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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

SHANNON REPLIES

Editor, Checkpoints

Association of Graduates, USAFA

You are to be commended for reprint¬ ing the Air Force Times article on the case of former Cadet David B. Shannon in the Spring 1988 issue of the magazine. 1also commend you for printing the “Letter to the Editor” from Franklin Flatten in the Fall 1988 issue as an opposing view. 1 believe, however, in the interest of fairness and impartiality, it should be noted that Colonel Flatten was the Staff Judge Advocate at the Air Force Academy during the time of David Shan¬ non’s disenrollment. Also, as David’s father, who spent almost three years of fighting to clear his name, 1have gathered much evidence which disagrees with Col¬ onel Flatten’s allegations.

Two minor points: First, no one to my knowledge has said or implied that the hearing officer was the start of the honor process. For the sake of brevity, some points had to be condensed in the Times article. Second, concerning my alleged quote that the first hearing cleared David of lying, 1, as well as most of your readers, know full well that you don’t get ahearing with ahearing officer unless you request one, after being found guilty by an honor board.

In reference to the statement “the assis¬ tant staff judge advocate did not reverse the hearing officer,” this statement is in itself true because the legal review does not by definition have the power to over¬ rule. However, 1believe that the Academy Board was swayed to favor disenrollment because of the strong language of the legal review. In this regard, the review did over¬ turn the hearing officer’s report by its ac¬ tion. 1have, in fact, aletter from the Of¬ fi ce of the Secretary of the Air Force which con fi rms the Academy Board ac¬ tion was influenced by the legal review position.

Concerning the allegation that the reason (change in career goals) for David’s leaving the Academy was alie in itself and that “since it favors the Shannon’s, they will no doubt find it entirely acceptable,” this is also untrue. The truth is that 1 voiced avehement protest to the Academy immediately upon hearing the new reason for disenrollment and told the of fi cials that it was untrue and unacceptable. 1also made the same statement to the Senate and House representatives who were in¬ volved in the case. Icomplained that 1felt it was ironic that my son should be cleared

by an untrue statement, after he had been disenrolled for lying. 1was advised, however, that the statement was standard form on documents of cadets who had resigned from the Academy after being found guilty of an honor violation and that Ishould not press the issue any fur¬ ther over aminor technicality and should just be satis fi ed with the result.

1take grave issue with the allegation that the explanation of “injustice” by the Air Force Board for the Correction of Military Records (BCMR) was a“trans¬ parent veneer.” This assertion impunes the character and integrity of these board members, thus being highly unjust to these ethical men. The BCMR reversal decision was also blamed for creating problems with the honor code. 1can state emphatically, after more than three years of studying the code and intermingling with many dozens of cadets and of fi cers, that the gutsy decision by the board did only good for the honorable men and women of the Academy and the Air Force. It also showed that one can get a fair hearing if one works hard enough and perseveres against adversity. Many of¬ ficers have commented similarly to my son during his time as an enlisted man.

1found the one thing cadets and of¬ fi cers frown on and ridicule the most is the hypocritical actions of some senior of¬ fi cers who take “God-like” positions and will never admit that one of their decisions could ever be wrong. Lowly cadets cannot express this view to powerful senior peo¬ ple but they could openly express it to me, acivilian who gave them his word not to expose them.

Iam fl attered at the power and the authority the letter asserts Iwield. Flowever, the truth of the matter is that 1 had no in fl uence and didn’t “know somebody” to pull strings for me. 1will agree on one issue. Yes, 1was persistent —as any parent would be when one sees an injustice being committed against one’s child.

Very Sincerely Yours,

Paul R. Shannon

Colorado Springs

INFLUENCE DENIED

tion of high-level in fl uence on the Cadet Honor System.

Abrief history might be helpful here. From March 1987 to July 1988 1was Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Manpower Resources and Military Personnel. As such, 1was the fi nal approving authority for the Secretary of the Air Force in all personnel cases, including cadet honor disenrollments. These cases have been reviewed by the Air Force Personnel Council which is headed by ageneral officer and focuses on institutional values with an abiding con¬ cern for equal treatment and consistency. As agraduate who highly values the Academy and the importance of astrong honor code, 1felt it was of paramount im¬ portance to keep the execution of the honor system in the hands of the cadets. This is not to say that had there been a glaring error 1would not have overturned the case; however, that never happened during my time in that position.

There were anumber of personnel cases, both Academy honor and regular Air Force, that were either very controver¬ sial or had strong Congressional interest. In each case, the Secretary of the Air Force, Pete Aldridge, allowed me to make the decision, or recommendation, based strictly on the merits of the case with ab¬ solutely no political considerations in¬ volved. Also, during this period 1never had asenior officer attempt to influence the decisions of this office. No attempt would have been successful in any case.

What Iam trying to say here is that dur¬ ing the time that Iwas responsible for the resolution or review of the honor cases, the decisions of the cadets were upheld. I considered the protection of the honor system amost important responsibility. My only wish is that Icould protect the spirit of the honor code as easily. But that is the responsibility of the present day cadets to whom it is entrusted.

Sincerely,

Eric M. Thorson (Class of 1967) Acting Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Readiness Support)

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BUILD ITS NEW HOME Editor, Checkpoints Association of Graduates

Arecent letter to the editor by Franklin P. Flatten regarding the honor code and Mr. Shannon caused me to formulate a response. It is not my intent to address the Shannon case in particular, but the asser-

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Sights Set High for 1988-89 AFA Fund Goal

A10 percent increase in donors was not enough to meet our goal of S175,000 for the 1987-88 Air Force Academy (AFA) Fund. As we begin anew year with agoal of $200,000, it is imperative, more than ever before, that the AFA Fund meet its goal and con¬ tinue to grow in order to satisfy the needs and demands of many programs and projects that the federal government will not fund. Programs which greatly benefit cadets, the Academy, and alumni as well, continue to have adramatic need for outside support.

While unrestricted contributions offer the Academy and the Association of Graduates the most fl exibility in meeting Academy and graduates needs, donors to the 1988-89 AFA Fund can also elect to restrict their gifts to two important programs —the Cadet Commanders Leadership Enrichment Seminar Endowment or the Graduate Dependent Scholarship Endowment.

Nonactive-duty contributors are encouraged to examine their company’s matdiing-gift programs —with the submission of the appropriate company matching gift form, acontribution can be doubled or even tripled.

The AFA Fund will continue to recognize, if so desired, those who contribute in the following categories, with plaques or engraved year plates: Sponsor Patron Leader Fellow Benefactor

$100-499

$500-999

$1,000-2,499

$2,500-4,999

$5,000 or more

While contributions of any size are sincerely appreciated, we regret that space limitations force us to limit recognition in Checkpoints magazine to those whose gift is $50 or more.

USAFA Class Participation

1988-89 AFA Fund

The Top Five Classes

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(Note: The percent of donors is calculated by dividing the number of gifts by the number of living alumni. Totals include gifts received between and Jan. 27, 1989. Gifts received after this date will be listed in afuture magazine.)

Oct. !, 1988

AFA Fund Donors Oct. 1, ’88 to Jan. 27, ’89

GIFT SYMBOLS

(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

(Editor’s note: Beginning with the current 1988-’89 AFA Fund, the individual donor listings will include only those donations of $50 or more.)

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MGen Harold WTodd

LtCol Richard ETracey Ret (S)

Col John DMacartney

Col William JFoster Ret (S)

LtCol Wayne AHaring (S)

LtCol Lawrence LHollie (S)

Col Wayne HJones

LtCol Terry LStorm Ret (S)

Mr Wayne WWhalen (S)

Mr William HSimpson

Mr William EWeeker

Mr Wesley EWhite

Col James EWilhelm Ret (S)

Col Edward AZompa Ret (S)

Mr Kirk BClark

Mr Michael EQuinton

BGen Ervin JRokke

Mr David JBoeck

Mr Daniel RDietz

MGen Marcus AAnderson (S)

Richard &Trelma Coppock (S)

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Col George Dunkelberg Jr (D)

Mr Thomas EGibbs Jr

Col Robert BGiffen

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MrWendell JHarkleroad (D)

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Mr William HBode

Col Kenneth EKrause

Mr James PLaBounty Jr (D)

Col James DMynar

Col Jock PPatterson

LtCol Robert FClements (D) (S) (D) Ret (D) (S)

Mr William PDickey

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Col Roger CHead

Mr Marvin BHopkins

Dr Paul GKaminski

Mr Keith Luchtel

Mr Michael IMiller

Mr Thomas HMorris

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Col Colin BArnold

Maj Ronald LBlake

Mr Robert KBoone

Mr Anthony JBove Jr

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LtCol Jerry DDriscoll Ret (S)

Mr Arthur HJohnson Jr (S)

Dr Robert Mazet III

Mr Daniel JMcDonald Jr (D)

Col David WMilam

Col Warren SNogaki Ret (S)

LtCol Charles DOgren Ret (S)

Mr John JSweeney

Mr Douglas LThompson

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Col Raymond DFowler

Mr Richard EGardner

Mr Clark WHiggins Jr

Dr David LHoogerland

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Restoration of GI Bill Bene fi ts Falls Short

In May 1988, Senator Alan Cranston (D-CA) introduced legislation that would have restored GI Bill coverage to most members of the Classes of 1977 and 1978. The Cranston bill even¬ tually passed the Senate without opposition, but House accep¬ tance of the Cranston bill faltered in the waning days of the 100th Congress. Ironically, the fatal issue was the failure of the Cranston bill to address all members of the Class of 1977 and 1978.

Academy graduates have always been eligible for GI Bill educa¬ tion bene fi ts. Members of the classes of 1977 and 1978 made their binding active duty commitments prior to the repeal of the Viet¬ nam Era GI Bill. In 1976, after members of both classes had made these commitments, Congress passed the Veterans’ Educational Assistance Program (VEAP), a“new GI Bill” that required in¬ dividual contributions while on active duty. An apparent over¬ sight in this legislation effectively denied the classes of 1977 and 1978 the superior provisions of the old GI Bill.

Various lobbying efforts over the past 10 years have sought rec¬ tification of this oversight, the latest attempt being the most suc¬ cessful bid yet. At the insistence of the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee, last year’s Senate bill included an added requirement that bene fi ciaries must have contributed to VEAP during their period of active service. This test was intended to benefit those in¬ dividuals who had demonstrated early on an interest in graduate education. After Senate approval, on 12 October 1988, the chair¬ man of the House VA Committee, Sonny Montgomery, inserted the following language into the Congressional Record:

1988-89 AFA Fund Donors:

Mr Robert Johnson

Mr &Mrs Isao Kato

Mr &Mrs Ken Kilian

The eligibility restriction proposed by the Senate is unac¬ ceptable. If, as amatter of right and equity, Vietnam-era GI bill eligibility should be extended to the 1977 and 1978 service Academy graduates, that eligibility should be granted to all members of those graduating classes, not just those who par¬ ticipated in VEAP. Accordingly, we have offered to accept the Senate provision but with the elimination of the VEAP restriction.

Notwithstanding avaliant eleventh-hour effort, the two houses were unable to resolve this difference and the legislation died. Activity to reintroduce legislation in the 101st Congress has already begun. Interested alumni should: contact the chairman of the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee, Sen. Alan Cranston (D-CA), and their local senators asking them to support rein¬ troduction of Senate Resolution 2011, Section 336; and contact the chairman of the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee, Rep. G.V. (Sonny) Montgomery (D-MS), and local congressmen ask¬ ing them to support reintroduction of H.R. 3485.

For further information, please call Joe Schmitz (USNA ’78) at (202) 457-9470 or (800) 323-8133. Joe is an attorney in the Washington, D.C. of fi ce of Paul, Hastings, Janofsky &Walker.

There is still time to send your tax-deductible donation to: The 1988-89 Air Force Academy Fund, Association of Graduates, U.S. Air Force Academy, Colo. 80840-5000.

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FRIENDS

Mr &Mrs LGary Knight (S)

Catherine MOmalley Kratt (S)

Mr &Mrs James RLandvogt (S)

Mr &Mrs Donald RLee (S)

Mr Garey BWeibel

Mr &Mrs Anthony

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(S) Charles &Brenda Cherry (D)

Mr &Mrs Adam RClark (D)

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Col &Mrs Harold WWesley (D)

Mr &Mrs Walter K Shigekane

Mr &Mrs Parker LShipley (S)

Mr &Mrs AShrewsbury (D)

Mr &Mrs Nick HSingleton (S)

Ms Janet GSkelley

Col &Mrs Thomas CLesan (D)

Mr &Mrs Donald HLiebich (D)

Mr&MrsKarlELietzau (D)

LGen James HAhmann Ret (D)

Mr Charles EBowman

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Mr James GCobb

MGen Peter RDelonga Ret (S)

BGen Lee ADenson Jr Ret (D)

MGen Abraham JDreiseszun

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Mr &Mrs Paul Wimberley (S)

Gloria EWojdyla

Mr &Mrs Thomas Yankovoy (S)

Mr &Mrs Melvin Yaphe

BGen(Ret) &Mrs Felix J

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Mr &Mrs Joseph EZeis

Mr &Mrs Harold GZier

CADET PARENTS

Mr&Mrs Jose Acosta

Mr &Mrs Baxter LAllen

Mr &Mrs Augusto Alves

Mr &Mrs MJArnold

Mr &Mrs Greg Barrett

Mr &Mrs Michael A Blackledge

Mr &Mrs David WBloir

Mr Bennie JBlount

Mr &Mrs Howard Cobbe (S)

Mr&Mrs CD Cook

Mr&Mrs Terry Cook (D)

Mr &Mrs William ACook (D)

Mr Robert LCreech

Mr &Mrs James EDalton (S)

Mr &Mrs David WDantzler (D)

Mr &Mrs Elgan ADavis (D)

Mr &Mrs Claude EDeniz (D)

Mr&MrsRFDeVaughn (D)

Mr &Mrs Franklin HDunn (D)

Mr &Mrs James PDutton (S)

Mr &Mrs WMichael Farmer (D)

Mr &Mrs Peter JFewster (S)

Mr &Mrs John AFinneran (D)

Mr James EFletcher

Mr James AFox

Mr &Mrs Joseph Linden (D)

Mr &Mrs Richard J Linehan 11

Mr &Mrs Donald L Longwell

Mr &Mrs John AMacDonald(S)

Col &Mrs Gary EMartilla (D)

Mr &Mrs Gregory TMans (D)

Mr &Mrs LGMcQuarrie (D)

Mr &Mrs Vincent AMerola (S)

Mr &Mrs Richard JMeyer Jr (S)

Mr& Mrs Don GMiley (S)

LtCol &Mrs James LMoore (D)

Mr &Mrs Harry LMorgan (S)

Mr &Mrs William T Morrissey

Mr &Mrs William RNorton (S)

Mr &Mrs Arata Suzuki

Mr &Mrs Richard ASvoboda(S)

Mr &Mrs Robert VThibault (D)

Mr &Mrs John RThornton (S)

Dr &Mrs Michael Tinkler (S)

Mr Daniel Topolski

Mr &Mrs Windell CTrue Jr (S)

Mr &Mrs George VVanWert (S)

Mr &Mrs Richard AVeneri (D)

Mr &Mrs Anthony Ventresca(D)

Mr&Mrs Done Walker (S)

Mr &Mrs Earl WWiesinger (D)

Mr &Mrs Michael R Wolford

Mr &Mrs Richard PWynn (S)

Mr &Mrs William LYakely (S)

BGen Frank BElliott Ret (S)

MGen William CGarlant Ret (S)

Maj (ANG) Kenneth M Gerler

MGen Norris BHarbold Ret (S)

MGen William RHayes Ret (S)

MGen BHenry Jr Ret (D)

BGen Robert JHolbury Ret (S)

MGen Donald MJenkins (S)

Mr &Mrs John RKennedy (S)

MGen Millard Lewis Ret (S)

MGen David 1Liebman Ret (D)

LiCol Christian JLuecke Ret (S)

MGen William GMacLaren Jr Ret

BGen William CJ

McGlothlin Ret

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LtCol(Ret) &Mrs William AFrederick Jr

Mr &Mrs Warren WGaal tS)

Mr &Mrs Robert AGartrell (D)

Mr &Mrs Bernard TOrie (S)

MGen Henry JMeade Ret (D)

Ms Margaret Goodhue (D)

Mr &Mrs Robert OGreene (S)

Mr &Mrs Michael TGyves (S)

Mr &Mrs Daniel DBozard (S)

Mr &Mrs Kenneth WBrewer (S)

Mr &Mrs Robert Brien

Mr &Mrs Robert J Brueggeman

Mr &Mrs Warner JBullock (S)

Mr &Mrs Peter Hagis Jr (D)

Mr &Mrs Albert Haser (S)

Mr &Mrs VLHastings (S)

Mr&Mrs David EHegy (S)

Mrs Birget Hempel

Mr &Mrs Donald ROrr (S)

Mr &Mrs Harlow BOsteboe (S)

Mr. Robert LPerez

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Mr &Mrs Donald APrescott (D)

Mr &Mrs Lon D

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Mr &Mrs Karl RRank (S)

Mr &Mrs John Redd VI (S)

Mr&MrsMelbieLRice (S)

Mr&Mrs AnacletoC Ruiz (D)

Mr &Mrs Harry BRundall

Mr &Mrs Harold KAdamson (S)

Mr &Mrs Barry FBlake

Nancy LCain

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William JCollins

Mr &Mrs Charles E Carothers

BGen Alvan NMoore Ret (D)

LtCol Richard AMoore Ret (S)

LGen George WMundy Ret (S)

LGen LeeM Paschall Ret (D)

MGen Edward Ralkovich Ret(D)

MGen (USAFR) William C RoxbyJr

Col (USAFR) Black RJ Schultz

Mr &Mrs Alfred HSchwartz (S)

LGen Charles BStone

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Mr &Mrs Dale RHicks (S)

Mr &Mrs Jervis OBurns Jr (S)

Dr &Mrs Thomas ABurtschi (S)

Dr &Mrs Henry KButler JrMD

Mr &Mrs James FByron

Mr Edward Carroll

Mr James WCasebeer

Mr &Mrs Walter Hohls (S)

Mr &Mrs Lenard G

Humphreys Jr

Mr &Mrs Charles DHunt (D)

Mr William EJacobs

Mr&MrsEfren AJamir (D)

Mr &Mrs David WJansen (D)

Mr Wayne DRydberg

Mr &Mrs Karen Copes

Mr&Mrs Choi Su Kim

(SI (SI MGen James BTipton Ret (D|

Mr &Mrs Cecil GMoore

Mr &Mrs John HSagraves (SI

Mr&MrsNabithSakhleh (S|

Mr &Mrs Thomas LSands (S|

Mr &Mrs George WScott (D|

Mr &Mrs Cornelius Shea (SI

Mr &Mrs Mike Sheikh

Mr &Mrs Rolf HMoser

Mr &Mrs Don Niehaus

Diane Ramsey

Mr &Mrs Gaines Owens

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1987-88 AFA Fund Donors Increase 10%

The 1987-88 Air Force Academy (AFA) Fund ended with dona¬ tions totalling $167,000, some $8,000 short of the goal. Approx¬ imately $34,500 of this amount represented restricted gifts to class funds. Graduate participation rose to 6.4 percent from 6.2 per¬ cent of the addressable alumni, and the total number of donors increased by 10 percent to 1,212.

Several important projects were funded because of the generous support of friends and graduates. They include two Cadet Commanders Leadership Enrichment Seminars, cadet clubs support, renovation of cadet squadron facilities (such as

assembly rooms), upgrade of the Cadet Flow-to-Study Facility, SERE training displays, and agrant to the Graduate Dependent Scholarship Endowment Fund.

Additionally, funds were allocated to the 1989 NEXUS Con¬ ference to be held at the Academy. This conference will examine the link between science fiction and the reality of today’s world and will involve some 800 to 1,000 cadet participants. Additional academy needs are currently under review for funding from unrestricted contributions to the 1987-88 AFA Fund.

USAFA Class Participation

(Final)

1987-88 AFA Fund

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 October 1, 1987 and September 30, 1988.)

1971 Grad Becomes Permanent Professor

By AlC A.J. Clemons Public Affairs Staff Writer

The colonel sits in his small office overlooking the academy. In just 17 years, he has gone from agraduating cadet through the ranks to colonel, and on Nov. 1, 1988, Col. William E. Richard¬ son, head of the computer science department, became aperma¬ nent professor.

Born in Tucson, Ariz., to a27-year Air Force veteran. Colonel Richardson says that the Air Force is in his blood.

“I enjoy the Air Force,” he said. “I appreciate what the Air Force is attempting to do and Iguess, as corny as it seems, Ifeel 1 have an obligation to my country. ..1 feel Ihave amoral obliga¬ tion because of the opportunities the Air Force has given me that I would not have otherwise had.”

The newest permanent professor is adistinguished graduate of the academy’s Class of 1971 with atriple major in computer science, astronautics and engineering science. He earned a master’s degree in computer science from the University of California at Los Angeles, and master’s and doctorate’s degrees in computations from Oxford University.

As permanent professor and head of the department, he plans

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to keep the academy at the forefront of computer science educa¬ tion in the Air Force and the nation.

Colonel Richardson says an accreditation body that recently revisited the academy found the department to be very pro¬ gressive. “We lead the academic community in undergraduate computer science education,” he said. “That’s where 1hope we stay.

The colonel said that few changes have been made since he became head of the department. But he says he is adamant that research possibilities are expanded for the people here.

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Everyone will be involved in research or consulting. There is a demand, both locally and Air Force-wide, for that sort of com¬ puter science assistance. It’s agreat opportunity for us, as com¬ puter scientists, to dabble in the real computer science discipline by doing research and consulting. So, while we can help the Air Force and the Air Force Academy, we can also help ourselves by doing research and consulting.”

Not including his years as acadet, the colonel has been here nine years. He says he enjoys his assignment at the academy more than any other in the Air Force becagse of the positive attitude the faculty and students have.

“The faculty are asuperb bunch,” he said. “They are very, very bright technically, and they have agood time. They enjoy what they’re doing. They’re here because they want to be here, and they are here because they are good. You don’t see that anywhere else that 1know of.

He sees achallenge in his job of keeping the department agood place for people to work so that the Air Force’s best are motivated to apply for positions within the department. He also intends to do his part to see that cadets get the best leadership and education available.

We are in the cradle of leadership for the Air Force,” he said, “and we ought to do as much as we possibly can to ensure that these very bright people that we get graduate even better. We must not forget that we are getting the cream of the country.”

(The Falcon Flyer)

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Maj Deane YHarimoto (D)

Capt William FGoodwin II (S)

Capt Frank JKisner

Capt Michael RWatson (S)

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Capt Leonard GHeavner

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Mr &Mrs Raymond TBurger

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LtCol(Ret) &Mrs RAGardner

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Mr &Mrs Peter GGaulton

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military of all nations, the greatest aerial tactician of World War I. This video portrait contains personal interviews with the last surviving pilots who flew with and against him, his early flying days under the instruction of the great Oswald Boelcke, and his daring leadership of Jasta II Squadron (known as the “Flying Circus” for their red, yellow and blue planes). Tb The Red Baron deathwastheonlymeasuringstick,because“thedecisivefac¬ tor in victory is simple personal courage,” he would tell his pilots.JastaIIdowned644Alliedplanes—80byTheRedBaron, aWWI record. Included is WWI air footage, dogfights, crashes. andTheRedBaron’slastflightandthecontroversysurrounding his death. It’s all here, asource of first hand information of his ‘v-C story and the story of his squadron.

ACADEMY ALUMNI ALERT

By Lt. Col. Jerry Wyngaard, ’68, and Maj. Steve Simon, ’77

Pegasus on the Move?

Despite countless attempts, no cadet to date has been able to move Pegasus from its perch outside the Arnold Hall Ballroom. Progress, however, might. Academy officials are studying aplan to move the statue from its present location to the traffic circle in front of Arnold Hall. The reason for moving it is to “upgrade the appearance of the entrance to Arnold Hall.” Additionally, there is a concern that “the existing location of Pegasus is obscure.” The superintendent wants to know how graduates feel about this. Is this agood idea? Is the traffic circle (where more people can appreciate this fine work of art as it welcomes cadets and visitors to the social center) an appropriate place? What other place might be better? (A move may eventually be required if/when aproposed Arnold Hall expansion is funded.) After all involved parties have had their say, the superintendent will make adecision on moving Pegasus.

29 Grads Move Up in General Ranks

Two Academy graduates were promoted to lieutenant general during 1988, 13 were nominated to major general, and another 14 were nominated to brigadier general. Anthony J. Burshnik and John M. Loh, both of the Class of 1960, pinned on their third stars during the past year.

Nominated for two stars late in the year and their assignments at the time were: Class of 1961 —Kenneth E. Staten, AFSC, and Frank E. Willis, MAC. Class of 1962 —Gerald A. Daniel, USAFE; Frederick A. Fiedler, HQ AFSC; Paul E. Landers, Jr., Hq USAF; and Peter D. Robinson, ATC. Class of 1963 -John L. Borling, Hq SAC; Lawrence E. Day, Hq TAC; and Sam W. Westbrook III, commandant of cadets at the Academy. Class of 1964 -Stephen B. Croker, Hq SAC; Thomas E. Eggers, Hq USAF, and Richard E. Hawley, Hq PACAF. Howell M. Estes III, Hq SAC, was the Class of 1965 nominee to major general.

One-star nominees were: Class of 1963 —William J. Ball, TAC; Patrick P. Caruana, OSD; and Otto K. Habedank, Hq ANG. Class of 1964 -James L. Cole, Jr., JCS; William M. Douglass, USAFE; James F. Hinkel, Hq USAF; John G. Lorber, PACAF; Ralph H. Graham, AFSC; Donald B. Smith, USFORSCOM; and Robin G. Tornow, TAC. Class of 1965Lawrence P. Farrell, Jr., USAFE, and James L. Vick, SAC. Class of 1966 —Paul E. Stein, TAC, and Donald R. Walker, AFSC.

The total of graduates currently nominated, serving or retired at general rank is seven as lieutenant general, 23 as major generals, and 70 as brigadier generals.

Jabara Award Open To ALL Graduates

retired or separated graduates may be

You say “Where should Isend my input?” To the Academy Alumni Of fi ce (HQ USAFA/XPA, U.S. Air Force Academy, Colo. 80840).

Yes USAFA grads, there is an Academy Alumni Office! The Directorate of Development and Alumni Programs serves as the superintendent’s eyes and ears concerning the Association of Graduates and the graduate community. We work with the AOG on homecoming, class reunions, the Jabara Award, and all other grad-related stuff. We, Lt. Col. Jerry Wyngaard (’68) and Maj Steve Simon (’77), are committed to having an involved and active graduate body.

With this column, we will address issues and provide information relevant to grads. We invite your inputs, ideas, and news on any graduate- or Academy-related topic. We will publicize interesting info and opinions. Additionally, we will make your feelings known to Academy leaders. These responses will give the Academy hierar¬ chy an idea of what is important to you. Together, we can increase grads’ influence in what goes on around here. (After all, it is OUR alma mater.)

We look forward to hearing and reporting news on Academy grads in the next Academy Alumni Alert column.

(Editor’s Note: With this issue. Checkpoints will begin carrying a column submitted by the Academy’s Alumni Office.)

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THE SECRET LIFE OF WALDO F. DUMBSQUAT

By Don Hall, 16

The squadron negotiated its way into the doors of Mitchell Hall. This was no thanks to the squadron commander, who ordered the turn on the wrong foot twice. The doolies, once inside the hallowed messing facility, shuf fl ed over to the wall. Some of the slower freshmen suffered the ire of upperclassmen pushing their way through to the tables.

“Make ahole, smacks! throughout the entry way.

Eyes fixed on the floor, C/4C Waldo F. Dumbsquat walked in abrace along the wall. He followed the doolie in front of him and hoped his classmate knew where the table was. Only as alast resort would Waldo chance adangerous gaze at the table numbers.

south end of Mitch’s homed in on the sounds of feeding and elbows on tables.

the end farthest from the staff tower. He

“Sir, C/4C Dumbsquat, Waldo F. 762693K reports to ask a question,” Waldo sounded off to the table commandant.

The firstie looked up from his meal and shrugged his shoulders.

“Sorry, Waldo, no holes at these tables. Try the parcheesi

team.”

Atouch of fear tugged at the doolie’s already hungry stomach. As he began to walk, Waldo entertained the idea of going into a holding pattern until the meal was over. Unfortunately, before Waldo could get clearance, avoice hailed him from another table.

reverberated here.

“Hey, wad! The wing training table has ahole. Drive over

Waldo reported in and took aseat at the end of the table. He knew things were going to get bad when he noticed the freshmen had no plates.

“Dumbsquat, tuck those elbows in! They’re flopping all over my dining hall.”

“Yes, sir!” replied Waldo to the anonymous instructor. He pressed his elbows even tighter against his rib cage. The bruises would heal in afew weeks.

Waldo arrived at his table. Asmile played at his lips as he realized his table was closed. His mind now fi lled with joy.

Jock ramps!

The doolie squared another corner and plotted acourse for the

The Blue Zoo

FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THREE YEARS IFINISHED APAPER early! Now, THE RACK MAGNET BECKONS...

“Dumbsquat, Altimeter check.”

“Sir, my altitude is 7,250 feet above sea level -far, far above that of West Point or Annapolis.”

“MacArthur’s quote.”

“Sir, General Douglas MacArthur’s quote is as follows: On the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that on other days and other fi elds will bear the fruits of victory.”

“Your light’s on, Dumbsquat. Post away silently.”

The doolie moved quickly away from the table. Luckily, Waldo had afree period. Afeast of peanut butter and jelly awaited him in his overhead. If he was lucky, someone in the squadron may even have some bread!

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Former Astronaut Joins Space Support Company

Karol J. Bobko, ’59, has joined Booz*Allen &Hamilton as a principal in the firm’s space systems group. Bobko, aformer astronaut and veteran of three space shuttle flights, will direct the firm’s space operations activities at the Johnson Space Center.

Bobko will manage Booz'Allen’s space station work in Houston. Booz»Allen’s program manager for the space station program support contract is Dr. William B. Lenoir, also aformer astronaut.

Bobko, who spent 18 years as aNASA astronaut, served as pilot aboard the maiden voyage of the Challenger, as commander aboard Discovery, and commanded the fi rst fl ight of Atlantis. He

was acolonel in the U.S. Air Force and has more than 6,800 hours of flying time in avariety of jet aircraft and more than 386 hours of space fl ight time.

He has been awarded three NASA Space Flight Medals; two NASA Exceptional Service Medals; six JSC Group Achievement Medals; the Department of Defense Superior Service Medal and Meritorious Service Medal; the U.S. Air Force Legion of Merit; Distinguished Flying Cross; three Meritorious Service Medals and other medals and awards for his achievements as aNASA astronaut and Air Force pilot.

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Lance Sijan Book

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BUILDING FUND DONORS

The AOG Board of Directors acknowledges with sincere appreciation the following contributors who pledged and made cash contribu¬ tions to the AOG Building Fund from Od. 28, 1988 to Jan. 27, 1989. We encourage others to join these dedicated graduates and friends in this most important project. Contributions and pledges made after Jan. 27, 1989 will be listed in the next publication of Checkpoints.

TALON DONORS ($l,000-$4,999)

Mr Laurence LCasada ’71

Mr Lou Comadena '64

LtCol Lawrence LHollie '61

Dr Lee EKrauth ’72

Mr Robert TKuckese

Mr Robert GMans fi eld ’77

Mitre Corporation

Mr Michael JMorrison ’68

Mr Harry JPearce '64

Mr Jim Renschen '64

BGen Alan VRogers ’64

Shearson Lehman Hutton

Capt Charles WStiles ’78

Dr Ken AStone MD '72

LtCol Terry LStorm Ret '61

C'ol Charles Ci Thomas Ret ’61

MGen Dale Thompson '60

Mr Alan DTuck Jr '64

Mr Jim Wallace ’64

TAKEOFF DONORS ($25-$999)

LtCol Lester HBaer Ret ’64

Mr Jack DBaker ’64

Lt Benjamin NBeilis Jr ’85

Mr Darryl MBloodworth ’54

Mr &Mrs Errol QBond Sr

In Honor of Ronald LBond, ’69

Maj Rich Bowman ’74

LtCol Ron Bunch Ret ’64

Mr Richard KBusching ’69

Capt Eric RBussian ’80

Gen Paul KCarlton Ret

Mr Joseph EChu ’64

Mr Carlos JCochrane HI ’61

Col James LCole Jr '64

Maj Richard Comer '73

Mr James LCurd Jr ’64

Mr James EDefazio ’68

Maj Kevin Donovan ’75

Mr Terrance MDrabant ’65

Mr James HFleming ’64

Mr Terrence FFlower ’64

Lt Col Gordon RFlygare Ret ’6()

Mr Michael JGilliom ’64

Col Frederick DGregory ’64

LiCol Charles Handley Ret ’64

Mr FNeal Hawkins ’64

Mr Ralph Head

Maj Robert HHeiges Jr Ret ’60

Mr Richard MHilbert ’59

Col CThomas Hill ’64

Hughes Aircraft Co

Mr Ma.\ James ’64

BGen Jay WKelley '64

Mr Allen 1. Larson '64

Maj Charles BLatham '74

Mr James ELaw ’66

Mr Martin FLebouitz '71

Col Robert JLemon '64

Mr Keith Luchtel '64

LtCol Darryl VLundgren ’70

Col Thomas PMahan Ret ’64

Lt Barbara AMahon '85

Col Harvey Manekofsky '64

LtCol Worth RMcCue Ret ’61

LiCol PEMcGill Ret

Lt George TMenker Jr ’86

Mr Michael 1Miller ’64

Mr Scott GMiller ’78

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Mr Michael Moore ’67

Col James DMynar '65

Dr Brian WNelson ’69

Mr Robert POdenweller ’60

Mr Thomas POwens Jr '61

Capi Robert NPolumbo '84

In Memory of Timothy WKehler, ’83

Mr Alex HPurcell Ml '64

Col Thomas TRauk ’64

In Memory of Robert LReeves, '64

Mr Thomas MRentenbach

Capt Lawrence Robinson III Ret '64

Rockwell international

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(Continued on next page.)

In recognition of the needs of the Association of Graduates (AOG) of the United States Air Force Academy, it is my (our) intention to contribute the sum of $ headquarters/alumni house. to the AOG Capital Fund Campaign in support of the construction of apermanent

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Donors: (Continued from previous page.)

Mr Warren JRosaluk ’68

LtCol Marc LSabin ’65

Col Jeff Scho fi eld Ret '67

Maj Carver LSears Ret ’64

Mr Louis HSimkins ’71

Mr Gordon CSmith ’64

Maj Henry AStevens Ret ’64

LtCol Ron Sullivan ’69

Col Arnold RThomas Jr ’64

Maj Raymond JTyc ‘76

Mr &Mrs Anthony Ventresca

Col Dean FVikan Ret ’60

Washington State Parents Club

LtCol Lewis SWeiland ’70

Col Hugh CWhatley '64

Col James IWheeler Ret

Lt Andrew CWhite ’87

Dr Theodore LWillke ’67

Lt Erik JYoungren '85

Richard &Donna Zeilman

In Memory of Kevin Zeilman, ’85

Col Alex DZimmerman Ret ’60

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C3C Brad T. Anderson, at right, helps C3C John R. Miner get ready to march in the Inaugural Parade Jan. 20. The cadets, part of agroup of 94 from Cadet Squadron 15, represented the Academy in the parade. (Photo by TSgt. Al Eakle)

Wings of Blue Capture National Championship

The Wings of Blue parachute team captured its 17th national championship by winning 18 out of 25 medals Dec. 28-31 in Clewiston, Fla. The Overall Collegiate Parachuting Champion Award was won by Cadet Jim Travis when the academy senior captured first place in all three individual events.

The three individual events were style, accuracy and overall; the team event was relative work. Approximately 85 participants from colleges across the United States were divided into three classes; novice (less than 100 jumps); intermediate (100-300 freefall jumps); and master (more than 300 freefall jumps).

The style event consisted of aseries of turns and loops perform¬ ed in freefall as the jumpers attempted to complete six maneuvers in the shortest time possible.

Academy jumpers took the top three spots in the masters divi¬ sion in this event. They were Travis, Cadet Dan Czupka, who took second, and Cadet Stacy Shackelford who finished third. In the intermediate class Cadet Jeff Gallino placed second and Cadet Alex Casteel was third.

In the accuracy event jumpers tried to land on the center of an electronic scoring pad. The center of the pad consisted of afivecentimeter-wide dot. Travis won the event by landing on the dot in three of his four attempts -his last attempt missed the dot by 2centimeters. Cadets swept the intermediate class of the accuracy category when Cadet Clark Hunstad captured first. Cadet Ray Briggs took second, and Cadet Brian Singstock finished third.

The overall event combined an individual’s placement in ac¬ curacy with his best placement in either the style or relative events. Czupka finished second behind Travis in the masters class. In the intermediate class, Hunstad took first and Gallino placed second.

The relative work event consisted of four jumpers exiting the plane together and trying to complete as many preselected forma¬ tions as possible in 35 seconds of freefall.

The academy placed first and third in this event. The first-place team consisted of team captain Cadet Mike Kem, Cadet Mike Hoepfner, Cadet Dave Saxton and Hunstad. The third-place team was made up of team captain Cadet John Ward, Cadet Sam Shmays, Cadet Shane Riza and Cadet Paul Ziemba. 5fc

NWC Alumni Group to Sponsor Conference

The National War College Alumni Association will sponsor an all-day conference on national security issues at Randolph Air Force Base near San Antonio, Texas on April 27, 1989. In addi¬ tion to morning and afternoon presentations, there will be a luncheon with aguest speaker.

Authoritative experts will speak on several timely topics. In the recent past, similar conferences in other localities have covered such subjects as Central America, the Middle East, Pacific Basin, Arms Control, Terrorism, Our Allies, Space Challenges and Soviet Policy.

This conference has been arranged to respond to interest ex¬ pressed by alumni of the senior service colleges (The National War College, Industrial College of the Armed Forces, Army War College, Naval War College, Air War College, Senior and Ex¬ ecutive Seminars of the Foreign Service Institute and comparable foreign colleges). Other interested active and retired officers and government officials are also invited; spouses are welcome.

For further information and registration forms, contact the Secretary-Treasurer, National War College Alumni Association, The National War College, Ft. L.J. McNair, Washington, Washington, DC 20319. Commercial phones: (202) 863-2306 or (202) 475-1844; Autovon: 335-1844.

Class Designs Wheelchair; Gives Five-year-old Freedom

Thanks to cadets in Engineering 410 here, afive-year-old Pueblo boy has gained alittle freedom.

Cerebral palsy left Tyler Murray confined to awheel-chair and restricted use of his left arm. The academy project has enabled Tyler to operate his wheelchair by using only his right arm. The cadets modified Tyler’s chair as part of their senior level engineer¬ ing design course.

Eileen Kaser, an occupational therapist in Montrose, Colo., contacted Capt. Tom Lash, Engineering 410 course director, in late 1987. She explained Tyler’s case and the lack of aone-arm drive for achild’s wheelchair. She asked if engineering students at the academy could help.

Engineering 410 is the capstone engineering course in which cadets solve real life engineering problems. Many of the problems involve unique projects to aid the handicapped. Costs for the pro¬ jects were partially offset with donations by the Association of Graduates from the Air Force Academy Fund.

The cadets, led by Cadet (now 2nd lieutenant) Jeff Fanning, ’88, worked throughout the semester designing and constructing parts to modify Tyler’s wheelchair.

Amajor problem arose when delivery of the wheelchair from the manufacturer to the Murray’s was delayed more than three months. The cadets tried, but were unable to fi nish all the modi fi cations to the wheelchair which arrived one week before graduation. Captain Lash realized he would need additional help to fi nish the project.

Glenn Baker of the Academy’s Training Devices organization volunteered to help. While using the cadets’ basic design. Baker made several improvements. He credits the members of his shop with contributing several ideas which he used to complete the modi fi cations to Tyler’s wheelchair.

John and Myrna Murray, Tyler’s parents, drove from their home in Olathe, Colo., to Pueblo to pick up the wheelchair with its newly completed modifications. Both Captain Lash and Glenn Baker were on hand to explain the chair’s operation to the Mur-

rays.

In addition to aone-arm drive mechanism, modifications in¬ clude away to disconnect the drive to allow turning, and hand brakes with wheel locks to prevent rolling backwards on ramps. The modi fications still allow the wheelchair to be folded for easy transport. (The Falcon Flyer)

Tyler Murray takes his new wheelchair for aspin under the watch¬ ful eyes of his parents, John and Myrna Murray, and Glenn Baker. Cadets in Engineering 410 designed the one-hand-operated chair and Baker volunteered his time to help complete the project.

(Photo by Capt. Tom Lash)

Thousands Trek Visitor Center Trail

By Ann Bailey, Public Affairs

No matter which end of the trail you start from, odds are you’ll be out of breath when you reach the Class of ’61 Overlook at the pinnacle of the Visitor Center-Cadet Chapel Trail.

Designed by academy architect Duane Boyle, the one-third mile trail winds its way through anatural setting that includes scrub oak, pine trees, rock formations and native grass that is inhabited by squirrels, rabbits, an occasional fawn or deer, and tourists. Lots and lots of tourists!

During the summer months of June, July and early August, seven summer tour guides, provided by the athletic department, lead groups of 60 people on 14 tours aday. Additionally, of the

average 5,700 daily visitors to the visitor center, Nola Conway, visitor center manager, estimates that approximately 70 percent hike the trail, escorted or individually.

“At each trailhead, we have signs informing people that the trail may be too steep for wheelchairs, people with special needs, or people who are physically infirm. We also make routine trips over the trail with our golf cart to assist people who may be hav¬ ing adifficult time,” she continued.

Hikers who need only afew minutes to rest and catch their breath will find marble benches along the way. The benches are dedicated to the memory of deceased academy graduates. Two were provided by the Class of 1961, one by the West Point Class of 1950, and the remainder provided through memorial funds ad¬ ministered by the Association of Graduates.

“The exciting thing about the trail, which opened with the new visitor center in June of 1986, is that it’s the perfect place to display memorial gifts to the academy where they are highly visi¬ ble to our visitors,” Conway said.

In addition to the benches, tourists on the trail will see alarge sculpture of afalcon in flight donated by the Falcon Foundation.

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The American Legion Memorial Tower is dedicated to the Cadet Wing in honor of all who have served their country and given to the academy by the American Legion and the American Legion Auxiliary, Department of Colorado.

The Class of ’61 Overlook, donated by the class as their 25th anniversary gift in 1986, gives people achance to rest in ashaded area, view the chapel and cadet area, and enjoy refreshments sold by concession people from the athletic department.

Picnic areas are in the planning stage, along with plans for other projects and expansions that will make the trail afavorite stop for academy visitors.

Woodfin Suite Hotels Offer Member Discounts

The Association of Graduates is pleased to announce another valuable discount service available to all graduate and associate members. Woodfin Suite Hotels, arapidly-expanding, all-suite hotel chain, now offers AOG members discounts of 15 percent off current published rates at any of their hotels.

Woodfin Suites was founded by Samuel A. Hardage, USAF Academy Class of 1961, who serves as chairman of the board of the hotel chain. Six hotels are now open in Rockville, Md; Austin, Texas; and Brea, Newark, Orange and Sunnyvale, Calif. Another 16 are under active development or construction at the present time. By the end of 1993, Hardage intends to have some 100 Woodfin Suites open or under construction across the country.

Designed to meet the special needs of business and long-term guests, the hotels offer the convenience of elegant luxury hotels at reasonable, affordable rates. Featuring separate living and large, private bedrooms, many of the suites have woodburning fireplaces and private wall safes. Afull-size kitchen or wet bar is fully equipped with cooking utensils, fi ne china and other culinary conveniences. Suites come complete with afull-size desk, two telephones, two color televisions and avideo player.

Guests may socialize in the clubhouse lounge or at poolside. Complimentary cocktails and hors d’oeuvres are served nightly, and coffee and tea are always available. The clubhouse also features awell-stocked library as well as aselection of videotapes for viewing in an individual’s own suite.

Hot, complimentary breakfast is prepared daily in the clubhouse lounge, as well. Additionally, the hotels provide a fully-equipped Guest Business Center. Twenty-four-hour service in this facility comes complete with computers, software, photocopiers, electronic mail, FAX and secretarial support. An

executive conference center is also featured for those important meetings, presentations or seminars.

AOG members must make advance reservations to obtain the 15 percent discount. Call 1-800-237-8811, identify yourself as member of the Association of Graduates of the U.S. Air Force Academy and request the discount along with your reservation. Plan on showing the AOG membership card at checkin. Then, relax and enjoy.

Budget Rent ACar Offers Member Discount

The Association of Graduates (AOG) is pleased to announce an agreement with Budget Rent ACar Corporation which offers association members very favorable worldwide daily rates for cars returned to the renting location. Rates vary from $32 to $36 per day, depending on car size, within the United States. All such ren¬ tals include unlimited mileage and are nondiscountable. One-way rentals are subject to additional fees, and surcharges apply in some major cities. Weekly rates in the United States will be equal to six times the daily rate. Association members are also eligible for special truck rental rates.

Special rates are also available in Canada and other interna¬ tional locations. These rates will vary by country and car size.

AOG members will fi nd their discount card bound in this magazine. Atoll-free number, (800) 527-0700, is available for reservations, and member should quote AOG ID #D00108. Your association is pleased to add this new benefit to our growing list of member services.

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Cadets hike the one-third mile long visitor center trail. (Photo by Bill Madsen)

Aviation Administrator Promises Tight Security

By Bill Madsen Public Affairs

The lead speaker at the 13th annual Aerospace Education Sym¬ posium in January in Fairchild Hall, T. Allan McArtor, the Federal Aviation Administration’s administrator, spoke about safety in airline operations, the need for airport expansion and the terrorist threat.

A1964 academy graduate, McArtor flew 200 combat missions in Vietnam, and was awarded the Silver Star and Distinguished Flying Cross. He was amember of the Thunderbirds from 1972 to 1974, and was appointed FAA administrator July 22, 1987.

“The new Denver airport is needed and is on the top of the FAA’s list for construction funds,” McArtor said. “The Colorado Springs Municipal Airport expansion will complement the new Denver facility. In the latter case, amodular approach will permit the (Colorado) Springs airport to expand as needed in the future.”

The FAA is testing anew bomb detector, McArtor said, one which would have detected the bomb that exploded on Pan Am Flight 103 Dec. 31 that killed all 259 people on board.

Security will be tightened in the United Sates, McArtor added, and he has written to his counterparts in other countries urging in¬ ternational cooperation in airport and airline security.

The FAA is conducting amassive study on pilot training and traffic control programs and is likely to recommend significant changes.

“We’ve mastered technology problems —planes are inherently safe,” McArtor said. “The next major advance in performance will come from the human side.” (The Falcon Flyer)

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T. Allan McArtor, ’64, Federal Aviation Administration’s ad¬ ministrator, talked to reporters about safety and the terrorist threat at the Academy in January. (Photo by Bill Madsen)

ANG/Reserve Information Requested from Members

It has been brought to our attention that many graduates serv¬ ing in the active Reserves/Guard of the armed forces would like this information reflected in amore prominent manner in the an¬ nual Register of Graduates. We are currently attempting to add this capability to our data base. This change will allow us to enter the current grade and component of these individuals as the first entry in the biographical sketch as it now appears for active duty graduates. We feel this change will reflect atruer picture of the “Total Force” concept.

In addition, we can also change the address element, if the in¬ dividual so desires, to reflect the current rank and component of Mr., Mrs., or Miss” in the address.

service versus

Problems arise in accomplishing this update in that much of our data base on Reserve or Guard jobs is either incorrect or out¬ dated, since most individuals have not given us this information or kept it current, and the Reserves and Guard do not provide in¬ formation on acontinuing basis. Additionally, in some cases, graduates do not wish this information to appear.

We request that each graduate serving in acomponent of the Reserves or Guard who wishes that this information be re fl ected in the Register of Graduates contact us with the following:

If Reserve/Guard affiliation is afull-time job, provide the com¬ ponent, rank, job title, unit and installation. If it is asecondary job, provide the component, rank and state in which serving. Please provide, as well, your desire regarding use of rank/com¬ ponent in the address element for future mailings.

Finally, we hope to be able to accomplish this change prior to next year’s publication of the Register of Graduates. Our success, however, will depend upon individual graduate input.

CWC 100th Year Reunion

Many AOG members are married to graduates of Colo¬ rado Women’s College (CWC). CWC, now part of Denver University (DU), will celebrate it’s 100th anniversary of founding on May 12-14, 1989. Since DU Law and Music schools now occupy the old CWC campus, this reunion may be the last major event held in the CWC name. At presstime, over 500 alumni have expressed plans to attend. Those wishing information should contact the DU Office of Alumni Relations (303) 871-2701 or Mrs. Bunky Lundberg (Al, USAFA ’67), (303) 796-7088.

FALCON SPORTS

1989 Baseball Schedule Ambitious

The most ambitious schedule in school history, some home games away from Falcon Field plus an exhibition with the Colo¬ rado Springs Sky Sox highlight the Air Force Academy baseball team’s schedule for 1989. Sixty collegiate games, including 46 against Division 1opponents, are on tap, according to Air Force head baseball coach Paul Mainieri.

We’ve added 10 more Division 1games over last year in order to expose our players to the best possible competition and to prepare for the Western Athletic Conference tournament in May,” said Mainieri, who is in his first year at Air Force. “We also have acouple of new twists to make things more interesting for our local fans.”

Air Force will play the Cleveland Indians’ top minor league franchise at Sky Sox Stadium on April 5. Two conference games versus Utah on April 16 and anonconference matchup against Colorado College on May 3will take place at the minor league ballpark in northeast Colorado Springs. Additionally, doubleheaders against Wyoming on March 24 and March 25 will be played at Runyon Field in Pueblo.

Falcon Field will be the site of games against Northern Colo¬

FALCON BASEBALL SCHEDULE

Western

New Mexico State (2)

Creighton

Iowa State

Creighton

Metro State (2)

Northern Colorado (2)

Denver (2)

Northern Colorado (2)

Metro State (2)

Creighton (2)

Creighton

Wyoming (2)

Wyoming (2)

Nova

Northeastern

Flordia International

St. Thomas

Florida International

Northeastern

Hawaii (2)

Hawaii (2)

Regis

Utah (2)

Utah (2)

Regis (2)

San Diego State (2)

San Diego State (2)

Brigham Young (2)

Brigham Young (2)

Northern Colorado

Colorado State (2)

Colorado State (2)

New Mexico (2)

New Mexico (2)

WAC Tournament

Las Cruces NM

Las Cruces NM

Omaha NE

Omaha NE

Omaha NE

rado, Denver, Metro State, Creighton, Flawaii, Utah, Regis and New Mexico. No admission is charged at Falcon Field.

The season kicked off Feb. 18 when the Falcons traveled to Las Cruces, N.M., to compete in the Land of Enchantment Invita¬ tional hosted by New Mexico State. During the season. Air Force also will travel to Nebraska, Florida, California and Utah. The WAC tournament will be held May 18-20 in Honolulu, Hawaii.

In addition to playing the same opponents as last season, games have been added against Creighton, Iowa Sate and Florida Inter¬ national. If all 60 scheduled games are completed, this will be the most games an Air Force team has ever played.

Last season, Mainieri was head baseball coach and athletic director at St. Thomas University in Miami, Fla. His staff consists of assistant coaches Mike Sumpter, Bruce Ackley, Andy Fowkes and Mike Erdle.

Air Force returns five starters from last year’s squad that fin¬ ished with a25-33 record. Leading the team will be senior Jon Mosier, who led last year’s pitching staff with six complete games, and outfielder Dan Broderick, who is approaching school career records in almost every offensive category.

All-American in Soccer Named

Chris Foster has been named the Air Force Academy’s first soc¬ cer All-American since 1977. Aforward from Annandale, Va., he was selected to the NCAA Division 1third team in the poll spon¬ sored by the National Soccer Coaches Association. He has also been selected to play in the Senior Bowl, college soccer’s only allstar game, which will be played at the Busch Soccer Stadium in St. Louis on March 31. He will be the first Falcon to play in the

Bowl since 1978.

Chris Foster

Foster, who was the Falcons’ leading scorer as asophomore and junior, was the team’s second-leading scorer this season despite constant doubleteams by the opposition. He had 12 goals and nine assists in 1988 for 33 points. In his career, the senior scored 52 goals and recorded 31 assists for 135 points.

Amember of the 1988 U.S. Soccer Federation Senior National Team, Foster has been selected to the All-Midwest team for the past two years and to the All-Colorado state team and All-Rocky Mountain Intercollegiate Soccer League team for three years.

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Sports Teams Produce All-Americans

Football, soccer, water polo and women’s cross country all pro¬ duced All-Americans for the Air Force Academy this year. Although the football season ended in aslide with a5-7 overall record, numerous gridders were recognized for various achievements. Named Academic All-Americans were offensive guard David Fllatky to the first team, and defensive backs James Flecker and Scott Salmon to the second team. All are seniors.

Fllatky, who was selected to play in the Flula Bowl, was earlier honored by the National Football Foundation and Flail of Fame as one of 11 scholar-athletes nationwide. Fie was also awarded a postgraduate scholarship by the National Collegiate Athletic Association for his athletic and academic performance. The NCAA scholarship, a$4,000 gram to pursue graduate study on a full-time basis, was awarded to 25 senior football players nation¬ wide. Astarter for the past two season, Hlatky was this year named to the All-Western Athletic Conference fi rst team by the media.

Hlatky and four other football players were also named honorable mention selectees to the Associated Press All-America squad. Guards Kevin Bell and Hlatky and runn'ug backs Andy Smith and Greg Johnson represented the offense. Outside linebacker Randle Gladney was the only defensive player chosen.

Coach Louis Sagastume’s Air Force soccer team finished the season with a13-5-2 record and athird-place ranking in the Midwest Region. Every Falcon loss was by asingle point. The team was led by All-American Chris Foster and leading scorer Glenn Melia. Senior Foster was named the Academy’s first soccer All-American since 1977.

The women’s cross country team captured second place in the nation at the NCAA Division II championships in Clinton, Miss, in November. This was the highest finish ever in the NCAA for the Falcon women who are coached by Mark Sperre. Six com¬ petitors also earned All-American status at the championships. Jill Wood, asophomore, finished second, freshman Kelly Kirkpatrick was fourth and the others honored were sophomore Callie Calhoun, sophomore Shannen Karpel, freshman Suzanne Henke, and sophomore Amy Reecy.

The water polo team, coached by Jeff Heidmous, had a17-10 dual record, finishing the season ranked 14th in the nation. Senior Steve Spanovich was named an All-American in the sport, the sec¬ ond Air Force player ever selected for national water polo honors. Spanovich plays aforward position called two-meter man and this year led the team with 57 goals and 78 points, for a232 career total. Aco-most valuable player of the Western Water Polo

Foster; (Continued from previous page.)

“Chris has been agreat player for us and he has demonstrated that talent to coaches nationwide,” said Air Force head coach Luis Sagastume, himself an All-American with national cham¬ pion University of San Francisco in 1966. “He’s one of the finest competitors I’ve had the pleasure to coach. Everybody here is happy that he has been honored nationally.”

Playing in regular games, tournaments and all-star contests, Foster has exhibited his abilities across the nation. “Chris is a quick, dynamic, explosive forward who ranks with the best strikers in the country,” said UCLA head coach Sigi Schmid. “His quickness makes him one of the best forwards in college soccer,” said University of Vermont head coach Ron McEachen.

Foster’s Air Force team fi nished the season with a13-5-2 record, with every loss being by one goal. The Falcons, who ranked as high as 13th nationally during the season, finished the year as the number three team in the Midwest Region.

The last soccer All-American from the academy was Greg Schulze, who was asecond-team selectee in 1976 and 1977. Foster and his fellow All-Americans were honored at the National Soc¬ cer Coaches Convention in Philadelphia on Jan. 14. After graduating from the academy, he plans to attend pilot training.

Dave Hlatky

Steve Spanovich

Association, Spanovich led his team to asecond-place finish in the conference. Air Force’s only other water polo All-American was Gerald Veldhuizen, who was selected to the team in 1981. Both Spanovich and Veldhuizen were honorable mention picks.

The men’s cross country team finished fourth in the Western Athletic Conference Championships in Salt Lake City in November. Coach Jim Trego’s team was paced by Chris Nelson, who became the first Air Force freshman ever to make the AllWAC team.

Coach Bill Peer’s volleyball squad completed the season with a 28-19 record. In the Air Force’s annual Premier Tournament, which featured 12 of the nation’s top 20 teams, the Falcons fin¬ ished ninth. Senior Sue Wojszynski was named to the AllContinental Divide Conference team.

At presstime, both the hockey and basketball team were per¬ forming well with the hoopsters at 13-8 overall, and scoring numerous upsets to become viable contenders in the WAC.

Academy Will Again Host Boxing Championships

The Air Force Academy will host the National Collegiate Box¬ ing Association championships on April 7-8. The event, featuring the best college boxers in the nation, will be held at the Cadet Field House and is open to the public.

Champions from each of college boxing’s four regions will compete in 12 weight classes. Participants are expected from such schools as West Point, Annapolis, Penn Sate, Texas A&M, Virginia Military Institute, Xavier, Cal-Berkeley, and The Citadel. Air Force, which has won the national championship seven times in the 1980’s, is one of the favorites for the title.

Boxing has produced 131 All-Americans from the Air Force Academy, including 40 individual national champions. Six AllAmericans from last year plan to compete again this year. “Hosting the nationals is an advantage to our boxers,” said Air Force boxing coach Ed Weichers. “Having that hometown edge may be the difference between winning and losing for some of our competitors.”

Air Force last hosted the collegiate boxing finals in 1986. The Falcons also hosted the national championships in 1980 and 1983. Tickets will be available through the academy athletic ticket office and at the door. Prices are $10 for reserved seats, $7 for general admission and $3 for students. One ticket is good for both nights.

Local boxing fans will also have an opportunity to see exciting college boxing amonth earlier at the Cadet Wing Open Boxing Championships. In this free annual event at the Cadet Field House on March 3, the best cadet boxers at the academy will be determined.

CHAPTER NEWS

ALAMO AREA CHAPTER

The Alamo Area Chapter held its an¬ nual business and membership meeting on Friday, the 13th of January, at the Brooks AFB Of fi cers’ Club. Anew slate of of¬ fi cers, headed by Bob Oaks, ’59, was nominated and elected. Also, aschedule of activities for the coming year was pro¬ posed. Members, spouses, and dates grazed on heavy hors d’oeuvres and quaffed drinks from the bar or the chapter-provided keg. Door prizes from the infamous “Potent Potable Raf fl e” of Jim Brown, ’59, and Larry Freeman, ’61, were, as usual, the highlights of the eve¬ ning. (J.J. Williams, ’64)

NEW YORK CHAPTER

The next event was the biennial lunch¬ eon the day before the Army game. Over a hundred people heard from the superintendant, commandant, director of athletics, and other Academy dignitaries. We even had one of the falcons and its handler. (Riding the elevator with the falcon was an aerie experience.) Some parents association members attended the luncheon. For the next one, in two years, we’ll get the word out to parents of cadets so they know they’re welcome. John Flanagan, ’62, is deputy commander of the New York Air National Guard and was able to arrange the event for the historic 7th Regiment Armory on Park Avenue. Previous pre-game luncheons had always been at the also historic Mama Leone’s, but that restaurant has been torn down for another high-rise. The construc¬ tion industry is doing fine in New York

Rick Kingman, ’60, in Manhattan’s SoHo. Rick and Judy, who will have had ababy by the time you read this, live in alarge renovated loft —perfect for entertaining and with agreat view of the World Trade Center and much of downtown Manhat¬ tan. The ground floor houses Amazonas, arestaurant known for its Brazilian bands and late night entertainment. Larry Willis, ’64, recently moved back to the States after many years in Rio selling planes for Falcon Jet. Fie didn’t make the brunch but we’ll get areport on Amazonas’ authen¬ ticity after our next evening event. Down the street from Rick’s building is the Manhattan Brewing Company, which delivers their local beer by horse-drawn wagon. We had afun time in this eclectic neighborhood.

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Rees Wagner, ’61, coordinated game

better Air Force team. (But it was nice to see the Army had agood season against everyone else and went on to the Injust one point.) The post-game party in the Thayer Hotel got our spirits back up, but we’re going to have to think up some alumni plan for the 1990 game. With all our Zoomie AOG members teaching at West Point, we should be able to plan some stunt that will help us win. The last three games at West Point have been wet, cold, and we lost. Next time we’re going to be up for it.

The final chapter event of the fall was a holiday Sunday brunch at the home of

The Greater New York Chapter com¬ pleted abusy schedule of four events from City. September through December. September saw about 40 members get together at The tickets for the chapter and close to 300 of Wings Club for atalk on the potential ef- ussatthroughawet,miserablegameat fects of the elections on investments. The Army as Army at home, once again beat a speaker was Dan Kornstein, who works with chapter president Mike Galbreath, ’64, at Merrill Lynch’s World Financial Center. Those of us from this area equate dependence Bowl, losing to Alabama by “New York” to “World” for everything: World Trade Center, the diplomatic Capitol of the world, the headquarters for world communications media, etc. The Manhattan phone book (one borough of New York City) has almost afull page of organizations that start with the word “world.” Enough of this commercial for New York. You probably all watched the New Year begin in Times Square on TV. If you’re passing through, call one of the chapter contacts listed in this report.

For more information about the Greater New York Chapter, contact those people mentioned in this article or vice president Todd Jagerson, ’64; secretary Ron Wishart, ’64; treasurer Martin Lebouitz, ’71; or program chairman Mike Greece, ’64, at their numbers or addresses in the AOG Register. Todd’s office is at 22 E. 72nd St., NY, NY 10021, (212) 570-4730. (Ron Wishart, ’64)

NORTH TEXAS CHAPTER

We call ourselves the North Texas Association of Air Force Academy Grads. Any group with aname as long as ours needs anickname, right? Using all our in¬ genuity we learned “somewhere” in Col¬ orado, “NTAAFAG,” (knat-a-fag). There, now you all know what we’re talking about. (Pretty original, huh.)

simply call ourselves we

Academy Commandant Brig. Gen. Sam Westbrook III, ’63, at left, with John Flanagan, ’62, at the New York Chapter luncheon prior to the Army football game this past November.

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cle, we must recognize afeat, maybe even arecord, of one of our own. On Nov. 22, 1988, at 0511, Ellen Ahmann gave birth to alovely baby girl. Her name is Michelle Elizabeth Ahmann. Our congratulations to the proud mother and father, our one and only Jerry Ahmann, ’63.

In November, NTAAFAG hosted aFall Tennis Tourney. Putting it all together was John Quincy, ’70, one of Ft. Worth’s fi nest dentists. You know the type, never says anything to you until your mouth is full of metal and cotton, then he asks you what you think of the world situation? Thanks for the effort with tennis tourney. Iunderstand “old man Ahmann’ there also.

ORANGE COUNTY CHAPTER

Greetings from Orange County, California! Time for the end of 1988 up¬ date for the chapter’s activities. We had a relatively quiet year highlighted by our an¬ nual family picnic, afootball get together, and an outstanding golf tournament. In late May, the chapter held its annual fami¬ ly picnic at Mason Park in Irvine. This year, we had enough people to make another vigorous attempt at coed volley¬ ball and are hoping that 1989 will bring even more competitive play. We are planwas

The fi nal bit of news from our end of Texas came on the 29th of November at the of fi ce of Jerry Smith, ’62. It was the first time since our association began that we got all the past and present presidents of NTAAFAG together for ameeting and beer fest. In short, we got together to simply discuss ways of making our group better for all its members and to keep pace with the large number of new grads who have come to the Dallas-Ft. Worth area. Rick Barton, ’71, this year’s president, ap¬ pointed aspecific membership committee, headed by P. “Manny” Cardenas, ’64. Manny is an American Airlines pilot at DFW and requests anyone out there, especially you grads new to the area, like classes ’77 through ’82, to give him acall at (214) 247-8273.

Other members of the new Membership Committee are Jerry Ahmann, aDelta pilot, (817) 481-7284; B.J. Bjorklund, ’70, astock broker in Dallas, (214) 596-3765; and Ron Hale, ’71, also aDelta pilot, (214) 492-0152. If you know agrad in the area, give us acall and we’ll include them in our mailings. Lots of fun things to do for you grads and your families, so come join us. (Ron Hale, 71)

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CONCERNING ALL AOG CHAPTERS

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ning to have the picnic on aSunday in 1989 so that more people may be able to attend.

Bob Carey, ’70, coordinated the Second Annual Orange County AOG Golf Tourney in late July and it was aresound¬ ing success. The local U.S. Naval Academy chapter challenged USAFA for the coveted TBD (To Be Determined) Trophy and 18 Air Force Silver beat up on 13 Navy Blue grads. The long years of tradition at the USNA allowed them to take their loss philosophically as the Air Force team eked out aslim 4to 3victory during the match play. Brian Kelly, ’79, and Pat Bendrick, ’84, managed to pull down the best score for our side. We hope to continue the school competition at each yearly tournament. Watch for the summer mailing for dates.

Our major fall get-together was hosted by Scott and Susan Jackson, ’67, at their lovely new home in Newport Beach. About 30 members and their spouses/ families watched the very narrow beating of the Falcons by San Diego State on Scott’s big screen (see photo). Good food, good drink, and agreat time for all. In the front row, from left are Dick Miller, ’67; Craig Johnson, ’70; Dave Albert, ’81; Tony Desantis, ’70. In the middle row are Brian Donovan, ’67; Ken Wentzel, ’64; Scott Jackson, Bob Carey, Bill Ross, ’69; and son.

That’s all for now. Watch for amailing about apotential spring get-together. Also Wayne Lefors, ’63, wants to notify grads in the local area that there are now liaison officer openings and to please call him at (714) 840-4445 for more info. Please call Scott Jackson at (714) 752-8585 or me at 832-8067 for chapter informa¬ tion. (Craig Johnson, 70)

In the back row are Steve Shay, ’71; Mike White, ’70; Troy and Lisa Miller, both ’82, and standing, Scott’s son.

The Orange County contingent roots for the Falcons during the USAFA-San Diego State Came. See the Orange County column for individual identi fi cations.

Past and present presidents of the North Texas Chapter include, standing from left, Jerry Smith, ’62; Mike Gibbons, ’63; Jerry Ahmann, ’63; Bill Reemtsma, ’63; and Ron Hale, ’71. In the front row are B.J. Bjorklund, ’70; P. “Manny” Cardenas, ’64; and Rick Barton, ’71. Present but not in the photograph was Ron Schillereff, ’66.

GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN

William Thomas Moulton, Class of 1961, died in Tucson, Ariz. on Oct. 11, 1988 after aspirited battle against cancer. At the time Bill, who had retired in 1983, was employed as amedical social worker and, as usual, was still spending time supporting worthy causes. Throughout his career he was involved with YMCA In¬ dian Guides, Webelos and Boy Scouts, with both of his sons. Tommy and Robert, attaining the rank of Eagle Scout.

Entering the Academy from Lisbon Falls, Maine -afirst and maybe still an only —Wild Bill was involved with the fencing team, two ski clubs, the geography club as well as others clubs; however, he spent much of his time overcoming academics, which were anew experience for someone from the back woods of Maine. Bill’s New Englander common sense, determination and steadiness pulled him through, but aphysical condition that oc¬ curred in his first class year ended his dream of flying.

Nevertheless, he spent his career supporting flying in such posi¬ tions as amaintenance squadron commander, avionics officer, maintenance control officer and maintenance supervisor. During his 22 years in the Air Force, he was stationed at many locations, including Wurtsmith AFB, MacDill AFB, Ubon AB, Edwards AFB, Ramstein AB, Luke AFB and at the University of Massachusetts as an AFROTC professor.

1didn’t meet Bill and Carolyn until their tour at Ramstein but felt like we had been friends forever. He and Iled atroop of Boy Scouts and had many good times together and afew that weren’t so good. The fund-raiser where we were trying to sell 15,000 pints of ice cream on a32-degree day wasn’t much fun, but leading the outstanding Boy Scout troop in Europe made it all worthwhile.

Bill and 1spent many enjoyable times skiing with our families and friends in Europe and Colorado. One of our most enjoyable ski trips was aEuropean rendezvous in Poncha Springs, Colo, in 1982. Bill and Iled our group down the slopes of Monarch and agreed that “it doesn’t get any better than this.” So Bill, Ijust want you to know that you will always be there beside me in spirit. So as Iclose.

Many’s the time we raced down the hill

Side by side, me and my friend Bill

Though his battle is done

And his race has been won

When Ilook, Isee him there still. (Jim Vargas)

Carl E. Meyer, ’78

Captain Carl E. Meyer, Class of 1978, died on January 18, 1988 while ferrying his experimental aircraft fr9m Dayton, Ohio to Kelly AFB, Texas. At the time of his death,'Carl was the Systems Acquisition Program manager for Comfy Sword III, atraining

system for communications jamming, working in the Advanced Plans and Programs Office at HQ Electronic Security Command.

After graduation from the Academy Carl was assigned to Williams AFB, Ariz. for Undergraduate Pilot Training. Carl and Susan Meyer were married in March 1979, in the Williams AFB Chapel. Despite circumstances that prevented completion of UPT, Carl continued to thrive on alove of flying and considered the Air Force to be central to his way of life.

Carl was assigned to the Atlas Missile Program as amissile launch officer while serving at Vandenburg AFB, Calif. Follow¬ ing this assignment, Carl was moved to the Air Force Acqusition Logistics Division, Wright Patterson AFB, where he was respon¬ sible for logistics planning on multiple weapon system programs. In 1986 Carl entered the Air Force Institute of Technology, Systems Management Program. His thesis entitled “Reliability Predictions Using FMECA Methodology and MDC Data” ex¬ plored new ways of computer-based reliability analysis using cur¬ rently existing data bases in innovative ways. Upon graduation Carl was assigned to Kelly AFB, Texas.

Carl continuously demonstrated his love for flying, piloting his own home-built experimental VariEze and avariety of commer¬ cially manufactured aircraft. Carl was amember of the Flying Angels, The Dayton Ducks, Experimental Aircraft Association Chapter 610, and Sigma lota Epsilon, anational honorary and professional management fraternity. He loved the game of golf and riding his motorcycles.

Carl will long be remembered for his zest for life, adriving am¬ bition to excel at everything he did, and his love for flying and the Air Force. Carl is survived by his wife, Susan; two sons, Carl E. Meyer Jr. and Benjamin; brothers Ron, Paul and Ernie; and his parents Ted and Pauline Meyer of Fort Wayne, Ind. (David Goble)

Jeffrey S. Giles, ’83

Captain Jeffrey S. Giles, Class of 1983, died Oct. 11, 1988 in a KC-135 accident at Wurtsmith Air Force Base, Mich. Jeff, the aircraft commander, and his crew were returning from K.l. Sawyer AFB with avisiting inspection team when, on landing, the plane crashed and caught fire.

Jeff was born March 29, 1961 and, most of his life, lived in and called the rolling hills and mountains of West Virginia home. He was extremely proud to be a“Mountaineer.” Jeff was active in church and school in Bunker Hill and was astandout in football and track. He graduated as valedictorian and was the first student from his high school to receive an appointment to any service academy. His outstanding example served as inspiration for students who have since followed in his footsteps.

Jeff spent his first two years at the Academy in 10th Squadron

William T. Moulton, ’61

Carl E. Meyer, ’78

Jeffrey S. Giles, ’83

before becoming a38th “All Star” for the following two years. While there he took full advantage of the area to pursue his love of the outdoors. He hunted pheasant in Kansas, taught survival during SERE and camped and skied in the mountains of Colo¬ rado. Jeff earned his degree in civil engineering and earned respect from the faculty for his efforts and enthusiasm on Civil Engineering Department projects.

After graduation from the Academy, Jeff attended pilot train¬ ing at Reese AFB, Texas, followed by his first operational assign¬ ment to Dyess AFB, Texas flying the KC-135. Jeff was highly regarded by the crews with whom he fl ew and was selected for copilot Stan Eval prior to upgrading to aircraft commander at Dyess. After his upgrade Jeffs crew was selected to participate in the 1987 SAC/NAV Bomb Competition. He enjoyed doing special projects for the squadron and was always eager to volunteer his time. His professionalism and enthusiasm in whatever was asked of him was typical of Jeff and earned him the Air Force Commendation Medal.

At the time of the crash he had been at Wurtsmith only afew short months, but, as always, Jeff quickly made close friends and earned the respect of his squadron members and his crew. Jeff had been married only three weeks and had just brought his new bride to Michigan to settle into their new home.

Memorial Services were held at Wurtsmith and Jeff was buried with full military honors at Shenandoah Memorial Park near his home. He is survived by his wife, Lorraine “Pete”; his parents, Paul and Janita Giles of Bunker Hill; abrother Steve, and sisters Karen and Linda.

Jeffs loss is deeply felt by all who knew him. He always had a smile for everyone around him and he never knew astranger. His

love of life and of those surrounding him infected everyone with whom he came in contact. He lived life to the fullest and touched many lives with his easy going charm and wit. We who knew him are truly blessed for the short time we had with him. Not only did he define the word “friend,” Iknow Jeff was also agreat husband for the short time he was married. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family and especially with “Pete” in her tragic loss so ear¬ ly in their life together. In “Pete’s” words. ..

Those that know him, love him;

Those that love him, miss him. (Mitch Packett, ’83)

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

Major James G. Hazen, Class of 1974, who was killed on Nov. 8, 1988, in an F-15 aircraft crash near Kodiak, Alaska.

Major Michael P. Foster, Class of 1978, who was killed in an A-10 crash on Dec. 8, 1988, in Remscheid, West Ger¬ many.

Mr. Gurnie C. Gunter, Jr., Class of 1981, who died on Dec. 15, 1988, of an illness in Kansas City, Mo.

Captain Michael A. Frederickson, Class of 1984, who was killed on Nov. 15, 1988, in an A-10 crash near Shaw AFB, S.C.

First Lieutenant Johnnie J. Graves, Class of 1986, who died of injuries received in atrain/pedestrian accident on Nov. 13, 1988, in Comiso, Italy.

Our sincere condolences to the families and friends of these graduates. Their obituaries will appear in future issues of the magazine.

Wife Dies in “Spouse Appreciation Day” Glider Crash

The wife of a1981 graduate was killed on Nov. 18 when the glider in which she was apassenger slammed into a8,500-foot ridge on Rampart Range. Taking part in “Spouse Appreciation Day” at the Academy, Adare M. Kitchens, 28, died when the motorless sailplane crashed on the ridge of Stanley Canyon, two miles west of the Air Force Academy Hospital. The area is just outside the academy boundary and is accessible only by foot.

Mrs. Kitchens was the wife of Capt. Craig Kitchens, ’81. They have adaughter, four, and ason, one.

The pilot of the glider, Capt. William H. Murray, Jr., 28, of the 94th Airmanship Training Squadron, was in serious condition after being airlifted to the Academy Hospital. Capt. Kitchens, a pilot in the same squadron, was also flying an Academy plane at

Ackerman Overlook Dedicated

Jasper D. Ackerman, asoldier, rancher, banker and supporter of the Academy, was honored posthumously at arecent dedica¬ tion ceremony of an overlook in his name for his contributions to the Colorado Springs community and the Academy. The over¬ look is located off Interstate 25 near the Academy’s airfield.

According to Ackerman’s close friend and associate Harold U. Littrell, chairman of the board and president of Air Academy Na¬ tional Bank, the overlook took four and one-half months to com¬ plete from conception to dedication.

Ackerman, born Oct. 22, 1896, supported the Academy in various capacities from its beginning until his death Jan. 13. 1988. He served on the Falcon Foundation and the Academy Founda¬ tion, contributed to Falcon Stadium and Eisenhower Golf Course, and funded Fairchild Hall’s Air Force Historical Art Museum.

During World War 1, he served as asecond lieutenant in the in¬ fantry and during World War II as alieutenant colonel. As a soldier, he received two Purple Hearts and the Bronze Star. He was the founder of the Pike’s Peak or Bust Rodeo and in

the time of the crash. He was not the pilot of the tow plane that discovered the wreckage and he did not witness the crash.

According to an Academy spokesman, Murray was seated behind Kitchens when the two-seated, dual-controlled aircraft, a high-performance ASK-21 sailplane, lent down. The sailplane took off at 11:09 a.m. and the wreckage was found at 11:58 a.m. after officials grew concerned when Murray failed to answer radio transmissions from the tower.

The ASK-21 sailplane, made by Schleicher Corp., costs $40,000 to $50,000 and usually flies between 9,000 and 12,000 feet. This was the first time anon-motorized glider has crashed at the Academy. Ateam is currently investigating the crash.

June 1966, Ackerman founded Air Academy National Bank. Ackerman also was acharter member of the Executives Association of Colorado Springs. This organization represents a diverse group of business people and was responsible for making the Ackerman Overlook areality. (The Falcon Flyer)

Superintendent Lt. Gen. Charles R. Hamm and Harold U. Lit¬ trell, Air Academy National Bank’s chairman of the board and president, unveil the Ackerman Overlook Memorial in October.

CLASS NEWS

R.L. Penn

81 Marshall St. Milford, CT 06460

Of fi ce: (203) 932-7203

Home: (203) 783-1430

Percent members: 81

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Johnny BLACK is now in Coraopolis, Pa. Idunno either.

Among the most surprising mail ever was aletter from Mike BENDAH. First, he wrote it his very own self. Second, without the Georgia accent, it all seemed ordinary enough. So, Mike is a727 pilot for UPS out of Cincinnati. So what, compared with being alawyer or ageneral’s aide, that’s not all so shameful or anything. And it’s not that he’s trying to hide something behind that moustache. (If Tex ULMER grew afull beard, we’d understand, right?) But 1digress. Mike is aserious mountain

Wee Willie and Anne TELFORD took advantage of acertain, “Reed’s Bargain Travel Service” last summer to tour China and Thailand. Former Asian tourists GROARK, BOYINGTON and PENN attended aRiver Rats reunion last June. The Rats gather to reminisce about their travels north of the Red River. The Commander-in-Chief presented P.O.W. medals to our comrades who were delayed by long jail terms. Those men really served their country! Anyway, can you imagine wild fighter pilot Groark in the Rose Garden? Well, Margaretta makes agood impression, so it balances out. And Greg has perfected, no that’s the word, “developed” his couth act to the point that he didn’t seem out of place at all. Well, that’s not quite right either, but at least no one got arrested. The Master Apologist, Ed MONTGOMERY, has become indispensible as editor of the Pacific Stars &Stripes so he’s been extended on active duty for an additional year.

As part of the campaign for president of the prestigious Alamo Chapter, Bob and Gloria OAKS had a’59er party in their Randolph man¬ sion. BROWN, BROWNING, DELLIGATTl, GARBER, GAG (trying to save alittle space here), COTTON, INGLEHARDT, MCVEIGH, and perhaps other happy campers attended. No, Iwasn’t invited either, and probably would’na gone if Ihada been. Anyway, rave reviews —especial¬ ly from those on the ATC commander’s staff.

Seems that six percent of the class attended the Army game last November. D.D. and Ace ONEIL really traveled along way to enjoy the torrential rain. Musta been worth it. The before and after parties compen¬ sated for asomewhat disappointing score. Some of ya’ll may have heard about it. Did LANKENAU really monitor the proceedings from the Hotel Thayer bar?

Only afew days until REUNION! Thirty three years since Recognition Day! (M-l’s chin’s been hanging out ever since!) This will be the best re¬ union of all. Advance registration indicates substantially greater atten¬ dance than either 20 or 25! We’ve planned maximum opportunity for visiting in small groups because that’s what you wanted. Also, you’ve been anxious to see along list of good friends, long separated. That, too. And, as Pete said, many of those for the last time.

Matthew, Arohanui and Mike Bender. climber. That is to say, Idunno if he’s serious or not, but he climbs serious mountains; that is, big ones! Mike goes on to claim to have sired the last of the next generation! If young Matthew hopes to avenge Mike’s record, he can enroll in the class of 2010. Mike asserts, without proof, that fatherhood is great and he recommends it to the rest of us! You cati see Mike in June for afull explanation. Really, 1didn’t make up aword of this.

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

Percent members: 77

By now you have received and returned the survey request for the pro¬ posed 30-year class reunion. If by chance you have not let us know what your thoughts are on the reunion, go ahead and do it. Your input does matter and 1welcome the widest response we can get. If you read the Class of ’59 column in the last issue, you are aware of the direction their class reunion is taking. Iwill have most of the survey results by the time inputs are due for the next issue, so if you have not yet returned your response, it will still be counted.

The football season in the Rockies left alow feeling in most of us but there were afew high points. Probably the highest was the Class of ’60 representation at the Navy game. Partly due to the designation of that weekend to honor Ben Martin and partly because of some excellent weather on the Eastern Slope, we had some 15 classmates in or around the usual tailgate party. George PUPICH, Chris WARACK, Howie BRON¬ SON, DK&Sally JOHNSON, Roy &Barb JOLLY, Vic YOCCUM, Chuck &MaryAnn WATERMAN, Gary CREW, Jock SCHWANK^ Wayne &Barb KENDALL, Fred &MaryLou PORTER, Cres &Mary SHIELDS, Jim &Bev O’ROURKE, Dick &Sharon SCHEHR, and Joan &1joined Jim and Linda GLAZA in destroying asignificant amount of food and drink in the interest of self-preservation. It was too bad that some of the old war horses couldn’t hit the field to support ateam that couldn’t seem to find the combination to blow the Middies away. Some of the guys were camera shy (D.K. and George were still arguing about who is better looking and deserved to be in the front row) but we did capture the “heavies” on fi lm.

Jim and Sheila Reed with Bill and Anne Telford.

Not to be outdone, Maryann, Sharon, Linda, Bev, Joan, and Barb lent a touch of class to what was on the way to becoming aragged affair.

It was the consensus of this group that we pursue the reunion concept so Iexpect that they are all eager volunteers to help sort out all the details. Ireceived anote from our biggest three-star along with aphoto which may be arecorded depiction of AFA’s answer to organized crime leader¬ ship.

house and dealing in real estate will allow them to enjoy the atmosphere of acollege life town they found during his final tour as PAS at Virginia Tech.

Goose GULBRANSON wrote from somewhere in the vicinity of his home in Santa Barbara, CA that he was required by his employer to at¬ tend an FAA cockpit resource management seminar. Some folks do need periodic couth lessons to retain their in- fl ight effectiveness. Anyway, as Goose found, D.Q. MAYO was the “facilitator” tasked to lead the rabble through the wickets. Can you imagine the confusion which must have prevailed over that three-day seminar? I’ll have to avoid that airline until the in fl uence of that session has worn off.

Iheard from P.J. VALLERIE in the Great Northwest in support of our upcoming reunion efforts. He did mention that the constrained military (DOD) budget has had an impact on the Boeing Corp but that he is holding his own. His family is well and like all of us cannot figure away to keep his siblings from moving in and out of the nest on asemi-regular basis. Paul if you find away, let us all know and we will elect you “King of the World.”

In this issue Iwant to highlight what must be one of the most in¬ teresting careers of any who made it through the 1960 filter. Lew PRICE served as anavigator for five years in MAC after which he jumped into the engineering disciplines in abig way. He engineered in the communica¬ tions industry and spent time getting the ultralight aircraft industry off the drawing board. In 1974 Lew published abook on astrology (not astronomy) but with anew twist. It attempted to explain what astrology can and cannot do, and why it does what it does. This interest, coupled with acontinuing interest in music, led him into the manufacture and marketing of over 200 types of folk flutes and panpipes. This led to deeper research in the connectivity of music and astrology and the phenomenon that deals with human body response to audible and visible vibrations. Lew has published other singular and syndicated works in this field. His current leisure interests include: private flying, choral singing, and translating ancient Hebrew writings. His wife Sherry is anurse. Two of his three daughters are married, his third just completed high school. They have two grandchildren (a boy and agirl) with one more on the way. Lew mentioned that he had left out several items. Well, Ican’t imagine a life with much more variety.

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Surprise 50th Birthday Party

Jock and Hope SCHWANK received asurprise visit from Hope’s brother, Neal REAVELY, his wife Niki and the three youngest of their five kids. Jock and Hope had aspur-of-the-moment surprise 50th birth¬ day party for Neal and invited some of our Colorado Springs classmates —Cres and Mary SHIELDS, Fred and MaryLou PORTER, Wayne and Barb KENDALL, and Linda GLAZA, as well as Reeves and Karin Smith, who were high school friends of Niki. Neal Is ahigh school math teacher in Bozeman, MT and also coaches wrestling, football and women’s fastpitch softball. Neal is also acolonel in the Montana Air National Guard and has forsaken flying to become director of operations for State Head¬ quarters.

In recent correspondence. Jack SCHIRA mentioned that he would not be able to make areunion anytime in 1990 as he would be running (again) for Congress. Can you imagine, all he has to do is beat the incumbent in his district in Ohio and we will be referring to Congressman Schira?

C.T. DOUGLASS and Brenda have moved back to the Cincinnati area and claim it to be their last move. As aDelta pilot, he is close to the hub and is putting down roots. Bob RAGER has relocated to Aurora, CO where he can find more passengers for his United 727. W.W. TAYLOR retired from THE FORCE in July and chased off to the D.C. area to join Rekenthaler Technology Associates (another Beltway Bandit from ’60). Bill KORNITZER is headed for Wisconsin and cold country. He will be moving from McDonnell Douglas to the land of clear skies and green fi elds.

In the front row from left are Jim O’Rourke, Chris Warack, Vic Yoccum, D.K. Johnson, and Jim Glaza. In the back row are Dick Schehr, Howie Bronson, Gary Crew, Andi Biancur, George Pupich, Roy Jolly and Chuck Waterman.

The distaff group from left includes Maryann Waterman, Sharon Schehr, Linda Glaza, Bev O’Rourke, Joan Biancur and Barb Jolly.

From left are Ralph LaLime, George Elsea, Tony Burshnick, General Ted Seith, Ken Alnwick, and Tom Burke.

Ralph LALIME, George ELSEA, Tony BURSHNICK, General Ted Seith (deputy Comm our last two years), Ken ALNWICK, and Tom BURKE may constitute areal threat to the Beltway Bandits’ uncontested in fl uence in government policy decisions. General Seith is now retired and the director of the Air Force Aid Society. The others, with the exception of Tony who is Vice CINC of MAC, are all in the D.C. area seeking for¬ tune and fame in second careers.

Speaking about

one’s fortune, 1can echo the note from Russ McDonald who, following retirement this year, became aland peddler in Blacksburg, VA. It seems he and Barbara like the location and their

You have done agood job of supplying me with material for this issue, in fact Imay have enough for acouple of issues. Don’t let it go to your heads. Keep those cards and letters coming in.

Randy Cubero

7163 Wintery Loop

Colorado Springs, CO 80919

Home; (719) 598-7155

AV: 259-3820

PercenI members: 76

Well good people, here it is the end of the year and as you already know the Academy football team had alittle bit of aslide in their last five games. I’m the eternal optimist though and have agood feeling that next year will be the one. Tm not going to be satisfied with anything less than winning the WAC championship. Speaking of the WAC, Jan and Iwill be going to the Freedom Bowl to watch BYU play CU. It should be an ex¬ citing game and naturally we’ll be rooting for the league team, BYU.

The end of the year has been atough period for us in that my dear mother died on the 22nd of November, and right before that, one of the wives of an instructor pilot in motorgliders was killed in an airplane acci¬ dent here at the Academy. Iwas selected as the investigating board presi¬ dent and so with both of those tragedies, it was avery trying time for all of us.

Idid have another sad note to report and that is the passing away of one of our classmates, Bill MOULTON. Bill lost avaliant battle against cancer after one and ahalf years on 11 Oct. 1988. We extend our deepest condolences and sympathy to Carolyn and their two sons. If you’d like to send Carolyn aletter, I’m sure she would appreciate hearing from you: Mrs. William T. Moulton, 5147 W. Dahlia Drive, Glendale, AZ 85304.

On to some brighter news. Mike QUINLAN has returned home from his orientation course on how to be aCEO. Mike will be taking the helm of the USAA district office here in Colorado Springs on the 1st of January 1989. You remember the big building they had on Kelly Johnson Blvd.? Well forget that one because they have built ahuge complex off 1-25, just to the north of the south entrance that makes the old building look like aMcDonald’s stand. Congratulations Mike and Susan, and how about aspecial Class of ’61 discount on car insurance for reaching 50 without amajor accident? How about one for just reaching 50?

You all remember that when Iasked Sam HARDAGE for some wed¬ ding pictures all Igot was one of the four Amigos, but none of Vivian, the bride, and the reason that Sam had the wedding in the first place. Well, good ole George BUCHNER sent me two wonderful shots that will tell the world why’s he’s always smiling. First, there is the cutting of the wed¬ ding cake by the beautiful bride, Robin.

ASecond, on to the honeymoon in the family’s 95-foot yacht. They took ashort trip to Alaska, Hong Kong, China, Singapore, Thailand, and finally to San Francisco and the America’s Cup. Why the heck is George always smiling? And now you know the rest of the story. ..

The start of ashort trip.

Ireceived anice letter from Bob and Winnie WAGNER. Bob retired, or as he put it, “cut the cord,” in July and they are staying in the Tampa area. Bob wrote to let me know that he wouldn’t be able to attend the Ben Martin Reunion that occurred on the 7th and 8th of October. We really had ablast and 1was able to see alot of the old, old football players. Bob BRICKEY and 1played golf in the same foursome as Charlie ZALESKY, ’59, and Brock STORM, ’59. That had to be the funniest day of golf 1ever experienced. 1know it’s hard to believe but we didn’t win anything. There were bets also that we would get lost on the blue course but we didn’t. We played only one hole on the silver course and then came right back to the blue course without anyone seeing us. The whole weekend was great and culminated in aformal banquet where we honored Coach Martin with two impressive portraits, one to be displayed in the Blue-Silver room of Falcon Stadium, and the other is already gracing the Field House on the outside of the basketball arena. Awonderful tribute to one of our Academy pioneers and atruly fine individual.

It was alittle early for Christmas cards but 1did receive afew with some notes to pass on to you all. First, Tom and Laraine SUTTON are really in the U.S. Ipoked an awful lot of fun at the SUTTONs for being gone from the country so much. Well, Ican tell you Tom retired on 1September 1988 and is working for Composite Structures of ALCOA/ TRE in Springville, UT. Laraine is doing some volunteering as ateacher’s aide. (Now that some of the 10 children are gone, she has so much extra time on her hands.) Ialso wanted to mention that Grandma and Grandpa SUTTON celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary this past year, and I know everyone joins me in wishing them many more happy anniversaries together.

Richard HOWELL wrote in his Christmas card that he and his family are getting acclimated to the slower pace of life at the University of Southern Mississippi as compared to Clemson. He told me that at a newcomer’s dinner hosted by the university president, Dick sat down next to acolonel who looked vaguely familiar. It turned out to be Bill O’ROURKE from the Class of ’62. So Dick said he got up and requested another seat. Just kidding, we love the red tags. Dick knows that John PAYNE and Jimmie HOURIN are in Mississippi, but he hasn’t made contact with them yet. Says he’d like to start achapter of the AOG just with ’61ers. Not abad idea.

Idid get another card with aletter in it from Steve HO not WHO. Steve is the Advanced Air Force Program Development Director for Vitro Cor¬ poration in Washington D.C. It sounds like afun job putting in 80 hours aweek. (Isn’t that against the law?) He was recently joined by Melissa who became acongressional page and by Stephanie who started as acon¬ gressional staffer for Representative George Brown. 1don’t know what is going on in Steve’s life, but Ido know that he will never have to worry about acongressional investigation.

Pete LANE wrote from the University of North Texas to tell me that Frank KISZELY is not lost but living in Denver, NC and is still working for Piedmont Airlines. The reason Pete knows so much is young Brent

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George and Robin Buchner

Kiszely is attending UNT and unlike Frank is doing great in school. To break up the article abit Ithought Td slip in anostalgia photo. This has anumber of classmates from ’61 in the picture and it was taken when the football team returned from Iowa with our famous 13-13 tie back in 1958.

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Linda RAWLINS wrote me alittle note in her Christmas card and said that Mike is still flying and really loves it. Scott moved out on his own so that leaves the nest empty except for Mike and the dog. Speaking of flying one of the officers on my investigation board brought me in acute sign which Inow have framed. It says:

“Superior pilots are those who use superior judgement to avoid those situations where they might have to use superior skills.”

In my old age, this saying has become my new credo.

Finally, 1did get aletter from our class Pollack, KARNOWSKI. Seems like all the kids are doing well. Larry is still working on his cabin and is planning on fully retiring in 1989. At that time he says he will finish up his three-hole golf course by 1990 and no one will be allowed to play on it because he wants to be acourse champion for once in his lifetime.

Well dear friends, as usual it has been my pleasure to spend this time with each of you. We are looking forward to the coming year with great expectations. Jan and Ihave always felt blessed with all the friends we have made in the Air Force, and certainly all of you from the class have been in avery special group throughout the years. Iam hoping that by the time you get this magazine, the new year will have brought you all greater happiness, continued good health, and peace of mind. God bless and I’ll see you next quarter.

John W. (Jack) Jamba

4Judy Court

Satellite Beach, FL 32937

Home: (407) 777-5520

Of fi ce: (407) 867-7758

Percent members: 68

HI REDTAGS! The Shuttle Processing Team launched two more shut¬ tles into space. Boy, are we happy! It was agreat feeling when those big babies lifted off the pad. We all are proud of our contributions toward the successful flights and relieved to know that we have jobs, still.

Got aletter in September from Dick and Karen HODGKINSON. Here it is: “My English Prof once told me aman should write aletter every 25 years —just to prove his literacy. I’ve waited 26 and expect it will disprove mine. Of course, it’s to another RTB, so who’s to know. ..Real¬ ly, sorry we didn’t get to the 25th. By all accounts, it was terrific.

1retired 2'/2 years ago, and may qualify for the most unique second career. I’m town manager of Londonderry, NH, avery pleasant municipality of some 20,000 located about 40 miles north of Boston. It’s caught in anice time warp between yesterday and tomorrow; I, for one, hope it stays that way. It’s pretty easy being atown manager: takes abit of management know-how, acapability to sound smarter than you are, and, most of all, ahigh tolerance for the absurd. In other words, aperfect job for the average RTB.

Karen and Ilook forward to our 25th Anniversary next May. Mean¬ while, daughter Pam graduated from William and Mary this year and son Wayne enlisted in the Army Corps of Engineers. The years have moved along pleasantly and continue to do so.

1don’t get to see many folks up this part of the world, so Ihave little

news of others. Last New Year’s Eve, while in Boston for its annual First Night bash, 1did run into Nick FRITZ and we had afew minutes of plea¬ sant conversation along with our wives. Amazing running into him with 800,000 people stomping through Boston that night. Also stopped by Richmond, VA, to see Walt and Rita HERTER who have purchased a cardboard box producing company and seem to be having agreat time making that asuccess. They are very proud of their company and from what 1saw, deservedly so.

Karen and 1would be pleased to see others. So if anyone is in the area, please give acall -just call town hall, the police dept, or stop by any fire station to get my whereabouts. Best Regards.”

Got acall from Fish NICHOLS in October. It seems that Fish is the godfather of Gary BAUGHMAN’S son and had just received an invita¬ tion to his wedding. Fish has just retired at Warner-Robins and is having ahouse built. Iguess Iwas relying on my memory to recall my talk with Fish. Bad move! All my note says is “. ..had dinner with Don NETZINGER and Monelle.”

Since 1received achange-of-address card from Gary BAUGHMAN, I called him for his latest news. Well it seems that Gary’s son did get mar¬ ried in October. He is currently working for Hewlett-Packard in Cor¬ vallis, OR. Gary’s daughter has graduated from college and is now work¬ ing in Los Angeles for Oglevy and Mather Advertising. Gary changed jobs during the summer and moved to Atlanta where he is vice pres of Corporate Services for All Points Relocation Services. He handles all ar¬ rangements for corporate moves. He was charged with starting this divi¬ sion from scratch as anew venture for the company. As if that wasn’t enough, he went back to Colorado Springs in November to marry Maria Taylor. Maria is agraduate from Univ of North Carolina and has been in fV/io’s Who in America. She was in sales and marketing for Johnson & Johnson which she gave up to follow Gary. She has ason in college and a son in high school. Welcome to the REDTAGS.

Ireceived aletter from Fred and Arlene HENDRYX in late November. They bought anew house last year and are trying to get it landscaped. Here’s what they have been doing. “. ..bought aJacuzzi (seats 6-8) and had it installed on one section of the deck and put a13' x13' Four Seasons greenhouse over it. This was all completed in June. ..1 am now finished with year two of my five-year plan and it’s only year one. ..In May our daughter-in-law, Juanita, and grandson, Christopher, came in from Italy and stayed with us until July. Mike rotated back in June and then they all drove with us to Holloman AFB where he is now stationed ...We flew to Albuquerque in September and stayed with them for a week. ..1 got to watch the daily takeoffs of T-38s, F-15s, F-16s, and, believe it or not, F-lOOs. ..We had agood year for USAFA last year. From the Cincy area we sent 10 to the Academy and three to the prep school. This year should be about the same. Iam currently working with 11 seniors and all look well qualified. Ionly have 11 schools. Other LOs here are keeping equally busy. ..As far as the grads are concerned, we got asmall contingent to go to the AFA-Notre Dame game at South Bend. We stayed in the team hotel and had awake. Also got together with about 25 grads, who are now in the Cincy-north Kentucky area for the BYU game. We had atailgate party at alocal restaurant and watched the game on satellite TV. Wake #2! Work has been fun (because I’m) working on a special project. We have evaluated several software firms and have decid¬ ed on one final version although we will start out with two, one for volume forecasting and asecond one for DRP (Distribution Re¬ quirements Planning). Will be very busy for the next six months bringing up our division’s three categories. ..This will be the first Christmas the whole family has been together in three years. We are planning alot of ac¬ tivities while they are here. ..1 hope this has been agood year for you and your family and you all have aMerry Christmas and aHappy New Year ...GO BENGALS!” Thanks for the good news items, Fred.

And now aletter from Ted and March DYKES. “1988 has been awhirl¬ wind of activity. At this time last year, we thought that we were moving to Florida. 1am elated to say we didn’t and continue our odyssey of building our dream house. We fi nished the master bath in January and the entire summer was spent putting on the side and back deck, gazebo, and hot tub. How we have enjoyed the spa! The biggest news here is that Tammy will make us grandparents in February. We’ve had aball buying maternity clothes and baby layette items. This is afirst in 25 years. ..Chris is still with Dupont but is hoping to get his own business off the ground soon. It is called Momentum, doing mainly consulting work in his field of design. He and his girlfriend, Sandy, come home about twice amonth and help us with our building projects. He and Ted make quite ateam. Sandy is the best thing that has ever happened to him. ..Since we are staying in Virginia, Marcy has gotten active in politics and civic affairs. She is on the board of the Great Falls Republican Womens Club, worked actively on the campaign for our congressman and was apoll watcher during the elec¬ tions. ..As you can see from the picture, we got all decked out for Tam¬ my’s welcoming home party in September. It was a“Gone With the

Wind” theme and what aball we had. 1worked for weeks on it and everyone came in period dress. One of our guests came in agown that was actually in the film. Tara came alive once again here in Virginia for one day. ..Once again, we extend our best wishes to one and all for ahappy holiday season and awonderful and prosperous New Year.” Thanks for that family update, Ted.

Chris, Tammy, Marcy and Ted Dykes at “Gone With the Wind” welcome party in September, ‘88.

And now aletter from Norm CAMPBELL, Class of ’61. “Dear Jack, Iwanted to share awar story with you and the rest of the RTB’s. ..about Rudy BOW. ..who shall henceforth be known as Rudy No Shoes. We were down in the Bahamas, playing in agolf tournament, and realized at the opening night cocktail party that we had USAFA in common. By coincidence, we were in the same foursome the next day, and were enjoy¬ ing athoroughly average round when we approached the 13th hole (which was our 4th, since we started at 10). At this particular course, the 13th is a par five straight into the ocean, with water on all sides for the first shot, and woods on the left for the second. After agreat drive, Rudy hooked his second shot into the woods. The ball was sitting out in the open, so he went into the woods to get it. ..or so he thought. The woods were quick¬ sand covered by pine needles, and Rudy quickly went in up to his alligator logo. Fortunately for him, one of the other players in our group had his father along acting as aforecaddy, and Dad sort of rescued Rudy from the mire. ..but minus one shoe, which the goop claimed. Well, Rudy be¬ ing the perserving type went back in to retrieve the shoe, and eventually came up ‘sans shoe’ looking much like the creature from the Black Lagoon. All’s well that ends well, however. Since the hole was apar five near the ocean, Rudy just went and jumped in, cleaned all the gunk off, and finished the round minus shoes, squishing alot. ..and tied for the lead after the first day. Just as the Scots did after Nicklaus’ miracle shot to win the British Open, we suggested aplaque be permanently mounted in the muck and mire on #13 at Paradise Island Golf Course com¬ memorating the truly inspirational feats of Rudy No Shoes. (You really had to be there.) Cheers.” Thanks, Norm, for the fine recounting of the story. 1really appreciate the inter-class exchange.

Igot achange of address on Gail PECK. He moved from Redlands, CA, to Las Vegas, NV, which coincides with the retirment notice Isaw in the Oct 3issue of the Air Force Times. In the same issue, Charles MAC NEVIN also was reported as retired.

1got aletter from Charlie HALE in October. “1 enclose aphoto taken in the parking lot immediately prior to the kickoff of the USAFA-San Diego State football game. You’ll likely recognize all of us great-looking zoomies from the days of yore, but just in case time has clouded your memory, Ilabeled the back of the photo. We believe that this photo cap¬ tures all of the class of ’62 who were present. I’ll venture to say that on a percentage basis the representation of our class was equal or better than that of any other graduated class at that game. We cheered, hollered and carried on, but unfortunately were not successful in keeping the game from ending with USAFA on the short end of the score. But it was very close, and it was an exciting game —too bad the attendance was so poor. Mike and Judy QUINTON did agrand job of being the central point for the game tickets and planning the tailgate party; we are all thankful for their efforts to bring us all together, grads and wives. Iam enjoying my

Larry Harmon, Stan Patrie, Ken Needham, Mike Quinton, and Charlie Hale at the USAFA-San Diego State pre-game tailgate party in September, 1988.

job with McDonnell Douglas Training Systems, Inc., as aKC-10 flight simulator instructor. As of Dec 7th I’ll celebrate my first year with the company. Agreat part of the job is being able to go out with the blue suiters and fly the KC-10. What agreat aircraft. It refuels as areceiver or tanker like adream. After so much experience flying behind atanker in a BUT, it is hard to fly areceiver that is so stable that very little throttle or yoke movement is needed to stay ‘in the green.’. ..Our older son, Charles, is now out of his enlisted hitch in the USAF. He is about 80 mines from us in the L.A. suburb of Bellflower and is employed by McDonnell Douglas, Long Beach. He is ariveter in the final assembly plant for the last DC-lOs and is also working on new MD-80s. He hopes to have the opportunity to work on the C-17 when that program gets fully underway. ..All is generally well with us in Southern California. We still think this to be a great place to live and work. Hope that all continues to go well for you and yours. Warmest Regards.”

Got aChristmas card from the Don EGAN family. Don has moved to a new house in Englewood, CO. And my godson, Todd, is doing well in college. 1also got aChristmas card from Dr. and Mrs. Edward Dehne, parents of our own Denis DEHNE. Dr. Dehne has become heavily in¬ volved with the International Health Society and their efforts to relieve world hunger and suffering.

Got aChristmas card from Hal RHODES together with the following letter. “1988 was ahappy year for the Rhodes family, but it sure went by so fast. Anybody else out there experience atime warp this year? Tanya graduated from the University of Connecticut with majors in math and economics. We’re so proud of her! She was immediately snapped up by a nationwide business consulting firm headquartered in Rowaton, CT. She likes her new career. ..Brett is back from his sojourn in California, driv¬ ing back in his newly-acquired 240Z. What anice car! What an expense to drive it, insure it, and keep it pristine, right Brett? Brett has undertaken a heavy job and academic load, attending Western Connecticut Univ ...Justin appears to be shooting skyward at arate only equalled by the Space Shuttle and other nine year olds. We’re looking for shirts and pants with stretch fabric and hand and foot loops so his clothes can expand with his appendages. No hope for the shoes though. Formidable fleet feet re¬ quire fi nancial fortitude. However, Justin has learned that all he has to do to please his parents is excel at everything. He really tries. Tennis, baseball, basketball, skiing, soccer, golf, cub scouts, paper route, and the fourth grade are his current projects. ..Nikki, as previously mentioned, is aworkaholic for the Danbury school system heading up their whole gifted program and supervising special education at the Jr High level. In her spare time she attends Spanish classes, plays in 2-3 tennis leagues, coaches for the Special Olympics, taxies Justin, and keeps her family fed, clothed, and organized. ..Hal is enjoying flying for Pan Am in the Airbus A-310. The aircraft are new with the latest technology and are routed to Europe, the Caribbean, Mexico, and lately, California. Training on that aircraft was done in Zurich with Swissair. Expensive place. The daily per diem ran out around the end of breakfast. Nikki, Justin, and Brett managed to visit with hard-studying Harold (honest!) during Easter Week. In July, Nikki and Justin accompanied their intrepid aviator to Berlin and over Thanksgiving (with Tanya) to Ennis, Ireland. It was grand but we missed Brett. ..Please excuse once more our Christmas stress-relieving news release. Have awonderful Christmas and mighty fine ’89, best enjoyed with old friends such as those residing in Woodbury, CT.”

And now for afew notes from the Jamba family. Ihave assumed the position of chairman of the USAFA Nominating Committee for the 11th Congressional District here in Florida. Ihave anine-member committee

Jack and Caroline Jamba with Dick and Joanne Hoffert in early 1988 at Jack’s house.

that interviews prospective candidates. We have fi nished our interview process and was Iimpressed by the caliber of young people applying for USAFA. The country will be in good hands 20 years from now. My son Stephen is in his senior year of high school and is preparing for the up¬ coming aseball season. Lisa is in the 8th grade and preparing for alife as ascholar. Caroline and 1are wondering how much longer we will have to work. Why can’t retirement be now! Oh well, the world can’t do without us. Iguess that’s it for now. My thanks for those of you who took out a few minutes to write to me. The column looks good this quarter. Jack.

Norman I. Lee, 111

17532 N.E. 38th Court

Redmond, WA 98052

Work: (206) 655-4412

Percent members: 73

Quick up-date from the last issue: Ihave taken ajob with Boeing in Seattle. The address in the Fall issue of Checkpoints was temporary. Ef¬ fective Feb. 1st, please use the address above. My new job with Commer¬ cial Airplanes Customer (Flightcrew) Training is the one Iwas looking for: achance to remain closely associated with aviation, get away from the ups and downs of the defense industry, and get paid. Additionally, Seattle is not abad place to live. The best part of the job is an opportunity to meet and work with people from all over the world including so far: mainland China, South Korea, Spain, the UK, and Turkey. Finally, we get to travel to neat places like England and Australia.

1do have apersonal observation to pass on to those of you faced with transition from the “Blue Suit” and looking for ajob-decide what you want to do before you settle on things like location, dollars and for that matter, qualifications. 1found my job hunt was significantly lengthened by not knowing really what Iwanted to do. 1spent agreat deal of time spinning my wheels on things Ithought 1should be doing. Once the deci¬ sion was made and the search narrowed, the jobs were readily available. The key is having afocus on your future. The salary you end up with will be dictated by the job, not by what aguy with your extensive experience and obvious skills should be earning. Although most large corporations used to hiring ex-military have agood idea as to the amount of your retirement dollars, Ifound they still pay you what the going rate is for the job they want you to do. Surprisingly, your specific skills and qualifica¬ tions only matter if they —the target company —is not in ahiring mode. On the other hand, if the positions need to be filled, the companies will talk to those best meeting the stated or desired experience requirements and will hire you if they like you! One final word, the academic core of courses we suffered under the USAFA included astrong curriculum of basic engineering —more than 60 to 70 hours of engineering and basic sciences-and in many cases that background will go along way toward qualifying you for technical positions requiring an “engineering academic background” or “technical experience.” This tactic is especially worth¬ while and totally proper if the job itself is not an active engineering posi¬ tion but requires the aforementioned experience. Therefore, Irecommend inclusion of words or phrases such as “strong technical skills/background,” “engineering,” and the like in your resume. Lastly, doing what you want to do will bring with it amore satisfying and proba¬ bly stabilizing second career and the sooner you get started the better.

Speaking of retirement, Joe COATES tells me he will hang it up in February. Itried to call him the other day-Wednesday —and his

secretary said Joe had gone skiing. Sounds like he may already have retired. Probably Sam kicked him out of the office since the cadets had already gone home. Joe did say —in the earlier conversation —that Randy REYNOLDS had moved to the Bay Area to work for NASA-Ames at Moffett Field. Randy also showed up, along with anumber of our classmates, on the Reserve colonel’s list. The others were Jim FAUSEY, Fred LINDAFIL, Jim MARTIN (also of NASA-Ames), and Rog ZOELLER. Congratulations to you all!

Afew weeks ago 1attempted to call Ron KOS at his Pillsbury office in Minneapolis. Ron’s secretary informed me he was no longer with the com¬ pany but graciously gave me his new telephone number —it was obviously not aMinneapolis area code. The plot thickened when Ron’s new secretary answered the phone with “NBC Television, Mr. Kos’s of fi ce.” Ron quickly solved the mystery. He is the new NBC TV VP for Client Marketing which, according to Ron, is anewly-created position at NBC. When he was offered the job, he couldn’t refuse even if it meant moving to New York and Rockefeller Center. His first assignment included atrip to Seoul, Korea and the Olympics. Carole will be joining him later in the year and they plan to take up residence somewhere in Connecticut.

1sent along aphoto given me by Larry HOFFMAN and taken on the occasion of Hank KRAMER’S retirement ceremony in September. Jim JAMERSON presided over the affair. Hank was still flying the F-16 right up to the very last, as well as doing an outstanding job as the 56th TAC Training Wing Chief of Safety and Wing IG. Ithink the picture clearly differentiates between the steely-eyed fighter pilot defenders of peace and freedom, and the handsome, debonair, physically-fit defender of Justice and the American Way. We couldn’t do without either. Thanks Larry. Speaking of photographs —Pete, yours is in the mail.

More changes: Dick TROY has joined Dave HARRIS and Bob KEN¬ NEDY as members of the Army War College faculty and staff at Carlisle Barracks. Dick’s position is director. Joint Forces. Ruf is director of Aerospace Studies, and Bob, along-time member of the Army War Col¬ lege staff, has also served as the civilian deputy commandant of the NATO Defense College. Terry BOSWELL can also be found pounding the halls of academia at the University of Arkansas. Terry and Judy moved to the Ozarks and “Razorback Country” in August where Terry assumed the duties of the professor of Aerospace Studies at Arkansas. Back in September, Lloyd PROBST assumed the position of manager. Flight Services for Auburn University. Lloyd said he is managing all Auburn University’s flight activities which include instruction, rental, recurrency training and executive transportation. He will also continue as the FAA designated pilot examiner for the Central Alabama area.

Update on Bryan CARY: Anne proudly reports Bryan received his Master of Divinity Degree in July and they have moved to Montrose, CO where Bryan is serving as pastor of the Hope Lutheran Church in Mont¬ rose. Altogether, his studies at the Concordia Lutheran Seminary in Ft. Wayne and vicarage in Northglenn which led to his ordination lasted four years. That is impressive. Congratulations to you both. Ijust know your future will be extremely satisfying.

Additional address changes include: Barry WETHERINGTON — Beverly Hills (Michigan that is); Dave JACKSON to Moreno Valley, CA; Pat CARUANA -Fairfax, VA; Don NEFF back to Lubock, TX; Doug POWER to Muttowtown, NY; and Skip VARA to Omaha, NE (Offutt).

Advertisement: Joe COATES —remember him, the one that went ski¬ ing —tells me you can purchase additional mementoes left over from the 25th Reunion last April. Iespecially liked the lapel pins with the gold class

crest. All of the items were especially well done and if you would like more information, just give Joe acall. His of fi ce number is (719) 472-4293.

Last minute entry! Chuck and Ann DONAHUE added anote and photo to their Christmas card and Ithought you would enjoy seeing a good-looking family -Chuck included. All the girls are Chuck’s. Reina and Scott Gardner were married ayear ago —30 Dec 87 and live in New Orleans. Reina teaches kindergarten and Scott is adistrict attorney for the Parish. Maureen, 21, graduates from USAFA (23rd Squadron) in May — the first ’63 daughter to graduate? She will enter the intelligence career field. Christina, 16, attended the Republican National Convention in New Orleans as ajunior delegate -one of 20 New Mexico youth. She is also a tennis star finishing second in the state finals. Meghan, 7, is asecond grader, apoet and budding tennis star in her own right. Chuck says Meghan keeps him young. She would wear me out! Mom keeps track of Meghan and beats Chuck at tennis. Chuck fl ies for American West Airlines out of Phoenix commuting from Albuquerque.

That’s about it for this trip. Please do not hesitate to give me acall and pass on some news or rumor. The work number is especially good for now. For you folks living in or just visiting the Seattle area, it’s only a local call and who knows, maybe I’ll buy you lunch just to get some news. Next time.

Bob Hovde

3Freedom Circle Bedford, MA 01730

Home: (617) 274-7759

Office: (617) 377-8319

AV: 478-8319

Percent members: 71

NEW GENERALS: Seven more of our illustrious (as opposed to color¬ ful) classmates have been promoted to brigadier general. Congratulations to: Jack COLE, special asst for Joint Matters, JCS, Wash DC; Bill DOUGLASS, comdr, 48TFW, USAFE, RAF Lakenheath, UK; Ralph GRAHAM, program dir. Reconnaissance &Warfare, ASD, AFSC, Wright-Patterson AFB; Jim HINKEL, exec to Chief of Staff, USAF, Wash DC; John LORBER, comdr, 432 TFW, PACAF, Misawa AB, Japan; Don SMITH, dep dir. Plans, Policy &Programs, J-5, USFORSCOM, Ft McPherson GA; and Robin TORNOW, comdr, USAF Southern Air Div, Howard AB, Panama.

FLASH: THE REUNION HAS BEEM MOVED TO 9SEPTEMBER 1989!

25TH REUNION: As we went to press in December, the date for the reunion was changed. Tom (our Editor) was kind enough to make anote of it in that column for me. The new date will center around the Wyoming game on 9September 1989. (I haven’t had time to consult my 1989 Con¬ trails calendar yet, but Iguess that means Thursday, 7Sep, to Sunday, 10

CLASS OF 1964 25TH REUNION

Sept. 7-10, 1989

Note: There is agood chance that the Wyoming football game will be played on Sunday, Sept. 10 at 6p.m.

Sep.) This change will allow abetter reunion program to be set up (especially Fredo’s golf game).

It will also allow time for us to seriously consider Hugh WILLIAM¬ SON’S offer to match aclass gift for the new AOG Headquarter/Alumni House, if we can raise $50,000. Since my plea was going to be to raise $64,000 without amatching donation, the $50,000 should be easy. Five classmates have donated at least $1,000 each, so we are more than 10 per¬ cent of the way to the goal already! (Note: The AOG is keeping track of everyone who has donated already. They will accept donations in alump sum or over aterm of up to two years. Just use the forms the AOG sends out, write acheck to “AOG Building Fund,” or send the donation to me.

The AOG would appreciate it if you’d mark your check “Class of ’64,” or even just “64” to save them the Register search time. Even Dick HACKFORD is thinking to making alarge donation. He is going to mort¬ gage my house in Virginia!)

Our donation will have an added benefit in raising the alumni dona¬ tions to the point where other foundations/individuals will consider matching the funds. Until the graduates raise asubstantial sum themselves, we can’t really expect others to get serious about it.

MINI-REUNIONS: Even though Ilive next door to Dick HACKFORD, he is TDY so much Irarely see him. He, Becky, Sandy and Idid get together one night with Dan and Nancy BUSSE and Jerry and Candy BUDINOFF (at Jerry and Candy’s house) for the purpose of lowering the level of various bottles in Jerry’s bar. We were quite suc¬ cessful, in spite of Hackford being the non-drinking designated driver.

NEW ENGLAND CHAPTER, AOG: The New England Chapter of the AOG is moving along, due in large part to the fact that some of the local civilian graduates have taken up the banner. This will add some stability to the group as well as keep it in tune with the largest part of grads in this area. Ernie ST. GELAIS (’78) is president, Iam VP (some¬ one has to be able to reserve the club). Bob McNAMARA (’66) is secretary, and Ross McNUTT (’87) is treasurer. Mike KELLEY (’70) is our program chairman. If anyone in the New England area has not re¬ ceived notification of the chapter start-up, let me know.

CHANGE-OF-ADDRESS CARDS: Barry BARNES retired 1Mar 88, moved to Virginia in August, and is building amarketing company that markets 6,000 products and services. “Great opportunity for anyone who would like to run their own business, have economic freedom and enjoy time to pursue other interests.” (Actually, Iwould hate to have economic freedom —that’s why 1stayed in the Air Force.) Tony COVAIS finally has anew address -in Fernandina Beach, FL. Matt FEIERTAG (still in Carson City, NV) got married in March (to Joan. Hi, Joan). He plans to be at the reunion, but in the meantime is flying RF-4s in Reno.

Gerry FELIX is now living in Williamsburg, VA, where he is assitant director for Air Force Programs for Flight International. Jerry GITTLEIN now lives in Rye Beach, NH. He is flying 767s for Delta Airlines out of Logan Airport in Boston. Jeff GORDON has moved from Houston, TX, to Longwood, FL. Marv HOPKINS is president of Hunter Douglas Inc. in Broomfield (“not Glendale!”), CO, and is living in Boulder. (Say “Hi” to my Uncle Ted if you see him. Or has even Boulder grown too big since we graduated!)

Tom McNlSH has finally left the desert of New Mexico for the desert of Washington, D.C., where he is in the USAF Surgeon General’s office at Bolling AFB and living in Burke, VA. Keith ROBBINS, on the other hand, has anew address in Newnan, GA, where he is VP and owner of Photocircuits Corp. Bill SWEETAY also just moved to Hebron, KY where he is apilot for Delta Airlines out of Cincinnati Airport. Dan WARD has anew address in Denver. (1 seem to remember Dan’s name in this section often. Does Dan really keep moving, or just sending cards periodically to keep his name in the column? If Ihad acomputer of my own, 1could keep track of such things. Unfortunately, Sandy just in¬ formed me that my computer just went into the AOG building fund.) Jim WHEELER, our man in USAA, now lives in Boerne, TX. Last, but not least (but almost shortest), John WILES has anew address in Lancaster, CA (I didn’t even know they had two streets there).

AND: Sandy and Ihope that you all had avery happy holiday season, and we wish you the very best in the year 1989! Check six!

Jerry “Ski” Wilkowski

2423 Rocky Branch Road

Vienna, VA 22181

Home: (703) 255-9083

Of fi ce: (703) 548-4400

Percenl members: 68

MAKE YOUR RESERVATIONS NOW! Iwill begin by extending Marcia Sue’s and my sincerest best wishes for ahappy and healthy New Year to each one of you and yours! And add

that Ihope each of you whose blessings include pre-teenagers have re¬ gained your sanity. 1am no longer sure how you do it. Iam certainly un¬ sure how we did it! 1can not begin to describe the energy level which con¬ sumed our home during the two-plus weeks our three eollege attendees were present. We were thrilled at the prospect of having the family together for the holidays but failed to realize how accustomed we had become during the previous five months to having only one teenager at home. By the time the vacation ended, we were both wondering how we had managed those 12-plus years when we had all four to contend with! While we periodically yearn for those joyful Christmas memories of the children when they were young, we realize simultaneously that our tolerance for the accompanying high-energy levels has diminished con¬ siderably. Then those levels were constant and generally accepted; now we’re attacked in spurts. For those still blessed with acontinuous barrage, my best wishes; for those currently recovering from the shock, 1hope the next attack will be more tolerable.

By now you should have received aletter from Bart HOLADAY re¬ questing your inputs on two significant decisions facing the class as we ap¬ proach our 25th Reunion; the time of year to hold the reunion and the type of gift to present to the Academy on that occasion. With regard to the former, the Academy administration would prefer aSpring reunion so as to be able to provide support for the class’s activities; the 10th and 20th year class reunions are given support priority in the Fall. Adecision to hold the reunion in the Fall would require that ’65 assume sole respon¬ sibility for its schedule. Personally, 1believe we are mature enough to handle that challenge and vote for the Fall.

With regard to the latter, the decision is not as blue or silver. About one year after our 20th, Bart wrote to relay aclass officer recommendation that our 25th Anniversary gift be the funding of the Commanders’ Leadership Enrichment Seminar (CLES) in perpetuity. At that writing, the cost to accomplish this “Living Memorial” was estimated to be $125,000 or roughly apledge of $10/month for 48 months from approx¬ imately 250 of us. We have raised $15-16,000 to date. (We have also been competing with the AOG building fund drive, an effort towards which 1 know many of you have contributed generously.) Bart has proposed several alternatives to the CLES gift to include some type of statuary or other memorialization such as sponsoring aroom in the new AOG building; or combining our contribution with other AOG money to en¬ dow the CLES, with appropriate recognition accruing to ’65. 1personally continue to favor the CLES gift, either solely or in conjunction with the AOG; now it’s your turn to provide Bart or Jim SPITTLER with your in¬ put at the following address: Class of ’65 Reunion, Association of Graduates, USAFA, CO 80840. Please provide your decisions ASAP as the reunion planning must begin in earnest now if we are to enjoy a weekend worthy of the “Best Alive.”

1must apologize to Tom PLANK for failing to include the following picture in the last column. As 1had mentioned. Chuck COLEMAN and Vince BRISTOW joined Tom for his retirement ceremony at Eglin AFB, FL. Acheerful looking group, Imight add.

Congratulations are in order for the Class’s latest BG selectees, Larry FARRELL and Jim VICK, their wives Vickie and Pam, and their families. You can all stand justifiably proud of this most significant ac¬ complishment. Congrats!

ZIP CODE CHANGES: Bill NIELSEN to San Bernadino, CA where he is alogistics planner for Systems &Logistics Corporation; Tom

OWENS to Shaw AFB, SC where he has assumed duties as the vice com¬ mander of the 507 TAIRCW; Harvey SHELTON to Jacksonville, AR where he is currently the DCO of the 314 TAW, Little Rock AFB; Bruce HUNEKE to Albuquerque, NM where he is the division chief, Nuclear Weapons System Safety for FCDNA, Kirtland AFB; Dave COOPER to Aledo, TX where he is working in the Battlefield Integration Center of General Dynamics, Ft. Worth Division; John KELLY to Acton, MA where he retired to the position of engineering manager for the Boeing Company; Bill KENNEDY from Honolulu to HQUSEUCOM, APO NY 09128; Charlie ALLEN from Escondido, CA to Albuquerque, NM; George YOUNG from Yorktown to Seaford, VA; John JUDD from Tyn¬ dall AFB, FL to APO NY 09127; Joe HENDERSON from Langley AFB, VA to Tyndall AFB, FL; and Ted OLSON from Lakewood to Aurora, CO.

FINAL NOTE: You may have noted in my requests for inputs that 1 continually stress you include some information regarding your current position. 1believe that sharing that information can benefit us in ways that are not always readily apparent. For example, one of you may be counseling ajunior officer or enlisted person on acareer move and want the eurrent information on aparticular organization; a’65er may be a member. Or you want to highlight an exceptional troop to his new com¬ mander and aclassmate is in aposition to assist the introduction. Or you may be facing acareer transition decision and aclassmate is working in the eompany, career field, or geographical area that is of interest to you. Or you may be looking to hire an individual with the qualifications that a classmate’s job title indicates he probably has. Or you or your company may be interested in abusiness relationship with another firm and a’65er is in aposition to provide an entree. And, there may be additional value to such information. What I’m preaching is “networking.” You’ve heard the term, perhaps used pejoratively, but 1can assure you that among comrades with acommon bond such as our group, it means opportunities to assist one another. The key concept is ashared trust based on four years adherence to astrict code of ethics and honor. That trust applies equally to dealings in both the civilian and military worlds. Iwould much rather hire an Academy grad, preferably aclassmate, from among can¬ didates with similar qualifications. And Itrust the word of an academy grad if Iam seeking counsel. The “Bottom Line”: Ibelieve we can con¬ tinue to help one another just as we did as aclass more than 25 years ago. Irequest your inputs and comments. Warm regards.

Ryan Denny

PSC 4, Box 17493

APO San Francisco, 96408-0006

Percent members: 70

Greetings Redtags! We’re still here at Clark AB, fighting off the Com¬ mie hordes, flying around the Pacific, and generally having agood time.

The Dennys and their family car at Baguio in the Philippines.

NEW STARS: Congratulations to the two newest generals in the Class of ’66 —Paul STEIN and Don WALKER. Paul’s career has ranged from base chief of Special Services Division to an ops analyst for the AWACS to the Pentagon as arequirements staff officer in RDQ to his present job as TAC/DP. Don has been in the space business almost since it started and is now the program manager for the Defense Satellite Communica¬ tions System at Onizuka AF Station in California. We are all really proud of you guys.

From left are Chuck Coleman, Tom Plank, and Vince Bristow.

mmLETTERS FROM AFAR: We’re so far out in the Paci fi c that almost every letter comes from afar. Buck LYLE writes that he is alive and well in Hutchison, KS where he really is adistrict court judge. Buck says he just ran unopposed for his third term -hut he didn’t say if he won or not! He is also the squadron commander of the 117th AREFS flying KC-135S at Forhes Field (ANG) in Topeka, KS. Buck sent us the picture you see here of the two hald old colonels standing by afast airplane. The second person in the picture is Tim BROWN, the famous F-15 pilot, who was nice enough to take Buck up for aride. Tim is now the DO of the F-15 wing at Elmendorf AFB and spends alot of his time intercepting Russians who fly too close to the United States.

Dan Morgan

3012 Sunland Drive

Alamogordo, NM 88310

Home: (505) 434-3186

Work: (505) 479-3181

AV: 867-3181

PercenI members: 65

Aweek after our 20th reunion, Ray and Linda LEOPOLD married at Plattsburg AFB, with Skip and Diane PUMPHREY in attendance. Ray and Linda claim ’67’s youngest, Clelia Marie, born 9Aug 88.

Clelia Marie and Ray Leopold

During labor, Linda had to be air-evaculated from Williams AFB to North Phoenix because of aproblem that turned out fine, but Ray ex¬ perienced asort of deja vu. Twenty years ago, Ray had been airevaculated twice out of Williams due to back problems.

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Randy JAYNE is the vice president for Strategic Program Develop¬ ment at McDonnell Douglas Astronautics Company in St. Louis. He is flying F-4Es for the Missouri ANG in his spare time and writes that he has been running into classmates all over the U.S. While at Nellis for DACT flights, he saw Hugh GOMMEL, the DO for the 474 TFW. Randy went out on the town with Hugh and Kathy and they spent the night tell¬ ing each other how young they looked. Randy also ran into Paul and Lin¬ da VIOTTI at USAFA. At last report, Paul was the head of the Political Science Department and living in the house we all dream about up in the hills just north of Jacks Valley. Randy saw Bill RILEY at the airport in C-Springs. Bill has retired and is working there for Booze-Alien. Thanks for all the news, Randy!

Mike CONNORS also sent me ashort note to let everyone know that he is comfortably settled in Hawaii as the DO of SAC’s 3rd Air Division. When the division moved to Hawaii from Guam, Mike went along —he claims to have been dragging his heels the whole way. Anyway, Mike gave me his phone number (448-2299) and says he’d like to see any of us Redtags passing through paradise.

BITS AND PIECES: Iwas up aYokota just before Christmas, flying with acouple of our squadrons and representing the wing at some Christmas parties (another dirty job) when Iran into afew more classmates. After being kidnapped by some 5th AF carolers who forced me to join them while they rampaged through the Yokota housing area, singing songs and demanding drinks, we attacked the 5th AF/XP’s house. The XP turned out to be none other than Jerry BECKER, who did the gentlemanly thing by filling our mugs and then joining us as we headed for the OClub. At the OClub we entertained (some might say “disrupted”) abase Christmas party whose previously-bored guests in¬ cluded Ron MOREY, the vice commander of the 475th ABW at Yokota. Once again, this proves that classmates are everywhere, if you know how to go looking for them.

Dan CECIL finally left the Pentagon and got back into the F-111 as the ADO (DO?) of the 20TFW at Upper Heyford, England, He had his pic¬ ture in the AF Times, slowing off his new leather flying jacket. Rusty GI¬ DEON is the commander of the Foreign Technology Division at WrightPat. His wife, Anne, says that he can’t tell her what he does or he would have to kill her. Rusty’s son is a2nd Classman at USAFA this year.

Thanks for the cards and letters. It keeps me from making up stuff about you guys. As you move around this summer —whether PCS or leave —keep the Class of ’66 in mind. Drop in on someone or send me a note with your change of address. Happy landings!

Ray is senior project engineer and program manager for Motorola’s Government Electronics Group at Chandler, AZ. He is supervising the development of communications and security “things” for the SDL Ray and Linda enjoy walking, bicycling, downhill and cross-country skiing. Last year during the December holidays, they took askiing trip to the Austrian Alps and accumulated enough air miles credit to earn free tickets this winter to Switzerland. What adeal!

In Feb 88, Ray and Linda had dinner with some classmates at Wit¬ tenberg, AZ. They were DeDe and Gil MOOK, vice-president of Federal Express (under A1 McARTOR, ’64); Carla and “Corms” CORMANY, V-P of First Interstate Bank, Spokane; Nancy and Bill BOISTURE, presi¬ dent and CEO of the Ports of Call airline in Denver; and Debbie and Carl JANSSEN (’68), amanager at Arco Hq in Dallas.

Buck Lyle and Tim Brown after aflight in Tim’s F-I5.

From left al Jerry Wenner’s retiremenl are Dale and Bob Mutdrow, Julie and Jerry Wenner, and Rosemary and Tom Twomey.

Tom TWOMEY sent apicture from Jerry WENNER’s retirement (see last issue). He wrote, “Here’s the bottom line ...Jerry and Julie together did an absolutely magnificent job of leading a900+ person squadron,” the 28th OMS, in converting from the B-52 to the largest B-IB operation. “We miss them alot and the nation owes them both adebt of gratitude.”

Bob, Sue, and Diana WARREN are enjoying central Florida, including Disney World. Sue does volunteer work for both the church and school.

Diana is in aspecial gifted program. Bob worked for Litton Corp for nearly ayear after leaving the AF. Now he owns his own company (Southeast Data Systems), is senior manager for another, and consults for athird.

Doug HAWKINS’ new job is director of the Joint Studies Group at TAG Hq. This group performs analytical studies about the size and com¬ position of the tactical structure, modeling and predicting improved tac¬ tics for new weapons and aircraft. Doug and Nancy’s oldest son Scott is attending Tunghai University in Taichung, Taiwan for ayear, concen¬ trating on Chinese language courses. Keith is ajunior at Hampton High School and has appeared twice on the local PBS channel with his school’s academic challenge team. Emily (5th grade) was in the city-wide Christmas concert at the Hampton Coliseum with her school chorus.

Our class has three nominees on the slate for the AOG Board of Direc¬ tors -Worth W. BOISTURE, Jr., George P. MILNE, and Eric M. THORSON. Our class does not have acurrent representative on the board. Gary LORENZ is particularly interested in drawing more members into the AOG upon graduation by means of more AOG involve¬ ment with the cadets. For instance, the first cadet program the AOG sponsored, the Cadet Commanders Leadership Enrichment Seminar, has been asmashing success. The latest is the Drunk Driver Hotline (calling for aride when you shouldn’t drive), which was acadet initiative, begin¬ ning in one squadron and spreading to the whole wing, and was funded by the AOG. Gary and 1both believe any one or all three representatives from our class would serve well on the board, and we encourage you to be sure to send in your vote.

Gary has flown F-4s at DaNang, Udorn, Ubon, and Luke. He has served in every position in the commandant’s shop up through his current job as vice commandant. He and Sandee met on ablind date in the Black Forest, where they now live. (Don’t we all wish we had bought land there when we graduated!) Their daughter Deanna (19) recently finished ar¬ chitectural drafting training, and is going to work for Douglas Aircraft in Denver. Their son John (12) plays soccer, basketball, and baseball. Sandee is promotions secretary at the Olympic Training Center in C-Springs, and also is in business with her sister making dolls. She also trains their three horses, although Gary is the only one who can ride the stallion.

Congratulations to our new reserve 0-6 selectees Jerry FEE and Larry THAL. (Please notify me if we missed any other selectees.)

Change-of-address cards: Larry WILSON is commander of the SAC Clinic at Andersen AFB. He and Pat “are surviving ‘life on Guam’ -kids in school, Pat golfing, Larry working and scuba diving as much as possi¬ ble.” Now at Hanscom are Mike RYAN, deputy commander for Ad¬ vanced Technology, Electronic Systems Division (ESD/AT); Walt VISINSKY, director of Special Projects (ESD/ICZ); and Len VERNAMONTl, director of J-TIDS (ESD/TCD) (see prior column). Tom CALVANELLl, acaptain with Delta Airlines, is now an MD-88 flight in¬ structor in Marietta, GA. First Republic bank has moved Tom KIRWIN from Midland, TX to Dallas, where he is manager for Systems Engineer¬ ing. Gene and Diane LUPIA have returned from five years in Europe, where he last commanded the 377th CSW at Ramstein. Now he has the largest command engineer job in the AF, DCS/Engineering and Services at Offutt. Roger COFFEY is the new ADO at Dover. Bob ENGLEBRETSON has moved from Sacramento to Redlands, CA. Royce WOODDELL is the new ADO of the F-16 wing at Spangdahlem.

Tim Davidson

2893 S. Abindgon St., A-2

Arlington, VA 22206

Home: (703) 931-4166

Of fi ce: (202) 693-2896

AV: 223-2896/7

Percent members: 54

’Tis the day after Christmas and at this address, presents and paper are scattered —the place is amess! Pretty soon I’ll get caught up. At least, that’s my tune. But you know the truth, it will take me till June! GOOD MORNING 68!!! It’s still December and you guys aren’t going to see this column until at least February. Therefore, 1send you many “post” greetings of the season by wishing you abelated Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, Martin Luther King’s Birthday, and President’s Day.

Meanwhile, (back at the Pentagon) the higher echelon politicos are sub¬ mitting resignations as the transition team begins clearing the decks (a Navy term). The transition of power from one administration to the next can be quite an experience in humility for some. One moment they are assistant secretaries of defense and the next they require aGS-4 to escort them into the building for the sake of security. No matter what our ultimate destiny, life has an ironic way of reminding us all that we just put on one pant leg at atime.

The cornucopia of cards, letters, and photos that 1have received from the Class of ’68 since becoming your scribe in September have fallen somewhat short of expectations. In fact, as of 15 Dec (normally the cutoff date for the winter edition of Checkpoints), 1had received anewspaper clipping from Dave DELLWART about Dick COVEY’s orbital endeavor and Marty COLE’s Christmas letter. Iadmit that Iremember the missile gap in the 1950s and ’60s and the generation gap of the 1960s and ’70s, but Mark, Idon’t recall anything in our discussions about this column that in¬ cluded anews gap from our budding Faulkners out there in the 1980s. For all you ’68ers in "Checkpoints Land” please take afew minutes out of your busy schedules and send me some tidbits to spice up our class col¬ umn. Thanks.

With areprieve on column due date until the end of December, some of my regular Christmas correspondents checked in. Charlie HOLLAND had his boss. Col Jim Page, send me aChristmas card from the 1550th Combat Crew Training Wing at Kirtland AFB. Now Irealize that many of you have relegated Christmas writing duties to your spouses over the years, but this is the first time that 1can recall avice wing commander get¬ ting his boss to do his correspndence for him. Way to go, Charlie! Charlie, Bob DURHAM, and Ialso managed to get together for aminiAC-130 Spectre Gunship reunion while sharing some tortilla chips at a local Mexican restaurant. While there, we speculated on the fortunes of future generals, made long-term plans (through May of 1989), and even drank abeer or two.

Phil and Martha PIGNATARO sent greetings across the Virginia state line from Andrews AFB and Rob and Maureen REYLING sent alovely card and newsy letter from Hanscom AFB. Along with his regular duties, Rob is an aeroclub enthusiast and is the Hanscom club’s safety officer for the year. Maureen is “Special Projects Coordinator” at Emerson Hospital and remains very active in the Air Force Association. Also received cards from Bob and Marty LUTTER and Mike and Sally NAVARRO who are alive and well and residing in Burke, VA.

Aportion of ’68’s Airline Pilot’s Association also came up on the net. Dave and Vera DELLWART write that Dave was recently promoted to Lt Col in the Reserves and is now the Group DO at Bergstrom. In addition, he just finished training as a727 flight instructor and check airman for Continental and is now based in Newark. He and Vera are moving next May to Buffalo.

My old roomies Dave MANN (Southwest) and Jim REESE (Delta) sent along holiday greetings. Dave enclosed apicture of our recognition day run to Cathedral Rock —boy, were we in shape then! Thanks for the pic, Dave. It is aclassic! Jim REESE gave ahelping hand to Lisa and me by assisting in amove of Lisa’s furniture to my home on arainy Christmas Eve morning. His strong back and large van saved the day! Jim and Mar¬ sha will be moving to Atlanta in July.

Bob and Mercy DALEY are still doing well in Dallas. Bob is one of Southwest Airlines most senior airline pilots and has done agreat job assisting other classmates in finding employment there. He is also work¬ ing arduously on apilot training reunion for 32 of us ’68ers and other non-Academy types who graduated from Reese’s Class of 70-01. If you are amember of 70-01 and have not received aletter from Bob, please drop him aline for information on the reunion which will be held in Lub¬ bock this September.

1also had some very poignant notes from Charlie and Bonnie COOLIDGE and Steve and Tina BAILEY expressing some personal feel¬ ings about the reunion. It was avery special event. Charlie writes “Somehow it’s hard to believe 20 years have flown by. ..Think of the shock to some who had little opportunity to see classmates these past years! ...It’s just too bad such events can’t be three weeks instead of three days. Everywhere Iturned there was an old friend —and how much richer can anyone be than to have friends (600 of them)?!”

For those of you who were unable to make out who were in the top rows on the Chapel steps in the last Checkpoints, here is aphoto that was submitted to help clarify the situation.

Not much help, is it?

This next photo is alittle clearer and features some of the old gang from Doolie Year 7th Squadron. If any of the rest of you would like some of your reunion photos published, please send them in your next cor¬ respondence to me.

Ihad asurprise phone call from Jim LYONS who said that he had not seen any classmates in about five years. He noted that it was #’*z@ cold in Erie, PA in December and that he works for Blair Kershaw Associates there. His job is a“headhunter” and he noted after reading the section on networking in the last column that he might be able to help classmates who are seeking employment outside the service. He said that he deals with everything except the medical profession and that he places alot of engineers. His phone number is (814) 864-0967. If anyone is interested in contacting him professionally or socially, please give him acall. Jim also mentioned that he would like to hear from Ron KERCHNER who recent¬ ly moved from San Antonio, TX to Springfield, VA. If you’re out there, Ron, how about giving Jim acall. If there is an Academy AOG Chapter in the Cleveland/Buffalo area, Jim would also be interested in joining it.

Targets of opportunity since the reunion included spending alot of time on the phone with Mike MOFFITT at MAC/XPP over amildly con¬ tentious aircrew training issue, seeing Bill HOGE on TDY from Cannon to Eglin at the Seagull Restaurant in Fort Walton Beach, and having delightful dinner with Henry and Anne HUNGERBEELER at Maxwell AFB. Henry is attending AWC there.

Anew section that 1am adding to the column is “68 Spotlight.” With all the talent in the class, there should be some newsworthy items that all of us would enjoy sharing. Ibelieve it would be aplus for the class to know a little more about the character of its makeup as time goes by. For the Winter ’89 edition there are two classmates who are being recognized for outstanding achievement in their respective fields.

First is Dick COVEY for heroic efforts in getting the United States back into space. The second is Ed SINGER, who during the course of many TDYs and late nights helped craft the agreement recently signed between the governments of the Philippines and the United States extend¬ ing basing rights to the U.S. until 1992. If you have afew moments, please send these classmates anote to thank them for their efforts.

If this new portion of the column is to be continued successfully, it will require some information from all of you with suggested candidates and a brief write-up of their particular achievements. Ialso want to stress suc¬ cessful endeavors in the civilian community and, again, will need your assistance.

To round out the news, Ieven went on arun in excess of three miles with Steve POLK so Icould “chase down” (so-to-speak) some more info for the column. Steve noted that John LONGENECKER is back in D.C. for ashort stint before returning to Africa as the air attache to South Africa. John just finished atour as air attache to Zaire. Bill BOWMAN is headed to Zweibrucken as the DO of the 26 TRW. (Congrats, Bill!) Jocko HAYDEN is now stationed at MAC and Warren and Karla LAMONT are at 3AF in Mildenhall, England. Steve also gave me the reunion photo shown below.

Standing from left are Bob PAVELKO, John SULLIVAN, and Steve POLK. Sitting are Marianne PAVELKO, Henrietta POLK, and Charlotte SULLIVAN.

Last, but not least, are address changes posted since the directory was published. These include: Mike BARIBEAU, system manager for Dollar General Corporation to Scottsville, KY; Gerry BROWN from WrightPatterson AFB to Fort Worth, TX; Gary HOFFMAN to Redlands, CA to assume ADO position for 63 MAW at Norton AFB; Ernie HOUGHTON from Williams AFB to retired status and new job in Rochester Hills, MI; Dave HUNN to Honolulu as chief. Policy and Procedures Division (Con¬ tracting), HQ PACAF, Hickam AFB; Jim “Cuffy” KELSO to Grif fi n, GA as second officer for Delta Airlines; and Ron KERCHNER from San Antonio to Springfield, VA.

Also, John LONGENECKER from Zaire to Arlington, VA; Steve MISH from Grapevine, TX to Corinth, TX; Greg PAQUIN to Saratoga, CA as recruiting manager for Apple Computer, Inc.; Jim SEEVERS to Mililani, HI as chief. Manpower Division, USCINCPAC, Camp Smith; Karl SMITH to private medical practice in Jacksonville, FL; Gerry SULLIVAN to Memphis, TN as apilot for Federal Express; Ed THOMAS from Rockville, MD to Derwood, MD; Martin WALLACE from Norton AFB to Vista, CA; and Roger WILES to HQ EUCOM, J-3, APO NY 09128 (Patch Barracks, FRG).

That’s awrap for now. Take care, mind the flak, and keep those cards and letters coming.

Lindsey Parris

5926 Colfax Ave.

Alexandria, VA 22311

Home; (703) 998-0488

Work: (202) 475-1791

Percent members: 61 a

Winter greetings. Hope your Holiday was warm and long, and that none of you had to experience the ultimate fear -reading in the paper that amember of your family had been inducted into the MasterCard Hall of Fame. Though it’s been but ascant three months since the last missive, I’ve already learned what Mike THIESSEN and other USAFA scribes past and present know well: doing this is like being ajudge in a beauty contest —the longer you do it, the more people you disappoint! Time for some more class news.

Congratulations to Guy GARDNER for his important role in putting the U.S. space program back on track, helping engineer amission of seamless perfection. And thanks for making the Class of ’69’s flag part of this historic achievement. As you know, most of Atlantis’ payload highly classified and said to be of great importance to the United States. Since our class flag would not warrant that kind of hush-hush treatment, Iwonder. ..has anyone seen or heard from Nino Baldachi lately?

Next time you hear the official theme song for Air Force Families, know that ’69er A1 McCREE wrote it. The song has been recorded with

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Standing from left are Jim PARKER, Dave ALLARD, Hal SMITH, Dave DELLWART, Rob LINSMAYER, Mike NAVARRO, and Jim REESE. Kneeling are Tim DAVIDSON, Bill FRIDINGER, and Dave MANN.

the USAF band, and is being distributed worldwide (copies of the tape are available through USAF/DPPHF, autovon 227-4720 or commercial 202-697-4720). Presently, A1 is the deputy base commander at Columbus AFB, MS.

John BRUMMITT writes from Philadelphia, where he is an investment banker and partner with Behringer-Gross Associates and co-owner with his wife of aluxury optical eyewear retail store call Optique. John says that Brian NELSON, an orthopedic surgeon, is establishing back clinics in Iowa hospitals, and bulking up his tennis game through lessons. Brian, John suggests -and many of us can attest —that the lessons don’t work. Please let us know if you’ve found away we can all be mistaken for Roc BOTTOMLY on the courts.

Congrats to Mike ROSE, who was elected aSouth Carolina state senator in last November’s election. Fie ran as aRepublican and garnered some 71 percent of the popular vote. Among other activities, he has lec¬ tured at the Stanford Business School. Gotta’ match, Mike?

Last September, Ken MACALUSO began atour as aKC-135 instructor pilot at Wurtsmith AFB, ML Also up north is B. CLARK, who sports a Minot AFB, ND address. Tom SHUMWAY lives in Redlands, CA, and works as areadiness inspector with the Air Force Safety and Inspection Center at Norton AFB. Bob JONES is astudent at the Naval War College at Newport, Rl. Gene WHALEN lives in McKinney, TX and is aflight engineer/2nd officer for Delta Air Lines, with duty station Dallas-Fort Worth Airport. John WARNER is director for Customer Equipment Operations with the Cryovac Division of WR Grace Company in Duncan, SC; he’s still aweekend cello virtuoso. Randy PERCY’S new address in Vacaville, CA suggests he’s probably at George AFB, flying and doctor¬ ing. Bill DENNY’S change-of-address card suggests he’s kept his attorney and estate planner shingle in Kansas City but has purchased anew home in the suburb of Liberty.

From Boston, Tim COURINGTON follows in the footsteps of the long line of our classmates who have been or are in prima exec positons; he’s exec to the commander. Electronic Systems Division of AFSC at Hanscom AFB. Taking the lead from Mr. Augustine’s laws of procure¬ ment, Tim is convinced of the following: “The thickness of the proposal required to win amultimillion dollar contraet is about 1millimeter per million. If all the proposals conforming to this standard were piled one on top of the other at the bottom of the Grand Canyon, it would probably be agood idea.” Tim has chatted with Lynn DAEKE, who works for the MITRE Corporation at Hanscom. One of Lynn’s primary projects is the JTIDS (Joint Tactical Information Distribution System). Also in the Boston area is Don WALLS, who has departed Harvard to become an ex¬ ecutive with Data Resources, Incorporated, located near Hanscom. Don, an economist who to my knowledge has never said “on the other handE” is heavily into economic forecasting. Y’all please look out for each other up there —the corduroy fires that ignite around Harvard Square can be devastating, and here it is the peak of the season.

From the other coast, Dan THOMAS has completed his eighth year as president of the company he founded. Knowledge Edge, Inc., which con¬ tinues to expand from its original base, strategic business consulting.

Buffalo TIBBETS is ensconced at sunny Eglin AFB, at Systems Com¬ mand’s Armament Division; at last recounting, he was working on anew munitions loading trailer. By the way, acouple years back. Buff upheld the class’ honor when he and his partner made it to the finals of our sometimes-annual St Patrick’s Day dart contest. My basement will never look the same again, at least at 5a.m.!

Bill MAGILL is on atwo-year tour at Maxwell AFB, where he serves as the Tactical Air Forces chair for Air University. Gipper says his golf game is improving —he’s shooting in the 80s, and if it gets hotter than that, he just doesn’t play.

Ron LOVE writes from Scott AFB, where he’s squadron commander of aC-141 out fi t, recently having completed participating in the REFORGER exercise. In San Antonio, Mike MARTIN is the director of Allergy and Immunology Services at Wilford Hall.

Around D.C., agroup of 19th squadron ’69ers —Mike McMURPHY, Jeff WISE, Terry BALVEN, and Joe HASEK -gathered to ring in the New Year and were joined by Terry BRADY, who gained aecess to 19th’s inside jokes. Congrats to Mike, newly appointed president of Cogema, the French consumer products company for which he has been working.

CLASS OF 1969 20-YEAR REUNION

The former Terry will be moving into anew home, coincidentally near that of the latter Terry.

Other news from the D.C. area: Roy REED is getting married the day after the inauguration —don’t know if he’s incorporated the military of¬ ficer’s wedding vows “1 do and I’m packed” into the ceremony —and Chuck VOLMER has moved to town as vice president for Strategic Plan¬ ning with General Dynamics.

As many of you know, Glenn SCHLABS, currently the staff judge ad¬ vocate for the 3rd Space Support Group at Peterson Field, is heading up the class’ reunion committee. He mailed you some preliminary materials concerning accommodations and solicited your suggestions and preferences for Reunion Week activities. The AOG, our primary source of information on classmates’ whereabouts, does not have addresses on many of us, so if you have not received the mailing and are interested, please write the AOG or write or call Glenn (305 Buckeye Drive, Col¬ orado Springs 80919; autovon 692-4871, commercial 719-554-4871). If you’re interested in serving as asquadron or zip code rep for “getting out the ’69 vote,” get in touch with Glenn or me. Many have asked about in¬ cluding in our reunion activities those who started with us in ’65 but parted ways with USAFA before 4Jun 69. We have no institutionalized, practical way to contact members of this group of people, but if you’re still in touch with former classmates, please let them know they’re welcome.

Jeff TRENTON had an interesting bit of input on the reunion as well. Seems he was rummaging around in the fresh fruit and vegetable section of aVirginia Beach Piggly Wiggly the other day and ran into Elvis and Humphrey Bogart, who had come down for ashort visit and alittle shop¬ ping. Bogie offered up the following admonition to all of us: “If you don’t make the reunion, you’ll be sorry. Maybe not today. Maybe not tomor¬ row. But soon, and for the rest of your life.”

Jerry Bruni

6325 Snowbird Drive

Colorado Springs, CO 80918

Home: (719) 528-8736

Of fi ce: (719) 633-1793 (in Colorado) (800) 225-1163 (outside Colorado)

Percent members: 57

Last week Ireceived my copy of the 1988 Register of Graduates (remember, this is being written before Christmas) and, like many of you do, Ispent afew hours thumbing through the pages. Ilook to see what classmates and friends from other classes are doing, where they’re sta¬ tioned and so on. Having taught at USAFA, 1also look for my former students. As 1go through the Register, anumber of thoughts cross my mind. First, Tm always reminded how short life is when Isee those names in Italics. Their lives were way too short. The second thought Ireflect on is how similar we all felt and looked 20 years ago and how different we seem today. Today we’ve got military and civilians, pilots, ministers, cor¬ porate executives, entrepreneurs, musicians, physicians, athletes, lawyers and more. Come to think of it, we were probably pretty different all along —it’s just taken these years for the differences to develop. The last thought the Register brings on is acuriosity about those who have fallen out of touch. Is the absence of information intentional or accidental? If it’s accidental, maybe some of you can help bring afew classmates back into the fold.

Speaking of athletes (you were probably wondering why Imentioned them in the last paragraph), did you know the Class of ’70 had an Olym¬ pian at Seoul last summer? 1didn’t until Dave SMITH called to tell me about Bob NIEMAN. Some of us remember Bob as aswimmer who almost made the 1968 and 1972 U.S. Olympic swimming teams, but that’s not the whole story —not by along shot. Bob competed in the 1976 Mon¬ treal Olympics as amember of the U.S. modern pentathlon team (swim, run, ride horses, shoot and fence), won the sport’s 1979 World Cham¬ pionship, missed the 1980 Olympics due to the U.S. boycott, missed the 1984 Olympic team by one place, and then qualified//>5/ in the U.S. pen¬ tathlon trials in 1988 -at age 40! Along the way, Bob’s competed in about 35 national sports championships, including shooting and fencing. When he’s not training, Bob’s an architect in San Antonio (he finished Notre Dame’s five-year architecture program in IVi years), and now he’s thinking of writing abook or two. When’s this man going to become a couch potato?

Speaking of Dave SMITH, he works for MITRE Corp. here in Colo¬ rado Springs, and he could qualify for acouple “most” awards. For one, Dave says he’s “never left town.” That is, he’s been in Colorado Springs continuously since 1966! After graduation, Dave worked at Cheyenne Mountain, left the service and then moved on to work at MITRE, where he’s involved with command and control systems. This bit of

homesteading is going to be hard to beat. The “most” that Dave seems proud of is his claim to have ridden the most roller coaster rides —about 125. Some of Dave’s favorites include the Beijing Amusement Park (in downtown Beijing, China), the Linnanmaki (in Helsinki, Finland), the one in Blackpool, England, and the Dyrehausbakken (just Bakken, for short) near Copenhagen. Dave says that on the Bakken abrakeman rides along because there are no other brakes.

Igot an interesting phone call from Rich MANDAS aday or two ago. Rich will be completing his fourth year on the Air Staff by the time this gets printed, and it doesn’t take arocket scientist to notice Rich’s frustra¬ tions flying adesk for the last six years (he was on the MAC staff for two years before going to the Pentagon). Rich and Iwere just getting down to some talk on the whereabouts of other classmates assigned to the big Puz¬ zle Palace, such as Mark BEAN and Greg MARTIN (both making 0-6 early), Craig NORTHRUP, Terry DESSERT, Greg GILLES, Sid LIMOGES and Dick O’CONNOR, but some urgent business developed (on Rich’s end of the line) and we’ve missed getting back on the phone. Meanwhile, I’ve got adeadline to meet for this issue of Checkpoints, or none of this will see the light of day. Rich, what have they done to you?

Ireceived anewsy Christmas card from Geoff KAMMERER, who’s flying 727s for Delta out of Houston. He said, “It’s sad not to have much to read in the ’70 section of Checkpoints, but then it’s guys like me who are to blame.” Not any more though -thanks for the card, Geoff! Oh yes, the news. ..Geoff spoke with Fred WHITNEY awhile ago. Fred “escaped” Frank Lorenzo and was in the process of moving on to Federal Express. Geoff mentioned that Bill LUNDBERG is also at Delta, having come via Eastern via TWA, and is now living near Delta’s “Widget Fac¬ tory” in Atlanta. Geoff also mentioned that he had dinner with Jake HOLMES at his home near Lake Lanier, north of Atlanta. Jake’s along¬ time Delta man, and so is John DISOSWAY. Geoff went on to describe Frank Lorenzo quite abit, but this is afamily magazine, Geoff.

1also received apacked Christmas card from Jim and Lois BARRALL. This card was home-made, but of top quality, with lots of pictures. It’s

hard to imagine any ex-roomie of mine with such grown children —Jen¬ nifer is almost 17, Jessica is 15 and Julia’s 12. Amazingly, Jim and Lois look the way 1remember them 20 years ago! Lois says Jim’s slowed down his pace, but she also says that besides his flying duties, he’s still running marathons, playing golf, climbing mountains, gardening and has even become an expert shopper. Wait until my wife reads this!

B.J. BJORKLUND, who rides the bulls and bears for Smith Barney in Dallas (where he’s the assistant manager), called the other day. B.J.’s been pretty active in Academy affairs. He’s been the president of the North Texas Chapter of the AOG, and he’s currently chairman of alocal con¬ gressman’s selection board for (all three) Academy nominations. Since running marathons seems almost commonplace among our classmates, B.J.’s graduated himself to triathalons for the last three years. Strangely, B.J. says triathalons are less stressful than marathons. B.J. mentioned that Phil MOORE’S flying for United out of Denver, Dana DEMAND fl ies with Eastern out of New York, Chris CALVERT is amanager for Blue Cross in California, and John RUSS is aphysician in Ohio.

Speaking of John RUSS, John called me to talk about alocal high school student he wanted to help apply to USAFA. It turns out that John now practices the newest medical specialty, emergency medicine, in Toledo, Ohio. Talk about earning your money the hard way -can you imagine what it must be like to see asteady stream of medical emergen¬ cies? There’s got to be an easier way.

By the way, 1mentioned in an earlier issue that 1don’t think there’s much news content in change-of-address cards, so while the AOG still forwards them to me, 1don’t use them UNLESS there’s asentence or two of real news. In this category. I’d like to pass along the news that Dave LOVE says he finally made captain again —this time for U.S. Air in a 737. He’s recently moved to Pittsburgh, where he says the people are real¬ ly friendly. Also, Rich DOWNING is leaving the Pentagon to attend the Air War College at Maxwell, where he says he’ll be just fine as soon as he reads aton of books and remembers how to write papers again. He even promised me areal letter in the near future!

When you’re aclass scribe you know how other class scribes covet news, so Jeff HACKETT (who writes for the Class of ’75) was kind enough to forward aMcDonnell Douglas press release which described how Chan MORSE was named to receive the prestigious Iven C. Kincheloe Award. This award is given annually by the Society of Experimen¬ tal Test Pilots in recognition of “outstanding professional accomplish¬ ment in the conduct of flight testing.” Chan received the award for his 200 agility performance flights for the NOTAR (no tail rotor) system. Jeff says Chan’s also flying with the Reserve HH-3 unit out of Tucson.

Lastly, 1received avery interesting letter from Bud MARSTON. Bud noted that the Air Force sends one officer each year to Paris to attend the French senior service school. Each of fi cer attends the French Air War College for 11 months and then the French National War College equivalent for five months. According to Bud, three members of the Class of ’70 have participated in this “good deal” program —probably a USAFA record. Lee McKINLEY fi nished in late 1988 and has rotated to the Air Staff, Bud started classes last September, and Scott SAUNDERS will go this summer after completing language courses at the Defense Language Institute.

That’s it for this time. As the summer PCS season approaches, think about sending at least afew sentences of information when you send your change-of-address letters to the AOG —they’ll forward the news to me. Of course, if you’d like to send me areal letter or talk on the phone for a while, please do!

G.E. (Andy) Anderson, Jr.

7851 Epsilon Drive

Rockville, MD 20855

Home: (301) 330-9447

Of fi ce: (703) 734-1511

Percent members: 48

Hi gang! 1hope everyone’s happy and doing well out there. The Ander¬ son’s are holding their own in the Great Christmas Rush of 1988 —we’ve lost afew skirmishes, but the battle seems to be going in the right direc¬ tion. That’s easy for me to say, since my good wife does all the shopping and Ibuy only one present each year (hers) and Ibuy it by mail. She also did the cards this year, so I’ve run up abig tab at home. Icould be in big trouble when it’s time to pay up.

How’s everybody’s adrenalin level since the last Checkpoints was published? The magazine had been on the street for one day when Skip PEPE called. 1was out and he left messages at home and at work that said simply, “no background checks!” He didn’t leave aphone number, so Ihad to track him down in New Jersey. He’s visited some interesting

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places recently, and saw Lynn WILLADSEN in Naples, Italy last spring. Willy was serving as the aide to then-M/G Bob Oakes (’59), and is now assigned to Space Command in Colorado Springs.

My new job as aUSAFA liaison officer has renewed acouple of friend¬ ships. The first came when 1attended aSaturday meeting for LOs at the Pentagon. Idiscovered Mike DOWNIE in the hallway, stuf fi ng a doughnut in his face. Mike continues to serve as boy wonder and allaround over-achiever, and is buried in the bowels of the Pentagon work¬ ing on grand strategy and other sensitive stuff. An interesting bit of news about Mike is that he’s married now. During atour in Europe he con¬ vinced aGerman beauty half his age that he could make her astar. They’ve started afamily and Mike couldn’t be happier. Ican’t help wondering why she did it though —maybe the cadets at the French Air Force Academy taught him some magic years ago.

The second came when Ireported for aweek of training at the Zoo. 1 was delighted to discover Ron VICKROY was in my class. Ron is teaching college in Pennsylvania, doing alittle consulting on the side, and having a great time raising afamily. He had some great stories to tell about the Mayaguez incident that can’t be published here, but 1encourage any of you who haven’t gotten the “real skinny’’ to talk to one of our classmates who knows what happened first-hand. Civilian life hasn’t dulled our boy’s sense of priorities, however. During our first contact hour in training, Ron began organizing an unauthorized golf outing for an afternoon when we wouldn’t be missed. Iwas proud of him.

John BLIND wrote from USAFA, expressing sympathy for my desperate plea for letters. John is apermanent professor in the Depart¬ ment of Engineering Mechanics, an honor he shares with Gary BUTSON (and they were such good guys —Iguess even the best can lose their way). John thinks Bill RICHARDSON may be the first of our classmates to pin on his eagles (10/18/88) in his role as head of the Department of Com¬ puter Science. The ranks of ’71 tenured professors also include Vern FRANCIS (Management and immortalized in an earlier column this year), John BROCK (Economics), and Rick VANSAUN (Civil Engineer¬ ing). Others John sees hanging around the golf links, racquetball courts, or O-club include John WAHLQUIST (Political Science), Tom CURRY (Math), Dave PORTER (Behavioral Science), Ryan PARADIS (Group AOC), Dave McCLOY (Hospital), and Steve DZIUBAN (Math). Sky FOERSTER is on aone-year sabbatical at Harvard, and will return to Poll Sci this summer. 1don’t know about all of you, but Iremember these people as regular guys during our days at USAFA, showing little of the “piled-higher-and-deeper” tendencies they now manifest. 1guess you never know when someone is going to get religion.

John had two additional notes. He talks occasionally with Danny ALLEN, who is assigned to the Pentagon, and is in charge of “Warrior Management.” John did not mention Danny’s organization, but I’d love to learn more about that. Who but the USAF would think of managing warriors? This could eclipse “army intelligence” as my favorite oxy¬ moron. John also notes that he and John BROCK still have the same cars they had as firsties (each with 180K miles). They’ve offered to lead arally at our twentieth reunion. Good show of spirit, guys —can 1bring my sta¬ tion wagon? Thanks for writing, John. It was good to hear from you.

It seems that blocks of our classmates designated reps to write this quarter. If John was the USAFA rep, George SCHULTZ must be the American Airlines rep. George and his wife Linda have two children. Stephen, eight, is obsessed with airplanes. Katie, two, is obsessed with everything (in the immortal words of Bill Cosby, those of you with or without children, you’ll understand). George wrote to grouse about the toll-free number 1put in the summer ’88 Checkpoints, and to guess who was in the picture taken at the D.C. chapter of the AOG. George, you were right about Jim and Cindy SWEEDER, and Tom and Jackie BERRY. You missed on two others, and Iwon’t reprint your reference to the sordid history of the guy in uniform. George has been with American since 1979, and listed fellow captains Chuck BRASHER, Keith BAR¬ RETT, Rick BARTON and Steve GALL. He has seen others of our class in operations shacks around the country, and offers the following partial list (left/right

Who have we missed? Thanks for the note, George. It’s been too long.

While his name appeared in George’s list of American pilots, Mark ZABLOTNY was kind enough to write. Mark is living in Annapolis, MD, and guesses that 30 or more of our class are flying with American. While he didn’t offer alist that 1could compare with George’s, he related an ex¬

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perience we all will enjoy. After Mark had introduced himself to the passengers over the intercom, aflight attendant said apassenger wanted to know if Mark was a’71 grad. It turned out to be Pete RENSEMA, who said in several years of flying, this was his first trip flying with a classmate. When they changed planes in Dallas, they discovered Pete would complete his trip with Frank KOSSLER as captain. 1should have known those statistics courses 1took were awaste of time. Mark also reported that Mike BOLEN is in Newport Beach, CA, where he is the president of McCarthy California, avery large construction firm. Mike, could you take amoment to write and explain Mark’s reference to “being afishing bum in Arizona?” It was good to hear from you, Mark, and I’ll look forward to getting together.

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Allen IRWIN writes from Tampa, FL where he is vice president of Club Operations for Nicklaus/Sierra Development Corporation. His responsibilities include four country clubs now, with two more coming on line. He didn’t offer any details, but let your imagination work on it. He and his wife Suka have ason Thomas, age six. Allan has stayed in touch with Bill REESE, who is 1st vice president with University Savings in Houston, TX. Ishould note that Allan wrote because he had “not seen name in print for awhile,” and he promised to write again in 10 years. You’re my kinda guy, Allan. If I’m lucky enough to have this job then. I’ll look forward to your letter. Ireally appreciated yours.

The Doturs: Chris, Lisa, Jeff and Beth.

The Christmas mail brought aletter from an old friend now living out¬ side Denver. Jeff DOTUR is flying for United and raising alovely family. Lisa (thanks for sending the picture!) is afull-time mom, part-time legal secretary, and full-time volunteer for organizations promoting alter¬ natives to abortion. Chris (8th grade) is looking forward to USAFA and the Thunderbirds. Beth (7th grade) is the artistic member of the family. Jeff mentioned several classmates, including United pilots Bill GROSS, John GRUESER and Walt BADER (all based in Denver); and Kim NEWMAN (based in Chicago). Loren GILES is flying with USAir; Tann PINNEY is in Denver with Hughes Aerospace; Larry CASADA and Den¬ ny SHIELDS are flying with Delta. Rumor with her thousand tongues associates Warren EDRIS with Storage Technology in Denver, Lynn KERN with Alaska Airlines/Seattle, Todd STEWART with “the dreaded FAA” in Salt Lake City, and Bill BLUMBERG with re-entry into the USAF (two-year-old data —can anyone confirm?). Jeff also noted that Wayne TURK and John KOCH are “still in the USAF somewhere” (the airline pilot’s perspective of the world is showing here). Ienjoyed the let¬ ter, and aspecial thanks to Lisa for making him send the picture —Jeff cleans up pretty good, doesn’t he!

1usually have some change-of-address cards to pass on, but the Christmas mail has eaten them. The .AOG mailed them weeks ago, so 1 figure they’re languishing in the Gila Bend post office with the Christmas gifts 1mailed to Salt Lake City. If they come next month. I’ll include them in the next column. Until then, take care and God bless you all.

seat status unknown): Mike ROBINSON, Bill MINO, Bill PURCELL, Joe KREIMBORG, Brian HAGGERTY, Sean RILEY, John SABALA, Paul McKAY, Fred STRAUSS, Ray BRANNAN, Ken LYKKEN, John TIMMER, and John SHINER.

Ed Bishop

2011 Buoy Drive

Stafford, VA 22554

Home: (703) 659-8166

AV: 297-1735

Percent members: 41

Finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for letter writing competition are Bob BRICHTA and Lee RODGERS, two prestigious members of the military medical community. 1was almost forced to cancel the award due to lack of interest when 1received Bob’s letter followed two days later by Lee’s, only minutes before my deadline to Checkpoints. (This also forced me to radically revise my column but I’m not complaining, Ilike to hear from you.) Usually the longest, and often the only letter Ireceive concerning the column is the quarterly form letter from Tom Kroboth, the Check¬ points editor. When Italk to our classmates, they say they like reading about others but don’t want anything included about their activities. “Trust me” (Joe Izuzu 1988), we want to hear about your activities and your families. Write, you low-life slugs. If the docs can find the time to write, you jet jockies, other professionals, and lawyers can too.

Bob sent avery newsy letter from HQ SAC. Bob SHARP has been pro¬ moted to captain with American Airlines out of Chicago. One of the benefits of being an airline pilot is that proximity to job doesn’t seem to be amajor problem. Bob will commute from Monument where he and his wife, Judy, are building anew home. (And Icomplain about the 45 miles to D.C.) Clark KNUTSON is the hospital commander at KI Sawyer. Those of you who are or have been squadron commanders can sym¬ pathize with Clark who not only has to balance his operating budget, but must also ensure high-quality medical care and maintain military stan¬ dards for the physicians under his command. Good luck, Clark. Avery impressive job which we are sure you are more than capable of ac¬ complishing. Clark also has increased duties at home helping Marilyn take care of their new twin girls and older daughter Rachel (2 yrs.). Bob also reports that Gary CONNER is at HQ SAC and lives in Bob’s subdivi¬ sion. He ended his letter with news that Merrell MclLWAlN is acivilian attorney in Charleston WV. (Bob, thanks for the update, the Muletide Greetings was great. 1called the AOG and Ithink your correct zip code has been officially entered into the system.)

Lee’s letter was equally informative. Lee is apediatrician and the hospital commander at Loring. Ithink it is great that so many of our classmates are commanders and are finally using the skills we were taught at the zoo. Lee and his wife, Mariel, have three children ages five months through four years —nothing like bringing your work home with you. He also claims they are enjoying their third winter at Loring —sounds like he may be suffering terminal snow blindness of the mind. Prior to Loring, Lee practiced as apediatrician at Misawa, RAF Upper Heyford, and Kirtland, after completing med school at Tulane and residency at the Naval Med Center in Oakland, CA. Lee writes that other Tulane med school graduates include Mike NEULAND, who is now on the staff at Eglin and Ron QUINTON, who is now the number two chest surgeon at Wilford Hall. (For the non-medical types, number two at big Willie is im¬ pressive evidence of Ron’s surgery skills.) Also graduating from Tulane med school are Bob RICE who now has aprivate opthamology practice in San Antonio, TX, Bob KITCHEN who is on the family practice staff at Malcolm Grow Medical Center, and Karl METZ who is an OB/GYN doc in the panhandle of Florida. Lee also provided an update on Rick WINN who is now at Fitzsimmons (Rick, what are you doing with the Army?) in infectious diseases, Keith MEREDITH who is aneonatologist in private practice in the Springs, Bill WALSH who is also aneonatologist but in the blue suit at Keesler, and Joe ROE who is now on the staff at the Universi¬ ty of California at Davis. Thanks for the update Lee. Lee is also recruiting pediatricians to work at Loring —this is SAC’s idea of ajoke. Seriously though, he could use some good help.

Change-of-Address Cards. The only other news was afootnote on Paul NIELSEN’S change-of-address card saying Mike DUNN is also at NDU. Mike must have taken the effective writing course and got Paul to do the writing. Paul also wrote that Kevin PROBST is acivilian in the SDIO for Directed Energy. Another classmate at the frontier of science. Gary GRANT is chief. Program Management Division, Defense Satellite Com¬ munications System Program Office, at Space Division, and lives in Redondo Beach. Pete SUTTON moved from Vance to Woodbridge, VA, apopular location for Pentagon action officers. Jim STEFANIAK is now the assistant ops officer for the 561st TFS at Geqrge. Carl FOSTER is a tooth doc and chief of general dentistry at Davis-Monthan. John PEAK is now the commander of the 305 Civil Engineering Squadron at Grissom AFB, IN. (John, have the IRP artesians caused you any problems?) Pete

McCarthy moved from San Antonio, TX to Spokane, WA and Ed SEARLES moved from Redmond, WA to Arlington, TX. Steve ALDER¬ MAN moved from Suwon to Osan in Korea and Terry SCHIESSLER moved from Hahn to Ramstein in Germany.

As aside note. Bob and Becky SHULTZ (’71) send greetings to Mike COLLINS. Bob is another grad who went awry and joined the Navy. He and Iare very active in alocal Boy Scout troop. If any of you participate in Scouts and would like to trade council patches, please let me know.

That is all. Hope to hear from you soon.

Rick Karvosky

94-378 Leleaka St.

Mililani, HI 96789

Home (808) 623-2953

AV: 449-3951

Percenl members: 40

It’s Christmas night and I’m typing away on my Wang at home trying to meet the deadline —which I’ve already missed! Christmas in Hawaii is sort of different from what my idea of Christmas is like. 1imagine sitting in front of afireplace in acabin in the middle of snow-covered moun¬ tains. Instead, Ispent today on Waikiki Beach working on my tan! 1 know, it’s rough but someone has to ogle at all those bathing beauties, otherwise they would stop coming to Hawaii and the tourist industry would falter. So, 1figure I’m just helping out the Hawaiian economy. If you believe that, Iknow of some prime real estate just off the coast at Waikiki Icould get you real cheap! This Christmas was special, my kids spent it with us. When they left Dayton for Honolulu, it was snowing and 18 degrees —that’s Christmas weather.

With all my Christmas cards came four letters. 1went through my Christmas cards and was amazed that Igot any. 1realized that I’ve had a different address each Christmas since 1984. When you’re behind on your alimony payments, you make sure they can’t find you! Ha, only kidding —about the alimony payments that is. Now that I’ve remarried, Iguess I better settle down in one place for awhile. The first two letters came from the FELTONs. Charlie sent one and so did Donna. Last column Itold you how Donna complimented me on my writing. Well, Iguess she’s had enough of it. She and Charlie are sending their own material now. But that’s okay, it’s easier on me. Charlie went to Homecoming with Donna and the only other ’73 grad they ran into was Don PETTIT. They were a bit disappointed, but had enough fun for all of us. Don wrote a“little ditty” about their experiences:

“Oh Ihave slipped the surly bonds of earth on laughter silvered wings.

But now I’m just apassenger and 1ponder many things.

The Feltons went to homecoming and were just about to forget it.

Cause no one came to share the fun except Nooky Niner Don Pettit.

We wonder ‘Where our classmates were, what’s left of our class pride?’

The other classes came in force. Did ours run off and hide?

But let us tell you how it went; how Don and we survived it.

While the others thought our spirit died, here’s how we three revived it.

On Friday we attacked the course, against the other classes.

We smashed our drives and sank some putts and took second from those @#$%&s.

The winds blew hard that afternoon but the terrazo was nice and warm. We talked to cadets and with no regrets, we snuck Donna into the dorm.

The night was clear and showed the stars, and we hungered for Guisseppi’s,

We pizza’d up then hopped the bars and boogied up at Maxi’s.

The next day saw us up at dawn upon aspirit spree.

And at the parade the Flat Iron displayed agiant 73!

We showered clean and dressed up in our fi nest Air Force blue. Then hustled to the stadium for the tailgate Bar-B-Que.

The game was next, we cheered our best while hoping for aglorious win.

We went way ahead, the Cowboys bled, but they beat us in the end.

That night we went to Mitchell Hall, and you know how they like to skimp.

Well, we had agreat time, guzzled their wine and ate about 10 dozen shrimp.

Pictures were snapped and fl ash bulbs popped as each class number was called

’78 looked like afresh bunch of kids; ’68 was just growing bald. We toasted each other, we toasted our class, we talked about earlier days.

Then we talked of the good times and some of the bad, of our families and of our hair turning grey

In away we were sad that it all had to end, and I’m sure that we’ll never forget it.

We honored our class, we all became friends; The Feltons and Niner’s Don Pettit.”

Donna sent some pictures and explained afew things. The reason they ate 10 dozen shrimp is that they were the only ones at atable set for 30! Donna said the flyby before the game was impressive —especially the B-IB with full burners. She said she was proud of Charlie and Don and even prouder to be married to a’73 grad. Now that woman has smarts! What more is there in life than to be married to a’73 grad!

2,600-square-foot house with afireplace. Rick invites all to go by and visit —didn’t say stay with them —only visit, ha! Thanks to you all for the in¬ puts.

Went to see USAFA play Flawaii 26 November. Little did 1realize when Ibought the tickets the trouble 1would have. You see, Carolyn and 1were married on 27 November 1987 and she was expecting to go to Maui to celebrate our first wedding anniversary. To top it off, since we weren’t going anywhere that weekend, Ivolunteered to host two cadets. 1ex¬ plained to her how Iwas hosted many times while going to away games and she agreed. Carolyn wasn’t too happy at first, but we spent aweekend on Kauai the middle of November. It was lovely and romantic. We hosted two fourth classmen from the Drum and Bugle Corps. Being the warm, sensitive individual 1am, Igave them atrue Aloha welcome. Larry NOLEN (Maureen) also hosted two cadets from the Drum and Bugle Corps. We talked awhile at the terminal before the cadets arrived. Ken CHARFAUROS hosted two cadets but Ididn’t see him at the terminal. Things were pretty hectic with 120 cadets and their hosts.

Proof of Don’s, Charlie’s and Donna’s work!

The next letter was from Tom HAMILTON (Laurie) who is the Elec¬ tronic Warfare Quality and Reliability Assurance engineer for missile systems at Texas Instruments in Colorado Springs. He works on the HARM avionics programs such as the command launch computer for the A-7 and the F/A-18 and the launcher avionics package for the F-16. Laurie is also with TI and does subcontract manufacturing for the emitter locator system on the NATO Tornado aircraft. She works alot with the Italian government. They moved from Dallas in February 1988. Tom works with Bill GILLIN, afabrication quality assurance engineer, and Dave HARMON who is aquality assurance engineer in Laurie’s depart¬ ment. Tom also sent word that Keith KIRCHNER is the head of Process Engineering for Tl’s Missile Systems Entity in Dallas. Keith was recently elected amember of TTs Group Technical Staff —ahigh honor for Tl personnel. Both Tom and Laurie are happy to be in Colorado.

The last letter was from Rick JOHNSTON (Debi). Rick is the branch chief for Rated Departmental/Joint/Exchange Officer Assignments. He likes the job and enjoys the challenges of working assignments for the Air Staff and JCS personnel. Hey Rick, how about sending afew of them to Thule? Hold on to your horses and spurs -the Johnston’s have turned country! They go to aplace that offers live bull riding. Rick said Debi en¬ joys it more than he does. No wonder, Rick’s been feeding Debi bull for many years! They are very active in sports and live on base in a

Rick Karvosky welcomes Sue Nilsen, at left, and Edie Pltlaro, both of the Class of ’92, to Hawaii.

Iobtained some info from the change-of-address cards. Mike TRONCOSO moved to Kailua, HI this past August and is achiropractor. Carl BAILLIE also moved to Kailua. Mike and Carl, call me some time. Steve DIEHL is adiagnostic radiologist at the Humana Hospital in Greenbrier Valley, WV. Steve is in the West Virginia National Guard. He said it was hard to think of any witty comments when he has been away from everyone for so long, but still wanted to say hi to all. Dave SKALKO to Travis AFB; Dale WRISLEY to Thousand Oaks, CA; Bob ZACHRITZ just changed addresses in Macon; Tom REAM (Nancy) to Clark AB with Det 1, 1403 MAS; and Jim VOGLER to Ponte Vedra Beach, FL where he is aradiologist at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville.

1hope you all had agood winter. I’ll be thinking of you as Iwork on my tan. Please continue to send letters and pictures of yourself, family, or other classmates. I’ll be forced to put pictures of my dog in the next issue unless you send me some news. Take care.

Mike Carter

2263 Ptarmigan Lane

Colorado Springs, CO 80918

Home: (719) 593-1480

AV: 259-2549

Percent members: 36

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Starters: This column is REALLY late this time, so I’m going to be short. Tom Kroboth, the editor of Checkpoints, is awfully nice to us class Titers and hardly ever yells when we’re late but he’s already called twice so Ihad better get this over to him. At this writing the holidays are over and we’re into the “Dark Ages.” Well, the temperature today was in the high 50s and the weather was abit windy but beautiful otherwise. It seems that winter is passing us by this year. As usual, about the time that Isay that, we’ll get creamed by about six feet of snow and gale-force winds.

Anyway, that’s enough of that silliness. Most of the information this time comes from Christmas cards which Ireceived about two hours after I turned in my last article. That’s one good thing about being late, Igot all of the late mail before Iwrote the column so there’s alot of good, fresh news. So let’s get on with it!

Charlie and Donna Felton with Don Pettit.

from New Baden, IL to Clinton, MD. The next card is good news for Charles ANDERSON. He’s getting to come home from Koon-Ni Range, APO SF, and will be settling in Jonesboro, LA. Phil SPRY sends us a change-of-address card from Sacramento. He’s off to anew job as chief pilot with the 7th MAS at Travis AFB, CA. Mark JOHNSON also reported in. He’s an F-4 IP for the Minnesota Air National Guard at Duluth lAP, MN.

Jim GARRETT has also recently moved. He is now the chief. Ops Sup¬ port, Systems Engineering Branch, Crew Tech Division at Brooks AFB, TX. That’s amouthful so it must be an important job. John LANSFORD has completed along relocation. He recently settled in Beavercreek, OR from his previous station at Apple Valley, MN. Ed McILHENNY has made ashort move, but amove nonetheless from Derby, KS to Wichita, KS. Moving from one cowboy state to another is Lynn LONG. Lynn went from Tulsa, OK to Arlington, TX. Bill MURRAY has moved to Tampa, FL after atour at Hurlburt Field, FL. He’s an R&D Of fi cer in J-8 of USSOCOM. He is sharing acommand with Ron WALKER (now at Armed Forces Staff College) and Gordie ETTENSON who has recently arrived from AFSC.

Merrill BEYER has just finished aHQ TAC staff tour at the F-15 SPO at Wright-Patterson AFB, OH and is off to Newport News, VA. He’s go¬ ing back to flying the Eagle jet. Mark RABINOWITZ has made abit of a southerly move from Annandale, VA to Sumter, SC. John SCIACCA is one of the few, the proud, at ACSC. He’s living all the way across town at Gunter AFB, AL. Another recent CONUS returnee is Roy LOWER. He was on aU.N. assignment, similar to Mario DIPRlMO’s and is back home in Palo Alto, CA. Another one of our Virginians is Linn WILDE. He’s at Langley as the chief. Air to Surface Branch with the HQ TAC/IG.

Charlie JONES is one of our more “intelligent” classmates at the Defense Intelligence Agency. Bad pun but it’s getting late and I’m tired. He’s the director. Space Systems Intelligence at Bolling AFB, DC. Bill NELSON is aproud newlywed with his wife, Janice. He completed ACSC last summer and is chief, C4 System Requirements Contracts at HQ USAF/SCTl in the Pentagon. Have you noticed that we have alot of “Chiefs” in our class these days? Paul GILLIAM and family have made a move from Eglin AFB, FL all the way to Ft Walton Beach, FL. Ray RUSS sends acard from Vacaville, CA just to let us know where he’s at these days. Another short move was made by Mike CHASE from Haughton, LA to Barksdale AFB, LA. One thing bad about being the class writer is trying to decide what’s areal move and what is really just a skip across the block. You can let me know on the change-of-address card if you want. Please!?

Jim FURFARI has also made one of those shorty moves from Monroeville, PA to Irwin, PA. My rule is, if there is adifference of 500 between the old and new ZIP code, then it’s amove. Otherwise it’s just not worth reporting. Jim was really four short but 1get to make the close calls. Now, Jim MASSARO made adecent move from Mililani, HI to Papillion, NE. Decent by distance standards but NOT by choice, Dave and Tai-Lee DALEY have returned from overseas. He completed atour at the German General Staff College and they have resettled in Fairfax, VA. That’s it for the change-of-address cards so let’s go to the mailbag. Mailbag: Dale and Ginny BURCHBY sent their annual Christmas

newsletter. They are now up to the magic number of three kids after the birth of Valerie Kaye last February (1988, that is). His other two, Melanie and Kevin, are five and three, respectively. Dale says that ayear would be boring without having anew baby and moving, so after Valerie’s birth they were off to San Diego. Rob and Jan WAYNE also sent avery nice newsletter. The picture is of Whitney, their two year old.

As usual, 1have trouble seeing Rob as adaddy, but 1bet you all have trouble thinking of me with three kids of my own. Anyway, Rob is conti¬ nuing as aliaison officer and has moved into ajob teaching newly-hired pilots the additional skills needed to be second officers on the Boeing 727.

Another letter came from Chuck and Kathy LATHAM. The beginning of the year saw them serving in two different parts of California, both in the AF. They have four kids: Davie (19), Danny (12), Matt (10), and Amanda (2). Later last year they moved to Wright-Patterson AFB, OH where 1think they are still located. Chuck is amember of the F-16 SPO. J.J. and Cynthia ROMANO also have aneat holiday newsletter. It seems that between cuts on the thesis they were able to get some news in. J.J. is working on an MSEE and is destined for Germany. They are planning on alittle extra luggage though. It seems that about the same time as they are due to PCS, they are also due, Anew Romano in the works.

The Hoglund Clan

This final tribute has been long overdue. The following picture is the family of one of the most faithful of all class news contributors, Dave HOGLUND. This picture of Hog and his family was taken from Eagle Peak at 9600' MSL. The clan includes Dave, Charlene, Jon (7), Melissa (4), April and Sarah (1). Once again, we sure have grown into afine group of folks, haven’t we?

so in

Final Shots: Already said too much. God bless you all and those dear to you. 1remember many of you constantly and will continue to do prayer and in the column -as long as Ihear from you. If that sounds like an invitation to write, IT IS! By the way Craig, DDF Newsletter will be covered next column. Too much to say and too late to write. Have agreat Spring and think about one another occasionally -Mike.

Jeff Hackett

1825 E. Jeanine Drive

Tempe, AZ 85284

Home: (602) 831-9439

Work: (602) 891-2734

Percent members: 35

THE CHECKPOINTS ANTI-COUCH POTATO BOWL. Here 1 am, in the midst of college football bowl fervor, stuck in front of the PC in¬ stead of the TV; banging out words instead of beers. Trust me, this is a labor of (unexplained) love. But how can Icomplain? Whether it was due to my constant sniveling or the Holiday Spirit working on y’all, 1have received more correspondence for this article than any other. ..14 cards and letters! Start getting yourself up for the next article (St. Patrick’s Day?).

WEARING THE MAILMAN OUT. Jim CARLSON has set some type of record by sending three informative letters since the last time 1did my “Scribe-thing.” It must be his Naval Reserve Intel background that allows him to sleuth out classmates everywhere he goes. During two weeks of school at Defense Intelligence Agency in Washington, DC this summer he “found” or “found out about” agroup of ’75ers. Some of the news has previously been reported here but there was some new stuff: Tom POPP

Whitney —the head of the Wayne family.

is at the Pentagon in XOOTT (A-10 Program Element Minitor?). Hugo POSEY’s made it to the point where the government has printed his of¬ ficial biography, such is the status of the assistant air attache to Venezuela. It’s impressive stuff. Brian ALLISON is tending to “baby C-I4I pilots” (IP) at Altus while wife, Ardis, is taking care of real babies (pediatrician). Rick SARVER is aJAG trial judge in San Antonio. Jim shared apizza with Chris BUDINSKY who was also TOY in the D.C. area. Chris is an E-3 flight commander at Tinker. He and Penny are ex¬ pecting their fourth child in April. The last package from Jim was his Christmas card with the very big news that he’s been selected for naval air¬ crew training as abombadier navigator in the A-6. Congratulations Jim!

IFAMILY FOTOS. The Checkpoints editor has asked the scribes to in¬ clude more pictures (apparently he’s nodded off while reading too many “inspired” words). And, since we got ’em, we’ll flaunt ’em! Notice the lit¬ tle mind game Jon TURNER’S family played with their Christmas card picture; their first winter back in Colorado and they’re all in shorts and T-Shirts. Right! You’ll recall that Jon went back to take aposition with Hewlett-Packard as amarketing engineer (a term that angers all “real” engineers as much as it does the born-and-bred marketing guys). Not only is his civilian work going great, Jon’s landed aflying slot with the Reserve C-130 unit there at Pete. Diane is working as director of apreschool in the Springs and the kids (Jill and Ric) are into lots of activities including rac¬ ing past mom and dad on the ski slopes. The family keeps athumb in the Academy pie by sponsoring acouple of cadets.

New Mexico three more years —have ajob with AFOTEC —fly the Eagle, shoot missies, and get credit for astaff tour!”

This next proud bunch is the DONNELLY family. They’re about to pack up their bags at Scott AFB and move east to Andrews where Mark will be suffering through atour flying the C-20. Lucy mentioned in their letter that they were preparing for this hardship tour by playing golf at every opportunity. The little ones, Scott and Ann, have been breezing along in preschool; Scott’s psyching up for kindergarten next fall.

Not much to tell you about the Wayne WILLIS family. The attached note was short and to the point, “Not much has changed here. We’ll be in

JUST KIDS. The long-lost and previously shameless Dave COMMONS finally broke down and sent me acard/letter. Seems he has more time on his hands now that he’s flying for Delta; he. Barb and Chris (see photo) will be domiciled in Cincinnati. Dave’s also hoping to get on with the Reserve unit at Wright-Pat when they get their F-16s later this year. Dave FLEMING also broke the ice and wrote the scribe. (Deep in my heart I know it was Ann who wrote the letter so all we should really give Flamer credit for his having the sense to marry her!) With ACSC and amaster’s degree fresh in hand, Dave has taken up station at the Pentagon as the F-111 Program Element monitor. It’s going well. However, in Ann’s words, “he misses the cockpit but his sentence should be commuted in three and ahalf more years.” They like the D.C. area and found anice house in Virginia that’s “within easy check writing distance of numerous shopping malls!” Since Checkpoints prints the class mrticles in black and white only, you’ll have to use your long-term memory to fill in the color of Katie’s hair (remember we didn’t call Dave “Flamer” just because he was alittle hard on underclassmen).

Dale MEYERROSE’s girls are as blonde as Katie Fleming is red¬ headed! They’re also in Virginia where Dale is working with the Joint Staff and acting as our class secretary in the D.C. AOG Chapter. His pro¬ mise to write me along letter is hereby made amatter of public record.

HERE’S THE 1,000 WORDS THERE WAS NO PICTURE FOR.

Mike and Diane BUCKLEY included along letter with their Christmas card. Mike has added duties as secretary/treasurer for the local (An¬ chorage, AK) Air Line Pilots’ Association to his Alaska Air co-pilot and Reserve C-130 aircraft commander “work.” Diane is squadron com¬ mander for an ANG unit. They still run abed-and-breakfast during the summer months. Ican’t do it all justice here but suffice it to say they do a hell of alot of traveling and havin’ fun! Mike passed on the following: Stan COLLINS is chief of Safety at Elmendorf, Steve BROWN and Rick McGRAW are also there in F-15s, as is E-3 driver Pat ASH. Bruce FRITZE runs F-15 operations at King Salmon, AK. Larry RICHTER is chief of Training for the KC-135S at Barksdale AFB.

Mark WELLS wrote what Iconsider to be along letter, but for aguy getting ready to write a400-page doctoral thesis on the “Human Dimen¬ sion of Air Combat During the Combined Bomber Offensive of World War 11” it was probably just anote. Mark has taken Donna and the two kids, Nathan (third grade) and Emily (20 months), to England to ac¬ complish this feat. It’s one of those things that sounds like amixed bless¬ ing to me (but then 1have trouble writing this measley article every three months!).

Got ahotel-stationery letter from A1 KRUKOWSKI who was on an overnight in Detroit. Al’s afirst officer on 757s for Northwest, living in Minneapolis with wife, Ann, and three children: Kathryn (11), Michael (6), and Paul (4). If 1said he is fanatically, maniacally in love with what he’s doing I’d be grossly understating the facts! He likes it. ..alot! The list of ’75ers at Northwest is probably long enough to make the Pentagon cringe but Ichecked my records, they’ve all been mentioned here previously.

SEE YOUR HONOR REP. ..wait aminute, he was my honor rep! Kent TRAYLOR did not come through with lots of words on ’75 grads in Central Europe as he promised. But Iam forced to forgive him (tem¬ porarily) since from the pen of his four-year-old daughter Iget my clos¬ ing:

HOW TO FIX ATURKEY

I’d make asnow turkey. First cut it and put raisins and peanut butter in it. Then boil it. When it’s done I’ll cut it and put it on aplate. They I’d put mashed potatoes in it and put it on the table. It’s the latest rage at Mitchell Hall! “Mister Sanchez, more snow turkey and mashed potatoes! And hurry up, it’s later than you think!”

Kurt Klingenberger

1801 N. Tejon St. Colorado Springs, CO 80907

Home; (719) 635-4843

AV; 259-2270

Percenl members: 36

Really, 1couldn’t believe it. Ithought 1had just finished the fall newsletter and suddenly the Checkpoints editor was saying the next one was due (on Christmas Eve). The problem was that Ihad used up all my info in the fall letter. The good and bad news was that I’d not have much to write. Although I’d gotten afew things from people, overall Iwas a hurting buckeroo. Then Isaid to myself, “Look, with finals and Christmas shopping, and so on, you’ll never get this done by Christmas Eve. So let’s be clever, wait until Christmas cards have been exchanged, and then pilfer other peoples’ mailboxes!” Which is what Idid as you’ll see later on. But let me start with the inputs Ihad before the panic set in.

Jim CARLSON (’75) wrote anote saying that he ran into fellow Cellar Rat Dave ROBINSON at Nellis. Dave is fi nishing up his tour with the Thunderbirds and is going to ACSC this January. Then he got out to Hawaii for astint with CINCPAC. Thanks to Dave for representing the class so well with the Thunderbirds and thanks to Jim for the note.

Dave McELWEE (Kymberle) wrote from GAP Merdsfeld where he is flying F-4s with the Germans. That tour is coming to aclose and Dave will spend the winter in Florida attending the Joint Firepower Control Course. This is in preparation for an 18-month ALO tour back in Ger¬ many. Now why is Dave doing the ALO tour? Because last winter he ran into Jimmy ROSE (Vicki) at Hahn, while Jimmy was giving an MFC briefing throughout Europe. Jimmy convinced Dave that if Dave did the ALO tour, he might get an F-15 or F-16 later. What adeal. But I’ve fallen for worse. Dave also ran into Chuck and Helena McGEE at aRamstein conference last fall. Chuck is an exchange of fi cer keeping the Germans fl ying safe at GAF Porz-Wahn. Great letter, Dave. Thanks much. Got afine letter from Tom SEFCIK (Sandy) who is working on an engineering mech PhD at Ohio State. Tom is another of the class who is a previous winner of the Clements Award for teaching excellence (’85-’86). But mech is going to have to wait awhile to get their superstar back — Tom is going to do aB-52 tour before returning to USAFA. Let me tell you how excited he is about THAT. One very generous offer Tom made was to put his woodcrafting skills to use in putting together the class display for the new AOG building. Though Idon’t have many details about the AOG building, it is great to have someone already expressing an interest in the building and in the ’76 corner of it. Ihope the picture that Tom sent will print well enough in the magazine to give others aclue as to Tom’s skills. In the meantime, he is looking forward to returning to the Real Air Force from the academic world. Doesn’t see many classmates at Ohio State though he says he sees Rico RACOSKY from time to time. Tom closed his letter with areference to the number of TDYs Imanage to go on. Says that cutting my TDYs could significantly reduce the federal deficit. Well, let me tell you what has happened. 1was going to do just that, but found out the money saved has gone to pilot bonuses instead.

In fact Idid not get out to the “field” much this past semester to see folks. One quick out-and-back in the T-43 to Carswell allowed me to visit with old roommate Pete TRUMP (Dixie). Pete is now in B-52 Stan/Eval though he has some short-notice PCS orders coming this winter to Offutt. Didn’t get to see Enrique SAA (Delphine) since he was on aTDY of his own.

Now to go through some of my Christmas mail. Starting with some of the Campus Radicals ...Ric CABALLERO sent anote from Dyess. Ric is in charge of all pilot upgrade training in the B-IB. Bill FRANKLIN (Cynthia) should be finishing up his training as aB-1 IP by this January which will take aload off Ric; for awhile Ric was the only qualified IP in the CCTS at Dyess. According to Ric, Greg VITALIS is back in the flying business again in C-141s at Charleston. Ric says Iwould like the B-1 because it is an even bigger “switchblade” than my old F/FB-111. 1don’t know ... 1don’t think I’d like not having abig window to look out of.

Avery nice Christmas letter from Brian and Linda SUTTER down in San Antonio. Linda finished her master’s in speech/language pathology and is now working in the same school district as daughters Amy and Car¬ rie. Imean the same district as where the girls go to school. But you knew what Imeant. Brian is chief of the MPC Operations Force Analysis Team with frequent short-notice trips to the Pentagon. Linda thinks that the summer will bring amove, most likely to service school. Ihad agood talk with Brian just before Christmas; fortunately he was taking some time off from the job so the family could make aholiday trip to Minnesota.

1also talked to Joe SMITH (Harriet) just before Christmas. The Smiths are also at Randolph, where Joe is hard at work as acommand briefer (among other jobs) at HQ ATC. Officially he is chief of the Presentations Branch. Says the job doesn’t pay any more but he gets a reserved parking spot. Harriet has taken up Scottish country dancing and Joe is being slowly drawn into it as well. Is there anyone else out there who would be willing to pay money to see Joe Smith in akilt? 1would. Really though, Ienjoyed our conversation and the confirmation of all above in your Christmas letter.

The STOCKDALES -Steve, Cheryl, and Stacy —are doing well in Dallas where Steve remains employed with Texas Instruments. Steve says he should have some trips coming up to Colorado Springs this year. Looking forward to visiting with you.

Well, let’s see, who else wrote? Rick WElDNER’s (Carol) letter includ¬ ed this boast: Ray TYC is not the only one still with his cadet car. Rick has his ’75 ’Vette. Only 128,000 miles; he says he is waiting for someone to hit it so he can get anew paint job. Rick is in the Travis ALCE as an operations officer, while still maintaining C-141 currency. I’d think that at Travis you could at least get the sandblasting done to the car if you just left it outside long enough. Anyway, thanks for the note.

In between Christmas and New Years Iwent over to Europe —per¬ sonal business, no TDY funds involved —and ran into Chase JOHNSON (Pamela) at the Ramstein BX. In the course of avery short conversation, he said that Wade McROBERTS (Susan) was also there and was compil¬ ing a“classmate list” of Ramstein folks. Being impatient, 1called Wade at home just before leaving for the trip back to the States. And he said it was all in the Christmas letter waiting for me back home. And sure enough it was plus some other news. Flying with Wade in the 526 TFS are Chase, Jim CARTER (Gwen), and Steve NICKEL (Lisa). Ron BARAN (Christine) is in the “other” squadron and Mike HOYES and Art GEORGE (Kathy) are both on the USAFE staff. Wade also had some in¬ teresting news that he couldn’t have given me afew months back. (No, he’s not pregnant.) Wade was one of the Stealth fighter guys out at Nellis for the last couple years. So were Mike S.ACKLEY, Tim SIMS (Sharron), and Dan JORDAN (Logan). Mike has since gotten out of the active-duty Air Force and is flying both for USAir and the Toledo ANG. Wade was able to get to Mike’s wedding to Valerie last June in Las Vegas as were Doug FRENCH and Mark WHALEN (Susan). More on this below. Mark was one of Wade’s IPs in the F-16 training at Luke. Also at Luke as students were Carl NUZZO (Lynda), who has since gone to fly in Den¬ mark, and Mark WELSH (Betty), bound for Hill AFB. Many thanks, Wade. Itried to get hold of Bernie GOLDBACH (Dianne), but apparent¬ ly the Goldbachs were in the States on leave. Next time, Bernie.

Imentioned the Sackleys above. Mike sent me aletter and photo in Oc¬ tober. Talked about Valerie -“a wonderful Italian girl” —who grew up in L.A. and graduated from high school with Kevin CHILTON (Cathy). Mike says he is enjoying both the USAir and the Guard jobs. Best of all, he sent aphoto.

Received acard and Christmas poem from Bill and Lynda ROEGE. Poem was really neat; 1wish 1were that clever. Described the antics of daughter Katie and son Jake. Also indicated that the Roeges expect to leave Okinawa in June, probably for ACSC. The back of the poem in¬ cluded some additional information. Jon BAUSHLICHER (Valerie) is out of the Air Force now and living in Grand Rapids, ML Jeff and Cookie FORD are at Holloman AFB. “Woody” WOODMAN (Diane) is at Hickam. Others at Kadena include Jim and Cathy TURNER and Dave

TERNES. Larry and Diane NEW will be leaving Kadena in April for HQ TAC at Langley. Appreciate all the extra news!

Craig PUZ wrote areal nice Christmas letter that included news of his July wedding to Eileen. Craig is working on the SDIO Starlab project in Los Angeles. His job is to supervise 10 people in trying to get the services to all agree on this project. Iwon’t put in all the things he is responsible for but the list is quite impressive. Craig says the compensation for the oft-times frustrating job is the possibility of flying in space in 1990. In the meantime, Eileen is acquiring asecond master’s degree at USC; this one is in social work emphasizing guidance and counseling. Thanks, Craig.

Dave McNEIL stopped in my of fi ce acouple months back while at USAFA for liaison of fi cer duties. He is still in Minneapolis fl ying for Northwest and instructing 727 and 757 systems. Says Steve WILSON also lives in Minneapolis and has been flying for NW for about four years.

And Bill BRUNDAGE (Dilys) —my department mate —tells me that John AUSINK is alive and well at Harvard working on aPhD that will bring him back to USAFA’s Math Department in 1991.

Well that exhausts the news Ireceived directly. It didn’t seem like enough so Iprowled the sixth fl oor of Fairchild Hall last week to see who else had gotten Christmas cards. Started, of course, with the law guys. Andy FALLON (Marti), Bryan ECHOLS (Laura), Craig MANSON (Penny), and Bob GARDNER (LeAnn), all contributed to this. Accord¬ ing to them, Mike RENNER (Karen) is finishing his degree in procure¬ ment law in Washington, DC and will be moving to Washington state this summer. He will be in the APPRO at Boeing Aircraft Company; coin¬ cidentally Mike’s hometown is Seattle. Andy says that one of his neighbors is Mark WILLIAMS (MaryLee) who is out at Peterson at Space Command. Craig got aChristmas card from the Goldbachs that said that Dianne is teaching for the University of Maryland in Germany; also said that they may be PCSing soon for either Turkey or D.C. Will be wailing to hear. Terry PETRIE (Janna) is using his JAG skills at Bolling AFB. The lawyers told me that Mike UNDERWOOD (Christine) is at Yokota AB. Craig says that Tom MUCKENTHALER (Debbie) is also at Space Command; Craig sees Tom at church once in awhile. Idon’t know where he is the other Sundays. Bryan tells me that Eric WIGAND (Monica) is aReserve captain who has been living right here in the Springs. But not in just any old house. His is aspecial house characterized particularly by the detailed woodwork, which isn’t surprising since Eric’s dad owns awoodworking business. In fact, Eric is leaving soon to go to the company headquarters in Cleveland. 1didn’t get the joke, but the law guys said something about how appropriate it is that Eric is into the woodwork business.

While 1was huddling with my Law Department sources, Capt Rhonda Lambert, aCE instructor, wandered in and offered to bring by the HEINZ Annual Report. She did, and Idiscovered that this is Steve and Kay’s version of aChristmas letter. It was really funny with graphs char¬ ting the kids’ use of time and chicken pox status among other valuable statistics. In addition to the domestic updates, 1understand that Steve is doing quite well putting his computer programming skills to use in acom¬ pany that helps businesses efficiently manage energy use. This is all taking place from their home in State College, PA.

Rhonda’s visit reminded me that 1should tap the CE guys for their news. Hank and Jennifer SEADER are expecting their first munchikin around mid-year. (There Hank, 1finally put you in.) Hank says that Dave KRISTENSEN (Elaine) is running alab at the Technical Applications Center out at McClelland AFB. And Scott LOUNSBERRY is doing com¬ puter programming for aD.C.-area Beltway Bandit.

Chuck OLTMAN (Isabel) keeps in touch with Carl NORDGREN (Sue) who lives right here in Black Forest. Carl has quit his general contracting work to concentrate on job hunting in other areas, but he is still flying for the Colorado Guard at Buckley. Mark STODA (Kimberlee) is on the staff of the Navigators and will soon be returning to the States after several years in Germany. Pete KLUCK is at MacDill right now, but will soon be out of the Air Force. He has accepted ajob with Wycliffe, the Bibletranslating organization. Joe SHIREY (Johanna) recently left MacDill, and is now in Norfolk (at AFSC, Ipresume). And acouple weeks ago, Chuck got ano-notice visit from Pete HOOK (Linda). Pete was in the area visiting family. He is at Seymour-Johnson, but has aFebruary class date at Luke for transition to the F-15E. I’ll have to hit up the other CE instructors next time; they know alot of stuff.

Wandered around to the History Department and found Budd JONES (Connie) and Larry WEAVER (Cynthia). Found out that Dave NABER is living in Phoenix, flying for Delta and the Iowa Guard; Jocelyn is a stewardess for America West. Mike WORDEN (Lori) goes to F-16 RTU in February and then (back) to Spangdahlem. A1 “Wink” DICKINSON lives in Wrenz, GA and is flying for either Southwest or Pan Am. John ERRIGO lives in Chicago and flies for Midway Airlines (and Navy C-9s).

Next 1checked with Lee LEBER (Linda) in Behavioral Science. Lee just finished his PhD in engineering psychology from New Mexico State

From left are Wade McRoberts, Sue McRoberls, Mike Sackley, Valerie Sackley, Doug French and Mark Whalen.

and should stay here awhile longer. Lee tells me that Rich GOSEN (Joan) is practicing his OB/GYN skills in Minnesota. Neil CAHOON is about out the door from the Math Department and will soon be fl ying for some airline. And Lee said that he saw Doug STEWART (Susan) on the TV show Scrabble. Doug won about $12,000 (or one year’s pilot bonus). Says Lee, “Doug hasn’t changed abit. When the MC asked if Doug was ready to start the game, Doug replied that he was ‘born ready.’ ”Thanks, Lee.

My trip to Computer Science got me afew names from Tom MALLARY (Vicki). Luckey DUNN is adoctor in Jacksonville, AR as is his wife, Wendy. Mark STARR (Ellen) still flies for People’s and is living in Maryland; the Starrs added alittle one to the family this year. And Mike KIDD is in Stuttgart at HQ USEUCOM. He is the exec to the direc¬ tor of intel at EUCOM.

Iwas typing away on this mess of info yesterday when Dan BEATTY (Martha) called from Randolph to update me on ’76ers at MPC. Dan and Martha are leaving San Antonio in about two weeks for Kirtland. Mar¬ tha, who is also active-duty Air Force, will be chief of the Contract Management Division; Dan is going to the 1550 CCTW to help build the initial cadre for the MH-60G training program. Dan has been chief of helicopter assignments at MPC. Taking his place will be Craig JENSEN (Debbie) who arrived in August. Bob MANSFIELD (Pam) is chief of missile maintenance officer assignments. Ben DILLA (Sharon) is chief of the analysis division and Joe DREW (Vickie) is chief of the T-38 assign¬ ment section. Jimmie ROSE is chief of the fighter pilots assignment sec¬ tion and Denny REA (Trudy) and Tim BROWN (Gem) are fi ghter assignments staff of fi cers. Dave NAKAYAMA (Joanna) is a maintenance/munitions assignments staff officer. Doug WADDELOW is chief of the communications/computer field grade officer assignments section. He and Annette, who is also active duty, are expecting ababy in March. Jeff BECKER (Connie), who had Brian Sutter’s job in operations force analysis previously, is now at Army Command and General Staff College in Kansas. Dan says that Dave PYSHORA (LouAnne) is at ACSC, but has no follow-on yet. Brad GERDES was an HH-53 squadron ops officer and is now at USAFE headquarters. Walt HEIDMOUS (Car¬ rie) is working in aspecial ops staff job at MacDill. Dan, thanks again for all the news; I’ll get ahold of you again when you get to Albuquerque. Now for the really important news: The changes of address! Mike EYOLFSON (Judy) to chief of Urology at Travis AFB hospital. Jim CROWE (Linda) from Mountain-Home, ID to Bellbrook, OH. Hal GETZELMAN (Marian) from League City, TX to the 8th TFW in the Pacific. John FLOERSCH (Becky) to Rosemont, MN and ajob as an Air Reserve Technician at Minneapolis-St. Paul lAP. Gerald ALEXANDER (Barbara) has moved from Monument, CO to Biloxi, MS, Robert WAGNER (Lesa) is in Minnetonka, MN as aquality manager for acom¬ pany called Rosemont; the Wagners just had twin boys; at 7Ib 12 oz and 8 Ib 5oz they were the biggest newborn twins on record in Madison, WI where they were born. James CADY (Janet) from APO NY to Chesaning, ML Lance CHRISTIAN (Julie) is now flying at Norton. Dave TATE (Linda) is living at Gunter AFB, AL while attending ACSC. Martin VANEVERY (Jan) has changed addresses in LaCrosse, Wl. Chris REAMY (Gretchen) to Freehold, NJ. Wes NEELY (Cheryl) to San An¬ tonio as aT-38 Stan/Eval pilot at HQ ATC. John YOUNG (Jewell) is now in Ft. Walton Beach, FL. Paul SOWADA (Brenda) from AFIT in Ohio to Offutt. And Joe RACHER (Barbara) is now amaintenance squadron supervisor at Minot.

That is about all Ihave. Thanks much for all the inputs.

John J. “Lou” Michels, Jr.

PSC #1, Box 28009

APO San Francisco 96230

AV: 312-634-3300

Percent members: 34

CHRISTMAS NOTES: Doesn’t seem much like Christmas here in Japan right now. No snow, no frost, no constant stream of commercials on the television. Hope all of you enjoyed awonderful holiday season, since by the time you see this it will be February.

PERSONAL NOTES: As some of you know by now, 1was afather again some 2Vi months early. Evan Lee Michels, all three pounds of him, arrived on 13 October, while Sonia was back in the States on leave, visiting my parents. With amarvelous sense of timing, Ihad returned to Okinawa six days earlier. 1charged back as soon as Icould, but it still took 36 hours from that first unnerving phone call for me to reach Min¬ neapolis. At this point, all is well. Evan spent about two months in the

hospital and required some heart surgery, but he’s home with Sonia in Minneapolis and seems to be doing fine. Unfortunately, because of the lack of care facilities on Okinawa, Sonia and the kids did not return here with me, and we are awaiting the assignment god’s decision to place me somewhere near amajor medical facility. So ends my overseas tour. For the record, Evan was originally due on December 30th. So much for tax planning.

CONDITIONED RESPONSE: Who says whining and groveling doesn’t work? Apparently digusted by my pleas for news, anumber of you fired off legible, coherent letters. Doug SEASON (Cindy) dropped me aline from Kirtland, where Doug is doing “physics research.” That’s a suggestive euphemism. Isuspect that Doug is working on some SDI pro¬ jects, if for no other reason than the bio on the back of his latest novel says so. Actually Return to Honor is Doug’s first novel, scheduled for release in February of ’89. His second is scheduled for release in January of ’90. Am 1impressed, or what? Doug also reports that he has two children, both girls, and that work is great. Iguess so, since it provides him with not only the time but the concepts to use in novels. Doug reports that A1 GOULD is flying for American and living the good life off a 36-foot yacht in San Diego. Doug also related astory to me that.I was able to independently confirm concerning the tragic murder of Harley STONE. The Albuquerque DA has identified the probable killer, who has actually confessed to the murder, as well as being identified by two children who were at the scene of the shooting. The guy is locked up in the psychiatric ward at the New Mexico state hospital. The motive for the murder was that this person liked Harley’s car when he saw it at aconve¬ nience store in Albuquerque. As Doug noted, at least he’s off the streets, and should be for the rest of his life.

Got anice card from Tom JONES (Liz) who is at D-M. Liz is expecting their second child in Eebruary and by the time this hits the streets the family should be out in the D.C. area. Tom has fi nished his PhD in planetary science and will be doing some remote sensing research (another interestingly vague term!) or work on the space telescope. Tom notes that Larry LUCKETT is plowing the desert in his A-10. He’s the weapons of¬ fi cer at D-M. Rob SARNOSKl is at Nellis fl ying A-7s, and Norm THOMPSON is leaving Space Command to fly ’141s at McGuire. The re¬ cent ban on intermediate range nukes means that Tim HAGAN is out of GLCM job in Germany, but Tom wasn’t sure where Tim will be headed. Tom included apicture of himself and Paul PIROG in New Orleans. Paul is the medical law consultant at Keesler. Thanks for the news, Tom. Another person driven to write by my pleading (that’s alawyer pun), Don MOORE (Cindy) reports that he is ready to leave Wurzburg, Ger¬ many for sunnier climes. Don is an ALO there with the 3rd Infantry, and says that although Germany is great, living and working with the Army leaves alittle to be desired. Don was picked up for ISS, and should know where he’s headed when he reads this. Don was averitable fountain of in¬ formation on the class in Europe, at least those unfortunate enough to be pounding the beat with the Corps. Russ FINNEY (Kathy) is an ALO at Stuttgart, also sweating out the ISS board for this summer. Terry COX (Cheri) was in Germany, but by now has finished F-16 RTU and has moved on to Torrejon, or wherever that unit ends up. Dave KISH (Lani) was in Frankfurt and has also departed for F-16 RTU, then to Ramstein. As noted here earlier, Art and Lorae WACHDORF joined Don and Cin¬ dy at Wurzburg this fall. Tony BENEVENTO is an ALO in Mannheim. John REED is in ’15s at Bitburg. At the risk of being redundant, John won the William Tell top gun trophy while on exchange with the RCAF (Canadians) for ’87. Don MUELLER (Nancy) is an Army type with Don at Wurzburg, serving as the division’s comm officer. Doug MOWERY (Kathy) is directing aDC-9 for U.S. Air out of Pittsburgh, Jim STAVA (Holly) is with Delta out of Salt Lake City, enjoying aski chalet in Park

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Tom Hagan and Paul Pirog jazzing it up in New Orleans.

Don and Cindy Moore at Oktoberfest.

City when he’s not flying. Joe BULMER and Jeff REMINGTON (Marla) are flying with the boys in the red flight suits out of Nellis. Joe should be leaving the T-Birds this winter, according to Don. Scott SCHOFIELD (Bev) is in Ft Worth, working for General Dynamics, and flying RF-4s for the Reno Guard. Iwonder if he gets to use the RF for the commute? Don closed with alament about getting ready to go to the field. No wonder he’s ready to get back to the blue suit. Hang in there, Don.

Dave EBELKE writes from Barksdale to say that he passed his or¬ thopaedics boards and will separate from the AF in June 89 to take aoneyear fellowship in spinal surgery at KU in Kansas City. Dave noted that he will probably enter private practice after that. Good luck, Dave.

Rick DALTON (Jacki) dropped me aline to say that he’s flying ’16s at Ramstein and that “the door is always open.” Thanks for the update and the invite, Rick.

Finally, at bottom of the mailbag, but no less valuable, was aletter from Don TUROS (Deana), who is deep in the heart of East Germany at Templehoff, in Berlin. Don is working communications and computers for the Electronic Support Wing that provides air traffic control in and out of Berlin. Don notes that he’s been there four years, and enclosed a shot of himself and two other ’77ers at Templehoff —Sam RUPE, the just-arrived staff judge advocate, and Steve LUPONE, who works at the Berlin Air Safety Center. Steve gets to work with Soviet controllers, as the BASC is the only remaining quadpartite agency left over from WW-Il. Some interesting stuff doing over there, Don. I’ll bet you’ll be sorry to leave.

Grissom. Mario GARZA has moved from the Springs to the Pacific, looks like Guam from the ZIP code. Jim CHAMBERLAIN (Jeanne) got married in September to acaptain who is presently an Intel type at Bergstrom. Jim is at Ellsworth, fl ying the B-IB as aDefensive Systems Operator instructor. Lorin LONG (Merry) is at Nellis, Dennis BELLAMY is at Hickam, A1 VOGEL, who Ilast saw at Holloman as an Aggressor, is now at Ke fl avik. Bob MASSEY is at Wright-Pat as an AFIT student.

CLOSE-OUT: Again, thanks for all the info. I’m starting to find this job as much fun as it used to be in hearing from all you folks again. Hope everyone had agreat holiday season. Take care.

Greg Postulka

811 Ridgewood Cove West

Niceville, EL 32578

Home: (904) 897-4476

AV: 872-8805

Percent members: 38 't''

Obviously everyone is still speechless from the excitement of our 10-year reunion. Because, they’re ain’t no cards and letters! So, in meeting my Christmas Eve deadline, this will be amini-column. But Happy 1989 to all and congratulations to all the new majors pinning-on just around the time you’re reading this.

Doug PATON, Holloman AFB, NM; Chuck BRININSTOOL, American Airlines in Dallas; Larry ORTEGA, Manned Space Flight Center in Houston; Tom KEOHANE and Tom CZACHOR, both with Northwest Airlines in Minneapolis, Gary (still single) HUGHES, American Airlines in Dallas; and, Ben TROEMEL, anywhere but the barbershop at POPE AFB, NC. The picture was from Amy Keohane’s reunion collection. She said this was the only one appropriate for afamily magazine.

The only other mail was acard and note from Rick (Eva) AULICINO. They live in Charlotte, NC and are the proud parents of Ricky (3) and Stephanie (7 months). Rick is flying aJetstream for Carolina Commuter Air.

Changes of Locations: Greg MANDT, TDY at the Defense Systems Management College, Ft. Belvoir, VA; Steve FIKAR to Niceville, FL; Pete HOLZGANG to WPAFB, OH; Vic LIN from George AFB, CA to overseas -APO NY; Paul VALOVCIN to USAFA; Terry HAYNES to Omaha, NE; Ken KNAPP moved from the USAFE/IG visiting all of Europe to Hill AFB, acareer-broadening assignment with Log Com¬ mand; Wayne CRENWELGE from Little Rock to APO NY; Norm NUCKOLLS to Delta Airlines in Dallas; Shawn SLOAN to Delta Airlines in Dallas; Greg INTOCCIA to Scott AFB and the AFCC JAG as alegal officer in telecommunications and computer law; Frank CANTRELL to Pomfret, MD flying for USAir out of Wash DC; Bart WOHL to AFIT at WPAFB, OH; and Bruce MAHAFFEY is in Belleville, IL.

The reunion was abig success but our class fund is the same color as our class color. We have some limited-edition class merchandise available that was not purchased at the reunion. Your purchases will help get our class fund in better shape and help clear out Tim Miner’s garage. So we have this SPECIAL OFFER:

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The picture is from the reunion. It’s of some of “the boys in the band” from Barnstormin’ 23. From left are smiles from Mike SKOLAUT, Pizza Hut mogul in Kansas; Lon LOWE, Alaska Airlines in Seattle;

The three amigos in Berlin: Don, Steve and Sam. TURN, TURN, TURN: The change-of-address cards were alittle more informative this time around. Mike CRANE is an instructor nav at

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THANKS FOR YOUR SUPPORT

Mike Donatelli

1149 South Stone Ave. La Grange, IL 60525

Percent members: 31

The dark ages of winter are here, especially in Chicago. This is my ninth or tenth article and still can’t get my lies about some of the boys right. As 1sit here trying to figure out the gossip my thoughts turn towards why you should join the Air National Guard. ..but Iknow if my views were presented this would never be published.

Iranch hand in Greeley, CO). ..Kent GILLIAND, Bruce HOLBROOK, Marty SCHMIDT, Kevin SCHMIDT, Gary ROWER, Chas RUTH, Jon FAGOT, Dano MARTIN, Dave GILDAY, Bruce AHLSTROM, Kevin MORGAN, Lyn BIANCO, Steve HALVORSEN, Burt COONS, Dave FALLON, Dave GUERTIN, John HAMMER, Hugh HUTCHINSON, Rex KEESE, Roger KENT (based in ORD with yours truly. ..Roger’s wife won $5,000 on The Wheel of Fortune. ..Roger won adate with Pat Sajak), Sam KINARD, Bob KLUTZ, Jim NELSON, Tony PARADOWSKI, Bob PARSONS, Jim POOL, Gordy ROSS, Steve STUBBS, Garth ANDERSON, Dale CARLEY, Phil ELLIOT, Dave LONCZAK, Ken McKAY, Kurt SCHOLAR, and Scott SPEARS. .. Now, Iwas reluctant to list wives names, kids, and what all these DELTA BUDS are flying or domiciled. ..1 would never get it right. ..in fact some are probably wrong now.

Investment news flash. ..according to Jim REGAN (my broker) bellies are the key commodity. Buy those pork bellies Regan.

Scott JENSEN returns from Korea with an Olympic gold for Korean student throwing in downtown Seoul. ..Scotty will be back in the cockpit of the A-10 with the WIANG.

Oops, other DELTA cohorts that Ifailed to mention are Ralph TRAPAGA, Jim WHITE, and Bruce Clip ROACH. ..it helps to have the senior Delta VP of operations as azoomie.

Walt DAVIS is terrorizing the Asian Skies in his viper, Mark CUTKOMP, when he’s not laying over with AA in the Caribbean, is penetrating Massachusetts airspace with the MAANG. Fred HARDEN is pulling all-nighters with FedEx. Mike ASHLEY is working CAS re¬ quirements in his AT-37 at Shaw. Bob SWAIN is living the quality of life we all strive for in North Carolina and working for Piedmont. Russ ROSEBUSH is calling the play in the F-15 at Langley. Tim FYDA is do¬ ing what I’ve always thought of doing. ..Isn’t it easier driving atruck?

Remember the reunion!! We’ll see you there. ..My time has come to turn my Wordstar over to someone else.

The 10-year reunion for the Class of 1979 will be 21-24 Sept 89. The headquarters will be the new Marriott Hotel. Events for our grads include an all-class party, memorial service, squadron parties, tailgate and foot¬ ball game against UTEP, and the Jabara Banquet and ball. Our reunion committee will send out aletter in February with more info and news. Please respond. If you want to help on the committee or just find out more, call Randy Helms, ’79 reunion chairman, at AV 259-4539 or 719-472-4539.

Phil Prosseda

2601 Zephyr Drive

Colorado Springs, CO 80920

Home: (719) 548-1145

AV: 259-3080

Percent members: 37

By the time this letter reaches you, the holidays will be long passed and those of us stationed at USAFA will be enduring the dark ages and the windy months. Ihope this letter finds some of you basking on white san¬ dy beaches and enjoying atall cold beer.

Mike, Julie and Michael Donatelli visit with Mr. Claus.

Unfortunately, my article is out of sync with my travels. January is the time I’ll be at Nellis for atactics conference. ..then I’ll get the real poop. Bud VAZQUEZ writes afantastic article. ..thanks for the work Bud. Too bad about those giants! To set the record straight. ..1 did alittle research on the FALCON BUDS who switched to DELTA BUDS. ..I’m sure afew of these guys will find away to get to the reunion Sept 21-24.

Fred LANKFORD, Fred JACOBSEN, Dan BOYLEN (roommates with Jeff ASHBY and his sister), Steve BARNES, Dale REED (still awild man after all these years. 1had the ride of my lifetime with Dale when 1was on the jump seat on the 727 into Chicago). ..Mike HAYES (soon to be a

CLASS OF 1979 10-YEAR REUNION

HOMECOMING 1989

USAFA vs Texas-El Paso

Sept. 21-24, 1989

There was popular demand to publish the names of our classmates who made major below the zone. For those of you who didn’t receive the Sum¬ mer ’88 issue, here goes. Janet BLOOM (LIBBY), William COUTTS, Battle JACKSON, Stanley KRESGE, Christopher MILLER, William MILLER, Douglas OWENS, Robert SAXER, Paul SELVA, Carl SKIN¬ NER, Glenn TAYLOR, Richard TURNER, and John WARD.

Face to Face. Tom and Ann SLOAN made the trek back to USAFA to see Air Force trounce Navy. Tom reports that Jerry IBARA is now mar¬ ried (Jerry, update the Register!) and works for Mobile Oil in Washington DC. George STACKMAN, Duane DAVIS, Mike NAYE, and Chris GOLOB are flying for U.S. Air. Dave STEINBECK, Ken BASSETT, and Dave ZEIBART are with Federal Express. Tom also ran into Randy and Pam FRIZZELL at the St. Louis Zoo. Randy escaped from Altus AFB and is now at Headquarters MAC. In return for all the good info Tom provided, Ipromised him Iwould print the following picture. It is entitled “Three Men and Three Babies” and it features, from left, Doug and Katie HARRINGTON, yours truly and Bethany PROSSEDA, and Tom and Chad SLOAN.

Iran into Mike OPATOWSKY in the USAFA Hospital emergency room. Mike turned in his Minute Man 111 for astethoscope and is now a full-fledged M.D. Mike did an excellent job treating my daughter’s 104-degree fever. After serving atour in missile ops at Whiteman AFB, SAC relented and released Mike to pursue the medical profession. Mike attended Wake Forest Medical School and did his surgical residency at Keesler AFB. He is now practicing emergency medicine at the USAFA

“Three men and three babies. ”

Hospital. Mike said there are still some of our classmates living and thriv¬ ing in the missile world. J.O. MILLER was at Whiteman with Mike. J.O. earned amaster’s at AFIT and is now at Headquarters SAC. Ed SCHMIDT was in the 1st Strategic Aeronautical Division and is now the exec for Lt. Gen. Aldridge. Mike also said that Ken RADOSEVICH is flying F-4Es at George AFB and he is starting to hear wedding bells. Bill PETERSON is asecurity police squadron commander. Bill loves busting the bad guys and is due for atour in Korea this spring.

The mail bag. Ireceived alot of mail from the tactical community this time around. It seems like the airlines were over-represented in the last issue. Matt NEUENSWANDER checked in from the Clark BOQ to tell me he is TDY (from Korea) for Cope Thunder. Matt provided the follow¬ ing updates. Chuck HOAG and Rich GOODWIN are both flying F-16s out of Misawa. Chuck MILLER is at Kadena fl ying the KC-135 and Neil CATONE is also at Kadena flying ego jets. Jim WILLIAMS is at Clark in C-130S and Doug DICKINSON is flying F-4s. Matt said that Dave and STEINFIELD and he are in the same A-10 squadron at Osan. Dave and his wife Vesta are on atwo-year accompanied tour.

Dave FRANCIS wrote from Seymour Johnson AFB where he. Bob MASEK, John CROGAN, Jim SKOTNICKl, and Justin CHRETIEN are flying F-4s. By the time this is published, Justin and Pamela should be ex¬ periencing the joy of wet diapers and midnight feedings. If they are lucky Bob WILSON will perform the delivery. Dave FRANCIS saw Mark GRAPER and Kelly LEGGETTE in Washington D.C. Mark and Kelly are finishing up ASTRA tours. It seems that apersonal introduction to Fawn Hall is included in an ASTRA assignment. Now 1know why everyone wants to go to the Pentagon. Dave Francis has also been busy attending the weddings of our holdout classmates. Lou BORELLl mar¬ ried his high school sweetheart and is flying 727s for Pan Am. Lou plans to check out in the A-7 and enjoy the best of both worlds. Mike LEVITT married ayoung lady from Minot, ND, who he met while flying F-15s there. He and his wife now live in Phoenix, AZ and Mike is teaching F-15 RTU at Luke. Dave also ran into two of our classmates who went Navy after graduation. Mike SAMPLE is “Hunting the Red October” aboard the nuclear attack sub Sun fi sh, and Dean WORTHINGSTUN fl ew down from Patuxent River NAS, where he is aGIB in F-14s. Dave’s fi nal report was on Tom SANDERS and Dean EISBERG. Tim is acivilian, living in Tampa, FL and married Pam McGlNTY (’81) on October 1st. Dean got out of the Air Force in the spring of ’88 and is now in some remote village in Alaska flying helicopters for the Army National Guard.

Chris and Peggy CUELLAR (WALKER) dropped me aChristmas let¬ ter to update their whereabouts. Chris and Peggy’s second son, Jason Michael, was born at Seymour Johnson AFB in April of last year. Since then, Chris has been remote to Korea in F-4s. Peggy departed the active Air Force in August, packed up the house and the boys in aU-haul, and drove to Chicago, IL. Peggy will live with mom Walker while Chris is gallivanting around Korea. Chris and Peggy plan to move to Georgetown, TX in February. Chris will become aliaison officer with the Army and Peggy has been accepted for an MBA at the University of Texas.

Airline updates. Daryll KEELING wrote from Minnesota to say that he hung up his F-16 G-suit and is now asecond officer with Northwest Air. Like most of us, Daryll has been procreating and has two lovely children, one son who is six years old and aone and one half year old daughter. Daryll sends the following information. Kelly LUTZ was an F-15 ego driver at Luke and is now a727 second of fi cer with Northwest, Rich HARWOOD was in RF-4s and is a727 second of fi cer with Delta in Cin¬ cinnati, OH. Paul FRAPPIER was in F-16s at Misawa and is now looking

for an airline job. Timo HARTIGAN moved out of the F-4 into F-16s and is back in Osan, Korea. Ted OSOWSKl is also in F-16s in Osan and has three children. Scot GERMAN married last year and is now on an ex¬ change tour with Belgium flying the F-16.

Larry WOLF sent another letter to see if Icould recommend agood plumber to move the outdoor fixtures in his 1855 house indoors. In be¬ tween working on his fixer-upper and flying for Delta, Larry keeps tabs on ’80 grads working for Delta. Larry counts 34 of our classmates striving to excel for Delta. Those not mentioned previously are: John SCHOLTZ, Bill LENHARDT, Jim BALAZS, Ross CANNON, Jim PUTNAM, Steve SMITH, Frank SAXON, Harry LALUSIS, Terry PACZOLT (Pacz, drop me aline!), Julie APFEL (RICHARDS), Joe HEDRICK, Pete WILSON, Dave DUNCAN, Curt LANZEL, John KOLKEBECK, George FOX, Jim COLABUFO, Frank BUNTING, Jim KENNEDY, Pat YOUNGS, Mike PAMPUSH, Mickey PETAK, Brad BAUER, Eric JANSSEN, and Tad GRISHAM. Larry also ran into Bubba HAILS in the Atlanta airport. Bubba was wearing anice suit and his business card said, “Robert E. Hails, Program Manager.” Bubba works for Elec¬ tromagnetic Sciences, Inc. Larry thinks it is in the fortune 50000000. Anyway, Bubba wants all the grads to call him. Ask for Mr. Hails, not Bubba.

In closing, Don MYERS wrote to confirm that he is indeed an ensign in the Coast Guard. He was even aDG in his pilot training class. I’m reprint¬ ing most of his letter verbatim.

“I went through Little Rock C-130 transition in May/June —it was like aYokota/Clark homecoming. Kathy and 1saw most of the old gang. Not too many ’80 grads though, Iguess most have flown the coop.

“As you can tell from the return address, we’re in North Carolina. I’ll be stationed at the Coast Guard Air Station in Elizabeth City for three or four years flying the Herk (HC-130H). It’s nothing like the AF Herkessheepskin seats, adjustable with lumbar support; new/nice avionics. The downside is that there are too many pilots (especially copilots). We average somewhere around the mid-twenties for monthly fl ight time. The rest of the time we try to make it look like we’re doing an outstanding job in our “collateral” (additional) duties.

“I’ve been staying in touch with afew folks. Tim and Melissa JOHNSON are at MAC. He’s with the IG and about to move to plans. His son, Sean, is in the walking mode and Melissa is also busy showing one of their great danes across the country. Cary and Susan DAVIDSON (and company) are at Altus. He seems to be one of the few heavy drivers who stayed in and even volunteered to go to Oklahoma. Scott CARROTHERS got out of the AF at Guam, married adoctor, and is currently assistant manager of acommercial submarine tourist company —what a life! Finally, Ihad astrange non-meeting with Rick SCHUFF. Ineeded some worm pills for my dog. Since we don’t have amilitary vet (which saves big bucks), Icalled the Langley vet office. Iwanted them to leave the stuff at Base Ops for me to pick-up on my pilot trainer. No dice; they needed cash before the delivery. So, Icalled the F-15 flying squadron there and asked for any ’80 grads. Rick came to my rescue, bought the pills, left them at Base Ops, and picked-up my check the next day. Mis¬ sion accomplished.”

Finally, I’m printing apicture of Byron and Laura WINN vacationing on Prince Edward Island. I’m doing this partly because Ilike the picture and mostly because it is the only picture I’ve received without my daughter in it. Keep those cards, letters, phone calls, and pictures coming!

Tony Lorusso

103 Ivy Home Road Hampton, VA 23669

Home: (804) 727-0849

Percent members: 32

Greetings. Thanks to afew Christmas cards and letters from acouple of wives, 1have plenty to report. First, Iwant to thank Vicki, wife of Jim VILLERS, and Annette, wife of Scott DINAPOLI, for sending some class news. 1appreciate spouses who take time to write. If you don’t have the time or perhaps the hand for writing, it’s okay for your spouse to do so. 1can always use the input.

In other news, 1received ahandful of change-of-address cards, but don’t have alot of details on the moves. Brian YOUNG is now atest pilot at Edwards; Mike ZEPF is flying KC-lOs at Barksdale; Charlie RAPP is flying for Delta out of Abilene, TX; Bill KASS is at Eglin; Dick TUBB is afamily practice physician at RAF Alconbury; Gerardo CAMPBELL is at Sembach; Gary KONIGSMARK is at Wright-Patterson; Terry RAYN is in Great Falls, MT; Cliff PERRENOD is at Torrance, CA; and Dave SMITH is at Wheeling, WV. Rudy CASTILLO separated from the Air Force last summer and is now flying for Delta out of New Orleans. Mike DOWNS and Janet DOWNS (WILEY) are in Aliquippa, PA, but I’m not aware of any Air Force facilities there. Perhaps they’re civilians now.

1had the pleasure of spending time with Cindy HAMM (FARIES) dur¬ ing her recent TDY to Langley. 1used to think of Cindy as amild and quiet woman. Well, Ihave adifferent opinion now. Isaw her in action trying to win TAC’s support of aproject she’s heading at Nellis. She was quite articulate, forceful, and persuasive. Joan Collins could take lessons from Cindy. Cindy, sorry Ididn’t publish the picture we took at my house, but the photo was too dark.

Ialso received aletter from Jim REED who is out of the Air Force and living in Riverside, CA. He’s doing his internship as an architect and is also doing Reserve duty with the Prime Beef team at March AFB. Jim ex¬ tends an invitation to anyone in the LA-Riverside area to look him up. Jim also reported that Bob SCHMIDT is now at Zweibrucken flying RF-4s. Annette DINAPOLI informed me that after seven years of flying helos, Scott decided to switch to fixed-wing. Scott is now in UPT at Vance and should graduate in July.

Well, that’s all the good news for now. 1hate to end this article on a sour not, but Imust. It saddens me to report that Glenn TROSTER recently perished in an F-111 accident at Cannon. Glenn will always be remembered in our thoughts and prayers. ’81, Second to None!

Jim, Vicki and Skyler Villers

It seems like ’81ers are defying all statistics concerning adeclining bir¬ thrate in the U.S. Robin and Sherri GAETA are singlehandedly trying to populate the world. They’re expecting their fourth child. Robin is out of the Air Force now and is looking for an airline job. Jim and Vicki VILLERS gave birth to their first child, Skyler Travis, in September. Just guessing, but 1think someone from that family comes from Texas. Jim is flying the Stealth fighter at Nellis. Bob BLEDSOE and Randy PETER¬ SON are also flying the Air Force’s newest fighter. David and Paulette HUFF gave birth to their first, Joshua, in April. David is acivilian now and works for General Dynamics in Ft Worth on the F-16 program. Dave and Cindy McSWAlN, stationed at McConnell AFB, are proud parents of anew daughter, Brittany Ann. By the time this article hits the streets, Bernie and Joyce SCHWARTZE should also be new parents. Bernie is at Upper Heyford fl ying F-11 Is.

Jim Ratti

5448 Flicker Way

Dayton, OH 45424

Home: (513) 233-3552

AV: 787-7755

Percent Members: 32

Hello once again! By the time you read this, spring will be in the air (unless you call Minot home). But, as 1write, Christmas is just around the proverbial corner. Unfortunately, all the cards Iwill get from you will ar¬ rive too late for inclusion. Not to worry -we’ll go with what we’ve got! 1got aquick note from Marianne YOUNG (CAFIERO) saying that she and Brian (’81) have relocated. Brian was selected for Test Pilot School and reported there in June last year. Marianne finished her AFIT master’s in computer science at the U. of Lowell (Massachusetts) around Christmas. She then PCSed to an AFOTEC job at Edwards. They have two children, Nathaniel (4) and Rachel (2), and are happy to be together again in California.

David, Paulette and Joshua Huff

In the marriage department, 1heard of only two this time around. Lee CARSON married an AF nurse named Tina. Lee is at Nellis flying A-7s. Jeff and Micque CARNES were recently married in aceremony at the Academy. Jeff flies EC-135s at Grand Forks. 1know some of you are waiting to see my name on the marriage list. Well, you’ll be waiting for a long time. There is no Mrs. Lorusso in the works, and Ilike it that way.

The Eades Gang. ..

Bill EADES sent this picture of his family. He, his wife Bev, and daughters Rebekah, Kristine and Kimberly are stationed at McConnell where Bill is aB-IB IDSO (Instructor Defensive Systems Of fi cer). They’ve been doing nothing but moving since ’82, what with three opera¬ tional PCSs (Ellsworth, Barksdale &McConnell) and three major TDYs (Mather, Castle &Dyess). Bill says the youngsters have been ablessing and aconstant source of entertainment for them, always putting on some sort of an act. The whole family is very active with the base chapel. Both he and Bev teach children’s church, and the entire clan is active in the bible club as “clubbers” or “leaders,” as appropriate. Bill mentioned some other Redtags at McConnell. Cathy CLOTHIER (COLEBROOK) is a KC-135 IP, and her husband Brian is there as an ACE T-38 IP. Julie KECK (ROSBURG) is aKC-135 instructor nav, and her husband Keith (’81) is aB-IB OSO (Offensive Systems Of fi cer). Bill said he had aphone call from Mike EAYRS awhile back. Mike works in the command post at Grand Forks and is working on ajob at the Eighth Air Force command post. Bill said he ran into Ron “Rick” RICCI, aclassmate the ’82 preppies will recall. Rick was instructing B-1 academics at Dyess when Bill was there. Before he signed off. Bill felt compelled to ask WHATEVER

HAPPENED TO Mike GRAHAM, Paul FRANZ, and Bob E. LEE. My new Register says Paul Is an IP at Sheppard, but the info on the other two is too old. What about it, guys?

My last letter this time is from Richard and Liz RUIZ (DURHAM). Richard and Liz were stationed together at Patrick as comm of fi cers after graduation. They were married in Oct of ’83 and just had ason. His name is Jonathan Richard and he was born in the USAFa hospital on 25 Oct 88. Liz and Richard have been in the Springs about three years now. Liz is chief of maintenance for the 1879th Comm Squadron at Falcon AFS and Richard is asenior systems controller at Cheyenne Mountain. Liz sends word that Mary K. DAUENHAUER (McCONNON) is now afull-time mom, living in the springs.

Speaking of which, Sandy KEETER (MALONEY) wrote aone-liner on the bottom of her change-of-address card saying she loves being afull¬ time mom too. Seems to be alot of that going around. ..Steve BRAGADO’s card indicates amove from aremote in Alaska (Clear AFS) to Falcon AFS. He says 13 months at Clear is atouch too long. I’d be in¬ clined to agree, but I’m not sure Iremember the winters in C-Springs be¬ ing any shorter! Tim COLLINS finished up his ASTRA tour and is con¬ verting to F-16s. He should arrive at Moody sometime in the spring, after spending “winter with the snowbirds” undergoing RTU at Luke. Tim and his wife have two children and athird on the way, due in April. Jonathan is 4and Maree is 18 months. Change-of-address cards also hint that John TURACK and Antoine GARTON have both moved here to Wright-Pat, but 1have yet to hear from either of them so 1can’t tell you what they’re up to.

1got aphone call and aChristmas card from Steve VOGT. Steve had just returned from amonth at Ramstein as part of Crested Cap. They flew their Falcon Jets over there, 8.0 hours on the way out but 11.4 hours on the way back. Thus, Steve has beaten my personal best of 10.5, but at least 1could get up and use the can. ..Steve says Ramstein is like “Moody appreciation” because of all the restrictions over there. As you can im¬ agine, the locals are very sensitive to military air traffic. Steve spent a week in Amsterdam, calling it a“den of iniquity.” Says space is really at a premium there -he saw ahouse that was three feet wide! As for his and Gina’s winsome young daughter, she stands but isn’t walking yet. THAT will change before you read this, I’ll betcha. Finally, Steve has agreed not to take the pilot bonus and plans on “pushing multiple throttles” before the year is out.

Ellen and Iare fine, looking forward to atrip to my mother’s place over Christmas. That is, unless TDYs interfere. I’ve been on the road agood bit lately, and it won’t let up too soon. I’m off to Albuquerque (my second home) this week. Hawaii after New Years, then England after that. SOS will probably happen in March. But hey, what’s life without achallenge? Until next time. Be Safe! RATMAN

Ray and Julie Blust

10304 Bilbrook Place

Austin, TX 78748

Home: (512) 282-8639

AV: 685-2707

Percent members: 31

’Tis ajoy to again write our class letter. This letter comes from the bowels of SOS as awhole slew of us ’83ers are in the post-evaluation phase just waiting for our release. For you all who have yet to attend, I’ll give you my opinion of SOS: it’s not that bad; actually it’s agreat time to get back in shape, play alot of golf and see some old friends, however you

do have to study for the quizzes, but you don’t have to stay awake in the blue bedroom. Enough SOS propaganda. Julie and Iare doing okay in Austin. It’s quite the improvement from ole Del Rio. Now remember, if your travels take you through Austin, please stop or give us acall, we’ve got plenty of room!

Now for the SOS news. This is apic of most of the ’83ers who accepted the challenge. The remainder of the info is mostly second, third or fourth hand, so if it’s inaccurate or downright wrong, please write to your local IG. Bob STAMBAUGH (SOS DG) is currently an aircraft engineer at Wright-Pat. Previously Bob was working on an AFIT-sponsored master’s at Stanford. Bob’s been married for almost three years to apretty gal, Virginia, who is anxiously awaiting Bob’s return. Bob’s journal included Tom and Jody WEBSTER who recently moved from Nellis to Germany. Tom was flying F-16s but is now an ALO (Air Liaison Officer). Andy SALISBURY is still at Wright-Pat. He’s been there since graduation — homesteading Andy? Andy is working on amaster’s through AFIT and a move to Holloman is pending. Andy and his wife Amy recently had their fi rst son in March. Mike and Gisela SHANAHAN are at Norton where Mike is flying ’141s. They have two sons. Drop me aline Mike! Bob also said three ’83ers have left the AF from Wright-Pat: Barry SMITH, Andy VONCANON and Torsten RHODE. Devin CATE recently graduated from flight test engineer school and will end up at Nellis. Devin, we need a new Recce. Could you work on that for me, thanks. Bob, thanks for the info and good luck.

Ialso trapped Dave REMENDOWSKI and he pulled out his issued black MAC book and began jotting down some of the folks lost in USAFE. Dave is currently apart-time ’130 nav but keeps busy as an Air Logistics Center officer at Rhein Main in Germany. Here are some names Dave plucked out of his book. Rick and Sonja RAGALLER are at Kirtland where Rick is flying H-3 helicopters. They have one boy (Nicholas), one dog (Hershey) and one baby in the oven due in early January. Now I’ve got some bad news. Carl “The Brow” McDANlEL is no longer the brow. Sounds like peer and wife pressure got to him. Carl and Cindye are stationed at Rhein Main where he flies the ’130. Kenny VEAL is out of the AF. He is currently working in the Foreign Service. Colby and Pamela ABBOTT are at Mildenhall where Colby is an air traf¬ fi c controller. Don “The Polish Cannon” DOMKOWSKI is aComm-MX of fi cer at Preum AS, Germany. Karen (LAMPI) HENNEBERRY (Steve, ’81) are at Rhein Main also, where Karen is in the Comm shop. Chris Hadinger (left in ’80) is aMarine bomb-nav in EA-6s at Cherry Point.

John JERAKIS is flying either F-4s or F-16s at Spang. Bob and Della LYHNE are at Fort Rucker. Bob is an UH-60 IP. Mark PRICE is an air¬ craft MX officer at Nellis. Bill Thaden, who left in ’81, is now apriest in Cleveland, OH. Geoff WELLS is flying ’130s at Little Rock. R.K. and Lisa SMITH are expecting their first child soon. R.K. is flying ’130s at Rhein Main also. Matt TAYLOR is fl ying C-5s at Dover, Tony McDANlEL is flying ’141s at McChord and Francis CHUN is teaching physics at the academy. Stu KOWALL recently fi nished UPT at Langhlin. Thanks for all the good poop Dave.

Before Idive into all the ’83-SOS news Ihave to update you all on the last Del Rio connection. Andy and Jaime LAGRONE recently had anine-

In front from left are John Dees, Chuck Dorsey, John Hestennan, Norm Brozenick, Margaret (Waszkiewicz) Sampson, and Suzie (Smith) Monzingo. Second row: J.D. Harris, Steve Johnson, Mike Oliver, Mike Monzingo, and Ted Lewis. Third row: Dan Brunskoie, Jocque Heston Polo, Mark Reinecke, Brian McIntosh, Dave Remendowski, and Dan McMillan. Fourth row: Bob Starnbaugh, Jaime (Treece) Smyser, Rick Nazarlo, Harry Conley, and Doug Klimek. Fifth row: Jim Schueren, Jeff Stanfield, Steve Huskins, Billy Horn and John Davis.

pound baby boy in December. Andy just finished up six months as a flight commander and will soon be relaxing in the beautiful SOS sun¬ shine. By the time this mag comes out, Andy will already have graduated (passive voice). From there Andy and Jaime are headed for Holloman and finally to F-16 RTU.

Now for the rest of the ’83ers here at SOS. Iplayed alot of golf with Dan BRUNSKOLE who came from Barksadle where he’s aKC-10 air¬ craft commander. Dan started out in the KC-135 but would like to spend the rest of the time in the left seat of the KC-10. John HESTERMAN (SOS DG) was also here. It’s always nice to see John. He’s so diplomatic, he’ll be chief of staff someday. John was enroute from Spang to Kunson, Korea, where he’s flying the electric jet —F-16. Mike and Suzie (SMITH) MONZINGO were also here. Mike was an F-4 WSO but is now an F-111 WSO at Lakenheath, while Suzie is afinance officer. They recently had a baby girl in July. Good luck you all. Mark REINECKE, my old mech bud, came in from the zoo. Mark is aT-41 IP while his wife, Yvonne, is a soaring IP. They have three kids, one of each. Actually they have one boy and one girl. Rich LUND, ’83 and ahalf, also took time off from the academy T-41. Jaime (TREECE) SMYSER came to SOS from McCon¬ nell where she’s chief of Ops in the Comm Sq while her husband, Craig, is aB-1 pilot. They recently had ababy boy, Christopher, in July.

Jeff STANFIELD took time off from his tough job as aB-727 pilot at Andrews. If you all ever see a727 that doesn’t quite look like amilitary jet or an airliner, then it’s aB-727 from Andrews. Jeffs job is to fly large delegations around the world. Hurt me! Billy HORN (SOS DG) finally made it out of ATC and has left Randolph for good. Bill couldn’t hang around for graduation because his Holloman class date was the same as our SOS grad date. Bill is headed to Holloman then to F-16 RTU at MacDill. Margaret (WASZKIEWICZ) SAMPSON came in from Edwards but really didn’t say what she was doing. Mags had our #1 female aerobics time here at SOS. She ran her mile and ahalf in nine minutes. Good job Mags. Margaret also gave me some poop on some other grads. Wynne BOTTS recently moved from Patrick to Wright-Pat. Jim and Susan POST are at Spang where Jim is flying the F-16. Susan recently had a baby girl. Good luck you all. Drop me aline, Jim. Dave BUCKENMYER just left Edwards for AFIT at Arizona State. Rita BURR is amedical director at Travis. Our infamous Bebe (CRONIN) O’NEIL is flying ’141s at Norton while her husband is flying at George. Steve KNOBLOCK is still flying ’135s at Beale. Thanks for poop, Mags.

Rich NAZARIO finally departed ’135s at Ellsworth for the not-so-safe confines of atweet (T-37) to Vance. Mike BRYANT is currently an Intel of fi cer at Barksdale. Jack POLO left Clarke in the PI and is headed for Little Rock as an IP. Norm BROZENICK (SOS DG) came to SOS from Dyess. He’s awing tactics IP in ’130s. John “JD” HARRIS is an HC-130 pilot. John and Karen are stationed at RAF Woodbridge, UK. Phil AUSTIN is anew B-1 pilot at McConnell. Phil and his wife Lisa recently had adaughter, Rachel. Charlie and Holly ROSS are at Woodbridge also where Charlie flies the ’130. Larry PETERS is flying A-lOs at Bentwaters, Chris BRANTLEY recently graduated from RF-4 RTU and is currently stationed at Shaw. Ted and Marcie LEWIS are assigned to TAC logistics at Langley after finishing his master’s at AFIT. John and Cindy DEES are both C-5 pilots stationed at Dover. John and Cindy were married in Jan ’88 and have been at Dover since Oct ’87. Cindy escorts Soviet diplomatic flights and is very interesting to talk to, more so than John. HA HA! John said if you want to see something crazy come to Dover to see aC-5 do special ops. Chuck DORSEY (SOS DG) was also here but Inever talked to him so I’m not sure what he’s doing. Harry CONLEY (SOS DG) came in from the Pentagon and was just glad to be around some captains again. We did have acouple of our classmates make names for themselves. John DEES received the golden microphone award for asking the most questions in the blue bedroom. Mike OLIVER grabbed the microphone during alecture and asked agirl for adate. Pretty smooth there Mike.

This is part two of my newsletter. We have graduated from SOS and all have hopefully made it safely home. Ireceived afew cards and letters from some old faithfuls who seem to be doing very well. However, 1got a phone call from fellow preppie Jerry VARNER who is still zl Beale flying KC-135QS. Jerry gave me an update on John GIRALDI who was hit by a car this past fall. John has since come out of his coma and seems to be progressing fairly well. He is still in awheelchair because one of his legs was busted up pretty good, but the future looks good. John needs all our support and motivation. Take afew minutes and send him acard, tape or letter to 3Phoenix Drive, Mendham, NJ 07945. In case you’re in the area, John is at the East Orange VA Hospital in East Orange, NJ. Good luck John, we’re all praying for you.

Ireceived anice card and letter from an old Starship 19 buddy, Jon DURESKY. Jon sent apicture of the ever expanding family. Pictured in front of what looks like family housing are Jon, Jeffrey, Kendal and Brenda —CINC house. Jon fi nished SOS last Feb as aDG. The

The Dureskys

Duresky’s have finally worn out their welcome at Pope and have received orders to Little Rock where Jon will be the best IP in MAC. Right Jon? Jon also mentioned that Frank CURRAY is at Pope flying ’130s and mar¬ ried awonderful girl named Candace. Thanks for the letter you all and good luck at LR.

Ialso got aletter and card from A1 (Sheefus) and Cathy GAILEY from the most northern point on the CONUS -Loring, Maine. Al’s been at Loring and flying the ’135 since UPT graduation. They’ve maintained their sanity by taking advantage of Cathy’s job as atravel agent. Numerous trips and cruises to areas below the northern ice cap have made their stay much more pleasant. Idon’t feel so sorry for you guys anymore. Thanks for the info A1 and next time send apic!

The Hinkles

Another surprising letter came from my old UPT table mate, Jeff HINKLE. The last Iknew of Jeff was that he was headed for an OV-10 to Wheeler AFB in Hawaii. While in Hawaii he met his wife, Heidi, and there they had two children, Corey VA, and Meghan 3. Jeff is now at Luke finishing up F-16C upgrade and is not looking forward to his remote to Osan, Korea. Joining Jeff at Luke were Kelly TABOR, F-16 to Kunsan in March, and Burt BARTLEY who has since departed Luke for the sun and fun of Homestead. Jeff also mentioned that Tracy COL¬ BURN and his wife, Jill, are at Andrews in the First Helicopter Sq. Sam GEDDIE and Dave SPECHT have hung up their G-suits for Mickey Mouse ears. They are both flying the T-37 at Willie. Thanks for the letter and the info Jeff, and good luck in the electric jet.

Ialso received anice letter and card from the former Tracy SMITH. Tracy married Tom Urman on 29 Oct. This is apicture on their wedding day. This doesn’t look like the Tracy 1knew at the academy. Tracy is still stationed at Ft Ritchie, MD and will be there for acouple more years. Tracy’s only complaint is being at an Army post really places her out of the mainstream of the AF. She does, however, talk to Ken KESKEL who is stationed at the Pentagon. Thanks for the letter Tracy and we wish you and Tom the best of luck.

Just when 1thought Ihad all the info 1needed for agood letter 1get a phone call from an old Laughlinite, Dave “Oppie” LEIBBRAND. Dave just dropped into Bergstrom on alittle cross country. He is currently fly-

Tracy and Tom Smith

ing an F-IH at Cannon, NM. Hopefully Dave and Ron GRAVES won’t get too wasted and make it over this way tonite. By the way, if you all haven’t heard, Ron is dating the prettiest newscaster in the state of Texas. If you’re ever in Austin watch the ten o’clock news. I’m not sure what channel. Dave also mentioned that the Tom KING family is also at Can¬ non where Tom is fl ying the ’111.

Well Ithink that about does it for me and this letter. Julie and 1would like to wish you all aHappy New Year and may this year be the best yet. But before Isign off I’d like to thank Leslee (FORSBERG) WASHER, who on relatively short notice has taken Kevin CARRENO’s place as our fall scriber. Leslee’s going to keep us updated on the latest happenings at the prep school and the academy. Again thanks for all the cards, letters and especially the photos. Until next time, ’83 -Best To Be.

Mike Goldfein

126 Garden Crest Circle

Del Rio, TX 78840

Home: (512) 774-3959

AV: 732-5698

Percent members: 28

Sorry about missing the deadline for the last article. Iwas sitting in Montgomery, AL at SOS enjoying the sunshine and didn’t get any mail, so I’ve got some catching up to do. Thanks to everyone who wrote recent¬ ly to make the deadline. Keep it up.

Received aChristmas letter and photo from Chris and Suzi ERICKSON. They are still at Wright-Pat where Chris is working integra¬ tion for the Inertial Navigation Unit in the Avionics System Program Of¬ fice. He has finished all required course work on his master’s and is now searching for time and motivation to complete his thesis. They are plan-

ning atwo-week vacation to Hawaii come February. Must be rough. They mentioned acouple of recent marriages from the class —Al &Bev EW¬ ING and Jeff &Brenda FOLLANSBEE. Congratulations to the newlyweds.

Kristen DOTTERWAY writes from Ankara AS, Turkey where she’s been stationed for 20 months now. She says the location is the best-keptsecret around. As the chief of Communications-Computer Systems Operations, this is her second overseas assignment. Her first tour was at Ramstein and now she’s waiting to leave Turkey for Mount Pateras, Greece, just 45 miles outside of Athens. Since being in Europe, she has managed to keep in touch with afew classmates. Paul CIESCO has just completed aremote at Kunsan. He and his wife, Julie, and their two children will be moving to Monterey, CA where he will be going to the Naval Post Graduate School to get his master’s. Sam WERCINSKI is an intel officer residing in Phoenix where he recently bought ahouse in Scottsdale. He was accepted at the American Graduate School of Interna¬ tional Management and will begin fall ’89 with his master’s program in in¬ ternational business. Chris BOSAU is stationed at Eglin. She recently completed her master’s in management and still took time out to enjoy the Florida sunshine. And lastly, Brian (Basic) BASIK tied the knot in Oc¬ tober ’88 to agal named Heidi.

Juan and Nina AMARAL dropped aline from Huber Heights, OH. Juan has been stationed for three years at L.A. AFB in El Segundo, CA, where he often ran into the likes of Melody BELL and Fred VALEN¬ TINE. In Jan ’88, Juan and his boss, Maj Doug STEWART (’76) audi¬ tioned for the gameshow “Scrabble.” They dared each other to try out and needless to say, they both got on, Juan ended up winning $4,000 and Maj Stewart won over $14,000. They have been at AFIT since May where Juan is working towards his master’s in cost analysis. Ed and Annie LORENZINI and their son, Anthony, are also at AFIT in the engineering management program. While in southern Cal, some ’84 grads stopped to visit: Daryl SMITH (Fairchild AFB), Brian and Angela STILSON (Hickam AFB), Andy and Jackie KLEIN and their daughter, Jessica (Vance AFB), Clay, Tricia, Brandon, and Lindsey Rae WISNIEWSKI (Kadena AFB), and Jim and Carol KALIAMOS (Reese AFB).

Rick and Sherry PUES sent ashort note from Minot. Rick is aT-38 flight examiner and serving as the commander of the Accelerated Copilot Enhancement (ACE) detachment. He was just recently (Sep ’88) married to anative North Dakotan. Here’s ashot taken at the wedding reception.

Rick and Sherry Pues

Tom VANKLEEF and his wife, Janet, have announced the birth of their first child, 7lbs. 3oz., Christopher Sean. Tom just finished an assignment in A-10 Project Season at New Orleans. He is now TDY enroute to OV-lOs in Eielson, AK.

Jerry CUMMIN dropped me apostcard from the world-famous Banaue rice terraces in the Philippines. After about two and ahalf years of training, he’s an F-4G EWO with the 90th TFS. He says Curt ATENCIO (F-4E pilot) and himself are getting by. The flying is intense and the danger of the mission keeps them on their toes.

Herb EHRMANN (an old Viking buddy of mine) sends his greetings from Saudi Arabia. Jim KESTERMANN and Herb were TDY there from Rhein Main as part of aC-130 crew known as BAT-60. Jim was the nav and Herb was the aircraft commander. He says their motto is, “You call, we haul.”

1received aletter from Peggy KIRCHNER (’85 grad, ’84 stopout) in Redlands, CA. She attended Chris REINHARDT’S wedding in November and passed along aphoto of his new bride. Shannon, for us to see. Chris

Chris and Suzi Erickson

Chris and Shannon Reinhardt

AUSTIN (’83) was the best man. Chris Austin, Chris Reinhardt and Peggy all fl ew C-12s out of Norton at one time. Chris Austin now fl ies C-141S at Norton and the other Chris just got assigned to ’141s at McGuire. Chuck CAVANAUGH flew out from McGuire for the wedding and Warren CLARK came in from California. She then ran into former ’84 Mike Cornejo at aparty after the wedding. He’s done his time at Nor¬ ton and has been working as acivil engineer in Loma Linda. He married a captain in the AF, Donnalisa, and she’s PCSing to Louisiana.

The other photo is from Mike (former ’84) and Karen Kasun’s wedding (front and center). From left are Megan, Jeff and Julie WESLEY; Caroline, Arnie and Arnie 111 BUNCH; Peggy, Darrell CABANTING, and Paul Bergin (former ’84). Darrell has since PCSd to Germany and Ar¬ nie is aB-52 AC at Fairchild.

Robin HAMELlN’s wife, Kim, mailed me apostcard from Hampton Roads, VA to send us an update on some recent moves. Bruce ELLWEIN is enroute to Luke AFB to be an F-15 RTU instructor. Jim HANNON is now at Loring, Fred HALLWAY is at Georgia Tech, Howard HAYES is waiting for an assignment while TDY to Puerto Rico and her husband Robin is now in Keflavic, Iceland on aone-year F-15 remote.

The last letter comes from Maureen MASLOW at Arnold AFB, TN. She spent her last two years as acounterintelligence agent in the Philip¬ pines where she adopted an abandoned Filipino orphan named Matthew. She is about to go on an exchange visit to India for five weeks as a member of the Rotary International Group Study Exchange. Here’s her news: Rick BURTON is on his way to C-12s in Daharan, Saudi Arabia. Alan BURKE (everyone’s pal Al) is still in Knobknoster, MO at Whiteman. He just married Audrey and has opened up two businesses — ahealth club and aprinting company. He is also the USAF’s nominee for this year’s 10 Outstanding Young Men of America.

Kara soon.

STOOKESBERRY is now Kara MANNING. She married an Army Lt in Zweibrucken, Germany and has ason named Ryan. Heidi (CROEBER) and Ray SIMPSON are on their way to Germany where Ray will be flying C-130s. They have adaughter named Kaelly and another youngin’ on the way. Tracy (DZEMA) SPARKS married Todd, aCitadel grad. They have abeautiful red-headed daughter named Caitlin and another due Kathy (EGGERT) and Bob SCHAEFER are at Ft Bragg where Bob flies C-130S and Kathy is in the Reserves. They have ason named B.J. Brian HOLMES is doing extremely well and will be flying B-ls out of McCon¬ nell AFB, KS. Theresa HANRAHAN was stationed at NORAD for three years as aspace operations officer and has recently been transferred to Sunnyvale A.S. Thanx Mo.

You know you’re getting short when you start seeing classmates come back to ATC. Capt Dave HOOK (appropriate name for aTweet IP) is here in the 85th FTS. Keith SANDERS is back in the U.S.A. from an A-10 tour in Korea. He now fl ies '38s across the hall from me. 1came back from SOS to find Dave NORTON sitting across the table as anew student in UPT in my flight.

1had planned to spend the last article talking about the folks who showed up for SOS Class 88E, but the picture we took with my camera didn’t come out too hot and you can barely make out the faces. Sorry guys. ..Ireceived afew notecards from some of the attendees. I’ll men¬ tion them in the next article. Just off the top of my head, 1can remember afew assignments handed out while we were there: Maxie MAXWELLF-16 MacDill, Carl FARQUHAR -F-16 MacDill, Randy PRICET-38 Sheppard, Mark MAESTAS -C-130 Little Rock, Randy FOPIANO -KC-10 Barksdale, Dave PETERSON -F-15 Holloman, Vinny DEGIOVANNl -KC-135 to be with his wife Sue (EASTER), and me -F-16 MacDill.

Oh —speaking of the next article, 1figure it’s time to give someone else the opportunity to write one. They’re fun to do and you get some pretty good mail from folks you haven’t heard from in quite awhile. (And from folks you’ve never heard of in your life.) If you’re interested, drop me a note or give aring.

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY PAY RAISE!

Jim Mirabella 6109R Eden East Drive

Montgomery, AL 36117 Home (205) 272-0176

AV: 446-3514

Percent members: 26

Hi ’85ers from Alabama, home of the warm Christmas, ragweed and low property taxes. This is the state where high school and college foot¬ ball makes up the 2/3 of life not spent sleeping. It is also home to Squadron Officer School, where in nine weeks you get to relearn the four years of Professional Military Studies you savored at the zoo. 1imagine many of you will be heading this way in the next year, so feel free to drop by.

I’ve received afew letters from some resourceful classmates. There’s been apopulation increase thanks to afew new parents. Robbie (DOTSON) DAVIS and Chris are soon-to-be parents, as are Brenda (DEINLEIN) KHOURI and Maria SHELLABARGER NISSEN. As for the new brides and grooms in our class, Jeff JOHNSON was recently married to Mary Heather at Mather AFB. Dan SANCHEZ and Bruce LUJAN (’80) were saber bearers at the ceremony. Chuck STREETER has also found marital bliss, as did John HILBING. Congratulations to all of them!

Ireceived aletter from Ed BYRD at Tinker AFB. He is working with AWACS and is surrounded by Steve EDGAR, August HEIN, John OGLE, Todd SCOTT (’86) and Sue KRAMER, among others. Ed recent¬ ly attended the Armed Forces Track Meet at Kirkland AFB as amember of the 4x400 relay team. He ran into Red HOLLOWAY (’83), Bobby BLACKMON and Nicole (ANDERSON) BORMAN. He also saw some Olympic trial runners such as Alonzo BABERS (’83), Gail CONWAY (’84) and Mike PROFIT (’88).

We have aCompany Grade Officer of the Quarter in Carlos MATEOS at Kelly AFB. He works at the Air Force Human Resources Laboratory,

Carlos Mateos

the source of many of our anonymous surveys we receive in distribution, Carlos and his wife, Rosie, will be moving to Germany soon.

That’s all of the news 1have. Congratulations to all who made the cap¬ tain’s list!

Gary L. Burg

1712 S. Abilene Ave.

Portales, NM 88130

Home: (505) 356-4925

AV: 681-4158

Percent members: 24 W,

Greetings to all from the great Southwest. The holiday season is over so 1hope you had agreat time. Ihave acouple letters to relate to you that I received from England plus quite afew address changes to update you with. Things have been going quite well for myself and Ihave been really enjoying flying in the F-111D here at Cannon. The Burg family has also been doing well and we are expecting anew addition to our family in the July-August timeframe.

1received aletter from Don RAINES from RAF Greenham Common, UK. Don is in Security Police, working in the 501st Missile Defense Squadron, aground combat unit for the Cruise Missile. He says he is hav¬ ing agreat time and was selected as Wing Company Grade Of fi cer of the Quarter and Security Police Officer of the Year and will have gone up before the Third Air Force board by the time the next Checkpoints gets out. Congrats Don! He wrote that several of our classmates are stationed there as missile launch control of fi cers for the GLCM. The crew com¬ manders are Vic MANGES, John KRESS, Marty McNABB, Steve SEAMAN, and Rich CHRISTIE. Don also writes that he saw Rich BASAK at the Ramstein O’Club in August. He was TDY from RAF Up¬ per Heyford where he is another F-111 WSO. Bruce RADEMACHER is flying C-130s out of Clark AFB, Philippines. Bruce had the rundown of CS-36 grads as of July which are Ken CARPENTER flying F-4s at George AFB; Andy SEGLINS at Edwards AFB; Frank DALDINE flying EC-130S at Keesler AFB; Kellie DAVILA-MARTINEZ at Howard AFB, Panama; Steve EDWARDS at Vandenberg AFB; Willie GREENLEA fly¬ ing C-130s at Little Rock AFB; Kathy HOEFT flying KC-135S at Castle; Doug JAMES working contracting at Carswell AFB; Andy KERENYl working with the satellite program at Kelly AFB; Janet KISNER at LA AFB; Mark MEDVEC and Ricky ROGERS flying B-52s at Barksdale AFB; John PUTNEY working in intel at K1 Sawyer AFB; Dwight ROBERTSON aFAIP at Williams AFB; Kate (SCHAEFLEEN) BEN¬ SON at Offut AFB; Ron SCHRUPP at Randolph AFB; and Dan SNY working contracting at Eglin AFB. Don wanted me to pass along to you all that if these have changed to let him know. His address at Greenham Common should be in the new Register of Grads.

Ialso received aletter from Evan THOMAS. He spent abeautiful TDY in Incirlik, Turkey where he ran into afew of the guys and writes “I ran into Chuck CORLEY, Bill LYONS, Mike BALFANY and Chris ROEDER. Chuck is now Chuck ‘Aces IT CORLEY, after he took an unexpected parachute ride. After aflawless PLF, Chuck radioed that he was going to the crash site via Turkish tractor. He survived the crash, but will he survive Fatal Attraction? All four of them are down at Torrejon, Spain living in areported ‘pleasure palace.’ Ialso saw Bob ‘Charlie’ MANSFIELD while he was here in Deutschland. We knew the Moody boys were here when people started garbaging up the Victor Frequencies. He is down at Moody AFB, while his wife Juli is Hying up at Robins AFB. They live in between and each commutes quite aways. Tom McDEVlTT is over on the other side of the Mosel at Spangdahlem. He and Marcus QUINT are trying to ride herd on all those F-4s over there.”

The rest of the class news is address changes: Kevin BROOKS is in Spokane, WA working in Det 24, 37 ARRS where he is flying the UH-IN. Wade TVETER is now at Dyess AFB flying as anavigator with the 772 TAS and living in Abilene. Americo CAIXEIRO is at Carswell AFB fly¬ ing with the 9th BMS as aB-52 copilot and living in Ft Worth. Geoffrey

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and Shelley (HARSH) HILLS are in Panama City. FL. Geoffrey is a radar test engineer with the F-16 and working with the 4484 Test Sq at Tyndall AFB. Shelley is the OIC of the 60th TFS Intelligence Section at Eglin AFB. Jim GULSVIG is flying with the 86 MAS Travis AFB and liv¬ ing in Vacaville. Kirk LEAR is AC-130 navigator living in Cary, NC fly¬ ing out of Pope AFB. Anne GORNEY is now at Chester, NH. Teresa HOLLINGSWORTH is now in Gainesville, FL, Dale ORVEDAHL is stationed at Eglin AFB. Sean WRIGHT is living at Riverside, CA. Steve SUTHERLAND is stationed at Wurtsmith AFB, ML Anthony MONTERO is in Hampton, VA. Edward MINAHAN is stationed at Plat¬ tsburgh AFB. Steve ALLEN and Shelly (GWILLIM) ALLEN are still in the Colorado Springs area. Hugh SAINT is stationed at Barksdale AFB flying KC-135S. Todd WAIT is living in Davis, CA stationed at Travis AFB.

One more thing, Italked to Rich LE CLAIRE awhile back and he said he ran into Hugh SAINT this past summer in Saudi on aTDY mission plus Rich said the Kevin YEOMANS is enjoying married life and working at Eglin AFB in the armament division. Ihope to hear from more of you soon and send photos! Until 1write again.

Glenn Strebe

7705 Stampede Drive

Colorado Springs, CO 80920

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Percent members: 35

Well, Tm back at it again trying to write this article before the AOG goes to print with the Winter ’88-90 issue of Checkpoints. Of course, it is the end of December, and Iwas trying to hold out til the last minute in hopes of receiving additional information to include this quarter. 1don’t have along article this time but, Iwill give you what Ihave received.

Starting off once again with the infamous UPT listings, 1received alist from Patty STUART from Willy. She is apersonnel officer and got her hands on the listings for 88-07 and 88-08. Thanks for the list Patty.

88-07: Paul ADAMS, T-38 Willy; Ken ARCOLEO, T-37 Willy; Mark ARLINGHAUS, F-15 Kadena; James BRUNKOW, C-141 Norton; Mur¬ ray CLARK KC-135 McConnell; Jon CRERIE, T-37 Willy; Pete D’AMICO, B-52 Anderson; Angel DIAZ, C-130 Little Rock; Scott DIERLAM, C-141 Charleston; Jeff FRIENT, F-16 Luke; Mike GEBAUER, T-38 Willy; Terri GIBSON, OV-10 George; Chris HOPE, T-37 Willy; Greg JOHNSON, A-10 Alconbury; Mike KASUMOVIC, C-21 Andrews; Scott KRAUSE, T-38 Willy; Tony MONETTI, B-52 Griffi ss; Steve MORLEY, C-141 McChord; Bill MUELLER, RF-4 Bergstrom; John PATTERSON, KC-135 Minot; Ray RABANO, KC-135 Kadena; Tom REMPFER, F-16 Luke; Wayne RINGLEBERG, KC-135 Castle; Ace SHRUM, B-52 Wurtsmith; John STEIMLE, T-38 Willy; Joe SPECKHART, OV-10 George; John WASHINGTON, B-52 K1 Sawyer; Bob WILLOUGHBY, KC-135 Minot; Dean WRIGHT, A-10 RAF Bentwaters; John WOOD, T-37 Willy; and Marty FELTMAN, C-130 Dyess, 88-08: John ABBATIELLO, EC-135 Langley; Joseph ALDRAIN, KC-135 Grissom; Mark ARRIOLA, F-15 Eglin; Dave BACHLIER, KC-135 Fairchild; Mike BETTNER, T-37 Willy; Mark ERNEWEIN, A-10 Eielson; Joe FAULISE, C-141 Norton; Tim FAY, B-52 Barksdale; Mike FOLKERTS, C-130 Pope; Brew GAUTIER, C-141 Charleston; Alex GILBERT, T-37 Williams; William GILLIS, T-38 Willy; Keith GROEN, KC-135 Grand Forks; Scott HATFIELD, T-38 Willy; Dan HODGSON, T-38 Willy; Scott HOFFMAN, B-52 Kl Sawyer; Anthony HOUSTON, C-141 Norton; Roe JONES, KC-135 Dyess; Hans LAUDERBACH, C-141 Charleston; Lynn (PEDERSON) LERCH, KC-135 March; Matt LONG, EC-135 Grissom; Phil LUTZ, T-37 Willy; Matt MACE, KC-135 Grif fi ss; Kurt MALLERY, C-141 McGuire; Michael MANION, KC-135 Minot; Jim MARSHALL, T-38 Willy; Tim MATSON, KC-135 Minot; Dave MILLER, T-38 Willy; Mark OTTING, B-52 Minot; Brian O’REAR, F-111 Cannon; Diane PROVOST, KC-135 Grif fi s; Lance SCHROEDER, A-10 England; Scott START, OV-10 Suwon; Christian STEARNS, C-130 Little Rock; Steve WALTERS, T-37 Willy; Greg WHITING, F-16 Luke; Stacey WILSON, C-141 McGuire; Robert WOODLEY, F-15 Bitburg; and John WYNNE, F-16 Luke.

Ialso got acall from Mr. Jim KLAS who lives out in L.A. He was not commissioned due to medical reasons and now enjoys being with his wife, Melissa, as acivilian. We wish you the best of luck, keep in touch, and send apicture if you have long hair.

1heard from Juan ECHEVERRY who is out in L.A. enjoying the beautiful weather and the high cost of living. He says there are quite afew grads out there so if you ever pass through, look him up.

In speaking of long hair, we are not talking about Rob COUSER who

opted to become ajarhead and is now stationed at Cherry Point Air Sta¬ tion, NC. He is acombat engineer after spending six months at the Marine Basic School (I thought six weeks of Beast was bad) and three months at the Marine Combat Engineer School. Rob says he keeps busy with the 10% of the people who occupy 90% of his time. Hey Rob, is the Corp as bad as Honor Guard?

Finally, Ireceived aletter from Dave BUTLER who is out at Castle upgrading in the ’135. Other people who are at Castle in ’135s (KC or EC) and their follow-on assignments are: Dave STAMOS, Minot; Todd HOPPE, Plattsburg; Lee ICENHOUR, Castle; Mark USTASZAWSKl, Loring; Henry POLCZER, K1 Sawyer; Jeff MEYERS, Offutt (EC); Dave BUTLER, Mildenhall (EC); Roe JONES, Dyess; Diane PROVOST, Griffi ss; Matt LONG, Grissom; Vic RICK, Grissom; Darren CHILDERS, McConnell; Brad FELIX, Malstrom; Chuck THIBAULT, Altus; Joe ALDRAIN, Grissom; and Keith GROEN, Grand Forks.

Dave also sent me alist of people who graduated in Vance 88-08. Sec¬ tion II: Dave BUTLER, EC-135 Mildenhall; Butch CHMURA, T-38 Vance; Harry DOWNING, C-130 Yokota; Tom FELDHAUSEN, F-111 Lakenheath; Brad FELIX, KC-135 Malmstrom; Skip GLENN, T-38 Vance; Todd HOPPE, KC-135 Plattsburg; John KAFER, KC-10 Barksdale; Dave MYHRE, T-37 Vance; Henry POLCZER, KC-135 K1 Sawyer; Tim SIPES, C-141 Travis; Chuck THIBAULT, KC-135 Altus; and Rich WEST, B-52 Guam. Thanks for the info.

That’s all 1got. Remember, only two months before we lose our butter bars. Don’t you think it’s about time?

Mark V. Peters

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AV: 474-6972

Percent members: 32

Hello All! It’s hard to believe it’s been three months since 1last typed one of these —how times flys when you’re having fun!

Got acall from Mark PASSY to update us on what he and Dave SMITH are doing in the “It’s not just ajob -it’s an adventure” service. Mark is in “Nuke School” in Orlando, FI, while Dave is at Pensacola

learning how to be anaval flight officer.

Engagements, Weddings, and more Weddings: Before 1start, let me apologize for the mistakes which are bound to be in the following. Most of my info was second, third, or fourthhand so drop me aline if I’ve listed you as married and you’re not. The following are married, but 1don’t know to whom: Warren BENJAMIN, Trent BINGER, Jim BUSCHE, Harry “Butch” CARLILE, Steve DION, Dave GOLDSTEIN, Kevin HILL (USMC), Ken LEESON, Dave MORK, Mike MURPHY, Elman MYERS, Pete RIDILLA, and Wes RUSSELL.

The following are married and living here at Williams (or the local area): Kris and Terry BELCHER, Kevin and Colleen BERKOMPAS, Erik and Pam DEMKOWICZ, Joe and Carol DRBOHLAV, Vince and Holly ECKELKAMP, Gary and Trish GOTTSCHALL, Doug and Linda HILL, Bob and Joan KILGORE, John and Carlene LARSON, John and Georgia (RUCKLE) McCURDY, Doug and Kitra ROTH, Rich and Angela SWEETEN, and Ted and Dawn TAYLOR.

The following are married, but 1don’t know where they live: Steve and Margo (FALCON) GATES, Jim and Jennifer (SCHWANZ) MARRS, Ross and Stacy (SIDOR) McNUTT (’87), Mike and Mary (SEILER) TONEY, Rich and Julie HALLER, “RuP’ and Robin MARRERO, Neil and Patty HUBER, Brian and Maureen KLINK, Keith and Jill McKEON, Damon and Mary PESCAIA, Steve and Lisa ALFASl, Kevin and Lori WARD, Mike and Leslie MORGAN, Marlon and Angie CAMACHO, Lance and Amber FORTNEY, Marty and Renee MARCOLONGO, Jeff and Susie CRESSE, Jim and Claire SCHMEHIL, Mark and W'endy KIRCHHOEFER, Tony and Shelly PACKARD, Kevin and Andrea CHAPMAN, Dave and Rebecca BACZEWSKI, Tony and Jennifer WILLIS, Charles and Suzie REILLY, and Scott and Crystal PORTER.

Congratulations are also in order to the following who recently became engaged: Scott BALLARD and Julie Ohara, Bryan “Cy” BARTLETT and Michelle TAFOYA, Tim POWERS and Pam Kline (’89), Ron DAG¬ GETT, Bryan EDMONDS, Jim HURLEY, Jim HYNES, and Tim WOODS.

Lastly, Mark PERKO is doing well in T-37s here at Willie. Rumor has it he really wants to be an IP.

The next deadline is the 10th of March, and the one after that is the 10th of June so send me info and pictures WELL BEFORE those dates if possible. Pictures of you, your wedding, your pets, your kids —just about anything would be appreciated.

AFA Cadets Acknowledged For Leadership

The Air Force Academy was well represented again at the 1988 sessions of The LeaderShape Institute —six days of intensive leadership development for college men and women. Not only were Cadets Reed Bowman and Dawn Longwell participants in the institute’s second session, but the first session saw the Academy’s Capt. Joseph Chine on the institute’s faculty.

Reed and Dawn were among the 106 students chosen nation¬ wide by several national fraternities and sororities and the U.S. Air Force Academy for their campus and organizational leader¬

ship, desire to reach higher levels of personal achievement, and willingness to help others do the same.

Reed has just completed ayear as the Academy’s highest rank¬ ing junior. He is cadet in charge of the 1989 Ring Presentation Ceremony and cadet in charge of M-16 rifle instruction. Dawn is a Commandant’s List cadet, afirst sergeant and an element leader.

Held at the University of Illinois Conference Center near Monticello. 111. The LeaderShape Institute was designed by prominent education and leadership consultants to significantly increase a young adult’s ability to exercise leadership skills for responsible service. The nontraditional curriculum, described by one faculty member as “the equivalent of aHarvard M.B.A.-level “crash” course for Fortune 500 executives,” deals with self-awareness, self-assessment, interpersonal communication, group dynamics, decision making, ethics and power in ademocracy, and social responsibility.

Capt. Chine is chief of the Academy’s leadership programs development branch, where he’s in charge of planning, coor¬ dinating, and presenting leadership development seminars for cadets and of fi cers.

Each of The Institute’s week-long sessions features apanel of some of America’s most dynamic business and professional leaders, available to informally share insights and experience with participants. Reed and Dawn’s panel the evening of July 25, featured Patti Peterson, president of St. Lawrence University; Gene Hoffman, former president of both The Kroger Co. and Super Valu Wholesale Food Companies and now president of Corporate Strategies International; and Frank Stewart Jr., CEO of Stewart Enterprises, aNew Orleans-based conglomerate.

The LeaderShape Institute is sponsored by LeaderShape, Inc., anot-for-pro fi t educational corporation.

Reed Bowman and Dawn Longwell

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