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Image Area: 21 "w x14" h 950 signed &numbered

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The P-51 Mustang has been unquestionably called the nest ghter of World War II. The brainchild of North American Aviation, the aircraft went from drawing board to its rst ight in amere ve months.

The rst production Mustang was delivered in October of 1941, less than eighteen months since conception by North American. The Mustang went on to become endeared to those who ew the eager craft and was used by U.S. Army Air Force units from Europe to the Paci c and on through the Korean War.

This special limited edition print has been released in commemoration of the Mustang's Golden

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As aspecial tribute to the Mustang, the edition is counter-signed by J. Leland Atwood, amember of the aircraft's original design team and former president of North American Aviation. It is also signed by Kenneth A. Dahlberg, aformer member of the 354th "Pioneer Mustang" group with fourteen and one half aerial victories in only six combats.

Award winning aviation artist, Rick HertePs works can be found in public and private collections in

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CHECKPOINTS VOLUME 19, NUMBER 3

ARTICLES

Eric M. Thorson, ’67

P A G E

Former Cadet Relives 25-year “Compulsion

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Parachute Team Reunion Planne

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AOG Begins Board Nomination Process...

Sister Shares Concern for Grad Brother in Saudi Arabia .

Class of 1970 Enjoys 20-year Reunion Weeken

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’80 Reunion; The Return of the Burger King Class of 1960 Celebrates Their 30-Year Anniversar Academy Team Captures Soaring Crow New Auxiliary Air eld to Ease Congestio Graduate Remembers Space Shuttle Challenger Tragedy .

Association President

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E x e c u t i v e V P / Tr e a s u r e r

D E PA RT M E N T S

Richard M. Coppock, ’61 Vice President, Services Jock C. H. Schwank, ’60

P A G E

Vice President, Development James E. Wilhelm, ’61

AOG Annual Corporate Report/Audit Building Fund Donor Academy Alumni Aler

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Director of Publications

AOG Member Bene ts/Services

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AOG Biographical Information Form .

Chapter New

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To m K r o b o t h AOG Staff Mrs. Linda Glaza

Mrs Kathy McCann Mrs. Karen Deyarmin Stephen H. Knight Irene Knight

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Falcon Sports Gone But Not Forgotte

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Class New

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Pat Donovan

Mrs. Monica Young BOARD OF DIRECTORS

ABOUT OUR COVER

To Serve Until 30 June 1991

Our venerable photographer Mr. Bill Madsen traveled to the Academy’s Flight

AWBiancur, ’60

Line to capture some soaring instruction. In the foreground, Capt. George Sciss,

WFKendall Jr, ’60 W E Ay l s w o r t h , ’ 6 1 MJQuinlan, ’61

’81, works with C2C Paul Mullis in the Schweizer 1-26 sailplane while Capt. Rich Razin and C3C Sean Cavan go over instructions on the SGS 2-33 glider. See related soaring and airmanship stories on page 32 of this issue.

JLSmith, ’62

LLCasada, ’71 GDPollard, ’72 KSSamelson, ’73 RLAlcorn, ’74 PWilliams, ’75 JTWolter, ’75

JBEchols, ’76 S P R a d e r, ’ 7 6

D M S n y d e r, ’ 7 8 MPPowell, ’85

CHECKPOINTS is published in February, May, August and November by the A s s o c i a t i o n o f G r a d u a t e s , U S A F A c a d e m y, C o l o . 8 0 8 4 0 - 5 0 0 0 ( P h o n e ; 719-472-2067). It is provided as part of an annual membership package which costs $25. Second-class postage paid at the USAF Academy, Colo. Opinions expressed in this magazine are those of the authors. They do not necessarily re ect the opinions, policy or attitude of the Association of Graduates, its of cers or the editorial staff.

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

Copyright, Association of Graduates of the United States Air Force Academy, Fall 1990. POSTMASTER: Send Form 3579 to Checkpoints, Association of Graduates,

To Serve Until 30 June 1993

C H M e i e r J r, ’ 5 9 JFGlaza, ’60 JPUlm, ’61 MPBlaisdell, ’62

BABlackman, ’65 JESpittler Jr, ’65 GPMilne, ’67 (Secretary)

EMThorson, ’67 (President) WWMaywhort, ’68 WERichardson, ’71 (Vice-

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Services Growth Continues; AOG Staff Increased

By Dick Coppock, ’61, Executive Vice President, AOG GENERAL—Fiscal year 1990 (1 July 1989-30 June 1990) was ayear of marked progress for the Association of Graduates (AOG). Increases in staff and aconcenservices led to increased membership, revenue and overall member satisfaction.

The main AOG fund-raising efforts —

creased to over 12,000.

FINANCES—The annual audit report

Air Force Academy (AF^) Fund and

appears in this issue of Checkpoints.

Building Fund —both reaped encouraging results, although major goals have yet

To t a l a s s e t s u n d e r a s s o c i a t i o n c o n t r o l i n ¬

to be achieved.

MEMBERSHIP—Life membership

proved to be more popular than ever.

Some 192 graduates and 17 associates opted for life membership. An additional 215 1990 graduates also became “lifers via either the life membership at graduation (LMAG) program or through direct payments at graduate rates. As of 30 June, over 37 percent of all AOG paying members were in the life category. In addition to the above, some 70 percent of the cadet wing are participants in the LMAG program, which bodes well for future membership increases. Annual graduate/associate memberships also S TAT E M E N T

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P U B L I C AT I O N S — F i s c a l y e a r ’ 8 9 s a w

several bene cial changes in publications.

Mailing of the biographical data form to all graduates was discontinued on an annual basis; instead atear-out biographical mail-back sheet is now printed in each issue of Checkpoints. The biographical data

Restricted deferred revenue also showed a

Graduates.

signi cant increase.

STAFF PERSONNEL—As reported in

Along with the mail-back biographical sheet, another new Checkpoints feature proving popular with the membership is the Bene ts/Services page. Areadyreference to ongoing bene ts and services, this page also provides announcements of

form

will

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position, vice president, Services, on 1 July 1989. An, extensive search for a replacement vice president, Development,

cant strides in their individual areas of

For the

(Continued on page 7.)

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responsibility since assuming their duties.

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periodic reminders of items, such as class ring manufacturer contacts, AOG rst class mailing fees, etc.

November 1989. Both have made signi ¬

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also resulted in Col.(Ret) James E. Wilhelm, ’61, coming on board on 1

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graduates only every fth year (1994, 1999, etc) immediately preceeding publication of the expanded Register of

earlier issues of Checkpoints, Col.(Ret) Jock C.H. Schwank, ’60, lled anew

P U B L I C AT I O N

CHECKPOINTS Magazine

added Pat Donovan and Mrs. Monica

creased by over $1 million during FY 90 to just short of $5 million. Much of this increase resulted from life membership revenues and Building Fund support.

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reached an all-time high of 7,566, and two new corporate members also became AOG and Academy supporters. Total membership, (graduates, associates, and corporate) excluding cadets, stood at 11,370 on 30 June 1990 and has since in¬

tration on additional and more ef cient

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In our opinion, the nancial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the nancial position of The Association of Graduates of the United States Air Force Academy as of 30 June 1990, and the results of

its operations and its cash ows for the year then ended, in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles applied on abasis consistent with t h a t o f t h e p r e c e d i n g y e a r.

Our audit was made for the purpose of forming an opinion on the basic nancial statements taken as awhole. The additional information on pages 13 through 21

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COLORADO SPRINGS F R E E R E L O C AT I O N PA C K A G E S ●Newspapers/Maps ●Schools/Day Care ●Financing/Qualifying ●Home Rentals/Sales

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four-color ads in future issues.

MERCHANDISING—The

association

marketed aclothing line via amail order catalogue in late 1989. This venture —a rst —was conceptually good and demand was strong. Unfortunately, the performance of the supplier and the quality of afew items were less than satisfactory.

Operations in this line have been suspended, but the future will hold more such offerings. Sales of chairs, sabers, caps and license plate frames remained strong, highlighting the increasing popularity of these items.

After an absence of

ve years, an AOG

(Annual Audit: From page 5.)

ASSOCIATION OF G ADUATES

OF THE UNlT» iTATC AIB FORCE ACADEMY BALANCt Th^TT 30 JUNg 1»90"'

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Funds

F u n d

S236.639 S682.99

Cast! and Ecufvalcnts Accounts Receivable

$ 919,63 100

lnvestn*nts. Less Allowance for Es of Cost Over Market

51,228 13,366

Inventory Prepaid Expenses

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53,629

175,514

$355,86

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AIR FORCE ACADEMY (AFA) FUND—The 1989-90 AFA fund fell short

of its $200,000 goal for contributions.

Some $161,500 was raised, including $5,200 for the Cadet Leadership Enrichment Seminar (CLES) Endowment and $5,100 for the Graduate Dependent Scholarship Endowment. Restricted gifts destined for cadet clubs and teams totaled

$19,000. The AOG Board of Directors

$ 704.538

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70.712

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1,360,538

Building and Eouipmeni Fund

FndOMnent and Similar Funds

To t . ~ l A l l F u n d s

J723.237

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$2,423,126 11 2 . 8 4 9

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125,288 19.700

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$4,982,257

229,143

$1,223,718

$2,135,788

LIABILITIES: Ta x e s P a y a b l e Accounts Payable Accrued Salaries

Va c a t i o n P a y

Deferred Revenue (Note 3): Life Memberships

2,383 15,625 12,298

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866,765 1

Due to Other Funds To t a l Liabilities

12,298

456.520

866.765 1,091

669.376

170,081

AOG

BUILDING

FUND—Graduates

have increased their support of the Building Fund from some $560,000 at the end of FY 89 to slightly over $650,000.

The $1 million target gure is well within reach, particularly in view of the fact that nearly 90 percent of all alumni have yet to contribute asingle dollar. Atotal of $2.1 million in receipts and pledges from all sources was added during FY 90, with a

highly-successful phonathon to cadet and graduate parents aiding dramatically. The goal is in sight, but an outpouring of additional graduate support is needed if nearterm ground breaking is to become arealit y.

R E S T R I C T E D / E N D O W M E N T

FUNDS—The association continued its

management of over 100 individual and grouped restricted and endowment funds which bene t graduates, cadets and Academy agencies and programs. The funds support awide variety of programs, including lectures, seminars, postgraduate scholarships, memorials, class activities and the new Graduate Dependent Scholarship.

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40,600

76.133 502,829

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FUND BALANCES: 185,781

Unrestricted Restricted Net Investment in Plant To t a l F u n d B a l a n c e s To t a l

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185.781

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$355.862

$867,856

$1.223,718

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ASSOCIATION OF GRADUATES OF THE

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F u n d s

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SUPPORT AND REVENUE: $ 2 6 6 , 9 9 3 16.742 47,406

Membership Dues Contributions Interest and Dividends

$ 187.865 72,634 46,539

37,692 44,206

Fund Raising/Merchandising Publication Advertising A c t i v i t i e s Cl Homecoming

122,399 54,148 129,999

O t h e r

$ 2 6 6 , 9 9 3 204,607 120,240 84,231 44,206

165,272

369,879 120,240 C4.231 44.206

122,399 54,1 3 129.999

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To t a l R e v e n u e EXPENSES:

Program Services: Member Service!

109.490

109,490 11 , 8 7 9

Gifts and Grants Cost of Publicatii Class Activitir-

233,622

245,501

104,362

104.362 44,171

44,171 334.220

Komecoming

Total Program Expense Support Services: Administrative

56.553 35,100

Depreciaticn To t a l S u p p o r t E x p e n s e

456,50

To t a l E x p e n s e

EXCESSOFREVENUEOVER(UNDER)EXPENSES BEFORE CAPITAL ADDITIONS

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EXCESS OF REVENUE OVER (UNDER) EXPENSES AFTER CAPITAL ADDITIONS FUND BALANCE 30 JUNE 1989

1989-90 Fund.

383 . 2 28,887

139,775

152,569 61,363

165.272

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140,682

TRANSFERS ADJUSTMENT 'OR EXCESS OF COST OVER MARKET VALUE

140,682

140,682

86,434

86.434

(41,335)

(41.335)

$185,78 1 .

FUND BALANCE 30 JUNE 1990

6,013

171,285

1,057,426

134,669

81,820

63,995

145,815

75,807

63,995

280,484

563,957

666,299

41,335

137 , 581

$

152,569 226.640

6.013

(6,013)

CAPITAL ADDITIONS

will meet in December to determine grants to be made from the proceeds of the

$ 13,262

1.679,268 139.775

Dues

association will also continue to market

pewter graduation plates and graduation watches to our parents and friends. Approval to resell certain items of distinctive cadet clothing (T-shirts, robes, etc) has been granted and announcements will be forthcoming in the near future.

Life Kemrership

ASSETS:

grandfather clock will again be offered with very favorable payment terms. The

$-■ 133^.060

(48.940)

(46,940)

$S79,pi_2

$ 8 9 M 4 3

Endowment and Similar Funds

To t a l A l l F u n d s

ASSOCIATION OF GRADUATES ACADEMY

OF THE

Life Membership Building and

Operating Funds t e d

Unrestricted (Note 3)

F u n d

Equipment Fund (Note 3)

To t a l

CASK FLOWS FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES: EXCESS OF REVENUES OVER (UNDER) EXPENSES ADJUSTMENTS NEEDED TO RECONCILE NET CASK PROVIDED BY OPERATIONS:

$143,078

$

143.07 ^

$

708 , 57

599 , 36

6.013

Depreciation Due to/from Other Funds Accounts Receivable

68,771

Prepaids Inventory Accounts Payable and Accrued Expenses Ta x e s P a y a b l e Deferred Revenue: Life Memberships D u e s

(25,701 (100) ■

43.070 ■

(67.432) (100 ) 2 5 6 , 1 5 (

6.013 24,362 (42,037)

(668) 2 , 6 11 (2.694) 361

(12,673

2 , 6 11 (15,367) 361

23,904

40,396

64,300

197,907

Other

$ 2 8 2 . 8 8 0

(93,689 (668 2 , 6 11 (3.468) 361 197,907 64.300

132,540

362,557

237,953

278,695

388,176

46,320

951,344

(343,931)

7,925 (8,442)

(27,076)

(388.662).

(343.931)

1517)

(27.076)

^95,097

Net Cash Provided

236,031

by Operations

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CASH FLOWS FROM INVESTING ACTIVITIES: Investments in Marketable Securities

(25.819)

3 3 9

(2S,«80)

(25,819)

339

(25.430

Equipment Purchases Net Cash Provided (Absorbed]

by Investing Activitir-

■. ^ 8 , 4 4 2 ) (397,004)

CASH FLOWS FROM FINANCING ACTIVITIES: Note Payable

(7,532)

(7,532)

(7,532)

(7.532)

(7,532)

Net Cash Absorbed

by Financing Activities NET INCREASE (DECREASE) IN CASH Transfers Cash and Cash Equivalents at

202,680

Beginning of Tear

75,294

Cash and Cash Equivalents at E n d o f Ye a r

The accompanying notes are

2,261

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204,941 (41.335)

(65,036)

680,735

756,029

769,574

294,243

88.2..,9.9

$ 919,63

704,538 $

$723,237

(41,335)

387,659

19,244

546,808

41.335 56,472

1.876,318

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NOTES To FINANCIAL TfAWNT -30 JUNE ~l

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NOTE 1-SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES: C.

E.

The Association is anon pro t corporation and is exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, from federal and state income tax on any net income earned in furtherance of its exempt

nancial transactions are reported by fund group.

A. The assets, liabilities and fund balances are reported in the following fund groups:

purpose.

F.

1. Operating funds include unrestricted and restricted resources available for support of the organization's operations. a .

rst out) or market.

The costs of providing the various programs and other activities have been summarized on afunctional basis in the Statement of Activity.

Accordingly, certain operating expenses have been allocated based on management's estimation.

nancial statements, funds that have

similar characteristics have been combined into fund groups. Accordingly, all

Inventory is valued at lower of cost ( rst in,

D.

accounting. This is the procedure by which resources for various purposes are classi ed for accounting and reporting purposes into funds established according to their nature and purpose. Separate accounts are maintained for e a c h f u n d ; h o w e v e r, i n t h e a c c o m p a n y i n g

revenue.

Depreciation of Furniture, Fixtures and Equipment is recorded using straight-line and accelerated methods over estimated useful lives of

To e n s u r e o b s e r v a n c e o f a n y l i m i t a t i o n s o r r e s t r i c t i o n s p l a c e d o n t h e u s e o f resources available to the Association, the nancial records of the Associatio a r e m a i n t a i n e d i n a c c o r d a n c e w i t h t h e p r i n c i p l e s o f f u n d

For purposes of the statement of cash ows, the Association considers all highly liquid debt instruments purchased with amaturity of three months or less to be cash equivalents.

Unrestricted Fund -The Unrestricted Fund contains those accounts used in the current operations of the Association.

Unrestricted revenue is available to meet any Association

NOTE 2

expenditures,

cost for marketable debt securities. Investments consist of the following:

INVESTMENTS:

Investments are presented on the

outside party for aparticular current operating

Current ed Fund

Fund

L i f e Fund

Endowment To t a l

Funds

in

Common and Preferred -

$6,570 12,845

Included in this fund are restricted earnings on endowment

M a r k e t Va l u e $ 7 8 9 , 6 3 6 Corporate Bonds M a r k e t Va l u e $ 8 7 6 , 6 6 1

funds.

Government Bonds -

25,188

a r e

Current

Unrestrict- Restricted Membership &Similar

purpose,

these funds is deemed to be earned when the Association has incurred expenditures in compliance with Amounts received but not yet earned speci c restrictions, Revenue

nancial statements in the aggregate at the

lower of cost or fair market value in case of marketable equity securities and

b. Restricted Funds -The Restricted Fund accounts for those contributions restricted by the donor, grantor, or other

reported as additions to restricted deferred revenue.

$

adequate .. -- t o f u n d ..t h e a n n u a-l c o s t o f m e m b e r s h i p o v e r t h e

average

life of participants in the program. Current Life Membership fees and fund earnings are treated as additions to deferred revenue.

The current cost of an annual membership for each life member is transferred from the Life Membership Fund to the Unrestricted Fund The life membership where it is recognized as current revenue. fund group is composed of the following:

Mutual

Funds

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$883,872

$727.125 $150,177

9,246

Market Value $124,401

2. Life Membership Funds -The Life Membership Fund contains the accounts used to invest, monitor and control fees received as a result of the Association's agreeing to provide lifetime services The Life to members who have chosen this membership option. a r e Membership Fund and the current life membership fee ...intained m a and determined on an actuarial basis that is designed to ensure that the original fee and its accumulated earnings is

9,021

577.73

329,401

919,977

45,62

53,575

133,529

66,96

152,560

228,542

M a r k e t Va l u e $ 2 1 4 , 6 4 3 53.624 Excess Market

9,246

1,417,33

$9,246

$1,36p_,538 $636^,77_3 $2,057,785

of Cost Over Va l u e - M a r k e t ¬

able Equity Securities

(2.396)

C a r r y i n g Va l u e

$51,228

685,71

2 , 1 6 5 , 9 2 0

(56,799) (48,940

(108,135)

NOTE 3-CHANGES IN DEFERRED REVENUE: Deferred Restricted Revenue:

Balance at 30 June 1989

Current

Building

Restricted

&Equipment

$689,389

$306,818

203,315 266,718

615,031

a. Original Life Membership Fund -This fund accounts for all monies received from life membership fees through 30 June 1984. The Board of Directors has directed that these funds be invested and that the income from such investments be

available to pay current operating expenses. Through 30 June

Additions: Contributions

Earnings Other

1984, none of these life membership monies had been used to

pay current operating expenses. Earnings after 30 June 1984 may be transferred to the General Fund as required to offset expenses for consulting services, equipment acquisitions, and additional personnel.

Deductions:

Expenditures

received from life membership fees after 30 June 1984. Once

Balance at 30 June 1990

each year this fund will transfer monies to the general fund.

T h e a m o u n t o f t h e t r a n s f e r, w h i c h i s i n c l u d e d i n d u e s r e v e n u e

Life Membership Funds:

of the unrestricted fund, will equal the number of life membership #2 members times the annual dues during the p r e c e d i n g y e a r, Balance at 30 June 1989

c. Life Membership at Graduation Fund -This fund accounts for all monies received from cadet payroll deductions after 1 January 1986. This fund will remain fully invested until such time as acontributing member’s class graduates. No transfers will occur in the interim. Upon graduation of an individual class, $550 per graduating AOG life member is transferred from this fund and its accumulated earnings to Life Membership Fund #2.

d. Corporate Membership Fund -This fund accounts for all monies received from corporate life membership fees. Once each year this fund will transfer monies to the General Fund equal to

the number of corporate life members times the annual dues d u r i n g t h e p r e c e d i n g y e a r.

3. Building and Equipment Fund -The Building and Equipment Fund contains the Association's net investment in xed assets. In addition, any gifts received with donor placed restrictions that limit the use of the gift to the acquisition or building of xed assets are accounted for as additions to deferred revenue. When the restricted funds are expended, they are recognized as capital additions and as increases to the Association's net investment in

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until the occurrence of aspeci ed event.

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income

these endowment funds is added to Current Restricted Funds or Building and Equipment Restricted Funds, as appropriate.

Unrestricted earnings are recognized as current unrestricted earned

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429.637

180,392

429,637

252,474

72,082

Earnings (Losses) Deductions: Transfers

Balance at 30 June 1990

$_ 866^765

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ships at Memberships Graduation Life

$1,481,361

$323,980

221,666 100,305

254,596 (8,756)

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104.530 19,534

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124,064

11 3 , 3 0 0

$1,679,26 :

456,520 $

NOTE 4-EMPLOYEE RETIREMENT PUN;

The Association has ade ned contribution pro t sharing retirement plan

through Shearson, Lehman, Hutton, covering all employees who are 21 years of age, have completed one year of service, and are not covered by acollective bargaining agreement. This plan provides for full vesting after six years of service. Employer contributions under the plan are made upon reconmendation of the plan's Trustees with nal approval by the Board of Directors. Each eligible employee may contribute up to the lesser of $2,000 or lOOX of his or her compensation for the taxable year for which the contributions relate. The General Fund contains a$15,000 pension cost liability for

scal year ending

30 June 1990.

NOTE 5-RECUSSIFICATION OF BEGINNING BAUNCES;

plant.

4. Endowment and Similar Funds -The Endowment and Similar Funds contain the principal amount of gifts accepted with the donor stipulation that the principal be maintained intact in perpetuity o

Additions: Fees

Expenses

Monies received from cadet payroll deductions are fully refundable to the cadets until the time of their graduation,

136.980

1,2'96‘.'40'2

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b. Life Membership Fund #2 -This fund accounts for all monies

on

r e v e n u e .

Funds transferred to the Endowment and Similar group of accounts

by the Association's Board of Directors are classi ed

a s

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project, approximately $137,000 in earnings was discovered to have been retained in the various endowment funds. These earnings should have been carried as deferred revenue in the current restricted fund and available for

expenditure. Endowment earnings available for current expenditure for the year ended June 30 1989 were correctly recorded as additions to current restricted deferred revenue. The previously reported June 30. 1989 endowment fund balance

of $700,935 has been decreased by approximately $137,000 and the previously reported June 30. 1989 current restricted fund deferred revenue of $689,389 has been increased by approximately $137,000 to re ect this correction.

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Ihave had adream for aquarter of acentury. September of 1989 was the time when that dream was to be ful lled. But, as life often works out,

circumstances conspired to make it impossible to ful ll that dream as I had planned. Perhaps, as it’s turned out, all will work out to agreater purpose.

That long-held dream was that Iwould be able to take 15 minutes at the formal dinner of the 25th reunion of the Class of 1964 to deliver a

heartfelt talk, atalk which has now become this article. When it became clear that my message would not be delivered at the 25th reunion, after having waited literally for years, Iwondered why. It then occurred to me that what Ihad to say might be presented through Checkpoints to amuch broader audience of concerned readers, readers who would include current cadets and staff of the Academy, alumni, parents of cadets past

and present, and friends of USAFA. Perhaps sharing with this broader audience could accomplish agreater good.

Here then is...

T H E TA L K N O T G I V E N At class reunions, around the hallowed foundations of the chapel, in

informal publications, throughout Arnold Hall, and elsewhere, the U.S. Air Force Academy honors its own. Tribute is paid to those who toiled within its academic halls, who competed upon its “ elds of friendly strife” and who gave their lives for the Academy and their country.

These, our honored dead, have received numerous deserved tributes. 1 would not detract from their honor or their memory in any way.

However, another group of former cadets exists who also made major sacri ces and paid great personal prices for their involvement as cadets at the Academy, but to whom no tribute has been paid. Such tribute has not been made either through actions or through an inquiry into their lives.

At the very least, they could be remembered. Iam referring to former classmates who did not graduate with their classes, those who left the Academy under honorable circumstances, those who left under less-thanhonorable circumstances, those who left for medical reasons, and those

who left for personal or family reasons. This group of former cadets, which numbers in the thousands, is equally deserving of concern and remembrance.

I r e m e m b e r. . .

they have gone through, for Iwas one of them. Iknow the price, both bene t and cost, which Ipaid for my involvement.

Icame to the Academy in June of 1960, amember of the 770 entering cadets of the Class of 1964. We were the largest class to enter the new academy up to that date. Iremember sitting in my living room in Ogden, Utah, reading the letter that said 1received the Congressional appointment to the USAFA Class of 1964. The letter asked me to “consider very carefully whether or not you want to attend the Academy.” Of course Iwanted to attend; otherwise Iwould not have gone to all the trouble associated with the application process. 1ignored the admonishement and sent my letter saying. “Yes, 1will accept the appointment.”

Itraveled to Denver on the Union Paci c railroad. People did not often y to places in those days. 1remember taking the bus down to Colorado Springs the next morning joking, “Well, say goodbye to the civilian world!” That joke quickly became one on myself and the other

prospective cadets on that bus. When Iarrived at the end of the processing line, the Sweet Young Thing at the table who asked my name, said, “Cadet Bothwell, your Air Force Academy serial number is 2183K...good luck!” There was something about the “good luck” that sounded ominous. Iwalked through the curtained door at the end of the room and my life was never the same again.

The next thing Iknew, some upper classman was screaming in my face, “Mister, may Itouch you?!” 1didn’t know what this guy’s problem was, but 1was not about to answer aquestion like that. Ithought that maybe if

Iignored him he would move on to someone else, but it’s hard to ignore someone who is screaming two inches from your face. My silence only seemed to increase his anger. Everwhere Iwent that day, rst classmen

yelled at me. 1thought Iwould never survive basic cadet summer. Many of my classmates did not endure. Ithought of resigning many times that summer but my widowed mother kept my spirits up through supportive letters from home. And Iremembered my best friend writing in my

yearbook at graduation from Ogden Fligh School, “Well, Bothwell, give it your usual mediocre try, then drag your bum back home and I’ll try to get you aposition on the the grounds crew at Weber College.” Iwas determined not to let him have the satisfaction of seeing me “drag my

Iremember a rst class cadet who was given amedical discharge after

suffering what was diagnosed as an emotional breakdown just weeks before graduation. Some said he was crazy; others said he was “crazy like afox.” Iremember another rst class cadet who failed to graduate and had to leave in order to marry his ancee, who had become pregnant. 1 remember athird class cadet dismissed on an honor violation because he

had been picking up copies of other cadets’ Denver Posts which had been left near the orderly room, papers which, as he had perceived it, no one seemed to want. Iremember during my rst class year adoolie who left

during basic cadet summer after falling apart, being screamed at by a classmate of mine, then told to “get out!”

Iremember these cadets and more, and Iwondered many times what became of each of them and what emotional (and sometimes physical)

scars they carried with them from their time at USAFA. Involvement as a cadet, real involvement, does exact atremendous emotional and psychological price. Iwell know...

Iremember those who didn’t make it. Ihave some empathy for what

(Annual Report: From page 7.)

bum home.*’ Ihung in.

Many others did not. The rumor at the end of the summer (we had no way of con rming this) was that the USAFA Class of 1964 had the highest attrition rate for basic cadet training of any entering class at any military academy in history. During the next four years, we lost many more classmates for all the reasons Istated earlier. By my

awide variety of activities supporting the A c a d e m y, t h e A O G a n d l o c a l a r e a graduates. Some have aided immensely in the fund-raising for the headquarters/alumni house; others in cadet candidate preselection and evaluation; and one, the Capitol Chapter, did a ne job of prescreening applicants for Graduate Dependent Scholarships. Many supported visiting USAFA athletic contests with team housing, tailgates, and special alumni travel/accommodation packages. One, the North Texas group, hosted amassive three-day weekend in conjunction with the USAFA-TCU foot-

was still among them.

Ihad come to the Academy aproduct of the Utah public school system

and Ithought Iwas pretty hot stuff. Ihad taken honors classes in high school and was prepared to excel academically at the Academy. 1quickly received ahard dose of reality as Icompeted with cadets from California,

New York, Texas, Michigan and other states which had “real” educational systems. Ifound them to be light-years ahead of me in knowledge and techniques. Iremember sitting in my fourth class math class staring in bewilderment at my slide rule. Ihad never seen aslide rule before, let alone learned how to use one. The other cadets were pounding (Continued on page 13.)

their AOG.

S E RV I C E S — T h e v i c e p r e s i d e n t , S e r vices is awelcome addition to the AOG

staff. Colonel Schwank hit the ground

running and has done much to strengthen and expand existing programs (Budget Rent aCar, American Airlines discounts,

etc) while bringing new services on line.

For example, the MCI discounted long distance telephone service has ahigh

response rate, and the company has also been generous in providing members and parents with free calling during reunions and Parents Weekend.

rst class year,

our class was approaching on the downhill slope 500 hardy souls, and I

ball game. We’re pleased to see the depth and variety of chapter programs and increasing support for the Academy and

CHAPTERS—Our chapters continued

Our proudest achievement, however, was the initial awarding of Graduate

Dependent Scholarships. Five deserving individuals received grants ranging from $7(X) to $1,200. Over 50 applications were received, and even more are expected this

year. Graduates are to be commended for

their support of this program through the AFA

Fund.

The association entertained

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posals for areplacement life insurance program. None were satisfactory. Lacking

any evidence of an overwhelming demand from the membership, we have ceased active solicitation of proposals.

Virtually all membership services are extended to our cadet members, as well.

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Parachute Team “Wings of Blue” will get together for aSilver Anniversary Reunion celebrating their rst 25 years on April 25-28, 1991. All former team members should receive detailed information, registration and memorabilia order forms by mail in D e c e m b e r.

The Colorado Springs Hilton Inn has been chosen as the host hotel, including registration desk, hospitality suite, Thursday welcome party, and Saturday evening banquet. Delta Air Tines is the of cial airline of the reunion, and is offering special reduced airfare rates for those planning to attend.

Ahigh-quality limited edition signed and numbered print is being designed and produced to commemorate the Parachute Team.

Jim Hayhurst, ’74, is writing ateam history to be published in time for the reunion. Anyone wishing to provide historical information, interesting stories, or humorous anecdotes regarding the parachute team or its members, while at the academy or following graduation, is invited to contact Jim Hayhurst, 1405 Parkview Drive, Allison Park, Pa. 15101. Phone 412-364-3635. A1 Wallace, ’80, is collecting visual materials for the book and multi-media

presentation. Anyone wishing to contribute unique cadet parachuting photos, slides, or lms is asked to contact A1 Wallace at 8693 E. Saratoga Place, Denver, Colo. 80237. Phone 303-220-5494.

For more information concerning the reunion, write to Parachute Team Reunion, Box 21411, Salt Lake City, Utah 84121, or call Cass Casada (801-942-1411) or Coach Bill Wenger, 94ATS/Parachute Team, USAFA (719-472-2064 or Autovon 259-2064).

(Former Cadet Remembers: From page 11.)

Iknew when Iwent home a' Christmas in December of 1963 that Iwas

cutting it very close in r. y nal mandatory engineering classes,

particularly electrical engineering. In “double E” Ihad received a“C” the rst semester of these “building block courses”, a“D” the second semester, and now... 1returned early from vacation to rally support from

the academic board meeting that Iwas fairly sure would be convened to review my academic status. Iwanted to mount a ght against the “turnback” which Ifelt was agood possibility if the general meant what he said. Icame and prepared and waited. Iheard nothing. The other cadets returned. Vacation ended, and we began classes for the nal semester of our

rst class year.

Iwas feeling great because Ihad come through two fall semester nals in English with the highest grades in the class and Iwas facing aspring semester with an easy load, the rst classes Ihad been able to select in

four years based upon my personal interests and abilities. Graduation! 1 had it made!

Ireturned to my room from the rst day’s classes to nd ablue Air Force Form on the desk in my room. (Mail was usually picked up in the

orderly room.) The form stated that, in my absence and without my knowledge, an Academic Board had met, considered my case, and voted to turn me out as “academically un t to continue in ahigher education

setting.” Islumped into my chair, stunned. The form said that Iwould begin processing out the next morning. Iwas numb. Iwalked through the processing out the next day like the living dead.

As Isat in Fairchild Hall waiting to be processed out, Ithought of how much 1loved the Academy, and how much Iwanted to y and to serve

my country. Ithought of how much Iwas apart of the Class of 1964. I thought about all that my classmates and Ihad been through together: Brophy’s lost survival squad, the aborted escape attempt on the night before recognition, the death of aclassmate in Europe, and on and on.

Ilooked across at the other cadets who had received similar turnout orders. There were about 50 doolies, 30 super-doolies, and ahalf dozen second classmen. An then there was I. They could not believe their eyes. I

kept hearing whisper of, “He’s a rst classman!” The airman who processed me out showed me with disgust my graduation orders which he prepared earlier, my pilot training base assignment, and the order for my of cer’s uniforms. Then, to

nish me off properly, he informed me that,

out problems on their slipsticks, while Iwas reading in the instruction

as of that date, the Academy had academically turned out cadets from

manual about how to put the “C scale” over the “D scale”. Later Iwas to face the electrical engineering elite with their circular slide rules. We

every state in the United States except Utah!

worshipped them. (I wonder if there is acalculator/computer equivtdent

Iwill never forget the feeling of driving away from the Academy where

Ihad given three years, seven months, and fourteen days of my life, with

of this elite slide rule today?)

The curriculum in those days was entirely proscribed and it was 60

the cadet area disappearing in the rear view mirror. Ihave never been able to create ametaphor powerful enough to convey what being turned out so

percent engineering courses, designed by graduates of Woo Poo U(West Point). Showing the aptitudes that Iwould demonstrate in later schooling

abruptly did to me psychologically and emotionally. The closet example I

friends and roommates, Ihad made it to my senior year. Now, Iknew, I

have been able to come up with would be that of an expectant mother who has gone through all the challenges of pregnancy, from morning sickness to swollen ankles to reduced bladder capacity to the heaviness of the last trimester. She is in labor, about to give birth, so looking forward to a little baby of her own when, suddenly, the baby is gone, snatched away, never to return, and with no future opportunity to be pregnant and to

had it made.

have another child.

elsewhere, Iwent from semester to semester getting A’s and B’s in my social science and humanities classes and D’s and F’s in my engineering

courses, with my grade point average hovering just above 2.0, the magic cutoff point for survivability. With tutoring and alot of help from my The Academy “turned out” large numbers of freshmen, quite afew sophomores, and an occasional junior, but they never unked seniors.

They gured that, by the time you reached your senior year, they had spent so many of the taxpayers’ dollars on you that there was no way that you were going to do anything but graduate and pay your dues through four years of regular duty in the Air Force.

That was true until my senior year. In the spring of 1963 we lost “The Best Damn Commandant Ever” (and little did Irealize for my life how

true that was) and received anew commandant of cadets who came in from the “shape-up-or-ship-out” branch of the Air Force, the Strategic Air Command. He was determined that things were going to be different.

In the middle of the fall semester of my rst class year, Iwas among a select group of 25 senior cadets (some of whom have since gone on to very

distinguished careers in the Air Force and top leadership positions at USAFA) who were called into the commandant’s of ce and informed

There is incompleteness to important things which you are never allowed to

nish that Iwas never able to articulate until Isaw the movie

Field of Dreams during the summer of 1989. Finally, Ihad some con rmation that others knew, had felt what Ihad felt, had experienced that soul-ache that never leaves, and had gone on. Ihad gone on with my

life. Whenever others learned of my experience they said that I“took my failure really well” and on the surface Isuppose Idid.

But the impact on my psyche was formidable. For weeks after Iwas turned out, Idreamed that Iwas back in the Academy and that something had changed, that somehow Iwas going to have another chance to graduate. Those dreams continued weekly until two years later when I obtained my bachelor’s degree. The dreams then became less frequent,

coming only three or four times amonth, until Ireceived my master’s degree, then still less frequently, until Iearned my doctorate. It is now 25 years, aquarter of acentury, since that traumatic experience. The dreams

that we were at the bottom of the senior class. This was not news to us,

still return whenever Iam under stress, whenever Iam engaged in any

since we had been graded on the “class curve” since our rst semester.

Neither were we particularly concerned about our standing because we were the 25 vying for the honored position of graduating last in the class (second only in esteem to the cadet who graduates rst in the class, an old West Point tradition).

enterprise in which there is achance that Icould fail.

Iwent immediately back into auniversity as asecond-year senior and set out determined to prove to the USAFA Academic Board that they were wrong, that Iwas not academically un t for higher education. I

In this meeting, the general informed us that the policy of not unking seniors had changed as of that date. He wanted to use us as an example to the wing that seniors could no longer slide through academically. He promised each of us within the sound of his voice that, if we so much as

student government, wrote journal articles, and started my own

failed one class that fall, he would see to it that we quickly became civilians. He as aman of his word: Idid and he did.

completed adouble major with a3.85 grade point average, served in corporation. Inext completed atwo-year master’s degree program in one year, then nished my Harvard doctorate in three years.

Iremember when Ireceived my acceptance to the doctoral program at

Harvard. Iwas “carefully considering” whether or not Ishould take on (Continued on page 17.)

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(Editor’s note; On numerous occasions, we hear from cadets thanking us for the many programs the association and the Air Force Academy (AFA) Fund support. We felt we should share some of this cadet appreciation with those of you who support the association through membership and donations to the AFA Fund.)

Dear Sir:

Imeekly asked to join the USAFA alumni association (Association of Graduates) and then felt better when an associate status was established, not wanting to be part of the association under “false pretenses.” Ihave often wondered how many of the “associates” are those about whom I am writing in this article.

When Ireceived my invitation to the Class of ’64’s 20th reunion, the rst to which Ihad received aformal invitation, Ionce again gave it “ s e r i o u s c o n s i d e r a t i o n ” a n d t h e U S A FA d r e a m s r e v i v e d . W h e n I c a l l e d

1am writing to thank you and the Association of Graduates for supporting the Fall 1990 Cadet Commanders Leadership Enrichment Seminar. Ipersonally found CLES to be avaluable experience, and Ihave high hopes that some of the discussion during CLES will initiate improvements in the Cadet Wing.

Without the AOG’s funding, Ido not think that CLES would be possible. Thank you for giving me this opportunity to improve my leadership skills.

Iwill de nitely be amember of the AOG after graduation. I have had the good fortune of being able to directly bene t from the AOG’s contributions to the Academy. As asoaring instructor pilot, Ihave had the opportunity to y the ASK-21 sailplanes provided by the AOG. CLES was another experience for which Ihave the AOG to thank. Ialso appreciate all of the other gifts which the AOG has provided for the Cadet Wing.

Once again, thank you and the AOG for all that you have done for us. You are greatly appreciated.

Sincerely, Dan K. Maruyama C/LTC, Cadet Squadron 18, USAFA

(Former Cadet Remembers: From page 13.)

Harvard (shades of 13 years earlier), when my (then) wife said, “Lin, let me remind you that you unked out of the Air Force Academy, you could u n k o u t o f H a r v a r d t o o ! ” T h e U S A FA d r e a m s c a m e b a c k w i t h a vengeance.

But as Icame to closure on the decision to attend Harvard, I gured that, however it turned out, Iwould have anew world record: either I would be the rst person to unk out of aUnited States military academy and go on to obtain adoctorate from Harvard, or Iwould be the rst person in history to unk out of both. (And now that Ihave that doctorate Ido wish to thank Harvard for having the vision and the courage to take on anew doctoral student who was so “academically un t for higher education.”)

My experiences with the U.S. Air Force Academy, both what it gave me and what it took from me, have driven me for 25 years. The businesses 1 have started and managed, the books Ihave written, the training programs I’ve conducted, the video tapes Ihave produced and in which I’ve appeared, the tenure I’ve received, the writing awards I’ve been presented—all of these have had an element of “showing the academic board at USAFA that they were wrong,” that what they did to me, as I perceived it then, said more about them and their process than it said about me and my abilities.

As Iread of astudy in Checkpoints some time back, my mind turned to the hundreds (thousands?) of others like me who, for amultitude of reasons, failed to graduate from USAFA and West Point and Annapolis.

This study was conducted with USAFA graduates who decided not to pursue acareer in the Air Force and who subsequently returned to civilian

the Academy to say that Iwas coming to the reunion, Iwas so stressed, so fearful that my classmates might not accept me as a“nongraduate” (the ultimate rejection) that, when Iwas asked for my home address so that they could mail me the information about the reunion, Icould not remember my address and had to look it up in my appointment book.

When Iattended that reunion Ikept avery low pro le, feeling out my classmates about my being there. Iknew “the cat was out of the bag” as my book. The Art of Leadership, was in national distribution, with a shortened version of the story Ihave shared here. Ihad heard that it had been used in some classes at the Academy.

What 1was not prepared for was to nd out that what had been alifealtering experience for me was anon-event for my classmates. As Isat around the banquet table with the seven members of the 24th Squadron in attendance and talked about my experiences the past two decades, they looked at me in amazement. Larry Ball, speaking for the others, said,“Lin, Ididn’t even remember that you hadn’t graduated with us. I didn’t know any of that.”

Jim Sue added, “This is amazing, Igraduated highest in the Class of ’64 of anyone in the 24th Squadron. Now Larry Ball is president of his own corporation, Bothwell, the unkie, has aHarvard doctorate and is a tenured professor and author, and I’m driving planes for an airline. Go gure!”

After the reunion Ibegan formulating the way to make concrete my dream of delivering the talk that is now this article at the Class of ’64’s 25th reunion. That was when Ibegan to visualize standing up there as a living representative of those hundreds who gave their all for USAFA, but who didn’t make it to graduation. Ihad given it all that Ihad and yet it was not enough! Had Iattended the Academy perhaps adecade later....perhaps adifferent time....perhaps under different circumstances, different leaderships...but “the moving hand of time and life, having writ, moves on.”

The dream of delivering that address was dashed when Iwas unable to attend the 25th reunion and hence unable to request the opportunity to share this experience with my classmates, my brothers. That was when I began to think of sharing this concern with alarger audience, of seeing if I could awaken, if not academic interest, at least aremembrance of those who were, but aren’t...

To all of them, ray fellow nongraduates, Ilift my glass in memory and in tribute.

Lin Bothwell

Nongraduate, but very much apart of t h e U S A FA C l a s s o f 1 9 6 4

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life. Iwondered about all those who made that emotional investment but

never made it to graduation and what price they, like me, had had to pay.

How many of them spent the rest of their lives driven to prove that they were better than what their military academy experience seemed to re ect? How many were so overwhelmed by their failure or disappointment that they never quite recovered? Iwondered how many

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doctorates there were in that “group of failures,” how many alcoholics, how many suicides from the ranks of those who entered as the “creme de la creme.”

Iwondered how many, like me, continued alifelong fascination with the Academy? Ihave visited many times, read every book Icould get my hands on like Rick Atkinson’s The Long Gray Line, watched any movie about any comparable military situation, such as Lords of Discipline and An Of cer and AGentleman. Icompared this fascination, bordering on a compulsion, with that of my ’64 classmate who graduated from USAFA, served in Viet Nam, left the Air Force, moved to Denver, and never went to visit the Academy again. He said he had no interest in any aspect of the Academy after graduation. His Academy experience had been seen through to completion; mine never would be.

Ifantasized about being invited back as afaculty member, of being asked to give the commencement address. To this end, among other things, Iwrote, and Prentice-Hall published amajor book on leadership, some of it based on things Ihad seen and learned as acadet.

About the Author Lin Bothwell was acadet at the U.S. Air Force Academy from June 1960 to January of 1964. After leaving the Academy, he completed his bachelor’s and master’s degrees and has an earned doctorate from Harvard University. His professional career has included work in private industry, the federal government, and higher education. He has been a corporate president, university dean, and tenured professor of business

administration. His publications include books on leadership, communication and nancial planning. He is currently part of the Professional Development Group of Thiokol Corporation. Lin, his wife Marla, and their four children live just “east of Eden” (Utah). Lin would like to receive responses to this article and will answer letters directed to him at P.O. Box 258, Eden, Utah 84310.

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The chairman shall advise the general membership of the identity and address for the nominating committee so that individual members of the association may suggest candidates to the committee. Pursuant to Article VII of the bylaws of the Association of Graduates, it is the duty of the nominating committee to submit to the board of directors, not later than

Thank you for accepting the appointment to chair the nominating com¬

1February 1991, aslate of candidates for the election of 15 directors.

mittee for the election of fteen members of the Board of Directors of the Association of Graduates.

Said slate of candidates shall represent across section of the membership so as to insure that the following requirements as stated in the bylaws can

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3. At least one- fth (7) of the members of the board, as of 1

July 1991, will have graduated less than ten (10) years prior to taking of ce.

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Prior to seeking nominees, you should examine the list of those directors whose terms of of ce run through 30 June 1993 to determine the impact on the above requirements. Additionally, board meetings will be normally held quarterly in February, May, September and November.

Elected directors will be expected to attend, at aminimum, two meetings per scal year (1 July-30 June) at their own expense. Failure to do so will result in arequest for the director to resign.

In choosing nominees, the committee should carefully weigh the following: past service to the association, prestige, and potential in uence on behalf of the association. It is absolutely necessary to nominate only those who are members of the association and who are willing to commit enough of their time, energy, and loyalty to serve in light of their respective duties, jobs, or professions during their tenure of of ce. Please note that the bylaws provide for nomination by petition.

With the outstanding pool of talent to choose from, Iam con dent that you and your committee will do a ne job of insuring that we have another excellent slate of candidates for the board of directors. On behalf

of the current board of directors and the entire membership of the Association of Graduates, please accept my sincere thanks for your willingness to take on adif cult task.

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GRADUATE A S S O C I AT I O N M E M B E R S The President of the Association of Graduates of the

1970

1973

U.S. Air Force Academy has appointed me chairman of the nominating committee for upcoming vacancies on the

James E. Brechwald D a v i d F. M a c G h e e

John L. Barry

Board of Directors of the Association of Graduates. The

Jeffrey S. Shaver Terry R. Silvester

Roy H. Bass Jr. S a m u e l L . G r i e r J r.

Paul M. Guttman John M. Pace

four-year term of of ce for elected directors will commence on 1July 1991, and the election will be held by letter proxy

1971

Quentin L. Peterson

Secondary Zone Selectees

Samuel H. Clovis Jr.

ballot. All ballots must be received in the association’s of¬

ce prior to 1200, Mountain Time, 30 April 1991. Please see the accompanying letter to the nominating committee.

Members are invited to submit recommendations for

Schuyler Foerster

1974

Gordon D. Kage II Robert A. Moyer

James B. Smith

1972

1975

B a r r y W. B a r k s d a l e R u s s e l l T. B o l t

Peter J. Hennessey

Barry S. Wilson

Dale W. Meyerrose Joseph P. Stein

Neal D. Coyle Charles N. Simpson

G l e n n C . Wa l t m a n Richard E. Webber

Judge Advocates Judge Advocates promoted to colonel on this list include one each from the classes of 1969 and 1971 in the primary zone and Thomas J. Fiscus from the Class of 1972 below the zone.

candidates to me or any member of the nominating committee not later than 1January 1991. Any members who are recommended should ensure that their biographical information (as listed in the Register of Graduates) is current and accurate, and must submit astatement to accompany

their candidacy, not to exceed 150 words in length. Candidates are advised that they may or may not be nominated by my committee, based on the criteria in the accompanying letter.

(Signed) CHARLES JYOOS II, ’68

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Book Shows Colorful History of Cadet Squadron Patches Some of the most colorful and unique Air Force Squadron Patches worn today are those of the 40 cadet squadrons at the U.S. Air Force Academy. Since rst authorized in 1962, numerous squadrons have changed their identity by new insignia designs — some as many as four times!

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Force Academy,” was amazed that little or no comprehensive record of this subject existed. It became obvious as his investigation continued that squadron heraldry, avital link in the heritage of the Academy, needed to be recorded by joining photography and narrative in a rst-class publication.

His collection of insignia, the only complete grouping known to exist, was used in the photography. The narrative was completed after months of study and research.

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George Butler, ’61 Nominated to Four Stars and CINCSAC At presstime, Lt. Gen. George L. Butler, Class of 1961, had been nominated for promotion to the grade of general to take over as commander in chief. Strategic Air Command; director.

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BUILDING

FUND

DONORS

The AOG Board of Directors acknowledges with sincere appreciation the following contributors who pledged and made cash contribu¬

tions to the AOG Building Fund from June 16 to September 30, 1990. We encourage others to join these dedicated graduates and friends in this most important project. Contributions and pledges made after September 30 will be listed in the next publication of Checkpoints.

CHECKPOINTS DONORS

FALCON

DONORS

($5,000-$9,999)

Mr Dana CArbaugh ’70 Mr Marvin JBarry ’70

LtCol(Ret) &Mrs William A Frederick, Jr

Mr &Mrs Bruce JBauman match

Dr &Mrs Charles JGaliardi

of Wisconsin Energy Corporation Foundation

Dr George FGates ’64 CDR &Mrs Guy TGoodwin

AMR/American Airlines

($25,000-599,999)

Foundation

Hughes Aircraft Company TRW Foundation

CONTRAILS DONORS

LtCol(Rei) &Mrs Richard & Trelma Coppock ’61 match of Shearson Lehman Brothers Frances Langford Foundation Mr Terry Petrzelka ’70 Harold

C&Joan

SStuart

Foundation

($10,000-$24,999) Hewlett-Packard Company M r & M r s RWa y n e H i g g i n b o t h a m

TA L O N

DONORS

match of Southern Bell

Mr Edward DHopkins ’60 Foundation of the Litton Industries

($l,000-$4,999)

Mr BMichael Bristow ’70 Mr

&Mrs

William

Mr

WButler

match

of Bridgestone/Firestone Trust Fund

Hector

JGuevara

Ram and Bhargavi Gummaraju

Maj(Ret) &Mrs Richard JMeyer, Jr

Mr &Mrs Jay Hasbrouck

Lt Col George MMonroe ’70 Col &Mrs Edward LMoody

Mr

&Mrs

MPaul

Hash

Mr &Mrs Bryan MCavan Mr &. Mrs Joseph MClark Capt Steven DClark ’78 Computer Sciences Corporation Mr Jerry MDaily ’60

Col &. Mrs Warren LHenderson Mr Clarence Hopkins Dr &Mrs Jay TJohnson Mr &Mrs Henry CJohnston Mr &Mrs Frank EKacprowicz

Mrs Rebecca BDavidson

Col HMichael Lambert ’70

Robert «fe Madeline Delich

LtCol Arthur SMacDonald ’70 Mr &Mrs John AMacDonald

Dr &. Mrs Rodney SDill Mr &Mrs John EDye

Air Force Academy Society of Washington, D.C.

&Mrs

Mrs John WMagee, Jr Mr &Mrs Gene Markland Mr &Mrs Michael WMartin match of Southern Bell Mr &Mrs Donald McCarty Mr &Mrs Ernest RMcClain

Mr Mr Mr Mr

match of Jack Eckerd

Corporation Foundation Piasecki Foundation Mr &Mrs Thomas JPrebula Mr &Mrs John EPuhek

match of the Harris Foundation

Mr &Mrs Patrick Ehrman

&Mrs My Dong Nguyen &Mrs Paul JOttinger &Mrs Thomas EPeterson &Mrs Thomas EPeterson

(Continued on next page.)

DON’T FORGET TO ASK YOUR EMPLOYER ABOUT YOUR FIRM’S MATCHING GIFT PROGRAM ACOMPANY MATCHING GIFT CAN INCREASE YOUR DONATION TWO OR THREE TIMES. Association of Graduates

Association of Graduates Headquarters /Alumni House

United States Air Force Academy Colorado 80840-5000 ( 7 1 9 ) 4 7 2 - 2 0 6 7 AV 2 5 9 - 2 0 6 7

In recognition of the needs of the Association of Graduates (AOG) of the United States Air Force Academy, it is my (our) intention to contribute the sum of

to the AOG Capital Fund Campaign in support of the construction of apermanent

headquarters/alumni house.

CHAPTE

D O N AT I O N S C H E D U L E ( ^ ) U S A FA C L A S S

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Total Pledge:

S i g n a t u r e ( s ) :

Paid Herewith:

Name(s)

Pledge Balance:

Address City:

Date: Please make check payments to: AOG Building Fund

IIMonthly

State/Zip:

Phone #:

$

$

:

:

$

$

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(Building Fund Donors: Continued from previous page.)

Mr

Mr

&Mrs

Theodore

LtCol Ronald PCraigie ’70

Mr

&Mrs

John

Col Michael Quinlan Ret ’61

Mr

Ms Thelma HDunlevy Mr &Mrs Peter Dunlop LtCol Preston CDye Mr &Mrs Emerson LDyer Mrs William HDyer

match Mr

&Mrs

of

USAA

John

Redd

VI

Dyson-Kissner-Moran Corporation Mr &Mrs Harold AShope Mr &Mrs Reginald BShort Mr

&Mrs

Walter

VSoho

match

of

Northwest Airlines

Mr &Mrs Milton Spangler BGen Charles FStebbins Ret ’61 Mr &Mrs Robert JSurvil Mr

&Mrs

Robert

VThibault

Thiokol Corporation Mr

&Mrs

Michael

ATo r i n o

M r & M r s C h a r l e s H Tr i p p M r & M r s A l e x R U j f a l u s y, J r BGen James PUlm ’61

LtCol(Ret) &Mrs Roy TUyehata Mrs Ida RVacirca in memory of I L t L a w r e n c e P Va c i r c a ’ 6 1

LtCol Barry DWatts Ret ’65 Col &Mrs Howard Wong

TAKEOFF DONORS ($25-$999)

Mr

&Mrs

Erich

WAbel

Mr &Mrs Joseph JAbramson Mr &Mrs Jose CAbrigo Dr &Mrs Joseph AAccardo Mr

&Mrs

Herbert

Mr

&Mrs

Alfred

PA d a m s LAdkins

Alamo Area Chapter Mr

&Mrs

Fred

WAlbertson

M r & M r s G e r a l d FA l d i n g e r Col James WAlexander ’60 M r J a m e s PA l l e n

Mr &Mrs Kenneth Crandall Mr

&Mrs

David

Mr

&Mrs

Robert

FCrerie

Mr

&Mrs Alfred

SCresse

DBecker

Dr &Mrs Henry KButler Mrs Pearl MButler

Mrs Geneva Beckman

Mr &Mrs Fred ABynum

LtCol Ward DBeighiol ’70

Mr

Mr Mr

Mr &Mrs Carl Caldwell

&Mrs Albert &Mrs Frank

FBelcher EBell

Mr &Mrs Eugene RBelmain Mr &Mrs Robert CBender match of FMC Foundation

Mrs Mary HBenedict Mr &Mrs Erwin JBenka Mr &Mrs James Bennett Mr &Mrs Walter RBennett Mr &Mrs William JBente

Dr &Mrs HBlair Bentley Mr &Mrs William NBerezovyteh Mr &Mrs Harold PBergeson

&Mrs

Thomas

PCahill

Mr &Mrs Thomas ACaldwell Mr &Mrs Robert LCallihan match of The Hartford Insurance Group Mr &Mrs Lawrence Cameron Sgt &Mrs Martin VCameron Mr &Mrs WGibson Campbell Mr &Mrs WGibson Campbell match of PHGlatfelter Co Mr &Mrs Sam ACannata Mr &Mrs John JCapone, Jr

Mr &Mrs Vincent JCapozzella

Mr &Mrs Marvin LBorkompas Mr &Mrs George WBettesworth

Ms Florence MCapozzi LtCol Christopher Caravello ’70

Mr &Mrs James FBillups

Mr &Mrs William DCarper

Mrs Dorothy PBinn Mr &Mrs Robert JBirrenkott

Ms Kathleen Carreno

Mr &Mrs Charles RBisbee, Jr

Mr &Mrs Reuben LCarter

Mr Tex Bjorklund Mr &Mrs Werner Blome

Mr &Mrs James HCarter, Jr

Mr &Mrs John Bobroski

Mr &Mrs Alfredo Cellery

Mr &Mrs Harry DBogosian, Jr LtCol Charles JBohn ’II ’70 LtCol Richard WBonnell ’70

Mr Charles ECheeseman Mr &Mrs William Chelales Mr &Mrs Ralph PChenaille Mr &Mrs Charlie Childress

Mr Francis LCarroll

CBS Insurance

Mr &Mrs Philip ABossert Mr &Mrs Charles LBoster Mrs Stella VBoswell Mr &Mrs Peter Bouma Mr &Mrs John ABowen

Mr &Mrs Young Gong Cho Mr &Mrs Pellegrino GCiccarello Mr &Mrs Dominic GCiesco Mr &Mrs George Cindrich Mr &Mrs Kevin WClare

Dr &Mrs Robert EBoyer LtCol David JBoyles ’70 Mr &Mrs Daniel DBozard Mr &Mrs Harold HBozarth

LtCol Christopher KClark ’70 Mrs Frances Cline

Mr &Mrs Patrick FClose Mr Marck RCobb ’70 Mr &Mrs Vincent Colarusso

Mr &Mrs Patrick JBrady Mr &Mrs Jack DBraley Mrs Ida Blatz Brandt

Col(Ret) &Mrs Roger WAndersen

Mr &Mrs Donald OBrazelton Mr &Mrs James HBreeden Mr &Mrs Kenneth WBrewer

Mr &Mrs Gary LCole Mr &Mrs NEColebrook

Col &Mrs Ray SBrill

Mr &Mrs Salvatore JCollura

Mr &Mrs Harris LBrisbon, Jr LtCol(Ret) &Mrs Arnold EBrower Mr Charles MBrown ’70

SMSgt Elmer FColyer Jr, Ret

Mr &Mrs Christopher VBrown

Mr &Mrs Gerard FConklin

Ms

Mrs Linda Conrey Mr &Mrs Frank Contorno Geralynn MCook

&Mrs

Dale

WAnderson

Col(Ret) &Mrs Douglas W Anderson Dr

&Mrs

RGene Anderson

Mr &Mrs Arthur IAngarole Mr &Mrs Robert Appolloni LtCol(Ret) &Mrs Robert G Archibald

Geneva

Mr &Mrs Raleigh CBrown

Mr Fuller DAtkinson ’60

Mr

Mr &Mrs John MAwtrey

LtCol John SBrush Ret ’60 Col &Mrs VKBuck

&Mrs

William

EBaber

Sr &Mrs

James

Ms

Mr &Mrs James WBurchett LtCol Joseph GBurke ’70

WBaker

Mr &Mrs Dennis Banks match of

Olin Corporation Charitable Trust

Roberta

WCollett

LtCol(Ret) &Mrs James BComan, J r

LtCol(Ret) &Mrs David ACorbett Mr &Mrs Gene HCorbett Sgt &Mrs Isiah Corbett

DBudd

Mr

Ms Lyska LBurling

&Mrs

JCCothren

Mr &Mrs Richard Cover, Jr Maj &Mrs Lee BCox, Jr

Mr &Mrs Thomas VBurns

Donation and Recognition Levels

Richard

Mr &Mrs JBryan Cooksey, Jr Mr &Mrs William CCooley Mr &Mrs James WCooper

SBruno

Dr

David

Mr

LtCol &Mrs Anthony GBrozena,

Maj John L. Bailey ’70 &Mrs

Mr &Mrs Francis JColby

HBrown

Mr &Mrs Erwin GArmstrong Mr Harry Arnold ’79 Mr &Mrs Sidney MArnold

Mr

Crain

M r & M r s Wa r r e n T B u s c h m a n n LtCol Larry FBush ’70

Boris

Col Kenneth JAlnwick Ret ’60 Mr

Arthur

Mr &Mrs James Burris

&Mrs J r

Mr Paul Rossetti ’70 match of

HGrafton

Mr &Mrs Maxwell MBatson Col &Mrs Frederick WBecker.

Mr Paul Rossetti ’70

&Mrs

Bob

Mr James FBarrall ’70 Mr

LtCol Stephen MRoberts ’70

&Mrs

BCrane

LtCol Gary FCrew Ret ’60

Mr

&Mrs

Mr

Mr

&Mrs

&Mrs

Jack

ACrockford

Mr «fe Mrs Patrick Croghan Mr &Mrs Gary ECronk Mr George DCrow III ’70 Mr &Mrs Robert LCrupi match of North American Philips Corporation Maj &Mrs William ECurrent Mr &Mrs AJCurry Mr &Mrs James ECurry Mr &Mrs Paul EDanel, Sr Mr &Mrs Richard GDarling Mr Mickey SADavey ’70 Mrs

GEDavis

Mr &Mrs Raymond ADavis Mr William FDavis ’70 Dr

&Mrs

Kenneth

LDavison

EDueber

IDunham

Windell

WEades

CWEaston

Mr Patrick LEdsell ’70 Mr &Mrs Howard Eissler

CMSgt &Mrs William SEldridge Mr

&Mrs

Donald

DEllwein

Ms Eva BEncinas Mr Mr

&Mrs

Lee

&Mrs

HErb

David

PErdmann

Mr &Mrs Clyde BEricson Mr

&Mrs

William

EErikson

Mr &Mrs Richard DEverding Mr &Mrs Roger LEwart Mrs Shirlie IEwing Mr &Mrs Donald GEylander, Sr Dr &Mrs Edward LFarquhar Mr &Mrs Stanley KFaust Mr Seymour Felix

Mrs Joyce MDawson

Mr

Col &Mrs George EDay Mr &Mrs John Dayon match of Hewlett-Packard Company

Mrs Dorothy MFerraro Mr &Mrs Peter JFewster match

Mr

&Mrs

Willard

GDeGraaf

Mr

Mr

&Mrs

Willard

GDeGraaf

Mr &Mrs Robert Fiddler

match of Consumers Power Foundation Mr &Mrs Clarence DeGroot

Mr &Mrs John CDeLuca, Jr Mr

&Mrs

Robert

MDemkowicz

Mr &Mrs Dwight Dennis LtCol Jeffrey SDennis Mr &Mrs Vincent DePalmer Mr

&Mrs

John

Mr

&Mrs

Bernard

RDePaolo FDeren

Mr

&Mrs

Robert

FDesmond

Mr &Mrs Robert GDevaney Mr

&Mrs

James

EDewine

Thomas

PFerrara

of Grumman Corporation &Mrs

Alan

JFick

Dr &Mrs Frank AFigg Mr Gary LFinley ’70 Mr Roger FFinnern ’70 Col(Ret) &Mrs Bernard FFisher Mr &Mrs Eugene RFitzgerald AMCS(Ret) &. Mrs Edward JFlade, J r

Mr &Mrs Frank MFlanagan Mr James HFleming ’64 Mr

Mr Anthony DeSantis ’70 Mr &Mrs Vito DeSantis

&Mrs

&Mrs Donald of IBM

RFlinn

Mr &Mrs Louis Diaz

Mr Mr

Mr

Mr Donald AFord ’81

Mr &Mrs Larry Diaz &Mrs

Rolando

Diaz

&Mrs &Mrs

Robert HFollett Daniel JFonte

Mr &Mrs Charles LDickerson, Jr

Mr

&Mrs

Mrs Fances MDiLeo

Ms

Martha

Mr &Mrs Larry Dillard Mr &Mrs Douglas Dimeff Mr &Mrs Ignatius TDiNuovo

Col Peter HFox ’70

Mr

Mr

&Mrs

James

Dion

match

Mr &Mrs Donald RFlinn match of Amoco Foundation, Inc Mrs Daphne Flood Mrs Myrna Fluker

James

AFox

HFox

LtCol(Ret) &Mrs Thomas PFox Mr Derrick RFranck ’70 &Mrs

Richard

HFranklin

Mr John FDisosway ’70 Mr &Mrs Douglas LDodson

Mr &Mrs James Ray Franks

Mr

Maj Edwin BFrazier, Jr ’73

&Mrs

James

MDodson

Mr

&Mrs

Gail

0Frazier

Mr &Mrs Charles Donoho

Mrs Kim Freeman

LtCol

Mr

&Mrs

John

BDoolittle

m a t c h o f P a c i c Te l e s i s

&Mrs

John

CFritz

Mr &Mrs James EFritz, Jr

Dr Michael DDowdall MD ’70

Mr

LtCol(Ret) &Mrs John EDoyle, Jr

Mr &Mrs George PFuller 111

&Mrs

Thomas

WDrake

Mr &Mrs Richard KDressel Mr

&Mrs

John

Marvin

DFuller

match of Martin Marietta

Mr Robert JDrabant ’70 Mr

&Mrs

Corporation CWO/W4(Ret) &Mrs Frederick G

ADucharme

Funk

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Maj Dennis FFunnemark ’70

Col(Ret) &Mrs Robert CHess

LCDR &Mrs Lonnie DGailey, Jr LtCol John JGallagher, Jr ’70

Mr &Mrs Kenneth OHession

Mr &Mrs Bonner FGeddie

match of United Technologies Mr &Mrs Donald JHickey

Col &Mrs Robert SGeorgecink Ms Virginia Georgi

Mr &Mrs Kenneth OHession

Mr Mr Mr Mr

&Mrs Henry EKnoblock &Mrs Sam Kobayashi & M r s Ly l e M K o e n i g &Mrs Ben Kohler, Jr

Mr &Mrs Roger RMcGill M r & M r s Ly l e D M c G i n n i s

Ms Dorothy HPelton Mrs Sue MPendergraft

Mr

Mr &Mrs Gene Perlotto

&Mrs

James

JMcGovern

Dr &Mrs Richard WMcGrath MMcGrath

Mr &Mrs Stephen CPerriello Mr &Mrs Joseph BPerry

Frank

Col &Mrs John FPeterson

Mrs Janice German Mr &Mrs Sebastian Gerner Mr &Mrs John Gerzanics Dr &Mrs Walter LGessert Mr &Mrs Thomas CGhiden Mr &Mrs BEGibbs

Mr &Mrs Robert GHigh

Col &Mrs James LKolling Mr &Mrs Stanley CKonicki Mr &Mrs Paul DKorger

Mr Robert CHilb ’70

Dr

&Mrs

Robert

AKortsch

Mr

Mr

Mr

&Mrs

Walter

FKosman

Mr Roger LHill ’70 Mrs Betty Hillman LtCol &Mrs Ray Hinsch

Maj(Ret) &Mrs James EMcKinley

Mr

&Mrs

Stefan

FKotowski

Mr &Mrs Randy McKinley LtCol Robert LMcKinney ’70

Ms

Mr &Mrs John Hirst

Mrs Barbara LKramer

Mrs Dean McMafh

Ms Jeannine MHodgdon

Mrs Dorothy LKreuzer

Mr

Mr

Mr &Mrs Edward AMcNally

Anne

WGibson

Mr &Mrs Richard PGiesecke Mr &Mrs Riley MGilbert Col Gregory LGilles ’70

Mr

&Mrs

&Mrs

&Mrs

Richard

Lee

FHickok

LHill

Harold

Hoeft

&Mrs

Leon

&Mrs

Krai

Robert

Rita &Mrs

EMclntire

LtCol(Ret) &Mrs Walter McIntyre

Mr &Mrs Stephen VKozak Mr

Mrs Mr

Brian

JMcKeon

Ms Jane McMackin

FKrone

CDR

&Mrs

Arthur

JMeacham

Mr &Mrs Carl GPettijohn Mr &Mrs Paul WPetty Mr &Mrs Dang BPhan Mr &Mrs Charles APhillips Mr &Mrs James CPhillips Rev &Mrs Henry BPickett, Jr Mr &Mrs Dayne Pierce eld Mr &Mrs Vincent Pignataro Mr &Mrs Larry DPlating Mr &Mrs Henry Platt

Mr Willard GGillette

M r & M r s G e o r g e S H o ff m a n Dr &Mrs Jimmy GHolder

Sgt &Mrs Roy Givens, Jr

Mr Robert GHolt ’70

Mr &Mrs Ervin Polczer

Mr &Mrs Joseph GHopkins

Mr &Mrs Richard Krupp match of Dana Corporation

Mrs Gwen Meredith

Ms Mary PGlancey Mr Fred Golden, Jr Mr &Mrs Robert WGoldin Dr &Mrs Charles Goodhue Mr &Mrs Roland Goodman

Mr &Mrs Marshall GMerriam

Mr

Mr

Mrs

Mr

LtCol &Mrs Lawrence LPopovich Mr &Mrs Samuel CPoppell Col Samuel EPoppell, MD ’70 Mr &Mrs John JPopper

&Mrs

William

Mr &Mrs Joseph WKrueger match o f AT & T F o u n d a t i o n

JHosmer

Mr Jack Houghton Mr

&Mrs

Joe

Houk

LtCol Scott MHoversten ’70

Hazel

HKuhn

&Mrs

Marvin

LHoward

Mr

Mr &Mrs Ronald GGordon

Mr

&Mrs

Marvin

LHoward

Mr &Mrs Richard Gorney Mr &Mrs Albert OGoyette Mr &Mrs Anthony DGrappo

of ARCO Foundation, Inc LtCol Henry LHowe Ret ’61

Ms Elease Gray Mr Larry LGrayson ’70 Ms Kitty NGreen Mr &Mrs Richard Green Mr &Mrs Donald HGreenshields Mr &Mrs William BGreer

International Corp. Trust Rev Trevor AHoy Ret

Goodwin

Mr Gordon FGregory ’79 Mr &Mrs William RGross Mr &Mrs George WGrosz

Mr Winthrop Gruening ’70 Col &Mrs Joseph TGuastella Mr Stephen VGuenard ’70 Mr &Mrs Richard JGuido Mr Gary GGulbransen ’60 Mr &Mrs Richard LGunnels match of Olin Corporation Charitable Trust

Mr &Mrs Arthur CGustafson

match

&Mrs

Richard

BLander

match

&Mrs

Theodore

TLane

Milam

&Mrs

Jerome

OMiller

&Mrs

Donald

TPost

Mrs Pauline LPowell Mr

Mr

&Mrs

RJMittenzwei

Col Thomas MPratt ’70

CDR Jerome RLanzit Mrs Aline LLaramee

Mr

&Mrs

Richard

Mr &Mrs Richard PPredella, Sr

Mrs Cynthia AMonti

Mr

&Mrs

Jerome

Mr Henry MHuber ’70 Col Seth FHudgins, Jr Ret

Mr Mr

M r & M r s Vi c t o r M o n t i j o , J r

Mr

&Mrs

John

Mr

Mr Istvan Prileszky

Capt Samuel CHuggins ’85 Mr &Mrs Gary CHughes Mr &Mrs Gary CHughes match of Conoco, Inc

Mr &Mrs Robert Lasky

Maj &Mrs Richard DMoore

Mrs

Ms Carol ELatta

Dr &Mrs Roscoe MMoore, Jr Drs Ralph &Annette Moorehead

Mr &Mrs Philip APrisco Mrs Audrey EPropst

Mr

Mr &Mrs Earl Prothro

Mr &Mrs Leslie CHughes Mr &Mrs Judge Hughes, Jr Mr &Mrs Robert LHughes, Sr Mr &Mrs Frederick OHumke, Jr Dr &Mrs Frederick JHumphrey II M r & M r s W i l l i a m J H u r l e y, J r

Mrs Carolynne Laughman

Mr

Mr Richard JLesch ’70

Mr

&Mrs

Robert

MMosier

Mr

&Mrs

Edward

Mr &. Mrs Richard Hyde

Mr

&Mrs

Robert

LLewis

Mr

&Mrs

Harold

AMueller

Mr

&Mrs

John

Mr

Mr

&Mrs

Carl

CLindenlaub

Mr

&Mrs

John

Mr

&Mrs

&Mrs &Mrs

Martin

LHrovat

David

LHurst

Frank

Jlannarilli

&Mrs &Mrs

CEvert Larson To m L a r s o n

Mr &Mrs Henry Lattanzi match of The Brunswick Foundation

Milton

&Mrs

HMohr

HMoore

Edward

WMoran

&Mrs

Donnie

RPrather

CPrice

FPrice

ELPrins

Ms Susan LMorgan John KMorley

Mr

Mr &Mrs Robert HLautenschlager

Col &Mrs Michael Moroze

Mr

&Mrs

John

Mr &Mrs Gary AMorrison

Mr &Mrs David WPugh Mr &Mrs Gordon Quanbeck

Mr

&Mrs

William

JLedford

LtCol James EMorrison ’70

Mr

&Mrs

Ronald

PLee

Mrs

Mr

&Mrs

Allan

ELaursen SLawson

Mr &Mrs Edwin RJaniszewski

Mr

Mr 8l Mrs Bernard RJansson

Lillian

CMorton

DMulhearn

&Mrs

Edwin

JPrusak

Mr &Mrs Pantelis Psaltakis

Mr &Mrs Ernest LQueen Dr John JQunicy DDS PA ’70 JRadi

SRadov

Mrs Feno Rainaldi

&Mrs

John

LIsom

Marilyn LLindsay Mr Dallas NLittle, PhD, P.E. ’70

BGen(Ret) &Mrs William HL

Mr Mr

&Mrs

Fred

RJackson

Mr

Dynamics LtCol Daniel JMurphy ’70

Col Richard SRauschkolb ’70

Mr &Mrs Pertti Muttilainen

Col &Mrs Richard LRavenelle

Mr Eric JMyers ’70

Maj Thomas JRayl ’70

Bobbie LNaboni

LtCol Thomas JReam ’73 Mr Charles RReed ’70

Mr

&Mrs

Richard

LJames

Col &Mrs David FJaquish Mr &Mrs Karl MJaranyi Maj(Ret) &Mrs James SJenckes Pete and Margaret Jensen

Mr

&Mrs

&Mrs

Tzu-Hsun

Robert

Lo

WLueken

Lt Col Daniel EHancock ’70

Maj &Mrs Bruce BJohnson LtCol Craig LJohnson ’70

Mr

&Mrs

Russell AHankins

LtCol Darryl VLundgren ’70 M r & M r s R o b e r t P Ly h n e M r & M r s W i l l i a m E Ly o n s Ms Dorothy MMacartney Maj(Ret) &Mrs Valente Macias, Jr

Mr

Mr

Mr

&Mrs

Thomas

LtCol

GPHamner

John

Ms Nancy CMills

Mr Dennis GHall ’70

&Mrs

Mr &Mrs Robert Porter

&Mrs

Dr &Mrs Richard Miller

Mr &Mrs Londrigan Mr Roy CLong, Jr ’70 Mr Larry WLoomis Mr &Mrs Dick Loper Mr Robert BLopert ’70 Mr &Mrs William FLowe, Jr

Mr

Mr &Mrs Albert Porter

Dr

Mr

Mr &Mrs Ruperto Lomibao

Mr &Mrs Edward Halpin M r & M r s I r v i n g L H a l t e r, S r LtCol George GHamill ’70

Mrs Estelle BMiglin

Mrs Margaret Lang Mr &Mrs Joe DLangdon

match of Rockwell

Mrs Mary EJagerson

Dr John WHallett, Jr ’69

WHMickelson

III

EPolka

M r & M r s Ly n d o n D P o t t e r

Col James MJacobson ’70

Ms Annette Hallman

&Mrs

GWPleasants William

Mr

Mrs Byron EHaines Mr &Mrs William RHaines

Col(Ret) &Mrs George EHall, Jr

EMetcalf

Mrs &Mrs

Rev &Mrs Frederick Mildenburger

Mr &Mrs George RHagler

Hall

Donald

Mr&

Mr

Mr &Mrs Alexander JInfanger

Garth

&Mrs

VMehta

of General Dynamics Maj Gerald WLands ’70

Mr &Mrs Leo WHaagenson Mr &Mrs Gary EHaase Mr &Mrs Kelly Haddad

&Mrs

Shail

Mr

Mr &Mrs Cary JLaine Maj Perry LLamy ’75

Mr

Mike

&Mrs

Mr &Mrs Stephen GMetruck MSgt(Ret) &Mrs Thomas OMichel

Mr &Mrs Roger SHovey

&Mrs

Mr

Mr &Mrs Kazuo JKurashige Mr &Mrs Johnny BLadner

Mr &Mrs Donald EGooley

Mr

Mr &Mrs Richard FMeagher

Mr &Mrs Fred Jeronimus Mr

&Mrs

&Mrs

Marvin

Don

RJestice

PJohnson

&Mrs

Bernard

PMack

Mullins match of General

Mr &Mrs Roger HNagel Mr &Mrs Roger HNagel match of AG Communication Systems Mr &Mrs William MNapolitano Mr

&Mrs

Vernon

SNeal

Mr &Mrs Richard Neel Mr

&Mrs

Duane

CNelson

Mr &Mrs Joseph Rampino Mr

&Mrs

Wilfred

ERathert

Mr

&Mrs

Robert

ORau

Mr Harry JReel ’70 Mr &Mrs William FRegan Mr &Mrs Roger WReichel Mrs Nellie MReidinger Mrs Joan KReilly Mr George DRemsey

Capt Paul WNelson ’80

Mr &Mrs Albert Reville

Mrs Marion FNickel

Mr

&Mrs

Earl

SRhodes

Mr

&Mrs

Michael

Mr Robert JMack ’70

Mr

&Mrs

Kenneth

INonaka

Mr &Mrs Earl CRhyne Mr &Mrs Joseph ERichard, Jr

Mr

&Mrs

Donald

AMacLauchlan

Mr

&Mrs

Edward

GNordmann

Mr

&Mrs

Donald

ERichardson

Mr

&Mrs

William

MMacMillan

Mr Collie ENorman ’70

Mr

&Mrs

Richard

WRieder

Mr Paul RJohnson ’70

Mr

&Mrs

Alan

MGen &Mrs William SHarrell Col &Mrs Charles AHarris Mr &Mrs Dennis BHarris

Mr

Ms Jeanne MHarris

Mr &Mrs David HMaharrey Mr Joseph PMaher ’69 Lt Darryl EMalak ’88

LtCol Craig MNorthrup ’70

Mr &Mrs Bernard PJolly Mr &Mrs Leif Jonasen

Mrs

Mr James RJones ’70

Mr &Mrs Grady Hart eld Mr &Mrs Martin LHartley Mr Lloyd CHarveson, Jr ’70

Mr

Mr &Mrs Sidney JMarks

Mr

Mrs Cecilia MMarlin

Mr &Mrs Brendan JO’Sullivan

Mr

Mr

Hanlon

Mrs Judith Hantla Mr

Rick

HHarder

Mr

&Mrs

James

Donna

&Mrs

Mr

DHarrison

CHastert

Maj(Ret) &Mrs Edward LHat eld Mr &Mrs Gerald HHaverkate Mr &Mrs John AHayes III Mr &Mrs Jack RHays Mr

&Mrs

Weldon

Mr &Mrs Joseph RHebert Mr &Mrs Ronald RHeilig Mr &Mrs Edwin WHellings

Mr &Mrs Norris DHellwig &Mrs

To m a s

Michael

MJohnson AJohnson

AHemker

Mr &Mrs Johnny Henderson Mrs Dolores DHenney Mr &Mrs Richard PHentz match of Raytheon

&Mrs

Robert

EJohnson

Mr &Mrs Cordell Johnson, Jr

&Mrs

Russell

JJordan

Maj(Ret) &Mrs John DJordan, Jr Mr &Mrs DErnest Jung &Mrs

Paul

EJunk

Mr

&Mrs AT & T

Dale

LKeith

match

Foundation

Mr &Mrs Frank JKelley Mr Michael SKelley ’70 Mr

&Mrs

Karl

RMacNabb

JKellner

Mr &Mrs Andrew KKelly Mr &Mrs Richard BKelly LtCol &Mrs Robert SKern Mr &Mrs William FKeslar

of

Mr

Mr &Mrs Joseph WNuccio

Mr &Mrs Jose Rivera

Mr

Mr Joe O’Gorman

Ms Carol JRoberts

Mr

&Mrs

&Mrs

Robert

Robert

LMantz

EMarr

Mr

&Mrs

James

WMarshall

LtCol &Mrs Gary EMartilla Col Gregory SMartin ’70 Mr Maurice LMartin, Jr ’70 Mr &Mrs Ralph JMasiello

&Mrs

Edward

FO’Neal

Vernon &Mrs

Mr &Mrs Larry ARocker

LtCol Thomas HOliver Ret

LtCol(Ret) &Mrs Ronald CRoell Mrs Erika ERogl Mr &Mrs Duane GRoling Mary Esther Rooney Mr &Mrs Eugene ARose

Mr &Mrs Daniel Olson Thomas John

Omasta

MSgt James Mateos Mr &Mrs Thomas CMatschek, Sr

Mr

&Mrs

Keith

POrn

Mr

Mr &Mrs Roy JOtt Maj Mrs Simon KOtto

&Mrs

Doanld

LMatthews

Mr &Mrs Stephen Matus

Dr RTed Roberts, DDS, PA Mr &Mrs Harry ARoberts, Jr Mr

&Mrs

WMatchett

ERiordan

Mr

&Mrs

James

Jerome

Mr Robert POdenweller ’60 Ms Emma Oder

Mr

&Mrs

&Mrs

Mr &Mrs John WOgle, Jr Sgt &Mrs Oscar Olivarez

Mr

Dr

Oltorik

Mrs Brenda Orne

Mr

&Mrs

LRobinson

William John

CRobinson

NRockman

Mr Michael HRosenblatt ’70 Mr &Mrs James ERosett Mrs Florence Ross

BGen(Ret) &Mrs Thurman Owens

Mr Jack Ross

Mr

LtCol Roy CKessell ’70

Mr &Mrs Theodore JMavity Mr Charles AMay Mr &Mrs Harold DMays

Mr &Mrs Jack IRoss, Jr LtCol(Ret) &Mrs John GRoush

Mr

Dr

Mr

&Mrs

James

RKilbride

Mr &Mrs Jack Killmeyer

&Mrs

John

GMcBee

LtCol Thomas PMcAtee Ret ’61 Mr &Mrs Kenneth JMcClellan

Col(Ret) &Mrs Frank JKisner Col &Mrs Forrest EKissinger

Mr &Mrs James SMcConie, Sr

Mr

Ms

Mr Willian SHescox ’70

match of USAir

’70

Col John EMantei Ret ’59

Col &Mrs Frederick PHerre

fsb of Iowa

BNorman

Mr &Mrs Lawrence Riley Elizabeth Ringelberg

LtCol William HKirkman ’70

Mr &Mrs Vernon EHerring match Metropolitan Federal Bank,

Jack

Col &Mrs Michael Novakovic

Mr &Mrs Dwight MHerman

Mr &Mrs Vernon EHerring

Mr

Nix

Mr Douglas RNorton ’70

Dr Bryon PMarsh, M.D. ’70

M r Ti m o t h y A K a r n o w s k i ’ 7 0 LtCol James PKauppila ’70 M r & M r s Ti l g h m a n H K e i p e r, J r

Hazlewood

Col &Mrs Harold EHeadlee

Mr

&Mrs

James

m a t c h o f AT & T F o u n d a t i o n

JHarkins

Robert

&Mrs

&Mrs

Donald

RKleckner

Mr Michael JMcCormick ’70 Sharon

DMcCown

Mr &Mrs Alan Kligman

Mr &Mrs John McCullers

Mr

&Mrs

Joel

Mr

&Mrs

Elmer

Mr &Mrs Robert AMcCurdy Mr &Mrs Gary LMcEntee

RKlink EKnobloch

&Mrs

Marvin

HPakula

LtCol Benjamin SPark ’67 &Mrs

TNPark

Maj &Mrs Donald Parke?

Mr &Mrs Edward LParsons Mr &Mrs Roland JPassaro Mr Stephen BPassmore ’70 Mr

&Mrs

Dean

LPatton

Ms Shirley Pavlik Mr &Mrs John CPeak, Sr Mr

&Mrs

Herbert

HPearson

LtCol John GRoush Ret ’63 Mr &Mrs Charles WRowan

Mr &Mrs Joseph LRuf ey Mr &Mrs James DRuggiero Mr &Mrs Leyner RRummer Mr Don GRushing ’70 Mr Lawrence RRusset

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Class of 1970 Enjoys 20-Year Reunion Weekend

By Jerry Bruni, ’70 USAFA. There were brie ngs on the current cadet programs, atour of the dorm (all carpeted!), lunch with the Cadet Wing (it’s still not ajoy to be adoolie) and smaller meetings with cadets in the squadron areas.

Starting on Thursday, Sept. 13, about 3(X) members of the Class of 1970 plus wives and families, started to arrive at the Colorado Springs Marriott from literally the four corners of the world. The weather was

There’s no water in the Air Gardens anymore (hasn’t been for years), the X-4 is still where we left it, the marble strips on the terrazzo mostly have

great (as it would remain throughout the Homecoming weekend) —warm and Colorado dry. The AOG team registered everybody ef ciently; Joe

been replaced with less slippery stone, the diggers and llers seemed

Burke’s team did abrisk business in golf shirts and caps, coasters,

nowhere to be found, and the Cadet Chapel still commanded awe.

sweaters, playing cards, glasses and more; and the hotel’s bartender corps

The memorial service on Friday afternoon was avery moving experience. While the Cadet Wing assembled on the terrazzo (20 minutes ahead of schedule just like the old days), we formed in front of the Class Wall (the wall just east of the chapel, where the various class crests are mounted). In addition to graduates and the USAFA dignitaries, the families of deceased graduates joined together for the ceremony. The Cadet Drum and Bugle Corps played taps, and the names of each

was pressed into high gear. While we waited for the scheduled informal

buffet and social to begin, the hotel sounded exactly like you’d expect with hundreds of classmates meeting each other for the

rst time in many

years. Thursday night was just exactly what we needed —time to roam around meeting people, without any necessity to be tied down to one table.

Friday was the rst chance for many classmates to see the new USAFA which, from most external appearances, looks very much like the old

(Donors: Continued from previous page.)

(Continued on page 29.)

LtCol Dwain EStephens ’70 Mr &Mrs George MStevenson

Mr &Mrs Wenn Tung

LtCol William CWeir ’70

Mrs Andree Ulmer

Mr &Mrs Edward Weiss

Mr

Mr

EUnderwood

Mr

&Mrs

Fred

Mr Mr

&Mrs &Mrs

Donald JWelch James MWellborn

Mr

Mr

&Mrs

Bon

Mr

&Mrs

Kenneth

CMSgt(Ret) &Mrs James JSilya

M r & M r s G e o r g e J Va h a l a T S g t ( R e t ) & M r s J o s e A E Va l d e z

Mr

&Mrs

Frank

Maj &Mrs John PSalvucci Mr &Mrs Norman GSambuchi

LtCol Terry RSilvester ’70

Col Theodore JSlumm Ret ’60

Mr

&Mrs

Charles

J Va l l e

Mr

&Mrs

Derrick

Mr

&Mrs

Jacob

ASimcik

Capt Pedro FSuarez ’86

Mr

&Mrs

Michael

J Va l o v c i n

Ms

Ethel

MWest

Mr &Mrs Paul ESanderson

Mr

&Mrs

Albert

ASimon

Mr

&Mrs

John

Mr Kenneth WWhite ’70

M s Te s s S S a n d h o l z e r

Mr &Mrs Larry LSimon

Mr

&Mrs

Edward

BGen Earl SVan Inwegen Ret ’60 M r & M r s B a r r y T Va n c e

Mr &Mrs Richard LSandwick Mr &Mrs Kenneth RSanford

LtCol Alan ASimoncic ’70

Mr Patrick CSullivan ’70

R e v & M r s N i c h o l a s Va n d e r We i d e

Mr

Mr Frederick WSine ’70

Mr

Mrs Jeanine MWidseth

Mr

Mr Frederick WSine ’70 match of

Mr &Mrs Charles KSwaney Mr Dustin HSwanson, Jr ’70 M r s W C S w e e n e y, J r Mr &Mrs Francis JSzalejko

M r & M r s D o n a l d J Va z q u e z

Mr &Mrs Boleslaw SSztuka M r s L i s a Ta m b o s

Mr &Mrs George Velten L C D R & M r s H e n r y T Ve n e r d i

Mr &Mrs Jeffrey Wignall M r s J o y c e LW i l e y

Mr &Mrs Anthony PSlavec

Mr

Mr &Mrs Paul Verchinski

Col

Mr

&Mrs

Carl

CDR &Mrs Ben RTate, Jr

Mr &Mrs Harold Verstreate

Mr &Mrs Ervin GScheets

Dr

&Mrs

Charles

L t R i c h a r d W Ta t e m ’ 8 8

Mr

M r & M r s E d w a r d J S c h e ff e l i n

MSgt(Ret) &Mrs David CSmith

M r & M r s A l b e r t J Ta y l o r

LtCol Michael JVilbert ’70

Mr &Mrs Joseph CWilk M r & M r s R o g e r AW i l l a r d Col &Mrs Hugh HWilliams

LtCol Gary BSchmidt ’70

Mr

&Mrs

Robert

Col(Ret) &Mrs Kenneth SSmith

Ignacio AVillem match of Wells Fargo Bank

Mr

&Mrs

WDonald

LtCol John ATaylor ’70 M r & M r s J o h n ATa y l o r M r & M r s Wa l t e r W Ta y l o r

Mr Allen RWilson match of

Mr

Mr

M r & M r s M e r l e n Te a l

Company LtCol(Ret) &Mrs Powell JWilson,

Mr &Mrs Michael Tepley

Lt &Mrs John Vipond Mr &Mrs Wayne Voetberg

Mr

Mr

Mr &Mrs John FRyaii Mrs Marie TRyan

Maj &Mrs Hammond MSalley

&Mrs

Walter

ASaunders

Ms Emily Sherman Mr &Mrs Parker LShipley Mrs Lois MSieverling

The UPS Foundation

Saunders Construction Inc Mr Michael LScarano Mr

&Mrs

Martin

JSchans

Mr &Mrs Samuel MSchapiro Mr Douglas BSchecr ’71 match of IBM

FSchuff

Mr &Mrs Gordon HSinger Mrs Margaret RSkinner Mr

&Mrs

&Mrs

William

RSmith DSmith

Duncan

ASmith

Col &Mrs Fred CSchwarze

Capt Michael BSmith ’80 MSgt(Ret) &Mrs Paul Smith Capt Daniel RSny ’86 Mr CBernard Snyder Col &Mrs George FSnyder Mr &Mrs James DSnyder

Mr &Mrs Charles Schweiss

LtCo! Marius GSorenson ’70

Schultz

Mr Jay KSchumacher ’70 Mr

&Mrs

John

ESchwartz

Mr &Mrs Neil Schwartz Mr

&Mrs

Herman

JSchwarz

BGen Hanson LScott ’61 Mrs Mr

Woodrow &Mrs

LScott

James

HSeamon

LtCol(Ret) &Mrs Arnold MSowell LCDR &Mrs William SSpagna

Sgt &Mrs Dale RSpangenthal

Mr Donald ESeese II ’70

Mr &Mrs Stanley Spaulding

Mr Albin RSeilius

CMSgt &Mrs WSpeight Mr &Mrs Clarence ESpitz LtCol Brian JSpitzer ’70 Mr &Mrs James ASponaugle

Mr &Mrs Ronald PSellberg Mrs Elsie HSellers

Sgt &Mrs John ESells Mr &Mrs Charles Sersun, Jr match of ICI Americas

&Mrs

&Mrs

FSucich

Julius

DSullivan

D Ta r r

Richard

LTe r r e l l

Nick

AVi l t e r

JVolcheff

FRWittnebert John

&Mrs Preston Thompson Thomas WThompson ’70 &Mrs Carel Thompson, Jr & M r s J o s e p h B Th o r n h i l l

M r & M r s G e r a l d D Wa l t r i p

Mr

Dr

Mr &Mrs Eugene Wood

&Mrs

Mr Mr Mr Dr Mr

&Mrs

Maximus

Ivan

TThom

EThorsos

&Mrs

Frank

B To d a r o

Tidball

&Mrs

Clifford

KWanebo

Mr

M r & M r s R o b e r t LW r i g h t

Harold

WWard

Mr

Mr

&Mrs

Frank

HWaskow

Col

&Mrs

William

LWo o d s

Wuttke

Mr &Mrs Richard PWynn Mr &Mrs Charles BYeager

LtCol(Ret) &Mrs Jimmie Wax

Mr

Mr

&Mrs

Maj FWilliam Weber, Jr ANG ’70

M r & M r s L o u i s G Yo u n g L t C o l & M r s C a r l H Yu n g Mr &Mrs Joseph Zabbo

&Mrs

Lonnie

William

match

To o m b s

ETravnick

Mr

&Mrs &Mrs

Jon

WWebber

William

CWebster

Charles

DTuck

Donald

Richard

R Yo h o

Mr

&Mrs

M r & M r s J o s e p h LWe i d c n h e i m e r M r & M r s D o n a l d J We i g a n d

Mr Mr

&Mrs Charles EZeeck &Mrs Kenneth Ziomek

Mrs Shirley SWeiland Mrs NMaxine Weininger

&Mrs

&Mrs

M r & M r s R J W e b s t e r, J r

LtCol Lewis SWeiland ’70

fi

Karl

of Cooper Industries

Dr &Mrs Roman VTuason, Jr

fi

&Mrs

Robert

Wolford

&Mrs

GWatson

&Mrs

Michael

Mr

Mr

fi

&Mrs

Dr Charles AWard ’70

LtCol Jack RTrimble ’70 Mr

EWolf

M r & M r s E l m e r C Wo l f e , J r

Mr &Mrs Ching IVI Wang

Mr &Mrs Robert Stefanich AStelmack

LW i s e

&Mrs

Mr

John

Doanld

&Mrs

LtCol James DSpurgeon III ’70

&Mrs

&Mrs

Mr

STilden

Mr

J r Dr

Mr

JGorman

DSteffan

The Goodyear Tire &Rubber

Mr &Mrs Barry Wiseman

Mr

match

Wilhelm

TWaechter

Calvin

Leonard

John

Waitte

&Mrs

&Mrs

&Mrs

Harold EWalker Thomas HWalsh

&Mrs

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David

EVictoria

JWieland

Charitable Foundation

Donald

Mr

GShedden

Edward

John

of Occidental Petroleum

TVeldhuizen

Edward

Mr

Albert

&Mrs

&Mrs

EWhitehouse

&Mrs &Mrs

M s P a t r i c i a ATo p p e r M r & M r s E d g a r H Tr a c y M r & M r s M i c h a e l M Tr a c y

&Mrs

&Mrs

Mr

Carl

&Mrs

Mr

Mr

&Mrs

Frank

&Mrs

&Mrs

Mr

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^80 Reunion: The Return of the Burger Kings

By Karen S. Wilhelm, ’80 Hey all you Burger King buddies —great seeing you! To those of you

organizer on this end. The free MCI cards given to all AOG members for

who couldn’t make it —due to Desert Shield or whatever other excuse

the weekend provided opportunities for adventure in “reaching out and

you could come up with —we missed you, and you missed agreat time!

Just in case you weren’t here (or for some reason can’t remember), here’s

touching someone.” No one could get through the switchboard in Saudi (though not for lack of trying), but all of us Eighteenth Squadron folks

talked to Scott German after we woke him up over in Belgium.

Colorado blessed us with one of those gorgeous weekends and there were just enough clouds on Saturday to keep everyone from getting scorched at the game. Although, if my experience was typical, no one actually saw much of the game due to continuing nonstop hellos all around. The tailgate party was great, and we didn’t run out of beer until right before game time! The Falcons were kind enough to present us with awin, although they kept the score low (no doubt out of consideration for those who aren’t used to the ’bone and those 30 and 40 point scores —for both sides). The Jabara Banquet and dance that night provided more opportunities to renew old friendships and catch up on news from everyone.

arecap of all the highlights.

The Head Burger King (Matt Neuenswander) did agreat job as master of ceremonies —well, we all thought he was funny, and I’m sure the supt

wasn’t really angry. (So Matt, do you think they’ll delay promotions to major for all of us, or just you?) %

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From the opening moment of registration on Thursday night to the last

goodbyes on Sunday, it was clear ’80 was here to party. The war stories and reminiscences began immediately and one could hear laughter, and “Do you remember ...?” and “Last class with Keds,” (I had to explain what Keds were to my students) all over the lobby at the Sheraton. Of

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And the standard answer was, “Oh, I y for ...(pick one: Delta, United, American, etc.)”

Friday was more of the same with more memories keyed by tours through the dorms (fully carpeted and everyone has atop bunk and a computer —do you remember the rst time you tried to run abuffer?).

Those of us who work here have gotten used to how young cadets are these days, but it was fun watching others make that discovery. Ross Roley won the golf tournament, held for those not interested in touring dorms. The Memorial Ceremony was amoving tribute to fallen comrades, made more so by 10 years of seeing the names and faces in the “Gone But Not Forgotten” column in Checkpoints, and Bart Jackson’s name announced with the answering call, “Absent, sir.” Our thanks to the AOG and the Cadet Wing for bringing the lumps to our throats and reminding us of what it all means. Thanks also to all the squadron party reps who set up Friday night’s activities and Eric Bussian who was chief

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Sunday came with its goodbyes so quickly after all the hellos. Those of us who make our class just alittle “different” from the rest had agreat time at brunch. Husbands in attendance minded the children, took pic¬

tures on demand, and sat around with bemused expressions through several more hours of war stories and remembrances. The weekend was

gone before it began, or so it seemed, and the only thing in short supply was sleep! Now we know why this only happens every 10 years —it takes that long to recover, and catalogue all those pictures.

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Jabara Award Winner

Capt. Francis R. Gabreski, ’81, center, accepts the 1990 Jabara

Award for Airmanship from Academy Superintendent Lt. Gen. Charles R. Hamm. Association of Graduates president Mr. Eric M. Thorson, ’67, looks on. Captain Gabreski won the award for work crucial to the successful deployment and employment of the AC-130H Spectre gunships prior to and during Operation JUST CAUSE in Panama. He was the Military Airlift Command

We again thank the Air Academy National Bank for its continuing support of association programs. The bank has cosponsored and provided funds for the reception prior to the Homecoming Jabara Banquet for many years. At left are Glenn

Grif th, bank vice president, and his wife, Gerrie; and at right are George (Doc) Willis, bank senior vice president and cashier, and his wife, Polly.

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Some 85 members of the Class of ’60 made it back to the

Rockies and the Embassy Suites for our 30-year anniversary on 6-9 September. From all indications the reunion was aroaring success. In fact the only improvement any one of the attendees

could suggest would be that all those who didn’t make it could have been there. The entire weekend was blessed with good weather, arelaxed environment, and an impressive Falcon win over the Hawaii Rainbows (27-3). Following apractice party on Wednesday evening for the early birds, the weekend began with a

casual get-together at the hotel on Thursday evening. It rapidly turned into aseries of discussions centering around the changed physical attributes experienced by most of us during the aging process.

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Avery large portion of the reunion’s success was due to the yeoman work of Jock Schwank, Jim Glaza, Dick Schehr, and Wayne Kendall. Their long hours of preparation were evident and they worked tirelessly all weekend, ably assisted by their wonderful spouses. The AOG contributed invaluable assistance in providing much of the background effort to liaison with the Academy. But the key to success of the weekend was, as always, the folks who attended. Each attendee brought something very

special with them. Greg Boyington came gliding in from Alameda, Calif, on his Honda Goldwing motorcycle with no visi¬

ble signs of wear. Duck Waddle and Hope Schwank convinced Neal Reavely on the phone late Wednesday night that he could still make it from Bozeman, Mont, for the weekend —and he did.

Fortunately, Mike and Barbara Loh, Ron and Connie Yates, and Dale and Cherie Thompson (three of our remaining ve activeduty folks) could enjoy the entire weekend with us.

If we had awards, Frank and Eve Mayberry, who came in from

Woomera, Australia, would surely have won for longest distance traveled. Speaking of awards. Bob Odenweller found avery nice Falcon print which he offered as the “Outrageous Award”, to be given to the grad who was judged the most deserving during the weekend. The rules and judges were unknown. On Saturday even¬

Greg Boyington without his two-wheeler. From left, Jim Thomasson, Greg, Nels Delisanti and?

Common topics included variances in vision and the amounts and color of hair. Of course some of the class have clearly found the fountain of youth and taken full advantage of it. Billy Delony, Howie Bronson, Paul Sullivan, Sid Gurley, and Alex Zimmerman —to name afew —must be the same weight as the

ing, following dinner, during the impromptu story-telling session, several grads availed themselves of the opportunity to relate the “real story” of some of our historical incidents. Several took the opportunity but none could match the hilarious episodes revealed

by Hardy Lebel. For that performance, he was unanimously judged as the most outrageous.

day they entered the Academy. In all, the class has maintained itself very well, even if we are constantly outshone by our ladies.

Friday morning saw the dedicated and not-so-dedicated golfers headed for the links and achance to hone their competitive edge.

From the sound of the awards presented later that day by Gary

Crew, the struggle was epoch. Would you believe a12-inch drive?

Friday afternoon began with lunch at Mitch’s for the guys, who were then joined by the wives for atour of the Cadet Area, a brie ng by the superintendent’s senior staff, the memorial service and class pictures. Friday evening we headed for Peterson AFB O-club for dinner and dancing (lied about the dance). Saturday morning some folks went to the parade then joined the rest of us at atailgate party prior to the game. Saturday evening we closed

the “formal” portion of the weekend with aMexican Buffet at

Hardy Lebel displays the “Outrageous Award. ” Throughout the weekend ahost of memories were revisited and many unknown facts were revealed. For example, it can now nally be told that D.K. Johnson’s body served as the model for both the stealth bomber and stealth ghter. Ken Alnwick and Ace Holman make avery “cute” couple in their tennis togs. Norm

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while Billy Delony and Ace Holman are neighbors in Orlando.

George Pupich has been carrying D.K. Johnson for 34 years and he is beginning to get heavy. Mike Loh remembers every Aero formula he ever learned. Gary Sheets is the closest we have to a scratch golfer.

ship. Seventeen of the 24 classmates on the roll call were killed

graduate to be commander of Air Force Systems Command. Our

while ying. One, Val Bourque, was the rst cadet to enter the Air Force Academy on 11 July 1955, and was then the rst Academy Graduate to lose his life in combat.

Dean Vikan and Les Hobgood spent agreat deal of time over the weekend with video cameras on their shoulders. (1 think Marilyn may have done better with the camera than Les.) Iknow that Hardy’s award-winning performance was recorded as were many of the other noteworthy and less than noteworthy events.

Both Dean and Les have promised to consolidate their efforts and produce one tape which they will return to the class. Depending on their resultant product and the level of interest for such a record, we could consider having some reproductions made. This is not asolication but only acomment to let you folks know it exists and that it could be aired at later gatherings.

Ted Hopkins arrived in Colorado Springs with acase of very select wines. This case will be carefully placed in storage in anticipation of the 50th Reunion in the year 2010. Hopefully when we uncork those bottles and pass around the contents, we will have exhausted the supply before anyone gets asecond glass. In the interim, we plan to reconvene every ve years at the Academy

class has earned 17 stars to date and been awarded one Air Force

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ing, and the catered tailgate party was rst class. Before the football game (versus the Citadel) we were treated to y-overs by F-16s and even the Stealth ghter. Our goal-line seats certainly didn’t interfere with our enthusiasm for the- game. Until the Falcon Stadium staff ushered Greg Woodhead, Kevin Duffy and Chip Terrill off aslightly dangerous ledge, they led us in cheers from USAFA Pre-game to “Slash’em with abeak” to “Wamp’em up the side of the head.” (The last two didn’t seem to have

Hardy pondering another story while at the Saturday tailgate lunch. From left, Dick Schehr, Gary Sheets and Hardy Lebel.

Wayne Kendall directed avery moving memorial service in honor of the 24 classmates who are no longer with us. He uncovered some facts about the class that deserve to be passed on.

There were 317 of us who began on 9July 1956. Over 30 years

ago, on 8June 1960, 227 of us graduated and set out to serve our country. Now only ve of us remain on active duty, including the rst graduate to be vice chief of staff of the Air Force and the rst

graduate and cadet who passed away in the most recent years were called out. In response to each name, acurrent member of the deceased’s cadet squadron would call out, “Absent, sir.” Afterward, a ight of four F-16s passed over, and the number three aircraft pulled up and away. It was truly aspecial moment.

After the memorial service we adjourned to the chapel for our class pictures which, hopefully, will appear with this article. Unfortunately, we arrived at the chapel’s front doors only to

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in progress! Weddings are special, so we all waited 15 minutes for the rehearsal to end, and we used the time to pick up where Thursday night

survived to the present day.) The game was more thrilling than any of us wanted, as an inspired Citadel team together with aFalcon team with a bad case of fumbles made the Falcons won, 10-7.

nal score uncomfortably close. Still, the

After numerous victory parties late Saturday afternoon, we gathered

left off.

The Friday night dinner found most classmates nally willing to sit down for acouple hours, while we were served by the Marriott staff and entertained by Dan McFadden. Dan showed us his cadet-memories videotape, pieced together from hundreds of old photos and even some lm footage. Back came memories of group growlers, buck-buck, pep rallies, SAMIs, Corvettes, Jack’s Valley, SERE, intramurals, parades and much more. Dan went on to hand out afew awards, such as most children

together again for the Jabara Award Banquet at Mitchell Hall on Saturday night. This year’s recipient was Capt. Francis Gabreski (Class of ’81) for his role in Operation Just Cause (General Noriega’s headache). The Cadet Chorale put on a ne performance and, as is their custom, they invited former Chorale members from the Classes of ’70 and ’80 to join

them in singing the Battle Hymn of the Republic. It was atouching moment. For those few with any energy left, there was aHomecoming Ball at

(Bill Manning —lOVi), most hair (mystery classmate) and least hair (“a 20-way tie for rst place”). Then came the 31st Street Exit band —real, very live and in color. And the band played on —until after two o'clock the next morning! It was just great, if you could still stand on your feet.

Saturday started with another beautiful, sun-drenched Colorado morn-

Arnold Hall after the banquet.

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Those of us who missed this one, don’t miss the next one. We’ll all be...

president, chairman, and Jabara organizer who led us through the last 13 (yes, 13!) months of meetings with humor, grace, and in nite patience

(grayer, rounder, balder —pick one or all of the above) and have lots more stories to tell. Those of us who organized this one can’t wait for the next one —as long as we’re stationed somewhere else! Speaking of organizers, thanks to all the reunion committee members (see class news

Would you believe Pete McCalley is the only guy in the whole class with abald spot? That’s his wife with the sunglasses to cut the glare.

Sunday morning brought chapel services, afew scattered brunches and the end of one of the most enjoyable weekends ever. 1think our capacity to enjoy the reunion and Homecoming events was limited only by our

physical capacity to stay awake class

and to the folks at the AOG and USAFA Graduate Affairs —especially Col. Jock Schwank, Linda Glaza, and Capt. Leona Flores. They’ve got this reunion stuff down to ascience, and we truly couldn’t have done it without them. That’s it for this reunion ’80, see you all in the year 2000!

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In response to our piece on First Group squadron patches, we received aletter on an Eighth Squadron patch we didn’t know existed, and aletter containing abrief history of the Twenty- rst Squadron patch. We appreciated your correspondence and hope to complete the cadet squadron patch puzzle after the fourth installment of our series.

Allan Hunt, ’69, called and wrote us about an Eighth Squadron patch that possibly was “offered as areplacement for the original Eighth Squadron patch.” He noted that in the summer of 1965 he received the

patch and that his rst USAFA mug even had the patch on it. He also said that possibly the squadron voted to retain the old patch and keep this one as an informal squadron patch. Hunt wasn’t sure who designed this patch but suspects that someone in ’66 or ’67 probably did. (See photo.)

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The patch of the Thirteenth Squadron, also known as “Bulldogs,” is a sky blue circular emblem outlined in black. Ahead of asilver bulldog wearing aspiked collar dominates the patch and alightning bolt is behind the dog. At the bottom of the patch is awhite scroll with “13th SQ AFCW.” The circle on the patch symbolizes the full circle of qualities needed to make up an Air Force of cer. The lightning bolt demonstrates courage and dedication characterizing Bulldog graduates. The bulldog epitomizes the moral resolve and dogged pursuit of duty typical of the Thirteenth Squadron cadets.

The “Cobras” of the Fourteenth Cadet Squadron adopted their third patch in 1971. The emblem is arounded white trapezoid with alight blue border. The cobra’s head and upper body rises from the lower left to the upper right corner. The patch features the cobra’s scales, tongue and eyes. The head is rust and gold, and the body and border on the small head anges are gold. The eyes and tongue are dark red. Asimulated Advanced Manned Strategic Aircraft (AMSA) circles from right to left behind the cobra’s head crossing in front of the left hood ange and midlower body. Ared contrail shows the path of the silver aircraft outlined in black, and the light blue and white Arabic numeral “14” are set on the right ange. The cobra was chosen for its lightning speed and ability. The patch colors consist of the four class colors. The patch represents the

S E C O N D G R O U P PAT C H E S On the continuing saga of squadron patches, let’s take alook at Second Group’s. Seven of the 10 squadrons have persevered in the “USAFA tradition of change.” The three squadrons that changed their patches are Cobra Fourteen (three times). Starship Nineteen (four times), and Tough Twenty Trolls (two times). This article discusses the symbolism behind the current patches and where relevant we have pictures of most of the old patches.

Eleventh Squadron’s “Rebeleven” patch consists of awhite equilateral triangle, bordered in red, superimposed on acircular blue eld, Ared Arabic numeral “11” on aset of prop and wings is in the center. The original squadron sponsor, the Sixth Bomb Wing, is where the rebels got the triangle and circle logo. The triangle represents the Greek letter.

Delta, which referred back to the basic cadet squadron the doolies used to come from. Now the rebel doolies come from the Cobra Squadron. The three segments of the circle represent academics, athletics and military training. The silver prop and wings symbolizes the Cadet Wing, and the numeral “11” identi es the Eleventh Cadet Squadron. The emblem colors include the squadron colors of red and white; the class colors of gold, blue, silver, and red; and the Cadet Wing colors of blue and silver.

The Dirty Dozen patch was designed by William R. Povilus, Class of 1963. The patch is an isosceles triangle of sky blue bordered in blue. It is dominated by ablack and white Polaris star. Behind the star is ajet tak-

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The Sixteenth Cadet Squadron “Chicken Hawks” patch was designed in 1963 by Cadet David M. Connaughton, Class of 1965. The patch has a silver and white hawk on ablue background. Agold lightning bolt is clutched in the hawk’s talons and adark blue keystone with anumber “16” is on the hawk’s chest. The patch is keystone-shaped and edged in dark blue. The hawk expresses the freedom of ight arid the bared talons clutching alightning bolt exemplify the power which one must possess to

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The Seventeenth Cadet Squadron’s Stalag 17 patch is adiamond-shaped emblem bordered in red supported by abanner at the vertex of the diamond. In the middle of the patch is aclenched silver st containing a silver torch with abright orange and red ame on ablue eld. An emerald green wreath encircles the torch and st. The solid banner at the bottom has the inscription “17th Squadron.” The st signi es power and tenacity. The torch represents the drive for knowledge and truth. The wreath exempli es the laurels of athletic achievement. The four class colors used in the patch signify the importance of unity at the Academy.

The “Nightriders” of Eighteenth Squadron have acircular emblem, bordered in red, superimposed on ablack and white equilateral triangle.

Alarge black unicorn with awhite mane, red horn, and green eye is on the patch. Ared rook is below the green Arabic numeral “18” and the French words Allendez les etalons are on the bottom. The patch is set on alight blue eld separated by abold black line. The unicorn symbolizes strength, endurance, and matchless spirit. The rook represents the Academy as afortress of knowledge. The three points on the triangle represent the three aspects of Academy life: military, academic, and athletic. The clouds represent the military and aerospace careers open to Academy graduates. The French motto means “Watch for the stallions.”

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The patch for the “Tough Twenty Trolls” of the Twentieth Cadet Squadron is acircle on aroyal blue eld bordered in black. An agressive depiction of astrong and powerful troll is centered in the eld. The green troll wears black trousers highlighted in violet. The troll is striding forward, stepping over the bright red three-dimensional Roman numerals XX. The word “Trolls” appears behind him. The troll represents the aggressiveness and con dence of the squadron. The four class colors are contained in the second patch which was adopted in 1972.

Our historical le only has three of the four Nineteenth Squadron patches. If anyone out there is willing to donate the patch or picture of the missing patch to the Academy’s Special Collections, please contact our of ce at (719) 472-3832 or AV 259-3832. You can also write to HQ USAFA/XPAA, U.S. Air Force Academy, Colo. 80840-5241, ATTN: Captain Flores. An update of any missing or incorrect information on squadron patches will be appreciated.

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The Starship 19 patch is ablack circle bordered by two small semicircular curved emblems on the top and bottom. The inscription “Starship 19” is on the upper emblem and “Where no man has gone before” is on the lower emblem. Awhite starship outlined in black with red highlights is positioned in the left of center of the patch. The starship orbits around a celestial body located in the lower right corner of the patch. There are three green land masses with blue water separating the land masses. Three vepointed stars (silver, red, and gold) are in the night sky. Afour-point blue Polaris star is to the right of the other stars. The patch is bordered in white which sets off the semicircular curved emblems from the rest of the

patch. The patch’s theme suggests man’s future conquest of space, the nal mysterious frontier. The four stars represent the class colors and class unity. The blue star represents the class color of the Class of 1976 which is the class of the patch designer. Cadet Brent Glines, who created the fourth patch.

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The Colorado Library Association has named Donald J. Barrett, assistant director for Public Services, Air Force Academy Library, winner of its Lifetime Achievement Award for 1990.

Since 1955 when the Air Force Academy Library opened its doors at the temporary site at Lowry AFB, Don has served as chief of Reference (1955—1959) and assistant director for Public Services (1959—present). In both capacities he has been the principal staff consultant and advisor to the director on all operations of arapidly growing centralized and integrated library system.

He was project of cer for the transfer of the library from Lowry AFB to the Colorado Springs site in 1958 and later was project manager for the $4.5 million Academy Library expansion project.

Don’s library planning expertise is well recognized in Colorado.

His advice has been sought over the years on facilities planning and building layout for renovation and expansion projects in public, school and special libraries throughout Colorado. He currently serves as aresource person for the Colorado Library Association, sharing his expertise on strategic planning, buildings, accreditation and academic libraries.

Don has been alongtime member of the Colorado Library Association and served as the rst chairman of its College Section. He has been academic library representative on the Govern¬

ing Board and on various committees of the Plains and Peaks Library System for over 10 years. His total involvement, devotion and commitment to this profession over the last 35 years have contributed to the long-term bene t of the Air Force Academy and also to the region.

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victory and superiority. The one sword and ve arrows represent the number “15” and indicate preparedness. The aircraft aimed at the crown symbolizes air power. Plus Oultre is the squadrons’s motto and means

By Capt. George D. Sciss, ’81 Ateam of ve Academy pilots took rst place in the two-seat glider category at the 1990 Sports Class National Soaring Championships. Held Aug. 4-11 in Little eld, Texas the team of Lt. Col. Jim Payne, Class of ’74; Capt. George D. Sciss, Class of ’81; Capt. Robert Huntsman, C2C Jason White and C2C Joe Rizzuto, competed in an Academy Schleicher ASK-21 sailplane. This aircraft, and several others like it, were purchased by the Association of Graduates in the early ’80s. Forty-one other sailplanes from around the United States also competed.

Each day the competition director set aminimum “task distance”. Each pilot then chose acourse which is greater than or equal to the task distance. Competitors photographed turnpoints along the route proving to contest of cials that the distance was achieved and the plane with the fastest speed over the “task” became the daily winner. Also, to ensure the best pilot won, speeds and distances were handicapped to adjust for differing sailplane capabilities. Cumulative speed and distance scores over seven contest days determined the contest winner.

The Academy team ew every day in the contest and covered a total of 999.4 miles in 27.1 hours. In addition to winning the na¬

tional championships in the two-seat glider category, when scored with the single-seat competitors, the team was rated ninth overall.

The Academy has an active soaring program that provides

every cadet the opportunity to y aglider. In addition to the basic Soar-For-All program, selected cadets can qualify as asailplane instructor after an intensive six-month training program. Once an IP, they are introduced to advanced ying concepts including; aerobatics, spin training, high-altitude ying, and cross-country procedures. Cadet instructors also perform aerial demonstrations

for home football games and graduation week activities.

Flying Team Brings Home Top Pilot Award; Ranks 4th

By Amn. Mario K. Marano Academy Falcon Flyer Sports Editor

Almost everyone strives to be the best at what they do. The academy breeds young men and women to believe that they are the elite, the “best of the best,” and one way to judge this is by cadet team interaction with other college students in the way of extracurricular activities.

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One such team which has shown great promise for the academy is the Cadet Flying Team, which ranked fourth overall at this year’s National Intercollegiate Flying Association 1990 Conference at the University of Illinois earlier this year.

And to top it all off, CIC William Ruddell was named Top Pilot in the Nation, while nine of the 16 team members earned

top-10 rankings. C2C Todd Ericson was the #6top pilot and also won the Harold S. Wood Award for Excellence as the most

outstanding scholar/pilot in the nation. i

Lt. Col. Jim Payne, Capt. George Sciss, C2C Joe Rizzuto, C2C Jason White and Capt. Robert Huntsman pose in front of the ASK-21 high-performance sailplane which helped them soar to rst place in the championships and ninth overall. The aircraft, purchased through donations to the Air Force Academy Fund, bears the Association of Graduates logo on its tail. (Photo by Capt. George Sciss)

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The cadets should be very proud of themselves,” said Maj. George Caldwell, of cer in charge of the ying team. “Most of the other pilots we compete against have amuch higher pilot education and more air time than we do.” (

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Everyone involved with the team has worked hard to get us to Nationals. Even the members who didn’t compete gave us moral

support and helped with the planes so we could have more time to study and get ready for our events,” said Cadet Ericson.

New Auxiliary Runway to Ease Congestion Anew auxiliary Academy runway, called “Bullseye,” saw its rst T-41 land at about 11 a.m. on Monday, Oct. 1. The plane’s pilot was Brig. Gen. Joseph J. Redden, ’64, academy commandant of cadets.

Bullseye will be used for training cadets in the pilot indoctrination program. The new air eld will also reduce air traf c over the academy and the north side of Colorado Springs, which has become increasingly congested in recent years due to the academy’s expanding ight training programs.

557th Flying Training Squadron using the T-41C Mescalero, a fuel-injected, military version of the Cessna 172. The T-41 program is structured to allow cadets about 15 ights (21.2 ying hours), including one solo ride and one check ride. Students learn basic aircraft control and maneuvers that are applicable to all aircraft.

Bulleye’s location, 26 miles east of the academy near Ellicott, assures ight operations there will have aminimal impact on area

residents. Flight training will be conduted in good weather during daylight hours Monday through Friday, with occasional use on Saturdays.

According to Col. Jim Mitchell, commander of the academy’s ight training program, the air eld’s single 3,500-foot runway and two small control towers will accommodate up to 65 daily

training

ights by the Cessna T-41 aircraft. The

eld also has a

30-foot-wide taxiway and a130-by-235-foot apron.

The air eld cost $1.5 million and is located on state-owned

land leased by the Air Force. The academy will continue to use Butts Air eld at Fort Carson and Centennial Airport in Denver for training.

The pilot training program conducted at Bullseye is run by the

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Brig. Gen. Joseph J. Redden, '64, commandant of cadets, lands the rst T-41 ever to touch down at Bullseye. (Photo by S. S. Hampton Sr.)

AOG Of ces are open Monday through Friday, 0730-1630 Mountain Time. Main of ce telephone (719) 472-4513/2067/2073 (Autovon: 259-XXXX).

Development of ce telephone (719) 528-4136.

HOTEL DISCOUNTS—

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coordination and planning by your AOG.

Quality and Sleep Inns, Flotels, Resorts-(800)

the Academy.

CAR

221-2222. (Ask for the travelers discount for AFA AOG members, ID #B00041511).

R E G I S T E R O F G R A D E AT E S — annual presentation of biographical information on all Academy graduates.

Academy National Bank.

present your AOG-provided Budget card when picking up your car.

MERCHANDISE/MEMORABILIA— Academy/AOG-unique items created especially

AOG membership card on check-in.

SCHOLARSHIPS—

for members.

●apreferred rate of $55, single or double, at the Radisson Hotel, downtown Memphis, Tenn. Call (901) 528-1800 or 1-800-333-3333 and ask for the

●apreparatory school scholarship via the Falcon Foundation.

●post secondary scholarships to graduates’ children

CHAPTERS— support for some 25 chapters throughout the world.

AOG Air Force rate (based on availability, excludes special and group events). You must present your AOG membership card upon check-in.

R E N TA L —

sets of six for the military wedding.

DISCOUNTS—

ID #ASN00107/Rate Code: VM 14). You must

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

favorable terms and credit limits from Air

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

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●save 10% at participating Clarion, Comfort,

your quarterly link to friends, classmates and

L O C AT O R S E R V I C E — need to

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Graduate Dependent Scholarship Criteria Outlined Graduate Dependent Scholarships are offered for the upcoming

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

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

The number of scholarships to be awarded each year and the dollar amount of each scholarship is determined annually by the board of directors. The scholarship winners will be determined based on acombination of demonstrated performance and need. The deadline for receiving application packages is 1March, for both initial application and reapplica¬

1 9 9 1 - 1 9 9 2 a c a d e m i c y e a r. R e c i p i e n t s f o r t h e s e a n n u a l a w a r d s w i l l b e

selected by the AOG Board of Directors Selection Committee. This AOG scholarship program is intended to directly support post-secondary education for the children of AOG graduate members.

To be eligible to apply: A. The applicant must be the child of either agraduate life member of the AOG or agraduate who has maintained annual

membership for at least the ve consecutive years immediately preceding the submission of the application package. AOG membership requirements for applicants who are children of deceased graduates will be evaluated on an individual basis by the selection committee.

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

tions.

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

Services, Association of Graduates, U.S. Air Force Academy, Colo.

C. The applicant must agree to enroll as afull-time student, as

de ned by the institution, at acollege or university accredited by an appropriate regional or national accrediting body. The applicant’s program of study may be in any eld at either the

80840-5000 or call (719) 472-2067/2073.

graduate or undergraduate level.

Register Deadlines Aired, 1st Class Mailing Offered Amajor AOG service is one of providing up-to-date information on all graduates through the annual Register of Graduates.

Biographical data forms will NOT be mailed this year. Since the individual graduate is the critical source of Register information, it is vital that you keep the AOG informed of address changes, promotions, new jobs, etc. Information updates to be included in the Register must have been received by 1July. To receive this year ’s Register, the association must have had your current address by not later than Nov. 1.

Happy Scholarship Winner Maj. Gen. Marcus Anderson, ’61, presents a$700 Graduate Dependent Scholarship check to Anjenette Dustin, daughter of Lt. Col. Jacob Dustin, ’70. Ms. Dustin was one of the rst ve individuals to receive the Graduate Dependent Scholarship, initially awarded this year. General Anderson is the commander of 3rd Air Force at Mildenhall AB, England. The presentation was made on Aug. 13 with Anjenette’s parents and several other Dustin

We have again detected individuals using the Register for commercial mailings. Please again note that the Register is copyrighted each year with the Library of Congress. Information in the book, including addresses, may not be used for any commercial mailing or other purpose. Doing so is strictly prohibited and is in direct violation of copyright.

Finally, the association offers a rst class mailing program which greatly speeds publications to U.S. and APO addresses. This service costs $10 annually in addition to regular membership fees, and provides for the mailing of Checkpoints and the Register at rst class rates.

DON’T MISS AMAGAZINE SEND US YOUR NEW ADDRESS NOW

GET AFRIEND TO JOIN THE AOG

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Association of Graduates Available Member Bene ts/Services

American Airlines Offers

MCI Initiates Telephone Service from Saudi Arabia As of Oct. 3, MCI, working in conjunction with the Saudi Arabian Telephone Administration, began offering MCI CALL USA service from Saudi Arabia. With MCI

CALL USA, MCI customers can originate calls from Saudi Arabia to anywhere in the United States at signi cant savings.

In the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia the access number to reach an MCI Operator is: 1-800-11. The rates for CALL USA from Saudi Arabia are as follows: First minute: $3.03, each additional minute: $1.09.

NOTE: Regular MCI CALL USA surcharges apply. ($2 per call surcharge and $5 per collect call).

Existing MCI customers are automatically eligible for MCI CALL USA service. For more information, please contact MQI customer service at 1-800-444-3333. AOG members who wish to subscribe to MCI service under the

special discount offered through the AOG, should call 1 - 8 0 0 - S K Y- U S A F f o r e n r o l l m e n t .

SPECIAL

NOTE

TO

MEMBERS

W I T H FA M I LY S TAT I O N E D I N S A U D I A R A B I A

MCI is providing free emergency CALL USA service on an inde nite basis to U.S. military personnel through the American Red Cross. As part of its ongoing services, the< Red Cross provides emergency communications to military

Discounts to AOG Members The AOG is pleased to announce that it has arranged for special round-trip airfare discounts to Colorado Springs and Denver with American Airlines, including American Eagle. The rate is a45 percent discount from standard coach fare or ve percent from any other lowest applicable fare following all published rules. The discounts apply to ights from the CONUS, Hawaii, San Juan, St. Croix and St. Thomas. Flights from Canada receive a35 percent discount from standard coach fare. The rates are valid for the following 1991 events:

New Appointee Orientations: 14-15 March 1991; 4-5 April and 18-19 April 1991

Graduation Week Activities: 17 May-5 June 1991 Class of 1995 Entrance into the Academy: 26-28 June 1991 Class of ’61 Reunion: 1-5 August 1991.

Parents’ Weekend: 28 August-4 September 1991 Class of ’71 amd ’81 Reunions and Homecoming: 17-24 September 1991 Class of ’66 Reunion: 7-10 November 1991 Discounted travel rates for the above events are valid two days

prior to the event until two days after the event date shown above.

Tickets must be purchased at least 14 days in advance. Reservations can be made through atravel agency or by calling American Airlines at 1-800-433-1790. In either case, ask for “Star Number

SOIZIVT” in order to insure you receive this special rate.

personnel in the event of birth, death or family illness.

Corporate Life Members

Class Ring Information

Association of Graduates, USAFA

Graduates who need to replace or have their Academy class rings repaired should do so directly through the manufacturer. The manufacturer has the expertise and equipment to repair or replace your ring. Contact them directly for cost estimates, which vary signi cantly. Below are the

Air Academy National Bank Air Force Association

Ampex Corporation Boeing Aerospace Company

manufacturers and how to contact them:

Budget Rent aCar Corporation Autrey Brothers/Jostens

Classes of 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968

Continental Electronics

c/o Gary Autrey

1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1976

(Division of Varian Associates, Inc.)

P. O . B o x 3 4 3 5

1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982

Englewood, CO 80155 (303) 770-7770

1983, 1984, 1986, 1989, 1990

L.G. Balfour

Classes of 1959, 1961, 1964, 1965

13183 Spica Drive

1966, 1967, 1969, 1975

Littleton, CO 8012

Electronic Data Systems Corp.

Embassy Suites Hotel of Colorado Springs McDonnell Douglas Corporation The MITRE Corporation Motorola, Inc.

Government Electronics Group

(303) 790-7457

Rockwell International Herff Jones

Classes of 1985, 1987, 1988

TRW, Inc., Electronics &Defense Sector

226 Public Street

Providence RI 0290

United Services Automobile Association

(401) 331-1240

United Technologies Corporation

R E U N I O N C O N TA C T S ’61 (30th) 1-4 Aug 91 Col (Ret) Mike Quinlan

’66 (25th) 7-10 Nov 91 Col Paul Viotti

17325 Caribou Drive

P. O .

Box

Monument, CO 80132 Ph: 719-488-2464 (H) 1-800-525-7164 (W)

Col (Ret) Charles Neel 1430 Big Valley Drive

’71 (20th) 19-22 Sept 91

Colorado Springs, CO 80919 Ph: 719-598-0646 (H) 719-548-0888 (W)

6185 Little Johnny Drive Colorado Springs, CO 80918 Ph: 719-472-2531 (W)

Hotel:

AV: 2 5 9 - 2 5 3 1

Marriott

LtCol John Blind

Marriott

’81 (10th) 19-22 Sept 91 Capt Joe Wotton QTRS 4403F

Hotel: Marriott

U S A F A c a d e m y, C O 8 0 8 4 0

Cass Casada

Parachute Team, Silver Anniversary 25-28 April 91 P. O . B o x 2 1 4 11

Ph: 719-472-3484 (W) Hotel: Sheridan Hotel (South)

Walsworth Publishing of Colorado Westinghouse Electric Corporation

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USAF Academy, CO 80840 Ph: 719-472-2270 (W) Hotel;

USAF Academy Athletic Association

Salt Lake City, UT 84121 Ph: 801-942-1411 (H)

Defense &Electronic Center

Corporate life memberships are being offered for $2,000. With the exception of voting and holding of ce, members enjoy all privileges of regular members. For more information on corporate life memberships write to Col. (Ret) Jock Schwank, vice president.

Services, Association of Graduates, U.S. Air Force Academy, Colo. 80840-5000. Phone (719) 472-4513.

Upcoming Graduate Events P a r a c h u t e Te a m R e u n i o n

25-28 April

’6 ’7 ’8

Hotel: Hilton Inn of

Colorado Springs

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AOG Biographical Information From:

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

Effective Date

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Marital Status Change

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2. Remarks/Additional information:

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Gift Merchandise Q t y.

Large Mugs (white)

$6.00

Small Mugs (blue)

$4.00

Laser-Engraved Walnut Plaque (of Cadet Area)

$150.00

Cadet Saber

Coffee Cups (white)

$7.50

(Sold to graduate AOG members only)

$165.00

USAFA Silk Tie (blue or garnet)

$18.50

Chapel Mantel Clock (Westminster chimes, battery-powered, Bulova)

$245.00

AOG Charm (3/4" sterling silver by Jostens)

$26.00

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Lance Sijan Book (Into the Mouth of the Cat

by Malcolm McConnell, 253 pages, hardbound)

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"Here’s aToast" Limited edition of 850 signed and numbered by the artist Keith Ferris.

24x30" print of F-16 missing man formation own during the 1983 Homecoming M e m o r i a l C e r e m o n y.

2Sth Anniversary Book

(260 pages, 9x12 hardbound pictorial history of the Academy)

$12.50

"Gyrfalcon:" Limited AOG commemorative issue signed by artist,

With class year

$15.75

’82" Thunderbirds Over Academy:’’

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$12.75

Charles Frace. 20x26" print.

Academy Sport Cap

$60.00

$70.00

Edition of 750 signed by artist, Rick Broome. 20x28" print.

$50.00

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This fall has been abusy and exciting t i m e f o r t h e A t l a n t a C h a p t e r. W e h a v e had several enjoyable outings and have

had several new members join the chapter to share in the fun.

The results of the summer golf tournament at Stone Mountain Park have nally been veri ed and released by the judges

after all penalty claims were reviewed by instant replay. The low gross score award goes to Norm Schulze, ’63, with the high gross going to Steve Jones, son of Ron

Jones, ’70. The longest drive was recorded

by A1 Young, ’74 (it’s always the young guys showing the muscle), and the closest to the hole was new member John Gorrell,

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terfering Middies) on May 4, the same y e a r. F o r i n f o r m a t i o n , c o n t a c t f o r m e r Atlanta Chapter member Joe DeSantis at (314) 232-1666.

If you’re new to the Atlanta area or for some reason have just not joined the chapter yet, we are looking forward to meeting you. Please call or write David Champa at (404) 972-9349, 4802 Beverly Drive, Lilburn, Ga. 30247 or Chuck

Winter (404) 998-5936, 355 Wheatridge Drive, Roswell, Ga. 30075. Don’t miss

out! (David Champa, ’72)

In

S TA F F

AS

SPEAKERS

order

to

provide

at next year ’s tournament.

The Navy Alumni Association of

s u b m i t a l e t t e r t o H Q U S A FA / -

Race

on

the

Nantahala

River

in

August. The Goats claimed that by winning the race they were entitled to the local Commander-in-Chief’s Trophy. We argued successfully that acontest staged in the water offered unfair advantage to certain participants. Alt who participated had atremendous time and it was determined that the raft race shall become an annual event.

The results of the tri-service softball

tournment were once again favorable for

the high ying Falcons of the Atlanta Chapter. The Air Force grads soundly defeated astrong combined team of Mules and Middies in ahotly-contested game at the Dobbins AFB picnic and sports area. The strong pitching of Gary Fausti, ’65, and the strong hitting and defense of new chapter members 2nd Lts. Jeff White, ’90; Kraig Hanson, ’90; and Mark Coultek, ’77, lead the home team.

The come-from-behind victory by ascore of

1 2 - 11

assured

the

Commander-in-

Chief ’s Trophy will remain with the chapter for another year. Other grads present were Chuck Winter, ’72; Les Dyer,

’69; Alan Price, ’68; David Champa, ’72, with son Ben and Philipp Pulger, aGerman exchange student.

The chapter teamed up with the Middies again at Dirty Al’s Saloon in Sandy Springs for the televised, big-screen version of Air Force vs Navy football. Good food (if you call cabrio good), good beer (Diet Coke and water available, no Pepsi) and good football made an afternoon of enjoyment for everyone who showed.

The chapter is also pushing the AOG cruise. The departure date is April 27,

1991 and the ship returns (barring any in¬

asuccessful Second Annual AOG Golf To u r n a m e n t a n d S u s h i C o o k o u t i n J u n e .

We ’ v e r e s u m e d o u r d i s t i n g u i s h e d speaker luncheon series, meeting on the rst Wednesday of every month at the Hanscom

Of

cer’s

Club.

Our

October

guest speaker was Colonel Dave Williams,

who recently arrived from Rhein Main Air Military Airlift Wing. Dave’s topic was “Leadership of Large Organizations”, and he gave all of us acurrent perspective on the challenges of the operational side

better

assistance to AOG Chapters seeking

Raft

This past summer we continued afew chapter traditions. Our annual trip to Fenway was in June, and we enjoyed seeing the Sox beat the Orioles. We also had

Base where he was commander of the 435

REQUESTS FOR ACADEMY

’70. All those who participated had a great time and hope for more competition Atlanta hosted aTri-Service White Water

of the Air Force.

speakers from the Academy, please

We ’ r e h o l d i n g o u r T h i r d A n n u a l S t a t e

X PA A , A t t n : C a p t F l o r e s , U S A F Academy, Colo. 80840-5241, at least six months in advance, with the

of the Wing Dinner on Nov. 8. Brigadier General Royer, Dean of the Faculty, will

following information: What, when, where? Who on the Academy staff would you like to have speak at your function? Also provide the names of two other speakers you would like to have if your rst or second choice is

forward to his update on Academy ac¬

not available.

events, please write us at Box 628, Bedford, MA 01730 or call Lt. McNutt at

be our guest speaker, and we’re^looking tivities. We travel to West Point that

weekend to see the Army-Air Force game.

Let’s hope we don’t have the torrential downpours we did two years ago!

For more information on upcoming

To aid speaker preparation, we will

(617) 935-8216. (Stacy McNutt, ’88)

also need to know the audience,

SAN

along with any particular interest of

DIEGO

COUNTY

C H A P T E R

the group in any aspect of the A c a d e m y, a n d a r e c o m m e n d e d

speaker’s attire for the event. Please

Greetings from Southern California!

The San Diego County Chapter of the

include who will be in the audience

AOG hosted the Southern California and

(i.e., alums, spouses, parents’ clubs, LOs, etc.) and what the occasion is

surrounding area graduates at the biannual pregame tailgate/pep rally before the AFA-San Diego State football game on Sept 29.

Approximately 200 graduates (subject to U.S. Census recount) came from far and wide; from Las Vegas, from Riverside, from Los Angeles and from Orange County. The prize for making the greatest

for the event.

Apoint of contact for the event (i.e., name, address, home and work phone numbers) is needed to make the appropriate arrangements. You can call our of ce at (719) 472-3832, AV 2 5 9 - 3 8 3 2 , f o r i n i t i a l i n q u i r y b u t

sacri ce to come went to Bill McClain,

must back up your call with aletter requesting the speaker.

NEW

ENGLAND

’59, who rode his bicycle (yes the pedal

kind) down from Corona, about 100

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miles.

Agood time was had by all who came;

Greetings from New England! It’s that

time of the year again —“leaf peepers

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in fact, we were having such agood time

make it to the American League East playoffs, and our chapter has anew elected proclaimed president”. This M a c ” year ’s president is Bob

at the pregame tailgate party, we almost forgot to go to the game. After it was over, Iexpect some wished we had forgotten to go; we built alot of character in that game, including some for the

McNamara, ’66. Mac was one of our

graduates in the stands.

ock to the area, the Red Sox (barely)

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original group of graduates who expressed an interest in an active organization, and he is already well-known for his in¬

teresting (and sometimes off-the-wall) newsletters.

Even though we had agood turnout, we didn’t even come close to

lling up the

parking lot of the stadium. There was a lot

of

room

left

for

the

rest

of

the

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Men’s Basketball Short on Experienced Players program is lled with excitement and anticipation as the Falcons

The only other senior on the squad is 6-foot-8 David Quick. He and juniors Omar Simpson and Brent Roberts will solidify the

begin the 1990s.

front court for the Falcons.

The latter years of the ’80s brought to the Falcons the kind of success that they haven’t enjoyed in over adecade. The 1989-90 squad posted the program’s rst non-losing season in 11 years with a14-14 mark. Last year’s unit, despite abarrel full of injuries, made the school’s rst trip to the Western Athletic Con¬

The backcourt is perhaps the biggest question mark this season.

Sophomore George Irvin saw the most time of any of the returning backcourt players while working at point guard and off guard.

ference tournament semi nals and

prove their ability with more playing time.

Some of the Falcon’s newcomers may see time in the backcourt as well this season. Some of the top names are Clark James, 6-foot-4 from San Diego, Calif., and Jim Locum, 6-foot-4 from

With anew decade here, the Air Force Academy basketball

nished with a12-20 record.

The challenges that the 1990-91 unit faces are big indeed. Gone from last year’s team are Raymond Dudley and Jeff Bowling, along with Dale French. The Falcons return only two starters, both seniors, in Chris Lowry and Aaron Benson, and must turn to agroup of young and inexperienced players to ll the remaining void. (

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This is anew team with anew identity, but they carry on the legacy of the previous team. Even though there are some people gone, there are some guys that are carry overs,” Air Force head coach Reggie Minton said.

Air Force’s top gun this season will be Lowry, who is the Falcon’s top returning scorer and rebounder with averages of 12.2 points and 5.9 rebounds per game. Benson averaged 5.7 points and 5.7 rebounds per game last season as the starting center. He will be looked upon to add to those numbers this year.

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of 1984, is an instructor at the academy; 2nd Lt. Dirk Bouma, Class of 1990, is stationed at Lackland AFB; and James Wilker-

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Juniors Robert Hawking and Charles Smith, who have been

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U.S. Air Force Academy, Colo. 80840-5000

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At press time the Falcon football team was four-four with Brigham Young at home and Army and the University of Texas at El Paso to play away.

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Above all, John’s devotion to his wife, Carolyn, was never ending. They were best friends who shared all the adventures of life together. She was adriving force behind his success. John’s death left agreat void in her life as well as his family and friends. It is ironic that he died doing something 'he loved so much — something he valued. John Schloss was atrue patriot —he will be greatly missed.

Amemorial fund has been established in John’s name to be

used for the education of his unborn child. Send donations to the “John Schloss Memorial Fund” c/o 356TFS/CCA, Myrtle Beach

AFB, S.C. 29579-5000. (1st Lt. Steve “Hoov” Jennings and John R. Schloss, ’86

1st Lt. Bill "Nose” Isenstadt)

On June 20, 1990, Capt. John R. Schloss, Class of 1986, died when his A-10 impacted the ground. John had nished practicing two-ship tactics when the incident occurred just west of Myrtle Beach AFB, S.C.

Although only 26 years old, John led arich life, ful lling personal goals that others spend alifetime dreaming about. Drive and perseverance were traits that forged his path to success. He showed his prowess as abaseball player in both high school and the Air Force Academy. Academically, he nished in the top of his class, earning ascholarship to graduate school at the University of Hawaii. His dream of being a ghter pilot ying the A-10 was ful lled shortly thereafter upon graduation from UPT. He was thrilled to be a“Hog Driver” at the Beach.

John loved the outdoors almost as much as he loved to y.

Born and raised in Oregon, his respect for nature and the environment was evident in his daily life. He was the only pilot on base to have agarden plot. He shared this interest not only with his friends, but with the Boy Scouts in the local community. Camp-

Brig. Gen. (Ret) William Mullins Dies in P-51 Mustang Crash On Sept. 29, 1990, the Academy and many of our graduates lost a special friend. William H. L. Mullins, Brig. Gen. USAF (Ret) was

killed in the crash of aP-51 Mustang’in Chatham, Mass. General Mullins, or “Moon” to his many friends, was the father of Dan, Class of 1990. Agraduate of West Point, Class of 1957, General Mullins was a ghter pilot, Vietnam combat veteran, and distinguished Air Staff legislative liaison of cer.

As aUSAFA parent, he was an ardent Falcon football fan and supporter, following Dan and his teammates through many successful seasons. Moon was atrustee on the Falcon Foundation, and

gave generously of himself in support or our Academy. Professionally, as corporate vice president and head of General Dynamics’ Washington Of ce, he was aleader in American aerospace. Moon worked diligently on behalf of many Air Force programs, including ones unrelated to his own company. He was also astrong supporter of the Association of Graduates Headquarters/Alumni House Building Fund Campaign and was actively involved with the building fund committee.

Most of all, however, we will remember Moon for his warmth,

energetic friendship, wonderful sense of humor, and haunting tenor renditions of “Danny Boy.” Just how many of us counted Moon as aspecial friend was more than evident at Arlington National

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At press time we had learned of the deaths of the following graduates: John M. Melancon, Class of 1959, who died on Dec. 24, 1989 at Baton Rouge, La. Gerald H. Sherrill, Class of 1963, who died on Oct. 1, 1989.

Lt. Col. Barry F. Bost, Class of 1971, who was killed in an F-16C aircraft accident on Sept. 19, 1990, near Estill, S.C.

Alan M. Fischer, Class of 1971, who died on Oct. 18, 1989, in West Palm Beach, Fla.

Maj. Peter S. Hook, Class of 1976, who was killed on Sept. 30, 1990 in an F-15E aircraft accident in Saudi Arabia.

Our sincere condolences to the family and friends of

these graduates. Their obituaries will appear in afuture issue of the magazine.

Cemetery for his memorial services. Dozens of USAFA graduates, former Air Force Secretaries and Chiefs, general of cers. Congressmen, and industry leaders joined Moon’s wife, Florine, and

sons, Todd and Dan, in celebration of Moon’s life. From all of us, old buddy, keep smilin’, and we’ll see you later. (Randy Jayne, ’66)

Mrs. Alice McDermott Dies in Her San Antonio Home Alice Patricia McDermott, wife of USAA Chairman Robert F.

McDermott, passed away Oct. 12 at her residence following treatment for cancer. Alice was born in Hartford, Conn, on May 13,

1920. She graduated from St. Joseph’s College in West Hartford, in 1942 with adegree in Latin. After six months of teaching high school, she and Robert F. McDermott married on Jan. 20, 1943 at

the Holy Trinity Chapel at West Point, N.Y. Soon after their marriage, while her husband went into active duty overseas, Alice remained in the United States. After the war, Alice and their

rst child, Patricia, joined McDermott in Ger¬

many. In 1946 the family returned to the United States. A d e d i c a t e d A i r F o r c e w i f e a n d m o t h e r, A l i c e M c D e r m o t t e o n -

tinued to support her husband’s military career while he was stationed at the Pentagon, West Point and during his tenure as Dean at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo.

After his retirement from the Air Force in 1968, General (Continued on next page.)

By Dennis J. Justin, ’71 Iwas in the aerospace business, where shuttle missions were followed with acertain enthusiasm. The launch of the Challenger on Jan. 28, 1986, had been delayed and Iremember the morning slipping back into atypical day for aproject manager —many telephone calls and the late-month deliveries requiring attention. Afriendly nancial analyst on the telephone suddenly asked, “You heard”?

1disbelieved. The secretaries, with their radios turned to barely audible volume, knew rst. They always do. The news was con rmed.

Iheaded for the only TV in our many buildings that would have outside reception —the one in the company president’s area.

The mahogany doors and soft carpeting were no obstacles. Iasked the executive assistant to turn on the television. It took awhile for the

replay of the event to be shown. By then, the room had

lled with the

r m ’s s e n i o r e x e c u t i v e s .

Iremember the quiet in the room; the replay of the launch and the

fateful explosion. Gasps and sighs were heard from everyone and, then, in acharacteristic accent from the back of the room came the exclamation, “Damned O-rings!”

Be with them traversing the Air. In darkening storms or sunlight Fair. ” Aloft in solitudes of Space Uphold them with Your saving Grace OGod, protect the men who Fly, Through lonely ways beneath the Sky. ” Now maybe it’s my upbringing, but Ibelieve in the necessity of space exploration to ful ll the human spirit. Ibelieve that we are made stronger by remembering our failures, and Ibelieve the seven astronauts would insist on the further pursuit of space.

So Iask you to help remember those who gave all they had to give three years ago. Raise asalute today to the Challenger seven and all the others who gave their lives in pursuit of space.

(Editor’s note: This piece was published as aLetter to the Editor in the Boston Globe newspaper on Jan. 28, 1989. With the upcoming fth anniversary of the Challenger disaster, we felt it appropriate to reprint in this issue.)

It was more than an educated guess. Our division produced items using the shuttle’s solid propellant, ammonium perchlorate, and we had experienced sealing problems, which were common in certain applications. Experience had given us aclue to the disaster. Damned O-rings!

The mood, one of overwhelming sadness, compelled me to walk through the facility looking to share the feeling with wordless greetings and light touches. Not atypewriter could be heard; no telephones rang. Only the faint rush of whispers. Four thousand people were mourning. Damned O-rings!

S m i t h , S c o b e e , R e s n i k , M c N a i r, O n i z u k a , J a r v i s , M c A u l i f f e —

they seemed like comrades in arms. The moment reminded me of the close of the Air Force Academy church service, when the somber hymn would be sung.

"Lord, guard and guide the men who Fly, Through the great spaces of the Sky.

(Mrs. McDermott: From previous page.)

McDermott began his career at USAA. At this time, he and Alice and family moved to San Antonio, Texas. In San Antonio, she has been an active member of the community and devoted great time and effort to many educational and community service organizations. These activities included membership on the board of trustees of St. Luke’s Hospital and Incarnate Word College, and membership on the Cancer Center Council, as well as involvement with the Southwest Foundation Forum, Ronald McDonald House, the San Antonio Symphony League, and Project ABC.

Alice McDermott is survived by her husband. General Robert F. McDermott; her daughters Patricia A. Beynet of Tulsa, Okla.

Remembering Graduate MIAs C4C Steven E. Whitmarsh, Cadet Squardron 9, holds one of the 59 candles which were lit during the PO W/MIA Recognition

Day candlelight ceremony on Sept. 21 in the Cadet Chapel. Each candle represented an academy graduate still unaccounted for in Southeast Asia. (Photo by SSgt Dennis Rogers.)

and Betsy Gwin of San Antonio; and her sons Robert F. McDerm o t t , J r . o f A l e x a n d r i a , Va . ; D a v i d W . M c D e r m o t t o f A n ¬

Please Send you Tax-Deductible Donation to

napolis, Md.; and Mark S. McDermott of Henderson, Nev.; and

The Air Force Academy Fund

13 grandchildren.

Association of Graduates

The family requests that donations in lieu of owers be sent to the Cancer Therapy and Research Foundation, 4450 Medical

U.S. Air Force Academy, Colo. 80840-5000

Drive, San Antonio, Texas 78229.

(Chapters: From page 37.)

Southern California-Arizona-Southern

COUNT ON IT! BE THERE. (Mike

Nevada area graduates and their families

Quinton, ’62)

and friends.

CALIFORNIA

C H A P T E R

For those who may not have heard this before, Iwill repeat it: WHENEVER

working”.

Our next event is the Second Annual

NORTHERN

Holiday Season Bash at the Mountain H o m e I n n h i g h u p o n M t . Ta m a l p a i s .

This gathering will feature an excellent

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ner and socializing at different locations

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his 27-foot Sea Ray cruises at over 30 knots and can be coaxed up to near¬

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sealift armada moving stuff to the Middle East!)

Wayne and Bonnie JEFFERSON have enlarged their outside entertainment area, which suggests both parties and continued success in Wayne’s second career as aconsultant. (Consultant: someone who uses your watch

1250 Big Valley Drive Colorado Springs, CO 80919-1015 Home: (719) 531-5874 Percent members: 80

to tell you what time it is and then gets to keep the watch.)

The mailbag really over owed during the summer, so 1didn’t have to rely on fabricated news or accounts of my grandchildren’s cute sayings to compose the Christmas column. Instead, REAL NEWS! To wit: Proud Papa Department: Dave PHILLIPS wrote in June that his

beautiful and talented daughter Julie (captain, USAF, by way of aDMG regular commission from Colorado State University), was married last December to Capt Tom Bailey (USAFA ’86). Both had been assigned to MacDill, but were slated to transfer to Ramstein this fall to enhance Bob

OAKS’ combat capability in USAFE. The accompanying picture was taken as all the AFA grads present sang the Air Force song to the newlyweds at the suggestion of John GULLEDGE.

F i n a l l y, I a l s o l e a r n e d t h a t D i a n e M O N TAV O N i s g h t i n g a courageous battle with cancer. We all know her for her humor, charm, and gritty determination and our thoughts and prayers for acomplete recovery go out to the whole family.

Proud Bridegroom Department: John MILTNER wrote from Flawaii to share the good news about his April wedding to Wile Tensok, whom he met on aglasnost tourist visit to Estonia last summer. We look forward to welcoming her into the extended USAFA ’59 family. John has accumulated about three months in the Soviet Union on visits ranging from aweek to amonth and says the conditions are even worse than reported on TV: long lines for every commodity, shortages of goods and services, bureaucratic inef ciency, appalling air pollution, etc.

Colorado Visitor Department: Charlie MEIER called to advise that Ken SMITE! had passed through the Pike’s Peak region in September on asix-week shing and backpacking trip with ve other guys. They had evidently depleted the trout population in Navajo Lake near Durango, the Rampart Reservoir, and sundry other Rocky Mountain waterways. Ken looks t and enjoys his work in alcohol intervention and counselling d o w n i n A u s t i n , Te x a s .

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Nuptial Serenade in California. From left, standing: Charlie Zaleski, Dave Phillips (father of the bride), John Gulledge, George Pupich (‘60), Larry Thomson, and Charlie Rodgers. Seated: Bart Weiss (’86, best man), Tom Bailey (’86, groom), and Mike Dolan (’87).

Dave also reported on the most recent of his fabled odysseys. Seems he and Ed ROSANE attended the Oktoberfest in Munich last year, after which they sailed the Greek islands for aweek (doubtless holding lengthy, in-depth discussions on the actuarial relationship between large ‘automobiles and lower casualty insurance claims). From Athens they went to Rome to decompress for afew days after this strenuous round of exposure to multiple cultures. In closing, Dave put in aplug for the Caribbean Cruise in April; he plans to go and looks for agood ’59er turnout.

Proud Hubby Department: Dennie SEE called from the opposite coast with acomprehensive data dump on happenings in and around the Capital Beltway. The BIG news was that his bride (who we insiders have always known as the real brains of the out t) has been promoted to general manager of the Nieman-Marcus store at Tyson’s Corner. Congratulations from us all, Trude! Dennie believes she can now support him in the style to which he’d like to become accustomed, but my guess is that he’ll have to settle for family discounts.

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M Pete Todd and Jim Brown under the stars, practicing their widely acclaimed synchronized swimming routine in the Todd Spa. Other visitors to the high country included Jim and Rose BROWN and Hank and Lyn CANTERBURY. Jim and Rose stayed with us for acouple of days in July while they did the tourist bit through the mountain splendor. The stop in the Springs was part of avacation circuit by car in and around the Rockies. It was good to visit with them and nd out how things REALLY run at USAA.

report Iheard earlier that Mike REARDON has moved to D.C. as deputy

assistant secretary of the Air Force for Reserves Affairs. I’m SURE that in the fullness of time, Mike would have written to advise me of this

prestigious appointment, himself! And sent achange of address. And issued astanding invitation to freeload on one of my trips to Washington.

Dennie mentioned recent social, golf, and/or boating excursions with H . T. J O H N S O N , R . L . P E N N , ( w h o h a s s o l d h i s a i r p l a n e , m u c h t o t h e

relief of the entire general aviation community), Jimmie JAY (who is also seeking to sell aone-third interest in an airplane), and Joe MORGAN, who is getting anewer, longer boat than Dennie’s. (According to Dennie,

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Flank and Lyn Canterbury before the Great Fireplace in Pete and Wendy Todd’s hilltop castle.

WA, OR, ID, NV, UT, AZ, AK, HI

Mel POLLARD, Bob DWYER

do. Hank retired from active duty last year and is working with the

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Clark LOVRIEN, Chuck FERRARI

University of Phoenix to broaden their academic programs in the military community. They’re also building amagni cent new home of their own design there. Among other topics of conversation over aleisurely dinner, Icon rmed astory I’d heard before but hadn’t quite believed about Hank’s days as aThunderbird. When he was ying slot, he was known for not wasting any time getting into position after the formation takeoff.

In fact, he’d usually start his turn before breaking ground. On at least one occasion, he actually left abit of berglass from his wingtip on the runway! Consequently, one day he went out to his plane and found that the crew chief —either as ajoke or as preventive maintenance —installed a

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Fred WYNN, Kent MONTAVON

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Merry Christmas and ahealthy, happy New Year to you and your families.!

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(Editor’s note: The rst eight paragraphs are by Andi Biancur.)

Our 30-year Reunion is now history and for those of you that couldn’t

make it —those of us who were there sincerely missed you. You were in o u r thoughts often during the weekend. And since you were not there to

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tion of the weekend is contained closer to the front of this issue.

In the mail this quarter, 1received anote from Ken ALNWICK who Mini-Reunion in San Antonio: From left, standing: Jim Brown, Ted

Johnson, Larry Cotton, Brian Parker, Bob Barnard, Bob Englehart

(famous ATO), R.L. Penn, Ed Rosane, and Bob Browning. Kneeling: Bob Buckles, Andy Thomas, A! Gagliardi and Jerry Garber.

Mini-Reunion Department: My most faithful and proli c correspondent, Jerry GARBER, dropped anote and photo to commemorate last summer ’s mini-reunion in San Antonio, hosted by Jim and Rose

BROWN. The prize to the guy who travelled the farthest went to R.L. PENN, who ew in from Connecticut and stayed with the Garbers. R.L. told me he gave Dave GROARK acheck ride in his (Dave’s) T-6 during

that trip. Graded him “U” in fuel management and traf c pattern (the overhead pattern resembled the F-105’s too closely), but “HQ” on

emergency procedures. Says R.L. “Good thing EPs are easy for ghter pilots, so’s they don’t run past the attention span. The most serious usually don’t exceed three steps.”

New Arrivals in Town Department: Ed and Lucia MONTGOMERY have decided to exchange his high-visibility pressure-cooker job as editor of the Paci c Stars and Stripes for the serenity and grandeur of the Colorado mountains. His account of his last year there would raise the hairs

the back of your neck! After retiring, Ed and Lucia took the scenic route back home from Japan, including crossing the Soviet Union on the trans-Siberian railroad and stopping in all the major capitals of Europe to visit old friends and gorge on the theater. They’ve bought abeautiful home in Monument with aspectacular view overlooking the Academy o n

and the whole Front Range.

Pop Quiz Department: If you’ve got ahot item of news or information to pass on to the rest of the class, whether for Checkpoints or more directly, who do you call? The Ghostbusters? Your ex-roomie? Your ex-wife?

Jack Anderson? The AOG? Nay, nay, camel breath; the correct answer is n o n e of the above. Any of those choices might be satisfying and the word

might actually get out eventually, but it’s faster and surer to use The System.

Your class of cers have put together apretty good communications

convened agroup of ’60 grads for lunch at the Pawn Shop in the D.C.

Area. Attendees included: Joe HIGGINS, George ELSEA, Tom

BURKE, Mike (A) CLARKE, Ralph LALIME, Bill TAYLOR, Norm HALLER, Phil MEINHARDT, Gerry de la CRUZ, and Ken ALNWICK. Being resourceful but frugal, they each wrote some words on the cocktail napkins; however it is also clear that they enjoyed more than

iced tea with their lunch. George mentioned that he is slaving for EDS

Corporationtheretosponsorcollegeeducationsforhischildrenwhilestill nding some time to y aTiger Moth he has owned for several years. Bill andRalphbothworkforDougREKENTHALERwhotheybothdepend ontokeepthecompanycash owpositiveenoughto nancetheirhobbies. My understanding is that Doug spends much of his time out of the country and sends back work assignments which keep those two fully oc¬

cupied. Gerry is working for Anser as asenior engineer while Tom is pushingthewagonuphillforDecisionScienceApplicationIncandJoeis employedwithResourceConsultantsInc.Keniscurrentlydesigningand executingmanualwargamesfortheDoDanddoingspecialopsworkfor

USSOCOM along with some Army and Navy stuff. They plan to reconvene on aregular basis so next time Ken, get those guys to be alittle more speci c about their lives.

OK, it is about time we were updated on afew classmates. Ken BIEHLE, you can’t just go off and y for Southern Air Transport

without letting us know what you and your family are up to. The same is true for you Jerry GIRARD and Rog LENT. Jerry is supposedly in the Wright-PattersonareawhileRogislistedinSpokaneasamemberofthe

Chemistry Department at Spokane Falls College. Come on you guys, what’s the deal?

As this column is going to press. Bill and Xath GILLIS are weathering the storm of ason Mont with some cancer problems. The situation was

serious enough to cause them to cancel out of the reunion at the last moment so it deserves our concern. Iam sure that Bill and Kath would like to hear from us so if you would like to call it’s (602) 979-2174.

publicizing the means to get word in. The system’s easy. We’ve divided

In the change-of-address department. Dale and Cherie THOMPSON moving from Wright-Patterson to Hill AFB where Dale assumed command of the Air Logistics Center on 24 Sept. George and Carolyn LUCK have followed the Boeing call from Wichita, KS to Everett, WA where he will be astabilizing factor on the contingent of ’60 grads already there.

Ireceived some words from Jim ALEXANDER who, following retirement on 1Feb 1990, remained in Sumter, SC where Martha has awonder¬

the right people. Plan Bis always to call me or any of the other class of¬

ful job teaching in the local high school. Jim is splitting his time between buildingtheirdreamhomeandservingasgeneralmanagerforEconomic Development of Sumter County. I’m not really sure what that entails but

network for getting word out, but we haven’t done avery good job the country into regions with aprimary and one or more alternate points of contact. Please cut out or copy the following table and, if you know of any information —ranging from triumphs to tragedy —of general interest to the class, call one of your regional reps who will get the word to cers. We actually talk to one another on occasion!

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Those of you who reside in or near Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio are probably aware, but for the rest of you. Jack SHIRA is fully involved in a r a c e for the Congressional seat for that district. Keep your eye on the

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As an element of our 30th, it was decided to elect permanent class ofcers. Part of that decision included combining the class scribe duties with those of the elected class secretary. Chris WARACK was elected to that position and wilt be putting together this column for future issues of Checkpoints. As we all know, the column is only as good as the information that you provide. Your support is essential, so give Chris ahand and keep him informed on your activities. It does make his job awhole lot easier. When you read this column, it will be close to the Holiday Season so as you are completing your Christmas card list, scribble out afew words and send them along. This recent reunion again con rmed that each member of the class has agenuine abiding interest in every other member. We may not even understand the depth of the bonds that were formed among each and every one of us.

Greetings from Monument, CO! As your duly-elected class Secretary/Scribe, Ipromise to give it my best shot. Amath major and footballer! What were you people thinking about?

1wasn’t able to spend as much time at the reunion as Iwould have liked. Iam astudent again and it becomes more dif cult the older one gets. I am picking up some odd math and computer courses as well as refresher courses in math to perhaps become certi ed to teach high school math.

However, Iattended the major activites and enjoyed the opportunity to renew old friendships. Andi covered the happenings in his article and last column but Idid want to include some pictures and comments. Roy JOLLY who lives up the road in Lakewood is still with TWA and doing alot of ying. He is looking into an opportunity to go on loan with Nippon Airways to freshen his perspective of the world.

Alan Sternberg reliving the past with Norm Halier.

tivities and took lots of pictures. Ivisited with Howie BRONSON in Big Bear, CA just above San Bernardino. About this time of the year Howie goes to work. He is aski instructor on the slopes at Big Bear. Charlie GEORG! and wife Sandy came from Orange, CA where Charlie is work¬

ing for a rm that manufactures computer workstations for many of the major computer makers.

Send cards and letters. Ihave gotten promises from several of you to provide input to this column on aroutine basis. If there are others of you who might want to plug your classmates in your area. I’d be pleased to hear from you. Those of you who didn’t make the trek to the Rockies owe me aletter so that we can all hear the latest. Merry Christmas!

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more meaningful reunion for many of us. 1want to thank Doug MILLER for the photos. He had the foresight to bring acamera to many of the ac-

Well good people here it is the 1990 football season and your fabulous Falcons are struggling on offense. With the graduation of Dee DOWIS, our All-American QB, the wishbone has not been as potent as in past seasons. It’s not for lack of effort though, because the cadets are playing their hearts out, especially on defense. Unfortunately, we need aquarterback with the options skills that we all took for granted with Dee. The talent we have now will simply need more time to develop and become more effective. We just nished our fourth game and are adisappointing 2-2.1 will say without reservation that the defense is playing superbly and as soon as the offense kicks in we will win some important games.

In the local area Wayne and Erna HARING gave me anewspaper article announcing the engagement of their son Jeff, aC-141 pilot stationed at McGuire AFB, NJ, to Miss Cheryl Lynne Williams of Silver Springs, MD. The rst picture is of the happy and handsome couple just before their wedding which was held on the 7th of July 1990 at Ft McNair, Washington DC. Jeff graduated from USAFA in 1986 and according to

Class of ’60 —30 years later!

(Copies of photograph may be ordered from: Faingo/d Studios, 20 S. E/m, Denver, CO 80222)

Bill Goodyear and Pops Jolly in serious discussion.

One of the real surprises of the reunion was to see someone Ihadn’t

seen since Vietnam where he was keeping the Red Cross honest was Alan Sternberg. He left us during our 3rd class year to ght awar or

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The new Capt. and Mrs. Haring.

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his proud parents is thoroughly enjoying his Air Force career. Our sincere

close to the top of the corporate ladder. Through my Puerto Rican grapevine 1found out that Hector will be receiving avery prestigious award from the Military History of Puerto Rico Organization on 23 November 1990. They are going to recognize Hector’s distinguished AF

eongratulations to the entire Haring family.

Earl SAUNDERS, who was featured in my last article after his accident, is doing just ne and is back at work full time. Doc and Marti .ARNOLD, who helped out in caring for Lillie when she went to Grand Junc¬

tion, CO dropped off their daugther Liz at CC here in Colorado Springs to begin her last year of college. Jim WILHELM and Nancy have been terri c in hosting a’61 tailgate before and after every home game at USAFA. Jim brings his customized mobile-home bus to the parking area and hangs out the ’61

ag for all the world to see. That bus is awork of

art and amazingly completed by Jim and Nancy right after their retirement from the Air Force.

career and thank him for never involving Puerto Rico in awar with New Jersey.

On the class reunion, Charlie NEEL and Mike QUINLAN have been doing asuper job in organizing the locals. On the 4th of Septembe r w e had our rst of cial meeting in the O’Club at USAFA. The “command decisions” we made were to invite all honorary members of the class to

the reunion, and to solicit agift of $10,000 from the class for our 30-year gift to USAFA —the best idea being to construct areading room in the new AOG building. Finally, in lieu of the football game since our reunion

ill be from August 1-4, we will put Dale TABOR in charge of the Saturday excursion to Lowry AFB to visit the old USAFA compound. We also w

organized ourselves into committees and promised that we would show

some positive movement in setting up our respective events by the next scheduled meeting on 10 October 1990. At that time we should come up with a rm agenda to let everyone know what, when, and where all the individual events planned.

Well, that’s about it for this article. This year your scribe has decided to take along-awaited sabbatical. Iwill explain more of the details as the year unfolds, but for now let’s just say that Iam working on awonderful videodisc project to enhance the teaching of foreign languages with advanced technologies. As aspecial favor to me, Jim WILHELM has consented to write next quarter’s article and Iam truly indebted to him for that. Take care and from all the CUBEROs we wish you and yours ahappy and blessed holiday season.

The Kohout Retirement Party Speaking of retirements, John KOHOUT separated from the Air Force on 27 April, with Lee BUTLER of ciating. In the rst picture we have a few people who 1have not featured for awhile so it was nice to see their friendly faces. In the top row from left are Tom BROPHY, Dave CARLSTROM, Jack WOLCOTT, John SULLIVAN with aKris Kristofferson beard, Darrel KOERNER, Nels O’REAR, and Bill S TA C K H O U S E ; i n t h e f r o n t r o w w e h a v e L e e B U T L E R , J o h n KOHOUT, and P.B. O’CONNOR. John K. has decided to stay in the D.C. area and is working for National Security Research, Inc in Fairfax, V A .

As for the rest of the family, in the second picture we see Carrie, a junior at Wellesley; Joan, alibrarian at Kirkland and Ellis, alaw

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D.C.; John; Rick, ajunior at Hamilton; and Jen, asenior in her last year, they hope, at the University of Michigan Law School.

By THEURER sent me his decennial letter and 1just can’t believe 10 years have gone by so quickly. By says that he just gured out what he wants to be when he grows up, and wants to create amid-life career

change before he runs out of mid-life. By owns atest preparation in Sacramento, CA, which provides SAT coaching to high school juniors.

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He thoroughly enjoys working with teens and says that it is extremely satisfying to see them improve their scores on that “bear” of atest.

Hector NEGRONI called and announced that he will no longer be with McDonnell Douglas in St Louis, but thanks to apromotion will now be vice president of McDD Operations in Madrid, Spain. Hector and JoAnn will be moving to the land of Don Quixote this summer. Hector also reports that Bobby GRACE has been promoted again, and is getting very

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I’m going to try something new with this column. I’m starting on it ear¬

ly. 1sent the last column in two weeks ago. 1will now report on Willie GRAY’S retirement. There was aformal retirement ceremony on the palio of the Of cer’s Club on June 29th. Willie received the Legion of Merit for his seven years at ESMC, the last three as the vice commander.

That night there was adinner in his honor attended by 289 people. The dinner took two hours and the presentations took two hours. It was avery memorable occasion because of the genuine warmth that the attendees

showed for the support and help that Willie had provided. Larry GOOCH presented aswordcase to Willie as apersonal expression of his thanks for the help that Willie had given to Larry when Larry was ESMC commander. Then Chuck CHEESEMAN and 1presented him with ashadow

box with all his medals, awards, decorations and ranks displayed in it.

Three other Redtags passed their regrets for not being able to make it: Colin RICHARDSON, Ken FLEMING, and Ralph CONLAN. The following evening Willie, Larry and Iand our wives and some friends of Willie’s took aboat ride on the nearby Banana River. It was a ne nish to agreat weekend.

Igot aphone call from Art FARRINGTON during the summer. He was looking for some information and told me about the direction that

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after retirement as well as do more to support AFA. He said that he and Dick KLASS are on the board of directors. In the meantime he continues

his job as asystems engineer with GE. He and Sandy send their regards. It was nice talking to you, Art. Keep in touch.

opening paragraph was especially good: “Thanks for mentioning our daughter Kristi in your last column. It made her feel important. In addition to Jerry Driscoll, she’s had the opportunity to y with several other

grads as well. Her rst item of business is always to ask the cockpit crew, ‘Fast, Neat, Average ...?’ If anyone answers, ‘Friendly, Good, Good ..

..’ She knows there’s aZoomie on board.” Kristi graduated from North

Texas State University and then went to work with American with the assistance of Denny KING, Manny CARDENAS (’64), and Rick BARTON (’71). Bill and Joy have two other children: Ted, achef atavery nice Italian restaurant in Dallas, and youngest son Tim, amember of the

USAFA Class of ’94. Bill says that Tim and Brent Helinski, son of Gay and John HELINSKI, will be classmates and possibly roommates in 21st Squadron carrying on the REEMTSMA-HELINSKI tradition.

Bill has been in the Dallas area commercial real estate market for the

past 19 years. Tough Duty! He does report things are looking up. He is also very active in the North Texas Association of AFA Grads along with other Yellow Tags including: Jerry AHMANN, Mike BRADSHAW, Mike GIBBONS, Doug HARDGRAVE, Klem KALBERER, Denny KING, Jim KUHN, Keith LOCKHART, Roy MARSHALL, Glen SHAFFER, and Wes WHITE. Dave BOECK and Jeff HEAL, who live elsewhere —JT lives in Ohio? —join the group for parties. Sounds like

fun! QUIZ: How many of the above are airline pilots?

Jimmie BUTLER surfaced in arather spectacular fashion. Included in

From left, Tim, Nancy and Rhonda Gilmartin with Bob Hopkins at the Monaco

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Prix.

Next 1got aletter from Tim GILMARTIN with asnapshot and the following note. “Enclosed is apicture of myself, my wife, Nancy, Rhonda and Hoppy HOPKINS at the Monaco Grand Prix in May. We were sending a“hymn” to J.D. EATON who didn’t wanna go. As you can imagine, we had lots of fun.” Thanks for the picture, Tim. Here it is at the beginning of Fall. The daytime high temperatures will only get into the 80s instead of the 90s. And Igot the word that the deadline for the next Checkpoints will occur before the current issue hits the newsstands. So many of you will not have that reminder to write to me before my deadline. This will be ashort column.

Igot some change-of-address cards and tried tracking down three Redtags. Ileft amessage on Jerry DAUGHERTY’S answering machine. He is living in Englewood, CO. Next Itried Scott FISHER in McLean, VA, but the phone was not in service. Then Ileft amessage on Jack HAUSER’s answering machine and got acall back the next day. After retirement.

Jack got ajob last spring with McDonnell Douglas in St. Louis. He works in systems engineering on new programs. His work involves the weapons end of the missile systems company. He and his wife bought ahouse in Chester eld, MO, which gives him about a45-minute commute one way.

He gave me arundown on his family. His older daughter, Sharon, 26, lives in Buffalo, NY, and is planning marriage next year. His younger

daughter, Becky, 24, is married and living in Hartford, CT. She has two children and her husband works for Pratt &Whitney. Their son, Jack, Jr,

is asenior at Creighton Univ in Omaha. He is majoring in poly sci and will enter law school next year. His wife, Diana, has been working on and off. She has amaster’s in industrial counseling but hasn’t had the chance

to really use it. Maybe things will change. In any event, Ithank you for the update. Jack.

Ialso got achange of address from Paul LANDERS showing him moving to McGuire AFB. Isaw an article in the Air Force Magazine, indicating that he is now the commander of 21st Air Force. Congrats, Paul Isaw an article in Air Force Magazine by Gen T.R. Milton, USAF

(Ret), in which he gives awarning that the change in world affairs and the consequent reduction in uniformed personnel will lead to apossible attempt to reduce the enrollment in the academies. His message was that we should resist any attempts to cut back at the Air Force Academy. And I agree. Ihope you all do too.

Norman 1. Lee III 17532 N.E. 38th Court

sometime ago Irelayed astory from Jerry DRISCOLL about Bill and Joy REEMTSMA’s daughter Kristi. Bill was kind enough to write and thank

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convey the message that 1can write an interesting story.

“The publisher has already bought my second novel. Red Lightning — Black Thunder. It will be published at an appropriate interval after the rst, probably sometime in the summer 1991. It’s about space warfare and C-141 ying and should compete very well in the Tom Clancy market. The people at the Secretary of the Air Force Public Affairs (SAFPA) Western Region in Westwood are very enthusiastic about Red Lightning becoming amovie. They put me in touch with acouple of producers who are having people take alook at the manuscript. Both novels were conceived before all the changes in Eastern Europe, but Ithink my third will be on Vietnam. That’s asubject not so vulnerable to change in the couple of years that it takes to get into print.”

Jimmie added some news of Karl and Dora HEMEYER who live in

Sandy, Utah. Karl ies for United and occasionally RONs about eight blocks from Jimmie’s place in Redondo Beach, CA. He also reports crossing paths with Terry DAKE and Stu FENSKE. Terry is areservist (colonel) and continues to do his Air Force thing at Space Division in El Segundo. Stu lives in Redondo Beach and works for Northrop on the B-2.

Jimmie also included asuper piece entitled Letters from USAFA — The First Four Months. The AOG folks report they hope to run the piece in Checkpoints in the near future. An excerpt Iliked and, Iam sure you remember, focused on food —as do most of the stories —and an incident that took place July 4, 1959. Jimmie writes: “We made Air Force Academy history at lunch today. Because we did such a ne job of march¬

ing after only eight days of practice, the basic cadets were allowed to eat

our meal at ease. This was the rst time in the history of the Academy that basic cadets were ever allowed to eat at ease. We didn’t have to keep our eyes on our plates or sit on the edge of chairs, and we were allowed to were young and impressionable then.

Thank you for the “Letters” Jimmie. Iwas tempted to just repeat every story right here: they are priceless and everyone will love reading them. Good luck on your book. Ilook forward to nding it in the book

work on the great American novel. His current book is done, waiting publication. The story, set in Butte, MT, chronicles the Copper Kings at

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Speaking of authors, Pete OGNIBENE was in town last week and despite his busy schedule, was able to call. His company, which specializes in the “Smart Card”, had him in town calling on Intermec,

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talk to each other.” 1also remember we had hot dogs for lunch. God, we

Iguess that’s it for now. I’ve got acase of the u so I’m heading for bed after Iprint this out. My warmest regards for aMerry Christmas and aHappy New Year. Keep the cards and letters coming. Jack.

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the turn of the century. His next effort is already in the works and revolves around the Battle of Glorieta Pass —near Santa Fe, NM —during the Civil War.

Bryant and Maura CULBERSON were in town earlier this month attending aconference. Bryant and Iwere able to have lunch spending a

couple of hours trading stories and reminiscing at an outdoor restaurant on Lake Union. Bryant is on the Air War College staff at Maxwell and enjoys the world of military academia.

Bob HALL was in town attending aconference at Boeing Flight Training and we managed to break away for ashort lunch (lunch is my favorite time of day). Bob is astaff engineer for the Airline Pilots Associaton in Herndon, VA. His job has taken him around the world visiting and confering with airplane manufacturers such as Air Bus, SAAB, Dornier, etc.

Jim DIFFENDORFER gave me the enclosed photograph of Bob PARLETTE working on his airstrip. I’ve been thinking of some titles like —“Airport Expansion Underway” or “Can You Compute the Obstacle Clearance Requirements?” or “Wait Until You See the Terminal” etc.

Bob is arancher and attorney in Wenatchee, WA.

VISITS, ETC. Phil ROBERTS paid avisit to me at the Geophysics Lab in August to discuss technology efforts and future business directions. He is the manager. Advanced Development, for the Ford Aerospace Corp, (Ford Aerospace was recently bought by Loral Corp., so the name may have changed by the time you read this.) At any rate, Phil lives in Newport Beach, CA and is enjoying life as acivilian purveyor of technology.

Ialso got acall from Kris MINEAU (deputy for Maintenance at 3rd AF, Mildenhall AFB, England). He is planning on being there until January 1992. With Karen graduating last May, Kris Jr. getting married last June, and Carrie getting married this November, 1don’t know how he can afford to stay in England —he must have set arecord for personal business cross-Atlantic ights this year. At least David is safely tucked a w a y a t U S A FA .

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OTHER CHANGES: Bill EBERT called to report starting work as a 727 ight engineer for United Airlines beginning June 25th. His domicile is San Francisco although he plans to work as pilot instructor in Denver as soon as his training permits. Ralph BACUE is showing anew address as colonel USAF (retired) living in Brentwood, TN. Active duty changes include Larry DAY (MajGen), commander of the Chanute Tech Training Center; Pat CARUANA (BGen), 42nd Air Division commander. Grand Forks; Bill BALL (BGen), 28th Air Division commander. Tinker; Ralph R O H AT S C H ( M a j G e n ) T U S L O G c o m m a n d e r, A n k a r a ; O t t o HABEDANK (BGen), commander of the International Logistics Center at Wright-Pat; Bob HAYES (colonel). Engineering Installation Division commander. Tinker; and Ron FOGLEMAN (LtGen) deputy commander-

Lt. Gen. Thomas S. Moorman Jr., commander of Air Force Space Command, and Martha Kelley pin asecond star on Jay at Peterson AFB, C O .

LATE NEWS RELEASE: As you can see in the photo. Jay KELLEY pinned on his second star as vice commander of Air Force Space Command on the 1st of June. Since he, Martha, and Lt.Gen. Moorman all seem happy, 1guess this is agood deal. Tm sure Jay will let us know later.

The picture of A1 ROGERS came with no explanation other than the caption. Some things just don’t need much explanation.

in-chief, United Nations Command, Korea, commander ROK/US Air Component Command, Combined Forces Command and commander

7th AF, PACAF, Osan AB. Does that all t on your nameplate Ron? Congratulations on promotion to lieutenant general!

Iwas very sorry to hear from Ron FULLERTON about the death of his

beloved wife Kathleen after athree-year bout with cancer. Ron and Kathy were married on Graduation Day 27 years ago. Memorial donations may be made to the American Cancer Society, 572 Main St., West Yarmouth, MA 02673 or the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Symphony Hall, Boston, MA

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Just the other day, Igot afull after-action report on 1960’s 30th reunion from Jim O’ROURKE. Jim could not say enough about the good time. I’m both encouraged and excited about our next get-together and nearly everyone in the class Ihear from is looking forward to 1993. Make plans!

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telephone network and all of the trouble you had getting through to wherever you were trying to call, you can now have trouble getting through on adigital system —the Defense Switched Network (DSN). It will probably be 20 years until everyone starts using the new name, but at least the equipment should work better. If you want to try it out, give me acall. Now that you’ve had your lesson for the day, Iguess it’s time to wish everyone aHappy Holiday! (It’s actually agreat golf day in September, but the magazine world does move slowly.)

LETTERS: Guy DENNIS wrote from Amherst, NH that he is interested in getting together with classmates to tell afew tall stories. We do have achapter of the Association of Graduates here in New England, basically centered around Hanscom AFB. There are not, however, alot of ’64 grads in the area (of course, it doesn’t take many ’64 grads to make aparty —about two). The New England Chapter of USAFA AOG can be reached at P.O. Box 389, Bedford, MA 01730. Bob McNamara (’66) just took over from me as chapter president. We have planned several dinner parties, with speakers from USAFA, and other events, such as going to the West Point-USAFA football game (which will have occurred about amonth before you get this).

Dave NEAL writes that he was in Nebraska in June, so he visited Thad

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ten assignments and still persevere. Does my heart good! Keep up the effort, both of you.

Washington, DC. Dave says that Paul was two days from retirement and still hadn’t decided what to do. Dave still lives near San Francisco

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(Novato), where he is the CEO for Dyna-Gro Corp. which is trying to bring anew line of fertilizers onto the market. (Spreading fertilizer is

Monument, CO; Bill KENNEDY FROM HQ EUCOM to Biloxi, MS; Joe KOENIG from Wright-Patterson AFB, OH to Norton AFB, CA; Jock

something we know something about!)

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CHANGE-OF-ADDRESS CARDS: Lee CONNER has moved from

from Cypress, CA to Yuma, AZ; Bill VINSON from Castro Valley, CA to Agoura, CA; Jim VICK from Offutt AFB to Bolling AFB where he is the Air Force commander of the Military District of Washington, DC;

Pike Road to Montgomery, AL. At the other end of the country. Rich FLECHSIG has moved from Las Vegas to Vancouver, WA. Ron HULTING now lives in Glendale, CA, while Gerry KING has moved to Glendale, AZ. Perry LASH apparently didn’t want to move far, so he

Paul DICKEY from Modesta, CA to Newman, CA; Dennis BAGWELL

to Tracy, CA; and Bill CATHEY to Langley AFB, VA where he is the HQ AFSC liaison of cer to HQ TAC. FINAL NOTE: Completing this column in the USAFA AOG of ce prior to attending the Memorial Ceremony at the Cadet Chapel for our classmates. An obligation which none of us anticipates with much enthusiasm, if any, but which serves as acleansing of mind and soul. They, whom we knew and loved only amoment ago, must be looking down fondly on us today as we continue to strive for the peace and happiness which is theirs for an eternity. It’s agreat heritage and camaraderie we share folks. And yes, I’m not ashamed to admit that it gets better with maturity and in retrospect. God Bless.

just moved into anew house in Las Vegas. Jim MANNING now lives in Fort Collins, CO. John MCKENNEY is back from Bahrain, and now lives in Seffner, FL. Finally, Jim WIDGER has moved down from the mountains at Payson, and lives in Mesa, AZ. Idon’t have anything more for now. Hopefully I’ll see some of you at

the West Point game or at one of the New England AOG functions this Fall. See you then.

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The column this issue will be short and maybe even alittle sweet and, hopefully, my last. After seven-plus years and two reunions (20th and 25th) I’d like to read someone else’s news and perspectives. You have been very supportive of my efforts; and very tolerant of my periodic commentaries. Regardless, 1have the personal feeling that I’m becoming stale, that I’m repeating names and events all too frequently, that Iam getting burned out, and that anew scribe, with anew and perhaps innovative approach, is overdue. And the rst column in the New Year would be an ideal start time. Please call me as soon as you read this and the spirit moves you. Iwill help you get started and promise to support —

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Greetings Redtags! 1hope by the time you read this we have gured out some peaceful solution to our problems in the Mideast. As I’m writing this, things look pretty grim. For most of us, it’s another generation’s war; but there are alot of young folks over there who we’ve trained and a few who we’ve raised.

as I’m sure will the rest of ’65!

Due to apersonal emergency, the reunion article will appear in the next issue. Our group photo, however, appears below.

Thanks are in order to Jim SPITTLER for sending anewspaper cliping on, appropriately enough, anewspaper man, Dick SCHLOSBERG. Dick was recently elected group vice president —newspapers of Times Mirror Company, Los Angeles. His duties will include “chairman of the newspaper management committee with responsibility for six company newspapers, and for group advertising sales, newsprint purchases and other newspaper matters.” Dick had been president of the Los Angeles Times since 1988 and his continued professional accomplishments are truly noteworthy. Good on you!

Received acall from Jim MYNAR in late September. Jim was in town to attend ashort course presented by the FAA on the Air Traf c Control System. Fitted well with his duties as the deputy commander of the Northwest Air Defense Sector at McChord AFB, WA. Jim noted that, while he is “ ying adesk”, the sector CC, none other than our own Chuck COLEMAN, has to maintain pro ciency in the F-16 as part of his job requirements. How traumatic for Chuck, you say. Yes, Ifelt the same way too! Fortunately we still have some classmates willing to accept such rot-

From left are, Tom Brandon, Kate Brandon (14), Jason Van Valin, Heidi Brandon (20), Craig Alien, Gad Brandon, and Scott Veach.

1got agreat letter and the accompanying picture from Tom BRANDON —thanks Tom! He is teaching in United Airlines’ training center in (Copies of photograph may be ordered from: Faingold Studios, 20 S. Elm, Denver, CO 80222)

Class of ’65 —25 years later!

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Denver. He ies afew days amonth and teaches the other few days a month that airline pilots work. Sounds like agreat job. Ihope there are some more like that when 1retire in afew years. Tom is living in Colorado Springs, and had some doolies from the Class of ’94 over for a“Doolie

Day Out”. Some of the names might sound familiar to you —Jason VAN VALIN (Gary), Craig ALLEN (Jerry), and Scott VEACH (Lacy).

Tom says he locked his 17-year-old daughter up in the basement for protection. If those doolies are anything like their dads were. I’d have locked up the dog too. Tom says that John MARSHALL’S son, Jeff, is also in

the class of ’94, but they didn’t nd out in time to sponsor him.

Tom’s news on other classmates is that Marty ANDRADE (a DC-8 in¬

structor with United Airlines), Art SURO (Pan Am pilot living in Virginia), John McBROOME (PAS at Colorado State) and Mike RHYNARD (defense contractor in Colorado Springs) are all joining him to go elk hunting. If they were

ying, we’d put out aNOTAM. John

FAL, with recently-conferred PhD in instructional system design, has just settled in Monument and is working in Golden at the Rocky Flats Nuclear

Plant. Phil DIBB is with Kaman Sciences in Colorado Springs, and Bernie AMELS is with Prudential.

he spent ayear in Saudi Arabia as an F-15 simulator instructor, diving in the Red Sea and camping. Then back to Vegas as president and general manager of ajet charter company, and presently as an instructor in the F-117 simulator and academic training program. He is currently transitioning out of that into aposition as director of human resources at anew resort in Vegas. Wife, Diana, is working for the Chamber of Commerce, his 21-year-old daughter married aVegas businessman in August, and high-school-age son Scott spent the summer in the Fiji Islands, diving with the Cousteau Society. This is not your white picket fence, middle American family.

Jim McCLEARY also wrote to say that he had seen Fred GROSICK and family on their way to Germany, where Fred is chief of the European eld of ce for the onsite inspection agency to oversee the Soviet/American withdrawal from Western Europe. Wow... Meanwhile, Fred and Susan’s oldest daughter, Jenny, is attending the Uof Maine, with her junior year to be spent in Switzerland studying marketing. Their #2daughter Gretchen is attending Frankfurt American High School, with plans to follow on at the Uof Madrid.

Jim’s son Chris is adoolie, playing on the freshman tennis team and

25th REUNION: Paul VIOTTl wrote that he and the other ’66ers

Jim has been able to visit him on some football weekends. At arecent

assigned to the Academy have “volunteered” to organize our 25th Reunion. (My head still hurts from the 20th!) Marty DAACK, Hans MUEH,

game he ran into Joe BURKE, who recently retired from the AF and plans to stay in C-Springs.

Chuck DENHAM, who is the 2nd Space Wing deputy commander for Systems and Logistics at Falcon AFB, sent news of Hank ARNOLD. Col Dr Arnold, USA MC, recently retired at Ft Carson where he had served since ’87. After his retirement parade, Al LUNDBERG, now working for Ball Aerospace in Boulder, helped celebrate. Hank will remain in C-Springs in an orthopedic surgery practice. Other contacts of Chuck’s included Skip PUMFREY, now retired and living in Larkspur, CO and Jerry CORWIN who works for one of the civilian subcontractors at

Jim WOODY, and Paul are the “gang of four” who will make it all happen. Paul is in charge of the hotel arrangements and has selected the Mar¬

riott in Colorado Springs. The reunion will be on the Army game weekend (7-10 November ’91), so we will have alot of competition from other activites at USAFA, but it should be agreat weekend. The festivities will start on Thursday and last until Sunday. We will all get notices and

other information as we get closer to the big event, but you can make reservations now with the Mariott Reservation Of ce, 5580 Tech Center D r. C o l o r a d o S p r i n g s , C O 80919-2339 or by telephone at

1-800-962-6982. The rate will be $65 per night (single or double). I’m going to start looking for ababy sitter nov ' BITS AND PIECES: Dale ELLIOTT called from Denver where he is

working for Hughes Space and Communications. He’s wondering why so many of our talented classmates are squandering their years of management experience by ying for the airlines. Ithink it has something to do with good pay, lots of time off, and little responsibility outside the immediate job. All that sounds good to me. Anybody else have an opinion?

Homer LICHTENWALTER is the director of Contracting and Manufacturing at Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center. Paul BRADLEY has just moved from the Washington DC area to Yaounde, Cameroon. Paul is with the State Department so he probably didn’t have to look Yaounde up in aWorld Atlas like Idid when they told him he was going there. (It’s in Africa.) Joe NARSAVAGE moved from Cannon AFB to Ceiba, Puerto Rico, and Bill EUBANK moved from Rantoul, IL to Schertz, TX. (I had to look that up in the Atlas,, too.) And Sid WISE moved from Maxwell AFB to Spring eld, VA. Carl BAKER has retired and is ying for S o u t h w e s t A i r l i n e s s o m e w h e r e i n Te x a s .

This will probably suf ce as my Christmas card to all of you ’66ers out there, which means you all owe me acard full of your current doings.

Drop me aline or stop on by if you’re in the St. Louis area. In the meantime, have aMerry Christmas and agreat New Year. Happy Landings!

Larry Wilson

Quarters 114, F.E. Warren AFB Cheyenne, WY 82001 Home: (307) 634-9965 AV:

Falcon AFB.

By the way —for those of you who are as dated as Iam —Falcon AFB is located on what used to be the wasteland east of C-Springs, and is the headquarters of 2nd Space Wing.

The most jarring news comes from Dan MORGAN himself: he is deployed with the rest of Holloman AFB’s air transportable hospital to Saudi Arabia. It sounds like it was areal hurry-up-and-wait military movement, with several weeks of false starts, standbys, standdowns, and nally the actual deployment. He seems in good spirits, providing much needed and requested counseling and support to the other deployed troops. He has seen no other ’67 grads there, though 1would imagine there are others who also are directly involved.

Incidentally, if this con ict is not resolved within 90-180 days, likely such as the he and his group will rotate back to CONUS while others folks in my hospital, and I—will likely replace them. Not aparticularly pleasant thought.

These past 15 years, with only rare

urries of con ict, have resulted

in abig chunk of the current military who have never known the disruption, discord, waste and tragedy of war. Now they may learn it, while the “old hands” may relearn it. Recent POW/MIA Remembrance Day, combined with thoughts of friends now deployed in harm’s way, has reawakened old memories. Let us all pray that cool heads prevail.

It has been fun having ahand in this column again. Iwill likely continue while Dan is away, after which he and Imay divvy up the task somehow. So all you Golden Boys of ’67 —write to Dan, or to the AOG, or to me —but do write, or call, or whatever, and let us share the

news of what you and your family are up to.

Meanwhile —from the Wilsons in Cheyenne —best wishes to all.

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The Golden Pen of ’67 has passed back, albeit temporarily or parttime, to me. Dan MORGAN is among those deployed in the Mideast (more about that later) and he accepted my offer to take over in his absence. After these several years —it’s like deja vu all over again.

Ted McADAM wrote anice letter encapsulating his AF career, and his “retirement” activites. He described “...a very happy 20-year career” during which he ew the F-4 and F-15, was an ops of cer and squadron commander, and traveled extensively. He opted to retire rather than go to “that mandatory staff job.” After retiring from the AF

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The blistering heat of I990’s summer sun does not compare to the last few months of activity between Washington, DC and Baghdad.

The crisis over the sovereignty of Kuwait and the dependence of the West on precious oil reserves in the Persian Gulf have provided astark reminder of what national security interests really mean. For all

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classmates and fellow servicemen involved in this effort, our thoughts and prayers are with you for success in your mission and asafe return Ip friendlier shores in the very near future.

HELLO 68! The news for your fall column represents apotpourri of inputs from around the globe. From the Air Force Military Personnel

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Center, it is my distinct pleasure to announce the promotion of two more of ’68’s illustrious members to the rank of colonel. Robert Wendell PAULI and Robert Tecwyn WILLIAMS (a.k.a. Bob &Bob) please rise

and accept some well-deserved congratulations from your fellow classmates. (Air Force Band, rousing Sousa march, and 21-gun salute simulated.)

Yes, Virginia, there is a’68 grandpa out there! Rod STUBBS is reported to be alive and well in Denver. Rod is an 11-year veteran of Martin Marietta and is working Total Quality Management for Production

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maintained afast pace at home and on the track where both are involved in long-distance running. Donna is preparing for her third marathon of 1990 in October. Oldest son, Daryl, is playing in aband; Joanie, Trevor’s

mother, is nishing aparalegal course in California; Ryan is afreshman at Whittier College and playing lacrosse; Jeni is ahigh school sophomore

and plays volleyball; Jill is in 8th grade and enjoys piano and running; and Kenny is in 6th grade with ayen for competitive soccer.

Randy JOHNSON checked in from anew address in De Ridder, LA,

where he is still “hanging out with Army buddies stationed at Fort Polk.”

Randy guarantees that USAF PME is totally inadequate in depicting the complexity of facing a“combat arms” battalion/brigade/division com¬

mander. Joel GORDES wrote that he decided not to seek athird term in the Connecticut House of Representatives so that he could devote more

time to family and energy issues. One of his last acts was to submit an amendment to an energy bill which will relamp all incandescent light bulbs in state buildings with new compact uorescents and will save $130 million in energy costs over the next decade.

1also received avery warm letter from Brooke BAILEY who made an

extremely dif cult decision to retire from the Air Force to pursue other interests. Brooke, our best wishes to Cathy and you for as much success in

your next career as you have experienced in the Air Force.

Bonjour! From ihe Gorsuch Family Julie (8).

Geoff, Diane, Nicole (II), and

From Strasbourg, France, Geoff GORSUCH writes that he and his family are in their 12th year with the Navigators in France. They have been focusing on church renewal and campus youth work, but Geoff admits that he misses football (U.S.-style). He extends awarm

“Bienvenue” if any of you are in the area. He also ran into Dale ODERMAN, who is DO for the 435th Tactical Airlift Wing at Rhein Main.

Dale, Vera, and the children are all doing well.

From Baguio City in the Philippines, Cecille CASTRO wrote to Jim REESE that only Divine Providence prevented her from being caught in the earthquake. Apparently, she was running an errand when the earthquake struck and actually witnessed the hotel collapsing. She and her family have moved to Manila and are living in very crowded conditions with her sister. She has asked for the class to assist in the emigra¬

tion of her family. We are checking on the status of emigration visas and the cost of the airline tickets and will report back to the class on what remains to be done.

From Black Forest, CO, Manny BETTENCOURT reported that on

July 2nd, the First, Periodic, Occasional Gathering of the WAGs (We are Greats) was held in Colorado Springs. The group boasts amembership of 21 with 12 showing up for the “gathering.” The gang there included: Bert BAUER, Manny, A1 BLUMBERG, Rod BROWN, Gerry WYNGAARD, Chuck JONES, Bob SALLEE, Jody SMITH, Neal STARKEY, Ben STEVENS, Blair STEWART, and Gary VASEK. (Class Scribe note and

philosophical question: If atree falls in the forest and no one hears it, no

sound is created. Similarly, if agathering gathers and no picture is sent to the Class Scribe, did the gathering actually take place?) News from the

group is that Rod BROWN traveled the greatest distance from his ranch near Divide. Gerry WYNGAARD updated them on USAFA happenings.

Blair STEWART is still playing that “good ol’ Rock &Roll.” Manny is working with Betac and, except for occasional areups, his M.S. has been in remission and the symptoms manageable.

Another ’68 gathering in Tennessee —Hi y’all from Tony Eden, Jim Thompson, and R.K. Brown.

From the ALMOST BUMPED INTO DEPARTMENT, R.K. BROWN

made two attempts to see me before Iegressed from the Pentagon, but we were unable to get together. The picture above was snapped at Jim THOMPSON’S while Tony EDEN was attending aprofessional course for civil engineers at McGhee Tyson Airport in Knoxville. Jim is a“water law” specialist teaching at the University of Tennessee Law School and is also an ANG JAG guy on weekends. In addition to commandant duties at the Tennessee ANG Academy of Military Science, R.K. is now the ANG liaison of cer to Joint Task Force-4 at Key West NAS, FL. As R.K. noted, “Somebody had to do it!”

Now, from the real BUMPED INTO DEPARTMENT, Iam in daily/weekly contact with Fred GROSS and Carl McPHERSON in or about the AFSOC HQ at Hurlburt. Fred is the assistant command loggie and Carl is the DCS for Personnel. Carl and wife, Susan, are expecting the arrival of ablessed event in January —68’s long blue line continues!

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Lisa and Ialso had the pleasure of hosting Gary and Nancy VASEK and their three boys at our home in Arlington before we departed the x.

Gary is still working as asystems analyst for PAR Government Systems Corp in C-Springs.

For those of the Class of ’69 who take the time to read ’68’s news or for those in the Class of ’68 who even acknowledge that there was aClass of

’69, T.J. DOHERTY is alive and well in Fort Walton Beach and was preparing for his TWA ight duties on atrip to Rome (the one in Italy) at the time this column was going to press. Since he hasn’t written to his

Class Scribe in over 20 years, Ithought we should help our underclass brethren hear about one of their own. In recognition of the outstanding

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tioned in the column) he did exclaim before our conversation ended that ’68 was still Great!

Donna, sends picture with grandson Trevor, as proof!

SPOTLIGHT

The ’68 Spotlight for Fall 1990 falls on Col. Bobby O. FLOYD, who is currently serving as the deputy director for Forces at HQ USAF (AF/PRPF). Bobby has had arewarding career in the Air Force with ight time in the EC-47 in SEA, C-141s out of Charleston, and C-5s out of Travis. He has also served as the commander of the 57th MAS at Altus

and 60th MAW at Travis. Season these accomplishments with atour on the Air Staff, AFSC, the Air War College, and, perhaps most notably, his unprecedented efforts as the rst deputy chief of staff for TRANSCOM, and you get apretty good picture of a’68er who has already left his mark on the Air Force.

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was indeed worthwhile. Just don’t read everything you believe in the papers! In retrospect, it looks like we picked aperfect football year for our 20th reunion; prayer works better when the players are big.

Big congratulations are in order for anumber of ’69ers who are now colonels-to-be. This recent list is laced with greytags and is abit long to enumerate here, but if you’d like to check on someone, give me acall at my of ce (note new number: 202-475-1463 or AV 335-1463) and I’ll be happy to help verify names for you.

Anumber of ’69ers are involved, some directly, some indirectly, in supporting the DESERT SHIELD effort. Class thanks to you for your superb contributions under trying circumstances.

John BUCKNER called to pass along that Wally MOREHOUSE is his ightmate at Carlisle this year; John’s son joins in the swelling numbers of grads’ sons who attend USAFA. Dave “None Dare Call Him Yogi’’ HAMILTON left ghter plans at TAC to attend the Air War College at Maxwell AFB. Working for the deputy assistant secretary of the AF for Reserve Affairs as the liason between that of ce and the AF Reserves is

The Floyds: Bobby; Amy; wife, Anne; and Lisa.

Bobby said that the Academy gave him con dence. Discipline —particularly self-discipline —was important. “If Icould make it through the Academy, Ibelieved Icould do anything,” The Academy also gave him great friendships.

When asked about his thoughts on asuccessful career, Bobby said, “an old guy told me when Iwas acaptain, if you just concentrate on your job and take care of that, the rest will follow. I’ve also worked for some good people who have taught me good things and have helped me to progress.”

On the subject of things important to him, he stated that “the military is still agreat way of life and the ful llment you get from amilitary career is worth more than just the salary.” There is also the challenge,

Gerry BALL, who graduated from ICAF in June.

Doug MANG traded his joint staff purple for AF Blue and has assumed duties as the vice wing commander of the B-1 Wing at McConnell AFB. Just how gorgeous is Wichita this time of year, anyway? John DALLAGER has been the vice commander for the A-10 wing at Myrtle Beach AFB, SC since Feb 90. Also in South Carolina, serving as astate senator, is Mike ROSE, who was recently named an “Outstanding State Legislator” by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).

Mike is state cochairman for ALEC, which is dedicated to advancing a conservative pro-growth, pro-free-enterprise, pro-family, pro-freedom agenda. Congrats to Mike for this impressive achievement.

Rich DOWNS, who lives in Burke, VA, ran across Art GAMEZ in Caracas recently. Though Ihave no information yet on what Art is doing, .those of you who would like to contact Art can do so at the following address: Jet Cargo International, Port of Houston Authority, PO Box 020010, Miami, FI 33102-0010.

Received anewsy letter from Mike COOK, who is the commander of the 922nd Strategic Squadron at Hellenikon Air Base in Athens. He and family are enjoying the tour (save for the credit card meltdown, all is peachy), and extend invitations to all ’69ers to visit. But make it soon — U.S. doors to Hellenikon will close in June 91.

camaraderie, etc. that makes this lifestyle hard to beat. He said it is im¬

portant to remember that success is ateam effort and people working for you and with you are extremely important in any true success. He suggested that many believe you can’t have asuccessful career and also have afamily. He said that nothing could be further from the truth and you need to balance time with family and career.

Thanks for your insights, Bobby, and good luck in the future. ’68ers ON THE MOVE: Brooke BAILEY to Spring eld, VA; Jim CUPELLO to North Logan, VT; Dick ELLIS to Clemson, SC; Rocky GAINES to Clovis, NM; Bob JOHNSTON to PSC Box 1438, APO SF

96366 (HQ 7AF/XP); Dave KAPP to Duluth, GA; Buck McCANTS to Germantown, TN; Larry MITCHELL to Columbus, OH (AFROTC Det 6 4 5 , O S U ) ; G e n e R O S E t o D u n w o o d y, G A ( A F R O T C , G A Te c h ) ; M i k e

STEVENSON to Arlington, VA; Tom VAIL to Woodland, CA; Mike THROWER to Decatur, GA; Greg VARHALL to Stafford, VA; and Bill WALSH to Bloomington, IL. That’s awrap. Mind the ak, keep’em ying, and keep those cards, letters, and PHOTOS coming! Lisa and Iextend warm wishes for the upcoming holiday season and New Year.

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Mike had occasion to visit Berlin, where Ron NELSON offered atour of the Berlin Air Safety Center he commands. Ron works with French, British, and Russian colleagues to make ying safe in Berlin’s three air corridors. The two are shown in the photo with Ron’s Russian compatriots. Note the application of the arms control proportionality principle even at this level —ties and open shirts are maintained in astrict 2for 1ratio between Russians and Americans. Mike, who didn’t hear asingle “Kowabonga, Dude!” during his stay there, suggests skateboards, Oakleys, and lycra running tights aren’t yet popular items in East Germany, but the markets for synthetic pancakes and hula hoops are hot.

Bob NEUMANN now lives in Tampa, FL, having relocated from Fayetteville, AR. Barry CLINE announced anew address effective 15 July —in Sacramento, CA. John MILLER has relocated within Honesdale, I L . D o n M c S WA I N h a s m o v e d o ff - b a s e f r o m M a x w e l l A F B t o l i v e i n

Itrust you have at long last received your video and remembrance pamphlet from the reunion. And, despite the unexpectedly intense sunspot ac¬

greater Montgomery, AL. Joe HASEK has moved from Richland, WA to

tivity, the budget de cit, the plummeting exchange value of the

relocated within the Denver area, from Aurora to Denver proper. Jim LEUTHAUSER crossed The Channel, moving from Wokingham, Great Britain to Brussels, Belgium. Also in Brussels is Steve STURM, who in July completed his year as afellow with Harvard’s Center for International Affairs. Craig UPTON is now in Plattsburg, NY. Received ashort

Guatemalan quetzal, the failure of who knows how many separate widgets in the production line, and other contributing causes —not to mention Gary HOWE’s and Glenn SCHLABS’ mysterious ability to sustain themselves in Rio for so many months —Ihope you agree the wait

Eupora, MS, where he lives on “Colonel” Street. Ron ERICKSON has

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at Osan. Jim PETEK was seen by someone, someplace.

Flad agreat visit with Dan TFIOMAS in Palo Alto. Dan has recently changed the name of his company, which works primarily in strategic business and management process consulting, from “Knowledge Edge” to “Focus.” Fle’s almost given up jogging —says it’s just too dif cult to

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keep the ice in the glass, no matter how smoothly he pounds the pavement. With his of ce amere ve-minute walk from agolf course and a seven-minute walk from his airplane’s hangar, Dan wins my vote as the

nonuniformed grad who has achieved the closest simulation of an on-base working environment!

or lost some hair. It’s easy to be apprehensive about remembering names and faces. Flowever, these fears dissolved in the rst ve minutes of the rst social event (Thursday night’s informal gathering), and thereafter it was like alternately stepping into and out of awell-oiled time machine.

Topics like our current families, BCT, SERE, current assignments, Hell Week, Hundredth Night and retirement plans all blended together with remarkable ease. We found ourselves thinking and talking, in precise detail, about events that had been buried away in the memory cells years ago. More than anything else, we remembered each other not as the mostly mature and calm people we’ve become over the years, but as the enthusiastic, frightened kids we once were. And we remembered how much we all meant to each other in those challenging days. By the way, our wives were great! They came to the reunion, in many instances, knowing almost nobody. That takes alittle courage, but they were more than up to the occasion. Ithink they sometimes saw aspects of us they hadn’t seen before. At one of the dinners Irecall us reliving cadet experiences, while the most common response from the ladies was, “You did whatV’ Iwas very happy to meet ve former roommates —from Chris CATALDI during BCT to Jim BARRALL as a rstie, and with John POMEROY, Lance AMMON and Russ NORTHROP in between. It was good to see so many of my doolie squadron classmates, like Chris, John, L a n c e a n d M i k e B U R K E T T, D e n n i e H A L L , R i c h H A R R I N G T O N ,

Up in Oregon, Roy COPPINGER is with Adaptive Solutions, working marketing and sales and securing nancing for computer technologies of the future. You can see that his job’s areal barnburner, as Roy inspects the charred remains of his Ford Taurus, roasted during one of his recent trips to Japan. As asidelight, he conducts tours of Portland’s outstanding quartet of brewery pubs, and the photo documents his detailed and expert explanation of ve different brews to me and to Greg WRIGHT. Greg, you may recall, was arunner and skier nonpareil in his USAFA days; he is now the chief anesthesiologist at Good Samaritan Hospital in Portland.

Doug KIRKPATRICK (who took second place in the “most kids” c a t e g o r y ) , D a v e L O V E , R i c h M A N D A S , M a r t y M A RT I N , B u d d y MARSH, Chuck REED, Mike STOLLE and Mike VILBERT. Grad school classmates John CUSICK and John GUNYOU added to my fun.

Dinners with Rick FRANCK, Art MACDONALD and Larry BUSH were

just, plain great. (Do you get the idea Ihad a ne time?) By the way, I noticed alot of cameras at the reunion, so 1hope you’ll share some of your pictures with the rest of us. Send them in and, as many aclassmate promised, write! Let us all know your impressions of the reunion, ways to further bring our class together (and keep it that way), post-retirement plans and whatever.

Iwas really happy to see that the Class of ’70 raised an additional $10,000 at the reunion for the AOG Building Fund. By the way, the AOG was agreat help to the reunion committee (and its major players: Dan M c FA D D E N , D i c k R A U S C H K O L B , J o e B U R K E , M i k e V I L B E RT, M i k e LY O N S , D i n o D I N A R D O , M i k e T O R R E A N O , B r u c e H A R M O N ,

Ken WHITE, John JERNIGAN and many others who worked hard and sel essly). As I’ve mentioned before (almost every chance 1get), the AOG is growing in in uence and professionalism all the time, but it isn’t going to achieve its full potential to help USAFA and ourselves until it has a larger base and is more independent. For us, this means we still need more AOG membership, active support in time and dollars, and support for an AOG building. On this point the Class of 70’s total Building Fund contributions to date are over $32,000 (which ranks seventh among USAFA classes) and we’ve had 183 donors, which ranks rst!

I’ve got one last item concerning the reunion. We’ve got more copies of the reunion video (shown after the Friday dinner), the good-looking red golf caps (with the ’70 crest), the real leather coasters and even the “Best of the Dodo.” If you’d like to order any of these, call the AOG at (719) That’s about it for this time. Cards and letters would be appreciated greatly. Cheers ’til next time.

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I’ve had in years and, on behalf of everyone who enjoyed the festivities and old-time camaraderie, I’d like to thank not only the hard-working reunion committee, but also everyone who came. I’m more convinced than ever that the Class of ’70 is one fantastic bunch of guys!

Ithink everyone who goes to areunion has some concerns. It’s easy to wonder whether we’ll feel awkward trying to renew 20-year-old friendships —especially when we’ve grown so much over the years. It’s easy to wonder if we’ll take afew verbal jabs because we’ve added some pounds

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note from Becky MACALUSO; she and Ken are at Wurtsmith AFB. Ron MARCOTTE commands the wing at Barksdale AFB, and Tom CASE is

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Ed COLE called me awhile ago, and Ihad planned to write abit about him in the last Checkpoints but Imisplaced my notes. Sorry, Ed. After spending about eight years overseas (most recently as an F-16 squadron commander at Torrejon AB), Ed’s now stateside as the assistant director for Fighter, Reconnaissance and EW operations at 9th Air Force Headquarters. Ed says he has his retirement papers in, and by the time you read this he may be on his way back to Texas to live. Ed mentioned that Rich HARRINGTON works for AFOTEC at Edwards AFB, Randy HOLDMAN has the same job at 12th Air Force as Ed had at 9th Air Force, Joe BONNER’s the 33TFS commander (F-16s) at Shaw AFB, Dave MACGHEE commands asquadron at Upper Heyford, and Randy ROYCE is also at Upper Heyford as the deputy base commander.

John VERARDO also called awhile back. He’s working as acivilian

for the Navy at the Naval Facilities Engineering Command in California, where he’s taught hundreds of Navy people over the last ve years. As John said, “If only my USAFA instructors could see me know!”

Dana ARBAUGH wrote after taking his summer vacation in Germany, Switzerland and France. While in Stuttgart, Germany, Dana visited Jack TRIMBLE, who’s avery recent father. If Jack doesn’t have the youngest

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What happened? Was it something 1said? Things were going so well last quarter, then Rambo the spider invaded my mailbox with the world’s fourth largest spider army. 1guess the postmaster won’t go near my mailboz, cuz 1didn’t get asingle letter or card this quarter! Eight changeof-address cards and two biographical sheets from the AOG are my only window to the outside world.

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child in the class (about six months now), he must be pretty close. Dana mentioned that his son, Mike (8), was all ears listening to Jack’s exp e r i e n c e s a s a P O W i n Vi e t n a m .

Ireceived a ne letter from Rick BEREIT, who later came to my house for brunch on the Sunday of the reunion (along with Mike and Sharon

VILBERT). Rick attended Larry BUSH’s retirement ceremony in July at Ramstein AB (he retired from USAFE/XPP). Larry and his wife were sitting next to Pam and me at the Jabara Award banquet, and they mentioned that they’re currently living in Colorado Springs while they take a peaceful and gradual transition to civilian life. Rick, who’s the DCM at Spangdahlem AB (and doing avery ne job) said Jim SHIRLEY also

retired from Ramstein and should be ying for Delta by now. Sadly, Rick reported that Mike’s wife, Judi, died recently. She had gone into the hospital for some scheduled surgery, apparently reacted to the anesthetic, went into acoma, and died four days later. Mike, who’s currently stationed in TUSLOG, Ankara, Turkey, and Judi had four children and were

positive and committed Christians. Our prayers go out to you and your family, Mike.

Don’t ask me how Igot the following picture of Denny FUNNEMARK because I’m not sure. 1think it found its way into my pocket at one of the reunion committee meetings this summer.

Jake HUFFMAN has anew job as commander of the 7th Transportation Squadron at Carswell AFB, TX. He writes that he’s excited about the opportunity to learn the support side of the business and to command.

Bob LOWE also remembered me at the bottom of his bio sheet. Responding to mention of him in an earlier column. Bob wrote that he was DO for the 463rd Tactical Airlift Wing (C-130H) at Dyess AFB. He has now completed his tenth PCS in 19 years with atransfer to XOOTA in the Pentagon. Some guys are just lucky, 1guess. 1couldn’t beg, borrow or steal a PCS when Iwas active.

Changes of address: John BUGNER from Swansea, IL to the infamous A P O N Y; B r u c e F I S H E R f r o m A P O S a n F r a n c i s c o t o A l e x a n d r i a , VA

(another human sacri ce to the Pentagon?); Mark LEWONOWSKl from S a n A n g e l o , T X t o M o n t g o m e r y, A L ; D a v e R E N N E K A M P f r o m Millbrook, AL to the USAF/RAF Exchange Program (address APO NY); C.A. MORGAN from Columbia, MD to Laurel, MD; Gordy

KAGE from Montgomery, AL to Woodbridge, VA (more Pentagon cannon fodder?); Jon STEVENS from USEURCOM to Bellevue, NE (SAC HQ at Offutt?); and Gary TIBBETTS from APO San Francisco to Papillion, NE. Gary noted in the margin of the card that he is the new deputy commander for Operations of AFOSl District 13 at Offutt AFB. Thinking of two new arrivals to the Washington area reminds me of acartoon posted on awall in the Pentagon. Afully grown preying mantis is instructing acrowd of hatchlings on aleaf. Some wag had drawn acircle around the tiny insects and labeled them “action of cers”. The caption read, “Of course, most of you will be eaten before you are fully grown.”

That’s all I’ve got this time. 1hope you are in the midst of ahappy Christmas or Hanukkah celebration. God bless you all, and let’s restart the letter-writing machine!

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Merry Christmas and aHappy New Year.

At least 1think that is an appropriate greeting. By the time you get this,

it should be just before Christmas. May God’s blessings shine upon you now and in the future.

These are fast changing times. First awall comes down and Germany is reuni ed. Then aline is drawn in the sand. The Air Force and our comrades in arms in the other services have been and will continue to be essen¬

Is this supposed to be ayuppie commercial.

I’ve received asurprising number of responses concerning my earlier remarks on the development of abetter grad/Old Boy network for zoomies (two of the inputs came from AOG members not in the Class of ’70). I’ll discuss this topic more in future columns (if there’s acontinuing demand), but basically Iwas trying to get the ball rolling toward helping the professional development of zoomies, in and out of uniform. The Air Force Academy Society of Washington, DC (founded by our classmates Bill STEALEY and A1 WURGLITZ, but open to all classes) is one ne example of grads helping each other. Iwish there were others because, frankly, there’s more than afew of our ne classmates out there who are unemployed or vastly underemployed. They deserve better.

That’s it for this installment. Ihope each of you and your families nd aspecial joy and peace in your hearts this Holiday Season. In the nal analysis, that’s what life is all about.

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tial to the success of our nation’s foreign policy. We can be justly proud of our contributions to world peace.

Enough philosophizing and on to the task at hand. First congratulations to our newly selected 0-6s: Barry BARKSDALE, Rusty BOLT, Neal COYLE, Chuck SIMPSON, and Tom FISCUS (on the JAG list). I hope Ididn’t miss anyone. Ithink the small numbers are at least somewhat due to the new OER system. The best oat to the top where

they compete with the rest of the best. This highlights the accomplishments of these ve even more. Way to go guys. The Class of ’72 congratulates you and we’ll be watching for even better things in your future. Good luck.

The only letter 1received, interestingly enough, was from Barry BARKSDALE. Barry starts out the way most of the letters do “your comments shamed me into dropping you aline”. Obviously my audience

appeal is waning —only one letter. You guys can do better —please. At any rate, Barry is leaving DM for the Army War College (was Air War

College lled?). Another year of Air Force appreciation. Barry spent four

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years at DM as: the ops of cer for the 23 TASS (OA-10), squadron commander of the 357 TFTS (A-10) and as ADO for the last six months.

Barry has three children, ages 7, 5, and 3.

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BUCHANAN dropped into DM with adeployment of AT-38s from Holloman. Buck is asquadron commander for AT-38s at Holloman, or wherever they may be now. As atip when you go TDY, check the AOG

Resigter by zip code of the base you are going to. Often you can nd someone you know.

Barry closed with “you are probably getting bored with reading this” and apromise to write in another 10 years —bravo sierra. 1hear this all the time along with —“1 enjoy hearing what others are doing but no one wants to know what 1am doing”. Come on guys, to everyone else but you, you are the other guy. Write!

Enough of the begging and pleading for letters. You are going to have to read about my vacation. My sons (17 and 14) and 1drove to California for my parents’ 50th. Along the way 1ful lled adream of hiking into the Grand Canyon and staying the night at Phantom Ranch at the bottom.

Quite achallenging event. My boys pray 1don’t have any more wild hare dreams. On the way back we visited the old alma mater, USAFA. More on that in aminute. Just before rolling into the Springs, 1took the Cascade exit and visited Herb Berendt, Steve BERENDT’s dad. 1know

many of us visited the Berendts frequently during our Academy days.

Herb still garages Steve’s E-Jag, re engine, and motorcycle. He says hi to all of us and welcomes visitors. Drop in.

On to my sons’ motivational tour of the zoo. Dave WAGY, in the Astro Department and ying T-41s, arranged atrip for us out to Jack’s Valley. It looks pretty much the same although they did concrete the oors of the tents. Dave’s NCOIC was also NCOIC of the assault course

so we observed basics going through the course. It seems like fun now.

However, the doolies going through it did not seem to be enjoying it and I don’t recall any fond memories of the course either. Iguess it depends on your perspective.

We visited all the tourist attractions: A-Hall, the Chapel, the Field

House, etc. plus Fairchild Hall where we toured the aero labs. It was nice to play tourist but witn the freedom to walk anywhere. Two noticeable

The other day on my rst trip to the Building in quite some time, 1ran into Gordy KAGE (’71). Gordy was also an early pickup on this 0-6 list and was in my doolie squadron (he seemed bigger then). Turns out he

works with Pat McCULLOUGH (’71) and Bob LOWE (’71) who were

also in my doolie squadron. If that isn’t asmall enough world, Gordy is a neighbor of my new boss. Two minutes later Iran into John PARKS (’73). Now Iknow many of you don’t know these guys, but if you want class news, you have to write or call. My address and phone number are at the top of this column. Why don’t you include me in your Christmas list this year?

On to changes of address: Terry TYRRELL moved from SAF/PA to

AU as an instructor. Terry didn’t even tell me he was leaving and now I

am the class secretary for the local AOG section —thanks Terry. Terry is joined by Craig GHELBER, Neal COYLE, and Tom CRAWFORD. I can’t tell if the last three are students in AWC but the timing seems right.

As previously reported, Bernie BARRIS is down in Panama (to answer your question, there shouldn’t be any increase in postage to receive the AOG mag). Also on the move, Lin CHAYER from Vdnce to Willie, John

FUSS from Little Rock to Niceville, FL; Larry COOPER from WrightPat to Edwards, Eric NEDERDAARD from Luke to NDU; and Erik WINBORN from SAF/LL to Shaw where Ithink he is the Staff JA. I

caught Erik on CNN when the Gulf action rst hit. He was shown briefing family members on what they should and should not mail. Good TV debut for Erik. Dudley KARSTENSEN moves from Beaumont, TX to

Hollidaysburg, PA; John GAWELEK from Atwater to Sacramento, CA;

and Warren SCHIED from Yardley, PA to Lake Elmo, MN. Finally, Bob WALLER, using the of cial AOG change-of-address card, writes he is

assigned to the Pentagon in SAF/FMCE, Cost and Economic Analysis. He and his wife, Susan, and three children, were most recently n o w

assigned to the AFA Econ Department where he was an associate professor and the director of advanced economics. His new job will surely test all the theories he has been teaching.

One nal plea, please write. Even my spider has left. Ed. Rick Karvosky 98-500 Koauka Loop, Apt. 3F

differences were the female cadets and the replacement of most of the

marble strips on the terrazzo with white concrete aggregate. 1can understand the need for female cadets, but doing away with the slippery marble —Ithink they have gone too far! We had lunch one day with Steve

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It was great to visit the Academy again. Itried to point out all the advantages to my sons. There really is alot to do. It sure was adifferent view from the outside looking in, especially 18 years later.

On aTDY to Hill AFB Ishared asuite with Mike BRISTOW (’70).

Besides promising him 1would mention his name in my column, he lled me in on the whereabouts of Don PEPPERS. Don is doing more than

quite well in the advertisement business. In fact, according to Mike, Don’s activities made the Wall Street Journal! Not too shabby. On the same TDY Ialso met afellow Checkpoints scribe, Jeff HACKETT, ’75.

Italked to Dean FOX the other day. Dean went to HQ TAC via acivil engineering squadron commander’s job at Sembach and Air War College.

He reports other graduaiing from AWC with him were: D.C. JOHNSON, Mark MAYER, Lee RODGERS, Mark WILLIAMS, and

Gary WINTERBERGER. Dean couldn’t remember where they were reassigned and Ididn’t get any change-of-address cards on any of them

As you can tell by my address. I’ve moved again! Just keeping up the practice of not having the same address two Christmases in arow —a record I’ve stretched since 1984! Imagine the money you all can save by

not having to send me Christmas cards, haha! Iwas hoping for the base civil engineer’s job at Cannon next summer, but Desert Shield put most engineering commander’s assignments on hold. Just have to wait and see n o w .

The biggest news for all of us is Desert Shield. As of this writing, late as usual, it’s still astalemate. I’m not sure how long it can go on this way, but let’s all hope for apeaceful settlement. To those of our classmates and other alumni over there, you and your families have our best wishes andprayers for your safe return.

This past quarter was good to me for class news. Craig (Pat) MacPHERSON dropped anote to let me know how things were at RAF

either. Dean has abusy job at TAC, especially in support of Desert Shield. Dean is the director of Readiness and Resources. This civil

Mildenhall. Craig is the commander of the 5th Mobile Aerial Port Squadron. They have two children: Brian (7) and Sarah (4). Craig passed

engineering directorate has responsibility for programs, civil engineering operations, readiness (i.e.. Desert Shield), the O&Mbudget, military construction, budget, and real estate. In addition to Desert Shield, he is also busy with base realignment and closures which is affecting several

They have adaughter Samantha. Vic (Rose) POWERS is at Pope living in the same house in Fayetteville'he bought as aLT out of UPT. Vic and

TAC installations. Dean and his wife have sons 10 and 7, and adaughter 8.

Itracked down Eric NEDERGAARD after learning from achange-of-

on news of other classmates. Pete (Wavey) PENTA is the commander of the 313th Consolidated Aircraft Maintenance Squadron at Mildenhall.

Rose have two daughters, Beth and Kim. Scott MILLS (Jean) became the commander of the 451st Flying Training Squadron at Mather. Hope he

doesn’t require the future navigators for the Air Force to run acouple of

address card he was somewhere in the D.C. area. Gaard is at NDU along

thousand miles aweek like he does! Jean is the Mission Support

with afew others from ’72. Istopped by to see Ginny and him for afew minutes but didn’t have my notepad to capture the details. Icould only

Squadron commander at Beale. Craig said to feel free to quote an un¬

remember Don SEXTON and Jim ROBERTSON are also there. Aweek l a t e r 1 s a w D o n S E X TO N i n t h e H O V l a n e s o f 1 - 9 5 s o u t h . W h a t a a s h

that was. 1picked up on his ‘72 class crest sticker in the rear window of his car. The class crest sticker is anice touch. The AOG is almost out of them

but will consider areorder if demand is high enough. Idon’t know the cost but it shouldn’t be much. Write and let me know if you are interested. More on the NDU gang next column.

1was at the Bolling gym the other day and started talking to a gentleman who was wearing apair of AFA shorts. Iasked him if he was a grad or aformer instructor. He replied he was an instructor —and was the superintendent. He was retired Gen Kelly.

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Barry also wrote he saw Brian (B.J.) LANDSBERGER at Nellis where he is the assistant ops of cer for the Air Warrior Squadron. He also saw

named source for this info, so Iwill —thanks unnamed source, a.k.a.

“Craig”.

Wayne (Susan) HOLUM also sent aletter. Wayne was at Luke TDY to

requalify in the F-16. They will be stationed at Misawa. Wayne left Langley after spending two years on the XP staff and his last year as the assistant chief of staff. He was glad to be back in the F-16 and was look¬

ing forward to Misawa. Hope you enjoy all the snow. Wayne’s biggest news came last March when Susan gave birth to their rst child together, ason. Between them though, they have six children now. Wayne said Christopher was agood baby and at his age, he appreciated every moment

of Christopher’s growth. Wait aminute Wayne, you may feel you’re OLD, but Istill feel young. Imay not look it, but 1always thought looks

in the news alot lately. First one to call me with the right answer gets a six-pack at our 20-year reunion —not that far away! Take care and again for those of you deployed in support of Desert Shield, we hope you return soon and safely. Mele Kelikimata to all.

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STARTERS: Ihope all is well with you and yours! The pen has of cial¬

ly passed to anew scribe. My bio will be later sometime. The information

herein has been passed on to me from the AOG of ce, so those of you

who trust your life’s story to the AOG of ce can rest. Be assured that your fun and frolic, as well as wearisome woes will be documented on

these prestigious pages of the AOG Chronicles (Checkpoints). Perhaps herein one can nd long-lost friends, see who’s in the neighborhood or Wayne Holnin with son Christopher. were deceiving, hahaha, Wayne was proud to be the father of amember

of the Class of 2012. Are there any grads with children applying for the Zoo? Iknow my oldest daughter is considering it. She’s an “A” student and constantly wins school awards. She is ranked in the top ve percent nationwide on the Iowa tests and competed on ateam that nished se¬

cond in anational math competition. In fact, I’m proud of both my

daughters. They both are smart and good kids.

While at Luke, Wayne ran into Bill (Gwyn) RAKE who was also in F-16 requali cation. Bill will be leaving Ramstein for Spangdahlem.

Gwyn offered to make the move from Ramstein to Spangdahlem while Bill was TDY to Luke, and he let her. What asaint —Gwyn that is.

Wayne also mentioned that Randy SAGE worked here at HQ PACAF on the DO staff. Ihaven’t run into him. Randy, if you’re out there, look m e up. Paul STUCKY departed the Pentagon for Luke to y F-15s in the 405th TTW. Ireally appreciate the news Wayne and I’m sure our classmates do also. Why don’t the rest of you just sit right down and write aquick note, or even apostcard to me.

Received amemo from the Wright State School of Medicine in Dayton, OH. John WAGONER graduated with aDoctor of Medicine degree in June. John will begin aphysician residency in psychiatry at Wilford Hall.

John also received the Ohio Mental Health Association Award while at Wright State. Way to go John!

Tom (Sally) MAYBERRY is in my Air War College seminar. Tom’s the chief of the Engineering Division for the 1843rd Engineering Installation Group at Wheeler AFB and is an avid Corvette owner. He has a’65 ragtop and a’79 T-top with him over here with one or two others back on

the mainland. He wants to buy mine so he can have a’72 cadet car again!

Tom, make me an offer Ican’t refuse. Ran into Wayne (Barbara) MIRACLE while TDY to Wright-Patterson. Wayne is the department

head for the Engineering Dept at the AFIT School of Engineering and Services, my old stomping grounds. Barbara is ateacher’s aide for the Beavercreek school system. Wayne left Davis-Monthan as the director of Training and was involved in the conversion from OV-lOs to OA-lOs.

They have two children. Had the pleasure of brie ng Colonel John (Debby) REGNI during his orientation at PACAF. John is the base com¬

mander at Kunsan. Debby and their two children are living in Fresno while John is at Kunsan. They came to Hawaii to visit during John’s TDY. They all enjoyed the beaches —who doesn’t! From the feedback I received, John is doing agreat job at Kunsan. He’s the rst base com¬

mander in along time to develop and program long-range improvements at Kunsan —way to go John. Overheard my boss (’69) and his boss (’66) talking about how young John looked for acolonel. Itold them he was my classmate —boy did that shock them.

Change-of-Address Cards: John BARRY to the Pentagon as military assistant to the Secretary of Defense; Dave THOMAS to Bitburg AB; Larry RADOV to Rhein Main AB; Ken WOMACK to Melbourne FL; Bill WILSON to Vacaville, CA; Tom SWERTFAGER to Bolling AFB; Dave MITCHELL to Elmendorf; Steve (Brenda) YESTNESS to Ramstein AB; Tom KENNEDY to Alexandria VA; A1 HOWEY to Burke VA; John (Sandra) PATCHIN to Hill AFB; John HUDSON to Newport RI;

compare careers to offer congratulations or condolences as applicable!

CHANGE-OF-ADDRESS CARDS: Dave HOGLUND writes in with a number of souls. Dave is at PSC #2, Box 11719, APO San Francisco.

There at Kadena he’s seen A1 GUARDING (C-130s), Lee STURDIVANT, (KCs) Denny HEINLE (Marine choppers), Mike REICH (Rescue Coordinator Center w/C-12s), Bob WHITTON (F-15s), and Duane TAYLOR (Army). According to my records, afew of us have moved

back to the states. Chris CAMPBELL has returned, to Alamogordo,

NM. Charles and Jeanne STEVENS changed address from APO NY to Odenton, MD.

Arecords update shows the following moved CONUS to CONUS. Stephen STRACK said “Good-bye” to Maryland and “Hi Ya’ll” to

Fayetteville, NC. Kenneth and Kay KLIMES moved from Valdosta, GA,

where many of us did UPT, to Phoenix, AZ. (My wife and Idrove through Moody AFB [Valdosta] this past summer. There’s afour-lane

highway from base to the city. The trailer park outside the gate is still there. The O-club is the old NCO club behind the hospital. And they don’t seem to y on weekends.) Mike and Bev KUSKIE may have gotten tired of the snow in Aurora, CO. They use aSan Antonio, TX, address now. Denny and Lin HUGHES moved the other way, from California to snow country. They’ve unpacked in Omaha, NE,

Several individuals changed shopping malls and post of ces. Eric NEWMAN has moved across town in Redmond, WA. David JACKSON

packed his bags in Eules, TX, drove down Highway 10 acouple of miles, and unpacked them at Hurst. Ron GARHART also moved

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state/town from around Hill AFB to Layton, UT. (1 recently tried to nd Tracy and Lois CHEATHAM in Atlanta, GA, only to nd out he and

Lois are somewhere around Park City, UT. Maybe you two can exchange life stories over asasperilla.) In the midwest are John and Cheryl EPHLAND at Altus, OK. They sounded pretty content, leaving the hard problems in His hands.

Talking of the midwest, the cowboy has been arepresentation of the U.S. in several Olympics, and I’ve considered Dodge as the focal point of western folklore, to represent any U.S. City. So my best well wishes to those who have left Dodge. Mario and Rosemary DiPRlMO have moved from Carmel, CA to MAAG Dorn Rep, APO Miami, 34041-0008.

Thanks, Rosemary, for making time to let us know of your move’ May you know only good times.

OTHER NOTES; Those from Dirty Dozen may relax after learning that Craig and Rite ANDERSON are doing ne. Air Force lawyer e x -

traordinaire Craig realizes that the family update newsletter has been in

the make for awhile and he will get one out with the usual Suitable for Framing DDF form. Craig has been publishing aDirty Dozen letter since we graduated. Unfortunately, the exigencies of recently completing

school and moving require more time than he has. He express^ profuse apologies. On two occasions Italked with him. Rite had found him with

his head and hands in abox —apparently doing aDITY (Do IT Yourself) m o v e .

In February this year, the Air Force paid for my visit back to AFA. There Ifound Joe DORRIS heading up the Honor and Ethics program for the cadets. He, Susan, and the young ones are well. The code is alive and well, too, and it’s not been any easier over the years to instruct the new classes. Steve and Marsha DANIELS are there too. Steve works in

and Jim CASEY to Falcon AFB as the chief of Plans for the 2nd Space Wing. Jim, can you help me get ajob out there!

W'ell, Ibetter end here, this is late enough as it is. Hope all are well and do enjoy your Christmas holiday. My kids will be over here so it won’t be

too bad. As aparting thought —can anyone name acertain major at the Zoo while we were Doolies with the nickname “Brush”. Hint —he’s been

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cer of tomorrow. Paul SHERRY, as of February, is taking care of those young of cers-to-be at the Academy hospital. Paul and Marsha fed me pizza in their on-base home one night. Mitches is still Mitches. They don’t seem to use the class lights anymore. Mr. Winger is still helping cadets to learn how to survive. Mr. “L” Ladouceur is retired. He’s doing well, keeping touch with chapel music by making guest appearances in the choir loft as requested to cover Sunday services. That’s it for now —live

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ROAD SHOW; Mister/Major (USAFR) Hackett coming to you from Hill AFB, UT; for now this is simply my annual tour but who knows where the winter column may originate from! Mobility bags and sunscreen are packed. Icould start out by telling you how your scribe is sparing no expense to bring you news of our classmates (but you’d probably nd out that, like abonehead, 1left my folder of notes and letters at home and had to have Deb FedEx them to me). Or 1could make apoint of telling you how I’m searching out classmates at every turn (but you’d probably gure out that means I’m hanging out in the O-Club bar alot).

P E R S E V E R A N C E I S ( O C C A S I O N A L LY ) R E WA R D E D ! S t e v e DURESKY hailed me down in the O-Club bar last Friday. Only had afew moments to talk before Steve had to catch the red-eye back to Washington, DC but he did have time to update me on his job at the Pentagon where he’s responsible for “everything that can be dropped (or shot) from an airplane toward the ground.” 1didn’t take notes, but I’m sure he told me that he and his wife have three children: ason going to college out here in Utah, adaughter in high school, and another youngster (I’m sorry Iforgot if it’s ason or daughter) in 6th grade. Actually clearing that up will probably help motivate Steve to follow up on his promise to send me aletter with news and pictures of the “several dozen” ’75ers that are at the Pentagon. Last tidbit from Steve: Dale MEYERROSE made 0-6. Congratulations Dale!

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COMAN provided the Southern charm, straight from Charleston AFB where Mike’s ying C-141s. The hosts (Joe and Marcia) report that avery good time was had by all and that life has returned to normal in and around Atlanta (where Joe works for asoftware company).

THERE DEFINITELY IS ADOCTOR IN THE HOUSE! Got anews release from Jefferson Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University

(PA) announcing the graduation of Jim RORABAUGH, MD. Jim, wife Angela, and their two-year-old son Nathan are headed off to residency (general surgery) at Wilford Hall. Also heard from the chief of Aeromedical Services at RAF Alconbury, Mike LISCHAK. Mike has a

year left in his current assignment and then it’s off to... he says he’s not sure; maybe he’ll put his status as aNASA-certi ed ight surgeon to use.

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4,000 FT. BRKN, 12,000 FT. OVRCST AND LOTS OF HOT WIND. Dave COMMONS scrawled apretty lengthy letter on the back of his weather brie ng sheet while enroute from Detroit to Orlando (727 2nd ofcer with Delta). Barb and the boys are doing well in Cincinnati; Dave can be found there, in the air with Delta, or at Rickenbacher ANGB ying A-7s. His updates: Tom and Vicki POPP (w/lgirl) are in D.C. where he’s on the XO Command Brie ng team. Butch BYRD and Rick LAYMAN also at the Pentagon “somewhere in the XO community.”

Bob and Pam WALDEN (w/2 girls) have left active duty to take ajob ying with Delta. Doug WILLIAMS is apartner in aColumbus, OH law rm and apart-timer (ANG/Reserve) in the JAG of ce at Rickenbacher (knowing Dave, this could come in handy!). Charlie SIMMONS is an

O V E R H E R E . . . O V E R T H E R E . . . O U G H TA T H E R E . S c o t t u p d a t e s us on Dick and Kim .WEBER (missile squadron commander at

Whiteman) and Dave HERLONG (fresh out of F-16s to teach psychology at the Zoo). On the other side of the Atlantic —Sandy TERRY is on the 7th Air Division (SAC) staff in Europe. Frank and Jan DRESSEL are also in Germany (Zweibrucken) where he’s ying the Sherpa, “world’s ugliest airplane”. Finally, Scott reports on two who have moved into the world of commercial aviation: Frank DUBUISSON with FedEx and Jeff KRUMEICH

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keeps busy as corporate VP for ADT Security Systems and as an accomplished marathon runner (talk about B-A-D habits!). He passes on word that Bill “Howie” HUGHES is avery successful corporate attorney in Milwaukee. Bill and wife, Peggy, have four children including aset of twins. Mike has recently seen Terry and Peggy YOUNG (at the Liberty

Bowl), Russ TRINTER (in Allentown, PA), and Dave SCHMITZ (pilot for Northwest out of Detroit).

M D - 8 8 1 s t O f c e r w i t h D e l t a , l i v i n g i n M o n t g o m e r y, A L w h e r e h e a l s o ies F-16s in the ANG.

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masterful job and we’ve avoided the dreaded COA cards (not asingle note in the margins in this stack either). As for me, it’s off to the ’’slab” (VOQ room bed). Iswear the bodies in the Salt Lake City Morgue are laying on something softer! Then, tomorrow, it’s the once-a-year good deal aerobics run and I’m guessing that on the last lap I’ll be huf ng and puffing and thinking that it’s much, much later than Ithought!

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“ h o o k ” f o r a f o l l o w - u p l e t t e r, o r w h a t !

SPRAGGINS and the Air Force can’t agree about his medical quali cation to y (following his B-1 ejection); in the meantime he’s working in SAC’s Test Directorate. The only one to still smell of JP-4 is Collin FLYNN who is ops of cer for the RC-135 squadron there at Offutt.

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plane (Delta Airlines) from Monument, CO. Texas was represented by

Dana, live in New Jersey (the nice part?) with their two daughters. Mike

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PEAKS”. Ipromised you and Scott HENTE that I’d get to his letter in this issue. Scott’s letter was dated 12 June and was postmarked “Offutt AFB” where he’s spent 10 of the 15 years since graduation! He’s currently tending to computer/ADP/mission planning matters within the Bomber Operations of ce at Hq SAC (although zero of his 4000 ying hours are in bomber aircraft!). The logistics snafu Isighted in the rst paragraph prevents me from including the picture of Scott, Lyn and their two kids, Adrienne (almost 12) and Mike (going on nine). Is this another

BERLAN are in the same of ce (they with the bomber bakgrounds.

Chuck in FB-llls, Greg in Buffs). Gary SHUGART is the king of the “Talking Heads” (briefers) within the ops organization at Hq. I’ll admit to not having the slightest idea what SIOP Planning is but we can hope

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waited 15 years to write his rst letter to the scribe! He and his wife,

classmates there at Offutt with him. Chuck MOLZON and Greg

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Hello all from the land of rapidly-changing leaf colors, encroaching winter, and large squirrel tails. Feels like Mother Nature is preparing a real snowy punch for us this year. By the time you read this you will know if 1have afuture with the “Farmers Alamanc” or if my arthritis really is getting as bad as the orthopedic surgeon says. Thanks to some last-minute correspondence, 1really do have something to write this time —so for those of you who haven’t moved on to ’77 already, here goes!

Kurt KLINGENBERGER (Karen) swung through recently. Karen is awaiting possible reserve-type orders to the gulf while Kurt is keeping General Galvin up to speed on recent events. Karen was hoping to enter medical school soon but her plans, just like so many others, are now awaiting further developments.

On asad note. Operation Desert Shield claimed one of our classmates, Maj. Peter S. HOOK, who with acrewmember was killed when their F-15 crashed during an exercise in Saudi Arabia on 30 Sept. On behalf of the class, we offer sincere condolences to his family and friends.

M i c k a n d Ta m a r a E R D L E

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pily settling into Newport Rhode Island for Naval War College. Tamara will be going to school in Norwood, MA while Mick dreams of afollowon to an RTU. 20th Squadron, which placed second in honor squadron competition last year, will miss them as will the rest of the remnants of ’76 around here.

Speaking of remnants, the second wave is beginning to wash ashore here at camp USAFA. Doug JAMES (Pam) stopped by the other day while Dave MAZUROWSKI has been cluttering up my ying schedule. 1 must admit its nice not to be absolute low guy on the totem pole at the UV-J8 det but Dave does have some prior time from his last tour so I

guess I’m still low-time Charlie. Imust admit it is nice to start saying hello to ’76ers again —there were alot of good-byes there for awhile.

There are some other big doings here on the hill. Remember “Tenured Professors” —those gray-haired instructors who always droned on and on about the importance of education but never taught the GR? Stan RADER (Barbara) and Dave CLOUD (Barbara) have joined those august ranks —congrats to you both. Stan is presently holding down an AOG Board of Directors slot so you know who to contact about your libel suit against me. Stan will be heading for aPentagon tour next summer but plans to return eventually.

The engineering folks also passed on that Greg SEELY (Sally) is well into aBerkeley PhD program. Greg and Sally are now the proud parents of Hannah. Congrats to you both and good luck in Berkeley. Chuck O LT M A N ( I s a b e l ) i s e n j o y i n g M a r i n e C o r p s I S S S . T h e r e ’ s s o m e t h i n g

about school in the morning and golf in the afternoon that seems to restore one’s perspective on things Ihear. Dave McKENZIE (Connie), whose Zweibrucken RF-4 slot is no more, is now looking at F-4Gs to

Spangdahlem. Finally, there is aloud “All right!” directed at Hank SEADER (Jennifer). Hank has been working on aproject called “Target Board” which has become an important part of the War on Drugs. Target Board is acomputer program that combines agraphics program with a data base. This system helps analysts spot drug smuggling patterns and helps them properly design effective interdiction strategies. The Coast Guard, the DIA, NORAD and others have been very appreciative. Hank a n d C h u c k O LT M A N w e r e r e c o m m e n d e d f o r t w o C o a s t G u a r d O p e r a tions Medals for their efforts.

Got avery nice card from Mike MCGINNIS (Gina) —believe me —

Acapulco looks good from any angle! Mike is a727 rst of cer for American who calls Dallas home. When he gets tired of keeping the food trays upright, Mike hangs from some A-37 straps out of Peoria, IL. Mike passed on that Dale MILLER (Jayne) ys out of Peoria also and that both are looking forward to the impending arrival of some F-16s in ayear or so. Mike also passed on that other ’76ers haunt DFW —Mark M C N A I R , B o b VA U G H N ( S u e ) , a n d V i c S I M O N , w h i l e R o b S P E N C E (Betti) works for the Carswell reserves. Thanks for the card Mike.

That’s all for me folks —hope you are all well and safe wherever you are —our thoughts go out to you and your loved ones in these turbulent

times

PRELIMINARIES: As Iwrite this the news is full of reports about how far four stars won’t take you inside the beltway. Iguess the bottom line is that you shouldn’t wonder about how you’d like to do things within c o n t i n u a l e a r s h o t o f a Wa s h i n g t o n P o s t r e p o r t e r.

INCOMING: I’m now doing the ’77 shuf e, running into various familiar faces around the Montgomery area. Pat McVAY (Cyndee) called me the other day. He’s spending the next year here for ACSC. Ibumped into John CHRIST (Louise) at aballoon festival in Montgomery the other weekend. His wife is areservist and in these days of Desert Shield they jump at every telephone call. Dave EDGINGTON (Siobhan) also called. We’re working on setting up some type of get-together this fall, I hope when the Zoo gets some football exposure.

THE MAILBAG: Got some brief news this time around from many

folks. First of all. Mallard TURNER (Judy) wrote to tell me (and you) that he’s doing ne and hopes to start back to work soon. He and Judy are in Columbus, OH. Diane HIGHT dropped me anote on her “Razorback” stationery to say that she and Greg and their three children are hanging tough in the D.C. area. Greg is doing double duty, working at the Pentagon and getting his master’s in business administration. Ithink the master’s is just an excuse to stay in town long enough to miss the rush hour traf c, but good for you, Greg. Hope you get the airframe you want not at Loring, either.

Had agood talk with Chuck CURRAN (Claudia). He was nishing up at Hanscom in ESD. Chuck now is probably working triple shifts at the Embassy in Cairo, handling communications equipment for our of ce of military cooperation, 1imagine there’s afair amount of cooperation going on right there now. Chuck wins the “guy most likely to be investigated for con ict of interest” contest, after he dealt with Bob SIMMONS

(Helen) and Ron STRICH in their civilian contractor capacity. Chuck was developing some cosmic comm system and Bob and Ron were on one contractor’s team who showed up for apresentation. Chuck closed with an invitation to anyone out through Cairo to give him acall.

Bob SOUCY (Beth) dropped me aline from his desk at MAC assignments at Randolph. He’s been busy lately too. He reports all is going well in Universal City. Steve and Ingrid SCHWALBE are settled in at Hampton, where he’s working in Intell at TAC HQ. Their two Siberian Huskies and Ingrid’s horse are safely housed, as is the precious Jaguar.

Steve heads up the Threat Employment Division, and in his letter noted he was in the process of preparing a“Who’s The Enemy” brie ng. I guess there’s not much doubt on that point now. Steve reports that another Steve from the class, Steve CAREY, is at TAC as the CINC’s Ac¬

tion Group staff of cer.

Jim MOSHGAT (Jill) is at ACSC now, but he wrote me earlier this summer from Ramstein where he nished over six years in Europe. He spent the last few years working in the Directorate of Combat Employment and serving as the exec for the deputy chief of staff for Ops at USAFE. Jim was averitable fount of info on other folks —he notes that

this summer marks the second anniversary of Mark SlZEMORE’s death in an A-7 accident. Sherri has moved from Idaho to Arizona. Rick

DALTON (Jacki) and Dave KISH (Lani) are both in ’16s at Ramstein; Dave GLASEBROOK (Kathy) is out now, whereabouts unknown; Bob HOOVER (Cynthia) was at Soesterberg in F-15s when Jim last saw him; Bob BARTOLONE and John DAY (Stephanie) are also on the DO’s staff at USAFE, both are gym rats; Mike McGEE (Rebecca) arrived at USAFE from Mountain Home and ’Ills. He’s working as the U.S. rep on NATO tactical evaluations. Tony DRONKERS (Dawn) is headed to Hill to do s o m e m a i n t e n a n c e w o r k ; a n d M a r k R U TA N ( D o n n a ) i s h e r e a t M a x w e l l

as an ACSC instructor. Thanks for the update, Jim, hope we hook up here at the campus.

The change-of-address le contained afew tidbits: Andy SZKOTAK is working as adistrict manager for Rational, Inc., asoftware rm founded by two other ’77 folks, Paul LEVY and Mike DEVLIN (Bobbie). Grady BOOCH (Jan) and George REINER are also working with Rational.

Kind of acatchy corporate name; people ask you what you do and you

say “I’m aRational man.” Andy’s living in Vienna, VA, but works in Bethesda. Don TUROS (Deana) returned to Hawaii after atour at the Ar¬

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my CGSC in Leavenworth. Joe GUHIN (Carla) left Offutt for ACSC here, John BUCKLEY (Sandy) nished his law studies at Harvard and is now in Michigan, Mark GILZEAN (Barbara) is at Ellsworth after spending atour at the embassy in Athens, Don MAGEE (Valerie) moved from

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PRESS RELEASE:’ Our people just keep getting their names in front of the media. Iopened up Airman Magazine and see Bob ESKRIDGE (Sheila) being li,sted as a“stealth” father. Bob spent his work weeks for the last few years away from the family while ying the F-117 at Nellis.

Hope things are back to normal for you folks now, although Bob being the talent that he is, 1suspect there is presently asandy visage before him.

CLOSEOUT: Some of this information is certainly outdated given

what’s going on in the Gulf. Let me know what’s happening out there — and for those of you in the

eld, our thoughts and prayers are with you —

Be seeing you.

Rick DEVEREAUX is the C-17 avionics project manger in the Aeronautical System Division (ASD) Program Of ce. Elizabeth and he have three children and he expects to return to airlifters (C-17s or C-5s) next summer. Fred ZEITZ is an engineer in ASD and is counting the days to get back to F-11 Is. Keith HEISE is serving athree-year DDA in ASD after AFIT and is looking forward to getting back to the cockpit. R.D. JOHNSON is living in Atlanta, ies for American out of DFW and ies the F-4 with the ANG at Bergstrom. Dave McLERAN is also an engineer in the C-17 SPO and will return to C-141s at McGuire in April. Dave’s wife, Tammy, just had their third child, Laura. Pete HOLZGANG is also in the C-17 SPO as amanufacturing manager and hopes to return to C-5s in the spring. Rob HALL (Debi) is an engineer in the Human Resources Lab. They also had their second child, ason, and Rob will be returning to C-5s next year. Jim DURLAK is acivil servant working in the Propulsion

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Israel, picked up his car, and left in acloud of dust! Iwonder what Larry can tell us about the situation over there? While in Tucson getting aF-16

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TOUCH AND GOS: Iran into Barbara and Vic CARPENTER at a

local pizza parlor. They were celebrating their daughter’s (Heidi) birth¬

day. ’^ic reported that Larry KRAUSER is back from ayear of study in ride, Iran across an old badminton rival, Carl THOMAS. Carl is an in¬

Lots of information from around the country, again THANKS for the support!

IRAQNAFOBIA: Just when you begin to think the world was getting to be asafer place to live... Many of us will be involved over the next few months with the Mideast Crisis. Our prayers for safe ying and apeaceful outcome. If any of you can spare some time, write aletter and pictures are welcomed!

PHONE CALLS: Jose BRAVO reports things are going well in the Academy Liason business. Jose ies for Fed Ex and has anew 80386 home computer to keep track of all the cadets he is recruiting for USAFA in the Memphis area. Jose says L.C. CROWE has been busy ying the Reserve C-141s to Saudi, taking time out from his job with Fed Ex. Others ying the “All Night Express” are Ned FRIEDMAN and Dave DENTON. Dave apparently has broken the code in earning 200 hours ying pay and credit in one month.

Mike LAWRENCE also has some new computers and anew business location in New York. Awhile back Ivisited his old workshop in the basement of the Apollo Theater. Mike is using an arti cial intelligence board and digital video interactive (DVI) hardware to write educational programs. Seems he has put his comp sci degree to good use! Mike also reports that Paul (C?) BECK is getting married in October in the Big Apple.

Another person using his Academy ’’survival skills” while in the French Guiana jungles was Steve FRATELLO. Steve has an extensive collection of rare exotic butter ies and was down there adding more

trophies. Some of Steve’s collection can be seen at the Smithsonian!

LETTERS: Rick DEVEREAUX included some news from the folks at

Wright-Patterson. “Last July, the Thunderbirds came to Dayton to perform and we had apost-Air Show party at my house, .where two fellow ’78er Thunderbird pilots showed up: Chuck GREENWOOD and John WEIDA. In the enclosed picture, from left, are Bill PARKER ’77; Fred ZEITZ, Keith HEISE, R.D. JOHNSON, Rick DEVEREAUX (front), Dave McLERAN (rear), John WEIDA, Rod HALL, Pete HOLZGANG, and Chuck GREENWOOD. Chuck and John shared some good war stories including —their 20 minutes in the Oval Of ce with President Bush, and the time that Chuck’s Thunderbird ‘courtesy car’ was stolen by high school joyriders. They both admitted that the most dangerous part of each show was the police escort to the air eld.”

structor in the ANG F-16 RTU and only has afew gray hairs to show for it. While going through American’s DC-9 school in August Iran into Dave GROVES. Dave is ying 767 Int’l Of cer with American and KC-lOs with the Reserves (and enjoying it)! Dave reports that Gary HUGHES is also ying the 767 Int’l routes. Inoticed that Tim MINOR’S assignment out of American’s training was to New York City! John STERRETT reported that they are expecting their third child sometime this month and he is enjoying having lots of time off at home while on reserve duty with American. Mark KARGUL called to say he ran into fellow zoomies in Spain while ying KC-lOs with the Reserves for acouple of weeks (Desert Shield). Seems like everybody is heading that way!

Folks I’ve met on the boom (air refueling talk) include Mike EVERS. Mike is instructing in F-15s at Luke AFB. Pat MARCKESANO was also ying F-16s with the Reserves at Luke. Congrats to another F-16 pilot, Wayne KELLENBENCE, for being TAC’s Jabara award nominee!

Whew! I’ll save the rest for next time. If you haven’t heard, the GI Bill bene ts for the Class of ’ll and ’78 have been partially restored. Idon’t

have the full details, but forms to make claims for bene ts are supposed to be at the VA of ces soon. Spread the word... Finally, all those who are moving to Maxwell take some time to write or call.

C H A N G E S O F A D D R E S S ; To d d A L M A N D i s b a c k f r o m o v e r s e a s t o

Parkville, MO. Russel BROWN is changing homes in San Clemente, CA. Ed (Suzanne) BRUCE from Riverside, CA to Montgomery, AL. Ron FURSTENAU from Bozeman, MT to Colorado Springs, CO. Ken GRONEWALD from Fair eld, CA to Scottsdale, AZ. Buddy LEACH from Beale AFB, CA to Bartlett, TN. Jerry LUDKE from USAFA to Spring eld, VA. Martin MINOR from Reston, VA to Herndon, VA. Paul MORELL from Minneapolis, MN to Boston, MA. William NICHOLS from Converse, TX to Randolph AFB, TX. Russel OGRINZ

from Albuquerque, NM to Hanscom AFB, MA. Clover QUIGLEY from Montgomery, AL to Burke, VA. Douglas RAABERG from Papillion, NE to Montgomery, AL. Mark RICHARDSON from San Antonio, TX to Montgomery, AL. Jan SCHAEUBLE from Universal City, TX to Randolph AFB, TX. James SHEEDY from Albuquerque, NM to Montgomery, AL. Chuck STILES from Andrews AFB, MD to Prattville, AL. D e a n YA M A N A K A f r o m G a r d e n a , C A t o L a P a l m a , C A . To n y ZOMPETTl from Ellsworth AFB, CA to Montgomery, AL. Bud Vazquez 2476 Santa Rosa Drive

Kettering, OH 45440 Home: (513) 293-0578 AV : 7 8 5 - 1 7 5 5 / 5 6 Percent members: 36

There are always some wise guys who spoil all the fun —just as our class gets major pinned on. Bob EDMONDS and Pet BUNCE go and get 0-5 promos! It’s kind of abittersweet moment ya’ know, 1mean remember when Majors were old!? Congrats fellas! Can we come be your exec or maybe your head of MWR when you’re four-buttons? I’m not sure of Pete’s whereabouts (too busy getting promoted twe years early to write me, 1guess) but EDMONDS and lovely family are keepin’ an eye on our new buds the Ruskies over at...Bitburg. I’m still headin’ up the

Wright-Pat contingent, although I’m starting to get punchy with age — we’re due for Kid #1(1 Oct), I’m friends with the infamous Dave Chaf¬

fee, our comm became afour-star, the Ruskies are our pals, and all my

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Denver to the Springs, and Curt BEDKE (Ina) is now the B-2 program

Anyhow, Reggie HOLMES is still looking good and mean here at WPAFB. Todd KLOPP is staying mean as acontracting puke in the F-16 SPO. Rod MacALEAR (Dana) joined Todd in Fighting-Falcon land.

Rich WALLEY has been known to jog amile or two here also. Pete PASKO and Bruce BUSLER are working on the C-17 airlifter.

From Edwards, Scott GRUNWALD is slated to be one of the rst, if not the rst, test pilot to y the new C-17 (assuming Douglas Aircraft gets its act together to stay solvent).

My roving reporter, Jim SIMS (Emily) says anumber of Niners have been spotted roaming the hallowed halls of Pentagonia. For example.

Dale BRADLEY (Sunni) and Roger SCHULD are known to work CE issues while Paul HUFF is working in the cost world in SAF/FMC. Jim, too, is a“ nancial manager” at SAF/FMC. What that means is that he can cut you next year while trying to get you to blow that unobligated balance this year —all during September. Mathemagicians if I’ve ever seen!

The forwarding mail is heavy (does that mean it’s aheavy ow?) this quarter —let me count the ways: Mike GILBERT from C-Springs to Chestnut Hill, MA; Lynn BIANCO from Converse, TX to Peachtree City, GA; Steve LEPPER (Kathryn) from APO NY to Woodbridge, VA; John SUSALLA from Sanford to Novi, MI; Fred SPEARS from Mesa, AZ to Peachtree City, GA; Rod McNEILL (Jeannie) from Dayton, OH to Vandenberg AFB, CA; and Robin SANDERS to anew address in Charlotte, NC.

Also, Jeff DUNAWAY from Redland, CA to Waldorf, MD; Jack HUMPHREY from C-Springs to an Academy address; Steve DEAUX (Rebecca) from APO NY to Langley AFB, VA; Dale SWANSON from Mountain Home, ID to Nellis AFB, NV; Archie RIPPETO (Susan) from Las Vegas, NV to Montgomery, AL; John JOGERST from Converse, TX to Prattville, AL; Bill AHRENDT from APO NY to Dayton, OH; and W.K. STARR from San Antonio to Wright-Pat AFB, OH. Geez, that was kinda’ fun. You can guess which guys are going to the 5-Side, ACSC, etc. Iwant you all to know Mark CEBUHAR really knows how to send achange-of-address card. He’s ying 747-400s for Northwest, is active in the pilot’s union, has awife, Cindy, working to nish RN/Midwife training, misspelled “zoomie” (Mark, what’s azommie?), and they home-school their kids! Whew.

Aspecial congrats to Mark SVESZKA who was selected by Air Force Magazine as the outstanding tactician for 1989 for his work in the F-4G community. Nice going Mark! Congrats also to Bill MURPHY for landing anew wife, (you owe me Deanna), in July. Bruce HOLBROOK and famous wife, Anna Kathryn (daytime soap star. Grape Nuts lady, etc), are due for their

rst child this fall, too. As Bruce, who

ies for Delta in

Atlanta but lives in New “Yawk” said, “it took us 11 years but we nally got it right.” Congrats.

Keep Mark LEUTHOLD in your thoughts and prayers. He suffered a brain aneurysm this summer and is in serious condition in Cincinnati.

Send cards and letters to: 5230 Woodcroft Lane, Huber Heights, OH 45424 (513)236-9330. He’s in Christ Hospital, Cincinnati, Rm 2067, (513) 629-4267.

Well, its time to sign off —yeah Iknow, this was abit less entertaining acolumn, but probably more useful. Until next time say aprayer for ’79ers in Desert Shield (look for my Squidly Lt Cmdr brother on the USS

Class of ’80

“Trenton with 600 of his closest jarhead friends) that they may deter Saddam “Insane”. If they have to

ght, let’em kick butt. God Bless.

P.S. Late word to the AOG has it that there was an addition to the Vaz¬

quez family on 6Oct: Daniel Peter, 9lbs 2oz!

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Home: (719) 472-1477 AV : 2 5 9 - 3 2 5 5 / 3 2 5 7 Percent members; 50

Well, our reunion is over. Asad thought, but we had agreat time. Standing at the registration desk Icouldn’t believe how mature you all looked.

Where did you get all of those wingtip shoes and three-piece suits? Where did all of those matched-luggage sets come from? Ididn’t see one green laundry bag or cadet-issue B-4 bag. Maybe we all got some class after all.

Gray hair abounded, but we didn’t look too bad. In afew cases we couldn’t see much hair or where our belts used to be, but for the most part Ithink we didn’t change at all. It was fun to see some of you with long hair again. The last time Isaw that was in June of ’76, although Idon’t remember Walt CARLSON having aponytail then. If you happened to order merchandise and did not show up to the reunion to pick it up, it will be mailed to you. 1would ask that you please note the postage and send the money to the class at jfour earliest opportunity.

1can’t thank the members of the reunion committee enough for the work they did to make our reunion happen. Each and every one of them put in many long hours listening to me, and if that wasn’t bad enough, they had to do alot of work too. In particular Iwould like to thank Phil PROSSEDA our cochairman and my best sounding board. Incidentally, Phil started working the reunion before Iwas even at the Academy and was adriving force behind the reunion’s success. Steve GREEN set up the hotel and worked registration. Steve WEBB ordered all of the merchandise, kept it in his house, and worked registration. Eric BUSSIAN put together the squadron parties and lled in on all of the other committees.

Brian CULLIS set up the tailgate and worked the setup and registration.

Margie VARUSKA set up the tailgate and worked the ’80 women’s brunch. Dave LARIVEE stepped in at the last minute to set up drinks for the tailgate. Doug HERRINGTON ran the golf tournament with Roscoe ROLEY’s help. Karen WILHELM worked the publicity end and lled in everywhere else. Mike PEPLAU did ahangup job on the memorial service and helped the class print alt of the mailers we sent out. Mike EASTMAN took care of the photos and other committee tasks. Joe MOSCHLER was always helping someone with something. If Iforgot someone, Iapologize in advance, but I’m sure they were awesome. I would also like to thank the wives and husbands of those involved for

freely giving up your Thursday night family time for the last year. Finally, we could not have even started had it not been for the ne people at the AOG and their outstanding help. My hat is off to all of the AOG staff.

They worked 18-hour days during the reunion and long hours months before it began.

I’m not going to put much news in this column because Karen (Copies of photograph may be ordered from: Faingold Studios, 20 S. Elm, Deriver, CO 80222)

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In the change-of-address arena, Dave GLADMAN moved to Tippecanoe, OH; Terri POBST-MARTIN is in Monterey, CA; Jeff TOMP¬

missed the reunion then you can make our 20-year. I’m sure the 10-year committee members will agree that we are just going to show up and say

Alamagordo, NM; Rob TOPP is now in Tampa, FL; Rudy CASTILLO is

SON now resides in Ft Meyers, FL; Julie (GRIMMIG) GRIER is in

“feed me” and leave the work to other classmates.

in New Orleans ying for Delta and for the AF Reserves; and Neal and

As alast note, 1am giving up the article for awhile. Don MYERS has offered to take it and 1gladly said yes. His address is LTJG Don MYERS, 105 Shore Drive, Shiloh, NC 27974. Phones: (919) 336-4502 and

Congratulations to Michelle JOHNSON who got married on 21 July to Capt John Hargreaves, aC-141 pilot she met in Jordan. They were mar¬

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Maryon (WHITENER) BAUMGARTNER now live in Austin, TX. ried in Woodmoor which is afew miles north of the Academy.

Congratulations are also in order for Bob and Silvi (KIISK) STEIGER-

WALD on the birth of their second son, Richard Anton, on 9Sept.

Tony Lorusso 232-B West Craig Place

Abig thanks to Joe (Debbie) WOTTON for volunteering to head up the Homecoming Committee. Aside note: Joe recently got married to the

San Antonio, TX 78212

“ rst love” of his life on 9June.

Home: (512) 732-5571

Leona (Ray) FLORES has been doing alot of legwork to keep our class from reinventing the wheel. She negotiated the hotel rates that incidental¬

AV: 9 4 5 - 2 0 0 1 Percent members: 39

ly are cheaper than what Class of ’80 got for their reunion. You can begin to make reservations at the Sheraton South by calling 1-800-635-3304, ask

It’s that time again. It seems like just yesterday that Icranked out the last article. Thanks to afew dedicated letter writers 1have some information to pass along.

Ireceived aletter from Brian DOMINGUEZ who ies for Delta out of

Los Angeles. Randy STEDMAN and John GRIFFIN are also working for Delta in Los Angeles. Last time, Ireported that Brian is in the reserves at Los Angeles AFS. Actually, he’s ying C-141 for the AF Reserves at Norton AFB, CA. Curt McINTYRE and Steve DOSS are also ying for the reserves at Norton. Curt normally ies for Delta, and Steve ies for USAir. Like I’m sure many others are, Brian and Curt have been ying

frequently to Saudi Arabia in support of Desert Shield. Jim KEMP also wrote to say he’s doing ne and enjoys ying for Northwest Airlines out of St Louis. After having agreat time ying the EC-135 and RC-135, Jim made the tough decision in 1988 to punch out. He and his bride have two children, Sara and Christopher.

J.D. SEAL wrote to say that he is still in the Air Force and loves ying the B-1. When he wrote, he was at Dyess, but he should be at Grand Forks by now. Tom ARKO, Greg HILL, Tom TOMARRAS, and Nelson ENGLISH are also with the B-1 program at Dyess as instructors. J.D.

and Cheryl now have two lovely children, Courtney and Spencer. Thanks for writing J.D. —I’m sorry it took so long to publish the information.

Shirley (HILSGEN) LOCKIE was also one of my sources. Shirley and husband Roy are still at Bolling and Andrews, respectively. Shirley is now afamily practice physician at the Bolling Clinic. Shirley and Roy are also proud parents of twin boys. Why does it seem like everybody has two kids? Shirley reported that she stays in touch with Amy RUSSELL who is doing ne as aC-21 pilot at Andrews. Thanks for writing Shirley.

for reservations, and be sure to mention that you are with the USAFA Class of 1981 Reunion (19-22 Sep 91) Group. There are only 200 rooms reserved for our class in this hotel and the over ow will be booked by the Sheraton in nearby hotels.

Thanks also goes to Blaise (Lynne) HORBAN and Ray (Leona) CANNON who are heading the Souvenirs Committee, Keith (Kathy) ANDERSON who is heading up the Open House Committee (unless he PCSes),

Brad (Belinda) BARRETT who is heading up the Golf Tournament Committee, and Joan (Michael) CUNNINGHAM who is heading up agettogether for the women graduates. The last committee does not preclude there being aget-together for the men graduates, but if you want to have one —who would like to volunteer to head up the committee?

During the Class of ’80 Reunion one of the major topics of discussion was daycare. Leona has this to say about the situation: It turns out that only ve people decided to make reservations. To get the base daycare center opened up for the reunion we need aminimum of 30 children (ages 6mos-11 yrs) signed up, paid for in advance, plus shot records need to be provided. Some people showed up at the reunion with their children, no reservations, no shot records and thus, no daycare. The best advice is to arrange to have your children taken care of at your home unless you can arrange for someone to take care of your children while in the Springs. It is dif cult to enjoy yourself with your children around simply because they want your attention and you’re trying to visit with your friends.

Unless we get an overwhelming response and paid reservations, we will not be offering this service

Next Checkpoints we will be putting out a“lost souls” list in order to try to nd our classmates who have not updated their address with the AOG. The purpose of this search is to ensure they get information on our upcoming reunion.

In closing, Iwould like to send our best wishes to all the ’81ers supporting Desert Shield. Just when peace seemed to be sweeping Europe, we nd ourselves postured in the sands of the Middle East defending what is just and proper. This crisis has proven the importance of American leadership as well as the skill and competence of our armed forces. God speed to all of you. Our prayers are with you. ‘81 SECOND TO NONE! Jim Ratti P. O . B o x 4 0

Churchton, MD 20733-0040 Home: (301) 261-9588 Work: (301) 981-4611 AV: 8 5 8 - 4 6 11

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Shirley (HUsgen) Lockie’s twin boys Ryan and Randy Kring.

Again, my travels have given me the opportunity to run into afew classmates. Iwas recently at the AFA convention in Washington, DC, and met Dan BELL. Actually, 1didn’t recognize Dan when he was in line behind me at the valet. Good thing Dan has agood memory. Dan is out of the Air Force, and is the marketing manager for Smith Industries in Grand Rapids. 1also saw LGen (ret) Tallman at the convention. Iconsider him an ’81er since he arrived and departed with our class. The

general is looking good. 1had the privilege of working with Duane DICK on my boss’ trip to the AF Special Activites Center (AFSAC) at Ft Belvoir, VA. Duane is in charge of long-range plans at AFSAC, and as

expected is carving out agreat reputation. Brian GREENSHIELDS is also at Ft Belvoir with Det 21, AFSAC. However, Ididn’t get to talk to Brian for very long. Ialso ran into Rich and Collette CLOUSE at Nellis AFB. Actually, Ididn’t even get to say one word to Rich. However, 1

spent alot of time chatting with his wife because she is the ops o cer for our ESC detachment at Nellis. In any event, they’re both doing great.

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didn’t ll up on all of the gossip while you were here it’s your fault. If you

WILHELM has areunion letter elsewhere in this Checkpoints. If you

Hello! I’ve got afew letters this time, with more than just alittle news to keep you occupied for awhile. First up is Bill SNEARLY, M.D. He wrote from Cheyenne, WY to tell me that Iwas confused (by change-of-

address cards). He said that he had been in an orthopaedic residency at the Mayo Clinic, but had left after having second thoughts about being a “bone crusher” (and no doubt having to take ajob working on cadet knees somewhere down the line). He has spent the past year as the director of the emergency room at F.E. Warren AFB. This past spring, he was

an honor grad from the Flight Surgeon course at Brooks, and now sports aset of wings. By the time you read this Bill and his wife. Merle, will be in San Antonio where he will be doing aresidency in diagnostic radiology.

Bill and Merle bought Mike GORDAN’s house in San Antonio in an¬

ticipation of their move. Mike, Patti, and their new daughter will be moving to Bitburg soon, now that Mike has nished his OB/GYN residency.

Deb BARTZ sent aform letter to the AOG announcing her transition to United Airlines, effective Sept 90. She will also serve part time as aKC-

Leslee (Forsberg) Washer 4590 Winthrop Way Colorado Springs, CO 80920 Home; (719) 282-0516 AV : 2 5 9 - 2 5 7 5 Percent members: 37

Kate SMITH dashed off aquick letter with this picture from Dr Jay VIERNES’ wedding to Bonnie Yanagisawa in Honolulu this past July.

From left are Jim BALDWIN, Jay, his bride, Kate, and Maurice (Sal) SALCEDO. Jay is now ageneral practitioner at Los Angeles AFB. Sal is ying F-15s at Langley, and Jim is an A-10 pilot at Myrtle. Kate has separated and was named aNotre Dame Scholar. She began law school there under afull scholarship as of 13 Oct. Julia SCHEFFELIN wrote from Ann Arbor, MI where she is working

on amaster’s degree, enroute to ateaching job in the management department at USAFA. Her husband, David GRAVES, has separated to y for American after they were offered aless-than-satisfying “join spouse” assignment (David in Iceland, Julia in Michigan). David had been offered aUSAFA sponsorship for amaster’s in chemistry followed by ateaching

job there, but TAC wouldn’t release him. David has run into afew Red-

tags at American. Among them are Margaret (BRYAN) PARAMORE, Norm GLOWICZ and Dan REIN. Julia said that she’s pretty sure that Melanie (PATTON) UEHLIN is out and ying for Northwest. Julia, David and their two sons (Ricky, 3/2, and Matthew, 2) moved from New Mexico to Michigan last winter. Julia had been acomm of cer there and was named the AFCC Plans and Communications Of cer of the Year for

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Greetings ’83, from the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. For all you Falcon fans, it’s football season again but the Falcons are in a rebuilding year. It’s not quite as exciting as last year. So...we’re looking forward to ski season and by the looks of the weather we may see some early snow.

1wonder what all of you out in the “real Air Force” are doing because after being at the Academy for three years, 1wonder if 1could ever survive again in a“teal” Air Force job. It doesn’t take long to get used to alunch hour, time to work out and any more time you need to do whatever. It makes life dif cult to take, even if some days don’t pan out the way you planned and you spend all day in El. Hey, someone has got to do it! Look on the bright side, at least the ’83 crowd managed to nish SOS before the Air Force changed it back to 10 weeks. You mean we nally did something right or did we have any control over the decision? Before 1get to the good stuff, please take amoment of s i l e n c e f o r N O R M A’ S S TO P ’ N S H O P. N o r m a e i t h e r s o l d o u t o r r e t i r e d

and Conoco bought out the corner where Norma cashed many acadet check; for agood cause, that is.

Well, onto the important news... Ken TINGMAN just took awhirlwind tour of the Academy and Colorado Springs with his group from Offutt. Stopped in just to say “hi”, literally. Loretta O’BRIEN just moved from Sheppard to Travis to do her residency in internal medicine. New additions to the Academy scene are Dan SCHNEPF, wife and two children, and Dave RUFFLEY and family. Amy (HERMES) SMELLIE and Pat SMELLIE (’82) are

y i n g C - 1 3 0 s i n G e r m a n y. H a r r y a n d A m y

GROSS just had ababy girl, Lauren, and this past summer packed up and moved to Los Angeles and Space Division.

1also received an update from USAFE and Operation “Creek Baby”.

The letter came from Marilyn GARCIA (’85). The baby, Shawna Marie, was the rst born to two USAFE pilots, proud parents are Mary Beth (KORCHNAK) BLEYL and Wally BLEYL. Wally is an F-16 pilot at Ramstein and Mary Beth ies EC-130s at Sembach. In the photo, Wally

is testing out the “busy box” and wearing adisposable diaper on his head. Congratulations!

1989-90. Julia would like me to pass along that she’s interested in starting asupport newsletter for women grads who are still in and trying to juggle amilitary career and child raising. Please write to her at 2830 Pebble Creek, Ann Arbor, MI or call (313) 971-2612.

Eric BJORN came back from lunch the other day and told me that he ran into Dexter GORDON at the Andrews commissary. Dexter is now a pilot for American, and he

ies F-16s with the D.C. Guard. He and his

wife, Debbie, have two daughters. Eric also met Mark (Chuck Mangione) MANGIACARNE at the Andrews gym awhile back. Mark is ahelicopter pilot here in the 1st Helicopter Squadron.

Another contact this time was Steve TOLDY. Igave him acall at Myrtle when Iheard that A-lOs from there had deployed to the middle east.

Turns out Steve was still there. Of three squadrons at Myrtle, his was the only one that did not go. We had anice chat, from which Ilearned that

his wife, Peggy (TUREK), is doing well, and that Steve is now a ight commander.

Speaking of the middle east, Ijust got back from atrip there, which you probably heard about but didn’t know it. It was my airplane that was carrying the Chief of Staff Gen Dugan when he gave his interview which got him red. Needless to say, we were all pretty shocked the Monday after the trip. We’ve been pretty busy since then ferrying Gen McPeak

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No column would be really complete without an interview with Steve

VOGT. Steve and Gina are living up near Minneapolis where Steve is ying for Northwest. Steve recently had about with Bell’s Palsy, which made him the “sim king” for awhile. Now, however, he’s back ying and is nearly 100% recovered.

Well, that’s about all I’ve got, so I’ll quit instead of making up any more. Thanks for all your letters. It’s alot easier when Ihave material! ’Til next time, keep’em ying and be safe. RATMAN.

GET AFRIEND TO JOIN THE AOG. IF YOU ARE MOVING, SEND US YOUR NEW ADDRESS NOW!

Ireceived aletter from Lori (PLOSA) CHESTNUT, with lots of good info. Lori and her husband, William, are in the Philippines. They have a son Matthew and afull-time, live-in “house-girl”. Sounds like they are living the rough life. Lori is acommunications of cer and William

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F-4Gs. Others that have frequented Clark AFB are Irwin “Silky” WASHINGTON who is

ying C-141s out of Travis; Dennis MOORE,

wife and baby girl, are in Yokota where Denny ies C-130s; Mark WRIGHT at George AFB; Steve MANN and Tonia (FLORES) MANN are also at George where Steve

ies F-4Gs and Tonia is afull-time mom to

their two children and works part time for Nutri Systems; Hugh FUNK, wife Penny and son Christian are at Laughlin AFB where Hugh is aT-38 IP and Penny is a ight attendant with United Airlines; and Steve

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F-4Gs and Kathleen is an IP at the aero club; Gary HOPPER and wife

Judy, an RN; Vince FARRELL and wife Theresa and their/rtur children, Adam, Patricia, Rebecca and Alex; Dan SUROWITZ and wife Tina have

anew baby; Ed FISHER and his wife also have four children; Jon WENDELL, wife Linda and their two children arrived recently along

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The Browns: Andrew, Stu, Holly, and Amy (better late than never).

Speaking of hot and dry places —so much can happen in the span of three months. Iraq invaded Kuwait, and the whole world went into convulsions. What do you think of the Middle East crisis and its rami cations? Results in the next column. Who knows? Maybe the Class of ’84 has the solution to save the world. Until then, let’s keep our classmates

From left are Andy Accardo, Tom Duda, Dan Boughton, bride Ann, and

ower girl

Ray BLUST and wife Julie are returning to the states after ayear in Korea, back to his “homeland?” Texas, that is. Enclosed in his letter was one from Dan BOUGHTON. Dan recently married and sent apicture of

him and his wife, Anne, Tom DUDA and Andy ACCARDO. Where did Tom DUDA “Day” get that tie? Tom Hies C-141s at Travis and Andy Hies C-f30s at Dyess. Other updates he included were Paul AMEN, now a civilian and full-time student at the University of Nebraska; A1 STERNS

is at Space Command; Jack FUSSELL and Jim TAYLOR are OSA pilots in Germany; Rob ENGLEHART, A-lOs at RAF Bentwaters; Tim HIGA

is awing Stan/Eval C-130 pilot; Todd BOESDORFER, Mark WELLS,

who are traipsing around the Middle East in Operation Desert Shield in our prayers. For those of you already there —keep your sense of humor, and “smoke” acouple of camels for me. But seriously, let’s hope something good comes out of this in the long run.

Returning to Brett’s letter, we

nd Gregg ZOLINGER (Air Traf c

Control) and Doug WHITE (Maintenance) also stationed at Edwards.

Married, Gregg is proud papa to three little ones, with more in the of ng (the patience of Job).

Wedding bells rang May 19 (is this column slow or what?) for ’84’s star quarterback, Marty LOUTHAN. The ceremony was at the Zoo, where Marty’s aT-41 IP. Brett caught the momentous occasion on lm, and included this picture, featuring from left, Steve SMOLEN (KC-135s in Montana, looking to Hy for Federal Express next year), Brett, Chris CALLAHAN (C-12s at Nellis, hoping for KC-lOs), and Marty.

Bill VOLKER, Bob MARTIN, Jack POLO and Steve MULAHEY are all instructors at C-130 IP School; Ricard SMITH, wife Lisa and daughter

Brittany are at Pope, C-130s; Ric CARRIER, F-4s at Spangdahlem; and John HESTERMAN and Landis COOK, acouple of Nellis locals, dis COOK, acouple of Nellis locals.

Cecil GRANT will write the winter article since Ray is in transit

(kind of). Cecil works of cer assignments at HQ AFCC. His address is 312 Glen Addie Blvd, Belleville, IL 62221.

For all those 1979 Prep School Graduates, we are trying to plan areunion for this spring, 1991. We are open for suggestions.

As far as AOG information goes, there was a re in the AOG satellite storeroom. Our damaged material, class prints and glassware, totalled from the insurance, was worth $1,685. We need to make adecision to

keep the money in our class account or to donate it to the AOG Building Fund campaign for the alumni house. Your inputs are highly

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recommended.

Before Iclose Iwould like to remind everyone to say aprayer each

day for our classmates in the Middle East. Keep them strong, healthy and spirited and bring them home safely.

Bill NEVUE (T-41S at the Zoo) and Wayne LO (civilian, C-Springs) were also in attendance. Says Brett, “Marty’s patience has paid off, his wife is one in amillion.” Many happy wishes, Mrs. L. While on TDY

C a r l t o n P. W i c k l i f f e

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through the Springs, Brett had dinner with Bob CHAPMAN and family.

Bob’s Hying the Twin Otter for the Wings of Blue.

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eld, AFIT saw anumber of ’84 grads, to include Ron

BEYERS (Holloman AFB, 6585th Test Group), Martin ELLINGSWORTH (Brooks AFB, Human Resources Lab), and Chris and Lisa (BRADLEY) McCORMACK (USAFA instructors). Rocky RESTON’s working on his PhD in electical engineering, and should be

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nished sometime in ’92.

Leading off this article is the picture that should have gone with the last column. Sorry about the delay, Stu.

Last time it was my phone number. Now it’s my name and address.

“Wickliffe”, not “Wickliff”. “2801-B”, not just “2801”.

1 nally got aletter from someone 1didn’t have to go after rst!

Thanks Brett MAYHEW. Hailing from another hot and dry place —Ed¬

wards AFB, CA —he’s doing space systems R&Dwork out of the Astronautic Laboratory —an AFFTC detachment (Air Force Flight Test

Center, for those of you who haven’t been keeping up on your acronyms).

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SADLER is serving an ALO tour in Korea and his wife, Lynn, has ajob with DODDs in the Philippines. Mainstays at Clark are Norm BROSNICK ying MC-130s; Pat PENCE and Gene PETERSON Hying F-4Gs; Craig CROXTON and wife Kathleen are both pilots, Craig Hies

Coming back West (Brett really travels, doesn’t he?) Jamie ROSADO (former AWACS weapon controller) is trying his best to be acivilian somewhere in the Dallas area, having

nished ahitch with Mobil Oil in

Grand Forks, SD.

Talk about asmall world! Brett related, “On my way to acamping trip at the Colorado River, Iran into Dean SOLLMAN at Carl Jr’s in the middle of the desert (Barstow, CA).” It seemed that Dean was in the middle of athree-week TDY to Nellis from Wright-Pat, where he Hew C-12s. In his other travels, Brett also ran into Susie WYNNE, who’s

Good news from Cajun country. Liz (BECK) DeLAROSA, after serving out her AF commitment at Eglin, wrote to say she’s now devoting herself to full-time motherhood at England AFB, LA, where husband

real house. Last but not least, Thomas ERCHINGER hails from Keesler

AFB, MS, where he also made the housing switch. If you know anything about the people with the question marks, let me know.

MORE FILLER. Thumbing through the recently-received Summer ’90

issue, Iwas glad to see at least one classmate’s name in the news. Apat on

nd out what real

the back to Karen BURTON, who traveled to USC to compete in the U.S. Master’s National Swimming Championships, where she and her team

work is,” says my wife, Beatrice.) Their daughter, Anna Marie, born 26

placed 23rd overall. If you too want to have fun and get paid doing it,

Mitch (’83) is amaintenance of cer. (“Now she’ll March, is this issue’s featured baby.

give Karen aholler at the USAFA Athletic Dept.

Thanks everyone, for listening to me after all. Happy holidays to you and yours, and the best of wishes for the coming New Year. God bless.

FLASH! Wickliffe and Wickliffe Productions is proud to announce the

27 Sept birth of #3(and hopefully last) child —Taryn Ariel Wickliffe, 7lbs, 5.3 oz, 19 inches. Pictures are forthcoming.

Whatever happened to Rich PIPER, Dave WEBB, Mike BURNS, Kevin BROWN, Gordy NEFF, Ed MERZ, Steve KIRTPATRICK, o r Mark LANE? More in next issue.

Jackie Charsagua 457A Billy Mitchell San Antonio, TX 78226-1819 D S N : 9 4 5 - 2 11 2

Home: (512) 432-1957 Percent members; 29 Anna Marie DeLaRosa, three months.

Tim SAFFOLD is at England as well, ying A-lOs. Liz mentioned that Pam ALEXANDER is also out, pursuinmg and MBA at Stanford U. in California. She lled in my last column by relaying that Juan AMARAL became proud papa of ababy boy back in May. My last letter is from Maria (DURAN) JACK, who after pinging back and forth between Nebraska (Offutt), Alabama (Maxwell) and Colorado (Lowry), nally decided to settle down and move to Denver, where she works as an Undergraduate Space Training instructor at Lowry. She seems excited about the whole thing, so wish her luck.

The USAFA Class of 1994 is through their rst semester of school, and 1990 is almost over. Time to start thinking REUNION! If the next four years y as fast as the last six, ’94 will be here before you know it. We need aplanning committee to get started now —you know how details tend to sneak up on you. I’m sure we won’t be the only gathering in town Homecoming Weekend ghting for hotel space (’64 and ’74 are two groups that come to mind). Any ideas? ’59 and ’60 had some good concepts in their columns in the Spring ’90 issue, but we can do better. If you or your spouse are so inclined to lend your talents to our rst formal gettogether since graduation, contact the AOG. Let’s make it something to be proud of.

On that same subject, as you may have noticed in the past few issues of Checkpoints, the AOG is not sending out requests for biographical updates anymore. The past few magazines have had bio info sheets in them, so it’s important that you keep the AOG abreast of any changes, especially your address and phone number. This will become vital when reunion planning gets hot and heavy and we start making noti cations. Be sure to pass the word along, and get anyone who doesn’t have their information updated to put pen to paper and make those change. While you’re at it, how about getting them to join the AOG? Looks like our class was next to last in AOG membership. Not good, folks.

Anote from our sponsor on pictures: Most photographs will lose about ve percent clarity in the printing, so consider that before you send one.

While sharp, contrasty color photos are acceptable, the printers prefer black and white. Lastly, try not to write on the backs, especially with light background pictures —the writing tends to bleed to the front. A“PostIt” with the info on it is agood alternative.

With the summer season came the sound of movers packing boxes and breaking ne china. The post of ce must have been working overtime, judging by the thick stack of change of address (COA) cards 1got. Great job, folks, but please, if you do send aCOA card and don’t want to write aletter, put afew words as to what you’re doing along the border.

First on the list is Kyle LAMPELA, who’s gone overseas to Alconbury AB, England, to y the TR-1. Scott and Kelly CAIN (thanks for COA, Kelly) left California, and now call Colorado Springs home. Jim KESTERMANN is now in Hessisch-Oldendorf, Germany: both Wayne McCLARY and Thomas KOLKMEIER left Wright-Pat, Wayne for Palatine, IL (?), and Thomas for Chanute AFB, IL; Arnold BUNCH left the cool, green dampness of Fairchild, WA for the hot, brown dryness of Edwards, CA; James and Shayla HANNON left Loring, ME for Olean, NY (?); Troy DIXON left San Antonio for Niceville, FL (Eglin?), where he probably already bumped into anumber of our classmates, to include Rita MASTROVITO, who appears to have gone from an apartment to a

Hi Folks! I’m back for another season. Need help guys! Most of us aren’t used to writing, except when it comes to signing checks (to copy a phrase from Liz ALDERETE). BUT...If you are interested in writing just one article, for just one quarter, let me know! It’s apiece of cake, but I’m getting abit scarce on time. Anyhow, on to the news.

George WEATHERSBY is back from Osan AB, land of the morning calm, and now stationed at Offutt. Could’ve been worse; at least he didn’t get “WHY NOT” or the Sand Pit. Now that he’s back in the

states, George is taking any and all AF courses, including AGOS (Air Ground Operations School) in sunny Hurlburt Field, FL. What alife.

George veri ed Quintel WILLIAMS is getting married for sure, Jan 91, in COS. Members of the wedding party will be Matt BRIDGERS, Johnny AKINS, Miguel CARTER, and George. Pictures to come, promise!

Sandy (BROTHERS) KERENYL is ful lling her destiny: medical school (I’m so proud of her). She and baby Dwight are toughing it in Dallas while Andy (’86) drives up from San Antonio to visit her on the

weekends. It’s atrying time, but 1 gure she’ll meet this challenge and ' surpass the trials. Congratulations Sandy and good luck.

While on TDY to Deutschland, Isat down behind someone’s desk dur¬

ing ameeting. Little did Iknow it was Jim LOVELL’s desk! Well, he kicked me out of his desk, and we chatted for afew minutes. Jim left

Hanscom AFB, MA for Wuescheim AB, arrived in July 90, and wants to know “Who gets two-hour lunch breaks???” (See Mike OTT’s article.

Spring 90.) Well, some of us work through lunch, right? Jim is aoneman-deep shop as an activating chief for an engineering project. With the drawdown in Germany and reuni cation, will his project come to fruition? Stay tuned for details. Jim ran into one of my doolie roommates, Pam (HENRY) HRNCYR, in aTexas airport. Pam just got out of KC-135 training at Castle and joined Brent (B-ls) somewhere. Maybe Dyess AFB.

Had apleasant surprise in Aug 90. Gave abrie ng for about 50 people, and afterwards in the Q&A, acouple (casual civilian and AF captain), were waiting for me. 1recognized the accent before 1realized 1was look¬

ing at Mickey (RENDINE) PHILLIPS and Ed (’83). Mickey separated and is aDoD civilian working out of Fort Meade, MD. She came down to

San Antonio to get an orientation of some programs at HQ ESC, where I work. Mickey went to last year’s AF/Navy game and saw Sue (CAVALIERE) SHANKLAND. Sorry if 1murdered the last name. Sue. Out of the blue, Ireceived acall from Cheryl (CROOK) CLARK. Cheryl’s at Ellwsorth and had all kinds of news from the gang that just went through SOS. Sherri (CURRIN) SOX is an IP and has athree-year-

old boy, Thomas. (Kinda late, but better late than never?) Regina BROWN is out at Scott. Joel VERHOFF got married (!) and is on his way to Holloman AFB, NM (from Alaska), joining Dave WILLIGROD and wife in the bright desert Southwest. Cheryl reported Kelly KIERNAN is at Malmstrom, along with colorful Lynn STEER, who has upgraded to aircraft CC. Paul SCHMIDT (parachutist) is ying F-16s in Spain, Dave KNIGHT is at Langley, and Chris FUNK and wife have two babies. Not

to be forgotten, Luke DiSlLVESTRO and wife Robin have ababy on the way. No pictures, sorry. The last word Cheryl had was more classmates are out of the blue suit, to include Dave DeMARTINEZ, Dave BURNS

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working some “really neat place” (shhh) at L.A. AFB, and Gary SEIFRIED, who’s currently aPIT instructor at Randolph (undoubtedly getting his lesson plans from Stu BROWN —remember last issue?).

Charlene (JARDIN) HARDING is due for alittle one in January, and she nally put her real estate license to work (sold ahouse for anice prot, as if she really needed it). True to form. Char and Bill (’83) took their semiannual sabbatical to some luxurious spot: this time, Alaska.

Liz ALDERETE took 30 days terminal leave and went to Europe, Turkey, Greece, and Crete. She’s lovin’ every minute of being acivilian.

In Germany, she ran into Mark DEVANE (F-16s) and Chris VALLEY. Liz and Chris were reminiscing about the “monster,” Major AOC Saunders, when she looked behind for some uncanny reason, and THERE HE WAS, sitting in the O-club. Even in our adult lives, those

MEDVEC is now living in Bossier City, LA. Joe VASTA is still at Vance AFB. Jon GIESE has moved to Sherwood, AR. and lastly, Tim INGLE now lives in Mission Viejo, CA. As for myself, 1have acquired anew additional duty. Iam the 48 TFW life support of cer. With my new job 1have incured aTDY assignment and will be at Randolph AFB, TX from 28 Jan to 8Feb 91 for life support of cer training. If any of you are down in that area during that time please look me up. In the meantime, sit down with apen and some paper and give me rundown of what you and our classmates have been up to.

Up to now you have been great about getting in articles, so lets get back on that track.

Have aMerry Christmas and aHappy New Year.

AOCs are still lurking in the dark...

Yvette (PEREZ) HIRD wrote me from Norway, where she was supporting an exercise. She and Jim are planning to move to USAFA East (Wright-Pat), if Jim gets an AFIT slot.

Glenn L. Strebe 3953 Thundercloud Drive

Colorado Springs, CO 80920 Home: (719) 531-0122 AV : 6 9 2 - 7 9 7 8 Percent members: 35

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1hope everybody is having avery joyous holiday season. As 1write this article in the beginning of October, 1only hope that the con ict in the Gulf is over and everybody who wears amilitary uniform is at home with their families. 1haven’t received much mail in the past months so 1am pleading for some phone calls and letters in the next few months. 1did hear from afew people though.

Carolyn (LAPOINTE) SAMMARTINO sent me aletter to inform everybody that they are stationed at Whiteman AFB in Minuteman Missile Country. Her husband, John, is doing great in the career eld and two years ago competed in the HQ SAC missile competition at

Vandenberg and took home best score on base. Last year he got the opportunity to train the “Best Minuteman II ICBM Crew in SAC.” And

Wendy (Cook) Post’s "boys”: Wayne (’84) and ghter pilot-to-be,

Andy Post. He’ll grow into the helmet!

Wendy (COOK) POST and Wayne (’84) are still stuck in Maine. She

speaking of abusy guy, John will nish his MBA by Christmas. Carolyn is working in the CBPO. She is enjoying receiving “lots of management experience.” They had their rst child in May 1989 —Matthew Ryan. 1 guess at 16 months, he is getting into everything.

was also at the June SOS class, but as mommie and acivilian spouse.

She’s glad to be out and hasn’t looked back once. Wendy saw Chris SALVUCCI and Emmie GUILLERMO, who are quite busy working a c quisition at Wright-Pat and enjoying life.

Last lines from me: remember our friends in Saudi Arabia and give them our strongest support. Haven’t received any personal reports from our comrades out in the sand, although they are starting to rotate personnel. Let’s keep them in our thoughts and prayers if they end up having to confront Saddam “Insane”

Warmest wishes from San Antonio, Jackie C. Gary L. Burg PSC Box 6338

APO, New York 09179-5421 Home: Thetford 861072

AV: 226-2506 (UK) Percent members: 29

My biggest fear of being the class scribe has come to light, having a deadline with basically no inputs. The only person 1heard from was Chris VELLANTl and that was by accident. In August, Chris called m y squadron trying to get ahold of someone else. 1happened to answer the phone and while 1was taking amessage I gured out who it was. Chris is

doing great at Rimini AS, Italy, located on the northeast coast of Italy.

Chris is in acommander slot and from all indications is enjoying his assignment.

The rest of the column is only changes of address. Marquis PICKETT is still at Tinker AFB, OK but moved to the northwest part of Oklahoma C i t y. P e t e r D O L A N l i v e s o n b a s e n o w a t E d w a r d s A F B . R i c h a r d P R I O R

is now at WSMR, New Mexico. Kellie DAVILA-MARTINEZ is now in USAFE and James FIDLER is at Loring AFB. Kevin BROOKS is at

Kirtland AFB and James HOGGE is at Williams AFB. Jerry LINDH is nally through with F-Ill RTU and is now at Upper Heyford. Junio

Kent WOOD wrote from Offutt where he is an aircraft systems project engineer working with the Aircraft Engineering Division at SAC Headquarters. Kent got married to agorgeous Nebraska girl named Blythe.

She is acomputer systems analyst. They just nished building anew home in La Vista —Kent you are getting awfully domestic —Ibet astation wagon is NOT out of the question. Also, Mark LARSEN is nally going to UPT after along struggle with the AFA concern about sitting height. Therefore, for the rst few years, he was ying adesk at Offutt.

His report date is 21 September —Good Luck!

Finally, 1received anote from Elman (’88) and Lynda (DAVIS)

or give me acall. We are almost captains! Also, 1will be going to SOS in

now in Sacramento, CA. Mike FORSYTH is still in San Antonio. Mark

July 1991. If anybody else will be going please get in touch.

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From right are John, Carolyn, and Matthew Ryan at the S/IC Competition May 1990

DIMASALANG is at Wright-Patterson AFB and Mike MARSHALL is now at Bedford, MA. Tom RUBY is now at Defense Intelligence College in Washington, DC. The following have not changed assignments but changed residences.

Charles WANEBO is still in USAFE but changed bases. Alan BATTS is

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(who took his vacation in Kangaroo land), and Ernie DeMUCCLO. All three of these guys are at Hanscom (Boston).

MYERS announcing the birth of her son Nicholas James, 8lbs 8.5 oz on 12 June 1990.

Until next time have asafe holiday season and please send some letters

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General Delivery

Believe it or not, I’ve received only ONE entry in the “FIRST FA B U L O U S F O T O C O N T E S T ” ! F o r t h o s e o f y o u w h o d o n ’ t

A P O N e w Yo r k 0 9 1 2 7 Percent members; 32

remember, here’s how the contest runs: the

Greetings from RAF Mildenhall, U.K. Going TDY makes this column much easier to write since ’88ers are literally everywhere. As an example, I met Megan (LOVEJOY) WALL at about 0200 at an airport in SW Asia.

She let me know about afew people from Scott: Trade BECK is a nance

of cer there, but she is soon to be leaving for the Azores; Roy JONES is ying either aC-9, C-12 or aC-21; and Josie KOSTYRA is acontracting

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ve ’88ers who send me a

picture of their baby will bask in the warm adulation of family and friends. Even complete strangers will comment on their baby since his or her photo will have been prominently displayed in the pages of Checkpoints —what an honor, as this publication can be found throughout the entire planet. So send me your baby pictures ASAP! Marlon CAMACHO, the rst to enter ababy picture, will be forever

known as the father of the rst ’88 offspring to be pictured in Checkpoints.

o f c e r.

While 1was over here 1had along brainstorming session with Carol

YANNARELLA and Dave SANTARELLl. Carol is the Accounting & Finance of cer at Lakenheath and Dave was here TDY from Offutt. Bet¬

ween the two of them they probably know everyone in ’88. In no order whatsoever here’s their info: Doug PURDY has also recently arrived at

Offutt and is ying RC-135s; Terry McCAFFERY is married and ys

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F-llls at Upper Heyford; John NIAKAROS is married to “Laura” and

is now living in Yokota, Japan ying C-21s; Kris ALDEN is ying C-130s also in Japan and recently ew some relief missions into the Philippines; Greg BUTLER is married (Christa) and is ying A-lOs out of DavisMonthan; Eric ALAFITA works at the Intel Shop at Lakenheath; Robb SWEET married Barbara Crain and is ying A-lOs out of Myrtle Beach,

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SC; Mike PLEHN is naving AC-130s out of Hurlburt; Bob and Joan

KILGORE are settling in at Altus where he’s ying KC-135s; Mike FLECK and John YORK are living together at Williams —they’re both

T-38 IPs, and Mel DEALIE is at Barksdale in the BUFF. Mary Beth (KUZMACK) BURGOS got married to aformer exchange squid and is now living in California; Andrea THOMPSON is ying EC-135S at Offutt and she married Bill Tart in August; Lisa BOYCE is in San Antonio; Terry CAVE is at Andrews ying the C-21; Elon (CHERRY) BERNE is an SP at Warner-Robins; Bill DICKEY is an SP at England AFB, LA and is considering amove into the Army; Malcom HICKS and Jay WOOD are ’38 IPs at Vance; Rich HARTLAUB is ying KC-135S out of Ellsworth; Tom HOLMES and Matt CUSHMAN are ying C-21s out of Offutt; Kate JACKSON married Mike RUSSEL (’87) and they are now living at Reese; John RAMIREZ and Max TIPTON are both in KC-135S at Robins; and Craig McCURDY ys A-lOs at Bent-

Lauren Grace Camacho ai 7’A months.

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TARELLl as the column would have been about atenth as long without

their inputs. The column was so long this time that I’ve left out the address changes —I’ll get them next time.

In closing, Istumbled upon an interesting philosophy of life (in the Azores of all places). “I) Be happy, 2) Try not to hurt other people, and 3) Hope to fall in love.” Be safe and keep in touch.

P a u l W. Ti b b e t s I V PSC Box 4035

Dyess AFB, TX 79607 Home; (915) 692-8610 (X244)

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John and Georgia (RUCKLE) McCURDY are at Williams where John’s an IP and Georgia does amillion things at once in the CBPO; Karen PACHECO is an SP at Nellis; Chris PIKE is at Hickam; Gregg ROSENMERKEL is doing CE at Goodfellow and Linda RAYL is at Bergstrom (at least they’re both in the same state); Kenny “All Terrain” CRAIN is an IP at Reese (I’d explain where the nickname came from but his students might get ahold of it and he’d never hear the end of it); Heidi TERHUNE is doing Human Factors at Randolph; Ed VanGHEEM is ying F-llls at Upper Heyford; Scott and Julie BALLARD are at

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futt in Intel; Nebojsa “Solo” SOLUNAC is an RC-135 Raven at Offutt; Paul GATES is in KC-135s at K.l. Sawyer; Dan WUCHENICH is at Loring as amaintenance of cer; Bill TONEY and Mark HAYNES are T-37

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Hello everyone. This article is dedicated to pilot and nav training assignments. 1am publishing all the ones that Ihave to date. If Ihave forgotten anyone or don’t have your class included, send me the assignments and Iwill get them in the next issue. 1have acouple of tidbits of info to pass along to you. Grant TIBBETTS got married to Suzan Degroff of Colorado Springs on 7July. Bruce BEYERLY asked Lori Mullins to be his wife on 2Feb. Lastly, my old roommate, Ken THIELE, married Michelle Sharon of Colorado Springs on 8Sept. If you have any info that Ican pass along, please drop me aline. And remember, don’t forget those PICTURES! On to the assignments ...

IPs at Williams; Steve NESSMILLER in in Intel; Ben LONGACRE is an

COLUMBUS 90-12: Robert ANDERSON, F-15 Kadena; Gary

IP at Vance; and Doug ROTH is an IP at Williams.

Byron “Ed Moe” EDMONDS married Darla and is ying F-I6s somewhere; Mike SCARANO is ying C-141s at McChord; Brendan MIKUS is at Castle ying KC-135s; Jenny HORNSTEN is at Med School in New Orleans; Mike MURPHY is at Plattsburg ying KC-135s; Mike TONEY is ying BUFFS and Mary SEILER is ying tankers at Loring;

BREWER, KC-135 K.L Sawyer; Faron BURKE, T-38 Columbus; David C A M PA S S I , C - 1 3 0 P o p e ; T h e o d o r e C O R A L L O , C - 1 3 0 P o p e ; D a v i d D E K A L B , T- 3 7 C o l u m b u s ; B a r t F O U C H A R D , K C - 1 3 5 M c C o n n e l l ; J e r r y H AY N E S , T- 3 8 C o l u m b u s ; M i c h a e l H O H L S , O A - 1 0 S u w o n ; S t e v e n L A R K l N S , T- 3 7 C o l u m b u s ; B r y a n M a C L A U C H L A N , C - 1 4 1 M c ¬

J o h n B O W S E R i s a n I P a t W i l l i a m s ; B r i a n B E L L a n d M a r t h a M c S A L LY

C o l u m b u s ; D a n i e l T I P P E T T, F - 1 6 M a c D i l l ; a n d M a r k W E B S T E R , T- 3 8

are in pilot training at Williams; Tom BROGAN married Kim and ies C-130S out of Woodbridge, UK; Emily WHITAKER married James LEFTWICH (’87); Ed STANIEK is in Mildenhall nance; Michelle PAPA is at Hickam; Garth DOTY broke his leg windsur ng but is now graduated from UPT ( ying F-somethings?); Bill MILLER is a’38 IP at Williams; Don JARVIS is at Grif ss ying KC-135s; and Denise UR-

Columbus.

C h o r d ; E d w i n R E D M A N , B - 5 2 K . l . S a w y e r ; K i r k S M I T H , T- 3 7

COLUMBUS 90-13: Kirk BRAMER, KC-135 Dyess; Robert BURGESS, B-52 Barksdale; Alton DYKES, E-3A Tinker; Michael G A A L , T- 3 7 C o l u m b u s ; C h r i s t o p h e r G R AY, C - 5 D o v e r ; J o h n H E A P S ,

Rob McCULLERS and Sally HIRST are both at Grif ss and are expecting in April; Rob passed through Mildenhall on the way to Sand Land.

E C - 1 3 5 E l l s w o r t h ; W a l t e r M A H A N Y, C - 1 3 0 D y e s s ; P a t r i c k MINGUS,T-37 Columbus; Jon MOSIER, T-38 Columbus; Bryan NORDHEIM, F-16 Luke; Scott OBEGINSKI B-52 Carswell; Roger PLEIMANN, CK-135 Beale; Steven RHODES, T-38 Columbus; Stephen S H E PA R D , C - 1 2 N o r t o n ; B r y a n T E F F, T- 3 8 C o l u m b u s ; B r e t t

I g o t a p o s t c a r d f r o m M a r c PA S S Y w h o i s o n t h e s u b m a r i n e U S S

THOMAS, T-38 Columblus; Lance UTNE, F-16 Luke; Steven

Oklahoma City. His life aboard is interesting as he reports “I’m working 12 out of each 18 hours (six on watch, six studying and other work, and six sleeping) but Iasked for it, right?” He’s three months into asixmonth deployment and I’m here in Israel for liberty. I’m at the embassy

WAYLAND, C-141 Charleston; and Andrew YINGST, T-37 Columbus.

BANSKI is in Japan.

COLUMBUS 90-14: Janet ARMSTRONG, C-21 Langley; Donald AYRES, C-9 Yokota; Trent BAINES, C-141 Norton; Greg BASHKOFF, RC-135 Offutt; Cade BLACK, C-141 Travis; Nathaniel DICKMAN,

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F-16 Luke; Alberto GASTON, T-38 Columbus; Jackie GOODWIN, F-16 L u k e ; M a r k H E F F E R N A N , T- 3 8 C o l u m b u s ; D a v i d H I C K S , A - 1 0 England; William LEONARD, KC-135 Plattsburg; Francis McDonough, t-38 Columbus; Louis PATRIQUIN, T-38 Columbus; Michael PEDERSON, T-37 Columbus; Ty PIERCEFIELD, T-37 Columbus; Jeffrey RICH, KC-135 Altus; James TRAVIS, F-111 Cannon; and Jon WALKER, F-16 Luke.

C O L U M B U S 9 0 - 1 5 : R u s s e l l A R M S T R O N G , T- 3 7 C o l u m b u s ; G r e g o r y

MATHER 90-10: Ron ANDERSON, F-111 Cannon; Vincent COPA, B-52 Minot; Britta HEMPLE, KC-135 Malmstrom; Maureen McCAF-

FERY, KC-135 Grissom; Mark OTT, B-52 Carswell; Rhon SAY, B-52(EWO) Minot; and Eric SCHWALBER, KC-135 Castle.

M AT H E R 9 0 - 11 : H e c t o r C A S T I L L O , C - 1 3 0 D y e s s ; S t e v e n JOHNSON, EC-130 Davis-Monthan; Gregory MUNSON, RC-135 Offutt; Hans PALAORO, EC-130(EWO) Davis-Monthan; and Joseph R A R I C K , F - 111 .

B O E RW I N K L E , B - 5 2 L o r i n g ; J u a n D I A Z , O A - 1 0 O s a n ; W i l l i a m FARIS, KC-135 Castle; Scott GEORGECINK, C-21 Barksdale; Mitchell HANSON, A-10 Myrtle Beach; Tulley MARRIOTT, KC-135 Ellsworth;

MATHER 91-01: Bruce BEYERLY, B-52 Castle; Trevor CLARK, C - 1 3 0 L i t t l e R o c k ; To d d K R AT Z K E , A C - 1 3 0 H u r l b u r t ; D o u g l a s

R o b e r t M c G R AT H , T - 3 8 C o l u m b u s ; J a m e s N E W T O N , F - 111 C a n n o n ;

Offutt.

Mark PROULX, T-38 Columbus; Troy ROBERTS, T-38 Columbus; Rodney SANDOZ, F-16 MacDill; James SINGLETON, KC-135 Robins;

REESE 90-12: Leo BENDOSKI, T-37 Reese; Derek BISSINGER, B-1 Grand Forks; Christopher BLACKWELL, F-111 Mountian Home; John B U R D A , E C - 1 3 5 O ff u t t ; J o h n C O M O , T- 3 8 R e e s e ; C h r i s t o p h e r

K r i s T H O M P S O N , K C - 1 3 5 B e a l e ; D a v i d WA L K E R , T- 3 7 C o l u m b u s ; R o b e r t W E I M E R , T- 3 7 C o l u m b u s ; a n d R o b e r t W H I T E H O U S E , F - 1 6

M A L O N E , F - 111 M o u n t a i n H o m e ; a n d A n t h o n y S T E C K L E R , R C - 1 3 5

C O L U M B U S 9 1 - 0 1 : R o b e r t AT O R , C - 1 3 0 L i t t l e R o c k ; J e f f r e y

D E VA U G H N , B - 5 2 B a r k s d a l e ; S t e p h e n E M M O N S , A - 1 0 E i e l s o n ; R o d n e y F U L L E R , T- 3 7 R e e s e ; G r e g g H A L L , T- 3 8 R e e s e ; T h o m a s M AT S C H E K , K C - 1 3 5 M a l m s t r o m ; H o w a r d O L S O N , C - 1 4 1 T r a v i s ; A n ¬

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G I R O U X , T- 3 8 C o l u m b u s ; K e v i n L A N C A S T E R , C - 1 3 0 P o p e ; V i n c e n t L O S T E T T E R , T- 3 8 C o l u m b u s ; M i c h a e l M c M l L L l N , F - 1 6 M a c D i l l ;

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Michael MORNINGSTAR, KC-135 Minot; Timothy PAVUK, T-37 Columbus; Robert RICH, C-141 McChord; Gaylon RICHTER, F-16 MacD i l l ; S c o t t S C H A E F E R , C - 1 3 0 L i t t l e R o c k ; a n d S t e v e n Z I O M E K , T- 3 7 Columbus.

L A U G H L I N 9 0 - 1 2 : K e v i n A N D E R S O N , E F - 111 M o u n t a i n H o m e ;

Lafayette BARR, T-38 Laughlin; Brett DEGALLERY, T-37 Laughlin; Timothy DURBIN, T-37 Laughlin; Gary EDWARDS, C-9 Scott; Michael FRANCIS, F-15 Langley; Alexander GONZALEZ-ROJAS, C-141 McGuire; John GRIFFIN, T-38 Laughlin; Brian HOY, HC-135 Eaker; E r i c M U R P H Y, O A - 1 0 S u w o n ; J o h n N I C H O L , R C - 1 3 5 O f f u t t ; T h o m a s

NOLTING, C-130 Little Rock; Juan PENA, T-37 Laughlin; Anthony S M I T H , C - 1 3 0 D y e s s ; a n d J o h n WA R D E N , B - 5 2 Wu r t s m i t h .

LAUGHLIN 90-13: Richard ALDERETE, KC-135 Grand Forks; Judith BABCOCK, KC-135 Grissom; John CRAIG-STEARMAN, T-37 Laughlin; Robert FRINK, T-38 Laughlin; Kerry GREEN, T-38 Laughlin; Jack HEIDMAN, F-15 Langley; Alison LEWIS, C-141 Travis; John 1OGRANDE, C-21 Andrews; David MOHR, C-130 Pope; Daniel NORMAN, T-38 Laughlin; Dean OSTOVICH, F-16 Luke; James PAYNE, O V- 1 0 S h a w ; M i c h a e l P E E B L E S , E - 3 Ti n k e r ; S h a u n P E R K O W S K l ,

T-37 Laughlin; Lev PRICHARD, KC-135 Altus; William REESE, F-111 Holloman; John THAYER, F-15 Holloman; and Jamie TOOMBS, T-38 Laughlin.

L A U G H L I N 9 0 - 1 4 : S h a w n B E VA N S , K C - 1 3 5 E l l s w o r t h ; B r u c e

BOSSART, C-130 Dyess; Larry BROCK, A-10 Bentwaters; John CLARK, OV-10 Shaw; David DRESSEL, A-10 Myrtle Beach; David F I S C H , T- 3 8 L a u g h l i n ; W i l l i a m F O L L I N , K C - 1 3 5 M i n o t ; M a r k FRANK, T-38 Laughlin; Brett GENNARELLl, T-37 Laughlin; Thomas KELLY, T-38 Laughlin; Michael KEM, T-38 Laughlin; Andrew KISSINGER, B-52 Barksdale; James MclNTYRE, EC-135 Grissom; Keith MULLER, T-37 Laughlin; Craig RADL, F-16 Luke; Douglas ROLAND O , T- 3 7 L a u g h l i n ; S t e p h e n R O L I N , T- 3 7 L a u g h l i n ; B e n j a m i n SANDERS, F-16 Luke; Kurt SCHOEN, C-141 McChord; Michael SPENCER, C-141 Travis; Damon THEMELY, F-111 Cannon; and K a r e n T I L L E Y, C - 2 1 P e t e r s o n .

LAUGHLIN 90-15 Willard AKINS, C-130 Dyess; Timothy BARCLAY, B-1 McConnell; John BARREIRE, C-21 Peterson; Gregory BASINGER, T-38 Laughlin; James BENNETT, T-38 Laughlin; Daniel CZUPKA, F-16 MacDill; Darin DEFENDORF, T-37 Laughlin; Sonia FALK, KC-135 Grissom; Michael HOEPFNER, F-16 MacDill; James KLINE, A-10 Alconbury; Gerald LASCO, C-141 McGuire; Loretta LOFGREN C-141 Charleston; David MIKKELSON, T-38 Laughlin; Erich NOVAK, KC-135 Loring; John PESCHIO, T-37 Laughlin; Karen PIO, T-38 Laughlin; Grif n RATLEY, T-38 Laughlin; Roger REDWOOD, C-12 Wright-Patterson; John SHREWSBURY, F-111 Mountain H o m e ; a n d S e a n T R A C Y, K C - 1 3 5 G r i f s s .

LAUGHLIN 91-01: Maureen BAILLIE, C-141 McChord; Michael BASEL, T-37 Laughlin; Daniel BRODERICK, T-38 Laughlin; Bryan B U R T L E Y, T - 3 8 L a u g h l i n ; F r e d G A L E Y, C - 1 4 1 C h a r l e s t o n ; Christopher GREENE, C-12 Wright-Patterson; Christine KINYON, EC-135 Grissom; Edmund KNETIG, C-130 Pope; Craig LEAVITT, F-16 MacDill; Michael LESMAN, F-16 MacDill; Bonnie NOYES, T-37 Laughlin; John POGOREK, HC-130 Woodbridge; Christopher REA, F-111 Cannon; Randall REED, C-141 McChord; Roger REYNOLDS, T-38 Laughlin; Richard SHANAHAN, C-130 Yokota; Christopher WOOD, T-37 Laughlin; and Troy YAMAGUCHl, C-130 Little Rock.

MATHER 90-09 Gerard GUEVARA, C-141 McChord and William S I N G L E T A R Y, F - 1 5 E .

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WILLIAMS, C-12 Ramstein; Daniel WILLSON, KC-135 Barksdale; Todd WINKLER, F-16 MacDill; James WURZER, T-37 Reese; and Richard WYNN, F-16 MacDill.

REESE 90-13: Roger ANDERSON, T-37 Reese; Kevin BIRD, C-130 Little Rock; William BRAUN, C-9 Scott; Jeffrey CASHMAN, B-52 Carswell; William CUEL, OV-10 Shaw; Paul DELMONTE, F-16 Luke; Kim FANDETTI, T-38 Reese; Edward HENNIGAN, T-37 Reese; Adam KRONE, A-10 Bentwaters; Jennifer LANK, EC-135 Grissom; Scott L E D F O R D , T - 3 7 R e e s e ; D a v i d L O V E L E S S , F - 111 C a n n o n ; M a t t h e w M I L L E R , T- 3 8 R e e s e ; K e v i n M O C K , T- 3 8 R e e s e ; K e n n e t h O ’ C O N ¬

NELL, C-21 Offutt; Ryan ODNEAL, A-10 England; Clay SMITH, C-141 McGuire; Jeffrey TALIAFERRO, B-1 Dyess; Michael TAYLOR, T-37 Reese; and Timothy WELCH, B-52 Minot.

R E E S E 9 0 - 1 4 : Ti m o t h y A B E L , F - 1 6 L u k e ; M a r k D A N I G O L E , KC-135 Minot; Dennis DUFFY, C-141 McGuire; Eric ECKLUND, A-10 Myrtle Beach; Eric FITZ, F-111 Cannon; Christopher HAMILTON, F-16 Luke; Joseph JARBOE, T-37 Reese; David KLAUS, T-38 Reese, Stefan KOZIOLEK, T-37 Reese; Darren MATURI, C-130 Rhein Main; Eric PRYDE, C-141 McGuire; Matthew SARDELLI, T-38 Reese; Patrick SHOPE, T-38 Reese; Brian SIMPLER, F-15 Soesterberg; William SMITH, C-21 Wright-Patterson; Tsuyoshi TUNG, KC-135 Loring; Frank YANNUZZI, T-37 Reese; and David YOUNGDALE, B-52 K.I. Sawyer.

REESE 90-15: Eric ARMSTRONG, KC-135 Carswell; Paul BEINEKE, F-16 MacDill; John BIRK, T-38 Reese; Gregory CLARK, KC-135 Malmstrom; Ian COOGAN, T-38 Reese; Vincent CRUZ, OV-10 Shaw; Thad DARGER, B-1 Ellsworth; Jon DEPALMA, C-21 Offutt; Michael DIMEFF, F-15 Holloman; Albert ELTON, AC-1‘30 Hurlburt Field; Scott GIERAT, F-16 MacDill; Randolph HACK, KC-135 Fairchild; Mark HEINOLD, T-37 Reese; Todd LANCASTER, T-37 Reese; Matthew MANTEI, KC-135 McConnell; Brian MOORE, T-38 Reese;

Scott OSMAR, A-10 Bentwaters; Elizabeth POSELEY, C-141 McGuire; Eric SOLEM, T-37 Reese; and Bruce WEBER, B-52 Fairchild.

REESE 91-01: Stephen BRANNAN, KC-135 Dyess; Joseph EITING, F-16 MacDill; Sara FERRIER, C-130 Pope; Jackson FOX, A-10 England; James FOX, T-38 Reese; Jeanne GOLDER, E-3 Tinker; Steven HANKINS, C-130 Dyess; Jeffrey MILLER, C-141 Travis; Charles MLADENKA, C-141 McGuire; Scot MORGAN, C-130 Pope; Matthew MULLIGAN, F-16 MacDill; Gary NEAL, C-5 Dover; Kevin OBRIEN, T-37 Reese; Kenneth ROSENQUEST, T-38 Reese; Amy SVOBODA, T- 3 7 R e e s e ; a n d M a r k S Y N O V I T Z , K C - 1 3 5 E a k e r.

SHEPPARD 90-07: Philip CAMPBELL, F-15 Bitburg; Leo CUNNINGHAM, EF-111 Mountain Home; Thomas KLINGENSMITH, F-16 MacDill; Charles LOPEZ, OV-10 Shaw; Keith MILLER, A-10 England; Scott MILLER, F-15E Luke; John SCHMIDT, T-37 Sheppard; John SHAPLAND, T-38 Sheppard; Peter SMITH, OV-10 Shaw; Adam SPITLER, F-16 MacDill; and David THOLE, F-16 MacDill.

SHEPPARD 90-08: Tripp ADAMS, F-16 Luke; Dieter BAREIHS, F-16 Luke; Craig BROWN, F-16 Luke; Matthew CHESTNUT, OA-10

Osan; Mark CONRAD, F-15 Langley; William COOLEY, F-15 Bitburg; Steven FRANCIS, T-37 Sheppard; Matthew HOFFMAN, F-16 Luke; Jeremy HORN, A-10 Alconbury; Joseph MATCHETTE, F-16 Luke, Douglas NIKOLAI, F-16 Luke; Steven NORDHAUS, F-16 MacDill; Rick PEDDYCORD, F-111 Mountain Home; Joseph SCHULZ, A-10 Bentwaters; Michael SMITH, T-38 Sheppard; Ryan SMITH, F-15

Langley; Joseph TORRES-LABOY, A-10 Bentwaters; Donn VON LOH, T-37 Sheppard; John WARD, A-10 England; James WARD, F-111 Mountain Home; and Patrick WEIR, F-15 Kadena.

A-10 Bentwaters; Scott McNULTY, T-38 Vance; Glenn MELIA, T-38 Vance; James NELSON, T-38 Vance; Karen PASTORET, KC-135 Lor-

ing; Jon SCOTT, T-37 Vance; Keith WARD, KC-135 Grand Forks; and A l l a n W I L L , B - 5 2 I r a E a k e r.

VANCE 90-13: Red BOWMAN, F-16 Luke: Steven BRENNER, T-37 Vance; Charles CALDWELL, F-16 Luke; Tracy DORSETT, T-38 Vance; David HOLMES, T-37 Vance; Scott JESTICE, F-15 Langley; Christian LAWLOR, KC-135 McConnell; Karl LEVY, C-130 Little Rock; Steven McQUIRK, KC-135 Beale; James NOETZEL, B-52 Loring; Kevin OLEEN, HC-130 Eglin; Mary RAINALDI, C-141 McChord; Matthew SCHWEITZER, RC-135 Offutt; Daniel STONE, T-37 Vance; and Jeffrey WEGNER, F-15 Eglin.

VANCE 90-14: Eric BRAXTON, T-37 Vance; Brad BREDENKAMP, T-37 Vance; David BULLOCK, T-38 Vance; Patrick CRUPI, OV-10

Shaw; John DERING, A-10 Bentwaters; Vance DRENKHAHN, F-111 Cannon; Jeffery ENGLE, C-141 McChord; Michael GIBBONS, KC-135 Wurtsmith; Tracey GOLDEN, C-141 McGuire; Jack MAIXNER, F-16 Luke; Fermin MANNING, T-38 Vance; Russell MARTIN, C-141 Mc¬

Chord; Jarett MAZZA, KC-10 Barksdale; Robert MOZELESKI, OV-10 Shaw; Barry ROMITTI, EC-135 Ellsworth; Robert ROSSER, T-38 Vance; Mark ROBERTS, C-130 Yokota; Ted SATCHER, F-16 Luke; Barbara SEVER, T-38 Vance; Steven WINNER, B-52 Grif ss; And Steve YARBROUGH, T-37 Vance.

F-16 MacDill; Richard ECCHER, C-9 Rhein Main; Seth ECKHOLM, KC-135 Carswell; Patrick HEFLIN, T-38 Williams: Thomas HIRST, KC-135 Barksdale; Arlene HUX, T-38 Williams; Joseph JEZAIRIAN, F-16 MacDill; Patrick KEENAN, T-37 Williams; Christopher KULAS, KC-135 Wurtsmith;

Matthew LLOYD, KC-135 Minot; John LUSK, KC-10 March; Tony McKenzie, c-21 Andrews; John MIHALY, T-37 Williams; David MIT¬

CHELL, EC-135 Ellwsorth; Brandon NUGENT, T-37 Williams; David OLTORIK, T-38 Williams; David RODRIGUEZ, C-130 Little Rock; Ted SCHILLER, C-141 McChord; Heather SCHOFIELD, C-130 Pope;’ Christopher SHORT, T-38 Williams; Christopher SIMON, T-38 Williams;

Terry VIRTS, F-16 MacDill; and Paul WEISS, A-10 Myrtle Beach.

WILLIAMS 91-01: Michael BAUER, C-130 Dyess; James BRECK, T-38

Williams; Sven BROWN, B-52 Ira Eaker; Holly CAMPBELL, T-37 Williams; Mark CHRISTIAN, C-12 Elmendorf; Scott CROGG, F-16 Mac¬

Dill; Charles GRIFFIN, T-38 Williams; Robert HABER, C-141 McChord; John HRUBY, F-111 Cannon; Keith JAMES, T-38 Williams; Steven KENNEL, F-16 MacDill; Jeffrey KLOSKY, T-37 Williams; Jeffrey LOVE, T-37

Williams; Garrison PISIO, EC-130 Davis Monthan; Glenn POWERS, KC-135 Wurtsmith; Brian RADCLIFFE, C-141 McGuire; Stephen THOMPSON, C-141 Charleston; and Stephen ZEPP, HC-130 Kadena.

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VANCE 90-15: Julie BARTLETT, KC-135 Altus; Kurt BECKER, F-15 Langley; Javier BELL, T-37 Vance; Thomas COPELAND, KC-135 Grif¬

ss; Shawnie EWING, KC-135 Kadena; Darren HIRSCHEY, F-111 Mountain Home; George JAMES, F-16 MacDill; Timothy JOZWIAK, KC-135 Kadena; Kevin KING, T-38 Vance; Andre LEWIS, C-141 Travis; Geoffrey NORTON T-37 Vance; William PINTER, T-38 Vance; David

SERAGE, B-52 Minot; Frank SOUZA,T-37 Vance; Steven WARRIOR, KC-135 Ira Eaker; Christopher WYATT, C-130 Little Rock; Dirk YOUNG, C-12 Andrews and Jae YU, T-37 Vance.

VANCE 91-01: William CAHILL, C-141 McGuire; Christopher

CARPER, E-3 Tinker; Mark DOUGLAS, T-38 Vance; Caesar GARDUNO, C-130 Dyess; Jeffrey HAZLEWOOD, C-141 Charleston; Cedric JACKSON, KC-135 Ellsworth; Anthony LASURE, T-38 Vance; Michael LOCKWOOD, C-5 Dover; David PELLETIER, C-141 Travis; Burtis

ROBINSON, RC-135 Offutt; James STURGEON, F-16 MacDill; Wayne TETLOW, T-37 Vance; Brent VANDERPOL, T-38 Vance; Peter WEBER, T-37 Vance; and Charles WINFREE, T-37 Vance.

W I L L I A M S 9 0 - 1 2 : D a v i d B R U M M I T T, C - 1 2 N o r t o n ; C a r l

CALDWELL, C-141 Charleston; John DELAPP, C-141 McGuire; Larry HANTLA, KC-135 Beale; Robert HOCKMAN, C-141 McChord; Scott HUGHES, EF-111 Mountain Home; Sean JONES, T-38 Williams; Scott KINDSVATER, F-15E Luke; Christopher MAUK, KC-135 Robins; Andrew McINTYRE, C-130 Little Rock; Edwin NEWMAN, T-37 Williams; Larry PACKARD, T-38 Williams; Michael PATTERSON, KC-135 Plattsburg; Troy PORTER, B-52 Loring; David ROJEWSKI, T-37 Williams; William SUMMERS, T-37 Williams; Brian WARCUP, C-9 Rhein Main; and Stephen WILLIAMS, F-16 MacDill.

WILLIAMS 90-13: George ALSTON, T-37 Williams; David BALDESSARI, C-141 Charleston; Paul BECK, T-38 Williams; Randall BRISTOL, T-37 Williams; Bruce BROWN, F-111 Cannon; Michael

CHAPA, F-15 Kadena; Harold CRANMER, C-12 Clark; Donatella GINN, C-21 Yokota; Gary GUY, F-16 Luke; Stephen HEINRICH, KC-135

Ellsworth; Lee HOGGATT, C-130 Dyess; Joseph HOLLMAN, C-130 Elmendorf; Morgan KYLE, T-38 Williams; Daniel LYKINS, KC-135 Wurtsmith; Gilbert PETRINA, B-52 Wurtsmith; John PLATING, T-37 Williams;

Richard RASMUSSEN, T-38 Williams; Sam SHMAYS, KC-10 SeymourJohnson; David SILVA, F-15 Bitburg; and Jonathan WIESINGER, T-38 Williams.

WILLIAMS 90-14: (you’ve heard of this class maybe once before!)

Lawrence BRANCH, T-37 Williams: Leif BRYNN, T-37 Williams; Eric

CHANDLER, F-16 Luke; Michael FREY, F-16 Luke; Darren HARTFORD, C-5 Travis; Kurt HEISER, OV-10 Shaw; Christy KAYSER, KC-135 Robins; Douglas KENNEDY, C-130 Little Rock; Brendan LEWIS, T-38 Williams; Scott MADISON, KC-10 Barksdale; Matthew MOLINEUX, KC-135 Grissom; Michael MOORE, C-9 Scott; John OSKVAREK, EC-135 Offutt; Thomas RINEY, KC-135 Castle; Kenneth THIELE, KC-135 Beale; Paul TIBBETS, B-1 Ellsworth; Corey WALROD,T-38 Williams; and Christopher YOUNG, F-15 Bitburg.

Home: (916) 369-7045 Percent members: 34

Greetings Class of 1990! Itrust that everyone is doing well. Things my way are going great. I’m beginning my seventh week out here at UNT and

so far so good. Beautiful sunny skies everyday and the training is really

going quite smoothly so far.

Everyone please take note of my current address. This will be my mailing address for the remainder of my time at UNT. I’ve only gotten letters

from acouple of people so that makes it very dif cult for me to report to you all that’s happening with us. Please keep me informed on how things are going. Iwelcome information on UPT or UHT classes as well as

technical training classes. Ialso welcome information on marriages,

assignments and basically anything about anyone in our class. 1 e n courage those of you who were recently married to send me pictures. Ican get them printed in the magazine as well. The AOG sends me some infor¬

mation on selected individuals in our class but in order to supplement what they send me 1need everyone’s input.

The few people I’ve heard from include Mike CARTER. He’s down at

Laughlin AFB, TX undergoing UPT and says that so far things are ne.

He sends his greetings to everyone. Everyone here at Mather undergoing UNT is doing well and sends their greetings as well. 1will try to get a photo of our group printed so you all can see our smiling faces.

Ireceived anote from Zackery BELCHER. He proudly announces that

as of 19 Dec 1990 he will be amarried man. Currently he is acontracting

of cer at Loring AFB, ME. Kelly (KRATOCHVIL) GREENE sends her

greetings as well. She is presently attending AFIT’s School of Engineering and will receive aM.S. in operations research in March of 1992. She mar¬

ried 2LT Christopher D. GREEN,. Class of ’89, CS-13, on 22 Jun 90.

Congratulations Kelly and Chris and best of luck with everything.

Christopher OGREN sent his greetings from Reese AFB, TX where he

is in UPT. He sends amessage “for all those Willie pukes, ‘blonde saturation’ is alive and well in Texas too!” Hopefully you Willie pukes know what that means. Michael THIRTLE, my former partner in crime, sends his greeting abroad. Incidentally, Mike was the only person to type, yes type, his response to the AOG. That’s okay Mike, we love you anyway.

He is at Williams AFB, TX for UPT. He married the lovely Denise Marie Domanico on 10 Jun 90. Congratulations Mike and Denise. Our prayers are with you both. Drop me aline sometime.... grovel, grovel, grovel.

Bruce PLOESER was also recently married. He married Kerry Boettger on 2Jun 90. Peace my brother. J. Jay UPDEGRAFF has pledged to send me info on the Willie UPT class of 91-14. 1understand they have 25 grads in that class. 1can’t wait to hear what you all are up to. Akshai GANDHI sends his greetings to everyone from Sheppard AFB, TX. Last but cer¬

tainly not least of all, my old roommate Chuck BOYD sends his greetings as well. He’s still in Colorado Springs doing alitle casual status at the

Academy. He’s awaiting UPT at Laughlin in November. Don’t party too much Chuck!

WILLIAMS 90-15: Steven BURSON, A-10 Bentwaters; Benjamin CULP, Don’t miss your magazine.

Well, that’s about all 1have for now. Since you all have my new address, use it and let me know what’s up. Spread it around as well. I’ve aone-on-one been writing tons of letters lately so I’ll keep in touch o n

basis with you all as well. Best of luck in the upcoming months until you

Send your new address now!

hear from me again. Take care and PEACE!

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PRODIGY® INTERACTIVE PERSONAL SERVICE ●FREE Prodigy software Installed ●First 60 days service FREE

●Electronic mail lets you stay in touch

with friends and classmates ●Awhole new world of communication, information, shopping, and fun...

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●Full 640K RAM internal memory ●Fast 8/10 MFIz 8086 microprocessor ●Dual 3j5" 720KB oppy con guration ●VGA PW12" mono monitor

EQUITY 386SX

●2400 baud modem included

●16MHz 80386SX 40MB system, VGA built-in ●Advanced MS-DOS® 4,01 software included ●2MB of standard RAM ●VGA PW 12" mono monitor ●2400 baud modem included

The Association of Graduates (AOG)

of the U.S. Air Force Academy is proud to announce

its partnership with Random Access, Inc.

EQUITY LT-286E PORTABLE

TERMS: Mastercard, VISA, Discover or C.O.D. SHIPPING &HANDLING: 3% of system cost

●12MHz 80C286 microprocessor

and Epson in providing

SERVICE: Call our nationwide toll free number

●"Pop our 40MB hard disk drive

this special offer for quality computer systems and service to alumni and friends of the Academy.

●2400 baud modem included

●Weighs 17 lbs.; 13 lbs. without removable battery unit

for the nearest Epson Service Center.

OFFER EXPIRES: DECEMBER 31, 1990

Aiumns: Call for unbeatable Academy pricing!!

Random Access, Inc.

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Main: 303/745-9600 ●Fax: 303/ 745-0242

Suggested Retait Price

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