Tom BURKE sent a very welcome and news-filled letter about himself and many classmates in the D.C. area. Tom is director of Command and Control Studies for Decision-Science Applications, Inc. in Arlington, VA working in advanced radar systems and general military operations research. He and Mary Ellen live in Springfield, VA with six children: Kathleen, Beth, Aileen, Jennifer, Katie and John. Tom is currently serv­ing on the board of directors for the D.C. AOG Chapter, setting up a graduate services index for the area to keep track of all local grads and their duties. He would welcome any ideas on the subject and, at a guess, would not turn down a helping hand or three. Write him at 6003 Nassau Drive, Springfield, VA 22152. Presumably, Tom will use a computer to try to keep track of the many changes. His personal computer crashed when he tried to get it to write a letter, and C.T. DOUGLASS was gracious enough to anoint me as guest scribe just at that time; so, I had to put up with handwriting almost as hard to decipher as my own (true poetic justice). Tom's list of '60s in the area are: George ELSEA, Mike (A) CLARKE, Richard HEAD, Joe HIGGINS, Steve HOLT, Jerry DE LA CRUZ (hi, roomie), Al JOHNSON, Ted STUMM, Karl JONES, Ron PATCHETT, Russ MACDONALD, George COLLIER, Bob WEINAUG, Doug REKENTHALER and Norm HALLER. This list he knows is not complete, but it was all he had when writing his letter.

Norm HALLER writes that he and Liz have a family of four, from teens through 21, two girls and two boys. He is the executive assistant to the chairman of the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission. In my travels through the airports of the world, I ran into Doug REKENTHALER and family in Atlanta. He reports that he is blessed with two sons and a daughter, all of whom are fine examples of their generation. (Heck, with a father that big, I would have been too!) Doug and Vicki live on a horse farm at 3400 Jennings Chapel Road in Wood­bine, MD with eight horses and a new 50-foot pool to loll in. One of his six thoroughbreds starts racing in a couple weeks. Doug works for BDM Corporation in the fields of intelligence and defense studies and has a team working with Jim WELCH ('59) at NASA trying to get the space telescope back near estimated costs and time of completion. Doug's com­pany sponsored a table at a banquet, and he sat with one of our "star" classmates, George LUCK, who is back in D.C. again. Doug also talks often with Denny O'KEEFE in Seattle. Denny is in the export-import business, which is about as nebulous as you can get. How 'bout a letter, Denny?

Gary VAN SINGEL has a computer that does write (take that, Tom), and it sent a summary of his past 20 years. I can't read Fortran, but my trusty slide rule worked it out for me. Gary and Marilyn have an 18-year-­old son and a 13-year-old daughter, live about 35 miles north of Grand Rapids, MI, and he works for Rapistan Corp. Those airline folks among you will recognize that name as baggage conveyors--you non-airliners may still have a bag circling on one somewhere. They have covered about 70 percent of North America in their motor home during their spare time and stopped in on the Jim BUJALSKI’s just above Folsom Prison in California.

Ed LEONARD is now an attorney in Austin, TX, having attended the U. of Texas after retiring in '80. He has heard from Bob BADGER, who is practicing law in Louisiana. Jon MCCLURE, when not flying for Eastern, is a lawyer in Atlanta. He has promised to write a letter to C.T.; so, more on him next issue. Ken ALNWICK moved back to the D.C. area from Maxwell. Hardy LEBEL, who retired medically in '78, has moved to Rhode Island. The Derry ADAMSONs have three daughters and one son. He teaches at the Special Ops School at Hurlburt Field. Does anyone know the whereabouts of Ben FURUTA?

The eligible full colonel board has just met. May there be good news for all of you still wearing the blue!

Personal note: Garth COOKE, write a letter, or else we'll make up some news about you next time. Thanks to all of you who did write this time. You make this job quite pleasant by doing so. C.T. tells me that Bruce MOSIER has volunteered to write the next column, even if he has to find out by reading it here.