Checkpoints March 1971

"THEN AND NOW

18 Sep 1947—USAF Created

1 Apr 1951—Congress authorizes construction of USAF Academy

11 Jul 1955—Class of 1959 (306 members) sworn in at temporary site, Lowry AFB

29 Aug 1958—Academy moves to permanent site

ASSOCIATION OF GRADUATES

Shown in photograph are Lt. General Albert P. Clark, Superintendent, Brig. General Walter T. Galligan, and Brig. General Robin Olds during COC Change of Command ceremony on 27

Editor Frederick L. Metcalf, ’63

Administrative Assistant

Mrs. Freida Weber

OFFICERS OF THE ASSOCIATION OF GRADUATES

David H Roe ’62

President

Frederick L Metcalf ’63

Executive Secretary

Directors

Kenneth J Alnwick ’60

Darryl M Bloodworth ’64

George L Butler ’61

Bryant P Culberson ’63

Neil P Delisanti ’60

Thomas J Eller ’61

John Fer ’62

David M Goodrich ’59

Richard G Head ’60

Alva B Holaday ’65

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Comments and suggestions from members are encouraged. Address correspondence to: Association of Graduates USAF Academy, Colorado 80840 4

Opinions expressed in the QUARTERLY are those of the authors. They do not necessarily reflect the opinions, policy or attitude of the Association of Graduates, its officers or the editorial staff.

The appearance of advertisements in this publication does not constitute an endorsement by the Association of Graduates of the products or services advertised.

The raid on the prison camp at Son Tay seems to have opened the door to publie awareness of the POW/MIA issue. Several of the large magazines (e.g. Time, Look ) have had cover stories on the POW's and their families. I'm sure most of you have noticed the country-wide increase in TV publicity and the widespread use of patriotic and POW-related themes at half-times for the major football games. We had a good show during the pregame ceremonies for the Sugar Bov/1—an extended prayer for the prisoners and an F-4 flyby. If you weren't there in person,, you probably saw it on TV. (Some have the feeling that was the best part of the game.) The problem now seems to be how to keep the ball rolling after this initial surge of national interest in the POW problem.

Some good approaches to this problem have come from fellow graduates who've written in following our first article. We've heard from John Terry (67) in Panama who's interested in setting up a command-wide effort in Southern Command to publicize the movement. (Interested people can contact him at Box 4928, 24th Special Operations Sq, APO NY 09020.) Also, we've heard from Wes Dixon (65) at Ellsworth AFB, SD, who requests interested people contact him at extension 2939 or 2884. Jimmie Butler (63) already has something going at Wright-Patterson. In fact, his letter is so good, we'd like to let you read it too:

I just received the Association Newsletter and wanted to pass on to you an idea we are developing here at AFIT. We had planned to wait to see how well it worked before we pushed it AF-wide, but I feel it is a good one and might as well get working through the Alumni Association and the Cadet Wing, if you agree on its merit.

Our basic question was what can an Air Force officer do most effectively on the POW problem after he's signed one letter to Hanoi. Most of us entering the fight now find that the areas around the bases have already been worked on to some degree. Our conelusion is that a large scale campaign of letters to hometown editors expressing a personal stand coupled with factual information could effectively reach millions of "hometown folks" who have yet to be really moved on the problem. Our belief is that there are people you know in your hometown who are more likely to respond to a plea from you than from H. Ross Perot, for example, as commendable as his efforts have been. Many of your high school

classmates are now in Jaycees, Kiwanis, Rotary, etc., and some of them might personally pick up the ball locally with a little personal push by you.

We have started with a combination of motivation and information. We set up a bulletin board with AF Space Digest articles, Photos, etc., and added some very direct commentaries to try to jolt people out of their apathy. To make it work well, it appears that a good distillation of the facts given to each individual to work from is probably the best route to help get a volume of letters. We are presently working on that. I am enclosing copies of several of our basic letters and posters, etc., that may be of some use for ideas in setting up some similar programs. I feel this idea has special merit for the Alumni Association and the Cadet Wing, because we are probably the only AF organizations with a distinct, geographical distribution to insure nationwide coverage.

Please excuse the letterhead, etc., as I don't have typists at my disposal and I think that this is something that shouldn't get bogged down in red tape. I hope this will help and we'd be glad to have feedback and ideas from you as we have established a standing committee in our Student Council to see this problem th rou gh

I think that hits it on the head. What do you do after you've signed the letter? Jimmie had some really good ideas. The sample posters he sent are very effectivewe can't reprint them here but we'll be glad to send copies to you for ideas if you'll write us.

Some things have been done around here: Mountain States Bell sent out an insert in the monthly telephone bill to about 2.25 million customers in an 8 state area, with a picture of a prisoner in his cell, an explanation of the problem, and an address to write to. A very effective piece of paper! Northwestern Bell (Omaha) has done a similar thing. The precedent is well set - if your telephone company hasn't done anything yet, why not ask them about it? We'll be glad to send a copy of the Mt. States insert so you'd have something to badger them with.

Two of the resident graduates got together here before Christmas and put up a billboard which got a lot of attention. They used the design we've adopted for the leader on this column ("POW7 MIA REPORT" in black and white above) except that they stole a phrase from the River Rats to replace the present words. They used "Remember the Prisoners of War they won't be home for Christmas" and made a very effective seasonal sign. A local agency Mullins Outdoor Advertising Co., donated the billboard space, which turned out to be an excellent location on Interstate 25 inside the C. Springs city limits. Total cost to the two graduates was $35 to cover the ad agency's direct costs for paper, sign painter, etc. A very nominal expense for a very effective action. If you'd like to do something similar, we can send you the basic design in the proper proportions to use on a billboard. You can put your own message on it very easily (the ad agency can handle it with no effort) or if you'll let us know, we'll do it for you. The ad agency just takes the design, projects it onto the proper size paper, and paints it in, so a design like ours can be done very quickly. Most ad agencies, by the way, have slack times in which they're glad to donate space for public causes. Colorado slack time seems to be the winter months your area might be the same. More designs should be forthcoming, incidentally, from the artists in the Academy's Department of Instructional

Technology. They produced the present design and are enthusiastically supporting us. If you have a good idea for an effective billboard but never gotten it off the ground, now's your chance. Send it in and maybe we can work something up.

To further keep interest alive, the POW Committee is drafting a letter to be sent to major businesses in the country, asking their support on the issue and urging them to set up internal information programs about the problem and actions that can be taken.

Besides developing public interest and public support for actions to get our buddies back, we feel that an equally important task is to support the families of the prisoners and missing men during their absence. Some of their problems are highlighted in the "Wives Point of View" column which makes its debut with this issue. Mrs. Clark, wife of the Academy's Superintendent and once a POW wife herself, discusses some of her thoughts and experiences with these problems.

We are beginning our efforts to directly support these families by writing to each of the wives of POW MIA graduates and asking if they would like to be associated with an active group in their area. We are sending similar letters to the parents of these graduates. When they reply, we'll pass their names on to groups in the areas where they exist, and where they don't, we'll try to let graduates in the area know about it so maybe they can start something.

As a further step to increase contact with the families and let them know of our concern, we have begun mailing a copy of the Graduate magazine to each of the wives. With this issue, we are also picking up the parents of both the graduate and his wife, feeling that their anguish can certainly be no less than the wife's. We hope that they will begin to feel some measure of our concern and support for them.

FACTS for you:

A total of 1,559 men are prisoners or missing in SEA:

In North Vietnam, 378 are presumed prisoners, and an additional 412 are missing in action.

In Communist areas of South Vietnam, 78 are prisoners and 461 are missing in action.

In Laos, 3 are listed as prisoners and 227 are missing.

We are concerned about all these men, not merely those in North Vietnam. If our efforts seem mainly directed toward Hanoi, it is because we feel the North Vietnamese have a great degree of control over their forces and their allied forces in the other countries. We strongly urge that any mention of POW's in Southeast Asia include all U.S. prisoners and that none be excluded from any agreement which may ensue.

MAJ WAYNE 0. JEFFERSON

MAJ RICHARD G. HEAD

Subcommittee on MIA/POW Action

On 27 January Brigadier General Robin Olds ended more than three years as Commandant of Cadets. In Change of Command Ceremonies held on the terrazzo General Olds turned over command to Brigadier General Walter T. Galligan. General Olds will become U.S.A.F. Director of Aerospace Safety at Norton AFB, California.

General Olds was presented the Distinguished Service Medal by General Albert P. Clark, Superintendent. The accompanying citation read in part: "In this important and demanding assignment, General Olds displayed exceptional initiative, leadership and executive judgement in directing the military phase of the United States Air Force Academy mission... His personal efforts in increasing cadet participation and involvement in Academy policy significantly improved the morale of the cadets and gave the Cadet Wing an appreciation of the complexity of the many problems of today and an identity with the solutions."

General Galligan is the seventh Commandant of Cadets at the USAFA. Prior to being assigned as Commandant, he was Director of the Tactical Air Control Center, Headquarters Seventh Air Force, Tan Son Nhut AB, South Vietnam.

Frederick L. Metcalf, Editor

EDITORIALCOMIVENT

Here it isour first crack at putting together a magazine! The old "sixpager" has come a long way in a few short years. In January 1969 the decision to add an expanded newsletter every quarter was announced. Now, two years later, the time has come to publish a magazine. Experience gained in publishing six editions of The Quarterly has shown that there are many advantages in leaving the basic newsletter format and going to a magazine. One that immediately comes to mind is that it will be easier to sell advertising in a magazine, and, with increased revenue from that activity, we can provide more and better services to you. But, more significantly, a magazine will be a better vehicle to pass on more varied types of information to you. For example, a Letters to the Editor type column will be added to the spring issue. The new column will be an excellent way to let members of the Association know what other members are thinking about. As another example, this first issue already contains a new column. It's called A Wife's Point of View I receive many letters from graduates' wives expressing interesting thoughts on the activities of the Association. Why not experiment and see if a wives column might not fill a need?

We can do many things with a magazine. I hope you will let us know your reaction to it. Send along your comments and ideas. One area in which you can immediately help is in the selection of a title for the magazine. The Executive Committee wants to hear from the membership before naming it. Some suggested titles already include: "Checkpoints," "The Cadet," "The Falcon," and others. The spring issue will bear the title that is finally selected.

I wish that we c to insufficient past newsletters completely types sible time frame ould afford revenue, we I regret et magazine to wi th un types e 11 have at we w til 197 t the entire ma to type the te i 11 probably no 2 f and that wou gazine. xt as has t be able Id be the Howe bee to ear ver, due n done for go to a liest pos-

The Executive Committee has approved a very tight budget for 1971, and, along with it, a necessary change in the number of newsletters published each year. The 1971 budget will be tight due in part to the recently established Lifetime Membership Program. The response to the new program has been nothing short of astounding. However, one problem that has been created by its success is a very sharp decrease in annual dues for 1971, a far greater decrease than had been expected. Since the majority of new life members will probably not pay the full $100 fee until near the end of this year, we will not be able to realize much interest over the year to compensate for the large decrease in annual dues. The Executive Committee does not want to draw upon the principal of the Life Membership Fund unless it becomes ab solutely necessary. The shortage of operating funds for 1971 has forced the Committee to make a decision regarding newsletters sooner than it probably would have could more annual dues have been expected. There wiil be only one newsletter published between each edition of the magazine. 'Previously,

two newsletters were published between issues of The Quarterly. The same decision would have been made in the not too distant future even if there were no tight budget to force the issue. With an expanded newsletter every third month, such as The Quarterly and now with a magazine, there is no need for a second newsletter relative to the amount of newsworthy information available for publication. There is a need, however, for at least one newsletter between each edition of the magazine in order to bring you timely information on a variety of subjects, such as graduate losses, elections, social events, etc. To summarize, the 1971 publication schedule for the newsletters, the magazine, and the Register of Graduates will be as follows:

Pub 1ication Date in Mail Publication Date in Mai1 Newsletter

Edition No. 1 15 March Magazine

Winter Issue 26 February

Edition No. 2 1 July Spring Issue 17 May

Edition No. 3 1 Oc tober Summer Issue 16 Augus t

Edition No. 4 1 D e c e mb e r Fall Issue' 15 Novembe r Register of Graduates

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November

Graduates are pitching in and helping our subcommittee on POW/MIA Action. The POW/MIA Report in this issue of the magazine describes some of the reactions of alumni. I think I should mention one generous act of a '66 grad to assist the subcommittee. Rather than send him a Christmas present, he asked his parents to donate the money to the subcommittee for assistance in carrying out its projects. It's that kind of unselfish, individual support that brings about success in any organized effort.

By now some of you have undoubtedly heard of an organization which calls itself "Concerned Academy Graduates." The organization was formed by a small group of service academy graduates in early 1970. It's goal is to cause the immediate and total withdrawal of American armed forces from SEA. It hopes to do this by bringing public pressure upon government officials. To the best of my knowledge the organization is made up of graduates who are no longer on active duty. Our Board of Directors has adopted the following position statement concerning the organization:

To preclude public misunderstanding concerning its own policies and objectives, and while maintaining its support of the right of these individuals to dissent from the policies of the government, the Board of Directors of the Association of Graduates, USAF Academy, declares that the organization called "Concerned Academy Graduates," is in no way affiliated with the Association of Graduates

Let me hear what you think about the magazine, and about any activities of the Association of Graduates. If you would like to see a particular letter included in the future Letters to the Editor column, please indicate that on the envelope or in the text of the letter.

What programs should the Association of Graduates undertake? When? Why? How? These are the questions the Executive Committee has been wrestling with for some time- On at least two of the programs the help of the membership is needed before further progress can be made. They are a proposed group life insurance program and a mail order gift program.

GROUP LIFE INSURANCE PROGRAM

The primary reason for looking into the establishment of an Association of Graduates' Life Insurance Program concerns the funding of the Memorial Education Fund. A continual and significant source of revenue is required to get the Education Fund off the ground. This will be true regardless of what form the program takes - either outright grants or low-interest loans. One type of program would obviously require more capital than the other; however, in both cases a very significant amount of funds are necessary. The critical consideration is to avoid tying the Association down to having to expend most of its resources in only supporting the Education Fund. There are other equally worthwhile activities that the Association may wish to become involved in - activities that will also require significant outlays of capital. Thus, the idea of establishing a group life insurance policy as the main source of revenue for the Education Fund seems to hold great promise.

There are two ways in which the insurance program would provide revenue to the Association. First, a small percentage of the gross annual premium collected would be retained to cover the administrative costs of operating the program. Any excess funds from the percentage could be used for the Education Fund, or any other activity the Board of Directors decided needed funding. The Memorial Education Fund would receive the greatest financial support from the second way in which the insurance program would produce revenue. Policy-holders (members of the Association) would be asked if they wished to sign over to the Fund their annual dividend, or a portion thereof, that is paid in any policy year.

Beginning with these ideas, over 40 insurance companies were contacted for possible interest in underwriting the group policy. Due primarily to the very high mortality of graduates (four to five times the normal) only six companies were willing to make proposals. Of the six, only three made realistic proposals based on the objectives established by the Association. The proposals were reviewed by the Executive Committee. United American Life of Denver, which has handled the cadet insurance program since 1958, was

selected as the company with the best proposal. United American is prepared to present the master policy to the Association for acceptance.

The unanswered question that remains is what will the reaction of the membership of the Association be to the program. How many members will elect to purchase a policy? Because of the current high mortality of graduates, the success of the program depends essentially upon a large percentage participation. Therefore, before a "go" or "no go" decision can be made on initiating the life insurance program, a survey of the interest among the membership must be made. Review carefully the proposed benefits and costs of the policy as shown below. Then, answer the questions on the enclosed post card and forward it to the Association of Graduates before 31 March 1971.

PROPOSED ASSOCIATION OF GRADUATES GROUP LIFE INSURANCE POLICY (Term Coverage)

QUALIFICATIONS

1. Graduate must be a member of the Association of Graduates.

2. Graduate must have at least three years active duty time following graduation.

BENEFITS

1. For Rated and Non-rated Graduates.

* Death benefits for aviation accidents will be $15,000 regardless of age if the insured was the pilot or crew member of the aircraft involved.

2. For other than war causes, up to $20,000 additional benefits for accidental dismemberment or loss of sight from any one accident.

3. For other than war causes, $200 monthly income up to 100 months for disability due to an accident if disability commences within 90 days of the accident.

4. Family protection rider of $1000 coverage on each dependent.

PREMIUM

1. For single graduates - $10.00 per month.

2. For married graduates - $10.50 per month.

GENERAL NOTES

1. Because the insurance program, if it is established, would be the primary source of revenue for the Memorial Education Fund, policy-holders would not only be purchasing term insurance but would also be providing a means through which their children could attend college. The Education Fund, as currently being envisioned, would provide low-interest loans with very liberal pay-back provisions.

2. The second qualification pertaining to three years active duty time is a temporary restriction needed to protect the policy. The time will gradually be decreased to zero as the number of war deaths decline.

3. There is no war clause. Graduates would be able to purchase the policy even though serving in a combat zone at the time of application.

MAIL ORDER GIFT PROGRAM

What items would graduates like to be able to purchase through the proposed mail order gift program? Glassware and blazer patches with the seal of the Association of Graduates are two products that might be popular. Indicate on the enclosed post card those items that you would like to see incorporated as part of a product-line that could be offered in the mail order program. Please forward the card to the Association of Graduates before 31 March 1971.

SEARCH FOR 1965 AND 1967 YEARBOOKS

The Association is attempting to locate copies of Polaris yearbooks for the families of two deceased graduates. The parents of Captain Richard Chorlins, '67, would like to obtain a copy of the '67 Polaris. The family of Captain Steve Melnick, '65, would like to have a copy of the '65 Polaris. Graduates are asked to contact the Association of Graduates if they know of where either of these two editions of the Polaris can be located.

A WIFES POINT OFVIEW by Mrs. Elaine Head

A Wife's Point of View is a new concept in the Association magazine and is the brain child of Fred Metcalf. It seems the Association receives a great deal of mail from graduates' wives. We are now being given the opportunity to express and discuss our views publicly.

The article, as we perceive it, will cover issues we deem important. These will inelude the POW/MIA situation, the problems faced by widows of graduates, the unique situations faced by our foreign wives and any other issue you feel we should discuss. We may even do feature articles on an outstanding graduate's wife. Let us know your ideas. We want your help in identifying what needs to be discussed. We know it will be impossible to please all of you, but we hope through resource people in the area to cover many points of view. The articles will not always be written by me. Sarah Stebbins is my right hand gal, and different wives will accompany us on interviews or in some cases participate in these interviews.

MRS HEAD

An issue of paramount importance to us living in the Colorado Springs area is the POW/MIA wife. Many of the graduates missing in action or prisoners of war married Colorado girls who have now returned "home" to wait. Other wives are drawn to the Academy for warmth and support. They are daily reminders of a problem for which we have no solution. We want to help them now and when, God willing, their husbands return. We asked Mrs Albert Clark, wife of the Superintendent, for help. General Clark was a POW from July, 1942 until the war ended in Europe. Mrs Clark is a very gracious woman, full of warmth and humor, but she is also strong and resourceful. Her father was a West Point graduate, so all her life has been in a military environment. She married General Clark one year after his graduation from West Point in 1936.

Mrs Clark was able to tell us the exact events of the day General Clark was shot down. "I had looked at the front page of the San Antonio paper, and it had a picture of six men that I knew were all squadron commanders from the 31st Fighter Group. The paper said

MRS CLARK

that one pilot had not returned from a raid on France. It never occurred to me that it was Bub. At dinner I received a long distance phone call from a cousin of Bub's in Washington. She said, 'Carolyn, is there anything I can do for you?' I said, 'I'm fine and the kids are all fine; I'm living with my father.' Then she said, 'Are you sure there is nothing I can do?' I said, 'No, it's ridiculous, what could you do?' She said, 'You mean you don't know...that Bub is missing in action over France?' And then it was though someone had poured icewater over me. I said I didn't know and hung up.

"Bub's brother-in-law was stationed in Washington, and he had told her that he was sure that I had been notified. The next day I got about fifty copies of a telegram signed George Marshall, 'Deeply regret to inform you that your hushand is missing.' The papers got the notice the same day, and they published the notice along with his picture."

A month after he was shot down Mrs Clark was notified that her husband was a POW. She had three small children: Mary, six months; Albert, Jr., 2 1/2 years; and Carolyn, 3 1/2 years. She related, "When I got the report he was a prisoner of war, we had a big celebration. The whole family celebrated; all the children were at the table. We got out the brandy, and we lit candles because daddy was alive 1 (After all, MIA means dead or aliveno one knows. It's the hardest of all to me.)

Not all the reactions of the women who received messages that their husbands were POW's were as gay. Some wives went into the same kind of emotional trauma that the MIA's wives went into. I then realized that this situation was a critical time in any wife or mother's life. I called the local newspaper and asked if they would come out and interview me.

I requested this interview in order to be able to pass on all information that I had on POW's to those who had received messages reading only, 'Deeply regret to inform you your husband (or son) is a POW in Germany.' I gave my phone number and asked that any person who wanted to call me do so. After the interview I received calls and letters from all over the country asking, 'What can you tell me? What should I do?' I gave them all the information I had, and hoped that it would help other wives and mothers in the same position."

Later, Mrs Clark and Mrs John K Waters (General Patton's daughter) whose husband was a POW in Germany, started a nationwide magazine, Relatives of POW's Mainly through Mrs Waters tremendous efforts in Washington this became a most successful and rewarding operation. "Without Beatrice Patton Waters' effort and untiring work this national organization could never have been successful," Mrs Clark related. They worked to contact all prisoners' relatives and asked them to send any information they got. It went out to every single POW wife they could find in the country. Mrs Clark and Mrs Waters remained active in this organization until the end of the war. (Mrs Waters passed away a few years after the war ended. General Waters retired as commander of the Army in the Pacific with four stars.)

We asked her about the adjustments of rehabilitation (an issue in which Jill Lockhart is very involved since Hayden has been a POW since the spring of 1965). I told Mrs Clark that I felt a man's relationship within his family has to be a personal thing because each family is different. There is nothing we can do to help within the immediate family, but we are wondering what we as wives and graduates can do in a social context to help these men

when they return. Some believe rehabilitation is a distant problem, but I feel efforts to ease the adjustment for the POW and his family must begin before the men return.

Mrs Clark: "Well, you have to face it, there is a tremendous adjustment. My children went three years, actually almost four, without their father. As it turned out, he was home only one day - December 7, 1941 - between the Louisiana maneuvers (July 1941) and shipping out (May 1942).

"When he returned, the children didn't even know him. Mary, the youngest child, who was always shy, hid behind a chair and only came out to grab a doll her father had bought for her in Paris. I had tried to prepare them for Daddy's return for three years, but it was difficult."

Question: "Did you feel that you had also changed a lot?"

Mrs Clark: "Yes, I had to become a mother and a father. There were a certain number of men who came back who could not readjust. Some ended their marriages and others to this day will not even mention being a prisoner. I think the men who will not talk about it have a bigger problem. When those who talk get together now, you hear all of the funny things that happened. But the ones that wouldn't discuss it are the ones who have had a much more difficult problem with themselves and I think with their families."

Question: "Did it have anything to do with the length of time that they were prisoners?"

Mrs Clark: "Well, actually, the one man I know who has been adamant throughout the years was a prisoner for only one year. It's mostly personality. But being a prisoner has a definite psychological effect. They're different, their outlook is different and it takes different forms. For awhile Bub thought his career in the Air Force was finished! When he went to the Armed Forces Staff College he was ready to resign because of the public speaking problem, believe it or not! He finally said he thought he wanted to resign, as his career was wrecked because he had spent three years as a POW. He felt that all his classmates were ahead of him. I said, 'OK, you do what you want to do, but think carefully. I'll go along with whatever you decide.' Of course, he finally decided to stay in, and he took a special course in public speaking. He accepted every offer to speak until he overcame his problem, which he has obviously done.

"He was shy; he still is to a degree. When they finally separated the Air Force from the Army and the list came out, he was rated in the same position as he had been in his own class at West Point. That was very reassuring, and he has certainly proved that having been a POW hurt neither his career nor his family. This is true of many, many POW's from WW II. But the readjustment takes awhile."

Question: "Did any of your friends or his friends do anything in particular that helped both of you to make this readjustment?"

Mrs Clark: "The most important thing your friends can do is to leave you alone unless you ask them for help. The best friends and the biggest help were those whose husbands had been prisoners. We would get together in groups because we were making the same adjustment. This group has been very close in the past twenty-six years. Many of the men have gone on to become generals and many are still on active duty. Each year these former POW's have a reunion, and each year 500 to 600 men attend. They have even invited some of the German camp commanders and senior NCO's to these reunions, so you can see the bitterness is gone. But the main help with the adjustment was within the family itself.

Mrs Clark was able to talk about those three years as a POW wife with humor and compassion. Her family must have indeed worked out the readjustment problem as General Clark has had an outstanding career. Their oldest daughter is the wife of an Air Force lieutenant colonel, and their son is an Air Force fighter pilot (Captain) flying the F-4. He has two years of SEA duty to his credit and has six months left in this tour. She said these years of war have been difficult for her as her son and son-in-law have both had tours in Southeast Asia. But with great love and understanding she has held her men "tight with open arms."

A previous edition of The Quarterly contained a new column entitled Executive Committee Proceedings Since it first appeared, the column has been an on-again - off-again article. The purpose of the column was to inform the membership of the projects, programs and policies its officers were considering and the final outcome of deliberations on each new proposal. The column is being included as a standard article within the magazine. The comments of members are encouraged. The Letters to the Editor column will be an excellent vehicle for the exchange of ideas.

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The 1970 Financial Report for the Association of Graduates (see page 20 ) lists 17 separate graduate memorial funds that the Association is administering. In addition to the funds handled by the Association, the Alumni Foundation administers 34 memorial funds, totalling about $62,000. The general operating procedure calls for the Association to administer alumni memorial funds and for the Foundation to handle all other funds. The Foundation also handles funds other than for memorialization of individuals. These include such funds as the Mission Support Activities Fund and the Academy Cemetery Fund. People seeking guidance to establish a memorial fund at the Academy may contact either the Association of Graduates or the Alumni Foundation (Attention: Colonel Brice Macartney). A memorialization brochure is available to assist in deciding upon appropriate forms of memorialization.

The Captain George R Keller Memorial Fund has been established at the Academy. Donations may be sent to the Association of Graduates.

At the request of the family of the late Major James R Weaver, Class of 1959, the memorial fund established in his memory was donated to the Tan Ti Orphanage in Phan Rang City, South Vietnam. Gil Mook, '67, is shown at the left presenting the check to Sister Marie Aimee DeJesus. Also in the picture are Craig McKinney (left), '65, and Bill Taylor (right), '68.

Mr George W Nicholas, Class of 1965 and former member of the 20th cadet squadron, died as the result of an illness on 14 December 1970. His funeral was held at the USAF Academy on 17 December 1970. He is survived by his wife, Carrie, of 2336 South Linden Court, Denver, Colorado 80222; and by his father, Mr Manuel Nicholas, of Route 1, Box 134, Wellsburg, West Virginia 26070.

On 28 December 1970 Captain James L Smith, Class of 1967 and former member of the 7th cadet squadron, was reported missing in action while on an operational mission in Laos. His OV-10 aircraft did not return to friendly control. Location of the wreckage indicated that the aircraft had been struck by antiaircraft fire and crashed. His status was changed to killed in action on 8 January 1971. Funeral services were held in his hometown of Winchester, Wisconsin. Captain Smith is survived by his parents, Mr and Mrs Leonard A Schmidt, Route 1, Larsen, Wisconsin 54947.

On 29 November 1970 Lt Elmon (Mike) C Caudill II (left), Class of 1968 and former member of the 12th cadet squadron, and Lt Charles L Kollenberg (right), Class of 1968 and former member of the 4th cadet squadron, were reported missing when the C-123- aircraft, on which they were passengers, crashed 10-15 miles south of Cam Ranh Bay AB. Their status was changed to deceased on 17 December 1970. Lt Caudill is survived by his parents, Mr and Mrs Elmon Caudill, 202 Sunset Drive, Berea, Ohio 44017. His funeral was held at the USAF Academy on 30 December 1970.

Lt Kollenberg is survived by his parents, Mr and Mrs Conrad H Kollenberg, 710 Hunters Grove, Houston, Texas 77024.

On 30 December 1970, Captain Park G Bunker, Class of 1963 and former member of the 18th cadet squadron, was killed in action while on an operational mission in Laos. His 0-1 aircraft was apparently struck by hostile ground fire and crashed. He is survived by his wife, Janet, and son, Gary, of 4112 Lindenwood Drive, Apartment 2-B, Matteson, Illinois 60443; and by his parents, Mr and Mrs Francis M Bunker, of 931 Arquilla Drive, Unit 131, Glenwood, Illinois 60425.

Mr John Miko, Class of 1962 and former member of the 12th cadet squadron, died as the result of cancer on 14 January 1971. His funeral was held at the USAF Academy on 18 January 1971. He is survived by his wife, Rosemary, of 15052 Genoa Circle, Huntington Beach, California 92647, and by his parents, Mr and Mrs John Miko, of 1703 Romany Drive, West Mifflin, Pennsylvania 15122.

On 30 January 1971, Captain Kent J O'Brien, Class of 1967 and former member of the 7th cadet squadron, was killed in an automobile accident near Homestead AFB, Florida. Funeral services were held at the US AF Academy on 2 February 1971. He is survived by his parents. Colonel and Mrs Joseph T O'Brien, 7507 Gentry Lane, Dayton, Ohio 45424.

On 13 November 1970 Lt James (Bud) D Hoppe, Class of 1968 and former member of the 12th cadet squadron, was listed as missing. He was flying a U-10 aircraft over Costa Rica during a search operation. He was listed as missing after he failed to return to his base. Lt Hoppe's wife, Sandra, lives at 2420 West Lunt Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60645.

OF SECONDARY PROMOTIONS TO MAJOR

Of the 124 secondary zone list published in January and 1964. The new majors

Class of 1962

Robert F Anderson

William A Browning

Michael J Butchko Jr

John L Carroll

John C Dinsmore

Ar thu r D Far r in gt on

Fr ede ri ck A F i e dl er

Ch es t e r W Gr i f f in Jr

St e ve W N i e 1 s on

Pa ul K Robin s on J r

Pe ter D Rob i n s o n

promotions to the grade of major on 49 were graduates from the classes to be are: the latest of 1962, 1963,

Class of 1963

Joseph J Cox Jr

Lawrence R Eastman

Leonard C Ekman

Richard E Guild

Robert 0 Heavner

William J Hentges

Joe L Hicks

James L Jamerson

Michael J O'Connell

Richard J O'Lear

Robert G Pollock

James R Thyng

Norman E Wells

Ralph F Wetterhahn

Class o f 1964

Gary L Anderson

Joseph A Bavaria

Ri chard A Bedarf

Rob e rt D Clark

Stephen B Croker

Thomas E Eggers

Ralph H Grah am

Evan J Griffith

Edwin L Harvey

Ri chard E Hawley

Leros F Hull Jr

Paul G Kaminski

Clifford R Kriegi

Je f frey A Levy

Robert A Lodge

Trusten A McArto:

J arrett B McGehei

Michael D Pavich

Alan V Rogers

Ronald N Running

Richard H Slye

Gary H Smith

Mack Th i es

Harold E Watson

Summarizing, 25 from '62 and 37 from '63 have been promoted in the secondary zone. These figures compare to 25 from '59, 14 from '60, and 25 from '61.

3,260.85 $72,791.77

Liabilities and Net Worth

Continued from page 14

The Executive Committee makes all decisions on the expenditure of Association funds with one exception. The Executive Secretary is authorized to expend funds up to a limit of $50 in the operation of the Association office. Otherwise, he works within a budget established by the Executive Committee. For example, at its January meeting the Committee approved the expenditure of $9000 for newsletters, magazines and other printing requirements during 1971. The Executive Secretary as Editor of Association publications must work within that budgeted amount. The approval of funds for the publishing of the Register of Graduates is a separate item in the budget. The total budget for 1971 is approximately $32,500 - about the same as for 1970.

The 1970 advertising campaign was very disappointing. There was a 40% drop in advertising revenue from 1969. At its January meeting the Executive Committee voted to hire a new advertising agent. He is Mr. Gene Kraemer of the Gene Kraemer Company, 122 East 42nd Street, New York, New York 10017. Other items of business considered at the January meeting are discussed in detail in the article entitled P rograms on page 8.

In 1969 the Executive Committee voted to sponsor the Outstanding Cadet Group Award. The award is given during June Week ceremonies. All of the existing organizational awards in the Cadet Awards Program have permanent display trophies. The Executive Committee voted at its December meeting to accept the design submitted by the L. G. Balfour Company for a display trophy for the Outstanding Cadet Group Award. At the same meeting, the Committee approved the expenditure of funds to install area lighting in front of the War Memorial.

Graduation from the Academy does not cause alumni to lose interest in the accomplishments of the Falcon athletic teams. In fact, if anything, interest seems to become keener. The Association of Graduates receives many suggestions and questions each year about the Athletic Program. As a result of alumni interest, the Executive Committee approved the initiation of correspondence to the appropriate Academy offices asking that the governing regulation be amended to include the Executive Secretary as a voting member on the Executive Committee of the Athletic Association. The request was turned down for basically two reasons. First, it was felt that the Executive Committee is at an optimum size and is sufficient to conduct Athletic Association business in a fair and impartial manner. And, second, it was felt that adding a representative from the Association of Graduates would create a precedent for representation from other groups. The Association was assured that the views of alumni would be presented and considered at the Executive Committee meetings. Where matters of special interest to graduates are on Executive Committee agendas, the Executive Secretary will probably be invited to attend the meetings.

Upcoming Association of Graduates' Executive Committee meetings will be concerned with very significant questions of policy and new programs. Members, when they are in the Academy area, are encouraged to call the Association office to see if a meeting will be held during their stay. If so, they are welcome to attend.

year of the FALCON

Falcons 45, Idaho 7

Falcons 41 Wyoming 17

Falcons 37 Mis s ouri 14

Falcons 37 CSU 22

Falcons 24 Tulane 3

Falcons 26 N avy 3

Falcons 35 Boston College

Falcons 23 Arizona 20

F aIcons 35 Oregon 46

Falcons 31 Stanford 14

Falcons 19 Colorado 49

Falcons 13, Tennessee 34 10

FALC□N SPORTS

The 1970 Falcon football team was one of the outstanding teams in the history of the Academy. It completed a rugged regular season with a 9-2 winloss record. The disappointing loss to Tennessee in the Sugar Bowl on New Years Day shouldn't overshadow a full season of exciting football marked with some outstanding individual and team performances. Here's the season recap of games and scores.

The Falcon record book has 75 new records in it. Leading the assault on past records was quarterback Bob Parker. He established 14 new records, in spite of playing only one full season. A few7 of his accomplishments were: most touchdown passes in a career - 25; most yards total offense in a single season - 2783; most pass completions in a single season - 199; most passing yardage in a single season - 2789; and most touchdown passes in a single s e as on - 21.

All American receiver Ernie Jennings set 13 new records and tailback Brian Bream posted 8 (and Bream has one more year to go!). In the record book, Parker, Jennings, and Bream are the best passer, receiver, and rusher in Academy history. In the history of major collegiate football, there has been no greater one-two scoring combination than Bream and Jennings. Between them, they scored 234 points in 1970. This trio is also famous in all-time service academy records. They surpass in every statistical category the likes of such Heisman Trophy winners as Army's "Doc" Blanchard, Glenn Davis and Pete Dawkins and Navy's Joe Bellino and Roger Stauback. Statistically, there is no receiver in service academy history to compare with Jennings.

Ernie Jennings completed the 1970 season holding 17 records. They include among others: most passes caught in a career - 148; most pass receiving yardage in a career - 2393; most touchdown passes received in a career28; most touchdowns in a career - 33; most points scored in a career - 198; most passes received in a single season - 74; and most touchdown passes received in a single season - 17.

The San Francisco 49ers must have a patient front office. They drafted Jennings somehwere around the 17th round of the pro draft and expect to grab him should he decide to leave the Air Force. Who knows? - perhaps, with the potential pay raises being mentioned to achieve the zero draft goal for the armed forces, the Air Force may win the bidding war with the 49 e r s ?

The 1971 football schedule will be another tough one.

Date Opponent

Sep 18 Missouri

Sep 25 Wyoming

Oct 2 Penn State

Oct 9 SMU *

Oct 16 Army *

*Home game

Date Opponent

Oct 23 CSU

Oct 30 Arizona State

Nov 6 Oregon *

Nov 13 Tulsa

Nov 20 Colorado

The most popular winter spectator sport at the USAFA is ice hockey. Almost every home game is a sell-out. Win or lose, being a part of the excitement of the masses crowded around the rink in the Field House is quite an experience. The team has posted a winning season so far this season and has several outstanding players - Bob Ross at center and Steve Hall on right wing are the leading scorers. Goalie, and team captain, Kim Newman has been averaging 37 saves per game.

The '70-'71 Falcon basketball team has had its ups and downs so far this season. The team nearly pulled off a tremendous upset over Notre Dame, losing in the final minutes by a score of 75-71. The big upset finally did come when the Falcons beat nationally ranked Utah State 76-72. Results So Far This S

The Falcons are trying to find th e key to winning on the road. So far, aw ay record is 0-6, while at home it stands at 6-4. A tough part of the schedule still faces the Falcons, with Georgia Tech and Marquette still ahead of them.

The Falcon soccer team ended its 1970 season with a 9-6 record. The team could not put together a strong offense to offset the strong opposition it faced in nationally ranked teams such as St. Louis, Quincy College, Denver, eventual winner of the Rocky Mountain Conference, and UCLA, number one in the Far West.

Final Season Results

The 1970 cross country team ended its du a 1 meet season with a 5-4 record

Maj Wayne Pittman Qtrs 6455B

USAFA Co 80840

Class-wise, I guess the biggest activity in the past three months has been the Sugar Bowl. Aside from the game itself, it was a pretty good weekend and brought together many graduates, including a number of our classmates. Attending from the Academy were BRIAN PARKER, AL GAGLIARDI, JACK HOWELL, WAYNE JEFFERSON, JOE DESANTIS, GEORGE CLARK, and myself. Also, from the working Air Force, were MIKE GIVENS, PAT MUSMAKER, BROCK STROM, DAVE PHILLIPS, JOHN MANTEI, BOBBY BLAKE, HANK CANTERBURY, LARRY THOMPSON, GILES WIDEMAN and MIKE CAIRNS (with his boss, and ours, General Ryan). If I missed any who attended, please understand that there were occasional times when I didn't notice what was going on about me.

Noticed in the Air Force Times that Colonel Jim Enos is taking over the 81st Tac Ftr Wing at Bentwaters.

I was fortunate enough to go along in a crew capacity on a cadet cross country to Carswell a couple of months ago. BOB DELLIGATTI was the host (project officer) for the 340th Bomb Group and SAC. I'd like to take advantage of this forum to do two things: commend Bob on a tremendous job and suggest something to the rest of you in the Real Air Force. Bob's handling of the visit of a relatively few cadets was not only highly motivating to them, but looks like it will have a more far-reaching benefit. Cadets tell me that others are signing up for the nav course on the basis of their word-of-mouth reports of the visit. (Word of explanation: the nav program isn't primarily for potential navigators. Its major benefit is to expose the interested cadet to flying and the Air Force.) Bob gave an inspired and enthusiastic briefing, with equally enthusiastic support from other members of the Group. The flight demonstration, static displays (I think that the crew chiefs the cadets were able to talk to informally at the planes were among the most effective elements of the visit) and the fortunately pre-s cheduled Group party added up to a very good impression on the cadets, and me.

Now the commercial: a lot sort of thing. If you're are flown each semester, seek one from the nav depa there is a crying need for academic Air Force. The s stead of avoiding 3rd Lt. meaningful to the cadets. aged after helping the has

of you are in pos in range of a T-29 If you can get the rtment here. It t more and better e ame principle appl project officer t Too many of them e personnel office

itions now to pull off a lot of cadet cross necessary higher level akes effort to do it ri xposure of cadets to th ies to Third Lieutenant ry for it and make the are coming back pretty r the whole time.

Transfers: Now in SEA are KARL SCHMIDT at Nakhon Phanom, BOB FAY in F-4s at Phu Cat, and CRAIG SCHAUM with the First Air Cav at Phouc Vinh. DICK LEE must be going somewhere; he changed his address from Germany to Ft. Walton Beach. FLAK WILLIAMS is a maint. officer at Nha Trang. BILL PAGE was transferred to Systems Command at W-P and DEKE HOUSTON is an engineer with the Satellite Control Facility in Sunnyvale, Calif. Some other changes were caught in the new Register after my last column and involved ROG CONANT, DICK MASON, BILL TELFORD, GILES WIDEMAN, and JIM VANCE. One correction to the last Quarterly: JIMMIE SMITH appears to be with M.P. McLean as a pilot.

Congratulations: To Lieutenant Colonels GOODRICH, OAKS, and HOSMER. Double to Dave, who also was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal for duty here. BILL TELFORD won the Bronze Star at Tan Son Nhut.

I'm beginning to hear from people me he just got tired of seeing oth a hint for the rest of you. He so ing things up from an OV-IO. He c use the A-37 he flies out of Bien Control 0-2s) and ED ROSANE (Asst DaNang. Finally, he reports that barn by falling through its roof s leave his OV. All this just 10 da o f fi cer and it's a big help. CRAIG SCHAUM er's names in print, so decided to unds pretty satisfied with his job ompliments JIM RHODES for his abil Hoa and mentions both JIM REED (Qu Opns. Officer at 20th TASS, 0-2s DON BROOKS destroyed a hostile Vie us pended from a parachute after ha ys before returning to Offutt as a tell wri t : sho ity t ality ?) at tname v ing QC s e o o s t te o

Long Christmas note from the LARRY COTTONS, very happy at Misawa where Larry's Wing Recce Officer. (Aside to Sherrie: I was in reconnaissance for nearly two years and never learned to pronounce it, let alone spell it They're expecting another curtailment of a fun o'seas tour, with Larry anticipating RTU IP duty at Shaw. )

MIKE a n d Ma ry Ka

JON GA LLO s ounds (in be t we en knee You gu y s ma ke i t oper a t i on s y MURPHY noted like he's havi injuries), and sound so great that they were ng a tough time wine-dr inking I'm more anxi expecting twins early in '71. in Bitburg - flying, skiing (while recuperating, I guess) ous than ever to get back to

My final item is another letter, but this one, addressed to me, but to the whole class: from Joan Harnitchek, wasn't

December 16, 1970

Dear 59ers

Wha t can I say to such a fine group of

I wo port uld like you to know and sympathy showed that you have me during my

men that hasn't already been expressed?

my deep appreciation for all your suptay at the Academy in October. I

couldn't have endured those few days without you. As Joe's wife, I am proud to be a small part of such a wonderful "family."

My sincere appreciation to all of you who took time to write those meaningful letters to me and the children. I consider them "treasures” as I'm sure the children will as they grow older.

May God bless you all during the coming New Year.

Sincerely,

Joan Harnitchek

Maj Sid Newcomb

6980 Baker Road

Colorado Springs Co 80908

A few letters came in this last go around - it was good to hear from you, GORDIE, LES, and PAUL. Here at USAFA we are in the dark ages, but it doesn't seem quite so bad this year. Except for one real cold spell (RCR=3) to welcome back the cadets from leave, this winter has been very nice. And in spite of the disaster in New Orleans 1 Jan, the cadets are surprisingly attentive and enthusiastic in the classroom. The hockey team, after dropping two to the Irish, held tough C. C. to a tie, then soundly trumped the Buckeyes on their own ice one fine nite. After a bad losing streak, the basketballers have rebounded with two straight wins. So all is not glum here. May your new year also be off to a fine start (Romans 7:6).

Th e onl y loc al P CS chan ge s th a t I k no s u mmer ( s orr y ab ou t the 1 ate rep or t ) v i s i on He an d Li nda a re set tie d a nd to the Co mm Sh op / TONY BURSHNICK 1 e ft De cembe r.

w about are JIM GLAZA's arrival last as a welcome addition to the nav diawaiting house guests. A real loss for charm school at Norfolk in

I heard from somebody that WAYNE KENDALL is on duty in a hospital in Little Rock, retreading to become a flight surgeon. Outstanding, Wayne! TOM BURKE left SEA last October for CONUS to help the gang decipher things at the Pentapuzzle. And I understand BOB HEIGES has gone into rescue ops in HH53s at DaNang. Somebody saw DK JOHNSON at base ops the other day and said he's pretty busy at Nellis as a wing briefer/wea pons officer/etc. in the F(?)lll trade. (When I talked to Deke at the reunion he had great praise for the new bird.) A newsy letter from LES HOBGOOD in England (UK): all he does there, besides instructing instructors, is fly solo on a RAF aerobatics team. He recently flew a show upside-down-backwards-sidew ays-etc at our USAFE base, Upper Heyford, at 500' AGL in a jet Provost. Les also reported on PHIL COOKE in the RAF Transport Command at Brize Norton, and GERRY DE LA CRUZ, merely a flight commander on Hawker Hunters. Les says it's great flying with the mother country if you have an active liver and enjoy doing somethin' else!! Up in our own north country, CHUCK DIVER, recently back

from SEA, is chief of a management engineering team at Malmstrom AFB, Montana. And BILL CARNEGIE has signed in with the 6th MAS (MAC) at McGuire in C14Is. FRANK MAYBERRY is doing some kind of student-bit at Keesler, and RON YATES has gone from instructing test pilots at Edwards to Andrews doing something else for AFSC.

In the AFIT pipeline, an address card shows GARY SHEETS at Florida Tech in an MBA program. REB GUILLOT is at Arizona State in Tempe (with a nice home/ pool) and JOCK SCHWANK is en route to Fairchild Hall via the U at Eugene, Oregon.

Several hero badges: to JERRY GIRARD whose F4 wing at Phu Cat was awarded the Air Force Outstanding Unit Award; to JIM WADDLE, now in Hq at Saigon, awarded five Air Medals for "outstanding airmanship and courage in sustained aerial flight under extremely hazarous conditionsand to EARL VANINWEGEN in AFIT at San Diego State, awarded the Meritorious Service Medal for distinguished duty as a command presentations officer while at Hq MAC. Congratulations, Jerry, Jim, and Van!!

About those wearing the civies, I hear that DICK LIND JAY, selling insurance in Cupertino, California, and his wife are expecting their second child in September. DICK AMES, of Aldred, Aldred and Ames law firm, was seen digging his way out of 60 inches of snow by BILL. OUELLETTE when Bill was back home in Brunswick, Maine, a few weeks ago. And our own POPS JOLLY, still smiling even though on furlough from TWA, is selling p mm 7 Oil filtration products out of Denver, ** where he keeps in touch with the Air Force by winning bets on the gunnery range from the Guard. Lovely Barb and Roy are moving or have moved to Castle Rock where Barb has a good job with CSU Extension Center.

Where are you WALT SWEENEY? Anybody know?

Recent honorary members of 60 are Samantha Kate (what a name!) FISCHER born to BOB and Lutzi sometime last year, and GORDIE and Carol SAVAGE'S third, also a late1970 arrival. (Gordie has moved from recce ops at Udorn to recce staff at Saigon.) RALPH and Loretta MILLER expect their first in the spring. The GILLIS' have #4 in the hangar, also due in the springtime. BILL'S picture in a recent Interceptor ??)

EARL VAN INWEGEN - RECEIVING MERITORIOUS SERVICE MEDAL FOR DUTY AT HQ MAC

(Did you see

JIM WADDLE - RECEIVING

FIVE AIR MEDALS FOR RECCE FLIGHT

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My super filing system just uncovered an old letter (May 70) from PAUL VALLERIE who, after getting shuffled around, ended up in the Strategic Missile Division of the Asst Ch of Staff/Studies and Analysis Shop, Hg USAF. Perdome, Pablo...

It's blowing and almost snowing. From now til April, please write.

Cpt Tom Eller Qtrs 4506B

USAFA Co 80840

Next September 24 and 25 '71. We have a good RTB we can look forward to a permissive TDY now so yo our gang wi (acronism?) great reuni u can make i

11 be the honored class at as Director of Homecoming on. Start maneuvering for t Homecoming so I think leave and

Following almost a week of near zero or below weather right after Christmas the chinook brought it up to 68 today - January - in Colorado yet! Snow comes again tomorrow, tho!

We welcome three more grey tags to the faculty here. JOHN KOHOUT is to teach French. HUGH BAINTER completed an MS in physiology at Colorado State University in December and is assigned to the Life Sciences Department. Hugh, Jerry and their three daughters live in Douglas Valley. PETE LANE is finishing his PhD in Eastern European History and is assigned to the History Department. Pete and Pattie have two boys and two girls and live off base.

TOM WILLIAMS will tak Weapons School. JOHN stationing his family CLAIR CARLING finally "They" said it couldn Aerospace Management at the University of in 1972. DICK DAY li Hq MAC, has been out now at Hg TAC in figh NKP. Hiw wife is in troller at McGuire. is with the H&F Batta

e time out from his tour in Germany to attend Fighter GOODLEY is at Randolph - IPIS. NORM CAMPBELL is here while he goes to Korat to fly F4s - second tour, talked AFIT into letting him get an MS in Aero. 't be done since he had previously obtained an MS in on his own from USC. Clair, Kay and five children are Texas at Austin. Next stop: Aero Department at USAFA ves in Levelland, Texas. JERRY LEFTON, stationed at to visit a couple of times recently. DALE TABOR is ter requirements. NELSON OREAR is now an 0-2A FAC at Iowa City, Iowa. BILL FOSTER is a command post conOLEG KOMARNITSKY is now at Wright-Patt. NEAL ROUNTREE lion MCRD in San Diego.

BOB WAGNER is now at Wright-Patt. KARL WHITAKER is Electric in West Lynn, Mass. FRED WOHRMAN, an aero a manager with General engineer, Sandra, and

their two children are at Patrick AFB. MIKE QUINLAN, who flies F4s at DaNang, recently laid a few on Charlie near Chu Lai. Mike and Joan have two hoys, Scott, 7 and Peter, 6. RICHARD COPPOCK got another DFC - this one for an attack on a heavily defended hostile convoy. He is a project officer at SAMSO. The RICHARD SMITH'S and the ROBERT BRICKEY's came to the Stanford football game in November and dropped by to see us. CHARLIE THOMAS comes by occasionally from Altus Oklahoma. GENE HOPP lives in Denver - 3M Company, I think. JOHN PAYNE flew a T-bird out from Maxwell this fall. He is an instructor at SOS. TOM LAPLANTE got an MS in Metallurgy from Ohio State in December. He and June are now at Tinker.

HECTOR and Joan NEGRONI gave a delightful anniversary party at their h followed by a mini reunion at the Antlers. Hector now has a mirror he ways wanted. BRICE JONES is a student at the Harvard Business School. LARRY and Kathy FREEMAN are now in England at the RAF Staff College. B THEURER was one of three officers nominated by the Air Force for the J Ten Outstanding Young Men Award. JIM IIOURIN attended the Sugar Bowl. THOM SCHUTT's had Christmas in January when Thom came home from KC-135 in SEA. Last September Dee Kerr relayed the word that TENNY TAKAHASHI gotten married, but I forgot to put it in the Fail Quarterly. Congrat tions Tak ome alYRON aycees The duty had ula-

That is all the news for this quarter. who have not been seen in this column?

How about some mail from you guys Keep up the good work.

Cpt D K Vaughan Qtrs 6602N USAFA Co 80840

The Great Pumpkin gave me a super Christmas present this yeara two-week bout with the Mumps. I learned to greatly appreciate two things as a resuit: 1) not having the Mumps (especially at age 30), and 2) the nice view you get of C. Springs at night from the south side of the USAFA hospital. And just when I thought I was getting better, I watched the Sugar Bowl Game on TV. Actually, MINTER ALEXANDER got the mumps first. After he and his wife, Vicki, went to all the trouble of organizing an informal gettogether for those of us of '62 in the local area, they had to cancel out due to his encounter with the dread disease. About fifteen to twenty of us Red Tags gathered at the Ent 0-Club for a pleasant evening of food and drink in early December.

Way back in late October, CHET GRIFFIN and FRANK OROURKE showed up at Field to help evaluate the T-41 squadronone of their many stops as bers of the ATC StanEval team. Frank actually got airborne in a T-41 Chet "wasn't about to get in one of those things." The way the wind been blowing, I didn't blame him. Pete membut had

BRAD VANSANT was kind enough to drop a aging to survive the hazards of flying JENSEN is hard at work upgrading in th

line from down Vance way. He is manin ATC, and informs us that LARRY e T-38. Got a nice letter from JOHN

CARROLL, who is leaving Castle and his job the B-52. He will be traveling to Edwards BUTCHKO, in Class 71-A at Test Pilot Schoo cord for 17th Sq, because, including FRED that makes three Red Tags from the same sq Test Pilot School, a "first," as far as Jo HAUSER, DICK JOHNSON, and TOM YOUNG in the me r, and observed Jack Hauster enroute to panied by FRED GERKEN. (I read that Guam h recently, but I figured it probably was Ja ical "no sweat" landings.) John said he e only problem was that he seemed to get all cases. The only people with worse attitud were the USAFA graduates. Sounds familiar will have to part ways. I know it will be but I'm sure he'll recover.

as a CCTS Flight Instru to join his old roommat 1. John claims some kin FIEDLER, who is already uadron who will have att hn knows. John said he SAC upgrading program 1 Guam a short time later, ad experienced a mild ea ck Hauser making one of njoyed his job at Castle of the ex-fighter pilot es than the former fight Come 1 February, John a hard thing for John t

ctor in e MIKE d of rethere, ended saw JACK as t surnaccomrthquake his ty p; the attitude er jocks and SAC o face,

JOHN MIKO's presence will be deeply missed by his classmates. Our sincere expression of sympathy goes to his wife, Rosemary, and the members of his family.

CONUS: DENNIS KEPNER, flying KC-135s out of Loring, and CLIFF FALLON, in B-52s out of Minot, both took part in SAC's combat competition at McCoy AFB during the middle of November of last year. BOB KEIGHERY is now at Holloman. He received the DFC for an F-4 mission near Chu Lai. AL HARWICH is going to Nellis to see if he can find out what makes the F-ll fly - when it does. BOB BAXTER will be joining A1 in the 57th FWW. "CHICO" HEACOX has moved to Andrews for duty with the AFSC IG team. BOB HOLCOMB has returned from Tan Son Nhut and will be a systems analyst with AFLC at Wright-Patt.

SEA : H.T. LENOX is participating in our war effort at Beautiful Bien Hoa, and LANNY LANCASTER is enroute to Udorn and RF-4s after a stay at Upper Hey ford, where he was presented the Silver Star by Secretary Laird for flying his F-100 in admirable fashion near Dak To awhile back. NICK FRITZ is at Korat in EB-66s, and NILS OHMAN will soon be joining him thereNils just finished his AFIT work at Wright-Patt. EUROPE : HOWARD NICHOLS is departing SEA for a new assignment at Spangdahlem, Germany. LEN WRIGHT pulled a good deal up at SAC Hq and will soon be attending the RAF Staff College at South Suislip AS, England. USAFA: DON NETZINGER has showed up here to help DAVE ROE run the Life Sciences Department.

Finally, I would like to thank the anonymous correspondent who sent in a copy of the Michelangelo painting of God pointing his finger at Adam, which included a request to "Buck up that column of yours!" I'll be unable to comply with that directive due to the fact that, unlike the Mechanics Dept, the English Dept has done away with marching and other military superfluities.

Speaking of bad jokes, I urge all of you to attend your next mandatory officers call. And speaking of attendance, since we've all read Catch-22 but might not have seen the movie yet, I have this to say about that: "I'd be the last captain in the world to order you to go to that movie and have a good time, but I want everyone of you who isn't sick enough to be in a hospital to go to that movie right now and have a good time, and that's an order !"

Cpt Norman I Lee III (Skip)

Qtrs 64541

USAFA Co 80840

Tne last three months of 1970 were not very busy for the Class of 1963 and as a result I have very little in the way of new information to pass on. Hopefully, things will change in 1971. Your cards and letters are vital to the success of this column so please add my address to your list of those you inform in case of a status change. A phone call is also acceptable. An example of a newsworthy item would be an addition to your family - that can be considered a change of status. DENNIS and Norma YEE report the birth of a son, Clifford Aaron, who came into this world on 6 December 1970. That is what I call close figuring of your income tax deductions. Dennis is presently assigned to the Department of Foreign Languages here at USAFA and once in awhile lends an experienced hand to the Navigation Department.

Recently the Silver Star and Purple Heart were presented posthumously to JOE PIRRUCCELLO at Bolling Air Force Base. The decorations were presented to his wife, Kathy, and their two children, Susan and John. The citation accompanying the award of the Silver Star reads in part: "Captain Joseph S Pirruccello Jr distinguished himself by gallantry in connection with military operations against an opposing armed force in Southeast Asia on 8 December 1968. On that date, Captain Pirruccello, as an A-1 Skyraider pilot, participated in the successful combat recovery of a downed pilot. He repeatedly flew his slow and vulnerable pro peller-driven aircraft at extremely low altitude in mountainous terrain with extremely limited airspace and in a heavily defended hostile environment. Despite the intense and accurate hostile fire, Captain Pirruccello made repeated attacks on highly concentrated hostile troop emplacements in order to protect the survivor. With complete disregard for his personal safety, he continuously placed his aircraft between the hostile automatic weapons fire and the helicopter attempting the pickup. Captain Pirruccello again pressed with a devastating attack which led to the successful recovery of the downed pilot."

When DON CAREY relinquished the job of writing the class news he passed on two notes of interest received in December from BARRY WETHERINGTON and LLOYD PROBST. Barry writes he has exchanged his blue suit for academic garb and has enrolled in the Columbia University Law School. Barry and Sharon have extended an invitation to all their weary Golden Type friends that happen to be passing through the New York area. Their address is 109 Kensington Road, Apt 9, B ronxvi1le, New York 10708. Barry and Sharon have two children: Trevor (5) and Christopher (1). Thanks for the note Barry and good luck in your new profession!

Lloyd Probst tells us he will be starting a masters program under the auspices of AFIT (Res) in June. Lloyd's new academic challenges will be in the discipline that gave most of us fits in our undergraduate days - Physics. He will be joining quite a few others of '63 who have recently entered the

AFIT ranks: BOB MCBETH and JIM ALLBURN are at Stanford, RICH VARA has begun his studies at Nebraska (say Rich, is DICK SULA to be found around the campus?), JIM WINZELL is doing his graduate work at Illinois and BOB LORENZ can be found at WPAFB in the AFIT Residence School. BILL BRYANT, KENT RANSOM, PRESTON DAVIS and MIKE FREELAND have just completed or are presently enrolled in Squadron Officers School. One thing is sure, school in one form or another is a fact of life in the Air Force.

Every month the contingent of Golden Troops at USAFA increases. JAKE JACOBCIK is in the area, due to report for duty in the Military Training Department at any moment; HANK CONANT should be signing into the English Department this spring and History will be welcoming RON FOGLEMAN and PHIL TATE this semester. The latter two gentlemen will be most welcome since I have been holding off the Red Tags in our department for the past year and a half. JOHN NEHRING departed these hallowed grounds over the holidays enroute to Washington DC. While assigned in the nation's capital, John will be working in his speciality - Economics. I only hope they don't make him shave off his mustache.

Despite the troop cutbacks, the class still has its share of individuals serving in Southeast Asia. LES DENEND can be found at Udorn along with DAVE ROTZ who moved over from DaNang. LYNN WEBER is at Phu Cat, JAY MILLER is jockying HC-130Ps out of Cam Ranh Bay and GEORGE FREDERICK is basking in the sun at beautiful Quin Nhon by the sea. Congratulations are due BILL BALL (DFC), LARRY SPRINGS (DFC), CURTIS PRESTON (BSM), VIC BLIDEN (Air Medal §6) and BARRY MEUSE (Air Medals #3-10); all for Southeast Asia service. Others serving overseas are BOB VENKUS-Kadena, ED SMITH-Taiwan and OTTO HABEDANK-Zweibuken.

Stateside-wise, only a few changes have been reported. JOE TAX is in personnel at Scott, JACK PIERSON has joined MARK ANWAY at Hq Systems Command at Andrews, JIM JOHNSTON is a SPO at Wright-Patters on, RAE HODGES is on his way to Kincheloe to be an AC (in what Rae?) and "DEACON" JACKSON is settling his family at Beale after a tour in Hawaii. JOHN HEIMBURGER has resigned his commission and left Hurlburt for parts unknown. Now that we know where you are or what you are up to, write or call and fill in the details.

Col or ado really is a great pi ace to live - scouts honor! Anyone planning a trip out west should come by and visitour door is always open so y 'all come. I would like to report that the slopes are in great shape this year and the lift lines are reasonable during the week and, if you are lucky, they can be reasonable on the weekends.

Anyone looking for a job at this institution of higher learning etc., is welcome to drop me a line and I will do my best to get the necessary information and get your name mentioned in the right places. If writing is too slow, call. My phone numbers are 472-1498 (home) and 472-3729 (office)

This is about it for this time. I hope there will be more information (rumors?) to pass on in March. Maybe some of the class will find their names on the Majors list due to come out at anytime. Hope so, rumor has it that the rest of us may have to retire as Captains.

LAST MINUTE "FLASH": FRANK and Beverly BLACK and ED and Caroline PICKENS hosted a get-together for 1963 grads at ACSC and SOS in November. ACSC students - Frank, Ed, ROGER SORENSEN, DEAN HESS, JOE COATES and BOB MURPHY. SOS students attending were PRES DAVIS, HARRY ALLEN, KENT RANSOM

Also in the fall SOS class LARRY SPRINGS. Any Yellow dents and we'll try to get assignment so far is Frank AOC

were MIKE FREELAND, BOB BRYANT, LES DONAHUE and Tags coming to SOS contact one of the ACSC stua party going. The only one in ACSC with an Black who will be going to the Academy as an

Cpt Jim Wheeler

6786 Prince Drive

Colorado Springs Co 80907

As this goes feel confiden represented. received, I h for those of to know that into the typewriter, the new majo t that the Academy's most outstan Since each of you will know the asten to pass along my congratula us who will not be fortunate enou next time we won't have to compet rs list is pending and I ding class will be admir results by the time this tions to those selected. gh this time, isn't it n e with the class paceset abl y i s And i ce ters??

With most of the new year ahead - and resolutions already broken - let each of you now resolve to keep me informed of the deeds and exploits that are making your trek to the top interesting and noteworthy. Thanks for all the letters in 1970 and continued support to my quarterly endeavors to keep track of each of you will make the class news column more fun and interesting for all of us.

The Christmas season contained many hi-lites for us this year and among the best were the many cards and letters sent to Dorothy and I from classmates around the world who were kind enough to include us in their annual holiday mailing list. Probably the most interesting and impressive piece of correspondence received was the annual Tenth Squadron Newsletter that KRIS MINEAU sent along. Kris was the editor this year and did a really outstanding job in getting classmates from "Tiger Ten" to contribute their news. The reports included the following: GABE FAIMON is in SEA at Takhli; NICK LACEY is still at Randolph and flying the T-29 along with Aide duties; JIM FLEMING is rapidly becoming the Perry Mason of Los Angeles; and J.D. SMITH has escaped the clutches of SAC to become an 0-2A IP at Hurlhurt. J.D. BROWN is now at South Ruislip (London) after only five months at Zaragoza; JIM VERSTREATE expects to leave for Wild Weasels at Korat in March; JACK PATERNO is still a bachelor and looking forward to the F-100D with the Massachusetts ANG; GEORGE STEVENSON is living in Houston and flying for Delta; and ROGER HEAD is at McChord with ADC and will be off to SOS in February. Higher education has become a goal for others and TERRY ISAACSON and JOHN LUKASIK are off to Florida State and Management degrees; MIKE CLARK and DENNY MONTGOMERY will overlap at AFIT this spring; ANG CAPPUCCIO has completed his MBA in New York; and THAD WOLFE is now at Vance in UPT. STEVE CROKER was reported in the newsletter to be contemplating a PCS to the Academy in July but since then has been temporarily sidetracked to the Pentagon. For those of you who knew about Kris' supersonic bailout in March of '69, you will be glad to hear that six operations later he is recovering well and is now a plans officer at MacDill and planning a quick return to the flying ranks.

Professional education and graduate degrees have once again become the goals for some energetic classmates. The December SOS Class included in its numher DON GRAHAM, JOHN CUNNINGHAM, TOBY JOBIN, JEFF JOHNSON, RON GROWDEN, BRETT DULA, PETE LOPRESTI, RICH BENNETT, and CAM COBERLY. Incidentally, RAY BLUNT is on the SOS Faculty in case you plan to attend. JOHN HOFFMAN is living in Los Angeles and working towards his Masters in Engineering Management at USC; WILL STACKHOUSE is back from overseas and pursuing his MS in Engineering Mechanics at the University of Michigan. In Texas, PETE MORRISON is attending SMU and TOM WEBSTER and TERRY DILLON are specializing in Math at Texas A&M in preparation for their reassignment to the Math Department at USAFA. Terry wrote that his new assignment is a pleasant change from his OV-IO tour with the 1st Cav.

As more of our number return to the ranks of the civilians it becomes hard to keep track as they spread out without geographical preference: MARTY PESUT has located in Dayton; BOB INGLIS now lives in Berkeley; DOUG THOMPSON operates out of Hot Springs, Arkansas; KEITH LUCHTEL has chosen Des Moines, Iowa; and DAVE SICKS has settled in Independence, Kansas. Two others - JIM ERICKSON and DAVE COLWELL - have taken off the Blue but continue to ply their trade as aviators. Jim is with the FAA in Ft Worth as a test pilot and Dave is flying with the Minnesota ANG while attending graduate school in Minneapolis.

The new semester has brought some changes in the staff here at USAFA. RIP THOMAS has joined the Math Department; GREG HILDEBRANDT is instructing in the Econ Department; J.D. MANNING is now in the M.T. division of the Comm Shop; and BOB LAWRENCE has taken over as AOC of Eighth Squadron as I returned to the Political Science ranks after the one year exchange tour. Gone from USAFA and the Air Force is LARRY ROBINSON who was medically retired in December.

Lots of busy classmates are on the move again. You may have missed some of the following since most were not reflected in the most recent Register: FRED GREGORY has become the first of our class to be selected for the program at the U.S. Naval Test Pilot School at Patuxent River, Maryland; and JIM MCINTYRE has entered helicopter school at Sheppard. RON HULTING is at Holloman until spring when he heads to AFIT at Wright-Patterson. MIKE HENRY has joined ADC and is serving as a personnel officer at Hancock Field, NY; BOB LEVINS is making his mark in the CH-3E at Dover; KEN ZELLA is flying the F4E at MacDill; BOB CLEMENTS is an IP at Perrin; PAUL DOLE is now parking his C-141 at Dover; AL FREATHY is in the F-100 program at Luke; and BILL HOILMAN has returned from DaNang to Eglin where he joins BOB CLARKE and RICH FLECHSIG in enjoying the Florida sunshine. Another overseas returnee, TONY COVAIS, is an F-4 jock at Homestead while TOM WRIGHT is now at Seymour-Johnson. All of the travel has not been back to the ZI, however, and DAVE BITTENBINDER is now flying his C-130 out of Clark AB after a tour at Webb AFB. Also overseas is JULIO ABELARDO ECHEGARY who is currently serving as the Assistant Air Attache to the U.S. Ambassador to Spain. Tito and family have been in Madrid in this capacity since last summer.

Congratulations are in order for the GARY SANDERSON's on the arrival of their second son. Gary will finish his transition to fixed wings this spring and then will be off to Ramey and a C-130 slot. Also, congratulations to MIKE MILLER who completed his MBA in December and will now become a tax specialist in Detroit and to BILL WHITE who will give up the long bachelorhood struggle to marry a Pan Am stewardess in April.

Added to the roles of classmates who are and have served in the war zone are RICH BEDARF, flying out of Phu Cat; JOE GILI Tan Son Nhut; JIM GRAHAM Bien Thuy; and MIKE ROBBINS who has set up operations at Udorn.

Two of our classmates that served in sister services prior to their deaths in Vietnam have recently been posthumously honored. FRAN ZAVACKI, our class president, was awarded the Bronze Star by the Marine Corps for heroic achievement while commanding a rifle company in August 1969. The award was made to Fran’s parents during 1970 Veteran's Day ceremonies at Wilkes Barre, Pa. BOB REEVES (US Army) was memorialized near his home in Georgia when a local recreation lake was dedicated as the Robert L. Reeves Memorial Lake during November ceremonies. To the parents and families of each of these brave men who gave their all in service of their country, the sincere best wishes of all the men of the Class of 1964.

Best of luck to each news in time for the and all in this next Quarterly.

New Year. Write or call with the latest

I Opt Don Giglio

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Believe it or not, the letters have been pouring in. I am now at an all time high - 1 per month for 2 months. Babs ALLDREDGE sent a very good letter from England - Bentwaters 9 2 TFS. Here are excerpts: "Her hubby, CHARLES, is there along with MIKE MASON and CHARLIE THOMAS and his wife Carol. STEVE CALDWELL and Lynn who are expecting number 2 (and who I - Don haven't heard from in many moons) are stationed in Bitburg', Germany. P.S. The Masons are expecting number 2 too (congratulations Mike and Linda). HOWIE and Deenie ESTES; BILL BELLER and wife Cindy are all stationed at Suesterburg, Holland. BRUCE GROSSETTA and wife Gail just left Bentwaters, enroute to South America for school. DENNIS BAGWELL is still at Minot AFB. (She notes.) He and wife Bonnie have been there so long, their name has been engraved in the sidewlk in front of their quarters." (How was New Years in "Aviano"?) I wonder how you all enjoyed the power shortage. Thank you for such a long note. Maybe if the guys don’t write - wivesas "official letter writers" - like minego ahead, I need all the news I can gather up. Whatever time you can spare for a chatty note - do because the notes are good copy.

Now not to shun the male members of the class of ’65 I also include some excerpts from a letter out of Valdosta, Georgia from TONY MRAS: "BARRY BLACKMAN and GARY MATSUYAMA are C-130 IPs at Pope AFB. Barry has a slot to SOS in January and Garry is still hustling transients on the handball courts. EARL MONROE is a flight examiner in Pope's Stan/Eval and somehow wrangled a slot to IPIS in December. AL ASKEW did an excellent job at Moody as a T-38 IP and flight examiner until October '69 when he went to Columbus AFB as a flight examiner to help them set up their T-38 UPT program. He is now a civilian going to law school in Austin, Texas. BILL POWERS earned a law degree in his "free" time while stationed at Lackland

in San Antonio. He is also out and planning to set up shop in Chicago. (Good luck - drop me a line, Don). ED SOISTMAN is out and happily settled in Winter Park, Florida. WHITEY THOMPSON finally slowed down and got married. He and ROY BRIDGES are at Edwards AFB in the Test Pilot School.

BILL HERRICK is just returning from an AC-119 SEA tour and is headed for Charleston in a C-141." Thanks Tony. Your comments were appreciated. I will write you more later.

As has been duly noted: DENNIS SCARBOROUGH was added to the now corrected list of Outstanding Young Men of America 1970-71. His wife, Nancy, called Fred on the carpet.

If any of you have any ideas for a "catchie" title for the class news section, pass them along. I recommend Grad-Bag

The fall semester has ended, Christmas leave has ended and now the spring thaw begins. My Doolies seem anxious for the same thing we were as Doolies early recognition which we didn't get. I doubt they will. As a whole they appear in the main to be carbon copies of our past yet we all know that they are not. The only carbon copies they seem to see are the last two parts of their Form 10's. They too always have a snappy comeback. The other day I noted that they were fighting a war (we were reading a book called A Separate Peace) - they replied "Yes, with our classmates, the upperclassmen and our AOC's." I then told them I was at war with their minds - their replyas we would have said also "It's a losing battle." There is hope. Rememberas was heard rumbling throughout Vandenberg Hall from Compost (Secflight as you remember it): Will the person who knows news of the Class of '65 please deliver same to Senor Giglio - head waiter of Row 51, Lane 22, Table 6B at Mitche's before lights out - Compost out. Gracias.

P.S. RANDY MARTIN dropped a short note to say that he and his family, wife Joy and daughter Michelle and son David are at Louisiana Tech University for about 2 1/2 years - working on a PhD in EE. He has received a National Science Foundation Graduate Traineeship to support them. Address : 200 Neal Street, Ruston, La 71270. Also: JIM HOPKINS and GORDON BOOZER earned the DFC in Vietnam; GERALD MALERBA completed SOS; notes next time - keep

HODGSON - Bronze Star, Vietnam; KEN CLARK, BILL JIM NAVARRO earned an MS from UCLA. More newsy 'em flying!

Cpt Raymond F Milberg 1022 Old Dutch Mill Road Colorado Springs Co 80907

If you're ever passing through Colorado and stop to talk to Fred Metcalf, don't volunteer to help unless you're serious. I did and found myself as Jim Mullen's temporary replacement.

I am on leave, settling my family in the Springs, having departed SAC, March AFB, and B-52s for C-130s at CCK, Taiwan. In my travels across country and

back, I met several classmates. REESE NIELSEN is still an academic instructor at Vance. He has been joined there by MILT SANDERS, a T-38 IP. Washington DC saw RALPH FRITZSCH completing a PhD in night school, while wearing his blue suit during the day. This reguired a lot of work on his part, as well as tolerance by his wife and son. BOB BROST and BOB JAHNKE are both instructors at the C-130 school at Little Rock AFB. GERALD DENNY and JOE FAIX are both pushing C-130s out of Pope. The Air Force had a special deal for Joe; he got to move into base housing Tuesday and leave for Europe on rotation Wednesday. While at Pope, I heard from an unreliable source (nonAcademy navigator) that RON BROOKS has returned from Naha, Okinawa to Mathe r.

A lot of waiting wives seem to be in the Colorado area. Donna LEYDORF is in Denver waiting for BILL'S return from OV-lOs at Bien Hoa. Linda DOZIER is in the Springs, eagerly anticipating JIM's return and assignment to F-lll's in England. GEORGE and Sandra CANNON currently show a Colorado Springs address with George on the way to SEA. Linda VINCENT will be joining the group next summer when RAMSEY heads for Vietnam in F-lOOs. They are currently at Luke where they were joined by their second child, a son, Matt, last December.

DICK PURINTON was seen on his way through here with Kay, and their two children, headed for SOS. Other recent SOS students include JAMES BONEY, BRUCE SHARER, CHARLES ROSE, TOM GUENTHER, MASON BOTTS, and JIM HIGHAM.

I am not the only one getting out of SAC these days. TOM JAMROSY departed Dyess to go into the FAC business. MIKE BLAIR is moving from downstairs B-52s to backseat F-4s. Tish and their daughter, Paige, will be in the Springs next fall when Mike goes overseas. PAUL ZOMNIR has been medically retired and will be working for the Quaker Oaks Company in St. Joseph, Mo.

Some of our classmates still in SAC include FRANK ANDREWS and DAVE LEIPPE, both of whom were at SAC bomb comp last November. Dave was on a B-52 crew from Mather while Frank brought his KC-135 from Fairchild. TOM KINCAID is a B-52 nav on stanboard at Dyess. He was racing the stork back from Guam last December, returning from an Arclight tour the same time their second was due. I don’t know who won.

We still have a few classmates in RF-4 job to Ramstein, Germany. PT and Karen HEITZ are still in Torre with a thunderstorm requiring him he survived every thing, including nating between Mildenhall, England nav.

Europe.

HENRY BINGHAM is at j on. He had a to jettison an the accident b and Forbes, DANIELS recently mov Lakenheath, England. rather nasty encount F-4 in mid-Atlantic, oard. RON MOREY is a Kansas, where he is a ed er b 11 C his DAN ut er-130

Since I have to pack for a portcall day after tomorrow, I'll stop here. If anyone has any late info for the next Quarterly, please send it to the Association office at the Academy, pending selection of a more permanent class representative. If any of you pass through Colorado and are looking for a place to stay or a warm meal, feel free to drop in. I won't be there but Candy would like the company to keep her busy.

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He is now a 123 dri n F-4 pilot at Phu Ca er pilot at Bien Hoa, at the Academy now s ut he received three GIL MOOK, a F-100 pil AL LUNDBERG is at Nha at Hurlburt. ROSS LEO_ the DFC as a FAC. He received the DFC while ver at Howard AFB, C.Z. t. JOHN CERAK earned and he is still staterving as an "educaawards of the Air Medal ot also received the

Elsewhere through the world, RON BOSTON and BILL ABRAHAM are both TDY to Mildenhal1 RAF Station, England with the 38th Tactical Airlift Squadron from Forbes AFB, Kansas. DAN SOWADA is also TDY to Mildenhall with the 62nd Tactical Airlift Squadron from Little Rock AFB. Four of our classmates have just recently completed helicopter training at Sheppard AFB. MARK STUGART is being reassigned to Tuy Hoa, ROGER COLGROVE in Jolly Greens, ED CUNNINGHAM to Udorn in Jolly Greens, and RON LANIER also to Tuy Hoa where he will fly TH-lF Iroquois.

Also received a letter from JOHN and Gail BERZINS. They had a little girl, Karin Heather, on November 16, 1970. DAN ROBINSON who has been enjoying the beaches, and all that California has to offer, took the big step a couple of months ago and married an Idaho girl, Sheila. PAUL HANSON, his wife Jo, and their two little boys, Darrell and Travis, are in Albuquerque and their next door neighbors are RAY and Cindy LEOPOLD. TOD L'HOMMEDIEU is at Medical School at Vanderbilt, DAN ROPER at University of Texas, Galveston, HANK ARNOLD at Tulane, and BILL SEXSON at Jackson State, Miss. So, one of those four may be your flight surgeon in the near future. If so - good luck. Ray Leopold, mentioned before, needs only nine hours plus a dissertation for his PhD. Also got a letter from RON, Sybol and little Ron LANIER. Ron and Sybol met while he was a 141 pilot at Travis and she was a stewardess. Little Ron was born this past October while they were at Ft Walton Beach. As I wrote above, he's in SEA in the UH-lF.

If you can find time, drop me a line and let me know what you’ve done and where you've been.

Lt Neal Starkey

2902 Airport Rd #214

Colorado Springs Co 80910

Greetings once again from the land of blue skies and cool northerly breezes. As you may recall, Colorado is beautiful this time of year, especially for the skiers in the crowd. We are presently having un-seasonably warm weather and I can hear the golf clubs moaning in the storage close - not from want of use, rather from the last time I took them out and tortured them!! USAFA is trying to settle down into the Dark Ages once again so can the Tourist Season be far away?

I have had a great deal of mail this period and am happy to announce that the great mrjority of the "working" Air Force seems to be doing a bang-up job. JIM CUPELLO writes from Albuquerque where he, wife Sandra and daughter Jacqueline now reside. Jim is working at Kirtland at the AF Weapons Lab after picking up his MS from Rutgers and doing a year's work at the Univ of Kansas toward his PhD...something about piled higher and deeper...

BILL WALSH writes enroute to Vietnam in HH-43s and wanted to let everyone Know that all who would care to write Sandy HOPPE re. the search for BUD in Panama, can reach her at: Mrs Sandra Hoppe, % the Puetz's, 2420 Lunt, Chicago, Illinois 60645.

JOHN LAMBERT writes that he is leaving Clark after a fifteen month tour in C-130s to rejoin his wife Marty and their daughter Jennifer and head for a new Nav assignment at Mather. John passes on the news that GARY MCDONALD is flying C-130s out of CCK where he teams with DICK SMITH who has extended. DON WINDHAM has extended in 130s at Clark...just making too much money I guess. John also wishes to extend Carte Blanche invitation to one and all to come and visit the Lambert family in Sacramento where he is assigned to the 3538th Nav Training Sq.

AL BLUMBERG issues an invitation to all 68ers to attend his marriage to Barbara Taylor on the 20th of this coming June in Valdosta, Georgia where they met when Al was in UPT. He also feels that he can claim the class's longest engagement with 18 months, but I feel certain that I will receive several letters challenging this championship 1 Al is currently winding up a 130 tour out of Clark.

The home town news center has been kind enough to send the following information concerning some of the distinguished military graduates of the class, even if they didn't know that they fell in that category. In the area of medals received, I am sure that 68 will be able to hold its head high, thanks to the efforts of you "real Air Force" types who generally boost the name of such non-combatants as myself. I only have a few this time, but will be glad to provide a special HERO section for all those who would like to share their accomplishments. My first list, in alphabetical order, includes: MIKE ARMSTRONG-Air Medal, MIKE CARTWRIGHT-Distinguished Flying Cross, JOEL GORDES-Air Medal, TOM O'BEIRNE-Purple Heart, and BILL SHEPHERDAir Medal. There is also special recognition given to CHARLEY JACKSON for being included in the 1970 edition of "Outstanding Young Men of America" according to a recent announcement by the Outstanding Americans Foundation. Nice Going Guys!!!

A swift glance around the World, or around my desk as the case may be, finds the following men in the following places and involved in the following jobs ...GARY DIKKERS is leaving SEA for a T-38 IP slot at Laredo, JOHN FERRON is leaving Phan Rang and his 0-2 for Barksdale and a B-52, AL DYER is coming to Pete Field to instruct cadets in the T-41, RIP WORRELL will be an IP at Webb, LARRY MERIDETH is going to SAC Hq to fly the RC-135, and WOODY WOODSIDE will travel to Vance to be a T-38 instructor. LARRY MITCHELL is leaving CRB for a B-52 at Westover AFB, JIM KELSO and TIM MCCLOY are coming to Pete Field to fly the T-41, MIKE MORRISON has a B-52 somewhere (?), and DAN AHERN is going to Yakota, Japan to fly the WC-135. GEORGE ROBERTS, BOB LUTTER, JOHN SWANSON, and ROCKY GAINES are all flying in I Corps and have a few months left before their DEROS. GRANT UHLS, JIM HIX, and CHAD SWEBURG have left their assignments in Vietnam to travel to nearby countries as members of their Air Attache.

ED THOMAS is headed for Korat as an F-105 EWO, MIKE THROWER is at Bien Hoa as a FAC for the 25th Infantry Div, WALT YAMAMOTO is at Misawa AB in Japan visiting relatives and playing like a photo intelligence officer, JOHN ROULSTON is an OV-IO pilot at NKP. Stateside, CARL RICHARDSON is flying 141s out of Travis, MIKE NAVARRO finally made it to Davis-Month an where he is training in the F4, PHIL SCHMIDT is still at Med School at Duke, STEVE PACKARD is an AFIT student at Oklahoma State Univ, WARREN EVERETT is at Med School at Dartmouth, and BILL MAYWHORT is a law student at North Carolina.

I received many nice Christmas cards from guys all over the World, and hope that these short blurbs will help serve as letters from me to all of you. One thing was evident in all the letters, and that was the fact that the new arrivals in the class are continuing at a record breaking pace MARK and Mimi TORRE ANO are happy to update the class on the arrival of Mark Jr on Halloween at USAFA, BILL and Geri BOWMAN are expecting their second child this month, DICK and Cecilia ELLIS had their first child, a son named Scott Richard. Other class additions that you may not have known about include BOB and Marianne PAVELKO's son Bobby, RICHARD and Lorraine ABRAMSON'S son Gregg, STEVE and Steph Roseman's two children Michael and Ammie, and JERRY and Candy WYNGAARD's daughter April. Almost forgot, JOHN and Tracy MACON are expecting their second soon in an effort to up the class average!

Sharon and I are currently in our seventh month and with all the hoys springing ur> throuahout the class I feel certain that I w i 11 have a girl, which will probably disappoint my father, but will be just fine with me. As long as you spoil the first one rotten, it might as well be a girl.

That wraps it up for now, and I want to thank all those that wrote for keep ing us all filled in on the current status of the class. I hope this news finds you all well and happy and already hard at work in the New Year. Until the next edition, best wishes for a happy and prosperous 1971!!!

Lt Steve Soteropoulos

2918 Nevermind Lane

Colorado Springs Co 80917

A belated Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to the Class of '69. May this New Year bring all of you that great big pie in the sky. Now that football season is over, the AFA is finally settling down (crashing down??) to the Dark Ages, nursing our hangovers and shattered hopes back to health. Things are changing a great deal on the hill, however, despite the advent of a real winter. Perhaps the most notable is an extensive new privilege package for all classes which gives the cadets much more freedom than in the past. It created such a havoc with the locals that it even made the local papers.

To start off this quarter's edition, there is more news on those who have recently received their wings, both pilot and nav.

BARRY CREIGHTON, HANK RAAB, and DAVE NIELSEN all finished at Vance. Barry and his wife Judy have moved to Dover, where Barry is flying for MAC. Hank and Elizabeth and their baby are stationed at Vance where he will be instructing in T-38s. Dave and Susan are at Grissom, where Dave is flying for SAC. BOB MATERNA and JIM WILLIAMS received their wings at Moody. Bob and Shary are now at Norton and Jim and Gail are with SAC at Grand Forks.

From Randolph: GARY LINDNER, BOB TROY, JIM FOSTER, ROG WILES, DAVE SPENCER MIKE GUKICK, STEVE HANNAH, TOM SHUMWAY, FOOT IN GERSOLL, ERNIE SKINNER, and JOHN BUCKNER. Gary is at McCoy with SAC, Bob is at Cam Ranh, Jim Foster is flying B-52s at Bly thevilie, Roger and Catherine are at Columbus while Rog instructs in T-38s, and Spence is jockeying F-4s at Davis-Mon than. Mike and Mary Gukick are also at McCoy, Steve and his wife are at Dyess (C-130s) Tom Shumway is at Pease in KC-135s, and Foot is at Clark in C-130s. Ernie Skinner is in OV-lOs at Cam Ranh, and John Buckner (Anne) is at Laredo as an IP.

CHUCK WEINERT, recently graduated from Webb, is flying C-130s out of Forbes BOB RYAN also won his wings at Webb, but no word on his destination. TOM OLIVER is an IP at Keesler after graduation from Craig. STEVE HUNTLEY and his wife Terri are at Wright-Patterson, where Steve flies B-52s for SAC. BOB SCHALLER, UPT at Reese, is at CCK in C-130s. EARL and Nell ROBERTS are

now at Ellsworth, where Earl flies KC-135s, after graduating from Reese. JOHN and Meredith RILEY arc at McGuire, where John flies for MAC.

From Laughlin: MARTY LESBERG, LARRY BRIESCHKE, and JOHN HOPPER. Marty is presently at Columbus as a T-38 IP, John and his wife Pat have moved to that funny sounding air base in Taiwan where John flies C-130s, and Larry and his wife Janice have departed for parts unknown at presstime. MARTY PAGE and jEFT TOBOLSKI graduated from UPT at Columbus recently Jeff is at McChord in C-141s and Marty and Gayla Page are presently at Pope.

The F-105 RTU closed at McConnell, and CRAIG COLLINS, CHUCK VOLLMER, BRIAN NELSON, and the others who landed Thud slots had to settle for "upgrading" into front seat F-4s. Tough break, guys!

There was some action out at Mather this last quarter, with a few '69ers graduating from UNT or advanced courses. BOB ALLEN, CHIP SUMMERS, DICK BELDEN, and "LOUIE" LUALLIN recently finished UNT, with Bob going to Little Rock, Chip and his wife Laurel to Barksdale, Buzz to Mountain Home, and Lou and his wife Charlotte to Barksdale. BILL and Sandra Thompson are off Otis, where Bill will fly with ADC. TOM MOSLEY and CHUCK EARLY are both in C-141s, but at separate ends of the CONUS. Tom's at McChord and Chuck is at McGuire. LEON WITTWER recently received his Master's from University of California at Davis, but no word on a follow-up assignment. HARRY EVANS and his wife Karen are at Lackland while Harry works at the Human Resources Lab. JIM HOSKINS is also stationed at the Resources Lab at Lackland, while STAN ROSEN, recently graduated with an advanced degree in aero and astro at MIT, is now at Edwards. JIM BRAU is at Holloman after graduating from MIT with his master's in physics. He's there with his wife Mary. Another of our professional "students", KIRK STEWART, is at L.A. Air Force Station after receiving his master's in astro at Purdue. May I offer congratulations and best wishes to all those continuing their educations, as well as those who have already earned their advanced degrees.

CHUCK HOSMER writes that he and TOM FLEMING are roommates at NKP flying the 0-2A, with the 23rd Tac Air Support Sq. JOHN YOUNG made his way over there; also at NKP in the 0-2. POO BEAR is at McClellan after UPT at Craig, MARK BOSE is in intelligence at Wright-Pat, and JOHN BRUMMITT is at McGuire in the right seat of the C-141. John says that he is still single, despite the hustling of a couple of a couple of fast ones at Willy. JEFF CAMPBELL is an IP at Keesler, BOB FRATT a student nav at Mather, STEVE HAMMOND is at Cannon "upgrading," and BOB HART is now at Castle. MIKE HAYNES is a B-52 co-pilot at Warner-Robins, DICK SPOONER a student nav at Mather, and ROD WOOD is "picnicing" at Shemya, Alaska, as a SSSO. GARY DEWEESE is a Space Object Identification Analyst at the SOI Center at Ent, and JOHN YOUNGHOUSE is at George in the back seat of the F-4.

JIM DONNELLY is at Forbes after his tour at Columbus, STEVE DYER is at Dyess, also in from Columbus. DAVE LYNN is an IP at Laughlin, and all those razorbacks in Little Rock have a new addition in MIKE POWELL. I didn't know that AFIT would send people to the University of Hawaii. How are the islands, RANDY WALTI? TOM BOON is a mechanical engineer at WrightPatt, STEVE CARTER, an EWO at Korat, FRANK CHAPMAN, a wing intelligence officer at Tan Son Nhut, RICH HAGELIN is flying F-4s out of George, and BILL HENRY is an intelligence officer at Pleiku. RANDY HERBERT recently finished at Webb, and is currently a C-141 co-pilot at McChord. BILL JOHANNES is an IP at Willy, and TOM KECK is a "buff" co-pilot at McCoy. JOE KRUPPA is a C.E. officer at Cam Ranh, leaving the sunny skies of Holloman, and JIM MCDONALD is at Norton. DAVE NELSON moved from Hanscom down to McGuire, where

he still works with computers. STEVE RANSDELL will be flying KC-135s at Grissom after training at Castle f and JOHN REDDY is at Dover flying C-141s

PAT RYAN is now a deputy missile combat crew commander at the northern outpost of Minot AFB BOB SUTTER is at Norton in the C-141 program, and RICH TAYLOR is a data systems analyst at Fort George G Meade, Maryland. MATTY WALDRON is at Edwards, and DICK WHITE is now a T-38 IP, training at Tyndall.

BILL MCNAUGHT is a at Tan Son Nhut in Castle after UPT a is 1 n the at Cam Ra who is a

The next where thi time out secure be GET INVOL JAG a t A nh R o un T-41 i o ck inst al 1 me s y o un g t dai 1 y t o tter t rea VED!

t Harvard for an AFIT assignment, and CHUCK ALDRICH is Intelligence. DON DESSERT and DAVE HARTMANN are at t Laughlin and Columbus, respectively. JIM GONZALES mold AFS, Tennessee, and STEVE KEYSERLING is in C-7s ding out the report for this quarter are ROGER LEMPKE, at Pete, and GEORGE ZIER, in UPT at Webb.

nt will be brought to you by way of sunny Sacramento, roop will be undergoing UNT. At any rate, let us take think about or apply ourselves to what we can do to tment and eventual release of our men who are POWs.

Lt Bill Manning 6945 North Academy Blvd #98 Colorado Springs Co 80907

Remember the man who said "Foxtrot, Sierra, Hotel?" Well he just leftthe end of an era.

Upon graduation a friend of ours said as a parting shot: "You've got to be able to laugh at it all!" From BCT to June Week that truth still remains. Everything on the Hill is much the same except for privileges; everybody moved up a class, leaving firsties to attend classes at C.C. and merely return for drill.

It has been a few months since June Week, graduation leave is behind us, and it is time to regroupnow as "grads."

The Sugar Bowl turned out to be a reunion weekend for many in our class. The game was a disappointment, but the drinks kept everyone wide-eyed(?). MIKE "MOOG" LYGA and JOE RENAUD were seen keeping "Pat O'Brien's" alive; both are at Columbus, UPT. Moody sent ROGER FINNERN (wife, Shiela) and MARTY "in the bar" MARTIN, plus those that I can't remember. Vandenberg sent their top man representing the "Quality Assurance Branch" - JOHN DINARDO. STEVE BARNES and BILL DEBARBA came from Procurement School at Lowry. GARY BAGLIEBTER and GREGG WOODHEAD came from Hanscom Field. JOHN QUINCY, recently assigned to school at Keesler, was also at the game. There were many others there (GREG KOEHM, PAUL ROSSETTI, "OKER" O'CONNOR, FRED VESEL...) but the names and locations escape me.

"Spider" and all of our coaches are still here - when they PCS, I will tell you where they have been assigned. Special note: ED EPPING and wife Marilyn are soon to have a "little one" - the Doctor says the baby is already wearing spikes and a helmet! TONY MARIETTA is now permanently assigned to the Prep School, coaching. The word is that he and I are never going to leave the Academy.

JAY TOBIN sent me a note from Travis, where he is a squadron admin officer HUGH PETEET is with Burrough's Corporation in California. BILL LINCOLN (Sharon) sent a note that he is at Moody and a child is on the way. He mentioned a few others: HARRY (Delores) ARNOLD, CHARLIE (Gwen) SMITH, and TONY (Judy) DESANTIS. More of the Moody sky pilots are JON BRUMBACH, JIM BECHTEL, BILL JENNEY, HARRY SANDS, and BERT SPEAR (wife, Bev). BOB MC~ KINNEY has been back to the AFA and is now in UPT, Randolph.

That is you you hiding? all I have, on paper and in my head. Drop me a line of you think are interesting and we'll let are doing. Closing question: everyone know where you Does anyone know where are and what "TRAPPER" is