and doing plenty of video tele-conferences. They are another great example as to the quality of our USAFA Class
Pickrell flies for Delta and resides in Coppell, TX. Tim “T-Ray” Ray is a 3-Star and is vice commander, US European Command. Reid “Waylon” Reasor is a retired politician from San Antonio, TX. Art Ross is a DoD teacher in Brussels. Mike “Shuly” Schulenberg flies for United out of Keller, TX. Jay “Tonto” Silveria is a 2-Star Al Udeid AB, vice commander, Air Force Central Command. Lynn Steer flies for United out of Colorado Springs. Giff Stein is an American pilot out of Dallas, TX. Pat Stoneham runs a consulting firm out of Colorado Springs. Jack Stuart is a United Airlines pilot out of Denver, CO. Dave “Scanner” Tan is a United pilot out of South Bend, IN. Carey Thompson is a corporate pilot Members residing in California. 44% Dave “DT” Thompson is a 2-Star for Space Command. Matt Valle is a PhD and Management Dept. director for Elon University out of Whitsett, NC. Scott “Viper” Vipond is president/owner of Girard Sabre Society Wood Products out of Tacoma, Donors WA. Jim “Jimbo” Vogt is an 12 FAA inspector out of Seattle, WA. Chris “Weitz” Weitzer flies for American out of Colloyville, TX. Mike “Digger” Wells is an American pilot out of Highland Village, TX. Lastly, RK Williams is a Grumman project manager, Colorado Springs. Digger Wells just received the following picture from his 2-degree roomie, Maj. Gen. Jay Silveria. They are four ’85ers running the war from the Al Udeid CAOC -- or at least sending a lot of emails
Lt. Gen. Jeff Harrigian, Maj. Gen. Jay Silveria, Brig. Gen. John Williams, and Col. Jeff Van Dooting Tia Jolie (TJ) Phillips, (f.k.a) Timothy J. Phillips, dropped me a note to share her latest with the class. She currently resides in gorgeous Jupiter, FL, where she just wrapped up her PhD in holistic natural health & nutrition. She performed most of the work for her Masters and PhD “in the cracks of life” while flying the line as now a nine-year captain at Jet Blue Airlines. Congratulations, Dr. Phillips. I don’t know how you managed to squeeze the time in to fly, attend class and study.
Jim and Holly extend an open invitation to anyone passing through the St. Louis area. Joe Michell and his wife, Lori, attended the All American Hero Inaugural Ball in Washington, D.C. From all accounts they had a fabulous time. Even with two left feet I know I would have enjoyed attending. Way to go on scoring those tickets Joey!
Joe and Lori Any of you with kids graduating or starting school this summer, or with any other news you’d like to share with the class, please be sure to send it my way. I always look forward to passing along class news. ’.85... Best Alive! Scott -W. Scott Carney, P.O. Box 5, Pembroke, ME 04666; (207) 214-4836; USAFA.Class.of.1985@gmail.com Greetings classmates! The deadline for the previous edition of Checkpoints came out right after our 30-year reunion so there wasn’t much time to report on the event. Hopefully we can do some of that here this quarter and share some of the memories from that event. For those who were there and not there – it was very well attended; in the end I believe more than half our class was there. Impressively many classmates live right in the area and many others have children who are either graduates or cadets. Here is photographic evidence of how big the crowd was – I was unable to get a National Park Service estimate of the Members crowd, but I personally believe 50% that this was the biggest crowd ever to attend a reunion, ever, in the history of reunions. (See photo at the top of the next page.) Reports from the field indicate that everything looks Sabre Society pretty much the same, but that Donors nothing is the same as when we 11 attended. Some reported that was good; some reported that was bad. Lots of observations, and in fact, one of our own,
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Tia Jolie [she uses Tia Jolie as her entire first name as would Mary Ann] Phillips Jim Lovell retired as a colonel out of the Pentagon in 2013 after 28 years of service. He and his wife, Holly, settled in O’Fallon, IL, where they had a previous assignment with USTRANSCOM. Jim took off eight months and did nothing but help Holly open the store she always wanted. Check out www.tiahouse.com to see what he has been up to. Basically they represent about 70 local artists and craftsmen and mix in the best local antiques, mission oak furniture, art pottery, hammered copper and more. The store is in Lebanon, IL, about five miles from Scott AFB in a nice historic district with a brick street and other similar streets. He finally went to work back at TRANSCOM as a GS-15 and absolutely loves it. He works with John Hilbing, Ron Marselles, and a few other great ’85ers. Their girls are headed off to Ole Miss next fall and CJ is a young football phenom so games are always fun.
Checkpoints · March 2017