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All Things 50th Reunion
Thursday October 13 –
Sunday October 16, 2022
3-1//2 months & counting towards our 50th! |
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The Reunion Committee will post
updated summary of all planning and activities here
as the primary source for the most up to date
information for our 50th Reunion. Please
visit this website often to stay up to date on
reunion info. |
Date posted - Reunion Plans
Medallion Ceremony - Attendees,
Clarifications
- New
06/24/2022 -
Sitrep One Medallion Ceremony Roster Attendees
Crossed the Bar - With Us In Spirit During the 50th
Important:
Please
read all the way through the link above and
take action requested under "So
order of business".
This Medallion Ceremony Roster
replaces the now superseded Attendees Roster, and
is informally binding in that the listed personnel
are pledging to attend the Medallion Ceremony. If
your name is on this Roster, then it is assumed you
will be present to participate in the Medallion
Ceremony.
By 1
September (hard deadline), the Reunion Committee
must pass the final Medallion Roster to the Alumni
Association, who will coordinate with the
Commandant's staff. Greg Johnson is the committee
point man for the Ceremony. The Medallion Ceremony
is a "premier" event and may be the highlight of the
celebratory weekend for many. Please click the
following link to the Class website to review the
Medallion Ceremony protocol:
https://cga72.com/50_CGA72-MedallionCeremony-061522.pdf
Added 06/24/2022
- Clarification on Titles
for Medallion Ceremony
1. The only time a title will
be used during the ceremony is when the announcer
announces the classmate's name. The name and
title will come from the Roster our Reunion
committee submits to the Alumni Assn, and our class
fully controls the roster, including titles.
Therefore the committee is depending upon each of
you on the roster to let Terry Newell twnewll@gmail.com know
your preferred title if it is different from what he
has indicated on the Roster form.
2. At the time the announcer announces the
classmate's name, his graduation Picture and name as
it appears in the '72Tide Rips will be displayed on
the big screen. No title.
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2022 Reunion Digital Yearbook &
Directory Updates
Added 06/24/2022 -
Submit Your Updates for the Directory
Updates in the
Directory
are highted in YELLOW |
Medallion Ceremony, Clothing Order Form, Ladies Dress
& Titles
-
06/15/2022 -
50th Clothing Order Form
(w/ large images) (July 20th
deadline to submit form)
(see Medallion Ceremony
clothing clarification below)
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Updated 06/15/2022 -
Medallion Ceremony - Reunion Committee Briefing
Notes
Added 06/15/2022 -
fr Reunion Committee
Clarification on Clothing
for Medallion Ceremony
Shirt - The
committee recommends to wear a light blue shirt, but
white is acceptable.
Tie - The order
form was to represent the tie only, you are not
ordering the shirt. And the shirt being white on
the order form does not infer wearing a white
shirt. The committee recommends a light blue
shirt, but if you don't have one and you want to
wear a white shirt that is acceptable.
Pants - We
recommend Dark grey or Charcoal dress slacks.
- 02/22/2022 -
Ladies Dress Info for Medallion Ceremony |
Past References
-
Update
06/03/2022 -
Sitrep 10 & Final Attendees Roster
Mates (116), Family Reps (11), Accompaniments (111) -
Sitrep Nine Attendees -
Update 06/08/2022 -
All Things 50th Blog
As of today we have 116
Classmates and 237 total head count (spouses, family
representatives, and other attendees) signed on to
attend the 50th.
Read Blog for Specific List of
Events / Schedule. |
Events, Schedules, Golf
-
Update 06/16/2022 for 72 Golfers
-
Class & Alumni Event Schedule & Costs
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Updated 06/14/2022 -
Golfers for 50th Homecoming
- 01/09/2022 -
Memorial
& Fallen
Soldiers Table -
"Crossed the Bar"
- 03/28/2022 -
POC for Family Members Attending 50th
- 03/05/2022 -
Update of Reunion Registration
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Parking, Map
-
Added 06/24/2022 -
Our class will have VIP academy parking; however, we
will also be running shuttle buses to/from the
Mystic Hilton hotel throughout the weekend.
- 03/16/2022 - Handicap
Attendees - Handicap parking and/or a private
chauffeur driven golf cart to get around to the
various activities may be available. If you
feel you may need assistance, please contact the
Reunion Committee,
reunion50@cga72.com, as soon as you know ahead
of time so the Alumni Association can provide one.
- 04/04/2022 -
Academy Map
(jpg) -
Open pdf version to print
Click on map for larger image
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Map of CGA for the
families and friends we are inviting to
carry, put in their phone photo directory
for easy referral and for our classmates
that are escorting them around (so they
don’t get lost). - Submitted by Tiger |
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- Update 06/03/2022
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Composite List of 72 Classmates
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Flashback (files may be large;
be patient to open) -
03/20/2022 -
2002 Reunion - submitted by Charlie McCarthy
[ If you have any Flashback pics, you can submit
them.]
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Additional Events -
03/08/2022 -
April 12th - 2022 Dining-in -
03/08/2022 -
April 19th - 2022 1c Social -
03/08/2022 -
May 18th - 2022 Graduation Tickets -
03/08/2022 -
A Mentoring Program
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01/23/2022 -
50th Reunion -
Class Legacy -
Updated - Add your legacy Classmate Legacy - Create
a legacy document for yourself for posting on our Legacy
page on this web site.
Read more about this idea and guidelines.
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============================== 04/18/2022 -
Erroll Brown - Inductee for the BGCA
Hall of Fame
============================== 11/10/2021 -
Tony Zimmer - Updated memorial web page
============================== 11/14/2021 (Updated) -
Classmates
Who Left - Updates submitted by classmates
============================== 09/28/2021 -
Directory
updates for: 09/27/2021 - Rich
Withers - Added SWABO and bio 09/28/2021 -
Tom Yearout & Mark Noll - Updated SWABOs 09/29/2021 -
Jim Gormanson & Scott Jones - Added SWABO ============================== 07/22/2021 -
Traditions New
& Old - New colum in the Alumni Bulletin
- Article by Paul Duddy & photo of Greg Johnson with a LITC
cadet at the
Class of 2022 ring dipping ceremony
============================== 07/10/2021 -
Bruce Melnick -
Legacy
============================== 07/07/2021 (updated) -
Mike Gray - Crossed the Bar on 06/28/2021 -
Memorial
07/04/2021 (updated) - Hampton Beasley -
Memorial 07/09/2021 (updated)- Danny Benefield -
Memorial
============================== 05/25/2021 -
NEW
Legacy web page
Legacy link also added to menu at top of page
03/27/2021 - Classmate Legacy - Create
a legacy document for yourself for posting on our Legacy
page (not yet created) on this web site.
Read more about this idea and guidelines.
============================== 04/30/2021 -
NEW web site address:
https://cga72.com/
New email DLs - Members of Class, LITC, Private &
Plus DLs can send to:
Class DL - objee@cga72.com
LITC members
DL - litc@cga72.com
50th Reunion
Committee DL -
reunion50@cga72.com
Private DLs - Only members of each DL can send to:
Private DL (private for classmates on private DL) -
private@cga72.com
Plus (private for Wives & friends of CGA72) -
plus@cga72.com
============================== 03/27/2021 - Classmate Legacy - Create
a legacy document for yourself for posting on our Legacy
page (not yet created) on this web site.
Read more about this idea and guidelines.
============================== 12/11/2020 - Art Butler -
Crossed the Bar
12/10/2020 - John Boggs -
Crossed the Bar
- Updated 01/09/2021 11/24/2020 - Jim Whiting,
Thanksgiving on the Homefront - by Karen Whiting

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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August 12, 2020 (Update 12) -
Class of ’72 – Military & Civilian Parents
[Note:
If you want to add, modify or insert a photo, just send an
email to me. ]
============ July
16, 2020 - SWABO Updates in our
Directory.
If
you want to add or update your SWABO, please send it to me. Keep
it brief or I may edit myself to shorten it. Thank you in
advance.
July
16, 2020 - Updated Tony Stimatz SWABO
May 12, 2020 - Added
Gary Beck SWABO
April
19, 2020 - Added Fred Litchliter SWABO April
14, 2020 - Updated Greg Lapp SWABO
February 7, 2020 -
Updated Herb Williams SWABO
2020 SWABO updates in the Directory are
shown in light green. |
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Plan ahead for our 50th
Reunion - October 2022
Class of 72 reunion
committee
Chuck & Robbie McCarthy (Primary Point of Contact) Tom & Elaine
Meisenzahl
Jim & Janice Norton
Bill & Ella Armstrong
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1972 Crew
Team - 25th Reunion
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A brief history of our class from 1968 to 2015
see
Classmate's SWABO replies
 USCG
Academy Campus June
1968

(Click for larger image) 348 classmates inducted
into the Class of
72:
Approx 343 reporting
plus 12 Reverters
from the Class of 1971
Formed into platoons Shock & awe hits
Haircuts (no style choice) Chores Swabos Running
Exercise Clock Orderlies Regiment, battalion & company
orgs Marching to class Academic Studies Professors
& Instructors (some with strange habits & tics) Sports
Formations Drill Teams Uniform & room inspections
Demerits Restrictions Marching in the Quadrangle to
work off demerits Roland Hall Wreck Deck safety
Saturday specials (avoid by going to the Wreck deck)
North Gate orderly Report arounds Bypassing certian
companies due to known hard asses Square meals braced up Trivia
questions Libo & Escape & Rebellion

(Click for larger image)
[ Eagle Note:
"1976 brought significant changes to the Eagle. The Coast
Guard added their "racing stripe" and the words 'Coast
Guard' to her otherwise unadorned white hull. In addition,
the Eagle figurehead on the bowsprit of the ship was
replaced."
Ref ]
USCGC Eagle Summer
cruises as swabs (1968) & 2nd class (1970)
Approx 170 left at various times for
reasons
Approx 178
graduated Studies continued Collegiate &
intramural sports 100th Day 3rd class cadets Not
swabs anymore 1969 Class of 73 swabs arrive Then 2nd
class cadets Finally 1st class cadets
Classmates who "Crossed the Bar" Parades
Football, basketball, soccer, baseball games
Gymnastic, sailing,
rowing crew, golfing, shooting competitions...
and, at last...

Graduation Day June 7, 1972 Off to new
assignments Transfers Grad School Flight school
Marriage Adventures Ship, flight, shore & astronaut
assignments
Jumping ahead

Marriages
Classmates who "Crossed the Bar" CG
Retirement New careers Children & Grand Children
Travel

(Click for larger image)
40th Reunion at CGA
Sept 27-30, Oct 2012

see
Classmate's SWABO replies Many
reached 65 before, on or after Some celebrating 43 years
of marriage Some celebrating new marriages Some
celebrating not being married Social Security Medicare
Retirement from new careers Starting new careers Some
still sailing the seas Some still working in jobs they
enjoy Enjoying children & grand children Dealing with
illnesses Death of family members Volunteer work
Hobbies Free Time Travel New Adventures

OMG !!! Where has the time gone? Take
time to live & enjoy fulfilling your bucket list. |