CLASS NOTES won a prize for her ’50s outfit. temples in Sri Lanka – a trip with lots of variGeorge Rapport wrote, “My eldest son, Mi“On Halloween, Margaret and I celebrat- ety! And of course, we’re still recovering from chael, lives in Stirling, Scotland, and teaches ed our 50th anniversary. We went to dinner the very long flights back home.” European history at the University of Glasgow. with our son at our favorite restaurant. It was Sherrel and I had the opportunity to get a He and I were exchanging emails about our renice to laugh and reminisce about our lives and two week timeshare on the Hawaiian island spective winters and in his reply the following the many adventures we have shared. Being of Kauai the first two weeks of January. The paragraph appeared: “By the way, we’ve just come back from a with our son, Don, always is a joy for us. first week, Bill and Dyan Crone joined us. We “I always remember Halloween also was the explored the entire island and ate well. While long walk with the dogs, and we popped into wedding date of my roommate Dick Butt and there, we met with Jan and Paula Rudinoff one of our local pubs for a quick drink: they Carole Faye. We were married on Halloween twice; once at their home and once at a local have new American ale there, an IPA called Devil’s Backbone. I noticed that because we had received our U.S. Air the brewery is Lexington, Virginia! Force orders and had to be at flight And the bar staff said that this is goschool in early December. With short ing to be one of their regular ales, so notice, the only date either of us could good news.” find a church was Halloween – probably not a date with high demand for “Another reason, guys, to visit weddings. It must have been a lucky Lexington! For those of you that date, since I received a wonderful haven’t approached Lexington treat by marrying Margaret. from the north on Route 11, coming from the north the brewery is “On Sunday, we are hosting a VMI past the Lee Hi Truck stop on the Founders Day event at our home. right.” Members of the new Treasure Coast Joe Chompaisal sent word that VMI Alumni Chapter I recently the VMI alumni Bangkok Chapter started will be here. We expect about 24. It always is fun to be with VMI Class of 1964: Having dinner in January 2015 in set up a graduate degree scholarpeople. Margaret will make sure they Kauai were, from left, John Cavedo, W.J. Kitchen and ship at the Asian Institute of TechJan Rudinoff. nology. It will assist Thai graduates are well fed.” of VMI to receive their advanced Two days later, Don sent in the following report of their dinner: “Todegrees. This is the first such night, we had about 20 VMI folks at scholarship set up in Thailand and our home for the first meeting of the reflects the very large and number Treasure Coast VMI Alumni Chapof VMI graduates among the Thaiter. Our class was well represented land military establishment. by Bob and Cathy Warren, George I talked with Jim Stokes’ wife and Paula Warren, Roxane Spitzer when my email to them was returned. They had recently changed (Lee Fleshood’s widow), Margaret addresses. But the big news was and me. Margaret did her usual wonderful job of feeding everyone delithey were on their way out the cious treats until they were ready to door to catch a flight to the West explode. We had a short Founders Coast to celebrate their daughter Day program and enjoyed visiting giving birth to her first son and with our VMI neighbors. We wish Jim’s third grandchild. you could have been here, too. It was Jan and Paula Rudinoff, after Class of 1964: In November 2014, Margaret Carson fun.” visiting with us on Kauai, left for won an award for her vintage outfit at a show featurCarol Allen sent in the following ing her car in Florida. Thailand, where they joined Joe email, coupled by a photo of her and and Pongsri Chompaisal and Tom: “Our recent trip was called ‘Africa to restaurant. At their home we met their son, Tony and Dusadee Putamonanda. Jan wrote Asia.’ We started out with three days of game daughter, daughter-in-law and two of their a very short note: “This is our third day in drives at a safari camp in Kenya, and then grandchildren. Bangkok, and Joe and Jan are playing golf at The second week, after Bill and Dyan left, the Army course. They left home at 5 a.m. flew to Zanzibar, where we toured the city and boarded the Aegean Odyssey, a small 300-pas- W.J. and Lauranne Kitchen joined us. They “Yesterday, Joe had meetings, so Tony took senger ship. We sailed on the Indian Ocean to had just returned from their trip to Morocco. us to the Bridge over the River Kwai in KanSri Lanka, stopping along the way at Comoros, Again, we explored the entire island together chanaburi, and then he and Dusadee hosted the Seychelles and Maldives. We especially and ate well. And again, we met Jan and Paula us and the Chompaisals at their home for an enjoyed seeing animals in the wild, going snor- at an open market and then a restaurant. The amazing Thai dinner.” keling in the Seychelles and visiting Buddhist island is beautiful and worth another trip. Jan did send along a very nice photo of the 72
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