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San Antonio Grey Tags November 08 l to r: Jim Wild, Larry Freeman, Jack Bright, Mark Anderson, Jim Ulm, Richard Smith
DC Group Luncheon Westwood Country Club 19 Nov 08 l to r: Charlie Dixon, Twy Williams, Hector Negroni, Jim Rogers, Bill Foster, John Kohout, Ron Muller Roger Woodbury, Lowel Jones
Here is the photo of our Feb08 Luncheon, arranged by Lowell Jones at Jim Rogers' Westwood Country Club, Vienna VA!
From left to right: Lowell Jones, Bill Foster, John Kohout, Bill Stackhouse, Hector Negroni, Bill Sanzenbacher, and Jim Rogers. Those not attending had an assortment of puny excuses. Lowell will report on the business decision made because, frankly, I don't remember. All I can recall is that Herr Muller is now in charge of insuring that future luncheons start "on time" and that John Sullivan was elected to insure every one attends. We voted to allow Lowell Jones to purchase a new "envelope" to carry the Washington DC Lunch Bunch Funds.
We
were honored during the lunch by a long distance phone call from
Albania by our peripatetic Pat Buckley. By the time Pat called we
could not remember where he was and some of us kept say Rumania,
Estonia, Lithuania, etc…
Alabama--Georgia Gathering 9 May 2007
Thanks to Mike - Sam - Jerry we had our first Ala -Ga gathering of 61 Graytags on May 9th at Sprayberry's BBQ at exit 47 on I-85N. All came properly dressed except for Sam. Great fun together and then George-Doug-Jimmy P played the Robert Trent Jones course in Prattville, AL on Thursday - ask George about his skills in tree destruction. Doug played very well on his new knees. Steve-Ron-John P are Alabama folks who were not there. Johnny C is in recovery from heart surgery and doc would not let him drive. Info to Jimmy H as he goes everywhere anytime and maybe can join us next time. See attached picture - Jimmy Poole
______________________________________________________________ Reunion--Class of 1961
Classmates and Guests on the
Greytag Network,
We had a number of committee members on vacation this time of year so there were
a few less members in attendance for our July Meeting. We received a summary of
our reunion registrations and the numbers are lower than our hotel registrations
and so my first suggestion would be to please don’t wait too long to register as
some of the fees and rates go up after the first week in August.
Again, you can register by going to the AOG Homepage at:
www.usafa.org
and clicking on “Reunions” and then going to “Class of 1961 (45th)”.
Merchandise sales have also been slow with Polo Shirts coming in first in
popularity and our 14 oz glasses and the bucket hat both coming in second as the
top selling class items for the reunion so far.
The first half of the meeting
concluded with explaining our options with regard to the photo gallery website
for the Class. There are two basic modes of operation: one as a spectator and
second as an editor to your own personal additions to the gallery. Additions
can be made in three ways; creating your personal picture albums (as many as you
like), creating your personal diary/blogs (as many as you like) and
participating in forum discussions with website-registered classmates and other
guest registrants on our Greytag Network online.
As a way to help me encourage others to
participate I would first like to have as many classmates as possible get on
line and visit our gallery website. In addition to roaming
around the albums that have already been posted by me you will also be able to
use the forum function. In a forum we will be able to "group speak" and,
hopefully, I or David Hughes, our webmaster, will be able to answer any of your
questions and prepare you for the next stage of participation that of being an
editor of your own pictures and items. In
this later editor stage I am seeking around 5-10 "pioneer" classmate volunteers
before our 45th Reunion to be the first to register and share their pictures in
the photo gallery and their thoughts and reflections in their
diaries/reflections for other members of the GTN to ponder and respond back, if
requested. Please, use the following URL, user name and password to become
spectators and forum users only and to become familiar with the workings of this
most impressive website.
The URL is:
http://afalumni.giph.com,
the user name is: greytag and the password is: usafa1961.
Please respond directly to me
at
rcubero@adelphia.net
after you have reviewed the class gallery website and wish to go to the next
level as editor. In becoming an editor, I would also suggest that you begin by
creating two personal albums: One of your current family and another by posting
pictures of those classmates who are gone but not forgotten. By the way, after
reviewing the website please make any comments or provide feedback using the
"forum" function.
The second half of the meeting was taken up with a more detailed discussion of
the Chaney King Bike Ride Run which will be an optional reunion activity for
Saturday, September 9th, for those classmates and guests who wish to participate
in this unique event.
Chaney King was a young female cadet who died in a car accident on January 18,
2003 in her sophomore year. She was a Falcon Scholar who attended
After we adjourned the meeting, Terry Storm presented his edited version of the
video presentation “Expect
Great Things”
that will be shown at Friday night’s dinner. Terry
did an absolutely outstanding job in shortening the presentation from one hour
to 25 minutes in what all of us agree was a seamless edit of the material.
Warm regards, Randy
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