USNA 1955  Class  Website
Current  Inputs from Classmates and Families
The postings below and others recently appearing but being held in
Holding Webpages
will be posted in the next bi-monthly Web-Letter
and in a future Shipmate as space permits
Click on the above Class Crest to access
most pages of our old USNA'55 Class Website
and then
click on the Old Website INDEX above to search for the other pages

*** THE OLD WEBSITE IS NO LONGER KEPT CURRENT***
so clicking on its link
http://www.usna.com/classes/1955
will only take you to the new class website
http://usna55.org
(which you are on now)

Please refer any questions about
or submit any postings for
this new
USNA '55 Class Website:
http://usna55.org
to
Dan Butterfield
Class Webmaster & Corresponding Secretary
at:
4dbfield@cyberwind.net
Shipmate Class Columns
They can be accessed by clicking on the following link:
Holding-Stuff

Now... please send in some good stuff about yourself or family
Class Web-Letters
New postings:
Link with Your
"Firsty"
'55 Class Directory
'55 USAF Directory
Joe Clarkson(08)
Tom Kiefaber(19)
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Nov-Dec 2010
Jul-Aug 2010
Sep-Oct 2010
Nov-Dec 2010
50 Years After
'55 CLASS GROUP PHOTO
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Class Calendar for 2010
available on
Bulletin Board Webpage
Region 4
MN, ND, SD, MT, WY, WA
Jul-Aug Issue
Region 5
NE, CO, ID, OR, KS, OK
Sep-Oct  Issue
Region 1  
ME, NH, VT, MA, RI, CT, NY,  
NJ, PA, OH, IN, MI, WI, IL
Jan-Feb Issue
Region 2
DE, MD, VA, WV, KY, IA
Mar-Apr Issue
Region 6
TX, NM, AZ, CA, UT, NV,
AK, HI and Can, Aus, P.Rico
Nov-Dec  Issue
Region 3
NC, TN, SC, GA, MS,
AL, FL, LA, AR, MO
May-Jun Issue
6  Geographical Regions
for '55 Classmate's  Inputs for Shipmate and Web-Letters
Click on the above
MBS/Fall 2010
The info below schedules your Region's  months for input to your

'55 Class Shipmate Column and Web-Letter  
... but also send it anytime at all!

Classmate's Personal
Message
Bob Binish (11)
Geo Region 4
Minnesota
To read Shipmates and Web-Letters and to see New Postings
submitted by '55ers please scroll down this homepage
past the Classmates' 6 Geographical Regions Map
Come Visit Us in Lutsen, MN
Julian & Mary Jo Roche
Julian Roche (06)
Geo Region 4
Minnesota

Stephen Wright's
Thoughts and Words

USAFA
Insignificance?
A "Must Read" Study
by Dick McConn,
USAFA ’66
MISSION IMPOSSIBLE !
A very hungry
Gray Squirrel
Allen Rodes (05)

LOOK OUT
Hollywood !
Art Broun(07)
Geo Region 4
Minnesota

Astonishing
Marinelife Video
Marine Biologist
David Gallo
'55ers Mini-Reunion
Vero Beach, FL
Rip Wieler(12)
The USAF's
"ANP" Program
Bill Anders(22)
Remarkable Military Career
Scott Moore son of Tom Moore (01)
Charley Plumly
The Flyin' Anders

Heritage Flight Museum's
Warbirds Weekend Show
June 5, Bellingham, WA
Greg Anders in P47
Bill Anders in P51
Alan Anders in A1
Fred &
furry friends
20th Company lining up to march in the
Inaugural Parade, November 1953
I  can identify Ace Davis, JD Everett, Lee Pryor,
Chuck Kenny, Dick Pyne, Gordan Hamley
Jim (JD) Everett
The Vanishing DBF-er
(Click on above twice to read)
Jack Renard & Al Koster
The JV Harters (21)  visit Classmates
Elaine and I took a tour of the Southwest in early May.  
Along the way we were the guests of Eileen and Tom
Copeman (10) in Prescott. Arizona.  The Copemans lived
across the street from me in Edgewater, MD, in the 60's.  
We also had dinner with Jo Ann and Bob Boyd (21) in
Paradise Valley, AZ to celebrate Cinco de Mayo.  Bob is
in the middle of construction of his fourth airplane kit
Our Bucket List Trip
Charley Plumly
20th Company lining up outside Dalhgren Hall for
Graduaiton on June 3
I can identify  l-r  Monty Duval, Bob Emery, Bob Freeman, Dick Gero,
Gordan Hamley, Ray Hine, Jack Jones

J.D. Everett
Class Directory
by Company

CHANGES
Omigosh!  Ready or
not here they come!
Dick Kittler
Military
Salute
This was filmed in Iraq
at a USO tour of KISS
at a US Marine Base.
Wave & Ann Graham
Origin of surface ship billet:
"Command Master Chief"
Glenn Bates (09)
Don Aven (01)
3-19-10
Ray Hine (20)
3-17-10
Farewell for now, Classmates...
We ALL will be gathering THERE for the Greatest of all USNA Class of '55 Reunions
"Four years together by the Bay where Severn joins the tide..."
This eternal candle burns in
everlasting hope of a
cancer cure
for  our  classmates
This eternal candle burns in
everlasting hope of an
alzheimers cure
for  our  classmates
Chuck Gray  (05)
Reunion Regrets
message
from Hawaii
An invitation to the USNA Change of Command and Retirement Ceremony on 3 August
Print these and bring them with you for entry
or call below  number to have them mailed
USNA Protocal Office
(410) 293-1510
Rare Video/Audio coverage of
Formal Japanese Surrender
aboard USS Missouri (BB-63)
in Tokyo Bay on Sunday, September 2, 1945

(actual voice of General MacArthur never shown to the general  public before
and in the past  we've only seen the stills but never  film as this rare footage)

Double-Click below for FULL SCREEN
EB Caraway (09)
Visit of famous
5-Star French General
Jean de Lattre de Tassigny
during our Plebe Year
Steve Ruth (14)
MicroSoft's PowerPoint Viewer
is required on your computer
to see the above slideshow
so click on the italicized link below
to get the free download of:
PowerPoint Viewer 2007
Slideshow takes up to a minute to open
'55ers Roster
Tidewater VA/NC
Pat Taylor (16)