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Welcome to Aviation Cadet Class 61-09
Current Class Directory
Members that are
accounted for with current addresses.
OK guys, Please send
your personal information such as, addresses, phone
numbers, number of marriages, biography (yawn), and any
other information that you want known by your former
classmates. Send to: TerryH1940@aol.com
Those of us that are
still flying:
Jerry Shuts
(UAL)
Mike Speer
(corporate) a really good deal.
Ron Wanner is
with the New Hampshire DOT Aeronautics and
staying current in NH state SEL airplanes.
Kent and Lynn
Altman
1857 Wind Willow Road
Orlando, Florida 32809
407-851-3205 (H)
407-468-2420 (cell)
kent@orlandorock.com
Looking forward to seeing some of you in Ocala. If in
Orlando give me a
call or send an email anytime. I would like to know what
some of my old friends have been doing with their lives.
Jerry (Jerome) and
Kay Barak
1304 Stonebridge Way
Roseville, Ca 95661 (suburb of Sacramento).
916-786-0236,
Fred H. and Verna
Bergmann
7650 Kieke Road Carmine, TX 78932
979-278-3918
Robert D. Bock
3313 Yulupa Avenue
Santa Rosa, California 95405
707-528-2988[H]
RDBa@PGE.com
I'll look forward to joining the next reunion. I think
the Dayton idea is good, but in my heart I've always
wanted to return to Harlingen in July and reinact that
march from supply to the barracks wearing that 'horse
blanket' overcoat and then sit in front of one of those
huge fans at the ends of halls. Maybe even run the buffer
and clean some gig rails.
Henry H.
(Brian) Brogan
3631 Lakeside Drive
Louisville, TN 37777 (865) 970-3651
Larry and Joan
Clemons
9420 Kevins Way
Edmond, OK 73003
Tel. 405 359-1824
Our
new email address is:
lajo@cox.net
We love to hear from you. Larry & Joan
Clemons
Bill &
Lynn Day
2654 North Nugent Road
Lummi Island, WA 98262
360-933-1312
wlday@comcast.net
Mr. Brian Eide
N84 W18375 Seneca Court
Menomonee Falls, WI 53051-2525
262-255-1569
David L.
Eschelweck
2689 Deckner Avenue,
Greenbay WI 54302-5201
920-469-1412
Ted and Janet
French
8642 West Fairway Woods Drive
Charleston SC 294420
TFrench141@aol.com
Vic Fukai
4410 66th
Ave W
University Place, WA 98466
Home phone: 253-565-0375
vhfukai@nventure.com
I have been married to Helen for 42+ years.
Earl &
Linda Galceran
8021 Oakwood Court West
Houston, TX 77040 - (713-9376027)
galceran1@msn.com
Eugene S.
Goldsmith
5840 Church Road
Ferndale WA 98248
360-384-2484
gene@whatcom.org
Married to K. Yvonne Goldsmith, 5 grown children, 3
married, 6 grandchildren former State Legislator, former
Restaurant owner, still working for National Write Your
Congressman.
Terry and Sue
Higgins
205 Yankee Flats Road
Anaconda MT 59711
406-563-8107
TerryH4528@aol.com
After Aviation Cadets, I went to the back seat
of the F-101B, stationed at Malmstrom AFB, Montana. Went
to pilot training with the Montana ANG in 1965. Flew the
F-102 for 5 years with the guard and 12 years as a 727
co-pilot for Continental Airlines. I was out of flying
for 3 years when a guy name Frank Lorenzo made a career
change for many pilots at Continental. I am now retired from UPS
spending the last 8 years as a 747 Captain until I reached age 60. I
went back to the panel of the 727 and flew until July of 2007. I now
referee high school football in the fall and have completed 3 years as a
ref.
Arthur E.
(Art) Jacobson
It brought
back a lot of memories. I started out in 61-09 B3
but washed back somewhere around Second Class and
graduated in 61-11, so I don't qualify as an
alumnus. Anyhow, without going into detail, I
was active duty 8 years, two air Guard Units, AF Reserve,
now retired Reserve O-5. In real life I am an
Administrative Law Judge with the Social Security Admin
in Atlanta.
Bob and
Lillian McCaughan
3345 Bunting Run
Cumming, Georgia 30041
770-205-5817
ramccaughan@mindspring.com
After leaving Harlingen, I went to Navigator-Bombardier
school at Mather AFB, and then to. Dover AFB, Delaware
where I flew C124’s and C141’s as a navigator
and instructor navigator. Met my wife Lillian at Dover,
where she was serving as an Air Force nurse and later
Flight Nurse (when we got married, she was a Captain
while I was still a 2nd Lieutenant). Served in Viet Nam
as a Logistics Advisor to the VNAF at Bien Hoa. Shortly
after we got married, Lillian left the Air Force to stay
at home and be a mom. We have two children. Our a son is
with the Lord (he drowned while a teenager in high
school). Our daughter Karen is still single. I had served
previously in the Army as an enlisted man (E-5) so was
able to retire early in 1977 as a Major. After leaving
the Air Force I got a Ph.D. in Counseling and Psychology
and have worked as a Family Counselor, Counseling Center
Director, Seminary Professor, and Church Administrator. I am presently
(almost retired) working one day a week counseling families and doing
some freelance writing.
Mike McKown
4147 Oakwood Drive
Fairfield, CA 94534-1463
707-864-1420
mikemckown@1usa.com
Chris (Carter) & Carole
Neale
2246 No. Carson Ct.
Visalia, CA. 93291
carterneale@mac.com
Went to Travis AFB after graduation to fly
aircraft and met my wife there. Good move all in all! Moved on to high
flying RB-57F aircraft for a year just before going to pilot training.
Got an F-111 out of UPT and got to work with some real gee whiz
navigation and bombing systems in the right seat. Where was all this
stuff when I was trying to find Wake Island with nothing but a
sextant?!? With some fighter experience, USAF decided I was needed as a
FAC in Viet Nam. Spent a year working for the Australian Army. Fresh
beer and it was always very cold. Returned to fly KC-135's and after 3
years, back into F-111's for six more years, and then to the perfect
retirement assignment; five years as the Air Force Liaison Officer to
the Civil Air Patrol in Richmond, Va. I retired after 24 years, 5 months
and 25 days (but, who counts?) to take a job flying Citations for a
large company in Richmond. Retied from that job after 18 years with the
last five as Chief Pilot and took another flying job with a different
company, flying a Pilatus PC-12. I have since fully retired and we are
living in sunny central California; the land of "fruits and nuts."
Kemmel H. Owen
96413 Cessna Drive, Yulee, FL 32097-6396
kemmelo@juno.com
904 225-8752 - home phone
904 225-0441 - work (Owen Equipment, Inc.)
904 225-0472 - fax
Currently married (6 years) to first sweetheart,
Sherron Rouse Owen, from Jacksonville, FL. I have two
children (from first marriage), three grandchildren,
Sherron has three children, five grandchildren.
Went to Keesler for
EWO school, then EB-57's at Stewart for four years. Then
Moody for pilot training (67-F), then Perrin for F-102
trng. Went to Iceland (57th FIS), Okinawa (82nd FIS),
back to Moody as instructor in T-37's, back to Iceland
(F102 and conversion to F-4). Then went to Daytona Beach
campus for Embry-Riddle for Aero Sci Degree, and to
Tyndall AFB for last assignment as drone program monitor
on QF-102 development program.
I was riffed in April
1976, got out, and went to work for Sperry Flight systems
flying QF-102 and QF-100 drones as safety pilot and
remote controller at Holloman AFB for 10 years. Flew the
LAST QF-102 on 27 Jun, 1986, remote controlled it on 30
Jun, 1986. Went to White Sands Missile Range as Ops Mgr
for Drone Formation Control Systems for 3 years, then
with Tracor as safety pilot/remote controller for the
QF-106 development program. Came back to Florida to work
for a company developing manned and remote controlled
surveillance platforms for anti-drug work and other uses
(don't ask who). Went back to Tracor for the F-4 Phantom
II drone conversion as Ops chief and pilot/controller.
Went back to Florida and civilian flying, started
building my Skybolt (not finished yet), and opened my
business. Have a nice lot with hangar at Flying M Acres
(83FL) private strip in Yulee, FL. Member of Order of
Daedalians, QB's, Old Crows, EAA, AOPA.
Merle
and Glenna Peper
101 Lakeview Dr.
Livingston, Al 35470
205-652-7101
mjp@uwa.edu
James
A. (Jim) Peterka
1101 Edington Place
Marco Island FL 34145
Phone & Fax: 239-389-4262, Cell: 239-595-9357
Don Rizzo
275 Primavera Loop
Kyle, Texas 78640
Home: 512-268-6857
Cell: 512 547 9091
Gmail
rizzo.donald@gmail.com
If anyone's interested: After we left Harlingen a
whole bunch of us were assigned to the 552nd AEW and C Wing at McClellan
AFB, Calif. Flew the normal coastal patrol in the old "Super Connie"
{RC121} until my crew got assigned to "Operation Dominic" in the summer
of 1962. This was the nuclear testing in the Pacific. {if you are
interested, you can look it up on the internet}. That is when we blew up
the Van Allen belt in the Ionosphere. Remember the hole in the
atmosphere that suddenly appeared over the pacific in the late 60s early
70s. Then the Cuban crisis started and our crew and many of our fellow
classmates went to McCoy AFB Fla. and flew 50 to 100 ft off the the deck
and 15 miles off the coast of Cuba monitoring the U2s.
When we got back from Florida in early 1963, had orders to Viet Nam.
{Where's that?? What's an RB57D?? When I found out where Viet Nam was,
there I was!!! Then I found out what an RB57D was!!! {only 3 were ever
modified like this} It was a twin jet bomber that had been modified to
carry the the very latest camera systems including Infra-red. No guns!
It also had an ejection seat {What's That??} and NO NAV. AIDS!!! Our
little group was called DET 1, 33RD TAC GROUP. {"We were Advisers"??}.
Flew 114 combat missions both north and south. [STRESS ] Got accepted to
Pilot Training.
Returned to Waco, James Connally AFB, in 1964 as an instructor while
waiting for a pilot training class. Got married. Taught some of the
last classes of Aviation Cadets. In 1966 went to Craig AFB for pilot
training class 67D. After graduation I was assigned to the 917th Air
Refueling SQDN at Dyess AFB, Tx. flying KC135s. Back to theViet Nam War
for 3 to 6 months tours every year from 1967 to 1973. Had 3 daughters.
Flew another 261 combat support missions [STRESS] along with SAC's
chrome dome, Alerts, etc. Finished up as the SQDN. Instructor Pilot.
Got out in 6/73. {Long story}??. Went to Ross Perot's salesmanship
school to sell stocks and bonds. Market crashed!! Sold real estate for
the
next 15 years. In the 80s the Market crashed, and so did I. Got
divorced. Went to truck driving school. Got a back injury on the job.
Got workman's comp. Finished undergrad. Went to Law School. Graduated in
1997 at age 59 and went to work for the Dept. of Justice.
Working for the Fed. exacerbated the stress. Retired. Went to the VA.
and they told me about PTSD. Finally found out what caused
all those episodes. Went from 5 Xanax's a day to 1 with the help of the
VA. Now, I live near 2 of my daughters, my grandchildren and
my ex-wife, Jean, {we get along great, but we can't live together},
Harry and
Susan Rogers
2310 Covington Creek Circle
West Jacksonville, FL 32224-1177
(one mile inland from the beach)
Home Phone: (904) 221-0618
E-Mail: 2surfbirds@bellsouth.net
Wiliam &
Evelyn Ross
206 Country Club Road, Shalimar, FL 32579
(850)651-2735
E-mail: BIROS@AOL.COM
I left Harlingen and got married to Evelyn, a young lady
I had known from the second grade. She was finishing up
nursing school and we honeymooned on the drive to
California where I served in the AEW&C program at
McClellan AFB for the next 5 1/2 years. I left
there for my first tour in SEA as a nav in C-123's
assigned to the 309th Air Commando Sqdn at Tan Son Nhut
AFB in Saigon. I returned stateside to a pilot
training slot at Laughlin AFB in beautiful downtown Del
Rio TX! ARGH!! What an experience that
town was.... I returned to SEA upon graduation as a
pilot in the EC121's, flying out of Korat Thailand.
I garnered about 1,000 hours combat time with 79
"out of country" missions there.
Interesting to say the least. Returning to the states, I
began a tour at Mather AFB flying student nav's all over
the west coast. That tour lasted about 4 1/2
years. Never did get in the 727's though. I
was assigned to Eglin AFB as a sqdn Commander of a Field
Maintenance squadron and really enjoyed that.
Unfortunately, I was riffed there but managed to finish
my twenty right here. I did retire as an 0-4.
After retirement, I spent some
time doing sports officiating (football, basketball,
baseball and softball) for many years. I have also
served twice as a deputy sheriff in this county. I
have done a little local flying but the AF really spoils
you ~ it does get expensive just boring holes. Evelyn and
I are planning a trip to Europe in the spring. It
will be our first time to Europe. We do spend some
time up in Tennessee at year's end just to unwind and
kick back. We have a son in California and a
daughter in Mississippi. A grandson and grand daughter in
CA and two grandsons by our daughter, one in MS and
one at Tinker AFB in OKC. The grandson in CA
has a great future in baseball. He has already
recieved serveral calls and invites from colleges like
Arizona, UNLV, Cal Poly, Sacramento State and several
others. I have made several trips out there to
watch him play. Well friends, this is
getting to be a lengthy letter but it has a lot to cover.
Peter Siegrist
514 Laurel Street
Colorado Springs CO 80904
jwsiegrist@juno.com
Larry &
Linda Turner
16330 Canyon Shadow
San Antonio, TX 78232
210-490-1068
llturner@ix.netcom.com
I spent 20 years in the Air Force at Travis then
Kelly flying almost
anything with a C in front of it. Retired and went
to college at UTSA
(Math/Computer Science/Computer Design). Retired form
civil service at Kelly
31 AUG 03 after 18 1/2 years. I now work on home
projects and help Linda
take care of 3 grandsons.
John and
DeeAnn Walker
1413 Stagecoach Road
Grand Island, NE 308-382-6926
walkerjd@inebraska.com
I just retired on 7/1/03 after working as a
Plant Manager in the seed corn industry (27
years). We have two daughters one is in
theater in New Jersey and the other is an internal
auditor for the UN in Rome, Italy. In the
next year or two we plan to do some traveling and
possibly move to a more moderate climate some where east
of Nebraska.
Theodore J.
(Ted) Weiler
102 Shady Wood Court
Weatherford, TX 76087-2808
817-599-4613
flier61@sbcglobal.net
Lee and
Rosalie Wilson
8381 N. Sage Place
Tucson, AZ 84704
520.297.0271
azwilsons@q.com
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