Paul VALLERIE found this old picture while cleaning out some boxes at his home in Omaha. Did we dance in alphabetical order in those days? Howie BRONSON and Hal BROST seem to be doing so at March AFB in 1957.

Denis WALSH came to the Academy this fall in conjunction with a squadron-sponsor visit. Denis is Operations Officer of the 528th Bomb Squadron (FB-111s) at Plattsburgh AFB. He said he had talked to Ned WHITMAN, Dick KINGMAN and Ted STUMM at the Army game in October. Ned has a law practice in Suffern, New York; Dick has a restaurant business in New York City; and Ted is flying C-5s at Dover AFB.

My Christmas cards reveal that Clem DOUGLASS is still single, an airline pilot, an insurance agent, plus an Academy Liaison Officer in Whittier, California. Another airline pilot who doubles as a Liaison Officer in Atlanta is Jon McCLURE. Both say they’ll he visiting the Academy this month. Chuck HART is tilting at the Pentagon windmills and has recently gotten his hand back into farming. He works a 55-acre plot on weekends. Bill TAYLOR, who is assigned to F-4s at Kadena, is going through Wild Weasel training at George AFB. Roy JOLLY is leaving his technician job with the Air Force Reserves at Tinker to resume his job as a pilot for TWA. He’ll still drive Thuds as a weekend warrior. Dale and Sherry THOMPSON had a Christmas party for all the ’60 grads in the DC area. Maybe someone will fill me in on the gossip exchanged there. Elaine HEAD, who was temporarily staying at Breckenridge, Colorado, has joined Dick in Washington, where he is a student at NWC.

Quickies: George FRIES has moved from Langley AFB to Poquoson. Virginia. Howie WHITFIELD PCS'd from Irvine, California (El Toro?) to Marine Corps Headquarters in Arlington. Jim ALEXANDER has gone to Kadena AB, Okinawa from Moody AFB, Georgia. Bill QUOLLETE, who is an optometrist in Brunswick, Maine, has changed addresses in that city. Paul SULLIVAN continues to shiver at Shemya AFB, Alaska. Frank MAYBERRY PCS'd from Ramstein to Adana, Turkey, where he is Chief of Maintenance. The new commander of Detachment 16 (whatever that is) at Torrejon AB, Spain, is [Dick? Perhaps PJ?] SMITH, recently of Ft. McNair.

Bad news: Hardy LEBEL was seriously injured in an auto accident in September and has been PCS'd to the Air Force hospital at Eglin AFB. Sorry to hear that.

Tragic News: Charles “Jabo” MCCAIN was lost at sea in the crash of a Marine Corps CH-53 helicopter 10 miles west of Naha, Okinawa on 4 November 1976. Jabo was a squadron executive officer in the 1st Marine Air Wing at Iwakuni. He was aboard the helicopter as a passenger on a routine flight from Kume Jima to Okinawa.