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68th Fighter Interceptor Squadron
Thirty-eight former
Squadron members
gathered in
Oklahoma City, OK
recently for their 2007
reunion. There were
several first-time
attendees, and eleven
members who attended
the unit’s first
reunion in Denver.
The next reunion is
scheduled for 2009 in
San Antonio, TX.
Stanley J. Grogan,
2585 Moraga Drive,
Pinole, CA 94564-
1236
68th Fighter Interceptor Squadron members and guests in Oklahoma City: (Front, L-R) Pic Monsees, Peg McDonald, Sandy &
John Underwood, Caroline Farnsworth, Al Farnsworth, Bob Rigney, Nancy Rigney, Henry Baird, Myrtle Baird, Laverda Loomis,
Don Loomis, Arlene Johnson, Joyce Timson, Bob & Pauline Kronbusch, Joan Blackburn, Wally & Hazel Hearon; (Row two) Jim
Monsees, Jim McDonald, Lyla Dockter, Nancy Nyquist, Donna Stone, Ivy Skinner, Ann Johnson, Dee Yocum, Bob Jenks, Stan
Grogan, Cheryl Howell, Arlene Johnson, Floyd Timson, Ron Iberg, Dick Blackburn, Shirley McCool; (Row three) Avery Nofsinger,
Sharon Nofsinger, Duane Dockter, Paul Nyquist, Henry Stone, K W Summers ?, Lee Skinner, Ole Johnson, John Yocum, Rudy
Howell, Iris Stull, Jim Johnson, Ron Iberg, Dick Blackburn, Shirley McCool; (Row four) Bobbie Ruckman, Paul & Mary Henn, Guy
Seely, Ron Stull, Margaret Lopp, Bob Boland, Eugene Humphrey, Shirley Page, Harold Page, Harry McCool; (Row five) Jim
Reeves, Millie Reeves, Bette Foulke, Frank Foulke, Dave Valier, John Lopp
(1951-54)
Members held their eighth reunion in
the Tampa/Clearwater, FL area
recently. The four-day event, hosted by
Jay and “Tooter” Brown, was “fabulous.”
After a 47-year hiatus, the members
started getting together in 1999. So far,
they have met in Washington DC (1999),
Kauai, HI (2000), Branson, MO (2001),
Korean Revisit (2002), Tucson, AZ
(2003), Milwaukee, WI (2004), New
London, CT (2005), Fort Wayne, IN
(2006), and Tampa/Clearwater, FL
(2007).
Members pay special tribute to four
members of the unit who have passed
away in recent years: Art Jaffe (1999),
Gene Coffman (2002), Larry Lifkin
(2003), and Al Seidenrose (2007).
The next reunion is scheduled for St.
Louis, MO in September 2008. Any 25th
Signal Corps people interested in attending
are invited to call or contact Rollie
Berens, 18400 Brookfield Lake Drive,
Unit 42, Brookfield, WI 53045, (262)
797-8897.
Mini-reunions
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The 25th Signal Corps ladies (Front, L-R) Joanne Sauder, Pat Pinzke (Back, L-R) Karen
Babel, Pat Fahdt, Tooter Brown, Sandy Quarello, Sue Sanders, Dianne Teske, Joanne
Calderwood (Inset) Jan Graveline
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The Graybeards November-December 2007