Checkpoints March 1987

Security As Mighty As The Mountains

Quality life insurance means PEACE OF MIND! And now, members of the Association of Graduates may apply for valuable life protection at economical group rates.

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This coverage features abuilt-in WAIVER OF PREMIUM benefit (which will keep your protection intact if you become disabled and can't pay your premiums) and an optional CHILDREN'S INSURANCE which both you and your spouse may apply for to cover the lives of your children.

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’67

CJYoos II ’68 (Secretary)

RBManning ’71 WERichardson ’71

To Serve Until 1June 1987

ABOUT OUR COVER

The Class of 1961 dedicated it’s 25-year gift to the Academy, a landscaped overlook with plaque and benches, during their re¬ union this past October. The overlook provides an excellent view of the Academy terrazzo area and chapel from the new pathway which connects the visitors center with the Cadet Chapel. The photograph is by Mr. Bill Madsen of the Academy’s Public Af¬ fairs Office. For more photographs and information on the Class of 1961 25-year reunion see the ’61 Class News article beginning on page 32.

CHECKPOINTS is published in February, May, August and November by the Association of Graduates, USAF Academy, Colo. 80840 (Phone: 303-472-2067) and printed by Graphic Services of Colorado Springs, Colo. It is provided as part of an annual membership package which costs $25. Second-class postage paid at the USAF Academy, Colo. 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 1986-87.

ISSN 0274-7391

POSTMASTER: If this magaiine is addressed to amember of the Military Service, no postage Is necessary for forwarding (see Postal Manual, Section 158.4). If no forwarding address for this military member is available, send Form 3579 to Association of Graduates, USAF Academy, Colo. 80840-5000.

ATTENTION IN THE AREA

Dues Reminder Mailing Change. In the past, the association has sent out annual dues reminders afew weeks after the fi nal magazine of amember’s annual membership was mailed. This allowed enough time (approximately 60 days) for the member to renew before the next magazine was mailed so the member would not miss apublication. However, because of the association’s USAA Group Life Insurance Plan, annual membership renewals will now be mailed approximately 30 days prior to amember’s ex¬ piration date. The reason for this change is that membership in the AOG must be continuous for those individuals enrolled in the group life insurance plan.

Returned Check Fee. Because of adramatic increase in the number of checks returned for insuf fi cient funds, the Association of Graduates has implemented a$10 fee for each returned check. Effective immediately, this policy will apply to bad checks written for deposit to the AOG, AFA Fund, class treasuries, memorial funds, and other accounts administered by the association.

Life Memberships Available. Many of our former annual mem¬ bers have taken advantage of the new life membership program established by the AOG in 1984. Life memberships offer the ad¬ vantage of guaranteed continuous membership with all benefits, locks in the total cost regardless of future inflation and is hassle free. For graduates 49 years old or younger, life memberships are available for $550 in one payment, or for an initial payment of $290 followed by payments amounting to another $290 within one year of the initial payment. For graduates 50 or over, the cost is $420 in one payment or an initial payment of $225 with payments totaling an additional $225 due within one year. The additional cost for the payment plan makes up for income lost from not hav¬ ing received the entire fee up front. Life memberships are available to both graduate and associate members. Joint life memberships are also available for married couples. Please write us for information on joint life membership if you are interested.

Biographical Data Form Return Date Change. Because the assoc¬ iation has run into problems in past years in its effort to have the Register of Graduates delivered to the membership in time for Christmas card addresses, we have moved up the deadline for returning the biographical data form from Aug. 1to July 1. Biographical data forms will be mailed to the membership in March. We understand that moving the deadline to July 1may miss afew summer assignments but we feel that getting the book to the membership in early December is more important. We have also been asked why some members receive aRegister at their cur¬ rent address when an old address is listed in the book. The reason for this is that we send the biographical data computer tapes to our printers some 60 days prior to the date the Register is mailed. If you update your address with the association during this 60-day period, your mailing label will reflect your new address but your address on the computer tape provided to the printer (and in the Register) will reflect the old one.

CORRECTIONS

On page 31 of our last issue we published aphotograph of the superintendent with members of the West Point Class of 1950 at their reunion last September. The number attending the reunion should have read 140 instead of 40.

On page 7of the same issue we ran our statement of ownership, management and circulation. The figures at the bottom of that form were listed in the “Return from News Agents” column and should have in the bottom boxes under “Total.”

1955-’56 Contrails for Sale. Anyone interested in purchasing a 1955-’56 copy of Contrails in perfect collector condition can con¬ tact W. B. Hoffman, 230 Chinook Dr., Placentia, Calif. 92670. Overseas DoD School Alumni Sought. Acentral registration system has been established for former students of overseas American high schools operated by the Department of Defense and the State Department. This one-year-old, computer-based system called OSCAR (Overseas Schools Combined Alumni Registry) is the core of anew alumni network whose sole purpose is to relocate these students for high school reunions. If you ever attended an Army, Navy, Air Force or State Department junior or senior high school overseas, OSCAR wants you. Please register with OSCAR by providing your name (maiden name if ap¬ plicable), name of the school and years you attended, your graduating class, as well as your current address and telephone number to OSCAR, P.O. Box 7763, Washington, D.C. 20044.

GRADUATES SELECTED FOR MAJOR (Regular Air Force)

Secondary Zone Selectees

1977

Berdahl, Carl H.

Betts, John M.

Burke, John L. Ill

Christ, John H.

Edgington, David M.

Eresman, Raymond S.

tanning, Stephen L.

Lindsley, Marc H.

Mahar, Michael T.

O’Malley, John D.

Opel, Stephen W.

Perodeau, Mark D.

Perraut, Richard E. Jr.

Quelly, Thomas J.

Remington, Jeffrey A.

Remkes, Robertus C. N.

Rohlman, William H.

Schutt, Paul E.

Shackelford, Mark D.

Sheen, Raymond L.

Wales, Harman K.

Wallace, Frank L.

Wesolowski, Robert A.

1978

Burg, Roger W.

Clark, Michael R.

Eidsaune, David W.

Eulberg, Delwyn R.

Fennessy, Michael P.

Frith, Gary A.

Garn, James E.

Harper, Donald M.

James, Larry D.

McAdams, Robert C.

Mitchell, Michael J.

Neubauer, John AIII

Newton, Richard Y. Ill

Owen, Thomas J.

Puhek, James

Rogers, Shelley S.

Sabol, Marshall K.

Snyder, David M.

Speziale, Salvatore

Strom, Randie A.

Temple, David J.

Therrien, Sam C.

Umberger, William M. Jr.

Worley, Robert MII

1979

Bunce, Peter J.

Edmonds, David K.

Fyda, Timothy J.

McCasland, William N.

Pool, James H.

Salvador, John A.

Air Force Academy Fund Maturing

By R. Allan Jensen, ’74

Member, AOG Board of Directors/Finance Division Chief

When the Air Force Academy (AFA) Fund, often referred to as the annual fund, was instituted by the AOG board of directors in 1982, the desire to raise aspecial capital fund to provide monies in support of the Academy and its graduates was both inspired and dwarfed by the examples of our sister academies. (West Point and Annapolis raise between $800,000 and $1,300,000 in their capital campaigns each year!) Nursed along by the dedication of A1 Blumberg, ’68, in the early going, the first fund accumulated about $30,000, from which we purchased an aircraft for the Cadet Competition Flying Team. The second campaign raised about $60,000, the third about $80,000, and last year we broke the “sound barrier” with $130,000. Last year’s success demonstrates the potential of the AFA Fund and opens new doorways for the AOG in its drive to provide service to our graduates and support for the Academy.

Before detailing how the 1985-’86 campaign total is to be spent, it is bene fi cial to understand how the association has begun to “flesh” out financially and the role the AFA Fund plays in this effort. The greatest reality faced by the AOG is the rapidly grow¬ ing graduate population. The examples of Army and Navy tend to indicate that our living graduate community will stabilize some¬ where in the 30,000 to 35,000 range. The association is not too many years from that statistical level. The varying degrees of ser¬ vice necessary for graduates, cadets, the Academy staff, cadet and graduate parents, and other friends of the Academy will also increase the burden on the association in the years ahead (the record-keeping task alone is awesome).

In 1982, the AOG began aplanned expansion in staff, services and support. The hiring of Dick Coppock, ’61, in 1983 as our first single-hat executive director was aformal acknowledgement of this maturation process. Recognizing the future need for substan¬ tially greater office space than was available in Academyprovided facilities, the board of directors began to plan aseparate building on the USAFA grounds. Adirector of development. Chuck Gaasch, was hired to coordinate fund raising for this structure, as well as to establish the basis for the planned giving programs and endowments which will become the major asset base for the association in the future. Indeed, the creation and success of the AFA Fund, in addition to its primary capital pur¬ poses, serve to demonstrate the fund-raising abilities of the AOG and provide the experience necessary for other capital campaigns. Lastly, the new life membership and life-membership-atgraduation programs, set up in 1984, will secure the future opera¬ tional health of the association.

Within thit context, the AFA Fund has developed to the point where several diverse giving programs are possible. In November, the board of directors approved afull menu of uses for the $130,000 donated to the fund. The following is abreakout:

Total giving (year end 9-30-86):

Total expenses:

Restricted gifts:

are

The restricted monies were raised by the Class of ’61 in con¬ junction with its 25lh reunion and were used to pay for the new visitors center pathway overlook. It should be noted that expenses typically high in the formative years of acapital campaign, and should be expected to decline as aproportion of total funds raised, in the out-years. Indeed, we have begun to see this happen with the ’86-’87 fund campaign.

The board agreed to amulti-year funding program with an in¬ itial commitment of $20,000 from the 1985-’86 Fund to purchase three sailplanes to be used in advanced soaring programs. This purchase was identified as atop priority by the superintendent and the AOG was able to negotiate an attractive purchase pack-

age with the seller. The aircraft have been delivered and will be flown with special AOG call signs and markings. This allocation serves several AFA Fund policies quite well, including graduatecadet linkages, recognizable support for the Academy, exposure to alarge number of cadets, and is an enhancement of an existing program. The AFA Fund policy of 1985 specifically permits multi-year programming of monies, and this allocation demonstrates how strong the fund can be in providing leverage, particularly with matching funds.

The board also approved amajor purchase of the Lance Sijan book. Into the Mouth of the Cat. This program has, for the last two years, provided copies of the book to the entering doolie class. The new program will include acustomized AOG cover and will permit this early AOG contact program to continue unabated for several years to come. An AOG spokesman addresses an assembly of the fourth classmen when the books are distributed, creating afirm linkage between the graduate body and the Cadet Wing.

The board also decided to endow $12,500 for afund for graduate dependent scholarships. This is anew program and was approved for multi-year funding. The goal will be to attain $100,000 in an endowment, the proceeds of which will be used to fund acompetitive scholarship program for dependents of graduates. Even though the initial endowment will provide only minor funding in the first few years, the longer-term potential is significant. The first award of $1,000 -$1,500 will be available for the 1988-89 school year. Acommittee of the board is now work¬ ing on specifications and requirements, to be published in afuture issue of Checkpoints.

This year marks the third time that the AOG will support the Engineering 430 Handicapped Projects course with agrant of $5,000. Cadets in this program develop, construct and donate to local institutions equipment that benefits the handicapped. Even though the financial aspects of the program are modest, the bene fi ts are substantive.

Once again the board has approved funding for the Cadet Leadership Enrichment Seminars (CLES) in the amount of $8,500. The seminars have earned high praise from Academy staff and cadet participants alike. The AOG completely underwrites the cost of these programs, which will be held in the 1987-88 school year. Presently, the AOG and others are working on aper¬ manent endowment of the CLES program.

The association also allocated $5,000 toward the purchase of Ski Broadmoor by the City of Colorado Springs. This contribu¬ tion not only served to enhance community relations but also resulted in lifetime ski passes for use by the Academy Ski Team and Ski Club. The ski team, in particular, will benefit by being able to practice five days aweek at asite close to the Academy.

The remaining monies will be used to augment the Cadet Discretionary Fund and for possible purchase of computer soft¬ ware to support the AFA Fund.

The good news for the future is that updated campaign tech¬ niques will allow even more significant fund raising, enabling broader accomplishment of association goals. Our primary objec¬ tives with the fund will be to increase graduate participation (cur¬ rently about six percent, compared to 22-23 percent at Navy and West Point) and the average donor contribution. Many programs remain out of our current financial reach, but the growth of fund donations speaks well for the future.

Ishould close by thanking each and every one of you who has contributed to the AFA Fund, on behalf of the AOG, the Academy and our graduates. The success of the program is yours —you should feel great pride in your efforts!

One of the greatest investments you will ever make is the sale or purchase of your home ...an investment not only in terms of your fi nancial resources, but also your time and energy.

Iam dedicated to personal service in helping you fi nd a home in this area, or a buyer who qualifies to purchase your present home.

As along-time Air Force wife, Iunderstand your special needs and concerns, and will do all Ican to make your home buying an efficient, profitable and enjoyable experience.

Sincerely,

USAFA Class Participation (Final)

1985-86 AFA Fund

●Includes donations to 25th Anniversary Class Gift.

The Top Five Classes

(Note: The percent of donors is calculated by dividing the number of gifts by the number of living alumni. Totals include gifts received between July I 1985 and September 30, 1986. Gifts received after this date will be listed in afuture magazine.)

Matching Fund Contributions

The

Eaton

General

General

The

Grumman

Hallmark

Sanders

Santa

Shell Companies Foundation

Smiihkline Beckman Foundation

Southern Company Services

Sperry Corporation Foundation

Stearns Catalytic

Slone &Webster,

Siorer

Sundstrand Corporation Foundation

Transamerica

TRW

Union Carbide Corporation

United

Wisconsin

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Mr

Col

Mr

Lt

Col

Col

Col

Col Terry CIsaacson

Mr Donald MKingsley

Mr Richard SRitchie

Maj (Ret) Henry AStevens

Mr

Maj Clyde SCherry,

Maj

Mr

Maj

Maj John RBugner

Mr Ronald EJoy

Mr Robert KLivingston

Maj Paul EMcKay

Lt Col Gary EPayton

Mr George CSchultz

(Continued on page II.)

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AOG &USAFA Gift Merchandise

Qty. FINE ART PRINTS

Qty. MUGS &CUPS

Small mugs (blue) Coffee cups (white)

ACCESSORIES

USAFA silk tie (blue or garnet)

USAFA blazer patch AOG blazer patch

JEWELRY (V*" sterling silver by Jostens)

AOG charm

AOG tie tack

LANCE SIJAN BOOK

25TH ANNIVERSARY BOOK

(260 pages, 9x12" hardbound pictorial history of Academy)

$6.00 $4.00 $7.00

$60.00

$70.00

$50.00

$18.50 $25.00 $10.00 $65.00 $26.00 $26.00

$10.00

$12.50 $105.00

USAFA carafe

set

Class year

$8.50

Please send entire page to: AOG Gifts, Association of Graduates, USAFA Academy, CO 80840

Name:

Address;

City/State/Zip:

Telephone: Work: Home:

Mastercard # Exp. Date:

TOTAL ORDER

Non-AOG members please add 20%

Colo, residents add 3% sales tax

TOTAL ENCLOSED

INroiHEMQIini OF THE CAT

The Story of Lance Sijan. Hereof Vietn?

aAOG OFFERS SPECIAL PRICES

This stirring book about the first Air Force Academy graduate to be awarded the Medal of Flonor is "the most vividly written story of raw heroism that Ihave ever read" (Jules Bergman, ABC News] and "the fi nest true story, not only of the Vietnam era, but...of World War II, World War 1, and the Civil War."fC/enn L. Nordin, Colonel, USAF, Ret.)

Bookstore Price: $13.95

AOG Prices (including mailing): Members —$10.00 Nonmembers —$11.85 (Colorado residents please add 3% tax.)

SEND TO: Sijan Book Offer

Association of Graduates USAF Academy, CO 80840

Senator Barry Goldwater in arecent letter to the president of the AOG, wrote:

"You may use any words of mine you wish but Iwould like to say this about the quality and excellence of the book, 'Into the Mouth of the Cat' Reading it, one becomes almost unable to believe that aman can have such dedication and loyalty to his country as to put his body through the tortures he did in prevailing upon the teachings and inborn instincts of that honor and dedication."

THIS BOOK IS A''MUST" FOR YOUR PERSONAL LIBRARY!

1986-87 Fund donors: (Continued from page 13.)

Mr &Mrs Leonard WLindh

Col &Mrs Eric Linhof

Mr &Mrs Edward Lombard (S)

Mr &Mrs James BLorenz

Mr &Mrs James Lovstad

LTC (Ret) Christian JLuecke (S)

MSgt (Ret) &Mrs RC

Lyons

LTC (Ret) &Mrs GT

MacDonald

LTC (Ret) &Mrs A

MacElhaney

Col (Ret) &Mrs Leo PMackey

Mr &Mrs HDMagnuson

Col (Ret) &Mrs ACMahon (S)

Mr &Mrs Albert JMarshall (S)

MSgt (Ret) &Mrs JMateos

Mr &Mrs TRMattison

Mr &Mrs Leonard SMayer

Col& MrsTJMcAdam

Mr &Mrs John AMcAllister

Mr &Mrs Walter MMcCarthy

Col (Ret) &Mrs DSMcClellan

Mr &Mrs James WMcClure (D)

Mrs Alma McDougall

Col (Ret) &Mrs PH McFarland

Mr &Mrs Christopher

McGuire

Capt (Ret) &Mrs JM

McLaughlin

Mr &Mrs David OMeyn

Rev &Mrs Kenneth Michaelis

Mr &Mrs Edward AMiller

Dr &Mrs Gary NMock

Mr &Mrs Morgan

Mr &Mrs David Morrow, Sr (S)

Col (Ret) &. Mrs George C

Morton

Mr &Mrs Alfred EMueller

Mr &Mrs Thomas EMurphy,

Sr

Mr &Mrs William FMurray, Jr

LTC &Mrs Thomas Nalepa

Capt (Ret) &Mrs Robert

Newton

Mr &Mrs Fletcher BNichols

Mr &Mrs Wilbur CNielsen (S)

LTC (Ret) &Mrs MNovakovic

Mr &Mrs Walter HOates (D)

Mr &Mrs Ronald LOlds

Mr &Mrs Welton ROsment

Mr Harlow Osteboe

Mr &Mrs Martin Otting

SMSgi (Ret) &Mrs Jerry D

Palmore

Mr &Mrs Louis FParker

Mr &Mrs Bernard FPasko

Mrs Diana Pavloff

Mr &Mrs James Payne, Jr (S)

Mr JLeon Pennington

Mr &Mrs Paul APepe, Sr

Mrs Mary Peters

Mr &Mrs James Peterson

Mr &Mrs Dang Phan

Mr &Mrs Edward JPillar

Mr &Mrs Howard Pippel (S)

Mr &Mrs Flavil Pollock

Mr &Mrs Frank Postulka (S)

Mr &Mrs Richard Predella (D)

Mr Istvan Prileszky

Mr &Mrs Luther LQuist

MSgt &Mrs Fritz Raabe (D)

Dr &Mrs Roger Raduenz

CMSgt &Mrs Arthur M

Randlett

Col (Ret) &Mrs ERReichert (S)

Mr &Mrs Fred BReid

Mr &Mrs Harold Rengering

SMSgt (Ret) &Mrs SResnik

Mr &Mrs Rice

Mr &Mrs Charles ERickert

LTC (Ret) &Mrs Clarence E

Riggs

Mrs Camille Riley

LTC (Ret) &Mrs DLRoberts

Col &Mrs RMRobinson

Mr &Mrs John MRockman

Mr &Mrs Clifford JRodgers (S)

Mr &Mrs Juan M

Rodriguez

Miss Mary TSweeder

Mr &Mrs Bill Yuen

Mrs WCSweeney

Mr &Mrs John ASzulta, Jr

Mr &Mrs Glenn JRogers (S)

Mr &Mrs Joseph Rossillon (S)

Mr &Mrs Dale ARuddock (D)

Mr& MrsAnacletoRuiz (D)

Mr &Mrs John ERyan, Jr (S)

Mr &Mrs Eugene MSakae (D)

Dr &Mrs ERSalter

MGen &Mrs John SSamuel (D)

Mr &Mrs Thomas R Sandeen

Mr &Mrs Henry Sanders (D)

Mr &Mrs Kenneth GSanders

Mr &Mrs Richard Sather (S)

Mr &Mrs David Schlichting

LTC &Mrs James JSchnitzer

Mr &Mrs Ronald JScott

Mr &Mrs Louis PSeliquini, Sr

Ms Jane GShaffer

Ms Emily Sherman

Mr &Mrs Parker Shipley (S)

ILl (Ret) &Mrs AShrewsbury

CMSgt (Ret) James JSilva

Mr &Mrs James Simeroth

Mr &Mrs Ralph Simpson (S)

Mr &Mrs Nick Singleton (D)

Mr &Mrs Erie DSlown

Col (Ret) &Mrs KSSmith (D)

Mrs Mary WSmith

Mr &Mrs Donald Snyder

Mr &Mrs Henry MSpires (S)

Mr George Lee Stamper (S)

Mr &Mrs Ronald RStark (S)

LTC (Ret) &Mrs John BSteele

Mr Robert JStefanich

Ms Hazel BStetzler

Mr &Mrs David RStewart (D)

Mr &Mrs Laurence Stoneham

Mr &Mrs John EStory (S)

Mr &Mrs Richard RStoyle (D)

Mr &Mrs Gerald Strebel

Mrs Bonnie Studebaker (D)

SGM &Mrs Edward HSvestka

Mr &Mrs John MSwanson (D)

LTC (Ret) &Mrs DHSwanson

SMSgt (Ret) &Mrs W Swarsbrook

(S) (S) (D)

Mr &Mrs Earl LTaylor

Mr &Mrs Garth Terlizzi (D)

Mr &Mrs Frank HThomas (D)

LTC& MrsECTietz

(p)

Maj (Ret) &Mrs Thomas Tighe

Dr &Mrs Michael Tinkler (S)

Mr &Mrs August C

Torreano

Mr &Mrs Richard Torrens (S)

Mr &Mrs Harold WTremain

LTC (Ret) &Mrs LVTroiano

LTC &Mrs James Turner

Ms Janet MUmberham

LTC (Ret) &Mrs RT

Uyehaia

Mr &Mrs MJValovcin

Col &Mrs John EVanDuyn

Mrs Dolores VanRegenmortel

Capt &Mrs John VonLoh

Mr &Mrs Brent LWahlquist

Mr Don CWalker, Sr i

LTC &Mrs John MWalsh

Mr &Mrs Richard Watley

Col (Ret) &Mrs RF Watson (S)

LTC (Ret) &Mrs Jimmie Wax

Mr &Mrs Imams Wayland

Mr &Mrs Howard RWedell

Mr &Mrs Anthony J Werderiisch

Maj &Mrs Jack AWesley

Mr Frank LWessels

Mr &Mrs James DWiley

Mrs Joyce LWiley

Mr &Mrs Ross JWilson (S)

Mr &Mrs Paul Wimberley,

Donald LWise

Mr &Mrs Leonard AWissman

Mrs Gloria EWojdyla

Mr &Mrs John DWorley

Mr &Mrs BAWright

Mr &Mrs Karl GWuttke

Mr &Mrs Donald RYoho (D)

Mr& Mrs George Yoshinaga (S)

Mr &Mrs Joseph EZeis

Mr &Mrs Richard JZepf

FRIENDS

Col (Ret) Alexander DBache (S)

Maj Raymond EBacot, USAFR

Capt Lindsey EBierer 111, USAFR

Mrs Jay GBrown

Mrs George CBoudreaux

Mrs Lillian MChidlaw

Combined Federal Campaign (Arlington, VA)

Combined Federal Campaign (Riverside Area)

Mr Robert JHangliter

LTC (Ret) &Mrs James T Hargrove

Gen (Ret) &Mrs James V Hartinger

Col Brewster CHerrstrom, USAFR

Mr Michel THuber

LTC (Ret) Harold AJacobs (D)

Maj Terry WLee

MGen (Ret) &Mrs Curtis RLow

Mr &Mrs DJames Lyons II (D)

Lt Gen (Ret) TSMoorman (D)

LTC Walter HOehrlein, USAFR

Mr John PPedjoe

Pikes Peak United Way

LTC John JRogers, USAFR

Col Lawrence HRoller, USAFR

MGen (Ret) &Mrs MSRoth

BGen William CRoxby, Jr, USAFR

LTC RJBlack Schultz, USAFR

LTC Wendell RShaffer

LTC William ASmith, USAFR

Maj. Larry E. Faber, ’73, second from right, accepts the 1986 Jabara Award for Airmanship at Homecoming ’86 last Septem¬ ber. From left are Maj. Gen. Robert D. Beckel, ’59, SAC Chief of Staff; Lt. Gen. Winfield W. Scott, Jr., superintendent; Major Faber, and Jock C. H. Schwank, president of the Association of Graduates. Major Faber was the SAC nominee. (U.S. Air Force photo

IThe AOG Expresses Thanks

For many years the Air Academy National Bank cosponsored and provided funds for the reception prior to the Jabara Banquet at Homecoming. Homecoming ’86 was no exception. From left are Ms. Dottie Endsley, bank vice president; Jock C. H. Schwank, AOG president; Ms. Sue Heinig, loan supervisor; Mrs. James T. Hargrove; Lt. Col. James T. Hargrove, USAF (Ret), executive vice president; Mrs. Edna Littrell; and Mr. Harold U.

president-chairman of the board. Our sincere thanks to the staff of the Air Academy National Bank for their continued support of AOG programs. (U.S. Air Force photo by SrA Daryl R. Pagel)

Grad Named to Post

John M. Gunyou, ’70, was recently appointed to the position of city finance officer for the City of Minneapolis, Minn. Gun¬ you, 36, is the first chief administrator of the city’s newly established Finance Department, which consolidates all budget¬ ary, program evaluation and financial management activities of city departments, independent boards and commissions.

Gunyou’s academic background includes abachelor of science degree from the United States Air Force Academy, amaster of arts from the University of California (UCLA) and amaster of public administration from the University of Colorado.

He comes to Minneapolis from the Denver area where he was a partner with Browne, Bortz and Coddington, an economic and financial management consulting firm which serves private in¬ dustry and local governments for financial administration, service management and strategic development planning.

Computer Science Department Accredited

By Capt Tom Mallary, ’76 Department of Computer Sciences

The Academy’s computer science curriculum is one of 22 United States college and university programs recently certified by the Computer Sciences Accreditation Board (CSAB). The 22 computer science programs are the first to be accredited by the CSAB, and the Academy’s Department of Computer Sciences was the first of these institutions visited by the board.

The accreditation process began in the spring of 1985 when the Department of Computer Sciences conducted aself-evaluation of its program using feedback from administrators, faculty members and selected students. The CSAB commission members then visited the Academy in September 1985 to perform their own in¬ vestigation.

The board based its final recommendation upon results of in¬ terviews with faculty and students, plus athorough evaluation of several factors including computer science course content and materials.

CSAB is acorporation formed by members of the Association for Computing Machinery and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers Computer Society. Established in 1984, the CSAB aims to maintain standards in four-year computer science programs which have lacked assessment by other accrediting organizations.

Three Graduates Promoted

Three graduates of the Air Force Academy have been promoted to or within the management group at Peat Marwick, the interna¬ tional public accounting firm. They are:

Philip H. Farrar, who received aB.S. in 1971.

C. William Nash, who received aB.S. in engineering in 1976. Lawrence D. Huff, who received aB.S. in engineering manage¬ ment in 1972.

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1986 Jabara Award Winner

by SrA Daryl R. Pagel)

Littrell,

Trip to ’87 Paris Air Show Planned

If you’ve always dreamed of going to the Paris Air Show, now is the opportunity you’ve been waiting for! Join Jim, ’63, and Chan Kuhn for an exciting seven days and six nights in Paris. See the internationally-renowned biannual Paris Air Show plus enjoy romantic Paris and historic Versailles with other Academy grads.

The tour includes six nights in the hotel with continental breakfast, all tax, service at hotel, round-trip transfers from Orly Airport to the hotel, all baggage and tips, half-day sightseeing of the city, half-day sightseeing of Versailles —all entrance fees and guides, at least one full day at the Air Show, plus plenty of free time for your own romantic walks, shopping, and visits to the many excellent museums.

Included also is our farewell dinner with wine and an exciting show. Plus, you’ll receive a10 percent discount card at Printemps Department Store, and much, much more.

This Air Show travel package is very special and includes en¬ trance to some of the aerospace company chalets where the com¬ panies offer an elegant table and hospitality only to you and other specially-invited guests. All of the major flight demonstrations take place within excellent viewing distance of the chalets.

We’ll depart on June 13 from our U.S.A. gateway, Dallas/Ft. Worth, on American Airlines. We arrive in Paris the next morn¬ ing and return the following Sunday, June 20. Total cost per per¬ son, double occupancy, is $1,649. Adeposit of $150 must be sub¬ mitted by March 1, 1987 with the balance due by May 1, 1987. Limited space. Call Jim or Chan Kuhn at (214) 446-1394 (work) or (214) 245-5140 (home).

Air Academy Bank Executive to Retire

Lt. Col. Hargrove

Lt. Col. James T. Hargrove, USAF (Ret), along-time friend of the Association of Graduates and apioneer of Air Academy Na¬ tional Bank, will soon retire again after more than 45 years of continuous service with and for the United States Air Force. He has been with the bank since 1967 and is the architect of the “has¬ sle free” personal service policy which has become the trademark of the on-base bank here at the Air Force Academy.

Corporate Life Members

of the Association of Graduates

USAFA

Air Academy National Bank Ampex Corporation

Boeing Aerospace Company

Continental Electronics

(Division of Varian Associates, Inc.)

Electronic Data Systems Corp.

McDonnell Douglas Corporation

The MITRE Corporation

TRW, Inc., Electronics &Defense Sector

United Services Automobile Association

Westinghouse Electric Corporation Defense &Electronic Center

Corporate life memberships are being initially offered for $2,000. With the exception of voting and holding office, mem¬ bers enjoy all privileges of regular members. For more informa¬ tion on corporate life memberships write to Charles F. Gaasch, director of development, Association of Graduates, U.S. Air Force Academy, Colo. 80840-5000. Phone; (303) 472-4513

He serves as anational director of the Association of Military Banks, an organization dedicated to serving military personnel worldwide. Although he is vacating his position as executive vice president of Air Academy National in the spring of 1987, he will remain as amember of the board of directors thus assuring that the “hassle free’’ service policy will continue.

Colonel Hargrove supports the Air Force in many meaningful ways. He is amember of the Air Force Association, the Retired Officer’s Association, the Athletic Association, and the United States Space Foundation. He is also atrustee of the Falcon Foun¬ dation. Finally, he finds it asource of pride to be alifetime associate member of the Association of Graduates.

Colonel and Mrs. Hargrove, aretired School District Twenty (Douglas Valley) elementary school teacher, reside in Colorado Springs.

USAFA PATCHES NEEDED

Cadet Firstclass Timothy J. Matson, CS-22, is currently working with Mike Sheridan, aresident of Colorado Springs, putting together ahistory and collection of Academy patches. No such history or collection exists here at this time. Their goal is to write abook about the patches. However, they need your help. Currently they have an ex¬ tensive collection of patches but many of the squadron and club patches from the 1950s, 1960s and early 1970s are dif¬ ficult to find. If any of our readers has any patches from these time periods and would like to help with this history, please write to Timothy J. Matson, P.O. Box 3598, U.S. Air Force Academy, Colo. 80841.

How It Looks From the Fifth Floor (II)

By Brig. Gen. Sam W. Westbrook III, ’63 Commandant of Cadets

Well...I’ve made It; Iam now officially the commandant of cadets at the Air Force Academy. My appointment was confirmed in the last issue of DODO. The announcement was followed by several well directed cheap shots at me and my staff. (1 hate it when the cadets hit the nail on the head!) Just for the record, those closet DODO readers among you can rest easy, Idon’t real¬ ly wear seamed panty hose. But Ido tilt at the occasional windmill and as aresult Ihave had my first nose-to-nose confrontation with “tradition.” That is what Iwould like to briefly discuss with you in this article.

Tradition lives! Commandant Westbrook inspects vice comman¬ dant Joe Coates, ’63. (U.S. Air Force photos by Bill Madsen)

In mid-October, the superintendent agreed with my proposal to eliminate individual issue of the M-1 rifle to cadets. The M-ls will not be replaced by another weapon and the cadets will no longer be required to maintain or carry rifles during the academic year. “Heresy!”, you say? Well, you’re not the only one. Ihave heard many comments and questions about the decision—most positive, some not so positive. To paraphrase agreat man, “I have met the enemy...and he is agraduate.

Let me assure you it was not adecision reached without careful thought and consideration. It wasn’t even anew idea. The sugges¬ tion to eliminate rifles has surfaced several times over the years. Each of those times the issue and use of rifles during In-RanksInspections (IRIs) and parades was thought to be atradition that should be continued at USAFA. Proponents further argued that M-1 issue, knowledge, and rifle manual teach attention to detail, weapon responsibility, and respect for equipment. In addition, there was apractical application on the Bayonet Assault Course, as well as aGod-given right to carry one on the tour pad. While many of those arguments still hold true, there was enough sup¬ port for the idea that Ifelt we should look closely at it one more time.

There were anumber of arguments for eliminating rifle issue for second, third, and fourth class cadets. First of all, the weapons were all demilitarized several years ago. Since that time, all marksmanship training has been done with the .38 and M-16, and any sense of pride, importance, security, or usefulness which the cadets associated with the M-1 rifle has steadily decreased. I feel comfortable saying that those feelings are virtually nonexis¬ tent today. While Ididn’t necessarily understand or agree with

that, Iwas forced to consider it as afactor. In the opinion of many of my staff members, having the rifle simply gathering dust in cadet rooms was actually counterproductive in terms of teaching weapon pride, security, respect, etc. Years of abuse dur¬ ing BCT had also taken their toll. Alarge percentage of the rifle bolts and trigger assemblies did not operate propertly. Since the M-1 is an old weapon we had avery difficult time getting our hands on spare parts. The lack of security awareness Imentioned above has further aggravated the problem. We have had increas¬ ing problems with rifle accountability and accidental loss. As we were forced to replace these losses, our stockpile of spares decreased correspondingly.

Historically, the rifles are used sparingly after BCT. The lack of practice results in poor rifle manual and poor appearance and proficiency during parades. Yes...please don’t all scream at once...more drill practice would fix that problem, but it would also take time away from programs which we feel are more impor¬ tant to the cadets’ development as Air Force officers, in particular our greatly expanded airmanship programs. The IRI is no longer afactor, since there has not been one during the academic year for over four years. Again, no one claims there is no benefit to be gained from an IRI, but we do feel we can put the time to better use. The bottom line of the arguments against keeping the M-ls was that rifle issue to three-fourths of the Cadet Wing is very cost¬ ly and can’t compete successfully against our newer airmanship and leadership programs in helping us achieve the goals and ob¬ jectives of the Air Force Academy.

There were myriad other factors to be considered. Most of you on active duty are trying to deal with personnel shortages. We have the same problems. The maintenance and repair for 4,000 rifles takes manpower—manpower we didn’t have and couldn’t realistically expect to reattain. It also takes money, another com¬ modity we are cutting back on. As the M-1 got older and older, the price for parts increased exponentially and the cost of pur¬ chasing anew weapon to replace it was financially prohibitive.

Dust in the barrel can ruin your Saturday afternoon. ”

Then there was the philosophical question, “Is the care and feeding of an M-1 atradition we must maintain at USAFA? There are two very polarized schools of thought; both are subjec¬ tive. One feels that rifles, and the care, use, etc. that go with them, are absolutely essential to the Academy learning process. The other feels that the rifles were initially issued at the Academy simply because West Point had them and it seemed appropriate for amilitary academy. Those same people say the Air Force has not established itself as aseparate entity, with its own sense of

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THE SECRET LIFE OF WALDO F. DUMBSQUA T

By Don Hall, ’76

In Memory of Todd Spangler, ’76

The computer cursor blinked insistently at Waldo as he stared blankly at the blank monitor screen. His arms hung limply at his sides as he sat in disbelief.

Somehow, the malicious machine had gob¬ bled up his 35-page English paper and had turned it into history.

“How’s the paper coming?

Waldo’s roommate, Regs Buch.

5» asked i(

Terrible! This machine just ate three weeks of work. That’s the last time Iuse a word processor made by Cuisinart.”

i(

Be glad you’re not back in the brown shoe days...” noted Waldo’s other friend, Warren

Heels, as he polished his shoes.

“Why?”

((

My comp sci instructor says that he had to punch his pro¬ grams onto computer cards and feed them into something called Billy Burroughs.

CHEYENNE MOUNTAIN COMPLEX. WOULD YOU LIKE TO PLA Y?

Waldo, you’ve accessed the NORAD computer!” exclaimed <( Regs.

There’s astory here, but it has probably been done,” Waldo thought aloud.

The freshman pushed the escape key. Anew contact was made.

DA VE, IS THA TYOU?

Open the pod doors, Hal,” typed Waldo with achortle.

“This is creepy,” said Regs as he stabbed at the escape key.

USAFA LOCAL INTERNAL NETWORK. CAN IASSIST YOU?

Warren dropped his shoes.

“Display directory,” typed an excited Waldo. MAGIC MONEY, MENU, GRADES, WING STAFF. Run menu.

(( >»

NOON MEAL: MYSTERY MEAT, STRAWBERRY BAVARIAN...

(( »>

“Well, I’m not happy with the Hoover Univac 13000,” sighed Waldo.

“Why is it called aunivac?” asked Warren.

“Because in one second it can suck up your program amd dump it.” answered Regs knowlingly.

In frustration, Waldo jabbed at the keyboard with eight fingers and two thumbs. The doolies were quite amazed when areply lit up the monitor.

Fifth Floor: (Continued from previous page.)

heritage and tradition, and that the Academy should follow suit. They point out that very few USAFA graduates will ever be ex¬ pected to march with arifle on active duty or lead others who do.

Hopefully, you can see the problem was acomplicated one, an emotional issue with impact in many areas. This meant that whatever decision we made would result in a“no-win” situation. It simply wasn’t possible to make everyone happy on this one. So.. .like any general officer worth his salt, Idelegated the deci¬ sion to the first-colonel Iran into (not really, but it would have been nice, and much less painful). What Idid do was spend alot of time weighing the pros and cons of both possible paths. Icame to the conclusion that the arguments against keeping the rifles outweighed those for retention. Idon’t expect everyone to agree with that call, but Iwould hope that each of you realizes it was a decision reached only after careful study of the issue and its longrange impacts.

As of today all the cadets have turned in their rifles. We are reducing our inventory of M-ls from 3,795 to 2,000. Of the re¬ maining rifles, 1,400 will be issued to Basic Cadets for use during BCT, 20 will be used as spares on the Bayonet Assault Course, 150 will be issued to and maintained by the Honor Guard and Ri¬ fle Drill Team, 350 will comprise the safety/spare inventory, and 80 will be maintained at the Cadet Command Post for use on the tour pad (after all, who am /to tamper with God-given rights).

Let me close by assuring you that my goal as commandant is not to stick my finger into every “tradition pie” Ican find. So you can discount the popular rumor that I’ve set my sights on the chapel next...but we may rename afew buildings (after distinguished ’63 grads, of course).

My best of each of you. Cheers!

the doolie typed, “run Wing Staff.” Break, “Why did you pick that one?” demanded Warren.

“Nobody will care if we mess with Wing Staff,” grinned Regs.

PASSWORD REQUIRED.

Try ‘dancing bears’ for apassword,” suggested Warren. “Okay.

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS.

Wow,” said Warren, “let’s see when we’ll get stereo privileges.”

Waldo began typing.

Be careful, Waldo...” warned Regs.

“I know what I’m doing...

Waldo, you’ve just scheduled the entire fourthclass for special inspections with Wing Staff!”

Before Waldo could delete his entry, the screen went blank. Regs and Waldo immediately stared at Warren, who was crouched near the wall socket. Warren shrugged.

Sorry, Ijust wanted to plug in the buffer.”

Something drastic had to be done! Unnoticed, Waldo popped into his overhead locker, mumbled the magic words “syntax er¬ ror,” and emerged as Colonel Waldo F. Dumbsquat. Regs called the room to attention.

Listen up and listen tight,” boomed the Colonel. “I’m aman who never repeats himself repeats himself. Plug in that computer.”

“Yes, sir!”

The colonel’s fingers danced over the keyboard.

“All is right with the wing once more. You men carry on.”

With that, the Air Force super hero left via the closet. Waldo magically resumed his puny doolie shape and stepped from the closet.

“You just missed the colonel,” noted Warren.

Yeah, and he got us out of those special inspections,” men¬ tioned Regs.

“Then Iguess everything is fi ne...

Not quite, Waldo. Iforgot to tell you that you scheduled yourself for three periods of SERE, two dental exams, atwelfth period fi nal, and an extra fl u shot.”

Waldo groaned.

NCAA Rules Outline Recruiting Procedures

By Col. Ruben A. Cubero, ’61 USAFA NCAA Faculty Representative and Maj. Jim Andrus Assistant Athletic Director for Intercollegiate Programs

There are many ways the graduate community can help in recruiting student-athletes for the Academy’s many athletic pro¬ grams. However, there are also many ways graduates can violate the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s (NCAA) recruiting rules and cause acontroversy by not operating within very de¬ fi ned limits in their contacts with student-athletes.

After recently assuming the responsibilities of the NCAA facul¬ ty representative at the Academy, Ispoke with Maj. James An¬ drus, assistant athletic director for Intercollegiate Programs in the Department of Athletics, and we decided that this magazine arti¬ cle might be the best way to inform graduates on the NCAA rules concerning recruiting college athletes —speci fi cally USAFA student-athletes. We will first present some general information and then answer specific questions concerning hypothetical graduate-potential athlete contacts.

The NCAA, headquartered in Mission, Kan., is the organiza¬ tion through which this nation’s colleges and universities speak and act on athletic matters at the national level. It’s avoluntary association of nearly 1,000 institutions, conferences, organiza¬ tions and individuals devoted to the sound administration of in¬ tercollegiate athletics. The main concern of the NCAA is to main¬ tain intercollegiate sports as an integral part of the educational program, and the athlete as an integral part of the student body.

The final authority and governing body of the NCAA is its an¬ nual convention which this year was held in San Diego from January 6-10. Legislation passed at the convention impacts on the intercollegiate sports programs of all member institutions. To facilitate the NCAA’s work, the United States has been divided into eight geographic areas with the various member institutions being classified as Division I, II, or III representatives.

When acollege or university wishes to become an active member of the NCAA, it must be accredited by arecognized academic accrediting agency, it must maintain at least four inter¬ collegiate sports for men and four for women, unless the institu¬ tion conducts athletic programs for only one sex. In this instance, it must then maintain three intercollegiate sports, one in each of the three traditional seasons. Amember institution must also agree to cooperate fully with the NCAA enforcement program and to respect penalties imposed by that program.

The U.S. Air Force Academy is aDivision Imember in good standing of the NCAA and it takes aconcerted effort to insure that we maintain that excellent record.

Agreat deal of media attention has recently been focused on “illegal” activities of afew NCAA member institutions in the area of recruiting prospective student-athletes. It is important that you, as agraduate of the Academy, understand that even though you are not an employee of the Academy’s Department of Athletics, you are considered by the NCAA to be representatives of this institution and that the Academy must assume full respon¬ sibility for your actions with regard to any contacts you make with prospective student-athletes. In an attempt to better under¬ stand the complexities of the NCAA recruiting process the follow¬ ing questions and answers apply:

What individuals are identi fi ed as a“member of an institution’s athletics staff?” Anyone assigned to or employed by the USAFA Department of Athletics who is involved in the recruitment of prospective student-athletes.

When does an individual become a“representative of an in¬ stitution’s athletics interests?” An individual becomes a“repre¬ sentative of an institution’s athletics interests” when an institu-

tional staff member requests the individual to recruit aparticular prospect or has knowledge that the individual is recruiting apro¬ spect. Further, an institution’s responsibility for the conduct of its intercollegiate athletics program includes responsibility for the acts of an individual when the institution’s executive or athletic administration has knowledge that such an individual is pro¬ moting the institution’s intercollegiate athletics program. Addi¬ tionally, any individual who contacts aprospective studentathiete with the intent of encouraging their enrollment at the U.S. Air Force Academy is identified as arepresentative of the institu¬ tion and is, therefore, subject to all NCAA rules and regulations related to the recruitment of student-athletes. Once an individual is identified as an institutional representative, it is presumed that he or she will forever retain that identity.

When does an individual become a“prospective" studentathlete? An individual, who is not enrolled at the Air Force Academy and has intercollegiate athletic eligibility remaining, becomes aprospective student-athlete when either amember of the institution’s athletics staff or arepresentative of the institu¬ tion’s athletic interests:

—provides transportation for the individual to visit the cam-

pus —entertains the individual in any way on the campus

—initiates or arranges telephone contact with the individual or amember of the individual’s family (or guardian) for the purpose of recruiting

—visits the individual or amember of the individual’s family (or guardian) for the purpose of recruiting (only for institutional staff members)

—entertains members of the family (or guardian) of the in¬ dividual on the campus.

Is it permissible for arepresentative of the institution’s athletics interests to visit the home of aprospective student-athlete? No. Representatives of an institution’s athletics interests are not per¬ mitted to make any in-person (face to face) off-campus recruiting contacts. Until Aug. 1, 1987, however (see next question), representatives of an institution’s athletics interests may write let¬ ters to and have telephone contact with prospective studentathletes to encourage their enrollment at the Academy, but only members of an institution’s athletic staff may make off-campus (face to face) contacts with aprospective student-athlete.

Will the opportunity for the representatives of an institution’s athletics interests to contact aprospective student athlete by mail or telephone be available after Aug. 1, 1987? No. The NCAA membership at the NCAA convention in January passed legisla¬ tion taking effect Aug. 1, 1987 which prohibits any contact, in¬ cluding any written correspondence or telephone calls, by representatives of an institution’s athletics interests, on or off campus, with any prospective student-athlete or his parents, rela¬ tions or guardians, for the purpose of recruitment.

Does the prohibition of in-person off-campus recruiting con¬ tacts identified in the paragraphs above apply to Academy Liaison Officers (LOs)? No. This prohibition is not applicable to off-campus recruiting contacts made in conjunction with an in¬ stitution’s regular admissions program. As long as the LO con¬ tacts both athletes and nonathletes at the same relative frequency the number of off-campus contacts by an LO is unrestricted.

We recognize that you may have more specific questions con¬ cerning NCAA recruiting rules. Major Andrus and Iurge you to write to us for answers before making any contacts with student(Continued on next page.)

25 Graduates on General Promotion Lists

The first two Air Force Academy graduates to appear on the lieutenant general’s promotion list are Bradley C. Hosmer and Robert C. Oaks, both of the Class of 1959. Additionally, seven graduates appeared on the major general’s promotion list and 16 were nominated to the grade of brigadier general.

General Hosmer is currently serving as the president of the Na¬ tional Defense University in Washington, D.C. while General Oaks is commander of Air South and deputy commander in chief, USAFE, South Area, stationed in Naples, Italy.

Graduates nominated for major general and their assignments at the time were;

Larry D. Fortner, ’59, deputy inspector general, Hq. USAF, Washington, D.C.

David M. Goodrich, ’59, commander, 24th Air Division, NORAD Region, TAC, Griffiss AFB, N.Y.

George L. Butler, ’61, deputy director of Operations, DCS Plans and Operations, Hq. USAF, Washington, D.C.

Harold N. Campbell, ’61, deputy chief of staff for Logistics, Hq. USAFE, Europe.

Richard D. Smith, ’61, deputy chief of staff for Contracting and Manufacturing, Hq. AFLC, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio.

Henry Viccellio Jr., ’62, deputy chief of staff for Logistics, Hq. TAC, Langley AFB, Va.

Ronald R. Fogleman, ’63, deputy director, Programs and Evaluation, DCS Programs and Resources, Hq. USAF, Washing¬ ton, D.C.

Nominations to brigadier general included:

Hanson L. Scott, ’61, commander, 1st Special Operations Wing, MAC, Hurlburt Field, Fla.

James P. Ulm, ’61, inspector general, Hq. ATC, Randolph AFB, Texas.

Michael J. Butchko, ’62, deputy commander for Tactical Systems, Aeronautical Systems Division, AFSC, WrightPatterson AFB, Ohio.

David J. Pederson, ’62, director of Training, DCS Operations, Hq. SAC, Offutt AFB, Neb.

Peter D. Robinson, ’62, commander, 36th Tactical Fighter Wing, USAFE, Europe.

Ervin J. Rokke, ’62, U.S. defense and air attache to U.S.S.R., designate in training. Defense Intelligence Agency, Washington, D.C.

John L. Borling, ’63, assistant for Plans and Policy, DCS Plans, Hq. SAC, Offutt AFB, Neb.

NCAA: (Continued from previous page.)

athletes. Just drop aline to: Association of Graduates, c/o NCAA Recruiting Rules, USAF Academy, Colo. 80840-5000. The AOG will provide us with your questions and we will both answer your letter personally and if appropriate, publish the ques¬ tion and response in the next magazine.

1hope you enjoyed the article and we are anxiously awaiting your reaction and areas of interest and concern. To successfully play aDivision Ischedule, we need to recruit the top athletes our high schools have to offer. We ask your help to find them in all sports. Remember, you as agraduate are allowed to contact a prospective student-athlete by correspondence or telephone prior to Aug. I, 1987. In any event, please contact the Academy athletic staff member at any one of the following telephone numbers if you have identified aquality student-athlete. All area codes are (303). Football: 472-3836. Basketball: 472-3039. Ice Hockey: 472-2188. General information: 472-2166. In this area of recruiting we must maintain the highest standards of behavior for the protection of the individual and the Academy. Additional in¬ formation will be provided in afuture issue of the magazine.

Lawrence E. Day, ’63, commander, 52nd Tactical Fighter Wing, USAFE, Europe.

James L. Jamerson, ’63, commander, 23rd Tactical Fighter Wing, TAC, England AFB, La.

Ralph R. Rohatsch, ’63, commander, 12th Flying Training Wing, ATC, Randolph AFB, Texas.

Stephen B. Croker, ’64, Air Force member, JCS Staff Group, Organization of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Washington, D.C.

Robert E. Dempsey, ’64, commander, 96th Bombardment Wing, SAC, Dyess AFB, Texas.

Jay W. Kelley, ’64, senior military advisor to director. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, Washington, D.C.

Michael D. Pavich, ’64, director. Material Management, Ogden Air Logistics Center, AFLC, Hill AFB, Utah.

Howell M. Estes III, ’65, special assistant to the chief of staff. Supreme Hq. Allied Powers Europe.

Michael E. Ryan, ’65, executive officer to chief of staff, U.S. Air Force, Hq. USAF, Washington, D.C.

GRADUATES SELECTED FOR LIEUTENANT COLONEL (Regular Air Force)

Secondary Zone Selectees

1972

Bartol, Thomas J.

Calcutt, Harry M. Jr.

Hansen, Warren A.

Higgins, John N.

Hooker, Gary L.

Johnson, Duane C.

Jones, Gregory L.

Mason, Henry M.

Meyer, John C. Jr.

Rodefer, Karl D.

Weston, Craig P.

1973

Barr, John L.

Barton, Harold H. Jr.

Brammeier, Charles L. Jr.

Gesch, Wolfgang E.K.

Gilbert, Russell L.

Grier, Samuel L. Jr.

Hayes, Timothy W.

Pace, John M.

Radov, Larry G.

Sheldon, Steve H.

Vogelgesang, Dmvid A.

1974

Beckett, Mason H. Jr

Coppock, Kelvin R.

Jones, Charles E.

Kelly, Christopher A.

Lambert, Charles E. Jr.

Miller, Thomas B.

1975

Hennessey, Peter J.

Holmes, Mark K.

Layman, Richard L.

Meyerrose, Dale W.

Redmann, Steven J.

Stein, Joseph P.

Volcheff, Mark A.

Walden, Robert S.

Waltman, Glenn C.

Webber, Richard E.

FALCON SPORTS

Football Team Slides to 6-5 For Season

The U.S. Air Force Academy football team ended its season with an overall 6-5 season following a23-3 loss to Brigham Young in Falcon Stadium.

The loss, televised live nationally by ABC-TV, dashed all hopes the Falcons had in advancing to abowl game. It marked the first time in five years Air Force has not advanced to apost-season game.

Air Force fi nished third in the Western Athletic Conference (WAC) with a5-2 record.

After winning all but one of the first half dozen games, the Falcons lost to atough Notre Dame team 31-3 but bounced back to top San Diego State, eventually the WAC champion, 22-10, the only loss suffered by the Aztecs in WAC play.

The next loss to Army, 21-11, put ahalt to the Falcons winning the Commander-in-Chief’s trophy.

The biggest comeback of the year was against Utah. After trail¬ ing 35-14 at the half, the Falcon defense held the Utes scoreless the next two periods while the offense mustered a45-33 win.

During the season. Air Force rushed for 2,559 yards, the fourth highest total in school history, but still good enough for the WAC lead and a15th ranking in the nation.

Individually, the top player was senior lineback Terry Maki of Libby, Mont., who was aconcensus All-American, being named to the Kodak, AP and Football News All-America teams. He led the Falcon in tackles with 191, caused afumble and recovered two fumbles.

Senior Tom Rotello, at cornerback, was sixth in tackles with 89 but led the WAC in kickoff returns and was ninth in the nation with a25.9 average.

Offensively, senior Pat Evans led the Falcons in rushing for the second-straight year with 786 yards and six touchdowns.

Chris Blasy also counted for 42 points on 15 PATs and nine field goals.

For the second year in arow, punter Mark Simon led the WAC and was ninth in the nation in punting with 63 punts for 2,754 yards, averaging 43.7 apunt.

Senior Tyrone Jeffcoat had the surest hands, leading the Falcons in pass receiving with 20, good for 369 yards and an 18.5 average.

Head coach Fisher DeBerry loses six starters from the offense and eight off the starting defense due to graduation this year.

Women’s Cross Country Paces Fall Sports

With two of its six sports finishing nationally ranked, the fall sports teams won 57 of their contest, losing 47 and tying 2.

Women’s cross country finished ninth nationally while men’s water polo was 15th. Arundown of each sport follows;

MEN’S CROSS COUNTRY —Highlighting the season was the winning of the team championship at the Cal. State-Northridge Invitational, beating UCLA, Southern California and Cal. StateIrvine. The Falcons were led during the season by two-time MVP Micky Testa and newcomer Mike Fox. The men’s team fi nished seventh at the WAC championships at Salt Lake City. Testa was the top runner for the Falcons, finishing 24th with atime of 31:57.

WOMEN’S CROSS COUNTRY —The Falcon women trav¬ eled to Riverside, Calif., where they placed ninth in the NCAA Division II championships. Freshman Jill Wood earned All-

America status with aseventh-place finish for Air Force with a 17:23 time over the 3.1 mile course.

SOCCER —The men’s soccer team ended the season with an overall 12-5-2 record. They finished first place in the Rocky Mountain Intercollegiate Soccer League with an 8-0 record. Chris Faber and Mike Nutter were selected to the all-league team.

WATER POLO —Finishing with an 8-19 record, the men’s water polo team placed eighth against eight teams in the NCAA Division I fi nals. The Falcons, who lost all three games in the playoffs, ended the season ranked 15th nationally. Sophomore Steve Spanovich placed third in the tournament in scoring with eight goals.

WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL —Sporting a31-21 overall record, the women’s volleyball team finished fourth in the Con¬ tinental Divide Conference with an 8-6 record. Senior Lisa Garraway was named to the Collegiate Volleyball Coaches All-Region 7team and, along with Linda Ollig, was selected to the CDC first team. In its first year in the CDC, Dawn Dunlop, Pam Haug and Garraway were named to the 1986 Academic team.

Hennings Wins Honor

Defensive tackle Chad Hennings was selected to the College Sports Information Directors of America Academic All-America Football team.

In order to be selected, an athlete must maintain a3.0 cumulative grade point average or better, and be an active member of the team.

Hennings, from Elberon, Iowa, was also aRegion 7finalist, based on his 3.25 cumulative average in management. Hennings finished the season as the fourth leading tackier with 101 tackles, 20 of which were for losses of minus 88 yards.

Jill Wood

Seven Gridders Gain National Recognition

Linebacker Terry Maki heads the list of seven Falcon gridders who gained national recognition during the past year.

Maki, from Libby, Mont., was named to the Kodak Division 1-A All-America team; selected to third team Associated Press All-America team; second team Football News All-America; and fi rst team All-WAC.

Senior Tom Rotello was named second team Football News All-America and was selected fi rst team All-WAC at cornerback and second team All-WAC returner.

In addition to Maki and Rotello, punter Mark Simon, defen¬ sive tackle Chad Hennings, and offensive tackle Chris Findall were named fi rst team All-WAC while defensive tackle Steve Spewok and fullback Pat Evans were named second team AllWAC.

Evans Receives Bullard Award

Senior fullback Pat Evans was awarded the third annual Brian Bullard Award at the Air Force Academy’s football banquet Jan.

24.

The award was presented by Betty and Barry Bullard, the parents of Brian.

The award is presented to the player who has been the most in¬ spirational leader during the season and who best exemplifies the late Brian Bullard as voted by his team.

Evans, from Vicksburg, Miss., finished his career with 459 rushing attempts to rank third on the AFA career list. He finished tied with Brian Beam for second place with 2,284 total yards. John Kershner leads with 2,726 yards.

Evans finished fifth on the career all-purpose rushing yardage list with 2,284 yards and finished fifth in rushing touchdowns with acareer 14.

Bullard, adefensive tackle on the 1983 team, was caught in a Kansas blizzard in November of 1983 and died of carbon monox¬ ide poisoning while sleeping in avehicle on asnowbound highway.

Defenseman Steve Kelly and linebacker Pat Malackowski were the other two recipients of the award.

Toasting the dedication of the new oak bar donated by the Cheyenne Mountain Inn (CMI) to the Air Force Academy’s (AFA) Blue &Silver Club last August are, from left, Mike

assistant athletic director for development,

general manager, CMI; and Colonel Ed

deputy athletic director, AFA. Afalcon is etched into abeveled glass mirror, a backdrop for the 24-foot-long bar.

Maki, with 191 tackles this season, finished as the all-time leading tackier for Air Force with 470 tackles. He was chosen WAC Defensive Player of the Year twice his sophomore year, once last season and once in 1986. He also was chosen Sports Il¬ lustrated Player of the Week on defense.

Rotello, from Denver, Colo., finished his regular season as the AFA career interception leader with 17 and leads in total intercep¬ tion yardage with 296. Rotello has averaged 25.3 yards per kickoff return for his career and had the longest punt return this year in the WAC with a57-yarder against Hawaii.

Simon finished his career ranked third in total punts with 164 and his 44.4 career punting average is the best ever at Air Force.

Hennings finished the season with 101 tackles, giving him a two-year total of 172 for his career and has 39 tackles for losses.

The AFA-BYU game was the occasion, as agaggle of US AFA grads and their families gathered in the McChord AFB Recreation Center. Unfortunately our enthusiasm didn’t sway the outcome of the game. Organizers included Tom Fagerson, ’69; Tim Kinnan, ’70; Gordie Boozer, ’65; and Gerry Corwin, ’67. Participa¬ tion of our civilian members and children were highlights. The USAFA memorabilia included bathrobes, assorted plaques and insignia. Photos compliments of Tom Griesser, ’67. Does anyone else remember TREBOR GNORTS?

McChord Falcon Boosters

Blue and Silver Club Donation

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AFA; Bob Twomey,

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CHAPTER NEWS

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USAFA -AOG

During the winter and early spring the Alamo Chapter has built astrong and ac¬ tive membership. The new board was left an excellent floor plan by our outgoing president. Skip Cox, ’66. We want to thank him for his hard work and tireless efforts.

The Alamo Chapter had agreat time in joining with the North Texas Chapter for atrip to Houston for the AFA-Rice Foot¬ ball game. While the crew had alot of fun, it would have been better if we had won. We would like to thank the Houston Area Parents Club for their help in getting this trip off the ground. Those of us who were able to attend hope that the rest of the grads in the San Antonio Area will get in touch with us for the next trip. We are sure that they would enjoy the “crew,” and perhaps with alittle more support the Falcon’s could have pulled out avictory.

The San Antonio Parents Club was also extended an invitation by the chapter to join them in aTri-service Christmas Din¬ ner/Dance held at the Randolph O’Club. The party was agreat success. It was fun to share some time with the cadets who are now running the wing. It was in¬ teresting to find out that while the people and times change, the complaints about the food and Saturday morning training never change.

The new board, led by Neil Stone, ’65, was elected at agreat membership night and business meeting at the Brooks AFB O’Club. We installed our new board: 1st VP, Ed Berberek; ’65; 2nd VP, Jeff Akroyd ’65; secretary, Ken Kaylor ’78; and treasurer, Larry Freeman, ’61. Mem¬ bers at large are Jim Brown, ’59; Don Box, ’64; J.J. Williams, ’64; Nat Sander¬ son, ’66; Pete Hugdahl, ’X7; and Mike Lischak, ’75. The evening was filled with good times, old stories (especially about the brown-shoe days with this board) and meeting new and old grads from the San Antonio Area.

We have avery busy slate of activities planned for the Alamo Area Chapter dur¬ ing 197, starting with our Founders Day Dinner in April. We would like to en¬ courage the grads in the San Antonio area to contact Neil Stone at 3506 Hunters Sound, San Antonio, TX 78230, or myself

Capt. Ken Kaylor at 9114 Wuthering Heights, San Antonio, Texas 78250, 647-1522 or AV 554-5844 so that we can get you on our mailing list and involved with this active and growing chapter. (Ken Kaylor, ’78)

ARIZONA CHAPTER

The Arizona Chapter met in Mid January at the Golden Eagle atop the Valley Center building in Phoenix. Atten¬ dance improved over the last two meetings and one of the future activities agreed upon was to meet on aSunday afternoon for dinner at the Phoenix Country Club. Rich Chanick, ’75, will follow up on the project. Other items of possible interest to chapter members are the annual Air Force Association ball on May 2and the annual USAFA Parents Club appointee dinner on June 20. Chapter president Roy Hen¬ drickson, ’72, was unable to attend the quarterly meeting but in his absence, Roy Miller, ’67, was able to secure afew more volunteers for leadership roles in the chapter. They include Ron Marusiak, ’71; Rich Chanick; Kavid Keene, ’75; Jeff Hackett, ’75; and Jim Sienicki, ’74. The next regular Arizona Chapter meeting will be on April 10 at 5p.m. at the Golden Eagle.

FRENCH EXCHANGE CHAPTER

The highlight of the upcoming year for the Exchange Association will, without any doubt, be the 37th International Air and Space Show at Le Bourget, Paris (Paris Air Show). Since its inception in 1909, the Paris Air Show has become the premier exposition of aeronautical and space systems in the world. In 1985 over 33 countries and 1,0(X) exhibitors were represented and over 20 members of our chapter managed to attend one of the 11 days of the show.

This year we are starting early to mobilize for an even better turnout. Griff Vinton and George Pope, both of Ex¬ change ’84, currently in their second year of study in Paris, are our project officers. Since our primary “raison d’etre” is to encourage and facilitate contacts between the U.S. and French Air Forces, Griff and George will be encouraging as many grads as possible to make it to the show and will be getting the word out to the French Air Force as well. They will be greatly assisted in this undertaking by Eric Vogel, Exch.

’ll, still with the of fi ce of the Air Attache in Paris. Since we’re trying to get as many people to meet and find old friends as possible, Iencourage those of you in¬ terested to contact Lieutenants Pope and Vinton, care of U.S. Embassy, Paris APO N.Y. 09777 for further information. Plans are to organize an informal party the evening of June 13 so if you’re planning a trip to the air show, plan on being there the 13th.

In further news I’ve just heard from Eric Vogel that Dave Estep, Esch. ’77, is our latest entry in the club of those ex¬ changers who have managed to finagle an assignment back to France. Dave has just recently begun two years of study at the University of Dijon as an Olmsted Scholar. In October, Bruce McLane, Exch. ’73, along with Eric Vogel, George Pope, and Griff Vinton competed in the 11th annual Paris-Versailles run. These four brave souls, along with about 29,996 other runners from around the world, managed to complete the 17.7 kilometer course (all seemingly uphill). Although we all started together George finished in 77 minutes, avery respectable showing. The others fi nished “somewhere” behind.

To close—another plug for the Air Show. It’s not too early to start planning for it. We’d love to see as many grads as possible make it to Paris in June. (Bruce McLane, ’74)

(Editor’s note: See the article elsewhere in this magazine by Jim Kuhn, ’63, on a travel package to the 1987 Paris Air Show.)

NORTHWEST FLORIDA CHAPTER

The Northwest Florida Chapter held its first meeting in early December at the Eglin Air Force Base Of fi cer’s Club. Volunteers for the provisional board of directors include Larry Smith, ’71, presi¬ dent; Charlie Thomas, ’65, secretary; Roger Clark, ’63, treasurer; and James Foreman, ’75, program chairman. Joe Boyles, ’70, and several other members reviewed and approved apro¬ posed constitution and bylaws prepared by the provisional president. For more in¬ formation on the Northwest Florida Chapter, contact Charlie Thomas at 807 Magnolia Shores Dr., Niceville, Fla. 37578.

ORANGE COUNTY CHAPTER Bill McClain, ’59, was the local Orange County hero since he managed to organize and disperse 50 of the choicest seats in the midst of the blue section to the chapter members. Dave Philips, ’59, attended to fl y wlngman on McClain and Ken Wentzel, ’64; Tony Desantis, ’70; Steve Shay, ’71; and Craig Johnson, ’70. Many others watched the Falcons ruin the Aztecs’ homecoming.

Once again all is well in Southern California with the southwestern part of your coastline being protected by the resi¬ dent active, inactive, California Air Na¬ tional Guard, and civilian components of our chapter’s association. We have had several get-togethers, both big and small, since our last report.

In September, the chapter held a family-style beach party at Huntington Beach that included good fellowship, good food, and good activities. Our ma¬ jor get-together was in October at Jack Murphy Stadium in San Diego for the USAFA vs San Diego State football game. The San Diego Chapter and the Orange County Chapter co-hosted an ex¬ cellent tailgate party prior to the great game. In addition to members of both chapters, agoodly contingent of fl edgling fliers and old eagles from Luke, Williams, and George Air Force Bases showed up. Don Rushing and Charley Black (both ’70 and co-founders of the San Diego Chapter) made the rounds and ensured that everybody felt welcome indeed.

Our last get-together was an informal, unbiased meeting to watch the USAFA vs BYU football game on 6December in a local pizzeria in Tustin. Eleven members spanning 1959 to 1976 attended and despite the serious drubbing the favorites suffered, agood time was had by all. Special thanks to Mike White ’70 for his help in coordinating the activities.

Below is apicture of afew of the in¬ dividuals who semiregularly attend plan¬ ning sessions at Scott Jackson’s, ’67, law of fi ce. From left are Jim Carlson, ’75; Wayne LeFors, ’63; Ken Wentzel, presi¬ dent; Scott; yours truly; and Steve Shay. Please feel free to attend any one of these meetings. We can always use the new ideas and suggestions. We hope to have a

“Thing in the Spring” —no idea what it will be yet. We’ll mail something out. Contact Scott at (714) 752-8585 for infor¬ mation about the chapter and meetings. (Craig Johnson, ’70)

SOUTHWEST OHIO CHAPTER

The Southwest Ohio Chapter of the Association of Graduates closed our 1986 with abang. The chapter sponsored atrip to the Notre Dame football game in South Bend, Ind., for approximately 140 Falcon fans (joining with the newly forming Chicago AOG Chapter for apre-game tailgate party). The Wright-Patterson Of¬ fi cers’ Club became the home for 50-75 Falcon rooters for all of the televised foot¬ ball games. In addition, the chapter cosponsored atri-service luncheon with graduates of the academies and had Lt. Gen. William Thurman (USNA ’54) as the guest speaker.

(( Other” service

In 1987 we plan to get off to afast start with the superintendent, Lt. Gen. Scott, speaking at our 9th Annual State of the Wing Dinner on Feb. 27. With over 800 graduates now in the local area, we expect to have another large turnout.

Special congratulations to the president of our local chapter, Richard D. Smith, ’61, on his recent selection for promotion to major general.

SAN DIEGO COUNTY CHAPTER

The San Diego County Chapter is alive and well and living in Southern California. On October 25, the chapter was pleased to host the visiting Academy contingent and approximately 1(X) visitors from Southern California and Southern Nevada for apre¬ game tailgate party before the AFA-San Diego State football game (see photo).

Many old friendships were renewed as graduates saw one another through the 25-year looking glass. Appropriate refreshments were served and agood time was had by all.

The San Diego County Chapter would like for all graduates to know that whenever the AFA Falcons play afootball game in San Diego Jack Murphy Stadium there will be apre-game tailgate party star¬ ting two hours before kickoff in area H-3 of the stadium parking lot (west of the stadium). Be there! (Michael E. Quinton,

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Deadlines for chapter news articles and photos are the 15th of March, June, September and December.

Orange County Chapter Planners

Graduates enjoy alight moment before the AFA-San Diego State football game. From left are Margrit Lefors, Wayne Lefors, ’63; Brig. Gen. Sam Westbrook, ’63; Col. Ken Flem¬ ing, ’62; Col. Charlie Hale, ’62; Stan Patrie, ’62; and Judy Bronson.

GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN r

Warren Lee Haslouer, Class of 1961, died from an illness on Oct. 18, 1984 at Ingleside, Texas. After graduation from the Academy, he took his pilot training at Enid, Okla. and after earn¬ ing his wings was stationed in Japan.

His next duty assignment after Japan took him to San Antonio where he volunteered for atour of duty in Vietnam. In Vietnam he commanded asquadron and was stationed at Da Nang. After returning from Vietnam he resigned from the Air Force and at¬ tended Stanford University to earn his master’s and doctorate in aeronautical and astronautical engineering.

Leaving Stanford he was employed by Rockwell/NASA where he worked on designing NASA’s reentry vehicle. He worked for Rockwell as an aerospace engineer and spent much time flying in¬ to Houston at that point in his career.

Mr. Haslouer died of Parkinson’s disease, leaving his wife, Mary Ann, three daughters, Lee Ann, Heidi and Gretchen, and his mother, Mrs. Bonnie L. Grammas.

Patrick C. Hardee, ’64

Pat Hardee, Class of 1964, lost along and difficult battle with cancer on Jan. 3, 1987. Over afive-year period, Pat endured repeated radiation and chemotherapy treatments, almost constant pain, and the fear felt by all of us of leaving our families before our time. At the same time he maintained total involvement with his family, afull-time engineering position with Martin-Marietta, and aleadership role in his church. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

Pat was born Christmas 1941 in Long Beach, Calif., spent his early years at Fort Benning, Ga. and the Panama Canal Zone, and attended high school in Denver. He studied at Brigham Young University for one year before entering the Academy and joined the Class of 64 prepared to change the world. Like alot of the Blue Tags of that era, Pat was hard working and hard headed, sensible and cynical, and unafraid to challenge authority or the unknown. Unlike those of us who wanted only to learn the re¬ quired amount and get on with flying, Pat was asuperior student who did original research at the Academy, with the sincere belief that he could understand and explain things that were yet un¬ solved. As an athlete, he was anational caliber gymnast in both trampoline and high bar despite adecidedly ungymnastic 6'4" frame, and was ranked 14 in the nation in 1963. Even his doolie stunts were bigger than life including blind leaps to Vandenberg

Hall roofs to rappel into upperclass rooms, and leaving Bill Gar¬ rett dangling on arope from the sixth floor wall of Fairchild Hall while getting help to pull him up.

After graduation in 1964, Pat married Judy Dawn Allen of Springville, Utah, and drove south to get his wings at Randolph AFB, Texas. From there he chose helicopters, and received the Commander’s Trophy for finishing first in his class at Stead AFB in Reno. After atour at Warren AFB in Cheyenne, Wy., he went to Vietnam in helicopter gunships, where he received numerous decorations including two Distinguished Flying Crosses in almost constant combat operations. (My strongest recollection of Pat in the war was both more, and less, heroic: an evening in Nha Trang taking agroup of Vietnamese street children to achurch party to give them some fun and alook at adifferent side of Americans.) He completed afinal tour at Grand Forks AFB, N.D., in 1969, and left the Air Force to attend graduate school at Denver Univer¬ sity. There Pat received master’s degrees in mechanical engineer¬ ing and electrical engineering in 1971 and 1972, and adoctorate in electrical engineering in 1975. Intent upon making it on his own (naturally), Pat spent several years with partners doing original research and development in microwave radiometry, voice stress analysis, and received two U.S. patents under the name of Hardee Engineering which are still pending. In 1981 he joined MartinMarietta in Denver as an electrical engineer developing products in microwave spectroscopy, photovoltiac power, and microwave communications.

After being diagnosed with cancer in 1982, Pat continued working full time and doing everything possible to provide future security for Judy and his children. Pat is survived by Judy; his children Amber, Mary, Eileen, Cheryl, Jennifer, David, Camille, and Gail; his parents Mary and Clell, his sister Cathy, and his brother Jim. His family have lost one of their own, who can never be replaced. His friends have lost arestless, creative individual, who dreamed great dreams, accepted no limits, and fought longer than anyone thought possible. We shall miss him. (Frank Wilson,

’64)

Wallace B. "Buz” Sawyer, Jr., ’68

Buz never considered himself to be agoal-oriented person but in reflecting on his life, it is evident there must have been astrong, compelling sense of dedication and purpose to his being. When he first learned of the Air Force Academy, he set his sights on being

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Wallace B. “Buz” Sawyer, Jr., ’68

one of the cadets. All facets of his life were tuned on that wave length. Having heard that carrots helped eye-sight, he ate them by the thousands even though he didn’t particularly like them. Going to an orthodontist was not achore; it was an accepted fact that to have good, straight teeth was necessary to becoming acadet. His participation in the Civil Air Patrol became “the thing” for him. Selling the most tickets to apancake breakfast for the Civil Air Patrol became one of his tickets to more flying time. Buz earned his pilot’s license almost as soon as he got his driver’s license.

To enhance his chances of becoming an Air Force Academy cadet, he accepted an appointment to the Air Force Academy Prep School and had basic training at Lackland AFB at San An¬ tonio before entering the Prep School in the fall of 1963.

Like other cadets, he participated in the usual summer ac¬ tivities, spending one summer at Ft. Penning, Ga. in parachute training. On his last jump, his main chute opened seconds before he touched the turf. The colonel directing the operation told Buz, “Sit down and rest, your color will return to your face in afew minutes.

Buz participated in high school athletics, several clubs and made good grades. His parents usually found many chores around their home to keep him occupied and there were no major disciplinary problems.

At the Academy, Buz, alias “Magnolia” and “Gus”, was not an outstanding student but did succeed in graduating with the Class of ’68. To the chagrin of his parents attending June week activities that year, they learned he was named one of the 11 on the “All Star Team” —those graduates who had come the closest to being washed out because of grades, disciplinary or other prob¬ lems but yet managed to graduate. It was the year when two young Air Force pilots flew over the Academy and caused afew windows to break. It was something Buz would have done had the opportunity presented itself.

Buz was amember of the Air Force Academy Soaring Club and earned the Silver Eagle Award for reaching an altitude in excess of 20,000 feet in aglider. His wings were awarded in 1969 after com¬ pleting the pilot training course at Laughlin Air Force Base in Del Rio. He had several tours of duty in England, Germany and Spain and flew C-130 gunships and cargo planes during the Vietnamese situation. Among his decorations were the Distinguished Flying Cross with one oak leaf cluster and the Air Medal with two clusters. After resigning from the Air Force, he returned to Thailand to fly cargo and evacuation missions in Cambodia. His flying activities carried him into many trouble-spots of the world.

Buz was killed at the age of 41 in the crash of aC-123 while transporting supplies to the Contras in Nicaragua on October 5, 1986. Buz was on aflight with Bill Cooper, who was also killed, and the loadmaster, Eugene Hasenfus, who parachuted to safety and was captured by the Sandinistas.

Amilitary funeral with full honors was held in Magnolia, Ark. on Oct. 13, 1986. His survivors include his wife, Kasanee, anative

Robert A. Marshall, ’70

of Thailand; ason, Nockrope Hunter Sawyer; astep-daughter Carol Fredrickson; his parents, Wallace and Margaret Sawyer, all of Magnolia, Ark.; abrother, Tom Sawyer of Corte Madera, Calif.; asister, Lisa Lee Sawyer, of Spearfish, S.D.; and another sister, Tammie S. Bailey of Fayetteville, Ark.

One of Buz’s heroes was General of the Army Douglas MacArthur and he had aplaque of the general’s address to the cadets of the Military Academy at West Point on May 12, 1962.

To his parents. Buz and all the others like him will be synonymous with “Duty, Honor and Country.

Robert A. Marshall, ’70

Lt. Col. Robert A. Marshall, Class of 1970, died when the civilian aircraft he was flying crashed on Sept. 14, 1986 at Mount Airy, Md. Services were held at Bolling AFB, Wash., D.C. with burial in the Academy Cemetery.

Colonel Marshall was born in Humbolt, Tenn. on Sept. 28, 1948. He graduated from Jackson High School, Jackson, Tenn. in 1966. After graduating from the Academy he was assigned as a student pilot at Craig AFB, Ala. In October 1971, he was assigned as an F-4 student aircraft commander at MacDill AFB, Fla.

He was then assigned to Ubon Royal Thai AB, Thailand, as an F-4 aircraft commander and in June 1973 returned to Florida as an F-4 aircraft commander at Eglin AFB. From 1974 to early 1977, Colonel Marshall was an Air Force liaison officer with the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, N.C. He then served as an operational plans officer at Langley AFB, Va. until June 1978. His next assignment was as aflight commander and instructor pilot in the F-15 with the 1st Tactical Fighter Wing at Langley un¬ til January 1980.

Colonel Marshall then served as aflight commander and in¬ structor pilot at Kadena AB, Japan and was assigned in June 1981 as chief, current operations, with the 18th Tactical Fighter Wing at Kadena. From August 1983 to early 1984 he was astudent at the Armed Forces Staff College.

In January 1984 he came to the Pentagon as air operations of¬ ficer, AF/XOXXP, Hq. U.S. Air Force. He was in the position at the time of his death.

Colonel Marshall was rated as asenior pilot. His decorations include the Distinguished Flying Cross with one oak leaf cluster, the Meritorious Service Medal, the Air Medal with 18 clusters, the Air Force Commendation Medal and the Army Commendation Medal.

He is survived by his wife, Karin G. Marshall, and five children, Melanie, Robert, Matthew, Hillary and Emma. He is also survived by his parents, Earl H. and Ann Marshall.

Amemorial fund has been established in Colonel Marshall’s memory. Donations may be sent to the Robert A. Marshall Memorial Fund, Association of Graduates, U.S. Air Force Academy, Colo. 80840-5000.

Hilton “Charles” Crosley, ’76

“Charles” or “Croz” as he was called by those who knew him best, will be remembered for his fighting spirit, gusto for life, academic excellence and community service.

Charles was the salutatorian of the 1972 Manual Arts High School in Los Angeles graduating class. He then attended the Air Force Academy where he learned discipline, perserverance and development of the whole man.

Following graduation, Charles was commissioned and sta¬ tioned at Williams AFB, Ariz. and Mather AFB, Calif, where he attended Weapon Systems Officer School. Charles finished the course and was awarded an Outstanding Graduate Letter based on performance, exemplary professional ability, outstanding in¬ itiative and superior leadership.

It was during that assignment at Mather than Charles married his college sweetheart Diane Richardson. Charles then served at Cannon AFB, N.M., where he trained for the F-111. This assign¬ ment was followed by atour of duty at RAF Lakenheath where he was aweapons systems operator in the F-lllF. His daughter, Hillary, was born while stationed in England.

Charles was diagnosed as having cancer, Ewing’s Sarcoma, in 1981. In spite of aprognosis which said the he would have possibly five years to live, Charles set out to rebuild his life.

Once medically retired and his health permitted, Charles began pursuing another college degree, earning A’s in all subjects. He developed interests in gardening and landscaping and became ac¬ tive in the Travis AFB Chapel program. Charles also volunteered as acoach for alocal Little League soccer team. Charles’ zest for life and excellence was apparent in all his endeavors.

After alengthy battle with cancer, Charles succumbed to the il¬ lness on March 15, 1986 at David Grant Hospital, Travis AFB, Calif. He is survived by his wife, Diane, and daughter, Hillary, of Suisun City, Calif.

Avyn Fumio Yata, ’79

Capt. Avyn “Ave” F. Yata, Class of 1979, sucumbed to cancer on Aug. 24, 1986 after aprolonged battle with the illness. He passed away at Tripler Army Medical Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, surrounded by family and friends. He is buried at the national cemetery on Punch Bowl Hill overlooking Honolulu.

Ave was born and raised in Hawaii and always had adream to fly fighters for the Air Force. He put all his energy into everything he did and loved doing it. As amember of Cadet Squadron 18, he was aperennial Dean’s Lister, aflight commander, and aleader in intramurals. His short stature belied aferocious competitor and talented athlete.

Colorado skiing took the place of Hawaii surfing and Ave spent many winter Sundays on the slopes of A-Basin, Winter Park and Copper Mountain. His dark blue 280Z was always im¬ maculate and his top-notch stereo system showed his lifelong quest for the best.

After graduating with an engineering sciences degree, he at¬ tended pilot training at Reese AFB, transitioned to F-llls at Mountain Home AFB and then went to his first tour at RAF Up¬ per Heyford, United Kingdom. Returning to Mountain Home, he continued his successful flying career as an instructor pilot and wing flight examiner, took up skiing again, and met and married his wife.

The sudden onset of his illness cut short acareer destined for great things. Ave succeeded in bringing his dreams to life and ex¬ celled in doing it. He will be sorely missed.

He is survived by his wife, Capt, Teresa Morehouse-Yata; his parents, CMSgt (Ret) and Mrs. Takeo Yata; and abrother, Dar¬ ryl Yata. Avyn’s wife has established amemorial fund in his memory. Contributions can be made to the Capt. Avyn B. Yata Memorial Fund, Association of Graduates, U.S. Air Force Academy, Colo. 80840-5(X)0. (Capt. Bruce Single, ’79)

Christopher G. Bole, ’84

1st Lt. Christopher G. Bole, Class of 1984, died on Oct. 13, 1986, when his RF-4 crashed while returning to Osan AB, Korea. Born and reared in Houston, Texas, Chris was the youngest of the 11 children of Lt. Col. (USAFR, Ret.) and Mrs. Thomas J. Bole. After graduating from Mount Carmel High School, Chris ac¬ cepted an appointment to the Academy where he played football his doolie year. Leaving athletics to concentrate on academics for his engineering degree, Chris did manage to remain involved in sports, playing on the wing championship handball team and serving as athletic officer for 26th Squadron.

After graduation, Chris went to Vance AFB, Okla., for flight training. Assigned to the RF-4, Chris subsequently reported to Bergstrom AFB, back in his native “Texas turf”, and closer to his family. Once he had orders for Kadena AB, Okinawa, he spent as much time as possible with the large family that had nurtured their son and “baby brother.

Reporting to Kadena meant the real beginning of what Chris had so long sought: the realization of his dream of being an aviator. An Academy classmate writes:

Icould go on to tell you so many stories about Chris —and what afriend he [was] to me, but it just couldn’t do justice to what he really meant to me. There were so many nights (late nights!) that Chris and Iwould stay up and talk ... about so many things —family, friends —and the future ... And boy, how we would talk about the future, learning to fly and be¬ coming fighter pilots ... and what it might be like ... We both reached our goals ...

Ahigh-ranking Air Force officer who knew him well wrote the family:

.. .Chris was loved, respected and appreciated, not only for his courage and flying skills but for who he was as aperson. His zest for life and willingness to serve, despite the difficulty of

Avyn Fumio Yata, ’79

Christopher G. Bole, ’84

the mission, or the hours required, was inspirational to other air crews ...

Perhaps J.G. Magee said it best in his sonnet “High Flight:”

... Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue I’ve topped the windswept heights with easy grace

Where never lark, or even eagle flew.

And, while with silent, lifting mind I’ve trod

The high untrespassed sanctity of space.

Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.

Chris not only “touched the face of God,” he is now with God.

Amemorial fund has been established and donations may be sent to The Christopher G. Bole Memorial Fund, Association of Graduates, U.S. Air Force Academy, Colo. 80840-5000.

Ralph A. Cyr, ’84

1st Lt. Ralph A. Cyr, Class of 1984, lost his life on Oct. 9, 1986 in an F-16 accident near Shaw AFB, S.C.

By his many friends, Ralph will always be remembered. We’ll remember him with that ever-present smile and his endless good humor. We’ll remember and appreciate his sensitivity and sinceri¬ ty. We will especially remember his love for life and the people he lived it with. We’ll think of him many times in many ways and we will always remember “Ralphie,” our friend.

Further description of Ralph would seem incomplete without including his family life. Ralph’s love for his family was foremost in his life. He grew up in Pittsford, N.Y., with his mom and dad, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Cyr, and sister, Linda (Ralph’s selfproclaimed best friend). They collectively were his foundation and support —his first love. The times Ralph was able to share with them were the ones he cherished most.

Ralph graduated in 1984 with abachelor of science in basic academics. While at the Academy, he was amember of the 23rd and 6th Cadet Squadrons. Ralph played varsity soccer for his first three years, twice being named to the All Rocky Mountain Con¬ ference Team at the goal tending position. He still maintains a school record for nine shutouts in one season.

After graduation, Ralph entered undergraduate pilot training at Williams AFB, Ariz. After ayear of hard work and serious fun, Ralph achieved the major personal goal of becoming apilot for the U.S. Air Force. He then took an assignment at MacDill AFB, Fla. for training in the F-16 Fighting Falcon. He was per¬ manently assigned to Shaw AFB, S.C., at the time of his death.

Well Ralphie, the time grows short, Iknow you would have said it, so I’ll say it for you, “To all my friends —Fly On!

Take care —goodbye, buddy.

Amemorial fund has been established in Ralph’s memory. Contributions may be sent to the Ralph A. Cyr Memorial Fund, Association of Graduates, U.S. Air Force Academy, Colo. 80840-5000. (ILt Jeff Connors, ’84)

Ralph A. Cyr, ’84

The following poem was written for 1st Lt. Ralph A. Cyr’s parents by 1st Lt. Don C. Irwin, one of the honor guards at Ralph’s final tribute at the cemetery.

Seven guns fire thrice.

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—FLY ON —

Day is Done” the bugle cries.

The honor guard stands tall with pride

And slowly folds the Stars and Stripes. His friends stand quiet as the family is told

The flag is from anation bold. Bold with the freedom and the peace

Preserved by the sacrifice of men like this.

Mother’s eyes soon fill with tears

As father turns to face his peers. He wields asalute to the Men in Blue, Friends of his son, with whom he fl ew. Then heads arch back and ears attune

To the sound of freedom, the fighter engine’s boom.

Off in the distance the four can be seen

Wings sparkling amidst the sun’s gleam. Their approach is solemn, Atribute flown; One jet climbs sunward —He is gone. And as they must, the three fly on.

At presstime we had learned of the deaths of the follow¬ ing graduates:

William W. Vincent, Jr., Class of 1963, died at Marietta, Ga. on Sep. 18, 1985.

Roger T. Carlson, Class of 1967, died near New Braun¬ fels, Texas, on Nov. 19, 1986, of injuries received in an automobile accident.

William C. Martin, Class of 1972, died at San Diego, Calif, on Jan. 9, 1987.

Terry G. Berdine, Class of 1974, died at Sioux City, Iowa on Dec. 26, 1986.

Todd L. Spangler, Class of 1976, died near Goldsboro, N.C. on Nov. 8, 1986 as aresult of injuries received in an automobile accident.

James A. With, Class of 1976, died at the Gila Bend Gunnery Range, Airz. on Dec. 22, 1986 as aresult of an F-5F aircraft accident.

Kenneth D. Hoggatt, Class of 1982, died near Jordan, Ga. on Oct. 20, 1986 as aresult of an F-4E aircraft acci¬ dent.

Daniel E. Williams, Class of 1984, died near Fulton, Ind. on Jan. 8, 1987 as aresult of an A-10 aircraft accident. Our sincere condolences to the families and friends of these graduates. Their obituaries will appear in future issues of the magazine.

War Buddy Remembered: Wilson, ’62, Buried at Academy After 20 Years

By Thomas H. Morris, ’64

The Air Force announced the return of the remains of three U.S. servicemen from North Vietnam in acryptic statement from the Pentagon. Among those identified were the remains of Maj. Gordon S. Wilson of Hobart, Indiana. Scotty Wilson and Iwere crewed together when we were members of the 480th Tactical Fighter Squadron at DaNang Air Base, Republic of Vietnam. If I were to greet him, it might be something like this:

“So you are coming home at last, Scotty. How many times did we talk about what it would be like to be coming home? At that dusty, sprawling far-away air base on foreign soil, we dreamed of it. Coming home. We all counted each mission flown and mem¬ orized the number. One hundred flights over North Vietnam meant aticket back to the States. But that was 20 years ago in 1966. The war was hot then, and getting hotter. But now coming home is Just asingle line buried on the back pages of the newspaper. There are no brass bands or parades of veterans to¬ day. It’s ashame that more people didn’t know you as Iknew you.

“You graduated from the U.S. Air Force Academy in 1962, two years ahead of me. You were full of enthusiasm and eager to fly. After combat crew training in Florida, we found ourselves in July 1966 assigned as aF-4C Phantom crew at DaNang. Iwas your copilot or ‘GIB’ (guy in the backseat). Eighty percent of my time in Vietnam, Iflew with you. Our missions were varied. Many involved night interdiction flights. We attempted to illuminate enemy truck convoys and destroy them at choke points along the supply trails or at the ferries. Sometimes we flew fighter escort for ELINT aircraft, as they jammed the North Vietnamese radar. On other occasions we flew high cover for striking F-IOS aircraft as they hit the heavily defended targets near Hanoi.

“You were an outstanding pilot. You took pride in your flying talents. Iremember well your desire to outshine some of the older, more experienced officers in the squadron. You volun¬ teered for tough missions. In September, 1966 we were cited for destroying an anti-aircraft complex near Bac Ninh in spite of heavy enemy defenses including surface-to-air missiles. On an¬ other occasion you returned to attack an enemy emplacement dis¬ regarding the fact that our aircraft had been hit on the first pass.

“Pressure continued to build during the U.S. attacks on the north. In November, 1966 you and another copilot were assigned to be number two in aflight offour Phantoms on astrike mission near Hanoi. You knew your duty and you always were prepared to respond. The leader of the flight experienced difficulties with his aircraft as the warplanes approached the target area. He passed command of the mission on to you, Scotty. Just as you took the lead, aSAM burst through the gray undercast and destroyed your aircraft in flight. Asingle parachute blossomed, that of the copilot.

“It was difficult to write your wife and tell her that you were lost. But Idid. Isent her the best picture that Ihad of you beside our Phantom. For acouple of days your jaunty flight cap hung on the hook where you left it, as though you might come back at any moment. But it was never to be. The war droned on. Other pilots were shot down and never came back. Iwas transferred to Germany. Officially, you were declared missing in action. For awhile Iwore your name on an aluminum bracelet.

“Perhaps it is just as good that you didn’t come home until now. After the fighting stopped in Southeast Asia, America stumbled along for adecade. It was unable to project itself as the defender of liberty and democracy. Smaller nations mocked us and we seemed to be apowerless Sampson. The term Vietnam veteran in the minds of some became aeuphemism for adrug ad¬ dict or asocial misfit. Time has healed many of the old wounds.

But Istill feel the pride that we shared together in that far away place under difficult circumstances. You represented the high qualities of bravery, honor, and devotion. America can take great satisfaction that you were one of her sons. You were among the best and the brightest. So after all these years, Iwas glad to see your name in the newspaper. Welcome home, Scotty, welcome home at last. ”

The above article appeared in the Denton, Texas, RecordChronicle newspaper after an announcement by the Pentagon this past October that the remains of four American servicemen killed during the Vietnam war has been positively identified.

Maj. Gordon Scott Wilson, ’62, was laid to rest on Nov. 22, 1986 in the Air Force Academy cemetery, 20 years to the day that he was shot down over North Vietnam. Tom Morris attended Wilson’s funeral on that windy wintry day in November, as did Joe Crecca of Seattle, who was in the back seat of Wilson’s F-4 Phantom the day it was hit by asurface-to-air missile. After parachuting from the stricken aircraft, Crecca had spent eight years as aprisoner of war before he came home from Vietnam. But it was not until last April that Wilson’s remains were sent back from Hanoi.

Upon his release from Vietnam, Crecca reported that Wilson had also ejected from the aircraft but that his body was limp as the parachute carried it down to hostile territory. Crecca believed asecond missile fired at the jet exploded in midair, killing Wilson as he parachuted out of the cockpit.

Wilson’s daughter Jessica, 22, came to the funeral to honor the father she never knew. Also attending were Wilson’s half-brother and three sisters, along with other relatives. Three of the pilot’s high school classmates sat behind the family. Two of them clutched white roses and MIA bracelets bearing Wilson’s name. They had kept the bracelets for 20 years —bracelets that would now be buried with Wilson.

Joe Crecca’s short eulogy was followed by a21-gun salute and a bugler playing taps. Aplanned flyover of F-4s in the missing-man formation was cancelled because of the weather. Col. Michael Blaisdell, ’62, Wilson’s academy roommate 28 years before, presented Jessica Wilson with the flag from her father’s casket “with the thanks of agrateful nation.’’ The 20-year ordeal had ended.

Flowers and an MIA bracelet grace Gordon Wilson’s coffin at his funeral in November at the Academy Cemetery. (Photo by Jerilee Bennett, photographer, Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph newspaper)

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CLASS NEWS

R.L, Penn

7968 Hiddenbridge Drive Springfield, VA 22153

(703) 455-8575

Percent members: 74 3.T,

We are saddened by the death of Tom STACK’S wife, Ann, last Oc¬ tober, after along siege of cancer. Tom is now living in Greensboro, NC.

Jim BROWN sends thanks to the 114 who fi lled in and returned the class information forms. We now have addresses of all but MELANCON and BARTHOLOMEW. If you’ve not yet returned the poop to Jim, you’ve no doubt lost the blank form. Get with it. Ask ’im for another: 626 Candleglo Dr., San Antonio, TX 78239. The data base is only as good as the info that we put into it to keep it current. Please send in change of address, status, job, phone, etc. Jim will forward address changes to the AOG and Athletic Association. The database will be very useful in keep¬ ing the class together. All the regional whips and deputy whips get copies of their areas.

Word comes from several sources that Leo PRESCOTT is touring the country selling the Prescott Pusher, asingle engine, kit-built, T-tail, rearengine, fun machine. The company newspaper gives Leo some credit for early development, but apparently his much younger brother was the real brains in the design, and Leo did initial test flights. He gives demo rides to classmates whom he likes. One such source reports that the ’chine is, “neat, roomy, quiet, stable, responsive (hmm, ain’t maneuverability and stability opposing forces?), and has good external visibility.’’ Ican’t en¬ dorse that glowing sales pitch ’cause I’ve not yet had the pleasure of flying it. Bring it out my way, Leo, and I’ll show you atrick! Ichallenge you to an ACM ride and bet my airchine and apocketknife on my usual success. Everybody ought to have an airplane—they’re good for making large sums of money disappear without atrace. I’m sure Leo gives discounts to classmates. GROARK, HUNDEMER and Dedub MILLER are talkin’ T-6s—that’s aman’s airplane!

Voyager’s ’round the world flight broke Bill TELFORD’S unrefueled distance record set in 1962 in aB-52H. Incidentally, that flight was planned to have gone from Okinawa to Tripoli, but they got lost and only made It to Madrid, 1050nm less. Good navigators are like smart fighter pilots—not many of ’em.

Photo of Tom and Pappy is not an enlargement—that’s the way the camera saw it.

to Hickam for the winter so that H.T. can be Vice CINC PACAF. (Is it possible that H.T. is gaining that breadth of experience required of a Chief of Staff?) M.P.C. and Mrs. CARNS departed Hickeerooroo for APO 96408. As seems customary, he don’t say what the activity is. 13AF/CC, Mike? If you read, sqwawk flash.

Seems that 74% of the fi rst class are AOG members. Wonder why the other 26% aren’t.

Denny SEE had anot-so-serious heart attack. (Or is that term in the same category as a“good navigator’’?) He’s back at work and as irascible as ever. He retired from the AF/IG last July, and is now in the notorious¬ ly bad company of beltway bandits. After astint of flying little-bitty airplanes delivering bank checks, Leigh HUNT is now flying medevac jets. Doesn’t sound like as much fun, but the pay’s better, and he needs the cash. Anyway, he and Cealie now take more vacations to Utah than ever before. Cash flow reminds me of STROM: what’s he do for Burl¬ ington Northington? Well, he’s putting in acomputerized command & control system which integrates GPS. The current act for train drivers is to go balls to the wall so as to arrive at their next assigned intersection ahead of the assigned time; then slow, or stop, and wait their turn to cross. With Brock’s new system, each train will be assigned an optimum speed between switching points to conserve diesel fuel and brakes. Brock expects a5-10% fuel savings! As much petrol as Burlington uses, that should be adequate to provide his compensation for ayear or two.

Wayne and Karen PITTMAN are returning to the CONUS! Well, ac¬ tually, not anytime soon. Wayne is going to 3AF for athree-year stint, hich keeps ’em in merry ole England for the remainder of acareer. Ron LANMAN is principal deputy director of the DCA Center for Command &Control Communications Systems. With ajob title like that, he don’t need aduty description! He don’t know the square root of Ccube, but he may yet disprove the old dog theory.

Jon GALLO is surely the most faithful purveyor of poop to this grateful scribe. Jon’s now the director of Marketing and Special Events for Front Range Airport, Denver, That means he puts on air shows, trade shows and such fun activities. In the winter when the flying’s not so hec¬ tic, Jon may slip off (pardon the expression) to the slopes for some skiing. Jon claims that he owes all his success as an airport marketeer to his ex¬ perience as an action officer in the five-sided hangar! 1just knew that travail must have been good for something—now can 1get ajob?

O.K., you, Dumbsquat, how long since you’ve offered up any poop for dissemination to your classmates? You could gimme acall right now at the above-listed phone. If you can’t afford the long-distance rate, charge it to an airline pilot, but don’t call collect.

Andi Biancur

2Sycamore Lane Littleton, CO 80127 (303) 979-2228

Percent members: 75

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Our designated scribe. Dale MAYO, has just recently changed domicile to ever-exciting Southern California from equally-exciting Pennsylvania, and is all geared up with transitioning to anew air machine in sunny Florida. Can you imagine anyone in the class allowing his occupation and making adollar to get in the way of the self-fulfilling production of the quarterly class column? Having recently “graduated” from the Air Force myself and settling here in Colorado, Iam not fully aware of all the class happenings, but Iagreed to pinch for Dale at the last moment. Iguess It is all fair since BIANCUR comes before MAYO or even BOYINGTON in the latest version of the alphabet and at the 25-Year Reunion, when Dale opted to write the column, Ipledged to give him an assist.

Since Iam without much current intelligence, let me describe in alittle more detail the ’60 Tailgate mentioned in the previous issue of Check¬ points which welcomes all ’60 grads here during the football season. Following Jim and Linda GLAZA’s lead, prior to every home game, several families meet in the stadium parking lot for nourishment and for¬ tification. The gathering centers around Jim’s big black Lincoln Con-

Following an executive breakfast in Alameda, the Property Investments Board of Directors met with Ambassador-at-Large Jo DeSantis. Board members are Greg Boyington, Ms. Teffa (V.P. for Collections and Security), and Tom Chase.

New Two-Stars: Dave GOODRICH and Larry FORTNER. Larry’s the new Deputy IG in the Pentagon. Dave gets to finish the winter in New York ’cause Kitty likes the snow. H.T. and Linda JOHNSON have gone

Andi and Joan Biancur with four-foot sub sandie they brought to Glaza’s tailgate.

tinental which flies aClass of ’60 blue-and-white flag high above it. I don’t want to say that auto is aclassic but Jim has to mix Geritol with the gasoline to get the beast to make the trip to the stadium from C-Springs. It does have enough space to transport all the necessary items for asuc¬ cessful lunch and after game bracer.

Regular attendees include; Wayne and Barb KENDALL, Dick and Sharon SCHEHR, Gary and Barbara CREW, Jock and Hope SCHWANK, Jim and Linda GLAZA, Jim and Bev O’ROURKE (who regularly fly over from Salt Lake City), Earl and Pat VANINWEGEN — when he can make it, and this season, Joan and 1. It is truly afamily event, as most of us at one time or another have one or more other dependents in tow. We are frequently joined by members of other classes and by our classmates’ sons and daughters in the wing who stop by to check on us and sample the food which always seems to be present. I wholeheartedly recommend that anytime any of you find yourselves in the area for any reason that you not miss this gathering. It makes the cold of Falcon Stadium more pleasant and gives you something to do after the game while waiting for the traffic to clear.

For many of us the 25th Class Reunion in 1986 foretold by ayear or so akey celebration of the marriage vows —a25th anniversary. If you are at aloss as to an appropriate token of that event, you might consider a miniature class ring. 1think it is worthy to note that Gary Autrey, 6100 East 39th Avenue, Denver, CO 80207, our original class ring supplier, is still serving our class needs. Ms. Tammy Shriner (303) 388-4151 is very helpful and willing to provide any materials she can.

No class column would be complete without some mention of the whereabouts of some of our classmates. Although the 1986 Register of Graduates shows Ted STUMM at Pope AFB, 1know he and Dona moved to Hq/MAC-XP this last summer. It was obviously too much for Tony BURSHNICK (the MAC/XP), so he and Karen drifted —by order of — to the five-sided squirrel cage, joining Mike LOH and Ron YATES, both in RD. Of course Tony still has the hammer as he Is helping the Air Force solve the personnel puzzle. By the way, Tony’s son is currently attending the USAFA Prep School with thoughts of cutting out his own nitch in the Air Force. Iran into Billy DELONY in Salt Lake City this fall where he, looking quite executive, was very ably representing ahi-tech engineering firm in Orlando, FL which claims him. Why is it some guys never age? Bill looks like he graduated yesterday. Miles KASPAR, can you tell me how one goes from PanAm in New York to United Airlines in Los Angeles? Also Isaw Bill KORNITZER in Washington DC where he is try¬ ing to establish some credibility with the commercial world as aconsul¬ tant with McDonnell Douglas. Iwonder if it is apro or acon to have Mike Loh as his brother in law.

Ipromised Linda Glaza Iwould make apitch for the joint reunion cruise of Classes ’59, ’60, ’61, and ’62 planned for late spring 1988. The response to the first mailing was good, but not good enough to make too many serious commitments. So, standard procedure, asecond mailing is in the works. The casual word around is the deal being cut by the shakers and bakers promises avery memorable cruise at avery reasonable cost. Keep an eye on the mails for more details. 1forgot to ask if they had found aship large enough to carry afull supply of pork chops for Deke.

Randy Cubero

7163 Wintery Loop

Colorado Springs, CO 80919

Home: (303) 598-7155

AV: 259-3820

Percent members: 76 m

Well good people, this article will have asingle focus —our 25th re¬ union. It’s designed mainly to give those who couldn’t make it asense of what happened and to give those who could some afterthoughts from your planning committee. It was fantastic seeing everyone again and amazingly we had 110 classmates return from apossible 195. We got together on Thursday night, October 9th, at the Embassy Suites and the first picture gives you an idea of the setting. We had aregistration room set up to the right; and after everyone gathered up their tickets and pur¬ chased merchandise, we all retired to the happy-hour bar in the background. That evening nothing was planned and everyone just min¬ gled to the wee hours of the morning.

Friday, Oct. 10th, we started off the day’s activities with “state of the wing” briefings from the dean, the comm, the chief-of-staff, and the director of athletics. John Clune, the athletic director, was last to speak and said he felt like Elizabeth Taylor’s seventh husband. He knew what had to be done but he wasn’t sure he could make it interesting. After the briefings the entire reunion group, some 230 people with wives and dependents, walked over to the overlook memorial site and presented our

USAFA Joint Reunion Cruise Launched

(Classes of ’59, ’60, ’61, ’62 and Staff)

Enjoy asun-drenched holiday in the Caribbean, and share it with classmates, family, and friends of days yore. Seven whole days of R& R(relaxation and reminiscences) on board aluxurious cruise ship. Fun-filled nights and sun-filled days!! Our ship will be afloating reunion of those who shared the first years of the Air Force Academy. Over 100 are already signed up. Join the fun!!!

Contact the AOG for details on how to be apart of this reunion. Call commercial (303) 472-4513/2067 or autovon 259-4513.

Jim Glaza with his daughter, Shari, at right, and her roomie Kylene Jones, Tony’s daughter, at Fort Lewis College, Durango, CO.

lose her acouple of times, as she was trying to catch her breath from all the laughing she was doing. We inducted CMSgt Bill COLTRIN, our Sergeant Major, as our third honorary class member. If you remember, Mrs. MAC and Jim CONBOY were the first two recipients of that award. Bill made aspecial trip from California and spoke very nostalgically of the “good ole days.”

Brice JONES also came through with cases upon cases of that special elixir he himself brews in the Sonoma Valley. His wine —Imean our wine —never tasted better. That special blend of great wine, warm compa¬ nionship and stirring music put us all on anatural high for the entire even¬ ing. Speaking of the good ole days, here’s an interesting shot in that everyone in the picture belonged to the “ole” 12th squadron; TAYLOR, WILLIAMS, SANZENBACHER, HARDAGE, CROLL, HINKLE, WILLIS, (kneeling) BRICKEY and CASSIDY. The only known person missing was Henry HOWE. That’s amazing!!

class gift to the Academy. For me, naturally, that was the culmination of many months of wringing my hands and wiping my brow. Tom ELLER did the honors and spoke eloquently on the significance of our gift in terms of beauty, permanence, and symbolism. We then walked back to the cadet chapel for our groupy pictures. First everyone, and then just the guys. After that the golfers retired to the golf course, the racquetball players to the gym, and everyone else did whatever they wanted for the afternoon: sightseeing, visiting with friends, walking around the old cam¬ pus, or napping to conserve their strength.

In the evening we went to the very elegant Antlers Hotel in Colorado Springs and had our formal dinner, complete with amagnificent master of ceremonies. Hector Andres NEGRONI. We made aspecial presenta¬ tion to CMSgt William COLTRIN, and were privileged to conclude the evening with an American salute in song by the fabulous “Moods-inBlue” of the Academy. To say Hector was superb is an understatement. He kept everyone in stitches with his quick wit and humorous stories. Mrs. MCCOMAS was sitting at our table and Ithought we were going to

Class of ’61

Well Represented at 25th Reunion

The next day, Saturday, Oct. 11th, Mother Nature struck alow blow. With our heads filled with bubbles as we slept, anasty blizzard came roll¬ ing in and dropped the temperature to below freezing. Talk about your typical Colorado weather, one day we’re playing golf in our shirt sleeves and the next day we’re bundled up for atrip to the tundra region. The first event on Saturday was asomewhat incredible renewal of vows at the chapel. We had 30 couples sign up saying they would be there. How many of the 30 couples do you think made it —especially after the late night at the Antlers, the snow storm, and the early 0700 show time at the chapel? Unbelievably, 19 couples showed up. Bob BRICKEY, who swore to me that he would be there, didn’t make it. 1came to find out later that he got confused as to which came fi rst, the renewal or the consummation. God love ’im!

The next event was my reunion favorite only because we really lucked out in the planning. One of my worker bees, Ed Rozdal, my exec officer, convinced me in August to order atent for the tailgate party just in case the weather turned bad. What foresight! The next picture tells it all.

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While people were freezing their fannies off in the parking lot, the en¬ tire Class of ’61 had shelter from the storm, ared-and-while tent with two bars set up at either end, catered bratwurst, potato salad and chips, and six heaters that gave our tailgate an embryonic warm environment. We only had to beat away afew “tailgate-crashers,” but my God Istill can’t get over how we lucked out. The Navy game was surprisingly one-sided and thanks to our ageless cheerleaders, P. B. O’CONNOR and Hector Andres NEGRONI, the class once again made the 12th-man difference in our lopsided 40-6 win. We were feeling no pain! Thank goodness the alcohol content in our blood system was high enough to prevent any freezing of the arteries.

That evening we met in the Embassy Suites again for our “nostalgia night.” After some heavy hors d’oeuvres 1showed the class some of the bizarre slides that were sent to me over the last year depicting life as we knew it then; two-star football classmates in female nighties, wine cooling in abidet, and someone accosting afemale snowperson were only afew of the weird ones. The presentation ended with areenactment of our gradua¬ tion. We were fortunate in fi nding aseven-minute fi lmstrip on our graduation ceremony which showed alot of us with firm bellies and only one chin (unfortunately no one was recongizable). Aftewards, we had our traditional “open-mike” session where anumber of classmates unlocked some beautifully sentimental thoughts, and we ended the evening with the same warm glow that has become so characteristic of the greytag meetings. (My secretary couldn’t read my writing, so the first draft came out “greytop meeting.” She only calls them as she sees them!) The next morning many made the fi nal brunch at Arnold Hall and Iknow as we sat at the cadet tables on the floor of Mitchell Hall, we became aware that 25 years were seemingly compressed into the blink of an eye. We departed after the brunch with handshakes and hugs; knowing that true friendships are unaffected by time.

For those who could not make it, Ihope some of the flavor of the re¬ union came through along with the words. In afterthought, there were so many people who helped, in and out of the class, it would take another two or three pages to thank them all. So for all you helpers we thank you one and all. One activity that preceded the reunion which deserves some special recognition, was the “bio” book created by Brice JONES. What a treasure to read about the varied lives, the joys, the disappointments, and the inner reflections of our scattered peers. Idid also want to mention that for those who received the book the only correction to be made, that Iknow of, was for Ken JOHNSON, who honestly didn’t say, “he wanted to chase women the remaining days of his life.” OK, ’fess up whoever

said that! Iknow alot of you were thinking that, but 1wanna know who said it!

1leave you now with athought from David CUBERO, eldest son of Ruben A., and participant/observer of “nostalgia night.” When everything was all over and we were milling around he casually said, “Gee Dad, you guys were really special!”

“Right on son—right on!!”

John W. (Jack) Jamba

4Judy Court

Satellite Beach, FL 32937

Home: (305) 777-5520

Of fi ce: (305) 867-7761

Percent members: 66

Hi REDTAGS! Mike QUINTON sent me apicture of the tailgate party that took place before the AFA-San Diego State game on October 25. All Redtags in the Southern California and Southern Nevada area are reminded that the San Diego County Chapter of the AOG hosts apre¬ game tailgate party whenever the Falcons play in San Diego. The party starts two hours before kickoff in area H-3 of the stadium parking lot. You are all invited.

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Attending the tailgate party at the San Diego State Game are Ken Flem¬ ing, Charlie Hale, Mike Quinton and Stan Patrie.

Also, Mike said that he occasionally sees Ken NEEDHAM in San Diego on business trips for ARINC. Another ARINC traveler who passes through San Diego occasionally is Bob SCAUZILLO. Bob and Ken work in the same dept at ARINC. Another San Diego inhabitant, Stan PATRIE, is theorizing about the aftereffects that will occur now that his company, PSA Airlines, has been purchased by USAir. Stan could wind up with expanded simulator training. Drop me aline, Stan.

Ihave afew change-of-address cards to report. Chuck LARSON has moved from McChord AFB to an off-base residence in Tacoma. What does it mean Chuck? Dino LORENZINI is now retired and has moved to anew home in Great Falls, VA. What are you doing now, Dino? Now that you are in Great Falls, you are aneighbor of Ted DYKES who sup¬ plied me with afamily picture and afamily newsletter for the Christmas season. Herewith are some excerpts. “Son, Chris, has transferred to the Philadelphia College of Arts but did not initially receive full credit for prior classes in Maryland. However, his performance was so good that the college reviewed his records and accepted afull year of additional credit. He will graduate in May. He also did asummer internship with Black and Decker. Chris has received two patents for his designs. The new Legos toy containers feature his design. And his Black and Decker hand steamer is being tooled in Japan and will be out later this year. However, his dream is to design cars... Daughter Tammy married Dave (nicknamed Montana) in August. He is a1985 graduate of Annapolis who switched to the Marine Corps and is currently in pilot training at Pensacola. Tammy, meanwhile, is working at alocal hospital in the pediatric intensive care unit... Marcy says she stayed busy all summer making the gowns for Tammy’s wedding and doing all the preparations for the wedding. Ted spent almost the entire time from May to September in Denver on abig company project. He took out enough time to walk Tammy down the aisle. And now that Ted is back, the Washington area Redtags will proba¬ bly be urging him to put on another mini-reunion. In any event, drop me aline.”

The Dykes family at Tammy’s wedding. In the back row are Ted, Chris and Marcy and in front are Dave, Tammy and grandmother.

Got word that Don SHEPPERD is being transferred from Tucson to Otis ANGB to take command of the 102nd FIW. Ialso understand that Don has ason at Annapolis in the class of 1990. Additionally, Erv ROKKE has ason at Annapolis in the class of 1989.

Got aletter from Joe DESANTIS, Class of ’59, asking me to publicize the Joint Reunion Cruise in 1988. You should all have received arecent mailing concerning the cruise but Iwant to give it another push. It sounds like agreat idea to have achance to reminisce with the other three classes. And aseven-day cruise in the eastern Caribbean in late spring will give us great off-season rates and great weather. So if the space shuttle schedule will permit me some slack time, we plan to go.

Now for more address changes. George HARRISON has moved from Virginia to some place in Europe. What’s up, George? Paul ROBINSON has moved from Fairfax, VA, to Las Vegas. And John BROTHERS has retired in Albuquerque and accepted aposition as the manager of the Albuquerque Project Office for Science Applications International Corp. He is living in arental unit while his new house is being built. And Dick SMULL has anew P.O. box in Wash DC.

Ihad avisit from Geoff ENGELS before Christmas. He came down to Patrick to monitor progress on acontract that had been let by Warner Robins ALC. Geoff recalled his long legal battle with the Air Force to correct his military records. He appealed his failure to make promotion and his subsequent involuntary separation from the Air Force. He won his case and was reinstated to active duty with two retroactive promotions and back pay. He remained on active duty for two years and then retired. During the years that his case was pending, he worked for Civil Service at Warner Robins as an engineer. Now that he’s retired, he is working for Civil Service again. During some of his spare time he is building aplane from akit. He also has asmall consulting business on the side dealing in plastics and composites. All in all he’s enjoying what he is doing. It was great seeing afellow New Jerseyite after all these years.

One more story about promotions. Willie GRAY has been engaged in an appeal process for afew years also. He eventually got one or two OERs removed from his records and petitioned for another promotion review board. After one or two setbacks, he was able to persevere. A special promotion board was convened and they felt that he would have been promoted. So Willie received his promotion to colonel retroactive for approximately three years with retroactive pay. Of course that makes him one of the most senior colonels on base and in prime consideration for anew assignment. But sly Willie has wangled ajob as chief of Plans and Programs for the Eastern Space and Missile Center. So he should be staying around for ayear or two.

Igot aletter from George BIFOLCHI in the fall. He retired in 1982 and returned to the San Bernardino area where he became active in real estate. Son Chris (21) attends college locally and daughter Cara (17) is in her final year of high school. “Both have grown into wholesome, attractive adults and are asource of endless pride to me... Had occasion to visit

Abilene last year and discovered Scott FISHER moving in as the TAC Wing VC. His kindness and hospitality were limitless; so too his vintage wine stock. Ifully expected to find awine press somewhere in the midst of his belongings. We enjoyed some glowing reminiscences over academic waste, nostalgic fright flights, devious plot themes at the puzzle palace, duck hunting foibles and women. You name it; we discussed it... Idi¬ vorced about ayear ago. I’ve sold the house and moved into alocal apart¬ ment. Having recently completed acourse in real estate appraisal, Ihope now to mine the lucre in that field. I’ll close for now. Cordially, George.” Thanks for the letter, George.

Ialso got aletter from Fred HENDRYX just before Thanksgiving. Fred and Arlene had come down to Melbourne, FL to attend Fred’s parents’ 50th wedding anniversary. Unfortunately Fred did not have my unlisted phone number and tried to make contact by finding my house. He found it and left anote on my front door. But 1didn’t find it for aday because the family uses the garage door most of the time. In any event, here are some words from his letter. Fred and Arlene stopped off at Pope AFB where they still have ahouse. Then astop at Charleston and Epcot Center in Orlando. During the summer they sold their house and are now having anew house built. They are temporarily living in atwo-bedroom townhouse. They face the problems most of us have faced: stuffing 15 years of accumulated belongings from afour-bedroom house with full basement into smaller temporary quarters. Thank goodness for garage sales and garbage dumps. The new house is still under construction... They have been able to get together with the Tom YOUNGs, Dave LEEs, and Bob KUCHLEWSKIs. The group went to the SW Ohio AOG State of the Wing Dinner, plus several other dinners and events. In October, 42 Cincinnati Parents Club members went to the Notre Dame game and joined up with the Wright-Pat, Michigan and Illinois groups... Fred and Arlene plan to attend the 25th reunion. They were at the 20th and wouldn’t think of missing the next one... Arlene is still working part time 40 hours aweek. She is doing some traveling to Chicago, Atlanta, Dallas, and San Diego. (Don’t forget the tailgate party if you’re there during a USAFA game.) They ran into Jerry AHMANN (’63) in the Cincy airport. He’s acaptain for Delta. They chatted for an hour. She boarded the flight and was summarily moved to first class. Jerry had set it up with the Chicago crew. It was anice gesture but it has spoiled Arlene for first-class travel from now on.

Their oldest son. Bob, entered the Air Force last year and also got mar¬ ried. He completed basic and tech schools with honors and is now sta¬ tioned near Naples, Italy. By the time you read this, Juanita should have made them grandparents. They plan to visit Italy in the Spring. They went to San Antonio for Bob’s graduation from basic and spent an enjoyable evening with Niels and Melodye JENSEN. (Hey Niels, Ihaven’t heard from you in along time; how about ashort note soon.) Their youngest son graduated from Miami of Ohio with abusiness degree and is now working in Aetna Insurance in the Surity Bonding Dept in Cincinnati. He has apart-time job with aformer company and does contracting work in his spare time. And he still has time to date and party. God bless youth... Fred attended acourse on quality in Wash. DC and talked briefly to Bob LIGHTSEY. Bob’s nickname. Running Bear, is really Running Bare...loss of hair...Fred says, “As you can tell, Ido try to make contact

Jack Jamba, at left and Geoff Engels enjoy afew laughs at Jack’s house. They hadn’t seen each other since graduation.

with RTBs when Itravel and if anyone comes into the Cincy-Dayton area, Ihope they look me up. We will have plenty of room for visitors in the new house. We are only an hour from Wright-Patterson but will travel any distance for adinner and party with USAFA grads, especially RTBs.” Thanks for the letter Fred.

Got aletter from Jack SWONSON. “Planning for our 25th REDTAG Reunion is well underway. It will be held the weekend of the USAFANotre Dame game, 15-18 October, 1987. You should have received by now the first mailout showing the proposed schedule of events and con¬ taining aquestionnaire. We need you to complete the questionnaire and return it to the AOG as soon as possible, to facilitate more detailed plan¬ ning. We’ve blocked aset of rooms at Cheyenne Mountain Inn, one of the finest hotels/resorts in Colorado. We’ve also reserved their spacious banquet room for both the Friday night banquet and Nostalgia Night on Saturday. Not only is this asuperb facility for these functions, but it will also allow us to centralize the major functions in the same location as our lodging which will minimize transportation hassles. Their other amenities (lounges, restaurants, health spa, golf course, racquet center, indoor pool, billiards, etc) are outstanding, and the cuisine is fantastic. So send in your questionnaire and plan on joining us for one of the best weekends of your life. Our next mailout will include brochures and reservation cards for the Cheyenne Mountain Inn.

Also included in the previous mailout was aletter and questionnaire regarding aproposed gift from the Class of ’62 to the Academy to be presented during the Reunion. Please let us know your feelings and ideas regarding this concept also. This questionnaire is on the opposite side of the Reunion questionnaire. Both should be sent to the AOG.

We have no current address for the following classmates. If you know how we can reach them or have any Idea where they are, please call the AOG (303) 472-2067 or drop apostcard letting us know. We want to be able to get reunion information to every REDTAG.

Col Frederick MBanks

Col Gordon FBillington

Mr Ronald WDuvall

Mr Evan CFunk

Mr Maynard TGoldsmith

Mr Robert AHenshaw

Mr Richard KJohnson

Maj August LKeyes (Ret)

Maj Lawrence ALynn, Jr (Ret)

Maj Jerome CMacLennan

Mr Nels NNiemi

Mr Gene CPacina

Maj Robert DPaquet (Ret)

Col David JPederson

Maj Colin Richardson (Ret)

LtCol Robert CSchaller (Ret)

Mr John ESmith

Mr Edward TSpicer

Col Roy WStafford, Jr

Col Richard CWheeler (Ret)

Maj Lyle EWilson (Ret)

Maj Joseph RZaleski

That’s it for now. Thanks for all the help with this column. Jack.

Skip Lee

811 Reiss Road

O’Fallon, IL 62269-1225

Home: (618) 632-8599

AV: 638-4886

Percent members: 71

This issue of the “Class News” is due in to the AOG office by December 24th—Christmas Eve—so, before we go any further, let me and mine wish you and yours avery merry Christmas and amost pro¬ sperous and happy New Year!

The Lee family has alot to be grateful for come 1987: Susan will graduate from Colorado University (Boulder) 21 December. That means only one in college at atime. David will graduate from O’Fallon High in June. Talk about good planning. Yes, let’s talk about some planning. As Iintimated in the Fall 86 issue, we were considering departure from active duty —notice Idid not say retire. Well, those plans will come to pass on 1 September 1987. The papers are in and approved. That means two of us, Susan and I, will be submitting resumes after the first of the year. Hope Linda gets araise.

The decision to leave active duty—see, Idid it again—was adifficult one to make but now that it has been made we are really anxious to try out some new experiences; although Ihaven’t aclue as to what Iwill be doing on 1Sep 87.

Last month Jim and Chan KUHN made several attempts to call me— with some difficulty Imight add. For that Iapologize. It wasn’t telephone difficulty, just my schedule. We finally made contact and am Iglad. Chan filled me in on avery exciting trip they and the North Texas Chapter of the AOG are trying to put together. Itried but was unable to get it into the fall issue—the presses were rolling. Here is what Jim and Chan passed on; asix-night seven-day happening at the Paris Air Show. That’s right—Paris, France not Paris, Texas. The trip includes special invita-

tions to visit the Chalets on the flight line—something not normally open to the public. Other activities include shopping, tours of Paris, avisit to the Louvre, atour of Versailles, afarewell banquet and plenty of free time. The all-inclusive price will be around $1,650 per person. If you are interested call Jim or Chan at (214) 245-5140. Jim also passed on afew in¬ formational tidbits: Lee LILLY is working for Northrop in the Chicago area. Four of our guys have upgraded to captain—three for American: Clem KALBERER, Denny KING, and Ken HAR; and Jerry AHMANN for Delta. 1heard from areliable source American will upgrade over 600 first officers to captain in 1987. Jim also said he lunched with Jerry McCLELLAN while on avisit to Chicago.

Iwent to the Air Force-Notre Dame game at South Bend and spent an enjoyable evening catching up with J.T. and Sandy JJEAL. Imust admit the game wasn’t much to watch but Sandy is areal winner! Jeff told me Doug fJARDGRAVE has taken on ajob with General Dynamics at Ft. Worth. The new Register con fi rmed same!

Out of the blue Igot aphone call from one of my old roommates— Dave NUSS. Fie had two pieces of good news: first, he has returned to the “lower forty-eight,” and second, he was selected for colonel—in the primary zone. Dave’s retirement date was adjusted to 1996 based on his time out of the service. Right now he is assigned to the AF IG Directorate of Medical Inspection at Norton but plans an ASAP if not earlier return to Alaska. Ella and the family stayed in Alaska; Dave says they couldn’t stand the heat in Southern California. Congratulations on the promotion Dave.

More news from Alaska! Bill POVILUS has moved up from 21 TFW/CC to vice commander of Alaskan Air Command.

While on an inspection trip to NAS Moffett (San Jose, CA), 1got to visit briefly with Jim MARTIN and Barry BELINSKI. Avery enjoyable time. Barry is flying the 727 for Ichan Air Lines otherwise known as TWA. In his spare time he fl ies the HH-3 with the California Air Guard 129 ARRG—the unit we were visiting and asuper outfit. Barry and Seonaid also own arestaurant in Los Gatos, CA called Mimi’s Roof Top Cafe. Seonaid not only manages the restaurant but also found time to complete her doctorate in Education from USC. Barry reports he may have to move to Chicago in order to upgrade to captain. Talk about a two-sided coin. Finally, he couldn’t stop talking about their son, Christopher, age two. Wait ’til he is 18 and you spend more time talking to him than talking about him.

Jim martin’s son was also atopic of conversation. Young Martin graduated from USAFA last May and has already finished T-37s at Vance. Dad is aflier as well—in spades. Jim is current in about 14 dif¬ ferent aircraft, although 1will reserve my opinion on an exact definition of “aircraft.” He flies everything from the C-141A and C-130, something 1know alittle about, to the Bell Tilt Rotor prototype of the soon-to-be CV-22 and the Me Donnell Douglas AV-8B Harrier. Iknow even less about those aircraft. Truthfully, Iam green with envy. As if he didn’t get enough fl ying, Jim also fl ies the C-141B with the Reserves at Travis. How does he remember how to get all those different kinds of machines started? One sure thing about the flying around Moffett, you couldn’t ask for more fantastic sightseeing. Just shooting approach at Monterey Air¬ port is atreat—all those golf courses. Alice, 1bet Jack hasn’t been on one of those neat courses except to run.

Andy CHUBATY added anote to the change-of-address card he sent to the AOG. Good idea! The note, paraphrased, says he has been working with the Veteran’s Administration since graduating from law school with duty stations in San Francisco, Pittsburgh and now St. Petersburg, FL. Sounds more like the NFL. Jean and family have moved back home to Lawrenceville, GA (outside Atlanta) while Andy continues to seek federal employment in Atlanta. Thanks Andy.

Other changes: A1 BEAUCHEMIN is the new CES Commander at Mc¬ Clellan, Rich O’LEAR has moved to C-Springs—1 assume Space Com¬ mand, Bob VENKUS is now at Eglin, John BORLING is at Offutt as CINCSAC’s exec, Grover MUSSELWHITE is the 40th TAC Group vice commander at Aviano, Kent HARBAUGH’s address changed from Lon¬ don to Alconbury, and A1 WOLF moved to Centerport, NY. Bill DEE is calling Epping, NH home. “D” HENDERSON has moved from Tyndall to Northern Virginia (Vienna), and last but not at all least, Bob HEAVNER checked in with his whereabouts, the Department of Economics at Westmont College, Santa Barbara, CA.

Bill EBERT dropped by while he was visiting St. Louis and Scott. Says they have settled in Fairfax, VA and Bill appears to be enjoying the challenge of his new job at the Naval Observatory. We gave him atour of the Air Force Rescue Coordination Center (AFRCC) and showed him some of our new whiz-bang computer/satellite technology used to locate aircraft and ships in distress. Bill was impressed.

Iwent over the new issue of the 1986 Register of Graduates last night and noticed alot of folks have changed jobs/locations without telling

your “scribe.” Shame! More of you have failed to update the AOG of your current status. That is also not too acceptable.

Flash! Ron FOGLEMAN was selected for his second star. Just as Iwas putting this article to bed the major general’s selection list was an¬ nounced. Icannot believe Iwould be interested in any general of fi cer pro¬ motion list. Wow! Our sincerest congratulations go to Ron and Jane.

Bob Hovde

31 Chelmsford Rd. Bedford, MA 01730

Home: (617) 275-3404

Of fi ce: (617) 271-3138

AV: 478-5980 “MITRE 3138”

Percent members: 68

Seasons Greetings out there in ’64-land! Iguess Ishould have said that last time, but it was still warm when Iwrote the last column, and there is snow outside now. Boston may be alot more expensive than Washington, DC, but it sure is alot colder!

NEWS: We are not totally without news in Boston, however. The Boston Globe (Page 27, 16 Oct) had asmall blurb on “Veteran shuttle astronaut Frederick GREGORY [who] has been named chief of NASA’s new operational safety branch.” Fred will have oversight of all NASA ground and flight safety. (I’m not quite sure if that makes him an impor¬ tant of fi cial or atarget.)

Also, Steve RITCHIE made the Air Force Times again. It said that he will join a“suburban Washington, DC, design and development firm... Barlows Inc. of Falls Church, VA,” Iguess Steve has figured out that changing jobs is OK, but that moving households is not as much fun as it was 20 years ago (when it all fit in the back of acar).

CHANGE-OF-ADDRESS CARDS: Fred WALKER has moved back to Washington, DC, in OJCS/J33 at the Pentagon. Ray THOMAS has made it back to California, and is living in La Jolla (tough life). Lee CONNER moved twice, but is still in Montgomery, AL. (Some of these moves are very interesting, but very few of you write any explanation on the cards.) Milt RUTTER lives in Conneaut, OH. (Milt apparently has had some trouble with AOG mail, since he writes that he has missed AOG mailings for ayear, has not moved, and has never lived in Hawaii.)

Dick HAWLEY is now at APO SF 96366. Frank BARTLETT, on the other hand, just returned from Germany, and is at Mountain Home, ID. Chuck HANDLEY is working for Bendix in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Gary MATTHES likes hot weather, too. He just moved on base at Edwards AFB, CA from Lancaster. A1 ROGERS is now at Quarters 4, Offutt AFB, NE. Last, but not least. Bob CLARK wrote areal (albeit short) let¬ ter to say that he is now director of Inspections, HQ USAFE/IGI at Ramstein AB, GE.

OTHER HAPPENINGS: Sandy and Iwent to the AF-Army game on a bus from Hanscom. After a fi ve-hour drive in the rain on an Air Force bus, cold and wet end-zone seats, and avaliant but losing effort by the team, we at least had one heck of agood party in the West Point motor pool garage until 11 p.m. Idon’t think that the West Point superintendent had any idea that the buses from Hanscom included two generals (Brig Gen Pete WINTERS ’59 —my boss —and Lt Gen Chubb, ESD/CC), because we didn’t tell anyone. I’m also sure that while the after-game reception at the Thayer Hotel was probably very nice, our impromptu party reminded me of some of those hanger parties so long ago.. .(Well, at least as much as I’ve told Sandy about, anyway.)

PHONE CALLS: Jerry BUDINOFF called last night as Iwas putting this column together. He had just received Checkpoints and noticed that I had moved to Massachusetts. Jerry lives in Sudbury, which is just on the other side of Hanscom. He works for acomputer firm. (Business soft¬ ware systems, from what Iunderstood —Ihave arule for the new systems we are installing in our office. If the colonel can’t figure it out in ahalf hour, its too complicated!) Jerry also flies for the Mass. Guard from Westover AFB. He’s in C-130s now, but with Westover getting C-5s, he may end up there.

Iwould like to tell you alot more about what’s going on, but other than Jerry (and Dan BUSSE, who lives nearby, also), Ihave had adecided lack of contact from classmates. As Stevie B. would say, “Come-on guys. Boston isn’t the end of the world, even if you can see if from here.” Iplan to be on the road alot more in the next quarter, so I’ll try to get in contact with some of you as Ipass through.

Jerry “Ski” Wilkowski 1415 Desale St.

Vienna, VA 22180

Home: (703) 573-6965

Percent members: 66

Was engaged in conversation with Barry WATTS in Bob HAFFA’s of¬ fice recently (Bob directs the Chief of Staff’s Staff Group. Mike RYAN, General Welch’s XO, is the other ’65 member in the real front office.) when the former related an interesting tidbit from the Ramparts. Accord¬ ing to an impeccable source Barry knows well, acadet squadron AOC at¬ tended acostume party held in the squadron area dressed as aPlayboy bunny. He reportedly was sufficiently attractive so attired as to gain the intense attention of acadet from aneighboring squadron —which was soon followed by aserious invitation to dance... very slowly! While the lighting may have been dim, and I’ll give the young man the possibility of poor eyesight, some things —cadet standards, for example —never change. But then —and perhaps Mike SHORT, Jack STEPFIENSON, or one of the other ’65ers who served so illustriously as AOCs could best answer this concern —what happened to the “big, hairy chested” role models we all remember so well? Iprobably don’t want to hear their answer —or, at best, could not publish it.

Speaking of Jack STEPHENSON, he is currently assigned as the com¬ mander of the 3780th Student Group at Sheppard AFB. Judy and children have remained in San Antonio to allow son John to complete his final two high school years in the same school. Adifficult decision which has apparently reaped some benefits as young John has been accepted to attend Texas A&M this fall. (Aggie jokes still to be tolerated in the Stephenson household. Jack?) Judy and Jack’s Christmas greeting in¬ cluded apicture of the family standing in front of —now catch this — Jack’s ’65 Pontiac, “old green!” They related that, “...with fresh paint, new top, new engine, and young driver (John), it has new life and new charm.” Do you think your son will let you borrow it to attend the 25th reunion Jack so we can all go for anostalgic spin through the Springs?

Various sources have informed me that Larry McCRACKEN is now a vice president for public relations at Raytheon, Earle MONROE is the commandant of the International Officers’ Course at Maxwell and aparttime dirt farmer, and that Chuck COLEMAN recently assumed the DO reins at MacDill.

The Stephenson’s pose for afamily photograph. From left are Jack, Judy, Elli and John.

Also received agreeting from Brown and Kathe LINGAMFELTER along with apicture of their children Stacy, Bronson, and Chris (1-r) taken at the Cape Cod seashore. They all continue to enjoy life at the center of the universe —Boston —- especially so since they were in place long before the cost of living in that area began its climb out of sight.

Ask Tac HAMBY for the latest on that situation. He transferred to Hanscom AFB last summer to become the director of Battle Management Systems at ESD. Chatted with him at the Air Force-Army game (a most disheartening event) at West Point —along with J.J. KELLY and Jim SPITTLER. Which reminds me, Jim and Bart HOLADAY have put together agang-buster of an idea for our 25th reunion gift to USAFA. It will far outshine the static displays presented in the past; and it will enable us to present aliving memorial which will forever benefit the cadet wing. I strongly urge all of you to give the proposal your full support.

ZIP CODE CHANGES: Bruce WITTY to Ft. Hamilton, NY; Dave HOLDREN from Brighton, MI to Georgetown, TX; Barry WATTS from Fairfax, VA to Bethesda, MD; A1 ROWE from the Presidio Monterey, CA to Salinas, CA; Howie ROSE from Albuquerque, NM to Renton, WA; Brad BERG from Rancho Cordova, CA to Springfield, OR; Curt NELSON from Edwards, CA to Springfield, VA; Gary SILENCE to Honolulu, HI; and John PUSTER to Canyonville, OR.

FINAL NOTE: Received an interesting note and pictures from Lee RAUSCH. Lee is the president of South Central Foods, Inc in Sumter, SC and, in his spare time over the past six years, has built, from plans, a canard pusher, pointy end forward, sport plane called the RUTAN VARIEZE. His first flight was on 22 August 1986 at Perrin AFB and since then he has flown it above 10,000 feet and in excess of 170KIAS. Lee writes that “. ..it may not be impressive in some respects —no starter, no alternator, only VFR instrumentation; but it will not stall, Iown it, Iam the only one who has been in her cockpit, and Isign off all the red Xs.” How about afly-by at the 25th Lee? Best wishes to all —please write!

Ryan Denny

7107 Kesley Court

Spring fi eld, VA 22153

Home: (703) 440-9727

AV: 225-0301

Percent members: 72

wSHIFT CHANGE: For those who didn’t notice, our class newsletter is now being written by anew guy. The change of command happened sometime during our 20th Reunion, which has to be number one on anybody’s list of all-time-great weekends. Ken HACKER saw himself in the mirror Sunday morning and thought he was at his 30th reunion. Anyway, as we were all leaving on Sunday, John CASPER saw me in the hotel lobby and said, “I really appreciate your volunteering to take over the newsletter. I’ll send you all the stuff.”

1won’t swear that that was the fi rst time we had talked about this newsletter, but my other recollections of it are alittle vague. However, on behalf of the Class of ’66 Iwould like to thank John for asuper job for the last two years. 1would also like to repeat the standard plea—please call, write, send arunner. Let me know what you’ve been doing. If Idon’t hear from you. I’ll make something up that will embarrass your children. Also, if you’ve got apicture of you, your family, or agroup of zoomies, send it along.

D.C. HAPPENINGS: Since there are more ’66ers in the Washington DC area than any other place in the world, this is agood place to start. Art SURO is the deputy chief of the Doctrine Division in XOX. His oldest son, Roger, is amidshipman at Annapolis. Carl BAKER just moved up to the deputy position in the Tactical Division in XOO and Ken HACKER is chief of the Strategic Division. Arnie WEINMAN is the deputy for PRPRC, and John GROZIER is chief of the aircraft modification group in XOO. Mike PARMENTIER, who is normally one of those civilians in OSD/PA&E who analyzes our Air Force programs, is now spending a restful year as asenior research fellow at the National Defense University. Dave FALES is retired and working for SRA Inc., acomputer analysis firm that does alot of business with the Pentagon, including my office. I just got acall from Paul BRADLEY. He has been in Chad as the political officer in the U.S. Embassy for the last year. He has just returned to Washington for aheadquarters tour with the State Department. Paul has some exciting tales about escaping from his burning house and being bombed by some Libyans in aRussian bomber.

WING KINGS AND OTHER THINGS: “Fast” Eddy SHIRLEY is still setting the pace for ’66 as the 20TFW Commander at Upper Heyford. Dave OAKES is the wing commander at Moody, and Sid WISE is com¬ manding the fighter wing at Kunsan. Rumor has it that Nick KEHOE has returned to ATC at Randolph as the vice commander of the wing there. J.O. MCFALLS fi nished his world travels with SAF/LL here at the Pen¬ tagon and went down the road to Langley AFB as vice of the 1st TFW. Jerry ALLEN is vice of the bomber wing at Ellsworth, trying to coax those B-ls into the air. These are all pretty volatile positions, so by the time you read this, these folks will probably all have changed jobs.

NEWS FROM ELSEWHERE: Rusty GIDEON is the director of the LANTIRN Program Office at Wright-Patterson. He and Ann celebrated their 20th anniversary in December. (1 won acase of champagne, predict¬ ing that match 20 years ago.) Their son. Bill, is enjoying his doolie year at USAFA. Charlie SARFF left Studies and Analysis in the Pentagon for a job in TAFIG at Langley AFB. Lyle KOEN is aretina surgeon (that’s a very expensive eye doctor) in Austin, TX. John FAL retired from the Air Force and is working on his PhD at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. Lee SMITH was the commander of the 602nd ASOC in USAFE at press time, but has probably been promoted out of his job. Gregg SWANSON moved from Europe to Palo Alto, CA. Bruce MCBRIDE left 2ATAF for the Range Group at Nellis with an Apple Valley, CA address. (It must make sense to someone.) Jerry CALLAHAN moved from San Antonio to Vestal, NY and Joe JARVIS moved from New York to Niceville, FL (sounds like Eglin). Ihear that Buck LYLE is ajudge in Kansas and asquadron commander in the Reserves.

NOTE: Iget all of your change-of-address cards when the AOG is through with them, so scribble anote on it and tell my why you’re ingV Or, better yet, stop on by and see me. Ilive in the basement of the Pentagon and would be tickled to chase away the rats and roaches long enough to hear all about what you’ve been doing. Until next time...

Lee Rausch in his Rulan Varieze.

Dan Morgan

1404 13th Ave., N.W.

Minot, ND 58701

Home: (701) 838-0498

AV: 344-5333

Percent members: 62

As we went to press with this column, you hadn’t had time to respond to our call in the last Checkpoints for volunteer squadron representatives. We need these representatives to contact our classmates in preparation for the reunion. Since the deadline for this article is, as usual, three months before publication, by the time you read this, we hope that at least one volunteer from each squadron will have offered to help ensure that all ’diets are contacted. However, please call Gary SCHEIMER at AV 259-3650 to make sure! For more details on the reunion, see the paragraph at the end of this article.

Jack FRY came up with the best idea yet for helping to write this col¬ umn. When he and Molly had abunch of classmates to their home. Jack got each to sit down briefly at his computer to type out ashort paragraph about himself and his family! This is the kind of assistance that not only makes this column much better, but may help you in planning your visit to the reunion. Those short paragraphs are paraphrased below, with the phone numbers of many of our classmates who live in the Colorado Springs area. Give them acall if you need help with arrangements.

Jack FRY, the new deputy commandant, says, “Years ago at the zoo, we always talked about how we’d change things if we were in charge. Now, Ifinally have achance to implement some of those ideas!” He and Molly keep pretty busy with their three children. Heather (“14 going on 20”) is afreshman and very into English riding. Holly (10) has swim team practice almost daily. Daniel (9) keeps busy with soccer, hockey, bike riding, and likes virtually every sport. Jack himself enjoys hunting, skeet shooting, and golf; he is in charge of the golf tournament for the reunion. AV 259-2220.

Rich HUGHES has been named permanent professor (chairman) of the Department of Behavioral Science and Leadership, which will place eagles on his shoulders, perhaps by the time you read this —depending on the “promptness” of Congress. He and Georgeann have three girls. Ann (11) is active in Girl Scouts, ice skating, dramatics, and plays the piano. Amy (8) is in Brownies, ice skating, and also plays piano. Sarah (3) is into just about everything. She is the only nonskier in the family, but is confi¬ dent about joining the rest of the family on the slopes next year when she is grown up. Georgeann substitute teaches in elementary school and is very active in Presbyterian church programs. Both Rich and Georgeann teach Sunday School. Rich is also on the Pikes Peak Mental Health Center Board of Directors, acommunity clinic with several hundred staff members. They are having ahome built in the Woodmoor area, and “we’ll be opening all floor space for any of you who want aplace to flop for the reunion next year.” AV 259-3860.

Pete KNEPPELL is deputy head of the math department —“a real homesteader,” starting his eighth year at USAFA. He and his wife, Roz, lived in Denver for the last six years while she finished medical school and aresidency in psychiatry. They just built aplace (“palace”) in the Springs and are looking forward to old friends staying with them during the re¬ union. AV 259-4470.

John PLETCHER is commander of the Frank J. Seiler Research Lab, aSystems Command lab doing basic research. Although he and Phyllis may be leaving next summer because of his being on the 0-6 list and the senior service school list, they definitely will be at the reunion. If they still live at USAFA, they definitely will be taking boarders. AV 259-3120.

Scott and Susan JACKSON made their 19th homecoming in arow! Scott is still practicing law in Newport Beach, CA. Their son Jeff (14) “has size 15 men’s shoes, so we call him ‘sir’.” They are building anew home in Newport Beach, which should be complete by June 1987.

Bob RESLING is the director of flight operations for Ports of Call, and flies his Boeing 727 and 707 worldwide. Paulette is ateacher at Douglas County High School in Castle Rock. They live in Parker, CO and have three daughters. Bob is also amajor in the Reserve unit at Peter¬ son AFB.

Doug and Sally BEATTY have been living in Colorado Springs since June 1977. They have three children: Sarah (12), Brian (10), and Katie (8). They invite classmates to call about reunion lodging. (303) 636-0071.

Harry and Nancy WETZLER have been back at USAFA since September 1983, where Harry heads the DOD Medical Exam Review Board. They have four children. All of them ice skate. Erica (12) and Lynn (9) both play piano. Brian (6) plays hockey and baseball. Even Mark (3) is already skating. Harry swims and runs to keep fit, and Nancy

skis. Harry’s job is coordinating the medical exam results for all five ser¬ vice academies and all three services’ ROTC programs. AV 259-3560.

Gary and Sandee LORENZ have just bought ahouse in Black Forest. Sandee says, “This is it—18 moves are enough, this is home.” Gary is First Group AOC. They invite you to call. AV 259-2953 or (303) 495-0611.

George and Jackie GIBSON have been in Colorado Springs for three years with George assigned to Space Command. He has worked both at Peterson Field and as aspace defense director at Cheyenne Mountain. Jackie has been keeping up with their three children and is enrolled in a master’s in counseling program, with 12 hours this semester. They expect to live in the Springs at least one more year and to see some of you at the reunion. Jim SHAW is also at Space Command, Peterson AFB.

Others in the Denver area are Gary and Susan FEDEL, business con¬ sultants in Denver. They can be reached at home, 2691 S. Chase Lane, Lakewood, CO 80227.

A. O. WILLIAMS is aveterinarian near Woodland Park. Jack ZAJAC, M.D., also practices in Woodland Park. Gary SCHEIMER says that A. O. “has just repainted his office acolor that resembles dried blood—haven’t had achance to talk to him about that yet.” Gary also reports that John OLIVE continues as avery successful developer in the Springs, as he has for over 15 years now. He also reports that Russ MUR¬ RAY is an executive Veep for Silverado Bank and that Dave ELLIOT runs an engineering firm in Colorado Springs.

Gary’s wife, Jan, is acerti fi ed fi nancial planner and works for Shearson-Lehmon Brothers, asubsidiary of American Express. She was in the 1986 IV fi o’s Who in American Business Women. Their sons Eric (14) and Scott (16) ski and enjoy harvesting on their grandpa’s ranch in eastern Colorado. Eric is in football and Scott in track and soccer. Gary is really proud, describing them as ideal American boys. Gary himself was described in the last Checkpoints (Fall 86, p. 23) in his job as commander of the T-41 squadron (557th FTS). Ed GUNTER was the previous com¬ mander, and is now back with the ATC IG at Randolph. “He left me with asuper group of people, more flying machines than any other Air Force squadron, and two of the largest classes ever at the Academy. This is go¬ ing to be avery busy and rewarding tour.” He enjoys backpacking, hunt¬ ing, fishing, and dabbles in investment—primarily real estate. (Also in the last Checkpoints (p.28), note the article on Dave PFEIFLE.)

Iomitted abirth announcement sent me many months ago about J.D. and Lee TERRY’s newest, ason, Dallas Michael, born 19 Dec 85. I’m having alittle trouble keeping track of all our class records. I’m not sure whether this gives them the record for the biggest age-spread in children; their fi rst was born 10 May 70.

Bob and Sharon GROW may have that beat. Their latest, their first son, Troy Andrew, was born 25 Sep 86, and at least takes the record for the newest child at the moment. My apologies to Bob for “retiring him a bit early.” It won’t be until about Easter, and they currently plan to stay in the Las Vegas area.

AOG UPDATES: Tom EVANS is now at Beale AFB. Greg FREIX has PCSed to PACAF. Fred GROSICK has moved to Dumfries, VA. John HICKS is in San Bernardino, CA. Bob MASS transferred to Albuquer¬ que, NM. Tom TWOMEY is stationed at Offutt. Dave PRIZNER now fl ies for American out of Satellite Beach, FL.

REUNION REPORT: By now you should have received the first mailer from the reunion committee. If not, you are aware of our biggest problem —obtaining current addresses on everyone! The mailer includes an outline of the weekend and tentative room information. Gary SCHEIMER reports that builder-developer Pat NESBITT has reserved for us 100 suites at Embassy Suites by the South Gate. For what we get, this appears the best deal available at only $65.00 per night. Gary has also reserved 50 rooms at $45.00 per night at the Hampton Inn across the street. Please be clear that these are ballpark estimates and that firm price quotes will not be available until later. Gary LORENZ is in charge of Thursday registration. Jack FRY is in charge of Friday activities and the golf tournament. John PLETCHER is in charge of Saturday. Their numbers are above; please call to volunteer your help. We also are doing a joint project preparing memorabilia with the Class of ’77, who are having their reunion the same weekend. At this time, we do not require up-front money for any of these projects, but the class fund is low, and we may yet need to ask. Again, please volunteer to help us get current addresses and to contact everyone. Rich HUGHES is in charge of developing the mail¬ ing list. You can call him or Gary SCHEIMER at the above numbers. Most of all, please plan to join us at USAFA for the reunion—17 to 20 Sep 87!

Mark Torreano

8335 Tiller Court

Colorado Springs, CO 80918

Home: (303) 593-1215

Office: (303) 554-2850; AV: 692-2850

Percent members: 59

IRAEY WEN YPPAH One more year to go until most of us still in uniform make that decision and we all have achance for abrief (but in¬ tense) reunion of kindred spirits, 22-25 Sep ’88. Now is the time to make your official “decision dart board’’ and practice your aim, or in other words: THINK ABOUT IT. And if anyone comes up with some good answers, let me know.

Speaking of reunions, the class will have another series of practice re¬ unions this June to get ready for ’88. The D.C. crowd has already re¬ served aplace for 6Jun; someone take the initiative in each area and start setting up your event for the same day. Contact Phil PIGNATARO (AV858-2831; 301-981-2831) or Tim DAVIDSON (AV225-4133; 703-931-4166) to let them know your POC.

Local(e): Christmas was brown, as usual, but there was just enough snow in the mountains to make aski trip worthwhile. We spent three days at Breckenridge with Terry Drabant (’65) and enjoyed everything but the $27 lift tickets. The new high-speed four-person lifts were great; very short lines in general.

A1 BLUMBERG arranged aColorado AOG Chapter get-together with the West Point Society to watch the Air Force-Army game, which was well attended by ’68 as you can see. The loss was tough to take but it was a fun day. Vince and Nancy RUSINAK arrived at Peterson this summer, where Vince is the base civil engineer. Nancy is getting established in real estate sales.

1And Katie WOOD is now abilling specilist with Diners Club, so if you run out of credit on your card, give her acall and I’m sure she’ll be able to fi x it.

Tim DAVIDSON is working hard in OSD/ISA on the special ops forces reorganization. Dick FAST recently passed on the following “little known but interesting’’ factoid —10% of the class lives in the D.C. area and 20% of our active duty gang is there. Iguess that means 80% aren’t, and I’m not sure what it all means, but I’ll bet Dick’s fi ngers are tired! No, seriously, thanks for the stats, Dick and Tim, really. Tim also says Tom MCDANIEL will PCS to Upper Heyford AB in the U.K. in Feb to take command of the maintenance group there. And congrats to Tom for early selection of 0-6; Imissed his name last time. Dick RUFFING recently married Jackie (welcome and congrats), and Bob and Mercy DALEY stayed with Tim while in town to attend the Airlifters Conven¬ tion, along with lots of other ’68ers. Iwas also in town TDY and enjoyed Tim’s hospitality.

Haven’t seen Jon TOOF in person yet, but his picture occasionally makes the local papers. Jon has been the deputy district attorney here in the Springs, but recently asked for (and got) a“PCA” and is now chief of the juvenile prosecution unit, where he can get back into the courtroom and away from the onerous administrative chores he handled in his previous job. Hope Iand my son don’t see you in court, Jon!

Xmas Cards: Thanks for the cards from BARKER, CASTRO, DAVIDSON, FLYNN, GENNA, HOLLAND, HOGE, KURZDORFER, WOOD. Ihave acard from “Mike” also, but Ithrew the envelope away and didn’t get the last name, so all you Mikes out there can take credit. However, some of my regular customers dropped me from their list this year, which is unnice so don’t forget me at Easter, OK?

Dan and Kathy BARKER sent the most complex Christmas letter, with computer generated graphics and all. Dan took command of the 341 Civil Engr Sqdn at Malmstrom this summer, moving from asimilar job at Whiteman and enjoying the sights along the way. Kathy is busy in the OB/GYN ward and riding herd on the five minor Barkers.

Armando CASTRO writes that he hopes to make it to the reunion and is hopeful for the outcome of the political turmoil at home. Armando has been directly involved in educating ageneration of Filipino officers at the Philippine Military Academy, which can’t help but be apositive in¬ fluence. See you on the terrazzo in ’88, Armando!

Fans from ’68 also gathered at Ramstein AB, Germany to watch the Air Force-Army game. From left are John Chapman, Sue

Letters: Bill ECKERT writes from Ramstein AB, Germany, where he is asst chief of staff for USAFE after studying at the NATO Defense Col¬ lege in Rome. The AOG chapter there also had agathering for the Army game and the ’68 crowd made another great showing of support, as you can see. Bill said most everyone consumed great quantities of wine so I’ll assume this photo was taken early on while everyone was still standing.

Speaking of the NATO Defense College, Isaw Scott PILKINGTON here in the Springs recently as part of acontingent from the college on a U.S. tour. He enjoys Rome and is looking toward assignment in Europe after.

Dave ALLARD ran into two of our guys (see photo) when he attended the AF Logistics Conference at Ramstein in Sep. Dave is chief. Log War Plans and Mgmt Div at HQ SAC, where he arrived in Jun ’85 after atour with the Joint Mil Asst Group in the Philippines. Bobby FLOYD is chief of Plans at HQ MAC, while Bud TEMPLIN is at the Air Staff in LEYW (munitions and missiles).

Eckert, Judy Chap¬ man, Toby and Sharyn Sullivan, Doug and Jo Barnard, Mike Stevenson, Barbara and Denny Flynn, and Bill Eckert. Milt Tonaka also stopped by but is not in the photograph.

Ealcon fans who watched the Air Force-Army game with the Colorado AOG Chapter, from left, are Warren Rosaluk, Lynn and Jim Thompson, Donna and Bill Sasz, Marie Genna, Katie and Bill Wood, Mike Moss, Bill and Diane Maywort, AIBIumberg, Mark Torreano, and Nancy and Vince Rusinak.

Bobby Floyd, Bud TempUn and Dave Allard at Ramstein AB, Germany.

Bud also sent me acopy of the same photo so Iknow you guys are keeping me in mind, which Ireally appreciate. Bud posed the question, “which one has gained 60 pounds since graduation?” Send your answers, and agift certificate for aerobics classes, to Bud.

Ed LEONARD sent anote from Sandpoint Naval Station in Seattle where he commands the 3561 USAF Recruiting Sqdn. His area includes Washington, Oregon, Alaska and the Far East so he gets some good TDYs. He is enjoying the Seattle area after his tour in Korea as aweather¬ man.

Ken BOWERS sent agreat photo of four really “reserved” classmates who did their active-duty tours with ASD at Wright-Pat last August. Missing was Pat HURLEY, who did his two weeks in March. Is this a record number (5) of ’68ers in one Reserve/ANG unit? Ken ran into Mike CHAPMAN, who is in the fighter-attack program office at ASD. He also saw Mike HEMBROUGH at Langley, where Mike is the ANG liaison at HQ TAC. Ken has afree lunch and abizjet simulator ride for any classmate who visits him at Singer’s SimuFlite Trng Int’l Div in Ft Worth (214-456-8000).

eastern hemisphere. Marty said that Mike THROWER PCSed before the new year to be dpty plant rep for AFSC at an electronics plant in Deer Park, Long Island.

Charlie COOLIDGE and 1have been heating up the lines on business lately. Charlie is working in the Strategic Nuclear Policy Div at JCS, which involves arms control issues such as U.S. and Soviet compliance with agreements, the Geneva talks, and other interesting stuff. He has been to Geneva with our delegation and actually talked with aRussian (although 1think she told him to take his filthy, decadent imperalist propositon and stuff it).

Ialso heard arumor that Ed EBERHART ran in the Marine Corps Marathon in D.C. recently, but no results available. Any other crazy old guys out there who run in marathons (and admit it)?

Odds: Dick COVEY will take us/U.S. back into space when he pilots the first shuttle mission scheduled for next Feb. We are all looking for¬ ward to hearing about it at the reunion. Dick, so don’t let them schedule you for another fl ight that weekend.

Maj Gen James P. McCarthy (AOC of CS-02 and CS-14) has been selected for Lt Gen and named Cdr, 8AF.

Gypsies: Movements have occurred for: Fred BASSETT, from RAF Bentwaters to AWC, Maxwell; Jim HAZEN, to Boulder CO and flying for United out of Denver; Dan HITES, from Offutt to Irvine, CA; Larry MERIDETH, from Hawaii to Offutt (Dan got the better deal); Chad SWEDBERG, from Tucson to Austin; Bill THURSTON, from Yokota AB, Japan to AWC, Maxwell; John VANDEKAMP, from D.C. (State Dpt) to HQ SOUTHCOM, Panama; and Bob WILLIAMS, from Baliksir, Turkey to Incirlik AB, Turkey.

Everyone who moves this summer better send me acard with some in¬ fo, not just acrummy old address, or I’ll hold my breath and turn blue.

Closing: Imentioned Buz SAWYER’S death last time and the obituary is elsewhere in this issue. While we mourn his passing, it might cheer you a bit to know that Buz was buried with afishing rod and reel, according to a press report of the funeral 1saw. Given the somewhat sensational and controversial circumstances of Buz’s death, I’m sure his parents, wife and children would appreciate hearing from us, his classmates. Drop anote to them at 1130 N. Washington, Magnolia, AR 71753.

Michael R. Thiessen

Brown &Thiessen, P.C.

Suite 2121, City Center Square

Kansas City, MO 64105

Home: (913) 384-4779

Of fi ce: (816) 474-4114

Percent members: 58

Dear Classmates:

Not much news to report this time. Iwas late sending my form letter questionnaires which means Iam totally dependent this time around on volunteered information.

Earl ROBERTS just moved to the Dallas area where he is asales ad¬ ministrator for Paragon Industries.

Randy and Judy PERCY and family are in Wiesbaden having moved there August of 1985. They have been doing alot of traveling around Europe including frequent skiing. Randy participates with the Air Force ski team. The two Percy daughters are active in soccer, horseback riding and other activities. The Percys visited Dave and Kimberly HENRY in Denver last November. All is well with the Henrys including anew house and baby. The Percys also visited Bob and Suzanne SCHUTT. Reports are that the Schutts and their three children are fi ne.

Jack and Kathie Roberts in Red Square. Where’s Mickey Mouse and Goofy?

Jack ROBERTS also has aphoto of interest

he and Kathie in front of St Basil’s in Moscow’s Red Square! The happy pair took afive-week holiday last summer to Scandinavia, the USSR, India, Bangkok, Hong Kong, China and Japan. They arrived in Russia with an expired visa but the trip went smoothly, although they found the place “drab” and basically aThird World country. But “watch out for China!” says Jack. Good intel report. Jack, and great photo. Jack is winding up atour at Kirtland as dir of space projects at the AF Space Technology Center, and is job hunting. So if you have agood deal, give him acall, Telecons: Marty COLE is alive and well at McGuire AFB, where he is chief of 21AF’s Operations Center. Marty enjoys the area, with its prox¬ imity to several large cities and rural living. His job gives him plenty to do, as 21AF is usually involved in U.S. responses to the many crises in the

Cliff PARSONS writes from the Dayton area that he and the former Bea Saul were married March 8, 1986. Cliff and Bea have been busy com¬ bining two 20-year bachelor households into one. Bea supervises the com¬ puter section for aDayton-area motivation travel company. Cliff is in his fifth year with Rexare, Inc. Their greatest challenge has been to get Cliff’s nine-year-old German shepherd and Bea’s two-year-old cat to peacefully coexist!!! They have succeeded.

Afellow ’69er received some excellent press in the most recent INC. Magazine. Several photographs as well as directly-attributed quotations received print coverage regarding the new organization and management structure in TAC. It was an excellent article, highly recommended for all. If this mystery classmate reads this column and if he sends me one or more of the pictures, Iwill publish them next issue.

The enclosed photo of Rudy HALLENBECK and family show one happy family! Rudy is asenior manager with Harris Government Infor¬ mation Systems Divsion where he has been for 6Vi years. He was Pro¬ gram Manager of the Year in ’84 and ’85 and now has 42 engineering peo-

Wright-Patterson AFB Reservists are “Real Gone. ”From left are Ken Bowers, John Rominger, Mike Cryer and Howard Kyle.

f %The Hallenbeck Family

pie working for him. The family does manage to enjoy the Melbourne Beach, FL, sunshine.

Now for the changes of address and information supplied by the AOG. Ionly resort to this when there is not sufficient correspondence informa¬ tion to fi ll this column. John SKORUPA is in Tacoma, Randy HERBERT is at Altus, Don RAKESTRAW is in Lexington, MA., and Tom SCHUMWAY is at Oklahoma City.

Jerry Bruni

6325 Snowbird Drive

Colorado Springs, CO 80918

Home: (303) 528-8736

Office: (303) 633-1793 (in Colorado) (800) 225-1163 (outside Colorado)

Percent members: 56

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Ithink I’d like to devote this column to an effort to make future col¬ umns better. Perhaps the need for some improvement will become ap¬ parent if 1describe how I’ve been working the last few columns. Typical¬ ly, the AOG sends me the change-of-address cards they’ve received during the last three months, and usually Iincorporate these somewhere in our Class News section. In scanning the other Class News sections, I’ve no¬ ticed most other class scribes do the same thing. This begs an obvious question: Is this agood idea? Personally, I’ve always found change-ofaddress notices to be less than exciting. So why, then, do Iuse them and why do others do the same thing? The answer, Ithink, is that we’re desperate for information—any information! For example, this quarter I’ve received one phone call (although It was avery good one—see below) and ashort note from Rich WOODARD informing me he isn’t at Eglin, where Ierroneously put him in my last column, but rather at Stanford University on aSloan Fellowship. (He will, however, be at Eglin in July.)

At any rate, that’s it for information, and this quarter is typical. Fine, you might say, but you’re the class scribe and its your job to go out and find the information. Ican accept this logic and, in fact, this is what I’ve done. However, there are limits to the number of my roommates and close friends who Ican continue to contact for future columns. Further¬ more, I’d think the vast majority of our classmates would get tired hear¬ ing about the same people issue after issue. Of course, Icould contact classmates Idon’t know well and solicit news from them. Again, this is logical and I’ve made attempts here. For example, Isent letters to a randomly-selected sample of classmates to ask for news, but the response rate was very low (less than five percent). There must be abetter way! Which brings me back to my objective for this column—to find that bet¬ ter way.

Since Rich wrote me after he saw his name in print (erroneously), maybe Ishould pick on afew names and not be too particular with the facts. The resulting corrections might provide fodder for future columns! In fact, Iwould like to hear from Mark BEAN, who’s listed in the 1986 AOG Register as being in Utah, and I’d also like to hear from Pat SULLIVAN, who 1last saw at UCLA in 1971. Then again, maybe 1ought to focus on classmates who the AOG has lost track of—like Charlie LONGNECKER, Dave DEWITT or Jeff FINE. Does anyone know where these people are? Or how about the silent majority who regularly keep the AOG posted on address changes, but don’t say much more?

What are you doing, Gary SCHMIDT. John HARVEY, Craig NORTHRUP and George HAMILL?

How about adifferent approach? Maybe Ishould recognize that most of us have good intentions to communicate, but we seldom find the time to sit down and write aletter. 1can certainly identify with this problem. Of course, those who don’t write should call. However, maybe the long distance charges are adeterrent. If so, here’s asolution. Call me toll-free at 1-800-225-1163 (from outside Colorado). It certainly would be anice break in my day to hear from classmates. If I’m not in when you call, leave amessage and I’ll get back with you.

How about yet another approach? Maybe the typical class news material doesn’t interest you. Perhaps you’d like more meaty stuff than who’s married to whom, what their kids are doing and that sort of thing. Along this line, “Wild Bill’’ STEALEY called me shortly after my last column went to the AOG. After Bill and Italked about the usual stuff (e.g., aClass of ’70 get-together for classmates in the Washington, DC area to be sponsored with Steve ROBERTS, and an alumni lacrosse game Bill, Johnnie VERARDO and Rick TAYLOR planned to play against the AFA varsity lacrosse team), the conversation moved on to one of Bill’s pet ideas. Acouple years ago Bill started to push for the establishment of an Air Force Society (similar to the West Point Society), and he’s still eager to get help with his idea. With over half our class outside the Air Force already, maybe we need another way to involve all our classmates in various activities. If it functioned at all like the West Point Society, an Air Force Society would also be great for “networking” among classmates looking for jobs (in and out of the Air Force). Would you like to hear more of this sort of news, or do you construe this Class News col¬ umn to be more of an extension of the Air Force and its mission?

Alan.

How about pictures? Since 1haven’t seen most of you for over 15 years, Ilove pictures. In fact, Ihave aheretofore unannounced goal of printing at least one picture per column. Since Idon’t have any pictures from classmates. I’ll go ahead and run one of my family this time. I’m not bashful. Maybe this will encourage more pictures.

That’s it from my end. Ihope this column serves to spark some interest. Your comments are, as always, most welcome.

Ralph Getchell

5840 Auckland Drive

Las Vegas, NV 89110

Home: (702) 438-1699

AV: 682-4719

Percent members: 46

ANOTHER MILESTONE. Let’s get the big one out of the way fi rst. For those who no longer have to worry about such things, the LtCol pro¬ motion list was published in December and many of your classmates were in the primary zone. Congratulations to all those selected. 1hope that by this reading your head has cleared and your bar bill paid.

HOST WITH THE MOST. On behalf of the class, I’d like to thank Jon STEVENS for organizing our 15-Year Reunion last fall. The festivities began at John’s house and ended at Spike’s Mission Inn: the photo below shows the wild bunch playing team pocket pool. As amatter of record, Jon has informed me that Bill RICHARDSON has expressed the desire to organize the ’87 party. What aguy! One thing Bill, make

The Bruni family, from left, includes Kris, Pam, Jerry and

15-Year Reunion Crowd

sure you get the word to Rusty BALLAS. Rusty wrote me last fall from his desk at the 4950th Test Wing at Wright-Pat, wanting some info on the 15-year bash. Unfortunately, Ireceived his letter the day after the reu¬ nion. Better luck next year. Rusty.

In other news from the home front, Jon relates that Dolan MCKELVY and Bob LOWE (class overachievers) have left the Aluminum Womb for some remedial officership classes at AWC. Further, Gary BUTSON and Bill RICHARDSON have joined Sky FOERESTER and John BIND as tenure faculty. Congrats.

ON THE ROAD AGAIN. Two road trips this fall. One was aclassic road rallye to the San Diego game with eight other grads form the 429th TFS. During arather awesome tailgate, who should appear but Thundergib himself—Steve DEHAVEN. 1know Igive Steve alot more print space than he deserves, but it sure was nice to see him again. As a reminder, Steve is at George in F-4s.

The second trip was to Tyndall AFB for aWSEP missile shoot. What fun! While down there, Iran into Don RUTH. Don is on his way to Clark to run the target drone shop there.

FROM THE MAILBAG. Movers and shakers for this issue include Dr. Paul NOEL from Washington State to Greensburg, PA and Rusty VANDENBERG from Miami to the Langley suburbs. Wayne TURK has moved from Hawaii to deputy commander of the 6594 ABS at Onizuka AFS in California. Wayne, you’ll have to write to tell us about it. Larry BLAMEUSER has left the TAC staff and is now stationed at Upper Heyford. Mike SMITH has also escaped the staff and is back in ATC at Columbus. Andy GARRISON has left mid-Texas and is now residing in San Francisco. Nate BARD is flying A-lOs at Lakenheath and Randy SMITH is at Holloman. Finally, Randy LEAVITT from Puerto Rico to St. Petersburg, FL.

NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS: The week before Christmas is always triple treat time for me. Usually at this time, my share of the Christmas cards lay yet unwritten, Istill have at least one Christmas present to buy, and my column is only half done. This year is no exception. Don’t worry. I’ll make the deadline, barely. Help me do better next year, on at least one count, by taking that extra minute or two to drop me aline or adime. We’ll all appreciate it.

T.J. Mancuso

480 South Kingston Circle

Aurora, CO 80012

Home: (303) 343-4231

Work: (303) 861-7000

Percent members; 41 5.'

It’s the end of the year again; seems to happen every December. It was four cities in the last four days, and Iwas beginning to feel like Pop Walton wondering if I’d ever get back to the mountain for Christmas. Now we just have to worry about the latest changes to the tax law.

Can we talk tough duty? Brinn “Baby Doc” COLENDA is now com¬ mander of Antigua AS, State of Antigua and Barbuda, West Indies. The accompanying photo is Brinn as an instructor pilot with the RAF, and his Jet Provost Mark 5(with the “72” designation, no less). While over there, he ran into Robbie ROBIzSONS, who was flying F-llls. Robbie is now agraduate of AF Test Pilot School, as is John BUSH.

Brinn passes on word that Jim SIMMONS was serving out his sentence at L.A. Air Station, as an exec to alocal BGen. Jim should now be in Denver. He ran into Neil COYLE in Washington, where Neil is an ex-

Brinn Colenda, moments before customs officials accused him of smug¬ gling cheap Spanish wine in the legs of his flight suit.

change officer with the Navy. Neil’s time out of the Air Force and into the Navy will probably improve both services. Buck BUCHANAN is another BTZ-type, who’s at HQ TAC.

Porter NELSON has just returned from Germany and requested (and to no one’s surprise got) ajob as aT-38 IP at Del Rio. Bobby ANDER¬ SON, who was lost in the Willy KASSON photo in the last issue, is an Air Reserve technician (i.e., full time civilian Reservist) flying C-141s at Nor¬ ton (his only duty station since UPT). Gary STERN is with the inspector general out of Tyndall AFB, FL.

Brinn ran into Charley RICHARDSON’S stewardess spouse. She and Charley are both flying out of Dallas-Fort Worth, which keeps the Texans in Texas, which pleases them and us. Apparently Kent BAYS just hired on with the same airline. Brinn didn’t guess, but I’ll bet Delta.

Thanks for the letter, Brinn, and I’ll return the pix right after Iget them back from the AOG.

Doug and Robin HILL are still DINKs. But Willy and Joey KASSON won’t be for long. DINKs are what all Yuppies hope to be —Duel In¬ come, No Kids. The Kassons are building ahouse —are you ready for this —on Fairway Drive in Cabot, AR. Not planning on some golf, are you?

On the back of Dave and Sheila KERBER’s Christmas card: “Just because the last time you asked us to dinner 1asked you to help me move doesn’t mean we should be strangers.’’ It sounds like agood reason to me. The photo should be appearing herewith.

Dave, Sheiia, Rachel and Laura Kerber.

We got anew house announcement from Mark and Kathy OINESS out of Henderson, NV. All the other change-of-address cards were govern¬ ment issue. Richard KRAPF is in Plattsburgh, NY. Garald ROBINSON is in Montgomery, AL. Richard and Mildred ROACH have moved from Annapolis, MD to Fairborn, OH. Ray HESTERBERG is in Belleville, IL, and Brian BINN has moved from AFSC in Norfolk, VA to Ankara, Turkey.

Pat ROONEY has anew place in Memphis, where he fl ies for Federal Express. Alan LEITCH and Patricia McCaffrey sent acomputer¬ generated change-of-address notice —kind of the Max Headroom ap¬ proach to moving. They’ve moved to Denver from Richmond, VA.

John TYRRELL has moved to Garden City, NY, and Kurt and Emily CHAMBERLIN are now living on Tahiti Loop. Unfortunately, Tahiti Loop is in Anchorage. Chris RUBACHA has moved from Bolivia and is now working in Peru. As in Peru, Indiana and Grissom AFB. Chris now lives in Kokomo. Peter and Diane SUTTOR are in Enid, OK.

Idon’t know what Mike KIRCHNER is up to, but he has an FPO number out of San Francisco. Steve JACKSON is living in Grafton, VA and Michael BRANNICK is at Barksdale AFB, LA. Last, but by no stretch of the imagination least, John GREENLAW is at an APO number which sounds like Alaska.

In the more cards and letter department, Mike VERZOLA has pulled up stakes from Cape Girardeau, MO, and packed it in to Green Bay, WI. Mike and Carol were both aircraft maintenance officers before going to Proctor &Gamble, where Mike is an organizational development manager. Ed BISHOP is now on the Surgeon General’s staff at Bolling AFB. He reports running into Glenn TANNER (which could be hazard¬ ous) and Jules McNEFF at Fort Fumble. Ed has also offered to pen this column, and I’d like to invite comment on the idea of passing the gauntlet. So let me know boys and girls.

1did get acall from Lee KRAUTH, who cuts on people’s brains from up in Evergreen, CO. He was looking for the party for the Air ForceArmy game. After watching the game, there was little reason to party. Maybe Lee could help me get my head together.

Vern TAYLOR has moved from chief of Security Police in Yokota AB, Japan, to astaff job at PACAF in Hawaii. It only took acouple of days before Doug FOSTER, who designs dental clinics out of Brooks AFB, TX, to wander in looking for afree meal. Life’s abeach.

Well, sports fans, it’s time to cozy up to awarm fire and read the latest Register of Graduates. Not much plot, but some unusual character developments. 1expect to see as many of youse guys as possible for our 15th reunion. More to come.

Rick Karvosky

417 LaSalle Drive Clovis, NM 88101

Home; 762-2530

AV: 681-2381

Percent members: 37

Motivation—many great leaders speak of motivation. Books have been written about it, the dictionary defines it as inducement, incentive. Ibet none of them have had to write an AOG quarterly column aday before going on leave! Ihope you all had asafe and enjoyable Christmas. Haven’t been skiing yet, but the skis are waxed and ready to go. The Porsche is put up, race season is over until Spring—took afew more third places. You probably noticed my new address. I’m in ahouse now with a two-car garage—for the Corvette and Porsche! Phone stayed the same.

Ireceived aletter from Scott MILLS (Jean). Here’s what he had to say: “They meet in the strangest places.. .Soccer buddies Scott MILLS (Jean) and Ed ZERAMBO (’75) recently joined up to knock off afew miles in the Mountain Masochist 50-Mile Trail Run in Lynchburg, VA. Near the fifth mile, Chris SCOTT (’71) shuffled into step with them and the three continued together for most of the remainder. Somewhere past halfway and nowhere, someone uttered the familiar word, “zoomie,” and somehow their running together now made some (perverse) sense. Where aren’t these people? Ed boogied ahead after Mile 34, finishing his first Ultra in 8th place at just under 8:30. Scott and Chris mosied in 10 minutes later to finish in atie for 9th. In ataped message, Ed has disavowed any intent to ever enter another Ultra, at least until the memory of this one fades over several sixpacks. Four weeks later, Scott and Chris pushed through the JFK 50 in Maryland, setting apersonal best for Scott (8:03 4-) and firmly establishing both of them as potential psycho-ward dwellers. Ed currently flies for Southwest Airlines out of Houston; Scott rolls

around Crystal City (Pentagon South) with the Joint Cruise Missile Pro¬ gram; and Chris teaches at the Defense Systems Management College at Ft. Belvoir.” This picture of them must have been taken before the race!

Ed PARRY sent aletter that also needs to be included word-for-word. Not only is it interesting (a sophisticated way of saying comical), Ican’t even pronounce some of his words! Why can’t doctors talk English? Well, Ed understands the problem and has tried to “ease the pain.” Here is Ed’s letter: “With humble appreciation of the fact that time has been kinder to some of us than others, we are proud to present anote to the rest of you who are beginning to notice more complaints from the depart¬ ments of aging and failing parts, or are experiencing failures of original equipment and manufacturers installed parts. If you are—despair not. A dedicated group of your classmates have been assembled at Wilford Hall USAF Medical Center, Lackland AFB, TX, to tend to almost all of your medical complaints. The following list is provided for your medical shop¬ ping convenience with asynopsis of the individuals special area of exper¬ tise: Dr. Dave BROWN, general surgery (he will operate on those of lesser rank than 0-7); Dr. Robert COOPER, plastic surgery (he can even make you look good); Dr. Charlie HARRISON, obstetrics and gynecology (Wives and Daughters Department); Dr. Jim HEIRONIMUS, internal medicine, nephrology and now doing aNuclear Medicine Fellowship; Dr. Rich HOUK, internal medicine, head of Rheumatology Department (worn and wearing joints etc.); Dr. Bob MUNSON, internal medicine (medical management of the innerds); Dr. Kevin NEHRING, primary care (he does it ‘all’); Dr. Mike MAYER, otorhinolaryngology (head and neck surgeon, used to be called ENT); Dr. Ed PARRY, dermatology (CINCZIT, skin cancer, and external uglies); Dr. Arnie PENIX, or¬ thopedics (bent and broken bones); Dr. Frank SHAGETS, chief. Depart¬ ment of Otorhinolaryngology (same as Dr. Mayer but Frank is the chieO; and Dr. Jim THOMPSON; internal medicine, hematology and oncology (blood and cancer problems). Should amedical problem or good fortune find you in San Antonio please give acall to any of the members of WHMC’s Terrific Twelve (never to be referred to as the dirty dozen).” Ed also mentioned that Bill CISCO was at Wilford Hall as ahospital ad¬ ministrator.

Iattended the TAC Squadron Commander’s Course at Langley in November. Iwas surprised to see Don WETEKAM (Sheri) and Jeff KNIGHT (Brenda) in the class. Don is the commander of the 56th Equip¬ ment Maintenance Squadron at MacDill. Sheri is acaptain in the USAF and is amaintenance officer. Stationed at MacDill with Don is Randy SAGE. Bryan CLARK flies for Delta down that way. Jeff is commander of the Security Police Squadron at Davis-Monthan. He went there from ACSC. He and Brenda have three daughters.

Change-of-Address Cards: Mike TURNER to Miami; John BRUCKNER and Milt SMITH to Colorado Springs; Barry SCHEINOST and Ed FRAZIER (Sue) to Offutt AFB; Steve DIEHL to LaVale, MD; Dave BURNETT to Ramstein AB; Denny MERIDETH to Caruthersville, MO; Dave SHANAHAN to March AFB; Don RAMM to Denver as a systems engineer for IBM—he is flying the A7D at Buckley with Mike EDWARDS, Dave GAW (’70), John JONES (’74), Dana ALEXANDER (’71), and Mark MEYER (’72); John ALBERT to Little Rock AFB; Tom SWERTFAGER to Wright-Pat; A1 MAURER to Crofton, MD; and Dave HANSON to Sumter, SC. As always, thanks for the cards and keep them coming. Have anice winter, and remember to come out of hiberna¬ tion by spring.

The infamous runners from left are Scott Mills, Ed Zerambo, ’75, and Chris Scott, ’71.

Mike Carter

2263 Ptarmigan Lane

Colorado Springs, CO 80918

Home: (303) 593-1480

AV: 259-2558

Percent members: 37

STARTERS: Let me just start by wishing you all aHappy New Year. Although you will be reading this well into 1987, Iam writing it shortly after 1986 has ended and what ayear it was. All of the cadets have re¬ turned from break and are well along into the “Dark Ages.” Sorry about the football prediction last time and the disappointing outcome. Things look better for next year and we’re really looking forward to it. The basketball team is up to its old tricks after its best start in years but they are starting to taper off abit. The hockey team is really up this year and maybe we’ll beat CC atime or two.

Iam still waiting for the class photo from ACSC and other PME-type schools. ’Nuff said.

During the holidays, Ireceived quite afew cards and letters so Iwon’t spend alot of time in small talk. Again, if you have something to share, either write ashort note or call. There are lots of people out there who really do care what happens. Craig ANDERSON had agood idea and placed me on the mailing list for his DDF (Dirty Dozen Family) Newslet¬ ter. If there are any other newsletters out there which may be passing along information concerning our classmates, then please add me to your mailing list as well.

FOLKS: Just like last time, the big news among ’74 families seems to be new arrivals. Mark and Bev KUSKIE had ababy girl on 20 Mar 86. She is named Allison Nicole and weighed in at alittle over seven pounds. Allison joins her big brother Brett, who is four years old. Mike has extended at Elmendorf and is currently slated to depart in July of this year. Another new addition to their family is aseven-and-a-half foot brown bear. Mike shot it in May and is having it made into arug. Thanks Bev for the info.

The next new arrival was to Sam and Charlotte BIONDO. Amanda Janette was born back on May 31 in Fairfax, VA. She joins her two big brothers Brent and Brandon. Sam wrote to correct me on afaux-pas of several columns ago. In that edition, Imentioned that we could sleep well because ’74 was out there keeping the red hordes in check. Sam reminded me that we are the red horde. In his words “I’m SOOOOOOOOO con¬ fused.” Sam has been flying for the past five years for New York Air. He’s based in Washington flying 737-300s, whatever that is. He reports that Scott MURPHY, Mark SHEPROW, and Frank SHANLEY are also with the same company. Scott is flying 737-300s, Mark flies MD-80s, and Frank fl ies DC-9s. All are based in New York.

From the DDF newsletter comes the announcement of new babies for Joe and Darlene BREZOVIC, Chris and Gretchen REAMY, and Charlie and Barb MURPHY. The results are a“don’t know,” one girl, and aboy in that order. It looks like our class continues to grow. Must be that everybody is starting to worry about pushing 35 and so are in ahurry to get the families on the road. Ireally like to report these new arrivals so make sure that I’m on your mailing list for birth announcements. May God bless all of these growing families.

CALLS: Igot acall from Bill MURRAY. He’s now at Hurlburt, FL in the 8th SOS. He and his wife have three kids: Sally (8 yrs), Lindsey (5 yrs), and Kareen (4 yrs). Bill passed along alot of into about classmates in the special ops career field. Frank MURRAY is in his rated supplement at Hurlburt as commander of the 834th AGS as of August. He came from C-141S and is seeing the other side of the flying business. Last spring. Bill ran into Eli COLOTTA. He is in the plans business with the 7th SOS and is also into some pretty heavy pistol competition. Gordy ETTENSON is also in the plans business in the 8th SOS.

Bill also reported that Gary KIRSTEATER attended ACSC as acap¬ tain and is now on the Air Staff as exec for BGen Foegelman, aformer history instructor at the USAFA. Finally, the last report Bill sent in is that Bill MOTLEY is on the faculty at the Defense Systems Management Col¬ lege, at Ft. Belvoir, VA.

CHANGE-OF-ADDRESS CARDS: The fi rst of these cards is really in¬ teresting. It seems that Dave DALEY volunteered for ACSC but someone got confused and he and Tai-Lee found themselves on their way to the German General Staff College. Their new address is now an APO with a box number. For those of you at ACSC who are feeling the drag of aoneyear school, remember that Dave is off for atwo-year study in Germany. Jeff JACOBS is also reporting amove, but his is in the opposite direction from Las Vegas to an APO, San Francisco address. Moving the other way is Bill HALSEY. He has come easterly from the Pacific to Montgomery for ACSC.

Another ACSC enrollee is Jim RIVARD. His move was from Cuper¬ tino, CA. A1 CLOCK also is calling Montgomery home after moving from Maryland. Rich SANDWICK is showing anew Gunter AFS, AL ad¬ dress, so Iwonder if he’s part of the ACSC contingent as well. This com¬ pletes our ACSC group as we know it. Rich PETERS has headed to New England from Belleville, IL. His current residence is in Middletown, Rl. Chris KELLY finished ACSC and moved westerly to an APO San Fran¬ cisco address. Somebody finally managed to dislodge Steve “Boz”

BOZARTH from Arizona. His latest address is in Poquoson, VA.

The fi nal two changes come from John MCKINLEY and Scott MEFFORD. John and family passed through Colorado on their way westerly and visited with Mike and Diane WOLFERT for aday or two. They are now stationed in Waipahu, HI where John has something to do with the command post. Scott did amove the hard and long way from Maupville, CA to an APO New York address.

FROM THE MAIL BAG: Igot acard back in July from Rich and Mary Jo DENNIS. It seems that they were on their way to Armed Forces Staff College. By the time you read this, they will be close to graduation and know where they are headed.

FINALE: That’s all for now. Thanks for reading once again and please keep me informed about what’s going on. There are no photos this time, but if someone will send me one I’ll print it. As always, Ipray for God’s blessings on each and every one of you and your families. Keep me in¬ formed of all that’s new because, believe it or not, there is somebody out there who is interested and who cares.

Jeff Hackett

1825 E. Jeanine Drive

Tempe, AZ 85284

Home: (602) 831-9439

Work: (602) 891-6122

Percent members: 39

THE GHOST OF CHRISTMAS PAST. If not for the holidays it would have been another session of Kery-Creative Writing 101. Only got letters from three of y’all, afew phone calls, acouple of welcome visits, and, oh yes, (like apiece of coal at the bottom of your Christmas stock¬ ing) the omni-present change-of-address cards. But, even though he wasn’t wearing ared suit and riding abig sleigh, this “scribe” got eight of his best Christmas presents (Christmas cards) from the guy in ablue suit driving aPost Office jeep! The other 734 of you should go add me to your Christmas card lists for next year.

IS IT “GIVING” OR IS IT “RECEIVING?” In the later part of Oc¬ tober Ireceived the extremely belated bad news that A1 NASH had avery serious car accident six years ago this Christmas. The news came from A1 MORRISON who has recently reestablished contact with A1 at his home in Georgia after recognizing him in an Atlanta AOG Chapter photo (sum¬ mer issue of this magazine.) I’m not aware of all of the specifics sur¬ rounding the accident or the details of Al’s current condition other than he’s confined to awheelchair and has some residual speech impediment. 1 am aware, from what A1 Morrison related and through my minor ex¬ perience in ahealth crisis, that A1 Nash would probably greatly appreciate acard, letter or call from aclassmate. His address is: A1 Nash, 1530 Ten¬ nessee Walker Drive, Roswell, GA 30075, (404) 587-2788. That’s apriori¬ ty that goes even above writing your class scribe (which gives it alot of room, right?). I’ll cut some kind of deal with A1 to have the printable stuff passed on to me for the next issue!

GLAD TIDINGS! Received holiday greetings and aletter from Mike and Diane BUCKLEY who have had aheck of ayear! They’re back in Anchorage where Mike’s flying 737s for Alaska Air and reentering the National Guard. Diane’s also working with the ANG. They’ll be opening a“Bed and Breakfast” in Anchorage this winter. On awarmer front, we heard from Linda and (Lt. Colonel-selectee) Dale MEYERROSE who are at Carswell AFB. The card included apicture of their two good-looking girls and the news that next year’s picture will include anew brother or sister. Brian and Sandy GOMES’ kids are equally good-looking. Their 1987 “addition” will come in the form of anew home they’re building in North Carolina where B.G. continues to fly 727s (Piedmont) and KC-lOs (USAFR.) We not only got to see apicture of DONNELLY children, we got to meet them when Mark and Lucy came by over the holidays. They were in town from Scott AFB where Mark’s working for HQ MAC. No pictures of the CALHOUN kids (could they be anything but goodlooking?) in Tom and Candy’s card which arrived from Southern Califor¬ nia. They like being back in the U.S. after all the tension in the Philip¬ pines this past year. Tom’s in C.E. at Norton and Candy’s pursuing a

master’s degree in addition to keeping things rolling along on the homefront.

MAKING UP FOR LOST TIME. After not seeing Chuck HOLLAND in over five years we saw him three times this fall! He came through on the way to/from B-52 requal academics. In exchange for Thanksgiving dinner we got some classic stories about Chuck’s leg surgery and the dynamics of PCS/TDYs in SAC. His leg is coming along nicely and he hopes to be back on flying status about the time he and Kim are reunited and move into their new house in Fort Worth (January).

McNUGGETS (BITS AND PIECES) OF NEWS. About the time the Hollands move into their nice new house, Dave COMMONS will be get¬ ting his first look at the Kunsan AB BOQs and finding out if he can fly on the left wing! Barb and their son are going to spend the year back in Maryland. Dave FLEMING wrote from Upper Heyford advising that he, Ann, and their daughter are looking forward to “a return to the land of Arby’s, Wendy’s, and Sears” next Auggst when he’ll start ACSC. ACSC classmates will apparently include Mark NOBLES, Wil CASON, Scott HENTE, and Jed VANDENDRIES. Kent TRAYLOR will be starting about that same time but up the road abit, at Armed Forces Staff College in Norfolk.

HONORABLE MENTION. I’ll only take the time to mention three of the infamous change-of-address cards...strangely enough they’re the three that contained notes in the margin. (Catch my drift folks?) Stan COLLINS has departed Dayton, OH for Elmendorf AFB where he’ll be assigned to the 17 TAS flying C-130s. Rod REAY also left Dayton but he’s headed for alittle more warmth at Tyndall AFB and something call¬ ed HQ AFESC/DEMP. Tom FINN should also be catching alittle sun in Hawaii where he’s aC-135C special missions navigator.

SON OF FRANKENSTEIN. Jim CARLSON unwittingly punished me with his very own version of the @#$% change-of-address cards. It was very clever of him to provide his ’75er pals with alittle pre-stamped and pre-addressed card that gave them achance to tell me what agreat class president they thought Jim would be. It was NOT very clever of him to leave off aspot for them to tell me something of their current condition; the result being Igot 27 cards postmarked in 12 states that told me virtual¬ ly nothing. Here again though there are two “notes-in-the-margins” ex¬ ceptions. Duane JONES is at Andrews working Special Air Missions (AF 1and the like) and Jon NOETZEL advised me of his pending (June 87) PCS to Lakenheath to fly F-llls.

WOULD THE REAL COLT MEFFORD PLEASE STAND UP? One of the “Jim Carlson-mailback-cards” was from Colt MEFFORD of Col¬ orado Springs and looked innocent enough but now I’m wondering. Dur¬ ing his visit Mark Donnelly showed me the latest AOG Register entry for Colt. Can anyone shed some light on this for us all?

BUT THIS IS THE WAY IT WORKS IN WASHINGTON! As Isaid, Jim Carlson was very original in his approach to gaining the title of class president and, being the simpleton 1am, it gives me arationale for declar¬ ing awinner—anybody that expends this much energy must be good for something! Sincerely, Ithink Jim has the kind of attitude that will be a real asset in this loosely defined (and probably thankless) job. Take your complaints to the chaplain or the AOG. Jim asked that Iinclude the following from his acceptance speech,

Uh... Gosh, I’m so surprised this happened... Ihad nooo idea...

Gee... Ahem, Ihave really no choice but to accommodate your fevered desire for me to be your President. My first act will be to ask for the resignation of my personal cabinet (forty plus advisors are a little too unwieldy...) Ialso declare this day to be anational holiday, and am going off on awell-deserved vacation. Refer any questions to my answering machine.

As for me, I’m off to make some New Year’s resolutions that, by the time we all read this, will have been long forgotten. Except, of course, the one to always keep in mind it’s later than you think!

Wade E. McRoberts

5B Strunk Parkway

Las Vegas, NV 89115

Home: (702) 644-5031

AV: 682-2557

Percent members; 37

Hello ’76ers! Ihope everyone is well —not much news this time. Maybe everybody is recuperating from the Reunion.

Pat BURBANK sent news that our classmate Jim WITH was killed on 22 December in an F-5 accident at Gila Bend, AZ. Jim was an IP at Willie. Please remember his wife, Kathy, and their children, in your prayers.

Pat and Debbie recently PCSed to Williams from San Antonio. Pat is a T-37 IP now.

Ireceived several Christmas cards. One was from Wes and Cheryl NEELY. They and their two boys are at Reese, where Wes is aT-38 IP and flight commander.

Joe and Nancy WYSOCKI, with Kim and Mickey, have left the Springs for Socorro, NM, where Joe is the commander of aGEODSS (I don’t know, look it up) site. Seriously, though, it’s adeep space surveillance sensor. Joe and Nancy did agreat job with the CS-31 party at the Reunion —they sent out afollow-up newsletter to all the Grim Reapers and the Jump Team ’76ers updating us on what we’re all doing. Thanks, Puck and Nancy.

Bill and Lynda ROEGE wrote from Kadean (F-15s). They expect a playmate for Katie in March.

Buddy and Kathy LOTT wrote from Fort Worth, where Buddy is a senior marketing rep for General Dynamics (1 knew him when he was aLt Col). If you want to buy an F-16, call him, as he works on commission.

John and Bobbi CROWLEY sent acard. They live in Minneapolis, and John fl ies with Northwest Orient. They celebrated their fi rst Christmas with baby Jack, who was born in October.

Bill and Patti NASH are still in Portsmouth, RI, where Bill is aconsul¬ tant with Peat Marwick. They built anew house this year.

Don and Pat HALL are at USAFA—he’s amilitary studies instructor, and aT-41 IP on the side. Their kids are Sean, Chloe, and Kyle.

Jack and Jan CATTON are at Army Command and General Staff Col¬ lege at Fort Leavenworth, awaiting assignment.

Duke and Laura PORRITT are still at Hill in F-16s, but Duke will be spending ayear at Kunsan. Their boys are Glenn and Jared.

Jim and Becky DEAUX, with their four girls, are back in the F-4, and back in the States—this time at Moody.

Bruce, Sue and Peter GUINDON are over in the UK—Bruce is on ex¬ change to the RAF, and fl ies Buccaneers. He says if you’re at Lbssiemouth, contact him at 208 Squadron there.

CHANGE OF ADDRESS: Mark STARR is in Ellicott City, MO; Eliseo CUVAS is at D-M; Clyde and Bernadette AYER are in Aliquippa, PA; John FLOERSCH, Owatonna, NY; Bob SATRE moved to Dover, DE; Jeff SOGARD is at Langley; Bob HUDSON, O’Fallon, IL; Doug ZACOUR is back in the Springs; John AMOR is atest pilot at Eglin; Rory CHILDRESS is in Elgin, IL; Jerry MORRISON moved to Atwater, CA; and Jim CADY and Mark SLOWN will probably start an AOG chapter in APO, NY. Randy SPETMAN moved to Springfield, VA; Joe and Becky MARCHING are at Langley on TAC Staff; Tom HOLTZ went to Charlotte, NC; John BRUNS went to Tulsa, OK; Charles FELLOWS is anew guy at Edwards; and Mike WOODMAN moved from one town to another with the same name, but to the other side of the CONUS—APO SF to APO NY.

Here at Nellis, Carl and Mary REBARCHAK are departing. Carl is go¬ ing to Luke to learn to fly F-16s after all this time in A-lOs, then they’re all off to Torrejon. Soviet tank commanders in Europe are certainly breathing easier these days!

That’s it from here. I’ve enjoyed writing your class news for the past several years, but it’s time for new blood. Istrong-armed Kurt KLINGENBERGER into taking over at the Reunion, so write to him at 1801 North Tejon Street, Colorado Springs, CO 80907. Sue and Iare proud to be ’76ers, and we’ve enjoyed hearing from all of you. We also wish God’s richest blessings on all of you, as He has blessed us. Take care, and keep in touch with Kurt.

Iv-,. X

Jim Dart

Quarters 4402B

USAF Academy, CO 80840

Home: (303) 472-6706

AV: 259-4671

Percent members: 34

How is ’87 starting off for you? The promising forecast may call for promotions, reunions, moves or new relatives.

John VISSER made one addition last summer. He finally got around to marrying Anne whom he has known since second grade. She’s apartner in aprominent Dallas law firm, while John flys 135s out of Barksdale. John is trying to work this out. He remembered to return his reunion in¬ terest survey to chairman Jay FAWCETT who is doing asuper job lining up activities for the weekend of 17-20 September. Have you made reserva¬ tions?

Thank God for Christmas when 1get afew more inputs. Connie MAR¬ TINEZ wrote from Scott AFB about afew noteworthy achievements of her husband, Randy. “Major” Martinez was MAC’S Junior Manager of the Year. He travels worldwide discussing officer retention problems when he’s not playing the part of aFrench playboy in amusical comedy.

Tom CONLON (Lauren) touches all the services with his systems in¬ tegration skills at Wright-Patterson. Garry and Janice SHEPPARD final¬ ly got amore spacious house at McGuire along with anew job, flightsimulator instructor. SCHLEGELS have an assortment of three in Mont¬ gomery (see photo). Mike is an SOS instructor. Karen and the kids spend alot of time out on the intramural fields watching all the penalties.

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Following aCW staff meeting Irallied my fellow AOCs (five total from our class). Craig ADAMS (Grim Reapers) reports that A.J. GIPSON is a B-IB tactics and safety officer at Dyess. Jim McREYNOLDS is back from overseas, using his computer skills to help the OSl at Offutt. Mike CROSS is doing secretive work at Nellis. Tim HOPPER (Ali Baba) tells me that Randy SCHAEFER is also at Nellis, but doing not-so-secretive orthopedics. Dave CHAFFEE (Deuce) and Skip BALANCIERE (Phan¬ toms) are also regular contributors.

Rick PIALET is receiving fighter lead-in at Holloman. Daryl JONES is about to graduate from law school in Miami. T. G. PARKER is out, try¬ ing to link up with the airlines out of Sacramento. Ialso received anote from Gary GREEN, an F-4 WSO at Taegu AB, Korea. Mike CIMAFONTE now directs First Class Professional Military Training.

Quay SNYDER delivered news of his obstetrics work while Iwaited for aprescription at the Academy Hospital. He helped Bruce JEFFREY ac¬ quire ason, Jacob, on 12 August and agirl, Hannah, for Tom WAILES on 7June. Quay must have done agood job in the delivery room to win Base Officer of the Quarter.

Quay could not take credit for helping Pete NIGRO with his new daughter at Charleston. He remembered to mention that Rick NEWTON is ahelo IP at Kirtland. Iheard from another doctor, Dave EBELKE, who is practicing in the vicinity of Shreveport, LA.

Most people send changes-of-address directly to the AOG, but Jeff TOMLIN, aCS-13 alumni, was thoughtful enough to send acolorful postcard from Korea. He is aproud maintenance officer for the A-10 at Suwon AB.

Susan and 1just returned from another trip back to the D.C. area where we continued our traditional rendezvous with Mike and Bonnie WEINSTEIN, this time in aFrench restaurant across the street from the White House. Mike is especially busy working in the White House Ex¬ ecutive Offices, when he’s not swinging abaseball bat autographed by the Dodgers. His amiable boss (the general counsel for the Office of Ad¬ ministration) took us behind the scenes at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and attended our press conference (see photo). I’ll end this press release here.

Greg Postulka

8079D Summa Ave.

Baton Rouge, LA 70809

Home: (504) 766-1984

Work: (504) 388-4407

Percent members: 32

As you read this, anew year is well underway. But, as Iwrite this, it’s two days before Christmas. I’m on holiday in sunny Colorado Springs and Ijust watched the Voyager complete its historic flight around the world. So, in the spirit of Santa Claus, the Wright Brothers, Lindbergh, Earhart, Yeager, Rutan and Yeager, and other Pioneers of flight, here’s the class news.

Christmas Mailbag. Ireceived acard from Greg KENNEDY at Eglin. His wife Crystal says they’re off to Bitburg, Germany where Greg will still be flying boring, old F-15s. Too bad you guys couldn’t get an exciting support assignment. Well, maybe someday.

Sam THERRIEN sent his holiday cheer from Las Vegas. As another fighter jock year went by safely, Sam said wife Joni keeps getting better looking, son Danny keeps getting bigger, and Sam is losing alittle more hair. How old are you now, Sam, 47 or 48?

Only One Letter Dept. Jim “Harpo” GRUPP filled me in on his life and some of the “the boys in the band.” Harpo is at Hudson High teaching the USMA rah rahs all about combined arms operations—tanks and mechanized infantry. Iguess there’s no limit to the versatility of a C-130 driver, or is it similar to tanks and such? Jim has two youngsters: Chris and Beth. In the last issue Ireported some quasi-true rumoresque about Jim’s brother-in-law, Kevin KREGEL. I’ve been corrected. Kevin flew A-6s off of table tops in the ocean with some nautical types. In fact, he liked them so much, he went to their test pilot school at Pax River, MD. Now, he’s test piloting F-15s and F-llls (our stuff for achange) at Eglin. Harpo also gave me arundown on Don LAUMAN. Don is an F-4 backseater. He’s been to Korea and Alaska and is now at Moody. Don also has one child, but Ididn’t get any other intel on that though. Also, Ed “Gilbo the O” GILBERTSON is working at Griffis AFB, NY in an EE assignment. Finally, Jim told me about aletter he received from Larry MORTON. Larry and family are enjoying graduate study in Sweden on an Olmsted Scholarship. Great letter, Harpo; thanks for the info. Work on the handwriting though.

Class AChanges of Address; The following four guys used my sug¬ gested change-of-address technique. Good job! They each included aline or two on assignments and family. Therefore, they will be held in higher regard than other Class Bchanges. Quick, give me adime so Ican call someone who cares. Anyway, Bob MCMAHON is moving from WPAFB

The Honorable Weinstein (right) and Class Scribe Dart respond to ques¬ tions about the '77 Class Reunion.

The Schlegel trio of Krista, Craig and Eric are regulars at SOS intramural games.

to Langley to work at HQ TAC/LGQP. Guy MARTIN also moved. He is at Dyess AFB, TX as aB-IB pilot. Are they really like fighters, Guy?

Mike SPAIN completed his ASTRA assignment. Mike is now aKC-10 aircraft commander in the 9th ARS at March AFB, CA. And, Pitt MERRYMAN has moved from England AFB, LA, where he was the 23TFW(A-10s) asst chief of Weapons and Tactics, to the real England. Pitt is aHarrier pilot with Squadron No. 1, RAF Wittering, UK. Thanks for the updates.

Class BChanges of Address; Ted ANKENBAUER from APO NY to Glendale, AZ; Steve BABCOCK from Salt Lake City, UT to WPAFB, OH; Paul BECK to Colorado Springs; Tim DOTY from Las Vegas to Converse, TX; Marke GIBSON from APO SF to APO NY; Craig GOURLEY from Ft Walton Beach to Las Vegas; and Gary HALBERT from Austin, TX to Anchorage, AK. Also, Bob KAY to Downey, CA; Mike KENYON to Grand Forks; Joe REYMES from APO NY to Valdosta, GA; Phil SCHWARTZ from APO NY to APO SF; Jim SHEEDY from Brentwood, NY to Albuquerque, NM; Gary STEPHENS from Groves, TX to Ellsworth AFB, SD; Eric THOMPSON from Ft Walton Beach to Alexandria, VA; Ted TRUEX from Annandale, VA to Altus, OK; and, John WELLSFRY to APO NY.

Parting Shot. Do you know what 1like about this job? Iget to find out what ail y’all (that’s Southspeak) are doing. Oid friends and classmates come out of the closet to provide me with the latest news to provide to you. However, do you ever wonder who your reai friends are? Ido. Especialiy, when Ihave to read in \heAF Times that Kyle BARTELS, my best man and baseball buddy, moved to Altus, OK; he’s aC-5 IP I presume. ’78ers, don’t let me find you in the newspaper; keep the cards and letters coming!

Mike Donatelli

1309 E. St. Louis Ave., #3 Las Vegas, NV 89104

AV: 682-5862

Percent members; 29

Hope all had ahappy holiday season! Julie and Iwere biessed with an early Christmas present on 1December—a baby boy—destined for USAFA Ciass of 2008 and then to fly the ATF mud-mover. Michael Shannon Donatelli—nice Irish/Italian mix!

Mike Donatelli with Michael Shannon Donatelli, Class of 2008.

My compliments to Bud VAZQUEZ for the fall article. Not bad for an SPO toad. Thanks for the HOG jokes. If you need anymore just give me acall. After six years in the A-10 and now at the USAF Fighter Weapons School, Ithink I’ve got the jokes down.

NELLIS. What agreat job here at the Fighter Weapons School. You can eat “Top Gun.” Jim POOL, just back from his ASTRA vacation, helps me out with the sarcasm and ridicule of all the students who come through the school house. Steve MUELLER is the taskmaster in the F-16 house. Magot will be joined this spring by Burt FIELD, Tom WINGO (rumor) and Russ LARNED (rumor). Wings is at Hill in the Viper and Lurch is presently in the 422TES here at Nellis. Enclosed is aphoto of Burt FIELD Jr with his Christmas wishes. Why ablue vacuum Burt?

Anyway, being stationed at Nellis is apleasure—terminal sunshine at

Burton Field’s Christmas wishes included ablue vacuum cleaner and a girlfriend.

mecca. My standard line of “stop by and I’ll buy you abeer” gets expen¬ sive...Nellis bar fl ys over the past year include: Jim REGAN on across¬ country in his T-41 from USAFA, Mike PEPLINSKI, F-16, MacDill; Knox THOMASON, soon-to-be F-16, Spangdahlem; Joey HACKBARTH, soon-to-be F-16, Moody; Fred JACOBSEN, RF-4, Bergstrom; John Lips NICHOLS and Steve WHEELESS, F-16, Nellis; and D.J. JUREWICZ, F-111 Fighter Weapons School, Mountain Home. Also, Bruce GEBHARD and Pete JOYCE, Weasels, George; Tom MC¬ CARTHY and Archie RIPPETO, F-15s, Bitburg; John SUSALLA, A-10, Bentwaters, and soon-to-be Eagie driver at Soesterberg; Mike ASHLEY and Ken TEBRINK, A-lOs, Bentwaters; and Jeff GORDON, F-4, Moody—to name afew. The chief bar fl ys are Scott REYNOLDS and Lance BEAM, A-10, 422TES; Korky VONKESSEL, A-7; and Doug Scrubb ROBB, flight surgeon here at Nellis. It’s time for you ’79 buds to buy me one when you come here—I’m not the one TDY!

Tom FOERTSCH just graduated from the F-16 school. Tom graduated with security police honors for leading the class in turning over abandon¬ ed cars in the O’Club parking lot during the regular Friday night Olym¬ pics. One more tackle for the record books!

Paul BISHOP has decided to trade in his 10 years’ worth of back issues of girlie magazines for an innocent school teacher from Virginia. Bish has finally found the girl of his dreams—she doesn’t mind Copenhagen snuff!

GOSSIP. The first ’79er promoted to major writes the next issue to prove his worth. Rick AHLQUIST loves ASTRA. Other Pentagon buds are Bruce BINGLE and Mike VAN HOOMISSEN. Mike HAYES has found his coaching potential—T-37s at Sheppard, along with Ed LEMELIN and Jim BARRON. Pete BUNCH still frets incentive flights to female ROTC types, this time in his F-15 at Bitburg. Charlie WAD¬ DELL is thrilled about joint assignment processes—F-15 at Kadena. Dan¬ ny BOYLEN lost his shorts in the stock market and his iife savings to me for that Super Bowl bet he dared to make. Biff GENDA is aheadhunter in Ohio. Fred LANKFORD breeds future Hog pilots at England AFB. Tom ENGLISH is the chief grounds keeper at the Academy’s Eisenhower Blue Course. Finally, Scotty JENSEN made the Thunderbird finals but deferred the offer so he can do pantyhose advertisements as ageneral’s aide in Seoul, Korea (see photo).

Received information on some future airline pilots to include Jeff LIEDERBACH, Marty BREIDENSTEIN and Mark CEBUHAR— Northwest; Bruce HOLBROOK, Phil ELLIOTT, Kurt SHULAR, Kent GILLILAND, Dave LONCZAK and John HAMMER—Delta; Fred DUDNEY—American; Keith KRIES—USAir; and Bobby SWAIN— Peidmont and A-IOs in the New Orleans Reserve.

Have agood spring. Fly safe, and if you don’t fly, don’t let the paper¬ work get in the way.

FLASH. Jeff SHIELDS, flying F-4s at George AFB, informed me of Omar BRADLEY’S spread in the November issue of Airman magazine. Go for it “top gun.”

MYSTERY WRITER. Steve DEAUX fi nally got ajob— fl ying Har¬ riers with the Brits in Germany after his “fun-filled” flighter-lead-in tour at Holloman. DEAUX-boy leaves behind Frank FR.-VNCOIS, George DUDA, and Frank SNYDER to teach those new kids how to MOVE MUD. Speaking of new kids, the FRANCOIS and DUDA families have each added anew one to the ever-growing list of ’79 offspring. Brad SCHMIDT quit flying heavies for Uncle Sam and MAC AIR to go to work for Northwest somewhere in the great white north (Minneapolis or Detroit Ihear). Northrop made Willie BENITEZ an offer he couldn’t refuse so he decided to “punch out” of his OV-10 job at George so he could keep all those girls dancing in L.A. all night long. Future test pilotengineer Mark BUECHTER is on his way to Edwards after AFIT, and former 422 test-pilot Lance BEAM took the big plunge—yep, that’s right—Lance is tying the knot this spring with acertain Colorado Springs lady and looking for the “friendly skies.” Ralph TRAPAGA settled into astateside tour at Davis-Monthan after leaving the F-4 in the Philippines for the OA-37 while Harry WHITING and family PCSed from F-16s at Hahn through Silly Of fi cers School in Montgomery for the fast-paced life of ATC in lovely Columbus, MS. Ihear Tommy KISS and wife Anna are also overwhelmed with ATC life in Columbus.

Don’t let DONATELLI fool ya; he hasn’t changed abit even though he’s apapa now. You can still catch PUPPY this winter propped up in an easy chair in front of the tube, smoking astogie, little Mikey on one arm sucking on abottle (milk only), afresh Budweiser in the other hand, cheering on those Bears, and still swearing ’till he’s blue in the face. How long do you suppose it will be until Mikey starts cussing like his old man and telling jokes like, “Dig you hear the one about the Eagle driver who walked into the bar and ...?” (Scotty REYNOLDS)

Matt Neuenswander

3818 Packard

Alexandria, LA 71303

Percent members: 36

Hello Burger King buddies. I’m back after an 18-month sabbatical from Checkpoints, and Peggy DENNIS was more than happy to let me have my old job back. If there are any of you lurking out there who would like to pick up where Peggy left off, just drop me aline and Iwill extend my writing layoff another 18 months. Peggy did agreat job and Ireally appreciated the help. Marcia and Iare now settled in Alexandria, LA where we live on England AFB. The A-10 is great and TAC is not bad either. Lead-in RTU and PCSing here had all of the joys of driving awife and two kids halfway across the country. Our kids are growing up fast and I’m sure you all attended your 10th high school reunion since Ilast wrote. Iguess we are really part of middle-class America now. Oh boy! Well, on with the news, Phil COLLINS wrote from Beale AFB where he has been flying KC-135Qs for the last four-plus years. Phil just finish¬ ed asystems mgt master’s program and will be PCSed to SAC Hq at Of¬ futt to work on their computer systems. Phil will be getting married in February to alocal girl named Sheryl. Best of luck Phil. Chuck PHILLIPS and his wife Mim are now at Castle AFB where Chuck is a KC-135 CCTS IP. Iguess Ron GRAY was also at Beale, but he just put in his papers. Iread about A1 MATTER in TAC Attack this last November and A1 did areally great job handling an in-flight emergency in the 0-2 at Shaw AFB. Someone sent me apicture of John CROGHAN and his new bride Sherri. They got married on 2Aug and Iassume that John is flying F-4s at Seymour Johnson AFB. Speaking of Seymour, Lou BORELLI was here at England in November. Lou flys F-4s at Seymour and Justin CHRETIEN and Tom SPICER are in his squadron.

Mark LAUIPPA dropped Peggy aline and brought us up to date on what he has been doing. Mark was aC-I30 AC at Dyess AFB and he recently took aone-year remote to Camp Red Cloud, Korea. Mark is a

Tac Airlift Liaison Officer with the 2nd Inf over there while his wife, Suzi, works for IBM in Dallas. Mark said he saw Mike BROWN in Korea and Mike is working in the Command Post at Yokota AFB, Japan.

Igot aletter from Marcela GOMEZ, ’82, and she sent me apicture of Juan HERNANDEZ and his new wife, Sylvia. John got married this past October and is now acivilian working in Miami. Jerry DEVILLE wrote and he is now stationed at Lowry AFB. He works for the 2nd Comm Sq which is part of Space Command. Jerry is working on adual master’s degree as well as teaching comp sci at acollege in Denver. Pat and Maria NOWLTON wrote from Davis-Monthan where Pat is an A-10 RTU IP. Pat and Maria had their first child in October and they named the strap¬ ping young lad Michael Patrick. Congrats Pat. Bill PETERSON wrote from Florennes AB in Belgium and he is almost through with aone-year unaccompanied tour as the Air Base Security Policy Operations officer. Bill and his wife, Sandy, will soon be going to Lackland AFB where Bill will command the 3283 School Squadron (one of the security specialist tech school squadrons at the SP academy). Annette MILLIGAN had to do the Christmas letter herself this year because Chuck is remote at Osan. When Chuck gets back they will be going to USAFA to teach. Chuck and Annette have two girls, Jennifer and Alicia.

Dave and Laura VALLADO wrote from Offutt AFB and they are in¬ volved in about everything up there. They are square dancing, building onto their house, and hoping to go to USAFA to teach in the next several years. Dave and Laura bought some land near Monument and hope to buy ahouse there.

1went to Turkey in October and while enroute Isaw several classmates. Most notable was Eddie FOLSOM who Iwas forced to share atent with. Eddie accused me of snoring and slept with ear plugs. He will make some¬ one arotten wife someday. While in Turkey, Bob KAPITZKE came down from Zarogoza, Spain to fly UH-ls with my unit. Bob is doing well and plans to get out when he returns to the states. While in Lajes, Isaw Mark FARAONE and Dave ANDERSON. Dave is fl ying KC-135S at Wurtsmith AFB and got to spend 11 hours ferrying us hogdrivers across the pond. Mark was there in aC-141 and he was on one of his last flights before he starts his ASTRA tour. We landed at Myrtle Beach and Isaw Frank and Cinda BUNTING while we RONd. Frank and Cinda have one little boy and another one on the way this spring.

Bart JACKSON was through here recently and he is flying F-15s at Elmendorf AFB. Bart said that he is doing well, though still single, and that both John POSNER and Bob HOLMES are in his squadron. Bob, Verna and Marcie and Iwere next-door neighbors at Vance. Hope things are going well near the arctic circle.

Well, it is pouring down rain outside and Ihave to mail this letter or it will be tardy as usual. Keep those cards and letters coming and God Bless. P.S. If anyone wants to work on the 10-year reunion with me just drop a line in the next year or so. How’s that for asuspense date?

PEGGY’S P.S. Ihad too many late Christmas cards to forward them all the Matt, so the editor agreed to my postscript. We’ll see how badly I get censored this time. Russ HODGKINS wrote from Upper Heyford where he flies electronic Aardvarks. He and his wife, Donni, are enjoying the country with their son, Gordon. Russ and Guy TURNER crewed

The Colorado Springs Chapter of the "Ladies Night Out” Club. In back from left are Sandy Darula, Marianne (Owens) Larivee and Deb Dubbe. In front are Peggy Dennis, Holly (Emrick) Svetz, Sue Helms and Paula Thornhill.

together until Guy transferred (I wasn’t given alocation). Also at Upper Heyford is A1 BAKER in the Command Post. Craig TUBB is an F-lllF WSO at Lakenheath. John ERIKSEN and his wife (no name provided) bought out “Rip-off Alley” in Incirlik before transferring to Luke AFB where John is an F-16 RTU IP. Brian GRIGGS and Bill ANDREWS also deployed to England in their EF-llls. Mark “Flexibility is the Key to Air Superiority” CUMMINGS is at Holloman with wife Janet and two kids. Mark will be heading to Fighter Weapons School this winter. Bill ROY (Faye), arecent FWS grad, left Seymour for Homestead. Kurt BULLARD (whose career plans Iam not allowed to talk about) reports Lynn NAGAHIRO has gone civilian, as has Tom VALLE, now at Col¬ umbia Law School. Finally, Bob EISENBERGER is at Dyess as an engineer with the B-1, busy being “esoteric.” His Trans Am now has over 125,000 miles.

Scott CARROTHERS wrote from Guam, raving about the women on remote Pacific islands and apologizing for not writing. Mark and Vicki IRSIK checked in from Ellsworth where Mark is still flying the T-38. They have two kids now. Bob ALLARDICE is at ASTRA and working for his old AOC. Bob says the Pentagon is crawling with our classmates, but didn’t give any details. He and Susan have three daughters. Don MYERS (Kathy) has joined up with asmall airline near Killeen, TX and is really enjoying it. Nancy (BERGER) SNYDER and husband Gary are thriving out at Vandenberg (thanks for the “newsy” card). Marge (GLAZIER) SCHELL (Jay) has been busy decorating their new house in Omaha and enjoying civilian life despite Jay’s many long TDYs. Check¬ ing in from their new house in Anchorage were Joe and Jeanne FER¬ NANDES and their two kids. Joe is really enjoying his C-130 flying and the occasional “tough” TDYs to Hawaii. Larry and Cindie DEPATIS and son plan to leave Great Britain this spring to fly recce over Germany. And finally, Gwen KNUCKLES is planning on delivering another one of Scott KIRBY’S offspring at Keesler soon. Thanks to everyone for the cards, pictures, and gossip. Take care.

Larry Ruggiero

5930 Northwind Drive

Colorado Springs, CO 80918

Home: (303) 598-6051

AV: 259-3429

Percent members: 30

Greetings once again from sunny Colorado. (Trivia break: which local newspaper had the byline, “tis apleasure to live in Colorado” gracing its front page?) 1hope your holidays were pleasant and the new year is off to agood start for everyone. Since the hour is getting late, and my good editor graciously!?) granted me an extension, 1better get right to work!

First off is change-of-address cards, and if Icould ask afavor, please jot ajob description and/or an Air Force base on the card so that Ican be more accurate letting folks know where you are! Dennis WARD is now located in Redwood City, CA from Wright-Pat; Dave SCHOLL, Luke AFB from Columbus AFB; Ted BOWARD, from Scott AFB to Altus AFB to Dover AFB (enjoy the Blue Hen Mall, Ted!); Jim ADKINS, from one Eglin AFB neighborhood to another; Scott DINAPOLI (Annette) from one Kirtland AFB neighborhood to another; and Terry ADLER (Kathryn), from Boston College, getting an MBA to Wright-Pat as an AFIT instructor. Also, Rigo SANTIAGO (Roshayl), from Griffiss AFB to HQ ATC Randolph AFB (go Yankees!); Rick ALDRICH, from Max¬ well AFB to Sheppard AFB (see story below!); Dave CLARK, to Platts¬ burgh AFB from Vance AFB; Mike GIRONE (Marta), from Fayetteville, NC to Eglin AFB; Scott SUHR (Susan), from Eglin AFB to Wright-Pat; and Julie (GRIMMIG) GIER (Doug), from New Mexico and/or Califor¬ nia to Niceville, FL or Kohler, W1 (sorry Julie, your card and the AOG register have me thoroughly confused!). Also, Steve OTHLING (Terri), from Luke AFB to Homestead AFB; Jim DREW (Joy), from Moody AFB to Homestead AFB(?); Dave SMITH (Angela), to Torrejon AB from Monterey, CA; and last but not least, “Nouch” NUCCIO is firmly established from APO NY to Mountain Home AFB.

Now for some old but still vital stuff that missed last fall’s deadline. A letter came from Brian YOUNG’S lovely wife Marianne (CAFIERO ’82) to inform me of the birth of their second child, Rachel (via the cutest birth announcement), to add to their first son Nathaniel. Brian is at Pease AFB as an FB-111 nav while Marianne is at Hanscom AFB. They live in be¬ tween each base and commute an hour each way respectively —whew! They will have both been at SOS by the time this is published and hope to see many old friends.

Steve OTHLING (Terri) wrote awhile back to inform me of several ’81ers who graduated from F-16 RTU at Luke AFB. Mark BRENNAN (Sue MALECK) will be flying his Falcon at Nellis after having copped the class’s air-to-air “top gun” award. Andy MORGAN (Claire) is at Kunsan AB, and Steve is now at Homestead AFB. Steve reports that afew of us are F-16 RTU IPs at Luke: John HART (Diane), Kevin LIGHT, Dave WATT (Heather), Charlie RAPP (Kara), and Joe AIMO. On the F-15 side, Steve says that Steve HENDERSON and Dave SCHOLL were going through RTU at Luke, after which Steve will take new wife Danette to Langley AFB and dave will head to Eglin AFB.

As reported earlier, Chet NOWAK (Kathleen) is an F-15 RTU IP as well. Steve says that one of his old FAIP buddies from Reese, Dennie GRUNSTAD, is piling up the flying hours in his C-130 at Clark AB, PL And last but not least, Steve and Terri are enjoying six-month-old son Andrew while setting in at Homestead. Thanks again for the great news, Steve, and 1apologize for the delay.

Scott Carrothers underwater with his latest "love interests. ”

Robert, Susan, Jennifer, Amber and Angela Allardice in Washington, D.C.

Joe, Jeanne, Julie and Jayson Fernandes in Anchorage.

Continuing on in the old news department, Gabe HOFFMAN (Janet) wrote from Dayton, OH to fill me in on his experiences past and present. Gabe went to grad school at Princeton (which he terms as having been “interesting”) and followed that up with an assignment to Wright-Pat (half our class must be there!) where he worked the T-46A SPO as an in¬ tegration engineer. He met Janet there in Ohio and they subsequently had achild —Josiah Daniel —born in 1985. Gabe reported that he planned to leave the Air Force in January to work for The Analytical Sciences Corp in their Dayton of fi ce. Despite aschedule full of career and volunteering, Gabe says their Dayton home is always open to any ’81er passing through.

Mike WARREN (Denise) dropped aline all the way from Woomera, Australia, to fill me in on things “down under.” Mike PCSd awhile back from Colorado Springs and works for the 5th Defense Satellite Com¬ munications Squadron there. He and Denise have an 18-month-old son Andrew and they’re all looking forward to returning to the States. Mike reports that Donna CLIFF is also down there on ashort tour. Interesting¬ ly enough, Mike has news on two semi-lost classmates who got suckered by the Marines’ looking-for-a-few-good-men pitch: Randy BREAULT and Lou SUSKI. Randy got out of the Marines last May and got married as well (she was looking for one good man! —sorry, couldn’t resist) but Mike didn’t send her name along. Randy anticipates his civilian occupa¬ tion will move him from Southern California to Hawaii this year — rough! Lou is also getting out of the Marines eventually (hmmm, Isense a trend here) but since they put him to school, he owes them more time, cur¬ rently being spent as arecruiter in Little Rock, AR.

Finally, tbe last of the old news is to explain the stunning photo sent in by Bud RAFFERTY (Becky) to showcase some of the Air Force’s finest legal minds. From left are Greg PAVLIK (Patti), graduated from new Univ of Texas, with son Joshua, age 3, and assigned to Minot AFB; T.J. HASTY, graduated from Univ of Virginia and stationed at Langley AFB; Karen (MANOS) HENABRAY, graduate of Duke Univ, stationed at Bolling AFB with daughter Mary Ellen, age four and husband Bill; Bud RAFFERTY, graduate of Temple Univ, assigned to Grand Forks AFB with wife Becky and daughter Megan, six months; and lastly, Rick ALDRICH, graduate of UCLA, stationed at Sheppard AFB. All these guys are assistant staff judge advocates after having completed the JAG school at Maxwell AFB. Congrats to all!

Bud also wrote of the whereabouts of afew others, some of whom have been reported on by yours truly earlier. Dan BELL (Jennifer) is out of the Air Force with son Danny Jr.; Dennis WARD, being sponsored by Poli Sci dept here for an AFIT degree at Stanford to eventually teach; Tom KALLMAN (Kathy) recently had their third daughter and flies F-15s at Eglin AFB; Randall BENTLEY is aROTC instructor at the Univ of Michigan; Lynn ROBINSON is doing the same at the Univ of Miami; Jeff STAMBAUGH is an AT-38 IP at Holloman AFB and should be married by now to alocal girl (again no name!); Bill LOVELACE (Janet) flies choppers at Myrtle Beach AFB, with daughter Erin; Mike BLOOM¬ FIELD, married last spring, is an F-15 IP at Holloman AFB; and John MASON (Christine) graduated from Univ of Texas Southwestern Med School and is currently practicing at Keesler AFB. Bud says that he and Greg would be more than happy to travel south of the Dakotas to grant legal assistance to anyone in awarm spot!

Well, believe it or not the above mish-mash was all old news —now it’s time for the new stuff! Hang on, here we go! Darren MCNIGHT (Alison) is yet another one of us working here at lovely Camp USAFA teaching (ugh) physics to hapless cadets. He spent arough two years at the Univ of Colorado getting his PhD before journeying south. He reports that Dave SAUNDERS (Debbie) is new here at USAFA teaching physics and com-

pleting his PhD. Marv FISHER (Pamela) was recently chosen for ASTRA from HqUSAFE. Congrats! Jack BERKEBILE is atweet IP at Willy, where he recently married Dolly, an AF lieutenant. Mark LORENZ (Pat¬ ti) is here also, holding down the fort as an astro instructor. They have two crumb snatchers and Mark is an associate AOC for 4th Squadron. Lastly Bill MCCLURE (Diane) is newly arrived here as an aero instructor from Wright-Pat.

Scott LAND (Tanya) is next to bat with news from Laughlin AFB. He and Tanya downloaded abeautiful baby girl, Laura Ashley, last November and all three are doing fine. Scott is aT-38 IP/flight examiner and says that agroup of ’81ers are at Laughlin as instructors, with one ex¬ ception, including Jan BENHAM, Mike WALKER (Kathleen), Vince YASAY (Winnie), Jamie KLEMME and Julio GAMEZ. If that last per¬ son rings some big bells, it’s because Julio is astudent there after receiv¬ ing his U.S. citizenship and his commission. Welcome back to the fold, Julio! While at SOS last fall, Scott says the mini-reunion included Perry LAMONT, Larry PRICE (Lisa), Mike KELTZ, Jerry GREEN (Becky), Paul BORISH, Bob ABRAHAM (Annette), Tom SHIRCLIFF (Jean), Rob BONN (Susan), and Ken BRAY. Lastly, Scott reports that aB-1 assignment is in his not-too-distant future.

Just got off the phone with Mike NOEL, who’s wife Betsy teaches with me in AH. Mike is participating in the Falcon AFS start-up, but an¬ ticipates leaving the Air Force sometime soon to start law school at Denver University. He reports that Chuck SCHNEIDER (Elizabeth) is an aggressor pilot at Nellis, where he and Liz just had anew daughter, Erin Michelle, on New Year’s Day. They also have little guy, William, who’s three. Jason PROKOPOWICZ (Deanna) is expecting in March, and he is an A-10 pilot at Davis Monthan AFB. Ralph NARDO (Debra) is an F-4 WSO at Mountain Home AFB, and rumor bas it that Ralph’s voice was heard on news reports concerning his activities in the Libyan desert look¬ ing for Moammar. Good stuff! Dane MAROLT is at Little Rock AFB as aC-130 nav. Johnny OLAVARRIA, that irrepressible funny man, is the father of bouncing boy Ryan (no mama’s name again!) and is also at Falcon AFS. Mike thinks that Matt ALTHOUSE (Margaret) is moving from Falcon AFS to the Academy to teach as well. Mike says he’s heard from Sheldon DENNIS, Ned RUDD (Jennifer), and Mark BENSON (Ann), who are all flyers at Clark AB, as well as Jim LEVEILLE (Sara) who has ababy due in May. Jim’s at Mather AFB. Mike mentioned something about Tim GALLAGHER, an execujet pilot at Langley, losing $50 over amarriage bet?! Any comments on that one, Tim? Lastly, Mike says that Mark PLOEDERER (Lori) is out of the service after playing civil engineer for awhile.

Pat SWANKE got anice Xmas card from the former purveyor of this finely-penned column, Marty FRANCE, who with wife Becky is holding down new digs in Blacksburg, VA while Marty suffers through PhD train¬ ing at Virginia Tech. They and their two bouncing boys are doing fine.

Lastly, and this on avery serious note, Iask that you might remember in your prayers one of us who is not as fortunate as most of us are. Michael “Jake” JAKOBI was medically discharged from the service some time back after being diagnosed as having asevere case of epilepsy. For those of you who knew Jack as acadet, this is hard to comprehend. But Jake’s afighter and won’t give up, despite the toll the disease has taken on him. He asks that we don’t give up on him and that we keep him in our thoughts when we remember some of tbe good times we all shared as cadets. Since Jake is bedridden most of the time, he would greatly ap¬ preciate acard, letter, or note from any of you who care to write. His ad¬ dress is 254 Centerview Dr., Cincinnati, OH 45238.

Also, many of you might remember Joe HAMILTON’S wife Sarah (HIMEON ’82) in your prayers as well, since she is ill also. Joe and Sarah are living in Wichita Falls, TX where Joe is aT-37 IP.

Well, that’s all for another quarter. Ireally do appreciate all the news I get —it really makes this column come together. Send summer inputs by March for the next issue. Fly safe and God bless.

Jim Ratti

Box 4014

Blytheville AFB, AR 72317

Home: (501) 762-1009

AV: 721-7601

Percent Members: 33

1sit here, avery frustrated and embarrassed scribe. Frustrated because Ihave very little to work with, save for my (failing) memory, and embar¬ rassed because 1have misplaced the ONE letter Idid receive this past quarter. I’ll make this up as Igo along...

First off, Iknow Igot aletter from Marianne (CAFIERO) YOUNG and her husband Brian (’814-. The reason they wrote was to announce the

birth of their daughter. However, any other news they may have included escapes me, for Ican’t find the letter anywhere. Please accept my humble apologies for being so careless. Marianne, if I’ve left out news you wanted included, call me and fill me in. Ipromise better service next time. Of course, the way to prevent me from losing mail the next time is for lots of you to write. That way. I’ll have abig stack and there will be no way for me to misplace it!

Despite avery busy summer with lots of flying and alert, Idid have a few personal contacts. Pete BRYANT stopped through Blytheville in a Tweet early this fall. At that time, he was aKC-135 Stan eval copilot at Robins, but he had received orders to cross-train to the KC-10 this winter. Pete has what 1believe to be arecord number of hours in the T-37 ACE program, well In excess of 900. If any of you know of someone with more, let me know. That’s aphenomenal achievement.

As usual, Steve VOGT checked in from Moody. Only this time, he passed on some bad news. Ken HOGGATT was killed after his F-4 struck some birds during alow-level run. I’m sure the thoughts and prayers of all of us are with Ken’s family during this difficult time.

I’ve been browsing through the Register again, and it strikes me that there are quite afew of our class (as well as other classes) who have neglected to update their rank, address, current job, etc. I’d like to point out that you don’t have to be amember of the AOG to have current info published there. If you’re reading this, you’re probably amember and your bio data is most likely current, so I’m preaching to the choir. What I’d like you to do is encourage all your Zoomie friends regardless of class to drop aline and update their stuff. It really helps those of us who would like to get in touch with someone. While you’re at it, why not pick up the phone and give your old class scribe acall?!

Finally, I’ll attempt to glean some information from the change-ofaddress cards. Fred DARLING is moving from Columbus AFB to Castle, so I’ll assume he’s off to fly something for SAC. Jim TUITT now lists an address in Hickory Corners, Ml but Idon’t know what is up there but cold. Tom LAVALLEY is doing something in Alamogordo, NM and A1 ZELENAK now calls Houston, TX home. Kay GROSINSKE is still overseas, but since Idon’t have alist of APO numbers, Ican’t tell where. And, Bruce HAUPT is hard at work in the fi eld of medicine near Nashville, TN.

Iapologize for the short column this time. Help me make it abetter one next quarter —WRITE!

Be Safe —Ratman.

Ray Blust

9012 BArantz St. Laughlin AFB, TX 78840

Percent members; 33

Well, Isure hope this article makes it in the magazine as the Christmas season and changing jobs has gotten me alittle behind, Imean, just alit¬ tle more behind. Julie and Iwould like to wish everyone aHappy New Year. It should be —we’ll be captains soon.

So what’s happening in old Del Rio you ask. Let’s see. Bill and Lori (PLOSA) CHESTNUT are expecting their first child in July. Wild Bill seems to be alittle worried as Lori has lost weight instead of gaining. I’ll talk to you in six months there Bill and we’ll see if you’re still complain¬ ing. Bill Is presently basking in glory as aT-37 check pilot. Rob and Edith ENGLEHART are proud parents of ababy girl named Kristen. Rob is also relaxing in the safe confines of check section. Before Imention anyone else, Imust apologize to Mark “Mel” MELVILLE, Ron GRAVES, and Dave “Oppy” LIEBBRAND. Iwas scoffed at for not mentioning that, yes, these three bachelors are still alive and well here In bachelor-heaven.

Well as we FAIPs get closer and closer to those all-important boards, many of us find ourselves searching for better jobs. Pete MACCAFFREY has seemed to have found his In T-37 Stan/Eval and loving it. Ican’t im¬ agine why. Rumor has it there are wedding bells shining in Pete’s eyes. I really can’t believe it, As for our T-38 squadron, Inow find myself at the end of my squadron exec days and appropriately following classmate An¬ dy LAGRONE to check section. Kevin MCMILLIN has found anew home in our squadron scheduling department where he finds nothing but bad weather and an ever-increasing negative timeline. Jeri NELSON seems to have fallen into the cracks of our STURON where she feels right at home. As for Tom BENSON, the last Iheard he was trying to over¬ come anegative income in his squadron’s snack bar. Knowing Tom’s squadron commander, suicide may be the only way out.

Laughlin has two new IPs who have recently returned from other flying assignments. Tony CILEA (C-130) and Rod SPAHN (C-141) are now basking in the joys and excitement as T-37 IPs. Also Guy NEDDO recent¬ ly returned from PIT to begin his three-year vacation in sunny Del Rio. Well, Ithink that may be it for us Laughlinites. Hopefully, the next time I write this article Julie and Iwill be at Dover, DE where Iwill be flying FRED —C-5.

Now for some news around the RAF. Ben WILSON visited Laughlin a couple of months ago. He flew his C-21 in to drop off ageneral. Ben and Rita (MASTROUITO) are enjoying the benefits of joint-spouse at W-P. Rita is amaintenance officer and seems to be burning it up.

1owe another apology. This time it’s to Mike MARTENSEN who wrote me aletter last summer and Iam now just getting it into the article —sorry Mike. Mike mentioned that Dave GARDNER is flying C-141s at McChord in beautiful Seattle, WA. He’s still looking for anice, rich (very rich) beautiful young lady to marry. He’s already rented the church and has adate, he just needs agirl. Dave is kept busy with TDYs to Hawaii, Japan, Guam, and the PI but is also enjoying the northeast with its great skiing. Fly safe Dave.

Some other ’83ers at McChord are Joe BAMA, Jim TAYLOR, Mark and Carol (ANDERSON) ZEINERT. Carol is working in the Comm Squadron and Mark is flying C-141s. Also at McChord are John “Zaz” ZAZWORSKY and Dave FILIPPINI. Dave GARDNER bumped into Joe DEE in the PL Joe and Randy ZAK purchased anice house there but with the local free-for-all in that part of the world they may not own It for very long. Both Joe and Randy fly C-130s.

Greg FISCHER and wife Janet are stationed at Little Rock where he’s flying C-130s. The news from Langley is very good as Steve STECH and Mike are both F-15 jocks. Steve and wife Lorie are enjoying the hustlebustle life of TAC. Mike’s wife Anna is aNASA engineer. They’ve got one cat named “Spot” —they really wanted adog. Mike M. also bumped into Mike GERARD at Robbins in Georgia. Mike G. is doing fine as a T-38 IP at Columbus.

Ted FULTON is now flying WC-135s at Wurtsmith. His Vette was get¬ ting alittle lonely so he bought ajeep, snowmobile and some lake-front land —life’s tough huh? Phil NICHOLSON Is also up north at Why-Not Minot. However, he’s flying Eagles. It seems that on drop night, Phil and his UPT class 87-04 at Reese got abig shock when they told him he was going to Minot. But Phil, just remember an Eagle is an Eagle.

The dynamic duo of Vince and Mavis (THORPE) COMPAGNO are at Mather where Mavis is now aT-43 A/C commander and Vince is flying C-141S. Frank CURRY is flying C-130s at Yokota, Bruce and Robbie DEWITT are at Reese where Bruce is aT-38 IP, Jerry VARNER married his Lubbock sweetheart, and Dave YELKES is flying F-4s somewhere in North Carolina. Thanks for the letter Mike. Next time it won’t take six months to get it in the magazine.

Well Iguess it’s time for aphoto. 1got agreat photo from Frank and Brenda MARRERO from way up north in Loring AFB, ME. This is apic¬ ture of little Efrain at 18 months. Frank is currently flying KC-135s there. No Frank, Julie and Ihaven’t made many booze runs to Mexico since you all left. Also at Loring is the one and only Sheffus, A1 GAILEY and his wife Cathy. Yes, we are overdue on aCS-24 reunion.

Speaking of CS-24, my old roommate Bill “The huge Ruj” RUJEUCAN is doing just great at Vandenburg where they were going to launch the shuttle. Bill is now aprivate pilot and is offering anyone afree ride who would visit Vandenburg. See ya soon Ruj. Speaking of old squadron mates, Igot cards from Jeff and Ellen (NELSON) FIEBIG who are expecting numero uno very soon. Jeff didn’t say much so please write and give me the details there bud.

Also, from our CS-19 days came aletter from Jon and Brenda DURESKY. Jon recently upgraded to A/C commander ahead of schedule and loves flying his C-130 at Pope. Jon’s wife Brenda is pregnant again and is due sometime in July. Their first son, Jeffrey, is now three. Somehow the numbers just don’t work out Jon. I’m sorry Jon, Ihave a C-5 body, not aC-130 one. You and Brenda take care, thanks for writing.

Ialso got anice card from Dave TIMM, F-I5 fighter pilot from Holloman. Dave’s been getting ready for Red Flag at Nellis. He’s also ready to lose some money. And yes Dave, the pictures of Richard’s wed¬ ding turned out pretty good as you can see. Well the event of the year hap¬ pened at Randolph where Richard SMITH married awing commander’s daughter. Questions? What ablowout. This photo was taken at the recep¬ tion. Standing from left are Steve DICKMAN, Chris and Leslee (FORSBERG) WASHER (’82) who made the trip from Wright-Pat, Dave and Corry SCHRECK, Richard and Lisa, Julie and I, Lori and Bill (PLOSA) CHESTNUT. Appropriately kneeling because they would probably pass out are Bill CHANGOSE (C-130), Dave TIMM, and last but not least, Laughlin’s very own Ron GRAVES. Imust admit that was agood time. Believe me we are in rare form. Good luck to Richard and Lisa as they enjoy themselves in Germany where he’ll be flying the C-23 Shirpa.

Ialso got anice letter from Brad GUTIERREZ from Reese who is also anxiously awaiting the June board. Brad, I’m glad to hear I’m not the on¬ ly one threatened with bodily harm if we’re extended. Brad says Dave and Sue (NEWHOUSE) ROSS are at SOS and should finish in December. Dave is going to stan/eval and Sue is in check. Also Brian GERRITY is engaged, he’s also aReese T-38 driver. Scott POPPLETON is aReese class commander. Bob LALA and Tami RANK are T-38 check pilots and doing fine. Bill and Sharon COOL just had an addition to their family — aboy —Christopher Allen. Bill is also headed to check section.

Bruce DEWITT is now wing scheduler. He must have alot of time off as he and his wife Robbie have two children. Bob BUONGIORNO just left Reese and is headed to Randolph as aPIT IP. Pat FROST, KC-I35 at Keesler, just got married on 13 Dec. to anurse from Keesler. Good luck Pat. Thanks for the letter Brad.

Ialso got acard from my old UPT roomie, Craig EIDMAN, who is currently an OA-37 driver at D-M. He should be PCSing by the end of the year. Ialso got anote from Dan STONE in September who wrote to say he broke alot of hearts by getting married in St. Louis on 26 July. His new bride is Becky. Jim “Wit” WHITACRE was his best man. Is that possible. Wit be abest man? Lou BUSTAMONTE was also at the wed¬ ding. Jim OGDEN and Jim WHITACRE just celebrated their 1st an¬ niversary. Leo “Bris” BRISBON and Lou shared an apartment at McChord as the above mentioned are in the C-130 squadron there. Also in the squadron are Dave REMENDOWSKI and Robert “Stud” GREGOR. How’s Ralinda, drop me aline bud.

Well Ithink Imay be out of letters and cards and you’re probably tired of reading. Before Isign off, Ithink we need to thank the writers of our articles. Andy SIZEMORE (Summer), Stu POPE (Fall), and Kevin CARRENO (Winter) did an outstanding job and I’m sure you all enjoyed the change of pace. Without these guys, I’d have to do it all myself. If you see any of these guys tell them thanks for keeping ’83 —the best to be. If anyone else would in the near future like to write an article please let me

know. Also if anyone has any ideas which would help us with the article or just anything in general please let me know. Our next article will be written by Andy, but please just send your letters and news to me and I’ll forward them to the guys. Thanks for your support and hope to see ya around.

Scott D. Dickmeyer

Access Highway Apt. #4

Limestone, ME 04750

Home: (207) 328-9044

AV: 920-2261

Percent members: 25

First off. I’d like to wish you all avery Merry Christmas and aHappy New Year! For me, this holiday season will be the first one away from home. We always took leave for Christmas while at the Academy and even in pilot and upgrade training we were able to get away to be with family and friends around the New Year. This year, my time will be spent in the alert facility. My crew goes on alert Christmas Day and we get off alert on January 1st, 1987. Somehow Idoubt that chow hall mystery meat and surprise cake will be able to take the place of mom’s good cooking.

In the last Checkpoints Italked about winter being just around the cor¬ ner. As it turns out, old man winter was only afew steps away. Three days ago (Nov. 22nd) Maine got hit with one heck of asnow storm with total accumulation of almost 16 inches! WOW, DID IT SNOW! Even the local Mainiacs said this winter came early. Now it looks like Iam going to need adifferent car. My 1983 Pontiac Firebird that was fun while we were in the Springs just can’t cut the mustard in the Arctic Circle. Iam consider¬ ing trading it for afour-wheel-drive truck of some sort. Anybody have any suggestions on what to buy?

As foretold in the last Checkpoints, Loring received its SAC Opera¬ tional Readiness Inspection in October. The base was rated an overall ex¬ cellent with the 69th Bombardment Squadron coming in with an excellent and the 42nd and 407th Refueling Squadrons receiving outstanding ratings. It is nice being part of awinning team.

In September Igot achance to travel back to Colorado for aweek to see afew friends there and stopped in at USAFA. Hasn’t changed too much over the past couple of years. The International Bicycle Races had just taken place there aweek before Iarrived and bleachers and conces¬ sions units were still being torn down. You might have seen the races on television; they had been broadcast by ESPN Sports Network.

The new Academy Visitor’s Center is now complete and is located west of the chapel behind the hill. The center is very nice and will surely give the many tourists amuch better picture of how life at the “zoo” really is. Or will it? Construction is still going on to enlarge Mitch’s (remember those fabulous Mitch’s Mountains) toward Sijan Hall and the Aero Lab is getting afacelift. Iheard that the aero and astro labs are going to be com¬ bined.

While in C-Springs (which is still growing at aphenomenal rate) I stayed with Brian TERMONT and his wife Sherry in their new house. Brian works at Cheyenne Mountain with civil engineering and was kind enough to take me on atour of his domain under the Rockies. Everything was very interesting and Istrongly recommend that if you ever get the op¬ portunity to tour the Mountain, you do so. It won’t be awaste of your time.

Last month my crew fl ew commercially to Tinker AFB, OK to pick up aB-52 and bring it back to Loring. Tinker is one of the B-52 depot maintenance locations. We were supposed to fly into Will Roger’s Air¬ port on Monday and return via “Stratofortress” airlines Tuesday. Well, Murphy must have been along with us this trip because nothing went right. We arrived in Oklahoma City on time but our luggage did not. We had to carry so many items with us that the small Eastern carrier out of Maine could not carry it all. It went on alater flight that day. When our bags did fi nally arrive late Tuesday afternoon the B-52 was not quite ready to fly. We ended up flying out on Wednesday only to have trouble with our air refueling system and were forced to return straight back to Loring without any low-level training. The only highlight of the trip was running into two 1985 grads from my squadron (Mach One); E.J. FAYAN and Glenn ULLMANN. E.J. is in C-141 training at Altus AFB, OK and Glenn is in the AWACS. Did not see any 1984 grads this time around.

The one and only letter Ihave received for this issue comes from Carol TIKIJIAN HARLEY (Stuart HARLEY). It is included here almost in its entirety and is in her words;

Stuart and 1got married in anon-wedding here in Tokyo on the sixth of June, which may surprise alot of people, who will say either 1) “I didn’t know Stuart got sent to Japan” or 2) “Gee, Ithought they already were

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INewlyweds Carol and Stuart Harley.

married!” We still aren’t sure the exact moment we became of one blood, but we think it was when the office ladies (Japanese) put their hands up to cover their mouths as they giggled and pointed. Our certificate is certainly impressive though —ascroll with elaborate Japanese calligraphy. But which oriental characters spell our names? Stuart claims he can read “Stoo-aht-oh-Hah-ree,” but Ijust don’t know.

Gavin “Chins” THOMPSON is asky cop, married and settled on Oahu. Ron BECK’s theatre of operations centers on Osan Air Base, where he’s annoyed at the low speed of his “Broneo.” Saw Jim-bo (now “Jimmy”) BARLOW at our base (Cheong-Ju) during Team Spirit field exercises. Had some discussions over bulgogi and kimchee in aKorean tavern. He’s happily married and is flying HC-130s out of Okinawa.

Also in Okinawa is my tech school classmate Diane BAUERSCHMIDT DUFFY (’83), acomm officer married to an F-15 zoomie, Pat DUFFY (’81). Ialso see and hear from another comm classmate, Delise MCFARLANE. Just as Iwas sympathizing with her trails as group exec at Clark, 1found myself saddled with the same here at Yokota. Delise will be stationed at Guam soon. Andrea CLARK is bringing her southern charm to the frigid wilds of the Upper Peninsula and Krista DOTTERWAY is keeping Ramstein bubbling and communicating as the OIC of their numerous comm centers.

Jean WILK TRAKINAT is engineering the tactical comm for midEurope. We see Kyle LAMPELA up here carrying stars around in his C-12, and frequently we see Wade PRATHER, one of Stuart’s brother copilots in the 345th TAS here on Yokota.

Steve AUBERT popped in at Yokota to do some sort of study for a comm installation but it wasn’t hard to distract him from his brie fi ngs as we wandered around Tokyo’s neon sector, Shinjuku. Chris DORCHAK will be PCSing from Hellenikon, Athens, after aluxurious tourist trip, to RAF Molesworth (near RAF Alconbury). Let Bob “Bobby J” LEWIS know we’ll be mailing his sand from Iwo Jima any day now. Bless those Jarheads.

That sort of winds things up at Yokota. If you can squeeze it in, please put in an appeal to Bob SINON and his wife Holly. Where are your now?...

Carol’s appeal above for the whereabouts of Bob SINON goes along well with what Iwould like to start adding to the 1984 class article. Each issue 1will pick 10 names at random from the AOG Register of Graduates and ask about those individuals. If anyone knows where they are or what they are doing, or even the individuals themselves, write aquick note or phone and fill me in. Maybe through these appeals we could get alittle more correspondence flowing within the class. Sound like agood idea? With that 1leave you the first list of “What ever happened to ” and bid you all good luck in the upcoming year of 1987! Thank you Carol and Stuart for the letter.

What ever happened to: Kathy BENNETT, Alfred CREWS Jr., Pete EUNICE, Mark GILLOTT, Jim KELLY Jr., Bob MONDY, Richard PIPER, Patrick RYAN, Paul SUAREZ, and Carol WINKLEMAN?

Matt Lyons

865 South Haskett Drive

Mountain Home, ID 83647

AV: 857-2777

Percent members: 22

Hello ’85, and greetings from the land of famous potatoes. Iran into Scott VIPOND at Tim HEALY’s wedding back in September, and over the course of afew Coronas agreed to take over duties as class scribe for this and the next issue. The almost negligible time between the publication of the last issue and the deadline for this one will account for the limited amount of information here, but 1tried to get what Icould with such limited resources. At any rate, as we head down the backside of our sec¬ ond year in the RAF, 1hope life is treating you well.

DON’T MISS AMAGAZINE.

SEND IN YOUR NEW ADDRESS NOW.

Keeping Idaho safe for democracy: Randy, Dirk, Price, John, Eric and Matt.

Starting with those I’m in regular contact with, I’m living here on the prairie with Eric TRUMBLE, flying H-lNs and doing our part to keep southwestern Idaho free from communist aggression (at least, that part within a300 NM radius). While here we’ve run into Price OSTEEN, Dirk HUTCHISON, John FRAME and Randy PARKER, all F-111 WSOs (ex¬ cept Randy, who’s driving them) and all just “passing through” this paradise on their way to England. From FE Warren comes word from Scott “Shifty” SCHAEFFLER, who’s fl ying his tail off in the 37th ARRS along with “Big Ed” TANNER. Shifty recorded his fi rst save on a Medevac mission while participating in an exercise in Canada, and is also making aname for himself as an ace reporter. Ialso checked up on Keith MORGAN and Bob POST up in the great White North at Minot, where they were buried under several feet of white stuff after amid-November snowstorm. Both managed to dig themselves out and report they’re doing fine. Going even further north, the best news I’ve heard recently comes from RK WILLIAMS at Elemdorf; Jacob Richard Williams (aka Cletus Zowain) arrived at 0335 Alaska Standard Time on November 9, at a healthy 8lbs 8oz. RK told me that both Cris and JR are doing fine, and he can’t wait to take the little guy huntin’ and fishin’. There’s one proud father for you,

RK himself has run into several ’85ers in the land of the midnight sun, Todd BROSZ and Chris SALVUCCI are flying C-12s at Elmendorf, and Mark NAUMANN is navving C-130s there in the 17th TAS. Mark was married on 6December to ayoung lady named Tomi. There are also a number of weapons controllers working for the AW ACS squadron there, speci fi cally Chuck THOMPSON, Jerry VAUGHAN, Bill OSWALD, Steve TURECHEK and Kenji SETA. Apologies there to anyone we might have missed —again, this is limited information at best.

On the warmer side of the continent, Castle AFB is the temporary home of many of our B-52 and KC-135 pilots and navs enroute to their assigned bases. Iheard from Verne MOORE, who was on his way to Fairchild along with Dave SUMRELL and Bruce ROWE. Verne tied the knot in December with alovely young lady he met while at Mather —best of luck in your new home, Verne. Also from Castle, Dave FEDORS will be heading up the valley to fly Q-model tankers at Beale, and Greg BELL will be going to Mather where he’ll probably run into Steve LAVELL, who’s flying T-37s in the 323rd there. Other Castle aircrews include Larry GLADBACK and Mike ZECH (both to Andersen AB, Guam), Pam GOODEN (Barksdale), Glen BARNES (Wurtsmith), Rick WADE, Ed

McGovern, Heidi HERNANDEZ, Cheryl CROOK, and Scott NEUMANN, ad in fi nitum. 1know there are many others there, and it will be some time before the stream of ’85ers through the place fi nally slows. Let me hear from ya!

Getting warmer still, some of our grads are having to endure early December with temps in the mid-80s, of all the rotten luck. Tim HEALY, still driving his same old VW convertible, says the balmy weather at Homestead makes it hard to get into the Christmas spirit. Maybe aTDY to Minot would change his mind. Tim is flying H-lNs in the 48th ARRS there, along with Neil BILLINGS. They get to see anumber of our classmates pass through the water survival course there, so if you’re head¬ ed that way be sure to look them up. Tim also brought me up to date on Scott VIPOND, who was married on 15 Nov to Felicia and whose next stop is McChord. Also, Dick FISH and wife Cathy are enjoying life at Tyndall, and he mentioned running into Ed NAGLER, now at MacDill for F-16 training. Finally, he is wondering what has become of Bob DEGERONIMO and Bob ST. MARIE. Guys, if you read this, give the man acall!

Out in the New Mexico desert, ahost of ’85 hotshots are now enduring the strains of LIFT and getting their initial TAC indoctrination flying AT-38S at Holloman. Iheard from old roomie Ron MILLIGAN (so what do YOUR wings look like, Ron?) and from my hallucinating BCT buddy John MARSELUS. Ron is enroute to fly F-16s at MacDill along with Mark ALTOBELLI, Tom DOYLE, Brad PETERSON, Bernard BERGSTROM and Dan JOHNSON. John is on his way to Myrtle Beach to find his glory as ahog driver, and will have been married in early January to aKim from his hometown of Princeton, IL —congratulations and best wishes, ace. Other fighter jocks taking the marital plunge include Dave TAN (A-10, Bentwaters) and Todd RAINES, to alady named Marjean he met in Wichita Falls. Todd is headed for Phantom training at Homestead along with Perry WILSON, Dave REISSELMAN and Larry NICHOLAS. Others al Holloman include Pete WHELAN and Matt BYRD (A-lOs, England AFB), Bob BOLAND (F-111, Lakenheath), Ron BABSKI and Biff MOTT (F-15s, Bitburg), Rich HEDGPETH (F-15, Eglin), Dan BADER (OA-37, Shaw) Tim PHARRIS (F-15, Kadena), Rod CREGIER (F-15, formerly to Minot), Dave KNIGHT and “Sherm” POTTER. From Ron’s and John’s descriptions they’re having aball there, and the flying is great, though abit tricky at first! Just remember, if you ever have to ride the rocket out of your welded-wing craft, my fellow rotor-head Dave KYGER out at Det 6will be more than happy to give you aride home. Say hello if you ever see him about the base there, but don’t give us ahard time about the unusual way we wear our scarves. Little MAC strikes again! Also, Clive PAIGE is at Holloman.

Speaking of MAC, 1got acard and aChristmas “trash bag” from one of our many now-operational transport aircrewmembers, R.S. DeBROCK. Rick is living now with Carey THOMPSON and flying C-141S out of Travis. Some guys have all the luck... By this time the two of them have surely been most of the way around the world, as I’m sure a lot of others have. Got any “there Iwas” stories to tell? Since the postUFT personnel dispersal, unfortunately 1haven’t heard much about the rest of Big MAC. Mike CASAVANT was last heard from at Charleston, and Mike WELLS was at Little Rock going who-knows-where. Other change-of-address cards received include Brad JONES and Kimberlee THOMPSON (McGuire), John TORRES (Dover) and Darrel SLACK (772 TAS, Dyess). To avoid merely reprinting the list of assignments that appeared in the last issue, Iwould appreciate hearing some specifics from any particular base.

Deep in the heart of Texas, PIT is also the home of so many of our FAIPs. Returning to Willie (along with acast of thousands) are Giff STEIN, Keith POND and Michael MARGIOTTA flying T-38s, and the T-37 crowd includes Don BENNETT, Jeff JACBOS and Chris WEITZER. Among the crowds returning to Vance are Mur GROSSO and Chris COFFLAND, both of whom Iam told have already or will shortly be getting married. So much for the last of the diehard bachelors —I guess enough time in Enid could make anyone change their mind.

Finally, Ireceived aletter from Wayne LYN, who has avery interesting proposition. It seems he is now working at an internationally-renowned tourist resort which offers “a paradise for young officers who need a break from the tension and rigors of the Air Force.” This place “has every single facility that one might want to indulge in. (EVERY one?) There are no limits in that one can eat and drink constantly —FREE.” Wayne hopes only that some of you hard-working lieutenants will come and share in his paradise. If you want further details, he says to ask any travel agency about the Hedonism II resort in Negril, Jamaica. Sounds pretty good to me!

“That’s all I’ve got” —I’ll be here at least through the next issue, so let me know what y’all are up to. And if anyone is interested in writing the August column, please let me know AQAP. Deadline for that issue is 15 June. It won’t be much longer now to those silver bars. Work hard, fly safe (if applicable) and if you’re ever in Mountain Home (ha, ha), stop by. See ya at the ’Club!

P.S. Shifty, is this article SATISFACTORY???

We also received an input for the class column from Jim MIRABELLA.

Hi 85ers! I’m writing to you from Dixieland central in beautiful Mont¬ gomery, AL. Alot has been happening with our class, but very little has gone unreported, thanks to the thorough article by Jackie.

Iwould like to thank Shelly CINDER for providing me with most of the gossip for this article, and in appreciation Iwill not mention that she hit a400 lb. bear with her car. We’ll make that our secret.

Contrary to popular belief, pilots and navigators are not the only peo¬ ple who see the world. I’ve had numerous TDYs since I’ve been here and in the process I’ve encountered some of our prominent non-rateds. At Barksdale AFB, for instance, Mike SHIELDS is busy computing while he tends to his wife and son. The cornhuskers of ’85 have made their way to Offutt, to include Randy KERSEY, Gordy HENDRICKSON, Sally KAUPANGER, Scott GREGORY, Steve GAUTHIER, and Donovan GARCIA. Down the road from me, Chris MARTIN is at Eglin eagerly awaiting his marriage to Heather while he tackles his new field of analysis.

I’m told that beautiful Panama City, FL has new residents in Melinda MOJWID, Robbi DOTSON DAVIS, and Danielle HATCHETT. Down the coast from them, Scott RUTHERFORD is circling the globe from Hurlbert Field to places like Lebanon and Latin America. In Oklahoma City, when he’s not working for the Air Force, you’ll find August HEIN working for the community as an emergency medical technician. And across the Pacific, Jon VANDERPYL is in charge of plans/programming at Osan AB, Korea. Apparently he has skipped the green bean level to become abrown bean, whatever that means. Congratulations anyhow.

Other notables from our class include Jeff GROH, our latest addition to the intel world. Jeff is presently in Crete, an island off the coast of Greece, trying to adjust to anew lifestyle. While back in America, Lisa STINE has taken afancy to her former IP, Jeff SEWELL is steadily dating Jill, and Rodney SAMPSON and Steve LAVELL have each taken abig step by getting engaged. Good luck to all of you in your romances.

Jim Bonn

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JUST UNDER THE DEADLINE: Don COMI and Gil COWELL are now H-IF ACs at Malmstrom helping Gary RAFFERTY and Rob “Smiley” GILMORE at the missile fields in the great Montana outback. Steve BUTLER is doing fine in C-Springs, looking forward to even more excitement during the coming year, and August HEIN is serving as an AW ACS weapons controller at Tinker, along with Joe SCHMIDT, Duane MOSHER and ahandful of others. Ex-Breakfast Club member Steve VISEL is still pretending to be amissile warning operations officer in Massachusetts; his Christmas card confirms that reports of his demise greatly exaggerated. I’m also told that my old roommate Tom MARKEL really does surface every now and then from his med studies at UC San Francisco, but I’m never around to see him. Maybe next year!

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The past few months have been pretty momentous for the Class of ’86 and this column marks the debut of “Guest Columnists” and the first “real” assignments for our class. Iappreciate the cards and letters I’ve received. They really make writing this column much easier.

The folks from Ft. Rucker from left in front are John Augustine, Mike Finnicum, Rob Brown, Tish Mooney, Todd Wood and John Lopes. In back are Chuck Burnett, Tony Arrington, Kevin Brooks, John Osarczuk, Dave Morgan and T.J. Porterfield. (Photo courtesy of Tish Mooney.)

Ialso received aletter from Daphne STINSON, who was at Sheppard AFB from last July through September before moving on to RAF Lakenheath as an accounting and finance officer. She told me that Gerry PERKINS attended the budget course and is now at Brooks where he is also trying to regain his PQ. Mick BURKHARD is now acost officer at Nellis. Others who were down there at the time working hard in courses or in Euro-Nato included Marcus QUINT, Matt FENTON, Ken HUB¬ BARD, John FLANAGAN, T.O. HANFORD, Tom MENKER, Jan TAVRYTZSKY, John HORNER, and T.J. O’SHAUGNESSY. Iunder¬ stand that they all had agood summer water skiing at Possum Kingdom Lake and chasing the MIMSO (nursing) students.

Speaking of Euro-Nato. 1spoke to my old Academy roommate Gerry HEIKKIEN who told me that everyone there is doing well and having fun learning 20 different languages and flying at the same time.

Ialso received alist of assignments for the aircraft maintenance of-

fi cers who graudated last Nov 21 from Chanute. Kara MILLER (McNIECE) is at Pope where she will join husband Dan (USAFA ’84), Roy FULLERTON —Travis; Renea TOLIVER —Spangdahlem AB Germany; and Calvin WILLIAMS, who sent me this info, is at Barksdale.

Shelley HARSH and Kern BAUMANN both wrote about Intel assignments. Tom BAILEY —Mac Dill, Tom CLEMMONS —Cannon, Kim BAUMANN and Bonnie SOONG —Osan, Jim BOEGMAN —Offutt, Shelley HARSH —Eglin, Julie MARTIN —George, Jon PUTNEY —K.I. Sawyer, John TAYLOR —England AFB, Dave WHITT and wife Jennifer —Myrtle Beach, Bill HINDES and wife Trava —Ternplehof AB, Berlin; Jean MacINTYRE —Iraklion, Crete; Liz ALMEIDA —San Vito, Italy; Darlene SNYDER —Langley; Kris NYBERG —Shaw; Terry CASKEY —Beale; and Trippe ASHE —Misawa AB, Japan.

By the time this hits the presses, all of these people should be in the “Real Air Force.” Good luck to all.

1ran into Scott HOWER on aplane flight over Christmas. Scott is now aPave Paws crew commander at Beale and his Academy roommate, Mike BEHNE, is atransportation officer at Mather so they are still together.

Mather Career Day and JOC Night brought two ex-AOCs back to ATC, if only for anight. Majors Higginbotham and Weber wish us all well. You’d be surprised how “relaxed” they were. “Higgy” is flying F-11 Is at Pease and Maj. Weber is soon to be flying A-6s from the carrier Independence.

Special congratulations go to Scott McLEAN and Rob FRANKLIN, who each were first in their nav classes at the end of core. Both went FAR track. The next issue will have the first assignments for us navs.

Avery special “well done” goes to Bob MONROE, who was forced to make agear-up landing in aT-37 at Columbus. My understanding is that there were no injuries and damage was not too great. “It just kept sliding down the runway...”

That takes care of all the news for this column. Now that the ’86 Year¬ books are out, it is interesting to see how we put our stay at USAFA in perspective and even inspiring to realize how profound some us can be. Thanks to all who contributed to this column. I’d like to hear from more people about how the Class of ’86 is blazing atrail of excellence in the USAF and get your letters in print. The deadline for the next column will be March 15, so please send me your news and photos. Until then, good luck in all your endeavors, and always remember, somewhere in the world, the lounge is always open! ’86 PRIDE THAT STICKS!!!

Covey, '68, Named Pilot of Next Shuttle

Col. Richard O. Covey (USAF) and four other veteran astronauts have been chosen to fly the first post-Challenger space shuttle mission in February 1988. Covey, 40, was named pilot of the mission in anews conference Jan. 9.

In August 1985 Covey piloted the shuttle when two spacewalk¬ ing astronauts repaired adamaged communications satellite. NASA officials have described the flight as the most successful shuttle mission ever.

Next year’s launch will be the first attempt at amanned U.S. space flight since the shuttle Challenger exploded in January 1986 and killed its seven-member crew. James C. Fletcher, head of NASA, said the space agency has “turned the corner” in its recovery efforts since the disaster.

Covey, aformer weapons systems test pilot at Eglin AFB, Fla., has been an astronaut since 1979. He graduated from the Academy in 1968 and flew 339 fighter combat missions over Viet¬ nam. He lives in Fort Walton Beach, Fla., with his wife and two children.

The other crewmembers will be Capt. Frederick H. Hauck (USN), the crew commander, and George D. Nelson, John Lounge and Lt. Col. David C. Hilmers (USMC), all mission specialists.

Col. Dick Covey aboard Discovery in earth orbit.

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