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ABOUT OUR COVER

Our thanks to NASA for our striking cover photo of astronaut Mark Lee, ’74, standing on the boom of Space Shuttle Discovery, intentionally throwing mission specialist Carl Meade into atumble maneuver to test the new backpack of the spacesuit such that astronauts can recover from an in¬ advertent break in their safety lines while performing maintenance tasks on the soon-to-be-built International Space Station. See page 32 for astory related to the mission.

SAFER jetpack. The SAFER is aself-rescue device worn on the CHECKPOINTS (ISSN 0274-7391) (USPS 898-080) is published quarterly in February, May, August and November by the Association of Graduates, U.S. Air Force Academy. (Phone 719-472-0300, DSN: 259-2067. FAX: 719-472-4194.) It is provided as part of amembership package of which the magazine subscription annually accounts for $10. Single copies of CHECK¬ POINTS for members $2.50. Second-class postage paid at the U.S. Air Force Academy, Colo. POSTMASTER: Send Form 3579 to CHECKPOINTS, Association of Graduates, Doolittle Hall, 3116 Academy Drive, Suite 100, USAF Academy, Colo. 80840-4475

Opinions expressed in this magazine are those of the authors. They do not necessarily reflect the opinions, policy or attitude of the Association of Graduates, its officers or the editorial staff. The appearance of advertisements in this publication does not constitute an endorsement by the Association of Graduates of the products or services advertised. Copyright, Association of Graduates of the U.S. Air Force Academy, Spring 1995

VIEW FROM THE TOP ^^★

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

Many of you probably noticed that the Air Force Academy received more than its fair share of media exposure during the weekend of April 7-9, 1995. ABC’s 20/20 newsmagazine show aired asegment alleging sexual harassment of cadets during Sur¬ vival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape (SERE) training, and CBS’s 60 Minutes televised asegment questioning the necessity of service academies because of asupposed high cost compared to the other commissioning sources. 1want to take this opportunity to tell you the rest of the story.

and the Academy Hospital’s mental health team will continue to be available to cadets.

The 60 Minutes segment focused on the perceived high cost of service academies. They referred to aGovernment Accounting Of fi ce (GAO) report of July 1991,

ACADEMlES-lmproved Cost and Performance Monitoring Needed,” which put the price of an Academy commission at ap¬ proximately $250,000. They further reported there are no discern¬ ible quality differences between officers from academies, ROTC and OTS. Our analysis indicates otherwise. There are many areas which typically demonstrate individual success in the military. They include retention, promotion, and representation in the general officer corps. The GAO also used these quality indicators in their report.

Retention translates to greater return on investment in educa¬ tion and training. Retention through 20 years for Air Force Academy graduates for the years 1959-1973 is almost twice the rate on non-Academy officers (46.8% vs. 27.5%), and Academy graduates stay for 30 years of service at nearly four times the rate of their non-Academy counterparts (7.4% vs. 1.8%). These data show excellent payback through service to our nation for Air Force Academy graduates.

Lt. Gen. Stein, ’66

SERE is aDepartment of Defense-directed program conducted at the Academy since the early ’70s. Like all forms of combat training, the intent is to simulate reality, and enhance aperson’s ability to deal with potentially-difficult situations. To ensure our training is realistic and meeting our needs, we regularly review our training programs for relevancy, and update them if necessary. For example, we learned from Desert Storm POWs how exten¬ sively the enemy used sexual exploitation in their mistreatment of prisoners. As aresult, the Department of Defense added sexual exploitation training to all SERE programs in the summer of 1993. The allegation was that sexual assaults occurred during this phase of training. Allegations that were reported to us have been thoroughly investigated and were not substantiated. All scenarios were closely monitored and conformed to existing guidelines. The training was intense but we found no evidence of sexual assault.

As originally structured, students, both male and female, and cadet trainers were used to role play in the sexual exploitation scenarios. These scenarios were performed under strict guidelines and with an of fi cer or noncommissioned of fi cer as amonitor. As aresult of critiques by students following the first SERE training sessions in the summer of 1993, cadet trainers were excluded from either conducting or directing this training, limiting it to ex¬ perienced noncommissioned officers from the Air Force SERE program.

Following evaluation of the training conducted in the summer of 1994, the Academy leadership along with Air Education and Training Command decided that actual sexual and gender-related scenarios be eliminated from the resistance laboratory, and that this type of training be conducted in aclassroom setting, with the use of video tapes and only instructors performing any role play¬ ing in any live demonstration.

This type of training is necessarily intense. Beginning with the SERE training program in 1995, the Air Force Academy will add afull-time psychologist to the SERE team, as well as two psychological technicians who will provide continuous on-site support during the SERE training. The Cadet Counseling Center

Promotions are an excellent way to judge how well officers per¬ form once on active duty, and Academy graduates are consistent¬ ly promoted at higher rates. The average results from field grade promotion boards over the last 10 years show Academy graduates have done better in every single category (below-, in-, and abovethe-zone). On the average. Academy graduates get promoted at from 12 to 16 points higher in the promotion zone than their nonAcademy contemporaries. And for those officers who receive accelerated/below-the-primary-zone promotions. Academy grads are selected at more than twice the rate of their non-Academy counterparts. Promotion to general officer shows even more dramatic differences. While only 5.4% of officer inputs from 1959 through 1972, Academy graduates represent 29.4% of all general officers on active duty, more than five times their normal input to the population.

The costs of an Academy education, when compared with equivalent academic institutions, are not out of line when all dollars Oocal, state and federal) are considered in the equation. The full commitment of 12 months per year to military training and way of life, versus weekends or summer encampments, can’t be ignored in the overall argument either. Along with the outstanding academic education, cadets at the Air Force Academy are immersed in aviation, airmanship, leadership, and character development training—all primary contributors to the higher retention and promotion (performance) results shown above.

Overall, we believe these are strong arguments for the impor¬ tance and relevance of service academies in the post-Cold War en¬ vironment and believe the taxpayer and the nation are being wellserved by the academies.

We hope this update fills in some of the blanks in the 20/20 and 60 Minutes presentations. We appreciate your thoughts and feed¬ back on issues of any matter. Let us know your feelings.

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THE AOG BOARDROOM

Brig. Gen. (Ret) James P. Ulm, ’61, Chairman of the Board

With Graduation Week for the Class of 1995 rapidly ap¬ proaching, the Association of Graduates extends congratulations to our “soon-to-be” graduates. We hosted aClass of ’95 Recep¬ tion on the 11th and 18th of April at Doolittle Hall. With con¬ struction completed and increased space available, we were able to host two Cadet Wing Groups each evening. We are pleased that the Class has 63 percent who will be life members. Hopefully, those who are not currently members will realize the value of be¬ ing apart of the Association of Graduates in the near future. Our best wishes for the future to the Class of 1995.

Jim Ulm, ’61

For those whose daughters and sons will be joining the Class of 1999, we hope to see you at Doolittle Hall on the 29th of June. As we did last year, we will have apicnic for the families and friends with the superb assistance of the Colorado Parents’ Club and the Rampart AOG Chapter. It was agreat time for everyone last year, and we hope you will stop by and visit with us.

In early April, the AOG was fortunate to host the USAF Chief of Staff General Ron Fogleman, ’63, for abrief tour of Doolittle Hall. The chief was quite pleased with the facility and the high level of support the association has provided to the graduate com¬ munity and the Academy. (See photo.)

In March Ihad the opportunity to visit the Greater Chicago and Indiana Chapters. Jim McCleary (’67/Indiana) and Tom Krise (’83/Greater Chicago) are doing asuperb job making these two chapters viable and growing. It is always achallenge to develop programs and the interest of the graduates throughout the country. Iwould like to personally thank Jim and Tom for their hard work and time. As we continue to grow in membership, these two gentlemen and others like them will have built a

The Association of Graduates U.S. Air Force Academy VISION

Air Force Academy graduates bonded by acommon heritage and an enduring commitment to integrity, excellence and service to country.

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To provide leadership and service to the graduate com¬ munity, support for the Academy mission, and preservation of institutional heritage and traditions.

framework for anational infrastructure that will be necessary in our future.

The same weekend, Istopped in Chicago to visit the Illinois Parents’ Club. The meeting included the introduction of several members of the Class of 1999 before agathering of more than 200 families and friends. Ken and Karen Bartels, co-presidents of the club, are doing agreat job and are strong supporters of the Academy and the association (son will graduate this year). From my perspective, parents’ clubs are complimentary to our chapters, and we need to inform them at every opportunity of the goals of the Association of Graduates. If you are amember or plan to visit aparents’ club, please contact the staff for information that you can present.

In late March, Iattended the Sorin Society as aguest of the Notre Dame Alumni Association. The Sorin Society is the counterpart to our Sabre Society, and Notre Dame people have been most helpful is assisting John Kelley, Jim Shaw and myself to quickly grasp the details necessary to establish afirst- class society. We are most pleased with the initial response to the mailout. The first year’s membership goal will be achieved with continued growth to amembership that will allow the association to be responsive to the long-term strategic goals of the Academy.

We are also seeing agreat deal of interest in the Pegasus Paver Project in the front of Doolittle Hall. All of you have received a brochure outlining the details and process for ordering apaver. In the event you accidentally threw yours away and are interested in participating, please let us know. We will be happy to send you another.

My last thought to pass along to all of you is the dramatic in¬ crease in cards, letters, faxes and telephone calls by many of you. We truly appreciate the feedback as it gives the AOG staff and board of directors the opportunity to determine if we are headed in the correct direction. Personally, Iam very happy because I thought only Jeanne and my son maybe were reading my article. Keep smiling, have awonderful summer and hope to see you at the reunions next fall.

Superintendent, Chairman, Chief Aspeech to the Cadet Wing in April prompted Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Ronald R. Fogleman‘s visit to Doolittle Hall where he was given ashort tour and briefing. From left are Academy Superintendent Lt. Gen. Paul E. Stein, ’66; AOG Chairman of the Board Brig. Gen. (USAF, Ret) Jim Ulm, ’61; and General Fogleman, ’63. One of the two grand staircases in the building is in the background.

Gymnasts Celebrate 40 Years of Excellence

By Brig. Gen, (Ret) Orwyn “O” Sampson

The Gymnastics Program in conjunction with the AOG hosted aUSAFA Gymnastics Homecoming March 9-12,1995. This event reunited virtually every team that the Academy has ever fielded. Coach Robert Sullivan and Tom Stack, ’59, represented the first team composed of members of the incoming class in 1955 at Lowry AFB. All American Jim Weaver, ’63, was present. So too, was Terry Higgins, ’66, All American and the only gymnast ever to win the AFA Most Valuable Athlete Award, and Mard (McGlinn) Rogers, ’85, the fi rst National Champion at the Academy in gymnastics. There also were Steve Hoit, ’73, first NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship winner; Chris Mauk, ’89, first Conference Gymnast of the Year, and many more.

In alectinar on the status of the Academy. Aquestion-and-answer period followed with representatives from DF, CW, AH, and RR.

At 3:30 that afternoon, everyone assembled in the West Cadet Gym for pictures and some athletic contests. Joel Miller, ’92, won the award for the longest handstand without moving, Chris Mauk, ’89, was the free handstand winner, and Ken Kemper, ’90, barely edged assistant coach Ivan Merritt and Jeanine Stewart, ’93, in the jump-pirouette contest. And, while Mark Torreano, ’68, was one of the few alums still able to do akip on the horizon¬ tal bar, he had to withdraw from the competition because of an injury he sustained on his specialty, the still rings. Ironically, it was Mark’s suggestion that caused us to include contests in the reunion program. Fortunately, there were no fatalities!

That evening, 136 of us (alums, guests, and current team members) gathered in the Aspen Leaf Room of the Marriott Hotel for our Homecoming Banquet. The program began with a welcome by head coach Lou Burkel. Next “O” Sampson presented a20-minute videotape that included atour of USAFA, areview of each of the 40 men’s and 19 women’s teams that have represented the Academy, gave asample presentation of one per¬ son’s reflection on the vine of the USAFAgymnastics experience to his career and life. This was followed by similar reflections by each coach in attendance as well as by Col. (Ret) Thomas Krauska, Officer Representative Emeritus from 1961-1965.

It was explained that this latter segment of the videotape would be expanded by having each alum share his/her two-minute message on camera. This was done during the next two days and the results, along with highlights of the reunion, will be incor¬ porated into avideotape to be made available for purchase.

The Gymnastics Reunion Group

More than 60 former gymnasts, coaches, officer represen¬ tatives, and trainers attended the “homecoming” and were distributed among various “eras” denoted by respective coaches. This included:

Gymnastics Eras

Women

Men

Sullivan, 55-60

Tanaka, 60-64

Schwenzfeier, 64-76

Townsend, 76-79

Burkel, 79-84, 86-present

Ramsey, 84-86

Maddox, 76-79

Goode, 79-84

Botzong, 84-90 Moellenbeck, 90-93 Burkel, 93-present

The reunion program was kicked off by amen’s meet against the University of Illinois, Chicago, on Thursday evening followed by asocial gathering at the Marriott Hotel, reunion headquarters. On Friday, many grads attended the noon-meal formation and had lunch with the cadets in Mitchell Hall. This was followed by an open house in Fairchild Hall and both dorms. At 2p.m., the vice superintendent. Col. Vic Andrews, ’66, briefed the gathering

The Saturday schedule was wide open. Some played golf or toured the Colorado Springs area or went to Cripple Creek to gamble or went shopping. Many gathered at the Sampsons’ for an open house that afternoon. The culmination of the reunion was the combined gymnastics meet that evening in the West Gym. The men met the University of New Mexico, the currently top-ranked team in the country, and the women went up against powerhouse Southern Utah State University. While we didn’t prevail on the scoreboard, both teams performed very well and averaged more than 9.0 points per athlete.

That is astandard of performance that demonstrates that Falcon Gymnastics continues to represent USAFA’s “commit¬ ment to excellence!” After the meet we all gathered once again at the Marriott Hotel for an old fashioned ice cream social. (The Marriott Hotel did an outstanding job of supporting our reunion with special room rates, excellent food, and first class service. Thank you Jock Schwank for facilitating all that through the AOG of fi ce!)

All in all, this was an outstanding reunion! Those who par¬ ticipated were blessed. Those who didn’t, missed out.

Sharing past gymnastics experiences, from left are Bob Sullivan, Jim Weaver, Lloyd Harmon and Paul O’Connor.

Soaking in the Colorado fresh air at the Gymnastics Reunion, from left are Mark Torreano, “Bud” Knopke, Pat O’Grady, Brian Prendergast, and Mike Torreano.

Changes to USAFA SERE Indoctrination Program Announced

The Academy recently announced changes to the resistance training phase of the Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape (SERE) training program. The changes were recommended by a joint Air Education and Training Command (AETC)-U.S. Air Force Academy review of the Air Force-wide SERE program

SERE Escape and Resistance Programs Eliminated

(Editor’s note: The main story on this page was provided by the Academy Public Affairs Office in early April. Elements in the story are repeated in the superintendent’s View From the Top column. As the magazine was going to press in late April, the following press release was received from the Air Force News Service, in which the complete elimination of the resistance and escape portions of the Academy’s SERE program are announced.)

WASHINGTON (AFNS) —Air Force Secretary Sheila E. Widnall and Chief of Staff General Ronald R. Fogleman an¬ nounced that the Air Force Academy’s survival, evasion, resistance and escape training programs will be restructured.

Effective immediately, only survival and evasion training will be conducted at the Academy for cadets.

Any additional training required by cadets in resistance and escape will be accomplished after graduation and follow¬ ing completion of specialized flying and technical training. The additional training will be conducted at the Fairchild Air Force Base, Wash., survival school.

The decision to discontinue resistance and escape training was based upon several factors. First, cost savings originally obtained by sending all USAFA cadets through SERE has diminished because the number of Academy graduates enter¬ ing career fields requiring ahigh level of survival and resistance training has declined.

Second, exposure to escape and resistance training after completion of specialized flying and technical training is ex¬ pected to result in more effective training. The recent review of survival training indicated that resistance training is more effective with older, more mature students, and with those entering career fields in which the potential for capture is higher than most other Air Force specialties.

The Academy has conducted aSERE training program since 1969. Training at the Academy had paralleled that at Fairchild and prepares cadets to survive in arange of natural conditions to evade capture, survive and resist enemy ex¬ ploitation efforts, and to escape captivity if possible.

begun in late 1994. Changes were approved by Secretary of the Air Force Dr. Sheila Widnall and Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Ronald R. Fogleman.

The most significant changes affect the sexual exploitation phase of the resistance training, designed to prepare students for potential abuse should they be taken prisoner by enemy forces and to teach them techniques to resist this type of exploitation. The training was initiated in 1991 at Fairchild AFB, Wash, at the direction of the AETC commander and at the Air Force Academy in the summer of 1993 as aresult of the experiences of recent prisoners of war.

Both the Air Force Academy program and the AETCsponsored program at Fairchild AFB, Wash, will use videotapes to teach resistance techniques to threatened or attempted sexual assault and coercion. The AETC program will, and the Air Force Academy is considering, the use of role playing during academic training with instructors playing both roles in any live demonstra¬ tions during the field portion of training.

As originally structured, students, both male and female, and cadet trainers were used to role play in the sexual exploitation scenarios. These scenarios were performed under strict guidelines

and with an of fi cer or nonconunissioned of fi cer as monitor. As a result of critiques by students following the first SERE training session in the summer of 1993, cadet trainers were excluded from either conducting or directing this training, limiting it to ex¬ perienced noncommissioned officers from the Air Force SERE program.

Following evaluation of the training conducted in the summer of 1994, the Academy leadership recommended that the sexual and gender-related scenarios be eliminated from the resistance training laboratory, and that this type of training be conducted in aclassroom setting, with the use of video tapes and with instruc¬ tors performing the role playing in any live demonstrations.

This type of training is necessarily intense. Beginning with the SERE training program in 1995, the Air Force Academy will add afull-time psychologist to the SERE team, as well as two psychological technicians who will provide continuous on-site support during the SERE training. The Cadet Counseling Center and the Academy Hospital’s mental health team will continue to be available to cadets. The AETC training program at Fairchild AFB has had afull-time psychologist and psychological techni¬ cians since 1976.

The psychologist and technicians will provide additional exper¬ tise to intervene in any training situation if they observe problems. The psychologist will also screen and train the instructors, debrief the students after training and assist any students who may need help.

Another change to the resistance training curriculum, made last year, is the elimination of atechnique called “manhandling. This technique allowed atrained instructor to shake astudent to simulate physical abuse. Although both the technique and the training were designed to avoid injuries to include neck rolls, the concern over possible injury caused the Academy and the Air Force SERE program at Fairchild AFB to eliminate this training technique from the program in the fall of 1994.

The Air Force Academy has conducted an accredited SERE training program since the early 1970s. The SERE course is a graduation requirement for all cadets and is normally taken be¬ tween the first and second academic years. This training parallels the Air Force SERE program at Fairchild, AFB, and prepares cadets to survive in arange of natural conditions, to evade cap¬ ture, to survive and resist enemy exploitation efforts, and to escape captivity if possible.

Like other forms of combat training, an individual’s con¬ fidence in his or her ability to successfully deal with asurvival situation is enhanced by making the training as realistic as possi¬ ble while maximizing the safety of the student. SERE training at the Air Force Academy eliminates the need for graduates to at¬ tend this type of training after graduation.

The SERE training at the Academy is primarily conducted by upperclass cadets who are trained, supervised and monitored by professional Air Force SERE noncommissioned officers. Officers from the Academy’s faculty and staff provide additional over¬ sight and monitoring.

The SERE program was rated very favorably in a1992 survey of Air Force Academy graduates. The 1,300 respondents rated SERE among the top four of the most useful training received at the Academy. In another question, graduates gave SERE a4.5 average rating on a5-point scale (between greatly helped and helped) compared to a4.0 overall satisfaction rating for all other programs.

Thirty-four graduates of the Air Force Academy were held as prisoners of war in North Vietnam. Four graduates were held as POWs in Iraq, and one evaded until rescued. Many of the returnees attributed the success of their SERE experience to the training they received at the Air Force Academy. In January of this year, Lt. Col. Mike Couillard and his son survived ten days in the mountains of Turkey in extreme winter conditions. Couillard also attributes his ability to survive to his training in the Air Force Academy SERE program.

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 Jan. 1through March 31, 1995. We encourage others to join these dedicated graduates and friends in this most important project. Contributions and pledges made after March 31 will be listed in the next publication of Checkpoints.

FALCON DONORS

($5,000-$9,999)

LlCol(Ret) &Mis James W Brown '59

Mr Tcny Petizelka *70

Col Brock TStrom Ret *59

In memory of Doris Talley Match of Burlington Northern Foundation

TALON DONORS

($l,000-$4,999)

Mr &Mrs Craig PAnderson

Mr &Mrs TWarren Beagle match of Gilman Paper Company

Foundation

Capt NPBerdeguez USAFR '79

Mr &Mrs Michael Bertman

Lt Col Elmer RBiersack

Mr Stephen GBishop '72 match of Hewlett Packard

Mr BMichael Bristow '70

Mr &Mrs James BBronson match of Abbott Laboratories Fund

Mr &Mrs Jeffrey RBrooks

Capt David TBuckman '86

Lt Gen Anthony JBurshnick Ret '60

Mr &Mrs Ronald ACain

Mr Edgar SCatlin, Jr

Mr &Mrs Joe GCavazos

UCol James CChamberlain 77

Qass of 1984

UCol Glenn HColeman Ret *64 match of Texas Instruments

Mr &Mrs Jack MComer

Mr &Mrs Dennis Crippen

Mr &Mrs Mike Cryer '68 match of Allied-Signal Foundation

Brig Gen Ruben ACubero '61 in memory of Myra MStone

Mr &Mrs William BCummins match of First Bank System Foundation

UCol John JCusick USAFR 70

Mr &Mrs Kenneth Daniels

Mr &Mrs William Delahanty match of AUied-Signal Foundation

ColJ KDcOrio MD USAFR 70

Col John FDisosway *70

Maj Charles MDodd III '77

Mr &Mrs John WDrouillard

Lt Col David KEdmonds 79

Mr Patrick LEdsell 70

Maj &Mrs ABEisenbrey MD, PhD

Mr James HFleming '64

Ms Vivian DGile

Col Jamie Gough III '66

Mr &Mrs Charles FGrover

Lt Col Christopher MHenry '76

Mr Roger LHill *70

Mr &Mrs William EHillman

Mr &Mrs Edward VHinds match of Bell Atlantic Foundation

Mr &Mrs Marvin LHoward match of ARCO Foundation

Maj Steven JHussey ANG 75

Lt Col(Ret) &Mrs Ronald &Joan Hutchinson *62 match of Intel Foundation

Mr Rudy MJiricck '80 match of Delta Airlines Foundation

Mr Mark AJohnson '65

Mr &Mrs Ralph HJohnston

Mr John WJones III 71 match of Raytheon Company

Dr &Mrs Lyle Joyce

Mr &Mrs 'Diomas Joyce match of Sun Del Services Inc

Mr Brian GKaley '60 in memory of Myra MStone

Mr Ro^rt RKing

Mr &Mrs Donald RKlcckncr match of IBM

Mr Gary MKopacka '78 match of Delta Airlines Foundation

Col &Mrs Thomas Kumashiro match of Rockwell

HMichael Lambert MD '70

Mr &Mrs Jack MLammertin

Mr David ALengyel *78

Mr &Mrs Kenneth Doyd match of Nalco Chemical Company

Mr &Mrs Umakant DMahajan

Mr &Mrs Gustavo Malan match of Delta Airiines Foundation

Capt Stephen RMatsen ANG '79

Lt Gen Charles AMay, Jr '59 fConiinued on next page.)

Mr William FDavis 70

Honorary Membership Luncheon

This view from the south staircase of Doolittle hall shows but one of the many ways the main floor can be set up for special functions. The building has become very popular and has hosted weddings, retirements, commissioning ceremonies and numerous other special functions.

(Building Fund Donors: Continued from previous page.)

Capt Dennis PMcDevitt, Jr '86

match of IBM

MQ Telecommunications Corp

Mr &Mrs CDMcKcever

Mrs Olivia MMcKenna match of Martin Marietta

Maj Steven WMunglc USAFR 77

match of Della Airlines Foundation

Col James MMurphy '66

UCol DJMurphy ANG Ret '70

Mr Douglas RNorton *70

Mr Robert POdenwcller '60

Co! William HOldenburg 11 '70

Lt Col Brian HPcckham '72

Dr AMrs Robert EPeterck

Mr &Mrs Losson GPike

Col Thomas MPratt '70

Mr AMrs Anthony Principi

Mr AMrs Dwight WQuaalc

Lt Col Stephen MRoberts Ret '70

LtCol(Rct) &Mrs Thomas WRoth

Lt Col Randolph WRoyce Ret '70

Dr John ARuss 111 "TO

Ms Rebecca Schroedcr

MSgt &Mrs GAShipman Ret

Mr Frederick WSine 70

Mr &Mrs Kermit Smith

Capt Stephen ESmith ANG '80 match of Delta Airlines

Foundation

Mr &Mrs Frank Staine-Pyne

Lt Col JW'Bill' Stealey USAFR '70

Lt Col Joseph Svoboda Ret '66

Mr AMrs Victor Thompson Dennis LThrasher MD 70

Lt Col Gary LTibbetts 71

Mr AMrs Ronald Tibboel

Mr AMrs Frank BTodaro match of Cooper Industries

Lt Col Charles LTurner Ret '62 match of Texas Instruments

Col &Mrs William ETurner (Ret)

Mr &Mrs Robert EVanderVeen

Mr AMrs Robert VVictorecn

Maj Dennis MWard *81

Dr AMrs JDouglas Weber

Mr AMrs Patrick KWelter

Mr &Mrs William EWilson

Maj Richard Wolniewicz Ret '64

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Mr &Mrs Donald RWynn

Mr AMrs Gordon 'Zeese

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TAKE OFF DONORS ($25-$999)

Mr AMrs Franklyn GAerstin match of Dow Chemical Company Foundation

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Mr AMrs James WAlexander

Mr Scott DAllan 79 match of Delta Air Lines Foundation

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Mr &Mrs Carlos XAlvarado

Mr AMrs Dale CAnderson

Maj Frank EAnderson USAFR '77

Col David FAntoon Ret '70

Ms Lillian JArmit in memory of Myra MStone

Lt Col John AArmor '76

Mr &Mrs Daniel MArritt

Mr &Mrs James LAusdemore

Mr Robert EBadger '60

Mr &Mrs LKarl Baker in memory of Doris Talley

Mr Mark WBaker 76

Mr Mario ABalettie

UCol Michael BBallinger Ret '70

Mr &Mrs Kenneth MBartalo in memory of Doris Talley

Mr &Mis Charics SBedard

Mr &Mrs Gary Behmer

Mr &Mrs Ronald BBellamy

Mr &Mrs Hugh ABenjamin

Mr Keith EBennett 70

Mr &Mrs Oscar Berzins

Mr Thomas BBlaikie III 76 match

of Delta Air Lines Foundation

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Mr &Mrs Steve Breazeale

Dr &Mrs John EBremer

Mrs Connie Broussard

Mr Charles MBrovn *70

Capt Eric DBrown *87

Col Francis Buchan Ret '70

Mr &Mrs John JBuckley

Mr Eric JBuhyoff 75

Mr Robert Burch

SMSgt &Mrs Brian ABurgess

Mr &Mrs Leon Burtnett

HCol Larry FBush Ret 70

Mr &Mrs Thomas HCampbell

match of Harris Foundation

Maj Margaret DCarnahan '80

Mr John FCasey, Jr 77 match of Delta Air Lines Foundation

Mr &Mrs Gary GCassell in memory of Myra MStone

Mr &Mrs Robert GChadwick

Mr Robert WChambers *70

Maj Robert JChambers, Jr Ret 70

Mr &Mrs Blake LChaney

Mr William CQohan *70

Rev &Mrs PEtouglas Coil

Mr James AColgate '70

Mr &Mrs Dwight DColson

Mr James IConboy in memory of Doris Talley

Mr &Mrs Kenneth Coonrad

Maj Joseph ACorsetti '70

Ms Patricia ACox

Capt John RCrennan '82

Mr &Mrs William DCrill match of USF&G Foundation

Maj Lee TCross 75

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Mr &Mrs Gordon PCulver in memory of Myra MStone

Mr George ADawes '70

Mr &Mrs Arthur Dcangelis

Mr John DeFilippo '70

Mr &Mrs Holister Demotts

Mr &Mrs Mnccnt Denboske in memory of Myra MStone

Mr &Mrs Robert Denicola

Mr Stephen MDickson '79

Mr Joe ADillingham

Lois WDow MD

Mr Robert James Drabant *70

Capt John ADucharme, Jr *86

Mr Bruce Erpclding

Mr &Mrs Joseph REwing

Mr &Mrs HDan Farcll

Mr &Mrs Robert DFehl

Mr &Mrs Robert MFerguson

Mr AMrs Norman JFerland

Maj Roger FFmnern '70

Col Richard SFixott Ret in memory of Myra MStone

Mr Wayne AFord *78 match of Delta Air Lines Foundation

Mr &Mrs LLFrank

Mr AMrs Cecil Franklin

Col Gustav JFrcycr III

Mr &Mrs Martin RFrick in memory of Myra MStone

Mr AMrs Demetrio PGalacgac match of SmithKline Beecham

Maj Gen Jesse CGatlin, Jr Ret in memory of Myra MStone

Mr David LGaw 70

Mr AMrs Wayne Gentry

Maj Lenue Gilchrist, Jr '79

Mr AMrs Charles LGildon

Mr AMrs John GGilpin

Mr Charles RGoddard

Mr AMrs Mark ACookie

Godfrey '78

Mr AMrs Jose HGranado

Mr AMrs George LGranger in memory of Doris Talley

Mr &Mrs Charles Grecson

Mr AMrs Barry RGregg

Mr Paul RGrimes 71 match of American Electric Power

Mr &Mrs Robert AHaley

Mr AMrs Michael JHalick

Col Leslie JHamblin '70

Lt Col Charles Handley Ret '64

MajGcn(Ret) AMrs Horace A Hanes in memory of Myra MStone

Ms Isabelle BHarbaugh in memory of Doris Talley

Co! Tilford WHarp Ret '70

Capt Eddie CHarris '90

Lt Col John DHarris '77

Mr AMrs Mark SHassinger

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

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Mr &Mrs John EHcaly

Lt Bret Hccrema *91

Mr &Mrs Lee WHelquist

Mr David KHiggins ’70

Mrs A1 GHill in memory of Myra MStone

Dr &Mrs Phillip LHilton

Mr &Mrs Terry DHoefar

Mr &Mrs Malvern RHofmann in memory of Doris Talley

Mr &Mrs Charles FHollis

Col Stephen RHolt Ret '60

Mr &Mrs Dale LHoltz

Col(Ret) &Mrs Edward JHospodar

Mr &Mrs CRobert Houston

Col Scott MHoversten 70

Mr &Mrs Joseph Howard

Mr &Mrs Bany RHowes

Maj Byron EHuddleston ANG 75 match of Delta Air Lines

Foundation

Mr &Mrs David Hughes in memory of Myra MStone

Lt Col George Hughes Ret 70

Mr &Mrs James AHyland

Capt John JIwansid '88

Ms Lanna Jabs

Mr Wayne Jackson

Mr JFJanccky '66

Col &Mrs James MJohnson match of Texasgulf

Maj Troy AJohnson ‘82

Dr Roswell MJohnston 70

Mr James RJones *70

Mr &Mrs Richard SKean

Mr Jerome RKendall '70

Mr &Mrs Art Kennedy

Mr &Mrs Charles RKerick

Ms Thelma OKing in memory of Myra MStone

Brig Gen Tim Kinnan "TO

Mr &Mrs Dale EKnack

Mr &Mrs Leslaw MKozbinski

Capt Eugene SKraay Ret 71

Mr EBain Kramer '66

Mr Keith CKuester

Mr Chester RUdd 71 match of Delta Air Lines Foundation

Mr &Mrs Donald Lee

Mr &Mrs Gary Lee

Mr &Mrs Donald JLeonard

Maj Mark ALcuthold '79

Mr Joel Lewis

Mr &Mrs Harold Locklear

Dr &Mrs John RLong

Mr &Mrs Grin WLoo in memory

of Myra MStone

Mr &Mrs James ALozier

Lt Col John WLundberg III USAFR Ret '70 match of Delta Air Lines Foundation

Col Steve Macisaac *70

Maj Philip TMackey '79

Mr &Mrs Darwin Mainwaring

Mr &Mrs REMansard, Jr match of Telesis Foundation

Mr &Mrs Jay Martin

Lt Johnnie Martinez '91

Mr &Mrs EJames Mason in memory of Myra MStone

Mr Charles DMason II *81 match of Delta Air Lines Foundation

Maj John AMason, Jr MD ‘81

Mr &Mrs William LMathies match of Nationwide Insurance Enterprise Foundation

Mr &Mrs Brad BMcAlister

Anonymous in memory of Capt Larry DWhite 79

Mr &Mrs Jeffrey McQurc

Mr &Mrs Wyatt YMcDaniel

Lt Col William RMcGuire Ret '70

Mr Kenneth EMcKay, Jr 79 match of Delta Air lines Foundation

Mr &Mis Henry McNeil, Jr

Mr &Mrs Eugene AMelton

Mr &Mrs John EMerrill

Mr &Mrs Michael Meyer

LtCol(Ret) &Mrs Gamer CMihata

Mr Michael Mirtich

Lt Col John RMitchel Ret '70

UCol Henry PMitchell Ret '70

Mr Christopher JMontalto *77

Mr Kenneth PMontgomery '75

Capt Ronald EMontgomery ‘86

Capt Edward LMoody. Jr *91

Lt Gen TSMoorman Ret in memory of Myra MStone

Ms Linda AMueller

Mr &Mrs Sclway LMulkey

Mr &Mrs Re^ JMullaney

Dr &Mrs Michael Murphy

UCol James TNangle Ret '66 match of Allied-Signal Foundation

Mr &Mrs Pete Nathaniel

Col Dennis ENewhouse *70

Mr &Mrs Chuck Nobriga

Mr Collie ENorman *70

UCol Jack BNorman USAFR '70

Col Craig MNorthrup '70

Ms Rebecca O'Grady

Mr &Mrs William MOrlowsk7

Mr &Mrs CGregory Parr

Mr Bruce RPedey '81 match of Delta Air Lines Foundation

Mr John Paul Pedjoe

Lt Col David HPerron Ret '70

Maj Mark RPerusse '80

Mr James FPeterson *67

Mr &Mrs Michael LPeterson

Capt Robert LPickrell USAFR '85

Dr &Mrs Alfred CPinchak

Mr &Mrs John DPiper

Mr &Mrs Vincent Pisano

Ms Jean Pitman in memory of Doris Talley

Mr &Mrs Robert EPolsgrovc

Mr &Mrs Vijay Puri

Dr &Mrs Gerald ARavitz

Mr Robert LRead

Lt Col WilUam JReich ANG '70

Lt Col WBruce Rember '79

Maj(Ret) &Mrs Richard HRice

Mr Glenn ARineheart, Sr match of Delta Air Lines Foundation

Mr &Mrs Keith LRoberts

Ms Georgina RRockwell in memory of Myra MStone

Mr &Mrs Irving SRogers

Mr &Mrs Eugene RRose

Mr &Mrs David CRossi

Mr &Mrs Warren LRubin match of Home Depot

Mr &Mrs Richard CRupert

Mr &Mrs CDavid Salisbury

Mr Ned MSanders

Maj Frank Santiago, Jr *82

Mr Peter JSarda '67

Mr &Mrs David MSathcr in memory of Myra MStone

Mr &Mis Kenneth HSchell

Mr Thomas ASchenk 72

UCol Gary BSchmidt 70

Capt David EScholl USAFR *81

Mr &Mis Michael JSchultz, Sr

Mr &Mrs James HScroggins III

Mr John RScufert '80 match of Delta Air Lines Foundation

Mr Donald FShafer, Jr *70

UCol Gerry WShaw Ret '70

Col Harvey WCShelton ’65

Maj(Ret) &Mrs Theodore Sienicki

Col Terry RSilvester *70

Mr &Mrs William RSkeeters

Col(Rct) &Mrs ECSmith

Mr &Mrs Lawrence DSmith

Maj Doss LSmith Ret

Mr Richard LSpinner *70

Doolittle Hall Available For Many Special Occasions

Doolittle Hall is now available at very reasonable rates for special functions. To date the AOG has hosted avariety of events: department meetings, retirements, wedding receptions, workshops, cocktail parties, luncheons and for¬ mal and informal dinners. Doolittle Hall can ac¬ commodate as many as 300 at asit-down dinner and more than 500 for acocktail 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. Cheryl Browler at the AOG at (719) 472-0300.

Lt Col Brian JSpitzer 70

Mr &Mrs Alan BSpringer

Mr &Mrs James PSprister

Mr Mark TStarr 76

Mr &Mre WFStocckly in memory of Myra MStone

Capt Daniel EStrub *82

Mrs Kathy Stump

UCol &Mrs Paul &Nina Sulliff *76

Mr &Mrs Joseph Svitilla

Mr Dustin HSwanson, Jr *70

Mr &Mrs Michael Talley in memoty of Doris Talley

Mr Wallace RTalley in memory of Doris Talley

Mrs Particia CTaylor

Mr Dennis KThomas '70

Col John MThomas ANG Ret '70

Lt Col TWThompson USAFR '70

Mr &Mis Harold WThurbush

Dr &Mrs Timothy WThurston

Mr Michael JTorreano *70

Mrs Ramona Trabanino

Mr Scott ATrabing *82

Mr &Mrs Paul Travers

Mr &Mrs Richard JTuite

Capt Kathleen CTwist *89

Dr &Mrs Richard CVanderhoof in memory of Myra MStone

Mr &Mrs AErnest VanTassell, Jr

Mr &Mrs Richard RVau^n

Maj Xavier GVillarreal Ret *70

Mr Robert Walker

Mr &Mrs Stacy TWalser, Jr match of Hoechst Celanese Foundation

Mr &Mrs William RWark in memory of Doris Talley

Mr &Mrs James DWatson

Lt Col Dayton BWebb *70

Lt Col Gerald MWenner, Jr Ret *67 match of Delta Air Lines Foundation

Capt Peter AWhelan *85

Ms Jennifer White

Mr &Mrs William DWhite

Mr &Mrs Jack DWickering

Maj Roger DWidholm USAFR '76

Mr &Mrs William JWilcox

Mr Frank SWilkerson Jr

Maj Ben Willner '80

Maj Gen &Mrs WHWise in memory of Myra MStone

Ms Susan SWoodward in memory

Myra MStone

Mr &Mrs Ronald LWord match of AT&T Foundation

Maj Clement AYannaconc, Jr Ret

Mr &Mrs Archer Yates

Lt Edward JYork Ret '70

Mr &Mrs Marcus TYoung

Maj Gen Richard AYudkin Ret match of Owens-Coming

Will There Be aCapital Gains Tax Cut in 1995?

By Jim Shaw Vice President, Development

As most of you know, part of the Republican tax-reform agen¬ da deals with existing capital gains tax rules. Current law taxes the profit on sale of assets such as stocks, bonds, real estate and art held long-term (longer than one year) at amaximum of 28 per¬ cent. One suggested plan would tax capital gains at one-half the ordinary income rate. In this scenario, ataxpayer in the 39.6 per¬ cent top bracket (currently taxed at 28 percent) would pay capital gains taxes at arate of 19.8 percent.

In another proposal, capital gains would be indexed for infla¬ tion, thereby establishing acurrent value of the item before taxes are assessed. Another proposal would both cut the capital gains tax rate and index for in fl ation.

While it’s hard to make predictions about what will happen in Washington, one thing is certain—capital gains will continue to be taxed!

Charitable giving still offers away to take advantage of existing tax laws to support an organization like our Association of Graduates. If you contribute long-term appreciated securitries and unmortgaged real estate you get adouble tax benefit: an in¬ come tax deduction for the full current fair market value of the assets, and complete avoidance of capital gains tax on apprecia¬

tion. This significantly reduces the out-of-pocket cost of your generosity.

There is also atax-free way for individuals to sell assets for reinvestment. Donors can irrevocably transfer long-term ap¬ preciated securities or unmort gaged real estate to acharitable trust that will pay them (and asurvivor) life income. Different plans are available to provide annual payments to the donor bas¬ ed upon previously-decided percentages of the value of the trust assets. After the life interest, the charity receives the trust assets.

The trust can sell appreciated assets and reinvest the proceeds without paying any capital gains tax on the profit. As assets ap¬ preciate in value while in the trust, that gain escapes tax also.

Besides the capital gains tax benefits, the donor gets an income tax charitable deduction in the year the trust is created. The deduction is the present value of the charitable organization’s right to eventually receive the trust assets (computed using government tables that take into account the age of the life beneficiary and the percentage they receive annually).

If charitable deductions are part of your estate plan in 1995 and beyond, consider the tax advantages of donating appreciated property. Feel free to contact your Association of Graduates if you are interested in further information. As in all cases, consult your advisor for how rules specifically apply to you.

GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN

John R. Hayes, Jr.. ’59

“The ‘Gator” is most fondly remembered during our cadet years as the guy with the studly physique the rest of us would have killed for, awrestler with the strength of the reptile from whom he took his nickname, and asmile as bright as his native Loui¬ siana sun. Though he lost both parents in alight plane accident when he was 12, that tragedy didn’t dampen his enthusiasm for fl ying.

He and Iwent through our early careers in parallel: pilot train¬ ing at Bartow and Webb, then into B-47 training. I’ve never forgotten an incident at Little Rock AFB in early 1961 that per¬ sonified the character of this intrepid warrior. He was scheduled to attend the USAF Survival School which Ihad already com¬ pleted. He questioned me intently about my experiences there and seemed uncommonly curious about the resistance training phase. He fi nally admitted to me that he suffered from extreme claustrophobia and was terrified that he might crack if they put him in the famous “black box.” Ilater learned that, in order to prepare himself for this ordeal (which was scary enough even if you didn’t suffer from claustrophobia), he sat by the hour in a cramped and completely darkened closet until he had mastered his own personal demon.

’Gator transitioned into B-52s in 1964 and was my sponsor when Ireported into Westover AFB, Mass, in 1966. He was one of the top pilots in the wing and Iwas surprised and little disap¬ pointed when he decided to leave the Air Force alittle over ayear later.

As has happened all too often over the years, Ilost track of him after he left Westover, except that Iknew he had gone to work for TWA. Fortunately, D.W. Miller filled in some of the later story. ’Gator hired on as aLos Angeles-based fl ight engineer in November of 1967, amonth after D.W. joined TWA. That month was to make an important difference.

Both D.W. and ’Gator were furloughed in 1971, but while D.W. rejoined the company fairly quickly, ’Gator wasn’t rehired until 1979. During the interim, ’Gator worked in Saudi Arabia in avariety of capacities.

In 1982, ’Gator married abeautiful flight attendant, Myleen. He retired as acaptain from TWA in 1991 and he and his wife lived in St. Louis ever since. Early last December, Myleen forced him to go to adoctor for persistent coughing and headaches and he was admitted to the hospital the next day. He was diagnosed with acute leukemia, complicated by some obscure fungal infec¬ tion that the doctors were unable to isolate or cure. He suc¬ cumbed to the combined ravages of these illnesses on Jan. 2, 1995

and he was buried in Shreveport, La., next to his beloved parents. (Pete Todd, ’59)

Lawrence M. Johnson, ’60

Capt. (Ret Med) Lawerence M. Johnson, Class of 1960, died on Aug. 21, 1994 at the Life Care Center in Casper, Wyo. follow¬ ing ashort illness.

Johnson was born Dec. 7, 1936, in Worland, Wyo. to Lawerence M. Sr. and Lydia E. (Eckhardt) Johnson. He grew up and attended grade school in Worland and moved to Casper where he graduated from Natrona County High School in 1955.

He then attended the University of Colorado for one year and then attended the Air Force Academy, graduating in 1960. Johnson was apilot with the Air Force and earned amaster’s degree in business administration. He worked for the military for 33 years.

Memorials to acharity of the donor’s choice are recommended.

William L. Reemtsma, ’63

Cadets, graduates. Golden Boys of ’63, Bill Reemtsma, one of our finest, died March 18, 1995.

By age 54 Bill had accomplished more than most of us could in decades more. They say his heart gave out —no wonder. Even a Texas-sized heart can give no more than its all. Bill was aman of deep commitment to family, church, and community. His Academy “buds,” both cadets and former cadets, were his special love. He was alifetime member of the AOG, past presi¬ dent and one of the founding fathers of the North Texas Chapter and served on the Congressional Service Academy’s Selection Board as well.

While aZoomie, Bill’s sports were football and track. But they soon gave way to more civilized pursuits —tennis and golf. Bill always claimed to be “bi-sportual.” He was an ardent supporter of the Academy golf team and was founder of the Service Academy Golf Classic.

Bill’s motto was, “I live in constant, perpetual fear that somebody somewhere is having more fun than Iam. It drives me to perfection.” Bill surrendered the presidency of the North Texas AOG, but with amotto like that, he remained perpetual party chairman. If fun was involved. Bill was involved. He could make things happen. He was absolute magic.

Bill is survived by his Academy sweetheart, his wife, Joy, and their children Ted, Kristi, and Tim. His life was eulogized at a memorial service in Dallas, after which ajazz band led the mourners (or celebrants of his life) on ashort walk down the

William L. Reemtsma, ’63

John R. Hayes. Jr., ’59

Lawrence M. Johnson, ’60

street to his home. Bill’s wake was ahelluva party, one he would be proud to claim as a“Reemtsma special.

Bill was atireless worker, atrue friend, and party planner without peer. For those of you who did not know Bill, he would consider it his loss, not the other way around. For those of us who knew him, our loss is beyond expression. We loved him.

One of Bill’s proudest achievements is the Service Academy Golf Classic, now renamed the “Bill Reemtsma Memorial Service Academy Golf Classic,” which occurs in October in Dallas, Texas. Proceeds from the tournament go to the Air Force, Army, Merchant Marine and Naval Academy athletic programs, especially golf teams who participate in this event. Graduates wishing to participate in the tournament should contact Joy Reemtsma at (214) 357-5502.

Donations in Bill’s memory may be sent to the Bill Reemtsma Memorial Fund, Association of Graduates, 3116 Academy Drive, Suite 100, U.S. Air Force Academy, Colo. 80840-4475. The Reemtsma family intends to use these funds to permanently en¬ dow the golf tournament. (Jerry Ahmann, ’63; Denny King, ’63; and friends.)

Steven A. Minneman, ’70

Steven Alan Minneman, Class of 1970, died in San Francisco, Calif, on Dec. 12, 1993, after along illness. Steven was born in Los Angeles on Oct. 6, 1948. He attended grade school in Hebron, Neb. In 1966 Steven accepted an appointment to the U.S. Air Force Academy. He was on the fencing team at the Academy, graduated in 1970, and was alife member of the Association of Graduates.

Steven spent six years in the Air Force, from 1970 to 1976. Dur¬ ing his term of service, he was stationed at air bases in the United States, in Madrid, Spain, and in Thailand. Steven had attained the rank of captain by the end of his Air Force career.

In 1977, after leaving the Air Force, Steven moved to San Fran¬ cisco. He soon bought ahome in the city, which he kept improv¬ ing until the year he died. He loved to do things high-tech with his personal computer at home. He worked for many years for Fujit¬ su Network Switching of America, Inc., in San Jose, where he was amanager. Steven’s work for Fujitsu involved the setting of national and international telecommunications standards, and he spent about half of his work time traveling in the United States and overseas, making many trips to France, Japan, Australia, Germany and other international destinations. He loved to travel so much that he often took his vacations in the Far East and Europe. He especially loved Thailand.

Steven is survived by his grandmother, age 95; his mother, Esther Minneman;; two brothers, David and Kenneth; asister, Kathleen William, many other relatives, and many friends. He was avery loving and thoughtful son and brother and will be truly missed. His father preceded him in death on Dec. 15, 1987.

John P. Owens, ’75

J.P. Owens died Nov. 29, 1994 after anine-month battle with

Robert J. Abraham, ’81

stomach cancer. He was 41. His passing strikes us all with asense of loss and grief. Although we cannot replace the loss of our friend, with time the grief will fade, leaving in its place warm memories of this gentle man.

An Air Force brat, J.P. was born July 31, 1953 to David and Jemima Owens. He graduated from Bellville East High School near Scott Air Force Base, 111. At the Academy he was amember of 29th Squadron as adoolie and 11th Squadron as an up¬ perclassman. He majored in management and was known for his wit and friendliness. He was alife member of the Association of Graduates.

Following graduation, J.P. attended pilot training at Colum¬ bus AFB, Miss. He quickly earned areputation as an excellent pilot which would remain with him throughout his career. His ex¬ cellence was recognized, Ihesitate to say rewarded, by his selec¬ tion as aFAIP. Although this was not his dream assignment, it was during this tour of duty that he met and married his dream girl, his beloved Miss Becky.

In 1980 he strapped on an F-4 for the first time and started a successful career as a fi ghter pilot, culminating as an A-10 squadron ops boss at Eielson AFB, Alaska. Along the way, he took time out to water some Army eyes as astudent and instruc¬ tor at the U.S. Army Command &General Staff College, Ft. Leavenworth, Kan. He was making areal impact on the future of Air Force thought and airpower doctrine at CADRE/ARI, Max¬ well AFB, Ala. when his cancer was diagnosed. His years of ser¬ vice and solid contribution to the Air Force were cut short by his medical retirement June 21, 1994.

Although he loved the Air Force and served it as few ever have, J.P.’s priority and his enduring legacy was his family. He spent his final months as he spent his entire marriage, putting Becky, Jennifer and David before himself. These three precious people are the physical proof of the quality of the man we have lost. They visibly reflect the love and devotion he poured onto them.

J.P. maintained adeep faith in Jesus Christ until his final breath. II Timothy 4:7 was his favorite verse and it describes his life: “I have fought agood fight, Ihave finished my course, I have kept the faith.” J.P. was laid to rest in Prattville, Ala. Dec. 3, 1994. Becky requests that memorials be sent to: The Zachary & Elizabeth Fisher House, Keesler AFB, 310 Fisher Street, Suite 301, Biloxi, Miss. 39534.

J.P., you touched our lives with humor and with song; with courage, devotion and love you marked your way. My beloved friend, you will be sorely missed. (Billy Stephan, ’75)

Robert J. Abraham, ’81

Iam deeply saddened to report that Bob Abraham died in an accident just outside of Las Vegas this past December. Bob was one of the finest people Ihave ever known and his loss will be deeply felt by all of us who have known him. While Idon’t believe you’ll ever meet afiner officer or fighter pilot, Iguarantee you’ll never know abetter father, husband or friend.

John P. Owens, ’75

Steven A. Minneman, ’70

Bob had alist of accomplishments that most of us only dream about. At the Academy he played varsity baseball and still man¬ aged to find time to get aGuggenheim Fellowship upon gradua¬ tion. After taking ayear to get his master’s at Columbia Universi¬ ty, he jumped into the world of tactical aviation where he rapidly attained his reputation as asuperb fighter pilot. Distinguished Grad, Top Gun, Fighter Weapons School grad—you name it and Bob did it.

There was no doubt that Bob was on the “fast track” when he arrived at Nellis for his fourth consecutive F-16 tour. And though there was no questioning his love of fighter aviation, the love for his family took precedence. He made the difficult decision to leave an extremely promising career with the Air Force to enter civilian life and spend more time with his wife, Annette, and his two young daughters. Autumn and Amy. Unfortunately, his tim¬ ing could have been better. He was quickly hired by American Airlines, and then just as quickly furloughed by them.

Fortunately, with his stellar credentials, Hughes Corporation quickly snapped him up for an engineering position in Las Vegas and life went on. For avariety of reasons, including the love of flying. Bob started flying acrobatic airplanes on weekends with people who wanted ataste of what it was like to be afighter pilot. Tragically, while flying one of these sorties, the aircraft crashed and both Bob and the customer were killed.

It is alittle ironic to me that Bob gave up one of the more ex¬ citing yet dangerous professions in the world—flying fighter air¬ craft—to be with his family more, and then died with someone who was trying to emulate something that Bob had done so well for alarge percentage of his life. And Iwish there was some pro¬ found lesson that we could take from Bob’s death, but if there is, Ican’t find it. All Iknow is that Ihave lost avery good friend, Annette, Autumn, and Amy have lost aloving husband and father, and we have all lost afriend and comrade who can never be replaced. The world is alesser place without you Bob. We’re gonna miss you.

Acollege trust fund has been established for the children, ages seven and five. Contributions will be accepted at any First In¬ terstate Bank, Account number 0932-0371-41, for the Autumn and Amy Abraham Trust. (Mike Jensen, ’81)

Kenneth W. Kuhr, ’83

Kenneth Walter Kuhr, Class of 1983, was killed in aCessna 310 aircraft accident at Reno Cannon International Airport, Nev. on Sept. 6, 1994. Agraveside memorial service with military honors was held at the USAF Academy, Colo., followed by amemorial service at Ken’s home church, Grace Community Church, Tempe, Ariz. Many attended these services to express their love for aman they dearly respected.

Ken’s military career began as astudent pilot at Williams AFB, Ariz. Upon earning his wings, Ken was assigned as aKC-135 pilot at Mather AFB, Calif., before returning to Williams AFB to serve

as aT-37 instructor pilot. Ken then decided to leave the Air Force in order to make the “Valley of the Sun” his home. Most recent¬ ly, he accepted employment with Copper State Air in Mesa, Ariz., becoming one of the company’s most experienced line pilots. Ken was also alife member of the Association of Graduates.

Ken will always be remembered and loved by his parents, Walt and Bonnie Kuhr of Laurel, Mont., his brother Kris and family, his sister Kari and family, his grandparents, and his many loving aunts, uncles, and cousins who all share many wonderful, mean¬ ingful, and fun memories of their time with Ken. Ken was very special to each of his family members and is missed very much.

Ken will especially be remembered by his very close friend and love, Gail Thomas and family, whom he had planned to marry in the near future.

Friends remember Ken’s unquenchable generosity and warmth. Ken made everyone feel welcome, was always kind, and knew how to have fun! He was aleader who gave himself to others without limit and was always the very best friend.

Most of all, Ken would want to be remembered as aman who loved and served His Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Ken was not ashamed of his Christian faith (Romans 1:16). Ken’s greatest desire was that others, whose lives he touched, might come to an understanding of what it means to be in aright relationship with God. To this end, Ken influenced all around him by his ex¬ ample-loving others in the same way he knew His Lord loved them. All of us—family, friends, and coworkers—have been forever changed for knowing Ken. (Rod Peister)

Mark P. McCarthy, ’85

You have made my days amere handbreadth.. .Each man’s life is but abreath. Psalms 39:5.

This verse from the Bible reflects the tragic brevity of Capt. Mark P. “Mac” McCarthy’s life. It seems but afew days ago that we walked the grounds of the Academy, and now he walks the streets of gold with the Lord. When his F-16 crashed into the tran¬ quil Adriatic Sea on Jan. 26, 1995, we lost arare comrade. Each of us he touched has blosomed at the place of contact.

Mark was born Oct. 26, 1963 in Columbus, Ohio, the fourth of five children. His youth was the “typical” life of amilitary off¬ spring bopping from state to state and continent to continent. As the son of General (USAF, Ret) and Mrs. James P. McCarthy, home was wherever his family happened to find themselves at the time. Strong family relationships with his parents and his brother and sisters served to sculpt his unbendable character. Astar on the gridiron, he ultimately graduated from Robert E. Lee High School in Springfield, Va.

Mark’s military accomplishments began the day he strode up the “Bring Me Men” ramp and continued to the day of his death. There is no doubt he was poised for military greatness. He was vice wing commander at the Academy. Mark was adistinguished graduate from Pilot Instructor Training, Squadron Of fi cer School, AT-38 Fighter Lead-in, and F-16 RTU, where he also

Mark P. McCarthy, ’85

Kenneth W. Kuhr, ’83

garnered the Top Academic Award. At each base, he was all he could be. At Williams AFB, he was aWing Standadrization and Evaluation flight examiner. At Ramstein, he rose to become an instructor pilot, fl ight commander, and mission commander. Then, at Aviano, he was selected to help start up the 510th Fighter Squadron as the assistant operations officer. Mark always gave his best and always brought out the best in his peers. His greatest joy from the military, though, was each moment of the 2,500 hours he garnered in the T-38 and the F-16 flying high above God’s earth.

Still, his life was not the military. That was merely his living. His true passion dwelt behind the doors of his home. He met his wife, Patricia MacGregor, while at the Academy. Through the years their love grew, culminating in their marriage the day after graduation. Nothing stood in the way of Mark’s affections for Patti, and nothing under the sun was more important to him than his relationship to his wife. He often joked about never having a girlfriend before her. Though that assertion is debatable, he never knew the truest meaning of love before, her. For Mark loved her as can only come through commitment and promise. He did not seek his own will, but sought to make Patti’s life the fullest it could be. His eyes and his heart were always hers.

While stationed at Williams AFB in 1991, their first son, Bryan, was born. Then number two, David, was born at Ramstein AB, Germany in 1991 with their daughter Christina Lea coming on the scene in 1993. He became afather in the truest sense of the word. Depite grueling hours in the squadron and hours put into the master’s degree the Air Force desired of him, he never bought the “Quality time over quantity time” fallacy. He gave his kids every moment they could squeeze out of him. When they thought they had gotten it all, Mark gave them some more.

Only God stood above Mark’s family on his list of priorities, and it was his relationship with his Creator that motivated everything Mark was and did. His boss was God, and he served Him as best he could. Mark did not lord his religion over his coworkers, but they all knew of his living faith that carried him into each day and made him aspark plug in the squadron. He loved his family as Christ loves His church. Never did he forget the vows he made. Mark was aman of his word. He was aman of God. His faith never embarrassed him for like Paul, he held, “...I am not ashamed, because Iknow whom Ihave believed, and am convinced that he is able to keep what Ihave entrusted to him for that day.” 1Timothy 1:12. Now is that day.

In addition to his wife and children, and his father and mother, Mark is missed by his three sisters, Kathy, Susan, and Ann; and by his older brother, Michael. And by everyone he ever touched. We’ll see you soon, my friend. (Capt. Keith R. Pond, ’85)

Lafayette A. Barr, ’89

Capt. Lafayette A. Barr passed away on Feb. 13, 1995 from in¬ juries sustained in amotorcycle accident. To those people who did not know him well, Tony was atenacious two-time national

champion in collegiate boxing two years in arow. Tony graduated pilot training in 1990 and was chosen to stay at Laughlin AFB, Texas and fly T-38s as an instructor pilot.

To those of us lucky enough to be family and friends, Tony was seen as agenerous and loving man. One night, agroup of three amateur fishermen “took to the lake” for some night fishing. Tony was unable to go with us that night but in the morning when we were running about two hours late returning home, he went out of his way to get his boat on the water and search for the drunken sailors” until he found us. This is just one of the many simple stories that characterizes how great aperson Tony was and how unconditional his friendship could be.

The summers spent in Del Rio with Tony and his wife will be unforgettable memories for my wife and me. Iwill miss Tony very much. His crazy laugh, occasional outspoken views, and desire to always better the lives of those around him made Tony agreat man; agreat friend. Tony’s recent fatherhood had only height¬ ened his love for life and his family.

Tony was, and still is, an inspiration to all who knew him. His death is agreat loss to the pilot community in the U.S. Air Force, to his friends who will always have everlasting memories of such a devoted and caring man, and to his family which was his constant source of strength and pride for as long as Iknew him. Thank you Tony, for reaching out to all of us and showing us what friend¬ ship was meant to be.

Tony is survived by his loving wife, Susie; his twin sons Derek and Christian; his mother, Geneva Carroll; his father, Lafayette; and his brother Darien. (Capt. Thomas Kelly, ’89)

Edward J. Karlson, ’90

Capt. Edward Karlson, the third son of Eric and Geraldine Karlson, was born in Taunton, Mass. Ed’s father, Eric Karlson, was alieutenant in the U.S. Army during WW-II and participated in the D-Day invasion of Normandy in 1944. Ed’s older brothers are Michael, 36, and Daniel, 32.

Ed and the family moved to Los Angeles in 1967 where he graduated from Birmingham High School in 1983. He knew he wanted to go to college, but not right out of high school. He took ayear off and decided to enlist in the Air Force in 1984 after he got them to agree to his initial job classification (he tested very well) with an eye towards the Air Force Academy. As an airman he was an Airman First Class working as an Autovon system repairman in Pruem Air Station, West Germany in 1985 when he was accepted to the Academy Prep School. In 1986 Ed was ac¬ cepted to the Academy Class of 1990.

It was during his five years in Colorado that Ed found the true meaning of Christ and the Bible. He regularly attended the Fellowship Bible Church on South Tejon in Colorado Springs. The discipline of the Academy and the discipline of God’s expec¬ tations changed Ed for the rest of his life. Ed tested the discipline of the Academy and became aCenturion during his Academy (Continued on next page.)

Lafayette A. Barr, ’89

Edward J. Karlson, ’90

Training Aircraft Accident Claims Second Class Cadet

Cadet Second Class Mark Christopher Dostal died on Feb. 22, 1995 in an aircraft accident at USAFA. He was flying aT-3 train¬ ing mission with his instructor, Capt. Daniel Fischer, who also was killed.

1Mark, known to his friends as Toast, always had asmile and a beer for everyone. He always found the most in every facet of life and helped others to do the same. His desire to do the extreme brought him closer to the meaning of life than most will never know. He will always be remembered as one who truly pursued his dreams.

Mark’s adventure began in Orinda and continued in Moraga, nestled in the green, rolling hills of Berkeley, California. Here he developed his outward personality through avariety of endeavors. In high school, he exeelled at football, track, and most of all, rugby. He received the status of All-America and was in¬ vited on anational team tour of Australia. His greatest passion, however, was skiing. His spirit is always in the mountains and the ocean. He also enjoyed cliff jumping and rock climbing, but his desire to play rugby and, especially, to fly, brought him to the Academy.

Mark’s free spirit continued at the Academy. He maintained aeademic excellence while pursuing his other interests. His achievements earned him places on the Superintendent’s, Dean’s,

(Gone But Not Forgotten: From previous page.)

Edward J. Karlson, ’90 tour in his first three years. He earned 30 demerits, 40 tours and two restrictions for putting Exlax in acandy bag. He also received aletter of commendation from acitizen whose car would not start at 2300 hours when the wind ehill factor was -40 degrees.

Upon graduation in 1990 with amajor in astronautical engineering and aminor in German, Ed went to Fort Rucker, Ala. for helicopter flight training. He graduated in July of 1991 and was eventually assigned to the 33rd Air Rescue Squadron, Misawa AB, Misawa, Japan. It was here he met Miyako Fujimoto, anative of Japan who worked on the base. They were married on Christmas Day in 1992 at Ed’s brother Mike’s house in Los Angeles. They were each tremendous individuals, but as a couple, they grew far beyond the sum of their individual gifts.

During the winter of 1994, 1st Lt. Karlson was sent to Kuwait for TDY in case Sadam got frisky. In the summer of 1994, Capt. Karlson was reassigned to the 39th RQS at Kadena AB in Okinawa, Japan. But before he left Misawa, he was sent TDY to Osan AB in South Korea. On Oct. 6, 1994 at about 8:30 p.m., helicopter commander Capt. Edward J. Karlson, Capt. William Alston, Sra. Richard M. Setaro Jr., Sr A. Frank Zurawski and SrA. Jason Kutscher were killed when their HH-60G helicopter

and Athletic merit lists. Mark continued his rugby career for the Zoomies and was one of the youngest members ever to play for the Combined Services team. The proximity of the Rockies allow¬ ed Mark to continue his domination of the mountains, both on skis and in harness.

Mark will always be remembered by his mother, Shirley, sister Kristen, and father, Don; not to mention the great number of people who he called friends. (Rex Ballinger, ’95; Ken Gjone, ’95; and Jeff Pulley, ’96)

OBITUARY POLICY OUTLINED

We have had anumber of inquiries on our policy concerning obituaries for deceased graduates and cadets. Some graduates have noted that while we have listed agraduate’s death in the At Press Time” section of “Gone But Not Forgotten,” the graduate’s obituary never appeared in the magazine.

Our policy is to write to the next-of-kin areasonable amount of time (usually two weeks or so) after the death, and request from that individual (wife, parent, etc.) an obituary written by aclassmate, friend or family member. We also ask for copies of obituaries which might have appeared in local newspapers. If we do not have acurrent photograph, we ask the next-of-kin to lend one to us (the photo is returned when the magazine is published).

If we do not receive aresponse to our first letter from the next-of-kin in amonth, we write afollow-up letter asking for the obituary again and informing the individual that this will be our last request for the article. If we do not receive a response to our seeond letter, an obituary is not published.

When obituaries are published, we give the next-of-kin a one-year complimentary associate membership in the associa¬ tion beginning with the magazine in which the obituary ap¬ pears. When the one-year membership expires, we invite the next-of-kin to join as aregular assoeiate member if she/he desires.

Another question often asked when adeceased graduate is a life member of the association is whether the life membership transfers to the graduate’s spouse. Life membership dues have been computed on the life expectancy of the graduate and are therefore not transferable to the graduate’s spouse, unless of course the life membership was joint, in which case it does transfer to the spouse.

hit power lines on ahigh-speed, low-level training mission south of Osan Air Base.

Ed loved life, and he loved what he was doing for the Air Force. He told his best friend, Capt. Keith Ward, soon before he died that he had met all his life’s goals and was doing exactly what he wanted to do in life. Ed’s short 30-year life was fuller and more rewarding than most people ever achieve in 70 or 80 years. This is definitely not atragedy in which apromising life was cut short, but acase where we who are left here on earth are deprived of the gift of Ed’s presence in our lives. He will be missed by all who knew him and will be welcomed into God’s open arms in the kingdom of heaven. (Michael Karlson)

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

Brian E. Goldner, Class of 1965, who died on June 28, 1983 in an aircraft crash in Honduras.

James G. Lawson, Class of 1%5, who died on Feb. 15, 1995 in Wadena, Minn, of coronary artery disease.

Richard W. Lobritz, Class of 1969, who died on Oct. 17, 1994 in Youngstown, Ohio.

Our condolences to the friends and families of these graduates.

C2C Mark C. Dostal

15 Graduates Earn Stars in Regular and Reserve

Three graduates were nominated for their second star and eight for their first in the regular Air ^rce officer promotion an¬ nouncementsearlierthisyear,^hiletheAirForceReserve nominations included two^radumes to major general and two to brigadier general.

Nominated to major general in the regular Air Force were Eugene A. Lupia, ’67, who was director. Civil Engineering, Hq Air Mobility Command at Scott AFB, 111.; William J. Begert, ’68, commander, USAF Air Mobility Warfare Center, Air Mobility Command, Ft. Dix, N.J.; and Paul K. Carlton health profes¬ sions), ’69, commander, 59th Medical Wing, Air Education and Training Command, Lackland AFB, Texas. Of the 101 eligible for promotion to major general, 24 were selected.

Regular Air Force brigadier general nominations included James E. Miller Jr., ’69, director. Plans and Requirements, DCS, Intelligence, Hq USAF; Glen W. Moorhead III, ’69, special assis¬ tant to the Supreme Allied Commander-Europe; David F. MacGhee, ’70, commander, 48th Fighter Wing, USAFE; Ronald T. Sconyers, ’70, director of Public Affairs, of fi ce of the secretary of the Air Force, the Pentagon; Tome H. Walters Jr., ’70, deputy director. Programs and Evaluation, Hq USAF; William R. Looney III, ’72, commander, 33rd Fighter Wing, Air Combat Command, Eglin AFB, Fla.; Randall M. Schmidt, ’72, chief. Western Hemisphere Division, J-5, The Joint Staff; and Norton A. Schwartz, ’73, deputy director. Forces, HQ USAF. Among 2,427 colonels eligible for promotion, 43 were selected. Nominated for their second star in the Reserves were Terrence

Former Athletic Director, Merritt, Dies in Florida

Retired Col. Francis Ellis “Frank” Merritt, 74, who served as athletic director at the Academy from 1967 until 1975, died March 21, 1995 in Florida. Atwo-time all-American at Army, Merritt was amember of the original Air Force Academy staff in 1955.

Col. Merritt was born July 24, 1920 in New York City to Fred and Margaret (Trimble) Merritt. He was married to Arline (Greer) Merritt, who survives. Also surviving are two sons, Francis E. Ill, and William; three daughters, Patricia, Barbara Gustafson, and Catherine Taylor; and five grandchildren.

Serving in the Air Force from 1942 to 1976, Col. Merritt re¬ ceived abachelor’s degree from the U.S. Military Academy and a master’s degree from George Washington University. His awards and decorations include the Legion of Merit with one oak-leaf cluster, the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Bronze Star, the Air Medal with silver oak-leaf cluster, and the Joint Service Commen¬ dation Medal with one oak-leaf cluster, among others.

From 1967 to 1975 he served as the fifth athletic director at the Academy and is amember of the Athletic Directors Hall of Fame. He was serving as president of the Colorado Springs Chapter of the Air Force Association. During his tenure as athletic director, the Falcons posted six straight winning football seasons. The 1970 team finished 9-3 and lost 34-13 to Tennessee in the 1971 Sugar Bowl.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Francis E. Merritt Memorial, in care of the Pikes Peak Center of Deafness, 2133 N. Academy Blvd., Colorado Springs, Colo. 80909.

AOG Answering Machine Available

After normal duty hours (0730-1630 Mountain Time, Monday through Friday), constituents desiring to leave a message for amember of the AOG staff or an elected officer may now dial (719) 472-2073 for that purpose. Callers will be requested to leave their names, phone numbers and short messages. Replies can be expected the next business day.

L. Dake, ’63, the mobilization assistant to the commander of the Aeronautical Systems Center at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio; and Reese R. Nielsen, ’66, the mobilization assistant to the com¬ mander of 12th Air Force at Davis-Monthan AFB near Tucson, Ariz.

Air Force Reserve brigadier general nominations went to James L. Martin, ’63, mobilization assistant to the director of Re¬ quirements at Wright-Patterson AFB; and Larry L. Twitchel, ’65, vice commander of the 10th Air Force at Bergstrom Air Reserve Station near Austin, Texas.

Eberhart, ’68, Nominated for Lieutenant General

Ralph E. Eberhart, ’68, was recently nominated to the rank of lieutenant general. He is the director of Force Struc¬ ture, Resources and Assessment at the Joint Staff at the Pen¬ tagon, and was nominated to become the deputy chief of staff for Plans and Operations at Air Force headquarters.

Professor Offers Collection of Post- Vietnam Stories

By Thomas W. Krise, ’83

Coinciding with the 20th anniversary of the fall of Saigon, Henry Holt Publishers is launching acollection of stories that ad¬ dress the post-Vietnam experience. Entitled Aftermath: An An¬ thology of Post-Vietnam Fiction, the work is edited by Lt. Col. Donald Anderson, USAF (Ret), professor of creative writing at the Air Force Academy, and editor of the Academy’s scholarly journal. War, Literature, and the Arts: An InternationalJournal of the Hunanities.

“When atwo-tour veteran marine corporal dies agruesome death in adesert car wreck after drinking to mourn the death of a buddy he left behind in Vietnam, is he acasualty of the war?’’ asks the publisher’s blurb. Anderson’s collection is amixture of veterans’ experiences and interpretations by other well-known authors.

The contributions of veterans who have turned into noted writers include Tim O’Brien, James Park Sloan, Tobias Wolff, Robley Wilson, Jr., Robert Olen Butler, Thom Jones, and Robert Stone. O’Brien, whose novels and short stories (Going after Cacciato and The Things They Carried) have been featured in Academy creative writing and literature courses, has appeared frequently on nationally-televised programs concerning the ex¬ perience of the Vietnamese War.

The experiences of the Home Front are reflected in the con¬ tributions of Louise Erdrich, Stephanie Vaughn, Lynn Hanley, Donald Anderson, John Gardner, Maxine Kumin, and Barry Hannah. Erdrich is well-known for her novels about North Dakota Indian reservation life (Love Medicine and The Beet Queen) and, most recently, her novel about the quincentennial of the discovery of America, The Crown of Columbus.

The Home Front contributions also include stories by authors known for their accounts of life as military “brats,” such as Stephanie Vaughn, whose volume entitled Sweet Talk contains stories originally published in such prominent magazines as The New Yorker and Redbook.

The 14 stories in this collection “plumb the tangle of emotions that were stirred up in the wake of what seemed, finally, a 15-year-long spiritual defeat.” The collection is placed in context in the foreword by the prominent historian George Herring (author of America’s Longest War), and provides not combat stories per se, “but revelations of the true feelings of veterans of war and writing.

CHAPTER NEWS ^

AFA SOCIETY OF NORTH CAROLINA

The Air Force Academy Society of North Carolina had Bill Stealey scheduled as their speaker for their annual spring dinner in April. Stealey, Class of ’70, founded MicroProse Software in 1982 and was the creator of the best-selling F-15 Strike Eagle Game.

In addition to the spring dinner, the society had numerous events scheduled for this year including afall dinner, their se¬ cond annual Tri-Service Golf Tournament in May, and televised sports afternoons at the Marriott Crabree Valley Hotel.

Events during 1994 included aFebruary Valentine’s Day dinner dance at the Radisson Governors Inn, aSuper Ball golf tournament with Air Force and Army ver¬ sus Navy, and apicnic in Raleigh. Dr. Joseph Kruzel, Jr., ’67, the deputy assistant secretary of defense for Europe and NATO Affairs, was the speaker at the society’s fall meeting and dinner.

The society’s officers for 1995 are presi¬ dent Glenn Seitchek, vice president Craig Upton, treasurer Peter Betchel, and secretary Hal Keck. Board members are Andrew Stanaski, Scott Korbin, and Peter Sarda. (Hal Keck, ’62)

ALAMO AREA CHAPTER

The Alamo Area Chapter of the AOG held its annual business meeting on Jan. 27 and about 100 grads and their guests en¬ joyed awonderful evening at the Randolph AFB Of fi cer’s Club. Good food, drink, and outstanding fellowship was had by all. The traditional drawing of door prizes was also held. The 1995 Board of Directors was elected and here’s the new Chapter Board: president Richard Smith, vice president Gerry Garber, and treasurer Les Hobgood. Directors at large: J.J. Williams, Pete Hugdahl, Jim Wheeler, Bill Knoll, Larry Wheeler, Mike Glen, Dusty Somerville, Harry Icke and Alex Archibald.

The following events have been sched¬ uled to date for 1995 and those of you on our mailing list will be getting the ap¬ propriate flyers as the events near: the an¬ nual Founder’s Day Dinner was held April 1at the Club at Sontera with dinner and dancing. In June, we will have afainily pic¬ nic at the Randolph Recreation area at Can¬ yon Lake. Swimming, boating, hiking, volleyball, relaxation, and lots of eating are all on the agenda. We will also be having our annual Fall Golf Outing against the grads from the other military academies and golfers in the area—we need your help! We have_been waxed the past two years by

the West Pointers and we’ve got to turn that around. We’re trying to get David Robinson out this year—keep your fingers crossed.

Any grads in the San Antonio area who have not signed up with the chapter yet please give Les Hobgood acall at 821-3471 (work). That call will ensure you are on our hot mailing list and will be able to keep up with our year’s activities. (Pete Hugdahl, ’67)

ARIZONA CHAPTER

Our 1995 calendar of events are described herein. Our AFA AOG family spring picnic was at Falcon Field on April 22. The picnic included an escorted tour of the Champlin Fighter Museum (WW-I and WW-II fi ghters and fi ghter aces), atour of the Confederate Air Force Museum (B-17, B-25, and B-29 bombers, aC-45 transport, and SNJ and AT-6 trainers), and enjoying the Powder Puff Air Race by the Women’s Air Race Group. The Arizona Chapter thanks Charlie Combs, ’76, for setting up this fun-filled family event.

On May 27 (Memorial Day weekend), at 7:30 a.m., the Semi-Annual 1995 Service Academy Golf Tournament was scheduled at Hillcrest Golf Course. The format was two-person best-ball net. The AFA grads have won the last two years and we would like to make it three in arow.

We also intend to hike and conquer Humphrey’s Peak in Flagstaff (the highest point in Arizona) over the June 16th weekend. We will probably stay at Little America Inn. If interested, please contact Jim Sienicki, ’74, at 382-6351 as soon as possible.

Adinner/cocktail party is being planned for the Friday night of the Columbus Day weekend (Oct. 13) at aPhoenix restaurant. We also intend on getting together to watch the USAFA-Notre Dame football game at a local sports bar on Nov. 18. If you are in¬ terested in the cocktail party/dinner or the football game, please contact Tim Furst, ’78, at 952-6455.

Again, our treasury needs your support. Therefore, if you have not paid your 1995 Arizona dues, please send acheck 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 con¬ tact Jim Sienicki, Snell &Wilmer, One Arizona Center, Phoenix, Ariz. 85004-0001, to be added to the master mail¬ ing list. (Jim Sienicki)

CAPITAL CHAPTER

1995 is off to agreat start! Air Force Chief of Staff Ronald Fogleman, ’63, spoke at our February luncheon; we have aspring golf tournament scheduled; and planning for the Navy game tailgate has begun. Our quarterly luncheons continue to be best sellers as we have been fortunate to attract great speakers. Our next “target” is Paul Kaminski, Class of ’64, who is the under secretary of defense for Acquisition and Technology.

Col. Tom Crawford, ’72, has taken the lead for our next golf tournament. This is sure to be apopular event, so if you’re go¬ ing to be in the area, get ateam on the list. We are still looking for avolunteer to organize the tailgate party for this fall’s AF vs. Navy game at Annapolis. Hope to see you all there as we “Sink Navy.

We are continuing to expand our classmate network to help improve par¬ ticipation 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.

If you are interested in joining the chapter or want more info, contact Capt. Jerry Perkins, ’86, (w) (703) 614-3801 or (h) (703) 742-4006. (Ed Eberhart, ’68)

The All-Academy Holiday Ball was a huge success. Our Indiana Chapter filled three tables at the Ritz Charles in Carmel, Ind. on Dec. 30. The ball was festive and fun-filled, exactly as advertised. It was fun to hear an Army general tell it like it really is. The Ritz Charles served adelicious din¬ ner, although the pseudo wine left something to be desired. Thanks to Beth Iliff, ’83, and husband, Jeff, for hosting this event. Bob Estus, ’66, and wife, Linda, take credit for the longest distance (Louisville). Harry Laws, ’69, with wife, Melany, introduced us to aWest Point grad. Army feels they are up to agolf challenge! Several grads/spouses went to Dalt’s after the ball for additional conversa¬ tion and libation. The general consensus was “See you at the Ball next year!” We should be able to generate four tables next year!

Brig. Gen. (Ret) Jim Ulm, ’61, chairman of the AOG Board, was our guest speaker on March 11. The “smoker”, held at the Morris Inn on the Notre Dame campus, provided agood background for candid sharing. All 20 members/guests better ap¬ preciate the energy and dedication of Jim Ulm and the AOG, as it evolves into atruly beneficial organization for Academy grads.

INDIANA CHAPTER

This underscores the need for more dialog between the AOG and the graduate com¬ munity. We look forward to that time!

Upcoming events: July 1, picnic at Mounds State Park; acouple of members are bringing their horses. Early or late sum¬ mer golf challenge with Army and Navy. Aug. 12, Grissom AFB Air Show. Early f^ luncheon at the Press Club in Indianapolis. Planning continues for agala trip to Col¬ orado Springs for the Notre Dame game Nov. 11. We would love to have new members join our chapter! For further in¬ formation, contact Jim McCleary, ’67, at 219-267-2122. (Jim McCleary)

NORTH TEXAS CHAPTER

The North Texas Association of Air Force Academy Graduates—(NTAAFAG) started the new year with adining-in at the Dallas Naval Air Station, which featured Brig. Gen. John D. Hopper, Jr., ’69, com¬ mandant and 34th Training Wing com¬ mander as the guest speaker. General Hop¬ per gave avery informative presentation on the new organization and the challenges which face the Academy to produce the world’s best military officers. The focus of the Academy leadership is right on target to instill in the cadets the essential attributes of integrity, service and excellence.

The dining-in was an excellent opportuni¬ ty for Class of ’69 members to have amini¬ reunion. Among the ’69ers were General Hopper, H. Ownby, Marty Page, Scott Koerner, Rick Grand)ean, Earl Roberts, Flip Keck, and Ed Garrard. Many thanks to H. Ownby who organized the event.

At the business meeting which followed the dining-in, Glen Shaffer, ’63, was elected president; John Kuenzel, ’60, vicepresident; and Jeff Wilson, ’80, treasurer.

The NTAAFAGs hosted aTri-Service Academy Graduate luncheon at the Arl¬ ington Stadium Ball Park and heard Representative Joe Barton of the 6th District explain how the Republican Party Contract for America was progressing. This

was an excellent presentation and Wayne Hermandorfer, ’78, did an excellent job with the arrangements and program. Almost 100 graduates attended the event. Not only did we have an exciting speaker but we had a fi rst-class tour of the Country’s best ball park. The plumbing re¬ quired to pump beer from cellar to refresh¬ ment stands is amazing. (C. Glen Shaffer, Jr., ’63)

NORTHERN CALIFORNIA CHAPTER

The Northern California Chapter met April 8th at Francesco’s Restaurant in Oakland. In addition to our annual board meeting we had an evening of socializing and anice dinner as well.

The association meets quarterly at dif¬ ferent 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 Boulevard, Eighth Floor, San Jose, Calif. 95113. Telephone: (408) 993-9911. Facsimilie: (408) 993-1335. (Chuck Reed, ’70)

ORANGE COUNTY CHAPTER

Greetings from the Orange County, Calif. Chapter! The chapter was formed in 1983 initially to help provide information about the Academy for high quality, pros¬ pective candidates in the local area. Since then, we have evolved into primarily a social and business networking group.

Time for the yearly update of the chapter’s activities. Last count showed us with over 50 dues-paying members. We usually schedule two AOG golf tour¬ naments at the El Toro Marine Air Station course with typically 24 members playing. Bob Carey, ’70, does asuper job in setting up and arranging the teaming for these events, and the chapter would like to extend our thanks once again to him for his con¬ tinued efforts. Our president, Ken Wentzel,

’64, organizes all-member meetings at the Of fi cers Club following the tournaments where we enjoy libations, eat hors d’oeuvres and reminisce about days gone by.

We plan to schedule two golf tour¬ naments again this year, one in May and another in August, and we will arrange a “tailgate” party around afootball game next fall. Last August we sponsored ater¬ ri fi c couples wine-tasting party, and we plan to sponsor one this spring.

The planning and direction for the chapter’s activities is still entrusted to a loosely-federated group we call the chapter’s “steering committee.” This group is currently comprised of 15 in¬ terested graduates (spread from ’63 to ’91) of whom six to seven are relatively active participants. The steering committee meets on an approximately bi-monthly basis at Scott Jackson’s, ’67, law office in Irvine. Any graduate who is interested in working on the steering committee is encouraged to attend one of these meetings.

The chapter’s steering committee has developed aresume book for networking and job- fi nding purposes, and we en¬ courage all members to participate. We are aselect group of people, and our members are active, successful leaders and profes¬ sionals.

Our objective in developing the resume book is to help one another with job place¬ ment. The number of grads in the Orange County/Los Angeles area is steadily grow¬ ing. The more graduates who join the chapter and participate, the more potential benefits we will all enjoy. Ancillary benefits may be new customers, new business rela¬ tionships, job opportunities, positions filled, and who knows what else. Contact Mike Mercier, ’86,, who is in the jobplacement business, in the evenings, at (714) 251-9079 for further information.

There have been some recent retirements from the Liaison Of fi cer Program in Orange County. Those who are interested

mroSCE ACAIJEHY ^HADtWTES

At the North Texas Chapter’s dining-in head table are, from left, Jerry Singleton, ’62; Academy Commandant Brig. Gen. John D. Hopper, Jr., ’69; Richard Fairlamb, ’61; C. Glen Shaf¬ fer, Jr., ’63; Maj. Gen. Edmund A. Rafalko (USMA ’45), and Gerald Hardgrave, ’63.

Members of the Indiana Chapter at the All-Academy Holiday Ball in December, in the back row from left are Harry Laws, ’69; Bob Sorenson, ’72; Bob Estus, ’66; Dave Newbill, ’72; Mark Sim¬ mons, ’66; and Pat McBride, ’68. In the front row are John Turco, ’69; Beth Iliff, ’83; and Jim McCleary, ’67.

in serving as liaison officers should contact Denny Shields, ’71, at (714) 249-6942. We encourage all graduates in the area to join us. Please call Scott Jackson at (714) 851-7427 or Ken Wentzel at (714) 641-6093 for chapter information.

PUGET SOUND CHAPTER

In February the Puget Sound Chapter sponsored a“Ski Day’’ at Steven’s Pass. A small group of grads gathered to enjoy the wonderful snow and sunshine. Agreat time was enjoyed by all that could attend. Throughout the year ajoint Service Academy group has been sponsoring net¬ working breakfasts in the local area. The breakfast functions have been asuccess and we’re looking forward to more in the future.

The chapter’s 1995 membership drive is in full swing. If you’re interested in joining us please contact one of our of fi cial greeters: Steve Flewelling, ’87, at 206-271-6606 or Daucey Brewington, ’70, at 206-888-2426. Planned activities for 1995 include our annual “Dark Ages Party’’ in April, our third annual “Road Kill Party in July, the Paine Field Air Show in August, agolf tournament in September, and fi nally, our annual Joint Service Academy Dinner in October. Abusy schedule for agreat year ahead. See you there! (Joe Cavazzini, ‘82)

RAMPART CHAPTER

Just afew miles south of the Blue Zoo, the Rampart Chapter continues to strive through the Dark Ages. Last quarter our article’s focus was on “WHO’’ we are. This article is slanted to “WHAT” we are doing.

SOCIAL: Our quarterly membership luncheon on Feb. 15 at the Antlers Doubletree was well attended (about 50 grads) and ahuge success. This was due to

the efforts of Doug Knox who was sage enough to get Academy Superintendent Lt. Gen. Paul Stein to speak. General Stein provided information on the status of train¬ ing at USAFA, recruiting efforts, civilianization of the faculty and generally gave us the poop from the group. We have aMay luncheon and asummer picnic

REQUESTS FOR ACADEMY STAFF AS SPEAKERS

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

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

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

planned. On April 22 we assisted the Colo¬ rado Mountain Reclamation Foundation plant Pinon and Juniper seedlings and trees as part of the reclamation of local quarry scars. Thanks to the cadets of 24th Squadron for their help—we’re getting older! Plans are underway for the Joint Ser¬ vice Golf Tournament on Aug. 17, which the chapter will host. To avoid the rush, give Ross Dueber acall to join the winning team.

MEMBERSHIP: Dave Bowman and Steve Edelman are excited about member¬ ship enrollments. We now have over 150 members. Dave and Steve are recruiting local class reps to establish atimely com¬ munications network and survey members to establish needs/wants.

BUSINESS: Vince Rusinak and John Fal are working to publish the Chapter Business Directory of local grads in business. In addition, we have ajob search notebook in the lobby of Rusinak Real Estate. On the business side, we have also established aLEADS networking group.

ACADEMY: The Graduate Mentor Pro¬ gram is moving along smartly. Marty Daack and John Fal are looking for grads to complete the mentor roster. We have had success, as well as growing pains, through participation in various cadet activities and ceremonies. Communication is one of the keys to success of this program. We will continue to establish apositive Chapter/AOG presence and identity among cadets through our Mentor Program. We will also participate in the Firstie Introduc¬ tion to the AOG at Doolittle Hall. When you get achance, check out Doolittle Hall—we have a fi rst-class facility for future meetings on campus.

PUBLIC AFFAIRS: Our newsletter is published quarterly. Watch our smoke as we grow in size and in fl uence. (Larry Bagley, ’66 /719-593-0205)

Awards Presented at 1994 Service Academy Golf Classic

Richard Fairlamb, ’61, North Texas Chapter president, at left, presents awards to the Air Force 1st Place Team at the 1994 Ser¬ vice Academy Golf Classic. From left are Rich Cree, ’66; Linda Palanica; John Palanica, ’74; and Jack Shippler. See next page for information on this year’s tournament.

The Graduate Medalist Award is presented by Richard Fairlamb, ’61, North Texas Chapter president, at left, to Rich Sargent, ’80, who shot aseven-under par 65 at the Dallas Athletic Club’s blue course during the second annual Service Academy Golf Classic, which was played Oct. 24-25, 1994.

BILL REEMTSMA MEMORIAL SERVICE ACADEMY GOLF CLASSIC

Dallas, Texas -October 30-31, 1995

The 3rd Annual Inter-Service Competition... combining GRADUATES of USAFA, USMA, USMMA, USNA and their COLLEGIATE GOLF TEAMS

SITE:

COST:

Dallas Athletic Club-featuring two Jack Nicklaus "signature" golf courses.

$250 per player -includes two rounds of golf on Monday, range balls and carts. Food and refreshments throughout tournament.

FORMAT:

PROCEEDS:

Four-man graduate teams plus one collegiate team member or coach play two rounds of golf on Monday, October 30. The format for both rounds will be aquota point system based on handicap. Collegiate teams play their final third round on Tuesday morning, October 31.

Donated to the golf programs of participating schools.

PARTICIPATION: 32 graduates per Academy on first received basis.

COMPETITION:

(1) Inter-service collegiate tournament (54 holes)

(2) Inter-service alumni tournament; five low gross scores (36 holes)

(3) Inter-service alumni tournament; team quota points (36 holes)

(4) Intra-service alumni team tournament: quota points (36 holes); Individual two low gross (36 holes); individual two low net (36 holes)

(5) Closest to hole -each school

(6) Longest drive -each school

FOR INFORMATION:

Golf Classic Benefits Four Service Academies

Dcm Graduates and Friends of the Service Academies,

My husband, Bill Reemtsma, founder and primary organizer of the Service Academy Golf Classic described above, passed away on March 18, 1995. According to Air Force Academy golf coach Gene Miranda, this golf tournament has become the highlight of the Falcon golf team’s year and agreat way to end the season.

While several graduates from the four Academies (Air Force, Army, Merchant Marine and Navy) will work to continue Bill’s unselfish and tireless efforts to orchestrate successful future tournaments, funding remains aperpetual problem. In addition to the $250 individual player entry fees, sizeable additional revenues are needed to underwrite transportation costs for the teams and coaches, housing for the teams and graduates, and adonation to each Academy’s golf team.

These additional costs have in the past been donated by commercial and individual sponsors at levels of $500 to $7,500. While we will continue to seek sponsors on an annual basis, avehicle now exists which could endow costs of the tournament for years to come. The Air Force Academy’s Association of Graduates has established amemorial fund in Bill’s name, which will be used to support future tour¬ naments. You can contribute to keeping Bill’s dream alive by sending your donation in any amount to the Bill Reemtsma Memorial Fund, Association of Graduates, 3116 Academy Drive, Suite 100, U.S. Air Force Academy, Colo. 80840-4475.

During the weekend in Dallas, alumni play several rounds of golf with cadets, coaches and alumni from other service academies, enjoy lunches, dinners and award ceremonies, listen to live entertainment, and bask in camaraderie and competition. The tournament makes golf arevenue-producing sport at the Air Force Academy and benefits all four academies. (Thus far aminimum of $10,000 has been donated to the Air Force and Army programs. Navy joined the tournament for the first time this year.) Coach Miranda says the money received from proceeds of the tournament enables the Air Force team to travel to three more tournaments each year.

Ihave volunteered to chair the tournament, at least for this year. For more specific information on the event, food, refreshments, awards and the like, please call me, Dave Brigman or Jeff Wilson at the telephone numbers listed above, or write to me at Bill Reemtsma Memorial Service Academy Golf Classic, 3226 Leahy Drive, Dallas, Texas 75229.

Sincerely,

Joy Reemtsma

Five Chosen for AOG Honorary Membership

The Board of Directors of the Association of Graduates recent¬ ly approved five honorary memberships in the association, bring¬ ing the number of living AOG honorary members to 12. Associa¬ tion bylaws limit living honorary memberships to 20. The five new honorary members are:

—Mr. Donald J. Barrett, the Academy libraries assistant direc¬ tor for Public Services, who began service at the Academy as its first reference librarian on July 5,1955 at the temporary Academy site of Lowry Air Force Base.

—Lt. Gen. (USAF, Ret) Benjamin N. Beilis, president of the Falcon Foundation since 1981 and astaunch supporter of and major donor to the Association of Graduates.

—Mr. James N. Bowman, the Academy’s assistant director of Athletics for Candidate Counseling, who came to the Academy in 1958 initially as head coach for Junior Varsity Football.

—The Honorable Harold C. Stuart, who served as assistant secretary of the Air Force under President Truman, served as president and chairman of the board of the Air Force Associa¬ tion, and served under President Johnson on the Academy Board of Visitors.

—Brig. Gen. (USAF, Ret) Malham M. Wakin, who came to the Academy in 1959 as aphilosophy instructor and rose to pro¬ fessor and head of the Academy’s Department of Philosophy and Fine Arts from Nov. 1988 to March 1995, and associate dean of the faculty from Nov. 1988 to Jan. 1992.

Barrett, Bowman and Wakin were presented their honorary memberships and feted at aluncheon attended by some 110 guests on March 23 at Doolittle Hall. Beilis and Stewart were presented their honorary memberships at the spring meeting of the Falcon Foundation on April 7, also in Doolittle Hall.

Barrett, throughout some 40 years of service, has led the development of the Academy library and is largely responsible for its national reputation. He has been acentral figure in every ma¬ jor event at the library since its establishment in 1955. He was also instrumental in establishing the association’s Register of Graduates and has been an avid supporter of Academy athletics. Barrett has been recognized with several Air Force awards and the Colorado Library Association Lifetime Achievement Award.

General Beilis, a1946 graduate of West Point, pursued a distinguished military career that spanned 35 years, during which

time he held executive positions in the Thor and Atlas missile pro¬ grams, and served as director of the F-12/SR-71 Systems Program Office and the F-15 System Development Program. He also served as commander of Electronic Systems Division, 17th Air Force in Germany, 6th ATAF in Turkey, and vice commander in chief of U.S. Air Forces in Europe.

The recipient of the DoD, Air Force and Turkish Distinguished Service Medals and the Legion of Merit, General Beilis was presented the Eugene Zuckert Award by secretary of the Air Force Verne Orr in 1981. From 1978 to 1981 he served as presi¬ dent of the Transatlantic Council of the Boy Scouts (20,000 Scouts in Europe and North Africa) and was awarded the Distinguished Eagle” in 1981.

Bowman’s role in his 37 years of service to the Academy extends far beyond some 1,000 football players he personally coached. Approximately 9,000 athletes owe their appointments in some measure to his admissions-support efforts. Also, the Academy owes its sterling record in recruiting integrity and adherence to tough NCAA standards to the diligence, care and unquestionable ethics of Bowman. Bowman has always been committed first and foremost to ensuring Academy athletes will be good Academy cadets and excellent officers following graduation.

Mr. Stuart began his law career in 1936, served as astate judge and attempted to attend flight training in 1942 but was too old. He instead attended OTS and intelligence training, serving with 9th Air Force near London, and also in assignments in France, Luxembourg, Belgium and Germany. After V-E day, he was assigned to Norway until he was discharged in 1946. He returned

Lt. Gen. (USAF, Ret) Benjamin Beilis, at right, president of the Falcon Foundation, accepts his honorary membership plaque from AOG Board Chairman Brig. Gen. (USAF, Ret) Jim Ulm.

Three of the five recently-chosen honorary AOG members pose on one of the staircases in Doolittle Hall. From left are Don Bar¬ rett, who began service with the Academy Library in 1955; Brig. Gen. Malham Wakin, recently retired, who began teaching philosophy at the Academy in 1959; and James Bowman, the Academy’s assistant director of Athletics for Candidate Counsel¬ ing, who came to the Academy in 1958.

The Honorable Harold C. Stuart, at left, accepts his honorary membership plaque from AOG Board Chairman Jim Ulm during arecent meeting of the Falcon Foundation in Doolittle Hall.

to Norway on ahighly-secret mission with the Office of Strategic Services in 1949.

Since 1958, Stuart has been co-trustee of the Gertrude Skelly Scholarship Trust to award scholarships to prep schools. Through 1987, some 700 scholarships were awarded with 23 new scholar¬ ships given annually. In 1960 he was elected president of the Air Force Academy Foundation which helped raise money for the Eisenhower Golf Course, Falcon Stadium, and other Academy projects. He remains active on the Falcon Foundation Board, has established alecture series in honor of President Truman, and is a major donor to Doolittle Hall.

General Wakin retired on April 1of this year after 41 years of Air Force service. During his 36 years at the Academy, he has served Academy cadets and graduates as an instructor, permanent professor, and department head in philosophy and fine arts; and as assistant dean for both social sciences/humanities and graduate studies. He has also chaired the humanities division and served on the Academy Board.

Anationally-renowned scholar. General Wakin has written

three books, has included chapters in 16 books and has authored 25 articles in philosophy and military journals. He has been honored with several military and civilian awards and has received national recognition in People Magazine and Newsweek, the lat¬ ter referring to him as the “conscience of the Air Force.

The five new honorary members join these other distinguished current honorary members: Barry M. Goldwater, Freida B. Weber, James 1. Conboy, William Lyon, Robert F. McDermott, Harold U. Littrell, and Norma C. Nottingham. Previous honorary members, now deceased, include Gail McComas, Robert J. Smith, Joseph A. Reich, William Thayer Tutt, Russell T. Tutt, James H. (Jimmie) Doolittle, and Joseph Moller.

An honorary membership is the highest honor the graduate community bestows upon supporters of the Academy. They are awarded only to those individuals who “...have rendered outstanding and conspicuous service to the Air Force and/or the Air Force Academy.” Each requires anomination by aboard member and aunanimous vote by the sitting board. Honorary membership is awarded for life.

AOG Accepting Contributions of Books and POW Memorabilia

The AOG is seeking contributions of hard-bound books and POW memorabilia to display in the new headquarters/alumni house, Doolittle Hall.

While any POW-related items are welcome, POW memorabilia relating directly to USAFA graduates and other Air Force prisoners of war are most directly sought. The items must be of relatively small size, as they will be displayed in a case 3!4 "deep, 26" wide and 56" long.

Hard-bound books for the library lounge area of the building are also needed. The association is seeking books primarily on military and POW/MIA-related themes. Books may be either fact or fiction and series are welcome.

Donations are tax-deductible and acknowledgements will be provided for all contributions. If an item has ahigher than normal value (e.g., historical POW mementos or rare books), the donor should have in his/her possession an appraisal and provide same to the AOG. This will give the donor the necessary documentation for IRS purposes and will help the AOG in providing special care for the item as well as securing appropriate insurance coverage.

All gifts should be sent to: Association of Graduates, Doolittle Hall, 3116 Academy Drive, Suite 100, U.S. Air Force Academy, Colo. 80840-4475.

Call 1-800-462-3246 or

Three Graduates On Board 64th Shuttle Mission

(Editor’s note: Our thanks to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and Lt. Col. Susan Helms, ’80, for providing the photographs and background information for this story.)

Three Air Force Academy graduates were aboard Space Shuttle

Discovery when it blasted off on Sept. 9, 1994. The pilot fro mis¬ sion STS-64 was Col. Blaine Hammond, Jr., ’73, and two of the mission specialists on board were Col. Mark C. Lee, ’74, and Lt. Col. Susan J. Helms, ’80. The other crew members were Capt. (USN) Richard N. Richards, shuttle commander; mission specialist Col. (USAF) Carl J. Meade, and mission specialist Commander (USN) Jerry M. Linenger (MD).

Lee and Meade successfully completed the first untethered U.S.

'79 Grad Sends Greetings to Classmates from Endeavour

By John R. “J.R.” Dallas, ’79

At 0137 on Thursday, March 2nd, 1995, Lt. Col. William G. “Bill” Gregory, call sign “BORNEO”, blasted off into space as pilot of Space Shuttle ENDEAVOUR with Mission STS-67. Amember of USAFA Class of 1979, Bill became the first ’79er to enter the astronaut program and launch into space. The following is addressed to the members of the

space walk in adecade during the mission, trying out anew rescue aid for astronauts who might float free from their spacecraft. The spacewalk or EVA (extravehicular activity) lasted six hours and 51 minutes and was the 28th in the Space Shuttle program.

(Continued on next page.)

Astronaut Mark Lee, ’74, flies high out of the payload bay of the Space Shuttle Discovery as he makes space history by testing a new jetpack called SAFER (Simplified Aid for Extravehicular Ac¬ tivity Rescue). The SAFER was designed as aself-rescue device in the event that spacewalking astronauts inadvertently become detached from their safety tethers. Lee not only performed the unprecedented flight test, but also was the technical lead for the SAFER program development. (Photos courtesy NASA)

Class of ’79, aletter written and typed in space, transmitted from Space Shuttle Endeavour to NASA, then mailed to me, his AOG “Checkpoints” class scribe. We believe this letter to be the first of its kind—the first composed and “mailed class input from space. ’79 IS MIGHTY FINE!

“Hi John, Hope you and the rest of the gang enjoyed the launch. As atrue Air-to-Mud driver, we hit the TOT plus or minus aminute. Nothing like bombs on target, on time. Trust me, all you folks had the second best seat for the launch. Ijust wanted to give the first class input to Check¬ points from space. Greetings to LCWB ’79, the finest class to grace the “Bring Me Men” ramp at USAFA. My class shirt from BCT and our class flag are aboard and are orbiting with

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Icannot explain to you on earth how proud Iam to be representing you in space. As Iorbit the Earth, Ilook down and think of you wonderful guys and how you have unselfishly served our country. As Icross the Pacific, Isee Bob Schneider and Bobby Henry; on the West Coast Isee Ron Gray and Jeff Snyder; Central America Fred Schultz; on the East Coast Kyle Perdue and Mike Mattson; and after crossing the Atlantic Isee Mike Crandall and Paul Weaver. All wonderful guys who gave our class and America their all. And there are others. (Editor’s note: Bill refers to fellow ’79 classmates who have died on active duty.)

“It is in the serenity of space that Imost admire all that our classmates have given in the line of duty. Ilook forward to seeing you at the 20th reunion and sharing my experiences up here with you. For you fliers in the class, when Itest flew the new -229 engines in the F-15 (29,000 lbs thrust each) I thought Ihad seen raw power in action. After those SRBs lit off, Irealized that they weren ’t even in the same league. Best wishes to you all. Good luck. Godspeed, and CHECK SIX.

The crew of STS-64 counterclockwise from top left: Jerry M. Linenger, Mark C. Lee, ’74; L. Blaine Hammond, ’73; Susan J. Helms, ’80; Carl J. Meade, and Richard N. Richards.

Shuttle Pilot Lt. Col. Bill Gregory, ’79, at lower right, and the crew of Space Shuttle Mission STS-67. In the front row from left are mission commander Stephen S. Oswald, payload commander Dr. Tamara E. Jernigan, and Gregory. In the back row are payload specialist Dr. Ronald A. Parise, flight engineer CDR (sel) Wendy B. Lawrence, USN; mission specialist Dr. John M. Grunsfeld, and payload specialist Dr. Samuel T. Durrance. (Photo courtesy NASA)

President Bush Receives Thomas D. White Award

By TSgt. Ken Carter Falcon Flyer Staff

Although former President George Bush spoke for barely more than aminute when he became the 33rd recipient of the Gen. Thomas D. White Award, he had plenty to say.

During the Saturday morning ceremony at Stillman Parade Field on April 8, initiated by aC-21 fly-by under perfect weather conditions, President Bush referred to the Academy as magnifi¬ cent, reminding spectators of his previous visits as well as his hopes to return.

“I’m honored to receive the General T.D. White Award; I’m probably the only one old enough to have known General White,” Bush said drawing laughter from those who came to witness the presentation from Academy Superintendent Lt. Gen. Paul E. Stein.

Noting the rules governing the T.D. White Award selection criteria. Bush said “one cannot even be considered for the coveted honor if he is currently holding office. Iwent about quali¬ fying for this award the hard way...I lost the election, and now I stand here unemployed, retired, extremely happy and very honored.

According to the citation presented to President Bush, some of his noteworthy contributions to the national defense over the past five decades are the roles he played in the end of the Cold War, the liberation of Eastern Europe, the dissolution of the Soviet (Shuttle Mission: From previous page.)

The tool used for the EVA was the Simplified Aid for Ex¬ travehicular Activity Rescue, or SAFER, asmall self-contained propulsive backpack that can provide afree-flying astronaut con¬ trol and mobility. SAFER is designed for self rescue use by a space walker in the event the shuttle is unable or unavailable to retrieve adetached, drifting crew member.

On STS-64, first Lee then Meade evaluated SAFER through four test sequences: aSAFER familiarization, asystem engineer¬ ing evaluation, arescue demonstration, and aflight qualities evaluation. The SAFER flight operations were conducted without atether attached to the Shuttle.

The familiarization phase had the SAFER spacewalker perform several short single-axis translation and rotation commands. They performed fi rst with the unit’s automatic attitude hold “on” and again with the attitude hold “off.” Next the spacewalker flew a square trajectory within the shuttle payload bay, recording the percent of nitrogen used both before and after the maneuver to compare the actual use with what had been predicted.

In addition to the untethered space walk, other major mission accomplishments included the first flight of the light detection and ranging (LIDAR) in-space technology experiment, carrying the first U.S. Robot Operating Processing system to be used in space, asuccessful test of anew remote manipulator system (RMS) software upgrade, and the first flight of the Shuttle Plume Impingment Flight Experiment (SPIFEX) which measures the ef¬ fects of thruster plumes.

The flight of STS-64 lasted 10 days, 22 hours and 49 minutes landing at Edwards AFB on Sept. 20. The shuttle traveled 7,367,640 kilometers and made 177 orbits of the earth.

The Association of Graduates U.S. Air Force Academy

Air Force Academy graduates bonded by acommon heritage and an enduring commitment to integrity, excellence and service to country.

To provide leadership and service to the graduate com¬ munity, support for the Academy mission, and preservation of institutional heritage and traditions.

C2C Piotr Blazeusz hand Lt. Gen. Paul E. Stein the T.D. White Award citation for President Bush as C2C Chance Hender¬ son watches. (Photo by Larry Hulst, courtesy The Falcon Flyer) Union, and the substantial reduction of international tensions.

Furthermore, the citation reads, “Throughout Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm, he firmly exercised his authority as the commander in chief. He established clear objectives and provided specific guidance. The resounding victory of Operation Desert Storm is strong testimony to the 41st president’s contribu¬ tion to American national defense—built on the strength of the defense programs of the 1980s, supported by sophisticated understanding and use of international diplomacy, and ag¬ gressively led by amasterful political-military commander in chief.

Following the award presentation cadets performed apass in review for Bush. (The Falcon Flyer)

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Academy Legend Retires After 36 Years of Teaching

By SSgt. Stefan Alford Media Relations Staff

People magazine called him “one of the 12 Great Professors. Newsweek ran afeature story on his innovative military ethics course at the Air Force Academy and called him the “conscience of the Air Force. The Christian Science Monitor called him “a Socrates in soldier’s garb.”

Despite these accolades and his numerous awards and achievements in the field of philosophy, Col. Malham Wakin wants, above all else, to be remembered as someone who was con¬ cerned with the welfare of the cadets who have passed through his classes since 1959.

Thanks for the Memories

Brig. Gen. Malham Wakin returns the salute of CIC Paul F. Spaven, spring semester cadet wing commander. CIC Douglas L. Johns, fall semester cadet wing commander, waits to present Wakin with aplaque and saber, the highest award the cadet wing can bestow. Apermanent professors’ parade was held at Stillman Field to honor Wakin, who officially retired on April 1. (Photo by Larry Hulst, courtesy The Falcon Flyer.

“I would like to be remembered for the fact that Ireally care for the students who we’ve been entrusted with and that I’ve tried in my most sincere and enthusiastic way to help make them leaders and better thinkers,” said the former associate dean of the faculty, chairman of the humanities division and professor and head of the Department of Philosophy and Fine Arts.

Wakin retired April 1with the rank of brigadier general after more than 41 years of service. He is the longest assigned military member at the Academy. Many of his students have attained four-star rank, including Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Ronald R. Fogleman.

“I’m very proud of all my students and feel that maybe in this department we’ve had just alittle influence on them and on the way they’ve developed as leaders,” said Wakin. “That’s certainly the most rewarding aspect of my career.

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His service career began in 1953 after graduating from Notre Dame, while his Academy career started in July 1959 as ayoung first lieutenant fresh out of adoctoral program at the University of Southern California where he was elected Phi Beta Kappa.

Prior to the development of aphilosophy department here upon Wakin’s arrival, neither of the other service academies had even considered establishing aphilosophy department, much less adding philosophy courses to their curricula.

We were able to overcome the original skepticism about philosophy in amilitary curriculum,” recalled the Oneonta, N.Y., native. “The ethics course, just-war theory and ethical issues associated with nuclear deterrence policies were just some of the subjects we’ve been able to bring before the cadets and have them consider those issues here, before going out into the Air Force and becoming involved in the decision-making pro¬ cesses.

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But there were growing pains as well for the fledgling program. I’m embarrassed to think that my early courses in philosophy were probably far too theoretical and abstract,” mused Wakin. “It took me some time before Icould help my students make the connections between the fundamental ideas and concepts that are available to us through the study of philosophy and their practical applications.

“I shudder to think that the very first time Itaught the ethics course, Iforced my students to cover 39 different philosophers in one semester to help them understand the ideas of these people, but not helping them as much as Ithink we do now to apply those concepts to current problems.

Wakin pointed out the localized approach in today’s academic institutions with references to just afew of the many applied studies, such as business ethics, journalism ethics, medical ethics, legal ethics, and of course military ethics.

Most universities now have these very speci fi c applied courses,” he said, “but Ifeel we made that transition alittle bit ahead of the rest of the country. Our courses became very applied and practical immediately in the late ’60s and early ’70s. During those Vietnam years we had to deal with conscientious objection and rebellion against authority. We had to find good reasons why our graduates were being killed in Vietnam and we had to deal with the questions of our students and graduates who questioned the morality of our involvement there.

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Wakin Sends Letter of Thanks to Association

(Editor’s note: Recently-retired Brig. Gen. Malham Wakin, who was recently inducted as an honorary member of the Association of Graduates, sent the following letter to the association and its of¬ ficers. The letter is dated April 9, 1995.)

Dear General Jim, Dick, Jock, et al,

Lynn and Iare gradually coming down from the emotional high generated by three weeks of retirement activities. Our family members have departed and the house is quiet but filled with many warm memories and beautiful memorablia.

Among the latter are the striking plaque and membership card making me an honorary member of the AOG. Ican’t do verbal justice to the heavy emotions this honor has created within me. This new tie to our great Academy provides an intimate linking which 1 could not have brought about on my own.

Gratefully,

Mai Wakin

While he plans to lower his golf handicap after leaving the Academy, this trailblazer of modern military ethics will not be completely idle.

Class of 1995 to Hear President at Graduation

President Clinton will become the fifth president of the United States to deliver acommencement address at the Air Force Academy on May 31, according to an announcement by the White House in late March. The president planned three college commencement addresses in May and June to underscore his views on domestic, economic and national security. The other speeches will be at Michigan State University and Dartmouth Col¬ lege.

In his speech at the Academy, the president also plans to describe the opportunities achanging society offers Americans and the responsibilities college graduates must assume “to achieve the American dream for the next generation,” according to an of¬ fi cial statement.

The president has spoken at the U.S. Military Academy and the Naval Academy. His last visit to Colorado was on Jan. 16 to give aMartin Luther King Day speech in Denver.

The last U.S. president to speak at an Air Force Academy graduation was former President George Bush in 1991. The other three presidential speakers were Ronald Reagan in 1984, Richard Nixon in 1969, and John F. Kennedy in 1963.

Graduation Speakers, 1959-1995

1959 —Secretary of the Air Force James H. Douglas

Consistent—But Wrong!

In the last two magazines we have published photographs of Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Ronald R. Fogleman, ’63, which were taken during his cadet days. Both the photo on page 47 of the Fall ’94 magazine and the photo on page 36 in the recent Winter ’94-’95 magazine show the chief with a fellow member of Squadron 13, which General Fogleman commanded during aportion of his first-class year.

We identified the squadron mate as Daniel R. Diets in each of the photographs and in the Winter issue wrote that both had commanded CS-13. Mr. Dietz called the AOG editor to find out whether copies of the two photos were available. He also mentioned that somebody on the publications staff misspelled his name twice! He also noted that he did not command the squadron, but was one of the squadron’s flight commanders.

Chief of Staff Gen. Ronald R. Fogleman (with phone) and 13th Squadron mate Daniel R. Dietz (with a”z”)l

The editor acknowledged the error and also informed Mr. Dietz that because the editor is the Checkpoints staff, he un¬ fortunately could not shift the blame to anyone else. Apologies to Mr. Dietz for screwing up the two captions. We did provide Dan with negatives made from the photos for his trouble and our mistakes.

I960 —Secretary of the Air Force Dudley C. Sharp

1961 —Secretary of the Air Force Eugene M. Zuckert

1962 —Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson

1963 —President John F. Kennedy

1964 —Chief of Staff, USAF, General Curtis E. LeMay

1965 —Chief of Staff, USAF, General John P. McConnell

1966 —Secretary of the Air Force Dr. Harold Brown

1967 —Under Secretary of the Air Force Norman S. Paul

1968 —Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey (Did not speak; returned to Washington because Senator Robert F. Kennedy was killed. Secretary of the Air Force Dr. Harold Brown delivered for Humphrey.)

1969 —President Richard M. Nixon

Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird

1971 —Vice President Spiro T. Agnew

1972 —Secretary of the Air Force Robert C. Seamans, Jr.

1973 —Senator Barry M. Gold water

1974 —Vice President Gerald R. Ford

1975 —Secretary of Defense James R. Schlesinger

1976 —Vice President Nelson A. Rockefeller

1977 —Secretary of Defense Dr. Harold Brown

1978 —Secretary of the Air Force John C. Stetson

1979 —Chief of Staff, USAF, General Lew Allen, Jr.

1980 —Secretary of the Air Force Dr. Hans Mark

1981 —Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger

1982 —Vice President George H. Bush

1983 —Senator Barry M. Gold water

1984 —President Ronald W. Reagan

1985 —Secretary of the Air Force Verne Orr

1986

Vice President George H. Bush

1987 —Secretary of the Air Force Edward C. “Pete” Aldridge, Jr.

1988 —Secretary of the Air Force Edward C. “Pete” Aldridge, Jr.

1989 —Secretary of the Air Force Dr. Donald B. Rice

1990 —Chief of Staff, USAF, General Larry D. Welch

1991 —President George H. Bush

1992 —Vice President Dan Quayle

1993 —Secretary of Defense Les Aspin

1994 —Secretary of the Air Force Dr. Sheila E. Widnall

1995 —President Bill Clinton

Commandant Announces Basic Cadet Training Changes

By Brig. Gen. John Hopper, 69 34th Training Wing Commander and Commandant

There is acommon phrase heard quite often these days which goes like this: “Been there, done that, got the T-shirt.” For all the non-MTVers, this translates to: “I’ve done it before, no big deal. I’ve filled the square.

In the past, cadets and officers may have viewed basic cadet training as something that has become predictable and routine—cadre showed up acouple days early, brushed up on their marching skills, welcomed the new basic cadets and began subjecting the basics to exactly what each previous cadre member went through (if your air officer commanding didn’t catch you fi rst!) as abasic.

The primary focus of BCT was spent on the basics. The philosophy toward cadre was they didn’t need alot of attention 'because they had been through BCT before and besides, they were upper-class cadets now, they had all the tools necessary to do the job.

This approach by the institution shortchanged every cadet in¬ volved in BCT but most of all shortchanged the upper-class cadets. Did the cadre receive the necessary instruction in all of the various areas cadre are expected to be experts in? Where should the real emphasis be during BCT? We have four more years to work with the basics but only one or two years left to adequately prepare the upper two classes for leadership roles in the Air Force of the 21st Century.

The 34th Training Wing staff has worked hard to make longneeded changes to BCT. Atotal of more than 250 hours of cadre training has already begun for some cadets and will continue through May for every BCT cadre member. To provide amore meaningful leadership experience the emphasis on BCT this year has shifted to preparing the cadre to “lead from the front.

Line staff will be primary instructors in many different areas, where in the past, BCT relied on “committees” to train the basics. Element leaders (the primary individuals responsible for basics) and other line staff will be receiving more than 13 hours of specialized training on conducting evening character, honor and human relations reflections with their cadre. Flight commanders will be experts in first-aid for their individual flights, element leaders will facilitate their own elements through the Leadership Reaction Course, basics will learn CPR from their flight NCOs and element NCOs will lead their troops through each level of the confidence course. To lead your people and to earn their respect.

Ayou must know them better than anyone else—you do this by be¬ ing involved.

The commanders Ihad the most respect for through the years were the commanders who weren’t afraid to get in the trenches and perform the very job they were asking of me, and then do it better than Icould.

The Air Force is about people, it’s about training for amission and it’s about leading from the front. That means you have to be visible among your troops and earn their respect. By living where they live, eating what they eat and leading them through the chdlenges of BCT, both the basics and the upper-class cadets walk away from BCT meeting their objectives.

After this summer’s BCT the cadre may indeed be able to say, “Been there, done that, got the T-shirt.” But what they went through as acadre member of BCT ’95 will have been unlike any BCT in the history of the Academy. They will be the best trained, most motivated and best qualified cadre of cadets to lead the Class of 1999. They will have the T-shirt, but it will be aone-of-akind. (The Falcon Flyer)

VCounting Down

Brig. Gen. John Hopper, ’69, commandant and 34th Training Wing commander, talks with senior cadets during the 100th Night dining-in Feb. 25. The event symbolized the 100 nights until graduation for the Class of 1995. (Photo by S.S. Hampton Sr., courtesy The Falcon Flyer)

Lowe, ’76, Presented Award for Management Research

Lt. Col. Jim Lowe, department of Management, was recently presented the Robert C. Taylor Award in recognition of signifi¬ cant management research during the recent academic year.

Lowe’s research involves the analysis and comparison of dif¬ ferent projects and systems based upon their contribution to mis¬ sion requirements. The study focused on government and public projects.

“Within the private sector, decisions may be made using profit or return on investment criteria,” Lowe said. “However, within the government sector, systems or projects most often do not have comparable bottom lines.”

Lowe’s research has numerous Air Force applications from government projects to in-class discussions. For example, Lowe was aguest lecturer in the Introductory Systems Acquisition course later this semester.

Since returning from service as an assistant professor of the Defense Resources Management Institute at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif., Lowe has taught opera¬ tions research and production management courses, supporting both operations research and management degrees. (The Falcon Flyer)

Construction workers set formwork frames for the roof struc¬ ture of the Consolidated Educational and Training Facility. (Photo by S.S. Hampton Sr., courtesy The Falcon Flyer)

Academy T-3 Crash Claims Lives of Cadet, Instructor

An Academy cadet and his instructor pilot died Feb. 22 when their T-3A crashed in a fi eld near Ramah, Colo. The crew members were on aroutine training mission.

C2C Mark Dostal, 20, and Capt. Daniel Fischer were pro¬ nounced dead at the scene by an El Paso County coroner.

The crashed T-3A was one of 30 at the Academy used for cadet training. (Photo by S.S. Hampton Sr., courtesy The Falcon Flyer)

Dostal had recently begun the flight screening program. He was abehavioral science major and had been honored twice on the superintendent’s, dean’s and athletic’s lists. The cadet was from Moraga, Calif.

Fischer, 29, has been an instructor at the Academy since March 1993. Prior to being assigned to the Academy in March 1993, the captain was aC-141 transport pilot at Norton AFB, Calif. Fischer had approximately 2,040 hours logged as aT-3A, T-41 and C-141 pilot. The captain was from Jupiter, Fla.

The crew member’s T-3A departed the Academy at about 10:45 a.m. Elbert County Sheriff officials responded, followed by a U.S. Air Force accident team, to the scene.

The T-3A is an advanced screening aircraft that recently re¬ placed about 50 of the Academy’s aging Cessna T-41 trainers. The plane is avariant of the Firefly, built by Slingsby Aviation Limited. The new planes fly faster than the T-41s, have more in¬ struments and are capable of aerobatics that can simulate fighter aircraft maneuvers.

Two Graduates Among Officers at America West Airlines

Fredrick A. Fiedler, ’62, was appointed recently as vice presi¬ dent, flight operations, of America West Airlines. Tom Derieg, ’63, serves the airline as its senior vice president of operations.

Fiedler is a30-year veteran of the Air Force, achieving the rank of major general, with more than 20 years experience in senior management positions at the policy-making level, including assignments with the Strategic Air Command and Air Force Systems Command. He has served since 1994 as an independent consultant working with the aerospace industry and other technology companies through the Arizona Technology In¬ cubator providing management and other technical assistance.

“We are very fortunate to have someone with Fred’s leadership and management skills,” said Derieg. “He has aworld of avia¬ tion experience successfully managing large fl ight organizations. In addition, he is aformer test pilot and has demonstrated an outstanding safety record in the organizations he has led.

Fiedler received his bachelor’s degree in engineering science from the Academy and amaster of science degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Southern California. He is a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School and the Air War College.

The plane, used in the Academy’s Flight Screen Program, is the first stop” in the Air Force’s process of identifying potential pilots. Air Force pilots have been training with the T-3 Afor about ayear. The plane that crashed had been used in training for only afew weeks.

Prior to the fatal crash. Academy crew members were averag¬ ing 65 sorties aday. Atemporary Academy T-3A flying suspen¬ sion was initiated by the Air Education and Training Command at Randolph AFB, Texas following the accident, but was lifted on Feb. 28. Aboard of officers was convened to investigate the acci¬ dent.

The last fatal crash involving an Air Force Academy plane occured Jan. 28, 1994, when civilian pilot Charles “Steve” Stephen¬ son III, 60, and Cadet David Weber, 20, died when their BeUanca Scout tow plane crashed on Academy grounds. Investigators found no problem with the privately-owned plane, which was used to tow gliders, and concluded Stephenson suffered afatal heart attack while at the controls.

New Observatory Opens Doors

By SrA. Steve Horton Falcon Flyer Staff

Anew Academy observatory was completed in March. The observatory is the first successful stage in the overall Con¬ solidated Education Training Facility project and provides a building to house both 16- and 24-inch telescopes, according to Capt. Stephen Alsing, observatory director.

The new observatory will allow us to have two groups work¬ ing on the telescopes at the same time,” said Alsing. “The telescopes used to be housed in different buildings, but now they are in one and can be operated from acentral control room on the main fl oor.”

Dan McIntosh, an electronic technician from DFM Engineer¬ ing Inc., wires part of the new drive system on the 24-inch telescope. (Photo by Larry Hulst, courtesy The Falcon Flyer)

Besides the convenience of having the telescopes collocated, the observatory has added aclassroom for students and more work space. The telescopes are also instrumented for photography and complete darkroom facilities are within the building.

“With the new classrooms, the cadets will have amuch easier time using the telescopes for their work,” said Alsing. The obser¬ vatory supports three physics courses, cadet and faculty research, and the local community through tours and collaborative research. (The Falcon Flyer)

ATTENTION IN THE AREA

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

Register Deadline Aired

Amajor AOG service is one of providing up-to-date information on graduates through the annual Register of Graduates. The most recent book was mailed to members of record in November of 1994. The biographical information form printed at the center of each magazine should be used on an ongoing basis to update graduate data. Since the in¬ dividual graduate is the critical source of Register information, it is vital that you keep the AOG informed of address changes, promotions, new jobs, etc. Information updates to be included in the 1995 Register, must be received by 1July 1995.

Visitors Center Offers AOG Discount

The AOG is pleased to announce anew membership benefit. Through the cooperation of the Academy Athletic Association (AFAAA), all AOG members are now eligible to receive adiscount at the Academy Visitors Center Gift Shop (which is operated by AFAAA). You only need to show

Graduates Can Help With USAF AAdmissions

What would happen if there were not enough qualified students to fill the 1,200 appointments for an incoming class? Since our peak of 16,000 applicants in the mid-’80s we have dropped below 10,000 in our two most recent classes. If this trend continues we will be close to having the number of qualified students equal to or lower than the number of appointments we can offer. The Academy would like to have alarger pool of qualified students from which to choose the best 1,200. As agraduate you can help.

We now have 27,000 graduates. If every graduate gives us the name and address of just one student who they feel has what it takes to graduate, and if only one-half of these students return the application we mail them, our applicant pool would more than double. For graduates on active duty, don’t forget about our sharp airmen who could enter the Academy before their 22nd birthday.

Military cutbacks, reductions in Academy pilot-training slots, and changing perceptions of the military have had anegative ef¬ fect on the number of applicants. To maintain the quality of each entering class and subsequent graduating classes, we need alarger pool from which to draw quality students. Every graduate who follows you carries apiece of you and the school with him or her. You can have ahand in which student will follow you and graduate.

Send the name and address to: HQ USAFA/RRPR, 2304 Cadet Drive, Suite 215, U.S. Air Force Academy, Colo. 80840-5025 or call (719) 472-2640 or DSN 259-2640.

Doolittle Hall Available For Many Special Occasions

Doolittle Hall is now available at very reasonable rates for special functions. To date the AOG has hosted avariety of events: department meetings, retirements, wedding receptions, workshops, cocktail parties, luncheons and formal and infor¬ mal dinners. Doolittle Hall can accommodate as many as 300 at asit-down dinner and more than 500 for acocktail 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 in¬ formation on your special-function needs, please call Mrs. Cheryl Browler at the AOG at (719) 472-0300.

the cashier your AOG membership card to receive your 10 percent dis¬ count. This discount was previously extended only to active duty and retired military customers. The AOG extends our sincere thanks to AFAAA for their support of the graduate community by offering this ex¬ cellent bene fi t to all of our members.

National Purple Heart Museum

The National Purple Heart Museum, located near Interstate 91 and Routes 5and 190 in Enfield, Conn., is anonprofit organization designed to honor all those who have received the Purple Heart. Enfield was chosen as the site because of its historical link with the first recipient of the Badge of Military Merit, Sgt. Elijah Churchill, who enlisted in the town.

If you are aPurple Heart recipient and would like to be listed in the museum’s official records, or would like to make adonation toward the museum, please write to The National Purple Heart Museum, P.O. Box 332, Enfield, CT 06082.

The American Military University

The Ameriean Military University is aprivately-owned university located in Manassas, Va. The purpose of AMU is to provide graduate education in military studies. The university’s primary audience is the U.S. military but anyone meeting admission requirements is eligible for study at the school. For more information write to American Military University, 9104-P Manassas Drive, Manassas Park, Va. 22111, or call (703) 330-5398.

Naval Institute Seminars

Two upcoming seminars sponsored by the Naval Institute will be held on June 27 and Sept. 6, 1995. The June “Naval Intelligence Seminar” will be at the National Maritime Intelligence Center, Suitland, Md. Con¬ firmed speakers include Vice Adm. John M. McConnell, USN, director. National Security Agency: Adm. Stansfield Turner, USN (Ret), former director, CIA; Thomas Brooks of AT&T, former director of Naval In¬ telligence; renowned authors Norman Polar and Nicholas Eftimiades, and many more. Panels and topics include “Intelligence Today,” “Do We Still Need Naval Intelligence,” and “Information Technology and the Threat to the Battle fi eld.”

The September “Naval Warfare Seminar: Maneuvering in the Lit¬ torals,” will be at the Marriott Crystal Gateway Hotel, Crystal City, Va. Invited are Gen. Charles Krulak, USMC, commandant, U.S. Marine Corps; Adm. J.M. Boorda, USN, chief of Naval Operations; and writers Jeff Record and Lt. Gen. Bernard Trainor, USMC (Ret). Topics and panels include “Do the New Systems Support Maneuver Warfare,” “Are Our Forces Ready,” and “Sustainability.”

Admission is charged. To register call Naval Institute Customer Service (410) 224-3378 or (800) 233-8764.

REUNION CONTACTS

’60 (35th) 13-17 Sept 1995

Col (Ret) Andi Biancur

4174 E. Cumorah Dr

Salt Lake City, UT 84124

Ph.: 801-278-4866 (H) 801-582-5847 ext 6526 (O)

Hotel: Antlers Doubletree

’65 (30th) 8-12 Nov 1995

Mr Jim Spittler

655 Big Valley Dr Colorado Springs, CO 80919

Ph.: 719-598-7228 (H) 719-577-0044 (O)

Hotel: Marriott

’70 (25th) 6-10 Sept 1995

Lt Col (Ret) Jack Mueller

18025 Woodhaven PI Colorado Springs, CO 80908

Ph.: 719-488-3642 (H)

719-472-0300 (W)

Hotel: Marriott

’75 (20th) 4-8 Oct 1995

Lt Col Mark Wells

1670 Ridgeview Circle Monument CO 80132

Ph.: 719-488-1339 (H)

719-472-3230 (O)

Hotel: Marriott

’85 (10th) 4-8 Oct 1995

Capt John “Hoot” Gibson

8085 Chancellor Dr

Colorado Springs, CO 80920

Ph.: 719-282-0132 (H) 719-472-3964 (O)

Hotel: Embassy Suites

The Service Academy Database Of Graduates NOUNClNG..*p

Your AOG is pleased to announce anew 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 acareer change. Establishing anetwork of employers, as well as adatabase 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 acompany 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 aresume

●Produces professionally appealing, typeset resumes

Job Attributes Program

●Collects personal data and enq>loyment 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‘A" disk) and send acopy of the program output files to the AOG for inclusion in the database.

mONE OF YOUR OWN m

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

□ Yes, Iwould like to be in the database and Ienclose acheck or money order for $25

□

Your Name:

Yes, Iwould like to receive adatabase of Service Academy Alumni and enclosed acheck or money order for $150 Return the completed form and your check to:

Company Name:,

Address:

Association of Graduates

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

If aUSAFA graduate, year of graduation:

Whether you are an individual graduate investigating acareer change or an employer seeking asuperior 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.

1995 Service Academies Business Resource Directory

1. The 1995 Service Academies Business Resource Directory (SABRD) was mailed in February 1995, to those who placed advance orders.

2. The AOG has some extra copies available. When they are gone, there will be no more available until next year’s edition.

Please send

SABRD @$30.00 each. copies of the 1995

Name

Address

Check enclosed for $ City.

Charge my VISA or MASTERCARD # J. Exp.,

Signature.

Phone Number

Mail to: Association of Graduates, 3116 Academy Dr, Suite 100, USAF Academy, CO 80840-4475

Telephone orders by VISA or MASTERCARD please call 719-472-0300. FAX orders 719-472-4194

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 adirectory 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. Istrongly 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 ajob 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 adoctor, 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 knmv that you will find this ahighly useful publication at avery reasonable price.

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

RESERVE YOUR PLACE IN HISTORY

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Link yourself forever with the tradition and future of the Air Force Academy by inscribing your name on aPegasus Plaza granite paver. Pavers inscribed with the names of graduates, parents, children and friends of the Academy will pave the Pegasus Plaza located in front of Doolittle Hall, the new alumni house, at the Academy. For your unrestricted tax-deductible donation of $250, apaver with your name or another name you designate will be placed in this prime location for all to see. Funds received will be used to support the Association of Graduates, cadet activities, graduate programs and Academy needs. The $250 donation can be made in alump sum or over one year ($50 down and $50 per quarter).

Pegasus Plaza pavers make excellent gifts for events such as birthdays, graduation, retirement and Christmas. You can also honor or provide amemorial for afriend or relative through this program. Acertificate of notification will be sent, upon re¬ quest, for such gifts. pavers for adonation

Iwould like to support the Pegasus Paver Project.

□Iwish to claim of $250 for each ...$,

Class.

Name: pavers over one year

Street: .State. ZIP.

□Iwish to claim for adonation of $50 for each now and quarterly payments of $50 for each.

City_

Phone: TOTAL ENCLOSED (CREDIT CARD INFO BELOW)

In each block below, fill in the character (letter, number, space or &) to be engraved on your paver(s). There are 13 blanks per line and three lines per paver. Leave aspace between names, and before and after “&”. Minor changes may be required to conform to engraver limitations and standardization procedures. Lines will be centered on the paver. Provisions to accom¬ modate family names that exceed 13 characters may be made on an individual basis. Put information for additional pavers on aseparate sheet of paper. ,

PAVER

#1

Iauthorize my donation to be charged to my credit card:

□ Visa

Acct No.:

Exp. Date:.

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Please send aCerti fi cate of Noti fi cation to:

□ MasterCard $.

Signature:

Detach this page and mail to:

Association of Graduates

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

Association of Graduates Available Member Bene fi ts/Services

AOG offices are open Monday through Friday, 0730-1630 Mountain Time. For all offices, telephone: (719) 472-0300 (DSN: 259-2067/2073).

CHECKPOINTS MAGAZINEyour quarterly link to friends, classmates and the Academy.

REGISTER OF GRADUATES— annual presentation of biographical information on all Academy graduates.

CHAPTERS—

support for some 29 chapters throughout the world

AOG MASTERCARD—

favorable terms and credit Umits from Air Academy National Bank. (800) 365-5890

LINE OF CREDIT —

unsecured line of credit at 6.4 percent over prime rate from Security Pacific Executive/Professional Services. For information call (800) 274-6711.

SCHOLARSHIPS—

● apreparatory school scholarship via the Falcon Foundation.

●post secondary scholarships to graduates’ children

SABER RENTAL—

sets of six for the military wedding.

LOCATOR SERVICE—

need to find afellow graduate? We help!

LONG DISTANCE CALLING DISCOUNT—

sign up for USAFA AOG long distance program with MCI and get aspecial 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 dis¬ count program for atotal savings of 25%. You’ll receive apersonalized USAFA AOG long distance calling card absolutely free. To enroll call 1-800-SKY-USAF (1-800-759-8723).

TRAVEL SERVICEyear-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-

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 availabiUty). You must present your AOG membership card on check-in.

●save 50% at the Colorado Springs Marriott when traveUng 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 check-

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

Rules Outlined for Grad Golf Course Use

Through the efforts of the Association of Graduates (AOG) and the Directorate of Development and Alumni Programs, the following procedures have been arrived at for graduates wishing to play golf at the Academy’s Eisenhower Golf Course.

Active-Duty and Retired Graduates may schedule their own tee times by calling (719) 472-3456, 24 hours in advance. These are the same reservation rules applicable to all active-duty personnel and retirees not stationed at the Academy. Green fees are $16. Reciprocal privileges are in effect for active-duty graduates who have annual memberships at other Air Force courses. Golf cart fees are $16.

Nonretired, Nonactive-Duty Graduate AOG Members: The AOG is allocated eight tee times per month. Nonretired graduate AOG members who are no longer on active duty may play at these special times. Graduates wishing to use these tee times must make reservations through Steve Knight at the AOG. He will contact the golf course to schedule your desired date and time. After con¬ firmation of the tee time, he will notify you of the date and time. We emphasize that these graduates must go through the AOG office for reservations (719-472-0300).

Graduates may schedule only one tee time per month to insure all graduates have an opportunity to use one of the eight tee times. If by the 25th of each month the eight tee times have not been reserved, agraduate who played earlier in the month may schedule asecond tee time. Green fees for nonretired, nonactiveduty graduates are $40 and golf cart fees are $16.

Reunions and Homecoming: Atournament will be scheduled

Upcoming Graduate Events

by the Academy and the AOG to accommodate graduates at aset fee for all players. The fee will be independent of military status or golf course membership.

Corporate Members

Association of Graduates, USAFA

Air Academy National bank

Air Force Association

Ampex Corporation

Betac Corporation

Boeing Aerospace Company

Budget Rent aCar 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., Electronic &Defense Sector

United Services Automobile Association

United Technologies Corporation

USAF Academy Athletic Association

Walsworth Publishing of Colorado

Westinghouse Electric Corporation

Defense &Electronic Center

Corporate memberships are being offered for $2,(XX) for the life of the corporation. With the exception of voting and holding office, corporate members enjoy all privileges of regular members. For more information write to Col. (Ret) Jock Schwank, vice president. Services, Association of Graduates, 3116 Academy Dr., U.S. Air Force Academy, Colo. 80840-4475. Phone (719) 472-0300.

From: NAME

AOG Biographical Information

,I am aGRADUATE/ASSOCIATE member: (Circle One) DATE. jSSN Member #

To: AOG, USAF Academy

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

FOR THOSE IN CIVILIAN BUSINESS:

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FALCON SPORTS

Boxers Win 12th National Crown in Past 15 Years

By Dave Kellogg Sports Information

Winning 12 national championships in the past 15 years definitely qualifies as adynasty in asport.

For that, the Air Force boxing team deserves to take abow. The Falcons added title No. 12 in early April in Clune Arena. The team scored 49 points to outdistance and outclass afield of boxers representing seven other schools. Navy finished adistant second with 27 points followed by Penn State and Lock Haven (Pa.) with 14; Nevada with 11; Iowa State with 8; Westfield (Pa.) with 6and Mansfield (Pa.) with 3.

Tony DiCarlo and Karl Zurbrugg won their second consecutive national titles. DiCarlo, who drew abye in the semifinals, won a decision over Josh Lander from Lock Haven in the 125-pound weight division.

Zurbrugg defeated Nevada’s Chris Salo in the semifinals on a technical knockout at the 1minute, 55 second mark in the second round. He came back Saturday night and defeated Derek Vietro the same way with just 27 seconds gone in the second round. His performance earned him the Outstanding Boxer of the Tourna¬ ment award.

In the 112-pound weight division, Chris Lantagne won his se¬ cond boxing gold medal. Lantagne won the national title in 1993, but finished second last year. He left little doubt of his desire to recapture the gold again as he scored atechnical knockout over Andrew Nguyen from VMI with 1:44 gone in the second round in the semifinal match. In the finals, the referee stopped the contest with just 40 seconds gone in the second round and Westfield’s Joe Boudreau standing on wobbly legs.

Sean Gradney, fighting in the 119-pound weight division also won agold medal. Gradney defeated Kentucky’s Brandt Duttle in the semi fi nals and scored atechnical knockout over West fi eld’s Dan Maffeo.

The Air Force boxer who spent the least amount of time in the ring to win his gold medal was heavyweight boxer Chris Cullenbine. He drew abye in the semifinals and needed just 51 seconds in the fi nals to score atechnical knockout over Mans fi eld’s Joe Povenski.

Air Force’s silver medalists included Darryl Brown, Sloan Hollis and Mark Clifford. Bronze medals were won by Jason Massignan, Jake Oldham and Joe DiFidi. (The Falcon Flyer)

Men*s Tennis Team Wins Four in aRow at Home

By Troy Gamhart Sports Information

There is no such thing as asure thing. If that saying is true, the Air Force men’s tennis team is the closest thing to it.

Air Force won four home matches in mid March to improve to 18-3 on the year and increase the team’s home match winning streak to 20. The team at press time was 97-7 at home since 1990. The Falcons beat Loyola-Marymount, 7-0, and North Texas, 4-3, Friday. The team then defeated Memphis, 5-2, and Creighton, 6-6, Saturday.

Senior Jerry Ledzinski continued to post one of the best seasons in Academy history. He won all four of his matches to im¬ prove to 19-2 on the year at No. 1singles. Ledzinski, who had won 10 consecutive matches, was just five wins away from equal¬ ing the Academy record for wins at No. 1singles. Last year, Led¬ zinski tied the mark held by such Air Force greats as Matt Hulhern (1977), Tom Barth (1985) and John Steimle (1987) when he posted a24-5 mark.

“He’s continuing on afantastic winning streak. He plays alot of three-set matches which is hard on the coach, but he wins them which shows what agreat player he is,” head coach Rich Gugat said.

The Falcons’ only close call over the March weekend was against North Texas. Sophomore Karl Gregor bailed the team out

with a7-6, 7-6 win at No. 6singles over Brad Campbell to decide the match. It is the second match-deciding victory for Gregor in the last five Air Force wins. Gregor is now 16-4 on the year. The Falcons continue to get solid play from sophomore Mike Parks at No. 4singles and freshman Jamie Caplinger at No. 3 singles. Both players won all their four matches to improve to 16-5 and 17-4, respectively. (The Falcon Flyer)

Darryl Brown, right, battles with Navy’s Chandler Comerford. (Photo by Larry Hulst, courtesy The Falcon Flyer)

Mike Parks times aserve during his singles match. (Photo by Larry Hulst, courtesy The Falcon Flyer)

Air Force Wins National Women's Swimming Title

By Troy Gamhart Sports Information Staff

National Champions! It was the goal of the women’s team all year and now it is their title.

The Falcons didn’t just win the national championship at Ashland, Ohio in March, they dominated it. Air Force set ana¬ tional championship record with 690 points to easily out-distance five-time defending national champion Oakland by 127 points. AFA’s record-setting point total is 30 points better than the mark set last year by Oakland.

How thoroughly did the Falcons dominate? The team won the national championship in six events, set 14 school records, had 13 All-Americans and nine honorable mention All-Americans. Air Force led the competition from the first day to last day and won the national coach of the year award. “I can’t begin to tell how proud Iam of these women,” Head Coach Casey Converse said.

Once they got on aroll, they just got better and better at each session. Ithink the turning point in the championship was in the third session when we jumped out to a70-point lead. That took the life out of Oakland’s team effort.

The Falcons opened the championships with a167-point effort on the first day to take a39-point lead over Oakland and quickly establishing the championships as atwo-horse race. Beth Zeman and Jenna Tukey set school records while winning national titles in their respective events. Zeman won the 50-meter freestyle with atime of 23.69 while Tukey won the 500-meter freestyle with a mark of 4:54.85. Tukey broke the 12-year-old record of Patty Martinez (4:58.8).

The Falcons set two other school records on the day. Maiya Anderson fi nished third in the 200IM with atime of 2:07.61 while the 200 freestyle relay team of Shannon Goff, Tanja Hauber, Robbie Kilroy and Claudine Tjhio place second with atime of 1:46.66.

Air Force continued to lead the event after the second day by setting four more school records enroute to 355 points. Oakland was second at 339. The records came in the 200 freestyle, 100 but¬ terfly, 400 medley relay and 200 freestyle relay. Tukey placed third in the 200 freestyle with a1:53.42 to break the 12-year-old record of Martinez by afull second. In the 100 butterfly, Zeman placed second with arecord time of 57.08, while the team of Zeman, Hauber, Teri Heitmeyer and Tjhio was third in the 200 free relay with atime of 1:36.62. The fourth record was set by Amy Hennies, Alyssa Cowden, Zeman and Hauber in the 400 medley relay with atime of 3:51.60. Anderson added the team’s third national title with her time of 4:28.81 in the 400 IM.

The Falcons went for the jugular on Friday, putting 70 points between them and Oakland. AFA led 499-422 after Friday’s events. “That’s what placing alot of swimmers into the finals can do for you,” Converse commented. Zeman paced the team with her second national title. She set aschool record while winning the 100 backstroke with atime of 58.63. Hauber also swam to a

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third-place finish in the 100 breaststroke with atime of 1:05.00 while teammate Krista Steenbergen placed fourth with a1:06.00. The 800 freestyle relay team of Rachael Tukey, Jenna Tukey, Tjhio and Hennies also finished second with aschool record time of 7:40.20.

The final day saw the Falcons’ Jenna Tukey win her second na¬ tional title as she won the 1,650 freestyle with atime of 16:42.40. Sister Rachael, who finished second to Jenna in the 500 freestyle, made it another one-two fi nish for the twins. She swam to a 16:50.69. Zeman added another school record in the 100 freestyle while finishing second with atime of 51.45. Hennies took second in the 200 backstroke with aschool record time of 2:03.42, while Steenbergen was second in the 200 breaststroke with another school record of 2:19.91.

The NCAA national champions: The academy Women’s Swim¬ ming Team celebrates their national championship record of 690 points in March. (Photo by Capt. Greg Shoales)

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Fittingly, the Falcons closed out the meet with another school record in the 400 freestyle relay. The team of Tjhio, Hennies, Goff and Zeman swam a3:29.18 to place third. When the team announced as national champions, their No. 1fan, who joined them for Saturday’s festivities, Lt. Gen. Paul Stein, Academy superintendent, joined the team while jumping into the pool. “It really gratifying to have him witness the championship,” Converse said.

As many gifted swimmers as the Falcons have had and as well as they have done nationally, nothing compares to what they ac¬ complished last weekend. The team had six swimmers win na¬ tion^ championships in six events. Two Falcons, Zeman and Jen¬ na Tukey, won multiple titles. Zeman won national champion¬ ships in the 50 freestyle, 100 backstroke and 400 medley relay. Tukey won in the 500 freestyle and 1,650 freestyle. Anderson won the 400 IM, while Hennies, Cowden and Hauber swam with Zeman in the 400 medley relay.

Converse won his second consecutive national coach of the year award. “It’s really nice to be recognized by your peers, but it should really be team of the year,” Converse said. “I really have a great coaching staff and you could name the award the staff of the year.”

The coach wasn’t done handing out praise.

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The team has received tremendous support from all over the Academy. We had alot of illness this year and Col. Alma Guzman had the kids ready to swim when we needed them. Our officer representatives were great (Captains Matt Morgan and Greg Shoales) and support we got from Col. Boesche and Jim Bowman’s office also helped us win the title,” Converse said. As hungry as the Falcons were this year for their national title, it won’t seem long for them to wait until this coming November when they start the new year. They’ll enter the year with anew title—defending national champions.

Baseball Team Improves to 14-6 at Spring Break

By Dave Toller Sports Information

Revenge is sweet.

After Army defeated Air Force earlier in the season, the Falcons focused their attention on athree-game series scheduled against the Black Knights on March 18-19 in Tampa, Fla.

The weekend could not have been better for the Falcons as the team swept the three-game series and improved to 14-6 on the season. Air Force quickly avenged the early-season loss with a 19-7 thumping of Army in the first game. The Falcons then swept the doubleheader on Sunday, 4-1 and 3-2. W

at 6-6, the Falcons blew the game wide open. Bob Olson drove in two runs with asingle and Jason Allen drove in one run with a single. Allen had acareer-high four hits in five at-bats and scored four runs. Sophomore Derek Sawser drove in acareer-high four runs and hit his first career home run. He went three for six and scored one run.

In the first game on Sunday, the Falcons tokk a3-1 lead on Lance Massey’s two-run home run in the third inning. The Falcons added arun in the fifth inning to make up the final margin. Senior A1 Barker collected his third win of the season. He pitched his first complete game of the season and allowed one run on five hits. In the nightcap, the Falcons struck first as Trey Hodges scored on aJason Rudd triple in the third inning. The Falcons took a3-0 lead in the sixth inning on apair of RBIs from Glenn Harris and Lance Massey. Freshman Ryan Johnson earned the victory. Senior Keith Umlauf gathered his fourth save of the season.

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We could not have been happier with athree-game sweep of Army,” new head coach Eric Campbell said. “Those were very big victories for us. They will help tremendously in recruiting. The games against Army and Navy are always competitive and we were fortunate to win all three games.” Campbell was the pitch¬ ing and catching coach for the past five seasons prior to taking over as head coach this year.

Sophomore Dave Lyons, who tied ateam record by winning his first seven decisions of the year, delivers apitch. (Photo by SrA. Melissa Peterson, courtesy The Falcon Flyer)

Air Force exploded to its largest victory ever against aservice academy rival with the 19-7 win on Saturday. With the score tied

Falcon Powerlifting Team Takes Fourth at Nationals

By C2C Dave Lercher Cadet Squadron 03

The Academy powerlifting team traveled to the American Drug Free Powerlifting Association’s Collegiate National Champion¬ ships April 1-2, bringing home afourth place team finish. Thir¬ teen individuals had qualified for nationals and made the trip to Evansville, Ind. Approximately 30 schools were represented at the meet, including very strong performances by West Point, Navy, Texas, UNLV, and the defending national champions, the University of Evansville.

While only ahandful of Academy lifters had competed previously at nationals, the team nonetheless made an outstand¬ ing showing. The only two female contestants for the Academy each earned All-American status for their outstanding totals. Freshmen Carrie Brackett and Trena Emerson fi nished second and third, respectively, in their weight classes.

The men’s team represented the Academy equally well. For the third straight year, All-American junior James Radford won the national title in the 114-pound class lifting atotal of 915 pounds. Scott Berrian finished fifth in the 148-pound class led by an im¬ pressive dead lift of 490 pounds.

In heated competition in the 165-pound class, senior Robert Kinerson paced the Falcons with afourth-place finish and athreelift total of 1,335 pounds. Junior Andy Dao and Sophomore Matt Quatrara, in their first showings at nationals, set anumber of per¬ sonal records and kept the opposition from scoring valuable team points.

The men’s 181-pound class was also aclose race. Veteran lifter senior Loren Jones, while on his way to atop four finish, ex¬ perienced adisappointing back strain. Nonetheless, freshman

Air Force entered spring break with a14-6 overall record and a 2-1 record in the Western Athletic Conference’s East Division. The 2-1 WAC record matches the team’s best conference start ever. Going into the break, the Falcons were on afour-game win¬ ning streak and had won nine of the last 10 games.

In the second half of the season, the team plays 20 of the 35 game at Falcon Field. With the majority of the games at home, the Falcons will strive for their third consecutive winning season.

Carlos Alvarado and junior Lanell Fountain more than made up for Jones by placing sixth and seventh, respectively.

Air Force helped its cause in the heavier weight classes as well. Junior Terrance Safforld pulled an amazing 600-pound dead lift to finish fifth in the 198-pound class. With his 585 pound squat, one of the heaviest of the competition, sophomore Matt Domyancic placed sixth in the 220-pound weight class.

The Academy powerlifting team has worked hard all year and their dedieation and efforts were apparent at nationals. The team would like to express its thanks to Brig. Gen. John Hopper, 34th Training Wing commander, and everyone who made their success possible. (The Falcon Flyer)

Academy Sports Camps to Feature 17 Sports

The Academy Athletic Department will host three sports camps this year featuring atotal of 17 sports/activities. The camps will be June 11-16, 18-23 and 26-30 (commuter only). During the camps, campers live in cadet dorms, eat in the cadet dining hall, use Academy facilities and learn from Academy head coaches. Age requirements for the camps are 8to 18.

Camps for boys include baseball, basketball, football, lacrosse and wrestling. For girls, instruction will be given in basketball, gymnastics and cheer leading/dance. Coed camps will be given for cross country, diving, golf, hockey, self defense, soccer, swimming, tennis and track and field.

All camps are designed to challenge campers and improve their existing skill levels and abilities. Boarder and commuter camps are available during weeks one and two with com¬ muter only camps offered during the third weekk. For more information call 1-800-666-USAF or 719-472-1895.

Women and Men Gymnasts Set Many Records

By Dave Toller Sports Information

Both the Women and Men’s Falcon Gymnastics Teams put on outstanding shows in March. The women, in front of the largest home crowd of the season and ranked ninth in the nation in NCAA Division II, broke the school record for team score and freshman Michelle Roxburgh tied two individual records in adual

Rifle Team Takes Second in National Championships

By Dave Toller Sports Information

The elusive NCAA Division Inational championship. The best in the nation. Some say that the winners are remembered while the runner-up is lost in asea of anonymity. The winner goes down as one of the best teams ever while the runner-up is dissipated among the hoards of teams who finished between second and in¬ fi nity.

Not so at the Air Force Academy. The 1994-95 Air Force Academy rifle team’s second-place finish at the NCAA Division I Rifle Championships matches the highest finish ever.

Considering that acurrent Air Force Academy team has never won an NCAA Division IChampionship, the 1994-95 rifle team will not soon be forgotten. The only Division Inational titles won at the Academy were earned by the pistol team. The pistol team won seven national championships between 1970 and 1985. However, in 1987, the sport was discontinued. More recently, the 1994-95 women’s swimming team won the NCAA Division II na¬ tional championship.

Air Force entered the championships ranked No. 2in the na¬ tion. Despite shooting the second-highest team scoree in AFA history, the Falcons finished second behind West Virginia. The Falcons’ team score of 6,187 would have won the national title two years ago. West Virginia won the meet with anew national record of 6,241.

In the process, the Falcons claimed six All-American honors. Junior Robin Orth earned All-American honors in both smallbore and air rifle. He placed fifth in smallbore and ninth in air ri fl e. Freshman Matt Johnson earned All-American honors in both competitions. He placed eighth in smallbore and 17th in air rifle. Senior team captain Dan Wilcox placed 10th in smallbore and was named to the All-American team. Sophomore Erin Brewer earned All-American status by placing 25th in air rifle.

The Falcons fi nished the 1994-95 season with a25-3 record. The team’s three losses came to No. 1-ranked West Virginia, fourth-ranked Xavier and the defending national champions, Alaska-Fairbanks.

The women gymnasts scored 183.475 points to break the previous school record of 182.725 set last season. The Falcons fell to Southern Utah, who scored a188.00 in the dual meet. Rox¬ burgh, who has been on the brink of breaking several school records all season, tied two school records in the meet. She placed first in the meet in the vault, scoring a9.60, and on the floor exer¬ cise, scoring a9.80.

The vault record was set by Marci McGlinn in 1984 while the floor exercise was set by Jeanine Stewart in 1993. Both gymnasts went on to earn All-American honors. The vault record is the second-longest standing gymnastics record by either the men or women.

The men’s team scored a218.80 while New Mexico came in with 226.05. Despite the loss, coach Lou Burkel was proud of his 20th-ranked Falcons. “We did agreat job,” Burkel said. “It was nice to have such abig crowd. The crowd really pumped up the kids.

Junior Brian Rissoli scored acareer-high 9.70 to easily win the floor exercise. He was 0.25 ahead of the second-place finisher. Junior Beau Neal placed second on the pommel horse as he matched his career-high of 9.40. Freshman Greg Meis placed fifth on rings with acareer-high 9.40. Neal placed third in the all-around with 55.20 points. Junior Ben Smith placed fourth in the all-around with 52.65.

Young Wrestling Team Finishes Good Season

By Dave Toller Sports Information

Traditionally aveteran team, head coach Wayne Baughman directed his youngest wrestling team in 16 seasons at the Air Force Academy. He had just 17 returning wrestlers after never having fewer than 30 at the beginning of the season. In fact, his starting lineup entering the Western Athletic Conference Championships had just four wrestlers who saw action last season.

The Falcons fi nished the season with an 8-1 dual meet record and placed fourth at the WAC Championships held at the Academy on March 4. Despite not having aWAC champion, the Falcons had two second-place winners and two third-place fi nishers.

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Meghan McCann performs her routine on the balance beam. (Photo by Eugene Chavez, courtesy The Falcon Flyer) meet in front of 600 fans at the cadet gym. The men’s team scored their third-highest team score of the season.

Brian Rissoli nails avault. (Photo by Eugene Chavez, courtesy The Falcon Flyer)

Rhodes Scholar Helps Save Orphans in Brazil

By SSgt. Stefan Alford Media Relations Staff

An Academy cadet was one of 32 college seniors nationwide ac¬ cepted for aprestigious Rhodes Scholarship at Oxford University, England. CIC Thom Geiser will further his studies through Ox¬ ford’s philosophy and politics programs next fall following his graduation and commissioning as an Air Force officer May 31. The Rhodes Scholarship represents an opportunity for Geiser to build the foundation for dealing with issues facing the interna¬ tional community.

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Iwant to represent my nation as an attache’, ambassador, or diplomat before an international organization,” said Geiser, who majored in aeronautical engineering at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University for ayear before being accepted to the Academy. “Preparation for such acareer requires an ability to think in global terms and demands an education which provides a multicultural forum to discuss global issues.

Geiser has already established amultucultural background gleaned through 13 months of social and economic interaction in South America, including Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, Columbia and Peru. He also spent some time in the Central America countries of Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Honduras.

“All of my life Iwanted to travel and experience other cultures—from my earliest days listening to my immigrant

(Wrestling: From previous page.)

Junior Kip Kiefer and senior Johnny Harrison each placed se¬ cond. Kiefer collected a30-13 record and placed second in the WAC at 118 pounds. Harrison, a fi rst-team all-conference linebacker on the Falcon football team, posted an 8-2 record and placed second at 190 pounds. Sophomore Chris Kretsinger fin¬ ished with a26-13 record and placed third at 177 pounds. Senior Jason Tone, astarting defensive tackle on the Falcon football team, placed third at heavyweight and had a16-3 record.

Harrison was the Falcons’ only NCAA qualifier. The native of Sunrise, Fla., received awild card berth to the tournament. However, Harrison lost an 8-4 decision to Ryan Tobin of Nebraska in the fi rst round. Harrison concluded his career as a three-time NCAA qualifier. He won the WAC championship as a freshman and placed second as asophomore and senior.

The beauty of having ayoung team is the prospect of having a veteran squad next season. If the current team remains intact, the Falcons will return seven of the 10 wrestlers who competed in the conference championships.

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father’s short-wave radio and my youthful adventures as aBoy Scout,” said the Sharon, Pa., native. He got that opportunity following his sophomore year at the Academy, when he deferred his formal education to study Spanish and Portuguese in South America.

While there he worked with the local people and earned local salaries while living in their homes. He made his living teaching English and translating, instructing in gliders, conducting en¬ vironmental studies (for which he earned aTruman Scholarship last year) and working in sugar cane fields.

In Brazil he volunteered at an orphanage and was outraged to discover that “death squads” were being used as amethod to eliminate the growing number of street children. In response, he organized asearch party to gather homeless children.

On our first night, we took 18 children from astreet we had suspicions would be hit,” he recalled. “That evening, as we safely tucked the children in at alocal church, we knew that we had made avital difference. Iwas able to help my (Brazilian) friends see the gravity of asocial problem they had not understood because of class differences, and they were able to help me ex¬ ecute aplan in aforeign land despite alanguage barrier.

This served as adramatic example that cultural knowledge and multicultural education can make the difference between good ideas and actually making an impact,” said Geiser.

He returned to the Academy having “solidified alifelong desire to be an active citizen in the international community.” Once back he added aSpanish minor to his educational program and switched majors to anewly-created environmental engineering track.

Ihave learned that diplomacy requires apractical understand¬ ing of the cultures involved—an understanding based upon per¬ sonal experience,” said Geiser. “But Ialso realize it necessitates an academic understanding of political mechanisms and amoral compass to guide your decisions. Oxford’s philosophy program encourages the introspection necessary to better know yourself and others, while the politics program opens the door to learning how to apply this understanding in different political forums. (The Falcon Flyer)

Sabre Society Presentation

Hugh Williamson, ‘64, at left, one of the first members of the Sabre Society, receives his society desk piece from AOG Board Chairman Jim Ulm during arecent Falcon Foundation meeting held in Doolittle Hall. Support of the Sabre Society continues to grow. For more information, contact the AOG vice president for Development.

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Oh, the subterfuges ascribe must employ to elicit correspondence from classmates! Occasionally, I’ll let the odd piece of misinformation slip through in order to provoke one of those “Dear Sir, Up yours. Nasty let¬ ter follows.” type of telegrams or e-mails (or sometimes, just to see if anyone is actually reading this quarterly drivel). Ishare this trade secret in order to reassure those of you who might suspect that my advanced case of CRS (Can’t Remember, uh, anything) is entering the terminal phase.

Such was the case last fall when Iwrote that Jack HUNDEMER was retiring from Delta. As is well known to one and all, Jack has been with American Airlines for so long that he remembers when airlines actually made money. He wrote me atranquil and gracious note right after Christmas reminding me of the fact and inviting me to correct the record lest he be forced to drive up here in that stripped-down C-5 he calls an RV and rip my lips off.

Jack also offered alittle insight into airline retirement formalities. Essentially, American gave him the three weeks prior to his retirement to fly when and where he wanted. He did awarm-up three-day domestic 757, then afinal 767 international to Brussels, and finally athree-day domestic with layovers in Austin and New York and grandkids partied with Jack and crew at the Austin Hilton. Then his two sons fl ew with him to NYC for aBig Apple tourist overdose. Jack never mentioned any actual passengers on these trips, but I’m assuming all were technically scheduled revenue flights.

Among myriad other post-retirement travels, he made abusiness trip to Reading, PA, where he visited with Jon and Carol BLACK. (Who would have thought that the pride of Johnson City, TN, would someday find his niche in Pennsylvania as aUSAir ground school instructor?)

Jack says his retirement program includes aminimum of 30 ski days and five major SCUBA trips annually. He embarked on this quest in grand style last December at Park City, UT, for the Airline Ski Team Race Camp, during which he recorded his first experience running the gates on aslalom course. (He reports eminently respectable times of 39.7 and 38.0 seconds, the latter time permitted to stand even though he took out 20 feet of mesh fence beyond the finish line. Unaccountably, he fur¬ nished no snapshots of this carnage.)

Another world traveler is Don BROOKS who, ever on the lookout for fun vacation spots, took atrip to Bosnia and Croatia last fall. Anybody interested in a“guest article” about his visit?

In other post-retirement news, for those of you who may have been vacationing on the planet Neptune last winter and didn’t hear about it. President Clinton nominated Mike CARNS to become the director of Central Intelligence. Mike later withdrew from consideration after some allegations surfaced during proctoscopy which nowadays passes for senior appointee background investigations. We’re with you, Mike; you’d have done agreat job, but who needs that kind of abuse?

Airman magazine reports another of our retirees is gainfully employed in the aviation field. According to arecent issue, Pete WINTERS is the airport director at Myrtle Beach, SC, and busily converting the former AF base to athriving commercial and general aviation center.

On the health front. I’m afraid there’s more distressing news to report. Donna BECKEL was diagnosed with breast cancer earlier this year and has undergone amastectomy, but Bob says she’s her usual cheerful, positive and determined self as she confronts her post-operative treat¬ ment. Early reports look very hopeful. Larry JOLLY continues to amaze doctors (but not us who know him) with his progress and enthusiasm in the radical therapy they’re throwing at him. He says he’s feeling great most of the time and has taken on anew task on behalf of the class, about which more later.

Also, Ilearned from Jerry GARBER that Tex McVeigh, one of our original ATOs, is being treated for cancer in San Antonio. Tex was made an honorary member of the Alamo Chapter of the Association of

Graduates because of his great support for the Academy and he’s always been afriend to our class. We send our prayers and best wishes to him and his family as he faces the toughest battle of his life.

In happier news, I’m pleased to report that Max MILLER’S son, Scott, has received an appointment to the Air Force Academy’s Class of 1999. Actually, he was offered aslot at ALL the academies, but USAFA’s ac¬ ceptance was the last to come in. There’s considerable speculation locally that Scott’s father had some influence on the decision to admit him, but the young man’s strong record won him an appointment despite the taint of his parentage.

I’ll end with abrief commercial and achallenge. I’ve often commented about the problem of stale news inherent in athree-month publication lead time. For “flash traffic,” our geographical telephone net works OK due to the dedication of our regional reps, but it’s cumbersome and costs them time and money. To fill the vast middle ground between these ex¬ tremes, we’ve begun to assemble aclass electronic mail (e-mail) network.

Largely through the efforts of Bob FAY and Larry Jolly, there are already 21 of us on the “mailing list.” (This is aremmkable achievement when you reflect that it’d be hard to find 21 ’59ers who wouldn’t resist having apulse at the same time!) What abreakthrough it would be if all of us had access: timely, reliable information exchange, amuch more dynamic means to keep in touch with classmates, and virtually areal-time forum for discussion, debate, and decisions on issues affecting the whole class.

It’s dead easy and pretty cheap. All you need are:

●Acomputer (most of you have one either at home or work).

●Amodem. (They’ve gotten so cheap and reliable, you almost can’t afford not to have one.)

● Membership in aparticipating commercial on-line service. Except for acouple of plutocrats with an academic or business Internet account, most of the 21 “pioneers” use either America Online. CompuServe, or Prodigy.

These three services (and probably others) provide e-mail access at little or no extra charge. The service itself is pretty inexpensive. America Online costs less than $10 per month for five hours of on-line access. Your mileage may vary with the services, but their costs will be in the same ballpark. Ifind the e-mail and other Internet access alone are worth what AOL costs me. All you have to do is type amessage, letter, novel, etc. on your computer, log onto the service, transfer your file to whatever shell they use, address to any or all members of the net, and launch it into cyberspace. The addressee(s) will have your message waiting the next time they log onto their service. Cosmic!

If any of this strikes your fancy, go sign up with the service of your choice and join the chat. I’ll be glad to forward e-mail to Larry Jolly, who has agreed to serve as unpaid “CINC e-mail.”

Flope everybody has agreat summer. I’ll be looking for lots of “whatI-did-on-my-summer-vacation” letters and pictures with which to dazzle your classmates.

Chris Warack

690 Winding Hills Road Monument, CO 80132

Home: (719) 488-2504

Percent members: 82

Reunion planning is well underway and whatever we do here is going to be of little consequence should you not make your best effort to attend. I have had the opportunity to talk with afew of you and most are planning

CLASS OF 1960 35-YEAR REUNION

13-17 SEPTEMBER 1995

USAFA versus Colorado State

to attend. Ilook forward to seeing all of you back here September 13-17; come earlier and stay later if you can! In an effort to get the gang out, would you call someone you haven’t talked to lately and encourage them to come and enjoy fellowship and fun? If you haven’t received amailing with room reservation form and reunion info by this time please call SCHWANK, BIANCUR, or WARACK.

Had atimely call from Bill GILLIS when the last issue hit the streets. Seems he caught some static regarding the housekeeping credit Ireported. Apparently my sources were abit generous. However, Bill has managed to stay put for the past 13 years and Kath continues to bring home the bacon. Gordon and Ann FLYGARE report they are spending their 10th year in Norman, OK with Boeing’s engineering office. They will make the trek to the Rockies in September!

Alengthy epistle from Ralph LALIME and aphone call were welcome. He writes...“In aMarch gathering, Mike LOH made it to lunch with the Beltway Bandits of ’60. Mike spoke to the group about his Capitol Hill meetings and aGraded Review on Air Force issues. Mike and Barbara are planning to retire in the Williamsburg, VA area (about the time you read this). Ihave turned in my presidential commission at RTA. Doug REKENTHALER is doing afine job in Russia, The Ukraine, Hungary and Italy, but Iwas getting bored with the office work and tired of argu¬ ing with auditors so Ileft RTA and am presently with another small business. Talon Technology Corp. My real intentions are to travel, study, read and make money as an entrepreneur. Now Ineed to get Darlene to work fewer days.

Dick SEXTON is doing some real estate work for himself and as a broker.

Joe HIGGINS says he is ready to play more golf. Of course Tom BURKE has already been out chipping onto the frosty greens.

Ken ALNWICK is working hard going back and forth to Hawaii on some contract. Why don’t we set areunion in Hawaii some time? Bill GOODYEAR would be the right man to task with setting that up; he still has friends there from the original Hawaiian Hurricane trip.

Jerry DE LA CRUZ is serving in the Pentagon as aconsultant.”... Ralph thanks for the update on the D.C. crowd.

George FRIES wrote from Yorktown, VA where he occasionally sees Mike LOH and included aclipping from the Air Combat Command newspaper. The Flyer. It was avery nice article about Mike and I’ll quote from it. “I’m very deeply moved by this tribute from all of you. It is with agreat deal of humility that Iaccept the first Order of the Sword given by the noncommissioned officers of ACC.” Congratulations Mike! Back to George who has started athird career. After his stint in landscaping in Hawaii and Virginia, he is now substitute teaching at alocal middle school. Displaying atalent for diverse subjects from band, choral, shop through math, social studies, and science to special-education classes. He says he is going to get serious about teaching and return to school this summer to get certified in Virginia. He’ll be at the reunion also.

Tony BURSHNICK called to report that Deke and Sally JOHNSON were in D.C the fi rst week of March for aVFW Convention. Deke is the Idaho state adjutant-quartermaster. Tony, A1 JOHNSON, Tom BURKE, Norm HALLER, and Jerry DE LA CRUZ had lunch with Deke and Sal¬ ly. Deke has retired altogether and devotes his time to Sally and the VFW. Pat and Istill enjoy the quiet of Monument, CO and our grand¬ daughters who are nearby. Ihave stayed much busier in real estate than I had planned but still find some time to get out and about. We both look forward to seeing you here in September.

CHANGE OF ADDRESS: Dale THOMPSON to 30 Camwood Trail, Austin, TX 78738; Ted STUMM to 3001 Prescott Falls Dr., Jacksonville, FL 32224; Dale MAYO to 45 Sunset Dr., Ottsville, PA 18942.

Thanks for the letters and phone calls. Keep them coming so that Iam not tempted to print rumors and part-truths!

Hanson Scott

1300 Onava Court, NE

Albuquerque, NM 87112

Phone: (505) 293-4486

Percent members: 82

Greetings from the Land of Enchantment! Ireceived anice note from Henry and Peggy HOWE—Henry is now with Rockwell’s North American Division in Shreveport, LA and is directing the engineering team performing helicopter avionics integration and modi fi cations. Peggy had been serving as the pastor of two congregations in the vicinity of their home in Iowa prior to their move to Louisiana and is working toward aDoctor of Ministry degree from Luther School of Theology in Chicago. Son Eric is recently married to Elizabeth and lives in Ft. Smith,

AR; Tricia is enrolled in atwo-year master’s program at the University of Iowa. Henry and Peggy had ayear of challenges and change in ’94—Henry warns the Dallas bunch that he is headed their way—heads up, Dick FAIRLAMB. Thanks for the report, Hank!

Bob and Winnie WAGNER have left Tampa for Jacksonville, FL, where Bob has been promoted to the position of manager of operations for the bulk distribution network of CSX railroad. Winnie has established Wagner Public Relations and is enjoying the freedom of establishing her own hours. Son Scott is living in Birmingham and is working for apro¬ motional advertising company. Valerie is working in Washington, DC for Senator Bob Graham of Florida. Bob and Winnie are settled in their new home, “complete with beautiful lake, avariety of water birds and resi¬ dent alligator.’’ The Wagners were able to do some traveling last year with atrip to Scotland and England. Bob added that he has seen Mike RAWLINS and Darrell KOERNER occasionally. Darrell also works for CSX in Jacksonville, with an additional office in Baltimore (again).

Other news: Jerry LEFTON reports that he and Sue are planning to move to Pinehurst, NC in the near future—they have bought some land and plan to build ahome. (Bet it’s close to agolf course!) During ’94, they did some traveling—to Pinehurst, Annapolis, Chicago, O’Fallon, IL, and then to St. Louis and Colorado Springs. Daughter Cindy works in Chicago and David continues to attend the University of Arizona.

Don MCCARTER checked in from Orlando. Don recently began working for asmall defense contractor. Rachel is also in Orlando, Shan¬ non is in Jacksonville, and Ryan attends the University of Central Florida. Bob and Margy DINGLE will be breaking in their new travel home around Utah—Bob has been working as aconsultant to Weber State University.

Leo RIESELMAN said he had “no news’’ to report from American Airlines—Paul is ajunior at Northern Illinois University, John is asenior in high school. After several years, Tom ELLER took an early separation from Kaman and is now working with Titan Client/Server Technologies. Robert, asecond classman at USAFA, had an exchange tour with the Mexican Air Force Academy last summer; Elizabeth works in marketing and public relations for two hospitals in Atlanta; daughter Julie and sonin-law Kurt are in Trondheim, Norway, where Kurt is pursuing aPhD in military history while teaching at the Norwegian Air Force Academy. Tom and Laraine SUTTON are busy keeping the seven youngsters still at home organized and active.

Bob BRICKEY and Pat BUCKLEY, assisted by George MCNULTY, organized a“’61 Winter Ski Break” in Park City, UT during March. At¬ tending were Charlie THOMAS, Karl KELLERMAN, Dick FAIRLAMB, Bob HERIZA, Howie BODENHAMER, Doc ARNOLD, Bruce HINDS, Stu BOYD, and Gene HOPP. Their recreation activity centered around arented house with five bedrooms, five baths, three fireplaces, two saunas, one hot tub and one outside pond (rumors are that Stu thought it was apool). The troops had the first evening’s dinner hosted by the McNultys (kudos to Cathy), and Stu hosted the group the next evening. Our on-scene reporter added that the highlights were skiing at Deer Valley and visiting the McNultys; low spots were trying to ski in the rain and slush the first couple of days. We understand that Pat BUCKLEY is aterror on the slopes, and Karl KELLERMAN fell and cracked arib (skiing). To update the class on afew of the troops—Bob BRICKEY fl ies for United (West Coast shuttle); Karl KELLERMAN works with the FAA (D.C.) in security systems; the class B-2 test pilot (Bruce) has retired from Northrop and flies for Chino Air Museum. The gang also called Earl AMAN, who has been ill recently. Thanks for the report, and let’s all give Earl acall! Phone: 210-646-9458.

Last column, Iasked for input on the 35th reunion—lest you guys get me in trouble with the class president, give me some ideas, please.

Standing by to copy.

John W. “Jack” Jamba

4Judy Court

Satellite Beach, FL 32937

Home: (407) 777-5520

Office: (407) 861-3519

Percent members: 72

Hi Redtags!

Well it’s great to be writing again to all of you. Ihave some late Christmas cards and newsletters that came in after Imailed my last col¬ umn. First, Gail and Peggy PECK sent one. Gail’s parents are living close by and spending lots of time with his family. Gail worked for ahigh-tech firm trying to put touch control computers in airliners but he left after some frustrating times. Then he and Peggy started Great Western Air¬ craft Parts, acompany that specializes in parts for older airliners. In

September, the consulting business took off and Gail was spending more than half his time with helping to develop an air conditioning and heating company. Gail is an exec VP now with the possibility for more advance¬ ment and possibly some ownership. The young girls are doing very well. Liz is making straight As. Jenny is ajunior and talks about acareer in medicine or law. Kayte has anew job as an advertising executive with a national winter sports magazine, “Snow Boarder.” Jack and his family have added anew child and moved to London where he works for the Bank of France. Scot and his family have moved to San Antonio where his work focuses on entertainment and visual presentations for the San Antonio River tourist and convention industries. Gail and Peggy wish everyone awonderful year. Thanks for the good news and update on the family. And good luck with the new business ventures.

Got acall from Tom MOORE last week. Tom is planning avacation to Italy in the near future and wanted Alex HARDWICK’S address to try and contact him for aget-together. Tom is doing some consulting work around the Washington beltway. He will keep me posted on his European trip. Iran into Colin RICHARDSON in the supermarket last week. He looks great and is as healthy as ayoung bull. He doesn’t worry about fat and cholesterol and has the blood pressure of ayoung man. I’m envious. He has fully retired but goes into his old office on call-in assignments. He loves “surfing the net”, the Internet, that is. Since he retired he uses the Internet and communicates with people all over the world. He’s having a ball. And as usual, we agreed to get together soon—like we’ve been saying for five years now. We’ll do it yet.

The Dykes family —home for the holidays.

Got anewsletter from Ted and Marcy DYKES. Since their candidate George Allen was elected governor of Virginia, Ted was named one of the three commissioners to the Alcohol Beverage and Control Board. Ted now has an apartment in Richmond for the week and commutes home on weekends. He loves the change of pace and the chance to eliminate waste and do athorough housecleaning of government. Marcy still heads two citizen organizations and has spent the better part of ayear uncovering a slush fund for three top county officials. Her work as agovernment watchdog (as the press calls her) continues. The governor appointed her to the State Board of Trustees for the Family and Children’s Trust Fund. Alittle closer to home for them is the fact that Tammy, Montana and boys have moved to Stafford, VA. He is stationed at Quantico and she is anurse at alocal hospital. Meanwhile, Chris and Sandy are putting the finishing touches on their house. They have done some traveling this year as well as spending time with Ted and Marcy. The Dykes wish the Redtags well.

Got aletter from agrad from the Class of ’70. Rick BEREIT read my column which told about George THOMPSON going back to Russia to teach in Pskov. Rick wanted to know how to get in touch with George because Rick wants to teach in Pskov. Small world. Now I’m wondering what’s in Pskov. Maybe George will write and tell me all about it.

Igot anewsletter from Chuck and Debbie CHEESEMAN. Their oneyear-old, Charlie III, is mastering the art of walking and talking. They’re convinced he said “wingtip vortex” just before Christmas. Grandpa C walks the boy and little Emily around the aerodome almost every day. Emily increased the supervisory tasking so much that Grandpa Chad cataract surgery to keep up with her. Chuck is refinishing aGreat Lakes biplane he got last year. The whole family took the Bonanza to upstate New York to see Debbie’s folks. Later in the year. Chuck flew to Oshkosh with aneighbor in arestored Grumman Goose which won Best Amphi-

bian at the show. Debbie described ahectic Christmas week with family from all over creation spending aweek with them. As afootnote. Chuck called me last month to invite me to stop up for an evening because Hal RHODES was going to be stopping by. Icouldn’t make it but hope Chuck will fi ll me in on Hal for the next column.

Got achange of address from Minter ALEXANDER, moving from Washington to Alexandria. How about that; Alexander in Alexandria. Also Isee that the Rev and Mrs Chuck MACNEVIN have moved from Marklesburg, PA, to Petal, MS. Lastly, Art FARRINGTON has changed street addresses in McLean, VA.

Italked to Fred and Arlene HENDRYX in January. Everything was fine in Cincinnati. They are planning to be back in Melbourne, FL, in April and May. We should be able to get together then. They are going to the Caymans in November. Caroline and Imay have achance to join them. Ialso talked to Don EGAN in January. He is devoting alittle more time to psychiatry and is particularly trying to help people with alcohol addiction. He went on atrip to Italy last summer with some other Redtags. I’m hoping I’ll get some pictures from one of the travelers. It was nice talking to Fred and Don. Hope to see you soon.

Got aletter from Don SHEPPERD. He saw Butch VICCELLIO and Fred FIEDLER recently and both are doing well. Butch is still command¬ ing AETC while Fred is consulting on the B-1 from Phoenix. Don went to Dick KLASS’ Christmas party. He also went to the AFA convention and ran into Mike MAJOR and “Indian” HUGHES. Erv ROKKE is doing a superb job as head of National Defense University. They see the Rokkes regularly. Don enclosed apicture taken in the Cayman Islands. Betty and Rudy BOW and Don and his wife. Rose, are scuba diving and holding a ’62 sign in their hands. He said that Betty and Rose are the ones with hair. Ihope it shows up well enough to print in Checkpoints. It’s great. Thanks Don for the pic and the news.

That’s it for now. Keep the cards and letters coming. Idon’t want my Neilson rating to fall. I’ll lose alot of advertising revenue if it does. 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

This will not be avery long article; however, it will be newsworthy. My biggest worry is whether or not it will be into the AOG office by the deadline. Naturally, Iput off writing until the last minute which is not unusual because many inputs arrive right at deadline time. The unusual part is where the final text is being written—a hotel room in Amsterdam. I’m on what seems to be my monthly trip for Boeing to meet with the European Joint Aviation Authorties here in the Netherlands. With not enough time to do everything before leaving Seattle, Iwas forced to delay completing this version of the article while traveling. Thank goodness for lap-top computers.

Jimmie BUTLER says he should get around to working the reunion video tape by June. Look for some correspondence on that issue by then. Jimmie and Jim DIFFENDORFER reported that Jim GASTON is work¬ ing with the AOG to display our Class Cups in Doolittle Hall. Iasked Jimmie if book number three (a FAC story) was out on the bookstands

Betty and Rudy Bow, Rose and Don Shepperd hold ’62 sign in waters of Cayman Islands.

yet. He says it is the best of his three but selling Vietnam stories to publishers is abit hard. He did report hard at work on another book. This one is amystery. He is also heavily involved in putting on awriter’s con¬ ference each spring.

David JACKSON gave me acall at the office back in January—talk about areal voice from the past! Dave has moved up to the Great Northwest from California. (Address: 19624 Highway 2, #249, Monroe, WA 98272) and is working (who isn’t working?) for aFord dealer¬ ship—not in sales. Also, Dave serves with aCalifornia ANG civil engineering squadron at March Field which takes him back to Southern California on aregular basis. It was great hearing from “The Deacon.’’ It has been along time since we talked—flight school at Reese if my memory serves me.

Curiously, Tom DURHAM called shortly after my conversation with David inquiring about Dave. Tom saw David’s address in the new Register of Graduates and wanted to know if he had been in touch. Tom also promised to send me anews article about Harry SNOW which Ihave paraphrased below:

An article in the Columbus (Ohio) Monthly, was headlined “The Modest Goal of Snow Aviation.” Harry T. Snow Jr. wants to build a new cargo plane using recycled personnel-aviation experts from the departed Rockwell Internationa. Harry’s airplane is called the SA204C. The article says the airplane could revolutionize air freight in this country and around the world. It is the transport equivalent of the commuter airplane. Short haul, rugged freighter best describes Harry’s project. Plans are to use off-the-shelf components with pro¬ ven reliability. The airplane’s design is based on acargo size of 8by 8 by 40 (size of the standard semi-trailer) and will use flat panel displays and integrated avionics. Harry does not plan to make the parts but to order them from subcontractors, then assemble, inspect and test the parts. Funding will be through private investors. According to the author, estimates indicate potential sales of 3,000 airplanes. One in¬ teresting part of the article is the description of Harry’s penchant for recycling—airplanes, plants and people. That is, he is using aformer Rockwell plant, former Air Force base, retired or laid off Rockwell workers, etc. Also, part of his business is to refurbish older airplanes and sell them. Not such amodest goal after all.

Editor’s note (or pitch): Obviously FAA Certification will be amajor milestone in the airplane’s development and introduction into service—a task Iam struggling with on the Boeing 111 getting it ready for United’s first revenue flight planned for June 7th of this year. Hard to imagine after four years of work. Harry, if you should need any help with “how not to do” an FAA and/or aJAA Part 25 certification, please give me a call.

Bob MAZET called just after the last version of this article went to press. Bob said he had been talking to Harry SNOW. Popular fellow that Harry! Bob also said he ran into Ed REISDORF at abusiness breakfast in Phoenix. That Ed is in Phoenix was confirmed by the latest issue of the Register of Graduates. Ed’s write-up in the Register says Investor, Paradise Valley. Bob has retired from medicine back in July (94). Iasked how does one retire from medicine and Bob said easy: cancel your malpractrice insurance and take an indefinite leave of absence. OK.

John GAVIN called last week looking for Wayne LEFOR’s telephone number—which Ididn’t have. John is working as astock broker for Smith Barney in Yakima, WA—where he has been living for some time. John’s daughter is participating in agymnastics meet in the L.A. area and John and Bruce KOHL were looking to get together with Wayne for din¬ ner when John was to be in town for the meet. Hope it all works out. John and Italked brie fl y about the possibility of getting the 1963 Washington State group together some time in the near future.

As things turned out, Bruce also called on the same mission. Since Bruce was calling the class scribe we also spent afew minutes catching up. Bruce lives in what Ithink is one of the nicest parts of all Califor¬ nia—Palo Verdes. Bruce has been working for TRW for over 20 years and professes to enjoy the relationship.

Changes: Ihave been seriously derelict of duty lately. Heard from Bob and Charlie HAYES about ayear ago (as you read this article) and vowed to mention that correspondence in the next issue. The summer article had

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already gone to the printer and then Bob’s card got lost on my desk—not hard to do. Bob’s involved in real estate in the Colorado Springs region. So, if you are contemplating amove or know someone moving to the area give him acall.

For address changes, Ted SCHROEDER sent anew address that read: BDM International, Attn: RSAF Support Of fi ce, 1501 BDM Way, McLean, VA 22102-3204. Last time Ishowed John FRANCIS’S addresss as Excelsior, MN, which must have been temporary because he is now advertising 3201 County Rd., Independence, MN 55359.

The Air Force Reserve general officer’s promotion list contained two Golden Type names: Terry DAKE, Mobilization assistant to the com¬ mander of the Aeronautical Systems Center at Wright-Patterson, AFB, was selected for promotion to major general and Jim MARTIN, Mobilization assistant to the director of Requirements at Air Force Material Command HQ also at Wright-Patterson, was selected for brigadier general. Heartiest congratulations to both!

Hopefully there is only one Fred FROSTIC out there. If this is true, then our one and only Fred showed up in the most recent Air Force Magazine as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Requirements and Plans. I’ve got to check this out!

That’s it folks. Now to find aprinter and FAX this to the AOG office. Of course, what would an AOG Class News article be without aplea for phone calls and notes—written, electronic, smoke signal or otherwise. Please take care of yourselves and let me hear from you soon!

Bob Hovde

7812 Ridgecrest Drive Alexandria, VA 22308 (H):703-765-0517/(0):703-415-4760

E-mail: BHovde@mail.crc.com

Percent members: 75

Moving Again: By the time you get this, Sandy and Iwill be moving again. Our landlord has sold this house, so we are on the street again. I didn’t move this much when Iwas in the Air Force! (As Sandy reminds me often!)

Letters: Fred MALMSTROM (see picture) writes that he has another one for the “Strange-but-true” ’64 archives. He retired as aReserve lieutenant colonel in July 1992. He immediately enlisted as aReserve Air Force medic, and re-retired as astaff sergeant in October 1994. Fred wants to know if anyone has started a’64 NCO Chapter?

Fred Malmstrom in his second Air Force retirement.

Change-of-Address Cards: Ken HELMIG moved from Garden Valley to Boise, ID, while Max JAMES (who finally found agood realtor) mov¬ ed from Rancho Murieta to Napa, CA. Bob JOBIN moved from one part of Alamogordo, NM, to another (I didn’t know there was “another part” of Alamogordo!). Jerry ZIONIC sent two cards to say he was moving from Castle Rock, CO, to Winter Park, FL.

In D.C.: Iattended apresentation/discussion entitled “Facing the Transport Gridlock of the 21st Century” at the Cosmos Club in Washington, DC, in March. None other than old roomie, Tom TILL, took on the ideas of Ron Davies, the Curator of Air Transport at the Na¬ tional Air and Space Museum. It was alively evening, but Tom kept bringing logic and political “reality” into the discussion. Bottom line:

Don’t look for any high-speed trains in the U.S. until Congress decides to tax gasoline so high that you can’t afford to drive.

Other Info: Nick LACY sent acopy of the 10th Squadron’s 1994 newsletter. Since it was written shortly after Roger HEAD’S untiimely death, there were many memories of Roger and how lucky we all were to have known him. Jane has moved back to the mountains near Riudoso, NM, where she will continue to work with ReMax.

Thad WOLFE, still the vice commander of Air Combat Command at Langley AFB, VA, feels alittle put out at having missed the reunion, so if you are in the Tidewater area, give him acall! While Thad is busy keeping the world safe for democracy, Jill keeps very busy with both Air Force family work and as anurse at the Riverside Medical Center in the motherbaby unit.

Jim and Sue VERSTREATE are still in Beavercreek, OH, where Jim is still with Modern Technologies, helping to keep the LANTIRN Program Office going. Meanwhile, he also works with the Boy Scouts and Sue volunteers with the Red Cross at the base hospital. All of this hard work, of course, is interrupted regularly for the chance to hold their first grand¬ child, Kristopher.

Jack PATERNO has retired from the Air National Guard and now flies for TWA. Aetually, he flies for TWA when he isn’t flying his Mooney 201, that he keeps on the small airport where he lives. Iguess that means that when he isn’t in Cairo or Riyadh, he is somewhere in or over southern New Jersey.

Denny and Mary Jo MONTGOMERY make me tired just reading about all of the skiing, biking and hiking. Denny even took an eight-day alpine mountaineering course and ended up climbing the highest peak in Wyoming. (Denny, what is anon-alpine mountaineering course?)

From far, far away in Saudi Arabia, Kris and Lura MINEAU report that the Kingdom is very interesting. Daughter Karen was with them last summer, doing an internship at the American Embassy, and got Kris ar¬ rested by the Saudi Religious Police for her skirt being too short (too much ankle showing).

Nick and Patricia LACEY have survived another year of living in south Georgia. Learning that fence repairs took money, Nick talked his dear wife into getting ajob. When she discovered that he was taking afternoon naps in the shade, she found ajob for him, too. Nick is now the director of a“911 Center” community command post.

Terry and Nancy ISAACSON are keeping busy in Arizona. Terry is an administrator at the new ASU East Campus at the old Williams AFB, while Nancy is full time with Chanel. It must be tough to be able to play shirtsleeve golf in December!

Ray GREENE is terrorizing the country around Mathews, VA—not with his country law practice, but with his RANS Ultralight. 50 feet, 50 mph and no rules sounds like flying the way it should be!

Jim and Jessica FLEMING got married last May at Sea Ranch on the Mendocino Coast in California and then went for atwo-week honeymoon in the Greek Islands where they learned to avoid the industrial-strength olive oil with which they cook everything. Later in the summer, when the various nieces and nephews were out of school, they had awestern hoedown wedding reception, with band, caller, chuck wagon, and western clothes required. (’64 grads go out of their way to not be predictable!)

Gabe and Nancy FAIMON are keeping the center of the country going, Nancy as afirst-grade teacher, and Gabe trying to get abusiness off the ground. Gabe works with 105 county emergency response coordinators, many of whom are ex-military, and he says that the political mood he sees is definitely conservative.

Steve and Virginia CROKER are still at Barksdale AFB, LA, where Steve is commander of Eighth Air Force. Steve still gets to fly all of the aircraft under his command and, in case you missed the reorganization of the Air Force, includes almost everything flying: A-10, C-130, B-2, B-1, B-52, F-15, H-60 (that’s the Blackhawk helicopter for those of you who think the fan should go on the front). So what, Steve? Did you get aholein-one, like Virginia?

Cam and Judy COBERLY are Volksmarching around Fort Worth after Cam completed ayear of physical rehabilitation following extensive knee surgery. After being out of the investment business for ayear. Cam changed firms. (He doesn’t recommend starting again from the bottom.) Judy is now the director of Laboratory Operations for Harris Hospital Systems.

Ang and Ginger CAPPUCCIO have started another house project in San Juan, near Santa Fe, NM. After selling the house that took three years to “perfect”, they have moved to acouple of acres surrounded on three sides by Pueblo Indian tribal lands—into an old adobe. Now that they have put on anew roof, torn up the old floors (brieks on sand), and added drainage to the entire foundation, they are into remodeling the kit¬ chen. (Ang, is “we” like, “Let’s clean out the garage.”?)

Keep those cards and letters coming. Check six!

Rod Rodman

RR #1, Box 331 Pownal, VT 05261

(802) 823-7789

Percent members: 69

Greetings from the foothills of Vermont. Two issues are pressing up this way. First, Ben and Jerry didn’t sell enough artery-clogging ice cream and suffered their first losing quarter. And, if that isn’t bad enough, the ever-expanding “evils” of casino gambling are knocking at our borders, five minutes from my house in fact. Our governor, however, is convinced the latter would doom the Green Mountain State and all its residents to eternal damnation, so it looks like our cows and maple syrup trees are safe for another few years.

Judi and Iescaped to Orlando for part of the winter. On the way back north, we spent four days with Tom and Diane PLANK in Ft. Walton Beach (actually Niceville). Tom and Diane were gracious enough to organize and host a’65 practice reunion at their home for all our classmates living in the area. We truly had agreat time, talking over the last 30 years and marveling at how all of us looked exactly as we did in 1965!? You can see this is true from the picture.

Here is some of the intelligence Igathered. Bruce WOOD lives in Freeport, east of Ft. Walton Beach, and has abusiness manufacturing recycling containers. Mike and Deb MULDOON are in Pensacola. Mike is lending his operational expertise to the Navy as acontractor, helping them fly and maintain their aircraft. Lynn and Christine COLEMAN are also in Pensacola. Lynn is flying T-39s as acontractor for the Navy, train¬ ing their air observers. Bob (Trash) and Karen TINDALL are in Ft. Walton Beach. Trash works as acontractor at Hurlburt Field in the special operations area. Tom and Missy BROWDER live in Niceville. Toms works as asystems analyst on the Eglin complex. Howie and Libby HILL are also in Niceville. Howie is enjoying retirement, while staying actively involved in the local community. Among his interests are soccer coaching and possibly spearheading an effort to raise the local sales tax a penny to fund community and school needs. Good luck on the latter, Howie! Again from Niceville were Jock and Jane PATTERSON. By now, Jock will have become USAF-retired, one of the few of us to make the full 30. Jock is pondering the future, looking for new opportunities and challenges. We wish him and Jane good luck. Also joining us was Carol HARWOOD, widow of our classmate and my close friend. Bill HARWOOD. Carol is living and working in Panama City with their three sons.

Spider and Tambri MCKINNEY were unfortunately not able to make our reunion. Spider is in the defense-contracting business as well. Word also has it that Joe and Stephanie HENDERSON moved from Panama City to Nevada, where Joe will be involved with the BD-10 Personal Jet (remember the BD-5) project. Perhaps we’ll hear more from Joe on this

CLASS OF 1965 30-YEAR REUNION

8-12 November 1995

In the front row from left are Lynn Coleman, Rod Rodman, Mike Muldoon, and Howie Hill; rear row: Trash Tindall, Jock Patterson, Bruce Wood, Tom Plank, and Tom Browder.

for the next issue.

As in any transition there are always snafus. Due to my trip south, short suspenses and other flimsy excuses, alot of information sent to San Antonio didn’t make this issue. One tidbit Ron FLAKE passed on was that Rick ZURBRUGG’s son Karl won the 165-lb division at the Wing Open Boxing Championship. Karl is also the 1994 National Collegiate Boxing Association national champion as well. I’ll include the rest of the information in the next issue.

It’s apleasure and challenge to serve as class scribe for the next few years. Ithought it would be aproductive and rewarding way to renew contact with old friends and classmates. Our mini reunion at the PLANKs confirmed for me that renewing contact is interesting and enjoyable. So, please help me out. Send some letters or give me acall and let me know what you and other ’65ers you know are up to. As you can see from Steve SHEEHAN’S picture in the last issue and the handsome group in this issue, pictures do get printed. So, send pictures as well.

As you read this, the Class of 1995 will be graduating! Who would have thunked. Let us all gather at the Zoo come November in celebration of 30 good years and in remembrance of those of us who are no longer present.

In closing, ahearty thanks to our retiring scribes from San Antonio-Skip COX, Ron FLAKE, Neil STONE, and Dick ZUCKER-for keeping us well informed over the past five years. All four have promised to send me reams of information to fill this column each quarter. Have a wonderful summer!

Address Changes: Ken KRAUSE to 106 Wilkerson Drive, Marion, AL 36756; Tony MARS to 507 Canyon Oak Drive, Vacaville, CA 95688; Joe HENDERSON to 270 Shadow Mountain Circle, Garderville, NV 98410.

Ryan Denny

1210 Applewhite Road

O’Fallon, IL 62269

Home: (618) 624-4255

Work: (314) 233-3415

Percent members: 73

Greetings Redtags! It’s summertime already and I’m still sending out Christmas cards. The chain letter (send some news to Ryan) that one of you guys started is actually paying off. Afew of our “lost patrols’’ have been checking into the net.

Bob “Possumm” JANCO wrote from his home in Nashville, TN. He is on the faculty at Vanderbilt School of Medicine, practices pediatric hematology-oncology and bone marrow transplantation at the Medical Center, supervise student education, conducts alittle research, and flies as aflight surgeon in the Tennessee Air Guard (C-130H). All that sound¬ ed pretty interesting; but Ireally perked up when Bob wrote that his wife, Pamela, works in the best wine shop in the Southeast. Now that is some newsworthy material. Isee atrip to Nashville in the future.

Dennis FINK is also working in the medical field. (I noticed at our 25th Reunion that everybody there seemed to be adoctor, alawyer, or an airline pilot.) He taught bio sciences at USAFA for five years and now is teaching microbiology, anatomy and physiology, and general biology at Houston Community College. Dennis has been working on an electronics text that covers the topics of health, longevity, intelligence, and alter¬ native medicine. He sent me acopy on a3.5 floppy. I’ve been looking at it and it is interesting stuff. The disk expands (explodes?) to about 6M or 600 pages of text, so Ihaven’t gone through the whole text yet. Dennis says that he can make it available to any Redtag for the cost of the disk if anyone would like to learn about living longer and healthier. (I can think of afew of you out there who should have read stuff like this 15 years ago.)

Dan CECIL has retired and is living in Mesquite, TX. Ithink that’s somewhere near Dallas. As of Christmas time, Dan hadn’t settled into a second career yet, but was still looking. With five kids—10, 13, 17, 20, and 23—Dan is going to need to work on asecond and athird career. Like alot of us late starters, he’ll be paying for the last kid’s college tuition with his Social Security check.

Mike BLAIR wrote from Anchorage, AK. Mike retired up in the cold country and is the environmental engineer and project administrator of the Anchorage Regional Landfill. He says that he never thought that he would be working in garbage, but it pays the bills. Actually, he said that the real garbage was the poorly-written, constantly-changing EPA and state regulations that try to govern the waste-management business. Mike sees Ron BLAKE now and again. Ron is retired from ARCO and spends a lot of time jumping on Space-A flights to various golf courses around the world. Mike says Ron is finally starting to show some age—he looks about 30. Mike sent me agreat picture of him and his original 1966

Mustang—which I’ll get into the next column. He also sent me his last three years’ Christmas letters—which I’ll run verbatim if afew more of you don’t send me some information. Actually, they are great letters. Mike and his family lead avery active and interesting life up on America’s last frontier. He ought to write abook about it.

One of our really lost patrols checked in also. Brian McCarthy started out with the Redtags but didn’t graduate. He writes that since leaving USAFA he finished his bachelor’s and master’s degrees and worked in the medical equipment business for over 20 years. He lived in Europe for a few years and moved back to Colorado Springs in 1987. Brian is now the president and CEO of alocal software company. He is an associate member of the AOG and never misses aFalcon football game. If some of you guys in 8th Squadron were wondering “what ever happened to Brian?’’, now you know.

Reese NIELSEN just made his second star in the Air Force Reserves. He is the Mobilization assistant to the 12th AF Commander at DavisMonthan AFB. Reese works for Thiokol in Brigham City, UT, in his spare time. Achange-of-address card from Ron URNER tells me that he is aPhD who has moved out of apost office box and into areal house (or apartment) in Longmont, CO. I’m sure he’ll write soon and let us all know what he was doing in that P.O. Box.

Planning is under way for the 30th Reunion. Hans MUEH and Marty DAACK (they did the 25th), ably assisted by Mike HEENAN and Vic ANDREWS are heading up the effort and can use whatever help anyone is willing to offer.

It’s time for those summer vacation trips, so take along your camera and anotebook. When you see aclassmate, take his picture, find out what he’s doing, and send it to me. The Redtags of ’66 are still the best bunch of people you will ever know, and we want to keep in touch. Until then...Happy Landings!

Larry Wilson

13100 Pinehurst Ave. NE Albuquerque, NM 87111

Home: (505) 291-8949

Work: (505) 846-2510

DSN: 246-2510

Percent members: 65

Greetings once again from Kirtland AFB, at the time of this writing on the closure “hit list...” Iam beginning to feel like aBRAC Death’s Angel: this makes the second base in arow that is slated to close underneath me. Nice places, both. This peace dividend thing really has some drawbacks.

Let’s start off with some damn good news: Gene LUPIA was selected for his second star. He is now serving as the director of Civil Engineering at AFMC at Scott. Well done. Gene!

Input from several sources this go-round. First of all, aletter from my old friend, one-time squadron mate and former OSI agent Em MONDA. Em turned his investigative acumen to good use by applying it to the Taco Bell corporation in Laguna Beach, CA. He has recently had some signifi¬ cant changes to his life: he took on the roles of husband and (step)father. In Jan ’94 he married Michelle and acquired sons Andrew, 7, and Hunter, 4. This spring he will be adaddy, for the first time, at age 49 +... He said “...I was concerned that Iwould be bored for the next 21 or so years so it’s one problem that is now solved.” Em’s mother is 82 and doing well; his long-time feline companion lasted to the ripe old age of nearly 22. Em is in America Online, codename “Mondathel”—because some other tasteful geek had already taken “Emil.” Em, Ithink you probably have a few claims to class fame in your life. Thanks for filling us all in on what you’ve been up to.

From another CS-06 ace (?)—Les JENSEN wrote that he has com¬ pleted the transition from fighter pilot to fiddle IP. He teaches strings to three school levels in Marshalltown, lA, and is enjoying it greatly. Son Mike graduated and headed for Chicago, where he now works on Michigan Avenue for amedia corporation. “His building is one of those

on the posters of the Chicago skyline. His timing was not good: he is a life-long Cubs fan, and shortly after he moved there, they went on strike. Son Matt is asophomore at Iowa State, apparently enjoying the life of a student. And wife, Jackie—as tolerant awife as ever there was—con¬ tinues to thrive in the Jensen milieu.

Chuck BEATTIE wrote from Alexandria, VA, where he flies USAir shuttle between D.C. and NYC. Wife, Paula, works part time with her anesthesia group at Alexandria Hospital, and plays tennis in her free time. Chuck ruptured adisc playing golf this year so he has had to slow down abit or at least bend over more carefully. Meanwhile son Mark is working harder than ever before at amagnet school for science and technology in northern Virginia... atrue chip off the old block. Paula’s, that is... Mark is alacrosse player, following in Chuck’s cleat marks. The family went on aEuropean vacation this past year to London, the Cotswolds, and the world championship lacrosse games in Manchester. Chuck—who has some ethnic Czech connections—was afund raiser to help get the Czech Republic team to the games, for the first time ever.

Isort of got back in synch with Bill HALL and the 7crew, at long last. From his missive: Bill was especially thoughtful and gave his daughter Stephanie at her wedding rehearsal dinner his 1963 issue Post slide rule, to help her with her engineering job with ashipbuilding firm in Annapolis. I’m sure she’d make areal hit for her employers and client if she whipped out aslide rule for some of the technical computations...

Bill had seen Joe KRUZEL, who almost jumped into Normandy with the Army airborne troops for the D-Day celebration. But the Army nixed ■all such old-timer jumps. Joe made nearly 40 trips into Europe last year working on the still-elusive Bosnian peace accords. He was instrumental in developing the “Partnership for Peace’’ idea.

Rick WEIZENEGGER and family toured in Europe last summer and located the Austrian city where aFranz Joseph Weizenegger—the name of Rick’s father and grandfather—was born in 1874. Though there was no ironclad proof, there was astreet named after Franz J, so Rick claimed him as his own.

Add to the retirement roles Tom GRIESSER, effective 1-1-95. Tom has suggested that Jerry WENNER’s house should be the base for the 21 Vi year ski reunion. No mention as to whether this has been cleared with the Wenners.

Oslo, Norway, continues to be “home” to George and the FRUSHOURs, where George remains as the air attache. Daughter Kelly is in her sophomore year at Oklahoma U, and son Stuart is shooting for a college with amarine biology program. Wife, Pat, is involved with skiing and weight training.

Rich BEBEE was one of those wise enough to hang onto his cadet car—after 15 years off the streets, and after some assistance from a friendly tuner upper—Rich and his ’67 ’vette are on the road again. Rich is flying left seat for United in a737-300, and continues in the Reserves. He and Gayle plan to spend their 25th anniversary on an R&R at aB&B on the East Coast. Two of their kids are in Colorado colleges, while their third child is in the 7th grade.

St. Louis is now home for Pete and Linda MILNE, where Pete is direc¬ tor of administration for an accounting firm. After 31 years in uniform Pete had trouble wearing ties of any color other than dark blue... Their son Steve left CU as an architectural engineer specializing in lighting and joined aSan Francisco firm dealing with EPA lighting/energy conserva¬ tion. Linda is the executive director of Missouri Citizens for the Arts, ac¬ tive in fund raising throughout Kansas and Missouri.

Joe HOLBROOK is another of the growing group to have entered the second half century. His son Cannon spent his LDS missionary year in France, then returned home and married. Daughter Holli completed two years at Texas Tech, then transferred to the Uof Utah. Son Brandon is the last child in the house, ahigh school junior. Wife, Eldene, was last year’s teacher of the year at her school. Joe remains at Coca Cola, bring¬ ing on line new products.

A1 DAINES continues as asoftware guru at MCI in CSprings. In his spare time he grew abeard and began doctoral studies in computers. Son Eric also works for MCI while other son Brandon is at Colorado Tech majoring in—surprise, surprise time at the USAFA Frank J. Seiler research lab. Daughter Carrie is a sophomore at CSU and appears to have broken out of the family com¬ puter plan, studying English, music and dance. Wife, Wendy, is kept busy at home caring for youngest son Alex, 5.

much of his extended (nine month) Turkey TDY. The price paid for the stars can be pretty high.

From the AOG: again, not alot. Marshall LENNE moved from Athens, TN, to Andersonville. Danny SOW ADA moved across the street but remained in Austin, TX, and Rob DETURK also moved within the same city of Chestefireld, MO. And my old roomo Ron BRADLEY, now retired, moved with his current roomo (and wife), Malinda, to Austin, TX.

Iam writing most of this while I’m on the road again, this time in California, wearing my black IG hat at Travis AFB, former home and last command of Bob GILMORE. The folks there remember him well, and miss him—one characterized him as the best commander he’s had throughout his entire career. Icalled Bob and chatted with him briefly—he is an executive with Sutter Health, one of California’s large healthcare corporations. He sees afew of the area classmates occasional¬ ly, most recently Stan NAGUWA who recently left private practice and joined the faculty of UC Davis medical school, and Gary BOSTROM who is happy settled in Roseville, CA. Bob and Icommiserated about the future of medicine in the military—the “bottom line” mentality in¬ creases, with the “promise” of lifetime medical care as partial compensa¬ tion for acareer in the nation’s service seemingly lost in the shuffle. I’m sure that some of you read the AF Times article awhile back, where a Pentagon official described Air Force medicine as 50 percent overstaffed and misdirected in today’s world: military medicine should (in that arti¬ cle) be directed toward supporting only the needs of the active-duty force, and the combat-oriented active-duty force at that. Not quite the understanding that most of us have had over the years, and not avery happy state of affairs. Especially as more of us are heading toward that “golden age.”

And with that happy thought—best wishes to all; keep me on your Rolodex or Christmas card list. Best wishes to all.

Tim Davidson

9712 Hidden Valley Road

Vienna, VA 22181-6094

Home: (703) 255-5313

Percent members: 70

HELLO ‘68! The Checkpoints editor is pounding on my door to meet deadline so he can get the magazine out to the newest members of the “Long Blue Line”—the Class of ’95. For all who have offspring in this next crew of grads, we send you heartiest congratulations for your son’s or daughter’s accomplishments and for continuing the family tradition.

‘68 WASH., DC REUNION DEPT: HEAR YEA! HEAR YEA! For all ’68ers who can fly, walk, crawl, pedal, jog, roller blade, ice skate (Peggy, Si! Tonya, No!), or breathe in the vicinity of the Wash., DC area on 3June, we are having aregional reunion at the Andrews AFB Golf Course Officers Club beginning at 19(X). For all who plan to attend or believe they will attend, please call Dick FAST at H: (703) 425-7608; O: (703) 695-1323 or me at (703) 255-5313.

MAILBAG DEPT: The Christmas mailbag was full once again thanks to many of you who kindly began, or continued to include your scribe on your holiday greetings list. Lisa and Isincerely appreciate the cards, let¬ ters, and photos and hope you will all continue to keep us in the loop with your activities and news whether it’s the holiday season or not. omputer science, and working part

About Bill HALL himself—he is now agranddad, and had shoulder surgery last year to bring him back to combat-ready status.

Another star on the move: Roger CARLETON departed Operation Provide Comfort and Incirlik, Turkey, to take over as the commandant of the Armed Forces Staff College at Norfolk, VA, in April 95. For Roger’s sake, Ihope that there is fly fishing nearby. He has been deprived for far too long. He was plucked out of his previous home in Germany in June of ’94 on pretty short notice, and has been away from family for

Not to be outdone by Mike BURGAMY’s and Buzz GLADE’s 1994 bicycling adventure across the state of Florida, Elton and Janet

Elton and Janet Pollock take to the streets and pedal from coast to coast.

POLLOCK began Elton’s retirement from the Air Force with vigor, gusto, and aphenomenal physical fitness program. They departed Savan¬ nah, GA on 11 Sept and pedaled into San Diego, CA on 22 Nov. Janet wrote that they met lots of wonderful people and had nothing but positive experiences along the way. Just to keep grass from growing under his feet, Elton is doing some consulting work in San Jose while Janet helps their youngest daughter plan awedding in Salzburg, Austria in May. For July, the Pollocks plan to go whitewater rafting and take afew more (shorter distance) bike trips. With their motto, “Yesterday, the USA! Today, the Colorado River. Tomorrow the Iditarod!,” Ibelieve Elton and Janet qualify for ’68’s first ever, “Iron Couple” Award. Mush, you huskies!

Another splendid letter came from Hal and Kathi HIGLEY, who wrote of overcoming great personal crises to reach aspecial peace within themselves and the world around them. Hal freely admits, that his “better half,” Kathi, is the hub of the household and keeps the family on track and the home fires burning. Hal and Kathi’s son Hap (23) is now Ensign Higley after graduating magna cum laude from Rose Hulman Institute of Technology in mechanical engineering and then proceeding to Officers Candidate School in Pensacola, FL. Hal performed the commissioning ceremony. Their son Joel (21) is amember of USAFA’s Class of ’95, has recorded over 400 free-fall parachute jumps, is his squadron’s honor rep, and is amember of the Academy’s Wings of Blue. Joel was one of two USAFA cadets to jump into the football stadium for the AF-Army game at West Point. Daughter Becki (17) will graduate from high school in June and will be college bound this fall. Her activities last year included a two-week language trip to Spain, Girl’s State in New York, football cheerleader, and active participation in her church. Hal is aDC-10 second officer and is bidding to fly the right seat of aBoeing 757/767 out of Wash., DC. He also has anew responsibility as staff pastor of One Heart Church after being ordained on Aug 7. Thanks for the update Hal, and our best wishes for continued blessings in the future.

The next excerpt of ’68’s ongoing saga of “All My Classmates” came from Gene ROSE. This great picture of Dale ODERMAN, AFROTC detachment commander at Purdue; Gene, who is serving as the registrar, HQ AFROTC at Maxwell AFB; and Steve BORAH, AFROTC detach¬ ment commander at MIT, was taken during the National Commander’s Conference last Oct. Ithink the smiles amply represent the feelings these guys have about their current jobs.

Speaking of Maxwell AFB, in aroundabout sort of way (scribe was grasping for atransition sentence here), we also received greetings from Bob and Thuy JOHNSTON. Bob’s duties have expanded beyond doc¬ trine to launching the Air Force into cyberspace in the area of “informa¬ tion warfare.” His travel is extensive to AF commands and numbered air forces and he may be visiting abase near you. From their letter, it sounds as though Thuy’s reputation for phenomenal, no-notice, home-cooked meals “earned” them apanoply of no-notice guests in 1994. (Scribe Note: No kidding gang, no matter what excuse you need to get to Maxwell, just do it! Thuy makes Julia Childs look like asous chef!) Following gradua¬ tion from Florida State, daughter Carolyn traveled cross-country for the job of assistant manager. Enterprise Rent-A-Car in Kearney Mesa, CA (near San Diego). Meanwhile, back at Florida State, son Michael is in his sophomore year attempting to balance academics, work at The Gap, a 1991 Nissan 240 SX/SE, and abevy of Southern Belles. Thanks for the letter. Bob and Thuy.

Very few families have the opportunity to take aphoto as the next one with Jim REESE plus and minus astandard deviation of two generations on either side of him. Life just doesn’t come with those kinds of guarantees! Two weeks after this picture was taken, Jim’s grandfather

Five Generations, 2/5/94: From left are Matt Resse (22), John Resse (96), Alex Reese (/‘A mos), Jim Reese (47), and Les Reese (71). died. Two months later, his grandmother died at age 91. Jim’s wife, Mar¬ cia, expressed thankfulness for Jim’s job with Delta which allowed them to travel back and forth from California to attend Marcia’s mother’s funeral in January, celebrate Jim’s grandfather’s birthday in February, and then return to the state athird and fourth time for the subsequent passing of Jim’s grandparents. On amore upbeat note, son Matt was pro¬ moted to E-4 in the Army and is stationed at Fort Gordon, GA. Daughter Katie is asenior in math education at Georgia State College in Atlanta. Daughter Beka is asophomore at UGA and is thoroughly enjoying shar¬ ing an apartment with three other girls off ctunpus. Meanwhile, back at the ranch, Jim and Marcia revel in the empty nest that allowed them to vacation in Mexico and Sri Lanka in 1994 without any worries of who was staying home to watch the kids.

We also received anice note from Charlie and Nancy HOLLAND. While Charlie puts out fires around the world as deputy commanding general for the Joint Special Operations Command located at Fort Bragg, NC, Nancy is holding down the fort (Fort Walton, that is) where she and sons. Chuck (senior at Ft Walton HS) and Justin (5th grade at Mary Esther Elememtary), are keeping company until Chuck finishes his senior year in high school. The holidays were spent in Fort Bragg with the entire family happily together again. (Scribe Note: Doesn’t it amaze you how some of our Congressmen still don’t understand the sacrifices amilitary family has to make to give the one in uniform achance to have asuc¬ cessful career?)

Unfortunately, Ihave run out of room for all of the holiday cor¬ respondence for this issue and will do my best to get it into the summer column. So for Joe and Karen MICHEL, Rob and Maureen REYLING, Tom and Kathi TAVERNEY, Carl and Debbie JANSSEN, Bob PAULI, and Elizabeth (LINSMAYER) Johnson who have all sent in photos, please bear with me.

’68 SPOTLIGHT

The ’68 Spotlight for the spring ’95 column falls on the UPT Class of 70-01 from Reese AFB which celebrated its 25th pilot-training reunion in Chicago from 21-24 Sept 94. Thanks to the graciousness and fantastic organizational skills of our host and hostess, Marty and Claudia COLE,

The Three Amigos in the Air Force ROTC Briar Patch, from left. Dale Oderman, Gene Rose, and Steve Borah.

Windy City Hosts Reese AFB’s Class of 70-01 25-Year Pitot Training Reunion: Seated from left are the Scribe, Bill Drennan, Bob Latter, Bob Daley, Marty Cole (our host). Bill Sasz. Standing: Mike Freeborn (not really from Reese, but lives in Chicago), Jay Ferron, Bill Gaunlt, Jim Lozito, and Mike Morrison.

and the persistent letter writing and location finding of Bob DALEY, the event in Chicago was aclass act from start to finish. The picture only represents the Academy classmates. In addition to those pictured, there were pilot training classmates from ROTC and OTS, wives, and signifi¬ cant others who attended from all over the country to help us round out the affair.

The agenda included sightseeing, shopping on the Miracle Mile of Michigan Avenue, adinner cruise around the city, aChicago White Sox baseball game that was canceled by astrike and replaced by asumptuous cocktail party at the Cole’s condo, free breakfast buffets, and afarewell banquet. It was atime to reflect once again on the harrowing experiences of our fledgling years as aviators and to enjoy the company of people who made adifference in our lives.

For any of the rated guys in the class that would like to try to do something similar in the future, be sure to get hold of Marty or Bob. It does take asignificant amount of advance planning and astrong commit¬ ment from participants to attend.

’68ERS ON THE MOVE: The only one checking in for this column is Gary DIKKERS who is now residing in Madison, WI.

To keep peace with Dick COVEY, Iam going to launch another col¬ umn off into cyberspace. Mind the flak. Keep ’em flying. And keep those cards, letters, and photos coming in. See you at Andrews AFB on 3June! Ciao for now.

Lindsey Parris

5926 Colfax Ave.

Alexandria, VA 22311

Home: (703) 998-0488

Percent Members: 66

(Editor’s note: We did not receive Lindsey’s article by press deadline. Please send him some updates for the summer column.

The following photograph was sent in by the North Texas Association of Air Force Academy Graduates (NTAAFAG) showing agroup of ’69ers at the chapter’s dining-in earlier this year at which Commandant Brig. Gen. John D. Hopper was the featured speaker.)

At the North Texas Association of Air Force Academy Graduates dining-in are ’69ers W. Edward Garrard, Richard L. Grandjean M.D., Earl E. Roberts, Philip W. Keck, Brig. Gen. John D. Hopper, Jr., H. Ownby, Martin L. Page, and William S. Koerner. (Photo courtesy Michael F. Gibbons, ’63)

Tony Marietta

1070 Knollwood Circle

Monument, CO 80132

Home: (719) 488-3201

Work: (719) 593-8888

Home Fax: (719) 481-8768

Percent members: 62 rr

Couldn’t believe all the info and pictures crammed into my mailbox. You guys really came through for your ol’ scribe!

Col Rick BEREIT sent me what he described as “just ashort note” (150 pages) plus “some pics” (45 or so). Iwish Icould reprint all of Rick’s letter which shows his incredible optimisim and strong faith. Thanks for the uplift! Here are the highlights and info on fellow grads ac-

CLASS OF 1970 25-YEAR REUNION

6-10 SEPTEMBER 1995

USAFA versus Wyoming

cording to Rick: Rick is chief of Logistics for the 19th AF at Randolph, AFB with over 1,600 aircraft in his command. He claims to have taken our suggestion for amass airlift for the ’70 reunion under consideration. Rick also teaches an adult Sunday school class for about 25 percent AFA and USNA grads. He and wife, Barbara, have four children. Their oldest, Derek, is AFA Class of ’98, doing super and on the fencing team. George CATO is the SJA at Randolph, or at least 1think that’s what the letter says, as Rick has one of those cursive typewriters which does really bizarre things to capital letters and spelling in general. Pete FOX is the deputy for XO at AETC at Randolph, and Jim FERGUSON is doing a great job as wing commander at Sheppard AFB.

Rick attended the Spurs basketball game and ran into Ed RASHID, an eye doctor in San Antonio. Rick was stationed with Jerry CARPENTER in Guam for acouple of years, and Jerry went on to Nellis to become the range complex commander. Rich TUSETH visited Guam and is flying with either Continental or Northwest. Jack Hill, who was afreshman with us but graduated from Virginia, is on the staff of The Navigators, a Christian organization. Jack and wife, Carolyn, are doing great. Steve BLOMQUIST serves as amissionary in the Czech Republic.

Rick sent me acopy of the Christmas letter he received from Don GABRESKI and wife, Terry, also an AF colonel. The GABRESKIs are at Tyndall AFB and loving it. Don is vice commander of SE Air Defense Sector and Terry is the commander of the 325th Logistics Group, which supports the initial training of the AF’s F-15 pilots. They’re enjoying life with their two-year-old son Matt. Rick included apicture of Matt, but since Don wasn’t in it, Icouldn’t print it. Don’t forget the “pic” rules for this magazine. No ’70 grad in the picture, no “pics” printed. If you have trouble getting the family together in one picture, just paste your gradua¬ tion photo somewhere on the picture. Thanks, Rick, for all the effort you put into that letter!

The Bereit clan

Wild Bill STEALEY sent agreat Christmas card, letter, and photos. Bill spent ahardship year playing golf at their second new home in Sarasota, FL as he finished anon-compete period following the sale of his interest in MicroProse. Finally back to the grind, Bill now works with In-

Tbe Stealey bunch

teractive Magic, anew simulation software company which is doing great. Bill and wife, Laura, own the Baltimore Spirit, aprofessional soccer team which won its division. The STEALEYs have three children. Bill, Jr. (21), Tiffany (19), and Aly (14). All of the kids are doing great and life is treating the STEALEY bunch well. Bill said he and Joe MCCLELLAND attended the John Jacobs Golf School at Marco Island, FL, and they’re both now great golfers by their own admission. Bill said that he relies on the legal advice of A1 WURGLITZ, an attorney in D.C.

Got aletter and picture from Chuck BLATCHLEY, who is chairman of the Department of Physics at Pittsburg State University in Kansas. He and wife. Sherry, have two sons. Matt and Mike, who both attend Pitts¬ burg State. Daughter Michelle is amedical technologist, living in New Hampshire with her family, which translates to: Chuck is agrandpa! Chuck says that for the last 10 years he has been working with particle ac¬ celerators, and finding applications such as wear monitoring and making optical materials. Unfortunately, because this column is printed in black and white, you won’t be able to appreciate fully the bizarre ties that the guys decided to drape over Sherry. Let’s just say that they’re colorful, although Ithink they may be coming back in style somewhere.

Why Chuck chose physics rather than fashion design!

Got aChristmas letter from Ross JOHNSTON, including agreat pic¬ ture of Ross and Marty which Ihope to be able to run next issue. If Irun more than three pictures, the editor eggs my house. The JOHNSTONs are doing great. Ross, orthopedic surgeon supreme, still enjoys putting knees, hips, shoulders and miscellaneous body parts back together. I’m hoping he’ll give me the reunion discount for my knees. Wife, Marty, is CEO of the home front and has everything computerized. Son Todd is at Notre Dame, aRhode’s Scholar candidate nominee, and is just about to reach the seven-foot mark in the high jump. Most of us can’t jump that high on atrampoline. Daughters Jennifer, Rachel, Jessica, and Jordan are doing super.

John VERARDO sent aChristmas card. He and wife. Sue, are in Camarillo, CA. John retired from DoD and is pursuing some entrepeneural ventures, which of course, he didn’t elaborate on, so your guess is as good as mine. Sue teaches in the public schools and keeps tabs on two adolescent boys, Johnny and Joe. Daughter Krista is finishing her teaching degree, and daughter Traci is finishing up at UC San Diego. John said he often thinks about the times at the AFA Prep School and the AFA and wonders where the time has gone. He hopes all of us can take time out of our busy schedules to revisit old friends and memories.

Talked with Dave PALENCHAR the other day. He is VP for programs for the El Pomar Foundation here in Colorado Springs and doing great. Received more info and cards from Joe BURKE, George RAYL, Ken HASSEN, Dave STERLING, and Ken WHITE. These guys are always great about writing to me, but since I’m running short on space, Iam go¬ ing to hit the high points. Joe BURKE still enjoys the AFA as associate dean, and wife, Diane, keeps busy as ahigh school principal in an ever¬ growing community. Son Scott is alittle more relaxed as a3rd classman at the AFA, and daughter Julie just won a$500 scholarship in the Junior Miss Contest for Best in Academics. George RAYL still flies the Airbus for Continental, while wife, Mary, teached kindergarten and writes and illustrates children’s books. Brother Tom RAYL fl ies for United/SFO and became agrandpa recently. Ken HASSEN and wife, Kdee, have literally been rocking and rolling in Valencia, CA. Earthquakes are definitely not one of the pleasures of life. Ikeep telling Ken that the earth¬ quakes, droughts, fires, floods, and riots are definite signs that he needs to move to Colorado to be my neighbor, but Kdee doesn’t buy it. Dave STERLING is director of Modeling and Simulation for Adroit Systems for the Defense Airborne Reconnaissance Office in the Pentagon, and the

worst part of it is trying to fit it all on his business card. Wife, Donna, teaches science at George Mason University. Ken WHITE’S update on his book, “World in Peril,” about the 46th/72 Recon Squadron: the AFA archives may become the repository for the 46th/72nd documents.

Iam sorry to report that the AOG just received notification of the death of Steve MINNEMAN. Steve passed away from an illness on 12 Dec 1993. If you would like to send anote to his mother, Esther, her ad¬ dress is 3515 Woodworth Place, Hazel Crest, IL 60429-1547. Our thoughts and prayers are with all of Steve's family and friends.

MOVING VANS: Richard LOTZ to Littleton, CO. John STRINGFELLOW to Villa Park, CA. John HORNOR from Oklahoma to Arling¬ ton, VA. Charles M. BROWN to Johnsburg, IL. Mark ROBBINS from California to Kettering, OH. Collie NORMAN to Denver. Mike ROSE to Colorado Springs.

Don’t forget about our 25th from 6-10 Sept. Call Jack MUELLER at 719-488-3642 to help or to just hassle. Areminder from Larry BUSH, the class gift coordinator, to keep the contributions coming. As most of you already know, at our 20th we donated the money to build the bar in Doolittle Hall (our AOG building), which turned out to be asuper feature of the building. Larry says this year’s goal for ’70 is $30,000, to be used for the purchase of the three remaining alcoves and associated furniture adjacent to the “Class of ’70” bar area. Larry hopes that all grads will contribute $140 or multiples of $70, say like $70,000. Larry says the gift is tax deductible, and that many companies will do amatching gift for their employees—check it out. The 25th reunion should be agreat time. Most of us are already doing two-a-day workouts to lose 60-100 pounds, and trying to style, color, or simply find our hair. Don’t worry about the tuck in your shirt or tucking in your chin or chins. None of us really care about that, we just want to see each other, share some tales (true or not), and convince ourselves that we really are “young at heart.

THANKS, GUYS! KEEP THE CARDS, LETTERS, AND “PICS” COMING.

Percent members: 52

Here Iam, trying to stretch three change-of-address cards and acouple of beers into acolumn. Tough work, but undoubtedly worth every penny that I’m being paid for it.

The big event that Iwould have loved to cover was Col Mai Watkin’s retirement. He was afull colonel when we were cadets, remember? Anyhow, his retirement ceremony was St. Patrick’s Day, and the ’71 con¬ tact in charge of “Alerting Somebody about Something Happening or Otherwise Licking Envelopes” (his title) was Bill KUBIDA. As you may recall from this column. Bill is with the law firm of Holland and Hart do¬ ing patent law, and he invited me down to alocal bar to spend Friday evening with him and Bob PARKER.

Since deadline was the next Monday, Idecided to lift atall cool one with the boys and get the latest word. Bob was still in Denver, but Kubs was there. Bob is working with Control Data Corporation on some government contract, and Kubs is Kubs. His entry in the “really cool souvenirs of the Zoo” category is the sign from the original “Doll Baby” in Castle Rock, which now graces his garage. The new owners actually gave it to him! Bill and Ihad to explain to one of the newest associates in the fi rm that once upon atime Castle Rock wasn’t the oasiss of sophistication between the Springs and Denver that it now is, and that such aplace as the DB really existed. Ah, youth! If you find youself in town on aFriday evening, check out the Ritz Bar on Tejon and Pikes Peak to see if Bill and Bob are in.

Change-of-Address Cards: Bernie GLAZE changed coasts, from Hun¬ tington Beach, CA to Roseland, NJ. A1 MOYER moved down the street (about five blocks?) in Roanoke, VA; Jay VAN PELT made ANG col¬ onel and moved from Arlington, VA to Moreno Valley, CA. Jay, is you is awing commander now? Whatever job Governor Wilson gives you, we know you’ll do good.

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Since Ihaven’t heard from any of you guys recently, here are some questions that might prompt some letters. First, who can name our oldest and youngest classmates? What distinction do five of our classmates share going in and none going out? If you know the answers, put them on apiece of paper with some information about your recent life and send it to me. This competition is also open to spouses, children, parents, friends and acquaintances of ’71 grads. Hope that someone feels sorry for the ol’ scribe and bails out the class for the fall column, which should be due the week after you read these words.

Bob Bell

13 Paci fi c Ave

Sinking Spring, PA 19608

Home: (610) 678-3182

Percent Members: 52

We start to look ahead at the prospect of summer and it’s time to quickly put out afew notes of interest to the class. Since only one letter was received this quarter and with only five address changes, Imay be finished in very short order. Let’s go to the address changes first. John HALL reports amove from Redmond, WA to Coupeville, WA. Joe FROST left Hoffman Estates, IL to make his home in Solomons, MD. BGen Jim JAEGER has taken the step up from Satellite Beach, FL to Ft. Meade, MD as A. Scott LEE moves across the way in Lumberton, TX.

Tom SCHENK is now residing in Pittsburg, PA and mentions that he talked with Col Jim WESSLER, currently flying F-4s with Taiwanese at Holloman, while Tom was attending aDecember Chaplains Combat Ministry Course, also at Holloman. Tom also reports that he spent Christmas break with Joost (Sharon) VANBASTELAAR, whose two sons are attending Penn State and two daughters are still in high school. Joost keeps up the A-10 flying at Willow Grove (my bride, Kim’s, last base too) as well as in the right seat (737) for USAir. Thanks for the up¬ date, Tom.

Our lone classmate letter this go-around was actually John and Nancy WICKHAM’S 1994 Family Christmas Letter in which they packed a wealth of anecdotal tidbits from each of their five girls—Naomi, Natalie, Nicole, Nadine and Noelle on only one sheet of legal size paper! The letter included quite abit of the family’s adventures for the year from Naomi’s birth in June to the January Colorado ski trip and the volksmarching events they participate in. Sounds like alively time around the Wickham home! John also mentions they traveled from home in Derby, KS out to C-Springs recently to spend some time with Academy roommate Rob (Donna) DAILEY who is self-employed in commercial real estate, primarily in sales and managing office buildings. The photo that should have been included in this column but missed the short suspense to the AOG (my fault) shows all John and Nancy’s gang lined up with Rob and daughter Chelsey in front of the house—son Erik was out for awrestling meet in La Junta.

With retirement from the Air Force in 1992, John has immersed himself in volunteer efforts including Crown Ministries, whose focus is on managing resources God’s way, as well as with Heartland Life Network whose current project is Choose Life WICHITA. Reminiscing on the time we were based together at Ellsworth, John, it’s good to see you happy with the life and love of your 16 years of wedded bliss with Nancy, and all that the gift of your faith in God has showered on you both. Please write again!

As Isaid, this was ashort newsletter, so if you’d like more, it’s up to you guys out there who haven’t yet taken up the pen (or computer, which in my case is lots more legible) to drop us all anote. Previous letter writers are also always welcome at any time. Every effort is made to include all writings and enclosed photos in each issue so if you’ll feel free to expound on your whereabouts and life events, the class can better keep up with itself as the calendar counts down to the 25th Reunion coming up in 1997! As always. Fortitude Per Aspera.

of romance. Nope, it’s the call for the next edition of the Class News. I decided this would be agreat time to start so Icould send in an in¬ teresting, fact-filled report that would keep you all thirsting for future news. I’ve probably failed miserably at that goal, but here goes anyway!

We had amini 36th Squadron reunion this February. Besides coming out for aconference we also had the occasion to visit Colorado Springs for some business. At the end of it all my wife and Iand two kids got together with Jerry and Jill HENNINGSEN and Dave and MaryAnn HUELSKAMP. We had the usual great time but Icould sense achange in the topics of conversation. 1wonder what it means when we talk about our nearly-grown kids, our bifocals, and our minivans?

The call Igot was from Nancy (Tom) REAM. The REAMs are now liv¬ ing in Morganton, WV. Tom retired about ayear ago and now is apilot for Atlas Airlines. They have two daughters, Megan (13) and Julie (10). On the side Tom is coaching soccer and their house is filled with the sounds of music, tuba and trombone, courtesy of Megan and Julie.

Nancy had some additional updates on other members of CS-12. I’ll try to relay the information accurately but my notes are not the best! Artie PENIX is apparently calling Cincinnati home at this time. Don FOR¬ RESTER lives in Monument, CO and flies for United. John PACE (Ann) is still in the Air Force and reportedly has areal good job in Denver. “O MITCHELL is still practicing orthopedic surgery in Colorado Springs. Jonathan R. ELLER is aprofessor of English at Indiana University. Gary PRECHTER, MD has retired from the Air Force and is practicing pulmonology in St. Joseph, ML Rich FAZIO (Theresa) is currently flying for Federal Express and is living in Cordova, TN. Landon L. WESTBROOK is an attorney working for Texaco, and lives in Coral Gables, FL. Nancy also passes on, as we mentioned in the last issue, that Rick KARVOSKY is interested in doing anewsletter for the members of the 12th Squadron. If you have any news of particular interest to 12th Squadron alumni please let him know (4609 Sam Bratton NW, Albuquer¬ que, NM 87114).

In the never-ending search for news Igot to talk to Sharon KEARNS (Wade). In the last issue Ireported that he was apilot for Midwest Airlines. They are living in New Berlin, WI and have recently gotten the good news that their daughter Marcella is the recipient of aFulbright Scholarship. She will be graduating from Canisius College in May and will then be going to Vienna for nine months. Sharon reports that she was the recipient of ascholarship as the daughter of an Academy grad and feels that it was money well spent. (I agree!)

Sharon suggested Igive Boyd LEASE acall at Nellis. Boyd has been at Nellis almost two years. He is deputy commandant of the USAF Combat Rescue School and still gets to fly the HC-130. He is also on the 0-6 list. Boyd and Janice have three children, ages 17, 15, and 11 and they are all straight-A students. (I wonder if he’d rent me one of them?) He also had some information on afew more of our classmates. Wayne HOLUM and Susan are also at Nellis where Wayne is the deputy Red Flag commander. Ken STANLEY is director of the Test Division in the Combat Rescue School. He is flying helicopters and has three children, one in college, one (son Jeff) who is waiting to hear about an acceptance to USAF A, and a younger daughter. Tony KONCEL is also at Nellis and Boyd also relayed that Kenny BONN is apilot for Delta and lives in New Hampshire.

Getting ready for this Checkpoints seemed to give me alot of oppor¬ tunity to talk to the wives more than the classmates. I’ll probably have a bunch of angry guys looking for me next! The next spouse Italked to was Patricia WILSON (Bill). It was Sunday night when Icalled and guess where Bill was...at work. Bill is asystems program director at the Air Logistics Center and they live in Edmond, OK. (Did Iget the job right?)

I’d like to thank everyone for their time on the phone. If you can’t write or call Imight still get to you if you keep those change-of-address cards coming!

Joe Brezovic

Box 580202

Houston, TX 77258-0202

Office: (713) 244-8089

Fax: (713) 244-8041

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

Percent members: 48

Thomas

D. Bailey,

M.D.

1807 Arbor Way Drive

Shelby, NC 28150-6166

Home: (704) 482-3110

1-800-776-1054

Percent Members: 50

Acall from the wife of aclassmate reminded me that it was that time again. “That” time is not the call of nature in the spring, nor is it the call

We hope all is going well with each of you! Those who I’ve heard from seem to be doing well. This issue wraps up the last of the Christmas letters I’ve received. For those who try to understand why the mail is slow to this column. I’ll explain. The inputs to the AOG are usually required before the latest issue of Checkpoints gets into your hands. So if you respond when you get the class news, you probably won’t see it until two issues later. But it’s still fresh news to the rest of us who get copies of the mag. Thank you for letting us know about you and yours. Ido try to stay

organized by having afolder with the next issue marked on the tab. Dennis and Lin HUGHES are still wintering, and summering at Offutt AFB. Acurious note says that Denny has played fireman to aburning house, rebuilt the Offutt runway and hosted the ACC Commanders’ Con¬ ference-all as ops officer of the base CE. Isee that we’ll never out run extra duties! Lin is teaching three courses now and is considering starting either an FNP or PhD. They enjoyed the friends and memories they visited with at the 20th reunion.

This next letter summary is from Jim and Colleen LUNTZEL, who by July should be the air attache family in India. So Jennelle, Anne, Daniel, Bonnie, and Jimmy will have to learn how to be good examples for two worlds! Jim writes that New Delhi became his new assignment earlier in the year. Somewhat nervous at first, his meeting with the then defense attache-to-be, who had already lived four or five years in South Asia, calmed his concerns and gave abetter perspective of the assignment. (Other stories of rabid monkey bites, afew cases of cholera, and rickshaw accidents weren’t reported until after he was “convinced”.) One nice thing about the change of suits is that both Colleen and Jim went to the attache training together. Jim feels she’ll be better at the job than he will. Jim had coached the varsity volleyball team with his high school girls, and may wonder if they have that sport over there. Anne (14) rides pretty well and hopes to try polo in India. Daniel (12) plans to be the next “zoomy. One quotable quote comes from young Jimmy (5) on being asked if he was falling asleep “No, I’m just sampling the sleep.

Dale and Ginny BURCHBY wrote in from San Diego. Last summer, they took a3,300 mile trek across Utah, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona as part of their Rock &Roll Tour. (Lots of rocks to see as we rolled down the highway.) Dale is the director of technology for his sub¬ sidiary of Logicon—mostly systems architecture projects (computer stuff). He frequently visits the Denver, CO office. He still does AF Reserves at Edwards (?). The nominal amount of job uncertainity still rife in aerospace-related work eliminates any unwarranted complacency, he writes. It seem he relaxes, as most of the ’74 fathers I’ve read about, by camping with his son. Jim and son Kevin do this through the YMCA In¬ dian Guide program. High IQ points to Jim for encouraging daughter Melanie (11) to take up the clarinet and not the drums. They, too, enjoyed meeting old friends at the 20th, and reliving old memories like the AFA Chapel and the Broadmoor Hotel. Dale’s e-mail address is: CompuServe 72461,546 or Internet dburchby@logicon.com.

The Burchby family: Ginny, Kevin, Melanie, Valerie (7), and Dale.

Russell PATTERSON noted in from Cambridge, England. Russell retired from the USAF and has found achallenge in England. As the logistics manager for the Cambridge Arctic Shelf Programme he arranges expeditions to the Arctic, Eastern Europe, Eastern Russia, China, and the Falklands. Russell remains concerned with the insurance for such expedi¬ tions as well as maintains liaison with foreign rescue services. He offers his insurance insights (problems, stories...) to any one of us in the in¬ surance business. Just call! Work: (Oil) 441223-315182. He’ll offer the same help to those interested in the oil and mineral business who may be in need of scholarly services.

Change of addresses are compiled here: Tom BAUGH left Colorado Springs (again?) to live in the Denver area. Alan P. WILLIAMS moved south from K.I. Sawyer to Bossier City, LA. I’m sure that beats some of

of the snowfall. Clarence D. SMITH moved north from Barksdale AFB to Washington,, DC. Dennis BURTS drove down the road from Boise to Donnelly, ID. Christopher M. CAMPBELL came back from APO AE to Prattville, AL. I’m tempted to say that some parts of Alabama are like remote assignments. You may note that my address has changed. I’m still looking around for ahouse. Darlene will trust me enough to narrow it down to afew to select from. I’m sure each of you readers have been/probably will be if you haven’t been in that position before! Ifind that house hunting is more fun than grocery shopping.

May you live long and prosper.

Jeff Hackett

1866 W. Aspen Avenue

Gilbert, AZ 85223

Home: (602) 831-9605

Office: (602) 891-2734

Percent members: 43

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THE AMAZING “MECHANICAL” ARTICLE! In acase of in¬ credibly poor timing this article, like the one last fall, is being written in the midst of half-unpacked boxes and used-up tubes of Ben-Gay. Note the new address and phone number (work number remains the same). Anyway, the result of this predicament is an article that’ll be long on bare facts and short on anything that even remotely resembles creativity. But there’s lots to pass along (in amechanical sort of way)—two late Christmas cards, aletter, fifteen e-mail messages!, three phone calls, and aBBQ.

FROM SURPRISED TO SAD IN ONE SHORT PHONE CALL. Im¬ agine the look on my face when my boss came to me one day in January saying there was acall on the secretary’s line from South America! Turns out it was Billy STEPHAN trying to get info on how to make “Gone But Not Forgotten” inputs. Our call was necessarily short and my notes are largely indecipherable but Iexpect you’ll find the bad news details about John Patrick OWENS’ death elsewhere in this magazine. The Reunion Memorial Ceremony regretably grows in significance.

My apologies to Billy as 1can’t remember if it was Uruguay or Colum¬ bia that he’s the Air Force guy in the Military Assistance Group for. Ido recall him saying that his inclination is to retire this summer.

The Bill Lyerly Family

SUDDENLY MY LIFE SEEMS SO BORING. Got aChristmas card, note, and e-mail from Bill LYERLY...don’t know where he found the time! Bill is the “Emerging Threats and Crisis Response Group leader. Bureau for Africa, USAID, Department of State”. And avery active LtCol in the U.S. Army Reserve. Alas, he’s definitely not the center of at¬ tention in the family picture he sent! Bill and his wife, Syl, live in Maryland with daughters Heather (“15, going on 21”) and Kristen (6). Actually it sounds like Bill only occasionally gets to be in the Washington, DC area—in ’94 he spent the summer in Tajikistan (living in the Russian Embassy with the lullaby of machine gun fire on many nights), went to Geneva as aWorld Health Organization advisor on emerging diseases, and worked in trips to San Antonio and Southern California (managed to be there for the big earthquake). Along the way Wild Bill has turned into afont of knowledge on our classmates! Amongst the sightings he passed along: Mike LISCHAK spent 1Q95 in Riyadh as Task Force Flight

Surgeon (TDY from his duties as chief flight surgeon at Beale AFB). Mike HEIL and his family (wife, Donna, and six-month-old son) are also in D.C. where Mike is assistant director for Countermeasures in DoD Ballistic Missile Defense organization. A1 PIOTTER is in JCS J-5 work¬ ing Horn of Africa issues. Mark HOLMES has asimilar post for Asian issues. Dave HICKMAN was in St. Petersburg, FL working for MartinMarietta while his wife, Marie, worked as the news anchor-person for one of the local TV stations but (Bill’s version gets abit confused here) they may or may not have moved to Findlay, OH...(hoping Dave will write and clear this up). In another “this may not be current” note Bill men¬ tions that he saw Randy MASON while at USCENTCOM last year; Ran¬ dy was J-3 Ops rep in the USCENTCOM CAT for Operation RESTORE HOPE (I have no idea what Ijust wrote!). Bill got aChristmas card from Hugo POSEY who is still at the Pentagon (“where there are at least five sides to every story”) as abranch chief in SAF/ISDM. Pat ASH has put in papers for change in assignment from 99th Airlift Squadron to North¬ west Airlines (effective April). Staying on at Andrews are Steve VREELAND (in the 99th), and John TAMKUN (in the 89th Command Post).

One final tidbit from Bill to add to your sense of aging—there have been more graduating classes since we graduated than total classes before we graduated. Ouch!

SPEAKING OF OUCH! Second belated Christmas card from Mike and Diane BUCKLEY; the “ouch” has to do with Mike’s four months of absolute bed rest after he herniated adisc early in 1994. But he’s back at it flying for Alaska Airlines and the ANG. Mike will give up C-130 flying this summer as he retires from the ANG—could be some “travel withdrawl” as he may be the only guy in the class who went to more places in the past year than Bill Lyerly! Last year’s Annual Tour took him to Brazil, Uruguay, Cape Town, Canary Islands, and the Azores. Throw in the typical airline family personal travel (Mexico, California, etc. last year—Australia later this year) and I’m thinking the Buckleys could do Samsonite durability tests. Mike mentioned that Paul LOTAKIS, who is in the same ANG unit, will be retiring with Mike.

NO POINTS DEDUCTED FOR FORMAT. Terry YOUNG is living proof that even those inputs to the Class Scribe that are scrawled on the back of “Day Finder” pages will still be published! My read is that Terry just wanted to make amends with Bill MURRAY (who he had over for BBQ chicken that inadvertently became incinerated chicken) and his wife. Peg (spouses putting up with classmates visits/hell raising/story-telling is one of the miracles of marriage), by getting their picture in the Class News. It worked! Terry mentions that Bobby THOMPSON is living in Colorado Springs and flying for Northwest and that Jim EKEN is down at Air War College (Dana and family stayed in Colorado Springs).

From left are Terry and Peg Young with Bill Murray. We know that Terry didn’t fatally poison Bill MURRAY as he was one of my e-mail correspondents. He mentioned the visit with the Youngs (did not say anything about the meal) noting that Terry is ahard-working ser¬ vices squadron commander, that Peggy is driving her third “pink Cadillac” from Mary Kay, and that their kids (two girls and aboy) are very tall. Now Bill gives us some intrigue: he says that Chuck DEMOISY is the branch chief for Aircraft Modifications at HQ AMC—last article I reported that Terry had told me that Chuck was associated with aC-9 Reserve unit at Scott. Chuck, either write the scribe and straighten this out or quit leading adouble life. Dan SPEER apparently works for Chuck at AMC. He’s gotten his CPA license and will settle into that life in St. Louis area after retirement. Finally, Bill notes that Jon BALL is working as assistant to the executive officer for the Chairman of JCS (you didn’t think I’d try to spell that man’s name did you?).

LIKE RACQUETBALL, IT’S EASY TO LEARN! Anumber of folks took up my challenge to get out there on the INTERNET and drop aline to the scribe. This, despite aCheckpoints typo that added an extra “M at the end of my address; correct address is “HACKETTVoMICKEY

CLASS OF 1975 20-YEAR REUNION At Homecoming 1995 4-8 OCTOBER 1995 USAFA versus UTEP

@SOL.MDHC.MDC.COM”. Bob AWTRY teased me with a“more to come” e-mail from Naval War College that has not yet arrived. In his opening shot Bob noted that Jim DILL, John GAUGHN, Dan MCCORY, Doug MILLER, and Mike STRAIGHT have joined him as students while Kevin DONOVAN is on the other side of the desk as an in¬ structor. Bob misses flying but he says the locale and the time with his wife, Jani, and their two daughters (10 and 13) is great. They’ll move on in June and I’m sure we can expect to see that picture before then...right Bob?

Dean SPRAGGINS will at some future date tell us the origin of his America On-Line login—“Catmomx3”. Nonetheless, Dean is a fl ight commander in the 513th Engineering and Test Squadron at Offutt AFB. Wound up there after narrowly escaping aB-1 landing accident in 1988; his “memento” of the occasion? Five pounds of steel inserted in the spine to keep him standing! Dean says the ACC takeover of SAC has been a confusing affair, “no clue where this is all going nor where the next assignment will be.” For now he and Jean are just trying to enjoy Nebraska.

MORE NEWS FROM THE PENTAGON. Scott SMITH checked in from Washington, DC with avery informative e-mail. Scott is the military assistant to the administrative assistant to the Secretary of the Air Force (by his own admission “one helluva title”). The up-side is that he never gets bored by seeing the same type of paperwork day after day. Jan’s working in the operating room at Mary Washington Hospital in Fredricksburg, kids are in 6th and 3rd grades. The Smiths got to D.C. from McChord AFB where he was the 62nd Operations Support Squadron commander. They left behind Jim and Mary Lynn FELLOWS; Jim’s still the 7th Airlift Squadron commander (C-141s). Still keeps in fairly close contact with Richard LAYMAN, who has been 2nd Space Warning Squadron commander at Buckley for about ayear. Stanley COLLINS and his wife, (LtCol) Jackie, and three boys have all recently moved to Randolph AFB; he’s aT-37 PIT instructor. When Scott last checked with JT WOLTER, he and Meg, and their two children, Lindsey and David, were living the High Life of Colorado Springs, where JT is a sim instructor for United; also flies 747s out of Honolulu when he’s on the line. Doug and Allison MILLER and their two children are now in Providence, RI where Doug is aNaval War College student after being a successful C-130 squadron commander at Elmendorf AFB. Scott ran into Joe MAY, in civvies, recently—believes Joe said he’s currently serving a one-year tour as National Defense Fellow some where in the D.C. area. Chip DIEHL just took over as director. Mobility Forces (AF/XOFM) there at the Pentagon and Mike COMAN is in the same office.

GUILT...IT’S AGOOD THING. Finally got to Dave CLOUGH as he zapped me amessage from his hometown of Omaha where he’s lived with wife, Nancy, and three boys since 1988. He’s in private medical practice as an orthopedic and hand surgeon...and no ordinary surgeon is he—last year, he became amember of the American Society for Surgery of the Hand (highest professional honor for hand surgeons). Downside? “I realized that Ihad no more tests to pass or professional societies to join; the last professional hurdle has been cleared.” Being so close to Offutt, and treating alot of dependents and retireds on CHAMPUS, Dave says that he often experiences alonging for the good times in the blue suit...but that it’s tempered by some of the less-happy memories and down-sizing “Ya-hoos”.

CAN’T BELIEVE I’M SAYING THIS! You folks are getting so good at corresponding that it’s stressing me out; for the third article in arow I’m running out of time and space. So here’s the headlines (only) from other short e-mails Igot. Chuck SCHMITZ is laying claim to being last ’75er to attend ACSC in residence, his Guard unit sent him. (Your Scribe may win out for folks taking it by correspondence!) We’ll both be done by June when the Reserve/ANG LtCol Board meets! Chuck has seen Bill SPENCER who is at Maxwell as the editor of Airpower Journal.Stan JONES checked in from Fort Worth where he works for Martin-Marietta (aka G.D.) in Control Law Design for F-16s and F-llls. He does flight instruction on the side and claims the only classmate he’s seen in 10 years is Mike MCCLENDON who works for American Airlines but does Reserve duty at the Martin facility. Jim MICHELINI also sent some elec¬ trons my way from San Antonio where he works at HQ AETC/Initial Training; says retirement in San Antonio this summer is looking good. John KAMBOURIAN had to use another grad to get his e-mail to my proper address but I’m glad to have it. John separated in ’81 and has been

working for the State Department ever since; just returned from a 28-month tour of Haiti (yes, he was there for the show). (John, your return e-mail address got lost in the shuffle—please recontact me.) Bob HEATH and Ric LEW ALLEN again passed along updates. Bob relates that his old roommate, Russ SNYDER, was just promoted to 0-6 and was made the head of OB/GYN Department at Wilford Hall. From Ric; he knows where he’s going after he leaves Kadena (ACC Staff)—he just doesn’t know when. Ihereby acknowledge “casual greetings/no-news-toreport” e-mails from Don BYERS, Jim CARLSON, and Duane JONES.

OLD FASHIONED ELECTRONIC GREETINGS. Got acall from Willy COSBY in February. He’s now the regional sales manager for Hertz in Los Angeles after spending six years with United Airlines in San Fran¬ cisco, Chicago, and New York. Said that being back in town with his family after 23 years was areal treat...most of the time! Bob MOR¬ RISON squeezed in aphone call the day before my deadline as he over¬ nighted in Phoenix. Bob’s just returned to flying 767s for Delta (out of ATL) after suffering astroke three years ago in Frankfurt, Germany. The good news for those of us who are cool, calm, and collected (NOT!) like Bob is that they determined this was agenetic problem he had been living with since childhood. Bob’s also doing well as the support group vice commander for the Reserve Wing at McGuire AFB. And he’s engaged to be married in April.

MISTER YOUNG, DRIVE ON BY MY ROOM FOR REMEDIAL

BBQ TRAINING! Unlike the carbonized chicken Terry served Bill, the ribs Ifixed for Jeff CHAPPELL were perfect! And the visit was nice too. After we got caught up with his e-mail last time it turned out that Jeff came to Luke AFB for an accident investigation in February that Icoin¬ cidentally worked on in my Reserve capacities. Not much to pass along that wasn’t in the last column, just wanted to brag about my prowess with the BBQ!

SO UNTIL WE SEE THE WHITES (RED) OF EACH OTHER’S

EYES... depending on how the publication/distribution of the next issue goes, this could be the last time you read about your fellow heroes and men-amongst-men, you’ll soon get to listen to all the gory details! Schedule those vacations, gather up those mementos, and get otherwise ready for the time of our lives—it’s later than we think!

Terry Newton

19855 Hidden Springs Glen Monument, CO 80132

Work: (719) 472-4470

Home; (719) 481-9846

DSN: 259-4470

Percent members: 41

For some reason or the other, Ihave put off starting this column even though Ihave had some inputs. Isuppose Icould blame it on spring fever. The weather this year has been amazingly mild. The snow storms that did hit have mainly wreaked havoc upon the mountains and left those of us on the front range unscathed. Of course, we will pay for it next year or maybe in June of this year. Iremember 12 inches of snow during the first part of SERE one June. By the way, Iapologize to anybody who Imight offend because Iput down the wrong name of aspouse. Iam really trying to avoid it. If your AOG information has not been updated then Iwill have the wrong name. Please update your information yearly.

Imentioned in the Fall 1994 column that Craig PUZ (Eileen) was scheduled for major bone marrow transplant surgery on 1Nov 94. Craig called to update that all went well and he continues to progress. He ex¬ pected to be released from the hospital in mid-April and will return to his home in Palm Desert, CA. He also wanted to thank all his classmates and friends for their support.

Jim VINCZE (Janet) wrote that he is flying captain on the Airbus A-320 for Northwest airlines. They have afour-year-old son, Curtis, and Jim tries to spend most of his free time soaring while he is not parenting. I have also heard that Nat MILLICAN (Tracy) is the squadron commander of the 96th ARS and Garland PANNELL is the senior maintenance of¬ fi cer in the 96th ARS.

Kurt KLINGENBERGER (Karen) wrote quite abit of information because he used to be aclass scribe and knows what it is like to need infor¬ mation. Kurt works in the Pentagon as the deputy division chief in the National Security Negotiations Division (XOXI) where Brad MOFFETT (Elizabeth) and Bill BRUNDAGE (Dilys) labored for years. Kurt is get¬ ting ready to go to school at the Atlantic Council right there in Washington, DC. Kurt was supposed to go to Boston University for his own version of SSS, but it was changed to the D.C. area. He must love it there. Bill BRUNDAGE works in OSD on peacekeeping issues including low-key taskers such as getting all the U.S. personnel out of Somalia. So, if you know somebody who was left in Somalia, or who got araw deal

there, it is Bill’s fault. Kurt keeps in touch with Jeff LARSEN (Cindy) because XOXI is the main supporter of Jeff’s Institute here at USAFA.

Kurt also gets together with Dave ANDERSON (Gail), since he is in SAF/IA (International Affairs) in the policy shop. They went to graduate school together in D.C. almost 10 years ago. Boy, you guys are old! Jeff FORD (Cookie) is also in SAF/IA in the disclosures area.

Jim ROONEY (Millie) was working in XOFS (Strategic and Space Forces) but Kurt believes that Jim has moved to Albuquerque to work in one of the labs that is getting ready to close very soon. Kurt and Jim were Campus Radical roommates many years ago.

Kurt also sees Kevin MARTIN (Dawn) and Bob HINGER (Loretta) in the hallways of the puzzle palace. They are both still in the airlift/mobili¬ ty business. Brian ECHOLS (Laura) is getting his JAG expertise exercised in the Air Staff office handling base closure and realignment issues.

Kurt saw afew people who were just passing through the halls of the Pentagon. While at the airport waiting for his bags, Kurt saw Marty CLE¬ MENT (Diane), who was in from Kelly. Marty is putting his aircrew and life support experience together to develop life support and equipment policy. Acouple of weeks later, Gary LORENZEN was spotted in a bookstore near the Pentagon. Gary was TDY from Offutt AFB, but I have no further details.

Doug KUPERSMITH works right down the hall from Kurt in Studies and Analysis. Steve HALL was TDY up from Florida for some meetings. He has hung up his G-suit for awhile after many hours in the F-4G. Now he is into weapons testing. Steve STOCKDALE is still in or near Dallas. He drove to the airport to visit with Kurt when Kurt happened to be pass¬ ing through the area recently. Steve reported that he sees K.C. STEINBAUGH quite abit and that they live close to each other. However, there was no further information.

Mike BLYTHE (Susan) was TDY to the Pentagon and visited with Kurt recently. Mike is the deputy political advisor at U.S. Space Command right here in Colorado Springs. It is amazing how some of this informa¬ tion gets to me. Wynn MACKLIN (Debbie) is also at Space Command ac¬ cording to Kurt, but Idon’t know what he does there. Thank you Kurt for all of the information. You not only made this column, but every name you gave me had aspouse name after it, if that information was available. You made it so easy.

Joe MARCHING (Becky) wrote from the Heartland of America. He is the chief of Safety for the 552nd Air Control Wing (AWACS). He said that things are going well, although the friendly fire incident in Iraq got them alot of unwanted media attention. Danny ACOCK (Barb)) took command of the 964th AWACS squadron in Nov 94, according to Joe. Danny was elated to finally get his name on an aircraft. Jay JOHNSTON (Jill) took over the chief of Stan/Eval job from Acock.

Mike WALSH (Jackie), who took early retirement last year, is playing Mr. Mom in Montgomery, AL, while she attends ACSC. They will be moving to Stuttgart, Germany, when she graduates.

Joe also reported that he was TDY to Souda Bay, Crete, Greece, when he bumped into Mike REINERT. It seems that Mike is doing aremote tour as the RC-135 detachment commander there. Mike and Joe were doolies together in third squadron and had not seen each other since graduation. Thanks for writing and all of the information, Joe.

Joe Marchino, at left, and Mike Reinert at the Fishhouse Restaurant, Souda Bay, Crete, Greece.

Mike WORDEN (Lori) phoned me recently to give agood word for one of his captains who is trying to come work for the math department here at USAFA. Mike is at Eielson and attended an interior Alaska Party in Oct 94 where he managed to find out the following information. Mark OLSON (Terri) is the 3rd ASOF Sq comm at Fort Wainwright. T.J. KOCK (Kathy) recently arrived from National War College. He is the 353rd Comm Supply Sq commander (I believe). Chase JOHNSON (Pamela) is the 18th FS commander flying the Lantirn-equipped F-16s. Don BROCK (Anne) just returned to Alaska after being on the ACC/IG team. Mark WHALEN (Susan) was the operations officer for Chase Johnson in the 18th, but has recently taken over the ops support squadron commander job at Aviano. By now, he is probably done with that job. Mike also reported on Jim SHANLEY (Catherine), who is in the test squadron at Ellsworth for the B-ls. Thanks for the information.

Pete DARNALL (Suzann) sent aChristmas letter. Not alot of class news, but you wouldn’t believe what Ilearn about our classmates and their families from these Christmas letters. Pete is the team chief with the On-Site Inspection Agency and gets to make frequent trips into the former Soviet Union.

Ireceived change-of-address cards from the following people. Craig and Debbie JENSEN are in Fayetteville, NC. Tom HOLTZ (Rhonda) moved from San Antonio to Charlotte, NC. Dave KUNKEL (Donna) moved from Sunnyvale, CA to Ewa Beach, HI. Dave KRISTENSEN changed addresses in Albuquerque. Peter TRUMP (Valerie) moved from Honolulu to Maxwell. Bob SHERIDAN (Susan) changed addresses in Pennsylvania.

Ernie WOOLLARD (Pam) called the other day. It seems that one of his ROTC grads will be coming to teach math for us after we sponsor her for amaster’s degree. Ernie is the commander of the Sacramento State Col¬ lege ROTC detachment, that will be going away soon. He and his family are doing fine, if they can keep away from the flooding in California. That is all of the news Ihave and Iam about out of time to get this to the editor. Please keep those letters coming. Iappreciate all of the inputs I get. Fly safe.

John J. “Lou” Michels, Jr.

McGuire, Woods, Batttle &Boothe, L.L.P. 8280 Greensboro Drive, Suite 900

McLean, VA 22102-3892

(703) 712-5000

E-mail; jjmichel@mwbb.com

Percent members: 43

Hope this finds everybody well and enjoying what has so far been a beautiful spring. Unless of course you live in California where you are be¬ ing deluged with rain from the skies and atotally other kind of percipitation from your TVs as the O.J. Simpson trial moves interminably on.

IT’S PCS TIME FOR THE SCRIBE: Some interesting personal news on several fronts. First of all, Iam moving to Northern Virginia to take over the employment litigation shop in our Tysons Corner office. Please note the new address and telephone numbers in the heading. Ihave also added an e-mail address for those of you with ready access to the Internet. Iwill have ahome address as soon as Ihave finished holding up the Federal Reserve Bank so Ican make adown payment on ahouse. Sonia and Iwere in astate of shock after looking at the prices up there. More importantly, at the urging of my lovely spouse and children, Iwent downhill skiing for the first time in 28 years at Massanutten in central Virginia. You will all be happy to know that although my children outskied me, Idid not come home in abody cast nor did Iput anybody else in abody cast. That’s asuccessful outing in my book. Anyway, on to the good stuff.

MAILRUN: Ilucked out this time around and received afair number of letters, including some spillover from Christmas. As always, my thanks to everyone who wrote—are you guys finding more time on your hands or are you just trying to steal time on the kid’s computer?

When we last left Dave GRAGAN (Mary) he was on some kind of an assault ship heading off to points unknown. Dave is now out of the Marine Corps and is Indiana’s (the state, not the archaeologist) director of Purchasing. Dave and Mary live in Indianapolis where Mary is work¬ ing as aphysical therapist in acity hospital. Dave has started an Indiana Chapter of the AOG and has worked with one of his congressmen in selecting USAFA nominees from the district. Dave’s comment: “I don’t know how Iever got into the Academy.” Ihear you Dave, I’m aliaison officer here in Richmond and these kids make me feel like adrone.

Speaking of people who wonder how they got into the Academy, Jim “Anti” ANTISDEL (Sharon) wrote from Anchorage, where he is flying for Alaska Airlines. Anti wins the “my business card beats your business card” award for the quarter and probably for the year. It’s afull color photograph of Denali (Mt. McKinley to you traditionalists) with the

Alaska Airline logo over the top. Anti is flying 737s while Sharon is get¬ ting ready to start anew career as aparalegal. Since Sharon’s last job was with the IRS, Ihave to think she is either incredibly tough or aglutton for punishment. Anti notes that his spouse is also an LO for the Academy and is “trying to eliminate dudes like myself from the ROTC/USAFA rosters.” Iguess we’re both kind of thankful that the LO program wasn’t that tight when we were coming in. Anti sent me agreat home improve¬ ment picture of himself, Sharon and two of the potential Academy can¬ didates for the Class of 1999. Just joking, actually those are dogs and not high school students, you can tell by their alert expressions.

Jim and Sharon Antisel with "candidates. ”

The first to check out the new e-mail system. Mouse NEUMEISTER (Martha) fired me an electronic lightning bolt promising copious amounts of copy for the next column and apicture. The picture arrived, but no copy. So, Ienclose agathering of Eagles and soon-to-be Eagles for Paul SCHUTT’s (Barbara) pin-on at the National War College. From left are, Ken PAGE (Joni), John HERD (Mindy), Greg LOCKHART (Kathy), Dave CHAFFEE (Ann), the pin-on boy, Paul, his own self; Steve OPEL (Robin), Mouse, Rob VEALE (Chris), Mark LINDSLEY (Patti) and Randy MARTINEZ (Connie). You may notice some smoke rising from this collection of fast burners, my hat’s off to every one of you as the best and brightest of atalented group. And that’s even true though Mouse did forget to give me the rest of the material.

Got anice card from Joe and Molly FERRARA who are getting ready to leave Stuttgart for points unknown this summer. Molly notes that they will be sorry to leave Germany, particularly since the kids are now fluent in German and attending German schools. It’s been quite an education for all of them, they have been traveling to Italy, Holland and Belgium in an effort to “get it all in” before the assignment ends. Joe should be leav¬ ing EUCOM in July so look for him at abase near you some time soon.

Best regards folks.

Art and Lorrae WACHDORF dropped me aline from San Antoiuo, where Art finally ended up after agarbled series of assignment orders and withdrawls. Try this for arollercoaster ride of expectations—Art ex¬ pected to stay in Alabama through the summer, but last year went from an offer of flying F-15s at Tyndall (withdrawn) to an offer with the Hawaii Guard flying F-15s (withdrawn), to an offer of joining ajoint staff at Iceland (not withdrawn), to afinal “we’re not kidding” offer to take asquadron at Randolph. After ahectic summer getting moved, the WACHDORFs finally made it to San Antonio and got their lives back together. Ihope they have had time to catch their breath by now. Hope everything is stabilized out there. Good luck in the new job. Art.

Pat and Cyndee MCVAY sent anice letter and photo at Christmas time. As last reported, Pat commands the 304th ARS at McConnell. Pat managed to finagle ahop (yeah, sure) for the family to Hawaii last sum¬ mer. Cyndee’s comment: “Personally Iprefer United.’’ Another convert to the “troop seat as cruel and unusual punishment” team.

V. ■ s

Cyndee, Michael, Daniel and Pat McVay

Igot aletter from along-lost classmate, Scott JACKSON (Lisa). Scott left the Air Force early on and began working for GE Aerospace flying A-lOs and F-16s with the Guard. He stayed with GE/Martin-Marietta through 1993 and then moved just up the road from me to Charlottesville and started law school at the University of Virginia. He is also getting an MBA in his spare time. Lisa is finishing her MBA. Plus, their kids seem to be following in the footsteps of their shiftless parents—Chris is astate championship baseball pitcher who also won the NFL punt, pass and kick competition for Virginia, while their nine-year-old daughter has already begun writing letters to the editor of the Charlottesville paper. Some peo¬ ple simply have too much time on their hands. Thanks for the update Scott and Ihope to see you on my next trip up to Charlottesville.

ASURE SIGN WE’RE ALL GETTING OLDER, ETC. Rick SOWERS wrote me aletter unique for its thematic unity. Rick apparently lives, dies, breathes, eats and sleeps golf. He is living at agolf resort at Lake Tahoe and wrote me about dragging Bob VENDLEY (Nancy) around northern California courses for several days. Rick apparently sup¬ ports his habit by flying for Fed Ex while Bob jets around for USAir. Rick also keeps in touch with Lee MONSON (Julie). Lee is down in southern California where he is selling business jets. Rick notes Lee had to cancel aplanned trip up to Tahoe when ademonstration in Africa took him out of the country for about 30 days. Rick invited Lee and the family up for—golf, of course. Seriously, thanks for the update Rick and Iam sure Iwould have abetter appreciation for the sport if Ihad not hit my in¬ structor with the ball while at the Zoo.

PHONE LINES: Jim MCCARTHY (Gail) is up in Anchorage, AK and retired from the Air Force. He is teaching in the Anchorage school district and flying occasional SAR missions with the local Civil Air Patrol. Dave SWIGER (Rhonda) is also out and working as the site manager for McDonnell-Douglas at Enid, OK. Finally, Armando COSTALES (Wen¬ dy) will be moving back to Japan for acouple of years starting this sum¬ mer. Take plenty of dollars, Mondo, Ihave afeeling the exchange rate hasn’t bottomed out yet.

CLOSE OUT: Now Iwill probably get aflurry of mail from all the golfers in the class castigating me for my lack of appreciation for the game. That’s okay by me, just make sure that among the invectives you slip in some information about your life. Anyway, hope the spring and summer go well for you all. Be seeing you.

Greg “Kais” Kaiser

7420B Salem Drive

Columbus AFB, MS 39701

Home: (601) 434-0078 is great!

Work: (601) 434-2754

DSN: 742-2754

Percent members: 44

Well sports fans, this is going to be short and sweet. Don’t know about most of you, but Igot my copy of Checkpoints on the 15th of March, and now, Ihave adeadline of March 20th to get the next article to the magazine. So, as I’ve lamented before, there’s little, or more likely, no chance that any of you will be able to respond to the last issue. Therefore, instead of acurrent news/information publication, we have...RECENT HISTORY!

Just before the first of the year, Mike “Digger” PHELPS was TDY to

this, the best kept secret in the Air Force, Columbus Air Patch (what’s the secret? can’t tell you—you’ll have to come visit and find out for yourself). Digger and Iwere roommates in the days when cadets were men and dates were women. He was here doing his two-week Reservist thing, and we had achance to catch up on just about everything that’s happened since we last saw one another on 31 May 1978. We both agreed, it sure doesn’t seem like it’s been almost 17 years. He’s flying for American Airlines and also instructs at their flight academy in Ft. Worth. And, just after the first of the year, Igot abirth announcement from Digger and Rita announcing the arrival of their fourth, Isay again, FOURTH son, Patrick. Con¬ gratulations!

Also, just after the first of the year, Amy KEOHANE (wife of one of my doolie ex-roomoes, Tom) dropped me anote with the following info: Tom just got upgraded to captain with Northwest flying DC-9s out of Minneapolis, and Tom CZACHOR is also with Northwest flying out of Phoenix. Chuck BRINNINSTOOL, Gary HUGHES, and Jim “Harpo GRUPP are still with American, and rounding out the field, Jan WEISS is flying for Southwest. Amy also wanted me to remind everyone that Kevin KREGEL will be “doing us proud’’ in June when he goes on his first space shuttle mission. It should launch around the 22nd. Let’s try and get as many ’78ers down there as possible. Thanks for the words, Amy!

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Tom, Amy, twins Andrea and Jennifer, and Michelle

And finally, got aletter from one of my dear friends and ex-Wild Weasel buddies Matt “Curse” LACOURSE. Matt and Tina are on the “downhill side” of atwo-year tour at Osan Air Base. Matt’s the com¬ mander of the 607th Combat Operations Squadron, and flying the viper, and Tina is contributing to the bustling South Korean economy by buying all the “bargains” before coming back to the good ol’ U.S. of A. Just remember, Tina, all that “stuff” has to fit into ahouse when you get back.

Like Isaid, this was short and sweet.

J.R. Dallas

11048 Candlelight Lane Dallas, TX 75229

Percent members: 42

’79 MIGHTY FINE! Can you guys believe that 20 years ago June we all were in lines, alittle book crammed into our face, reading and memoriz¬ ing quotes, facts, and figures, while overgrown goons taught us what to say and when to say it? Unbelieveable! As Bud introduced me two issues ago, 1have replaced Bob MCGREAL as aclass author, but how can I replace alegend? Bob did agreat job for the last nine years so call him (collect of course) and pass on your thanks. When he begged for a replacement, Itook the job. Bob, that money you paid me went towards the down payment on the boat. Thanks.

I’m one of the airline toads from the class (are we amajority yet?) based in DFW with American. If you ever pass thru DFW, I’m only a 25-cent piece away, so give me acall. I’m also with the Arkansas ANG (Ft Smith) flying F-16s. We’re still in A-models, so don’t give me that “favorite son” stuff—the #1 man hasn’t helped us in that way yet.

CONGRATULATIONS! To our new LtCols. Dan CVELBAR sent me the list, but expected me to sort through each name. The nerve! So blame Dan that Icouldn’t personally identify each of you in aletter. Dan and Andy BUSH are attending Industrial College of the Armed Forces in

D.C.(Ft McNair), and Dan is off to Stuttgart, Germany in Aug. Guten Luck.

THE NEXT FRONTIER: For those uninformed, it took our Ciass of ’79 less than 16 years to get one of our own into space. On that revered list that includes Glenn, Shepard, Armstrong, etc., WILLIAM G. GREGORY, LTCOL, USAF became the first ’79er to rocket into space. Bill launched as pilot of STS-67 aboard the Space Shuttle ENDEAVOUR at 0137 on Thursday, March 2nd, 1995 from the Kennedy Space Center, FL. Carrying the ASTRO Observatory, his crew’s mission was dedicated to exploring the invisible universe of ultraviolet astronomy. Our beloved class flag has now flown in space. Bill, we’re proud of ya! If you want to send congrats, his address is: Lyndon Johnson Space Center/Mail Drop CB/2101 NASA Rd 1/Houston, TX 77058. Welcome back. Bill. The launch was something awesome to witness!

FAX FROM SPACE: Somewhere in this issue is an article that contains aletter from Bill to all ’79ers. Please read the fine words Bill wrote: The letter was composed in space, transmitted to NASA from the Space Shut¬ tle, and then mailed to yours truly. 1felt that the AOG could better highlight this “first” and give some free advertisement space to ’79 through aseparate article, so it’s included there not here.

Our very own Bill "Borneo” Gregory—Pilot STS-67.

The night of the launch. Bill’s wife, Mary Beth, hosted areception for their guests. Along with our families, 16 of us made it there and had a great time. We talked to Bill on the phone before he had to suit up for the mission, and let me tell ya—the guy sounded pretty darn calm for some¬ one who was just about to sit atop arocket and blast into space. Instead, he was more concerned that we were having agood time. Do we look as if we have changed?

of the General” were allowed. After he asked. Well, how about “a Per¬ sonal Invitee of an Astronaut”? he got the best parking spot they had. Name dropper! Bob KRONEBUSCH hopped down from ATL where he’s plumbing for DAL as an L-1011 F/E. Marty SCHMIDT also made it down from ATL—DAL 727 F/O. Mike VANLAAN is flying A-lOs with the Battle Creek, MI gang. Here’s something different—he’s actually us¬ ing his zoomie degree. Works as amanager for an electrical engineering construction company as his real job. Jori CROMWELL drove? over from Tyndall where he’s with the 84th Test Sqdn. Mark ADAMS said he wouldn’t have missed the launch for all the overtime he could have had. Mark’s working for NASA in Houston in the Vehicle Integration Test of¬ fice. Go figure what that means.

Ken IMPELLIZZERI also made it down from the cold country of Cin¬ cinnati where he’s with DAL as a727 first officer. Hasn’t changed abit. Mark LEUTHOLD is looking and doing great. He brought the family down from Ohio where he is now in the computer business with bis dad and brother. Steve MATHEWS flew up with his sweet young thing from Miami where he’s an MD-11 IF/O for AAL. Lives in acondo ovedlooking the Atlantic; flies very little; frequents Las Vegas often. Mark NEICE made it out from Kirtland where he thinks he still has ajob. He is the ops officer for the C-135 Test Ops Sqdn. Is pumping some serious iron bet¬ ween hops, because he looks as if he has grown four inches and added 20 lbs of muscle. Dave RHODES is enroute to the 27 FS at Langley where he’ll be re-acquainted with the F-15. Conspicuously absent from the RSVP WILL ATTEND list: Bob EDMONDS, Jon FAGOT, Mark BUECHTER, Rick DAVIS, Rob PARSONS, and Mark ROSS. You guys missed agreat time—hope ya watched the launch on CNN.

Other Items: Just received my AOG Board of Directors ballot. Hope you voted for Randy HELMS. Looks like he’s at the Pentagon; sounds like apolitician already with that bio he wrote. Good Luck. Mike DONATELLI sent me alate arrival letter from Chip TAYLOR. Seems Chip hosted a15-year reunion at West Point for the Falcon/Cadet game. Mark KLEINHEKSEL, Bob KLUTTZ, Jon FAGOT, Steve BARNES, Fred JACOBSEN, Joey HACKBARTH, Bruce HOLBROOK, and Gary ROWER made it to the yearly? event. Mike also writes that Jim NELSON (DAL A-300) and wife are expecting kid #3 in May. Pete BUNCE dropped Mike anote from Mountain Home AFB where Pete’s Sqdn CC of the 390th FS (F-15Cs). Reports that Korky VONKESSEL is the ops of¬ ficer of the F-15E Sqdn there and Chuck O’DONNELL is ADO of the 22nd ARS (KC-135s?).

Around the globe—Bruce BINGLE and Neil MCCASLAND are at Maxwell for Air War College. From their photo, the golf game hasn’t suf¬ fered. My fellow CS-32 Roadrunner buds are planning a16-year reunion in Las Vegas this June. Any others set up? Ray SANDS is living the good life in Orlando. He’s marrying Marlene in late March. Ray said that he ran into Steve CANDITO awhile back. Steve’s with Merrill Lynch in Orlando. Gary CURRY is working for adefense contractor out of C. Sprgs. Trevor ALBRO relocated to Oklahoma City where he’s afull-time Guard bum with the Tinker Reserve unit. Pete CHENAILLE is at Travis doing pediatrician duty. Don SCHERBINSKE is anew arrival to Travis.

Don COHICK has finally left MPC and is off to Ramstein AB to fly the C-20. Four kids and wife in tow. Walt DAVIDSON is in the Black world at Nellis doing who could figure what. Jan-Marc JOUAS’ per¬ sistence has paid off. He’s off to F-16 RTU in April and is now chief of Wing Safety at Nellis. Mike LEGGETT, Mark TURBERVILLE, and Mark SVESKA are doing the Weasle juke at Nellis. Leggs punched out of an F-4 on Mar 1st—he’s okay. Nothing but abroken finger. Glad you’re OK, Leggs. Craighton CHIN is doing face lifts out in Tacoma, WA.

Ken KRAAK (SWA in PHX) and Mike ENGLEBRECHT (DAL 727 FO SLC) are going salmon fishing in Alaska soon. Dewey DUHAMEL is working hard at Barksdale, LA in maintenance. Dave HARTLEY (AAL 767? MIA) still looks as young as ever. Steve LEPPER leaves D.C.(JAG) late this year for Turkey. Walt WRIGHT just PCSed to Incirlik doing who knows what. Tom TIEGELER is still at the Pentagon. Chuck FRANCESCHI is working in Denver with Geodynamics Corp—added kid #5 to the clan in ’94. Chuck, we need to talk.

Mark CUTKOMP finally got the correct date and flew down from Connecticut. Flying A-300s for AAL out of Boston, he’s got the time to pick and choose his vacations. Dave GILDAY jumped on Delta from Cincinnati with the family where he is an MD-88 F/O. Mike GLENN passed up dates on two separate nights to attend. He’s slumming it out of Memphis as aDC-9 first officer for NWA. Commutes from San Antonio. John SUSALLA has found his match; is getting hitched to Kathy on Mar 6in Lake Tahoe. John’s aDC-9 fi rst of fi cer for Northwest out of“the riots weren’t that bad” Detroit. Tom TAKAI took honors for best story getting there. Tom’s afull-time Guard guy at Selfridge, MI(F-16s), and when he called for aPPR at Patrick, he was informed that only “Guests

My airline contacts report that Rocky ELLISON (AA S-80 DFW) is now pastor of his own Methodist church near Denton, TX. Dave KIMMEL ((AA S-80 DFW) visited with me the other day in the jump seat. He’s still living in COS where his son is an up-and-coming tennis player—ranked 12th in the state. Pat DAVIS (Furloughed AA) is keeping busy in Keller, TX. Pete BERGAMINI (AA 767 IMIA) is in the diamond hunting mood Ihear.

In The Army Now: Got anice letter from Garth ANDERSON (DAL 767 IATL) where he is now battalion ops officer for the Army Guard unit flying KingAirs. He reports that Phil ELLIOTT (DAL 767 IDFW)) is still commuting out of Enid, OK. At the Metroplex Tri-Service Academy lun¬ cheon, Ivisited with Jim WHITE (DAL 727 FO DFW), Greg SVESKA (AA S-80 DFW), and Mike LENTZ (Lockheed pilot interface engineer).

Also heard from Tru EYRE (DAL MD-88 DFW) who reports that he and Greg BREWER (NWA DC-9 MSP) are doing the F-16 ANG thing at Buckley. Were in Australia in March flying with the Aussies. Tru reports that he is now the first Guard F-16 demo pilot. What else? Marc LIND is ADO for the 517 AS in Elmendorf; Gary ERKES (AA 727 FO DFW); Tony PARADOWSKI (DAL 767 IATL); Mike OTOMO (AA 727 CA MIA); Ranger ROBERTS (AA MD-11 IMIA); Ron LAFON (AA 767 I DFW); Ken GOODWIN (DAL 767 IDFW); Dan BAUMGARTNER (Pentagon); and Tom GREEN (exchange tour? in Norway). Chuck BEAVER is asst golf pro at aC.C. in SAT.

Changes of Addresses: Steve LOWERY—now at Luke. Dave KING now at the Pentagon? Bill TRAVNICK now in Ft. Collins(?) Thought he was in Alaska.

NEXT UP: While you are thinking of it, go right to the typewriter. Type some notes to Bob EDMUNDS and tell him what is up with you and others you know about. He is at: 1906 Cherry St/Panama City, FL 32401/(904) 784-1426/DSN 523-2658. See ya!

Don Myers

110-B Tree Point Alley

Kodiak, AK 99615-6813

Home: (907) 487-2598

Work: (907) 487-5887

DSN: 317-487-5887/FAX: 487-5273

E-mail: D.Myers/ASKodiak03@cgsmtp.comdt.uscg.mil j

Percent members: 46

I’VE GONE—not out of my mind looking for new ways to com¬ municate with you, just hi-tech! If you notice the box above, it contains my e-mail address. That’s right, Ifound out Ican be reached via e-mail on the Internet. It’s my understanding that most military types have ac¬ cess as well. Ieven think you folks on other commercial servers can send stuff to me—but I’m not that in tune to know the details. There you go: yet another way to shrink the distance and send me tidbits to share with the whole class.

LOW TECH. Idecided what to write about first by pulling out the thickest of the several letters from you. It’s from Bob (Charlotte) MASEK. OK, truth be known, it’s from Charlotte. And it’s not just from her, but includes several letters from the previous holiday season from friends of theirs (and classmates of ours). Charlotte said, “(We) get this pitiful image of you sitting by afrosted window pane watching and waiting to see the lights on the mail truck! Is this accurate? Let me just say, whatever prompts people to write is OK by me. Not much room was dedicated to the Maseks or their two children, it was news from the Northwest pilots’ travels like: Scott (Anne) PEATROSS is based/lives in Minneapolis with the DC-9; Brian (Leslie) STANWAY left the same place for warmer Nashville; Dane (Cindy) WHITE is back from Holland and with Northwest after atwo-year stint with KLM. His MI ANG unit switched from F-16s to C-130s and Dane is back from Little Rock transi¬ tion training. Bob (Deidre) SCHLEY and their two-year-old son are in Georgia and involved in some capacity with Am way. Kathy (UTLEY) (Fred) KORNAHRENS lives in Tampa where Fred is an engineer with a company that takes him all over the world; which probably means Kathy has all the responsibility of the home and doesn’t get to go along. Eric RUSSIAN should have finished his PhD in math from Georgia Tech. Although he stated “the testing is akiller,” he must not have said where he was going to put the training to use. Thanks for the letter, Charlotte. Enclosed in the Maseks’ letter were notes from: Randy (Sheri) CHOW. He left Hawaii for the F-4 in Holloman. Randy is happy to leave the desk (including amaster’s degree and ACSC) behind him, although after finishing up the big paper projects meant he was just beginning to have time to enjoy the island’s windsurfing opportunities. The two children (Adam/Kayla) are active in sports. Sheri squeezes in acrafts hobby along with the family routine. Ron (Alese) MCNEIL is at Nyutabaru Air Base, Japan as an exchange F-15 IP. It’s realty in Japan and they have no other Americans (or commissary, exchange, etc.). Alese penned, “We’re real excited and will pretend to be Japanese and drag abunch of cameras along. It’s like the Navy—an adventure.”

Joe CORSO &Company (which includes afull house of five children) are along the Beltway in Virginia where Joe commutes to the Pentagon via train (and instantly falls asleep after opening ACSC). He’s learning about computers and databases “by beating his head against the keyboard most of the day.” They got away from it all summer by packing up apop-up camper and exploring Maine and the New Hampshire area. They “hiked, camped, cooked lobsters over afire, saw moose and deer, and dirty kids.”

Dave FRANCIS left D.C., kept his house as he figures he’ll be back someday, and will probably be finished at Maxwell with ACSC and a master’s degree by this time—as well as lowering his golf score. He’s also

going back to flying. He says “I’ve been learning all kinds of Air Force things—nothing useful, of course, but it keeps me busy.” He also wrote he’d been reading abook Strike Eagle, about the 336th and 335th TFSs in the Gulf War. It mentions the guys in those squadrons (maybe some familiar names?).

Mike (Barb) EASTMAN is out of Ft. Leavenworth (the side for good criminals) and is back in Dover flying C-5s. Last heard, he was director of wing staff (like the wing exec). As far as the three kids, “None of them was excited about leaving the home of Dorothy, Toto, and Buffalo Bill, but they are fond of Dover.” They add: “As afinal note, we found out last week (Dec) that the Lord has blessed us with another promotion. But, of course. Barb claims the Col part and Mike gets the Lt part.”

My thanks to all of you who didn’t know I’d get your letters second hand.

MORE DIRT (eirrAews) from David (Angela) HUDSON who writes: “Is being stationed in Kodiak agood deal or not? Why Kodiak? Is it purgatory for past sins? Of course, these questions are being asked by a poor soul doing four years in the ‘Puzzle Palace.”’ To answer your ques¬ tions in order, David: Yes (for us); orders are orders; and No. David is an action officer working C2 requirements for the XO on the Air Staff and Angela is an office manager for acomputer sales and training firm. They also live along the Beltway in Virginia. He adds some names Ican’t remember hearing about for awhile: Janet THERIANOS is the exec for Dr. Widnall “after aVERY short tour at ACC;” Brian MARSHALL’S at the Program Exec Office for C2 Systems; JC DODSON is working ac¬ quisition issues for SAF/AQQS; Marty MEYER is one of the execs for AF/TE; Guy TURNER’S in Germany; Karen LANGE is afull-time mom in the D.C. area; and Dan AMICARELLI is “a contented civilian living outside Paris, France.

QUICK SHOTS. From Edwards AFB came Phil (Cheryl) COLLINS’ letter. Phil heads Wing Training, Scheduling, and Flight Records as well as the Ops Group Business Section. He’s flying as an unattached EC-135 pilot and it sounds like they put alot of time into their desert house and family (two little ones), including dad trying to get computer time from the oldest, Sarah.

As an update. Sue KOHUT wrote to say she is amarketing rep for West Corp., has good health benefits, and is working on an AT&T project. She teaches agraduate public administration course part-time and enjoyed the cooler weather when her MS was benign enough to run in the park with her son David.

Got acall from Bob (Susan) ALARDICE. He happened to catch me in my office on aSaturday morning (don’t tell anybody). Bob’s chief of Safety at Dover following ACSC and the joint school (AFSC?) in Nor¬ folk. He’s enjoying the challenges of the job and is looking forward to a family vacation in New England this summer in their new travel trailer. Their oldest daughter is now 12 and the twins just turned 10 and have made their grade—they have their own IDs. Icould sense us both shaking our heads in the “where has the time fl own” kind of motion as we closed our converesation.

Karen (OLSON) (Pete ’79) (DEGRAFF) sent aone-page update from Wichita covering the last eight years. It started with “For many years I have attempted to live out the saying that anything worth doing is worth doing right. Recently, Ihave come to the conclusion that anything worth doing...is just worth getting it done (any way you can!).” Maybe this has something to do with the letter. Anyhow, Karen is homeschooling their four children on astreet where most of the 22 other children are also homeschooled. They are busy with normal life, including many pets—and who can top arabbit named Needle Blaze DeGrafP. Pete recovered nicely from serious burns on his face, arms, and legs which he got lighting a bonfire on afamily vacation. “It was rather ‘intense’ for afew minutes. Thank God the children weren’t hovering over him as usual and for a pond only two quick leaps away.” Pete became an associate pastor after becoming ordained. He also flies to many plants throughout the Midwest providing financial counseling to the employees of the Love Box Com¬ pany.

One of our doctors, Gwen KNUCKLES, wrote to tell us she and her

son Christopher (“in the midst of the aptly named terrible twos”) were enjoying their second year in Maryland (Andrews AFB). She said she pianned on separating this past spring so Idon’t know what she’s up to now.

MISSED MY CHANCE to leech off—I mean visit—Cary (Susan) DAVIDSON in Australia. His detachment is closing and Cary’s been busy with that. I’m proud of him as he’s building alarge model of a C-130. Good man! Susan stays busy with her sewing outings and shuttling Robin around to school and horseback riding activities. What Ididn’t realize is that good snow skiing exists there, which the Davidsons thoroughly enjoyed. (Ah, yes, remember the days at Winter Park when we just pointed the skis down the hill and took out anything in our path?!)

REMINDER: Barring unusual circumstances, pictures sent to me have to have the grad in them to be published. Also, when you fill out your CO Acards this summer, please include afew remarks in the margin as the AOG forwards the cards to me. Thanks.

A(nother) CLOSING QUOTE from Tom (Ann) WILLIAMS: “It’s hard to believe that we are already into our second year in Australia. I’d like to share astory about another ‘missionary’ Irecently heard of who was both beaten and robbed. When questioned as to his positive attitude concerning the event, the man gave three reasons why he could give thanks. Although he was beaten, he was not killed and had recovered. While robbed, he hadn’t lost everything and, finally, he was thankful that he was not the offender. It’s really just amatter of perspective, isn’t it?”

From my perspective, you folks are great and Ilove hearing from You. Enjoy your summer moves and vacations.

Scott Dering 1140 Rhode Island St. Lawrence, KS 66044 (913) 749-4274

Percent members: 46

Greetings. Let’s get straight to the news. Randy WORRALL, Delta pilot out of Atlanta, sent aXeroxed article from Air and Space magazine that describes the recent 50th anniversary celebration of the test pilot school at Edwards. Sure enough, one of our classmates, Jeff NUCCIO (Edwards class of ’90), weaseled his way into asmall group photo with Chuck Yeager and other veterans of the school’s early days. Jeff, who’s an instructor out there now, looks good—he’s displaying that steely-eyed nonchalance that they probably teach them on the first day of test pilot school. Randy also wrote that he and his wife, D’Andrea, recently hooked up with Delta pilot Mark EMERSON and his wife, Karen, in Park City for some Christmas skiing. Finally, he reports that Dave and Jan (PETERSON) NICHOLS are in Virginia where Dave works with the Navy at Norfolk and Jan is ops officer for the C-21 squadron at Langley.

Afew issues back Imentioned that Jim VILLER’s wife, Vicki, had sent me apicture of their kids. Icouldn’t print it, as Imentioned, because of the new Checkpoints rule that all pictures must contain agraduate—a rule Iagree with by the way. Well, Jim felt guilty that his wife was sending up¬ dates, so he sent anice letter and included this picture of the whole fami¬ ly. Thanks to Jim we know that Dave MCSWAIN, married with two kids.

is an MD-80 first officer for American out of Dallas, and Dan BELL is a consultant for adefense contractor in Grand Rapids.

While I’m on the subject of photographs—you should know that in ad¬ dition to the AOG requirement that pictures contain aclassmate, Ihave a few rules of my own. (I actually reject more pictures than Iprint.) My big¬ gest restriction is that Ican’t be in the picture myself, but that problem hasn’t come up yet. (Seriously, have you ever noticed how many scribes for other classes sneak in pictures of themselves? Why aren’t they taking the pictures?) More importantly, when you’re composing aphoto, please worry more about faces than feet. Zoom in on those heads because Checkpoints readers want awindow to your souls, not your soles. Chop off legs or even torsos. Decapitate if you must as long as you send me the heads. Lastly, please make sure enough light falls on those faces. If the background is bright, please use aflash—even if you’re outside.

Jim REED also dropped me anice letter. Jim started his own architec¬ tural design firm in San Diego three years ago, and he still serves as a Reserve civil engineer with the Navy out of San Diego after seven years with the Reserves at March. He married Terri afew years ago, and they have alittle boy named Kenden. Jim also tells us that Lee CARSON is fly¬ ing for American out of Oakland and Bob SCHMIDT is stationed in Ger¬ many but is deployed to Aviano flying sorties in support of the Bosnian effort.

Sean BISHOP sent aChristmas card (remember, this is Checkpoints lag-time universe) with updates from several classmates. Ned RUDD, who flew 45 F-15E combat sorties over Iraq, now flies corporate jets for Minnesota Jet out of St Paul. Sean also saw Jesse GOSSNER last summer in Oxford (neither Misssissippi nor Ohio, but the real one) where Jesse is getting his astro PhD under Academy sponsorship. While there, he also saw Michelle JOHNSON who, apart from her own ties to Oxford, was still on White House duty escorting another Rhodes Scholar to the annual Rhodes House shindig. Thanks to Michelle’s pull with the first family, Sean managed to get an 8x10 with Hillary, but he inexplicably did not send me that picture. Instead he sent aphoto of his tailgate party from last year’s Navy game. Ordinarily, it would have been exactly the kind of photo I’m looking for, but it violated the aforementioned feet rule. If I had put it through the Checkpoints photo process (which at some point, I think involves Franciscan monks using very tiny paintbrushes), the chis¬ eled features of these handsome classmates would have been nothing more than ablur. It looked like aterrific party, though—everyone in the picture is displaying the insouciant camaraderie and semi-inebriation that make for agood Zima commercial. Tailgaters included Jim VOGT, Gary OCHENKOSKI, Denny and Connie GRUNSTAD, Mike and Jackie POTKULSKI, not to mention Sean and his wife, Carlee (’82). The Bishops are moving this summer to Logan, UT where Carlee begins an EE Phd. (Meanwhile, their Colorado Springs house is available for rent.)

Speaking of Michelle JOHNSON, she also sent aChristmas card. Michelle is now aKC-10 flight commander at Travis, finally reunited with her husband, John Heargraves, after her two years of “studying chaos theory’’ as apresidential aide. (If anyone from the White House is reading this. I’m sure Michelle was using the word “Chaos” according to Webster’s lesser-known second definition which means highly organized and efficient.)

Scott DINAPOLI’s wife, Annette, wrote that Scott finished aC-141 assignment at Charleston last summer that included extended TDYs to Saudi Arabia before going to ACSC. By the time this is published, however, they will be on their way to atwo-year embassy post in Ankara. Another ACSC wife, Renee GREGORY, called to say that Doug will soon be flying F-16s at Eielson.

Marty “You Man!” HUHMANN, aNorthwest pilot, is living the bachelor life in Kansas City. He had flown A-lOs for the Guard, but he stopped when his unit moved from Richards-Gebauer to Whiteman. Mar¬ ty reports that Bob CAYTON, Dave STONER, and Rich BROOK also fly for Northwest.

Rich AUGUR flies MD-88s for Delta out of Atlanta when he’s not at home in Asheville, NC with his wife, Leslie, and their three kids. Jim is a liaison officer for both the Academy and the Civil Air Patrol, leading searches for lost aircraft in the mountains along the Tennessee border.

Our classmates at the Pentagon still have lunch together every so often, and at arecent such affair, Joan CUNNINGHAM handed out bio forms to help me with this column. She apparently made everyone feel guilty by telling them about my Checkpoints-mflated phone bills, so Ihave much to report. (You see, Inow get other people to do my plaintive whining for me. Is that good leadership or what?) Jay SANTEE, who Iskewered mer¬ cilessly in several previous columns and who shall therefore escape this time, supplied the following updates. Mike and Jean (WILEY) DOWNS building their dream house on an airfield in Florida where Mike flies for USAir. Steve BRUNHAVER is at ACSC after being told on aMon¬ day to be there on Wednesday. Since it took only 12 hours for him to drive from the Pentagon to Montgomery, Steve considered this advance notice to be 36 hours too much. Ricardo AGUILAR recently left the Pen-

Vicki, Jim, Brackiey, and Skyler Villers

tagon for Arabic language training in preparation for an assistant attache job in Saudi Arabia. Chuck and Stephanie ROBINSON are at Nellis where Chuck flies operational tests in F-15Es. Unbeknownst to Tom or Sharon MALOOF (I think), Jay sent this picture of the Maloof family. Tom is aDelta pilot in Atlanta. He also sent apicture of ACSC student and former Thunderbird solo Mike BEALE, his wife, Karen, and their three kids. Unfortunately, some ink got on that picture in transit, so Iwill have to hunt down areplacement. (It violated the feet rule, but Iwould have let it slide because they were sitting on acouch.)

The Maloofs

From these Pentagon bio forms Ialso learned that Mike FLORES is a research analyst with the FAA in Washington, Dean CARLSON is an ophthalmologist at Wilford Hall, James GUESS is abone doctor in Cin¬ cinnati, and Tim HARRIS is at Wright-Patterson.

Other classmates at the Pentagon, some of whom Ihave mentioned in other columns, are John FARRIS, Tom ARKO, Marv FISHER, Dennis WARD, Ken BYRD, Dave SMITH, John FAGNANT, Kieth KECK, Glen BAUGHER, Joe DORTCH, Gary CROWDER, Dan BOURSON, Mike BUCK, Tom MASIELLO, Mike MURPHY, Steve CZERWINSKI, Sam ANGELELLA, Mike COMNICK, Paul MONTGOMERY, and Scott COALE. Also, Rob TOPP, Marty WAUGH, Mike LEPPER, Barry THOMA, Mike ZEPF, Patrick ROSS, Steve ALLTOP, Tom DUPRE, Scott KELLY, Tony HINEN, Mike SILAS, Ray and Karen (BONIEWICZ) TORRES, Bob YATES, Joel OWENS, Mike KADLUBOWSKI, Dave LITTLE, Mike MCGOVERN, Eric O’CON¬ NELL, J.C. CROWNOVER, Eric GARRISON, Tim MINISH, John OLAVARRIA, Greg MONTIJO, Kelly TIMMONS, Nelson ENGLISH, Harvey HAMMOND, Chuck SCHNEIDER, and Leo CLARK. (Some of this Pentagon information will be nine months old by the time this is printed so afew of these folks may have taken new assignments.) That’s all for now. Thanks for the inputs.

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: 45

Wow, oh man, oh man, oh man! When it rains, it pours! I’ve got so much mail Idon’t know where to start. In no particular order, here goes.

My ACSC-Cyber-Seminar-Mate Mike BERRY (mrberry@descartes. super.org) let us all know that he and Kathleen had their fourth child on the 3rd of March. Her name is Ann Thorn Berry, and her stats are 20” and 7lb. 12 oz. Kathlene, being the “drop ’em in the fields” type (Mike’s words, not mine) even made acommissary run on the way home from the hospital the day after Ann was born. Just another routine day in the Berry household!

Jon KIMMINAU sent this Christmas pic and aletter. He and Trish (RILEY, ’83) are having ablast with their daughter Rebekah. Jon is busy as ever at work (lots of TDY tool), and Trish is busy with Rebekah and lots of extracurriculars. Jon found out early this year (as did I...) that he is an alternate for ISS in residence this coming year. Isuppose that’s good news, but now we’re on a“short leash,” waiting for one of you primaries to drop out. Makes shopping for another job kind of interesting... Anyway, you can send mail to Jon over AOL using the screen name “JAKimminau.”

The Kimminau Family

Ben HUFF checked in from ACSC (using the very original AOL screen name “Ben Huff”) to promise me apicture of all the ’82 folks there this time around. He mentioned that, years ago, Phil BOSSERT wanted to know where Ben had been hiding. Well, the answer is “in the space business.” Glad you asked, Phil?

Iwas TDY to Los Angeles in early March and ran into Don LOTZ. He’s flying MD-80s for Alaska Airlines, and we were both saving our employers’ money by eating at Denny’s. Don is looking good (we com¬ pared bald spots), and enjoying himself living in Seattle. He separated about four years ago, and was hired fairly quickly. He told me that Charlie GLASSIE and Wayne BROWN are also fl ying with Alaska Airlines. Speaking of MD-80s, my wife ran into Steve VOGT’s parents in March. She picked up the tidbit that Steve has begun training to upgrade to first officer in the MD-80 for Northwest. He should be out generating revenue by the end of June.

Heather WILSON sent me acopy of Airlift/Tanker Quarterly from the fall of ’94. Our own Rich SIMPSON was profiled as arecipient of a Young Leadership Award for 1994. At the time of the award. Rich was a flight commander, instructor pilot, and tactical deception officer for the 3rd Wing, Elmendorf AFB, AK.

What’s wrong with this picture?

Ironically, at just the time when the USAF was doing away with official photos, Ireceived aphoto of Steve ATHANAS in this very familiar pose. Iknow the new uniform looks very plain, but that tie just won’t cut it! Yes, the hair’s abit long, too. You see, Steve is now amanufacturing manager for Aeroglide Corporation, aNorth Carolina company which makes food-processing equipment. When he joined the company, they sent anews release to the AOG, along with this picture. Steve had been flying Special Ops MH-53s on active duty (until ’88) then resigned and transferred to the Guard.

Earl DAVIS (daviseq@col3b201.af.mil) hopped on the Info Superhighway from Columbus AFB, MS, where he’s in anon-flying tour as the chief of Wing Exercises and Evaluations. Earl had been flying C-141S at McChord and Norton, and also had atour as deputy chief of the altitude chamber at Peterson AFB. He offers these phone numbers if anyone is interested in getting in touch with him: (909) 876-5747 (voice mail)) and (318) 473-9668 (parents).

Brendan CLARE sent along infogram from Hurlburt to fill me in on the comings and goings there. Lin MACK is flying MH-53 JPAVE LOWs in the 20th Special Ops Sq. Todd BOLGER is flying the MH-60G PAVE

HAWK for the 55th SOS. Jim DAHLMANN is the exec to the com¬ mander, 16th Special Ops Wing. Brendan, Gary HOGG, Steve STONE, Gary AMBARIAN, and J.P. PALEN are all “doing time” on the HQ AFSOC staff. Turns out that J.P. was the aircraft commander of the C-130 that had to ditch in Kenya after a105 Howitzer shell exploded while test firing during Operation Restore Hope. Quite atime, 1guess, with afire, and two engines out, and max gross weight to boot. Hats off for ajob well done.

Other news from Brendan—John AIKEN is headed for ACSC, Dave SCHAPIRO is doing BLUE FLAG at Hurlburt, and Kevin “Rock” MCDONOUGH is at language school in Monterey. He’ll get steeped in Spanish, then head off to be the C-130 pilot for the President of Colum¬ bia. Tim PERRY is flying HC-130s with the Reserve at Duke Field. Steve “Chief” WILLS is working at the Air Warfare Center (Eglin), riding herd on the enginers designing spiffy electronic displays/stuff for the F-22. Mike DAMAL is flying for Delta, domiciled in Los Angeles. Bren¬ dan says Mike’s heart (and eight or more investment properties) is in Texas, though.

Brendan went on with arundown of all his Stalag 17 classmates, but believe it or not, Idon’t have space for all that! Anyway, here’s afew highlights (I’ll run the rest next column, if there’s room). Steve ATKEE is the DO of aKC-10 squadron at Seymour. Dennis “DOOM” DELANEY is in Saudi, as the commander of the element teaching the RSAF how to fly and fight in the Eagle jet. He describers his assignment as “challeng¬ ing.” John SUTTER has the distinction of spending his entire post-UPT career flying the F-15. He is currently doing it at Nellis. Finally, Brendan wants to know WHATEVER HAPPENED TO Stan FLEMING? Well, the Register says he was last at ACSC. Anybody know anything else?

The Fadok Family Igot this picture in aChristmas card from Dave and Faith (INTERRANTE) FADOK. They have moved to Lebanon, IL, and (LtCol) Dave is stationed at Scott as the chief of the Policy and Doctrine Section at AMC HQ. Faith is asquadron commander in the Reserves, and is eligible for promotion to LC in June. She’s hoping they’ll backdate the promo, so that she can say she beat Dave, just like she did to major! When she isn’t busy with her Reserve duty, she’s keeping active building a“spec house” across the street.

George KRAMLINGER got his mug in the Daedalus Flyer for being selected as the ACC Flight Commander of the Year. He’s been to Opera¬ tion Provide Comfort, and is stationed at Cannon, flying the F-111. USAF Test Pilot Norm (SANFORD) HOWELL is on aleave of absence to assist Cirrus Design Corp. in doing its test flight program on aunique “pusher” aircraft, the ST50. An article about the plane and Norm’s in¬ volvement appeared in the Jan issue of Aviation Week. If Iremember correctly. Dean VOGEL also went to work for Cirrus some years ago. Bob WATERS checked in from Keller, TX, where he fl ies for American and the Guard. Bob and his wife, Darlene, have three children, Bobby (8), Megan (5), and Patrick (3). Tim RORICK is in the same Guard unit with Bob, and flies with Delta. Tim and his wife should have had another addition to their family by the time you read this. Bob got wind (from Rich SIMPSON, stationed at USAFA, working for the Dean) that Mike FLYNN is an AOC. Bob figures that their old CS-35 AOC (“Lips” Butler) is probably apoplectic over that! Bob learned that Tom and Nona LAV ALLEY are living in Black Forest, near the Zoo. Tom flies for United, and he and Nona have their third child, and sponsor an active ministry with the cadets. Andy CHILDERS is enrolled in the Cana¬ dian version of ACSC, and will take an exchange tour up there flying in

the C-130 when school is out.

Soon to be Lt Col “Bones” JONES sent anote from Tyndall, where he’s finishing up requal in the F-15. He and Martha (STEVENSON) will be on their way to Kadena, soon as Martha finishes up nav re-qual at Altus. Prior to that, both had been at ACSC, and were working in the same office at the wargaming center after school. Bones said there were advantages and disadvantages to that. On one side were car pools, leave schedules, and romantic lunches. On the other, you couldn’t blow smoke about how hard your day was! Bones talks routinely to Ray PHILLIPS (who made LC before Bones!) at the Pentagon, and he’s well, just Ray. Seems he’s always cutting Bones off to talk to the Chairman or the Chief, though. Tom DIETZ is currently at ACSC, but Bones says he always sees him on the golf course. Oh well. “It ain’t alot of reading if you don’t do it, ’’says Bones. Mark MILLER is finally out of the cockpit after hitting the amazing milestone of 3,000 hours in the F-16. Bones (ever the “Ego” jet driver) quipped, “Too bad he didn’t get those hours in afighter!” Paul TAYLOR and Scott ESHLEMAN are both flying for American. Bob WELLER (Prodigy address XGRC27A) had been working with me in the F-16 Program Ofice, then separated in December to go to work for Pioneer Frozen Foods near Dallas. He and his family are currently in an apartment, looking for that perfect home. He’s run into Dave and Julie (SCHEFFELIN) GRAVES. Dave is fl ying for American, out of Dallas, and Julie is running abusiness out of their home.

Montgomery’s Finest

Iheard from Jan (GRONERT) ROSKO, who sent this picture from a pre-Christmas lunch to gather six women of ’82 who are stationed at Maxwell. From left are Carla GAMMON, Liz DURHAM-RUIZ, Sue (JOHNSON) ROSE, Martha STEVENSON-JONES, Barb FAULKENBERRY, and Jan. Liz, Carla, and Jan are students at ACSC. Barb is astudent at the School of Advanced Aerospace Studies (SAAS) and will soon be aLt Col. Carla, atanker and WC-130 nav, is an alternate for next year’s SAAS class. Jan, another tanker nav, was most recently at Castle, but says her most rewarding tour was teaching aviation science at the Zoo. Sue was promoted to major early, attended ACSC last year, and is now on the faculty. You’ve already read about Martha. Jan said that Christine (INGRAM) CLIFTON and Teresa (STEVENS) TITTLE are both ACSC students, but were unable to make the luncheon.

Finally, Iheard that Andy ANDERSON is off to two years of DIA and Greek language training before heading to Athens in ’96. He’ll be the assistant air attache to Greece.

Wow. I’m way over length! 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”. Until next time, be safe.

Jon A. Duresky

4021-4 Ashwood Circle

Andrews AFB, MD 20335

Home: (301) 599-1535

DSN: 858-5833/2507

Percent members: 45

mI’m feeling an integrity problem here! I’m sitting here in my living room, just me and my computer, and as Ityped my byline to the AOG, I put that I’m amajor. Iwill be by the time this goes to print, but alas, I don’t reach the stratospheric heights of 0-4dom until April 1st. (For those of you joining me on that date, be ready for the April Fool, scheduled lobotomy, and other standard jokes.) There’s not even an honor rep

around to discuss this with. Not knowing what to do, Ipulled out my stack of Christmas cards and went to file “F” for FIEBIG. There I discovered abusiness card from “Major” Jeff FIEBIG, slot pilot for the Thunderbirds. Iknow for afact that Ihave abetter line number than he does—I roomed with him twice, each time we were both models of cadet adherence to rules and studiers of the books. Two different AOCs split us up. Some officers couldn’t take ajoke back then. So Ifigured, if one of the elite of the flying world could “Fudge” alittle on his date of rank for his press release, Icould, too, even though Ionly fly heavies. So thanks, Jeff, for helping me out of ajam, just like that time back in the Starship...

While we’re on the subject of integrity, here’s the Lie of the Decade: “I would have tried harder at the Academy if Ihad known that graduation order of merit affected line number for promotion.” Let’s analyze this—four years of all-nighters to pin on amonth earlier and get the king¬ ly sum of $200? Hmmmm. In any case, congrats to all the new majors, but, just when you thought it was safe to stick your chin out. We have classmates making 0-5! This should really come as no surprise, because these future Hall-of-Famers are destined to mold our Aerospace Force in the years to come. But Idid lie awake last night wondering, “When John W. HESTERMAN, III is Chief of Staff, will he take the epaulets off the service dress and put the rank back on the sleeve, and how will this affect our strategic deterrence posture in the 21st Century?” Yes, the Little BigMan is on the BTZ 0-5 list, along with the Big BigMan, David SCHRECK, and an ex-Starship 19 bud, Mike RAMPING (and Ithought Fiebig and Ihad done abetter job corrupting him). Iheard Brian BISHOP and Jeff STAMBAUGH were on the list, too. Maybe others. In that case, I’m remiss in my accurate reporting of the facts. Consider the source. I’m only an “on-time and lucky to be there” major. Forgive me, guys and/or girls if Ileft anyone out. Kidding aside, special congrats to the new LTCs, but don’t lose perspective and forget your roots as you edge closer and closer to the halls of power.

Some in-print feedback to our newest class scribe Billy “Scales” WALKER. Great article! Other folks told me the same thing, but more along the lines of “Gee, when did Billy Walker learn how to read and write?” The trouble with doing agood job is that now it’s yours to keep, so keep those creative juices flowing!

News Flash! John ZAZWORSKY is released from Leavenworth! No, he didn’t get his conviction overturned on appeal. What he did is graduate from the Army Command and General Staff College. He now speaks jointly, in terms of platoon, brigade, and division, and knows what a “leg” really is. Couldn’t have been too hard of aschool, though, because he and Monica found time to have ababy, abouncing bundle of joy by the name of Daniel Foster. Asporty delivery, but as John puts it, (this is a direct quote!) “Aircraft and crew are doing well.” Welcome to the world of parenthood, John.

Back to the stack of Christmas cards and form letters. Robert GREGOR is now afirst officer on the B-757, still flying the Here in the Kentucky Air National Guard, and now from the picture, his hair looked out of regs. Brian GERRITY plods along as a727 right seater, and is rais¬ ing the future US Judo team for the 2012 Olympiad; aka, his kids Taylor and Dwyer. Ray “RDQ” BLUST still works for American Airlines as an FlOO fi rst of fi cer, but more importantly is directly responsible for molding future cadets through his role as an Academy liaison officer. He was even the Region II ALO of the Year! Impressionable minds in Ray’s hands...now Iwon’t sleep tonight, either. And that is ashame, because I have to fly an intense training sortie with Dan “The Hammer” BRUNSKOLE tomorrow, and need to have all my stuff in one sock. Dan still makes me write out my boldface every time we fly, claiming that, “Superior knowledge and preparation directly result in superior flying skills.” AContrails quote for the Class of 2(XX), no doubt!

Jerry VARNER is acompatriot of Ray’s, flying the Fokker 1(X) for American, too. Pam and Jerry have three kids and aletter full of ac¬ complishments. Jerry says that his kids take karate, and can whip those wimpy GERRITY judo players any day of the week and twice on Sunday. And Jerry doesn’t care if he is next on the furlough list. He has abeautiful and talented wife to support him, TV to watch, and adult beverages to drink. Life is good for the VARNERs in Colorado Springs.

The average size of the bicep in 8th Air Force Command Section at Barksdale AFB just increased by two inches, thanks to the recent inbound PCS of Chris MOULTON. He finally gave up running the Stan/Eval shop at his Little Rock squadron for the “increased challenges and responsibility” of ageneral’s executive aide. Finding that gym time may be tougher now. He also reports that his wife, Bi, two kids, and two dogs are doing fine. And his dogs bark louder than the GERRITY dogs.

Chip KOZAK has some really cool business cards—Major Raymond A. Kozak, KC-135 Instructor/Evaluator Pilot. New Jersey Air Guard. I don’t know what he does with the rest of his time, but hey Chip, the ma¬ jor league whining ballplayeres are still on strike, and replacement players

make awhole

lot more than 0-4s do. Pack up Maureen and Andrew, pick up Dave MANLEY on the way, and head for spring training and your nearest ballpark!

The Ulichs, all smiles—Bob found his car keys!

Dave WRIGHT, Mitch DELAROSA, and Bob ULICH still have me on their Chrisymas card list, but Dave LEIBBRAND does not. In Dave L’s defense, he did give me acall, but Iwasn’t even home. Brenda, my wife, took the call and grilled Dave on his love life. World’s second shortest conversation. Brenda: “Dave, how’s the love life?” Dave: “Needs help.” World’s shortest conversation. Anyone: “Bob, do you know where your car keys are?” Bob: “No.”

Gossip from the Andrews Airplane Patch: Itook awalk across the parking lot to Group Training a.k.a. the Kingdom of Dan LALUMIA, the man “personally responsible for the base passing the recent ASEV and keeping the Earth spinning.” Dan was out forgiving sins or something, but Jack “Will Work For Food” FUSSELL had some info. It seems that Bobby FOWLER is ready to tie the knot, finally proposing to his TV news anchorwoman significant other, Lisa Willis. Jeff STAN¬ FIELD is amajor in the Reserves on the other side of the base, and Mark MANNEY still slaves away in Current Ops, and wishes he had tried harder 1979-1983 so he would have ahigher line number.

Dan BRUNKSOLE had some news, too. He had to squeeze in time for me in between putting the entire VC-137B/C Dash One on computer disk smd memorizing the first 13 lessons of ACSC by correspondence. His scoop: Tammy RANK (remember her luscious smile from my article a time or two ago?) is still an IP at Randolph; Sheila ZUEHLKE was the “Reservist of the Year” in the San Diego area—she’s also an Academy LO and asenior consultant to aprivate firm that works with the Air War College, and Iam impressed; J. J. PERICAS calls the Pentagon his home; and Mike CROY is acivilian, but still living in the local area.

Andy WISE is another fountain of information. He runs the Stan/Eval shop in the C-20 world, expecting nothing but, “the same exacting stan¬ dards that Idaily impose upon myself” from the lucky recipients of his checkrides. He related to me—Daryl ROBERSON is aThunderbird, too. ’83 has two of the six; not too bad! Scott ASH still has ajob with Delta in Atlanta as asecond officer, but any more downturns and he may join the ranks of the “will fly for food” troops. Mark ATWELL is anight owl, flying for either UPS or FedEx. Mike DAVIS got aPhD through AFIT, we didn’t know what it was in, so along with the Scarecrow of Oz fame, we bestow on him the award of aDoctor of Thinkology.

Icross paths often with Paul SHEPPARD. Paul is seriously in the run¬ ning for the lead in the “Most Toys” contest, being one of those rare “no kids and wife working” types. He and his wife, Liz (I call her Bud, but you had to be there to get the joke!), have matching mountain bikes and accessories, rollerblades, electric guitars, and sailing gear for their sailboat. Only one cat, though, but it is Siamese. Paul took me sailing. The authorities should have put out aBOATAM. Ididn’t mutiny, and he didn’t keelhaul me, and we’re still friends. Unqualified success, as Isee it. Paul flies secret squirrel stuff. He passes on that Chris CICERE, Markus DIETERS, Kelly SCOTT, and aplethora of ’83ers call Hurlburt AFB, FL their home. (Paul is PCSing there this summer and his hot tub will be ready to accept visitors.) George FIEDLER loves Pope AFB. Rich NEAL lives here at Andrews too, also doing secret squirrel stuff, and with abet¬ ter line number than either of us. Can’t understand it. Ionly spent one semester on conduct pro...

Next time you need agood chuckle call Harris Leonard “The Briz” BRISBON and listen to his message on his answering machine. Briz had a

four-month expenses-paid trip (read that “Air Force TDY”) to Central America last summer/fall and Ithink he stayed out in the sun too long. Briz and Iare squadron and flying buddies, so if Idon’t say that all the ladies flock to him, he’ll get mad at me and mess up my block time next time we have an Air Force II mission.

Tom and Gay (former ’83er) SOLOMON love pets. Look at the photo. ‘Nuff said. Military doctors make too much $$$. Just look at the boat that Major/Doctor Tim BROWN bought. He’s just showing off, stan¬ ding on his own island, with his svelte wife, Rhonda, and his own 32-inch waist. And Ialso heard that Major/Doctor Eli POWELL moved to Texas and bought the Alamo for atax shelter.

rDoctor Tim and Rhonda Brown—on location for the New England Journal of Medicine swimsuit edition.

Stu POPE writes the next article! His address; 340 The Village #315, Redondo Beach, CA 90277. Billy WALKER is in the on-deck circle! His address: 4202-B West Muledeer Drive, USAF Academy, CO 80840. Inun¬ date them with material! Call them in the wee hours of the morning! They’d love it! And you could see your name in print, too.

I’m brainwashing my 11-year-old son. Ihung up asabre with our class crest in his bedroom. Second generation Zoomie, save me big bucks on college. Then 1might be able to buy toys like Paul and Liz SHEPPARD.

ADozen Years Since Graduation and Counting! Brenda and Istill live in the hovels of Andrews base housing, but we offer hospitality unlimited to anyone passing through. Have agood summer and remember these three axioms: 1. Always make backup computer files. 2. Check/double check “gear down.” 3. Check six.

Make your tax-deductible donation now to

The Air Force Academy Fund.

Your Support Helps Develop Leaders With Vision For Tomorrow.

Mike Jensen

12035 Milam Road

Colorado Springs, CO 80908 (719) 481-4646

1-800-GO-AFA-GO

Internet: REMAXI995@AOL.COM

Percent members: 41

John and Iare trying to make this as easy as possible to send in your cards and letters. Iknow most of us have recovered from the reunion festivities last year (thanks again to all those who helped and/or attended!), and there are many out there waiting anxiously for the MA¬ JORS board, but we want to know what you are doing and what your plans for the future hold. Ieven think it is time to set up apool to see which one of us comes back as Comm, Dean, Or Supt! So let us know what is going on with you and your families.

IT’S TIME TO BEEF UP OUR NUMBERS! After the reunion we had afew more people join to bolster our ranks and increase our membership with the AOG. Obviously if you are receiving this magazine, you are probably amember. It is amazing the number of people who do not know how inexpensive amembership in the AOG is, and once they find out, they sign up immediately. So when you talk to other grads—push for their membership, it’s aGREAT organization.

CHANGES AT THE ZOO: I’m sure we all noticed some of the changes going on at the Academy while at the reunion. It sure isn’t as tough as it was when we went through. Col. Wakin retired from the Academy on April 1, 1995, and was on the Academy faculty since 1959, as department head of the Philosophy and Fine Arts Department. Also the search has started for anew athletic director. Col. Schweitzer will be retiring in 1996. Itried to nominate Marty LOUTHAN, but was shot down.

MOVIN’ ON: Bruce LENNARD to Fair fi eld, CA; Tim and Penny BROWN to Navarre, FL; Chris DORCHAK to San Leandro, CA; Jose RIVERA to Beavercreek, OH; Troy CARLYLE to Houston, TX.

AFINAL NOTE: Ireceived alot of kudos on my part of the reunion, but it really was ateam effort. Thank you to all who helped set up the event, and abig thanks to all those who attended. Without you there it would be avery boring party. If any of you need any relocation assistance when you move, or just want to talk to afriend, you can always call me at the “800” or via the Internet. Ihave the capabilities to help you anywhere you move, and it is agreat reason to keep in touch.

Shelly (Ginder) Grady

5660 S. Eagle Valley Road Julian, PA 16844

Percent members: 39

To the Class of ’85

Joe SHINNICK has left the AF, married, and opened his own pottery workshop in Grayton Beach, FL so he can discover his consciousness through the “joy of creating.” His name is now Mercury Blue if you’re in the area and want to look him up. Other changes of address include Thomas BERGESON, Henderson, NV; James GREEN, Naval Air Sta¬ tion, Pensacola, FL; Gregory HENDERSON, Granby, CT; Peter CASTOR, Virginia Beach, VA; Alan LEE, Mt Holly, NJ; Kyle CUNN¬ INGHAM, Albuquerque, NM; Randall KERSEY, San Antonio, TX; Scott SCHAEFFLER, Ft Walton Beach, FL; and Gordy HEN¬ DRICKSON, somewhere overseas! Sorry, Gordy, but Ihave few clues when it comes to interpreting overseas military addresses. His unit is the 416th BSB, DTCO, UNIT 27933 if that helps anyone wanting to get in touch!

Avery sad event that I’m sure most of our classmates heard about already is the F-16 crash that claimed Mark MCCARTHY. My heart goes out to Patti (MCGREGOR) MCCARTHY. Any classmates interested in contacting Patti or contributing to Mark’s memorial fund can send their letters to Mark P. McCarthy memorial Fund, Focus on the Family, CoS, CO 80995. Patti will be settling in CoS for the time being. Our prayers are with you.

Others in the CoS area include Bill and Carol CASTILLO. Bill is sta¬ tioned at Peterson. Reye NOYES (not your married name, sorry, Reye) is aUSAFA chemistry instructor. Steve BUTLER works at Peterson at Space Command. Del and Beth CHRISTMAN are up at the Zoo where Del will soon be working an an AOC. You will always keep those cadets guessing, Del! The Christmans were also recently blessed with the arrival of their third Joy! Steve and Heidi SUTHERLAND will be leaving the

The Solomons— fi nalists in the "Texas Zookeepers of the Year” award.

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Springs this summer. Steve had the cushy weather officer job at the Academy and their letters are full of hiking and skiing adventures. Con¬ gratulations on getting through your master’s program too! Ben and Lin¬ da CUMMINGS, world travelers, survived 13 hours of the China Airlines theme song, spider bites in Xi ’an, kidnapping by Beijing taxi drivers and pickpockets in Suzhou during abusiness/vacation trip to Taiwan, Hong Kong and the Peoples Republic of China. Bob teaches quite avariety of history course at the Academy specializing in Asian studies of course! Matt MORGAN should also be at the Academy teaching chemistry by now.

The ’85 graduate get-together of the year occured at August HEIN’s wedding this last July! See photo.

Mike PIIRTO, John MARSELUS, Del CHRISTMAN, Ross DUDLEY, Shelly GRADY, George WEATHERSBY, Josh JOSE, Bobby ROBINSON (’86) plus August himself graced the grand occasion! Iin¬ cluded the photo with the propeller beanies at August’s request. They em¬ bodied the true spirit of the occasion. Also, the latest news from the HEIN homestead at Scott AFB is that the first addition is scheduled to ar¬ rive in May. He has some catching up to do!

Other folks who wanted to be there, but couldn’t make it due to impend¬ ing arrivals were Mike and Kelly RITS. They had their third, adarling lit¬ tle girl and are still out in CoS where Mike teaches at USAFA. Also, Todd and Lynne RAINES were expecting, though Inever heard what they were blessed with. Todd is at F-15 RTU at Tyndall AFB, FL and upon comple¬ tion, will be headed to Kadena.

John MARSELUS was recently given the prestigious Shire Award. He and Kim were flown from Alaska to Langley AFB, where he was the guest of honor at the awards dinner. It’s nice to see folks get what they deserve.

Congratulations, John. The Marselus family will be moving in March from Alaska to Seymour-Johnson where John will continue to fly the F-15. Jim and Liz HAYDEN will also be headed to Seymour-Johnson. Jim is an F-15 WSO. They have also been blessed with their first child.

Speaking of getting what they deserve, the BTZ list for major had several of our classmate’s names on it. Ididn’t save it, but the ones I remember are Bruce MACGOON, Elise VANDERVENNET, Troy DEVINE, Marilyn GARCIA, and Ulin GREEN. Congratulations for all your hard work. Troy is the only one Ikeep up with, and she is out at Beale flying U-2s.

Mike and Brenda PIIRTO have PCSd from South Carolina to Japan. The Japanese love their two little blond babies, Hope and Joy. Mike is a Marine helicopter type, but working aground tour as an ass’t officer for a Marine expeditionary unit (and rapidly becoming aconsummate staff pogue!). His wife, Brenda, is asaint for putting up with all the Marine wife hassles and an itty-bitty living space!

Steve and Teresa LAVELL should be reunited by now after Steve’s unaccompanied tour to Korea where he flew A-lOs. Now you can get to know #3!

George WEATHERSBY is down in Fayetteville, NC doing secret intel type things with the Army. He had the pleasure of an all-expenses-paid trip to the Caribbean (Haiti) earlier this year. Now he puts many miles on his car making trips up to D.C. to see acertain someone!

CLASS OF 1985 10-YEAR REUNION

At Homecoming 1995

4-8 OCTOBER 1995

USAFA versus UTEP

Tyler SPEARING are both out of the service now. John is in North Carolina finishing his last year of med school before heading out to California for all those residency-type rotations. Tyler works for agov’t contractor in St. Louis.

Tish BECKEL is still at the Standard Systems Center at Maxwell AFB, AL. She’s been hard at work being amommy of two and quite asuc¬ cessful officer. She is within two classes and apaper of getting her master’s degree fi nished. Good job, Tish! She also said Ruthann (LUEKEN) THOMPSON was down for avisit. If Iremember right, Ruthann had gotten out of the service and was working on family building!

Kerri (BROUSSARD) TASHJIAN PCSd to RAF Lakenheath in England, and has been searching for what she wants to be when she grows up since leaving the service! Her twins keep her busy, but she wants a master’s degree so she can be even busier! Kerri, Ineed your new address. Your Christmas card got returned!

Ialso received aFeliz Navidad from Amy Mueller. She didn’t quite graduate with ’85, but lots of us know and love her. She is currently amis¬ sionary teacher down in Ecuador, having fulfilled three out of afour-year term. Now the question is “Should Istay or should Igo!’’ We’re praying for you, Amy!

Wendi (LINK) and Kevin ROUTHIER are leading lives parallel to Rod and Iout in Utah. Wendi called at Christmas time and after comparing notes one of us is superflous! Just kidding! It’s truly amazing how similar our lives have become.

Sara (HELLWIG) ELLERT-BECK is looking for arespectable occupa¬ tion before the ’85 class reunion. After leaving the service, she has had no lack of things to do, but can’t quite put aname on what it is she does! Sara and Dan are out at Edwards AFB in California. She keeps up with Lynne STERE, who if Iremember correctly, is fl ying commercial airliners out of Denver.

We’ll soon be joining Jean (GARVIN) STEPPE at Scott AFB, where she finally got a“real” job after azillion years of school!

And last but not least, Jackie CHARSAGUA, along with Jackie Jr., affectionately known as little Jackie, have made the big move to the East Coast. Jackie is stationed at Langley AFB and keeps very busy delegating her scribe duties to those of us glutton for punishment!

And now, good night, it’s time to sleep...those of you Dr. Seuss fans will recognize his famous last words from the ABC book. I’d tell you what I’m doing, but besides raising four kids with #5 on the way, homeschooling, gardening, baking bread, sewing, dishes (no dishwasher), teaching aneighbor child, church nursery worker, taxi driver, being a good AF wife, and would-be class scribe, 1really don’t do anything! We’ll be headed to Scott AFB, IL after this garden assignment so look us up if you’re passing through. I’ll be sure to write you up in Checkpoints..See you all at the reunion.

Gary L. Burg 7721 E. 4th Ave. m

Anchorage, AK 99504-1313

Work DSN: (317) 552-9037

Home: (907) 338-0519

Percent members: 38

Lots of news so will get right to it. Between the four letters abroad and the inputs Ireceived for the ’86 CS-20 annual newsletter, Ihave afull col¬ umn for the first time in ages.

Ross and Linda DUDLEY were present for the Hein wedding travaganza, traveling all the way from Albuquerque, NM to be confused by the D.C. road signs! Two other friends of August, John OGLE and

ex-

bat Crew Training School instructor pilot and also tagged with the crappie job of scheduling. He and his wife, Jennifer, really enjoy New Jersey—the East Coast is anew experience for the both of them!

Darren stated Chuck KINAMON moved from Seymour-Johnson to Travis with his unit move. Chuck is flying KC-lOs. He recently became the proud father of twins. Andy JONES is an IP in the KC-10 from Seymour to McGuire. Keith KREEGER came to McGuire from Barksdale and is an aircraft commander. He did the majority of his time in ATC at Laughlin and Randolph as aT-37 IP. Donnie HUDSON is an IP in the ’-10 at McGuire and also did some time as atweet IP. Chris ZARNIK recently got checked out as acopilot after doing eight grueling years as aT-38 IP. Coert SCOGGIN was in the KC-10 at Barksdale and went to Laughlin to join the first T-1 squadron. Greg MOORE is getting ready to upgrade to IP. After the Academy, he went to the University of Washington and got his master’s. He then went to pilot training at Reese and was aT-37 FAIP before coming to Barksdale and the KC-10.

Darren’s roommate from the Academy, Keith MCCOY, is adoctor at Columbus AFB, MS after doing aremote to Osan, Korea. Chuck GERSTENECKER is flying C-5s at Travis. Ron BRYANT is aT-37 IP at Reese. Bruce ELLIS is in U-2s at Beale. John SPECHT and Denny MCDEVITT were in Darren’s flight at SOS in March of ’93. John was an F-16 LANTIRN IP at Luke and Denny was asenior AW ACS controller at Tinker about to go to Weapons School at Nellis. Dennis MALFER is flying F-4Gs at Nellis and he and his wife, Bridget (BURTON), had a baby boy in December. Dennis came home from athree-month rotation in Turkey and missed the baby by one day. Bridget is anavigator in the California ANG at March AFB fl ying in the KC-135E. Mike CHANDLER is flying F-15s at Langley. Tim ROBINSON is aC-141 IP at McGuire. In the neither can confirm nor deny category, Kirk BERGGEN was flying Navy E-6s (their version of the KC-135). But the last time Darren refueled them, he asked about him and they said he scammed an E-4 to Offutt.

Betsy (COLEY) ZIEGLER sent ashort note for her Troll update. Not too much news has happened with the Zieglers except an addition to the family. They now have three children. Cori is four years, Grace is two years, and Paul is now six months old. Dan will be relocating to Maryland in June of this year.

The Ziegler Family

The next letter Ireceived was from Jerry HEIKKINEN. He writes “Greetings from the Thunderbirds of 86! Ithink we have an Academy record to tell you about. The category is ‘Most Multiple Births by Grads of One Squadron, in One Class). Five of our 27 Squadron classmates (22 grads) have had twins. Here they are in order: Jerry and Diane HEIK¬ KINEN (four kids total) had identical twin girls (Amy and Elizabeth) on 17 Mar 92. Jerry teaches Russian and flies the Otter at USAFA. Jim and Rhonda ANDERSON (three kids total) had identical twins (Taylor and Elliot) on 2Apr 93. Jim is in Contracting at Peterson AFB. Geoff and Shelly (HARSH) HILL had fraternal twin boys (Jerry and Dan) on 29 Sep 94. Geoff is at the Space Warfare Center at Falcon, and Shelly is at AF Space Command Intel at Peterson. Shawn and Tania FLEMING had identical twin girls (Marie and Julie) on 30 Nov 94. Shawn flies B-52s at Minot AFB. Since the chance of having twins is only about 1in 100, this puts us way above the statistical average. JR REILING (SecDef Cables office) says that there must have been secret radiation experiments going on in our squadron. Iknow that Mike and Sue PIPAN (Cannon, F-111)

had triplets afew years ago, but they need to get four other grads from their squadron (Magpies) to help beat the Thunderbird record. The mark has been set. Can anyone else out there meet it? (Does anyone want to?)

The last normal correspondence letter comes from Yolandea WOOD. “I’m back at the Academy teaching four sections of Modern World History. That’s Hist 101, mandatory class for freshmen. It’s keeping me pretty busy. This summer I’m hoping to be picked up by the 50th Tng Sq (the Nav Sq). Istill need to complete my flying gate. I’ve also applied to a Summer Research project in ‘Civil Rights Movement’ hosted by Harvard. It’s one of those history think sessions. I’m transitioning to become the OIC of the cadet karate club. Icompeted with them the first weekend in March in Denver at anational tournament. The week prior Ichaperoned their trip to Boston. Ihave alot of work to do to get to their level. Four LOS cadets are nationally rated. Icompleted my two master’s—Ball State Executive Development in public admin and Indiana University History, majoring in American and minoring in World. Ibought ahouse in Briargate. Lots of room if someone is passing through. One other note, Ed YONG, now out of the service, is working for Gateway 2000. He and his wife and kids just moved to Souix City, lA.

Dean NIKAKOS wrote aletter. He is looking forward to our 10-year next year. Change has been the operative word for Dean these last few years. He left the Air Force in September of 1992, and then aweek later married abeautiful Greek girl (Joanna) from Massachusetts. They bought ahouse and settled down in Billerica, MA for the long haul. He worked for asmall engineering firm for ayear and then got an offer he couldn’t refuse: acivil service position at Hanscom AFB. He currently works in aSystem Program Of fi ce at Hanscom for the MILSTAR Satellite/Terminal Program. He admits it’s not the greatest of jobs, but it pays the mortgage.

The Smith Family

TK SMITH dropped me aline plus just recently called me while passing through with the latest on his status. Things haven’t changed alot at Travis for the Smith family. The flying has been slow and it’s made it tough to stay current, let alone proficient. As aflight commander and a flight examiner he has seen enough OPRs, EPRs, awards and decora¬ tions, and award nomination packages to last his entire career. Many times he forgot he was apilot—if it wasn’t for wearing aflight suit he would have forgotten what he was trained for. He enjoys his job but could do without the paperwork. TK called to pass along some good news about his next assignment. TK managed to secure aposition with the Mech Department at the Academy. He has been trying for this assignment for quite awhile so Iknow the Smiths are happy to be leaving Travis. They should be PCSing around the end of June time frame.

The last Troll letter Ihave is from Kevin YEOMANS. His family is do¬ ing fine in North Carolina. Their second son (fourth child) was born on 20 August, right before the fall semester began. All the kids are healthy and growing up in ahurry. School is agrind and not too enjoyable at the moment. He stated Jim SHOFF left the service in January and thinks he is going into real estate (although not absolutely certain).

Italked to John PETERSON recently and he is doing well. John left the Air Force back in December but is still on terminal leave. He is work¬ ing as abroker with Merrill Lynch in Anchorage, AK and his wife is working for the state as Iunderstand it. John got out because he enjoys Alaska and his wife has agood job here. They still live in their home in Eagle River. John competed in the Iditarod twice while he was stationed at Elmendorf but it sounds like his mushing days are over for now. He did say it was quite an experience that I’m sure he won’t soon forget.

Italked to Jeff FRANKHOUSER who is stationed at Vandenberg AFB. He and Elaine have been at Vandenberg for two years now and he enjoys being close to family. Elaine works for the county and Jeff is

The Yeomans Family working in the school house developing lesson plans and study guides for the students going through missile training. Jeff is hoping to get aLook¬ ing Glass assignment at Offutt in ayear but also is considering asecond tour in missiles at Malmstrom AFB. He is about half way through his master’s degree in environmental management. Jeff had abit of misfor¬ tune in 1993 while at the motorcycle roundup in Sturgis, SD. He ran into adeer and totaled his Harley. He received some nerve damage that is still bothering him but for the most part is in good shape. He rebuilt the Harley and now has a1956 Harley that he rebuilt. Jeff sounds like he is really enjoying the Air Force and hopes to get his 20 in.

When Italked to Bobby FERRARO he told me that his last day on the job in the Air Force was 10 Mar. He is on permissive TDY/terminal leave until 1June looking for anew job and enjoying some time off. Bobby said he is looking into ajob with Motorola in Chandler, AZ but really would like to stay in Colorado Springs. He sounded like it was time for a change in his job and now was as good atime as any.

When Italked to Rich LECLAIRE he was doing well on the high desert in southern California and enjoying family life. His employer’s contract is up for arecompete with the Air Force so his job situation is not totally stable but he is hoping things remain the same. The LeClaire family might be looking to expand this year but time will tell.

Italked to Hugh SAINT who is fl ying T-ls at Laughlin AFB, TX. Hugh and his family just PCSd to Laughlin last September so he’ll be there for the next couple years. He is the ground training assistant flight commander—a fairly new position with the T-ls arrival at Laughlin. He is flying out of KFit and says the T-1 is the ultimate cross-country trainer. On the family side, Hugh’s wife, Cammy, is due with their second child the first part of July but Hugh is expecting an early delivery. His son Ben¬ jamin is almost two and sounds like he is on his way to becoming a linebacker.

Bob Cavello

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

Hello everyone! Thanks to all of you who have contacted me in one i

way or another. The letters, phone calls, post cards, and faxes are much appreciated and in some instances, have been very entertaining. There has been ahuge request for the addition of photographs in our column.I most certainly agree, but Ineed photos to work with. If you send aphoto, please make sure that you are in it. Pictures of the family, pets and cars are nice, but won’t make the column unless your face is present. Calling on my superior SOS (M-5/PMS) training, Iwill lead by example and con¬ tribute the first snapshot.

There’s not much going on around USAFA that would interest anyone. The “Cadet Rumor Mill’’ has been relatively silent. Idid hear that they were thinking about issuing tattoos to all Basics during in-processing since most cadets are forced to go downtown and pay for them now. Yes, I’m just kidding, but it still amazes me at the number of tattoos Isee down on the athletic fields and in gym class. Iguess I’m getting old.

Our friend Dale HOLLAND checked in with aletter updating me on his life. Dale went to Sheppard AFB, TX after graduation, got “FAIPed” for six years, never getting the fighter he was promised. He transitioned into helicopters and is now stationed at Malmstrom AFB, MT flying UH-IN Search and Rescue rotors. Additionally, Dale got hitched last November to Debi who is from LeGrande, OR. Congratula¬ tions! Dale also wrote that Will WEBBER and his family are now sta¬ tioned in tropical Panama. Craig WILSON is flying T-38s at Laughlin AFB, TX. Matt BAMPTON and his wife just had triplets! That’s alot of diapers. Way to go Matt. Take acouple of years off and send me aphoto.

Dale and Debi Holland with abunch of waiters, November 5, 1994. Igot agreat letter from Mark RUSE. Mark, wife Lisa, and daughter Julie got back from Europe in July of ’94. For two years Mark was studying at aGerman university as an Olmsted scholar. He and his family are now in Ithaca, NY where Mark is continuing his egg-head ways and getting amaster’s degree in engineering management. By the time you are reading this, the Ruses will be in Hawaii stationed at Hickam AFB. I don’t know how you handle all these hardship tours Mark. Ihope the Air Force starts taking better care of you in your field-grade years. Mark add¬ ed that another of our intellectually-gifted classmates, Stacey (WILSON) MILLER is working on her master’s in biology at Cornell. Hopefully she’s not bad-mouthing her country and listening to that crazy Mick dag¬ ger at that liberal. Ivy League school.

Billy Bob BROWN wrote me again and sent apicture. Bill Bob has

Billy Bob being ageek in his A-Jacket, with wife, Nancy, and cheerleading QIC Karen Nagel at Jack Murphy Stadium where the Falcons ripped the Aztecs in '94.

Your Class Scribbler, wife Bianca, son Joey and one on the way in May ●95.

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been deployed with the 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit. He has visited Hong Kong and Singapore, and participated in exercises in Kuwait, United Arab Emrates, Saudi Arabia and Kenya. He is currently support¬ ing Operation United Shield off the coast of Mogadishu, Somalia. Billy Bob reported that our man Greg TESCH and his wife, Anette, are also in the USMC out at Camp Pendelton, CA.

Ireceived aletter from Carl and Lori CARHUFF out at Holloman AFB, NM. Their two boys, Jordan and Sean, are now three and four and ahalf (great looking boys, must take after their mother—sorry Icouldn’t get the picture in). Lori is still working on becoming apublished writer and Carl is coming off the IR (Injured Reserve) with abroken ankle suf¬ fered in avolleyball game. Carl was working out of the Wing Safety Of¬ fice, but is now functioning as the squadron’s chief of Training until the F-15s come open again.

CORRECTION DEPT: Last time Itold you that our good friend Clive “Cliff” CHI was homesteading out in sunny L.A., PCSing from beach to beach. Cliff has since informed me that he is afull-fledged civilian now and president of his own in-line skating company (Sonic) in Los Angeles. If anybody would like some information on this huge, up-and-coming sport, I’m sure Cliff wouldn’t mind if you called him at (301) 914-9608, or wrote him at Sonic Sports, Inc., 10573 W. Pico Blvd., Suite 283, Los Angeles, CA 90064.

CHANGE-OF-ADDRESS DEPT: Ireceived the following address changes from the AOG. Dave BACHLER is moving from Spokane, WA to do aremote hardship tour in Honolulu, HI. And Ed “Ice” ICENHOUR is moving from one garden spot. Bossier City, LA to another garden spot. Mount Holly, NJ, the Garden State.

AMERICA’S MOST WANTED DEPT: This is anew addition to the column. If anybody would like to request the whereabouts of another classmate, Iwill post it in this section from now on. Hopefully, an ’87 wide-world search will produce the needed information. Once again, rely¬ ing on my recently obtained SOS leadership skills, Ishall lead by example and request the first search. Where in the world have Terry MAKl and Marc MUNAFO disappeared to. If you have aclue, get in touch with me. As always, happiness and health to you and your families. Keep the letters flowing. See ya’ when Isee ya’—Go Falcons!

Mark Peters

22779 Mesa Springs Way

Moreno Valley, CA 92557-2628

Home: (909) 242-3442

DSN: 947-2646

Percent members: 41

Greeting ’88! Ihate to start off with an apology but it’s going to be another short one this time. There was less than aweek between the suspense for this issue and when the last Checkpoints hit your mailboxes; I’m sure that flood of ’88 mail will hit my mailbox as soon as Ifax this in. Don’t, however, let those short suspenses keep you from writing—I can always use your inputs!

Fortunately, Idid receive anote from Mary Anne DOLAN who has recently moved to the flower seed capital of the world: Lompoc, CA.

I’ve been at Vandenberg since March 94 in the Program Re¬ quirements Of fi ce. Iplan out all the details for commercial and

military space and aeronautical programs. We call it the “30th Space Wing Front Door.” Ilove it. I’ve been in space, as you probably suspected, since we graduated! Iwas at Spokane, WA; Eglin, FL and now Vandenberg.

Ihave two little boys, John-Paul (like the Pope!) and Eddie. J.P. is nearly six and Eddie is Four.

Isaw Bill REVELOS in the Washington, DC metro while on aTDY this year. He looked like astudent carrying those legal patent attorney books. Isaw Trent BINDER at Vandenberg last week. He is stationed here under Material Command. Mary MCKEON lives down the street and is getting her master’s in environmental manage¬ ment (tree hugging!). Angela STOUT (ROBERTS) is in the missile career field, but space and missiles are now combined. She and her husband have beautiful children—especially their little baby girl. They live around the corner. Ray JANSSEN is fi nishing International Business School in Arizona. He got out of the AF and should be in Michigan soon. Anne NEUBAUER also got out for ajob in Texas, I think. Niki LADOULIS is doing ahigh-stress world-wide emergency medical and insurance job. She gets emergency calls from people on vacation boats in the middle of nowhere and fl ies medical care to them.

Jon HOBBS’ squadron is in the same building as mine so I’ve enlisted him to write afew notes. Jon is aKC-10 IP here but he and his wife, Cheri, are preparing to move to Scott AFB. Jon and Rich WILLIAMS will both be participating in arated grooming program which means one year at the Tanker Airlift Coordination Center and one year at aHQ job, then back to aflying assignment. Jon also reports that Chris and Juli CLAY just had son number two. Chris is flying C-130s at Patrick AFB, FL. Shea LONG has left the blue suit behind and returned to St. Louis for business pursuits.

COAs: Eric GRAVES from Gary, IN, to Satellite Beach, FL; Pat OGBURN from Nassau Bay, TX, to Acworth, GA; Chris PIKE from Keflavik, Iceland, to San Antonio, TX; Darryl WILSON from Randolph AFB to Del Rio, TX.

My brother David is at SOS enroute from his tour as an accounting and finance officer at Howard AB, Panama. His next stop is at Tinker AFB, OK for his first CONUS tour since 1989. My other brother, Charles (’89), lives in nearby Hollywood where he is asubstitute teacher during the day and studying to be an actor or comedian the rest of the time. As for me, by the time you read this I’ll have moved from March AFB to Travis AFB, CA, hopefully still enjoying my time in the KC-10. Write!

Paul W. Tibbets IV 5303 Solitaire Drive

Rapid City, SD 57701

Home: (605) 393-2842

DSN: 675-1229

Percent members: 42

Hello everyone. Iwould like to begin this issue by sending out my con¬ dolences to the family and friends of Tony BARR. Ireceived word of Tony’s death by letter from Bryan ZAWIKOWSKI and phone from Bob JORDAN. Idon’t usually print letters verbatim, but Bryan’s really touched me. Here it is:

“Tony was an inspiration to all who knew him, be it in the boxing ring (where Iwas the recipient of many of his thunderous punches) or on the stage where Tony, Jeff (LOVE) and Iperformed for several wing talent shows as adefinitely ‘not-ready-for-prime-time’ rock band. Sadly, Tony leaves behind agrieving widow and aset of beautiful twin baby girls. Tony died on February 13th of allergic complications while undergoing tests pending his release from the hospital at Randolph AFB. At the time he was recovering from amotorcyle accident.

“There are many words that Icould use to describe Tony, but the most accurate adjective Ican come up with is ‘Focused.’ Those who had the pleasure of knowing Tony knew that he was an intense competitor. Ask Bob Hoyt of Navy who was summarily dispensed with at the National Collegiate Boxing Tournament in 1989, although Idon’t imagine poor Bob remembers too much after the fi rst round! Ask those who fl ew with him at Laughlin and Randolph, they’ll tell you.

“Tony fulfilled his childhood dream of being an Air Force pilot, but there is so much more to this man that Icannot do justice to him in abrief letter. He had so much more living to do...Tony, we will miss your infec¬ tious smile and your generous heart. May he Rest in Peace knowing that the world was abetter place because he was in it. Ithank God for the time He let us spend with Tony...I’m sure You have some greater purpose in mind for Tony Barr.

"Here’s atoast...”

John-Paul, Mary Anne and Eddie

Holly Campbell and Steve Thompson in Osan. Back in December Ireceived aletter from Steve THOMPSON. He and Holly CAMPBELL are stationed at Osan Air Base flying C-12s. They are both scheduled to go to C-141 transports at Travis AFB in May. Steve says the base is quite nice at Osan, where many high-power visitors come to see the largest U.S. air base in Korea. The Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of the Air Force were both there, but most importantly, Tom Cruise came to the base eariier in December to fly an F-16. The year has passed with great memories of Korea’s wild country, but Steve misses Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, and Blockbuster Video and is looking forward to PCSing in May.

Other grads that Steve has heard from include Karen PASTORET, who is flying C-12s at Osan from Plattsburgh, and is going to Kadena after SOS and AC school. Mike PATTERSON is doing the same, and both he and Karen will arrive Kadena in Sep or Oct of this year. Jeff and Chris (WASDIN) MILLER are at Osan on atwo-year tour. Chris is the weather flight commander and Jeff is aC-12 IP. Gregg HALL is at Osan from Reese where he was flying T-ls. He will be flying C-130s following C-12s. Thanks for the letter!

My next letter came from Todd WILKOWSKI who left the Air Force in September to attend school full-time at Regent University, aChristian graduate institution in Virginia Beach. Todd is in afour-year joint degree program to receive amaster’s in public policy and alaw degree. He has made some awsome friends, found agreat church, and is contemplating working with youth ministry again. This past summer Todd was on ter¬ minal leave from the Air Force and had agreat time. He spent aweek in the Cape Cod area with his sisters Courtney and Stephanie, aweek in North Carolina repairing houses for the poor with his youth group, and two packed weeks touring Italy with his friend Jeff (definite highlight: seeing the Pope!). Todd met awonderful Christian woman named Julie Martin on achurch retreat in November. She and Todd spent agreat deal of time with his family over Christmas break.

Some grads that Todd has heard from include Angela THORNHILL, who is alaw student at William and Mary Law School. Chris COOK is an intel officer at Ramstein, and is also frequently in Aviano. Bill PINTER is aT-38 wing exec officer at Vance, and his third child. Autumn Grace, was born in December. Jeff SOLIMENA is aSP at Dover AFB. John LOGRANDE got married in Spain over the summer and was reassigned to Travis AFB in C-141s. Sue (WOJSZYNSKI) REININGER is still at the Pentagon and aproud mom of ababy girl. Charlie CHOI was reassigned from the Pentagon to L. A. Air Station and is asnowboarding king. Steve ZIOMEK is currently an IP at PIT in San Antonio, and looking for an assignment soon. He saw Tony NASH get married in November.

Kurt HEISER is on aone-year tour in Korea. He returns this summer to begin training in F-16s with afollow-on to Hill AFB. He and his wife, Nancy, had ababy girl, Sarah, in December. Ryan and Kelli (OWEN) SMITH are at Langley where Ryan is flying F-15s. Ray ROWE is living in Florida with his wife, Kathleen, and excelling in the world of sales. Kenn LANG and his wife, Kim, and son Erik are still at McClellan AFB. Kent LIETZAU received his master’s in aero from MIT and is heading to Har¬ vard this summer to begin his MBA. Kent is currently with Lockheed in Marietta, GA working on anew C-130J. Joe and Leslee (GREENBERG) SALECK are stationed at Langley AFB. They have abeautiful son Tyler with one more on the way.

Kevin CADIEUX is in control of the White House’s comm room LAN system. John BIRD and Shawn JANSEN were both at SOS last fall and are doing great. Paul GIERTEN works at Cheyenne Mountain and loves being back in Colorado Springs. TJ HOGAN and his wife, Linda, have two sons. Brack and Mitchell, and are stationed in Germany where TJ is flying A-lOs.They will be stationed stateside soon. John CLARK is still

flying C-21s out of Langley, where he and his wife, Linda, are expecting soon. Phil ROSE is in Korea for aremote flying F-16s. He recently transi¬ tioned from the F-15 to the F-16. Thanks for the info Todd!

My last letter came from Kevin and Beth (WHITMAN) BO YUM, who are stationed at McClellan AFB. They love northern California where there is lots of skiing, hiking, windsurfing, and biking to do. Beth and Kevin attended SOS last year in Class 94C, and there were quite afew ’87, ’88, and ’89 grads there. Some of the ’89ers included Mike SCHLACTER, who was at Norton in acquisitions. He finished his MBA, and was to PCS soon. Bob LIETZKE is at Hickam as the chief of Record Communications in the 15th Communications Squadron. Kevin ROZELSKY is amissile instructor at Vandenberg. He and his wife, Pam, have one daughter, Kathryn Marie. Tony GREEN is flying KC-135S at Robins AFB. Jeff FALEY is flying C-141s at Travis. Thanks for the letter Beth!

HERITAGE KALLI

●ICATED TO PROFESSIONALISM AND THE CONTRIBL

As Imentioned eariier. Bob Jordan called me recently. He is amain¬ tenance officer at Tyndall AFB. Bob got married last August to Lisa, who is from Panama City, and they are expecting their first child this August. Bob’s roommate at the Academy, Lee WHITE, is in intel at the Pen¬ tagon. Michaela (SHEEHAN) DEMBOSKI is at Andrews in Physiological Training. Jeff RICH recently moved from Altus to Vance, where Jeff is aT-1 IP. Jay LANDIS is at AFIT, and he and his wife, Nan¬ cy, are expecting soon. Thanks for the call!

Well, that’s all for now. Thanks to everyone who wrote or called. Keep it up! 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, Itrust that these greetings find everyone doing well and in the best of spirits and health. Things here are great and getting better as time goes

on.

This will be avery short input due to the fact that Ihave only received afew letters. Let’s keep the info flowing in so Ican keep the greatest of all classes updated on how things are going.

Steve THOMPSON (’89) wrote me concerning an article on Chris SOSINSKI that he found in the Aug 94 edition of Flying Safety. It talked about how he and Kevin COLEMAN (’84) successfully brought home a crippled F-15E Strike Eagle while participating in Operation Southern Watch. The report said that their environmental cooling system ex¬ perienced catastrophic failure, filled the cockpit with blinding toxic smoke and fumes, and caused extreme cockpit temperatures. Despite ali of this, they managed to rejoin onto aKC-135, take on fuel, and ac¬ complish aflawiess rollout and landing. Truly, their superior skills and airmanship saved avaluable combat asset and prevented its loss over hostile territory. Mighty ’90 shines again! Great job to both Chris and Kevin.

SOS Class 94C. Front row from left: Beth Boyum, Chris Miller, Holly Campbell. Back row: Tony Green, Keith Miller, Kevin Rozelsky, Mark Slimko, Jeff Miller, Jack Maixner, Bob Lietzke, Steve Thompson, and Mike Schlacter.

Greece, Republic of Georgia and Ukraine ever participated together in a combined exercise. Way to uphold the spirit of Mighty ’90 James, and welcome back!

Joe SHAHID checked in from Kadena Air Base in Japan. He and his lovely wife, Michelle, are doing great and send their greetings to all. Joe should be upgrading to aircraft commander in the KC-135 soon as he en¬ joys his flying assignment in Japan. Thanks for the update and you both take care.

Dave and Krystal MURPHY checked in from Avondale, AZ. Dave ended his stint as aSecurity Police officer and returned to the cockpit. He was recently reassigned to Luke for F-16 training. Bob HAINES also checked in from Andrews AFB. Word has it he may be up for alaw school slot. Details to follow later I’m sure.

Well gang, that’s about it; short and to the point. Get me some more in¬ fo and pictures and we’ll spruce this baby up abit. Until next time, take care of yourselves and keep in touch when you can. Peace and Pals!

Amy McLean

RR #1, Box 31C Larimore, ND 58251 (701) 343-2596

Percent members: 44

Greetings Bold Gold,

Congratulations on the railroad tracks! It’s finally time to assume real responsibilities in the Air Force. But first it’s time to celebrate. This quarter’s article is short and sweet (I didn’t even receive one letter). But I’m sure that with all of the promotion parties to attend, the news will start filtering to North Dakota. Adam and Iare going to have athree-day bash on Memorial Day weekend. We’re calling it McLean stock and the party includes roasted pig, sumo wrestling, and lots of carbohydrates. Everyone who is in the area is welcome to attend. Bring your tent so as to experience North Dakota mosquitos to the full. Getting back to reality, here is news of afew classmates Adam and Ihave crossed paths with.

Amarriage commitment is about to be taken by another of our classmates. Collin KEEN will be married in the middle of July up in Mon¬ tana. Collin is currently a’141 pilot at McChord. Adam ran into Dave BELL and Chris HARVEY while passing through Mildenhall. Dave and Chris are married and both enjoying England’s fine weather. Scott and Kim MCLEAN, both OTS instructors at Maxwell, AL are expecting their second child. Erica, their first, is now going on three. Achange-ofaddress card came in from Garvin LOUIE, who has moved from Michigan to Minot, ND.

January 23, 1995 Michele Smith, wife of Brian SMITH, passed away. Brian is currently aKC-135 copilot at Grand Forks. Michele also left a two-year-old son behind. If you would like to drop anote to Brian, his address is 1865B IStreet, GFAFB, ND 58204. Our thoughts are with Brian and his son.

There are alot of our banked pilots returning to flying duties. Pete FRY is one of them. He will fly C-130s at Pope. As requal classes start, please drop me aline to give the class the latest on assignments.

That is all the news that Icurrently have. Adam and Iinvite anyone in the area to come celebrate pinning on captain with us. We wish everyone could attend, but since that’s more tents than our five acres can hold, and since areunion will be upon us soon enough, we will settle for your letters and lots of pictures to help with the next article! Once again, congratula¬ tions! (Adam and 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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Amazing! Three years since graduation. Why did three years on the in¬ side seem like an eternity while three years on the outside seems like afew months? One of those things we’ll never know. OSI is still keeping my in¬ terest, and I’m on the lookout for future OSI assignments. In Jan, Iwent to the OSI Tactical Operations class at Ft. Huachuca, AZ for war con¬ tingency training. It consisted of alot of weapons and field conditions (uniforms tool). Godfrey GUERZON, Kristine BURNETT (’91), and Mike PURALEWSKI (’91) were TDY at the class too. Over New Year’s I headed to Hilton Head, SC for Steve WOLF’s wedding. He and Kay got married on New Year’s Eve. It was apretty even split between Marines

and the Air Force since both Steve and Kay are USMC ILts. Don UN¬ WIN, Dave KUMASHIRO, Rob and Leisa TOBLER attended along with lots of friends and family. It was another great reunion of CS-22 and a sad loss of another comrade to matrimony. One last thing about

■Lyle SHIDLA just became my roommate last weekend and Ithink endless amounts of trouble and mischief await us. I’ll be signing off early today so we can enjoy aspecial surprise—a guest appearance by Mike ROKAW.

So here goes. The first mail in today’s column is from Keith REEVES. Keith said he wanted to stop being aslug and write for the illustrious Checkpoints. (You too can become famous and send in some highlysought-after information.) Keith was at Wright-Pat working as a developmental enginer on recon systems, but PCSed to Laughlin for UPT. At Wright-Pat he ran with Tommie THOMPSON (acquisition), Marcus HERVEY (EE), Francois DESAMOURS (AFIT), James BUCK (EE), Alex COLE (CE), Enrique CRUZ (acquisition), Scott YANCY (ac¬ quisition), and “a slew of others.” Alex, Enrique, and Scott will be head¬ ed to UPT soon as well. Keith also mentioned that T. J. THOMPSON has been medically discharged, and sends him his best. James BUCK is get¬ ting married in March and will be PCSing to Germany.

In Feb Igot afax from Ed BRACE who’s at Hanscom, working as the 66th ABW Budget Officer, with abunch of guys: Brad SWEZEY, Tom SOHAYDA, John BOSTWICK, Lefty PAKULSKI, Tom MCWEENEY, Chris CAPUTO, Luis BORGNE, Brian RALL, Kirsten MESSER, John CONMY, and Ray ALVES who just left for UPT. Ed just got engaged to Kim Franklin and should be married this fall. Tom SOHAYDA got mar¬ ried to Linda Shaw and Ed’s roomie, Derek FRANCE, is at Elmendorf (F-15).

Soon after Christmas, Igot aphoto Christmas card from Joe DELAPP who is at Ramstein flying C-130s and drinking beer... or is it the other way around? Nice picture!

Eric EGLAND wrote me from Korea. He’s at Osan as asquad exec along with: Chris ELAM (F-16), Jim MEGER (A-10), and Chuck ELDER. (Chuck, you still can’t go out with my sister.) Eric reports that Pete VEHLOW got married at McGuire (C-141) and Randy COLTRIN “is getting his ‘Minuteman Master’s’ as amissileer at FE Warren.”

From asecret OSI source, Iheard that Kevin CULLEN has PCSed to Incirlik from Malmstrom. That’s all the info Igot before the message self destructed. (Name of source withheld as aprotective measure.) Kevin, write me to fi nd the source.

The Sauter Wedding

Aletter and photo came from Ross SAUTER in Feb. Ross finished at Luke and headed to Misawa flying F-16s. He got married in Nov and sent aphoto to prove it. Some others also at Luke—Bret HOUK (Kunsan), Jason CLEMENTS (Osan), Brian “Mr. NEAL” (Hill), Pat MCATEE, and Jason ARMAGOST (both Misawa).

Next comes apostcard from an old Trantula, Todd “Cradle” CRAIGIE. He’s fl ying C-21s out of Japan to destinations worldwide—Australia, China, Korea, Guam, Micronesia, Thailand, Hong Kong, Singapore, and the Philippines. In China, he flew Sam Nunn back to the free world and has fl own fellow Trantula Jim MEGER from Osan to Japan for amission. Dan DEWENTER (C-5 at Travis) was traveling through on New Year’s and had lunch at Todd’s. Todd visited Jon HICKS and his wife in Alaska and ran into Mark MAY (C-26) and Lee ANDERSON (UH-ls).

The last letter Igot two days ago was from Donna WARD. She was TDY to Eielson for the Cape Thunder exercise from Holloman where she is an intel officer. She said Don JOHNSON is flying F-16s at Osan, Steve COX is at Kelly, Drew NATALIE is at Randolph, and Elizabeth KUREY

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In early March, James and Iwent to teach afew Marines in San Diego how to drink. These guys are Annapolis grads, and obviously knew what they were in for. While some of these artillery jugheads were in Japan for training, they ran into afew ’92 grads who had changed service caps.

Some names mentioned were: Brian “guns” CARBAUGH, Chris KOELZER, and J.D. LEIGHTON. Of course, they spoke these names with respect.

Speaking of Japan, Igot aphone call from Andy “the grandpa” and Donna “the aerobicizer” BATES (DELANGO). For those wondering, Donna is still doing aerobics, but it seems that with the compromise of marriage, she has taken up powerlifting and body sculpting with hubby Andy. With one week preparation, she won the Misawa AB bench press competition, by putting up 160 lb. Bravo! No word of alittle “bam bam Bates on the way.

Here at Edwards, Iran into Sam “race car” WHITE in the contracting office where he showed me apicture of his nine-month-old son. And while we were talking about putting fellow grads out to pasture, we have Joe “Chunky Monkey” HALL who has settled quite well at Dover with his wife, new house, two new cars, but no baby...yet.

Since Ihave mentioned our oldest grad, BATES, it wouldn’t be fair if I didn’t mention the other grandpa of our class, Pat “I starch my underwear” DABROWSKI. Pat just turned 47, and is flying C-130s out of Pope, where he lunches frequently with Greg “huge” HUEY. Pat says he is aging backwards, but he still has afull head of hair.

In my monthly Rogaine support group meeting, Iwept on Gary “showtime” JENKINS’ shoulder in Cheyenne. Yes, it seems like the ocean, Gary’s flowing blonde locks are going out with the tide and are not coming back. Other group members were, Dave “rowdy”

RADEMACHER in Atlanta flying C-26s with his basset hound Fred, and Jay “pretty boy” SCHUELER in Grand Forks. Getting married must be contagious, because Jay’s next door neighbor. Art “I lost my shirt in Vegas” PRIMAS is getting married on 12 Aug to Leslie in Merced, CA. Another northern frontier person getting married is Mike “top shelf”

LINGOR. Iam sure fellow Grand Forks KC-135 pilot A1 “IMAX”

MILLER and Pete “baby face” DOTY (UH-1, Kirtland AFB) will be there.

The other night, Ihad the opportunity to toss afew back with Lyle “huge cranium” SHIDLA, who is aflight test engineer at Edwards. He spoke well of afew other guys with big nuggets. Blane “the diaper”

RASCH is at Maxwell and Scott “wardo” WARD (both C-21s). Blaner tells us that anew arrival at Maxwell should be Pat “chrome dome”

PATTERSON and his dog Chandler.

While on the subject of big dogs, at home in the bustling city of New York, Jeff “hot mustard” VISH came down from Griffiss where he plays SP. With Griffiss closing, Jeff plans to either go to Korea or Panama. Another big dog Isaw afew weekends ago down in L.A. was Steed “too tall” LABOTSKY at Jason “Joboo” KIMBEL’s (’93) beach house party. Kimbel’s party was agood fest, but not as good as the hot tubbing, basketballing, trampoline party fest up on the beach here in lovely Lan¬ caster. About 70 people showed from all different USAFA classes. We even had afew newborn from the spawning grounds (’94). In attendance from our class were Rod “the pizza delivery man” RICARD, Jara “aquawoman” FATOUT, James “no big surprise” MEHTA, Dick “I got robbed in Mardi Gras” FULTON, and even aphone call from our old roommate Sean “the running man” CURRAN (at Virginia Tech).

Presently no one knows how many kids Monte “the pigfarmer” HARNER has produced at McGuire. Last count was two, but Brad “the missing link” SWEZEY is trying to catch him at Hanscom. Headed for UPT is John “Gotti” BOSTWICK.

Until next time, enjoy the summer. James.

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4021 Taft Blvd. #A207

Wichita Falls, TX 76308 (817) 692-4212

DSN: 736-2346

Percent members: 85

Can anyone say silver bar? Okay, how about pay raise. Good, Iknew you could! Greetings from Texas and best wishes to the Class of 1995! It gets to be the “real” Air Force rather quickly! It’s 16 March and I’m a week away from assignment night so Ihave no clue where I’ll be so send your next letters to the AOG until after the summer issue.

Let’s take alook in the mailbox. Ireceived anote from Jeff KUBIK right after New Year’s. Jeff works as aspeed signals engineer. He and

J. J. FENCEROY joined the Capitol Chapter of the AOG on abus ride up to the West Point game. They did alittle elbow-rubbin’ with the Sec of the AF, the Honorable Sheila Widnall. J.J. arrived at Ft Meade in June after finishing intel school.

Jeff and J.J. with the secretary of the Air Force, the Honorable Sheila Widnall.

He recently was elected CGOC president and Jeff the projects officer. Jeff plans to have abig bash for next years AF/Navy game. If anyone has any plans for that weekend, please get with him (DSN 644-0878). Jeff has almost completed his master’s at the Univ of Maryland.

Char MELICK checked in from Wichita, KS. Yes, Ieven accept "typed” letters. Chalk, crayon, pen, water colors, it doesn’t matter Char. She updates us on Rod and Christy (TANNER) TODD. They were blessed with abeautiful boy, Ryan Jacob. Speaking of children. Char’s baby is already over ayear! (I don’t even remember congratulating you, so congrats!)

Char said that Joanna HARTLEY visited McConnell for awhile and will be there to fly the KC-135 in July. Chris and Shelley (STRONG) WHYTE are there as well as several new ’94ers.

The AF Times, for those of you (like me) who didn’t know, lists transfers from time to time. Char sent me alist of fellow grads listed in the magazine. Brad BOYER moved to Brooks AFB. Steve CHAMBAL went to Kirtland. Carlos FRAG A(recently married, please send me pic¬ tures, thank you) will be going to McClellan. Brady HAUBOLDT is out at Buckley, wait aminute what are you doing back in Colorado? Darren KRAABEL enjoys his life at Arnold. Cindy HUSTEDDE resides in Ohio at Wright-Pat. John LUSSIER is discovering the world at Columbus. John WEBSTER is at Goodfellow for intel school.

Mike PHAN is out at Beale, CA, but living life as abachelor. His ex¬ roomy, Mike PINE, is now enjoying married life. Mike also reports that Chris WYCOFF married Donna over Thanksgiving. Stacy SMITH (WHITE) is married to Dave (’92) and finished Sheppard health admin training. Alain POISSON and his wife, Karen, are expecting ababy in Ju¬ ly. They will be enroute to Tinker once his AW ACS training is complete. Congrats everyone and thanks again Char!

Ithink congratulations are in order to the WHITESTONE family. If anyone happened to watch the Miss America pageant, you would have seen afamiliar name win the crown. Heather WHITESTONE (sister of our classmate, Melissa) was crowned as Miss America earlier this year. There is also an article in the February Redbook (1995). Congratulations to Heather and her family.

1recently saw Mike YOUNG who is at Barksdale with his wife, Joanna, and daughter Shelby. Mike is going for his bachelor’s degree in in¬ dustrial/organizational psychology.

Some recent updates on new AF pilots. Kelly VANDERBILT picked an F-15, Ty CHAMBERLAIN aB-52 to Barksdale, Evan DERTIEM an F-15, Bill BRYANT an F-16, and Mike SNELL aKC-135. At Sheppard, the class of 95-03 graduates the following: Dave BOTTOMLEE, Dag GRANTHAM, Craig HOLLIS, Lance PILCH, and Andrew WOLCOTT took F-16s to Luke. John BRINER and Charlie WAHL took Warthogs. Matt FULLER took aB-1 to Dyess. Tom “Vito” VITUSZYNSKI and Andy SELLBERG took KC-135s to Fairchild. James SPARROW took a C-5 to Travis. Chuck WALLACE took an F-15E to Seymour-Johnson. Chris THOMPSON aC-21 to Maxwell, Rob RICKS aKC-135 to McCon¬ nell. Brent MESQUIT aKC-135 to Malmstrom and Rico

PIETRYKOWSKI aKC-135 to Mildenhall. Dan ENGBERSON aC-21 to Stuttgart. Randy HUISS aC-17 to Charleston. Congrats to everyone’s new assignment.

My class will graduate on April 7th. The important news from 95-04 is that Dave and Jenn LEAZOR are the proud parents of an eight-pound boy, Dakota Jordan. The class of 1993 extends congrats to all new mar¬ riages and babies!

The AOG mail bag reports that Paul ALFONSO is stationed at Colum¬ bus AFB. Rod OWENS now lives in L.A. Mark NASSIR moved to adif¬ ferent address in Rockville, MD. Julie (NEP) MORRISSON is stationed in beautiful Hawaii along with her husband. Bill! WOW! Mike MEYER moved to Missouri. Troy BORN is now at Scott AFB, IL. Vo CHENG lives in San Antonio. Sean RYAN lives in Bellevue, NE. Let us know of any more changes!

Irecently got aletter from Rich PAROTTE. He informs us on the class of 95-02 at Laughlin. Eleven ’93ers graduated: Rich got aC-21 to Offutt with aKC-10 follow-on. Shawn CAMERON, Pat OSBORN, and Tom HERMEL got KC-135S. Steve COX got an F-15, Ty GROH an F-16, Katie KNUDSON an RC-135 (Offutt). Troy BORN got aC-9 (Scott) with aC-17 follow-on. Mark FORKNER chose aC-17 (Charleston) and Mark VISCONI aC-130 to Ramstein. Jon ERIKSON will be instructing in the T-37 (Vance) and then move on to aC-5. Thanks for the info Rich! Con¬ grats!

That’s about it from the letter box. Remember, send the next letter to the AOG. I’ll be moving shortly and they will have my new address. En¬ joy the new bars and paycheck. Congratulations on the new officers in the Air Force! Here’s to you ’95! Until next time. Mike.

C.C. Masotti-Maxwell

321 Calle Pequeno

Santa Maria, CA 93454

Home: (805) 928-9466

DSN: 276-9704/Fax: 276-0720

Percent members: 75

Hey ’94! This is the last time we’ll occupy the last page of Checkpoints, ’cause we’ve got anew class to add. Congrats to the golden Class of 1995—you’ve worked hard to make it this far and you all deserve the best. Good luck with your new assignments and welcome to the Air Force! It’s hard to believe that just ayear ago Iwas reading Mike SUNSTEAD’s (’93) spring column and wondering how ayear had passed since his graduation. Time certainly does fly.

Afew address changes/updates from the AOG mailbag...Steve STRAH is at Laughlin; Brian FREIBURGER is at F.E. Warren; Brian RICHARDSON and Jonathan LANDIS are at Wright-Patterson; Jules CHEATER is at Colunbus; Mike SUERMAN is at Sheppard; Dave KENT is in Japan; Keri SCHREIBER is in Converse, TX; and Chad HAMILTON has aplace in downtown New Orleans, where he is atten¬ ding medical school.

Fortunately, the letters are starting to come more frequently, so thanks to all who have written. Mike RAMIREZ wrote from USAFA, where he works in the minority enrollment office (RRPM) with Will KELLEY, Janeen GENTRY, Jennifer ROBINSON, Christian WENDLER, Rob GOMEZ, Leslie “Houston” DAVIS, and Don DAVIS. Even though they’re assigned to the Academy, they’ve been having aball with all the interesting work and great TDYs—Mike even went TDY to the Virgin Islands! Of course, that wasn’t Mike’s most exciting news...if you didn’t see it coming, he and Jodi DEMARTELAERE got engaged during Thanksgiving and will marry in Detroit Lakes, MN this October 6th. Congrats, Mike and Jodi, and hi to everyone from RRPM!

Ramsey SHARIF, one of my fellow “Freaks” from CS-23, wrote from Columbus AFB where he is going through UPT with A1 STANLEY and Brian JANNEY. He ran into Ed KAPLAN and Chris THOME over Christmas and has also heard from Jim and Melanie WAMHOFF (Yokota) and James BIERYLA (Laughlin). Jim and Melanie have settled into an apartment on base, and James is wrapping up T-38s for aJuly graduation from UPT.

Kevin BARNES wrote from Reese, thankful for the medical clearance he received to go to UPT. Over half of his class of 24 are grads, including newly-married Mike PELGER, Brad SPEARS, Dan COZZI, and Duke POPE, and bachelors Ray BERNIER, Greg MILLER, Tracy WEST, Todd STEARNS, John LECLAIRE, Mike SPANICH, Matt PASCO, Case CUNNINGHAM, and Eric GRACE. Kevin says that he, Ray, Eric, and Mike P. all puked on their “dollar” (first) ride, but are flying fine now. He also claims that Reese is the place to be if you’re single since Texas Tech is there in Lubbock, so there are enough “nice young ladies” (his words, not mine!) and young entertainment to distract any one of them enough to fail out of the program. The only drawback he mentioned was the temperature—I know we all think of Texas as warm, but Kevin

didn’t seem to enjoy getting “tanked” in freezing weather!

Jodi MATERNOWSKI also wrote from the Military Intelligence (ox¬ ymoron) College at Bolling AFB, where she is getting her MS in strategic intelligence along with Rob LISCH, John KOWALCZYK, and Brian ZAWADA (another newlywed). The four are “drowning in classes” and working on their theses, and will attend intel school at Goodfellow after their 8Sep graduation. Mark WOOD, Nate PADDOCK, Tom ROZYLOWICA are also in the area. The three share ahouse and work with computers at the Pentagon. Dave PARKER is at nearby Ft Meade, also working in the computer field.

Penny PARMER wrote from Minot to send me SCUBA pictures and fill me in on the excitement of sitting alerts. Like many jobs, it seems like nothing is going on or everything is happening at once. Penny and the other folks at Minot have already been pretty busy lately with the advent of the START inspections. The Russians have already been up there once (at print time) and will probably return afew more times for their baseline inspections.

Besides all the above letters, Igot one from aMr. Richard Flood from Ohio. If you are wondering who that could be, well, so was I. It happens that he is the father of Capt Pat FLOOD (’90) and wanted to send me clipping from his local newspaper. The article announced the 26 Nov wed¬ ding of Brian DELMONACO to Laura, his beautiful high school sweetheart. Brian is in med school in Bethesda, MD and Ed MCCOR¬ MICK was one of his groomsmen. Thanks, Mr Flood, for the clipping!

We were lucky to have Tina WESTFALL up for avisit from Los Angeles, where she works in acquisitions. She was attending acourse here on base and joined me and Trevor (SMITH) for dinner one night. She and Kelly HEALY share an apartment with an ocean view in L.A. and see lots of grads around the town. Jim and MaryPat WINNER, Todd KUSSEROW, Jim SIKRA, Robyn WASYLIK, Erika STONE, Tommy GREGORY, Lisa DYER, Travis MOSER, Brady BEIGH, and Dave BARNES are among the group in the area, and Titi SU has visited from Edwards. As many of you may have guessed, Erika and Tommy are now engaged and are planning afall wedding.

Here at Vandy, we’ve been fluctuating between beautiful sunny days and torrential downpours. California floods have claimed many lives and destroyed even more homes, farms, and businesses. Vandenberg worked around-the-clock one night to fill over 100,000 sandbags and Jane DECKER, Trevor, and Ihad the opportunity to join the base youth group to shovel mud three-feet deep from an underpriviledged trailer park in Santa Barbara. As Isaid before, Jane is my roommate for the eight months she is here for Undergraduate Space and Missile Training (USMT). Brad HODGES, Brian CURTIS, and Chas PETERSON are also in her class. With two to four tests weekly, the crew will stay in the books until their August graduation. Trevor and Ihave stayed pretty busy as well. Most of our weekends have been taken up with soccer since August. He coached boys’ regular season and All-Star teams (I was “team Mom”) and plays for his intramural team and the varsity base team. Weekdays are reserved for practice, working late intramural games, ground school, and flying. Like many of you out there, Trevor is still try¬ ing to get into pilot training, so we’re trying to get all of his prerequisites filled. Despite all our activities, we were somehow able to make it to Pasadena for the Eagles concert (courtesy of Rick SHEFFE), and were fortunate enough to entertain my father (from Myrtle Beach), Jane’s father (from Philly), and Jeff GIBSON (’95) all in one weekend. Trevor’s travel plans include TDYs to L.A. and to Wright-Pat; Ihave one to San Antonio and another to Atlanta; and Jane gets afew weeks to check out her future home up at Malmstrom.

Jeff LINGENS is one of Trevor’s new roommates, as well as the assis¬ tant soccer coach, so we see him pretty often. He has had some difficult times at work, but uses his new truck and his parents’ nearby home (Thousand Oaks) as escapes. John NEWBERRY was ahuge help in Jeff and Trevor’s move, and he and Beth keep busy with improvements on their house and with Beth’s new job. Bill SCHUM works with John and Trevor, so we get to see him at intramural basketball games occasionally. He volunteered to coach kids’ baseball, so he has many of our soccer players on his team.

Ialso keep in touch with Kathy CLEVELAND (Cape Canaveral), whose busy work schedule still allows for graduate work and church ac¬ tivities. She claims to be enjoying life more than ever and is busy helping Alicia VALLENI (’95) and Rick WAGEMAN plan for their summer wed¬ ding. She talks with Trace and Kristen THURLBY and reports that the newlyweds are having the time of their lives. Deb ANAWROCKI (AFIT) has also written. After several months of school, she’s happy to report that she is finally able to find afew minutes here and there for social time.

Well, that;s all for this column—1 wish you all asafe and happy sum¬ mer. Please call if your travels bring you to the California coast—Vandenberg is hosting the regional CGO conference this summer and Ican influence the room assignments, so give me acall if you’re plan¬ ning to attend! Keep in touch, you know the address...Take care and God Bless. C.C

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