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Director of Publications

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AOG Staff

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Cheryl Brower

Pat Buland

Chuck Denham, ’67

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To Serve Until 1July 1997

JWBrown III, ’59 (Vice Chairman &Secretary)

AJBurshnick, ’60 JPUlm, ’61 (Chairman)

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ARTICLES

AOG Annual Report Presented

AOG Members May Propose AFA Fund Projects

Sabre Society Members Attend First Recognition Weekend Class of 1970 Returns for Quarter-Century Gala ..

USAFA Academic Courses “On the Leading Edge

Gen. Davis is 34th Recipient of T.D. White Award

Cadets Spend Spring Break on Mexico Mission ...

Department Head Retires After 28 Years Service..

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ABOUT OUR COVER

Our thanks to Academy photographer Larry Hulst for our cover shot of the scoreboard at Falcon Stadium showing the final score of the opening football game against BYU. The 38 -12 victory was the first against BYU in 12 years. During the celebration following the upset, the cadets made short shrift of both goal posts. For the Falcon football box score through press time, see page 46.

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 S2.50. 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, USAF Academy, Colo. 80840-4475

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AOG Annual Corporate Report Presented

By Dick Coppock, ’61 President and Chief Executive Of fi cer

GENERAL —Fiscal Year (FY) 1995 (1 July 1994-30 June 1995) proved to be exceptionally busy and rewarding for the Association of Graduates (AOG). The annual election replaced 12 ■members of the board of directors whose terms were expiring. The board then re-elected James P. Ulm„ ’61, to an additional two-year term as chairman and James W. Brown III, ’59, and Jerry L. Smith, ’62, to serve through 30 June 1997 as vice chair¬ man/secretary and treasurer, respectively. The buildout of the se¬ cond floor of Doolittle Hall began in November and ran through February. The facility remained open for business throughout the entire period, although the use of the first floor for functions was severely curtailed.

Two bylaws changes were approved by the board in November 1994. One will lead to the downsizing of the board to 25 members as of 1July 1997. The second changed the title of the association’s elected leader to chairman of the board and that of the chief staff executive to president and chief executive officer.

The association’s data base software design effort progressed

well. The staff expects to sever the link with the Academy’s main¬ frame in February-March 1996 and maintain all graduate, associate and cadet records thereafter on association hard¬ ware/software. The custom software and networked computers will enable the association to more efficiently handle all facets of data base management for our rapidly-increasing constituencies.

FACILITIES —Following completion of the buildout of Doolittle Hall, the AOG staff and Falcon Foundation moved to their second-floor offices in February 1995. The new construction also included alarge patio on the northwest corner of the building at the fi rst- fl oor level and the addition of extensive audiovisual capability in the Lyon Boardroom and main assembly area. The facility’s sound system was also expanded and upgraded. The first floor temporary offices were removed and atria opened up, giving the association greatly increased capability to both host functions and provide space for wedding receptions, dinners, meetings, etc. on arental basis.

FINANCES —As required by its bylaws, the association con¬ tracted for an annual audit by an independent auditor. The report shows that total corporate assets increased by over $2.0 million during FY95. Net of depreciation the Building and Equipment Fund increased over $1.1 million. Debt associated with fi nal buildout of Doolittle Hall increased to slightly over $1.5 million. Life membership funds rose some $676 thousand, reflecting the continuing success of both cadet and graduate membership pro¬ grams.

MEMBERSHIP —Some 655 graduates from the newlycommissioned Class of 1995 joined the AOG member roles. Of these, 648 (65 percent of the graduating class) were added as life members. Another 370 graduates from other classes also became life members. The association on 30 June 1995 also had 21 cor¬ porate, 12 honorary and 1,321 associate members.

STAFF PERSONNEL —The AOG had apermanent staff of 16 and five part-time employees at the end of FY95. Chuck Denham, ’67, joined the staff during the year as administrator. Information Services.

PUBLICATIONS —The 1994 Register of Graduates was published as the expanded version. Registers over the next four years will be published in the abbreviated format. The Service Academy Business Resource Directory (SABRD), ajoint publica¬ tion of the graduate/alumni organizations of the Air Force, Ar¬ my, Navy and Coast Guard academies, was published for the first time in early 1995. The publication was ahuge success, and early entries in FY96 point to increasing popularity.

MERCHANDISING —The big story in merchandising is the success of the distinctive Christmas ornaments. The second in the series, the Academy Falcon, was every bit as popular as the initial offering, and collectors continue to purchase dwindling stocks of both as the 1995 offering is underway. New sweaters and sweat¬ shirts have been added to the AOG clothing line, and USAFA T-shirts continue as a“best seller.’’ Pictures of some of the mer¬ chandise line have now been added to the Checkpoints gift order form and are available as separate handouts at the Doolittle Hall merchandise counter.

AIR FORCE ACADEMY (AFA) FUND —Contributions to the 1994-95 AFA Fund neared $78 thousand, down from $101 thousand in the prior fund year. Cadet clubs/extracurricular ac¬ tivities accounted for some $14 thousand of the total, the Cadet Leadership Enrichment Seminar Endowment $6 thousand and the Graduate Dependent Scholarship Endowment nearly $3 thou¬ sand.

AOG BUILDING FUND —The Building Fund received total contributions of $900 thousand during FY95. The generosity of constituents combined with additional borrowing from AOG Life Membership Funds allowed the association to complete Doolittle Hall in accordance with original design specifications. Borrowing

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AOG Annual Audit Report

An annual audit of the Association of Graduates was conducted by certified public accountants, for the association’s fiscal year 1995. The following information is in¬ tended to provide financial highlights. Acomplete audited report may be obtained from or viewed at the association offices at 3116 Academy Drive, U.S. Air Force Academy, Colo. 80840-4475.

(Corporate Report: From page 7.)

as of 30 June 1995 totalled some $1.54 million and continuing fund-raising is planned to retire this debt as rapidly as possible. We are particularly grateful to parents, especially those of the Class of 1998, for their support of this effort. Reu¬ nion groups have also contributed generously to Doolittle Hall.

RESTRICTED/ENDOWMENT FUNDS

—The Building Endowment Fund received its second of three $200,000 grants from the Ackerman Trust, bringing total contributions from this source to $1.3 million. The Cadet Leadership Enrichment Seminar Endowment grew to $132,105 and the Graduate Dependent Scholarship En¬ dowment to $89,200. The association con¬ tinued to administer graduate and nongraduate memorial funds totaling some $340 thousand. Over time the entirety of these funds will benefit the Academy or AOG as appropriate memorial projects are selected.

SABRE SOCIETY —This new member¬ ship society offers members opportunities to support the Academy through contribu¬ tions of aminimum of $1,000 per year. These gifts, unrestricted in nature, will be used to support Academy programs selected by the AOG after consultation with the Academy on prioritized needs. Members benefit via arecognition weekend held at the Academy. Lapel pins and a sculptured desk piece also attest to their generosity. At press time some 82 alumni and friends had joined the society.

SERVICES —Services had avery busy year as the completion of Doolittle Hall opened up additional space for functions. Open houses for cadets and parents were held during both graduation week and Parents Weekend. The members of the Class of 1995 were hosted at welcoming receptions in the spring, and the Class of 1999 began its initial inprocessing at Doolit¬ tle Hall. Accompanying parents/friends were guests of the AOG at abarbecue luncheon following the departure of the basics to the cadet area. Four class and one specialty (gymnastics) reunions were held throughout the year, and Doolittle Hall again served participants well as anumber of luncheons and other reunion events took place in the facility. Asquadron commis¬ sioning ceremony and ahost of wedding receptions, conferences, chapter functions, dinners, etc. were also held in Doolittle Hall.

Eight scholarships totaling $5,500 were awarded to dependents of member graduates. Two recipients also were award¬ ed Graduate Dependent Scholarships in the prior year. The association hopes to in¬ crease both the number and size of scholar¬ ship awards in the future. The Graduate Dependent Scholarship Endowment Fund provides the necessary earnings for these scholarships and is funded solely by con¬ tributions from graduates and friends.

(Continued on page 11.)

VIEW FROM THE TOP

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

This Checkpoints article marks my fi rst anniversary as Superintendent of our Air Force Academy. The past year has been fast-paced and we’ve made much progress in leading our Academy into the 21st century. We believe we’re continuing on the right track to ful fi ll our critically-important mission. As always, we appreciate your thoughts and counsel. Keep them coming, please.

Lt. Gen. Stein, ’66

As mentioned in aprevious article, we anticipate the comple¬ tion of the Consolidated Education and Training Facility (CETF) in May of 1996. Now 60 percent complete, the $38.5 million pro¬ ject will house our laboratories, classrooms, and offices for the Departments of Civil Engineering, Astronautics, Biology, and Chemistry. As you know, our Academy has grown since its begin¬ nings in the 1950s, but our academic facility, Fairchild Hall, hasn’t kept pace with space and safety requirements. The laboratories in Fairchild have not grown nor been modernized to keep pace with advances in technology and the increase in size of the Cadet Wing from 2,500 to 4,000 cadets. The CETF addition will double our laboratory space, handle the increase in the size of the Cadet Wing, and allow the Academy’s educational capabilities to expand and catch up with modern technological advancements. Even now, CETF is being integrated into our cur¬ riculum. Several engineering classes have been using the CETF construction for lab exercises and examples of construction techniques. Without question, the 347,0(X)-square-foot facility will meet the needs of the Cadet Wing now and well into the future.

In addition to the CETF, our General Upgrade in Dormitory Environment (GUIDE) program is right on track. Phase 1of GUIDE is complete. Improvements made in Vandenberg Hall during this phase included replacement of the heating system, domestic hot water heaters, refurbishment of all stairwells, and

(AOG Corporate Report: From page 9.)

The computer resume service continued as apopular offering and Service Academy Career Conferences were held in September 1994 and April 1995 in San Antonio and Washington, D.C., respectively. While these employment opportunities programs ap¬ pear to be enthusiastically received by members, alack of direct feedback from both employers and job seekers makes it virtually impossible to quantify their true success.

Finally, our various af fi nity service programs with MCI, AANB MasterCard, Camelot Travel, Security Paci fi c Ex¬ ecutive/Professional Services and Budget Rent-a-Car continued to receive strong support from members.

upgrade of the fire alarm and public address systems. The sixphase program for Vandenberg is scheduled for completion in early 1999. During phases two-sbc we will repair the roof, improve the ventilation system, upgrade the electrical system, replace the plumbing, and remodel and reallocate the latrines to increase the number of female latrines on each floor. In addition, all cadet rooms will undergo amajor renovation including new furniture and the hallways will receive upgraded lighting, new CCQ desks, new fire doors, and tile will replace the carpet. Sijan Hall will follow the same sequence beginning in the year 2000. Overall, the GUIDE program represents amuch-needed investment in the Academy’s infrastructure and will significantly enhance the quali¬ ty of life for our cadets.

Facility renovation isn’t the only area where our Academy has made progress. We’ve come along way in transitioning our women’s intercollegiate program to NCAA Division Iand in in¬ creasing the number of civilian faculty in response to the 1993 Na¬ tional Defense Authorization Act. Our women’s programs are currently moving ahead with preparations for making the move to the NCAA Division Isports and joining the WAC in July 19%. We’ve recently hired Ms. Denise Cohen as our full-time senior women’s administrator to ensure asmooth transition and assist with the management of our NCAA compliance. Ms. Cohen was hired from acompetitive field of 30 administrators and comes to us from the University of Pacific in California. We consider Ms. Cohen an invaluable addition to our Academy team. The move to Division Imeans we will be competing at the highest level of com¬ petition in one of the strongest women’s conferences in the coun¬ try. This will significantly increase our nationwide exposure and create agreater awareness of the many opportunities and suc¬ cesses of women at the Academy. We know our women’s teams will be challenged at the Division Ilevel and will represent our Academy and the Air Force proudly.

On the civilian side, the Dean of Faculty has aggressively pur¬ sued our target of a25 percent civilian faculty complement by the year 2000. As of September, all 19 academic departments, as well as three of the staff agencies, have civilian faculty members on board. Our current civilian faculty structure includes seven pro¬ fessors, seven associate professors, 27 assistant professors, two instructors and fi ve administrative faculty members. Faculty members are hired at academic ranks commensurate with their education and experience within the applicable disciplines. We’re proud to report that 92 percent of our civilian faculty possess PhDs. Although there has been some concern about the change to our faculty composition, the faculty’s role in officer development remains essential and strong. Our new civilian faculty members have enhanced our faculty credentials and strengthened the bond between the American academic community and our Academy. On balance we believe these superb educators have enhanced our ability to develop future Air Force leaders.

Over the past few months we were pleased to host many of you during your class reunions (’60, ’65, ’70, ’75, and ’85) and ap¬ preciated the feedback. We were pleased to host the Sabre Society Recognition Weekend and are grateful to the Sabre Society for their endowment of the Cadet Leadership Enrichment Seminar (CLES). We believe we are making progress, and hope you are proud of our Academy and where we are headed. Rest assured, our purpose remains constant—to supply the best Air Force in the world with the world’s best second lieutenants. Our guide in do¬ ing this is the Academy’s and Air Force’s core values: integrity first, service before self, excellence in all we do. We appreciate your support in carrying out that mission.

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THE AOG BOARDROOM

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

Greetings from Colorado and your AOG. We continue to make progress, and are preparing for the November 1995 meeting of the board of directors. Homecoming ’95 and the class reunions were successful based on the initial feedback. The Jabara Banquet was agreat event to honor Eddie Waters, Class of 1985, though the at¬ tendance was disappointing based on the number of reservations from the reunion classes. The AOG staff is eurrently exploring some other options to our current process to determine if there may not be abetter way to recognize the Jabara Award winner.

ball mentor. Fortunately, his former players honored him at a basketball reunion in 1989 in acknowledgment of his many con¬ tributions to each of us individually and to the Air Force Academy. Coach was apart of the original cadre at the Academy and helped to shape the early years of our tradition and heritage. Not many people know that one of his assistants was ayoung Se¬ cond Lieutenant Dean Smith who has had some measure of suc¬ cess in college basketball at the University of North Carolina over the years. Amemorial fund has been established in Coach’s name through the AOG, and we encourage each of you who knew Coach Spear to help carry his memory for those who will follow. Please send your contributions to the association indicating that it is for the Coach Bob Spear Memorial Fund.

1would like to close with areminder for all of us as graduates. If there is alesson to be learned from the passing of afriend it should be “to not put off until tomorrow what can be done to¬ day.” Iattended the services for Captain Skip Rogers, ’90, two weeks ago. The response from his classmates across the country was superb, and strongly supports acommon bond that holds us as graduates together. If one of your classamtes is not amember of the AOG, perhaps areminder of our common bond and com¬ mitment to each other may help to convince he or she to join that “common bond” between and among friends. Best wishes for the Holiday Season. Keep smiling and see you in 1996!

Jim Ulm, ’61

The first Sabre Society weekend was held in late August with nearly 50 percent of the members in attendance. It was aclass act and everyone had awonderful time. The Academy and AOG staffs were superb in assuring everyone was treated special. The Cadet Wing made avery favorable inpression—A SPECIAL THANK YOU TO THE CLASS OF 1996 for their leadership and enthusiastic participation. The membership continues to grow and we will reach our membership goal for the first year. The highlight of the weekend was the announcement that the funds generated in the next two years will be used to fully endow the Cadet Leadership Enrichment Seminar (CLES). CLES has been the number one priority of the Academy and Association of Graduates for funding under the Academy Fund since its incep¬ tion several years ago. We have tentatively set our next Sabre Society weekend for 19-20 July 1996. Please annotate your calen¬ dar if you are amember, or if not amember, please join us.

Ihave just received word that Bob Spear, the Academy basket¬ ball coach from 1955 to 1971, passed away on Oct. 25, 1995 in Tucson where he and his wife had lived for many years. He was interred at the Academy on Nov. 4. Coach influenced many of us during our cadet days and was ahighly-respected national basket-

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(Note: The percent of donors is calculated by dividing the number of gifts by the number of living alumni. Totals include gifts received between Jan. 1 and June 30, 1995. Gifts received after this date will be listed in afuture magazine.

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(S) Sponsor —$100 to $499

(P) Patron —$500 -$999

(L) Leader —$1,000 to $2,499

(F) Fellow —$2,500 to $4,999

(B) Benefactor —$5,000 or more

(Editor’s note: Individual donor listings include only those contributions of $50 or more.)

AOG Members May Propose AFA Fund Projects

By Jim Shaw, ’67 Vice President, Development

Your Association of Graduates (AOG) annually solicits dona¬ tions to the Academy through the Air Force Academy (AFA) Fund. The primary purpose of this fund is to raise money which provides “an extra margin of excellence” to the cadet experience. Most of the projects supported by the fund have been recom¬ mended by either the superintendent or members of the associa¬ tion’s board of directors. However, the board of directors will also consider proposals recommended by AOG members which would bene fi t the AOG membership, cadets and/or the Academy.

All member-initiated proposals must be received by the AOG vice president for Development, not later than March 1and com¬ petition for available funds is very intense. If you are interested in making aproposal for the board’s consideration, please follow the guidelines and format at the end of this article.

This year’s fund drive has just kicked off. In the past, the fund has been used to purchase aCessna 150 for the Competition Fly¬ ing Team, to purchase three ASK-21 sailplanes, and to support the Cadet Commanders Leadership Enrichment Seminar. The fund was also used to create and support the Humanitarian Fund and the Graduate Dependent Scholarship Endowment, to pur¬ chase anew sound system for the Cadet Chorale and to support various cadet clubs and squadron projects. Other fund projects include continuing support of various academic conferences and symposia, purchase of the Lance P. Sijan biography for new cadets, and support of many other academic projects.

In considering aproposal, the board uses aset of guidelines and criteria which are summarized below, not necessarily in order of priority:

—Fund money will be used for Academy and cadet support, programs for Academy graduates, appropriate projects that build linkages between cadets and graduates, and to enhance the attrac¬ tion and retention of AOG members.

—Fund money devoted to the Cadet Wing and/or the Academy will be used to help provide the “extra margin of ex¬ cellence.” This term means any item which adds to the quality of education, training, and morale of cadets or the level of prestige for the Academy.

—Funding for graduate programs will be directed to projects which provide for professional growth and development, pro¬ mote agreater sense of community among graduates, produce direct graduate benefits, create or expand local/chapter programs and associations, and foster improved ties with the Academy and the AOG. Graduate-oriented programs will be given ahigh fund¬ ing priority.

—Funding emphasis may be given to equipment and facilities acquisition which bear alasting value to the Academy and/or graduate community.

—In most cases, the fund will be used in such amanner as to provide the broadest benefit to graduates and cadets.

—The board will consider favorably the extent, method, and ease of recognition to be given to the AOG and fund donors.

—There will be no quantitative limit on any project funded.

—There will be no limit to the number of projects which can be funded in agiven cycle.

—Fund monies may be set aside for future specified or unspecified purposes. Multi-year programming for single or con¬ tinuous projects is allowable.

—The total cost of fund administration will be borne by the fund.

—Funds will be apportioned solely on the merits of the pro¬ posals presented to and as determined by the board.

Information for AFA Fund Proposals

Please be as brief as possible with each response.

1. Title. Descriptive title of the project.

2. Funding Requirement. List dollar amount. Indicate impact of non¬ funding of requested program.

3. Point of Contact. Name, office symbol, phone number and address of person who may be contacted for additional information on project proposal.

4. Description. Narrative description of the proposed project and desired timing of project funding. Include opinion of overall benefits to be realized by cadets/graduates. Include your opinion of the lasting value and effect of proposal to the Academy, the Cadet Wing, and/or the graduate community.

5. Specifications. Describe components of the program and/or facilities and equipment included in your proposal.

6. Current Status. New initiative, enhancement of existing programs, continuation of existing programs, etc. Has there been aprevious source of funding, and if so, what is current status of that funding? Is federal funding likely?

7. Other Costs. Are there recurring costs and/or maintenance costs in¬ volved in the proposed project that the AOG will be expected to fund? Does the proposal contain amulti-year funding schedule?

8. Recognition. How will AOG and AFA Fund donors be recognized if funding is granted?

9. Sponsor. Department or individual presenting project for con¬ sideration.

10. Other Donors. Are you aware of or have you contacted other fund¬ ing sources for your proposal? If so, what is the status of those investiga¬ tions?

11. Other comments. Include other comments you deem appropriate. Include information regarding the effect of denial of funding or partial funding on your proposal.

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 permittiiig. AOG members receive preferential rates. For more specific in¬ formation on your special-function needs, please call Mrs. Cheryl Brower at the AOG at (719) 472-0300.

COMMANDANT’S CORNER

Brig. Gen. John D. Hopper, Jr., ’69, Commandant of Cadets

Anew academic year is off and running, and as Iwrite this we are looking forward to agreat football season. We started it off right with big wins over BYU and Wyoming. The first one over BYU in 13 years. What agreat victory for our players and the wing...morale is soaring. By the time you read this, much of, the season will be over. Ihope we continue on this winning course. It would be fun to still be playing football in December.

Brig. Gen. Hopper, ’69

Alittle recap from this summer. The cadets did asuper job with our programs. I’ll start with the SERE program, now called Cadet Survival Training. Resistance training has been removed and the focus is concentrated on basic survival skills. After commission¬ ing, those individuals who go to aqualifying career field will at¬ tend Air Force resistance training. Our cadet instructors adapted quickly to the new training requirements and did agreat job. Our airmanship programs, soaring and parachuting, had record years for soloing cadets in the sailplanes and earning jump wings.

As aside note, Brig. Gen. Susan Pamerleau, ROTC com¬ mander, and Itook aclose-up look at our basic free-fall course this summer. What an experience; the cadet and enlisted instruc¬ tors were tremendous. The program is one of the most sought after at the Academy and continues to rank as one of the highlights in surveys of our graduates. Both the parachuting and soaring instructors do asuperb job in one of the most demanding flying environments in the world. Basic Cadet Training started the Class of ’99 off on the right foot. The basics came here motivated to do their best and they were pushed and encouraged by ’96 and ’97’s lead-from-the-front philosophy. As aresult, they came out of BCT stronger (as measured by the PFT), healthier (net weight gain of one pound) and with an attrition rate of 4.4 percent (five year average is 6.6 percent). Now it is up to us to continue molding them into our warriors and leaders of the future.

Our mission in the wing has not changed over the years. Slight¬ ly restated the goal remains “...commission the BEST Air Force officers filled with the knowledge, character, and qualities of leadership essential to acareer of service to our country—Ready to Lead, Fight and Win!” In an effort to focus our efforts this academic year, Ihave asked the wing to concentrate on the lead principle in the Air Force’s Core Values of “Integrity First.” I will ask all visiting speakers, particularly those associated with the Commandant’s Leadership Series, to concentrate on what integri¬ ty means to them during discussions with the Cadet Wing. Our focus for leadership and character development efforts during the year will also be “Integrity First.” The trust we must have among ourselves and the covenant we have with the American people must be founded on an underlying commitment to integrity. Please take every opportunity to help us have an impact in this

area. We have atremendous network through the AOG...we can make adifference. In addition to our focus on integrity, we will also emphasize “followership”, “respect for and wear of the uniform”, and “accountability”.

Iwant to take amoment to update you on the Center for Character Development. The center consolidates our efforts to in¬ tegrate character development programs across the Academy. The center consists of the Honor Division, responsible for ad¬ ministration of Honor System; the Human Relations Division, which functions similar to abase level Social Actions branch; and finally the Character Development and Ethics Division, which combines Honor Education, Community Service and cadet facul¬ ty and staff training for moral development. Iam very pleased with the center’s efforts to enhance the Academy’s focus on character development.

In the past, Ibelieve, we assumed many of our desired out¬ comes for ethical behavior would simply occur through osmosis. The center helps us establish expectations for behavior and pro¬ vides the necessary training to ensure success. One of the newest tools in helping develop teamwork, enhance self confidence and to have alittle fun is our adventure-based learning program. In this program cadets go through activities similar to those of the Leadership Reaction Course. It includes high-ropes initiatives that offer danger as part of the increased challenge. Cadets work with facilitators to focus on the character development aspects of the activities. The teamwork and trust developed through this program is right up our alley. Iexpect great things from this new endeavor. Stop by for avisit, Ithink you will be impressed.

In closing, Ithink the Cadet Wing is performing exceptionally well. As always, we have about one percent that display aserious lack of maturity. However, that leaves 3,960-plus that Iwould be proud to commission and look forward to serving with. The cadets are wonderful; it is exciting and inspiring to be in their midst. You should be proud of the wing, they are truly the best in the world, and Iwill do my best to ensure it remains that way!

Free-falling Commandant Brig. Gen. John D. Hopper, "69, hauls his parachute back after landing at the Academy airfield in late August. The general completed his fifth jump to earn his jump wings. (Photo by SrA. Steve Horton, courtesy The Falcon Flyer)

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 June 8through Sept. 30, 1995. We encourage others to join these dedicated graduates and friends in this most important project. Contributions and pledges made after Sept. 30 will be listed in the next publication of Checkpoints.

CHECKPOINTS DONOR

($25,000-$99,000)

FALCON

Mr kMrs Errol QBond, Sr

Lt Col James WBrown III Ret '59 match of USAA

Mr Louis JAppelhans '74

Mr Dana CArbaugh '70

Lt Col Win fi eld SArnott '75

Dr Richard AArtim '72

Mr kMrs Paul Ballew

Maj Dewey JBarich Ret '64

Maj George LBarnes Ret '63

Mr Henry KBarrett '71

Mr Marvin JBarry '70

Mr Stephen JBarry '72

Craig NBash MD '79

Hr Kimbrough SBassett

Mr Joseph HBattaglia II '84

Mr Robert GBell '69

Capt Christian PBenedict '88 match of The UPS

Foundation

Mr Ralph SBroderick Jr '73

Company Fund

Mr Jerry Mt)aily '60

Mr '74

Ct Mrs James BBronson match of Abbott Lab

Maj Anthony GBrozena Jr Ret

Lt Col David MBurnett '73

Mr William ACarnegie '60

Col Bryan SCary Ret '63

Lt Col John ECharlton '75

Lt Col Michael FChorvat '65

Lt Glen EChristensen '93

Lt

Jim kCarol West '59 '65

Maj Janice ABenham '81

Mr Lindsey BBierer III '68

LtCol(Ret) kMrs Michael A Blackledge match of Martin Marietta Corporation

Col John EBlaha Ret '65

Col Jeffrey OBlanchette '73

Mr Robert PCornelia '69

Mr Willie JCosby, III '75

Brig Gen

Mr Rudee FDavis '74

Mr Donald EDawson '69

Dr John Dedic MD '76

Mr kMrs william Delahanty match of Allied Signal Foundation

Mr Sheldon Dennis '81

Mr kMrs MElmitt Eastcott

Lt Col Michael LEberle '77

Mr Paul HEmmert '79

Lt col Robert CEstus Ret '66 match of The UPS Foundation

Mr Joseph VFacenda Jr '75

Capt Robert GFiddler Jr '87

Mr James HFleming '64

Maj Arnold Flores '80

Lt Col Carl AFoerster '73

HWilliam Frank MD '74

Maj Douglas HFrost Jr USAFR

Mr kMrs Bill kGinny Gardner

Capt John PGladman '87

Lt Col Timothy JGraves Ret '65 match of Student Loan Marketing Association

Mr Charles 0Haas '65 match of Hughes Aircraft Company Mr (c Mrs Ron MHadley match of Westinghouse Foundation

Lt Col Richard DHalfast Ret '73

Mr Danny WHamilton '68

Col Raymond AHamilton II Ret '63 in memory of 2Lt Monte Rex Hamilton USAAF WWII

col James THannam Ret '63 match of Texas Instruments

Foundation

Mr Charles KHarrington '72

Lt Col Richard HHarrington

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 informal 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 preferen¬ tial rates. For more specific information on your special-function needs, please call Mrs. Cheryl Brower at the AOG at (719) 472-0300.

(Building Fund Donors: Continued from previous page.)

Lt Col Robert CHilb USAFR Capt Michael Lepchenake '85 Maj Joe FPeters Sr Ret '63 '70 match of The UPS Lt Ool Charles FLiggett Ret Mr Richard JPfautz '79 Foundation '60 Mr kMrs Joseph SPokrifchak

Mr kMrs Edward VHinds Capt Donald RLindberg '83 Mr Robert SPutnam '67 match of Bell Atlantic Mr kMrs Kenneth Lloyd capt Carlos WWQuiterio '86 Foundation Mr Charles LLucas '74 Maj JMichael Reames USAFR

Company

Capt Tod RTaylor '88

Mr Jude Henry Terhall '65

Lt Col Victor RThomas Ret

'60

Lt Matthew RTramonte '93

Maj Randall RBarrett ANG '75

Lt Col John DBarrowclough

'75

Ml &Mrs Glenn HBartholic match of Rockwell Inti

Lt Col Jack RTrimble Ret Mr Rick RBarton '71

Mr Robert EBaskett '70

'70

Lt Col Charles LTurner Ret Capt Philip ABasso Jr '88 '62 match of Texas Capt Haridev sBasudev '87

Instruments Foundation

Maj(Ret)

Capt Mark JBates '88

Col(Ret) kMrs Benjamin R kMrs Dennis GBattle

Tyner match of Southern Lt Col Charles WBeadling Company Services

Mrs Angelita EVasguer

Col Dean FVikan Ret '60

Capt Terry AWalker '91

'75

Lt Col Ronald LBean '75

Capt Phillip JBeaudoin '85

Lt WBurke Beaumont '93 '68

Lt Col Russell CWalker Ret Lt Matthew RBeckley '92

Col James LWeaver Ret '63

Mr Carlton TWest Jr '63

Capt Walter Wade Wheeler '83

Mr kMrs William EWilson match of The Delta Air Lines Foundation

Mr Curtis LWolfe '65

Mr BAlan Zeigler '73

TAKE OFF DONORS ($25-$999)

Col John CAarni Jr Ret '65

Col Bryon JBednai USAFR

'75

Lt Col William DBeekman Ret '68

Lt Brent DBell '93

Lt Richard ABenda '93

Lt Gregory SBendinger '93

Capt Marie ABenovil '87

Lt Col Gregory JBerlan '75

Mr Gustave JBeuker '8i

Col Kenneth HBiehle Ret

'60

Lt Tony LBishop '93

Lt Col Peter ABlatchley '75

Lt Patrick KBobko '91

Lt Col James GBoehm '73

'73

Dr kMrs Ralph WHinds III Mr Robert JMack '70 '76 match of MYMEX Matching Mr Michael DMackness '76 Gift Program

Capt Steve MHollis '91

Col Daniel RHoloviak Ret '65

Mr kMrs Gustavo Malan match Mr Randall CReed '78 of The Delta Air Lines David JReed MD JD '60 Foundation Mr James '79 and Mrs Tanya

Capt Brent RHrncir '85 Mr Ernest Maravilla '73 '80 Regan III

Capt Kenneth SHultgren '88 Mr Steven FMarlier '68 Mr 6Mrs Dennis Reichardt

Mr Paul J"Pat" Hurley Jr Brig Gen James LMartin Berthold RReinstein III MD USAFR '63

'68 '63

Lt Col (Ret) kMrs Donald Lk

Mr Timothy HMason '69

Joan Hutchinson '62 match Lt Col Jerry LMason Ret '60 of Inte Foundation Capt Stuart LMatthews '91

Mr Rudy MJiricek '80 match Mr Ronald MMcCollum '63 of The Delta Air Lines Lt Col William

Foundation

Mr Kent FJohnson

Mr fc Mrs Quentin kElizabeth Johnson match of The Northern Trust Company

Mr Robert CJohnson '76

Col Charles LJohnson II '72

Mr John WJones III '71 match of Raytheon Company

Capt Michael SJoyal '87

Mr Brian GkCarol FKaley '60

Ms Mary BKalmeyer '83

Mr David RKline '69

Mrs Renee MKoeller '83 match of The Air Products

Foundation

Mr Bruce FKohl '63

Col William JKornitzer Jr

Ret '60

Capt David kDr Dawn Kugler

Mr Thomas ERobinson, Jr '80

Mr Joseph VRomanko '82

Mr James CRose '76

Mr kMrs Paul LRosengren

McDermott Mr Ronald wRoxmce '67 Ret '65 match of Rockwell Lt. Col Vincent RRusinak Ret Inti

Mr Vernon SMcGraw Jr '68

MCI Telecommunications Corp

Lt Col Barry SAbbott '75

Maj Milton CAbbott '83

Mr David JAdams '85

Capt RKevin Adams '84

Mr kMrs Franklyn GAerstin

match of Dow Chemical

Capt David JAlexander '85

Lt Brian JAllen '93

Mr Robert WAllen '75

Capt Michael WAllin '88

Capt Catherine Almand '90

Maj Matthew BAlthouse '81

Capt David JAmin '87

Mr TLance Ammon '70

Col Charles JBohn III '70

Mr John WBonds Jr '65

Mi kMrs Richard Borden

Capt Robert WBorja '91

Mi &Mrs Robert CBosworth

Mr Brian Bouffard '75

Capt Daniel VBoughton '83

Mi &Mrs John DBowser

Col James MBoyle '73

Lt Col Victor PBradford

'70

Mr kMrs william EBradley Lt Col Michael DBraydich '74 '68

Lt Col Erik CAnderson '73

Mr Alberto Saavedra-Ferrere '73 '70

Maj Edward AMcllhenny ANG Col Larry KSanborn Ret '65

Brig Gen James EAndrews

Maj Michael IAngarole ANG '74 '80

Mrs Olivia MMcKenna match of Martin Marietta Corporation Foundation Lt Adam JMcLean '91

Mr Mark KMeakins '77

Dr Jeffrey S, Mrs Susan E and Tyler RMeints '73

Capt Skip Sanders Ret '73

Mr kMrs John JSanford

Mr kMrs Michael J

Santangelo Col John ASchira Jr Ret '60

Mr Richard TSchlosberg III

Capt Jeffrey JAnsted '85

AOG Capital Chapter in honor of Paul GKaminski and Howell MEstes III

Capt Joseph FArata '84

Col Howard FBronson III Ret '60

Lt Col Don LBrooks Ret '59

Lt Col Harold GBrost Ret

'60

Lt Col Charles DBrown '72

Ml Greg Brown

Capt Bruce EBrown Jr '89

Capt Nancy DBrunkow Ret '65 '81

Mr Hans JSchmidt '83

Mr Robert JMeisenhelder II Lt Ool Leroy BSchroeder Ret

'65

Mr kMrs william CMiller

Col George MMonroe '70

Mr Harry Arnold '70 Lt Col Patrick JAsh Ret

'75 '65

Mr 6Mrs Richard Schwab

Col Edward MSienkiewicz, Jr

Col Bruce Hosier Ret USAFR '75

Mr Mark SSievers '71

'60

Lt Col(Ret) kMrs Michael kCapt Nigel JSimpson '87

Athletic Association in memory of Jack Culliton

Col Alexander DBache Ret

Mr Robert EBadger '60

Mr Gary MBagliebter '70

Capt Nicholas WBailey '89

Lt Col Charles EBryant '74

Mr Peter JBryant '82

Capt Robert PBubello '89

William GBuchta MD '75

Lt Col Christopher J Budinsky '75

Capt Jay PBullock '83

Capt George RBumiller '86

Col Bruce JBuono '68

Shirley Mueller

Mr Edmond JNogar '60

Lt Col Thomas EKullgren Ret

Mr Donald FNovak '75

Col

'68 '83 and Ellen '66 '70

Lt Col John LBailey ANG

Lt Donald CBaker '92

Mr Nelson 1Burgos '80

Lt Col Thomas EBurke Ret

'64 '60

Lt Col David FO'Brien Ret

Mr William HSimpson '63 Steve Sollenberger Ret match of Merrill Lynch kCompany Foundation Inc

Lt Col Michael BBallinger

Ret '70

Col kMrs

Donation and Recognition Levels

Please check your donation level

TAKEOFF Donor [$25 —$999]

TALON Donor [$1,000 -$4,999]

FALCON Donor [$5,000 —$9,999]

CONTRAILS Donor [$10,000 —$24,999]

CHECKPOINTS Donor [$25,000 —$99,999]

POLARIS Donor [$100,000 or more]

Lt Gen Paul EStein '66

Charles kMargaret Stumb '70

Lt Col Donald ASutton Ret

Lt Col Carl JBang Jr '70

Lt Robert SBarker '93

Mr Raymond JBarleben '70

Maj Douglas MBarnard Ret

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.

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

1Year Period

2Year Period

Please contact me about my gift

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

Thank you for your support of the AOG!

Sabre Society Members Attend First Recognition Weekend

By Jim Shaw, ’67, Vice President, Development

During the last week in August, 62 members of the Sabre Socie¬ ty from all around the country arrived in Colorado Springs to par¬ ticipate in the first Sabre Society Recognition Weekend. Jointly sponsored by the Association of Graduates (AOG) and the Academy, the weekend was designed to bring members together, acknowledge their generosity by saying thank you with aspecial series of activities, and informing them of current Academy issues.

The weekend kicked off on Friday, August 25th, with a welcome by Harry Pearce, the society chairman; Jim Ulm, the AOG chairman of the board; and Paul Stein, the Academy superintendent. After acontinental breakfast, the members departed for a“day with the dean”. Activities included visits to the Computer Learning Laboratory, the Aeronautics Simulator, the Interactive Language Lab and the Gimbel Collection in the cadet library. After agroup photo and lunch in Mitchell Hall, the tours continued and members attended classes with the cadets. That evening, the Steins hosted acocktail party at their home for society members and senior Academy staff.

Saturday started bright and early with breakfast at Doolittle Hall and atrip to the Academy Airfield. Society members re¬ ceived briefings and “hands-on” exposure to all the Academy air¬ manship programs. From there, the group watched part of the last “Blue-Silver” scrimmage prior to the season opener against BYU and returned to Doolittle Hall for lunch and afternoon briefings by the superintendent, commandant, dean, director of admissions and director of athletics. The formal weekend ac¬ tivities ended with cocktails, dinner and entertainment by the Cadet Gospel Choir in Doolittle Hall.

During the dinner, Harry Pearce and Paul Stein announced that the society would endow the Cadet Leadership Enrichment Seminars as their first gift to the Academy.

The Sabre Society was created this year to bring together and recognize some of the Academy’s most dedicated and loyal sup¬ porters. The society has three related objectives: to establish a select group of long-term benefactors who have aclear and tangi¬ ble interest in supporting the Academy both financially and through personal influence; to provide avisible and prestigious means to honor and recognize the Academy’s leading supporters; and to form anational network of influential community leaders who are informed advocates of Academy causes.

The Academy, today and in the future, will face the need to maintain and enhance specific and planned programs across the full spectrum of the development process: military, athletic, academic and character. The Sabre Society will play avital role in meeting this challenge. Membership in the Sabre Society is of¬ fered to individual friends and supporters of the Academy who are willing to make an annual unrestricted investment of $1,000 or more to support programs which will keep the Academy at the leading edge of excellence. Other levels of donation include Patrons at the $2,500 annual level and Benefactors at the $5,000 level annually. Individuals willing to make aone-time contribu¬ tion of $50,000 or more will become lifetime members of the Sabre Society and will enter the Society’s Leadership Circle. To date, the society has over 80 members and continues to grow.

The Association of Graduates and the Academy recognize and deeply appreciate the generous support of society members. Sabre Society members are vital in the challenge to keep our Academy nationally respected as apremier and unique institution of higher learning developing leaders for our country. We look forward to hosting the next recognition weekend this coming July.

If you’d like more information or would like to reserve your place in the Sabre Society, please contact Jim Shaw, executive director of the society, or Kathy McCann at the AOG, (719) 472-0300.

^1 ■■-s

The group photograph of the Sabre Society members in front of the Eagle and Fledglings Statue was taken just prior to the Fri¬ day lunch with the Cadet Wing in Mitchell Hall.

(Building Fund Donors: Continued from previous page.)

Maj Frederick ALankford

'79

Maj James BLarson '79

Mr Gerard CLauth Jr '80

Capt Timothy JLawrence '88

Capt Kirk ALear '86

Mr Robert WLeBlanc '87

Mr &Mrs Jorge ALecea

Mr Richard CLeeman '73

Lt Casey KLeglar '91

Mr William HLeninger '60

Lt Col James MLeonard '74

Lt Col Dennis ALeuthauser

Lt Col Brian WMcLean '74

Mr Thomas JMcManamy '74

Mr William DMcMillan '83

Mr Gerard PMcPartlan '81

Mr Maurice LMartin Jr '70

Mr &Mrs William MMcVeigh Lt

'68

Mr Richard WLynch '82 match of McDonnell Douglas Foundation

Mr Matthew SLynde '85

Capt (c Mrs Alan kKathy Mackey '85

Lt Martin LMacNabb '86

Lt Col Kenneth RMadsen Ret

'68

Capt Kenneth DMadura '88

Lt Col Edward AMaher Ret '63 match of McDonnell Douglas Foundation

Lt Anthony SMartinez '93

Mr Michael AMartinez '92

Lt Timothy LMartinez '93

Capt Michael JMasucci '85

Lt

Mr Robert MMatte '75

Col Gary wMatthes '64

Capt Robert JMatthews '86

Mr Christopher LMaurer '81

Lt Trina KMayhill '93

III

Mr kMrs Martin WMechling

Col Donald JMeister '73

Mr Dennis EMellen '75

Mr &Mrs Joe Memmel

Capt Constance MMeskill '89

Lt col RJMestemaker II USAFR '66 match from Martin Marietta Corporation Foundation

Mr Frank SMeyer '77

Col Dale WMeyerrose '75

Cape David AMorgan '86

Mr Michael PMorgan '83

Capt Steven AMoritz '83

Lt Col Robert KMorrow Jr Ret '74

Capt Dennis PMorton '89

Capt Robert SMoser '85

Lt Col Jack DMueller '70

Mr James OMulford '70

Mr John WMulhearn '83

Mr &Mrs John Mulligan match of Stone kWebster

Inc

Ms Winona Mulson in memory of Jack Culliton

Mr William DMunson '71

Lt Col William SMurray '74

'70 '77

Capt John GLeVasseur '86

Lt Col Eric CLewallen '75

Lt Col Relva LLilly Ret

Lt

Lt

Mr

Lt

Lt

Lt

Capt Dawn DLongwell '89

Mrs Valerie MLook

Mr Robert BLopert '70

Lt Col Peter CLosi '75

Col George ELuck Ret '60

Mrs Crystal LLuckey '84

Lt Col John WLundberg III

Mrs Deanne B'80Mahoney

Ma Robert J Mahoney '81

Maj

Ma Thomas M Mahoney '83

Ma James DMahoney USAFR

Lt Kyle DMikos '93

Lt Col Barry JMiller '78

Lt Col Douglas LMiller '75

Maj James CMiller '83

Lt col Delbert FMiller Ret

Maj

Capt

Maj

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Mr

Capt

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Capt Efrain Marrero '83

Capt Tulley AMarriott '89

Brig Gen Gregory SMartin '70

Maj Michael Martin '66

Lt

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Mr

Capt

Lt

Maj Michael RMoeller '80

Mr Kenneth PMontgomery '75

Maj Stewart TMonti Ret '74

Maj Ann EMoore '80

Lt

Mr Ronald LMoran '73

Lt Col Richard DMurray Jr

Lt Col Joseph RMuus '77

Lt Wayne SMyers '93

Lt Col Craig WNaas '75

Mr James JNance '71

Capt Mark ANaumann '85

Mr Michael Navarro '68

Mr Thomas WNeal '72

Mr Wayne TNearing '73

Lt Wendy DNeaville

Mr

Ml

Maj Cynthia LANorman '83

Capt Mark CNowland '85

Lt Blaine FNye '92

Lt

RESERVE YOUR PLACE IN HISTORY

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

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CHAPTER NEWS

AIR FORCE ACADEMY SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON, D.C.

The society emphasizes business net¬ working within our Washington graduate community. The January meeting topic was Association Management and was hosted by Cort Durocher, ’68, executive director of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Other speakers were: J.O. McFalls, ’66, and Denny McGuirk, ’69, of the National Rifle Association; Mr. Jim Zaniello, managing director and CEO, Job Opportunities Update; Hector Negroni, ’61, president/executive director Latin American Management Association; and Jack Cole, ’64, executive director and CEO, National Aeronautic Association.

In February we ran aprofessional development seminar for those entering the job market. We lightened up in spring, with Johnnie Walker Black Label hosting an entertaining social evening in March in¬ cluding cocktails, dinner, and atutored Scotch tasting.

On April 1, the society sponsored a Spring Formal Riverboat Cruise for members and their guests aboard the Cherry Blossom, are-creation of a19thcentury Victorian paddle wheeler. The May meeting of the society highlighted the restaurant and hotel business. Our three ex¬ pert panelists were Sal Speziale, ’78, ex¬ fi ghter pilot, current airline pilot, and restaurant owner (with two more opening soon); Wendell Moore, one of the three founding members of Red Hot and Blue; and our host Craig Conlon, the manager of the Fairview Park Marriott. On Sept. 28, our fi rst meeting following the summer break addressed Aviation Business Development and International Marketing. The speakers were Jack Schofield, chair¬ man and CEO, Airbus Industrie of North America, Inc. and Larry Crawford, presi¬ dent and CEO, AVITAS.

Anyone interested in joining, please call our membership director. Rich Siner, ’65, at (703) 569-0958 or write to the Air Force Academy Society of Washington, D.C. at P.O. Box 6451, Spring fi eld, Va. 22150. (Ho/fy Emrick Svetz, ’80)

ARIZONA CHAPTER

Our fi rst annual dinner/cocktail social was held on Friday, Oct. 13 at the Arizona Club-Scottsdale. Ron, ’71, and Barb Marusiak, graciously agreed to coordinate this event. Iwould like to personally thank both of them on behalf of the Arizona Chapter for their efforts in making this event agreat success!

Football is here and so is our best chance in years to beat Notre Dame on Saturday, Nov. 18th. Kickoff is at 1:30 p.m. Tim Furst, ’78, has reserved the Sports Club at the Pointe Hilton South Mountain, Phoenix, for us to cheer on USAFA against Notre Dame. Please call Tim at (w) 952-6400 or (h) 496-9502 to confirm your attendance. Your family and friends are also definitely welcome. Iam also asking each of you to personally call three-four grads so we can really have arousing and fun get-together. As the saying goes “the more the merrier’’ so let’s have aterri fi c turnout.

In August, Itook the two-hour train ride (each way) from Williams to the Grand Canyon. It was great family entertainment. There is also atwo-hour ride (both ways) from Camp Verde. Let me know if you are interested in such an event, and we can get a group going.

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 and have not received our mail¬ ings, please contact Jim Sienicki, Snell & Wilmer L.L.P., One Arizona Center, Phoenix, Ariz. 85004-0(X)l to be added to the master mailing list. (Jim Sienicki, ’74)

CAPITAL CHAPTER

1995 has been asuper year! Our quarterly luncheons have been very popular, featur¬ ing such notable speakers as Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Ronald Fogleman, Secretary Paul Kaminski and Lt. Gen. Howell Estes. After the success of our spring golf tournament we scheduled afall tournament in November. We’re ending the year with class by sending acontingent of nearly 2,0(X) Air Force fans to the Navy pregame tailgate.

In May, Paul Kaminski, ’64, the under secretary of defense for Acquisition and Technology, enlightened us on future technological advancements and how we would acquire them. Lt. Gen. Howell Estes, ’65, director of Operations (J-3), spoke to us about U.S. contingency ac¬ tivities at our August luncheon. Our next luncheon ties in with the Navy game, so Lt. Gen. Paul Stein, ’66, Superintendent of Cadets, spoke and Col. Ken Sweitzer, direc¬ tor of Athletics, raised Air Force spirit showing football highlights.

Lt. Tom Rozylowicz, ’94, with help from

classmates Nate Paddock and Mark Wood, organized the tailgate party for this fall’s AF vs Navy game at Annapolis. With near¬ ly 2,000 attendees this was avery popular event as we “Sunk Navy.

Col. Tom Crawford, ’72, with help from Maj. Mike Zepf, ’81, conducted agrand spring golf tournament. We plan to establish a“traveling trophy” for the best team of grads from the same class! Lt. Col. Steve Daniels, ’74, and Capt. Jerry Perkins, ’86, have agreed to organize the fall golf tournament; these two won the last tourna¬ ment they organized, so we may have to put them on different teams.

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 points of contact 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. (Jerry Perkins, ’86)

GREATER NEW YORK CHAPTER

In June, the Greater New York Chapter held aget-together at The Wings Club to hear from the Dean of Faculty. Brig. Gen. Randy Cubero, ’61, aNew Yorker himself, spoke about the changes in the academic program and the civilianization of the faculty. There was some dissension by members regarding this Congressionallyimposed program. Randy also brought us up to date on life at the Academy and Col¬ orado Springs.

After the cocktail party several members adjourned with Randy for dinner at Rick Kingman’s, ’60, restaurant. Alley’s End, at West 17th St. and 8th Ave. For information on the New York Chapter contact chapter president Mike Galbreath, ’64, at (203) 869-4432 or Capt. Joe Blewitt, ’86, at (212) 753-5609. (Ron Wisharl, ’64)

NORTHERN CALIFORNIA CHAPTER

The Northern California Chapter meets quarterly in the San Francisco Bay Area. The association met for picnicking and water sports at Berryessa Lake in September. We will meet the first Saturday in December for dinner at the Mountain Home Inn in Marin County.

If you would like to be on the mailing list for the quarterly meetings please contact Chuck Reed at Reed, Elliott, Creech & Roth, 99 Almaden Boulevard, Eighth

Floor, San Jose, Calif. 95113. Telephone: (408) 993-9911. Facsimile: (408) 993-1335, e-mail Chuckreed@AOL.COM. (Chuck Reed, ’70)

NORTH TEXAS CHAPTER

Chapter members had agreat time at the tri-service softball game at the Dallas Naval Air Station earlier this year. Thirty grads and family members enjoyed apicnic lunch and while the Air Force team played hard, our friends from Annapolis managed to win again. The Army and Air Force teams were closely matched. Our thanks to the team members: Mike Gibbons, ’63; Ed Chavez, ’86; Ed Garrard, ’69; Bob Chambers, ’70; John Kuenzel, ’60; Lance Ammon, ’70; Mike McGinnis, ’76; Marquis Pickett, ’86; Ole Olson, ’78; Lloyd Duncan, ’67; and Frank Moore, ’69.

Jerry, ’63, and Ellen Ahmann hosted the fall barbecue at their home in South Lake on Oct. 14 where chapter members watched the Falcons beat Navy on Jerry’s largescreen TV. On the golf front, considerable effort has been dedicated to making the Service Academy Golf Classic areality. This was Bill Reemtsma’s dream and needs the support of graduates as players and

contributors. Our chapter contributed one $500 Tee Sponsorship and Jerry Ahmann organized the sponsorship of additional Tee Sponsorships from Delta pilot graduates in the area.

You can help make future Service Academy Golf Classics asuccess by volunteering a$50 contribution or more to Jerry Ahmann. Thanks to Joy Reemtsma and Tim who have given so much of their time towards making the event possible. Jeff Wilson, Dave Brigman and John Kuenzel have also contributed many hours contacting local business for sponsorships. Roger Staubach has added his support by writing apersonal letter to over 180 promi¬ nent business persons in the area. Our ef¬ fort is being jointly supported by the West Point and Annapolis Associations, as well as the Merchant Marine graduates in the area.

continued monetary support is appreciated. (C.

Glen Shaffer, Jr., ’63)

PUGET SOUND CHAPTER

Greetings from Puget Sound. The chapter has enjoyed several great parties in 1995. If you live in the area, you might want to join us. On April 29, 60 grads, spouses, and friends gathered at Bill Ellis’, ’69, house in North Seattle for our annual Dark Ages Party”. Bill, acommissioner in the Seattle Court System, threatened to show film highlights of the O.J. trial.

On Sept. 16 about 40 grads, spouses, and friends met at Jerry Callahan’s, ’66, house in Renton for our summer picnic (the autumnal equinox was still afew days away). The party was held at Callahan Hall

or

The Doghouse” as it is known by locals. Those of us who eventually found The Doghouse had agreat time. Some of us were navigationally-challenged by the direc¬ tions provided by Steve “Magellan the Mapmaker” Flewelling, ’87. All kidding aside, we all very much appreciate the great effort continually made by Steve and his staff, Betsy, in maintaing our database and putting out our mailers.

We are looking for graduates who want to help our association by becoming aclass representative. If you can help, call your class representative or Eric Strull, ’83, at (214) 934-3224. Nametags for chapter members and spouses are available from John Kuenzel for $6.50 each. Also, it’s that time of year again for annual dues. Your (Continued on next page.)

Latest Known Chapter Presidents and Addresses Listed

The AOG attempts to maintain acurrent list of active AOG Chapters and Societies and their officers. There is increasing in¬ terest by awide spectrum of graduates on fi nding contacts throughout the country. The following list of known chapters/societies and their presidents is published to assist both the individual graduates and the chapters. Corrections, addi¬ tions and deletions should be for¬ warded to the AOG vice president. Services. Individuals interested in starting an AOG Chapter should also contaet the AOG vice presi¬ dent, Services.

CHAPTER presidents

(Alpha Order by Chapter Name)

As of 1November 1995.

Maj. Gen. (Ret) Richard Smith, ’61

ALAMO AREA

8502 Fairway Bend Drive Fair Oaks Ranch, TX 78006-4936

Col. Ed Leonard, ’68

ALOHA AREA

111 Beard Ave.

Honolulu, HI 96818

Mr. Jim Sienicki, ’74

ARIZONA

Snell &Wilmer

One Arizona Center Phoenix, AZ 85004-0001

Mr. Chuck Winter, ’72

ATLANTA

355 Wheatridge Drive Roswell, GA 30075-1387

Lt. Gen. Ed Eberhart, ’68

CAPITAL

38 N. Gar fi eld St. Arlington, VA 22201

Capt. Evelyn Scanlon, ’84

FRENCH EXCHANGE

Mr. Jim Lyons, ‘68

GREAT LAKES

Con Search

911 Poplar Street Erie, PA 16502-1253

Mr. Richard Buschmann, ’72

GREATER CHICAGO

2159 Riverlea Circle

Naperville, IL 60565-2489

Mr. Michael J. Galbreath, ’64

GREATER NEW YORK

18 Woodside Drive Greenwich, CT 06830-6730

Dr. Dean Bristow, ’60

MEDICAL

303-3 Warton Lane

Fayetteville, NC 28314

Mr. Maurice Ecung, ’68

MOHAWK

1008 North George Street

Rome, NY 13440-3414

Col. Darryl A. Scott

NEW ENGLAND

41 Offutt Rd.

Hanscom AFB, MA 01731-2607

Lt. Col. (Ret) Gary L. Nordyke, ’68

NEW MEXICO

6009 Los Hermanos Ct. NE

Albuquerque, NM 87111-1154

Lt. Col. Chuck McGee, ’76

NEW MEXICO-CANNON

7710 Oklahoma Ct. Clovis, NM 88101-8208

Lt. Col. (Ret) C. Glenn Shaffer, ’63 NORTH TEXAS

1421 Thames Dr. Plano, TX 75075-2734

Col.(Ret) Albert Waters, ’59

NORTHERN CALIFORNIA

4227 Sunrise Blvd., #120 Fair Oaks, CA 95628

Mr. James E. McCleary, ’67 NORTHERN INDIANA

120 S. Lake Street, Ste. 200 Warsaw, IN 46580

Mr. Robert Blake, ’59

NORTHWEST FLORIDA

6Pebble Beach Dr. Shalimar, FL 32579-1624

Mr. Ken Wentzel, ’64

ORANGE COUNTY

1428 Keel Drive

Corona Del Mar, CA 92625-1239

Mr. Henry Johnson IV, ’79

OREGON

14966 SE Lone Oak Ln.

Portland, OR 97267-1720

Mr. Richard Belden, ’69

PUGET SOUND

4880 Forest Avenue SE

Mercer Island, WA 98040-4602

Maj. Gen. (Ret) Pete Todd, ’59

RAMPART

1250 Big Valley Drive

Colorado Springs, CO 80919-1015

Mr. Tom Rausch, ’62

RED BARON

PSC 2, Box 8868

APO, AE 09012

Mr. Michael E. Quinton, ’62

SAN DIEGO COUNTY

2615 San Clemente Terr.

San Diego, CA 92122-4029

Mr. Robert G. Mans fi eld, ’ll

SAN JACINTO

5607 Spring Lodge

Humble, TX 77345-1467

Mr. Ed Mechenbier, ’64

SOUTHWEST OHIO

3342 O’Hara Drive

Beavercreek, OH 45434-7301

Mr. David O’Brien, ’64

SPACE COAST

4095 Turtle Mound Road

Melbourne, FL 32934-8502

Lt. Col. (Ret) Bob Fay, ’59

NEVADA

3267 E. Flamingo Rd., #206

Las Vegas, NV 89121-4341

Col. (Ret) Andrew W. Biancur, ’60

UTAH

4174 E. Cumdrah Drive

Salt Lake City, UT 84124

SOCIETY CONTACTS

Lt. Col. (Ret) David Frostman, ’71

Air Force Academy Society of Colorado

936 Sun fl ower St.

Louisville, CO 80027-1091

Capt. Glenn D. Seitchek, ’83

Air Force Academy Society of North Carolina

1211-307 Westview Lane

Raleigh, NC 27605-3216

Lt. Col. Jerry Wilkowski, ’65

Air Force Society of Washington, D.C.

2423 Roeky Branch Road

Vienna, VA 22181-4067

LETTERS TO THE AOG

More Than Core Curriculum

Makes AF Academy Unique

Iwould like to thank Lt. Col. Jeffrey Larsen for presenting acompelling case for maintaining arobust core curriculum at USAFA. His article “What makes the Academy Special? The Core Curriculum (Summer 1995) illuminates adistressing trend in the Academy’s academic environ¬ ment, and Iagree with the proposition that the core curriculum should be protected. Our paths differ, however, when he sug¬ gests that astrong core curriculum “best makes the case for keeping the Academy.” If this is so, Iam concerned, that we have lost our way.

The sine qua non of the Academy must be the indoctrination of the cadet wing into the profession of arms (differentiating it from civilian universities), and specifically, to the profession of the application of airpower (differentiating it from other service academies). It is imperative that this process instill the elements of our calling that set the military officer apart from society at large, as well as those characteristics that set the airmen apart from the soldier. Abroad foundation of academic knowledge can serve the military officer well, but it does not constitute the essence of what we are about.

General “Chappie” James said it forcefully, unforgettably, and best during BCT, 1976 when he proclaimed: “We are warriors!” The warrior spirit is cultivated through the cumulative effect of several im¬ portant mechanisms within the Academy environment. Role models, squadron life, and tough military training are the heart of the Academy experience, and must con¬ tinue to set it apart from other institutions.

Exposue to prominent warrior-leaders

(Chapters: From previous page.)

Throughout the year ajoint service academy group sponsors networking breakfasts at either The Rainier Club in downtown Seattle, or The Red Lion in Bellevue. These meetings all have in¬ teresting speakers and provide job leads and business connections. In late October or early November we look forward to the Joint Service Academy Dinner, hosted this year by the West Point Society.

The chapter will end 1995 with ageneral membership meeting at which we will elect a new board of directors and set the tone for 1996 and beyond. If you are interested in joining us, please contact Steve Flewelling at (206) 271-6606 or Joe Cavazzini at (206) 742-7630. (Joe Cavazzini, ’82)

like General James is memorable and im¬ portant, but it is probably less instructive than an AFA cadet’s daily experience of watching and imitating the professional of¬ ficers serving with the commandant, dean, and director of Athletics. Likewise, the constant of squadron life not only indoc¬ trinates the cadets into our profession’s system of unique institutions, but it fosters the formulation of our corporate identity. The squadron necessitates continual team¬ work in all aspects of the Academy ex¬ perience.

Tough military training serves two func¬ tions: it imparts technical and doctrinal knowledge, while it imparts avisceral undertanding of our deadly profession. Although the technical knowledge about our calling might be instructed equally well by other institutions, the experiential learn¬ ing gained from programs like BCT and SERE bind us together and impart adeeplyrooted “feel” for the profession of arms. That is why it is distressing when the Academy cuts important programs like resistance training. At risk of belaboring the point, resistance training was just one element of the comprehensive introduction to the profession of arms, but it universally plunged all cadets into the front lines and imparted aphysical, cognitive, and moral warrior experience. Its elimination was not ashow-stopper, but more of an indication of the erosion of the Academy’s unique¬ ness.

The essence of the schism between the U.S. Army and the airmen in their ranks prior to World War II was simply this: airmen are different. Different in their perspective of the battlefield, different in their skills, different in their spirit. As time went on, these differences became more pronounced, and led to the creation of a separate service. We see the opposite dynamic at work today. What is distressing is that the Academy needs to access and develop that which makes graduates dif¬ ferent from agraduate from institutions such as the University of North Dakota (among others) with its strong aviation pro¬ gram. Instead, the Academy seems inex¬ orably driven to self-marginalize, to suc¬ cumb to the siren song of political correct¬ ness and “tolerance” at the cost of the air warrior difference.

Letters such as this surely will not have a material effect on Academy policies, yet they must be written to chronicle the ero¬ sion of anoble idea. The Air Force Academy is that idea, and the calls for a single “Purple” academy or elimination of service academies altogether are only ena-

bled by policies that slowly and incremen¬ tally eliminate programs (like resistance) that set the academies apart. Ardent op¬ ponents of the Air Force Academy simply need to relax—time is on their side. As the Academy discards or dilutes programs slowly—but surely—USAFA’s differences go away. When the difference vanishes, the opponent needs only to put forth the fiscal argument that the Academy will not be able to bear. If, as aviation pioneers such as Bil¬ ly Mitchell, Jimmy Doolittle, Hap Arnold, and Curtis LeMay believed, that airmen are different, then that difference must be pro¬ tected in our Academy.

Maj. William F. Andrews, ’80 Langley AFB

Astronauts Missed

Dear Sirs:

Iam an associate life member of the Association of Graduates, and Iam mar¬ ried to an Air Force of fi cer. As the author of the book Men and Women of Space, first published in 1992 by Univelt, Inc., in San Diego, Ifollow the careers of the astronauts and cosmonauts very closely, as well as the careers of the prospective astronauts who are interviewed and evaluated by NASA during each selection cycle.

This letter is in response to the article “34 Graduates Nominated for Astronaut Posi¬ tions,” which appeared on page 21 in the Summer 1995 issue of Checkpoints (Vol. 24, No. 2). The article was based on alist of 101 prospective astronauts chosen by the Air Force Astronaut Nomination Board and submitted to the space agency for con¬ sideration. That list was sent out over the wires on June 27 by the Air Force News Ser¬ vice and appeared shortly thereafter in Air Force Times.

The Checkpoints article failed to mention seven Academy graduates and named one officer as an Academy graduate when, in fact, he was commissioned from the Air Force ROTC program at another institu¬ tion. The seven Academy graduates not mentioned in the Checkpoints article are: Robert B. Brown (’86), Cathy C. Clothier (’82), Steven M. Davis (’84), James M. Kel¬ ly (’86), Elisha T. Powell IV (’83), Paul G. Smith (’80) and Mark A. Ward (’84). The of fi cer mentioned in the article who did not graduate from the Academy is Donald S. Watrous, who was commissioned via the ROTC program in 1982.

Ihope you find this information helpful.

Respectfully,

Doug Hawthorne

ABook Review of Courage and Air Warfare: The Allied Aircrew Experience in the Second World War, Col. Mark K. Wells, ’75

(London: Frank Cass and Company, Ltd., 1995)

In 1976 John Keegan broke new ground in military history by publishing The Face of Battle. Instead of using the set piece nar¬ rative to examine command, strategy and tactics, Keegan focused on the common soldier’s experience. Using Agincourt, Waterloo and the Somme as historical examples, the author delved into such topics as morale, violence and leadership to provide a valuable account of “man in battle’.’’ Using asimilar approach. Colonel Mark Wells’ new work, entitled Courage and Air War¬ fare, examines World War Two’s Combined Bomber Offensive (CBO) from the aircrew viewpoint.

Acareer airman himself. Wells intentionally bypasses the ob¬ jectives, results and morality of Allied strategic bombing and in¬ stead provides the reader with an insight into the day-to-day ex¬ perience of the individual bomber and fighter crews. Throughout the study he interweaves two useful and interesting comparisons. First, he exposes both the differences and similarities between the American and British experience in the CBO, the “most sustained and intensive air battle ever fought.” Second, since strategic air forces contained fighter aircraft in their inventories. Wells covers the differences between air warfare in ahigh-performance, singleseat fighter and the lumbering, crew-served bomber.

Wells begins his study with adetailed section on aircrew selec¬ tion followed by achapter on the danger and violence of air com¬ bat. Long missions at high altitude and severe temperatures added to the stress of fending off German fighters and dodging heavy flak. Fear of sudden death—in acampaign that cost the Allies 81,000 aircrew dead and more than 18,000 aircraft—played no small role in the combat effectiveness of the allied bomber and fighter units. Later chapters examine combat stress and treat¬ ment, morale, leadership and the emotive subject of “lack of moral fiber.” Hence, the author addresses topics such as why the aircrew enlisted in their respective air forces, what they went through, how they responded to stress and anxiety and how they were treated medically.

Wells concludes that the American approach to selecting airmen and treating psychological casualties was both more scien¬ tific and slightly more lenient than the British approach. Bomber Command faced amanpower crunch and needed to keep as many aircrew combat ready as possible. This led to policies occasionally characterized as harsh. Throughout the work the author explores the organizational and medical philosophies of the Allied military bureaucracies. The author asserts that, while different, each air force’s system was ultimately successful in prosecuting astrategic bombing campaign under very arduous conditions while keeping individual aircrews combat effective.

Courage and Air Warfare is based on the author’s 1992 doc¬ toral dissertation from King’s College, University of London. Wells backs up interviews and correspondence with both American and British veterans with awealth of primary sources from collections in London and the United States. An abundant assemblage of official medical reports, surveys and command memoranda from both air forces dominates Wells’ research ef¬ forts. The text is thoroughly documented with endnotes at the end of each chapter, although the small print on the note pages makes for difficult reading.

On the other hand, the author’s prose is very readable. Ex¬ cellent transitions connect each section and chapter. Concluding paragraphs briefly summarize the main points of the preceding text. Indeed, Wells neatly packs in atremendous amount of infor¬ mation into arelatively short work (213 pages of text) and com¬ municates it clearly. Additionally, ahealthy assortment of photographs—many from the author’s own collection and also from veterans whom he interviewed—provides arare insight into daily life as an aircrew member.

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Despite awealth of material published about air combat opera¬ tions during World War Two, no other deals with the human dimension of air combat as thoroughly as Courage and Air War¬ fare. And other than memoirs, few make such an effort to explore the hardships and violence faced by the young Anglo-American aircrew prosecuting the Combined Bomber Offensive. This study in aircrew cohesiveness, effectiveness and morale is not only useful to the career airman and military historian, but also to the sociologist and psychiatrist wishing to expand their knowledge of man in battle.’’ (Capt. John J. Abbatiello, ’87, Department of History, USAF Academy, Colo.)

The Marines* Memorial Club Open to All Service Branches

The Marines’ Memorial Club is the only living memorial of its kind in the world. At 609 Sutter Street, just two blocks off Union Square in the heart of downtown San Francisco, this handsome building provides asanctuary for those who wish to honor the valor of United States Marine Corps heroes.

The Marines’s Memorial Club is a12-story building with 137 guest rooms and suites; the Skyroom, the 12th floor dining room with avibrant view of San Francisco’s bridges; acocktail lounge; several meeting rooms; two elegant ballrooms; alibrary; and a health club with aswimming pool.

Membership in the Marines’ Memorial Club is open to all bran¬ ches of the armed forces. The classes of membership are: regular, associate Marine, associate (Army, Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard and Allied Forces), and honorary. Active duty members of the United States Armed Forces and current members of the Marine Corps Reserve receive club privileges. For members and their guests who stay overnight in the club, the room rates are the most reasonable in San Francisco. The rate structure for active duty military personnel ranges from $35 to $80 for double occupancy. The price structure is dependent upon military pay grade and room accommodations of the guest. The room rates for members and their guests range from $65 to $100 per night, again depen¬ ding upon the type of membership and the accommodations.

The dues for associate memberships from the Army, Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard and Allied Forces are $60 annually. There are special categories of life and perpetual memberships that involve extended club privileges and display plaques.

Members may use the club for the observance of the occaasions that are significant in their own personal lives such as reunions, weddings, receptions, etc. The most gratifying experience may be the spontaneous camaraderie with those who share like values and ideals.

Class of ’70 Returns for Quarter-Century Gala

By Tony Marietta, ’70

Over 222 old geezers hobbled on back to the AFA to see if they really could make it through the PFT. The overwhelming response was, yes, as long as the minimum pull-up requirement was between 0-1, and the running portion allowed the use of golf carts. All of the guys Ispoke with had the same thing to say, FANTASTIC! What great memories and rekindling of old friend¬ ships!

All the ’70 grads were saying, “Who was responsible for this reunion? Who thought up and coordinated all this stuff?” Hav¬ ing learned during their sojourn at the zoo never to take respon¬ sibility for anything, the guys responsible claimed that the Class of ’69 planned it. However, in-depth research revealed that the main guys on the “Dream Team” were: Joe Burke, Larry Bush, Terry Dessert, Greg Gilles, Bruce Harmon, Jack Mueller, Ashby Taylor Jr., and Larry Vaughn. Fabulous job, guys—don’t know what you could have improved upon. OK, Iknow some of you other guys helped, but you already had your picture in the AOG magazine afew issues ago, and Idon’t want to give you the big head. Joe Burke said that he especially wanted to thank the staff at the AOG for all of their super help. The only one happy to see the reunion end was the airline industry. Seems it ground to ahalt as 50 percent of Delta’s, American’s, Northwest’s, and Continen¬ tal’s rosters, as well as just about every other airline’s, was attend¬ ing the reunion.

Special thanks to Pastor George Crow and Marty Martin, who led the memorial ceremony dedicated to deceased members of the Class of 1970. After George and Marty had spoken, the Cadet Chorale sang “Lord Guard and Guide The Men Who Fly.” You could hear apin drop. We all realized that death is part of life, but knew that for some of our classmates, it came way too soon. Our thoughts and prayers are with those who have died, their families, and their loved ones. As noted in the ceremony, our feel¬ ing of loss is tempered with the joy of having known them.

Kudos to General Thomas (Doc) C. Waskow. Doc foolheartedly agreed to present the keynote speech at the banquet, which meant maintaining the attention of several hundred people who were catching up on the last 25 years. Well, Doc not only gained control of the situation, but he was able to skillfully return us to our doolie days through aseries of images, and then bring us up

At their 35th reunion in mid-September, the Class of I960 honored their deceased classmates through adesignated gift to the AOG. Linda Sheppard and Wendy Snider (widow and daughter of Val Bourque, ’60) stand before the original oil painting, “Footfalls, ’’ which will be the centerpiece of the Val Bourque Memorial Alcove in the AOG Boardroom. The painting features the Graduate War Memorial, where VaTs name is listed as the first graduate killed in combat. He was also the first cadet to be sworn in at the Academy.

to speed on what the current real Air Force is like. Thanks for giv¬ ing us adose of reality. Doc, and for leaving us with afeeling of pride in our country and the Air Force. Okay, okay. I’ll stop wav¬ ing the flag. But, again, from all of ’70, thanks Doc!

John Disosway wrote, and mentioned that he met alot of our classmates’ better halves and was amazed at the number of great women willing to actually live with former cadets. John said he saw General Robin Olds up in Steamboat Springs and that he looked great and was in super spirits. General Olds was unable to attend the reunion because he was flying aWW-II P-51 in an airshow in Louisville, Ky. Okay, General Olds, we will accept that as an excused absence. John invites anyone in the Atlanta area to say hello.

Thanks to Tim Sharkey and Joe York for making aspecial ef¬ fort to be with all of us. As most of you know, Tim and Joe are battling cancer, but still wanted to be able to see us at the reunion. 1met Tim’s wife, Carol, and Joe’s wife, Joanne. John Disosway was right, we have some great women that support us. Tim and Joe, we are all thinking of you.

It was great to see two of my old roommates, Steve Garbe and Bob McBride. Steve flies with American, and he and wife. Penny, are back in their home state of Illinois. Of course, Ididn’t get their address or phone number, but Iknow they are going to send me pictures and more information about their family. Bob and wife, Jackie, live in Ridgefield, Conn. Bob is president/CFO of Consumer Promotions, Inc. which designs and manufactures point-of-purchase displays. Iknew both Steve’s and Bob’s wives when they were dating them at AFA. And once again, John Disosway is right.

Briefly saw Mike Kelley, aformer Prepper. Mike is senior vice president of Business Development for Syscon Corporation in Falls Church, Va. He still possesses the super energy that made him such agreat athlete at the Prep School and the Academy. By the way Mike, Dick Rauschkolb said for me to tell you that he was impressed with your unique scoring and handicapping system in the golf tournament. However, Idid some research and found out that Bob McBride was on your team and that the way Bob played, Arnold Palmer would have finished second. Bob humbly swears it was ateam effort. Mike, you can send me more info on everyone that was on the winning team.

Saw Greg Popovich and wife, Erin. Both doing great and still dedicated to the whirlwind of professional basketball. Saw Bob McKinney and wife, Peggy. Bob coaches high school football in Utah. In the last couple of years, he has taken his team to the state championship, winning the championship last year. Congratula¬ tions! Talked briefly with Phil Kolbe, who is in the Department of Finance, Insurance &Real Estate with the University of Mem¬ phis. Send me more info and pictures. As always, Hugh (Hugger) Peteet was in rare form and still had the charm that earned him the dubious nickname. Ithink the words “Toga Party” will always have aspecial place in Hugger’s heart.

Both Gary Bagliebter and Iextend the Bronx cheer to Ken Hassen for not showing up. Alot of people said they missed you, Ken. Well, actually they really said they missed seeing your wife, Kdee, but realized that etiquette demanded that they ask where you were. Briefly talked with Ray and Alyce McKelvy. Ray is finally coming back to the good old U.S.A. after astint in the world of academia. Ithink he was over in England where they make those men’s shirts. Anyway, Iam glad that he and Alyce will be getting back to normal, because Ray just kept smoking his pipe and saying, “Uh huh, aaaah yes, uh huh.” He had me wor¬ ried. Gene and Nancy Quist sat at our table during the banquet. As many of you know. Gene flew the SR-71, but Nancy spent most of the evening telling me she is sure that couldn’t be true. She said that the SR-71 pin Gene wore on his lapel was really a Crackerjack box prize. Surprisingly, Gene had no comment.

For those of you who attended the Wyoming game, you may

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have noticed right before kickoff, arather large airplane flying at approximately 7-8 feet above the stadium. However, after many hours on the phone with the FAA, Idiscovered that Federal Ex¬ press had no authorized flight plan over the Air Force Academy, especially at FPH (that’s airline industry talk for flagpole height). Fortunately, the plane flew low enough for your class scribe to recognize all three of the pilots in their red ’70 baseball hats. Because of national security reasons and mandatory jail sentences, Ican only give their code names: Rick H-U-M-K-E-III, Line L-I-N-C-O-L-N, and Dusty S-W-A-N-S-O-N. Also sup¬ posedly involved but not flying the plane was Tommy T-H-O-MP-S-O-N. Ibelieve he provided the pilots altimeter readings from the flag pole. Guys, it was great!

Speaking of the football game, it was great to see Kevin Duffy leading all the cheers. Fortunately for those ’70 grads not in peak physical condition, Kevin listened to the pleas of the crowd. In¬ stead of having us all do the traditional pushups after each touchdown, Kevin led us in the innovative SSP (Standing Sky Pushup). Even so, some of us still required oxygen. Was great to sit by Smokey Stover and wife, Karen. To set the record straight, Smokey hasn’t changed. He is still the super nice likeable guy that we remember from the AFA. They live in Fort Collins, Colo, and have promised to look up other grads when they visit Colorado Springs.

John Soltis sent anote and picture. John, who, like myself, at¬ tended the Prep School, said it was super to see all the guys, especially all the former Preppers. He reminded me that May of 1996 will be our 30th reunion. Inominate John to organize a special Prep School reunion. During half-time of the Wyoming game, John and other CS-08 ’70 grads gathered in the back of the stadium (where beer drinking is not as noticeable) for agroup pic¬ ture and ran into their old AOC, Maj. M.A. Melville. Unfor¬ tunately, he still outranked all of them so he insisted that he be in¬ cluded in the picture along with his son. The guys standing or be¬ ing held up from the back are from left: Ed Rashid. Maj. M.A. Melville and his son, Jim Mulford, John Soltis, and Charles Black. Charles promises he will smile next time, take off the sunglasses, and get asweatshirt that fits. The guys kneeling and testing the strength of their knees are Bob Chambers and Phil Krasnicki.

The guys that rate in CS-08.

My old football roommate Gary Baxter sent me anote. It was great to meet Gary, wife Susie, and some of the Baxter clan. Gary apparently had alot of free time at the reunion and went out and solicited seemingly useless data. He said that as far as he knew, the guys that traveled the farthest to the reunion were Gus Soren¬ son from Taiwan and Bill Stamm from Saudi Arabia. Gary also sent me alist of guys who fly for Northwest Airlines. He said that he and Bill Jenney compiled the list while they were flying. Idid notice it was on the back of acomputer checklist labeled “Cap¬ tains fuel plan.” Gives you warm fuzzies to know what our pilots are really doing on those commercial flights. The Northwest guys are Steve Gwyn, Bob Mack, Bill Jenney, Mickey Davey, Gary

Finley, Dave Broadwater, Greg Schwartz, Jim Bettner, Gary (Spiderman) Baxter, Bruce McRay, Bob Rietdorf, and Roger Finnern. If you fly for Northwest and are not on this list, it is prob¬ ably because the pilots needed to refer to that fuel plan.

Talked with Bill Stealey who still prints money and in his spare time serves as chairman of Interactive Magic, which is involved with strategy and simulation gaming. We could have used this in¬ formation when we were at the Academy. He gave me one of the 4,000 business cards he passed out at the reunion which showed Bill and his son flying apropeller airplane, which strangely enough, appeared to have atether (probably just the angle of the picture). It was great to see Bill and several of the other doolie 18th Squadron guys. Hopefully, whoever took the picture of some of us at the banquet will send it to your old class scribe.

My wife, Valerie, and Isaw alot of Ross and Martha Johnston. They both looked great (look at last quarter’s picture of them). We realized that Waterloo, Iowa needs to be closer to Colorado Springs. Itold Dr. Ross that if he would move his practice here, I could personally, with my own body, assure him of steady employment in the field of orthopedic surgery. While we were with Ross and Martha, we unfortunately saw alot of Bill Benedict. But fortunately his wife, Constance, was with him so it turned out to be asuper time. For those of you trying to remember what Bill looked like at the reunion, he is the one that thought western night was really the theme for all of the reunion. Iam not making this up. Bill never took off his cowboy hat until the reunion was over, and even then we can’t confirm that he ac¬ tually took it off.

Saw Terry Petrzelka and wife, Dianne. Terry owns, manages, or at least tells alot of people what to do for acomputer company that develops top-secret computer material. But maybe Ijust misunderstood all those references to time warps, intergalactic communications, and Dr. Spock and they’re really working on some super keen way to balance your checkbook. Terry and Dianne live in California, but also have an office in Colorado Springs. So he, like many other ’70 grads, has promised to say hello when he is in town.

Istrongly suspected that Ihad CRSS (Can’t Remember Stuff Syndrome), and was able to scientifically verify this at the reu¬ nion. Isaid hello to Sharon Hill, Roger Hill’s wife, and that was about it. About 20 minutes later, Roger and Sharon stopped by our table. She knew that even though she wasn’t wearing a nametag (a requirement for all 25th reunions), Ishould remember that Iknew her and that Roger, Sharon, Valerie and Ihad gone out socially several times. As she suspected for years, this man was hit too many times in football. Sorry, Sharon, but next time wear your nametag,

Iwas ordered under threat of major bodily harm to correct a technical point regarding Doolie year. Bill (I Will Put AContract Out On You If You Don’t Print This) Manning was the classmate who yelled those infamous words, “It’s as job ’70! That’s the best Ican do Bill, this being afamily publication and all. As asidelight. Bill and wife, Brenda, both looked great, which is an especially significant feat since they have 13 children, which is two more than afootball team. Hey, Sharon Hill—I bet the Manning’s kids wear name tags.

I’ve been working on this for hours, and looking over the reu¬ nion attendees list, Irealize Icould probably go on for days about different people Isaw and the stories they had to tell me. I’m sure my editor would frown on this, and I’m sure that you want to relive this great event from more perspectives than “The Reunion According to Your All-Knowing Scribe.’’ Isincerely hope that all of you send me more pictures and stories so that Ican continue printing these memories until our 30th, or at least until I’ve milked out afew more columns.

Thanks for all your support!

USAFA Courses “On the Leading Edge

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

Mission to Mars. Learning skills. Cockpit physics. English on the Internet. We on the faculty at the U.S. Air Force Academy are extremely excited about several new, innovative courses. As the 20th century approaches, higher education is looking at ways to use new technologies and improved teaching methods to better prepare graduates for the future. Our Academy is on the leading edge in many areas, in particular in freshman-level courses for our fourth class cadets.

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Cockpit Physics” is aphysics course using computers to highlight the application of physics within and around the cockpit. “Writing for the 21st Century” is acourse which dramatically expands the use of computers and the world-wide web to help students research and write English compositions, and interact electronically with instructors. Our innovative Learning Skills” course uses computer tutorials to enhance cadets’ reading, math and time management skills to help them succeed in academics. The course, “Mission to Mars,” known as “Introduction to Engineering,” uses the theme “How to Build a Manned Base on Mars” to inspire cadets to investigate all engineering areas as well as applying economics, law, and biology to this space mission.

Introduction to Engineering” is designed to address three of our most important educational outcomes—frame and resolve illdefined problems, communicate effectively and be intellectually curious. Faculty from seven academic departments and the Center for Educational Excellence participate in this inter¬ disciplinary course. The scenario is the design, construction and operation of amanned research base on Mars. Cadets work in small teams to accomplish various projects associated with the overall effort, such as recovering water from the harsh Martian landscape or construction and repair of living quarters in ahostile environment.

During the semester, these teams are exposed to asystems-level design environment in which open-ended tasks must be defined and completed. In addition to the technical content of the course, the students are required to grapple with political, economic and legal issues. For example, should other countries participate in the project and what international treaties constrain the project’s design and operation?

Rather than atraditional engineering curriculum approach where students are taught the tools and then asked to apply them to adesign problem, the instructors of this course use what is termed a“Top Down” or “Just in Time” approach. In this

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method, the students must identify the problems they need to solve and the tools needed to solve these problems. The instruc¬ tors then provide the expertise necessary to develop the tools, “Just in Time,” to solve the problem. We plan to teach this course for the next three years. During this time, we’ll look at the course’s ability to provide added value to acadet’s educational experience. Then we’ll assess how well the students learned the material and retained what they learned, in order to modify the course

appropriately before offering it to all our new freshmen.

Why are we doing this? First, we feel this course will better allow cadets to decide whether they should pursue an engineering program while they’re here. Second, we have done extensive work in developing metrics for assessing how well our educational out¬ comes are being met. This course, as amodel for others, begins to implement our new assessment approach to the educational pro¬ cess.

As always, our goal continues to be to provide the best educa¬ tion we can to these future Air Force leaders.

Academy Dean Profiled as American Hispanic Leader

By Capt. Casey Mahon Deputy Chief of Media Relations

The dean of the faculty at the Academy has been selected by MENTOR Magazine as one of eight prominent Hispanics in the United States. Additionally, two cadets were highlighted by the national magazine.

Brig. Gen. Ruben A. Cubero is highlighted in the September issue of the magazine which focuses on America’s black and Hispanic youth. He shares the spotlight along with Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Henry Cisneros, U.S. Surgeon General Antonia Novello and NASA astronaut Ellen Ochoa. Other prominent Hispanics profiled are producer John “Jelly¬ bean” Benitez; Nogales, Ariz., mayor Louis Valdez; business leader Linda Alvarado; and President for the Center of Equal Opportunity, Linda Chavez.

Cubero, who graduated third in the Academy Class of 1961, has been the dean at his alma mater since 1991. He is responsible for the academic development of more than 4,000 cadets, for a faculty of 887 and for abudget of more than $250 million.

Cubero, according to the magazine, feels that his greatest ac¬ complishment or perhaps his greatest opportunity has been work¬ ing with young people. “To be able to direct the future of future officers as dean has truly been aGod-given gift,” Cubero said.

With amilitary career approaching 35 years, the command pilot hopes in the years to come to “heighten students’ awareness of different cultures and their interdependency, and to work to eradicate the stereotype of the close-minded military mind- set.” CIC Enrique Dovalo Jr., and C2C Nereyda L. Sevilla were also highlighted in the “Military and You” section of the magazine. (The Falcon Flyer)

Air Force Launches

Facts-On-Demand Service

Air Force Public Affairs has launched anew public service dubbed “facts on demand” to make information about the service available to customers worldwide via facsimile machine. By dialing the system via the telephone and follow¬ ing aseries of voice prompts, customers can receive copies of fact sheets on weapon systems and major commands, official biographies of the service’s senior leadership and weekly summaries of Air Force news. Additional products are being added each week. The service may be reached by dialing 1-800-422-USAF, or (703) 614-6031.

Brig. Gen. Cubero, ’61

Davis Becomes 34th Recipient of T.D. White Award

Retired Air Force Gen. Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. was the 34th recipient of the Thomas D. White National Defense Award at a parade ceremony at Stillman Field in September.

Davis began his military carer after earning abachelor of science degree from West Point in June 1936. At that time, the Army was still racially segregated and Davis had to endure up¬ perclassmen attempting to drive him from the U.S. Military Academy because of his race. Despite extreme racism, Davis still graduated 3Sth in his class of 276.

He wanted to attend flight training but the segregated air corps took no blacks. Davis was initially assigned to the infantry as a commander of an African American service company at Fort Benning, Ga. His subsequent assignments as aROTC professor at Tuskegee Institute and as aleader of the newly-formed African American flying school at Tuskegee Army Air Field are testament to his foundation in warrior skills and aviation ability.

When Davis retired from the Air Force as alieutenant general in February 1970, he ended a34-year military career. Soon after he retired. President Nixon appointed him to athree-year term as amember of the Board of Visitors to the Air Force Academy. As amember of the board and as the chairman during the last year of his appointment, Davis provided strong leadership to the Academy during some critical and controversial times, such as

Bill Would Restore Regular Commissions

By Congressman Robert A. Underwood

Graduates of the Military Service Academies have often been called on to give back alittle something to their academies. 1 would like to call on you to help us restore the regular commis¬ sions before the Class of 1997 bears the brunt of this policy.

As aresult of achange in the Fiscal Year 1993 Department of Defense (DoD) Authorization bill, after Sept. 30,1996, graduates of the Military Service Academies will no longer receive regular commissions. Instead, these graduates will receive areserve com¬ mission, the same commission as that received by ROTC and OCS graduates. This change strikes at the heart of the relevancy of the academies.

In today’s military, there is very little difference, some would say, between regular and reserve commissions, so Military Service Academy graduates are not and would not be given any real ad¬ vantage. What they would be given is recognition for their devo¬ tion to serve their country and their willingness to sacrifice so much.

The academies play avital role in providing quality officers who will lead the military for our nation. This country can not af¬ ford to lose these institutions. By taking away the regular commis¬ sions from the academy graduates. Congress takes away another thing that distinguishes them from other programs.

1have introduced legislation, H.R. 2016, which will restore the regular commission to graduates of the Military Service Academies. This legislation has been sponsored by Congressman Jack Reed, aWest Point graduate, and Congressman Robert Dornan, the Chairman of the House National Security Subcom¬ mittee on Military Personnel. There is only one small window of opportunity to change this provision before it takes effect for the Class of 1997 and succeeding classes, the Fiscal Year 1997 Depart¬ ment of Defense authorization bill.

1urge all graduates of the Military Service Academies to con¬ tact their Representative in Congress encouraging their support of H.R. 2016 and the inclusion of H.R. 2016 in the FY97 DoD Authorization bill. 1need your help in making the case for the regular commissions. More importantly, future graduates of the Military Service Academies are counting on you to help preserve the institutions which have served our nation so well for so long.

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Gen. Benjamin O. Davis Jr. accepts the Thomas D. White Award from Superintendent Lt. Gen. Paul E. Stein during the T.D. White Awards Parade in September. (Photo by Dave Savage, courtesy The Falcon Flyer) when women were first admitted to the Academy.

At first, all board members except Davis opposed the entry of women. But Davis’ belief in equal opportunity for all races and genders, based on ability and performance guided the board to adopt the position that women should be appointed to the Academy.

The Thomas D. White National Defense Award was establishedMarch 1, 1962 by the Academy. It is an annual award given to an American citizen who is judged to have contributed most significantly to the national defense and security of the United States during the five-year period preceding the award.

The award may be made in any specific field of endeavor such as science, technology, leadership, management, national affairs, international affairs or acombination thereof. Except for active government employees (military, civil service and statutory ap¬ pointees), there are no exceptions as to whom may be nominated for the award.

The permanent Thomas D. White plaque is displayed in Arnold Hall, with the names of the annual winners. Past winners include President George Bush (1994), President Ronald Reagan (1989), Senator Barry M. Goldwater (1978), and Bob Hope (1977). (The Falcon Flyer)

Fourthclass Cadet Awarded AF Achievement Medal

The Air Force Achievement medal was presented to C4C Brian Crozier for meritorious service while stationed at Kelly AFB, Texas. Crozier was asignals intelligence analyst in April 1993 when he was intricately involved in the rescue of a capsized sailboat in the Gulf of Mexico.

Two American citizens were sending out distress signals when then AlC Crozier homed in the frequency and discovered their exact location. Because of satellite dif¬ ficulties, no other station could relay these signals. Crozier, at the time, was applying to the Academy and was typing out his application. Upon receiving the distress signals, he began typing out the information over one of his application forms.

“If no one heard the distress signal, the two sailors pro¬ bably would not have made it,” Crozier admitted. Crozier quickly forwarded the message to the National Security Agency and the search and rescue operations center which then rescued the Americans.

It was great to be apart of saving two people’s lives and to see my training put into action,” Crozier said. It is unusual for acadet to receive such aprestigious award. Crozier, now amember of Cadet Squadron 3, is from Melcher, Iowa. (The Falcon Flyer)

Cadets Spend Spring Break on Mexico Mission

By Maj. Bryan L. Kelchner, ’81 Assistant Professor of Physics

Instead of going to the beach, home, or on an exotic vacation, 22 Academy cadets spent their spring break serving the people of Mexico. The cadets, from various Christian denominations, chose to lay down their personal comforts to help missionaries in aforeign country.

Many of the students did not speak the language but nonetheless they wanted to serve: to wipe dirty noses, to clean and repair toilets, to paint buildings, to clean dishes and mop floors, to do whatever was needed to be done to serve others, expecting nothing in return.

Although this trip was not Academy-funded, it was encouraged by the cadet chaplains office and funded by private donations for the purpose of allowing cadets to exercise their religious freedoms through their Christian service. This mission trip gave the cadets an opportunity to put the Academy core values of “Integrity first, service before self, and excellence in all we do,” as well as their

Academy Hosts Inner-City Youth for Third Year

For the third straight year, the Air Force Academy hosted 90 inner-city Washington, D.C. ninth and tenth-grade students for four days of interactive learning, confidence building and educa¬ tional vision.

Pairing off with Academy cadets as role models allows the youth to envision the difference education can make in their lives. The students, who arrived Aug. 15, attended classes, dined, and lived in dormitories with their cadet partners.

Academy staff, faculty and cadets provided the students with briefings, interactive classroom techniques, workshops, tours, soaring and parachute demonstrations, and had the students par¬ ticipate in the confidence course. The USAFA Aero Club provid¬ ed orientation flights aboard Aero Club aircraft.

The Academy, one of the nation’s premier four-year higher educational facilities, develops more than 4,000 cadets annually to be future Air Force of fi cers and leaders. Part of the cadet’s training involves reaching out and providing leadership support and training to our nation’s youth. The students are part of the Reach for Tomorrow program which is aimed at developing con¬ fidence and self-esteem in inner-city youth.

Transcripts Available

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

faith, into actions.

Ayear ago, several cadets involved in the chaplain’s special programs in religious education approached me about going on a mission trip to Mexico. Having been on one in the past, Iagreed and took four cadets to visit the mission field in Mexico over their spring break. These four students, now seniors, came back on fire from their experience and told their friends.

This year more than 35 students signed up to go, but Ionly had the capability to bring 22. The students were arranged into three teams: one team of 11 lived in the Mexican orphanage to care for 35 orphans, asecond team lived with alocal pastor to help with the preparation to build an extension to his church and to pray and care for his congregation, and the third team worked with missionaries in the interior of Mexico helping to demonstrate the love of Jesus Christ to the native people of aremote Indian pueblo on the top of amountain.

Living conditions in all cases were much less comfortable than even those who are poor within the United States. The purpose of the trip was clear—to serve. The four students who went on the mission trip the previous year served as the team leaders and chief of logistics. The orphanage team leader was CIC Tom Johnson who concluded his mission experience with these thoughts, “All too often our Academy experience teaches us to get caught up in competing against each other, to impact others’ lives. Everyone at the orphanage for the week together learned very quickly that our common enemy was rejection, loneliness and low self-esteem, and not each other.

Meanwhile the cadet team in the south near Montezuma ex¬ perienced different hardships which rallied them into ateam. CIC Ryan Sparkman, the team leader, expressed their trial more in the threat of persecution from corrupt factions and in walking in faith to find the actual location of the Indian pueblo since it is not on any map. The danger in this area arises because many officials in the region have aligned themselves with the drug cartel, charge members of the church money to pray for their dead family members, and shoot missionaries bringing Bibles into their villages. Eventually, these cadets found their way to the pueblo and spent most of their time praying for the sick and giving food to the hungry mothers and children.

At the end of the mission, the team reunited for afiesta sharing stories of the mission field, devouring tantalizing tortillas and jolting chili, singing praises to God with their Mexican brothers and sisters. (Graduates interested in furthering the opportunity for cadets to participate in Christian missions should contact Youth With AMission”, Attention Mr. Todd Doctor, Box 25490, Colorado Springs, Colo. 80936. Phone: (719) 527-9594.)

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C2C Ryan Hall instructs Israel, one of the Mexican orphans, how to play the guitar. (Courtesy photo)

Final T-3 on Final

Lt. Col. Tim Taylor, 557th Flying Training Squadron opera¬ tions officer, right, welcomes Lt. Col. Bill Morris, commander of the 3rd FTS at Hondo AFB, Texas. Morris piloted the 56th and final T-3A which was delivered to the Academy in mid August. The T-3A replaced the T-41 as the primary cadet trainer. (Photo by 2nd Lt. Chad Green, courtesy The Falcon Flyer)

Department Head Retires

By AlC Michelle Lockhart Falcon Flyer Staff

Col. Richard L. Hughes, ’67, permanent professor and head of the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Leadership, retired Sept. 1from the Air Force after 28 years of service. At the Academy he earned abachelor’s degree in psychology and re¬ ceived the Harold E. Talbott Award as the outstanding cadet in psychology and leadership.

After 28 Years of Service

Medical Center, Lackland AFB, Texas, to complete an internship in clinical psychology.

Hughes came back to the Academy in 1976. In 1980 he was assigned to the deputy for military instruction. Commandant of Cadets, where he assisted in the development of several military training programs. From 1983 until 1984, Hughes was assigned to the Executive Development Office, National Defense University at Fort Lesley J. McNair, Washington, D.C.

“I’ve been avery lucky person,” said Hughes. “My life has been touched and shaped in countless ways by the Academy and its people since Ifirst arrived as abasic cadet in 1963.” Hughes’ military education includes Squadron Officer School, Air Com¬ mand and Staff College and National War College. ((

Hughes returned to the Academy where he served as deputy department head of Behavioral Sciences and Leadership. He assumed duties as head of the department in 1985. “I feel honored to have spent so much of my life working with our cadets, faculty and staff, and helping maintain the Academy’s place as one of the finest institutions in the world,” said Hughes.

It may sound corny, but Iwouldn’t change aday.

Hughes’ military decorations include the Legion of Merit, the Meritorious Service Medal with one oak leaf cluster, the Joint Service Commendation Medal and the Air Force Commendation Medal.

Hughes is married to the former Georgeann Ford. They have three daughters, Anne, Amy and Sarah. (The Falcon Flyer)

Cadets Volunteer for Community Service Project

Col. Richard L. Hughes, ’67

After his commissioning, Hughes accepted afellowship to pur¬ sue studies in psychology at the University of Texas in Austin from 1967 to 1969 under the Air Force Institute of Technology program. Upon receiving his master’s degree in psychology, he returned to the Academy as an instructor in 1969.

After one year as an instructor, Hughes was sent to Head¬ quarters 7th and 13th Air Force, Udorn Royal Thailand Air Base, as the director of administration. Hughes then returned to the Academy faculty in 1971 and was assigned to the department of life and behavioral sciences.

In 1972, Hughes was again assigned to AFIT to pursue adoc¬ torate in clinical psychology at the University of Wyoming. After receiving his degree, Hughes was assigned to Wilford Hall

We Want Your Old War Stories!

USAFA’s Center for Character Development is looking for positive stories of Air Force personnel who have ex¬ emplified principles of integrity, courage, decisiveness and sel fl essness. We also want to hear of individuals who displayed true respect for human dignity and who under¬ stand the significance of spiritual values. If you know of realworld experiences where someone “did the right thing” despite adverse pressures or conditions, or were not afraid to take responsibility for their own actions, please send them to us. Our goal is to compile them into a“Book of Military Vir¬ tues,” which will be avaluable resource for any military member. Our request is not confined to the Air Force, or to the recent past. Whether it be the Revolutionary War or Bosnia, the Army or the Navy, in combat or not, the same principles of integrity and courage still apply. Send your stories to:

Maj. Jesse Carter

2354 Fairchild Dr., Suite 4A22

USAFA, CO 80840-6360

e-mail: carterjd%trw@34trwmail.usafa.af.mil

Cadet Squadron 19 recently took part in acommunity service project—Silver Key’s Paint-a-thon. The cadets gave up aSatur¬ day in October and spent all day volunteering. They completely painted the outside of atwo-story home and the insides of two other houses.

CIC Geoff Lohmiller and C2C Jeromie Sheldon of Cadet Squadron 19 carefully balance on two ladders as they paint the ex¬ terior of ahouse while volunteering at Silver Key’s Paint-a-thon. (Photo

CIC Rob Hoeritz contacted Silver Key which helped organize the event and provided the cadets with ladders. Silver Key is a Colorado Springs volunteer organization which provides aid for the elderly and needy. They help set up community projects such as paint-a-thons and providing clothing and furniture to senior citizens.

One of the houses the cadets painted belonged to an elderly, widowed woman who could not afford to pay for the service. She bought the paint and the cadets did the rest of the work. The cadets also provided their own transportation, paint brushes, rollers and pans. Two professional painters helped coordinate the effort.

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Due to the tremendous amount of organization that went into the planning, the projects turned out excellent,” said Hoeritz. Hoeritz could not believe how willing the cadets were to help. “The house that we painted at first seemed to be too big for us to get done in one day, but we worked diligently and productively and managed to complete all the projects. (The Falcon Flyer)

by C2C Mike Bailey, courtesy The Falcon Flyer)

Air Force Heavily Involved in Shuttle Launch

By Vago Muradian Air Force Times Staff Writer

(Editor’s note: The following story of the July 13 launch of the space shuttle Discovery appeared in the Air Force Times newspaper edition of July 24, 1995. Reprint courtesy of Air Force times. Copyright by Army Times Publishing Co., Springfield, Va.)

The Air Force was heavily involved in the July 13 launch of the space shuttle Discovery and had two Air Force Academy graduates aboard the craft in aNASA mission that was needed to launch the last of five satellites aimed at improving communica¬ tions between shuttles and ground controllers.

Air Force people were involved in a“number of categories, said Bruce Buckingham, aNASA spokesman at the launch site at the Kennedy Space Center near Cocoa Beach, Fla. “They give us agreat deal of support with weather forecasting, range safety, tracking and photography.

For example:

■Air Force meteorologists at the Cape Canaveral Air station near Cocoa Beach worked closely with NASA of fi cials to deter¬ mine wheter it was calm enough near the launch site to allow a blastoff.

■Air Force personnel assigned to the 1st Rescue Group at Patrick Air Force Base near Cape Canaveral on launch day made certain that no aircraft fl ew into arestricted zone near the launch site. The group is equipped with HH-60 Pave Hawk helicopters and HC-130 tankers.

■As part of its range-safety role. Air Force personnel at the Cape Canaveral Air Station were given the responsibility of destroying the shuttle’s large external tanks and solid booster rockets in the event they veered off course during liftoff. That wasn’t necessary, but the launch was delayed by one minute after Air Force controllers briefly received improper signals from the Air Force’s destruct equipment.

The Discovery during its planned eight-day flight carried acrew of five, including two Air Force Academy graduates. Col. Ter¬ rence Henricks and former Air Force of fi cer Kevin Kregel. Henricks, 43, of Woodville, Ohio, graduated from the Academy near Colorado Springs, Colo, in 1974 and Kregel, 38, of Amityville, N.Y., did in 1978.

Others in the crew were Army Maj. Nancy Currie, 36, of Troy, Ohio; materials scientist Donald Thomas, 40, of Cleveland; and chemist Mary Ellen Weber of Bedford Heights, Ohio.

Air Force Academy graduates have entered space together numerous times, including four missions on which three of the shuttle’s crew were graduates.The Academy ties are not the only ones that bind.

This time around, four of the five-member crew were Ohioans. Kregel, the exception, was dubbed an honorary Ohioan by Gov. George Voinovich to ensure that he would not feel left out.

“It’s acelebration for the state,” said Voinovich who attended the launch. He said he wept and prayed for asafe flight as Discovery took off.

Other Ohio astronauts include the fi rst American to enter orbit. Democratic Sen. John Glenn, and Neil Armstrong, the fi rst man to walk on the moon. “We had alot of heroes in Ohio growing up in the astronaut program here, and I’m very proud to be part of that team now,” astronaut Thomas told reporters.

The 100-ton shuttle —bolted to its 2,150-ton external fuel tank and solid rocket boosters —lifted off its launch pad at 9:42 a.m. local time. In its cargo bay was the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite, the last of Eve being positioned for future missions. The $330 million, 4,900-pound satellite was built by TRW Space and Electronics Group of Redondo Beach, Calif.

The satellite, which will orbit the Earth as abackup for the other four now in orbit, replaces one lost in the Challenger disaster on Jan. 28, 1986. That shuttle exploded shortly after launch, killing all seven aboard.

Discovery was supposed to blast off June 8, but apair of woodpeckers drilled scores of holes into the insulating foam on the shuttle fuel tank. That forced the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to send the spaceship back to the hangar for repairs.

It was the only time in 34 years of U.S. human space flight that animals delayed alaunch. The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Board of Visitors Conducts Annual Inspection

By SrA. Steve Horton Falcon Flyer Staff

The Board of Visitors arrived in July for its annual Academy visit. The 15-member board looked into the morale, discipline, curriculum, instruction, physical equipment, fi scal affairs, academic methods and other matters relating to the Academy. Within 60 days the board submitted awritten report of their ac¬ tions, views and recommendations directly to the president.

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We typically escort them (the board members) to areas we think they want to see, but sometimes they give us an indication of what they would like to see and talk about,” said Lt. Col. David DiMarchi, chief of plans and current operations. During their visit the board also talks to cadets to get their opinions on the quality of life here, acording to DiMarchi.

Six members of the board are appointed by the president—the Honorable Barry M. Goldwater (chairman); Andrew H. Card Jr.; Daryl L. Jones, ’77; Harry J. Pearce, ’64; retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Brent C. Scowcroft; and Ambassador Fred M. Zeder II. Members appointed by the vice president—Senators Conrad Burns (R-Mont.), Ernest HoIIings (D-S.C.) and Dirk Kempthorne (R-Idaho).

Appointed by the Speaker of the House of Represen¬ tatives—Representatives Norman Dicks (D-Wash.), Joel Hefley (R-Colo.), John Tanner (D-Tenn.) and C.W. Bill Young (R-Fla.). Appointed by the Senate Armed Services Committee chair¬ man—Senator J. James Exon (D-Neb.). The slot normally filled by the appointee of the House National Security Committee chairman is currently vacant.

Kevin Kregel, ’78, performs space shuttle bailout training as part of his preparation for STS-70. (Photo courtesy NASA)

The Service Academy Database Of Graduates

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 Frogram

●Makes quick work of the difficult task of creating aresume

●Produces professionally appealing, typeset resumes

Job Attributes Program

●Collects personal data and employment preferences:

▶Education, graduate &undergraduate

▶Language ability and computer skills

▶Work experience, military &civilian

▶Industry and position preferences

▶ Geographic preferences

▶ Security Clearance

▶And other pertinent information

●Used by Employers to identify You

Completetheeasy-to-use,menu-drivenjobpreferenceandresumeprogramsonanyDOScomputer(3V^"disk)andsendacopy of the program output files to the AOG for inclusion in the database.

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Many of you are in aposition to make or influence hiring decisions for your Company. If you wish to obtain adisk set of ServiceAcademyAlumniresumes,attributesandjobpreferenceswithsearchandretrievalcapability,sendyourrequesttothe AOG with acheck or money order. The price for the disk package is $150 (a discount is available to graduateAOG members for personal use). Aquarterly subscription rate for the corporate disk package is available up)on request. The program will only work on acomputer running Windows" 3.0 or higher.

CD Yes,IwouldliketobeinthedatabaseandIencloseacheckormoneyorderfor$25

CD Yes,IwouldliketoreceiveadatabaseofServiceAcademyAlumniandenclosedacheckormoneyorderfor$150

Your Name:

Company Name:.

Return the completed form and your check to:

Address: Association of Graduates

3116 Academy Drive USAF Academy, CO 80840-4475

If aUSAFA graduate, year of graduation: Whetheryouareanindividualgraduateinvestigatingacareerchangeoranemployerseekingasuperiorperformer,thisnew 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.

20 Years Later—’75 Still the Best Alive!

By Jeff Hackett, ’75

It occurs to me that this may be alittle like the parable of describing the color orange to ablind man; conveying in printed word what the four-and-a-half days of reunion activities were like is one of the more daunting tasks this scribe has faced! Each of us that went (classmates, friends, and family) I’m sure personalized every minute, seeing it from the context of our experiences start¬ ing with the later days of June 1971. And, for those of you who weren’t able to make it, Ijust can’t imagine how to universally relate (within the confines of the space allotted) something so in¬ credibly busy, fun, interesting, etc.

Let’s start with big-time thanks to the reunion committee; to a man Messrs. Wells, Erving, Finn, Fritzsche, Hente, Hilbun, Linster, Mathis, Shuman, and Wolter claimed “they didn’t do that much” and that “it was no big deal.” Turn yourselves into your local honor rep! I’m telling you it was FIRST CLASS all the way (if these guys had done Euro-Disney it’d probably be making money!) and just oozed of the from-the-heart dedication. Thanks so much guys! Chairman Mark also wanted me to emphasize how much the AOG staff did for us and give special recognition to Jock Schwank and Cheryl Brower who made the committee’s work so much easier/better.

You nonattendees will be amazed that you were just barely in the majority—325 of our classmates made it to all or some of the activities. Many of us were there at the “get-go” (informal bar¬ flying on Wednesday evening). And 1heard alot of the govern¬ ment employees talking about staying over on Monday (Colum¬ bus Day).

In between were all the standard reunion activities done in super-standard ways. On the somber side Ithink we all took note during the memorial ceremony of the nine additional names add¬ ed to our “Gone But Not Forgotten” list since the 10-year reu¬ nion (bringing the unhappy total to 21). The class banquet on Fri¬ day evening provided the perfect (and perfectly appropriate) an¬ tidote to those sad memories. From the previously unreleased footage of graduation ceremonies for the Class of ’75.2, to the Jim (Shuman) and Bruce (Fritzsche) stand-up act, and the in¬ credibly touching/hilarious Scott Hente video production—it was wonderful! (Aside: for those of you who expressed an interest in getting your very own copy of that video I’ve got bad news—the copyright/royalties issues associated with the background music make such an undertaking impractical...we’ll just all have to go over to Scott’s house next time we’re in town!)

Graduate Dependent Scholarship

The weekend weather was for the most part cooperative (a little too sunny and warm for the game on Saturday) and there was cer¬ tainly no wanting for action in or above Falcon Stadium (“in”—I’m sure we saw many lower scoring basketball games in our cadet days; “above”—I think every remaining military aviator in the class flew something by before kickoff).

In my article about the 10-year reunion Iwhimsically talked about pioneering a15-year event. This time Idon’t have to make anything up—we’re “in there” for a25-year reunion! Hell, by then they may even have #3 and #4 formed up for the F-15 fly-by!

AOG Database Enhanced, E-Mail Program Launched

By Chuck Denham, ’67 AOG Information Services Administrator

The AOG is in the final stages of transferring its membership database from the USAFA mainframe computer to its own AOG Network. Although we are still reliant on the Academy for many of our data-processing requirements, the AOG is now able to pro¬ vide some new services to chapters, class scribes and clubs which were previously unavailable.

We transfer address, phone and other biographical data to the in-house network on amonthly basis to provide atest of the developing system and to insure that it will meet our needs to pro¬ vide services to members. With this data available to me, “the computer guy,” Ican generate specialized label requests or other reports and provide them on labels, in standard text listings or on aDOS diskette in ASCII and comma-delimited format. For ex¬ ample, we can provide alist of graduate and cadet parents who have an address in selected zip codes or telephone area codes. Reports are only as accurate as the data provided by our graduates and members so please keep your address current with timely notification to us of any change.

Send your requests for reports to the AOG, providing apoint of contact, data requested, reason you need data and the date data is required. Currently, there is no charge for this service but a small user fee may need to be imposed.

Effective immediately on atest basis, AOG membership ser¬ vices may be reached via e-mail for address, phone number, assignment and other biographical data form changes and addi¬ tions only. Correspondence concerning other membership ser¬ vices (i.e., membership renewals, SABRD data form/orders, mer¬ chandise orders, etc.) must still be sent by regular mail or fax. Please realize that our staff is limited in size and we cannot reply to e-mail messages. We’re now just an e-mail away and can be contacted at the following address; MCI Mail: 206-3668 (206-3668@mcimail.com).

Academy Mascot Passes Away

Glacier, the of fi cial Academy mascot for more than 15 years, died Aug. 9of kidney failure. Awhite phase gyrfalcon. Glacier lived longer than any other official Academy mascot, although there have been only two since the 1960s. He was just ababy in 1980 when he was captured in the wilds of Alaska and brought to the Academy. Glacier never knew freedom and was used primarily for official photographs and educational purposes.

He did not do public performances like the other falcons but led apampered life at the Academy. Academy officials hope to mount Glacier’s body for permanent display.

The Academy is currently trying to find areplacement for Glacier. Retired Col. Larry Schaad said he didn’t think another falcon would be able to replace the personality of Glacier, but hopefully another would be found that represents the free spirit of the cadets and the pride of the Air Force.

Jerry Smith, ’62, amember of the AOG Board of Directors, presents a$750 Graduate Dependent Scholarship Award to Jen¬ nifer Roberts, daughter of Earl Roberts III, ’69.

SACC

What is the SACd

The SACC is the Service Academy Career Conference supported by the Alumni Associations from the USNaval Academy and USCoast Guard Academy and Associations of Graduates from the USMilitary Academy and the US Air Force Academy. The three previous Conferences were attended by atotal of 100 companies and 3000 alumni.

Where will the SACC be held?

The 1996 SACC will be held at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Pentagon City in Arlington, VA. You may obtain aroom at the Ritz for the SACC rate of $165 anight plus tax. Call 1800-241-3333 or 703-415-5000 for reservations and ask for the SACC rate. There are many other hotels available in the area, or think about renewing relationships with classmates in the Washington, DC area.

Watch Checkpoints for further details.

How to register for the SACC:

1. Insure your AOG membership is current.

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

3. Complete the Electronic Resume AND Attribute Program Disk obtained through the AOG for $25 (see order form in this issue of Checkpoints or call 719-472-0300).

Return acopy of the completed disk to the AOG. Disks MUST ABSOLUTELY BE RETURNED NLT FEBRUARY 16, 1996 in order to be provided to recruiters at this Conference,

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

Service Academy Career Conference

March 22-23, 1996

b. Disks received after February 16, although not provided to recruiters at this SACC, will be entered into the Joint Academies Resume Service database for distribution to subsequent potential employers,

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

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4. To participate in the March ’96 SACC, send the following to the S.4CC office no later than February 16, 1996.

a. Completed registration form

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

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

5. Upon receipt of the above items, you will receive a con fi rmation notice with ade fi nitive schedule.

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

Friday, March 22, 1996:

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

♦Two open sessions from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm and 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm

Saturday, March 23, 1996:

♦Recruiters may schedule individual interviews

It is very unlikely that resumes or disks received after February 16 will be included in the package that is provided to each recruiter.

If you have any questions on this AOG membership service, please contact the AOG Vice President of Services, Col (Ret) Jock Schwank or Mrs Cheryl Brower at 719-472-0300 or DSN 259-4513.

Service Academy Career Conference

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What is the SACC?

The SACC is the Service Academy Career Conference supported by the Alumni Associations from the USNaval Academy and USCoast Guard Academy and Associations of Graduates from the USMilitary Academy and the US Air Force Academy. The three previous Conferences were attended by atotal of 100 companies and 3000 alumni.

Where will the SACC be held?

The 1996 SACC will be held at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Pentagon City in Arlington, VA. You may obtain aroom at the Ritz by calling 1-800-241-3333 or 703-415-5000 for reservations and asking for the SACC rate.

Who will be the candidates?

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

Who is atypical candidate?

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

March 21-23, 1996

What is the SACC schedule?

The tentative schedule for the SACC is as follows:

Thursday, March 21, 1996:

*12 pm to 5:00 pm -Recruiter check-in and receipt of resume books and electronic versions of resumes.

Friday, March 22, 1996:

*10:00 am to 1:00 pm -Open Session I

*1:00 pm to 3:00 pm -Recruiter Break

*3:00pm to 6:00 pm -Open Session II

Saturday, March 23, 1996:

*Interviews as scheduled by company recruiters

What is the company registration fee?

The company registration fee is $1000/lst table with additional tables being obtained for $750/2nd table, $500/3rd table, $250/4th table. This fee entitles acompany access to the best candidates in corporate America; open sessions to meet with candidates; opportunity for on-site interviews. For each table registered, acompany receives hard copies of all resumes submitted and an electronic version of the resumes with search software. PLEASE NOTE: This fee does not cover the cost of your room at the hotel. You must make separate room reservations by calling 800-241-3333 or 703-4155000 and asking for the SACC rate.

ATTENTION IN THE AREA

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

Saber Price to Increase

The AOG has recently been notified that the price of sabers is projected to increase very significantly—perhaps as much as $50 per saber.

As many of you know, the AOG has special permission from the Chief of Staff of the Air Force to purchase the sabers directly from cadet supply for the specific purpose of resale to graduate AOG members. Cadet sup¬ ply anticipates that their cost will increase by $40 -$50 in 1996. This will clearly increase the AOG’s cost which must be passed on to the purchaser. If you are going to buy asaber in the near future, we encourage you to do so prior to 1996. If you have any questions, feel free to call the AOG Services staff.

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 will be mailed to members of record in November of 1995. The biographical information form printed near 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 1996 Register must be received by 1July 1996.

Inappropriate Use of Register Addresses

The AOG has noticed asignificant increase in the use of graduate ad¬ dresses listed in the Register for business purposes not sanctioned by your AOG. This is directly in violation of AOG policy as well as an infringe¬ ment of Copyright laws as spelled out on the first page of the 1994 Register.

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

AOG mailings are normally easy to identify as they will include acover

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letter on AOG, Class or Chapter letterhead and/or be signed by an ap¬ propriate board, class or chapter officer or an AOG senior staff member. If you have any doubt about the appropriateness of amailing, please call the AOG.

Class Ring Information

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

Jostens

c/o Seal Seykora

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

Balfour Company

c/o Jess Crane

Classes of 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1976 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982 1983, 1984, 1986, 1989, 1990, 1991

1992

Classes of 1959, 1961, 1964, 1965 1966, 1967, 1969, 1975, 1994

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

Herff Jones

Classes of 1985, 1987, 1988, 1993

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

Corporate Leaders Program Offered

Arizona State University is offering aGraduate Fellowship program for service academy alumni which offers unique career change oppor¬ tunities to talented engineers, computer scientists, and technologists. The ASU Corporate Leaders Program combines the pursuit of amaster’s degree with leading edge work experience. For information write to Cor¬ porate Leaders Program, Arizona State University, Box 877406, Tempe, Ariz. 85287-7406. Phone: (602) 965-2966. Fax: (602) 965-8852.

$600 Scholarship Presented Anna Crowell, shown with her father, Lorenzo Crowell, ’65, won a$600 Graduate Dependent Scholarship for 1995.

Scholarship Winner

Lt. Gen. (Ret) Tony Burshnick, ’60, amember of the AOG Board of Directors, presents a$600 Graduate Dependent Scholar¬ ship Award to Elise Donnelly while proud father, Jim Donnelly, ’69, looks on.

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 MAGAZINE—

your 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 limits 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"Iii 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 25Vo. 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/HOMECOMINGScoordination 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-(8(X)) 4-CHOICE. (Ask for the travelers discount for AFA AOG members, ID #C00041511).

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

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

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

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

special rate from Budget -(800) 455-2848 (AOG ID T507400/Rate Code: WE91). You must pre¬ sent your AOG-provided Budget card when pick¬ ing up your car. in.

Graduate Dependent Scholarship Criteria Outlined

Graduate Dependent Scholarships are being offered for the upcoming 1996-1997 academic year. Recipients for these annual awards will be selected by the AOG Board of Directors Selection Committee. This AOG scholarship program is intended to directly support post-secondary education for the children of AOG graduate members.

To be eligible to apply:

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

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

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

D. The applicant must have aminimum cumulative GPA of 3.0 on a4.0 scale for the six most-recent semesters as afull-time stu¬ dent.

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

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

The number of scholarships to be awarded each year and the dollar amount of each scholarship is determined annually by the board of direc¬ tors. The scholarship winners will be determined based on overall demonstrated merit. The deadline for receiving application packages is March Ifor both initial applications and reapplications.

Send requests for application forms and direct questions on this scholarship program to Col. (Ret) Jock Schwank, AOG vice president.

Services, Association of Graduates, 3116 Academy Drive, Suite 100, U.S. Air Force Academy, Colo. 80840-4475 or call (719) 472-0300.

Corporate Members

Association of Graduates, USAFA

Air Academy National bank

Air Force Association

Ampex Corporation

Betac Corporation

Boeing Aerospace Company

Budget Rent aCar Corporation

CBS Insurance

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 $2,000 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.

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 THE 1995 COPY NOW.

PRICES FOR THE 1996 SABRD, AVAILABLE IN THE SPRING, WILL BE $35.

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 wilhng to provide networking support and assistance.

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

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

AOG GIFT ORDER FORM

Complete and send to:

ASSOCIATION OF GRADUATES

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

(719) 472-0300 FAX: (719) 472-4194

SEE REVERSE SIDE FOR ORDERING INSTRUCTIONS

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AOG ACCESSORIES

LICENSE PLATE FRAMES -"U.S. AIR FORCE ACADEMY" on the bottom of the frame and either "FALCONS" or "ALUMNUS" on the top. Buy one for $4.00 or two for $7.00 (the same or mixed).

Item #5000

Item #5001

"FALCONS" "ALUMNUS"

DECALS -Colorful crest on awindow decal (self adhesive to inside of glass).

Item#43XX -Class Decals -$1.00

Available for all years except ‘76, ‘78', and ‘92. Specify class year.

Item #7072 -AOG Membership Decal -$1.00

HONOR MEDALLION -A21/2" diameter brass medallion with the Honor Code on one side and Prop &Wings on the other

Item #7120 -Honor Medallion -$15.00

Item #7121 -Honor Medallion with Stand -$35.00

BLAZER PATCHES -Pin-back patch embroidered with appropriate crest.

Item #1800 -AOG Blazer Patch -$23.00

Item #1801

AFA Blazer Patch -$23.00

USAFA NECKTIE -Silk tie with USAFA and Prop&Wings design.

Item #1600 -BLUE, USAFA Tie -$23.00

Item #1601 -GARNET (red), USAFA Tie -$23.00

AOG TIE TACK or CHARM -Metal AOG Crest Approx 7/8" size.

Item #7030 -AOG Charm -$26.00

Item #7031 -AOG Tie Tack -$26.00

Item #7033 -AOG Lapel Pin -$26.00 (not shown)

CHRISTMAS ORNAMENTS -Etched in brass and finished in 24K gold.

Item #7160 -1993 -Cadet Chapel -$24.95

Item #7170 1994 -Falcon -$24.95

Item #7180 -1995 -Pegasus -$19.95 (not shown)

AOG GIFT CATALOG

ORDERING INSTRUCTIONS:

Prices effective as of 15 Aug 95

LIST each item on the 'ORDER BLANK' -fill in Item #, Item Description, Size (as appropriate), Unit Price, Quantity, and Total Price. If ordering personalized T-Shirts, please PRINT CLEARLY -NAME and CLASS YEAR as appropriate. If ordering class decals, please specify CLASS YEAR.

NON-MEMBERS please add 20% of Merchandise Total.

COLORADO SALES TAX: We are required to collect Colorado Sales Tax for items sold at Doolittle Hall or mailed to aColorado Address as follows: Doolittle Hall &El Paso County -4%

Colorado Springs -6.2%

Elsewhere within Colorado -3%

SHIPPING &HANDLING: For mail orders, please add $4.00 or 10% (whichever is greater). IF you are ordering ONLY decals -shipping and handling is $.75.

PAYMENT can be made by CHECK (made out to 'AOG') or CREDIT CARD (VISA or MASTERCARD ONLY). If paying by credit card please print clearly your credit card number and expiration date (month and year) and sign in spaces provided.

NAME, MAILING ADDRESS, DAYTIME PHONE NUMBER, and CLASS YEAR (for graduates) should be printed clearly in spaces provided.

CUT OUT ORDER FORM and mail to address on reverse side.

COMMENTS or SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS:

FINE ART PRINTS

Item #2010 - a “ by Keith Ferris -$60.00

Item #2020 -"Gyrfalcon" by Frace -$75.00 -

Item #2030 -'TTmmfcrWrd" by Rick Broom -$50.00

Item #2040 -"Footfalls’ Artist Proofs -$190.00

ADDITIONAL ITEMS (not pictured)

Item #7032 -Prop &Wings -$10.00

Silver-color Prop and Gold-color Wings, same size and shape as worn on the cadet uniform, w^wo clutch type pin-back.

Item #7070 -AOG Keychain -$2.00

Blue keychain with silver AOG logo

Item #7071 -Refrigerator Magnet -$0.50

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Picture of cadet color guard in Cadet Area. t.v.

AOG GIFT CATALOG -Prices efTective as of 15 Aug 95

GLASSWARE -ACX3 crest etched on deer glass:

Old Fashion Glasses:

Item #7241 - 7 3/4 oz - $4.00ea7$14.00setof 4

Item #7243 - 10 1/4 oz - $4.00eaV$14.00 ofset 4

Item #7245 - 12 1/4 oz - $4.00eaV$15.00 ofset 4

High Ball:

Item #7250 -10 1/2 oz. -$4.00 ea7$15.00 set of 4

Stemware:

Item #7230 -12 oz. Brandy Snifter -$5.00 ea./$18.00 set of 4

Item #7220 -73/4 oz Wine Glass -$5.00 eaV$17.00 set of 4

Item #7260 -10 oz. Goblet -$5.00 eaV$ 17.00 set of 4

Item #7210 -12 oz. Pilsner Glass ●$5.00 eaV$ 18.00 set of 4

MUGS -AOG aest on one side; AFA crest on the other side

Item #7010 -White Ceramic Coffee Mug, 12 oz. -$6.00 ea.

Item #7020 -Insulated Sports Cup, 20 oz. -$5.00 ea.

HARDCOVER BOOKS AND VIDEOS

Item #3010 -25th Anniversary Book -$12.50

Photo book of the first 25 years of USAFA

Item #3020 -Into the Mouth of the Cat -$9.00

The Story of Lance Sijan

Item #3040 -The Iskra Incident -$19.95

Autographed by Grad Author Jimmie Butler, 163

Item It 3050 -Vietnam: Above the Trees -$24.95

Autographed by Grad Author John Flanagan, '62

Item #3060 -Red Ughtning, Black Thunder -$21.95

Autographed by Grad Author Jimmie Butler, ’63

Item #3080 -Separated by War -$24.95

Autographed by Grad Author Ed Herlick, *80

Item #3090 -Raid on Qadda fi -$21.95

Autographed by Grad Author Robert Venkus, '63

Item it 3120 -Modemizm at Mid Century -$50.00

History of the architecture at USAFA

Item #3910 -Service Academy Business Resource Directory

Softcover reference book listing particpating graduates from all service academies and their business af fi liations -$30.00

Item #7080 -Video: WiU Blue U-$19.95

Produced by KUSA-TV in Denver; cadet daily life

CLASS NOTEBOOKS -Two-tone gray suede cover, Jr. legal size, with class crest embossed on front with class color stripe; inside note pad and pen; available for the following classes -$10.00

Item #4366 -aassof66

Item #4372 -Class of 72

Item #7110 -Class of *91

Item #7111 -Class of "92

Item #7112 -Class of "93

Item #7113 -aassor94

Item #7114 -aassof95

SABERS and PLAQUES

The Cadet Saber is sold to GRADUATE AOG MEMBERS ONLY. The AOG does not sell the mounting plaque-call for info on where to get the mounting plaque.

Item #4000 -Cadet Saber with Scabbard -$150.00

Item #6000 -Laser Engraved Walnut Plaque (Cadet Area, 17'xl4') -$145.00

Item #6001 -Etched Falcon on White Marble (14**16') -$75.00

COASTERS and NOTECARDS

Item #7095 -Pegasus Coasters -Terra Cotta &Blue -$25.00 per set of 4 Water-absorbent, terra cotta coasters, non-scratch bottoms

Item #7090 -Doolittle Hall'Marble* Coasters -$6.00 ea.

Item #7073 -Doolittle Hall Notecards (6'x4.5*) -$5.00 pet set of 10 (w/envelopes)

SWEATERS, SHIRTS, HATS, AND JACKETS:

Item #1610 -Rugby Shirt -$47.00 (SML, MED, LRG, XLG) $50.00 (XXL)

(NOT SHOWN) 100% cotton (10% shrinkage, sizes run true), navy blue with AOG crest embroidered on left breast

Item #1620 -AOG Crew Neck Sweater -$48.00 (SML, MED, LRG, XLG)

$51.00 (XXL) Jersey top -pebble bottom navy blue sweater, 100% pre-shrunk cotton, sizes run one size smaller than normal fit; embroidered AOG crest on left breast

Item #1580 -V-Neck Sweater'AIR FORCE'- $40.00

80% Orlou/20% Wool -SML, MED, LRG, XLG (sorry no XXL)

Item #1560 -Crew Neck Sweater 'FALCONS' -$40.00

80% Orlon/20% Wool -SML, MED, LRG, XLG (sorry no XXL)

Item #1570 -Childs Crew Neck Sweater'FALCONS'- $20.00 (NOT SHOWN) 80% Orlon/20% Wool (Child Sizes: SML, MED, LRG)

Item #1630 -AOG V-Neck Sweatshirt -$46.00 (SML, MED, LRG, XLG) $49.00 (XXL)

85% cotton/15% polyester; oversized to compensate for shrinkage; Color: natural oatmeal (light beige) with navy striped trim, navy blue embroidered AOG crest

Item #1520 -Polar Jacket -$60.00 (SML, MED, LRG, XLG, XXL)

Fleece-lined, Blue Nylon shell, w/embroidered AOG crest

Item #1530 -Golf Jacket -$42.00 (SML, MED, LRG, XLG, XXL)

White/Teal Poly/Cotton shell, nylon liner, w/embroidered

AOG crest

Item #1700 -AFA Hat w/Class Year -$16.00

Navy Blue w/embroidered AFA aest and '19xx'(class year)

Please specify class year. Adjustable leather strap for size.

Item #1701 -AFA Hat (plain) -$13.00

Same as above without class year

Item #1702 -Childs AFA Hat (plain) -$10.00

CADET ISSUE

CLOTHING -(Available to AOG Members ONLY)

Item #1100 -Sweatsuit, 89% Cotton/8% Polyester/3% Rayon; oversize to accommodate shrinkage; light grey with dark grey reflective strips and USAFA

Sweat Tops -$35.00

Sweatpants -$22.50

Complete Set -$55.00

Item #1400 -Rutming Suit, Blue/Grey Nylon with reflective ships (sizes run small)

Rutming Suit Jacket -$47.00

Running Suit Pants -$25.00

Complete Set -$67.00

CADET USAFA T-SHIRTS -100% cotton (will shrink). White with Blue Ringer Collar &Sleeves "USAFA' silkscreened on left breast

Item #1300 -USAFA T-Shirt -$8.00 (XXL: $9.00) I \ USAFA I

Personalized T-Shirts:

Item #1306 -w/NAME over "USAFA" -$11.00 (XXL: $12.00)

Item #1308 -w/NAME &'CLASS OF xx' -$12.00 (XXL: $13.00)

Please print clearly in space provided NAME and CLASS NUMBER (as appropriate)

NOT SHOWN:

Item #1200 -Cadet Bathrobe -$45.00 (Men’s and Ladies styles)

Blue bathrobe with white embroidered Prop &Wings on pocket Men^ bathrobes are knee-length; womens are ankle-length.

AOG Biographical Information

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DATE

To: AOG, USAF Academy

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Are you willing to help graduates in acivilian career transition through the AOG job opportunity program by providing them informa¬ tion about your industry? Yes.

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FALCON SPORTS

Basketball Team Loses Two Best-Ever Players

Like most of the coaches in the league, Air Force basketball head coach Reggie Minton has to replace acouple of starters. Unlike anyone else, however, he’s replacing two of the best players ever to play at the school. Guard Otis Jones and forward Chris Loll graduated last season as the highest scoring tandem in AFA history. The pair combined for nearly 3,000 points while helping the Falcons to some of the biggest wins in school history.

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Jones burst on the national scene by winning Dick Vitale’s (ESPN) Randy Newman Award as the nation’s best player under 6-feet. The 5-foot-l 1Jones closed out his career with 2,003 points to become only the eighth player in Western Athletic Conference history to eclipse 2,000 points. Jones is second all-time in AFA scoring to Raymond Dudley, ’90.

Loll finished his career ranked 20th in career scoring with 919 points in just three years. He led the Falcons in rebounding and assists the last two years. Loll became the first Falcon in over a decade to lead the team in assists from his forward position. The versitile Loll was an all-Wac honorable mention selection last season.

The 1995-96 hopes rest in asenior class which has played in the shadows of others for three years. The leaders of the class are guard Reggie Minton, the coach’s son, and forward Charlie Nelson. Both have been starters the last two seasons and will be looked upon to provide scoring and leadership. Minton was third on the team in scoring last season with an 8.3 average and led the team in assists with 75. Nelson was fifth in scoring with a6.2 norm.

The team will also rely heavily on sophomore forward Maurice Anderson for scoring and rebounding. Anderson was fourth on the team in scoring with a6.4 average and second in rebounding with a5.0 average. He led the team in blocked shots with 28 while starting every game.

The other starting guard position along side Minton should go to either senior Brandon Parker, junior Matt Horin or sophomore Jarmica Reese.

1995 Falcon Football Box Score

Sweet Victory Over BYU

After losing to Brigham Young University for 12 straight years, the Falcons finally snapped the losing streak on Sept. 2in Falcon Stadium as they hamstrung BYU 38-12. In the photo. Falcon quarterback Beau Morgan looks for an open receiver during the contest. (Photo by SSgt. Doug Roth, courtesy The Falcon Flyer)

Women's Basketball Prepares for Division IPlay

The Marti Gasser era in Air Force women’s basketball swept in 12 years ago, when the first-year head coach catapulted her team to afirst-place tie in the Continental Divide Conference. When that league disbanded in 1990, the team left its mark on the con-

Mack Qualifies for NCAA Cross Country Nationals

By Laura Fawcett Sports Information Office

After winning four consecutive races, it might seem abit of a disappointment for AFA senior Erik Mack to finish second. But, don’t feel bad for the men’s cross country team’s star performer. Mack did what he needed to do at the NCAA District 7cham¬ pionships in Salt Lake City on Nov. 11—qualify for the national championships Nov. 20 in Ames, Iowa, with asecond-place time of 29:37.9, just four seconds behind Colorado’s Adam Goucher.

Mack will be the only team member traveling to the national meet, as the Falcons finished seventh at the qualifying district meet. Only the top two teams received national berths.

In late October, Mack, aColorado Springs native, swept past the competition to capture the individual title at the Western Athletic Conference championships. At that point of the season Mack was unbeaten. He completed the hilly, 8,000-meter WAC course in 24 minutes, 38 seconds—17 seconds ahead of secondplace finisher Ryan Bolton of Wyoming. Mack, the 1994 WAC runner-up, was named conference runner of the year for his dominating season of four races, four wins.

Despite Mack’s performance, the Academy squad couldn’t de¬ fend its team title, as the Falcons finished second to preseasonfavorite Brigham Young (ranked seventh in the nation). Five Cougar runners finished in the top 20, compared to just three for the 15th-ranked Falcons. Air Force, however, did place aclear se¬ cond in the meet with 76 points, beating 14th-ranked Wyoming. The race marked the sixth straight year Air Force has finished in the WAC top three.

“It was asolid performance for the team,’’ head coach Mark Stanforth said. “I guess it’s ameasure of our program and expec¬ tations when we finish an easy second and aren’t satisfied.

Junior Andrew Marx had his best performance of the season, finishing 10th with atime of 25:40. Senior Andy Meehan was 19th (26:), freshman Steve Schell took 22nd (26:05), seniors John Mizell and Paul Graddon finished 24th and 25th (26:08, and 26:14, respectively), and sophomore Zach Smith rounded out the team at 33rd (26:33).

ference once again by winning the final CDC crown. Then five years ago, the Falcons began another era by capturing the first Colorado Athletic Conference title.

The team is now prepared to complete the circle by winning the crown again—this time in the Falcons final season in the CAC.

The Falcons are leaving Division II after this season to join the ranks of the elite in the Division IWestern Athletic Conference. But, don’t expect Gasser to miss Division II—not with all the benefits to be reaped from participation in abigger, stronger con¬ ference.

With the lineup Gasser expects to put on the floor in 1995, chances are the squad will have just the season the 13th-year head coach desires. The Falcons finished the 1994-95 year with a respectable 15-12 record (6-6/third in the CAC), despite starting two freshmen in the backcourt. Four starters return for the final Division II season, and Gasser expects that an extra year of ex¬ perience will be the boost the team needs for aconference title.

At the top of the list of returning post players is senior Carrie Loudermilk, who averaged 12.3 points and 7.6 rebounds last season. Gasser believes this year will be even better for the strong center from Colorado Springs. Meanwhle, another senior who averaged in double figures last year, Carrie Barker (10.8 ppg, 5.1 rpg), will complement Loudermilk’s skills on the inside.

The third Carrie on the squad, Carrie Carrow, returns to the in¬ side after an injury forced her to the sidelines last year. Carrow started all 27 games as afreshman averaging nine points and seven rebounds per game. Also the team’s leading shot blocker in her inaugural campaign, Gasser thinks her return may be the key to a winning season.

The move to Division Ihas helped Gasser in recruiting skilled players this year. Ahandful of newcomers are expected to provide solid depth on the front line. Those recruits include Sara Fortna, asix-foot forward from Littleton, Colo., Elycia Hall, aMichigan all-state performer and Washington native Danielle Tutt.

The backcourt will have asimilar look this year, with the return of sophomore guards Tracy Villano (12.2 ppg) and Kallie Quinn (5.3 apg). The pair took control of the Falcons’ perimeter game from the moment they first donned Air Force uniforms, and Gasser expects that the two will continue to be strong.

1995-96 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

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Eric Mack cruises to across country victory at the WAC Cham¬ pionships. (Photo by Arthur Bilsten)

Women "s Gymnastics Team Poised for the Future

The future is now for the women’s gymnastics team. With the loss of just one senior, the Falcons are poised for the future. “We

Winning Women’s Soccer Stumbles Against Denver

By Dave Tolley Sports Information Office

As the Falcons entered the season’s last week, women’s soccer head coach Marty Buckley could look back on the most successful season in Academy women’s soccer history.

However, the stroll down memory lane will be remembered for one monstrous pothole near the summit. As the Falcons climbed to seventh in the nation, the highest national ranking ever, the team appeared to be poised for their first-ever NCAA playoff berth. However, the pothole appeared in the form of the Denver Pioneers on amild autumn afternoon at the Cadet Soccer Stadium. A2-1 loss to the Pioneers on Oct. 21 dropped the Falcons to 10th in the nation and may prevent the team from reaching the NCAA tournament.

The setback did not interfere with the Falcons fi nal stretch of the season. Air Force cruised to apair of Colorado Athletic Con¬ ference victories the next week. Air Force opened the week by dismantling the Fort Lewis Skyhawks, 7-0, Oct. 24 at the Cadet Soccer Stadium. On Oct. 25, the Falcons dumped Metro State, 4-1, in Denver.

Junior Jennifer Brannan collected her fi rst career hat trick as the Falcons dumped Fort Lewis. Brannan scored the first two goals of the game at 7:46 on an assist from Dolly Pasini and at 9:43 unassisted. Pasini then took apass from Tracy Healy at 35:11 to give the Falcons a3-0 lead at the half. Brannan tallied her third goal at 54:16. Marie Peterson, Alexis Simollardes and Melissa Wainwright all scored goals for the Falcons in the second half. Peterson and Wainwright, both starters on the back line, notched their first goals of the season.

Junior goatkeper Stephanie Jardine makes asaving grab during the women’s soccer team’s 2-1 overtime win over Drury in mid October. (Photo by Arthur K. Bilsten,

Against Metro State, Pasini put the Falcons on the board at the 28:29 mark on an assist from freshman Jen Schweer. After a Metro goal, freshman Laura Harding scored on an assist from sophomore Sara Victoreen. The Falcons took a4-1 lead early in the second half. Haley scored on apenalty kick and then gave a pass to freshman Elizabeth Alton for agoal at the 50:30 mark. Healy collected two assists during the week to tie the career assists record of 17 set by Julie Pilkington from 1992 to 1994.

The Falcons closed the season by defeating Southern Colorado 2-0. The team fi nished with a14-3-2 overall record and a9-2-1 record in the CAC. Healy now holds every scoring record at the Academy. She is the only player to ever score 100 career points as she has 44 goals and 17 assists for 105 career points.

head coach Lou Burkel have tremendous depth this season, said. “The freshman class stepped in last season and did agreat job. We expect to have another exciting freshman class this season.”

Senior team captain Meghan McCann is recovering from a serious knee injury as asophomore and is expected to work the all-around again. She will be shouldered by one of the deepest teams in AFA history. The Falcons have four juniors, six sophomores and six freshmen on the roster.

The junior class is led by the return of Shannon Faber. Faber burst on the scene as afreshman and was named to the superintendent’s list for academic and military excellence. She also posted career-highs of 36.925 in the all-around and 9.50 on the vault. Entering her sophomore season, she was on the brink of breaking the school records in both events. However, aknee in¬ jury limited her action last season.

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Michelle Roxburgh

Freshman Michelle Roxburgh reached heights never before seen at the Academy. She became the first female gymnast to qualify for the NCAA Division Iregionals. She earned USA Gymnastics All-American honors in the all-around, vault and balance beam. She broke the school records in those three events as well as tying the record for floor exercise. “Michelle could be even better this season,” Burkel said. “She is much more polished and is more consistent.

Last season, the Falcons advanced to the USA Gymnastics Na¬ tional Championships and placed seventh for the second con¬ secutive season. The Falcons qualified with one of just two atlarge berths in the nation.

1995-96 ICE HOCKEY

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1980 Graduate Recognized by Air Force Association

By Capt. Scott Workman 34th Education Squadron

Maj. Daniel S. Yinger, Class of 1980, deputy commander for operations of the 34th Education Squadron, received one of the highest awards given by the Air Force Association. Yinger received the Citation of Honor in Washington, D.C. during the Aerospace Education Foundation Luncheon. The luncheon was part of the national convention of the Air Force Association.

Academy Graduate Wins

$5,000 CFA Scholarship

By 2nd Lt. Jamie Lindman Falcon Flyer Staff

Second Lt. Gilbert Sanders, who graduated from the Academy in May, earned a$5,000 “Hitachi Promise of Tomorrow scholarship from the College Football Association (CFA) to con¬ tinue his studies.

Sanders was atwo-time academic, all-WAC selection at the Academy. He played in all 12 games last year as afree safety and was amajor contributor to the Falcon special teams. “1 really en¬ joyed playing football for the Falcons—it made my four years here very rewarding and enjoyable,” said Sanders.

Col. Ken Schweitzer, director of Athletics, and Jack Skjonsby, representing Hitachi, present 2nd Lt. Gil Sanders with the ‘‘Hitachi Promise of Tomorrow" scholarship. (Photo by SSgt. Doug Roth, courtesy The Falcon Flyer)

Sanders is currently studying electrical engineering at the University of Missouri, at Rolla. The Air Force Institute of Technology also awarded him a$1,000 scholarship, in addition to the $5,000, to help him earn his master’s degree.

Each year the College Football Association awards scholarships to students who intend to pursue acareer in education and are in¬ volved with the CFA program.

Following completion of his master’s degree, Sanders will go to undergraduate pilot training. When the Air Force decides to use his teaching skills, Sanders will be brought back to the Academy as an electrical engineering instructor. (The Falcon Flyer)

Women Swimmers Determined to Repeat 1st Place Performance

They’re back. And they mean business. After winning the NCAA Division II national championship last season, the Falcon women’s swimming team is fully prepared to defend their title in their final year in Division II. In 1996, all Falcon women’s pro¬ grams will move into the Division IWestern Athletic Conference. Despite returning nearly everyone from last year’s squad, in¬ cluding 16 All-Americans and three national ehampions, head coach Casey Converse believes the Faleons will be in amajor bat¬ tle for the erown.

Maj. Daniel S. Yinger, ’80

Yinger was recognized for his contributions to cadet education. Academy programs, and public relations during 1994. The award citation read: “His creative work in cadet and public multi-media shows for cadet education touches almost every aspect of the cadet experience. Truly gifted at all facets of producing multimedia shows for cadet education, as well as for Academy visitors, and directly responsible for the largest required Academy academic program, he truly epitomizes the Air Force educator.

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As chief of the center for educational multi-media, commonly known as the “Academy’s Planetarium,” Yinger was responsile for about 1,000 presentations to more than 45,000 visitors last year. Yinger supported several academic departments presenting shows on astronomy, aviation science, history, military art and science, physics, survival and evasion training, and space science for nearly 5,000 cadets.

Under his direction the planetarium also welcomed 20,000 school children, tourists, and distinguished visitors for demonstrations and shows on astronomy and space science. In addition to the planetarium, Yinger oversees the operations of a diverse squadron consisting of Japanese and British exchange of¬ ficers, U.S. Navy and U.S. Army exchange officers. Air Force of¬ ficers, and civilian professors.

He is directly responsible for the largest required academic pro¬ gram at the Academy, acurriculum in military theory and doc¬ trine. Yinger is an assistant professor of military art and science, an accomplished instructor and lecturer, and arated navigator. (The Falcon Flyer)

Maty Meets the Academy

Maty Monforth, center, costar of ABC television’s nationallybroadcast Mike and Maty Show, appears with members of the 34th Cadet Training Wing prior to taping at the Air Force Academy. Monforth fl ew in asail plane and helped make ‘‘noon ”lunch for the show which aired Oct. 16. (Photo by AlC Michelle Lockhart)

GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN

Lawrence M. Jolly, ’59

After along and determined fight against cancer, Larry Jolly died at his home at Carrollton, Texas, on Oct. 6, 1995. It was a mark of Larry’s determination that he survived liver cancer for a year after its diagnosis and aprognosis of only three months. Larry was known for his humor, his determination, his care for his family and friends as individuals, but “integrity” was the hallmark by which we will remember him.

Larry is survived by his wife, Jan Jolly, of Carrollton, Texas; daughter Bretta of Los Angeles, son Derek of San Francisco; and step-sons David, Rusty and Derek of Dallas. Larry’s sisters, Yvonne and Kathy, and his parents live in Willits, Calif.

Lawrence Malcom Jolly, “Larry”, was amember of the Air Force Academy’s first graduating class. Larry came from Willits, where he was both an older brother and ayounger brother in high school. Larry was an “A” student, an outstanding basketball

Academy *s First Basketball Coach Dies in Tucson

Robert B. Spear, 77, of Tucson, Ariz., aformer basketball coach at the Air Force Academy, died on Oct. 26, 1995, in Tuc¬ son. Spear was born July 8, 1918, in Mansfield, Ohio. He married Dorothy (Ball) Spear on Oct. 1, 1942. She survives. He is also sur¬ vived by four sons. Brink, Bert, Barry and Berney; and six grand¬ children.

After graduating from Depauw University in Greencastle, Ind., in 1941, Spear became acommissioned officer in the Army Air Corps, earning his wings in 1942. During his career in the Air Force, he flew in the Berlin airlift and eventually became acom¬ mand pilot.

In 1949 he was assigned to the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., as an assistant tennis coach and assistant basketball coach. He was selected as the fi rst basketball coach at the Air Force Academy when it opened in 1955. He retired as alieutenant col¬ onel and as the cadet basketball coach in 1971.

He was regarded as one of the most innovative coaches of his time, devising strategies that allowed his teams to compete in the Division Ilevel. After his retirement, Spear entered real estate and family financial and tax planning. In 1980 he moved to Green Valley, Ariz., where he devoted much time to playing golf. He was also known for his pastel paintings, with an emphasis on American Indian portraits.

Contributions may be made to the Coach Bob Spear Memorial Fund, Association of Graduates of the U.S. Air Force Academy, 3116 Academy Drive, Air Force Academy, Colo. 80840-4475.

Joseph M. Henderson, Jr., ’65 player, and he played a“mean” trumpet. Larry went to the Air Force Academy after one year at USC. These are the words writ¬ ten about Larry in his graduation yearbook, 36 years ago:

“Born in California, raised in California, but will not pay taxes in California. Larry will someday have aMercedes 300SL to drive around Florida. Although not always happy at the Academy, he has at least learned the rudiments of military ways and means. Outspoken to the extreme, he had arough time with the instruc¬ tors. If he will be as cautious in an airplane as he is while driving a car, he will have along and successful military career. ”

Despite those words about having trouble with instructors, Larry did graduate in the upper 25 percent of his class.

Larry was acautious and good pilot. His first squadron was the 509th Fighter Interceptor Squadron, flying the F-102 Delta Dart, at Clark Air Base in the Philippines. From there Larry went to Randolph AFB in Texas teaching foreign students how to fly the T-28. That was aflying job where caution was always the order of the day. From there, Larry joined American Airlines and became acaptain and check airman in their newest and best aircraft. This was aprofession Larry truly loved and one in which he excelled. Larry also spent time in the Air National Guard, flying the F-lOO Super Sabre.

Despite being born and raised in California, Larry found two Yellow Roses of Texas who shared their lives with him. Ann Jolly and Larry were together for 30 years. Escaping those California taxes led Larry to move to Texas. There he lost his wife, Ann, to cancer, but Larry found anew love, Jan. These last few months were not easy for Larry, and we thank God for allowing Jan to be with him. Married to Larry on August 31 of this year, Jan Jolly has been atrue soul-mate—helpful, loving and there when Larry most needed her.

At an Academy reunion several years ago. General Ben Cassidy was our guest speaker. Ben, aformer Commandant of Cadets, had close ties to the Class of 1959. He said that what we did in the Air Force was not the real test of our success; rather, it was what we did in the larger, civilian community—the mark that we left there would be our real achievement.

At the Air Force Academy Larry learned and lived the Honor Code: “We will not lie, steal, or cheat, or tolerate among us those who do. ”It was to become the guiding principle of his life. Larry was an outstanding pilot, aloving husband, aconcerned father, a true friend. Above all. Larry Jolly will be remembered as aman of honor. (Jon Gallo, ’59)

Joseph M. Henderson, Jr., ’65

Colonel Joseph M. Henderson, Jr., USAF Retired, Class of

Joseph J. Kruzel, Jr., ’67

1965, was killed on Aug. 4, 1995, in Minden, Nev., while flying the Peregrine Jet PJ-2 aircraft. Joe was the president and chief ex¬ ecutive officer of Peregrine Flight International and Fox Aircraft Corporation.

Joe came to the Academy via the Bainbridge Prep School from Knoxville, Tenn. Acharter member of 24th Squadron, he served both as first sergeant and as squadron commander. Joe spent his entire adult life doing what he loved best—flying. Over 4,000 of his 6,000 flying hours were logged in tactical aircraft. Joe was a fighter pilot’s fighter pilot: 150 combat missions in Southeast Asia; graduate, instructor, and air-to-air flight commander of the USAF Fighter Weapons School at Nellis AFB; director of Fighter Ops for TAC; and finally, culminating his Air Force career as the F-15 wing commander at Tyndall AFB.

Joe loved the Academy and stood for the ideals the Academy stands for; absolute integrity, high standards, and courageous leadership. He will be missed by all those he touched, and mostly by his wife and best friend, Stevie, also aretired Air Force col¬ onel, who adds her good-bye to Joe:

diplomats, the president reminded us of “...the pride they took in their calling and the passion they brought to the search for peace.” All members of the Air Force Academy community can be proud of this graduate who showed how each in his own uni¬ que way can “...support and defend the Constitution of the United States...” We may also join Secretary of Defense Perry, speaking at Joe’s funeral, in praying “May God bless Joe Kruzel, for he was apeacemaker.

As cadets, many of us remember Joe for his yeoman work as chairman of the Honor Committee during some pretty difficult times. Yet he always had time to be afriend and aleader, he was always on the Supt’s list, and he served as squadron commander his first-class year. Like many of us, he grew up alot at the Academy. But Joe gave at least as good as he got. He led the class in graduation honors, receiving awards for his Honor Committee chairmanship, for international affairs, and for French. His humor permeated his life and relationships, to everyone’s benefit. His E-type Jaguar exemplified his zest for life, managing to help move him quickly around Colorado, then Washington and Cam¬ bridge, Mass, before being flattened by atree in Arlington, Va., where it had been moved to safety away from his bachelor’s pad.

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The field of national security affairs was always Joe’s profes¬ sional focus. Immediately after graduation he began his career as aDefense Intelligence Agency (DIA) briefer at the Pentagon. Never doubting that he could make acontribution from the start, 2nd Lt. Kruzel recommended changes to the standard DIA brief¬ ing format. That forthrightness ultimately led to Joe “starring in the videotape of his briefing format, the new standard for DIA—just the first of his many contributions to the Pentagon.

Between Pentagon tours in the Air Force, Joe managed to com¬ plete amaster’s in public administration at Harvard as well as travel to Vietnam as an intelligence officer. He also gained early international experience as avaluable staff member of the SALT I delegation, where his reputation as askilled negotiator and representative of U.S. interests grew.

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As difficult as it is to think of facing the future without the man who was the center of my life for 22 years, Iam comforted by knowing that he died doing what he loved best—flying jets. When Joe retired from the Air Force in 1991 and we started our business in Panama City, he said to me, “I might spend my whole life doing things 1love. And he did. More than flying, though, he loved his family and he wouldn’t have left us if he’d had achoice. But God called him home far too soon and left us to wonder

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Why?” We frequently marveled at how blessed we were to have each other, our families and so many wonderful friends. Since Joe’s accident, Ihave been reminded once more how much friends and family can help sustain you. Thanks to all who came to the Academy on August 11th to help celebrate Joe’s life with me.

(Bob Giffen, ’65)

Joseph J, Kruzel, Jr., ’67

Also Iheard the voice of the Lord, saying. Whom shall Isend, and who will go for us? Then Isaid. Here am I: send me. Isaiah 6:8 Members of the Class of 1967 and the whole nation were shocked and saddened to learn of the death of Joe Kruzel and two other American diplomats in late August in atragic road accident on Mt. Ingman outside Sarajevo, Bosnia. Joe had volunteered and was sent to perform his duties as deputy assistant secretary of Defense for European and NATO Policy. He served in that posi¬ tion for over two years, dedicated to and intimately involved in efforts to bring peace to Bosnia and the Balkans, while also developing the seminal ideas embodied in the Partnership for Peace for NATO. As President Clinton said at the memorial ser¬ vice for the diplomats, “The world is amore secure place because of his (Joe’s) dedication.” Speaking of Joe and his fellow

Upon leaving the Air Force, he went back to Harvard for his Ph.D., working with Henry Kissinger and many of the other leading theorists and practitioners in his chosen field. Again, he gave as good as he got. After teaching at Harvard and Duke, he settled in Columbus, Ohio, where he became director of the prestigious Program on International Security and Military Af¬ fairs at the Mershon Center at Ohio State University. He was a remarkable teacher, challenging his students, and helping them, as young men and women searching for their personal and profes¬ sional paths in life. At both Duke and Ohio State he was selected by the students for their outstanding teacher award. During his tenure at Ohio State, he continued to be afrequent contributor in Washington, serving as aconsultant to State, USAID, DOD and the Congress, and as amember of Senator Kennedy’s staff.

During astint in Washington, he was lucky enough to meet and ultimately marry Gail Chipman, also aD.C. area native. Joe brought his distinctive energy, humor and zest for life to his new roles of husband and father, and he flourished. He became deeply involved in the leadership of his Episcopal Church and communi¬ ty and the myriad activities of his family.

After Secretary of Defense Aspin named him to acritical DOD position, Joe finally succumbed to Potomac fever. His move to Washington was repeatedly delayed as he and his family struggled through the agonizing uncertainty due to the ethnic, gender and geographic diversity reviews required before he was finally ap¬ proved for the DASD position in mid-1993. His competency and potential were too overwhelming to deny him the well-deserved next step in his contributions to the nation.

Except for the few who knew Joe in his government or academic roles, most of us remember ahumorous, quick-witted and disarmingly-brilliant friend who was always ready to help out afellow cadet, just as he would later be willing to assist other na¬ tions. In the outpouring of sentiment during the first weeks after his death, officials, friends and family all harkened back to Joe’s

honest simplicity, his love of his fellow man, and above all his dedication to ihe pursuit of peace that imbued his life and ultimately occasioned his death. His loss leaves avacuum that will never be filled, memories that will never be forgotten. Among those closest to him, he is survived by his wife, Gail, and children Sarah and John. His father, Gen. Kruzel, sister and two brothers, and “adopted” parents, Marian and Jim Berkey, also mourn his loss as only family can. All who knew Joe have lost adear friend who enriched our lives and who will be sorely missed.

For those wishing to make acontribution in Joe’s memory, the family has established atrust fund for the children’s education and amemorial fund intended to support the study of National Security Affairs by cadets and graduates. Contributions to the Kruzel Family Trust can be made c/o Thomas J. Cholis, Jr., Senior Vice President, Crestar Bank, N.A. 1445 New York Ave., N.W. Washington, D.C. 20005-2108. The Joseph J. Kruzel Memorial Fund contributions can be made c/o USAFA AOG, 3116 Academy Drive, USAFA, Colo. 80840-4475, which will be tax deductible to the extent permitted by law. (Dan Twomey, ’67)

Ronald Eugene Rouse, ’70

Lt. Col. (USAF, Ret) Ronald “Rooster” Rouse loved to fly and was atrue “ fi ghter jock”. His boyhood dream of fl ying became areality with his appointment to the U.S. Air Force Academy by Senator Bob Dole in 1966. He graduated in 1970 with abachelor of science degree in civil engineering, was com¬ missioned asecond lieutenant in the Air Force, and headed for pilot training at Laughlin Air Force Base, Texas. Upon comple¬ tion of this training, he was assigned duty in the 605th Special Operations Squadron, Panama Canal Zone, flying the A-37B. In the fall of 1972, all the flying assets in Panama were reorganized and Rooster spent the remainder of his tour flying the A-37B and 0-2A in the newly-created 24th Composite Squadron. Additional¬ ly, he was the air liaison officer for the 4th Battalion, 20th Infan¬ try (Mechanized) at Fort Qayton, Canal Zone. In 1973, his first daughter, Jennifer Ann, was born.

He was assigned to the 23d Tactical Fighter Wing, England Air Force Base, La., in April 1975 flying the A-7D. During the next five years, he gained valuable experience as flight commander, in¬ structor pilot, wing standardization and evaluation officer and wing weapons and tactics officer. In January 1980, he was reassigned to the 314th Air Division, Osan Air Base, Korea, as a fighter duty officer and command briefing officer.

In January 1981, he transitioned to the F-16 and was assigned to the 388th Tactical Fighter Wing, Hill Air Force Base, Utah, as an instructor pilot, flight commander, and chief of air-to-ground academics. It was there that he made his mark in the fighter com¬ munity when he recovered an F-16 after the student pilot lost con¬ sciousness in ahigh-G turn. He will be remembered long after his passing by future fighter pilots who review the video of the inci¬ dent as part of their training.

In June 1982, he married R.J. and in January 1983, the couple was reassigned to the 56th Tactical Training Wing, MacDill Air Force Base, Fla. Rooster served as an F-16 instructor pilot, assis¬ tant operations officer, and chief F-16 OTD Team for air-tosurface instruction. It was here he earned his master’s degree in public administration from Golden Gate University.

In February 1986, Rooster returned to Howard Air Force Base in the Republic of Panama where he served as aircraft com¬ mander, operations officer and squadron commander of the 24th Tactical Air Support Squadron. In 1986, his second daughter, Megan Marie, was born, and two years later, Adam Joshua was born. Rooster served his last tour of duty at Langley Air Force Base, Va., where he served as special assistant to the director of Joint Matters and chief, Air-Land Programs officer, at Head¬ quarters, Tactical Air Command.

After 20 years of service, he was retired by Senator Dole at the White House. He accepted employment first with Flight Interna¬ tional fl ying LR-24/25 and LR-35/36 aircraft and then with American Eagle, training to fly the Short-360 in Raleigh-Durham, N.C. In November 1991, he was diagnosed with an astrocytoma (brain tumor) and returned to Newport News, Va.

Lieutenant Colonel Rouse was acommand pilot with more than 3,735 flying hours. He was agraduate of Squadron Officer School, Air Command and Staff College, National Security Management Course, and was awarded asecond master’s degree in education from Old Dominion University. His awards and decorations included the Meritoriuous Service Medal with two oak leaf clusters, the Air Force Commendation Medal with one oak leaf cluster, the Combat Readiness Medal with two oak leaf clusters and the National Defense Service Medal.

Afighter until the end. Rooster fought the cancer for three years and seven months before losing the battle on June 22, 1995. On June 27, he was buried at the Air Force Academy. (Maj. R.J. Rouse)

Clarence Talmage Marsh III, ’77

Iam deeply saddened to have to inform you all that Major Clarence Talmage (C.T.) Marsh III died as aresult of injuries sus¬ tained during an Air National Guard A-10 accident in southern New Mexico on May 19, 1995. C.T. graduated with the Class of ’77, just passin’ through as amember of Starship 19, where he garnered the respect of all while holding various leadership posi¬ tions his second degree and firstie year, including Squadron Ops of fi cer.

C.T.’s active duty career flourished as well. After graduating from Undergraduate Pilot Training (UPT) in 1977, C.T. stayed on as aT-37 instructor pilot in the 86 FTS, Laughlin AFB until 1980, when he volunteered for assignment to the 57 FIS at Keflavik AB, Iceland to fly the T-33 (and where he met his lovely wife, Ann). This was followed by atour of duty with the 48 FIS at Langley AFB in 1981; flying the T-33 until July 1983, then F-15s

Clarence Talmage Marsh III, '77

Ronald Eugene Rouse, ’70

until January 1987. His assignment at Langley turned out to be the last stop in C.T.’s active duty career, as he opted for acom¬ mercial aviation career. He worked for Delta Air Lines the past eight years as a727 second and first officer and the new hire coor¬ dinator at the Chicago base, and then as a727 first officer in Salt Lake City. But C.T. couldn’t fly without rolling inverted at least once in awhile, so he joined the Battle Creek ANG in January, 1988 where he flew the AT-37 and most recently the A-10.

For those of you who knew my roomie during our USAFA days, Ican assure you that he never changed. The meticulous pur¬ suit of excellence that motivated him to succeed in whatever challenge faced him; his character, morals, and Christian beliefs that always led him to the “right” conclusion; the little grin that reflected his true sense of humor (as long as you and he weren’t “crossways”); and his eternal love and devotion to both family and friends, remained steady as arock throughout the many years it’s been since we first met. He truly lived life to the fullest and took pleasure in all things.

C.T. leaves behind the true loves of his life, Ann, and their beautiful children; Lindsay (9), Clay (C.T. IV) (5), and Andrew (4); his parents, June and C.T. Marsh, Jr. (Col., U.S.Army Ret); his sister Sue; and many other relatives. C.T.’s life was eloquently eulogized at memorial services in Park City, Utah; Battle Creek, Mich.; and at Fort Myer’s Old Post Chapel, after which he was interred near his grandparents at Arlington National Cemetery with full military honors on May 31, 1995. Contributions may be made in honor of C.T.’s memory to the Clarence T. Marsh, III Memorial Fund in care of the Association of Graduates.

C.T.’s short time here was filled with love and he will be sorely missed. See you later my brother. Ithank God for sharing your brief time on earth with us all. (Mike Cimafonte, ’77)

Daniel Plavney, ’78

Daniel Plavney, Class of 1978, died on Sept. 28, 1995 after a long Illness. He was 39.

While at the Academy, Dan was an academic overachiever, graduating with honors and completing apsychology major with a4.0 GPA. Far more importantly to those of us who were privileged enough to know him, he was also ahuman overachiever. His quick wit could always put everything into pro¬ per perspective. He was one of the people who made life at the Academy bearable.

Following graduation, his career in the Air Force was all too short—pilot training, and then abrief stint as an 0-2 pilot and in¬ structor pilot. Life after the Air Force brought Dan to avariety of jobs, close to nature on the coast of Maine. As ahusband and father though, he needed to do more. He picked up amaster’s degree from Clarion University in Pennsylvania and then discovered his true calling in life—as ateacher.

Dan taught high school science for afew years in Bennett, Colo., and then moved to Timberview Middle School back in

Colorado Springs, still teaching science. There he created asum¬ mer science program called “Innovations with Industry,” amen¬ torship program that significantly improved the school’s science program. His easy banter and his innovative techniques made him afavorite with children, and his effect on them, particularly their love of learning, will be lasting. In addition to teaching, Dan became awrestling coach and an assistant football coach in the Colorado Springs school system. In this role, he taught hundreds of youngsters that the important thing is in the playing of the game, not in winning. He will be missed.

Dan is survived by his parents, Sam and Margaret Kunselman, of New Bethlehem, Pa.; his son Eli, and his daughter Jenny, both of Colorado Springs, as well as asister and two brothers. His family is grateful for contributions in Dan’s name to the American Cancer Society.

‘Two roads diverged in awood and I, Itook the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. And that has made all the difference.

(David Maher, ’78)

David A. Hawkens, ’86

Captain David A. “Hawk” Hawkens, Class of 1986, died on Aug. 29, 1995 when his U-2 crashed at RAF Fairford Airfield,

Retired Long-Time Falcon Equipment Manager Dies

Jack R. Culliton, 74, who retired from the Air Force and was an equipment manager for the Falcon football and basketball teams at the Air Force Academy until 1993, died Aug. 19, 1995, at aColorado Springs hospital after alengthy illness. Burial was in Gaylord, Mich.

Mr. Culliton was born Sept. 10, 1920, in Bay City, Mich., to Ray and Zelpha (Jones) Culliton. He was married April 23, 1956, in Basel, Switzerland, to Mildred Scott, who survives. He also is survived by acousin who he considered ason, Thomas Nelson of Gaylord. His brother. Max, is deceased.

Mr. Culliton served in the Army Air Corps during World War II and attained the rank of master sergeant. He received two Pur¬ ple Hearts and aBronze Star.

He was discharged in 1945 and was elected mayor of Gaylord. He was re-elected four times before being recalled into military service during the Korean War. He served as acrew member of the Air Force and United States bobsled teams, coached a baseball team and awomen’s basketball team, for which he was named coach of the year. He retired from the Air Force in 1965 and moved to Colorado Springs.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Air Force Academy Association of Graduates, 3116 Academy Drive, Air Force Academy, Colo. 80840-4475.

Daniel Plavney, ’78

David A. Hawkens, ’86

about 80 miles west of London. Hawk was flying reconnaissance missions over Bosnia in support of NATO operation DENY FLIGHT when his U-2 experienced amechanical malfunction upon take-off that resulted in the fatal crash. English officials quoted in the local newspaper hailed Hawk as “a hero” whose quick-thinking response in steering the aircraft away from near¬ by houses and fuel storage tanks saved the lives of others.”

Born in Dayton, Ohio, Hawk grew up and attended high school in McLean, Va. In 1982, he graduated from Mary Washington College, Fredericksburg, Va. with aBA in economics. Hawk’s ambition, however, was to be an Air Force pilot. To that end, he obtained an appointment to the Air Force Academy, and he graduated with the Class of 1986.

Hawk entered pilot training at Reese Air Force Base, Texas, and he earned his wings in the fall of 1987. He then served as a T-38 pilot instructor in the 54th Training Squadron at Reese. In 1991, he became an instructor for T-38 pilot instructors at Ran¬ dolph Air Force Base, Texas. During this tour, he became in¬ terested in the U-2 Program, and in 1993, he was selected for U-2 training at Beale Air Force Base, Calif. In February 1994, he was assigned to the 9th Reconnaissance Wing, 99th Reconnaissance Squadron at Beale. As aU-2 pilot. Hawk served at operational locations in South Korea, Saudi Arabia, and the United Kingdom.

Hawk was asenior pilot with over 3,600 hours in the T-38, T-37, and U-2. His military decorations include an Air Medal, Meritorious Service Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Air Force Training Ribbon, Air Force Longevity Service Award with two oak leaf clusters, and an Air Force Outstanding Unit Award with three oak leaf clusters.

Hawk loved God and was devoted to his family and friends. Always cheerful and outgoing, he had acapacious and infectious zest for life. He possessed agreat fondness for nature and animals that he delighted in sharing with others. He was also atalented musician, an avid reader, and aphysical-fitness enthusiast. He is deeply missed. He is survived by his father, Edward A. Hawkens (Col., USAF, Ret), of McLean, Va.; his sister, Susan Hawkens Whalton, of Hedgesville, W. Va.; and his brother, E. Roy Hawkens, of Falls Church, Va. His mother, Betty Jo Hawkens, died in 1979. (His family)

Troy T. Waddell, ‘87

Captain Troy Waddell, Class of 1987, passed away on Aug. 26, 1995. Troy was born on July 15, 1965 in Saigon, Vietnam. He grew up in Arlington, Va., where he attended Wakefield High School and graduated in 1983 as aNational Honors Society member. Troy graduated from the Air Force Academy with a bachelor of science degree in behavioral science.

After graduation he went to Columbus AFB, Miss., where he graduated from Undergraduate Pilot Training in 1988. He then went to Little Rock AFB, Ark., where he attended C-130 RTU. In

April 1989, Troy became amember of the 21st Airlift Squadron, Yokota, Japan.

Troy participated in the Philippine earthquake relief missions. Operations Sea Angel and Fiery Vigil. In 1992, he was transferred to the 8th Special Operations Squadron, Hurlburt Field, Fla. Troy was an aircraft/crew commander of the MC-130E Combat Talon. In 1994, he participated in the Haiti Operation Uphold Democracy, Deny Flight/Provide Promise.

Captain Waddell’s awards and decorations include: Air Force Commendation Medal, Air Force Achievement Medal, Joint Meritorious Unit Award, Air Force Outstanding Unit Award, Combat Readiness Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal, Humanitarian Service Medal, Air Force Overseas Long Tour Ribbon, Air Force Longevity Service Award Ribbon, Small Arms Expert Marksman¬ ship Ribbon, and the Air Force Training Ribbon.

He is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Waddell of Arlington, Va., and his brother Steven, amember of the Ports¬ mouth, Va., police department. (Jerry Waddell)

Glenn J. "Skip” Rogers, ‘90

On Sept. 22, 1995, in the crash of an E-3 AW ACS at Elmendorf AFB, the USAFA Class of 1990 lost avalued classmate and many of us lost atrue friend in Skip Rogers. Skip impacted every one he came into contact with, both literally on the rugby pitch and with his quick wit and infectious laugh. He was one of those rare people who could make nearly everything he did exciting and fun and lift up everyone around him. He was and will remain an outstanding example of how to live life to its fullest and be agreat friend.

’Skip grew up in Lake Charles, La. with his parents, Glenn and Phyllis, and his two sisters, Julie and Carol. He was an avid sportsman and agreat high school football player. Skip embodied the competitive spirit that is so strong in all the Rogers. He also had ahuge impact on his community, and as atestament to their love of Skip, more than 450 people came to his memorial services in Lake Charles.

At USAFA, Skip was afreshman in 21st Squadron before mov¬ ing on to CS-12. While his academic and military performance was certainly not legendary. Skip was asolid cadet who took pride in what he accomplished as arugby player. He worked hard in rugby and became atwo-year A-side starter. He was one of on¬ ly five people in the Class of 1990 to play in both the 1989 and 1990 National Collegiate Rugby Championship games. Throughout the years. Skip was afixture in the lineup of backs that was ever changing around him. He was agreat winger who was incredibly fast despite aphysique that made most opponents think he was aprop. At one tournament, two fans debated whether Skip was fat or fast to which one fan said, “Well, if he’s fat, he’s the fastest fat guy I’ve ever seen.” He was afierce com¬ petitor and aleader whose experience and drive pushed the

Glenn J. "Skip” Rogers, ‘90

Troy T. Waddell, ‘87

Joseph E. Stattmiller, Jr., ’93

Zoomie rugby team to new heights.

After graduation. Skip went to pilot training at Vance AFB in Oklahoma before joining the 962 AACS at Elmendorf AFB, Alaska. He truly enjoyed flying and did well in UPT. In Alaska, he excelled in his squadron and had been an aircraft commander for almost ayear. He enjoyed the outdoors and took advantage of it by skiing in the winter and mountain biking, camping, and fishing in the summer.

The true measure of Skip’s life, though, is the profound effect he had on those around him. He injected aspirit of excitement in any situation and was always there when you needed him. He was adedicated, sel fl ess friend and ajoy to be around. At his memorial service in the Cadet Chapel on Oct. 9, Capt. Steve Milligan, ’90, said, “Skip was the best guy to have around. He would laugh at anything. If you said anything remotely funny. Skip would start to giggle and he would just keep laughing until the whole room was laughing.

Skip will forever be remembered for living life to the fullest and taking advantage of the challenges he faced while remaining true to his friends and family. In good times and bad, those of us touched by Skip can think of him and his legendary laugh and be reminded to keep our chin up and enjoy life and the people that make it important while we can. (Capt. Jay Owen, ’90)

Joseph E. Stattmiller, Jr., ’93

JoJo was killed on June 15, 1995 when he was hit by atrain while on temporary duty assignment in Florida. He is survived by his parents, Joe and Susan; his wife, Lexie, and atremendous amount of friends.

JoJo was born in San Antonio, Texas on Oct. 1, 1969. He starred in football and track at Alamo Heights High School where he graduated in 1988. JoJo attended the Air Force Academy Preparatory School and accepted his appointment to the U.S. Air Force Academy in 1989. After graduation in 1993, JoJo was sta¬ tioned at Los Angeles Air Force Base where he married Alexandra Cox on July 9, 1994.

JoJo will be remembered as the tough little Italian who could accomplish whatever he put his mind to; Minsana en corpe sano. JoJo was the epitome of asound mind in asound body. A physical fitness champion and cornerback on the football team, JoJo overcame numerous challenges at the Academy with his in¬ credible mental toughness.

JoJo was the ringleader for anetwork of friends that relied on him for everything, from advice on personal matters to the loca¬ tion of the best party. JoJo’s intense commitment to his religion and his friends was evident in everything he did. He prepared himself and those around him for every situation. The memories we will always have of JoJo will be of the fun-loving Texan who organized and was the focal point of all of our activities.

JoJo’s personality and character were felt by everyone who

came into contact with him. After battling through USAFA, JoJo was selected for atop-secret job as afinance officer at Los Angeles Air Force Base. While he excelled in his duties, he con¬ tinued to be the ringleader for anumber of graduates in Los Angeles. JoJo is the finest person Iwill ever know and Iguarantee you that no one will ever come in contact with abetter husband or more loyal friend.

Amemorial fund has been established in JoJo’s name. Con¬ tributions may be sent to the Joseph E. Stattmiller, Jr. Memorial Fund, Association of Graduates, 3116 Academy Drive, U.S. Air Force Academy, Colo. 80840-4475. (1st Lt. Patrick Hopper, ’93)

Atpresstimewehadlearnedofthedeathsofthefollowingj graduates: ,

Col. (ANG) Charles L. Veach, Class of 1966, who died on ' Oct. 3, 1995 of cancer in Houston, Texas. I

Col. (USAFR) Ronald A. Johnson, Class of 1967, who i died on Oct. 2, 1995 in afire on his farm in Montgomery, i Ala.

Michael L. Cummins, Class of 1976, who was presumed drowned on June 8, 1995 near San Diego, Calif.

Maj. James D. Napoleon, Class of 1982, who was killed in i acar accident on July 14, 1995 on the AlCan Highway in Canada \

Our sincere condolences to the family and friends of these i graduates. ;

Cadet Second Class Ramsey Dies of Burn Complications

David Paul Ramsey, Class of 1997, was born on March 21, 1975 in Fayetteville, N.C. He died on Aug. 27, 1995 at the Brooke Army Medical Center Burn Unit in San Antonio, Texas. David graduated from Jacksonville High School in Jacksonville, N.C. in June, 1993 and entered the Air Force Academy as amember of the Class of 1997. He was acivil engineering major who played on the Academy’s football team as akicker.

C2C David P. Ramsey

David received acertificate of merit from the Duke University Talent Identification Program. He was aNorth Carolina Scholar and also received an Academic Superintendent’s Club award. He was listed in Who’s Who Among American High School Students and was accepted to North Carolina State, Chapel Hill, and the University of Florida at Gainesville. However, he decided to ac¬ cept his appointment to the Air Force Academy.

Active in his community, David participated in the Onslow County Close-Up and the annual Christmas Cheer Program. He was an active member of Bethlehem Baptist Church and was a member of the Youth Choir, Youth Organization, Puppet Ministry and Royal Ambassadors.

David accomplished more in his 20 years than most do in a lifetime. He was one of Jacksonville’s best assets and his ability to give of himself and lead will be missed by many. (His family)

Raven 46 ’’Laid to Rest After 26 Years

By H. Ownby, ’69

On arain-swept, overcast Friday morning in mid-September, 1995, Col. Dan R. Davis, U.S.Army Retired, his wife, Helen M. Davis, and their daughter-in-law, Dorothy Y. Davis Newlon (the former Mrs. Daniel Richard Davis), finally laid to rest 26 years of heartbreak, worry, and waiting. They also laid to rest 26 years of hoping for amiracle.

In August of 1969 their son and husband, Daniel Richard Davis, USAFA Class of 1967, was assigned to Detachment 1, 56th Special Operations Wing, at Udorn Royal Thai Air Force Base. He was aforward air controller, flying the 0-1 Birddog and the T-28 Trojan. But in reality he was a“Raven”, Raven 46, a volunteer providing badly-needed aviation skills in defense of the Lao people, and more specifically the Hmong tribe, in the warravaged mountains that surrounded the Plan de Jarres (the PDJ”) in northern Laos. (<

The morning of Aug. 16th, 1969, found Dan ferrying his T-28 to Lima Site 20-Alternate, an airdrome that was the heart of Long Tchien, the mountain redoubt of the Hmong army, led by General Vang Pao. When he arrived he was informed of asitua¬ tion developing on the far side of the PDJ that needed some im¬ mediate Air Force problem solving—an airstrike. Dan hopped in¬ to the nearest 0-1, taking with him aHmong lieutenant who was fluent in Hmong, Laotian, French and English. Dan and the Hmong lieutenant rendezvoused with aflight of USAF F-105 fighters and went about their work.

It was not until the F-105s had returned to Udorn and reviewed the gun-camera film that anyone was able to confirm what had happened in those few blinding-fast seconds. But in the clouds and the confusion, Dan’s 0-1 and an F-105 had collided. For¬ tunately the F-105 pilot was able to maintain control of his air¬ craft. No one had seen the fate of the 0-1.

For years afterward the family, like so many families in America, held on to the hope that Dan was one of those held prisoner by the Communist forces in Laos and North Vietnam. When the peace accord was signed in February 1973 in Vientiane, and the POWs were returned from Hanoi, the family waited in anticipation. But Dan was not on those freedom birds. As film or photos or sighting information slowly drifted out of Vietnam, his father. Colonel Davis, would be called upon to review the items, hoping for afamiliar face. Once Colonel Davis was shown a photograph from Hanoi that showed aface that looked like Dan, or at least the way Dan would have looked after years of captivity. But it was not Dan.

Dan was promoted to captain during his absence. Dorothy Y. Davis searched for information, and waited. With the passage of time, and the accumulation of information from others who had flown and worked in the area, she made the hardest decision—she asked that Dan be declared dead. Dorothy later remarried.

Actually someone had seen the fate of the 0-1. Villagers who lived near the site of the mid-air had seen the small airplane crash to the ground. Because the area they lived in was controlled by

Communist Pathet Lao and North Vietnamese Regular Army forces, these villagers said nothing. But they remembered.

During the dry-season in 1995 the U.S. military team working on the resolution, location and recovery of Americans missing in Laos were finally introduced to these villagers. “Yes” they saw the airplane crash. “Yes” they knew where it was located. “Yes they would lead the team to the site.

After identification at the Central ID facility in Hawaii, Col¬ onel Dan and Helen Davis, and Dorothy Davis Newlon, had their answer. Raven 46 had made the supreme sacrifice in defense of the nation he served, the United States of America, and the na¬ tion he had come to love, the Kingdom of Laos and the Hmong peoples.

Captain Daniel Richard Davis was laid to rest at Fort Bliss Na¬ tional Cemetery by his father and mother; by his sisters, Kay Davis and Sharon L. Davis, of El Paso, Texas; by his widow, Dorothy Davis Newlon; by Dorothy’s brother, Mike Thrower, USAFA ’68; by Rosemary Gorman, his aunt; by J.J. Boyle, his uncle; and by his nieces and nephews. Also in attendance were Capt. Alfred G. Platt, University of Texas ’63, Raven 47, who was Dan’s commander in Laos; Gol. Lloyd F. Duncan, Ret., USAFA ’67, Raven 42, Dan’s classmate and fellow volunteer; and H. Ownby, USAFA ’69, Raven 26.

Remains Identi fi ed, Memorial Ceremony Honors Graduate

The remains of Capt. Leo T. Thomas Jr., Class of 1963, whose plane was shot down in 1971 during the Vietnam War, were iden¬ tified this past July, according to the Pentagon. Thomas had been listed as unaccounted for but the remains, recovered on June 3, 1994 as the result of ajoint U.S.-Laotian excavation, were iden¬ tified as those of Thomas and his navigator, Capt. Daniel R. Pyoner.

Air Force chief of Staff Gen. Ronald Fogleman presents flags honoring Leo Thomas to his family. (U.S. Air Force photo by SrA. Kerry Goerke, courtesy Bud Gilligan.)

Thomas and Poyner were in an F-4D aircraft when they were lost during amission over Laos on Dec. 19, 1971. Thomas was 31 and on his second tour in Vietnam. When he died, he left behind a newborn son, Leo T. Thomas III of Covington, Ohio, now 24.

Amemorial ceremony for Thomas was held at Arlington Cemetery on July 19, with 19 of Thomas’ classmates in atten¬ dance (for more information on the memorial ceremony, please see the Class of 1963 column). The ceremony included horsedrawn caissons, alarge contingent of the Air Force Band, afull flight of the USAF Honor Guard including a21-gun volley salute element and an F-16 missing-man flyover.

Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Ronald Fogleman, ’63, presented flags to Thomas’ mother, Nora; his widow, Kay; and his son, Leo III, known as “Tarlton. ♦

Family, friends and fellow Ravens, attending the memorial ser¬ vice for Dan Davis, ’67. (Photo courtesy H. Ownby, ’69)

CLASS NEWS

Pete Todd

1250 Big Valley Drive

Colorado Springs, CO 80919-1015

Home: (719) 531-5874

FAX: (719) 531-6697

E-mail: petetodd@aol.com

Percent members: 81

The EVENT of the summer season here in sunny Colorado Springs had to be the 40th Anniversary celebration of the dedication of the Academy. On 11 July, 21 members of the Class of ’59 plus spouses/companions came from far and near. Attending this mini-reunion were honorary classmate Greg Boyington (’60), Don BROOKS, Jim and Rose BROWN, Bob and Roxann BROWNING, Wiley BURCH, Curt and Avis COOK, Bob FAY and Joyce Brown, Greek GALIOS, Mike and Katy GIVENS with Mike’s mother, Mrs. Dorothy Givens (who also attended the 1955 dedication), Deac and Renee HOUSTON, Reb LEE, Max MILLER and Trix Scott, John and Ulle MILTNER, Kent and Diane MONT AVON, Ed and Lucia MONTGOMERY, Dave PHILLIPS and Phyllis Kern, Skip and MC SMOTHERMON, Pete and Wendy TODD, Gene VOSIKA, and Charlie ZALESKI. From the calls 1received, more would have attended except for short lead time on the invitations.

The major events were aluncheon in Mitchell Hall (where we noted with some amazement that the Class of 1999 was actually being permitted to eat! We wondered at length how the Doolies’ character could possibly be developed properly within such apermissive environment.); a1630 Retreat Ceremony at the Air Base Wing Headquarters (selected because that’s the location of the top half of the original flagpole, the only re¬ maining artifact of the original Lowry site); and areception at Doolittle Hall. The latter two activities were well-attended by acadre of ATOs and many of the original staff and faculty.

The reception also was the occasion for the “official” unveiling of the memorials to the Class of ’59 and the ATOs. Over the west breezeway en¬ trance, ours contains the Academy and class crests and the names of the graduating members of the class, capped by the text of the Honor Code. The accompanying snapshots will give you an idea of the layout, but they don’t really do justice to the display, which must be seen in all its panoramic splendor to be appreciated.

Over the opposite entrance, asimilar display contains the USAFA and ATO crests, the names of the 1955-57 ATOs and the inscription: “Dedicated with deepest respect and appreciation to these special mentors and friends by the Class of 1959.”

These panels lend aclassy and elegant presence to the lower floor of the AOG building. Be sure to see them when you’re out here. And don’t forget to send amajor “attaboy” to Jim Brown who, in his usual unassuming but effective way, did most of the organization, leg work and heavy lifting in carrying out the project. Another “by the way:” we’re still receiving generous contributions to the Class gift from ATOs (who weren’t pledged to donate anything), while the pipeline has all but dried up from the ’59ers (who were). If you’re among the handful of delinquent

contributors, consider this agentle nag to fulfill your share of the class pledge.

On to some sad news from the provinces: when last mentioned in these pages, Larry JOLLY was facing major surgery to stem the course of his cancer. Unfortunately, as most of you will have already heard, he lost his valiant struggle on 6October, with Jan at his side at home in Carrollton, XX. Jon GALLO delivered the eulogy at Larry’s funeral on the 9th, which was also attended by Bob BUCKLES, Jim CHAPMAN, George CLARK, Dave GROARK, and Dean WOOD. In aclassy gesture at graveside, four members of the North Texas Chapter of the AOG spon¬ taneously stepped forward, crisply folded the flag from the coffin and presented it to Jan. On behalf of the family and the Class of ’59, thanks to those anonymous fellow graduates for their kind, professional and car¬ ing act. (Seems to me we ought to try to make this astandard feature of any graduate funeral attended by enough grads to make up aflag party.)

Out on the other coast, RL PENN has finally achieved his lifelong am¬ bition of becoming adependent husband. Eugenia has been hired by Bell Labs and RL is trying to sell their newly-acquired home in Connecticut so he can PCS to New Jersey with his bride.

Flak WILLIAMS reports from Ohio that Wayne and Karen PITT¬ MAN hosted an International Deli Buffet and included John and Sue MANTEI and Flak and MJ. Sue had just completed acheck-up visit to the hospital for her throat cancer of several years ago and got agood report. Tough ladies, these ’59er wives. If they can endure us, they can conquer anything. Flak says that John is back working for SEMCOR helping to teach folks in the F-15 SPO how things should be done. Flak and MJ are nearly finished their painting/installing hardwood flooring project. It appears that they’ve voluntarily taken on aform of hard labor that’s the penalty for shoplifting in some countries!

Closer to home. Art ELSER recounted the eventful summer for him and Kathy. First, in late May, daughter Barbara presented them with their

Art Elser counsels his new grandson, Louis Tyson. (Art is the one with the moustache.)

first grandchild, Louis Tyson. He was predicted to weigh about seven pounds at birth, but checked in at close to 10, making it atough and dangerous birth for both small mother and large son. Then Louis was in neonatal intensive care for about three weeks, not to mention heart surgery when he was only four days old. Art says everybody has recovered nicely and he has discovered the manifold joys of being agrandpa.

Just as everyone was recovering from the stress of this ordeal, they had to suck it up and throw awedding in July as their son, Al, married his high school sweetheart. Amid all the trauma. Art changed jobs in June, moving from Hewlett-Packard to Comtech Services, Inc., asmall, Denver-based technical writing company. He says he doesn’t mind the commute and loves the work.

It looks like I’ll also have achance to savor the joys of the 1-25 rushhour speedway along with Art and Ed Montgomery (who commutes daily from Monument to United in Denver). After several years of genteel labor as aglobetrotting consultant (Motto: “I use your watch to tell you what time it is, then get to keep the watch.”), Ihave decided to pursue honest work.

Through aseries of serendipitous circumstances too lengthy and bizarre to recount here, Ihave accepted the position as executive director of the National Stroke Association. (This is the neurologically-oriented group, not the organization devoted to lowering golf scores for Larry FORT¬ NER, CV MILLER, Bobby BLAKE, et al.)

This should be achallenging and satisfying job, replete with the characteristic joys and frustrations of all nonprofits. The only downside I can see is ahundred mile commute every day, but lots of people Iknow drive farther to much less satisfying occupations. Art Elser says that if you leave at 0530, the traffic’s not so bad. ArrgghI

Wendy and Isend holiday greetings to you and yours and best wishes for another great year.

Thought for the quarter: Abore is someone who persists in holding his own views after we have enlightened him with ours.

A.J. (Rosie) Cler, Jr.

11181 West 17th Ave.

Building Two, Suite 208 Lakewood, CO 80215-2759 (303) 238-4973

Percent members: 79

Our 35th reunion September 13-17 was above-average, and those 109 who did not attend were missed. (Those who attended are listed in this column).

Dazzling moments included the election of class officers. Re-elected to thunderous silence was president Andi BIANCUR, who did afine job get¬ ting us to “gaggle” on the parade field to review the Cadet Wing; vice president Jack BRUSH, who performed with the usual noblesse oblige while wife, Jeanne, confided that Jack is secretly North America’s largest manufacturer of whoopee-cushions; treasurer Wayne KENDALL, sup¬ plier of wonder-drugs to those of us in need, and as one nervous wife in¬ formed him: “I’m out of estrogen, and I’ve got agun!” My nomination as Scribe can only be described as the sound of one hand clapping in a forest (Chris WARACK’s now got time for area/job!), and Ivolunteered to earn big bucks, then discovered it was pro bono, and publico.

It was important to count attendees; ergo, being non compos math mentis, Isat near Alex ZIMMERMAN and Bill CARNEGIE at the foot¬ ball game to calculate the stats: 88 classmates (45 percent of those 197 liv-

ing), 72 wives, five ATOs: Bache, Bowser, Cole, Emmons, Till. “Frenchy” OUELLETTE got three former faculty members to attend: Mike Fatiuk, A1 Miele, and Bill Roche.

Mike LOH retired with four stars in June at Langley AFB as head of Air Combat Command, and was previously Vice Air Force Chief of Staff (pictorial encomium included, thanks to Bill TAYLOR). He and wife, Barbara, met son Michael Anthony of USAFA ’84 and wife, Diane, at the game. Ron Yates retired, but his 35-year marriage to lovely Connie is on shaky ground since Ron saw her mongering (sic) at the pre-game tailgate party with wanton churls A1 JOHNSON, Bill GILLIS, and yours truly (Such Men Are Dangerous). Dale THOMPSON looks as young as he did when he came to the Academy from Lawton, OK. Lies.

First-timers at areunion were Bill LENINGER, who is not aspy but “came in from out of the cold” after 35 years, has lived in Albuquerque, NM 28 years with wife, Ellen, and is asystems programmer for BDM Technologies. Also George FRIES, who’d never been back and mar¬ veled at the Field House, Chapel, Doolittle Hall, et. al. “It’s nicer than Lowry II!”

Al JOHNSON and Gale recently returned from Fiji, Australia, New Zealand, and other South Pacific sites. Son Mike graduated from Yale (NEVER heard of it) and got amedical degree from the U. of Virginia, is now interning as an eye surgeon at Johns Hopkins (NEVER heard of it). Al offered Mike for acomplimentary removal of the bags under my eyes, an observation much appreciated. Also attending were SHEETS, STUMM, Charlie THOMPSON, VALLERIE, SCHEHR, SEEBODE, SEXTON, GOODSON, HEAD, GURLEY, HIGGINS, CASKEY, ALNWICK, Jim ALEXANDER, VANINWEGEN, O’ROURKE, CARTER (who was that masked lady. Rich?), Clemeunt Tranumn DOUGLASS III, GOODYEAR, PORTER, SHIELDS, Doug MILLER, and THOMAS.

Good to see former “roomies” George ELSEA (during 1st class year the Comm decided this match would provide corrective action to my wayward ways, which only resulted in more demerits for George); George LUCK, who’d go off and shoot guns while Ihad to run his squadron that last summer; Gordy FLYGARE, my nominee for the Phil Donahue lookalike contest; John MACARTNEY, retired bird and professor at American University.

Memorable activities were the dedication of Val BOURQUE’S alcove at Doolittle Hall attended by wife, Linda Sheppard; Memorial Ceremony at the Chapel paying respects to our six classmates who passed away since our last reunion (BUCHEN, ECKWEILER, Larry JOHNSON, MACFARLANE, SHEPARD, SHIER—that now makes 30, total); and, the ceremony on Saturday morning to award Lt. Gen. Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., the Thomas D. White National Defense Award. Shaking the hand of Gen. Davis—head of the Tuskegee Airmen—was apersonal thrill.

Rosie, D.L., George, Les, Phil, Gen. Ron, CT III, and Dr. Wayne at the reunion tailgate.

Hal BROST and wife, Libby, took this opportunity to visit their daughter at the C.U. Medical School in Denver...Ron DEEP teaches ar¬ tificial intelligence and statistics at the University of Dayton’s School of Engineering...Duck WADDLE’s in the Springs working for his son-inlaw who has three plumbing and supply companies (2115 Paseo del Oro, C-Springs, 80904)...Johnnie KUENZEL is financial adviser for A.G. Ed¬ wards in Ft. Worth, and we should have sent him in for the last quarter of the CSU-AFA game...D.L. WALSH has abeard which can only be described as “a beard”...Jock SCHWANK’s still ajock with the AOG...Thomas Edward BURKE’s been adding fertility drugs to wife, Mary Ellen’s, gruel: Kathleen (29) works for Kellogg’s, Elizabeth (28) does design work in Hoboken, Aileen (26) is business manager for a

Al Johnson, Goodson, Bristow, Goodyear, Boyington, Jolly, Taylor, Gen. Loh, Pupich, Alnwick, Kornitzer, Lalime, Fries, and Tall Tony at Mike’s retirement party. (Attending but not shown were ’59ers Bobby Blake, Charlie May and Robin Kozelka.)

veterinary hospital in Virginia, Jennifer (22) graduated from William & Mary and works for Norwest Bank, Katie (21) is asenior at Mary Washington College, John (20) is at Mt. St. Mary’s College...Dean VIKAN looks semi-great...Phil MEINHARDT had to be reminded that he’d introduced me to my wife, Karen, on ablind date back in Grand Island, NE...Deke JOHNSON won the award for most unique mode of transport, driving from Boise in ago-cart with wife, Sally, in an attached sidecar...rumor has it that Pappy BOYINGTON came from California in amotorcycle...Ed NOGAR Idoks just like Ed NOGAR always did...Tony BURSHNICK’s grown taller or I’ve grown shorter...Dave SWEIGART sings with the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra Chorus...George PUPICH attends every AFA game...son Alex is agreat footbali player, unlike his “triple-threat” father...Ace HOLMAN has three girls/two boys, two girls/three toys, or no boys/five girls, and owns acomputer company in Mobile, AL. Others attending were GEORGI, GLAZA, JOLLY, KALEY, LALIME, BIEHLE, CONGDON, HOBGOOD, HODSON, KING, MOSIER and his lovely daughters (must be genes of Caryl, Bruce), ODENWELLER, SCHIRA, WATERMAN, LOVELL, BRONSON, and LIGGETT.

Jim BUJALSKI’s owner of JC Enterprises in Orangevale, CA...Frank and Eve MAYBERRY came from Alice Springs, Australia...Hardy LEBEL instructs in seaplanes, flies for private airlines from his home in Westerly, RI and flew-in doctors for “Wings of Hope” in Belize several years ago...Gary CREW operates agolf practice range and builds custom clubs in Littleton, CO.

Four attended who didn’t graduate and their presence was apleasure. Dick Doyle had some trouble with English our last semester, and elected not to accept optional extensions. Hank Sredl (Czech’s his second language) left in Feb. ’58 to get married, got amaster’s from N.Y.U. and aPh.D. from Ohio state, teaches at Oregon State University. Hank said that “the Academy shaped my views toward education and life.” Hank roomed with Paul Sones, who was injured in aRyan PT-22 as a sophomore in the same accident which killed Dick Davis. Still partiallyparalyzed, Paul spent ayear at the V.A. Hospital in Roxbury, MA, got a B.S. from the U. of Illinois and amaster’s in engineering from M.I.T (NEVER heard of it), performed at the 1960 Wheelchair Olympics in Rome, recently retired from Raytheon where he worked on the Patriot missile, and has four children with wife, Sheila. Les Querry brought many pictures, including afew of the Roman Blast.

Dean BISTROW’s our only classmate still on active duty. Following med school at UC-Irvine in 1967, Dean established practice in Utah and was in the Reserves, called back during Desert Storm for four months. He’s now commander of the 23rd Medical Group at Pope AFB, NC (that makes five doctors in our class—Dean, Dave REED, who’s in Denver, Wayne KENDALL, and the two doctors not attending were Dave LUCE and John DAY). Vic YOAKUM’s at the Career Academy at Hollywood High School in L.A., a“school-within-a-school” which gets local com¬ munity members such as Universal Studios to provide scholarships/jobs under DoD grants for immigrants. Works closely with ’59ers Larry THOMPSON and Bob JENNINGS. Jon MCCLURE’S alawyer in Valdosta, Gawja, drinks branchwater and bourbon under Spanish moss, and does anice imitation of Gregory Peck in “To Kill aMockingbird.” Southern Comfort.

Thirty-five years proffer some change. Of those in attendance, my estimate is about along ton in added weight (why can’t we gain pounds on our ankles, or elbows?), less hard liquor and more wine (if those two un¬ savory party-types attempted to have another entirely-tasteless blast, they’d have to employ stunt doubles), only afew smokers, and some pen¬

chant for reflection. Kind of like: “The first part of our life is over; what are we going to do with the next 25 or 30?”

Change of Address: Sid NEWCOMB, 109 E. 11th St., Elgin, TX 78621. Jerry DAILY N7733 Laura Lane, Elkhorn, WI 53121.

Hanson Scott

1300 Onava Court, NE

Albuquerque, NM 87112

Phone: (505) 293-4486

Percent members: 81

Greetings from New Mexico! Jim WILHELM provided an update of a recent trip that he and Nancy took to attend the birth of their first grand¬ child (Jayme Michelle) in Waco. Son Tom and wife, Kelly, are doing great. While in Texas, Jim and Nancy visited John and Casey GOODLEY. John and Casey were just putting the finishing touches on a beautiful home they were building in Helotes, Texas. John and Casey did alot of the work themselves—Jim says they deserve an “A” in architec¬ ture and decorating. In addition to his “custom-home building,” John stays busy as asubsitute teacher as well as helping the local police. John has been attending evening classes that qualify him to patrol with the cops.

While in San Antonio, the Wilhelms and Goodleys visited Earl and Lucy AMAN. Earl was just finishing atough stay at Wilford Hall—he was admitted for pneumonia. Earl has “Lou Gehrig’s Disease” (ALS). To quote Jim: “Earl is still Earl. Despite the debilitating disease, he still has the same sense of humor we all remember. He is as sharp as ever. The disease has affected his muscular capability and he has lost his voice, so he communicates using an alphabet board.” The enclosed picture cap¬ tures their visit. Thanks for the report, Jim.

Just prior to putting this column in the mail, Icalled Lucy and she said Earl seemed to be doing better the last several days. He will be able to take anew drug that is available for ALS and they have high hopes that it will provide him some relief. Although Earl isn’t able to pick up the phone, he would enjoy hearing from the class. Give him acall (210-646-9458) or drop him anote.

As noted in our earlier column, several members of the class gathered in Utah for some skiing. Bob BRICKEY has announced a“stag” only in¬ vitation for 1996, and the location will be the site of the 2002 Winter Olympics: Snow Basin, Powder Mountain, Park City, Utah. The dates are Feb 23 through 26, 1996. Stu BOYD is also assisting with the ar¬ rangements—anyone interested, contact Bob or Stu.

Ihad atelephone visit with Vic BOUQUET. Vic works for Astrotech, a firm that specializes in processing commercial payloads for space travel. When required, they can also support government customers. Vic is also getting an inside look at local politics—he is running for election to the Santa Maria Public Airport District Board; the board has five members, four-year staggered terms. Membership on this board is also an unpaid position, so Vic is really interested in public service. Vic and Diane have four grandchildren, and one on the way!

Jim DARNAUER reports that he is still working for acontractor which supports the Army. For the last several years, he has been involved as an engineer in avery “hands-on” capacity as his company continues to work on anew weapon system that will be afollow-on to the Army’s Sheridan tank. Joy continues to teach fourth and fifth grades, from predominantly Hispanic families, at alocal elementary school.

Jim Goodley, Jim and Nancy Wilhelm, Lucy Aman, Casey Goodley and Ear! Aman.

Ken Biehle, Vic Yoakum, Deke Johnson, and class president Andi Biancur at the reunion dinner.

Dick COPPOCK sent aletter from Robin Edwards, the niece of Bill Gibbons, who was killed in acar accident on 1-25 before graduation. Dick gave her atour of Doolittle Hall, showed her Bill’s picture in our year¬ book, and helped her find Bill’s name on the Cadet Roll of Honor outside the Catholic Chapel. Robin was very appreciative of Dick’s hospitality, and said that, for Bill’s family, the healing continues.

Other news: Terry STORM passed through Albuquerque afew weeks ago and had his ’79 Camaro clobbered by one of our New Mexico drivers on the interstate (stay off the interstates in Albuquerque!). Terry, Bob, and Barb BOEDECKER, and the SCOTTs went out for some good Mex¬ ican food to help Terry settle down after his ordeal. Last word is that his car is almost repaired and will be better than before.

Here is areport from Paul STEPHEN. Paul and his two brothers have afarm corporation (1,000 acres) outside Martinsville, Illinois—they grow corn and soy beans. One of the brothers is also involved with aresearch farm project. Paul teaches at Eastern Illinois University (business courses), and he is apart owner in an airplane, so he still gets achance to fly occasionally. Paul has been president of the local farm bureau for several years, so he is also experiencing politics at the local level. Paul and Sheila have three daughters—the oldest, Deanna is an instructor of technical services, Deborah (’91) is acaptain at McConnell AFB, and Paula is ajunior in college majoring in accounting.

The latest word on the 35th reunion is that the gang in the Springs will again host aget-together. However, this one will be fairly low key in an¬ ticipation of the 40th. Tentative plans are to have few activities scheduled on afootball week-end next fall. More information will be available in the near future.

As always, Iwould appreciate any news items you can provide for the column. Standing by to copy.

John W. “Jack” Jamba

4Judy Court

SateUite Beach, FL 32937

Home: (407) 777-5520

Office: (407) 861-3519

Percent members: 71

Hi Redtags!

It is September and the weather is still warm here in Florida. But next week Iget to enjoy arespite from it all. Ihave aTDY in Colorado Spr¬ ings. Inever would have imagined that Iwould get aTDY to C-Springs. Plan to vist my stepdaughter and son-in-law and grandkids. Also plan to visit with the local Redtags. Should be afull trip.

Got aletter from Logan BABIN. “On June 10, 1995, Brian CON¬ NERAT’S son Reid was married in New Orleans, LA. Anne and I, along with our daughter were in attendance at the wedding and the weekend of parties, which is the main reason for living in Louisiana. Fran and Brian are Kara’s godparents and we have been trying to get Brian III and Kara interested in each other since birth. We were neighbors at Warner Robins, GA, in 1967. The picture of the formal group was taken at the wedding. I also enclose apicture of Anne’s new Lincoln Town Car with its most ap¬ propriate license plate. Iwonder if it will get me through the gate at our next reunion?

“Other good news of the Babin family. Kara is an architect with the Tuck-Hinton firm in Nashville, and my son, Logan III (Hank), is getting amaster’s degree in business and marketing at Baylor University. He gets his degree in December but will stay an extra semester since he has an in-

Logan Babin Jr. inspects the special license plate on his wife’s car. tern position with the Baylor Athletic Department. It pays his tuition and he markets the girls basketball program. 1will be installed as president of the American Society of Real Estate Counselors (CRE) in Atlanta during our national convention in November. The one-thousand member organization is composed of real estate counselors world wide and is an Institute Af fi liate of the National Association of Realtors.

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Anne has opened adoll house and miniature shop (Anne’s Attic) on the second floor of my real estate office in Houma. As with any small store she has struggled for acouple of years but loves the business. When she starts making enough money to support us, Iplan to retire and devote my life to golf, fishing and duck hunting. Hope to see you at the next reuThanks for the info, Logan. Appreciate the pictures.

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Igot another newsletter from the Concerned Citizens League of Reno, NV. Sam DEHNE wrote another article about the problems that the local Air National Guard unit causes and will continue to cause in the local area. He defends his side of the controversy very well. Thanks for the up¬ date, Sam.

Got acall from George THOMPSON recently. He considers himself a bionic man. He had his second hip replacement this past summer and he is doing well. While he was in Pskov, Russia, last year, he was visited by Warren ROBBINS and either Warren’s son or George’s son and the son’s wife. My notes are not too clear and Iwaited too long to transcribe them. George also had avisit from one of his former colleagues at his old university. George says the students are the same the world over. He en¬ joys them. And he has made some good friends in the school. The pay is not red hot but the psychological payoff is good. He shaved his beard this summer but may regrow it this year.

The Russians are open and friendly and have atouch or flavor of the Oriental. The family is central and important to them. He took the train from Pskov to Estonia and Latvia then to Berlin and Vienna. When he flies back he will retrace his path by train. The exchange rate is 5,000 rubles to the dollar. He said that Alice plans to rejoin him later this year. He lives in afiat that is about 300 square feet. And he feels pretty lucky to have gotten that. Crime is not aproblem. But he did get mugged in St Petersburg last year. He got bopped on the head coming home from the opera. He lost his money and passport and spent four days in the hospital. He said the blow shut his eyes for aday and then gave him black eyes for awhile.

He has access to afax and e-mail. So he expects to have agood year again. Good luck George. Please write sometime this year.

Igot acall from Mary Ann PATRIE early in the summer saying that John CARROLL’S widow, Beverly, was in the terminal stage of pan¬ creatic cancer and was staying with her daughter, Julie. Then Ireceived another phone call in late summer that she had passed away. Mary Ann told me that Beverly never remarried. She went back to school and became alawyer in or near Orange County, CA. Ialso received anotifica¬ tion call from one of John’s fellow Ravens telling me about Beverly’s passing away. She had attended their reunion acouple of years ago. Our deepest sympathies and condolences go to their surviving son and daughter.

Got aletter from Don SHEPPERD just before Istarted preparing this column. Here’s what he said, “Rose and Ijust had agreat two weeks scuba diving in the Cayman Islands with Rudy and Betty BOW. Here’s a picture—Rose and Betty are the ones with muscles and hair. Our kids both fly C-130s. Our son Ty is in Special Ops (AC-130) at Hurlburt. Chris Bow is on his way to Pope. Both Rudy and Iare looking forward to

From left at Reid Connerat’s wedding are Anne Babin, Brian Connerat Jr., Fran Connerat, and Logan Babin Jr.

retirement—as soon as soon as Rose and Betty find good jobs.” Iliked the pictures. Thanks for the news.

Now for some changes of address: Dave LEE has moved from Dayton to Spring Valley, OH. Dick KLASS has changed street addresses in Washington, DC. And Peter ROBINSON has left Maxwell for Albuquer¬ que. Would appreciate anote from all three of you telling me what you’re doing now.

Iguess that’s it for now. Keep the pictures and letters coming. You should receive this issue of Checkpoints by Christmas. If you send a newsletter out for Christmas, please send me one so that Ican fill up the column. Iplan to be on vacation at Christmas time in Colorado Springs. Please send me any info before Christmas. Cheers. Go Redtags!

Norman 1. Lee 111

17532 N.E. 38th Court

Redmond, WA 98052

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

Internet (via Prodigy): HHMM30A® PRODIGY.COM

Percent members; 74

Back in July, Leo THOMAS came home. Amemorial ceremony was held at Arlington Cemetery on the 19th of July and Bud GILLIGAN and Bob VENKUS (e-mail: TheVenk@aol.com) were kind enough to pass on an account of the ceremony for us. General consensus has 19 classmates in attendence including Venk, Bud, Bill BROWNING, Larry EASTMAN, Tony GILL, Dick GUILD, Bob HALL, Jim HANAMAN, Rufus HARRIS, Joe HICKS, Rich OLEAR, Ed ROSENDAHL, Barry WALRATH, Gerald WESTERBECK, Bill EBERT, Dean HESS, Jim BUTT, Steve DOTSON, Pete OGDIBENE and Ron FOGLEMAN. Ron, who acted as spokesman for all Golden Boys, presented flags to Leo’s mother, widow (Kay) and son (Tarlton).

F-16 missing-man flyover. Most importantly, according to Bud, the flyover was on time. That shows you what is possible when the Chief is in attendance.

Leo T. Thomas, III, called “Tarlton” by all, never knew his father but Iget the impression that he was beginning to hear alot about Leo for the first time during and after the ceremony. Given that aclassmate of his father’s, who also happened to be the Air Force Chief of Staff, attended the ceremony, it was rapidly becoming clear that Leo was someone very special. Jim DIFFENDORFER told me he sent anote to Tarlton on behalf of the class.

Butch VERDIER called to suggest those in the class who knew Leo well—and many did—might consider giving Tarlton acall or write him a note telling him some war stories or the like. According to Butch this idea worked well in the past for similar situations. Tarlton’s address is 300 East Broadway, Covington, OH 45318, Telephone (513) 473-2396. This is acommendable idea and Iwant to encourage all those with something to add to this young man’s knowledge of his father to please make the ef¬ fort.

Another note from Bud describes some of his and Jim JAMERSON’s activities with aspecial World War II veterans organization. The Dutch government hosts these veterans every five years to commemorate a special air drop mission to drop food to Dutch citizens during the closing days of WW-II. The air drops were ajoint event by the U.S. Army Air Forces’ 8th Air Force B-17s and RAF Bomber Command Lancasters. The Brits being poets, called their mission “Operation Manna” and the Americans, being doers and not poets, called their missions “Operation Chowhound.” The British and American crews dropped food to starving Dutch citizens during the last 10 days of the war in asecret deal between the Allies and the about-to-surrender German Command. Bud was part of the 1990 event planning while USAF attache to the Netherlands. Jim participated in the 1990 event while USAFE Asst DO. Bud was asked by the veterans group to help plan the 1995 event and Jim—at the time CINCUSAFE—was also asked to participate. They both went back to Rotterdam to attend the 50th anniversary of the air drops this past May and had awondeful time.

Other news from Bud; Jerry ADINOLFI recently arrived in the D.C. area as afinal-year divinity student at the Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria. In order to be ordained in the Episcopal Church, Jerry needed some courses that could only be obtained at an Episcopal Seminary which led him to move to Alexandria. George PASQUET owns/lives on/works afarm in the Winchester, VA area. He raises beef cattle and grows the “whatevers” to feed them. George told Bud the farm is one of the oldest (and one of the original) in that part of Virginia. George is also half-owner in aMeineke Muffler franchise in Winchester.

Ralph WETTERHAHN sent ashort letter with an input about Jimmie BUTLER and Jimmie’s Pikes Peak Writers Conference. Ralph drove over to C-Springs to see “...what all the hubbub was about. Describing the conference as his is intentional. Jimmie has worked hard to put together one of the finest conferences around. The contests, readings with editors, and quality of established writers, editors, and agents is astound¬ ing. Jimmie Butler is the guiding force behind it all with atruly awesome following. Guru would not be an exaggeration.” Ralph explained that he and Carol were also in the writing business. Carol does the editing and Ralph does the “ink.” They have, with help from USC’s Master of Pro¬ fessional Writing Program, been frequent contributors to the Retired Of¬ ficers Magazine (latest June 95) and did the cover story for the July 95 Air &Space, Smithsonian. He was also the tech advisor for Red River Rats, an L.A. play written by Paul Gillette {Camella, Play Misty For Me) that garnered good reviews, was extended through the summer last year, and has been optioned for amovie. Ralph has two novels and two screenplays in the works. Ralph and Carol live in Long Beach, CA.

E-mail: Ken HABEDANK left an e-mail message in my computer. Ken is living in Cairo, Egypt; therefore, Iassume the e-mail was also sent from Cairo. Ken’s e-mail address: Montana27@aol.com. Karen and Ken recently climbed Mt. Sinai—about five hours by car from Cairo. They started at 0200 and climbed with moon light and flashlights until reaching the top at 0500 just in time to see the sun rise. The start is at the 5,000 ft elevation and the top is about 7,400 ft. Ken also reports that two hours further down the road is one of the greatest diving areas in the world at Sharm el Shek. Ken added he visited Harry SNOW’s plant to look at what Harry was trying to do (see the Spring 95 article) and was impressed with what he saw. Ken is enjoying his job which he says is turning out to be his most interesting.

Everyone reported the ceremony was first class all the way: horsedrawn caissons, alarge contingent of the Air Force Band, afull flight of the USAF Honor Guard including a21-gun volley salute element and an

More e-mail; this time from John NEHRING (e-mail:infovest@ix.netcom.com), reporting on his summer activity mostly canoeing and Whitewater rafting. Said he was planning to try the Nolichucky in North¬ western Tennessee. He is also planning to do some backpacking with his son in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado in early August. Last night, as Iwas wrapping this article up, Imade one last check of my mail box

Scuba diving in the Cayman Islands, from left are Rudy and Betty Bow, and Rose and Don Shepperd.

Airforce Chief of Staff Gen. Ronald Fogleman presents flags honor¬ ing Leo Thomas to his family. (U.S. Air Force photo by SrA. Kerry Goerke, courtesy of Bud Gilligan.)

and sure enough, Tom and Angie FRYER had left ashort note. Their e-mail address is fryers@konza.flinthills.com. Tom asked me to send him an e-mail address list which is agood idea. However, deadlines being what they are, and all my e-mail addresses are on post-its hung to the computer monitor, lamp shade, etc., the project will have to be put off for afew days. The Fryers were hooked up to the net as an anniversary present from their son Wesley—a graduate student at Texas Tech. Daughter Trudy left for college this fall—Cottey College in Nevada, MO—leaving Tom and Angie home alone.

Other News: Jim FAIN retired. My sources confirm Jim JAMERSON as deputy CINCEUR. Saw ashort article in the Boeing News where Charles GEBHARDT received an award from Boeing for his work on the AW ACS (E-3). J.J. KENNEDY called to get Jim DIFFENDORFER’s telephone number and make his input on the Cup issue (see Jim’s report below). J.J. is flying the A320 for asupplemental carrier out of Dublin, Ireland which is letting him experience “Fly-by-Wire.” J.J. makes San Antonio home.

Jim DIFFENDORFER drafted up the following report on the Silver Cup Campaign: Deadlines, the scourge of the would-be retired! 1don’t have the information Iwanted for this issue. Progress is slower than an¬ ticipated; however, the important point is we have permission to display the eups in the new AOG building AND you have given me ahuge vote of confidence to “go for it I”. Ireceived 70 letters/notes—every one strongly positive. Thank you for caring and writing. Particularly glad to hear from our four buttons Ron FOGLEMAN and Jim JAMERSON. Jim GASTON has taken the project at the AFA and has been wrangling with the locals to get the project rolling. We’ve been through acouple cabinet makers—too busy, too slow with estimates, etc. We have one on board to do the job. We expect his proposal by the end of September. Construction takes two to three weeks; so we expect to have the cabinet by November.

On another front, Jim is seeking ajeweler to make cup-replacements: (1) for the missing cups, and (2) for those of you who might want to order one for your own use at home. We’re close, but no details yet. Expect to have definite directions on both actions in the winter issue. Have patience lads. We’ve gone 30-1- years without, afew more months should not spoil the stew! Several asked easy questions: (1) to my knowledge, we are the only class to have cups, (2) cups will be displayed up for living, down for deceased and (3) the cups will be secure in the cabinet in the AOG building. Cheers Diff!”

That’s it for now. Isincerely look forward to hearing from everyone out there whether by phone, e-mail or U.S. Mail. Take care.

Bob Hovde

1304 Namassin Road

Alexandria, VA 22308

Home: 703-765-0517

Work: (205) 880-0884

Percent members: 72

Last Minute Addition: The Hovdes are on the move again! After this article was submitted, Iaccepted aposition in Huntsville, AL, with IITRI (the Illinois Institute of Teehnology Research Institute). Iwill be director of Research, Huntsville Operations, managing anew “Information Analysis Center” for modeling and simulation. Right now, there is no staff, so I’m the Center and I’m looking for the excellence. By the time you read this, all will be running smoothly, and Sandy may have even moved to Huntsville.

Change-of-Addres$ cards: Wayne CORDER has moved all the way from Fort Walton Beach to Destin, FL (at least it changed the last number in his ZIP!). Bruce SMITH has returned from Europe to Maxwell AFB, AL. Dick HAWLEY got his fourth star and is in Germany. John GOLDEN moved from Montgomery to Sugar Lard, TX. (I never heard of it either, but that’s what the eard said.) Bob THOMAS also has re¬ turned from Europe and now lives at Shaw AFB, SC, where he is vice commander of 9th Air Force. Finally, Jim HINKEL has moved from Scott AFB to San Antonio, TX.

Air Force Times; Besides Bob THOMAS, noted above, Isaw Nels running’s picture in the Air Force Times. Nels has returned from Korea, and is now the vice commander of the 12th Air Force at DavisMonthan AFB, AZ.

Promotion: Bill SIEG and Paul BELMONT managed to get to Dick HAWLEY’S promotion (see photo). Bill talked the photographer into giving us one of the photos. Itold you last time that by the time you read the September issue, Dick would be at Ramstien running USAFE—and he made it, barely. Due to politics, (the Senate held up promotion lists until the Administration gave them something they wanted) the promotion was several weeks later than had been estimated.

Even afour-star needs help sometimes—General Fogleman, ’63, and Mary Ellen Hawley pin on Dick’s fourth star.

Bill and Ihad lunch (so 1could pick up the photo), and talked about the state of business in this area. We came to the conclusion that with all of the downsizing and funding cutbacks, turmoil was most likely to be the status quo for the next several years. There will be plenty of work to do, but getting on contract to give the right help to the right offices is going to be achallenge. I’m afraid that the government has slipped back into the mind-set that the cheapest labor rate (per hour) the first year of acontract is the only yardstick that matters. (Does it sound like my company just lost abid to someone who bought in?) Oh well. Like Isaid, there are alot of things that need to be done, and fewer and fewer government workers to do them.

Another Promotion: Icalled Brett DULA today to find out what was happening in the IG office. He said he had already been to the tattoo parlor to have apermanent scowl put on his face so he would look like the deputy IG, but that he wouldn’t get to make use of it very long. Brett was just announced for athird star and amove to Langley AFB, where he will take over as vice commander of Air Combat Command from Thad WOLFE on 7Dec. That’s the third vice commander in arow for ’64. (Steve CROKER was the first, along with having been the interim com¬ mander while ACC was being formed.) With both Brett and Thad having been on the varsity wrestling team, Iguess they just can’t “wrestle” the job away from ’64!

Brett’s son Mason is athird classman now, and is askydiver with the Academy’s Wings of Blue. Brett is hoping that he will be able to perform for the Navy game in October. (A third classman? Not achance!)

Thad’s farewell dinner is scheduled for 6Dec, with the retirement ceremony on 7Dec. I’ll report on it in next issue. At this point, Thad has aretirement wish list that includes most of the country and almost any job. Maybe by December he’ll have narrowed it down.

Hal WATSON e-mailed me acorrection to the last article. He said that they had agreat time at the GREGORY’S party, but that my trusty reporter needs to take better notes. Hal continues, “About my occupa¬ tion, the next time you fly through Worcester, MA; Ft Meyers, FL; Oklahoma City, Reno, Las Vegas, Phoenix, Oakland, etc, you had better hope that Iam not in the commercial air conditioning servicing business. At each of those locations, we provide the into-plane fuel service for the airlines, plus we run FBOs at Worcester and the old Air Force bases at Williams and George (about to open soon). I’m the president of DynAir Fueling and we handled about abillion and ahalf gallons of jet fuel last year. In fact, we are moving again, the fifth time in five years as acivilian, the 23rd overall. I’m going back to Texas to return to our parent corpora¬ tion, DynCorp. Our new address will be in Weatherford, Texas.”

That’s all for now. Keep those cards and letters coming. Check six!

Rod Rodman

RR #1, Box 331 Pownal, VT 05261 (802) 823-7789

Percent members: 71 Vi

Greetings once again from the Green Mountain State. It’s been ahot, dry summer in normally cool, rainy Vermont. This has not set well with the black bear population in the area. It seems that the bears got up too

early last spring due to the warm weather and could not find any berries to eat due to the drought. So, they have done the next best thing, come in and ravaged our bird feeders. It’s pretty exciting to see abig black bear climbing atree 20 feet outside your bedroom window. Next our cata¬ mounts (mountain lions) may return!

On with the news. Mike SHORT sent along anote and picture. Mike said that Mike RYAN offered to keep him gainfully employed as chief of staff of Allied Air Forces Southern Europe in Naples, which Mike Ryan commands. In the picture Mike, left, and son Chris, ’89, pin gold bars on daughter Jennifer, adistinguished graduate from OTS. These are the same bars that Mike’s dad pinned on him back in 1965.

John BLAHA, training in Russia for aMir Space Station stint, gave me acall in June while he and Brenda were home for John to train in Houston. John is due to launch for Mir in our shuttle in December 1996. He said the Russians are quite advanced in the understanding of longduration space flight and that the Mir is ahighly sophisticated apparatus. In the picture are John, front left. Cosmonaut Vasiliy Tsibliev, U.S. Astronaut Shannon Lucid, and some of the Russian support crew.

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NELSON, enjoying recent retirement; Vic GRAZIER, staff member with the Association for Christian Conferences, Teaching and Service; and Guy ENGLER, working with the local office of TASC. (Joe assumes I know what all these acronyms mean?) Missing from the group was Larry FARRELL, off on business as vice commander at Hq AFMC.

It seems John SIDOR went flying with afriend of his, Doug McNutt, the owner of atwin-engine Piper. Doug thought it would be fun to turn off one of the engines for John, flying in the left seat, to see what it was like. John, never having the opportunity to do this with Air Force iron, said sure. This was in the C-Springs area. Alas, when the engine wouldn’t restart and the plane couldn’t maintain enough altitude to get back to the airport, John got to practice aforced landing for real. Only pride and the aircraft were injured. Enough said, John!

Ron FLAKE, promising to keep the intel coming, passed on the follow¬ ing. Ron, Barry BLACKMAN, Bob FOERESTER, John SIDOR, and Jim SPITTLER attended Bob GIFFEN’s retirement ceremony at USAFA in May. Bob was promoted to brigadier and awarded his second Legion of Merit. Bob then hosted an evening of eating, drinking, dancing, and gambling in Cripple Creek for some 70 guests. Ron said anumber of cur¬ rent and former astro students and faculty attended the ceremony from all over the world, atribute to Bob and the mark he has left on the Air Force. Ron and Skip COX attended the retirement ceremony for Tom GORGES, also in May, at Brooks AFB. Tom was awarded his second Legion of Merit and received congratulatory letters from the Governor of Kansas and President Clinton. Tom was commander of the Air Force Center for Environmental Excellence.

Joe Koenig asked me how Iended up in Vermont. We live in arather idyllic spot bordering New York and Massachussetts, which John Blaha called Walden Pond. It was asummer camp owned by Judi’s parents, which we enlarged and winterized. It’s agreat place to get away from it all, but not such agreat place to find meaningful employment or the type of camaraderie Ienjoyed at USAFA and Judi and Ienjoyed with the Air Force. We keep threatening to move to Florida, and may yet.

For your information, the suspense for writing this column is about the time the previous magazine comes out, early March, June, September, and December. That’s why some of the information may seem dated. I can submit three pictures for each issue. Ienjoy seeing pictures of old classmates and friends, so, if you do also, send some along. Thanks to all who contributed to this issue. Iprobably won’t have been at the reunion, so Ihope it was afun time for all. Until next time, so long from Vermont.

Address Changes: James BEAVERS to P.O. Box 1719, Goldenrod, FL 32733; Tad OELSTROM to 3AF/CC, PSC 37, APO AE 09459; John TANKERSLEY to 224 Munger Avenue SW, Birmingham, AL 35211.

Ryan Denny

NJoe KOENIG sent along news and pictures of apractice reunion held by the Dayton, OH ’65ers in June. From left are Jim TURINETTI, VP for the local office of SAIC and Fairborn city councilman;

applied

1210 Applewhite Road O’Fallon, IL 62269

Home: (618) 624-4255

Work: (314) 233-3415

E-mail: 74552,336@Compuserve

Percent members: 72

Season’s Greetings Redtags! Just in case you forgot, this counts as my annual Christmas card to you all. So each of you send me acopy of that computer-generated form letter that you are putting in your Christmas cards this year, and I’ll consider us even. I’ll give you ashort update on the DENNYs, so you’ll know this is aChristmas card. I’m still working for McDonnell Douglas in St. Louis, managing apart of the T-IA pro¬ gram. Ienjoy the work and get to travel to most of AETC’s pilot training bases, including Randolph AFB. So, if you live around one of those places, keep some beer cold because Imight just drop in on you someday. My lovely wife, Connie, is working in civilian personnel at Scott AFB, and my lovely kids (13, 15, 20) are working on college scholarships or reform school, depending on the day of the week.

Dan CECIL sent me ashort note, telling about his new life in Colorado Springs. After Dan retired from his last assignment in Germany, he moved to Texas and started looking for some kind of job that would help support all those kids of his. Tom BRANDON talked to him about work¬ ing for United Airlines, and Dan is now teaching academics on the B737-300 at the United Airlines schoolhouse in Denver. It shows that we’ve got apretty good network of ’66 Redtags out there, and it helps to use it.

Dan says there are lots of you guys living in the Colorado Springs area. He mentioned that Ross and Sue GUBSER live in abeautiful house near the Broadmoor. Ross is working (flying, Iassume) for United Airlines. Coincidentally, another classmate. Dale ELLIOTT, called the other day and said that he had been at agreat party at the Gubser’s just afew weeks before. I’m sure Ross took afew pictures and will send them to me in time

Joe KOENIG, high school

physics teacher; John HUSEMANN, contract manager for the Western Ohio Rural Federation Vocational Rehabilita¬ tion Team; Roy BRIDGES, director of requirements at Hq AFMC; Curt

for the next article. Dale is living near Denver and runs his own specialty beer import and distributorship. It sounds like agreat job to me, but Dale said that starting up your own business is alot harder than all the books say it is. We also talked about arecent article in the Checkpoints that described how most of the classes at USAFA had “shuffled” (swapped squadrons) at least once during their four years. Although we had some minor redistributions, the Class of ’66 was one of the very few classes that stayed in the same squadron all four years. Ithink it was agood idea (in spite of the official position) because of the strong friendships that developed during that time.

The real reason that Dale called was to tell me about an Alumni vs. Varsity soccer game that he attended during the summer. Dale didn’t mention whether he played or watched, but he did have astory about one of his soccer teammates, Jim THAMES. Unlike some of us, Jim seems to have stayed in great shape. He played most of the first half, running like a 20-year-old, and then scored abeautiful goal on the Varsity ’keeper. Dale said, “Once again, youth and enthusiasm were overcome by experience and treachery.

Th5re was apretty good picture of Tom MARKHAM in the August 7th Air Force Times. He was helping plan the future of the former Lowry Air Force Base that had been closed in one of the recent rounds of base clos¬ ings. Iran into Bob JAHNKE at aDaedalian golf tournament at Scott AFB afew months ago. He is aprogram manager for simulator visual systems for Evans and Sutherland in Salt Lake City. We sat on the patio, watched the sun go down, and bored his coworkers with stories about you guys.

Ron SCHILLEREFF has moved from Sherman, TX to Singapore. The card didn’t say what he was doing, but Ron has aPhD in finance and has worked in awide variety of banking and financial positions for the last 20 years. He is probably trying to buy wbat’s left of Bartons Bank after that young British aceount manager lost most of their money last year. Another card says that John MCBROOME (another great soccer player) has moved from Fort Collins to Loveland, CO. The card didn’t say what he was doing, so I’ll leave it up to your imagination to figure out what kind of mischief he is up to. Remember, the AOG sends me your changeof-address cards; so put alittle note on them, or I’ll make up something rude about you.

By the time you read this, we should have started to get some informa¬ tion about the 30th Reunion. The last information Ihad was that the Gang of Four” had narrowed the time frame down to some time in 1996 and the location to Colorado. (I’m probably part of the 10 percent, but that’s all Iknow.) Plan on going—we’ll have acontest to see who has lost the most hair and gained the most weight. 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: 63

Hola, from the land of chile ristras, and cactus, and beer and margaritas, and hot air baloons, and hot air in general...Life is good here in New Mexico. But it has been avery long, hot summer.

Had agreat letter from Chuck BEATTIE, still living south of D.C.’s National Airport in Virginia and flying aB-727, now for U.S. Air Shuttle, his third airline. Frau Paula is anurse anesthetist, working part time at Alexandria Hospital. Chuck has anumber of grad contacts in the D.C. area—one of them came about by accident recently: it seems that a number of ’67 grads have kids going to the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology. Dan TWOMEY’s son Robert and Chuck’s son Mark—chips off very old lacrosse-playing blocks—both play lacrosse there. Chuck was watching arecent practice and noticed apair of AF lacrosse shorts on aplayer, and told the kid he liked the shorts. While that comment could get him arrested in some areas, instead the player said that his father had gone to USAFA. Chuck said he had too, and in¬ quired about the player’s father’s graduating class...The answer? “...67...” The player was Dan SCOFIELD’S son Jeff. And now the Twoneys, Scofields and Beatties are the hard-core cheering section for the TJ team. Chuck had also seen Smokey Mel GREENE and his spouse, Jill, and Mike FRANCISCO, and sees Ted LEGASEY throughout the year.

Afew odds and ends from here and there. First came anice albeit very brief phone call from Pat FINNEGAN’S wife, Jon. Pat retired afew years back and now flies for Southern Air Transport. Ed GUNTER is a chief pilot for Petra Aviation in Seguin, TX, and is ahappy guy. He describes flying 50-70 hours/month, performing avariety of services in a variety of aircraft. Best of all: he lives on alake (McQueeney), fishes from

his home, and caught two eight-lb bass in his back yard this spring. He says he“...hasn’t had this much fun since (he) was alieutenant!” And the AOG move info: Jud BARNES moved from Texas to Mountain Home, ID; Ron BRADLEY from Austin to Hewitt, TX; Mike GILES from Texas to Stamford, CT; and Ron WILBANKS down the road to David¬ son, NC.

Bill HALL and Igot our communiques together again in late June. He has as usual kept up with his CS-07 wild bunch. George FRUSHOUR is still holding down the embassy fort in Oslo. George and family celebrated son Stuart’s 17th birthday by sailing on the fjord with afriend, then din¬ ing on fresh crab. Ho-hum, just another lousy day in Norway. Jerry and Julie WENNER visited their daughter Julie at the military medical school at Bethesda, MD, where she is an Army 2Lt and third-year med student, on their way to Jerry’s family in L.A. Jerry still flies for Delta and lives in Park City, UT. Thanks, Bill, for your info.

Ifinally made contact with Dick TEBAY, who has been stationed here at Kirtland at the Phillips Laboratory for the past three years, heading up development of the airborne laser weapon system. That is the weapon system designed to detect and kill at long distance enemy theater ballistic missiles when they are still in their boost phase, via multi-megawatt laser from a747. Dick’s work involves directing and coordinating the Phillips lab’s PhDs and technological assets, and working with Boeing and Rockwell representatives who are vying for an eight or nine $$$ digit con¬ tract. Ispoke with him during one of his infrequent times here at Kirtland. Much of his work in D.C. The program has extreme top-level interest now, and it is expected to grow. Dick came here following eight years at Wright-Pat where he worked anumber of weapon system upgrade programs for the B-52, B-1, and B-2, along with developing automated mission planning programs. His 26-year-old son works in Wilmington, NC, and the rest of the family—wife, Jean, and daughters Lauren (14) and Shannon (9), are happily settled in Albuquerque. Dick has had some contact with Tom MENZA, who retired from the USAF about five years ago and then went to law school. Tom is practicing law in Colorado Springs.

There are probably quite anumber of us who have felt that USAFA started going to hell in ’68 when it seemed that the class and every subse¬ quent one just didn’t have all capabilities, all the talents, all the other wherewithal that the Class of ’67 had, and has...That of course, is all true, as any of us impartial folk can attest. But Iam pleased to acknowledge that there are awhole lot of folks out there who followed us who are doing well, and representing the Academy well, in their day-today jobs. Most recently Isaw this demonstrated at Tyndall AFB, where I was heading up ateam performing an IG inspection. Two of the very sharp junior officers there, who gave some very impressive briefings and were acknowledged as being key people in the organization, were pointed out as being recent AFA grads.

In my travels Ihave time and time again come across individuals who have been exceptional in one positive way or another. In discussion with commanders, any number of times the commanders have noted with pride that the individuals are Academy grads. My impression is that in the operational Air Force there is still an expectation that grads will be a“cut above” the pack, and that expectation is being met. That is areal tribute to the institution. It is not the same place we went to all those years ago—society and the military have changed. But it is reassuring to me that the Academy continues to produce troops who are recognized by their good work as being extra sharp. Not as sharp as we were, of course, but sharp nonetheless...

Incidentally, this recent Air Force birthday celebrated tbe 48th...Do you recall the “Sweet 16” celebration (and “checkpoints” item) when we were doolies? How time fl ies.

Final comment: Ithink we all saw or heard the news reports of the death of Joe KRUZEL in Bosnia, striving to bring peace to that tragic morass. Ididn’t know Joe well at the Academy—different squadrons, different activities and different area in the academic spectrum—but I knew well his achievements, both at USAFA and since, most recently his service as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense. In his eulogy Ibelieve “service” is the operative word: he died in service to his country.

Keep in touch—adios, till next time.

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Tim Davidson

9712 Hidden Valley Road

Vienna, VA 22181

Home: (703) 255-5313

Percent Members: 66

HELLO ’68! Given the months between deadlines to submit this col¬ umn and the time that you actually receive it, please accept sincere wishes for warm seasons greetings and many good wishes for aglorious 1996.

PROMISES KEPT DEPT: As you may recall from my last column, I promised that Iwould try to get apicture of Tony ROBERTSON on a very special day in June when he received his third star. In this case, as many times in life, apicture is worth athousand words.

Tony Robertson enjoying aJoyous occasion with Brenda, Jason, Sean, and one each Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Shalikashvili.

BACK TO THE FILES DEPT: Iam not complaining, mind you, but if it were not for some correspondence received several months ago, there would not be much class news to pass on in the fall column. Let’s get those word processors, pens, pencils, crayons, and/or markers moving again gang and let me hear from you.

For those who were unaware, Iam happy to report that Elizabeth LINSMAYER has remarried and now shares young Robbie’s love with her new husband, Quentin Johnson. Elizabeth and family have set up new beginnings for their lives in Scottsdale, AZ. Amuch belated, but sincere congratulations, Elizabeth and Quent, and best wishes for many happy years to come.

Bob told me of Bobby FLOYD’s and Mark TORREANO’s return to the D.C. area. At Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC): Saw Tom O’BEIRNE and Dan BUCHHIONI from our class and my fellow scribe from the Class of ’69, Lindsey PARRIS. While on business to Patch Barracks, Stuttgart, Germany: Saw Charlie COOLIDGE who was heading up U.S. airlift efforts to Bosnia.

SWEET VICTORY DEPT: While visiting my daughter Melissa, who is now in her senior year at USAFA, Lisa and Iwere able to watch the Fighting Falcons put on an absolutely lethal offensive and defensive display against ahapless Cougar team from BYU. The final tally was 38-12 and ended a12-year drought where BYU dominated the statitics and the scoreboard over USAFA. Ah yes, sports fans, it was avery sweet victory.

’68 SPOTLIGHT

The ’68 spotlight for the Fall 1995 column features Steve STALEY. Following the Academy, Steve went to pilot training at Craig AFB and then served as aT-41 instructor pilot at Peterson Field. He completed a stint in Southeast Asia at Takhli Royal Thai AB and returned to USAFA in 1974 as afaculty member in the Department of English. After 14 years, he rose to the position of assistant dean of faculty and then decided to ac¬ cept an assignment as professor of Strategy and Policy at the U.S. Naval War College in 1988. In addition to his teaching responsibilities, Steve also found time to serve as aresearch fellow at the UN International Peace Academy.

Elizabeth and Quentin Johnson and Robbie Linsmayer enjoying their new beginnings.

In apatriotic letter (written on the 4th of July), Hal HIGLEY sent an update to his latest correspondence and appears to be having abanner year. Daughter Beckie graduated from high school and Hal completed his transition to the 757/767 right seat. He said that he is really enjoying hav¬ ing awindow seat again. Oldest son. Hap, is getting married in the fall and youngest son, Joel, is heading to Del Rio, TX for pilot training in March 1996 after successfully completing his college education at aplace we all know and love 13 miles north of Colorado Springs.

BUMPED INTO DEPT: In the halls of the Pentagon: Saw Bill BEGGERT on his way to aretirement ceremony for one of his friends; and Bob JOHNSTON, who is anew guy in Ed EBERHART’s “XO shop.”

Afamily portrait: Steve and Connie Staley with daughters Stephanie and Shannon.

Given this rich background along with aPh.D. in English, books writ¬ ten by himself and with his lovely wife, Connie, and time in the corporate world as director of Educational Development for Total Multimedia, Inc. it should probably be apparent to you that this is the profile of someone who is on the way up. The Fulbright Scholarship Committee also shared this opinion and recently awarded Steve aFulbright Scholarship. Steve is now in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan—one of the newly independent states of the old Soviet Union—with duties to teach at the Kyrgyz State University’s Kyrgyz-American School.

When asked what the Academy meant to him, Steve said the “Academy constitutes atremendous chunk of my life. Four years as a

The Higley family celebrating another USAFA graduation. From left: Beckie, Kathi, Joel (Class of "95), Hal (a "68 WAG), and Betty Higley (Hal’s mom).

cadet, three years as aT-41 instructor pilot, and 14 years on the faeulty—in and out of grad school—the process of giving to and taking from the Academy has oeeupied agood deal of my adult life.. .The friend¬ ships forged during doolie summer, later in squadrons, on survival in Jack’s Valley, in class, in the Chorale, roommates, and teammates all re¬ main powerful in both my memories and my day-to-day reality.”

In discussing lessons learned in life, Steve said, “Friendships and com¬ mitments and duty and integrity make for amessy partership sometimes. The world isn’t clean, and we do our best to live in that messy world, maintaining our friendships and loyalties and integrity. Sometimes these greater goods elash, and we have to make tough ehoices. The ‘gray areas’ we used to discuss during honor code meetings are real and pervasive. Good guys don’t always win, but the good inside you does. The spirit of the Air Force—and the Academy—is sometimes bigger and better than the real thing. So perhaps it is to the spirit of the place that we owe our allegiance.”

Thanks for your views, Steve, and ahearty ’68 congratulations on your Fulbright!

’68ers ON THE MOVE: Duey CLAWSON to St. Petersburg, FL; Bob DENNY to Colorado Springs; Buck MCCANTS to Spring fi eld, VA; Mike PHILLIPS to Pittsburgh, PA; and Jim WIGGINS to MeComb, MS.

That’s all the news that’s fit to print. Lisa and Iwish you agreat holi¬ day season. Until next time...mind the flak; keep ’em flying; and keep those eards, letters, and photos coming in.

Lindsey Parris

5926 Colfax Ave.

Alexandria, VA 22311

Home; (703) 998-0488

Percent Members: 62

Isuppose Happy Holidays is the correct greeting, though as of this writing, the pigskins have only begun to fill the air, the Red Sox are luring the faithful down the road to another letdown, and the frost hasn’t come near apumpkin. By this time, may the Falcons have copped another Commander’s Trophy and be heading to aBowl. On with the news.

Had anice talk with Jack NADOLSKI, though on atragic subject. His only daughter, Sarah, was killed in June. Condolenees to Jack at 1294 Dunbarton Drive, Aurora, IL 60504. Telephone: 708-820-2076. May the Lord bless.

Jack says he is in regular contaet with Terry LOOMY, afree-lance photographer who has recently returned from aseveral-month stint in Saudi Arabia helping the Saudis with aerial photography stuff. He also sees Johnny RILEY on occasion. Johnny has built adream home in Belchertown, MA, fills his avocational time with scuba diving (which prompts him to have dream house #2 in the offing, in Florida, though a few years hence), and is flying for the Reserves (C-5s out of Westover, where as director of training he runs simulators).

Mike ROSE sent along apackage of information and newspaper clip¬ pings regarding his involvement with Excel Telecommunications, a privately-held long-distance carrier founded in 1988. The company features amulti-level marketing plan centered on discount telephone rates. Mike and wife, Vivian, are executive directors/national training directors for Excel.

Walter BERG has returned to the CONUS, and now resides in Boiling Springs, PA. Tom KECK has relocated from Offutt AFB to Panama, where he is the deputy director for Strategy, Policy, and Plans for SouthCom (SC/J-5). If you are near Quarry Heights, give him aring. Ojala que tenga mucho exito ahi, Senor Keek.

Washington comings and goings were particularly heavy over the sum¬ mer. Tom CASE has relocated to the D.C. area, lives in Springfield, VA, and is the director of Modeling, Simulation and Analysis in the office of AF Plans and Operations (XOM). Bill GREEN left Burke, VA for the en¬ virons of O’Fallon, IL. Jim DONNELLY also departed Springfield, but for another Virginia address, in Waynesboro. Tip OSTERTHALER, formerly the vice commander for the Air Intelligence Agency at Kelly AFB, is now the principal director, European and NATO Affairs, office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs in the Pentagon.

A1MCCREE, he of songs and speeehes, passes along the following in¬ sight for those of us who may find ourselves follieularly challenged (who? we 48-year-olds?): “Balding is not about production, but distribution. This strikes abalding eagle with peculiar force every time he shaves.

Ralph FREEMAN was to have completed his through-hike of the Ap¬ palachian Trail three days ago, on 17 Sept. How did it go, Ralph?

Mike BEEZLEY, Les DYER, Roy COPPINGER, Bugs FORSYTHE, Kit BUSCHING and Imet in Idaho for the annual trip down the Middle Fork. With the heavy snowfall this year, water levels were roaring. It was acold, wet group that joyfully played pool late into the night of the day of the take-out and golf the next day in sunny Boise. The enelosed picture records the event.

Stuck for some last minute Christmas shopping ideas? Bugs passes along this very hot, hot, hot CD tip: “Common Thread: The Songs of the Eagles,” in which country western stars sing the songs on which we collec¬ tively cut our teeth. He assures that the CD is not like listening to the Beach Boys do James Brown or Boyz2Men do Mozart. If you don’t have it yet, then perhaps Bugs will send you one, eleemosynary chap that he is.

Recall the admonition from Guys and Dolls that, when someone ap¬ proaches you with afreshly-sealed deck of cards and wants to bet you that the jack of spades will jump out and spit apple cider in you ear, don’t take the bet? Well, you’re likely to end up with an earful of cider if you play Les at Links386 computer golf. When not flying for Delta or planning for the new home he and Connie are building, or licking the wounds from a rafting trip, Les has been known to weild amouse very neatly around the myriad of courses Links offers. If you want to practice up and give him a challenge, he is on CompuServe. Beware of the Royal and Quite Old Rules of Links386 Golf, however, especially the ones relating to minimum blood-alcohol levels and maximum sleep deprivation.

Roy also has the moving bug, and is now agentleman farmer on a 30-acre spread near Portland, OR, complete with tractor (powered no doubt by an Intel 686 chip). Though Roy with aJohn Deere hat is in fact tantamount to the Beach Boys doing James Brown, we’ll all know where to migrate should anuclear winter futurist scenario befall us in the next 30 years. Save us campsites, Roy.

In August, Ispent almost amonth in South Africa, working with two others under contract to the United Nations on amanual for municipal leaders interested in stemming systemic corruption. We did acall-in radio show beamed throughout South Africa on the same subject, which was a kick.

But the one activity worth serious recounting was the short trip to Umfolozi game preserve. It being winter there, foliage was at its yearly low (as were mosquitoes and ticks!), and opportunities to see big game animals, more predictable in their travels for water, were numerous. Largely on aself-guided trek in afour-wheeler on reasonable dirt roads, we saw the expected profusion of impalas, nyalas, waterboks, spring¬ boks, gemsboks, vervet monkeys, zebras, baboons, giraffes, warthogs, etc. In addition, we counted some 60 white rhinos, spied areclusive leopard from 1/8 mile, and watched two giraffes foreplaying beside an umbrella thorn tree under aone-day-shy-of-full moon.

As you know, Iseldom recount anything personal in this column, preferring to concentrate the Class’ limited amount of space on the tidbits of information you all send along (however sparse thay may be! that’s a hint!) about ’69ers outside my routine orbit. Ibring this up only because the big game trip is something to consider putting on your list as a“mustdo”—who knows how much longer these magnificent animals will sur¬ vive the ever-encroaching pressure from humankind. It’s neither expen¬ sive not difficult to arrange. “If you like this sort of thing, then this is the sort of thing you’d like,” quoteth some great American.

Do send cards and letters. Or, catch me on e-mail (through COM¬ PUSERVE number 102177.1033). Cards and letters still preferred! Root for the old home team. And may your days be filled with bright colors, good times, and good friends, especially classmates. Cheers. Lindsey.

\TDFRJ

Tony Marietta

1070 Knollwood Circle

Monument, CO 80132

Home: (719) 488-3201

Work: (719) 593-8888

Home Fax: (719) 481-8768

Percent members: 63

Since my editor has graciously granted us aspecial ’70 reunion section in this issue, Iwill make this section short and sweet.

Dana ARBAUGH sent me agreat letter and pictures just after my last column’s deadline. Sorry for the delay, Dana, but 1didn’t forget you. Dana is the sales manager for MWT in Fremont, CA. His company is in¬ volved with microwave components, including those on the fringes of complex space exploration, and perhaps those that just burned your microwave popcorn. Dana is also an Academy LO (retired 0-5). Dana sends apicture of Chuck REED and his daughter Kim together with Dana and his two local appointees. Josh Davis and Huy Huynh (Dana is the older guy on the far right). Kim is ajunior and will be on Wing Staff (like father, like daughter). Dana says that Chuck and wife, Paula, and Dana and his wife, Linda, work and play hard out in sunny California. Dana emphasized the word play with bright orange highlighter. Both couples celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary in June. Congratulations! Dana says they see Tony and Judy DESANTIS on aregular basis. Tony flies for American as avery senior captain, which means he needs glasses, doesn’t fly much, but makes lots of money. Dana visited with John and Carol HATELID and their two great kids. John is aretired 0-5 and has a super second career with Motorola in the Phoenix area. Thanks for all of the info, Dana.

IPast, present, and future Zoomies.

Italked with Carroll HONEYCUTT for approximately 10 seconds on my way out the door. Itold him Iwould call him back. Fortunately for me, Ididn’t tell him what month. Sorry Carroll, Iwill get back to you. In the meantime, send me some info and pictures.

Talked with Dave GAW who flies with American, and he filled me in on afew guys: Gary DAHLEN is afull bird working in the space business with Unified Space Command at Peterson AFB in Colorado Springs. Bob MAC is in Parker, CO flying with Northwest. Mike BROWN, Charlie STUMB (Dave sponsors Charlie’s son, Garrett, who is at the AFA), and Paul BICKLE all fly with American, and Jeff NOE is with American management. Dave said all of his children are doing great, and he pro¬ mised he would send me pictures to prove that.

MOVING VANS: Local moves for Michael HARPER in Albuquerque, NM, Michael ROSE in Colorado Springs, and Brian BELL in Tucson, AZ. Dale SMITH from Ohio to Beale AFB, CA. Alan SIMONCIC be¬ tween APOs, Gary SCHMIDT from Honolulu to San Antonio. Harold STRITTMATTER from Niceville, FL (somehow he didn’t quite fit in) to Ft Walton Beach, FL. Ralph SAUNDERS, Jr. from Yigo, Guam to Springfield, VA. Roy ALMEIDA from Clinton, MD to Cheyenne, WY. Don’t forget to check out the reunion story in this magazine. THANKS FOR ALL THE INFO!

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Paul D. Knott

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Percent members: 50

By the time you read this column, the football season will be over, but the start was as fine as any Ican remember. BYU and Wyoming beat by the Falcons! Who woulda thunk it?

One day last summer, after Ihad delivered the fall column, Idecided to take acloser look at the building the Association of Graduates (we) had built. Istruck up aconversation with the receptionist, and mentioned that Iwas a’71 grad. She said her name was Judy Cutter, and that she is Larry FIDLER’s widow. She has since remarried and is doing well with family and helping out the graduate community. If you sent ason or daughter to the Class of 1999, Judy’s face was one of the friendlier ones that they saw. Losing aloved one isn’t easy, whether that loved one is afriend, aparent, or—worst of all—a child. Judy wants to make sure that those of you who helped or thought of her and the rest of Larry’s family are still fondly remembered.

Belated congratulations to John BLIND, whose son graduated in the Class of ’95. John has the right idea of what to do with ayoung lieutenant temporarily in the local area; he rented him ahouse. John mentioned that John HIGGINS intends to retire this fall.

The following “live” football report is direct from the genius of Dan DEVINE and the Mac of Jon WROBLEWSKI:

“The highlight of the CSU-AFA game on 16 Sept was the informal reu¬ nion at Jon (Jayne) WROBLEWSKI’s home with amillion-dollar view of Pikes Peak. Ex-roomo Dan (Lia) DEVINE represented CSU, his latest alma mater. Dan is furthering his civilian career in Ft. Collins. He used to pass gas as an HC-135 pilot; now he’s working with municipal wastewater (not abig jump) as an environmental engineer. Dan’s engineering firm recently renewed aseven-year contract with USAFA to be their official “diggers-n-fillers” engineers. Let’s see, Dan—not sure that’s aclaim to fame. Sam CLOVIS, who unfortunately appeared in his colonel costume, had official duties right after the brunch. Currently starring as the IG at Peterson for the U.S. Space Command/NORAD, he recounted arecent phone call from his 3rd Degree son: ‘Dad, what did you get on the PFT?’ Sam replied: ‘385—what did you do?’ Son says, ‘388—(click).’ Sam’s wife, Laveta, says ‘We’re staying here forever.’

“Andy CERONI, with his wonderful bride of June Week, Trudi, (Scribe note: check photo for proof of the comment in the last column.) reminded Sam that he would have made general if he played more golf and brown-nosed Gen. Gabriel. Andy also bought season tickets to the Academy games in May before he retired—‘When Ihad some money.’ Andy is working for MSM as ablack-badge consultant and uses creden¬ tials signed by the SecAF. Sounds like Andy is in the Ramparts indefinite¬ ly, too.

“Paul KNOTT retold war stories of England Olde; he landed in Bentwaters, England, and Robin Olds was there to greet him with Olds’ familiar ‘You’re Number One in My Life’ salute. Later in the bar, they also practiced the Fighter Pilot Sweep to teach the newbee lieutenants. Andrea had to sit between Paul and his CSU student daughter, Paulette, during the game. (Scribe note: Mike and Matt GEBHARDT had the same dilemma.) Paulette’s gift to Paul was a“CSU Dad” cap, which he was nice enough to wear.

“Jon ‘Wrobo’ is still home-brewing his award-winning Trapper

Brunch at Cafe Wrobo: From left are Andy and Trudi, Dan, Laveta, Jayne, Sam, and Wrobo.

Jayne’s Trail Ale. He also has finished his long-suffering MBA after three colleges (UCCS, Boston College, George Washington, UCCS) 14 years, 28 courses, and 82 credits (Wrobo transferred alot in civilian life). After his record at the Zoo, he figures he’s still on Ac Pro. Wrobo works for Highway Helper ‘CACI’ now. When asked by his boss what it takes to make it through the Academy, he replied; ‘Being ornery helps.’

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Rich SHANNON is doing agreat job as the head dude of the Utilities Division for the City of Ft. Collins. Rich FISHER just finished the Naval (?) War College in Newport, RI, as aReserve guy. He works in the U.S. Forest Service in Ft. Collins. Dr. Hank THODE, aradiologist in Loveland, confirms he’s still abachelor. Finally, Wayne BROTHERS, plant manager of Teledyne WaterPik in Ft. Collins, has invited all grads to apot-puck brunch at his home for the next fall’s AFA-CSU foobaw game.

Thanks for the work, guys. Aspecial thank you to Jon and Jayne for opening their house up for amost excellent morning of food and friend¬ ship.

Jim NANCE has followed Cliff CHRISTENSEN’S lead in writing his first letter to the column, but othewrwise he is doing something unique in the class. Those of you who hang around airports may have run into Jim in the past when he flew for Hughes, then Republic, and finally North¬ west (MD-80 out of Minneapolis). In 1993 he suffered a“flying accident”; he flew off the roof while cleaning arain gutter and made a “respectable dent in the asphalt and earned me arichly-deserved concus¬ sion.” As many of you know (some of us from experience), the FAA doesn’t look kindly upon aircrews with head trauma, especially vertigo and memory loss, so Jim may be the first Class of ’71 retiree from the airlines.

With no job-related reason to stay in Minnesota, Jim and his bride of 14 years, Jeanne, moved to Loveland to be near his third love, sculpture. Jim had taken some classes and discovered that he “had some talent” for it, and had even done some portraits of friends and colleagues. Now, in Loveland, he has even been exhibited! His biggest success to date is apair of busts of Abraham Lincoln for the National Park Service, which is now available in alimited edition. If any of you airline pilots, lawyers, or anyone with afour-figure weekly income wish to invest in Jim’s work, let me know and I’ll gladly pass on your names and gold MasterCard numbers on to him. For asmall fee, you may even have acopy of his brochure. The original stays with me until Ican afford to have one of his creations in my house.

For those of you in the local area, Dave FROSTMAN is president of the Colorado Air Force Academy Society, and I’m on the board of direc¬ tors of the Rampart Chapter of the AOG. If you are interested in joining either organization, drop me aline and I’ll be more than happy to let you know what we’re doing. Dues for the Rampart Chapter are only $10/year, and you get aspiffy newsletter quarterly and the opportunity to network with other grads who stand ready to help you with finding ajob, ahouse, or aprofessional you can trust. Try us out. You might like what you see and hear.

Bob Bell

13 Paci fi c Ave.

Sinking Spring, PA 19608

Home: (610) 678-3182

E-mail: galaxy95@aol.com or 72260,3514@ CompuServe. com

Percent Members: 50

Greetings of the season to all of you reading this in December. Since the magazine timeline is several months ahead of expected delivery, Iwant to express to you this 20th of Sep my hopes that yours is shaping up to be a healthy and happy holiday time. With that in mind, during last summer and fall the class had 11 changes of address, and along with them were four letters and three replies to my new on-line address(es). Frankly, I prefer AOL with which Iam most familiar, but am beginning to navigate the CompuServe world abit, too. Have no clue yet regarding the Internet, but someday.

First is Rusty (Arlene) BOLT departing assignment at the Embassy in London for the warmer clime of Nellis AFB, NV. Neal (Kathy) COYLE traveled way out south and east from Ellsworth AFB, SD to Irmo, SC. Jerry (Bobbie) DRENNAN went from Springfield, VA back to the old stompin’ grounds of C’Springs, CO. Pat (Debra) MOON set off from the U.S. Mission NATO in Brussels, Belgium for anew home in Bethesda, MD. Terrance “TJ” (Dianne) MORAN slipped away from Springfield, VA out to Centerville, OH. Paul (Dotty) NIELSEN took that trip out west from Rome, NY to join the happy throngs again in C’Springs, CO. Don (Karen) SEXTON vacated their abode at Eielson AFB, AK for the (hopefully) more temperate regions of Tokyo, Japan. Terry (Kim)

SLAWINSKI made amove from San Antonio, TX to Sandia Park, NM. Dave (Anne) “Smokey” STOVER left behind Mt. Juliet, TN for aplace in the sun in Jupiter, FL. And finally, John (Elizabeth) TYRRELL moved out of the Norfolk BOQ to areal house in Norfolk, VA. Noticeably absent from these listings is any mention of accompanying assignment or career change, mainly because Ihave no further informa¬ tion on the subject, with the exception of only one, apress release sent to the AOG regarding Dr. Richard (Sandra) WINN. In it, mention is made of his recent move to positions at Texas A&M University Health Science Center College of Medicine and Scott and White Memorial Hospital Divi¬ sion of Pulmonary/Critical Care. Rick came to Texas from his last assignment at Fitzsimmons Army Medical Center to take on these highlyspecialized roles in the civilian sector in which he was asked to speak on topics relating to newer infections resulting from AIDS and their treat¬ ment and management as well as complications of infection with HIV.

The first letter is by Joanne STOEHRMANN writing of the recent ac¬ ceptance of husband, Ken, for ICAF (known to military minds out there as the Industrial College of the Air Force). His tour runs from August ’95 through June ’96 in the Washington, DC area as he embarks on along year back to school, but Joanne says Ken is excited about it and looks for¬ ward to the challenge.

Fellow AAer (that’s the American Airline) Vic (Linda) SORLIE dropped ashort note from Texas relating interest in some non¬ mainstream media reading material, which he reports available out there. The first mentioned is the CRC Bulletin and another recommended item Media Bypass that can be reached at 1-800-4-BYPASS for subscription. Vic can be reached at: VSORLIE@AOL.COM.

David (Catherine) MCLAUGHLIN writes from Bozeman, MT with a full letter of information on classmates he has kept up with. First item of interest is his question for the class: “Has anyone else changed command with aclassmate?” This is prompted by his being retired back in Sep 93 with the passing of the baton of command of the ROTC Detachment at Montana State University to Mark (Linda) MAYER, who is presently still at the helm there at MSU. David is on faculty teaching speech com¬ munications. Both he and Catherine and Mark and Linda still have young families, so the idea of being retired is sort of strange. His report on classmate activity includes Bob REILMAN living in C’Springs flying tow planes. Mark (Joanne) EWING is now teaching mechanical engineering at “whichever sad basketball school” is in Lawrence, KS. (Do Isense a slight rivalry here?) Bryce (Linda) ABEL is part-time lawyering in the D.C. area. John (Julia) ALLISON is teaching “similar worthless engineereing topics as Mark Ewing” at “another bad basketball school” in Ann Arbor, MI. Mike (Laurie) BORYSEWICZ makes aliving in flying out of St. Louis, MO. Tom BRUMLIK as acaptain for Delta flies the MD88 based in Atlanta. Tom (Gail) CARRIGAN, who according to David may not see this news column, is in Allentown, PA involved in some recruiting type of work for an engineering firm. Greg (Jan) RIGGS remains the civil engineer at Nellis AFB, using his Academy GPA and a PhD for some good. Jeff (Moira) SILLS left the B-52 and AF in ’78 to be aGeneral Dynamics engineer in Ft. Worth, TX. Jim (Linda) STEFANIAK retired in ’92 from George AFB, CA for ateaching position in Apple Valley, CA.

Jim (Karen) STETTLERE let his AF career go away in ’78 for anice job at FEDEX living in Memphis, TN. Pat (Christine) GARVEY works in HQ Air Combat Command, VA probably missing the A-10. Ed (Diane) MILLER is the president of his own concrete concern and stays pretty busy but still finds the time to enjoy the mansion in Kentucky to which any and all classmates are invited to visit. Much thanks to David for the open invite to your place for anyone wishing aguided tour of Yellowstone.

Next from the pile is the letter from Lee (Mariel) RODGERS with news from Wilford Hall Medical Center and San Antonio, TX. Lee recalls memories of his present commander as somewhat of ascary dude from ’69 we all knew and loved as P.K. Carlton. Having mellowed, he still must have passed on that certain style to son CIC P.K.C. Ill, who according to reports, is apparently “scary” to some present-day cadets. Bob (Mary) DIERKER is kept fairly busy as the USAF Ops rep at SHAPE HQ in Belgium what with the complicated international affairs of the European theater. Roy (Debi) HENDRICKSON is in the captain seat at Southwest living in palatial digs overlooking Scottsdale... something about atennis court on the roof?! And from the medical world, Lee’s report continues—Mike NEULAND last seen as chief of Clinical Medicine at the Office of the Command Surgeon, HQ USAFE. Clark (Marilyn) KNUTSON is in the vice commander slot at the AF Medical Center at Keesler AFB, holding down the fort while the com¬ mander is kept busy on the “rubber chicken circuit” and elsewhere. Klaus (Melody) SCHAFER is currently the chief physician working plans and programs for surgeon general of the AF, surviving the Beltway and its frenetic lifestyle. Benny (Rischa) SLADE is director of Hyperbaric

Medicine at David Grant Medical Center at Travis AFB, CA. Terry (Kim) SLAWINSKI, mentioned earlier, fl ies for an unnamed major carrier while Kim is apracticing ophthalmologist. Lee can be reached on-line at this adderess: LPRodgers@eworld.com. And thank you, Lee, for the good info.

My first CompuServe mail came in the form of ashort blurb from Alan (Pat) LEITCH reporting the events in his life which include some medical challenges as well as his being permanently grounded because of them. A1 and Pat made amove from Wyoming to San Antonio, TX and A1 later left the cockpit at Continental. Pat works at Wilford Hall as anurse anesthetist and A1 has taken up anew career in family financial planning for USPA/IRA. Son Chris is married and has ason of his own, making the senior Leitches grandparents while still raising young son AJ and rais¬ ing the question; “How many other ’72ers out there have become GRANDPARENTS so far? (We both want to know, too—where is Clyde HENDERSON? Someone must have acurrent address on him, so please pass it on if you would.) By the way, A1 can be contacted at: 76216,2432@compuserve.com. Sobering medical news regarding the melanomas, Al, and Ihope things work out well for you and yours as you face those challenges. Be sure to keep in touch no matter what, and thanks for the input to the column.

The second CompuServe mail came from Brian “BJ” (DongMi) LANDSBERGER reporting from the University of Texas-Austin where he’s working on aPhD that will be finished in ’96. BJ says Dr. Mike (JanLynn) MCNERNEY, PhD in civil engineering, is on the staff at UTAustin in the Center for Transportation Research. Mike’s on-line at this address: mcnerney@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu. It was just ashort note from student BJ, but he can receive your comments at: bjl@mail.utexas.edu.

The most recent message came from the AOL side of cyber-space and was sent by none other than Brian (Karenn) VOORHEES, working for your peace and domestic tranquility as the director of Current Operations at the Tanker Airlift Control Center in HQ AMC, (formerly MAC if you’ve been out awhile). His tour has already lasted two years, and also there at the HQ is Gary (Lynn) KITO along with Brian (Barbara) BINN, already off to another assignment by now. Lots of activity in the form of airlift keeps current ops real busy and we in the airlift world know it! Even the Reserves is getting to be like active duty again. On-line you can find Brian (Voorhees) at: LifterC141@aol.com.

Let me know what you think of the venture into the world of computer on-line contact. By the way, my correct address should now be reflected in the heading. Again, both Kim and Iwish all of you aMerry Christmas and Happy 1996, and remember the 25th reunion coming up in 18 months or so. Fortitudo Per Aspera.

Thomas D. Baiiey, M.D.

1807 Arbor Way Drive

Shelby, NC 28150-6166

Home: (704) 482-3110

1-800-776-1054

Percent Members: 44

Well, this issue of the class news rolled around too fast and didn’t give me much chance to gather any news. Flying to Bimini for along weekend of diving just before the deadline didn’t help much either! I’ll use this chance to appeal for updates from the class. Aquick call, apostcard or even ashort note about where you are or what you’re doing would be greatly appreciated. Any of the above would make my job alot easier and would make the class news longer and more enjoyable.

Irecently spoke to Joe MITCHELL and we hope to get together soon. I haven’t seen Joe since graduation! He’s retired now and in management with the TVA in Chattanooga, TN. Bill WILSON and his wife, Patty, are still in Oklahoma where Bill is still enjoying his job and the Air Force. Patty was kind enough to send me some information on the state of military health care since I’ve been away from it since 1988 and was curious to see how things have changed.

Though Ireally haven’t kept statistics and I’m depending on my im¬ perfect memory, it seems to me that Todd LAVIGNE must be about the movingest member of the class. His latest change-of-address card has him moving from Lewisburg, TN to LaGrange, GA. H.S.K. WILLIS III has moved from Randolph AFB to Albuquerque, NM. Philip C. DEBRUIN has left Tacoma, WA for the pleasures of Rome, NY. Michael E. ANDERSON has moved from South Lake, TX and headed north to Hen¬ dricks, MN. Finally, John C. PATCHIN (Sandra) has relocated from Waldorf, MD to Newport News, VA.

Itold you this would be ashort one! Iwasn’t kidding! Let’s hear from you so Ihave alittle more to write about!

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: 43

We hope all is well with each of you! This is the end of the summer news round-up. One letter, two e-mails, and several move post-card notices. Steve HEIL writes that he, too, is just retired from the Air Force. He’s currently chasing one of those cush airline jobs in Niceville, FL (just outside Eglin AFB). Steve’s address in the 1994 Register of Graduates is still good, and his e-mail address is at the bottom. Steve says that the ol’ fighter pilots will recognize the address. As anote, he thinks Howie CHANDLER is in the area there, somewhere? Asecond short note comes from JJ ROMANO. JJ asks the ever-evasive answer to this question: “Now that I’m in the IG, does that make me areal bad guy?” Well, JJ, here’s what I’ve heard that you may be able to apply to that question. There are two prevarications associated with inspection teams: (1) We’re here to help and (2) We’re glad you’re here. Perhaps that will contribute to finding solace as you try to focus on the guy in the mirror every morn¬ ing.

Lance and Dana Lane, Miss Wyoming ’95.

Talk about focusing, Ihope the picture for this article comes out nice. One proud ’74 father, Lance LANE, sent in apicture of him and daughter Dana. This particular pose shows the June 10 crowning of Dana as Miss Wyoming. Maybe y’all who were watching the Miss America pageant the past Sept 16 may have seen Lance and Ann in the crowds? Sorry I couldn’t advertise this earlier, but the letter came in after Checkpoints went to press. We all certainly (belatedly but from the heart) wish her well and that all worked out to the good! Lance is taking nursing classes at the University of Wyoming (Cheyenne) for awhile. Ann is still working as the protocol of fi cer at F.E. Warren.

Nick PUZAK sent in ashort note. He is currently moving ahead as an environmental health and safety consultant (Optimum Safety &Health Engineers, Inc.). He did spend ashort stint to work for Denny LYONS on the pig farms in North Carolina. That should be astory sometime! Would any one else besides me like to know which baloney, ham or sausage comes from Denny’s farmyard? Nick is also glad that the present consul¬ tant job will last afew months—and that it is in Boulder. On another part-time job, afew weeks, Nick had to leave house and home for four days aweek to secure income for the family. Iknow I’m happy for the Nick and Fran family. Been there. Done that.

Change of addresses: Dave FUNDAREK is bound for overseas— APO AE. His wife wrote that note in. Itake it from the note that Kathryn is go¬ ing, too. So those of you who know them, expect apostcard/Christmas card from good oT AE! Ronald FLY has come in from AP and is climatizing in Alexandria, VA. Shortest bag drag this issue is atie. Ed¬ ward FEENEY says he moved from Seabright Rd. to Bridlewood Dr. in Springfield, Va. The other contender is Eugene RICHARDSON, who

reports amove from San Antonio zip code 78244 to Randolph AFB. Steve BOYCE moved south from Eielson AFB, AK to San Antonio. Pattie wrote that in, thank you. Michael STEADMAN has dragged his stuff further south, from South Carolina to Jonesboro, GA. Bob CUTLER left Clayton, MO for Oviedo, FL. Robert and Ann BOOTH left Penn¬ sylvania for Colorado Springs. Michael SEBRING and wife, Kim, also moved to Colorado Springs. Thanks Ann and Kim for the cards. Last card this report comes in from Douglas DILDY, who left Nashville, AR, for Albuquerque, NM.

This is the last update before the Christmas rush. Any of you who feel that classmates may like to hear about you—send me acopy of the Christmas family newsletters. Darlene and Iwish you Many Blessings and Happy Season Greetings. May you and yours live long and prosper.

E-mail section; Steve Hell’s e-mail address is: SammySmall@aol.com.

Jeff Hackett

1866 W. Aspen Ave.

Gilbert, AZ 85223

Home: (602) 813-9605

Office: (602) 891-2734

E-mail: JHACKETT@MSGATE.MDHC.MDC.COM

Percent members: 43

LET’S GET THE SECOND TEN YEARS OF THIS WRITING THE COLUMN THING STARTED OFF RIGHT! That is—let’s talk about me! Actually, I’m guessing that my article (to be published elsewhere in this issue) concerning reunion goings-on will be of greater interest to most of you, so Imight as well hide alittle news from Arizona in here.

Air Force Reserves: it’s good news! By the time you read this Iwill have pinned on Lt. Colonel’s leaves. Had hoped to tell you who else in ’75 made it at this board, but I’ve seen nothing in print—I’ll aim to get you a more complete accounting in the next issue. McDonnell Douglas Aerospace; it’s more good news (with just one small setback). Three days after getting the call about my USAFR promotion Iwas informed that I had been selected for aprogram manager’s position in the Military Pro¬ grams Support Division here in Mesa. I’ve hardly gotten my feet wet yet but I’m very, very pleased with every aspect of this new responsibility! Except one. Although my new office is wonderful it (for the moment) lacks one critical amenity—a tap into the INTERNET. The geeks (now that Idon’t supervise or have anything to do with software engineers, I can call them that) tell me I’ll be back on line (with anew address) soon. As an interim solution use my USAFR mailbox [jhackett® oodisOl. hill.af.mil ].

MAGAZINE? WE DON’T NEED NO STEENKING MAGAZINE!

What the Class of ’75 INTERNET Ma fi a lacks in numbers it makes up for in consistency! The news just rolls in ’round the clock/calendar and contributors have been known to receive an electronic copy of the article the same day it’s submitted to the editor (which means they read this about 11 weeks ago!). At any rate, here’s all the news from the net.

Chris BUDINSKY passed along command of Kadena’s AWACS squadron back in June and went to Oklahoma for retirement processing. He said he was evaluating the options, hoping to catch ajob flying for the airlines or package folks and eventually make it back to Colorado. In his note he mentioned something about “the oldest five kids”—is there another set of five that are younger? Other Kadena refugees include Ric LEW ALLEN who’s chief of the Network Branch at ACC (he most cer¬ tainly works with geeks!) and Steve BROWN who is OG Deputy at Langley working for Bill DAVIS the OG Commander.

The Air Force has tried to keep us well represented in the Western Pacific, as Duane JONES zapped to say he and his little ol’ tenant unit at Guam were getting ready to welcome the new host wing (ACC?) com¬ mander —Colonel John DELONEY. Speaking of wing commanders and the “Mafia” we have going at Langley, I’m feeling in very good hands when Igo to Hill AFB for Reserve duty now that Bently RAYBURN has moved in as 388FW/CC with Tim MURPHY at the OG and Steve BARACH as the deputy OG. Down at the other end of the ramp Ken NEASE is flying with the 419FW (USAFR). Italked to both Bentley and Tim on the phone. They’re loving life to say the least although Tim was getting ready to take #1 daughter off to college (in Denver) soon after our visit. That’s atrauma I’m not looking forward to! Bentley and Debbi also have four children and are enjoying their first chance at getting back to a base they’ve been at before.

STATE DEPARTMENT BRIEFING ON ODDS &ENDS INFORMA¬

TION. Once again Bill LYERLY has checked in with much to tell. He’s just been awarded an adjunct faculty appointment at Joint Military In¬ telligence College and swears his course “Current Issues in Medical In¬ telligence and Humanitarian Interventions” is amongst the most popular there (see “geek”, above). Just to fill the otherwise-idle hours. Bill also

holds adjunct faculty positions at the USAF School of Aerospace Medicine at Brooks AFB and at George Washington University there in D.C. Bill recently went boating with (Colonel) Mike HEIL who was preparing to leave the Pentagon (curtailed 13-month tour) for Kirtland AFB where he’ll be commander of USAF Phillips Laboratory.

Mike’s rumor mill included news of Julius HARGROVE’S retirement and A1 PIOTTER’s intra-puzzle palace move from Middle Eastern Af¬ fairs to JCS J-5 shop. Bill also saw (in the barbershop of all places!) Greg SCHMITT recently and discovered he’s been living in Annapolis for several years where he’s asenior software engineer for IIT Research In¬ stitute. Bob DORSEY is back at the Pentagon for asecond tour (by re¬ quest!), working on the Air Staff with XORJ. Jerry MACKEN is also on Air Staff, in XOXJ. John SAXMAN is the support group commander at Vance AFB (AETC). A1 BRADY left the Pentagon for an ESC job at Hanscom AFB. Dave JANETTA has left his lofty position in the Penn¬ sylvania state government to start his own company; to quote Bill, “Con¬ tacts, contacts, contacts...” Ted HILBUN had little respite from his job

2nd Group AOC this summer as he commanded the BCT program. Ted’s deputy at USAFA is the brother of our classmate. Col. (selectee) Gil BRAUN who at last report was enroute to be OG/CC for “an F-16 wing in Germany” (that’s the problem with hearsay, it rarely has specifics). Jeff NEUMAN is flying for Delta out of New Orleans.

as an

FROM THE OUT-OF-THE-FRYING-PAN... DEPARTMENT. Got e-mail from Jim CARLSON; he just returned from extended (six month) USNR tour in Europe doing intel briefings to the brass about all that mess. Having gotten used to the lack of sleep and all the yakking, he’s now enrolled in law school at the University of Minnesota; said he should be done (June ’98) in time to handle summation at the OJ Trial!

SLIGHTLY AHEAD OF HIS TIME. Got the official invite to watch the launch/recovery of Brian DUFFY’s next mission as commander of space shuttle mission 72 (lest you think it’s too much to ask for, note that Kevin CHILTON [USAFA’76] is commanding STS-76). What the heck, we’ll still be lifting Endeavor with our collective best wishes O/A 11 Jan

96!

1 THE ART OF PACING ONESELF. I’ll be back here at the keyboard in acouple of weeks with lots more stories to tell and if you didn’t make it to the reunion you owe us one or two (i.e. write/call me today)! For once. I’ll let you off without my standard closing simply because Ifound one of Bill LYLERLY’s obversations to be so compelling; “The real reason we adults often ask kids what they want to be when they grow up is because we’re still looking for some good ideas!” Take care of each other.

Ernie Woollard

2717 Field Court

Rocklin, CA 95765-4913

Home: (916) 632-2817

DSN: 633-0924

Percent members: 37

Hello fellow ’76ers and yes it’s true; Terry NEWTON (Karen) has final¬ ly turned over the Checkpoints writing responsibility, and Isuppose Iwas just standing by ready to assume the role as our scribe. So, Iguess first things first—greetings from sunny California, from the California State University, Sacramento campus, and ROTC, you know, one of those other commissioning sources Gust the largest commissioning source for AF officers). I’m only aware of just one other fellow ’76er who is current¬ ly involved with aprofessor of Aerospace Studies assignment, and that’s Alan FISHER (Melissa) at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces and Detachment 505.

1have no inputs for this edition, i.e., no letters or postcards in my mail box from you to feed the spiders (only bills and aplethora of credit card applications), so it gives me the opportunity to talk alittle bit about AFROTC for those of you who may be interested in this afew years down the road. Currently, there are 146 detachments nationwide. The com¬ mand positions are split almost evenly between colonels and lieutent col¬ onels with turnover annually at approximately 50 billets. Every year there are about 200 applicants for these openings. The assignment is an exciting one; you truly are your own boss. And there truly can be no greater responsibility than training these young men and women to be future AF leaders. There are many similarities between the Academy and AFROTC, but the primary difference is the civilian education environment. FOr those of you starting to feel old, the cadet lifestyle will quickly rejuvenate you. Civil Air Patrol opportunities will keep some PASs still flying while stability for your family probably is not better anywhere else in the AF. Many consider this assignment as a“retirement” assignment; but let me be the first to correct them. This assignment is exceptionally demanding and rewarding at the same time, and I’ll be looking for afollow-on in

1997/98 (considering the housing market, conflicts from three teenage daughters, and the hope that Pam will be ready to leave our new-found stability).

Returning to the CONUS from Japan has allowed me to catch up on my sporting activities and follow Falcon football alittle more closely. This year started perfectly with victories over BYU and Wyoming before we ran into abit of hard luck against CSU and Northwestern. Pam, the girls, and Iwill be down in Fresno for some of the tailgating activities before cheering on the Falcons the 28th of October. Maybe we will see some of you there. At any rate, it certainly is time to start planning for our 20th reunion next fall. Can you believe it? More will follow in coming editions; I’m sure one of us currently assigned to the Academy, Falcon, or SPACECOM in C. Springs will bolt from the blue to become the project officer for that glorious weekend!

Well, enough jabber from me for now. By next edition. I’m sure to have afew more inputs and information to share. For those of you out on the frontlines, drop me apostcard or letter—it’s always great to hear from the TEETH. My new e-mail address is “Cdavis@saclinkl.csus.edu” and my current fax is (916) 278-6777. Until then, “news on the move”—John ANDREW (Sandi) Alexandria, VA to Maxwell AF3, AL; John BRUNS (Debbie) Bound Brook, NJ to Floyds Knobs, IN; Stefan EISEN (Catby) Middletown, RI to Maxwell AFB, AL’ Scott GOUGH (Laurie) Tucson, AZ to Tucson, AZ; Walt HEIDMOUS (Carrie) APO AE to Arlington, VA; Bill KEARNS (Christine) Enid, OK to Brooks AFB, TX; Mike LEE (Khris) APO AE to Maxwell AFB, AL; Kevin PETERSON (Marne) Lebanon IL to APO AE; John RHOADES APO AE to Ft Leavenworth, KS; Jeff SOGARD (Carole) Burke, VA to FPO AE; and Randy SPETMAN (Becky) APO AE to USAFA.

Best wishes to all—and Itruly would appreciate some mail and info for the winter book; let’s keep them flying safe.

John J. “Lou” Michels, Jr.

5107 Juglan Court

Centreville, VA 22020

H; (703) 802-6611/W: (703) 712-5350

Facsimile: (703) 712-5050

E-mail: jjmichel@mwbb.com

Percent members: 39

PEOPLE IN HIGH PLACES I: As aresult, no doubt, of everyone changing jobs this summer, there is adecided lack of information at my end of the column. So Iwill have to content myself (and yourselves, of course) with open source material. Chief among this stuff is the front¬ page story in Aviation Week detailing Chuck PRECOURT’s (Lynne) ef¬ forts as the copilot on the first joint Shuttle-MIR station mission. Okay, I know AWST doesn’t really have a“front-page,” but Chuck made not one but two photo appearances in the article and was instrumental in the flawless mission. He did not complain about the food, either. This was Chuck’s second shuttle flight and it went as well as the first one, when he became ’77’s first space former cadet. (There are too many of you out there to name ’77’s first former space cadet.) Our congratulations as a class go out to Chuck and the rest of the ’ll team at NASA for a.perfect performance.

PEOPLE IN HIGH PLACES II: Darryl JONES (Myoushi) is getting plenty of ink down in Miami. When we last left Darryl he was commuting on occasion to the White House, and not just for the sightseeing. As a state Senator, Darryl represents Florida from the Florida Keys up through the South Dade “Hurricane Andrew” area, and through Miami. As a legislator, Darryl has his hand in alittle bit of everything, from water con¬ servation in the Evergaldes to the recovery of South Dade from Andrew, to working for the placement of Southern Command in the vicinity of his district. Darryl also was critical in supporting the placement of aReserve unit at Homestead Air Force Base. Given the dearth of articulate and trustworthy folks in government these days, Isuspect Iwill see Darryl up this way in the near future.

FROM THE WWW: Iam hoping to see afew more e-mail messages in my mail box, but the flood this spring turned into atrickle over the sum¬ mer. AJ GIPSON fi red off amissive from his home in Yokota. AJ is the deputy logistics group commander at Yokota, following asix-month stint running the flight-line maintenance for Yokota’s C-130 operation. Ihave not heard or seen AJ in anumber of years and when Ilast talked to him he was in SAC as abomb/nav. Iam not sure how he transformed himself into amaintainer, but it sounds like he is doing well. He notes he should be leaving Yokota sometime soon since he is over the two-year point now.

Joe NIEMEYER (Louise) has apparently been testing the C-17 from the ground up. Joe is the commander of the 1275 Test and Eval Squadron at Edwards. His unit has been doing the developmental and operational

tests on the ’17 and is now involved in some more esoteric special opera¬ tions stuff. Joe has been working on the Nighthawk helicopter, the Com¬ bat Talon, and the upgraded AC-130U gunship. Having flown on the gunship, Iam assuming that we have not added any more firepower to it, since Ido not think there is room for another howitzer. But it sounds like Joe has had more fun with the C-17; he has put 110,000 pounds of cargo (inside the airplane) down on a3,000-foot dirt path, and on asingle pass air-dropped five C-130 loads of equipment. His role at Edwards ends this fall, so look for him at adrop zone near you.

ANOTHER SIGN THAT WE ARE GETTING OLDER, ETC.’ Iam now beginning to receive indications that we are maturing as aclass. No, I am not talking about golf invitations, or college graduation notices for our kids, Iam talking about Change-of-Command notifications. Re¬ ceived two this time around. The first was from Jim MOSCHGAT (Jill), who is taking over the 14th FS at Misawa. Congrats Jim. The second was from my former roommate and nav school cohort, Dave EDGINGTON (Siobhan). Colonel Dave took over the Fourth Operations Group at Seymour-Johnson one week after Jim picked up his F-16 squadron. Dave notes that Randy VIEIRA (Jane) is atanker squadron commander at Seymour and Mike MAHAR (Beth) and Bob ESKRIDGE (Sheila) are on the staff at the wing. Dave also reports that Mark CLODFELTER (Don¬ na) is coming down for the ceremony from his job as PAS at UNC. Con¬ grats David, it hasn’t all been luck.

MISSED APPROACH: My secretary has reported that one of you has called me twice from Denmark. Specifically, Jim ILSE tried to contact me and managed to miss both times. That is not surprising given my peripatetic lifestyle, but keep trying, Jim. Better yet, put those languishing English skills to work and write me aletter.

Ihave seen Lynn SCOTT (Cynthia) over at NDU several times. Lynn is at ICAF and notes that Ron LADNIER (Pam) is over at War College. Ron MORGAN is working for the Department of Justice as ablue suit at¬ torney preparing agigantic acquisition case.

FINISHES: Iknow there are more of you out there. Ican hear you breathing. Get me some news this fall or Iwill have to report that Isaw all of you at the Navy game and no one was signed up for leave. Be seeing you.

Bob Kay 7398A Salem Dr. Columbus AFB, MS 39701

Home: (601) 434-8651

Work: DSN 742-7849

Percent members: 37

Well here we are again during alovely Mississippi fall—only 88 degrees and about 85 percent humidity. Boy will Imiss this place—well maybe just alittle bit! I’m sure that you guys are asking if my rapidly-advancing senility has finally got the better of me since it seems like Ijust got here. Actually, we have been here for two long hot deep-South summers but better days are ahead. Igot the great news two weeks ago (more like three months plus by the time you read this) that Iwill be PCSing to Holloman Air Patch again in December to fl y the ultimate radio con¬ trolled airplane: the QF-106 and later will be convering to the QF4C/E/G (all of you Phantom Phlyers take heart... better to watch them go down in ablaze of glory than rotting in the desert or on astick somewhere). That being the case, this should definitely be my last article since Kais and Ifigure that talking 1,500 miles apart is abit tougher than ahalf of ablock (I don’t know how those ’79 guys do it).

I’m pleased to report that Ihave been given aplethora of information since my desperate pleas last letter. Interestingly enough, if Ihad made the 20 Sept deadline, Iwouldn’t have had very much to talk about. But the kindly editor took pity on my sob story of five kids, PCS plans, etc. and gave me an extension with much info pouring in the very day of my reprieve.

The first gem is apicture that has been kicking around the base for several months of your part-time scribe (on the left) and “Dr Dan” GARNER. We spent agreat New Years (I told you that it had been around for awhile) with Dan and Tammi in their highly-impressive Louisiana-style plantation home in Biloxi where Dan was chief of on¬ cology at Keesler. As we were leaving for the drive back up north, my beautiful bride, ever looking for great photo opportunities, noticed two rockers on Dan’s porch and looking at the two mature profiles of us put two and two together and the rest, as they say, is history. Dan has since moved on to Bethesda, MD where he is doing research and missing the “bug of the month club” in the deep south.

Next comes aletter that Kais got from Amy (Tom) KAEOHANE in August. Amy wrote to say that Tom is now an A320 captain for North-

GRUMPY OLD MEN

west making all of that captain’s pay (well, she didn’t really mention the $$). Tom was stuck in training “again” but she went down to Florida in July anyway to watch Kevin KREGEL blast off on the shuttle and was met by several ’78er-mostly-airline-pilot-kind-a-guys with everyone hav¬ ing some serious (and non-serious) fun. Kevin, by the way, is acivilian and had afairly interesting Air Force/Navy (A-6 exchange tour and Navy Test Pilot School) career before he got out to be aNASA staff pilot and then made it into the program (Kevin, if I’m wrong on any of this stuff, let me know). If I’m not mistaken he’s the fourth or fifth classmate who has gone into space which has to be some kind of record.

As you can see by the photo, everyone did indeed have amiserable time but tried to bear up under the circumstances. From left are Ben TROEMMEL who allegedly flies wierd airplanes for Special Ops Command down in Florida, Pete DEL ROSSO (he has that South Bay look), UPT classmate Chuck BRININSTOOL who fl ies for American, Jeanne KREGEL proudly holding apicture of her beloved husband (I don’t know how well it will reproduce in the magazine but allegedly from the neck up is Kevin and the rest is Fabio—sure looks real—but Iwas fairly confident that not even an astronaut has the time to keep in that kind of shape). Standing just behind Jeanne is Gary HUGHES, another American pilot; Tom CZACHOR who fl ies for Northwest, Don LAUMANN who is still in the Air Force somewhere, J.J.“Harpo” GRUPP yet another American pilot and token Delta pilot Mike HAGEDORN. Kais sez that Amy is most likely the most frequent con¬ tributor to this column—sounds like achallenge to me guys. Thanks Amy!

No matter how hard they try, she still has the best legs.

Ireceived asuperior letter from Larry LAFRENIERE who lives in the Springs and admitted to being a“long-time reader but a fi rst-time writer.” He decided it was time to fi nally write which is de fi nitely behavior that Iwant to encourage. Larry works for MCI managing development teams who create FAX, personal communication and voicemail products and has run into several classmates lately out and about. He mentioned that Paul GILBERT also works for MCI on one of his development teams in the Springs.

Larry did such agreat job of writing that I’ll just quote from his letter: “Lenny ROBICHAUX and Ken PRUSAK are across-the-street neighbors from one another here in the Springs and both fly for United. John PAT-

TERSON just moved into the area as well. He’s flying with one of the ma¬ jor carriers: Ijust can’t remember which one. Iran into Brian LIVIE while taking one of those dreaded ACSC corrspondence course tests out at Peterson (I’m still in the AF Reserves). He’s got some cushy position at Pete, trying to hang on ’till 1998 here in the Springs. He just bought anice house though...Keith WOODFORK lives in the same subdivision as us, but Ihardly ever see him. He’s working out at Falcon AFB. Greg KEN¬ NEDY was aneighbor here for awhile, but he tired of flying his desk at NORAD and slipped back into an Eagle cockpit up in Alaska. It’s atough job, but...I see plenty of red baseball caps at the USAFA football games, but we don’t always get together. Guess we need to meet under Billy Mit¬ chell’s picture after ‘take seats’ or something.

“Ted ANKENBAUER was in asection below me last week, but I didn’t get close enough to even yell at him. I’ve been in touch with Craig TALIAFERRO. He’s an attorney in San Antonio. I’ve been trying to get Craig and his wife, Karen, to come up for afootball game this fall, but so far he’s wimped out. Give him some grief for me (consider it done Larry). Last, but not least, Rob HARRISON and Bob ANTONIAZZI are both here in the Springs. At last glance, Rob was abig wig with ARINC and Bob had just left ARINC to run amanufacturing operation.” Thanks a bunch Larry, you have provided asterling example for the rest of the class to follow.

Jim ARNOLD actually CALLED me this past weekend after reading last quarter’s article. He thought 1sounded desperate (I was) and wanted to be sure to get some info to me before the deadline. Jim is presently run¬ ning the OSI legal office at Bolling with another attorney (0-6 type). Things are busy but he still manages to keep in touch with some folks. Mike CASEY in particular is running afamily farm in Illinois and plans to buy one of his own sometime in the future. He also was recently wed for the very FIRST time to ayoung lady from the heartland, so quite abit is going on in his life. Mike SKOLAUT is no longer apizza baron in Kan¬ sas but sold his business for ahefty sum and is now doing concept development (whatever that is) for arestaurant corporation. Ed HUNT is also an attorney, Jim wasn’t sure exactly where but he thought it was some place in California. Thanks for the call Jim, you are also setting the standard for the class.

Again, due to my rapidly-advancing senility, Mark HEFFERLY has been here at Columbus for almost ayear and Ihaven’t said anything (so what was your excuse Kais?). Mark, who is the wing chief of Safety here, not only forgave my severe faux pax but also provided some class gouge on guys he saw at the school for fledgling wing safety chiefs in June: Mike DUC is at Davis-Monthan flying A-lOs, Gary MARTIN is at Whiteman in T-38s, Dano PHILIPS is flying F-16s at Misawa and Mark RENAULT is doing the F-15E “Mudhen” thing at Elmendorf. All of these guys have agood chance of getting asquadron in the future so congrats!

Change of addresses (not in any particular order): Bob VAUGHN from Fayetteville, NC to Carlisle, PA; Jim LELI to Vacaville, CA; Ron TAIT from San Antonio to Laughlin AFB; Steve SARGEANT from Springfield, VA to Pope AFB (Deputy Ops Group CC flying the A-101 believe); Pete HOLZGANG left Vacaville and moved to Hudson, OH; Mark GALLAGHER from San Antonio to Lubbock, TX; Larry WELLS from Burke, VA to Sumter, SC; Frank VORWALD from Rancho Palo Verdes, CA (NICE neighborhood) to Boxford, MA; Herb HENDERSON from Troy, IL to Spokane, WA; Craig BENDORF from Hampton, VA to Montgomery, AL; Ben TROEMEL from Hurlburt Fid, FL to Fayet¬ teville, NC (now we know where Ben is!); Don HARPER from O’Fallon, IL to HQ EUCOM; Tanker SNYDER from Tacoma, WA to Mont¬ gomery, AL; and Bob WHEELOCK fro Papillion, NE to Grapevine, TX. Well folks, that’s about all for this round. As always its been aslice—if for some unfortunate reason you find yourself stranded in Alamagordo, give me acall! May the Lord bless you all.

Bud Vazquez 12668 Catawba Drive

Woodbridge, VA 22192

Home: (703) 680-7346

Of fi ce: DSN 227-9415

Percent members: 37

He was lost, but now is found. That Biblical verse came to mind as I caught an imposingly tall figure out of the corner of my POAC-bound eye this summer. Yes, after his own version of the movie “European Vaca¬ tion,” Randy GRICIUS (Vicki) was found wandering the Puzzle-Palace halls! The tall one is finally back stateside at Kirtland AFB working F-22 test. My “25 pts against #1 (in 1978) Marquette-hero” has reproduced three times (Brittany, Nicole, and Scott) and seemed to be doing well. Mike BOOEN, of SECAF staff fame, also saw the G-man. Boo-Dog is

still doing great things for the great ones here in D.C. Speaking of doing great things, Bruce REMBER is off the Roles &Missions team and has moved on to the Chief’s Staff Group. Todd KLOPP is working in SAF/AQC (Contracting), and Walt DAVIS is lurking the Pentagon hallways, too.

THE GREAT COMMUNICATORS: There are several Niners holding down the AF/SC fort. Mike “Man-Mountain” STEFFEN is bruisin’ the bureaucrats in Comm Infrastructure (and the opponents on the POAC B-Ball courts!), and Juan RAMIREZ is in SCXP. Chris BROWN is still in the Pentagon’s 7th Comm Group. Bob TETTLEBACH (Ellen) is in SAF/AA (Info Mgmt), working to merge functional areas in computers and comm. Bob and wife are also expecting their second kiddo any day now. In fact Iwatched Bob hustle out the door today to time contrac¬ tions. Best wishes for asafe and healthy delivery and congrats.

APAIR OF KINGS: Chris and Dave KING (no, they are not acouple in this “don’t ask don’t tell” Air Force) are working in the secret weapons world of SAF/AQPW and in AF/LGSY, respectively. I’m told Fred VAN WICKLIN is also in Loggie-land.

TICKETS TO PARADISE: Recent escapees from the five-side include Rich WALLEY (Eglin AFB, JDAM SPO), Dan SCOTT (Martha) who has asquadron over in Japan, Greg BRUNDIDGE (ICAF), and Randy HELMS (OSA Dep Ops ©Ramstein). Finally, Brian KELLY (Cindy) has taken the early retirement and gone to work in San Antonio (and looks both five years younger and richer!) and Mike LONGORIA is at Pope AFB eommanding acombat controller squadron after atour at the Na¬ tional Security Council. Mike GILBERT is abig-shot lawyer who left the Law Division here for much greener Mountain Home AFB pastures. All the remaining inmates here are jealous!

MOE, LARRY &CURLY? My undercover sources have discovered (either that or started arumor) that there are three LCWB squadron com¬ manders out at Hill AFB: Jeff GORDON, Les LONG, and Burt FIELD. Holy Fighting Falcon, Batman! Party at Hill!

OPERATORS: Prowling the halls of AF/XO in search of dollars and offsets are “Bubba” BAUMGARTNER, Greg SMITH (XOFS), Mark LANE (XOOA), Jimmy “Admiral” MIYAMOTO (XOFU), and Rich WITT.

REPRODUCTIVE WRITES... Besides Bob TETTLEBACH’s immi¬ nent arrival, the Smithtown, NY contingent is doing their share. For those of you who were scared that Ihad gotten married, you’ll find no solace in the fact that Molly and Iwere blessed with #3 on 22 August. Mom and the 9‘A pound beefer-boy are doing fine, but Iwas NOT allowed to name him Lucius Carl William Byron (LCBW) Vazquez, so we settled on Alexander John.

Bill MURPHY (Deanna) is expecting #2 any day now, so long as he can get off from his scope duties on the midnight shift on the Joint Staff. Bill and Itrained for the hormonal roller coaster (see picture) by riding the Loch Ness Monster at Busch Gardens for nine months straight. (OK, so we went once, it’s the thought that counts.) We highly recommend it!

Bud and Bili train for the hormonai roiier coaster.

OUR MAN IN THE WHITE HOUSE: For those of you who did not see the spread on Bobby last month, congratulations go out to David K. “Bob/Bubba” EDMONDS who was selected as the only military rep of 14 White House Fellows this year! Wow! Bob will be working directly for the administrator of the Small Business Administration as aspecial assis¬ tant. Bob promises a’79 party on the White House lawn the week the President is on leave next year! Either that or we could take one of those nifty helicopters up to agolf course...

IS THERE ADOCTOR IN THE HOUSE? There will be, if you’re at Tom and Liz GRIFFITH’S anytime soon, as Tom has promised me he’ll write that dissertation by the summer. Slave-driver that he is, Tom “forced” Liz to go back for her master’s in poli sci. In her spare time (which Tom has plenty of) they shuttle the four mini-Griffs around and think important thoughts.

MISC. MUSINGS: On aMetro ride from Capitol Hill this summer I looked up and thought Irecognized aclassmate. Sure enough, Iwent over to confirm and shocked Kurt STEVENS, who had attended aCapitol Hill breakfast. The doors of the train opened and we went our separate ways before Icould discover what he was doing. Wally TAYLOR has left the C-17 SPO at WPAFB for agreat teaching job over at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis. Highly unreliable sources say that the WallyMeister shadow-wrote that controversial Proceedings article on the future of the Navy as part of an Air Force game spirit mission. Ioccasionally see Roy CLELAND at the POAC, and Ihear Dave ORTIZ is at Langley Air Force Patch. Jim-Bob CALLAHAN is keeping them awake down in ^/Test &Eval as the F-22 Test Dude, and Ken HOLLENBECK is work¬ ing special good-deal “trap door” programs into software that controls LCWB assignments—at least that’s what he says! Scott DORFF is work¬ ing wargaming, and Jim ARMINGTON is working international pro¬ grams in SAF/IA, and Ifound our Jeff MCCHESNEY referenced in an AFNS Review as the 12FS/CC at Kadena.

MAIL: Steve CHABOLLA (Cindy) appears to have left Maxwell for the beltway, as he now lives in Springfield, VA, joining Irv LESSEE who has moved here from Dover. John GOLDEN (Kim) has exchanged an FPO for an APO. Tom MCCARTHY (Jody) is now in sunny Shalimar, FL, likely an Eglin resident, and Jack HUMPHREY traded one APO for another as he goes with the 1st Armored Division. Calvin KEMP moved from Fort Wayne, IN to Williamstown, VT. (Besides being jealous of Calvin’s newfound skiing opportunities, Ihave no idea what secret base is there.) Mark REID has left Nebraska bound for Rand-land (a.k.a. Albu¬ querque).

THIS JUST IN FROM THE HORSE’S MOUTH... Just got anice call from Mark “Horse” NEICE (Les), who has once again smoked the system to land his job as the test det commander for the Airborne Laser Lab at Kirtland. Horse reports that Dan HOIDA and Mike MULLADY are over at AFOTECH. Mark’s test trips have brought him across the path of Robin RAND (Kim), the 36FS in Korea, as well as Tim AYRES. Mike PEPLINSKI is one of Robin’s flight commanders. Mark also saw Jimmy SCHNELLER, while on aTDY to McChord, where Jim is Ops in aC-141 unit. Thanks, Horse!

Scott GRUNWALD, who is the lead C-17 program element monitor here in SAF/AQ, and Ihope to see many of you at the AF-Navy game on 14 Oct as we stomp the squids. Mike “Union President” DONATELLI writes the next piece, which is due in mid-December. Write him at 1149 S. Stone Ave., La Grange, IL 60525 or try 708-352-0360. Godspeed and good luck and Merry Christmas!

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 t.

Percent members: 44

THE WORD FOR TODAY IS SHORT (as opposed to “GO COMMO!”—from Second BCT, for those of you with 19-year memories). We had such ashort summer, Kathy and Idon’t remember seeing the sun. Iwas so short on time (due to adeployment, preparations for acheckride, and planning agoodwill trip to Russia later this month) I had to ask our benevolent Checkpoints editor for an extension. And my classmates—my very own Falcon Buddies—showered me with amere pit¬ tance of utterances, causing my article to be short. The latter, of course, is the worst short of all.

Ican go no further in my solicitations than to provide my e-mail ad¬ dress. It’s how Igot most of my info this time, by the way. Oh, Iknow many of you don’t like tootin’ your own horn. If that’s the case, why don’t you just tell me (us) about all the other folks out there.

REACH OUT to your fellow classmates. Chapter Two: This go-around the six names we’re spotlighting are (drum roll, please): Deacon L. WINTERS, James R. WINGATE, Robert J. WILSON, Peter M. WILSON, Ryan K. WILLIAMS, and Daniel A. WILLIAMS. To review, the AOG doesn’t have current info on them. Help me find them for us and update us on their lives. Read on for an update from the last batch. Thanks for your help!

NEWS from the retirement front. Gotta cryptic note on my desk: “Ma-

jor Dean EISBERG called to say he’s retired.” Dean (Carla) is living near Anchorage after his stint with the Alaska NG. Alan (Rosemarie)

BAKER’S last e-mail said, “I got my retirement papers yesterday. Detach on 30 Sep for a1Oct retirement. It looks weird to read it, but it makes me giggle to think Iget acheck-a-month for the rest of my life!” Alan had two nibbles with Fortune-500 firms, but Ithink his heart is in the cockpit.

PLAIN NEWS. Areally strange-looking e-mail address came my way. When 1figured out it was from Ft. Leavenworth, Iunderstood why. Jim HANLEY said he should be studying and writing papers, but “I’m only three papers behind the power curve right now, so what can another minute cost me?” He said nothing of himself, but noted Scott (Jan) CARROTHERS’ latest son, Kyle, was born 17 June.

Tony (Deb) WOLUSKY sent some electronic verbiage—this really is an easy way to drop aline—from the Zoo’s law department. First, regarding one of our “lost” classmates from the last article, he said “you can reach the recalcitrant Maj YINGER here at USAFA.” He then gave an e-mail address that had “34EDG” in it, which, having little knowledge of the current organization on the Hill, means nothing to me. Back to Tony: He was chief of Military Justice at Hill AFB for two years prior to getting a chance to enjoy the cadets. He’s “an associate AOC with Cobra Squad (‘squad’ is the term of choice rather than squadron. Further indication that we are reducing language to its barest form).” He noted how fatherhood has kept him from seeing much outside the gates as he bounces back between the Hill and his on-base house. He’s still an 0-4 (at last, somebody Imight be able to catch) since he got out to go to law school and gain some experience before coming back as aJAG. He ends: “I met Deb in court, as she defended amiscreant accused of theft and I prosecuted him. I’m not sure who won the court case, but Icertainly met awondeful, incomparable woman in the bargain.” Ain’t love grand...

Karl GREENHILL tested the “zoomie-to-coastie connection” to say he was working for 20th Air Force in the codes world. He mentioned Ken GLADFELTER works in the plans office in the next partition at F.E. Warren.

Most of the folks Imentioned above have e-mail addresses Ican get for you folks out there. All you have to do is drop me anugget of info for my labor in compiling the master list.

Calls to Minnesota got me Tom (Lynda) ROBINSON and Art (Marsha) SMITH. Tom said he’s a“true weekend warrior” with aC-130 Reserve unit in Minnesota. He and Scott PEATROSS are neighbors and put money down on their houses the same day. Tom pops into Don (Marie GOMES ’84) WALTERS, Brian STANAWAY, and Steve MATUS when he’s on the road for Northwest. He saw Doc WARR at an ’82 grad’s wed¬ ding in L. A. and noted Rob STRICKLAND was part of the training team at United for the successful launch of their 777 program. Five and 11-year-old daughters keep him and Lynda busy.

Art is aReserve IMA in acommand post for Atlantic Command (Nor¬ folk, VA) when he’s not earning his pay in the air. He was with an ANG unit until ayear ago. The only name Art added to Tom’s list was Pat MEAGHER. He mentioned his three boys, coaching little league, and a seven-year-old house keep him pretty busy.

Iwanted to get in afew more calls before the deadline, but it didn’t work very well. Istarted late, which meant West Coast only. This nar¬ rowed my field considerably. Icalled many numbers from the list Igot from the AOG two years ago with many rings, answering machines, or voice mail solicitation from businesses. Ifinally stopped, but not until I tried Jan (KNOCKE) VAN HOOMISSEN in Portland. The phone number Idialed was her work number at IBM. Her voice from the machine told me who to contact if Ineeded assistance as she was taking the rest of the year off for maternity leave. Iguess that’s good news.

Matt NEUENSWANDER dropped aline after ACSC, where he gathered as much of the ’80 clan together as was willing and took aphoto. He notes: “I had the foresight to take aclip board so that all our classmates with no hair could at least be recognized. Unfortunately, Idid not have the foresight to keep from losing the list, and had to rely on my memory to put names to faces in the picture. Let our classmates be the judge of whether Ihave Alzheimer’s disease or not.” Matt noted, “ACSC was another exposure to that famous USAF education method of jam¬ ming alOOK education up your behind in small increments over along period of time. At USAFA they did it with nickels, because ACSC is in the information age they do it with megabytes and it hurts much less, that’s why they call it software.

According to Matt: Tom EHRHARD, John PETERSON, Charlie SHUGG, Jim TUBBS, and Bill ANDREWS were at SAAS (School of Advanced Aerospace Studies); Mike LOFTUS works in the USAF Wargaming Center; Willie GUNN teaches at the JAG school, and Dave FILIPPI and Bob HENDRICKS teach at ACSC; Tim OLWELL passed through AWC; Matt didn’t want to continue with his fading memory, and said he knew for sure he was going to F-I6s at Moody.

COA cards: Charles KILLION and Steven HERRING to Belleville, IL;

’80 at Maxwell (according to Matt): Back row: Ken Gladfelter, Brian Robinson, Tom Ehrhard, Marty Edmonds, Ken Konicki, Steve Herring, Scott Wheeler, Charlie Shugg, Jim Tubbs, Jud Kelley, and John Rudolph. Second row: Mike Prusz, Erank “Spanky” Ott, Dave Glowacki, Dave Francis, Bob Chapman, Mike Loftus, Maj Ondul (Turkish AFA ’80), Dave Filippi, Bob Cooper, Mike McKenna*, and Peggy (Davis) Hillebrandt*. Front row: Chas Cameron, John Peterson, Derek Hess and Matt Neuenswander. Not pictured: Bill Andrews, Willie Gunn, Bob Hendricks, and Tim Olwell. (* =No info since the mid-80s). Keylor ENG to Arlington; Arnold FLORES to Ft. Dix, NJ; Jeffrey CROY to Albuquerque; Sue KOHUT across San Antonio; Rudy (Charlotte) JIRICEK to Fayetteville, GA; David FRANCIS to Lexington, VA; Paul and Ricky (SMITH) SELVA to Kingstowne, VA; Joseph FER¬ NANDES to Sebastopol, CA; Terrance GRIBBEN to Fairfax, VA; James (Dawn) RIGGINS to Woodbridge, VA; David CLINE across OKC; Douglas across Maxwell AFB; Mark (Melinda) GRAPER to Elmendorf AFB; Daniel WALKER to Yorktown, VA.

CLASS NEWS. I’ve been asked by our class president (Matt) to let you know our class fund has done well since graduation. Since our reunion we made some interest beyond seed money for the next bash. Because of this, we donated another $1,(XX) to the AOG building fund. The second item concerns our 20-year reunion; (1) We are going to have one. (2) Matt’s not running it. (3) Someone in the Springs needs to volunteer. (Matt threw out Tony ARETZ’s name as aplug for his old roommate). In any case, some of you folks living in God’s Country need to get the ball rolling.

CLOSING. Nothing profound from any of you to tie this up. You’ll get this around Christmas, so please remember me at that time. Send a copy of your Christmas/Holiday Newsletters. If you can, also send a copy of some of our classmate’s newsletters.

Be safe. BEAT THE DEAN! (Whatever). Don.

Scott Dering

1140 Rhode Island St. Lawrence, KS 66044 (913) 749-4274

Percent members: 38

Greetings fellow classmates. Let’s get straight to the news, starting with the stack of letters Ireceived this time around. It came from H.D. “Jake” POLUMBO, aNATO staff officer at RAF High Wycombe who is on the left in this picture next to Tom PARKER, an exchange officer at RAF Bentley Priory. If you are acareful reader of my columns (if such aspeccies exists) you know this picture violates several of my rules for photos, the inclusion of feet chief among them. Iam nevertheless exercising my scribely discretion and printing it anyway because these two guys were not standing on just any old golf course but on THE Old Course at St. An¬ drews. As an unrepentant golf addict myself, Iam duty bound to print any picture of golf’s birthplace, however blurry and distant—I’m even on my knees genuflecting in front of this photo as Itype these words. Unfor¬ tunately, Jake wrote that they couldn’t officially play the Old Course because Tom’s handicap was above the acceptable limit. (If Jake is as honest as the average golfer, it was probably his own handicap that was too high, but Isuppose it’s possible that he’s telling the truth.) In any case, they played the other courses at St. Andrews during the day and conducted aspirit mission on the Old Course at night after the handicap Gestapo went off duty.

After recently moving from an AWACS software support job at Geilen-Kirchen Air Base to ACSC, Randy COLEMAN sent achange-ofaddress card to the AOG. With this kind of head start, even the most feckless scribe could track him down—which 1did. Randy was just star¬ ting out at ACSC when we talked and his goals were very similar to all other ACSC students I’ve talked to over the years. For example, he desperately wants to sharpen his problem-solving skills during his year at Maxwell. (This phrase is ACSC code, Ithink for wanting to improve one’s golf game.) More specifically, Randy told me he will learn to plan deep air interdiction (being long off the tee), close air support (chipping and pitching), search and rescue operations (bunker play), and reading the nuances of the battlefield (the putting game). He also hasn’t forgotten all of the staff skills so essential to Air Force success including proper budgeting (winning the side bets), scheduling (under four hours per round), and post-execution reevaluation (the 19th hole). With such a rigorous course of study, it’s nice to know that ACSC is preparing our future leaders for the challenges that lie ahead.

Randy was aware of the following classmates (playing partners) who are also at ACSC: William “Nap” NAPOLITANO, Ralph BENDER, John ADAMS, Mike BLAND, Andy BRITSCHGI, Jim BLOOM, Bill BRIDGES, Lenny COLEMAN, Mike COMNICK, Terry FOLEY, Craig FRANKLIN, Paul FULTON, Bret HYDE, Anne Marie MATONAK, Andy MURPHY, Kurt NEUBAUER, Chuck PALDANIUS, and Larry RUGGIERO. There may be others in what is probably the last ACSC chance for our class, so if your name was not mentioned, please drop me anote and I’ll put you in my next column.

Itracked down Jim DREW to the Pentagon where he works in the joint operations directorate. Jim recently graduated from the Marine Corps version of intermediate service school at Quantico, so who knows if he’ll ever be the same. Jim flew F-4s throughout his career including the Wild Weasel version over in Germany. When he’s not spending time with Joy and their three kids, Jim competes in triathalons.

Ifound John CASSERINO working as aprogram manager at the Phillips Lab at Kirtland. He’s in charge of the high altitude baloon pro¬ gram, an effort to test out promising space technologies at afraction of the cost of asatellite launch. John married Carri, a“statuesque Swede” several years ago, and they have two kids. (This continues atrend of guys from 25th Squadron marrying better-looking women than they deserve. For example, rumor has it that John’s old squadron-mate, Bruce ACKER, also married abeautiful Scandinavian afew years back, and it’s fairly common knowledge that Scott COALE’s luck in this regard is un¬ surpassed.) In spite of having an incredibly average career (his words, not mine), John was recently selected by the Air Force to compete for a NASA astronaut slot—he should know the results by the time this is published. If that doesn’t come through, John hopes to go to the Defense Systems Management Course at Ft Belvoir in January. In the meantime, he works in the same office at Kirtland as Nick CHANDO, and he keeps in touch with Ken HASEGAWA who recently finished ACSC and now works for the Ballistic Missile Defense Directorate in Washington. He also bumped into Vicki (BILEK) SUMNER during arecent TDY. Vicki works at an AFOTEC detachment at Peterson in Colorado Springs. Ihad conflicting clues as to Bill MCLENDON’S whereabouts. Marty FRANCE told me that Bill had moved to Colorado to fix the luggage system at the new Denver International Airport. Frank CHEESEMAN, on the other hand, told me that Bill hastily left Denver because he de¬ signed the luggage system. Knowing that if Bill ever did screw up he would do it on just such amassive scale, Ithought there might be something to these rumors. Unfortunately, Bill’s life is duller than either of these reports suggested. He did indeed move Danielle and their four kids from Montreal to Denver, but to become general manager of

Steven’s Aviation, a100-employee firm that performs high-grade maintenance of corporate aircraft. Bill says business is so good right now that he can hire as many classmates as are willing to apply. (That’s ajoke. 1just wanted Bill’s heart to stop before he got to this disclaimer.)

Roy NELSON is in charge of missile crew training at Malmstrom after atour at Kirtland where he helped the Russians safely dismantle hundreds of their warheads under the auspices of the Nunn-Lugar legislation. Roy is married with four children, and he keeps in touch with Con BRADY who flies F-15s for the Hawaii Guard when he is not island hopping for Aloha Airlines.

Luckily for me Bruce PEDEY wasn’t at home when Icalled, so Igot to talk to his wife, Jan, who knew all sorts of juicy gossip about classmates. Printing any of it, however, would surely invite libel action, so you’ll just have to trust me that Ihave some serious dirt on abunch of you guys out there. Ican print that Bruce is afinancial planner for Waddell and Reed when he’s not doing his real job—flying for Delta out of Salt Lake City. Or is it the other way around? In any case, they live in Spokane so Bruce could be closer to his hometown of Bonner’s Ferry.

My last victim for this issue was John RABOIN who owns alaw firm specializing in personal injury and sexual harassment cases. John was an air traffic controller in the Air Force, and his assignments included ayear in Thule, Greenland. Has anyone else in our class been stationed there? He got out and went to law school at Arizona State, and during his final year was picked as alegislative aide to Senator John McCain. McCain, an Annapolis grad, constantly harangued our John about how the Naval Academy was abetter school. As if we needed more proof that members of Congress are delusional. In any case, John now lives near his hometown in northern Minnesota (how this differs from Greenland escapes me), and most evenings he is angling for astate-record fish in a stream that runs through his back yard. John keeps in touch with Brian KELCHNER who teaches physics at the Academy and Lenny HEAVNER who does special operations flying at Dover.

As always, 1was unable to contact several classmates who Itargeted this time around for reasons ranging from out-of-date addresses to unreturned phone messages. They are: Andy MILLER, Steve MOES, Paul OTT, Ryan ORIAN, Rich PELICAN, Craig RASMUSSEN, Paul MCMANUS, Wyatt FLEMING, Mary Pat EHRHARD, Paul RAINES, Mike FICA, and Wayne WANNER. If you know what any of these folks are up to, please drop me aline. That’s all for now.

Jim Ratti

8324 Heathrow Downs

Montgomery, AL 36117-5121

Home: (334) 213-5958

Work: (334) 953-7373

DSN: 493-7373

Percent members: 40

Greetings from Montgomery! Unfortunately, Ihave to start off on a less-than-happy note. Ireceived aletter from the AOG president inform¬ ing me that Jim NAPOLEON was killed in an auto accident along the AlCan Highway in Canada on the 14th of July. Idon’t have any other details, but I’m sure Ispeak for the entire class when Ipass along our deepest sympathy to Jim’s wife (Rhonda) and family. If you’d like to send Rhonda anote, her address is'9123 Mississippi Ave, Apt 14-302, Denver, CO 80231.

Well, Ellen and Isurvived another PCS and are settled in at ACSC. It wasn’t very long at all until it started to look like another class reunion. There’s abunch of us here, and I’m sure I’ll forget some of you who Iran into, but here’s the few Ican remember: Dan HARGROVE, Chris KAPELLAS, John AIKEN, John TURACK, Jim BIGHAM, Mike BLAND, Bob BRANNUM, Mark CREWS, Tony KLUCKING, Gary PLUMB, Gene ROHL, Bob SNEATH, and Preston THOMPSON. Ialso know that there’s afew Redtags on the faculty here, Joe REYNOLDS and Kurt STONEROCK among them. Later this year I’ll try to get everyone together for apicture.

Speaking of pictures from ACSC, Ireceived the above from Carla GAMMON, who was in last year’s class. She managed to herd most of the following folks together for agroup photo before they each took off to their respective assignments. They include: John AMRINE (DG), USSPACECOM, Colorado Springs; Rick BURGESS, F-16, Aviano; Ed¬ die CABRERA, AF/TE, Pentagon; Tom CHRISTLER, SAF/AQPC; Kris (INGRAM) CLIFTON, Comm SQ/CC at Ellsworth; Ardie DAHL (DG), SAAS (School of Advanced Airpower Studies) at Maxwell; Tom DIETZ (DG), F-15 at Langley; Liz DURHAM-RUIZ, JCS/J6S, Pen¬ tagon; Barb FAULKENBERRY (SAAS ’95 graduate), KC-135 to Minot;

Jake Palumbo and Tom Parker on the Old Course.

Redtags at Maxwell—Just Passin’ Thru!

Mike FRANCE, F-16 to Hill; Carla GAMMON, AMC/XPPF, Scott; Ken GARRISON, CENTCOM, MacDill; Jeff HOSKEN, HQAF/XOFC, Pentagon; Ben HUFF (DG), 5SLS/DO, Cape Canaveral; George KRAMLINGER (DG), SAAS at Maxwell; Vic LOFTON, SAAS at Max¬ well; Joe MERTEN, HQ AFSPACECOM/DO, Colorado Springs; Craig OLSON (DG), JSTARS Program Office, Hanscom; Rocky REINERS, Titan Program Office, Los Angeles; Joe REYNOLDS (DG), ACSC faculty; Sue (JOHNSON) ROSE, ACSC faculty; Jan ROSKO, USTRANSCOM J-3, Scott; Maurice SALCEDO (DG), no assignment available; Kurt STONEROCK, ACSC faculty; Theresa (STEVENS) TIT¬ TLE, Cheyenne Mountain; Rick TURNER (DG), NATO AIRCENT, Messtetten, Germany; and Keith ZUEGEL, HQ USEUCOM/J-3, Stut¬ tgart, Germany.

As those of you who’ve been to ACSC in residence know, the program has changed drastically from the “Air Command and Golf” days. We do 200-250 pages anight of reading, and I’ve been issued over 135 books with more on the way. The school has embraced technology in abig way, and many of the research projects are computer oriented. We are en¬ couraged to “think outside the lines,” and the focus is clearly on the future.

I’ve had quite afew inputs this time, and in no particular order, here they go. First up is Eddie MCALLISTER (mcallisej@amclmail.wpafb.af.mil), who’s been working in the Special Projects branch of the Reconnaissance System Program Office (SPO) at Wright-Pat. Eddie’s one of the lucky few who got aSPO job, but gets to stay on flying status. Among other things, he’s been one of the test pilots for the RG-8 (a.k.a. RU-38), a“push-me-pull-you” light twin that the Coast Guard will be us¬ ing for covert law enforcement stuff. Eddie and Dave COOLEY got the first flight of this new aircraft, with Dave at the controls and Eddie flying chase. Eddie sent me apicture of the two of them next to the plane, but I can only print three pictures per column due to space limits. Ido have a solution to that problem, though, so keep reading!

in February. Another picture that Idon’t have room for is of Cassidy’s Baptism. Eddie’s sister-in-law is Lucy OLSON, wife of Rich. As you recall, Rich was killed in aplane crash alittle over ayear ago. Eddie says that Lucy is living in C-Springs, and would love to hear from any of Rich’s friends should they pass through. Eddie’s last bit of news is that he saw Tom CAVUOTI in New York awhile back. Tom is working for Corn¬ ing Glass in Elmira.

Eddie and the Cruisers.

Anyway, the photo Ido have room for is above. Eddie and acouple of his Test Pilot School buds got together for afive-year reunion cruise in June. Left to right are: Troy and Vicki JOHNSON; Eddie and Jeannette MCALLISTER; and Denise and Jeff SMITH. As you can see, they had quite the time. Eddie and Jeannette have had an addition to their family, Cassidy Maria, born in November of last year. Another is on the way, due

My next letter is from John TURACK, who’s here at ACSC with me. He sent this picture of his family, taken about ayear ago. From left are Caleb, Daniel, Angie, Bethany, John Michael, Chris and John. Before coming to ACSC, John was working at L.A. AFB in the Atlas SPO, where he was the head of the mission integration division.

Igot acall from Dean VOGEL just before 1left Dayton. As I’ve reported before, he is working for Cirrus Design in Duluth, MN. Their prototype SR20 was featured in the July issue of Flying magazine, and got anice write up. Norm (SANFORD) HOWELL was the test pilot who got to make the first flight in the prototype in March of this year. As you can imagine. Dean’s pretty excited about the project, which promises to deliver avery high-performance light single into the hands of general aviation pilots for about $130K.

Mike BERRY (mrberry@super.org) dropped me an e-mail to harass me about doing ACSC for asecond time. He did have some news to redeem his use of agovernment computer though. He’s learned that when he finishes up his Ph.D. in April, he’ll be moving to the Phillips i.ab at Kirtland. His job will involve simulating directed energy effects on satellite systems.

Mike ISHERWOOD (runningish@aol.com) beeped me to see if Ihad Chris HAAVE’s e-mail (or snail mail address. Idon’t, so if any of you do, please contact Mike.

Doug SANDER (DSANDER@gp808.jsc.nasa.gov) did relentless battle with the Internet and finally succeeded in getting amessage to me from his digs at NASA (Johnson Space Center, Houston). He’s been there since Feb ’90, working on various aspects of the space station program. He’s checked out as aflight controller for the shuttle, and will be working the next Mir docking mission. Doug sent along snippets about afew classmates. Steve LINDSEY is our resident astronaut; Bill MANNING is flying for FedEX in Memphis; Lee HARVEY flies for United, out of D.C.; and At WILLIAMS is a“computer guy” for Price Waterhouse in Houston.

Steve VOGT dropped me aletter (he STILL doesn’t own acomputer!) and included acopy of Tom SYLVESTER’S Clancy-esque thriller. “Des¬ cent.” Ireally got akick out of reading the book. You can really see alot of Tom in it, and he includes little jokes, situations, and references that have special meaning for USAFA grads. Icalled Tom to rib him about the book, and we had anice catch-up session. He’s living in Cary, NC, and fl ies for United Express. He’s married (Mary Ellen) and has one daughter. Tom and Doug SANDER are collaborating on asecond book.

Steve said he ran into Fred DARLING, who lives in C-Springs and flies for Northwest. Fred’s married, and his wife’s name is Heidi.

My last note is from Lt Cmdr Greg KNIFF who used someone else’s e-mail account to send me aquick note. He’s at Youngsan, working at the Special Ops Command there. He’s now on extended active duty with the Reserves, but flies for an air carrier in his civil life. He’s married, with two kids.

And now, achance for the Class of ’82 to take the lead once more. Earlier in this column, Ihinted about asolution Ihad to the picture pro¬ blem. Since I’m such acomputer geek (it didn’t take any time at all for my ACSC seminar mates to peg me as one!), I’m going to try putting

The Turack Tribe

’82-related pictures, news, back columns, gossip, etc. on the World-WideWeb. Since it takes forever for what you send me to make it into print due to long lead times with the publisher, Ifigured this might be away for you to get the info sooner, and have alittle bit of fun browsing the Web, to boot. Don’t expect too much at first—I have to learn the intracacies of creating and maintaining HTML documents. But as it develops, Ithink you’ll get akick out of this emerging medium. Who knows, the day may come when the entire Checkpoints exists only as avirtual “netazine” on the Web. So, try pointing your Web browser, (Mosaic, Netscape, Microsoft Explorer, etc.) to the following URL: http://www.mindspring.com/~rattijm/usafa82/home.htm.

By the time you read this, Ishould have some information there, in¬ cluding the pictures that Icouldn’t print this time. As Iget inputs from classmates. I’ll try to add them to the Web page right away, so that you don’t have to wait for the next issue of Checkpoints. Ishould be able to print more detailed information there, and include all the pictures you want to send me, since Iwon’t have to abide by the size restrictions of the magazine. Please give me some feedback on how you like or dislike the idea and/or the page itself.

That’s about all the news Ihave. Please note the new address at the top of the column, and my new e-mail address: rattijm@mont.mind¬ spring.com. Keep the (virtuai) cards and ietters coming, and don’t forget to put Ellen and me on your Christmas Card List! Be Cyber Safe, RATMAN.

Billy Walker

4202-B W. Muledeer Drive USAF Academy, CO 80840 (719) 472-0237

Percent members: 39

PHi everyone. I’m back for asecond year and nervous once again. Ihad 11 years worth of information to include in last year’s article but only one year to reload for this article, so I’m abit apprehensive. As always, keep your expectations low and hopefully no one will be too disappointed.

For those of you who haven’t heard, the big news here at the Academy this fall is that WE BEAT BYU! Yes, you read correctly, WE BEAT BYU (no, it wasn’t their J.V.). Turnovers aside, this game was the most im¬ pressive showing by aFalcon team in this author’s memory. We thoroughly dominated BYU in all aspects of the game. Not since 1982 have we beaten them—that’s the fall of our senior year! Istill remember sitting in my room on the sixth floor of Sijan Hall listening to the winning fourth-quarter drive as Iserved confinements (oh, how Imiss the good oT days).

As an AFIT student. I’m kind of out of the loop, so Ionce again relied on an elaborate network of unreliable sources for most of my informa¬ tion. Therfore, much of what follows may be fabricated, embellished, or otherwise inaccurate. I’ll first update you on some of the people at the Academy. It seems many have returned to the nest including Rick CAR¬ RIER, biology; Craig CROXTON, behavioral sciences and leadership; Francis CHUN and Gary HOPPER, physics; Brad GUTIERREZ, political science (after his assignment to Hungary was cancelled); Rich FULLERTON, economics; Howard WONG, mechanical engineering; Russell ERB, aero; Keith BERGERON, math; Mavis (THORP) COMPAGNO, computer science, Steve MARTIN, military studies; Phil AUSTIN and Doug WALTERS, Commandant of Cadets; Doug HILL and Alan ARATA, Athletic Department; and Gail BROWN, Wade WHEELER, Craig HALL, Pete MCCAFFREY, and Mac THORN are all AOCs. Mark HEDMAN recently left for Osan, Dave and Sue (NEWHOUSE) ROSS for ACSC and Mark MOYER will be leaving for Hurlburt this fall. Wade WHEELER added that he ran into Fernando VACA in Bolivia while supervising acadet exchange visit. Fernando had been flying the C-47 for the Bolivian Air Force.

Some Academy-sponsored AFIT doctoral students in Colorado are Peggy (TURECK) TOLDY and Ann (GETTELMAN) CAMPBELL at CU and Holly FRANZ at CSU. Jeff BALL is pursuing his Ph.D. at Ox¬ ford. Other Colorado Springs area residents include Ellen (CRAIG) BERGERON who teaches high school, Marty BRODZIK who is an ex¬ ecutive at MCI, Vince COMPAGNO who flies for Delta, and Steve LINHART who is executive director for the Colorado Springs Arthritis Foundation.

My airline corrspondent this year was Bob “Boom-Boom” BARNETT who is aDC-8 F/O with UPS in Louisville. Bob recently spent the day with my family and me during alayover he had in Denver. We offered to meet him in Denver, but he insisted that he come to the Academy and

then mumbled something about an overdue library book. Boom-Boom did manage to compile the following list of classmates also flying for UPS in Louisville: Mark ATWELL, Scott BOSWELL (also flying F-16s in the Guard), Tim EICHOLTZ, Hugh FUNK, Rob GREGOR, Jeri (NELSON) RUE, and acouple others whose names he couldn’t remember. Others with the airlines include Chris AUSTIN (Delta/Atlanta), William COOL (Delta), Frank CURRY (American), Phil DISMUKES (United/Denver), Chuck JONES (UNITED/L.A. and Reserve C-5s at' Dover), Brad “Boog” POWELL (United), and Mark WRIGHT (Southwest/Phoenix). Courtney COLLIER, a767 international F/O with American, also checked in with some airline news. Court is based in Miami, raising abeautiful family, and flying F-16s in the Reserves at Homestead. He said Rick NAVARRO and George CESPEDES are also with American in Miami.

Team Collier: Michele, Court, Court Jr., and Aubrey.

Of course Inext contacted Chris “Swiss” CICERE who also happens to serve as the backup class register in case of apower outage and subse¬ quent computer failure at the AOG building. Swiss is on his way to the Pentagon as atactical deception officer but first spent the fall getting reacquainted with coaching by leading his five-year-old daughter’s soccer team to a...well, a“fun” season. Swiss reported that Lou CAPORICCI was surgically removed from PAVE/LOW and sent to CENTCOM at MacDill and Don “The Cannon” DOMKOWSKI is leaving Hurlburt for PACAF. New arrivals at Hurlburt include J.D. RUDMAN and Lief NELSON as acivilian contractor. Swiss will be joined in the D.C. area by other classmates who will probably be taking the metro to work as well. Blake FENTRESS, Linda HUGGLER, Tom KRISE, Mike RITZMAN, Dan ZALEWSKI, and John ZAZWORSKY all reported achange of ad¬ dress to communities around the Beltway. John JERAKIS was also in D.C. for language school and an anti-terrorism course. By now he should be in Greece as an assistant air attache.

Speaking of Beltway Bandits, our informative and often-times witty class scribe Jon DURESKY dropped me aline from Andrews AFB (with the wrong zip code Imight add—no wonder he never got mail as acadet). Jon was quite despondent over the fact that he “may never be able to wear (his) class ring again” as aresult of awrestling mishap. Knowing I appreciate awell-executed fireman’s carry myself, Jon wrote of his ex¬ ploits in amaster’s wrestling tournament in which he dislocated his finger, like atrue Coach Baughman disciple, popped it back into place before returning to the mat (much to the amazement of the grade schoolers he coaches). After wiping atear from my eye, Iread that Jon and Dan BRUNSKOLE are flight commanders at the 1st Airlift Squadron and that Thunderbirds Darryl ROBERSON and Jeff FIEBIG were kind enough to autograph some pictures for Jon at arecent airshow.

Weddings and Babies. Chuck JONES, who himself was married in May, wrote about Gene PETERSON’S wedding this summer. Chuck said he, Alonzo BABERS, and Bob HEAD were all in the wedding and had quite atime. Dr. Chris LISANTI, aflight surgeon at Lakenheath with the F-15s, wrote to say he married his “British sweetheart Clare” on April Fool’s Day.

Oliver SEARS, an AW ACS IP at Tinker, wrote me last year just after publication that he was married in December to Lezandra McGinnis. Groomsmen included Mark ABBOTT, Jay DUNHAM, A1 GRACIA, and Mark HEDMAN. This year the Sears have more good news with the recent arrival of Cierra Nicole. If she looks anything like mom and dad. I’m sure she is quite beautiful.

My next door neighbor Gary HOPPER and his lovely wife, Judy, had their second boy at the Academy hospital in April. Being the consummate physics instructor, Gary wanted to name him Bernoulli or Faraday, but Judy prevailed with Nicholas Ryan (personally, Iwas hoping for

Chris and Clare Lisanti

something along the lines of Eshbach or Mr. Espinoza). Nick is in good hands, however, as his pediatrician is none other than Dr. Scott “Scooter” HAGEN, chief of Pediatrics at the Academy hospital. Others reporting recent arrivals were Joe DEES, Wynne (BOTTS) WALDRON who had aboy this summer. Bill and Lori (PLOSA) CHESTNUT who home-delivered agirl in September, and Scott and “Dream” BENGE who brought another Vikings fan into the world with their second boy.

date is April 13, 1996. Congratulations, Derek and Jonna.

Ialso received anice letter from Gay (WEAVER) HARRISON. She works mainly at home, raising her two children (Lizzy -4and Jake -2). She also serves as an AFA/ROTC liaison officer. Her husband, Scott, recently separated and works for agrad-owned computer networking company, SDDS, Inc. with Bob FILER. Bob and his wife, Sherri (NOR¬ TON) FILER, have just added their second son to their family. Gay also ran into Ray MILLER who is the new AOC for CS-33. He was very en¬ thusiastic about the road ahead despite the high expectations of taking over the outstanding squadron of 1995. Steve ROELL is also teaching at the ZOO, spending alarge amount of time in the lab. Linda (SAMUELSON) BJORN and husband, Kurt, venture into the Springs to catch avolleyball game, or see someone get married. Linda does program management and Kurt flies for American Airlines. A1 EWING separated this summer and is reviewing job opportunities while living in D.C. with his wife, Bev, and son Mitch.

Gay and family visited Beth (JENCKES) GUTIERREZ, who lives with husband, Mark, and son Danny in Winter Park. Beth works as acom¬ puter manager for Mutual of Omaha, and, as Gay put it so well, “she doesn’t get to work with the animal guy, but seems to like her job anyway.” Beth got Gay rollerblading and I’ll let you find out from Gay as to how that turned out.

I

Tom MAHONEY, who Ibelieve is now also included in the Class of ’79 news, e-mailed awild story about Bob NOLAN who’s flying in the test wing at Eglin with Tom. It seems Bob actually broke off the stick in the front seat of an F-16 and had to “talk in” the test engineer riding in the pit! They both received well-deserved Air Medals. Congratulations!

Well it’s about time for me to close and go protect my yard. Gary HOPPER is really fired up about this football season and is outside with abucket of battery acid burning agiant “83” in the hill between our houses (you know those physics majors don’t have much time for spirit missions—after the Wyoming game he pushed my daughter’s Big Wheel up to the Terrazzo!). My wife, Caroline, and Iwish everyone ajoyous holiday season and hope to hear from as many of you as possible. Thanks to everyone who contributed—even if the accuracy was questionable. Un¬ til next year, take care and fly safe. SCALES.

Mike Jensen

12035 Milam Road

Colorado Springs, CO 80908 (719) 481-5361

1-800-GO-AFA-GO

Internet; REMAX1995@AOL.COM

Percent members: 33

Major League: Congratulations to the Class of 1984. Ican’t believe how the time has flown. Not only are those still in going to pin on those gold leaves, but it has already been ayear since our class reunion. By the time you receive this issue, Christmas will be just around the corner (or just over, depending on printing time), and Ihope this fast-flying year has been agreat one.

To the Mailbag: Ireceived an e-mail from Derek Foster, who let me in on his good news. He is engaged to Jonna Marie Dyer. Their wedding

The Gutierrez and Harrison clans, from left are Danny Gutierrez (6), Beth (Jenckes) Gutierrez, Mark Gutierrez, Scott Harrison, Lizzy Har¬ rison

The Fightin’ Falcons: Besides catching the home games, Iwas able to catch the game between USAFA and Northwestern. It was one Iwouldn’t have minded missing. We got thumped 30-6 by the Wildcats. Itraveled with Jim PRZYBYSZ who was along to tutor the team in math. Jim and his wife, Denise, have three children, and Jim will be up for reassignment soon from the Academy. Hopefully by the time he leaves he will have taught the football team that 30 is greater than 6so we had better score more points! Also up for the game were Vic HAYNES, Bob THOMAS and Keith DULANEY. Vic and his wife, Denise, are living in Chicago as Vic flies the Friendly Skies. Keith and Bob are stationed at Scott where they are still looking for the autopilot on their desk tops. When not work¬ ing, Keith and his wife are raising their five daughters, and Keith is saving his dollars for their dowries!

Bob CHAPMAN is arecent hire with United. He and his wife, Shawn, just had their second child. Daryl SMITH is also at the Academy holding down the fort, working in DF and flying the T-3. Sam COX was recently back with General Hobson from Hurlburt Field. Sam and Tammy had their second child, son Patrick.

John WEIGAND gave me acall and let me in on the following info: Tommy ST ANBURY flies for American out of Dallas. Jimmy MACKEY flies the A-10 in the Guard at Whiteman AFB, lives in Tucson and flies for American. Also flying there is UPS pilot Bobby SULLIVAN who is living in Louisville. Scott WACHENHEIM is working at Rice University under former USAFA football guru Ken Hatfield. As you may know. Rice will be one of six teams joining the Western Athletic Conference next year. Charlie HEATH is living in San Antonio working F-16 assignments. Mike JOHNSON flies F-15s in St. Louis. Joe HERRON is at Fort Dix. Sean PAVLICH flies for American out of Chicago and is in the Buckley Guard (F-16s) with Mike LOWE who also flies for United. Mike KIRBY is alawyer in Miami, and has recently gotten engaged. Pete HARGROVE flies for United and also F-16s in the Kelly (San Antonio) Guard. Thanks for all the updates!

Change of Address: Eric OVERTURE to 5120 N. Camino Esplendora, Tucson, AZ 85718; Capt Caryn L. SENA to P.O. Box 15, French Camp, CA 95231-0015; James J. SIMON to General Delivery, USAF Academy,

(4), Jake Harrison (2), and Gay (Weaver) Harrison.

Oliver and Lezandra Sears

CO 80840; Capt John J. REIDY to 5816A Poplar Circle, Shaw AFB, SC 29152; David A. MULLINS to 592 Fairway Ct„ Ft. Walton Beach, FL 32547; and Bill and Debbie BENINATI to 131 Linnett Dr., Ocean Springs, MS 39564-9727. Also Geoffrey F. JOHNSON to 13502 Chevy Chase Court, Chantilly, VA 22021; Robert G. WRIGHT to 613 Martha St., Montgomery, AL 36104; Jose A, RIVERA to 2428 Mallard Lane, Beaver Creek, OH 45431; Maureen \fOSLOW-BENWAY to 7904 Oak Hollow Ln., Fairfax Station, VA 22039; and Carol THELEN to PSC 54, Box 1718 APO AE 09601 (Aviano, Italy).

Keep in Touch: As is so boldly printed at the top of the column, we have a\ery low percentage of members. This Checkpoints magazine, the yearly Register, and the reunion information are taken care of by our AOG. It is the best way to keep in touch with those friends and classmates of your past. We, as we gain age, rank and experience, have the oppor¬ tunity to voice our concerns and opinions about the happenings of our alma mater. So support the AOG and let’s keep in touch. Have agreat 1996! Jens.

Jackie Charsagua

1701B 9th St.

Langley AFB, VA 23665

DSN: 564-5954

Commercial: (804) 764-5954

E-mail: charsagj @hqacc .xp. langley. af. mil

Percent members: 40

Hi everyone! As I’m writing this, Iam anticipating the great time we will have at our 10th reunion. As you are reading, hopefully you’ll have pleasant memories and have made SOLEMN VOWS to stay in touch with those classmates with whom you’ve reestablished contact. For those of you who couldn’t make it—WE MISSED YOU!

I’m still at Langley and will be here for at least another year and ahalf. What agreat place to be to run into zoombags! Speaking of classmates, let’s get down to the updates. First off, new places.

MOVED TO: Mike CRAMER, from Europe to Langley, AFB; Jerry WELDON, from Schertz, TX to Randolph AFB; Gordy HEN¬ DRICKSON from somewhere in Europe to another place in Europe; Dean HULL, from Upper Marlboro, MD to Ellsworth AFB; Charles E. JONES from Castle Rock, CO to Beavercreek, OH; Gregg CHRISTMAS to another house in Shelby, NC; Carl BLOCK from COS to Mont¬ gomery, AL; Shelly (GINDER) GRADY from Julian, PA to Damiansville, IL; Mark NAUMANN from Europe to Belleville, IL; Richard FRANKLIN from Security, CO to West Nyack, NY; Dan SANCHEZ to another locale in Waldorf, MD; Rob MOSER to Warner Robins, GA; and John AU-YEUNG to another street in Los Angeles, CA. (As always, if you want the full address and zip code, 1have it or the AOG can look it

up.)

Our outstanding comrades promoted two years BTZ have most likely PSCes to Maxwell for ACSC in residence. Both Ian DICKINSON and Steve DEPALMER departed the fix this summer. Had achance to chat with Steve and his twin girls (adorable!) before he left Langley—they were taking awalk around the neighborhood and gave me amuch needed break from mowing my lawn. Steve and his wife now have atotal of three children. Steve mentioned that Mark NOLAN departed in July for Keflavik, Iceland.

ONE YEAR BTZ: Honestly, folks, Ididn’t recognize most of the names on the list, so please forgive me for not mentioning you here. However, Idid catch one: Gary C. CHUN, who may be assigned to a joint job. CONGRATULATIONS!

Speaking of jointness, Pete and E.J.CASTOR live in Virginia Beach and were at Barksdale before they came to U.S. Atlantic Command in Norfolk (Pete is in J5; E.J. in J6). Peter passed on that Rob VANDEBERRY recently moved from Ellsworth to Holloman as an EWO working FOT&E for the F-1117A. Rob has four babies: Siberian Huskies, that is! Ha! Iknow Icaught some of you on that one.

Tidewater Area. Mike CRAMER’s goal was to never be mentioned in Checkpoints; however, when he stopped in my office for business with the recce guys, 1just had to burst his bubble and get the scoop on him. Mike’s been in ACC/IN for four months (at press time), is married and has two boys. Speaking of intel, Brian SELVAAG (also ACC/IN) and his new bride recently joined the Langley crowd. Brian can’t make the reu¬ nion, as he and his bride will be having alovely church wedding in Florida. Dave NISSEN (yet another ACC/IN guy), Maria (SHELLABARGER), and their two girls also recently arrived at Langley and bought ahouse. Maria is trying to get aReserve job in between taking the girls to activities and school (our daughter attends the same preschool). You won’t see them in COS either.

Emmie GUILLERMO finished her nursing degree and has separated

from the AF. She’ll be working in ahospital in Ohio during reunion time. Liz ALDERETE has hung up the AF contractor role and started anew job in high-tech sales in California. Life is good. She and Monica EADY hang out from time to time.

Rob MOSER left ashort note with his change-of-address card. He is commander of the Network Systems Flight of the 52nd Combat Comm Sq and will be deployed to Egypt for Bright Star during the reunion. En¬ joy all those shots you have to take! Marty GRANUM just left Cairo, Egypt where he was working in the U.S. Embassy. He’s wearing acivil engineering hat now at (guess where?) Langley. Marty has three children (all boys, Ithink) and lives afew blocks from me.

GRACIAS! Many thanks to Danielle (HATCHET) HARGROVE for last issue’s write-up. Her phone calls paid off with awell-rounded update on anumber of people. Also want to express thanks to the ’84 scribe, Mike JENSEN, who included our Thunderbird classmates (Russ QUINN and Tony SEELY and their families) in his column. Ialso liked the idea of receiving input via e-mail, so that’s why Iincluded my e-mail address above. Let’s get on the information highway and send me your news.

COULD USE YOUR HELP...Still accepting offers from those of you aspiring scribes who would like to author acolumn some time in the future. If you noticed, our last two scribes are both civilian now and had a whole lot to write about. So if you’ve been considering the idea. I’d ap¬ preciate your help capturing interesting and diverse perspectives of the lives of our classmates.

I’ll be writing the next column unless someone else has aburning desire to write about the reunion festivities AND expresses that desire pronto. In any event, send notes, letters, e-mail, etc. to me at your convenience. I’ll get it to the right place. Thanks! Chow, Jackie.

Gary L. Burg

7-420B IStreet

Elmendorf AFB, AK 99506-1232

Home: (907) 753-9211

Work: DSN (317) 552-9037

Percent members: 34 Wf,

From arecord to adrought, only one personal letter this time around but some news on next year’s 10-year reunion should fill in alittle. Peter YORK was the only one to take time out of his busy summer to drop me a personal line. Pete is aF-15E RTU instructor who recently moved from Luke AFB to Seymour-Johnson when the RTU moved. Pete writes, “My wife, Nancy, daughter Alexa, son Mac, and Imoved out here in Nov of ’94, and have been enjoying small (way small) town life after Phoenix. Been flying my butt off, even though the weather is lousy. Saw Chuck WANEBO on the way to North Carolina. He’s out, living in Grand Junc¬ tion, CO. He has been married for ayear now to his wife, Toni, and he’s working for A.G. Edwards &Sons as astock broker. They are expecting their first child in acouple of months. During the second week in August, Seymour-Johnson evacuated all of the F-15Es with the threat of Hur¬ ricane Felix (Headlines: Fighter pilots flee the storm, leaving wife and kids behind!). We ended up at Tinker AFB in Oklahoma. Ihooked up with Mike THERIANOS and his wife, Sancie, there. He is aweapons director on AW ACS. They have two children, Katerina and Alexe. Here at Seymour there are—no surprise—several ’86ers. Steve KWAST just got picked up for major, still flying the F-15E. Jay HUMELBAUGH is a WSO here in the 334FS. Scott MCLEAN, newly arrived in from Lakenheath, is going through the 1-course in the 333FS. Steve WALLER and Rico BASAK are instructing in the 333FS (as Iam). Saw Stu JOHNSON up at Langley several months ago. He and wife, Judith, are doing well. Stu had just returned from WIC in the Albino. Lastly, Scott TURNER and wife, DeLisa, moved from C-130s at Elmendorf to aflying staff job at Randolph AFB. That’s their home town so they’re very hap-

py.

Idid receive aletter from Theron JOHNSON. He is preparing to run for the Republican nomination in the 5th Congressional District in Sacramento, CA. Theron would be the first ’86er to enter congress so if you’re interested in supporting him drop him aline at 2205 River Plaza Drive, #309, Sacramento, CA 95833 or give him acall at (916) 925-3394. He is looking for our support!

Send your donation now to

The Air Force Academy Fund Association of Graduates

Doolittle Hall, 3116 Academy Drive

U.S. Air Force Academy, Colo. 80840-4475

As far as news from your scribe, Ispent August at Kirtland AFB going through Flight Safety Officers Course school and am now the chief of Safety in the 90FS. While at FSO school, Dave TUCK did across-country in aT-1 from Randolph AFB to Kirtland. His family just moved on base at Randolph and are doing great. Dave and Tracey have three boys that keep them quite busy.

Idid some checking at the AOG about our 10-year reunion and came up with the following information. It is slated for 25-29 Sept with the game on the 28th being against Rice University. This should free up all flyers as the end of the fiscal year usually means no flying anyway—unless your deployed of course. The main hotel the Class of ’86 will be staging out of is the Embassy Suites off Woodmen and 1-25 so get your reserva¬ tions in now. The AOG has reserved abunch of rooms for our class but by getting your own reservations you won’t have to compete for them later. To get the special rate you will have to call the Colorado Springs Embassy Suites at (719) 599-9100 and tell them the reservation is for our class reunion in September 1996. If you know any classmates who are not AOG members, now is the time to get them to sign up. The information in Checkpoints will be invaluable for making plans to attend our reunion.

Before Ipass on the change of addresses, Ihave one bit of bad news to release. Our classmate, David HAWKENS, died in aU-2 plane crash in England on 29 August. If anyone wishes to send anote to David’s father. Col (Ret) Edward A. Hawkens, his address is 1705 Forest Lane, McLean, VA 22101. To date, that brings to 14 the number of our classmates who have died since we entered the Academy in 1982.

In the change-of-address department, Janet AUGUSTINE moved to San Antonio, TX; Gerald GORMAN just moved to the Academy; John RUSS is now at Davis-Monthan AFB; and Mike WARD is in Colorado Springs. As we approach the holiday season, drop me aline to let me know what is going on with you; include photos if you have any.

Bob Cavello

15370 Holbein Drive

Colorado Springs, CO 80921

Home: (719) 481-9181

Office: (719) 472-2020 Fax: (719) 472-2964

E-mail: CavelloRJ@AHMAIL.USAFA.AF.MIL

Percent members: 37

Only one letter, one phone call, one e-mail and no pictures since the last time we got together. The “Cadet Rumor Mill” has been relatively silent, so Iguess what I’m saying is that this column isn’t going to be that lengthy.

Ray WRIGHT sent an entertaining letter which updated me on the cur¬ rent status of every Columbus AFB IP that ever worked there during his tour. As for himself, Ray is now in the Reserves working as an Admis¬ sions liaison officer in Vicksburg, MS. Ray is married, and he and his wife, Rachel, have ason Benjamin who was born in February. Hopefully, as Benjamin gets older and learns to walk, he won’t have Ray’s foreign accent. Ray and Rachel went to David SULLIVAN’S wedding this past June and reported the following sightings and rumors: Sully of course, is now married and is flying F-15s at Kadena AFB. Pat WILLIAMS, our former soccer hero, is now one of the “men in brown” flying for UPS. Apparently he was so moved and inspired at Sully’s wedding, that he got engaged soon thereafter. Jeff KUMRO was also at the wedding and is now flying B-ls out of Dyess AFB. Lee DOZIER and Destry ROGERS were saber bearers. Lee is flying C-5s at Seymour-Johnson AFB and is headed for McGuire AFB. Destry fl ies Special Ops C-130s out of Hurlburt Field. Ray tells me that Destry came back from Turkey.

Vic DALLIN is flying helicopters at Patrick AFB. He is living right across the street from Bunky’s Raw Bar for anyone who may be passing through that area. Ray wrote that he had heard that...Chuck ESPINOZA has afull scholarship to L-1011 school from Southwest Airlines...Moe LEHOULLIER and his wife, Tami (PHILLIPS) have ason named Ben¬ jamin. Moe is acivilian now living up in Alaska...Greg SCHWARTZ is flying C-141s out of McChord AFB and should have had his first child with wife, Julie, by the time this is published...Kurt and Malia (BELL) SPRANGER and their three sons have reconstructed Wrigley Field in their backyard at Travis AFB. Ray and his wife vacationed at Mike DOLAN’S condo in Fort Walton Beach while Doley patrolled the no-fly zone over Iraq this past summer. While they were there, they ran into R. J. JOHNSTON and Ross WOODLEY. Ray asked me to pass on his thanks to Doley for the use of his place.

Alex GILBERT picked up the phone and gave me acall. He, like most folks from our class Italk to nowadays, is acivilian. The one big piece of news Alex had to share (besides the fact that he needed football tickets) was that Brian CHRISTIANSEN is headed for the Vatican to study to become aRoman Catholic priest. Right on Brian! Now all of us Catholic classmates can have apersonal confessor and absolution granter.

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Finally, Ireceived an e-mail from Chris BAKKE. Chris said that he’s working in the 50th Training Squadron as the executive officer here

at the Academy, and teaching aviation in his spare time. He and his wife, Carole, have afour-year-old daughter Alexandra, athree-year-old son Nicholas, and another baby boy by the time this issue hits the street. In closing, Iwant to pass on to you some information that was presented to me and Jeff MCDANIELS, our class president. The follow¬ ing list of names is of our classmates who are now deceased. We must never forget these friends, and by occasionally reminding ourselves of those who have gone before us, their memories will always be apart of us and our class heritage. Gary CHALLISS, 22 Jan 84; Doug KIPP, 20 Apr 85; Steve DELISLE, 5Aug 86; Mark SCHWEIGERT, 3Jan 88; Sean MURPHY, 6May 89; Jim POPPO, 13 Oct 89; Phil PUIG, 28 Oct 89; Mike AYOTTE, 5Apr 90; Keith NYLANDER, 30 Jul 91; Pat OLSON, 27 Feb 91; Jimmy Lee JENKINS, 30 Nov 92; Jim KLAS, 27 May 92; Dwight SANDERS, 22 Apr 92; Mike BRANCHE, 29 Dec 93; Tim SWETERLITSCH, 3Jul 93; and Troy WADDELL, 26 Aug 95. Peace to you all...

Mark Peters

1218 Red Oak Court

Vacaville, CA 95687-7601

Home: (707) 452-0900

Work: DSN 837-7250 or (707) 424-7250

Percent members; 38

How do you know you’ve been in billeting too long? You forget how to make your bed and you can’t stop dialing “9” every time you make a phone call. The good news is that I’ve finally found aplace to live, as noted in the address above; the bad news is that none of you have written...Fortunately, Milt SPANGLER and Steve HARRISON are amenable to pleading. They’ve been meaning to write for the past seven years, but just needed abit of prodding!

We’ll start with Milt’s letter: “BF-RATZ, man! It’s like after midnight and I’m just NOW remembering that I(reluctantly) agreed to help you with your deadline for the Checkpoints class column thing. Personally, I think you’re going to the bullpen much too early; but Iknow you’ve been crunched with the upgrade and stuff and the whole KC-10 transition north from March AFB. So, here’s some stuff. Apologies in advance to all of ’88 for spreading bad poop.

“HQ AMC is going through some serious growing pains trying to figure out how exactly to use their newest asset—not to mention the ramp demolition at Travis and McGuire. Iwas totally stoked to bag aKC-10 to Travis after five great years flying the NINE at Scott AFB. Of course, then Iran into you and now I’m paying the big price. HA.HA. Anyway, as you know. I’ve been involved mainly with learning which button to push to make the airplane fly straight and level.

Of the former C-9 AIREVAC alumni flying out of Scott AFB, Iknow Big Moose SKOWRON and his wife, Lisa, are out here at Travis. He’s driving the C-5 and reports that he has truly found paradise. He tells me that Didi KUO is now in New York at Rochester—trying to nail down that cold fusion thing—after ahardship tour in Hawaii. Ialso know Erik DEMKOWICZ left Scott awhile back for C-5s at Dover. Harry HUGHES is still at McChord flying the C-141 and is doing very well. I also heard that Rob HOWE and his new bride are going to Charleston for atour in the C-17.

“John CHAPMAN had just finished FSO school and was going to join me at the Wing Safety Office at Scott for the C-21 operation when he got picked up for the Crossflow program and went to the TACC there. The last thing Iheard from Tony MUSSI was that he was PCSing to Kirtland to do that Secret-Squirrel-C-130-Stuff. He’s been at Pope for the last five years. Ithink Heath SHELBURN and Brad HAMMER are also out at Pope in the C-130.

“It seems like just yesterday that Iwas trying to remember my third main point; but, of the alumni in SOS Class 95A’s ‘Silent Knight’ flight, Cindy KIMBALL’S out at Dyess driving C-130s. Her volleyball skills coached the flight on to an undefeated record! Phil LASALA was doing great work with DIA and had just sealed adeal to go to George Washington (hope that’s right Phil!). And Kirk JOHNSON kept us all entertained with his Strike Eagle stories...something about getting kieked out of Turkey. You’ll have to ask him, though. Krokus did an awesome job and finished aD.G. (future AOC).

“Enclosed is aphoto of the entire ‘Silent Knight’ crew. Hope this helps you out, Mark. And, please, no more favors, huh.”

Steve HARRISON also got hit up for some info: “Here’s alittle fodder for your Checkpoints column. Although Ireally don’t have much of in¬ terest to offer, Ican mention afew people I’ve seen recently and bring you up to date on the Harrison saga.

The “Silent Night” crew

“Probably the most exciting news I’ve received in the last few months came from Reed YOUNG who announced the birth of his new daughter, Casey. Lock your doors, there’s another Young loose in the world! We’ve been able to get together with Reed and his wife. Crystal, several times over the last few years. They’re currently at Wright-Patterson where Reed is getting an MSC in operations research. The next stop for them is good old USAFA.

“Speaking of USAFA, during my August PCS to Travis, Jill and I stopped by USAFA to visit some friends and walked into avirtual hornet’s nest of 20th Squadron ’88ers. Connie (KEE) SCHLAEFER is teaching engineering mechanics, Mike BLALOCK in physics, Joe DRBOHLAV in chemistry, Dan URIBE, foreign languages, Scott NELSON in geology (I think), and Rick RITCHIE is working in the clinic.

“As for the HARRISONs, here’s the quick and dirty. After commis¬ sioning 1spent three years studying at Oxford where Imarried my high school sweetheart, Jill Worden. We enjoyed Europe tremendously and saw most of it with our two daughters, Hillary (six) and Mollie (four). We then went immediately to Columbus AFB for UPT and then to KC-lOs at Seymour-Johnson. Since the KC-lOs are being moved out of Seymour, we’ve recently moved to Travis.

“So there you have it. Iknow it’s not too exciting, but Ihope it gives you alittle ammo for the next deadline. If the rest of ’88 is as good about writing as I’ve been, you must be the Maytag repairman of journalism.

Recently, that’s definitely been the case. Write!

Paul W. Tibbets, IV

1410 Rockford Drive

Warrensburg, MO 64093

DSN: 975-4138

Percent members: 39

Hello everyone! Well, I’m finally in my new house here in Missouri. Angelle and Idecided to build, which is an interesting and fun experience. Ireally didn’t plan on being ahomeowner just yet, but so far we are glad we took the plunge. The weather is quite abit milder than in South Dakota, and the community is very supportive of the base and the military in general. On adarker note, Ididn’t receive ANY letters, pic¬ tures, or phone calls this quarter. Ihave been on the road, so Ican place part of the blame on that. As aresult, this will be avery short article. I’m sure y’all were busy over the summer, so take afew minutes and drop me aline. My NEW mailbox is anxiously waiting.

While at Randolph AFB for T-38 PIT Iran into Ken THIELE, who was TDY from Fairchild for the Advanced Instrument Flight Course. Ken recently upgraded to IP in the KC-135, and enjoys the Spokane area. He said the move from Beale to Fairchild was tough on his wife, as she is still trying to complete her residency as amedical technician, and Spokane has very limited positions available. Ken is looking forward to attending SOS down at Maxwell soon, and hopes to get back to the Academy in afew years to teach history.

Ialso bumped into Lars LUNSFORD (’90), who was at Randolph upgrading to IP in the T-1. Lars was afour degree in the same squadron I graduated from. After pilot training Lars was aFAIP at Williams AFB, then moved on for ashort tour in the KC-135 before ending up in the T-1. While at the Auger Isaw Mike JACKSON (’92), who was CTP cross-

country from Dyess AFB where he is apilot in the B-1. Mike mentioned this was the last cross-country for CTP, since it officially ended 1Oct. What aHUGE loss that was for all bomber and tanker pilots, as it was a great opportunity to build hours and experience in arelatively inexpensive manner (my editorial comment for this issue—opinions are gladly ac¬ cepted).

Ispoke with Scott MADISON recently. Scott is an IP in the KC-IO at McGuire AFB, where he has been for about ayear. He is flying quite a bit, and working for the wing as the tactics officer. Scott and his wife, Melinda, enjoy the Northeast, but say it is avery expensive area to live.

From the change-of-address cards: Holly CAMPBELL to Altus AFB, Brett DEGALLERY to Dover AFB, and Ralph JACKSON overseas. Let me here from y’all out there! Iknow there are some good 10-year high school class reunion stories. Mine was fun—just about everyone looked like they did 10 years ago, with alittle more weight and alittle less hair (the guys anyway!). Most of my classmates who attended were married with kid(s). It was no surprise that very few sihgle people showed up. See ya next issue. Take care and God bless.

David H. Jones

11762 McCarthy Circle

Bellevue, NE 68123

Home: (402) 292-9377

Work: (402) 294-3298

Percent members: 35

(Editors note: We did not hear from David Jones or Joe Richardson for the fall edition’s class column and assume they are both on temporary du¬ ty somewhere doing their Air Force thing. Please send them an input for the winter edition of the magazine.)

Adam McLean

RR in. Box 31C

Larimore, ND 58251

(701) 343-2596

Percent members; 42

Greetings Classmates,

Amy is attending SOS now, so her ghost writer is filling in this month. It seems that the spring and summer of 1995 was the time for us, as a class, to either throw aparty, get married or both! Alot of people took the plunge since we last talked, so hang on.

Doug YOUNG, who is at Grand Forks flying the KC-135, is getting married to Marie Beck on Sept 16, in Dallas, TX. Doug was taking advan¬ tage of the C-12 CTP program while it still existed. Unfortunately, the money finally ran out and the good times have ended for tanker copilots. Doug’s flying time hasn’t suffered though. He has deployed to Puerto Rico, RAF Mildenhall UK, Turkey, and everyone’s favorite. Southwest Asia.

Doug has been keeping in touch with Chris HOWARD; they went to the same high school! Chris had to eject from aT-37 on 17 Jan. He in¬ jured his knee and was forced to wash back aclass or two. He is fine now. Chris was married to Barbara from South Africa in June 95 and expects to graduate from UPT in Feb 96.

Doug also reports that Randy HENGGLER was married on 10 June to Shelly Krause. Shelly is adoctor who is planning to hang her shingle in the Baltimore area. Russ MAJOR, Eric SEIGRIST, Jason CRANDALL, Mark CHERRY, Aric DIMEFF, Art DAWKINS, Doug YOUNG, Ron TATE, and Jim EISNER were all in attendence. Randy is stationed at Maxwell AFB.

Doug YOUNG and his fiancee also attended Matt WILSON’S wedding in May. Matt married Christy Keltner, aWichita Falls, TX resident in Atlanta, GA. Matt and Chantal (MURRAY) MCGEE, Bart SYKES and his wife all were witnesses to the ceremony. Matt and Christy then went fishing in Florida for their honeymoon.

On the party side, Romero LEWIS is still probably recovering from the self-proclaimed single largest promotion party in the Air Force. There were over 1,000 people on the beach in Hermosa Beach, CA celebrating the affair. Also in attendance were 40 kegs of beer, free food and two live bands. Romero ran into acouple of people he knew at the party—what a surprise! He is abanked pilot and is at SOS as this column is being writ¬ ten. He doesn’t know where he will wind up at the end of all his training, but he is willing to go anywhere as long as he can fl y. Manny CANDELARIA and Chris SULLIVAN are paddling the same boat as Romero is.

Ro also sent along arapid-fire list of ’91 grads and what they are doing and who they are doing it with, but few details. Todd “Dirty” DALTON got married to aSouthern California beauty and was forced to leave the country. He is flying the KC-135 at Mildenhall. John RIORDAN is heading to Charleston to fly the C-17. Mark MACDONALD will be get¬ ting married soon and will begin flying the KC-10. Ed and Robin MONAREZ are moving from Andrews AFB to Davis-Monthan and are expecting anew baby in August. Joyce ELMORE left Grand Forks and she and her new husband, Merl, have finished building anew home in the San Antonio area. Joyce is an air traffic controller at Kelly AFB. Angie WALLACE is at Edwards AFB at Test Pilot School (this place makes the Zoo look like kindergarten). Finally, Bob GREY was married to his Har¬ vard grad school sweetheart in July. After he finished Harvard, Bob went to UPT and is now flying the C-26 for the Virginia Air Guard.

Chris (HARVEY) and Dave BELL were kind enough to send alaundry list of classmates too. Rob HAATAJA and Sean BOSELY are at RAF Mildenhall with Chris and Dave. Rob was married last July to anice lady named Sarah. Sean and his wife, Lisa, stay busy by chasing their very mobile son, Scott. Pat DONLEY just PCSed from Turkey to Mildenhall and is now the chief cop there. Being at Mildenhall, Chris sees alot of tankers going through. Recently, Rhett BINGER stopped in on his way from Offutt to Saudi. Steve MORAES is making Mildenhall aregular stop out of McConnell. Angie PURICHIA is with the ’135s at Robins and occasionally drops in. Finally, Mike HINSCH, who is flying C-21s, is soon to be afather.

Chris keeps tabs on friends outside of the European continent as well. Here are acouple: Leigh MEROLA is stationed in Colorado and is due to be married Sept 9th in Aurora, CO. Margo WILLOUGHBY is married and is forecasting the weather at Scott AFB. Karen SMITH is currently a mobility officer at McGuire AFB. Michelle (DUBOIS) SHAHID is at Kadena with her husband, Joe. Kristine BURNETT is in the OSI (can that information be printed?) at Anchorage. Last but not least from Chris is Brian JOHNSON. He and his wife, Julie, escaped from the C-5 and are now at Vance flying the T-37 in AETC. Does that seem weird to anyone else?

Now for something completely different. Congratulations to Kelly FEDEL! She won the DOD Human Resources Collector of the Year award for FY 94. Dan is currently aC-5 pilot at Dover and Kelly is aHumint officer at Andrews. Dan ZDROIK and Kelly are married and will be moving to Laughlin AFB this fall. Dan will teach budding airmen all there is to know about flying and Kelly plans to teach intelligence to pilots. Is that possible? Dan was also the best man ay Darryl WOODS’ wedding on June 24th. Darryl married Chris ROMAN, his girlfriend of six years. The newlyweds will be moving to Travis AFB in the near future.

As aparting note, congratulations to all our classmates who just recent¬ ly graduated from med school and are by now well into their residency. We wish you the best. And if anyone sees JT TOKISH tell him to drop us aline some time. By the way, it’s Dr. TOKISH now! God’s Speed. 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: 34

Since Iwas leaving for a10-day TDY, 1knew that Murphy would deliver (via U.S. Mail of course) the next request for Checkpoints class notes while Iwas gone. When Igot home and waded through the stack of mail waiting for me, Ifound the AOG letter at the bottom. Iknew then that the time was short; Iwas right. By that time Ihad only four more days until the deadline. Plenty of time. No problem, Ithought.

Last time, Iwrote that John WILSON hadn’t sent me apicture from Jim MEGER’s wedding to include in the eolumn. Well, Iknew that when Ifaxed in my draft for that eolumn, just beating the deadline as usual, I would reeeive the picture that day. It was actually aday or two later, but sure enough it arrived—John’s letter and picture. John is at Nellis with his wife, Sandy. He recently ran into Charles SMITH (C-9s) at Kelly AFB and also talked with Michael Bob STARR who is “working on some muckedy-muck commission at the Pentagon.” Michael Bob is doing well and he and his wife have aone-year-old son, Matthew. If it’s true what they say about apicture being worth a1,000 words then John’s letter was about 1,050 words long. Just kidding, John—thanks for the letter.

Inext got aletter from Andi (MCELVAIN) WILLIAMS who is work¬ ing as asquadron intel officer at Ellsworth. Hubby, Ben, is acopilot on the B-1. Steve HARMON is acopilot with Ben, and Longinos GON-

kFrom left are John Wilson, me. Bob Seifert, Jim Meger, Kip Wiikowski, Brian McGill, and Jeff Philippart (’90).

ZALEZ is an intel type. Also at Ellsworth from ’92 are Gary and Sue (NIELSON) DEYOUNG, Steve MARKOWSKY and Beth (PETERSON)

ELDRIDGE. Andi included some short notes about others: Michael JACKSON—B-1 at Dyess; Laura (CONSTANTINO) and Ron STENGER have ababy boy (Michael) and are also at Dyess; Jason AHLGREN has finished his master’s at UT-Austin and is now here at Ed¬ wards; Clarke and Michele PLEASANTS have adaughter (Ashton) and are headed from Fairchild to Kirtland for helicopter upgrade training; Dan and Maggie SIMPSON are at Mt. Home AFB where Dan is aF-15 intel officer; Ed KOHARIC just built anew house in Tucson where he flies EC-130S at Davis-Monthan; Tania DUTKO left Dover for aPA job at Kadena; Monte ANDERSON is flying MC-130s at Hurlburt Field; Chuck DURFEE and wife, Turiya, and son Zachary are at Luke where Chuck recently had to punch out of aF-16 during training (Chuck, we’re glad to hear that you’re safe; now send us the details!); Jamie WILSON is flying F-llls at Cannon AFB; Scott SANDERS and Tony SCHENK are flying C-17s at Charleston; and Marlee RUST and Michelle LAMONTAGNE recently PCSed to Korea. Hope to hear from you again Andi. Alec MACLEOD sent me quite abit of information. He is moving with his KC-10 unit from March up to Travis. Michele MEYER, Jason and Jen HOPPER, Mike and Gina RICKARD and Wes SCHAEFFER are mov¬ ing with the squadron as well. Wes is hoping to go to UPT soon. On atrip to Misawa, Alec ran into Beau and Lori BOOTH, Tim SUNDVALL, Paul BOVANKOVICH and Eric RYDBERG. Jeff CUOIO helped drag the fighters across from Kadena with his KC-135. Mark VALENTINE, Aaron STEFFENS, and Collin IRETON are flying F-16s at Osan and soon will be transferring to Spangdahlem, Moody, and Aviano, respec¬ tively. And Don and Maura JOHNSON are at Kunsan for another year. Alec has done abit of traveling in the C-12 on the weekends. He visited Tim MARTIN in Portland, OR where Tim has been living since he was medically discharged. Tim works for the city of Portland on their Light Rail System.

Alec missed Mike JANSEN (C-141 at McChord) who was vacationing in Hong Kong with Tom NICHOLSON (RC-135 at Offutt). Down in San Antonio, Alec visited Jim and Lori DUNN, Dave SWANKE, Scott GUNDLACH, and Trevor STEIGER. He also flew out to Pope to see Rob KEIBLER who is having ablast flying A-lOs and living in acountry club condo. Rob filled him in on Ray ALVES’ wedding. Ray married Denise in the Springs. On ahouse-hunting trip to Travis, Alec visited Pete and Andrea GUBSER (KC-10), Rob PEREZ (KC-10 and now engaged), Rob DITTMAN (C-5 and engaged, too), Dave and Lindey ROSS (C-5) and Dan DEWENTER (C-5). Other news: A1 MATNEY is still flying C-27s in Panama, but will soon follow on to aKC-10 at McGuire; Tom MCWEENEY and his wife, Cathy, are at Hanscom; Chris FINNERTY is flying UH-ls at F.E. Warren; Scott SANDERS is roughing it at Charleston in aC-17; Tony KIM is getting ready for med school; Gow and Terri ANDERSON are enjoying the outdoors of Elmendorf; Norm and Tiffany BERTKE and Troy and CJ BRASHEAR are in L.A.; and Ed LEABO, Cory and Dana BOWER, Lance MCQUISTON, and Chuck COCHRAN are all flying F-15s at Elmendorf.

My final letter was from Paul MULLIS who is at Langley AFB with his wife, Nicki, and flies UH-lNs. Actually, his unit is closing and he and John LANCE have chosen to move to MH-53s. Right now their final destinations are unknown, but that’s okay since they first have six months of training at Kirtland. Regan RITCHIE is also flying helos at Langley and has chosen to move to asquadron at Andrews. During Aug, the CS-16, Chickenhawks had a“pseudo-reunion” at Matt MATHIS’ house in Alexander City, AL. Seven of them made it to the party—Todd ELL¬ INGTON (’135s at Grand Forks), Jason KRINSKY (also ’135s at McCon-

nell), Joel and Anita MILLER (C-5 at Travis), Lance WIKOFF (a missileer waiting for UPT), and Pat MCGUIRK who just PCSed to Kirtland to work at Phillips Lab. Greg COOK couldn’t tear away from flying his Guard C-26s in Fresno, CA. Paul says next year the party’s moving to Hawaii!

From left in front are Traci Pruett, Anita Miller, Therese, Nicole Mullis, and Amy. In back are Tom Ellington, Joel Miller, Lance Wikoff, Pat McGuirk, Paul, Jason Krinsky, and Matt.

From the Malmstrom grapevine, Paul tells us that John RADCLIFFE is engaged and moving to MacDill. And Lee ANDERSON is flying helos there and trying to work aPAVE LOW slot, too. While upgrading at Kirtland, Paul ran into Chris HARWOOD who is banked and Mary Jo (DROZDOWSKI) DUNCAN where she and Terry are at Phillips Lab. Also upgrading with Paul and Lee was Tim ZACHARIAS. Paul visited Rob COOK at Wright-Patterson where he is working as an exec while banked. He also heard that Jeff ORR is headed to Misawa. Wow, all that and apicture too.

That’s all the letters. Ithought this was going to be short this time...I guess not. Just as Isat down to write this, Igot afew phone calls from some old Tarantulas. Must have been some sort of telepathic communica¬ tion. Dave KUMASHIRO called from Dover where he fl ies C-5s. His on¬ ly news was that he ran into his old ski buddy Jason COLVIN in Hawaii. Jason has an intel job on the beach. Then Don UNWIN, my old room¬ mate, called to check in from Scott AFB. Last weekend Andy CRUM got married in Indianapolis. Don said the bachelor party in Memphis the week before was ablast. Don, Matt RAFTER, Ken MOSS, Rick BAILEY, Matt HARPER, Chris COLBERT, and Johnny DAVIS (’91) made it to the wedding...oh yeah, of course Andy was there, too.

The Italked to my local fountain of information, Mike ROKAW. Mike has been busy at work and with his girlfriend, Lara, in L.A. He and I went to Art PRIMAS’ wedding in Merced, CA in Aug. Art married Leslie who he met while training at Castle AFB. Gary JENKINS (now develop¬ ing curriculum for amissile maintenance course at Vandenberg), George PETTY (CE at March AFB), Shane PRUITT, Lee COTTRELL (both ’135s at Grand Forks), Jason KIMBEL (’93), and Waylen RICHARDS (’93) also made it to the festivities and boarded for aride on the NIGHT TRAIN.

Mike had lunch with Andy BATES, who is looking to get ateaching job at USAFA. Andy and Donna (DELANGO) both recently military body-building competition at Misawa where they’re stationed. Mike and my roommate, Lyle SHILDA, had dinner with Mike LINGOR who was out here at Edwards supporting some testing with his KC-135 from Grand Forks. Pete DOTY is nearby flying helos at Vandy, AI MILLER and Chris CONNER are both flying out of Grand Forks, and Blaine RASCH is still flying C-21s at Maxwell.

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That’s it for this time. The Mighty Falcons look good so far, and hey, after beating BYU, they could lose the rest of the games all season and who would care? Remember the Air Force attitude: BE CHEERFUL. James.

Michael D. Sundsted

1443A Galaxy Ave. Scott AFB, II. 62225 (618) 744-9604

DSN: 576-4506

Percent members: 86

Greetings fellow ’93ers! Ihope everyone had agood fall and expect everyone will have ageat Christmas and New year! Isurvived the five months of casual status and began my C-9 training at Scott and have finally settled in my new house with my wife, Lori, and our puppy Dallas. My new address is listed above, so no excuses. Let’s see what we have in the mailbag.

Got acouple of address changes to note. Scott DAVIS moved to North Pole in Alaska. Kim KLEIN moved to Grand Forks, ND. Representing our southern moves were Darin BOOTH (to Abilene, TX) and Steve FRANK (F-15 to Seymour-Johnson AFB). If anyone hears of more please let us know.

Ialso received anote about Mike “Eddy” RICE who moved to Albu¬ querque NM and was married at the Academy Chapel in September. Brandon HILEMAN also took the plunge. He and his new wife, Kara, were wed at the Academy Chapel on June 22. They will be stationed at Wright-Pat where Brandon is aperformance engineer. Andy MAAS mar¬ ried wife, Tracy, in Minnesota on July 22. Congratulations on the big step—Been there just did that!

Brice MIDDLETON was also married at the Cadet Chapel to Aimee Brittain Shope on April 1. As shown in the photo, before the wedding her grandfather Gen. Arthur E. Brown, Jr. (USMA ’53) and her father. Col. W. Roger Shope (USMA ’62) placed aWest Point black, gray and gold garter on her leg...much to the shock of her new groom later.

Ireceived an urgent message from Mo BARRETT in Panama. She had abig bash for our promotion/pay raise party on June 2! Those in atten¬ dance were Andy MAAS, Peter BELTER, Job PRICE, Rich CUERVO, Andrew TRAVNICEK, and Jim WOODHEAD.

Mo and Andy MAAS completed their C-27 RTU and are flying some missions down in Central America. Andy, Ihope three mentions of you in Checkpoints will satisfy you for awhile. Andy (that’s four) will fly the C-130 as his follow-on assignment.

Others from Panama: Job PRICE (one of our resident AF Squids) was TDY to Howard through September. “Tank” SHERMAN fl ies Chinooks for the Army and was recently married in mid-summer. Mark BELTER and wife, Natasha, have been enjoying Panama with their two children since Nov 1994. He works in Accounting and Finance at

The group that gathered for Art Primas’ wedding, mthe back row from left are Mike Rokaw, James Mehta, Gary Jenkins and Jason Kimbel. In front are Art, Ted Jameson and George Petty.

Howard. Rich works at the Howard CP and was recently married to Sonya. Jim “Woody” is aweapons director on an AW ACS stationed at Kadena, but was at Howard for Mo’s party. It must be great to keep run¬ ning into familiar 'faces.

While in Minneapolis/St Paul for my C-9 training, Iran into Dave MORISSEY. He was going through aircraft refresher. We went to the Minnesota State Fair and saw Alabama, Faith Hill, and Alan Jackson in concert. He sends his greetings to all those stateside!

Iran into Crista DAVIS and Phil HENDRIX at the Scott BX. We en¬ joyed trading stories for about 30 minutes. Crista is enjoying her time (sort of) at Barksdale and plans to move overseas soon. She had agreat time in Crete over the summer. She had many an interesting tale to tell—so ask her about them the next time you see her. Also, Phil is leading adouble lifestyle. By day amild-mannered AF of fi cer, but when the lights dim and the sun sets watch out! Phil enjoys the music life of L.A. and can be seen in any number of clubs as Dee Jay. Good luck!

Irecently heard from Lee SPECHLER. He’s taken on somewhat of a casual role at Moody AFB and is trying to get stationed in Korea for a change of scenery. Stephen MCILNAY has the same quest for overseas.

That’s about it for this time! Ihave anew address and am looking for¬ ward to hearing your holiday stories! If you have any input for the col¬ umn give me aring or write. Until then, see ya! Mike.

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It’s that time again...I always swear I’m going to start these columns earlier, and here it is the night before it’s due. ..I guess it’s like they always say—If you wait until the last minute to do something, it only takes a minute! Actually, 1almost have an excuse—I only got the suspense the other day because my mail is being forwarded. If that confuses you at all, take note of the address change above—Trevor and Icouldn’t resist the buyer’s market out here and bought abeautiful four-bedroom, three-bath home. We’re still only halfway moved in, but we couldn’t be happier!

On the move...Of course Trevor and Iaren’t the only ones who’ve moved; the following change-of-address cards arrived from the AOG: Deb REUTHER, our class vice president, reported her move from Goodfellow to Moody in Valdosta, GA. Vikhyat BEBARTA has changed addresses in Denmark and Paul KIRMIS (Cannon) has also just moved to anew place.

What they never told i/s...Remember that Imentioned in the last col¬ umn that Jeremy REBMAN was planning to marry Snapper? Well actual¬ ly, we received an “elopement announcement” from them in June—they were married 26 Jan at the Grand Forks County courthouse! They weren’t the only ones who decided against all the wedding hassles—Michelle COOKE (grad school. University of Cincinnati) wrote to tell me about the terrific guy she met last summer in San Antonio, Ben Dale. Well, it was love at first sight and she and Ben went to Las Vegas to get married New Year’s Eve; they were settled in Cincinnati with their puppy Reveille when she wrote but should now be relocated to Edwards. Congrats to both couples!

In the mailbox...Not many other letters have come our way, so get

Michelle (Cooke) and Ben Dale celebrate their elopement in Las Vegas. writing everyone! Thankfully, the letters we did get were pretty newsy. James BIERYLA, Kathy CLEVELAND, and Greg WOOD all scribbled out notes to us, filling us in on the grads in their respective areas. James wrote two days after his drop night at Laughlin to fill me in on his class’ assignments: he took an F-15, Jason COMBS an F-16, Costas LEONIDOU got an E-3 to Tinker, and Aaron FREED (’93) took aC-9 to Scott with aKC-10 follow-on. His class graduated 28 July and in the class behind them were Matt DURHAM, Scottie ZAMZOW, Ian PHILLIPS, Jessica NICODEM, Doug PRATT, Dale HETKE, Scott FELDMAN, and Tom MOLOKIE. Ireally wanted to make it to Texas for James’ August wedding to Lauren Dowd, but it was during “loan approval’’ time for the house and Trevor and Iweren’t supposed to spend any money (thank goodness that didn’t last long!). James promised apicture, since Chris THOME, B.O.B. GOODWIN, Jim KAFER, Jason FOREST, and Dave MEGGETT were going to be there, along with Tom MOLOKIE and Joe KENDALL if they could make it, but no picture yet. Maybe next column...

Kathy CLEVELAND wrote from the Cape, sounding happier than ever with boyfriend Cris BLANCE (’93). In between their picnics, swimming, and other outings, Kathy and Chris have had achance to run into some of our classmates at the gym, including Audrey WILLIAMS (AFTEC) and Steve ROEHRICK (OSI). Paula THORSON and Carrie BISCHEL wrote her from grad school at the University of Minnesota, but they graduated this summer and will be moving on to their next assignments. Paula to Luke (CE), and Carrie to Eglin. Kathy has also heard from Rachel CALL, who stays busy juggling medical school and her fiance, Wes, and Jen KAPPELER, who loves her assignment to Osan and all the traveling that goes along with her job in the OSI. We got achance to see Kathy this June at Rick and Alicia (VALLENI) WAGEMAN’s wedding—Rick and Alicia are now at Sheppard with their son Warren for ENJJPT and maintenance school, respectively.

Greg WOOD just graduated from ENJJPT, Class 95-08, along with six students from Denmark, six from Holland, six from Germany and one each from Norway and Turkey. There were also afew grads in his class, including Britt HURST (F-15, Tyndall); Steve JOST (F-16, Luke); Craig STEFAN (B-52, Barksdale); Brian VAN MATRE (F-15, Tyndall); and Lance WILKINS (F-15, Tyndall). Greg went with the majority decisions as he also took an F-15 to Tyndall. The five with fighters are now at Col-

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umbus for IFT class; Steve will then go on to Luke while the others go to Tyndall. Craig has plans of his own, as he will marry Kathryn Perkins, a young lady he met while in pilot training, the Saturday after Thanksgiving at Randolph. Greg said that there are 20 grads in the class behind them, so hopefully someone will write with their assignments...Until then, Greg has invited one and all to visit the gang when they get to Tyndall in January.

Too lazy to write? No just smart enough to help me beat my deadline...We do talk to tons of folks on the phone—most of whom call the week after Checkpoints goes out! Calls have come in from Carolyn FORNER, James LEE, Jane DECKER, Kurt SCHENDZIELOS, Coper¬ nicus “Pucky” GUERRA, Jesse HERNANDEZ, Rick SHEFFE, and Er¬ nie HERNANDEZ. Carlo bought acondo at Luke and is having agreat time getting to know her roommate/tenant and playing on alocal rugby team (imagine that!). She was bummed that she couldn’t make it to see all the “Freaks” at James BIERYLA’s wedding, but was happy that she got to see Joe KENDALL every so often. Joe is in grad school there at Arizona State and plays on their rugby team, so be stays pretty busy...so busy, in fact, that he couldn’t give afriend of his alift to class so he lent her his car (and acredit card for gas) instead. As Iundestand the story, she disapperared for awhile and returned with lots of money charged to his card because she had lots of bills. Against his better judgement, Joe helped her get aloan to pay everything off and ended up winning anew car in some promotion that the bank was doing! See, it pays to do good deeds!

James LEE called me from F.E. Warren, where he’s got too much time on his hands when he’s not sitting alerts—in his spare time, he’s a lifeguard and an assistant swim coach!

After abrief eight months, my roomie Jane DECKER graduated from Missile Training here at Vandenberg and has now relocated to Malmstrom with Chas PETERSON (and girlfriend Renee), Billy ZUTT, Brian MORRISON, and lots of others. She’s enduring along waiting list for base housing, but is excited that her daughter Regan will be moving out to finally live with her in November. Kurt SCHENDZIELOS called from the Springs where he is working at Cheyenne Mountain and enjoy¬ ing double income, thanks to his wife, Robin. She decided to go through OCS and is stationed at Falcon as aphysicist. That money will come in handy next May, because there’s alittle “Schnoz” on the way! Congrats, you two!

Pucky GUERRA is at Hill, working as amunitions of fi cer and fi nishing up his MBA through Embry-Riddle. He rooms with Harry HEISER (’93) and has kept busy speaking at schools about our fabulous Air Force and entertaining AV105 students. He also says his sister Monica is enjoying married life with Eric STUBBS at Tinker. Jesse HER¬ NANDEZ called from Vance to fill us in on the assignments for Class 96-01: He has an E-3 to Elmendorf; Ed CASTANEDA has aT-37 (FAIP, C-5 follow-on) to Vance; Dave CHACE, an F-16 to Luke; Dave MEGGETT, aC-21 (HC-130 f/o) to Peterson; Paul MURRAY, F-16 to Luke; Dane NIELSON, aC-9 (KC-10 f/o) to Scott; and Mike WITTROCK, B-1 to Dyess. Jesse also asked that we keep Wes HEDRICK in our prayers, as he and his wife are going through adivorce. Hang in there, Wes. Rich SHEFFE (Edwards) called to invite us to Colorado for a Thanksgiving ski trip with Scott SHEEHAN (Edwards, ’93) and Mark WOOD (Pentagon).

Ernie HERNANDEZ tracked me down at work and gave me the scoop on some of the gang at Wright-Pat. Ernie works in program management for flight simulators, basically playing Engr 410 each day, and sees Shawn MADOLE, Darrel MEYER, Kurt RASMUSSEN, and Joe HLYWIAK (now married to Jolene). Ernie keeps in touch with lots of folks via e-mail (his address is HernanEP@ASC-YW.WPAFB.af.mil), including J.R. WEISMAN (Brooks AFR/program mgt); Rocky FAVORITO (Gunter); Angie ERICKSON (Hanscom); Paul MURRAY (Vance); Jerry LOFFLER (Tinker); John LANDIS (Pensacola); Cal FALZARANNO (whose wife just had ason); and James “Big Daddy” DAVIS (Eielson AFB/contracting). J.R. rooms with Mary HARTMAN and Kent HENNINGS, and Todd FOSTER and Mike RITZMAN are at Hanscom with Angie.

This just in...I was just about to wrap this column when Trevor brought in the mail with aletter from Steve BUTTIE. He sent the follow¬ ing picture of the folks that earned their navigator wings this summer at Randolph, including (left to right), Blaine ROCHLITZ (C-130, Yokota); Eric TUCKER (C-130, Pope); Steve BUTTIE (C-130, Little Rock); Chris BUSCHUR (RC-135, Offutt); and Abe FRIEDMAN (C-130, Pope).

Back at Vandenberg...Jeff LINGENS has recently begun doing local area triathalons—he even placed first in his age group here on base...Bill SCHUM is happy to announce that his wife. Tiffany, is expecting their first child...Tom BOUSHELL (’93) is engaged to marry Jennifer Lundy the weekend before our wedding...That’s about it for us; I’ve changed jobs, so please note the phone number change above, in addition to the new mailing address. Unfortunately, Idon’t know how long I’ll be at that number, so it may change again. We’ve been really busy with soccer and wedding stuff, but we’d love to hear from you, so please drop us aline.

Happy to have thosf new nav wings... Happy Holidays! Love and God Bless—C.C. and Trevor.

Andrea E. Rolfe

3625 Van Teylingen Drive #21

Colorado Springs, CO 80917

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Percent members: 66

Iam happy to report that everyone Ihave talked to is doing well in their new assignments, despite the practical jokes being played on them by their enlisted coworkers. (I heard atrue account of amaintenance sergeant tell¬ ing a2Lt to call up Miss Myra Mains at anumber which was actually a funeral home.

Iwas fortunate enough this summer to use space-available travel for the first time. It’s really pretty simple and easy to get on! I’ll tell you the secret—fax your orders to the passenger terminal (you can do this up to 45 days in advance!) and then you will have priority over any other active duty that have been wait-listed after you. In fact, if you happen to fly through Andrews AFB, say hello to Kevin MAGALETTA, who works down in the Aerial Port Squadron. He is living with Chris BISBANO, who is at Andrews doing contracting. Kevin told me that he has seen Don¬ nie ENGLISH and Nikki GUMINA also on base. We both remarked on the fact that you can go to almost any base and you’re sure to know someone!

Case in point—I was able to get down to Langley AFB in early August to visit Jennifer BREVARD and help her move in—it turns out she can’t lift any big boxes because she’s pregnant! So soon, Mike? Unfortunately, her husband, Mike BREVARD, won’t be back to help her out with her pregnancy until after his communications tech school in Biloxi, MS is over with in afew months. But they faithfully call each other and I’m sure their phone bills will reflect that! While down in Langley, Iran into Robin RUSSELL at the officer’s club. He is working in maintenance. Robin was very happy to report that he got engaged this summer to Natalie SCHWANE, who is at Goodfellow AFB answering phones (for the time being, eventually she’ll start Intel training). They are getting married on Dec 29th in Texas. With her in intel school are Sherri COBB, Missy HYLAND, and Kris VANDENBERG, who just married Steve GOOD¬ MAN (’94).

Amanda STEFFEY wrote from F.E. Warren AFB to tell me that she also got engaged to Chris FINERTY (’92) who flies UH-lNs with the 37th RQF at F.E. Warren. Congratulation! They have decided on aMay or June wedding for 1996. Amanda also told me that Rob BARNETT has set adate for his wedding in August of 1996. He is working at F.E.War¬ ren as an SP fl ight leader in the 319th Missile Squadron. Other newcomers to F.E. Warren include Chrissy FITZGERALD, who is aCE officer, and Rob O’NEIL, an adjutant in the 90th OSS. Rob must be making more than all of us because he just bought himself atownhouse! Amamda has also heard from Kristen PALMER who will complete air¬ craft maintenance school at Sheppard AFB in late October, when she’ll head off to Davis-Monthan AFB. She and Amanda went to Ireland and England this summer and had an awesome trip! Jeremy HILTON has also written Amanda and told her about Naval Nuclear Power School in Orlando, FL. It sounds like he’s probably having agreat time!

Also, many of you remember Jenny Mayers who was in our class until December of ’94. Ijust received aletter from her with agreat picture I’ll

Jenny Mayers, Mike Bautista and their new baby, Allison —"You’ll be in that Tweet in no timel”

include of her new baby girl, Allison Grace Bautista! She and her fiance, Mike BAUTISTA (’94) will be married June 29, 1996, after she com¬ pletes her final semester at the Academy. Congratulations to you both! They are down at Laughlin AFB while Mike finishes pilot training. Jenny is doing great and says Mike has been super father!

Jenny also wrote me about other classmates she has heard from: Jess OLSEN, who is doing well at Kelly AFB, and is sharing ahouse with Steve GOODMAN (’94) and Tony SANSONE (’94), Cleste COLVIN who is getting her master’s in English at Southwest Texas, Tara SWEENEY who is getting her master’s at UNC, Julia PRICE who is living in L.A. with Tina WESTFALL (’94), and all the people at Acquisition School in Lackland including: Regina REINHART, Lance CLINTON, Corbett MAGOTRA, Drew AMMONETTE, and Matt SANDLER. Others in Texas (in the San Antonio area) include Kathy DULACK, Renee BARTALONE, and Sandra ACOSTA. She also ran into several classmates stationed at Laughlin: Kathy KENEALLY and Blake MATHEIS (who are both in supply), Ian SMITH, who is in UPT, and Tanya LAND.

Since I’ll be $20 richer soon. I’ll have to explain why—it seems that one of my freshmen roommates, Pam RUSE, eloped this summer with former classmate James McLarty. Pam, Tess MILLER, Julie PILKINGTON,

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Laura BOUSSY, and I(all freshmen in CS-22) made an agreement on assignment night that the first one of us to get married would pay the others 20 dollars each—since all of us thought we would never consider marriage so soon! After Julie got engaged to Scott GRUNDAHL, we all figured she’d have to pay up after July 15th. But Pam beat them—it turns out James asked her to marry him on July 2, and they were married on the 5th. Congratulations, but you better pay up, Pam!

Speaking of weddings, Billeye GLADEN got married to Chris JUAREZ (’93) on July 1in Chicago. In attendance were Kristen PALMER, Amanda STEFFEY, Julie ADAIR, Karen THOMAS, Kris VANDENBERG, Dana DALLAS, and Raquel EARLEY. Amanda reports that it was ablast and we congratulate them both!

One more wedding—Jim FRIEDLAND just called me up to tell me he got married on Aug 21 up in Elmendorf, AK. He met his new wife, Jeannine Carrie, of Illinois, at asummer camp for children that they worked together up in Alaska. They were married in shorts and T-shirts overlook¬ ing abeautiful Alaska landscape just six days after they got engaged! Congratulations to you, Jim and Jeannine!

Lately I’ve been seeing alot of casual status lieutenants all over Col¬ orado Springs—every time Igo out it seems! At Cowboy’s my roommate Jen ROLLINS and 1found Rob GODDARD, Nate TART, and Jeff JOHNSON. It seems Rob and Nate are having agood time processing MRCs up in the Commandant’s office, while Jeff gets 12-hour days driv¬ ing abus for DFF. Other casual lieutenants include Brian BRADFORD, who has been coaching the AH flag football team to victory over the rest of the base, and Bryan CHRISTENSEN, who has been working in the Center for Character Development and enjoying married life with his new wife. Amber. He works with Kyle CARPENTER who is awaiting his start date for SUNT at Pensacola.

Lastly, Ijust got aletter from Wendell HERTZELLE, who is at the University of Washington for grad school. Brian JOSEPH, Phil DONOVAN, Dave MIHALICK, and Ryan WELCH are also at UW, working hard as usual. They have 15 months to finish school, but Dave (striver that he is!) is trying to get it done in 12. Wendell will attend UPT after he graduates in 1996.

Well that’s the scoop for now. It looks like everyone’s getting used to the “real” Air Force just fine. If you have any news you’d like to share with the class, please write! I’d love to hear from you! And send your best photos for me to include, of your weddings or special events or UPT graduations, or wherever you’ve been! Until next time—Keep the Pride! Andrea.

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