CLASS NOTES Bill Caulfield’s wife and son, Josh, with the matriculation process, as Bill was tending to business in Germany. That is Brother Rat Spirit at its finest. Based on Brother Rats accepting my invitation to connect on LinkedIn, here is what I know: Chris Abbott just took over as the director of The Commander Second Fleet Vice Admiral Marc A. Mitscher Center at Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory in Norfolk. Duke Addison is president and CEO of Addison Commercial Estate Inc. in Jacksonville, FL. He is also a board member of the Gator Bowl Association. Tommy Avent is a realtor with RE/MAX Allegiance, the number one selling RE/MAX company in the world and one of the top 30 residential real estate brokerages in the United States. He is in the Washington, DC, metropolitan area. As previously discussed, Joe Bouchelle remains in Buena Vista, VA, as the associate dean of students at Southern Virginia University. Capt. John Boyd, USNR, is now the director, Naval Identity Management Capability within the Department of the Navy. Chip Buehler is the owner of Integrity Landscaping Solutions in the Richmond, VA, area. Doug Burdett is the owner of Artillery Marketing Communications LLC in Norfolk. Mike Burt is still down in the New Orleans area as the director of Business Development/Federal Programs for Walton Construction. I received a pithy note from John Campione, thanking me for my Liberal Artist sensibility as your gentle correspondent. John is a director at Hormel Foods in Allentown, PA. Ted Clarkson continues to slave away in the Joint Strike Fighter Program Office. John Chandler is the chief operating officer for Nancy Chandler Associates Realtors in Hampton Roads. Chris Cramer is a business/systems analyst looking for new opportunities after leaving IBM Global Services in the Washington area. Dale Davis is still in Dubai, UAE, as the commercial director at Global Strategies Group Integrated Security. Guy Dougherty is senior product manager for Farmers Insurance in the Los Angeles, CA, area. Mike Eden is head of European Service Centres in Krakow, Poland, for HSBC. Chris Eichman is an IT manager for Merck in the Philadelphia, PA, area. John Friend is now a researcher at the University of South Alabama in Mobile. After retiring from active duty in the Air Force, Brian Glynn is now a civilian professional as the AFFOR A4 director of Logistics in Tallahassee, FL. Jeff (Tracy) Henderson is the Southeast Regional Business Unit lead, Corporate and Government Customers for Pfizer in Atlanta, GA. Frank Horner is the vice president of Operations at Fujitsu Network Communications in the Dallas/Fort Worth, TX,
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area. Shep Jordan is the Customer Relations manager at ADS, Inc., in Norfolk. Shep and his brother are working on their second volume of stories about Virginia Beach, as well as a volume about Norfolk. Ed Keith is now vice president for Federal Programs at Earth Tech in Greenville, SC. Mark Kempsell is director of Sales at Contract Pharmacal Corporation in Orange County, CA. Perry Laustsen is a consultant at Robert Half Management Resources in the New York City area. George Mayforth, a regular correspondent, dropped a note to illustrate what happens when you ask BRs to correspond with a BR far from home. Mark Ciarrocca, a local town councilman in Edison, NJ, spoke at the Edison Intermediate School Veterans Day celebration. Mark talked about the patriotism and sacrifice of BR Dave Shutt, still serving in Iraq, during his speech. Mark told Dave he was great material for a speech. There was just one problem. The local newspaper misspelled Dave’s last name. Sigh … Todd Minnix is now section chief, Construction Management Division at Fairfax County Government here in northern Virginia. Richard “Dicky” Moore is the president of John J. Kirlin Special Projects, LLC, a provider of mechanical and fabrication services in Rockville, MD. Col. Jon Mott is Air National Guard director, Plans and Requirements, National Guard Bureau, Washington, DC. He is responsible for the modernization of over 1,300 aircraft and equipment in 89 ANG flying units. Van Noah is a program director at the Institute for Defense and Business in Raleigh-Durham, NC. As previously reported, Tom O’Sullivan is the director for International Business at Blackhawk Products Group in Norfolk. Eric Odderstol is the senior manager, Business Development at Walsh Construction in the Chicago area. Trey Phillips is the president of Phillips Supply House, Inc., in Williamsport, PA. Cliff Rockwell is an IT consultant with Fidelity National Information Services in the Dallas/Ft. Worth, TX, area. Frank Rosenthal is the director at Lutron Electronics in Allentown, PA. Lou Rossie is the owner of WLR & Associates, Inc., a provider of timely and accurate retirement services for clients. Lou lives in the Charlotte, NC, area. Also in Charlotte, Walt Sanders is senior vice president, Construction Operations-Power Group at The Shaw Group. Chris Schrichte is the CEO of Celcorp Corporation in the Washington, DC, area. Larry Thompson is the associate director, Infrastructure Assurance Programs at the Center for Infrastructure Assurance and Security, UTSA, in San Antonio, TX. Jack Wainwright is vice president of Sales at Cutter Consortium in the Boston, MA,
area. Joe Yodzis is senior director of Business Development for Weapon Systems at General Dynamics Armament and Technical Products in Charlotte, NC. There are several more BRs out there on LinkedIn; they have yet to respond to my gentle invitation to connect. I have several sources for information about BRs besides e-mail and social software. I subscribe to the Rockbridge News-Gazette, mainly to entertain my Lottery Fantasy of becoming a gentleman farmer in Lexington. In the 19 Aug. issue, I spied an article headlined “Buena Vista Native Knight Retires as Army Colonel.” It seems Perry Knight retired from the Army at the Defense Distribution Center in New Cumberland, PA, after 27 years of service on 26 June. He will continue federal service as the chief integration officer at the center. He was presented the Defense Superior Service Medal at his retirement ceremony. His personal awards include the Legion of Merit, the Bronze Star Medal, the Defense Meritorious Service Medal, the Meritorious Service Medal with four oak leaf clusters, the Joint Service Commendation Medal with two oak leaf clusters, the Army Commendation Medal with three oak leaf clusters, the Joint Service Achievement Medal and the Army Achievement Medal with three oak leaf clusters. Perry is another fine example of a VMI English major turned loose upon the world. Sister Rat Lynn Heltzel, Emmet’s wife, is proposing a mini reunion for spring 2010. She has done some prospecting and is in contact with the Homestead over in Hot Springs, VA. Given the economy, they are offering some decent rates. I will be working with her and our class officers to make this possible. As Lynn says, we are not getting any younger, and we always have a great time when we get together. So, think about it. Facebook people may always turn to BR Ron Mecredy, who covers my back on Facebook. If you prefer to move in that domain, feel free to give him a shout; he will pass your information on to me. My contract at the Intelligence Community Officer Course comes to an end at the end of the year. I have been looking for a new gig, and at the time of this writing, things are looking up, as far as new prospects. I should have news of my employment in the next edition. Write, e-mail or call. I will eventually respond, if I am not out raking leaves, cleaning gutters, clearing out my flower and vegetable beds, chopping wood, or looking for a job to ward off autumn’s scathe and winter’s cold.
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