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Personals
(top) LTC George B. Lott, USA, Ret., ’60, and his wife, Lois, celebrated their 59th wedding anniversary and Mrs. Lott’s 81st birthday on a trip to the Grand Tetons, Yellowstone National Park and Mount Rushmore. (bottom) Ronald C. Plunkett, ’64, (second from right) received the Order of the Palmetto on Aug. 1, 2019.
1955 Peter Bryce was inducted into the Chamber of Commerce of West Alabama Civic Hall of Fame.
1958
Col. Peter A. Land, USAF, Ret., was featured in a Montgomery/ Selma, Ala., television station, WNCF, veteran spotlight on the price of freedom.
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(top) Students, friends and classmates of COL Thomas R. Dion, SCM, ’68, raised more than $50,000 for The Citadel on Dion’s behalf to celebrate his 50th class reunion. Dion, who taught at The Citadel for 38 years before retiring in January 2014, was also honored with the dedication of his former classroom which now bears his name. (bottom) Robert P. Hanner II, ’66, a partner with the Dozier Miller Law Group in Charlotte, N.C., was honored by the North Carolina Bar Association for practicing law for 50 years and for earning the designation of family law specialist for 35 years.
1961
Judge Howard P. King received the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award from Marquis Who’s Who, publisher of biographical profiles.
(top) LTC Albert G. Brauer II, USA, Ret., '72, was an age group medalist in the Green Beret Foundation’s Steps n Salutes 5K-run held in Loveland, Ohio, on Sept. 14, 2019. He was also selected as an official for Ohio State High School field hockey championship tournament. (bottom) Class of 1971 members LTC W. Dennis Archer, USA, Ret., and LTC William H. Thomas III, USAR, Ret., participated in World War II parachute jumps in Normandy, France, as part of reenactments for the 75th Anniversary of D-Day during the week of June 5-10, 2019. While there they paid a visit to the MAJ Thomas Dry Howie, USA, ’29, memorial in St. Lô.
1965 BG R. Dennis Kerr, USA, Ret., was inducted into the 82nd Airborne Division Hall of Fame on May 22, 2019.
1966
Frank E. Barron III was awarded the Order of the Palmetto by Governor Henry McMaster during
(top) David D. Aughtry, ’75, was named Lawyer of the Year in the litigation and controversy – tax practice area in the Atlanta market by "Best Lawyers" magazine. (bottom) James L. Koon, '76; and U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds Pilot Number 4, Maj Whit A. Collins, USAF, '06; met up at the Wings Over Wayne Airshow at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base in Goldsboro, N.C.
ceremonies at the governor’s office on Oct. 23, 2019.
1974
COL David E. Meacher, USAR, deployed to Germany in support of the United Nations Saber Strike mission in June 2018, serving as the chief medical officer for the first reserve hospital to work with the active component on this mission, for which he received the Army Achievement Medal. Meacher was mobilized from September 2018
