20210829 Class Leadership Meeting

Jim Sullivan SENDS:  

29 August 2021
Brothers,

We just had a meeting of the class leadership committee. It was a good meeting, no drama, lots of discussion. The eight class officers were there: John Connors, TJ Young, Bill Cater, Frank Monaco, Charlie McGee, Steve Strom, Barney Forsythe and myself. The five class committee chairmen were there: John Van Vliet, Kurt Reineke, Steve Wilson, Bill Taylor, and Gil Harper. Two of their deputies were there: Billy Malkemes and Billy Joe Alexander.
Each of these men gave a report. None of the things we handle are going to shake the ground, but they are part of the life and operation of our class, so they have meaning for us.

No big problems. Slow but steady progress is happening on their initiatives, all aimed at consensus, cohesion and inclusion. The committee unanimously approved the charter for Gil Harper’s Special Ops Committee, and Billy Malkemes, chairing its Awards subcommittee, laid out some plans in the works--- more later on that. Bill has some interesting things lined up. 

John Van Vliet and his large committee are working to determine what the best way is to meet the needs of our widows, widowers and children and grandchildren, in a way that is sensible and sensitive. He will get to the right answers. Important.

Our finances continue to be in order, in the black with a healthy prognosis. Bill Cater’s report is concise and clear. It is appended below.

Barney has the NCEA situation well in hand, and the Honor Code seems to be rising up as the premier topic, coming up in October. He has established tight and effective relationships with all the pertinent parties. We have a good chance to serve here.

Our next Activities event is Bill Roedy’s Distinguished Graduate Award ceremony, 10-12 Sep. We have a head count of 52 classmates and many of their spouses. Mess hall operations are all cancelled except for cadets, so we will have festivities in the WP Club and at the Hilton Woodcliff Lake. It promises to be a good time. We will also stand on the reviewing line and review the Corps.

I signed and sent forward the MacArthur Cup agreement—athletic award. It is now funded and delivered to AOG.
Bill Cater’s report mentions our five gifts and over 8 million dollars of endowments. He also reminds us of the fine efforts of Lynn Moore and Ted Shadid to get the MacArthur Cup done, and of the support Dave Brown kept up for this project when interest was waning. He kept it alive. All four served the class and the Academy with Integrity, as usual.

Kurt Reineke’s committee has some coordinating to do and then there will be a query, looking for the class’s consensus, coming out. You will hear from him fairly soon.

Bill Taylor has done his usual yeoman’s work taking care of the DGA festivities. Thank you from all of us, BT. Frank Monaco continues to keep info flowing smoothly. Thank you, Ranger Buddy.

TJ Young is steady as a reference datum, as you would expect, Charlie McGee is connecting with all the other officers and committee chairs, and is innovative and has lots of ideas. He and Crash Werner are working together very strongly on the memorial effort for our fallen Brothers. Also important.

John Connors has reviewed everything we do for legality and sense, and his discernment is flawless. Thanks for that, John. Steve Strom is a calm influence, cool and deliberate. It’s very good to have him there.

The class officers and the class committee chairs have spontaneously formed partnerships and alliances to work for the collective wishes of the class. Steve Wilson continues to think outside the box and solve problems. He and Charlie McGee got these partnerships started.

It is a pleasure to work with such good men, good soldiers and good Brothers, in the service of this class of ours.

Best to everyone and all of yours,

Serve With Integrity
Beat Navy
Sully

Bill Cater SENDS:

***CFO REPORT 29 AUGUST 2021***

Dear Executive Committee and Committee Chairs,
This is the CFO report for our meeting scheduled on Sunday, August 29, 2021. My last report was emailed on July 16, 2021(for our meeting on July 18, 2021). This report is based on information received from AOG on August 24th for the month ending July 31, 2021.

The Class of 1970 financial accounts as of July 31, 2021 are as follows:

1. Admin Fund has $25,399 (last report at June 30,2021 was $25,376).

2. Class of 1970 Gift Fund has a total balance of $100,482 (last report was $350,934). For the first time in many years there are no pledges receivable. On July 23rd, $256,500 was transferred from the Gift Fund into the newly established Class of 1970 MacArthur Cup Award for Athletics Endowment.

3. Class of 1970 NCEA Endowment Fund has a total balance of $4,792,820 (last report was $4,726,196) consisting of $2,563,278 principal (no change from previous); $1,512,116 Temp Rest (unrealized gain on the principal-last report was $1,445,491) and $717,428 DDF (actual earnings not distributed-no change from last report).

4. Class of 1970 West Point Cyber Leaders Conference Endowment Fund has a total balance of $3,021,001 (last report was $2,972,970) consisting of $2,200,000 principal (no change from previous); $737,967 Temp Rest (last report was $689,937) and $83,033 DDF (no change from previous). We fully funded the principal in January 2020.

5. Class of 1970 MacArthur Cup Award for Athletics Endowment fund has a total balance of $257,738 consisting of $256,500 principal and $1,238 Temp Rest.
This endowment was funded on July 23, 2021. For those of you not familiar with the history of this endeavor, I would like to thank Lynn Moore for his efforts over the past several years for initiating the ideas for this endowment. Also, Dave Brown kept the idea going forward when interest was waning.

Congratulations to our great Class of 1970 for establishing a great legacy for the three endowments totaling $8,071,559 that will continue to support West Point’s mission to developing leaders of character.

Please call or email me to ask questions, discuss any items or make corrections before our meeting . Let me know if I missed anyone.

SWI
Bill
William P. Cater, CPA

Class Notes August 2021

Class Notes: August 2021.
I look forward to serving the class as the next Class of 1970 Scribe/Historian.

Thanks to Earl Albright for all his years. Earl faced interesting times as Assembly ceased publishing and other forms of media and communications began. As one of our classmates recently told me, he got comfortable with receiving a magazine every few months in the mail. And then it stopped.

All the current media venues will continue with Facebook, “USMA 1970” page as the de-facto principal and fastest way to share and inform. With about half the class on Facebook, others deserve to read about and see class activities. I hope the Class Notes helps fill a void. I will work closely with Frank Monaco (the glue that holds us together) on this process. Frank and I (and Marty Knorr) started working together on 1 July 1966 as Beast Barracks roommates – so the circle of life continues. Together with Frank we will determine the medium for widespread distribution.

I also welcome any ideas and recommendations to aid in the communication amongst all of us. I encourage and welcome information that classmates would like to share – children and grandchildren accomplishments, gatherings, awards, and happenings.

A most poignant comment came from another Scribe who said he can only publish we what he receives. I encourage and welcome your information to enhance our class communications and engagement.

Looking forward to the ride.

Transitions:
Jim “Sully” Sullivan and Dave Brown smoothly transitioned class presidency. Sully has the commitment and dedication from Dave who now serves as class president emeritus to draw upon his years of experience and connections. Continuing in key roles are John Connors, Barney Forsythe, Bill Carter, Terry Young, Frank Monaco, Steve Strom.

Start-Up

Sully has commissioned several committees that are going through their initial start-up growing pains. The intent to continue and foster communications, inclusion, and engagement. Of note is Steve Wilson’s committee will focus on completing classmate memorials. Memorials defined as formal obituaries published through AOG in the TAPS magazine. Of the 95 deceased graduated classmates, about half remain for memorialization. Bob Werner is the front man for the process. Together with Steve and four regimental representatives (Bill Knowlton, Rich Rutledge, Bill Addy, and Dale Reagor) they will work the process. More on this will follow in the future.

Distinguished Graduate Award
On September 11, Bill Roedy will formally receive the DGA award. Scheduling formal presentation of the award which was announced nearly two years ago has been affected by the pandemic. Bill’s leadership and business acumen are success stories for the growth of MTV during his years as CEO of MTV International. Yet, more outstanding is his work started years ago to eradiate HIV/AIDs. A work that grew to attack other infectious disease worldwide. Throughout that journey he was always the humble, stoic, and focused individual we knew.
For a closer, personal view of Bill, the West Point Center for Oral History has an interview at:https://www.westpointcoh.org/interviews/from-air-defense-officer-to-entertainment-pioneer.

Sightings:
Dick Beahm is gearing up for his annual Multiple Sclerosis bike ride. He will participate in the Washington DC ride on August 29, 2021, in Reston Virginia with his “Weeda Beahm Team”. Dick has been riding in the MS Bike Ride since 1994 and personally raised over $371K. The “Weeda Beahm Team” raised $707K. Over the years his co-riders included many classmates and other service academics bikers. He even had his first detail Beast Squad leader on one of the training rides. Consider donating to this worth cause.

The URL for Dick’s personal page is:

https://mssociety.donordrive.com/participant/DickBeahm2021. The URL for the Team Page
is: https://mssociety.donordrive.com/team/WeedaBeahm2021

Les Sumner gave the OK to reprint his Facebook picture from atop the Sacks Fifth Avenue building by Rockefeller Center in New York City. With the NYC mayoral race underway, Les looks primed to throw his hat into the fray – but not that hat. It fits you too well.

 

Paul and Pat Franke recently journeyed down the New Jersey Turnpike and I-95 for an afternoon lunch with Jim and JoAnn Crawford at the Army-Navy club in Arlington, Virginia. Also locally, several dinners were also held during the pandemic with Jim and Pat Murray, Jim and Kathy Kee Jim and JoAnne Crawford, and Charlie and Patty McGee.

Steve and Vicky Wilson are “on the road again”. This summer he and Vicki traveled from Arizona to California to Nevada with a few weeks respite in Coeur D’Alene, Idaho. Continuing prospecting in Montana, prior to returning to Arizona before another sojourn and then to Oregon for the class golf tournament. Along the way he continued to work as a committee head for Sully.

Frank and Paulette Monaco broke away from the Hudson Valley and attended a granddaughter’s high school graduation in upstate New York. The Monaco’s continued their summer visits to Missouri and Illinois visiting children and grandchildren.

John Stidd is about to complete the first half of his Appalachian Trail journey in mid-August. After reaching the northern terminus in Maine, he will return to his starting point in Pennsylvania and head southbound. The journey began in mid-April and anticipated to end in October.

Bob Richardson on one of his trips to a local Virginia restaurant ran into the Supe at the ice cream counter.

During the planning for the original 50th Reunion the class officers approved Bricks from the AOG Brick/Paver program for our deceased classmates from Beirut and Vietnam. Shown here

are the memorials to those individuals: Randy Carlson, Bob Brown, Marshall Steinfeld, Dick Green and Mike Minor. Almost in parallel, classmates from C4 dedicated a Paver to Marshall Steinfeld.

Hope to hear from you,

 

 

 

 

Take care,

Charlie McGee

cbmA470@gmail.com

Army Scholarship Foundation

 

Release date: 1 August 2021

For more information contact: Jeff Gault 703-587-5181

or Jeff.Gault@ArmyScholarshipFoundation.org

 

Army Scholarship Foundation Announces Scholarship Awards for 2021-2022 Academic Year

 

The Army Scholarship Foundation announced today the award of two hundred and ninety two scholarships to children of US Army soldiers and veterans and spouses of active duty enlisted soldiers.  Scholarships for the 2021-2022academic year were awarded to deserving Army family members as follows:

 

The Colonel Urey Woodson Alexander Memorial Scholarship to Brian Webb of Erie, PA. 

The Lieutenant Colonel Walter Russell Bowie Memorial Scholarship to Emily Woodall of Portland, TN.  

The Lieutenant Keirn C. Brown Memorial Scholarship toTamia Brefo of Staten Island, NY.

The Lieutenant General Jack Costello Memorial Scholarship to Gwenyth Metz of Clarksville, TN.  

The Alan Robert and Veronica Lenox Cotariu Memorial Scholarship to Jordan Shostek of Johnstown, PA.

The Captain James and Ruby Eheman Memorial Scholarship to Saniyha Atchison of Upper Marlboro, MD.

The Lieutenant Colonel J. Allan Green Memorial Scholarship to Kai Esquerra of Ft Hood, TX.  

The Staff Sergeant John F. Kusior Memorial Scholarshipto Claire O’Keefe of Cedar Park, TX.

The Lieutenant Scott Love Memorial Scholarship to Isabella Hipp of Fort Gordon, GA. 

The Captain Jennifer Schafer-Odom Memorial Scholarship was awarded to Lerick Gordon of Fort Lewis, WA. 

The Perot Family Scholarship to Dayron Wade of Lakeland, FL.

The Sergeant Andrew Topham Memorial Scholarship toAnna Mathena of San Antonio, TX.

The Lieutenant Harold Moore Honorary Scholarship to Cheyenne Williams of Ennis, TX

The Colonel Robert Winston Stephens MemorialScholarship to Cameron Gibson of Cameron, NC.