Class Notes
Class of 2006: Ben King ’05 and Wilson Nance. consumed with redeploying my company from our outstation on the Black Sea. We’re off to a good start laying the foundation for this fall’s reunion. We’ve still got a lot to do, but with all of your help, we can make this a truly memorable event. I’m looking forward to seeing what this year brings you and wish you all the best, wherever you may end up. Shawn (Editor’s Note: In the 2015-Issue 4 Review, the captions for the photo of Scott and Cara Bartholomew (pg 141) and the photo of John Diehl’s wedding (pg 140) were swapped. The caption for the wedding photo on page 140 should have read, “At John Diehl’s wedding were Adam Diehl ’15, Andrew Upshaw, Troy Nold ’07, Wes Haynes ’07, John Diehl, Mary Boyce Hicks (the bride), Brad Bascope, John Shillingburg and Marc Castillo. Not pictured and MIA is John Kite ’05.” The wedding photo on pg 141 should have been captioned, “Scott and Cara Bartholomew, center.” We apologize for this error.)
’07
Sally Bushore
Happy winter! I hope everyone is doing well. Erin Saucier informed me that she recently moved to Dayton, Ohio, with her family and
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that she ran into Evan Hanks. She also wrote that she and her husband welcomed a son into the world Dec. 17, 2014. Congratulations, Erin! Matt Saccone wrote me a nice email a couple of months ago. He said that he and his wife recently welcomed a daughter, Arianna Elizabeth, and he can’t believe how the time is flying. He was also able to spend some time with his
brother, Nick Saccone ’06, recently at a Pittsburgh Steelers game after Nick returned from a deployment. Matt said that Tom Pepka and his wife, Emily, stopped for a visit recently with their four children. They are living in Ohio, and Tom is still in the Air Force. Matt also managed to visit with Mike Peranski when the two of them enjoyed a Luke Bryan concert together. He wrote that Mike is working full time and pursuing a graduate degree simultaneously. Matt also wanted to pass on that James Sandman is now living in Cleveland, Ohio, and not Newport News, Virginia. Matt says he plans on visiting James and his wife, Sherry, in the near future. Congratulations to Rosemary and Wes Hopkins and on the birth of their daughter, Elizabeth Emily Hopkins! She was born Sept. 11, 2015, in Austin, Texas. Matt Kania just graduated from the Air Force Institute of Technology with a master’s in aeronautical engineering. He and his family moved to Naval Air Station Patuxent River, where Matt is assigned to the H-53 Program Office. Corey Bafford PCS’d to Camp Lejeune in July and checked in with the 1st Battalion, 10th Marine Regiment. He took command of Charlie Battery in October and said that they planned to attend mountain warfare training in January, followed by training in Norway in the February-March timeframe. Jake Willis married the new Mrs. Danielle Willis Sept. 5. David Metzler was his best man, and serving as groomsmen were Brad Beckner,
Class of 2007: Arianna Elizabeth Saccone, daughter of Matt Saccone.
Class of 2007: Erin Saucier with daughter Savannah and new son Cooper. VMI Alumni Review