extravaganza not to be missed!

FALCONAIRES

Another exceptional group, the Falconaires, combine the toetapping, high-stepping dance tunes of the Fabulous Forties with the best of the modern big band sound.

Formed as one of the original units of the United States Air Force Academy Band, the Falconaires’ mission has been to provide dance music for the Cadet Wing and other Academy social events. The 18-member band continues to provide the best in dance music and now goes beyond that. With the current surge of interest in jazz the world over, the Falconaires are committed to big band jazz and jazz education.

The Falconaires have been acclaimed by Frank Sinatra and have shared the stage with Art Blakey, Maynard Ferguson, Richie Cole, Gary Foster, Bob Hope, “Cat Anderson,” Andy Williams, Wayne Newton and most recently, the Four Freshmen. This goes to show the Falconaires represent the epitome of musical professionalism, and can perform with the best.

Master Sgt. Rick Crafts, leader and trombone soloist, is responsible for much of the enthusiasm and musical scope of this band. Under his guidance, the Falconaires have performed at such major events as the Wichita, Kan., and Greeley, Colo., jazz festivals in addition to performing community relations concerts for the United States Air Force Academy Band.

WILD BLUE COUNTRY

The Air Force Academy and the Colorado Springs area is fortunate to find itself the home of so many fine musical groups, including Wild Blue Country. From the early days of the frontiersman’s battered six string to the sophisticated instrumentation of today’s sounds, country and western music has been deeply rooted in the true heritage of the American culture.

Wild Blue Country is one of the Academy Band’s most popular groups in the Rocky Mountain West and its members combine years of experience in the country and western field to bring the best of the Nashville sound to “Grand Ole Opry,” yet spiced with the great country sound of today.

In presenting the very best in country and western music, old and new, Master Sgt. Joe Musselwhite and his musicians represent the Academy Band and the Academy throughout Colorado at many different functions. These range from Cadet Wing dances and school assemblies to public concerts in support of the Academy’s Community Relations Program.

BLUE STEEL

No military band could be complete today without a group that, within one hour, can take the listener from honest rock’n’roll to the Top 40’s to fusion-funk and back again. Blue Steel does all that and more.

Representing the United States Air Force Academy Band’s support at cadet wing dances, public concerts and ROTC dances over a five-state area, Blue Steel is one of the most popular of musical ambassadors.

Master Sgt. Jimmy Hayes and his musicians also perform original compositions met with unequalled enthusiasm; not an easy task when faced with today’s younger listeners!

Blue Steel is one of the United States Air Force Academy Band’s youngest groups, having been created in 1976. Notwithstanding its growth, this group proves to be one of the busiest and most popular units the Unites States Air Force Academy Band has to offer.

BRASS QUINTET

The United States Air Force Academy Brass Quintet has performed numerous concerts and clinics throughout the United States.

Led by Tech. Sgt. Dana McCormick, the members of the quintet have diversified musical backgrounds enabling them to perform a wide range of musical styles. For example, they can reach back into the 17th Century with Canzona’s by Gabrieli or move into the 18th Century with a Bach Contrapunctus. They also perform many different transcriptions and original compositions from the 19th and 20th Centuries to round out a repertoire that would challenge musicians of any capability.

THE MARCHING BAND

Yet, what would a military band be without a marching band? The United States Air Force Academy Marching Band is the exciting sound heard at Air Force Academy cadet formations, dress parades and home football games.

Acclaimed as the “world’s finest military marching band,” the Air Force Academy Marching Band boasts some of the finest musicians in the United States, many coming from the best major college and university marching bands in the nation.

Today’s edition of the United States Air Force Academy Marching Band is 83 pieces strong with the versatile capability of fielding smaller complete marching units to fit many occasions. In addition to performances at the Academy, the Marching Band has performed throughout the nation at civic parades, special events and national ceremonies. Performances in recent years have included major bowl games, presidential inaugurations and the Indianapolis 500.

THE CONCERT BAND

As for the traditional symphonic ensemble, the United States Air Force Academy Band presents a daring concept for the new decade of the 1980s. Lt. Col. McCord has combined three nationally-acclaimed musical units to create a unique, exciting and entertaining musical extravaganza.

Reminiscent of old when the ringmaster of the “circus big top” would have to entertain his audience to successfully bring off his extravaganza, Colonel McCord has blended the musicians into today’s edition of the United States Air Force Academy Band.

The all new traveling showcase combines the exciting “big band” sounds of the Falconaires with the Broadway, Las Vegas and Hollywood production numbers of the Moods In Blue vocal show group. These two famed units are further combined with the nationally-acclaimed Concert Band to create the all new United States Air Force Academy Band.

RAMPART WINDS

The Rampart Winds is a traditional woodwind quintet that has kept pace with contemporary chamber music.

Wherever this ensemble performs, it has the happy knack of invoking enthusiastic acclaim. Whether playing for music societies, university audiences, or community-related events, these uniquely-matched musicians create the impression of beauty and variety within the framework of their superb ensemble.

In addition to performing literature from the classical era, the Rampart Winds are equally at home with the contemporary idiom. The Rampart Winds’ repertoire consists of classical, light classical, pop, easy listening, and a special musical series for young people. Tech. Sgt. Robin Forrester-Meadows leads this ensemble in its musical endeavors.

GOODWILL AMBASSADORS

So as you have seen, the United States Air Force Academy Band is ever-changing to be the most effective goodwill ambassador at the Academy. The Academy Band and its components have played in person to hundreds of thousands of people annually of every race, creed, walk of life, and ideology. Additional millions have heard them through numerous radio and television appearances. By giving first-hand insight into the Air Force way of life, they have helped to inspire young men and women to become cadets at the Air Force Academy and to continue a career in the United States Air Force. And the band plays on.

CHAPTER NEWS

ALAMO AREA CHAPTER

USAFA - AOG P.O. Box 418

Randolph A.F.B., TX 78148

On January 30, the Alamo Area Chapter held its annual membership dinner and conducted the election of officers. Those members who couldn’t make it to Enoch’s missed a great evening. The following officers were elected for 1983: President Jim Brown Vice President (Civilian Affairs) Mickey Roth Vice President (Military Affairs) Don Box Secretary Bob Buckles Treasurer Larry Freeman Brooks Coordinator A1 Parmet Kelly Coordinator Mike King Lackland Coordinator Jim Olsson Randolph Coordinator Bill Ebert

A special thanks goes to DeeAnn Simpson (Skinner, ’63) for making the facilities of Enoch’s (a private club) available to us and for making all our dining and menu arrangements. “Thanks DeeAnn and welcome back, Skinner.’’

The Alamo Area Chapter’s annual Founders Day dinner is going to be on 1 April 1983 at the USAA complex. For your entertainment and dining enjoyment, we will have a combo from the Band of the West and the outstanding singing voices of the Randolph Blue Notes. For more information or reservations please call Jim Brown at 654-6328, or his office at 652-2197.

Looking even further down the road, the chapter is planning a “June Week” luncheon at the Plaza Club. Our focus of attention for this affair will be an inside view of the Middle East situation: past, present and future, given to us by some active and informed fighter jocks of the Israeli Air Force.

Commandant to Speak

Brig. Gen. Anthony Burshnick, ’60, commandant of cadets, will be speaking to the Southwest Ohio Chapter on April 22 and to the Capital Chapter on April 23. Please contact the Southwest Ohio Chapter representative listed in their article, or Johnny Whitaker, ’73, of the Capital Chapter, at USAFA AOG, P.O. Box 2712, Springfield, VA. 22152 (Autovon 697-4425).

COLORADO CHAPTER

The Colorado Chapter has an exciting schedule for the spring. In early February, we had a successful ski weekend near Geneva Basin. On May 7, we will have our third annual spring dinner in Denver. Dr. Hans Mark, deputy administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, will be our speaker. We plan to carry on our tradition of dynamic presentations at these functions. More information will be available from the chapter shortly.

We are still looking for more participation. Our Colorado Springs representation is especially low. Please give us the benefit of your input. A1 Blumberg, ’68, and A1 Jensen, ’74, are the contacts for more information. See you in May.

SAN DIEGO COUNTY CHAPTER

Don Rushing, ’70, and Charles Black, ’70, are attempting to start up an AOG Chapter in the San Diego, Calif, area. All interested graduates can contact Don at Gray, Cary, Ames and Frye, 2100 Union Bank Building, 525 “B” Street, San Diego, Calif. 92101. His home phone is (619) 488-4171 and his office phone is (619) 699-2732.

McCHORD AFB CHAPTER

All graduates in the McChord AFB, Wash, area are invited to join in the recent effort to create an Association of Graduates Chapter there. Colonel Richard C. Milnes, ’61, along with other graduates in the McChord AFB area, are spearheading the effort. For more information, contact Colonel Milnes, who is the vice commander of the 62nd Military Airlift Wing at McChord. His address is 3610 112th Street, S.W., Tacoma, Wash. 98499. He may also be reached by telephone at work at 976-2621 or at home at (207) 582-7324.

NORTH TEXAS CHAPTER

B.J. Bjorklund, ’70, destroyed precedent by calling the North Texas Association’s Jan. 13 annual business meeting to order at 8:06 p.m. only 36 minutes late (after the keg was tapped, of course). This meeting concluded B.J.’s reign as “the PREZ” in spectacular fashion, since it was the third successful meeting in only 14 days! Attendance was up by 60 percent from last year quite an achievement considering an eleventh-hour switch in location.

Bob Staib, ’62, reviewed the minutes of 1982’s business meeting, and Ron Hale, ’71, insisted we were still solvent to the tune of over $360 dollars. B.J.’s president’s report was a stirring monologue (ie., brief), in which he reviewed the events of 1982, the plans for 1983, and thanked the group for the support he had received as president. Walt Herter, ’62, and John DeFilippo, ’70, were elected unanimously to replace B.J. and Doug Tice, ’62, whose terms on the board had expired. Chuck Richardson, ’68, gave us an update on the Athletic Association and Falcon Hunt. We applauded in particular his review of the Falcons win in the Hall of Fame Bowl, which we had watched as a group on December 31.

The newly elected board rallied around the keg afterwards and elected Bill Reetsma, ’63, as our new president; John DeFilippo, ’70, as secretary, Walt Herter, ’62, as membership chairman; and Ron Hale, ’71, as treasurer. H. Ownby, ’69, and Bob Staib, ’62, remain on the board.

On Jan. 7, the board invaded Carswell AFB in Fort Worth for the second annual membership drive among our uniformed grads in the area. The social and informational gathering sponsored by the North Texas Association resulted in 14 new members, including one life member.

The chapter will have its annual Founder’s Day dinner dance on April 9, 1983, in Dallas. As always, this will be an excellent time for grads to get together and have a great time. The North Texas Chapter, one of the most active in the country, invites all AFA alumni to join us for this event. Contact Bill Reetsma, 3226 Leahy Drive, Dallas, Texas 75229, (214) 357-5502 for details.

SOUTHWEST OHIO CHAPTER

With our 1983 directors freshly elected, the Southwest Ohio Chapter has been planning an active year. Our newlyelected directors are Chris Carson, ’61; Jerry Westerbeck, ’63; Tim Westover, ’64; Bob Golden, ’65; Chuck Daley, ’71; Gene Cuomo, ’73; Rod Wilkinson, ’80; and Leona Flores, ’81. These new electees supplement continuing directors By Theurer, ’61; Harry Allen, ’63; Larry Carr, ’70; and Brian Waechter, ’80, whose tenure extends for another year.

Jerry Westerbeck has had an ongoing project to create and present to the Air Force Museum a USAFA memorial tree

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From the Very Beginnings: The Call of the Clouds (Part II)

by Bruce Francis Svihus

“Instead of the tardy conveyance of ships and chariots, man might use the swifter migration of wings; the fields of air are open to knowledge, and only ignorance and idleness need crawl upon the ground.”

This fanciful prophecy in Rasselas, published in the early 1800s by Dr. Samuel Johnson, has been realized through the courage and sometimes foolhardy attempts made by our early human birdmen. The practical aircraft designers, pilots and passengers of the present owe a deep debt of gratitude to our early aviation pioneers: Sir George Cayle, Chanute, Lilienthal, Langley, the Wright brothers, Levavasseur, Bleriot, Montgomery, and their contemporaries.

One of these pioneers was my grandfather, Captain Roy N. Francis, who not only performed with the exhibition flyers during the “Golden Age of Flight,” but preserved much of the history of the era. His documentation, the cataloging of the information in the Francis Aero Collection, and nine years of research with encouragement from aviation historians and enthusiasts, have helped make it possible to publish not only the achievements of Roy Francis, but of others who have dedicated and given their lives in the pursuit of flight. This and future articles about the “Golden Age” are a result of these efforts.

Before the exhibition flyers, there had to be flight. Who were these early birdmen who dared to leave the earth in the pursuit of eagles and to fulfill the flying dreams of centuries past?

The question of who was first still persists for some. History has recorded the claims of powered flight long before the Dec. 17, 1903 flights of the Wright brothers.

Clement Ader’s batlike machine, the “Eole,” flew 160 to 165 feet under steam power over the Chateau d’Armainvilliers, France, on Oct. 9, 1980. This manned flying machine was the first to take off from level ground under its own power, but it could neither sustain itself nor could it be held under control.

Henri Giffard’s steam-driven airship in 1852 has been considered by many historians to be the beginning of man’s practical conquest of the air when he flew from Paris to Trappes in 1852.

Another early recorded steam-driven flight was that of Professor S.P. Langley’s test model “Aerodrome.” Alexander Graham Bell, a close friend and supporter of Langley, witnessed these flights in the 1893 to 1896 era. In quotes taken from a rare McClure’s magazine of June 1897, “Professor Langley’s

Aerodrome in Flight by S.P. Langley,” Dr. Bell said, “It appeared to me to be built almost entirely of metal, and driven by a steam engine which I have understood was carrying fuel and water supply for a brief period, and which was of extraordinary lightness. The absolute weight of the Aerodrome, including that of the engine and all appurtenances, was, as I was told, about twenty-five pounds, and the distance, from tip to tip, of the supporting surfaces was, as I observed, about twelve to fourteen feet.

“On the occasion referred to, the Aerodrome, at a given signal, started from a platform about twenty feet above the water, and rose at first directly in the face of the wind, moving at all times with remarkable steadiness, and subsequently winging around in large curves of, perhaps, a hundred yards in diameter, and continually ascending until its steam was exhausted, when, at a lapse of about a minute and a half, at a height which I judged to be between eighty and one hundred feet in the air, the wheels ceased turning, and the machine, deprived of the aid of its propellers to my surprise did not fall, but settled down so softly and gently that it touched the water without the least shock, and was in fact immediately ready for another trial. Its motion was, in fact, so steady that I think a glass of water on its surface would have remained unspilled.”

On the second trial run, the Aerodrome “flying-machine” flew for one-and-a-half minutes over a measured distance of more than 900 feet. Dr. Bell exclaimed, “It seems to me that no one who was present on this interesting occasion could have failed to recognize that the practicability of mechanical flight had been demonstrated.”

(A piece of seamless steel tubing from the Aerodrome is now on display at the Academy Library, Special Collections Department. The tubing was presented to the library by Edwin H. Link.)

The 1914 annual report of the Smithsonian Institution may well have added to the “who was first” controversy. Entitled “The First Man-Carrying Aeroplane Capable of Sustained Free Flight Langley’s Success as a Pioneer in Aviation,” author A.F. Zahm wrote: Dr. Langley’s aerotechnic work may be briefly summarized as follows.

“His aerodynamic experiments, some published and some as yet unpublished, were complete enough to form a basis for practical pioneer aviation.

“He built and launched, in 1896, the first steam model aeroplane capable of prolonged free flight, and possessing good inherent stability.

“He built the first internal-combustion motor suitable for the practical man-carrying aeroplane.

“He developed and successfully launched the first gasoline model aeroplane capable of sustained free flight.

“He developed and built the first man-carrying aeroplane capable of sustained free flight.”

Preceeding this article in the same annual report of 1914, was a reprint by Orville Wright, “Stability of Aeroplanes.” The reprint, used by permission of the Journal of the Franklin Institute, Sept. 1914, told of Wright receiving the Franklin Institute’s Elleott Gresson Medal in recognition of the epicmaking work accomplished by him in “establishing on a practical basis the science and art of aviation.”

Following the published articles on Langely’s work by Zahm, and the apparent endorsement of Langley’s “flying-machine” by the Smithsonian Institution, Orville Wright sent his “Flyer” to England to be housed in the Science Museum of London, where it

Professor S.P. Langley’s Aerodrome in Flight: A View from Above, from McClure’s Magazine, June 1897. (Courtesy of the Francis Aero Collection)

Lyman Gilmore leans against the propeller of his 1902 powered glider. The cabin-type monoplane, housed in the hangar barn, was destroyed by fire before it could beflown in 1907, when the barn burned at the Gilmore Flying Field near Grass Valley, Calif. (Courtesy of the Francis Aero Collection)

stayed for 20 years. On Sept. 29, 1928, the Smithsonian Institution published “The Relations Between the Smithsonian Institution and the Wright Brothers,” by C.G. Abbot, secretary, Smithsonian Institution. The publication represented “...an attempt on the part of the Smithsonian Institution to clarify an unfortunate controversy.” (This latter information courtesy the Academy Library’s Col. Richard Gimbel Aeronautical Library.)

The Smithsonian authorized Glenn H. Curtiss (a competitor of the Wright brothers) to recanvas the original Aerodrome and test fly it. It was flown successfully only after Curtiss and his staff at Curtiss Aviation Field at Lake Keuleu, Hammondsport, N.Y. had made more than 35 changes to the original craft. Whether or not the original Aerodrome was capable of sustaining man in flight remains a controversy today.

Another claim to being first centers around a German immigrant from the town of Lefershausen in Bavaria, by the name of Gustave (Weisskoph) Whitehead. According to the Connecticut Aeronautical Historical Association, on Aug. 14, 1901, in Fairfield, Conn., Whitehead flew his craft at a height of 50 feet and gently landed a half mile beyond his starting point. The Bridgeport Sunday Herald published the story four days later. Richard Howell, editor and eye-witness, wrote: “Almost instantly, the bow to the machine lifted and she raised at an angle of about six degrees. The great wings were working beautifully. She looked for all the world like a great goose rising from the feeding ground in the early morning dawn.”

Weeks before this apparent flight, the Scientific American published photographs showing Whitehead’s aircraft of arched canvas-covered bamboo ribs with its two six-foot propellers. The writer of the novel, Flying Machine, became one of Whitehead’s avid supporters. Beech invested money in Whitehead’s projects, writing very complimentarily about Whitehead’s aviation feats.

The American Inventor of April 1902 published an article on Whitehead’s model 22 aircraft, announcing that Whitehead said “he had flown over Long Island Sound reaching a height of 200 feet in a circling flight covering seven miles.” Unfortunately, Whitehead, like Curtiss, were basically mechanics and kept no records on the experiments whereas the Wright brothers were more scientific, leaving behind much data on their early aviation work.

The oldest commercial airfield in the United States and the first on the west coast is named after Lyman Gilmore, another possible “first,” who is credited with being the “inventor of the first powered glider in the world,” according to aviation historians of Grass Valley, Calif.

Gilmore built his first glider in 1891 after experimenting with a wing covered bicycle. In 1893, he flew 500 feet at a height of 50 feet in an 18-foot wingspan glider. In 1893, Gilmore started and completed in 1898 a cabin-type monoplane, with a 65-foot

wingspan. This aircraft was built and destroyed by fire in 1907 before it could be flown. He also submitted patent drawings in 1898 for a retractible landing gear, according to Bob Fowler, west coast pionieer aviator, who witnessed the drawings. In May of 1902, Gilmore reportedly flew his 32-foot glider powered by a steam engine and flash boiler many times. He also experimented with aluminum coverings for wings, with aircraft body design, and in the early part of 1902, imported a 4-cylinder gas-powered engine from France.

These, then, are some of the first pioneer airmen who reached for the sky in attempts to carry man into Dr. Johnson’s “fields of air.” That they were all instrumental in bringing us to where we are now in aviation history, there is little doubt. But for many historians and layman alike, the question of who was first is still “up in the air.”

(Editor’s note: Bruce Francis Svihus, curator and historian of the Francis Aero Collection and founder of the newly-formed National Aviation Historic Foundation in Colorado Springs, welcomes any comments and added information regarding pioneer aviation. Comments on the article may be sent to the editor. Questions on the Francis Aero Collection should be directed to Mr. Bruce Svihus, Francis Aero Productions, Inc., P.O. Box 723, Woodland Park, Colo. 80863. Telephone: (303) 687-9344.

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GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN

Gerald R. Linn, ’65

Lieutenant Colonel Gerald R. Linn, Class of 1965, was killed on November 8, 1982, when the F-4G aircraft he was flying crashed near Neuhaus, Germany. Colonel Linn was the commander of the 81st Tactical Fighter Squadron at Spangdahlem AB, Germany, at the time of his death.

Consistently on the dean’s list while at the Academy, Colonel Linn completed pilot training after graduation and served at numerous Air Force bases during his early pilot career including George AFB, Calif.; Eglin AFB, Fla.; MacDill AFB, Fla.; Ubon Royal Thai Air Force Base, Ubon, Thailand; and Hahn AFB, Germany. He then served as a weapons officer at Zweibrucken AB, Germany, and at England AFB, La., after which he was stationed at RAF Alconbury, England, as an exchange pilot flying the Harrier aircraft.

Assignments followed as a tactics officer on the F-4G at Nellis AFB, Nev., and as commander of the 57th Fighter Weapons Wing Test Detachment at George AFB, Calif. Colonel Linn was then assigned to the 81st Tactical Fighter Squadron as the operations officer in October of 1981 and assumed command of the squadron in July of 1982.

His awards include the Distinguished Flying Cross with oak leaf cluster, the Bronze Star Medal, the Air Medal with 11 clusters, and the Meritorious Service Medal with cluster.

Colonel Linn’s son, John, wrote a poem after his father’s death, a portion of which reads:

You did not die in vain;

You gave your life so we could yet remain.

You leave upon us the burden of carrying on again

But we shall nay forget you in our life from day to day.

You lived your life for those around,

Who knew not of what you did.

May you ever travel upon the wings of all good things that fly.

May you ever remain within thine God’s true and loving eye.

In addition to John, Colonel Linn is survived by his wife, Sherry; another son, Craig; and his mother, Virginia. Funeral services and burial were at the Academy on November 16. Lt. Col. Richard A. Rash, in the eulogy, asked, “...what do we do now? We take a piece of Jerry’s fierce pride, unyielding loyalty and love of his fellow man and we tuck it away make it a part of us, and go on. Push harder, make it better, don’t ever quit, and remember.”

As the 81st Tactical Fighter Squadron members wrote on Jerry’s plaque, “He was somebody.” (Mrs. Sherry Webb Linn)

James R. Nichols, ’66

Colonel James R. Nichols, Class of 1966, died December 11, 1982, in an automobile accident near Cairo, Egypt. Funeral services and burial were at the Academy on December 20.

After graduation from the Academy with a degree in aeronautical engineering, Colonel Nichols completed pilot training at Moody AFB, Ga., checked out in the F-100 aircraft at Cannon AFB, N.M., and flew a Vietnam tour during which he was shot down and injured while flying the F-100D. He then served as a T-38 instructor pilot at Reese AFB, Texas, for two years and returned for another combat tour to Vietnam flying the F-4 aircraft where he led daily missions over Hanoi just prior to the release of our prisoners of war.

Colonel Nichols was then assigned to Eglin AFB, Fla., where he worked in the Tactical Air Warfare Center and was project officer for numerous weapons systems. After attending Army Command and Staff College he was assigned to the Pentagon where he was the special assistant to the chief of research and development. From the Pentagon, he was assigned back to Moody AFB where he served as commander of the 70th Tactical Fighter Squadron, participating in numerous Red Flag exercises and leading his squadron to the desert of Egypt for two months as part of the Rapid Deployment Force.

His final assignment was in Cairo as commander of the F-16 Technical Assistance Field Team (TAFT), training Egyptian pilots. During his career, Colonel Nichols earned the Silver Star, the Legion of Merit, the Distinguished Flying Cross with 10 oak leaf clusters, the Meritorious Service Medal, the Air Medal with 32 clusters, the Air Force Commendation Medal and the Purple Heart.

These are the facts about Rick Nichols; but he was also husband, father, warrior, and friend. When Rick was buried, the F-4s that flew the “Missing Man” formation were flown by men he commanded in the 70th Tactical Fighter Squadron. At the same time in Egypt, a memorial service was being held for Rick and an F-16 “Missing Leader” formation was flown by Egyptian pilots Rick commanded as the F-16 TAFT commander. His death was felt on both sides of the world.

Colonel Nichols is survived by his wife, Sandra; two sons, James and Brent; a daughter, Kristen; two brothers, Maj. Daniel (USA) and Bill; and his father and mother, Col. Lawrence (USAF, Ret) and Mrs. Ruth Nichols. (Sandy Nichols)

Burnley L. Rudiger, Jr., ’67

Lieutenant Colonel Burnley (Bob) L. Rudiger, Jr., Class of 1967, died on December 7, 1982, in the crash of an F-111F aircraft on the Isle of Skye off the west coast of Scotland. He was an assistant operations officer for the 494th Tactical Fighter Squadron at RAF Lakenheath, England.

While at the Academy, he was consistently on the superintendent’s, dean’s and commandant’s lists. His decorations included the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Meritorious Service Medal

Gerald R. Linn, ’65

James R. Nichols, ’66

Burnley L. Rudiger, Jr., ’67

with oak leaf cluster, the Air Medal with 12 clusters and the Air Force Commendation Medal with cluster.

Colonel Rudiger flew 363 missions as a forward air controller during the Vietnam conflict. He had 3,800 flying hours, of which 2,400 were in the F-111, and had more time in the F-111F than anyone else in the Air Force. He was also involved with the suecess of the Pave Tack Infrared Bombing System on the F-l 1 IF, a program to which he had dedicated the last six years.

Surviving are his wife, Susan; a daughter, Elaine; a son, Erik; his parents, MSgt. and Mrs. B.L. Rudiger, Sr.; a sister, Jean Lorenz, and his maternal grandmother, Marie F. Jones.

Interment with full military honors was at Forest Lawn Cemetery, Norfolk, Va.

Wayne S. Hagan, ’70

Major Wayne S. Hagan, Class of 1970, died on November 2, 1982, when the 0-2A aircraft in which he was the instructor pilot, crashed near Allendale, S.C. He was assigned to the 21st Tactical Air Support Squadron at Shaw AFB, S.C., at the time of his death.

Major Hagan was born on October 31, 1946 in South Bend, Ind. He enlisted in the Regular Air Force in 1965 where he served until May 16, 1966, at which time he entered the Academy. After graduating with his degree in mechanical engineering, he took undergraduate pilot training at Laughlin AFB. Texas.

Assignments followed to the 4546th Tactical Training Squadron at George AFB, Calif., and to the 34th Tactical Fighter Squadron, Korat Royal Thai Air Force Base, Thailand, where he served as an F-4E aircraft commander. During his tour in Thailand, Major Hagan served as squadron pilot, simulator instructor, and squadron instructor pilot for the F-15 conversion.

In 1976, Major Hagan was assigned to the 4461st Tactical Fighter Training Squadron at Luke AFB, Ariz., as an F-15 squadron instructor pilot and then performed duty with the 58th and 550th Tactical Training Squadrons. From Luke AFB, Major Hagan was assigned to U.S. Readiness Command at MacDill AFB, Fla. as an air operations controller until his assignment to the 21st Tactical Air Support Squadron. In the latter assignment, Major Hagan held positions in both the squadron and the 507th Tactical Air Control Wing as parachute-qualified forward air controller, wing weapons and tactics officer, and squadron assistant operations officer.

Major Hagan is a graduate of Squadron Officers School, the Air Command and Staff College, and the Air Force Military Management and Employment Course. His decorations include the Distinguished Flying Cross with three oak leaf clusters, the Air Medal with 12 clusters, the Air Force Commendation Medal, and the Army Commendation Medal. He was a senior pilot with more than 2,400 hours of flying time.

Survivors include his wife, the former Pamela L. Bradford, of Phoenix, Ariz., and two children, Wayne and Shannon. Donations in his memory may be made to the Wayne S. Hagan Memorial Fund, Association of Graduates, U.S. Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, Colo. 80840.

Captain Peter L. Jones, Class of 1972, was killed on January 12, 1983, when the F-16 he was flying crashed during an air combat training mission at Nellis AFB, Nev. Funeral services were held at the Cadet Chapel on January 18, with burial in the Academy Cemetery.

Captain Jones was born on March 13, 1950 at Camp Lejeune, N.C. and graduated from Shawnee Mission South High School in Overland Park, Kan., in 1968. While at the Academy, Pete was a member of the 13th Cadet Squadron and earned his degree in engineering management.

After graduating from pilot training at Laredo AFB, Texas, Pete flew OV-lOs at Nakhom Phanom Royal Thai Air Force Base, Thailand. Upon return to the states, he became a fighter pilot at Myrtle Beach AFB, S.C. where he flew the A-7D from 1975 to 1978. Pete stayed in A-7s and served as an instructor pilot at Davis-Monthan AFB, Ariz. during 1978 and 1979. Pete realized a long time ago when he was among the early Tactical Air Command pilots that he should convert to the F-16 “Fighting Falcon.” He became an initial cadre instructor pilot at Hill AFB, Utah, where he served brilliantly. Pete was selected to fly as the number three pilot in the 1981 Royal Air Force Tactical Bombing Competition, where he helped lead the U.S. Air Force team to a runaway win. He also led the first flight to deliver F-16s into Israel in 1981. In 1982, Pete was selected to attend the initial validation class of the F-16 Fighter Weapons Instructor Course at Nellis AFB and to remain as a fighter weapons school instructor pilot.

Those of us who knew Pete will remember him for his skills as a pilot, his dedication to fighter aviation, and the warmth of his personality. His quick smile seemed to brighten the room in an instant and he always made time to enjoy doing things with his family and friends. Tactical Air Command has lost an outstanding pilot, the Air Force has lost a fine officer, and we who knew him have lost a truly good friend.

Pete is survived by his wife, Vickie; his stepdaughter, Shelley; his parents, Colonel (USMC, Ret) and Mrs. Lewis Jones; two brothers, Gary and Lewis; and a sister, Judy Sere. Donations in his memory may be made to the Captain Peter L. Jones Memorial Fund, Association of Graduates, Colorado Springs, Colo. 80840. (Lt. Col. Jim George, ’67, USAF)

Francisco Pineiro, Jr., ’77

At some time in your life you are touched by an individual who represents all the good traits a person should have. Whether it is his integrity, trust-worthiness, professionalism, or his companionship, something inside you draws you to that individual. You grow closer to him through the day-to-day experience of life, each day striving to be more like him. No matter what job he undertakes, you can see the competitive spirit that drives him to achieve excellence. It was that unsurpassed professionalism that lifted Captain Frank Pineiro above his contemporaries.

Wayne S. Hagan, ’70

Peter L. Jones, ’72

Francisco Pineiro, Jr., ’77

Peter L. Jones, ’72

Born in Manhattan, N.Y., on February 8, 1955, Captain Pineiro grew with a boyhood dream to be an Air Force pilot. Upon graduating from Cardinal Spellman High School in 1973, Frank attended the United States Air Force Academy, where he graduated with a bachelor of science degree in management. As a second lieutenant, he attended undergraduate pilot training at Reese AFB, Texas. After earning his pilot wings, Captain Pineiro remained at Reese AFB as a T-37 instructor pilot and standardization evaluation flight examiner. Because of his dedication and proven superior performance, he was awarded the Air Force Commendation Medal and selected as the Outstanding Instructor Pilot of the Year in 1981.

His off-duty time was spent earning a master’s degree in management science from Houston Baptist University in addition to completing Squadron Officer’s School and Marine Command and Staff College by correspondence. Frank also used his spare time to help those less fortunate get more out of life. He assisted in sponsoring Air Force support for the Lubbock Special Olympics, Lubbock, Texas, and was project officer for the Toys for Tots program at Reese AFB in 1979-80. Not only was Captain Frank Pineiro recognized for his outstanding contribution to the Air Force, he was selected as one of the Outstanding Young Men of America in 1981 by the civilian community.

When Frank’s life was cut short on November 8, 1982, by the tragic F-16 crash on a night training bombing mission at Avon Park, Fla., everyone who knew and loved him was deeply saddened.

Frank was assigned to the 63rd Tactical Fighter Training Squadron at MacDill AFB, Fla., at the time of his death. He was buried at the Academy and is survived by his wife, Deena Livingston Pineiro; his parents, Francisco and Lydia Pineiro, Sr.; brothers, John and Richard; and several aunts and uncles. Donations in his memory may be made to the Francisco Pineiro Jr. Memorial Fund, Association of Graduates, U.S. Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, Colo. 80840. (Major Dennis J. Eflein, USAF)

Scott A. Semmel, ’81

On December 16, 1982, we lost a devoted officer, cherished friend and loved one. Second Lieutenant Scott A. Semmel, Class of 1981, was killed in a B-52 aircraft accident near Mather AFB, Calif. Funeral Services were held at the First Presbyterian Church in Langhorne, Pa., on December 22.

Scott was born in Bristol Township, Pa., and prior to attending the Academy, was a lifetime resident of the Cobalt Ridge Section of Levittown, Pa. In 1977, he graduated from Neshaminy Maple Point High School, where he was a member of the National Honor Society and had attained the rank of Eagle Scout in Bucks County, Pa.

At the Academy, Scott was a member of the 19th Cadet Squadron. Consistently improving himself academically and militarily, he was proud to make the Superintendent’s List. As a cadet he participated in the soaring program, hiked with the Mountaineering Club, and proudly enjoyed working with the Boy Scouts of America camp at Philmont, N.M.

Scott was an invaluable member of the Protestant Choir for four years, serving as vice president during his senior year. In addition, Scott spent four years with the Cadet Chorale, touring the United States, including two appearances as an escort at the Miss U.S.A. Pageant.

After graduation, Scott realized his most prized goal by marrying the former Kathy Griffin on June 23, 1981. Scott and Kathy moved on to Vance AFB, Okla., where Scott earned his undergraduate pilot training wings and an assignment to the 441st Bomb Squadron at Mather AFB, Calif. Scott was on temporary duty at Castle AFB, Calif., with the 4017th Combat Crew Training Squadron at the time of his death.

We will sorely miss his disciplined work, hearty laughter, and dedicated friendship. But, as one of his favorite songs reminds us, we are thankful that he “touched the face of God.’’

A loving husband, Scott is survived by his wife, Kathy; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. James W. Semmel of Levittown, Pa.; his sister, Beth; and his brother, Greg. Contributions in Scott’s memory may be made to the Scott A. Semmel Memorial Fund, Association of Graduates, U.S. Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, Colo. 80840.

Scott’s wife and the Semmel family wish to thank all who have helped support them in their time of grief. They take comfort in knowing that so many people care so deeply. (2nd Lt. Thomas E. Lawrence, Jr., ’81)

Rodney G. Lambert, ’82

Everyone who knew Rod Lambert will remember him by his infectious, impish smile, his quick wit, and his ever-present love and enthusiasm for a challenge. After graduation, Rod remained at the Academy to assist the Parachuting Branch for the summer prior to reporting to Williams AFB for a September pilot-training date. Scarcely into the pilot training program, Rod was out on the Saturday of October 2 with Phil Contorno practicing the sport he loved best and that in which he was among the best—skydiving. On his second jump that afternoon, Rod experienced a chute malfunction and was killed instantly upon impact.

As a skydiver and a member of the distinguished “Wings of Blue,’’ Rod was a professional. His skill was seldom matched. He competed in events from one side of the country to the other—and generally helped carry home the trophy. He was the epitome of a good team player—always ready and willing to give up personal gain or glory to assist a teammate.

Though Rod spent most of his spare time with the jump team, he was involved in a variety of Academy activities. As a member of the 5th Squadron he held a number of jobs including being elected as council representative his senior year. Rod lived life fuller than most ever will. As he said to one friend after an exciting bike ride on a particularly beautiful day at a particularly lovely Colorado spot: “You don’t know how lucky we are. There are people that will never have the chance to see something like this their whole life. We really don’t have it so bad here.’’

Rod was born on August 25, 1959, in Mount Vernon, Wash. Growing up in Washington, he graduated from BurlingtonEdison High School in 1977. Survivors include his parents, Bill and Janet Milner of Bow, Wash.; a sister, Rene Shafar; a brother, Ron Lambert; and three step-sisters, Jerry St. John, Carolyn Nelson, and Susan Campbell. Rod’s father, Amos G. Lambert, preceded him in death. A funeral service was held for Rod on October 6 in Mount Vernon. Memorial Services were held at the Air Force Academy and at Williams Air Force Base.

To his superiors, peers and subordinates, Rod could best be described by the word “friend.” Our friend, Rod, would have us remember Richard Bach’s words on parting with friends: “Don’t be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.” And in the meantime “...we don’t have it so bad here.” (“Maj Bob” Gregory and other friends)

Scott A. Semmel, ’81

Rodney G. Lambert, ’82

CLASS NEWS

Larry Cotton

5102 Linda Colonia

San Antonio, TX 78233 (512) 653-9869

For someone who is always eager to hear news of a classmate, I can’t believe that I failed to pass on to you a most obvious bit of information. Jerry GARBER and his lovely wife, Joan, have settled right here in San Antonio. Jerry retired last summer and is now working for USAA. He’s been here for two issues of this newsletter, and it wasn’t until I got his change-of-address card through the AOG that I realized I hadn’t mentioned his move. We’ve been to several parties together, talked on the phone, etc., but I guess it just was too obvious for me to mention it. The red on my face enhances my normally ruddy complexion. Welcome to S.A., Jerry but I already told you that last summer.

By now you should have received, and hopefully completed and mailed your questionnaire on the 25th Reunion. Joe DESANTIS is once again honchoing the affair and needs all the support he can get. If you have any ideas or can provide some assistance, write Joe at 2747 Pinestream Dr., Marietta, GA 30067.

for him. (I’d thought Chuck was still mad at me for rolling his car during our senior year.) Chuck and Netta have six children and are doing very well. He’s recently been promoted to general manager of the Weatherhead Division of Dana Corporation, a company in the fluid power industry, and is in charge of production for six different manufacturing plants. With that job, I can understand why he doesn’t write. They live in Auburn Township, OH, just east of Cleveland. Thanks for the news, Netta. You do good work!

Class of ’59 members and wives enjoy an evening at the Bolling Officers Club. In the rear, from left are Jim Connolly, Judy Lanman, and Ron Lanman. In front, from left are Fred Wynn, Brenda Wynn, and Joe DeSantis. Jim Blackwell played photographer.

Joe enclosed a short letter to me to tell me about a get-together he had with the folks in the Washington, DC, area. He’d contacted Kent MONTAVON to let him know he’d be there, and Kent arranged a dinner party at the Bolling Officers Club. In attendance were Jim BLACKWELL, Jim CONNALLY, Ron and Judy LANMAN, Fred and Brenda WYNN, Bob and Donna BECKEL, Dave and Kitty GOODRICH, and Kent’s wife, Diane. I don’t know what all their jobs are, but at least you know that if you hang around the Bolling “O” Club bar at happy hour, you might run into one of that crowd. I also have a report from a different source that H.T. JOHNSON has just reported back to the Pentagon as, I think, deputy for plans and programs.

Two of our classmates received very nice Christmas presents, in the form of stars. Not in the East on their shoulders. Dave GOODRICH and Charlie MAY were selected for promotion to brigadier general on the latest list. I wasn’t consulted on the decision, but if I had been, I’d have said, “That’s approved!” Congratulations to both for a well-deserved honor. I understand that Dave will be the military assistant to the chairman, JCS (Wow!), but no word on Charlie’s assignment.

After many pleas directed specifically at him, I finally heard from Chuck KAAKE well, not quite, but his bride of 23 years, Netta, wrote

Continuing to rule as by far my best correspondent, Pete TODD wrote from “the land of good wine and fast cars” Heidelberg, Germany. Pete is chief of staff, Fourth Allied Tactical Air Force, and is thoroughly enjoying working with other NATO forces. To quote from Pete’s letter, “I enjoyed chatting recently with Bob OAKS, Jim RHODES, and ‘Baby’ DAVEY, (all successful wing commanders) at a USAFE Commanders Conference. They’re running Ramstein, Alconbury and Hahn, respectively, and of course you know about Bob’s recent and well-deserved selection for his second star.” No, I didn’t know about that, but I’m happy to pass on the news with hearty congratulations! Bob OAKS joins Pete and Bob BECKEL as 2-stars. Our classmates are beginning to take over. Today, the Air Force, tomorrow...

Received a nice Christmas card from Jack and Sue HUNDEMER, who are also located in the Washington, DC, area. Jack still flies for American Airlines, hopefully better than he rides his motorcycle. He had a minor accident recently, resulting in “scratches, bike and rider.” Stick to flying jets, Jack motorcycles are dangerous.

Also got a card with nice long letter from Leigh and Cealie HUNT, who are also in Germany. After almost 10 years of staff duty, Leigh has finally managed to get back to a flying slot as ADO of the fighter wing at Spangdahlem. He sounds happy enough to fly even without his F-4! He and Cealie have managed to sneak off occasionally trips to London and Northern Italy were mentioned. Leigh thinks it’s too good to last, though he’s expecting another staff assignment soon.

Another card with letter was received from the former author of this newsletter, Wayne PITTMAN. He and Karen are still at Zaragosa, base commanding. They too have slipped off to see the sights Athens and the islands of Greece. Karen also went solo on a trip to Cairo, Luxor and Aswan in Egypt. Like Leigh, Wayne is anticipating a.new assignment any day.

I had thought that the days of such announcements were about past, but I’m happy to inform you of the recent birth of son, Joseph, to Mike and Marian REARDON. Marian and Joseph are fine; Mike has a silly grin.

My best wishes for a happy new year to you all. You make me proud.

Fly safe.

More ’59ers enjoying the dinner party at Bolling, from left, are Dave Goodrich, Donna Beckel, Kent Montavon, Kitty Goodrich, Diane Montavon, and Bob Beckel.

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John MACARTNEY now runs the Intelligence Management Division of CINCPAC at Camp Smith, HI. His son has been awarded a full Army ROTC scholarship at Colorado State University. Reb GUILLOT is now at Davis Monthan with the 355TTW. Remember our class field trip to the boneyard?

While passing through Albuquerque on a recent trip, I called Paul VALLERIE who said he had just looked out his office window at Kirtland and there was big Buck CONGDON just emerging from the building across the street, going out to jog. Buck has transferred from D.C. to Minot with the Defense Nuclear Surety Agency, and was TDY to Kirtland at the time. Alex ZIMMERMAN retired from AFTEC in August. Don PATCHETT, a full bull now, has transferred from HQ AFSC to Andrews. Vic YOAKUM retired last summer and lives in L.A. (Torrance), and Herb EKWEILER, who’s been out of AF a long time, is in the spook business, living in Orange County, CA.

Linda GLAZA wrote about a bash at the commandant’s quarters featuring Nulli Secundus and their cadet offspring last Labor Day for “parent’s weekend.” Mac MACFARLANE’s son is a doolie in the same squadron with Ed HAERTER’s son, a first classman. (Ed is still with TWA, is commander of the tanker squadron at O’Hare, and lives on a farm near Chicago.) Walt SWEENEY is a minister, and father of two little girls, in Cortez, CO. The Glaza family is all settled in Colorado now, with the three oldest boys in college, and the two younger kids at Air Academy High and Junior High School. (More letters from you wives are sure welcome!)

Duck WADDLE has moved from Maxwell to Robins, living on base. Mike CLARKE moved from Ft. Walton Beach to Orange County, CA; Earl VANINWEGAN from Virginia to C-Springs; and Charlie HART from Wright-Pat to Fairborn, OH, close by. John PEEBLES quit TWA and is now North American sales manager from Universal Instrument Corporation in Binghampton, NY. Hoyt and Di PRINDLE celebrate their first wedding anniversary soon at McGuire, where they were married and where he is DP. He says that ’60 has three more who’ve made brigadier general. Please put me on your Xmas card list for next year, everybody.

Thomas L. Sutton

R.R. #1 Box 102R

Collinsville, IL 62234

Home: (618) 632-6635

AV: 638-4139

And a successful and enjoyable new year to you too. We hope each of you had a beautiful Christmas season and are looking forward to many exciting and productive adventures this coming year. There is a lot to be optimistic about if you can look through the pessimism of most of those around us today. I think things are getting better and better.

It is a transition time for many ’61ers as we try to look objectively at continuing the Air Force career, pursuing a new one, or just shutting down and living off the proceeds. Funny, I don’t picture many of our class choosing that latter course of action. There is too much to be done to sit around and let others do it. We can share one another’s burdens though, and where one has gained experience in one area, he may be able to share it with another who is looking at a similar direction. I know that many of you have a lot of thoughts on how changing one’s course can be better managed. Maybe you’d like to share them. Write me about it.

Wayne HARING phoned me again this quarter and this time caught me in the office. He apologized for not having called back earlier, but he couldn’t remember why he had called me in the first place. Don’t worry Wayne, that’s not at all unusual. It happens to me all the time. In any case, Wayne said that the internationally-acclaimed 1982 Air Force Academy-Notre Dame football game drew ecstatic shouts from a considerable number of ’61ers in attendance at Falcon Stadium. There was even a party afterwards (as one would certainly be able to predict). As a matter of fact, one attendee vocally affirmed that he was going to mail some appropriate photographs to the class newsletter writer. Unfor

tunately, those photographs have not materialized, but perhaps we can get a couple by the spring issue. As a matter of fact, we greatly appreciate any photographs that would be interesting to the class. Clear black and white photos are best, but a good quality color photograph also works.

Getting back to my phone chat with Wayne HARING, he told me that his son, who is a doolie at USAFA, was diligently studying his Contrails at the field house one afternoon when he was confronted by a colonel. The colonel wanted to look at his Contrails to see if some of the really good fourth class knowledge quotations were still included. The colonel was deputy director of athletics, Mike QUINLAN. Mike was disappointed to learn that Contrails no longer contained some of the more profound quotes. In any case, Colonel QUINLAN and Cadet HARING did learn that they had a mutual acquaintance.

Tom ELLER wrote to let us know what he’s been doing. Tom retired on 1 Jan 1982 and went to work for the International Training and Education Company in Boston. He took one trip to Jubail, Saudi Arabia, while working as project manager for the whole company. While he was spending nine months in Boston, Anne and the kids remained in Colorado Springs where their big and lovely home on North Nevada did not sell. So, in September, Tom abandoned his plans to relocate to Boston and returned to the Springs. Now Tom is working for Martin Marietta Denver Aerospace or Bendix or United Technology or Allied or whoever!

Received a nice letter from Lynda NEEL who reported on Charlie’s activities. The NEEL family has spent quite a long time in Europe and will probably continue there for some time. Charlie served as base commander at Hahn AB for a year and a half and as the new year begins he will be stepping into the vice wing commander job of the 52nd TFW at Spangdahlem. Charlie and Lynda have a daughter in her second year at the University of Florida with a second on the way this fall. They both hope that Charlie Jr. will be interested in an Academy education.

I used to think that colonels were rich when I was a lieutenant, but now I know the lieutenants are the ones who are rich. They aren’t putting anyone through college. I suppose some of them are paying off some school loans though, and more will be soon I’ve heard.

Bob and Winnie WAGNER are enjoying their stay at Langley where Bob is the vice commander of the 1st TFW. They moved there in January of 1982. Bob says it’s great to be a part of the premier fighter wing of the world.

Don DANBORN and family live in 41B which is the other half of the duplex that Bob and Winnie live in at Langley. Bob is on the TAC staff.

Paul Ray STEPHEN, (Lt. Col., retired) has moved from Virginia to Martinsville, IL, while Hanson SCOTT now resides at Little Rock AFB, AR, where he is the DCO of the 314 TAW. I administered an ORI/MEI to Hanson and his compatriots in November and his unit did extremely well. 1 heard many good words about Hanson and his leadership from the underlings. That is the best kind of compliment, it seems to me.

Earl SAUNDERS has PCSed to Hanscom AFB where he is the branch chief of applied crustal physiology, Terrestrial Science Division, AF Geophysics Laboratory. Besides spelling out his title, he intimated to me that he really didn’t have a lot to do. (Just kidding!) Earl left his family in the Springs where he plans to return in the not-too-distant future.

In conclusion, I must confess that it wasn’t the normal end of the year issue. This is the first year in my ten years of writing this letter that I haven’t received enough information in the form of Christmas cards and letters to last for two issues. But then, times change for us all. If you would like to pass some words along to the class, write me or phone me as soon as you read these words, because I will be in the process of meeting the deadline for the next issue as you read this one.

Thanks for letting me correspond with you these past 10 years. 1 enjoy keeping in touch and hearing from each of you.

John W. (Jack) Jamba

Chief, Missile Systems Safety Div. (ESMC/SEM)

Patrick AFB, FL 32925

Home: (305) 784-6073 (UNL)

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Hi Redtags! I have recovered from the reunion but the good feelings and fun times still linger and bring a smile to my face. For instance, Tim TRAVIS was trying to cover his hair loss by combing his hair forward. That worked nicely until Mike RENTENBACH sneezed on his forehead. Tim retired this year and has accepted a position as the manager of the Port of Tampa/St. Petersburg. When the huge snowfall hit Denver on Christmas, I called Don EGAN to see if he was snowbound. He was but

he also had a slipped disc which kept him housebound for a month. One way or the other, he expects to be up and around real soon.

I vaguely recall that at the first evening dinner, Charlie HALE broke the ice by being the first one to put on his Redtag bathrobe. An hour later there were 20 bathrobes in the room; three hours later those 20 bathrobes were in the motel’s lounge. I remember that Jon STAPLES tried to make some announcements that night but was drowned out by the traditional class rowdies. I remember the feeling of camaraderie and friendship among the Redtags and their wives that transcended rank and occupation. I remember seeing the ravages of use inside the cadet dorm. The tour path looked good, though. Andy BANFORD couldn’t resist the urge and walked off a tour for old-time’s sake. I remember running into Don HUTCHINSON and his wife outside the dining hall prior to lunch. Also saw John FER there; he was TDY to USAFA in support of his new position as chief of USAFA affairs in the Pentagon. And there were Bob and Pat CONNOLLY standing proudly with their cadet son.

I remember that the food in the dining hall was the same. USAFA taught me how to eat and love liver with onions. 1 remember the astonished look from the cadets when I told them we got $10 a month allowance as doolies and not too much more in later years. WHITLG (We had it tough last generation). I remember that Bob SCAUZILLO had a newlygrown beard and moustache which earned him the nickname of “Yassir.” Ted DYKES’ wife, Marcy, made some beautiful glass mugs for the banquet special prizes.

I remember the touching emotions that ran through everyone’s heart as the memorial ceremony progressed. Someone remarked that it was one of the most impressive ceremonies he had witnessed. On the brighter note, I remember watching our 10 classmates run alongside the Thunderbird carrying our Homecoming queen and thinking, “thank goodness those dear old fellows only have to run 60 yards.” I remember that George LYDDANE and Tuck McATEE flew in from California in a light airplane but had to land at Montrose due to bad weather. They finished the trip in a rental car. I remember the lovely weather for the Sunday morning picnic. Dave LYONS came with his wife and five children. The food was catered by the Colonel from Kentucky Fried Chicken (those retirees are into everything nowadays). I remember standing in the checkin line at Denver Airport wearing my RTB reunion T-shirt. A former Air Force pilot was reading the roster on the back of the shirt to see if he knew anyone. I remember that a lot of people promised to write me. Promises! Promises! Promises! The experiences of the ’76 Redtags who were at the reunion have kindled a new phehomenon known as “the spirit of the ’76.” The “spirit” will return for the next reunion.

Talked to Rick WHEELER, now stationed at Bergstrom. He left the desolation of Mountain Home for the Texas hill country. He is the vice commander of the 67 Tac Recce Wg. It’s a great job and Rick has been stationed at Bergstrom before. He’s getting six to seven sorties a month and continues his swimming at the YWCA (it has the only indoor pool in town). Since he considers Texas his home, this is a fortunate assignment. Also talked to George HARRISON who was on the move again. He is the commander of the 479 Tac Tng Wg at Holloman. It is the T-38 lead-in fighter training wing. TAC pilots coming out of pilot training receive a couple of months of basic fighter training such as bombing, gunnery, recce, etc. It’s more cost effective than doing the training in a larger fighter.

Reb DANIEL is the vice commander of the 363 Tac Recce Wg at Shaw. He moved up from DO in November. He got a chance to see his son Jerry, who is a cadet at the Academy. His son was very “impressed” by Chet GRIFFIN’s daughters when the Griffins visited last year. And speaking of Chet GRIFFIN, he is the training wing commander at Columbus. I’ll have some words from him in the next column. Paul LANDERS has become the vice commander of the 437 MAW at Charleston. And Gail PECK is at NWC looking for a job back in fighters.

Hamming it up for the camera, from left, are Frank Urban, Niels Jensen, Butch Viccellio, Jim Eaton (standing in front) and Jack Swonson.

Bob Hopkins, Willie Gray, and the “Merciless Ming, Dick Mangold, Larry Gooch proudly displays his Redtag bathrobe at the reunion. hoist a round of cheer.

Tom Hutchison (left) and his wife, Lisette, laugh about old times with Mike Rentenbach.

As reported previously, Bob KEIGHERY is the DO of the 474 TFW at Nellis. He’s had the job for six months already and really appreciates getting 10 sorties a month. His wife, Peggy, was working as a computer operator for a real estate firm in Hawaii but is now expecting child number five due in February. Son, Sean, is at Texas A&M, as a sophomore, on a full AFROTC scholarship. Kathy is a freshman at a junior college in Las Vegas. Debbie is a senior and Laura is a junior at Bishop Gorman High School. Bob says all his kids are smarter than he is. He talked to Roger MEYER who is in San Diego, flying for TWA and recently remarried. P.K. ROBINSON is the commander of the A-10 wing at Davis Monthan. Gordy B1LLINGTON is the new ADO at George, moving up from a squadron commander’s job. Dick PERLOTTO is now at Nellis in the 57 FWW. Ken SMITH is the deputy director of programs at Hq Elec Sys Cmd at Kelly. His card carried a note: “Attended minireunion Oct 16 at Bill & Sue HAUGENS many RTBs there F.T. DYKES gave good report on 20th reunion.” Bob ANDERSON lists a new address in San Diego. A1 JACKSON has departed Cairo, Egypt, for Ft Polk, LA, as commander of Det 6, 507 TACW. Art FARRINGTON has moved to McLean, VA for a job as associate manager, Command Systems, Decisions & Designs, Inc. Good luck on the retirement. Note on his card says: “Great reunion. Ready for another.”

Howie CARROLL shows his new job as 52 CSG/CC, otherwise known as base commander of Spangdahlem. Dave HOLT shows his new address in Menlo Park, CA, and a recent Air Force Times showed Don HALLAGER as the new commander of the 97 BW at Blytheville. I guess that’s it for now. I just moved into another base house right on the beach. The Atlantic Ocean is 50 feet from my back door. So here’s an open invitation to my fellow Redtags to stop by any time and enjoy the beach.

Skip Lee 1024 Rota Drive

APO San Francisco 96334

Home: Country Code (671) 362-1111

AV: Pacific Code (317) 366-7251

Sometimes I think the AOG only records address changes in half their files I know better; they use a computer. Still, my new address has not yet reached the field and the mail reflects same. According to the AOG, the fall issue of Checkpoints was in the mail by 29 November. I haven’t got my copy and, after a quick survey of grads in the squadron, not one has yet received the latest issue of the magazine. Probably the Christmas mails. So if this article appears to be short on information, please blame the computer.

The new job is progressing satisfactorily. I find being a squadron commander both a challenge and a refreshing experience. We have a lot of good people in the Air Force and I have the pleasure of serving in a squadron endowed with some of the finest to be found. Of course, the challenge is trying to stay ahead of everyone!

The Lee family just completed their third Christmas on Guam separated by three years and I can report we certainly enjoyed the balmy weather, soft tropical breezes, beautiful beaches, lush golf course, and all the rest. Our daughter, Susan, was able to join us for the holidays after spending her first semester at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Her presence was essential to everyone’s well-being.

Last month Gene DOWNING paid me a visit while on a tour of MAC maintenance organizations in the western Pacific. Gene moved over from the 33rd ARRS to the 603rd MASS to become that unit’s chief of maintenance. He had been serving as the 33rd’s operations officer.

Frank PORTER sent in a major update of his status to include assignments at Yong San Army Garrison, Korea (1981-1982) and intelligence plans officer, Allied Air Forces Central Europe, Ramstein AB, Germany (1982). Frank also added the Meritorious Service Medal and Defense Meritorious Service Medal to his credit. Other changes listed were his address at P.O. Box 10501, APO NY 09012; and his wife, Rose Marie. The man gets around!

This may be a repeat; however, it is worth mentioning again, Larry DAY is now executive officer to CINCUSAFE.

Bob and Ann DONOVAN have left merry olde England for Sacramento (McClellan) where Bob is the base public affairs officer. I will pass on a new address next time haven’t received the Donovan’s annual Christmas letter. I look forward to seeing how much more Meg has grown. Guess the Christmas mails are at fault again.

Sometimes my sources of information on ’63 types even amazes me. A piece of paper from MPC crossed my desk about three weeks ago announcing changes in career monitors at the center. Who should I find

running the Colonel’s Group but Bill ARDERN. Special handling for Golden Tag “Birds”? 1 am confident a lot more ’63 types will be calling Bill come October 1983. Bill’s autovon is 487-6194.

Other assignment and address changes include Bob VENKUS at Maxwell attending Air War College; Grady GAULKE to Goldsboro, NC; Vic BLIDEN to Aurora, CO; John NEWHOUSE to Niceville, FL (Eglin); Andy CHUBATY to Orinda, CA; and George BARNES to Santa Clara, CA.

That’s it, except I met a member of the Class of 1986 (fourth classman) the other day. The young man was on Christmas Leave. I offered him the chance to fly with my squadron or look at my yearbook. He immediately chose flying! I can confidently report fourth classmen have changed very little since 1959. I still made him look at my yearbook.

(Editor’s note: While the AOG has had its share of computer-related problems this year, another possible reason for Skip’s delay in receiving Checkpoints could well be the handling of second-class mail to APOs, which sometimes takes three to five weeks to reach destination. Unfortunately, sending the magazine first class would be cost-prohibitive.)

Jim Graham

’’W

12218 Oakwood Drive V r Woodbridge, VA 22192 '&L -

Home: (703) 494-1848

Office: (202) 693-8247

IPThis may be a bit shorter than usual due to lack of news coming this way, but let’s jump right in anyway!! Heard from Les and Linda BAER by way of a Christmas card that they are in Australia! Les jumped at the chance to be an exchange officer at RAAF HQ (known as Russell Offices), and they’ve now set up housekeeping in the southern hemisphere for a while. New address: American Embassy Box 87, APO San Francisco 96404. Also got a nice long Christmas letter from J.D. and Bev MANNING, having now gotten to USAFA, reported enroute in the last Checkpoints. (They’re in Quarters 4114, USAFA, 80840.) J.D. is really enjoying his work as T-41 Sqdn Cmdr (557FTS), and Bev has finished school and is now a registered nurse. As their letter put it, “...merging two dynasties is bulky (about 20,000 lbs of furniture by conservative guess), so we had an enormous Brady Bunch yard sale...” and they finally got everything that was left into a moving van and headed west. You can see by the photo that they are a fine-looking Brady Bunch!

now resides at 6710 Hawaii Kai Drive, #1604, Honolulu, HI 96825. Lee CONNER is also at Hickam, and his mailing address has changed to PSC#2, Box 3011, Hickam AFB, HI 96853. A1 CAMPBELL has moved from Warner Robins, GA, to 2788A Sacramento Court, Holloman AFB, NM 88330.

Steve CROKER is no longer in the nation’s capital area...he’s made the move to 1531 Oak Street, Blytheville AFB, AR 72315. Brett DULA has found a street address he likes in Omaha, and it’s 11710 Fisher House Road, Omaha, NB 68123. And finally, Jerry BUTLER has moved from Edwards AFB to Europe. His address is PSC Box 2586, APO NY 09224. I have a few job updates without any change of address noted: Jim W1DGER is technical manager with SKEGA US INC., in Colorado Springs; and Roby ROBINSON is senior vice president with the General Electric Venture Capital Corp. in Fairfield, CT.

Sorry I can’t offer more than the data provided above. I know everyone wonders, “...Well fine, but what the is he doing?”, or “...so that’s what he’s up to now; how can 1 get in touch?” Folks, what you see is what I get. A class column really needs more to work with, but it takes information. From YOU.

Just a short update on Rog HEAD who I mentioned in the last column also. Rog is presently chief of F-15, A-10, and propulsion in the Systems Development DCS at AFSC HQ at Andrews. Rog is living at 1209 Huntly Place, Alexandria, VA 22307. Also received an update from Dick HACKFORD, who’s asst DCS/New Concepts and Initiatives, HQ AFSC (XRB). Dick’s address is 2051A Bedford Drive, Andrews AFB, MD 20335. I forgot to mention last time that Jim McINTYRE is still here in Washington, now at the National War College.

Bill DOUGLASS lives right here in Woodbridge, and I just found out that Bill is a student at Georgetown University, in lieu of going to senior service school, aiming at a master’s degree in international relations. Bill came to D.C. from Luke by way of Cannon, having had an F-4 squadron at Luke, then the deputy DCM and DCM jobs at Cannon for 11 months. Bill says he saw Bill CIOFFI in the Pentagon recently. “Ciof”’ is still working management engineering I believe.

I got a nice letter from Ed MECHENBIER just after the last column left in the mail. Ed is with Fairchild Republic Co. in Dayton, where he’s the marketing director for the new T-46A (the T-37 replacement aircraft), and manager of regional marketing. Ed says he’s on the road a lot between Dayton and Washington (actually in the air...). He and Jerri have three daughters, ages 7, 5, and 3, and besides all that he stays busy in the air with the Ohio Air Guard as an A-7 pilot. Busy, busy, but happy, happy...

Ed passed on the following tidbits about classmates he’s run into recently: Bill SAKAHARA is flying F-4s at Nellis; Kevin McMANUS is in the Pentagon (OUSDRE); Tom BROWNING is also in the Pentagon in electronic warfare; Mike PAVICH and Pete MORRISON are in studies and analysis; and Denny MONTGOMERY is still in RD. Ed also mentioned seeing Ron and Charlie BLISS at a reunion recently in San Antonio, and they are lookin’ good.... Ron is practicing law in Lubbock. Tom McNISH is a doctor in family practice at Brooks. And he says he ran into Terry ISAACSON at the AFA convention, and Terry is still working personnel at Randolph, but allows as how work may have messed up his golf game.

That just about wraps up the news for this time. In the last column you read a request for a replacement for this class secretary job. As of the end of the year, I still haven’t heard from anyone offering his services, so this is what you can call an impassioned plea!!! You don’t have to know everybody, or really have great writing skills to do this job I’m living proof of that. Someone just needs to be willing to help when help is needed. I think the column needs to stay fresh, with new thoughts, new contacts, maybe new methods of getting people to write, call, or otherwise make their situation known.

It’s been great doing this for a couple of years now, but it’s time for someone else to pick it up. Don’t wait, do it now! Maybe you’ll be too late and someone else will have already called, and then you’ll just have to get on the waiting list.... Seriously, I want to hear from someone. Thanks for all the good inputs from everyone who has; it has been my pleasure.

be tough, as the jet-lag from a 13-day trip through the Pacific still hasn’t left my body at this point.

The winner of the “who would travel the farthest” contest at the October meeting of the Washington-area AOG was our very own Gerry HUFF. He’s now listed as the president of an information management firm located in Las Vegas. I really didn’t think having lunch in the Pentagon would be such a big draw. Things must have been a little slow in Las Vegas. John GROSS and I went to the AOG session prior to the Army game. It’s really great seeing the level of support given to the team this year. When the highlights from the Notre Dame hit the building, we couldn’t get copies made fast enough to suit the many football-hungry grads!

Jess OVERALL sent a note along to point out that he, Wayne BROWN and John BLACKMAR attended the annual Liaison Officer Conference at the “Zoo.” Wayne is now a “biggie” in computer software. John is a top manager with Kodak, while Jess has moved to UCLA as a faculty member. John was selected as Outstanding Deputy Officer Coordinator for the northeast region. This put him in the top five liaison coordinators for the entire country. Great work, John! And thanks, Jess, for the great note. (I can always use more of these, guys!)

With the success of the Fighting Falcon football team, I’ve even had a chance to discuss old times with Frank McCANN, who is at USAFA planning all the great events which surround a winning team. Frank and I were last together years ago at SOS. Glad to see another “planner” hard at work. Now if you can plan an even better football season next year, it will be great!

Added notes from the AOG show Lee ALTON moving from Las Vegas to Newport, RI. I assume from this a tour at the Naval War College? It’s either that or an interesting experience of some kind, I’m sure. Steve DAVIS is in Riverside, CA. Pat MOORE shows a Colorado Springs address. Jim OUGH is a Dallas physician and also president of his own firm. Curt NELSON is now found in the B-1B Systems Program Office at Wright-Patterson, where he’s employed as the DO. Mike KEEFE posted a change-of-address card showing he’s left scenic Glendale, AZ, for an opportunity to excel at Maxwell AFB. Jeff SILLIMAN is still in Ohio, but has moved from New Waterford to West Chester.

Had a great time at the Hall of Fame game as did the entire stadiumfull of screaming fans. Who should sit behind me but Bob GIFFEN, now in later life the distinguished leader of the Academy’s Aero Department.

Speaking of football, Sandi FAUSTI, wife of sometime-pigsgin player, Gary, dropped a note to Denny SCARBOROUGH in which she noted their primo living conditions just off the second fairway of the Atlanta Country Club. The older boys play football but Gary is trying to get young daughter, Heather, into a Little League so he can still be active in the coaching ranks. Gary and Sandi send their best to all.

That’s about it, other than to ask for your help in bringing news of your activities to light via this column. It really helps when someone calls, drops in, or sends a note.

One final comment: I’ve been a little removed from the mainstream of Air Force life for nearly six years of duties in Los Angeles. It was great to get to see units, bases and people throughout the Pacific. Time really does fly. Pat O’BRIEN (’66), once just another doolie in 23rd Squadron, now commands an F-15 squadron at Kadena. Met “Dee” HENDERSON (’63) there, now the ADO for the 18th TFW. In short, I got the feeling the long years at the Academy were well spent. We have outstanding graduates doing great work in an Air Force which is second to none!

Scott Duncan

5620 Herberts Crossing

Burke, VA 22015

Home: (703) 978-6545

AV: 225-4602

Here I sit in the midst of the post-Christmas clutter, trying to gather my thoughts about our class and its many distinguished members. This may

When you read this, the cadets will be going through what we used to call the “Dark Ages,” but I trust you are in a different sort of mood. I write during Christmas and hope you are experiencing the warmth of family love, the comfort of home and the satisfaction of success normally felt during that season.

What a goof! In the fall letter I told you John CASPER was chief of USAFE Stan Eval when in fact he is chief of Special Projects Branch, Tactical Division, at the puzzle palace. The USAFE Stan Eval, John Casper (who claims to be the real one), graduated from Park College in East St. Louis. I told him I’d claim him as an honorary member of our class now that I’ve reported his whereabouts he just laughed. I think the AF sports two people named E.A. PETERSEN, III. Are there any other classmates with “twins” on active duty?

Mike KENNEDY is AGS commander leading 800-plus airmen at England AFB. He is attached to the “Vanguards,” flying A-lOs. Mary reports he spends his spare time repainting and doing some modifications on his own airplane which is parked in their back yard with the prop up against her window!

Pat and Starr O’BRIEN adopted their second child, Gavin Patrick, and I’ve included their picture. Smiling at you from Starr’s lap is Abigail Joy while Pat holds Gavin Patrick. Pat is flying F-15s as commander of the 12TFS. The squadron won the Hughes Trophy for 1981 as the top air superiority squadron in the AF. As squadron commander, Pat got to accept the trophy and attend a week-long party hosted by Hughes Aircraft. Congratulations on many counts, Pat.

Actually the class is full of commanders, some previously reported and some not. Ken FUNKHOUSER remains the 57FIS commander at Keflavik, Iceland. Gary VAN VALIN is commander of “The Hooters” at Taegu, Korea. Both are in F-4s. Vic ANDREWS continues to command the “Silver Knights” at Holloman (T-38B). Joe CARROLL is chief of the flight operations branch at Sheppard AFB. Joe NARSAVAGE commands the “Tigers” at Upper Hayford, U.K. 1 noticed Dave OAKES is ADO for the 36TFW flying F-15s out of Bitburg AB, Germany.

Most of this information comes from my annual search through Christmas cards. The fighter units send greetings to one another but we never hear anything from the SAC or MAC boys. I’ll list the rest of what I saw. Tim BROWN is in Wing Training for the 49TFW and Ed FIGUEROA is ops officer for the 7TFS, both flying F-15s at Holloman. Reese NIELSEN and Carl WOMACK continue to fly F-105s with the 466TFW at Hill. They call themselves “The last in the Thud.” Sid WISE is division chief in the “Home of the Fighter Mafia” at the Pentagon. Duane TWAY is attached to “The First USAFE A-10 Squadron” and Ron BOATRIGHT is attached to “The Bushmasters,” both at RAF Bentwaters.

We also received a card from the 22TFS “Last of the Red Hot Fighter Squadrons.” Last year Carl BAKER was with them but I have no idea this year because the card was completely blank inside; maybe the names were written with temporary ink or the “Last of the Red Hots” have faded into history. Who knows? Tobe GOODEN has settled in at Vicenza, Italy, as chief of the TACEVAL Section for 5 ATAF. He was chief of Stan Eval at D.M. forever a “black hatter.”

We got some change-of-address cards. Ron DASKEVICH moved from Virginia to Layton, UT. I’m not sure what Ron is doing there but I saw him at Holloman several years ago just before he left for ACSC. Now he’s finished a tour at Hq TAC and I’ll bet whatever the job, it’s an interesting and exciting one. Dick THOMPSON moved from the Air Power Research Institute at Maxwell to AF/MP, executive office, Hq USAF. Army man Chuck SCRIBNER left his post as action officer for the deputy chief of staff for operations at the Pentagon and moved to Pacific Grove, CA. Bill HOGAN hasn’t moved but the AOG thought he did. He still lives on Marsh Street and I assume he continues as professor at Harvard U. He’s printed an interesting design on his note paper; what’s the significance of that Bill?

Ron DAVIS is still AF representative to the FAA but he moved from Kansas City to Aurora, CO. I’ve been plotting how to get to Colorado too and Space Command looks good. It should play a key part in our future defense and is located in a very enticing place just a thought. Harv

SMITH lives on Country Club Road in Shalimar, FL. Harv has F-4 and F-5 time, and just left a Hq TAC assignment; is it F-15s at Eglin, Harv?

Bruce MCBRIDE left the 37TFW at George where he served as executive officer and I think worked in wing plans as well. He is now serving as ops officer at a Korean tactical range somewhere near Osan.

It looks like George BERLS has gone back to SAMSO from his managerial job at Hq AFSC. His change-of-address card indicates he lives right in the middle of L.A. Ivy COOK continues as assistant professor at AFIT. He had to send in a card to stay at the same spot think about it. Hal WEED moved from one place to another in Woodbridge, VA, so I assume he is still working as a systems analyst for Lulijian Associates and has just gotten a better or more conveniently located home. Ya know guys (and gals), when you send in your address cards to the AOG, you can talk directly to the class scribe (me, right now) if you scribble what you’re doing in the margin.

The “letter of the quarter” award must go to Lacy VEACH who recently sent Diana and me a wedding present. You would enjoy his breezy writing style, humor and thoughtfulness if there was room here to share the letter with you. For instance he was glad to see that “I was alive and well and doing battle with the USAFE IG (NATO’s real enemy)!” You may remember he left active duty and is at the Johnson Space Center working for NASA. He and Alice have two children: son Scott (10 1/2) and daughter Maile (8). As Lacy would say Keep in touch. Aloha.

We are all saddened by the December death of Bob RUDIGER in an F-lll crash in Scotland. He was interred in Norfolk on 23 December. I had visited in his home once while I was a cadet and well remember the warmth of his parents.

Doug and Nancy HAWKINS report that the senior staff course at Cranwell was a real gentleman’s experience. There were only 16 men in the course, which consisted mostly of lectures, discussions, and travel to most of the NATO bases. In early December, Doug completed the course and over the holidays they moved to Heidelberg, where he is now chief of war plans. Although he misses flying, he’s very pleased, and the location is a choice experience. The whole family made a pretty thorough tour of England and Scotland the highlight of which was staying in a 350-yearold thatched cottage. While they’re still in Europe, they hope to go back to see some of the places they missed. Their oldest, Scott, found the formality of the English schools quite a contrast to those in America!

Tom and Beth GRIESSER will return from Australia this May; he’s hoping for C-141s on the west coast, and to attend Homecoming ’83. They enclosed some delightful photos: “Cecily, at 15 months, has already learned the value of the telephone in a young lady’s life,” and Billy (3) is really into Sesame Street, ice cream cones, airplanes, and kangaroos.

The Griessers and friend.

AOG Updates: Daniel “Stump” SOWADA is now at Yokota as commander of the 345th TAC Airlift Sq. Jim WHITE is now in Redlands, CA. Ted MCADAM has gone to Las Vegas, NV. Ray WATTS and Ron BLUM have both moved to Omaha. Peyt COLE is now a general services supervisor for General Telephone, based in San Angelo, TX. Tom HEPNER has moved to Austin, TX. Con HOUSER is now in Brighton, CO, from Africa. Rog CARLETON has a new address in Alexandria, LA. Greg FREIX has come back to the land of the Big BX at Shaw AFB. Emile MONDA just moved from Indianapolis to Stamford, CT. Greg SMITH now lives in Haddon Field, NJ. Dennis HILL is a program support officer with DCASMA in Garden City, NY. Lloyd DUNCAN and Gary SCHEIMER have both gone PCS to Europe.

I was mixed up in thinking that Ron BRADLEY just arrived at Armed Forces Staff College; he just graduated and moved to Andrews. Thanks for catching me on this, Mike MACCARROLL. Mike was the only one to order pictures from the reunion set, to my surprise. The offer is still open, though I’m not complaining at getting out of anticipated work.

Roger and Pamela HILL will be leaving Annandale, VA, for Santa Monica, CA, next summer. He’s going to spend two years at the Rand Corporation, “thinking big.” Their kids, Jennifer (10), Nat (7), and Chris (5) all play soccer. Roger and Chip FRANCK attended Ralph PALMER’s wedding to Donna Kline on Columbus Day in Columbus, OH, last October. Both Ralph and Donna graduated from Harvard Law School and are in two separate legal firms, dealing with tax and real estate law. As for Chip, he has left the Pentagon for B-52s at Barksdale.

The BURNETT’s Christmas letter explained that P.C. is the AFTEC test director for the F-10 XL and the F-16 MSIP programs, and is on the road quite a bit. Pauli and Daniel are doing well at soccer, and Kristin continues to excel in tumbling and gymnastics.

Eddie ENNIS is still keeping Macon, GA, safe for us all as an assistant U.S. attorney in federal criminal prosecution. Judy has put aside her career as a medical technologist to stay home with their kids, William (4) and daughter, Branan (17 months).

The GROWs are staying overseas for another three years Bob, as commander of a weapons laboratory detachment at Kapaun Air Station near Ramstein. He’s finding it fascinating to work with the Germans, Italians, and English in building the Tornado fighter. They have found a lovely house all their own, which is already making their tour really delightful. They did get back to the States for an excellent visit (Bob, twice), including their kids loving a week of Bible camp on a dude ranch, getting back in touch with farm living, and attending Bob’s sister Janet’s wedding in August. Shaula (6th grade) is taking piano again and making up for not having a telephone for three years; Dawn (3rd grade) also loves that phone and is active in Brownies; and Holly is enjoying preschool and counting the days ’till kindergarten next year.

Hey, you guys! The nifty picture in the last Checkpoints was a Polaroid color print furnished by Scott JACKSON. In this issue, I snipped the GRIESSER photos off their Christmas card. Hint! Hint! Some of the rest of you, quit waiting for perfect contrast and focus, and send me your photographs so we can keep guessing who they show!

Mark Torreano

Box 245

APO San Francisco 96328

Office: AV 225-4283

Home: AV 225-5371

As I write this on 3 Jan (again past the editor’s deadline, but I hope it makes it), the holidays are a fading memory of pinescent, socks and ties, and of course, bills. We had a good time of it and spent lots of time quietly at home. For the Japanese, New Year’s is a time for visiting and eating. We Torreanos were fortunate to be invited to the home of one of the JASDF officers I met as a cadet when I visited the Japanese Defense Academy during my firstie summer. Our hosts really laid out a belly buster of a feast and we felt particularly at home so far from the states. Saw the Falcons whip Vanderbilt on TV, an exciting game we can all be proud of. The team had that special mix of talent and determination this year that reflects the best in Falcon sports, regardless of winning or losing. Winning the Commander-in-Chief’s Trophy is another achievement that deserves special recognition, along with the upset win over Notre Dame and an 8-5 record. And ’68 has reason for more than your average pride in the team’s achievements, due to the very effective and dedicated contributions made by Dick ELLIS in his coaching role. Dick was visible on the sidelines several times during the Hall of Fame telecast. Hats off to both the team and Dick for their hard work and success this year!

Last column I told you the exchange rate was 269 yen to the dollar. Since then it went to 275, but has now dropped all the way to 225. Easy come, easy go. And Japan has a new Prime Minister Nakesone, who should present a bit more vocal image compared to past prime ministers. I believe he’ll work to smooth defense and trade tensions between us and Japan, but we must not expect too big of a change rapidly.

CHRISTMAS CARDS. Thanks to the following stalwarts who managed to extend their Christmas mailing list by one more card and ineluded ye poor old class scribe: Cort and Beth DUROCHER, Ed and Karen EBERHART, Denny and Barb FLYNN, Don and Marie GENNA, Bob and Donna LUSHBAUGH, Mike and Sue NASH, Karl and Sue WHITTENBERG, and Bill and Katie WOOD. Cort is assistant ops officer for the OA-37 sqdn at Davis-Monthan AFB in Tucson while Sue travels frequently in her job as executive director of the Municipal Treasurers Association of the U.S. and Canada. The EBERHARTs are at Hahn AB, Germany, where Ed commands the 10TFS (F-16) and sees Tom O’BEIRNE, who also flys F-16s at Hahn. The FLYNNs continue to enjoy Maryland. Bob LUSHBAUGH will leave his A-10 at Suwon AB, Korea, to work in DORW at HQ TAC in February. Mike and Sue NASH proudly display their handsome brood in the photo below and Mike adds he is flying T-34s for the Colorado ANG.

Karl and Sue WHITTENBERG are now in Ft. Leavenworth, KS, where Karl is an Army Command and General Staff College student and divides his time between books and two-year-old Carolyn (and of course, Sue).

VISITOR. During Gen. Gabriel’s recent visit to Yokota, I had a chance for a brief chat with the chief’s aide, Bill BOWMAN. Bill is really enjoying his work and of course sees a lot of the world. Bill told me that classmates Dick HALL, Doug MENARCHIK, Mahlon LONG, and Mike BEDNARZ are all air staff planners, while Brooke BAILEY is a student at NDU.

LETTER. Carl “J.R.” JANSSEN has moved to Plano, TX, near Dallas, and works for ARCO Oil and Gas Division, following two years in Denver with ARCO. Carl writes that he recently had business in Australia and managed to take Debbie and dally along the way in Fiji and New Zealand. Hope all your wells come in gushers, Carl.

ADDRESS UPDATES. John CHAPMAN is in Zephyrhills, FL, near Tampa, maybe at MacDill; Tom DEVEREAUX lives in Ann Arbor, MI, is a Ford Motor Company pilot, and also flys for the AFRES 63 TAS at Selfridge ANGB; Mike ELLISON is in Bellevue, WA; John S. GRAHAM is in C-Springs; and James R. JOHNSON has PCSed to WPAFB. Dean KOCIAN is also in Ann Arbor; Bob MACALUSO is in Overland Park, KS; Denny McLAIN is in Belleville, IL; Bill McDANIEL is in Valrico, FL, near MacDill; Dick PERRY is a long range planner at the air staff (XOXIP); Vince RUSINAK is in Burke, VA, near D.C.; Chad SWEDBERG has surfaced in Tucson; and Doug WILSON is in Littleton, CO.

Have no more news this time. Drop a line out Japan way.

Mike and Sue Nash’s children, Kim, Tad, Ty, and Brett, pose for their Christmas card photograph.

For those who have difficulty in making decisions, I recommend that you obtain a copy of How to Make Up Your Mind. This recommendation is not made solely because the author is a fellow classmate of ours. The book is very interesting and thought-provoking reading. Ken NUSS is the author and the publisher is S.E.S. Books, P.O. Box 24103, San Diego, CA, 92124-0103. You can order a book from the publisher for $3.95 or you can write to Ken NUSS directly.

Ken reports that D.K. LYNN is with General Dynamics/Convair in San Diego working on the Shuttle-Centaur. Bill GRIFFITH is a real estate partner of Ken’s. Bill is living in Monument, CO. Ken will be moving to Houston in March of ’83 where he will be working in the training of astronauts and in mission-control areas. Thanks for the information and the book, Ken.

Tom MCGRAIN is still in Tempe, AZ. Tom says that Republic is keeping him flying and that he continues to play tennis almost every day he has off. Tom filed the following reports: Lindsey PARRIS is at MPC in San Antonio and is on a mayoral council, C.J. WAX is also at MPC and Sam REID is in theological school in St. Louis. Tom visited the Academy in September and saw Terry and Judy STAKE. Terry is a radiologist at the Academy hospital. While in San Diego, Tom and Joe PERSONETT got together. Joe is with Continental and has just been transferred to Honolulu. Finally, Tom would like to know if anyone knows the whereabouts of Ron NELSON and Mike WETTERER. You can forward that information to me or to Tom.

Bill MARVEL called while he was in town during the holidays. Bill is one of those lucky individuals whose spouse has generous travel benefits with her employer. They fly to many exotic locations including even Kansas City. The MARVELs still make southern California their base of operations.

Foot INGERSOLL and Louise are at Rhein-Main. Foot is the ops officer for the C-9 squadron. The squadron has 12 USAFA grads. Foot has seen P.K. CARLTON and Craig HINMAN who are both surgeons at Weisbaden. Foot also spoke with J.J. BURNS and Jack OVERSTREET prior to DEROS from Bitburg. Both went to staff colleges. Foot also reports that Don MCSWAIN was chief of safety for the wing at Rhein Main. He is now back in the states. Walt HOWLAND and Jack DAVIS are flying C-130s at Rhein-Main.

Foot ran into A1 MCCREE in Athens. A1 will be working in the JUSMAGG. Steve HANNA informed Foot that Steve will be leaving SAMSO in Los Angeles. If my memory serves me correctly, Steve was on the below-the-zone Lt. Col. list recently.

Now, for change-of-address cards: Jim PERCY is in Albuquerque; Chris JOHNSON is in Laguna Hills, CA; Chuck MABRY is in Montgomery, AL; George HINDMARSH is in Montgomery, AL; Larry WALTON is in Abliene, TX; Paul FARRELL is in Jacksonville, FL; Dick PADLO is in Montgomery, AL; Terry BALDEN is in Dayton, OH; Kerry MARSH is at Gunter AFS; Doug SCHOTT is in Gettysburg, PA; A1 MCNEAR is in Dillsburg, PA; Joe HASEK is in West Memphis, AK; Jeff TRENTON and Bill MAGILL are in Montgomery; and Jim ANDERSON is in Valdosta, GA.

My thanks to all of you who have taken the time to give me a call or drop me a note.

Michael L. Rose -v

1011 Venus Drive

Colorado Springs, CO 80906

Home: (303) 634-3050

Office: (303) 576-6314

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Congratulations are in order for a number of our classmates this time around. First of all, Curt EMERY has been selected as one of the Outstanding Young Men of America for 1982. Men to be included in the 1982 edition are being honored for their outstanding civic and professional contributions to their communities, their states, and their nation. Secondly, Bob YOUNG has been appointed to the position of project director at Raymond Vail and Associations, Sacramento office, in the En

vironmental Engineering Division dealing with water supply and treatment, wastewater management and small hydro-electric facilities. And last but certainly not least, Dick (Oker) O’CONNOR is to be congratulated for getting married. Congrats to you and Monnica and to Curt and Bob for their recent achievements.

Oker included some news with the invitation he sent to me to bring us up to date on the C-130 business at Rhein-Main, Germany. He wholeheartedly recommends the area for a tour because you can hit Switzerland for weekend skiing or France for dinner at a two-star restaurant. Willie SCHEPENS and Jim SMITH are also at Rhein-Main and Ray BAKER left last fall for Naval Staff College. When Bobby STEWART (C-5s at Dover) passed through, he said that he and Steve MACISAAC were keeping Delaware on the map.

Bob CHAMBERS was at Scott AFB last summer keeping MAC straight. Fast Jack SCHNEIDER was last seen in San Antonio as a PIT instructor about two years ago. Dave GALICH was in the ALCE at Dyess but has moved to Ft. Benning. Jim O’NEAL was in AFLC in Sacramento but has moved to U-2s at Beale. Doc WASKOW was last seen at Bitburg in F-15s. Oker also saw Ken GREENE flying F-4s at Torrejon last year and said that Ken and his new bride both looked great. Thanks for the news from the around the world, Oker, 1 don’t think I’ll need to take a vacation next summer. And I know that some of this news might have moss growing on it by now, but it sure is better than no news at all.

A1 WURGLITZ has returned to D.C. to open his own law practice and shares office space with the law firm of Bill CLOHAN. Last spring, Bill left his position as undersecretary of education and has since become a partner in a four-lawyer firm. A1 mentioned that Chuck REED is a partner in a San Jose law firm and was recently appointed to the San Jose Planning Commission. Chuck and A1 are organizing a one-day conference sponsored by the San Jose Chamber of Commerce in San Jose in January on a new federal R & D grant program directed to small, hightechnology companies. On a sadder note, A1 said he visited the new Vietnam memorial in D.C., found some familiar names, and although he has mixed emotions about the appropriateness of the “Wall” as a monument, he is glad to see a decent memorial has finally been built in Washington, DC.

There were about 25 relocations during the last quarter so I won’t be able to mention them all: Brian SPITZER moved from Holloman to Luke to become an F-15 IP; Paul BAUER reported to Pope AFB in September after finishing ACSC Class of 1982 and C-130 requal last summer; and Wade PATON is now an F-16 pilot and the chief of safety for the 19th TFS at Shaw AFB.

Dana ARBAUGH called last month, and, in addition to giving me another photo idea for this issue, he told me that Tex and Paula RITTER spent Thanksgiving with the Arbaugh’s in Palo Alto. Tex is doing fine after being injured in an aircraft accident and he and Dana are working together in the AFA Liaison Officer program. Dana asked me to encourage more grads to participate in the LO program.

Airborne Training Class of 2004

The Checkpoints editor put out a special call again for photographs, so I scrounged around and found one of Colby Moore Rose, age 7 months, doing his thing. Anybody who took pictures during the holiday season should put them in the mail to me now so that I will receive them in time for the next issue. Happy New Year and health and wealth to all and the time to enjoy them both in 1983.

Ralph Getchell

Quarters 4506 C, USAF Academy

Colorado Springs, CO 80840

Home: (303) 472-6958

AV: 259-4548

Greetings again from the land of the big blow only this year, we call it the land of the BIG SNOW. Would you believe five feet deep in some spots on the terrazzo? Fortunately, I was able to dig out in time to make the trip to the Hall of Fame Bowl. For those of you completely out of touch, it was a great game and the spirit of those cadets who came in from all over the country reminded me a bit of the old days.

Thanks to those of you who took the time to send a note or call with some news. The hottest flash of all came from Vince LANDRY, who called to say that he’s finally tied the knot. Given how long it took for the Silver Fox to settle down, the congratulations must go to his new lady, Deborah, for nailing down one of the last of the ’71 rocks. Vince is flying tankers out of Castle and mentioned that Bob BORKOWSKI is a buff IP, Danny SMITH is a tank IP, and Larry O’REILLY is an instructor EW there. Jim BROWN has returned from civilian life and passed through recently for B-52 training on his way to Dyess. Randy LAUDERBACH has moved to Offutt to be the editor of SAC’s Combat Crew magazine.

Got a nice letter from Jim HOGAN. Since Jim is still flying F-4s at Moody, and knowing how much he hates to write, I can only conclude that he must have dictated the letter to his pitter. However, he did relate a few interesting tidbits. 0-5 selectee Mike LACKEY has moved to Luke as an F-15 IP. Mike was selected for Armed Forces Staff College, but it appears he got promoted so fast that he’s no longer eligible. Sounds like another Lackeyism to me, but if it’s true, good on ya’. Donny RUTH is a stan-eval IWSO in Jim’s squadron and Pete TULLY left recently to pound a desk in the Puzzle Palace. Jim ran into doolie year roommates Glen FERGUSON and Ted MCFARLAND last summer and wondered how many first semester doolie year threesomes were still in the Air Force. Glen is flying helicopters in the test squadron at Eglin while Ted is flying the Double Ugly and the Really Ugly (F-4 and A-10) with the same unit. Ron PAYNE is an agressor pilot at Nellis and loves all the traveling. Pat MCCULLOUGH, who graduated from ACGS at Ft. Leavenworth last summer, was at Patrick getting re-blued in the OV-10 on his way to Hawaii.

In a move reminiscent of days gone by, Gordy KAGE put aside some papers due for his AFIT cost analyst classes to fill me in on the latest from Wright-Pat. In a change since my last column, Mike UECKER has moved from Grand Forks where a bad back resulted in his permanent grounding. He is now program manager for a “multitude of B-52 programs’’ in the ASD Strategic SPO. John KOCH, who’s been at Wright-Pat for some time, is leaving his engineer’s job to fly 135s in the test wing there. John and his wife, Sandy, are expecting their fifth child in March. Also at AFIT are Lary COLE (from Ellsworth buffs) and Steve WA1SS (W-P tankers), both in space ops. Jack DICKINSON (C-130 special ops at Hurlbert) is in strategic and tactical sciences. Bob BOREN just finished defending his thesis (AFIT jargon for finished the course) and is rumored to be on his way to Albuquerque. Ed MCGANN has just finished a tour with AFLC and is “working off gate time” at Little Rock as a C-130 instructor nav.

Stopped by the math department the other day on my way to one of many class committee interviews on my cadets and saw Tom CURRY, A1 MCCLELLAN and Mike SPATOLA, all math instructors. Mike mentioned that Jim SWEEDER recently completed his Ph.D. from AFIT and is now at Kelly with the Security Service. Contrary to last column’s rumor, it now appears that Steve SMITHERMAN will not be coming here next year after all. Seems that it had taken him so long to figure out how to fly the F-15 that TAC wanted him to stay a little longer and get proficient!

SHORT BURSTS. From those organized folks who file their AOG change-of-address card where they can find it at moving time: Hank LAUGHLIN is chief of advanced systems at Sunnvale AFS. Don BRESETT is back in “helicopters” after a tour in ATC and is now flying UH-lNs at Andrews. He extended an invitation to all of you visiting the D.C. area to look him up (presumably, not all at once). Rusty STILES, who decided to stay in helicopters, left the service last fall and is now a test pilot for Sikorsky Aircraft in Connecticut. Frank MORGAN is a staff officer with 4th ATAF in Heidelberg, Germany.

STEALTH CLASSMATES. Lacking a crystal ball and more definitive information, I offer for your amusement the following clues. These names were arranged using the same “down-the-stairs” sorting techniques our instructors used to determine our grades. Dave KATCHERIAN to Livonia, MI; Mike HANSEN to Jacksonville, AR; Mr. Craig Arnold to Southfield, MI; Jim SANDSTROM to Maxwell; Rusty VANDENBURG to Homestead; Bob MANNING to Plattsburgh; Charlie DAVIS to March; Mark LEWONOWSKI to Taegu, ROK; and Bruce CRAYCRAFT to San Francisco.

A LITTLE HELP. Finally, a request for assistance. As some of you may have noticed, the name of one of our classmates, Bryan RYE, is missing from the graduate war memorial which stands by the terrazzo flag pole. Shortly after his death, the AOG Executive Committee, in an attempt to fairly apply the criterion established for the memorial, determined that Bryan’s death should be classified as an aircraft accident. Since Bryan was killed in a helicopter crash around the time of the Mayaguez incident, some of us feel that “in action” might also apply. If you have any first-hand information that you feel would help the executive committee in their reconsideration of this case, please send it to me at the address listed above.

« -JJ

T.J. Mancuso

11697 E. Kentucky Ave.

Aurora, CO 80012

Home: (303) 343-4231

Work: (303) 861-7000

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I suppose, what with the hazards of flying, that we all became somewhat calloused as to the mortality of Academy graduates, especially back during the war, but the death of a family member is a particularly saddening experience, and I am sure I join you all in condolences to Bruce HOSEA, whose wife, Cynthia, died the day after the class reunion. Rick STORER, Mark MAYER and Mike NELSON were all at graveside services at USAFA. In addition to Bruce, she was survived by daughters Tracy and Cheyenne.

Some notes on the class reunion. A few things went wrong: like they ran out of food and closed the bar before I ever got to the Flying-W. And the football game was not exactly a defensive slugfest (NM 49, AF 37). If either team would have punted into the stands, I think I could have run it back for six, the foregoing based on the presumption that I would have been able to walk.

And the dance should have had more Steve Miller and less Glenn Miller. Of course, lunch at Mitch’s with Rick DENNEN and eight cadets was great we were unable to get a table concensus on whether the entree was “fish planks” or “chicken strips,” and I think the rice had fish heads in it. (The table commandant warned me about the magic red sauce: “It will kill the taste, but it can eat through metal.”) I suppose a bland end-of-fiscal-year meal at Mitchell Hall was the most nostalgic moment of the weekend.

But, hey, most of us came not to see the Academy, but to see each other to share a few beers at Arnold Hall, or a few beers at the football game, or a few beers before the game, or a few beers at the Holiday Inn, or a few beers driving around, or a few beers at the golf course, or a few beers at the airport, or a few beers in the hospitality suite, or a few beers at poolside, or a few beers at breakfast.

Even if I hadn’t changed very much over the last ten years, I certainly didn’t look the same by the end of the weekend.

There is no doubt it was a good time.

Mike NELSON claims to have had his office stuffed with 150 balloons by some 13th Squadron Bulldogs just before Homecoming. So, in good spirit, he summoned his spouse to see what the laugh-a-minute cadets had perpetrated. She arrived just in time to enjoy a strip-o-gram from a young squeeze (predictably not a cadet) our successors in tradition had arranged for a Fairchild Hall bump and grind. And I suppose Mike believes that by having his side of the story appear in print, his wife will believe the sweet young thing who sat near naked on Mike’s desk was nothing more than some doolie prank. Give us a break.

Having little use for pictures of my distressingly old-looking classmates, I am forwarding a picture of a few of the best things that were seen at Homecoming some of the wives (my wife told me I had to say something nice). I only confess to forgetting my DINFOS training, and failing to correctly note the name of B.J. McGARRY’s date.

The distaffstaff: standing are Mss. Hill, Cannistaci, Johnson, Camalick, Barry, Adamson, Damberg, Miller, and McDonald (with a quarterpounder on the side). Kneeling are B.J. ’s date, and Mss. Jones, Winter, Upshaw and Mancuso.

Once again, people insist on moving around the Air Force and sending me their little address changes. Gary PAYTON has gone to Maxwell. Bill COLWELL has a little better deal in going to RAF Bentwaters. Leo THURSTON is in Tempe, AZ, and Larry SHARRAR is in Redmond, WA.

The AOG sent me a piece of paper with “SMITH Belleville, 1L” on it and they assumed it was SMITH, 725135 (Barry). Since SMITH, 725160 (Jack) is at Scott, my guess is that that’s the Smith they meant, unless one of the three or four other Smiths in the class would like to volunteer.

Ed GRAF has gone to Omaha, in what I fear is a SAC HQ assignment and Jim JAEGER is in Montgomery, AL. Randy SCHMIDT is also in Montgomery, and purports to be living on Ski Lodge Drive. I find it hard to believe that there is a Ski Lodge Drive in Montgomery, AL.

Ray RUCKER is in Hawthorne, CA, and Doug and Marian KRONEMEYER are in Sacramento. Bob BELL is at Dover, and Hank KICHEN is at Yokoto, Japan. Dale MUELLER is in Chesterfield, MO; Jeff MONAGHAN is at Fort Walton Beach, FL; Jim LIVINGSTON is at Naperville, IL; and Fran DOYLE is off to McChord.

Tammy CAMALICK called the other day about a will. Jay’s doing well with Republic out of the Twin Cities living here in Denver. Tammy says Republic has gotten everybody back flying. I doubt if they were flying between Denver and Minneapolis over Christmas. Doug and Robin HILL dropped a Christmas card from far across the great highway and the other side of Aurora to say he’s just back from two weeks hauling trash with the Reserves around the South Pacific. He writes that as we dig out of the worst snow of the century in Colorado.

We also got a Christmas letter from the Dan SCOTTEs. Dr. Dan is doing his osteopathy internship in Portland, OR, and Nancy’s working two hospital jobs (probably keeping up with the good doctor’s malpractice premiums). He’ll want to be on hand when she delivers their first little tax exemption in April.

I think I saw Terry TYRELL dressed up like an AOC on the sidelines during the taped replay of Air Force’s convincing win over Notre Dame.

Back when I covered sports for the Talon, I was used to seeing Terry with a falcon chawing at his arm. It was very different seeing him carry nothing more than the weight of responsibility that comes with being an AOC. (Although, there is a certain analogy as to the keeping of animals.)

I got a call from Ed BISHOP at Brooks. Ed is a bioenvironmental engineer in an occupational and governmental health lab: a kind of a blue-suit OSHA. Ed is married, has three auxiliary Bishops down at Brooks, and occasionally runs into Doug FOSTER and Ray HESTERBERG, who’s looking to do an opthomology residency. John GRAHAM is down there as a physical training officer or some such, doing a hyperberic medicine residency.

The new year finds me moving offices up 17th Street to Holme, Roberts & Owen, Denver’s largest law firm. The interviewing process was a challenge, facing tough, exacting questions from Tom FOLSOM (Class of ’71) turning on the nuances and penumbra of legal theory like, “Whatever happened to old Van Winder SHIELDS?’’

I just got a last-day-of-the-year letter from Dave McLAUGHLIN. He’s leaving an ROTC assignment at Rensselaer Polytechnic at Troy, NY, and loved every minute of it. After C-130 training he’s off to Rhein-Main, where he’ll be adding one more military dependent to the government’s budget around May. His other news puts Mike and Laurie BORSEYWICZ from Hancock to Frankfort. Tom CARRIGAN (Gail) is a Columbus IP, but he’s looking for a real job around June on this side of the Air Force. George POLLARD is teaching T-41, and Tom BRUMLICK is with Delta out of San Francisco. Finally, Karen and Jim STETTLER are in Charlottesville, where he’s with an airline.

Did you catch the story in the business section of the last Rocky Mountain News of 1982? “Eastern lays off 300 pilots.” Let us hope that is not the precursor of the type of year to come.

Sam Grier

Quarters 4207D, USAF Academy $0

Colorado Springs, CO 80840

Home: (303) 472-0987

AV: 259-3590

wMerry Christmas to you all! Though you won’t read this until March, I’m writing this Dec 21st. So here’s to a blessed and wonderful Christmas to all of you!

What a football season! Air Force beat BYU, Notre Dame, and won the Commander in Chief’s trophy, too. The Notre Dame game was amazing we dominated them from beginning to end. And now the team will be off to Birmingham, AL, to play in the Hall of Fame Bowl. Rest assured that I’ll be watching it on TV!

As you all are aware, Lt Col Jim Wheeler will be stepping down as executive director of the AOG. I had the privilege of working with Col Wheeler on the 1981 AOG Register, and he is all and more than the article in last quarter’s Checkpoints states. In your next correspondence, pass your thanks to Col Wheeler for his hard work on your behalf.

It’s been a fun semester. For those of you not aware, the T-41 program now has a “fighter-lead-in” selection committee for the outstanding cadets in T-41. It is officially referred to as Euro-NATO training, and it takes place at Sheppard AFB. Students selected for the program are assured of a fighter assignment. I have had one T-41 student selected for Euro-NATO, and had the opportunity to nominate another “super student” this past semester. I also teach the core computer science course, and the class of ’86 is a terrific class they have been a pleasure to work with. So much for USAFA, now on to our class news.

LETTERS AND CALLS: I received a letter from Don and Rachel WILCOX. Joey is at home now; Don’s mother is living with them to help care for him. Though still comatose, he apparently senses his new environment and is relaxed. They are thrilled to have Joey home and look forward to a Christmas filled with rich blessings.

Gerry OCONNOR has apparently risen from the dead and now resides at “Blight-ville,” AK. He finished his masters in optical physics, and the AF in its sometimes marginal infinite wisdom has put him in the cockpit flying B-52s. He and Winnie have two kids, Cari and Tracy.

Can you match these hapless Homecoming hubbies to the proper spouse in the first photograph?

Tom GRAYSON has moved to Chicago to work for a fur company. He’s having a great time flying and cuddling with all those expensive pelts. He wants to organize a fashion show at a Colorado Springs hotel for Homecoming and hopes to cloak all of ’73’s wives in luxury. He asked me to pass his new address on to the AOG, and you-know-who didn’t do it. I better run it over so he’ll at least get this newsletter!

Warren SMITH writes from USAFA east. He says he’s seen more grads in his three months at AFIT than he has in his nine years since graduation. He and Donna are expecting a new arrival, and he should have one by the time you read this letter. Warren’s in the space ops master’s program.

Grads at AFIT include, from left, Rick Barclay (’74), Steve Gast (’73), and Warren Smith (’73).

There are 20 students in the space ops program (12 grads), and they have adopted the same “Pigs in Space” (see photo). He passes on the following: Vince PAR1SI is at AFIT in the EE program. Vince’s wife, Peggy, had a baby this past June. Glenn MOSES is at AFIT in the strategic and tactical sciences program. He and Sissie have two kids. Les VANHEESWYK is in the same program with a 4.0 average. Congrats, Les!

Warren closes his letter with this: “...many of our classmates here are hoping to return for Homecoming next year. For this Pig in Space, it could double as a house-hunting trip for a possible assignment to HQ Space Command, which will be at Falcon AFS, CO. Remember, you heard it here first!”

Falcon AFS?!? Right, Warren. When I showed CBPO my SERE certificate that says, “...and is hereby proclaimed by MACH I the head falcon, a full-fledged, fearless falcon and is worthy of all honors...” as proof of my finishing SERE, they laughed me out of the office.

Mike ARNETT has called me a couple of times. He’s at Kirtland working on the AFTEC Enforcer Project, which involves a close air support program using a turbo-prop P-51 talk about a candidate for the Golden Fleece Award! Senator Proxmire, where are you? Mike has three girls Becca, Wendy, and Debbie.

Mike passes on the following: Roy BASS (one of our three-year belowthe-zone majors) has just completed an ASTRA assignment and will be part of the UN peace-keeping force in Israel. He’ll be stationed at Nahariyya, Israel. Nortie SCHWARTZ is at C-130 special ops at Hurlbert, FL, serving as test director for the prototype C-130 program. Gary W1GLE has resigned and works for Boeing in Seattle. He and Linda have a little boy. Randy PUTZ is the asst chief of staff for AF Studies and Analysis at the Pentagon. Mike HEAD is out and works for AFLC at Kelley in a Civil Service position. He also flies C-130s for the AFRes. Doug DICK is an AFIT civil engineer instructor at Wright-Pat. Gordy BEND1CK works at the Strategic SPO at Wright-Pat. Sid GUTIERREZ is a full-fledged test pilot at Edwards. Roger W1NBURG is at Dallas Theological Seminary. He has a little girl, Charissa. Don PETTIT resigned and works for General Electric in Wash, DC.

Ed PARRY is a dermotologist at Wilford Hall. He and Diane have two little “Parry-sites” (only a doctor would think that’s funny). Steve KNIFFEN flies F-16s at Nellis. Bill GILLEN (the 1981 Jabara Award Winner) is flying helos at Kirtland I saw Bill when he was visiting the T-41

squadron this past summer. Ernie MARAVILLA is out of the AF and works for BDM Corp in Albuquerque Mike says Ernie has a beard, long hair, and looks great. Greg SENSIBA is at studies and analysis at the Pentagon. John KEESEE is stationed at Norton. Finally, Mike wants to know, “Whatever happened to Dick SCHANBERGER? Last I heard he was out of the AF and in Colorado Springs.” Thanks for all the info, Mike!

Vickie CRISTIANI called me and wanted to straighten me out on Jonathan’s birthweight. “He did not weigh 5 lb 11 oz; he weighed 5 lb 11 Vi oz!” Thanks a lot, Vickie.

As we approach ’73’s Homecoming, our classmates seem to be coming out of the woodwork. The following comes from the AOG: Dale WRISLEY is a student NFO (?) in F-14As at Miramar NAS after RTU he will be stationed there at Miramar in San Diego; Bill SWAN is an IP/Flt Comm in F-l 1 lFs at Lakenheath he says Ken COMBS, Willie CULBERTSON, and Mike HUB are all at Lakenheath, too; John PRETZ is here at the zoo (see the Homecoming picture in the last issue of Checkpoints); Rick KARVOSKY has moved to Dayton; Howard MITCHELL has moved to Montgomery, AL; Steve KNIFFEN has moved from Nellis to Shaw, SC; Rick WALLACE now resides at Bellevue, NE; and Sam BLANCHARD is now at Beale AFB, CA.

Rob HAYLOCK sent this note: “Please correct my address to read that I live in Slidell, LA 70458; as you can see, you have me living in Slidell, FL 70458.” C’mon, Rob, don’t be so picky. Barry SCHEINOST now lives in Midvale, UT; Virginia and Dave BURNETT have moved to Myrtle Beach, SC; Randy VEENSTRA has moved to a new address in Hawthorne, NJ; and finally, Ken SCHWARTZ and wife Cheryl have completed their missionary work in Mexico and have moved to Wheaton, IL, where Ken is getting his master’s in psychological studies at Wheaton College Cheryl is expecting in November.

Well, guys, that about winds it up. My prediction for the Hall of Fame Bowl? AF 33, Vandy 31. Remember, Warren, you heard it here first!

Have a great spring and begin your plans for Homecoming now! It’s coming sooner than you think. Stay tuned for details...

Pat Lynch

4049 Forest Ridge Blvd. Dayton, OH 45424

Home: (513) 233-5426 AV: 785-6289

¥Happy 1983 to all ’74ers. I hope that everyone is over celebrating the victory in the Hall of Fame Bowl by now. Just think, this was the Falcons’ first winning season since the Class of ’74 left. It’s about time.

First, some personal news. I am separating from the Air Force as of 1 March. I was due to rotate this summer, but MPC was not being cooperative with my desires. Since there is a civilian vacancy here in my office, I will be staying here at AFIT as a civilian instructor. So it looks like Dayton will be my address for a while.

My first letter this time came from Paul GUZOWSKI. Paul is at Ramstein for his second tour in Germany. His first was as a liaison officer with the army in Mainz. After going to Luke for upgrade he returned to the 512TFS in the F-4E. Paul’s wife, Christine, is stationed at Zweibrucken at the clinic. Paul finished his MS in systems management from USC and is working on the Army Command and General Sta'ff Course. I think all that time with the army got to him.

Also at Ramstein are Jim SMITH who is at USAFE and flies F-l5s part time. Paul has seen A1 GLOCK and John GARLAND. Chuck TUCKER is also in the 512TFS in the weapons shop. Anyone in the Ramstein area should call Paul and he will help you get around.

My second letter came from Mike BURNSIDE. Mike and Pattie and their sons Scott and Steven are at Plattsburgh. Mike is in the F-l 11 CCTS until January when he will go to Pease. This will be his first SAC tour after his time as a T-38 IP at Reese. Mike sent quite a bit of news.

Jim and Sherri HORACEK are at Plattsburgh where Jim is the T-37 ACE detachment commander. Jim says that Tony BROZENA left Alaska for an F-4G assignment at George. Ray JEFFS is out of the Air Force and manages rental property in New Hampshire. John and Eileen CORSARO left Homestead and he is in an ANG slot in Vermont. Ed MCILHENNY is instructing in the ANG F-4G RTU at McConnell. Rod and Alice GIBSON are at Pease where he is flying the F-l 11. Rod will be Mike’s sponsor for his move to Pease.

Ed HOFFMAN is also at Pease where he is on a SAC-TAC exchange in the F-l 11. Mark TAYLOR is flying for Delta. Dennis BUTTS is out of the Air Force. He and Shirley live in Oregon where he works for Hewlitt-

Packard. Rick and Gayle CLEAVELAND are still at Kadena and leave this summer. Rick PILLING is still in the Soaring Branch at USAFA.

Scott SMITH is at Williams in CE. Larry ALLEN is a flight surgeon at Reese. Finally, Bill HAYES left Reese for an assignment with the Australian Air Force as an exchange IP.

Right before Christmas I got a call from Diane ALCORN. At the time, Dick was in upgrade training in C-130s. Diane says that they have a new daughter, Tiffany, born last June 1. After they leave USAFA, Dick will be flying for the 5th Weather Recon Squadron in Okinawa. After that Dick will be going to get his Ph.D. in chemistry for another assignment at USAFA. Good luck to Dick, Diane, and Tiffany in these assignments.

Other news from Diane is that Lee STURDIVANT married Nancy last summer. Rocky and Joanne CAPOZZI had their third child, their first daughter, in September. Bill NELSON’s wife is expecting their first child in May.

That’s all the news I have for now so I’ll close this column. Happy ’83 to all and keep in touch.

Joe Stein

820 War Eagle Drive

Colorado Springs, CO 80919

Home: (303) 594-6201

AV: 259-4105

ROGUE’S GALLERY. Here’s the mug shot I promised you last time. If you’re having trouble matching names with the faces, the list of those pounding the halls of the Pentagon which appeared in the fall issue should help. If that still doesn’t give you a clue on one of the faces, don’t worry. You’ve just spotted the one non-’75 ASTRA who slipped into the shot while we were baring our pearlies for the photographer. Just one test of your powers of observation before we move on. Which of those pictured below are working legislative liaison (didn’t think I could spell that, did you)? If you picked Dale MEYERROSE in that dapper civvie suit, deduct 10 points. He’s been hanging his hat on the OSD (MRA&L) rack (no, I won’t spell that one out). As an aside, 1 hear he may be using that same rack for another four years. The correct answer to the question is Dave COMMONS and Rick LAYMAN. You should have had no trouble with that one if you remembered that LL types never look you straight in the eye! Rick has gotten so good at this technique that he’s sewn his eyelids shut (as the picture shows).

ing as a system contract negotiator at Hanscom, and recently pushed through a multi-year contract with Raytheon which saved $43 million for Uncle Sam. His efforts earned him executive company grade officer of the quarter honors at Hanscom and the ESD nomination for AFSC Officer of the YEAR. I wonder if he would be available to help when I buy my next house?

ON THE ROAD AGAIN. Santa brought more than presents during the Christmas season. He blessed many of us with winter moves. The AOG change-of-address box was overflowing. The list includes Marv COX to Mather, Mark POSTHUMUS to Offutt, the JOHNSONs to Reese, Charles SCHMITZ to Shaw, Fred WHITICAN to Wright-Pat, Rod REAY and Sam EDGAR to Eglin, Bill CARROTHERS to D-M, Mike GILL to Nellis, Dave DEFOLIART to March, and Mark MCCONNELL overseas. By the way, Chip DIEHL did make it to Hickam (what am I doing wrong?). Other cards place Jim MCBRIDE in Livonia, MI; Tom SUMMERS in San Francisco; John MACDONNELL in Warren, ME; and Don NOVAK in Belle Plains, KS. To complete the list, Doug NELSON is finishing some grad work at the University of Washington, with a follow-on assignment to (you guessed it) USAFA.

WHAZAT?

ROCKY MOUNTAIN REPORT. It seems like the Springs area is attrading more of our finest every day. Recently I was roaming the corridors of Fairchild Hall when I bumped into one each Dick DYE. Dick finished out his service career at USAFA and is now pressing on with civilian life in the Springs. He says that it can’t be beat, but he still hasn’t completely severed the umbilical cord. His company works on several high-level defense contracts. I also received a call from Bill SPENCER. He’s been taking it easy in a cushy job in the airmanship shop out here, but the party will soon be over. Bill’s slated to don his AOC black hat this summer. John WOLTER is another possible for an AOC job. At last word, J.T. was torn between that and a headquarters slot at MAC. And finally, I just received a change-of-address card from Bill and Roni O’CONNELL. They made it into town just before the Christmas blizzard.

THE $43 MILLION MAN. While most of us have been wallowing in the humdrum of everyday life, one of our number has been saving megabucks (for the Air Force, that is). Dave HICKMAN has been work

I thought you might get a kick out of this photo. I sure did! The obvious question is: “What is it?” I’ll give you a choice of three answers:

a. A crazy Army doctor.

b. A model of the suit used in the movie “E.T.”

c. Our own Bill LYERLY.

Well, no matter which answer you chose, you were right. Bill is working in the Army’s Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases. I got a letter from him which just missed the last issue. He staked a claim on being the only Army officer to wear a “Beat Army” button and sit on the Air Force side during this year’s USAFA-West Point game. Another ’75er says Bill is also our best bet to win the “Man of Steel” award. Between football games and his Army work in spacesuits, Bill squeezes in just a few extra things like attending Johns Hopkins (full time) working on his Ph.D., spending his spare time at another university picking up a second master’s degree, and commuting 60 miles to his home in Annapolis. Who ever said Army life was tough?

THE GRAPEVINE. I bumped into Rick LAYMAN at the Hall of Fame Bowl, of all places. As an aside, the football team’s victory there was the perfect finishing touch to a record-breaking season and next year will be better yet! Rick mentioned that Dale MEYERROSE and Dan BURKETT will be staying at the Pentagon when their ASTRA tour ends.

He also said that the handwriting on the wall regarding his next assignment is all in German! Jed VANDENDRIES also crossed paths with me recently. He and three other Eagle drivers flew by at one of the noon-meal formations. Jed is stationed at Holloman, and rumor has it that he’s starring in pictures these days (gun camera film). At least that’s what the first guy he met at the USAFA club said.

In the “voice from the past” department, 1 just received a card from Foster B1TTON. Foster is also at Holloman, but he’s on the AT-38 side. In the years since graduation he’s married a lovely Arizona lady, Debbie, and now has three (redhead?) bambinos: Becky, Luke, and Joshua. Word of Steve SCHIEMANN’s whereabouts also reached me in a roundabout way. He got out in ’80 and is now a wheeler-dealer in Fort Lauderdale. Closing out this section, a short note from Jack STORER places him in Madison, WI. He hung up his blue coat last August.

Well, I think you’ve probably had all you can stand from me for another three months, so I’ll sign off. Keep those cards and letters flowing and enjoy the new year!

Wade E. McRoberts

8921 East Linden Street

Tucson, Arizona 85715

Home: (602) 886-1971

AV: 361-4721

wHappy New Year ’76ers. We hope everyone had a safe and healthy holiday season. The football Falcons defeated the Vanderbilt Commodores at the Hall of Fame Bowl, 36-28! The Falcons came from behind in another gutty performance that was exciting to listen to we don’t get a picture for the local channel that carried the game, just sound. I saw the highlights of the game at Rebar’s house that night. Coach Hatfield and his team have brought us a lot of excitement this football season. He seems to have a good perspective of the Academy and the football team, and it seems that he can motivate his team to beat squads that are bigger, stronger, and faster. I think that as long as coach Hatfield is around we’ll continue to see many wins and more bowl games. Thanks, Falcons!

The big news at the McROBERTS’ household is the birth of Matthew Wade on 2 November. He, Sue, and his big sisters are doing fine. We spent New Year’s Eve with the REBARCHAKS, Carl, Mary, Semantha, and Michael. Carl was named 355 TTW (A-10) IP of the Quarter for July through September. The other news here at D-M is the arrival of Jim “Whale” PHILLIPS to be an AF advisor with the Tucson ANG (A-7). Bruce FREUND has departed for Willie, where he will be an IP in F-5s.

I received several letters this quarter. Also phone calls. One was from Kurt KLINGENBERGER at Plattsburgh, where he and Karen are both in stan/eval. It seems that when they are not checking up on each other they hear news of other ’76ers. Brad and Beth MOFFETT have left Plattsburgh for ASTRA at that five-sided Confusion Condo in Washington, DC. Mike and Starr BEAUCHAMP are in the FB-111 there. Mike was the first of our classmates to become an AC in the FB. Jim MARG has been medically grounded he and Sandy are in maintenance there.

On the tanker side, Lin RILEY has checked out as an IP. Norm SPENDLEY is going to Minot. John JASKEY will be going to KC-lOs in March or is that at March? Kevin KOZLOWSKI will shift his act to KI Sawyer. John SUBIK will get a different view of the snow at Loring. Jim FAGAN arrived at Plattsburgh recently. Dave JACKSON is now a KC-135 AC. Kurt places this want ad: “WANTED: one Contrails book. Requestor desperate. Compensation negotiable.” Anyway, if you have an extra Contrails (that was the book that you used to pretend to study while waiting in formation so the upperclassmen wouldn’t yell at you) or you don’t want yours, let Kurt know (689-5528). If anybody else would like a copy let Kurt know too, as it may be possible to have a bunch printed.

Another call came from Pat BURBANK. He and Debbie and the kids are doing well at Sheppard. Pat wants to hear from Ralph GIBSON, or at least know where he is. Pat saw the LANNINGS on their way to Cannon last summer (from RAF Upper Heyford, not Lakenheath sorry, Bill!). Ruth RECHSTEINER wrote. Roger is an F-4 pilot at Taegu, ROK. They welcomed Laura Jewel and Jordan Walker on 4 September. A girl and boy all at once congratulations!

Jeff and Cindy LARSEN wrote from Fairchild. They had their first child, Heather Christine, last May. Jeff says that Gary and Shelley MONTGOMERY are expecting. Other ’76ers at Fairchild are Randy SPETMAN (ASTRA this summer); Bob OWENS (going to AWACS); Chris MILODRAGOVICH is now an AC in KC-135s (he passed gas to me in early December over Arizona I got to say “hello” to him); Greg

WHALEY is a B-52 IP; Mike LAYMAN is a flight surgeon and marathon runner; Phil SCHLENER has PCSed to Vance to become a UPT IP. The LARSENS will be going to the Naval Postgraduate School at Monterey this summer where Jeff will study up on Western Europe. Thanks for the letter!

Cyd CRAIG wrote she and Bill are also at ASTRA after B-52s at Fairchild. They are expecting their first child on 28 February let us know about it. Cyd reports that Dave MAY is flying C-130s in the Philippines; Larry and Cindy WEAVER will go to Hoosier U. in May to get a master’s in U.S. diplomatic history, then to USAFA; Tom and Candi APPOLLONI and their two little girls are doing fine and he is in choppers at Andrews. Thanks for taking the time to write, Cyd.

Ben DILLA wrote from AFIT, where he is an assistant professor of organizational behavior and management hey, I know him! He just finished a three-year stint at Purdue, where he got his Ph.D. (someone once asked me to spell Ph.D., but I couldn’t). Ben and Sharon have a little boy, Steven B., who was two years old in October. He is named for Steve SKIDMORE, who Ben says left the AF in August to do some traveling, then work with the Navigator ministry in San Antonio, perhaps studying for the ministry in the near future. Good luck, Steve! Ben has heard from Larry and Kristen ERIKSEN. Larry finished AFIT with a degree in maintenance management, and they are now at TAC HQ at Langley. The DILLAs ran into Bud and Anita STUDOR at church. Ben says he knows that Brian and Lisa DIEFFENBACH were at AFIT in the space ops program, but they haven’t made contact yet. Ben says that if anyone is going to AFIT he would be glad to assist where needed. Ben is at AV 785-4529, or (513) 236-3237. Thanks, Ben.

426th TFTS, the captain’s mother Jo Beth, secondfrom right, and his sister Karen Angarole. The captain is an instructor pilot with the 426th and Lieutenant Angarole is an F-15 student pilot with the same unit. The family won $250 on the show in October. (Courtesy photofrom the Luke AFB Newspaper, Tallyho.)

In November I had to go to be range officer at the Luke Ranges at Gjla Bend, AZ. I went to the mess hall one evening for supper, and while standing in line I reached up on the coat rack for the newspaper lying there. It was the 5 November Tallyho, which is the Luke AFB paper. At the top was a small picture which caught my eye it was Jan and Jack CATTON as they appeared on “Family Feud” recently. We class news secretaries get our news in strange ways!

Here are some address changes from the AOG: Jim KOGLER is in south San Francisco; Kevin LONERGAN changed his address to Appleton, WI; Mark EVANS is in Sunnyvale, CA; Ed MOORE is at RAF Woodbridge, UK; Mike SACKLEY is at Shaw (F-16s?); and Bill and Sondra DEA, with sons Quincy and Pat, are at Grand Forks. Bill says that Frank LASSUS left there to be an SOS instructor. John BRUNS is at Columbus, MS, as is Joe SMITH; Rory CHILDRESS is at Alexandria, VA; Lt. Barry MUHLENBERG, USN, is at Virginia Beach; Dave BERG, Huber Heights, OH; Kirk and Beverly BELL are in FPO, which must be a suburb of New York; Geoff LAWRENCE is at Fort Knox, KY; Garrison FLEMINGS was at SOS, class 83A; Dave EVANS, Rome, NY; Mark ELLEN is in L.A.; Charlie and Janet MORAN are in APO, which must be a suburb of San Francisco; and Mark WILLIAMS is somewhere in Europe.

Capt. Jack Catton, second from left, and members of his family were guests of the television show “Family Feud. Catton family members are the captain’s wife Jan, left, his brother-in-law 1st Lt. Michael Angarole, center,

We also got some Christmas cards: the LANNINGS, the KLINGENBERGERS, the CROWLEYS (T-38s at Willie), and Larry and Martha SMITH. Don and Pat HALL are moving from Vance to PIT at Randolph, and are expecting a playmate for Sean in April. Jack and Jan CATTON (Luke, F-15) wrote from SOS. Gary, Debbie, and Angela TURNIPSEED are keeping busy while flying F-15s at Eglin. Joe, Nancy, and Kimberly WYSOCKI are recent graduates of the AFIT Space Academy, and are now in Colorado Springs (Nancy also wrote a laundry list of who was going where, but I can’t find it!). Kevin and Becky HENABRAY wrote from Nellis, where Kevin just graduated from the FWIC, and will be spending 1983 in Korea (Kunsan). Jim, Becky, and Shelley DEAUX welcomed Kimberly Elaine to their household on 18 November in England he is in F-5s.

Thanks for all your support. Everybody else write! And if you wives are too busy to write, then have your husbands do it. Let’s be careful out there!

Jim “Mouse” Neumeister

2304 Galaxy Dr.

Altus, OK 73521

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Hope all of you had a joyous holiday season. Unfortunately, for those of you who have not heard, it was blemished by the loss of Frank PINEIRO, who was killed in an F-16 crash at MacDill (see “Gone But Not Forgotten”). Frank was a good friend to all of us who knew him and we will miss him a great deal. Our condolences go to his wife, Deena, and his folks. Please keep them in your prayers.

In Person: In October, I saw Bill PALANICA at the BX. He was here for IP school, only his fourth trip to Altus this year (see, 1 knew you ’141 guys liked it here). I was at MacDill the first week of November refueling F-16s where I passed gas to Dewey NOVOTNY who was going through F-16 school, along with Frank ANDERSON. Dewey, Chardelle, and daughter, Gina, are doing fine and looking forward to the arrival of their second child, but not to Dewey’s follow-on remote to Korea (Jan 83 - Jan 84).

Ext. 7311: Dave HOBBS stopped his T-39 in Altus long enough to give me a phone call on alert. Actually, I think the BG and pack of colonels he was ferrying were the real reason he stopped. He and Linda are doing fine at Scott, and he mentioned that John KATONA is flying T-39s at WrightPatterson.

Mail Call: I received a most amazing letter from Bob SCH1ERMEYER describing his career thus far. At first I thought it was a script from Ripley’s Believe-It-Or-Not. He starts out by saying that, halfway through T-38s, he was medically grounded. Three months later, he got a waiver and finished UPT. Within a week after graduation, he was grounded again. So much for his F-4 to Homestead. He became the first 2Lt to go through the four-week maintenance school for rated jocks. After two years of maintenance at McConnell, he got another waiver, but only for crew aircraft. He was a Castle tanker DG, but after only four months on the line at McConnell, he suffered a massive ulcer. He was then operated on by two Academy grads (names withheld due to embarrassment) who left a sponge in him. The mistake was discovered six weeks later when complications developed. “Surgery #2 was successful sponge removed.” After a year as a SAC Command Post controller, he received another waiver and was a couple months from returning to the cockpit when he ruptured a lumbar disc. Back to the hospital and another grad, who operated on the wrong disc. But this time it only took one week to discover the mistake. Surgery #4 was also successful. He closed by saying that he’s enjoyed all his body can stand. I think I see your point, Bob. However, remember that it could always be worse, although I’m not sure how.

Bill RHODEN surfaced from obscurity, as he put it, to fill us in on a bunch of Double-Sevens. He saw Mark DALY and Myers DREW passing through Randolph last summer. Stationed there in the 560FTS (T-38s) are Bob MANSFIELD, Steve CAREY, Scott JACKSON, Jeff MAYER and Frank LEURQUIN. Chuck SPITLER and Scott HARROD are in the 559FTS (T-37s) there. Norm THOMPSON and Jim MASKOWITZ are in C-141s at McGuire. Jeff BROWN is a computer whiz at the Pentagon. Doug BEASON is working on his Ph.D. in physics at Kirtland with a follow-on instructor assignment at the Academy. Terry TREIBER is flying T-39s out of Kirtland. Dave BROWN is in F-4 stan/eval at Seymour Johnson. Jerry HUST is still at Upper Heyford in F-l 11s. Brock DEXTER is at RAF Alconbury in A-lOs. Mark BARNETT is a flight

surgeon at Sembach, Germany. As for Rhodie, he scarfed up a job at Edwards where he is the test pilot school scheduler, T-38 FE, and photo/safety chase pilot on the side. How hard did they have to twist your arm, Rhodie?

Christmas Cards: Greg and Jenny SMITH wrote from Vandenburg where he is now assigned to Det 1, Space Division (Shuttle Activation Task Force). Since arriving, he has bumped into John BETTS (Pam), who is with the 1st Strategic Aerospace Division/Test & Eval. John told him that Larry SHAFER (Cassie) is also in the 1st. Greg also ran into Bill LEE (Wanda), who is with the 1st STRAD Command Post. He also learned that Tony CERVONE is instructing at the 4315th Missile Combat Crew Training School.

Steve DEE (Gloria) returned to Scott from SOS in time for the holidays. He’s flying C-9s there. Carlos CRUZ (Mildred) is at SOS January through March. He’ll be returning to Ramstein AB, Germany, where he works in European Communications. Steve and Leslie GROGAN and sons are at Blytheville where he flies the tank and is working on his master’s. Tom MAR1NELLO wrote from Little Rock where he flies the C-130. He’s had a slow year with only six months of TDY.

Change of Address: Matt and Anita DODDS are at Fairchild. Jim and Kimberly MILLER are at Bitburg, Germany. Ray and Jo Lynn LUNGER are in Washington, DC, somewhere, along with Ray MICHAEL and Tony ZYCH. Kurt CICHOWSKI is at Homestead. Ron KENNEDY is a T-37 instructor at Laughlin. Keith WILSON is at Columbus AFB. Mike and Rowan LEVENHAGEN are at RAF Lakenheath, UK. See you on my next Mildenhall trip, Mikie. Dave GRAGAN is Marineing it at Quantico, VA. Dave MICKELSON is at Vandenburg. Ron ALFORD is a Goodfellow. Ron MORGAN is in Carlisle, PA. Martin and Valerie MAIER are at Eglin. Mike and Bonnie WEINSTEIN are at Kirtland. Greg LOCKHART is at Wright-Patterson. Joe and Carla GUHIN are at McConnell. Tom CONLON has an education with industry assignment at Westinghouse Electric Corporation in Baltimore. Mike STANLEY is finally learning that airplane wings don’t have to go around in circles to make them fly as he attends fixed-wing transition at Laughlin.

The Scoop: Mark CASTELLANI filled me in on a number of people he has seen or heard from. He saw Kevin O’SHAUGHNESSY here for C141 air refueling school, which he hopes is his last visit to Altus. Don’t worry Kev, it will be until you have to PCS here. Mark also saw Jon BAKER at the Norton BX while on leave. Jon’s there as a C-141 IP. Don JONES has left McConnell for Tinker. Randy VIEIRA also left McConnell for KC-lOs at March. Dave and Chris EPPLEY are back at USAFA where he’s coaching track and flying T-41s. Finally, Mark and Kim ELLIS are at Keesler where he’s in pediatrics and she’s in OB/GYN.

That completes our winter news. Thank all of you who made inputs. And for those of you who haven’t, try it you’ll like it (and so will I). Take care; we’ll see you in the spring.

Jim Arnold

10708 Hollaway Drive

Upper Marlboro, MD 20772

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Well, my first column of Class News is very skimpy. I put that down to short lead time on the change in Class News writers and the holiday season.

I’m pleased to be writing this column, but with studying for law school, editing AFRP 110-2, The Reporter (Available at your local base library or PDO, but not at your local newsstand!), and doing this column, I think I have bitten off a mouthful.

The only news I have is from classmates with whom I regularly correspond. Don didn’t send me any letters and all the AOG sent was a bunch of change of addresses which I will duly list at the end of this column.

Mike SKOLAUT (Kala) is with the GLCM Program at Dugway Proving Grounds in Utah and the latest word is that Kala is expecting their second child sometime in August. Guy MARTELLE (Kathy) is with Space Division at Los Angeles AFS and seems to be enjoying it. Danny HALPERN (not Doug as reported in the last issue) and his wife Terri are at Sheppard (not at Laughlin as reported) where Danny is a T-37 IP. Steve KNOTT is at Dyess flying C-130s and recently upgraded to aircraft commander.

Bob HERRIS (Alice) is going through fighter lead-in at Holloman and is headed for F-4s eventually. Bob also completed SOS in residence. Jeff

CUKR (Anita) is doing duty as an AF officer at Boeing (Seattle) and sends word that he will be out to D.C. to attend a one-week course at George Washington University in February. Richard JOHNSON is now known as Richard SCOTT-JOHNSON.

Now for those change of addresses: William SHAW from Columbus to Alamagordo; Paul PATRIDGE from Pope to Wright-Pat; Ron PARKHOUSE from Grand Forks to Reese; Ricardo DICOCCO from Pennington, NJ, to Boston; Bob MCMAHON from Niceville, FL, to Eagle River, AR (I don’t remember Bob as a small-town boy!); and Greg CARSON from George to Hill. Also, D.J. KNUTH from Holloman to Langley; Phillip FARRELL from Enid to San Antonio; Ron ROSEPINK from Ogden, UT, to APO San Francisco 96264 (You APO specialists out there will know what base that is. I don’t.); Marke GIBSON from Reese to San Antonio; Steve FIKAR from Minot to Fort Worth; and Nevin SMITH from APO NY 09130 to Alexandria, MN.

As you can see, the change of addresses are pretty dry so next time you send one to the AOG write a short note on it so I can include it in the Class News.

Well, that’s it. Note the slight correction on my address and home phone number and start those cards and letters coming.

Hope the holiday season was great. It was especially great for Julie and I here in England. Hog drivers here at RAF Bentwaters wish all a prosperous new year. Bob and Liz SWAIN spent their holidays in the states. Bob was flying with the Louisiana Reserves imparting his European tactics to the Reserve folks. Jim (Kit) BARRON visited with Larry HOFFMAN who flew his KC-135 in from Blytheville. Ted DUDLEY was preparing for his three-week TDY to Eglin coming up in January. Frank SNYDER went home for the holidays leaving his 15 girlfriends weeping. Jim O’NEIL had a happy new year as always.

Bobby SWAIN had the dubious distinction of showing the warthog to Charles, the Prince of Wales, during a recent airshow. Too bad a little royalty didn’t rub off on Bobby!

By now most of you literary geniuses have figured that I have not been to SOS, and furthermore have not attended law school like some of our contemporaries. Speaking of lawyers, Mike VANHOOMISSEN is just finishing his bar exams. Congrats. Also, that man with the million-dollar smile is dating an ’80 grad who is stationed in Boston. (I’m not allowed to divulge her name. Mike sent me a nice Christmas present.) Another lawyer-to-be, Ken MATTERN, is attending Duke full time. Must be nice. All I get to do is drop bombs and shoot tanks.

On another TDY (You think I’m TDY a lot, just ask Julie!) I bumped into Don MCCHESNEY, Pat DAVIS, Ron LONG, and Pete BERGAMINI at RAF Mildenhall. There we proceeded to drink, reminisce, drink, reminisce, and drink. All are doing well and are quite happy in their respective trash haulers. Other MAC folks that I have stumbled over at various European “O” Clubs are Tony BONUTTI, P. J. WEAVER, and Steve WEART.

During recent exercises in Germany, Burt COONS was throwing his pink little body at the ground. Burt is a jump FAC stationed at Shaw and is assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division! Burt revealed that the way the Army does things is not the way they show it on the TV commercials. Burt came over to Germany on a nine-hour flight from the states and made his heroic assault on the German plain at night! To make matters worse, while Burt was on the ground, another C-141 overflew the drop zone and dumped jeeps and other heavy equipment on top of the troops! Be all you can be Burt. Airborne!

Since my last composition (Julie called it something different!) I have received numerous letters. (Actually I received only three and one was from VANHOOMISSEN telling about his bar exam and love affair with Jan Knocke. .Ooops, I wasn’t supposed to say anything about her!) Anyway, Keith KRIES writes that Brad and Anne SCHMIDT are elated about their first child, Jennifer. Congrats. Also, during Exercise Team Spirit, Keith met up with many ’79ers including Jerry (Debbie) MASONIS (C-5, Travis), Don LUSTIG (C-141, McChord), Mark (Vickie) HILBURN, and Hugh (Sandy) HUTCHISON (F-16, Kunsan).

Keith, along with Mike HEABERLIN, Rick WYATT, Dave LONCZAK, Tony HANEY, and Sam KINARD are C-141 drivers stationed at Norton.

Other correspondence came from Dan BOYLEN. The earth-shattering news was revealed that Charlie WADDELL is getting married this spring. His bride-to-be, Kellie, is a T-39 pilot out of Norton. (Charlie was her instructor at Willie.) I knew Charlie would do anything to get into MAC! This episode would made a good soap opera! A major earthquake erupted when Dan revealed that he was dating only four girls at a time instead of his usual 17.

Tom FLEMING and Don PALANDECH write from Ramstein telling the adventures of Russ (Kay) ROSEBUSH’S exploits back at Willie. Also, Tom sees Dale CARLEY (C-141, Charleston) at Ramstein occasionally. Tom keeps in touch regularly with Carl (Connie) BYERS and Bruce (Anna) HOLBROOK (B-52, Barksdale), Dave (Mary Kay) KIMMEL (B-52, Ellsworth), Scott (Cindy) HAY (B-52, Grand Forks), Phil (Mary) KELLERHALS (T-38, Columbus), John (Kathy) MICALIZZI (MX missiles, Norton), and Tim (Julie) AYERS (RF-4, Bergstrom watch out for Walt DAVIS).

Guy WILLS informs me that he and Steve SPENCE are guarding the Nebraska cornfields. Guy writes that Ron (Yvonne) GRAY and Bill (Chris) REW are busy at Nellis in the electric jet. Lindsey PARDUN and Harry COLLINS are flying in the RC-135 out of Offutt. Tom FERNANDEZ is playing grunt at Ft. Bragg, NC. Ted MINKINOW, Don SCHERBINSKE, and Jimmy SCHNELLER are flying their bus jets (T-39s) all over the country. Bruce REMBER, Rob GAYLORD, Jeff (Pam) LIEDERBACK, Bubba BAUMGARTNER, and John PIRiBECK are enjoying the Mississippi winter at Columbus instructing future ham fists.

PRINCELY VISIT. His Royal Highness Prince Charles discusses the A-10 Thunderbolt aircraft with 1st Lt. Bob Swain, 81st Equipment Maintenance Squadron. The prince paid a visit to RAF Mildenhall recently to dedicate new stained glass windows at the base chapel. (Photo by MSgt. Horace Mullin from the RAF Bentwaters newspaper, Forum.)

I was TDY recently to RAF Lakenheath. There I ran into Mike ASHLEY who informed me about his new baby girl, Jessica. Diana, his wife, was having a great time in the hospital because the delivery date was the same time as when Prince William was born. Mike exclaimed that his Diana had a baby girl because he was a fighter pilot, not a prince. (Funny Mike, I thought F-l 11 types were bomber pilots!) Other F-l 11 jocks stationed at England are Mark (Nancy) CUTKOMP, Ed ZANOWICZ, Tom YANNI, Jay SNYDER, Ed WILSON, Avyn YATA, and Gary PICKETT.

Mark (Les) NEICE unthawed his fingers to drop me a line. Horse, along with Jeff ROBERTSON, Steve STUBBS, Mike MURAKAMI, Rick NEWMAN, Mike (Sam) FREY, and Gary BUSH are copiloting KC-135s at K.I. Sawyer. The buff drivers at K.I. include Gerry (Judy) SMITH, Steve SCHMIDT, Marty SCHMIDT, Dave GIBBS, Steve (Carol) BOYKIN, and EWO John MORGAN. George (Lori) MCBRIDE is busy in CE keeping the runway clear.

Mike ROLLER and Omar (Patti) BRADLEY paid me a visit while on a cross-country from Spangdahlem AB, Germany. Rollo, Omar and myself partied heartily as expected. Omar related that his career is golden after Patti was rescued from Spanish officials by the U.S. ambassador for trying to enter the country without her passport. Passport Patti loves the visibility for her striving husband. Visibility is where it’s at! Ask Tommy WINGO. After spending a night as the guest of the Turkish government, Tom was one lieutenant to be asked to stick around and fly the F-16 at Torrejon. Congrats, Tommy.

If visibility is the key, I feel sorry for Freddy (Laura) LANKFORD. Poor Fred has such a hard time seeing in the morning after one of those nights. Scotty (Debbie) JENSEN has no problems with visibility. Scotty keeps his sunglasses handy at all times. After Scott’s star performance on the recent “Air Force Now” film, Scott has changed his address, his phone number, and has declined all offers to do Lite Beer commercials. Scott has changed his tactical call sign from Star to Hollywood.

Mike BEIL was recently seen in England buying motorized pram(s). Janae is or was expecting twins on Christmas Day! Just received a Christmas letter from Munchkin HALVORSEN (Pam and Steve’s cocker spaniel). He writes love and kisses and that Pam and Steve are doing great at Andrews AFB. Steve is another bus-jet pilot!

In closing I would like to say hi to all who write and never get anything in return. As you can tell, this is my yearly chance to get under ’79ers skins. Hopefully, this pack of lies will be taken in jest. Jim Reagen will be the guest writer next issue. Drop him a line at: 5501 Page, Wichita Falls, TX 76306. Until next year, I’ll be checking six. (Paul BISHOP, you better start checking six.)

And in the Year of Our Lord 1982, Christmas came to Enid. Fortunately, there were no shortages of mangers, cattle, hay, and the associated farm equipment. However, our efforts to find a few wise men were in vain. On any clear night this season, the bright star over Enid will lead you to the grain storage elevators where last summer’s wheat is being prepared to build obese bodies 13 ways.

Locally, Frank BUNTING is preparing to tie the knot with Cinda Hill (good looking, and smarter than Frank), and both the NEUENSWANDER and GOLOB families are expecting little pitter patters and mass quantities of dirty diapers in the near future. Letters poured in from all over the country for this issue, and since 1 am not sure where to begin, I will just wing it.

Kathy CONLEY wrote from Willie where she just graduated from UPT, and she got a C-141 to Norton. George HEPT was in the class ahead of her, and is to be a T-38 IP at Willie. Chris MILLER and Mark GRAPER are in the T-37 at Willie after spending several years in the throes of academia. John GREEN and Steve MOORE both wrote from Eglin and sent with their letters masses of information. Steve is developing a hydraulic bomb rack and likes it because no one tells him what to do. Steve SCHUCH married Donna and is flying KC-135s at Fairchild.

Pam SIMONITSCH married Todd CARRILLO (’78) and some day they may live together at Willie. Scott TRIMBOLI and Tom BROE (with the help of their wives) are soon to be fathers. Tom just earned himself and his unit one big attaboy; keep up the good work. Chuck WOLFE married a nurse and now laughs all the way to the bank. Most of these guys down at Eglin including Duke DUFRESNE are working on MBA’s at the University of West Florida. Keith YOCKEY is managing a multimillion-dollar F-16 project, and certain individuals have asked if he is so good with money, why does he drive a ’65 VW called “Black Death?”

Bobby YOUNG is rumored to be getting serious with the wildlife at Columbus, or is it the other way around? Let me apologize Bob, the letter said you were giving up the wild life and getting serious with a nice young lady. John FRITZ is getting a lot of flying time in the back seat of his RF-4. He says that he’s cheap but not easy. Jim RIGGINS has finished his MS at AFIT in laser optics and is now at Eglin. John GREENE won’t be single much longer, since Tamie will put the ring through his nose in April (it doesn’t hurt too bad). Mary LADEMAN is protecting our northern flank at Thule, Greenland. Jamie SAIVES is working for TAWC and jumping out of airplanes on the side. Kurt YOST is about to tie the knot with an ’81 or ’82 grad at Gunter AFS.

Tom SANDERS is at AFIT working on a master’s in something. Rudy BLAZICKO is working on AIM-9s at Eglin and playing volleyball. He hopes to try out for the Olympic Men’s Volleyball Team this year. Paul McDANIEL is still “obscure” in his words, and navigating C-130s around. Gwen KNUCKLES is in her third year of med school and enjoys delivering babies (looking for a job in March, Gwen?). Nancy BERGER is now a missile instructor at McConnell. Dave BRITTON dropped into Vance cross-country with Bret LUEDKE. Scott CARROTHERS is flying C-130s in Japan and sent all his Christmas cards in Japanese. George and Nadine MADSON are also expecting a little one this spring.

Tom SLOAN came through Vance to see his older brother, Shaun, get married and he had some information from back east where he flies C141s at McGuire. Rich CRANDALL and Rick ASHLEY are both in F-llls at RAF Lakenheath. Russ SINGLETON likes flying HC-130s in Alaska so much that he extended. Bob COOPER and his wife had child number two recently. Mark LINDSTROM is flying F-4s in Europe and was observed by one of my sources to change back into his flight suit from civvies in order to go to the bar at the Ramstein.

Mikey CARLSON is in Korea flying F-4s. Doug HARRINGTON is also flying C141s, and running up large phone bills calling Miss Alabama. Tell Phoebe we said hi, Doug. Andy AKELMAN has some skate job at Hanscom and enjoys doing very little. Lisa LAMBERT is in Incirlik, Turkey, working in the comm sq. Lenora WONG sent me a nice Christmas card and wished every one a nice Christmas. Thanks, Lenora. Phil RUHLMAN sent a letter from Panama where he is flying 0-2s with Ali FROHLICH, Steve SALECK (Allene), soon-to-be-married Mike LOFTUS, and UH-1 pilots Vince NULK and Tracey GOETZ.

Finally, my old pal Scott WIEBE wrote from Mather where he is flying tanks. With him is Mark PRATER and Brian TIGHE who are flying buffs in the bomb squadron. Curt LANZEL and Daryll KEELING are T-37 instructors in nav school. Zen GOC is flying 135s out of Castle and apparently Zen and Scott are not getting a lot of flying. Sal SALAZAR is flying C-141s out of Norton and Scott and Sal had a good time when they met on Guam. At McClellan AFB, Robbie ROBINSON and Mike FORTSON seem to be getting along OK. Robbie is flying HC-130s.

Some other people have stopped through and written, but I am over my limit now. I wish every one of you a happy new year, and God bless. Keep those cards and letters coming and if you don’t like my writing let me know and I will consider that your application for this job. Your Falcon Buddie, Matt.

Before 1 begin with the class news, let me extend a hearty congratulations to the Falcon football team for an exemplary season and for a tremendous victory over Vanderbilt. Our Falcon buddies certainly made the college football crowd sit up and take notice this year. I hope this is a first of many more good seasons to come.

You’re going to find this article to be very short because I didn’t receive very much newsworthy information from anyone. I really had to go digging this time and didn’t scrounge up very much. 1 am guessing that since most of you are presently in a transition stage from UPT to your first permanent duty assignment, you haven’t had time to settle down, much less drop me a line.

As you can see by my new address, 1 too have recently moved. I’m now stationed at Wiesbaden, Germany (Lindsey AS) as the commander of Detachment 1, 6910 Electronic Security Wing. No, it has nothing to do with security police. The job was a surprise to me, but there was no way 1 was going to turn down an offer of a commander’s job. Although I have only been on the job for less than a week, I’m quickly learning that being a commander is no easy task. Do you know what it’s like to drink from a fire hydrant, juggle twenty fiery pins, or dodge darts? Just become a commander, and you’ll know. I wouldn’t trade it for anything in the world though.

I just completed a grand three-week vacation to Philadelphia, Denver, San Francisco, and Berlin, and I talked to a couple of our classmates along the way. When 1 was in Berlin for New Year’s, I looked up Kevin and Susie NEUMANN. Kevin is a flight commander at the 6912 Electronic Security Group. He and Susie are doing great and even have a new addition to the family. No, they don’t have a kid yet they have a cute little cocker spaniel named Oppie.

While 1 was home in Philly, I got a telephone call from Robin GAETA who recently completed UPT at Sheppard AFB. Robin is now at fighterlead-in traning and will be going to RAF Bentwaters to fly A-lOs. For those of you from CS-11, I’ll give the Gator some massive torsion when I see him in Europe this summer. When I was in San Francisco for my former girlfriend’s wedding (not to me), I saw Jill RIDER (’82) who had some good news to report about Marty FRANCE and Maryon (WHITENER) BAUMGARTNER at Kirtland. She said that Marty is taking names and Maryon is also doing extremely well. She was recently selected as the junior officer of the quarter. For some reason, it sounds

like I already talked about Maryon’s achievement in an earlier article. ‘Sorry if I’m writing repeats, but I’m sure Maryon doesn’t mind.

Believe it or not, that’s all the good news 1 could scrounge up on ’81ers this time. As soon as you all get settled, please drop me a line, especially you, Jeff HARRELL. Also, send me your address, Nancy BRUNKOW, so 1 can mail your German dictionary back to you.

I unfortunately have to end this article with sorrowful news. On December 16, 1982 our classmate Scott A. Semmel, CS-19, died in a B-52 crash near Mather AFB. Scott, who was the student copilot for the training mission, was one of nine Air Force aviators who perished in the accident. Scott typified the ideals that many of us spend a lifetime trying to achieve. He was dedicated, hardworking, patriotic, compassionate, sensitive, and fun-loving. Equally important, he was a fellow cadet, grad, and officer. Scott, as we said to Jay Lequar, you’re “Gone But Not Forgotten.” Your enthusiastic spirit lives on in every aviator who takes to the skies.

Jim Ratti

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Columbus, MS 39701

Home: (601) 328-3512

Work: (601) 434-7106

Greetings once more from Columbus, where Tweets screech in all sorts of weather. You at Willy can eat your hearts out. We in Mississippi don’t have to pretend that we fly jets through clouds! Sometimes though, when the soup gets low, all the sitting on the ground brings back “fond” memories of T-41 at the zoo.

Quite happily, I actually have a mail bag to dip into for some news this time. It’s only about the size of a zip-loc sandwich bag, but it’s a start!

Let’s see...

First thing is a whole boatload of change-of-address cards. Glen MURPHY is an “information management system manager” at Vandenburg (Department of Redundancy Department?). Dave LEVY says his present job is being a student at M.I.T. Manny GUERRERO and Cliff HINDMAN sent cards from here at Columbus. I heard Manny had some trou-

Kay GROSINSKI will take off for Rhein Main, and Viv VANUSKA got a ticket for Ramstein. Other overseas tours include Ramona LEYDEN to Torrejon, Spain; Greg McKEE to RAF Bentwaters; Dave PISTILLI to Lindsey Air Station, Germany; Donna GLANCEY to Oldendorf, Germany; and Cindy DIEHL to Mildenhall, England. Faith INTERRANTE will be near her future husband, Dave FADOK. She’s going to Alconbury, England, and he’s over there pursuing higher education via a Rhodes at Oxford. Kris told me of some engineers at Keesler who all got tours at Wright-Pat. They include Mark CREWS, Glen PAYNE, Stan FLEMING (all married) and Mike GRIFFIN. Thanks, Kris, for a very informative letter. Do it again!

Steve TOLDY says all is “fast-neat-average” at Willy. Marshall BRONSTON set up a birthday party complete with strippers for members of his flight, and Will HAAS decided to go so far as to get pneumonia in order to delay his mid-phase check until after the holidays. Rumor has it that Lyn SOUTH and Carol KEETON have a huge bearskin on their apartment wall. Most people put ’em in front of the fireplace, ladies!

I have a request for any of you in training, be it VPT, UNT, tech school or whatever. When your classes graduate, please send me a list of assignments. I’ll be sure to post them here. Also, please send a change-ofaddress card to the AOG. Not only will I include the new duty station here, but it will insure that Checkpoints and other AOG mailings go directly to you. When you write to me with news, enclose pictures, too. The editor loves to fill pages with snapshots!

Finally, any of you who ordered recordings of the Catholic Choir will be glad to know you can claim your records by calling or writing to Mr. “L” with an address. Jim DINEEN please write to ME, since I was sent your records by mistake. I’ll gladly forward them to you, wherever you are.

Congratulations to our classmates who graduated in December to inelude Howard DAVIS Jr., James GALBRAITH, Johnny JACKSON, George JAMES III, Richard LUND, John MASON Jr., Timothy PERRY, Richard QUINLAN, and Anthony RINO. Also Rodney SINGLETERY, Timothy TALBOT, Deborah WARNEKING, Preston WELLS III, Powell WILSON, Steven WEST, John YOUNG, and Mary STEVENSON.

Many thanks to all of you who wrote or called with news. Keep me posted as things develop. Happy New Year!

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Leona Flores has agreed to be our project manager for the 1983 State of the Wing Dinner on the 22nd of April. The speaker will be the commandant of cadets, Brig. Gen. Tony Burshnick. Chris Carson has volunteered to be her backup person and fly top cover. If you plan to be in Dayton on April 22, please call Leona at Autovon 785-3922 for further information and tickets.

Later in the spring at a date still to be set, USAFA will take its turn at hosting a tri-service academy luncheon. The original reason for having these affairs was to give USAFA’s youngsters a chance to mingle socially with senior officers from USMA and USNA. However, if LaPlante and Yates continue moving at their present pace, we may very well soon start providing our own slate of senior officers in addition to the people from our sister schools. Tim Westover is pulling together the pieces for this one, with Harry Allen as backup.

This year we are going to try something new. Our present thinking is to sponsor a picnic, perhaps in August. Chuck Daley is doing the staff work for this project.

We have a reasonably active year planned, with these as the highlight events. Leona is to be especially commended for taking on the challenge of the State of the Wing Dinner. Equal honors go to Rod Wilkinson, for the difficult, continuing job of setting up, automating, and maintaining records of our membership roster. Special thanks to both of you. (By Theurer, ’61)

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