CLASS NOTES earns a gold star for this maneuver). The memorial service, led by Bob Graves and Ed Davis, was especially meaningful. The meals were scrumptious and the Sunday morning breakfast ended a perfect weekend. The weather was threatening upon arrival on Thursday and stayed that way until Saturday night when at last a little rain came and left the air with a clean smell of “mission accomplished”. I only wish that those absent could have joined us. We missed you Brother Rat. Jim Pittman, who did so much of the technical work to put together the reunion booklet, has began to assemble information for a DVD with pictures and information gathered from Brother Rats taken during the reunion. It will be available online upon completion. If you
have material that he can use, please forward it to him at jamespittman@comcast.net. Jim does not have pictures of the Homestead outing nor golfing activities. Pictures or information can be submitted via email attachment or CD. Computer geeks know other ways as well. For this reason, I will limit names and details relative to reunion activities in these notes to items of special interest trusting that more detail will be gleaned from the DVD as it is available. Jim French produced an excellent video that included pictures of all Brother Rats from The Bomb and various scenes, establishments, and sites of interest around Lexington. The video was set up in the hospitality room and ran continuously when the room was occupied. It was quite popular with everyone. The pictures
brought back many treasured memories and generated all sorts of war stories. A call to Wayne LeBlang, who couldn’t make the reunion, caught him returning from an appointment. He and Judy are doing great in their humble abode on the seventh hole of one of the six golf courses of their LaQuinta, California, and community! Tough life, eh? Wayne was excited to hear about numerous BRs. I caught up with Tom and Anna Marie Kurkoski who were unable to attend the 50th as a result of the stroke Tom suffered a couple weeks before the event. I must say that Tom sounds much better; his voice is essentially back to normal although he says that there are times when the vocal cords just don’t work to perfection. He was excited to hear how the reunion went and was so
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Class of 1960: The following attended their 50th Reunion and are listed alphabetically: George Ax, Jim Bagby, Doc Ballard, John H. Barr, Carl Benner, Bo Bowles, Henry Brown, Neal Callaham, Ashby Chamberlin, Bob Clay, John Coughlin, George Coulbourn, Tom Daniel, Ed Davis, Tony Di Caprio, Ed Duncan, Bill Elliott, Bill Enniss, Chris Fleet, Vaughan Foxwell, James B. French, Bud Frith, Charles Gehring, Bill Giles, Jim “Eva” Gillespie, “Jeep” Goodwillie, Bob Graves, Jim Greathead, Don Hammonds, Phil Hamric, Nick Hester, John Hilliard, Jack Horgan, Sam Horner, Peter Houck, Bill Keens, Bill King, Bill Knowles, Thomas Kurkoski, Tom Leary, David Maddox, Earl Marquette, Dan Marston, Pete McGue, Roy McLeod, George Miller, Hap Miller, Sam Miller, John Moore, Joe Morabit, Mike Moss, Howard Moss, Dick Murphy, Fred Murrill, Jim O’Dell, J.C. Olsen, Michael Ondos, Bill Overman, Ridge Parks, Jon Parnell, George “G.G.” Philips, Michael Pitt, Jim Pittman, Otis Pool, James Powell, John Powell, Roy Quinn, Ed Roney, Howard Roth, George Salaita, Jim Savage, Jack Seamon, Jim Seeley, Steve Sewell, Phil Shiner, Henry Shirley, Mike Shoemaker, Joe Sisler, Guy Smith, Jimbo Smith, Joe Stewart, Ed Tolley, Jim Tumlinson, George Uhlig, Herb Vaughan, Alan Walker, Don Webb, Jack Willard, Troy Williams, Bolling Williamson, Andy Wise, Walter Witschard, Barry Worst and Denny Zay.
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