Tom and Mary Ellen BURKE gave a dinner party at their Springfield, VA "digs" for those in the photo. In the front row, from left are Paul SONES, Evey and George ELSEA, Susanne and Joe HIGGINS, and Tall Tony. In the back row, Sheila SONES, Tom and Mary Ellen BURKE, Karen BURSHNICK, Ralph and Darlene LALIME, Liz and Norm HALLER.

Those attending wrote a few comments (I detected the fragrance of alcohol on their missives): Joe and Susanne HIGGINS just returned from Ft. Myers, FL staying with Brian and Carol KALEY In their Naples condo, and I can't even spell the degrees Joe's three kids have; George and Evey ELSEA's future travel includes Arizona for his parents' 60th anniversary and Scotland to visit Evey's folks, while George added that the "Tiger Moth is still flying;" Paul and Sheila SONES just returned from a Caribbean cruise and a trip to Texas; Ralph LALIME spent March in Sanibel, FL, and will take Darlene to Hawaii in November; Norm and Liz HALLER claim 11 grandchildren (nine boys, two girls); and Tom BURKE's consulting business-TETS Associates--­"is growing, albeit slowly." (What's a TET, Tom?).

Great news! George Joseph Charles (nmn) FRIES got a clean bill of health concerning his malignant skin cancer, and is now buying stock in Coppertone 30/45. He and Becky housed still-on-active-duty Dean (nickname: Leroy) BRISTOW and wife, Sandy, in June while Dean was in D.C. for retirement ceremonies of the ACC Surgeon. (Scribe to George: YATES was the last classmate on continuous duty!) George at­tends Old Dominion University in their education program to achieve cer­tification as a "Real-Life Person," and was recently named board member of the Jamestown 4H Camp. Can anyone top that?

James Henry (Bojo) BUJALSKI wrote from Orangevale, CA where he and Cleone celebrated their 36th anniversary July 23rd. Son Christopher (29) lives in nearby Williams and daughter Christina (28) is in the Springs. After flying RC-121s at Otjs AFB, C-123s in Vietnam, and C-130s at Forbes AFB, Jim left the service and got his MS in aeronautics and astronautics from the U. of Washington, MBA from Cal State, then worked at Aero­jet in Sacramento 27 years--engineering to project management to ad­vanced technology to marketing to program management. "We owned and lived in six different homes, one of which we designed and built, pur­suing side careers in dairy farming, college-level teaching, and property management--must have caught up with me, because in late 1994 I was involuntarily retired!" Jim then went back to school at UC-Davis in hazardous materials management and site assessment remediation, now independently consults while working for United Technologies' Chemical Systems Division in San Jose as the program manager for phasing out third-stage rocket motor production. "Gary VANSINGEL spent a weekend at our home in January--Gary's doing international marketing of conveyor systems for a company in Grand Rapids, MI." Jim also related that "I was waiting in line for one of the rides at Paramount's Great Amusement Park on June 1st, when a young man asked me about my Class of 1960 cap, telling me that his dad was a graduate. Turned out to be Greg BOYINGTON's son!"

Robert Paul ODENWELLER (Planetarium Lecturer 2, 1) and wife, Jane, wrote. Bob recently received the 1995 TWA Annual Award of Ex­cellence--airlinese for "Pilot of the Year"--and even got his name painted on 767, number 16051. "Noticed that Ken BIEHLE clocked 15,000 hours--I stopped counting at 20,000 hours (first liar never stands a chance)." A 1011 captain, he retires in two years. Older daughter, Joy (34), was awarded the McKnight Land Grant Professorship of An­thropology at the U. of Minnesota after making a major "find" in Yemen; daughter Liesl (29) sings opera and might perform at the Royal Opera House. Bob wrote that "I'll be judging an international stamp show in Toronto this June, and on the expert team in Istanbul September/October." Bob said he occasionally saw Bert CROFT, who was a flight engineer with TWA. On a sad note, we learned from Ed LANKENAU ('59), that Bert died after a massive heart attack suffered the last week of June.

Who has more fun than those wacky Beltway Bandit Boys? "Admiral" LALIME (who drives his luxurious motor home around D.C. as if it's in afterburner) coerced several classmates and their wives to join him on the Good Ship Dandy (Scribe: I swear I'm not making this up!) for a May afternoon cruising the Potomac, and provided us with a few notes about each: Bill and Kitty TAYLOR (son Jim, AFA'85, is now full-time flying F-16s with Tucson's ANG); Bob and Liliane BADGER just bought a new home in Fairfax and are about to become grandparents for the eighth time; Dick and Sally SEXTON (Dick's selling real estate, does freelance paralegal work, and is studying--you read it here first--sign language!); Dean BRISTOW says he finally got to fly an F-16; Leon and Maryn GOODSON (Leon's working at his ops-research business in Reston, Maryn's busy handling her staff of programmers/analysts at the Associa­tion of American Medical Colleges); Jerry and Betty DE LA CRUZ (Bet­ty's playing softball and tennis, Jerry attends Catholic University part ­time); Ralph and Darlene LALIME (The "Flea" was elected chairman of Springfield District Republicans); Les QUERRY continues his engineer­ing consulting business and plans a lot of European travel; and, Al and Gale JOHNSON had no news to report.

Chris and Pat WARACK hosted a May gathering at the Academy O-Club, after an AOG meeting, for the following: Andi BIANCUR, retired, flew his Mooney from Utah; Ron and Connie YATES, who don't allow Ron's 14 days of consulting each month to interfere with leisure; Tony and Karen BURSHNICK left the next day for Mountain Home AFB to visit son Joe ('91, flies KC-135s); Jim GLAZA, who'll be conduct­ing more great football tailgates; Jim and Mary WADDLE, about to break ground on a church-building project in Russia and travel there every month or two, will visit the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Czech Republic this summer; Tony and Carol BILELLO enjoy flying with their club and playing tennis; Jock and Hope SCHWANK. (Jock's still reeling after "two days trying to make sense out of outlandish board member suggestions/directions from our two '60 members!" Hint: their initials are Tony and Andi.)

Op. Ed. The March column noted the presidential candidacy of Ronald Wilburn (We'll Churn for Wilburn") YATES and John Michael ("Our Coach is Roach") LOH. Campaign Chairman Lander (Land) Slyde reports from HQ in Ponca City that the LOH/YATES juggernaut has almost three percent support (±4% margin of error) in Guam, Puerto Rico, and Cleveland. Using scores from Astro-finals (sorry, Ron) Mike'll be Presidential Nominee with Ron Vee-Pee for the Cocktail Party, with a slogan "54-40 or Fight!" (Raise alcoholic content of wine to 54%, beer to 40%!)

Potpourri. Denis HANEY's at 5216 Caliente Drive, Arlington, TX 76017, phone 817-468-8259. After years working for Met-Life, Denny's teaching junior high science, and applied for a certificate in math ... send class anecdotes to Paul VALLERIE at 12512 SE 65th Street, Bellevue, WA 98006-3913 ... New Address: Tony BILELLO, 3092 South Gray Street, Denver, CO 80227-3817 ... Next Issue: the real story behind the 1959 USMA-USAFA football game at Yankee Stadium from Deke JOHNSON, who prefers to remain anonymous. Ciao.