Class Notes the new job, Rich, and I hope you enjoy the mountains. Art Morrill will be deploying to Qatar in the fall with his National Guard unit. He will be joining another BR, Richard Sharp. Be safe, fellas. Mike Gwinn will be arriving back into the States in July from his deployment. He will be at Fort Campbell, so if anyone is stationed near Kentucky, be sure to let Mike know. Also, Mike will be applying to law school in the fall, so best of luck with your next endeavors. I’d like to say congratulations to Josh Visconti on the birth of his third child and first son, Noah. Noah was born April 25, 2015. Josh is also now an adviser with Wells Fargo in Richmond. Please continue to update your email and physical addresses. This really helps me to have updated addresses when trying to send out letters or other pertinent information. If there’s anything you would like to include in the next edition, feel free to email me or contact the Facebook group. I look forward to hearing from all of you soon. Until next time, Bruce
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Charles P. Jones
Editor’s Note: We did not receive notes from the Class of 2013.
Samuel Guidry
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Taylor Floyd
First off, I would like to congratulate the Class of 2015 on graduating. I am sure they have their own class agent at this point who can congratulate their own class, but it took me a while to get around to writing my first class notes, so I figured I would take the liberty. Now ... back to business. Brother rats, as I write this, it has been exactly a year to date since we graduated, and as a class, we seem to be doing fairly well. I haven’t heard from too many members of the Class of 2014 since we walked across the stage, but those I have run into appear to be doing great.
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Class of 2012: At the 2015 Kentucky Derby were, from left, Andrew Deal, Xin Wu Zie, Tyler Brown, Collin Flaherty, George Piccirilli and Chase Worthington. We had another wave of marriages and various military graduations since the last Alumni Review earlier this year. However, the only wedding I have gotten wind of is Tyler Spadine and his new wife, Hope Spadine. Congratulations from the Class of 2014 on your marriage! I would like to apologize to all of our BRs serving in the Army, but there are simply too many of you graduating from too many different schools for me to keep track of all of you. Next Review, I will try to get a list of all the graduations and new ranks, positions, schools, stations, etc., but for now, please bear with me. In other class news, Rodney Glasgow just returned to the States after playing a season in the Swiss Division 1 league. Rodney played on the team BBC Monthey and ended up making the playoffs this season. He was further honored for being a top scorer on the team and is now headed to Florida to continue training. Rodney said that he loved living in Switzerland and had some amazing opportunities to travel around Europe. In July, he will head out west to play in the Vegas Summer League. I think that the only man who can adequately sum up Glasgow’s achievements in our first year out of the Institute is Maj. Perry ’05: “Coldsteel!” Glasgow wasn’t the only member of the Class of 2014 to play a season abroad. After bouncing between a few teams, D.J. Covington found his place in the Greek league. I tried to come up with some word for D.J. from Maj. Perry, but all that came to mind was, “Hey second stoop! Tuck your shirt in, D.J.!” Lastly, but certainly not least, upon Ensign Morgan Walberg’s request to “make me sound cool,” I figured that I could take a few lines and say a few things about my BRs currently aspiring to be naval aviators. Aside from complaints that it took a little long to get into the air and a few complaints that there is more studying and harder tests than Turner’s Revenge, everything seems to be going
smoothly for those cadets from 2014 who branched aviation. Mr. Walberg was kind enough to share a few words with me regarding flight school. “After a lot of ground school, I’m flying pretty regularly and should fly the T-6B Texan by myself next week. There is still a long way to go, but training is definitely progressing, and ultimately, I’ll get to the point of dealing death from above – coming in to help my BRs on the ground!” For most of our BRs in flight school down in Florida, primary should be done by the end of summer, upon which the pilots in training will select their platforms, and after about another year of training, they will receive their wings. That’s the majority of the news I currently have! If any of you read this and have anything to add or feel like I have missed some important class achievements, please do not hesitate to give me a call or send me an email! I hope that this finds everyone in good health and that everyone has a wonderful summer. Until the next review. Respectfully, Your class agents, Samuel Guidry and Taylor Floyd, and assistant class agent, Nicole Harding
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Johnny McDonald
I would like to introduce the Class of 2015 to the VMI alumni family. As of May 16, 2015, there are 306 graduates; 156 of which commissioned on or before May 15, 2015. Like usual, the class is hitting the ground running with some noteworthy tasks to be completed in the months following graduation. Luke Frizzell (U.S. Navy) is going to Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL training in Coronado, California. Morgan Robinson (U.S. Navy) is going to explosive ordnance disposal training in Panama City, Florida. Chris Livingston has passed the New York police test and will become an officer for the NYPD. Additionally, the following individuals planned to get married shortly after graduation: John Richards, Alexis Wissinger, Parker Searing, Zach Jones and Daniel Nice. The class decided to highlight only these individuals, as we did not want to make the Class of 2014 jealous by outshining them, once again. I look forward to providing a more complete update for the class in the next few editions of the Alumni Review as everyone gets settled in their post VMI lives. Please feel free to contact me if you would like to include anything in future editions. Whole damn team, Johnny
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