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November 13, 2020 – Golden Legacy Ceremony
2020
 Our CGA Link In The Chain class of 2022
invited our class to attend their 3/c Formal Dinner Dance on 28 March
2020. Between the dinner and the dance, the Golden Legacy Ceremony
would be held in Leamy Hall whereby our classmates had the
opportunity to donate their class rings, to be melted and mixed
into the gold for 2022’s class rings.
Eight of our classmates
donated their rings, one anonymously in memory of James Kehoe and
Robert Schmoeger who crossed the bar while cadets. Ardel Williams
donated her ring in memory of her husband and our classmate
Charlie Williams. And as a class, we wanted to rededicate Bobby
Vail’s ring donated by his wife Mickie back in 2009, the first year
of this tradition. Unfortunately, the 2020 event was cancelled due to
the COVID-19 pandemic.
Rededication
At the formal
dinner in the Cadet Wardroom, the program called for Terry Newell
to address the Class of 2022 and present remarks to explain the
rededication of Bobby Vail’s ring during this year’s Golden Legacy
Ceremony. The following link provides the text of the prepared
remarks:
"Remarks for Rededication of Captain
Robert W. Vail’s Ring to the Golden Legacy Program" by Captain
Terry W. Newell, USCG (Ret), ‘72
Alumni Association Virtual
Golden Legacy Ceremony
During the fall of 2020, the CGA
Alumni Assn assisted our class in creating a video link to
virtually represent the cancelled Golden Legacy Ceremony and
preserve the memory. Visit this video made by the Alumni
Association for
The
Passing of the Rings - Golden Legacy: Class of 1972 and 2022
Included in the
video link above are:
1) Keynote Address by Bob
Duncan
Keynote Address (pdf
copy) and at this link:
https://www.cgaalumni.org/s/1043/uscga/index.aspx?sid=1043&gid=1&pgid=5433
2) A 3 minute
video by Greg Johnson
representing:
* Mickie Vail on behalf of her husband
Bobby Vail [Crossed the Bar 2005]
* Ardel Williams on behalf of her
husband
Charles Williams [Crossed the Bar 2015]
* And a ‘72 Anonymous Donor in memory
of:
Cadet 3/c
James Kehoe [Crossed the Bar 1969]
Cadet 2/c
Robert Schmoeger [Crossed the
Bar 1971]
[ Click on their names for
their individual memorial page.]
3) And a 3 minute video from
each of the following ’72 donors explaining why they donated their
ring.
Ben Abiles Tim Healey
Jim McCarthy Terry Newell
Brad Niesen
Tom Paar Penn Shade
Here's the link to a pdf version of the
'72 donors including Bobby Vail, Charlie Williams, Jimmy Kehoe,
and Bob Schmoeger, their CGA graduation or cadet picture and bio.
- Class
of 1972 Ring Donors
In addition, below is a link to
the Alumni Assn Golden Legacy page with the CGA graduation
pictures and current bio of each of our 2020 donors, as well as
all Golden Legacy donors by year back to 2009 when the program
started. 2009 is where you'll see Bobby Vail's picture and
bio, one of the first.
https://spark.adobe.com/page/GvvRK4gg25ZdN/#our-ring-donors
Also see
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What is the Golden Legacy Program?
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