Checkpoints March 1995

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ABOUT OUR COVER

Our thanks to the Air Force Public Affairs office and Airman magazine for

the cover photograph of Gen. Ronald R. Fogleman, ’63, the first Academy graduate Air Force Chief of Staff. For more background on the general, see the articles on pages 36 and 37.

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VIEW FROM THE TOP

Lt. Gen. Paul E. Stein, ’66, Superintendent

As I mentioned in my last Checkpoints article, the Academy is undergoing many changes. The seeds for several initiatives have been planted, while many others have taken root and blossomed. They involve the organization, facilities, and our philosophical approach used to produce thw world’s best lieutenants.

This past summer the academy reconfigured to bring us more in line with Air Force organizational structures. We reorganized the Commandant of Cadets, and created an Air Base Wing to help centralize and formalize the organizational structure for the support functions on base. What was previously known as the Commandant of Cadets (CW) is now the 34th Training Wing, and the base support functions are aligned under the 10th Air Base Wing

Lt. Gen. Stein, ’66 (ABW). The organizations within CW were reorganized (not just renamed) as groups and squadrons with “commanders” in charge. Brig. Gen. John D. Hopper, the new Commandant and 34th Training Wing commander, and I are enthusiastic about the change because in addition to providing a better operating structure, it provides the cadets first-hand exposure to operational lines of authority, chains of command, and intra-organizational cooperation (i.e., how the “real Air Force” works). The new 10th ABW structure strengthens and clarifies the chain of command, consolidates all support functions under one commander, streamlines decision making, and simplifies management levels. It’s working nicely under the leadership of Colonel David P. Csintyan.

We are also working several initiatives to improve the infrastructure to make the Academy environment more conducive to learning. These infrastructure improvements include the Consolidated Education and Training Facility (CETF), Fairchild Hall modernization, and cadet dormitory upgrade. The CETF construction, as I mentioned in my last article, is moving along well. We plan to begin moving into the new building in May of 1996 and it will provide us with 140,000 square feet of academic classrooms and 21st Century laboratories.

Those of you who have visited the Academy since graduation have probably noticed that Fairchild Hall is just about the same as when you were a cadet—it has stood the test of time—but not for much longer. In conjunction with the move to CETF, we are planning to renovate Fairchild Hall. As part of this renovation, we are retiring the original classroom furniture and replacing it with modern, attractive, low-maintenance, and hopefully longlasting furniture. Furniture replacement began in January this year, while the Fairchild Hall upgrade is scheduled to begin in FY97 following the move into CETF.

Additionally, the cadet dormitories, particularly Vandenberg

Hall, are in need of similar attention. We are currently in a multiyear upgrade plan to renovate the structures and replace the furniture inside. We are doing the roofs now and the remainder of the project is scheduled to start this year and its anticipated completion date is 1998.

We are also looking at how cadets make use of their time and what is relevant to producing the world’s best lieutenants. We initiated this study as a result of concerns voiced by various sources, from the cadets themselves to the Board of Visitors, to ensure the demands of one area are not counterproductive to the requirements of other areas. Although the study is not complete, the preliminary results are not surprising. The cadets with the most balanced approach—who divide their time evenly between academic, athletic, military, and personal demands—achieve the best results. Our job is to make this balance realistic. There is still much to do on this study, and we expect adjustments to be made in the near future.

We are continually evaluating our role and philosophical approach to leadership and character development. We are operating in a time when there is great demand for leaders of character and strong virtue. This is not a new issue at the Air Force Academy. We pride ourselves in being one of the premier leadership laboratories in the nation. Leadership training has been a way of life here since the Academy’s inception, because leadership is absolutely critical to the success of the military. In order to maintain our credibility as a leadership laboratory, we continually assess the environment we work in and the cadets live and learn in, and adjust accordingly...right down to the basics. It’s our duty to provide the best atmosphere possible to developing future leaders.

To affirm and enhance our commitment to leadership training, we are pursuing a Leadership and Character Development Center. The center will provide focus and a central point of contact for leadership and character-development activities throughout the USAF Academy. It will enhance the effectiveness and coherence of existing leadership-development programs and amplify the synergistic effects of wide-ranging programs. It will be staffed by experienced professionals with operational experience and educational expertise, many of whom are here now doing great work in all three mission elements. We will develop the new center by building upon the curent Character Development program since it is an integral and essential part of leadership training and bringing together the numerous leadership activities that have been a crucial part of the Academy for decades. Initially, the Center will act as a coordinator/advisor/facilitator ensuring the efforts of the various mission elements compliment each other. In the course of the Center’s development over the next several years, we expect its roles and responsibilities to expand. Eventually, we believe the Center will provide education, training, service, and products to cadets, AOCs, faculty and staff, and other organizations at USAFA as well as support other USAF and DoD activities as requirements dictate and resources

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Parachute Team Wins National Championship

By SSgt. Doug Roth Falcon Flyer staff

The Academy parachute team won its 21st national collegiate championship in 27 years during the holiday break. Along with the team honor, C1C Richard Murray edged C1C Tim Russell for individual recognition. Although they tied for the title, Murray bested Russell in a tie-breaker, which boiled down to who was more consistent during the event.

The Academy took 19 competitors to the tournament held in Eloy, Ariz. They faced 26 schools involving 118 jumpers, ineluding West Point cadets.

But what used to be a walk in the park for the Academy cadets has turned into a tough competition, according to the team’s coach. “There was a time we’d show up, open the trunk of the car, and just throw the medals in,” said Bill Wenger, the parachute team coach. “It’s not that way anymore. The competition is a lot tougher.”

The national championship is broken into three divisions—novice, intermediate and master. Novice jumpers have up to 100 trips out of the airplane door; intermediates—100 to 300; and master jumpers have more than 300 air-to-ground missions.

Competitors vie for medals in the accuracy, style and relative work. For accuracy, each competitor leaps from 2,500 feet, immediately opening the chute and aiming for a 15-centimeter (near-

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allow. With coordinated leadership-development activities across the Academy that ensure coherence between programs and strong curriculum development, the center will be a resource for individual and organizational development. With state of the art education and training facilities, the center will contribute also to the understanding of leadership through research and literature.

Our training extends beyond the cadets to all military and civilian members of our team. Part of the orientation for our newly-assigned instructors includes discussion and training on our institutional commitment to leadership and characterdevelopment training not just in the classroom environment, but throughout the Academy. Everyone assigned to the Academy is a role model. We all must be trained, understand, accept, and exercise our responsibilities in that regard.

Additionally, to strengthen our commitment to be a nationallyrecognized leadership and character-development center, we will hold our second annual leadership symposium, “Strength through Diversity”, in April 1995. The symposium will examine the virtues of the many diverse points of view, backgrounds, and capabilities that military members and civilians bring to our Air Force. Diversity in the Cadet Wing is an understatement considering the wing is composed of cadets from different ethnic, racial, and religious backgrounds, entering from every state in the union, U.S. territories, and some foreign nations. This exposure to diversity creates a wonderful challenge for our young, future leaders. Hopefully, this experience helps them learn how to better deal with the complex issues they will certainly face in their careers. Our desire is to develop strong leaders motivated to a career of service to country, and we believe that understanding diversity and capitalizing upon its strengths is critical to successful team building, success as a leader, and success as a professional career officer.

In closing, I’d like to pass along the best news we’ve received in quite some time. Over the last several years, we’ve seen a significant decline in the number of applications we receive from young men and women who want to attend the Academy. We believe a significant reason for the downward trend in applications has been the reduced opportunity to attend Undergraduate Pilot Training (UPT). We now have a programmed increase in pilot and navigator training quotas for Academy graduates over the next several years. From a low of 225 UPT quotas for the Classes of ’93 and ’94, UPT quotas increase incrementally for upcoming

ly 6-inch) electronic pad. A person’s four jumps are totaled and the winner has the lowest total.

In the style competition, a jumper exits the plane at 7,500 feet, hurtling toward the ground to gain speed. After about 10 seconds, the jumper performs a series of turns and loop. Scores are determined by how fast the maneuvers are performed with penalty time being added for improperly-performed maneuvers.

In the relative-work category, four jumpers are given a series of set maneuvers. They’re given 35 seconds upon leaving the airplane to complete as many maneuvers as possible. Each properly completed maneuver scores one point.

The style competition is judged using a ground-to-air camera to record the event. Relative work competition is recorded in the air by a separate jumper who has a helmet-mounted video camera. After he records the event, judges critique the tape on the ground.

Although the parachute team has an impressive past, competition is not their primary function. “These cadets are primarily, here to teach other parachute students,” Wenger said. “That’s what they spend most of their time doing. If they’re not teaching and have the time, then we train for events.

“The team represented the Academy well in more than the competitive arena,” Wenger added. “They supported each other, which gave us an edge.” (The Falcon Flyer)

graduating classes (95: 295, 96: 350, 97: 400, 98: 450, 99: 500), culminating with 550 slots for the Class of 2000...a 100 percent increase! Navigator slots are projected to stabilize at 70 for each of the next five years beginning with the Class of ’96. From a low of zero in 1992 to a high of 38 in 1991, this is a significant and welcome increase. Although the quotas are for planning purposes and are subject to revision based on changing force structure, we are excited about the upward trend. We need your help in spreading the word to the outstanding young men and women throughout the nation that their opportunity to fly is, and always has been, the best by attending our Academy.

We are working hard to prepare our cadets for a career in the operational Air Force by providing the skills necessary to be an outstanding Air Force lieutenant. We believe the lion’s share of those “skills” relate to leadership and character development—thus, the emphasis. We think we are heading in the right direction. If you have thoughts in this area or believe there are other options worth exploring, please let us know.

New Commandant Accepts Command Academy Superintendent Lt. Gen. Paul Stein passes the 34th Training Wing (formerly the Commandant of Cadets organization)flag to Brig. Gen. John D. Hopper Jr. during the change-ofcommand ceremony in early November. Hopper, Class of 1969, assumed command from Maj. Gen. Patrick K. Gamble. (Photo by S.S. Hampton Sr.)

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DEAN’S DELIBERATIONS

Brig. Gen. Ruben A. Cubero, ’61, Dean of the Faculty

Quality of Education

I appreciate the opportunity to share some thoughts from the “Dean’s Perspective” in the following lines and hope to continue doing so in future editions. My comments focus on the Faculty Guiding Principles which were articulated early on in my term as Dean and which provide the foundation for faculty operations, the curriculum and our strategic planning. More importantly, these guiding principles form the covenant we faculty members have made with our cadets. They are:

To provide a quality education

To promote trust and responsibility, and

To be a community of soldier-scholar-citizens

Brig. Gen. Cubero, ’61

Guiding daily operations as well as strategic planning, these principles remind us of our responsibilities and challenges as we contribute to the mission of developing and inspiring future leaders. This article will be devoted to the “quality education” principle and will focus on our faculty and the curriculum. Simply stated, a quality education depends on a quality faculty and I’m convinced that our faculty is not only excellent, but getting better. Consider for a moment this wonderful quote;

“Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives, the cumulative experience of many masters of craftmanship. Quality also marks the search for an ideal after the necessity has been satisfied and mere usefulness achieved.” (Will A. Foster)

In the best traditions of the Academy, the faculty has always had “high intentions” and has set and maintained the highest standards of performance in teaching, scholarship, and service. Experienced, dedicated military officers and an increasing corps of civilian instructors provide the foundation of our quality faculty. Over the years, visiting professors, various accreditation boards and other knowledgeable visitors to the Academy have consistently complimented the high energy, enthusiasm and effectiveness of our faculty, even though, admittedly, we have a higher-than-normal turnover rate in our military instructors due to military exigencies. As Dean, I continue to be impressed at the scope and depth of the faculty’s contributions to cadet development and am increasingly proud of their professionalism.

Through our Directorate of Education, we provide what I consider “intelligent direction” and “skillful execution” focused on maintaining a quality faculty. Our robust faculty development

program begins with an extensive “New Instructor Orientation” course and provides for our faculty continued growth opportunities and access to the best teaching materials and methods available through seminars, workshops and department programs—all targeted to make us better teachers and enhance the learning evironment for the cadets. Our faculty consistently participates in, and contributes to, national conferences in virtually all academic disciplines.

In preparing our instructors for the 21st Century, the Directorate of Education has developed a model to help instructors integrate technology into the teaching-learning process and exploit our local area fiber-optic network for educational purposes. The directorate also has constructed a “classroom of the future” and manages an extensive research program into the methodologies that provides faculty members and cadets additional opportunities for growth and development. In all, we continue to attract some of the finest young officers in the Air Force for faculty duty and our civilian component has increasingly strengthened an already-excellent faculty.

Quality people committed to improvement is only part of the answer—“searching for an ideal,” or following a well-defined vision completes the picture. Providing future leaders the “ideal” combination of knowledge, skills and values to lead the increasingly-complex, diverse Air Force of the future is our greatest challenge. To that end, we view “critical thinking skills,” which have always been a goal of education, as crucial—perhaps “survival skills”—for future leaders in the Information Age. Navigating the endless—often befuddling—sea of information and data to arrive at sound decisions will clearly be a needed talent for future officers. Preparing future officers to deal with ambiguity, to express themselves clearly and concisely, to learn how to learn, to understand that graduation is really the beginning—not the end—of learning is truly our challenge.

To that end, we promote and encourage intellectual curiosity, ill-defined problem solving skills and effective communication throughout our curriculum. These three educational outcomes, which we use to define “critical thinking” in our cadets, are central to our newly-formed Educational Assessment Plan. Rather than developing courses to achieve these outcomes, our intent is to weave activities and projects through all our courses and educational experiences that will enhance the attainment of these three “critical thinking” outcomes. As we continue to refine our assessment methods to determine how well cadets are acquiring these skills, we will correspondingly adjust the curriculum content and process to ensure that the world’s best Air Force gets the right people with the right skills.

Quality education is a process—a journey without destination. We are trying to refine and improve the process as we go and I sincerely appreciate your continued support. I’ll discuss the other two guiding principles in future issues. Until then, I sincerely invite your thoughts on anything dealing with cadet education—let us hear from you!

Transcripts Available From Academy Agency

Graduates who need transcripts from the Academy may request them by letter from: Hq USAFA/DFRR, 2354 Fairchild Drive, Suite 6D106, U.S. Air Force Academy, Colo. 80840-6210. For those who wish to request a transcript by telephone, please call 719-472-3970 (commercial) or DSN 259-3970.

AOG Sponsors Military History Symposia Books

The Association of Graduates is proud to announce its sponsorship of the commercial publication of the proceedings of the United States Air Force Academy’s biennial Military History Symposia by Imprint Publications of Chicago, a distinguished publisher of scholarly books. The first two volumes in this prestigious new series are the proceedings of the Academy’s very successful 1990 symposium, titled An American Dilemma: Vietnam, 1964-1973, and the equally-successful 1992 symposium, A Revolutionary War: Korea and the Transformation of the Postwar World.

Both conferences, hosted with the support of the Academy, the Association of Graduates and the Falcon Foundation, drew scholars and senior officers—active-duty and retired—to Fairchild Hall to discuss how to put America’s two limited wars in Asia into a meaningful historical perspective. The resulting two books, which include the best papers presented at each of the symposia, are now available for purchase by libraries, scholars and the public throughout the United States and abroad. Royalties earned will go to the Academy’s Academic Support Fund.

The first book in the series examines America’s longest war, the conflict in Vietnam, and is jointly edited by Lt. Col. John G. Albert (formerly director of World History and Area Studies at the Academy) and Professor Dennis E. Showalter of Colorado College (a former Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Department of History). As Albert and Showalter note in their introduction, “studies of the Vietnam War remain strongly influenced by the continued tendency of soldiers, scholars, and popular writers to present their work in the context of limited intellectual and public enclaves.’’ This book, however, transcends those boundries and provides a balanced view of “the Vietnam War as a whole.’’

The second book in the series looks at what is often referred to as America’s “forgotten war,” the conflict in Korea between 1950 and 1953. The editor, Lt. Col. William J. Williams (formerly deputy head of the Department of History), argues that for “too long the Korean War has been overshadowed by the triumphant Allied military victory in World War II and the American tragedy of Vietnam.” This volume makes the case that “the Korean conflict deserves far more attention, for it...was a seminal event that had a revolutionary impact on the shape of the postwar world.”

Both volumes have received impressive acclaim. Library Journal noted that each essay in the Vietnam proceedings “is a finelycrafted examination of one aspect of the war (the air war, Vietnamization, the ground fighting, etc.)” and “highly recommended” the book for those with a serious interest in the Southeast Asian conflict.

A review in the Journal of American-East Asian Relations by one of the country’s most renowned military historians, Allan Millett, called the volume on the Korean War, “a sound sampler of international scholarship on the war’s causes, conduct, and consequences” which “provides a thoughful way to return to, or discover, one of the [postwar] era’s pivotal events.” Additional kudos came from the highest level of the Air Force: General McPeak, while Chief of Staff, praised both books as “Great work!”

Three more volumes in this publication series, the first of its kind at the Academy, are scheduled to appear in the next 12 months. The proceedings of the 1994 Military History Symposium, to be edited by the Academy’s director of Military History, Lt. Col. Stephen D. Chiabotti, will examine the dramatic impact of technology on warfare during the past two centuries. Imprint will also publish the revised proceedings of the 1988 Military History Symposium, to be titled The Intelligence Revolution and Modern Warfare, edited by Lt. Col. (Ret) Walter T. Hitchcock, formerly the Academy’s director of American History, and Capt. James E. Dillard, a career intelligence officer and assistant professor of history. Finally, an updated version of the 1978 proceedings on airpower and warfare, to be edited by Lt. Col. Mark K. Wells, the current deputy head of the History Department, will appear in late 1995.

The goal of this series is to enhance the professional, public and historical understanding of important military issues, a goal that is especially significant during a time of heated debate over the size, shape and mission of America’s future armed forces. The key contributions the Air Force Academy’s biennial Military History Symposia have made to this vital discussion are widely recognized in both military and academic communities.

The first two volumes in the Academy’s Military History Symposium Series, on the Vietnam and Korean Wars, are available to AOG members at a 20 percent discount (see the advertisement on facing page). Imprint Publications, moreover, has generously agreed to make available to the AOG membership all future volumes in this important military history series at a similar discount.

Writer Asks Input From Grads Who Were in France

Professor M. David Egan, Clemson University, is writing a book which will record the vital role the U.S. Air Force played in France in winning the Cold War. Included will be Franco-American relations 1950 to 1967 and the story of American air bases, then and now. The author invites USAFA graduates stationed in or TDY to France to share their memories and photos for possible inclusion in the book: Prof. M. David Egan, Box 365, Anderson, SC 29622-0365.

Tel: (803) 226-3832.

Military History Symposium Series of the

United States Air Force Academy

Col. Carl W. Reddel, Series Editor

Volume One

An American Dilemma

Vietnam, 1964-1973

Edited by Dennis E. Showalter and Lt. Col. John G. Albert

Contents: Norman A. Graebner—The Scholar’s View of Vietnam, 1964—1992; Phillip B. Davidson—The American Military’s Assessment of Vietnam, 1964-1992; George C. Herring—“Cold Blood”: LBJ’s Conduct of Limited War in Vietnam; Andrew F. Krepinevich—Vietnam: Evaluating the Ground War, 1965-1968; Larry Cable—The Operation Was a Success, but the Patient Died: The Air War in Vietnam, 1964-1969; Jeffrey J. Clarke Vietnamization: The War to Groom an Ally; Mark Clodfelter Nixon and the Air Weapon; Joan Hoff—Richard Nixon, Vietnam, and the American Home Front

224 pp., index; Paper ISBN 1-879176-15-7 $22.95

Forthcoming Volumes in 1995

The Intelligence Revolution and Modern Welfare

Edited by Capt. James E. Dillard and Lt. Col. Walter T. Hitchcock

Toolingfor War

Edited by Lt. Col. Stephen D. Chiabotti

Airpower and Modern Warfare

Edited by Lt. Col. Mark Wells

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The Journal ofAmerican-East Asian Relations —the only scholarly journal solely devoted to publishing research on historical and recent developments in diplomatic, economic, security, and cultural relations across the Pacific

Fall 1994 Special Issue

“December 7,1941: The Pearl Harbor Attack”

Edited with an introduction by Roger Dingman

Contents: Pedro Loureiro—Japanese Espionage and American Countermeasures in Pre-Pearl Harbor California; Alvin D. Coox

The Pearl Harbor Raid Revisited; Hata Ikuhiko—Going to War: Who Delayed the Final Note?; Yamamoto Masao—Pearl Harbor: An Imperial Japanese Army Officer’s View; Robert Crowder—An American’s Life in Japan before and after Pearl Harbor; Watanabe Torn—1991: American Perceptions of the Pearl Harbor Attack; Roger Dingman—Reflections on Pearl Harbor Anniversaries Past

Forthcoming Special Commemorative Issues in 1995: The Atomic Bomb and the Ending of the Pacific War New Perspectives on Vietnam after Twenty Years

Volume Two

A Revolutionary War

Korea and the Transformation ofthe Postwar World

Edited by Lt. Col. William J. Williams

Contents: John Edward Wilz—Encountering Korea: American Perceptions and Policies to 25 June 1950; Alan L. Gropman—The Korean War and Armed Forces Racial Integration; Lewis Sorley Reserve Forces in Limited War; Richard P. Hallion—Naval Air Operations in Korea; Jon Halliday—Air Operations in Korea: The Soviet Side of the Story; William Stueck—The Korean War, NATO, and Rearmament; Rosemary Foot—Pax Americana: Setting the Global Agenda after the Korean War; Roger Dingman—The Dagger and the Gift: The Impact of the Korean War on Japan; Philip West—Confronting the West: China as David and Goliath in the Korean War; B. C. Koh—The War’s Impact on the Korean Peninsula. 280 pp., index; Paper ISBN 1-879176-16-5 $24.95

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THE AOG BOARDROOM

Brig. Gen.

(Ret)

James P. Ulm, ’61, AOG President

My message for this issue will be relatively short. Your AOG staff has continued at a high pace in establishing new development and services programs, as well as maintaining our outstanding existing programs. With the holidays, association activities have been quiet, although the construction to complete Doolittle Hall is moving rapidly. As I write this article, the staff will be moving to their permanent offices on the second floor in early February.

Jim Ulm, ’61

The November board of directors meeting was very productive. A change to the bylaws has been approved to reduce the number of elected directors from the curent 30 to 24 over the next two elections. You will see that my title is now Chairman of the Board of Directors, and Dick Coppock is the President and Chief Executive Officer. This does not change the duties or responsibilities for either of us, but aligns the AOG with similar tax-exempt, nonprofit organizations.

In my last article I highlighted the revised mission and vision for the association. In February, the board will begin the task of establishing future goals and objectives. This task will likely extend into a couple of sessions beyond February, but will be useful for planning our future. This initial effort will be helpful for the newly-elected directors who join us in July. We also plan to have Superintendent Lt. Gen. Paul Stein and Dean Brig. Gen. Ruben Cubero join us for a roundtable on Friday evening. In response to the kind words of the Superintendent in the last issue, I appreciate

Doolittle Hall A vailable For Many Special Occasions

Doolittle Hall is now available at very reasonable rates for special functions. To date the AOG has hosted a variety of events: department meetings, retirements, wedding receptions, workshops, cocktail parties, luncheons and formal and informal dinners. Doolittle Hall can accommodate as many as 300 at a sit-down dinner and more than 500 for a cocktail party.

Available facilities include conference rooms, the library lounge with bar, and outdoor patio area, weather permitting. AOG members receive preferential rates. For more specific information on your special-function needs, please call Mrs. Pat Buland at the AOG at (719) 472-0300.

his strong support and open communication channel with me. He has never been too busy to talk.

In addition, Wayne Kendall, ’60, nominated Jim Bowman, assistant director of Athletics for Candidate Counseling, and the board of directors approved Jim as the ninth living honorary member of the AOG. We will formally induct Jim in late February when Doolittle Hall is completed. Since the board met the evening before the Utah game, I dropped by the radio station booth just before the game while Jim was doing the scouting report with Ben Martin. Of course Jim had no idea why a former basketball player was in the booth, but when I went on the air to congratulate him he shook my hand six times. You need to hear the story from him—first time I have seen him speechless! Jim, we are pleased to have you join us. You have dedicated your life to the Academy, and have very positively influenced the lives of many young men and women. Congratulations.

In one of my earlier articles, I highlighted the assistance of Greg Kolligian who has donated a significant amount of his time and talent in creating a marketing brochure for the Sabre Society, and coordinating its production and printing. At the opening of the board proceedings, we recognized Greg’s contributions with a glass sculpture, emblematic of his induction as the initial member of the Leadership Circle of the Sabre Society. The work of Greg, board member John Kelly, ’65, and vice president, Development, Jim Shaw, ’67, has been crucial in assuring the Sabre Society is a reality and a successful vehicle to bring together and recognize the Academy’s most dedicated and loyal supporters. To the three of you and your supporting spouses and staffs, thank you for your dedication, hard work and perseverance.

I will close with the hope that I have been mercifully short. Keep the cards and letters coming. By the next issue of Checkpoints we will have hosted the Class of 1995 as nearly-graduatemembers of the AOG. Best wishes for 1995.

CS-33 Graduates Present Gift

During the Navy football game weekend, Cadet Squadron 33 Class of 1972 members and theirformer AOC, now AOG president Jim Ulm, had a mini-reunion at which they presented their squadron a VCR for the TV room. They visited “their” squadron on Saturday morning before the parade to make the presentation reflecting the special ties graduates have to the Academy. From left are Roger Harwell, Mark Hoskins, Dave Bowman, Lew Romett, Jim Ulm, Steve Tillman, Craig Weston, Lin Chayer and Gary Grenier. (Photo courtesy of Dave Bowman.)

BUILDING FUND DONORS

The AOG Board of Directors acknowledges with sincere appreciation the following contributors who pledged and made cash contributions to the AOG Building Fund from Sept. 13 through Dec. 31, 1994. We encourage others to join these dedicated graduates and friends in this most important project. Contributions and pledges made after Dec. 31 will be listed in the next publication of Checkpoints.

CHECKPOINTS

DONOR

($25 000-$99 000)

Anonymous '64

LtGcn(Rct) & Mrs Benjamin N Beilis

Honorable Harold C & Joan S Stuart

CONTRAILS DONORS

($10 000- 524 999)

Mr & Mrs John E Puhek in honor of James Puhek '78, Peter P Puhek ’83

Gary Puhek '89

Mrs Opal Thompson Skinner in memory of Douglas L Thompson '64

FALCON DONORS

($5 000-$9 999)

Lt Col Leonard R Kruczynski Ret '65

Lt Col Frank D Mayberry Ret '60

Mr Marc J Millican '79 in memory of Capl Richard S Ryan '79

Col Brock T Strom Ret '59

James E & Carol West '59 match of The Delta Air Lines Foundation

TALON DONORS

($1 000-$4 999)

Lt Col Loren C Ainsworth '70

Mr Ted Alexander

Mr & Mrs Keith A Anderics

Col L Dale Autry '71

Capt Thomas M Bailey '86

Mr Matvin J Barry '70

Mr Kimbrough S Bassett

Mr & Mrs T Warren Beagle match of Gilman Paper Company

Capt Robert D Bcckcl, Jr '85

Col Ward D Bcightol '70

Dr & Mrs Walter C Bell

Mr C G Mike Bender, Jr '59 match of UPS Foundation

Mrs Connie Birk, Family and Friends

in memory of Col Frank T Birk’68

Lt Col Edward C Bishop '72

Mr Stephen G Bishop '72

Maj David L Blisk '78

Col Karol J Bobko Ret '59

Lt Col A Kirk Bodary USAR '77

Col II Lee Bodcnhamer Ret '61

Mr & Mrs Errol Q Bond, Sr match of ARCO

Col Henry A Bondaruk, Jr Ret '65

match of Ford Motor Company Fund

Lt Col David M Bowman '72

Lt Col Gregory Boyington Jr Ret '60

Mr John C Braund

Mr & Mrs James B Bronson match of Abbott laboratories Fund

Lt Col James W Brown III Ret '59 match of USAA

Lt Col John S Brush Ret '60

Lt Col Michael B Byers '76

Mr James E Cain, Jr '75

Ms Louise R Carney in memory of William L Pepper '65

Mr James E Chapman '59 match of

The Delta Air Lines Foundation

Mr Michael R Clark '78

Mr Charles W Cole

Lt Col Stanley J Collins '75

Mr & Mrs Donald E Cumming match of The Boeing Company

Mr & Mrs William B Cummins match of First Bank System Foundation

Mr Thomas L Cunningham '67

Lt Col John J Cusick USAFR '70

Mr & Mrs William Delahanty match of Allied Signal Foundation Inc

Dr Nelson D DcStaffany '67

Mr & Mrs Charles F Devlin

Maj Ricardo DiCocco '78

Mr & Mrs Mark A Dobbcls

Maj Ross E Dueber '82

Col Stewart S Duncan Ret '65

Mr Patrick L Edscll '70

Maj Kcylor Eng '80

Lt Col Robert C Estus Ret '66 match UPS Foundation

Mr & Mrs Thomas J Faber match of J A Jones Construction

(Continued on next page.)

Doolittle Hall Construction Continues

Workmen prepare to construct the permanent AOG staff offices on the secondfloor of Doolittle Hall. The staff moved into their new work areas in early February as work continued on the firstfloor of the building.

(Building Fund Donors: Continued from previous page.)

Mr Jerry L Farquhar ’60 match of

The Delta Air Lines Foundation

Mr James II Fleming ’64

Lt Col Gordon R Flygare Ret ’60

match of The Boeing Company

Mr & Mrs Leo Fronczck, Jr

Mr & Mrs Stanley P Gamcro

Dr Ritchie P Gillespie ’70

Ms Inthava L Gilliland

Dr & Mrs Herman L Gilstcr match of The Boeing Company

Mr William R Godfrey '66

Mr Hernando Gomcz-IIcrrera '82

Mr & Mrs Stephen Gonyca

Col Frederick D Gregory '64

Mr & Mrs Ron M Hadley match of Wcstinghousc Foundation

Mr <S Mrs Michael C Hammond match

of Bell Atlantic

Maj G Lawrence Hammond AN'G ’71

Lt Col Richard II Harrington '70

Brig Gen Richard G Head Ret ’60

Mr & Mrs Gary R Henson

Mr James A Herrmann '72 match of Harris Foundation

Col(Rct) & Mrs Robert C Hess

Mr & Mrs Edward V Hinds match of

Donation

Bell Atlantic

Mr John B Holbrook ’79

Col Robert J Hovde '64

Mr & Mrs Marvin L Howard match of ARCO

Lt Col David E Hrncir ’76

Mr John R Ilundcmcr'59

Lt Col Donald L Hutchinson Ret ’62 match of Itcl Foundation

Mr Allan R Irwin '71

Maj Gen Wayne O Jefferson, Jr Ret ’59

Mr Rudy M Jiricck ’80 match of The Delta Air Lines Foundation

Mr & Mrs Lewis G Johnson

Mr & Mrs Tommy I Johnson

Gen Hansford T Johnson Ret ’59 match of USAA

Maj Richard R Johnson Ret ’62

Lt Col Theodore B Johnson Ret ’59 match of Entergy

Mr & Mrs Charles R Jones

Mr & Mrs Harry R Jones

Mr Brian G Kalcy '60

Maj Timothy W Karanovich ’81

Mr David M Kccley '66

Mr & Mrs Lawrence II Kelly

Lt Col Ronald C Kennedy ’77

and Recognition Levels

ts 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]

Col Richard L Klass Ret ’62

Mr Gary M Kopacka ’78 match of

The Delta Air Lines Foundation

Lt Col Leo D Kowatch, Jr ’78

Mr William J Kubida ’71

Mr Louie Lacy '66

Mr Roger J LaFrancc '78

Lt Col Vincent J I-andry, Jr '71

Mr & Mrs Jerry A Larsen

Col Robert II Lightscy Ret '62

Mr Dallas N Little, PhD, PE ’70

Col D B Livingston USAFR Ret '59

Lt Col R K Livingston USAFR (Ret) '71

John S Lockett MD ’70

Mr & Mrs Mike Loe

Col Peter LoPrcsti Ret '64

Capt James E Lovell ’85

Col Robert A Lowe ’71

Mr Robert E Lowe ’59

Lt Col William F Lyle, Jr ANG '66

Mr Edward J Lynch ’59 match of

The Delta Air Lines Foundation

Mr & Mrs Gustavo Malan match of

The Delta Air Lines Foundation

Capt Mary K Manning '85

David N Markcllos MD '71

Maj Raymond M McClintock, Jr Ret ’62

John M McCrillis DMD ’67

Capt Dennis P McDcvitt, Jr '86

MCI Telecommunications Corporation

Mrs Olivia M McKenna match of Martin Marietta

Mr & Mrs William Meier

Mr Anthony L Mcllos '64

Mr Lance J Miller '71

Col Max I Miller, Jr Ret ’59

Col Joseph D Morgan III Ret ’59

Mr Thomas II Morris '64

Maj Steven W Mungle USAFR ’77

match of The Delta Air Lines Foundation

Mr & Mrs Susano Munoz Jr

Col & Mrs Dennis P Murphy

Mr & Mrs Paul A Murphy

Lt Col P L Musmakcr Ret '59

Col James D Mynar Ret '65

Maj Mark W Ncicc '79

Mr Gregory S Nemeth ’79

Mr & Mrs Martin Newcomb

Maj Michael J Nowak ’79

Col Jesse U Overall IV USAFR '65

Capt Mark V Peters ’88

Mr Kevin J Peterson ’76

David A Peterson MD ’72

Mr & Mrs Costablc Pichirilo

Col & Mrs Danny Piper in memory of Lt Ixura A Piper

Dr & Mrs Kenneth II Pitctti

Col James C Poole, Jr Ret ’61

Mr Michael E Quinton ’62

Mr George F Rayl ’70

Maj J Michael Rcamcs USAFR ’76

Col Michael P Reardon USAFR ’59

Mr L Russell Records, Jr ’71

Mr William J Regan, Jr ’67

Maj Mark F Rcidingcr '80

Mr James Rcnschcn ’64

Lt Col John P Rctelle, Jr Ret '67

Lt Col Larry II Ritchard ANG, Ret '70

match of NCR Foundation

Lawrence and Marion Robinson '64

Maj Gen Alan V Rogers Ret ’64

Col Edwin L Rosanc Ret '59 match of USAA

J Nathaniel Sanderson MD FACC ’66

Dr Robert L Sansom ’64

Lt Col Gary L Schcimcr Ret '67

Col John A Schira, Jr Ret '60

Maj Steven R F Searcy ’81

Lt Col William K Shepard Ret ’66

Col(Rct) Thomas R Sheplcr MD '66

Mr Dennis J Shields '71 match of

The Delta Air Lines Foundation

Mr Frederick W Sine ’70 match of UPS Foundation

Capt Jeffrey B Smith ’82

Mr Woodrow D Smith '71 match of Southern California Gas Company

Capt Stephen E Smith ANG ’80

Mr Edward J Stanton '62

Mr & Mrs Alfred O Stcldt

Mr Thomas S Stiles ’72

Mr Harry W Stowers, Jr '76

Col Frederick W Strong III '66

Maj Scott Suhr '81

Lt Col William C Taylor '77

Col William D Telford Ret '59

Mr & Mrs Thuc Thuong Thai

Lt Gen Dale W Thompson '60

Col Laurence J Thomson Ret '59

Lt Col Richard E Tracey Ret '59 match of Hughes

Mr & Mrs Bart Trautwcin

Lt Col Jack R Trimble Ret '70

Lts Mark and Lois True '91

Lt Col Raymond J Tyc ’76

Col Dean F Vikan Ret '60

Col Eugene L Vosika Ret '59

Col Robert K Wagner Ret ’61

Lt Col Thomas H Walsh, Jr Ret ’64

Maj Randall S Wcidenhcimcr ’80

Col & Mrs Craig P Weston ’72

Dr John A Wiles ’64

Mr Charles C Winter ’72

Capt Daniel D & Capt Carolyn E Wolfer ’87

Maj Richard Wolnicwicz Ret ’64

Mr & Mrs Allan Yost

Col Alex D Zimmerman Ret '60

TAKE OFF DONORS

($25-$999)

Maj John L Albert ’78 and Mrs Michelle Cicchini Albert '81

Mr & Mrs Shcmcy H Alexander

Maj John M Amrinc '82

Mr Garth B Anderson '79 match of The Delta Air Lines Foundation

Lt Col David A Anhalt ’75

Mr & Mrs Karl A and Julie R Apfcl ’80

Maj Anthony J Arctz '80

Ms Mary S Arnold

Mr Robert E Badger '60

Lt Col Douglas N Barlow '78

Mr Stephen R Barnes '70

Lt Col Mark R Barnett ’77

Maj Richard J Bartcll USAFR ’79

Maj John R Bartlett Ret '67

Mr & Mrs Gerard Baumgartner

Col Charles W Beattie USAFR '67

Mr & Mrs Leo E Beaulieu

Lt Col James B Bechtel USAFR '70

Lt Col 'Iliomas D Bell ’78

Lt Col Dennis E Bellamy ’77

Col Paul A Belmont Ret ’64

Mr David Berg ’76

Col 'Iliomas J Berry, Jr ’71

Contributions of $1000 or more will be recognized on a permanently displayed plaque in the lobby of the Association of Graduates building. Names from all listed donation levels will be kept in a special leather-bound volume that will also be displayed in the lobby.

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

contact me about my gift

My employer will match my gift with $ [Please enclose Matching Gift Form from your employer]

Thank you for your support of the AOG!

Lt Col Price T Bingham Ret '66

Mr David M Bittenbinder ’64

Mr & Mrs Richard Black

Col Thomas J Black III '69

Mr Thomas B Blaikic III ’76

Mr Peter A Blake ’71

Maj William R Blanchard, Jr ’79

Lt Col Janet C Bloom '80

Col Rodney L Boatright '71

Mr & Mrs Joseph O Bock match of

The Travelers

Lt Col John L Boles, Jr Ret '64

Mr Carl II Bolster '62

Capt Hugh K Bolton ’81

Col Richard W BonncII '70

Mr & Mrs Jon Boustcad

Col Thomas G Bowen Ret '59

Mr & Mrs Harold M Bozman

Lt Col Victor P Bradford ’70

Mr Roger P Bradley '76

Dr Robert I7 Brichta '72

Mr & Mrs Frank Briscoe

Opt Karen L Brown '90

Mr & Mrs Steve Brown

Lt Col Charles L Buckingham '77

Mrs Roger V Buckner, Sr.

Mr & Mrs Allan E Bulris

Col Hathorne A Burnham USAFR '64

Lt Col Kevin P Burns '75

Maj Eric R Bussian '80

Lt Col Gary J Butson Ret '71

Dr Aaron R Bycrley '78

Lt Kevin A Cabanas '91

Col Harry M Calcutt, Jr '72

Mr Michael R Caliguirc '77

Lt Col Steven E Cameron '77

Mr & Mrs Thomas II Campbell match of Harris Foundation

Col George E Cannon, Jr Ret '66

Lt Felix R Caraballo '91

Capt Carl C Carhuff '87

Maj Margaret D Carnahan '80

Col Adclbcrt W Carpenter '67

Col James T Carpenter Ret '59

Mr & Mrs William J Carroll

Mr & Mrs Leo F Carrow, Jr match

of Sprint Foundation

Mr Lee R Carson '81

Mr Michael A Carter '78

Mr John F Casey, Jr '77

Lt Col Jerry L Caskey Ret '60

Mr Ronald Cassano '71

Maj Barry J Castellano ANG '78

Capt Eric W Chandler '89

Capt Gary D Chcslcy '85

Mr Rory II Childress '76

Dr William R Clark '75

Maj Thomas R Clay '79

Mr Luke E Closson, Jr '66

Mr J Mitchell Cobcaga '64

Mr Carlos J Cochrane III '61

Lt Col James G Codling Ret '65

Maj Donald M Cohick '79

Mr James A Colgate '70

Mr Greg D Collier '75

Mr Bruce R Conard '78

Capt 'Dtomas W Connelly ’85

Lt Col Lcland W C Conner Ret ’64

Mr Gerald F Comctct ’62

Lt Col Richard W Corzinc, Jr ’77

Mr Richard B Cramer ’87

Lt Col Bruce E Crimin Ret ’71

Mr Galen J Croxton ’81

Maj Chris Cuellar and Mrs Peggy Cuellar ’80

Maj Brian J Cullis ’80

Mr & Mrs Furman Cummings

Mr & Mrs Andre Dacosta

Mr Mark S Daly ’77

Mr & Mrs Gopcndra N Dash

Lt Col Richard Davila, Jr ’76

Lt Col Joseph R Davis Ret ’66

Lt Col David W DcFoliart ’75

Lt Col Michael E Dehart ’75

Anonymous ’86

Lt Col Richard T Dcvcrcaux ’78

Mr William T Dcwalt ’71

Mr & Mrs Bruce DeYoung

Capt Ian R Dickinson ’85

Maj Vincent P Difronzo ’80

Lt Col Randall C Dill Ret ’70

Ms Josephine P Dixon

Mr & Mrs James Doanc

Maj Michael G Donatclli ANG ’79

Mr & Mrs Edward J Dougherty

Mr Thomas L Dour ’71

Lt Col Lloyd F Duncan Ret ’67 match of The Delta Air Lines Foundation

Mr & Mrs Jerry R Dunn

Mr Patrick W Durick ’64

Lt Col Harry V Dutchyshyn, Jr ’76

Mr David J Easier ’82

Mr Steven Eickclman ’75 match of Metropolitan Life

Lt Col & Mrs John A Eidsmoc

Maj Gregory D Elder ’79

Capt William A Ellis ’86

Mr J R Ellsworth ’62

Lt Col Gerald F Elsbcrnd Ret ’59

Mr & Mrs David L Emslic

Maj John L Eunice III ’81

Mr & Mrs Curtis Evert

Capt Roberta M Ewart ’82

Maj David Fadok and Maj Faith II

Fadok USAFR ’82

Mr D Keith Farmer ’76

Mr & Mrs Donald B Fcrfolia

Lt Col Charles J Ferrari Ret ’59

Mr L Stephen Fikar ’78

Mr Mark L Finlayson ’72

Lt Col John L Fite, Jr Ret ’67

Lt Col Garrison II Flemings ’76

Capt Terrence F Flower Ret ’64

Mr & Mrs John J Fogarty

Mr Wayne A Ford *78 match of The Delta Air Lines Foundation

Ms Gail Forte

Maj Ronald P Furstcnau ’78

Mrs Tcrric M Galanti ’86

Col Jon A Gallo Ret ’59

Lt Col Gary P Ganong ’64

Mr Felix Garcia, Jr ’77 match of The Delta Air Lines Foundation

Lt Col Mario A Garza ’77

Mr Robert C Gaylord ’79

Mr & Mrs I jwrcncc M Gcraghty

Ms Karen A Gibbins

Mr Michael F Gibbons ’63

Lt Col Markc F Gibson ’78

Lt Col George C Gibson Ret ’67 match of GTE

Lt Col Michael N Giles USAFR ’67 match of GTE

Col Gregory L Gilles ’70

Mr & Mrs Robert A Goddard

Lt Col James J Gonzales USAFR ’69

Mr Manuel Gonzalez

Mr & Mrs Lawrence D Gordon

Lt Col William J Gorman, Jr ’70

Mr II Clifton Gornto III

Maj Lance C Grace ’75

Mr James I I Grady, Jr ’79 match of

The Delta Air Lines Foundation

Mr & Mrs Jose II Granado

Mr & Mrs Richard L Gray

Maj Steve G Green ’80

Col Gaylord B Green Ret ’64

Lt Col Kenneth L Greene ’70

Maj Karl J Grccnhill ’80

Lt Col William George Gregory ’79

Mr Edward R Grcningcr

Mr Paul R Grimes ’71

Col John B Gross Ret ’65

Mr George A Gutierrez ’76

Mr & Mrs Johann G Hack match of Pfizer

Maj Douglas S Hager ’80

Capt Gary D Haines ’90

Lt Col Donald D Hall ’76

Mr & Mrs Robert D Hall

Col Donald J Hallager Ret ’62

Lt Phillip T Hamilton ’91

Mr John Hammer *79

Maj Kevin Hammond USAFR ’78

Capt Daniel B Hancock ’87

Col Vernon Handel Ret ’64

Lt Col Charles Handley Ret ’64

Capt James J Harkins, Jr ’82

Mr & Mrs Eugene W Harris, III

match of The Delta Air Lines Foundation

Maj Gary L Hart ’82

Mr & Mrs L Christian Hauck

Mr Jon J Ilcdblom ’80 match of Texas Instruments

Mr Steven D Heinz ’76

Mr & Mrs Roy L Hcllingcr

Mr John F Hcmbrough ’71

Mr & Mrs Robert L I lemmings

Mr & Mrs William C Ilcplcr

Mr Thomas C Hcpncr ’67

Capt Carmclo A Hernandez ’85

Mr Timothy K Hcublcin ’70

Col John N Higgins ’71

Capts James A and Yvette P Hird ’85

Maj Russell D Hodgkins Jr ’80

Lt Col William T Hodson III Ret ’60

Mr & Mrs Forrest E Hoganson

Mrs Verna Holman

Lt Col Ransom S Holmes III ’59

Ms Elizabeth D House match of UPS Foundation

Col Thomas D House, Jr Ret ’59

Lt Col John R Howard Ret ’65

Mr II Mike Huber ’70

Mr Kenneth A Hudacsko ’70

Maj Byron E Huddleston ANG ’75 match of The Delta Air Lines Foundation

Maj Bret A Hyde ’81

Roy A Jared MD ’67

Lt Col Anthony R Johnson ’76

Maj James M Johnson ’78

Mr Paul R Johnson ’70

Majs Daryl P and Martha StevensonJones ’82

Mr Ronald E Joy ’71 match of Honeywell Foundation

Lt Col Iawrence J Karnowski Ret ’61

Dr David A Katchcrian ’71

Mr Karl F Kcllcrman III ’61

Col Ronald T Kelly ’70

Mr James R Kennedy ’80

Maj Andre J Kevork ANG ’78 match of Martin Marietta

Maj I.arry T Kimm ’82

Mr & Mrs Kenneth T King

Capt Deborah A Mullen Kirkhuff ’82

Mr & Mrs James Klichc

Lt Col Peter L Kncpcll Ret ’67

Maj Thomas R Koglcr ’78

Maj Kenneth M Konicki ’80

Mr & Mrs Gerald W Kromcr

Mr Keith A Kudla ’86

Capt Jeffrey S Kumro ’87

Mr & Mrs Kucn II Kuo

Mr & Mrs James Laatsch

Col Mark Lacailladc ’70

Mr Chester R Ladd ’71

Lt Col Gerald W Lands USAFR ’70

Capt Kenneth M Lang ’89

Maj Frederick A Lankford ANG ’79

match of The Delta Air Lines Foundation

Mr William E 1-anning ’76 match of B I 7 Goodrich

Lt Col Jeffrey A Larsen *76

Mr & Mrs Michael Laughrcy

Mr Brian J Lcshko ’85

Mr George T Lester ’60

Maj Mark A Lcuthold ’79

Mr Si Mrs Gregory A I-cwis

Mrs William M Licbcnow

Lt Col Blake F Lindner ’78

Capt Troy N Liput ’90

Maj Peter R Livingston ’82

Lt Col Paul D Lohmcycr ’72

Mr Frank A Lucci ’85

Mr Keith Luchlel ’64

Lt Col John W Lundbcrg

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Mr Charles D Mason II ’81 match

Maj John A Mason, Jr MD ’81

Ms Barbara Matocha

Maj Ronald E Mattson ’82

Lt Col John D Maybcc Ret ’66

Mr & Mrs Gerry McCallum match of Springs Industries Inc

Maj Thomas A McCarthy ’79

Col James L McClcskcy Ret ’61

Mr & Mrs John P McCoy

Maj Linda K McCullcrs ’81

Mr Robert N McGrath ’77

LtCol(Rct) & Mrs Thomas McGrath

Lt Col Eugene D McHugh Ret ’62

Maj Mcrrcll S Mcllwain II USAFR ’72

Mr Kenneth E McKay, Jr ’79

Col J Wayne McKenncy Ret ’64

Lt Col Robert L McKinney ’70

Mr James C McMonigal ’59

Mr James J McWecncy ’88

Mr Edward Mcchcnbicr ’64

Ms Karen Mendez

Col Daniel E Mcrcicr ’72

Mr & Mrs Lewis Mcssick

Lt Col R J Mcstcmaker II USAFR '66 match of Martin Marietta

Maj Randell S Meyer ’79

Mr Francis P Michaud ’70 match of Hewlett Packard

Maj John J Michels, Jr USAFR ’77

Mr Daniel Miller

Mr Neil A Miller ’71

Maj Dean S Mills ’82

Mr William L Mino ’71

Lt Col Frank E Mitchell, Jr ’70 match of GDE Systems Inc

Lt Col John H Mol ’77

Mr & Mrs Courtney J Moore

Capt Scott A Moore ’85

Lt Col Roy E Moore Ret '64

Mr Gary C Moring '71

Capt David F Morrissey '90

Maj Joseph W Moschlcr, Jr '80

Lt Col Duff A Muir '77

Mr Raleigh Myhrcn ’64

Maj 'Dtomas A Neal II MD ’80

Lt Col Bruce M Nelson ’76

Col Sidney II Newcomb Ret ’60

Lt Col Kenneth P Ilascnbcin ’77

Maj David C Nielsen USAFR ’77

match of The Delta Air Lines Foundation

Mr Robert L Nicman ’70

Mr Edmond J Nogar ’60

Lt Col Michael P Nolan Ret ’65

Capt Bradford N Norris ’90

Mr Larry L Nowicki ’71

Mr & Mrs James Nudi

Maj Eugene K O’Nalc ’81

Maj Keith J and Mrs Kathleen L Odcgard ’80

Lt Col Gary S Olin Ret ’64 match of Rockwell

Mr & Mrs Kenneth F Osborne

Mr Philip M Pacini ’72

Lt Col David Palcnchar ’70 match of El Pomar Foundation

Mr Donald L Palky ’64

Dr Michael S Paranka ’81

(.'apt Jeffrey D Parker ’88

Lt Col Brian T Parker Ret ’59

Mr & Mrs Philip D Parks

Dr T W Parsons III ’82

Maj John F Paterson ’78

Mr Bruce R Pcdcy ’81

Lt Col Edward T Pegg Ret ’64

Maj Arthur J Pena ’78

Maj Mark R Pcrusse ’80

Mr John O Pickitt ’79 match of The Delta Air Lines Foundation

Mr & Mrs Kurt Picl

Lt Col Paul E Pirog ’77

Capt Paul E Pokorny III ’88

Lt Col & Mrs Kenneth W Pompa

Mr Eugene Pottcngcr ’64

Maj Stephen Preteska, Jr ’80

Mr Steve Quan ’77

Mr Shawn G W Raintrcc ’70

Col Norman F Rathjc ’66

Capt Ronald R Ration ’85

Col Addison C Rawlins III Ret ’64

Mr Christopher Rcamy ’76

Capt William A Reese ’89

Maj Donald L Rcichman ’80

Mr Albert E Revillc, Jr ’80

Mr Russell J Rhcw ’77

(Continued on next page.)

Stairway in Suspension

One of the two stairways which leads from the AOG office area on the second floor to the main level of the building is being hoisted into position earlier this year. The stairs were prefabricated and welded together in their final position. Work continues on the outside patio area and theformer staff office space.

Sabre Society Begins Membership Drive

By Jim Shaw, ’67 Vice President, Development

January marked the beginning of the initial membership drive for the Sabre Society. The society has been created to bring together and recognize some of the Academy’s most dedicated and loyal supporters. Individuals committing to join the society until Dec. 31, 1995 will be identified as charter members of the organization.

We are excited about the society and gratified by the interest we have already received. Since the society was first announced, and even before our membership drive formally begins, two individuals have signed up as life members, one as an annual benefactor and 22 as annual members. Several parents from the Class of ’98 will also qualify due to the level of pledges they have made, and several graduates and friends have requested membership packets.

The first two charter members of the Sabre Society’s Leadership Circle are Greg Kolligian and Harry Pearce. Greg, a former U.S. Marine aviator and long-time friend of the Air Force and Academy, owns BrandEquity, a design firm in Lexington, Mass. Greg’s firm donated all the design work for our Sabre Society literature including the Society logo. Harry Pearce, a ’64 graduate of USAFA, is the executive vice president of the General Motors Corporation and has graciously agreed to act as chairman of the Society.

Our first three annual charter members are Jim, ’59, and Rose

(AFA Fund Donors: From previous page.)

Capl Douglas B Rider '85

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I.t Scott B Ryan '91

Mr Wayne D Rydberg match of Aid Association for Lutherans

Lt Col William T Sakahara Ret '64

Lt Col John A Salvador '79

Capt Edward A Sauley III '88

Maj Daniel G Savillc '80

Maj Yvqnnc E Schilz '81

Capl Bruce G Schinclli '82

Mr Paul M Schlichtcr '67

Mr Bradly R Schmidt '79

Mr John C Scholtz III '80

Mr & Mrs Gerald E Scholz match of UPS Foundation

Capt Paul F Schuncmann L'SAFR '72

Maj Mark C Schwing USAFR '76

Col Dennis R Sec Ret '59

Col James S Sccvcrs '68

Mr & Mrs Dwayne II Scnn

Lt Douglas and Lt Elaine Scrsun '91

Mr John R Scufcrl ’80 match of 'Die Delta Air Lines Foundation

Lt Col Donald P Sewell ’78

Mr Stephen G Shababian ’81

Mr Jonathan S Shafer ’59

Lt Col Duncan M Shields ’76

Mr & Mrs Joseph Shown

Col Loren J Shriver ’67

Mr Louis II Simkins ’71

Capt Christopher S Simpson ’87

Maj Michael J Sinisi ’82

Capt Paul Skowronck ’85

Lt Col James W Smail ’72

Maj Gen D Bruce Smith ’64

Maj David R Smith ’81

Mr Jimmie L Smith ’59

Mr Paul L Smith ’80

Mr & Mrs Timothy M Smith

Col Harvey M Smith Ret ’66

Maj Gerald E Sohan ’82

Lt Col Robert R Soucy II ’77

Col John C Sowers ’64

LtCol(Rct) & Mrs Jarrell R Spears

Capt Curtis L Stauffer ’90

LtCol(Ret) & Mrs Paul R & Sheila T

Brown; Hugh Williamson, ’64; and Len, ’65, and Valerie Kruczynski. Mike Chipman, ’69, has joined at the benefactor level. Other new annual members include: Robert Arnett, ’76; Jon Beachkofski; Cass Casada, ’71; William Caskey, ’75; Samuel, ’71, and L.V. Clovis; J., ’68, and Lynn Ferron; Michael, ’68, and Kathy Fitzgerald; James Glaza, ’60; Robert Grindle; Bob Johnson, ’68; Grace Kelly; John Kelly, ’65; Lee, ’72, and Joneen Krauth; James and Sarah Maxwell; William Maywhort, ’68; Ed Montgomery, ’59; David, ’72, and Du Ann Peterson; Alan, ’68, and Marlee Price; and Steve and Loan Wolfe.

Membership in the Society is offered to individual friends and supporters who are willing to make an annual unrestricted donation of $1,000 or more to support programs which will keep the Academy and the AOG at the leading edge of excellence. Other annual categories are available at the Patron ($2,500) and Benefactor ($5,000) levels. Individuals willing to make a contribution of $50,000 or more will become lifetime members of the Sabre Society and will enter the Society’s Leadership Circle.

If you’d like information on the Society or would like to nominate another individual, please contact Jim Shaw or Kathy McCann at the AOG, (719) 472-0300.

Stephen

Lt Col Paul R Stephen Ret ’61

Mr Lorrcn Stiles, Jr ’71

Lt Col Douglas A Stoll USAFR ’71

Col Willard N Stooke, Jr ’71

Capt Jack F Stuart II ’85 and Capt

Patricia M Stuart ’87

Capt James G Sturgeon ’89

Col Mark L Sucher ’71

Lt Col Keith K Swcatland Ret ’67

match of Hughes Aircraft

Mr Thomas J Talbot ’79

Col Morris A Tanner, Jr ’66

Capt Andrew A Davidson Taylor ’87

Capt Timothy S Taylor ’88

Mr & Mrs Michael C Thcrrcll

Maj Michael A Thomas ’79

Mr Robert J Thomas

Greg Kolligian, thefirst charter member ofthe Sabre Society, is presented his crystal desk piece by AOG President Jim Ulm, at right. At left is John Kelly Jr., ’65, AOG board member and the originator of the Sabre Society idea.

Current Estate Plans and Wills A Must for Everyone

By Brad Gann, ’83

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis has been lauded by financial experts for her thorough estate plan and will. Her preparations benefited her heirs immensely. You don’t have to be rich, however, to benefit from estate planning. Anyone who doesn’t plan ahead, no matter what size estate is involved, will leave a substantial amount of money to the IRS rather than to family.

Despite the inevitability of death and taxes, too few people take the time to go through the estate-planning process. Women, especially, are lacking in this area. According to a study by the National Center for Women & Retirement Research, women devote relatively litle attention to retirement planning. Although 78 percent make retirement plans, one-third have never determined how much money they will need to finance their retirement and two-thirds have never consulted with an investment professional.

“The main reason you go to the trouble to do estate planning is to disinherit the IRS, says Lisa Berger, in her book, Feathering Your Nest. “You want to make sure your heirs get as much of the reward as possible, and that Uncle Sam gets as little as possible.’’ Without an estate plan, your family may be left with more financial and legal difficulties than money. Federal estate taxes, state death taxes, administrative expenses and probate costs can reduce the value of your estate by half, she says.

A comprehensive estate plan should do more than just minimize taxes and distribute assets, however; it should be part of a complete financial plan that can help you meet your short-term and long-term financial objectives. Having an estate plan also can help you prepare more thoroughly for your retirement years. By going through the planning process, you can better determine how much money you’ll need to live comfortably, and how much you can afford to give to your family.

Although the task can be tedious and downright uncomfort-

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able, the earlier you start the estate planning process, the better. For starters, you need to know the value of your estate. A certain amount of money can be transferred without paying taxes, similar to the way you don’t have to file income tax returns if you don’t make more than a certain amount of money.

Don’t make the all-too-common mistake of assuming, though, that your assets have little value. By the time many families add up the value of qualified retirement plan benefits, real estate, personal property, life insurance, savings and other assets, their estates exceed the amount exempt from tax. Unfortunately, the tax bite can be huge: rates range from 37 to 55 percent. This means that good planning is critical, and a well-written will is an important part of a plan, no matter the size of your estate.

A will is the only way to make sure that whatever you leave behind goes to whom you designate; without a will, your estate could be eaten up by taxes. Legal experts say that it’s best to have your will drafted by a lawyer and updated at least every two or three years; estate tax laws and your wishes may change.

The key, however, is to take the initiative and start planning your estate now. Put together a team of experts—at the very least consult with a tax accountant, a financial advisor and an attorney—to ensure that you, rather than the government, have the final say about the distribution of your assets.

(Editor’s note: One ofthe best ways to expressyour supportfor the Air Force Academy and to contribute to the long-term success of the AOG is to include a bequest to the AOG in your will. Please contact us if we can provideyou withfurther information.)

AOG Board Revises Bylaws

Following the biennial review of the bylaws of the Association of Graduates (AOG), the AOG Board of Directors, at its meeting on Nov. 11, 1994, voted to make two changes to the bylaws. Effective with the upcoming election, the board of directors will begin downsizing to an eventual strength of 24 elected directors plus one graduating class director. This compares to a current composition of 30 and one, respectively.

In reaching its decision, the board addressed its belief that the smaller number will provide economies and efficiencies and, more importantly, obligate future directors to an accountability, commitment and passion mandated by simply fewer people being responsible for the successes and failures of the association.

Following the 1995 election, from which 12 directors will be chosen, 28 directors will be in place through June 30, 1997. An additional 12 directors will be chosen in the 1997 election, and board membership will stabilize thereafter at 25.

In addition to the above membership change, the board revised the bylaws to change the titles of two members of the elected and staff leadership. The current President and Chairman of the Board will henceforth bear the title Chairman of the Board. This elected leader of the association will continue to be chosen every two years from, and by a vote of, the board of directors.

The title of the chief staff executive, formerly known as the Executive Vice President, has now become President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO). This individual will continue to he hired by and serve at the pleasure of the board.

The board made the changes in the two position titles because it believes the new titles and accompanying functions are more familiar to the many corporations with whom the association interfaces. Further, the titles foster a clearer understanding of the policy-making role of the board and operational role of the staff and match the corporate structure of the association with those at the alumni and graduate organizations of the other service academies. Those filling the two positions continue to be corporate officers.

The bylaws of the association are reviewed every two years by a committee of the board of directors.

GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN

Glen A. Rowell, Class of 1963, died of cancer at his home after a long battle with the illness. Glen was born in Haverhill, Mass, on Sept. 19, 1941. He attended St. Paul’s school, a well-known private school in Concord, N.H. Following graduation he accepted a nomination by Congressman Tip O’Neil to the Air Force Academy.

Glen was an outstanding cadet at the Academy. He received the Goddard Award and the Green Award in mathematics and mechanics, respectively. Glen graduated from the Academy in 1963, third in his class academically and 14th overall. He attended Princeton University as a National Science Foundation graduate fellow and received his master’s degree with distinction in aeronautical engineering in 1965. He then returned to his duties as an Air Force officer. He attended flight navigation school, graduated first in his class, and was invited to become an instructor at the school.

Glen was cited numerous times in his officer reports as an outstanding teacher, a characteristic that was to follow him the remainder of his life. He separated from the Air Force in 1971 to complete his goal of obtaining a PhD in solid mechanics. He attended the University of Denver from 1971-1975, at which time he received his Doctor of Philosophy in solid mechanics. The United States Bureau of Mines was fortunate to acquire his services in 1976. He remained an active employee until his death on Sept. 7, 1994.

In 1963, Glen met the woman who was to become his wife while a graduate student at Princeton. They were married on July 10, 1965. They have four children: Tim, Cindy, Nancy and Margaret. They also have one grandchild, Gregory Allan, born in 1989 to Tim and his wife, Kirsten.

The chronography tells little of the quality of the man Glen Rowell was. The motto of the United States academies is often associated with “Duty”, “Honor”, “Country”. Glen’s character included this motto into the very fiber of his being. Glen was a superb laboratory researcher. During his time with the bureau, Glen was deeply involved with the physics of fracture and he made significant contributions to this very difficult and complex problem. Glen was a careful and thoughtful scientist. He was also a remarkable and patient teacher to those who worked with him.

Glen leaves behind a legacy of excellence and bravery. His loving wife, Pam, defined for me and others the meaning of the words “loyalty”, “love”, and “commitment”. His four children reflect so favorably on the quality of the man he was. Glen was indeed a blessed and lucky man and this world is a better place because of his life.

Glen suffered mightily the last several years of his life;

Douglas J. Strauss, ’73

however, he died as he lived, with dignity. I am honored to have had him as a friend and classmate. (Jerry McClellan, ’63, 22nd Squadron)

(Editor’s note: A memorialfund has been established in Glen’s name. Donations may be made to the AOG Combined Agency/ Restricted Fund [write “Glen Rowell” on the lower left memo line], Association of Graduates, 3116 Academy Drive, Suite 100, U.S. Air Force Academy, Colo. 80840-4475.)

Douglas J. Strauss, ’73

A Tribute To My Brother

My brother and I were not close in age—we were 12 years apart—and there were just the two of us. Our parents moved to El Segundo, Calif, in 1936, where dad was one of the first 100 employees at North American Aviation. When I was about 11 years old, mom went to work at Douglas Aircraft. Dougie was born a short time later.

We weren’t really close in our growing-up years either. I remember having to babysit my brother when I was a teenager. There was a lot of teasing. I went on to marry at age 20 and start my own family and life. Doug grew up playing Little League and doing all those little-boy things. He was one of the few kids in his high school class that started in kindergarten and graduated from El Segundo schools. He was good in athletics and very smart, so he went to the Air Force Academy and became a captain in the Air Force.

Whenever I went back home, I would be amazed that this handsome, six-foot five-inch man was my brother.

Doug married an Austin, Texas girl named Marceen Pedro, who came from an Air Force family. They were stationed in the Philippines when our mom died in 1977, and Doug flew home for the funeral. Two days later, he told me that he had multiple sclerosis.

Doug and “Sam”, (he called her), moved to Palm Springs, where they adjusted their lives around his handicap. He started an energy consulting business in their home, where he worked until he could no longer sit up in his wheelchair and had to be confined to his bed.

By that time, everything had to be done for him: feeding, bathing, dressing. Through it all, his personality and indomitable spirit of life reflected in his smile and in his eyes. Soon he couldn’t talk—but he could still smile and blink his eyes to communicate.

Then, three years ago, his beloved wife “Sam” was killed instantly in a fiery private plane crash at a local airport. Doug, by then, needed 24-hour nursing care.

Glen A. Rowell, ’63

Ronald B. Truesdale, ’85

He passed away two weeks before his 42nd birthday on Oct. 7, 1993.

I couldn’t help my brother while he was alive, but my husband Tom and I wanted to honor that tremendous spirit. We have donated $20,000 to help build a new computer laboratory at Palm Springs High School. It will be named the Douglas John Strauss room.

We hope that someday, some young person may feel that same wonderful joy of life that my brother felt; and overcome every obstacle to live the best life possible, just like he did. (Jackie Suitt)

Ronald B. Truesdale, ’85

On Sept. 17, 1994, Captain Ronald B. “Arby” Truesdale was killed while flying his A-10 in an Air Warrior Exercise at Fort Irwin, Calif. We all lost a great friend on that sad day, and the U.S. Air Force lost an outstanding officer and fighter pilot.

Ron was born in Denver, Colo, but soon moved to Texarkana, Texas, with his family. He graduated in 1981 from Texas High School in Texarkana. Growing up, Ron became an expert skier while visiting family and vacationing in Colorado and could make the toughest “black diamond” ski runs on any slope look like a beginner’s run.

Ron entered the Air Force Academy in June of 1981 with the intention of becoming an Air Force pilot. He graduated four years later in 1985 and entered pilot training at Vance AFB with class 86-07. Ron excelled in UPT and received an A-10 to Myrtle Beach AFB in July 1986 as his first assignment. After flying the “Hog” for three years, he became a T-38 instructor at Reese AFB in 1990. From there, Ron moved back to the A-10 at DavisMonthan AFB where he became an instructor pilot in the “Hog.”

Ron accumulated more than 2,200 flying hours during his

Former Superintendent’s Widow Succumbs to Lengthy Illness

Myra McCarthy Stone, widow of the Academy’s third superintendent, Gen. William S. Stone, died on Jan. 23, 1995 at her Colorado Springs home after a lengthy illness. A memorial fund in her memory has been established with the Association of Graduates. Donations may be sent to the Myra M. Stone Memorial Fund, Association of Graduates, 3116 Academy Drive, Suite 100, U.S. Air Force Academy, Colo. 80840-4475.

Mrs. Stone was born in Manhatten, N.Y. to William and Alice Victoria Bell McCarthy. She was married in Pasadena, Calif, to General Stone who preceded her in death in 1968. General and Mrs. Stone resided in Colorado Springs from 1959 to 1962 while he was superintendent of the Academy.

She is survived by a daughter, Susan Woodward, and a son, William, both of Colorado Springs; and three grandchildren. A grandchild preceded her in death. Mrs. Stone was also a member of The Broadmoor Golf Club and a former member of the Cheyenne Mountain Country Club.

Jon A. Rupp, ’88

career and earned the respect of every pilot who flew with him. His skills were second to none. He received many flying awards for his abilities including “Top Graduate” from his Pilot Instructor Training (PIT) course in the T-38 and several squadron and wing Top Gun awards while flying the A-10.

Ron was an “All American” boy liked by everyone. His friendly personality and never-ending smile positively affected everyone he met. His smiling face and positive attitude were contagious, and he could bring out a bright spot from the darkest situation. He was one of the most likeable guys many of us may ever know.

Although Ron loved flying, his family always came first. He leaves behind his high school sweetheart and wife, Jana, and three beautiful kids: Alex, Katie and Sarah. He is also survived by his parents, Earl and Joanne Truesdale; a brother, Michael; and a sister, Jennifer.

Ron’s life was short, but he touched many along the way. He set the example both on and off duty and was the perfect role model. A devoted family man, a professional officer and an outstanding fighter pilot, Captain Ron Truesdale will be sadly missed. (Joe Sepessy, ’85)

Jon A. Rupp, ’88

Captain Jon Andrew Rupp collapsed while running on Aug. 29, 1994 and died Sept. 2, in Bossier City, La. He was 28 years old.

Jon was born on April 27, 1966 in Hannibal, Mo. and lived there until he graduated as valedictorian from Hannibal High School in 1984. He received an appointment to the U.S. Air Force Academy and graduated with high honors in 1988. Jon was the top military history major in his class and received the MacArthur Scholarship for graduate studies. He chose to further his education and graduated with honors from the University of Maryland in 1990. Jon’s outstanding scholastic achievements are indicative of the excellence that he strove for in every aspect of his life.

In June of 1991, Jon realized a lifetime ambition when he graduated from Undergraduate Pilot Training at Laughlin Air Force Base, Texas. Although Jon had a true love of flying, he was first and foremost an officer with a deep desire to serve God and his country. His professional knowledge, loyalty, and hard work quickly earned him the respect of his supervisors, peers, and friends. At the time of his death, he was proudly serving as a B-l pilot with the 34th Bomber Squadron, 366th Wing, Ellsworth Air Force Base, S.D.

Jon made the most of the time he was given, and he touched the lives of many. He knew that life was precious and never wasted a single second. He had a refreshingly positive outlook on life, he knew the real meaning of friendship, and he truly cared about the lives of those around him. I know that I speak for all who knew him when I say that his friendship was a true gift.

Jon is survived by his father and stepmother, Thomas and Rosemary Rupp of Hannibal Mo.; his mother and stepfather,

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Academy Burial Policies/Procedures Outlined

The Association of Graduates receives queries from time to time concerning burial policy at the Academy as it affects graduates, cadets and others. The point of contact for official advise on this subject is the Mortuary Affarirs Office at the Academy. USAFA Regulation 143-1 spells out the requirements in detail. This article will attempt to condense the regulation and outline answers to some of the most-frequently-asked questions. Please note this is not an official policy statement.

The Mortuary Affairs Office is available to answer any questions regarding funeral arrangements in relation to preparation of a last will and testament. Any funeral conducted on the Air Force Academy grounds will be arranged by the Mortuary Affairs Office. Examples of services provided are arranging chapel service; opening and closing of grave; burial vault, bronze marker; full military honors for those eligible; arranging for a reception following funeral service; and lodging accommodations if available. For further information, contact Janet Edwards at (719) 472-3323.

Eligibility for interment of remains in the Academy Cemetery encompass numerous categories. All authorized military personnel must have been discharged under honorable conditions.

Graduates of the Air Force Academy, their spouses, unremarried widow or widower, and dependent unmarried children under age 23 are generally eligible. Dependents over 23 may be eligible under certain conditions. Any subsequent service of the graduate in the Uniformed Services of the United States must have been under honorable conditions and no graduate will be denied interment without the approval of the superintendent. Persons eligible, who die prior to the death of the graduate, may be interred only if the graduate sponsor signs an agreement indicating an intention to be interred in the cemetery upon his or her death.

Among other eligibility categories for Academy Cemetery burial are cadets, Air Force personnel assigned to the Academy between July 11, 1955 and Sept. 10, 1957; and Air Force crosscommissioned officer graduates of West Point or Annapolis who have retired with 20 years of uniformed service. Former superintendents, vice superintendents, commandants, deans, chiefs of staff, appointed directors of Admissions, directors of Athletics, permanent professors, tenured faculty officers, sequential-tour staff officers, (formerly continuous-tour staff officers), preparatory school commanders, and Air Base Wing commanders are also eligible, as are senior enlisted advisors. Also eligible are Academy Board of Visitors members with prior distinguished military service.

Air Force military personnel assigned to the Academy or to tenant units at the Academy at the time of death are also eligible. This does not include non-Academy personnel who are assigned on PCS orders to the Academy Patient Squadron Section of the Academy Hospital. All active and retired Air Force generals and

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Jon A. Rupp, ’88

Charlene and David Efird of Matthews, N.C.; his brother Ted Rupp of Hannibal, Mo.; and many friends. He was preceded in death by his brother, Jeffrey Rupp.

Memorials may be made to the Jon Rupp Memorial Scholarship Fund in care of Hannibal High School, Hannibal, Mo.; or the Captain Jon Rupp Memorial Fund in care of the Association of Graduates Office, 3116 Academy Drive, Suite 100, U.S. Air Force Academy, Colo. 80840-4475.

Jon was buried with full military honors at the Air Force Academy Cemetery following a Catholic Mass. During the memorial service, a collection of poems and biblical verses was passed out to friends and family. The inclusion of Timothy 4:7 seemed especially appropriate:

I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, l have kept the faith.

We love you Jon, and we’ll miss you. (Scott Chapman)

lieutenant generals are also eligible.

For those eligible, grave reservations will not be assigned before an actual interment requirement. When the need arises, written or oral application should be made by the next of kin to Mortuary Affairs, 10th Services/SVXM, 5136 Eagle Drive, Suite P106, U.S. Air Force Academy, Colo. 80840-2618. Only one gravesite will be used for the interment of persons involved in the spouse or parent-child relationship. However, when an infant child is interred in the child section, the sponsor is still entitled to a site in the adult section.

The decision on whether to inter an individual in the children’s or adult section will be based on whether the casket selected fits the gravesite and vault in the children’s section. Also, the family may decide if they want the individual interred in the children’s section or in a family plot in the adult section. The memorial section of the cemetery is restricted to memorial markers for generally all eligible individuals whose remains are nonrecoverable, not identified, cremated and scattered, buried at sea, or donated to medical science.

Funerals are normally scheduled Monday through Friday, between 9 a.m. and 2 p.m. Funerals are not normally held on legal holidays or weekends due to logistical requirements. All funeral flyovers will be conducted in accordance with Academy Instruction 11-209, Command Coordination and Control of Aerial Events. The normal flight path for funeral flyovers is south to north.

Disinterments are permitted only when the next of kin furnishes valid reasons in writing or when the disinterment is directed by a court order. Disinterment from one cemetery section to another is not permitted. Any expenses related to a disinterment must be borne by the legal next of kin or estate as applicable.

Interment services are normally conducted by chaplains assigned to the Academy. Services will be in accordance with the ecclesiastical discipline to which these chaplains are bound by their respective churches. Civilian clergy may assist in conducting services upon the request of the next of kin or upon invitation by the Academy senior staff chaplain.

A flat bronze marker will be furnished and installed without cost to the family for each interment. This will be the only authorized grave marker or monument. Markers will be installed level with the ground. The Mortuary Affairs Office is responsible for the procurement of grave markers through the Veteran’s Administration. Markers will be limited to standard inscriptions. Concrete grave vaults, procured and furnished at government expense, will be installed at each interment.

The disposal of cremated remains on the Academy grounds will be limited to those eligible for Academy Cemetery burial. Requests should be forwarded to the Mortuary Affairs Office which

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At press time we had learned of the deaths of the following graduates:

John R. Hayes, Jr., Class of 1959, who died on Jan. 3, 1995, of leukemia in St. Louis, Mo.

Robert J. Abraham, Class of 1981, who died on Dec. 19, 1994, in a plane crash at Las Vegas, Nev.

Paul G. Ossowski, Class of 1983, who is believed to have died from injuries received in a private plane crash on June 19, 1994, between Vancouver Island and Bellingham, Wash. His remains had not yet been found at press time.

Capt. Mark P. McCarthy, Class of 1985, who died in the crash of an F-16 aircraft into the Adriatic Sea on Jan. 26, 1995.

Capt. Edward J. Karlson, Class of 1990, who died in a helicopter crash on Oct. 24, 1994, in Korea.

Our condolences to the families and friends of these graduates.

Cadets Help Restore, Repair Houses

By C1C Bryan A. Blind Cadet Squadron 4

The holiday season always seems to creep up without warning, often leaving people with little time to finish what they had originally planned.

For cadets, this time of year is no less stressful. Recently, though, some members of the cadet wing made time to help out underprivileged residents of Colorado Springs. On Nov. 19, three of the first group squadron commanders, C1C Jon Tinsley of Bull Six, C1C Chris Fitzpatrick of Cerberus, and C1C Bryan Blind of the Fighting Four, as well as members of their squadrons, took part in a community service project organized as part of Military Arts and Science 472.

MAS 472 replaces MAS 440 as the senior-level military studies class with a slight twist since each member of the class is either a cadet wing, group, squadron commander or vice wing commander. Each person is required to plan and carry out a leadership project which adheres to the goals of the cadet wing.

This project involved restoring and repairing houses in downtown Colorado Springs. The houses are owned and operated by the Bijou House, an organization which works with underprivileged families, helping them get back on their feet and providing them with short-term housing. Alan Stockman, Bijou House maintenance supervisor, had numerous tasks for the members of the restoration crew to accomplish.

C3C Travis Lewis and C4C Casey Miller, both of Bull Six, were integral players in the repair of the foundation of one of the two houses. This particular houses’s foundation leaked so bad that when it rained, up to two feet of water would accumulate in the basement, knocking out the hot water heater in the process. The (Burial Policies: From previous page.) will make the arrangements. Disposal is limited to interment of the cremated remains in the cemetery or scattering of the remains between the two runways at the Academy Airfield.

Facilities for viewing and storing remains or cremated remains are not available at the Academy. Therefore, the next of kin must select a funeral home to receive the remains or cremated remains. The Mortuary Affairs Office will maintain the central cemetery records and scale maps of grave plots. The documents are available for information purposes during normal duty hours.

The Association of Graduates administers memorial funds on behalf of deceased graduates and cadets as a service to those desiring them. Decisions on the projects the funds will endow are normally made by the legal next of kin after approval of the project by the Academy’s Memorial Board or the association, depending on the type of project.

Procedures for publishing obituaries on graduates involve the association contacting the next of kin after being informed of the

cadets doing the repairs found and stopped the leaks. According to C1C Chris Tyler, some of the knowledge gained by cadets in CE 310 really came into play in the repairs.

In addition to repairing the foundation on one house, C4C Marika Barto, C4C Jen Young and C3C Erick Wallman stripped the paint off a second house and reprimed it. The home, occupied by a single mother and her two children, has a much better chance of surviving the winter now that the paint has been restored.

To close out the day, many of the cadets assisted in yard work and property beautification by raking leaves, sweeping sidewalks and picking up trash. According to Fitzpatrick, the project provided an opportunity for the members of the squadrons to demonstrate their “Service Before Self” attitudes and take part in some pre-holiday gift giving by providing their time and energy.

For the squadron commanders, this was an opportunity to lead some of their people in a project away from the Academy, to the benefit of everyone involved. Cadet squadrons will continue to volunteer their time to assist the Bijou House and plans are for a return visit in the spring.

Florida Native Selected as Permanent Professor

Col. (Dr.) Charles R. Myers, of Valparaiso, Fla. has been selected as a permanent professor and Head of the Department of Philosophy and Fine Arts at the United States Air Force Academy. Myers was appointed as a permanent professor by President Clinton with the advice and consent of the U.S. Senate. He joins 20 other permanent professors at the Academy where more than 3,900 cadets are enrolled in undergraduate studies and officer training.

The colonel, 49, arrived at the Academy after serving as the staff judge advocate at the U.S. Stragetic Command at Offutt AFB, Neb. In his new position, he is responsible for the command, curriculum, personnel, budget, research and long-range planning of the Philosopohy and Fine Arts Department.

Myers was commissioned in 1968 as a distinguished graduate of the Air Force Reserve Officer Training Program. He holds a bachelor of arts degree, summa cum laude, with honors in philosophy, from Tulane University; and a master of arts degree in philosophy and a doctorate of philosophy, both from the University of Texas at Austin. Myers also holds a juris doctor degree from the University of California, Berkeley, and he is a graduate of the National War College.

Myer’s military career includes service as an intelligence officer in Vietnam, as an Academy instructor, and as a judge advocate. Myers, the son of John E. and Betty L. Myers of Valparaiso, Fla., is married to the former Mary Hopkins of New Orleans, La.

graduate’s death. The next of kin is asked to provide a classmate, friend or family member to write the article, along with a current photograph. If the association receives no response within a reasonable amount of time, we again contact the next of kin with another request. If this request is ignored, no obituary appears.

Once an obituary appears, the next of kin is furnished complimentary copies of that magazine and is given a complimentary one-year associate membership in the association. (Graduate life memberships are not transferred to the next of kin as the actuarial tables for life membership are computed on only the graduate’s life.) If extra magazines are needed for family, these are also normally provided. When the complimentary associate membership expires, the association invites the next of kin to join as a regular associate member if they so desire.

Any questions not answered in this article should be directed to the Mortuary Affairs Office at the address and phone number given in the article.

Cadets work on one ofthe houses, helping out the Bijou House project in Colorado Springs. (Photo by C1C Jon Tinsley)

CHAPTER NEWS

ARIZONA CHAPTER

On a sad note, I would like to inform you of the passing of Bob (“Moses”) Abraham, Class of ’81, who died in a plane accident on Dec. 3, 1994. Bob had called me just a few weeks before his death about moving to Phoenix and flying with the airlines. Unfortunately, Bob did not have the opportunity to fulfill those dreams. He is survived by his wife, Annette, two daughters, Amy (five) and Autumn (seven). Bob’s family has requested that in lieu of flowers or other such things, donations be made to First Interstate Bank of Nevada, Account No. 0932037141, which is a trust account in the name of Autumn and Amy Abraham. Ron Marusiak, Tim Furst and I attended the rosary service for Bob and I was honored to be requested by the family to read “High Flight” at the funeral. Bob will be missed by his family and friends.

We are in the process of finalizing our 1995 Calendar of Events. One event currently being planned is a Super Bowl party/Organizational Meeting. Last year’s event was a big success. Another event currently being contemplated if there is enough interest, is a hike in Lost Dutchman Park. The park is surrounded by the Superstition Mountains and is located five miles northwest of Apache Junction on the Apache Trail Highway. Sueling Cho has volunteered to be the project coordinator for this event. If anyone is or may be interested in going on this hike, please contact Sueling Cho at 554-4314.

The joint USAFA/USMA/USNA golf outing is tentatively scheduled for May 27, 1995. Further information is available by calling Mike Cryer at 220-3251 (business) or 897-1267 (home). The AFA grads have won the last two years and we would like to make it three in a row. Hopefully, we will continue to have a lot of interest in all of our 1995 events as we have over the last several years. If you have any suggestions, please call me.

The graduates from the Air Force Academy, Naval Academy and West Point have organized a separate Service Academy Networking Group which meets the third Friday of each month at 7 a.m. for breakfast. The meetings are generally held at The Plaza Club, Norwest Bank Tower, 3300 N. Central, 26th Floor, Phoenix. If you would like to attend, please just drop in with your $10 breakfast fee. Feel free to bring a friend. If you want to confirm the time and place of the next meeting, please call me at (382-6351) or Gil Shuga, a Naval Academy graduate (263-1700).

Our treasury needs a shot in the arm.

Therefore, if you have not paid your 1994 or 1995 Arizona dues, please send a check for $20 for each year payable to the Arizona Chapter AFA AOG to John Mahoney, ’81, 5326 East Kathleen Road, Scottsdale, Ariz. 85254-1757.

If you have recently moved to Arizona or have not received our mailings, please contact Jim Sienicki, ’74, Snell & Wilmer, One Arizona Center, Phoenix, Ariz. 850040001, to be added to the master mailing list.

(Jim Sienicki)

CAPITAL CHAPTER

1994 has been a busy year for the Capital Chapter. Our activities have included several luncheons, a couple of golf tournaments and a pre-game luncheon, tailgate and best of all, a win over Army. Our luncheons have been a tremendous success, with the quality speakers continuing to pull our grads together. General Cams, then the Vice Chief of Staff; General McPeak, then Chief of Staff; and Secretary Widnall spoke at luncheons early in the year. At our September luncheon Lieutenant General Hosmer, the former superintendent, provided insight while answering questions about the Academy. Nearly 50 people joined the October pre-Army game meal at the Doubletree Hotel with the Honorable Secretary Widnall and Lt. Gen. Paul Stein, the new superintendent. Col. Ken Schweitzer, the director of Athletics, discussed the future of Academy athletics.

The first golf tournament was such a suecess we held a second one late in the year. We hope to establish a tradition of great golf tournaments.

Col. Tom Crawford, ’72, led our contingent to the West Point game this year. The game was a success and the tailgaters had a great time. We extend a big “thanks” to the New York City Chapter for including us in their tailgate!

We are still developing our classmate network to help improve participation and communication with the grads in the capital area. The idea is to set up POCs from each class to shotgun info and bring class spirit into all of our events.

Our vice-president, Col. Tom McNish, MD, ’64, retired this summer! Our country, our Air Force and our local AOG chapter certainly benefited from Doc McNish’s leadership. For those of you who don’t know; Doc McNish spent six and one-half years as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam. The retirement ceremony and reception were extremely touching; there wasn’t a dry eye following his daughter’s singing “The Wind Beneath My Wings,” for him,

as a tribute to his wife, Yona. We extend our public thanks to Doc for always giving that extra effort.

Following is a list of the current chapter officers. We are looking for class secretaries, and we are always in need of members to help with special projects: president, Maj. Gen. Ed Eberhart, ’68; treasurer, Col. Kerry May, ’71; secretary, Lt. Col. Steve Daniels, ’74; luncheons/projects, Maj. Bryan McNabb, ’80; and publicity/membership, Capt. Jerry Perkins, ’86.

If you are interested in joining the chapter or want more info, contact Capt. Jerry Perkins, ’86 at work: (703) 697-0862, or home: (703) 742-4006. (EdEberhart, ’68)

GREATER CHICAGO CHAPTER

Seventy-seven members and guests of the Greater Chicago Chapter road-tripped over to South Bend for the Air Force vs. Notre Dame football game. Attendees enjoyed the hospitality of the AFROTC detachment and the Indiana Parent’s Club at a lunch in the spectacular new ROTC building, under the gaze of Notre Dame’s famous “Touchdown Jesus” mosaic. The chapter cheered lustily for the Falcons, as they played hard to win the second half of the game.

The chapter plans a Springtime Night on the Town. For details, call chapter secretary Fred Strauss, ’71 (815-728-1430), treasurer Dave Stubbs, ’72 (708-446-5269), vice president Rick Buschmann, ’72 (708-416-1001), or president Tom Krise, ’83 (708-778-8342). (Tom Krise)

GREATER NEW YORK CHAPTER

The Greater New York Chapter once again hosted the biannual tailgate party before and after the Army game, and the luncheon in New York City the previous day. When Air Force won the game we were definitely certain we would declare the weekend a success.

John Flanagan, ’62, ran the luncheon at the historic 7th Regiment Armory on Park Avenue. It was ironic to have so many Air Force types in an Army National Guard building, but John is a retired brigadier general from New York’s Air Guard, so he got us a deal we couldn’t refuse. The superintendent, the dean, and the athletic director were all there, meeting friends from the Air Force Association and Parents Clubs, as well as grads. Capt. Joe Blewitt, ’86, who is assigned to the Public Affairs office in NYC, deserves thanks for his legwork and phone calls.

Ron Wishart, ’64, organized the tailgate party. The Boston and Washington chapters each had a bus, and Col. Thom McCarthy put together a group from the Navy War College in Rhode Island. Another contingent came up from McGuire AFB. We were located at the North Athletic Field near two parents clubs. The superintendent introduced the Secretary of the Air Force to the group. Jim Ulm, AOG president, was there, along with grads who drove from Ohio, Pennsylvania, and other parts of the Northeast. Most people arrived early so they could see the parade at 1030 and walk around the area. Those who didn’t take the shuttle buses did some mountain climbing to get to the game, but it’s nothing like the Rampart Range. Then again, USAFA doesn’t have a view of the Hudson River.

Others who helped with the events were Martin Lebouitz, ’71; Mike Greece, ’64; Mike Galbreath, ’64; Rees Wagner, ’61; Rick Kingman, ’60; and Todd Jagerson, ’64. The New York Chapter schedules several meetings each year at the Wings Club next door to the old Pan Am Building. Because attendance is often light, we have been joining with the West Point Society

and the Naval Academy Alumni Association to hold joint cocktail parties, networking meetings, and breakfasts, luncheons, or dinners with distinguished speakers at various places in the city. A holiday party was held at the Union League. Our $25 chapter membership dues pays for the mailings. Contact Mike Greece at his ofice at (212) 725-4500 if you want to be active in the New York Chapter. (Ron Wishart, ’64)

INDIANA CHAPTER

What a great time we had in South Bend at the Notre Dame game! Although our Falcons did not win, the game was exciting. “What a comeback” best describes the 21-point effort by the Falcons in the third quarter. Seventy-two of your local chapter members/guests added to the vocal power of the visitors. Most people enjoyed the pre-game tailgate party, held by the Indiana Parents Club. Lt. Gen. Paul Stein, ’66, superintendent, gave a brief motivation speech. The Drum & Bugle Corps added the audio pep, while the Falcon cheerleaders tried to get the attendees excited about the game.

A contingent of grads and spouses/friends made a trek to Pat

McBride’s home after the game. You should have been there to witness the “spread” that Pat’s wife, Rusty, put together. What a sight to behold. Everyone thoroughly enjoyed their visit to Pat’s ranch west of South Bend.

By the way, the rumor mill has it that planning is underway for a flight to Colorado Springs for the Notre Dame game, Nov. 18, 1995. Sounds like a nice trip for members of our chapter—sponsored by the Indiana Air National Guard. You won’t want to miss it! Additional events for 1995 include February/March dinner meeting with a speaker, probably at Grissom AFB; a late spring golf outing; mid-summer picnic; and an early fall Indy luncheon. Is anyone interested in developing a Colorado ski trip this winter? For further information, contact Jim McCleary, ’67, at (219) 267-2122—we would love adding new members to our growing chapter! (Jim MeCleary)

NORTHERN CALIFORNIA CHAPTER

The Northern California Chapter met Dec. 4th at Mountain Home Inn on Mt.

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Latest Known Chapter Presidents and Addresses Listed

The AOG attempts to maintain a current list of active AOG Chapters and Societies and their officers. There is increasing interest by a wide spectrum of graduates on finding contacts throughout the country. The following list of known chapters/societies and their presidents is published to assist both the individual graduates and the chapters. Corrections, additions and deletions should be forwarded to the AOG vice president, Services. Individuals interested in starting an AOG Chapter should also contact the AOG vice president, Services.

CHAPTER presidents

(Alpha Order by Chapter Name) As of 1 February 1995.

Lt. Col. (Ret) Peter O. Hugdahl, ’67

ALAMO AREA

19627 Wittenburg San Antonio, TX 78256

Col. Mark Torreano, ’68

ALOHA AREA

650 Curtis Loop Wahiawa, HI 96786

Mr. Jim Sienicki, ’74

ARIZONA

Snell & Wilmer

One Arizona Center Phoenix, AZ 85004-0001

Mr. Chuck Winter, ’72

ATLANTA

355 Wheatridge Drive Roswell, GA 30075-1387

Maj. Gen. Ed Eberhart, ’68

CAPITAL

38 N. Garfield St. Arlington, VA 22201

Capt. Evelyn Scanlon, ’84

FRENCH EXCHANGE

705 Rockbrook Rd. Palmer Lake, CO 80133

Mr. Jim Lyons, ‘68

GREAT LAKES

Con Search

911 Poplar Street Erie, PA 16502-1253

Capt. Tom Krise, ’83

GREATER CHICAGO

509 Aurora Ave. Apt #317

Naperville, IL 60540

Mr. Michael J. Galbreath, ’64

GREATER NEW YORK

18 Woodside Drive Greenwich, CT 06830-6730

Dr. Dean Bristow, ’60

MEDICAL

USAF Hospital Commander

Holloman AFB, NM 88330

Mr. Maurice Ecung, ’68

MOHAWK

1008 North George Street

Rome, NY 13440-3414

Col. Darryl A. Scott

NEW ENGLAND

41 Offutt Rd.

Hanscom AFB, MA 01731-2607

Lt. Col. (Ret) Gary L. Nordyke, ’68

NEW MEXICO

6009 Los Hermanos Ct. NE

Albuquerque, NM 87111-1154

Lt. Col. Chuck McGee, ’76

NEW MEXICO-CANNON

7710 Oklahoma Ct.

Clovis, NM 88101-8208

Lt. Col. (Ret) C. Glenn Shaffer, ’63

NORTH TEXAS

1421 Thames Dr. Plano, TX 75075-2734

Col.(Ret) Albert Waters, ’59

NORTHERN CALIFORNIA

4227 Sunrise Blvd., #120

Fair Oaks, CA 95628

Mr. James E. McCleary, ’67

NORTHERN INDIANA

120 S. Lake Street, Ste. 200

Warsaw, IN 46580

Mr. Robert Blake, ’59

NORTHWEST FLORIDA

6 Pebble Beach Dr. Shalimar, FL 32579-1624

Mr. Ken Wentzel, ’64

ORANGE COUNTY

1428 Keel Drive

Corona Del Mar, CA 92625-1239

Mr. Henry Johnson IV, ’79

OREGON

14966 SE Lone Oak Ln.

Portland, OR 97267-1720

Mr. Richard Belden, ’69

PUGET SOUND

4880 Forest Avenue SE

Mercer Island, WA 98040-4602

Lt. Col. (Ret) Bernard Amels, ’66

RAMPART

1045 Allegheny Drive

Colorado Springs, CO 80919-1503

Mr. Tom Rausch, ’62

RED BARON

PSC 2, Box 8868

APO, AE 09012

Mr. Michael E. Quinton, ’62

SAN DIEGO COUNTY

2615 San Clemente Terr. San Diego, CA 92122-4029

Mr. Robert G. Mansfield, ’77

SAN JACINTO

5607 Spring Lodge Humble, TX 77345-1467

Mr. Ed Mechenbier, ’64

SOUTHWEST OHIO

3342 O’Hara Drive

Beavercreek, OH 45434-7301

Mr. David O’Brien, ’64

SPACE COAST

4095 Turtle Mound Road

Melbourne, FL 32934-8502

Lt. Col. (Ret) Bob Fay, ’59

NEVADA

3267 E. Flamingo Rd., #206 Las Vegas, NV 89121-4341

Col. (Ret) Andrew W. Biancur, ’60

UTAH

4174 E. Cumorah Drive Salt Lake City, UT 84124

SOCIETY CONTACTS

Mr. Russ Carparelli, ’70

Air Force Academy Society of Colorado

8833 S. Maplewood Drive

Highlands Ranch, CO 80126-2623

Capt. Glenn D. Seitchek, ’83

Air Force Academy Society of North Carolina

1211-307 Westview Lane

Raleigh, NC 27605-3216

Mr. Jerry Wilkowski, ’65

Air Force Society of Washington, D.C.

2423 Rocky Branch Road

Vienna, VA 22181

Air Force Wins Service

Rick Sargent, ’80; Pat Youngs, ’80; John Gough, ’81; Bud Nevers, ’76; and Jack Oehme, ’71, defeated the five best golfers competing for the Army and Merchant Marine to win the Alumni Division of the Service Academy Golf Classic held in Dallas on Oct. 24, 1994. Congratulations Falcon grads! See you again in ’95 to defend the title.

In addition to the inter-service graduate competition won by Air Force, each school’s grads participate in intra-service competition among eight foursomes representing each school. The Air Force teams placing in the top three were: First Place: John Palanica, ’74; Rick Cree, ’66; Linda Palanica (John’s wife), and Jack Shippler (father of AFA golfer Owen Shippler). Second Place: Jack Oehme, ’71; Dave Stackhouse, ’73; John Muse, ’73; and Tim Reemtsma. Third Place: Dick Lee (AFA faculty rep); Bill Skaer, ’64; Greg Sveska, ’79; and Mike Bulkeley, ’66.

Individual awards went to Ken Schweitzer (AFA athletic director) for the longest drive, Budge Wilson, ’71, for closest to the hole; and Rick Sargent for both AFA and Alumni Division Medalist honors. Rick shot a seven-under-par 65 on the blue course at the Dallas Athletic Club, a difficult layout which previously hosted the PGA won by Jack Nicklaus. Great round Rick!

Bill Reemtsma, ’63, chairman of the second annual Service Academy Golf Classic in Dallas, hosted by the North Texas Chapter, chats with dignitaries who participated in the event.

former Academy athletic director from 1963 to 1967.

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Tamalpais in Marin County. Our host was Ed Cunningham, ’67, who is proprietor of the inn. After an afternoon of hiking and enjoying the great view of San Francisco Bay, we enjoyed a few hours of socializing and eating. Our after-dinner speaker was Lt. Col. Robert B. Fawley, USAF retired. Colonel Fawley flew the famous Lockheed P-38 Lightning and later the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt in France from October 1944 until the end of the war with Germany. The association meets quarterly at different locations in the Bay Area. If you would like to be on our mailing list, please send your name and address to our chapter secretary, Chuck Reed at Reed, Elliott, Creech & Roth, 99 Almaden Blvd., Eighth Floor, San Jose, Calif. 95113. Telephone: (408) 993-9911. Facsimile: (408) 993-1335. (Chuck Reed, ’70)

Academy Golf Classic

Former Air Force ChiefofStaff Gen. (Ret) Charlie Gabriel, secondfrom left, presents awards to the collegiate winners in the second annual Service Academy Golf Classic, hosted by the North Texas Chapter in Dallas in October. From left are Bill Reemtsma, ’63, tournament chairman; General Gabriel, Dan Blackman, runner-up from Army; and Owen Shippler, the Collegiate Division Medalist winner.

In the Collegiate Division, Army defended its title, Air Force was second and Merchant Marine third. The Air Force team made up several shots on the second round and were poised for a run at the title. Rain canceled the third round along with Air Force’s rally. However, Owen Shippler of Air Force was the Collegiate Division Medalist. Well done Owen!

Along with several other dignitaries, VIPs and those who thought they were...we were honored to have the former Air Force Chief of Staff Charlie Gabriel participate and present awards to the cadets and midshipmen. Thank you, Charlie—hope you’ll be back. In addition, it was a pleasure to have AOG president Jim Ulm participating. Our thanks to all graduate participants and a special THANK YOU to everyone who sponsored or solicited sponsors for the tournament. This truly is an alumnisponsored event and without you we have no tournament.

The 1995 tournament (third annual) is scheduled for Oct. 30 and 31, 1995. The Dallas Athletic Club will once again host the festivities. Talk to anyone who participated in ’94...you’ll get great reviews. If you enjoy golf and camaraderie, good food, cold drinks and great entertainment, put this event on your schedule. Call Bill Reemtsma, ’63, tournament chairman, at (214) 357-5502 for more information.

NORTH TEXAS CHAPTER

The North Texas Association of Air Force Academy Graduates—(NTAAFAG) —fielded the best flag football team yet on a cold December Saturday—the 10th—for the annual Tri-Service Academy flag football event. Thanks to Dave Brigman, ’71, and Tom Stites, ’72, for setting up this event. Air Force lost the first game in overtime to Army. That’s surprising, since we had a lot of talented young grads come down from Sheppard AFB in Wichita Falls to provide the “muscle” for our team. Later we lost to Navy also, but not after intercepting Roger Staubach’s first pass and running it back for a touchdown! It was probably one of our “youth brigade” who asked Roger how it felt to be back in the NFL? We’ll make sure he’s back next year.

Looking into the New Year, “H” Ownby, ’69, has scheduled our annual Din-

ing-In Extravaganza for Feb. 10th at the Dallas Naval Air Station, with the commandant, B/G John Hopper, as guest speaker. We’ll be starting our annual membership campaign shortly. And the Bill Reemtsma’s 16th Annual Founders Day Ball is already scheduled for Saturday, April 1st, at the Dallas Athletic Club.

It’s been a good year, full of fun, games, events and camaraderie. Glenn Shaffer, ’63, is president for 1995. Come and join the other North Texas Grads during NTAAFAG’s get-togethers in 1995 and give Glen your support during his year “In the Barrel.” (Richard Fairlamb, ’61)

PUGET SOUND CHAPTER

Greetings from the great Northwest! It’s been a busy fall for the chapter and I’d like to fill you in on some of the activities. On Oct. 6, the annual All Service Academy (Continued on next page.)

From left are Col. Ken Schweitzer, Academy athletic director; Gen. (Ret) Charlie Gabriel, former Air Force Chief of Staff; Reemtsma, and Col. (Ret) Edmund “Rafe” Rafalko,

The Secret Life of Waldo F. Dumbsquat

By Don Hall, ’76

Thousands of pointed parkas mindlessly migrated from Mitchell Hall.

Darkness had fallen and snow fluttered silently past the terrazzo lights.

The marble strips set icy traps for hapless doolies.

A monstrous snow plow, carving up terrazzo and snow alike, roared through the area.

Christmas leave was recent history.

A fading memory...

Summer leave seemed to be a million years away.

Gray leather gloves were tucked in.

Rubber overshoes wore away low quarter shoe-shines.

Academic call-to-quarters threatened the sanity of all cadets.

Many cadets opted for the basketball game rather than study.

Freshmen found their greetings ignored by sullen upperclassmen.

The darkness appeared to be a smothering shroud in comparison to the white blanket of snow on the ground.

The Dark Ages had arrived.

C/4C Waldo F. Dumbsquat peered out his dorm window at the scene outside.

“Looks like the Dark Ages have arrived,” Waldo commented to his roommates.

“How do you know?” asked “Regs” Buch.

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Alumni Dinner was held on the Spirit of Washington Dinner Train. This was a great evening of dining and an opportunity to meet with other Service Academy grads from the area. The train began its journey in Renton and made a stop at the Columbia Winery. The winery was well prepared for the surge of USAFA wine glasses.

Throughout the year a joint Service Academy group has been supporting networking breakfasts in the local area. The breakfast functions have been a success and we’re looking forward to more in the future. In November, the chapter met at the Mercer Island Community Center for a general membership meeting to reconfirm our board of directors, plan activities for ’95, and take a look at what the chapter wants to accomplish in the future.

After the group devoured a “Big Sandwich” we settled down to some real business and generated a list of activities for ’95. Planned activities include a local ski day in February, our annual “Dark Ages Party” in April, our third annual “Road Kill Party” in July, the Paine Field Air Show in August, a golf tournament in September, and finally our annual Joint Service Academy Dinner in October. A busy schedule for a great year ahead.

Our membership drive for ’95 will be in full swing in January. If you’re interested in

“The author mentioned it earlier.”

“Oh.”

“I think I hear a mournful train whistle in the distance.”

“A bit melodramatic, but I understand the mood you are creating,” noted Regs.

“Depressing isn’t it?”

“Quite.”

Waldo knew the wing needed to be cheered up right now. Jumping into his laundry bin unnoticed, Waldo uttered the secret mystical, magical words “business permit.” Waldo emerged as Colonel Waldo F. Dumbsquat, a man who always drove a sport utility vehicle. The colonel strode to Command Post and took the microphone from a very startled “midnight cowboy.”

“Attention in the area, attention in the area. This is Dumbsquat speaking. All cadets will report to the Arnold Hall theater for the English Department-sponsored Mel Gibson movie. That is all. Carry on.”

The colonel left the bewildered Command Post detail to sort out the questions from those who couldn’t follow orders. After returning to the dorm room, he degenerated into the pathetic form of Waldo F. Dumbsquat.

“Get on your parka, Waldo, we’re going to Arnold Hall to see a movie!” announced Regs.

“I hope it’s something that will psych us up,” said Waldo as he crossed the gray scarf across his chest and then zipped up the winter coat. “What’s playing?”

“Hamlet. Waldo groaned.

joining us, don’t be shy, and please contact one of our official greeters, Steve Flewelling, ’87, at (206) 271-6606, or Daucey Brewington, ’70, at (206) 888-2426. See ya there! (Joe Cavazzinni, ’82)

RAMPART CHAPTER

The Colorado Springs “Metro” area Rampart Chapter has become very active and looks forward to a great year. INVOLVEMENT is the chapter’s key word for ’95. Involvement with the Cadet Wing, in service projects in the local community, and with more grads. We have new officers and board (listed below), a new committee structure, and a new focus on setting priorities to build our current and future projects. The leadership and committee structure consists of Academy, Business, Social, and Staff Committees each chaired by a board member.

The Academy Committee, chaired by Marty Daack, is active in establishing stronger ties between the Cadet Wing and the AOG. These activities include the Mentor Program, the New Class Arrival Escort, the Parents Weekend Escort, and Firstie Introduction to the AOG Projects. The Mentor Program aligns volunteer grads with specific cadet squadrons with the stated aim to provide cadet “gray beard” mentoring on a non-interference basis.

The Business Committee, chaired by

Vince Rusinak, is active in establishing Grad Business to Business (LEADS Group) interfaces, Grad to Business contacts (John Fal), and Grad Networking contacts for job searches (John Fal). Stop by Rusinak’s to check out the networking notebook.

The Social Committee, chaired by Doug Knox, is actively planning events to interest grads in the chapter (quarterly luncheons, annual membership meeting, annual picnic, 100th Night with AFA Society, and a Christmas formal).

The Rampart Chapter officers for 1995 include president Bernie Amels, ’66 (Phone: 719-593-7864); vice president Larry Fortner, ’59 (540-5740); secretary Terri Meyer, ’80 (593-8874); and treasurer Ed Vaughn, ’63 (594-0812). Pete Todd, ’59, is our past president. Serving on the board for two years are Dave Bowman, ’72; Steve Edelman, ’69; Mike Guyote, ’68; Doug Knox, ’76; and Marty Daack, ’66. Serving for one year are John Fal, ’66; and Vince Rusinak, ’68.

On Feb. 15, the Rampart Chapter held its quarterly luncheon at the Antlers Doubletree Hotel. Lt. Gen. Stein, ’66, superintendent, was the guest speaker. In addition, the AFA Society of Colorado/Rampart Chapter Second-AlmostAnnual “100th Night Gala” Wing Ding was on Feb. 25. (Larry Bagely, ’66 719-593-0205)

Field of Dreams: A Reflection on the ’69 Reunion

By John C. Miller, 69

Remember the Kevin Kostner movie, “Field of Dreams”? More than anything else, my recent ’69 class reunion reminded me of that.

Simply being at the Academy that first day, Oct. 19, 1994, in the cadet area, late in the day around that special time of near sunset, seeing some cadets quietly jogging by, then experiencing my initial meeting in 25 years with a classmate in his colonel’s uniform as he and I walked toward each other—it was a “high” moment—almost a reverent one—for me. Try to recall your first experiences during your own reunion. For myself, feelings seemed to bump into each other—excitement, nervousness, completion—as I, in a kind of way, was letting go of all the past resentfulness of my first-class year at the Academy (ask my classmates who were members of Blackjack Squadron with me about my “rocky road” that year with our AOC).

Maybe my decision to let go of the past “stuff” was most influential in creating my mood of that moment. Whatever the cause, I could easily have imagined my classmate (Col. Gerry Boesche, assistant athletic director) at that moment emerging from the magical cornfield just as the baseball players did in the Kostner movie.

For 15 years, I have had a dream nearly every year, of returning to the Air Force Academy as an adult cadet, at whatever age I happen to be when having the dream. So, a few months ago, I dreamed of being a 47-year-old cadet, going through “the system” all over again. Each time I have had this dream, I have been there to “do it right.” This seems to mean being on a casual, first-name basis with the senior oficers there, along with going through a generally more relaxed system. Apparently, such was the difficulty I had as a cadet, especially my senior year, that I craved a more “natural” way of relating to cadet life. (Having left the Air Force service after my five-year commitment, I never had the opportunity to experience this way of relating.)

As Gerry approached, I addressed him by name. He, in turn replied, “Is that JC?” (a nickname while I was a cadet). We shook hands, sat down together in the Field House, and talked. It didn’t occur to me until the next morning that my dream had then been realized—I had, in fact, experienced being on a first-name basis with a senior officer. I never expected, in my dreams, that the officer would be one of my classmates!

What a beginning to my first experience of being back on the Academy grounds in 25 years. My experiences of the entire weekend were also well-orchestrated, although not to the dramatic degree of the above meeting with Gerry. The other Blackjackers at the reunion—Uppie (Craig Upton), John Buckner, Steve Kirby, Rich Wade, Bob Toth—each had their special story to tell, as did many others whom I met that weekend.

But also very special was my first glimpse of the Academy grounds and cadet area that afternoon. I simply had no recollection of how beautiful they were. How could I have missed noticing the beauty of it all when I was a cadet there for four long

years? On the other hand, maybe the rigors of the system of discipline there made it difficult to enjoy the simple beauty.

This suspicion was confirmed, in a way, as I walked the grounds two days later with Uppie. We stopped a female secondclass cadet and she told us: No, she didn’t hardly have time to stop and notice the surroundings. She said she probably “took it for granted,” due to the busy cadet schedule.

During our reunion, I made sure to take plenty of pictures, not only for my own memory, but to share with my family, who were unable to attend. I was truly feeling a magical quality as I took in the mountains, the nearby mesas, the great open spaces, the soft colors of evergreens contrasting with tan-colored grasses and the darker red-brown of the Rockies, the nearby Garden of the Gods (appropriately named, I think), the bluffs, and the birds. (Want to know what the name is of that prolific black, green, and white bird found all over the Academy grounds? It’s a black-billed magpie.)

Another significant part of the completion, the resolution that I experienced during the reunion, occurred during the Open House. Recall walking some of the special places during your own reunions of past years—to be able once again to walk freely through Vandenberg Hall, to meet and talk with cadets, to see again the “C-Store,” to visit the Mail Room (I couldn’t resist trying the combination of my old mail box—I tried it—it didn’t work). It all brought back such strong but hard-to-describe feelings. To have lunch once again in Mitchell Hall with the Cadet Wing—remember the Form 0-96? Uppie found one on a neighboring table after the lunch meal; he read it and we had a great laugh, especially when he read from the checked responses on the form, “Fast, Neat, Average, Friendly, Good, Good.” What memories!

We had the opportunity to hear some fine summaries of cadet life as explained to us by Lt. Gen. Paul Stein, superintendent; Brig. Gen. Ruben Cubero, dean, and others. The “system” as they described it did sound a bit more relaxed than 25 years ago in some respects. This also “played out” in reality one of my dream scenarios.

John with his “Field of Dreams” colonels, classmates John Buckner and Gerald Boesche.

It was great to see former classmates, to talk with them, to tell them my story and to have them receive it with respect, to hear their stories and receive them with respect, even though we each had chosen different ways to play out our life plans. I found, surprisingly, that some classmates had left the Air Force for a period and then returned to active duty. Others had left, as I had, when (Continued on next page.)

Class of 1969 Enjoys 25th Reunion

By Steve Edelman and Mike Guyote

Well, the euphoria over our 25-year reunion has started to fade. But that hasn’t diminished the reunion committee’s feeling that our gathering on Oct. 19-23 was a uniquely successful event—maybe the best one yet. Over 400 classmates and guests

were treated to an absolutely gorgeous fall weekend. The committee—Tom Baumgardner, Gerry Boesche, Brad DeAustin, Steve Edelman, Mike Guyote, Buddy Herrington, Gary Howe, Ron Lisowski, Kathy Nelson (our adopted ’69er), Glenn Schlabs, and Art Schwall—thanks everyone for their pre-reunion suggestions and their notes and other kind words during and since the reunion. And a special thanks goes out to the AOG’s Jock Schwank, ’60, for his advice, hard work, boundless enthusiasm, and determination to help us make the reunion memorable.

All of us bring our own sets of memories, feelings, and prejudices to an event like a class reunion. Some lucky few have the ability to record their feelings in a way that affects us all. Accompanying this article is an essay by one of those guys—John Miller—written after his first return to the Academy in 25 years. We hope that you’ll all take the time to read it, reflect on its message, and share it with other classmates.

The committee is in the process of reviewing the videotaped footage of the reunion—you’ll be hearing from us about how to get a copy of the final product as soon as it’s ready. Also, here’s a special thanks to H. Ownby, who not only photographed just about everyone who attended but also provided a copy of the picture to each subject as a memento. H. also left a complete set of Bud Spease.

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the initial commitment period was over, while still others remained on active duty up to the present. In certain cases, the surprise was in finding out who had followed which of those patterns.

Another reverent moment was the experiencing of the Memorial Service for classmates killed in action or deceased. A ’69 classmate, Buddy Harrington, did a touching job of honoring them, assisted in an equally-touching way by the Cadet Chorale. I knew a couple of those classmates quite well. The thought came: How far off is my own death? How to use the time remaining to each one of us in the best way? I thank God for services like that, to bring to mind such questions, and to remember those who served.

The event, though, that really put “closure” on the reunion experience for me was one that occurred on Saturday. I decided to make a hike into the mountainous area of the Academy’s foothills—a short trek of about two hours. It was invigorating, in a way, but I returned from it quite tired, since I wasn’t used to the elevation or to long hikes.

It was then that I recalled an enthusiastic remark of Gerry Boesche when I had first seen him three days earlier. He had said, “Why don’t we try to get some classmates together, climb the Flatiron, and put our ’69 numerals there?” He said he recalled making the trek up there himself many times as a cadet. I agreed that we should try to do it during the reunion.

The reunion turned out to be a busy time; we never got the group of classmates together to do it. So after making my hike on Saturday, I decided to at least go see how close I could drive to the Flatiron. I found that I could come quite close on a gravel road. There, I met two hunters. I asked them if they ever had climbed the Flatiron. They had; it took just 45 minutes to reach the top, I was told.

Could I do it? Why not! I began the climb. I soon realized how steep it was. Was it too much? I kept climbing; my heart was by this time pounding hard; my legs were starting to ache in ways that they hadn’t done since Basic Cadet Training. Finally, I could see the top, and the number “4” left there by the most recent cadet hikers.

It took just a half hour more, but after lots of slipping and sliding, and having the 15 or so white sheets blown all over the place by the strong winds, I maneuvered the sheets into position, holding them down with rocks, so that finally, our class year,

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“69,” was clearly displayed. Never having made this trek as a cadet, I felt particular pride at the accomplishment as I finished. The exertion required for the task made the completion of it especially gratifying.

Feeling ready to drop, I didn’t savor the moment for long. I quickly descended on my shaking, rubber-like legs, crawled into my car, and drove a weary drive to the Springs and the nearest Taco Bell (hey, it was a treat to me—we don’t have Taco Bells in Honesdale, Pa.!).

Although that was truly the frosting on the cake of my reunion experiences, the predominant feeling that I remember for the whole weekend remains one of reverence, as noted earlier. The many meetings with classmates, talks with present cadets, seeing the natural beauty of the grounds, experiencing the Memorial Service—it all not only touched me deeply but transformed my attitude.

The best indication of that transformation came several days after my return home. I had yet another of my recurring dreams of being back at the Academy. This time, though, in my dream I wasn’t a cadet. What was I? A tourist! I knew the reunion was complete.

Thefruit ofJohn’s labor, barely visible, is a 20-foot-high “69” on the flatiron.

“Slash ’em with a beak, the real thing, with Stick Turner and

A Book Review of Separated by War, Ed Herlik, ’80, Author

TAB Books (McGraw-Hill), 1994, 292pp., $24.95

One point that conies through loud and clear during a reading of Separated by War, Ed Herlik’s oral history of Operation Desert Storm, is that the book is a true labor of love. Here was a military mission that, when all was said and done, went well, where air power was used properly and succeeded masterfully, and where the humans who flew the airplanes and those who supported them generally played their roles with grace and bravery. Herlik’s respect for his profession and his admiration for his fellow fliers is seldom stated, but is expressed on every page.

Not that this is in any way a rose-colored portrayal of war. What Herlik has done is to interview fliers from Desert Storm representing a wide range of aircraft, service components and tactical specialities, and to let them tell their stories in their own words. They talk a bit about their backgrounds, a bit more about how they and their units prepared for conflict, and then give detailed accounts of individual missions or phases of the war. Defense suppression, counter-air, deep interdiction, battlefield interdiction, close air support, air superiority, search and rescue, airlift—all find their place. The variety is at once both necessary and refreshing; necessary in order to convey the complexity and interdependency of air warfare, and refreshing because of the widely different personalities who tell the stories.

There are fliers who sleep in air-conditioned hotels and those who sleep in tents or on hangar floors. There are those who fly aircraft unseeable by enemy radar and who drop their ordnance by state-of-the-art computers, and others who know the term “supersonic” only from pilot training memories and who still use “iron” sights. There are those who emerge unscathed from MiG engagements and ZSU-23-4 traps, and those who get hit by missiles they never see. There are missions that go exactly as planned, and others that start off on the wrong foot and then get worse. Indeed, some of the accounts pilot readers will find most gripping deal with the latter kind: the carefully planned and coordinated strike where some wingmen abort on the ground, some support elements can’t get to their tanker and turn back, the target weather turns out worse than forecast—and the mission inexorably goes very, very wrong.

The overall narrative is highly readable, with the fliers candid about both their skill and their fallibilities, and with Herlik-asauthor interjecting comments to explain the jargon and stitching the narratives together to follow the flow of the conflict as a whole. Part of the readability stems from the fact that some aspects of air warfare haven’t changed much since Bong and Doolittle (and even less since Ritchie and Cunningham) and are (’69 Reunion: From previous page.)

the photos for the reunion archives; a cross-section of the pictures accompanies this article, and others will likely show up in the final video.

One of our class guests, Mrs. Eileen White, and son Dick (who didn’t know she would be at the reunion).

thus comfortably familiar to many of the readers Herlik hopes to reach.

One of the book’s strengths, however, is the occasional surprise or interesting wrinkle that he brings to the pages: The airlift effort that formed the backbone of the preparations for war is described by a female C-5 pilot, who turns out to be the most outspoken storyteller of the bunch. The role of the A-6 is recounted mostly by a bombardier/navigator, rather than his pilot. The fighterbomber is represented not only by Marine, Navy and Air Force aircraft, but also by the Royal Air Force GR-1 Tornado. And the attack helicopter is not forgotten in the noise and glamor of conventional-wing jets.

By far the most innovative portion of Separated by War, however, is the focus that Herlik puts on the family members and loved ones the fliers leave behind. Each combat story is followed by a shorter firsthand account from a wife, sister, mother or (in the case of the C-5 pilot) father about life suddenly without their flier. The absences are fertile human-interest material, of course, because of the personal danger to the absentees, but also because what they are doing quickly becomes the media focus of the entire world. For good or ill, these are not separations to be endured in solitude or detachment. For a change, though, there is heartwarming public support to be related, as well as the more traditional support of family and friends.

To be honest, when I first got into the book I was not sure that this approach was going to “work”—but it does. There is nothing

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There is an item of unfinished business that the class as an entity must continue to address—our gift to the Academy. There will be a separate letter going out to all of the guys detailing the various options open to the class. In the interim, the most important near-term goal is to get more than just the 25-year Reunion Committee involved in this effort. Brad DeAustin has agreed to continue to lead the gift committee, but now he needs people to spearhead gift selection (including a decision on a one-time gift versus a long-term endowment fund), fund-raising, and—if we go the endowment route—long-term administration. Please consider volunteering to serve the class and USAFA through involvement in this task, and pass this request on to classmates who won’t see it in Checkpoints. If you’re interested or have questions, give Brad a call (719-472-3642). And be looking for the separate letter.

In closing, all of us on the reunion committee thoroughly enjoyed planning the festivities. We sincerely hope that those of you who were able to attend made the most of the chance to visit old haunts and re-establish friendships. We look forward to seeing as much of the class as possible at the 30th. Oh, by the way—it’s not too early to start thinking about who will chair the next gathering. Steve and Mike are looking forward to the title of Reunion Chairman Emeritus. Volunteers, anyone?

New Aircraft Trainer: Better Training, Lower Cost

By SrA. Steve Horton Falcon Flyer Staff

The beginning of the new year marked a new era in Academy cadet pilot training.

With the first class of cadets using the new T-3A Slingsby Firefly trainer aircraft in January, the cadet pilot training program stepped up to a level that will enable the Academy to better screen and prepare cadets for Undergraduate Pilot Training.

The T-3A, which replaced the aging T-41 Mescalero, is capable of maneuvers pilots perform during UPT in T-37s and T-38s.

“The T-41 was a basic civilian type aircraft that flew a box pattern with no aerobatics, said Lt. Col. James Thomas, 557th Flying Training Squadron commander. “The T-3A flies an overhead pattern and is fully aerobatic and spinnable, maneuvers pilot candidates will do in the T-37s and T-38s during UPT.”

In the past, according to Thomas, people have been eliminated from pilot training in the early stages of T-37 training primarily because they can’t do overhead patterns. However, in the T-3A, cadets will learn overhead patterns and know what to expect going into training. The overhead pattern is a 360-degree military pattern designed to handle a maximum number of aircraft with minimum congestion, and is the pattern pilots use during UPT and throughout their careers.

Second Lt. Fang Lu, ’94; Capt. Ron Sanders, ’85; Capt. Dave White, ’86; and Capt. Brian Cox, ’85, of the 557th Flying Training Squadron look over the newly-arrived T-3 “Firefly, a highperformance trainer built by Slingsby-Northrup. The T-3 is replacing the venerable Cessna T-41 “Mescalero”after more than 25 years of service as the Air Force’s flight screening trainer aircraft. The 557th will receive 57 ofthe new aircraft by the spring of 1995, complementing the squadron of T-3s at Hondo, Texas, as the Air Force’s only flight screening locations for pilot training candidates. (Photo by Larry Hulst)

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more genuinely joyful in the reading than the descriptions of the fliers’ homecomings. There is nothing more chilling than the account of the wife whose best friend drops over quietly and unexpectedly one afternoon, to be followed shortly thereafter by the formal visit from her husband’s old squadron commander and wing commander.

Separated by War is not a book about world leaders and grand strategy; it is a book about individuals tasked with executing one part of a military campaign. They, and thousands others like them, did their jobs well and, from our perspective, the world is better off for their skill and self-sacrifice. Their stories are individually fascinating and collectively thought-provoking. Desert Storm is an important chapter in the history of air warfare, and Ed Herlik has given us an intriguing insight into the people who made it so. (Reviewed by Edwin J. Montgomery Jr., Colonel, USAF (Ret), Class of 1959.)

“Changing to the T-3A provides us with better screening and better information to determine who should go to pilot training,” Thomas said. “This enables us to send more qualified people with less chance of washing out.”

The process of changing to the T-3A began in 1989 at WrightPatterson AFB, Ohio, where it was one of 11 aircraft models the Air Force was considering to purchase.

“The T-3A was chosen after extensive testing of all 11 aircraft because of its handling characteristics and maintainability,” said Lt. Col. Denny Grady, 557th FTS director of operations. “A team of experts spent five months evaluating the capabilities of each aircraft. The Air Force chose the T-3A because of its cost, its performance ability and it best met the needs of the Air Force. The schedule of manufacturing also was a benefit to the Air Force.

Each T-3A cost $300,000, about 10 times that of the T-41, but it’s money well spent according to Thomas. “Flying costs here are about $58 per hour,” said Thomas. “When cadets go on to jets, the T-37 and the T-38 costs much more per hour. So by screening possible pilot candidates better here, using the T-3As at $58 per hour, and only sending those who will stand a better chance of not washing out of UPT after 40 or so hours in the T-37s, the savings add up tremendously.”

According to Air Education and Training Command officials at Randolph AFB, flying costs for the T-37 are $270 per hour and the T-38 runs $682 per hour. “We are trying to make the best decisions here to reduce the overall cost of pilot training,” said Thomas. “The program helps us become a guardian of the taxpayers’ money. It should have significant cost savings to the taxpayer in the long run as well as provide a better quality product.”

To help in making decisions, the training syllabus has changed considerably. Instead of 11 sorties the cadets will now fly 19 and do significantly more aerobatics and area solos. They are also required to fly 26.2 hours and have 25.5 hours of academics, which is up from about six hours for the T-41.

Along with the change in the training syllabus, the T-3As fly a different pattern than the T-41. The T-41 flew a rectangular box pattern while the T-3A uses a jet overhead pattern, changing the area the cadets fly over. “The T-3A is actually a quieter aircraft, but because our ground track changed, we received a few noise complaints,” said Thomas. “To eliminate or reduce noise, we have altered our departure times and raised our traffic patterns.”

With the T-3A designed to last 18,000 hours, it will be flown here for close to 30 years and will train more than 600 cadets per year. By February the Academy had received 26 of the 56 T-3As scheduled for delivery within the next nine months. (The Falcon Flyer)

This first Academy T-3 was number 29 off the assembly line and arrived at the Academy on Sept. 22, 1994. Note it has five props and wings on its tail as opposed to the Hondo aircraft at left which have seven state of Texas emblems on the tail flash. (Photo by Larry Hulst)

‘Oh Lord, it’s hard to be humble...

By Julie Bird and Vago Muradian Air Force Times Staff Writers

When you ’re a Harley-riding historian

Fogleman, a 52-year-old native of Lewistown, Pa., a town of fewer than 10,000 in the mountains northwest of Harrisburg, is a

(Editor’s note: The following story and chronology on Gen. Ronald R. Fogleman, ’63, who became the first Air Force Academy graduate Air Force ChiefofStaff on Oct. 26, 1994, appeared in the Air Force Times newspaper edition of Sept. 12, 1994. Reprint courtesy of Air Force Times. Copyright by Army Times Publishing Co., Springfield, Va.)

You probably think of a formal occasion such as a change-ofcommand ceremony or an awards banquet when you think of the Air Force chief of staff.

You picture the chief striding across a stage in dress blues and hear a band playing “Ruffles and Flourishes,” one ruffle and one flourish for each of the general’s stars.

But would you picture the chief of staff chugging down the highway astride a huge Harley-Davidson motorcycle, listening to Janis Joplin tunes? Would you think of him wearing bib overalls and installing plumbing? Running a pig farm? Or restoring Datsun or Nissan Z-cars?

You should.

Meet Gen. Ronald R. Fogleman, who is nominated to be the Air Force’s chief of staff.

Stats on Gen. Fogleman, First Graduate AF Chief of Staff

Personal

■ Age: 52.

■ Wife’s name: Miss Jane.

■ Two sons.

Professional

■ Command pilot and parachutist with more than 5,500 flight hours.

Education

■ Bachelor of science degree, Air Force Academy, 1963.

■ Master’s degree in military history and political science, Duke University, 1971.

■ Graduate of Army War College, 1976.

Assignments

■ June 1963 to December 1967—Student pilot, then T-37 instructor and flight examiner at Vance Air Force Base, Okla.

■ December 1967 to June 1968—F-100 training at Luke Air Force Base, Ariz.

■ June 1968 to December 1968—F-100 pilot with the 510th Tactical Fighter Squadron at Bien Hoa Air Base, South Vietnam.

■ December 1968 to April 1969—Operation Commando Sabre F-100 forward air controller, 37th Tactical Fighter Wing, South Vietnam.

■ April 1969 to September 1969—F-100 fighter pilot with the 510th.

■ September 1969 to December 1970—Student at Duke University and Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio.

■ December 1970 to April 1973—History instructor at the Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, Colo.

■ April 1973 to August 1974—F-4 flight commander with the 421st Tactical Fighter Squadron at Udorn Royal Thai Air Base, Thailand.

■ August 1974 to July 1975—Chief of the rated officer career planning section at the headquarters of the Air Force Reserve Personnel Center,

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MISSION

To provide leadership and service to the graduate community, supportfor the Academy mission, and preservation of institutional heritage and traditions.

Lowry Air Force Base, Colo.

■ July 1975 to August 1976—Student at the Army War College, Carlisle, Pa.

■ August 1977 to February 1978—Assistant deputy commander for operations and later chief of standardization and evaluation, 36th Tactical Fighter Wing, Bitburg Air Base, Germany.

■ March 1978 to June 1979—Deputy commander for operations, 32nd Tactical Fighter Squadron, Camp New Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

■ June 1979 to August 1981—Chief, programs directorate of the tactical forces division, Air Force headquarters, the Pentagon.

■ August 1981 to June 1982—Vice commander of the 388th Tactical Fighter Wing, Hill Air Force Base, Utah.

■ June 1982 to March 1983—Director of fighter operations for the deputy chief of staff for operations, Tactical Air Command, Langley Air Force Base, Va.

■ March 1983 to August 1984—Commander of the 56th Tactical Training Wing, MacDill Air Force Base, Fla.

■ August 1984 to March 1986—Commander of the 836th Air Division, Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz.

■ March 1986 to January 1988—Deputy director for programs and evaluation for the deputy chief of staff for programs and evaluation, Air Force headquarters, Chairman of the Programs Review Council.

■ January 1988 to June 1990—Director of programs and evaluation and chairman of the Air Staff Board at Air Force headquarters.

■ July 1990 to August 1993—Commander of the 7th Air Force; deputy commander in the chief of the United Nations Command; deputy commander of U.S. Forces in Korea; commander of Korea and U.S. Air Component Command, Osan Air Base, Korea.

■ August 1992 to October 1994—Commander in chief of the U.S. Transportation Command and commander of the Air Mobility Command, Scott Air Force Base, Ill.

Major awards and decorations

Defense Distinguished Service Medal, Distinguished Service Medal, Silver Star, Legion of Merit with oak leaf cluster, Distinguished Flying Cross with oak leaf cluster, Purple Heart, Meritorious Service Medal, Air Medal with 17 oak leaf clusters, Aerial Achievement Medal, Air Force Commendation Medal with two oak leaf clusters, Vietnam Service Medal with three service stars, Order of National Security Merit-Kooksun, and Republic of Vietnam Gallantry Cross with palm.

Dates of promotion

Second lieutenant, June 1963; first lieutenant, December 1964; captain, March 1967; Major, March 1971; lieutenant colonel, May 1975; colonel, January 1980; brigadier general, October 1985; major general, February 1988; lieutenant general, July 1990; general September 1992.

A younger General Fogleman, at left, with classmate Daniel Diets. Both commanded CS-13.

curious mix of academic and down-home regular guy, according to acquaintances and co-workers.

He played football at the Air Force Academy, where he graduated in 1963. If confirmed, he will be the first academy graduate to be chief of staff. In 1968 and 1969, as a captain, he flew the F-100 Super Sabre in Vietnam.

He was shot down during the war, ejecting and landing in a rice paddy in an area known as the Black Forest, said retired Gen. Robert W. Bazley, former commander of Pacific Air Forces, who was part of Fogleman’s formation that day.

North Vietnamese troops were “all around him,” Bazley said. “But they couldn’t find him. He kept going under water.”

Fogleman was calm as he talked to the other three pilots on his emergency radio, despite the AK-47 gunfire in the background. For an hour or so, the other three pilots dropped bombs and fired their guns to keep the enemy soldiers away from Fogleman. Finally, two Army Cobra helicopter gunships came and hovered over the water, bullets zinging into the choppers.

“And here comes Fogleman, and he’s a big guy, over 200 pounds, and here he came out from the reeds,” Bazley said. “He looked like he was walking on water for about 50 yards... He straddled the rocket pod and they were out of there.”

History teacher

After Vietnam Fogleman taught history at the academy from December 1970 to April 1973. During that time, he received a master’s degree in military history and political science from Duke University in North Carolina. Even though it has been more than two decades since he taught history, his acquaintances still think of him as a historian.

In February 1988, when he was director of programs and evaluation, Fogleman received his second star. But he hadn’t forgotten his old history friends, said Alan Gropman, a retired Air Force officer and history instructor whom Fogleman had worked for at the academy.

Another former academy history instructor now living in the Washington area was partly paralyzed after being struck by a van and was unable to climb stairs. The family had been told it would cost $45,000 to convert their garage into an office, bedroom and bathroom.

Fogleman said he could do it for $5,000 if other former academy history department people in the region would provide the labor, Gropman said. Fogleman wore a pair of bib overalls proclaiming he represented the “Good Enough Construction Company” and helped supervise the three-month project. He also did much of the work, including the plumbing, Gropman said.

He also has used his construction skills to build a pig farm in Tennessee and a house in the southwestern Colorado town of Durango. He has since sold the farm, officials said.

When Fogleman arrived at Air Mobility Command in August 1992, the troops quickly took to their new commander and his wife, who is known as Miss Jane.

Mandt, ’78, to Manage Program

Gregory A. Mandt of Alexandria, Va., has been named manager of a major satellite program at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

Mandt will manage NOAA’s polar-orbiting operational environmental satellite program. These satellites provide information about the Earth’s oceans and atmosphere, including location and size of severe storms, temperature of the atmosphere, sea and land, the size of the ozone hole, and the location and amount of dust from volcanoes, which can cause hazards to airplanes.

Mandt has been with NOAA for the past two years. He has served with NOAA’s National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service in Suitland, Md., and recently was detailed to the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy, where he provided expertise on an upcoming merger of NOAA’s polar environmental program with that of the Department of Defense. Before joining NOAA, Mandt served in the Air Force.

The command’s senior enlisted people presented Fogleman with their Order of the Sword earlier this summer, according to people who were at the event. At some point, the band played a Mac Davis tune entitled “Lord, It’s Hard to be Humble”—a spoof said to be enjoyed by Fogleman, a fan of country and western music.

Fogleman enthusiastically led the approximately 600 noncommissioned officers and guests in the chorus, which goes like this: “Oh Lord, it’s hard to be humble when you’re perfect in every way.

I can’t wait to look in the mirror ’cause I get better looking each day.

To know me is to love me I must be a helluva man. Oh Lord, it’s hard to be humble but I’m doing the best that I can.”

(Editor’s note: The lieutenant colonel selection board results listed below were released in 1994. However, due to an administrative delay, the AOG did not receive the information until recently and opted to publish the results in this magazinefor our member’s information.

Graduates Selected for Lieutenant Colonel Regular Air Force (Line Officers)

Class of 1980

Below-the-Zone Selectees

Lauri K. Cross

Daniel S. Adams Jr. Gary L. Crowder

William F. Andrews Patrick E. Duffy

Michael D. Cardenas

Andre A. Gerner

Robert E. Chapman II Frederick H. Martin

Joseph F. Cheney

Thomas J. Masiello

Susan Y. Desjardins William B. McClure

Marty J. Edmonds Harry D. Polumbo Jr.

Thomas P. Ehrhard

Jay G. Santee

Micahel W. Ford Michael W. Spencer

Ali C. Frohlich

Jeffrey L. Holt

Jarrett D. Jordan

Joseph A. Lanni

Curtiss R. Petrek

Jeffrey E. Stambaugh

Terence R. Szanto

Raymond G. Torres

Kay J. Winslow

Joseph E. Zeis Jr.

James Riggins Class of 1982

Brian E. Robinson

Philip M. Ruhlman

Cathy C. Clothier

Thomas Dietz

Charles K. Shugg Barbara J. Faulkenberry

James R. Smith

Daryl P. Jones

James M. Smothermon Mitchell M. Miller

James O. Tubbs

Dartanian Warr

Lyn D. Sherlock

Suzanne M. Vautrinot

Edwin A. Zehner Class of 1983

Class of 1981

Bruce H. Acker

Gregory A. Biscone

Brian T. Bishop

Dwyer L. Dennis

John W. Hesterman III

Jeffrey J. Blessing Thomas M. Mahoney

Frank K. Brooks Jr. Michael A. Rampino

Gregory S. Coale

David C. Schreck

Other than Line Officers

Four members of the Class of 1979 were selected in the zone for the judge advocate category.

Academy Announces Disenrollment Changes

The Academy recently announced several changes in the procedures to disenroll cadets that will streamline the process, ensure due process for affected cadets and bring these procedures more in line with standard Air Force discharge procedures. The new procedures went into effect Jan. 1.

The procedural changes should reduce the voluntary and involuntary processing time from five to six months to less than 60 days. They ensure that the cadet, along with counsel, has full access to all records and the opportunity to respond to all allegations. Cadets will also be given written procedures providing a step-by-step detailed description of the process.

The secretary of the Air Force has delegated approval authority to the Academy superintendent for disenrollment decisions affecting third- and fourth-class (sophomore and freshmen) cadets, except those who incur an active-duty commitment as a result of prior service.

In addition, the secretary granted the superintendent approval authority for voluntary resignations, either for personal reasons or in lieu of honor, misconduct or other administrative actions, for all classes; and for involuntary disenrollments based on academic or physical education review committee recommendations.

Involuntary disenrollment actions for first- and second-class (senior and junior) cadets and resignations in lieu of court-martial or resignations under other than honorable conditions will continue to be forwarded to the secretary of the Air Force. In cases

where affected cadets dispute collateral consequences of disenrollment decisions such as active-duty service or payback of educational costs, the secretary will decide those disputes even in cases where the disenrollment decision was made by the superintendent.

Other procedural changes include elimination of the Squadron Commander Review Board and the Commandant’s Disciplinary Board in favor of fact-finding investigations by law enforcement personnel or command-directed inquiries.

Corporate Life Members

Association of Graduates, USAFA

Air Academy National Bank

Air Force Association

Ampex Corporation

Betac Corporation

Boeing Aerospace Company

Budget Rent a Car Corporation

Continental Electronics

(Division of Varian Associates,Inc.)

Electronic Data Systems Corporation

Embassy Suites Hotel of Colorado Springs

General Dynamics Corporation

McDonnell Douglas Corporation

The MITRE Corporation

Motorola, Inc.

Government Electronics Group

PRC,Inc.

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, Doolittle Hall, U.S. Air Force Academy, Colo. 80840-6600. Phone (719) 472-0300.

Graduate Dependent Scholarship

Two members ofthe Greater Chicago Chapter of the AOG present a $1,500 graduate dependent scholarship check to Christa Gannon, a first-year student at Northwestern University Law School in Chicago. A top graduate of the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a varsity basketballplayer there, Gannon is the daughter ofJohn B. Gannon, ’70. From left are Capt. Tom Krise, ’83, Greater Chicago Chapterpresident; Gannon; and Lt. Col. Fred Strauss (USAFR), ’71, chapter secretary.

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1995 Service Academies Business Resource Directory

1. The 1995 Service Academies Business Resource Directory (SABRD) will be mailed in January 1995. Orders subject to availability.

2. When the number printed is gone, there will be no more available until next year.

Please send copies of the 1995

Name SABRD @ $30.00 each.

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ORDER NOW TO OBTAIN YOUR 1995 COPY OF THIS JOINT SERVICE ACADEMIES BUSINESS RESOURCE DIRECTORY

Dear AOG Member:

It is with tremendous pride that your Association of Graduates introduces another member service: the Service Academies Business Resource Directory (SABRD). This new, annual publication is a directory of civilian positions held by graduates of the Air Force Academy, Coast Guard Academy, Military Academy and Naval Academy.

Born from the belief that your AOG exists to serve its members, this directory serves a number of purposes. I strongly encourage you to use the order form to purchase this members-only directory.

The SABRD can be used like the Yellow Pages: when you need a job done, check for a service academy graduate in that business in your area and give them the opportunity to provide the services you need. Whether you need a doctor, lawyer, realtor, plumber, etc., you’ll be able to find an academy graduate worldwide to help you. Further, those making career changes can use the directory to find graduates from the four academies willing to provide networking support and assistance.

If you have any questions about the SABRD, feel free to call your AOG services staff. We know that you will find this a highly useful publication at a very reasonable price.

CH SCHWANK, Col, USAF (Ret), ’60 President, Services

SACC

What is the SACC1

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Academy Career Conference %%

April 28-29, 1995 %

The SACC is the Service Academy Career Conference supported by the Alumni Associations from the U.S. Naval Academy (Annapolis) and U.S. Coast Guard Academy (New London) and Associations of Graduates from the U.S. Military Academy (West Point) and the U.S. Air Force Academy (Colorado Springs). The two previous Conferences have been attended by a total of 75 companies and 2000 alumni.

Who will be the candidates at the SACC1

The candidates will be alumni from the Service Academies. These individuals have learned the lessons of leadership, integrity and time management during their undergraduate years. These skills have been honed and tested during active duty military service in a fast paced operational environment. The highest sense of personal honor and commitment to getting the job done are common traits among our alumni. Alumni of the Service Academies are a true representation of our multi-cultural society and span the experience levels from entry to senior executives.

Who is a typical candidate?

Alumni of the Service Academies have a strong background in technical course material, as well as demonstrated leadership and management skills. Over 60% have post-graduate degrees.

Where will the SACC be held?

The SACC will be held at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel - Pentagon City, Arlington, Virginia.

What is the schedule for the SACC ?

The tentative schedule for the SACC is as follows:

Thursday, April 27,1995 - 12 Noon - Recruiter check-in and receipt of resume books and electronic versions of resumes.

Friday, April 28,1995 - Two Open Sessions

10:00 AM to 2 :00 PM

Recruiter Break

4:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Saturday, April 29, 1995 - Interviews as scheduled by company recruiters.

What is the company registration fee?

The company registration fee is $1000/lst table with additional tables being obtained for $750/2nd table, $500/3rd table, $250/4th table. This fee entitles a company access to the best candidates in corporate America; one sleeping/interview room for two nights; open sessions to meet with candidates; opportunity for on-site interviews. For each table registered, a company receives hard copies of all resumes submitted and an electronic version of the resumes with search software. Hotel room reservation information will be sent after this form is received by SACC office. Blocks of rooms have been reserved at the Ritz and at Embassy Suites.

SACC

What is the SACC?

The SACC is the Service Academy Career Conference supported by the Alumni Associations from the U S Naval Academy and U S Coast Guard Academy and Associations of Graduates from the U S Military Academy and the U S Air Force Academy. The two previous Conferences were attended by a total of 75 companies and 2000 alumni.

Where will the SACC be held?

The 1995 SACC will be held at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Pentagon City in Arlington, VA. You may obtain a room at the Ritz for the SACC rate of $159 a night plus tax. Call 703-415-5000 for reservations and ask for the SACC rate. There are many other hotels available in the area, or think about renewing relationships with classmates in the Washington, DC area.

Watch Checkpoints for further details.

How to register for the SACC:

1. Insure your AOG membership is current.

2. Send two copies of your resume (resumes strictly limited to one page/one side). This resume should be the version that sells you the best, not necessarily the one generated using the Electronic Resume Program.

3. Complete the Electronic Resume AND Attribute Program Disk obtained through the AOG for $25 (see order form in this issue of Checkpoints or call 719-472-0300). Return a copy of the completed disk to the AOG. Disks MUST ABSOLUTELY BE RETURNED NLT 24 MARCH 1995 in order to be provided to recruiters at this Conference.

a. If you have previously submitted a disk to the AOG as part of the Joint Academies Resume Service you do not need to submit another.

Service Academy Career Conference

April 28-29, 1995

b. Disks received after 24 March, although not provided to recruiters at this SACC, will be entered into the Joint Academies Resume Service data base for distribution to subsequent potential employers.

c. Recruiters at previous SACC’s found the electronic data base extremely helpful. Be sure yours is accurate and complete.

4. To participate in the April ’95 SACC, send the following to the SACC office no later than 24 March 1995.

a. Completed registration form below

b. A $20 registration fee, payable to SACC.

c. Two hard copies of your resume (one page/one side)

5. Upon receipt of the above items, you will receive a confirmation notice with a definitive schedule.

6. The tentative schedule for the SACC is as follows:

Friday, April 28, 1995:

^Registration opens at 9:00 am and continues throughout the day

*Two open sessions from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm and 4:00 pm to 8:00 pm

Saturday, April 29, 1995:

^Recruiters may schedule individual interviews

It is very unlikely that resumes or disks received after 24 March will be included in the package that is provided to each recruiter.

If you have any questions on this AOG membership service, please contact the AOG Vice President of Services, Col (Ret) Jock Schwank or Mrs Cheryl Brower at 719-472-0300.

ATTENTION IN THE AREA

By Col. Jock C.H. Schwank (USAF, Ret), ’60 AOG Vice President, Services

Class Ring Information

Graduates who need to replace or have their Academy class rings repaired should go 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 significantly. Below are the manufacturers and how to contact them:

Jostens

c/o Seal Seykora

4890 S. Kitteredge St. Aurora, Colo. 80015 (303) 699-9199

Classes of 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968

1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1976

1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982

1983, 1984, 1986, 1989, 1990, 1991 1992

Balfour Company Classes of 1959, 1961, 1964, 1965

c/o Jess Crane 1966, 1967, 1969, 1975, 1994

3502 S. Marion St. Englewood, CO 80110 (303) 789-0623 (Evenings: 303-757-0557)

Herff Jones Classes of 1985, 1987, 1988, 1993

226 Publis Street Providence, RI 02905 (401) 331-1240

Bad Addresses Cost $$$

A reminder to all members: As you may know, postage rates increased in January. Along with that increase, return mail (i.e., address changes from Checkpoints mailouts) has increased to 50 cents a return. Although your association pays these fees, it could affect membership fees in the future. Therefore, we ask that you give us your new address promptly.

Kentucky Vietnam Vets Reunion

The Seventh Annual Kentucky Vietnam Veterans’ reunion will be held in Frankfort, Ky. at the Holiday Inn Capital Plaza May 19-21, 1995. For more information, either write Bill Robinson, P.O. Box 16404, Shively, Ky. 40256-0404, or call (502) 363-5296. The reunion is open to all, but is especially oriented toward military personnel, both active and separated.

Polish-American Who's Who

The Bicentennial Publishing Corp. is planning to publish a Polish-

American Who’s Who, in which they want to include the thousands of Polish Americans who have served their country as testimony that PolishAmerican members of the U.S. military are proud of their heritage.

If you are of Polish descent, have served in the U.S. military or have achieved other notable success, and wish to be included in the book, please contact the Bicentennial Publishing Corp., 333 W. 38th St., New York, N.Y. 10018. Phone: (212) 594-2266. There is no cost involved and the selection of your name does not involve any obligation to buy the book.

Inappropriate Use of Register Addresses

The AOG has noticed a significant increase in the use of graduate addresses listed in the Register for business purposes not sanctioned by your AOG. This is directly in violation of AOG policy as well as an infringement of Copyright laws as spelled out on the first page of the 1994 Register.

The AOG requests that members notify the vice president, Services, immediately of any non-AOG-sanctioned solicitation they receive where their mailing address was apparently obtained from the Register. The AOG will contact the mailer to ascertain how they obtained your address. The names of those who inappropriately used the Register will be published in future editions of Checkpoints.

AOG mailings are normally easy to identify as they will include a cover letter on AOG, Class or Chapter letterhead and/or be signed by an appropriate board, class or chapter officer or an AOG senior staff member. If you have any doubt about the appropriateness of a mailing, please call the AOG.

Air Academy National Bank. (800) 365-5890

LINE OF CREDIT

unsecured

information call (800) 274-6711.

SCHOLARSHIPS—

a preparatory school scholarship via the Falcon Foundation.

post secondary scholarships to graduates’ children

SABER RENTAL—

sets of six for the military wedding.

LOCATOR SERVICE—

LONG

get a special 5% AOG discount over and above MCI’s regular long distance rates at home and on the road. This discount can also be combined with MCI’s Friends and Family discount program for a total savings of 25%. You’ll receive a personalized USAFA AOG long distance calling card absolutely free. To enroll call 1-800-SKY-USAF (1-800-759-8723).

TRAVEL SERVICE—

year-round member rebate travel program for vacation, business and reunions. Call Camelot Travel at 1-800-877-5444 and reference the AOG Travel Number AOGX.

REUNION/HOMECOMINGS— coordination and planning by your AOG.

MERCHANDISE/MEMORABILIA—

Academy/AOG-unique items created especially for members.

CAR RENTAL DISCOUNTS—

special rate from Budget - (800) 772-3773 (AOG ID 4 876-00-09402/Rate Code: WE91). You must present your AOG-provided Budget card when picking up your car.

HOTEL DISCOUNTS—

save 10% at participating Clarion, Comfort, Econo Lodge, Rodeway, Friendship, Quality and Sleep Inns, Hotels, Resorts-(800) 4-CHOICE. (Ask for the travelers discount for AFA AOG members, ID #C00041511).

15% savings at Woodfin Suites-(800) 237-8811.

an approximate 20% saving at the Embassy Suites Hotel of Colorado Springs. Call (719) 599-9100 and ask for the AOG RSVIP Rate (excludes special and group events). You must present your AOG membership card on check-in.

save 10-25% at the Radisson Inn North (formerly Sheraton Inn North) just outside the USAFA South Gate. Call (719) 598-5770 and ask for the Association of Graduates rate (excludes special or group events... discount depends on time of year and room availability). You must present your AOG membership card on check-in.

save 50% at the Colorado Springs Marriott when traveling January, March, April and October, November, December. Call 1-800-962-6982 and ask for the AOG VIP Rate (excludes group, special events and promotional rates). Discount based on rack rates and subject to availability. Must present AOG membership card upon checkin.

AOG Biographical Information

From: NAME

To: AOG, USAF Academy

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

Are you willing to help graduates in a civilian career transition through the AOG job opportunity program by providing them information about your industry? Yes NO If “YES”, would you prefer to be contacted at: HOME OFFICE EITHER

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3116 Academy Drive, Suite 100 USAF Academy, CO 80840-4475

AOG Gift Merchandise

BOOKS: The Iskra Incident by Jimmie H. Butler, ’63; 366 pages, hardbound, signed by author. $19.95

Red Lightning, Black Thunder by Jimmie H. Butler, ’63, 439 pages, hardbound, signed by author. $21.95

Vietnam Above the Treetops by John F. Flanagan, ’62; 300 pages, hardbound, signed by author. $24.95

Separated by War by Ed Herlik, ’80, 292 pages, hardbound, signed by author. $24.95

Into the Mouth of the Cat about Lance Sijan, ’65; by Malcolm McConnell, 253 pages, hardbound. $ 9.00

Raid on Quaddafi by Robert E. Venkus, ’63; 189 pages, hardbound, signed by author. $21.95

Academy 25th Anniversary Book, a pictorial history of the Academy, 260 pages, 9"x 12", hardbound. $12.50

WILD BLUE U. Video (45-minute VHS tape of Academy life produced by KUSA Channel 9 Denver)

Academy Sport Cap With class year: $15.00

Without numerals

License Plate Frames

(Imprinted either “Alumnus” or “Falcons” at top & “U.S. Air Force Academy” at bottom)

One

Circle Choice: Alumnus Falcons Two

CADET ISSUE CLOTHING (AOG members only) (indicate quantity in front of size)

QtyUSAFA or AOG (circle choice) Blazer Patch (pin back, metallic thread)

Coffee Cups (white)

Doolittle Hall Marble Coaster

Falcon Etched on Marble Plaque, 10% "x 12Vi"

Laser-Engraved Walnut Plaque (of Cadet Area)

17 Vi "X 13 Vi

Cadet Saber (Sold to graduate AOG members only)

FINE ART PRINTS: “Here’s a Toast” Limited edition of 850 signed and numbered by the artist Keith Ferris. 24"x30" print of F-16 missing man formation flown during the 1983 Homecoming Memorial Ceremony.

“Gyrfalcon:” Limited AOG commemorative issue signed by artist, Charles Frace. 20"x26" print.

’82 “Thunderbirds Over Academy:” Limited edition of 750 signed by artist, Rick Broome, 20" X 28 print.

USAFA Silk Tie blue or garnet (circle choice)

AOG Charm (% sterling silver by Jostens)

TOTAL ORDER

NON-AOG members please add 20%

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Packaging, Shipping Handling - add $3.25 or 10% of order (whichever is greater)

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Your AOG is pleased to announce a new service to graduate AOG members. We have joined forces with the alumni associations of West Point, Annapolis, and the Coast Guard Academy to jointly provide resumes on graduates from all academies to prospective employers.

The goal of this easy-to-use service is to maximize the employment opportunities for our graduate members seeking a career change. Establishing a network of employers, as well as a database of potential graduate employees, is an integral part of this joint effort. By combining forces with the other service academies we have greatly enhanced our graduates’ probability of being evaluated by a company that knows the value of an academy background. Send $25 (check or money order) to the AOG and in a few days you will receive:

Resume Program

Makes quick work of the difficult task of creating a resume

Produces professionally appealing, typeset resumes

Job Attributes Program

• Collects personal data and employment preferences:

► Education, graduate & undergraduate

► Language ability and computer skills

► Work experience, military & civilian

► Industry and position preferences

► Geographic preferences

► Security Clearance

► And other pertinent information

Used by Employers to identify You

Complete the easy-to-use, menu-driven job preference and resume programs on any DOS computer (3 lA” disk) and send a copy of the program output files to the AOG for inclusion in the database.

:n *E ONE OF YOUR OWN

Many of you are in a position to make or influence hiring decisions for your Company. If you wish to obtain a disk set of Service Academy Alumni resumes, attributes and job preferences with search and retrieval capability, send your request to the AOG with a check or money order. The price for the disk package is $150 (a discount is available to graduate AOG members for personal use). A quarterly subscription rate for the corporate disk package is available upon request. The program will only work on a computer running Windows 3.0 or higher.

EH Yes, I would like to be in the database and I enclose a check or money order for $25

EH Yes, I would like to receive a database of Service Academy Alumni and enclosed a check or money order for $150

Your Name:

Company Name:

Address:

Return the completed form and your check to:

Association of Graduates

3116 Academy Drive, Suite 100 USAF Academy, CO 80840-4475

If a USAFA graduate, year of graduation:

Whether you are an individual graduate investigating a career change or an employer seeking a superior performer, this new AOG service for graduate members may well provide you the best approach. Send in the completed form or contact the AOG Vice President, Services, Col(Ret) Jock Schwank at (719) 472 - 0300 for further information.

FALCON SPORTS

Clune Inducted into Colorado Hall of Fame

Former Academy athletic director Col. John J. Clune was among five inductees chosen in December for membership in the Colorado Sports Hall of Fame in Denver. Clune, who died of lung cancer in 1992, supervised the Academy athletics program from 1975 to 1991 when he retired.

Clune was the driving force in bringing the Air Force sports program to the national collegiate sports level, and it was his efforts that led to the Academy entering the Western Athletic Conference in 1980, giving the Falcons credibility and a chance to compete in post-season championship play in many sports.

Within a year of taking over as the athletic director in 1975, Clune helped create a 10-sport women’s program in conjunction with the Academy admitting the first female cadets to the school. “When women’s sports came in, we decided to go with 10 intercollegiate sports although there were only 155 women,’’ said Clune in a 1989 interview. “Army went with one, while Navy

Football Team Rallies

By SSgt. Doug Roth Falcon Flyer Staff

Tied for second in the Western Athletic Conference.

Eight wins in the last nine games.

Home for the holidays.

Air Force finished its season Dec. 3 with a 37-24 pounding of Hawaii, at Hawaii, a trip the team had to console themselves as their “bowl game.”

Snubbed by bowl committees for teams with worse records (Air Force owned a better record than 17 teams invited to seasonending spectacles and is the only team in the nation with eight wins which wasn’t invited), Air Force finished in style. The team blew out to a 21-0 lead in the first quarter against Hawaii, never looking back on the way to the win.

The Falcons have won six straight WAC games which is the second-best streak in school history. The AFA record of eight was set in 1984-85 when Air Force closed the 1984 season by winning its last two WAC games and opened 1985 by winning its first six.

Several Falcons received all-WAC honors. Senior outside linebacker Johnny Harrison and junior offensive lineman Bret Cillessen earned first-team honors. Second-team honors went to senior defensive tackle Erik Davis, senior inside linebacker Steve Russ, senior defensive back Brian Watkins and junior safety LeRon Hudgins. Numerous other Falcons earned honorable mention honors. Only Cillessen and Hudgins will return next year.

Now the Falcons look toward next year and the legacy built by this team, a legacy of winning. After notching a 4-8 record in 1993, this year’s team put Falcon football back on track.

“This football team has done some significant things,” said Coach Fisher DeBerry. “We might have had as big a turnaround as there was in college football this year (going from 4-8 in 1993 to 8-4 in 1994).”

And De Berry believes next year’s team will be just as capable of producing excellent results. “We have a lot of guys who didn’t necessarily start on defense this year who got some valuable playing experience,” the coach said. “We’ll have to find two corners SEE BACK COVER FOR 1995 FOOTBALL SCHEDULE.

went with none. We were holding our collective breath.”

Another honor bestowed on Clune was the 1993 dedication of the cadet field house basketball arena in his memory. While he was recognized for helping the Academy sports program through its growing years, Clune was also a star athlete himself.

A 1954 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, he was named as a Helms Foundation All-American and led the Midshipmen basketball team to the NCAA national tournament in 1954. His single-season scoring average of 24.4 points per game and career average of 22.3 stayed in the Navy record books for 25 years until they were broken by David Robinson, now a superstar player with the San Antonio Spurs.

Joining Clune in the induction to the hall were skiing star Billy Kidd, Olympic cycling gold medalist Connie Carpenter-Phinney, Mesa College Coach Walter Bergman and former baseball pitcher “Smoky” Joe Wood. (The Falcon Flyer)

to 8-4; But No Bowl

for the secondary but some guys have started to come around.”

Women’s Swimming Team Looks to National Title

Two year’s ago, the Falcons knocked on the door of a national championship. Last year, the team banged on the door. This year, the team hopes to kick the door in!

Talk of bringing home the Air Force Academy’s first national championship is warranted when you talk about the women’s swimming team. Last year, the team was runnerup to five-time defending national champion Oakland University, while having 13 swimmers earn All-American honors.

Senior all-everything Tanja Hauber returns to lead the national title march. Hauber won the national title in the 100 breast stroke last year by almost two full seconds with a school-record time of 1:04.59. She also anchored the 400 medley relay team to the national title with a school-record time of 3:52.77.

Hauber also holds school records in the 200 freestyle relay (1:37.30) and the 200 medley relay (1:46.67). She qualified for the national meet this year in the 100 breast stroke (1:06.63), 200 breast stroke (2:25.20) and as a member of the 400 freestyle relay team (3:35.67) with Beth Zeman, Yiotula Chiligiris and Claudine T)hi°-

Johnny Harrison, #43

Two Academy Graduate Flight Surgeons Presented Awards

Dr. (Col.) Thomas M. McNish, ’64, and Dr. (Lt. Col.) Larry M. Allen, ’74, were both recognized for their continuing outstanding service as Air Force Reserve flight surgeons. McNish received the George E. Shafer Award while Allen was named Air Force Reserve Flight Surgeon of the Year. The awards were presented during the 1994 meeting of the Society of USAF Flight

UPT Slots on the Increase for Future Cadet Classes

Academy cadets, whose dream it is to fly, will soon have more of a chance to make that dream come true. The Air Force has allocated 295 undergraduate pilot training authorizations to the Class of ’95, 70 more than the flying slots authorized for the Class of ’94. In addition, the Class of ’95 will have 77 navigator training authorizations, an increase of 50 over the previous class.

Based on current projections, the number of pilot training authorizations for the Class of ’96 and subsequent classes are expected to increase by 50 each year, reaching 550 for the graduating class of 2000. Navigator slots are expected to remain at approximately 70 each year.

These projections are subject to revision based on changing force structure, pilot retention statistics and other factors.

Pilot and navigator upgrade training slots have declined in recent years due to Air Force force structure changes and reduced defense spending.

Pilots and navigators who were not selected for continued upgrade training were assigned to non-flying positions pending availability of pilot or navigator training. These “banked” pilots and navigators are now in flying positions, allowing for an increase in undergraduate training slots.

Brig. Gen. John D. Hopper Jr., 34th Training Wing commander (commandant), summed up the feelings of the Academy: “The increase in undergraduate pilot training slots is definitely good news for the Air Force Academy and the Air Force. A large number of applicants to the Academy are seeking a flying career. Reduced opportunities for flying training slots during the past years have been a continuing disappointment. We are pleased that

(Women’s Swimming: From previous page.)

Hauber is helped by senior team captain Melissa Hyland, who was a four-event scorer at the NCAA’s last year.

Sophomore Maiya Anderson won the national title in the 200 breast stroke as a freshman with a time of 2:21.43 and finished third in the 400 IM (4:30.30) and sixth in the 200 butterfly (2:09.26).

Surgeons during the San Antomio Scientific Meeting of the Aerospace Medical Association (AsMA).

McNish, USAF Reserve Command Surgeon, was presented the George E. Shafer Award which is given to a USAF Medical Corps officer who has made long-term significant contributions to the mission effectiveness of the USAF and to the vitality of aerospace medicine.

Shot down in an F-104 aircraft during the Vietnam War, McNish became a prisoner of war in 1966. After spending years in captivity, he was repatriated in 1973 after which he entered medical school. He has served in numerous key medical positions during his career, is a chief flight surgeon, command pilot, FAAcertified flight instructor, and past recipient of the Julian E. Ward Award.

Allen, an anesthesiologist at Willis-Knighton Medical Center, Shreveport, La. was named Air Force Reserve Flight Surgeon of the Year for his work as flight surgeon of the 917th Medical Squadron, an Air Force Reserve unit at Barksdale AFB, La.

In nominating Allen for the award, Dr. (Col.) Robert L. Savory, squadron commander, emphasized the contributions Allen has made to the unit and its flight medicine section. “Dr. Allen’s enthusiasm has electrified our unit. With his energetic commitment to support the flying organizations, he has elevated our flight medicine section to the best in the Reserve,” Savory said. Allen is now assigned to Headquarters, Air Force Reserve, where he assists with the inspection and guidance of other Reserve units.

more cadets will now have an opportunity to pursue careers as Air Force pilots and navigators.”

The Air Force Academy prepares young men and women for career military service through a rigorous four-year program of academics, military training, athletics and character development leading to a bachelor of science degree and a commission as an Air Force officer. (The Falcon Flyer)

The Sky’s Not the Limit Astronaut and 1980 Academy graduate Lt. Col. Susan Helms, a mission specialist aboard Space Shuttle Discovery STS-64, met with cadets at Fairchild Hall in January. Helms and Col. Blaine Hammond, shuttle pilot, presented the Academy with a crew patch and an Air Force flag which were flown aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery Sept. 9-20. During that mission, the crew suecessfully tested the SAFER jetpack and the laser LITE atmospheric imaging payload. The SAFER jetpack is a smaller, less-complicated and less-expensive jetpack which allows astronauts to maneuver untethered in spacefor thefirst time in 10 years. The laser LITE atmospheric imaging payload is similar to radar except it uses lasers rather than radio waves. The crew traveled 4.6 million miles during the 177 orbits around the Earth.

(Photo by Dave Savage)

Drs. Thomas McNish, left, and Larry Allen show their flight surgeon awards.

CLASS NEWS

Pete Todd

1250 Big Valley Drive

Colorado Springs, CO 80919-1015

Home: (719) 531-5874 \* I

FAX: (719) 531-6697

Percent members: 83

Huzzah! It worked! Last fall’s tedious, travelogue and threats of more vacation tales actually produced a respectable trickle of communication (amplified, it must be admitted, by the timely intervention of the Christmas holidays and the arrival of several newsy Christmas letters). As is becoming depressingly frequent, though, not all the news was cheery.

We were distressed to learn of Larry JOLLY’S and ’Gator HAYES’s serious health concerns. Larry has been undergoing aggressive (and sometimes experimental) chemotherapy to arrest the progress of a virulent liver cancer. Not surprisingly, every conversation with him I’ve had or heard about has been marked by grit, determination and optimism. The ’Gator’s afflictions are more mysterious and equally dangerous, but he’s receiving the best care available. Our thoughts and best wishes for a full and speedy recovery go out to both these intrepid aviators.

In other health news, Dick TRACEY reports that he joined the growing-and-not-all-that-prestigious Heart Attack Survivor’s Club last September. In fact, he “went for two” after the first clot was cleared in the emergency room. After three pops with the balloon and one roto blade, he says he’s all cleaned out and getting back to work. Attaboy, Dick, and let’s skip the hat trick.

The best news of all comes from our Miracle Girl, Diane MONTAVON, who continues to get good checkups some three and a half years after the end of her cancer treatment program. She and Kent also reported that the sadness of losing Kent’s mother last year after a long illness was partially offset by the birth of a new granddaughter on the very day of the funeral. Our only immortality is surely through our children.

Now let me tell you about The Phone Call. Late in the evening on 5 November, the phone rang and an anonymous but obviously-welllubricated voice inquired if this was me (it was) and if I knew the difference between “sensuous” and “kinky” (I didn’t). After several exploratory conversational gambits, punctuated by lots of surpressed giggling in the background, I was able to determine: (a) that the caller was a classmate (whose identity will remain secret, but whose initials are D. See), (b) that he was being aided and abetted in this telephonic ribaldry by several other ’59ers AND their wives (at least that was their story), and (c) the solution to the riddle. (Sensuous is when you use a feather; for kinky you use the whole chicken.) One of the co-callers, Flak WILLIAMS, promised to submit a full written report of the incident which, in the fullness of time, he did. The letter is worth publishing in its entirety, but the editor says I have to paraphrase.

Flak advised that the call originated from a place called Bear Mountain Inn where the usual suspects along the East Coast had gathered to celebrate the official, if not very elegant, victory by the Falcons over the Knights of the Hudson, thus winning us (yawn) yet another Commanderin-Chief’s Trophy. The game attendees included Messers, and Mmes. HOSMER, JEFFERSON, JOSEPHSON, LANMAN, LIVINGSTON, LYNCH, MAY, MILTNER, Montavon, MORGAN, PITTMAN, SEE, Williams and WYNN. Dick GOETZE was also at a Friday AOG luncheon, but wasn’t able to stay for the game, and the letter also contains an oblique reference to RL and Eugenia PENN, who must have been somewhere in the time zone when all this was going on.

Some quoteable quotes from the weekend:

Fred Wynn, on the score and the quality of the game: “It’s nice to be involved in yet another Army moral victory.”

Don Livingston, commenting to other spectators on the presence of so many ’59ers: “Wonder how many from the first West Point class are here?”

Flak Williams, lamenting Army’s refusal to let the drum and bugle corps out of the stands or let the falcon fly at halftime: “Please insure that the mule won’t be allowed to fly next year.”

A somewhat more thrilling victory the following week was the occasion

for a gathering of the Rocky Mountain wing of the class at Brock and Claire STROM’s place. After a shaky start against Utah, the Falcons sucked it up and played probably their best game of the season. The stillcheering fans in the accompanying photo include George PUPICH (’60, whose son caught lots of passes this year), Steve GALIOS (visiting from California), Brock Strom, Larry FORTNER, Pete TODD, John DOLAN (also visiting from California), Ed MONTGOMERY, Max MILLER, Bob BROWNING and Jim BROWN.

I can report on a few career changes gleaned from various sources. Many of you will already have read that Bob OAKS has signed on with USAir as VP and director of Safety. Major challenge, probably equal parts public relations, internal confidence-building, and substantive improvements. All the best of luck with a tough job.

At the other end of the anxiety spectrum are a couple of “second career” retirements. Mel POLLARD has quit being a rocket scientist in Utah and plans to pursue a life of genteel leisure. Bill and Anne TELFORD got fed up with the weekly commute and both of them have retired and moved permanently to their dream home on Smith Mountain Lake. Special congratulations to Anne for being awarded the Civilian Meritorious Service Medal, recognizing her achievements during 32 years of dedicated Civil Service employment. They repeat their invitation for visits to the best kept secret on the East Coast.

Jim Brown tells me he still has some choice Reunion/class items available for those who weren’t able to attend the reunion and/or would like to add to your class stash. He has class pins, white baseball caps with embroidered class crest, blazer class crests, golf shirts (white and silver gray) with embroidered class crest, class note cards, leather coaster sets (with and without 35th reunion logo), 13-oz. old-fashioned glass sets with original Academy crests or ATO crests, one medium silver-gray Orion V-necked sweater with embroidered class crests and one large sports duffel bag with embroidered class crest. If you can’t live without some of this merchandise, write to Jim or give him a call at (719) 481-9115.

Finally, let me bring you up to date on the state of planning for our Class gift. You’ll recall that we agreed to sponsor the east and west breezeways in Doolittle Hall, with prominent memorialization of the Class of 1959 at the west entrance. In addition, you tasked a committee to look at appropriate memorialization on the east side. Subject to Class approval, here’s our concept: over the west doorway, we propose a large glass (primary) or bronze (backup) plate with the Cadet Honor Code, “The Class of 1959” (words or crest, depending on design aesthetics and space) and the names of all graduating members of the class engraved on it.

We recommend a similar plate over the east, with the ATO crest, “USAFA Air Training Officers 1954-1957” and the names of the ATOs engraved thereon. We decided to devote that entrance to the ATOs for a number of reasons. Our class has a special, enduring, and personal relationship with this group of mentors that transcends our association with any other group from our cadet days. To try to recognize everyone in the original cadre would have diluted the impact and to honor multiple selected groups (faculty, staff, athletic department, etc.) would have put us on a slippery slope and risked misunderstanding and hurt feelings among those not included. Moreover, we dedicated the Harmon bust to this initial cadre at our 25th Reunion, so our appreciation for this entire group has already been recorded in a tangible way.

On balance, we concluded that the Class/ATO/Honor Code tributes flanking the main hall at Doolittle Hall would be the most appropriate memorial to the character and the legacy of the Class of 1959. Feedback and enhancements are encouraged. This is your gift, so let us know what you think...and send in your pledge if you haven’t already done so! Happy Easter to all.

Chris Warack

690 Winding Hills Road

Monument, CO 80132

Home: (719) 488-2504

Percent members: 82

Greetings from the balmy Rockies! What a great place to live and visit. Come out and spend a grand weekend or week in the shadows of the Rampart Range. Yes, it is reunion planning time and I have the latest info from Andi so that you can make initial plans. We have settled on 13-17 September 1995, which is the weekend of the CSU game. The Antlers Doubletree Hotel will be the holding pattern for our activities. It is well appointed, centrally located and has proved an excellent site for other class reunions as well as the ’59 Cotton Bowl Team’s most recent gathering. This reunion is a bit less structured than past years with a variety of optional events. On Thursday we plan several day trips (Cripple Creek for gambling), golf, and tours with informal dining at the end of the day. On Friday more golf and an open house in the cadet area for those who haven’t seen the plant recently. In the afternoon will be a State of the Wing briefing and a memorial service. Later at Doolittle Hall we will dedicate the Val BOURQUE Memorial and hold a short class meeting prior to returning to the Antlers for dinner. Saturday’s activities will be centered around a tailgate get-together and the football game. Discussion is still underway concerning parade attendance with the class forming a reviewing party. An informal buffet would close out the planned activities. Sunday we will likely have chapel, a good-bye brunch and return travel. As the time gets closer there will be several committees appointed to make sure everything gets done. If anyone has suggestions please let Andi, Tony BURSHNICK or me know and we’ll get the info to the appropriate committee for review.

We decided the most appropriate reunion gift from our class was to expand the Val BOURQUE Memorial. That entails enlarging the original gift to encompass the entire alcove of the Board Room. You’ll need to see it to fully appreciate it. This means that we need to increase our original committment to $35,000, which I might add is a modest amount in relation to other alumni classes. The average sum of $200 per person would cover us. Consider starting now to mail your checks to the AOG and designate it for the Class of ’60 memorial.

Received a letter from Ted STUMM. Ted, I’ll take the blame for any misinformation in previous Checkpoints, but it did get you to write! Ted writes...“I completed my doctorate in political science at Texas Tech in July of ’94. My focus was in public administration and more specifically in municipal financial management. In August I moved to Jacksonville, FL where I am an assistant professor at the U. of North Florida. I teach public administration, mostly urban politics and administration at the graduate level and undergraduate political inquiry and analysis. The job is good, enjoy the students, and have time for golf and fishing. It doesn’t get any better than that!” He goes on to say Dona would be moving from Lubbock after Christmas which was to allow Ted to finish having their new home completed. Their new address is 3001 Prescott Falls Dr., Jacksonville, FL 32224 and the latchstring is out.

A Frank MAYBERRY update: Frank and Eve are settled again in the Australian outback. They have done some camping and hunting for gemstones. They have time for some golf, tennis and swimming. He is into making his own beer since booze is outrageously expensive. They have been in touch with Jim KERR and bride, Erika. Frank will work on getting them to attend the reunion. Anyone heading down under can contact them by phone, 61-89-529-083 or write 15/33 Adamson Ave, NT, Australia 0870.

Tony BURSHNICK continues to be the source of information for the D.C. area and points of travel. He reported that six of the ’60 Beltway

Bandits: Ralph LALIME, Mike CLARK, Joe HIGGINS, Richard HEAD and Bill TAYLOR attended the AOG pre AFA-Army game luncheon. Ralph won the door prize, a white jacket. Guess the trademark blue one can now be cast aside. Ralph spent much of the fall election campaign working for a number of candidates for congress. Apparently did great for the members of the House but failed to bring Ollie North to Washington. Now that you know how to do it does that mean you’ll be running Ralph?

Tony and Karen made a trip to upstate New York in late October to marry-off son Joe. Joe and bride, Kem, honeymooned on their way to Mountain Home AFB, ID where Joe will fly KC-135s. Tony is staying busy consulting for Chrysler Technologies (CTAS). They are exploring replacing the 89th Wing’s aircraft with 767s. He is also working on the C-17 buy. On one of his trips to Texas, Tony talked to Jerry CASKEY who is in real estate in Austin. Jerry located a lot for Dale THOMPSON to build a retirement home. The Thompsons plan to move to Austin in April. The Caskeys recently welcomed grandchild number four. Son Scott now has two and so does daughter Terry.

CTAS provided an excuse for Tony to go to Wright-Pat where Ron YATES hosted a dinner party, which included Dale THOMPSON, Ron DEEP and Charlie HART. The Yates are planning to retire in Monument, CO this summer. Ron DEEP is still at the U. of Dayton inspiring the next generation of mathematicians and Charlie is still at it as a gentleman farmer and farm equipment salesman. Dr. Dean BRISTOW was in D.C. for a conference and had lunch with Ralph LALIME. A1 JOHNSON told Tony he had lunch with Charlie HOLMAN but failed to get more info. Tony and Karen traveled to Langley AFB in November to have dinner with Mike and Barbara LOH. The Lohs reportedly are planning to retire in the Langley area. Mike and Barbara do visit the Denver area since son Mike and family reside there. They have two grandchildren, one of each. Mike the younger is flying for United and he keeps his hand in the fighter business flying the F-16 for the Colo. Air Guard.

Jim GLAZA continues to travel in work and play. He made a trek to West Point for the Army game. He, Andi BIANCUR and Marsha Shepard were hosted by the KAYLEYs at their Connecticut home for a pregame kickoff. At the game they visited with K.D. and Leanne MILLER, up for the game from their Pennsylvania digs. All had a good time and cheered the Falcons to victory. Late this fall, Jim spent a couple of days in Phoenix and had a chance to visit with Bill GILLIS. Bill is a house husband while Kathleen is working. Bill also cares for a grandson as well as doing the household chores, but still found time to play a round of golf with Jim.

I saw Andi BIANCUR at several football games this fall here at the AFA. Apparently he has his own airplane and flies over for the weekend when time and weather permit. The weekend of the Utah game was a bit different though because something unusual occurred on takeoff. Rumor has it that the airplane is on display at Peterson Field with unusuallyshaped propellor blades. Somehow the tips became curved. He did fly it over uneventfully without any severe vibration or loss of fuel economy. Apparently did a very professional job redesigning the prop. Look for a rebuttal or explanation in the next issue. Or if you can’t wait, call Andi.

Thanks to all you contributors for bringing us the news. Remember now is the time to get travel and time off arranged for the reunion. I look forward to seeing you all here.

Hanson Scott

1300 Onava Court, NE Albuquerque, NM 87112 'Mw

Phone: (505) 293-4486

Percent members: 82 yifF

Greetings from the Land of Enchantment—it’s hard to believe the deadline for another column has arrived! On with the news! I recently visited with Roger WOODBURY. Rog is working for Hughes as a C-141 simulator instructor at McGuire, a position he has had for about fiveand-a-half years. Rog and Mary Sue have two daughters—Sandi (20) is a junior in college, Michelle a junior in high school. Mary Sue is an active volunteer in the community in addition to remaining involved in base activities. Rog suffered a heart attack a few years ago, but is hanging tough. He admits to the occasional game of golf—Rog has a bad day when he shoots in the 80s.

News from our test pilot community: Ad THOMPSON was in Colorado Springs this fall for a family visit, and he was able to make one of the famous ’61 tailgate parties in the vicinity of Jim WILHELM’S rig. Ad’s sister was pressed into duty as a photographer and we have some good shots of the gang. Ad reports that he is still in the aerospace

At the tailgate are Gregory, Haring, Thompson, Hinkle, Wilhelm, Jones, and Storm.

business, but he is wondering what that is? As director of Flight Test for Rockwell International, Ad would like to focus on directing flight tests. With DOD budget cutbacks and the associated impact on contractors, he said he spends more time worrying about budgets and personnel issues than test matters. However, Ad still finds time to maintain currency in the B-l. In September, the USAF Test Pilot School had its 50th anniversary—“several days of old guys remembering how it was when it was the ‘good old days’.” In attendance were Bruce HINDS, Clair CARLING, and Wayne and Mary JONES. Clair is still working for UNISYS, Wayne is keeping the MILSTAR program on track for TRW.

From left are Wilhelm, Haring, Eller, and Thompson.

The ’61 Column has a “roving reporter” inside the Beltway, and this news was just received. “Almost 30 classmates, spouses, significant others and friends met for a practice party at the lovely home of Hector and Joan NEGRONI in Vienna, VA on Oct. 22nd. After sampling a variety of exquisitely-prepared dishes from Joan’s kitchen, the group adjourned to the patio where they helped dedicate the elegant patio fountain (or font, as some of the learned attendees call it) designed and built at great expense by the official Class of 1961 landscaper, Ellen Sullivan. The picture shows some of those still standing and thus able to attend the dedication. You can identify from left: Norm CAMPBELL, Barbara Campbell, Steve HO, Bill FOSTER, Lowell JONES, Hector NEGRONI, Nelson O’REAR, Joan Negroni, Ellen Sullivan, Lynn Funkhauser, Pat BUCKLEY, Charles STEBBINS, John KOHOUT, and John SULLIVAN. Sarah Stebbins was one of the few people at the party still able to focus clearly and she took the picture. On a lighter note, Sarah told us that Charlie was very angry because he spent 30 minutes combing his hair and then forgot to put it on. Finally, Sandy Jones regaled us with many stories until the wee hours of the morning. However, most of the attendees do not recall any of the stories.”

Other news—from Miami, our class law student Bill AYLSWORTH is preparing to take the bar exam while working part time as a law clerk. He has one semester to go! Daughter Vestalia is also attending law school (Georgetown) and Lance is working in international banking in Miami. Dick MCMONIGAL (Seattle) reports that he is fully retired (three years ago) following a career in administration and data processing. Dick added that he is a career bachelor and travels from time to time. Larry KARNOWSKI is still busy tending the “Polish Pond.” Larry has been fully retired for five years—sons Mike (29), Eric (25), and Mark (27) are making their ways in the world. I happened to call Dr. “Bud” MCCOLLUM on his birthday (coincidence) and we reminisced about the ’61 trek to Carlsbad following graduation for Bud and Carolyn’s wedding—a great

The Negroni Practice Party

time on the Pecos! Bud has been in practice for 20 years or so. Their sons are doing well—Michael (30) has a MBA and works for MCI in Atlanta. Mark (26) is in his last year of medical school (University of Texas-San Antonio) and will become a surgeon.

Attention in the Area: The class officers are requesting the troops to fall out and provide ideas for a 35-year reunion in ’96. Please provide input to your class scribe Pronto: where, when, football game (?), golf (?), activities (?), etc.

Standing by to copy—news and ideas for a ’96 reunion.

John W. “Jack” Jamba

4 Judy Court

Satellite Beach, FL 32937

Home: (407) 777-5520

Office: (407) 861-3519

Percent members: 72

Hi Redtags!

My column is due tomorrow. The Checkpoints hasn’t arrived yet. However, it is the Christmas season and I have received some very nice and newsy newsletters. First, I received a letter from Bob DEBERRY in early November. Bob is living in Las Vegas and works for EG&G Energy Measurements, in the Facilities division. Bob sent me one of his business cards. It has seven sets of initials after his name. When he was an EG&G rep on the DOE’s GOSIP committee, everybody had busines cards with all sorts of acronyms and abbreviations on them—SOOO—he made one up that had more abbreviations and stuff on it than anybody’s. Besides things like USAFA-BS/Eng and AFIT, which we all know, he had SSD (Severe Synapse Dysfunction) and Sks (Special kind of Stupid). That was a funny card, Bob. Thanks for sharing it with us. Have a Happy Holiday Season.

Got a newsletter and card from Charlie and Pat HALE. They mentioned awakening last January to the Northridge, CA, earthquake, visiting the area, seeing speedy repair to the freeways and bridges and receiving continuing aftershocks. In May they spent a weekend in San Francisco with son Curt and Bridgitte. Charlie went to the first Arc LightYoung Tiger reunion in Dallas in June. In August they went to a family reunion in South Carolina with time to visit Mary Ann PATRIE in Charlotte; sadly Stan was away on a trip. In October they attended the

At the USAFA-San Diego State game are Bob Connolly, Ed Spicer, Mike Quinton and Charlie Hale.

USAFA-San Diego State game. A picture from the game is shown with this article. Bob and Patricia CONNOLLY are still in Riverside where Bob is enjoying the relaxed life of improving his golf handicap. Ed SPICER works for the city of San Diego as assistant deputy director of the Balboa Parks/Mission bay Park Special Projects. And Mike QUINTON has launched a private law practice in San Diego, which in fact was reported first in this column where I scooped the entire national news and wire services. Awesome dude! That’s it from Charlie and Pat. Thanks for the update.

Got a letter from Alex HARWICK. He spent five years in Germany and moved to Italy. He worked for USPA&IRA for 10 years but switched to NCOA. He has been given Italy to develop for NCOA and to use it as a test base for the concept of offering integrated financial programs to NCOA members. He likes life in Italy where the people are happy and they laugh and enjoy their days. Tad, the eldest son, is enjoying Army life in Fort Bragg and Jim is a broker with AG Edwards in Montgomery. Alex has traveled to 12 different countries around the world recently. After the wanderlust abates, he figures he will settle in New Zealand where he owns a second home. He likes their lifestyle, ambiance, value system, adventure and setting for long-term happiness. He’s looking forward to the 35th reunion. Thanks for the letter. Keep in touch.

Got a card and newsletter from Hesh and Bobbi ALTMAN. Hesh has a new job with EG&G as the director of Business Development for their MSI Albuquerque Operations. They resettled their daughter with half their California stuff into an apartment in Sunnyvale. After selling their house in Las Vegas, they moved their son into an apartment with half their las Vegas stuff. Then they built a new home in Albuquerque and a second one in Las Vegas.No word where all their stuff is. Hesh ran into George HARRISON at Kirtland and Don HUTCHINSON at a water resources conference. Howie CARROLL came by—he’s on a crosscountry odyssey around the U.S.A. in a mobile home. Hesh finally had a couple of drinks with Larry GOOCH in November. That’s it from Hesh and Bobbi. Thanks for the news.

I got a missive from Yvonne and J.D. EATON. They’re in Wilmington, NC. It’s going to be their retirement location. J.D. is not retired yet; he IS working. They got tired of snow and no spring in Monument. They love the beach so there they are. “Wilmington has been a pleasant surprise for us and we just love it and hope to never leave.” There you have it... a testimonial from the Eatons, carried for the first time in this column. Stay tuned for more news as it breaks. Seriously, J.D. and Yvonne, thanks for the card; keep writing.

The Hawkins Family

Got a card and newsletter from Owen and Connie HAWKINS. They enclosed a family picture. They did a lot of traveling: Yosemite, Florence and seeing a total eclipse. Owen keeps fine tuning his computers and running his bulletin board. For those of you with acess to the Internet, his E-Mail address is: owenh@spacebbs.comm. To catch up on all the kids: Greg is working in Santa Fe, NM, in marketing. Kim is back in school finishing a master’s in film in San Francisco. Chris and Tia are in Seattle working hard and planning for the future. Colin is back from a year in Germany; at the U. of Washington getting a degree in German and math/statistics. Cory is a sophomore at UC Davis majoring in nutrition and still playing guitar.They plan to spend the holidays with family and friends in Disney World in Florida. Watch out for that Splash Mountain, Owen. Thanks for the news and picture. Hope to see you soon.

Got a newsletter and card from Mary Jo and Charlie PRICE. In April, they traveled to the United Kingdom for Mary Jo’s niece’s wedding. First time back in Europe in six years. Of course they had to play a round of golf at the home of golf, the Old Course in St Andrews, Scotland. They

considered it close to a religious experience, playing with a couple of classic caddies and knowing that golf was played there before Columbus was born. They continued around England visiting relatives and playing golf. Then Mary Jo miraculously drove unerringly to the Royal Worcester factory just as they were opening for business without very many clues except the name of nearby towns. So in celebration, she spent gobs of money. Charlie, don’t believe it. She called lots of friends in the U.S. and had a very detailed map in her mind. She knew exactly where it was and what time it opened. And once again this column has scooped the nation on one form of deceptive shopping practices. Just kidding Mary Jo; couldn’t resist the urge. Later in the year, they spent the Labor Day weekend with Charlie’s three brothers and families in Maryland and Delaware. Mary Jo’s family lives there in Valdosta so she sees them every day and all is well with them. They were visited by Duke GREEN and Paul LANDERS in the summer. They want to stay in Valdosta for awhile. Thanks for the update. Hope we can drive by Valdosta some day soon.

Got a newsletter from Dave and Fran LEE. They made trips to New York, Florida, Illinois and Washington, DC. In August they became grandparents: Kelly and Dean were the parents. Kelly is a language arts teacher at a Jr High while Dean now works for Mead Data Central. David II returned from California last spring and is now the regional coordinator for Environmental Consultants in Maryland. John graduated from the U. of Dayton in Finance and works in Chicago with Savings of America. While dad, Dave, was visiting they took in the Indianapolis 500. Meanwhile, Dave has started a flying school and will be getting his private license soon. Don’t worry, I’ve notified the FAA and they are on full alert. Fran completed her 15th year at H&R Block and was recognized for that by Henry Block. Thanks for the news.

Got a newsletter from Dave and Ann WHITMAN. Sadly, Ann’s dad passed away during the year. Young Dave is still in Vail working at the Charter and now has his broker’s license. Beth and Kevin graduated from AFIT and are now stationed at McClellan where they have built a new house. Julie graduated from her master’s program in physical therapy and is stationed at Travis and living in Davis. Nice having kids nearby. Thanks for the news.

The Whitman Family

Also got a card from Fred and Arlene HENDRYX. After their extended vacation in Jackson Hole, they headed to Dinosaur National Monument and then Estes park. Then back to Cincinnatti for a rest before going to the Cayman Islands. After some snorkeling, swimming and shopping, they almost were forced to stay a few extra days because of Hurricane Gordon. Looking forward to your return to Melbourne. Thanks for the update.

Have a great year, everyone. GO REDTAGS!

Norman I. Lee III

17532 N.E. 38th Court

Redmond, WA 98052

W: (206) 294-1676 H: (206) 882-0968

Internet (via Prodigy): HHMM30A@ PRODIGY.COM

Percent members: 79

It’s my turn to fill you in on some family news—we have some! Our son David married Heidi Oct. 15th at a super ceremony in Spokane. John Gary of music fame sang at the wedding and I got to be the limo driver— which was great fun! Many friends and family traveled to Spokane to join us in the celebration including Dick and Lynn FERENCY. Dick is David’s godfather. The happy couple spent one evening of their honey-

moon at Sun Mountain Lodge, a fabulous resort high in the eastern slope of the Cascades. While at the lodge, they bumped into a rowdy group of Golden Boys enjoying a mini-reunion of their pilot-training days. Small world! David was especially impressed that there were people out there who knew his dad. Among the group signing the register were: Jan and Jack ZYGNER, Linda and Joe COATES, Mary Lou and Ron MCCOLLUM, Roberta and Tim GALLAGHER, Linda and Bob PARLETTE, Charles GEBHART, Lucky EKMAN, Fred BAUER, Larry THOMPSON, Hank HOFFMAN and significant other Marcia, and Jim D1FFENDORFER. Quite an illustrious group!

The “Renegades”

Jack MARTINEZ sent a FAX to Linda to warn her of what was to come—pictures of the 9th Squadron “Renegades”. The picture and a letter—written on the back of the FAX original arrived a few days later. I was ready! The picture is enclosed; however, a list of who and where was not included with the letter. Thus, I will leave it up to you to place names with faces. The first person to send in the correct list of names wins a prize to be announced at a later date. Jack is working for the New Mexico Industry Network Corporation of Albuquerque. The job, according to Jack, is creating and retaining jobs in New Mexico through defense conversions, start-up companies and technology transfers from the various national laboratories. Jack said the job is very exciting and diverse: “It seems to cut across all lines of economic development and leaves a lot of latitude to do whatever seems to work or be a good idea.” Jack added that Alice is keeping busy with school—she is attending the University of New Mexico—working on home upgrades and taking care of a 10 yr. old.

From time to time, Jack sees Ted SHAD who is doing some consulting and trying to produce an affordable light aircraft. With the recent rulings on liability passed by the United States Congress, manufacture of general aviation airplanes should start to come back. Jack recently ran into Jim HOCKEMEIER who is working as a consultant for Sandia Labs in Albuquerque.

Bob ZAMBOLDI wrote giving us his new address (1 Warwicks Bench Road, Guilford, Surrey, England GUI-3TQ). Bob and Marilyn have moved to the UK on a new assignment with Air Products Products & Chemical where Bob is vice president Gases-Europe out of Hersham, Surrey, England. Bob and Marilyn will be in the UK for two to three years and invite those of us visiting England to check in. They will be glad to show us the sights.

Linda joined me on my most recent business trip to London and Amsterdam just before Thanksgiving and I can assure everyone the European economy received a significant kick in the pants.

Ray HAMILTON has moved from Oklahoma University to the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Ray’s new position is associate dean for Audit Programs and director of the University Evening School. In his new job he will be responsible for the administration of the University Evening School’s on-and-off-campus graduate and undergraduate programs for non-traditional students. The division also includes the Department of Independent Study, non-Credit Community Programs, The Oak Ridge Graduate Program, English Language Institute, department of Conferences and the UT Conference Center.

Tom DURHAM sent me a copy of the “Sean Humphrey House Newsletter.” Tom is the executive director of The Sean Humphrey House which is a nonprofit corporation created by Tom and Karen. The house is dedicated to their son Sean so that men and women with AIDs would not have to live alone and be uncared for—a reality. I have watched the project’s development over the past two years or so and think it is a great effort. For those of you who wish to know more or help, give Tom a call or drop him a line: (206) 733-6343/The Sean Humphrey House, Box 2503, Bellingham, WA 98227.

Bud GILLIGAN mailed me an address list of 42 Golden Types from the Northern Virginia area along with a party flyer for Yellow Tags in

Northern Virginia—“Class of ’63 Christmas Repeat” a 1950’s Special. DJs include Joe COX, Bud GILLIGAN, and Ed PICKENS. Their “Chicks” (they said it not me) Vicki LaBarre, Joyce Gilligan and Caroline Pickens. The partying should be over by the time you read this column and I am looking forward to some photographic evidence to print for all our entertainment.

Also received year-end updates from Jack and Jo Ann MCTASNEY and John NEHRING. Jack and Jo Ann continue to base out of Sacramento (Carmichael) and are obviously prospering by doing a lot of outdoors activities. John NEHRING caught me up on his activities and those of his family for the past few years. John is also spending a lot of time outdoors hiking, camping and river rafting. In his spare time, John is working in the Atlanta suburb of Dunwoody for a company called United Telco as well as doing work for the Centers for Disease Control several times a week. For those of you who ever heard of or wanted to know about bond futures trading you might want to give John a ring.

We are all proud to have one of our 1963 classmates reach such a prestigious and important position as Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force. As such, I consider keeping you posted on what is happening in the Air Force a duty and an honor. To help me do this, I subscribe to Air Force Times Air Force Magazine and Aviation Week. Let me say, however, Ron’s activities are so extensive an article about him shows up in nearly every issue. It will be difficult if not impossible to do more than report on the key events. In that, I will certainly give it my best.

Other Moves: John FRANCIS now resides in Excelsior, MN moving there from Houston, TX and Ken KOPKE moved from his P.O. Box to Taopi Circle, Woodland Park, CO.

That’s it for this time. Linda and I would like to wish you and yours all the best for 1995!

Bob Hovde

7812 Ridgecrest Drive

Alexandria, VA 22308

(H):703-765-0517/(0):703-415-4760

Fax:703-415-4536

Email: BHovde@ccmail.crc.com

Percent members: 74

Letters: Pete MORRISON writes that the Blue Tags of Laredo, Class 66-A held a 29th reunion in Albuquerque last summer (just to get in shape for the 30th Class reunion, I guess). This was the first Laredo 66-A reunion, and they had a good enough time that they are planning to repeat (in about three years). I’m not sure how they managed to get five guys all dressed up in Albuquerque, but they did. Gary ANDERSON, Paul BATTERSON, and John LORBER were not able to attend. A pause to remember Denny PAZDAN and Dave RICKEL filled out the original 10 in spirit.

Reunion: For those of you who made it to the reunion (there were 330 people at the big dinner), I’m sure there is general agreement that it was a great time. For those of you who missed, you missed a good time! The group in Colorado did another fantastic job of setting up the events: Cripple Creek on Thursday (see photo); golf on Friday, followed by a Memorial Service and then the main dinner/social event; a tailgate party, football game and another (buffet) dinner on Saturday; and a lot of tired people at breakfast on Sunday. The Memorial Service was especially poignant for us, since Roger HEAD passed away on Monday just before the reunion started, and Mary FIORELLI (Jim) also attended.

The main dinner was opened by Jim INGRAM and closed by A1

Dewey Barich, Pete Morrison, J.J. Davis, Earle Moreland and Bob Clements—Blue Tags of Laredo Pilot Training Class 66-A.

’64 goes to Cripple Creek after 30years...spent money on gambling instead of ice cream. Same result—went home broke, but happy. MCARTOR, who did a fine job of reminiscing about their tours as wing commander, and pointing out that there is still a lot of future ahead for the members of the Class of ’64. In between beers and war stories, I also gathered a few interesting facts at the reunion.

Frank BARTLETT lives in Mountain Home, ID, where he works with people on welfare in job training to help make them taxpayers. He is president of the Military Affairs Council for the Chamber of Commerce, and sells insurance and investments for Waddell & Reed.

Claude BILLINGS is vice president for the Staubach Group in Dallas.

Darryl BLOODWORTH is a lawyer in Florida, and Phil GLENN says he should run for Senate from Florida.

Jerry BUDINOFF has retired from the Reserves, and is building a new house in Massachusetts, but Candy’s requirements are growing faster than the builders can build.

Speaking of houses, Angelo CAPPUCCIO restored a house in Santa Fe to its original New Mexico style over a three-year period. When he sold it to someone moving in from the San Francisco area, they tore everything out and made the interior very modern!

Fred GREGORY is now at NASA in the D.C. area (as a civilian), and lives in Annapolis, MD.

A1 HERZBERG lives in C Springs and invests in commodities—trying to duplicate Hillary’s investment technique.

Bill and Nancy HOILMAN own an investment business in Massachusetts.

Terry ISAACSON works for Arizona State University—developing ASU East at Williams AFB.(Where he was wing commander before it closed.)

Paul KAMINSKI is the top acquisition and technology person for the Department of Defense.

Jeff LEVY is selling his house in Virginia (he mostly works in Philadelphia) and is still looking for a squadron commander job.

Pete LOPRESTI is president of Home Lighting in C Springs, and owns a ranch.

John LORBER made his fourth star while we were there—he is now CINCPACAF (top guy in the Pacific).

Keith LUCHTEL is a lawyer/lobbyist trying to educate the Iowa Legislature.

A1 MCARTOR is still leading Federal Express (how did we do business before FedEx and faxes?).

Will MCKINNEY has had the same job for three years—he says this is better than he did in the Air Force.

Ed MECHENBIER works for SAIC in Dayton, but also does air show narrations—he did 18 air shows last year.

Dick HAWLEY, deputy assistant secretary of the Air Force for Research, Development and Acquisition, was on <50 Minutes in October, explaining why the B-2 is such a good idea. Actually, he did very well against their normal hatchet-job editing technique.

Jay KELLY continues as the commander of Air University.

Denny MONTGOMERY waits for snow and then spends his time as a ski guide in Utah.

Dave O’BRIEN is chief scientist of the Air Force Technical Applications Center in Florida. He and P.J. were the first to arrive, right before Sandy and me. We all believed Jeanne WITTRESS when she said she would be able to get Bill to attend, and wouldn’t it be fun to start a day early?

Fred OLMSTEAD, pilot for Federal Express, not only closed out

both dinners, but did so in sartorial splendor.

Jon PRENEZ is working in Sacramento on the conversion of Mather AFB.

Sandy PURCELL, our biologist, talked about his student who decided it was hard to kill his bugs.

Bill GARRETT is a pilot for USAir and a part-time lawyer. Bill and Dave NEAL, I found out after all these years, were the ones to climb to the top of the chapel in the middle of the night and hang the large banner that took several weeks to get down. Bill (“The Midnight Skulker”) also was responsible for the giant footprints that appeared on the side of the Academic Building one morning. One story that has never been made public was about the elevator in Vandenberg Hall at the top of the ramp from the gym. It seems that a certain Doolie climbed on top of the elevator, and when the upperclassmen got in and punched their floor buttons, used the emergency switch to take them for a ride to the top (where the door opened facing a blank wall). After taking them up and down, he was amazed that they all didn’t get out when the doors opened at a real floor, because it wasn’t the floor they pushed!

In December, Dave and Sue NEAL showed up in D.C., so we had a small gathering of ex-wrestlers and wives/friends (Dave and Sue, Brett and Terri DULA, Bob HALEY +) at our house—for chili and beer. (What else would wrestlers eat?)

Jim RENSCHEN is also a USAir pilot, and a retired Air National Guard general.

Ted SAKAHARA works for Ford Aerospace in California.

Bob SANSOM does venture analysis, and is still great at stimulating conversation.

Usto SCHULTZ works for General Research Corp. in Santa Barbara.

Tom HILL is still at the World Bank. (Well, if you’re going to be at a bank...)

Thad WOLFE couldn’t make it to the reunion, because it was the weekend the Air Force four-stars meet at the Air Force Academy, and there is a rule about the vice-commander having to stay home when his boss is away. Even three-star generals have rules!

Just a few statistics for those of you who missed: The Class now has 15 active duty and 11 retired generals plus two Reserve and one ANG (retired) generals. That’s one 4-star (John LORBER), five 3-stars (Thad WOLFE, Steve CROKER, Bruce FISTER, Dick HAWLEY, and Jay KELLY), eleven 2-stars and twelve 1-stars—29 generals in all. Of the 54 deceased members, 16 have their names on the War Memorial. Active duty retirements will add up to 247, which is 50 percent of those graduating. That number will eventually grow, when the people in the Guard and Reserves all retire. We have had several classmates in appointed “general officer-level” civilian positions in the government (A1 MCARTOR in the FAA, Paul KAMINSKI in DoD, and Tom TILL in DOT).

John DENKO is the chief of the New Mexico State Police. Harry PIERCE is vice president and general counsel of General Motors. Tom TIETENBERG is a distinguished teaching professor at Colby College. Joe REDDEN was USAFA Commandant. Jack HUDSON, Karl RICHTER and Steve RITCHIE all received the Air Force Cross. Tim KLINE is an Episcopal minister. On November 7th, Bill BODE was scheduled to argue before the Supreme Court.

In case you haven’t noticed, the Class of ’64 does well in most fields. I don’t mean to brag (to those of you reading this who aren’t part of ’64), but I’m proud to be a small part of this class (no pun intended), and I think everyone should be. Keep in touch, get together, and attend the reunions!

Pete decided that five years and two reunions were enough for one board of officers, so we elected new class officers (see photo). The outgo-

New ’64 Class Officers: Bob Beverly, vice president; Wally Wolniewitz, treasurer; Jerry Butler, president; and D.J. Alberts, historian.

ing officers and all of the people on the reunion committee obviously did a lot of work to make the reunion run so smoothly. I just want to know how they got the coach to put in the third string so Navy could score, making the total score equal 64!

More Letters: Jim RICHMOND writes that he has found Bob SALAS. After a consolidation of their two Aircraft Certification Offices about five years ago, he found Bob working in the same FAA office he did. Bob has moved around a bit since then, but still works for the FAA, and is now in Seattle. He had a tour in Indonesia with the FAA and is now back at the Transport Airplane Directorate. Jim is now working with ICAO in Jakarta as the chief technical advisor of an aircraft certification project. His task is to direct a project aimed at helping the Indonesian government develop their aircraft certification capability. He plans to be there another two years, but the N-250 certification is already running behind schedule! Jim has been working for the FAA (in a flying job) since retiring from the Air Force, but doesn’t have much chance to fly in Indonesia. He was in AFIT for the 10th reunion, Burma for the 20th, and now Indonesia for the 30th. Where can he go for the 40th?

Change-of-Address Cards: Several people moved from one address to another in the same town, but Clarence FUNG is now in Singapore—and he WROTE on his change-of-address card that he is trying his hand at a non-defense line of work.

That’s all for now folks. Check six!

Dick Zucker

407 Arch Bluff

San Antonio, TX 78216

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FAX: (210) 341-2959

Percent members: 69

Your scribes from San Antonio (Skip COX, Ron FLAKE, Neil STONE, and Dick ZUCKER) are delighted to welcome Rod RODMAN as our new purveyor of class news. Rod sent along the following tidbits:

“My old friend and soccer teammate, A1 SWEENY, gets this issue’s ‘quick response award.’ A1 and his wife, Beverly, live in St. Cloud, FL. After a stint with defunct Florida Express/Braniff, A1 is now a DC-8 first officer with UPS. Beverly teaches high school and together they own a preschool/child care center. A1 mentioned Bill HERRICK recently upgraded to captain with UPS. A1 and Beverley visited Larry and Ann STONE last winter, while on a ski trip to Colorado. Apparently Ann is working the second 20, plying the real estate market in Woodland Park, while Larry considers his next challenge. Is that a hole-in-one or a schuss down the expert slope? A1 said Doug MCGRATH, who also went through the airline mill, and is now settled in with United.

“Bob HEATON, another soccer teammate, is a professor of psychiatry at the University of California-San Diego. His wife, Holly, is an attorney and risk manager with Sharp Healthcare. When not busy with their 3 Vi -year-old twins, Bob and Holly enjoy the San Diego Chargers football games, swimming, tennis, and the many other pleasures that Southern California has to offer.

“Mike RYAN is off to NATO in Italy. He said he is very happy to still see some cockpit time. I said I hoped to see him in charge of it all, sometime soon.

“John BLAHA gave me a call from Monterey, CA, where he was learning Russian. By now, he and Brenda should be in Star City (Russia’s equivalent of the Johnson Space Center), where John will train for a joint space mission to the Russian Mir Space Station. John said he will be in space for three to six months. He sees his biggest challenge as communications, as no one speaks any English. We wish John and Brenda well.

“Chuck COLEMAN and I have stayed in touch over the years. Currently, Chuck is in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, working for a contrator providing flying training for the UAE Air Force. Chuck says his job is like that of a non-flying director of operations. The two biggest drawbacks have been Mary’s absence, although she should have joined him by now, and the lack of any grass on the golf course. I also stay in touch with Tom PLANK in Ft. Walton Beach, FL. Tom is in the defense contracting business and deals in insurance in his spare time. His wife, Diane, teaches in the local school system.

“While in California last spring, Judi and I spent some time with Bill and Marge NIELSEN. Bill is involved in home building and rental property and helps Marge run ANCO Manufacturing, her manufactured machined parts company. Unfortunately, the four of us were weathered out on a trip to Catalina in their sailing vessel.

“Last summer in Colorado, Judi and I had a mini-reunion with Pat and Colleen MOORE and Garey MATSUYAMA. Pat is working for Raytheon in Denver in the personnel area and Garey deals in the esoteric with Martin Marietta in Colorado Springs. I had a nice conversation with John SIDOR, who lives in Monument enjoying the benefits of retirement, and with Barry BLACKMAN, also in Monument. Barry is developing his own CPA practice, and his wife, Barbara, is a writer. Frank MCCANN and I discusses the old days of the hockey club. Frank works for an architectural firm in C-Springs doing developmental planning.”

From Ohio we learn that Cleveland Mayor Michael White (no relation to our fellow classmate) has named Steve SHEEHAN “Big guy in charge of all aviating” when Steve was appointed commissioner of Cleveland Hopkins International Airport. Jim SPITTLER writes plans are set for our 30th reunion scheduled for the weekend of Nov. 11, 1995, when we bomb the Woopoos of Hudson High. Specifics will be sent during spring. In the meantime, help Rod RODMAN by sending news to him at RR#1, Box 331, Pownal, VT 05261.

May 1995 be a great year for all, filled with good health, prosperity, and lots of grandchildren!

Ryan Denny 1210 Applewhite Road

O’Fallon, IL 62269

Home: (618) 624-4255

Work: (314) 895-0167

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Greetings Redtags! Hey, I sent you all a Christmas card—you’re supposed to send me one back. They’re even more fun in July, so start writing.

I drove up to the Air Force-Notre Dame football game, wearing my red ’66 hat, and spent a few hours before the game searching parking lots for USAFA tailgate parties (or any tailgate party that would give me food and drink). The pickings were pretty slim, so I went back to my car to get some binoculars; and, about three cars from mine was a medium-sized group of ’65 grads and LtGen Paul STEIN. We had a good chance to visit and Paul promised to send me a picture of a crowd of ”66ers that he had over to his house after the BYU football game. The Notre Dame game was pretty good, even though we lost. There was lots of scoring and great half-time entertainment—the falcon came back every time and USAFA has much better looking cheerleaders than in our days (sorry, J.O.). I only ran into a few more classmates at the game—they were wearing our red sweatshirts/hats and were easy to spot in that sea of Irish green. Mark SIMMONS had a short drive over from his home in Fort Wayne, IN, and was sitting with Bob ESTUS, who lives a little further away in Lousiville, KY. Bob is flying for UPS, so he probably overnight-delivered himself, and Mark is still working for Motorola (I think).

A few days after the game, Paul made good on his promise to send me the picture. His vice superintendent, Vic ANDREWS, sent me the great picture you see here and some updates on as many of these folks as he could remember. Bill MANNING flies in from Rupert, ID, for every home game. Now that his brother-in-law, Paul, has this nice house on campus that Bill can stay at, he can afford to fly down. Bob GRAVELLE

Stephen Sheehan is sworn in by Cleveland Mayor Michael R. White.

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is still on active duty and is the deputy director of requirements for AF Space Command. Mike HEENAN is a budding writer and part-time bartender at the Squatting Chicken (formerly the Bella Vista). Marty DAACK is head of security for MCI in Colorado Springs. Wayne SKORA is in real estate in C-Springs and Bernie AMELS is working in financial programming also in C-Springs. Bernie is also the president of the local AOG Chapter. Jim WOODY is head of the Management Department at USAFA and Hans MUEH is head of the Chemistry Department. Tom BRANDON is working for United Airlines, and so is Ross GUBSER. Don CRAIGIE is ranching and working as a consultant for Enid, OK to help keep Vance AFB off the next base closure list. I hope he succeeds, because I’m putting about 40 T-1A aircraft, two simulators, and a complete training system into Vance this year.

Vic couldn’t remember what everyone was doing, but he did remember to remind everyone about the 30th Reunion. (Yes, we’re that old!) A new Gang of Four has been formed to start working on the reunion—Hans MUEH and Mary DAACK (they did the 25th), ably assisted by Mike HEENAN and Vic ANDREWS. They have picked out the year—1996—but haven’t got a lot of the other details worked out yet. They need a rep from each squadron, so start those cards and letters coming to volunteer.

Gary PALMER called from Washington, DC the other day with some updates on the local crowd. He has been a sort of unofficial class focal point in the D.C. area and has been compiling a list of ’66ers. If you live in the area, give him a call at (202) 586-1785. Gary is working at the Department of Energy and worries about what to do with extra nukes (or something like that). Gary has seen J.O. MCFALLS, who is working for the National Rifle Association; Mike CONNORS, who is working for the Meridian Corp as an analyst; and Fritz MCDOUGALL, who is an independent consultant. Gary says that Walt SCHREKER is managing an automobile dealership in Leesburg, VA, and that Tom KINCAID is also an analyst at the Meridian Corporation.

I was at Randolph AFB, giving some briefings to AETC and ran into Nick KEHOE, who was just getting ready to go fly a T-38. Nick is the 19th Air Force commander for AETC. For those of you who haven’t kept up, 19th AF is responsible for all the flying operations in AETC—pretty much like the DO used to be, but without all the headquarters staff functions. Nick had his helmet in hand, his G-suit strapped on, and was walking out the door of the Life Support shop when I saw him, so we didn’t get to talk too much, but I’ll catch him next time I’m down that way.

Start thinking 30th reunion! Until next time—Happy Landings!

Larry Wilson

13100 Pinehurst Ave. NE

Albuquerque, NM 87111

Home: (505) 291-8949 ( {W

Work: (505) 846-2510

DSN: 246-2510

Percent members: 65

Greetings from New Mexico. Actually, greetings from a train bound for Chicago, where I am heading for a meeting. The train is by choice—my group opted to travel by rail rather than fly from St. Louis, where we just completed an IG inspection. So I am sitting here with my

laptop as we chug along, recalling other train rides to Chicago during cadet days, for Army football games. This particular Amtrak isn’t exactly the Orient Express. Another trip down memory lane.

I am happy to say, and you I’m sure will be happy to note, that I have some input for this article. Some of it is even fresh; other tidbits will be a bit of a catch-up, as I have some AOG information, notes from some of you, and a few odds and ends I have picked up over these past few months, some of which have not yet been made public. First the odds and ends.

When I traveled back from Germany last summer I picked up articles in both St. Louis and Denver papers about Doni THOMPSON, daughter of Mike. She was described in one as a 4-foot-8, 78-pound bundle of energy, who won the junior division of the world championship trials in gymnasties and later the U.S. Olympic Festival. She has since then undoubtedly continued on her goal of Olympic glory. Congratulations to Doni, and to her parents.

Peyton COLE is now retired, following his fini flight as airborne commander of the first round-the-world B-52 flight coupled with a (practice) bombing mission. The flight began at Barksdale, where Peyton was the 2nd Bomb Wing commander, dropped bombs on target in the Kuwait desert 17 hours later (three seconds off planned release time), then flew home for a total 47-hour flight. Peyton was hosed down after the flight—by then he likely appreciated the shower—and retired in September.

I traveled to Incirlik, Turkey, in October, and saw Roger CARLETON there. He is TDY there as the Provide Comfort commander, and had been when his 36th Fighter Wing at Bitburg stood down. He started his extended TDY almost immediately after the ceremony in June, and he expects to be in Turkey until the New Year. His time there didn’t seem like much fun—playing all the multinational political games in that frustrating, enigmatic, complex, problematic part of the world. We drank a beer or two, but didn’t have much time to play. I hope his next job has more clear goals and is more fun. On the other hand, at PC there is probably no one who can do it better.

Fred GROSICK, retired since Jan ’64 and living in Gretna, LA, wrote that he and Jim MCCLEARY, both once of CS-15, returned there with their families for ’94’s June Week where Jim’s son Chris graduated as a member of the Class of ’94. Fred commissioned Chris, who also was lucky enough (?) to be in CS-15. Fred and wife, Susan, moved from D.C. this past year. He is teaching junior ROTC and enjoying the South and retirement. Fred—it was good to hear from you.

15th Squadron Legacy: From left are Jim McCleary, Fred Grosick, 2nd Lt. Chris McCleary, and his sister Katie.

I also had a note from Pat DOWLING, living in La Jolla, CA. He had been joined in San Diego by a group of CS-13 old farts for the USAFASan Diego State football game. This group—Fred and Linda MILANOVICH, Mark and Patt STUGART, Ross and Carolyn LEONARD, Clint and Marilyn PRICE, and Thom EVANS—served as the cadet cheering section and did the job well, as the good guys won, 36-35. They also served as surrogate cadet pusher-uppers, doing pushups in the aisles outside their sky box with each score. Pat said that when the score got over 25 some of the group started counting by twos, but it was okay because it was a cumulative CS-13 effort... The next day they followed with a more civilized San Diego custom—brunch on the beach, served with extra Motrin. Pat—thanks for the note, and the pictures.

One day in early November I was sitting in a foul mood, the recipient of some lousy customer service by an AAFES concessionaire (surprise, surprise) when who did I bump into but Jack FRY, down from C Springs and SPACECOM for some sort of technical dealings with some of the Kirtland geeks. I used to see Jack occasionally in USAFE but had not since we departed there, and didn’t know where he had gone to from

superintendent’s house after the BYUgame. Front row, from left, Dick Oliver, Tom Guenther, Bob Gravelle, Paul Stein, Mike Heenan, Vic Andrews, Phil Dibb, and Marty Daack. Middle row, Larry Bagley, Tom Lieb, Wayne Skora, Tom Markham, and Jim Woody. Back row, John Fal, Rick Parsons, Don Craigie, Dale Elliott, Bernie Amels, Bill Manning, Tom Brandon, Hans Mueh, and Ross Gubser.

CS-13 Cheering

Ramstein. Small world. Over some healthy lunch we caught up on all the family stuff—his is doing well, with kids in school and Molly happy in Colorado. Then it was back to the rat race— but I was in a far better mood.

From the AOG, first the fall updates: Ray FRANCK has moved from USAFA to Bolling AFB, DC; Bill THOMPSON to a different Albuquerque location; Ralph FEMRITE off the Academy into C-Springs; Worth BOISTURE to Hilton Head, SC, from Texas; Gerald HARTLEY from Greensboro to High Point, NC; Mike GILES from Southlake, TX to Stamford, CT; and John PLETCHER from Niceville, FL, to FPO AE 09499-0200. Wherever that is, I hope it is nice. There were also a few December updates: the Tom ADAMS family has relocated in Springfield, VA; Eric and Susan THORSON from Arlington to Springfield, VA; Rich FELKER in Tucson; and George ELLIOTT in Golden, CO.

Those of you who are Air Force Association members likely keep up with some of our guys who sometimes show up in print in the Air Force Magazine. September was one of those issues. John MCBROOM, the commander of the Air Force Recruiting Service, had a brief letter published making the point that the recruiting mission is tougher now than before, and retirees are needed as force multipliers, to get the word out that the USAF is still hiring good people. MG-select Mike HEFLEBOWER was shown on the Air Staff wire diagram in his position as the Director of Programs & Evaluations. And Jim WHITE was shown as the commander of the Air Reserve Personnel Center in Denver.

Last summer the AOG sent to class president Chuck HEFFRON and to me a list of ’67 grads who are deceased. At that time the number was 46. The causes were varied, with the largest numbers being Vietnam related, and MVAs. The most recent was Tom DELLAFIORA, who bought the farm last spring. Those of us who are enjoying health and familes should occasionally remember those who cannot.

Three timely notes: Jim SHAW sent a brief note from his new job with the AOG, where he is the VP for Development. It is truly a sign of the times—and of our naivete, and society’s transformations—that there is a need for benefactors’ support for the Academy and its programs. But there seems to be. For those of you who can afford to financially support the old alma mater, please consider where you are in life, and what the Academy contributed to your getting there, and participate in one or more of the programs to help maintain its reputation for excellence. From the various headlines over the years it appears that there are challenges there that we were simply not exposed to. Or were oblivious to. At any rate, we can—and should be—part of the solution.

No more plugs.

The second holiday note was a brief one from Abner HAYNES. He and Patti remain in Mukilteo, WA, in the Seattle area. They are preparing to move into a home they’ve built, “...near the water with view of Puget Sound and Mt Hope.” Sounds nice. Think I’ll drop in. And lastly, just before I put this in the fax for the AOG, John MCCRILLIS’ holiday note arrived, with a picture of wife, Shawn, daughter Shane, and John at Shane’s graduation from the U. of Kentucky last May. She is aiming toward veterinary medicine. Shawn keeps John in line as his office manager as well as serving as the house manager for a large Lousiville hospital. John manages to keep busy, self employed in private practice, now out of the ANG but still doing liaison officer stuff for the Academy.

One of the reasons that this traveling job is not bad is that I get to see a lot of old friends. I hope to do better at keeping up with ’67 guys’ locations, so that I can pick up the phone when I am on the road and chat with

whichever of our folks are there. So if you hear a strange voice on the phone one of these days—it might be me.

Bill HALL, get me back onto your mailing list. The rest of you, drop me a line, or a leftover Christmas letter. It is the Christmas season as I am composing this; it will be well into the New Year by the time it arrives in your mailbox. Best wishes to you all for a great ’95, and beyond.

Tim Davidson iff

9712 Hidden Valley Road Vienna, VA 22181

Home: (703) 255-5313

Percent members: 68

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HELLO ’68! Feliz Navidad, Season’s Greetings, Happy New Year, etc.! Hopefully, your chestnuts have been amply roasted and Jack Frost did not do any excessive nipping at your nose as 1994 drew to a close. As in past years, the holiday correspondence will be the focus of the spring column so your Scribe has something to write about in 1995 when the class mail traditionally dwindles down to a precious few during the first months of the new year. As a special bonus, the spring column will also feature 25-year pilot training reunions. Stay tuned!

MAILBAG DEPT: The “SEGs” on the faces of the attendees of Jim WEST’s pinning on ceremony to major indicate the momentous passing of the captain era for the class of ’68. Jim was the oldest captain, by date of rank, in the Colorado Air National Guard prior to his promotion to major in October. Jim pinned on his “railroad treacks” in June 1971 and after a 15-year break in service returned to a blue suit and reaped the sucesses of hard work and much TDY. Tony EDEN graciously provided me with some of the following tongue-in-cheek remarks that were mentioned at the ceremony. “Letters have been pouring in from all around the world lamenting the passage of this unique distinction. ‘He was a rock, a pillar and the reason communism failed,’ as was allegedly overheard to have been said by former President Reagan. ‘Wish I had him in Haiti,’ as reported through nefarious sources as having been said by former President Carter.” Thanks for your perserverance and dedication, Jim. Best of luck for a below-the-zone shot to lieutenant colonel before the turn of the millennium!

’68’s Captain Era Goes the Way of the West: From left are Sharon Gann, ’83; Jim West, ’68; and Tony Eden, ’68.

Members of the 20th and 2nd Squadrons recently raised $2,500 to dedicate an AOG Boardroom Commerative Chair to honor Jim PUEPPKE. The ceremony took place on 17 Sept and was attended by our classmates shown in the photo. This is a true “class act” and serves as a tangible reminder of classmates who have paid the ultimate sacrifice in the service of our country. Many thanks to Rock BURAGLIO for sending the picture and info.

Larry MITCHELL sends his greetings from Taipei, where Larry is chief of the Technical Liaison Section for the American Institute in Taiwan. After taking all the freedom that retirement from the Air Force afforded him, Larry and wife, Sally, embarked on their new career some three days later with his current assignment to Taiwan which places him in a State Department posting. He said the country is “overcrowded, polluted, and a traffic nightmare, but it is now home.” Being so remote from the U.S., Larry remarked that news from the States is always welcomed. So if you have the time and inclination, please drop Larry and Sally a line. Address is: AIT-Taipei/DEPT of STATE; Wash., DC 20521-4170.

Section: From left, bottom row, Fred and Linda Milanovich, Patt and Mark Stugart, and Pat Dowling. Top row, Carolyn and Ross Leonard, Clint and Marilyn Price, and Thom Evans.

Neal STARKEY sends a “Howdy” card from “colorful Colorado.” His son Mitch is a member of the Class of 1998 (that’s 68 + 30 years!) and has designs on his dad’s old job as safety for the Falcon Football Team. Daughter Tracie is 23 and a CU/Boulder grad just like her mom. Tracie is teaching English at Palmer HS in C-Springs. I think it would be fair to say that the Starkeys are enjoying their own version of “Back to the Future” with the offspring doing a pretty good job of keeping up with their talented parents. Sharon is in her 27th year teaching elementary school and Neal continues to prosper with Sun Microsystems Federal, Inc. Neal wants to assure one and all that he had nothing to do with the flaw in the Pentium chip.

In news about other classmates, Neal writes that he works closely with Sun’s DoD Business Development manager, Mr. Denny MCLAIN, who works in my new hometown of Vienna, VA. He also sees Doug WILSON and Jody SMITH from time to time. Doug and Jody are both doing missile warning/attack work with National Systems and Research to assist NORAD. Neal also visited Dick and Cecillia ELLIS on a swing through Texas. Dick is Baylor’s new athletic director and is up to his ears in legal actions and reorganization plans to move Baylor from the Southwest Conference into the Big Eight (soon to become the Big Twelve).

Jim and Marcia REESE checked in to announce the marriage of their son Matt to Kristin Brittain in a ceremony held in Dunwoody, GA. Jim and I also managed to do lunch in the Wash., DC area between his Delta Airlines missions. It was great to catch up on a full range of topics with my old roomie.

FAST NEWS SERVICE DEPT: Dick FAST has been supplying me with some great news tidbits that he picks up while also carrying out duties for the Secretary of the Air Force Sheila Widnall. So here we go... Brigadier General Bobby and Mrs. Anne FLOYD have been awarded the General and Mrs. Jerome F. O’Malley Award for 1994 for service to families and development of volunteer facilities at Pope AFB, NC. A hearty ’68 “Congratulations!” to both Bobby and Anne for this prestigious and well-deserved award. Brigadier General Mike BOOTS, commander of the 436th Airlift Wing at Dover, DE, received the Air Mobility Command’s General Thomas P. Gerrity Memorial Logistics Award for 1994 from Bngadier General Mike MOFFITT, director of Logistics for the command. (It is rumored that both Mikes used the

“secret ’68 handshake” as they knocked rings during the ceremony.) A ’68 “Congrats!” to you too, Mike. Meanwhile, back at USAFA, Colonels Bob DENNY and Sam BOLE are keeping our cadets on their toes. Bob is deputy Air Base Wing commander and Sam is running the Athletic facilities. In Hawaii, Ed LEONARD is working in PACAF’s Directorate of Personnel. Finally, Colonel Vic BONFIGLIO is on attache duty in Venezuela.

On the retired and doing-other-things front: Mitch DORGER is now senior vice president for Clairmont Colleges (a group of five colleges in Los Angeles). Jim NEU is working with Hughes Aircraft in Los Angeles. Tom and Pam MCCLOY have moved to Alexandria, VA. H.T. JOHNSON is rebuilding his homestead in North Carolina. Class numbers as of August 1994 are as follows: 613 graduated, 94 still on active duty, 26 deaths while on active duty, 11 deaths non-active duty, 184 retired, 252 resigned, 13 medically separated or retired, and 37 losses for other reasons.

’68 SPOTLIGHT

Ths ’68 Spotlight for the winter column falls on Cort DUROCHER. Cort is currently serving as the executive director of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). In this capacity, he is responsible for all facets of institute programs. These programs include a complete range of technical publications (six journals, 200 books, a magazine, and an information service), about 20 technical symposia per year, and staff support to a professional membership of 40,000.

Cort and Beth Durocher exchange vows once again at their 25th Wedding Anniversary on Dec 12, 1993.

While in the Air Force, Cort served as a combat pilot, operations officer, and flight instructor. Other assignments included systems engineer and acquisitions officer for the space shuttle program, chief for advanced space launch and control systems, and director of technology for the advanced launch system program office. During this period, he also received his M.S. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in astronautical engineering.

When asked what the Academy meant to him, Cort replied, “The Academy prepared me for the outside world. It was a tremendous education with a wide variety of experiences. Experiences I now know were valuable learning opportunities (for the most part).”

When asked about life lessons he wished to pass on, Cort said, “The rate of change in the world keeps accelerating. We must constantly adapt to keep pace with this constant change and the uncertainty that it brings to all our lives.” Thanks for your insights, Cort, and best wishes!

’68ERS ON THE MOVE: John CARSON to PSC Box 4259, APO AA 34001; Dewey CLAWSON to Frankfort, NY; Tony EDEN to Arvada, CO; Glenn GILLETTE to Englewood, CO; Fred GROSS (“not pictured”) to Mary Esther, FL; Rags HAUSE to Gainsville, GA; Tom MCDANIEL to Box 844, APO AE 09705; John MORRIS to Alexandria, VA; Bob PAVELKO to Arlington, TX; and Chuck STOCKTON to Alexandria, VA.

That’s it for now. Many thanks for words of encouragement during my civilian transition. I’m currently consulting for Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc. doing counterdrug work and with Science Applications International Corporation working in areas of counterproliferation and special operations. May the blessings of the new year reach each and every one of you. Mind the flak. Keep ’em flying. And, keep those cards, letters, and photos coming in. Adios.

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Jim Pueppke is honored by classmates from the 20th and 2nd Squadrons. From left are Mike Parkinson, Rock Buraglio, and Steve McPhailfrom the 20th; Bobby Beanblossom and Bob Johnson from the 2nd.

AFA Falcons get another All-Americanfrom the Starkeyfamily! From left are Tracie, Sharon, Mitch, and Neal Starkey.

Lindsey Parris

5926 Colfax Ave.

Alexandria, VA 22311

Home: (703) 998-0488

Percent Members: 65

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Merry Christmas to all and Happy Winter. May you all have received Chris Berman pinatas for your end-of-the-year treats.

A sampling of ’69ers on the go. Bob BENNETT has relocated within Michigan, from Allen Park to Farmington Hills. Terry SCHWALIER has relocated in the Washington, DC area, from Hendron, VA to Andrews AFB. Bill JOHAANNES has a new address in Louisville, KY. Kirby KILLIAN has gone north, from Richardson, TX to Vancouver, WA. Jim KULA has returned from Europe and is now lodged at Langley AFB, VA. Mike FREEMAN and George CROWDER have headed south, Mike from Reston, VA to Cocoa Beach, FL and George from Rome, NY to Fairfax, VA. Steve GOETTLER relocated within the Toledo, OH area.

Tom HUBER, geography profesor extraordinaire, has been awarded a Fulbright Foreign Scholarship to teach and conduct research next spring at University College of Dublin in Ireland. Tom chairs the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, where he was awarded the University’s Outstanding Teacher Award in 1985. While in Ireland, he will help establish a geographic information system and remote sensing program at the college and at three other university colleges in Ireland. Information from these systems is used in forming public policy, including regional planning and economic development. Congrats to Tom.

Two ’69ers who have been active in volunteer work are A1 LELAND and Ray KEATING. Al, who is flying for Delta, has been active in building a Vietnam Memorial in Roswell, GA. The memorial, titled “Faces of War,” depicts the emotions on the faces of those touched by the war, from a caring nurse to the sheer horror of combat to innocence and optimism about the future. The unique design includes a sheer waterfall where viewers can see their reflections and thereby for a moment become a part of the memorial themselves. Al was one of the project’s original directors, and has been active in raising funds and overseeing the project, scheduled for completion in May of ’95.

Ray is a volunteer public official in the northern New York suburb of North Salem. He volunteered to serve on the town’s board of appeals seven years ago, and has been the chairman for the past three years. The board is a quasi-judicial organ of the government, more like a tribunal, and addresses a variety of issues from special zoning dispensations to operating permits for special events to good old-fashioned neighborly disputes. Kudos to both Al and Ray for continuing the tradition of service to which we all subscribed almost 30 years ago now.

Had two calls before the holidays, one from former roomie V. Sam REID and one from Mike HOWE. Sam, Sarah and brood are still ensconced in Issaquah, WA where Sam now works as a marketer, buyer and planner for Applied Microsystems, which builds emulators for debugging hardware. Mike has returned to the D.C. area and works in logistics planning on the Air Staff. Mike passed along that Terry BALVIN has relocated from an acquisition billet on the Air Staff to Wright-Patterson AFB, OH; that Tom MIKOLAJIK is running Transportation for DCS/Logistics on the Air Staff, and that he had seen Dwight CLARK, George DEFILIPPI, Jeff WISE, and Terry MCMURPHY of late, all in the D.C. area. Mike is looking to take advantage of the area’s superb hiking and backpacking trails and would invite any classmate to join him.

Al MCCREE continues his career as a professional motivational speaker and entertainer. Operating out of Brentwood, TN, Al—who offers some humor to many of us follicle-disadvantaged folk (“To the balding man, dandruff is a thrill”)—speaks on leadership to a variety of public and private sector clients.

The Reunion, ahhhhhhh the Reunion. The weather was perfect, so I’m told by everyone. We kicked booty in football. Dave HAMILTON did the class proud in his flyby. The memories flooded in. Everyone was hoarse from trying to be heard above the party’s din. Laughing, dancing, drinking, reliving old memories. Our own equivalent to consuming snifters of cognac before a roaring fire, washing a warm glow over all who partake. Seems to be a fact, whatever scheduling inconvenience may be required to ensure attendance proves tenfold worth it after these reunion get-togethers. One of our classmates told me he was a bit worried about the way his significant other would fit into the crazy and irreverent ethos that is uniquely ours. But his concerns dissapated after about 15 nanoseconds...she had the time of her life.

Ron LOVE sent along the attached picture of the CS-19 Reunion attendees: Joe HASEK, Frank COUNTRYMAN, Duke MOREHOUSE, Mike KLINDT, Terry BALVEN, Ron SAMMONDS, Mark FISCHER, Tim MASON, Mike MCMURPHY, Ron LOVE, and John MERRELL.

Stik TURNER penned a nice note after the reunion as well, identifying some ’69ers who are now employed at Northwest Airlines: Rusty SPRADLING, Ralph BENDJEBAR, John YOUNG, Stik himself, John MERRELL, Don FRASER, and Lynn MOORE. Stik, who performed with his usual “Slash ’em with a beak” fervor at Falcon Stadium, is still smiling when he recalls this 25th clarion call of grey taggers. A sampler of his Reunion Award recommendations:

Most attractive wife/date: All of them (we’re older now, but smarter!)

Best Quip:

Best dancers:

Most moving words:

Least changed in 25 years:

Most athletic:

Most self-deprecating:

In response to a question about the ongoing construction across from the parade ground, someone answered: “I think it’s the new married student hous-

mg. Bob and Joyce Toth “Absent, sir”

Rusty Spradling (“He looked 75 when he graduated!”)

Bud Speace. 35 perfect pushups, really! Every single reunion organizer

The last line says it best. And, it’s the way the 20th panned out as well. The unsung heroes—the ones who toiled behind the scenes to ensure that the tables were set, the atmosphere springloaded, the worries for all the out-of-towners nil; the ones who make these wonderful rejoinings so, well, wonderful—are the ’69ers in the C-Springs area who volunteer their time and effort so freely for the benefit of the class. Kinda like the way we pulled together as a class way back when. Enormous thanks and grand applause to the following for their superb efforts im making the 25th Reunion all it could be: Tom BAUMGARDNER, Gerry BOESCHE, Brad DEAUSTIN, Steve EDELMAN, Mike GUYOTE, Buddy HERRINGTON, Gary HOWE, Ron LISOWSKI, Glenn SCHWALL, and adopted ’69er Cathy NELSON.

Elsewhere in this issue of Checkpoints you’ll find two related pieces on the 25th Reunion, a wrap-up summary penned by Steve and Mike and an interesting retrospective by John MILLER, who had not returned to USAFA since graduating 25 years ago. Steve and Mike are also spearheading the effort to capture the reunion events on videotape. Send your candidate pictures or tape segments to either of them; they are in particular need of some footage of the parade, as the designated cameraman and back-up did not materialize. And, H. OWNBY could not be everywhere, try as he might!

Kudos, guys, and big ones, to all. And to all a good night.

For the New Year, to paraphrase a member of the House of Representatives, I wish you well. May you never be hated by Tonya Harding nor loved by Lorena Bobbitt. All the best in ’95.

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Tony Marietta

1070 Knollwood Circle Monument, CO 80132

Home: (719) 488-3201

Work: (719) 593-8888

Home Fax: (719) 481-8768

Percent members: 61

Happy New Year! Hope your holidays were filled with joy and great times.

After hundreds of phone calls, faxes, and special-delivery letters, Roger HILL finally sent me a picture. It even shows the AFA in the background.

Although the picture is really of Jim SMITH and his daughter Amanda, Roger felt he should be in it since he mailed me the picture. Roger and Jim were getting together for the AFA vs CSU football game, and it is rumored that Amanda attends this rival school. (No, Jim, tell me it isn’t true.) Jim is one of those new-fangled civilian AFA instructors—no one even has to salute him. What is the AFA coming to? Jim’s wife, Sara, is going to send me more information about the clan and more pictures, or she may be marching tours. The caption is courtesy of Roger.

The Beauty and two Beasts.

Received a Christmas poem from Mike THOMAS, but no pictures. (Somethings are red, Other stuff’s blue, How come no picture, From you?) Mike and wife, Diana, live in Brush Prairie, WA. Mike flies for United, and Diana thoroughly enjoys her volunteer work at the local hospital. Their daughter Heather holds a marketing degree and works in the insurance field. Son Matt is a junior at the AFA and a member of the award-winning Honor Guard. Thanks for the info!

Had lunch with Bob CAREY at Senor Manuels. I eat there so much with you guys that I am starting to dream in Spanish. Bob looks great and, as I mentioned in a previous column, is a representative with Waddell & Reed Financial Services in Irvine, CA. Bob—don’t forget to send pictures. OK, I messed up and should have taken some at the restaurant. But if you could have seen Bob’s overflowing plate—well, let’s just say a picture would have embarrased him in front of the entire class. Sorry I missed the opportunity.

Ray MCKELVY sent me a great letter. His wife, Alyce, accepted a job last spring at Walter Reed Army Hospital in Washington, DC. He says being a doolie was much more enjoyable than being an Army dependent. Ray is completing a master of philosophy program at Cambridge University, which he says is kinda like a remote tour, since Alyce is in D.C. He also teaches with Embry-Riddle and Univ of Maryland. Ray recently had his own mini-class reunion. While refueling at the Mildenhall O’Club, Ray saw the vice commander, Colonel Dennis ADAMS. Dennis says that Steve CONNELLY is at Alconbury and is the commander of the Spoecial Operations Group. This same day, Ray decides to visit Lakenheath and stops in the O’Club (Ray must have been really hungry) and ran into the “Wing King” (Ray’s words), Dave MACGHEE. Evidently, he must have literally “run into him,” since I have no other information that would lead me to believe they actually had a conversation. Ray, send some more info and pictures of the O’Clubs.

Mark MILLER sent me a letter and a picture. Mark works for GE Aircraft Engines as a rep for the B-2, F-18, B-1B, JAST, and other programs with Northrup Grumman and Rockwell. He is in the Reserves and assigned to ASC at WPAFB in Ohio (makes sense to me, since he lives in California). Mark and wife, Karen, have a son, Braden (see baptismal picture) and a daughter, Clair, two-years old. Mark says he sees Will FORD at the local racquet club. Will is doing great, lives in Radiant Beach and surfs over to his job at a bank in Long Beach. Mark says Chris CATALDI also lives in Radiant Beach, is an account manager with IDS Financial Services, and is still single, but dating a special someone. Mark’s picture also features Mark LACAILLADE and his wife, Susan. Mark is a program director at SMC at L.A. AFB. Susan retired from the AF last year after making 0-6 at the same time as Mark. Two colonels in

Baby boomer’s beautiful baby.

the same family must be unbearable for their two daughters. It is rumored that daughters Stacy, 14, and Marcy, 10, have periodic room inspections plus a SAMI once a month. The LACAILLADEs live in Mark and Karen’s stomping grounds, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA.

Got a Christmas card from Dan HANCOCK. He and wife, Laurie, are in San Antonio, where Dan works with Mei Technology and will shortly be a certified trainer for them. Daughter Kerri is in her fourth year at Univ of Northern Colorado and wants to go into teaching. Daughter Heather is in her second year at SW Texas State, studying art. Sorry to hear about Laurie’s broken foot and hope it is healing well. The story has something to do with a ladder and hornets, but I think she was simply giving Dan a swift kick. Nah, she wouldn’t, but maybe she should. Send me pictures, guys.

Got a note and a picture of most of the Class of ’70 (well at least the important ones) from Larry BUSH. The picture was taken at Doolittle Hall (AOG building) after the AF-Utah football game. This handsome group celebrated the upset victory of the Falcons over Utah, then brainstormed (probably a short meeting) for our 25th Reunion. Jack MUELLER is in charge and welcomes any and all suggestions, and help. His number is “1-800-I-DID NOT VOLUNTEER FOR THIS POSITION” or you could try 719-488-3642. If you’re calling long distance, just charge the call to Joe BURKE, he will understand. The “Idea Team” picture shows Larry BUSH, Larry VAUGHN, Dave GAW, Rick HUMKE, Greg GILLES, Jack MUELLER (man in charge), Mike POMPHREY, Bruce HARMON, Henry MITCHELL, and Jim SMITH.

A mind is a terrible thing to waste.

Got a Christmas card, but no pictures, from Mark EWIG. Mark and wife, Kristie, live in Colorado Springs, and are doing great. Mark’s still working in Intel. Kristie celebrated her 25th year in teaching and is currently teaching at Air Academy HS. Daughter Katie is a freshman at CU, excels in academics and loves snow skiing. Son Adam enjoys high school and played soccer in Europe for three weeks. Fourth-grader Sam holds a complete schedule: choir, forensics, math club, and sports. Send pictures to your ol’ class scribe.

Rick BEREIT sent a short note, saying he is now director of Logistics at Randolph AFB, TX. He also mentioned that his son Derek is in the Academy Class of ’98. Good luck Derek!

As I keep telling my editor, this column must be very, very important and instrumental to national security. For the first time in my history as class scribe, at least as as well as I can remember, I received a press release from no less than the governor of Minnesota. This gracious act updated

me on the activities of our own John GUNYOU. John was previously the commisioner of the Minnesota Department of Finance, and recently accepted the position of chief financial officer for Minnesota Communications Group, the nonprofit parent support organization to Minnesota Public Radio. The governor spoke highly of John’s contributions to the State of Minnesota, and noted that in 1994 John received the “Donald L. Scantlebury Memorial Award” for significant improvements in the financial management of government. In addition, John was instrumental in Minnesota being ranked second in America for overall business vitality and development capacity. Congratulations, John! Are you paying attention Jack MUELLER? You now know who to contact for the financial organization of our class reunion!

MOVING VANS: Harold STECK from Dayton, OH to Rome, NY. Harry ARNOLD with an internal move in Highlands Ranch, CO, apparently just moving to greener pastures. Richard MACISAAC from Pope AFB, NC to Washington, DC (Give me a call, Mac). Dennis NEWHOUSE from APO to Yorktown, VA. Jeffrey SHAVER from Farifax, VA to Wynnewood, PA.

Thanks for all of the great info. Keep ’em flying in ’95!

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Paul D. Knott

8941 Bellcove Circle Colorado Springs, CO 80920 (719) 282-1402

Percent members: 52

By the time you read this column, the fall football season and the holidays will be pleasant memories, and perhaps by now the pro hockey season will have started.

Colorado is fast becoming known as the homebrew/microbrewery capital of America, and leading the charge is our own Jon WROBLEWSKI. Wrobo took first place among 60 entries with his Trapper Jayne’s Trail Ale, (named after his wife, of course) which he described for one of the judges as a West India pale ale. If Jon realizes his dream, people in the Monument area looking for a brewpub will stop at his place for a cool one. Considering that Wrobo had a lower grade in comp sci than even I did and still secured a good position with a software company, I won’t bet against him.

During the last home game of our high school’s football season, Mike and Marilyn GEBHART (and Andrea and I) were introduced before the kickoff as parents of seniors on the team; Mike Gebhart was a lineman (named “most improved”); our daughter Paulette, equipment manager. You may have seen a mention of this game in USA Today, since the Air Academy tailback was number one in rushing yardage for the nation that weekend. Mike still commutes to Denver to make sure the Reserve folks get their pay on schedule.

On the subject of football, Nate STUBBLEFIELD (John and Bernadette) got a mention in the Gazette as a center for the St. Mary’s High School football team, which played in the State 2A championship. Nate’s a sophomore, and should see two more championship seasons, according to the paper.

I hope that you all got your expanded edition of the AOG Register on time. If not, it may well be because you moved and didn’t tell anybody. Two folks who will get their mail are Bill SIMMONS, who moved from Ohio to Eagle River, AK; and Stan STACHAK. Stan used to live in Toledo, but moved to Lambertville, ML This sounds impressive, changing states and all, but crossing the border wasn’t that much of a move—all of what, 10 miles, Stan?

Did anyone get elected to national office or meet anyone who was? Have any of you active duty, Reserve/Guard, retired or civilian types flown over (or slogged through) Bosnia, Haiti, or Iraq? If all else fails... have I ever told you guys about my TDY to Taiwan? If we can’t have news, I’ll find some way to fill this column.

Bob Bell

13 Pacific Ave

Sinking Spring, PA 19608

Home: (610) 678-3182

Percent Members: 51

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ly a few address changes and believe it or not, four (4) letters one of which came via fax!

First to the new address list: Greg JONES has taken up residence in Oklahoma City, OK from Panama City, FL. Joe FROST leaves Hoffman Estates, IL for Solomons, MD and Ed BISHOP goes from Fredericksburg to Manassas, VA. Mike HEBERT departed Orlando, FL for Wilton Manors, FL. Jack SMITH moved from Elmendorf AFB to Chugiak, AK. Hank HAPP has now had time to settle in Gilbert, AZ having left Albuquerque, NM behind. Scott LEE is gone from Biloxi, MS and now resides in Lumberton, TX. And finally, Wayne PATTERSON has moved to Houston, TX from Chanhassen, MN.

Now to the letters that by the way, are the real meat of any class column. Chronologically, Pete MCCARTHY was first with a very informative letter catching up on several years of contacts he has had with classmates and others.

Pete is recently off probation at Southwest Airlines sharing in the raging profitability with which all our other carriers attempt to compete. He is a first officer based with Dennis SBACH in Houston. Tad CORGILL and Roy HENDRICKSON are captains based in Phoenix. Jim JOHNSON is a captain in Dallas. Dave KINZER, Jim KIMMEL, Rico FERRAIOLI are all first officers in Phoenix. Eric NEDERGAARD, Cliff LOPERT, Bill COTTINGHAM and Terry SLAWINSKI fly right seats elsewhere in the system.

While on trips to Detroit, Pete visited Steve MACHACEK, who is a Hewlett-Packard regional sales manager, and wife, Shelley, active in nursing at a local hospital and raising five kids from four to 20. FBI agent/pilot Rob RAKITIS joined up this summer for a visit while Pete was there, too. At Los Angeles airport, Pete ran into a USAir pilot by the name of Joost VANBASTELAAR reporting that Van and wife, Sharon, keep busy with four teenagers and live nearby yours truly in Doylestown, PA.

Pete’s Christmas card list includes the likes of others such as Dave KERBER, living in Denver and sharing parental thrills of raising three daughters with wife, Sharon. Smokey STOVER flies F-100 (Fokker) jets for American, also raising three daughters with wife, Ann. Barry SMITH and wife, Debi, are stationed at Rhein-Main AB, Germany. Pete and Debs VOGEL reside in New Jersey with two young ones. Pete flies Reserve choppers and works for the Port Authority. Rick SABO recently married Theresa and retired from Defense Mapping Agency in St. Louis.

Dave BOWMAN writes to report on the repeat get-together that followed the 20-year reunion by two years for 10 of the 18 grads, their wives and significant others from CS-33. Dave organized the weekend of golf, football, dining, drinking (only a bit), tailgating with the current 33rd cadets, and a great game against Navy. Former CS-33 AOC Jim ULM (now president of the AOG) joined the group for the occasion. As pictured, Roger HARWELL, Jim ULM, Lin CHAYER, Gary GRENIER, Dave BOWMAN, Mark HOSKINS, Steve TILLMAN, Lou ROMETT and Craig WESTON were able to gather for this festive event along with Mark MAYER and Keith MEREDITH, not pictured.

As we all get embroiled in the big holiday rush and short weeks of frivolity between Thanksgiving and New Year’s, I manage to let the newsletter deadline creep up with little time left to finish. So with that in mind let me quickly try to catch up on the news I have, which includes on

The next letter came from Dan SKOTTE, (“Scro” to his close friends) reporting on the results of his congressional campaign for 2nd District of Oregon. Along with wife, Nancy, pregnant with son Joel Matthew, Dan was helped by the efforts of his 73-year young dad in his run for the Congress that came close to succeeding, but needed only another 2,400 votes. Dan personally (pictured with Joel) wishes to thank all you who financially and otherwise supported him in the challenge of this election. He may be up for it again, who knows? Great effort, Dan!

The final letter comes from Mike GEDDES all the way from Billings, MT via fax. He also felt the urge to write that first letter in support of your quest for news. Mike reports that son Travis wishes to try for an

Dan Skotte with Joel Matthew.

Academy slot along with the Class of 2001, while daughter Tawny plans to attend MSU in Bozeman, MT next year. Wife, Sherry, works for a manufacturing company they started, and Mike is a sales rep for industrial instrumentation and environmental monitoring equipment in the Montana, North Dakota and Wyoming area. Letters aren’t his forte, but Mike does send faxes, and would like to see that he really isn’t the only survivor of ’72. A suggestion might be for us all to link up on the network (America OnLine/CompuServe/Prodigy) and send E-mail notes or faxes to each other as needed. Quick and less postage...

Back in July while going through recurrent training for the 727 at American, Mark BILAK and I had the great good luck to join with Greg and Debi ISERT for a great Mexican dinner in the Arlington, TX area, where Greg currently flies for American as well. Mark is still in the New York crew base as I will soon be again, since being displaced from Washington, DC. And on that note, let me send this on the wire for the due date of 23 Dec. Hope all have (had) a great and festive Holiday Season and look forward to a fabulous 1995. Fortitudo Per Aspera.

Thomas D. Bailey, M.D.

1807 Arbor Way Drive

Shelby, NC 28150-6166

Home: (704) 482-3110

1-800-776-1054

Percent Members: 49

wGreetings again from the wilds of Western North Carolina. Of course, it’s not too far west, nor is it very wild, but, it’s a pretty place to live and raise a family. Since it is just before Christmas and we’re all in a rush, I’d like to thank Dan O’HALLAREN and Rick KARVOSKY (my outstanding predecessor in this job) for writing with not only news, but pictures! Their efforts are greatly appreciated.

First, Dan reports having a “mini-reunion” with three REBELEVEN ’73ers at the Air Force-BYU game in September. They sent along the following photo of Jim YANIGLOS and his wife, Marlene; Carol and

Jim SCULLY; and Diane and Dan. He reports having a great time. To quote Dan for the updates he sent along: “Jim and Marlene live in the Denver area. Jim manages a local transportation company there. Jim (LtCoi) and Carol are in Wichita. Jim is still flying tankers; he is assigned to Boeing Wichita to test fly modified KC-135s. That’s his part-time job. Full time he assists Carol from the World Headquarters of Scully and Associates, Inc. I am still with Boeing making airplanes as manufactiring manager at our Portland plant. I’m also with the Oregon Air Guard, though now I’m the Base BEE and not flying F-4s anymore. Other updates (that may be a little dated): Pat ROONEY, A.J. RANFT and Mike SCHIEFER in San Antonio. Steve CHRISTIANI at the Puzzle Palace. Bill DIFFLEY is airline piloting out of Washington, DC. Grant GILLIG has his own business in Boulder.” Again, my thanks to Dan!

I’m going to lift the next portion of the news almost in its entirety from Rick KARVOSKY’s letter: “It’s been a long time since I’ve written—have had plenty news to pass on but also had that common affliction—PROCRASTINATION! I was sitting here at work and finally said I was going to get this out today. First, about me. I retired in July 1993. I was the base civil engineer at Laughlin at the time. Woke up one morning in May, went to the wing commander’s staff meeting and made a splitsecond decision during the meeting that I had enough of the horse manure and went to Personnel the next morning to put my papers in. Felt going out while on top was the best. The CE squadron was selected best in ATC, we won several Air Force-level awards and were runner-up for the DoD Environmental award. Had everything going for me into the primary zone for the 0-6 board but said it wasn’t worth waiting the year for the board to meet. I have not regretted my decision for even one second!

Spent the first nine momths back in Clovis, NM. Owned two houses there and Carolyn was there working a great job at Eastern New Mexico University. It was great not having a commuter marriage anymore. I taught part time for Clovis Community College and took classes there in computer graphics and desktop publishing. Had a great time but got bored so I looked for a job. Clovis is the capital city for inbreeding in the workforce! When Carolyn was offered a job in Albuquerque, we jumped on it. Moved here this past May and found that Albuquerque Public Schools (APS) hired a new superintendent and he was hiring a new cabinet. I applied for the assistant superintendent for Facilities Planning and Operations position and got it. The supt was an ex-Army officer and West Point grad. We hit it off right from the start! APS is the 26th largest school district in the nation—out of over 15,000. We have 120 schools, over 90,000 students. I direct an operating budget over $100 million and a capital improvement budget over $50 million per year. This is exactly like a BCE job except for the fact I also own the equivalent of Base Supply and Transportation. Great job opportunity. The district is just breaking into modern times—still looking for keypunch machines and dictaphones and I’m sure I’ll find them here!

“Now for other news. Talked with Tim BEALLY (who is reportedly in Arkansas) a few months ago. He retired this past spring. Heard from an ex-BCE friend that Tim was about to be hired by a large firm in Washington, DC, made up of ex-AF Civil Engineering officers including two general officers, to possibly run a maintenance contract at Scott. Larry NOLAN retired last year and was working for a computer firm out of Las Vegas. Jon ELLER retired and went back to Indiana working as a professor for Indiana (or Indiana State).

“There was a newsclip in the Albuquerque paper a few months ago that Sid GUTIERREZ retired and is now working as a manager for Sandia National Labs Strategic Program Development Office here at Kirtland. To quote the article: ‘In his final days at NASA he commanded the shuttie Endeavor on an 11-day, 4.7-million-mile mission that helped scientists better map the world and understand its ecology.’

“Probably the weirdest occurence happened late summer. My boss’s daughter went to Taos and stayed at a Bed & Breakfast. We had just met her a few days before. While at the B&B, she talked to the owners and mentioned her dad was a West Point grad. The owner said he was a USAFA grad. She said her father just hired a USAFA grad. When he asked for the name, she said Rick ‘Kar-something-ski’ or another. He asked it if was KARVOSKY and she said that was it. Turns out the owners were Bill and Nancy SWAN! What a coincidence! Well, we got in touch and stayed there over the Labor Day weekend. They have a beautiful place that has been highlighted in most major newspapers in the country and ranked by the New York Times as the best B&B in Taos and among the best in the nation. I really recommend anyone going to Taos give Bill a call at Los Posada de Taos at (505) 758-8164. Bill gave me a Dirty Dozen (we were both in CS-12) discount—only charged me 120 percent of his regular rates! Only kidding. It is a great place and Bill and Nancy are wonderful hosts.”

Rick plans to resurrect the old “Dirty Dozen” newsletter this coming year so if any former DDers are reading this please send Rick your address and call him with any news you have. He promises to send me a

From left are Jim and Marlene Yaniglos, Carol and Jim Scully, and Diane and Dan O’Hollaren.

copy of the newsletter for Checkpoints so I’ll give you his phone number and address: Rick Karvosky, 4609 Sam Bratton NW, Albuquerque, NM 87114. (505) 897-9076 (h) and (505) 764-9726 (w). Thanks again to Rick for all the good input!

For once it looks like I’ll have too much material for a single issue! I’ll finish up with changes of address and hopefully we’ll have lots of material for the next issue; if not I’ve got lots of names to call and drum up some news!

Wade KEARNS and his wife, Sharon, have moved from Colorado Springs to New Berlin, WI. He’s now retired from the AF and is a first officer with Midwest Express. Ivan KARNEZIS has changed addresses in Sacramento, CA. LtCol William C. NAUMANN II has changed APOs to APO AE 09012. Michael S. TILLMAN has moved from Eagle River, AK, and landed at a P.O. Box at Elmendorf, AK. It must be awful cramped living in that little box! He must be either moving up or getting ready to move out. Phillip G. YAVORSKY has traded in his APO, AE address for one at Offutt AFB, NE. LtCol John L. CHRISTENSEN and wife, Norma, have relocated on base at Ellsworth AFB, SD. Col William M. WILSON has moved from Plattsburgh AFB, NY to Edmond, OK. LtCol Charles A. STEVENS has moved from his APO AP address to Bowie, MD.

Last, but hopefully, not least, I have finally succumbed to nearly unbearable pressure to move closer to town. We put the house at the lake on the market in early September. “It won’t sell for at least two years,” she said. “I think it will sell a lot faster than that,” I said. Well, to make a long story short we had a month to find a new house, get all the paperwork done at the bank, and get ourselves and four small children moved! It was a trip, but we’re now at the new address at the top. Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and New Year’s season and I wish you the best in ’95.

Joe Brezovic

Box 580202

Houston, TX 77258-0202

Phone: (713) 244-8089

Fax: (713) 244-8041

E-mail: jbrezovi@ssf4.jsc.nasa.gov

Percent members: 46

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Bill and Terry CASEMENT are still sunning in Hawaii. Bill is still doing the triathlons, (no Ironman distances yet), and did the Honolulu marathon this year for the third time. (NOT three times in one year!) He is sending out an all-call for any classmates to come to the Waikiki Yacht Club on any Friday night. There he crews a 45 “High Roller” and hopes to enter the Maui Race this year. I guess he’s out to keep in good health so he can continue to bring in the $$ to pay for two college kids—who wish to be doctors! His list of CS-30 members is: Greg and Carrie STEINHILPERT are doing well in Miami, FL; Dave and Betsy FREETH, El Centro, CA; Mike and Suzanne FUEYO, Sarasota, FL; Jim KOSTER, Conway, SC; Rob and Mary LOWERY, Colorado Springs, CO; Mike and Julia Anne MCCORD, Fairfax, VA; John and Linda PALANCIA, Apple Valley, MN; Harold and Pam REED, Fort Collins, CO; Mike and Kim SEBRING, Columbia, MD; and Dennis and Sherry STOCKERT, Olmstead Falls, OH.

This section contains excerpts from J.J. ROMANO, the editor and publisher of the Dirty Dozen Newsletter. For the reunion, over 300 classmates and assorted spouses came. The Missing Man formation was a flight of F-15s. As the band played, Denny LYONS softly sang the words to the third verse of the Air Force song, and soon a number of graduates joined in, and “I don’t believe there was a dry eye at the end.” Thank you Denny. Denny and Pam are in Martinsville, VA. There, Denny is the vice president for Resources for Murphy Farms, Inc., which is one of the largest, if not the largest, commercial animal operations in the U.S. Ted (Vicky) MACEY is in Fort Walton Beach, FL, still being an orthopedic surgeon, (probably good at it by now), with no desires to leave!

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We hope all is going well with each of you! About time for the winter dark days to be over? I imagine that it has been hard for some of our classmates finding places to live and work, especially if the time to become civilian came before being ready to make the jump. If any of you remember the first parachute jump, I think that the military to civilian jump is worse—anyone agree?

I had not been able to go to the 20th reunion because I was in the middie of an occupation change. (Read “contract cut”, coming on as a new employee out of north-north New York to Houston, TX.) I understand from several chats with classmates that it was a very heartwarming reunion. Joe TRAFICANTI mentioned that he looked at reunions as a chance to meet people who used to be the same age as you are. Have you noticed that?

Dave DIMARCHI sent a short letter and a picture of the guys and gals from his place in Colorado Springs. I’ll take the ding for not including the gals ’cause a photo never does a lady justice! Dave had 10 Frat Fivers over and reminisced over the heydays, and are thankful that their beautiful wives have agreed to put up with them for so long. If you need to update or find a Frat Fiver, give Dave a ring!

Paul and Marsha SHERRY are in Denver, CO, where Paul is a cardiologist at the Army hospital. His commitment is over in 1998. Wonderful, such job security! Steve and Beth STERNE are going to school. Well, Steve is. He is the only (or one of a few) Air Force member at the Army War College in Carlisle, PA. Beth thinks the post is extremely nice. Trust us, Fort Meade may look nice, but many of us will say it is a facade. Rich and Peg BOWMAN are in Dayton, OH. Rich is with the B-2 SPO program. Those of you who visited the Bowmans in years past will be unhappy to hear that their home was set on fire while they were out of the house. The structure had some damage, but was reparable. Belongings did not fare so well and much may not be salvageable. Sorry for you Rich and Peg! We all hope you can recover something to help the memories along.

Tracy and Lois CHEATHAM are in Park City, UT. Lois is home more than Tracy, who flies Delta LlOlls to Hawaii every week or so. Such a hardship! Snow and sun. Think what that can do to a body! Is there a medical coverage plan for that, I wonder? (Go ahead, someone think sunscreen SPF 64 for him!) Rick and Ellen ROSSER are in Kennewick, WA. Rich serves as a manager/engineer with Westinghouse Hanford. Rick and Ellen have four children, ranging in ages from 18 years to 14 months. Built in baby sitters so the parents can do an R&R whenever needed!

Tim and Cheryl LANE are retired in Beavercreek, OH. D.T. is one of five men and 300 women setting up Head Start programs in Ohio. He is responsible for training, development and quality programs. They’ll probably stay there until Cheryl finishes her dental hygiene degree and daughter Emily finishes high school. Charlie and Barbara MURPHY are in Houston, TX. Charlie has been with Texas Instruments since 1981. Barbara misses the Minnesota weather, especially around the summer months. The pool Charley put in helps some. Their youngest son wanted to play hockey this year. Parents were for it until the price tag for joining the league was $500—then you can add on the equipment costs. An alternative, they found, is roller blade hockey. Cheaper, year round, play

Bill Swan, at left, and Rick Karvosky in Taos in the courtyard ofBill’s Bed & Breakfast.

In the back row, from left are Dave DiMarchi, Duke Ramey, Dave Fundarek, Brad Lee, Mike Knoll, Rod Bishop and Dave Hoglund. In front are Tom McCance, Jeff Jacobs and Chuck

anywhere! Parents have to cut costs somewhere you know. For instance, Charlie is using the same stereo equipment he bought at the Academy. It’s been said that Ted MACEY has his vintage J’s too!

J.J. and Cynthia ROMANO are in Severna Park, MD. J.J. works directly for an admiral, doing some travel and he has lots of exposure. With the colonel board for him next year, he certainly hopes his interesting situation fares well for him. He bought a house in Chapel Hill, NC for investment and is renting it. Plans are to rent/live there until the dream house can someday be finished. Dirty Dozen active-duty members are BOWMAN, DALEY, LUNSFORD, ROMANO, SHERRY, STERNE, MACEY; two are USAFR: MACEY and BREZOVIC. As of July, retirees are ANDERSON, BRYANT, LANE, GREEN, and BORAH.

Change-of-address cards are: Robert and Eileen LIGDAY, to Davidsonville, MD. Stephen and Suk Hui LENZI carried their coconuts from Alexander Street to Kapiolani Street in Honolulu. Was it the neighbors, the view, or the rent? Eugene RICHARDSON moved off Randolph AFB into San Antonio. Thomas MCCANCE left Las Vegas for Henderson. The zip code changed from 89123 to 89014. Maybe the rent is cheaper. Antonio FERRARO moved out of Abiliene, TX onto Dyess AFB. (Why?) So many close contenders for the shortest walks to the new dwelling place. This is a record for one issue! William MACELHANEY went west from Virginia to Papillion, NE. Dennis and Lin HUGHES are also in Papillion! The HUGHES’ son just earned Eagle Scout! Bruce MCLANE is now at Maxwell AFB. William NELSON left San Antonio for Springfield, VA. Jim SEYDEWITZ is in Kingwood, TX.

These notes from the Johnson Space Center paper, Space News Roundup, same issue. Pictured on the front page is Ron SEGA who is now the primary interface between NASA and the Russian Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia. Ron will coordinate all training for astronauts being trained for flights to the Mir space station and continue development of training curriculum for U.S. astronauts training for joint missions aboard Mir. Picture also on front page of Don MCMONAGLE preparing for a maneuver involving the development of a satellite as part of the 10-day mission, STS-66. Their crew patch was the Route 66 road sign from our early TV days. Don, the commander of the flight, said “We are very proud of the mission we have just accomplished. If there’s any one thing we all have an interest in, it’s the health of our planet.”

On a sobering thought, an educational fund has been established for the three children Robert HOOD left behind. If you have questions, please call Jim SEYDEWITZ at 713-359-1379. Many of those attending the 20th reunion pledged to come to the 25th. We hope to see more there to share our past deeds and future hopes.

May you live long and prosper.

(Editor’s note: The AOG has a ’74 class ring believed to be James Joseph Garrity’s, who we have been unsuccessful in locating. Any classmate knowing his whereaboutsplease contact him and ask him to call the AOG to identify the ring. He should ask for Robert Dunn.)

Jeff Hackett

1913 E. Calle de Arcos

Tempe, AZ 85284

Home: (602) 831-9439

Office: (602) 891-2734

Percent members: 41

TWAS THE NIGHT AFTER CHRISTMAS. And the Grinch has got me in his grips; no bowl game for the Falcons, shameless, scum-sucking, 6-4-1 Notre Dame is here in Tempe for the Fiesta Bowl, it’s raining, and somehow Santa missed on delivery of the sailplane again this year. Go figure!

But on the “high side” - 1) got 10 letters/cards through the traditional mail, 2) received E-mail from six of you, 3) got/made a couple of phone calls, and 4) my daughter is mostly recovered from a bad case of mononucleosis/hepatitis. (Counsel to those with younger children, if you get the chance to expose your kids to this prior to their sophomore year in high school, do so!)

Oh yeah, there’s another thing to be thankful for! Messrs. DUESING, DYCHE, FRITZSCHE, JOHNSTON, and MAHRER haven’t called to harass me for misspelling their names in the last column. Sorry guys, you’ll recall that last issue was produced in the midst of a move and I

guess the dictionary was already packed.

THE FIRST DERIVATIVE OF 75 IS 98! That is, the first offspring descended from our class is “on-board” and will graduate in 1998! Mike and Joan BANKER’S son is already well through his doolie year. Thanks to Paul KENT for the info. Paul and his wife, Sherri, are on the other end of the parenting spectrum; their oldest is coming up on four and the youngest is less than a year. Wonder if they’ll be the only folks at the 20-year Reunion carrying a diaper bag?

Speaking of the reunion, I talked to Mark WELLS tonight. At (my) this time (10-12 weeks before you’re reading this) all is on course. Several volunteers have stepped forward and the AOG staff has been particularly helpful. By (your) this time you should definitely have received a mailing or two from the AOG about accommodations and whatever. You’re asked to do two things: get your response in return mail by the noted deadlines and doNOT assume other classmates have received the info—ask them! Max participation max fun.

Quick asides: It’s not just our reunion planning that’s being handled well, the institution is in great hands with guys like Mark on the staff! Our discussions spilled over into issues involving the new T-3 (replaces the T-41) flight screening program and how it will place additional demands on a program that’s far more sliced, diced, stretched, and jam packed than the one we went through. And it’s a program with far, far less postgraduation certainty/pay-offs. I have every confidence that Mark and others like him (officers who have immense concern for both individual cadets and for the institution) are “holding the fort”, but it reminded me that we all have to stay alert and involved if sanity is to prevail over the insiders and outsiders who would give us a civilian staff and these spiffy (read “senseless”) new uniforms.

Aside #2: The 18 (out of 19 eligible!) guys who made 0-6 “in-the-zone” on the last board (classmates with prior service) should not remain nameless. Congratulations to AKERS, AWTREY, BENJAMIN, BOCK Stephen BROWN, CRAIG, DALSON, DEFOLIART, DEMITRY, DICHTER, DOWDY, HEALD, MCDANIEL, PECK, PERCIVAL, SAXMAN, SHUGART and WELLS.

MAILBOX AND STOCKING STUFFERS. Received one “just because” letter and eight Christmas cards from our classmates (hopefully there will be more next year in response to the Hackett’s once-every-threeyears mailing of cards this year). The letter came from Terry YOUNG who sent along this picture of himself, Chuck DEMOISY, and Gary VOSBURG. Believe I have previously noted that Chuck is associated with the C-9 Reserve unit at Scott and that Terry is 375 Services Squadron CC. Gary is in HQ AMC/XP. Occasion for the picture was an abortive attempt to catch a flight to see the USAFA-Northwestern football game.

Waiting for airlift to the ball game.

Mark VOLCHEFF jotted a very short note with his Christmas card to say he was “drowning in books at Air War College with about a dozen other ’75ers” and that they would send a photo for the next magazine. Consider that now a matter of public record guys.

Got a card and a call from Dennis BROOKS; he, Leslie, and Becky are still in the Springs. Dennis is still largely confined but is slated for more back surgery this spring that will hopefully provide some relief and allow for some travel. In a real show of solidarity Leslie is planning on taking the same path many of you will and will be retiring (in her case from the USAF Reserves) in 1995. Denny said he’d seen/heard from a couple of classmates; Rick DOUGLAS is at Langley AFB and is involved with teaching in the International Search & Rescue School there. Rick’s apparently leaning toward the retirement thing, returning to Salt Lake City area and getting involved with family business. Of course Denny was also up-to-date on his brother-in-law, Greg SHERIDAN. Greg and Renee are still at Dover where he’s flying (but not as much as he’d like to) C-5s and she’s opened an art studio. In Greg’s case, the retirement thing could be deferred if he’s successful in getting an ROTC Detrachment assignment.

Dennis also noted that his part-time, down-the-street neighbor, John TRAXLER, was home from a Korean remote assignment for a few days at Christmas.

EVEN IN THE RESERVES, IT’S A “SEE-THE-WORLD” DEAL. Just reading Jim and Katie CARLSON’s card qualified me for some frequent flier miles! In the past year his Navy Reserve job sent him to Washington, DC, Omaha, Saudi Arabia, and Reno (I want to know what the Navy does in Reno). There’s now talk of an extended TDY to Italy in ’95. And just so they don’t have to put up with too much of that Minnesota weather, when Jim hasn’t been gone for the Navy he and Katie have vacationed in Southern California and the Grand Caymans. I can’t tell you whether Jim’s travels have distracted from or been a benefit to Katie’s prowess as a second-year law student.

WAITING FOR A NEW PASSENGER? Now that Mark DONNELLY is on the permanent Air Force One crew, he’s thinking that maybe he won’t retire in ’95. He, Lucy, and the kids will be adding to the sense of belonging in the D.C. area by moving off-base next summer.

A very pleasant surprise as Okinawa/Osan buddies Dave and Ann FLEMING sent us a card to say “Howdy” (they’re at Sheppard AFB, TX now). Dave has taken command of the 80th OSS there and, despite the hours, loves what he’s doing. Ann is busy with volunteer work, being the commander’s spouse, and being mom to Katie who is now officially a teenager.

Wayne and Amy WILLIS and their four kids made a short PCS last year, moving from Alamogordo (where they’d been for nine years!) up to the “big city”, Albuquerque and Kirtland AFB. Wayne’s now with HQ AFOTECH but is thinking about other post-4 June 95 opportunities. Here’s another couple with a son in college! Dave has followed in dad’s footsteps and is playing footbal at Rick’s junior college in Idaho.

I don’t think there is much to tell you about Kent, Carol, and Megan TRAYLOR that hasn’t been in one of the last couple of issues. But, hey, they’re such a good-lookin’ family, here’s their picture!

The Traylor Family

A “MULTI-MEDIA” GREETING. I think Dale MEYERROSE must have sensed his error (sending a Christmas card with signature only, no note, no letter, no nothing) as he fired off a last-second E-mail on the 22nd of December. Dale, Linda, and the girls are back in Europe where Dale is the HQ USAFE/SC. Dale’s travels around Europe have allowed him to gather the following: “Saw Mark BEESLEY in Morocco a couple of weeks ago during African Eagle exercise. Mark’s stationed at Lakenheath. ‘Smokey’ BAUMAN heads up senior officer assignments at USAFE/DP. Jim RITTER used to hang out in USAFE/DO but is now the Ops guy for Operation Provide Comfort in Turkey. John MISCH is on my staff. Bob DORSEY is a squadron commander at ‘Spang’. Phil ROMANOWICZ hangs around the 32nd Air Operations Group at Ramstein.”

REMEMBERING WHAT CHRISTMAS IS REALLY ABOUT. The final card/letter I have to pass along had a lot to do with me getting in the right focus for Christmas—I hope that it’ll give each of you some meaningful reflections as we move toward Easter. Cynthia STEWARD sent a beautiful update on how she and John Michael have been doing in the year since Stew’s tragic death (17 Dec 93). I guess it’s a case of nice people seem to know nice people as Cynthia gave a long account of relatives and Air Force/personal friends who have been a big help. Cynthia and John Michael have returned to Utah where she has started back to work at the VA Hospital part time, finding good therapy in helping others with their difficulties. I’m sure I speak for every single member of our class in sending our best and hoping that Cynthia and all the families of our fallen classmates will honor us by coming to the reunion.

BITS & PIECES OUT OF THE ELECTRONIC MAIL BOX. First of all let me “scream and shout and jump about” for a second to say if you

have access to INTERNET E-mail SEND ME AN E-MAIL TODA Y! I can be reached at “HACKETT%MICKEY@SOL.MDHC.

MDC.COMM”, call your local Computer Resources guru if you’re not sure how to do this. I’m compiling a list of E-mail addresses and will be glad to add your name and send the whole thing back to you. This also represents a heck of a lot quicker way to turn news around to you than this column (with it’s 4-8 month query/response cycle).

Jeff CHAPPELL had only written (the old-fashioned way) to the Scribe once in the previous 19 years, now he’s “zapped” two notes to me in the last couple of months. Jeff is chief of the Airfield Operations Branch at HQ AETC these days. He, Theresa, and their basketball team (they have five boys!) are starting to feel at home in San Antonio. Theresa’s on the waiting list for UT San Antonio Nursing School. Jeff asks if anyone else noticed Jay SCHELL on “Wheel of Fortune” last summer? Jeff didn’t remember specifics but thought Jay “represented us well.” Other ’75ers at Randolph include’ Mike MARRO, Deputy IM, “absolutely unchanged from that sunny June morning in 1975”. Barry ABBOTT is in the Special Ops Branch in XOT. Gerry MICHELETTI is back in the Fighter Shop after a one-year remote to Korea. Roy SAWYER in International Training. Mario MELLUM “is a quarter of the way around the Main Circle at 19th AF.” Charlie BERGMAN is chief of Fighter-Bomber assignments at AFMPC. In his travels Jeff recently saw Ron DOEPPNER down at Hurlburt where he is still in the (helicopter) cockpit and loving it. And finally, Jeff said he’d visited with Foster BITTON as he passed through on his way from War College to a new assignment in Heidelberg, Germany.

Duane JONES checked in from Guam where he is “part of a grand experiment to see if a non-rated officer can/should be the on-island senior AMC rep and commander of the AMC Air Mobility Support Squadron.” Looks good so far and on top of that he’s having fun. Duane and Charlie WINTERMEYER recently did the “...no kidding, we were classmates!?” thing at a typhoon party. Charlie is the JAG for 13th AF.

Dave WALLACE and RIC LEWALLEN continue to correspond regularly—no big news but two interesting comments. Dave (on the subject of living in Turkey), “It may be hot, but it sure is dusty!” Ric (who you’ll recall is at Kadena AB), “Whole family climbed Mt. Fuji. A ‘must do’...once!”

Quick note on a quick phone call: Rex HOEY, wife, and kids are at Sheppard AFB. He’s flying T-37s and “looking forward to retirement O/A 1 Jul 95.”

PLAYING WITH FIRE. Once again, I’m going to have the editor torqued at me (late and over the page limit). Besides, it’s going to cost a fortune to FAX this up there. “It’s later than you think—please deposit another $5 bill in the pay/fax phone and continue...”

Terry Newton

19855 Hidden Springs Glen a 0§|f Monument, CO 80132

Work: (719) 472-4470

Home: (719) 481-9846

DSN: 259-4470

Percent members: 40

Welcome to all from sunny Honolulu. I have the great privilege of being chosen to tutor the football team during its trip to Hawaii to play the Rainbows. Of course, I had to bring Karen along to help me tutor math and statistics. We are having a great time, but since I brought this computer to help in my tutoring, I thought I might start this letter. The game went well with Air Force winning handily. If you are planning on coming to Hawaii in the near future, may I suggest that you wait until early ’96 since the Hale Koa is going through some serious renovations. When they are done, this will be a first-class place. Maybe we should all come here for a twenty-year graduation celebration.

I did leave out one important fact from the last letter. Randy MUNCY (Vicki) is the commander of the 94th FTS here at the Academy the squadron that teaches the soaring program. Since I fly with the squadron, I get to see him quite a bit. He is doing great as a commander. He and his family got here in July ’94, and he took over as the commander right away.

I received a letter loaded with information from Ed GALLAGHER (Julie) who is the commander of the 40th Airlift Squadron (C-130) at Dyess. It seems that Ed, Bob VAUGHN (Sue), and Kent KYSAR (Sharon) were all airborne in the C-130 formation on the way to Haiti that was turned around over the Caribbean. It sounds like they all had a significant role in the operation even though the planned assault was turned back. John MASHL (Darlene) directed the ground-loading at Pope AFB for the airdrop and then became one of the ground commanders at MacDill AFB during the operation. Both John and Ed ended up as JTF commanders at Roosevelt Roads, Puerto Rico during the

airland phase.

Ed sent me information about the following people: John MASHL is the ops officer of the 39th Airlift Squadron (C-130) at Dyess. Rich KOHL (Kaylene) is retraining at Little Rock AFB for assignment to the 39th Airlift Squadron at Dyess with his job TBD. Rick CABALLERO is the chief of Group Stan-Eval (both B-1B and C-130H) at Dyess. Bob VAUGHN is the commander of the 41st Airlift Squadron (C-130) at Pope AFB, NC. He was the overall mission commander on the Haiti mission (Operation Just Kidding). Kent KYSAR is the commander of the 2nd Airlift Squadron (C-130) at Pope AFB, NC. Geoff JUMPER (Sevim) is the commander of the 23rd Operations Support Squadron at Pope AFB, NC. Jeff STEIG (Shelly) is the commander of an Air Refueling Squadron (KC-135) at Offutt AFB, NE. Marv COOK is now working FTD maintenance issues at Sheppard AFT, TX, but he was a maintenance squadron commander at Hill AFB, UT (F-16). Bill FRANKLIN (Cynthia) is working B-1B issues at ACC HQ. John HAZEN (Carol) is a special agent for the FBI in Eastern Arkansas. He worked on a special weapons and tactics (SWAT) team in California. Matt MARTORANO (Diana) is the ops officer of one of the C-141 squadrons at McGuire AFB. He also was one of the mission commanders on the Haiti mission. Bruce WITHERS (Candy) is working at HQ 21 AF at McGuire. Thanks Ed for all the great information. You have made my job much easier.

Steve NICKEL sent along the accompanying photo of USAFA alumni from the “Bicentennial Class” (ours) who are either stationed at or are attending upgrade training at either Davis-Monthan AFB (DMAFB) or at the Tucson ANG base at Tucson International Airport. From left in the front row are Jim CARTER, in A/OA-IO upgrade enroute to Baltimore Air National Guard Base as the Guard advisor; Dave CLARY, deputy ops group commander, 355th Wing, DMAFB; Mark WILDERMUTH, Hq 12AF Campaign Plans, DMAFB; Kevin BARLEY, assistant ops officer, 358FS, DMAFB; Brett MCINTIRE, Hq 12AF Campaign Plans, DMAFB; and Charles ALLAN, commander, 41ECS DMAFB. In the back row are Steve NICKEL, ops officer, 355 Operations Support Sq, DMAFB; Scott GOUGH, active duty advisor, 162nd Fighter Group, Tucson ANGB; Dave CONNORS, chief, 12AF Stan/Eval, DMAFB; Len SUMMERS, chief, Current Ops, 41 ECS, DMAFB; Mike WOODMAN, commander, 354th Fighter Squadron, DMAFB; and Charles MORAN, 162nd Fighter Group, Tucson ANGB. John COVINGTON is rumored to be a civilian living and working for Hughes in Tucson and was on a business trip when the photo was taken. Thanks for the info and photo Steve.

The Dirty Dozen

I also received a letter from Sue VAUGHN, wife of Bob VAUGHN. Although she included much of the above information, she sent me a news article featuring Bob and some more class news as well. She said that they were going to get all of the ’76ers together for a picture, but many of them were called away to Saudi Arabia just before the party. She wrote about Mike ELY (Michele), who is an F-16 squadron commander of the 74th Fighter Squadron. She also mentioned that Karl REBARCHEK (Mary) is an ops officer of the 75th Fighter Squadron (A-10).

I received another letter from the wife of a ’76er. Thank goodness so many of us had the sense to marry women who can write. Chris BERG, wife of David BERG, sent a picture of her brother Mike FRICANO (Debra), David and Brad BUCHANAN (Elizabeth) at Mike’s 40th birthday party. Dave is a civilian (took the VSI) and working at ACC/XP at Langley. Brad is also a civilian and works as a contractor for DOE. He and his wife live in Alexandria with their two kids. Mike works at the Pentagon, but Chris included no specifics on what he does there. Thanks for the letter Chris, I appreciate it.

Steve HEINZ (Kay) sent his annual Christmas letter. It is a riot to read,

David Berg, Brad Buchanan and Mike Fricano partying hard for Mike’s 40th.

even though I don’t know the family members. The letter is short anecdotes from throughout their year. To give you a taste of the letter, I will include a short excerpt. It seems that Steve and Kay have twins who are graduating from high school in June ’95 and therefore they have decided to cash in their “children’s college fund” they so wisely established in 1984. However, they are disappointed to learn that it will be totally spent by the third day of “Freshman Orientation Week.” The letter was great, and I will look forward to reading the one next year if I still have this job.

Dutch DUTCHYSHYN (Robin) sent me a letter from National Defense University. He got the ’76ers who are in attendance together for a picture. Gary KYLE is in attendance at ICAF. Hooter FREER (Tricia) is in attendance at ICAF and was selected for colonel on the latest board. Rich KING (Mary) is at NWC and was also selected for colonel on the latest board. Willie SHELTON (Linda) is at NWC and Dutch is at ICAF. Not pictured but in attendance at NWC are Lance CHRISTIAN (Julie) and Jim SHANLEY (Catherine) in attendance at IRSM. Dutch also included information about Roger TURCOTTE (Sally) who has recently been selected to be an F-15E squadron commander at Mountain Home. Jack CATTON (Janet) is the ops group commander there. Thanks for the informative letter and picture Dutch, I appreciate it.

The ’76ers at NDU: Gary Kyle, Hooter Freer, Rich King, Willie Shelton and Dutch Dutchyshyn.

Jim HOGUE (Paula) sent a letter to announce his marriage to his high school sweetheart. The wedding was in Jan ’94, but Jim waited for the pictures to get back before he sent the information. Kevin STEPKO (Sheila) was his best man and flies for Delta. Jim flies for United and is in the Reserves as an Academy liaison officer. Jim also included information about Mike GOULD (Paula) who is at McGuire flying C-141s as a commander of one of the composite wings. Thanks for the information Jim and I will get your picture back but don’t expect it until June.

I received a few change-of-address cards. Seems that Tom BOWIE (Beth) finally changed his address from Washington to Colorado Springs. He has been teaching here ever since I arrived in ’92. Joe WYSOCKI (Nancy) is moving back to Peterson AFB after a tour at Satellite Beach, FL. Michael REINERT left sunny Hawaii for Omaha, NE. Bob MANSFIELD (Pam) left Grand Forks for Montgomery, AL. Dave ROBINSON (Lori) has departed Norman, OK for Newport, RI. Wade MCROBERTS (Susan) departed an APO Box for Yorktown, VA. Jeff SOGARD (Carole) departed Clovis, NM for Burke, VA. Mike KIDD

Kevin Stepko with Paula and Jim Hogue at the wedding. departed Omaha for Mountain View, CA. Bill ROEGE (Lynda) is at Tyndall AFB going through the instructors course for the F-15 after having returned from the Australian Joint Services Staff College. His address is in Panama City, FL. Bill reports that Steve EDDY (Vicki) is doing the same thing after having returned from France.

Mike MCGUINESS called from Irving, TX where he flies for American and also works in the ASOC for the Peoria Air National Guard. He was flying A-37s, but they are switching or have switched over to C-130s. Mike told me that Dale MILLER (Jayne) now flies for United out of San Diego while Mark MCNAIR and Bob VAUGHN (yes the other Bob Vaughn) both fly for American. Mike said that Steve STOCKDALE (Cheryl) still lives in Irving and works for Texas Instruments.

Don HALL (Pat) called from San Antonio to tell me about his Waldo anthology. He has collected most (if not all) of his Waldo articles that he started writing while we were cadets and put them into a book. I have read the book and found it to be outstanding. If you want to remember some of those years we had in the early ’70s, this will help you. If you want to forget those years, this may help you get your sense of humor back. You can get your own copy by contacting Don at 210-590-8767. I recommend it!

These are the names that I saw on the colonels list that was published in Oct 94: John BLYTHE, Michael CANTWELL, David CONNORS, Harrison FREER, Steven FRYE, Richard KING, Gregory LEWIS, Douglas LOVERRO, Larry NEW, Robert WALLETT, Roy WORDEN and Joseph WYSOCKI. Congratulations! That is all the news I have. Thank you to all who wrote or phoned in. I appreciate the help. Keep those letters, phone calls, and pictures coming. If you want to use E-mail, my address is: Newton TJ%DFMS@dfmail.usafa.af.mil.

John J. “Lou” Michels, Jr. 9513 Pine Shadow Drive Richmond, VA 23233

Home: (804) 527-1873

Work: (804) 775-1137

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Time for me to take a break from perusing the 1994 Register of Graduates and put out some of this information that came pouring in after the last column. Christmas is always a good time of the year for class scribes, since we seem to be on everyone’s Christmas card mailing list. It’s been a very busy quarter for me with two weeks in Russia and Ukraine added to my normal plane-hopping around the southeastern United States. While in Moscow, I had an opportunity to walk through the former Soviet Union’s major air-to-air, surface-to-air and air-to-surface weapons facility outside the main flight test facility near Ramenskoye. Business has been a little slow there lately so they were looking for some potential sources of investment and ideas to convert their facilities to something other than defense purposes. There are a lot of ghosts, mechanical and otherwise, around that place now.

ON TO THE MAIL BAG: As I said, the mail bag was pretty loaded this time around. Bill LORD (Cynthia) has changed stationery and location—after completing ICAF he’s at work for Central Command in Tampa working the Communications and ADP side of the house. Bill’s on the BPZ list for colonel—congrats Bill and to all the other 0-6 selectees out there. Bill ran into John BUCKLEY (Sandy) when John was doing the Reserve thing as an intel officer at CENTCOM. Bill also sees Ed MUR-

PHY (Vickie) at MacDill where Ed is working at SOCCENT/J6 and spends too much time crawling through the desert. Thanks for the update Bill.

Speaking of Mr. BUCKLEY, I saw John in New York at a meeting to discuss John’s “You too can be like Victor Belenko” program reported in the last issue. John is also chasing business interests in the Middle East and the Springs as well as anything else he can get his hands on.

Jim MOSCHGAT (Jill) wrote me a book following his trip back to the Zoo for the Navy game this fall. Jim is at Mountain Home driving F-16s and serving as the 366th Composite Wing’s chief of Safety. The wing sponsors the 33rd Squadron at the Academy, so as sponsors they put on a stadium flyby just to scare the squids. When a composite wing flies by, it’s pretty much an air show. Jim said they had a KC-135, a B-l and two F-15Cs, two F-15Es, and two F-16Cs. Jim was airborne SOF in the tanker but Tim HOPPER (MaryAnn) drove the B-l. This explains all those hearing loss claims the Air Force received following the game.

Jim reports that Dennis BELLAMY (Lorraine) recently replaced Ray LUNGER (Jo Lynn) as the operations officer for the 390th Fighter Squadron. A case of out of the academic frying pan, into the academic fire, Ray was slated for AWC at Maxwell but diverted to pick up a T-38 squadron at Sheppard. B-l driver Tim HOPPER is the commander of the 34th Bomb Squadron at Ellsworth and Dave LAWTON (Susan) is the ops officer at the KC-135 unit at Mountain Home. Milt JOHNSON stopped and talked to Jill at the football game when he saw Jill was wearing Jim’s ’77 A-jacket. This should serve as a warning to all spouses about wearing unduly provocative clothing. According to my sources, Milt is a mech instructor at the Academy, but this may be a chance for him to correct the record.

Mark RUTAN (Donna) is the active-duty head of the South Carolina Civil Air Patrol and living in Columbia. Bob ZAEHRINGER (Eileen) flies 767s for Delta out of New York, making stops in Moscow and Tel Aviv. I’ll look for Bob on my next Moscow hop out of JFK. Delta gets you there direct. Bob MASSEY (Andrea) is at 12AF working Flight Safety. Don BOHAC (Debra) and Jim were at the ACC safety course at Dyess AFB last spring. Don is chief of Flight Safety at Dyess. Jim also ran into Tom HYDE at a safety course at Kirtland. Tom is chief of Safety at Luke. Dave KISH (Loni) has recently returned from Turkey and is in an AFIT engineering staff job at Kirtland. Jim gets out to Langley occasionally and ran into Steve CAREY at the ACC safety conference there. Steve is chief of Safety at Eglin.

Steve MILLER (Teresa) took over the 94th Fighter Squadron at Langley in June. I’ve tried to call Steve on my last two Reserve tours but we haven’t connected. Maybe next year. Frank LAURQUIN is running the T-38 Companion Trainer Program for copilots at ACC. Finally, and in Jim’s words, “in case you haven’t seen it in every aviation-related publication in the world” Ron LADNIER (Pam) is the commander of the only C-17 squadron in existence at Charleston.

Jim notes with some irony the large number of ’77 grads in the Safety game. He never would have guessed anybody knew anything about safe flying after the stories he heard at the Navy game. Jim also reported with some pride that the Academy has gotten a facelift since the summer and actually looks pretty good now. There is even water in the Air Gardens, a sight unseen since our sophomore year. Thanks for the book, Jim, and fly safe.

Frenchy FERNAND (Jean) is teaching thermodynamics and coaching the flying team at the Zoo. He laments the fact that he now has a teenage son driving. Steve SCHWALBE (Ingrid) wins the “Entertaining Christmas Card of 1994 Award” with his reindeer air show card. Steve is with the DoD IG, inspecting Defense Intelligence. He is lobbying for the War College next year while Ingrid is teaching elementary school in the D.C. area. Mark and Patty LINDSLEY have left Cannon so that Mark can attend the National War College. Mark was also on the 0-6 list as well. He is having a great time at the college and is still rooting for the Dolphins in the playoffs. I hope to hook up with them on my next D.C. trip.

Paul PIROG (Mary) is getting ready to leave his job at SAF General Counsel, potentially headed to Japan. Paul always claims that he has no idea how the assignment process works, yet is able to predict his next job

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with uncanny accuracy, so I assume he is headed for Yokota and big time there. Paul and Mary went down to watch Tom JONES (Liz) blast off on Sept 29th on his second shuttle mission. Armando COSTALES (Wendy) pinned on lieutenant colonel in his Army greens last March, but remained in D.C. Armando is pretty sure he is going to be moved in the summer of 1995 and is hoping for someplace in the Fort Eustis area. For my sake, so am I, since I haven’t seen him but once the entire time he and Wendy have been in D.C.

UP CLOSE: Odd things happen if you hang around this area long enough. During my monthly foray to the Langley commissaary, I pulled my classic “do I know you?” routine with Curt TAYLOR’s wife, Terri. They are both stationed at Langley, where Curt is at ACC Plans and Terri is a nurse at the hospital. I had a great evening with them talking over old times/people at CS-33. I suspect a sizeable number of you out there felt your ears burning around Dec 7th and now you know why. They both look great and are hoping to be at Langley for at least another year.

Lynn SCOTT swung through Richmond while lobbying the Defense Commissary Service for one of his programs out of the Human Resources Lab at Brooks. After a reasonably short period of time at San Antonio, Lynn will be moving to Washington, DC this summer to begin ICAF in the fall. I suspect this program will not prove too difficult for Lynn, since he analyzed the place for three years for his PhD dissertation and made copies of everyone’s class notes for his “study”. Now we know the truth. After completing the program, he is slated to join the faculty at ICAF. I cannot think of a better person to instruct anybody on anything and I am ecstatic that he and Cynthia will be in the so-called neighborhood again.

FINITO ERGO SUM: That’s it from the Old Dominion. I hope you all had a wonderful holiday season. Drop me a line for the spring issue. Be seeing you.

Greg “Kais” Kaiser

7420B Salem Drive

Columbus AFB, MS 39701

Home: (601) 434-0078 is great!

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HAPPY NEW YEAR! I have a great New Year’s resolution. I will no longer take out any of my journalistic frustration on your friend and mine...K-Bob. However comma...I have a new focus...it’s Mrs. K-Bob (aka Ellie)! You see my friends, she played the crudest tricks during the holidays and it involved Moi. Remember last article I reported “so far no death threats, nastygrams, or obscene phone calls?” Well, upon returning from a rather relaxing Christmas at my mother-in-law’s (yes, I know that in itself is hard to believe), I thought my world as I know it was about to come crashing down on me and my short (but sweet) journalistic career. Shorthly after I pressed the “Message” button on my answering machine this voice that sounded like the “wicked witch of the West” began with “hel.l.l.l.l.lo Kaizzzz...this is Mrssss. K-Bobbbb.” Then she launched a tirade of insults, innuendos, and verbal assaults unlike anything I’ve heard in my entire life. After about two minutes of her verbal abuse I was really beginning to think, “How am I going to apologize to K-Bob and his wife.” But, just when she had me feeling lower than a snake’s belly, she burst into laughter and let me off the hook. She reassured me what I had written about good ole’ K-Bob was factual, accurate, and just downright funny. Ellie, thanks for the call, the note, and the picture with this threat on the back, “How would you like to spend all weekend taking care of this mob?” Bring ’em on, Ellie, bring ’em on.

“The K-Mob”

OK, sports fans, the rest of this article is going to be fast and furious because like the “Rush Limbaugh Show,” I’ve got a lot of material to cover and a finite space to put it in. The printed word is the show and the pictures are our commercial breaks...so, here we go.

Just after my last deadline, Dave “Fads” MCFADDIN and John “Pyz” PYZDROWSKI dropped me a line from McConnell AFB, KS. Let’s see, Fads was the commander of the 28th Bomb Squadron (B-lBs) until 1 Oct 94. Then, he turned the squadron over to the Kansas Air National Guard and is now roaming the halls of the Pentagon, Congress, and who knows where else as one of those SAF/LL kinda guys. Pyz, on the other hand is still stuck at McConnell as commander of the 384th Support Squadron to help the “weekend warriors” transition to their new aircraft. Didn’t the Guard and Reserve fly “old” airplanes a few years back? We’ll talk more “old” later in the article. Stay tuned for more right after this.

Former CS-03 (Fads) and CS-04 (Pyz) commanders done good!

Glad you’re back. Rick DICOCCO, a first-time contributor to the scribe (and believe me it’s appreciated) has an interesting challenge for the class. He’s an arms inspector making frequent trips to the former Soviet Union and is challenging anyone to top his very unusual pin-on ceremony of his silver oak leafs. Can anyone top this? Kazakhstan... 1 June 1994...the U.S. Ambassador to Kazakhstan on one shoulder and get this...General-Major Sabit Tulanov, Chief of Army Personnel (no, Wayne “Killer Bees” KELLENBENCE, this guy isn’t our CJCS, that’s Shalikashvili), on the other shoulder. Ironically, Rick was pinned by one of our former enemies. Who would have dreamed it when we were cadets, or even a few years ago for that matter. Rick sent a picture of the pinning ceremony as proof. Unfortunately, he also sent a picture of an airplane, and I like airplanes, so that’s what you’ll get for the next break. If anyone out there’s got a more unique pin-on, we’d like to hear about it. Be right back.

“They even think we’re ‘Great’ in the former Soviet Union.

Welcome back. This segment will contain all the short clips I’ve received over the telephone for the past few months. Shortly after we “invaded” Haiti, I was sitting in the tower here at Columbus as the SOF, doing those all so important SOF-ly duties when the telephone rang...“Kais, this is John HAYES (Pause).” And, of course it’s one of those long pauses. Is this guy going to give me bad news (you’re going remote), or do I owe somebody money (and if I don’t pay, it’s good-bye kneecaps), or do I know this guy (straining all the remaining brain cells that have survived alcohol poisoning over the years)? Finally, John chimes in with “I’m one of your classmates from the Academy with some info.” Boy, was I relieved. He sounded like he was calling from just next door even though he was in the “war zone” in Haiti as the deputy J-6 deployed from

Robins AFB. Leave it to those comm guys to get a good commline...no being cut-off...and best of all, FREE! He wasn’t real excited about being down there like most people, except the ones we just voted out of office, but was hoping for a quick resolution and to be home for the holidays. Hope you got your wish, John. He reported that Ted TRUEX is still in Atlanta with Delta Airlines, and I believe that Ted and his wife, Linda, just had their third child. Also, John had seen Buzz KLEEMAN somewhere along the way between Buzz’s training at Tyndall and Buzz’s present assignment flying the F-15 Eagle at Langley. Some guys just have all the luck. OK, here’s the picture of Rick,s pinning on ceremony. Stay tuned for the final segment.

“Rick, the Cold War is over, smile!’’

Finally, a couple of short bursts. Kevin RANK called from Scott AFB with news that he’s retiring this June and is busy looking for a job on the outside. Paul CAPASSO and Dave ESTEP are also at Scott. Paul’s been an exec to Gen Fogleman and now Gen Rutherford, and Dave is part of a Commander’s Staff Group, whatever that is in the AMC world. Pat YEARICK called and left a message on my anwsering machine that I haven’t been able to return but relayed the following. Pat’s in Philadelphia working with Silicon Graphics, and he had news that one of my former roommates, Jim “Jimmy” GARN and his wife, Kirsten, had just had twins. What is this...old guys havin’ kids?

Speakin’ of old, here’s my Top Ten List (if it works for Letterman, maybe it’ll work for me) of “You know you’re getting old when...

#10....the Class of ’78 is no longer in the back of the AOG Register of Grads.

#9....USAFA football has winning seasons and bowl bids.

#8....you can’t remember your cadet mailbox number much less the combo.

#7...your cadet car is now considered an antique in most states.

#6....today, even Farrah Fawcett and Angie Dickinson look old.

#5....your kids want to send your slide rule to the Smithsonian. #4....your Polaris begins to smell like something crawled in it and died. #3 ....Playboy magazine no longer excites you, it depresses you.

#2....your organ donor card is returned “REJECT—UNFIT FOR SPARE PARTS.”

#l....your wife refers to sex as “fast, neat, average, friendly, good, good!”

If you call, write, or smoke signal nothing else, give me some more “you know you’re getting old when” inputs. I’ll keep them, update my list, and present the “Best of the best” to everyone at our 20th!. That’s all for now. I’m outta here. KAIS.

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Talk about old farts! It’s hard to believe our class has legitimate retirees...1 guess that’s better than illegitimate. Paul (Sue) BISHOP (my roomie, yeah the guy who chewed and swallowed two cans of Copenhagen tobacco per day and had the lifetime subscription to that fine publication edited by Mr. Larry Flint) and Laser Ed LEMELIN are on their way towards reaping their fortunes from UNCLE. The Bish is a senior systems engineer in the Air Superiority Department of Sverdrup Technology, Inc. in beautiful downtown Eglin AFB and the Laser is recycling aluminum cans (Bud only) at Casa de McConnell while da Misses brings home da bacon. The boys from REBELEVEN will be

shocked because we bet the Bish would never make it to retirement. Hats off to Sue...she be the guiding light to showeth that fighter pilots never die...they just BUZZZZ off...believeUme the Bish can Buzzem. Congrats.

Don’t know about you, but I’m confused. The ground rules that were beat in my head in Jack’s Valley were “I was the luckiest man on the face of this earth to be selected to attend such a prestigious institution and it might cost me 20 years of BST (Blood, Sweat and Tears) payback.” The interesting stats on our class are that 1,464 were initially appointed on 30 June 1975; 900 graduated (most on 30 May 79); 414 presently in active duty AF; 419 resigned; 20 deceased; 8 medical; 28 other losses?; 5 not commissioned; 1 foreign cadet; 5 Army; 3 Navy; and 2 Marine Corps (Semper Fi). So after 15 years, the majority of our class are in the Guard/Reserve, airline pilots, both or some other typoe of patriot proudly serving their country.

The only guarantees in life are rules change...what was the original UPT commitment? Who would have thought that the fall of the iron curtain would usher in 15-year retirements! So after 15 years and 15 articles (you guys need help putting up with my BS) the DONATELLI saga continues. Our FOURTH son (yes a four peat), Patrick Henry (we’re so patriotic), was born on Aug 8th. Of course Mr. “control your own destiny” was on a Delta trip in Dallas getting ready to blast off to Frankfurt. Thank God the competition (American Airlines) still flies between Dallas and Chicago because I arrived at the hospital in the knick (not N.Y. Knicks VASQUEZ) time. Well to make a long story longer, I was in the big D because I was checking out on the 767ER (Delta’s Euro trash hauler). I upgraded this summer because the real big D (Delta) closed my pilot base. My hometown; my kind of town; Chicago. So now, Mr. “control your own destiny” is a commuter. Yes Mr. “control your own destiny” not only commutes to JFK for Delta but I’m still locked and loaded in the WIANG (LTC) flying F-16s at Madison. Julie is happy to live where we want and work where I have to but, with four boys and dad cornin’ and goin’ she’s ready for a month-long vacation in Hawaii. OK, so maybe us airline jocks don’t have as much control as we’d like...live and learn!

Commuting has its definite disadvantages...! spend too much time going to work and bumping into classmates on the airways. Kurt (Yvonne) SHULAR flies Delta’s big jets out of Hotlanta along with Bob (Laura) KLUTZ, Jon (Cindy) FAGOT, Gramps (Steve) BARNES, and Chip TAYLOR...like most in this industry we’re moving backwards. We aren’t as bad as Charlie (Kellie his Delta pilot) WADELL. Charlie, furloughed from USAir, was Newt’s field marshall for the Georgia campaign! Nice job Charlie...rumor has it that a guest appearance on Rush’s show is in the works. Anyway, commuting has some advantages. Where else could I go and receive such hospitality as I do at the Dan (Jamie Lane) REPASKY commuter hospice. Dan, Jamie, Bart (14 months), and Hobbes the beagle make me feel at home while I’m serving my commitment with Delta in New York. Dan owns a beautiful abode in Setauket, Long Island and allows this Irish/Italian a place to lay his greasy head when schedules dictate. Danny has also offered room and board to Gordie ROSS who is doing likewise in JFK but Gordie has a better arrangement with one of Delta’s darlings. Now, Dan has agreed to break the monotony and will update us on his hot gossip:

“Mike is only making me make a few comments because he is on another beer run. A couple of guys that I keep in touch with: Steve (Jennifer) FRANGOS had their second child, Zachary Stephen, born in May. Their daughter Katherine is two years old. Steve is playing doctor for Chevron Oil out of San Francisco. I’ve never quite figured out how he does a culture on an oil rig or an exam on a tanker? Elden (Candi) KOCOUREK and their two children now live in Germany. He is flying NATO AWACS, along with aviators from 11 other countries! For all the years Elden was in SAC I don’t know if he can handle being in a multilingual situation, but then again there were the authentication tables! Enjoy Germany, but watch the bratwurst, bread, pastries, and beer. Rick (Sandy, ’81) WALLACE are doing great things. They are associated with Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF). In July of 1990 they and their three (at the time) children moved to Sentani, Indonesia. They studied the language and received an orientation on the country, preparing themselves for their work and their fourth child who was born early 1991. In July they moved to Manokwari, Irian Jaya to run a “one plane/one pilot” base. Rick has accumulated almost 2,500 hours as a missionary pilot flying medical supplies and workers, pastors, evangelists, teachers, agriculture teams, and government officials to help the villages of Indonesia. This is more than 5,000 takeoffs and landings in a Cessna Caravan at jungle and mountain airstrips. In March 1993, Rick and his family moved to the port city of Nabire from which the MAF serves mission, church, medical, and development activities in the mountainous and jungle interior of Irian Jaya. He is filling a newly-created management position overseeing the operation of three MAF bases with associated equipment and personnel. If anyone wants to drop them a line (I’m sure they would enjoy it): Rick and Sandy Wallace, c/o MAF, Kotak Pos 109, Nabire 98801, Irian Jaya, Indonesia. Well, Pup is back with the brew,

time to let him have this back.” Thanks Danny.

I was on a Christmas trip to Milan...This commuting thing...Ken GOODWIN and Dave FALLON also had that holiday treat working on Christmas. Ken commutes to JFK from Dallas and was working the Roma flight while Dave FALLON commutes from the Springs and was tasked to cruise to Paris. Dave and Ken told me about a recent LTC list that hit the streets. Congrats to ya. I read the list myself in the AF Times...many LCWBers on the list.

Well the new year is upon us and 1995 has many challenges ahead. The tasks are never too great for John Nips (Denise) NICHOLS. Nips decided to give up a shot at United Airlines to become the 176 FS ops officer. He’s doing a smash-up job...On the horizon is our Snowbird deployment to Florida, QAFE, Maple Flag, ORE, and ORI...plus any pop-up tasking we all know about. The Air Guard keeps you on your toes. It’s challenges like the above-mentioned why Russ LARNED re-upped. Lurch flying 727s for Alaska Airlines needed to exercise his leadership skills so he now is checking out in ’141s. Big change...four years ago he was a high-time F-16 jock. LARNED, Scot (Deborah) JENSEN, and Tim (Marianne) FYDA got together for their annual summer golf tourney (I had a trip). Turns out FIDO also has the problem...another four-peat...Tim and Marianne had boy number four this fall. I think his name is Pat also.

Tim and I attended the USAF FWS together in 1984 and were exposed to the same type of radiation in Las Vegas at this crap table in Caesers Palace. Tim and I both have four sons and the last three are named Matt, Brian, and Patrick...The first born were Mike D and Neil F...must be a Midwest thing. JENS and I missed the FIDO during our fighter sweep in front of Senior Bar Notre Dame. Fido flew the corporate plane to South Bend for the AFA vs ND game. I know the trucking industry is doing well when Mr Fyda Freightliners FLIES in for a football game instead of bringing his eighteen-wheeler to the tailgate. Anyway the Chicago Chapter of the AFA sponsored the event and we had a spectacular time...Great weather, company, and a great game...The Irish didn’t cover the point spread.

Back to 1995 challenges...John SUSALLA is tying the knot this spring! The challenge is not for SUS but for Kathy, his bride to be...a 38-year-old bachelor is just a little set in his ways. More challenges...Mike ASHLEY raising his two daughters as a single parent and an American Airlines Super 80 copilot in West Virginia; Dan and Kellie BOYLEN spoiling their two kids, Danny (2), and Katie (6 mos), while living on a golf course; Frank and Colleen SNYDER with their new home in New Hampshire (post the NOTAMS...Frank is a copilot on the Delta MD-88 based in NYC); Fred and Laura LANKFORD with their three kids, two dogs, and a cat in Connecticut. Fred keeps on truckin’ in the Connecticut Air Guard and with Delta based in Beantown; Mike and Janae BEIL with their three girls and two French exchange students in Michigan; and Steve and Pam HALVORSEN with their busy family in Oregon. BUT the biggest challenge of all is for Bill GREGORY! Our first astronaut will experience the 14-G ride up towards space on 23 Feb 1995. I was fortunate to be invited but unable to attend...something about Julie needed a break in Hawaii. Go get ’em BRUONO. Enjoy, we’re pullin’ for you.

Till next time...I’m still looking for a replacement. Most of you guys have better contacts than me in the “RAF” so please think about it...my CompuServe address is 73152,553 so zap me or drop me a note if interested. As Bud mentioned, another Guard bum/airline puke, John DALLAS, will write the next article. J.R. is with American so you won’t have to put up with the good ole boys from Atlanta. J.R.’s address is 11048 Candlelight Lane, Dallas (what else) TX 75229. Asta Lavista.

Don Myers

110-B Tree Point Alley

Kodiak, AK 99615-6813

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Work: (907) 487-5887

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LAST ISSUE of Checkpoints didn’t make it to my house in time for Christmas. I’m not sure if it’s because I’m on this rock or if first-class mail bumped it for everyone this year. Regardless, if you’re one of those who is late sending Christmas cards; after paying the increased postage following the new year, remember my plea and I’ll wait for the results to tumble in shortly with your late letters. For now, relax and marvel at how a guy on an isolated island in a frozen wonderland can possibly reach out to you. Hear, then, the exploits and adventures of those who put me on their mailing list eons ago....

NOW, FOR THE ALPHA ROSTER: Mo (TRITLE) VACCARO wrote just after the last deadline to update us on more than just life with Pete. She and Pete had just returned to Hill AFB after watching Sue HELMS’ last blast-off. Seems Sue’s parents threw a pre-launch party from which Mo got some news: Janet (LIBBY) BLOOM is now at SAF/AQP after ICAF. Karen (LUSK) (Ken ’78) KAYLOR is on her way

Pete, Silvi (Kiisk ’81) Steigerwald, Mo, Janet and Karen at the beach blast.

out of Kelly AFB as her unit is deactivating. Back to Pete; he’s gone from being in charge of the Software Technology Support Center to being program manager at the ICBM systems—trying to privatize and get commercial uses for some of the technology. Mo’s a reservist with a slot in the Pentagon (SAF/AQXM). She commutes and works a couple weeks each month. She says “It’s great only because I get to see so many classmates.” Mo adds these locations/jobs: Tom LESTER got a Nat’l Defense Fellowship and is working for a year at the Library of Congress; Dean WORTHINGSTUN, one of our Navy buddies, is at a Maryland base; Bev (PLOSA) POINTER is also a reservist working in D.C. at AF/LG, but lives in Pennsylvania. Oh, Dean, Bev, and Mo are wearing silver leaves. John (Jeri) BORSI is at AMC; Gordie (Jill) ENGLEBRETSON is in Florida as an AF liaison with Grumman; Dave (Tara) STEINBECK is flying with FEDEX, lives in Tennessee, and should have baby #2 by now; Pete KNUDSEN is at SAF/AQ; Mary DALEY and Bonnie HOUCHEN are still at AFMPC—Bonnie is ready to get back to the RAF (that is the real Air Force!) Thanks for the news, Mo!

FRUIT OF THE...Christmas cards: Ricki (SMITH) and Paul SELVA were diverted from Maxwell so Paul could take command of a KC-10 squardon relocated to Travis. Sounds like both an accomplishment and headache at the same time! Although Ricki’s been putting some leadership skills to use organizing a spouse support group, she says “it’s not life or death, so I just get to enjoy it.” With the ping pong treatment they’ve been through lately, they’ve purchased a parcel of land in Colorado for a future “cabin-retreat” so they can at least dream of roots. Good luck to both of you!

Home, Sweet....Chuck (Net) MILLIGAN established the family at Osan AB and have toured Korea from the DMZ to points south. Chuck is in charge of many AF construction projects throughout Korea and will be the squadron commander after PACAF completes a reorganization. This is their first experience overseas and it’s been...“different” (Net’s word). Typical stuff: expensive, short supplies, electrical outages, language problems, etc. Net adds the capstone, however: “We see so many lonely peopie, with families back in the States, and we are reminded of God’s mercy in allowing us to be together in this place.”

Shorts & shorts. George (Nadine) MADSON remains at AMC but sent us a shot of the family down in Florida for a vacation. (What are those cut-off pants they are wearing—I seem to recall something like them when we lived in a warmer place!) Dave (Marla) JONES jotted a card (probably on a layover) saying all was well with “Dave & Co.” Sheri wrote for Fred CHENEY and the boys near Cannon AFB. Fred’s been taking a lot of work home, but his name came out on the 0-5 list, so it must have worked. (Although the card didn’t say he did the work—just that he brought it home!) Congrats, Fred. Ed (Cindy) HERLIK is still flying Reserve C-5s out of Dover as well as running a company that patents and tries to market inventions—like a process for disposing hazardous medical waste at hospitals, rather than hauling it away. Cindy is finishing her accounting degree while working full time and thinks Ed’s life of international shopping must be fun (although Ed wishes folks in Paris, rather than Port au Prince or Mogadishu, could be resupplied once in a while). Oh, Ed’s at herlik@aol.com—for those of you into that. Scott (Jan) CARROTHERS is now in Hilo, HI after eight years in Guam. They yearned for a more relaxed lifestyle closer to family. Scott says “I’ve managed to hold up pretty well being ‘just a househusband’ (I’ve only had to call my mom twice so, far).” Jan’s joined a family practice group and is enjoying better hours.

NEW ROOTS (COA cards). Art SMITH to Burnsville, MN; Michael CARLSON to Louisville, KY; Michael JACKSON to Tucson, AZ; Dorothy (MAHAFFY) STEEL to an APO in Europe; Willie GUNN to Montgomery, AL; Robert ZAPATA to Jacksonville (Little Rock), AR.

Scott, Jan, Kasey, and Hoku Carrothers escaping the rain of Hilo.

A FLASH FROM THE PAST for those of you in Bulldog 13: Brian SAWANSON (USAGA ’81), is my neighbor. He was at the Zoo as an exchange cadink our firstie year. I’m looking forward to his perspective on USAFA (although while carrying 26 credit hours, I don’t think he had time to form one).

NOTHING PROFOUND left on this end. I could get into detail on our neighborhood’s corporate technique on how to get vehicles unstuck from the clutches of our snowy hill...Maybe next time. Until then, enjoy the Dark Ages—and each other’s company; whenever you can. Don.

Scott Dering

1140 Rhode Island St Lawrence, KS 66044 (913) 749-4274

Percent members: 43

Greetings. Let’s get straight to the news. I got an interesting letter from Derek HONG (’83) who enclosed a magazine article about our own Charles PHILLIPS, a superstar securities analyst at Kidder Peabody in New York. The article picked the “1994 All-America Research Team” of experts on different categories of stocks. Charles was chosen as the very best for server and enterprise software companies, beating out some highpowered competition from Goldman Sachs, Smith Barney, and other first-tier Wall Street firms. The article mantioned that his career began with a comp sci degree from the Academy. Charles was commissioned in the Marines, left the service in 1986, and then worked as a stock-picker at the bank of New York and the Soundview Financial Group before moving to Kidder Peabody two years ago. Don’t ask me how, but he got a law degree from NYU in his spare time. I tried to call and congratulate him, but his number is unlisted.

After three years of thinking about writing the scribe, Fred SCHEPPELE finally broke down and sent me a terrific letter. Fred has worked as a program manager and auditor at Kirtland, Hill, Wright-Pat, and now

NORAD. Along the way, he got married, and he and Susan have three girls and two boys. Anyone who remembers all of the time Fred spent at the Academy stables will not be surprised to hear that the Scheppeles raise and train Appaloosa horses on their 10 acres in Black Forest when they’re not traveling around the country to horse shows. Fred has lost touch with most of his old squadron-mates but knows that Mark O’HAIR is married with two children at Wright-Pat. Mark got his PhD in EE a few years back which makes him, according to Fred, “officially smarter than most.”

Now on to the classmates I randomly selected from the Register to inelude in this article. I found my first victim, Scott LAND, in the initial cadre of B-2 pilots at Whiteman. I called the Lands several times one evening, but their babysitter kept saying that Scott and Tanya should be home any minute. Desperate to meet my deadline for this article, I eventually gave up and interviewed the babysitter instead: Kim is a senior at Central Missouri State majoring in elementary education and speech pathology, and she plans to get her career on track before getting married. Smart girl. She says that the Lands pay her generously for taking care of their well-behaved children. Thus I was able to establish that Scott and Tanya are good parents who find mature babysitters, pay them well, and stay out later than they should.

My Stalag roommate, Mike “Dawg” PAVLOFF, recently finished up a T-41 tour at the Academy and is now working F-15 matters at Hickam. He wasn’t in when I called, but his wife, Kathy, gave me the low-down. She said their children are getting Christmas presents this year—their finances are healthier since they moved from the Academy because Pav and I no longer have weekly golf bets. (My kids, on the other hand, will suffer this Christmas because I had grown accustomed to that seemingly inexhaustible cash flow.) The Pavloffs live right on the ocean where Kathy and their three girls make a point to wave at all the aircraft carriers entering Pearl Harbor. What must the sailors think?

Tom DUPRE has been a financial analyst at the Pentagon for almost a year after a tour at Eglin and an ROTC assignment at Notre Dame. He likes the job but could do without the 90-minute commute each way. Tom, wife Connie, and their two boys live four houses away from Scott KELLEY who obviously enjoys a similar commute. Both of them recently attended a luncheon for Pentagon ’81ers, and nearly 40 people showed up! Why don’t they just buy a bus and drive in together since they probably live within five blocks of each other in northern Virginia anyway? One guy could do the driving and the others could sing old marching songs and reminisce about the good old days back at the zoo. That way their three-hour commute would only seem like ten.

One Pentagon warrior with a reasonable commute is Mike REAGAN, an F-15 pilot/aero PhD who only has a 15-minute bus ride to work from his place in Old Town Alexandria. Mike wasn’t home when I called, but his wife, Kate, was very pleasant, telling me more interesting stories than Mike would have, I’m sure. Mike is an exec officer for the head of the Scientific Advisory Board. The Reagans can afford to live in Old Town (next door to Starbuck’s coffeee shop) because Kate is a drug dealer—her clever cover story is that she manages the human trials of new medications prior to their submission for FDA approval. She told me about her courtship with Mike, and she was afraid I would print that they met at the Randolph O-Club, Oops! (If only I knew how to use the delete function in this word-processor.) In any case, they survived a five-year long-distance courtship before getting married last year. The Reagans keep in touch with two Delta pilots—Rick BURRUS in Raleigh-Durham, and Barry JOHNSON in St Louis.

Ralph MERZ was more difficult to track down than most, but his mother, Agnes, in Columbus, OH was nice enough to give me his phone number. Ralph has a staff job at 8th Air Force at Barksdale where he also flies T-38s. He came to this assignment after several years flying ’38s at Ellsworth, tankers at Kadena, and ’38s at Randolph and Reese. Ralph and Theresa have been married for almost 10 years and are enjoying the house they had custom built in Shreveport.

My next randomly-selected victim, Mary ORN, was at a business dinner when I called, but her roommate told me that Mary left the Air Force and works for Reynolds Electric and Engineering Company as a contract administrator for one of the Nevada test sites. Before moving to Las Vegas, Mary worked for Dynatrend in Washington.

Ralph NARDO is AOC of 18th Squadron. Ralph was a F-lll WSO all over the world including Lakenheath, the Gulf War, Cannon, Mountain Home, and Queensland, Australia. Ralph tells us that Roscoe ADAMS and Dennis BRAUN are also AOCs, Bill ROY had been an AOC after several years teaching in the English Department, and Darrrell ZELKO has finished his AOC tour and moved on to Langley. Jeff BRALEY is a phys ed instructor at the Academy, and Ralph also keeps in touch with Mark PLOEDERER, a civilian civil engineer in Chippewa Falls, WI.

John ERIC responded to my message on his answering machine after he and his wife, Kim, came back from a late night of Christmas shopping.

George, Nadine, Lindsay, and Kyle Madson at a golf ball exhibit in Florida.

John is a civilian engineer at the materials lab at Wright-Pat when he’s not coaching his son’s football team. John frequently runs into Bill NELSON, who is an active-duty program manager at the base, because their sons are in the same Cub Scout troop.

Tim GROSZ wrote a quick note to say that he ran into Kurt ANDERS, whom I had listed as a lost classmate in a previous column. Kurt, a new father, is the ops officer in the T-41 squadron at Hondo. As far as I could tell from his card, Tim is still in Germany where he may or may not still be the aide to CINCUSAFE.

As always, I couldn’t contact several of the classmates I picked at random for this column. The following people had out-of-date addresses, so I was not able to track them down to the correct area code: Donna CLIFF, Fritz COX, Greg BISCONE, Craig FRANKLIN, Rich PELICAN, Wyatt FLEMING, Tony LORUSSO, and Charlie CALAMONERI. I found several other classmates through directory assistance, but just like Charles Phillips, they had unlisted phone numbers. In any case, I at least know the cities for Gary KONIGSMARK (Dayton), Bob VINESKI (Denver), and Jim FRASURE (Ft Worth). The next level of near-contact was getting a valid phone number but only talking to the answering machines of Craig STRAUSS (Lewisville, TX), Rich AUGUR (Ashville, NC), and Marty HUHMANN (Kansas City). If you have any information on these classmates, especially if it’s of an embarrassing nature, please call me to claim your generous award.

(Editor’s note: The AOG has an’81 class ring believed to be Heyward Derry Jr’s, who we have been unsuccessful in locating. Any classmate knowing his whereaboutsplease contact him and ask him to call the AOG to identify the ring. He should ask for Robert Dunn.)

Jim Ratti

6329 Pheasant Valley Road

Dayton, OH 45424-7100

Home: (513) 235-1750

Work: (513) 255-4776

FAX: (513) 476-4896/DSN: 785-4776

Percent members: 44

Well here I am, in that last frenzied week before Christmas, trying to get it all done in time. At least the Christmas cards are out. Ellen and I contributed to that record amount of mail handled by the postal service on the Monday before Christmas, some 280,000 items! Late Sunday night as we got to the bottom of our list, it felt like half of those missives passed through our hands. Unfortunately though, few letters came in this time, so I won’t have a very long report.

Dan HARGROVE sent me this picture ages ago (back in September) just after the deadline for the fall issue. From left (I’m pretty sure...) are Steve TOPPER, Tom LAVALLEY, Dan HARGROVE, and Bill ERIKSON. They were attending Promise Keepers, a Christian conference of 52,000 men committed to keeping their promises to God, family, and friends. The get-together was held at Boulder last July, but Dan says that there will be about 12 such rallies at stadiums all across the country next summer. He says it’s the perfect thing for anyone having trouble keeping his priorities properly ordered.

Dan has a lot of news in his letter. He is teaching mech and flying at the Zoo, and his wife just gave birth to their third child, a boy. Bill teaches physics, and also flies. He and his wife have two children. Tom is flying for United, and is currently assigned to the Denver training center. He and his family (two kids plus one on the way) live in Monument. Steve also calls Monument home, moving there after a fellowship at the Mayo Clinic. He shuttles back and forth between the Academy hospital and

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Fitzsimmons Army Medical Center in Denver, as an orthopedic surgeon specializing in hand surgery. Steve and his wife had their first child, a boy, born in April.

Other folks Dan knows about in the Springs area include Carlee (MURPHY) BISHOP and Tom YODER, teaching astro and flying at the Zoo; Denny JORGENSON, separated and working for Lockheed in the Springs; John BRIDGE, teaching mech; and Matt ERICKSEN, teaching comp sci. Also at USAFA are Rich SIMPSON in the Poli Sci Department; Ross DUEBER doing chemistry; Herb SCHREIBER in behavioral science; and Jim HARKINS (no surprise here!) flying the motor-glider full time. Steve TOLDY is working for the supt; and Mike FLYNN, Kevin SMITH, Bob RANCK, and Donell SMITH are all AOCs. Rick BURGESS just left for ACSC, as did Mike FRANCE and Glen JAMES. Cathy (COLEBROOK) CLOTHIER is off to the Navy’s ACSC, and her husband, Brian, has separated to do some “entrepreneurial stuff’’ in C-Springs. Phil BOSSERT went to the Army’s Command and General Staff College, and Scott LARDNER left USAFA for a staff job at Langley. Joe DHILLON has been in the Law Dept but has departed for an unspecified job in D.C. Godfred DEMANDANTE had (I think) been teaching math, and has since moved on to a neat-sounding job somewhere in Denmark. Also overseas are Lori (FULTON) NOWACK and her husband. They’ll be there for three years while he gets a PhD in mech from Cambridge, before returning to USAFA. Steve PLUNTZE is also working on a PhD, but at the University of Washington. Finally, Greg TATE is at ROTC Hq at Maxwell; Greg MASTERS is at the Pentagon; Rob GOLDIN is out and flying Lear jets for a charter outfit in San Jose; and Tim KRAMER is flying KC-lOs at March. See? I told you he had a lot of news! Thanks Dan, for an outstanding update.

Jim PILLAR (pillarj@12afl.dmafb.af.mil) tried valiantly to e-mail me, but succumbed to the potholes on the info superhighway and had to resort to printing his message and snail mailing it to me. Oh well. He’s an exerciser planner for 12AF, still adjusting to a non-flying tour and a newborn daughter, Catherine Elizabeth-Ann. Jim reports that Art CRAIN and Dennis DELANEY are the latest, and probably the last, Redtags to leave Tyndall. At one time there had been 10 of our classmates there. The folks at AFMPC probably still shudder at the thought of the critical mass situation created by having 10 USAFA ’82 fighter pilots in one place! Anyway, they’ve fixed that now, and Art is off to Cheyenne Mountain. That has the double benefit of getting his wife, Sally (JACKSON,’83), closer to her airline domicile. Dennis wanted to keep flying so badly that he took an assignment to Saudi Arabia to do so.

Jim also said that Mike RIZZO moved to the Pentagon, and is still searching for adequate housing for all his wife’s cats. Joel ZEJDLIK went to a communications job at STRATCOM (the new SAC) in Omaha, but he still plays golf despite the legendary Offutt winters. Jeff MORAGNE has been at BLUE FLAG, but is now at the Defense Language Institute studying how to talk his way through an assignment to the SOUTHCOM AOR. He’ll do ISS enroute to that posting. Dave SCHAPIRO just arrived at BLUE FLAG, and is enjoying the “beaches of LA” or “Lower Alabama.” I’ve also heard this referred to as UCLA (Upper Corner of Lower Alabama). Finally, Jim says that Dave SILVA got an accompanied tour to Korea, and is bracing while his wife, Sherry, redefines “power shopping.”

I told you last time about my “Cyber Seminar” for ACSC. So far it is going very well. The discussions are lively, and the novelty of the electronic seminars offsets the depression I feel when I start out on a 120-page-plus reading assignment for the next session. The folks in our group are all very computer literate, and we certainly have a lot of fun during the on-line sessions. The discussions are peppered with puns (my particular weakness) and little sound “bytes.” One of my personal favorites is Homer Simpson saying, Mmmmm—beer...” This comes in handy when we’re all hanging around chewing the fat after the seminar is through. It’s kind of like getting the group together after class to go have a “Cy-beer.”

One of my seminar mates is Mike BERRY. I was TDY to Annapolis in early December, and Ellen and I had dinner with Mike and his family. He and his wife, Kathleen, have three children, with another on the way. It was a nice reunion, as Mike filled me in on the details of finishing up his PhD in comp sci.

Eric BJORN called me in mid-December and passed on some interesting news. Steve LINDSEY has been selected from a field of 2,962 applicants for astronaut training, and will soon be departing Eglin AFB to move to Johnson Space Center in Houston. He will begin a one-year candidacy program which should lead to a five-year stint as a shuttle pilot. Congratualtion, Steve! Mike BLOOMFIELD (’81), a test pilot at Edwards, was also selected.

Eric also said that he heard that Tom DIETZ was on the recent LC list, and that he is also a candidate on the squadron commander’s list. Tom had four kills (the most of anyone) in DESERT STORM.

Have any of you been checking out the World Wide Web on Internet? I’ve been surfing around a bit, and found that there are a LOT of USAF Web Servers out there. Even USAFA has one (http://www.usafa. af.mil/). The MAJCOMs are well represented, as are a healthy number of individual bases and other headquarters. If you’re interested, check out http://www.af.mil/af-www.html. It’s a good starting point that lists various web sites by MAJCOM. And for something offbeat, try http://akebono.Stanford.edu/yahoo/Entertainment/ Hard to Believe/. I dare you.

And, that about wraps it up for this edition of “What’s New With You?” Keep the cards, letters, and e-mail flowing. Send your e-mail to rattijm@ypmail.wpafb.af.mil, rattijm@dnaco.net, or to CompuServe at 72477,1255. You can also send mail to me via America Online using the screen name “acscjimr”. Note that both my Internet address and my work phone have changed. If you use the old address, it will just go to the “bit box!” Until next time, be safe. RATMAN.

Ray Blust

149 South Park St.

Wheeling, WV 26003 (304) 242-7182

Percent members: 45 m

Season’s Greetings, tis the time for “Five Golden Rings,...” Hope this letter finds all in good health and happy spirits as we journey into the last five years of this millennium and of course I wish everyone another “Happy New Year”. Julie, Matthew and I have had a great, almost uneventful year. We did traverse out west to Mecca. We were there during 1st beast and we saw no one. It must have been nap time or something but twice we went to the chapel wall and nothing! Matthew was, to say the least, disappointed. He was really looking forward to seeing his cousin do the 16-count rifle manuever while quoting Scofield’s quote. While there we literally drove around Pikes Peak and almost ran out of gas on Gold Camp Road. Not a pretty sight. The highlight of our summer/fall was the Latrobe Air Show, where we were treated to first class seats (in front of the mayor, by accident of course) and a spectacular show by the Thunderbirds.

The McCaffreys

We spent the day with Pete MCCAFFREY who was No. 5, Lead Solo this year. Pete had the best position on the team as he was the one who snuck up on the crowd and does the 9-G turn. Matthew and his cousin

now have a real-life hero, thanks again Pete. Pete and Gerry plus four, Carmen-13, Jessica-12, Michael-5 and Kimberly-3 are gearing up for another PCS as Pete finishes his tour in the spring of ’95. Pete and Gerry agree it’s bittersweet as Pete will truly miss the flying and the showmanship while Gerry won’t miss the time spent alone.

Now for the mail bag. The Andy LAGRONE clan are finishing up their tour at Luke where Andy is an IP in the ’16. Andy and Jamie have two kids, Jake-5 and Cameron-3. I did get a letter from Andy’s parents who said Andy’s headed to Wright-Pat, Jamie’s home. By the way, new rules on pictures in the mag. We can’t put any pictures in of just kids unless of course they’re grads like Stu POPE and Colin MOFFAT. They must inelude at least one graduate, not including Stu or Colin of course. Nuff said.

Next letter comes from the DURESKYs at Andrews. I must compliment Jon as this year’s letter was only one page long and the card did not require extra postage. Jon is currently awaiting to pin on major while flying the VC-137? I have no idea what that is. I left my Jane’s book of aviation at the squadron, but he does fly our nation’s new leaders around. Jon you better watch it with all the cutbacks, I think they may cancel all those business trips to the Bahamas. Jon’s better half, Brenda, has been busy with the three kids, Jeffrey, Kendall and Jon, while she also runs a health club in the area, so if you’re in the area give ’em a call.

Next, a letter from Gayle (JOHNSON) DENNY and her husband, John (’84) “Moose”. They are currently living in Cincinnati where John is a DC-8 copilot with Airborne Express and also flies as a copilot in the KC-135R squadron at Grissom AFB in Indiana. Gayle is in heaven now after two hectic years of teaching high school math. She now stays home where she says she’s twice as busy being a full-time homemaker, painter, seamstress, baker, gardner and everything else. Gayle also continues to work in the AF Reserves as a liaison officer. They are nine miles from King’s Island and have plenty of room. We’ll see you soon.

Before I forget, Jeff FIEBIG will be on the Thunderbirds for the next two years as No. 4, also Darryl ROBERSON is on the team and is finishing up his first year. Trust me on this, if you plan on attending an airshow this summer, call one of these guys for VIP passes, especially to the civilian-run shows, it’s well worth it.

The McMillins

Next a letter from an ole UPT/IP mate, Kevin MCMILLIN. Kevin and lovely wife, Cara, live in Temecula, CA where Kev is flying full time Guard in either ’135s or ’141s. Kevin and Cara are expecting a visit from the stork in April. Pictured are Kevin, Cara, Josh and Kelli. Congrats and good luck. I also received a card with a picture of just the GRAVE’S kids. That’s the fifth picture of just kids, what’s up? I guess I can’t complain, we just sent out pictures of Matthew. Figured you all have seen enough of Julie and me.

By the way Ron and Tonia GRAVES are in Del Rio, TX where Ron is an IP, AGAIN! Actually this time Ron finds himself attached to the white rocket instead of the screamin’ mimi. Ron and Tonia have two kids, Eric and Kathryn. Hey Ron, go on down to Landos and have a fish-bowl margarita for Oppie and me. By the way, Dave “Oppie” LEIBBRAND and I are both F-100 FOs in Chicago. Kelly “The Heff” HEFFERNON wins the award for the first ’83er to upgrade to captain. He is currently a 737 CA for of course Southwest out of Midway. Congrats Kelly on your upgrade and new baby.

“Attention in the area, any T-38, T-37 aor AT- 38 IP upset about their assignment please call Rob ENGLEHART at DSN 487-6256/57 or 3478, that is all.” That’s what you get Rob for sending me one of your very professional looking cards. Rob and Edith were forced to leave Columbus,

GA this past summer where Rob was the wing exec and asst ops officer, to go to Randolph where Rob is working on his four-year controlled staff tour. Rob also made major and should pin it on in the spring of ’95. Actually it’s a rather good deal as both Rob and Edith are from San Antonio. Within a few short months they have closed on a new home, Rob has probably made alot of enemies and friends at MPC, while Edith is employed full-time as an exec asst. Pictured are Edith, Rob, Kristin-8 and Alyssa-6. We’ll be sure to stop by when we make our grand Texas tour this spring, Adios Amigos.

The Engleharts

I just received a holiday letter from my old roommate and best man Bill “Ruj” RUJEVCAN and his lovely wife, Holly, who is much too good for him. Ruj is currently a real estate agent/investor while Holly is into sales in the biotechnology/medical industry in Laguna Niguel, which is halfway between L.A. and San Diego. Ruj is personally responsible for the BEMHO missile crisis of ’83. Keep in touch kids!

Well it’s Dec 26 and I’m back at my keyboard and still waiting for some letters from some guys. However, I did receive a letter, a calendar and a dollar from A1 and Cathy GAILEY. A1 is still with Delta, but now he’s left Atlanta, is now flying out of Cincy but will soon fly out of Dallas and eventually end up in New York. Oh the joys of being a commercial pilot, who woulda thunk it? A1 and Cathy are living in Delta south, i.e. Peachtree City, GA. It’s actually a great little city, we drove to dinner in their electric golf cart and it wasn’t just a mile down a straight flat road either. Cathy is busy being a full-time real estate agent (thanks for the calendar) and mom. They have two great kids, Brittany, a five-year old ballerina and Kenneth, 110% boy. As you can tell from the photo, the Gaileys are a blading family. Matthew has the same blades as Brittany but due to balance problems his middle wheel is still off-center.

furlough with Delta. He has been doing heat/air work for the past 10 months and he may be doing that for a while as it looks like they may not be calling guys back for up to 18 months. Bill and Lori have two boys, Matthew-7 and David-3 and are into their third year of home schooling. Lori, I’m glad to see you’re the one teaching them and not Nut. We all hope to hear that all the guys/gals are back to flying soon. I also hope that Americam doesn’t get down to me; then Julie, would have to teach an awful lot of aerobics classes.

The Gaileys

Well I’m back at the keyboard for my final run, I figured I’d better get this off to Kro or he’ll skip us. Speaking of that, I’d like to again recognize all those scribes who keep the rest of us updated on class gossip: Billy WALKER, our AFA mole; Stu POPE, our comic relief; Jon DURESKY, our serious active-duty fast burner, and of course, Cecil GRANT, our reliable sub, who seems to be busier than most of us. It’s ■taken a lot of work from everyone to make sure we have never had the dreaded words printed after our class block, “DID NOT RECEIVE AN ARTICLE”. So again thanks for your hard work.

The last card/letter I received is from the Nut family, to be more specific, the CHESTNUTS. Bill and Lori (PLOSA) are currently in Argyle in northern Texas where Bill has just finished his first full year on

Abbott and Costello

I found a couple of letters I had received in the fall and I intentionally put them away so I wouldn’t forget them and of course I almost did. I got a great letter and pictures from Mark ABBOTT and his wife, Sherry. Mark is currently the international contracts manager and field check airman for Air Serv International, a nonprofit air transport organization that supports relief agencies in Africa. Most recently he’s traveled to Luanda, Angola and Monrovia, Liberia on assessment/survey trips for CARE-U.K. and Save the Children fund-U.K. Mark did have a visit from Mike OLIVER and his wife, Jean Anne, all the way from Bakersfield, CA. Mike is currently an MD-80 FO out of L.A. with Americam while Jean Anne is a teacher. The enclosed picture is of Mark, Mike, Jean Anne and a fat wart hog at the Giraffe Farm in Nairobi, Kenya. Of course while Mike had to do something no one else tried—he fed one of the giraffes a grain pellet directly from his own mouth, giraffes have huge tongues, trust me I have the photo. Thanks for the letter Mark, keep in touch.

The Lanman 7

My other letter was from Phil and Karen LANMAN. Actually Karen wrote it—I’m not sure where she found the time. For those of you who saw Karen at the reunion you may have noticed she was pregnant. When it rains it pours, Karen gave birth to three—yes three—very healthy babies in April ’94. Pictured are Karen, Anna, Cody-2, Phil with Matthew and Zachary and William-4. Phil is currently a Fit CC, IP on the B-l at Ellsworth AFB. Phil and alot of other guys up there made major; Ron GAULTON,Dave KUGLER and Mike DAVIS to name a few. Thanks for the card guys and good luck!

By the time you all read this we’ll be well into ’95 and looking forward to the spring thaw. If you ever find yourself lost in N. West Virginia please give us a call, it’s lonely up here. We’ll see you all in the terminal or jet bridge. Good Day! Oops almost forgot, next scribe is none other than “JDQ”DURESKY. Please send letter, photos, old Forms-10 to MAJOR Jon at 4021-4 Ashwood Circle, Andrews AFB, MD 20335 or call collect to 301-599-1535, DSN 858-5833.

John M. Nunez

8435 Edgemont Way

Colorado Springs, CO 80919

Home: (719) 599-3172

Work: (719) 556-7618

Percent members: 40

Howdy folks. Doesn’t look like this column will be too long. Guess most of you must have had your fill of classmates with the reunion. As of this writing, the mailbag is empty. Hate to sound like a drag, but my writing doesn’t seem to be nearly as bad if I can get some good info. How about dusting off the ole’ pen and writing me or Mike JENSEN a quick note on what you’re up to? 1 promise it will get in the next article!

Reunion Leftovers. Well, the commotion of reunion activities has long since died down. I know a few folks might be wondering why I didn’t mention them in the last article. Then again, there may be some who wish I hadn’t. With that said, here are a couple of photos that I was able to scrounge up of the festivities (I know there were a lot more taken, but I have yet to get any).

How many grads can you pick out?

I wasn’t able to get one of the class photos of everyone inside the chapel (I was too cheap). I decided to do the next best thing and had freelance photographer Jim KALIAMOS take this impromtu group photo at the USAFA football game. I’m not sure who that crazy guy waving his arms is.

This next photo shows ex-Falcon teammates Charlie HEATH, Shawn SMITH, and Sean PAVLICH, wishing they could help down on the field. We had a pretty good turnout of the ol’ 84 football squad. Could have used them that day too. Actually, the Falcons ended up having a really good year. I can’t think of a team that’s worked harder to get where they are. Here’s to getting a bowl next year, guys!

Honest, I had my ticket just a minute ago!

Yep, pretty rough having to sip Coco-Locos on Condado Beach, huh Bud?

Other tidbits. Only saw one new face since the reunion. I was making the mandatory show at our wing’s “voluntary” holiday party when I ran into a very distinguished looking Steve ROELL. Steve teaches aero up at the Zoo and was down at Peterson with his wife, Roberta. What was even more surprising to me than running into Steve, was that his wife worked in the office next to mine for almost a year without me realizing who she was marrtied to.

Got a Christmas card from Liz (BECK) DELAROSA. I was expecting her to make the reunion, but didn’t see her. Turns out she had the wrong weekend marked down on her calendar. I better see you out for the next one, Liz. She sent a picture of her two beautiful daughters. Two future heart breakers, I think.

Address Changes: Jim WALTRIP from Nellis AFB, NV to DavisMonthan AFB, AZ; Bill NEVEU from Barksdale AFB, LA to McGuire AFB, NJ; Andy CORRERO to Reese AFB, TX; Kevin ZEECK to Holloman AFB, NM; Carol (WINKELMAN) ATKINSON from Offutt AFB, NE, to USAFA; Wayne NOSAL from Omaha, NE to Olathe, KS; Pat SIMMONS to Aberdeen, SD; Tony RIVERA from Orcutt, CA, to Beavercreek, OH; and Todd WOODHOUSE to Anchorage, AK.

That about does it. Remember, keep those cards and letters coming. Mike JENSEN will be doing the next article. Write him at 10235 Milam Road, Colorado Springs, CO 80908 or call him at work (719) 481-4646 or at home: (719) 495-9289.

Larry Nicklas 704 Andersonville Lane Wylie, TX 75098 (214) 442-3212

Percent members: 38

Nothing like waiting until the last minute to get this article done. Reminds me of how I operated during school. Hope everybody had a good holiday season.

If you haven’t noticed, you have a new scribe this time around. Jackie asked for volunteers and I said I would help out. So here goes. I’ll start with a little background on myself. I married the former Tamaron Sharp (’86) in 1986 and as of this writing we have three kids, Cori, almost 5,

Anybody remember the “USAFA Post Game” cheer?

Finally, I caught my ex CS-05 roomie, Ed KNOUSE, trying to schmooze his way into the reunion tailgate party at Doolittle Hall. Ed had left his ticket back in his hotel room, and had to tap dance pretty hard to convince Mike JENSEN and his assistants that he was legit. They finally decided to let Ed in, just to clear up the logjam behind him. Despite this little incident, Ed has life pretty good right now. He was able to fly an F-16 back to the States from his fighter unit in San Juan, Puerto Rico, where he flies as an AF advisor to the Air National Guard.

The Nicklas Family

Jimmy 2.5, and Tommy 16 months. As far as I know, there are no more on the way, although we hadn’t planned on the last one either! After flying F-4 Wild Weasels and a stint as a T-37 IP, I got out of the Air Force and fly as a first officer for Southwest Airlines. I’ve been there for a year and a half and am really enjoying it. Tamaron flew KC-135s and T-38s in the Air Force and got out last December. She now is a full-time mom. I know how hard it is since I was “Mr. Mom” for almost a year and a half before starting at Southwest. My hats off to all you stay-at-home moms out there! We now have settled in Wylie, TX, which is northeast of Dallas. Come out and see us if you’re in the area. Well, enough about me.

Got some stuff from Jackie which I will pass along. First, we had 15 people from ’85 make major two years below the zone. They are: Elsie VANDER VENNET, Offutt AFB; Ian DICKINSON, Langley AFB; Bruce MAGOON, Edwards AFB; Steve DEPALMER, Langley AFB; Paul BELL, Ellsworth AFB; Bruce EMIG, Barksdale AFB; Tina (THERRIEN) HARVEY, Offutt AFB; Scott A. HENDERSON, WrightPatterson AFB; Carl BLOCK, Falcon AFB; Matt BYRD, Nellis AFB; Denise (SENN) O’BRIEN, Pentagon; Troy DEVINE, Beale AFB, (who by the way is the first female U-2 pilot); Dan JORDAN, Peterson AFB; Yulin (GREEN) WHITEHEAD, Pentagon; and Neal MCELHANNON, Lakenheath AB. If you see these individuals, be sure to salute smartly! Seriously though, congratulations to all of you.

Also got a letter from Gary RAFFERTY. After three years at Falcon AFB flying NAVSTAR-GPS satellites and one year at the Air Force Space Operations Center, Gary and family have moved back to missiles at F.E. Warren. Gary is chief of Training, Missile Control Flight, 90 MW, and has been busy fly fishing and welcoming the arrival of his and wife, Kris’, fourth baby (Rachel) last December. Gary also passed along some other class news. As of last year, Matt TIERNEY was finishing law school (civilian) in Pennsylvania. Jim MIRABELLA is teaching collegelevel stats/math in Stone Mountain, GA. Eric LEPCHENSKE is living in Oklahoma and is commuting to Chicago to fly for either American or United (not sure). Mike MASUCCI is flying as a test pilot for the U-2 in Lancaster, CA. His wife, Anna, is keeping busy watching Victoria, 6, and Alex, 4. Mike MULDOON is flying C-9s out of Scott AFB, IL. He and Dyanna have two kids, Timmy and Alana, and are expecting a third. Rob GONZALES is teaching Spanish at USAFA. Pat STONEHAM is at Falcon AFB, CO. Todd BANDUCCI works at Peterson AFB, CO where his wife, Babbette, and he have two sons, Paul, 6 and Markus, 3. Quintell WILLIAMS is at Patrick AFB, FL. Scott DAW left the Air Force to be a deep sea diver in Houston, TX. Keith DAWKINS is a civilian in Alexandria, VA. Pete DETTELIS works somewhere in Colorado Springs (Space Command?). Charlie MORRISON is teaching some type of engineering at USAFA. Rich KLODNICKI is an AOG representative at USAFA. Gary would also like to know where Randy KERSEY or Gordie HENRICKSON are. If you know, give him a holler. Gary’s address is 6919 Pasadena, Cheyenne, WY 82009.

Jackie also mentioned recently talking to Ed BYRD who is also stationed at Langley, at the Air Force Rescue Coordination Center. He had just returned from Saudi where he ran into Deric “Double D” DOBBS (F-15 Wizzo) and Ty HOLT (KC-135s) who worked in the GATO shop. They were all three there supporting JTF SWA this past summer. Ed is wondering where Chevy CLEAVES is. Any idea? Chevy, if you are reading this, give Ed a call at DSN 574-8112. Jackie also included a photo of Charlene (JARDIN) HARDING and her three-year-old daughter

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Christina. This last summer Charlene delivered a son, Austin, and six weeks later whisked away to Germany, Denmark and Greenland with the U.S. Ambassador to Denmark as an official escort for him and his wife. Jackie says that as exec for the base commander at Peterson, Charlene gets to travel around the planet visiting various space and missile warning sites.

Got a letter from Todd RAINES the other day. What surprised me about it was that I got a response back from my letter so quickly. If you know Todd, he usually puts all correspondence in a corner and reads it once a year. I guess I got to him at the right time. Todd is at F-15 FTU at Tyndall AFB, FL, on his way to Kadena. Good for Todd, bad for me in that I no longer have a goose-hunting partner. Oh, well. Todd and Lynn added to there clan recently with the arrival of a new baby boy, Jason. Congratulations, and have fun in Okinawa. Todd said there are many ’85 grads who are FTU instructors at Tyndall. Here is a list: Mark and Wendy STEPHENS and kids Devin and Sean, Rick and Terry HEDGEPATH and daughter Whitney, 5, (apparently Rick is going to Weapons School in January and will return to Tyndall); Mark and Kara POSTGATE and kids Erin, Justine, Kristen and Michael; Skip ROBERTSON and wife, Debbie, who have a new daughter Wendy; Jeff HARRIGIAN (told Todd he was “hangin’ out at Tyndall, man”) and wife, Kathy, with kids Matt and Jenna; Pat MARSHALL and wife, Julie, with son Zachary. Todd also sent info on an assortment of other grads that he’s had contact with: Mike PIIRTO and wife, Brenda, and their girls are in the USMC in Okinawa; Jim and Liz HAYDEN with new son Joshua are living in Phoenix where Jim is an IWSO, but will be moving to Seymour-Johnson AFB soon; August and Carle HEIN after four months of wedded bliss are living at Scott AFB, John and Kim MARSELUS and three kids are still at Elmendorf AFB doing F-15s, Mike and Kelly RITS and their three kids are at USAFA where Mike is a CE instructor; Del CHRISTMAN is a soaring IP at the Zoo; Vic HEDGEPATH is flying F-16s at Moody; and Dave RIESSELMAN is at Sheppard AFB as a T-38 IP. Thanks for the info, Todd.

Talked to Don OBERDIECK last night. He and Jackie have a little girl named Carly. At the time of writing she was about six months old. Don and Jackie have been at Barksdale for almost eight years. Don thinks they’ll be there for probably 10 years. He is a B-52 IP and has been very busy lately. We hope to see the Oberdieck family over Christmas. Don has talked to Steve RAFFERTY lately and he and Darlene have a new addition, Matthew, to add to their others son John. Congratulations to you both. Dan gave me a non-inclusive list of people, off the top of his head, that he could remember being stationed at Barksdale: Bruce EMIG, John RITTER, Mike SPITZ, Tim RAY, and Tom TIGHE. Sorry about those that were left out.

Also talked to Mark MELCHER about a month ago. He is something like deputy commander for the Air Force Honor Guard in Washington, DC. He told me that he is seriously considering getting out of the Air Force and moving back to San Antonio, where they still own a home. I guess he got tired of serving hors d’oeuvres at White House functions. Anyway Mark, Andrea and kids Trent and Caroline are living at Bolling AFB. Mark said that he likes his job and has gotten the chance to rub elbows with some powerful people. He said there is still hope he may stay in. Time will tell.

Talked to Tim DERUYTER the other day also. He and wife, Kara, are living in Pittsburgh where he sells surgical stuff for W. Lorenz. I guess he is doing very well and the California boy actually likes it out there in the East. Tim and Kara also have two kids: Jake, 2, and new arrival Christina Lynn who is three months old. Tim passed on some news on other classmates: Dave BURNS and wife, Renee, live in Boston with their daughter Halle, where Dave works for Snowden-Pencer; Doug WELLS is the wrestling coach at the Zoo; Murph MURRAY also works for Snowden-Pencer but I’m not sure where he lives; Kevin DIXON moved from San Antonio to Redondo Beach, CA and works for Ethicon Endosurgery (Kevin, give me a call). Tim also saw T. LINEHAN at the USAFA-Army football game. T. works for Phizer Pharmaceutical in New York.

Stan COLGATE and I finally talked to each other and Stan and wife, Lisa, have dropped stakes in Phoenix. Stan is flying the F-16 there and is glad to be back home. He and Lisa are expecting a new child soon to add to their son Bradley. We were discussing the wonders of children and afterward I told Tamaron that we should get about five more of them.

Charlene and Christina (3) Harding

She laughed and said, “right”.

I also saw Rick DEBROCK on my airplane last spring. He was on his way to interview at Southwest. We both realized that the other guy looked familiar. The good news is that Rick did get hired and now works for Southwest out of Phoenix. 1 think he does the Guard or Reserve thing also.

Talked to the Woodman, Woody MCLAUGHLIN and he said that he ran into Karolen FAHRNI, and that she is the gymnastics coach at the Zoo. Karolen said that A.J. SCOTT is trying to come back to the Zoo as a football coach. She said that it looked good for him and that Tom GEOGHAN was out of the Air Force and in Colorado somewhere making oodles of money as an entrepreneur. Woody and Marilee are still doing well up in Rapid City and are looking forward to our reunion.

On the reunion theme, Jackie and I wanted to put out an APB for all 23rd Squadron ’85ers. We want to see if there is any interest in a 23rd Squadron get-together at the reunion. Drop us a line and let us know.

Well, that’s all folks for this edition. Your next scribe is Shelly (GINDER) GRADY at R.D. 2 Box 132, Julian, PA 16844. She needs input by early March 1995 as her deadline is March 20, 1995. Following Shelly will be Danielle (HATCHETT) HARGROVE at 16106 Deer Crest, San Antonio, TX 78248. Danielle needs her input by early June 1995 as her deadline is June 20, 1995. Danielle’s article will be the last one before the reunion, so keep that in mind. If in doubt where to send stuff, you can always send it to Jackie CHARSAGUA at 1701B 9th Street, Langley AFB, VA 23665. She will forward it to the appropriate person. Thanks and take care.

Gary L. Burg

7721 E. 4th Ave. #B

Anchorage, AK 99504-1313

Work DSN: (317) 552-9037

Home: (907) 338-0519

Percent members: 37

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Greetings from the Great White North. I hope everyone’s 1994 was good and 1995 is looking even better. I am finally settled in Alaska so you can start sending correspondence to my new address and feel confident it will get to me. Hint Hint! Only received one letter and one press release this time around but as usual have a little extra info to pass on also.

The press release I received came from Price Waterhouse LLP. It was to announce that Keith A. KUDLA was promoted to manager in the Management Consulting Services Group of the Price Waterhouse LLP in St. Louis. Some other information that was in the release was that Keith joined Price Waterhouse LLP as a senior consultant in 1993 and that he has more than six years of experience specializing in strategic consulting and reengineering in the areas of financial services, procurement, logistics and supply chain management. Keith also received a master’s of public policy degree from Harvard University in 1988.

ing’ (an M.S. in cost analysis). Presently I am assigned to the Seattle Defense Plant Representative Office for the Boeing Company. As an Acquisition ‘puke’ I provide cost and schedule oversight for the B-2 and B-1B production/upgrade programs. In my spare time, I successfully tested for and obtained the Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Cerifieid Management Accountant (CMA), and Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) professional designations. Oh...and last fall, Teresa and I had our first child: Richard E. Poppert II (named after his grandpa). Though our son has slowed my pace some, our future plans call for a doctorate in accounting or business administration, and hopefully a little buddy (or sister) for ‘Richie’. Not bad for a USAFA ‘Basic-Ac’ major, eh! P.S. For those of you ’86 grads from CS-24 reading this, I am looking at updating the Phantom address roster, so write me at my Federal Way address listed in the graduate directory.”

Keith Kudla

The letter is from Pat POPPERT. He writes “Flying didn’t work out for me at Reese, so I turned to my second interest in life: money (managing it, that is). My first real assignment was as an Air Force auditor at Patrick AFB and Cape Canaveral AFS, FL. Working around the space program was a real kick and I would love to go back someday. While I was there I picked up another bachelor’s degree (accounting) and my MBA. Somewhere in-between I found time to meet and marry my wonderful wife, Teresa. After Patrick, I moved on to AFIT for ‘retrain

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While I was down at Luke, Rich BASAK and I took a hike to the bottom of the Grand Canyon and back. What a mistake, it took three days until I could walk straight and a week until the pain went away—lesson learned. With my move to the 90th Fighter Squadron at Elmendorf, I have run across quite a few graduates. My flight commander, Robert “Ricky” RICARTE is an ’84 grad. ’85 grads in the squadron are Terry ROTERING and J.R. JOHNSON; but the strongest (as usuall) contingent are us ’86ers. Ken CARPENTER, Eric BEENE, Jeff HENRY and myself complete the list (that is to my knowledge). There are other grads in the squadron but because I only recently arrived here, I’m not too sure of their year group—next time.

I ran into John PETERSON who will be out of the Air Force by the time this reaches the street. He will be staying in Alaska and working the stock market. T.K. SMITH flew through on his C-5 to have a beer with John and me. He is still stationed at Travis AFB but is hoping to get an assignment to the Academy. As I was traveling to Alaska I stayed at my old roommate’s house. Dave TUCK is a T-l instructor pilot at Randolph AFB. His family was doing well and expecting another child in early 1995.

On the change-of-address side of the house, Fred BACON is now in Las Vegas, NV. Pamela (REDDICK) BERGESON is living in Henderson, NV with her husband, Thomas BERGESON, ’85. The JUNIOs are now stationed at Langley AFB, VA and Frank KOZAK is now in Santa Maria, CA. Joseph MARTIN has a new address in Seattle, WA and Anthony MONTERO has a new address in West Palm Beach, FL. Gary MOREY is living in Litchfield Park and Brian PLETCHER is stationed in Alaska at Clear AS. Greg SEMMEL is living in N. Las Vegas and Tommy SMITH is living in Swansea, IL. Roger THRASHER is living in Seaside, CA and Frank VAN HORN is living in Vacaville, CA. My last address change comes from Mike and Missy WARD who are now living in Bountiful, UT.

I have a challenge to all you ’86ers. Make my job tough by writing me and tellimg me what you are up to. I don’t think this column has approached its authorized length in the past couple of years. Make me edit down to fit everyone’s updates in the column intead of trying to use filler to make our column look respectable. And remember, photos are always welcomed as long as a grad is in them. Until the graduation issue!

Bob Cavello fT

15370 Holbein Drive

Colorado Springs, CO 80921

Home: (719) 481-9181

Office: (719) 472-2020

DSN: 259-2020/Fax: (719) 472-2964

Percent members: 41

I hope that everyone had a happy and safe holiday season. Your New

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Year’s resolutions have most likely come and gone, so I’m hoping to help you make a new promise for 1995. I want everybody to try to drop me a line at some time during this year. It can be a letter, a fax, a postcard, a greeting card or a picture. I still need some feedback on the structure of the column. Any and all suggestions and recommendations are much appreciated.

Last Oct ’94, I was paid a visit by two of our classmates, Scott HAVERKATE and Jeff FLINT. They’re both stationed out at sunny Hurlburt Field, FL flying MC-130 Talon IIs. They were out at USAFA on a squadron-sponsor trip. They got to do flybys during a noon-meal formation and a Saturday pararde. We got together on a Friday night before a home football game and rallied like old times. Marriage (to Erin) has not slowed Scott down one bit, but it has definitely made him a more responsible and socially-acceptable person to go out with. Scott no longer “shotguns” beers while standing on his head, and he actually drinks shots out of a shot glass. “Flinter” hasn’t changed much either. He went out in the parking lot, passed out in the car, locking himself and the keys inside. We didn’t get to him until the next day. At some time and place during that weekend, Scott gave me a written update on a few of our friends. If any of this information is incorrect, be sure to let me know so I can correct your file and beat on Haverkate. Flying the MC-130 Talon IIs are Chris BURKE (probably not playing much hockey down there); Trip HOWARD and his wife, Julie, and their two kids (send me a picture); Chris STEARNS; Paul CALTAGIRONE and his wife, Janie, with their one daughter and another child on the way (Congratulations! Send me a picture); and Paul HASTERT. Flying the MC-130 Talon I out at Hurlburt Field are Mike METRUCK who is engaged to be married to Donna in May 1995, and Destri ROGERS.

After giving me the entire active-duty roster of Hurlburt Field, Scott filled me in on a bunch of other information he had obtained. Steve “Vision Quest” SCHIFANI and his wife, Lori, are out at Tinker AFB flying AWACS. Greg “Roll Tide” HARBIN is out there in Oklahoma also doing the same thing. Jamie WHITLEY, wife, Mel(ing), and daughter Allison are at Eglin AFB and are expecting another child in the spring of 1995. Scott says that Jamie moves offices too often for him to keep track, but he thinks that Jamie is now working in the F-22 Program Office. Dave GOULD and his wife, Jill, are flying C-130s at Yokota, Japan. I asked if Dave mentioned on how good the surfing was over there, and Scott said that the Goulds are single-handedly reducing U.S. influence in the Pacific. Matt and Katie and Ryan RIORDAN are back in Katie’s old stomping grounds (Canyon Country, CA). Matt is flying CT-39s out at Edwards AFB.

Rip LEE and his wife, Becky, are flying KC-135s out at Fairchild AFB. Danny HANCOCK and his wife are flying C-141s at McChord AFB. Dan and Susan have two daughters (send a snapshot). Wayne PERINGER is flying C-141s at McGuire AFB, and Mark SHAFER and his wife, Shiela, are at Wright-Patterson AFB. Mark is working in the C-17 Program Office. Keith FLETCHER is working as a quality officer (TQM) at Robins AFB with his wife, Rose, and their four (Wow!) kids. John KAFER and Loretta were last known to be working a C-5 assignment to Dover AFB. Already there flying C-5s are Mark BOVA and Ed KRAFFT.

James MCGOVERN is flying F-15Es out of Upper Heyford, UK with Brian O’REAR. You two guys need to write me and send some photos! Doug “Hey” HAMMEN is a T-38 IP at Reese AFB with his wife, Carla. John TOMJACK is flying C-27s at Howard AFB, Panama. You need to get in touch with me also. Lea TRAVIS is on the East Coast flying for Air Africa or something pretty close to that. Brandon SWEAT is flying F-16s at Moody AFB. J.B. WALTERMIRE and his wife, Brenda, got out of the Air Force, and J.B. is now flying F-15s for the New Orleans Guard unit. Well done Scotty Haverkate, you have served your class well with all of this wonderful information. Keep in touch!

Ross MCNUTT dropped a quick note letting us know that he, wife Stacy, and son Andy have moved for the fourth time in three years. The McNutts are back in the Boston area (Hanscom AFB) and Ross is doing the PhD thing. Andy is now 18 months and still has his red hair.

I also received a letter from Mel ANDUJAR. Mel is back home in his native Dominican Republic. After seven years of silence, Mel says he’s

back on line with the AOG and the rest of his classmates. Mel said that being a foreign exchange cadet, he followed a much different career path than the rest of us after graduation. After leaving behind a couple of government and private jobs in the aviation world of the Dominican Republic, Mel is currently an Exxon sales manager in his beautiful Caribbean island. He is married and has two kids. Mel says that he welcomes any calls and requests for help on any visits to his island, especially from his old pals in CS-01, who haven’t kept in touch that much. Mel can be reached at home at (809) 566-3871 and hopes to hear from us all (he sounds like me).

CHANGE-OF-ADDRESS DEPT: The following change-of-address cards were sent to me by the AOG. In the future, if you can simply add a few words of how and what you are doing with the change of address, I can inform everyone of what’s going on. Mark CLINE is moving from Nellis AFB to some overseas assignment (his new city and state are APO, AP). Bill DEMASO, Tracy MECK and Christine (SHUBERT) LANE are joining Mark in APO, AP/AE. Danny BIRRENKOTT is moving from his igloo at Elmendorf AFB to Robins AFB (don’t bother bringing your skates, Dan). I left Cliff CHI two years ago in Los Angeles, and you know what? He’s still there. Cliff’s idea of a PCS is moving from one beach to the next. Cliff wrote to let us know that he moved to a different street and zip code within Los Angeles. Joseph LYONS is leaving Colorado Springs and is moving on to Edmond, OK.

That’s the latest update about some classmates provided by other classmates. As for me, I have had the honor of speaking with “Dancin’ Chuck”, Joe MANSON. Joe is getting out real soon and plans on traveling through Colorado Springs for a spell. Joe informed me that Jerry DUHOVIC got married in November. Jerry has gotten out of the Air Force and is working with a services company in Irvine, CA. Bradford Joshua, alias B.J. SHWEDO, is still working intelligence in the Pentagon. I ran into Andy GARROBO out here. Andy and I were in the same sports adminstration master’s program. I use the word “were” because he’s done and I’m not. The 1995 Falcon football schedule is out. Call me for details and/or tickets. Right now, our games against BYU (2 Sep) and Notre Dame (18 Nov) will both be at home and will be televised. The schedule is subject to change, but it looks pretty good right now. We will travel to Annapolis and play Navy on 14 Oct, and will host Army, 11 Nov wrapping up another victorious Commander-In-Chief Trophy campaign. Again, call me if you’re going to be in the area and need tickets.

Also, if you’re located near one of our away games please be sure to get in touch with me. Hopefully you all received a merchandise catalog from the Visitor Center Gift Shop. Another catalog will be coming out this spring. If you did not get a copy, please contact me so that I may add your name to the mailing list. Thanks to all of you who sent letters or stopped by to visit. Health and happiness to you all—until next time.

Mark Peters

22779 Mesa Springs Way

Moreno Valley, CA 92557-2628

Home: (909) 242-3442

DSN: 947-2646

Percent members: 40

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Greetings to all! In what is a major revolution for me, I’m writing this on 1-15 just east of Green River, about 80 miles west of the Colorado border. Yes, I finally bought a computer—a true shock since I’ve told everyone that I won’t buy a computer until I can get a notebook computer that never makes me wait (say, a Pentium 100 MHz?), with a color screen, 24-hour battery life, 1 Gig hard drive, all for under $100. Well, this isn’t it, but it was an incredible deal so here I am, a new member of the CLA or the “Computer Luggers Association.”

I had an altitude chamber ride at Beale AFB with Steve KELLY and Doug PATTERSON in mid December. They said the following list of fellow Travis C-141 people is pretty accurate, but they couldn’t guarantee it 100 percent. Cami BUTTERFIELD, Tom MCMAMARA, Pat SILVIA, Mike THOMAS, Mark TRAFTON, Chris and Josie (KOSTYRA) QUIROZ, although Josie isn’t doing the flying thing. Recent PCS’s included Andy BUESCHER to Reese for the T-l, Bob DAVIS to Andrews for the 89th, and Molly QUILLIN to Ramstein for the C-20 while Greg HARRIS and Bernie RUDDY have arrived for the C-141 and Dave PALMER for the C-5.

Really sparse mail this time (one letter) so I get to give back some of the space Tom Kroboth, your real editor, gives me when I go over the limit. Jeff CYR wrote me from his new home in Ohio where he is flying C-21s at Wright-Pat, or, as he puts it, “an awesome airplane and pleasant mission. Plattsburgh’s flying mission is now dead; the last tanker flew out in late September. Pretty sad as that was a beautiful place to live.”

I’ll be here through the summer of ’97; Eric COFFMAN is also in the unit and about to upgrade to IP. As for Plattsburgh, John PAYNE was the only other ’88 flyer and he’s now at McConnell. As for Roadrunners (beep-beep!), Todd TOFAUTE is flying ’141s at McGuire (as are Steve MALL and Mike HAMES) and is making postChristmas baby plans; Joe MAZUR is a contracting officer in downtown L.A.; Ron DAGGETT is an engineer at Lowry; Mark STUKEL is at Offutt; John FITZSIMMONS left AFIT for destination unknown; Paul JAGGI is a ’135 nav (I think at Fairchild); Bill Zuber (an honorary ’88er) is now at Andrews flying choppers. I’ve heard Jeff VERVILLE is an F-15 IP enroute back to the States but I’m not sure (if only the hockey coach could see him now!). I did see him and his wife, Sara, in Bitburg two years ago and he told me a great story you can’t print. I’ve lost track of the rest of CS-32.

During my last T35 deployment to Italy I did bump into Don JARVIS in southern France; he’s also a T35 AC and was doing the Deny Flight thing. At Andrews Base Ops I saw Jim HYNES. He and Mike KARSZEN are also flying C-21s at Maxwell and Andrews, respectively. Jim DVORAK is married (yes, Devo) and is now in Kaiserslautern, Germany. Brad GRAFF is flying motor gliders at the Zoo after completing an industrious tour in the ’135 at the Forks. Well, I’m almost off alert so I’ll wrap up.

Jeff’s wondering where other roadrunners are; his DSN is 257-4897. My brother David (CS-32) should be at Tinker AFB, OK by now. He used to be at Howard AFB, Panama, but alas, all good things must come to an end.

COA’s: James KISCH to Fayetteville, NC; Mike MONTGOMERY from Florida to somewhere in the Pacific; Nathan WATANABE to Korea as an aviation liason officer.

Since I was in the area I dropped off this Checkpoints update to Tom in his office at the new AOG building. This was my first visit since it was built two years ago and the pictures don’t do it justice. It’s an absolutely beautiful 35,000 square foot building that is in nearly constant use. By the time you read this the second floor construction project will be complete; it had been delayed until more funds became available. Unfortunately, the construction has resulted in an outstanding loan balance of approximately $1.6 million which is being slowly paid off through various fundraising efforts. This is where you come in. As of August, our class has only donated $7,604 for an average of $8 per graduate. While 25 percent of all graduates have contributed, only 9 percent of ’88 has made a contribution of any kind. You will be impressed with this magnificent building three short years from now when we have our first of many class reunions; wouldn’t you like to have been part of the team that helped build it? Please send a check to the AOG Building Fund for this outstanding construction project. Your contribution is tax deductible and the sooner you send it the more of your money will go to the building itself versus servicing the debt. Thanks!

OK, that’s it. And for those of you that are still wondering about the computer, it’s a 3-month-old AST Advantage! NB 486SX/33 with builtin fax/modem, 3.5" floppy drive, track ball and 120 MB hard drive. Yes, its got a monochrome screen (10") but for only $900 methinks I got a good deal. By the way, I hope one of your new year’s resolutions is to write your trusty scribe!

Paul W. Tibbets IV

5303 Solitaire Drive

Rapid City, SD 57701

Home: (605) 393-2842

DSN: 675-4951

Percent members: 42

Happy New Year everyone! Let me be probably the LAST one to wish each of you a happy New Year and remind you about those resolutions we have all forgotten already (I haven’t made any yet!). I just returned from a very exciting wedding—MINE! On 26 November I married the former Angelle Guitreau of Gonzales, LA (very near Baton Rouge). I don’t have any pictures yet, but a few grads were in attendance. My best man was Scott MADISON, who recently PCSd to McGuire AFB with his KC-10 unit, which relocated from Barksdale AFB. My roommate Mike TREFRY was a groomsman, and Doug ROTH (an ”88 grad) was one of the saber bearers. Doug is PCSing to Davis-Monthan AFB early next year to fly ’130s. Angelle and I went on a cruise to the western Caribbean for our honeymoon. The scuba diving was excellent at both Grand Cayman and Cozumel. I highly recommend the cruise life! And yes, married life (all three weeks of it) is great!

Now on to the news. Late last year I received a letter from Maureen DONAHUE, who recently married and is building a new house. Maureen separated from the AF last September and is now working for Clarke

American, a check manufacturing company, as the San Antonio plant accounting manager. She didn’t want to be completely out of the Air Force, so Maureen joined the Texas Air National Guard as an F-16 intelligence officer. She ran into Becky (LEANTE) WHITING, whose husband is full-time active AF working for the National Guard. Becky recently gave birth to their first child. Maureen also saw Pat BURKE while he was in town for training at Lackland. Thanks for writing!

My next letter (and a Christmas card) came from Christy KAYSERCOOK, who is stationed at Robins as a KC-135 pilot. Christy got married last May, then took off to Castle for upgrade training to aircraft commander. They are looking to PCS next year, but have really enjoyed living in Georgia. Thanks Christy!

I just received my mail and in it was a Christmas card from Tony POLLIZZI. Tony often comments that I always use the info he writes to me in this article. I guess he has finally succumbed to the fact that everything is fair game. Besides, I get so few letters I have to take advantage of anything that comes to me! Tony PCSd in August to Panama where he flies C-130s. He says they keep him extremely busy flying an average of twice a week. In his off time Tony likes to play soccer and travel around Panama with his girlfriend Raquel, who is from Panama. Thanks Tony!

I have a few tidbits to pass along from the change-of-address cards. Tim BARCLAY recently moved to Rapid City and is a B-l pilot in the same squadron I am in (the 37th Bomb Squadron). Mark DAMIANO PCSd from Maxwell AFB to Hawaii. Dave OLTORIK PCSd from Barksdale AFB to McGuire. Stella SMITH moved from Ohio to Maxwell AFB, and David YOUNGDALE PCSd from Randolph AFB to Vance. I received a leter from Thomas COPELAND, but I don’t have your address. Tom, if you read this article or if anyone that knows Tom’s address reads this, please call or write me and I will forward the letter.

I warned y’all that if no one sent me any pictures I would put my own in. Well, I will keep my word. Back in September I had the priviledge to meet up and fly with the B-29/B-24 Squadron of the Confederate Air Force.

John Rohlinger and scribe before the “big mission.

John Rohlinger, who is a B-l pilot stationed with me here at Ellsworth, and I flew with the crew of the only flying B-29 from Kansas City to Springfield, MO. It was a special treat, as my grandfather had also flown “FIFI” some years ago. Dick Markgraf was the B-29 instructor pilot who so graciously allowed both John and me to get into the seat and actually fly “FIFI” for a few minutes. It was an experience I will always cherish, and I gained an even deeper respect for all of the members of the Confederate Air Force for all the time, money, and love they put into these vintage aircraft. We certainly wouldn’t have the pleasure of flying or watching these aircraft fly without them.

With that, I will sign off for now. If you are reading this article you probably have something to pass along to the class, so drop me a line. Take care and God bless.

Joseph C. Richardson

11764 McCarthy Loup

Omaha, NE 68123

Home: (402) 292-9373

DSN: 271-3876

Percent members: 38

Greetings Most Glorious and Exalted Class,

Just a small note to say hello to everyone and give you an update on a few people. I am doing fine and trust that when these few lines reach you that they will find you in the best of spirits and health. I’m enjoying my new job as chief of the Airborne Command Post Communications Branch. This puts me in charge of a team of about 50-plus troops. It’s pretty exciting as I begin to have flashbacks of yesteryear. By the time you all read this, me and my roommate David JONES will have vacated the apartment life and will have moved into our personally designed homes in the same neighborhood. My new address is included so feel free to drop in for a visit if you’re ever in town. Now on to the news...

I got a call from Mike NEEMAN as he was passing through Omaha on his way out to North Carolina. He is doing great and sends his greetings to the most glorious class. I also heard from Carla JONES over the holidays as she was taking a break from her tour in Turkey. She is married and the rumor is that hearts across America shattered. I’m still awaiting details and pictures Carla, so when you have time, the class above all others await the specifics. Mike CARTER is now a married man with his lovely wife, Bianca. They currently reside in Wichita, KS at MeConnell AFB where he still flies the KC-135. David and Sharron (KEELS) COLEY are well into their new life together as husband and wife out in Dover, DE. Dave recently won Company Grade Officer of the Year at Dover...what a stud. I’m impressed, but not surprised. Ted and Lisa PRESLEY are expecting their first child in mid 1995. Our thoughts and prayers are with them as they anticipate this joyful expectation.

Steve KISER checked in from the Intel career field at Osan AB, Korea. He has four-five months left before moving to the Joint Intelligence Center for PACOM at Pearl Harbor. Steve reports sightings of Bill GRAY in the area, along with Bill JACOBUS, who was flying F-16s there until a short while ago. Paul KASUDA is chief of Air Base Ground Defense (ABGD), having won the Company Grade Officer of the Quarter Award. He is on his way to teach ABGD at Lackland AFB, TX. Also reported in the area is F-16 driver Mike SCHULTER, who does his deed at Kunsan, and is looking to be moving along shortly. Steve also reports being at Tim KANE’s wedding recently. Tim was stationed at Yokota for two years where he met his wife, Hiromi (Ozaki). They are already expecting a baby boy on or about April 30, 1995. The lovely couple exchanged vows on June 24, 1994 in Tokyo. They are pictured below at the USAFA Chapel on September 11, 1994. From right we have Steve KISER, Joe DEANE, Tim KANE, Hiromi KANE and her bridesmaids. What a lovely bunch!

A few other Mighty ’90 names in Steve’s letter include Robin HUTCHINS, who was married to Joe DEANE about a year ago. They’re both C-5 pilots at Dover, and doing just great. Karen BROWN is reportedly still doing that FAIP thing down in Del Rio. Jim LOBASH, who got B-52s out of UPT, is helping close K.I. Sawyer down. Barth LIPPERT is still at Malmstrom. He did his tour as a missileer, then he trained for missile maintenance, and extended. He’s got a 20-acre ranch there, which he calls the “Barth X” ranch. Ben DAVIS has completed his tour as an AWACS maintenance officer at Tinker and has since PCSd about four months ago to Turkey. He and his wife have two kids now. Rob RYSAVVY and Troy MOLENDYKE are AWACS weapons directors at Tinker progressing in their careers moving on to bigger and better things. Thanks goes to Steve for such a tremendous update. I and the most glorious class really appreciate it.

Just a final few words before I close. I did not get very many letters from you all this time around so consequently, my input is a lot less than normal. The AOG gave me the lowdown on a few classmates. James and Jacqueline GLOSS have relocated to Moore, OK. Laura CHAMPION finds her new home in Fairborn, OH. Brad SNELLING is in Vacaville, CA. Kriss JORDAN now lives in Spokane, WA. Kathleen DECKER is

now in Columbus, OH. Norman L. TREE II is at Aviano Air Base, Italy (write me Norm, I’d love to hear from you bud). John P. SIMEROTH recently received his master of science in psychology from Virginia Tech. Congratulations John. Navy Lt. James M. BEEKER is halfway through a six-month deployment to the Mediterranean and Black Seas aboard the destroyer USS Deyo, homeported in Charleston, SC. He has been participating in several multinational exercises as well as a host of humanitarian, peacekeeping and community relations projects. You’re making us all proud James, keep up the Mighty ’90 effort.

Well most exalted class, that’s all I got. Aaron and Melinda LEPPER and their son Zachary send a New Year’s wish to everyone. I also would like to say hello to Erica PLOSA’s mother and wish her the best in 1995 as well. You all take care and keep in touch. Until next time, peace and pals!

Amy McLean

RR ft, Box 31C

Larimore, ND 58251 (701) 343-2596

Percent members: 43

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Greetings Bold Gold, Brrr, it’s just downright cold up here in the land of NODAKs. What better way to spend a chilly New Year’s Eve than curled up by the fire with a glass of wine, watching the countdown to the new year on the boob tube, and plugging away at the old PC, remembering friends of old. My husband, Adam, is once again on foreign soil over the holidays. Oh the life of a tanker driver, and we thought that tankers would give us more opportunities to be together. This issue will arrive in the middle of the dark ages. Hopefully the news will bring back good memories of the holidays, being as this article is being written mostly off of Christmas cards received, and tales of Christmas vacations.

I will start out with a few recent change-of-address cards that are sent to the class scribes from the AOG after they put the data in their computer. I must be getting really desperate to give you all that information. Hint, hint. Being the computer genius that he is, Adam has set up an address file for me so that I am also now putting the addresses into our computer. What good that does I don’t really know, but I felt like I needed to do something with all of those cards besides use them for tinder for tonight’s fire.

Todd LEVINE has recently moved to sunny Valdosta, GA where he is a C-130 navigator in the 52nd at Moody AFB. Todd sends us some bonus information on his change-of-address card. In August of ’93, Todd married Kaiya, who he met in Ft. Walton Beach, FL. Congratulations. Terry FRADY has moved from Omaha, NE to Abilene, TX as of Nov 94. If you see this Terry, give us a call or drop a line so we can let everyone know what you’re up to these days. James SEVICK has recently moved from overseas to Phoenix, AZ. Mike COSSA moved from Philadelphia, PA to Tacoma, WA; Beth FREDERICK has moved from Altus, OK to Grand Forks, ND. Beth is a KC-135 navigator, which explains why we hardly ever see her up here. Well folks, that’s the end of change-ofaddress forms. Let’s get into the Christmas cards!

Allen and his wife, Michelle KINNISON, sent us a Christmas card with reindeer flying formation and talking fighter lingo. All and Michelle have recently moved to Okinawa, Japan where All flies what else but F-15s. They had to depart with the family dog because of the heat, and now they are the proud parents of two black cats, Dick and Jane. Both All and Michelle wished for a white Christmas, but all they got were “steamy days, insane drivers and scuba diving in December”. They are planning on visiting stateside in the spring on a trip to St. Louis. I’m sure that other members of our class received the same form letter that I did, so I am forced to use parenthesis, being as I never plagiarize any of your letters!

Next we received a Christmas card form Jeff “Harry” HARRISSON who has settled down in Abilene, TX. The card looked innocent enough on the outside, but the gifts that he wished for cannot be mentioned in this article. I should have known better than to read a personal letter from one of Adam’s buds. The final Christmas card, along with another form letter, comes from Sean and Liz BORDENAVE, who are at McGuire AFB, NJ. They sent an adorable picture of their son Manny who is now almost two years old. I wish I could have put Manny’s picture in this article, but unfortunately I need at least one grad in the picture. Sean has logged over 2,000 hours at his desk and has mastered the art of making a good cup of coffee while serving his banked assignment. When Sean is not at his desk, he is probably off visiting relatives and showing off Manny’s awseome ability to burp, which Sean taught him on a recent father/son bonding trip back to the old stomping grounds located at a wonderfully secluded college in the foothills of the Rockies. Thank you

all for the Christmas cards.

I recently received a wedding invitation from “Hank” GRIFFITHS. Hank was married to Sarah Boyle in Wichita, KS on New Year’s Eve. Hey, that’s tonight. I wish I could have been there to celebrate. I’m sure that the reception was one heck of a way to celebrate the new year, on top of the new life they will be sharing! Congratulations.

Let me end this article with a few pieces of news that I picked up on my trip to San Antonio over Christmas. Angie WALLACE was also in San Antonio, passing through on her leisurely PCS to Edwards AFB where she will be attending TPS as a flight test engineer. Here is some news that Angie relayed about friends she left behind at Eglin AFB, FL. J.P. BOSTER is married to Carolyn. J.P. just received his next assignment, F-15s, after being banked as a maintenance officer. Brian MCCLAY is a banked tanker pilot, and is currently a test engineer. Brian is married to Jenny. Kim BASHAM is an intel officer for F-15s at Eglin. Brian “Willie” WILLIAMS is a test engineer for F-15s. Here’s some news from other bases. Nancy WEISS was a maintenance officer at Eglin, but is now working Logistics Plans at the Pentagon; talk about a change of pace. Anna VINCENT is flying ’141s out of Charleston AFB. Her husband, H.P. ADAMS (’87), is also flying ’141s there. Vanessa REBELLO is now married to Capt. Ted Siewert (ROTC). Vanessa is an engineer at Hanscom AFB.

Here are some faces that were seen at the USAFA vs UTEP game Sept 24, 1994 at the Alamo Dome in San Antonio. Chris HOWARD is back from his academic pursuits at Oxford. He is now going through UPT at Laughlin. Chris GOUGE is getting ready to requal and fly the F-16. Chris CORTEZ now has three children. Dee Dee and Danny HERNANDEZ have one daughter and another on the way. They are both maintenance officers at Randolph. Chantal and Matt MCGEE are also stationed at Randolph. Mona WHEELER is at Brooks AFB working as a chemical engineer. Jenny MITCHA is also stationed at Brooks. Beth HOPPEY was married Oct 1, 1994 to an Army grunt. Beth recently moved to Shaw AFB to be closer to her husband who is stationed at Fort Jackson, SC. I’m sorry I do not have her new last name.

Well, that’s about all of the news that I have for now. Before signing off, I have to mention Callie (CALHOUN) MOLLOY’s name again. Somehow I always end up mentioning her, but I can not leave out this piece of news. Callie and her husband, Joe, another Army grunt stationed in Korea, had a reunion at the Marine Corps Marathon. Callie finished 2nd overall female with a time just under 2 hours, 50 minutes which qualified her for the Olympic trials. This was her first marathon! Congratulations. Hey, it’s now 1995 already. Now I can go to sleep. Best wishes for the new year. Hope to hear from you all. God Bless, Amy McLean.

James S. Mehta

3430 Amber St.

Rosamond, CA 93560

Home: (805) 256-1423

Work: (805) 277-2208

DSN: 527-2208

Percent members: 35

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Unfortunately, the holidays don’t leave much time for writing. I hope you all enjoyed the season and had a chance to be with family and friends. I was TDY to OSI Headquarters (Andrews AFB) for two weeks in Dec taking a counterintelligence investigations class and got behind on lots of stuff. When I got back, I found a note from the AOG telling me I had less than a week to turn in this column. Of course I waited and now it’s due tomorrow. If you wait until the last minute...Thank God for fax machines!

OSI is going pretty well for me. I should be at Edwards for about another year, which is okay, because I’m having a good time. While at Andrews, I ran into a few folks. In the gym at the hotel, I talked to Mark BARONI who is flying C-21s at Randolph AFB. He enjoys the C-21, but said that San Antonio was too big. I also saw Paul MULLIS at the hotel and enjoyed a beer with him at the bar. Paul is flying UH-ls at Langley and got stuck at Andrews due to weather. Paul and his wife, Nikki, are doing well and like Virginia. I know Paul told me that some other ’92 grads are there as well, but I didn’t write them down because Paul promised to write a bit for this column. Maybe he’ll get it to me for the next issue. Get writing Paul!

Dave KUMASHIRO, who was in 22nd Squadron with me, came down from Dover AFB where he is flying C-5s. He spent about a day and a half visiting, and we ended up in Sqid Land (Annapolis) on Sat night. Dan and Kelly (FEDEL) ZDROIK, ’91, had a party for Sean LAWLER and his wife who were leaving to Vance for UPT. Dan flies C-5s at Dover and Kelly is an intel officer at Andrews. There were several other ’91 grads

there as well whose names elude me tonight.

My old roommate Don UNWIN also visited me at Andrews. He’s flying C-9s at Scott and got scheduled to fly the mission that goes to Andrews. It was good to see him again and we had a few beers in Georgetown with some friends. Dave, Don, and I will all be together again in South Carolina for Steve WOLF’s wedding on New Year’s Eve. I’m sure there will be some news to report in the next edition concerning that. A great time will be had by all.

Okay, now to the letters. The oldest letter comes from A1 BLOIR. Oh, this is really old; sorry Al, I don’t know how I missed this in the last issue. A1 was in UPT with me at Vance (before I took my early departure) and is now at Howard AFB in Panama. Four ’92 grads are copilots down there: Al MATNEY, Kirk NICHOLS, Matt CICCARELLO, and Al. Most of their missions in the C-27 Spartan are to support South American countries like Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, Costa Rica, and Honduras. Al and his wife, Tina, have a daughter who will be almost a year old by the time this is published. Others he mentioned were Mike MAGUIRE (Kristy) at Charleston AFB, Darron EASTON (JoAnn) flying UH-ls at FE Warren AFB, Tim TOWNSEND here at Edwards in the test program since being banked, Tom and Paige HOLLER are at Barksdale AFB, and Clark PLEASANTS (Nicole) is flying Hueys at Fairchild AFB. And to close, Al sent his greetings from the South American jungles.

The next letter is from Steve BRODERICK who is stationed at Tinker AFB, but spent some time in Turkey supporting Provide Comfort II. Before the TDY, Steve went to Chuck HOWARD’S wedding in Del Rio, TX. Chuck and Anabel are still in Del Rio, as Chuck is a T-37 IP now. Others at the wedding were Mike JACKSON, who is flying B-ls at Dyess AFB, Mark MOUNT working in supply at Lackland while deferred, Frank SCHORZMAN and Stacie MILINSKI both flying KC-135s at Fairchild AFB and now engaged, and Nicole FOSTER who is chief of Public Affairs for Laughlin. Mike AERSTIN has a banked transport and is at Scott AFB. John GURRERI and his wife are at Vance (FAIP). John “Grovee” COSGROVE and his wife, Karen, are at Scott AFB (C-9s). Barry and Judy BLANCHARD, working on a master’s degree at Texas A&M; Paul BOVANKOVICH (Monica) is at Laughlin; and J.J. JOHNSON (Gail) and Scott SMITH rounded out the unruly crowd.

At Chuck Howard’s wedding, from left are Barry and Judy Blanchard, John and Karen Cosgrove, Paul and Monica Bovankovich, J.J. and Gail Johnson, Frank Schorzman and Stacie Milinski.

Through idle talk at the wedding, Steve gleaned some information on other True Bluers—Scott Nolan finished his master’s and is at UPT at Laughlin while his wife, Joelyn (TAYLOR), is working hospital admin at Wilford Hall in San Antonio. Scott GUNDLACH is in CE at Lackland while banked. Bill LAW is a FAIP at Laughlin, and a number of folks flying KC-135s—Eric VITOSH and Tom REARDON at Robbins, Bill BREWER and Brandon BAKER at Fairchild, Dave PODRASKY, Tracy PRICHARD, and Jon FISCHBACH at Grand Forks, and William CLINCHARD at ???, oops, no one could remember where! Back at Tinker, Orlando ACOSTA was recently married (Jessie), Ally CHAUVIN and Chris ROGOWSKI are in the squadron with Steve, and finally, Tom QUIGLEY is a weapons director in the other AWACS squadron. Thanks for another informative letter, Steve.

Tom DOBBS wrote from somewhere in the Caribbean where he is working Operation Uphold Democracy with a special ops squadron from Hurlburt Field. Location SECRET! He was at Haiti’s Port-au-Prince Int’l Airport last Sep and ran into Tanya DUTKO who is a PA officer at Dover. She has apparently been busy the past year with trips to Uganda and Rwanda during the relief ops there. Monte ANDERSON and Shelly

RIPPLE are both flying in special ops squadrons at Hurlburt. Shelly is the first ever female pilot in her special ops squadron. Finally, Paul WILLIAMS and Oleg BORUKHIN are both at the Joint Intelligence Center, Pacific, in Hawaii, and apparently having a blast.

Dan GARBER and Mike DODSON both wrote to tell me about Dan’s wedding and all the people they saw there, so I’m combining their information. Dan and Yvette were married in San Antonio on 8 Oct 94. Dan is currently at Phillips Lab, Kirtland AFB, working as a biomedical laser support scientist. Grads that came to San Antonio for the celebration were: Jim MUELLER, UH-60s at Kadena; Rob FLETCHER at Whiteman; Rich FLAKE finished a master’s at CU and is also at Kirtland; Fred TAYLOR at Onizuka as a QA monitor for the Satellite Control Network; Steve BREEZE deferred at L.A. and now at Columbus for UPT; Beoyong SEO is at Cheyenne Mountain in C-Springs working command post; Fred BRAVO is a missileman at Malmstrom AFB; Doug BLACKLEDGE and his wife, Robin, are at Tinker; and Chuck HENDERSON made it down from Wright-Pat. I guess the after celebration at the BOQs at Kelly AFB was pretty good, because the SPs made a guest appearance.

Dan Garber’s

Byeongsook

Other former CS-28 guys who could not make the wedding were Roman ISAJIW flying KC-135 over Bosnia; Chris WEBER flying C-141s at Travis; Steve MOYES maintenance squadron section commander at Whiteman for the new B-2 wing; and Paul KNAPP finishing nav training after a stint with OS1 at Elmendorf. Dan’s dad, Jerry (’59), had a minireunion, too, with a number of his classmates showing up for the wedding. To quote Dan, “The ranks, active and retired, were all represented, 0-2 through 0-10.”

Well, those two letters empty out the mail bag. Now, some hot changeof-address cards from the AOG tell us that Don GROVE is now living in Medical Lake, WA (near Fairchild I think); Kent CURRIE is in Fayetteville, NC (Pope AFB?); Bill and Alisa SPANGENTHAL (Congrats Bill! My UPT desk mate.) are at Grand Forks; Brad MIDTLIEN is at Wright-Pat; Julie WHITMAN is now living in Davis, CA; and last, but not least, Chris COLBERT is changing houses, but is still at Scott AFB. Back to bits of my information. J.J. MENOZZI is going to Korea to fly F-16s. Lyle SHIDLA, Mike ROKAW and I are still hanging here in the desert and making it a good time. The rest of the ’92 Edwards crew seem to be doing well. Off the top of my head, I run into Sam WHITE, Rod RICARD, Angela (SLAGEL) CLEET, John MILTNER, Conrad STEGEMAN, Chris COZZI, Tiffany (JORDAN) ROBINSON, Scott JONES, and Jara FATOUT from time to time. I guess this concludes another column. I hope that you have once again enjoyed my ramblings and you will tune in next quarter. Until then take care and enjoy life. James.

Michael D. Sundsted 4021 Taft Blvd. #A207

Wichita Falls, TX 76308 (817) 692-4212

DSN: 736-2346

Percent members: 85

Vnjllpiralong with Brad BIRD, Brian BURNS, Steve FRANK, Dave LEAZER, Mike METCALF, Larry TRITTSCHUH, Dan OOSTERHOUS, Pete WILKIE, Norm JOHNSEN, Larry CARD, Rick ROSALES and Jason MILLS. Our graduationn date is in April.

Other UPT info comes from Vance AFB. Dane CHRISTIANSEN will be flying the KC-135 at Fairchild AFB, Chris KORGER got a C-130 to Pope, Ted LANE a T-37 to Reese, Scott FRISIUS a C-21 with a C-130 follow-on, Phil TUCKER a C-21 to Stuttgart with a KC-10 follow-on, Julia ANDERSON a C-21 with a KC-135 to follow, JoAnn HARTLEY a KC-135 to McConnell AFB, Mike BIORN an F-15E, Harv NEWTON an F-15, Jim MARTIN a C-21 with a C-5 follow-on, Dave ROSZMAN an F-16, and Aaron RAREY a C-21 with a C-5 follow-on. Congratulations on your hard work and new assignments.

From the Class of 95-01 at Sheppard, Rob BALZANO reports on some new pilots. Rob took an F-16 to Luke AFB, Jade BEAM an E-3 to Tinker AFB, Bill BOWMAN a B-l to Dyess, Scott BUMPUS a C-17 to Charleston, Jeff MCMILLEN an RC-135 to Offutt, Dave MORISEY a C-9 to Ramstein with a KC-10 follow-on, Doug PRITCHARD a KC-135 to Grand Forks. O.J. SANCHEZ and Dave WRIGHT an F-15 to Tyndall, Steve HAASE and Joe MCFALL with F-16s to Luke, Waylon RICHARDS a C-141 to Travis, Greg CASA and Dave LOMBARDO with KC-135S to Grand Forks, Tim MERRY and Todd ZUMBEHL with F-15s to Tyndall, Amy YOUNG a C-130 to Ramstein, Pat THOMPSON a KC-135 to McConnell, Joe THOMAS an F-16 to Luke, and Jo SUCICH a C-5 to Dover.

Speaking of Jo SUCICH, he was recently married to his girlfriend from Wichita Falls, Kristen. They were married at a beautiful wedding in November. In attendance were myself, Jason MILLS, Rob BALZANO, Dave GRAFF, Mark BROWN, O.J. SANCHEZ, Johnny WALKER, and Matt WILSON (’91). Jo plans to spend a few weeks with his new wife and son Dylan before he starts flying that big jet. Congrats!

Happy New Year! I am writing this letter a couple of days before Christmas, and from talking to many of you, I won’t be able to receive your letters in time. I will include those in the spring issue, so keep ’em coming! Things in Texas are going well for me. I am currently in the T-38

Ken and Rebecca on their wedding day.

Other marriages include Ken BALKCUM and his wife, Rebecca. They also wed in November in Ouray, CO. Ken will be flying an E-3 after UPT. Darec LIEBEL married Sandy PALOTAS (’94) back in June in Brainerd, MN. Darec received an F-16 assignment and will be going to Luke AFB. Ty CHAMBERLAIN and Elizabeth STARK plan to be wed on May 26th at the USAFA Chapel. Maren SASSEVILLE (HAGADORN) dropped me a postcard to let everyone know that she and her husband are doing great! And also that Elizabeth STARK did a tour in Korea as an intel offleer until December. Furthermore, Glenn CHRISTIANSON is an SP at F.E. Warren. Thanks Maren!

I recently received a letter from Andy SCHAD who is stationed at Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ. He informs us that Kevin SUTTON got an F-16 to Luke. Kevin attended IFF training along with Scott HUFFORD at Sheppard AFB. Mike RICE will finish his master’s at the NASA lab at Langley AFB, VA. Nothing like being a space cadet! Mike has done very well at school and competes on a national level in handball. Many of you may remember Mike tearing up the courts at USAFA. He went to tournaments in D.C., Virginia and Maryland. Mike will be stationed at Kirtland AFB after January. Darin BOOTH is at Dyess AFB as a mobility officer. He is very close to completing his master’s and currently has another beautiful girlfriend! Hang on to this one Darin, you are driving your friends nuts!

Andy also informs us that Jason SUTTON is stationed at Scott AFB, IL and enjoys his new job as computer officer. Troy NIEHAUS, Robert BROGAN, Matthew FORNER, Russ STRASSER, John DESTAZIO, Steven LASKOWSKI, and Andy graduated from the AFOSI Academy in

At

wedding, from left are

Seo, Fred Taylor, Rich Flake, Steve Breeze, Mike Dodson, Fred Bravo, Doug Blackledge, Dan Garber and Chuck Henderson.

Dec 93. Tony got married in June of ’94 and is now stationed with his lovely wife at Eglin AFB. AFOSI rumor mill has indicated that Tony will become our version of James Bond, “007”. Watch out for Troy to model the latest secret agent trench coat at a BX nearest you! Rob is stationed at Kelly AFB, TX. Rob (who was a PTWOB) still risks life and limb by jumping out of perfectly good airplanes. Thanks for all the info Andy!

1 received a little note from two of our chums who are representing the cutting edge for our future military. Anton NOVAK and Rob LUNDY began their advanced flight training in the Navy T-44A. They will be receiving inter-service training. Anton and Rob will travel to Little Rock, AR for C-130 training after the T-44. Both started SUPT at Reese with Mike LOVE (now in T-38s), Chris WOLFE, Chuck STEVENS and John TAMBLYN (now in T-ls). Anton and Rob enjoy living in Corpus Christi on North Padre Island. We now see why Anton and Rob made the move to T-44s—enjoying the beach and relaxed training style of the Navy!

Jenn (JOYCE) HOMANN wrote me a letter from Kuwait City. She was an intel officer. She says she works hard, but enjoys her free time. Her hearts and pool game have improved dramatically. She arrived back in the States just a short time ago. She and her husband are both excited about being stationed at McGuire AFB. She can’t wait to take a long vacation with her family.

The AOG has sent several address changes. If you have a question as to where someone is stationed, look in your new AOG Register or call the AOG. Andrew TRAVNICEK lives in Coral Springs, FL. Amy MCCAIN moved to Somerville, MA. Jeff SEIBERT moved to Bedford, MA. Steven BEASLEY moved to Atwater, CA. Troy KITCH moved to Hanscom AFB. Kari VAD now lives in New Braunfels, TX. (I hope you are enjoying the river!) Erik HOXIE lives in Grand Forks, ND and Dale FOSTER resides in Schertz, TX.

Other updates on UPT graduates are Todd SEGER, F-16 to Luke AFB; Doug TORLEUMKE, C-130 to Dyess; Paul HIBBARD, F-15E; Barry COGGINS, B-52; and Joe WARD, KC-135. Recently at Sheppard, Dave GRAFF got an F-15, Johnny WALKER will be flying the F-16, Mark BROWN got a C-17 to Charleston. I know I forgot some, but please write me so I can update everyone!

I received a letter with a newspaper article and picture of Mark “PACO” SANCHEZ who is stationed at Griffiss AFB, NY. He entered the Oct 14th Annual Firehouse run and came in second. Hey, did you max the AFT?! You are quite the man Paco. He is the XO for the NE Area Defense Secretary.

Brendan HARRIS wrote from Maryland several times. I apologize for not writing or calling Brendan. I know I haven’t treated you fairly. Deal with it! Ha! Anyway, Brendan is pressing along with his master’s and has one semester left. How will you actually adapt to the “real” Air Force once you are done with school? Good to hear from you!

Scott “Woody” WOOD sent me a letter in December informing me about a trip he took with Gil BARRERA, Paul GEEHRING, and Matt CARPENTER. All of them work at JAC (RAF Molesworth). Paul happened to be in England for TDY. Others stationed near Scott are James NEY (Alconbury) and Clint MIXON (Alconbury). Thanks for the letter!

Gil, Paul, Scott and Matt in front of Warwick Castle.

That’s about it for this time. Thanks for all the letters and keep us updated on everything you’re doing by writing more. I might not be at Sheppard for the next letter, so contact the AOG for my new address, or just write to them c/o 1993 AOG Class Letter, Mike Sundsted. Oh, yeah, by the way, June 2nd is rapidly approaching. Think about our new silver bar. Until next time! Goodbye Nurse! Mike.

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Spring Greetings to the best class ever! I hope you all survived the holidays safely and are geting into the swing of the new year. Just think, last year at this time we were counting the days until graduation, waiting for assignments to come down, and trying to pass 410! I’ve kept really busy since I wrote the last column, so I have lots of updates for you on the people I’v seen. Unfortunately, I haven’t heard from very many people, so please write so I can keep this column full.

First, I’ll dip into the AOG mailbag, shallow as it is...(In case you didn’t know, all letters and address changes you send to the AOG are forwarded to me). Eric STUBBS wrote from Tinker, OK, where he is an administrative staff officer. He and Monica (Patricia) GUERRA were married in the chapel the day after graduation (the first from our class) and are living together happily in the new house they just bought. Address cards came in from Mike DUNN, Ernie HERNANDEZ, and Marc SANDS from Wright-Pat; Bill DOUGLASS from Grand Forks; Joe WIRTHLIN from Hill; Steve BLEVINS from Osan; Laura REGAN from Offutt; and Chris GERFEN from McClellan.

About a week after I sent in the column for the latest issue of Checkpoints, I got a letter from Mike SUERMAN and Chris CALLAGHAN, who are at Sheppard for Euro-NATO pilot training. They filled me in on the huge party they had in September that included about 50 lieutenants from as far west as USAFA, as far south as San Antonio, and as far east as Hanscom. In attendance were their classmates in Tweets (T-37s), ineluding Chris COLCORD, Ken STOLTMAN, Chris MCDANIEL (wife, Andrea). Donnie MENTCH, Chris BAHL, Scott ALLISON, Lamar PETTUS, Don SUPON, Mark SNOWDEN, Chris STRICKLIN (wife, Terri); Mitch MIGLIORI, Jason FOREST, Mark FRITZINGER, Steve GRAVES, Sean GALLAGHER (wife, Amanda); Wes HEADRICK (wife, Kristin, and son Kyle); Kerry KANE, Curtis SUTON, Kevin MURRAY, and John KLEIN. Also there, but a few weeks ahead in the program were Greg WOOD, Craig STEFAN, Lance WILKINS, Britt HURST, Steve JOST, and Brian VAN MATRE. Attendees who were on casual status are Ryan OSTEROOS (wife, Andrea), Paul PERKINS, Scott KEETON, Troy LOHMEYER, Rich LUBEY, Sean ROUTIER, Mike MORGAN, and John SEUELL. John is engaged to Suzette STENERSEN, who is at Goodfellow for intel school. Maintenance training is also held at Sheppard, so some of the maintenance gang showed up as well: Dave HAM (wife, Erin); Jay BRUNER, Rich COFFEY, Mike INGERSOLL, Don SWEENEY, Kim KADRYNA, Kristi SICKELS, Jake BURGWALD, Copernicus (Pucky) GUERRA, and Jimmy MOTT. Down from the Academy were Chris KIRBY, Todd TUMIDANSKI, Lance KENT, West STARK, and Tonnee TONNESEN. Brenda SMITH (physical therapy school at Brooks), Angie ERICKSON (acquisition school at Lackland—now at Hanscom) and Mary HARTMAN (also acquisition) were up from San Antonio. Sounds like they’re having a ball up in Wichita Falls—Chris and Mike said to let you all know that you’re invited to the next bash!

Also back in September, Jeff LINGENS took off to spend a few months at Lackland for transportation school. He got back just in time to be acting commander for his whole squadron and had to oversee the issuance of a few Articles 15. Jeff went to school with Connor BLACKWOOD (Charleston); Van LOVETT (MacDill); Jeff BRAUN (Mt Home); Jack ANTEDOMENICO (Howard, Panama); Brian SIRAVO (Offutt); Steve TUGGLE (Charleston); Jeff CLARK (Andrews); Scott BARTAK (Barksdale); Heather JOHNSON (Little Rock); and Jeff BABINSKI (Reese). He also saw Brenda SMITH (PT school), Kevin DYDYK (UNT), Mark TORREANO, and Obasi (John) ONUOHA and his wife, Natalie (WHITMAN, ’93).

I’d like to tell you a bit about life at Vandenberg, but I haven’t really been here much since I wrote the last column. However, I was here to celebrate the victory of Trevor SMITH, Tom BOUSCHELL (’93), and Rich RUPANOVIC (’93)’s soccer team in the base intramural championships. The next day Trevor and I had a party at my house to celebrate Halloween, his 24th birthday, and my going away (for a seven-week TDY). About 50 friends from the area showed up, including local grads like Rich RUPANOVIC, Tom BOUSCHELL (and girlfriend Jennifer), Manny O’CAMPO (’93), Brian and Christy NOE, John and Beth NEWBERRY, and Jason MCINERNEY. Scott SHEEHAN and Eric SOSA (both ’93) drove up with one of my freshman pals Roland SECODY and some other folks from Edwards. I woke up the next morn-

ing in time to start packing for my TDY and left for the airport headed to Wright-Pat.

If you have never been to Wright-Patterson, it’s just a huge USAFA reunion. I didn’t care a lot for the base itself, but there are so many Academy folks there that I had a ball. I was there for services officer school with Preston SCHLACTER (Keesler; wife, Vicky); Lauren SHEAHAN (Dover); Becky MOSLEY (Cannon); Courtney MINER (Grand Forks); Rich TARBOX (Minot; wife, Heather ALDRICH); Brock LORBER (L.A.; fiancee, Jess); and Heidi LINDSTROM (Mt Home). Heidi is engaged to Andy TRUITT (’93) and will be married in May in Texas. Way up at the Pentagon level, Services and Civil Engineering are united, so they train us together at AFIT. Because of that, there was a CE course going on just down the hall and all of us did our field training together at Tyndall. In that class were Marvin EE (Falcon); Mike REED (McGuire); Kay AQUINO (Patrick); Bryan POYANT; Craig ALLEN (Kirtland); Rob LOPEZ (Falcon); Shawn LARCHER (Sheppard); Eric HOVERSTEN (’93, Cannon); Duane MCCULLION (Patrick); Rich ROSA (’92); Mike MILLER (CS-37, McGuire); Chris LINDHORST (Moody, married to Grace O’NEILL); Scott SHEEHAN (’93, Edwards); Ed ISEMAN (Goodfellow); Don OHLEMACHER (Tyndall); Jim CHRISLEY (Andrews); Steve WALES (Little Rock); Sean O’BRIEN (Moody). Other folks that were there taking classes were Jen BOZIED, Tony SANSANO, Tim MCGAVERN, Joe HLYWIAK, and Chris WOMICK (McClellan). Maria THOMAS (’93) was staying at the VOQ as well and told me that she and Becky BERNARDINI were rooming together and are stationed in San Antonio. They were both recently married, but I didn’t catch the names of their new husbands. I also ran into my sponsor brother Milan PATEL (’92) who was TDY from McClellan and fellow Louisianan, Eric “Chappy” CHAPITAL (’93), in from Los Angeles.

The first weekend I was at school, I got a ride to St Louis with one of my classmates for another party at “The Chicken Ranch,” the four-level house Rick BAILEY, Ken MOSS, and Andy CRUM (all ’92) share. Trevor SMITH was on his way to Washington, DC for TDY and was able to swing a three-day layover in the area to join me for the Halloween party. As always, they threw a successful bash and the house was packed. Graduates there included Don UNWIN, Matt RAFTER, Chris COLBERT, and Alberto CRUZ from ’92 and Don CLOUD from ’93. While I was there, we got a call from an old Bulldawg (CS-13) pal, Matt HARPER, who’s trying to create night life at Grand Forks. When Trevor got to D.C., he saw Steve MCILVAINE, Tim COHEN, Scott LESCZENSKI, Mike MILLER (CS-13), and James THOMPSON, who all attend George Washington University and work half-days at Goddard Space Flight Center in civilian clothes. Together, the crowd closed four bars in three nights! Jodi MATERNOWSKI is also in the area and Mark WOOD starts work at the Pentagon in January.

Back at Wright-Pat, I ran into several people that are actually assigned there. I saw Marc SANDS and Jeanne WILKINS at the post office—they work with Andrea (LALK) BURKE. Ty MOORE (’93) and his girlfriend Laurie took me out to dinner and I ran into another of my sponsor brothers, Mike DUNN and a former squadron-mate, Frank DESAMOURS (’92) at the AFIT building. B.O.B. GOODWIN works out there in acquisition and Gina VOELLGER and Sarah O’DANIEL are personnel officers at Wright-Pat. There are tons of folks from CS-36 in the area: besides Heidi and Chappy, I saw Deb NAWROCKI, Ted and Kristi GATLIN, and Scott KRAUSE. Preston, Courtney, and I went dancing with Ted, Kristi, Scott and Joe THILL. Courtney ran into Randy GONZALES and Cindy GREEN (acquisition); Heidi saw Travis and Sheryl BURDINE; Lauren spent time with her old roommate Jill RYLAARSDAM; and I saw fellow freshman Amanda CRIST (married to Jake MILLER ’92).

While I was there, I got letters from two of my former roommates: Kathy CLEVELAND and Carolyn FORNER, and a letter from Dave PLEASANCE. Kathy is down at Patrick as a Space officer and Carol wrote from Sheppard where she is at maintenance school. She was happy that she got to spend her weekends with Matt GLOVER who is at Vance for UPT, but is now stationed at Luke. Dave wrote to say that he, Brian LEWIS, and Mark O’REILLY graduated on 13 August. Brian is headed to Hurlburt, Mark wll be a maintenance officer at Kirtland, and Dave had a lobotomy and joined the Army. He is at Ft Benning attending Infantry Officer Basic Course 1-95. Pete SMITH and Dave EMORY are other cross-commissionees who are there for training and are doing surprisingly well against their Army-trained counterparts. Attending the 13 August ceremony were Stan LAWRIE (USAFA); Wes PALMER (Peterson); Jon MOORE (was on casual, is now at Columbus); John CULP (casual); and Paul DUDLEY. Paul was married 30 Dec to Amy PILKINGTON (older sister to Julie ’95) and was Dave’s commissioning officer. They were freshmen together and have been roommates in CS-05 for the last three

years. Dave, I know you’re trying to locate Don SHEESLEY, maybe the new graduate locator will help. If not, Don, track him down please! Dave ended his letter with a thank you to all who attended their ceremony and the following quote “Though our timing was bad, our enthusiasm for service was higher than ever.” Congrats, fellas, and welcome!

Lauren SHEAHAN heard from Michelle (KUIPERS) and Ric HOYT; Becky MOSLEY was thrilled to spend Thanksgiving with Costas LEONIDOU and the Veterans Day weekend with his parents in New York. Heidi LINDSTROM was able to make it to L.A. to pick out her wedding dress with her mother and got to spend Thanksgiving with Andy (TRUITT). Courtney MINER got to visit with Carlton HOSKINS (Army Intel School at Ft Watuchee) and keeps in touch with Erik MITCHELL (Grand Forks), Cal CROWNER (Eglin), Angie ERICKSON, and Jess LAMBERT (maintenance school). Rich TARBOX and Chris LINDHORST each got to spend a weekend with their new brides, Heather (ALDRICH) and Grace (O’NEILL), respectively.

If all that’s not enough for one TDY, we spent our last week at Tyndall in field training. Kay AQUINO was able to squeeze in a brief visit with fellow cheerleader Tam VO and we all got to see Karl ROGERS chase down our bus on the way to the flightline the last day. It’s a good thing Alex (his car) is small and fast, because he was weaving in and out of traffic to try to talk to us through the bus windows. Karl, we know you got chewed out, but thanks for the effort!

Well, I got back to Vandenberg in time to catch a plane to Colorado to attend Jane DECKER’S and Steve SIMS’ ’94 Vi, graduation. They were the final graduates from our class and have brought our grand total to 1024! Just two weeks before, Jim FRANCIS became graduate #1022.

Anyway, Jane is PCSing to Vandy and she and I were going to drive her car out here so she could fly out in late January from Philadelphia. But once I got to USAFA, Trevor had a better idea: he decided to join me in Colorado and the two of us drove Jane’s car and let her go home with her parents and her beautiful daughter Regan Marie. He was able to make it out just in time for the graduation and joined me, Deb NAWROCKI (Wright-Pat), Darren WOBB (Cannon, ’93), Billeye Gladen (’95), Lt Col Guzman, and members of the Biology Department. They had a terrific ceremony, enhanced by a terrific speech by General CUBERO (’61) and accompanied by Regan singing the ABCs to her grandmother’s horror. Jane is going to move in with me when she gets out here and Jason is trying to purchase a home of his own.

We were back in California just a week before Christmas and got cards from Ted and Kristi GATLIN, Penny PARMER (Minot), Matt DURHAM (Laughlin, UPT); Julie Price (’95); Calvin (Nathan) and Kelli HOBBS (’93; actually they’re getting married in Feb); Matt HARPER (’92); Kathy CLEVELAND; Deb NAWROCKI; Carolyn FORNER (Luke); Mandy KRANTZ and Bridget Barton (’95—they were writing from France, where they are on exchange); and Kelly HEALY. Kathy, Deb, Carol, and Mandy were my four USAFA roommates, so it was cool to hear from all of them. Kelly is in acquisition down in L.A. and is rooming with Tina WESTFALL and enjoying her job. I spoke with both of them this week: Kelly is going TDY to Ft Lee, VA for the month of January, and Tina was fortunate enough to spend the holidays wtih her old pal Jarett PURDUE (’93) who was in from Korea. She also got to see an old squadron-mate, Derek LEIVESTAD on his way through L.A. Tina and Kelly said you’re all invited over if you’re in the area, so be sure to look them up! Kelly gave me Adelle BELISLE’s phone number at Randolph, so I called to see how she was doing. A personnel officer in international training, Adelle has already gotten many opportunities to travel and promised to help me fill the column by updating me on the scene in San Antonio and everywhere else she has been.

Well, I thought I was done there, but I was typing this column into the computer when I got a phone call from Kathy CLEVELAND. She called to tell me that Lance BAXTER will wed Carrie March 11th; Jeff KUZMA will marry Nicole in July; Rachel CALL is going to marry Wes in November; Heather JOHNSON is engaged; and Amy CARNES is engaged to John CHILDS. Beth WETHERINGTON is stationed at Mildenhall and is enjoying traveling all over Europe for her job. Kathy also saw Kurt WENDT over Christmas break and he said John AALBORG and Ray “T” TRUONG are having a ball in France, where they are studying on scholarship. Best of luck to you guys—I’m jealous!

Finally, that’s it! If your address is wrong in the grad locator, or if your parents are still getting your copy of Checkpoints, please send in your change of address to the AOG. Let me know what you’re up to and whom you’ve seen so I can put it in the column—please forgive the delays—remember, we run about three months behind because of publishing time. Good luck in your jobs, families, and activities. Take care and God Bless—C.C.

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