CLASS NOTES Other positive news is that, as of the last reports I had received from both Jeff White and Jim Frishkorn, they both continue to make progress toward better health. Jeff, we all continue to pray for you and Sherry, that you have fully defeated the lymphoma. I truly appreciated the inspirational words you shared with regard to how cancer affects so many and how important prayers are and how knowing Christ will bring peace in all we face. For Jim, we are so thankful that you are recovering well from the bypass. You, too, are a blessed man – blessed that you had such immediate attention when you needed it most, blessed by having such a successful surgery, and blessed, even more so, for having Mei-Ling to love and care for you. For Jeff and Jim, continue to get well, BRs! Our prayers are with you both and with Sherry and Mei-Ling, as well. Other sound bites from BRs: I received a brief note from Ken “Catman” Morris, from whom writings are always well received! Great hearing from you, Ken. Miss the days of the “e-mail wars” where your responses always had the rest of us on distro in tears! Glenn Zaramba has been staying in touch. Another great soul, as Glen continues to check my brother’s Caring Bridge site, leaving words of encouragement with regularity. Heard from Ann Wolven, Greg’s beautiful bride. I shared some great news on Greg in the last Review, but Ann topped those inputs, sharing news of Greg’s pinky surgery – Greg had a pin inserted into his left pinky. The finger had a chip broken off and the finger broken when a tae kwon do student missed the board during testing. Ouch, Greg!!!
Class of 1981: Col. Bob Cody, USANG, left, took command of the 169th Leadership Regiment on June 29, 2008, in Niantic, Connecticut. In the photo, Cody is receiving the regimental colors from Brig. Gen. Steven Scorzato, assistant adjutant general. Bruce Gitchell also touched base. Bruce is no longer traveling to and from Central America but is now working on a new academic building at ODU. Bruce has offered that if anyone in Norfolk wants to grab a few brews, he would be more than willing to get a few rounds. Joe Provenzano touched base. He is the Deputy Director, Base Facilities, at Quantico.
Class of 1981: In Hawaii in early July were, from left, Ken Pierro, Jerry Manley and John Cawthorne.
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Joe is living in Manassas, about 3 miles from my sister and brother-in-law, Joe Morelli ’78. Marc Barthello spent 12 days and 4,700 miles on his motorcycle riding out to and around Colorado. He made the entire trip without a single incident, until he made his way back to Lexington. Seems he was leaving Moody Hall early one morning to make the final trek home to Hampton. Approaching the stop sign in front of Moody Hall, a sedan comes zipping around the corner and swerves to miss, clipping Marc and his bike. That same evening, Fletcher Thompson happened to call Marc and through the conversation, they put two and two together - the culprit in the car was young Cadet Thompson ’10, Fletcher’s son. Cadet Thompson contends that Marc was in the middle of the road, but Marc argues that young Fletch is too much like his father and doesn’t think he was awake enough to tell, since it was so early and the sun was in his eyes. I had the pleasure of seeing John and Lisa Cawthorne and Ken and Diana Pierro in July when I was traveling through Hawaii. Had a great dinner and even better company! John and Ken are both stationed on Oahu … and I hope to see them again in October when I travel out for a conference with CINCPACFLT. By then, hope to see Jim and Mei-Ling Frishkorn on island, as well! I will close with a few admin notes: Inputs for the Review were a bit light this time around. I did not get too many inputs and will
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