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Richard M. Coppock, ’61 Vice President, Services

Jock C. H. Schwank, ’60 Vice President, Development

James E. Wilhelm, ’61 Director of Publications

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AOG Staff

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Mrs Kathy McCann

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Stephen H. Knight

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Pat Donovan

Mrs. Monica Young BOARD OF DIRECTORS

To Serve Until 30 June 1991

AWBiancur, ’60 WFKendall Jr, ’60 WEAylsworth, ’61 MJQuinlan, ’61 JLSmith, ’62 LLCasada, ’71 GDPollard, ’72 KSSamelson, ’73 RLAlcorn, ’74 PWilliams, ’75 JTWolter, ’75 JBEchols,

IrJ GreHihill, ’80 KSWilhelm, ’80 BAHook, ’81 MSNovak, ’84

To Serve Until 30 May 1991 DMColey, ’90

ARTICLES

Former Cadet Relives 25-year “Compulsion

Parachute Team Reunion Planned

AOG Begins Board Nomination Process...

Sister Shares Concern for Grad Brother in Saudi Arabia .

Class of 1970 Enjoys 20-year Reunion Weekend ’80 Reunion; The Return of the Burger Kings Class of 1960 Celebrates Their 30-Year Anniversary Academy Team

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Our venerable photographer Mr. Bill Madsen traveled to the Academy’s Flight Line to capture some soaring instruction. In the foreground, Capt. George Sciss, ’81, works with C2C Paul Mullis in the Schweizer 1-26 sailplane while Capt. Rich Razin and C3C Sean Cavan go over instructions on the SGS 2-33 glider. See related soaring and airmanship stories on page 32 of this issue.

CHECKPOINTS is published in February, May, August and November by the Association of Graduates, USAF Academy, Colo. 80840-5000 (Phone; 719-472-2067). It is provided as part of an annual membership package which costs $25. Second-class postage paid at the USAF Academy, Colo. Opinions expressed in this magazine are those of the authors. They do not necessarily reflect the opinions, policy or attitude of the Association of Graduates, its officers or the editorial staff. The appearance of advertisements in this publication does not constitute an endorse¬ ment by the Association of Graduates of the products or services advertised. Copyright, Association of Graduates of the United States Air Force Academy, Fall 1990. POSTMASTER: Send Form 3579 to Checkpoints, Association of Graduates, USAF Academy, Colo. 80840-5000. USPC 898-080

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Services Growth Continues; AOG Staff Increased

By Dick Coppock,

GENERAL—Fiscal year 1990 (1 July 1989-30 June 1990) was ayear of marked progress for the Association of Graduates (AOG). Increases in staff and aconcen¬ tration on additional and more ef fi cient services led to increased membership, revenue and overall member satisfaction. The main AOG fund-raising efforts — Air Force Academy (AF^) Fund and Building Fund —both reaped encourag¬ ing results, although major goals have yet to be achieved.

MEMBERSHIP—Life membership proved to be more popular than ever. Some 192 graduates and 17 associates opted for life membership. An additional 215 1990 graduates also became “lifers via either the life membership at gradua¬ tion (LMAG) program or through direct payments at graduate rates. As of 30 June, over 37 percent of all AOG paying members were in the life category. In ad¬ dition to the above, some 70 percent of the cadet wing are participants in the LMAG program, which bodes well for future membership increases. Annual graduate/associate memberships also

’61, Executive Vice President, AOG reached an all-time high of 7,566, and two new corporate members also became AOG and Academy supporters. Total membership, (graduates, associates, and corporate) excluding cadets, stood at 11,370 on 30 June 1990 and has since in¬ creased to over 12,000.

FINANCES—The annual audit report appears in this issue of Checkpoints. Total assets under association control in¬ creased by over $1 million during FY 90 to just short of $5 million. Much of this in¬ crease resulted from life membership revenues and Building Fund support. Restricted deferred revenue also showed a significant increase.

STAFF PERSONNEL—As reported in earlier issues of Checkpoints, Col.(Ret) Jock C.H. Schwank, ’60, fi lled anew position, vice president, Services, on 1 July 1989. An, extensive search for a replacement vice president, Development, also resulted in Col.(Ret) James E. Wilhelm, ’61, coming on board on 1 November 1989. Both have made signifi¬ cant strides in their individual areas of responsibility since assuming their duties.

Expansion of the development office also added Pat Donovan and Mrs. Monica Young to the staff in mid-year.

PUBLICATIONS—Fiscal year ’89 saw several beneficial changes in publications. Mailing of the biographical data form to all graduates was discontinued on an an¬ nual basis; instead atear-out biographical mail-back sheet is now printed in each issue of Checkpoints. The biographical data form will now be mailed to all graduates only every fifth year (1994, 1999, etc) immediately preceeding publication of the expanded Register of Graduates.

Along with the mail-back biographical sheet, another new Checkpoints feature proving popular with the membership is the Bene fi ts/Services page. Areadyreference to ongoing benefits and services, this page also provides announcements of new or one-time information as well as periodic reminders of items, such as class ring manufacturer contacts, AOG fi rst class mailing fees, etc.

For the fi rst time in AOG history, (Continued on page 7.)

Association of Graduates Annual Audit Report

We have audited the balance sheet of The Association of Graduates of the United States Air Force Academy (a non profit corporation) as of 30 June 1990, and the related statements of activity and cash fl ows for the year then ended. These statements are the responsibility of the Association’s management. Our responsibility Is to express an opinion on these fi nancial statements based on our audit.

We conducted our audit in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards; Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the fi nancial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on atest basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used and signi fi cant estimates made by management, as v/ell as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audit provides areasonable basis for our opinion.

In our opinion, the fi nancial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of The Association of Graduates of the United States Air Force Academy as of 30 June 1990, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for the year then ended, in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles applied on abasis consistent with that of the preceding year.

Our audit was made for the purpose of forming an opinion on the basic fi nancial statements taken as awhole. The additional information on pages 13 through 21 is presented for the purposes of additional analysis and is not arequired part of the basic fi nancial statements. Such information has been subjected to the auditing procedures applied in the audit of the basic financial statements and, in our opinion, is fairly stated in all material respects in relation to the basic fi nancial statements taken as awhole. ^

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(Corporate Report: From page 5.) Checkpoints was published in aminimum 60-page format. We expect this trend to continue as graduating classes are added and alumni begin to contribute muchneeded personal articles. Advertising con-, tinned to increase and we anticipate more four-color ads in future issues.

MERCHANDISING—The association marketed aclothing line via amail order catalogue in late 1989. This venture —a first —was conceptually good and de¬ mand was strong. Unfortunately, the per¬ formance of the supplier and the quality of afew items were less than satisfactory. Operations in this line have been suspend¬ ed, but the future will hold more such of¬ ferings. Sales of chairs, sabers, caps and license plate frames remained strong, highlighting the increasing popularity of these items.

After an absence of five years, an AOG grandfather clock will again be offered with very favorable payment terms. The association will also continue to market pewter graduation plates and graduation watches to our parents and friends. Ap¬ proval to resell certain items of distinctive cadet clothing (T-shirts, robes, etc) has been granted and announcements will be forthcoming in the near future.

AIR FORCE ACADEMY

(AFA) FUND—The 1989-90 AFA fund fell short of its $200,000 goal for contributions. Some $161,500 was raised, including $5,200 for the Cadet Leadership Enrich¬ ment Seminar (CLES) Endowment and $5,100 for the Graduate Dependent Scholarship Endowment. Restricted gifts destined for cadet clubs and teams totaled $19,000. The AOG Board of Directors will meet in December to determine grants to be made from the proceeds of the 1989-90 Fund.

AOG BUILDING FUND—Graduates have increased their support of the Building Fund from some $560,000 at the end of FY 89 to slightly over $650,000. The $1 million target figure is well within reach, particularly in view of the fact that nearly 90 percent of all alumni have yet to contribute asingle dollar. Atotal of $2.1 million in receipts and pledges from all sources was added during FY 90, with a highly-successful phonathon to cadet and graduate parents aiding dramatically. The goal is in sight, but an outpouring of addi¬ tional graduate support is needed if nearterm ground breaking is to become areali-

RESTRICTED/ENDOWMENT FUNDS—The association continued its management of over 100 individual and grouped restricted and endowment funds which bene fi t graduates, cadets and Academy agencies and programs. The funds support awide variety of programs, including lectures, seminars, postgraduate scholarships, memorials, class activities and the new Graduate Dependent Scholarship.

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(Annual Audit: From page 7.)

internally designated endowments. These latter funds are not subject to donor restrictions and may be expended at the Board's direction, unrestricted revenue.

Earnings on these funds are recognized as current ASSOCIATION OF GRADUATES OF THE UNITED STATES AIR FORCEACADEMY NOTES To FINANCIAL TfAWNTS -30 JUNE ~lW

NOTE 1-SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES:

To ensure observance of any limitations or restrictions placed on the use of resources available to the Association, the fi nancial records of the Association are maintained in accordance with the principles of fund accounting. This is the procedure by which resources for various purposes are classi fi ed for accounting and reporting purposes into funds established according to their nature and purpose. Separate accounts are maintained for each fund; however, in the accompanying fi nancial statements, funds that have similar characteristics have been combined into fund groups. Accordingly, all fi nancial transactions are reported by fund group.

A. The assets, liabilities and fund balances are reported in the following fund groups:

1. Operating funds include unrestricted and restricted resources available for support of the organization's operations.

a.

Unrestricted Fund -The Unrestricted Fund contains those accounts used in the current operations of the Association. Unrestricted revenue is available to meet any Association expenditures,

b. Restricted Funds -The Restricted Fund accounts for those contributions restricted by the donor, grantor, or other outside party for aparticular current operating Revenue in Association has speci fi c restrictions, reported as additions to restricted deferred revenue. Included in this fund are restricted earnings on endowment funds.

C.

D.

Depreciation of Furniture, Fixtures and Equipment is recorded using straight-line and accelerated methods over estimated useful lives of fi ve to ten years.

Inventory is valued at lower of cost (first in, first out) or market.

The costs of providing the various programs and other activities have been summarized on afunctional basis in the Statement of Activity. Accordingly, certain operating expenses have been allocated based on management's estimation.

E. F. INVESTMENTS:

NOTE 2

average adequate .. -life of participants in the program. Current Life Membership fees and fund earnings are treated as additions to deferred revenue. The current cost of an annual membership for each life member is transferred from the Life Membership Fund to the Unrestricted Fund The life membership

it is recognized as current revenue. where fund group is composed of the following:

a. Original Life Membership Fund -This fund accounts for all monies received from life membership fees through 30 June 1984. The Board of Directors has directed that these funds be invested and that the income from such investments be available to pay current operating expenses. Through 30 June 1984, none of these life membership monies had been used to pay current operating expenses. Earnings after 30 June 1984 may be transferred to the General Fund as required to offset expenses for consulting services, equipment acquisitions, and additional personnel.

b. Life Membership Fund #2 -This fund accounts for all monies received from life membership fees after 30 June 1984. Once each year this fund will transfer monies to the general fund. The amount of the transfer, which is included in dues revenue of the unrestricted fund, will equal the number of life membership #2 members times the annual dues during the preceding year,

c. Life Membership at Graduation Fund -This fund accounts for all monies received from cadet payroll deductions after 1 January 1986. This fund will remain fully invested until such time as acontributing member’s class graduates. No transfers will occur in the interim. Upon graduation of an individual class, $550 per graduating AOG life member is transferred from this fund and its accumulated earnings to Life Membership Fund

Monies received from cadet payroll deductions are fully refundable to the cadets until the time of their graduation,

d. Corporate Membership Fund -This fund accounts for all monies received from corporate life membership fees. Once each year this fund will transfer monies to the General Fund equal to the number of corporate life members times the annual dues during the preceding year.

3. Building and Equipment Fund -The Building and Equipment Fund contains the Association's net investment in fi xed assets. In addition, any gifts received with donor placed restrictions that limit the use of the gift to the acquisition or building of fixed assets are accounted for as additions to deferred revenue. When the restricted funds are expended, they are recognized as capital additions and as increases to the Association's net investment in plant.

The Association is anon pro fi t corporation and is exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, from federal and state income tax on any net income earned in furtherance of its exempt purpose.

For purposes of the statement of cash flows, the Association considers all highly liquid debt instruments purchased with amaturity of three months or less to be cash equivalents.

Investments are presented on the financial statements in the aggregate at the lower of cost or fair market value in case of marketable equity securities and cost for marketable debt securities. Investments consist of the following:

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NOTE 4-EMPLOYEE RETIREMENT PUN;

The Association has ade fi ned contribution pro fi t sharing retirement plan through Shearson, Lehman, Hutton, covering all employees who are 21 years of age, have completed one year of service, and are not covered by acollective bargaining agreement. This plan provides for full vesting after six years of service. Employer contributions under the plan are made upon reconmendation of the plan's Trustees with final approval by the Board of Directors. Each eligible employee may contribute up to the lesser of $2,000 or lOOX of his or her compensation for the taxable year for which the contributions relate. The General Fund contains a$15,000 pension cost liability for fiscal year ending 30 June 1990.

NOTE 5-RECUSSIFICATION OF BEGINNING BAUNCES;

During the year ended June 30, of its endowment fund balances as of June 30, project, approximately $137,000 in earnings was discovered to have been retained in the various endowment funds. These earnings should have been carried as deferred revenue in the current restricted fund and available for expenditure. Endowment earnings available for current expenditure for the year ended June 30, 1989 were correctly recorded as additions to current restricted deferred revenue. The previously reported June 30. 1989 endowment fund balance of $700,935 has been decreased by approximately $137,000 and the previously reported June 30. 1989 current restricted fund deferred revenue of $689,389 has been increased by approximately $137,000 to reflect this correction.

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Former Cadet Relives 25-year “Compulsion

By Lin Bothwell, Former ’64

Ihave had adream for aquarter of acentury. September of 1989 was the time when that dream was to be fulfilled. But, as life often works out, circumstances conspired to make it impossible to fulfill that dream as I had planned. Perhaps, as it’s turned out, all will work out to agreater purpose.

That long-held dream was that Iwould be able to take 15 minutes at the formal dinner of the 25th reunion of the Class of 1964 to deliver a heartfelt talk, atalk which has now become this article. When it became clear that my message would not be delivered at the 25th reunion, after having waited literally for years, Iwondered why. It then occurred to me that what Ihad to say might be presented through Checkpoints to amuch broader audience of concerned readers, readers who would include current cadets and staff of the Academy, alumni, parents of cadets past and present, and friends of USAFA. Perhaps sharing with this broader audience could accomplish agreater good.

Here then is...

THE TALK NOT GIVEN

At class reunions, around the hallowed foundations of the chapel, in informal publications, throughout Arnold Hall, and elsewhere, the U.S. Air Force Academy honors its own. Tribute is paid to those who toiled within its academic halls, who competed upon its “fields of friendly strife” and who gave their lives for the Academy and their country. These, our honored dead, have received numerous deserved tributes. 1 would not detract from their honor or their memory in any way.

However, another group of former cadets exists who also made major sacrifices and paid great personal prices for their involvement as cadets at the Academy, but to whom no tribute has been paid. Such tribute has not been made either through actions or through an inquiry into their lives. At the very least, they could be remembered. Iam referring to former classmates who did not graduate with their classes, those who left the Academy under honorable circumstances, those who left under less-thanhonorable circumstances, those who left for medical reasons, and those who left for personal or family reasons. This group of former cadets, which numbers in the thousands, is equally deserving of concern and remembrance.

Iremember...

Iremember afirst class cadet who was given amedical discharge after suffering what was diagnosed as an emotional breakdown just weeks before graduation. Some said he was crazy; others said he was “crazy like afox.” Iremember another first class cadet who failed to graduate and had to leave in order to marry his fiancee, who had become pregnant. 1 remember athird class cadet dismissed on an honor violation because he had been picking up copies of other cadets’ Denver Posts which had been left near the orderly room, papers which, as he had perceived it, no one seemed to want. Iremember during my first class year adoolie who left during basic cadet summer after falling apart, being screamed at by a classmate of mine, then told to “get out!”

Iremember these cadets and more, and Iwondered many times what became of each of them and what emotional (and sometimes physical) scars they carried with them from their time at USAFA. Involvement as a cadet, real involvement, does exact atremendous emotional and psychological price. Iwell know...

Iremember those who didn’t make it. Ihave some empathy for what (Annual Report: From page 7.)

CHAPTERS—Our chapters continued awide variety of activities supporting the Academy, the AOG and local area graduates. Some have aided immensely in the fund-raising for the head¬ quarters/alumni house; others in cadet candidate preselection and evaluation; and one, the Capitol Chapter, did afine job of prescreening applicants for Graduate Dependent Scholarships. Many supported visiting USAFA athletic con¬ tests with team housing, tailgates, and special alumni travel/accommodation packages. One, the North Texas group, hosted amassive three-day weekend in conjunction with the USAFA-TCU foot-

they have gone through, for Iwas one of them. Iknow the price, both benefit and cost, which Ipaid for my involvement.

Icame to the Academy in June of 1960, amember of the 770 entering cadets of the Class of 1964. We were the largest class to enter the new academy up to that date. Iremember sitting in my living room in Ogden, Utah, reading the letter that said 1received the Congressional appointment to the USAFA Class of 1964. The letter asked me to “consider very carefully whether or not you want to attend the Academy.” Of course Iwanted to attend; otherwise Iwould not have gone to all the trouble associated with the application process. 1ignored the admonishement and sent my letter saying. “Yes, 1will accept the appointment.”

Itraveled to Denver on the Union Pacific railroad. People did not often fly to places in those days. 1remember taking the bus down to Colorado Springs the next morning joking, “Well, say goodbye to the civilian world!” That joke quickly became one on myself and the other prospective cadets on that bus. When Iarrived at the end of the processing line, the Sweet Young Thing at the table who asked my name, said, “Cadet Bothwell, your Air Force Academy serial number is 2183K...good luck!” There was something about the “good luck” that sounded ominous. Iwalked through the curtained door at the end of the room and my life was never the same again.

The next thing Iknew, some upper classman was screaming in my face, “Mister, may Itouch you?!” 1didn’t know what this guy’s problem was, but 1was not about to answer aquestion like that. Ithought that maybe if Iignored him he would move on to someone else, but it’s hard to ignore someone who is screaming two inches from your face. My silence only seemed to increase his anger. Everwhere Iwent that day, first classmen yelled at me. 1thought Iwould never survive basic cadet summer. Many of my classmates did not endure. Ithought of resigning many times that summer but my widowed mother kept my spirits up through supportive letters from home. And Iremembered my best friend writing in my yearbook at graduation from Ogden Fligh School, “Well, Bothwell, give it your usual mediocre try, then drag your bum back home and I’ll try to get you aposition on the the grounds crew at Weber College.” Iwas determined not to let him have the satisfaction of seeing me “drag my bum home.*’ Ihung in.

Many others did not. The rumor at the end of the summer (we had no way of confirming this) was that the USAFA Class of 1964 had the highest attrition rate for basic cadet training of any entering class at any military academy in history. During the next four years, we lost many more classmates for all the reasons Istated earlier. By my first class year, our class was approaching on the downhill slope 500 hardy souls, and I was still among them.

Ihad come to the Academy aproduct of the Utah public school system and Ithought Iwas pretty hot stuff. Ihad taken honors classes in high school and was prepared to excel academically at the Academy. 1quickly received ahard dose of reality as Icompeted with cadets from California, New York, Texas, Michigan and other states which had “real” educational systems. Ifound them to be light-years ahead of me in knowledge and techniques. Iremember sitting in my fourth class math class staring in bewilderment at my slide rule. Ihad never seen aslide rule before, let alone learned how to use one. The other cadets were pounding

ball game. We’re pleased to see the depth and variety of chapter programs and in¬ creasing support for the Academy and their AOG.

SERVICES—The vice president, Ser¬ vices is awelcome addition to the AOG staff. Colonel Schwank hit the ground running and has done much to strengthen and expand existing programs (Budget Rent aCar, American Airlines discounts, etc) while bringing new services on line. For example, the MCI discounted long distance telephone service has ahigh response rate, and the company has also been generous in providing members and parents with free calling during reunions and Parents Weekend.

(Continued on page 13.)

Our proudest achievement, however, was the initial awarding of Graduate Dependent Scholarships. Five deserving individuals received grants ranging from $7(X) to $1,200. Over 50 applications were received, and even more are expected this year. Graduates are to be commended for their support of this program through the AFA Fund.

The association entertained fi ve pro¬ posals for areplacement life insurance program. None were satisfactory. Lacking any evidence of an overwhelming demand from the membership, we have ceased ac¬ tive solicitation of proposals.

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PARACHUTE TEAM REUNION PLANNED FOR APRIL, ^91

Present and former members of the Air Force Academy Parachute Team “Wings of Blue” will get together for aSilver Anniversary Reunion celebrating their first 25 years on April 25-28, 1991. All former team members should receive detailed in¬ formation, registration and memorabilia order forms by mail in December.

The Colorado Springs Hilton Inn has been chosen as the host hotel, including registration desk, hospitality suite, Thursday welcome party, and Saturday evening banquet. Delta Air Tines is the official airline of the reunion, and is offering special reduced airfare rates for those planning to attend.

Ahigh-quality limited edition signed and numbered print is be¬ ing designed and produced to commemorate the Parachute Team. Jim Hayhurst, ’74, is writing ateam history to be published in time for the reunion. Anyone wishing to provide historical infor¬ mation, interesting stories, or humorous anecdotes regarding the parachute team or its members, while at the academy or following graduation, is invited to contact Jim Hayhurst, 1405 Parkview Drive, Allison Park, Pa. 15101. Phone 412-364-3635. A1 Wallace, ’80, is collecting visual materials for the book and multi-media presentation. Anyone wishing to contribute unique cadet parachuting photos, slides, or films is asked to contact A1 Wallace at 8693 E. Saratoga Place, Denver, Colo. 80237. Phone 303-220-5494.

For more information concerning the reunion, write to Parachute Team Reunion, Box 21411, Salt Lake City, Utah 84121, or call Cass Casada (801-942-1411) or Coach Bill Wenger, 94ATS/Parachute Team, USAFA (719-472-2064 or Autovon 259-2064).

(Former Cadet Remembers: From page 11.)

out problems on their slipsticks, while Iwas reading in the instruction manual about how to put the “C scale” over the “D scale”. Later Iwas to face the electrical engineering elite with their circular slide rules. We worshipped them. (I wonder if there is acalculator/computer equivtdent of this elite slide rule today?)

The curriculum in those days was entirely proscribed and it was 60 percent engineering courses, designed by graduates of Woo Poo U(West Point). Showing the aptitudes that Iwould demonstrate in later schooling elsewhere, Iwent from semester to semester getting A’s and B’s in my social science and humanities classes and D’s and F’s in my engineering courses, with my grade point average hovering just above 2.0, the magic cutoff point for survivability. With tutoring and alot of help from my friends and roommates, Ihad made it to my senior year. Now, Iknew, I had it made.

The Academy “turned out” large numbers of freshmen, quite afew sophomores, and an occasional junior, but they never flunked seniors. They figured that, by the time you reached your senior year, they had spent so many of the taxpayers’ dollars on you that there was no way that you were going to do anything but graduate and pay your dues through four years of regular duty in the Air Force.

That was true until my senior year. In the spring of 1963 we lost “The Best Damn Commandant Ever” (and little did Irealize for my life how true that was) and received anew commandant of cadets who came in from the “shape-up-or-ship-out” branch of the Air Force, the Strategic Air Command. He was determined that things were going to be different.

In the middle of the fall semester of my first class year, Iwas among a select group of 25 senior cadets (some of whom have since gone on to very distinguished careers in the Air Force and top leadership positions at USAFA) who were called into the commandant’s office and informed that we were at the bottom of the senior class. This was not news to us, since we had been graded on the “class curve” since our first semester. Neither were we particularly concerned about our standing because we were the 25 vying for the honored position of graduating last in the class (second only in esteem to the cadet who graduates first in the class, an old West Point tradition).

In this meeting, the general informed us that the policy of not flunking seniors had changed as of that date. He wanted to use us as an example to the wing that seniors could no longer slide through academically. He promised each of us within the sound of his voice that, if we so much as failed one class that fall, he would see to it that we quickly became civilians. He as aman of his word: Idid and he did.

Iknew when Iwent home a' Christmas in December of 1963 that Iwas cutting it very close in r. y fi nal mandatory engineering classes, particularly electrical engineering. In “double E” Ihad received a“C” the first semester of these “building block courses”, a“D” the second semester, and now... 1returned early from vacation to rally support from the academic board meeting that Iwas fairly sure would be convened to review my academic status. Iwanted to mount afight against the “turn¬ back” which Ifelt was agood possibility if the general meant what he said. Icame and prepared and waited. Iheard nothing. The other cadets returned. Vacation ended, and we began classes for the final semester of our first class year.

Iwas feeling great because Ihad come through two fall semester finals in English with the highest grades in the class and Iwas facing aspring semester with an easy load, the first classes Ihad been able to select in four years based upon my personal interests and abilities. Graduation! 1 had it made!

Ireturned to my room from the first day’s classes to find ablue Air Force Form on the desk in my room. (Mail was usually picked up in the orderly room.) The form stated that, in my absence and without my knowledge, an Academic Board had met, considered my case, and voted to turn me out as “academically unfit to continue in ahigher education setting.” Islumped into my chair, stunned. The form said that Iwould begin processing out the next morning. Iwas numb. Iwalked through the processing out the next day like the living dead.

As Isat in Fairchild Hall waiting to be processed out, Ithought of how much 1loved the Academy, and how much Iwanted to fly and to serve my country. Ithought of how much Iwas apart of the Class of 1964. I thought about all that my classmates and Ihad been through together: Brophy’s lost survival squad, the aborted escape attempt on the night before recognition, the death of aclassmate in Europe, and on and on.

Ilooked across at the other cadets who had received similar turnout orders. There were about 50 doolies, 30 super-doolies, and ahalf dozen second classmen. An then there was I. They could not believe their eyes. I kept hearing whisper of, “He’s afirst classman!” The airman who processed me out showed me with disgust my graduation orders which he prepared earlier, my pilot training base assignment, and the order for my officer’s uniforms. Then, to finish me off properly, he informed me that, as of that date, the Academy had academically turned out cadets from every state in the United States except Utah!

Iwill never forget the feeling of driving away from the Academy where Ihad given three years, seven months, and fourteen days of my life, with the cadet area disappearing in the rear view mirror. Ihave never been able to create ametaphor powerful enough to convey what being turned out so abruptly did to me psychologically and emotionally. The closet example I have been able to come up with would be that of an expectant mother who has gone through all the challenges of pregnancy, from morning sickness to swollen ankles to reduced bladder capacity to the heaviness of the last trimester. She is in labor, about to give birth, so looking forward to a little baby of her own when, suddenly, the baby is gone, snatched away, never to return, and with no future opportunity to be pregnant and to have another child.

There is incompleteness to important things which you are never allowed to finish that Iwas never able to articulate until Isaw the movie Field of Dreams during the summer of 1989. Finally, Ihad some confirmation that others knew, had felt what Ihad felt, had experienced that soul-ache that never leaves, and had gone on. Ihad gone on with my life. Whenever others learned of my experience they said that I“took my failure really well” and on the surface Isuppose Idid.

But the impact on my psyche was formidable. For weeks after Iwas turned out, Idreamed that Iwas back in the Academy and that something had changed, that somehow Iwas going to have another chance to graduate. Those dreams continued weekly until two years later when I obtained my bachelor’s degree. The dreams then became less frequent, coming only three or four times amonth, until Ireceived my master’s degree, then still less frequently, until Iearned my doctorate. It is now 25 years, aquarter of acentury, since that traumatic experience. The dreams still return whenever Iam under stress, whenever Iam engaged in any enterprise in which there is achance that Icould fail.

Iwent immediately back into auniversity as asecond-year senior and set out determined to prove to the USAFA Academic Board that they were wrong, that Iwas not academically unfit for higher education. I completed adouble major with a3.85 grade point average, served in student government, wrote journal articles, and started my own corporation. Inext completed atwo-year master’s degree program in one year, then finished my Harvard doctorate in three years.

Iremember when Ireceived my acceptance to the doctoral program at Harvard. Iwas “carefully considering” whether or not Ishould take on

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(Editor’s note; On numerous occasions, we hear from cadets thanking us for the many programs the association and the Air Force Academy (AFA) Fund support. We felt we should share some of this cadet appreciation with those of you who support the association through membership and donations to the AFA Fund.)

Dear Sir:

1am writing to thank you and the Association of Graduates for supporting the Fall 1990 Cadet Commanders Leadership Enrich¬ ment Seminar. Ipersonally found CLES to be avaluable ex¬ perience, and Ihave high hopes that some of the discussion during CLES will initiate improvements in the Cadet Wing.

Without the AOG’s funding, Ido not think that CLES would be possible. Thank you for giving me this opportunity to improve my leadership skills.

Iwill definitely be amember of the AOG after graduation. I have had the good fortune of being able to directly benefit from the AOG’s contributions to the Academy. As asoaring instructor pilot, Ihave had the opportunity to fly the ASK-21 sailplanes pro¬ vided by the AOG. CLES was another experience for which Ihave the AOG to thank. Ialso appreciate all of the other gifts which the AOG has provided for the Cadet Wing.

Once again, thank you and the AOG for all that you have done for us. You are greatly appreciated.

Sincerely, Dan K. Maruyama

C/LTC, Cadet Squadron 18, USAFA

(Former Cadet Remembers: From page 13.)

Harvard (shades of 13 years earlier), when my (then) wife said, “Lin, let me remind you that you flunked out of the Air Force Academy, you could fl unk out of Harvard too!” The USAFA dreams came back with a vengeance.

But as Icame to closure on the decision to attend Harvard, Ifigured that, however it turned out, Iwould have anew world record: either I would be the first person to flunk out of aUnited States military academy and go on to obtain adoctorate from Harvard, or Iwould be the first person in history to fl unk out of both. (And now that Ihave that doctorate Ido wish to thank Harvard for having the vision and the courage to take on anew doctoral student who was so “academically unfit for higher education.”)

My experiences with the U.S. Air Force Academy, both what it gave me and what it took from me, have driven me for 25 years. The businesses 1 have started and managed, the books Ihave written, the training programs I’ve conducted, the video tapes Ihave produced and in which I’ve appeared, the tenure I’ve received, the writing awards I’ve been presented—all of these have had an element of “showing the academic board at USAFA that they were wrong,” that what they did to me, as I perceived it then, said more about them and their process than it said about me and my abilities.

As Iread of astudy in Checkpoints some time back, my mind turned to the hundreds (thousands?) of others like me who, for amultitude of reasons, failed to graduate from USAFA and West Point and Annapolis. This study was conducted with USAFA graduates who decided not to pursue acareer in the Air Force and who subsequently returned to civilian life. Iwondered about all those who made that emotional investment but never made it to graduation and what price they, like me, had had to pay. How many of them spent the rest of their lives driven to prove that they were better than what their military academy experience seemed to re fl ect? How many were so overwhelmed by their failure or disappointment that they never quite recovered? Iwondered how many doctorates there were in that “group of failures,” how many alcoholics, how many suicides from the ranks of those who entered as the “creme de la creme.”

Iwondered how many, like me, continued alifelong fascination with the Academy? Ihave visited many times, read every book Icould get my hands on like Rick Atkinson’s The Long Gray Line, watched any movie about any comparable military situation, such as Lords of Discipline and An Officer and AGentleman. Icompared this fascination, bordering on a compulsion, with that of my ’64 classmate who graduated from USAFA, served in Viet Nam, left the Air Force, moved to Denver, and never went to visit the Academy again. He said he had no interest in any aspect of the Academy after graduation. His Academy experience had been seen through to completion; mine never would be.

Ifantasized about being invited back as afaculty member, of being asked to give the commencement address. To this end, among other things, Iwrote, and Prentice-Hall published amajor book on leadership, some of it based on things Ihad seen and learned as acadet.

Imeekly asked to join the USAFA alumni association (Association of Graduates) and then felt better when an associate status was established, not wanting to be part of the association under “false pretenses.” Ihave often wondered how many of the “associates” are those about whom I am writing in this article.

When Ireceived my invitation to the Class of ’64’s 20th reunion, the first to which Ihad received aformal invitation, Ionce again gave it “serious consideration” and the USAFA dreams revived. When Icalled the Academy to say that Iwas coming to the reunion, Iwas so stressed, so fearful that my classmates might not accept me as a“nongraduate” (the ultimate rejection) that, when Iwas asked for my home address so that they could mail me the information about the reunion, Icould not remember my address and had to look it up in my appointment book.

When Iattended that reunion Ikept avery low profile, feeling out my classmates about my being there. Iknew “the cat was out of the bag” as my book. The Art of Leadership, was in national distribution, with a shortened version of the story Ihave shared here. Ihad heard that it had been used in some classes at the Academy.

What 1was not prepared for was to find out that what had been alifealtering experience for me was anon-event for my classmates. As Isat around the banquet table with the seven members of the 24th Squadron in attendance and talked about my experiences the past two decades, they looked at me in amazement. Larry Ball, speaking for the others, said,“Lin, Ididn’t even remember that you hadn’t graduated with us. I didn’t know any of that.”

Jim Sue added, “This is amazing, Igraduated highest in the Class of ’64 of anyone in the 24th Squadron. Now Larry Ball is president of his own corporation, Bothwell, the flunkie, has aHarvard doctorate and is a tenured professor and author, and I’m driving planes for an airline. Go fi gure!”

After the reunion Ibegan formulating the way to make concrete my dream of delivering the talk that is now this article at the Class of ’64’s 25th reunion. That was when Ibegan to visualize standing up there as a living representative of those hundreds who gave their all for USAFA, but who didn’t make it to graduation. Ihad given it all that Ihad and yet it was not enough! Had Iattended the Academy perhaps adecade later....perhaps adifferent time....perhaps under different circumstances, different leaderships...but “the moving hand of time and life, having writ, moves on.”

The dream of delivering that address was dashed when Iwas unable to attend the 25th reunion and hence unable to request the opportunity to share this experience with my classmates, my brothers. That was when I began to think of sharing this concern with alarger audience, of seeing if I could awaken, if not academic interest, at least aremembrance of those who were, but aren’t...

To all of them, ray fellow nongraduates, Ilift my glass in memory and in tribute.

Lin Bothwell Nongraduate, but very much apart of the USAFA Class of 1964

AIR FORCE ACADEMY

Commitment To Excellence

About the Author

Lin Bothwell was acadet at the U.S. Air Force Academy from June 1960 to January of 1964. After leaving the Academy, he completed his bachelor’s and master’s degrees and has an earned doctorate from Harvard University. His professional career has included work in private industry, the federal government, and higher education. He has been a corporate president, university dean, and tenured professor of business administration. His publications include books on leadership, communication and financial planning. He is currently part of the Professional Development Group of Thiokol Corporation. Lin, his wife Marla, and their four children live just “east of Eden” (Utah). Lin would like to receive responses to this article and will answer letters directed to him at P.O. Box 258, Eden, Utah 84310.

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Col Charles JYoos II

575 Silver Saddle Drive Monument, CO 80132

Dear Colonel Yoos

24 October 1990

Thank you for accepting the appointment to chair the nominating com¬ mittee for the election of fi fteen members of the Board of Directors of the Association of Graduates.

The nominating committee is as follows:

Col Charles JYoos II, ’68 ,Chairman 575 Silver Saddle Dr Monument, CO 80132

Jerome VBruni, ’70

1675 Summit Point Ct

Colorado Springs, CO 80919

Lt Col Michael SWenger, ’73 16790 Flappy Landing Dr Monument, CO 80132

Capt Michelle DJohnson, ’81 14()07 True Mountain Dr Larkspur, CO 80118

Kathleen Callaghan Rex, ’84

7540 Tucson Ct

Colorado Springs, CO 80920

2Lt John TCairney, ’90

230B Rimview Dr Colorado Springs, CO 80919

GRADUATES SELECTED FOR COLONEL

TOTALS 74 129 25

1970

James E. Brechwald

David F. MacGhee

Jeffrey S. Shaver

Terry R. Silvester

1971

Samuel H. Clovis Jr.

Schuyler Foerster

Gordon D. Kage II

Robert A. Moyer

1972

Barry W. Barksdale

Russell T. Bolt

Neal D. Coyle

Charles N. Simpson

1973

John L. Barry

Roy H. Bass Jr.

Samuel L. Grier Jr.

Paul M. Guttman

John M. Pace

Quentin L. Peterson

1974

James B. Smith

Barry S. Wilson

1975

Peter J. Hennessey

Dale W. Meyerrose

Joseph P. Stein

Glenn C. Waltman

Richard E. Webber

Judge Advocates

Judge Advocates promoted to colonel on this list include one each from the classes of 1969 and 1971 in the primary zone and Thomas J. Fiscus from the Class of 1972 below the zone.

The chairman shall advise the general membership of the identity and ad¬ dress for the nominating committee so that individual members of the association may suggest candidates to the committee. Pursuant to Article VII of the bylaws of the Association of Graduates, it is the duty of the nominating committee to submit to the board of directors, not later than 1February 1991, aslate of candidates for the election of 15 directors. Said slate of candidates shall represent across section of the membership so as to insure that the following requirements as stated in the bylaws can be met:

1. Fifteen (15) directors shall be elected from the slate of can¬ didates to serve four-year terms;

2. At least half (16) of the directors, as of 1July 1991, will be able to regularly attend board meetings;

3. At least one- fi fth (7) of the members of the board, as of 1 July 1991, will have graduated less than ten (10) years prior to taking office.

Prior to seeking nominees, you should examine the list of those direc¬ tors whose terms of office run through 30 June 1993 to determine the im¬ pact on the above requirements. Additionally, board meetings will be nor¬ mally held quarterly in February, May, September and November. Elected directors will be expected to attend, at aminimum, two meetings per fiscal year (1 July-30 June) at their own expense. Failure to do so will result in arequest for the director to resign.

In choosing nominees, the committee should carefully weigh the following: past service to the association, prestige, and potential influence on behalf of the association. It is absolutely necessary to nominate only those who are members of the association and who are willing to commit enough of their time, energy, and loyalty to serve in light of their respec¬ tive duties, jobs, or professions during their tenure of office. Please note that the bylaws provide for nomination by petition.

With the outstanding pool of talent to choose from, Iam confident that you and your committee will do afine job of insuring that we have another excellent slate of candidates for the board of directors. On behalf of the current board of directors and the entire membership of the Association of Graduates, please accept my sincere thanks for your will¬ ingness to take on adifficult task.

Sincerely

ATTENTION ALL GRADUATE ASSOCIATION MEMBERS

The President of the Association of Graduates of the U.S. Air Force Academy has appointed me chairman of the nominating committee for upcoming vacancies on the Board of Directors of the Association of Graduates. The four-year term of office for elected directors will commence on 1July 1991, and the election will be held by letter proxy ballot. All ballots must be received in the association’s of¬ fice prior to 1200, Mountain Time, 30 April 1991. Please see the accompanying letter to the nominating committee.

Members are invited to submit recommendations for candidates to me or any member of the nominating com¬ mittee not later than 1January 1991. Any members who are recommended should ensure that their biographical infor¬ mation (as listed in the Register of Graduates) is current and accurate, and must submit astatement to accompany their candidacy, not to exceed 150 words in length. Can¬ didates are advised that they may or may not be nominated by my committee, based on the criteria in the accompany¬ ing letter.

(Signed)

CHARLES JYOOS II, ’68

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Sister Shares Concern for Grad Brother in Saudi Arabia

To Whom It May Concern:

Iwould like to share something with others like me who have someone they love serving our country in the Middle East. Perhaps you can help me.

The following was written for my brother, Tommy. Some know him as Tom. Some know him as Captain. And there’s alittle someone on the way who will soon know him as Daddy.

But to me he is just Tommy —the big brother Iused to fight with because he was “on my side of the couch.” He’s the big brother who was there to take me home when my first date didn’t turn out like 1 had expected. He’s the big brother Iadmired because the footsteps he gave me to follow were straight and narrow.

And now he’s the big brother who is 7,000 miles away in aworld I can’t begin to understand. He carries agun and sleeps in a“closet,” with his “chemical warfare gear never far away.” He flies his plane over “nothing but sand and camels.”

There’s nothing Ican do for Tommy but continue praying, writing and calling his wife. And wear my orange ribbon until he comes home.

Iknow there must be lots of other families with someone special who is 7,000 miles away in aworld they can’t begin to understand. Someone who carries agun and sleeps in a“closet,” with their “chemical warfare gear never far away”. Someone who flies aplane over “nothing but sand and camels.”

The following is for them —the mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, spouses, sons, daughters and friends left behind —as well as for Tommy and his buddies alongside him in Saudi Arabia.

We must stick together until they come home. It’s all we have.

Sincerely,

Tamalyn W. Powell

Your Country Awaits

The days must be long there in the desert sun.

Sand and guns surround you where there once was grass and flowers. Back home.

Book Shows Colorful History of Cadet Squadron Patches

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As acollector and historian of military insignia, P. Michael Sheridan, author of “Squadron Insignia of the United States Air Force Academy,” was amazed that little or no comprehensive record of this subject existed. It became obvious as his investiga¬ tion continued that squadron heraldry, avital link in the heritage of the Academy, needed to be recorded by joining photography and narrative in afirst-class publication.

His collection of insignia, the only complete grouping known to exist, was used in the photography. The narrative was completed after months of study and research.

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Back home is where we wait. Praying. Hoping. Wondering.

Thanking you for your courage. We cannot know what you must feel

In the desert sun.

How tired.

How scared.

How hot.

And you cannot know what we must feel back home

How tired.

How scared.

How proud.

But the same stars that shine on us back home

Shine on you

In the desert moon.

Know that you are not alone there.

For America is thinking of you. Each of you. All of you.

May your pride shield you from the hot sun.

Your flag save you from the blowing sand.

Your God protect you from the enemy.

And may you all come home soon.

Your country awaits.

by Tamalyn W. Powell

Dedicated to my brother Thomas R. Wilson, Captain, U.S. Air Force, and all of the other men and women serving their country in the Middle East.

(Editor’s note: "Tommy” is aClass of ’84 graduate flying the A-IO deployed to Saudi Arabia since mid-August. He is also the son of Thomas C.W. Wilson, ’61).

George Butler, ’61 Nominated to Four Stars and CINCSAC

At presstime, Lt. Gen. George L. Butler, Class of 1961, had been nominated for promotion to the grade of general to take over as commander in chief. Strategic Air Command; director. Joint Strategic Target Planning Staff; and commander, Strategic Air Combat Operations Staff. His previous duty was director, Strategic Plans and Policy, J-5, Joint Staff.

Butler, 51, was the chief U.S. negotiator of the Agreement on Dangerous Military Activities that was signed with the Soviet Union in 1989. It establishes standards of conduct for forces engaged in potentially provocative military activity.

General Butler earned his pilot’s wings after graduation from the Academy and in 1964 was selected for study in France as an Olmsted scholar. He flew F-4s during his tour in Vietnam after which he returned to the Academy as an instructor, an executive officer and air officer commanding. He served in numerous staff assignments and completed B-52 combat crew training in 1977, after which he had anumber of command assignments in Strategic Air Command. He returned to the Pentagon in 1986 after atour of duty as SAC’s inspector general.

He has amaster’s degree in international affairs from the. University of Paris and is acommand pilot with more than 3,000 flying hours. He and his wife, Dorene, have two children, Brett and Lisa.

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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 June 16 to September 30, 1990. We encourage others to join these dedicated graduates and friends in this most important project. Contributions and pledges made after September 30 will be listed in the next publication of Checkpoints.

CHECKPOINTS

DONORS

($25,000-599,999)

Hughes Aircraft Company

TRW Foundation

($10,000-$24,999)

Hewlett-Packard Company

Mr &Mrs RWayne Higginbotham match of

Mr

’60

FALCON DONORS

($5,000-$9,999)

AMR/American Airlines Foundation

LtCol(Rei) &Mrs Richard & Trelma Coppock ’61 match of Shearson Lehman Brothers

Frances Langford Foundation

Mr Terry Petrzelka ’70

Harold C&Joan SStuart Foundation

Mr Dana CArbaugh ’70

Mr Marvin JBarry ’70

Mr &Mrs Bruce JBauman match of Wisconsin Energy Corporation Foundation

Mr BMichael Bristow ’70

Mr &Mrs William WButler match of Bridgestone/Firestone Trust Fund

Mr &Mrs Bryan MCavan

Mr &. Mrs Joseph MClark

Capt Steven DClark ’78

Computer Sciences Corporation

Mr Jerry MDaily ’60

Mrs Rebecca BDavidson

Robert «fe Madeline Delich

Dr &. Mrs Rodney SDill

Mr &Mrs John EDye

Mr &Mrs Patrick Ehrman

LtCol(Ret) &Mrs William A Frederick, Jr

Dr &Mrs Charles JGaliardi

Dr George FGates ’64

CDR &Mrs Guy TGoodwin

Mr &Mrs Hector JGuevara

Ram and Bhargavi Gummaraju

Mr &Mrs Jay Hasbrouck

Mr &Mrs MPaul Hash

Col &. Mrs Warren LHenderson

Mr Clarence Hopkins

Dr &Mrs Jay TJohnson

Mr &Mrs Henry CJohnston

Mr &Mrs Frank EKacprowicz

Col HMichael Lambert ’70

LtCol Arthur SMacDonald ’70

Mr &Mrs John AMacDonald match of the Harris Foundation

Mrs John WMagee, Jr

Mr &Mrs Gene Markland

Mr &Mrs Michael WMartin match of Southern Bell

Mr &Mrs Donald McCarty

Mr &Mrs Ernest RMcClain

Maj(Ret) &Mrs Richard JMeyer, Jr

Lt Col George MMonroe ’70

Col &Mrs Edward LMoody

Mr &Mrs My Dong Nguyen

Mr &Mrs Paul JOttinger

Mr &Mrs Thomas EPeterson

Mr &Mrs Thomas EPeterson match of Jack Eckerd Corporation Foundation

Piasecki Foundation

Mr &Mrs Thomas JPrebula

Mr &Mrs John EPuhek

(Continued on next page.)

In

Total

Paid

Please

Name(s): Address: City:

Mr &Mrs Theodore EDueber

(Building Fund Donors: Continued from previous page.)

Col Michael Quinlan Ret ’61 match of USAA

Mr &Mrs John Redd VI

LtCol Stephen MRoberts ’70

Mr Paul Rossetti ’70

Mr Paul Rossetti ’70 match of Dyson-Kissner-Moran Corporation

Mr &Mrs Harold AShope

Mr &Mrs Reginald BShort

Mr &Mrs Walter VSoho match of Northwest Airlines

Mr &Mrs Milton Spangler

BGen Charles FStebbins Ret ’61

Mr &Mrs Robert JSurvil

Mr &Mrs Robert VThibault

Thiokol Corporation

Mr &Mrs Michael ATorino

Mr &Mrs Charles HTripp

Mr &Mrs Alex RUjfalusy, Jr

BGen James PUlm ’61

LtCol(Ret) &Mrs Roy TUyehata

Mrs Ida RVacirca in memory of ILt Lawrence PVacirca ’61

LtCol Barry DWatts Ret ’65

Col &Mrs Howard Wong

TAKEOFF DONORS

($25-$999)

Mr &Mrs Erich WAbel

Mr &Mrs Joseph JAbramson

Mr &Mrs Jose CAbrigo

Dr &Mrs Joseph AAccardo

Mr &Mrs Herbert PAdams

Mr &Mrs Alfred LAdkins

Alamo Area Chapter

Mr &Mrs Fred WAlbertson

Mr &Mrs Gerald FAldinger

Col James WAlexander ’60

Mr James PAllen

Col Kenneth JAlnwick Ret ’60

Col(Ret) &Mrs Roger WAndersen

Mr &Mrs Dale WAnderson

Col(Ret) &Mrs Douglas W

Anderson

Dr &Mrs RGene Anderson

Mr &Mrs Arthur IAngarole

Mr &Mrs Robert Appolloni

LtCol(Ret) &Mrs Robert G Archibald

Mr &Mrs Erwin GArmstrong

Mr Harry Arnold ’79

Mr &Mrs Sidney MArnold

Mr Fuller DAtkinson ’60

Mr &Mrs John MAwtrey

Mr &Mrs William EBaber

Maj John L. Bailey ’70

Dr &Mrs David WBaker

Mr &Mrs Dennis Banks match of Olin Corporation Charitable Trust

Mr James FBarrall ’70

Mr &Mrs Maxwell MBatson

Mr &Mrs Boris DBecker

Col &Mrs Frederick WBecker.

Jr

Mrs Geneva Beckman

LtCol Ward DBeighiol ’70

Mr &Mrs Albert FBelcher

Mr &Mrs Frank EBell

Mr &Mrs Eugene RBelmain

Mr &Mrs Robert CBender match of FMC Foundation

Mrs Mary HBenedict

Mr &Mrs Erwin JBenka

Mr &Mrs James Bennett

Mr &Mrs Walter RBennett

Mr &Mrs William JBente

Dr &Mrs HBlair Bentley

Mr &Mrs William NBerezovyteh

Mr &Mrs Harold PBergeson

Mr &Mrs Marvin LBorkompas

Mr &Mrs George WBettesworth

Mr &Mrs James FBillups

Mrs Dorothy PBinn

Mr &Mrs Robert JBirrenkott

Mr &Mrs Charles RBisbee, Jr

Mr Tex Bjorklund

Mr &Mrs Werner Blome

Mr &Mrs John Bobroski

Mr &Mrs Harry DBogosian, Jr

LtCol Charles JBohn ’II ’70

LtCol Richard WBonnell ’70

Mr &Mrs Philip ABossert

Mr &Mrs Charles LBoster

Mrs Stella VBoswell

Mr &Mrs Peter Bouma

Mr &Mrs John ABowen

Dr &Mrs Robert EBoyer

LtCol David JBoyles ’70

Mr &Mrs Daniel DBozard

Mr &Mrs Harold HBozarth

Mr &Mrs Patrick JBrady

Mr &Mrs Jack DBraley

Mrs Ida Blatz Brandt

Mr &Mrs Donald OBrazelton

Mr &Mrs James HBreeden

Mr &Mrs Kenneth WBrewer

Col &Mrs Ray SBrill

Mr &Mrs Harris LBrisbon, Jr

LtCol(Ret) &Mrs Arnold EBrower

Mr Charles MBrown ’70

Mr &Mrs Christopher VBrown

Ms Geneva HBrown

Mr &Mrs Raleigh CBrown

LtCol &Mrs Anthony GBrozena,

Sr

Mr &Mrs James SBruno

LtCol John SBrush Ret ’60

Col &Mrs VKBuck

Ms Roberta DBudd

Mr &Mrs James WBurchett

LtCol Joseph GBurke ’70

Ms Lyska LBurling

Mr &Mrs Thomas VBurns

Donation and Recognition Levels

Please check your donation level

TAKEOFF Donor [$25 —$999]

TALON Donor [$1,000 —$4,999]

FALCON Donor [$5,000 —$9,999]

CONTRAILS Donor [$10,000 —$24,999]

CHECKPOINTS Donor [$25,000 —$99,999]

POLARIS Donor [$100,000 or more]

Mr &Mrs James Burris

Mr &Mrs Warren TBuschmann

LtCol Larry FBush ’70

Dr &Mrs Henry KButler

Mrs Pearl MButler

Mr &Mrs Fred ABynum

Mr &Mrs Thomas PCahill

Mr &Mrs Carl Caldwell

Mr &Mrs Thomas ACaldwell

Mr &Mrs Robert LCallihan match of The Hartford Insurance Group

Mr &Mrs Lawrence Cameron

Sgt &Mrs Martin VCameron

Mr &Mrs WGibson Campbell

Mr &Mrs WGibson Campbell match of PHGlatfelter Co

Mr &Mrs Sam ACannata

Mr &Mrs John JCapone, Jr

Mr &Mrs Vincent JCapozzella

Ms Florence MCapozzi

LtCol Christopher Caravello ’70

Mr &Mrs William DCarper

Ms Kathleen Carreno

Mr Francis LCarroll

Mr &Mrs Reuben LCarter

Mr &Mrs James HCarter, Jr

CBS Insurance

Mr &Mrs Alfredo Cellery

Mr Charles ECheeseman

Mr &Mrs William Chelales

Mr &Mrs Ralph PChenaille

Mr &Mrs Charlie Childress

Mr &Mrs Young Gong Cho

Mr &Mrs Pellegrino GCiccarello

Mr &Mrs Dominic GCiesco

Mr &Mrs George Cindrich

Mr &Mrs Kevin WClare

LtCol Christopher KClark ’70

Mrs Frances Cline

Mr &Mrs Patrick FClose

Mr Marck RCobb ’70

Mr &Mrs Vincent Colarusso

Mr &Mrs Francis JColby

Mr &Mrs Gary LCole

Mr &Mrs NEColebrook

Mr Richard WCollett

Mr &Mrs Salvatore JCollura

SMSgt Elmer FColyer Jr, Ret

LtCol(Ret) &Mrs James BComan,

Jr

Mr &Mrs Gerard FConklin

Mrs Linda Conrey

Mr &Mrs Frank Contorno

Geralynn MCook

Mr &Mrs JBryan Cooksey, Jr

Mr &Mrs William CCooley

Mr &Mrs James WCooper

LtCol(Ret) &Mrs David ACorbett

Mr &Mrs Gene HCorbett

Sgt &Mrs Isiah Corbett

Mr &Mrs JCCothren

Mr &Mrs Richard Cover, Jr

Maj &Mrs Lee BCox, Jr

Mr &Mrs Bob HGrafton

LtCol Ronald PCraigie ’70

Mr &Mrs Arthur Crain

Mr &Mrs Kenneth Crandall

Mr &Mrs David BCrane

Mr &Mrs Robert FCrerie

Mr &Mrs Alfred SCresse

LtCol Gary FCrew Ret ’60

Mr &Mrs Jack ACrockford

Mr «fe Mrs Patrick Croghan

Mr &Mrs Gary ECronk

Mr George DCrow III ’70

Mr &Mrs Robert LCrupi match of North American Philips Corporation

Maj &Mrs William ECurrent

Mr &Mrs AJCurry

Mr &Mrs James ECurry

Mr &Mrs Paul EDanel, Sr

Mr &Mrs Richard GDarling

Mr Mickey SADavey ’70

Mrs GEDavis

Mr &Mrs Raymond ADavis

Mr William FDavis ’70

Dr &Mrs Kenneth LDavison

Mrs Joyce MDawson

Col &Mrs George EDay

Mr &Mrs John Dayon match of Hewlett-Packard Company

Mr &Mrs Willard GDeGraaf

Mr &Mrs Willard GDeGraaf match of Consumers Power Foundation

Mr &Mrs Clarence DeGroot

Mr &Mrs John CDeLuca, Jr

Mr &Mrs Robert MDemkowicz

Mr &Mrs Dwight Dennis

LtCol Jeffrey SDennis

Mr &Mrs Vincent DePalmer

Mr &Mrs John RDePaolo

Mr &Mrs Bernard FDeren

Mr Anthony DeSantis ’70

Mr &Mrs Vito DeSantis

Mr &Mrs Robert FDesmond

Mr &Mrs Robert GDevaney

Mr &Mrs James EDewine

Mr &Mrs Larry Diaz

Mr &Mrs Louis Diaz

Mr &Mrs Rolando Diaz

Mr &Mrs Charles LDickerson, Jr

Mrs Fances MDiLeo

Mr &Mrs Larry Dillard

Mr &Mrs Douglas Dimeff

Mr &Mrs Ignatius TDiNuovo

Mr &Mrs James Dion

Mr John FDisosway ’70

Mr &Mrs Douglas LDodson

Mr &Mrs James MDodson

Mr &Mrs Charles Donoho

LtCol &Mrs John BDoolittle match of Paci fi c Telesis

Dr Michael DDowdall MD ’70

LtCol(Ret) &Mrs John EDoyle, Jr

Mr Robert JDrabant ’70

Mr &Mrs Thomas WDrake

Mr &Mrs Richard KDressel

Mr &Mrs John ADucharme

Mr &Mrs John IDunham

Ms Thelma HDunlevy

Mr &Mrs Peter Dunlop

LtCol Preston CDye

Mr &Mrs Emerson LDyer

Mrs William HDyer

Mr &Mrs Windell WEades

Mr &Mrs CWEaston

Mr Patrick LEdsell ’70

Mr &Mrs Howard Eissler

CMSgt &Mrs William SEldridge

Mr &Mrs Donald DEllwein

Ms Eva BEncinas

Mr &Mrs Lee HErb

Mr &Mrs David PErdmann

Mr &Mrs Clyde BEricson

Mr &Mrs William EErikson

Mr &Mrs Richard DEverding

Mr &Mrs Roger LEwart

Mrs Shirlie IEwing

Mr &Mrs Donald GEylander, Sr

Dr &Mrs Edward LFarquhar

Mr &Mrs Stanley KFaust

Mr Seymour Felix

Mr &Mrs Thomas PFerrara

Mrs Dorothy MFerraro

Mr &Mrs Peter JFewster match of Grumman Corporation

Mr &Mrs Alan JFick

Mr &Mrs Robert Fiddler

Dr &Mrs Frank AFigg

Mr Gary LFinley ’70

Mr Roger FFinnern ’70

Col(Ret) &Mrs Bernard FFisher

Mr &Mrs Eugene RFitzgerald

AMCS(Ret) &. Mrs Edward JFlade,

Jr Mr &Mrs Frank MFlanagan

Mr James HFleming ’64

Mr &Mrs Donald RFlinn match of IBM

Mr &Mrs Donald RFlinn match of Amoco Foundation, Inc

Mrs Daphne Flood

Mrs Myrna Fluker

Mr &Mrs Robert HFollett

Mr &Mrs Daniel JFonte

Mr Donald AFord ’81

Mr &Mrs James AFox

Ms Martha HFox

Col Peter HFox ’70

LtCol(Ret) &Mrs Thomas PFox

Mr Derrick RFranck ’70

Mr &Mrs Richard HFranklin

Mr &Mrs James Ray Franks

Mr &Mrs Gail 0Frazier

Maj Edwin BFrazier, Jr ’73

Mrs Kim Freeman

Mr &Mrs John CFritz

Mr &Mrs James EFritz, Jr

Mr &Mrs Marvin DFuller

Mr &Mrs George PFuller 111 match of Martin Marietta Corporation

CWO/W4(Ret) &Mrs Frederick G Funk

Contributions of $1000 or more will be recognized on apermanently displayed plaque in the lobby of the Association of Graduates building. Other contributors’ names will be kept in aspecial leather-bound volume that will also be displayed in the lobby.

Ichoose to pay my contribution pledge over the following period, payable as indicated on the front of this card:

1Year Period

2Year Period

Please contact me about my gift

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Thank you for your support of the AOG!

Class of 1970 Enjoys 20-Year Reunion Weekend

By Jerry Bruni, ’70

Starting on Thursday, Sept. 13, about 3(X) members of the Class of 1970 plus wives and families, started to arrive at the Colorado Springs Marriott from literally the four corners of the world. The weather was great (as it would remain throughout the Homecoming weekend) —warm and Colorado dry. The AOG team registered everybody efficiently; Joe Burke’s team did abrisk business in golf shirts and caps, coasters, sweaters, playing cards, glasses and more; and the hotel’s bartender corps was pressed into high gear. While we waited for the scheduled informal buffet and social to begin, the hotel sounded exactly like you’d expect with hundreds of classmates meeting each other for the first time in many years. Thursday night was just exactly what we needed —time to roam around meeting people, without any necessity to be tied down to one table.

Friday was the first chance for many classmates to see the new USAFA which, from most external appearances, looks very much like the old

(Donors: Continued from previous page.)

Mr &Mrs James JRusso

Mr &Mrs John FRyaii

Mrs Marie TRyan

Maj &Mrs Hammond MSalley

Maj &Mrs John PSalvucci

Mr &Mrs Norman GSambuchi

Mr &Mrs Paul ESanderson

Ms Tess SSandholzer

Mr &Mrs Richard LSandwick

Mr &Mrs Kenneth RSanford

Mr &Mrs Walter ASaunders

Saunders Construction Inc

Mr Michael LScarano

Mr &Mrs Martin JSchans

Mr &Mrs Samuel MSchapiro

Mr Douglas BSchecr ’71 match of IBM

Mr &Mrs Ervin GScheets

Mr &Mrs Edward JScheffelin

LtCol Gary BSchmidt ’70

Mr &Mrs Robert FSchuff

Mr &Mrs WDonald Schultz

Mr Jay KSchumacher ’70

Mr &Mrs John ESchwartz

Mr &Mrs Neil Schwartz

Mr &Mrs Herman JSchwarz

Col &Mrs Fred CSchwarze

Mr &Mrs Charles Schweiss

BGen Hanson LScott ’61

Mrs Woodrow LScott

Mr &Mrs James HSeamon

Mr Donald ESeese II ’70

Mr Albin RSeilius

Mr &Mrs Ronald PSellberg

Mrs Elsie HSellers

Sgt &Mrs John ESells

Mr &Mrs Charles Sersun, Jr

match of ICI Americas

Mr &Mrs Janez FSever

Mr &Mrs John TShafer

Ms Jane GShaffer

Mr &Mrs Bernard LShalz, Sr

Mr &Mrs James FShanley

Richard PSharpe

Rosemary MSharpe

LtCol Gerry WShaw ’70

Mr &Mrs Albert GShedden

Dr David KShelton ’70

Ms Emily Sherman

Mr &Mrs Parker LShipley

Mrs Lois MSieverling

CMSgt(Ret) &Mrs James JSilya

LtCol Terry RSilvester ’70

Mr &Mrs Jacob ASimcik

Mr &Mrs Albert ASimon

Mr &Mrs Larry LSimon

LtCol Alan ASimoncic ’70

Mr Frederick WSine ’70

Mr Frederick WSine ’70

The UPS Foundation

Mr &Mrs Gordon HSinger

Mrs Margaret RSkinner

Mr &Mrs William JSkowron

Mr &Mrs Anthony PSlavec

Mr &Mrs Carl RSmith

Dr &Mrs Charles DSmith

MSgt(Ret) &Mrs David CSmith

Mr &Mrs Duncan ASmith

Col(Ret) &Mrs Kenneth SSmith

Capt Michael BSmith ’80

MSgt(Ret) &Mrs Paul Smith

Capt Daniel RSny ’86

Mr CBernard Snyder

Col &Mrs George FSnyder

Mr &Mrs James DSnyder

LtCo! Marius GSorenson ’70

LtCol(Ret) &Mrs Arnold MSowell

LCDR &Mrs William SSpagna

Sgt &Mrs Dale RSpangenthal

Mr &Mrs Stanley Spaulding

CMSgt &Mrs WSpeight

Mr &Mrs Clarence ESpitz

LtCol Brian JSpitzer ’70

Mr &Mrs James ASponaugle

match of AT&T Foundation

LtCol James DSpurgeon III ’70

Mr &,Mrs GLStafford, Jr

Mr William FStamm ’70

Mr &Mrs George LStamper

Dr &Mrs Donald EStanbury

Mr John WStealey ’70

Mr &Mrs Mark SStearns

Mr &Mrs Robert Stefanich

Mr &Mrs Leonard DSteffan

Mr &Mrs John AStelmack

USAFA. There were briefings on the current cadet programs, atour of the dorm (all carpeted!), lunch with the Cadet Wing (it’s still not ajoy to be adoolie) and smaller meetings with cadets in the squadron areas. There’s no water in the Air Gardens anymore (hasn’t been for years), the X-4 is still where we left it, the marble strips on the terrazzo mostly have been replaced with less slippery stone, the diggers and fillers seemed nowhere to be found, and the Cadet Chapel still commanded awe.

The memorial service on Friday afternoon was avery moving ex¬ perience. While the Cadet Wing assembled on the terrazzo (20 minutes ahead of schedule Class Wall (the wall just east of the chapel, where the various class crests are mounted). In addition to graduates and the USAFA dignitaries, the families of deceased graduates joined together for the ceremony. The Cadet Drum and Bugle Corps played taps, and the names of each

LtCol Dwain EStephens ’70

Mr &Mrs George MStevenson

Mr &Mrs Donald LStoffel

Mr &Mrs Earl Stopher

Mr &Mrs Joseph LStrabala

CMSgt &Mrs Ray DStrong

Mr &Mrs Harvey EStuckley

Maj Charles EStumb USAFR ’70

Col Theodore JSlumm Ret ’60

Capt Pedro FSuarez ’86

Mr &Mrs John FSucich

Mr &Mrs Edward DSullivan

Mr Patrick CSullivan ’70

Mr &Mrs Charles KSwaney

Mr Dustin HSwanson, Jr ’70

Mrs WCSweeney, Jr

Mr &Mrs Francis JSzalejko

Mr &Mrs Boleslaw SSztuka

Mrs Lisa Tambos

Mr &Mrs Julius DTarr

CDR &Mrs Ben RTate, Jr

Lt Richard WTatem ’88

Mr &Mrs Albert JTaylor

LtCol John ATaylor ’70

Mr &Mrs John ATaylor

Mr &Mrs Walter WTaylor

Mr &Mrs Merlen Teal

Mr &Mrs Michael Tepley

Mr &Mrs Richard LTerrell

Mr CRichard Thiele

Mr &Mrs Ronald JThiele

Mr &Mrs Ronald JThiele match of Mead Johnson &Company

Mr &Mrs Maximus TThom

Mr &Mrs Preston Thompson

Mr Thomas WThompson ’70

Mr &Mrs Carel Thompson, Jr

Dr &Mrs Joseph BThornhill

Mr &Mrs Ivan EThorsos

Mr &Mrs JGorman Tidball

Mr &Mrs Calvin STilden

Mr &Mrs Frank BTodaro match of Cooper Industries

Mr &Mrs Lonnie Toombs

Ms Patricia ATopper

Mr &Mrs Edgar HTracy

Mr &Mrs Michael MTracy

Mr &Mrs William ETravnick

LtCol Jack RTrimble ’70

Dr &Mrs Roman VTuason, Jr

Mr &Mrs Charles DTuck

just like the old days), we formed in front of the

(Continued on page 29.)

Mr &Mrs Wenn Tung

Mrs Andree Ulmer

Mr &Mrs Maurice EUnderwood

Mr &Mrs Jerry LUpdegraff

LtCol Carl MUpson ’70

Mr &Mrs Ramiro AVaca

Mr &Mrs George JVahala

TSgt(Ret) &Mrs Jose AEValdez

Mr &Mrs Charles JValle

Mr &Mrs Michael JValovcin

BGen Earl SVan Inwegen Ret ’60

Mr &Mrs Barry TVance

Rev &Mrs Nicholas VanderWeide

Mr &Mrs James HVanOrnum match of AT&T Foundation

Mr &Mrs Donald JVazquez

Mr &Mrs Frank TVeldhuizen

Mr &Mrs George Velten

LCDR &Mrs Henry TVenerdi

Mr &Mrs Paul Verchinski

Mr &Mrs Harold Verstreate

Mr &Mrs Edward EVictoria

LtCol Michael JVilbert ’70

Ignacio AVillem match of Wells Fargo Bank

Mr &Mrs David AVilter

Lt &Mrs John Vipond

Mr &Mrs Wayne Voetberg

Mr &Mrs Nick JVolcheff

Mr &Mrs Daniel RVolpe

Mr &Mrs Donald TWaechter

Mr &Mrs Edward Waitte

Mr &Mrs Harold EWalker

Mr &Mrs Thomas HWalsh

Mr &Mrs Gerald DWaltrip

Dr &Mrs Clifford KWanebo

Mr &Mrs Ching IVI Wang

Dr Charles AWard ’70

Mr &Mrs Harold WWard

Mr &Mrs Frank HWaskow

Col &Mrs William GWatson

LtCol(Ret) &Mrs Jimmie Wax

Mr &Mrs Jon WWebber

Maj FWilliam Weber, Jr ANG ’70

Mr &Mrs William CWebster

Mr &Mrs RJWebster,

Mr

Mrs

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Mr

Mr

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Mrs Jeanine MWidseth

Mr &Mrs John JWieland match of Occidental Petroleum Charitable Foundation

Mr &Mrs Jeffrey Wignall

Mrs Joyce LWiley

Col &Mrs John Wilhelm

Mr &Mrs Joseph CWilk

Mr &Mrs Roger AWillard

Col &Mrs Hugh HWilliams

Mr Allen RWilson match of The Goodyear Tire &Rubber Company

LtCol(Ret) &Mrs Powell JWilson,

Jr

Dr &Mrs Doanld LWise

Mr James CWise

Mr &Mrs Barry Wiseman

Mr &Mrs FRWittnebert

Mr &Mrs John EWolf

Mr &Mrs Elmer CWolfe, Jr

Mr &Mrs Michael Wolford

Mr &Mrs Eugene Wood

Mr &Mrs Robert LWoods

Mr &Mrs Robert LWright

Mr &Mrs Karl Wuttke

Mr &Mrs Richard PWynn

Mr &Mrs Charles BYeager

Mr &Mrs Donald RYoho

Mr &Mrs Louis GYoung

LtCol &Mrs Carl HYung

Mr &Mrs Joseph Zabbo

Mr &Mrs Richard MZarnik

Mr &Mrs Charles EZeeck

Mr &Mrs Kenneth Ziomek

Mrs Lucy Zoeller

Col Edward AZompa Ret ’61

Mr &Mrs Theodore Zwijaez

^80 Reunion: The Return of the Burger Kings

By Karen S. Wilhelm, ’80

Hey all you Burger King buddies —great seeing you! To those of you who couldn’t make it —due to Desert Shield or whatever other excuse you could come up with —we missed you, and you missed agreat time! Just in case you weren’t here (or for some reason can’t remember), here’s arecap of all the highlights.

organizer on this end. The free MCI cards given to all AOG members for the weekend provided opportunities for adventure in “reaching out and touching someone.” No one could get through the switchboard in Saudi (though not for lack of trying), but all of us Eighteenth Squadron folks talked to Scott German after we woke him up over in Belgium. Colorado blessed us with one of those gorgeous weekends and there were just enough clouds on Saturday to keep everyone from getting scor¬ ched at the game. Although, if my experience was typical, no one actually saw much of the game due to continuing nonstop hellos all around. The tailgate party was great, and we didn’t run out of beer until right before game time! The Falcons were kind enough to present us with awin, although they kept the score low (no doubt out of consideration for those who aren’t used to the ’bone and those 30 and 40 point scores —for both sides). The Jabara Banquet and dance that night provided more oppor¬ tunities to renew old friendships and catch up on news from everyone. The Head Burger King (Matt Neuenswander) did agreat job as master of ceremonies —well, we all thought he was funny, and I’m sure the supt wasn’t really angry. (So Matt, do you think they’ll delay promotions to major for all of us, or just you?)

From the opening moment of registration on Thursday night to the last goodbyes on Sunday, it was clear ’80 was here to party. The war stories and reminiscences began immediately and one could hear laughter, and “Do you remember ...?” and “Last class with Keds,” (I had to explain what Keds were to my students) all over the lobby at the Sheraton. Of course, the other standard question was, “What are you doing now?” And the standard answer was, “Oh, Ifly for ...(pick one: Delta, United, American, etc.)”

Friday was more of the same with more memories keyed by tours through the dorms (fully carpeted and everyone has atop bunk and a computer —do you remember the first time you tried to run abuffer?). Those of us who work here have gotten used to how young cadets are these days, but it was fun watching others make that discovery. Ross Roley won the golf tournament, held for those not interested in touring dorms. The Memorial Ceremony was amoving tribute to fallen com¬ rades, made more so by 10 years of seeing the names and faces in the “Gone But Not Forgotten” column in Checkpoints, and Bart Jackson’s name announced with the answering call, “Absent, sir.” Our thanks to the AOG and the Cadet Wing for bringing the lumps to our throats and reminding us of what it all means. Thanks also to all the squadron party reps who set up Friday night’s activities and Eric Bussian who was chief

Our committee stalwarts from left are Margie (Clark) Varuska, Brian Cullis, and Col. (Ret) Jock Schwank, AOG vice president, Services. Sunday came with its goodbyes so quickly after all the hellos. Those of us who make our class just alittle “different” from the rest had agreat time at brunch. Husbands in attendance minded the children, took pic¬ tures on demand, and sat around with bemused expressions through several more hours of war stories and remembrances. The weekend was gone before it began, or so it seemed, and the only thing in short supply was sleep! Now we know why this only happens every 10 years —it takes that long to recover, and catalogue all those pictures.

(Continued on page 29.)

IBank Supports Jabara Banquet

We again thank the Air Academy National Bank for its con¬ tinuing support of association programs. The bank has cospon¬ sored and provided funds for the reception prior to the Homecoming Jabara Banquet for many years. At left are Glenn Griffith, bank vice president, and his wife, Gerrie; and at right are George (Doc) Willis, bank senior vice president and cashier, and his wife, Polly.

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Dave Volipka parachuted into Falcon Stadium with the class flag. Chris Miller helps with the display.

Jabara Award Winner

Capt. Francis R. Gabreski, ’81, center, accepts the 1990 Jabara Award for Airmanship from Academy Superintendent Lt. Gen. Charles R. Hamm. Association of Graduates president Mr. Eric M. Thorson, ’67, looks on. Captain Gabreski won the award for work crucial to the successful deployment and employment of the AC-130H Spectre gunships prior to and during Operation JUST CAUSE in Panama. He was the Military Airlift Command nominee.

Class of 1960 Celebrates Their 30-year Anniversary

By Andi Biancur, ’60 the Embassy Suites followed by an impromptu story-telling ses-

Some 85 members of the Class of ’60 made it back to the Rockies and the Embassy Suites for our 30-year anniversary on 6-9 September. From all indications the reunion was aroaring success. In fact the only improvement any one of the attendees could suggest would be that all those who didn’t make it could have been there. The entire weekend was blessed with good weather, arelaxed environment, and an impressive Falcon win over the Hawaii Rainbows (27-3). Following apractice party on Wednesday evening for the early birds, the weekend began with a casual get-together at the hotel on Thursday evening. It rapidly turned into aseries of discussions centering around the changed physical attributes experienced by most of us during the aging process.

Greg Boyington without his two-wheeler. From left, Jim Thomasson, Greg, Nels Delisanti and?

Common topics included variances in vision and the amounts and color of hair. Of course some of the class have clearly found the fountain of youth and taken full advantage of it. Billy Delony, Howie Bronson, Paul Sullivan, Sid Gurley, and Alex Zimmerman —to name afew —must be the same weight as the day they entered the Academy. In all, the class has maintained itself very well, even if we are constantly outshone by our ladies.

Friday morning saw the dedicated and not-so-dedicated golfers headed for the links and achance to hone their competitive edge. From the sound of the awards presented later that day by Gary Crew, the struggle was epoch. Would you believe a12-inch drive?

Friday afternoon began with lunch at Mitch’s for the guys, who were then joined by the wives for atour of the Cadet Area, a briefing by the superintendent’s senior staff, the memorial service and class pictures. Friday evening we headed for Peterson AFB O-club for dinner and dancing (lied about the dance). Saturday morning some folks went to the parade then joined the rest of us at atailgate party prior to the game. Saturday evening we closed the “formal” portion of the weekend with aMexican Buffet at

Sion.

Avery large portion of the reunion’s success was due to the yeoman work of Jock Schwank, Jim Glaza, Dick Schehr, and Wayne Kendall. Their long hours of preparation were evident and they worked tirelessly all weekend, ably assisted by their wonder¬ ful spouses. The AOG contributed invaluable assistance in pro¬ viding much of the background effort to liaison with the Academy. But the key to success of the weekend was, as always, the folks who attended. Each attendee brought something very special with them. Greg Boyington came gliding in from Alameda, Calif, on his Honda Goldwing motorcycle with no visi¬ ble signs of wear. Duck Waddle and Hope Schwank convinced Neal Reavely on the phone late Wednesday night that he could still make it from Bozeman, Mont, for the weekend —and he did. Fortunately, Mike and Barbara Loh, Ron and Connie Yates, and Dale and Cherie Thompson (three of our remaining five activeduty folks) could enjoy the entire weekend with us.

If we had awards, Frank and Eve Mayberry, who came in from Woomera, Australia, would surely have won for longest distance traveled. Speaking of awards. Bob Odenweller found avery nice Falcon print which he offered as the “Outrageous Award”, to be given to the grad who was judged the most deserving during the weekend. The rules and judges were unknown. On Saturday even¬ ing, following dinner, during the impromptu story-telling session, several grads availed themselves of the opportunity to relate the “real story” of some of our historical incidents. Several took the opportunity but none could match the hilarious episodes revealed by Hardy Lebel. For that performance, he was unanimously judged as the most outrageous.

Throughout the weekend ahost of memories were revisited and many unknown facts were revealed. For example, it can now finally be told that D.K. Johnson’s body served as the model for both the stealth bomber and stealth fighter. Ken Alnwick and Ace Holman make avery “cute” couple in their tennis togs. Norm Haller really is Dorien Gray. A1 Johnson is blessed with “fast twitch” fiber in his muscles. (You know... that’s what gives world-class sprinters their lightning-fast starts.) Hardy Lebel missed his calling as one of the most outrageous stand-up comics of the century. Bob Odenweller was instrumental in designing the pipe organ at the Cadet Chapel. Ted Hopkins has not watched a Miss American Pageant since 1959. Greg Boyington is not more handsome with bugs on his teeth. Jim O’Rourke and Professor Neil Delisanti live within two miles of each other near Seattle, while Billy Delony and Ace Holman are neighbors in Orlando. George Pupich has been carrying D.K. Johnson for 34 years and he is beginning to get heavy. Mike Loh remembers every Aero formula he ever learned. Gary Sheets is the closest we have to a scratch golfer.

Hardy Lebel displays the “Outrageous Award. ”

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Agroup enjoys cocktails at the Thursday evening warm-up. From left, Mary Waddle, husband Jim, Ron Yates, Connie Yates and Dale Thompson.

another story while at the Saturday

(1970 Reunion: From page 26.)

graduate and cadet who passed away in the most recent years were called out. In response to each name, acurrent member of the deceased’s cadet squadron would call out, “Absent, sir.” Afterward, aflight of four F-16s passed over, and the number three aircraft pulled up and away. It was tru¬ ly aspecial moment.

Cross, 12 Silver Stars, 134 Distinguished Flying Crosses, 17 Pur¬ ple Hearts, and 1,174 Air Medals (more than one-third of the AFA grad grand total of 2,979). We are the only class to have three members recognized with the Jabara Award for Airman¬ ship. Seventeen of the 24 classmates on the roll call were killed while flying. One, Val Bourque, was the first cadet to enter the Air Force Academy on 11 July 1955, and was then the first Academy Graduate to lose his life in combat.

Dean Vikan and Les Hobgood spent agreat deal of time over the weekend with video cameras on their shoulders. (1 think Marilyn may have done better with the camera than Les.) Iknow that Hardy’s award-winning performance was recorded as were many of the other noteworthy and less than noteworthy events. Both Dean and Les have promised to consolidate their efforts and produce one tape which they will return to the class. Depending on their resultant product and the level of interest for such a record, we could consider having some reproductions made. This is not asolication but only acomment to let you folks know it ex¬ ists and that it could be aired at later gatherings.

lunch. From left, Dick Schehr, Gary Sheets and Hardy Lebel. Wayne Kendall directed avery moving memorial service in honor of the 24 classmates who are no longer with us. He un¬ covered some facts about the class that deserve to be passed on. There were 317 of us who began on 9July 1956. Over 30 years ago, on 8June 1960, 227 of us graduated and set out to serve our country. Now only five of us remain on active duty, including the first graduate to be vice chief of staff of the Air Force and the first graduate to be commander of Air Force Systems Command. Our class has earned 17 stars to date and been awarded one Air Force ing, and the catered tailgate party was first class. Before the football game (versus the Citadel) we were treated to fly-overs by F-16s and even the Stealth fighter. Our goal-line seats certainly didn’t interfere with our en¬ thusiasm for the- game. Until the Falcon Stadium staff ushered Greg Woodhead, Kevin Duffy and Chip Terrill off aslightly dangerous ledge, they led us in cheers from USAFA Pre-game to “Slash’em with abeak” to “Wamp’em up the side of the head.” (The last two didn’t seem to have survived to the present day.) The game was more thrilling than any of us wanted, as an inspired Citadel team together with aFalcon team with a bad case of fumbles made the fi nal score uncomfortably close. Still, the Falcons won, 10-7.

After the memorial service we adjourned to the chapel for our class pic¬ tures which, hopefully, will appear with this article. Unfortunately, we ar¬ rived at the chapel’s front doors only to fi nd that awedding rehearsal was in progress! Weddings are special, so we all waited 15 minutes for the rehearsal to end, and we used the time to pick up where Thursday night left off.

The Friday night dinner found most classmates finally willing to sit down for acouple hours, while we were served by the Marriott staff and entertained by Dan McFadden. Dan showed us his cadet-memories videotape, pieced together from hundreds of old photos and even some film footage. Back came memories of group growlers, buck-buck, pep rallies, SAMIs, Corvettes, Jack’s Valley, SERE, intramurals, parades and much more. Dan went on to hand out afew awards, such as most children (Bill Manning —lOVi), most hair (mystery classmate) and least hair (“a 20-way tie for first place”). Then came the 31st Street Exit band —real, very live and in color. And the band played on —until after two o'clock the next morning! It was just great, if you could still stand on your feet.

(1980 Reunion: From page 27.)

Those of us who missed this one, don’t miss the next one. We’ll all be... (grayer, rounder, balder —pick one or all of the above) and have lots more stories to tell. Those of us who organized this one can’t wait for the next one —as long as we’re stationed somewhere else! Speaking of organizers, thanks to all the reunion committee members (see class news

Ted Hopkins arrived in Colorado Springs with acase of very select wines. This case will be carefully placed in storage in an¬ ticipation of the 50th Reunion in the year 2010. Hopefully when we uncork those bottles and pass around the contents, we will have exhausted the supply before anyone gets asecond glass. In the interim, we plan to reconvene every five years at the Academy to reinforce those bonds.

After numerous victory parties late Saturday afternoon, we gathered together again for the Jabara Award Banquet at Mitchell Hall on Satur¬ day night. This year’s recipient was Capt. Francis Gabreski (Class of ’81) for his role in Operation Just Cause (General Noriega’s headache). The Cadet Chorale put on afine performance and, as is their custom, they in¬ vited former Chorale members from the Classes of ’70 and ’80 to join them in singing the Battle Hymn of the Republic. It was atouching mo¬ ment. For those few with any energy left, there was aHomecoming Ball at Arnold Hall after the banquet.

Sunday morning brought chapel services, afew scattered brunches and the end of one of the most enjoyable weekends ever. 1think our capacity to enjoy the reunion and Homecoming events was limited only by our physical capacity to stay awake!

Saturday started with another beautiful, sun-drenched Colorado mornclass column for afull list), and special thanks to Matt Neuenswander president, chairman, and Jabara organizer who led us through the last 13 (yes, 13!) months of meetings with humor, grace, and infinite patience and to the folks at the AOG and USAFA Graduate Affairs —especially Col. Jock Schwank, Linda Glaza, and Capt. Leona Flores. They’ve got this reunion stuff down to ascience, and we truly couldn’t have done it without them. That’s it for this reunion ’80, see you all in the year 2000!

Hardy pondering

tailgate

Would you believe Pete McCalley is the only guy in the whole class with abald spot? That’s his wife with the sunglasses to cut the glare.

Enjoying the tailgate and watching for the F-l 17.

ACADEMY ALUMNI ALERT

By Col. Jerry Wyngaard, ’68, and Capt. Leona Flores, ’81 Directorate of Development and Alumni Programs, USAFA ♦

In response to our piece on First Group squadron patches, we received aletter on an Eighth Squadron patch we didn’t know existed, and aletter containing abrief history of the Twenty-first Squadron patch. We ap¬ preciated your correspondence and hope to complete the cadet squadron patch puzzle after the fourth installment of our series.

Allan Hunt, ’69, called and wrote us about an Eighth Squadron patch that possibly was “offered as areplacement for the original Eighth Squadron patch.” He noted that in the summer of 1965 he received the patch and that his first USAFA mug even had the patch on it. He also said that possibly the squadron voted to retain the old patch and keep this one as an informal squadron patch. Hunt wasn’t sure who designed this patch but suspects that someone in ’66 or ’67 probably did. (See photo.)

In the last Checkpoints, Col. Hank Hoffman, USAF Retired, ’63, wrote to the editor and informed us that his > roommate. Grant D. Callin, designed the Twenty-first Squadron patch back in the winter of 1962. The story goes that “A contest was authorized by the AOC, aMajor Rooney (now lieute¬ nant colonel, retired), to design, the patch and win afree weekend pass. The rules stated that there was to be no reference to alcohol, drugs, war or gambling. Grant disregarded tbe rules, as he often did, and submitted what was far and away the best design of the Ace and Jack of Spades on agreen background. 1suspect Major Rooney also disregarded the rules in approving the design.”

SECOND GROUP PATCHES

On the continuing saga of squadron patches, let’s take alook at Second Group’s. Seven of the 10 squadrons have persevered in the “USAFA tradition of change.” The three squadrons that changed their patches are Cobra Fourteen (three times). Starship Nineteen (four times), and Tough Twenty Trolls (two times). This article discusses the symbolism behind the current patches and where relevant we have pictures of most of the old patches.

Eleventh Squadron’s “Rebeleven” patch consists of awhite equilateral triangle, bordered in red, superimposed on acircular blue field, Ared Arabic numeral “11” on aset of prop and wings is in the center. The original squadron sponsor, the Sixth Bomb Wing, is where the rebels got the triangle and circle logo. The triangle represents the Greek letter. Delta, which referred back to the basic cadet squadron the doolies used to come from. Now the rebel doolies come from the Cobra Squadron. The three segments of the circle represent academics, athletics and military training. The silver prop and wings symbolizes the Cadet Wing, and the numeral “11” identifies the Eleventh Cadet Squadron. The emblem col¬ ors include the squadron colors of red and white; the class colors of gold, blue, silver, and red; and the Cadet Wing colors of blue and silver.

The Dirty Dozen patch was designed by William R. Povilus, Class of 1963. The patch is an isosceles triangle of sky blue bordered in blue. It is dominated by ablack and white Polaris star. Behind the star is ajet tak-

ing off into the blue skies. The airfield below is acheckered design with black and the class colors of gold, blue, silver, and red. Ablack strip is above the checkered design. At the bottom of the patch is asilver band with “12th Squadron” printed in blue. The Polaris provides aneverfailing light to guide cadets on their flight through life and is areminder that there is no goal in life too high to attain. The aircraft signifies the cadets’ chosen profession and the plane’s position in flight symbolizes the beginning of the Air Force mission of defense and protection of our coun¬ try. The checkerboard pattern is the traditional symbol of the original squadron sponsors, the 401st Tactical Fighter Wing.

The patch of the Thirteenth Squadron, also known as “Bulldogs,” is a sky blue circular emblem outlined in black. Ahead of asilver bulldog wearing aspiked collar dominates the patch and alightning bolt is behind the dog. At the bottom of the patch is awhite scroll with “13th SQ AFCW.” The circle on the patch symbolizes the full circle of qualities needed to make up an Air Force officer. The lightning bolt demonstrates courage and dedication characterizing Bulldog graduates. The bulldog epitomizes the moral resolve and dogged pursuit of duty typical of the Thirteenth Squadron cadets.

The “Cobras” of the Fourteenth Cadet Squadron adopted their third patch in 1971. The emblem is arounded white trapezoid with alight blue border. The cobra’s head and upper body rises from the lower left to the upper right corner. The patch features the cobra’s scales, tongue and eyes. The head is rust and gold, and the body and border on the small head flanges are gold. The eyes and tongue are dark red. Asimulated Ad¬ vanced Manned Strategic Aircraft (AMSA) circles from right to left behind the cobra’s head crossing in front of the left hood flange and midlower body. Ared contrail shows the path of the silver aircraft outlined in black, and the light blue and white Arabic numeral “14” are set on the right flange. The cobra was chosen for its lightning speed and ability. The patch colors consist of the four class colors. The patch represents the ever-increasing effectiveness of the Air Force by depicting the AMSA eluding the blinding speed of the cobra and reminds us that we should beware of the speed and abilities of our opponents.

Current

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The Fifteenth Squadron “Wareagles” patch was designed by Cadet Joe H. R. Wilson, Class of 1963. The emblem depicts ablack Prussian eagle against awhite circle bordered in blue and black. The eagle wears ablack, five-pointed crown with blue highlights and holds ablue sword in its right claw and five blue arrows in its left claw. Adelta-shaped aircraft aimed at the crown is centered on the eagle’s chest. Ablue ribbon trimmed in black with white letters spelling Plus Oultre is at the bottom. The eagle is a symbol of the tradition of military professionalism and excellence ex¬ emplified by the Prussian military. The five-pointed crown symbolizes

Original Squadron Patches Still In Use

Lost

victory and superiority. The one sword and five arrows represent the number “15” and indicate preparedness. The aircraft aimed at the crown symbolizes air power. Plus Oultre is the squadrons’s motto and means “to the utmost.”

The Sixteenth Cadet Squadron “Chicken Hawks” patch was designed in 1963 by Cadet David M. Connaughton, Class of 1965. The patch has a silver and white hawk on ablue background. Agold lightning bolt is clut¬ ched in the hawk’s talons and adark blue keystone with anumber “16” is on the hawk’s chest. The patch is keystone-shaped and edged in dark blue. The hawk expresses the freedom of flight arid the bared talons clut¬ ching alightning bolt exemplify the power which one must possess to maintain one’s freedom. This serves as aconstant reminder that the Air Force must maintain ahigh degree of readiness to use force if necessary to guard our freedom. The blue keystone signifies the knowledge that must be possessed by the individual.

The Seventeenth Cadet Squadron’s Stalag 17 patch is adiamond-shaped emblem bordered in red supported by abanner at the vertex of the dia¬ mond. In the middle of the patch is aclenched silver fist containing a silver torch with abright orange and red fl ame on ablue fi eld. An emerald green wreath encircles the torch and fist. The solid banner at the bottom has the inscription “17th Squadron.” The fist signifies power and tenacity. The torch represents the drive for knowledge and truth. The wreath exemplifies the laurels of athletic achievement. The four class col¬ ors used in the patch signify the importance of unity at the Academy.

The “Nightriders” of Eighteenth Squadron have acircular emblem, bordered in red, superimposed on ablack and white equilateral triangle. Alarge black unicorn with awhite mane, red horn, and green eye is on the patch. Ared rook is below the green Arabic numeral “18” and the French words Allendez les etalons are on the bottom. The patch is set on alight blue fi eld separated by abold black line. The unicorn symbolizes strength, endurance, and matchless spirit. The rook represents the Academy as afortress of knowledge. The three points on the triangle represent the three aspects of Academy life: military, academic, and athletic. The clouds represent the military and aerospace careers open to Academy graduates. The French motto means “Watch for the stallions.”

Current

The Starship 19 patch is ablack circle bordered by two small semicir¬ cular curved emblems on the top and bottom. The inscription “Starship 19” is on the upper emblem and “Where no man has gone before” is on the lower emblem. Awhite starship outlined in black with red highlights is positioned in the left of center of the patch. The starship orbits around a celestial body located in the lower right corner of the patch. There are three green land masses with blue water separating the land masses. Three fivepointed stars (silver, red, and gold) are in the night sky. Afour-point blue Polaris star is to the right of the other stars. The patch is bordered in white which sets off the semicircular curved emblems from the rest of the patch. The patch’s theme suggests man’s future conquest of space, the final mysterious frontier. The four stars represent the class colors and class unity. The blue star represents the class color of the Class of 1976 which is the class of the patch designer. Cadet Brent Glines, who created the fourth patch.

Original Squadron Patches Still In Use

CS-20 Previous

Current

The patch for the “Tough Twenty Trolls” of the Twentieth Cadet Squadron is acircle on aroyal blue field bordered in black. An agressive depiction of astrong and powerful troll is centered in the field. The green troll wears black trousers highlighted in violet. The troll is striding for¬ ward, stepping over the bright red three-dimensional Roman numerals XX. The word “Trolls” appears behind him. The troll represents the ag¬ gressiveness and confidence of the squadron. The four class colors are contained in the second patch which was adopted in 1972.

Our historical file only has three of the four Nineteenth Squadron patches. If anyone out there is willing to donate the patch or picture of the missing patch to the Academy’s Special Collections, please contact our office at (719) 472-3832 or AV 259-3832. You can also write to HQ USAFA/XPAA, U.S. Air Force Academy, Colo. 80840-5241, ATTN: Captain Flores. An update of any missing or incorrect information on squadron patches will be appreciated.

Assistance Requested with Cadet Uniform History

The Alumni Programs office has been working with the Air Force Museum Annex at McClellan AFB, Calif, to help them pro¬ cure cadet uniforms to add to their collection of Air Force uniforms. Mr. Bill Dooner, who works as avolunteer at the museum annex, is interested in any information we can provide on the history of cadet uniforms. He has microfiche on the cadet uniform board meetings, but thought other information may be out there that was not recorded. You can correspond directly with Mr. Dooner at SM-ALC/XPS-2, McClellan AFB, Calif. 95652.

Don Barrett Earns Library

Lifetime Achievement Award

The Colorado Library Association has named Donald J. Bar¬ rett, assistant director for Public Services, Air Force Academy Library, winner of its Lifetime Achievement Award for 1990.

Since 1955 when the Air Force Academy Library opened its doors at the temporary site at Lowry AFB, Don has served as chief of Reference (1955—1959) and assistant director for Public Services (1959—present). In both capacities he has been the prin¬ cipal staff consultant and advisor to the director on all operations of arapidly growing centralized and integrated library system.

He was project officer for the transfer of the library from Lowry AFB to the Colorado Springs site in 1958 and later was project manager for the $4.5 million Academy Library expansion project.

Don’s library planning expertise is well recognized in Colorado. His advice has been sought over the years on facilities planning and building layout for renovation and expansion projects in public, school and special libraries throughout Colorado. He cur¬ rently serves as aresource person for the Colorado Library Association, sharing his expertise on strategic planning, buildings, accreditation and academic libraries.

Don has been alongtime member of the Colorado Library Association and served as the fi rst chairman of its College Sec¬ tion. He has been academic library representative on the Govern¬ ing Board and on various committees of the Plains and Peaks Library System for over 10 years. His total involvement, devotion and commitment to this profession over the last 35 years have contributed to the long-term benefit of the Air Force Academy and also to the region.

ACADEMY TEAM CAPTURES SOARING CROWN

By Capt. George D. Sciss, ’81

Ateam of five Academy pilots took first place in the two-seat glider category at the 1990 Sports Class National Soaring Cham¬ pionships. Held Aug. 4-11 in Littlefield, Texas the team of Lt. Col. Jim Payne, Class of ’74; Capt. George D. Sciss, Class of ’81; Capt. Robert Huntsman, C2C Jason White and C2C Joe Rizzuto, competed in an Academy Schleicher ASK-21 sailplane. This air¬ craft, and several others like it, were purchased by the Associa¬ tion of Graduates in the early ’80s. Forty-one other sailplanes from around the United States also competed.

Each day the competition director set aminimum “task distance”. Each pilot then chose acourse which is greater than or equal to the task distance. Competitors photographed turnpoints along the route proving to contest officials that the distance was achieved and the plane with the fastest speed over the “task” became the daily winner. Also, to ensure the best pilot won, speeds and distances were handicapped to adjust for differing sailplane capabilities. Cumulative speed and distance scores over seven contest days determined the contest winner. <97S*F

Lt. Col. Jim Payne, Capt. George Sciss, C2C Joe Rizzuto, C2C Jason White and Capt. Robert Huntsman pose in front of the ASK-21 high-performance sailplane which helped them soar to first place in the championships and ninth overall. The aircraft, purchased through donations to the Air Force Academy Fund, bears the Association of Graduates logo on its tail. (Photo by Capt. George Sciss)

The Academy team flew every day in the contest and covered a total of 999.4 miles in 27.1 hours. In addition to winning the na¬ tional championships in the two-seat glider category, when scored with the single-seat competitors, the team was rated ninth overall.

The Academy has an active soaring program that provides every cadet the opportunity to fly aglider. In addition to the basic Soar-For-All program, selected cadets can qualify as asailplane instructor after an intensive six-month training program. Once an IP, they are introduced to advanced flying concepts including; aerobatics, spin training, high-altitude flying, and cross-country procedures. Cadet instructors also perform aerial demonstrations for home football games and graduation week activities.

Flying Team Brings Home Top Pilot Award; Ranks 4th

By Amn. Mario K. Marano Academy Falcon Flyer Sports Editor

Almost everyone strives to be the best at what they do. The academy breeds young men and women to believe that they are the elite, the “best of the best,” and one way to judge this is by cadet team interaction with other college students in the way of extracurricular activities.

One such team which has shown great promise for the academy is the Cadet Flying Team, which ranked fourth overall at this year’s National Intercollegiate Flying Association 1990 Con¬ ference at the University of Illinois earlier this year.

And to top it all off, CIC William Ruddell was named Top Pilot in the Nation, while nine of the 16 team members earned top-10 rankings. C2C Todd Ericson was the #6top pilot and also won the Harold S. Wood Award for Excellence as the most outstanding scholar/pilot in the nation.

The cadets should be very proud of themselves,” said Maj. George Caldwell, officer in charge of the flying team. “Most of the other pilots we compete against have amuch higher pilot education and more air time than we do.”

Everyone involved with the team has worked hard to get us to Nationals. Even the members who didn’t compete gave us moral support and helped with the planes so we could have more time to study and get ready for our events,” said Cadet Ericson.

New Auxiliary Runway to Ease Congestion

Anew auxiliary Academy runway, called “Bullseye,” saw its first T-41 land at about 11 a.m. on Monday, Oct. 1. The plane’s pilot was Brig. Gen. Joseph J. Redden, ’64, academy comman¬ dant of cadets.

Bullseye will be used for training cadets in the pilot indoctrina¬ tion program. The new airfield will also reduce air traffic over the academy and the north side of Colorado Springs, which has become increasingly congested in recent years due to the academy’s expanding flight training programs.

Bulleye’s location, 26 miles east of the academy near Ellicott, assures fl ight operations there will have aminimal impact on area residents. Flight training will be conduted in good weather during daylight hours Monday through Friday, with occasional use on Saturdays.

According to Col. Jim Mitchell, commander of the academy’s flight training program, the airfield’s single 3,500-foot runway and two small control towers will accommodate up to 65 daily training flights by the Cessna T-41 aircraft. The field also has a 30-foot-wide taxiway and a130-by-235-foot apron.

The air fi eld cost $1.5 million and is located on state-owned land leased by the Air Force. The academy will continue to use Butts Airfield at Fort Carson and Centennial Airport in Denver for training.

The pilot training program conducted at Bullseye is run by the

557th Flying Training Squadron using the T-41C Mescalero, a fuel-injected, military version of the Cessna 172. The T-41 pro¬ gram is structured to allow cadets about 15 flights (21.2 flying hours), including one solo ride and one check ride. Students learn basic aircraft control and maneuvers that are applicable to all air¬ craft.

Brig. Gen. Joseph J. Redden, '64, commandant of cadets, lands the first T-41 ever to touch down at Bullseye. (Photo by S. S. Hampton Sr.)

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Graduate Dependent Scholarship Criteria Outlined

Graduate Dependent Scholarships are offered for the upcoming 1991-1992 academic year. Recipients for these annual awards will be selected by the AOG Board of Directors Selection Committee. This AOG scholarship program is intended to directly support post-secondary education for the children of AOG graduate members.

To be eligible to apply:

A. The applicant must be the child of either agraduate life member of the AOG or agraduate who has maintained annual membership for at least the five consecutive years immediately preceding the submission of the application package. AOG membership requirements for applicants who are children of deceased graduates will be evaluated on an individual basis by the selection committee.

B. The applicant must either be the graduate’s natural child or legally adopted child, but need not be financially dependent upon the graduate or his/her surviving spouse.

C. The applicant must agree to enroll as afull-time student, as defined by the institution, at acollege or university accredited by an appropriate regional or national accrediting body. The applicant’s program of study may be in any field at either the graduate or undergraduate level.

Happy Scholarship Winner

Maj. Gen. Marcus Anderson, ’61, presents a$700 Graduate Dependent Scholarship check to Anjenette Dustin, daughter of Lt. Col. Jacob Dustin, ’70. Ms. Dustin was one of the first five in¬ dividuals to receive the Graduate Dependent Scholarship, initially awarded this year. General Anderson is the commander of 3rd Air Force at Mildenhall AB, England. The presentation was made on Aug. 13 with Anjenette’s parents and several other Dustin children in attendance.

The scholarship amount can be as high as $2,000 for the academic year and is paid in one lump sum directly to the student upon his/her demonstrated acceptance into the accredited institution. An individual may receive atotal of four of these annual scholarships, but they do not have to be applied for, or awarded, in consecutive years.

Scholarship award winners, as well as those applicants not selected to receive ascholarship in agiven year, are encouraged to reapply for scholarships in subsequent years. These applicants compete with all new applicants for subsequent-year scholarship monies.

The number of scholarships to be awarded each year and the dollar amount of each scholarship is determined annually by the board of direc¬ tors. The scholarship winners will be determined based on acombination of demonstrated performance and need. The deadline for receiving ap¬ plication packages is 1March, for both initial application and reapplica¬ tions.

Send requests for application forms and direct questions on this scholarship program to Col.(Ret) Jock Schwank, AOG vice president. Services, Association of Graduates, U.S. Air Force Academy, Colo. 80840-5000 or call (719) 472-2067/2073.

Register Deadlines Aired, 1st Class Mailing Offered

Amajor AOG service is one of providing up-to-date informa¬ tion on all graduates through the annual Register of Graduates. Biographical data forms will NOT be mailed this year. Since the individual graduate is the critical source of Register information, it is vital that you keep the AOG informed of address changes, promotions, new jobs, etc. Information updates to be included in the Register must have been received by 1July. To receive this year’s Register, the association must have had your current ad¬ dress by not later than Nov. 1.

We have again detected individuals using the Register for com¬ mercial mailings. Please again note that the Register is copyrighted each year with the Library of Congress. Information in the book, including addresses, may not be used for any com¬ mercial mailing or other purpose. Doing so is strictly prohibited and is in direct violation of copyright.

Finally, the association offers afirst class mailing program which greatly speeds publications to U.S. and APO addresses. This ser¬ vice costs $10 annually in addition to regular membership fees, and provides for the mailing of Checkpoints and the Register at fi rst class rates.

DON’T MISS AMAGAZINE

SEND US YOUR NEW ADDRESS NOW GET AFRIEND TO JOIN THE AOG

MCI Initiates Telephone Service from Saudi Arabia

As of Oct. 3, MCI, working in conjunction with the Saudi Arabian Telephone Administration, began offering MCI CALL USA service from Saudi Arabia. With MCI CALL USA, MCI customers can originate calls from Saudi Arabia to anywhere in the United States at significant sav¬ ings.

In the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia the access number to reach an MCI Operator is: 1-800-11. The rates for CALL USA from Saudi Arabia are as follows: First minute: $3.03, each additional minute: $1.09.

NOTE: Regular MCI CALL USA surcharges apply. ($2 per call surcharge and $5 per collect call).

Existing MCI customers are automatically eligible for MCI CALL USA service. For more information, please contact MQI customer service at 1-800-444-3333. AOG members who wish to subscribe to MCI service under the special discount offered through the AOG, should call 1-800-SKY-USAF for enrollment.

SPECIAL NOTE TO MEMBERS WITH FAMILY STATIONED IN SAUDI ARABIA

MCI is providing free emergency CALL USA service on an indefinite basis to U.S. military personnel through the American Red Cross. As part of its ongoing services, the< Red Cross provides emergency communications to military personnel in the event of birth, death or family illness.

American Airlines Offers Discounts to AOG Members

The AOG is pleased to announce that it has arranged for special round-trip airfare discounts to Colorado Springs and Denver with American Airlines, including American Eagle. The rate is a45 percent discount from standard coach fare or five per¬ cent from any other lowest applicable fare following all published rules. The discounts apply to flights from the CONUS, Hawaii, San Juan, St. Croix and St. Thomas. Flights from Canada receive a35 percent discount from standard coach fare. The rates are valid for the following 1991 events:

New Appointee Orientations: 14-15 March 1991; 4-5 April and 18-19 April 1991

Graduation Week Activities: 17 May-5 June 1991

Class of 1995 Entrance into the Academy: 26-28 June 1991

Class of ’61 Reunion: 1-5 August 1991.

Parents’ Weekend: 28 August-4 September 1991

Class of ’71 amd ’81 Reunions and Homecoming: 17-24 September 1991

Class of ’66 Reunion: 7-10 November 1991

Discounted travel rates for the above events are valid two days prior to the event until two days after the event date shown above. Tickets must be purchased at least 14 days in advance. Reserva¬ tions can be made through atravel agency or by calling American Airlines at 1-800-433-1790. In either case, ask for “Star Number SOIZIVT” in order to insure you receive this special rate.

Corporate Life Members Association of Graduates, USAFA Class Ring Information

Graduates who need to replace or have their Academy class rings repaired should do so directly through the manufacturer. The manufacturer has the expertise and equipment to repair or replace your ring. Contact them directly for cost estimates, which vary signi fi cantly. Below are the manufacturers and how to contact them:

Autrey Brothers/Jostens

c/o Gary Autrey

P.O. Box 3435

Englewood, CO 80155 (303) 770-7770

L.G. Balfour

13183 Spica Drive

Classes of 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1976 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982 1983, 1984, 1986, 1989, 1990

Classes of 1959, 1961, 1964, 1965 1966, 1967, 1969, 1975

Littleton, CO 80124 (303) 790-7457

Herff Jones

226 Public Street

Classes of 1985, 1987, 1988

Providence RI 02905 (401) 331-1240

REUNION CONTACTS

’61 (30th) 1-4 Aug 91

Col (Ret) Mike Quinlan

17325 Caribou Drive

Monument, CO 80132

Ph: 719-488-2464 (H) 1-800-525-7164 (W)

Col (Ret) Charles Neel

1430 Big Valley Drive

Colorado Springs, CO 80919

Ph: 719-598-0646 (H) 719-548-0888 (W)

Hotel: Marriott

’81 (10th) 19-22 Sept 91

Capt Joe Wotton

QTRS 4403F

USAF Academy, CO 80840

Ph: 719-472-3484 (W)

Hotel: Sheridan Hotel (South)

’66 (25th) 7-10 Nov 91

Col Paul Viotti

P.O. Box 138

USAF Academy, CO 80840

Ph: 719-472-2270 (W)

Hotel; Marriott

’71 (20th) 19-22 Sept 91

LtCol John Blind

6185 Little Johnny Drive

Colorado Springs, CO 80918

Ph: 719-472-2531 (W)

AV: 259-2531

Hotel: Marriott

Parachute Team, Silver Anniversary 25-28 April 91

Cass Casada

P.O. Box 21411

Salt Lake City, UT 84121

Ph: 801-942-1411 (H)

Hotel: Hilton Inn of Colorado Springs

Air Academy National Bank

Air Force Association

Ampex Corporation

Boeing Aerospace Company

Budget Rent aCar Corporation

Continental Electronics

(Division of Varian Associates, Inc.)

Electronic Data Systems Corp.

Embassy Suites Hotel of Colorado Springs

McDonnell Douglas Corporation

The MITRE Corporation

Motorola, Inc.

Government Electronics Group

Rockwell International

TRW, Inc., Electronics &Defense Sector

United Services Automobile Association

United Technologies Corporation

USAF Academy Athletic Association

Walsworth Publishing of Colorado

Westinghouse Electric Corporation

Defense &Electronic Center

Corporate life memberships are being offered for $2,000. With the exception of voting and holding office, members enjoy all privileges of regular members. For more information on corporate life memberships write to Col. (Ret) Jock Schwank, vice president. Services, Association of Graduates, U.S. Air Force Academy, Colo. 80840-5000. Phone (719) 472-4513.

AOG Biographical Information

From: NAME, .GRADUATE MEMBER: Class of

MEMBER: Member

,SSN.

To: AOG, USAF Academy

1. Make the following changes in my graduate/associate (circle one) records:

(Remove entire page, fold and seal with tape before mailing.)

Association of Graduates

United States Air Force Academy Colorado 80840-5000

AOG &USAFA Gift Merchandise

Large Mugs (white)

Small Mugs (blue)

Coffee Cups (white)

USAFA Silk Tie (blue or garnet)

AOG Charm (3/4" sterling silver by Jostens)

Lance Sijan Book

(Into the Mouth of the Cat by Malcolm McConnell, 253 pages, hardbound)

2Sth Anniversary Book (260 pages, 9x12 hardbound pictorial history of the Academy)

Academy Sport Cap

With class year: Without

Laser-Engraved Walnut Plaque (of Cadet Area)

Cadet Saber (Sold to graduate AOG members only)

Chapel Mantel Clock (Westminster chimes, battery-powered, Bulova)

FINE ART PRINTS

"Here’s aToast" Limited edition of 850 signed and numbered by the artist Keith Ferris. 24x30" print of F-16 missing man formation flown during the 1983 Homecoming Memorial Ceremony.

"Gyrfalcon:" Limited AOG com¬ memorative issue signed by artist, Charles Frace. 20x26" print.

’82" Thunderbirds Over Academy:’’ Edition of 750 signed by artist, Rick Broome. 20x28" print.

CHAPTER NEWS

ATLANTA CHAPTER

This fall has been abusy and exciting time for the Atlanta Chapter. We have had several enjoyable outings and have had several new members join the chapter to share in the fun.

The results of the summer golf tourna¬ ment at Stone Mountain Park have fi nally been veri fi ed and released by the judges after all penalty claims were reviewed by instant replay. The low gross score award goes to Norm Schulze, ’63, with the high gross going to Steve Jones, son of Ron Jones, ’70. The longest drive was recorded by A1 Young, ’74 (it’s always the young guys showing the muscle), and the closest to the hole was new member John Gorrell, ’70. All those who participated had a great time and hope for more competition at next year’s tournament.

The Navy Alumni Association of Atlanta hosted aTri-Service White Water Raft Race on the Nantahala River in August. The Goats claimed that by win¬ ning the race they were entitled to the local Commander-in-Chief’s Trophy. We argued successfully that acontest staged in the water offered unfair advantage to certain participants. Alt who participated had atremendous time and it was deter¬ mined that the raft race shall become an annual event.

The results of the tri-service softball tournment were once again favorable for the high fl ying Falcons of the Atlanta Chapter. The Air Force grads soundly defeated astrong combined team of Mules and Middies in ahotly-contested game at the Dobbins AFB picnic and sports area. The strong pitching of Gary Fausti, ’65, and the strong hitting and defense of new chapter members 2nd Lts. Jeff White, ’90; Kraig Hanson, ’90; and Mark Coultek, ’77, lead the home team. The come-from-behind victory by ascore of 12-11 assured the Commander-inChief’s Trophy will remain with the chapter for another year. Other grads pre¬ sent were Chuck Winter, ’72; Les Dyer, ’69; Alan Price, ’68; David Champa, ’72, with son Ben and Philipp Pulger, aGer¬ man exchange student.

The chapter teamed up with the Mid¬ dies again at Dirty Al’s Saloon in Sandy Springs for the televised, big-screen ver¬ sion of Air Force vs Navy football. Good food (if you call cabrio good), good beer (Diet Coke and water available, no Pepsi) and good football made an afternoon of enjoyment for everyone who showed.

The chapter is also pushing the AOG cruise. The departure date is April 27, 1991 and the ship returns (barring any in¬

terfering Middies) on May 4, the same year. For information, contact former Atlanta Chapter member Joe DeSantis at (314) 232-1666.

If you’re new to the Atlanta area or for some reason have just not joined the chapter yet, we are looking forward to meeting you. Please call or write David Champa at (404) 972-9349, 4802 Beverly Drive, Lilburn, Ga. 30247 or Chuck Winter (404) 998-5936, 355 Wheatridge Drive, Roswell, Ga. 30075. Don’t miss out! (David Champa, ’72)

REQUESTS FOR ACADEMY STAFF AS SPEAKERS

In order to provide better assistance to AOG Chapters seeking speakers from the Academy, please submit aletter to HQ USAFA/XPAA, Attn: Capt Flores, USAF Academy, Colo. 80840-5241, at least six months in advance, with the following information: What, when, where? Who on the Academy staff would you like to have speak at your function? Also provide the names of two other speakers you would like to have if your first or second choice is not available.

To aid speaker preparation, we will also need to know the audience, along with any particular interest of the group in any aspect of the Academy, and arecommended speaker’s attire for the event. Please include who will be in the audience (i.e., alums, spouses, parents’ clubs, LOs, etc.) and what the occasion is for the event.

Apoint of contact for the event (i.e., name, address, home and work phone numbers) is needed to make the appropriate arrangements. You can call our office at (719) 472-3832, AV 259-3832, for initial inquiry but must back up your call with aletter requesting the speaker.

NEW ENGLAND CHAPTER

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This past summer we continued afew chapter traditions. Our annual trip to Fenway was in June, and we enjoyed see¬ ing the Sox beat the Orioles. We also had asuccessful Second Annual AOG Golf Tournament and Sushi Cookout in June.

We’ve resumed our distinguished speaker luncheon series, meeting on the first Wednesday of every month at the Hanscom Of fi cer’s Club. Our October guest speaker was Colonel Dave Williams, who recently arrived from Rhein Main Air Base where he was commander of the 435 Military Airlift Wing. Dave’s topic was “Leadership of Large Organizations”, and he gave all of us acurrent perspective on the challenges of the operational side of the Air Force.

We’re holding our Third Annual State of the Wing Dinner on Nov. 8. Brigadier General Royer, Dean of the Faculty, will be our guest speaker, and we’re^looking forward to his update on Academy ac¬ tivities. We travel to West Point that weekend to see the Army-Air Force game. Let’s hope we don’t have the torrential downpours we did two years ago!

For more information on upcoming events, please write us at Box 628, Bed¬ ford, MA 01730 or call Lt. McNutt at (617) 935-8216. (Stacy McNutt, ’88)

SAN DIEGO COUNTY CHAPTER

Greetings from Southern California! The San Diego County Chapter of the AOG hosted the Southern California and surrounding area graduates at the bi¬ annual pregame tailgate/pep rally before the AFA-San Diego State football game on Sept 29.

Approximately 200 graduates (subject to U.S. Census recount) came from far and wide; from Las Vegas, from River¬ side, from Los Angeles and from Orange County. The prize for making the greatest sacri fi ce to come went to Bill McClain, ’59, who rode his bicycle (yes the pedal kind) down from Corona, about 100 miles.

Agood time was had by all who came; in fact, we were having such agood time at the pregame tailgate party, we almost forgot to go to the game. After it was over, Iexpect some wished we had forgot¬ ten to go; we built alot of character in that game, including some for the graduates in the stands.

Even though we had agood turnout, we didn’t even come close to fi lling up the parking lot of the stadium. There was a lot of room left for the rest of the

(Continued on page 41.)

»> year’s president is Bob McNamara, ’66. Mac was one of our original group of graduates who expressed an interest in an active organization, and he is already well-known for his in¬ teresting (and sometimes off-the-wall) newsletters. 37

FALCON SPORTS

Men’s Basketball Short on Experienced Players

With anew decade here, the Air Force Academy basketball program is filled with excitement and anticipation as the Falcons begin the 1990s.

The latter years of the ’80s brought to the Falcons the kind of success that they haven’t enjoyed in over adecade. The 1989-90 squad posted the program’s first non-losing season in 11 years with a14-14 mark. Last year’s unit, despite abarrel full of in¬ juries, made the school’s first trip to the Western Athletic Con¬ ference tournament semi fi nals and fi nished with a12-20 record.

The challenges that the 1990-91 unit faces are big indeed. Gone from last year’s team are Raymond Dudley and Jeff Bowling, along with Dale French. The Falcons return only two starters, both seniors, in Chris Lowry and Aaron Benson, and must turn to agroup of young and inexperienced players to fill the remaining void. This is anew team with anew identity, but they carry on the legacy of the previous team. Even though there are some people gone, there are some guys that are carry overs,” Air Force head coach Reggie Minton said.

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Air Force’s top gun this season will be Lowry, who is the Falcon’s top returning scorer and rebounder with averages of 12.2 points and 5.9 rebounds per game. Benson averaged 5.7 points and 5.7 rebounds per game last season as the starting center. He will be looked upon to add to those numbers this year.

1990-91 MEN’S BASKETBALL

The only other senior on the squad is 6-foot-8 David Quick. He and juniors Omar Simpson and Brent Roberts will solidify the front court for the Falcons.

The backcourt is perhaps the biggest question mark this season. Sophomore George Irvin saw the most time of any of the return¬ ing backcourt players while working at point guard and off guard. Juniors Robert Hawking and Charles Smith, who have been waiting behind Dudley and Bowling, will now get their chance to prove their ability with more playing time.

Some of the Falcon’s newcomers may see time in the backcourt as well this season. Some of the top names are Clark James, 6-foot-4 from San Diego, Calif., and Jim Locum, 6-foot-4 from Rinard, 111.

According to coach Minton, “We hope to continue our pro¬ gress, but we’re not going to be satisfied until we climb some mountains that people don’t think we can climb. AWAC cham¬ pionship, whether it be regular season or tournament. I’m not greedy, either or!”

Two Grads on Swimming Team That Sets Channel Record

On Aug. 3, 1990, aU.S. relay team swam across the English Channel, breaking both the single and double crossing world records. Three of the six-member team are in the Air Force, with two of these being academy graduates. Capt. Karen Burton, Class of 1984, is an instructor at the academy; 2nd Lt. Dirk Bouma, Class of 1990, is stationed at Lackland AFB; and James Wilkerson III is an ROTC cadet at Florida State University.

The U.S. team swam from England to France in six hours, 52 minutes, breaking the old record of seven hours, 17 minutes. They then swam back from France for atotal time of 14 hours, 18 minutes, eclipsing the old mark of 15 hours, 36 minutes. Burton and Wilkerson are members of the U.S. National Long Distance team and will compete in a25-kilometer race at the World Cham¬ pionships in Perth, Australia in January 1991.

Karen

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1990-91 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

TIME 5:00 pm WESTERN STATE

5:00 pm MESA COLLEGE

7:00 pm Colorado School of Mines

6:00 pm Univ of Calif Tourney

8:00 pm Univ of Calif Tourney

6:00 pm (USAFA, Nebraska SLO, Calif)

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SITE USAFA USAFA

Golden CO Davis CA Davis CA Davis CA

Nov. 24 Davis CA 8:00 pm (USAFA, Nebraska, SLO, CaliO

COLORADO STATE UNIV USAFA

St Joseph MO

Topeka KS

EASTERN NEW MEXICO USAFA

Univ Northern Colorado NEW MEXICO

HIGHLANDS

Florida Southern

Florida Tourney (AFA, Army, Fla. IT, So. Fla.)

Florida Tourney

Florida Tourney

Colorado Christian

UNIV OF DENVER

Metro State College

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UCCS COLORADO COLLEGE UNIV SOUTHERN COLORADO

FALCON FOOTBALL BOX SCORE ATPRESS TIME

Colorado State 35 —USAFA 33 at home.

USAFA 27 —Hawaii 3at home.

USAFA 10 —Citadel 7at home.

Wyoming 24 —USAFA 12 at Laramie.

San Diego State 48 —USAFA 18 at San Diego.

USAFA 24 —Navy 7at home.

Notre Dame 57 —USAFA 27 at South Bend.

USAFA 52 —Utah 21 at home.

At press time the Falcon football team was four-four with Brigham Young at home and Army and the University of Texas at El Paso to play away.

SOCIETY

OF WASHINGTON D.C.»

Better Second Careers by Working Together"

The Air Force Society of Washington, D.C.*' is anon-profit organization of USAFA grads dedicated to the principles of leadership, excellence and success in our business careers—^AFTER we hang up our "blue suits". We are Businessmen, Lawyers, Doctors, Managers, and Technologists who meet together five times ayear for education and networking. We have fun and we help each other get ahead.

JOIN US!

So we can help you ●so you can help us ●so we can help each other!

For More Information About Joining Us, OR Starting ASociety In Your Area, Call or Write:

BiU Stealey '70; President/MicroProse Software, Inc.; 180 Lakefront Drive; Hunt Valley, MD 21030 (301)771-6701; FAX (301)771-1174

Ted

A1 Wurglitz' 70; Advanced Technology/Dep. Gen. Counsellor; 12005 Sunrise Valley Dr.; Reston, VA 22091; (703)620-8329; FAX (703)391-7245

GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN

John R. Schloss, ’86

On June 20, 1990, Capt. John R. Schloss, Class of 1986, died when his A-10 impacted the ground. John had finished practicing two-ship tactics when the incident occurred just west of Myrtle Beach AFB, S.C.

Although only 26 years old, John led arich life, fulfilling per¬ sonal goals that others spend alifetime dreaming about. Drive and perseverance were traits that forged his path to success. He showed his prowess as abaseball player in both high school and the Air Force Academy. Academically, he finished in the top of his class, earning ascholarship to graduate school at the Universi¬ ty of Hawaii. His dream of being afighter pilot flying the A-10 was fulfilled shortly thereafter upon graduation from UPT. He was thrilled to be a“Hog Driver” at the Beach.

John loved the outdoors almost as much as he loved to fly. Born and raised in Oregon, his respect for nature and the environ¬ ment was evident in his daily life. He was the only pilot on base to have agarden plot. He shared this interest not only with his friends, but with the Boy Scouts in the local community. Camp-

Brig. Gen. (Ret) William Mullins Dies in P-51 Mustang Crash

On Sept. 29, 1990, the Academy and many of our graduates lost a special friend. William H. L. Mullins, Brig. Gen. USAF (Ret) was killed in the crash of aP-51 Mustang’in Chatham, Mass. General Mullins, or “Moon” to his many friends, was the father of Dan, Class of 1990. Agraduate of West Point, Class of 1957, General Mullins was afighter pilot, Vietnam combat veteran, and distinguish¬ ed Air Staff legislative liaison officer.

As aUSAFA parent, he was an ardent Falcon football fan and supporter, following Dan and his teammates through many suc¬ cessful seasons. Moon was atrustee on the Falcon Foundation, and gave generously of himself in support or our Academy. Professional¬ ly, as corporate vice president and head of General Dynamics’ Washington Office, he was aleader in American aerospace. Moon worked diligently on behalf of many Air Force programs, including ones unrelated to his own company. He was also astrong supporter of the Association of Graduates Headquarters/Alumni House Building Fund Campaign and was actively involved with the building fund committee.

Most of all, however, we will remember Moon for his warmth, energetic friendship, wonderful sense of humor, and haunting tenor renditions of “Danny Boy.” Just how many of us counted Moon as aspecial friend was more than evident at Arlington National

ing, fishing, sailing, skiing and scuba diving were activities that John enjoyed in the beautiful scenery of Oregon and his new home in South Carolina. Reminiscing often of the Northwest, he planned to retire in the area after afull career in the Air Force.

Above all, John’s devotion to his wife, Carolyn, was never end¬ ing. They were best friends who shared all the adventures of life together. She was adriving force behind his success. John’s death left agreat void in her life as well as his family and friends. It is ironic that he died doing something 'he loved so much — something he valued. John Schloss was atrue patriot —he will be greatly missed.

Amemorial fund has been established in John’s name to be used for the education of his unborn child. Send donations to the “John Schloss Memorial Fund” c/o 356TFS/CCA, Myrtle Beach AFB, S.C. 29579-5000. (1st Lt. Steve “Hoov” Jennings and 1st Lt. Bill "Nose” Isenstadt)

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

John M. Melancon, Class of 1959, who died on Dec. 24, 1989 at Baton Rouge, La.

Gerald H. Sherrill, Class of 1963, who died on Oct. 1, 1989.

Lt. Col. Barry F. Bost, Class of 1971, who was killed in an F-16C aircraft accident on Sept. 19, 1990, near Estill, S.C.

Alan M. Fischer, Class of 1971, who died on Oct. 18, 1989, in West Palm Beach, Fla.

Maj. Peter S. Hook, Class of 1976, who was killed on Sept. 30, 1990 in an F-15E aircraft accident in Saudi Arabia.

Our sincere condolences to the family and friends of these graduates. Their obituaries will appear in afuture issue of the magazine.

Cemetery for his memorial services. Dozens of USAFA graduates, former Air Force Secretaries and Chiefs, general officers. Con¬ gressmen, and industry leaders joined Moon’s wife, Florine, and sons, Todd and Dan, in celebration of Moon’s life. From all of us, old buddy, keep smilin’, and we’ll see you later. (Randy Jayne, ’66)

Mrs. Alice McDermott Dies in Her San Antonio Home

Alice Patricia McDermott, wife of USAA Chairman Robert F. McDermott, passed away Oct. 12 at her residence following treat¬ ment for cancer. Alice was born in Hartford, Conn, on May 13, 1920. She graduated from St. Joseph’s College in West Hartford, in 1942 with adegree in Latin. After six months of teaching high school, she and Robert F. McDermott married on Jan. 20, 1943 at the Holy Trinity Chapel at West Point, N.Y.

Soon after their marriage, while her husband went into active duty overseas, Alice remained in the United States. After the war, Alice and their fi rst child, Patricia, joined McDermott in Ger¬ many. In 1946 the family returned to the United States. A dedicated Air Force wife and mother, Alice McDermott eontinued to support her husband’s military career while he was sta¬ tioned at the Pentagon, West Point and during his tenure as Dean at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo.

After his retirement from the Air Force in 1968, General (Continued on next page.)

Graduate Remembers Space Shuttle Challenger Tragedy

By Dennis J. Justin, ’71

Iwas in the aerospace business, where shuttle missions were follow¬ ed with acertain enthusiasm. The launch of the Challenger on Jan. 28, 1986, had been delayed and Iremember the morning slipping back in¬ to atypical day for aproject manager —many telephone calls and the late-month deliveries requiring attention. Afriendly financial analyst on the telephone suddenly asked, “You heard”?

1disbelieved. The secretaries, with their radios turned to barely audible volume, knew first. They always do. The news was confirmed. Iheaded for the only TV in our many buildings that would have out¬ side reception —the one in the company president’s area.

The mahogany doors and soft carpeting were no obstacles. Iasked the executive assistant to turn on the television. It took awhile for the replay of the event to be shown. By then, the room had filled with the fi rm’s senior executives.

Iremember the quiet in the room; the replay of the launch and the fateful explosion. Gasps and sighs were heard from everyone and, then, in acharacteristic accent from the back of the room came the ex¬ clamation, “Damned O-rings!”

It was more than an educated guess. Our division produced items using the shuttle’s solid propellant, ammonium perchlorate, and we had experienced sealing problems, which were common in certain ap¬ plications. Experience had given us aclue to the disaster. Damned O-rings!

The mood, one of overwhelming sadness, compelled me to walk through the facility looking to share the feeling with wordless greetings and light touches. Not atypewriter could be heard; no telephones rang. Only the faint rush of whispers. Four thousand peo¬ ple were mourning. Damned O-rings!

Smith, Scobee, Resnik, McNair, Onizuka, Jarvis, McAuliffe — they seemed like comrades in arms. The moment reminded me of the close of the Air Force Academy church service, when the somber hymn would be sung.

"Lord, guard and guide the men who Fly, Through the great spaces of the Sky.

(Mrs. McDermott: From previous page.)

McDermott began his career at USAA. At this time, he and Alice and family moved to San Antonio, Texas. In San Antonio, she has been an active member of the community and devoted great time and effort to many educational and community service organizations. These activities included membership on the board of trustees of St. Luke’s Hospital and Incarnate Word College, and membership on the Cancer Center Council, as well as in¬ volvement with the Southwest Foundation Forum, Ronald McDonald House, the San Antonio Symphony League, and Pro¬ ject ABC.

Alice McDermott is survived by her husband. General Robert F. McDermott; her daughters Patricia A. Beynet of Tulsa, Okla. and Betsy Gwin of San Antonio; and her sons Robert F. McDer¬ mott, Jr. of Alexandria, Va.; David W. McDermott of An¬ napolis, Md.; and Mark S. McDermott of Henderson, Nev.; and 13 grandchildren.

The family requests that donations in lieu of flowers be sent to the Cancer Therapy and Research Foundation, 4450 Medical Drive, San Antonio, Texas 78229.

(Chapters: From page 37.)

Southern California-Arizona-Southern Nevada area graduates and their families and friends.

For those who may not have heard this before, Iwill repeat it: WHENEVER THE AFA FALCONS PLAY IN SAN DIEGO (JACK MURPHY) STADIUM, THERE WILL BE APREGAME TAILGATE/PEP RALLY IN AREA-H3 OF THE STADIUM PARKING LOT (DIRECTLY WEST OF THE STADIUM) STARTING TWO HOURS BEFORE KICKOFF. YOU CAN

Be with them traversing the Air.

In darkening storms or sunlight Fair. ”

Aloft in solitudes of Space

Uphold them with Your saving Grace

OGod, protect the men who Fly, Through lonely ways beneath the Sky. ”

Now maybe it’s my upbringing, but Ibelieve in the necessity of space exploration to fulfill the human spirit. Ibelieve that we are made stronger by remembering our failures, and Ibelieve the seven astronauts would insist on the further pursuit of space.

So Iask you to help remember those who gave all they had to give three years ago. Raise asalute today to the Challenger seven and all the others who gave their lives in pursuit of space.

(Editor’s note: This piece was published as aLetter to the Editor in the Boston Globe newspaper on Jan. 28, 1989. With the upcoming fifth anniversary of the Challenger disaster, we felt it appropriate to reprint in this issue.)

Remembering Graduate MIAs

C4C Steven E. Whitmarsh, Cadet Squardron 9, holds one of the 59 candles which were lit during the PO W/MIA Recognition Day candlelight ceremony on Sept. 21 in the Cadet Chapel. Each candle represented an academy graduate still unaccounted for in Southeast Asia. (Photo by SSgt Dennis Rogers.)

Please Send you Tax-Deductible Donation to The Air Force Academy Fund Association of Graduates U.S. Air Force Academy, Colo. 80840-5000

COUNT ON IT! BE THERE. (Mike Quinton, ’62)

NORTHERN CALIFORNIA CHAPTER

The Northern California Chapter held its quarterly event on Oct. 6th at the Marines’ Memorial Club in San Fran¬ cisco. The group meets quarterly for din¬ ner and socializing at different locations in the Bay Area. We occasionally get up¬ dates on what is going on in the Air Force or back at the Academy. Mostly we have a good time and do alittle business “net¬

working”.

Our next event is the Second Annual Holiday Season Bash at the Mountain Home Inn high up on Mt. Tamalpais. This gathering will feature an excellent dinner with aview as well as the usual good time. For further information or to be placed on our mailing list contact Chuck Reed, Reed, Elliott, Creech & Roth; 99 Almaden Blvd., Eighth Floor, San Jose, Calif. 95113, (408) 993-9911 and fax number (408) 993-1335. (Chuck Reed, ’70)

CLASS NEWS

Pete Todd

1250 Big Valley Drive

Colorado Springs, CO 80919-1015

Home: (719) 531-5874

Percent members: 80

The mailbag really overflowed during the summer, so 1didn’t have to rely on fabricated news or accounts of my grandchildren’s cute sayings to compose the Christmas column. Instead, REAL NEWS! To wit:

Proud Papa Department: Dave PHILLIPS wrote in June that his beautiful and talented daughter Julie (captain, USAF, by way of aDMG regular commission from Colorado State University), was married last December to Capt Tom Bailey (USAFA ’86). Both had been assigned to MacDill, but were slated to transfer to Ramstein this fall to enhance Bob OAKS’ combat capability in USAFE. The accompanying picture was taken as all the AFA grads present sang the Air Force song to the newlyweds at the suggestion of John GULLEDGE.

his 27-foot Sea Ray cruises at over 30 knots and can be coaxed up to near¬ ly 45. With that performance, it may be pressed into service to join the sealift armada moving stuff to the Middle East!)

Wayne and Bonnie JEFFERSON have enlarged their outside entertain¬ ment area, which suggests both parties and continued success in Wayne’s second career as aconsultant. (Consultant: someone who uses your watch to tell you what time it is and then gets to keep the watch.)

Finally, Ialso learned that Diane MONTAVON is fi ghting a courageous battle with cancer. We all know her for her humor, charm, and gritty determination and our thoughts and prayers for acomplete recovery go out to the whole family.

Proud Bridegroom Department: John MILTNER wrote from Flawaii to share the good news about his April wedding to Wile Tensok, whom he met on aglasnost tourist visit to Estonia last summer. We look forward to welcoming her into the extended USAFA ’59 family. John has ac¬ cumulated about three months in the Soviet Union on visits ranging from aweek to amonth and says the conditions are even worse than reported on TV: long lines for every commodity, shortages of goods and services, bureaucratic inefficiency, appalling air pollution, etc.

Colorado Visitor Department: Charlie MEIER called to advise that Ken SMITE! had passed through the Pike’s Peak region in September on asix-week fishing and backpacking trip with five other guys. They had evidently depleted the trout population in Navajo Lake near Durango, the Rampart Reservoir, and sundry other Rocky Mountain waterways. Ken looks fit and enjoys his work in alcohol intervention and counselling down in Austin, Texas.

MPete Todd and Jim Brown under the stars, practicing their widely ac¬ claimed synchronized swimming routine in the Todd Spa.

Dave also reported on the most recent of his fabled odysseys. Seems he and Ed ROSANE attended the Oktoberfest in Munich last year, after which they sailed the Greek islands for aweek (doubtless holding lengthy, in-depth discussions on the actuarial relationship between large ‘automobiles and lower casualty insurance claims). From Athens they went to Rome to decompress for afew days after this strenuous round of exposure to multiple cultures. In closing, Dave put in aplug for the Carib¬ bean Cruise in April; he plans to go and looks for agood ’59er turnout.

Proud Hubby Department: Dennie SEE called from the opposite coast with acomprehensive data dump on happenings in and around the Capital Beltway. The BIG news was that his bride (who we insiders have always known as the real brains of the outfit) has been promoted to general manager of the Nieman-Marcus store at Tyson’s Corner. Con¬ gratulations from us all, Trude! Dennie believes she can now support him in the style to which he’d like to become accustomed, but my guess is that he’ll have to settle for family discounts.

Among the other tidbits from our conversation was confirmation of a report Iheard earlier that Mike REARDON has moved to D.C. as deputy assistant secretary of the Air Force for Reserves Affairs. I’m SURE that in the fullness of time, Mike would have written to advise me of this prestigious appointment, himself! And sent achange of address. And issued astanding invitation to freeload on one of my trips to Washington.

Dennie mentioned recent social, golf, and/or boating excursions with H.T. JOHNSON, R.L. PENN, (who has sold his airplane, much to the relief of the entire general aviation community), Jimmie JAY (who is also seeking to sell aone-third interest in an airplane), and Joe MORGAN, who is getting anewer, longer boat than Dennie’s. (According to Dennie,

Other visitors to the high country included Jim and Rose BROWN and Hank and Lyn CANTERBURY. Jim and Rose stayed with us for acou¬ ple of days in July while they did the tourist bit through the mountain splendor. The stop in the Springs was part of avacation circuit by car in and around the Rockies. It was good to visit with them and find out how things REALLY run at USAA.

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Nuptial Serenade in California. From left, standing: Charlie Zaleski, Dave Phillips (father of the bride), John Gulledge, George Pupich (‘60), Larry Thomson, and Charlie Rodgers. Seated: Bart Weiss (’86, best man), Tom Bailey (’86, groom), and Mike Dolan (’87).

Flank and Lyn Canterbury before the Great Fireplace in Pete and Wendy Todd’s hilltop castle.

Hank and Lyn flew in from Phoenix aboard Hank’s airplane, asuperb way to insure your luggage arrives at the same time and destination as you do. Hank retired from active duty last year and is working with the University of Phoenix to broaden their academic programs in the military community. They’re also building amagnificent new home of their own design there. Among other topics of conversation over aleisurely dinner, Iconfirmed astory I’d heard before but hadn’t quite believed about Hank’s days as aThunderbird. When he was flying slot, he was known for not wasting any time getting into position after the formation takeoff. In fact, he’d usually start his turn before breaking ground. On at least one occasion, he actually left abit of fiberglass from his wingtip on the run¬ way! Consequently, one day he went out to his plane and found that the crew chief —either as ajoke or as preventive maintenance —installed a little caster wheel on the wingtip!

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IMini-Reunion Department: My most faithful and prolific correspon¬ dent, Jerry GARBER, dropped anote and photo to commemorate last summer’s mini-reunion in San Antonio, hosted by Jim and Rose BROWN. The prize to the guy who travelled the farthest went to R.L. PENN, who flew in from Connecticut and stayed with the Garbers. R.L. told me he gave Dave GROARK acheck ride in his (Dave’s) T-6 during that trip. Graded him “U” in fuel management and traffic pattern (the overhead pattern resembled the F-105’s too closely), but “HQ” on emergency procedures. Says R.L. “Good thing EPs are easy for fighter pilots, so’s they don’t run past the attention span. The most serious usual¬ ly don’t exceed three steps.”

New Arrivals in Town Department: Ed and Lucia MONTGOMERY have decided to exchange his high-visibility pressure-cooker job as editor of the Pacific Stars and Stripes for the serenity and grandeur of the Col¬ orado mountains. His account of his last year there would raise the hairs the back of your neck! After retiring, Ed and Lucia took the scenic route back home from Japan, including crossing the Soviet Union on the trans-Siberian railroad and stopping in all the major capitals of Europe to visit old friends and gorge on the theater. They’ve bought abeautiful home in Monument with aspectacular view overlooking the Academy

on and the whole Front Range.

Pop Quiz Department: If you’ve got ahot item of news or information to pass on to the rest of the class, whether for Checkpoints or more direct¬ ly, who do you call? The Ghostbusters? Your ex-roomie? Your ex-wife? Jack Anderson? The AOG? Nay, nay, camel breath; the correct answer is of the above. Any of those choices might be satisfying and the word none might actually get out eventually, but it’s faster and surer to use The System.

Your class officers have put together apretty good communications network for getting word out, but we haven’t done avery good job publicizing the means to get word in. The system’s easy. We’ve divided the country into regions with aprimary and one or more alternate points of contact. Please cut out or copy the following table and, if you know of any information —ranging from triumphs to tragedy —of general in¬ terest to the class, call one of your regional reps who will get the word to the right people. Plan Bis always to call me or any of the other class of¬ ficers. We actually talk to one another on occasion!

If you live in:

California (excluding Los Angeles) or the Pacific/Asia Region '

Los Angeles

Your regional reps are:

Tom CHASE, AI WATERS, LARRY JOLLY

Bill McLAIN, Dave PHILLIPS, Charlie ZALESKI

WA, OR, ID, NV, UT, AZ, AK, HI

MT, WY, CO, NM

ND, SD, NE, KS, OK, MN, lA, MO, WI, IL

TX

MI, IN, OH, KY, ME, NH, VT, MA, CT, RI, NY, PA, NJ, DE

VA, MD, DC, WV, KY or Europe

TN, NC, SC, AR, LA, MS, AL, GA, FL

Mel POLLARD, Bob DWYER

Clark LOVRIEN, Chuck FERRARI

Tony SEIZYS

Jim BROWN, Bob BUCKLES, Larry COTTON

Flak WILLIAMS, Ed JOSEPHSON, John MANTEI

Fred WYNN, Kent MONTAVON

Leigh HUNT, Bob BLAKE, Mike MURPHY

Merry Christmas and ahealthy, happy New Year to you and your families.!

Chris Warack

690 Winding Hills Road Monument, CO 80132

Home: (719) 488-2504

Percent members: 80

(Editor’s note: The first eight paragraphs are by Andi Biancur.)

Our 30-year Reunion is now history and for those of you that couldn’t make it —those of us who were there sincerely missed you. You were in thoughts often during the weekend. And since you were not there to defend yourself don’t be surprised if you are now legendary.Adescrip¬ tion of the weekend is contained closer to the front of this issue.

In the mail this quarter, 1received anote from Ken ALNWICK who convened agroup of ’60 grads for lunch at the Pawn Shop in the D.C. Area. Attendees included: Joe HIGGINS, George ELSEA, Tom BURKE, Mike (A) CLARKE, Ralph LALIME, Bill TAYLOR, Norm HALLER, Phil MEINHARDT, Gerry de la CRUZ, and Ken ALNWICK. Being resourceful but frugal, they each wrote some words on the cocktail napkins; however it is also clear that they enjoyed more than iced tea with their lunch. George mentioned that he is slaving for EDS Corporationtheretosponsorcollegeeducationsforhischildrenwhilestill finding some time tofly aTiger Moth he has owned for several years. Bill andRalphbothworkforDougREKENTHALERwhotheybothdepend ontokeepthecompanycashflowpositiveenoughtofinancetheirhob¬ bies. My understanding is that Doug spends much of his time out of the country and sends back work assignments which keep those two fully oc¬ cupied. Gerry is working for Anser as asenior engineer while Tom is pushingthewagonuphillforDecisionScienceApplicationIncandJoeis employedwithResourceConsultantsInc.Keniscurrentlydesigningand executingmanualwargamesfortheDoDanddoingspecialopsworkfor USSOCOM along with some Army and Navy stuff. They plan to reconvene on aregular basis so next time Ken, get those guys to be alittle more specific about their lives.

OK, it is about time we were updated on afew classmates. Ken BIEHLE, you can’t just go off and fly for Southern Air Transport without letting us know what you and your family are up to. The same is true for you Jerry GIRARD and Rog LENT. Jerry is supposedly in the Wright-PattersonareawhileRogislistedinSpokaneasamemberofthe Chemistry Department at Spokane Falls College. Come on you guys, what’s the deal?

As this column is going to press. Bill and Xath GILLIS are weathering the storm of ason Mont with some cancer problems. The situation was serious enough to cause them to cancel out of the reunion at the last mo¬ ment so it deserves our concern. Iam sure that Bill and Kath would like to hear from us so if you would like to call it’s (602) 979-2174.

In the change-of-address department. Dale and Cherie THOMPSON

are

moving from Wright-Patterson to Hill AFB where Dale assumed com¬ mand of the Air Logistics Center on 24 Sept. George and Carolyn LUCK have followed the Boeing call from Wichita, KS to Everett, WA where he will be astabilizing factor on the contingent of ’60 grads already there.

Ireceived some words from Jim ALEXANDER who, following retire¬ ment on 1Feb 1990, remained in Sumter, SC where Martha has awonder¬ ful job teaching in the local high school. Jim is splitting his time between buildingtheirdreamhomeandservingasgeneralmanagerforEconomic Development of Sumter County. I’m not really sure what that entails but if we see high-rise buildings going up around Shaw AFB, Iguess that means that Jim is doing agood job.

Those of you who reside in or near Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio are probably aware, but for the rest of you. Jack SHIRA is fully involved in a for the Congressional seat for that district. Keep your eye on the

race

Mini-Reunion in San Antonio: From left, standing: Jim Brown, Ted Johnson, Larry Cotton, Brian Parker, Bob Barnard, Bob Englehart (famous ATO), R.L. Penn, Ed Rosane, and Bob Browning. Kneeling: Bob Buckles, Andy Thomas, A! Gagliardi and Jerry Garber.

papers and I’m sure he would be more than appreciative of any and all moral support and encouragement that we can give him. Good Luck Jack.

As an element of our 30th, it was decided to elect permanent class of¬ ficers. Part of that decision included combining the class scribe duties with those of the elected class secretary. Chris WARACK was elected to that position and wilt be putting together this column for future issues of Checkpoints. As we all know, the column is only as good as the informa¬ tion that you provide. Your support is essential, so give Chris ahand and keep him informed on your activities. It does make his job awhole lot easier. When you read this column, it will be close to the Holiday Season so as you are completing your Christmas card list, scribble out afew words and send them along. This recent reunion again confirmed that each member of the class has agenuine abiding interest in every other member. We may not even understand the depth of the bonds that were formed among each and every one of us.

Greetings from Monument, CO! As your duly-elected class Secretary/Scribe, Ipromise to give it my best shot. Amath major and footballer! What were you people thinking about?

1wasn’t able to spend as much time at the reunion as Iwould have lik¬ ed. Iam astudent again and it becomes more difficult the older one gets. I am picking up some odd math and computer courses as well as refresher courses in math to perhaps become certified to teach high school math. However, Iattended the major activites and enjoyed the opportunity to renew old friendships. Andi covered the happenings in his article and last column but Idid want to include some pictures and comments. Roy JOL¬ LY who lives up the road in Lakewood is still with TWA and doing alot of flying. He is looking into an opportunity to go on loan with Nippon Airways to freshen his perspective of the world.

One of the real surprises of the reunion was to see someone Ihadn’t seen since Vietnam where he was keeping the Red Cross honest was Alan Sternberg. He left us during our 3rd class year to fight awar or something, but as you can see he is still one of us.

Alan has kept in contact through Charlie DIVERS and made this a more meaningful reunion for many of us. 1want to thank Doug MILLER for the photos. He had the foresight to bring acamera to many of the ac-

Class of ’60 —30 years later!

Alan Sternberg reliving the past with Norm Halier. tivities and took lots of pictures. Ivisited with Howie BRONSON in Big Bear, CA just above San Bernardino. About this time of the year Howie goes to work. He is aski instructor on the slopes at Big Bear. Charlie GEORG! and wife Sandy came from Orange, CA where Charlie is work¬ ing for afirm that manufactures computer workstations for many of the major computer makers.

Send cards and letters. Ihave gotten promises from several of you to provide input to this column on aroutine basis. If there are others of you who might want to plug your classmates in your area. I’d be pleased to hear from you. Those of you who didn’t make the trek to the Rockies owe me aletter so that we can all hear the latest. Merry Christmas!

Randy Cubero

7163 Wintery Loop

Colorado Springs, CO 80919

Home: (719) 598-7155

AV: 259-3820

Percent members: 83

Well good people here it is the 1990 football season and your fabulous Falcons are struggling on offense. With the graduation of Dee DOWIS, our All-American QB, the wishbone has not been as potent as in past seasons. It’s not for lack of effort though, because the cadets are playing their hearts out, especially on defense. Unfortunately, we need aquarter¬ back with the options skills that we all took for granted with Dee. The talent we have now will simply need more time to develop and become more effective. We just finished our fourth game and are adisappointing 2-2.1 will say without reservation that the defense is playing superbly and as soon as the offense kicks in we will win some important games.

In the local area Wayne and Erna HARING gave me anewspaper arti¬ cle announcing the engagement of their son Jeff, aC-141 pilot stationed at McGuire AFB, NJ, to Miss Cheryl Lynne Williams of Silver Springs, MD. The first picture is of the happy and handsome couple just before their wedding which was held on the 7th of July 1990 at Ft McNair, Washington DC. Jeff graduated from USAFA in 1986 and according to

Bill Goodyear and Pops Jolly in serious discussion.

The new Capt. and Mrs. Haring. his proud parents is thoroughly enjoying his Air Force career. Our sincere eongratulations to the entire Haring family.

Earl SAUNDERS, who was featured in my last article after his acci¬ dent, is doing just fine and is back at work full time. Doc and Marti .AR¬ NOLD, who helped out in caring for Lillie when she went to Grand Junc¬ tion, CO dropped off their daugther Liz at CC here in Colorado Springs to begin her last year of college. Jim WILHELM and Nancy have been terrific in hosting a’61 tailgate before and after every home game at USAFA. Jim brings his customized mobile-home bus to the parking area and hangs out the ’61 flag for all the world to see. That bus is awork of art and amazingly completed by Jim and Nancy right after their retire¬ ment from the Air Force.

close to the top of the corporate ladder. Through my Puerto Rican grapevine 1found out that Hector will be receiving avery prestigious award from the Military History of Puerto Rico Organization on 23 November 1990. They are going to recognize Hector’s distinguished AF career and thank him for never involving Puerto Rico in awar with New Jersey.

The Kohout Retirement Party

Speaking of retirements, John KOHOUT separated from the Air Force on 27 April, with Lee BUTLER officiating. In the first picture we have a few people who 1have not featured for awhile so it was nice to see their friendly faces. In the top row from left are Tom BROPHY, Dave CARLSTROM, Jack WOLCOTT, John SULLIVAN with aKris Kristofferson beard, Darrel KOERNER, Nels O’REAR, and Bill STACKHOUSE; in the front row we have Lee BUTLER, John KOHOUT, and P.B. O’CONNOR. John K. has decided to stay in the D.C. area and is working for National Security Research, Inc in Fairfax, VA.

As for the rest of the family, in the second picture we see Carrie, a junior at Wellesley; Joan, alibrarian at Kirkland and Ellis, alaw firm in D.C.; John; Rick, ajunior at Hamilton; and Jen, asenior in her last year, they hope, at the University of Michigan Law School.

By THEURER sent me his decennial letter and 1just can’t believe 10 years have gone by so quickly. By says that he just figured out what he wants to be when he grows up, and wants to create amid-life career change before he runs out of mid-life. By owns atest preparation in Sacramento, CA, which provides SAT coaching to high school juniors. He thoroughly enjoys working with teens and says that it is extremely satisfying to see them improve their scores on that “bear” of atest.

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On the class reunion, Charlie NEEL and Mike QUINLAN have been doing asuper job in organizing the locals. On the 4th of Septembe had our first official meeting in the O’Club at USAFA. The “command decisions” we made were to invite all honorary members of the class to the reunion, and to solicit agift of $10,000 from the class for our 30-year gift to USAFA —the best idea being to construct areading room in the new AOG building. Finally, in lieu of the football game since our reunion ill be from August 1-4, we will put Dale TABOR in charge of the Satur¬ day excursion to Lowry AFB to visit the old USAFA compound. We also organized ourselves into committees and promised that we would show some positive movement in setting up our respective events by the next scheduled meeting on 10 October 1990. At that time we should come up with afirm agenda to let everyone know what, when, and where all the in¬ dividual events planned.

Well, that’s about it for this article. This year your scribe has decided to take along-awaited sabbatical. Iwill explain more of the details as the year unfolds, but for now let’s just say that Iam working on awonderful videodisc project to enhance the teaching of foreign languages with ad¬ vanced technologies. As aspecial favor to me, Jim WILHELM has con¬ sented to write next quarter’s article and Iam truly indebted to him for that. Take care and from all the CUBEROs we wish you and yours ahap¬ py and blessed holiday season.

John W. (Jack) Jamba

4Judy Court Satellite Beach, FL 32937

Home; (407) 777-5520

Office: (407) 867-7758

Percent members: 71

Hi REDTAGS!

I’m going to try something new with this column. I’m starting on it ear¬ ly. 1sent the last column in two weeks ago. 1will now report on Willie GRAY’S retirement. There was aformal retirement ceremony on the palio of the Officer’s Club on June 29th. Willie received the Legion of Merit for his seven years at ESMC, the last three as the vice commander. That night there was adinner in his honor attended by 289 people. The dinner took two hours and the presentations took two hours. It was avery memorable occasion because of the genuine warmth that the attendees showed for the support and help that Willie had provided. Larry GOOCH presented aswordcase to Willie as apersonal expression of his thanks for the help that Willie had given to Larry when Larry was ESMC com¬ mander. Then Chuck CHEESEMAN and 1presented him with ashadow box with all his medals, awards, decorations and ranks displayed in it. Three other Redtags passed their regrets for not being able to make it: Colin RICHARDSON, Ken FLEMING, and Ralph CONLAN. The following evening Willie, Larry and Iand our wives and some friends of Willie’s took aboat ride on the nearby Banana River. It was afine finish to agreat weekend.

Igot aphone call from Art FARRINGTON during the summer. He was looking for some information and told me about the direction that

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the Air Force Academy Society of Washington, D.C. was pursuing. They want to be better as anetworking group to help grads find employment after retirement as well as do more to support AFA. He said that he and Dick KLASS are on the board of directors. In the meantime he continues his job as asystems engineer with GE. He and Sandy send their regards. It was nice talking to you, Art. Keep in touch.

From left, Tim, Nancy and Rhonda Gilmartin with Bob Hopkins at the Monaco Grand Prix.

Next 1got aletter from Tim GILMARTIN with asnapshot and the following note. “Enclosed is apicture of myself, my wife, Nancy, Rhon¬ da and Hoppy HOPKINS at the Monaco Grand Prix in May. We were sending a“hymn” to J.D. EATON who didn’t wanna go. As you can im¬ agine, we had lots of fun.” Thanks for the picture, Tim.

Here it is at the beginning of Fall. The daytime high temperatures will only get into the 80s instead of the 90s. And Igot the word that the deadline for the next Checkpoints will occur before the current issue hits the newsstands. So many of you will not have that reminder to write to me before my deadline. This will be ashort column.

Igot some change-of-address cards and tried tracking down three Redtags. Ileft amessage on Jerry DAUGHERTY’S answering machine. He is living in Englewood, CO. Next Itried Scott FISHER in McLean, VA, but the phone was not in service. Then Ileft amessage on Jack HAUSER’s answering machine and got acall back the next day. After retirement. Jack got ajob last spring with McDonnell Douglas in St. Louis. He works in systems engineering on new programs. His work involves the weapons end of the missile systems company. He and his wife bought ahouse in Chesterfield, MO, which gives him about a45-minute commute one way. He gave me arundown on his family. His older daughter, Sharon, 26, lives in Buffalo, NY, and is planning marriage next year. His younger daughter, Becky, 24, is married and living in Hartford, CT. She has two children and her husband works for Pratt &Whitney. Their son, Jack, Jr, is asenior at Creighton Univ in Omaha. He is majoring in poly sci and will enter law school next year. His wife, Diana, has been working on and off. She has amaster’s in industrial counseling but hasn’t had the chance to really use it. Maybe things will change. In any event, Ithank you for the update. Jack.

Ialso got achange of address from Paul LANDERS showing him mov¬ ing to McGuire AFB. Isaw an article in the Air Force Magazine, in¬ dicating that he is now the commander of 21st Air Force. Congrats, Paul

Isaw an article in Air Force Magazine by Gen T.R. Milton, USAF (Ret), in which he gives awarning that the change in world affairs and the consequent reduction in uniformed personnel will lead to apossible at¬ tempt to reduce the enrollment in the academies. His message was that we should resist any attempts to cut back at the Air Force Academy. And I agree. Ihope you all do too.

Iguess that’s it for now. I’ve got acase of the flu so I’m heading for bed after Iprint this out. My warmest regards for aMerry Christmas and aHappy New Year. Keep the cards and letters coming. Jack.

Norman 1. Lee III

17532 N.E. 38th Court

Redmond, WA 98052

Work: (206) 655-4412

Home: (206) 882-0968

Percent members: 75

If you are an avid reader of this column you will remember that sometime ago Irelayed astory from Jerry DRISCOLL about Bill and Joy REEMTSMA’s daughter Kristi. Bill was kind enough to write and thank for mentioning Kristi and in turn added some more news. Ithink his me

opening paragraph was especially good: “Thanks for mentioning our daughter Kristi in your last column. It made her feel important. In addi¬ tion to Jerry Driscoll, she’s had the opportunity to fly with several other grads as well. Her first item of business is always to ask the cockpit crew, ‘Fast, Neat, Average ...?’ If anyone answers, ‘Friendly, Good, Good .. ..’ She knows there’s aZoomie on board.” Kristi graduated from North Texas State University and then went to work with American with the assistance of Denny KING, Manny CARDENAS (’64), and Rick BAR¬ TON (’71). Bill and Joy have two other children: Ted, achef atavery nice Italian restaurant in Dallas, and youngest son Tim, amember of the USAFA Class of ’94. Bill says that Tim and Brent Helinski, son of Gay and John HELINSKI, will be classmates and possibly roommates in 21st Squadron carrying on the REEMTSMA-HELINSKI tradition.

Bill has been in the Dallas area commercial real estate market for the past 19 years. Tough Duty! He does report things are looking up. He is also very active in the North Texas Association of AFA Grads along with other Yellow Tags including: Jerry AHMANN, Mike BRADSHAW, Mike GIBBONS, Doug HARDGRAVE, Klem KALBERER, Denny KING, Jim KUHN, Keith LOCKHART, Roy MARSHALL, Glen SHAFFER, and Wes WHITE. Dave BOECK and Jeff HEAL, who live elsewhere —JT lives in Ohio? —join the group for parties. Sounds like fun! QUIZ: How many of the above are airline pilots?

Jimmie BUTLER surfaced in arather spectacular fashion. Included in his letter was apress release for his novel. The Iskra Incident, to be published as Iwrite. The story is about fighter pilots, KGB, espionage, in¬ ternational intrigue and acrisis that may lead to Armageddon. He also reports his second novel was also purchased by the publisher. 1think his letter says it best: “Since retiring in 1987,1 have embarked on acareer as awriter. There’s along lead time, even if you write something someone wants to publish, but it looks like I’m finally about to break into the business. My first novel, The Iskra Incident is being published by (E.P.) Dutton and will be released in September. I’m including asheet that sum¬ marizes the advance reviews the novel has received so far. I’m very pleas¬ ed with the one from Publishers Weekly. It’s fair in its criticism, but does convey the message that 1can write an interesting story.

“The publisher has already bought my second novel. Red Lightning — Black Thunder. It will be published at an appropriate interval after the first, probably sometime in the summer 1991. It’s about space warfare and C-141 flying and should compete very well in the Tom Clancy market. The people at the Secretary of the Air Force Public Affairs (SAFPA) Western Region in Westwood are very enthusiastic about Red Lightning becoming amovie. They put me in touch with acouple of pro¬ ducers who are having people take alook at the manuscript. Both novels were conceived before all the changes in Eastern Europe, but Ithink my third will be on Vietnam. That’s asubject not so vulnerable to change in the couple of years that it takes to get into print.”

Jimmie added some news of Karl and Dora HEMEYER who live in

Sandy, Utah. Karl flies for United and occasionally RONs about eight blocks from Jimmie’s place in Redondo Beach, CA. He also reports crossing paths with Terry DAKE and Stu FENSKE. Terry is areservist (colonel) and continues to do his Air Force thing at Space Division in El Segundo. Stu lives in Redondo Beach and works for Northrop on the B-2. Jimmie also included asuper piece entitled Letters from USAFA — The First Four Months. The AOG folks report they hope to run the piece in Checkpoints in the near future. An excerpt Iliked and, Iam sure you remember, focused on food —as do most of the stories —and an inci¬ dent that took place July 4, 1959. Jimmie writes: “We made Air Force Academy history at lunch today. Because we did such afine job of march¬ ing after only eight days of practice, the basic cadets were allowed to eat our meal at ease. This was the first time in the history of the Academy that basic cadets were ever allowed to eat at ease. We didn’t have to keep our eyes on our plates or sit on the edge of chairs, and we were allowed to talk to each other.” 1also remember we had hot dogs for lunch. God, we were young and impressionable then.

Thank you for the “Letters” Jimmie. Iwas tempted to just repeat every story right here: they are priceless and everyone will love reading them. Good luck on your book. Ilook forward to finding it in the book store.

Speaking of authors, Pete OGNIBENE was in town last week and despite his busy schedule, was able to call. His company, which specializes in the “Smart Card”, had him in town calling on Intermec, Microsoft and Westin. Pete reports he still gets up early every morning to work on the great American novel. His current book is done, waiting publication. The story, set in Butte, MT, chronicles the Copper Kings at the turn of the century. His next effort is already in the works and revolves around the Battle of Glorieta Pass —near Santa Fe, NM —during the Civil War.

Bryant and Maura CULBERSON were in town earlier this month at¬ tending aconference. Bryant and Iwere able to have lunch spending a

couple of hours trading stories and reminiscing at an outdoor restaurant on Lake Union. Bryant is on the Air War College staff at Maxwell and enjoys the world of military academia.

Bob HALL was in town attending aconference at Boeing Flight Train¬ ing and we managed to break away for ashort lunch (lunch is my favorite time of day). Bob is astaff engineer for the Airline Pilots Associaton in Herndon, VA. His job has taken him around the world visiting and confering with airplane manufacturers such as Air Bus, SAAB, Dornier, etc.

Jim DIFFENDORFER gave me the enclosed photograph of Bob PARLETTE working on his airstrip. I’ve been thinking of some titles like —“Airport Expansion Underway” or “Can You Compute the Obstacle Clearance Requirements?” or “Wait Until You See the Terminal” etc. Bob is arancher and attorney in Wenatchee, WA.

OTHER CHANGES: Bill EBERT called to report starting work as a 727 flight engineer for United Airlines beginning June 25th. His domicile is San Francisco although he plans to work as pilot instructor in Denver as soon as his training permits. Ralph BACUE is showing anew address as colonel USAF (retired) living in Brentwood, TN. Active duty changes in¬ clude Larry DAY (MajGen), commander of the Chanute Tech Training Center; Pat CARUANA (BGen), 42nd Air Division commander. Grand Forks; Bill BALL (BGen), 28th Air Division commander. Tinker; Ralph ROHATSCH (MajGen) TUSLOG commander, Ankara; Otto HABEDANK (BGen), commander of the International Logistics Center at Wright-Pat; Bob HAYES (colonel). Engineering Installation Division commander. Tinker; and Ron FOGLEMAN (LtGen) deputy commanderin-chief, United Nations Command, Korea, commander ROK/US Air Component Command, Combined Forces Command and commander 7th AF, PACAF, Osan AB. Does that all fit on your nameplate Ron? Congratulations on promotion to lieutenant general!

Iwas very sorry to hear from Ron FULLERTON about the death of his beloved wife Kathleen after athree-year bout with cancer. Ron and Kathy were married on Graduation Day 27 years ago. Memorial donations may be made to the American Cancer Society, 572 Main St., West Yarmouth, MA 02673 or the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Symphony Hall, Boston, MA 02115.

Just the other day, Igot afull after-action report on 1960’s 30th re¬ union from Jim O’ROURKE. Jim could not say enough about the good time. I’m both encouraged and excited about our next get-together and nearly everyone in the class Ihear from is looking forward to 1993. Make plans!

Bob Hovde

1Andrews Circle

Hanscom AFB, MA 01731

Home: (617) 274-7759

Office: (617) 377-3601

DSN: 478-3601

Percent members: 74

DSN?: For those oi you who remember (fondly) the AUTOVON telephone network and all of the trouble you had getting through to wherever you were trying to call, you can now have trouble getting through on adigital system —the Defense Switched Network (DSN). It will probably be 20 years until everyone starts using the new name, but at least the equipment should work better. If you want to try it out, give me acall. Now that you’ve had your lesson for the day, Iguess it’s time to wish everyone aHappy Holiday! (It’s actually agreat golf day in September, but the magazine world does move slowly.)

VISITS, ETC. Phil ROBERTS paid avisit to me at the Geophysics Lab in August to discuss technology efforts and future business directions. He is the manager. Advanced Development, for the Ford Aerospace Corp, (Ford Aerospace was recently bought by Loral Corp., so the name may have changed by the time you read this.) At any rate, Phil lives in Newport Beach, CA and is enjoying life as acivilian purveyor of technology.

Ialso got acall from Kris MINEAU (deputy for Maintenance at 3rd AF, Mildenhall AFB, England). He is planning on being there until January 1992. With Karen graduating last May, Kris Jr. getting married last June, and Carrie getting married this November, 1don’t know how he can afford to stay in England —he must have set arecord for personal business cross-Atlantic flights this year. At least David is safely tucked away at USAFA.

LLt. Gen. Thomas S. Moorman Jr., commander of Air Force Space Command, and Martha Kelley pin asecond star on Jay at Peterson AFB, CO.

LATE NEWS RELEASE: As you can see in the photo. Jay KELLEY pinned on his second star as vice commander of Air Force Space Com¬ mand on the 1st of June. Since he, Martha, and Lt.Gen. Moorman all seem happy, 1guess this is agood deal. Tm sure Jay will let us know later.

The picture of A1 ROGERS came with no explanation other than the caption. Some things just don’t need much explanation.

MaJ. Gen. Al Rogers, 4Jui 90, U.S. National Reception, Shape, Belgium.

LETTERS: Guy DENNIS wrote from Amherst, NH that he is in¬ terested in getting together with classmates to tell afew tall stories. We do have achapter of the Association of Graduates here in New England, basically centered around Hanscom AFB. There are not, however, alot of ’64 grads in the area (of course, it doesn’t take many ’64 grads to make aparty —about two). The New England Chapter of USAFA AOG can be reached at P.O. Box 389, Bedford, MA 01730. Bob McNamara (’66) just took over from me as chapter president. We have planned several dinner parties, with speakers from USAFA, and other events, such as go¬ ing to the West Point-USAFA football game (which will have occurred about amonth before you get this).

Dave NEAL writes that he was in Nebraska in June, so he visited Thad

Bob —mowing the runway!

WOLFE and Paul MATHEWS. Brett DULA had just left for Washington, DC. Dave says that Paul was two days from retirement and still hadn’t decided what to do. Dave still lives near San Francisco (Novato), where he is the CEO for Dyna-Gro Corp. which is trying to bring anew line of fertilizers onto the market. (Spreading fertilizer is something we know something about!)

CHANGE-OF-ADDRESS CARDS: Lee CONNER has moved from Pike Road to Montgomery, AL. At the other end of the country. Rich FLECHSIG has moved from Las Vegas to Vancouver, WA. Ron HULTING now lives in Glendale, CA, while Gerry KING has moved to Glendale, AZ. Perry LASH apparently didn’t want to move far, so he just moved into anew house in Las Vegas. Jim MANNING now lives in Fort Collins, CO. John MCKENNEY is back from Bahrain, and now lives in Seffner, FL. Finally, Jim WIDGER has moved down from the mountains at Payson, and lives in Mesa, AZ.

Idon’t have anything more for now. Hopefully I’ll see some of you at the West Point game or at one of the New England AOG functions this Fall. See you then.

Jerry “Ski” Wilkowski

2423 Rocky Branch Road Vienna, VA 22181

Office; (703) 845-7470

Home: (703) 255-9083

Percent members: 70

The column this issue will be short and maybe even alittle sweet and, hopefully, my last. After seven-plus years and two reunions (20th and 25th) I’d like to read someone else’s news and perspectives. You have been very supportive of my efforts; and very tolerant of my periodic com¬ mentaries. Regardless, 1have the personal feeling that I’m becoming stale, that I’m repeating names and events all too frequently, that Iam getting burned out, and that anew scribe, with anew and perhaps in¬ novative approach, is overdue. And the first column in the New Year would be an ideal start time. Please call me as soon as you read this and the spirit moves you. Iwill help you get started and promise to support — as I’m sure will the rest of ’65!

Due to apersonal emergency, the reunion article will appear in the next issue. Our group photo, however, appears below.

Thanks are in order to Jim SPITTLER for sending anewspaper cliping on, appropriately enough, anewspaper man, Dick SCHLOSBERG. Dick was recently elected group vice president —newspapers of Times Mirror Company, Los Angeles. His duties will include “chairman of the newspaper management committee with responsibility for six company newspapers, and for group advertising sales, newsprint purchases and other newspaper matters.” Dick had been president of the Los Angeles Times since 1988 and his continued professional accomplishments are tru¬ ly noteworthy. Good on you!

Received acall from Jim MYNAR in late September. Jim was in town to attend ashort course presented by the FAA on the Air Traffic Control System. Fitted well with his duties as the deputy commander of the North¬ west Air Defense Sector at McChord AFB, WA. Jim noted that, while he is “ fl ying adesk”, the sector CC, none other than our own Chuck COLEMAN, has to maintain proficiency in the F-16 as part of his job re¬ quirements. How traumatic for Chuck, you say. Yes, Ifelt the same way too! Fortunately we still have some classmates willing to accept such rot-

ten assignments and still persevere. Does my heart good! Keep up the ef¬ fort, both of you.

ZIP CODE CHANGES: Tom GORGES from APO SF 96408 to Monument, CO; Bill KENNEDY FROM HQ EUCOM to Biloxi, MS; Joe KOENIG from Wright-Patterson AFB, OH to Norton AFB, CA; Jock PATTERSON from APO NY 09012 to Niceville, FL; Dave NOLTING from Cypress, CA to Yuma, AZ; Bill VINSON from Castro Valley, CA to Agoura, CA; Jim VICK from Offutt AFB to Bolling AFB where he is the Air Force commander of the Military District of Washington, DC; Paul DICKEY from Modesta, CA to Newman, CA; Dennis BAGWELL to Tracy, CA; and Bill CATHEY to Langley AFB, VA where he is the HQ AFSC liaison officer to HQ TAC.

FINAL NOTE: Completing this column in the USAFA AOG office prior to attending the Memorial Ceremony at the Cadet Chapel for our classmates. An obligation which none of us anticipates with much en¬ thusiasm, if any, but which serves as acleansing of mind and soul. They, whom we knew and loved only amoment ago, must be looking down fondly on us today as we continue to strive for the peace and happiness which is theirs for an eternity. It’s agreat heritage and camaraderie we share folks. And yes, I’m not ashamed to admit that it gets better with maturity and in retrospect. God Bless.

Ryan Denny 1210 Applewhite Road

O’Fallon, IL 62269

Home: (618) 624-4255

AV: 576-5007

Percent members: 71

Greetings Redtags! 1hope by the time you read this we have figured out some peaceful solution to our problems in the Mideast. As I’m writing this, things look pretty grim. For most of us, it’s another generation’s war; but there are alot of young folks over there who we’ve trained and a few who we’ve raised.

From left are, Tom Brandon, Kate Brandon (14), Jason Van Valin, Heidi Brandon (20), Craig Alien, Gad Brandon, and Scott Veach. 1got agreat letter and the accompanying picture from Tom BRAN¬ DON —thanks Tom! He is teaching in United Airlines’ training center in (Copies of photograph may be ordered from: Faingold Studios, 20 S. Elm, Denver, CO 80222)

Denver. He flies afew days amonth and teaches the other few days a month that airline pilots work. Sounds like agreat job. Ihope there are some more like that when 1retire in afew years. Tom is living in Colorado Springs, and had some doolies from the Class of ’94 over for a“Doolie Day Out”. Some of the names might sound familiar to you —Jason VAN VALIN (Gary), Craig ALLEN (Jerry), and Scott VEACH (Lacy). Tom says he locked his 17-year-old daughter up in the basement for pro¬ tection. If those doolies are anything like their dads were. I’d have locked up the dog too. Tom says that John MARSHALL’S son, Jeff, is also in the class of ’94, but they didn’t find out in time to sponsor him.

Tom’s news on other classmates is that Marty ANDRADE (a DC-8 in¬ structor with United Airlines), Art SURO (Pan Am pilot living in Virginia), John McBROOME (PAS at Colorado State) and Mike RHYNARD (defense contractor in Colorado Springs) are all joining him to go elk hunting. If they were flying, we’d put out aNOTAM. John FAL, with recently-conferred PhD in instructional system design, has just settled in Monument and is working in Golden at the Rocky Flats Nuclear Plant. Phil DIBB is with Kaman Sciences in Colorado Springs, and Bernie AMELS is with Prudential.

he spent ayear in Saudi Arabia as an F-15 simulator instructor, diving in the Red Sea and camping. Then back to Vegas as president and general manager of ajet charter company, and presently as an instruc¬ tor in the F-117 simulator and academic training program. He is cur¬ rently transitioning out of that into aposition as director of human resources at anew resort in Vegas. Wife, Diana, is working for the Chamber of Commerce, his 21-year-old daughter married aVegas businessman in August, and high-school-age son Scott spent the sum¬ mer in the Fiji Islands, diving with the Cousteau Society. This is not your white picket fence, middle American family.

Jim McCLEARY also wrote to say that he had seen Fred GROSICK and family on their way to Germany, where Fred is chief of the Euro¬ pean fi eld of fi ce for the onsite inspection agency to oversee the Soviet/American withdrawal from Western Europe. Wow... Mean¬ while, Fred and Susan’s oldest daughter, Jenny, is attending the Uof Maine, with her junior year to be spent in Switzerland studying marketing. Their #2daughter Gretchen is attending Frankfurt American High School, with plans to follow on at the Uof Madrid. Jim’s son Chris is adoolie, playing on the freshman tennis team and Jim has been able to visit him on some football weekends. At arecent game he ran into Joe BURKE, who recently retired from the AF and plans to stay in C-Springs.

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25th REUNION: Paul VIOTTl wrote that he and the other ’66ers assigned to the Academy have “volunteered” to organize our 25th Reu¬ nion. (My head still hurts from the 20th!) Marty DAACK, Hans MUEH, Jim WOODY, and Paul are the “gang of four” who will make it all hap¬ pen. Paul is in charge of the hotel arrangements and has selected the Mar¬ riott in Colorado Springs. The reunion will be on the Army game weekend (7-10 November ’91), so we will have alot of competition from other activites at USAFA, but it should be agreat weekend. The festivities will start on Thursday and last until Sunday. We will all get notices and other information as we get closer to the big event, but you can make reservations now with the Mariott Reservation Office, 5580 Tech Center Dr. Colorado Springs, CO 1-800-962-6982. The rate will be $65 per night (single or double). I’m go¬ ing to start looking for ababy sitter nov '

BITS AND PIECES: Dale ELLIOTT called from Denver where he is working for Hughes Space and Communications. He’s wondering why so many of our talented classmates are squandering their years of manage¬ ment experience by flying for the airlines. Ithink it has something to do with good pay, lots of time off, and little responsibility outside the im¬ mediate job. All that sounds good to me. Anybody else have an opinion?

Homer LICHTENWALTER is the director of Contracting and Manufac¬ turing at Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center. Paul BRADLEY has just moved from the Washington DC area to Yaounde, Cameroon. Paul is with the State Department so he probably didn’t have to look Yaounde up in aWorld Atlas like Idid when they told him he was going there. (It’s in Africa.) Joe NARSAVAGE moved from Cannon AFB to Ceiba, Puerto Rico, and Bill EUBANK moved from Rantoul, IL to Schertz, TX. (I had to look that up in the Atlas,, too.) And Sid WISE moved from Maxwell AFB to Spring fi eld, VA. Carl BAKER has retired and is fl ying for Southwest Airlines somewhere in Texas.

This will probably suffice as my Christmas card to all of you ’66ers out there, which means you all owe me acard full of your current doings. Drop me aline or stop on by if you’re in the St. Louis area. In the mean¬ time, have aMerry Christmas and agreat New Year. Happy Landings!

Larry Wilson

Quarters 114, F.E. Warren AFB

Cheyenne, WY 82001

Home: (307) 634-9965

AV: 481-2277

Percent members: 65

The Golden Pen of ’67 has passed back, albeit temporarily or parttime, to me. Dan MORGAN is among those deployed in the Mideast (more about that later) and he accepted my offer to take over in his absence. After these several years —it’s like deja vu all over again. Ted McADAM wrote anice letter encapsulating his AF career, and his “retirement” activites. He described “...a very happy 20-year career” during which he flew the F-4 and F-15, was an ops officer and squadron commander, and traveled extensively. He opted to retire rather than go to “that mandatory staff job.” After retiring from the AF

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Chuck DENHAM, who is the 2nd Space Wing deputy commander for Systems and Logistics at Falcon AFB, sent news of Hank ARNOLD. Col Dr Arnold, USA MC, recently retired at Ft Carson where he had served since ’87. After his retirement parade, Al LUNDBERG, now working for Ball Aerospace in Boulder, helped celebrate. Hank will remain in C-Springs in an orthopedic surgery practice. Other contacts of Chuck’s included Skip PUMFREY, now retired and living in Larkspur, CO and Jerry CORWIN who works for one of the civilian subcontractors at Falcon AFB.

By the way —for those of you who are as dated as Iam —Falcon AFB is located on what used to be the wasteland east of C-Springs, and is the headquarters of 2nd Space Wing.

The most jarring news comes from Dan MORGAN himself: he is deployed with the rest of Holloman AFB’s air transportable hospital to Saudi Arabia. It sounds like it was areal hurry-up-and-wait military movement, with several weeks of false starts, standbys, standdowns, and finally the actual deployment. He seems in good spirits, providing much needed and requested counseling and support to the other deployed troops. He has seen no other ’67 grads there, though 1would imagine there are others who also are directly involved.

Incidentally, if this conflict is not resolved within 90-180 days, likely such as the he and his group will rotate back to CONUS while others folks in my hospital, and I—will likely replace them. Not aparticular¬ ly pleasant thought.

These past 15 years, with only rare fl urries of con fl ict, have resulted in abig chunk of the current military who have never known the disruption, discord, waste and tragedy of war. Now they may learn it, while the “old hands” may relearn it. Recent POW/MIA Remem¬ brance Day, combined with thoughts of friends now deployed in harm’s way, has reawakened old memories. Let us all pray that cool heads prevail.

It has been fun having ahand in this column again. Iwill likely con¬ tinue while Dan is away, after which he and Imay divvy up the task somehow. So all you Golden Boys of ’67 —write to Dan, or to the AOG, or to me —but do write, or call, or whatever, and let us share the news of what you and your family are up to.

Meanwhile —from the Wilsons in Cheyenne —best wishes to all.

Tim Davidson

12 Lake Lorraine Circle

Shalimar, FL 32579

Home: (904) 651-1372

Of fi ce: (904) 884-2271

AV: 579-2271

Percent members: 65

The blistering heat of I990’s summer sun does not compare to the last few months of activity between Washington, DC and Baghdad. The crisis over the sovereignty of Kuwait and the dependence of the West on precious oil reserves in the Persian Gulf have provided astark reminder of what national security interests really mean. For all classmates and fellow servicemen involved in this effort, our thoughts and prayers are with you for success in your mission and asafe return Ip friendlier shores in the very near future.

HELLO 68! The news for your fall column represents apotpourri of inputs from around the globe. From the Air Force Military Personnel

Center, it is my distinct pleasure to announce the promotion of two more of ’68’s illustrious members to the rank of colonel. Robert Wendell PAULI and Robert Tecwyn WILLIAMS (a.k.a. Bob &Bob) please rise and accept some well-deserved congratulations from your fellow classmates. (Air Force Band, rousing Sousa march, and 21-gun salute simulated.)

From Strasbourg, France, Geoff GORSUCH writes that he and his family are in their 12th year with the Navigators in France. They have been focusing on church renewal and campus youth work, but Geoff admits that he misses football (U.S.-style). He extends awarm “Bienvenue” if any of you are in the area. He also ran into Dale ODERMAN, who is DO for the 435th Tactical Airlift Wing at Rhein Main. Dale, Vera, and the children are all doing well.

From Baguio City in the Philippines, Cecille CASTRO wrote to Jim REESE that only Divine Providence prevented her from being caught in the earthquake. Apparently, she was running an errand when the earthquake struck and actually witnessed the hotel collapsing. She and her family have moved to Manila and are living in very crowded condi¬ tions with her sister. She has asked for the class to assist in the emigra¬ tion of her family. We are checking on the status of emigration visas and the cost of the airline tickets and will report back to the class on what remains to be done.

From Black Forest, CO, Manny BETTENCOURT reported that on July 2nd, the First, Periodic, Occasional Gathering of the WAGs (We are Greats) was held in Colorado Springs. The group boasts amembership of 21 with 12 showing up for the “gathering.” The gang there included: Bert BAUER, Manny, A1 BLUMBERG, Rod BROWN, Gerry WYNGAARD, Chuck JONES, Bob SALLEE, Jody SMITH, Neal STARKEY, Ben STEVENS, Blair STEWART, and Gary VASEK. (Class Scribe note and philosophical question: If atree falls in the forest and no one hears it, no sound is created. Similarly, if agathering gathers and no picture is sent to the Class Scribe, did the gathering actually take place?) News from the group is that Rod BROWN traveled the greatest distance from his ranch near Divide. Gerry WYNGAARD updated them on USAFA happenings. Blair STEWART is still playing that “good ol’ Rock &Roll.” Manny is working with Betac and, except for occasional flareups, his M.S. has been in remission and the symptoms manageable.

Yes, Virginia, there is a’68 grandpa out there! Rod STUBBS is reported to be alive and well in Denver. Rod is an 11-year veteran of Mar¬ tin Marietta and is working Total Quality Management for Production OperationsintheSpaceLaunchSystemsCompany.HeandDonnahave maintained afast pace at home and on the track where both are involved in long-distance running. Donna is preparing for her third marathon of 1990 in October. Oldest son, Daryl, is playing in aband; Joanie, Trevor’s mother, is finishing aparalegal course in California; Ryan is afreshman at Whittier College and playing lacrosse; Jeni is ahigh school sophomore and plays volleyball; Jill is in 8th grade and enjoys piano and running; and Kenny is in 6th grade with ayen for competitive soccer.

Randy JOHNSON checked in from anew address in De Ridder, LA, where he is still “hanging out with Army buddies stationed at Fort Polk.” Randy guarantees that USAF PME is totally inadequate in depicting the complexity of facing a“combat arms” battalion/brigade/division com¬ mander. Joel GORDES wrote that he decided not to seek athird term in the Connecticut House of Representatives so that he could devote more time to family and energy issues. One of his last acts was to submit an amendment to an energy bill which will relamp all incandescent light bulbs in state buildings with new compact fluorescents and will save $130 million in energy costs over the next decade.

1also received avery warm letter from Brooke BAILEY who made an extremely difficult decision to retire from the Air Force to pursue other interests. Brooke, our best wishes to Cathy and you for as much success in your next career as you have experienced in the Air Force.

.^Daryl

Another ’68 gathering in Tennessee —Hi y’all from Tony Eden, Jim Thompson, and R.K. Brown.

From the ALMOST BUMPED INTO DEPARTMENT, R.K. BROWN made two attempts to see me before Iegressed from the Pentagon, but we were unable to get together. The picture above was snapped at Jim THOMPSON’S while Tony EDEN was attending aprofessional course for civil engineers at McGhee Tyson Airport in Knoxville. Jim is a“water law” specialist teaching at the University of Tennessee Law School and is also an ANG JAG guy on weekends. In addition to commandant duties at the Tennessee ANG Academy of Military Science, R.K. is now the ANG liaison officer to Joint Task Force-4 at Key West NAS, FL. As R.K. noted, “Somebody had to do it!”

Now, from the real BUMPED INTO DEPARTMENT, Iam in daily/weekly contact with Fred GROSS and Carl McPHERSON in or about the AFSOC HQ at Hurlburt. Fred is the assistant command loggie and Carl is the DCS for Personnel. Carl and wife, Susan, are expecting the arrival of ablessed event in January —68’s long blue line continues! Lisa and Ialso had the pleasure of hosting Gary and Nancy VASEK and their three boys at our home in Arlington before we departed the fix. Gary is still working as asystems analyst for PAR Government Systems Corp in C-Springs.

For those of the Class of ’69 who take the time to read ’68’s news or for those in the Class of ’68 who even acknowledge that there was aClass of ’69, T.J. DOHERTY is alive and well in Fort Walton Beach and was preparing for his TWA flight duties on atrip to Rome (the one in Italy) at the time this column was going to press. Since he hasn’t written to his Class Scribe in over 20 years, Ithought we should help our underclass brethren hear about one of their own. In recognition of the outstanding leadership that our class left to them (and to ensure that he would be men¬ tioned in the column) he did exclaim before our conversation ended that ’68 was still Great!

Bonjour! From ihe Gorsuch Family Julie (8).

Geoff, Diane, Nicole (II), and

Rod Stubbs revealed as being grandfather since October 1988! Wife, Donna, sends picture with grandson Trevor, as proof!

‘68 SPOTLIGHT

The ’68 Spotlight for Fall 1990 falls on Col. Bobby O. FLOYD, who is currently serving as the deputy director for Forces at HQ USAF (AF/PRPF). Bobby has had arewarding career in the Air Force with flight time in the EC-47 in SEA, C-141s out of Charleston, and C-5s out of Travis. He has also served as the commander of the 57th MAS at Altus and 60th MAW at Travis. Season these accomplishments with atour on the Air Staff, AFSC, the Air War College, and, perhaps most notably, his unprecedented efforts as the first deputy chief of staff for TRANSCOM, and you get apretty good picture of a’68er who has already left his mark on the Air Force. 3

The Floyds: Bobby; Amy; wife, Anne; and Lisa.

Bobby said that the Academy gave him confidence. Discipline —par¬ ticularly self-discipline —was important. “If Icould make it through the Academy, Ibelieved Icould do anything,” The Academy also gave him great friendships.

When asked about his thoughts on asuccessful career, Bobby said, “an old guy told me when Iwas acaptain, if you just concentrate on your job and take care of that, the rest will follow. I’ve also worked for some good people who have taught me good things and have helped me to progress.”

On the subject of things important to him, he stated that “the military is still agreat way of life and the fulfillment you get from amilitary career is worth more than just the salary.” There is also the challenge, camaraderie, etc. that makes this lifestyle hard to beat. He said it is im¬ portant to remember that success is ateam effort and people working for you and with you are extremely important in any true success. He sug¬ gested that many believe you can’t have asuccessful career and also have afamily. He said that nothing could be further from the truth and you need to balance time with family and career.

Thanks for your insights, Bobby, and good luck in the future.

’68ers ON THE MOVE: Brooke BAILEY to Spring fi eld, VA; Jim CUPELLO to North Logan, VT; Dick ELLIS to Clemson, SC; Rocky GAINES to Clovis, NM; Bob JOHNSTON to PSC Box 1438, APO SF 96366 (HQ 7AF/XP); Dave KAPP to Duluth, GA; Buck McCANTS to Germantown, TN; Larry MITCHELL to Columbus, OH (AFROTC Det 645, OSU); Gene ROSE to Dunwoody, GA (AFROTC, GA Tech); Mike STEVENSON to Arlington, VA; Tom VAIL to Woodland, CA; Mike THROWER to Decatur, GA; Greg VARHALL to Stafford, VA; and Bill WALSH to Bloomington, IL.

That’s awrap. Mind the flak, keep’em flying, and keep those cards, let¬ ters, and PHOTOS coming! Lisa and Iextend warm wishes for the up¬ coming holiday season and New Year.

Lindsey Parris

5926 Colfax Ave.

Alexandria, VA 22311

Home; (703) 998-0488

Work: (703) 475-1463

AV: 335-1463

Percent members: 62

Itrust you have at long last received your video and remembrance pam¬ phlet from the reunion. And, despite the unexpectedly intense sunspot ac¬ tivity, the budget deficit, the plummeting exchange value of the Guatemalan quetzal, the failure of who knows how many separate widgets in the production line, and other contributing causes —not to mention Gary HOWE’s and Glenn SCHLABS’ mysterious ability to sus¬ tain themselves in Rio for so many months —Ihope you agree the wait

was indeed worthwhile. Just don’t read everything you believe in the papers! In retrospect, it looks like we picked aperfect football year for our 20th reunion; prayer works better when the players are big.

Big congratulations are in order for anumber of ’69ers who are now colonels-to-be. This recent list is laced with greytags and is abit long to enumerate here, but if you’d like to check on someone, give me acall at my office (note new number: 202-475-1463 or AV 335-1463) and I’ll be happy to help verify names for you.

Anumber of ’69ers are involved, some directly, some indirectly, in sup¬ porting the DESERT SHIELD effort. Class thanks to you for your superb contributions under trying circumstances.

John BUCKNER called to pass along that Wally MOREHOUSE is his flightmate at Carlisle this year; John’s son joins in the swelling numbers of grads’ sons who attend USAFA. Dave “None Dare Call Him Yogi’’

HAMILTON left fighter plans at TAC to attend the Air War College at Maxwell AFB. Working for the deputy assistant secretary of the AF for Reserve Affairs as the liason between that of fi ce and the AF Reserves is Gerry BALL, who graduated from ICAF in June.

Doug MANG traded his joint staff purple for AF Blue and has assum¬ ed duties as the vice wing commander of the B-1 Wing at McConnell AFB. Just how gorgeous is Wichita this time of year, anyway? John DALLAGER has been the vice commander for the A-10 wing at Myrtle Beach AFB, SC since Feb 90. Also in South Carolina, serving as astate senator, is Mike ROSE, who was recently named an “Outstanding State Legislator” by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). Mike is state cochairman for ALEC, which is dedicated to advancing a conservative pro-growth, pro-free-enterprise, pro-family, pro-freedom agenda. Congrats to Mike for this impressive achievement.

Rich DOWNS, who lives in Burke, VA, ran across Art GAMEZ in Caracas recently. Though Ihave no information yet on what Art is doing, .those of you who would like to contact Art can do so at the following ad¬ dress: Jet Cargo International, Port of Houston Authority, PO Box 020010, Miami, FI 33102-0010.

Received anewsy letter from Mike COOK, who is the commander of the 922nd Strategic Squadron at Hellenikon Air Base in Athens. He and family are enjoying the tour (save for the credit card meltdown, all is peachy), and extend invitations to all ’69ers to visit. But make it soon — U.S. doors to Hellenikon will close in June 91.

Mike had occasion to visit Berlin, where Ron NELSON offered atour of the Berlin Air Safety Center he commands. Ron works with French, British, and Russian colleagues to make flying safe in Berlin’s three air corridors. The two are shown in the photo with Ron’s Russian com¬ patriots. Note the application of the arms control proportionality princi¬ ple even at this level —ties and open shirts are maintained in astrict 2for 1ratio between Russians and Americans. Mike, who didn’t hear asingle “Kowabonga, Dude!” during his stay there, suggests skateboards, Oakleys, and lycra running tights aren’t yet popular items in East Ger¬ many, but the markets for synthetic pancakes and hula hoops are hot.

Bob NEUMANN now lives in Tampa, FL, having relocated from Fayetteville, AR. Barry CLINE announced anew address effective 15 Ju¬ ly —in Sacramento, CA. John MILLER has relocated within Honesdale, IL. Don McSWAIN has moved off-base from Maxwell AFB to live in greater Montgomery, AL. Joe HASEK has moved from Richland, WA to Eupora, MS, where he lives on “Colonel” Street. Ron ERICKSON has relocated within the Denver area, from Aurora to Denver proper. Jim LEUTHAUSER crossed The Channel, moving from Wokingham, Great Britain to Brussels, Belgium. Also in Brussels is Steve STURM, who in July completed his year as afellow with Harvard’s Center for Interna¬ tional Affairs. Craig UPTON is now in Plattsburg, NY. Received ashort

note from Becky MACALUSO; she and Ken are at Wurtsmith AFB. Ron MARCOTTE commands the wing at Barksdale AFB, and Tom CASE is at Osan. Jim PETEK was seen by someone, someplace.

Flad agreat visit with Dan TFIOMAS in Palo Alto. Dan has recently changed the name of his company, which works primarily in strategic business and management process consulting, from “Knowledge Edge” to “Focus.” Fle’s almost given up jogging —says it’s just too difficult to keep the ice in the glass, no matter how smoothly he pounds the pave¬ ment. With his office amere five-minute walk from agolf course and a seven-minute walk from his airplane’s hangar, Dan wins my vote as the nonuniformed grad who has achieved the closest simulation of an on-base working environment!

Up in Oregon, Roy COPPINGER is with Adaptive Solutions, working marketing and sales and securing financing for computer technologies of the future. You can see that his job’s areal barnburner, as Roy inspects the charred remains of his Ford Taurus, roasted during one of his recent trips to Japan. As asidelight, he conducts tours of Portland’s outstanding quartet of brewery pubs, and the photo documents his detailed and expert explanation of five different brews to me and to Greg WRIGHT. Greg, you may recall, was arunner and skier nonpareil in his USAFA days; he is now the chief anesthesiologist at Good Samaritan Hospital in Portland.

CLASS OF ’70 AND ANY OTHER CLASS: Send in your order now for acopy of the ’70 Reunion Video. It’s mostly rock and roll, but it’s all Academy. Send $15 and your return address to the at¬ tention of Class of ’70 Reunion Video (McFadden version), Association of Graduates, U.S. Air Force Academy, CO 80840-5000.

or lost some hair. It’s easy to be apprehensive about remembering names and faces. Flowever, these fears dissolved in the first five minutes of the first social event (Thursday night’s informal gathering), and thereafter it was like alternately stepping into and out of awell-oiled time machine. Topics like our current families, BCT, SERE, current assignments, Hell Week, Hundredth Night and retirement plans all blended together with remarkable ease. We found ourselves thinking and talking, in precise detail, about events that had been buried away in the memory cells years ago. More than anything else, we remembered each other not as the most¬ ly mature and calm people we’ve become over the years, but as the en¬ thusiastic, frightened kids we once were. And we remembered how much we all meant to each other in those challenging days. By the way, our wives were great! They came to the reunion, in many instances, knowing almost nobody. That takes alittle courage, but they were more than up to the occasion. Ithink they sometimes saw aspects of us they hadn’t seen before. At one of the dinners Irecall us reliving cadet experiences, while the most common response from the ladies was, “You did whatV’

Iwas very happy to meet fi ve former roommates —from Chris CATALDI during BCT to Jim BARRALL as a fi rstie, and with John POMEROY, Lance AMMON and Russ NORTHROP in between. It was good to see so many of my doolie squadron classmates, like Chris, John, Lance and Mike BURKETT, Dennie HALL, Rich HARRINGTON, Doug KIRKPATRICK (who took second place in the “most kids” category), Dave LOVE, Rich MANDAS, Marty MARTIN, Buddy MARSH, Chuck REED, Mike STOLLE and Mike VILBERT. Grad school classmates John CUSICK and John GUNYOU added to my fun. Dinners with Rick FRANCK, Art MACDONALD and Larry BUSH were just, plain great. (Do you get the idea Ihad afine time?) By the way, I noticed alot of cameras at the reunion, so 1hope you’ll share some of your pictures with the rest of us. Send them in and, as many aclassmate promised, write! Let us all know your impressions of the reunion, ways to further bring our class together (and keep it that way), post-retirement plans and whatever.

Iwas really happy to see that the Class of ’70 raised an additional $10,000 at the reunion for the AOG Building Fund. By the way, the AOG was agreat help to the reunion committee (and its major players: Dan McFADDEN, Dick RAUSCHKOLB, Joe BURKE, Mike VILBERT, Mike LYONS, Dino DINARDO, Mike TORREANO, Bruce HARMON, Ken WHITE, John JERNIGAN and many others who worked hard and selflessly). As I’ve mentioned before (almost every chance 1get), the AOG is growing in influence and professionalism all the time, but it isn’t going to achieve its full potential to help USAFA and ourselves until it has a larger base and is more independent. For us, this means we still need more AOG membership, active support in time and dollars, and support for an AOG building. On this point the Class of 70’s total Building Fund con¬ tributions to date are over $32,000 (which ranks seventh among USAFA classes) and we’ve had 183 donors, which ranks first!

I’ve got one last item concerning the reunion. We’ve got more copies of the reunion video (shown after the Friday dinner), the good-looking red golf caps (with the ’70 crest), the real leather coasters and even the “Best of the Dodo.” If you’d like to order any of these, call the AOG at (719) 472-2067.

That’s about it for this time. Cards and letters would be appreciated greatly. Cheers ’til next time.

Jerry Bruni

1675 Summit Point Court

Colorado Springs, CO 80919

Home: (719) 528-8736

Office: (719) 633-1793 (in Colorado) (800) 225-1163 (outside Colorado)

Percent members: 62

Our recent 20-Year Reunion was asuper event! Ihad more fun than I’ve had in years and, on behalf of everyone who enjoyed the festivities and old-time camaraderie, I’d like to thank not only the hard-working reunion committee, but also everyone who came. I’m more convinced than ever that the Class of ’70 is one fantastic bunch of guys!

Ithink everyone who goes to areunion has some concerns. It’s easy to wonder whether we’ll feel awkward trying to renew 20-year-old friend¬ ships —especially when we’ve grown so much over the years. It’s easy to wonder if we’ll take afew verbal jabs because we’ve added some pounds

Ed COLE called me awhile ago, and Ihad planned to write abit about him in the last Checkpoints but Imisplaced my notes. Sorry, Ed. After spending about eight years overseas (most recently as an F-16 squadron commander at Torrejon AB), Ed’s now stateside as the assistant director for Fighter, Reconnaissance and EW operations at 9th Air Force Head¬ quarters. Ed says he has his retirement papers in, and by the time you read this he may be on his way back to Texas to live. Ed mentioned that Rich HARRINGTON works for AFOTEC at Edwards AFB, Randy HOLDMAN has the same job at 12th Air Force as Ed had at 9th Air Force, Joe BONNER’s the 33TFS commander (F-16s) at Shaw AFB, Dave MACGHEE commands asquadron at Upper Heyford, and Randy ROYCE is also at Upper Heyford as the deputy base commander.

John VERARDO also called awhile back. He’s working as acivilian for the Navy at the Naval Facilities Engineering Command in California, where he’s taught hundreds of Navy people over the last five years. As John said, “If only my USAFA instructors could see me know!”

Dana ARBAUGH wrote after taking his summer vacation in Germany, Switzerland and France. While in Stuttgart, Germany, Dana visited Jack TRIMBLE, who’s avery recent father. If Jack doesn’t have the youngest

Jack and Brittany Trimble child in the class (about six months now), he must be pretty close. Dana mentioned that his son, Mike (8), was all ears listening to Jack’s ex¬ periences as aPOW in Vietnam.

Ireceived afine letter from Rick BEREIT, who later came to my house for brunch on the Sunday of the reunion (along with Mike and Sharon VILBERT). Rick attended Larry BUSH’s retirement ceremony in July at Ramstein AB (he retired from USAFE/XPP). Larry and his wife were sit¬ ting next to Pam and me at the Jabara Award banquet, and they mention¬ ed that they’re currently living in Colorado Springs while they take a peaceful and gradual transition to civilian life. Rick, who’s the DCM at Spangdahlem AB (and doing avery fine job) said Jim SHIRLEY also retired from Ramstein and should be flying for Delta by now. Sadly, Rick reported that Mike’s wife, Judi, died recently. She had gone into the hospital for some scheduled surgery, apparently reacted to the anesthetic, went into acoma, and died four days later. Mike, who’s currently station¬ ed in TUSLOG, Ankara, Turkey, and Judi had four children and were positive and committed Christians. Our prayers go out to you and your family, Mike.

Don’t ask me how Igot the following picture of Denny FUNNEMARK because I’m not sure. 1think it found its way into my pocket at one of the reunion committee meetings this summer.

Is this supposed to be ayuppie commercial.

I’ve received asurprising number of responses concerning my earlier remarks on the development of abetter grad/Old Boy network for zoomies (two of the inputs came from AOG members not in the Class of ’70). I’ll discuss this topic more in future columns (if there’s acontinuing demand), but basically Iwas trying to get the ball rolling toward helping the professional development of zoomies, in and out of uniform. The Air Force Academy Society of Washington, DC (founded by our classmates Bill STEALEY and A1 WURGLITZ, but open to all classes) is one fine example of grads helping each other. Iwish there were others because, frankly, there’s more than afew of our fine classmates out there who are unemployed or vastly underemployed. They deserve better.

That’s it for this installment. Ihope each of you and your families find aspecial joy and peace in your hearts this Holiday Season. In the final analysis, that’s what life is all about.

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G. E. (Andy) Anderson Jr.

7851 Epsilon Drive

Rockville, MD 20855

Home: (301) 330-9447

Office: (703) 734-1511

Percent members: 52

What happened? Was it something 1said? Things were going so well last quarter, then Rambo the spider invaded my mailbox with the world’s fourth largest spider army. 1guess the postmaster won’t go near my mailboz, cuz 1didn’t get asingle letter or card this quarter! Eight changeof-address cards and two biographical sheets from the AOG are my only window to the outside world.

Jake HUFFMAN has anew job as commander of the 7th Transporta¬ tion Squadron at Carswell AFB, TX. He writes that he’s excited about the opportunity to learn the support side of the business and to command. Bob LOWE also remembered me at the bottom of his bio sheet. Respond¬ ing to mention of him in an earlier column. Bob wrote that he was DO for the 463rd Tactical Airlift Wing (C-130H) at Dyess AFB. He has now com¬ pleted his tenth PCS in 19 years with atransfer to XOOTA in the Pen¬ tagon. Some guys are just lucky, 1guess. 1couldn’t beg, borrow or steal a PCS when Iwas active.

Changes of address: John BUGNER from Swansea, IL to the infamous APO NY; Bruce FISHER from APO San Francisco to Alexandria, VA (another human sacrifice to the Pentagon?); Mark LEWONOWSKl from San Angelo, TX to Montgomery, AL; Dave RENNEKAMP from Millbrook, AL to the USAF/RAF Exchange Program (address APO NY); C.A. MORGAN from Columbia, MD to Laurel, MD; Gordy KAGE from Montgomery, AL to Woodbridge, VA (more Pentagon can¬ non fodder?); Jon STEVENS from USEURCOM to Bellevue, NE (SAC HQ at Offutt?); and Gary TIBBETTS from APO San Francisco to Papillion, NE. Gary noted in the margin of the card that he is the new deputy commander for Operations of AFOSl District 13 at Offutt AFB. Thinking of two new arrivals to the Washington area reminds me of acar¬ toon posted on awall in the Pentagon. Afully grown preying mantis is in¬ structing acrowd of hatchlings on aleaf. Some wag had drawn acircle around the tiny insects and labeled them “action officers”. The caption read, “Of course, most of you will be eaten before you are fully grown.”

That’s all I’ve got this time. 1hope you are in the midst of ahappy Christmas or Hanukkah celebration. God bless you all, and let’s restart the letter-writing machine!

Ed Bishop

2011 Buoy Drive

Stafford, VA 22554

Home: (703) 659-8166

Work: (703) 767-1735

AV: 297-1735

Percent members: 45

Merry Christmas and aHappy New Year.

At least 1think that is an appropriate greeting. By the time you get this, it should be just before Christmas. May God’s blessings shine upon you now and in the future.

These are fast changing times. First awall comes down and Germany is reuni fi ed. Then aline is drawn in the sand. The Air Force and our com¬ rades in arms in the other services have been and will continue to be essen¬ tial to the success of our nation’s foreign policy. We can be justly proud of our contributions to world peace.

Enough philosophizing and on to the task at hand. First congratula¬ tions to our newly selected 0-6s: Barry BARKSDALE, Rusty BOLT, Neal COYLE, Chuck SIMPSON, and Tom FISCUS (on the JAG list). I hope Ididn’t miss anyone. Ithink the small numbers are at least somewhat due to the new OER system. The best float to the top where they compete with the rest of the best. This highlights the ac¬ complishments of these five even more. Way to go guys. The Class of ’72 congratulates you and we’ll be watching for even better things in your future. Good luck.

The only letter 1received, interestingly enough, was from Barry BARKSDALE. Barry starts out the way most of the letters do “your comments shamed me into dropping you aline”. Obviously my audience appeal is waning —only one letter. You guys can do better —please. At any rate, Barry is leaving DM for the Army War College (was Air War College filled?). Another year of Air Force appreciation. Barry spent four years at DM as: the ops officer for the 23 TASS (OA-10), squadron com¬ mander of the 357 TFTS (A-10) and as ADO for the last six months. Barry has three children, ages 7, 5, and 3.

Barry also wrote he saw Brian (B.J.) LANDSBERGER at Nellis where he is the assistant ops officer for the Air Warrior Squadron. He also saw Chuck SIMPSON when the T-birds were at DM. Finally, Buck BUCHANAN dropped into DM with adeployment of AT-38s from Holloman. Buck is asquadron commander for AT-38s at Holloman, or wherever they may be now. As atip when you go TDY, check the AOG Resigter by zip code of the base you are going to. Often you can find someone you know.

Barry closed with “you are probably getting bored with reading this” and apromise to write in another 10 years —bravo sierra. 1hear this all the time along with —“1 enjoy hearing what others are doing but no one wants to know what 1am doing”. Come on guys, to everyone else but you, you are the other guy. Write!

Enough of the begging and pleading for letters. You are going to have to read about my vacation. My sons (17 and 14) and 1drove to California for my parents’ 50th. Along the way 1fulfilled adream of hiking into the Grand Canyon and staying the night at Phantom Ranch at the bottom. Quite achallenging event. My boys pray 1don’t have any more wild hare dreams. On the way back we visited the old alma mater, USAFA. More on that in aminute. Just before rolling into the Springs, 1took the Cascade exit and visited Herb Berendt, Steve BERENDT’s dad. 1know many of us visited the Berendts frequently during our Academy days. Herb still garages Steve’s E-Jag, fire engine, and motorcycle. He says hi to all of us and welcomes visitors. Drop in.

On to my sons’ motivational tour of the zoo. Dave WAGY, in the Astro Department and flying T-41s, arranged atrip for us out to Jack’s Valley. It looks pretty much the same although they did concrete the floors of the tents. Dave’s NCOIC was also NCOIC of the assault course so we observed basics going through the course. It seems like fun now. However, the doolies going through it did not seem to be enjoying it and I don’t recall any fond memories of the course either. Iguess it depends on your perspective.

We visited all the tourist attractions: A-Hall, the Chapel, the Field House, etc. plus Fairchild Hall where we toured the aero labs. It was nice to play tourist but witn the freedom to walk anywhere. Two noticeable differences were the female cadets and the replacement of most of the marble strips on the terrazzo with white concrete aggregate. 1can under¬ stand the need for female cadets, but doing away with the slippery marble —Ithink they have gone too far! We had lunch one day with Steve HOYLE in the snack bar in Fairchild Hall. Steve is atenure associate pro¬ fessor in the Math Department and is the chief of the Operations Research Division.

It was great to visit the Academy again. Itried to point out all the ad¬ vantages to my sons. There really is alot to do. It sure was adifferent view from the outside looking in, especially 18 years later.

On aTDY to Hill AFB Ishared asuite with Mike BRISTOW (’70). Besides promising him 1would mention his name in my column, he filled me in on the whereabouts of Don PEPPERS. Don is doing more than quite well in the advertisement business. In fact, according to Mike, Don’s activities made the Wall Street Journal! Not too shabby. On the same TDY Ialso met afellow Checkpoints scribe, Jeff HACKETT, ’75.

Italked to Dean FOX the other day. Dean went to HQ TAC via acivil engineering squadron commander’s job at Sembach and Air War College. He reports other graduaiing from AWC with him were: D.C. JOHNSON, Mark MAYER, Lee RODGERS, Mark WILLIAMS, and Gary WINTERBERGER. Dean couldn’t remember where they were reassigned and Ididn’t get any change-of-address cards on any of them either. Dean has abusy job at TAC, especially in support of Desert Shield. Dean is the director of Readiness and Resources. This civil engineering directorate has responsibility for programs, civil engineering operations, readiness (i.e.. Desert Shield), the O&Mbudget, military construction, budget, and real estate. In addition to Desert Shield, he is also busy with base realignment and closures which is affecting several TAC installations. Dean and his wife have sons 10 and 7, and adaughter

8.

Itracked down Eric NEDERGAARD after learning from achange-ofaddress card he was somewhere in the D.C. area. Gaard is at NDU along with afew others from ’72. Istopped by to see Ginny and him for afew minutes but didn’t have my notepad to capture the details. Icould only remember Don SEXTON and Jim ROBERTSON are also there. Aweek later 1saw Don SEXTON in the HOV lanes of 1-95 south. What a fl ash that was. 1picked up on his ‘72 class crest sticker in the rear window of his car. The class crest sticker is anice touch. The AOG is almost out of them but will consider areorder if demand is high enough. Idon’t know the cost but it shouldn’t be much. Write and let me know if you are in¬ terested. More on the NDU gang next column.

1was at the Bolling gym the other day and started talking to a gentleman who was wearing apair of AFA shorts. Iasked him if he was a grad or aformer instructor. He replied he was an instructor —and was the superintendent. He was retired Gen Kelly.

The other day on my first trip to the Building in quite some time, 1ran into Gordy KAGE (’71). Gordy was also an early pickup on this 0-6 list and was in my doolie squadron (he seemed bigger then). Turns out he works with Pat McCULLOUGH (’71) and Bob LOWE (’71) who were also in my doolie squadron. If that isn’t asmall enough world, Gordy is a neighbor of my new boss. Two minutes later Iran into John PARKS (’73). Now Iknow many of you don’t know these guys, but if you want class news, you have to write or call. My address and phone number are at the top of this column. Why don’t you include me in your Christmas list this year?

On to changes of address: Terry TYRRELL moved from SAF/PA to AU as an instructor. Terry didn’t even tell me he was leaving and now I am the class secretary for the local AOG section —thanks Terry. Terry is joined by Craig GHELBER, Neal COYLE, and Tom CRAWFORD. I can’t tell if the last three are students in AWC but the timing seems right. As previously reported, Bernie BARRIS is down in Panama (to answer your question, there shouldn’t be any increase in postage to receive the AOG mag). Also on the move, Lin CHAYER from Vdnce to Willie, John FUSS from Little Rock to Niceville, FL; Larry COOPER from WrightPat to Edwards, Eric NEDERDAARD from Luke to NDU; and Erik WINBORN from SAF/LL to Shaw where Ithink he is the Staff JA. I caught Erik on CNN when the Gulf action first hit. He was shown brief¬ ing family members on what they should and should not mail. Good TV debut for Erik. Dudley KARSTENSEN moves from Beaumont, TX to Hollidaysburg, PA; John GAWELEK from Atwater to Sacramento, CA; and Warren SCHIED from Yardley, PA to Lake Elmo, MN. Finally, Bob WALLER, using the official AOG change-of-address card, writes he is assigned to the Pentagon in SAF/FMCE, Cost and Economic Analysis. He and his wife, Susan, and three children, were most recently assigned to the AFA Econ Department where he was an associate pro¬ fessor and the director of advanced economics. His new job will surely test all the theories he has been teaching.

One final plea, please write. Even my spider has left. Ed.

Rick Karvosky

98-500 Koauka Loop, Apt. 3F

Aiea, HI 96701

Home: (808) 487-8328

AV: 449-9793

Percent members: 41 A

As you can tell by my address. I’ve moved again! Just keeping up the practice of not having the same address two Christmases in arow —a record I’ve stretched since 1984! Imagine the money you all can save by not having to send me Christmas cards, haha! Iwas hoping for the base civil engineer’s job at Cannon next summer, but Desert Shield put most engineering commander’s assignments on hold. Just have to wait and see now.

The biggest news for all of us is Desert Shield. As of this writing, late as usual, it’s still astalemate. I’m not sure how long it can go on this way, but let’s all hope for apeaceful settlement. To those of our classmates and other alumni over there, you and your families have our best wishes andprayers for your safe return.

This past quarter was good to me for class news. Craig (Pat) MacPHERSON dropped anote to let me know how things were at RAF Mildenhall. Craig is the commander of the 5th Mobile Aerial Port Squadron. They have two children: Brian (7) and Sarah (4). Craig passed on news of other classmates. Pete (Wavey) PENTA is the commander of the 313th Consolidated Aircraft Maintenance Squadron at Mildenhall. They have adaughter Samantha. Vic (Rose) POWERS is at Pope living in the same house in Fayetteville'he bought as aLT out of UPT. Vic and Rose have two daughters, Beth and Kim. Scott MILLS (Jean) became the commander of the 451st Flying Training Squadron at Mather. Hope he doesn’t require the future navigators for the Air Force to run acouple of thousand miles aweek like he does! Jean is the Mission Support Squadron commander at Beale. Craig said to feel free to quote an un¬ named source for this info, so Iwill —thanks unnamed source, a.k.a. “Craig”.

Wayne (Susan) HOLUM also sent aletter. Wayne was at Luke TDY to requalify in the F-16. They will be stationed at Misawa. Wayne left Langley after spending two years on the XP staff and his last year as the assistant chief of staff. He was glad to be back in the F-16 and was look¬ ing forward to Misawa. Hope you enjoy all the snow. Wayne’s biggest news came last March when Susan gave birth to their first child together, ason. Between them though, they have six children now. Wayne said Christopher was agood baby and at his age, he appreciated every moment of Christopher’s growth. Wait aminute Wayne, you may feel you’re OLD, but Istill feel young. Imay not look it, but 1always thought looks

Wayne Holnin with son Christopher. were deceiving, hahaha, Wayne was proud to be the father of amember of the Class of 2012. Are there any grads with children applying for the Zoo? Iknow my oldest daughter is considering it. She’s an “A” student and constantly wins school awards. She is ranked in the top five percent nationwide on the Iowa tests and competed on ateam that finished se¬ cond in anational math competition. In fact, I’m proud of both my daughters. They both are smart and good kids.

While at Luke, Wayne ran into Bill (Gwyn) RAKE who was also in F-16 requalification. Bill will be leaving Ramstein for Spangdahlem. Gwyn offered to make the move from Ramstein to Spangdahlem while Bill was TDY to Luke, and he let her. What asaint —Gwyn that is. Wayne also mentioned that Randy SAGE worked here at HQ PACAF on the DO staff. Ihaven’t run into him. Randy, if you’re out there, look up. Paul STUCKY departed the Pentagon for Luke to fly F-15s in the 405th TTW. Ireally appreciate the news Wayne and I’m sure our classmates do also. Why don’t the rest of you just sit right down and write aquick note, or even apostcard to me.

Received amemo from the Wright State School of Medicine in Dayton, OH. John WAGONER graduated with aDoctor of Medicine degree in June. John will begin aphysician residency in psychiatry at Wilford Hall. John also received the Ohio Mental Health Association Award while at Wright State. Way to go John!

Tom (Sally) MAYBERRY is in my Air War College seminar. Tom’s the chief of the Engineering Division for the 1843rd Engineering Installation Group at Wheeler AFB and is an avid Corvette owner. He has a’65 ragtop and a’79 T-top with him over here with one or two others back on the mainland. He wants to buy mine so he can have a’72 cadet car again! Tom, make me an offer Ican’t refuse. Ran into Wayne (Barbara) MIRACLE while TDY to Wright-Patterson. Wayne is the department head for the Engineering Dept at the AFIT School of Engineering and Services, my old stomping grounds. Barbara is ateacher’s aide for the Beavercreek school system. Wayne left Davis-Monthan as the director of Training and was involved in the conversion from OV-lOs to OA-lOs. They have two children. Had the pleasure of briefing Colonel John (Debby) REGNI during his orientation at PACAF. John is the base com¬ mander at Kunsan. Debby and their two children are living in Fresno while John is at Kunsan. They came to Hawaii to visit during John’s TDY. They all enjoyed the beaches —who doesn’t! From the feedback I received, John is doing agreat job at Kunsan. He’s the first base com¬ mander in along time to develop and program long-range improvements at Kunsan —way to go John. Overheard my boss (’69) and his boss (’66) talking about how young John looked for acolonel. Itold them he was my classmate —boy did that shock them.

Change-of-Address Cards: John BARRY to the Pentagon as military assistant to the Secretary of Defense; Dave THOMAS to Bitburg AB; Larry RADOV to Rhein Main AB; Ken WOMACK to Melbourne FL; Bill WILSON to Vacaville, CA; Tom SWERTFAGER to Bolling AFB; Dave MITCHELL to Elmendorf; Steve (Brenda) YESTNESS to Ram¬ stein AB; Tom KENNEDY to Alexandria VA; A1 HOWEY to Burke VA; John (Sandra) PATCHIN to Hill AFB; John HUDSON to Newport RI; and Jim CASEY to Falcon AFB as the chief of Plans for the 2nd Space Wing. Jim, can you help me get ajob out there!

W'ell, Ibetter end here, this is late enough as it is. Hope all are well and do enjoy your Christmas holiday. My kids will be over here so it won’t be too bad. As aparting thought —can anyone name acertain major at the Zoo while we were Doolies with the nickname “Brush”. Hint —he’s been

in the news alot lately. First one to call me with the right answer gets a six-pack at our 20-year reunion —not that far away! Take care and again for those of you deployed in support of Desert Shield, we hope you return soon and safely. Mele Kelikimata to all.

Joe Brezovic

112 Simmons Drive Huntsville, AL 35763

Home: (205) 882-6916

Office: (205) 726-1974

Percent members: 41

STARTERS: Ihope all is well with you and yours! The pen has official¬ ly passed to anew scribe. My bio will be later sometime. The information herein has been passed on to me from the AOG office, so those of you who trust your life’s story to the AOG office can rest. Be assured that your fun and frolic, as well as wearisome woes will be documented on these prestigious pages of the AOG Chronicles (Checkpoints). Perhaps herein one can find long-lost friends, see who’s in the neighborhood or compare careers to offer congratulations or condolences as applicable!

CHANGE-OF-ADDRESS CARDS: Dave HOGLUND writes in with a number of souls. Dave is at PSC #2, Box 11719, APO San Francisco. There at Kadena he’s seen A1 GUARDING (C-130s), Lee STURDI¬ VANT, (KCs) Denny HEINLE (Marine choppers), Mike REICH (Rescue Coordinator Center w/C-12s), Bob WHITTON (F-15s), and Duane TAYLOR (Army). According to my records, afew of us have moved back to the states. Chris CAMPBELL has returned, to Alamogordo, NM. Charles and Jeanne STEVENS changed address from APO NY to Odenton, MD.

Arecords update shows the following moved CONUS to CONUS. Stephen STRACK said “Good-bye” to Maryland and “Hi Ya’ll” to Fayetteville, NC. Kenneth and Kay KLIMES moved from Valdosta, GA, where many of us did UPT, to Phoenix, AZ. (My wife and Idrove through Moody AFB [Valdosta] this past summer. There’s afour-lane highway from base to the city. The trailer park outside the gate is still there. The O-club is the old NCO club behind the hospital. And they don’t seem to fly on weekends.) Mike and Bev KUSKIE may have gotten tired of the snow in Aurora, CO. They use aSan Antonio, TX, address now. Denny and Lin HUGHES moved the other way, from California to snow country. They’ve unpacked in Omaha, NE,

Several individuals changed shopping malls and post offices. Eric NEWMAN has moved across town in Redmond, WA. David JACKSON packed his bags in Eules, TX, drove down Highway 10 acouple of miles, and unpacked them at Hurst. Ron GARHART also moved state/town from around Hill AFB to Layton, UT. (1 recently tried to find Tracy and Lois CHEATHAM in Atlanta, GA, only to find out he and Lois are somewhere around Park City, UT. Maybe you two can exchange life stories over asasperilla.) In the midwest are John and Cheryl EPHLAND at Altus, OK. They sounded pretty content, leaving the hard problems in His hands.

Talking of the midwest, the cowboy has been arepresentation of the U.S. in several Olympics, and I’ve considered Dodge as the focal point of western folklore, to represent any U.S. City. So my best well wishes to those who have left Dodge. Mario and Rosemary DiPRlMO have moved from Carmel, CA to MAAG Dorn Rep, APO Miami, 34041-0008. Thanks, Rosemary, for making time to let us know of your move’ May you know only good times.

OTHER NOTES; Those from Dirty Dozen may relax after learning that Craig and Rite ANDERSON are doing fine. Air Force lawyer traordinaire Craig realizes that the family update newsletter has been in the make for awhile and he will get one out with the usual Suitable for Framing DDF form. Craig has been publishing aDirty Dozen letter since we graduated. Unfortunately, the exigencies of recently completing school and moving require more time than he has. He express^ profuse apologies. On two occasions Italked with him. Rite had found him with his head and hands in abox —apparently doing aDITY (Do IT Yourself) move.

In February this year, the Air Force paid for my visit back to AFA. There Ifound Joe DORRIS heading up the Honor and Ethics program for the cadets. He, Susan, and the young ones are well. The code is alive and well, too, and it’s not been any easier over the years to instruct the new classes. Steve and Marsha DANIELS are there too. Steve works in

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the Registrar’s office, using his statistics to show how the AFA stands in, well, whatever the planners need to know to better select and train the of¬ ficer of tomorrow. Paul SHERRY, as of February, is taking care of those young officers-to-be at the Academy hospital. Paul and Marsha fed me pizza in their on-base home one night. Mitches is still Mitches. They don’t seem to use the class lights anymore. Mr. Winger is still helping cadets to learn how to survive. Mr. “L” Ladouceur is retired. He’s doing well, keeping touch with chapel music by making guest appearances in the choir loft as requested to cover Sunday services. That’s it for now —live long and prosper^

Jeff Hackett

1825 E. Jeanine Drive

Tempe, AZ 85284

Home (602) 831-9439

Office: (602) 891-2734

Percent members: 40

ROAD SHOW; Mister/Major (USAFR) Hackett coming to you from Hill AFB, UT; for now this is simply my annual tour but who knows where the winter column may originate from! Mobility bags and sunscreen are packed. Icould start out by telling you how your scribe is sparing no expense to bring you news of our classmates (but you’d pro¬ bably find out that, like abonehead, 1left my folder of notes and letters at home and had to have Deb FedEx them to me). Or 1could make apoint of telling you how I’m searching out classmates at every turn (but you’d probably figure out that means I’m hanging out in the O-Club bar alot).

PERSEVERANCE IS (OCCASIONALLY) REWARDED! Steve DURESKY hailed me down in the O-Club bar last Friday. Only had afew moments to talk before Steve had to catch the red-eye back to Washington, DC but he did have time to update me on his job at the Pen¬ tagon where he’s responsible for “everything that can be dropped (or shot) from an airplane toward the ground.” 1didn’t take notes, but I’m sure he told me that he and his wife have three children: ason going to college out here in Utah, adaughter in high school, and another youngster (I’m sorry Iforgot if it’s ason or daughter) in 6th grade. Ac¬ tually clearing that up will probably help motivate Steve to follow up on his promise to send me aletter with news and pictures of the “several dozen” ’75ers that are at the Pentagon. Last tidbit from Steve: Dale MEYERROSE made 0-6. Congratulations Dale!

IT’ LIKE WAITING FOR THE CONTINUATION OF “TWIN PEAKS”. Ipromised you and Scott HENTE that I’d get to his letter in this issue. Scott’s letter was dated 12 June and was postmarked “Offutt AFB” where he’s spent 10 of the 15 years since graduation! He’s current¬ ly tending to computer/ADP/mission planning matters within the Bomber Operations office at Hq SAC (although zero of his 4000 flying hours are in bomber aircraft!). The logistics snafu Isighted in the first paragraph prevents me from including the picture of Scott, Lyn and their two kids, Adrienne (almost 12) and Mike (going on nine). Is this another “hook” for afollow-up letter, or what!

It must be time for those of you still in blue to gravitate to the various and sundry places called “Headquarters;” Scott mentioned seven classmates there at Offutt with him. Chuck MOLZON and Greg BERLAN are in the same office (they with the bomber bakgrounds. Chuck in FB-llls, Greg in Buffs). Gary SHUGART is the king of the “Talking Heads” (briefers) within the ops organization at Hq. I’ll admit to not having the slightest idea what SIOP Planning is but we can hope that Rich WILSON will write and tell us what it is his of fi ce does. Dean SPRAGGINS and the Air Force can’t agree about his medical qualifica¬ tion to fly (following his B-1 ejection); in the meantime he’s working in SAC’s Test Directorate. The only one to still smell of JP-4 is Collin FLYNN who is ops officer for the RC-135 squadron there at Offutt.

OVER HERE... OVER THERE... OUGHTA THERE. Scott updates us on Dick and Kim .WEBER (missile squadron commander at Whiteman) and Dave HERLONG (fresh out of F-16s to teach psychology at the Zoo). On the other side of the Atlantic —Sandy TERRY is on the 7th Air Division (SAC) staff in Europe. Frank and Jan DRESSEL are also in Germany (Zweibrucken) where he’s flying the Sherpa, “world’s ugliest airplane”. Finally, Scott reports on two who have moved into the world of commercial aviation: Frank DUBUISSON with FedEx and Jeff KRUMEICH with US Air.

THE LONG-TERM EFFECTS OF CARPETED DORM ROOMS. My guess is that, because they weren’t subjected to buffers and pastewax on a regular basis, the guys in CWDS-37 had time to sit around and plan a 15-year reunion while we were still at school. The letter and picture documenting this week-long June event came from Joe and Marcia FACENDA In Norcross, GA. Bob and Sandy LYNN won the “longest distance traveled” award as they came from Elmendorf on their way to

Former “Carpet Baggers”, from left, Ken Finn, Mike Coman, Jim Gridley, Greg Frick, Joe Facenda, Ed Witcock, and Bob Lynn. D.C. for ahousing hunt (PCS in August). Ed and Jenny WILCOCK placed second, arriving from Travis AFB where he is flying C-130s. Bronze medal goes to Ken and Kris FINN who came in on the company plane (Delta Airlines) from Monument, CO. Texas was represented by American Airlines pilot Jim GRIDLEY and his wife, Stevie, who winged in from Dallas. The East Coast contingent was represented by Greg and Jennifer FRICK who came down from the Pentagon. Mike and Cindi COMAN provided the Southern charm, straight from Charleston AFB where Mike’s flying C-141s. The hosts (Joe and Marcia) report that avery good time was had by all and that life has returned to normal in and around Atlanta (where Joe works for asoftware company).

THERE DEFINITELY IS ADOCTOR IN THE HOUSE! Got anews release from Jefferson Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University (PA) announcing the graduation of Jim RORABAUGH, MD. Jim, wife Angela, and their two-year-old son Nathan are headed off to residency (general surgery) at Wilford Hall. Also heard from the chief of Aeromedical Services at RAF Alconbury, Mike LISCHAK. Mike has a year left in his current assignment and then it’s off to... he says he’s not sure; maybe he’ll put his status as aNASA-certified flight surgeon to use.

IT’S NEVER TOO LATE TO START ABAD HABIT. Mike MATTE waited 15 years to write his first letter to the scribe! He and his wife, Dana, live in New Jersey (the nice part?) with their two daughters. Mike keeps busy as corporate VP for ADT Security Systems and as an ac¬ complished marathon runner (talk about B-A-D habits!). He passes on word that Bill “Howie” HUGHES is avery successful corporate attorney in Milwaukee. Bill and wife, Peggy, have four children including aset of twins. Mike has recently seen Terry and Peggy YOUNG (at the Liberty Bowl), Russ TRINTER (in Allentown, PA), and Dave SCHMITZ (pilot for Northwest out of Detroit).

4,000 FT. BRKN, 12,000 FT. OVRCST AND LOTS OF HOT WIND. Dave COMMONS scrawled apretty lengthy letter on the back of his weather briefing sheet while enroute from Detroit to Orlando (727 2nd of¬ ficer with Delta). Barb and the boys are doing well in Cincinnati; Dave can be found there, in the air with Delta, or at Rickenbacher ANGB fly¬ ing A-7s. His updates: Tom and Vicki POPP (w/lgirl) are in D.C. where he’s on the XO Command Brie fi ng team. Butch BYRD and Rick LAYMAN also at the Pentagon “somewhere in the XO community.” Bob and Pam WALDEN (w/2 girls) have left active duty to take ajob fly¬ ing with Delta. Doug WILLIAMS is apartner in aColumbus, OH law firm and apart-timer (ANG/Reserve) in the JAG office at Rickenbacher (knowing Dave, this could come in handy!). Charlie SIMMONS is an MD-88 1st Of fi cer with Delta, living in Montgomery, AL where he also fl ies F-16s in the ANG.

SOMETIMES YOU WIN, SOMETIME ILOSE. You’ve done another masterful job and we’ve avoided the dreaded COA cards (not asingle note in the margins in this stack either). As for me, it’s off to the ’’slab” (VOQ room bed). Iswear the bodies in the Salt Lake City Morgue are lay¬ ing on something softer! Then, tomorrow, it’s the once-a-year good deal aerobics run and I’m guessing that on the last lap I’ll be huffing and puff¬ ing and thinking that it’s much, much later than Ithought!

Bill Brundage

20 East Washington St.

Colorado Springs, CO 80907

Home (719) 634-7070

AV: 259-2270

Percent members: 38

Hello all from the land of rapidly-changing leaf colors, encroaching winter, and large squirrel tails. Feels like Mother Nature is preparing a real snowy punch for us this year. By the time you read this you will know if 1have afuture with the “Farmers Alamanc” or if my arthritis really is getting as bad as the orthopedic surgeon says. Thanks to some last-minute correspondence, 1really do have something to write this time —so for those of you who haven’t moved on to ’77 already, here goes!

Kurt KLINGENBERGER (Karen) swung through recently. Karen is awaiting possible reserve-type orders to the gulf while Kurt is keeping General Galvin up to speed on recent events. Karen was hoping to enter medical school soon but her plans, just like so many others, are now awaiting further developments.

On asad note. Operation Desert Shield claimed one of our classmates, Maj. Peter S. HOOK, who with acrewmember was killed when their F-15 crashed during an exercise in Saudi Arabia on 30 Sept. On behalf of the class, we offer sincere condolences to his family and friends.

Mick and Tamara ERDLE fi nally got the “M” word and are now hap¬ pily settling into Newport Rhode Island for Naval War College. Tamara will be going to school in Norwood, MA while Mick dreams of afollowon to an RTU. 20th Squadron, which placed second in honor squadron competition last year, will miss them as will the rest of the remnants of ’76 around here.

Speaking of remnants, the second wave is beginning to wash ashore here at camp USAFA. Doug JAMES (Pam) stopped by the other day while Dave MAZUROWSKI has been cluttering up my flying schedule. 1 must admit its nice not to be absolute low guy on the totem pole at the UV-J8 det but Dave does have some prior time from his last tour so I guess I’m still low-time Charlie. Imust admit it is nice to start saying hello to ’76ers again —there were alot of good-byes there for awhile.

There are some other big doings here on the hill. Remember “Tenured Professors” —those gray-haired instructors who always droned on and on about the importance of education but never taught the GR? Stan RADER (Barbara) and Dave CLOUD (Barbara) have joined those august ranks —congrats to you both. Stan is presently holding down an AOG Board of Directors slot so you know who to contact about your libel suit against me. Stan will be heading for aPentagon tour next summer but plans to return eventually.

The engineering folks also passed on that Greg SEELY (Sally) is well into aBerkeley PhD program. Greg and Sally are now the proud parents of Hannah. Congrats to you both and good luck in Berkeley. Chuck OLTMAN (Isabel) is enjoying Marine Corps ISSS. There’s something about school in the morning and golf in the afternoon that seems to restore one’s perspective on things Ihear. Dave McKENZIE (Connie), whose Zweibrucken RF-4 slot is no more, is now looking at F-4Gs to Spangdahlem. Finally, there is aloud “All right!” directed at Hank SEADER (Jennifer). Hank has been working on aproject called “Target Board” which has become an important part of the War on Drugs. Target Board is acomputer program that combines agraphics program with a data base. This system helps analysts spot drug smuggling patterns and helps them properly design effective interdiction strategies. The Coast Guard, the DIA, NORAD and others have been very appreciative. Hank and Chuck OLTMAN were recommended for two Coast Guard Opera¬ tions Medals for their efforts.

Got avery nice card from Mike MCGINNIS (Gina) —believe me — Acapulco looks good from any angle! Mike is a727 first officer for American who calls Dallas home. When he gets tired of keeping the food trays upright, Mike hangs from some A-37 straps out of Peoria, IL. Mike passed on that Dale MILLER (Jayne) flys out of Peoria also and that both are looking forward to the impending arrival of some F-16s in ayear or so. Mike also passed on that other ’76ers haunt DFW —Mark MCNAIR, Bob VAUGHN (Sue), and Vic SIMON, while Rob SPENCE (Betti) works for the Carswell reserves. Thanks for the card Mike.

That’s all for me folks —hope you are all well and safe wherever you are —our thoughts go out to you and your loved ones in these turbulent times

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PRELIMINARIES: As Iwrite this the news is full of reports about how far four stars won’t take you inside the beltway. Iguess the bottom line is that you shouldn’t wonder about how you’d like to do things within continual earshot of aWashington Post reporter.

INCOMING: I’m now doing the ’77 shuf fl e, running into various familiar faces around the Montgomery area. Pat McVAY (Cyndee) called me the other day. He’s spending the next year here for ACSC. Ibumped into John CHRIST (Louise) at aballoon festival in Montgomery the other weekend. His wife is areservist and in these days of Desert Shield they jump at every telephone call. Dave EDGINGTON (Siobhan) also called. We’re working on setting up some type of get-together this fall, I hope when the Zoo gets some football exposure.

THE MAILBAG: Got some brief news this time around from many folks. First of all. Mallard TURNER (Judy) wrote to tell me (and you) that he’s doing fine and hopes to start back to work soon. He and Judy are in Columbus, OH. Diane HIGHT dropped me anote on her “Razorback” stationery to say that she and Greg and their three children are hanging tough in the D.C. area. Greg is doing double duty, working at the Pentagon and getting his master’s in business administration. Ithink the master’s is just an excuse to stay in town long enough to miss the rush hour traffic, but good for you, Greg. Hope you get the airframe you want not at Loring, either.

Had agood talk with Chuck CURRAN (Claudia). He was finishing up at Hanscom in ESD. Chuck now is probably working triple shifts at the Embassy in Cairo, handling communications equipment for our office of military cooperation, 1imagine there’s afair amount of cooperation go¬ ing on right there now. Chuck wins the “guy most likely to be investigated for con fl ict of interest” contest, after he dealt with Bob SIMMONS (Helen) and Ron STRICH in their civilian contractor capacity. Chuck was developing some cosmic comm system and Bob and Ron were on one contractor’s team who showed up for apresentation. Chuck closed with an invitation to anyone out through Cairo to give him acall.

Bob SOUCY (Beth) dropped me aline from his desk at MAC assignments at Randolph. He’s been busy lately too. He reports all is go¬ ing well in Universal City. Steve and Ingrid SCHWALBE are settled in at Hampton, where he’s working in Intell at TAC HQ. Their two Siberian Huskies and Ingrid’s horse are safely housed, as is the precious Jaguar. Steve heads up the Threat Employment Division, and in his letter noted he was in the process of preparing a“Who’s The Enemy” briefing. I guess there’s not much doubt on that point now. Steve reports that another Steve from the class, Steve CAREY, is at TAC as the CINC’s Ac¬ tion Group staff officer.

Jim MOSHGAT (Jill) is at ACSC now, but he wrote me earlier this summer from Ramstein where he finished over six years in Europe. He spent the last few years working in the Directorate of Combat Employ¬ ment and serving as the exec for the deputy chief of staff for Ops at USAFE. Jim was averitable fount of info on other folks —he notes that this summer marks the second anniversary of Mark SlZEMORE’s death in an A-7 accident. Sherri has moved from Idaho to Arizona. Rick DALTON (Jacki) and Dave KISH (Lani) are both in ’16s at Ramstein; Dave GLASEBROOK (Kathy) is out now, whereabouts unknown; Bob HOOVER (Cynthia) was at Soesterberg in F-15s when Jim last saw him; Bob BARTOLONE and John DAY (Stephanie) are also on the DO’s staff at USAFE, both are gym rats; Mike McGEE (Rebecca) arrived at USAFE from Mountain Home and ’Ills. He’s working as the U.S. rep on NATO tactical evaluations. Tony DRONKERS (Dawn) is headed to Hill to do some maintenance work; and Mark RUTAN (Donna) is here at Maxwell as an ACSC instructor. Thanks for the update, Jim, hope we hook up here at the campus.

The change-of-address file contained afew tidbits: Andy SZKOTAK is working as adistrict manager for Rational, Inc., asoftware firm founded by two other ’77 folks, Paul LEVY and Mike DEVLIN (Bobbie). Grady BOOCH (Jan) and George REINER are also working with Rational. Kind of acatchy corporate name; people ask you what you do and you say “I’m aRational man.” Andy’s living in Vienna, VA, but works in Bethesda. Don TUROS (Deana) returned to Hawaii after atour at the Ar¬ my CGSC in Leavenworth. Joe GUHIN (Carla) left Offutt for ACSC here, John BUCKLEY (Sandy) finished his law studies at Harvard and is now in Michigan, Mark GILZEAN (Barbara) is at Ellsworth after spen¬ ding atour at the embassy in Athens, Don MAGEE (Valerie) moved from

Denver to the Springs, and Curt BEDKE (Ina) is now the B-2 program manager at HQ SAC.

PRESS RELEASE:’ Our people just keep getting their names in front of the media. Iopened up Airman Magazine and see Bob ESKRIDGE (Sheila) being li,sted as a“stealth” father. Bob spent his work weeks for the last few years away from the family while flying the F-117 at Nellis. Hope things are back to normal for you folks now, although Bob being the talent that he is, 1suspect there is presently asandy visage before him.

CLOSEOUT: Some of this information is certainly outdated given what’s going on in the Gulf. Let me know what’s happening out there — and for those of you in the field, our thoughts and prayers are with you — Be seeing you.

Sig Nelson

642 E. Century Ave. Gilbert, AZ 85234

Home: (602) 497-9101

Percent members: 38

Lots of information from around the country, again THANKS for the support!

IRAQNAFOBIA: Just when you begin to think the world was getting to be asafer place to live... Many of us will be involved over the next few months with the Mideast Crisis. Our prayers for safe flying and apeaceful outcome. If any of you can spare some time, write aletter and pictures are welcomed!

PHONE CALLS: Jose BRAVO reports things are going well in the Academy Liason business. Jose flies for Fed Ex and has anew 80386 home computer to keep track of all the cadets he is recruiting for USAFA in the Memphis area. Jose says L.C. CROWE has been busy flying the Reserve C-141s to Saudi, taking time out from his job with Fed Ex. Others flying the “All Night Express” are Ned FRIEDMAN and Dave DENTON. Dave apparently has broken the code in earning 200 hours fly¬ ing pay and credit in one month.

Mike LAWRENCE also has some new computers and anew business location in New York. Awhile back Ivisited his old workshop in the base¬ ment of the Apollo Theater. Mike is using an artificial intelligence board and digital video interactive (DVI) hardware to write educational pro¬ grams. Seems he has put his comp sci degree to good use! Mike also reports that Paul (C?) BECK is getting married in October in the Big Apple.

Another person using his Academy ’’survival skills” while in the French Guiana jungles was Steve FRATELLO. Steve has an extensive col¬ lection of rare exotic butter fl ies and was down there adding more trophies. Some of Steve’s collection can be seen at the Smithsonian!

LETTERS: Rick DEVEREAUX included some news from the folks at Wright-Patterson. “Last July, the Thunderbirds came to Dayton to per¬ form and we had apost-Air Show party at my house, .where two fellow ’78er Thunderbird pilots showed up: Chuck GREENWOOD and John WEIDA. In the enclosed picture, from left, are Bill PARKER ’77; Fred ZEITZ, Keith HEISE, R.D. JOHNSON, Rick DEVEREAUX (front), Dave McLERAN (rear), John WEIDA, Rod HALL, Pete HOLZGANG, and Chuck GREENWOOD. Chuck and John shared some good war stories including —their 20 minutes in the Oval Office with President Bush, and the time that Chuck’s Thunderbird ‘courtesy car’ was stolen by high school joyriders. They both admitted that the most dangerous part of each show was the police escort to the airfield.”

Rick DEVEREAUX is the C-17 avionics project manger in the Aeronautical System Division (ASD) Program Office. Elizabeth and he have three children and he expects to return to airlifters (C-17s or C-5s) next summer. Fred ZEITZ is an engineer in ASD and is counting the days to get back to F-11 Is. Keith HEISE is serving athree-year DDA in ASD after AFIT and is looking forward to getting back to the cockpit. R.D. JOHNSON is living in Atlanta, flies for American out of DFW and flies the F-4 with the ANG at Bergstrom. Dave McLERAN is also an engineer in the C-17 SPO and will return to C-141s at McGuire in April. Dave’s wife, Tammy, just had their third child, Laura. Pete HOLZGANG is also in the C-17 SPO as amanufacturing manager and hopes to return to C-5s in the spring. Rob HALL (Debi) is an engineer in the Human Resources Lab. They also had their second child, ason, and Rob will be returning to C-5s next year. Jim DURLAK is acivil servant working in the Propulsion SPO at ASD.

TOUCH AND GOS: Iran into Barbara and Vic CARPENTER at a local pizza parlor. They were celebrating their daughter’s (Heidi) birth¬ day. ’^ic reported that Larry KRAUSER is back from ayear of study in Israel, picked up his car, and left in acloud of dust! Iwonder what Larry can tell us about the situation over there? While in Tucson getting aF-16 ride, Iran across an old badminton rival, Carl THOMAS. Carl is an in¬ structor in the ANG F-16 RTU and only has afew gray hairs to show for it. While going through American’s DC-9 school in August Iran into Dave GROVES. Dave is flying 767 Int’l Officer with American and KC-lOs with the Reserves (and enjoying it)! Dave reports that Gary HUGHES is also flying the 767 Int’l routes. Inoticed that Tim MINOR’S assignment out of American’s training was to New York City! John STERRETT reported that they are expecting their third child sometime this month and he is enjoying having lots of time off at home while on reserve duty with American. Mark KARGUL called to say he ran into fellow zoomies in Spain while flying KC-lOs with the Reserves for acou¬ ple of weeks (Desert Shield). Seems like everybody is heading that way! Folks I’ve met on the boom (air refueling talk) include Mike EVERS. Mike is instructing in F-15s at Luke AFB. Pat MARCKESANO was also flying F-16s with the Reserves at Luke. Congrats to another F-16 pilot, Wayne KELLENBENCE, for being TAC’s Jabara award nominee!

Whew! I’ll save the rest for next time. If you haven’t heard, the GI Bill bene fi ts for the Class of ’ll and ’78 have been partially restored. Idon’t have the full details, but forms to make claims for benefits are supposed to be at the VA offices soon. Spread the word... Finally, all those who are moving to Maxwell take some time to write or call.

CHANGES OF ADDRESS; Todd ALMAND is back from overseas to Parkville, MO. Russel BROWN is changing homes in San Clemente, CA. Ed (Suzanne) BRUCE from Riverside, CA to Montgomery, AL. Ron FURSTENAU from Bozeman, MT to Colorado Springs, CO. Ken GRONEWALD from Fair fi eld, CA to Scottsdale, AZ. Buddy LEACH from Beale AFB, CA to Bartlett, TN. Jerry LUDKE from USAFA to Spring fi eld, VA. Martin MINOR from Reston, VA to Herndon, VA. Paul MORELL from Minneapolis, MN to Boston, MA. William NICHOLS from Converse, TX to Randolph AFB, TX. Russel OGRINZ from Albuquerque, NM to Hanscom AFB, MA. Clover QUIGLEY from Montgomery, AL to Burke, VA. Douglas RAABERG from Papillion, NE to Montgomery, AL. Mark RICHARDSON from San Antonio, TX to Montgomery, AL. Jan SCHAEUBLE from Universal City, TX to Randolph AFB, TX. James SHEEDY from Albuquerque, NM to Mon¬ tgomery, AL. Chuck STILES from Andrews AFB, MD to Prattville, AL. Dean YAMANAKA from Gardena, CA to La Palma, CA. Tony ZOMPETTl from Ellsworth AFB, CA to Montgomery, AL.

Bud Vazquez

2476 Santa Rosa Drive

Kettering, OH 45440

Home: (513) 293-0578

AV: 785-1755/56

Percent members: 36

There are always some wise guys who spoil all the fun —just as our class gets major pinned on. Bob EDMONDS and Pet BUNCE go and get 0-5 promos! It’s kind of abittersweet moment ya’ know, 1mean remember when Majors were old!? Congrats fellas! Can we come be your exec or maybe your head of MWR when you’re four-buttons? I’m not sure of Pete’s whereabouts (too busy getting promoted twe years early to write me, 1guess) but EDMONDS and lovely family are keepin’ an eye on our new buds the Ruskies over at...Bitburg. I’m still headin’ up the Wright-Pat contingent, although I’m starting to get punchy with age — we’re due for Kid #1(1 Oct), I’m friends with the infamous Dave Chaf¬ fee, our comm became afour-star, the Ruskies are our pals, and all my sports heros now are either managers or in the Hall of Fame! What gives? 1mean, majors were old people!

Anyhow, Reggie HOLMES is still looking good and mean here at WPAFB. Todd KLOPP is staying mean as acontracting puke in the F-16 SPO. Rod MacALEAR (Dana) joined Todd in Fighting-Falcon land. Rich WALLEY has been known to jog amile or two here also. Pete PASKO and Bruce BUSLER are working on the C-17 airlifter.

From Edwards, Scott GRUNWALD is slated to be one of the first, if not the first, test pilot to fly the new C-17 (assuming Douglas Aircraft gets its act together to stay solvent).

My roving reporter, Jim SIMS (Emily) says anumber of Niners have been spotted roaming the hallowed halls of Pentagonia. For example. Dale BRADLEY (Sunni) and Roger SCHULD are known to work CE issues while Paul HUFF is working in the cost world in SAF/FMC. Jim, too, is a“financial manager” at SAF/FMC. What that means is that he can cut you next year while trying to get you to blow that unobligated balance this year —all during September. Mathemagicians if I’ve ever seen!

The forwarding mail is heavy (does that mean it’s aheavy flow?) this quarter —let me count the ways: Mike GILBERT from C-Springs to Chestnut Hill, MA; Lynn BIANCO from Converse, TX to Peachtree City, GA; Steve LEPPER (Kathryn) from APO NY to Woodbridge, VA; John SUSALLA from Sanford to Novi, MI; Fred SPEARS from Mesa, AZ to Peachtree City, GA; Rod McNEILL (Jeannie) from Dayton, OH to Vandenberg AFB, CA; and Robin SANDERS to anew address in Charlotte, NC.

Also, Jeff DUNAWAY from Redland, CA to Waldorf, MD; Jack HUMPHREY from C-Springs to an Academy address; Steve DEAUX (Rebecca) from APO NY to Langley AFB, VA; Dale SWANSON from Mountain Home, ID to Nellis AFB, NV; Archie RIPPETO (Susan) from Las Vegas, NV to Montgomery, AL; John JOGERST from Converse, TX to Prattville, AL; Bill AHRENDT from APO NY to Dayton, OH; and W.K. STARR from San Antonio to Wright-Pat AFB, OH.

Geez, that was kinda’ fun. You can guess which guys are going to the 5-Side, ACSC, etc. Iwant you all to know Mark CEBUHAR really knows how to send achange-of-address card. He’s flying 747-400s for North¬ west, is active in the pilot’s union, has awife, Cindy, working to finish RN/Midwife training, misspelled “zoomie” (Mark, what’s azommie?), and they home-school their kids! Whew.

Aspecial congrats to Mark SVESZKA who was selected by Air Force Magazine as the outstanding tactician for 1989 for his work in the F-4G community. Nice going Mark! Congrats also to Bill MURPHY for land¬ ing anew wife, (you owe me Deanna), in July. Bruce HOLBROOK and famous wife, Anna Kathryn (daytime soap star. Grape Nuts lady, etc), are due for their fi rst child this fall, too. As Bruce, who fl ies for Delta in Atlanta but lives in New “Yawk” said, “it took us 11 years but we finally got it right.” Congrats.

Keep Mark LEUTHOLD in your thoughts and prayers. He suffered a brain aneurysm this summer and is in serious condition in Cincinnati. Send cards and letters to: 5230 Woodcroft Lane, Huber Heights, OH 45424 (513)236-9330. He’s in Christ Hospital, Cincinnati, Rm 2067, (513) 629-4267.

Well, its time to sign off —yeah Iknow, this was abit less entertaining acolumn, but probably more useful. Until next time say aprayer for ’79ers in Desert Shield (look for my Squidly Lt Cmdr brother on the USS

Class of ’80

10 years later!

“Trenton with 600 of his closest jarhead friends) that they may deter Sad¬ dam “Insane”. If they have to fight, let’em kick butt. God Bless. P.S. Late word to the AOG has it that there was an addition to the Vaz¬ quez family on 6Oct: Daniel Peter, 9lbs 2oz!

David (Matt) Neuenswander

Quarters 4204H

U.S. Air Force Academy, CO 80840

Home: (719) 472-1477

AV: 259-3255/3257

Percent members; 50

IWell, our reunion is over. Asad thought, but we had agreat time. Stan¬ ding at the registration desk Icouldn’t believe how mature you all looked. Where did you get all of those wingtip shoes and three-piece suits? Where did all of those matched-luggage sets come from? Ididn’t see one green laundry bag or cadet-issue B-4 bag. Maybe we all got some class after all. Gray hair abounded, but we didn’t look too bad. In afew cases we couldn’t see much hair or where our belts used to be, but for the most part Ithink we didn’t change at all. It was fun to see some of you with long hair again. The last time Isaw that was in June of ’76, although Idon’t remember Walt CARLSON having aponytail then. If you happened to order merchandise and did not show up to the reunion to pick it up, it will be mailed to you. 1would ask that you please note the postage and send the money to the class at jfour earliest opportunity.

1can’t thank the members of the reunion committee enough for the work they did to make our reunion happen. Each and every one of them put in many long hours listening to me, and if that wasn’t bad enough, they had to do alot of work too. In particular Iwould like to thank Phil PROSSEDA our cochairman and my best sounding board. Incidentally, Phil started working the reunion before Iwas even at the Academy and was adriving force behind the reunion’s success. Steve GREEN set up the hotel and worked registration. Steve WEBB ordered all of the merchan¬ dise, kept it in his house, and worked registration. Eric BUSSIAN put together the squadron parties and filled in on all of the other committees. Brian CULLIS set up the tailgate and worked the setup and registration. Margie VARUSKA set up the tailgate and worked the ’80 women’s brunch. Dave LARIVEE stepped in at the last minute to set up drinks for the tailgate. Doug HERRINGTON ran the golf tournament with Roscoe ROLEY’s help. Karen WILHELM worked the publicity end and filled in everywhere else. Mike PEPLAU did ahangup job on the memorial ser¬ vice and helped the class print alt of the mailers we sent out. Mike EASTMAN took care of the photos and other committee tasks. Joe MOSCHLER was always helping someone with something. If Iforgot someone, Iapologize in advance, but I’m sure they were awesome. I would also like to thank the wives and husbands of those involved for freely giving up your Thursday night family time for the last year. Finally, we could not have even started had it not been for the fine people at the AOG and their outstanding help. My hat is off to all of the AOG staff. They worked 18-hour days during the reunion and long hours months before it began.

I’m not going to put much news in this column because Karen (Copies of photograph may be ordered from: Faingold Studios, 20 S. Elm, Deriver, CO 80222)

WILHELM has areunion letter elsewhere in this Checkpoints. If you didn’t fill up on all of the gossip while you were here it’s your fault. If you missed the reunion then you can make our 20-year. I’m sure the 10-year committee members will agree that we are just going to show up and say “feed me” and leave the work to other classmates.

As alast note, 1am giving up the article for awhile. Don MYERS has offered to take it and 1gladly said yes. His address is LTJG Don MYERS, 105 Shore Drive, Shiloh, NC 27974. Phones: (919) 336-4502 and AV 723-1540.

Tony Lorusso

232-B West Craig Place

San Antonio, TX 78212

Home: (512) 732-5571

AV: 945-2001

Percent members: 39

It’s that time again. It seems like just yesterday that Icranked out the last article. Thanks to afew dedicated letter writers 1have some informa¬ tion to pass along.

Ireceived aletter from Brian DOMINGUEZ who flies for Delta out of Los Angeles. Randy STEDMAN and John GRIFFIN are also working for Delta in Los Angeles. Last time, Ireported that Brian is in the reserves at Los Angeles AFS. Actually, he’s flying C-141 for the AF Reserves at Norton AFB, CA. Curt McINTYRE and Steve DOSS are also flying for the reserves at Norton. Curt normally flies for Delta, and Steve flies for USAir. Like I’m sure many others are, Brian and Curt have been flying frequently to Saudi Arabia in support of Desert Shield. Jim KEMP also wrote to say he’s doing fine and enjoys flying for Northwest Airlines out of St Louis. After having agreat time flying the EC-135 and RC-135, Jim made the tough decision in 1988 to punch out. He and his bride have two children, Sara and Christopher.

J.D. SEAL wrote to say that he is still in the Air Force and loves flying the B-1. When he wrote, he was at Dyess, but he should be at Grand Forks by now. Tom ARKO, Greg HILL, Tom TOMARRAS, and Nelson ENGLISH are also with the B-1 program at Dyess as instructors. J.D. and Cheryl now have two lovely children, Courtney and Spencer. Thanks for writing J.D. —I’m sorry it took so long to publish the information.

Shirley (HILSGEN) LOCKIE was also one of my sources. Shirley and husband Roy are still at Bolling and Andrews, respectively. Shirley is now afamily practice physician at the Bolling Clinic. Shirley and Roy are also proud parents of twin boys. Why does it seem like everybody has two kids? Shirley reported that she stays in touch with Amy RUSSELL who is doing fine as aC-21 pilot at Andrews. Thanks for writing Shirley.

Shirley (HUsgen) Lockie’s twin boys Ryan and Randy Kring.

Again, my travels have given me the opportunity to run into afew classmates. Iwas recently at the AFA convention in Washington, DC, and met Dan BELL. Actually, 1didn’t recognize Dan when he was in line behind me at the valet. Good thing Dan has agood memory. Dan is out of the Air Force, and is the marketing manager for Smith Industries in Grand Rapids. 1also saw LGen (ret) Tallman at the convention. Icon¬ sider him an ’81er since he arrived and departed with our class. The general is looking good. 1had the privilege of working with Duane DICK on my boss’ trip to the AF Special Activites Center (AFSAC) at Ft Belvoir, VA. Duane is in charge of long-range plans at AFSAC, and as expected is carving out agreat reputation. Brian GREENSHIELDS is also at Ft Belvoir with Det 21, AFSAC. However, Ididn’t get to talk to Brian for very long. Ialso ran into Rich and Collette CLOUSE at Nellis AFB. Actually, Ididn’t even get to say one word to Rich. However, 1 spent alot of time chatting with his wife because she is the ops oficer for our ESC detachment at Nellis. In any event, they’re both doing great.

In the change-of-address arena, Dave GLADMAN moved to Tip¬ pecanoe, OH; Terri POBST-MARTIN is in Monterey, CA; Jeff TOMP¬ SON now resides in Ft Meyers, FL; Julie (GRIMMIG) GRIER is in Alamagordo, NM; Rob TOPP is now in Tampa, FL; Rudy CASTILLO is in New Orleans flying for Delta and for the AF Reserves; and Neal and Maryon (WHITENER) BAUMGARTNER now live in Austin, TX.

Congratulations to Michelle JOHNSON who got married on 21 July to Capt John Hargreaves, aC-141 pilot she met in Jordan. They were mar¬ ried in Woodmoor which is afew miles north of the Academy.

Congratulations are also in order for Bob and Silvi (KIISK) STEIGERWALD on the birth of their second son, Richard Anton, on 9Sept.

Abig thanks to Joe (Debbie) WOTTON for volunteering to head up the Homecoming Committee. Aside note: Joe recently got married to the “ fi rst love” of his life on 9June.

Leona (Ray) FLORES has been doing alot of legwork to keep our class from reinventing the wheel. She negotiated the hotel rates that incidental¬ ly are cheaper than what Class of ’80 got for their reunion. You can begin to make reservations at the Sheraton South by calling 1-800-635-3304, ask for reservations, and be sure to mention that you are with the USAFA Class of 1981 Reunion (19-22 Sep 91) Group. There are only 200 rooms reserved for our class in this hotel and the overflow will be booked by the Sheraton in nearby hotels.

Thanks also goes to Blaise (Lynne) HORBAN and Ray (Leona) CAN¬ NON who are heading the Souvenirs Committee, Keith (Kathy) ANDER¬ SON who is heading up the Open House Committee (unless he PCSes), Brad (Belinda) BARRETT who is heading up the Golf Tournament Com¬ mittee, and Joan (Michael) CUNNINGHAM who is heading up agettogether for the women graduates. The last committee does not preclude there being aget-together for the men graduates, but if you want to have one —who would like to volunteer to head up the committee?

During the Class of ’80 Reunion one of the major topics of discussion was daycare. Leona has this to say about the situation: It turns out that only five people decided to make reservations. To get the base daycare center opened up for the reunion we need aminimum of 30 children (ages 6mos-11 yrs) signed up, paid for in advance, plus shot records need to be provided. Some people showed up at the reunion with their children, no reservations, no shot records and thus, no daycare. The best advice is to arrange to have your children taken care of at your home unless you can arrange for someone to take care of your children while in the Springs. It is difficult to enjoy yourself with your children around simply because they want your attention and you’re trying to visit with your friends. Unless we get an overwhelming response and paid reservations, we will not be offering this service

Next Checkpoints we will be putting out a“lost souls” list in order to try to find our classmates who have not updated their address with the AOG. The purpose of this search is to ensure they get information on our upcoming reunion.

In closing, Iwould like to send our best wishes to all the ’81ers support¬ ing Desert Shield. Just when peace seemed to be sweeping Europe, we find ourselves postured in the sands of the Middle East defending what is just and proper. This crisis has proven the importance of American leadership as well as the skill and competence of our armed forces. God speed to all of you. Our prayers are with you. ‘81 SECOND TO NONE!

Jim Ratti P.O. Box 40

Churchton, MD 20733-0040

Home: (301) 261-9588

Work: (301) 981-4611

AV: 858-4611

Percent members: 35

Hello! I’ve got afew letters this time, with more than just alittle news to keep you occupied for awhile. First up is Bill SNEARLY, M.D. He wrote from Cheyenne, WY to tell me that Iwas confused (by change-ofaddress cards). He said that he had been in an orthopaedic residency at the Mayo Clinic, but had left after having second thoughts about being a “bone crusher” (and no doubt having to take ajob working on cadet knees somewhere down the line). He has spent the past year as the direc¬ tor of the emergency room at F.E. Warren AFB. This past spring, he was an honor grad from the Flight Surgeon course at Brooks, and now sports aset of wings. By the time you read this Bill and his wife. Merle, will be in San Antonio where he will be doing aresidency in diagnostic radiology. Bill and Merle bought Mike GORDAN’s house in San Antonio in an¬ ticipation of their move. Mike, Patti, and their new daughter will be mov¬ ing to Bitburg soon, now that Mike has finished his OB/GYN residency. Deb BARTZ sent aform letter to the AOG announcing her transition to United Airlines, effective Sept 90. She will also serve part time as aKC-

135E pilot for the Milwaukee Guard. She said she has been looking for¬ ward to both positions since last December, and she learned alot about patience in the interim. Congratulations on both jobs. Deb!

From left are Jim BALDWIN, Jay, his bride, Kate, and Maurice (Sal) SALCEDO. Jay is now ageneral practitioner at Los Angeles AFB. Sal is flying F-15s at Langley, and Jim is an A-10 pilot at Myrtle. Kate has separated and was named aNotre Dame Scholar. She began law school there under afull scholarship as of 13 Oct.

Julia SCHEFFELIN wrote from Ann Arbor, MI where she is working on amaster’s degree, enroute to ateaching job in the management depart¬ ment at USAFA. Her husband, David GRAVES, has separated to fly for American after they were offered aless-than-satisfying “join spouse” assignment (David in Iceland, Julia in Michigan). David had been offered aUSAFA sponsorship for amaster’s in chemistry followed by ateaching job there, but TAC wouldn’t release him. David has run into afew Redtags at American. Among them are Margaret (BRYAN) PARAMORE, Norm GLOWICZ and Dan REIN. Julia said that she’s pretty sure that Melanie (PATTON) UEHLIN is out and flying for Northwest. Julia, David and their two sons (Ricky, 3/2, and Matthew, 2) moved from New Mexico to Michigan last winter. Julia had been acomm officer there and was named the AFCC Plans and Communications Officer of the Year for 1989-90. Julia would like me to pass along that she’s interested in starting asupport newsletter for women grads who are still in and trying to juggle amilitary career and child raising. Please write to her at 2830 Pebble Creek, Ann Arbor, MI or call (313) 971-2612.

Eric BJORN came back from lunch the other day and told me that he ran into Dexter GORDON at the Andrews commissary. Dexter is now a pilot for American, and he flies F-16s with the D.C. Guard. He and his wife, Debbie, have two daughters. Eric also met Mark (Chuck Mangione) MANGIACARNE at the Andrews gym awhile back. Mark is ahelicopter pilot here in the 1st Helicopter Squadron.

Another contact this time was Steve TOLDY. Igave him acall at Myr¬ tle when Iheard that A-lOs from there had deployed to the middle east. Turns out Steve was still there. Of three squadrons at Myrtle, his was the only one that did not go. We had anice chat, from which Ilearned that his wife, Peggy (TUREK), is doing well, and that Steve is now aflight commander.

Speaking of the middle east, Ijust got back from atrip there, which you probably heard about but didn’t know it. It was my airplane that was carrying the Chief of Staff Gen Dugan when he gave his interview which got him fired. Needless to say, we were all pretty shocked the Monday after the trip. We’ve been pretty busy since then ferrying Gen McPeak back and forth to Hawaii while he undergoes his confirmation hearings. No column would be really complete without an interview with Steve VOGT. Steve and Gina are living up near Minneapolis where Steve is fly¬ ing for Northwest. Steve recently had about with Bell’s Palsy, which made him the “sim king” for awhile. Now, however, he’s back flying and is nearly 100% recovered.

Well, that’s about all I’ve got, so I’ll quit instead of making up any more. Thanks for all your letters. It’s alot easier when Ihave material! ’Til next time, keep’em flying and be safe. RATMAN.

GET AFRIEND TO JOIN THE AOG.

IF YOU ARE MOVING, SEND US YOUR NEW ADDRESS NOW!

Leslee (Forsberg) Washer 4590 Winthrop Way Colorado Springs, CO 80920 Home; (719) 282-0516

AV: 259-2575

Percent members: 37

Greetings ’83, from the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. For all you Falcon fans, it’s football season again but the Falcons are in a rebuilding year. It’s not quite as exciting as last year. So...we’re looking forward to ski season and by the looks of the weather we may see some early snow.

1wonder what all of you out in the “real Air Force” are doing because after being at the Academy for three years, 1wonder if 1could ever survive again in a“teal” Air Force job. It doesn’t take long to get used to alunch hour, time to work out and any more time you need to do whatever. It makes life difficult to take, even if some days don’t pan out the way you planned and you spend all day in El. Hey, someone has got to do it! Look on the bright side, at least the ’83 crowd managed to finish SOS before the Air Force changed it back to 10 weeks. You mean we finally did something right or did we have any control over the decision? Before 1get to the good stuff, please take amoment of silence for NORMA’S STOP ’N SHOP. Norma either sold out or retired and Conoco bought out the corner where Norma cashed many acadet check; for agood cause, that is.

Well, onto the important news... Ken TINGMAN just took awhirl¬ wind tour of the Academy and Colorado Springs with his group from Offutt. Stopped in just to say “hi”, literally. Loretta O’BRIEN just moved from Sheppard to Travis to do her residency in internal medicine. New additions to the Academy scene are Dan SCHNEPF, wife and two children, and Dave RUFFLEY and family. Amy (HERMES) SMELLIE and Pat SMELLIE (’82) are fl ying C-130s in Germany. Harry and Amy GROSS just had ababy girl, Lauren, and this past summer packed up and moved to Los Angeles and Space Division.

1also received an update from USAFE and Operation “Creek Baby”. The letter came from Marilyn GARCIA (’85). The baby, Shawna Marie, was the first born to two USAFE pilots, proud parents are Mary Beth (KORCHNAK) BLEYL and Wally BLEYL. Wally is an F-16 pilot at Ramstein and Mary Beth flies EC-130s at Sembach. In the photo, Wally is testing out the “busy box” and wearing adisposable diaper on his head. Congratulations!

Ireceived aletter from Lori (PLOSA) CHESTNUT, with lots of good info. Lori and her husband, William, are in the Philippines. They have a son Matthew and afull-time, live-in “house-girl”. Sounds like they are living the rough life. Lori is acommunications officer and William flies F-4Gs. Others that have frequented Clark AFB are Irwin “Silky” WASHINGTON who is flying C-141s out of Travis; Dennis MOORE, wife and baby girl, are in Yokota where Denny flies C-130s; Mark WRIGHT at George AFB; Steve MANN and Tonia (FLORES) MANN are also at George where Steve flies F-4Gs and Tonia is afull-time mom to their two children and works part time for Nutri Systems; Hugh FUNK, wife Penny and son Christian are at Laughlin AFB where Hugh is aT-38 IP and Penny is aflight attendant with United Airlines; and Steve

Kate SMITH dashed off aquick letter with this picture from Dr Jay VIERNES’ wedding to Bonnie Yanagisawa in Honolulu this past July.

SADLER is serving an ALO tour in Korea and his wife, Lynn, has ajob with DODDs in the Philippines. Mainstays at Clark are Norm BROSNICK flying MC-130s; Pat PENCE and Gene PETERSON Hying F-4Gs; Craig CROXTON and wife Kathleen are both pilots, Craig Hies F-4Gs and Kathleen is an IP at the aero club; Gary HOPPER and wife Judy, an RN; Vince FARRELL and wife Theresa and their/rtur children, Adam, Patricia, Rebecca and Alex; Dan SUROWITZ and wife Tina have anew baby; Ed FISHER and his wife also have four children; Jon WENDELL, wife Linda and their two children arrived recently along with Joe PFLIEGER and wife En Joung.

From left are Andy Accardo, Tom Duda, Dan Boughton, bride Ann, and fl ower girl

Ray BLUST and wife Julie are returning to the states after ayear in Korea, back to his “homeland?” Texas, that is. Enclosed in his letter was one from Dan BOUGHTON. Dan recently married and sent apicture of him and his wife, Anne, Tom DUDA and Andy ACCARDO. Where did Tom DUDA “Day” get that tie? Tom Hies C-141s at Travis and Andy Hies C-f30s at Dyess. Other updates he included were Paul AMEN, now a civilian and full-time student at the University of Nebraska; A1 STERNS is at Space Command; Jack FUSSELL and Jim TAYLOR are OSA pilots in Germany; Rob ENGLEHART, A-lOs at RAF Bentwaters; Tim HIGA is awing Stan/Eval C-130 pilot; Todd BOESDORFER, Mark WELLS, Bill VOLKER, Bob MARTIN, Jack POLO and Steve MULAHEY are all instructors at C-130 IP School; Ricard SMITH, wife Lisa and daughter Brittany are at Pope, C-130s; Ric CARRIER, F-4s at Spangdahlem; and John HESTERMAN and Landis COOK, acouple of Nellis locals, dis COOK, acouple of Nellis locals.

Cecil GRANT will write the winter article since Ray is in transit (kind of). Cecil works officer assignments at HQ AFCC. His address is 312 Glen Addie Blvd, Belleville, IL 62221.

For all those 1979 Prep School Graduates, we are trying to plan are¬ union for this spring, 1991. We are open for suggestions.

As far as AOG information goes, there was afire in the AOG satellite storeroom. Our damaged material, class prints and glassware, totalled from the insurance, was worth $1,685. We need to make adecision to keep the money in our class account or to donate it to the AOG Building Fund campaign for the alumni house. Your inputs are highly recommended.

Before Iclose Iwould like to remind everyone to say aprayer each day for our classmates in the Middle East. Keep them strong, healthy and spirited and bring them home safely.

Carlton P. Wickliffe

2801-B Quay Loop

Holloman AFB, NM 88330-8108

Home: (505) 479-2937

AV: 867-7733/7793

Percenl members: 31

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Leading off this article is the picture that should have gone with the last column. Sorry about the delay, Stu.

Last time it was my phone number. Now it’s my name and address. “Wickliffe”, not “Wickliff”. “2801-B”, not just “2801”. 1finally got aletter from someone 1didn’t have to go after first! Thanks Brett MAYHEW. Hailing from another hot and dry place —Ed¬ wards AFB, CA —he’s doing space systems R&Dwork out of the Astronautic Laboratory —an AFFTC detachment (Air Force Flight Test Center, for those of you who haven’t been keeping up on your acronyms).

The Browns: Andrew, Stu, Holly, and Amy (better late than never).

Speaking of hot and dry places —so much can happen in the span of three months. Iraq invaded Kuwait, and the whole world went into con¬ vulsions. What do you think of the Middle East crisis and its ramifica¬ tions? Results in the next column. Who knows? Maybe the Class of ’84 has the solution to save the world. Until then, let’s keep our classmates who are traipsing around the Middle East in Operation Desert Shield in our prayers. For those of you already there —keep your sense of humor, and “smoke” acouple of camels for me. But seriously, let’s hope something good comes out of this in the long run.

Returning to Brett’s letter, we find Gregg ZOLINGER (Air Traffic Control) and Doug WHITE (Maintenance) also stationed at Edwards. Married, Gregg is proud papa to three little ones, with more in the offing (the patience of Job).

Wedding bells rang May 19 (is this column slow or what?) for ’84’s star quarterback, Marty LOUTHAN. The ceremony was at the Zoo, where Marty’s aT-41 IP. Brett caught the momentous occasion on film, and in¬ cluded this picture, featuring from left, Steve SMOLEN (KC-135s in Montana, looking to Hy for Federal Express next year), Brett, Chris CALLAHAN (C-12s at Nellis, hoping for KC-lOs), and Marty.

IBill NEVUE (T-41S at the Zoo) and Wayne LO (civilian, C-Springs) were also in attendance. Says Brett, “Marty’s patience has paid off, his wife is one in amillion.” Many happy wishes, Mrs. L. While on TDY through the Springs, Brett had dinner with Bob CHAPMAN and family. Bob’s Hying the Twin Otter for the Wings of Blue.

In the education field, AFIT saw anumber of ’84 grads, to include Ron BEYERS (Holloman AFB, 6585th Test Group), Martin ELLINGSWORTH (Brooks AFB, Human Resources Lab), and Chris and Lisa (BRADLEY) McCORMACK (USAFA instructors). Rocky RESTON’s working on his PhD in electical engineering, and should be fi nished sometime in ’92.

Coming back West (Brett really travels, doesn’t he?) Jamie ROSADO (former AWACS weapon controller) is trying his best to be acivilian somewhere in the Dallas area, having finished ahitch with Mobil Oil in Grand Forks, SD.

Talk about asmall world! Brett related, “On my way to acamping trip at the Colorado River, Iran into Dean SOLLMAN at Carl Jr’s in the middle of the desert (Barstow, CA).” It seemed that Dean was in the middle of athree-week TDY to Nellis from Wright-Pat, where he Hew C-12s. In his other travels, Brett also ran into Susie WYNNE, who’s

working some “really neat place” (shhh) at L.A. AFB, and Gary SEIFRIED, who’s currently aPIT instructor at Randolph (undoubtedly getting his lesson plans from Stu BROWN —remember last issue?).

Good news from Cajun country. Liz (BECK) DeLAROSA, after serv¬ ing out her AF commitment at Eglin, wrote to say she’s now devoting herself to full-time motherhood at England AFB, LA, where husband Mitch (’83) is amaintenance officer. (“Now she’ll find out what real work is,” says my wife, Beatrice.) Their daughter, Anna Marie, born 26 March, is this issue’s featured baby.

Anna Marie DeLaRosa, three months.

Tim SAFFOLD is at England as well, flying A-lOs. Liz mentioned that Pam ALEXANDER is also out, pursuinmg and MBA at Stanford U. in California. She filled in my last column by relaying that Juan AMARAL became proud papa of ababy boy back in May.

My last letter is from Maria (DURAN) JACK, who after pinging back and forth between Nebraska (Offutt), Alabama (Maxwell) and Colorado (Lowry), finally decided to settle down and move to Denver, where she works as an Undergraduate Space Training instructor at Lowry. She seems excited about the whole thing, so wish her luck.

The USAFA Class of 1994 is through their first semester of school, and 1990 is almost over. Time to start thinking REUNION! If the next four years fly as fast as the last six, ’94 will be here before you know it. We need aplanning committee to get started now —you know how details tend to sneak up on you. I’m sure we won’t be the only gathering in town Homecoming Weekend fighting for hotel space (’64 and ’74 are two groups that come to mind). Any ideas? ’59 and ’60 had some good con¬ cepts in their columns in the Spring ’90 issue, but we can do better. If you or your spouse are so inclined to lend your talents to our first formal gettogether since graduation, contact the AOG. Let’s make it something to be proud of.

On that same subject, as you may have noticed in the past few issues of Checkpoints, the AOG is not sending out requests for biographical up¬ dates anymore. The past few magazines have had bio info sheets in them, so it’s important that you keep the AOG abreast of any changes, especial¬ ly your address and phone number. This will become vital when reunion planning gets hot and heavy and we start making notifications. Be sure to pass the word along, and get anyone who doesn’t have their information updated to put pen to paper and make those change. While you’re at it, how about getting them to join the AOG? Looks like our class was next to last in AOG membership. Not good, folks.

Anote from our sponsor on pictures: Most photographs will lose about five percent clarity in the printing, so consider that before you send one. While sharp, contrasty color photos are acceptable, the printers prefer black and white. Lastly, try not to write on the backs, especially with light background pictures —the writing tends to bleed to the front. A“PostIt” with the info on it is agood alternative.

With the summer season came the sound of movers packing boxes and breaking fine china. The post office must have been working overtime, judging by the thick stack of change of address (COA) cards 1got. Great job, folks, but please, if you do send aCOA card and don’t want to write aletter, put afew words as to what you’re doing along the border.

First on the list is Kyle LAMPELA, who’s gone overseas to Alconbury AB, England, to fly the TR-1. Scott and Kelly CAIN (thanks for COA, Kelly) left California, and now call Colorado Springs home. Jim KESTERMANN is now in Hessisch-Oldendorf, Germany: both Wayne McCLARY and Thomas KOLKMEIER left Wright-Pat, Wayne for Palatine, IL (?), and Thomas for Chanute AFB, IL; Arnold BUNCH left the cool, green dampness of Fairchild, WA for the hot, brown dryness of Edwards, CA; James and Shayla HANNON left Loring, ME for Olean, NY (?); Troy DIXON left San Antonio for Niceville, FL (Eglin?), where he probably already bumped into anumber of our classmates, to include Rita MASTROVITO, who appears to have gone from an apartment to a

real house. Last but not least, Thomas ERCHINGER hails from Keesler AFB, MS, where he also made the housing switch. If you know anything about the people with the question marks, let me know.

MORE FILLER. Thumbing through the recently-received Summer ’90 issue, Iwas glad to see at least one classmate’s name in the news. Apat on the back to Karen BURTON, who traveled to USC to compete in the U.S. Master’s National Swimming Championships, where she and her team placed 23rd overall. If you too want to have fun and get paid doing it, give Karen aholler at the USAFA Athletic Dept.

Thanks everyone, for listening to me after all. Happy holidays to you and yours, and the best of wishes for the coming New Year. God bless.

FLASH! Wickliffe and Wickliffe Productions is proud to announce the 27 Sept birth of #3(and hopefully last) child —Taryn Ariel Wickliffe, 7lbs, 5.3 oz, 19 inches. Pictures are forthcoming.

Whatever happened to Rich PIPER, Dave WEBB, Mike BURNS, Kevin BROWN, Gordy NEFF, Ed MERZ, Steve KIRTPATRICK, Mark LANE? More in next issue. or

Jackie Charsagua

457A Billy Mitchell

San Antonio, TX 78226-1819

DSN: 945-2112

Home: (512) 432-1957

Percent members; 29

Hi Folks! I’m back for another season. Need help guys! Most of us aren’t used to writing, except when it comes to signing checks (to copy a phrase from Liz ALDERETE). BUT...If you are interested in writing just one article, for just one quarter, let me know! It’s apiece of cake, but I’m getting abit scarce on time. Anyhow, on to the news.

George WEATHERSBY is back from Osan AB, land of the morning calm, and now stationed at Offutt. Could’ve been worse; at least he didn’t get “WHY NOT” or the Sand Pit. Now that he’s back in the states, George is taking any and all AF courses, including AGOS (Air Ground Operations School) in sunny Hurlburt Field, FL. What alife. George verified Quintel WILLIAMS is getting married for sure, Jan 91, in COS. Members of the wedding party will be Matt BRIDGERS, Johnny AKINS, Miguel CARTER, and George. Pictures to come, promise!

Sandy (BROTHERS) KERENYL is fulfilling her destiny: medical school (I’m so proud of her). She and baby Dwight are toughing it in Dallas while Andy (’86) drives up from San Antonio to visit her on the weekends. It’s atrying time, but 1figure she’ll meet this challenge and ' surpass the trials. Congratulations Sandy and good luck.

While on TDY to Deutschland, Isat down behind someone’s desk dur¬ ing ameeting. Little did Iknow it was Jim LOVELL’s desk! Well, he kicked me out of his desk, and we chatted for afew minutes. Jim left Hanscom AFB, MA for Wuescheim AB, arrived in July 90, and wants to know “Who gets two-hour lunch breaks???” (See Mike OTT’s article. Spring 90.) Well, some of us work through lunch, right? Jim is aoneman-deep shop as an activating chief for an engineering project. With the drawdown in Germany and reunification, will his project come to frui¬ tion? Stay tuned for details. Jim ran into one of my doolie roommates, Pam (HENRY) HRNCYR, in aTexas airport. Pam just got out of KC-135 training at Castle and joined Brent (B-ls) somewhere. Maybe Dyess AFB.

Had apleasant surprise in Aug 90. Gave abriefing for about 50 people, and afterwards in the Q&A, acouple (casual civilian and AF captain), were waiting for me. 1recognized the accent before 1realized 1was look¬ ing at Mickey (RENDINE) PHILLIPS and Ed (’83). Mickey separated and is aDoD civilian working out of Fort Meade, MD. She came down to San Antonio to get an orientation of some programs at HQ ESC, where I work. Mickey went to last year’s AF/Navy game and saw Sue (CAVALIERE) SHANKLAND. Sorry if 1murdered the last name. Sue.

Out of the blue, Ireceived acall from Cheryl (CROOK) CLARK. Cheryl’s at Ellwsorth and had all kinds of news from the gang that just went through SOS. Sherri (CURRIN) SOX is an IP and has athree-yearold boy, Thomas. (Kinda late, but better late than never?) Regina BROWN is out at Scott. Joel VERHOFF got married (!) and is on his way to Holloman AFB, NM (from Alaska), joining Dave WILLIGROD and wife in the bright desert Southwest. Cheryl reported Kelly KIERNAN is at Malmstrom, along with colorful Lynn STEER, who has upgraded to aircraft CC. Paul SCHMIDT (parachutist) is flying F-16s in Spain, Dave KNIGHT is at Langley, and Chris FUNK and wife have two babies. Not to be forgotten, Luke DiSlLVESTRO and wife Robin have ababy on the way. No pictures, sorry. The last word Cheryl had was more classmates are out of the blue suit, to include Dave DeMARTINEZ, Dave BURNS

(who took his vacation in Kangaroo land), and Ernie DeMUCCLO. All three of these guys are at Hanscom (Boston).

Charlene (JARDIN) HARDING is due for alittle one in January, and she finally put her real estate license to work (sold ahouse for anice pro¬ fit, as if she really needed it). True to form. Char and Bill (’83) took their semiannual sabbatical to some luxurious spot: this time, Alaska.

Liz ALDERETE took 30 days terminal leave and went to Europe, Turkey, Greece, and Crete. She’s lovin’ every minute of being acivilian. In Germany, she ran into Mark DEVANE (F-16s) and Chris VALLEY. Liz and Chris were reminiscing about the “monster,” Major AOC Saunders, when she looked behind for some uncanny reason, and THERE HE WAS, sitting in the O-club. Even in our adult lives, those AOCs are still lurking in the dark...

Yvette (PEREZ) HIRD wrote me from Norway, where she was sup¬ porting an exercise. She and Jim are planning to move to USAFA East (Wright-Pat), if Jim gets an AFIT slot.

Wendy (Cook) Post’s "boys”: Wayne (’84) and fighter pilot-to-be, Andy Post. He’ll grow into the helmet!

MEDVEC is now living in Bossier City, LA. Joe VASTA is still at Vance AFB. Jon GIESE has moved to Sherwood, AR. and lastly, Tim INGLE now lives in Mission Viejo, CA.

As for myself, 1have acquired anew additional duty. Iam the 48 TFW life support officer. With my new job 1have incured aTDY assignment and will be at Randolph AFB, TX from 28 Jan to 8Feb 91 for life support officer training. If any of you are down in that area during that time please look me up. In the meantime, sit down with apen and some paper and give me rundown of what you and our classmates have been up to. Up to now you have been great about getting in articles, so lets get back on that track.

Have aMerry Christmas and aHappy New Year.

Glenn L. Strebe

3953 Thundercloud Drive Colorado Springs, CO 80920

Home: (719) 531-0122

AV: 692-7978

Percent members: 35 'W

1hope everybody is having avery joyous holiday season. As 1write this article in the beginning of October, 1only hope that the conflict in the Gulf is over and everybody who wears amilitary uniform is at home with their families. 1haven’t received much mail in the past months so 1am pleading for some phone calls and letters in the next few months. 1did hear from afew people though.

Carolyn (LAPOINTE) SAMMARTINO sent me aletter to inform everybody that they are stationed at Whiteman AFB in Minuteman Missile Country. Her husband, John, is doing great in the career field and two years ago competed in the HQ SAC missile competition at Vandenberg and took home best score on base. Last year he got the op¬ portunity to train the “Best Minuteman II ICBM Crew in SAC.” And speaking of abusy guy, John will finish his MBA by Christmas. Carolyn is working in the CBPO. She is enjoying receiving “lots of management experience.” They had their first child in May 1989 —Matthew Ryan. 1 guess at 16 months, he is getting into everything.

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Wendy (COOK) POST and Wayne (’84) are still stuck in Maine. She was also at the June SOS class, but as mommie and acivilian spouse. She’s glad to be out and hasn’t looked back once. Wendy saw Chris SALVUCCI and Emmie GUILLERMO, who are quite busy working quisition at Wright-Pat and enjoying life.

Last lines from me: remember our friends in Saudi Arabia and give them our strongest support. Haven’t received any personal reports from our comrades out in the sand, although they are starting to rotate person¬ nel. Let’s keep them in our thoughts and prayers if they end up having to confront Saddam “Insane”

Warmest wishes from San Antonio, Jackie C.

Gary L. Burg

PSC Box 6338

APO, New York 09179-5421

Home: Thetford 861072

AV: 226-2506 (UK)

Percent members: 29

My biggest fear of being the class scribe has come to light, having a deadline with basically no inputs. The only person 1heard from was Chris VELLANTl and that was by accident. In August, Chris called squadron trying to get ahold of someone else. 1happened to answer the phone and while 1was taking amessage Ifigured out who it was. Chris is doing great at Rimini AS, Italy, located on the northeast coast of Italy. Chris is in acommander slot and from all indications is enjoying his assignment.

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The rest of the column is only changes of address. Marquis PICKETT is still at Tinker AFB, OK but moved to the northwest part of Oklahoma City. Peter DOLAN lives on base now at Edwards AFB. Richard PRIOR is now at WSMR, New Mexico. Kellie DAVILA-MARTINEZ is now in USAFE and James FIDLER is at Loring AFB. Kevin BROOKS is at Kirtland AFB and James HOGGE is at Williams AFB. Jerry LINDH is finally through with F-Ill RTU and is now at Upper Heyford. Junio DIMASALANG is at Wright-Patterson AFB and Mike MARSHALL is now at Bedford, MA. Tom RUBY is now at Defense Intelligence College in Washington, DC.

The following have not changed assignments but changed residences. Charles WANEBO is still in USAFE but changed bases. Alan BATTS is now in Sacramento, CA. Mike FORSYTH is still in San Antonio. Mark

From right are John, Carolyn, and Matthew Ryan at the S/IC Com¬ petition May 1990

Kent WOOD wrote from Offutt where he is an aircraft systems project engineer working with the Aircraft Engineering Division at SAC Head¬ quarters. Kent got married to agorgeous Nebraska girl named Blythe. She is acomputer systems analyst. They just finished building anew home in La Vista —Kent you are getting awfully domestic —Ibet asta¬ tion wagon is NOT out of the question. Also, Mark LARSEN is finally going to UPT after along struggle with the AFA concern about sitting height. Therefore, for the first few years, he was flying adesk at Offutt. His report date is 21 September —Good Luck!

Finally, 1received anote from Elman (’88) and Lynda (DAVIS) MYERS announcing the birth of her son Nicholas James, 8lbs 8.5 oz on 12 June 1990.

Until next time have asafe holiday season and please send some letters or give me acall. We are almost captains! Also, 1will be going to SOS in July 1991. If anybody else will be going please get in touch.

Mark V. Peters

General Delivery

APO New York 09127

Percent members; 32

Greetings from RAF Mildenhall, U.K. Going TDY makes this column much easier to write since ’88ers are literally everywhere. As an example, I met Megan (LOVEJOY) WALL at about 0200 at an airport in SW Asia. She let me know about afew people from Scott: Trade BECK is afinance officer there, but she is soon to be leaving for the Azores; Roy JONES is flying either aC-9, C-12 or aC-21; and Josie KOSTYRA is acontracting of fi cer.

While 1was over here 1had along brainstorming session with Carol YANNARELLA and Dave SANTARELLl. Carol is the Accounting & Finance officer at Lakenheath and Dave was here TDY from Offutt. Bet¬ ween the two of them they probably know everyone in ’88. In no order whatsoever here’s their info: Doug PURDY has also recently arrived at Offutt and is flying RC-135s; Terry McCAFFERY is married and flys F-llls at Upper Heyford; John NIAKAROS is married to “Laura” and is now living in Yokota, Japan flying C-21s; Kris ALDEN is flying C-130s also in Japan and recently flew some relief missions into the Philippines; Greg BUTLER is married (Christa) and is flying A-lOs out of DavisMonthan; Eric ALAFITA works at the Intel Shop at Lakenheath; Robb SWEET married Barbara Crain and is flying A-lOs out of Myrtle Beach, SC; Mike PLEHN is naving AC-130s out of Hurlburt; Bob and Joan KILGORE are settling in at Altus where he’s flying KC-135s; Mike FLECK and John YORK are living together at Williams —they’re both T-38 IPs, and Mel DEALIE is at Barksdale in the BUFF.

Mary Beth (KUZMACK) BURGOS got married to aformer exchange squid and is now living in California; Andrea THOMPSON is flying EC-135S at Offutt and she married Bill Tart in August; Lisa BOYCE is in San Antonio; Terry CAVE is at Andrews fl ying the C-21; Elon (CHERRY) BERNE is an SP at Warner-Robins; Bill DICKEY is an SP at England AFB, LA and is considering amove into the Army; Malcom HICKS and Jay WOOD are ’38 IPs at Vance; Rich HARTLAUB is flying KC-135S out of Ellsworth; Tom HOLMES and Matt CUSHMAN are fly¬ ing C-21s out of Offutt; Kate JACKSON married Mike RUSSEL (’87) and they are now living at Reese; John RAMIREZ and Max TIPTON are both in KC-135S at Robins; and Craig McCURDY flys A-lOs at Bentwaters.

John and Georgia (RUCKLE) McCURDY are at Williams where John’s an IP and Georgia does amillion things at once in the CBPO; Karen PACHECO is an SP at Nellis; Chris PIKE is at Hickam; Gregg ROSENMERKEL is doing CE at Goodfellow and Linda RAYL is at Bergstrom (at least they’re both in the same state); Kenny “All Terrain” CRAIN is an IP at Reese (I’d explain where the nickname came from but his students might get ahold of it and he’d never hear the end of it); Heidi TERHUNE is doing Human Factors at Randolph; Ed VanGHEEM is fly¬ ing F-llls at Upper Heyford; Scott and Julie BALLARD are at Lakenheath where Scott fl ys the F-111; Renee RICHARDSON is at Of¬ futt in Intel; Nebojsa “Solo” SOLUNAC is an RC-135 Raven at Offutt; Paul GATES is in KC-135s at K.l. Sawyer; Dan WUCHENICH is at Loring as amaintenance officer; Bill TONEY and Mark HAYNES are T-37 IPs at Williams; Steve NESSMILLER in in Intel; Ben LONGACRE is an IP at Vance; and Doug ROTH is an IP at Williams.

Byron “Ed Moe” EDMONDS married Darla and is fl ying F-I6s somewhere; Mike SCARANO is flying C-141s at McChord; Brendan MIKUS is at Castle flying KC-135s; Jenny HORNSTEN is at Med School in New Orleans; Mike MURPHY is at Plattsburg flying KC-135s; Mike TONEY is flying BUFFS and Mary SEILER is flying tankers at Loring; John BOWSER is an IP at Williams; Brian BELL and Martha McSALLY are in pilot training at Williams; Tom BROGAN married Kim and flies C-130S out of Woodbridge, UK; Emily WHITAKER married James LEFTWICH (’87); Ed STANIEK is in Mildenhall fi nance; Michelle PAPA is at Hickam; Garth DOTY broke his leg windsurfing but is now graduated from UPT (flying F-somethings?); Bill MILLER is a’38 IP at Williams; Don JARVIS is at Griffiss flying KC-135s; and Denise URBANSKI is in Japan.

Rob McCULLERS and Sally HIRST are both at Griffiss and are expect¬ ing in April; Rob passed through Mildenhall on the way to Sand Land. Igot apost card from Marc PASSY who is on the submarine USS Oklahoma City. His life aboard is interesting as he reports “I’m working 12 out of each 18 hours (six on watch, six studying and other work, and six sleeping) but Iasked for it, right?” He’s three months into asixmonth deployment and I’m here in Israel for liberty. I’m at the embassy

and who do Isee? Lori FABER on the back cover of Airman Magazine] “Tell everyone to have fun in the sun —they don’t know how valuable it is!”

Believe it or not, I’ve received only ONE entry in the “FIRST FABULOUS FOTO CONTEST”! For those of you who don’t remember, here’s how the contest runs: the first five ’88ers who send me a picture of their baby will bask in the warm adulation of family and friends. Even complete strangers will comment on their baby since his or her photo will have been prominently displayed in the pages of Check¬ points —what an honor, as this publication can be found throughout the entire planet. So send me your baby pictures ASAP!

Marlon CAMACHO, the first to enter ababy picture, will be forever known as the father of the first ’88 offspring to be pictured in Check¬ points.

Lauren Grace Camacho ai 7’A months.

Athousand thanks to Carol YANNARELLA and Dave SAN¬ TARELLl as the column would have been about atenth as long without their inputs. The column was so long this time that I’ve left out the ad¬ dress changes —I’ll get them next time.

In closing, Istumbled upon an interesting philosophy of life (in the Azores of all places). “I) Be happy, 2) Try not to hurt other people, and 3) Hope to fall in love.” Be safe and keep in touch.

Paul W. Tibbets IV

PSC Box 4035

Dyess AFB, TX 79607

Home; (915) 692-8610 (X244)

AV: 461-4524

Percent members: 36

Hello everyone. This article is dedicated to pilot and nav training assignments. 1am publishing all the ones that Ihave to date. If Ihave forgotten anyone or don’t have your class included, send me the assignments and Iwill get them in the next issue. 1have acouple of tidbits of info to pass along to you. Grant TIBBETTS got married to Suzan Degroff of Colorado Springs on 7July. Bruce BEYERLY asked Lori Mullins to be his wife on 2Feb. Lastly, my old roommate, Ken THIELE, married Michelle Sharon of Colorado Springs on 8Sept. If you have any info that Ican pass along, please drop me aline. And remember, don’t forget those PICTURES! On to the assignments ...

COLUMBUS 90-12: Robert ANDERSON, F-15 Kadena; Gary BREWER, KC-135 K.L Sawyer; Faron BURKE, T-38 Columbus; David CAMPASSI, C-130 Pope; Theodore CORALLO, C-130 Pope; David DEKALB, T-37 Columbus; Bart FOUCHARD, KC-135 McConnell; Jerry HAYNES,T-38 Columbus; Michael HOHLS, OA-10 Suwon; Steven LARKlNS,T-37 Columbus; Bryan MaCLAUCHLAN, C-141 Mc¬ Chord; Edwin REDMAN, B-52 K.l. Sawyer; Kirk SMITH, T-37 Columbus; Daniel TIPPETT, F-16 MacDill; and Mark WEBSTER, T-38 Columbus.

COLUMBUS 90-13: Kirk BRAMER, KC-135 Dyess; Robert BURGESS, B-52 Barksdale; Alton DYKES, E-3A Tinker; Michael GAAL, T-37 Columbus; Christopher GRAY, C-5 Dover; John HEAPS, EC-135 Ellsworth; Walter MAHANY, C-130 Dyess; Patrick MINGUS,T-37 Columbus; Jon MOSIER, T-38 Columbus; Bryan NORDHEIM, F-16 Luke; Scott OBEGINSKI B-52 Carswell; Roger PLEIMANN, CK-135 Beale; Steven RHODES, T-38 Columbus; Stephen SHEPARD, C-12 Norton; Bryan TEFF, T-38 Columbus; Brett THOMAS, T-38 Columblus; Lance UTNE, F-16 Luke; Steven WAYLAND, C-141 Charleston; and Andrew YINGST, T-37 Columbus.

COLUMBUS 90-14: Janet ARMSTRONG, C-21 Langley; Donald AYRES, C-9 Yokota; Trent BAINES, C-141 Norton; Greg BASHKOFF, RC-135 Offutt; Cade BLACK, C-141 Travis; Nathaniel DICKMAN,

F-16 Luke; Alberto GASTON, T-38 Columbus; Jackie GOODWIN, F-16 Luke; Mark HEFFERNAN, T-38 Columbus; David HICKS, A-10 England; William LEONARD, KC-135 Plattsburg; Francis McDonough, t-38 Columbus; Louis PATRIQUIN, T-38 Columbus; Michael PEDERSON, T-37 Columbus; Ty PIERCEFIELD, T-37 Colum¬ bus; Jeffrey RICH, KC-135 Altus; James TRAVIS, F-111 Cannon; and Jon WALKER, F-16 Luke.

COLUMBUS 90-15: Russell ARMSTRONG, T-37 Columbus; Gregory BOERWINKLE, B-52 Loring; Juan DIAZ, OA-10 Osan; William FARIS, KC-135 Castle; Scott GEORGECINK, C-21 Barksdale; Mitchell HANSON, A-10 Myrtle Beach; Tulley MARRIOTT, KC-135 Ellsworth; Robert McGRATH, T-38 Columbus; James NEWTON, F-111 Cannon; Mark PROULX, T-38 Columbus; Troy ROBERTS, T-38 Columbus; Rodney SANDOZ, F-16 MacDill; James SINGLETON, KC-135 Robins; Kris THOMPSON, KC-135 Beale; David WALKER, T-37 Columbus; Robert WEIMER, T-37 Columbus; and Robert WHITEHOUSE, F-16 MacDill.

COLUMBUS 91-01: Robert ATOR, C-130 Little Rock; Jeffrey DRAKE, C-141 McChord; Jeffrey FALEY, C-141 Norton; Mark GIROUX, T-38 Columbus; Kevin LANCASTER, C-130 Pope; Vincent LOSTETTER, T-38 Columbus; Michael McMlLLlN, F-16 MacDill; Michael MORNINGSTAR, KC-135 Minot; Timothy PAVUK, T-37 Col¬ umbus; Robert RICH, C-141 McChord; Gaylon RICHTER, F-16 Mac¬ Dill; Scott SCHAEFER, C-130 Little Rock; and Steven ZIOMEK, T-37 Columbus.

LAUGHLIN 90-12: Kevin ANDERSON, EF-111 Mountain Home; Lafayette BARR, T-38 Laughlin; Brett DEGALLERY, T-37 Laughlin; Timothy DURBIN, T-37 Laughlin; Gary EDWARDS, C-9 Scott; Michael FRANCIS, F-15 Langley; Alexander GONZALEZ-ROJAS, C-141 McGuire; John GRIFFIN, T-38 Laughlin; Brian HOY, HC-135 Eaker; Eric MURPHY, OA-10 Suwon; John NICHOL, RC-135 Offutt; Thomas NOLTING, C-130 Little Rock; Juan PENA, T-37 Laughlin; Anthony SMITH, C-130 Dyess; and John WARDEN, B-52 Wurtsmith.

LAUGHLIN 90-13: Richard ALDERETE, KC-135 Grand Forks; Judith BABCOCK, KC-135 Grissom; John CRAIG-STEARMAN, T-37 Laughlin; Robert FRINK, T-38 Laughlin; Kerry GREEN, T-38 Laughlin; Jack HEIDMAN, F-15 Langley; Alison LEWIS, C-141 Travis; John 1OGRANDE, C-21 Andrews; David MOHR, C-130 Pope; Daniel NOR¬ MAN, T-38 Laughlin; Dean OSTOVICH, F-16 Luke; James PAYNE, OV-10 Shaw; Michael PEEBLES, E-3 Tinker; Shaun PERKOWSKl, T-37 Laughlin; Lev PRICHARD, KC-135 Altus; William REESE, F-111 Holloman; John THAYER, F-15 Holloman; and Jamie TOOMBS, T-38 Laughlin.

LAUGHLIN 90-14: Shawn BEVANS, KC-135 Ellsworth; Bruce BOSSART, C-130 Dyess; Larry BROCK, A-10 Bentwaters; John CLARK, OV-10 Shaw; David DRESSEL, A-10 Myrtle Beach; David FISCH, T-38 Laughlin; William FOLLIN, KC-135 Minot; Mark FRANK, T-38 Laughlin; Brett GENNARELLl, T-37 Laughlin; Thomas KELLY, T-38 Laughlin; Michael KEM, T-38 Laughlin; Andrew KISS¬

INGER, B-52 Barksdale; James MclNTYRE, EC-135 Grissom; Keith MULLER, T-37 Laughlin; Craig RADL, F-16 Luke; Douglas ROLAN¬ DO, T-37 Laughlin; Stephen ROLIN, T-37 Laughlin; Benjamin SANDERS, F-16 Luke; Kurt SCHOEN, C-141 McChord; Michael SPENCER, C-141 Travis; Damon THEMELY, F-111 Cannon; and Karen TILLEY, C-21 Peterson.

LAUGHLIN 90-15 Willard AKINS, C-130 Dyess; Timothy BARCLAY, B-1 McConnell; John BARREIRE, C-21 Peterson; Gregory BASINGER, T-38 Laughlin; James BENNETT, T-38 Laughlin; Daniel CZUPKA, F-16 MacDill; Darin DEFENDORF, T-37 Laughlin; Sonia FALK, KC-135 Grissom; Michael HOEPFNER, F-16 MacDill; James KLINE, A-10 Alconbury; Gerald LASCO, C-141 McGuire; Loretta LOFGREN C-141 Charleston; David MIKKELSON, T-38 Laughlin; Erich NOVAK, KC-135 Loring; John PESCHIO, T-37 Laughlin; Karen PIO, T-38 Laughlin; Grif fi n RATLEY, T-38 Laughlin; Roger RED¬ WOOD, C-12 Wright-Patterson; John SHREWSBURY, F-111 Mountain Home; and Sean TRACY, KC-135 Grif fi ss.

LAUGHLIN 91-01: Maureen BAILLIE, C-141 McChord; Michael BASEL, T-37 Laughlin; Daniel BRODERICK, T-38 Laughlin; Bryan BURTLEY, T-38 Laughlin; Fred GALEY, C-141 Charleston; Christopher GREENE, C-12 Wright-Patterson; Christine KINYON, EC-135 Grissom; Edmund KNETIG, C-130 Pope; Craig LEAVITT, F-16 MacDill; Michael LESMAN, F-16 MacDill; Bonnie NOYES, T-37 Laughlin; John POGOREK, HC-130 Woodbridge; Christopher REA, F-111 Cannon; Randall REED, C-141 McChord; Roger REYNOLDS, T-38 Laughlin; Richard SHANAHAN, C-130 Yokota; Christopher WOOD, T-37 Laughlin; and Troy YAMAGUCHl, C-130 Little Rock.

MATHER 90-09 Gerard GUEVARA, C-141 McChord and William SINGLETARY, F-15E.

MATHER 90-10: Ron ANDERSON, F-111 Cannon; Vincent COPA, B-52 Minot; Britta HEMPLE, KC-135 Malmstrom; Maureen McCAFFERY, KC-135 Grissom; Mark OTT, B-52 Carswell; Rhon SAY, B-52(EWO) Minot; and Eric SCHWALBER, KC-135 Castle.

MATHER 90-11: Hector CASTILLO, C-130 Dyess; Steven JOHNSON, EC-130 Davis-Monthan; Gregory MUNSON, RC-135 Of¬ futt; Hans PALAORO, EC-130(EWO) Davis-Monthan; and Joseph RARICK, F-111.

MATHER 91-01: Bruce BEYERLY, B-52 Castle; Trevor CLARK, C-130 Little Rock; Todd KRATZKE, AC-130 Hurlburt; Douglas MALONE, F-111 Mountain Home; and Anthony STECKLER, RC-135 Offutt.

REESE 90-12: Leo BENDOSKI, T-37 Reese; Derek BISSINGER, B-1 Grand Forks; Christopher BLACKWELL, F-111 Mountian Home; John BURDA, EC-135 Offutt; John COMO, T-38 Reese; Christopher DEVAUGHN, B-52 Barksdale; Stephen EMMONS, A-10 Eielson; Rodney FULLER, T-37 Reese; Gregg HALL, T-38 Reese; Thomas MATSCHEK, KC-135 Malmstrom; Howard OLSON, C-141 Travis; An¬ thony POLLIZZl, C-130 Pope; David SMITH, C-141 Norton; Santiago VACA, T-38 Reese; Todd WENTZLAFF, T-38 Reese; Trace WILLIAMS, C-12 Ramstein; Daniel WILLSON, KC-135 Barksdale; Todd WINKLER, F-16 MacDill; James WURZER, T-37 Reese; and Richard WYNN, F-16 MacDill.

REESE 90-13: Roger ANDERSON, T-37 Reese; Kevin BIRD, C-130 Little Rock; William BRAUN, C-9 Scott; Jeffrey CASHMAN, B-52 Carswell; William CUEL, OV-10 Shaw; Paul DELMONTE, F-16 Luke; Kim FANDETTI, T-38 Reese; Edward HENNIGAN, T-37 Reese; Adam KRONE, A-10 Bentwaters; Jennifer LANK, EC-135 Grissom; Scott LEDFORD, T-37 Reese; David LOVELESS, F-111 Cannon; Matthew MILLER, T-38 Reese; Kevin MOCK, T-38 Reese; Kenneth O’CON¬ NELL, C-21 Offutt; Ryan ODNEAL, A-10 England; Clay SMITH, C-141 McGuire; Jeffrey TALIAFERRO, B-1 Dyess; Michael TAYLOR, T-37 Reese; and Timothy WELCH, B-52 Minot.

REESE 90-14: Timothy ABEL, F-16 Luke; Mark DANIGOLE, KC-135 Minot; Dennis DUFFY, C-141 McGuire; Eric ECKLUND, A-10 Myrtle Beach; Eric FITZ, F-111 Cannon; Christopher HAMILTON, F-16 Luke; Joseph JARBOE, T-37 Reese; David KLAUS, T-38 Reese, Stefan KOZIOLEK, T-37 Reese; Darren MATURI, C-130 Rhein Main; Eric PRYDE, C-141 McGuire; Matthew SARDELLI, T-38 Reese; Patrick SHOPE, T-38 Reese; Brian SIMPLER, F-15 Soesterberg; William SMITH, C-21 Wright-Patterson; Tsuyoshi TUNG, KC-135 Loring; Frank YANNUZZI, T-37 Reese; and David YOUNGDALE, B-52 K.I. Sawyer.

REESE 90-15: Eric ARMSTRONG, KC-135 Carswell; Paul BEINEKE, F-16 MacDill; John BIRK, T-38 Reese; Gregory CLARK, KC-135 Malmstrom; Ian COOGAN, T-38 Reese; Vincent CRUZ, OV-10 Shaw; Thad DARGER, B-1 Ellsworth; Jon DEPALMA, C-21 Offutt; Michael DIMEFF, F-15 Holloman; Albert ELTON, AC-1‘30 Hurlburt Field; Scott GIERAT, F-16 MacDill; Randolph HACK, KC-135 Fairchild; Mark HEINOLD, T-37 Reese; Todd LANCASTER, T-37 Reese; Matthew MANTEI, KC-135 McConnell; Brian MOORE, T-38 Reese; Scott OSMAR, A-10 Bentwaters; Elizabeth POSELEY, C-141 McGuire; Eric SOLEM, T-37 Reese; and Bruce WEBER, B-52 Fairchild.

REESE 91-01: Stephen BRANNAN, KC-135 Dyess; Joseph EITING, F-16 MacDill; Sara FERRIER, C-130 Pope; Jackson FOX, A-10 England; James FOX, T-38 Reese; Jeanne GOLDER, E-3 Tinker; Steven HANKINS, C-130 Dyess; Jeffrey MILLER, C-141 Travis; Charles MLADENKA, C-141 McGuire; Scot MORGAN, C-130 Pope; Matthew MULLIGAN, F-16 MacDill; Gary NEAL, C-5 Dover; Kevin OBRIEN, T-37 Reese; Kenneth ROSENQUEST, T-38 Reese; Amy SVOBODA, T-37 Reese; and Mark SYNOVITZ, KC-135 Eaker.

SHEPPARD 90-07: Philip CAMPBELL, F-15 Bitburg; Leo CUNN¬ INGHAM, EF-111 Mountain Home; Thomas KLINGENSMITH, F-16 MacDill; Charles LOPEZ, OV-10 Shaw; Keith MILLER, A-10 England; Scott MILLER, F-15E Luke; John SCHMIDT, T-37 Sheppard; John SHAPLAND, T-38 Sheppard; Peter SMITH, OV-10 Shaw; Adam SPITLER, F-16 MacDill; and David THOLE, F-16 MacDill.

SHEPPARD 90-08: Tripp ADAMS, F-16 Luke; Dieter BAREIHS, F-16 Luke; Craig BROWN, F-16 Luke; Matthew CHESTNUT, OA-10 Osan; Mark CONRAD, F-15 Langley; William COOLEY, F-15 Bitburg; Steven FRANCIS, T-37 Sheppard; Matthew HOFFMAN, F-16 Luke; Jeremy HORN, A-10 Alconbury; Joseph MATCHETTE, F-16 Luke, Douglas NIKOLAI, F-16 Luke; Steven NORDHAUS, F-16 MacDill; Rick PEDDYCORD, F-111 Mountain Home; Joseph SCHULZ, A-10 Bentwaters; Michael SMITH, T-38 Sheppard; Ryan SMITH, F-15 Langley; Joseph TORRES-LABOY, A-10 Bentwaters; Donn VON LOH, T-37 Sheppard; John WARD, A-10 England; James WARD, F-111 Mountain Home; and Patrick WEIR, F-15 Kadena.

VANCE 90-12: John ANZELC, F-15 Elgin; Jeffrey BANKS, OV-10 Shaw; Brian KIEFFER, A-10 Myrtle Beach; Kevin McMANAMAN, A-10 Bentwaters; Scott McNULTY, T-38 Vance; Glenn MELIA, T-38 Vance; James NELSON, T-38 Vance; Karen PASTORET, KC-135 Loring; Jon SCOTT, T-37 Vance; Keith WARD, KC-135 Grand Forks; and Allan WILL, B-52 Ira Eaker.

VANCE 90-13: Red BOWMAN, F-16 Luke: Steven BRENNER, T-37 Vance; Charles CALDWELL, F-16 Luke; Tracy DORSETT, T-38 Vance; David HOLMES, T-37 Vance; Scott JESTICE, F-15 Langley; Christian LAWLOR, KC-135 McConnell; Karl LEVY, C-130 Little Rock; Steven McQUIRK, KC-135 Beale; James NOETZEL, B-52 Loring; Kevin OLEEN, HC-130 Eglin; Mary RAINALDI, C-141 McChord; Matthew SCHWEITZER, RC-135 Offutt; Daniel STONE, T-37 Vance; and Jef¬ frey WEGNER, F-15 Eglin.

VANCE 90-14: Eric BRAXTON, T-37 Vance; Brad BREDENKAMP, T-37 Vance; David BULLOCK, T-38 Vance; Patrick CRUPI, OV-10 Shaw; John DERING, A-10 Bentwaters; Vance DRENKHAHN, F-111 Cannon; Jeffery ENGLE, C-141 McChord; Michael GIBBONS, KC-135 Wurtsmith; Tracey GOLDEN, C-141 McGuire; Jack MAIXNER, F-16 Luke; Fermin MANNING, T-38 Vance; Russell MARTIN, C-141 Mc¬ Chord; Jarett MAZZA, KC-10 Barksdale; Robert MOZELESKI, OV-10 Shaw; Barry ROMITTI, EC-135 Ellsworth; Robert ROSSER, T-38 Vance; Mark ROBERTS, C-130 Yokota; Ted SATCHER, F-16 Luke; Barbara SEVER, T-38 Vance; Steven WINNER, B-52 Griffiss; And Steve YARBROUGH, T-37 Vance.

VANCE 90-15: Julie BARTLETT, KC-135 Altus; Kurt BECKER, F-15 Langley; Javier BELL, T-37 Vance; Thomas COPELAND, KC-135 Grif¬ fiss; Shawnie EWING, KC-135 Kadena; Darren HIRSCHEY, F-111 Mountain Home; George JAMES, F-16 MacDill; Timothy JOZWIAK, KC-135 Kadena; Kevin KING, T-38 Vance; Andre LEWIS, C-141 Travis; Geoffrey NORTON T-37 Vance; William PINTER, T-38 Vance; David SERAGE, B-52 Minot; Frank SOUZA,T-37 Vance; Steven WARRIOR, KC-135 Ira Eaker; Christopher WYATT, C-130 Little Rock; Dirk YOUNG, C-12 Andrews and Jae YU, T-37 Vance.

VANCE 91-01: William CAHILL, C-141 McGuire; Christopher CARPER, E-3 Tinker; Mark DOUGLAS, T-38 Vance; Caesar GARDUNO, C-130 Dyess; Jeffrey HAZLEWOOD, C-141 Charleston; Cedric JACKSON, KC-135 Ellsworth; Anthony LASURE, T-38 Vance; Michael LOCKWOOD, C-5 Dover; David PELLETIER, C-141 Travis; Burtis ROBINSON, RC-135 Offutt; James STURGEON, F-16 MacDill; Wayne TETLOW, T-37 Vance; Brent VANDERPOL, T-38 Vance; Peter WEBER, T-37 Vance; and Charles WINFREE, T-37 Vance.

WILLIAMS 90-12: David BRUMMITT, CALDWELL, C-141 Charleston; John DELAPP, C-141 McGuire; Larry HANTLA, KC-135 Beale; Robert HOCKMAN, C-141 McChord; Scott HUGHES, EF-111 Mountain Home; Sean JONES, T-38 Williams; Scott KINDSVATER, F-15E Luke; Christopher MAUK, KC-135 Robins; An¬ drew McINTYRE, C-130 Little Rock; Edwin NEWMAN, T-37 Williams; Larry PACKARD, T-38 Williams; Michael PATTERSON, KC-135 Plattsburg; Troy PORTER, B-52 Loring; David ROJEWSKI, T-37 Williams; William SUMMERS, T-37 Williams; Brian WARCUP, C-9 Rhein Main; and Stephen WILLIAMS, F-16 MacDill.

WILLIAMS 90-13: George ALSTON, T-37 Williams; David BALDESSARI, C-141 Charleston; Paul BECK, T-38 Williams; Randall BRISTOL, T-37 Williams; Bruce BROWN, F-111 Cannon; Michael CHAPA, F-15 Kadena; Harold CRANMER, C-12 Clark; Donatella GINN, C-21 Yokota; Gary GUY, F-16 Luke; Stephen HEINRICH, KC-135 Ellsworth; Lee HOGGATT, C-130 Dyess; Joseph HOLLMAN, C-130 Elmendorf; Morgan KYLE, T-38 Williams; Daniel LYKINS, KC-135 Wurt¬ smith; Gilbert PETRINA, B-52 Wurtsmith; John PLATING, T-37 Williams; Richard RASMUSSEN, T-38 Williams; Sam SHMAYS, KC-10 SeymourJohnson; David SILVA, F-15 Bitburg; and Jonathan WIESINGER, T-38 Williams.

WILLIAMS 90-14: (you’ve heard of this class maybe once before!) Lawrence BRANCH, T-37 Williams: Leif BRYNN, T-37 Williams; Eric CHANDLER, F-16 Luke; Michael FREY, F-16 Luke; Darren HARTFORD, C-5 Travis; Kurt HEISER, OV-10 Shaw; Christy KAYSER, KC-135 Robins; Douglas KENNEDY, C-130 Little Rock; Brendan LEWIS, T-38 Williams; Scott MADISON, KC-10 Barksdale; Matthew MOLINEUX, KC-135 Grissom; Michael MOORE, C-9 Scott; John OSKVAREK, EC-135 Offutt; Thomas RINEY, KC-135 Castle; Kenneth THIELE, KC-135 Beale; Paul TIBBETS, B-1 Ellsworth; Corey WALROD,T-38 Williams; and Christopher YOUNG, F-15 Bitburg.

WILLIAMS 90-15: Steven BURSON, A-10 Bentwaters; Benjamin CULP,

F-16 MacDill; Richard ECCHER, C-9 Rhein Main; Seth ECKHOLM, KC-135 Carswell; Patrick HEFLIN, T-38 Williams: Thomas HIRST, KC-135 Barksdale; Arlene HUX, T-38 Williams; Joseph JEZAIRIAN, F-16 MacDill; Patrick KEENAN, T-37 Williams; Christopher KULAS, KC-135 Wurtsmith; Matthew LLOYD, KC-135 Minot; John LUSK, KC-10 March; Tony McKenzie, c-21 Andrews; John MIHALY, T-37 Williams; David MIT¬ CHELL, EC-135 Ellwsorth; Brandon NUGENT, T-37 Williams; David OLTORIK, T-38 Williams; David RODRIGUEZ, C-130 Little Rock; Ted SCHILLER, C-141 McChord; Heather SCHOFIELD, C-130 Pope;’ Christopher SHORT, T-38 Williams; Christopher SIMON, T-38 Williams; Terry VIRTS, F-16 MacDill; and Paul WEISS, A-10 Myrtle Beach.

WILLIAMS 91-01: Michael BAUER, C-130 Dyess; James BRECK, T-38 Williams; Sven BROWN, B-52 Ira Eaker; Holly CAMPBELL, T-37 Williams; Mark CHRISTIAN, C-12 Elmendorf; Scott CROGG, F-16 Mac¬ Dill; Charles GRIFFIN, T-38 Williams; Robert HABER, C-141 McChord; John HRUBY, F-111 Cannon; Keith JAMES, T-38 Williams; Steven KEN¬ NEL, F-16 MacDill; Jeffrey KLOSKY, T-37 Williams; Jeffrey LOVE, T-37 Williams; Garrison PISIO, EC-130 Davis Monthan; Glenn POWERS, KC-135 Wurtsmith; Brian RADCLIFFE, C-141 McGuire; Stephen THOMP¬ SON, C-141 Charleston; and Stephen ZEPP, HC-130 Kadena.

Joseph C. Richardson

PSC Box 2335

Mather AFB, CA 95655

Home: (916) 369-7045

Percent members: 34

Greetings Class of 1990! Itrust that everyone is doing well. Things my way are going great. I’m beginning my seventh week out here at UNT and so far so good. Beautiful sunny skies everyday and the training is really going quite smoothly so far.

Everyone please take note of my current address. This will be my mail¬ ing address for the remainder of my time at UNT. I’ve only gotten letters from acouple of people so that makes it very difficult for me to report to you all that’s happening with us. Please keep me informed on how things are going. Iwelcome information on UPT or UHT classes as well as technical training classes. Ialso welcome information on marriages, assignments and basically anything about anyone in our class. 1 courage those of you who were recently married to send me pictures. Ican get them printed in the magazine as well. The AOG sends me some infor¬ mation on selected individuals in our class but in order to supplement what they send me 1need everyone’s input.

The few people I’ve heard from include Mike CARTER. He’s down at Laughlin AFB, TX undergoing UPT and says that so far things are fine. He sends his greetings to everyone. Everyone here at Mather undergoing UNT is doing well and sends their greetings as well. 1will try to get a photo of our group printed so you all can see our smiling faces.

Ireceived anote from Zackery BELCHER. He proudly announces that as of 19 Dec 1990 he will be amarried man. Currently he is acontracting officer at Loring AFB, ME. Kelly (KRATOCHVIL) GREENE sends her greetings as well. She is presently attending AFIT’s School of Engineering and will receive aM.S. in operations research in March of 1992. She mar¬ ried 2LT Christopher D. GREEN,. Class of ’89, CS-13, on 22 Jun 90. Congratulations Kelly and Chris and best of luck with everything.

Christopher OGREN sent his greetings from Reese AFB, TX where he is in UPT. He sends amessage “for all those Willie pukes, ‘blonde satura¬ tion’ is alive and well in Texas too!” Hopefully you Willie pukes know what that means. Michael THIRTLE, my former partner in crime, sends his greeting abroad. Incidentally, Mike was the only person to type, yes type, his response to the AOG. That’s okay Mike, we love you anyway. He is at Williams AFB, TX for UPT. He married the lovely Denise Marie Domanico on 10 Jun 90. Congratulations Mike and Denise. Our prayers are with you both. Drop me aline sometime.... grovel, grovel, grovel.

Bruce PLOESER was also recently married. He married Kerry Boettger on 2Jun 90. Peace my brother. J. Jay UPDEGRAFF has pledged to send me info on the Willie UPT class of 91-14. 1understand they have 25 grads in that class. 1can’t wait to hear what you all are up to. Akshai GANDHI sends his greetings to everyone from Sheppard AFB, TX. Last but cer¬ tainly not least of all, my old roommate Chuck BOYD sends his greetings as well. He’s still in Colorado Springs doing alitle casual status at the Academy. He’s awaiting UPT at Laughlin in November. Don’t party too much Chuck!

Well, that’s about all 1have for now. Since you all have my new ad¬ dress, use it and let me know what’s up. Spread it around as well. I’ve been writing tons of letters lately so I’ll keep in touch basis with you all as well. Best of luck in the upcoming months until you hear from me again. Take care and PEACE!

Don’t miss your magazine. Send your new address now! on aone-on-one

C-12 Norton; Carl

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