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Our thanks again to Mr. Bill Madsen of the Academy’s Public Af¬ fairs Office who took the photograph of Ft. Gen. Charles R. Hamm, new Academy superintendent, accepting the Academy command flag from Gen. Larry D. Welch, chief of staff of the Air Force. Retiring former superintendent. Ft. Gen. Winfield W. Scott, Jr., stands at attention at right. The ceremony took place on June 26.

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 tbe Association of Graduates of the products or services advertised. Copyright © Association of Graduates of the United States Air Force Academy, Summer 1987. USPS 898-080

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VIEW FROM THE TOP: Superintendent Bids Farewell

Lt. Gen. Winfield W. Scott, Jr.

Former Superintendent

As Iend 37 years of service to our country and four years in the best and most important job in the Air Force, Icannot help but have agreat feeling of satisfaction, happiness and, to some degree, sadness. Itake with me friendships which Itreasure and the experience as the Superintendent of guiding this great and remarkable institution as we developed and trained young men and women to become the future leaders of our Air Force.

The opportunities 1have enjoyed over these four years have been unparalleled; To associate with top-caliber people, to live in the beautiful Pikes Peak region and to work toward the essential mission of preparing young men and women to become our Air Force’s leaders of the future. We have been very successful in do¬ ing what Ibelieve is important—that is, demonstrating the significance of service to our country and to our fellow man. This has been achieved by the emphasis on the four pillars of ex¬ cellence.

If there is asingle area Iwould like to have remembered most about me, it is strengthening and, to some degree, institutionaliz¬ ing the fourth pillar of excellence, the spiritual side of cadet development. The nation expects amilitary officer to be acaring professional whose every action is based on deep moral and spiritual values. The nation wants an officer who will use his or her God-given judgment to make the right decision using moral and ethical criteria.

Included within the fourth pillar is the concept of honor. After the honor incident of 1984, we didn’t change the code. What we did was to strengthen the administration of the code to turn an already good system into an excellent one. But the essential ele¬ ment of integrity in an of fi cer’s background is more than adherence to acode. It is having aset of values upon which one can rely when making tough decisions. By building up inner strength that’s critical to an officer’s development, our grads will have something to fall back on during the hardest of times. That’s why Istressed the fourth pillar.

Ihad alot of fun as Superintendent. One of many areas that provided me great enjoyment was athletics. The overall success of all Academy sports teams continues to be impressive. Attendance is up in all sports—with the revenue producers, football, basket¬ ball and hockey, up markedly over the last four years. Many moments stand out: In football the excitement of the 12-1 season in 1985 was unsurpassed. The victories in the Independence, Hall

of Fame and Bluebonnet Bowls plus extending the string of wins over Notre Dame to four were great accomplishments. Super in¬ dividual efforts like those of Alonzo Babers in the 1984 Olympics and of the All-Americans we have had in sports like swimming, volleyball, gymnastics, track, boxing, skiing, rugby and powerlifting will always be prominent in my mind. All of our athletes so ably demonstrate the quest for excellence for which we strive at the Academy.

We’ve also added to the stature of an already superb academic program. The modification of the curriculum to allow greater flexibility for cadets to choose more elective courses while still maintaining the essential aspect of the core curriculum is amajor incentive for greater learning. Also, with the initiation of the nationally-prominent MIDLAN computer network, cadets have increased information available to them and have easier access to that information. Further, the number of graduates selected for graduate scholarships and other honors continues to grow.

Perhaps the most important pillar of excellence is military training and leadership. The Academy’s overall purpose is to pro¬ duce leaders and the leadership training we now provide is the type of leadership cadets can take with them after commissioning. By demonstrating leadership by example and using positive motivational techniques, our cadets now have arealistic model to follow.

One of our most important achievements is the expansion of the airmanship program to allow every cadet to participate in fly¬ ing programs. In particular, making the soaring program available to every cadet, not just those with aparticular grade point average, is atremendous motivational tool that has enabled the Academy to become areal “flying school.” 1might add that it is one in which Ihave taken great personal satisfaction by flying as an instructor pilot—not to mention the fun I’ve had.

The excellence of Academy programs is authentic. We are help¬ ing cadets be the best possible officers they can be by providing them appropriate leadership programs and an environment in which they can excel.

In addition to possessing many already fantastic facilities for learning, living and growing, improvements are being made. We are modernizing Mitchell Hall, renovating the dormitories and moving all cadets to two-person rooms, expanding the gym¬ nasium and improving the aeronautics laboratory. Moreover, the establishment of the new Visitor Center provides away to exhibit to the public what the Academy experience is.

As the Academy is becoming abetter place, the quality of cadets also continues to improve. Improvements have been made in the academic, leadership and athletic potential of each suc¬ ceeding class during the 1980s. Moreover, our attrition is at its lowest rate in almost 20 years. The addition of women into the Academy has had asignificant and positive impact on the overall quality of our programs. I’m very pleased with the progress achieved with the integration of women into the cadet wing and their academic, military and athletic accomplishments.

The Air Force Academy with its growing tradition of excellence can look to the future with great optimism. Iam honored to have contributed to that excellence and intend never to curtail my association with or lose my enthusiasm for this institution. As some of you know, Iwas made an Honorary Graduate of the Class of 1987, an honor which Iwill always cherish. As apast Superintendent and now alumnus, Iwill continue to do every¬ thing in my power to help the Academy grow in excellence. Thank you for your interest, support and prayers—I will always be in¬ debted to you.

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Wilhelm, ’61, Elected AOG President

ing. During this tour he also served as executive to the comman¬ dant for Honor and Ethics.

Following completion of Air Command and Staff College in 1972, Colonel Wilhelm was assigned to Germany as apersonnel officer. While assigned to USAFE Headquarters, he served as chief of Rated Assignments and chief of Airman Assignments. He was transferred back to the Air Force Academy in 1976 and assumed command of the 557th Flying Training Squadron in June 1977.

From July 1980 to August 1981 he attended the Naval War Col¬ lege at Newport, R.I. and he was then assigned to the 80th Flying Training Wing at Sheppard AFB, Texas where he served as direc¬ tor of Operations for the wing’s T-37 and T-38 aircraft. From this assignment, he assumed command of the Basic Military Training School at Lackland AFB.

James E. Wilhelm, 61

Col. James E. Wilhelm, USAF (Ret), Class of 1961, was elected the eighth president of the Association of Graduates of the United States Air Force Academy in balloting earlier this year. He as¬ sumed his position on July 1of this year and succeeds Col. Jock C. H. Schwank, USAF (Ret), Class of 1960.

Presently serving as director of the Colorado Springs Campus of Denver Technical College, Colonel Wilhelm returned to the Pike’s Peak area last year after two years in Abilene, Texas where he was vice president of Caprock, Inc., an oil company.

He retired from the Air Force on July 1, 1984 while serving as the commander of the Basic Military Training School at Lackland AFB, Texas, aduty he assumed in June 1982.

Born in Davenport, Iowa, Colonel Wilhelm graduated from Davenport High School and entered military service as an Air Force Academy cadet in 1957. He received his commission and navigator wings upon graduation in 1961. Following pilot training at Williams AFB, Ariz., he served as an instructor pilot and stan¬ dardization and evaluation pilot in the T-37 and T-38 aircraft at Vance AFB, Okla.

In August 1966 he entered F-lOO training at Luke AFB, Ariz. in preparation for service as aforward air controller in Southeast Asia. During his tour he flew the F-lOO, 0-1, 0-2 and A-37 air¬ craft and accumulated more than 800 hours of combat time. The majority of his tour was spent at Nakhon Phanom Royal Thai AFB, Thailand. Upon his return to the United States he was assigned to the Air Force Academy as an Air Officer Command-

Board Election Results

In the AOG board member election held earlier this year, 2,278 valid ballots were returned by the association’s graduate membership. The following board member candi¬ dates were elected for afour-year term to serve from 1July 1987 to June 30, 1991.

Col. (Ret) Andrew W. Biancur, ’60, Littleton, Colo.

Col (Ret) Wayne F. Kendall, Jr., ’60, Monument, Colo.

Mr. William E. Aylsworth, ’61, McLean, Va.

Col. (Ret) Michael J. Quinlan, ’61, Monument, Colo.

Lt. Col. (Ret) James F. Wheeler, ’64, San Antonio, Texas

Col. S. Scott Duncan, ’65, Colorado Springs, Colo.

Lt. Col. Mark A. Torreano, ’68, Colorado Springs, Colo.

Lt. Col. Robert A. Lowe, ’71, Monument, Colo.

Maj. George D. Pollard, ’72, USAF Academy, Colo.

Maj. Alison L. Piotter, ’75, Montgomery, Ala.

Maj. J. Bryan Echols, ’76, USAF Academy, Colo.

Capt. David M. Snyder, ’78, Monument, Colo.

Capt, Kenneth W. Barker, ’79, USAF Academy, Colo.

Capt, Kirk A. Yost, ’80, Monument, Colo.

1st Lt. Marc P. Powell, ’85, Monument, Colo.

Colonel Wilhelm is acommand pilot with more than 4,500 hours of flying time. His military decorations include the Legion of Merit, Distinguished Flying Cross with two oak leaf clusters, the Meritorious Service Medal, the Air Medal with 16 oak leaf clusters, and the Air Force Commendation Medal. He is married to the former Nancy Hedberg, also from Davenport, Iowa, and they have two children, Thomas (22) and Kelly (20).

New President Outlines Association Goals

The Association of Graduates (AOG) has come along way since the days Iserved as aboard member in 1968. Not only has the graduate membership grown from afew thousand to over 8,000, but our responsibilities have grown at an equal rate. The same board that used to agonize over adonation of $100 is now making million-dollar decisions. These changes didn’t come about without alot of hard work and dedication by of fi cers, board members and association members. Ihave been impressed with the work done by our past presidents and board members and with the amount of time they have devoted to the work of the AOG. Ifeel honored to have been elected president of the association and thank you for your support. The challenges are certainly there, and Ilook forward to working these challenges with the AOG board members.

Our priorities for the coming year remain the same: to support the Academy and to serve the membership. Our most immediate challenge, the construction of our association building on the Academy grounds, will serve both these objectives. Over the past three years agreat deal of effort has gone into laying the ground¬ work for the construction of this building. Our effort over the next two to three years will be to raise the money to fund the building. The construction of our own building opens agreat many possibilities and opportunities for our membership. You’ll be hearing more on this project in the near future.

Another top priority for the board is to increase the member¬ ship in the AOG. Iam frankly surprised and somewhat disap¬ pointed that our membership is only 41 percent of those eligible. We provide avaluable service to all our graduates and friends of the Academy, and we need your help in supporting this member¬ ship effort. Increased membership leads to increased services.

Iam also interested in streamlining our operations in the AOG staff. As we grow, our need for administrative support increases. Just hiring another person is not always the best or most costeffective way to solve the problem. If we can give Dick Coppock and his staff the ability to operate more efficiently, they will be better able to serve the membership.

These three areas are my top priorities for the coming year. We have an outstanding board with the talent and drive to meet these challenges. I’m looking forward to serving as your president.

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AFA Fund Donations Increase 23 Percent

By R. Allan Jensen, ’74 Member, AOG Board of Directors Finance Division Chief

The Air Force Academy (AFA) Fund is experiencing its most im¬ pressive year in its five-year history. Officials at the Association of Graduate expect that by the end of the 1986-’87 campaign year on Sept. 30, donations will exceed goals by five to seven percent.

Statistically, at the end of June, the current compaign had ac¬ cumulated more than $147,000 in donations from nearly 1,900 con¬ tributors —an increase in funds of more than 23 percent from the same period last year! The number of benefactors has increased similarly, by 25 percent, while the average donation has increased three percent. In terms of the goals of the AOG Board of Directors, all objectives seem sure to be surpassed. No small measure for the success of this year’s campaign goes to you —the members and friends of the association. Credit also should be given to Chuck Gaasch, AOG director of development, whose revision of the cam¬ paign organization has aided the annual capital campaign in total terms and results in amarked reduction in administrative outlays as apercentage of the total campaign.

One remarkable feature of the 1986-’87 campaign will be the newfound capacity of the AFA Fund to underwrite larger projects than had been possible in the past. As reported in February, the 1985-’86 Fund took the courageous step, enabled by anew policy established in 1985, to back multi-year funding projects. The AOG Board of Directors voted to purchase, using the multi-year ap¬ proach, three AS-K21 high-performance sailplanes for the Cadet Airmanship Program. All of the aircraft have now been delivered to the Academy and are in use at the airfield. Lt. Col. Bob Lowe, ’71, commander of the 94th Airmanship Training Squadron, reports that more than 200 cadets each year will benefit from upgraded instructor and aerobatic training in these sailplanes. Moreover, the AS-K21 aircraft will enable the “Soar for All’ pro-

In other programs requiring multi-year commitments, the board of directors also voted to acquire aspecial edition of the Sijan biography, “Into the Mouth of the Cat,” complete with aspecial AOG cover and message, to be provided at no cost to the entering classes over the next decade. These books will be delivered to the AOG in July, ready for the Class of 1991. The seed monies for the Graduate Dependent Scholarship Program have been established into an endowment, which will receive additional inputs from the next two annual funds, on the way toward an endowment goal of $100,000. Initial funds for scholarships, at first modest in scope, should be available for the 1988-’89 school year to children of graduates attending college.

The AOG has received profuse thanks from the superintendent for purchase of the sailplanes, the officer in charge of the Cadet Ski Team for benefits derived from donations to Ski Broadmoor, the commandant for continuing to underwrite the Cadet Leadership Enrichment Seminars, and the Engineering Department for fund¬ ing handicapped design projects.

Even though the decision on expenditures from remaining 1986-’87 funds will not be finalized by the AOG until December, the Academy staff, the AOG, and others are currently examining proposals for support from the fund. Even after the reduction in the 1986-’87 totals due to campaign expenses and the forward com¬ mitments described above, it is estimated that nearly 40 percent of the overall fund will still be available for allocation.

Statistics indicate that donations have been received this year from approximately eight percent of the membershhip, or only three percent of total graduates. While the AOG has succeeded in raising the percentage of participation among all members, the pro¬ portion of graduates’ involvement remains unchanged. Obviously, we are aspiring to the examples of our sister academies, where, for example. West Point’s 1986 annual report proclaims 28 percent graduate participation. The AFA Fund is young and our results are really quite impressive nonetheless. As our participation and our campaign totals grow, we will be able to increasingly benefit the Academy and its graduates. Your help and faith in our efforts is very, very much appreciated.

Co/ (Ret) James E. Wilhelm, ’61, newly-elected president of the Association of Graduates, at left, and Brig. Gen. Sam W. Westbrook III, ’63, commandant of cadets, pose by the AOG logo affixed to the tail of one of the AS-K21 sailplanes.

One of the AS-K21 high performance sailplanes purchased through donations to the Air Force Academy Fund. gram to be extended to those athletes who can’t be accommodated in the basic glider.

USAFA Class Participation —1986-87AFA 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 Oct. 1 1986 and June 30, 1987. Gifts received after this date will be listed in afuture magazine.)

AFA Fund Donors Jan. 1to June 30, 1987

(D) Donor —$50 to $99

(S) Sponsor —$100 to $499

(P) Patron —$500 to $999

(L) Leader —$1,000 to $2,499

(F) Fellow —$2,500 to $4,999

(B) Benefactor —$5,000 or more

ALUMNI

Class of 1959 $930.00

LTC Don LBrooks

Maj (Ret) Donald T. Chase (S)

BGen John M. Davey

LTC (Ret) William L. McLain, Jr

LTC William M Toney (Ret)

LTC (Ret) Richard E. Tracey

LTC Wayne AHaring

Col Arthur DKerr

Mr Thomas NPattie

Col Michael JQuinlan

Mr Robert ESmith

Mr Russell EGoodenough

Col Willie WGray, Jr

Col Robert DGreen

Col Charles EHale, Jr

Col William JHaugen

Capt Michael BHughes,

(S)

(S) (S) (D)

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LTC (Ret) Donald L Hutchinson

Mr Larry OJensen

Mr Richard LKlass

Mr Richard GKrebs

Mr Gerald LAhmann

Col Frederick CBauer

Col Joe LBurns

Col Joe GCabuk, Jr

of Stanley LAdams

Col Stuart LAlton

(D)

(S) Mr Raymond CBevivino, Jr (S)

Col (Ret) Michael TChristy (S)

Mr Daniel RDietz

Col Merrill Eastcott

Mr John MFox

Mr Klem FKalberer, Jr

Mr Ronald MMcCollum

LTC Jon EMedina (Ret)

Col Fred CBoll

Col Raymond Chojnacki (S) (S) Mr Gary AClose (D) Mr John ECoblentz (S)

(L)

(S) Maj (Ret) William L (S) Coleman (S) Mr Charles TCompton (S)

(S) Mr Fred JCox III

Col Grover EMusselwhite (D)

Col Richard JO’Lear

BGen George WLarson, Jr (S)

Col (Ret) Robert HLightsey (S)

Col (Ret) Dino ALorenzini (D)

Mr George HLyddane

Mr James EMack

(S) (S) (D) (D) (S) (D)

Mr John RPhillips

Col William RPovilus

Col (Ret) Richard FRader

Dr Steven JSavonen

Mr Terrence MDrabant (S)

(S) Col Robert YFoerster (S)

(D) Col (Ret) Victor LGenez (S)

(D) LTC (Ret) Timothy JGraves (S)

Mr ABart Holaday

Col Bruce VHuneke

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(D) (S) (S) (S)

Col (Ret) Michael GMajor (S)

Mr Richard TMangold i

Col Jimmie DSchuman

Mr William HSimpson

BGen Sam WWestbrook HI

(D) Mr EPaul Johnson

(S) Mr Mark AJohnson (S)

Col Rickell DKnoll

(S) (P) (S) (D) (S) (D)

LTC (Ret) Thomas P McAtee

Mr Wesley EWhite :

(S) LTC Bruce GLeonard, Jr (S)

Col (Ret) Edward AZompa (S)

Maj (Ret) RMMcClintock,

Class of 1964 $1,510.00 Jr (D) (P)

Class of 1962

$8,320.50

LTC (Ret) Eugene D

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Col Eric LLindemann

Mr Michael PManley (S)

Col Kenneth EMcAlear (S)

(S) (S)

Col Peter SMiner

McHugh

Mr William ACarnegie

RTB Anonymous BGen Robert Alexander

Col Joseph ABavaria

(L) (S) (D) (S) (S) (S) (S)

Mr Robert JMcNaughton

Mr Darryl MBloodworth

Col Robert DClark

Col Dennis PMurphy (D)

Mr John TMurphy, Jr (P)

Col (Ret) Charles WAllport (S)

Mr Roger TMeyers

Mr Michael JGalbreath

Col James DMynar

Class of 1960 $390.00 (S) (S) (D) (S) (S)

Mr Logan HBabin

Col David CBockelman

LTC (Ret) Gordon R. Flygare

LTC (Ret) &Mrs James F Glaza

BGen (Ret) Wilfred LGoodson

Col John DMacartney

Mr Bruce MMosier

BGen Dale WThompson

Col Michael JButchko, Jr (D)

Mr Kirk BClark

LTC (Ret) Edwin B Connerat, Jr

BGen Gerald ADaniel

Col (Ret) John CDinsmore (D)

Col Daniel JDonovan II

LTC Don LNetzinger

Col Edwin CNewman

Col Nils BOhman

Mr David GOlson

BGen David JPederson

LTC (Ret) Harry G Paddon III

Col Gaillard RPeck, Jr

Mr Michael EQuinton

LTC Richard H Hackford, Jr

LTC William DJones, Jr

Col Jay WKelley

Col James WMcIntyre

Col John WMcKenney

Col Philip ARoberts

BGen Alan VRogers

Col Tad JOelstrom

Dr James LOugh

Col Thomas AOwens

Dr James MPerry

LTC Thomas HPlank (S)

LTC (Ret) Phillip A Richardson

LTC (Ret) Marc LSabin (S)

Col Harvey WCShelton III (S)

(D) (S) (S) (S) (S) (S) (D) (P) (S) (D) (D) (D) (S) (S) (S) (S) (D) (S) (S) (D) (S) (S)

Mr Donald JEgan

Mr John REllsworth

Col Peter DRobinson

Mr Edmund Rossnagel

Dr Robert LSansom

Mr Terry LSchilling

Class of 1961 $569.00 (D) (S) (S)

Col (Ret) Victor H Bouquet, Jr

Col Douglas BCairns

Mr Paul ADean

Lt Col DFarrington

LTC (Ret) Robert LFelts (D)

Col Kenneth SFisher

LTC (Ret) Francis KSmith (D)

Mr Edward JStanton

(S) LTC (Ret) William KSkaer, Jr

LTC (Ret) Ronnie GTaylor (D)

Mr Michael RWilliams

Mr Dennis JSultany

LTC Thomas HWalsh, Jr

LTC Richard ESiner

Mr Michael DSmith

(S) (D) (S) (D) (S) (S) (D) (S)

Mr James PGallagher

Mr Vern MWood

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Our Members Are Leaving Town By The Hundreds

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Maine Adjutant General, ’60, Retires

The Maine Air National Guard’s assistant adjutant general, a class of 1960 Academy graduate, has retired after 31 years of military service.

At his retirement. Brig. Gen. William R. Ouellette was presented the Legion of Merit, one of this nation’s most prestigious peacetime military honors, by Brig. Gen. Donald H. Marden, Maine’s deputy adjutant general.

General Ouellette, amember of the second class to graduate from the Air Force Academy, has been Maine’s assistant adjutant general for Air since 1984 and abrigadier general since 1985.

General Ouellette holds amaster’s degree from Syracuse University and adoctorate from the Massachusetts College of Optometry and is in private practice in Brunswick, Maine. General Ouellette, his wife Marilyn and their three children reside in Cundy’s Harbor.

His military career includes 16 years of active duty with the Air Force and 15 years in the Maine Air National Guard. While on ac¬ tive duty, he was apilot in KC-135 and T-33 aircraft and a member of the faculty as an associate professor of French at the Air Force Academy.

Upon joining the Maine Air National Guard in 1972, General Ouellette was assigned to the State Headquarters in Augusta and served as Supply Management staff officer, director of Logistics, and chief of staff for Air before becoming assistant adjutant general.

iBrig. Gen. William R. Ouellette, ’60, at right, is presented the Legion of Merit by Brig. Gen. Donald H. Marden, deputy adju¬ tant general for Maine.

Donors to the 1986-87 Air Force Academy Fund

(Continued from page 15.)

Mrs Carolyn YMyers

LTC (Ret) &Mrs Claus K Nacke

Mr &Mrs Sid Naik

Mr Arthur ENeubauer

Mr &Mrs Glen Neustedter

Mr &Mrs ALNeveu

Mr &Mrs Henry Nishimura

Mr &Mrs John BO’Brien (D)

LTC (Ret) &Mrs JFO’Brien

Col (Ret) &Mrs WBOffutt

Col (Ret) &Mrs ASOlson

Mr &Mrs Marvin Pakula (D)

Mr &Mrs George MParker

Col &Mrs John WPatchin

Mr &Mrs James Payne, Jr

In Memory of Jess SHolman

Mr &Mrs Andrew BPerona

Col &Mrs James WPerry

LTC (Ret) &Mrs BW

Peters, Jr

Mr &Mrs Charles FPeters

Rev &Mrs Henry BPickett

Mr &Mrs Gregory Place

Mr &Mrs Roger Plosa

Mr &Mrs William GPlyler, Jr

CMR &Mrs Charles EPope

Mr &Mrs Richard J

Poppleton

Mr &Mrs Paul Powers

Mr &Mrs Edward Radi

Dr &Mrs Roger Raduenz

Mr &Mrs Edward

Reinhardt

Mrs Robert JRennie

Dr &Mrs Frank Repole

Mr &Mrs Albert EReville (D)

Col John FCRhoades

Mr &Mrs Martin MRhodes

Mr &Mrs Donald E

Richardson

Mrs Irene Rinaldi

Dr &Mrs Edward Rockwell (D)

Mr &Mrs Duane GRoling

Mr &Mrs Arthur ERosenthal

Ms Bobbie JRosser

Mr &Mrs Francis RRussell

Mr &Mrs Eugene MSakae

Mr &Mrs John Sakulich (S)

Mr &Mrs Victor Salava

MSgt (Ret) &Mrs Joe Salazar

In Memory of Jess SHolman

Mr &Mrs Thomas Sanning

CMSgt cSt Mrs William BSawyer

Maj &Mrs Michael Say

Col (Ret) Charles ASchaefer

Mr &Mrs Otto FSchick (S)

Mr &Mrs Rudolph Schiller

In Memory of Jess SHolman

Mr &Mrs Hank ASchmidt

Mr William VSchmidt

Mr &Mrs Earl CScho fi eld

Mr& Mrs JMScho fi eld, Jr (D)

MSgt (Ret) &Mrs William A Scholl

Mr &Mrs Dieter Schwarz (S)

Mr &Mrs Arnold Schweigert

Mr &Mrs Earl WScott

Mrs Elsie HSellers

Mr &Mrs Charles Sexton

Mr &Mrs Richard BShamrell

Mr &Mrs Cornelius Shea (S)

Mr &Mrs Toyo Shirai

Mr &Mrs George M

Shirasago

Mrs Margaret RSkinner

Mrs Nancy NSlick

Col (Ret) &Mrs Eben DSmith

Mrs William HSmith

Mr &Mrs Joseph ASmuiko (S)

Mr &Mrs Samuel ESnider

Mr &Mrs Earl WESollmann

Mr &Mrs John ASpain (S)

Mr &Mrs Dennis LSpidel (D)

LTC (Ret) &Mrs JRStampley

Dr &Mrs Donald EStanbury

Mrs Barbara Stebbins

Col &Mrs AWStone

Mr &Mrs Lawrence AStorm

Mr &Mrs Gunther W

Strittmatter

LTC (Ret) &Mrs ESwank

Mr John KTaylor

Mr &Mrs Gordon JTenpas

LTC &Mrs Melvin PTerry

Maj (Ret) &Mrs Thomas Tighe

Mr &Mrs Elvin Tinkham (S)

Dr &Mrs James Thompson

Ms Linda BThompson

Mr &Mrs CSTilden

Mr &Mrs James Timmerman

Mr &Mrs Elvin Tinkham (S)

Dr &Mrs Michael Tinkler

Mr &Mrs Zoltan JTober (S)

Mr &Mrs Michael ATorino

Mr &Mrs Russell RToro

Mr &Mrs Michael Tracy (S)

LTC (Ret) &Mrs RT Uyehata

Mr &Mrs George JVahala

Dr Judith Van Brocklin

LTC (Ret) &Mrs JS

Van Epps

Mr &Mrs REdward Van

Gorder

Mr &Mrs Donald J

Vazquez

Mr &Mrs Anthony

Ventresca

SMSgt (Ret) &Mrs Nelson

Vera

LTC (Ret) George Vinskey

Mrs Elaine CVlasak

In Memory of Jess SHolman

Mr &Mrs FBruce Waechter

Mr &Mrs James HWalsh

Mr &Mrs Michael PWard

Lt Gen &Mrs RHWarren

Mr Garey BWeibel (S)

Mr &Mrs Anthony J Werderitsch

Mr &Mrs Leo PWerlech

Maj (Ret) &Mrs Willie West, Jr

Mrs Margaret Whaley

Maj (Ret) &Mrs John Wharton

Mrs Indiana TWhitley

Mrs Martha MWiechert

Mr& Mrs Carroll Will

Mr &Mrs Stephen C

Williamson

Mr &Mrs Robert FWinegar

Mrs Charlotte EWingate

Mr &Mrs Robert CWitham

Mr &Mrs Fred RWittnebert

Col (Ret) &Mrs Howard

Wong

Mr &Mrs Thomas WWooley

FRIENDS

Mr Brunson Asmond

Kimbrough SBassett

Mr Gary Autrey/ Autrey Brothers

Capt Brian SBell, USAFR

Mrs William ECarraway

In Memory of Charles P Catalano

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Combined Federal Campaign (Arlington, VA)

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Combined Fedral Campaign (Montgomery Area)

Combined Federal Campaign (Riverside)

Combined Federal Campaign (Tarrant County)

Epifanio Morales Cruz Y/O

Mariso Benitez Corujo

Ms Paige Danby

Dayton Area United Way

Maj Frank RFaulkner, USAFR

Gustav Freyer

Charles FGaasch Jr

Mr Harold TGross

Mr &Mrs Marshall Haines

Mr Herbert WHall

Hawaii USAF Academy Parents

Club

Robert CHess

Mr &Mrs Paul AMcCann

Mr Martin WMechling

Col (Ret) Walter AMerritt (S)

Col &Mrs Samuel PMitchell Jr

Mr Donald WNelson

Parents Club of PA

In Memory of John SSouthrey

Parents Club of South Carolina

Pikes Peak United Way

BGen William CRoxby, Jr

Mr Joel Sanders

JWSefton Foundation

United Way Daytona Area (S)

United Way National Capital Area

Maj James EWinborn, USAFR

MGen (Ret) &Mrs Wm HWise

Patricia JWork

Dr &Mrs Robington JO

Woods

Col &Mrs Jack EWormington

Mr &Mrs Richard PWynn (S)

Mr &Mrs Melvin Yaphe

Mr &Mrs Donald RYoho

Mr &Mrs Joseph PZajac

Col &Mrs John RZartman

TSgt (Ret) &Mrs Karl GZech

Mr &Mrs Charles EZeeck

Col &Mrs Edward JZeuty (D)

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LANCE SIJAN BOOK

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Blaisdell, '62, Named Chief of Staff

Col. Michael P. Blaisdell, ’62, assumed the duties as chief of staff of the U.S. Air Force Academy June 10. He replaced Col. Robert Y. Foerster, ’65, who served in the position since June 1985.

Colonel Blaisdell

As chief of staff. Colonel Blaisdell directs and controls the ma¬ jor command level staff and is responsible for the operation and administration of all installation activities, performing duties similar to those of an Air Force base commander.

Colonel Foerster has been selected for reassignment to akey billet with the Military Airlift Command. Further details will be announced at alater date by Headquarters, Air Force. Until his departure, he will serve as aspecial assistant to the superinten¬ dent.

Colonel Blaisdell has been assigned here since July 1984 as the deputy director of athletics for physical education and facilities. He is acommand pilot with more than 4,300 flying hours in a variety of fighter aircraft, including 1,000 combat hours during two tours in Vietnam, where he fl ew F-lOOs, F-105s and O-ls.

He spent two years, 1972-1973, with the Air Force’s aerial demonstration team, the Thunderbirds, serving first as the team narrator and then flying right wing in the F-4E.

Other assignments have included tours as commandant of the Tactical Fighter Weapon School, Nellis AFB, Nevada, from 1981-1982; vice commander of the 8th Tactical Fighter Wing (F-16), Kunsan Air Base, Korea, 1982-1983; and director of in¬ spections, Headquarters, Paci fi c Air Force, Hickam AFB, Hawaii, from 1983 until his assignment to the academy’s athletic department in 1984.

Colonel BlaisdelTs decoratons include four Distinguished Fly¬ ing Crosses, 27 Air Medals, and four Meritorious Service Medals. He is anative of Topeka, Kansas, and is married to the former Jean Allison, also from Topeka. The Blaisdell’s have three daughters: Allison, Elizabeth and Lori.

Colonel Foerster graduated from the Air Force Academy in 1965. His assignments have taken him throughout the United States as well as Puerto Rico, the Philippines and Vietnam.

Colonel Foerster’s decorations include two Distinguished Fly¬ ing Crosses, six Air Medals, two Meritorious Service Medals, and two Air Force Commandation Medals. He is acommand pilot with more than, 4,400 flying hours.

He is married to the former Sheila Port of Kent, England. They have four children: Janet, Leslie, Katrina and Mark. (The Falcon Flyer)

Commandant Selects Top CW Officer

By Maj. Kathy Rafferty Cadet Wing Plans and Policy

Maj. Mark A. Hyatt, ’74, was selected as the 1986 Comman¬ dant of Cadets Of fi cer of the Year.

Major Hyatt, director of honor and ethics, received the award at the cadet wing formal dinner in April at the Clarion Hotel.

“I was shocked,” said Major Hyatt of his selection. “With such sharp competition within the cadet wing, Ifeel honored to be selected from such adistinguished select group.

Major Hyatt’s selection was based on outstanding performance in his primary duties, as well as contributions he made as officerin-charge of the Colorado State Special Olympics; OIC, cadet ski club; OIC, Protestant cadet choir; and T-41 instructor pilot.

Major Hyatt arrived at the academy in June 1984. Before assuming his present duties in June 1986, he served as air officer commanding of Cadet Squadron 6.

As director of honor and ethics, the major is charged with the administration of the cadet honor code system. He briefs and counsels officers and cadets in matters pertaining to the honor code. He is the academy’s point of contact for any media ques¬ tions dealing with honor issues and he keeps academy faculty and staff aware of the trends and direction of the honor system.

Following graduation from the Academy in 1974, he was assigned to Williams AFB, Ariz., first for undergraduate pilot training, then as aT-37 instructor pilot. He also had two tours in the RF-4, two years at Shaw AFB, S.C., then fours years at RAF Alconbury, England. While at Alconbury, he served as an in¬ structor pilot and as the wing executive officer.

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

Rockwell International Corporation

TRW, Inc., Electronics &Defense Sector

United Services Automobile Association

United Technologies Corporation

USAF Academy Athletic Association

Walsworth Publishing of Colorado

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

Major Hyatt and his wife Debbie have three children, Ryan, Sara and Jeff. They depart this summer to attend the Air Com¬ mand and Staff College at Maxwell AFB, Ala. (The Falcon Flyer)

Two members of the Class of 1988 present Col. John T. May, 61, former acting dean of faculty, with the Cadet Wing Plaque and Sabre Award at his retirement ceremony in early June. The award is the highest honor the cadet wing can bestow. (Air Force photo by AlC Scott Cook)

CORRECTIONS

On page five of the Spring 1987 issue, the photograph at the lower right of the page identified the officer in charge of the Cadet Ski Club as Maj. Tony L. Mitchell. The major’s name should have read Joseph R. Mitchell, Jr., Class of 1973. We also received anote concerning the fact that we did not list Steven J. Lepper, ’79, in our major promotion statistics in the Winter 1986-87 magazine. We are only provided promo¬ tion lists of line of fi cers from the Military Personnel Center. Unfortunately, we do not receive lists for special promotion categories such as chaplains, medical personnel, and judge ad¬ vocates. Our apologies to graduates in these categories.

Cadet Wing Officer of the Year, Maj. Mark A. Hyatt, wing honor committee chairman, discusses the honor code with thenC2C John Cage McCurdy, Cadet Squadron 29. (Air Force photo)

Fond Farewell:

THE SECRET LIFE OF WALDO F. DUMBSQUAT

By Don Hall, ’76

“Give me discipline, dumb smack.

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“Sir, may Imake astatement.

“Go ahead.”

“Sir, my name is pronounced ‘Dumbsquat’.”

“Discipline, mister.

Waldo F. Dumbsquat slipped into his dorm room just as academic call to quarters sounded. The doolie looked totally wrung out. His Alpha blouse was pitted out, shoes scuffed, brass tarnished, and white gloves “squat thrust” dirty. Waldo put his rifle reverently in the rack and flopped down in his chair.

Candidates

Sought for USAFA Director of Development

The position of director of Development and Alumni Programs at the Air Force Academy will be open as of 1December 1987. This is currently an 0-5 slot, reporting to the DCS, Plans and Programs. The director acts as the superintendent’s principal ad¬ visor for all matters relating to development, gifts to the Academy, and alumni matters. The director is the USAFA liaison with the Association of Graduates, the Falcon Foundation and numerous private support organizations, as well as major in¬ dividual donors to the Academy.

Responsibilities include identifying unfunded programs from Academy agencies that are approprate for private gift support, and managing amulti-million dollar program of private gifts to the Air Force Academy. Past projects directed by this position have included the construction of the new USAFA Visitor Center and endowing the first faculty chair in the Academy’s history.

Please direct all inquiries to Lt. Col. Richard M. Coppock, USAF, Retired; Executive Director, Association of Graduates, USAF Academy, Colo. 80840-5000 (303/472-4513, AV: 259-4513).

“What happened to you?” asked C4C “Regs” Buch, Waldo’s roommate.

“Another S.I.,” sighed Waldo.

“Who gave it to you?”

“Wing Staff. Remember when they closed our tables at the evening meal?

“Yeah, Ifound ahole on the jock ramps.”

Unfortunately, Igot lost and ended up on the staff tower.”

“Uh oh!

Well, Iwas okay until the wing commander. Cadet Sarnac, told me to give him cadets in the wing.”

Regs nodded understanding^. “That’s atough one. What else did they make you do?”

“Well, during the special inspection, Igave checkpoints for the day, cargo aircraft, did sixteen count rifle manual and an infinite number of squat thrusts, and recited the ABC television network fall lineup.”

“It must have been hell. Thank goodness for ‘AC Call’,” noted Regs.

“Yeah, it’s ironic to be saved by the dean,” Waldo observed.

“Speaking of the dean. ..tomorrow we have amilitary studies GR, amath problem set, chemistry experiment, and an English paper due.”

“English paper? Iforgot all about that!

“Sounds like an all-nighter to me,” chortled Regs.

Waldo pulled out of his desk drawer anumber two pencil and a yellow legal pad. He frantically jotted the title of his English essay at the top of the paper.

“The Impact of the ABC Mini-series on the Cadet Wing.”

“I’ve got all the research done,” noted the doolie.

Regs sighed.

Generals “Pin

(U.S. Air Force Photo by George Harlan)

Gen. Andrew P. losue, USAF, Ret., at left, former commander. Air Training Command, and Gen. Robert J. Dixon, USAF, Ret., former commander. Tactical Air Command, affix first lieutenant insignia on Dennis J. Simpson during arecent Project Warrior dining-in at the Air Force Military Personnel Center, Randolph AFB,

Texas. “Being promoted by two Air Force legends is some¬ thing I’ll remember all my life, ”said Lieutenant Simpson, Mr. Vice for the dining-in. Lieutenant Simpson is a1985 graduate of the Air Force Academy and asenior programmer analyst at AFMPC.

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Lt. Gen. Hamm Takes Superintendent Reins

The following remarks were made by Lt. Gen. Charles R. Hamm shortly after assuming command as the 11th Superinten¬ dent of the U.S. Air Force Academy on June 26, 1987.

Senator Goldwater, General Welch, General Piotrowski, General Scott, other distinguished ladies and gentlemen.

This is an inspiring sight. Men and women of the Academy ar¬ rayed before us in splendor. The stunning buildings, the magnifi¬ cent mountains, the Air Force blue sky. Iam moved to quote from the poet, Walt Whitman: “Behind the terraced sides of the mountain, abrupt in places rising high, broken with rocks, with clinging cedars, with tall shapes, and over all, the sky, the sky.”

The mountains, the sky, the buildings and the people are jux¬ taposed to remind us of what we are about here; using this institu-

Flags Presented:

In early May, Brig. Gen. Sam W. Westbrook III, commandant of cadets, presented American flags to the Cadet Wing Honor Com¬ mittee. The flags were donated by the Association of Graduates and have been flown over the Academy. From left in the photograph are then-ClC Tom Deale, CIC Steve Mans, CIC Keith Groen; CIC Scot Lecy, Col. Joe Coates, ’63, vice comman¬ dant; Maj. Major Hyatt, ’74, director of Honor and Ethics; Lt. Col. (USAF, Ret) Dick Coppock, ’61, executive director of the AOG; Brig. Gen. Sam Westbrook, ’63, commandant of cadets; CIC Ed Conroy, CIC Rob Fiddler, CIC Don Hickman, CIC West Marchesseault, CIC Pete D’Amico, and 2nd Lt. Rich McBee, ’86, assistant director of Honors and Ethics.

tion to mold cadets to meet the mountainous challenges of a future of uncertainty and opportunity represented by the boundless sky.

As you might imagine, Jane and 1are very excited and happy about being here. Let me come back to earth and thank General Welch and Secretary Aldridge for the confidence they have shown in me by appointing me to this important position. Ipromise to do my very best.

Let me salute General and Mrs. Scott for the outstanding con¬ tributions they have made to the Air Force and to the Academy. General Skip Scott has long been ahero of mine. It is with great humility, but not without the inspiration of his leadership, that 1 succeed him. Jane joins me in wishing the Scotts every happiness.

Of the many friends and supporters of the Academy gathered from near and far, let me ask your continued generous support. We look forward to getting to know you and becoming your new friends.

Finally, to the men and women before me of the staff and faculty, and the cadets, let me tell you that today the sign at the gate —Welcome to Your Academy for me. Iapproach this new position with the spirit of teamwork, the hallmark of our great Air Force. For it is not my Academy, or your Academy, it is our Academy. Our Academy team will be a winning team. It will continue its commitment to excellence in all things because we are looked to, to set the standards for the Air Force.

takes on anew meaning

We will strive for balance as we train tomorrow’s leaders and warriors. Balancing academic, military, athletic and moral and ethical education and training in ademanding and disciplined program in order to prepare our graduates for future leadership positions. We will do this in the best tradition of leadership by ex¬ ample.

And in keeping with that principle, let me close and join you in spirit by borrowing your cadet oath and saying simply; Iresolve to do my duty and live honorably, so help me God. Thank you.

50th ATS Receives Outstanding Unit Award

Brig. Gen. Sam W. Westbrook III, commandant of cadets, recently presented the 50th Airmanship Training Squadron with the Air Force Outstanding Unit Award.

The 50th ATS distinguished itself by exceptionally meritorious service from Oct. 1, 1984 to Sept. 30, 1986. The citation lauded the squadron for excelling in its mission of cadet training and motivation by providing academic and flight instruction of the highest quality to more than 4,000 cadets.

The dedication and professionalism demonstrated by squadron personnel resulted in numerous innovative and dynamic programs that dramatically enhanced cadet aviation training, according to the citation.

During the period of the award, members of the 50th ATS ex¬ panded and updated course offerings, which made for an un¬ precedented increase in elective-course enrollment.

The squadron’s flight training program compiled more than 2,000 aecident-free flying hours, using only two T-43A aircraft, and included training missions to more than 80 bases worldwide.

Both Lt. Col. Cecil L. Eason Jr., and Col. James Pinkerton Jr., the current and former 50th ATS commanders, respectively, were on hand to accept the Air Force Outstanding Unit Award. (The Falcon Flyer)

Three Stars:

Gen. Larry D. Welch, chief of staff of the Air Force, at left, and Jane Hamm, attach the new shoulder boards to Lt. Gen. Charles R. Hamm, new Air Force Academy superintendent. General Hamm was promoted to the rank of lieutenant general shortly before the change-of-command ceremonies on June 26. (Air Force photo by SSgt Renee Tyron)

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Life Membership at Graduation: 65 From Class of '87 Make AOG First

Sixty-five members of the Class of 1987 became the first Air Force Academy graduates to become life members of the Associa¬ tion of Graduates through the Life Membership at Graduation Program. Another eight class members became life members by paying the entire life membership fee at graduation.

The Life Membership at Graduation Program, inaugurated by the AOG in 1985, is similar to aprogram launched by the Naval Academy many years ago. It allows cadets, beginning in their third class year, to assign asmall portion of their pay each month to the AOG, resulting in apaid-up life membership when they

LIFE MEMBERSHIP AT GRADUATION

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graduate. The cost is discounted from the regular $550 life membership fee due to interest earned on the cadets’ payments over the years.

In addition to the reduced total life membership cost and the convenience of small monthly payments instead of one large lump-sum fee, the Life Membership at Graduation Progam also locks in the cost of the membership even if the life membership fee is raised during the cadets’ years at the Academy.

Our congratulations to the Class of 1987 AOG life members listed below.

REGULAR LIFE MEMBERSHIPS

Kenneth AArcoleo

Daniel JBirrenkott

Billy BBrown Jr

Eric DBrown

David MBurris

Gregory ACampbell

James PCashin

Wallace JCassady

Robert VClewis

Stephen MCook

James EDavis

Lynda LDavis

Mark DDeLona

Jonathan EFair

Michael SGebauer

Alexander VGiczy

Alexander PGilbert

John PGladman

Michael WHafer

David REHalla

Dennis MHowry

Eric JHunter

Kristin LJohnson

Michael LKasumovic

Thomas JKauth

Steven MKokora

Daniel AKosin

David LKrai

Marion Lipinski

Rodolfo Llobet

Nathan GLyden

Michael PMaag

Michael TMcGuire

Susan MMcWhirter

Douglas TMichel

Lisa RMiller

Craig SMittelstadt

Kevin JMueller

James RNelson

Sandra CNiemi

Stephan KOtto

William EPage 111

John MPegg

Ronald EPorte

David ARoss

Dwight RSanders

William BMcCormick Scott ASavoie

Frank ASelf

Christopher SSimpson

Steven PSnyder

Cynthia LStaples

Denis FSteele

Michael TSymock

Hoang NTran

Edward TVenner

Michael JWalker

Mark AWarack

William HWebber

Bronwyn SWise

William AWoodcock

Eric MWoodson

Thomas WYarger

James AZietlow

Colin NCarr

Brian PChristensen

Edward P. Conroy

Miles DDahlby

William EGillis

Kurt HMallery

Charles KThibault

Troy TWaddell

’64 Grad Confirmed for Top Administration Post

T. Allan McArtor, Class of 1964, senior vice president of the Federal Express Corporation, has been selected by the Reagan Administration to serve as the new administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration. Confirmed by the Senate, McArtor suc¬ ceeded Donald D. Engen, 62, aretired vice admiral of the Navy who announced his resignation in March.

In astatement released by his Memphis-based company, McArter, 44, said, “I am honored to be considered for ad¬ ministrator of the F.A.A. The issues currently before the agency are significant and will affect the airline industry and the traveling public for many years. Ilook forward to assuming this challenge upon approval of my nomination.”

Representative Don Sundquist, aTenneseee Republican, said McArtor was chosen for the post after impressing Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Hanford Dole, with whom he served on a space travel panel. “He’s very bright and agood manager, Sundquist said of McArter. “Having been in air transportation most of his life, he’s eminently quali fi ed.

McArtor was born in St. Louis, graduated from the Air Force Academy in 1964, and received amaster of science degree from Arizona State University in 1971. For his service in Vietnam he earned the Silver Star and the Distinguished Flying Cross. He also served for two years as amember of the Air Force precision flying team, the Thunderbirds.

Joining Federal Express in 1970, he has held executive positions in the company’s aviation and advanced technology division. He is currently senior vice president for telecommunications, respon¬ sible for the operations of its domestic and international com¬ munications networks.

McArtor takes over at atime when airline passengers are ex¬ periencing widespread delays and cancellations, major airlines are pressing the government to spend more on airport improvements and air traffic controllers are attempting to organize anew union.

GEORGIA AIR NATIONAL GUARD

Guard or Reserve Challenge: John F. Disosway, ’70, issues achallenge to any Guard or Reserve unit to beat the number of graduates flying the F-15 at the 128th Tactical Fighter Squadron of the Georgia Air National Guard at Dobbins AFB, Ga. From left in front are George Graves, ’63; Bill Bader, ’70; John; and William McConnell, ’68. In the back row are Rocky Barton, ’72; Jack Baker, ’64; Dick Flail, ’68; Jess Chalk, ’71; and Steve Beck, ’76. Not pictured are Scott Ham¬ mond, ’75, and Jess Hamilton, ’78. That’s 11 graduate pilots overall.

82 Graduates’ Performance Assessed

By Lt. Col. Jerry M. Barucky Director of Graduate Evaluation, USAFA

As part of acomprehensive graduate evaluation effort, the USAF Academy solicited feedback from graduates of the Class of 1982 and from their supervisors about the graduates’ level of competence in anumber of areas pertinent to USAFA officer pro¬ fessional development programs. To gather this feedback, the Directorate of Graduate Evaluation developed and administered aProfessional Officer Competency Survey to graduates of the USAFA Class of 1982 and to the graduates’ supervisors. The pur¬ pose of gathering these data is to allow USAFA personnel to iden¬ tify specific traits or skill areas where alarge percentage of graduates and supervisors perceive high levels of competence and also to identify those areas where competence levels are not as consistently high. The following paragraphs summarize some of the key points concerning the survey and the findings that may be of interest to graduates.

Survey Development: The surveys were developed by an Academy-wide Professional Officer Competency Working group, composed of representatives from the Dean of Faculty, the Com¬ mandant of Cadets, and the Athletic Department. This group assembled atentative list of competencies which reflected the pro¬ fessional officer traits and skills the institution hopes to develop in its graduates. The first 32 items on the list were traits or characteristics, such as punctuality or integrity, that are deemed to be anecessary aspect of ayoung of fi cer’s professional behavior. Survey respondents were asked to rate the degree to which they—or, for the supervisors, their graduate subordinate —demonstrated each of these traits. The respondents were to use afive-point scale, going from “a very small degree,” in which the graduate hardly ever displayed this trait, to a“very large degree,” in which the graduate always displayed the trait. The last 36 items on the list were skills or competencies, such as providing feedback or preparing correspondence, that are thought to be anecessary part of ayoung officer’s professional abilities. Once again the raters were to use afive-point scale going from “a very small degree” to “a very large degree.”

Survey Administration: Following field testing and extensive interview sessions at five bases across the United States, the graduate surveys were mailed to 766 of the 830 Air Force commissionees from the Class of 1982. Supervisor surveys were sent to 725 reporting officials of these graduates. Usable responses were obtained from 607 graduates and 569 supervisors. The 79 percent return rates are considered exceptionally high for avoluntery survey.

General Conclusions:

a. Overall, Graduates Seem To Be Performing Very Well:

At least 90 percent of them are rated as moderately compe¬ tent or better in 67 of 68 competency areas. And in all 68 com¬ petency areas, at least 50 percent of the graduates and super¬ visors indicate the graduate is “highly” competent (rated as competent to alarge or very large degree). In terms of the graduates’ general performance, nearly 50 percent of the supervisors ranked their graduate as being in the top 10 per¬ cent of all the young lieutenants they’ve supervised or known. Although it is hard to estimate the degree to which these ratings may be inflated, alarge number of extremely com¬ plimentary write-in comments suggest that many of the graduates are performing at exceptional levels,

b. Specific Areas of Relative Strength and Weakness Are Not

Surprising:

As expected, USAFA graduates are rated most consistently high in areas of followership and have the lowest percentage of high ratings in areas involving supervision of others. Like most young and inexperienced officers, they work hard, take direc¬ tion, comply with customs, standards and regulations, and

generally have very few problems in overt, “support the system” behaviors. Although the lowest rated areas are centered around supervisory skills such as reading others, motivating them and, especially, correcting their performance, it could be hypothesized that these are among the most dif¬ fi cult tasks for anyone to master, regardless of rank or ex¬ perience,

c. Survey Experience Indicates aNeed For More Interaction

With the Enlisted Force:

Several indicators from the survey project suggested the graduates desired more experience with enlisted personnel. This was the 17th lowest rated competency on the supervisors’ survey and was the graduates’ most common negative response in both the write-in comments and during the interviews con¬ ducted while field testing the surveys. This recommendation has been made anecdotally by graduates for several years, and thus it may be an area that USAFA policymakers want to in¬ vestigate further.

d. USAFA Performance Is Positively Related To Early Active Duty Performance:

As has been suggested in other studies, cadets who are ranked high in the Academy’s competitive environment tend to continue that pattern on active duty. The survey results show that those who were rated highest by their supervisors —in terms either of individual competency areas or of the general comparison ranking —had also been ranked significantly higher in the Academic and Military Orders of Merit at USAFA than those graduates who had received lower super¬ visory ratings (Tables 1and 2). Although there are certainly in¬ dividual exceptions, the common contention among lower achieving cadets that they’ll be able to “turn it on” on active duty is not borne out by the survey data,

e. No Significant Differences In Supervisor Ratings Based On Sex of the Graduate Or on Commissioning Source of the Supervisor: Comparisons of the supervisors’ ratings received by male and female graduates show no significant difference between the sexes either on the overall mean rating for all 68 competency areas or on the rankings among general performance categories. In addition, comparisons of ratings given by super¬ visors commissioned through AFROTC, OTS, or the Air Force Academy show no significant differences. This finding tends to refute anecdotal assumptions that USAFA graduates judge their fellow graduates either more critically or more leniently (Continued on next page.) than do non-graduates.

Table 1

Average USAFA Academic Order of Merit Position Compared Among Graduates Grouped According To Supervisors’ General Performance Ranking

Supervisors’ General Performance Ranking Groups

Best Of fi cer of All Compared

In Top 10 Percent

Between Top 10 and Top 20 Percent

Between Top 20 and Top 40 Percent

Between Top 40 and Top 60 Percent Bottom

Graduates’ Average Academic Order of Merit Ranking 398’*

Nine Graduates Earn Four-Year M.D. Degrees

Nine Air Force Academy graduates were among 155 individuals recognized on May 16 for completing four years of intense study and training which led to their being granted M.D. degrees. The new doctors were graduated from the Uniformed Services Univer¬ sity of Health Sciences (USUHS), aDefense Department school at Bethesda, Md., that provides the Army, Navy, Air Force and Public Health Service with medical of fi cers.

The graduation ceremony took place at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. The Presi¬ dent of the United States, Ronald W. Reagan, who was the com¬ mencement speaker for the university’s eighth graduation exer¬ cises, was introduced at the ceremony by the Secretary of Defense, Caspar W. Weinberger.

Reagan told the graduates, “Yours is the only medical school in

Performance: (Continued from previous page.)

ANote of Thanks and aRequest for Further Feedback: As this survey project was the first comprehensive attempt to gather supervisors’ feedback on the professional competence of USAFA

Average

Best Of fi cer of All Compared

Between

America that trains physicians to be ready for duty on the bottom of the ocean or on the surface of the moon and any place in be¬ tween.” “As students,” the president continued, “you went through one of the most rigorous programs in the country. You took 640 hours of training in military medicine on top of your standard curriculum. You prepared yourself to treat patients anywhere in the world, under any circumstance.”

USUHS was established by the Congress under the Department of Defense in 1972 to educate young men and women for careers as medical officers and graduated its first class of 29 students in 1980. In addition to the standard medical school curriculum, students at the University’s F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine receive special training in military medical subjects such as ap¬ plied military physiology, diagnostic parasitology, and opera¬ tional and emergency medicine. This special training has the goal of preparing students for the global medical practice they will en¬ counter upon graduation.

The new doctors, who are commissioned officers on active duty Reserve status while pursuing their degrees, incur an obligation of seven years of service, exclusive of any graduate medical educa¬ tion, in exchange for their tuition-free education. During com¬ mencement, each graduate receives the M.D. degree and apromo¬ tion from the 0-1 of fi cer rank to the 0-3 level.

The Air Force Academy graduates and their internship assignments are;

Byron Hepburn, ’76, (Debby), family practice, Malcolm Grow USAFMC, Andrews AFB, Md.

Dan Garner, ’78, (Tami), surgery, USAF Medical Center, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio.

Mark Miller, ’79, (Brenda), surgery, Wilford Hall USAFMC, Lackland AFB, Texas.

Tom Neal, ’80, (Patty), transitional, Malcolm Grow USAFMC.

Chris Lisanti, ’83, transitional, Malcolm Grow USAFMC.

Loretta O’Brien, ’83, transitional, Malcolm Grow USAFMC. Augie Pasquale, ’83, internal medicine, Wilford Hall USAFMC.

Lisa Somerson, ’83, (Kurt McCartney), family practice, USAF Medical Center, Scott AFB, 111.

Wayne Sumpter, ’83, (Karen), family practice, David Grant USAFMC, Travis AFB, Calif.

graduates in over 20 years, it is hard to generalize from percep¬ tions about one class to USAFA programs as awhole. However, the entire data gathering process, including field interviews and write-in comments as well as survey ratings, has proved to be a rich source of information for curriculum and program planners. Asincere thank you is extended to all those who took 20 minutes of their time to fill out and return the survey.

In fact, this information was thought to be promising enough that representatives of all Air Force commissioning education programs plan to seek similar feedback via asingle, joint survey project. This survey will be administered within the next few months to astratified “norm" sample of Air Force first lieutenants. The results from this project should prove even more meaningful since it will allow curriculum planners from each com¬ missioning source to analyze their own results and interpret those results in relation to an Air Force norm. So along with this report of findings and with our thanks comes another appeal to graduates of the Class of 1984, to their supervisors, and to those graduates who may be supervisors of lieutenants from another commissioning program. If you are selected as one of those to be surveyed, please assist us by responding to the questionnaire as quickly and as candidly as possible. Your help in this study really can make adifference in our ability to improve our of fi cer preparation progams.

Air Force Academy graduates who recently received their M.D. degrees from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences are, from left in the front row, Byron Hepburn, Dan Garner, Mark Miller, and Tom Neal. In the back row are Wayne Sumpter, Chris Lisanti, Lisa Somerson, Augie Pasquale, and Loretta O’Brien.

Class of 1987 Top Graduates Honored

With an overall 3.945 performance grade average, Jeffrey M. Rhodes was the top graduate of the Class of 1987 receiving the Outstanding Cadet in Order of Graduation Award from the Daedalian Foundation. He also won the Top Military Perfor-

Jeffrey M. Rhodes, ’87

mance Award, aMarshall Scholarship to study at the London School of Economics, the Outstanding Group Commander Award, the Electrical Engineering Award, and the Engineering Award. Rhodes is the son of Brig. Gen. James Rhodes, Jr., ’59, of Tyndall AFB, Fla., and Kay Rhodes of Denver. After his studies in England next year, Rhodes plans to pursue either afly¬ ing or engineering career.

Hoang Nhu Tran, with a4.009 academic performance average, earned the American Legion award for Top Academic Performer. He is also the recipient of this year’s Loyalty, Integrity and Courage Award, and will study at Oxford University next year under aRhodes scholarship. Tran’s achievements are under¬ scored by his long struggle to succeed since he left his native Viet¬ nam in 1975. Tran is the son of aformer major in the army of the Republie of Vietnam. Afer Oxford, he plans to attend Harvard Medical School and become an Air Force physician. Ultimately, he said he hopes to become an astronaut. Tran’s parents are Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Tran of Rhonert Park, Calif.

Terry Maki, son of Mr. and Mrs. Terrance Maki of Libby, Mont., received the Most Valuable Athlete Award. He was a fi rstteam All-Western Althetic Conference linebacker for his junior and senior years. His playing won him places on three AllAmerica team lists.

Terrance A. Brown and Dale A. Holland were recognized as Outstanding Wing Commanders. Brown, fall semester wing com¬ mander, is the son of Ms. Geneva Hendricks Brown of Marlboro, Md. Holland is the son of Mr. and Mrs. David Holland of Hooper, Colo.

Mark R. Arlinghaus, son of Dr. and Mrs. R. B. Arlinghaus of San Diego, Calif., was named the outstanding Cadet Squadron Commander and Eric A. Boe, son of retired Air Force Maj. and Mrs. Gerald Boe of Doraville, Ga., was named recipient of the Civil Air Patrol Honor Roll Award.

SecAF Addresses Graduating Seniors

Following are excerpts from remarks made by Secretary of the Air Force Edward C. Aldridge Jr. to the 29th graduating class at the Air Foree Academy:

action, your every decision. Choose now to make every decision ahead in such away that you will feel good about it afterward.

There is not likely to be any greater challenge in your career than leading the people who constitute this, the greatest Air Force in the world. As agroup, they are the best our society has to of¬ fer. ..

“People don’t want to serve where they don’t think they are appreciated, or when they are not receiving adequate, comparable compensation. Our people, men and women, make personal sacrifices to defend the national interest; it is part of my role, through the DoD and the president, to see that our people receive afair compensation for these sacrifices.

“However, recent studies have shown Ihalyour role as officers —as commanders, leaders and supervisors —can be erucial in morale and productivity, and in decisions to separate or reenlist...

“Given adequate compensation, our people look to you for in¬ formed, professional —even inspirational —leadership, with concern for their welfare. Your role is to develop the environment for your people to perform their mission with the skill, dedication and professionalism we know they have.

“So get involved in the lives of your people. You ean be the ex¬ ample, the motivator, the key factor in their deeisions to stay Air Force blue. From your first day of commissioned service you have arole in leading and influencing people in the Air Force.

Iencourage you to look for the factors that are irritating your people —the rules, regulations and procedures that are getting in the way of performing their mission. Challenge the old ways of doing things. Watch out for the explanation that says, ‘We’ve always done it that way.’ And if aregulation or policy doesn’t make sense, get involved; propose arevision that does contribute to your mission. ..

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From your personal code of the last four years, you have developed aheightened sense of right and wrong in many dif¬ ferent situations. Ichallenge you to let that sense guide your every

“The secret to that is maintaining your personal sense of right and wrong —your integrity. If you take nothing else from your four years here, let it be your keen sense of honor. Iexpect that sense of honor and integrity from every officer in the Air Force today. Your eountry deserves nothing less. ..

“This is an important year as we mark the Air Force’s 40th an¬ niversary, and the 80th anniversary of the birth of military avia¬ tion. ..Your country has given you the oportunity and freedom to pursue your dreams. Now it needs you to protect the dreams of all our citizens and our nation.

Good luck. Godspeed and welcome to the Air Force team.

Secretary of the Air Force Edward C. Aldridge Jr. addresses the class of 1987. (Air Force photo by AIC Scott Cook)

Two Firsts Established in Earning Scholarships

2nd Lt Jeffery M. Rhodes, ’87, and CIC John T. Budd, have won scholarships which have never been won by cadets at the Academy before. Lieutenant Rhodes was named the Academy’s first recipient of aMarshall Scholarship and will study overseas beginning in the fall. Cadet Budd was named by the National En¬ dowment for the Humanities (NEH) as one of their Younger Scholars for 1987, another Academy first.

Lieutenant Rhodes was one of 30 Americans across the country selected for the Marshall Scholarship. He will study economics and political science beginning in September at the London School of Economics. The scholarship was established by the British government in honor of Gen. George C. Marshall, World War II general and secretary of state who created the Marshall Plan for economic relief to many European countries following World War II.

While at the Academy, Lieutenant Rhodes has made the Superintendent’s, Dean’s and Commandant’s Lists seven times. He was the cadet commander of the 1st group and graduated at the top of his class this past May with abachelor of science degree in electrical engineering. He is the son of Brig. Gen. James M. Rhodes Jr., a1959 graduate of the Air Force Academy and com¬ mander of the 23rd Air Division and 23rd North American Aerospace Defense Command Region.

’87 Increases Alumni To More Than 21,300

The ranks of Air Force Academy alumni increased to more than 21,300 with the graduation of 968 members of the Class of 1987.

This year’s class was the 29th group of new officers commis¬ sioned here since the Class of 1959, and is one the largest in Air Force Academy history.

The new second lieutenants will report to avariety of assignments, including 615 to pilot training, 41 to navigator train¬ ing and four to helicopter training.

Twenty eight members of this year’s graduating class were of¬ fered scholarships and fellowships for graduate studies. That figure includes three who will complete Air Force Institute of Technology in residence and four others expect to go to medical school.

Another 224 graduates will go to various nonrated assignments within the Air Force immediately following graduation.

Nine graduates will be commissioned into the other services. One will enter the U.S. Army, one will enter the U.S. Navy and seven will enter the U.S. Marine Corps.

Since 1959, nearly 530 graduates have been recipients of scholarships and fellowships, including 27 Rhodes, 77 Gug¬ genheim, 58 National Science Foundation, 25 Fulbright-Hays, 29 Hertz Foundation, 10 National Football Hall of Fame scholar¬ ships and 25 National Collegiate Athletic Association scholar¬ ships.

Through the Class of 1986, 12,578 graduates commissioned in the Air Force entered pilot training; 1,257 entered navigator train¬ ing and 414 entered helicopter training.

Of the more than 19,400 graduates from previous classes, almost 13,000 are still on active duty in the Air Force.

Five-hundred and sixty graduate are listed as deceased, and of that number, 151 were killed in southeast Asia.

Other losses between the first graduation and present activeduty totals are attributed to retirements, medical separations, voluntary resignations, graduates who selected commissioning in other services and those foreign graduates returning to their respective countries. (The Falcon Flyer)

CIC Budd, amilitary history major, is one of 88 full-time col¬ lege students to win the NEH Younger Scholar awards this year. Grant winners were selected from approximately 650 eligible ap¬ plicants in anationwide competition.

The NEH Younger Scholars award, which carries astipend of $2,200, supports astudent’s independent, noncredit research and writing projects conducted during the summer in such disciplines as history, literature or philosophy.

Under the guidance of Dr. Alex Roland, professor of history at Duke University, Cadet Budd will work on aproject titled. Perceptions of Technology; The History of Nuclear-propelled Aircraft.”

“The NEH Younger Scholars program offers aunique challenge to high school and undergraduate college students early in their academic careers,” said Lynne V. Cheyney, chairman of NEH. “We in the endowment take pride in cultivating the seeds of their intellectual curiosity on topics of their own choosing within the disciplines of the humanities.”

Each NEH Younger Scholar’s project is expected to result in a substantial research paper, with bibliography, that must be sub¬ mitted to NEH with afinal narrative report on the student’s nineweek project. (The Falcon Flyer)

Five Grads Return as “Thunderbirds

Five of six pilots with the Air Force’s aerial demonstratin team, the “Thunderbirds,” returned to their alma mater when they per¬ formed after graduation ceremonies May 27 at the academy.

The “Thunderbird” leader, Lt. Col. Roger Riggs, was a member of the Class of 1970. Capt. Dave Robinson, flying the left wing, graduated from the academy in 1976. The right wing pilot, Capt. Joe Bulmer, was amember of the class of 1977. Capt. Lance Undhjem, fl ying the slot, graduated from the academy in 1978, while the team’s opposing solo pilot, Capt. K.C. Schow, also was amember of the Class of 1978.

The team’s lead solo pilot, Capt. Tom Weiler, was commis¬ sioned through the Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps pro¬ gram at Oregon State University.

The Thunderbirds arrived at noon May 25 at Peterson AFB. Shortly after their arrival, the team enlisted 10 Colorado Springs residents in the Air Force and re-enlisted 10 noncommissioned of¬ ficers from the academy and Peterson AFB. (The Falcon Flyer)

The Thunderbirds roar over Falcon stadium as 1987 graduates’ hats fly. (Air Force photo by AlC Scott Cook)

Trinka, ’78, Earns 1987 Jabara Award

The superintendent has announced that the winner of the 1987 Jabara Award for Airmanship is Capt. James A. Trinka, Class of 1978. Captain Trinka won the award for his heroic actions in sav¬ ing his flamed-out F-16 aircraft, and for his continuing profes¬ sionalism in all aspects of his military endeavors. He was nominated by Tactical Air Command.

James A. Trinka, ’78

Presently serving as flight commander and F-16 instructor pilot with the 311th Tactical Training Fighter Squadron at Luke AFB, Ariz., Captain Trinka’s act of heroism occurred on April 17, 1986 as he was leading aflight of three F-16 aircraft on astudent air combat training mission at Luke AFB. Just after the formation takeoff. Captain Trinka’s aircraft engine ingested abird 750 feet above the ground at 250 knots of airspeed. The bird strike caused an immediate violent compressor stall and instantaneous engine flameout. Using split-second judgement, he zoomed away from his wingman to provide aircraft separation and amore favorable ejection altitude.

During the zoom he switched on his jet fuel starter for apossi¬ ble airstart, switched his radio to the emergency frequency, and initiated aturn back toward the departure end of the same run¬ way he had just departed. Having attained asafe ejeetion altitude, he quickly determined that aflameout landing was feasi¬ ble. Aware that numerous other fighter aireraft were involved in ground and takeoff operations, he promptly declared his inten¬ tions to the control tower on the emergency radio frequency.

Due to his extremely slow airspeed and low altitude, he delayed lowering the landing gear until the aircraft was on short final and aligned with the runway. Touching down halfway down the run¬ way, he lowered the aircraft’s arresting hook and instructed tower personnel to raise the arresting cable near the end of the runway. He successfully engaged the cable and the aircraft stopped just 5(X) feet from the end of the runway.

The fateful flight lasted just over one minute, and less than 30 seconds from the aetual birdstrike to the cable arrestment. Post¬ flight investigation revealed that the birdstrike has caused massive internal damage to the engine and an airstart, even if sufficient altitude and airspeed had been available, would have been im¬ possible.

In addition to saving avaluable aircraft, Capt. Trinka’s ex¬ cellence in his squadron duties also helped to earn him the Jabara Award. Among many other outstanding accomplishments, he superbly managed all aspects of squadron programming for a multi-role tactical fighter training squadron of 60 instructor and

student pilots, expertly scheduling the unit’s 5,700 sorties, $12 million annual program to ensure 100 percent accomplishment of all training requirements. He conceived, designed and wrote com¬ prehensive computer programs and operating instructions that have become the wing Air Force Operational Resource Manage¬ ment System standard. He was also nominated by the local com¬ munity and selected as one of 1986’s Outstanding Young Men of America.

The 1987 Jabara Award for Airmanship will be presented to Captain Trinka during Homecoming ’87, at the Jabara Award Reception and Banquet on the evening of Saturday, Sept. 19.

The other distinguished Jabara Award nominees for 1987 are: Lt. Col. FRANK T. BIRK, ’68, of Strategic Air Command (SAC), who distinguished himself as the director of Flight Test for the B-IB aircraft and later as chief of the B-IB Division at Hq. SAC. Colonel Birk influenced B-IB design, testing and produc¬ tion and was responsible for major safety and capability im¬ provements. He developed the test plans for the terrain-following system as well as directed the successful redesign of the aircraft’s fuel management, wing sweep, and crew warning system.

Maj. DONALD S. ELLIS, ’75, of Air Force Logistics Com¬ mand, who demonstrated superior performance in his role as deputy team ehief for the NAVSTAR Global Positioning System. He developed the team’s complex cost estimating strategy, de¬ signed and organized the integration and installation cost element strueture, and created eoncise, standardized documentation for¬ mats for presenting lifetime ownership costs.

Maj. CHARLES L. HORTON, ’72, of the Air Force Test and Evaluation Center (AFOTEC), for his work as the test manager for the Low Altitude Navigation and Targeting Infrared for Night (LANTIRN) system. He was solely responsible for the design, negotiation, implementation and conduct of the targeting pod survivability evaluation for the system. The testing techniques that he designed have been used as amodel in an AFOTEC report to top Air Force leadership.

Maj. JOHN D. HOWARD, ’75, of Air Force Systems Com¬ mand, who developed and implemented the first automatic recovery Ground Collision Avoidance System (GCAS) for the F-16. Major Howard recognized that afairly simple system could be installed on the aircraft which could eliminate almost all ground collision accidents. Although engineers were initially un¬ willing to develop his concept because of budget and manpower limitations. Major Howard’s personal perserverance resulted in a commitment on the part of the Air Force to begin installing the CGAS system on production F-16s.

Capt. JAN-MARC JOUAS, ’79, of U.S. Air Forces in Europe, for superior performance resulting in significant improvements in the ability of his unit to conduct Wild Weasel missions in the European Theater. He developed training scenarios to integrate the F-16C into the Wild Weasel mission. He was also “Top Gun” at the F-4 Fighter Weapons Instructor Course.

Capt. JAMES E. MANLEY, ’78 of Military Airlift Command, who landed aC-23A aircraft with acompletely frozen elevator. He improvised anonstandard approach configuration that en¬ abled him to suceessfully recover the aircraft. His airmanship resulted in new adverse weather procedures for the C-23A.

Capt. JOHN D. REED, ’77, of the Air Force District of Washington, whose work as an exchange officer with the Cana¬ dian Forces helped activate the first operational CF-18 squadron. His superior performance resulted in improvements in Canada’s ability to conduct Dissimilar Air Combat Training. He also won “Top Gun” honors at William Tell ’86.

Academy Sets Graduate Reunion Policy

By Capt. Tom Arata, ’80 Chief, Alumni Programs Division

Graduate reunions are important to the Air Force Academy! The Academy commits the resources of many agencies, with the help of the Association of Graduates, to make sure that returning classes are treated to aclassy, memorable event. Homecoming Weekend served adequately for years, providing agreat oppor¬ tunity for strong ties to develop between the Academy and the alumni community. However, many things have happened since the first Homecomings that have influenced achange in the way the Academy manages reunions.

—The size of returning classes has grown.

Although this is no great surprise, events that were designed for 300 people can’t always be modified to accommodate 700. Over 1,200 people attended the 1986 Jabara Award Banquet, an in¬ crease of almost 200 from 1985. If other classes besides the 10-and 20-year groups held their reunions during Homecoming Week¬ end, we would have to turn people away from events simply because of size limitations.

—The Academy can’t always support reunions when classes want to hold them.

There is atremendous amount of behind-the-scenes work that goes into agraduate reunion. The AOG, with astaff of eight and alimited operating budget (we need more members!), conducts most of the mailings, registration packet preparation, and actual registration. This is the same staff that prepares this magazine, runs the Annual Fund, maintains the graduate database, and per¬ forms other wondrous feats. It is easy to see how quickly things would get out of hand if Homecoming, a25-year reunion, and a 30-year reunion were all held on different fall weekends.

The Academy has obligations of its own that often will conflict with potential reunions. In the fall, for example, besides the Homecoming game, most other home games are designated for some major event, such as the Corona Conference or the Board of Visitors. There simply are not enough resources to go around to be able to support multiple major events on the same weekend.

To address these problems, the superintendent recently signed a policy that should improve the Academy’s ability to give graduates asuper reunion experience. USAFA will now provide official support for alumni reunions only twice ayear. Homecom¬

Jabara: (Continued from previous page.)

Capt. JEFFERSON D. SEAL, ’81, Air Training Command, who encountered complete aileron failure while on the wing dur¬ ing aT-38 night student formation approach. Since he did not have the fuel for acontrollability check, he elected to fly the air¬ craft using only rudder for roll and directional control rather than eject. He safely landed the aircraft from the back seat. Captain Seal is the only individual to ever successfully recover aT-38 with total loss of aileron control.

Jabara Award winners are selected annually by the Academy and the Association of Graduates on behalf of the Jabara family. The award honors a“USAFA graduate whose contributions are of such significance as to set them apart from their contem¬ poraries.” Nominees’ actions must be directly associated with an aerospace vehicle or component.

The award is named for Colonel James Jabara, America’s fi rst jet ace and second leading ace in the Korean War. The nominees are screened by aJabara Award Selection Committee comprised of graduate members of the Association of Graduates. Their final recommendation is forwarded to the superintendent for approval.

The members of the selection committee for the 1987 Jabara Award for Airmanship were Col. Ruben A. Cubero, ’61, chair¬ man; Lt. Col. Thomas R. Baumgardner, ’69, Lt. Col. Loren C. Ainsworth, ’70; Capt. Jeffrey V. Kouri, ’78; Capt. Thomas C. Arata, ’80; and Capt. John T. Farquhar, ’80.

ing in the fall and Reunion Weekend in the spring (the AOG and the Academy will decide on the best date for the spring weekend each year). For example, ’63 has tentatively chosen the weekend of the Blue-Silver Game for their 25-year reunion in 1988. In this way, the Academy can concentrate its efforts to provide max¬ imum support for returning graduates. Homecoming will recog¬ nize the 10 and 20-year classes, and Reunion Weekend will highlight the 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, and 50-year (before you know it!) groups. If aclass chooses to hold its reunion in the Colorado Springs area at times other than these two weekends, they should not expect official support or participation by the Academy and only limited support from the AOG. All graduates are welcome to attend both weekends, but the emphasis will be on the designated classes.

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There will certainly be start-up pains for the first few spring reunions, as there were when Homecoming began. However, there are unlimited opportunities to create top-notch events for the spring. Some of the ideas under consideration are the establishment of alifetime graduate Distinguished Service award (and accompanying banquet), renewal of wedding vows in the cadet chapel (thanks to ’60), an address by aprominent national leader, and presentations of class gifts the Academy. We will gladly consider any ideas from the graduate community for premier” events.

The goal of the reunion policy is to support the alumni com¬ munity to the best of the Academy’s ability. The result should be two weekends when we are proud to come home to USAFA and even prouder when we leave.

Professor Earns Honor

By Capt. Ivette Falto Department of Physics

Dr. Robert G. Fuller, distinguished visiting professor in the Department of Physics, has been named one of America’s 10 best college professors in the May 11 issue of Insight magazine.

Dr. Fuller is widely known as the creator of the ADAPT pro¬ gram in Nebraska. This is aspecial program offered to freshmen each fall, with courses in English, physics and anthropology. It uses modern teaching techniques to “get students to learn how to reason, not just memorize facts,” he explained. The program has been copied nationwide and has resulted in adramatic improve¬ ment in critical thinking test scores before and after the students enroll in ADAPT.

Anative of Crawfordsville, Ind. Dr. Fuller has spent more than 20 years as aphysics teacher. He came to the academy from the University of Nebraska, where he has been aprofessor of physics and astronomy since 1975.

He has been working in several innovative teaching techniques since arriving at the academy ayear ago. One technique uses spreadsheets to teach students difficult technical courses, such as physics, by giving them an active constructive view of the pro¬ blem.

Spreadsheets are used to represent and analyze laboratory data, perform repeated analytical computations, use numerical approx¬ imations and display solar fields. For example, one can use spreadsheets to compute the velocity of aparachutist as the distance below the jump airplane increases.

Because of his many contributions to education. Dr. Fuller has received numerous awards. In 1985, he was honored with the Distinguished Service Citation from the AAPT for “selfless ser¬ vice to the profession.” (The Falcon Flyer)

FALCON SPORTS

Falcon Teams Post 64 %Winning Average

By George N. Fox Asst. Sports Information Director

Air Force Academy athletes continued to compete against some of the finest competition in the nation during the past school year. Approximately 800 athletes on 41 intercollegiate teams competed in 487 contests and had a64 percent winning average, again one of the best marks in the nation.

Although the rifle team ended the season with the most wins at 30, other teams showed great talent and placed high on the na¬ tional scene. The women’s indoor track team placed fifth at the NCAA Division II nationals while the women’s cross country team was ninth in the nation. Both teams were anchored by freshman Jill Wood, who received All-America honors in both sports.

Women’s gynmastics, garnering one All-America, finished 12th in the nation, while men’s fencing, which had an outstanding season, finished with a17-1 record and a17th place finish at the nationals.

The women’s swimming team won the Continental Divide Con¬ ference and placed 14th at the Division II nationals. Water Polo advanced to the NCAA Division Iplayoffs and finished 15th in the nation. The women’s golf team had another fine year, placing sixth at the Small College National Tournament.

Football again was the most visible sport for the academy. With awinning season, the Falcons fell one game short of going to another bowl game.

Regional or league titles were won by rifle, lacrosse, soccer, and women’s swimming.

The boxing team, although not an intercollegiate sport, fin¬ ished second in the national championships. The team, under head coach Ed Weichers, has won six national championships in the last eight years.

Another sport, rugby, had an outstanding year compiling a 24-3-3 record. Rugby, like boxing, is not avarsity sport, but still deserves recognition. They won the Eastern Rockies Rugby Foot¬ ball Union and Western Regional Collegiate Championships. They advanced to the national championship finals before falling to San Diego State 10-9.

Arundown of each sport follows:

BASEBALL —In what could be regarded as abuilding year, the Falcons finished with an overall 13-28 record and a4-17 mark in the Western Athletic Conference. Junior Mike White, an allWAC selectee at first base, led the team in home runs with 19, one shy of the record set in 1980 by Deacon Winters. He also led the team in RBIs with 49. Joe Saleck was the top bat for the Falcons with a.362 average, collecting 54 hits while Bob Johnson led the team in doubles with 12. Senior Dave Krause led on the mound with a5.72 earned run average followed by Scott Oss with 8.02. John Mosier led in the win department with four while all three hurlers had 41 strikeouts each.

MEN’S BASKETBALL —The men’s basketball team ended its regular season with a12-15 record and a5-11 mark in the WAC and finished in seventh place during the regular season. The Falcons went against second-place Brigham Young in the WAC playoffs, falling 82-79 in overtime. Freshman Raymond Dudley was voted the outstanding newcomer in the WAC and was voted to the regional team.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL —The women’s basketball team finished the season with a14-12 overall record, taking second place in the Continental Divide Conference with a10-4 record. Juniors Raegan Roach and Amanda Williams were named to the all-league team while senior Amy Hartfield was selected to the All-CDC academic team. During the season, both Roach and Williams were selected as “Players of the Week.”

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 finished seventh at the WAC champinships 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 AllAmerica status with aseventh-place finish for Air Force with a 17:23 time over the 3.1 mile course. This year’s team won four invitationals with victories in Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado and Florida. This year’s team defeated 78 out of 89 opponents.

MEN’S FENCING —The men’s fencing team ended the season with a17th-place finish in the NCAA Fencing Champion¬ ships at Notre Dame, Ind. Scott Shinberg, Thomas Guerra and Andrew Gallup qualified for the nationals at the Western Inter¬ collegiate Fencing championships. Shinberg had the best finish with an 11th place finish in epee. The Falcons finished with a17-1 season record.

WOMEN’S FENCING —The women’s fencing team ended its season with a10-3-3 overall record and placed third at the Women’s Western Inercollegiate Fencing Championships. In the championships, Sueling Cho had a15-5 record in team competi¬ tion while Mary Lee Hyndman posted a13-7 mark.

MEN’S GOLF —Playing in invitational tournaments this season, the Falcons finished fourth in the Western State College Invitational and sixth in the Falcon and Fort Lewis Invitationals. The Falcons finished second in the RMIGA with Glen Wiggy

Amy Hart fi eld Women’s Basketball

making the RMIGA team. The golf team finished out the season with an eighth-place showing in the WAC championships.

WOMEN’S GOLF —The women’s golf team played mostly in invitationals this season. The Lady Falcons were invited to the National Small College Championships, finishing sixth. Junior Sally Doherty finished 19th individually in the tournament.

MEN’S GYMNASTICS —Hampered by key injuries early in the season, the men’s gymnastics team finished with a4-5 overall record. Highlights of the season included third place finishes in both the BYU Invitational and the WAC championships while placing fourth in the Rocky Mountain Open. The four losses for the season were against top 20 teams.

WOMEN’S GYMNASTICS —The womens’ gymnastics team, 3-2 on the season, took sixth place in the Falcon Invitational. In the Central Regional championships, the team placed fourth with a164.15 score. Freshman Marlena Ventresca quali fi ed for the Division II championships in all-around and balance beam, earn¬ ing All-America status at the nationals with asixth-place finish in the fl oor exercise.

ICE HOCKEY After losing four of its first six games, the ice hockey team rebounded to win 11 of its last 12 games to finish the season with a19-10 mark. Leading the scoring for the Falcons was John Klimek with 19 goals and ateam-high 29 assists for 48 points followed by John Manney with ateam-high 21 goals and 25 assists for 46 points. John Moes turned in a14-6 won-lost record in the net and had agoals-against average of 3.4 in goal.

MEN’S INDOOR TRACK —The men’s track season was an outstanding one, compiling an impressive 14-1 record. The highlight of the season was winning the Intermountain Cham¬ pionships held at Idaho State University. Again, top perfor¬ mances came from Mike Pro fi t in the hurdles, Mark Hughes in the shot put and improvement in the distance runners with the ad¬ dition of freshmen Dave Fresella and Tom Knolmayer.

WOMEN’S INDOOR TRACK —The women’s indoor season ended with a7-6 record, but the Falcons’ highlight of the season was afifth place finish at the NCAA Division II championships at North Dakota State, collecting four All-America certificates. Freshman Jill Wood placed second in the 1,500-meter run and Pat Goodall placed sixth in the triple jump. Shannon Averill tied for second in the high jump while Barb Fogel finished sixth in the 400-meter dash.

LACROSSE —The lacrosse team ended its season with a12-4 record and won its 21st league title in arow with a10-0 record. In the final game of the season the Falcons broke some Academy records. Senior Mike Blouin scored 11 goals in asingle game top¬ ping the record of 10. The 10 league victories top the old mark of nine. Ken Wessels single season saves of 269 broke the 1979 record of 259.

MEN’S OUTDOOR TRACK —The outdoor track schedule consisted of non-scoring team meets. The Falcons finished the year with a fi fth-place fi nish in the WAC championships. Mike Profit took second place in the 110-meter hurdles, Tracey Golden finished second in the triple jump and Robert Gibson finished sec¬ ond in the javelin.

WOMEN’S OUTDOOR TRACK —Non-scoring Invitational meets were scheduled throughout the outdoor season. Individual¬ ly, Barb Fogel and Jill Wood qualified for the NCAA Division II nationals.

RIFLE —The Falcon team ended its season with a30-3 record, again with the most wins in the winter season. Even with the tremendous win record, it was adisappointment to head coach Gary Smith that the team was unable to qualify for the nationals. Top shooter for the team was team captain Tommy Arthur.

SOCCER —The men’s soccer team ended the season with an overall 12-5-2 record. They fi nished fi rst 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.

MEN’S SWIMMING —The men’s swimming team ended the season with a4-5 record and asixth place fi nish in the WAC championships. Eric Johnson set aschool record in the

200-breaststroke while Jeff Faley qualified for the NCAA Div I championships on the three-meter board.

WOMEN’S SWIMMING —The women’s swimming team, 4-6 on the season, ended its year with a14th place finish in the NCAA Division II Championships at Long Beach, Calif. Freshman Kim Dornburg received All-America status for her second place finish in the three meter diving competition and her third-place finish on the one-meter board. Dornburg was also named Diver of the Year in Division II while diving coach Micki King Hogue was named Coach of the Year in Division II.

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.

John Steimle

Men’s Tennis

MEN’S TENNIS —The men’s tennis team ended its regular season with a27-8 record and went on to place fourth in the Western Athletic Conference championships —its highest finish in academy history. Senior John Steimle earned all-WAC honors in singles and paired with Don Kaliski for all-WAC in doubles.

WOMEN’S TENNIS —Women’s tennis had an outstanding year, finishing the season with a12-5 record and placed third in the Continental Divide Conference championships. Senior Tricia Heller and Layla DeStaffaney earned all-CDC honors in singles and teamed together for doubles honors.

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.

J.B. Waltermire Wrestling

WRESTLING —The wrestling team fi nished the season with a 10-2 dual meet record. Season highlights included the Falcons 4th victory over Notre Dame. Also, the Falcons participated in six tournaments, winning six first places, 10 seconds and 12 thirds. The season ended on apositive note when senior J.B. Waltermire won aberth at the NCAA nationals and senior Steve Turner was selected as an alternate.

10 Athletes Named All-America

By George N. Fox Asst. Sports Information Director

During the 1986-87 sports year, the Air Force Academy receiv¬ ed atotal of 10 All-America selections.

Football received three while women’s indoor track accounted for the most with four. Women’s gymnastics, women’s swimming and women’s cross country each had one.

Football’s linebacker Terry Maki led the way, garnering three All-America selections while cornerback Tom Rotello and Chad Hennings each earned one. Maki, from Libby, Mont., was named to the Kodak Division I-A All-America team; selected third team Associated Press All-America and second-team Football News All-America. Senior Tom Rotello was named second team Foot¬ ball News while defensive tackle Chad Hennings was selected to the Academic All-America team.

Maki, with 191 tackles, finished the season as the all-time leading tackier for Air Force with 470 tackles. He was chosen WAC Defensive Player of the week twice his sophomore year, once in 1985 and once last year. He was also chosen Sports Il¬ lustrated Player of the Week on defense in 1985.

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

Hennings, from Elberon, Iowa, was 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.

Freshman Kim Dornburg, from Green Bay, Wis., placed se¬ cond in the three-meter and third in the one-meter diving com¬ petition at the NCAA Division II championships, earning her AllAmerica honors on both boards. For her fine showing, she was named “Diver of the Year” for Division II.

Freshman gymnast Marlena Ventresca, of Doylestown, Pa., earned her All-America honor at the U.S. Gymnastics Federation Division II National Championships. Ventresca earned her honors by placing sixth in the floor exercise with ascore of 8.75.

Freshman Jill Wood of Ulysses, Kan., has the distinction of winning All-America in two sports. Her first honor was received in cross country, finishing seventh overall in the NCAA Division II championships in atime of 17:27 over the 5,000-meter course. At the NCAA Indoor Track Championships, she had her best showing with asecond-place finish in the 1,500-meter run with a time of 4:30.62. Also in the same championships. Shannon Averill tied for second in the high jump with aleap of five feet 6.25 inches. Pat Goodall of Commerce, Texas, turned in her best performance of the year in the triple jump with amark of 37 feet 8inches, giving her asixth place finish in that event. Barb Fogel, of Mt. Carroll, 111., finished sixth in the 400-meter run with atime of 56.71.

Several athletes received honors from the Western Athletic Conference. Freshman Raymond Dudley was selected “WAC Newcomer of the Year” in basketball while John Steimle and Don Kaliski made the All-WAC tennis team. Seven athletes were selected to the All-WAC football teams. Named to the fi rst team were Terry Maki, Chad Hennings, Tom Rotello, Chris Findall and Mark Simon. Steve Spewock and Pat Evans were selected to the second team.

The academy also had many lady athletes receive honors in their conference. Making All-Continental Divide Conference were Heather Jansen, Cammie Butterfield, Cheryl McCue, Kim Dornburg, Hillary White, Blair Cribbs and Marci Cantu —all in swimming.

Amanda Williams, Amy Hartfield and Raegan Roach received

All-CDC honors in basketball while Tricia Heller and Layla DeStaffany were selected in tennis. Rounding out the all-league teams were Lisa Garraway, Pam Hogue and Dawn Dunlop in volleyball.

Since the fi rst class of 1956, All-America rankings have been achieved by 243 cadets for atotal of 541 times.

1987-88 Men’s Basketball

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1987-88 Women’s Basketball

Hennings Bright Spot in Falcon Football

By Maj. Greg Dzuiban Assistant for Sports Information

Any time afootball team loses nine defensive starters to graduation, acoach can be expected to worry. But when one of the top defensive linemen in the country is areturning starter, the anxieties can be reduced considerably.

There is little doubt that Chad Hennings will have amajor im¬ pact on his team’s fortunes this fall. The 6-foot-5, 260-pound junior is athree-year letterman and bonafide All-America can¬ didate.

Last fall, the defensive tackle was selected to the Western Athletic Conference all-conference fi rst team. During the season, the Elberon, Iowa, native averaged 9.18 tackles per game, in¬ cluding stopping oppponents behind the line of scrimmage 20 times.

“There isn’t abetter player in the country,’’ said head coach Fisher De Berry. “Chad has that unique blend of strength, speed, quickness, agility, intelligence and determination you find only in the very best athletes.’’

Hennings is not new to Falcon football or to winning. After celebrated high school football and wrestling careers, he enrolled at the academy and lettered as a215-pound freshman tight end. As asophomore, he switched to defensive tackle and was named second-team All WAC. Both seasons ended with academy bowl victories.

The team’s biggest question mark this year is defense. The only other starting defensive players to return is junior John Steed, a 225-pound nose tackle from Little Rock, Ark., from whom the coaches also anticipate aproductive season.

While we lack experience, I’m not concerned about the ability level of the team,” Cadet Hennings said. “Our players have the potential and our coaches can get the maximum out of anybody and turn them into top competitors.

Cadet Hennings credits academy coaches with enabling him to improve his playing skills, focus his energies and increase his strength and weight.

Falcon coaches expect him to be an even greater force on defense as asenior because of his increased size. After playing at

245 pounds last season, he played spring football at 260 pounds, a weight he intends to carry into the fall.

Not only has Cadet Hennings gained weight, he has also added strength. Considered the strongest man in Academy history, Hen¬ nings has improved his personal high in the power lift by more than 10 percent.

Although he has added muscle, his speed and agility have not been hurt. He still runs a4.65-second 40-yard dash and has a 33-inch vertical jump.

Academically, Hennings was selected as an All-American in 1986. He maintains a3.25 grade point average as amanagement major.

When Hennings positions himself on the defensive line this fall, he knows he will not see many familiar faces from last year. But rather than worry about familiar faces, what he wants to see is a string of victories that will continue the Falcons’ winning ways.

1986-87 Athletic Records

Women’s

Men’s Fencing

Women’s Fencing

Men’s Gymnastics

CHAPTER NEWS ®

ATLANTA CHAPTER

The Atlanta chapter of the AOG is alive, strong, and growing. The chapter has aunique makeup of over 80 members. By far most of our members are civilians. Reservists and National Guardsmen to be sure, but astable community of civilians. Our largest active-duty member con¬ tingent is astrong following from Warner Robins near Macon, Ga. We welcome new members, active duty and civilian, with avaried and enjoyable program of AOG fellowship.

At our spring meeting we held our an¬ nual election of of fi cers. Reelected to serve another year were Cass Casada, president; David Champa, secretary; Greg Schwartz, treasurer; Gary Fausti and Norm Schulze, directors. John Caughman, ’61, will be the new vice president and Dave Holt, ’62, will be anew direc¬ tor. Special thanks to Joe DeSantis and Pat Jordan for serving as officers this past year. The annual meeting was highlighted by abarbeque dinner and apresentation by Lt. Betsy Kalmeyer ’83, USAFA physical education instructor and coach. Betsy filled us in and answered many questions about women at the Academy.

Our spring picnic was held at Dobbins AFB. This was an enjoyable family event in conjunction with the Thunderbirds flight demonstration at the Dobbins open house. Hamburger, hot dogs and hot sun provided the background for an enjoyable afternoon.

Our next event was a2nd annual hap¬ pening for the chapter. Several chapter families met on the lawn at Stone Moun¬ tain Park. The evening began with fellowship and apicnic and ended with

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one of the most exciting and unusual events you can legally watch outdoors. The lazer light show at Stone Mountain is an evening not to be missed by anyone when you visit the Atlanta area. It’s a great family evening or agreat cheap date. (Spoken like atrue grad!)

The fall schedule is planned to be very busy and full of fun. Fall is Falcon foot¬ ball time and that means get-togethers with the West Point and Annapolis alums for the inter-service games. We also have a softball tournament scheduled with our sister associations. Atlanta area grads, this is aplea for help. Ihave seen our guys play. We don’t want to be embarassed. To volunteer to play any position including DH or just to join the Atlanta Chapter write; Atlanta Chapter, USAFA AOG, P.O. Box 724432, Atlanta, GA 30339 or call David Champa at (404) 843-2170.

manager for the 6912th ESG; her husband 1st Lt. Ed Phillips, ’83, chief of the Joint All Source Analysis Center (6912th ESG); Capt. Don Turos, ’77, chief of Tempelhof Operations Automated Resource Section (6912th ESG); and 1st Lt. Deanna Reeves, ’83, chief. Computer Communications Engineering Branch for the 6912th ESG. Ed and Deanna both pinned on captain bars and Mic donned asilver bar since the photo was taken.

Graduates who were in Berlin at the time but did not make the photo session were Capt. Ken Mellott, ’77, and his wife. Laurel, who PCSd in early April and are now at Offutt AFB, Neb. where Ken is fl ying RC-135s; 1st Lt. Carl “Ted” Sundquist, ’84; and 2nd Lt. Bill Hindes, ’86, and his wife, Trava. Bill and Ted are also assigned to the 6912th ESG.

COLORADO CHAPTER BERLIN CHAPTER

While abit small to officially organize as achartered chapter, Mic Phillips (Rendine), ’85, sent in the photo below of grads stationed in Berlin. The photo was taken in March at West Point’s Founder’s Day celebration. The Military Academy graduates invited their USAFA counter¬ parts to join in the festivities. In the front row from left are Maj. Leslie Haaf, ’72, who is the director of Operations and Training for the 7350th Air Base Group, and his wife, Donna. Next to her is Susan Wigington and Maj. (Lt. Col. selectee) John Wigington, ’73, who is director of Operations for one of the sites of the 6912th Electronic Security Group (ESG).

In the back row from left are 2nd Lt. Phillips, communication system program

Golly, after reading how the new chapters have started up, and the formali¬ ty of bylaws and so forth, we got to feel¬ ing really guilty about our chapter’s of¬ ficer selection process. You see, we get a bunch of guys together for beer at some¬ one’s office. Then, the first grad that gets up to go the bathroom gets elected to whatever office is open —for life! That’s how A1 Blumberg, ’68, became CCAOG president, oh about eight years ago; and no one else has left the room since. Anyway congratulations to the new California chapters —best of luck, and let us know if the CCAOG can be of help.

By the way —the Colorado Chapter has already contributed to the AOG Building Fund. How about all other chapters joining the campaign to begin to

Chef John Disosway, ’70, cooks up abatch of gourmet ham¬ burgers at the Atlanta Chapter’s family picnic for grads, LOs, and cadet appointees following the Dobbins AFB Air Show. The Berlin

raise the money needed for our new building. This is achallenge!

As this update is being penned, the Col¬ orado grads of the three major service academies are preparing to do battle once again in the fourth annual Tri-Service Academy Alumni Golf Tournament. The event will be at Eisenhower on July 14th, and agood time should be had by all — after all we found out that there is to be two beer carts this year, how bad can it get! The West Point Society is hosting the tourney this year, and agood turnout is expected.

The CCAOG is going to lay back this summer. Our next event will be the Great Late Summer Getaway, seheduled for the weekend of Aug. 29th at Winter Park. The outing, in the “rugged” confines of one of Colorado’s fi ner condominium complexes, will feature golf, tennis, hik¬ ing, riding, etc. and achapter banquet on Saturday night. Be sure to give us acall if you’re interested in participating.

On October 10th we will break party bread with our Navy brethren for a satellite TV transmission of the Air ForceNavy game. Again, contact us for details.

Some tidbits on fellow graduates:

Former CCAOG member Jill Sterling, ’82, has completed her internship at Travis AFB and has started her stint as a resident in internal medicine. She was back in Colorado recently for afamily get-together following her folks’ return from China. Jill’s father, Gen. Sterling (USMA ’46) will be representing the long gray line at the golf tournament.

Jim Boma ’76, is off to the Naval War College, Command and Staff school in Newport on July 15th. Jim will be re¬ entering active duty, and may stay in as a dual designated officer. Can’t you just picture this —adestroyer jockey with a law degree. We can see him out there in the world’s ocean somewhere litigating a whiplash suit after two ships ram each other. The chapter has already contracted with Jim to be our East Coast correspon¬ dent.

Jim Glaza, ’60, an investment advisor at E. F. Hutton, has graduated the youngest of his children from Air Academy High School. Matt will be at¬ tending Fort Lewis College in Durango this fall. Jim also recently completed testing for his certified financial planner rating.

As reported in the last issue, Don Halley, ’74, has opened his own computer consulting business. Computer Enhance¬ ments Inc. in Colorado Springs. Don’s wife, Diane, is adoctor stationed at the Academy hospital. Don and Diane have two children.

You surely will not want to miss the Chapter goings-on for 1987, so contact us by calling Allan Jensen, ’74, at 599-5203 (h) or 599-0663 (o) for information on joining the chapter and receiving the new

and improved CCAOG newsletter. Hope to hear from you soon! (Allan Jensen)

NEW ENGLAND CHAPTER

After arriving at Hanscom AFB in Oc¬ tober 1984 and noting that there was not an “active” chapter, Ifound out that Flash Wiley, ’65, alawyer practicing in Boston, would be the best person to con¬ tact regarding the existence of alocal chapter. Flash quickly responded to my letter in late 1986 and in January of this year. Flash, my husband Ray Cannon, ’81, and Imet and decided to revitalize the chapter. Having organized the 1983 State of the Wing (SOW) dinner for the South¬ west Ohio Chapter in 1983, Ifelt this might be agreat way to see if there was in¬ terest in alocal chapter.

We found out that Brig. Gen. Sam W. Westbrook III, commandant of cadets, would be speaking at Harvard in February and would be able to attend the SOW din¬ ner on the 24th. We scurried around mak¬ ing flyers and other arrangements confi¬ dent that we could pull this off in three weeks. It turned out that everything was in place for the first of hopefully many an¬ nual SOW dinners.

We tried to contact as many people as possible and apologize to those we were unable to contact. Grads, parents clubs and friends of the Academy were invited to the Hanscom Of fi cers Club to hear the general talk on his experienees as the “dooley commandant” at the Academy. In addition, we were able to have amini ’63 reunion as the aceompanying photo attests.

Three of six New England states (Rhode Island, New Hampshire, and Massachu¬ setts) were represented. It was delightful to see so many people interested in par¬ ticipating and even in becoming class representatives and board members. By the time you read this, Iwill be in place at

the Academy as the course director for third class Professional Military Training. 1st Lt. Shelly Edwards, ’84, will be taking over the chapter activities and she coin¬ cidentally replaced me as ESD’s Acquisi¬ tion Personnel Resource manager. She needs help and anyone interested in help¬ ing out can contact her at AV 478-3355/2410 or commercial (617) 377-3355/2410.

Many thanks to the many folks who helped make the chapter active again, to include Brig. Gen. Pete Winters, ’59; Col. Bill Flanagan, ’63; Flash Wiley; Lt. Brian Basik, ’83; and Lt. Roger Thrasher, ’86. Roger Thrasher has kindly allowed us to use his address as the chapter address. For more information write to New England Chapter, USAFA AOG, c/o Lt. Roger Thrasher, 35 Hickam Lane, Bedford, MA 01130. (Leona Flores, ’81)

NORTH TEXAS CHAPTER

NORTH TEXAS ASSOCIATION PLACES IN GOLF TOURNAMENT!

Remember when aeatchy title like that was used to attraet the reader to an article. Not in this case. This spring all three Ser¬ vice Academy Graduate Associations par¬ ticipated in the Bi-annual Florida Scram¬ ble Golf Tournament. The event took place at the Grapevine Country Club and as far as anyone knows. Army won the honors this year. NTAAFAG was well represented by three foresomes, but as Dave Brigman, ’71, puts it, “well, this year we had akeg set out by the 18th hole, and by the time everyone finished, no one was able to add up the scores. Soooo, Ar¬ my won, and we still don’t know who came in second. Iguess we placed in the tournament.” Not bad for a fi eld of three. Next tourney will be in the fall. Contact Dave Brigman for details, if you can get him away from the keg.

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Ameeting of the New England Chapter of the AOG produced this “Mini ’63 Reunion. ’’

From left are Bill Flanagen, William Dee, Dave Davoren, Jim Thyng, Sam Westbrook (USAFA commandant), Tom Fox and Al Fullerton.

Major Academy Benefactor Dies at 76

Frank E. Hedrick, retired vice chairman of the board and presi¬ dent of Beech Aircraft Corporation, and past member of the Raytheon Company Board of Directors, died on June 4, 1987. He was 76.

Mr. Frank E. Hedrick

Hedrick and his wife, Harriet E. Hedrick, are major con¬ tributors to the Association of Graduates and the Air Force Academy. The Frank E. and Harriet E. Hedrick Fund, endowed by Mr. and Mrs. Hedrick, was established in 1981 and 1982 to be used for Academy projects designed to enhance the educational experience of cadets. $70,000 was donated to the fund by the Hedricks with another $25,000 from the Beech Aircraft Founda¬ tion. Among many projects supported by the fund thus far are the Cadet Commanders Leadership Enrichment Seminars, the An¬ nual Academy Assembly, and aportion of the recent cost of pur¬ chasing three AS-K21 high-performance sailplanes for the Academy’s Airmanship Program.

Hedrick made his climb to head the Fortune 500 company, one of Wichita’s largest, as well as numerous civic groups on his

Chapters: (Continued)

As the picture shows quite clearly, the boys in blue from North Texas walked off, or crawled off, with the Tri-Service Academy’s Softball Tournament again this year. The event was staged at the Dallas Naval Air Station, Texas. Accord¬ ing to Ron Schillereff, ’66, this year’s president, the game got alittle lopsided this year, with Air Force running away with the score. They also ran away with

steadfast desire to “do any job assigned to you better than the job has ever been done before.”

Hedrick began his association with Beech Aircraft in 1940 after working 12 years as service and sales manager for Cowie Electric Company in Wichita. Through WW-Il, Hedrick was instrumental in guiding the company to manufacturing records. Walter H. Beecher, cofounder of the company with his wife, Olive Ann, commended Hedrick for his invaluable service and promoted him to vice president in recognition of outstanding performance of his duties.

Hedrick was elected president of Beech Aircraft in 1968 and for the next 13 years led the company through the greatest growth it had experiened. With the merger of the Raytheon Company and Beech Aircraft in 1980, Hedrick was elected to the board of direc¬ tors of Raytheon Company and to its finance committee. He retired from Beech Aircraft in 1982.

In 1970, Hedrick helped establish the General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA), for which he had served as chairman and was commended as alifetime member in 1981.

An honorary doctor of business administration degree was awarded to Hedrick in 1974 by the board of trustees and faculty of Southwestern College at Winfield, Kansas. The degree was in recognition of his leadership in business and continued efforts to promote the American Free Enterprise System.

As an articulate spokesman for general aviation and the free enterprise system, Hedrick was chosen as “General Aviation Man of the Year” by the Ziff-Davis Publishing Company in 1976.

That same year Hedrick was honored twice more. In San Diego, he was awarded the “Golden Plate Award” by the American Academy of Achievement as one of its top 40 business personalities. For his capabilities and record as abusiness ex¬ ecutive, Hedrick was appointed to the Kansas Governor’s Task Force on Effective Management.

He is survived by his wife and his aunt, Mrs. Walter H. Beech. Amemorial in his name has been established at the East Heights United Methodist Church, 4407 E. Douglas in Wichita.

the post game party. Participating in the victory, or at least in front in the post game picture are. Dale Williams, ’73; Manny Cardenas, ’64; Steve Sacone, ’76 (this years coach and organizer); Mike Gibbons, ’63; Tom Stites, ’72; and Rick Barton, ’71. Amazingly still standing are John Makuta, ’77; Rick Wright, ’74; Dave Stonehouse, ’73; Denny King, ’63; Ron Schillereff; Dave Brigman, ’71; Paul Dean, ’61; Rich Cree, ’66; Jerry Ahmann,

’63; Bill Reemtsma, ’63; and B.J. Bjorklund ’70. Anew record was set this year when Dale Williams hit ahome run, ac¬ tually over the fence. In eight years of softball, no one from Air Force has ever done that. Ah, the thrill of victory.

Final note; NTAAFAG has afall Bar B.Q. planned and another year of Academy Football watching, so if you’re in the area, come join us. (Ron Hale, ’71}

OREGON CHAPTER

The Oregon Chapter held an organiza¬ tional meeting in April. Interested par¬ ticipants included John Houston, ’59; Michael Reaves, ’68; Dick Swanson, ’69; Tom Stein, ’70; Henry Johnson, ’79; Mike Van Hoomissen, ’79; and Jan (Knocke) Van Hoomissen, ’80. We are working on aproposed constitution and bylaws for the new chapter. We encourage all graduates in Oregon and Southwest Washington to get involved with this new chapter. For more information and to get on our mailing list contact Dick Swanson at (503) 774-5626 or Henry Johnson at (503) 225-9285.

GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN

Lieutenant Colonel Arnold Dixon Patchin, USAF (Ret), Class of 1963, died unexpectedly in Dayton, Ohio on Oct. 4, 1986.

Arnie completed pilot training at Reese AFB, Texas. His assignments took him to Hill AFB, Utah; Dover AFB, Del.; RAF Lakenheath, United Kingdom; Robins AFB, Ga.; Osan AB, Korea; and finally Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio where he retired in 1983. He was agraduate of Squadron Officers School, Com¬ mand and Staff College, and the Industrial College of the Armed Forces. His military decorations included the Meritorious Service Medal with one oak leaf cluster and the Air Force Commendation Medal. Arnie’s outstanding performance was also recognized by the Republic of Vietnam, the United Kingdom and the Republic of Korea.

The Arnie we remember is much more than adistinguished Air Force officer. His quick wit and wry humor were always evident. As “Fondle” at the Academy and later as “Zap” in his first squadron, Arnie was atough competitor. While most of us thought a“B” was above average, to Arnie it was almost flunk¬ ing. His desire to learn and his commitment to excellence carried with him to Boston where in 1972, he earned his M.S. with honors at MIT. After retirement, Arnie earned his Juris Doctorate from the University of Dayton, also with honors. Throughout his Air Force career, Arnie approached each new challenge with the same intensity and self-discipline as he had as astudent.

At home Arnie was amaster woodworker and built most of his family’s furniture. He loved to garden and plant trees and he “relaxed” by running several miles aday. Elected to the North¬ east Dayton Planning and Priorities Board, his outstanding ser¬ vice was recognized by Mayor Leonard. He served as president of his church congregation and was strongly committed to the ser¬ vice of God, his country and his family. At the time of his death, Arnie was employed by the Dayton law firm of Millonig, Bart and Brunner.

Memorial services with full military honors were held Oct. 8, 1986 at St. Timothy’s Lutheran Church in Dayton. Interment was in Felton, Calif, in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Arnie is survived by his parents, Robert and Marjorie Patchin of Garberville, Calif. His wife, Patty, and sons Christian, Peter and Charles, would like us to remember Arnie as aloving father who lived by his Christian principles. We can all take pride in having known Arnie. Quoting the sentiments of his law school classmates, “He was truly dedicated —he was one of us.” (Joseph J. Dale and Jerry Westerbeck, Class of 1963)

William W. Vincent, Jr.,

Major William W. Vincent, Jr., (Ret), class of 1963, died in September, 1985 of aheart attack. Bill’s sudden death came less than one year after his retirement from 21 years of distinguished service to the Air Force.

During his career Bill had served two tours of duty in Thailand as apilot in B-52 aircraft and as chief of Command Post at Rob¬ bins AFB, Ga. His last duty assignment was as chief of Command Post for Headquarters, 14th Air Force (Reserve) at Dobbins AFB in Marietta, Ga.

Bill was an aviator. He graduated from pilot training at Laredo AFB, Texas. He did enjoy flying but he loved working with peo¬ ple more than machines. Bill is remembered by those who worked for him and with him as afriend and aleader. He had the ability to make challenging and everyday work seem easy and enjoyable. It was apleasure to work along side of Bill knowing he cared for the careers and the lives of those he worked with.

Bill is survived by his wife, Marie, of Marietta and his two children. Bob, 22, is agraduate of the University of Georgia and Elizabeth, 20, is astudent at the University of North Carolina in Greensboro. Bill is missed by his family at home and his friends and family throughout the Air Force. Many times Iwas invited to spend aweekend with Bill and Marie at their beach retreat. I never made it. Inever thought he would be taken from us so soon. (David Champa ’72)

Armando P. Castro, ’68

We remember sitting in Mitchell Hall more than 20 years ago listening to astatic-filled recording of General MacArthur’s ad¬ dress on “Duty, Honor, Country.” We remember how utterly quiet it was except for the sound of his voice inspiring us to seek a higher calling in service to our country and maintaining allegiance to those who shared our common bond as graduates of the Academy.

This higher calling was answered by many of our comrades in Vietnam and has once again exacted the ultimate sacrifice half a world away in the Republic of the Philippines. Lt. Col. Armando P. Castro was tragically killed at the Philippine Military Academy in March when bombs exploded on the roof of the grandstand where he was supervising agraduation rehearsal.

In the years since our graduation, our classmates have been to

Armando P. Castro, ’68

’63

William W. Vincent, Jr., ’63

Arnold D. Patchin, ’63

Arnold D. Patchin, ’63

virtually every corner of the earth. Arman, our only foreign classmate, returned to his country and dedicated himself to building the military officer corps as an instructor, staff officer, and finally one of the first permanent professors at the Philippine Military Academy.

As we watched apeoples’ democracy being born in the Philip¬ pines from the safety of our armchairs and televisions sets, Ar¬ man was in the midst of the action and courageously supported the cause of freedom. In his Christmas letter to aclassmate he wrote, “We’re still intact as anation. We’re hoping and praying that it would remain that way. Ihave high hopes and belief in the sincerity of our President—Cory. Ivoted for her last time.” The qualities embodied in these few lines: hope for the very existence of one’s country, courage to take difficult steps necessary to realize that hope, and willingness to place duty before self—these are the qualities that Arman displayed as acadet, officer, and patriot.

We grieve with his wife Cecille and children Charmagne, Cathy, Joel, Ferdinand Joseph, and Cheryl Ann in the loss of a husband and father. We mourn with his fellow countrymen in the sacrifice of ateacher, leader, and patriot. We muster our ranks to honor our classmate and friend. Good-bye, Arman, and God¬ speed; we will miss you. (Jim Reese and Tim Davidson, Class of 1968)

William C. Martin, ’72

Mr. William C. (Craig) Martin, passed away in San Diego on Jan. 9, 1987 following aprolonged illness.

In 1968, Craig came to Colorado for his second year of military harassment. Having spent the previous year at Texas A&M, he soon discovered that doolie year was survivable. Little seemed to bother him, but through conscientious effort, he graduated with a double major in math and mech.

Atireless and proud Roadrunner, he was never arrogant, yet seemed to be on the Superintendent’s List consistently. After Undergraduate Helicopter Training, he spent his first tour at Nakhon Phanom, followed by tours at Bergstrom AFB, Texas, and Sembach AB, West Germany. After fixed-wing transition in 1980, Craig attended T-37 Pilot Instructor Training at Randolph AFB, and became an IP at Laughlin AFB.

In 1983, he resigned his commission to pursue graduate studies in electrical engineering at Texas A&M. Over aperiod of eight years, Craig and Laurie were loving foster parents to 15 children, of whom three became permanent family members: Tabetha Cassandra, Michael Craig, and Sean Paul.

Although his remains were buried at the Academy Cemetery, the memory of his integrity and Godly life with remain for years to come. On Jan. 16, 1987, we said farewell temporarily to Craig, but we share the hope that we will meet him again in Eternity.

Craig is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. William P. Mar¬ tin; three sisters and two brothers; his wife, Laurie; and their three children, who reside at Route 21, Box 521, Tyler, Texas 75709. (Maj. George Pollard, ’72; Dr. Ken Rugh, ’72; and Laurie Martin)

Michael J. Keane, ’76

BRING ME MEN, TO MATCH MY MOUNTAINS BRING ME MEN, TO MATCH MY PLAINS MEN WITH EMPIRES IN THEIR PURPOSE AND NEW ERAS IN THEIR BRAINS

Major Michael J. Keane, Class of 1976, was just one of these men. Mike was aman determined to forge new eras in the empire of space. He was in quest of that dream when he was involved in a mid-air collision while flying aT-38 at Edwards Air Force Base on May 22, 1987. Mike was returning to Edwards after completing radar tests for the F-15.

All of us who knew Mike were impressed by his purpose: to become ashuttle pilot. His life was the epitomy of what aman will do to reach his dream, adream Mike had since childhood. He set his sights early and only this seemingly untimely accident prevented its realization. Mike was aman who achieved ex¬ cellence. He waged all his wars, be they spiritual or natural, with tenacity and conviction. He feared no challenge, and only sought to run well whatever race was before him —and run well he did:

Cadet squadron commander, Ali Baba. Double majors in math and astronautics. Outstanding Cadet in astronautics. Number two of 920 in the Class of ’76. Gugenheim Fellowship at Princeton University, master’s of science degree in control theory, 1977. Master’s of business associa¬ tion from Golden Gate University, 4.00 gradepoint. Outstan¬ ding Of fi cer award from pilot training at Williams AFB, 1978. Distinguished Graduate, Squadron Officers School. 0-2 aircraft commander, Patrick and Shaw AFBs, 1979-82. F-16 aircraft commander. Hill, Kunsan, and Shaw AFBs, 1982-1985. Promotion to major two years below the zone. Selected to attend Empire Test Pilot School, RAF Bascombe Down, England, January through December 1986. Recipient of the McKeena Trophy given to the top graduate of his class. This was the fi rst time that an American received this award in 21 years. Pilot, F-16 Combined Test Force, Perfor¬ mance and Handling section.

Mike was also astandout in the community. He helped to organize ayouth camp when he was in high school. The camp is still going strong. He was active in the church wherever he went. He taught Sunday school while in South Carolina and at Ed¬ wards. Mike was always willing to lend ahelping hand for any cause.

Yes, Mike was avery gifted man, but he openly shared his gifts

William C. Martin, ’72

Michael J. Keane, ’76

with anyone who needed him. He motivated others to use their talents by his example. He left the world better than he found it. Mike left his fingerprint of life behind for all of us to see. He was loved by his family, Mr. and Mrs. Donald Keane, brothers Mark and Paul, and respected by his friends.

Although Mike never reached the empire of space, he has reached the empire of the heavens. His memory is ashining star for all of us to share. When we look to the heavens, we won’t find Mike traveling around the earth in ashuttle, rather we know he is traveling in chariots of fire throughout the universe to places we have never dreamed of.

Ross A. LaTorra, ’80

Captain Ross A. LaTorra, Class of 1980, died on April 22, 1987 while performing duties as an instructor pilot in an AT-38 aircraft near Holloman AFB, N.M.

Contained in this dry, detached statement is the fact that avery good man has left us. Ross (or “Roscoe” as his fellow hogdrivers knew him) was avery highly talented, aggressive and professional fighter pilot. He had been Wing Top Gun and was also amember of the 1985 Alaskan Air Command Gunsmoke team, an honor very few fighter pilots receive.

Ross worked very hard, but he also knew the value of having fun. He always viewed life as something to be fully enjoyed. Whether he was playing rugby, climbing glaciers in Alaska, shooting skeet, skiing the deep powder, liberating the bell from the Pearl Harbor Officers Club, or leading one of the in¬ numerable crud and song fests in the bar, Ross could be counted on to squeeze every possible second of enjoyment out of it.

Always afull partner in his life was Janet, his wife: lover, best friend, and most ardent supporter. The love they shared was oftimes startling in its purity and intensity; something each of us could learn from.

Ross loved songs and poetry, especially when they dealt with flying. Some lines from W. B. Yeats “An Irish Airman Foresees His Death” sum up some of the ideas Roscoe shared with us in all-night “philosophy sessions.”

Iknow that Ishall meet my fate

Somewhere among the clouds above;

Those that I fi ght 1do not hate.

Those that 1guard Ido not love.

Nor law, nor duty bade me fi ght.

Nor public men, nor cheering crowds.

Alonely impulse of delight

Drive to this tumult in the clouds.

Ibalanced all, brought all to mind.

The years to come seemed waste of breath.

Awaste of breath the years behind

In balance with this life, this death.

Roscoe enriched so many lives, and sometimes one wonders why it seems that the best of us die so unnecessarily. We should always treasure those times we spent with Ross, and try to recall him just as he was: full of life, love, and passionate intensity. With his passing the world has become amuch less colorful place.

Rest well my brother. 1know we will meet again. (Jeff Wilson, ’80)

William T. Rogers, ’84

First Lieutenant William T. Rogers, Class of 1984, lost his life on May 20, 1987 in an F-4 accident while returning to Zaragoza Air Base in Spain. Bill is survived by his wife, Becky; his parents, Brig. Gen. (USAF, Ret) and Mrs. Bealer T. Rogers; two brothers and asister.

Bill graduated from the Academy with aB.S. in mechanical engineering. He was amember of the 21st and 3rd Cadet Squadrons. Bill was aleader both in the squadron and on the athletic fields. He was astar swimmer at the Academy. During his junior and senior years he led his squadron to championships in swimming and water polo.

After graduation Bill entered undergraduate pilot training (UPT) at Laughlin Air Force Base, Texas. There he fulfilled a life-long dream of becoming an Air Force pilot. Bill worked hard at pilot training and was always someone you could turn to for help. At graduation from pilot training he was named the Outstanding Officer in UPT. Bill went on to F-4 training at Homestead Air Force Base which eventually led to an assignment with the Fighting Hawks of the 23rd Tactical Fighter Squadron at Spangdahlem Air Base, West Germany. He hit the ground run¬ ning over there and was asolid citizen in the fighter business. Bill’s hard work and dedication made him one of the best.

Amemorial fund has been established in Bill’s name. Dona¬ tions may be sent to the William T. Rogers Memorial Fund, Association of Graduates, U.S. Air Force Academy, Colo. 80840-5000.

Bill will be missed by all of us. He was one of those rare people you could call atrue friend. Bill was hard driving and always knew what he wanted. He put all his energy into everything and always did it right. Bill was also caring and thoughtful and always there when you needed someone to lean on. 1am proud to be his friend. Bill was one of the best. We’ll miss you Bill. (1st Lt. John Quinn, ’84)

At presstime we learned of the deaths of two more graduates. Captain Paul A. Dolan, Class of 1982, died in Alexandria, Va. on March 12, 1987. 1st Lt. Stuart K. Harley, Class of 1984, died in Ome, Japan on March 27, 1987. Our sincere condolences to the families and friends of these graduates.

Ross A. LaTorra, ’80

William T. Rogers, ’84

CLASS NEWS

R.L. Penn

7968 Hiddenbridge Drive Spring fi eld, VA 22153 (703) 455-8575

Percent members: 79

Mike CARNS is in Hawaii now as aThree Star and Deputy CINC PACOM. Seems he rather liked being 13AF Commander. Word is that Mike leads the Air Force with civil suits pending ($170 million) —he musta made afew of the troops uncomfortable! Bob BECKEL is in Brussels as anew Lieutenant General and deputy chairman of the NATO Military Committee. Way to go, Bobby! That must be ajob for areal diplomat. GAGLIARDI, HOUSE, JEFFERSON, OAKS, PITTMAN and STARRETT will also be in Europe for awhile yet, Jim REED is in Thailand for his fi nal tour as attache. ATO news: Jack DORAN is in Norfolk as Vice CINCLANT.

Admittedly, it’s not big news when someone has acouple of wisdom teeth pulled, but when it’s Jowls MAY, then it’s more than notable! Cyrano should be here to help me: does this solve amystery? put anew face on matters? or offer new opportunities? If it were to do over again, could Charlie wear an ordinary, large-size oxygen mask?

At least four of the classmate and wives —CARR, JOSEPHSON, MONTAVON, and WELCH —attended the Paris Air Show. Apparently the burdensome schedule required participants to bring help along to wash shirts, or something.

Got acall from big-time test pilot, Leo PRESCOTT. While out peddl¬ ing airplanes, he visited Ted JOHNSON in Silsbee. (Say where? Oh, that’s near Beaumont. Yes, of course, that’s where.) Ted’s the engineer¬ ing admin chief for Texas Power. That two semesters of EE musta looked good on his resume. C.V. is retired, retired. He has lots of things that need doing, so he had to make more time. Good idea. He was recently seen at aDaedaleans meeting in St. Louis. He’s also playing more golf, but still not playing so well as Honeydew. Bob and Marie JENNINGS have forsaken the heavenly climate of Dayton for Los Angeles. Bob joins the infamous Craig O. SCHAUM group at Northrop.

Make plans for the Navy game, Oct. 10th. Fred and Brenda WYNN will be putting on atailgate brunch in the parking lot. Out-of-towners should plan to make aweekend of it. Bring yer sleeping bags and stay at Fred’s.

It’s still not too late to sign on for the cruise next April! See the Second to None column for more details.

Andi Biancur

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

Percent members: 77

IL 1I

This is one of those occasions when this column should be referred to as having alittle bit of alot of things, or something for everyone.

To start with the future, let me comment about athought that R.L. PENN (’59) raised in his last column and wrote to me about. Ron LANHAM (also ’59) is contemplating action to have the field house named for the first graduate killed in combat. We all know that person to be Val BOURQUE. Iagree that such an honor is well deserved, however, for several years now there has been amoratorium on naming academy real estate. There is, Ibelieve, an alternative suggestion which should be considered. The AOG house building plan has recently been approved and the fund-raising effort is underway. Since that building will forever belong to the grads and represent much of what we stand for, it may be very appropriate that it carry Val’s name. Something to consider.

Now, from the past. How many of you would remember the name Paul Sones? If you were like me, avague image from way back stirs within

your mind. Well, in early May, Cres and Mary SHIELDS invited the ’60 grads from the area to their home to refresh our memories. Paul entered AFA with us in 1956 and, as some of you so correctly remember, in 1957 was involved in an aircraft accident which left him somewhat de fi cient in the mobility department. That did not slow Paul down much at all. As you can see from the picture, Paul stands as tall as any of us. It took almost eight hours to catch up on the 30 years of life since Paul left us to our own devices. The group of attendees included: Fred PORTER, Jim GLAZA, Frank MAYBERRY, Paul, Roy JOLLY, Bill HODSON, Cres, and myself. We would have invited the wives to join the picture but they had been designated duty-drivers and were running around the block to sober up. Paul and his wife Sheila now reside at 48 Pheasant Hill Lane, Carlisle, MA 01741 where he is deep into engineering magic.

That leaves the present. For that, Igot some help from Deke JOHNSON who sent me ashort note and apicture extolling the virtues of aski week in Jackson Hole, WY. Since aphoto is worth athousand words Iwill let it speak. It shows Deke, Howie BRONSON, Judy BRONSON, Cherie THOMPSON, Sally JOHNSON, Dale THOMPSON, Dianna COSTELLO (friend of) and George PUPICH. Deke is still in the auto parts business in Boise, ID. Howie is CV of the TAC Air Div at March AFB, CA. Dale is CV of the ALC at Hill AFB, UT. And George is dab¬ bling in the metal plating business to supplement his work as apilot with Delta/Western. Anoteworthy bunch to say the least.

Miles KASPAR paused long enough from his travels as aUnited Airlines pilot to inform me that he. Bob RAGER, and Don LIV¬ INGSTON (’59) did in fact transfer from Pan Am to United Airlines when they picked up Pan Am’s Pacific routes and now inhabit “the friendly skies” on aregular basis. 1wonder if that makes them less friend¬ ly? Miles and Charlotte are in the throes of house buying in Fullerton, CA so out of fairness to them Iguess we should all give them awhole two weeks before avisit. According to Miles, Charlie and Sandy GEORGI live under the same smog cloud in the LA basin in Villa Park —another garden spot often missed by the casual traveller.

The replies to my request for short personal histories have started to flow in so, as promised, Iwon’t have to lie but only enhance them somewhat.

Howie WHITFIELD, after 25 years left the Marine Corps as acolonel in July 1985. He followed Navy flight training with helicopter qualifica¬ tion which landed him two tours in Vietnam. He progressed through tours as aT-28 flight instructor, various operational duties to include command of two different squadrons and agroup, totalled over 5,500 flight hours, served at Hq Marine Corps and finished as G-3 (Ops Off) of 3rd Marine Air Wing. Howie attended Naval P.G. School, Naval Command and Staff College, and Air War College (DG and MA in public admin). Somewhere along the line, he and Linda have somehow found the time to play Mom and Dad to their two daughters Dawn and Lynn. Since July 1985, Howie worked for Rockwell on the small ICBM, then accepted a position with Sikorsky as chief, Navy/Marine Corps Requirements Analysis, in an Advanced Design and Business Group in Connecticut. The WHITFIELDS now reside at 46 Country Club Place, Shelton, CT 06484.

Phil MEINHARDT left the Air Force with 30 years credit (due to some previous Navy time) and is fully enjoying retirement in La Jolla, CA. Phil’s Air Force career was built on management skills learned at UCLA in 1975. He exercised those skills as acost analysis officer in the Space Shuttle program, then for Systems Command in the LONGBOW pro¬ gram and the creation of the Space Defense Program Office of USAF Space Division. He initiated, then worked joint efforts in space research with NASA, the California Institute of Technology, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, and was coordinator for mission-oriented in¬ vestigation and experimentation programs. In his few breaks from the space business, Phil has performed duty in various flying assignments, a tour working the reorganization of 7th and 13th Air Forces, liaisoning with the Louisiana CAP, and in command and control in Europe, where he did travel extensively. Now, Phil is leading the relaxed life, maintain¬ ing ayear-round tan and “advising” his two sons: one working for Kodak and the youngest, arecent graduate of USC, apilot in the aviation insurance business.

Some of you expressed interest in knowing who from the class are

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pointing toward the reunion cruise. As of 15 June the following class members are among the 106 couples plus who are signed up: (ALEX¬ ANDER (N), BIANCUR, DOUGLASS, GEORGl, GLAZA, GURLEY, HAERTER, JOHNSON (DK), JOLLY, LALIME, MILLER (KD), NOGAR, O’ROURKE, PRINDLE, PUPICH, REKENTHALER, SHIRA, WADDLE, and YATES. It looks like it is shaping up to be afine trip and one that shouldn’t be missed.

Paul VALLERIE writes from Bellevue, WA that Boeing Electronics Company will not comply with his wishes to move him (and his job) to Colorado so he must be content to live and raise his family in the wastelands of the Northwest. Paul and Kay are finding to their delight what we are alt anticipating. As their children mature and strike out on their own, an increasing degree of freedom allows them to go and do. They invite anyone heading their way to get in touch (206) 657-7405.

Well, don’t feel hurt if your name didn’t make this issue, 1assure you that it is only amatter of time before it does.

Randy Cubero

7163 Wintery Loop

Colorado Springs, CO 80919

Home: (303) 598-7155

AV: 259-3820

Percent members: 75

Well good people another year has simply blown by. We here at the Academy look forward to graduation and the summer because it begins a delightful period of reduced activities (no classes) and restful recuperation (golf and tennis). During the class of 1987 launch into officerhood, 1did get to see many of our classmates. As Imentioned in last quarter’s article, the STEBBINs, the WILLIS, and the O’REARs were all here delighted that their sons graduated from USAFA. Speaking of graduates, 1failed to mention that my son David finally received his bachelor’s degree from CSU after seven long years of study and that’s no reflection on his academic ability. Jan and 1are delighted and so very proud because he’s had to work a40-hour week to support awife and two children. Now, if he can only find ajob.

During graduation week 1also saw BG Dale TABOR who is currently the ADO, HQ USAFE and was here to make an awards presentation to one of our graduates. Dale looked great and like most 0-7s doesn’t have a clue as to when he’ll be leaving or where he’ll be going. The other in¬ dividual who Isaw during the awards parade was BG selectee Jim ULM. Jim is down in Randolph and even though he graduated in the top 95 per¬ cent of the Class of 1961, he was at the Academy to give one of our cadet squadrons the academic excellence award. We almost stood up and said “now hold on here!” but it was too late, he made the presentation and was back in his seat before we realized what had happened. 1also found out that our other BG selectee, Hanson SCOTT, is going to be the vice commander of 23rd AF, MAC, when they move from Scott AFB, to Hurlburt Field, FL. Congratulations!

The weekend before the graduation Bobby GRACE and Hector NEGRONI came in from McDonald Din St. Louis and they invited the CUBEROs and the QUINLANs to the Outstanding Squadron Banquet at the Broadmoor’s International Center. We had awonderful time and amazingly the squadron honored this year was the 15th, the same squadron that Bobby and Iwere in during our last year at the Academy. I was so proud Itold everyone until Mike QUINLAN quipped that it was the first time 15th had ever won that award and it probably took 26 years to purge the squadron from the effects of having CUBERO and GRACE in the same organization. Needless to say, Ikept my mouth shut from that point on.

There was also some sadness to this year’s graduation and that was associated with the retirement of our acting dean of the faculty and classmate John MAY. Iwould like to have all of you know what a magnificent job John and Sheila did on the faculty. I’m sure it was a disappointment not being selected as dean. It certainly was ashock to many of us on the faculty, but the MAYs are aclass act and if ever there was an example of how to behave and act in the face of adversity and disappointment it was John and Sheila all the way. They were gracious in their acceptance of the decision and never once betrayed atrace of bit¬ terness or regret. It’s funny that Ididn’t know John very well at the academy or during my operational days and only after Icame to the academy did Ifinally realize what wonderful people they were. My only regret is that it took that long to enjoy them as true friends. They will be sorely missed and Iknow you all join me in wishing them very best in Raleigh, NC, where John and Sheila both will be gainfully employed on the faculty of North Carolina State University. Keep your eyes on that in-

stitution of higher learning because great things will begin to happen there with the MAYS on board.

Joe DeSantis, ’59, called to let me know that they are into the final countdown for the four first classes cruise. As of this writing ’61ers in¬ clude; BEST, BLAISDELL, BRICKEY, COPPOCK, ELLER, HAINES, HARDAGE, HARING, KELLERMAN, LEFTON, MAYO, SKILL¬ ING, WOLCOTT and WOODS. It sounds like great fun, asort of derelicts and winos weekend over water. Don’t forget to take plenty of photos.

“This stuff tickles my nose!”

During this quarter Ididn’t get too much mail so I’m forced into telling you about our annual D&Wski trip. The derelicts and winos all gathered once again in Snowmass, CO much to the chagrin of the local populace. Thanks to George BUCHNER we have these two very in¬ teresting snapshots. The first one is of our most photogenic classmate Bob BRICKEY after he learned the finer points of inhaling wine as a substitute to tasting it. This shot was taken right after he removed his honker from the glass loaded with about 20cc of Jones’ Chardonnay. The lady in the back with her mouth open was heard to say, “Oh my God! That man is trying to drown himself in his glass of wine!”

The second shot was taken at the Snowmass Country Club after ahard day of skiing. Since this is aperennial group shot, by now you all should be able to identify the participating members of the class.

"Anyone seen the brick?”

From left there’s Rich MAY, me, Mike QUINLAN, Brice JONES, Sam HARDAGE, George BUCHNER and Bob BEST. By this time Brickey had inhaled so much wine he slid under the table between Sam and Brice. It was agreat weekend and we did meet some very interesting people. One person, in particular, you won’t believe. This last individual just happened to be riding up on the chairlift with George BUCHNER and they casually struck up aconversation. When the Air Force was men¬ tioned this fellow told George that he went to the Air Force Academy for acouple of years. George then admitted that he graduated from the Academy and asked this guy when he entered. When he said 1957 George almost fell off the chair. It turned out to be Bill Lane] Now, Iask you what are the chances of that ever happening again? Bill left our class in ’58 or ’59 and went on with his life and now is doing quite well in Ripley, TN.

This spring the locals got together at Charlie and Linda NEEL’s house. They recently built amagnificent home on the front range just south of the Academy. We combined ahouse warming with afarewell to John and Sheila. 1took acouple of pictures but unfortunately they came out too blurry to print or maybe Iwas too blurry to take apicture. At any rate it was agreat party and demonstrated once again the strong friendships that exist in the class. Of special interest, Charlie and Linda’s daughter Chrissy is marrying Kevin TIBBS, an ’86 grad, on 25 July. Charlie said he delayed the ceremony one year until it looked for sure like the groom was going to graduate from pilot training. Another wedding on the horizon is for the daughter of Dean and Jo JONES. Elizabeth Patricia will be mar¬ rying 2/Lt Scott Michael Turner. One last bit of news Idid get anice let¬ ter from Jim CASSIDY. He sent me his $13.50 for aclass hat and votes yes for our Mississippi cruise for ’91. Jim’s areal estate insurance broker in Ambler, PA.

Afew months ago the Association of Graduates presented the Academy with three high performance gliders, the AS-K21s, which will be used by the commandant in his flying instructor enhancement programs. The gliders were purchased for the cadet soaring program from the Air Force Academy Fund and the Frank and Marion Hedrick Endowment Fund.

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Agift to the Academy —the AS-K21.

The presentation was made at the airfield and from left are General Scott, superintendent; Jock SCHWANK, ’60, outgoing president of the AOG; Dick COPPOCK, ’61, AOG executive director; Randy CUBERO, ’61, AOG vice chairman; Jim WILHELM, ’61, newly-elected AOG presi¬ dent; and Sam WESTBROOK, ’63, commandant of cadets. The Academy was overjoyed at the gift as it will make asignificant contribu¬ tion to the flying training of our glider instructors. (If only the staff will allow the cadets to fl y them.)

As we come to the close of another article let me brie fl y put in aplug for the AOG. Ihave just finished up eight years as adirector of the board and have seen the AOG mature into aservice-oriented organization. I’m very proud that our class, along with ’59 and ’60, have the largest percen¬ tage of members. The next decade will be one of great expansion in ser¬ vices provided and hopefully in the continued growth of our membership. Unfortunately, there are anumber of projects which will require substan¬ tial capitalization. It always hurts to dip into our pockets but Ican only tell you that the decisions to solicit funds are made after athorough review of the issues and always with the academy’s or the graduates’ best interests in mind. Our classmate, Dick COPPOCK, is doing asuperb job as exec director and the tiger he has by the tail now is the construction project for amuch-needed AOG building. You can imagine the awesome responsibilities that project entails. We have been trying for years to see if we could get the building started and now finally we just might see it come to fruition. So please continue your membership in the AOG and help out as best you can when your financial assistance is requested. God bless and I’ll talk to you next quarter.

John W. (Jack) Jamba

4Judy Court

Satellite Beach, FL 32937

Home: (305) 777-5520

Of fi ce: (305) 867-7761

Percent members: 67

Hi Redtags!

Because of some good help Igot from some of you during the past

three months, this column should be relatively easy to write. First off I got aletter from Dick HOFFERT in March. To wit: “Yes Jack, our mail¬ ing address was correct. We get our mail forwarded to us as required (about once amonth). Ipresumed that the idyllic life would provide time for more substantive reading and writing but so far it hasn’t. We moved along steadily until arriving at St. Pete. We were invited for Thanksgiving dinner by new-found boating friends and stayed at their dock for two months. It provided an opportunity for deferred maintenance and some modifications —thanks to anearby marine salvage yard. We worked our way down Florida’s west coast and arrived in the Keys amonth ago. We are currently at anchor at Key West NAS waiting for our accountant to finish our taxes and mail them to someplace where we have amailing ad¬ dress. After that we will begin our trek toward Maine. We hope to see you on the way. There has been little boredom. We continue to meet helpful people wherever we stop. Usually they are 10-15 years older but very freespirited. 1had my nephew and four other spring-breakers onboard last week. It was sardine city since we haven’t tried to equip the boat like a Winnebago. They exhibited a60 percent barf rate on the not-too-high seas. We still do not have enough time to linger at all of the places one would like to linger. Idon’t know how we managed to eke out enough time while working to enjoy ourselves since full time isn’t enough. That’s it for now. Hope to see you in awhile. P.S. Joanne enjoyed being com¬ plimented on her letter.” And Dick did come through and called me. But because of my work schedule and his sailing schedule, we couldn’t get together. After spending the summer in New England, Dick and Joanne will be passing through here again on their way to the Caribbean. Dick has promised me aride. If Iget aride Ihope Ido better than his nephew did.

Next is aletter from Jack SWONSON. “Thought I’d drop you aline and let you know how the reunion planning is going. We had another meeting in mid-March at Bob and Gretchen MCNAUGHTON’s home in Perry Park. Attendees included the STAPLES, EATONS, GILMARTINS, HOPKINS, URBANS, MCNAUGHTONS, Betty FLEMING (Ken was TDY), BAUGHMAN, and SWONSONS. Things are coming together nicely. Urban and Gilmartin previewed atape of the old Lowry site that they made with the help of Murle WILSON, the wing com¬ mander there. Murle is also going to host atour of the area and the museum there for those who want to see it on Sunday, 18 Oct. Urban and Gilmartin have great plans for Nostalgia Night —Iwon’t spoil the sur¬ prises here, but Iguarantee folks will be surprised and will thoroughly en¬ joy it. The Eatons are planning the banquet, and it’s really going to be a first-class affair. Gary Baughman has the tailgate on schedule, with cater¬ ing by County Line Restaurant. He’s going to have ahuge red tent in the stadium parking lot, to accommodate the whole class and guests, just in case of bad weather. Ken Fleming’s taking care of all the activities at the Academy itself, including the guided tour of the Academy Friday morn¬ ing and the cadet guided tour of the cadet area that afternoon, plus the lunch and State of the Wing briefings at Arnold Hall. McNaughton has the golf tournament all set for Friday morning at Gleneagle Country Club Gust outside the north gate). The order of play is designed for everyone to have agood time, no matter their golfing ability. All in all, it’s going to be aterri fi c reunion.

“The class gift project, spearheaded by Ken Fleming, is really gathering momentum. It’s been very gratifying to see how many RTBs have already pledged support and sent money. Now’s the time for the rest of the class to jump aboard and send apledge and/or acheck. I’m sure Ken will be sending out an update on this project soon; probably with our reunion registration mailout. Bob Hopkins is putting together the bio book for the class reunion. He’s gotten quite afew inputs so far, but there are many more classmates yet to be heard from. We’d really like to see something from every single Redtag. The more we can include, the better and more enjoyable the book will be. All for now. I’ll write again this summer with another update. P.S. Thought you’d like to see the enclosed snapshot. The old retired colonel put on his uniform last Christmas to get apicture with his kids. Jack and Heidi. She’s a2/Lt nurse at Travis, he’s a2/Lt navigator in F-llls, headed for Lakenheath.”

The Swonsons in uniform: 2nd Li. Heidi, Col. (Ret) Jack, and 2nd Lt. Jack.

1am enclosing the picture for all to see. By the way Murle WILSON dropped me aline to let me know he was coming to Patrick to open up a new Field Training Detachment from his tech training wing at Lowry. He and Iand my wife, Caroline, went out for dinner and reminisced about the good old days. And he told how he helped the RTBs with the videotaping of the old site at Lowry. Evidently many of the old buildings have been torn down, but afew remain. The remaining ones house memorabilia donated by people connected with the original Academy site. It was good to see Murle again; it had been eight or nine years since we had solved the world’s problems at FEWarren.

1got ashort note from Fred and Arlene HENDRYX. They have anew home in Loveland, OH. The message; “See you all at the reunion. We’re bringing Tom and Vickie YOUNG and Dave and Fran LEE. Hopefully we’re going to all fly out together. Have agood summer. P.S. We’re now grandparents. Christopher Ryan Hendryx —1/17/87.” Congratulations to you both. See you in October.

Got aletter from George HARRISON with some updates from Europe. “I’ve been meaning to write but in true term-paper fashion, just didn’t get around to it. But since you prompted me in the last Check¬ points column —here goes. I’m in Europe (HQ USAFE) at Ramstein as the DCS/Plans &Programs. Lots of stuff to learn about the job, but many smart folks supporting so Iexpect it will work out. On the personal side —Pennie and the two youngest kids are here with me (Todd, 14 and Tracy, 13). Our oldest daughter, Taylor, 18, is finishing her sophomore year at Pitt and will be here in afew weeks to spend the summer. Several guys are in the area: Bo OHMAN is vice commander of the 66th Wing at Sembach; Pete Robinson (B/G sel) is CC of the 36 TFW at Bitburg, and Gail PECK is CC of the 26 TRW at Zweibruchen. Jerry DANIEL is USAFE/IG and on the road all the time. His three sons are all in the states (young Jerry is in the WC-130 business at Keesler) but Jackie is in place keeping Jerry organized. Gordy BILLINGTON left Spang afew months ago and is now at Hq TAC in the DO shop. While going through the National Defense University last fall, Igot achance to see Roy STAF¬ FORD briefly. He’s asenior member of the faculty there. My current job involves lots of traveling so Iget to see lots of folks. It’s been aparticular pleasure to renew acquaintenances with classmates along the line. Hope to see you at the reunion. Take care.”

Thanks for the good news from USAFE. And now for aletter from Logan BABIN. “Following up on your Christmas card and the plea for news in the spring issue, Ireport on Mardi Gras 1987 and other recent happenings. Inow very much appreciate your dedication and effort in writing the RTB class news. In November Ihad alapse of good sense and accepted the editor-in-chief job of The Counselor, aquarterly news publication of the American Society of Real Estate Counselors. Ienclose the January 1987 issue so you’ll know I’m not lying. The pressure of deadlines and distance from the editorial staff (Chicago, IL) present con¬ stant problems. Anne and Iare required to report on the ASREC meetings which so far have been held in New York, Colorado Springs (had dinner with Bob and Rhonda HOPKINS), and Boston. In November, the meetings are in Hawaii with afollow-up tour of China and the Far East (my old Pan Am stomping grounds). Speaking of Pan Am, I got recalled (after 17 years on furlough) in September to fly the New York-Washington shuttle but declined the invitation. Ialso enclose a family picture taken during Mardi Gras 1987 in Houma, LA. My

daughter, Kara, asophomore at Rhodes College, Memphis, was Queen Houmas XLI. Also in the picture is my son. Hank, who will be ahigh school senior next year. Hope to see you all at the 25th reunion.”

The Babin family at Mardi Gras: Logan, son Hank, daughter Kara, who was Queen Houmas XLI, and wife Anne.

Thanks for the fine update from Bayou and Cajun country. Ialso have another item for the reunion —Dave ROE will address the banquet. But he needs our help. Please write down any good anecdotes about our classmates at any time in our careers and send them to Dave. He is the ex¬ ecutive vice president and chief of staff of USAA. And now for some change-of-address cards. Fred FIELDER has left Minot for the slightly warmer climes of Offutt. Minter ALEXANDER has departed the Washington area for anew assignment in Ft. Worth, most probably at Carswell. You know Minter, you haven’t written me in afew years. Also got anotice that Mike HUGHES is now aretired Navy captain and is in a new residence in Davidsville, MD. And Bill HOWELL has moved to Dallas. Bill, Ihaven’t heard from you in ageneration, so how about a short note. That’s it for now. Ireally appreciate the help 1got this time. Keep up the good work. Jack.

Skip Lee

811 Reiss Road

O’Fallon, IL 62269-1225

Home: (618) 632-8599

AV: 638-4886

Percent members: 71

The big item of discussion whenever “Yellow Tags” meet is Sam WESTBROOK’S letter announcing aprospective date for the 25th rendezvouz: 14-17 April 1988. Their rationale sold me and Iam already working on reservations. Ialso think the idea of agift contributing to afund to get an AOG building under construction is exceptional. Never would have thought of it myself. For those of you who did not get the letter —there will be some —the following is asynopsis of Sam’s proposal. The Class of ’63 25th reunion dates (proposed) will be 14-17 Apr 87. Selection of that time coincides with the Blue-Silver football game and deconflicts with all the other major events affecting facilities/ billeting/transporation/golf course, etc. Who knows, might be able to get in acouple days of skiing before the festivities get underway. Aclass gift was also discussed and boils down to the Class of 1963 putting up $63,000 to help the association get started on construction of its own building. That works out to $263 each. My non-scientific, unofficial survey concurs wholeheartedly with the proposal. Remember —Rendezvous ’88!

Found acouple of nice letters in my mailbox this time. John HEIDE is paving new frontiers in Bavaria. He writes “. ..Here is ATOC Messstetten ...The place is about 40 kilometers due south of Stuttgart or 59 road miles from EUCOM headquarters ...The Germans call it the sticks. It’s the first station I’ve been on without any other zooms on board. The main reason for that is there are only five Americans on board and one of them is aGLO and wears green camouflage all the time.

We’re the fi rst permanent Americans stationed here in answer to CIN-

CUSAFE’s agreement with the 1st GAF Division commander’s desire to NATOize this last of the ATOCs. I’ve been on station since the end of Oc¬ tober ...The area is beautiful, but spring is quite late (written 31 March) in coming since we’re at 1,000 meters. It’ll be even better when my family gets over here at the end of the school year. Krista, my eldest, graduates this year from high school in Austin, TX and Kala will be ajunior next year. She will live with aNavy (heaven forbid) captain and his wife at Patch so that she can attend the high school there. Betts will finish up this year teaching kindergarten in Austin and all will be here in June. This be¬ ing a46-year-old Class Bbachelor is not my cup of tea.” John welcomes all golden types visiting or living in the Stuttgart area to come up and visit.

Larry HOFFMAN (attorney at law) sent an update —and super family photo: Lori, Mike, Matt and Cheryl are headed for England in August for three weeks to take part in asoccer exchange program with English kids. He says the exchange takes place every other year. Lori is a sophomore at the University of South Florida and aphotography major. Matt is ahigh school freshman and goal keeper for the school soccer team. According to Larry, Matt plays several other positions and is really into the sport. Mike is aseventh grader and still running road races. Mike also plays soccer and will play in the AAU Junior Olympics soccer tourney for kids under 14 in Alabama. Larry also reports running into Hank KRAMER in aSt. Pete movie theatre at ashowing of “Top Gun.” 1like that movie! 1have Hank flying F-16s at MacDill.

Gay HARRIS’S card was unique: the front was apen and ink drawing of their home in Belvedere, CA. Wyman, according to Gay, is still C.O.Q. and ExVP of Wyndham Foods. The company’s new offices are at 801 Montgomery, Suite 400, San Francisco, CA (Ph (415) 982-2911). They, Wyman and Gay, have a38-1- foot sailboat in Sausalito. The best part of the note was Wyman’s 15 minute walk to the ferry (hydrofoil) and 10 minute walk to the of fi ce. 1love San Francisco! Their address is 306 Bella Vista Ave., Belvedere, CA 94920. Home phone (415) 435-0245.

The fi nal note was from BGen John “Viking” BORLING who graciously updated the last issue with his new assignment: Commanding General, 57 Air Division, Minot AFB. Now 1need the address. The new job is effective 15 June —tomorrow.

Short Notes From Here and There: Jim FAIN is the director for the Advanced Tactical Fighter Program (ATF) at Wright Patterson. Jim’s son, James III, is amember of USAFA 1990. Neil SORENSEN will retire in October (terminal leave in August) and pursue aPh.D. in geography. George PASQUET also retires in August and will return to Virginia. George says he is already shopping for agricultural machinery —he’s planning to be aserious farmer. John HALUSKA is director. Office of Aeronautical Requirements, HQ/SAC. Pat CARUANA also has along job title as special assistant to the director of Advanced Programs, assis¬ tant for Acquisitons, Office of the Secretary of the Air Force. Joe CABUK’s new address is Air South, Box 111, FPO NY 09524. Other ad¬ dress changes include: Don TROUTMAN, Akron, PA; Dean HESS, Alexandria; Ted SCHROEDER, Maxwell; Danny ECKLES, Sherwood, OR; Roy MARSHALL, Keet Seel Trace, Tuscon; and Dave NUSS, Calimesa, CA.

This past weekend 1had the opportunity to attend the Daedalian Na¬ tional Convention in St. Louis and for you Daedalians who haven’t made one of these parties 1recommend you make an effort and get there. Next year’s convention is at Charleston, SC. 1bring this subject up because one of the events that made this weekend so pleasant was running into Jerry THIES. Jerry is flight captain of the Sheppard AFB flight. His military duty at Whiskey Falls is vice commander of the Tech Training Wing.

Mickey is back in school working on ateaching certificate for the state of Texas. Son Chris is at Southwest Texas State University (San Marcos, TX) studying criminal justice. He is also in the AFROTC unit there. The youngest. Matt, is ahigh school senior. One of Matt’s interests is playing the drums. Jerry still looks as though he is in good enough shape to play a little defensive back. Great weekend!

Bob Hovde 3Freedom Circle Bedford, MA 01730

Home: (617) 274-7759

Of fi ce: (617) 377-8319

AV: 478-8319

Percent members: 70

MOVING: After 20 years of living off base, Ihave finally become part of the on-base community again. Since you will read this about three months after it was written, Iwill stick my neck out abit and say that it has been an enjoyable three months. It will, at least, have been amuch cheaper three months. (If you plan to move to Massachusetts, bring gold!) Since my office has also moved onto Hanscom AFB into anew building, Inow have avery short commute (walking, since Kristin is driv¬ ing now).

Mail Bag: After 23 years of never hearing from Ed MECHENBIER ex¬ cept when 1run into him at AFA conventions, he finally called me ... at my old office number! So instead, 1got atwo-page letter asking, “where are you and your entire staff goofing off at 1:30PM, 1330 HRS, 1730 GMT, this Friday, 12 June afternoon?” 1was busy moving from MITRE to the base, Ed. What were you doing for GE? (Ed now works for General Electric in Fairborn, OH.) Ed also indulges himself as apart-time A-7 driver when not typing letters to the class scribe when the golf course is too wet and he is recovering from a“bit of red” from asailing adven¬ ture off Los Angeles. As for news, Ed and Jerri still live in the same house in Springfield, OH (“with a1973-style house payment, one van, one fourdoor sedan, and agolf handicap that will never change —bland oldfashioned suburbia”). Mahli (12) is up to 52 pounds with contact lenses in, Kari (10) has expanded her vocabulary beyond “I don’t know,” Tai (almost 8) has decided she is bored with summer vacation after five days, and Bozo (aka Bernhard) have proven that even though your parents were into their forties when you arrived, you can still drive them nuts.

Also from Ed: Ralph GRAHAM has anew job at Wright-Pat as deputy for Reconn/Strike and EW Systems, having left the F-16 SPO #2 slot. Herb BEVELHYMER is Chief Guru Air Launched Strategic Missile SPO. Mike PAVICH is recently on board as commander of the Logistics Operations Center. Kevin McMANUS is alive. He is living in Herndon (still), working for Robins and Joya (still), and smoking (still). “He is my mission,” sayd Ed.

Cliff KRIEGER writes that after 21 months as a“Lieutenant,” fl ying the F-16C as the 86TFW commander, he is headed for the Pentagon (JCS: J-5, Strategy Division). After two and ahalf years in Germany —in the F-16C, yet —Ihate to say someone deserves the Pentagon, but. ..

Bill SIEG writes from Virginia that he will host aClass of ’64 BEAT ARMY party at his home in Burke the night of the game (Nov 7), He will be sending invitations to those in the AOG Register, but fears it may not be up to date. (I can guarantee it isn’t up to date!) Actually, Bill can get a more up-to-date roster from Steve CROKER (OJCS, 697-1480). (Steve told me that he was going to call everyone and update the Washingtonarea roster.) Just in case November comes around and you haven’t heard from Bill, his address is 5950 Oakland Park Drive, Burke, VA (703) 250-3645. Bill closes with congratulations for all of our newly promoted BGs.

Carver SEARS writes from Vacaville, CA. He retired in November 1984, took adegree in EE at Sac State, and went to work in Vallejo for Eldyne, Inc., providing engineering and technical support for the Navy. He is involved in fiber optic communications projects at Mare Island. Vacaville, for you non-MAC people, is near Travis AFB, in north-central California. Carver, his wife, Nuria, and son, Alex (17), recently moved there. Carver would like to fi nd someone interested in bike hikes in the area.

The Sears have frequent contact with Sandy PURCELL, wife Rita and their two kids. Sandy is aprofessor of entymology at UC Berkeley, researching insect-borne diseases of California fruit crops. Carver also sees Chris Koster and Dave Walmsley, both of whom are classmates, but not alumni. (They work together at XKSS, acompany in Camarillo, CA, started and owned by Dave, which produces seat covers for restored vin¬ tage automobiles. Have you ever noticed that when old cars get even older, they become “vintage automobiles”?) Anyway, Chris lives in Ven-

The Hoffmans from left are Lori (19), Larry, Mike (13), Cheryl, and Matt (14).

tura with his wife, Sandy and four-year-old daughter. Dave and Susan live in the hills above Malibu.

CHANGE-OF-ADDRESS CARDS: Bob ZAISER has moved to anew place in St. Petersburg, FL. He is the owner of “The Chandlery” marine supply store. Bill SAKAHARA has also moved in the same town. Mission Viejo, CA. Joe RODWELL doesn’t want to be different, so he moved his office (Northwestern Mutual Life) to anew address in St. Paul, MN. Jim HINKEL has moved from California to Charleston AFB, SC.

NEWSPAPERS: The Washington Post reported that A1 McARTOR will be the new administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration. A1 will move to Washington from Memphis, where he was with Federal Ex¬ press.

CROKER-CRUMBS: When 1was in the Pentagon the other day, 1 dropped in on Steve. Besides telling me that he would get the roster up to date “soon,” he passed on the followng: Bob DEMPSEY was frocked when he moved into his new job as deputy SAC/XP, working for Maj Gen Dick Goetze (’59). A1 ROGERS is now SAC/XO. Jack COLE will be the special assistant for Joint Matters in the JCS. Finally, Jim LEMON is retiring to work for Hughes Aircraft Co.

1remember reading somewhere (AF Times?) that Bill WITTRESS retired also. Soon it will be easier to list just the people on active duty. You will notice that the last Checkpoints had achange-of-address card in it. There is even aplace on it to write ashort note to me. We try to make it easy on you. Keep those cards and letters coming.

Jerry “Ski” Wilkowski

1415 Desale St.

Vienna, VA 22180

Home: (703) 573-6965

AV: (703) 698-1768

Percent members: 66

Avery productive period for gathering news so I’ll get right into it. Received aletter in April from Jess OVERALL. Jess, who is the dean of Academic Affairs for National University, writes from Irvine, CA that he spent aweek in early April at Maxwell AFB sitting on one of the AFROTC scholarship boards as the admissions liaison officer represen¬ tative. Jess “reviewed over 3,000 files and it was really heart-warming to see that the caliber of young person applying for the four-year scholarship is stil exceptional. During that week, had the opportunity to visit with Don GIGLIO, who is the head of public affairs with Civil Air Patrol. Don is doing quite well, and makes sure the Academy and AFROTC pro¬ gram story gets told in the monthly CAP news.”

Don continues: “A note from John BLACKMAR indicated he had finally finished Air War College, while simultaneously working for Kodak, holding aprimary Reserve job, and additionally running the most effective academy/AFROTC admissions liaison outfit in the Northeast. John, his wife Betsy, and two kids stayed with my family last April and were introduced to Disneyland, Knott’s Berry Farm, and quiche. .. daughter Mimi and son Jeff are both outstanding athletes.

“Ross ROBERTS and family are well settled in Seattle, where Ross seems to be enjoying his work with Boeing, training people to use microcomputers. We have avery active AOG chapter here in Orange County, so thoughts of USAFA are ever present. Son Kevin is already looking at the USAFA catalog, so who knows?”

Thanks muchly for the news, Jess, and for your encouraging words. As far as grads’ children and the Academy goes, I’m sure you and many others will be pleased to learn that four new members of the Class of ’91 are sons of ’65ers: Joe BLEYMEIER’s son Steven J., Hank HAMBY’s son Henry G. IV, Ron MURRAY’S son Daniel P., and my son Christopher S. “Kip.” That gives me a“Gold Tag” to go with my Class of ’89 “Gray Tag” and asecond aspiring fighter jock. Congrats to all!

Members of Classes other than 1967 and 1977 planning to attend Homecoming ’87 (17-20 Sep. 87), please write to the AOG now for registration forms.

(USAFA vs. San Diego State)

Bob LAMBERT, who is soon to be replaced in his job as chief, AFA Activities Group in the Pentagon by Frank McCANN, provided the foregoing information. Bob is being assigned as the assistant to the direc¬ tor for Programming and will serve as the DP’s chair in the Air Forces’ Program Review Committee process. Frank is returning from aremote tour in Turkey which had been described in aprevious column as being beyond the reach of Zip Codes. Please note that ’65 will continue to have an excellent source for information regarding the Academy appointment process for those classmates whose offspring are interested.

As aresult of severe weather warnings, to include tornadoes at Washington National AP one evening in early June, the utter chaos that wrought on every airlines’ schedule, Iwas rescheduled on the only flight that had any hope of getting me to my ultimate destination. Sound like a familiar plight to many of you more seasoned travelers? Well, this ex¬ perience turned out to be very fortuitous in that as Iwas struggling to my seat, Iwas greeted with aloud “Ski” shouted by my first semester roomie Marv ALME. Who, prepared as he always was and is, proceeded to share apicnic dinner he had purchased in anticipation of such difficulties. (The TWA flight attendents, to their credit, provided some gratuitous libations to help clear our palates and ease the pain of a2Yi hour delay.) Anyway, the ground and flight time provided ample opportunity to swap lies and for Marv to fill me in on the latest news from the Albuquerque area. Marv is working for R&D Associates and is doing computer moduling for the Air Force Weapons Lab (AFWL) pulse power program and for DARPA’s (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) armor pro¬ gram. Charlie ALLEN, who is also employed by R&D, is working on the laser program at AFWL along with Ed DUFF, the latter, however, as a “blue suiter.” Marv also noted that Pat McDANIEL is at Sandia Labs working on computer models for transport theory, that Greg CANAVAN is tackling problems associated with SDI for the Los Alamos National Lab, and that John JUSTICE was arecent arrival from SAC HQ to head up the NCGS (Nuclear Criteria Group Secretariat). Finally, after his return to Albuquerque, Marv forwarded two clippings, one announcing Jim page’s assumption of command of the 1550th Combat Crew Train¬ ing Wing at Kirtland AFB and the other announcing Jim ALSOBROOK’s move from vice commander of the 1606th Air Base Wing to enter training for assignment as the US Defense Attache, Argentina. Marv, it was great seeing you and thanks again for all the skinny.

One classmate in Albuquerque that Marv was not aware of is Steve AMDOR. Steve is doing theater level and training analysis for SAIC and was in Washington, DC visiting Mike LYNCH when 1ran into him in Mike’s office in the Pentagon. Steve mentioned that Bart RASPOTNIK is working for Logicon, Inc., and is involved in an Aircrew Crew Perfor¬ mance Study at Luke AFB; that Roy KILGORE is in Mesa, AZ, working for McDonald/Douglas Helicopters doing operations analysis since leav¬ ing his position in the Human Resources Lab/Operations and Training Division at Williams last year; that Gene KOROTKY is the A-7 System Program Manager at Tinker AFB, OK; and that Dick Czarnota is the operations officer for the ANG A-7 unit at Selfridge ANGB, ML Mike Lynch, at the time the three of us were visiting, had probably the most en¬ viable job in the “five-sided puzzle palace,” ANG deputy for Operations and Training. It is the only colonel’s position at the Pentagon that re¬ quires currency in afighter aircraft; the sheer joy of not being totally earthbound while assigned to Washington. Mike subsequently called to inform that he had received orders to Luke AFB as the F-16 vice com¬ mander replacing Brian WAGES who is being reassigned as the deputy for Current Operations at HQ PACAF. Mike, despite 24-hours notice to report to MacDill AFB for checkout training, was understandably elated at the opportunity. (But not because it meant leaving the Pentagon early, he was quick to add —sure, Mike.)

Mike SHORT found some time in between his duty requirements as the new commander of the 4450th Tactical Group at Nellis (warmest and sincerest congratulations, Mike), to assure me that, when he was an AOC, Playboy Bunny attire was not considered appropo for a“hairy chested man.” Mike also had been to Langley recently, to attend the Senior Leaders Maintenance Course and while there had run into John JUDD, Pete SUPP, and Bob PRICE, also in attendance. He subsequently visited with Tad OELSTROM, Bill HARWOOD, and Joe HENDERSON, all stationed at Langley. Amini-reunion, in Mike’s words, “with everybody looking good —maybe alittle less hair and that we have left is turning grey.” Ifear that more than afew of us resemble that remark, Mike. By the way, one of Mike’s predecessors in his current assignment, Howie ESTES, has moved to Beale AFB to assume the reins as the 14th Air Division/CC. Sounds like agolden opportunity for anew BG to cut his teeth running the SAC Airborne Command Post. I’ll sleep better at night now, Howie. Best of luck.

Chatted with Fred BOLI recently. Fred heads up the Strategic Concepts Development Center at the National War College where he is doing long-

range planning and policy review for the chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff and the secretary of defense. In between his meetings with and briefings to the movers and shakers within the Capitol Beltway, Fred participates in the Edinburgh Conversations, ongoing meeting with senior Soviet of¬ ficials held alternatively in Scotland and the Soviet Union, twice yearly. Fred’s background as aSovietologist and his study under John Erickson at the University of Edinburgh as an AF Research Associate have established his credentials for his singularly distinctive selection as Par¬ ticipant in these prestigious Conversations. There are no other military officials involved from either side nor are there any other U.S. types. Well done, Fred.

Before 1close, Iwant to put in aplug for Scott SCFIAFER, who answered the plea of aclassmate for assistance in providing the most im¬ portant (notice 1did not say ultimate) goal of every USAFA cadet —his own set of wheels! Scotty runs Schafer Motor Company in Orange, VA (about 75 miles southwest of Washington). When my “Gray Tag” said he wanted to purchase his own car (2nd Classmen can now do that legally), Scotty pulsed his sources and identi fi ed several attractive and affordable models for amuch better price than would be available at your neighborhood used car dealer. He has expressed awillingness to help any other classmate in the market for aused car. Give him acall at (703) 672-5555 if you need some assistance or just to say hello.

ZIP CODE CHANGES: Phil RICHARDSON from APO NY 09278 to 09378; Lynn COLEMAN from Alamogordo, NM to Pensacola, FL; John HOWARD to Sterling, VA; Jim BEAVERS to Niceville, FL; and Howie ESTES from SPACOS/SHAPE to Beale AFB, CA.

FINAL NOTE: During my meeting with Mike Lynch he showed me a listing that Bill BOWERS had compiled of 1st Squadron grads which in¬ cludes address, current employment, wife and children’s names. Just the type of information which would help renew acquaintances at the 25th Reunion. Marv Alme volunteered to produce asimilar listing for 15th. If you are interested in doing the same for your squadron, please contact me for additonal details and assistance. And keep the letters coming!

Ryan Denny 7107 Kesley Court

Spring fi eld, VA 22153

Home: (703) 440-9727

AV: 225-6668

Percent members: 69

Greetings, Redtags! Have you given much thought to retirement lately? 1haven’t; but I’ve been talking to several of our classmates who have. I’ve been thinking about retirement in terms of if\ was going to retire or not. One of our smarter classmates pointed out to me that retirement was not amatter of if, but only amatter of when. Another classmate strongly recommends that you go to aretirement briefing now, even if you know that you are not going to retire for several years. There is alot of good in¬ formation that you can use now to help you plan for the future. Well, after that commercial, 1guess 1should tell you if anyone you know is retiring.

Bill DUNNE tells me he is going to try adifferent line of work starting this summer. He’s not exactly sure what yet, but not many of us know what we want to be when we grow up, do we? Bill has been working here in the Pentagon as the chief of the division that handles arms control and international negotiations issues for the Air Force XO.

Don SHULTIS, who has been working in the Guard Bureau, is also go¬ ing to hang up his G-suit this summer. Art SURO got an offer he couldn’t refuse from Pan Am to fly for them, so he is going to retire this summer. He and Pat are going to continue to live in the D.C. area and Art will commute to work in New York —or somewhere. Art is living proof that the airlines are willing to hire pilots that are alittle older (notice Ididn’t say more mature). Mason BOTTS has also retired. Igleaned that bit of in¬ formation from the AF Times, so 1don’t know where he is or what he is doing, but I’m sure he’ll drop me aline and let us all know —right Mase?

WING KINGS AND OTHER THINGS: Nick KEHOE has taken com¬ mand of the 12FTW at Randolph. John MARSHALL has moved from the vice of the 18TFW at Kadena to the 51TFW at Osan as the com¬ mander. Rusty GIDEON sent me anice invitation to his change of com¬ mand at Wright-Patterson. Rusty just took command of the 4950th Test Wing. Dave MARCRANDER has moved from his job as J-5 for JSOC at Ft. Bragg to the vice job of the C-141 wing at Charleston. Sid WISE may have set anew “first” for our class by completing his tour as the wing commander at Kunsan. Sid is moving to Maxwell to take over (I’m guess¬ ing) CADRE.

HELP FROM THE FIELD: Speaking of Maxwell AFB, abig thanks to Ron MOREY for calling me from sunny Alabama to update us on all the

’66ers who have finally finished the course in advanced golf at Air University. If Iread the rules right, that should be the last class at AU that will have anyone from ’66 in it. I’ll bet you never thought that you would be too old for the War College. Ron is holding down the MAC chair at AWC and expects to be there for another year. Chuck FULLER is the chairperson for the Systems Command chair and should also be there for another year. Our classmates who were students included Stan BOYD, who is going to Wright-Patterson as deputy director of the F-16 SPO, and Norm RATHJE, who is going to Seymour Johnson as the vice. Also in the class were Marty DAAK, who is going to Guam as DO of the B-52 wing, and Joe HURST, who will be the Corps ALO with the US Army at Frankfurt.

THE PENTAGON:Now the news you’ve all been waiting for —what’s happening in Washington, that city surrounded on all sides by reality. First the goodbyes. Carl BAKER is leaving his job as chief of the fighter shop in XOO to go to Clark AB as the 13th AF/ADO. Kevin MCELVAIN is heading for Luke to be ADO of the 58TTW. Bill HUDSPETH finished his school assignment here in D.C. and is going to MAC head¬ quarters as the director of Tactics and Special Operations.

John GROZIER is the chief of anew division in AF/XOX that tracks the operational requirements for almost everything. His wife, Fran, says she reads every word in this column, so 1promised her 1wouldn’t men¬ tion John’s sex-change operation. Mike PARMENTIER has finished his tour as asenior research fellow at National Defense University and will return to OSD PA&E. He tells me that his research topic was “Is There Life Outside the Beltway?” Ed TOOLEY is also finishing up at NDU (ICAF 1think) and is moving to ajob in OSD. I’ve managed to escape the basement of the Pentagon and am running the Airlift/Special Ops/Rescue Forces Division in AF/XOX. I’m in room 4AI084, so if you come to the Pentagon stop on by and see me.

OTHER NEWS (also known as pits and stems): John MCBROOME is finally leaving Hawaii and going to Ft. Collins. Phil GARDNER is on his way to Hawaii to be tbe Asst. DCS Intel for PACAF. Duane TWAY is moving from an ALO job in Europe to Round Rock, TX. Clay OLSCHNER has moved to the SHAPE Ops Division in Exercise Evalua¬ tion. Andy FORNAL is living in Hampton, VA —probably stationed at Langley AFB, right?

That’s all the news for now folks. So keep them cards and letters corn¬ in’ and come on down and see me sometime.

(Editor’s note. Maj. Lloyd Patterson at George AFB called the AOG and informed us that he has found aClass of 1966 miniature ring with a wedding band fused to it. If you have lost aring fitting this description and can identify the inscription on the inside of the ring, please call Major Patterson at AV: 353-2800 or commercial (619) 269-2800.)

Dan Morgan

Department of Psychiatry (116)

VA Hospital

3350 La Jolla Village Dr. San Diego, CA 92161 (619) 453-7500, ext. 3944/3010

Percent members: 59

Hope to see you at our 20th reunion next month, Sep 17-20! As of June well over 50 percent of us were planning to come. Although we hope we didn’t fail to contact anyone, it’s not too late to call someone for infor¬ mation even now. See the end of this article for more.

Also be advised that atribute for Jim Conboy, that dean of athletic trainers, is being planned 16-17 Oct 87. Events include aFriday golf tour¬ nament, and the Saturday USAFA vs. Notre Dame football game fol¬ lowed by abanquet. Space is limited; call or send $10.00 per person to Capt. Mason Goodhand, USAFA/AHPAR, USAFA, CO 80840.

P.C. and Shari BURNETT’S daughter Kristine just entered the USAFA Class of 1991. Their son Paul is in the Class of 1990, you may remember. Congratulations! I’m really delighted to publish accomplishments by family members in this column, so please notify me about such.

HOMECOMING 1987

17-20 September

Falcons vs. San Diego State

Iheard from “Doc” HALLIDAY when he called to volunteer to be the 18th Sq. contact person for the reunion next month. Doc is the Depart¬ ment Head, School of Systems and Logistics, at HQ AFIT, WPAFB. His PhD in policy analysis is from the Rand Graduate School. Getting his degree was asecond three-year tour at the Rand Corp., with aremote year in Korea in between. Doc consults to the Air Staff on present and future needs in logistics command, control, and information transfers. He also has consulted on AFCAP (large scale simulation of sortie generation capability) and on air base survivability at Eglin, Misawa, and in Ger¬ many. His wife, Pat, took her CPA exam in May, and teaches accounting and finance part time. Their daughters, Cate (11), and Brenna (7) both play soccer and basketball, and run track. Doc and Pat also are tennis en¬ thusiasts.

AOG UPDATES: John BARTLETT (Ret) to Jacksonville, FL; Chris DYSART to Ft. Lewis, WA; Steve SAFFORD to Papillion, NE; Dale STOVALL to Hurlburt Field, FL; Tom TWOMEY to Ellsworth AFB, SD; Walt VISINSKY to Bedford, MA; and Stu WOOD to Burke, VA.

Donna, Jesse (12), Wendy (10), and 1are moving to San Diego in August for one year. “Uncle" is sponsoring me for apostdoctoral fellowship in neuropsychology, which is quantifying brain injuries for du¬ ty limitations or disability. This year at U.C., San Diego will be lighter responsibilities and fewer deadlines than I’ve had in 13 years. Ilook for¬ ward to communicating with more of you, and please come to visit us in beautiful San Diego. I’ll have ahome address and phone by September 8. Note that the phone number listed above is commercial —the V.A. operator —with x3944 being my office and x3010 being the psychology secretary. In Sep 88 I’ll PCS to an AF medical center, probably overseas. Minot is really adelightful community, and this assignment has been in¬ credibly rewarding and satisfying. Yet, somehow, we are even more ex¬ cited about this coming year. ..See you at the reunion!

Again, here is alist of classmates who have volunteered to help with your arrangements for coming to the reunion: Gary (USAF, Ret) &Jan SCHEIMER, (303) 548-0253; Jack &Molly FRY, AV 259-2220; Rich & Georgeann HUGHES, AV 259-3860; Pete &Roz KNEPPELL, AV 259-4470; John &Phyllis PLETCHER, AV 259-3120; Doug &Sally BEATTY, (303) 636-0071; Harry &Nancy WETZLER, AV 259-3560; Gary &Sandee LORENZ, AV 259-2953 or (303) 495-0611.

Mark Torreano

8335 Tiller Court

Colorado Springs, CO 80918

Home: (303) 593-1215

Office: (303) 554-5850; AV: 692-5850

Percent members: 50

The Class of ’91 has landed and 1got acloseup look while 1pulled duty in the in-processing line, signing up those young hopefuls for the AOG Life Membership program. They don’t arrive in coat and tie like we did, but the haircuts haven’t changed. (Nor have some of the barbers!)

The weather here is normal —14" of snow on Pike’s Peak 1July! Made agood photo for the scrap book. I’ve spent alovely spring fixing up Mimi’s yard, sprinkler system, fence, etc.

IWe had agreat practice reunion on 6Jun at anew country club in Cas¬ tle Rock (yes, the country club set has arrived in Castle Rock from Denver). Bill WOOD made the arrangements and then was unable to at¬ tend, but as you can see from the photo, many from the Springs and Denver did find the place. Among the more interesting news —Dave BARRS is now an Army doctor (ENT) at Fitzsimmons, Don and Hally PASKO are moving back to the Boulder area, and Howie TOWT is with

ATT in Denver. Not pictured is Walt CURTIS, who is also with ATT and in the process of transferring to North Carolina.

Mike MOSS was recently in town for avisit. He has closed up his legal practice in the Sacramento area and is thinking of relocating to Colorado. Larry MITCHELL was here in April with the Chinese Air Force chief of staff. Larry has been tapped to be the air attache in Beijing next year, after he attends the State Department’s Senior Seminar.

Had avery good TDY to D.C. recently and picked up lots of class news. Tim DAVIDSON found an extra bed to put me up in and was busy calling everyone to sell them tickets to the Navy game. Give Tim acall (AV 223-2896/7/8) if you are going to be in D.C. 10 Oct, he may have a few extra seats. Tim is now in the special ops div of the new asst secy of defense for Special Ops and LIC (figure that one out!).

As of this summer we will have three vice wing cdrs in the class, an awesome thought. Brooke BAILEY is already at Lajes AB, the Azores, as the vice of the 1605 Military Airlift Support Wing; Tony ROBERTSON will be the vice for the 2Bomb Wing, Barksdale AFB, LA; and Ed EBERHART will be vice of the 363 Tac Fighter Wing at Shaw AFB, SC. That’s one of our guys in each of the major flying commands, apretty good mixture of talent. Congrats to all.

Benny VETETO is off to Rhein-Main AB, Frankfurt, GE to command aC-130 sqdn. Dave MULKEY finished ICAF and is now at CENTCOM at MacDill, AFB. Jim NEU left his job in SAF Legislative Liaison to go to Tyndall, and Joe HOERTER moved from Air Staff to SAF/LL. Dick FAST and Jim SEEVERS are both leaving the CSAF’s office to attend school —Dick to NWC and Jim to ICAF. Charlie COOLIDGE will join Dick at NWC, while Bob DENNY and Tom MCDANIEL will attend ICAF with Jim.

Mike NAVARRO came up from AWC to XOOTT (reminds me of the anteater in BC) where he will be joined by Dick COE, who just finished NWC. Mitch DORGER moved from the Air Staff to anew of fi ce under the undersecy of the AF to work on budget issues. Jim REESE is now working joint matters in XOXXJ, while Bob DURHAM shifted from Air Staff to be exec to the JCS/J3. Paul GOSNELL is working manpower issues in PRMX, and Jack WEBB is in XOXXM.

Finally, Denny and Sandra MCLAIN are the proud parents of Devon James, an 8pound, 13 ounce bundle who arrived 14 June.

Letters: Bob REYLING and recent bride Maureen sent an understand¬ ably late Xmas card, updating me on their recent move from Maryland to the Boston area and their 27 June wedding in Bedford, MA. Rob is at ESD/ICR, while Maureen left her job as director of nursing in Rich¬ mond, VA and is now apart time psychiatric nurse in the Boston area. Best wishes to you both.

From left are Lin and Joel Gardes and Paula and Tony Eden.

In other “New England” related news, Tony EDEN sent this photo of him and Joel GORDES and wives taken in April in NYC. Joel, according to Tony, is the oldest classmate to marry for the first time. True? Joel and Lin were married May 23 and live in the Connecticut mountains. Joel is also perhaps the holder of another notable title, that of the only politician in the class, since he won aspecial election this spring for representative to the state legislature. Do we have any other pols out there? Meanwhile, Tony claims he is the oldest classmate to get agraduate degree, an MBA from DU this June.

Ialso heard from Cecille CASTRO, who wrote to say she appreciated the support she received from several classmates following Armando’s death in March. The family is going through some difficult days, and 1

From left are Pasko, Starkey, Wilson, Worrell, Sasz, Torreano, Ruslnak, Lang, Thompson, Baer, Rosaluk, Busch, Maywhort, Towt, Schmidt, Barrs, and Burgamy.

hope all of you will support our fundraising effort to provide some assistance to Cedlle and her five children. Send donations to the “Class of 1968 Armando Castro Fund” Association of Graduates, USAF Academy, CO 80840-5000.

Movers: Bill CRAIG has gone to Dublin, OF! from Texas. And Dave STROBEL is now in San Diego.

Joke? Akindergarten teacher overheard one of her students tell another than he had found acondom on the patio, which prompted the other young child to inquire, “What’s a...patio?”

Michael R. Thiessen

Brown &Thiessen, P.C.

2405 Grand, Suite 300

Kansas City, MO 64108-2510

Home: (913) 384-4779

Percent members: 58

Marilyn ROSS confirms that hubby Bill is in commercial real estate specializing in retail centers and office space. He is also involved in development having just completed a25-acre shopping center, the largest retail center built in Orange County in the past 20 years. Marily notes that Tom WILLETT, an attorney in Rochester, NY and Tom’s wife, Marilyn, along with their two boys, are joining the Ross family in New York for a sightseeing vacation this month. Bill and Marilyn would love to hear from any ’69ers vacationing in Southern California.

Dick DOWNES writes that during arecent tour of several MAC bases with some civic leaders from Portugal, he uncovered the following news. John HOPPER is now commander of one of the maintenance squadrons at McGuire. Jeff STEPHENSON commands one of the flying squadrons at Scott. John REDDY is asquadron operations of fi cer with Jeff. Ac¬ cording to Dick, all agree (including Dick) that they have not changed a bit since graduation!

Dick is now the liaison of fi cer with the Portuguese for U.S. Forces, Azores, Lajes. Dick would love to have anyone stop by if they are in the neighborhood.

The grapevine informs us that Jeff TOBOLSKi is aprincipal in Jeffrey &Associates in Lake Oswego, OR. They are economic and planning con¬ sultants.

Rich HAGELIN has been most kind in providing me with three pages of information regarding our classmates. Rich is on his way to Ramstein to be the director of Programs for USAFE. He has been married to Terry since December of ’69. Their three children are looking forward to living in Europe.

Rich notes that Jeff GRIME is amilitary assistant to the undersecretary of the Air Force, his third Pentagon tour. Like Rich, Jeff remains mar¬ ried to his USAFA sweetheart Julie (Lo Hi).

Jack OVERSTREET is the military assistant to the secretary of the Air Force and will attend the senior service school this summer at the Na¬ tional War College.

Bill McGILL is the assistant D.O. for the 49th TFW (F-15) at Holloman. Tip OSTERTHALER is the assistant D.O. for the 479th TFW (AT-38) at Holloman. Iagree with Rich that it appears we have the Secretariat and Holloman under control.

Crit CRITTENDEN is the 474th TFW Squadron commander at Nellis (F-16s). Craig COLLINS flies F-4s at Bergstrom in the Reserves and flies for Continental on the side.

Butch HENKLEMAN also flies F-4s at Bergstrom but does his side work with Southwest.

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Brad DEAUSTIN is the JAG at Davis-Monthan. Denny McGUIRK recently left the air staff to be vice wing commander at Castle.

Lindsey PARRIS is the chief of the Commander’s Staff Group at AFSC, Andrews. Tom FLEMING is an F-16 squadron commander at Ramstein. Fie and Karen have been out of the CONUS since 1980.

Both Tom KECK and Bill DALECKY are working on the Air Staff. Ed ALLEN is squadron commander at Clark. Don RAKESTRAW is en route to the Pentagon after spending the last year as aresearch associate at M.I.T. in Boston. Charles FIAMMOND and Jeff CAMPBELL are working at FIQ USAFE. Malcom WARD is at 12th Air Force FIQ, Bergstrom. Chris CURTIS has just moved to Illinois from West Virginia where he is coal brokering.

Rich has done yeoman duty providing us with all of this information. Fie invites anyone who wants to visit the Flagelin Flotel which will open in Ramstein in September 1987.

Mic JACKSON reports that Adam JACKSON entered the real world on 5-20-87. He and Sandy are doing well as is Adam’s sister Emily. Mic continues to teach mathematics at Earlham College.

My thanks to Marilyn, Dick, Rich and Mic for your news.

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: 55

Before 1get into the news for this quarter, let me try yet another idea or two to stimulate letters and calls to your class scribe. My first idea is to ask for photos from our cadet years. That’s right—back when we were all young and handsome (or at least we were young) and we participated in such interesting and stimulating activities as BCT, mixers, pep rallies and 100th Night. Surely you’ve got some of these relics hanging around. Before we start to forget that special time in the late 1960s when men were men and zoomies were zoomies, why not send apicture to help us all remember. As I’ve mentioned before, the alternative is another picture from my family album.

My second idea to encourage letters (actally, this is Jim BARRALL’s idea) is to run aClass of ’70 “most” contest like xhe Air Force Times used to. Specifically, you’ll be allowed to name your own category and stake out your claim to fame. For example, most kids, most PCSs, most years in Washington DC (or wherever), most aircraft flown, most wives, most years stationed above 5,000 feet or whatever “most” claims you care to make. You mail in your claim. I’ll print it, and if nobody can top you, you win! (I’m still working on what you’ll win.)

Now on to the news. Pat SULLIVAN called me shortly after Imailed in the last class news installment. He lives about 100 miles south of Atlanta (I’ve forgotten the name of the town) where he’s aplant controller for Applied Technology, which is adivision of Litton. Actually, it was Pat’s wife who persuaded him to give me acall. Way to go, Wanda! Pat and I reminisced about USAFA and grad school, where we spent agood deal of time together, and we talked about some of our later similar experiences (that’s not too clear, but we don’t want it to be). Pat mentioned he’s been in touch with Steve BRAUD, who’s alawyer outside New Orleans (is there really any law in Louisiana?), and Dave HIGGINS, who lives in Marietta, GA and flies for Eastern. (Did you ever wonder how much of our class works for Frank Lorenzo?)

1received anice letter from Fred JONAS. Fred’s stationed at the Weapons Lab at Kirtland, where he “blows things up” alot. Nice job! Fred, his wife Jan, and sons Freddy (13) and Daniel (8) seem to be enjoy¬ ing Albuquerque quite well. According to big Fred, the beginnings of a local AOG chapter attended arecent USAFA/UNM basketball game. It was agood chance to resurrect the old cheers and just have agood old time, even though the Falcons lost.

George JOHNSON called me awhile ago. He’s moving from Lackland to Randolph, where he’s to become the chief of Airfield Managment. George and wife, Jeanne, have afour-year-old daughter, Kimi, and they plan to retire in the San Antonio area. George mentioned that Tom PRATT is commander of the 559th squadron (T-37) at Randolph, Bill OLDENBURG runs the curriculum branch at OTS (sounds similar to his prior job at USAFA), and Lloyd HARVESON flies for Continental out of Denver.

Steve MARTIN sent in his first newsy letter to the AOG in 17 years earlier this month. He works as amarketing engineer for HewlettPackard in Fort Collins, CO. A10-year H-P veteran, Steve enjoys his work, his family (wife Carol, sons Aaron (13) and Jared (9), and

daughters Niki (8) and Amy (5)), and he likes to coach competitive soccer in the Fort Collins area. Atypical ex-zoomie, he can’t stand not to be busy.

Tony MARIETTA also was kind enough to write. He mentioned his plans to become the biggest real estate baron in Colorado by using an ex¬ pensive media campaign. However, as part of my class scribe investigative reporting, I’ve uncovered acandid picture of Tony which reveals his true nature. Actually, Tony supplied the photo and he didn’t say anything about media campaigns. He did, however, mention that his niece recently received an appointment to the Academy. Another piece of news to make us feel older!

Would you buy ahouse from this man?

That’s it for this quarter. I’ve noticed aslowdown in the rate news has been arriving, so November’s column’s going to be short UNLESS you’re willing to share your news with your classmates. So please don’t delay—I usually have barely two weeks from the time you get your Checkpoints until my input for the next column is due. I’ll look forward to hearing from you all, and I’ll particularly be looking for cadet photos and “most” claims!

Ralph Getchell

5840 Auckland Drive

Las Vegas, NV 89110

Home: (702) 438-1699

AV: 682-4719

Percent members: 45

NEWS FLASH: PHONE RINGS OFF HOOK! 1was beginning to wonder if my phone was out order, but the class really came through this month with some humdingers. First on the line was Steve MARTIN. Steve works for Martin-Marietta out of Denver, but is also part-timing with the 71st SOS at Davis-Monthan AFB. He reports that Bob BLOUGH and John SHRAMM (two of my UHT classmates) are flying Reserve H-3s with the 305th at Selfridge.

Over the years, Paul MACKAY has been afaithful correspondent and it was nice to hear from him again. Paul is again moving up in the airline business (at least in terms of feet above the ramp), having just checked out in the right seat of a767. Ken LYKKEN is making alateral shift —to captain! —and should be completed with training by publication time. Meanwhile, back in the RAF, Tony NARDECCHIA is at Holloman fly¬ ing F-lOO drones. ..I’ll have to ask him myself about that one.

SO IEXAGGERATE. ..OK! So two calls does not atelethon make, but the letters weren’t bad either. For example, Dan DEVINE wrote me a note from March AFB, where he is wing chief of Safety and still flying the KC-135. Afew months ago, his family spent the day in Los Alamitos with John and Janie BLIND. John has one more year in his job at LA Air Sta¬ tion before he returns to the mech department and tenureship. We must be getting older, John has asixth and an eight grader, but finds enough time off to get his golf game down to arespectable, and quite appropriate 71. That’s the old class spirit. Also at March, Rick SHUMICK is flying the KC-10 with the local Reserve unit and terrorizing TDY locations under the nom de guerre of “Leiksbehr.” Rick, Ichallenge you to explain that one. Also at March are Chris and Patti MOORE. Chris was abuff ops officer at Ellsworth and now works in 15AF scheduling.

Another faithful correspondent, Paul KNOTT, took time out from a night shift at the George AFB Command Post. Derek DAWSON, who’s been an AOG MIA for almost 10 years, has surfaced in the 35TTW Air-

craft Generation Squadron and Bob BROWN, who won’t go under¬ ground, is flying F-4s in the 561st squadron. As areminder, the in¬ defatigable T-Gib, Steve DEHAVEN, is working at the 35th Wing Weapons Shop. Also, Jack REHO is helping recruit the next generation of zoomies as aliaison of fi cer in Pasadena, CA.

1was also glad to hear from Sandy EVANS, Bill’s wife, who wanted us to know that life at Guam isn’t all that bad. Bill has been commander of the 60th Bomb Squadron since last November and is busy propping for an IG inspection. Hang in there. Bill.

FROM THE MAILBOX: This issue, there were hardly enough changeof-address cards to disturb the spider, but here goes. Joel HOFFMAN is still traipsing around Europe, but is now based out of Kaiserslautern. Jim KOTORA has moved from Kirtland to aSystems Command job at An¬ drews AFB. Jon STEVENS has left the computer business at USAFA for achange of pace with USEURCOM. Bob BRODY has moved from PACAF to Langley AFB, and Steve GREENWELL has returned state¬ side from Gorgas Hospital to the Shaw AFB area.

SAWADEE: In response to my plea last column, Andy ANDERSON has agreed to take over this column. 1know we all appreciate his will¬ ingness to keep spreading the word. Andy’s address and phone numbers are: 7851 Epsilon Dr., Rockville, MD 20855. Home: (301) 330-9447. Du¬ ty: (202) 862-7404. For my part, it’s been aterrific four years. Thanks for all your support. Let’s stay in touch.

T.J. Mancuso

480 South Kingston Circle

Aurora, CO 80012

Home: (303) 343-4231

Work: (303) 861-7000

Percent members: 41

It has been proposed that the 15th anniversary of our timely departure from the Alumnium U. be commemorated in some fashion. After acall from Bobby SORENSEN in South Bend (the only suggestion on the mat¬ ter) and the determination that the regular homecoming stuff is best left to other classes, it has been concluded that the Notre Dame game would be the best bet for a15th year reunion. Since this column had to be writ¬ ten in the early summer, there is no set agenda, but somehow that usually works better anyway. Call me in September.

Why South Bend? (The obvious question from anative Hoosier.) Bob is with American Airlines out of Chicago, and held the distinction of be¬ ing, at one time, the least senior pilot in that organization in the world — aride at the top of the bubble.

Other air-head news comes from Dan VICIAN. Dan is the No. 2 elected officer in the Eastern Airlines Union structure, and is making an effort to contact comrade brothers in the Texas Air Corp. prolitariat structure to unite in the struggle against the bourgeois management and their repressive regime. Dan hints that some Continental Airline pilots are shy about organizing in fear that such rascals might be exorcised from CAL. Personally, Ithought all our Continental classmates were fur¬ loughed (read: fired) so long ago that there’s no one to recruit.

When he’s not rousing the rabble, Dan is trying to maintain currency in the C-141 at McGuire, and he passes on aspecial greeting to former Dou¬ ble Deuce and Seagram’s Seven classmates.

Anyone (well, maybe not Frank Lorenzo) wanting to contact Dan should call or write: 201 Maderia, Coral Gables, FL 33134. Tele: (305) 446-8750.

(On aside note, in the recent election in Denver, one of my law partners was running for mayor. He was severely chastized by the incumbent because our firm has represented Continental Airlines. He also called us “polluters’ lawyers.” The incumbent was re-elected. 1had no idea that so many voters had fl own Continental).

In response to arecent suggestion that this column be written with some new blood (my blood no longer produces an acceptable carbon), Ed MARSHALL has suggested Van SHIELDS, Dave BULL or Don PEP¬ PERS. (Don is in advertising, which shows he has no respect for the truth. Dave still checks the surfing report every morning to decide whether to go to work, and Winder lives in Humbolt County, CA, so you know where his brain is. So those three would each be emminently qualified to con¬ tinue this drivel.)

Phil NORTH wrote anote, saying he’s chief of General Surgery (i.e., he’s in charge of the other guy) at Langley AFB, VA. Of course, he was TDY to Nellis, which he admits was awaste of our taxpayers’ money. By now he has another child, ultrasound indicating it’s another Phillip. (Be¬ ing an MD would take all the fun out of begetting.) Phil ran into Tom SULLIVAN in Myrtle Beach, where Tom is in the JAG office. Recently

seen limping around the Langley hospital was desk-pilot Skip VAN ORNE.

What scares the bejeezus out of every second lieutenant near F.E. War¬ ren AFB? Why, it’s the name Scott LEE. That, at least, is what Ihear from Catherine Lee. It was because of either (a) his being in charge of the Queen’s Coronation Ball for Cheyenne Frontier Days or (b) his being Chief of DOV. Either way, it’s nice to get respect. Enclosed was aphoto.

Also, Mary and Bob DIERKER are now in Carlisle, PA. Doug BROWER is at USAFA/XPPX (I don’t know either) and living in Monu¬ ment, CO. And Ed BISFIOP is living in Stafford, VA and working at Bolling AFB, DC.

1can tell by the crossed-out ranks on all these change cards that con¬ grats are in order for abunch of new lieutenant colonels. To anyone not on the list, if Ican paraphrase, “Sierra Happens.”

See you in October.

Rick Karvosky

413 LaSalle Drive

Clovis, NM 88101

Home: 762-2530

AV: 681-2381

Percent members: 38

Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa! Forgive me! Ireceived a short-notice (five days!) TDY for 40 days to Honduras starting 6March. It’s unbelievable the work one needs to do to be gone that long —prepay rent, phone, electric. Master Card, VISA, etc. The trip was quite in¬ teresting. We lived and ate in tents, just like in Jack’s Valley. Of course, with some of my imagination and Red HORSE ingenuity, we added afew comforts of life. As you can see from the picture, we really had it rough. Honestly, we did! The pool had leak in it! Got to see alot of the coun¬ tryside. Even drove close to the Nicaraguan border —Itold you all before 1didn’t have much smarts. If anyone is going TDY to Honduras, call me if you want some information. Please note my address change —it’s 413 LaSalle, not 417. Ididn’t even know my own address.

The Lee family of Wyoming and points west. Clockwise from left are Terri, Brandon, Mac and Kaylan. ● m, »

The only other news comes from the slips and scraps the AOG sends. Sam THOMASSON sent aletter whining about not getting his Register of Graduates. Believe me, Sam, Iread the book and it’s the same old stuff and same old people. Sam lives in aPost vffice Box in Beverly Hills, so his letter was one of the famous “California whines.”

Mr. and Mrs. William HAAN have anew address at the Calvary Bible Church in Ketchikan, AK, which sounds like the biggest “change of ad¬ dress” of the quarter. Jim WOESSNER is at the Global Weather Center at Offutt. John TYRRELL is in Springfield, VA. Tom CRAWFORD is in Abilene, TX and Neal and Kathleen COYLE are in Merced, CA. Mike and Carol VERZOLA are in Green Bay, WI where he’s organizational development manager in the Green Bay Division of Proctor and Gamble. (Really, Mike, is there some secret meaning to that moon and star logo.)

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Got anote from Dean HAYLETT (Pat) who took over command of the 63rd Avionics Maintenance Squadron, Norton AFB on 27 May 87. Dean said “. ..Not bad for aguy once on aptitude probation who never made it above Cadet 1st Lieutenant.” Iagree. Some of us apt pro guys (me too) didn’t waste our talents at USAFA. We had the ability to foresee our futures and (to take aline from Orsen Wells) we will not serve until our time! Ah, come on guys, it sounded logical to my pet rock. Anyway —congratulations to Dean and Pat. Becoming asquadron commander is atremendous step in one’s career. It’s overwhelming to suddenly become responsible for the careers and lives of so many men and women. The job carries its joys and sorrows. But Dean, one thing Ican promise you, once it’s all balanced out —it’s worth it. We wish you and Pat the best of luck.

Looking through the AF Times proved fruitful. The May 18 edition listed medical promotions to Lt. Col. Included were: Don BERDEAUX, Dave BROWN, Dan CONNELLY, Bob COOPER, Marc FRITZ, Charles HARRISON, Bob HAWKINS, Jim HEIRONIMUS, Rick HOUK, Kirby KNOX, Ed PARRY, Arnie PENIX, Gary PRECHTER, Dave SCHENK, Fran SHAGETS, and Charles STEWART. Just think, one of these guys could be working on you —NOT ME —but maybe you! Only kidding. Congratulations to all of you. If Imissed anyone, please forgive me. Call and I’ll give you top billing next issue. The Jan 19 issue showed Bob MIZE going from Osan AB to McGuire AFB, while the May 11 edition listed Scott MILLS going to Maxwell from Wash DC.

Looks as though one of our classmates. Dr. Gary PRECHTOR, might make the record book. He’s getting married —that in itself is no record —but his marriage to Margo Mueller is. You see, Margo is the fourth (of four) sisters to marry aUSAFA grad. 1wonder if they went to LoHigh?

Rick Karvosky is in the pool on the air mattress at left.

This photo, taken in Saudi Arabia, was sent to us by the Association of Graduates of the U.S. Military Academy. Helping celebrate West Point’s Founder’s Day are Maj. Jeff Brown, ’73; Miss Vivian Rak, and Maj. and Mrs. Rick Jackson, ’72.

The classes include ’67, ’70, ’73, and ’77. Ithink Margo is the smart one —wait until Gary gets selected for Lt Col, then marry him! The family also invented anew word —grad-in-laws! Wonder if Webster’s will ac¬ cept it. Anyway, for the female graduates out there —WATCH OUT! The Mueller’s have two unmarried sons!

Phil YAVORSKY sent aletter and gave me some good info. He’s the NATO Plans Officer for the 2nd Weather Wing at Kapaun AB, Ger¬ many. He got there Sep 86. Phil ran into afellow CWDS-31 buddy Tom KENNEDY who was leaving Ramstein AB for Washington to be the assistant executive of fi cer to the chief of AF Reserve. Tom fl ew C-12s while at Ramstein. Phil saw another CWDS-31 mate. Bill THORN who works for Exercise Plans at HQ USAFE.

Change of address cards: Ed PREBLE to Kirtland, John BARRON to McGuire, Doug RICHTER to the Netherlands, Dennis RENSEL to Col¬ orado Springs, Rich ANSELM to Lakeview Terrace, CA; Bart DANNELS to Okla City, OK; and Pete GIMBORYS to Henderson, NV. Also, Andy PERONA to Colorado Springs, Bloise ZEIGLER to East Amherst, NY; Kelly ALEXANDER to Beavercreek, OH; Ron MORAN to Mans fi eld, TX; Mike WENGER to Davis-Monthan, and John FOREMAN to Pittsburgh. John BARRY where are you? AOG got a return notice saying you moved from Virginia with no forwarding ad¬ dress. Let AOG know.

Thanks for the letters and cards. Please keep them coming. Sure makes writing this article easier. Let me put it another way —no letters mean I’ll have to write about my social life. The problem is, that will only take (assuming Iget lucky) sentence! Please send those letters so Idon’t have to embarrass myself! Hope your summer was fun, even though at writing it’s only mid-June. It’s not too early to be thinking of a15-year reunion next fall. Iplan on going and would like to get something setup. Any in¬ terest —let me know! Take care.

Mike Carter

2263 Ptarmigan Lane

Colorado Springs, CO 80918

Home: (303) 593-1480

AV: 259-2549

Percent members: 37

STARTERS: Summer again! Here at the Uof SAFA things are going well. The Class of ’91 is just weeks away and summer school is winding up first period. Notice that we don’t call it R-flight anymore and there are three periods instead of one. We’ve recently added anew dean, BGen Erlind Royer, and anew superintendent, Maj Gen Hamm from ATC, will

Members of Classes other than 1967 and 1977 planning to attend Homecoming ’87 (17-20 Sep. 87), please write to the AOG now for registration forms.

(USAFA vs. San Diego State)

be taking over 26 June. With all the changes, however things still seem to remain pretty close the same. Enough of the prelims, 1received acouple of good pictures and alittle Intel about classmates so let’s get on with it.

SPECIAL COMMENDATION: Iknew our class was top notch but now the world is starting to recognize it as well. One of our classmates, Pete BECHTEL, was recognized this past spring as the 1987 Arriving En¬ trepreneur for North Carolina. It seems that Pete started acomputer soft¬ ware business, CACTUS Medical Group Ltd., and it has taken off. Pete and Annette reside in Raleigh, NC, are doing well and are immersed in this endeavor. Thanks to Pete’s brother Jim, USAFA ’70, for passing along this interesting piece of information.

CHANGE-OF-ADDRESS CARDS: The fi rst card is from Ray HAILE. He has recently moved from Dayton to Centreville, VA. Scott SMITH has made alateral in Texas and is now in LaGrange. Colin SCHEDIT has checked in and is still using an address in Columbus, IN. He is aDC-9 fi rst of fi cer for Delta Airlines. Another crosstown move comes from Tom WATSON. He and Kay are now residing in Fairfax, VA having come all the way from Norfolk.

Make sure that you send in the change-of-address cards so we can pass along your moves to others in the class. If you want to put aline or two on the card about what you’re doing, feel free. The AOG office sends them to me after they record the changes.

FROM THE MAIL BAG: The mail was good this month with three let¬ ters coming in. The first is from Rob and Jan WAYNE. He flies for Delta while Jan enjoys Whitney at home. Rob reports that Doug and Val FROST have moved to Scottsdale, AZ. He fi les for Southwest Airlines and has recently changed his base to Scottsdale. They are expecting their first child in September. A1 STOCKSTAD is another classmate who flies for the airlines. He also keeps his hand in the AFRES flying C-130s here in Colorado Springs.

Rob also brings news that Jim STRUBLE will be starting law school this fall at SMU. He currently is flying for Delta and also the AFRES in KC-lOs at Barksdale. And speaking of Barksdale, Duke RAMEY is another Delta employee who flies the KC-10. He recently received special recognition for action involved in saving an SR-71.

Four classmates —all in arow.

The next letter and photo come from the most faithful member of class, as far as news goes anyway, Dave HOGLUND. Dave sends along this picture of four ’74ers in arow. It seems that these folks live in the same cluster in USAFA housing, make up 50 percent of its occupancy, and provide 70 percent of the kids. If you don’t recongize them, they are, from left, Jim ORR, Mac MACINTIRE, Dave HOGLUND, and Ralph TATE. Jim is the AOC for CS-38 and has just arrived from MAC staff at Scott. Mac teaches in the department of behavioral science and leadership and also works in the Cadet Counseling Center. Dave teaches in electrical engineering. Ralph has been in the astro department for afull tour and is headed off to Special Projects at LAAFS, CA.

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The final letter comes from Mark HYATT. Mark has been an AOC and the director of Honor and Ethics for the past couple of years. He Is leaving for ACSC and will be in residence on Gunter AFS for the year. Mark reports, and Ican back him up on this one, that the honor system is healthier than it has ever been and if you want to know why, just write and he’ll be glad to let you know. This photo of Mark and his family shows why he has been so happy these past few years. Accompanying him to ACSC are his wife, Debbie, and in chronological order, Ryan 7, Sarah 5, and Jeff 3.

Phil Yavorsky at left, and Tom Kennedy.

The Hyatt Family

FINALE: Well, another article is fi nished. Ihope that you fi nd them half as interesting as Ido. The next article should be filled with news of this summer’s PCSs. So, if you are one of those on the move, let the AOG know so Ican spread the word. Remember that photos make the column, so send me your latest family, individual, or group picture and I’ll print it. That’s it. May God bless each of you and your family. If you’re ever in Colorado Springs, especially if you’re at USAFA, please give me acall.

Jeff Hackett

1825 E. Jeanine Drive Tempe, AZ 85284

Home: (602) 831-9439

Work: (602) 891-6122

Percent members: 33

LET’S HEAR IT FOR THE MINI-ARTICLE. As an ex-cadet and a man currently employed in the engineering profession Ihave, for some time, been sworn to be extremely conscious of what’s fashionable (not that 1actually look fashionable, just that Iknow what it means). At any rate, this article will be patterned after the latest in women’s hemlines. .. noticeably shorter. What’s more, it’s all because of you (and Ido mean Y-O-U, not the guys over in the new dorm nor the stud with the P.E. locker next to you). Ya’ see, YOU didn’t write or call me and that means I’ve got next to nothing to say.

ROAD SHOW. In an act of desperation Itravelled to Albuquerque, NM in search of aclassmate willing to share atidbit or two. Alright, maybe it did have something to do with my new Reserve assignment to the Weapons Lab, but Idid look through the Register before 1left. For all the good it did! Mark NELSON (Weapons Lab), Joe DOWDY and Chuck SCHMELLING (AFOTEC) were away from their phones for three days. Mark NELSON may or may not live in the New Mexico “Highlands”. .. he’s unlisted. 1did talk with Mark HOWES; he’s been in Albuquerque for 18 months with Sperry. The move (from Phoenix) has resulted in a promotion to director of Operations for Mark and he confesses to really liking his job. Linda is contributing to the education of minors in the school system there and their son, Adam, is also doing well.

THE SCRIBE IS ALWAYS THE LAST TO KNOW. In the only other piece of news that Ihad adirect hand in obtaining Ican tell you that Brian DUFFY is in his second year with NASA. Doing well, waiting to “fly” and doing adamn fine job (along with Jan, Sean and Shanon) of representing the Irish community in Houston.

SON OF ROAD SHOW. This article is actually being put together/ written/regurgitated back at the scene of the crimes; we’re in Colorado Springs for an overdue vacation. Unfortunately the only ’75 “Hot Leads” Ihave are change-of-address cards for Dick DYE and Rick DOUGLAS. We came up so that Tiffany could attend the Academy’s Summer Gymnastics Camp (that’s the good-parent reason; of equal im¬ port is adesire to spend time with our old beer-drinking neighbors). I’ll do some snooping around but, due to deadlines you’ll have to wait (with baited breath no doubt) until the next issue to see what we find out.

ANY PORT IN ASTORM. Iregret to say that the highlight of this edi¬ tion of Class News will be arun-off between the change-of-address cards and three-month-old words from Jim CARLSON, our recently Appointed-for-Life class President.

Mark ROGERS and Bill DAVIS are both inbound to Armed Forces Staff College. Bill did note that Bob AKERS and Mark JEFFERSON are also there getting smarter in the Joint-Services sense. Tom POPP, Marvin COX, and Allen GREEN have also moved to Virginia (Tom from Europe, Marvin from Mather AFB and Allen from God-knows-where). Closing out the East Coast update we have John WOODWARD leaving Williams AFB for Vestal, NY (don’t ask me) and Rich FINKE moving to Belmont, NC. The Southern border is covered East to West as Steve WOJCICKI has moved to Merritt Island, FL; Mike GILL to San Antonio, TX; and Bill CARROTHERS to Tucson, AZ. Out West, Mark SCHONING is now at Great Falls, MT; John FARNFIAM is in Apple Valley, CA; and Don BYERS (PSA pilot) is in Fresno. The good news is that Bill LADD is still in Flawaii, and (for you high rollers) Paul BUTALLA and Chris SOTO are still in Las Vegas. They only made local moves. The bad news is that Don LANGFORD and John CARAWAY both got new ad¬ dresses but are still stuck in Vacaville, CA and Bedford, TX, respectively.

GOOD CLEAN LIVING PAYS OFF. You can look at that as apro¬ mise or athreat; the article went long enough. 1got tired enough that I won’t submit Mr. Carlson’s March musings. Be warned however that this good deal cannot last unless Y-O-U write. For now, I’ve moved through a time zone in the last 12 hours and it really is later than you think.

Kurt Klingenberger

1801 N. Tejon St.

Colorado Springs, CO 80907

Home: (303) 635-4843

AV: 259-2270

Percent members: 37

Aduty of class scribe that 1was hoping would be along time off is here. Mike KEANE was killed in an aircraft accident on May 22. Our sympathies are with his family. Afine officer and pilot, but most impor¬ tantly, agreat human being, Mike has left us an example for which to strive.

Before 1go further, Ineed to point out that the spring issue of Check¬ points had my address wrong. The correct street number is 1801 (eighteen-oh-one). And my office phone has changed; the extension is now 2270. I’m sure that with these corrections Iwill get many mote letters and phone calls. Don’t worry about overwhelming me with your inputs, I can handle it.

Idid get aletter from Syd McPHERSON who has decided “to do 11 years of catching up” in contributing to the class news. Syd and Janet (and their two year old) have been at Shaw AFB for 3Vi years while Syd flew as aFAC in the 0-2 and OT-37. However, Syd is soon going back to the A-10 at Bentwaters. Syd says Bob SANDS is at Shaw as aflight com¬ mander (in the F-16, Ipresume). During Syd’s A-10 requal he saw Dave ANDERSON who is an IP at Davis-Monthan. Thanks, Syd.

As Iwrite this, Iam in my BOQ room at Bolling AFB on asummer boondoggle to the Pentagon. The first person Isaw when Imoved into the “Q” acouple weeks ago was Terry PETRIE. Terry is in the JAG business and travels the Pacific circuit. He was in Washington getting briefed on an upcoming case and has now departed for the trial. It was great to see Terry. The only drawback was being reminded —since Terry was in my doolie squadron —that it’s been 15 years since we went through BCT. (Sir the century series aircraft are ...)

Undoubtedly there are many other ’76ers in the Washington area, but I’ve not run into any yet. Did talk to Ben THORNSON on the phone the other day. Ben is still in the Pentagon basement but hopes to move on in a year or so. He says that Dan CUDA is also still on the Air Staff working in Studies and Analysis. Before Ireturn to Colorado, I’ll try to track down classmates at Andrews.

Though I’ve not seen him yet, Iknow that Jeff MAIN is here in Washington. Jeff is going to the Defense Attache School; this will be followed by atour at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, CA. When fluent (or at least adequate) in Spanish, he will go to Honduras as

an assistant air attache. Good choice, Jeff —picking aquiet, small, outof-the-way country, in aregion of the world where little is happening.

Had agood talk with Joe MARCHING by phone last week. Joe has been in rated assignments at HQ TAC since November. He expects to be there awhile so Iimagine many of you fi ghter types will be talking to Joe over the next few years.

While flying through Dallas-Ft. Worth acouple weeks ago Itried call¬ ing all the ’76ers Icould think of in that area. Most were not home; the only answer Igot was from asix year old named Jordan STEINBAUGH. Jordan then put his Dad, K.C., on the phone and we talked for an hour. K.C., Liz, and family are still happy in the DFW area but may be ready to move on in acouple years. They will be happier still in acouple weeks when K.C. finishes his night-school MBA and rejoins his family for even¬ ings and weekends.

Some news picked up around the Academy; the Academy newspaper pointed out that this year’s Thunderbird team scheduled for the gradua¬ tion fly-by included Dave ROBINSON (as well as zoomies from various other classes). Iwas already TDY during Graduation Week, Dave, so I missed the performance. Hope to see it in the future.

Every year each Academy faculty department recognizes its instructor who best “characterizes excellence in education through personal exam¬ ple and performance.” The Mathmatical Sciences Department winner was Jim KOGLER. And the winner in the History Department was Larry WEAVER. Congratulations, gentlemen.

And in the past-repeats-itself category: eleven years ago Tom MALLARY and Iwere roommates at Mather when we went through UNT. Last month, Tom and Ichecked out together in the T-43; we will join Kent ESBENSHADE and Gary LORENZEN as part-time instructors in the various Academy nav programs. Full-time instructors are Kevin MARTIN (chief of the 50 ATS Operation Branch) and Glenn VERA, who is taking over the squadron operations officer job. Based on ab¬ solutely no factual evidence, Iwill suggest that Glenn is this class’ first flying squadron operations officer. Hopefully my mailbox will be filled with protests and examples proving me wrong. At least that way I’ll get some mail. But if I’m right, congratulations to Glenn. Even if Iam wrong, congratulations to Glenn.

Last issue Inoted that Bob JOHNSON had changed addresses within Massachusetts. Ann Livingston wrote anote elaborating abit. The Johnson’s (including three-year-old Robert II and less-than-one-year old Andrew) are now stationed at Pease AFB. Bob is an orthopaedic surgeon there.

That is all 1have except for the following changes of address; Bill RAEDY from Fairfield to Davis, CA; Brad MOFFETT from Morrisonville, NY to Bellevue, NE; Bill VISNOVSKY to Murray, UT; Allen PATRIQUIN to Valdosta, GA; Scott GOUGH from Homestead AFB, FL to Shaw AFB, SC; Charles McHENRY from Eielson AFB, to North Pole, AK; Gerald HAAT to Suisan City, CA; Richard WALDBUSSER from Hershey, PA to Mt. Laurel, NJ; Mike ELY from somewhere in the Pacific (sorry, Idon’t have my directory with me) to Hickam AFB, HI; and Paul DUCLAIR from Woodbridge, VA to Marietta, GA. Mike WALSH from somewhere else in the Pacific to Ft. Walton Beach, FL; Bill LANNING from Federal Way, WA to Vergennes, VT; Greg LEWIS from Middletown, RI to Sumter, SC; and Jon TENSFELDT from O’Fallon, IL to Houston, TX.

Thanks to all that passed info along. Keep it coming.

Chuck Spitler

1990 Rusty Hinge Dr. Colorado Springs, CO 80920

Home: (303) 528-5254

AV: 259-2326

Percent members: 37

You may notice adifferent writing style this month, since INTERIM scribe Chuck SPITLER (Terry) is writing this article. Jim DART (Susan) left mysteriously (shades of the Midnight Mayflower) on his way to the land of the grunt, (AKA West Point) to be aTAC officer. Seriously, it’s a real good move for Jim and we all wish him the best of luck, and we do need avolunteer to be the scribe. If you’re interested, just drop aline to the address above or give me acall.

They say time flies when you’re having fun and it seems 10 years have flown since we graduated. You should all have received another mailing from Jay FAWCETT by the time you see this, and all the information concerning room reservations and other details should be included there but I’ll include Jay’s address for anyone who might be TDY, etc. The re¬ union starts at 1600 Thursday, 17 Sep 1987, and runs through the

weekend. Events include aClass of ’77 party on Thursday night; agolf tournament, open house, lunch with cadets (300 grads), meeting with cadets, USAFA briefings, next-of-kin coffee, and memorial ceremoney on Friday. Saturday includes aparade, tailgate party, football game against last year’s WAC champs San Diego State, the Jabara Banquet, and Homecoming Ball. Bring your walking shoes, your Class As (Active, Guard, Reserves) and abusiness suit for you, and acocktail dress and comfortable (but tasteful) suit or dress for the memorial ceremony and Jabara Banquet for the wife. The child care centers at Pete and USAFA will be open only during their normal hours, and you must have the child’s shot records. Randy ROTHE (Pam) is putting together alist of YMCA or Red Cross-trained sitters which should be included with one of the mailings you’ve received.

Jay’s work address is USAFA/DFM, USAF Academy, CO 80840. AV 259-4130 or 303-472-4130. It sounds like agreat time, hope to see you all there.

One of the last “rocks” in our class is fi nally taking the plunge. Don COFFEY will marry the lovely Janet Halbert on July 18 here at the Academy.

Gary FAZIO was here at the end of April for liaison officer training. He’s flying for American Airlines out of New York City and had dinner with Jay FAWCETT, Jay JOINER (Patsy), Norm THOMPSON (Mary), and Mark BARNETT (Karen) while he was here.

Leaving the local USAFA area is John BUCKLEY (Sandy), on his way to Harvard Law School and the Marine Reserves as an A-4M pilot. Give him acall if you’re in Boston. John says that John REED won the Top Gun Trophy at William Tell and is now on his way to an F-15 assignment at Bitburg. John also says that Daryl JONES is out of the service and is finishing up law school this year and heading “somewhere down south.”

John Buckley, Sandy and the boys “reaping the fruits of unemployment. ”

The last of the local news is that Dave CHAFFEE (Ann) won the award for the outstanding AOC this year and it was presented to him at aparade in his honor. He will be rotating to Wright-Patterson this summer. Joe SMUTKO (Carolyn) will be replacing him as the CS-02 AOC. SeventySeven rules on.

Tony ZYCH (Laura) left the Pentagon staff of the Secretary of the Air Force in February for ahardship tour on Maui, stargazing at satellites. By the time you’re reading this Tony should be aproud papa for the second time. He wrote areal nice letter and invited anyone who happens to be on the island to look him up.

Tom JONES (Liz) found time to write while finishing up his Ph.D. at the University of Arizona. I’m sure school and his new nine-month-old baby, Ann, are keeping him busy, but he manages to keep up with alot of ’77. He says Paul PIROG (Mary) and their three girls will be leaving Ellsworth and heading for Keesler AFB this summer. He’ll be amedical legal consultant (JAG) at the base hospital. Ty ROBBINS (Carolyn) is a civilian optical engineer/research scientist in the Boston area. Tim HAGAN (Mary) is aGLCM flight commander in Germany, but may be headed for Alaska soon. Lary LUCKETT (Hope) is asquadron weapons of fi cer in the A-10.

HOMECOMING ’87 (17-20 Sep.)

Falcons vs. San Diego State

Rex WILLIAMS (Linda) sent the picture below of himself and his clan. Rex left the AF in ’82 and is about halfway through a93(!) semester-hour Master of Divinity program at Alliance Theological Seminary in Nyack, NY. He’s applying to be aUSAF chaplain after he has the required ex¬ perience level.

Chuck CURRAN (Claudia) is also at UA finishing his master’s in management information systems and taking care of his brand new third child, Caitlin Therese. They are headed for ESD at Hanscom AFB. Chuck managed to find time to play rugby for the Davis-Monthan Man¬ drills and they placed second in the National Armed Forces Rugby Cham¬ pionship at Wright-Pat. Chuck was named to the Air Force Tournament Select Side as afullback. He’ll also be the new assistant director of Air Force Rugby. Working with Chuck will be Denny MERIDETH (’73) (Paula), Randy MEYER (’79) and Barney BALLINGER (Gay). Chuck saw Joel HORIE recently at the D-M Club. He and Pete BONANNl were going through A-7 training for the Guard and Rick MOISIO (Mary) was one of their IPs.

Major Jim PAGE (Joni) is finishing up ACSC in June and will be stay¬ ing on as afaculty member after graduation. The “Last” Page of five was born in March and is named Kristin. All of us on-timers who are lucky enough to get on the school’s list will be looking forward to seeing Jim there.

The only news from the change-of-address cards is that Kevin KENKEL (Julie) is headed to Incirlik, Turkey on atwo-year accompanied remote as aweapons liaison officer. If you drop ashort note when you send achange of address as Julie did, it sure makes keeping up with your guys alot more enjoyable.

Now aword of thanks and congratulations. The response to Randy VIERA’S (Jane) letter concerning Rick SPOTT’s (Debbie) trip to the re¬ union has been very commendable. Thanks not only to the graduates who contributed, but also the large number of parents and other family members who also made contributions.

That’s all Ihave this month. Ihope to see you all at the reunion. BEAT SAN DIEGO STATE!

(Editor’s note. Aletter to Jim DART was sent directly to the AOG from Howard MEYER, Jr. for inclusion in the column.)

Jim, Ijust read your writeup in Checkpoints. Thanks for the fine work you’re doing for our class. Ihaven’t written any inputs before, but thought I’d answer your request for news.

I’ve been at the Academy for four years in the Chemistry Department teaching the doolies. It has been fun but lots of work. I’m currently in the process of moving to Laramie, WY, returning there for athree-year quasi-AFIT program. Iwas offered ascholarship by the Chemistry Department to return for my Ph.D. and the Air Force thought that this was too good of an offer to refuse. Anyway, it’s been fun here, and now it’s back to Wyoming (I went there for Minutemen after graduation for five years, then to Laramie to finish my MS before returning to teach at the Academy. Join the Air Force and see Wyoming and Colorado and Wyoming. ..)

Again, thanks for the fine job you’ve done with the magazine articles. By the way, Dennis KLIZA and A1 CARNEY are in the Chem Dept teaching doolies as of January of this year.

Greg Postulka

1243 Rue Crozat

Baton Rouge, LA 70810

Home: (504) 769-9367

Work: (504) 388-4407

Percent members: 33

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Great ’78 effort. Much information came my way. Y’all are waking up. Let’s hear what everyone has to say. Thanks for the support.

PHONE CALLS. Tanker SNYDER called to answer all my queries last time about our reunion. Believe it or not, Tanker, who teaches manage¬ ment at USAFA, Tim MINER, teaching econ, and Dana BRIGGS, Space Command, are starting the ball rolling. As the details come together, the committee will mail information flyers. Tanker also said Tom and Carol SCHNEEBERGER live in Colorado Springs. Tom works for TRW.

Arnie DOUVILLE called from Chicago, (or is it Air Jordanville now?) to say he and Debbie and youngsters Ryan and Lauren are enjoying the Windy City. Arnie went to the Univ of Chicago business school and is an associate with the firm of Drexel, Burnam, Funk, Wagnalls, Abbott and Costello. For those of you who live paycheck to credit card, that’s invest¬ ment banking/finance; the same business Ivan Boesky is/was in. Arnie enjoys the business and is getting four months of exposure on Wall Street over the summer. Arnie had some news about classmates. Jack KUCERA has paid his dues quickly and is acompany president in Arizona. Nice ad¬ vancement Jack. Jim WEIDMANN is an IBM rep in Denver. That’s a long way from smashing helmets on the flightline. Jim, is that atrue story about you and the helmet after you solo landed a“tweet” gear-up? Nah, not Jim Weidmann. Arnie also said Mark and Cindy BUSHELL are liv¬ ing in the Boston area. Mark works as an engineer for Raychem. Joe BUNECKE fi nished amaster’s at Northeastern and is headed to the USAFA behavioral science dept. J.D. PAULY is at HQ MAC. And K.C. SCHOW is flying with the Thunderbirds. Thanks for the call Arnie.

Francisco TORRES called from Miami to say hi and to offer help with the reunion. If you can send some oranges and sunshine to Colorado around Sep 88, that would be abig help Francisco.

CORRESPONDENCE. Jim ARNOLD wrote from Chanute AFB, IL where he is the chief of Civil Law. He and Julie enjoy the assignment and they’re involved in everything. Jim is aliaison officer to motivate young Americans to be AF officers and to take boondoggles to see what the Academy is all about. Jim sees Charlie SMITH frequently. Charlie is a PhD EE student at the Univ of Illinois. Sounds tough, but, Jim says Charlie is dating every eligible female captain on base, so he must have some free time. Jim “thinks” Paul GILBERT is “somewhere” getting a master’s. Maybe someone has better info. Weak Jim. Steve and Julie KNOTT had their first child in Dec 86. Steve is at HQ MAC. Mike SKOLAUT lives and works in Hutchinson, KS. He’s joined the old man’s Pizza Hut venture, has afancy title and, of course, is making loads of dough (I couldn’t resist the pun). Guy MARTELLE is at Space Com¬ mand.

Dave MAHER wrote from AF Plant 42 in Palmdale, CA. He says that’s alittle out of the mainstream; Idon’t think you can even see it from there. Dave and Sheila announced the arrival, in Jan, of Matthew. Con¬ gratulations. Dave saw Russ GLOVER who was upgrading to RC-135 IP. He and Sally are at Offutt. Dan PLAVNEY, Jane and their son Eli, are in Bethlehem, PA (Lehigh U?) to earn credentials to be ahigh school science teacher. Dave EIDSAUNE, one of our fast-trackers, is at Edwards look¬ ing to be selected for astronaut training. Good luck, Dave. That’s the news from Dave Maher and the great Mohave Desert outpost.

Bob HERRIS sent an update from his desert outpost in Torrejon, Spain. Bob and Ron MITTENZWEI are IPs and flight commanders in F-16s. Ron is also finishing his MBA between check rides. Good time management. Both Ron and Bob should now be at Spangdahlem as cadre for the F-16 conversion there. My old 23rd SQ roommate. Chuck “I can’t gain enough weight for football but I’ve got to lose weight for Wing Open Boxing” GREENWOOD is at Torrejon with wife Pat and son John-Eric after astint at Kunsan, Korea. Chuck was also an ASTRA type. Seems like three foreign lands for Chuck; Korea, Spain, and Wash D.C. Bob also said that Jay LINDELL, Jack SWARSBROOK and Mark RENELT are flying F-ltls at Lakenheath. And “Maj” Pat QUIGLEY is a maintenance officer there. That was agood European update.

Ryan, Linda, Byron and Rex Williams.

From the aide-de-camp to CINCSAC (great note pad) Roger BURG writes HQ SAC is the place. Dan SIMMONS is the rubber chicken circuit seating chart officer (protocol) at HQ SAC. He’s the father of anew baby girl. Joe MUDD is taking abreak from U-2 high flying to work in SAC/XP. Russ CLINE is also in XP. Bo MARLIN works next door on RC-135 requirements. Roger knows there are other ’78ers at HQ SAC but he doesn’t get to roam the halls. However, he does roam through Europe and other SAC units. In England, he saw Ken SCHOPPER who is aTR-1 tour guide at Alconbury. At Plattsburg, he saw Taco GILBERT on the alert pad and Andy COX as astudent in CCTS. In Michigan, Glenn SPEARS is bomber scheduling at K1 Sawyer and Glenn says Bob MCADAMS was sent to Dyess to find something new to fly. Great tour, Roger. Also, Glenn and Sheila FRICK have anew baby girl. Glenn is a high school teacher and spends mucho time at the golf course. How’s that handicap —single digits? Steve ANDERSON is jumping out of perfectly good airplanes with the Army at Ft. Benning. Joe REHEISER is flying C-141s out of Charleston, SC. Brad CARLSON is aNellis desert rat. Roger says he likes working for General Chain, but since he’s on the road alot, Roger’s wife Chris just had to go to work. Roger and Chris have a three-year-old daughter, Elizabeth. Burg! The CINC wants to see you!

Dean HABRUM is too busy in production management at Michelin Tire Co in S. Carolina, so his wife Kathy wrote anice letter. Dean and Kathy had their third child in April. They are Sarah (7), Jake (5), and Bet¬ sy Marie. They like the stability of civilian life and he’s proud of his pro¬ duct. Ican see why he’s busy. Kathy says he’s aCivil Air Patrol advisor and aliaison officer. On top of that he gives flying lessons to civilians, young and old. But, his goal is to buy afarm to raise buffalo. Even Kathy doesn’t know what he’ll do with them, but everyone must dream. She says Greg CARSON fi nished atour as an AOC and he and Sherri are headed to St. Louis for ajob with McDonnell Douglas. Hey Greg, Ithought AOCs were career officers. What’s the deal? Harry and Gretchen LADE recently had ababy boy and are moving to Germany. That’s where he was born, so he’ll be close to his family. Paul PATRIDGE has anew little girl and is acertified genealogist in Okinawa. Are genealogy and Okinawa related or coincidence? Larry and Linda MORTON have another baby boy. Larry travels to Russia but I’m afraid to ask why. Brad and Terri DUNTON fly for Northwest. Wayne BUCHOLZ surprised Dean by mov¬ ing into the neighborhood. Dean and Wayne were in 6th SQ as smacks. Wayne completed mech eng work at Clemson and is an engineering super¬ visor at aplant in S. Carolina. Finally, P.J. and Joan VERGARO are in Alexandria, LA.

Rick REASER is closing out aPentagon tour so he had some time to write. He’s giving up his exec position to attend the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) in Monterrey, CA. He recently saw Jim PUHEK who is still working at Onizuka AFS, CA. Rick talks to Rick MIDDLETON often. Rick was flying AC-130Hs at Hurlburt, but, more recently flies for Delta. He’s also now in AFRES flying AC-130As. Rich and Donna have alittle boy. Rich REASER told me about classmates in the Pentagon area. Rob (Lori) WORLEY is in AF/XOO working on the Navstar Global Position¬ ing System Operational Phase-In. Scotty (Maureen) RICHARDSON is an intel analyst. Jim (Kirsten) GARN is doing rated force management. Dave (Ruth) WININGER went from the NPS to do tactical communica¬ tions analysis. Mike MITCHELL is at the NPS preparing to be adefense attache. Kevin (Klytia) ROPER is acivilian defense staffer for Con¬ gressman McDade from Pennsylvania. Jeff (Marlene) BRAKE is flying dignitaries around Wash DC in his helicopter. Jess (Debbie) SPONABLE is in the National Aerospace Plan Program office at Wright-Pat. Larry (Sue) JAMES is still at LA AFS CA.

The last letter comes from Bill SILVESTRI. He scribbled out something about ashift in career goals. He left the real AF for full-time ANG duty protecting Atlantic City decadence in his alert F-106. He loves the ANG. Not only is it “decent working hours, alot of flying and a much more relaxed working environment,” but they’re converting to F-16s to boot. Bill has been married seven years and has three children. He writes that Nick LYNN is there flying ANG part time and flying for AA. He’s upgrading to first officer and moving to Dallas. Nick and Angela have adaughter and ason. Bill validated aprevious rumor in this column that K.C. SCHOW is aThunderbird. He saw him at the Barksdale Air Show. Jack PARKER is part of the F-111 weapons school at Mt Home. He and Diana have two children.

CHANGE OF ADDRESS: Larry KUDELKA from Utah to WrightPat; Gary MARTIN from Dyess to Rapid City, SD; Joe PHIPPS from North Carolina to Homestead, FL; John SCHAFER APO NY (Spain); Bill SENN from Myrtle Beach to Valdosta, GA; Dan ST CLAIR from Travis to Kent, WA.

LAST MINUTE COMMINUQUES: Doug HAGEDORN called

on a layover in Baton Rouge. Doug flies for Delta out of Cincinnati, but he lives in Washington, MO with his wife and two sons. He had some news about afew classmates. Don AVERY is well in Jacksonville, FL and is

looking for an ANG job there. Old barnstormer, Ken BAIER, is now married and works for Martin-Marrietta in Denver. Doug says he saw another barnstormer, Lon LOWE, in St. Louis. Lon fl ies for Alaska Air and home is where Heidi is, Seattle. Finally, athird former 23rd ’78er, Wayne DAVIDSON, is in Frankfurt.

John WELLSFRY wrote his fi rst message to Checkpoints. It was short but informative. John left the AF in March and now works in his family’s oil business in Wichita Falls, TX. He’s married (Andrea) and has agirl and aboy. John was an A-10 driver at Bentwaters. He says Jerry SINK was also there.

Start thinking about Sep ’88 for our reunion. See you there.

Michael F. Van Hoomissen

7322 S.W. 27th Avenue

Portland, OR 97219

Home: (503) 244-5916

Office: (503) 221-1529

Percent members: 26

Hello from Portland, Oregon, my hometown. In December Ileft active duty at the Pentagon and White House. 1married Jan KNOCKE, Class of 1980, in March and have since been practicing law in Oregon and Washington from my Portland office and serving Air Force Reserve duty with the 939th Civil Engineering Squadron at the Portland International Airport and the Air Force Academy liaison officer program. If you have occasion to visit Portland, please call on Jan or me. We would like to see you.

Also living in Portland is Henry JOHNSON (Barbara). Henry is a stockbroker for Kidder, Peabody &Co. and executive officer for the 142nd Fighter Interceptor Group of the Oregon Air National Guard at Portland International Airport. Henry taught political science at the Academy before leaving active duty. He is starting achapter of the Association of Graduates in the Portland area and also assisting in the Academy liaison officer program.

Jim REGAN (Tanya) is also out. He is aself-employed investment manager located in Colorado Springs. Also in the Springs are Tom ENGLISH (Terri), Pete HAYES and Bill BARRY (Monica). Tom is head coach of the USAFA golf team. Pete and Bill recently finished their spon¬ sored master’s degrees at USC and Stanford, respectively, and are teaching in the Academy political science department.

Paul DIAMOND (Bonnie) is in Denver estimating the costs of solid rocket boosters and similar products for Martin Marietta when he is not buying stock in the Coors brewery abeer at atime. Also in the Denver area is Hal MOORE (Patty). Hal is out of the Marine Corps and flying helicopters full-time for the Colorado Air National Guard while working on adouble-major master’s program in the evening.

Mark PIMENTEL (Betsy) is recently out and working as asenior engineer in the Washington DC office of ESL, asubsidiary of TRW. He also runs Channel One Enterprises, his computer consulting company. Mark gave me the following information on other bulldogs. MPC finally reversed their earlier decision and granted Guy WALSH (Miriam) his re¬ quest for remote assignment to Korea. Guy will be there through the Olympic games. Mike RHODES (Sarah) recently fi nished Defense Systems Management College and is bound for SAFSP in Los Angeles. Tony HANEY and wife Cheryl are proud parents of ababy girl, Natasha. Bill LUUKKONEN (Cindy) is managing acommunication program at Offutt AFB and Jim MCINTEE is out and working for Rockwell Interna¬ tional out of Anaheim, CA. Anne gave her husband Doug NEWLIN a baby boy on his birthday this January. Rusty STEWART married Sharon

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and is assigned to the Johnson Space Center. Kurt TODOROFF (Katie) is out working as an engineer for Lear Siegler in Grand Rapids, MI. Mike GEE (Leslie) is aT-38 airspace of fi cer at Williams AFB. Mark PIMENTEL periodically prints anewsletter called the Dawg Poop for the 13th Squardon Bulldog classmates and Ithank him for the information he provided and for including me on his mailing list.

Mark CEBUHAR (Cynthia) wrote me from Minnesota to say he has a new baby boy, Zachary. Mark is a727 flight engineer for Northwest Airlines and Cynthia is ateacher.

Paul SCHUBERT, who graduated from Santa Clara law school while on active duty, is out recently and has passed the New York bar exam. He is attending business school at Wharton and working this summer in New York. Sincere congratulations to Paul and all of you on your successes and new assignments.

The class of fi cers: myself, Jim REGAN, Mike DONATELLl, and John COURTNEY are starting to focus on our class reunion in September, 1989. John reports that we have $12,571.22 in our treasury as of April 30th. Ihave formed areunion committee chaired by myself and consisting of our other past class presidents. Bob MCGREAL and Paul SCHUBERT. The committee will advise the permanent class officers in the planning of the reunion. Your suggestions are needed and welcome.

Please keep the Association of Graduates updated with your current mailing address so that you can receive noti fi cation of the class reunion and any other class mailings. Please also pass this word to all classmates you see as they may not be AOG members and not receive this article.

Bud VAZQUEZ will write our next article. Please send your cards, let¬ ters and pictures to him at 47 Lawrence St., Wilmington, MA 01887 or call ATVN 478-5980 and ask for MITRE ext 6118, Best wishes to you and your family for asafe and enjoyable summer.

Matt Neuenswander

3818 Packard

Alexandria, LA 71303

AV: 683-5591

Percent members: 36

What can 1say? Igot back from Honduras two weeks before this arti¬ cle was due, and was pleased to see that my falcon buddies had responded to last article’s whining with lots of cards and letters. It’s great! Without a lengthy opening Iwill commence with the news.

While 1was in Honduras for amonth, Iran into several classmates. Ed¬ die FOLSOM was there in my tent and it seems he will always haunt me on these deployments. We have what is called a“Hog Log” while deployed and it is asquadron diary of the events while away from home. Eddie placed the envelope of one of my letters from my wife, Marcia, in the log with several low-rent comments and Ideclared global thermal nuclear war on him. In the end Istapled all of his underwear in the same book. Iguess we will never grow up.

Also in Honduras were Danny GILL, Judd KELLY, and Steve SWAUGER. Danny is fl ying OA-37s at Davis-Monthan and he and his wife just had ababy boy. Danny will be transitioning to the F-16 in the next several months. Judd is flying OA-37s in Panama, and hoping to

transition to another fighter soon. Steve is flying OV-lOs at George AFB, and he is also transitioning to the F-16 soon. Chuck MILLIGAN wrote from USAFA where he is presently teaching CE. Chuck brought up a good point in that the AOG is out of the decals of our class crest. I ordered about 1,500 more of them, and if any of you ’80 grads want one just write the AOG, USAFA, CO 80840 and send one dollar per decal. Any extra money will go towards our 10-year reunion.

Jeff SHIVNEN wrote from Monterey, CA where he is attending the Defense Language Inst. Jeff flew F-4Gs at Spangdahlem and received an Olmsted Scholarship to the University of Grenoble in France. Henri BIGO is finishing atwo-year tour as an ALPHA jet instructor pilot in Tours, France. John CHRISTOPHER is replacing Henri. John and his wife Carol just had ababy and barely escaped the Pebble Beach fire while going to school out in Monterey. Meanwhile, back in Spangdahlem, Rick LEHLE and his wife Jackie will be staying there to transition to the F-16. Also staying at Spang to fly the electric jet is Harry EDWARDS. Mike McKENNA is at Spang flying the F-4G. Mike STEFANIAK went from the F-4G to aT-37 at Columbus, and he is atweet flight commander. Kevin NAGIE is now flying T-38s at Willy. Joe STRABALA is still flying F-4Gs at Spang.

Bob MASEK’s wife, Charlotte, wrote me anice letter with lots of news. Bob and Charlote are at Seymour-Johnson for ayear and Bob is fl ying the F-4. They have two kids, Steven and Laura. Bob WILSON is also at S-J where he is aflight surgeon. Randy and Cheri CHOW are at Clark AB, P.I. Randy is fl ying the F-4G and they just had ababy girl they named Kayla. That makes two for the Chows as they have athree-yearold boy named Adam. Toby DEHNERT is at McConnell flying the KC-135, and Rich HARWOOD is at Shaw fl ying RF-4s. Bob, Toby and Rich all just went to SOS together. Mitch and Terri HAILSTONE recent¬ ly had another son (May 3rd). Their oldest son is named Will and new brother’s name is Bryan. Mitch and Terrie are moving from Little Rock to Dobbins AFB, GA. Mitch is changing from missiles to contracting.

Joe and Babette CORSO are stationed at RAF Lakenheath and they just had their third daughter. Joe is the squadron scheduler for his F-111 Sq. and also fl ies the Aardvark. Bob SCHLEY is aMr. now and living in Ft. Walton Beach. Mike FLOYD is going remote to Korea in the F-16, and his wife Karen and daughters Erin and Jamie will stay with relatives in San Antonio.

Peggy DENNIS again wrote with lots of news. Jack and Myda BARKER just had ababy boy, John Michael. Jack is flying C-141s at Travis. Mark AUDISS was recently at the Vance AFB open house with his C-130. Jim STURCH gave the MAC career brief. Jim is now at Scott AFB in astaff job. Jim’s wife is Christy and they have two kids. Greg HARSTAD is aC-130 IP at McChord and will soon be doing an ALO job remote to Korea. 1may see you there Greg. Deron BROWN, also at Mc¬ Chord, is PCSing to USAFA this fall as aT-41 driver. Doug OWENS who is at USAFA now in T-41s got an A-10 in the ATC exchange. 1con¬ gratulate your taste Doug. Doug and his wife Theresa have two kids. Brian TIGHE is marrying Chris in July, and Pat YOUNGS is marrying Eileen Collins 1Aug. Pat is agolf coach at USAFA and T-41 IP.

Sue HELMS was selected for test pilot school as an engineer. Marianne (OWENS) LARIVEE has left for Great Britain ahead of her husband, Dave, Dave will be getting his doctorate at Oxford this fall. Steve “Mud¬ dy” WATERS was at USAFA recently on ajob hunt. Steve is currently in ATC Stan Eval at Randolph. Steve and wife are expecting their first cild in the fall. Tony ARETZ and wife Terri are currently at the U. of Illinois where Tony is getting his doctorate. And to think that he once was my roommate.

Rick SHUFF and Neil CATONE are both flying F-15s at Langley. Jan KNOCKE married Mike Van Hoomissen and Ididn’t get awedding in¬ vitation. Ihope he reads this article and asks about all the cats you have run over with your car Jan. CONGRATS. Thanks loads for all the news Peggy.

Ed HERLIK wrote from A-10 RTU where he and wife Cindy will soon be enroute to RAF Bentwaters. Ed fl ew OV-lOs at George for quite a while. Ed said that Jim BALAZS and wife Jolene and kids are packing up at Vance and moving to Canada. Not to evade the draft but to be aTudor instructor pilot. Randy NELSON married avery nice flight nurse at Clark and they have extended there. Ken and Libba McMILLAN and their schnauzers are leaving Sheppard AFB for F-16s at Spangdahlem. Thanks for the news Ed. I’ll drop in if we get to Bentwaters.

DON’T

Bud Vazquez, at left, sent in this photo of Mike and Pam Pokes. The pic¬ ture was taken in Boston in April as Mike and Pam were heading to Spangdahlem AB where Mike will continue to fly F-I6s.

For those of you who don’t know it we lost another member of our class when Ross LATORRA went down at Holloman AFB. Ross was a dear friend and is survived by his wife, Janet. We will all miss Roscoe. He was atrue friend.

Last but not least, Dave and Laura VALLADO had anew baby girl on May 20. Welcome Simone Michelle.

Ensign Don Myers, U.S. Coast Guard.

1was going to close, but Igot one last letter today that has to take the cake. Don MYERS got out after five years and Iguess flew enough civilian that he got ajob with acommuter airline. Don didn’t like that much and still wanted to fly in the military soooo, he joined the Coast Guard. Unfortunately he had to go through OCS again. Here’s to Coast Guard Ensign Don Myers who in his own words is our lowest ranking classmate. Don and wife Kathy are at Pensacola, FL where Don is going through basic Naval Flight School.

Well folks, that’s about all 1have. God bless, and until next issue keep those cards and letters coming or call me at AV 683-5591. Matt.

Larry Ruggiero

5930 Northwind Drive Colorado Springs, CO 80918

Home: (303) 598-6051

AV: 259-3429

Percent members: 29

Greetings from the land of SR-71 fly-bys and never-ending construc¬ tion. Not too much spectacular to report this time around. Ithink all my regular correspondents must be resting their pens for aburst of rapid-fire fall correspondence. (At least 1hope that’s the case!) Ihope that by the time this issue hits the streets all of us will have been enjoying afine sum¬ mer.

Moving right into the change-of-address cards, yours truly received a bunch —must be summer PCS time! Jim DREW (Joy) has moved from Naranja, FL, to Apple Valley, CA; Dave STONER (Mary) is holding down new digs at Pope AFB, NC; Larry WEISENBERGER (Leslie) is now at Chandler, AZ, from Europe; Dave HOMBURGER (Michele) has changed residences in Abilene, TX. As previously reported, T.J. HASTY is at Langley AFB; Randy BENTLEY is an AFROTC instructor at the Univ of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Bill ROBERTS is entrenched at Mont¬ gomery, AL; Jeff THOMPSON (Christina) from APO New York to APO San Francisco; Joe AIMO from Lewisville, TX to Peoria, AZ. Rob ZYRIEK has moved from Europe to Williams AFB; Joe CLEM (Lisa) from Sacramento, CA, all the way to Hurlburt Field, FL. Mike LEPPER’s wife, Moine, (please forgive the spelling—couldn’t read your note!) writes that Mike is over in Europe with the 612 TFS of the Air Force Reserve while she resides in Victorville, CA. Paul OTT (Karen) has moved on to Offutt AFB from Wright-Pat and John MOONEY is in Europe following an assignment at Hill AFB.

On the newsy side, Igot acall from Carol (HODGE) WEAVER (Dale) who reports that she has decided to stay Air Force and accept an AFIT slot at Wright-Patterson AFB. She married Dale and his two children, Amy and D.R., during her prior Pentagon assignment. Carol reports that Allison (LINDER) HURLBUTT (Tom) should be enjoying motherhood by now while assigned as aKC-135 nav at Grissom AFB. Fred

WEISHOFF (Lisa) is at HQ Systems Command and Brett WILSON is in charge of the IBM comm shop at the Pentagon. Thanks for the holler, Carol, keep in touch!

Mike JAKOBI called from Dayton awhile back with more news about himself and some of us. He reports that Larry GALLOGLY (Elizabeth) is out of active duty and now flies for the Rhode Island National Guard hile holding down aGS-13 position. Jim KILTY flies the WC-135 out of Sacramento, CA, and will have married Grace by this time —congrats!

Ev WALLACE (Lisa) is in financial management at Wright-Pat and is still playing lacrosse. The previously reported Kelly OBERBILLIG and Mike MCNERNEY are out of the Air Force and working for ahigh tech firm in California, Support Systems. And finally, two of our erstwhile fighter jocks, Chet NOWAK (Kathy) and “Nooch” NUCCIO are atten¬ ding Fighter Weapons and Test Pilot Schools, respectively. Keep up the fine stick work, guys! As for Jake, he says he’s hanging in there, buoyed by hopes of rejoining us as he continues to battle his epilepsy.

Talked to Bill BRIDGES (Tina) recently, who claims to have the distinction of being our “professional athlete” by virtue of his intramural responsibilities as an SOS instructor type at Maxwell AFB. He and Tina now have two little ones: Tisha, four years, and Andrew, one. Bill is try¬ ing to obtain an Academy slot as one of the Corn’s fine mil stu instruc¬ tors. Bill says he sees lots of ’Slers passing through his hallowed halls.

Ispent apleasant evening recently at the home (gorgeous, Imight add!) of Mike NOEL and his wife Betsy, as they celebrated her moving up to captain and his moving out to law school at Denver University. He adds that he’ll miss Air Force blue but is looking forward to achallenging law career. Good luck, Mike.

Well, it was bound to happen sooner or later; yes, Tim HARRIS and his lovely wife, Michelle, have moved on from the Academy! Tim is now at Scott AFB working as an acquisitions manager —he’ll be sorely missed in the Academy’s basketball program. But more of us are beginning to grace the halls of USAFA: Scott HALLAM, wife Sharon, and son Chris are now in the History Dept and also in my neighborhood as new residents of Colorado Springs. Scott has been adedicated missileer prior to his AFIT assignment at the Univ of Virginia. Welcome! Another new face Iswear I’ve seen around is Craig KITCHENS (Adare) who is flying motorgliders for the 94th here. Ialso ran into Mary Pat EHRHARD at 1987’s graduation. She finished SOS and was able to witness little brother Dave’s graduation before heading back to Germany, where she is acom¬ munications type.

Other hot poop finds that irrepressible funny man Ed KNOX is again a member of the fine Tops in Blue tour group, having won aspot during the world-wide Air Force talent show in June. In case you aren’t areligious reader of Airman magazine you might not have noticed that two of us are fine trap and skeet marksmen: Bill ROY and Scott SCHROEDER. Both were featured afew issues ago in the sports shorts section.

On atragic note. Bill BRIDGES reported that Mike PARKER suffered the loss of his wife Cindy in an auto accident while stationed at Luke AFB. Mike was in F-16 upgrade training at the time, and has now moved on to Hahn AB, Germany. Our sincerest condolences Mike. We’ll keep you in our thoughts.

One fi nal note: if any of you plan on attending the Notre Dame foot¬ ball weekend festivities here this fall, make note of acelebration planned in honor of AFA’s long-time trainer, Jim Conboy. Persons interested in more details can write to the project officer, Capt Mason Goodhand, ’78, HQ USAFA/AHPAR, USAFA, CO 80840. That’s about all I’ve got for this summer edition. Please send much news and photos for the fall issue by mid September. Take care and be safe!

Jim Ratti

1117 Ward Lane

Blytheville, AR 72315

Home: (501) 762-1009

AV: 721-7601

Percent Members: 32

As Isit here and swelter in the Hootervillian heat, 1am faced with a most formidable task. Imust remove my OER writer’s hat and replace it with my creative writing one. I’ll have to be very creative to talk my way out of my latest Checkpoints blunder. If you read closely last time, you’ll probably remember that 1said “Also at Blytheville are Ray and Peggy TUREK.” Well, that probably came as asurprise to Peggy, Ray’s sister. Last time she checked, she was stationed in Tucson and married to Steve TOLDY, not Ray. To set the record straight, Ray TUREK and his wife Joan are now residents of Blytheville, as are their two gems of children, Robert and Rachel. Not only that, but they arrived here from Grand

Redtags in SOS class 87B.

Forks, not Minot. Oh well. Iwrite these columns late at night and make them up as 1go along.

Now, to increase the confusion level just abit, here is apicture sent to me by John TURACK (note the spelling —not to be confused with the object of my previous obfuscation). The picture is small, but you may recognize (back row, from left) Ed WILLIAMS (AWACS instructor. Tinker), Julie (ROSBURG) KECK (KC-135 nav, Wurtsmith), Phil BOSSERT (C-141 pilot, McGuire), Marianne (CAFIERO) YOUNG (computers at Hanscom), Manny GUERRERO (C-130 pilot, Howard), A1 LOWRY (C-130 pilot, Rhein Main), Don SCHILPP (T-37 IP, Colum¬ bus, with an assignment pending to F-15s), Mike EAYRS (command post. Grand Forks), Frank GEBERT (T-38 IP, Williams, going to T-39s in about nine months). Jack MOHNEY (acquisition, Wright-Patterson), Kurt STONEROCK (contracting, Wright-Patterson), J.K. MCKAY (director of budget, Barksdale), Bob SNEATH (T-38 IP, Williams, with an assignment to F-15s), Tim PARSONS (ops research analyst, the Pen¬ tagon), Walter JACKSON (program manager, Wright-Patterson), Mark LORENZ (communication, March), Mark CREWS (electrical engineer¬ ing instructor, USAFA), Steve KELLY (H-3 pilot, Osan), Powell WILSON (AF Audit Agency, Eglin) and Mike BERRY (EWO training of fi cer. Grand Forks).

In the front row, from left, are Dave RICKARD (T-38 IP, Randolph), Allen JARRELL (aero engineer, DIA, Bolling), Carla GAMMON (weather recon nav, Keesler), Joe KIM (T-38 IP, Randolph), Faith (INTERRANTE) FADOK (chief of Plans, RADCOM, Davis-Monthan), Mike SINISI (chief of Network Operations, Sembach), Debra (BURDEN) ZELENAK (space shuttle planning of fi cer, Johnson Space Center), Tim COLLINS (A-IO fl ight examiner, RAF Bentwaters, with an assignment to ASTRA), Gary PACKARD (T-37 IP, Vance, with an assignment to KC-lOs, Seymour Johnson) and John TURACK (GLCM project manager, Wright-Patterson). Not pictured are Joel ZEJDLIK (program manager, Wright-Patterson) and Andy FERGUSON (C-130 nav, Elmendorf).

This crew graced Montgomery from January to March of this year. While there, Andy FERGUSON narrowly missed breaking the SOS record of 6:35 in the 1.5 mile run. Also, those of you connected with the chorale will remember Col. Thacker. He’s now the director of curriculum at Maxwell, and he had former students and chorale members over for dinner and memories. Thanks for the letter and all the work putting together the picture, John.

My next letter is from my old EE bud Dean VOGEL. He succumbed to one of my gut-wrenching pleas for letters, and reports all is well at Eglin. Dean, his wife Kathleen and son (whose name he didn’t mention) just moved there from Elmendorf. Dean had been flying the T-Bird in Alaska, but now is an Eagle driver. He sends word that Mitch MILLER is a general’s aide at Kelly and has two children with athird on the way. Kash JOHNSON has been selected for an F-16, but no words on where or when. T.K. MOORE finished his A-10 tour and is now an IP at Fighter Lead-In Training. Dean also tells me that Greg LEWIS and Lee ANDER¬ SON are going through LIFT (which Itake to be an acronym for Lead-In Fighter Training, asomewhat transparent TAC-level effort to keep Fighter Lead-In Training from becoming known as FLIT). (As in “Quick Henry! The FLIT!”) Guess you had to be there. ..Anyway, Greg and Lee are both on their way to Eagle jets, but Dean’s not sure where. Dean’s not sure about Kent BRANNUM either, and says Ishouldn’t quote him when he says Kent is aT-38 IP at Vance. Okay Dan. It’s not in quotes. Andy PARRISH and T.L. Johnson are bound for the F-16 (at least that’s what Ithink Dean meant by Lawn Darts).

Dean wondered “Whatever Happened to. ..” Atwell WILLIAMS. By God, he’s got my curiosity aroused too. How ’bout it. At?

Along time ago when Iwas on alert, 1got aphone call at some ungodly

hour in the morning. Ithink it got me out of the shower or something. Anyway, it was one of you calling me with lots of names and news. I’ve got all that, but nowhere did Iwrite the name of the mystery caller. If any of this looks familiar, sound off.

Art CRAIN —T-38 Stan/Eval at Vance, married Sally JACKSON, ’83. Sally is in T-37 Stan/Eval at Vance. Dennis PEREZ —was a maintenance officer at Tyndall, but now has acommand-level job at Langley. Ed and Jennifer (LAVERTY) KHOURI —married, at WrightPatterson, and planning on aDOS soon. Jim TUITT —T-38 FAIP at Willy, on his way to aKC-135 at Grissom. Married to Karen. Scott ENGEN —got an RF-4. Roy SCHULTZ —got aC-9 to Scott. John KOLZOW —an academics instructor in UPT at Laughlin, married to Mary KOBERSTEIN, ’84. Ken WUTTKE —left the T-43 at Mather to go fly C-141S at Norton. Tom PFEIFFER —went from T-37 IP to an F-4. Jim BALDWIN —on an exchange tour flying T-37s in Jordan. H.M. HEPPERLEN —FAIP at Laughlin, hoping for an F-15 in September. Currently in T-37 Stan/Eval. Note: This could he the mystery caller. My notes don’t so indicate, but my (fading) memory says this may be true. Harry is rooming with Nick SANDWICK who is the wing com¬ mander’s exec at Laughlin. Bill Murphy —T-38 Stan/Eval, going to an F-15, got married. Steve KIEFFER —squadron commander’s exec, on his way to an A-10. Pete McCAFFREY (’83) —T-37 Stan/Eval, got mar¬ ried in May at USAFA. Roger SHARADIN —T-38 at Willy to KC-135S. Paul TAYLOR —same thing. H.M., if you called with this info, thanks. If you didn’t, you should have!

Iwrote last time that Bryon HINES was due here at Blytheville. Well, he rolled in right on schedule and is currently undergoing the fire hydrant approach to combat crew certi fi cation. He brought the following assign¬ ment news with him from Willy: Scott LUCARELLI —C-141 somewhere. Don LUCARELLI —no words on an assignment, but engaged to apilot at Willy. Frank HERMAN

KC-10, March. John

LARSON —C-130, Dyess. Rich SCHNEIDER —C-130, Little Rock. Rob SANFORD —B-52. Dan HARGROVE —T-38 IP, homesteading, rumored to become the fi rst FAIP squadron commander. Matt HANIFEN —going to C-14Is in about nine months. Bill WATKINS — got an F-111. Brian CANINO —C-130, Little Rock. Gordon GARLOCK —F-16 somewhere. Greg Lewis —F-16, Camp New Amsterdam. Marty WOJTYSIAK —KC-10 to March. Troy MILLER —T-37 to Randolph. Chris CONWAY —C-141 to McGuire.

My last letter this quarter comes from Gary PLUMB. Gary and wife Robin now have two children (Jackie and Danny). He is undergoing F-16 RTU at MacDill and will PCS to Hahn AFB in Germany sometime this fall. Gary tells the following:

Rick WHITE will soon be fl ying the F-16 at Homestead. Mike HEPLER, wife Rose and daughter Amber are currently at Tyndall. Mike will leave there for an F-15 to Kadena this winter. Dan SANDKAMP and wife Diane are at Davis-Monthan where Dan flies the OA-37. Randy LANE is an F-4 pilot at George and is still single. Scott SWANSON is a newlywed stationed at Vandenberg. Todd HARRISON and his wife are expecting their first as Iwrite and are stationed at Yokota where he is a C-130 driver. Steve ATKINS (wife Leigh Ann and baby John) is aB-52 type in the Great White North of Michigan. Also in the BUFF, but sta¬ tioned at Fairchild, is Mike SCHARDT and his wife Christine and children Bryon and Joshua. Mark JURKOWSKI is aT-37 IP at Reese. Bob WATERS (wife Darlene and son Bobby) is going through C-130 RTU at Little Rock. Paul and Dianna (ANGELINE) ACKERLY are still at Reese, but looking forward to an ASTRA tour for Paul.

Of course, Ican’t leave out the news from Steve VOGT. He says my wedding invitation to him and his wife should include an extra “half” since Gina is pregnant with their first. He figures it will be agirl, since pulling G’s is supposed to do that to you.

As for me, my wedding plans are now reaching the stage of being in high gear. 1didn’t realize how involved this all was! Good news is on the horizon too. Ilearned afew weeks ago that my bid for ajob at WrightPat has been accepted. Ellen and Iwill move there in January of next year, and 1will take an assignment as aNKC-135 pilot. We’re very much looking forward to the move, and I’m also anxious to see the hoards of ’82 grads homesteading there.

Until next time. Be Safe. RATMAN.

Members of Classes other than 1967 and 1977 planning to attend Homecoming ’87 (17-20 Sep. 87), please write to the AOG now for registration forms. (USAFA vs. San Diego State)

boat, took atrain across the altiplano to Cuzco, Peru, and finally reached our ultimate destination, Machu Picchu.

Stu Pope

lOlOD Pineview Blvd.

Ft. Walton Beach, FL 32548

AV: 872-2092

Percent members: 31

’Tsup? Stu-man here, and thanks to the PCS freeze, “here” is still Eglin, though there are worse places to be stuck, Fm sure. And since Fort Walton Beach seems to be some sort of giant clearing house for grads passing through on TDYs and vacations, Ihave plenty of news to relate.

The primary local bars are Chan’s and the Ffog’s Breath, as you, the reader, may well know, and it’s in these legendary drinking establishments Fve encountered the likes of Landis COOK, Dan FLANAGAN, Steve KNOBLOCK, Chris HAERTER, and others.

Chris claims he was here to pick up an F-15 to take back to Elmendorf, having won this privilege in acoin toss with Rob “Flyoogs” HUGULEY. Rob remained in Alaska with his pet lemmings, but sent telepathic greetings to anyone who could receive them.

Literally bumped into Jeff “Ken Doll” KENDALL and Ron “Quiet” KLAITT at Chan’s as well. They were TDY from Germany, where they’re flying F-15s and are rumored to be linked to arash of dachshund disappearances. The Ken Doll reports he married an Air Force officer. Fie didn’t say if her name is Barbie, but he did mention she’s anon-academy type, so they can’t swap SERE stories or reminisce about T.D. White parades.

Isaw aweird movie afew weeks ago: “Return of the Slemp Monster.” Yep, Terry SLEMP was back in town for aTDY from his current digs in D.C. (Andrews), where he’s asystems acquisition of fi cer. Barely coherent, Terry was babbling about rising interest rates or something.

You never know who you’ll find in the Hog’s Breath Saloon, where faces appear out of the smoke and disappear again as if in adream. Mickey MELLERSKI was one such shadowy figure; Dave PHILLIPS was another. Mickey’s in F-4s; Dave’s currently flying MC-130s at Hurlburt after atour in the P.L, where he managed to get his paws on a pair of combat boots formerly owned by Imelda Marcos! I’m jealous, man.

Dennis “Beav” DINGLEY (new nickname —take note) also recently returned to Conusland and is now flying F-15s at Eglin after astint in Okinawa. Dennis and Iwere boppin’ along in his new ’vette, and 1swear on astack of Contrails he called the interior of his car a“cockpit.”

Well, Ifinally heard from Mike RAMPINO, in the form of awedding announcement. I’d’ve thought Mike, of all people, was immune to the marriage syndrome, but alas (cool word, huh?), Iwas once again mistaken. Anyway, his wife, an Air Force captain, seems really bonus, to borrow an adjective from Norbert (ex-’83) Schmeidler, though I’ve only met her via the postal service.

Another one who will soon be biting the dust is Pete “Eddie Haskell” BARTOS. Iwas over at his place near Tyndall afew weeks ago when he casually mentioned he was engaged to an aerobics instructor named Bran¬ dy. Eddie also announced he’s been selected to attend S.O.S. in residence, arare honor he’s dreamed of since his cadet days, or so he says. After S.O.S., he’ll be PCSing to Bitburg following F-15 RTU.

On the subject of S.O.S., Quinn NEWHALL and Jay MOODY were both D.G.s from their respective classes. Brian “The Death” HAR¬ RIETT drove down from S.O.S. afew weeks ago to grok the scene, and reports he’ll be switching from C-12s to C-130s this summer, after which he’ll PCS to Clark AB. He’s enticed by rumors, no doubt started by Dave PHILLIPS, of hidden caches of Imelda’s footwear.

When you live in this corner of the world. South America is as conve¬ nient atravel destination as anyplace, so in February Ionce again headed down to Panama via Belize and Costa Rica to visit our compatriots of Southern Command. Mark “Hage” HAGEMAN and Charlie “Carlos” GARCIA are currently roommates, or, more accurately, “Penthousemates,” in agroovy if garish five-level pad overlooking the heart of Panama City. Charlie’s now acertified realtor and is planning on becom¬ ing alawyer, unsurprisingly enough. Maybe he and Kevin “The Shyster” CARRENO can set up apractice together or do guest spots on “L.A. Law.” Anyway, after acouple days of excruciating luxury, Ibid the boys and their servants adios and headed over to Colin “Luna Mof” MOF¬ FAT’S place, where we stayed up all night drinking and missed our hop to Peru. Bummer, you say, and yes, it was, but afew hours and many pesos later aBolivian airliner was whisking us to La Paz.

And thus began “The Lost Inca Tour,” atwisted journey I’d recom¬ mend to anyone with athirst for exotic travel and amasochistic streak. After living it up in Bolivia, we cruised over legendary Lake Titicaca by

After sighting agiant condor soaring over the Incan ruins, we felt our lives were effectively complete and headed back to Bolivia, where we caught aC-141 to Uruguay. Strangely enough, the plane was being fl own by none other than “Brother” Jack FUSSELL, now stationed at Charleston AFB. Jack showed us agreat view of the Amazon on the flight back to Panama and reported Mark VAHALA and Terry SULLIVAN were both alive and well. He also said Jeff STANFIELD married atangaclad Brazilian beauty he met while TDY in Rio. Isalute his taste.

Crossed paths with “Rockin’ ”Robby COONEY at apromotion party last week. He’s being groomed to be an official Air Force recruiter, and will soon PCS for parts unknown. Also saw A1 GRACIA, Tony TALIANCICH, and Mitch DELAROSA at an Armament Lab picnic in April. Mitch was belting out the blues as guest vocalist for alocal band, and if you’ve ever heard him sing, you know just how good he is.

If you were in 3rd Squardon as afreshman, you might remember Bob (ex-’83) Potzer (sorry. Bob, no capital letters for you). He and Iwere in Steve (ex-’83) Benz’s wedding in Vermont afew months back. Bob, still a student at some obscure college in Iowa, brought along several cases of “Dubuque Star,” something lowans apparently pass off as beer, though it tastes more like carbonated Mississippi River water and leaves you feel¬ ing vaguely malarial.

Now that he’s married, Steve says he might settle down and spend a year or two in Togo, West Africa, where his wife, Lynne, is considering a job. Togo? Togo? Like, why not Siera Leone or Equatorial Guinea? Oh, Tom “Magnum” EVANS also attended the wedding. He claims to be lov¬ ing it at Wright-Pat, and Icouldn’t tell if he was being serious or cynical.

Another weird twist: On the flight back from the wedding, Idecided not to hijack the plane when 1found out T.G. KYRAZIS’ dad was the copilot! Does this mean T.G. is genetically wired to fly for Delta?

Speaking of deltas, Isaw Ron GRAVES in New Orleans awhile back. He apparently coerces all his students into going there on their T-37 crosscountries. We screamed and threw mint juleps at each other, then flailed passers-by with Mardis Gras beads. Of course, such reserved behavior went unnoticed on Bourbon Street.

Well, believe it or rot, Ireturned to the Academy for the first time since graduation last month, and interviewed for aposition as an academic in¬ structor. Oddly enough, this was about the only place I’ve been where I haven’t run into any ’83 grads. Idid talk to some of the Class of ’90, however, who smirked as they told me cadets now get 60 days of leave after graduation, and everyone gets issued apersonal computer.

I’m almost embarrassed to admit it, but for some sort of strange nostalgic reason, Icruised down to CS-40 to see the former abode of myself and Rob HUGULEY. Ishould’ve left well enough alone; our magnificent phosphorescent murals were painted over and the Who decal inside the medicine cabinet had been defaced, probably by some pup who’s never heard “Baba O’Reilly.” On top of it all, they completely changed 40th Squadron’s patch, and now call it “War Birds,” or some such generic squadron moniker. Ah, well, imagine an appropriate cliche and we’ll leave it at that. At least Murph’s hasn’t changed.

Tim “Doc” JACOBS stopped by for afew days of beach life before PCSing to Ramstein AB, land of eternal cold coverage and real beer. Doc has one of those obscure, but apparently bonus, jobs you never realized existed. He was recently TDY to Boston, according to Steve “Lundo” LUNDY.

Stu Pope and Colin Moffatt at Machu Picchu.

Last time Iwas in Massachusetts, I, too, crashed at the gargantuan manor occupied by Lundo, Tim AIKEN, and Jim (ex-’83) Fini. Jim and I had agreat time wandering the streets of inner-city Boston at three in the morning, searching for my rental car, which had been towed to alot about 13 miles away. Could’ve been worse, actually —Jim’s car had been stolen acouple of months earlier.

1hear Tom KING’S family has increased exponentially after the addi¬ tion of twins (one boy, one girl). Guess that means he’s three-fifths of the way towards forming his own basketball (uh, sorry, Tom, make that “hoops”) team.

Rick SCHOLZ dropped me aline from Yokota, where he and Jack POLO are fl ying C-130s, but are soon due to PCS. Jack’s married to John STlZZA’s sister, and has been for quite awhile, actually, though I’m not sure it was ever reported in Checkpoints. Rick’s not married to anyone’s sister, as of yet.

And finally, Ijust received apostcard from Bolivia, sent jointly by Luna Mof and Tony “Chino” FRANCINO. Seems they’re both TDY down there and they knew how much I’d love areminder from the land of women in bowler hats.

Ray has afew words to add, but as apostscript, let me extend con¬ gratulations to everyone who recently pinned on captain. Remember what a“captain” seemed like when you were acadet? Isn’t it weird to be one now?

Now you may notice adefinite change in writing styles in this part of the article as 1, Ray BLUST, have to get my two cents in. Ialong with a handful of other ’83ers are still at beautiful Laughlin, but we can see the light at the end of the tunnel. Some of us are anxiously awaiting our new assignments. 1plan on calling Kro, the AOG editor, with the results. This is the way they turned out, at least from Laughlin: Ray BLUST, RF-4; Bill CHESTNUT, F-4; Rob ENGLEHART, A-10; Jeri NELSON, KC-135; and Kevin McMILLlN, KC-135. The local news here in Del Rio finds everyone in good spirits. Tom and Laura Lee KING recently had somewhat of alarge addition to their family as they had twins. Now they’re got three kids, one of each. Just kidding. Tom is currently the T-37 squadron scheduler and is awaiting the September board. Good luck guys!! On arecent cross-country, all the way to Randolph, Iran into Chris AUSTIN who fl ew aC-12 in from Norton. Chris recently received a new assignment —C-141 to Norton —life’s tough Chris. Actually Chris flew in to see another Preppie, R.E. Smith. R.E. seems to have found a comfortable home in San Antonio. My old squadron mate, Mike “BRRRRR” PADILLA came by and we spent the evening reminiscing about the old 24-Phantom days. Mike finished his tour in 130s at Pope afew months ago and as usual ATC snagged him up —T-37 IP to Vance. Mike is currently engaged to apretty gal he met at Pope. That’s about the ex¬ tent of my cross-country encounters for now.

Now I’d like to thank afew people who wrote some letters. Believe me, it helps. Gayle (YAMAZAKl) FAIRCLOTH wrote from Carswell with some heartbreaking news from the Tonia FLORES Fan Club. Tonia recently married Steve MANN and they are both stationed at Clarke AB, PL Good luck Steve and Tonia. Laurie SHRODER stopped by Gayle’s house on her way to SOS. Laurie is currently assigned to Space Command in C. Springs.

Ialso received aletter from ahappy camper from Pease AFB, NH. Chris BOGDAN is currently aKC-135 copilot but is anxiously awaiting his FB-111 training start date. Chris will be going to Plattsburg for six

months before returning to Pease. Chris also got married in April to a pretty nurse whose name happens to be April. Good luck Chris. Chris also gave me an update on some east coast grads. Wade WHEELER who was also a135 copilot at Pease is now going through PIT and makes his home at Reese flying aT-38. Kathy (MOYER) DOBY was also a135 copilot at Pease who fell into the ATC syndrome. Kathy and her husband Dave (’82) are at Reese where she’s flying the T-38 and Dave’s in the T-37. Chris also wrote to say that John CROW is an aircraft commander as well as executive officer in his C-141 squardon at McGuire. Thanks for the let¬ ters and keep ’em coming.

Irecently talked to Leslee (FORSBERG) WASHER and found her to be anxiously awaiting her new assignment back to our alma mater —the Prep School. Hopefully she’ll be arriving there in June ’88. Les also in¬ formed me that Amy HERMES and Pat SMELLIE (’82) were married in North Dakota in late June. Good luck guys. Leslee also ran into an old prepster, Wanda McCOY, who was recently married —to whom, we’re not sure, but good luck anyway Wanda. Nice talking to you Les, keep in touch.

isand Mike Edwards.

Julie and Irecently took aroad trip to C. Springs for Pete MCCAF¬ FREY’S wedding. Yes we did go watch the noon-meal formation, but it’s just not the same —we’re getting old. If anyone does go back make sure you stop at the new visitors center —it’s well worth it. I’ve enclosed apic¬ ture of some of the ’83ers who made the trip. Pictured are me, my wife Julie, Pete, his lovely bride Jeri and Mike EDWARDS. Mike made the trip from Sheppard where he rooms with Rich “The Gambler” DEPALO and enjoys the life of acheck pilot in the T-37. Pete is still in Stan/Eval and is looking for an assignment in March or so.

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Bob KELLIHER is now at Laughlin in UPT class 88-05. Bob was an F-4 nav in Korea for afew years and was one of those unfortunate ones ho was told after graduation he couldn’t go to UPT. We’re glad to see they got it straightened out. Good luck Bob.

Ijust received another letter the other day from Tracy SMITH who writes from Fort Ritchie, MD. Yes, she’s still in the AF and is assigned to the Air Force Manpower and Personnel Readiness Team. Tracy reluctant¬ ly left her job at Edwards where she worked with the B-IB Navigation Performance. As she was moving out, Devin CATE was moving in and entered the January Test Pilot School class as aflight test engineer. Tracy also ran into afew folks at the base ops snack bar including Bebe CRONIN (Bebe runs into alot of people). Grant HUDSON and Keith MAINES. Bebe is still at Willie and was in this last board also. Grant left Laughlin to fly ACE at Offutt where Iassume Keith is also.

Tim Jacobs, Tom and Dan King, and Slu Pope. ● N

The McCaffrey wedding: Ray and Julie Blast, Pete and Jeri McCaffrey,

Tom BENSON and Ron GRAVES are in STURON and doing fine. Also Tony CILEA and Rod SPAWN are doing great as ATC supervisors. Believe it or not Ithink that’s about all 1can think of to say, so until next time fly safe and good luck. Keep in touch!

Scott D. Dickmeyer

Access Highway Apt. #4

Limestone, ME 04750

Home: (207) 328-9044

AV: 920-2261

Percent members: 28

Here it is Memorial Day weekend again. Iam sure everyone is planning abig barbecue to celebrate the coming of summer. Looks like the Maine weather might not cooperate though. The forecast calls for some rain showers and cooler temperatures.

Ijust returned from athree-week TDY to RAF Fairford in the United Kingdom. My squadron, the 69th Bombardment Squadron, deployed three B-52s, eight flight crews and support staff there for “Busy Brewer”. The main objective of the deployment is to practice conventional tactics in the European theater concentrating on the use of the Harpoon antiship missile. Along with the flying duties we did manage to do sightseeing to include such places as Stonehenge, Oxford University and the sights of London. Oh yes, almost forgot the daily trips to the various pubs in the area to enjoy the fine English ales. Had agreat time.

While Iwas in England, the squadron was tasked to do aflyby at the Academy enroute to low-level training in the Midwest. How well I remember the excitement flybys would generate in the cadet area. They are agreat motivating factor to those interested in going to pilot or navigator training.

Shortly after the Winter 1986-87 Checkpoints was mailed out 1received four letters for this issue and one-long distance phone call. The first letter came from Matt JOHNSON. He has been at Hanscom AFB, MA since graduation working in the International Programs Office. His job has taken him to Sudan, Egypt and in July he will PCS to Germany. His letter is a“labor of love”, as he put it, and requested that Iinclude it as written.

From Matt: “Success stories from Happy Hanscom: Steve WACKER, Scott ‘Raising’ CAIN, Warren CLARKE, and Dave WHOLEY are all working on the Ground Wave Emergency Network (GWEN) program out here. They appear to be tackling the mammoth task with the same aplomb as their ENG 430 projects, right down to affixing drool cups to the anten¬ nas. Steve has traded in his cavalier, Lothario (look it up) image for a more Reaganesque look: He’s president of the Hanscom CGOC, and works with alocal youth group. Scott is shooting for an Econ Deptsponsored MBA, with afollow-on assignment as aUSAFA instructor. The budding Milton FRIEDMAN is married to athin 24-year-old named Kelly, and is the father of afat two-year-old named Ryan.

“Remember ‘Basic Cadet’ BASIK? He’s plugging away here as acon¬ tracting officer. He and ex-hockey great Paul BYRNES are both about a year away from their MBAs. Paul is dating a32-year-old, which makes him almost eligible to be the stepfather for another one of our confused classmate’s girlfriends. Scott STENGEL, taking an approach counter to Paul’s, is trying to relive his youth by coaching some Pop Warner-type soccer team, playing in another ‘adult’ league (I know, that’s what I said!), and ‘going steady’ with agirl who looks like she’s about ready for the Air Academy High School junior prom.

“Dave WHOLEY lives in what appears to be acommune on the Marblehead coast, where he moors his fleet of wind surfers. Steve WACKER and Ilooked over Dave’s wardrobe one day when he was scuba diving and counted 47 Polo shirts. Fresh off aPacific TDY junket, class cynic Tarek ABBOUSHI spent acouple days TDY here. With the glee of Alladin he recounted his recent exploits in Saipan and Hawaii (for details, consult the June issue of Penthouse, pages 17-67). He ‘works’ (I know, that’s what 1said!) at LA AFS. New from others areas: ExLoosehogs Troy DIXON (Reese T-38 IP), Ralph PHILLIPS (Vance T-38 IP), Jim LESSEL (Shaw intel officer), John SIEVERLING (Shaw F-16 pilot), Craig HUGHES (Reese T-37 IP), Mark NOVAK (Offutt C-21 pilot), Mike KUCEJ (WRABF acquisitions czar), Greg ‘Waddahhead’ EHRHARD (WPAFB acquisitons czarina and reigning raquetball champ), Joe MORTATI (Moody F-4 WSO), Randy FOPIANO (Colum¬ bus T-38 IP), me, et al are having an informal Wubbah Reunion Bash in the Smokey Mountains of Tennessee this June. Contests are planned in¬ cluding: who’s gained the most weight (EHRHARD is the odds-on favorite), who’s had the least number of dates (EHRHARD is the oddson favorite), and who’s most likely to fall in love with and marry ahillbil¬ ly Tennessee chick over the weekend (EHRHARD —hands down).

“Jon WIKSTROM and his Wisconsin-bred wife Jeanie are expecting a child this spring. By the time you read this, Jon’s wife should have given birth, and I’ll be PCSing to Ramstein (no connection, 1assure you). In the whatever happend to so-and-so department, the unending search for Marty LOUTH AN continues. Steve and Ihave been trying to get in touch with him for weeks. He’s assigned to McChord AFB as aC-I41 pilot. His flying buddies, wringing their hands and shuffling their feet, finally acknowledgd Marty’s existence, but confessed that none of them have seen the traditionally truant, rocket-armed backfielder engineer in weeks. Marty’s ex-roommate, Steve SMOLEN, was no help in locating him. He flies KC-135S (along with his wife) at scenic, romantic KI Sawyer AFB.”

In aP.S. to Matt’s letter he mentioned that BGen Westbrook was out at Hanscom in February and briefed the new chapter of the AOG, the Northeast USAFA AOG Chapter.

The second letter arrived from Doug WREATH who is currently work¬ ing Space Surveillance in Turkey (Pirinclik Installation). His squadron is evidently saturated with USAFA grads. Glen ANDERSON left in Oc¬ tober 1986 and is now aCombat Control Team commander at McChord. Currently, Wes CHEE, Holly FRANZ (’83), Randy PAGAN (’85), and Doug make up about half of the officers in the squadron (19th SURS). Wes is going AFIT in May (space ops) and Doug is going to the 1st Space Wing at Petersen Field in July. During aTDY to the Springs in December, Doug ran into Kathy BENNETT. She’s a“dynamo” and wore him out during his reintroduction to American night life. Doug also saw Rory MAYNARD who’s NORAD’s deep space satellite pro.

Another classmate of ours who recently returned from TDY to England besides myself was Carol HALL COLEMAN. She had been TDY to RAF Mildenhall. Carol married Capt. Keith Coleman last October. Both of them fly and are getting ajoint-spouse assignment from Beale AFB, CA to Eielson AFB this October. While in England Carol saw Kathy GOTCH and Andrea CLARKE. Kathy flies C-23s out of Germany and is just start¬ ing an upgrade program. Andrea and Carol spent some time touring Cambridge buying wools and souvenirs. Through Andrea we learn that Andrea HESLIN has been moved to RAF Lakenheath. Other Beale assigned grads including Vince MARRERO, Doug HILL, Scott WILHELM, Carol MILLER and Mary Beth PETERSON say hello.

The fourth letter arrived here from Alec ROBINSON. He and wife Lori moved from Malmstrom AFB, MT where Alec was working as an engineer in Minuteman Maintenance to Ann Arbor, MI where he is study¬ ing to complete his master’s in electrical engineering. Soon, if he is not already, Alec will be involved with an Education With Industry assign¬ ment with alocal company. Alec writes, “It’s quite achange! The Academy was conservative city. Ann Arbor is the bastion of liberals against the conservative flood, but we’re adapting.”

Js

Mark and Sonia Knofczynski with their new family member.

Some Malmstrom news: Mark KNOFCZYNSKI is flying helicopters up there in the great white north. His wife Sonia had adarling baby boy on the 5th of June last year. Another ’84 graduate there is C.J. SUBER, who is working as amissile crew member. He recently married awonderful girl named Shellee. While Ellsworth AFB’s runway was being modified for the coming of the B-1, their tanker operations were TDY to Malmstrom. Alec got an opportunity to see Bill NEVEU, Eden ALT, and Glenn RICHARD.

News from other grads: Marty ELLINGSWORTH is at Brooks, TX. Jeff ABBOTT is back in Colorado Springs waiting for Falcon AFS to become fully operational. Satellite ops is going pretty slow for them right now. Doug FULLER is at Carswell AFB, TX as aB-52 copilot. The phone call Imentioned 1got was from Merrick KRAUSE. Fie is at Moody AFB fl ying the F-4. We had anice long talk.

With the end of this article and its letters comes the end of my term as Class Scribe for the Class of 1984. 1have had agreat time compiling all the information everyone sent for each issue and really enjoyed all of the correspondence. The new Scribe is Mike GOLDFEIN starting with the Fall 1987 Checkpoints. The deadline for that issue is 15 Sept 87, so have your letters and calls to him before that day to give him time to compose his article. His address is 126 Garden Crest Circle, Del Rio, TX 78840. His home phone is (512) 774-3959 and his autovon is 732-5509.

In the future, should anyone send aphoto to include in Checkpoints, please do not write anything on the back of the photo itself. This sometimes makes the photo hard to reproduce. All photos sent can be returned —just tell Mike that is what you desire.

Have awarm and sunny summer!

What ever happened to: Samuel ARROYO, Jerry CUMMIN Jr, Robert DECKER, James GODWIN, Joel HENNESS, David LOWELL, Kevin McLAUGHLIN, Bradley ROBERT, Russell SOJOURNER, and Dave VIAR?

Steve Visel

248 Camp St., #R-3

West Yarmouth, MA 02673

Home: (617) 775-3820

AV: 557-2212

Percent members: 25

Greetings from Cape Cod in the summertime! The beer is cold, the beaches are hot and life is good. Actually Ido have ajob out here, as does A1 FRAGALA. I’m working in the Stan/Eval shop here at PAVE PAWS East, and A1 is in the Training shop. Matt LYONS is taking abreak from the column for abit while awaiting orders. Matt has been doing his best to beat the Idaho air into submission with his trusty UH-IN, along with Eric TRUMBLE and various others of the rotor-head persuasion. They’ve been keeping busy with the rescue work lately, and Matt had his first save not too long ago. Congratulations to Matt and all those who were in¬ volved.

Bob POST writes from Minot with more news of the Northern Tier. He and his wife are expecting their first baby in August. Bob and Keith MORGAN are just about the only ’85ers up there flying without benefit of fixed wing. Paul MATHIS is driving aB-52 up there, while Gene McGRATH and Jeff LAMERS are fl ying 135s. Sarah (HELLWIG) BAKER is busy trying to keep all those planes apart.

Dan MARTINEZ is at Ellsworth flying UH-ls, Matt VALLE is at In¬ dian Springs, and Dick FISH is at Tyndall. Others flying H-3s include Phil CURL at Keflavik, Larry FRIEND at Kadena, and Tommy HERN¬ DON at Osan, Korea.

Italked to Kelly KIERNAN up at Ellsworth. She, Lynn STEER, and Brad BINGAMAN are flying KC-135Rs and are looking foward to play¬ ing with afew less engines in the T-38 ACE program. Luke DiSILVESTRO is flying EC-135s and Ron McLAUGHLIN is reportedly flying aMinuteman in the area. Another dedicated SAC missile troop is Dave NISSEN, who just PCSed to Minot from Sicily, with astopover at Vandenburg. His wife Maria (SHELLABARGER) is joining him at Mi¬ not where she will be (is?) assigned to an ESC unit.

Back on the East Coast, there is avery large ’85 contingent up at Hanscom. Paris DURANTE was on the beverage committee for amass promotion party which was the event of the season. Among those celebrating were Dave BURNS, Deborah CHARRON (at Haaavard), Tim DERUYTER, Ian DICKINSON, Dave DEMARTINIS, Rich DOORE, and Terry GOOLEY. Raymond HARRIS, Garland HENDER¬ SON, Brian HYDE, Dan JORDAN, and Rich KLUMPP are there. Jim LOVELL, Mike and Therese (FOLEY) MARTIN, Charles G. MOR¬ RISON, Michael OTT, Mark RYDELL, Bob SEDERMAN, Pat STONEHAM and Burke WILSON fi ll out the list. Sorry Idon’t have a listing of just what all those folks are doing at the present time.

Mark “Scourge of the Rio Grande” DeLUCA is busy intimidating poor defenseless student pilots as aT-38 IP at Laughlin. Tim BREININGER, Costa TZAVARES and Pam (HENRY) HRNCIR are also in 38s, while Pam’s hubby Brent is at the other end of the flight line in the T-37 squadron. Bill COTA is down there too, making the most of Del Rio nightlife. Guy NEDDO (who provided much of the info on Laughlinites) and Tim GAITHER are T-37 IPs and so is Vic HEDGEPETH. Rich

HEDGEPETH is an Eagle-driver in Alaska.

There are evidently quite afew of our classmates up the road from Laughlin in San Antonio. Steve GABRYS allegedly is buying ahouse in San Antonio, though he’s presently away more often than he’s home, due to frequent TDYs. Steve is an intel officer and says he loves it. He recently spent afew weeks as a“rent-a-squid” aboard COBRA JUDY in the Ber¬ ing Sea. (Thanks, Steve, but Ithink I’ll stick to Cape Cod.) Others in the San Antonio area include “Chilly Joe” WIGGINS, Kevin FLEMING, George WEATHERSBY, Matt COOPER, Bill HOEPFL, and John HILBING, all of whom are in the intel business. John HILBING is also the president of the Kelly AFB Joint Junior Officers Council, so congrats to him.

The word is that there are also quite afew ’85ers back in the Springs. Joe GORNEY was in that neck of the woods in the past month or so to get married. Best of luck to Joe and his new wife, Ann (LEY, ’86). Wed¬ ding bells are also in the plans for Debbie INGS, aC-21 pilot at Peterson. She’s reportedly marrying an F-4 jock. Bruce GIBSON, also aC-21 pilot at Peterson, is not marrying an F-4 jock. Neither is Jim COOPER, last seen working feverishly at the Space Surveillance Center in Cheyenne Mountain.

John OGLE at Tinker sends news from that area, where quite afew of the “Best Alive” are working in E-3s, either as pilots, navs, or weapons controllers onboard. John’s roomie Andy MUELLER, and Joe SCHMIDT are controllers, as are Ed BYRD, Steve EDGAR, Dave ALEXANDER, and Duane MOSHER. Pete LEWIS and Glenn ULLMANN are keeping busy fl ying the AWACS birds, and Sue KRAMER is anavigator on the E-3As. Those who know say that Sue ROSENTHAL is also anav, flying on KC-lOAs up at K.I. Sawyer.

Jeff SIEGEL, long known as an aficianado of the Japanese culture, got his wish with an assignment to Misawa. After ayear or so there he’s got a follow-on assignment to Yokota. What adeal. Jeff is looking foward to getting back to the states for leave.

Other ’85 grads, in no particular order, include John ELEKES and Steve SPILLANE, both last seen at Little Rock; Randy “Stormin’ Nor¬ man” ORNE, flying Bufs at Mather; and Lisa STINE at Warner-Robins, GA. Price OSTEEN is an F-llI WSO at Upper Heyford, the UK. Tim CORNELL is at Bergstrom, George DAY (and wife Mary Ann) at Homestead, Dan BRIDGES at Altus, OK; and Darrel SLACK at Doess AFB, TX. Chris FERRY is now married to Christina (DICKERSON, ’86) and both are stationed in the wilds of New Mexico at Holloman. Clive PAIGE is working with Chris, and recently ran into Irv SCHEETS, who is in OV-10 training there. (Chris and Chrissy, Clive, Irv, and Iare USAFA Fencing Team alumni.)

Ihave several change-of-address cards with no base or assignments listed. Any info on these folks would be appreciated. Juvenal SALOMON is in Albuquerque, Bill HAMPTON is at Fairbanks, AK; Mary PETER¬ SON in Palo Alto, CA; and Jeff JACOBS is living in Gilbert, AZ. Roderick CREGIER is at St. Charles, IL, and Patrick MARSHALL is in Sumter, SC. Robert D’ANTONIO is making his home in Rome, NY, while James TAYLOR and Miles LANSING are both in the Paci fi c, with only aSan Francisco APO box listed.

That’s all the news for now. If you do have any updates on ’85ers or other info you would like included in the column, please let me know at the address listed above. The address published in the last issue had the wrong zip code listed. Be safe and SEND MAIL!

Scott SCHAEFFLER sent an input directly to the AOG. His letter follows: Ed TANNER and Iare here at Warren keeping America and its missiles safe from all enemies —foreign and domestic. On June 5th, Ed earned his first SAVE as an aircraft commander on amission that took him from the radar-free skies of Cheyenne to the jet-infested airspace over Denver. Congrats, Ed, on areal job well done! As for myself. I’ll soon be slipping the surlies (or beating them into submission) as amarried man. Ifinally slipped the question to (or was beaten into submission by) Sue, the girl Imet one month before graduation. Iwas almost afree man! The date is set for October 11th under the spires, of course. Stop by if your are in town!

Irecently talked to some of my fling-wing friends from UHT 86-05. Steve SPILLANE is at Little Rock looking for ajob. Now that all of the Titans have been dismantled and his unit’s funds scheduled to be cut off after Aug 18, he’d like to hear from anyone with an opening for aUH-IH aircraft commander. He is also still unmarried and has no children. Tom CURRY is at Hill with wife Dawn. As askier, Tom loves the place. In Oc¬ tober, his unit’s choppers (UH-lNs) will be sent to destinations across the nation and replaced by Steve’s UH-lHs. Well, Steve, there’s agood deal —Air Force style! Dave KYGER, Holloman, is in the same boat with Steve —except that he has until October to find work. But Dave, being the well-rounded officer that we all hope to become, has areserve job to get him through these hards times —coaching little league soccer. Matt LYONS came through Cheyenne on his way to the Zoo’s 1987 Gradua-

tion Ceremonies where he swore in his family’s newest addition to the long Blue Line. He took aweek of leave for aone-day event. Anyone who knows Matt realizes that adouble-digit leave balance makes him uneasy! Matt flies twin Hueys at Mountain Home with Eric TRUMBLE. Eric has been credited with two amazing feats since arriving there: 1) He met agirl (they’re as rare as trees around there!) and 2) logged his first SAVE after rescuing athyroid gland and transporting it to ahospital in Boise. (What about the rest of the victim?)

Gil COWELL and Don COMI are still rackin’ up the hours at Malmstrom. Both Gil and Don are planning their own TDY to Colorado Springs where they’ll act as the airborne participants in SERE vector training. Authenticate 8! Keith MORGAN is still at Minot looking “behind every tree.’’ All rumors of his getting married are grossly exag¬ gerated. And Tim HEALY is at Homestead soaking up the Caribbean sun on exotic TDYs to “only he knows where.” Last 1heard, his promotion to First Lt caused his skin to turn a“seadye marker” orange!

From the world of heavy-lift comes aletter (or should Isay “newslet¬ ter”) generated by Kyle CUNNINGHAM at Osan. To all his fellow “Copilots Seeking Gainful Employment,” Kyle states with academic perfection, “Please feel free to contact me with any questions you may have.” Gee Kyle, thanks! Tim and Denise (SENN) O’BRIEN are at Myr¬ tle Beach where Tim has found himself giving rides to ’89ers on Ops Air Force. So far the cadets are 0and 2against seeing their breakfast twice! Denise is on TDY to Keesler until August. Frank RUSSELL is at Clark where Ihear he’s been involved in at least one rescue operation. Con¬ grats! Drop us aline if you’re still out there, Frank!

Jim

Bonn

109 Butternut Dr. Hatboro, PA 19040

Percent members: 18

Hello ’86! With summer on the wane, the autumn months will see many of us making PCS moves. Keep in touch so we can publish all these moves.

just graduated from Undergraduate Space Training (UST) and is continu¬ ing to train for his upcoming job at Falcon AES. Iam stationed at the Cheyenne Mountain Complex (HQ AFSPACECOM/DON) where my job title is Space Defense Test Manager.

“Byron CLAY is agraduate of the first UST class last Feb. and is an Orbital Analyst at Falcon AES. Other classmates in “Space” include Pat and Austin JAMESON, Bart GRAY, and Jeff HARTLEY. Jennifer GRAHAM is at Peterson and she is now married to Mark POWELL (’85).”

Mike RARICK provides the most amusing anecdote for this column from Wright-Patterson. “Those of us who have been out here working for ayear now are still hanging in there and tired of hearing about all those knuckleheads at UPT, SUNT, (I take this personally), UHT, etc.

“To give some background,” Mike writes, “I’m at the 4950 Test Wing /Flight Test Engineering. Istarted fl ying almost immediately on the ARIA (Advanced Range Instrumentation Aircraft EC-135 and EC-10). This aircraft was featured in aMay Air Force Times article. It’s alot of fun and travel (60 days TDY by May ’87). My first trip was around the world in 10 days. I’ve also been to Barbados twice, Hawaii afew times, Guam, and all over the CONUS, and having agreat time!

“One story to relate when things didn’t turn out so rosy. On one of my trips to Barbados, Itook an empty cardboad box on the plane to see if this guy would catch it on his walk-around inspection of the aircraft. It said on the outside ‘Fake Bomb.’ (The plot thickens.) Weil, the box was inadvertently left on the plane and the SPs, OSI, and Bomb Squad didn’t think it was too funny. Before we knew what was going on, they shut down all flying in the wing for half aday, surrounded the plane, and were getting ready to ‘defuse’ the cardboard box! We explained what happen¬ ed, Igot chewed out, and it was ail over —but what away to get to know the wing, vice wing, and base commanders and the DO.

“That’s all from here. I’ll let you know in afew years if there’s life after OHIO.”

KC-135, Minot, ND; Mitch HANSCOM —F-4G Wild

Beginning with some nav assignments from Mather: Yolanda WOOD will be cavorting about the friendly skies with the SAC brass on an EC-135 at Grissom, IN. Mark TRUDEAU —KC-135, ALTUS, OK; Clay TRIGO —C-130, Little Rock, AR; Steve McTIER —KC-135, Kadena; and Chris ORTIZ —KC-135, Dyess. Scott CILLEY and Carol PTASZNIK are Omaha bound on RC-135s. Congrats to Carol as she was aDG. Rob FRANKLIN is returning to Texas (he calls it “God’s Country”) and his girlfriend to fly an RF-4C at Bergstrom. Rick “Buzzy” BASAK is off to RAF Upper Heyford in an F-111; Chandler WHITE Weasel EWO, George, CA; and Bridget (BURTON) MALFER, KC-135, March CA. This is ajoin spouse assignment with husband Dennis MALFER, who will be at George on F-4s. Jim BONN, MC-130 EWO, Hulburt Field, FL.

1received aletter from Gary BURG at Reese AFB which Iam more than happy to pass on. He writes: Class 87-08 is 3/4 of the way through UPT with six grads. Reese has been agood base for UPT except for the weather which, at times, has left alot to be desired. Texas Tech has pro¬ vided many women to choose from —one might say this is atarget-rich environment. I’m rooming with Todd WESTHAUSER in anice apart¬ ment in Lubbock. Our off-duty hours are full of weight lifting, tennis, and sunning by the pool —atough life! News of others —Rich LECLAIRE and Fred BACON are at Tinker doing some AWACS work. Kirtland, NM is now home for Igor BEAUFILS (contracting) and Bob FERRARO (computers). Dean NIFAKOS is at Hanscom where he is in acquisiton and John ORTEGA is at Falcon AFS, CO with the Space Command.

Gary also sent me alist of Reese UPT Class 87-06 assignments: Alan ZWICK, KC-135, Altus, OK; Mike BRYANT, B-52H, Carswell, TX; Jim GOOD, C-130, Little Rock, AR; Ken BARTCZAK, T-38, Reese; Don HUDSON, T-37, Reese; and Tim INGLE, OA-37B, Howard AFS, Panama. Also, Larry LITTRELL, B-52, Loring, ME; Eric WICKSON, OT-37 Shaw, SC; Al WILLIAMS, EC-135, Ellsworth, SD; Darren CHAMPLIN, F-15, Elmendorf, AK; Trevor HARDING, F-16, MacDill; Keith ROSS, KC-135, Loring; and Magel VELAZQUEZ, KC-135, Dyess, TX. Other FAIP slots went to Rich KNAPP and George QUIRK (T-37s) and Chris KENHANS, Kevin PALKO, Adrian BELINNE, Craig CADY, Steve COOK, and J.R. McDOALD (T-38s).

Shelly (GWILLIM) ALLEN also wrote with an update from Colorado Springs. “I recently married Steve ALLEN (also ’86) on 16 May 87. Steve

Class 87-05 at UHT, Ft. Rucker, AL, includes in the back row from left, Rob Brown, Todd Wood, T.J. Porterfield, Kevin Brooks, Tony Arr¬ ington, and John Oscarzuck. In the front row are John Augustine, John Lopes, Tish Mooney, Mike Finnicum, Dave Morgan, and Chuck Burnett. (Photo courtesy of Tish Mooney)

1also received aphoto of UHT class 87-05 from Tish MOONEY. Those wings are lookin’ good!

1recently read in Air Force Times that Barb MARTIN was selected to the all tournament team and the interservice team at the Interservice Volleyball Tournament. Renea TOLIVER also won the 200m dash at the Air Force Track Meet.

Before this issue hits the streets. I’ll be moving to Hurlburt Field, FL, the 8th Special Operations Squadron, and the MC-130 Combat Talon. Send your inputs for the next column (by 15 Sep please) to my parents’ address, above, and they will forward it to me. My thanks to Tish, Mike, Gary, and Shelby for providing me with the bulk of news and info. Until next time, work hard, play hard, and remember —somewhere in the world, the lounge is always open. ’86 —Pride That Sticks!

CLASS OF 1987

Jeff McDaniels, ’87 class president, did not provide the AOG with aClass News writer or arepresentative to the association’s board of directors before he left the Academy. Any class member stationed at the Academy wishing to volunteer for the board posi¬ tion or any ‘87 grad anywhere wishing to be the class scribe may contact the AOG office at (303) 472-4513 or autovon 259-4513.

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