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GEN Lloyd J. Austin, III, 

33rd Vice Chief of Staff, U.S. Army, 

Class of 1997 

Presidents Message 2 

Commandants Update 3-4 

Outstanding Alumni 5 

IF Hall of Fame Inductions 6 

Alumni Gatherings 8-9 

News and Events 11-13 

Books By Grads 14-15 

Strategy Conference 16 

Mailbag 19-22 

Tributes 23 

Taps 24-25 

In Memory/Honor 26-27 

ARMY WAR COLLEGE 

Spring 2012 

FOUNDATION INC. 

Lt Gen Claudio Graziano, 

Italy, Class of 1997 

LTG (Ret) Arthur J. 

Gregg 

Class of 1968 

Maj Gen Timothy J. 

Keating, 

New Zealand, Class of 2004 

General David J. Hurley, 

Australia, Class of 1997 

NEW IF HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES 

MG (Ret) Edward B. 

Atkeson 

Class of 1969 

GEN (Ret) Glenn K. 

Otis 

Class of 1970 

2011 OUTSTANDING ALUMS 

LTG (Ret) Theodore G. 

Stroup, Jr. 

Class of 1981

President 

LTG (Ret) Thomas G. Rhame 

Vice President 

Mr. Louis J. Manzi 

Trustees 

LTG (Ret) Richard F. Timmons (President Emeritus) 

MG (Ret) William F. Burns (President Emeritus) 

Mrs. Charlotte H. Watts (Trustee Emerita) 

Dr. Elihu Rose (Trustee Emeritus) 

Mr. Russell T. Bundy (Foundation Advisor) 

Mr. William H. Alexander 

MG (Ret) George E. Barker 

COL (Ret) Buddy G. Beck 

Mr. Norman P. Blake 

LTG (Ret) Ronald R. Blanck 

MG Wesley E. Craig 

Mr. Charles A. Donabedian 

Ms. Jo Blanche Dutcher 

MG (Ret) R. Cliffton Gibbs 

Mr. Ralph F. Hake 

COL (Ret) Robert F. Hervey 

COL (Ret) Peter C. Langenus 

Mr. Amir Lear 

Ms. Jessica R. Mitchell 

BG (Ret) Harold W. Nelson 

Ms. Rebekah E. Nottingham 

LTG (Ret) James B. Peake 

LTG (Ret) Michael D. Rochelle 

Mr. Frank C. Sullivan 

LTG (Ret) Richard G. Trefry 

Special Liaison 

MG Gregg F. Martin, Commandant, USAWC 

Faculty Liaisons 

COL (Ret) Philip M. Evans 

Dr. (COL, Ret) Stephen J. Gerras 

Chief Executive Offi cer 

COL (Ret) Ruth B. Collins 

Director for Development 

LTC (Ret) Daniel L. Monken 

Foundation & Alumni Affairs Staff 

Michelle Rodrigue, Bookkeeper 

Janine Farson, Administrative Asst. 

Linda Caton, Alumni Affairs Offi ce Manager 

Donna Bullis, Alumni Affairs Asst. 

Nancy Johnson, Alumni Affairs Asst. 

CONTACT YOUR FOUNDATION 

Telephone: (717) 243-1756 

Fax: (717) 243-0859 

Website: www.usawc.org 

Email: info@usawc.org 

122 Forbes Avenue 

Carlisle, PA 17013-5248 

2 Foundation & Alumni News Spring 2012 

MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT 

Your Army War College Foundation remains fully engaged 

with supporting the College. The activities showcased in this 

magazine are a clear indication of the vibrancy of our organization, 

highlighting but a fraction of the many programs we support. The 

continued generosity of our alumni, friends, and supporters makes 

this outstanding support possible. 

You all should have received a recent mailing 

about a new Foundation program …The 

Tribute Program…a great way to honor or to 

remember a special person or organization. 

Thanks to all of you for helping the Foundation assist with the College’s s 

Elihu 

Margin of Excellence. Please let us know if the Tribute Program brochure re 

inadvertently did not show up in your mail. 

We are all very proud of the graduates pictured on the front cover of this magazine. Congratulations 

to General Hurley, LTG Graziano and MG Keating on their recent induction into the IF Hall 

of Fame. Our International Fellows continue 

to provide remarkable leadership in their 

nations’ militaries. On the cover of our last 

issue you saw GEN Ray Odierno, USAWC 

’95, being sworn in as the new CSA. We are 

so pleased that he is joined by another superb 

leader, GEN Lloyd Austin, USAWC ’97, 

as the VCSA. This marks the fi rst time in 

many years that the serving CSA and VCSA 

are both USAWC alums. And, of course, we 

congratulate our Outstanding Alums! 

Our graduates also serve with distinction in America’s corporate sector as indicated on page 

16 of this newsletter. Thanks to LTG (Ret) Dave Heebner for the excellent presentation he 

gave to kick off Industry Day. The Class of 2012 received invaluable insights from many of 

our grads who returned to take part in Industry Day 2012. 

Our volunteer Board of Trustees traveled at their own expense to San Antonio for the annual 

Spring Trustee Meeting. We were able to meet with nearly 100 grads and spouses for an 

Alumni Dinner and receive a super update about the College from COL Bobby Towery, 

Deputy Commandant. We were also able to visit several of the Army’s organizations stationed 

at Ft. Sam Houston, including Army North, Army South, Medical Education and Training 

Campus, Army Medical Department Museum, San Antonio Military Medical Center, Center 

for the Intrepid, and Fisher House. The Trustees observed training and had lunch with young 

people being trained as Combat Medics. We were invigorated by these young servicemen and 

women who are enthusiastic about defending the nation in such important fi elds. 

With the uncertainty of future budgets, the College will face many important decisions. You 

can read on page 3 the fi rst actions being taken by the College to continue to produce future 

strategic leaders in this age of austerity. While many of us may have ideas on how best to 

“peel the onion,” now more than ever the College needs your support through the Foundation. 

We know we can continue to count on you as the College moves forward. 

Thanks to the College Public Affairs Offi ce and the Photo Lab for their continued support 

through courtesy photos and stories. They help us keep you informed. 

LTG (Ret) Thomas G. Rhame 

President, RES ‘81 

Enrich… the College’s academic environment, 

Enhance… the institution’s research activities, 

Foster… fraternity among alumni of the U.S. Army War College, 

Encourage… excellence in the faculty and student body in order to 

Ensure… the preparation of outstanding leaders for the Armed Forces 

of the United States and its friends and allies. 

Root, 1903 Secretary of War, reg 



Tribute Program 



ARMY WAR COLLEGE FOUNDATION

Soon S I will complete 

two t years as your 48th 

commandant and my 

family and I will move 

on with the same mix of 

pride and anticipation that 

every war college student 

must feel at graduation. 

When congratulating 

the resident Class of 

2012 at their graduation, 

we will acknowledge, 

celebrate and respect their 

achievements, and know 

that they look to the future with confi dence. They have received an 

extraordinary gift from their nation, and those who have embraced 

the opportunity found intellectual challenge, confronted alternative 

perspectives about what they thought they knew, and developed 

relationships that have deepened and strengthened them as leaders. 

Graduates are our credentials, and each of them will be better prepared 

for wise and effective decision-making in a volatile, uncertain, complex, 

ambiguous, and rapidly changing future security environment. 

The Army War 

College itself 

is completing a 

similar journey of 

discovery, growth, 

and transformation. 

We looked back to 

identify the critical 

functions that 

created the enduring 

USAWC reputation 

as a national resource 

for strategic leaders 

and strategic thought. We also looked forward to respond to the 

fi scal environment, plan for a new Defense Strategy, and recognize 

our opportunity and responsibility to contribute expertise to the Army 

and the nation, unencumbered by legacy structures and processes. As 

strategic leaders, we must strive to ensure the organizations we lead 

remain adaptive and agile in responding to our mission. Therefore, 

we’ve asked some fundamental questions: How would we design the 

Army War College to educate and create strategic leaders and readiness 

at best value if we were starting today? How would we organize 

expertise in strategic leader development, experiential education 

design, concepts and doctrine for strategic landpower, and strategic 

study and publication? 

We set the stage for this adaptation two years ago. At that time, I 

asked the college and our associated institutions to apply the ‘wholeof-government’ 

concept in order to unleash the power of a whole-of- 

USAWC commitment to education and study at the strategic level. 

By leveraging organizational design and a thorough, deliberative 

process, we came to several key conclusions. We concluded that our 

current structure and the way we conceive of ourselves often impedes 

us from operating as a whole-of-USAWC. Our institutional structure 

often limited our effectiveness which equated to real limitations in 

meeting our obligations to prospective and serving strategic leaders. 

USAWC Commandants Update 

We recognized the need to adapt our organization to be an Army War 

College that is best postured to support and advance the Army Learning 

Model and Army 2020. Ultimately, we must be accountable to our 

nation and Army by maximizing our effectiveness and effi ciency. We 

have concluded that a transformed Army War College will help unleash 

and drive forward our potential and value to our nation and our partner 

nations in the international security community. 

This time of transition is exciting and necessary. When Secretary of 

War Elihu Root established the Army War College, he created the very 

institution that would be an engine of transformation by developing 

and educating our strategic leaders. His words ring as true today as in 

1901 at the founding of the Army War College when he said: 

“Membership in the War College will mean honor and opportunity. 

In its confi dential archives will be garnered the results of the 

best thought of the army, and in the continuous existence of the 

institution . . . will be found continuity of knowledge, of thought, 

and of military policy always available for practical uses.” 

Recent decades have added new institutes and capabilities to the Army 

War College, each adding to the expertise and strategic reach across 

the U.S. military, national security community, and international 

community. We have the opportunity and the mandate now to 

reorganize our critical functions into a wisely adapted, more agile 

organization to ensure that continuity of knowledge and thought by 

deliberately executing the concept for USAWC 2020. 

Our confi dence in reshaping the 

institution is inspired in large part by our 

Dean of Academic Affairs. The wisdom 

and value of thoughtful change has 

been proven time and again under Dr. 

Bill Johnsen’s leadership of the college. 

Dr. Johnsen will close this chapter in 

his career, after almost a decade as the 

college’s leader, to leverage a wellearned 

sabbatical to write a book, then 

Johnsen 

return to the Army War College in a new role to help develop develop, inspire 

and serve strategic leaders. 

During Dean Johnsen’s tenure, thousands of USAWC grads have 

benefi ted from his wise, strong leadership. In addition to continuously 

adapting the curriculum, Bill has led many signifi cant positive changes, 

to include: regional academic accreditation to grant the Master’s 

of Strategic Studies; certifi cation as a Joint Professional Military 

Education-Level II program; a doubling of the size of the International 

Fellows student body in the resident class; and the establishment of 

“JIIM seminars” that refl ect the joint, interagency, intergovernmental 

and multinational environment in which our graduates work. 

Betros 

As A I look back in admiration on Dr. Johnsen’s 

contributions, c 

I look forward in anticipation 

to t the contributions of the next dean of the 

Army A War College, Dr. Lance Betros. He will 

transition t this summer from his current position 

as a Professor and Head of the Department of 

History H at the U.S. Military Academy, retiring 

at a the rank of Brigadier General. Dr. Betros 

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USAWC Commandants Update 

earned his Infantry commission at the U.S. Military Academy in 

1977. He commanded an infantry battalion, served as senior military 

aide to the Secretary of the Army and, at West Point, restructured the 

core curriculum in history, founded the West Point Center for Oral 

History, and was an innovative change agent in developing, educating 

and inspiring leaders for our Army. His doctorate in history from the 

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is consistent with a lifelong 

ppassion 

and respect for the value of 

hhistory 

to the military professional. 

Cucolo 

MMost 

recently, he published an 

aauthoritative 

history of the modern 

UU.S. 

Military Academy, “Carved in 

GGranite: 

West Point since 1902.” 

Faculty Excellence 


I 

will take great pride in passing 

rresponsibility 

for this extraordinary 

iinstitution 

to a magnifi cent leader, 

MMG 

Tony Cucolo, RES ‘98. As 

oour 

49th USAWC commandant, he 

wwill 

apply extraordinary experience 

aand 

wisdom earned across the 

sspan 

of Army and Joint missions, 

THE COL JOHN J. MADIGAN, III, 

WRITING COMPETITION AWARDS 

Dr. Bill Johnsen, Dean of Academics & DCS ‘94, presided over the 

Faculty Awards ceremony in Bliss Hall on December 7, 2011. In his 

remarks, he described the considerable pool of talent that our faculty 

represents. He added that each has set that example, gone far beyond 

what was expected and produced an outstanding product with far ranging 

effects, truly touching thousands of readers, listeners, and students. 

Congratulations to all those honored during the awards ceremony. 

Winning Authors. L-R: Dr. Kevin J. Weddle, RES ’99, “Th e Fall of Satan’s Kingdom: 

Civil-Military Relations and the Union Navy’s Attack on Charleston, 1863,” Th e Journal of 

American History (April 2011). Dr. Larry P. Goodson and Professor Th omas H. Johnson, 

“Parallels with the Past: How the Soviets Lost in Afghanistan, How the Americans are Losing,” 

Foreign Policy Research Institute E-Notes (April 2011). Dr. Tami Biddle -“Leveraging 

Strength: Th e Pillars of American Grand Strategy in World War II,” Orbis . Dr. Antulio 

J. Echevarria, II, DDE ’02, “American Operational Art, 1917-2008,” in Th e Evolution of 

Operations Art. COL Richard Lacquement, RES ’09, “Integrating Civilian and Military 

Activities,” Parameters (Spring 2010). Dr. Max G. Manwaring, RES ‘80 (best book), “Gangs, 

Pseudo-Militaries, and Other Modern Mercenaries: New Dynamics in Uncomfortable Wars,” 

International and Security Aff airs, Vol. 6. Dr. Paul Rexton Kan (not pictured) -“Making a 

Sandwich in Afghanistan: How to Assess a Strategic Withdrawal from a Protracted Irregular 

War,” Small Wars Journal, 24 February 2011:1-13 

to include command of the 3rd Infantry Division in combat. I know 

Tony will embrace this incredible opportunity to guide strategic leader 

development and education and make an enormous positive difference 

in the lives of our leaders, and for our Army, Joint Force and Nation. 

We teach that strategic leaders are masters of adapting organizational 

culture, of critical thinking, collaborative problem-solving and courageous 

decision-making. I trust that by applying those tenets of change leadership, 

we have triggered a wise path to a bright future. President Kennedy 

reminded us that “… time and the world do not stand still. Change is the 

law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to 

miss the future.” 

I look to the future with confi dence in this vibrant and vital institution. 

By developing and inspiring wise strategic leaders, we are advancing 

the vision of our founding father Elihu Root “not to promote war, but 

to preserve peace…” 

Prudens Futuri 

MG Gregg F. Martin, RES ‘00 

48th Commandant, USAWC 

HONORARY AND DEDICATED CHAIRS 

Honorary Chairs. L-R: Mr. P. J. Crowley, Th e Omar N. Bradley Chair of Strategic 

Leadership, and Dr. Carol Reardon, Th e Harold K. Johnson Chair of Military History. 

Dedicated Chairs. COL Th omas E. Sheperd, DDE ’09, Th e General Maxwell D. Taylor 

Chair of Th e Profession of Arms, and Professor Harry A. Tomlin, RES ’98, Th e General John 

J. Pershing Chair of Military Planning and Operations. 

Thanks to the Military Officers Association of America (MOAA) 

for supporting faculty awards though our Foundation. 

OFFICERS 

RECOGNIZED 

FOR 

MILITARY 

TENURE 

L-R: COL Deborah L. Hanagan, SSCF ’08, and COL Richard A. Lacquement, Jr., RES 

’09, Dept. of National Security and Strategy; COL Michael V. “Mik” McCrea, RES ’10, and 

COL Stephen C. Sobotta, RES ’08, Dept. of Command, Leadership and Management; and 

COL Ricky T. King, RES ’08, Dept. of Distance Education. Not pictured is COL Jerry 

Cashion, RES ’08, Department of Military Strategy, Planning and Operations.

ALUMNI 

Outstanding Alums Honored on USAWCs 110th Birthday 

GEN (Ret) Glenn K. Otis, LTG (Ret) Arthur J. Gregg, LTG (Ret) 

Theodore G. “Ted” Stroup, Jr. and MG (Ret) Edward B. “Ted” 

Atkeson were honored on December 12, 2011 for continued service 

following their retirements from military service. The Outstanding 

Alumni awards highlighted the student celebration of the Army 

War College’s 110th birthday. The Army War College Foundation 

sponsored the awards and the Bliss Hall event. 

“These leaders embody the fundamental purpose of the Army War College 

– to apply strategic leadership in service to the nation,” said MG Gregg 

Martin, Commandant. He added, “These four outstanding alumni stand 

out as exemplars of our values – strategic leaders for life. These four 

leaders took the lessons of the Army War College to the next level. After 

serving a full, distinguished career in formal military service, each wrote 

an entire post-War College and post-uniform chapter of service. They 

represent the best of us. They embody the strategic leader attributes we 

teach – vision, leadership, and selfl ess service to the nation.” 

Each of the honored graduates found in military retirement the 

opportunity to apply leadership to their passion, and each refl ected on 

the tremendous professional and personal growth they achieved as a 

result of their Army War College education. 

“When I retired, there were a 

number of community-based 

organizations and some national 

organizations that were doing 

great work for Americans and 

it was my great pleasure to join 

them,” said LTG (Ret) Gregg, 

Class of 1968. “Over time, 

you become very passionate in 

their mission,” he said about 

his service with organizations 

dedicated to education, youth, 

and opportunity. 

“It pays to be able to participate 

where you can achieve honesty,” 

said GEN (Ret) Otis, Class of 

1970. “When one comes to the 

War College, your view is quite 

narrow. The breadth and depth 

of subject matter here is just 

tremendous. It teaches you to use 

that knowledge for the future.” 

GEN (Ret) Glenn K. Otis, Class of 1970, 

Retired 1988 

LTG (Ret) Arthur J. Gregg, Class of 1968, 

Retired 1981 

“You have to fi nd an organization 

or activity that you enjoy and that 

you can relate to. In my case it 

was easy. It was to stay connected 

to the Army and continue to serve 

Soldiers and families,” said LTG 

(Ret) Stroup, Class of 1981. 

LTG (Ret) Th eodore G. Stroup, Jr., 

Class of 1981, Retired 1996 

“There are a lot of things that 

needed commentary and I’m a 

writer,” said MG (Ret) Atkeson, 

Class of 1969. “The experience 

and tone you get here gives you 

a fl exibility of mind that you can 

consider other problems that 

not every one may recognize. 

Leadership at the strategic level 

calls for more demands on the 

academic side of thought. It’s 

no longer just, ‘what should we 

be doing?’ and ‘how can we get 

MG (Ret) Edward B. Atkeson, 

Class of 1969, Retired 1984 

that done?’ It’s, ’what potential force do we need to back up our position 

and make sure people understand why we are doing it’?” 

Thanks to Tom Zimmerman, USAWC Public Affairs, and Megan Clugh, 

USAWC Photo Lab 

OUTSTANDING ALUMNUS PROGRAM 

Please consider nominating a graduate who you know is giving back 

to the nation in a major way following “retirement.” Nomination 

procedures and format can be found on the Foundation and Alumni 

website at www.usawc.org. 

THE BASIC REQUIREMENTS ARE: 

• Nominations must come from USAWC Alumni members 

• Nominee must be retired from the government service that was the 

source of USAWC attendance for at least one year 

• Nominee must have made signifi cant and lasting contributions through 

continued service to his or her community or country since retirement 

Previous Award Recipients 

GEN (Ret) Walter T. Kerwin . . . . . . . Class of 1957, Awarded 9 May 1997 

COL (Ret) Roger H. Donlon, MoH . . Class of 1984, Awarded 27 May 1997 

COL (Ret) George F. Qua . . . . . . . . . Class of 1979, Awarded 8 May 1998 

COL (Ret) William H. Wunder . . . . . Class of 1977, Awarded 8 May 1998 

COL (Ret) George W. Aux . . . . . . . . Class of 1964, Awarded 11 May 2001 

COL (Ret) Robert S. McGowan . . . . Class of 1971, Awarded 11 May 2001 (posth.) 

MG (Ret) John Russell Groves, Jr. . . Class of 1994, Awarded 30 Oct 2004 (posth.) 

COL (Ret) Michael A. Pearson . . . . . Class of 1993, Awarded 12 May 2006 

LTG (Ret) Dave R. Palmer . . . . . . . . Class of 1973, Awarded 22 August 2007 

GEN (Ret) Frederick J. Kroesen. . . . Class of 1962, Awarded 7 December 2009 

BG (Ret) Jerry L. Neff . . . . . . . . . . . Class of 1995, Awarded 7 December 2009 

COL (Ret) Buddy G. Beck. . . . . . . . . Class of 1976, Awarded 7 December 2009 

GEN (Ret) Donn A. Starry . . . . . . . . Class of 1966, Awarded 2 December 2010 

GEN (Ret) Gordon R. Sullivan . . . . . Class of 1978, Awarded 2 December 2010 

Dr. Lewis Sorley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Class of 1973, Awarded 2 December 2010 


IF HOF 

New International Fellows in Hall of Fame 

The College recently inducted three International Fellows (IFs) 

into the Army War College IF Hall of Fame. Congratulations to 

General David J. Hurley, Australia, Class of 1997, inducted on 

May 16, 2012, Lt Gen Claudio Graziano, Italy, Class of 1997, 

and Maj Gen Timothy J. Keating, New Zealand, Class of 2004, 

both inducted on March 22, 2012. To be inducted, graduates must 

have attained the highest positions in their respective nations’ armed 

forces, or have held an equivalent position by rank or responsibility 

in a multi-national organization. General Hurley became Australia’s 

Chief of Defense on July 4, 2011. On December 6, 2011, 


General General David David J. Hurley Hurley 

Lt Lt Gen Gen Claudio Claudio Graziano 

Graziano 

Maj Maj Gen Gen Timothy Timothy J. J. Keating 

Keating 

Lt Gen Graziano became Chief of the General Staff in Italy. Maj 

Gen Keating became Chief of Army in New Zealand on February 

15, 2011. The total number of Army War College IF Hall of Fame 

inductees is now 40, and we look forward to many more! 

MG and Mrs. Maggie 

Martin admire the photos 

of previous IF Hall of Fame 

inductees with the newest 

inductee, General Hurley and 

his wife Linda. 

Congratulations 

to these great 

offi cers! 

General Hurley and MG 

Martin move from Bliss Hall 

through the Hall of Flags to 

the IF Hall of Fame cove.

DDE 

Department of Distance Education Update 

Hello Distance Education (formerly Corresponding Studies) alumni 

and friends! 

We continue to expand our orientation program for incoming 

students. Many of you wrote in your surveys over the years that an 

orientation prior to starting the DDE program would be very helpful. 

Our successful “pilot” a few years ago convinced us to expand the 

voluntary, on-site orientation program to two weekends each Spring. 

The program is appreciated by the Class of 2014 students who attended 

this past month. If you know future DDE students who are unaware of 

this, please have them contact us. 

COL Rick Pacious, DDE ‘11 Class Treasurer, presented Ms. Lorie 

Southerland, Ft. Bragg Fisher House, a check for $3,922.53 in November 

2011. Th e approved class donation was the remaining balance of the DDE 

2011 class account. Fisher House is a unique private-public partnership that 

provides “comfort homes,” built on the grounds of major military and VA 

medical centers, enabling family members to be close to a loved one during 

hospitalization. Families must often travel great distances and incur many 

expenses during these extremely stressful periods. 

Summer is a busy time for the department with the incoming class and 

summer resident courses. Unfortunately, this also signals the time to 

say goodbye to some of our faculty and staff. Earlier this year, COL 

Dave Collins DDE ’05, course author for Theater Strategy, left for 

a new assignment in the G-6 at the National Guard Bureau. COL 

Roy Hall DDE ‘08, who directed the Campaigning course, leaves 

Carlisle to enjoy retirement. COL Dean Stodter RES ‘05, in charge 

of the Regional Issues and Interests course, also retired. COL Mike 

Moyer DDE ‘06, who ran the Strategic Leadership course, completes 

his retiree recall. CDR Kamran Dil, course author for the Second 

Resident Course, will move later this summer to Marine Corps War 

College as a faculty instructor. As you can see, the department will 

have several key positions to staff in the coming year. 

Those of you wanting to continue your education will be interested to 

know that the USAWC will release its Life Long Learning program to 

the public in the coming months. One of the courses available to all is 

our Effective Writing Seminar. Over the years, our faculty has seen the 

erosion of writing capabilities in our students. To combat this problem, 

DDE created a program to help students become better writers before 

taking their fi rst academic course. We wanted to offer the course to 

all in the hope that prospective students, distance or resident program, 

Mrs. Bev Cordrey (left), widow of COL Ted D. Cordrey, Chairman, DDE and 

RES ’89 grad, visited USAWC in March 2012 on what would have been Ted’s 65th 

birthday. With her was Ted’s sister, Ms. Connie Cummings, standing in front of the 

DDE Conference Room named for COL Cordrey. COL Cordrey suff ered a fatal 

heart attack in 1996 while he was Chairman of the Department of Corresponding 

Studies (now Distance Education). 

could benefi t from such an opportunity. We will eventually make all of 

our course directives available online. 

This is a challenging time for the Army. Many of our students are 

mobilized in Afghanistan or other locales and they continue their studies 

in an uncertain strategic environment. Budgets are under review. 

Our leaders scrutinize organizations and missions for relevancy and 

economies of scale. We believe the Distance Education Program has 

always provided a great educational value to the Army and with your 

support and help, we will continue to do so well into the future. 

If you have any questions or need help, do not hesitate to contact me 

at clayton.chun@us.army.mil or call me at (717) 245-3121 anytime. 

Dr. Clay Chun, Chairman, 

Department of Distance Education 

Brigadier General Meelis Kiili, IF Estonia, DDE ’11, visited USAWC in March 

with the Baltic Defense College Delegation. He is one of the exceptional International 

Fellows who has graduated from the Distance Education program and is very proud 

of that, as we are of him. He visited with the Commandant during the visit. 


ALUMNI EVENTS 

NYC Reception 

Th e Foundation held its 3d annual reception for alumni members, donors, current students, and friends of the Foundation 

during the visit of the Resident Class of 2012 to New York City. Th e event was held on November 17, 2011, at the Offi ces 

of Haynes & Boone, LLP, 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York City. 

NSS Wisconsin Reunion 


Wisconsin National Security Seminar (NSS) alums held a 

“tailgate” party on November 14, 2011 in Green Bay prior 

to the Packers Monday night football game against the 

Vikings. Neuske’s Applewood Smoked Meat’s provided 

a super lunch buffet at the fi rst class facilities of Jet Air 

Group. Dan Monken, AWCF Director for Development, 

provided an update on the College and the Foundation. 

L-R: John Lochner, ’10; Doug LaViolette, ’10; Charlie Lieb, ’09; Bruce Bressler, 

’10; Alan Timmerman, attending in ’12; Susan Finco, ’10; Bill Schuler, ’09; 

Dan Monken; Terry Fulwiler, ’09; Bob Nueske, ’11; and Carl Kuehne, ’06. 

Several NSS alums were in Green Bay for Veteran’s Day weekend to celebrate 

with 250 other attendees at “What’s Right with America, 11.11.11” hosted by 

the Brain LaViolette Foundation.

ALUMNI EVENTS 

Alumni Dinner, San Antonio, Texas 

Th e Foundation held a USAWC Alumni Dinner at the Embassy Suites Riverwalk in Downtown San Antonio on 

March 14, 2012. Th e grads and friends of the College who attended received an update from the Deputy Commandant 

and enjoyed visiting with classmates and other USAWC alums. 

Houston Event 

On April 11, 2012, Dr. (COL) Rob Nye, Deputy Dean of 

the College, visited with USAWC grads in Houston and 

provided a short update on College activities. Thanks 

to Dr. (MG, Ret) Robert R. Ivany, RES ’90 and former 

Commandant and current President of the University 

of St. Thomas, for co-hosting the event. 

Nye Ivany 


CSL Center for Strategic Leadership (CSL) 

MG Martin welcomes Ms. Flournoy by VTC to SLS 12-1, 

DoD Perspectives on 2012 Strategic Guidance. 

Senior Leader Seminar (SLS) 12-1 

incorporated lessons learned from the 

conduct of the SLS Pilot Course last 

August, refi ned guidance from GEN Robert 

Cone, CG, TRADOC, and added some 

new direction recently issued by GEN Ray 

Odierno, the 38th CSA. CSL executed this 

seminar at a new venue, the OPM Eastern 

Management Development Center (EMDC), 

Shepherdstown, West Virginia from January 

8 – 13, 2012. 

A total of 89 Army leaders attended 

the course – 70 colonels (58 ACC, 6 

USAR and 6 ARNG) and 19 DA civilians 

(GS15). These selected leaders were either 

recently assigned to or designated for 

assignment to key positions as advisors or 

staff offi cers for general offi cers or senior 

civilian leaders. The primary objective of 

the SLS program is to help achieve Army 

Leader Development Strategy Imperative 

8, “Prepare select leaders for service at the 

National level.” SLS provides a broadening 

educational experience for these leaders, 

giving an opportunity for a two-way 

exchange, and promoting understanding 

and accomplishment of the Army’s strategic 

messages, goals and objectives. 


SLS also provides an opportunity 

for participants to raise issues and 

concerns to TRADOC and Army 

leadership from their perspective, 

while providing a venue to network 

and establish, or expand relationships 

with one another. 

SLS employs an adult education 

model to achieve its goals and 

learning objectives. The program 

includes presentations by senior 

leaders and noted subject matter 

experts (practitioners, academics 

and commentators) with question and 

answer periods. Following these sessions, 

members of the USAWC Staff and Faculty 

facilitate small group (13 -16 participants) 

discussions to enhance and expand upon the 

material. Optional supplementary material 

is offered during noon time lectures. 

Daily, the SLS Senior Facilitator, LTG (Ret) 

Dave Barno, RES ’95, provided preparatory 

guidance and direction to pique interest 

and engage critical thinking about the day’s 

program. He also provided observations and 

insights, based on his senior leader experience, 

leavening the previous day’s discourse across 

small groups. The Senior Facilitator also 

assists in facilitating immediate and long term 

modifi cation of the program to achieve its 

goals and objectives. 

The response to SLS 

12-1 by participants 

was overwhelmingly 

positive, surpassing 

the accomplishments 

of the SLS Pilot 

by a wide margin. 

Almost 81% of course 

LTG (Ret) Dave Barno, RES ’95 and SLS 12-1 Senior Facilitator, emphasizes a critical 

point about transitioning into the future. 

Offi ce of Personal Management, Eastern 

Management Development Center (EMDC) 

GEN Cone spoke with COL Lew Irwin at a break 

following his presentation about Senior Leader 

Development. 

participants responded to the broad-based 

course survey. Respondents “strongly agreed” 

that the SLS program should continue. 

GEN Cone approved recommendations by the 

USAWC to execute two SLS courses in FY12. 

CSL expects to conduct SLS 12-2 the week of 

September 24, 2012 in Carlisle. 

by Profs (COLs, RET) Alan G. Bourque, 

RES ’04, & Eugene L. Thompson, DDE ‘01 

Program of Topics and Speakers for SLS 12-1 

Welcome Remarks ........................................ MG Gregg Martin (USAWC) 

Army Issues & Direction ............................... GEN Raymond Odierno (CSA) 

Army Senior Leader Development .............. GEN Robert Cone (CG, TRADOC) 

Army Profession After A Decade of War .... Dr. Don Snider (CAPE) 

Interacting with the Media ......................... LTG Vince Brooks (ARCENT) 

Senior Leaders: Avoiding Common 

Pitfalls & Misconceptions ............................. LTG Peter Vangjel (HQDA) 

The Economy and Its Effect 

on the Army and the Nation ....................... COL Mike Meese (USMA) 

Working with Executive Branch 

& Congress .................................................... Mr. Bill Sutey (SASC) 

MG Ben Hodges (OCLL) 

Working with other Fed Agencies .............. HON Mr. Aan D. Cohn (DHS) 

Ms. Karen Aguilar (DNSS) 

Civil-Military Relations ................................. Dr. Richard Kohn (UNC) 

The 7 Keys to Negotiations .......................... Dr. Jeff Weiss (Vantage) 

DoD Perspectives on Leading in a 

JIIM Environment ......................................... HON Ms. Michèle Flournoy (OSD-P) 

Future Policy Issues ....................................... Dr. Mike O’Hanlon (Brookings) 

Strategic Communications ........................... Ms. Sarah Nagelmann (OCSA) 

Transitions: Coming Out of Two 

Wars; the Future of DoD and the Army ...... LTG (R) Dave Barno 

Senior Facilitator .......................................... LTG (R) Dave Barno

NEWS 

News & Events 

On May 3, 2012, the women of the Army War College were joined by senior partners of 

Deloitte for a day-long leadership seminar. The USAWC women were a combination of female 

faculty members and students from the RES 12 class. 

De Serio Lecture Series 

The most recent keynote speaker in this great 2012 series was the 

Honorable James R. Clapper, Jr., 

Director of National Intelligence. 

Clapper 

LTG Ronald L. Burgess, Jr., Director, 

Defense Intelligence Agency, was the 

keynote speaker for the fi rst 2012 

De Serio Lecture. This lecture series 

honors the memory of Francis W. 

De Serio, a 1972 graduate of USAWC 

and former member of the Army War 

College Foundation Board of Trustees. 

JIM THORPE SPORTS DAYS 2012 

L-R: John Th orpe, grandson of Jim Th orpe, was on hand as MG Gregg F. Martin, Commandant, accepted 

a display of Jim Th orpe’s collegiate medals that were presented by Anne Marie Fitzpatrick and Ray 

Brader, both from Jim Th orpe, PA during the kickoff ceremony of the Jim Th orpe Sports Days activities 

in April. A century ago this July, the Carlisle Indian School student Jim Th orpe won gold medals in both 

the pentathlon and decathlon during the Olympic games in Stockholm, Sweden. Th e 2012 winner of the 

annual Jim Th orpe Sports Day competition was the Army War College! 

DELOITTE AND USAWC WOMENS LEADERSHIP SEMINAR 

L-R front row: Julie Manta (USAWC), Kerry Francis 

(Deloitte), Kathy Scherer (Deloitte), Julie Schaff er 

(USAWC), Maria Tsatas (Deloitte), Tami Biddle 

(USAWC), Barbara Adachi (Deloitte), Lucia Capozzoli 

(Deloitte), Amanda Kato (USAWC), Jen Carter 

(USAWC), Mel Romero (USAWC), Karen Dyson (US 

Army), and Ruth Collins (USAWC). 2d row: Yvonne 

Craver (Deloitte), Diane Devens (US Army), Beth 

Wald (USAWC), Pamela Downs (Deloitte), Marybeth 

Ulrich (USAWC), Judy Sloan (Deloitte), and Jo Dutcher 

(Deloitte). 3d row: Judy Robinson (USAWC), Jeanne 

McGovern (Deloitte), Tyra Harding (USAWC), Maureen 

Riggs (Deloitte), Katy Hollister (Deloitte), Tanya 

Crawford (Deloitte), Sarah Cuthill (Deloitte), Tammie 

Pettit (USAWC), and Marian Amrein (USAWC). 4th 

row: Debbie Geiger (USAWC), Rachel Page (Deloitte), 

Stephanie Wilcher (USAWC), Gina McLeod (Deloitte), 

Juli Moran (Deloitte), Sai Miyamoto (USAWC), Blanche 

Ostrowsky (USAWC), and Chris Yuengert (USAWC). 

Also attending but not pictured: Reem Samra (Deloitte), 

and Lorelei Coplen, Carol Eggert, Patty O’Keefe, and 

Traci Keegan from USAWC. 

L-R: COL (Ret) & Mrs. Bill Solomon, RES ’81; MG (Ret) & Mrs. Bill Burns, 

RES ‘72 & President Emeritus, AWC Foundation; LTG Burgess; Mrs. Charlotte 

Watts & her husband Bob; Dr. Bill Johnsen, Dean; Mr. Denis Kaufman, RES ’01 

& DIA Faculty Rep; and MG Gregg Martin, RES ’00 & current Commandant. 

Chuck 

Gentile 

is Retiring 

Yes, its really true! Carlisle Barracks Sports 

Director Chuck Gentile is retiring on June 6 th 

after 37 years of service. Over the years he 

has forged many friendships with students and 

families alike, and we send a big thanks to 

him. His offi ce is compiling a book of letters 

(or emails) for him to take with him into 

retirement so if you have anything you would 

like to share with Chuck as he transitions into 

retirement, please email Mannie Chesney at 

msches@comcast.net. (If youre reading this 

after June 6 th , its still OK to send them.) 


NEWS 

News & Events 

Mr. John Pemberton, Senior VP and General Counsel for 

Southern Company Operations and Southern Nuclear, (2nd 

from right) listens to Dr. Craig Nation (far right) during seminar 

discussions following one of the panels during the recent “Arab 

Spring Symposium” at the College. Mr. Pemberton represented 

Southern Company during the 3 day symposium which brought 

top academics and experts to the College on the subject. Thanks to 

the Southern Company Charitable Foundation for their generous 

contribution to support various speakers during the academic 

year. Mr. Stephen Lanier, Business Assurance Project Manager 

for Southern Company, attended a Commandants Lecture Series 

presentation by Dr. Eliot Cohen earlier in the year. 

BSAP STAFF RIDE 

These offi cers photographed on Little Round Top during 

a Gettysburg Staff ride are students of the Basic Strategic 

Art Program (BSAP), the basic qualifi cation course for 

Functional Area 59, Army Strategists. The Army War 

College has run the basic course for Army Strategists 

since 2003. This rigorous graduate level 14-week course 

is run three times a year, graduating an average of 16 

strategists per course. These offi cers will spend the rest 

of their careers serving as strategists on high level army, 

joint, and interagency staffs extending the War Colleges 

infl uence and reputation as the premier institution for 

strategic education. 

L-R: MAJ Shannon Way, MAJ John Ransom, MAJ Tom Miers, MAJ Jon 

Koernig, CPT Tim Tyner, MAJ C.J. Phillips, MAJ Doug Sweet, LTC Sean 

Counihan, MAJ Bryan Price, MAJ Karen Radka, MAJ Steve Hall, MAJ 

Roy Kempf, and MAJ Chris Luke. 


SOUTHERN COMPANY VISIT 

TUFTS STAFF RIDE 

The Colleges Center for Strategic Leadership (CSL) conducted a Strategic Leader 

Staff Ride to Gettysburg on April 1, 2012 in support of the Armys strategic 

communication outreach efforts. Participants included 22 graduate students 

enrolled at Tufts University in the Fletcher School International Security Studies 

Program. Included were two 2012 SSCFs attending Fletcher, COL William Ostlund 

and LTC John Maier Maier, who organized the visit. Fletcher students Mr. Mohammed 

Naser Yousofzay, Political Assistant for the Political/Military section, US Embassy, 

Kabul, and Commander Vasileios Loukovitis, Hellenic Navy, were also members 

of the group. COL Eric Ashworth, RES 06 06, the CSL staff ride leader, discussed the 

national strategic signifi cance of President Lincolns Gettysburg address at the 

conclusion of the staff ride. 

1982 and 1987 Class Reunions this Summer 

If you are a graduate of either the Resident or Corresponding Studies Class of 1982 or the Resident 

Class of 1987, you should have received an invitation to attend your class reunion this summer. 

The date for the 1982 reunion is July 12-14 and the date for the 1987 reunion is August 16-18. If 

you know any of your classmates who did not receive an invitation, please email or ask him or her 

to email us at: alumni@usawc.org as soon as possible. Great fun will be had by all!

NEWS 

News & Events 

HARVARD FELLOW IN HISTORIC CEREMONY 

LTC (P) Matthew R. Lewis, SSCF 12, was able to present a 

USAWC scarf to Harvard University President Drew Faust 

at the event welcoming Army ROTC back to Harvard 

University after 36 years. Senior Service College Fellows 

have been at Harvard University since 1988. 

VALUABLE PRINT 

RAFFLE 

We continually receive requests for 

the 1989 class print “Washington at 

Carlisle” by Mort Kunstler. This 

features the historic occasion of the 

President, as Commander-in-Chief, 

taking direct command of “the 

troops,” and doing so in Carlisle, 

PA to quell the Whiskey Rebellion. 

This print is considered to be one of 

the most beautiful, most expensive, 

and most diffi cult to acquire 

of the many outstanding prints 

commissioned by the classes since the print tradition 

started in 1986. We have acquired #218 of the 268 produced 

for the class edition, and we are offering it in a raffl e. Tickets 

CLASS GIFT PRESENTATION 

The Resident Class of 2012 presented its class gift to the College 

on May 1, 2012. This original oil painted by the Canadian 

artist Ms. Silvia Pecota, is a tribute to “Fallen Comrades” and 

is a beautiful expression of the sacrifi ce of Soldiers, Sailors, 

Airmen, Marines, Allies, and Civilians. Ms. Pecota is the fi rst 

Canadian and also the fi rst female artist to be commissioned 

to paint an Army War College class gift. L-R: LTC Dave 

Wilson, RES 12 Gift Committee Rep, MG Gregg F. Martin, 

Commandant, COL Bob Bennett, RES 12 President, and Ms. 

Silvia Pecota, Artist. Prints available via the Sutler gift shop. 

are $10 each, but active alumni 

members will get two tickets for 

the price of one, as is customary 

for other print raffl es we conduct 

on-site. For every $50 of tickets 

you purchase, you will receive 

an additional ticket (or two if 

you are an alumni member). 

The drawing will be held on the 

occasion of the celebration of 

the Army War College birthday 

when we recognize the 2012 

Outstanding Alums, currently 

scheduled for December 11, 

2012. We hope you will support 

this raffl e and perhaps you’ll be 

the lucky winner. Proceeds from the raffl e will benefi t our 

alumni scholarship program. 

Name: ______________________________________ Number of Tickets: __________ 

Address: ________________________________________________________________ 

Phone: __________________ Email Address: _________________________________ 

Please mail this form (or a copy) along with your check, money order, or credit card number to: 

USAWC Alumni A airs, 122 Forbes Ave., Carlisle, PA 17013. 

For more informa on, call 1-800-684-0884 or email: alumni@usawc.org. 

Your cket stubs will be returned by mail to you. 


BOOKS 

Books by Grads and Faculty 

My Mystery in Spain by CDR (Ret) Laurens 

Dorsey, RES ’66. This autobiography 

celebrates the rich genealogy of Dorsey’s 

family and his own colorful military career. 

Beginning with his graduation from the U.S. 

Naval Academy in 1948, Dorsey describes a 

life of duty and special experiences. Spain was 

among his notable travel locations as he served 

on 12 Navy ships, across seven seas and two 

great oceans. He proudly describes lecturing 

at the Naval War College, Army War College, 

Industrial College of the Armed Forces, and the 

Joint Staff and serving with Seals in Vietnam. 

Self-published with Troy Book Makers. 

The New Legions: American Strategy 

and the Responsibility of Power by MG 

(Ret) Edward B. Atkeson, RES ’69. In 

an era of extensive foreign commitments 

and seemingly perpetual irregular warfare, 

America’s traditional national security model 

no longer works. Our forces are exhausted, 

our small wars stalemated, and our defense 

budget under inexorable downward pressure. 

Atkeson reviews the political and military 

strategies that brought us to this point and 

proposes an innovative solution: shifting the 

military burden from U.S. soldiers and Marines 

to friendly indigenous fi ghters recruited, 

trained, and equipped for operation in their 

native environments. Looking back through 

history, Atkeson fi nds ample precedent for the 

effectiveness of similar legions of fi ghters. 

ISBN-13: 978-1442213777. 

George Washington’s Military Genius by 

LTG (Ret) Dave R. Palmer, RES ’73. While 

George Washington’s military successes are 

legend, many historians believe that his prowess 

was a result of luck and dumb persistence—lacking 

in strategic vision or tactical 

brilliance. Which view holds the most truth? 

In this book, Palmer produces an astute assessment 

of Washington’s performance in the 

fi eld. Beginning with an initial chapter that 

details the basic components of strategy as 

they were perceived by 18th-century Americans, 

the author breaks down the American 

Revolution into four phases and analyzes 

Washington’s strategy during each. “The British 

did not have to lose; the patriots did not 

have to triumph,” Palmer writes as he con- 


vincingly makes the case that Washington’s 

continuously changing military tactics were 

deliberate, strategic responses to the various 

phases of the war and not the result of his 

lacking a plan of action. Palmer addresses 

what guided Washington’s boldness in the 

fi rst year of the war; how Washington held 

his army together and built it up—with little 

or no money and, in the beginning, no allies; 

how Washington used European professionals 

to train his soldiers—and capitalized on the 

results; Washington’s keen appreciation for 

French naval power; and the secret of Washington’s 

unparalleled moral leadership, without 

which the war might not have been won. 

ISBN-13: 978-1596987913 

Of Duty Well and Faithfully Done: A 

History of the Regular Army in the Civil 

War by LTC (Ret) Clayton Newell, DCS 

’87, and Charles R. Shrader. On the eve of 

the Civil War, the Regular Army of the U.S. 

was small, dispersed, untrained for largescale 

operations, and woefully unprepared 

to suppress the rebellion of the secessionist 

states. Although it expanded signifi cantly 

during the war, reaching nearly 67,000 men, 

it was necessary to form an enormous army 

of state volunteers that overshadowed the 

Regulars and bore most of the combat burden. 

Nevertheless, the Regular Army played 

several critically important roles, notably 

providing leaders and exemplars for the 

Volunteers and managing the administration 

and logistics of the entire Union Army. In this 

fi rst comprehensive study of the Regular Army 

in the Civil War, the authors focus primarily 

on the organizational history of the Regular 

Army and how it changed during the war, 

to emerge as a reorganized and permanently 

expanded force. ISBN-13: 9780803219106. 

Between War and Peace: How America 

Ends its Wars, essays by a collection of 

authors/historians, including Dr. Andrew J. 

Bacevich, SSCF ’88, Dr. Conrad Crane, 

DCS ’95 & FAC, and Brian McAllister 

Linn, former FAC. Not all wars end 

decisively. Indeed, the endings of most wars 

are messy, complicated, inconclusive, and 

deeply intriguing. As the U.S. attempts to 

extricate itself from two long and costly wars 

in Iraq and Afghanistan, nothing could be 

more relevant than a look back at the ways 

America has ended its major confl icts in the 

past. Edited and with an introduction by 

COL Matthew Moten, a professor of history 

at West Point, the book explores the endings 

of 14 American wars, from the Revolution 

to the fi rst Gulf War. With incisive insight, 

narrative fl ourish, and strategic detail, some 

of America’s leading historians examine the 

progress of America’s wars: their initial aims— 

often quite different from their ends—their 

predominant strategies, their fi nal campaigns, 

the painful journeys out of war, and the 

ramifi cations of the wars’ ends for the nation’s 

future. This book confronts one of the most 

pressing issues of our time: how do we end 

confl ict and how do we deal with the country 

we are leaving behind? Taken together, these 

essays break new historical and theoretical 

ground, building on our current understanding 

of America’s history in ways that few studies 

have done before. A formidable enterprise 

of historical collaboration, this offers a 

penetrating look at the past in hopes of 

illuminating future debates that will determine 

the nation’s course between war and peace. 

ISBN-13: 978-1439194614. 

Leadership in my Rearview Mirror: 

Refl ections from Vietnam, West Point, and 

IBM by COL (Ret) Johnston L. Beach, 

RES ’92. With wit and wisdom, this book 

shares insights of a man who rose from being 

a reluctant draftee sent to fi ght in Vietnam 

to later becoming a colonel and an architect 

of the Department of Behavioral Sciences 

at West Point, and who currently works to 

develop IBM’s senior leaders. This book 

does not describe the view from the heights 

of leadership; rather, it identifi es the attributes 

and behaviors needed to make the climb and 

explains how to develop them in ourselves 

and in others. It emphasizes creation of 

organizational climates with 360 degrees 

of trust and deep engagement; explains the 

importance of intrinsic motivation; explores 

principle-based leadership; introduces The 

5 Trust Vital Signs; promotes collective 

leadership; and concludes with a statement 

of concise tenets of the author’s leadership 

philosophy. ISBN-13: 9781583473535.

Special Supplement for Alumni Members 

Spring 2012 

Dear Members, these are your extra four pages of USAWC news. You are getting this “insert” because you are 

one of our valued Alumni members. Thank you for your special support. 

Is your alumni membership expiring? 

Your mailinglabel should contain your current member number and the expiration date of your membership. 

If your membership expires soon, please consider renewing today! If you upgrade to a higher level of 

membership before your current membership expires, you can save money, too. 

Email us at: alumni@usawc.org or call 1-800-684-0884 

Recent Raffle Winners. Left: COL Tom Sheperd, DDE ‘09, won The 

World Turned Upside Down by Mort Kunstler, a RES ‘06 class print. Right: 

Dr. (COL, Ret) Tom Williams, DDE ’02, won Honor Answering Honor, r by 

Don Spaulding, a RES ‘88 print donated by COL (Ret) Bob Hervey, RES ’85. 

Raffles benefit the Alumni Scholarship Program 

Beautiful 16”x20” giclee prints of this 

LeTort Spring Run painting by 

MG (Ret) Ted Atkeson, RES ’69, are now 

available in our gift shop (online, too). 

News from a recent IF Class President. COL Wilfred (Wilf) Rietdijk, IF Netherlands, RES ’11, shared some 

wonderful news with us after a recent seminar for Dutch senior officers. With assistance from two of our 

USAWC faculty members, COL (Ret) Bob Coon, RES ’92, and COL Mike McMahon, RES ’01, both from DMSPO, 

the U.S. Army Design Methodology (ADM) was introduced to a group of 80 colonels and brigadier generals from 

the Royal NLD Army. Observers from the Royal NLD Navy and the NLD Defence Intelligence and Security Service 

also participated in the seminar. By introducing this, the Commander of the NLD Army, LGen Mart de Kruif, RES 

’03, wanted to stimulate strategic and critical thinking. MGen Marc van Uhm, RES ’01, opened the seminar and 

explained the aims of the three-day seminar and stressed the need for a methodology like the ADM in the 

current and future challenging environments. 

COL Wilf Rietdijk, IF Netherlands, RES ’11, put COL (Ret) Bob Coon, RES ’92, and COL Mike McMahon, RES ’01, to work using 

their faculty skills from DMSPO to help introduce the Army Design Metholodgy to the defense forces of the Netherlands. The 

senior observer for the exercise, MGen Harm deJonge, is between Bob and Mike in the right photo.

A total of $10,000 was awarded to 

the top 25% of applicants this year. 

Congratulations to all! 

Elliott Fowler 

Girone Klemmer 

Luckett Rebholz 

2012 Alumni Scholarship Winners 

Other High School Senior Winners 

in alphabetical order: 

Jared M. Ashworth (Carlisle H.S., PA), $500 

Son of COL Eric L. Ashworth, RES ‘04 

Alexis C. Donaldson (Easton Area H.S., PA), $500 

Daughter of COL Steven L. Donaldson, RES ‘11 

Carter P. Doyle (Scottsdale Christian Academy, AZ), $500 

Son of COL Craig P. Doyle, DDE ‘08 

Mark Douglas M. Girone (Midland H.S., IL), $500 

Son of COL Michael D. Girone, DDE ‘08 

Kaitlin F. Lathrop (St. Francis Catholic H.S., CA), $500 

Daughter of COL John W. Lathrop, SSCF ‘05 

Christian R. Nott (Paul VI Catholic H.S., VA), $500 

Son of COL Steven W. Nott, RES ‘10 

Mitchell R. Schwabel (Sherwood H.S., OR), $500 

Son of COL Jason E. Schwabel, RES ‘07 

Vincent A. Spinelli (Trinity H.S., PA), $500 

Son of COL Robert C. Spinelli, DDE ‘10 

Alexander R. Weaver (Heidelberg H.S., Germany) $500 

Son of COL Robert W. Weaver, RES ‘10 

Mary C. Yuengert (Carlisle Area H.S., PA) $500 

Daughter of COL (Ret) Louis G. Yuengert, RES ‘03 

Top College Winner $1000 

Madelynne D. Lockhart (University of Kansas), 

Daughter of COL Theodore C. Lockhart, DDE ‘11 

Other College Winners 

in alphabetical order: 

Christian R. Elliott (George Washington University), $500 

Son of COL Jeffrey R. Elliott, DDE ‘05 

Emily M. Fowler (Pennsylvania State University), $500 

Daughter of COL (Ret) Christopher W. Fowler, RES ‘02 

Katherine Rose Girone (University of Illinois), $500 

Daughter of COL Michael D. Girone, DDE ‘08 

Gunnar A. Klemmer (Harding University) $500 

Son of COL Keith A. Klemmer, DDE ‘07 

Daniel J. Luckett (College of William and Mary), $500 

Son of COL (Ret) James H. Luckett, DDE ‘01 

Kelly A. Rebholz (University of Virginia), $500 

Daughter of Col Alan F. Rebholz, USAF, RES ‘10 

Top High School Winner $1000 

Evan Q. Garr 

(Robert G. Cole H.S., TX) 

Son of COL Mary E. Garr, DDE ’10 and 

COL John H. Garr, DDE ‘11 

Ashworth Donaldson Doyle 

Girone Lathrop Nott 

Schwabel Spinelli Weaver Yuengert

Supplement for Alumni Members (cont.) 

Next year’s Alumni Member Scholarship Program. The 2013 Scholarship Program requirements will be posted 

on January 7, 2013 on our website (www.usawc.org). The application deadline will be March 8, 2013. If you are 

a life member and you have a son or daughter who is a high school senior or a freshman, sophomore, or junior 

undergraduate in college (and who has not received one of our scholarships previously), he or she may compete. 

We will award a total of $10,000 again this year. Winners will receive at least $500 and a max of $1000. 

Dear Alumni Members, 

Letter from the Alumni Affairs Committee Chairman 

The purpose of this letter is to seek nominations for next year’s Outstanding Alumni award. 

As you can see from the feature on page 5, 5 we have recently recognized another four incredible 

graduates who have joined 15 previous grads so honored. This is but a fraction of the deserving 

population, so please let me share a few insights about this honor in hopes that you will 

consider nominating a deservinggraduate. 

This recognition program is overseen by the Alumni Affairs Committee of the Army War College 

Foundation Board. Nominations are considered by the Committee in August of each year in 

advance of the final selections made at the annual Foundation meeting each September. That 

schedule makes it important for nominations to be submitted by early August of each year. 

Nominations should include a detailed description of the nominee’s significant and lasting 

contributions through service to their community or country since their retirement from 

government service. Particular attention will be paid to voluntary service. Nominations should 

be submitted with an endorsing cover letter from the nominator who must be an alumni 

member. Additional endorsements from those who may have witnessed the service will also be 

accepted and considered. 

It is not a graduate’s rank or achieved position that causes his or her nomination to rise to the 

top few selected. Rather, it is the “whole” of the graduate’s service after military or 

government service, as documented by the nominator and others. 

We request that you carefully consider from among your classmates, fellow graduates, or 

known graduates of the Army War College, those men and women who have continued toserve 

their communities and country in large or small, but truly meaningful, ways that have made a 

positive difference in the lives of many others. 

Nominations should be addressed to the Army War College Foundation, ATTN: COL (Ret) Ruth 

B. Collins, 122 Forbes Avenue, Carlisle, Pa 17013. 

Thank you! MG Wes Craig, Committee Chair, DCS ’93 & SRCOC ‘02

Supplement for Alumni members (cont.) 

When MG Deborah Ashenhurst, DDE ’99, The Adjutant 

General of Ohio, was back at USAWC recently, she askedus 

if we had any other “father/daughter grads” and frankly, we 

did not know! 

MG Ashenhurst’s father is COL (Ret) Robert Green, DCS ’81, 

and he’s pictured with her to the right. We know we have a 

good number of “father/son grads” and even two sets of 

“grandfather/father/son grads” (the McCaffreys and the 

Porters) but we would especially like to know if you are part 

of a “father/daughter” or even more uniquely, a “mother/ 

daughter” USAWC grad combination. 

We try to annotate all family relationships in our alumni 

directory, so please email us at alumni@usawc.org to make 

sure we know you are related to another USAWC grad. 

Lots ofnew gift items you must see! 

Our Online Gift Shop has seriously expanded e d; 

Now hundreds of items, books, jewelry, prints, clothing, etc.! 

Carlisle Barracks 

Poster 

by Susan 

Mountcastle. 

Back by popular 

demand. 

Great gift for 

graduation or any 

occasion. 

Special Gifts for all Occasions and Easy to Shop! 

Simply connect to our Sutler Online Gift Shop through www.usawc.org to purchase 

USAWC items any time. Most items are available for delivery within 5-7 working days. 

PayPal and most major credit cards accepted. 

20% Member Discount now available through Online Sutler Store! 

Did you know that 

we hold the rights to 

Once an Eagle and 

we had it recorded 

by Blackstone Audio 

in a full, unabridged 

audio book? 

RES ’12 Class Print, “Fallen Comrades” is available 

now. We have the full-sized and the miniatures. 

Miniatures are framed or unframed. 

Current Members: 

For your member 

discount, use this coupon 

code on “check out” from 

online store: 

alumni-2012

The Circle Game by Dr. (CAPT, Ret, 

USN) Cory Whitehead, RES ’92, tells the 

remarkable and sometimes painful story of 

her life in her autobiography. From her roots 

growing up in rural Pennsylvania to attaining 

the rank of Captain in the U.S. Navy, the 

book details her meteoric rise through the 

ranks while battling alcoholism and bi-polar 

disorder and the challenges they posed. In 

spite of her addiction and manic depression, 

she continued to face these challenges and 

rise above them, eventually commanding 

one of the largest major commands in 

the U.S. Navy of over 130,000 sailors. 

Amazon ASIN: B0074B5OZE. 

Warrior’s Rage: The Great Tank Battle 

of 73 Easting by COL (Ret) Douglas A. 

Macgregor, SSCF ’96. Experts warned 

Americans in 1991 that U.S. forces would 

suffer heavy casualties at the hands of Iraqi 

forces who allegedly knew how to hold 

ground from years of fi ghting Iranians. 

However, late in the afternoon of 26 Feb 91, 

the lead cavalry troops of “Cougar Squadron,” 

the 2d Squadron of the 2d Armored Cavalry 

Regiment, charged out of a sandstorm and 

caught Iraq’s Republican Guard Corps in the 

open desert along the North-South grid line of 

a military map referred to as the “73 Easting.” 

Taken by surprise, the defending Iraqi armor 

brigade was rapidly swept away in salvos 

of American tank and missile fi re in what 

became the largest tank battle in the history 

of the U.S. Army since WWII. This plunges 

the reader into the fi ght and its aftermath, 

explaining how a victory won decisively by 

soldiers on the battlefi eld was lost by a U.S. 

Army chain of command remote from the 

fi ghting. ISBN 978-1591145059. 

East of the Orteguaza: The Story of 

an American Military Advisor and the 

Colombian Drug War by COL (Ret) Victor 

M. Roselló, RES ’97. The book’s title is a 

geographic reference to an actual place in 

time -- a military base that was at the center 

of the drug war, deep inside the jungles of 

southern Colombia. The story is told as 

historic fi ction, but is steeped in facts and 

inspired by true events as experienced by 

the author while assigned to Colombia. It 

focuses on the many facets of the US military 

advisory mission in the jungles, valleys, 

plains, and mountainous regions of Colombia 

in support of the Colombian Armed Forces. 

There are chapters on combat action with 

FMLN commandos in El Salvador and 

FARC guerrillas in Colombia. This book 

puts to rest the question of what American 

military advisors do in Colombia in support 

of their host’s efforts to combat drugs. 

ISBN-13: 978-145-3691649. 

Leading the Narrative: The Case for 

Strategic Communication by MG Mari 

K. Eder, DDE 01. This is a primer on the 

art and science of strategic communication, 

covering the foundation of communication 

strategies as well as solid tactics, techniques, 

and procedures for media relations, campaign 

planning, crisis communication, and 

strategic communications planning. It takes 

a compelling look at how communications 

processes can be made to function more 

effi ciently and with greater effectiveness, 

whether conducted by governments, 

organizations, or military units. From the 

most basic precepts of media relations to 

massive information campaigns originating 

from government or major corporations, Eder 

argues that communication that is broadbased 

and tied to strategic objectives can 

succeed using a variety of methods from 

storytelling to building external champions. 

ISBN: 978-1-61251-0477 

Somewhere in France, Somewhere in 

Germany, by Mr. Francis P. Sempa, NSS 

’07, tells the story of his father’s journey 

through WWII. His father entered military 

service as part of the 29th Infantry Division 

in April 1941, landed on Omaha Beach on 

D-Day-plus one, fought in the treacherous 

hedgerows of Normandy, participated in 

the capture of St. Lo and the siege of Brest, 

assaulted the fortifi cations of the Siegfried 

Line, crossed the Rhine River, and reached 

the west bank of the Elbe River. He earned the 

Bronze Star, Combat Infantryman’s Badge, 

the Arrowhead, four campaign ribbons, 

and the Good Conduct Medal. Throughout, 

Sempa dutifully wrote letters home to his 

parents and brother. Using those letters, local 

newspaper articles, the 29th Division’s After 

Action Reports, and several books about 

the history of the 29th Division in WWII, 

Francis Sempa traces his father’s steps from 

training camps in the U.S. and England to 

the battlefi elds of France and Germany. 

ISBN-13: 9780761856085. 

Fighting Today’s Wars: How America’s 

Leaders have Failed our Warriors, by Lt 

Col (Ret) David G. (Bo) Bolgiano, RES 

’09 and James M. Patterson. This is a 

critical commentary on our military strategy, 

providing background on the law of war, 

boots-on-the-ground examples of how 

interpretation has gone awry in practice, and 

analysis on how these laws should be applied. 

It considers how misinterpretations of law 

and policy can misdirect the military from the 

objective of achieving victory, particularly 

when nation-building, peacekeeping, and 

counterinsurgency operations objectives are 

confl icting. ISBN-13: 978-0811707763 

With a Sword in One Hand and Jomini in 

the Other: The Problem of Military Thought 

in the Civil War North (Steven and Janice 

Brose Lectures in the Civil War Era) by Prof. 

Carol A. Reardon, FAC. When the Civil War 

began, Northern soldiers and civilians alike 

sought a framework to help make sense of 

the chaos that confronted them. Many turned 

fi rst to the classic European military texts 

from the Napoleonic era, especially Antoine 

Henri Jomini’s Summary of the Art of War. 

As the author shows, Jomini’s work was only 

one voice in what ultimately became a lively 

and contentious national discourse about how 

the North should conduct war at a time when 

warfare itself was rapidly changing. She 

argues that the absence of a strong intellectual 

foundation for the conduct of war at its start- 

-or, indeed, any consensus on the need for 

such a foundation--ultimately contributed 

to the length and cost of the confl ict. 

Debates over principles of military thought 

entered into the question of qualifi cations 

of offi cers entrusted to command the 

armies of Northern citizen soldiers, and 

affected the human elements of combat. 

ISBN-13: 978-0807835609 


SSI XXIII Annual Strategy Conference 

The College’s Strategic Studies Institute (SSI) sponsored the 23rd 

Annual Strategy Conference April 10-12, 2012. The topic, “The 

Future of U.S. Grand Strategy in an Age of Austerity: Challenges 

and Opportunities,” resonated and resulted in record-breaking 

attendance and lively discussions. 

The Conference began with the traditional evening reception sponsored 

by the AWC Foundation and hosted by the Commandant. The next 

morning the keynote speaker and panelists began the task of analyzing 

how the military needs to adapt to an era of constrained resources and 

the changing global security environment. The conference coincided 

with the U.S. undertaking its fourth post-World War II defense 

drawdown, similar to that which occurred following the Korean War, 

the Vietnam War and the Cold War. Panelists included experts from 

major universities and think tanks as well as from the U.S. and foreign 

military services. The attendees were from academia, the defense 

industry, the U.S. national security community, and other government 

organizations as well as foreign governments. 

While SSI serves the strategic communities with extensive publications 

and analysis, one of its greatest contributions to the Army is this annual 

event. It brings together a wide audience of strategy experts to the 

War College and provides an opportunity for students to interact with 

leading policymakers and strategic experts such as Martin Van Creveld, 

Michael Howard, Eliot Cohen, Colin Gray, Dick Cheney, Rupert Smith, 

and Richard Perle. The Honorable Richard Armitage delivered this 

year’s keynote address. 

Armitage, a career diplomat and 

the former Deputy Secretary 

of State for the George W. 

Bush Administration and now 

the President of Armitage 

International, opened the 

conference with a survey 

of U.S. challenges and 

opportunities in the world. 

Th e Honorable Richard Armitage 

His presentation began with 

and focused on developments in Asia, refl ecting the Asian-orientation 

of the current Pentagon leadership. In Armitage’s view, a bipartisan 

consensus now exists among U.S. leaders regarding the key elements 

of U.S. foreign policy toward Asia. The remainder of the keynote 

address was a tour-de-force of U.S policy worldwide, providing insight 

This prominent group of defense 

industry executives were key 

participants in the Resident Class 

Defense Enterprise Management 

Course on February 15, 2012. 


into the realities and myths associated 

with U.S. interests and challenges in 

each region. 

During the question and answer period, Armitage self-identifi ed 

as an American exceptionalist and called the current literature and 

congressional bickering a natural self-correction in a vibrant and 

effective political system. So, while the U.S. might be declining 

somewhat relative to some other countries, Armitage believes the U.S 

will remain the indispensable nation for years to come. 

Six expert panels completed the remainder of the two-day conference. 

Conference speakers emphasized making strategic choices based on 

merits rather than budget. The U.S. should fi rst ask what it wants to do in 

the world, rather than how much it will cost. It also needs to acknowledge 

that the defense budget cuts currently 

under consideration will in many cases 

lead to reductions in U.S. capabilities 

and missions, rather than to more 

effi ciency. But the budget constraints 

also provide incentives to experiment 

with new technologies and equipment 

that promise new capabilities at lower 

cost. 

During the banquet, the Honorable 

James Locher gave a presentation 

dealing with strengthening the U.S. 

government’s civilian national 

security agencies. Locher, President 

LTG Keith C. Walker, RES ‘95, 

participated in one of the conference 

panels. He is currently the Director, Army 

Capabilities Integration Center. 

of the recently terminated Project for National Security Reform, 

observed that the U.S. government still suffers from major problems 

with strengthening national capacity through a “whole-of-government” 

approach, despite the current administration’s commitment to making 

major progress in this area. 

That the Army War College would host a conference on how the military 

can live with a lower budget should come as no surprise. SSI will 

continue to serve these strategic communities by producing leadingedge 

thinking on national security strategy and policy, particularly as it 

affects land power employment. Look for future publications resulting 

from this Annual Strategy Conference, and the national dialogue that 

generates from it throughout the next year.

PKSOI Update 

As many of you know, the Peacekeeping and Stability Operations 

Institute (PKSOI) started its Internship Program in the summer of 2009 

and it’s time for an update. PKSOI has just fi nished its 8th cycle of 

interns for 67 total. This very special internship program integrates 

PKSOI’s interns as full-fl edged members of the team and they 

accomplish some remarkable projects. 

Most students arrive in conjunction with an academic semester and work 

that entire semester. During their orientation, interns are provided their 

work project requirements. Some projects are individual projects, but 

this past fall semester, a group of four, including one ROTC cadet, was 

tasked to work on the Army Training System for COL Jim Ruf , RES 07. 

Another major project was to support the International Association of 

Peacekeeping Training Centres (IAPTC) Conference. This conference 

had over 180 senior military, police, and civilian peacekeeping trainers 

from around the world. PKSOI, Tufts University, and the U.S. Naval 

Academy cooperated to bring in four additional students to support 

PKSOI Interns supported IAPTC. L-R front: COL Cliff Croff ord, RES ‘06, PKSOI Director; 

Rithwik Hari, Tufts; Leo Choi, Tufts; MG Gregg F. Martin, RES ‘00 & Commandant ,U.S. 

Army War College. Top L-R: Guktae An, Tufts; Midshipman Chris Davies, USNA; Anna 

Krenkel, Dickinson College 

The Peacekeeping and Stability 

Operations Institute (PKSOI) of the 

Army War College hosted the IAPTC 

in November 2011. Typically, the 

conference brings together about 200 

participants from member associations 

throughout 60 countries and this 

was the fi rst time IAPTC held it in 

the U.S. The focus of the conference 

is how to best train and prepare 

peacekeeping forces to do their job 

at a time when funding and resources 

are increasingly scarce, yet worldwide 

demand for peacekeeping is high. 

PKSOI is a founding member of the 

global association, which was created 

in 1995. We took the opportunity to 

gather USAWC grads who attended 

the IAPTC conference. 

IAPTC as note takers for the Conference. COL Ruf lent some of his 

interns to the project and PKSOI was able to provide the opportunity 

for these students to participate in IAPTC and meet participants from 

around the globe and practice their foreign language skills. One of 

the Graduate interns, a law student from Syracuse University, was the 

report writer and participated in the Conference. 

Each year, PKSOI, in coordination with other organizations in the 

Interagency, fi nd projects that need to be addressed and this is often the 

source of intern projects. For example, last year, PKSOI had a group of 

students from the University of Pittsburgh tackle a joint project which 

involved a paper and a presentation in Washington, D.C. to senior 

staff at Department of Justice. This spring, PKSOI has several intern 

projects that require coordination within the Army and the Interagency. 

PKSOI has long recognized that Civilian/Military cooperation is 

essential to success in complex operations. Often, we expect to 

cooperate at levels after participants have had a career working in their 

own culture and are not, necessarily, as open to one another as may be 

desired. This is where internships come in. PKSOI brings in college 

students from diverse backgrounds, most having never been associated 

with the military and often with seemingly unrelated college majors 

(peace and justice studies versus security studies). Politically, they 

fall all over the political continuum. They come to PKSOI, blend and 

bond, and will better work together as civilians and military. 

Surprisingly, students who we think will never go into the Army, 

sometimes do! A pleasant, unintended consequence is that we have 

had non-cadets join the Army (even for other countries). Two of our 

doctoral candidates have gone back to their host countries and become 

Army offi cers (Cambodia and Canada). 

An internship program requires a devoted staff, willing to mentor young 

adults, and PKSOI is fi lled with such individuals. This combines for 

outstanding results. 

International Association of Peacekeeping Training Centres (IAPTC) 

L-R Front: COL (Ret) William Martinez, RES ’93; COL (Ret) Daniel Pike, DCS ’96; MG Gregg Martin, RES ’00 & Cmdt; 

LtGen (Ret) Hasan Chowdhury, IF Bangladesh, RES ’92; MajGen Jorge Pena, IF Ecuador, RES ’96; and COL Lorelei Coplen, 

RES ’08. L-R Back row: COL (Ret) Christopher Holshek, RES ’06; LTG (Ret) Joseph Inge, RES ’87; Col (Ret) Nicholas 

Seymour, IF UK, RES ’99; Mr. Jeff rey Stefani, RES ’05; COL (Ret) Scott Wuestner, RES ‘08’ ; COL Timothy Loney, RES ’09; 

and COL Cliff ord Croff ord, RES ’06, Director, PKSOI. 


MISC USAHEC 

U.S. ARMY HERITAGE & EDUCATION CENTER 

I am honored to join this organization as 

the new Director, and I look forward to a 

busy future here. The number of events and 

activities the USAHEC has hosted for both 

military units and the general public during 

the short time I’ve been here is amazing. The 

centerpiece of our growing campus is the 

new Visitors and Education Center (VEC). 

Through a unique public-private partnership 

managed by the Army Heritage Center 

Foundation (AHCF), it opened to the public 

in May 2011. The VEC multi-purpose rooms 

have already become the most sought after 

meeting and conference facilities in the region, 

augmenting our already high tourist visitation. 

In addition, the USAHEC and the AHCF 

established a partnership with the Cumberland 

L-R: Liz Knouse, Tom Hendrix, Judy Scott, Elaine Leist, 

Mike Perry, DCS ‘97, MG Gregg Martin, and Buck Swisher 

cut the ribbon for the grand opening of Café Cumberland. 

Valley Visitors Bureau, in cooperation with 

the Carlisle Barracks Morale, Welfare, and 

Recreation Offi ce to promote heritage tourism 

in the region, opening a tourism information 

desk in the VEC building in May 2012. 

One of our core missions is to support the U.S. 

Army and military organizations. Already this 

year, we have hosted 88 visits, including the 

TRADOC Senior Leaders Conference, the John 

F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School, 

the U.S. Army Recruiting Command, the U.S. 

During Education Day of Civil War 150: Going to Winter 

Camps living history event, Confederate Artillerymen 

explained the role of the canon during the Civil War to visiting 

school groups. 


Air Force Recruiting Command, Military 

History Detachments, USAWC seminars, and 

military support organizations such as the 

local West Point Society, the Military Offi cers 

Association of America (MOAA), and the 

Association of the U.S. Army (AUSA). 

Sykes’ Regulars with the 2d and 4th US Infantry Civil War 

re-enactors at our Re-enactor Recruiting event attracted over 

500 visitors on a Saturday afternoon. 

The USAHEC also partnered with the National 

Park Service, the State of Pennsylvania, 

Dickinson College, and other local organizations 

to commemorate the 150th Anniversary of 

the Civil War (2011-2015). Our 7,000 sq. ft. 

VEC gallery space hosts our newest exhibit, A 

Great Civil War: The Union Dissolved, 1861, 

which commemorates the fi rst year of the Civil 

War. Understanding War Through Imagery: 

The Civil War in American Memory, uses our 

extensive Civil War photograph and archive 

collections to follow two Soldiers through their 

experiences during the war. We complement 

this presentation with a look at Women in the 

Civil War and Civil War Illustrators. 

We continue to honor the service and memory 

of General of the Army Omar N. Bradley in our 

special display room. The Bradley Exhibit is 

scheduled to run through AY 2012. Our next 

exhibit, The Soldier Experience, will feature 

the history of the U.S. Army from the Spanish 

American War through current operations and 

will open in the VEC Gallery in November. 

Outdoor living history programs remain one 

of our largest forms of public outreach. Last 

May’s Army Heritage Days set new records 

for attendance with more than 11,000 people to 

the complex. Red Falvey, a WW II paratrooper 

and veteran of the Normandy jump, celebrated 

his 90th birthday last August by making one 

more parachute jump with the assistance 

of the Ranger Group, the civilian nonprofi t 

organization that supports our living history 

programs with parachute demonstrations. 

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett attended this 

event, with a 

crowd of more 

than 1100. 

Our schoolaged 

education 

programs have 

continued to 

expand, with 

over 2,300 

students from 

31 schools, 

home school 

programs and 

SFC (Ret) Michael Elliott presented 

Red Falvey with a framed print with 

the motto “Living the Dream.” 

summer camps visiting during fi eld trip season. 

Our Fall living history event last September 

brought nearly 1,000 students from 12 schools 

and home school programs to take part in an 8 

station program focused on Soldier life in the 

fi rst year of the Civil War. 

Our lecture series continue to be popular, 

welcoming an average of over 100 visitors 

to each of the 16 lectures. We sponsor the 

Perspectives in Military History lecture series, 

we jointly sponsor the “Great Decisions” 

lecture series with the local AUSA chapter, 

and we hold the quarterly Brooks E. Kleber 

Memorial Readings in Military History. 

In order to attract visitors during the winter, we 

created a series of workshops and presentations 

that helped historians and living history 

enthusiasts shake off their “cabin fever.” The 

January workshop, “Genealogy and the Family 

Historian,” required registration, and within 24 

hours of the press release to local newspapers, 

there was a waiting list of over 100 people. 

The most successful of the events was the Reenactor 

Recruitment Day, which invited reenactment 

groups to the facility to help them 

engage new members. In addition to the 170 

re-enactors, we had a record-breaking number 

of visitors for a Saturday in February. 

Our mission at the U.S. Army Heritage and 

Education Center is to preserve U.S. Army 

heritage and educate the Army and the Nation 

on the role of the Soldier in the development 

and protection of the Nation. We do that in 

unique and interesting 

ways, and we are 

looking forward to your 

visit in the near future. 

COL Matthew Dawson, 

Director, USAHEC

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MG (Ret) John A. Hoefl ing, RES ’65, is happy that he and his 

wife, Pat, are still in good health. 

COL (Ret) William B. De Graf, RES ’66, says life is great with 

old and new friends at the Fairfax. 

CDR (Ret) Laurens Dorsey, RES 

’66, published his autobiography this 

year entitled My Mystery in Spain 

(see “Books by Grads” on p. 14). 

MG (Ret) Phillip Kaplan, RES ’68, is still in LaQuinta, CA – at 

PGA West – enjoying golf and great weather. 

LTG (Ret) Richard G. (Dick) Trefry, RES ’69, received the 

honor of having the American Public University System 

Technology Center named for him last year. LTG (Ret) Trefry is 

an active Trustee there, as he is still with the Army War College 

Foundation. 

MG (Ret) Carl H. McNair, Jr., RES ‘ 71, was 

presented the 2011 Army Historical Foundation 

President’s Award at the Fort Belvoir Offi cers 

Club by BG (Ret) Creighton W. Abrams, Jr., Executive Director of the 

Foundation, during the Annual Meeting and Awards Banquet on June 12, 2011. 

COL (Ret) John Edward Gray, RES ’72, works extensively 

with “The Chosin Few” veterans organization, which gets its 

name from the Korean War Chosin Reservoir Campaign. 

John is Director Emeritus, Past National President, and Past 

Army Chapter President. 

COL (Ret) Aubrey F. Messing, Ph.D., DCS ’72, retired as 

program manager for Fossil Fuels and Advanced Generation 

R & D projects from the Empire State Electric Energy 

Research Corporation in 1993. He retired from the Army in 1988. 

COL (Ret) James R. Woodall, RES ’72, is enjoying retirement in College Station, Texas, 

spending time traveling, writing and watching Aggie sports. His book “Texas Aggie Medals of 

Honor” was published by the Texas A & M University Press in 2010. He is now working on 

another book for 2012. 

COL (Ret) Arthur E. (Gene) Dewey, RES ’73, was presented the 2011 John 

W. Gardner Legacy of Leadership Award from the White House Fellows 

Alumni Foundation and Association in Washington, DC at the annual White 

House Fellows Alumni Legacy of Leadership Conference on October 29, 

2011. Gene and Priscilla reside at the Uniformed Services Retirement 

Community Knollwood, Washington, DC. 

P. Taylor 

Searock 

Mott 

COL (Ret) Porcher L. Taylor, Jr., Ph.D., RES ’73, 

reports that he is doing fi ne. He is proud of all his 

achievements: Tuskegee Airman; USAWC Faculty, 

1973-1974; War Veteran: World War II, Korean War and 

Vietnam War; also served in the U.S. Navy as 3rd Class 

Petty Offi cer; Life Member: 555th 

Parachute (Airborne) Association, 

Tuskegee Airmen, Inc., Disabled 

American Vets, the American Legion, 

and Veterans of Foreign Wars. 

RADM (Ret) Jeremy D. Taylor, RES ’75, is proud 

and grateful to be an “able retiree” (0% disabled) 

after 37 years USN (Tailhooker and carrier Admiral) 

and 20 years retirement in Utah. GO NAVY! 

Lt Gen (Ret) Charles J. Searock, Jr., RES ’76, is “still messing” with 

airplanes and now lives in Edmund, Oklahoma, close to family and 

friends. He says that his year at the USAWC was THE BEST. 

COL (Ret) Richard C. Martin, RES ’77, after graduating from USAWC, 

served as a seminar group instructor for three years, then served 

on the U.S. Army Europe staff as Chief of Production and 

Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff, Intelligence, then returned to the 

USAWC faculty in the Center for Land Warfare until retiring in 

1985. Next came 20 years in defense contracts and retirement 

from Northrop Grumman. He is now living in Austin, Texas. 

BG (Ret) Harry J. Mott III, DCS ’77, and his wife, Mary, 

moved to Dallas, Texas from Hempstead, New York in 

January 2012. 

COL (Ret) Robert P. Schloesser, Ph.D., RES ’78, at age 76, is 

still working as the Director of Family, Morale, Welfare and 

Recreation in Wiesbaden, Germany, and loves it. As an Army 

brat since December 8, 1942, he feels there could not be a better 

way to serve than taking care of soldiers and their families. In 

this photo, he and the USAG Wiesbaden Commander, COL 

Jeffrey Dill, SSCF ’09, cut a ceremonial cake to mark the 

signing of the Employee and Customer Covenant. 

Qua 

Trefry 

Dorsey 

McNair 

Dewey 

J. Taylor 

Schloesser 

COL (Ret) Clifford M. Kurrus, DCS ’79, enjoyed the USAWC reunion in 

St. Louis last year to see the World Champions St. Louis Cardinals. 

COL (Ret) George F. Qua, DCS ’79, returned to USAWC for the 2011 

Outstanding Alum ceremony. George was one of the fi rst awardees (1998) 

after the program was established in 1996. George developed and is now 

teaching a course at Cuyahoga Community College (Ohio) entitled, “The 

Infl uence of the U.S. Military on American Society.” He was prompted by 

the fact that less than 1% of our country’s population today has any contact 

with our nation’s servicemen and women. 

RES – Resident 

DCS – Department of Corresponding Studies 

DDE – Department of Distance Education 

(DCS renamed as of 1 Jun 98) 

SRCOC – Senior Reserve Component Offi cers Course 

Averill 

Vollrath 

SSCF – Senior Service College Fellow 

FAC – Faculty 

NSS – National Security Seminar 

SIS – Strategy Implementation Seminar 

COL (Ret) Ronald H. Averill, DCS ’81, is still at work at “74” 

as the elected County Commissioner of Lewis County, 

Washington. 

COL (Ret) James C. Peterson, DCS ‘81, retired 1 April 2011 

and is now working for Mutual of America as a consultant in 

leadership development. 

LTG (Ret) Frederick E. Vollrath, RES ’81, has been appointed to the 

Senior Executive Service (SES) as Principal Assistant Secretary of Defense 

for Readiness and Force Management, Offi ce of the Under Secretary of 

Defense (Personnel and Readiness), Washington, DC. 

BG (Ret) Clara L. Adams-Ender, DCS ’82, attended 

the 50th reunion of her undergraduate class at North 

Carolina Agriculture & Technical State University, where 

the General Clara Adams-Ender Professor’s Chair in 

Nursing was established last year. In November 2011, North Carolina State 

University established the General Clara Adams-Ender Scholarship for 

Global Understanding. She also came back to Carlisle in January 2012 as the 

keynote speaker for the Martin Luther King commemoration. 

COL (Ret) Norbert F. Smith, DCS ’82, and his wife, Maryellen, are greatly enjoying retired 

life in Williamsburg, Virginia. 

LTG (Ret) Dennis L. Benchoff, RES ’83, retired in 1998 and has been an Adjunct Professor 

of Mathematics at Harrisburg Area Community College since 2001. 

Stults 

COL (Ret) Catherine H. Foster, RES 

’83, received the “Service to the 

Community” award from Marquette 

University in April 2011. She is a 

decorated Army nurse, Peace Corps 

volunteer, and global humanitarian, 

having worked extensively in Nepal 

where health care was not readily 

available, as well as numerous other 

remote locations. She has been an active 

member of the Veterans Commission, a 

World Health Organization consultant, 

and a Fulbright Senior Scholar. She 

received the Lillian Carter Award in 

2009 for her lifetime achievements in 

community and global health. 

COL (Ret) Earle F. Lasseter, DCS ’83, was elected 

Judge Advocate General of the Military Order of the 

World Wars. 

COL (Ret) Theodore M. (Ted) Stults, II, DCS ’83, was inducted into the 2011 Ohio Veterans 

Hall of Fame. The plaque is displayed in the State House. 

COL (Ret) Kenneth K. Yamanouchi, RES ’83, was inducted into the 

Arizona Veterans Hall of Fame in October 2011 for contributions to 

community, state, and country since retirement from the Army. 

Yamanouchi 

COL (Ret) Ted R. Maddry, RES ’84, has retired after 17 years serving the 

State of Texas in various managerial positions, the last being State 

Coordinator for Resources and Logistics, Texas Division of Emergency 

Management. He plans to stay busy and enjoy friends and family. 

MG (Ret) Howard T. Mooney, DCS ‘84 & SRCOC ‘96, was selected to co-chair the County’s 

Veterans and Military Families Commission in Howard County, MD. 

COL (Ret) William A. (Bill) Van Horn, RES ’84, was selected to 

serve on the Stewardship Council of the Appalachian Trail 

Conservancy from July 2011 through July 2013. 

COL (Ret) Ted A. Cimral, RES ’85, is President of the 

Transportation Corps Aviation Association and Secretary of the 

Army Transportation Museum Foundation. 

Mountcastle 

BG (Ret) John W. (Jack) Mountcastle, RES ’85, and his wife 

Susan are thoroughly enjoying their grandparent years. Susan is still 

painting, Jack is teaching at the University of Richmond and leading 

tours of Civil War and World War II battlefi elds, and both are 

volunteer tutors at an inner-city school in Richmond. 

COL (Ret) Hubert S. Shaw, Jr., RES ’85, and his wife Deborah are 

enjoying retirement in St. James Plantation, NC. He has done work for 

Army veterans applying to the ABCMR in his spare time. They enjoy their 

summers in Maine and have 8 grandchildren and 8 great grandchildren. 

COL (Ret) Joseph T. Cox, RES ’88, is the Headmaster of the Haverford 

School in Haverford, PA. His son, Matt, is a Major at CGSC. His daughter, 

Amsley, is an engineer working on local school projects and is coaching 

lacrosse. 

Peterson 

Adams- Adams-Ender Ender 

Lasseter 

COL (Ret) Robert J. Familetti, RES ’88, presided over the 40th 

anniversary of the South Jersey Chapter of MOAA as President. The 

guest speaker at the event was COL (Ret) Robert F. Norton, another 

RES ’88 classmate, Deputy Director, Government Relations, HQ, 

MOAA. 

BG (Ret) Robert M. Murdock, RES ’88, continues his work with the 

City of San Antonio, Texas, as the Director of the Offi ce of Military 

Affairs. 

Murdock 

Cox 

Foster 

COL (Ret) John F. Concannon, III, DCS ’89, is a Senior CI Analyst 

with the Department of Energy. 


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COL (Ret) James D. Moore, RES ’89, is currently 

employed by Floor, Inc. as a Human Resources Senior 

Generalist in Afghanistan. He is now in his 8th year 

there, having served with KBR, Inc. the fi rst six years. 

COL (Ret) Richard B. Kaufmann, RES ’90, retired in 

1995 and is currently on his third career – this time as a 

Maryland Natural Resources Police Sergeant. 

Completing a six-year assignment at the Police 

Academy, he is now a supervisor in the State 

Communications Center. He is happily married to Dr. 

Marilynn Katatsky. They reside on the Chesapeake Bay, 

along with Jazzie, the Doberman, and a blue hulled 

Edgewater fi shing boat named “Patriot Games” at the dock. This photo shows one of Rick’s relaxing 

new jobs -- at the helm practicing homeland security mission near the Naval Academy. 

MG (Ret) Paul E. Lima, DCS ’90, was 

appointed Civilian Aide to the Secretary of the 

Army (CASA) for Wisconsin in May 2011. In 

this photo, he is meeting with Ft. McCoy 

Recruiting Company 1SG Thomas McEwen and 

Company Commander CPT Kevin Hock. 

was the Executive Director of the Reserve Offi cers Association. 

MG (Ret) David R. Bockel, DCS ’91 & 

SRCOC ’96, was appointed Executive Director 

of the Georgia Military Affairs Coordinating 

Committee on 1 October 2011. Previously, he 

Mr. Mark R. Perry, RES ’91, is still working full-time and enjoying it 20+ years since leaving 

the USAWC. Currently, he is supporting the FBI’s Directorate of Intelligence in Washington, 

DC – quite a departure from his 35 years in DIA. Mr. Perry sends his greetings to his seminars 

4 and 16. 

MG (Ret) John E. Stevens, RES ’91, has been selected as the Chairman of the State Civil 

Service Commission for Pennsylvania. 

COL (Ret) John H. Dewing, DCS ’92, a two-tour Vietnam veteran who retired in Bellingham, 

WA, leads an annual two-week long “Return to Vietnam with Laos” tour each March for Valor 

Tours of Sausalito, CA. He has been doing this for fi ve years. He even took his wife, Judy, 

along in March 2011. 

COL (Ret) James “Sluggo” Ebertowski, RES, ‘92, retired from Savi Technology, Lockheed 

Martin, on 30 September 2011. Sluggo had been Director of Army Sales for the past 14 years. 

Blackburn 

COL (Ret) Norman Glenn 

Blackburn, Sr., RES ’93, was 

recognized as the Dataw Island 

Men’s Golfer of the Year for 2011. 

He said it took him almost 66 years 

to get to the green in regulation, so 

he guesses he’ll stay in retirement! 

Col (Ret) Craig Brotchie, RES ‘93, 

is preparing for his wife’s retirement Dunwoody Brotchie 

after her very notable career as the fi rst female four-star general 

(GEN Ann Dunwoody). Congratulations to both of them for making a dual-career work! 

LTG (Ret) Edgar E. Stanton, III, SSCF ’93, retired with 40 years 

of service this year. In this photo, he is receiving a fl ag that fl ew 

over the Capitol Building from Rep. Bill Young of Florida in honor 

of his retirement. 

Stanton 

Filiberti Drion 

MG (Ret) Larry W. Shellito, DCS ’94 and 

AGNSS ’09, was appointed the 17th 

Commissioner of the Minnesota Department of 

Veterans Affairs in January 2011. 

Brig (Ret) Frederic Drion, IF France, 

RES ‘95, and his wife visited Carlisle 

Barracks on a trip to the U.S. in May 2012. Shellito 

Their RES ‘95 classmate, COL (Ret) Ed Filiberti, was 

available for a quick visit with them in the Alumni Offi ce. 

LTG Benjamin C. Freakley, RES ’95, retired 1 March 2012 

after 36 years of service and after presiding over the 

inactivation of the Army Accessions Command at Ft. Knox, 

KY in mid-January. The functions and the missions of the 

command were merged with those of Cadet Command, 

Recruiting Command, Human Resources Command, and other Army G-1 and HQDA offi ces. 

COL (Ret) Nicholas L. (Nick) Straffon, RES ’95, sends greetings from the banks of SE 

Michigan’s St. Clair River. He is taking some time from his consulting work so he and his wife 

Karen can spend more time on the road seeing more of the 

world. They are still helping military retires at their Michigan 

Retiree Activities Offi ce at Selfridge ANG Base. 

GEN J. D. Thurman, RES ’95, is doing great things for the 

Army and the nation in Korea. 

Th urman 

Lima 

BG (Ret) Roger & Irene Wheelwright, 

both RES ’95, have moved from the 

“hustle and bustle” of the “Beltway” 

environment of the Washington DC area 

to the calmer, gentler and kinder environment of the Brentwood, Nashville 

and Franklin, Tennessee area. They have built a house in Brentwood and 

love the area. It is tougher to visit their grandchildren (Max, 5 and Maddie, 

3), but better weather and great restaurants are worthwhile. 


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MG (Ret) David T. Zabecki, PhD, DCS ’95, will be 

teaching as a visiting professor at the U.S. Naval 

Academy during the January to June 2012 semester. 

LTG (Ret) Guy C. Swan, III, SSCF ’96, retired from 

active duty after leading Army North for two years. 

BG (Ret) Thomas S. Walker, DCS ’96, was appointed to 

Zabecki the Oklahoma Ethics Commission, a fi ve member body Swan 

that supervises compliance with regulations that govern 

the conduct of public offi cers and fi nancial disclosure 

requirements of political candidates and registered 

lobbyists. 

LTG Thomas P. Bostick, RES ‘97, has been confi rmed 

for assignment as Chief of Engineers/CG, U.S. Army 

Corps of Engineers, Washington, DC. He is currently 

Walker serving as Deputy Chief of Staff, G-1, HQDA. 

Bostick 

Carpenter 

MG Raymond W. Carpenter, RES ’97, retired a few months ago after 44 

years of service. He was supposed to be in Washington, DC only for 179 

days back in 2005 but he stayed for six years, the last 2 ½ as the Acting 

Director of the Army National 

Guard. He says he’s going back 

to South Dakota to catch up on 

his “honey do” list and fi nd what 

else interests him. 

LTG William E. Ingram, Jr., DCS ’97 & AGNSS 

’09, replaced MG Carpenter as the Director of the 

Army National Guard in November 2011. 

MG David A. Rubenstein, RES ’97, recently received the American 

College of Healthcare Executives’ (ACHE) highest honor bestowed on 

outstanding leaders. MG Rubenstein was Commander of the Army 

Medical Department Center and School, and concurrently, Chief of the 

US Army Medical Service Corps, until his retirement in March 2012. He 

served over 35 years. 

Rubenstein 

COL (Ret) Ernest W. (Wayne) Powell, DCS ’98, is 

the Democratic nominee for the 7th Congressional 

District of Virginia. 

COL (Ret) Frederick L. (Rick) Clapp, RES ’98, retired in 2007 and now 

works at Ft. Benning, GA as the Engineering Division Chief, Directorate of 

Public Works. 

Temple 

COL (Ret) James A. (Jim) Fraley, RES ’98, and wife, 

Barb, keep busy managing their horse farm in Bradenton, 

Florida, a full time job. 

MG Merdith W. B. (Bo) Temple, 

RES ’98, is the Acting Chief of 

Engineers/Commanding General, 

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers 

and will retire by the summer of 

2012 after 37 years of service to the nation. 

Retirement plans are to be determined. 

MG James M. (Mike) Milano, RES ’98, recently 

retired after 33 years, the last two years as 

Commanding General, Ft. Jackson, SC. He has 

taken an executive position with Target Corp. 

MG (Ret) Peter S. Cooke, DDE ’99, is staying busy 

running for the Utah Governor’s position. 

LTG Michael Ferriter, 

SSCF ’99, assumed 

command of the U.S. Army 

Installation Management 

Command at Ft. Sam Houston, 

in November 2011. 

LTG Vincent K. (Vince) Brooks, SSCF ’99, returned to Carlisle to 

share his experience from Third Army/USARCENT for the Combined/ 

Joint Force Land Component Commander Course (C/JFLCC). 

McDonald 

Cooke 

MG J. Mark McDonald, RES ’99, received an AUSA Special 

Award commemorating the 25th anniversary of U.S. Army Cadet 

Command at the 2011 AUSA Convention. 

LTG Dennis L. Via, RES ’99, has been selected 

for appointment to the rank of General and 

assignment as Commanding General, Army 

Materiel Command, Redstone Arsenal. 

LTG Bruno H. G. Kasdorf, IF Germany, RES ’00, was able to return to 

Carlisle Barracks in December 2011 to make an informal visit to the 

Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute (PKSOI). 

Waterworth 

Ingram 

Milano 

Powell 

Brooks 

Via 

COL (Ret) Leonard D. 

Waterworth, RES ’00, was appointed in February 

2012 as the Port of Houston Authority interim 

CEO. He had previously commanded the 

Galveston District of the Army Corps of Engineers. 

After retirement from the U.S. Army in 2005, he 

was the President and CEO of Houston based 

Dannenbaum Engineering.

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Wiley 

BG (Ret) Terry L. Wiley, DDE ’00, now serves as 

Chairman of the Delaware Military Heritage and 

Education Foundation. 

CH (MG, Ret) Douglas L. Carver, DDE ‘01, has been 

appointed Executive Director of Chaplain Services for the 

North American Mission Board in Alpharetta, GA. 

COL (Ret) Michael C. Doherty, DDE ’01, MS, USAR, 

retired on January 1, 2012 after more than 30 years of 

commissioned service. He served in OEF as Sanitary 

Engineer, 3rd Medical Command (Forward) and as 

Force Health Protection Offi cer, 3rd Army Surgeon 

Offi ce (Forward). 

COL (Ret) Julie Trego Manta, RES ’01, retired after 32 

Carver 

Doherty 

years of active service and was selected as Associate Dean 

for Academic Programs, USAWC. 

MG John W. Peabody, RES ’01, assumed command 

of the Corps of Engineers Mississippi Valley Division 

on 10 November 2011. With the command comes 

Manta 

responsibility to serve as President of the Mississippi 

River Commission. 

MG Paolo Serra, IF Italy, RES ’01, was appointed 

Kevin Charles Christian Jeff 

Head of Mission and Force Commander of UNIFIL 

Peabody the end of January 2012. 

CH (MG) Donald L. Rutherford, RES ’01, returned to Carlisle 

Barracks in February 2012 to be the featured National Prayer Breakfast 

speaker for USAWC and Carlisle Barracks. 

Serra 

Mr. James McKim Symington, Jr, RES ‘ 01, is now truly retired and 

volunteers at the National Firearms Museum, the CIA Museum, and the 

National Gallery of Art. 

BG Margaret C. Wilmoth. DDE ’01, is the fi rst Dean of the newly 

reorganized Byrdine F. Lewis School of Nursing and Health Professions 

at Georgia State University. 

MG Nelson J. (Jerry) Cannon, DDE ’02, recently 

retired after nearly 40 years of combined military 

Wilmoth 

service. He enlisted in the USMC in June 1967 

right out of high school, and he joined the Kalkaska County Sheriff 

Department in 1977 and the Michigan Army National Guard the same 

year. Even though he’s retired now from the National Guard, he’s serving 

his communities on numerous committees, boards, and associations. 

Cannon 

LTG Mary A. Legere, RES ’02, was recently promoted and assigned as the 

Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence, G-2. 

BG Megan P. Tatu, RES ’02, was the keynote speaker for Women’s History 

Month at Camp Parks in Dublin, CA. She is the Commander, 5th Brigade, 

75th Battle Command Training Division. 

Tatu MG Marcia D. Anderson, 

DDE ’03 & SRCOC ’10, 

was a keynote panelist at the Joint Women’s 

Leadership Symposium in March 2012. 

COL Jeffrey R. Elliott, DDE ’05, shared this great photo of multiple generations of the Elliott 

family taken at the last AUSA Convention. From L-R: Jeff’s brother LTC (Ret) Kevin Elliott, 

his father LTC (Ret) Charles R. (Ron) Elliott, FAC ’71-’78, Jeff’s son Cadet Christian 

Elliott, George Washington University, and then Jeff himself. 

COL Mary E. Link, DDE ’05, was selected 

for BG and assignment as the Assistant 

Surgeon General for Force Management, 

Mobilization, Readiness and Reserve Affairs, 

Offi ce of the Surgeon General (IMA). 

LTC (Ret) Cheryl D. McAuley, RES ’05, 

and her husband toured Israel recently and 

wanted to share it was the best tour they had 

had in their 20 years of overseas travel 

McAuley together. 

BG Harry E. Miller, DDE ’05, has recently been named Deputy Commander 

of the 10,500-soldier New York Army National Guard. 

LTC (Ret) Kenneth “Spike” W. Spielvogel, RES ’05, is the Commandant 

of the Philadelphia Military Academy at Leeds in Philadelphia, PA. 

COL (Ret) Kelly A. Wolgast, RES ’05, retired from 

active duty in September 2011 after 26 years. She is Miller 

now an assistant professor at Vanderbilt University 

School of Nursing in Nashville, TN. 

Lt Gen Anil Chait, IF India, RES ’06, became 

Central Army Commander in Lucknow in February. 

Wolgast COL Jay D. Haden, DDE ’06, current assignment is 

SJA, 85th Support Command, Arlington Heights, IL. 

She was also the featured speaker at the 

Carlisle Barracks African American/Black 

History Observance in February. MG 

Anderson is the fi rst African American 

female Major General in the U.S. Army. Anderson 

Anderson 

MG Jimmie O. Keenan, RES ’06, took 

command of the U.S. Army Public Health 

Command in January 2012. She is the fi rst twostar 

general to head this command, and only the 

fourth Army Nurse to do so. 

Chait 

COL (Ret) Jacqueline E. Cumbo, RES ’03, retired after 

27 years of faithful service and is now residing in 

Fayetteville, GA. 

CAPT Michael J. Dumont, DDE ’07, was recently selected for Rear 

Admiral (lower half). He is currently serving as Deputy Chief of Staff 

for Stability Operations, Kabul, Afghanistan. 

BG Glenn H. Curtis, DDE ’03, was assigned as The 

Adjutant General, Louisiana, in November 2011. 

BG (P) H.R. McMaster, Jr., SSCF ’03, has been selected 

Keenan 

COL Francisco A. Espaillat, RES ’07, has been nominated for 

appointment as a BG and assignment as Mobilization Assistant to the 

Deputy Director (IMA), Defense Logistics Agency, Ft. Belvoir, VA. 

Curtis 

to assume command of the US Army Maneuver Center of 

Excellence and Fort Benning, GA. 

McMaster Col (Ret) James W. (Jamie) Hammond, IF Canada, DDE ’07, retired after fi nishing his 

career at HQ, Allied Rapid Reaction Corps in the UK as G35 and then in HQ, ISAF Joint 

COL (Ret) Thomas W. McShane, DDE ’03, continues to work for the Army as a full time Command as Chief of Assessments until September 2011. 

CGSC administrator and part-time professor at the Ft. Gordon campus near Augusta, GA. The 

big news for 2012 is his daughter’s wedding and his 40th college reunion. 

COL (Ret) John M. Koivisto, Jr., RES ’07, retired in August 2010 in Norfolk, VA, where he 

is currently working with Booz Allen supporting the Army Capabilities Integration Center at 

COL (Ret) Patrick H. Rayermann, RES ’03, has 

Fort Eustis. 

retired from active duty and joined the Orbital Sciences 

Corp. in its Strategy and Development organization. 

COL (Ret) Dawn Michaud, DDE ’07, recently 

retired after 32 years of service to the U.S. Army. She 

MG Jeffrey W. Talley, DDE ’03, has been confi rmed for 

continues to stay busy as she just adopted her third 

appointment to the rank of LTG and assignment as Chief, 

child. 

Rayermann 

Purser 

Army Reserve/Commanding General, U.S. Army 

Reserve Command, Washington, DC. 

Talley 

Mr. Randell E. Gelzer, NSS ‘04, fondly recalls his wonderful experience 

of attending the National Security Seminar and wishes he could attend 

again. His son-in-law, LTC Harry Culclasure, is currently a RES ’12 

student. 

MG Leslie A. Purser, DDE ’04, was promoted to MG this spring and is 

assigned as Director of Intelligence, Plans and Policy, for HQDA. 

COL Jeffrey B. Clark, RES ’05, has been selected for promotion to BG 

and for assignment as Commander, Europe Regional Medical Command/ 

Command Surgeon, U.S. Army Europe and Seventh Army, Germany. 

BG Paul M. Nakasone, RES ’07, was recently 

interviewed as a White Bear, Minnesota native and 

shared how his father’s experiences with over 40 

years active and reserve service infl uenced him. BG 

Nakasone has been announced for assignment as 

Director, Information Dominance Center, HQ, 

International Security Assistance Force Joint 

Command, Afghanistan. 

Nakasone 

Ms. Betty L. Noakes, NSS ‘07, received the State of 

Oklahoma Citation of Congratulations on November 12, 2011 from Representative Mike 

Shelton and the Oklahoma House of Representatives for community service, District 97. 


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CLASS CODES 

Mr. Francis P. Sempa, NSS ’07, 

had his new book published by 

Hamilton Books in October 2011. 

The book, titled Somewhere in 

France, Somewhere in Germany 

is based on his father’s letters 

home during WW II. The letters 

are now at AHEC (See p. 15). 

MG John E. Walsh, RES ’07, is 

running for Lieutenant Governor in 

Montana. BG Matthew Quinn, 

DDE ’08, has been selected to take 

over as Adjutant General of the 

Montana National Guard to replace 

Walsh. 

COL Michael C. Wehr, SSCF ’07, assumed command of the U. S. 

Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) South Pacifi c Division (SPD) in 

June 2011. Established in 1888, the division comprises one-fi fth of 

the U.S. and is one of the Corps’ nine commands. It includes four 

operating districts headquartered in Albuquerque, Los Angeles, 

Sacramento and San Francisco. As SPD Commander, He is 

responsible for leading a professional workforce of over 2,300 people. 

COL John M. Cho, RES ’08, has been selected for promotion to BG 

and assignment as Assistant Surgeon General for Force Management, 

Offi ce of the Surgeon General, Falls Church, Virginia. 

COL Frederick J Gellert, RES ’08, is currently in Afghanistan with 

the NATO Training Mission. Upon redeployment in July, Fred will join the DCLM faculty at 

the Army War College, Carlisle. 

Martin 

Chief Steve E. Abraira, NSS ‘09, 

became Chief of the Boston Fire 

Department on December 5, 2011. 

His selection represented two 

“fi rsts” for one of the oldest fi re 

departments in the nation. He was 

the fi rst Hispanic fi re chief, and 

was also the fi rst leader hired from 

outside the local union ranks. 

COL (Ret) Donald E. Howell, RES 

’08, has recently become the new 

coordinator for the Virginia Wounded 

Warrior Program for Health Planning 

Region 1. 

COL Jeremy M. Martin, RES ’08, 

assumed command of the Defense 

Information School (DINFOS) on 21 

December 2011 at Ft. Meade, MD. Howell 

BG Todd A. Plimpton, DDE ’08, was recently promoted to 

BG and we congratulate him! 

Col Mitch L. Berger, RES ’09, will be retiring as of 1 August this year. He will be moving to 

Delaware to teach AF JROTC at Caesar Rodney High school in Camden, Delaware. Please let 

him know if you are in the area. 

BG Richard C. Gross, RES ’09, was promoted to BG this 

spring and will serve as the Legal Counsel to the Chairman of 

the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He and his family are shown here with 

GEN Martin Dempsey, CJCS. 

BG Mohammed Ziad Al Hamami, IF-Iraq, RES ’10, is doing 

well as an instructor in the strategic studies department.of the 

Iraqi War College He is very proud that the fi rst course 

graduated 29 Iraqi offi cers. 

COL (Ret) Ron D. Dupree, DDE ’10, retired from the U.S. 

Army on 1 February 2012 after 30 years of service. 

Gross 

Quinn 

Abraira 


COL Alberto M. Higuera, DDE ’10, was promoted to Colonel in 

March 2011. He is now serving as the G3 of the Connecticut ARNG. 






.Mr. Carl Goldstein, NSS ’10, received the 

Distinguished Service Award from the Army Athletic 

Association, Offi ce of Directorate of Intercollegiate 

Athletics (ODIA), for his four decades of generosity 

and dedication to Army Athletics benefi ting West 

Point cadet-athletes. 

COL Thomas Lewis, DDE ’10, celebrated New 

Year’s Eve at ARCENT headquarters in Camp Arifjan, 

Kuwait with fellow DDE 2010 classmates – COL 

Edith Greene, COL Larry Thoms and COL Eric 

Kerska. 

COL Kevin M. Felix, 

SSCF ’11, won AUSA’s 2011 writing award sponsored by the 

Institute of Land Warfare and TRADOC’s Army Capabilities 

Integration Center. 

COL Bruce D. Jenkins, RES ’11, became the Garrison 

Commander for Ft. Knox last summer after USAWC 

graduation. 





Goldstein 

Greene Th oms Lewis Kerska 

Manning 

ARMY CHILD OF THE YEAR 

COL G. Scott McConnell, RES 06 and FAC, and his wife Kathryn celebrate the 

recent selection of their daughter Amelia as Army Child of the Year. That is a 

really big deal and we know that Amelias selection is also about her family and how they 

have tackled major “ups and downs” as well as can be imagined! 

Hirsch 

LTC John D. Manning, RES ’10, shared that the 2010 USAWC 

National Security Policy Program (NSPP), consisting of 18 

people – 2 instructors and 16 students, held a mini-reunion in the 

Pentagon Dining Room on 20 January 2012. Ten of the 16 

USAWC grads met and spent time reminiscing about life at 

Carlisle, deployment activities and current assignments. 

There was an informal competition of who had used the 

student developed Policy Formulation Model the most since 

graduation. The 16 NSPP graduates from 2010 make up a 

somewhat unique seminar in 

that 8 deployed after 

graduation and a year after 

graduation, 10 are stationed 

together in the Pentagon. 

Jenkins 

LTC Jonathan R. Hirsch, 

SSCF ’12, ran the Boston 

Marathon on April 16, 2012, 

along with the other members 

of the Tufts Marathon Team. 

The photo shows the team in 

the Runners Village and Jon is 

the “elder” member of the team 

in the middle.

TRIBUTES 

Tributes 

GEN (Ret) Ralph E. Haines, Jr., RES ‘51 

BG Terence (Terry) J. Hildner, RES ‘07 

BG Hildner passed away on active duty February 3, 2012 while serving 

as Commanding General, 13th Sustainment Command (Expeditionary) and 

while deployed to Afghanistan. He was a 1984 graduate of the University of 

Notre Dame and was commissioned an Ordnance Offi cer. He is survived by 

his wife, Cindy, and his four children. He was only 49 years old. 

Dedication of the 

Dr. Sara L. Morgan 

Conference Room 

On March 21, 2012, the 

Department of Command, 

Leadership, and Management 

(DCLM) dedicated its 

conference room to Dr. Sara 

Morgan, who was a serving 

faculty member when she 

died a year ago. Many of Dr. 

Morgan’s photos, mementos, 

and awards from her career and 

her service at the Army War 

College are now displayed in 

the room. Sara’s husband Larry 

and daughter Stephanie, as well 

as other family, friends, former 

students, and colleagues, were 

present for the dedication. 

CLASS CODES 

GEN (Ret) Haines was the Army’s oldest four-star 

general at 98 years old when he died on November 

23, 2011 in San Antonio, TX. He was the son of an 

Army War College graduate, BG Ralph E. Haines, 

RES ’27, and began his service as a cavalryman 

at Ft. Bliss. In addition to his many assignments 

and awards, he is credited with helping create the 

educational system used by Noncommissioned 

Offi cers (NCOs) today. He served as the Vice Chief 

of Staff of the Army, Commander-in-Chief U.S. 

Army, Pacifi c-Hawaii, and later as the Commanding 

General, Continental Army Command, Ft. Monroe, 

VA. He retired in 1973 after 37 years of service. 

Dr. Gordon W. Bowie, 

Composer of “Carlisle” 






Dr. Bowie died on January 5, 

2012 at the age of 67. Dr. Bowie 

was the composer of several 

marches for band, including “Carlisle,” a commission for the U.S. 

Army War College completed in 2005. His life revolved around 

the music that he performed, conducted, composed, taught, or 

examined for copyright. For the last 12 years, he was conductor 

of the Montgomery Village Community Band in Montgomery 

Village, MD. 





L-R: COL (Ret) Ed 

Filiberti, RES ’95, Sara’s 

offi ce-mate; Mr. Larry 

Morgan, Sara’s husband; 

Ms. Stephanie Morgan, 

Sara’s daughter; 

Mr. James Price, Sara’s 

brother-in-law; Mr. Jimmy 

Price, Sara’s nephew; 

Dr. Bill Johnsen, DCS ’94, 

Dean of Academics; and 

COL Mike Chesney, RES 

’06, Chairman, Department 

of Command, Leadership, 

and Management. 


TAPS Spring 2012 

Name & Class Date of Death 

1950s 

GEN (Ret) Ralph E. Haines RES ‘51 .............................November 23, 2011 

COL (Ret) Coleman W. Thacher RES ‘51 ..........................February 26, 2008 

MG (Ret) Chester A. Dahlen RES ‘52. ..............................January 4, 2006 

MG (Ret) Robert G. Fergusson RES ‘52 ............................August 10, 2001 

COL (Ret) Walker R. Goodrich RES ‘52 ...........................February 18, 2007 

BG (Ret) Bernard J. Kitt RES ‘52, SRCOC ‘64 .........................March 21, 1990 

BG (Ret) John H. McGee RES ‘52 ..............................November 28, 1991 

COL (Ret) Howard F. McManus RES ‘52 .............................June 25, 2009 

COL (Ret) Thomas J. O’Connor RES ‘52 .............................March 19, 2007 

COL (Ret) Sidney G. Spring RES ‘52................................March 20, 2004 

MG (Ret) Benjamin O. Turnage, Jr. RES ‘52 ...........................June 26, 2007 

Mr. Robert F. Hale RES ‘53...................................... October 8, 2002 

COL (Ret) Albert W. Frink RES ‘54 ..............................December 20, 2004 

COL (Ret) Wright Hiatt RES ‘54 .....................................June 2, 2006 

BG (Ret) Kenneth F. Dawalt RES ‘54 ............................December 15, 2000 

COL (Ret) Richard H. Moore RES ‘54. ............................February 23, 2002 

BG (Ret) Robert E. Peters RES ‘54 .................................March 14, 2007 

COL (Ret) Robert E. Sullivan RES ‘54. ..........................September 27, 2006 

GEN (Ret) Donald V. Bennett RES ‘55 ...........................November 28, 2005 

COL (Ret) Emmette Y. Burton, Jr. RES ‘55 .............................May8,2002 

COL (Ret) John D. Byrne RES ‘55...............................November 14, 2011 

MG (Ret) Edward C. Dunn RES ‘55 .............................December 12, 2005 

COL (Ret) Perry H. Eubank RES ‘55 ..............................February 10, 2007 

Col (Ret) Frank A. Hill, USAF RES ‘55 ..............................January 5, 2012 

COL (Ret) Donald F. Slaughter RES ‘55 ............................August 25, 2011 

BG (Ret) James S. Billups, Jr. RES ‘56. ..........................September 21, 2002 

MG (Ret) George A. Carver RES ‘56 ..............................January 31, 2003 

COL (Ret) Paul C. Davis RES ‘56 ..................................March 26, 2001 

COL (Ret) John J. Moore RES ‘56...................................May12,2006 

COL (Ret) Melvin R. Russell RES ‘56 ..............................January 24, 2010 

MG (Ret) Charles P. Stone RES ‘56 ...............................February 6, 2012 

COL (Ret) Earl K. Buchanan RES ‘57 ..............................January 14, 2003 

COL (Ret) Carl S. Casto RES ‘57.................................February 12, 2012 

COL (Ret) Edmund H. Lang RES ‘57 ............................November 19, 2003 

MG (Ret) Kelley B. Lemmon, Jr. RES ‘57. ..........................February 11, 2012 

MG (Ret) Shelton E. Lollis RES ‘57 .................................May24,2002 

BG (Ret) Thomas B. Simpson RES ‘57 ........................... March 3, 2001 est. 

MG (Ret) Walter E. Brinker RES ‘58................................March 17, 2012 

COL (Ret) Thomas W. Brundage RES ‘58 ..........................November 2, 1999 

MG (Ret) Richard M. Lee RES ‘58 ..............................November 24, 2011 

LTG (Ret) Thomas M. Rienzi RES ‘58 ............................December 15, 2010 

COL (Ret) Clarence E. Stuart RES ‘58 ...............................April 12, 1999 

Mr. Keith E. Adamson RES ‘59.................................. October 18, 2001 

COL (Ret) Joseph T. Bernard RES ‘59 ..............................January 13, 2007 

COL (Ret) John J. Christy RES ‘59 ...............................February 15, 2011 

COL (Ret) James L. Draper RES ‘59 ..................................May4,2010 

COL (Ret) Harry M. Kemp RES ‘59..............................November 19, 2006 

BG (Ret) William R. Lynch RES ‘59 ..............................February 27, 1995 

COL (Ret) Truman H. Setliffe RES ‘59. ..............................March 11, 2010 

1960s 

COL (Ret) Charles J. Canella RES ‘60. .............................January 27, 2012 

COL (Ret) Donald H. Greeley RES ‘60 ............................ October 27, 2011 

MG (Ret) Francis P. Koisch RES ‘60 ................................January 5, 2006 

COL (Ret) Francis “Pete” E. Kramer RES ‘60 .....................September 28, 2006 

Col (Ret) Lawrence Paul Maryland, USAF, RES ‘60 .....................April 12, 2011 

BG (Ret) Manley G. Morrison RES ‘60. ..............................March 1, 2008 

COL (Ret) Matt C.C. Bristol, Jr. RES ‘61 ...........................February 21, 2009 

BG (Ret) Thomas W. Brown RES ‘61 ............................December 23, 2002 

BG (Ret John E. Haggerty RES ‘61...............................November 6, 2002 

MG (Ret) Richard L. Irby RES ‘61..................................March 10, 2002 

COL (Ret) Alex T. Langston RES ‘61 .............................November 30, 1998 

MG (Ret) John E. Murray RES ‘61..............................September 7, 2008 

COL (Ret) William Evans-Smith RES ‘62 .............................June 15, 2011 

BG (Ret) Mahlon E. Gates RES ‘62 .............................. October 17, 2008 

COL (Ret) Samuel M. Hogan RES ‘62 ................................May3,2005 

COL (Ret) Samuel R. Ross RES ‘62 ...............................February 5, 2005 

COL (Ret) Alfred Collins RES ‘63 ...................................May29,2004 

COL (Ret) Charles M. Fergusson, Jr. RES ‘63. ....................September 15, 2006 

COL (Ret) Leslie B. Harding RES ‘63 ............................December 23, 2003 


You’ll see a greater number of TAPS entries than usual because we’ve been doing research to 

locate as many grads as possible. Even though many of these deaths occurred years ago, they 

had never been reported in our Alumni News before. 

COL (Ret) Max McCord RES ‘63 .................................August 19, 2000 

COL (Ret) Thomas H. Resse RES ‘63 ..............................February 3, 2006 

COL (Ret) John H. Robinson RES ‘63 .............................February 10, 2004 

COL (Ret) Donald C. Rubottom RES ‘63 ............................August 5, 2007 

CDR (Ret) George J. Webb RES ‘63 .............................. October 26, 2008 

COL (Ret) Joseph Brigandi RES ‘64 ................................March 25, 2004 

BG (Ret) John P. Connor SRCOC ‘64 ................................April 29, 1999 

COL (Ret) William E. Corley RES ‘64 ...............................August 8, 2006 

MG (Ret) Felix A. Davis SRCOC ‘64 .............................. October 17, 2006 

BG (Ret) Mayhew Y. Foster SRCOC ‘64 .............................March 21, 2011 

COL (Ret) William F. Graves RES ‘64 ............................September 9, 2004 

COL (Ret) William F. Hart RES ‘64 ...................................June 5, 2002 

COL (Ret) Billy H. Kerr RES ‘64 ....................................May13,2005 

COL (Ret) William V. Ochs RES ‘64 .............................November 14, 2011 

MG (Ret) Howard S. Wilcox SRCOC ‘64. ..............................April 1, 2010 

COL (Ret) Frank E. Burdell RES ‘65 .............................December 28, 1999 

COL (Ret) Alphus R. Clark RES ‘65 ................................March 29, 2008 

COL (Ret) Howard R. Fuller, Jr. RES ‘65 ..............................May17,2004 

BG (Ret) Frederick C. Krause RES ‘65 ............................November 2, 2007 

COL (Ret) Evarice C. Mire RES ‘65. ............................September 18, 2007 

COL (Ret) Melecio J. Montesclaros RES ‘65. ...........................July 28, 2004 

COL (Ret) Erwin R. Brigham RES ‘66 ................................May18,2011 

COL (Ret) William R. Hahn RES ‘66 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . May 19, 2006 

MG (Ret) William A. Patch RES ‘65 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . August 1, 2004 

BG (Ret) Herbert R. Hackbarth SRCOC ‘66 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . October 23, 1994 

COL (Ret) Robert G. Hillman RES ‘66 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . August 12, 2007 

COL (Ret) Dan H. Johnson RES ‘66 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . December 20, 2007 

BG (Ret) Kirby Lamar RES ‘66 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . May 16, 1996 

COL (Ret) James R. Loome RES ‘66 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . April 20, 2005 

BG (Ret) Lawrence E. Orr RES ‘66 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . May 3, 2011 

COL (Ret) James L. Skelley RES ‘66 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .January 10, 2006 

MG (Ret) William R. Wolfe, Jr. RES ‘66. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . June 27, 2002 

COL (Ret) Franklin R. Day RES ‘67. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . September 14, 2003 

COL (Ret) Joseph A. Mitchell RES ‘67 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .January 28, 2009 

COL (Ret) Patrick M. Neilond RES ‘67 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . August 5, 2006 

LTG (Ret) Gerald J. Post RES ‘67 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . December 3, 2003 

COL (Ret) Walter H. Root RES ‘67 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . April 21, 2007 

COL (Ret) Edward S. Saxby RES ‘67. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . October 17, 2009 

COL (Ret) Edward F. Callanan RES ‘68 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . February 15, 2005 

COL (Ret) Kenneth L. Dawson RES ‘68 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .January 23, 2010 

COL (Ret) Joseph A. Goldes RES ‘68 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .November 22, 2011 

Col (Ret) Theodore M. Hanna, USAF RES ‘68 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . October 19, 2002 

COL (Ret) Robert E. Huber RES ‘68 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . August 28, 2003 

BG (Ret) Garland A. Ludy RES RES ‘68 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . February 18, 2006 

LTC (Ret) Richard A. McClure RES ‘68 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . October 5, 1993 

COL (Ret) Robert H. Mosebar RES ‘68 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . August 23, 2011 

COL (Ret) Norman C. Watkins RES ‘68 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . October 11, 2011 

COL (Ret) John B. Bellinger RES ‘69 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . December 14, 2011 

GEN (Ret) Richard E. Cavazos RES ‘69 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .January 17, 2001 

COL (Ret) James P. Coley RES ‘69 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .November 28, 2010 

CAPT (Ret) Delmar H. Evans USN, RES ‘69 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . May 29, 2011 

BG (Ret) Robert S. McGarry RES ‘69 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .March 16, 2012 

COL (Ret) Charles “Bob” K. Nulsen RES ‘69. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . December 10, 2011 

MajGen (Ret) Arthur J. Poillon, USMC RES ‘69 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . December 2, 2011 

COL (Ret) Franklin E. Zerbe RES ‘69 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .January 5, 2007 

1970s 

COL (Ret) Standish O. Brooks DCS ‘70 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .March 30, 2012 

COL (Ret) Egbert B. Clark III RES ‘70 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .January 1, 2002 

LTC (Ret) Raymond E. Coursin DCS ‘70 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .November 3, 2010 

COL (Ret) Vincent J. Delgiudice DCS ‘70 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .March 12, 1998 

COL (Ret) John P. Ettershank DCS ‘70 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . December 23, 2006 

COL (Ret) Herber L. Frandsen RES ‘70. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . May 10, 2010 

COL (Ret) Walter F. Jones RES ‘70 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . September 28, 2011 

COL (Ret) Samuel A. Lewis RES ‘70. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .March 8, 2008 

COL (Ret) James F. Lynn, RES ‘70 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . May 22, 2008 

COL (Ret) Casimir G. Oksas DCS ‘70 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . February 5, 2009 

MG (Ret) J. Milnor Roberts SRCOC ‘70 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .January 2, 2009 

COL (Ret) John H. Sorrells DCS ‘70 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . September 7, 1994 

MG (Ret) Paul M. Timmerberg RES ‘70 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . February 20, 2008 

COL (Ret) Warren K. Wells RES ‘70 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . October 19, 2010 

COL (Ret) Harry L. Moore RES ‘71. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . August 6, 2003

TAPS Spring 2012 

CLASS CODES 

MG (Ret) Schuyler Bissell RES ‘71..................................June 13, 2007 

COL (Ret) Stafford R. Brooke RES ‘71 ............................February 14, 2004 

COL (Ret) Maurice C. Greene DCS ‘71. ..........................November 21, 1996 

Col (Ret) Clarence E. Hogan RES ‘71. ............................December 6, 2008 

COL (Ret) Maida E. Lambeth RES ‘71 ...........................November 13, 2011 

COL (Ret) Calvin J. Landau RES ‘71................................March 12, 2000 

BG (Ret) James H. Mapp RES ‘71 ..............................November 26, 2011 

COL (Ret) Charles S. Manooch DCS ‘71. .........................November 13, 2008 

COL (Ret) John E. McCleary RES ‘71 .............................February 24, 2012 

COL (Ret) Bruce E. Wallace DCS ‘71 ............................December 13, 2006 

CAPT (Ret) James O. Coleman, USN, RES ‘72 .........................June 15, 2009 

COL (Ret) Sanders A. Cortner RES ‘72 ............................ October 26, 2011 

COL (Ret) Grover C. Ethington DCS ‘72. ..............................May7,1992 

COL (Ret) James R. Hinkle DCS ‘72 ................................August 6, 2008 

COL (Ret) Matthew W. Hoey RES ‘72 ................................June 3, 2005 

COL (Ret) Bernard C. Hughes RES ‘72. .........................September 22, 2009 

COL (Ret) Louis C Rieker DCS ‘72 .................................January 3, 1993 

MG (Ret) Robert L. Wick, Jr. DCS ‘72 ............................December 28, 1997 

COL (Ret) Robert L. Bradley DCS ‘73. ...........................November 21, 2011 

COL (Ret) Hal S. Christensen DCS ‘73 ...............................April 15, 2011 

COL (Ret) Ashby M. Foote DCS ‘73.............................December 20, 2009 

COL (Ret) Glen R. Hastings DCS ‘73 ..............................August 18, 2007 

BG (Ret) John H. McLain SRCOC ‘73. ..........................September 23, 2003 

COL (Ret) Melvin C. Rice RES ‘73 ..............................November 19, 2008 

COL (Ret) Carl J. Schopfer DCS ‘73 ............................September 21, 2007 

COL (Ret) Homer R. Ward, Jr. DCS ‘73 .............................February 7, 2004 

COL (Ret) Herschell R. Briscoe DCS ‘74 ...........................February 21, 2005 

MG (Ret) Harry J. Mier SRCOC ‘74 .............................December 17, 2011 

COL (Ret) Paul M. Payson DCS ‘74 .................................March 4, 2009 

MG (Ret) Bobby B. Porter RES ‘74.................................January 5, 2007 

COL (Ret) Lorraine A. Rossi RES ‘74 ..............................August 13, 2010 

COL (Ret) Edward B. Taylor DCS ‘74 ................................June 29, 2003 

COL (Ret) George J. Stapleton RES ‘74 ...........................November 8, 2011 

COL (Ret) Thomas H. Ball DCS ‘75..................................April 21, 2009 

COL (Ret) James M. Cain DCS ‘75..............................December 31, 2011 

COL (Ret) Manfred Kelman RES ‘75 ..............................February 7, 2004 

COL (Ret) Vincent J. Klaus DCS ‘75 ................................January 1, 2006 

COL (Ret) Edward Tolfa, Jr. RES ‘75 ...............................January 31, 2011 

COL (Ret) Billy R. Branscum DCS ‘76. ...............................April 11, 1992 

COL (Ret) Robert J. Davis DCS ‘76...................................July 27, 2003 

BG (Ret) James R. Demoss RES ‘76 .............................December 21, 2008 

Col (Ret) David H. Duart RES ‘76..............................September 10, 2003 

COL (Ret) Donald R. Ellis RES ‘76 ..................................April 21, 2011 

COL (Ret) Dennis R. Fanning RES ‘76 ...............................May29,2006 

MG (Ret) William J. Jefferds RES ‘76 ............................November 20, 2009 

COL (Ret) Julius V. Marzul ‘76 DCS ............................... October 3, 2004 

COL (Ret) Carroll S. Meek DCS ‘76 ..............................February 12, 2007 

CAPT (Ret) George Ormond, Jr., USN RES ‘76 .........................April 21, 2010 

COL (Ret) Howard R. Rockhold DCS ‘76 .............................May23,2005 

MG (Ret) Willard M. Burleson RES ‘77 ............................January 21, 2012 

COL (Ret) Leslie G. Gibbings RES ‘77 ...........................December 11, 2006 

COL (Ret) Richard A. Gucker DCS ‘77 ..........................September 14, 2002 

MG (Ret) James S. O’Brien SRCOC ‘77 ............................August 10, 2011 

COL (Ret) Robert A. Phillips RES ‘77............................November 13, 2011 

COL (Ret) Robert E. Rogan RES ‘77..............................February 21, 2007 

BG (Ret) Peter D. Hidalgo RES ‘78..............................December 15, 2008 

MG (Ret) Angelo D. Juarez SRCOC ‘78 ..............................May31,2010 

RADM (Ret) Thomas E. Morris, USNR, SRCOC ‘78. .................September 3, 2006 

COL (Ret) Charles D. Madden RES ‘78. ............................January 18, 1998 

MG (Ret) Theodore W. Paulson DCS ‘78 .........................November 17, 2011 

MG (Ret) Ralph T. Tice SRCOC ‘78................................ October 5, 1994 

LTC (Ret) John W. Tidler DCS ‘78 .................................January 29, 2006 

COL (Ret) William M. Barrett RES ‘79 .............................August 16, 2011 

COL (Ret) Joseph R. Cote RES ‘79 ..............................December 21, 2011 

BG (Ret) Thomas S. Edwards DCS ‘79 ............................ October 24, 2011 

CDR (Ret) Philip M. Tansey RES ‘79...............................January 12, 2012 

1980s 

BG (Ret) Robert A. Armstrong DCS ‘80 ...........................February 24, 2012 

COL (Ret) Richard L. Crommett DCS ‘80 ..........................December 4, 2004 

MG (Ret) Robert S. Frix RES ‘80................................December 15, 2011 

MG (Ret) Harold J. Wages SRCOC ‘80 ...........................November 11, 2008 










MG (Ret) Gray W. Harrison SRCOC ‘81 ..........................November 13, 2008 

COL (Ret) John B. McKenney DCS ‘81 ................................May5,2006 

COL (Ret) Thomas L. Beale RES ‘82 ...............................January 21, 2001 

COL (Ret) John A. Fesmire RES ‘82 ...............................January 22, 1998 

COL (Ret) Harbert E. Langendorff RES ‘82. ......................September 21, 2009 

RADM (Ret) James H. Lipscomb, USCGR, SRCOC ‘82 ...................April 30, 2004 

COL (Ret) Francisco O. Martin-Alvarez DCS ‘82. ..................September 22, 2011 

LTC (Ret) Chris Nielsen DCS ‘82 ................................. October 1, 2002 

COL (Ret) James E. Stone RES ‘82. ...................................July 9, 2006 

COL (Ret) Frank Zachar RES ‘82 ..............................September 10, 2003 

COL (Ret) Joseph J. Kokalas DCS ‘83. .............................January 14, 2011 

COL (Ret) Francis G. Mogrogan SRCOC ‘83 ..........................May10,2007 

LTG (Ret) Robert E. Gray RES ‘84 ..............................November 25, 2011 

COL (Ret) Duwayne C. Lundgren DCS ‘84 .......................... October 7, 2011 

COL (Ret) John A. Sones DCS ‘84 ..............................December 10, 2010 

COL (Ret) Sanford A. Hepps DCS ‘85. .............................August 16, 2008 

COL (Ret) James P. McMakin DCS ‘85. ............................February 8, 2012 

COL (Ret) John P. Yeagley DCS ‘85 ..............................April 22, 2007 est. 

BG (Ret) Gernot F. Albrecht, IF Austria, RES ‘87. .................. January 1, 2009 est. 

MajGen (Ret) Martin R. Berndt, USMC, RES ‘87 ..................September 17, 2011 

COL (Ret) James E. Dooley RES ‘87. ............................December 17, 1994 

COL (Ret) Wilfred J. Foster DCS ‘87 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . June 21, 2010 

Mr. Robert J. Nemeth RES ‘87 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . December 19, 2003 

LTC (Ret) Freddie R. Smith RES ‘87 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . June 27, 2010 

LTC (Ret) Thurman R. Smith RES ‘87 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . June 30, 1992 

BG (Ret) Friedmar Tessmer, IF Germany, RES ‘87. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .November 21, 2010 

COL (Ret) George L. Youngblood RES ‘87 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . September 17, 1997 

COL (Ret) John H. Donnelly DCS ‘88 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . December 9, 2005 

Mr. Irving Singer NSS ‘88 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . February 7, 2007 

MG (Ret) Raymond C. Bonnabeau SRCOC ‘89 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .January 26, 2011 

COL (Ret) Wendell D. Kot RES ‘89 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . April 16, 2005 

COL (Ret) Jay S. (Steve) Russell RES ‘89 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . October 28, 2011 

1990s to Present 

COL (Ret) Charles H. Champion DCS ‘90. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .November 1, 2011 

COL (Ret) William J. Price RES ‘90. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . June 23, 2011 

COL (Ret) Kurt J. Jenne DCS ‘91 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .March 24, 2012 

COL (Ret) John C. Sprague DCS ‘90 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . August 14, 2007 

LTC (Ret) Gregory S. Miller DCS ‘91. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . October 19, 2011 

COL (Ret) Delane F. Moeller DCS ‘91. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . August 27, 2011 

Mr. Ralph H. Bowden NSS ‘92. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . September 11, 2005 

COL (Ret) Jeffrey B. Jones DCS ‘92 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .January 24, 2010 

COL (Ret) Kevin E. Leffl er RES ‘92 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . August 30, 1999 

LTC (Ret) Leif T. Sponbeck DCS ‘93 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . February 2, 2001 

COL (Ret) Thomas C. Suermann RES ‘93 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .March 9, 2011 

COL (Ret) Mirko Atanasovski, IF Macedonia, RES ‘98 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . April 1, 2012 

COL (Ret) Gary A. Trade RES ‘99 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . August 22, 2011 

COL (Ret) Lucretia G. Heard DDE ‘02 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . June 4, 2011 

COL (Ret) John V. Sylvester DDE ‘02 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .July 8, 2009 

BG Terence J. Hildner RES ‘07 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . February 3, 2012 

Faculty 

COL (Ret) Walter W. Wendt FAC ‘62-’65 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . October 14, 2011 

Col (Ret) Dale B. Ward, USAF, FAC ‘64-’68. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .March 24, 2012 

LTC (Ret) John P. Cosgrove FAC ‘69-’70. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .January 21, 2005 

COL (Ret) Louis F. Dixon FAC ‘71-’77. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .January 2, 2010 

Mr. William B. Hankee FAC ‘73-’80 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . September 9, 2007 

COL (Ret) John R. Love FAC ‘77-’81 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .March 5, 2010 

Prof. D. Eugene Brown FAC ‘89-’91. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .November 17, 2000 

Spouses 

Mrs. Coline Dorsey, wife of CDR (Ret) Laurens Dorsey, RES ’66 . . . . . . . . . October 7, 2011 

Mrs. Dora Robertson, wife of Emery S. Robinson DCS ‘73. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . May 10, 2010 

Mrs. Sue Hammand Hance, wife of COL (Ret) Carl W. Hance RES ‘74 . . . . October 23, 2011 

Mrs. Sylvia F. Duffy, wife of Col (Ret) John J. Duffy, Jr, RES ‘75. . . . . . . . . . .January 14, 2011 

Mrs. Ellen Fretterd, wife of LTG (Ret) James F. Fretterd DCS ‘77 . . . . . . . . December 3, 2010 

Mrs. Virginia (Ginger) Hagan, wife of MG (Ret) Craig A. Hagan RES ‘78. . . .March 10, 2011 

Mrs. Connie Bishop, wife of COL (Ret) Robert L. Bishop RES ‘79. . . . . . . . . .March 19, 2011 

Mrs. Mary Lou Renner, wife of the late MG (Ret) John A. Renner RES ‘80 . . . May 26, 2011 

Mrs. Marith Willis, wife of COL (Ret) Richard C. Willis, DCS ‘87. . . . . . . . . . . . April 23, 2012 

Mrs. Irene Tijerina, wife of LTC (Ret) Gilbert Tijerina DCS ‘92 . . . . . . . . . December 23,2009 

Mrs. Jerralee “Jay” Penttila, wife of BG (Ret) Kenneth L. Penttila RES ‘94 . . November 19, 2011 

Mrs. Laurie Susan Impavido, wife of COL Leo M. Impavido, RES ’10. . . . . . . . . May 4, 2012 


MISC 



Tribute Donations Since Fall 2011 Newsletter through May 1, 2012 

1930s 

BG Arthur R. Walk, RES ‘39 from COL (Ret) Robert D. Walk, RES ‘03 

1940s 

Captain Karl O. “Hap” Holliday KIA 04/13/45 Germany, 

from Mr. Bob Holliday NSS ‘00 

1950s 

Thomas Patrick Greene, USMA, Killed in Korea, Feb 1951 

from BG (Ret) Michael J.L. Greene FAC ‘68-69 

Col (Ret) Frank A. Hill, USAF, RES ‘55 from his wife, Linda J. Hill 

COL (Ret) Mario J. Zecca, RES ‘59 from his daughter Ms. Yvonne L. Zecca 

1960s 

MG (Ret) Herbert E. Wolff, RES ‘62 from COL (Ret) Allen R. Wolff, DDE ‘04 

COL (Ret) William F. Brand, Jr. RES ‘63 from his wife, Mrs. William Brand 

COL (Ret) Melecio J. Montesclaros, RES ‘65 from his wife, Gloria P. Montesclaros 

COL (Ret) Erwin R. Brigham, RES ‘66 from his wife, Phyllis K. C. Brigham 

COL (Ret) George Pappas, RES ‘66 from COL (Ret) Bruce E. Patterson, DCS ‘73 

COL (Ret) Roy Strong RES ‘66 from his wife, Kay Strong 

COL (Ret) Archibald V. Arnold, RES ‘67 from BG James A. Munson, RES ‘64 

LTG (Ret) Robert J. Baer RES ‘67 from COL (Ret) Davis A. Appling DCS ‘80 

Mrs. Esther W. Ponder from her husband, COL (Ret) Lewington S. Ponder RES ‘67 

1 LT Leland S. McCants, III, KIA 12/30/68 Vietnam 

from COL (Ret) Dennis A. Bassett DCS ‘90 

BG (Ret) Jack R. Sadler, RES ‘68 from COL (Ret) Francis H. Dillon, Jr., RES ‘68 

COL (Ret) Ardie E. McClure, Jr. RES ‘69 from COL (Ret) Robert L. McClure SSCF ‘97 

COL Christopher B. Sinclair, RES ‘69 from COL (Ret) Marion W. Manion, RES ‘69 

1970s 

MAJ (Ret) Mark E. Crooks from COL (Ret) Eugene F. Crooks RES ‘70 

GEN (Ret) Maxwell Thurman RES ‘70 from LTG (Ret) Dennis L. Benchoff RES ‘83 

COL (Ret) John F. Burst, DCS ‘71 from his wife, Mary Anne Burst 

BG (Ret) Joseph A. McCarthy from COL (Ret) Sherman Weisinger, DCS ‘71 

COL (Ret) Francis A.I. Bowers, Jr. RES ‘72 from his wife, Mary Bowers 

Mr. Mort O’Connor from COL (Ret) Jack Neuberger, DCS ‘72 

COL (Ret) Richard L. Jepsen, DCS ‘73 from his wife, Wanda Jepsen 

Captain Tom McCarthy from BG (Ret) Arvid E. West, Jr RES ‘73 

BG (Ret) John H. McLain, SRCOC ‘73 from his wife, Patricia McLain 

CH (COL) John E. Stevey, DCS ‘73 from his wife, Joan S. Stevey 

Mrs. Sylvia F. Duffy from her husband, Col (USAF Ret) John J. Duffy, Jr., RES ‘75 

COL (Ret) Donald R. Ellis, Jr. RES ‘76 from COL (Ret) Isaiah E. Barnwell, Jr. DCS ‘81 

Mrs. Sally Belle Cottle Heiss from her husband, COL (Ret) John L. Heiss RES ‘74 

COL (Ret) Joseph G. Santner, DCS ‘76 from COL (Ret) Harry W. Nagel, DCS ‘72 

Mrs. Ellen Ingram Fretterd from her husband, LTG (Ret) James F. Fretterd, 

DCS ‘77, SRCOC ‘82 

COL (Ret) Bertrand A. Handwork, RES ‘77 from his wife, Mary Ellen Handwork 

MG (Ret) Claude T. Ivey, RES ‘77 from COL (Ret) Robert S. Rose, RES ‘77 

SGT Leo Geyman from BG (Ret) Harry J. Mott, III, DCS ‘77 

COL (Ret) Robert A. Phillips RES’ 77 from his wife, Toni Phillips 

1 LT Alice L. Ryan, U.S. Army from her husband MG (Ret) James A. Ryan, DCS ‘77 

Lt. Gen Otis M. Whitney from BG (Ret) Stanley W. Wisnioski, Jr., DCS ‘77 

BG (Ret) Peter D. Hidalgo, RES ‘78 from COL (Ret) John A. Mojecki, DCS ‘76 


GEN (Ret) John Shalikashvili, RES ‘78 from COL (Ret) Robert G. Carne, DCS78 

GEN (Ret) John Shalikashvili, RES ‘78 from COL (Ret) John F. Orndorff, RES ‘78 

GEN (Ret) John Shalikashvili, RES ‘78 from his wife Joan Shalikashvili 

LTG (Ret) Howard Graves RES ‘79 & CMDT ‘87-’89 from BG (Ret) Dennis A. Wilkie RES ‘79 

MG (Ret) William F. Engel, DCS ‘79 from his wife, Sharon Engel 

1980s 

Mrs. Dorothy Castellano from MG (Ret) Vito Castellano SRCOC ‘80 

Ms. Phyllis Foy Soares from her brother, COL (Ret) William H. Foy, RES ‘80 

MG (Ret) John A. Renner, RES ‘80 from COL (Ret) Paul F. Somerville, RES ‘80 

LTG (Ret) Nathaniel R. Thompson, Jr. from COL (Ret) Douglas A. Doehle, RES ‘80 

COL (Ret) Ed Baumgartner from COL (Ret) Ken Digre, RES ‘81 

LTG (Ret) Paul Cerjan RES ‘81, Comdt ‘89-’91 

from COL (Ret) Brion R. Chabot DCS ‘81 

LTG (Ret) Paul Cerjan RES ‘81, Comdt ‘89-’91 from MG (Ret) Milton Hunter RES ‘86 

COL (Ret) Sally L. Groome RES ‘81 from COL (Ret) Jeanne G. Hamilton, DCS ‘92 

BG (Ret) John Kotcho DCS ‘81 from MG (Ret) James McElroy SRCOC ‘78, ‘85 

Mrs. Nancy Myers fom her husband COL (Ret) Harry W. Myers, Jr., DCS ‘81 

MG Harold J. Wages from COL (Ret) Meredith H. Caram, RES ‘82 

Col Dave Lownds, USMC from LtGen George R. Christmas, RES ‘82 

CH (COL) Richard J. Hentz, RES ‘82 from his wife, Mary Hentz 

Ms. Connie Reiber Taylor from her brother, COL (Ret) Curtis B. Reiber, DCS ‘82 

MG Harley Moore, Jr. from COL (Ret) David G. Epstein, DCS ‘83 

COL (Ret) Duwayne C. Lundgren, DCS ‘84 from his wife, Susanne Lundgren 

COL (Ret) John A. Sones DCS ‘84 from his wife, Linda Sones 

COL (Ret) Sanford A. Hepps, M.D., DCS ‘85 from Mrs. Sanford A. Hepps 

Col (Ret) Jack D. Rives RES ‘85 from his wife, Dagmar Rives 

GEN (Ret) Frederick C. Wayland from MG (Ret) Paul R. Lister, DCS ‘85 

George P. Croy and Jack C. Croy, both WWII Vets from COL (Ret) Gail Croy, DCS ‘86 

Mrs. Cleola McLeod from her son, Mr. Bruce E. McLeod, Jr., RES ‘87 

Mr. Robert J. Nemeth RES ‘87 from his wife, Winkle Nemeth 

BG (Ret) Edwin Powell from COL (Ret) Alan G. Vitters, RES ‘87 

LTC (Ret) Anthony E. Bisantz from COL (Ret) Robert J. Familetti RES ‘88 

COL (Ret) Robert Ellis RES ‘89 from COL (Ret) James D. Moore RES ‘89 

LTC (Ret) Douglas O. Fleck, DCS ‘89 from his wife, Judith Fleck 

Mr. Robert P. Briner, WW II Radioman from Judith Fleck, 

Widow of LTC (Ret) Douglas O. Fleck, DCS ‘89 

Sergeant Archie O. Jones from MG Raymond F. Rees, SRCOC ‘89 

1990s 

COL David E. Baeb from Mr. Thomas A. Shabeau NSS ‘92 

Mr. James O. Bryant from COL (Ret) Hugh S. Bryant DCS ‘92 

Joseph & Melbourne Hanna from COL (Ret) William F. Hanna DCS ‘92 

COL (Ret) Kevin Leffl er, USMC RES ‘92 from COL (Ret) Thomas G. Harrison RES ‘92 

Fallen American Heroes from COL (Ret) Kent D. Miller, Jr. DCS ‘93 

Mr. Robert D. Shields from COL (Ret) Robert G. Shields RES ‘93 

COL (Ret) Thomas C. Suermann, RES ‘93 from his wife, June Anne Suermann 

COL Rod Ferguson from his wife, Sharon C. Ferguson, RES ‘95 

COL Joe Baker from COL (Ret) Donald C. Schaeberle, DDE ‘95 

TSgt Fred Ebert, Jr., WWII Veteran from COL (Ret) Donald E. Ebert, RES ‘97 

COL (Ret) Maurice A. Gainey from his daughter, LTG Kathleen M. Gainey, RES ‘97 

and her husband, BG Edward P. Donnelly, DDE ‘03 

SSG Ernie Erdman from COL (Ret) Melvin R. VanDyke RES ‘98 

Brigadier General William W. Spruance from Maj Gen Hugh Broomall, 

RES ‘99 and SRCOC ‘04



Tribute Donations Since Fall 2011 Newsletter through May 1, 2012 

2000s - present 

Dr. Garland Dickey from his wife, Dr. Ouida W. Dickey, NSS ‘00 

LtCol (Ret) G. W. Holm, USMC , a 30 year Marine and Korean War veteran 

from his son, COL (Ret) Randall W. Holm, RES ‘00 

Ms. Caterina Anna Maria van Joolen from CAPT Vincent J. van Joolen, RES ‘00 

Mrs. Chuan Wan Wang from her daughter, COL You-Ying Whipple RES ‘00 

Major (Ret) Fabian Novak and Mr. Kenneth Doherty 

from COL Michael C. Doherty, DDE ‘01 

First Lieutenant James Mansfi eld Symington 

from Mr. James McKim Symington, Jr. RES ‘01 

Mr. Howard Dean Curtis, U.S. Army, WWII from COL Larry W. Curtis, DDE ‘02 

Mr. Walter Downs, former Squadron Commander, Tuskegee airmen 

from COL (Ret) John K. Vaughn RES ‘02 

COL Kevin R. Cunningham, RES ‘00, former AWC Dean of Academics 

from COL (Ret) Robert A Watson, DDE ‘03 

All Fallen Soldiers from COL Michael E. Freville, DDE ‘03 

Mr. Cordell H. Kelley, USN (Ret) from COL (Ret) Tommy Kelley RES ‘04 

MSgt (Ret) Rudolph F. Swierczek, USAF from Capt. (Ret) Craig R. Swierczek, NSS ‘05 

COL Bob Armstrong from COL David Oaks, DDE ‘06 

Major Alan Rogers from COL David J. Clark, Res ‘06 

Mr. Robert W. Riddle from COL (Ret) Rebecca C. Samson, RES ‘06 

MSGT Richard E. Noakes (USAF) & MAJ Robert Allen (Army) 

from Ms. Betty L. Noakes NSS ‘07 

1960s and earlier 

MAJ Howard C. Linke, U.S. Army 1942-1946 from COL (Ret) H. Thatcher Linke, RE ‘86 

MAJ Buesse H. Snow, U.S. Army Artillery 1945, Age 92, WWII Veteran 

from Mr. Charles R. Snow, NSS ‘09 

Mrs. Elizabeth (Betty) Crain from COL (Ret) Charles L. Crain, RES ‘63 

LTC (Ret) Frame John Bowers III, USMA, Class of 1969 

from COL (Ret) Terry L. Rice, SSCF ‘92 

1970s 

COL Robert Strong from BG (Ret) George Price RES ‘71 

MG (Ret) William F. Burns RES ‘72 from COL (Ret) Thomas J. Marshall RES ‘79 

LTC (Ret) John E. Fox, Ph.D., from BG (Ret) Uzal W. Ent, DCS ‘73 

GEN (Ret) John W. Vessey, Jr. from COL (Ret) Barton M. Hayward, RES ‘73 

All Wounded Warriors from COL (Ret) Joseph W. House, RES ‘74 

Mr. Robert Coalson from COL (Ret) and Mrs. Charles A. Bullock, RES ‘75 

The Troops from MG (Ret) Charles M. Murray RES ‘75 

MG (Ret) Ira A. Hunt, Jr. from COL (Ret) Warren R. Stumpe, DCS ‘76 

1980s 

COL Robert B. Franklin, Sr. from COL (Ret) Robert B. Franklin, Jr., RES ‘83 

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker from MG (Ret) James G. Blaney, RES ‘84 

All USAWC Graduates from LTC (Ret) J.F. Carter, III DCS ‘88 

USAWC Class of 1988 from COL (Ret) Charles E. Kent, DCS ‘88 

1990s 

Our Soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan from COL (Ret) Robert S. Cooper, DCS ‘92 

Our Great Army from COL (Ret) Michael J. Winslow, DCS ‘93 

Mr. Ron Simms NSS ‘94 from Ms. Joann P. DiGennaro, former Board of Visitors 

USAWC Class of 1995 from COL (Ret) Michael B. Montgomery DCS ‘95 

U.S Army Medical Department from BG (Ret) Gerald D. Griffi n, DCS ‘96 and SRCOC ‘98 

USAWC Class of 1998 from MG Bo Temple RES ‘98 

COL (Ret) Ruth B. Collins, RES ‘98, AWCF CEO from BG (Ret) Jerome A. Haberek, RES ‘98 

Mr. Frank F. Sempa from his son, Mr. Francis P. Sempa NSS ‘07 

CW4 (Ret) Robert J. Rea from his daughter, COL Maria R. Gervais, RES ‘08 

LtCol (Ret) Robert H. Newberry from Dr. W. Bartley Hildreth, NSS ‘08 

Mr. William F. Whitney from Richard and Mariane Newton, NSS ‘08 

Mrs. Lillian B. Juzukonis from her son, COL & Mrs. Walter A. Juzukonis, RES ‘09 

COL John McHugh RES ‘09 from his wife, Connie McHugh 

COL John McHugh RES ‘09 from COL Anthony Johnson RES ‘08 

Col Adrian “Kermit” Pone, RES ‘09 from Col Mitch L. Berger, RES ‘09 

Mr. Charles W. Brophy, WWII veteran, from his son The Rev. Charles A. Brophy NSS ‘10 

L. Marshall Haines from Ms Florence H. Frucher NSS ‘11 

SSG (Ret) Matthew L. Hearon from COL Matthew J. Hearon, DDE ‘11 

Other 

COL (Ret) William T. Leggett FAC ‘78-’84 from BG (Ret) James & Evelyn Lee DDE ‘72 

Dr. Sara Morgan FAC ‘06-’11 from Mr. John P. Caraway RES ‘10 

Dr. Sara Morgan FAC ‘06-’11 from COL (Ret) Thomas G. Torrance, RES ‘01 

Dr. Sara Morgan FAC ‘06-’11 from COL Dirk E. Plante, RES ‘10 

Dr. Sara Morgan FAC ‘06-’11 from Mr. Ernest E. Rodgers, III, RES ‘10 

Mr. John Richards Hesselbein from COL (Ret) Ruth B. Collins, AWCF CEO 

Col (Ret) Dale B. Ward, USAF, FAC ‘64- ‘68 from his family 

2000s 

Col (Ret) John Broujos, former Trustee for AWCF, 2001-2005 

from Mr. Keith B. Quigley, Friend of the Foundation 

The American Soldier from Dr. William D. Kautz, NSS ‘00 

Congressman Ike Skelton, U. S. Representative from Missouri 

from Mr. Gary S. Sosniecki, NSS ‘00 

Service Members Currently in Harms Way from COL (Ret) Joseph Schweitzer RES ‘03 

1 LT Stephen Spielvogel, Retired Army Nurse from Ms. Jo L. Spielvogel RES ‘05 

Col Peter Nicolos from Mr. Wynn L. Radford NSS ‘07 

Major (Ret) Kenneth Hicks, USMCR from COL (Ret) Jeffrey P. Stolrow, DDE ‘07 

COL Robert S. (Bob) Driscoll, DDE ‘08 from COL Donald E. Nalls, DDE ‘08 

The Great Seminar 8, DDE ‘09 from COL Kathleen M. Herberger, DDE ‘09 

COL Ronald Kirklin, deployed in Iraq, from D. Steven Leininger, NSS ‘09 

COL Jeffrey W. Dill, SSCF ‘09 from his father, COL (Ret) E. Wayne Dill, DCS ‘81 

COL Marshall K. Dougherty, Jr. RES ‘10 from Mr. Roland D. Wussow NSS ‘10 

COL (Ret) Jerry Comello, FAC from Dr. Edward J. Dwyer, NSS ‘10 

West Point from Carl Goldstein, NSS ‘10 

Connecticut Army National Guard from COL Alberto M. Higuera, DDE ‘10 

Mr. Harold W. Major from Ms. Theresa M. Payton NSS ‘10 

Lt. David Shively from The Honorable Colleen Conway Cooney, SIS ‘11 

LTC John H. Phillips, RES ‘11 from Mr. George Jackson, SIS ‘11 

Seminar 14 Class of 2011 from Mr. Ronald E. Rhody, NSS ‘11 

William I. Rodier, Jr. from William I. Rodier III, DeSerio Chair of Intelligence, FAC ‘10-’11 

COL Samuel L. Russell, RES ‘12 from his father, COL (Ret) Thomas B. Russell, RES ‘83 

OTHER 

Mark Soltz from Marianne and Richard Goldstein 

The men and women who protect and keep us safe everyday 

from Comfort Suites Carlisle 

My father Mr. Bernard Greenberg from Dr. Cathy L. Greenberg, h2c.LLC 


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