CLASS NOTES that glorious time of year, the most wonderful time of year (also called hunting season), and the time seemed to slip past me. I need to take a minute on a personal note and announce that my beautiful partner in crime who has been by my side for the past six-plus years, said yes, and we were married in August. She just could not resist my manly charms and thinks my beard is sexy; plus, her parents offered me a dowry of two goats and a pig so I said win, win. I know this will upset many of you ladies reading this, and you, too, Jason Nichols, but, as Toby said, “I ain’t as good as I once was.” Chris and Penny Gros, Hernan Barrero, and Easy and Candice Rider all came to the Palace de Pig (my house) for a cookout to help celebrate the marriage. I also need to report that Chris Gros talked me into continuing my higher education; I took a class for motorcycle education and passed. I can say that thankfully there are no existing pictures of me riding that tiny little bike. I heard from our West Virginia Ph.D., H Wayne Lambert, that he and Chris Lagerholm met up at VMI in August. As Wayne stated, “Chris was in the states for only a few days, so my son, Greer, and I drove down and back from Morgantown to hang out for a few hours. We played soccer on the Parade Ground, ate lunch, went to the VMI Museum and Memorial Gardens, and checked out the post improvements.” Wayne is still teaching medical and dental students at West Virginia University, where he was promoted to a full professor in July 2012. He reports that his wife is a local pediatrician, and they have three kids (Emma, Greer and Lucy). Wayne also gave me an update on Robert “Ro” Browning, who is expecting his third child (all girls) in December. Merce Brooke responded to my call for address and status updates. He is an associate professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at VMI, so if you are around post, look him up. Sean Harrington got in touch with me to pass on much information. He recently retired from the Air Force and had Fred Barber at his side to do the honors. Also in attendance were his roommates, Ray James and Chris Passarge. Sean and his wife are living
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Class of 1994: Dave Underwood with Stevie Nicks.
Class of 1994: Justin Sapp and Vince Porter.
Class of 1994: H. Wayne Lambert and Chris Lagerholm got together at the Institute when Chris came back to the U.S. for a few days.
in Fredericksburg, Virginia, where he is now teaching at King George High School as a business teacher. He is also coaching soccer and field hockey. Sean got to take a few weeks this summer and spend time with Ray James in Charlotte, North Carolina, where Ray is a senior project manager for Comcast, and a week with Chris Passarge outside Cincinnati, Ohio, where Chris is the chief operations officer for the Lakota School District. Fred Barber is once again in Korea with the Army on a short assignment. Lastly, Sean informed me that he delivered his son into the caring arms of the Mother I as a member of the class of 1994+24. I spoke with Joey Davis who is in Lexington, Kentucky. He wrote to inform me that his wife was featured in Paula Dean’s magazine as one of the top six cooking schools in the south. They have a place called Wild Thyme Cooking, and I understand they have had a few celebrities come by to sample the cuisine – Louis B. Louis and Pete Major to drop just a few names. Please check them out at www.wildthymecooking.com. I heard through Facebook that Matt MacNeilly has made his way back to Virginia, and I believe he and his family are stationed near Virginia Beach. Tim Bailey recently traded in his Harley on a new minivan and says he can’t believe he has gone all these years without one. He is the founding and only member of the newly formed Myrtle Beach Minivan Club. He is working with a producer to try and do a spinoff of the hit series, “Sons of Anarchy,” but with a van and car seat. Vince Porter ran into Justin Sapp at the annual meeting of the AUSA, and he said it was good to see one of his rat roommates after all these years. Dan Price escorted his wife, Melanie, to northern Virginia where she ran the Marine Corps Marathon. Great job, Melanie. Dave Underwood shared a story via Facebook that is worth sharing again. Dave was recovering at Walter Reed Hospital from wounds suffered in 2008 when he received a special guest. Stevie Nicks came to visit and spent some time with Dave. As he states she sat and spoke with him, read him a poem called, “A Soldier’s Angel,” gave him an iPod and took
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