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Applauding the All-Academy Meet The Newsletter of the Army Residence Community VolumeThe 34 Number 2 Eagle February 2020 Applauding the All-Academy Meet "Punch" Jamison "Jack" Charles Team Captain, USMA '49 Team Captain, USMA '54 pages 2, 8 February 2020 --- Inside The Eagle 1. Cover: Applauding the All-Academy Meet The Kiwanis sponsored Monte 2. Monte Carlo Night Tickets Carlo Night on 12 March is fast 2. On the Cover approaching. Club members are 3. Birthdays and Passings already soliciting from area 3. March 3rd is Primary Election Day companies that do business with our 4 – 5. Conversation with the CEO Community for financial sponsorship 6. Meet Lisa Gonzalez, RN and the donation of goods and services that 6. Golden Diggers will be used in the Silent Auction. 7. ARC Library Within the Community we will begin 8 – 9. From Flying Low to High Flight selling tickets to this event beginning 1 10. Kiwanis Scholarship Program February. A Kiwanis member or volunteer is 11. Sheriff Javier Salazar speaks on managing ticket sales for each floor or street. “Empowering Seniors They will call on you soon. Contacts are: 12. National Day of Prayer - Breakfast Marian Mottley: 1st, 2nd, 3rd Floor; Barbara 12. Garden Bed Clean-Up Day Schneider: 4th & 9th; Karen Wallace: 5th; Duane 13. February Movies at Lakeside Theater Solley: 6th; Punch Jamison: 7th; Judy Rhone: 14 – 15. February Activities 8th; Susan Greer: 10th; Cecil Martin: 11th; Fred 16. February Eagle Luncheon Bangasser: 12th; Chuck Honore: 14th; David Paper Edition of The Eagle ends here. Pitts: Peninsula; Janet Morgan: Lundy’s Lane; Barbara McKinley: McHenry; Hugh Boyd: Continuing on the Resident Portal of Tarlac; Jane Mashburn: Churubusco; Al Flory: armyresidence.com is the ‘Big Eagle,’ which Bannocks; Skip Little: Quebec; Bruce Furbish: includes Antietam; Mary Beth Stokes & Carol Smith: Monmouth/Ardennes; and Charlet Little: Off- Military History Series by Mike Huebner: Campus. Family and off-campus friends are invited and encouraged to attend. 240 Years Ago: The American Revolution 75 Years Ago: WWII, the Pacific Theater An information letter about Monte Carlo has 75 Years Ago: WWII. The European Theater already been placed in every resident’s distribution box. It provides full details about A Scrapbook page from January 2020 the evening’s agenda. Ticket prices remain at the reasonable price of $35 per ticket. Your Thank You for giving me the privilege of ticket purchase supports the charitable youth serving as the Editor. --- Kevin Scott service programs of the ARC Kiwanis Club. On the Cover: Two West Point cadets, in their respective senior years, earned the position of Captain of the Men’s Gymnastics Team: ‘Punch’ Jamison (’49) and ‘Jack’ Charles (’54). Both were commissioned as Air Force officers, became pilots, and served with distincti on. Punch retired as a Colonel, Jack as a Major General. Both continued in aviation in their following business careers. They will be cheering the All-Academy (Army, Navy, Air Force) Championship: A Triangular Men’s Gymnastics Competition held on Saturday, 8 February, at Mission Concepcion Sports Complex, Concepcion Park, 714 East Theo Avenue, San Antonio TX 78210. Let’s join them! A bus will depart the ARC at 12 noon. It will arrive on time to view the march in of the Men’s Gymnastics Teams, at 1 PM. The bus will return to the ARC after the closing ceremony, around 3 PM. Please see the sign -up sheet at the Activities Board. 2 The Eagle February 2020 Birthdays and Passings FEBRUARY BIRTHDAYS FEBRUARY BIRTHDAYS Tuesday, 3 March, is 01 Trema Berry (continued) Primary Election Day 25 Mike Wilson 01 Erika Robeson Monday, 3 February is the 26 Paul Monroe 01 Charlene Smith last day to register to vote for 26 James Lowe 02 Jim Brown the Primary Election. If you 02 Glenn Hall 27 Dick Rushmore 28 Trisha Campbell aren’t registered to vote, and 02 Alice Rolik wish to be, your best bet is to 02 Francine Simpson 28 Shirley Cowen 28 Chris Divich visit the Bexar County 02 Mary White Elections Office (shown 03 Marilyn Ter Maat 28 Venice Grantham below) in person. The 05 Diane Hand 28 Freddie McKay Elections Office will be open 05 Bob Rolik 28 Frank Simpson 05 Lilas Harvey 29 Carol Smith extended hours to assist you in the process. 07 Eugene Forge BIRTHDAYS – 08 Mary Nunes BEGINNING MARCH The Extended Hours for 08 Beverly Rose Voter Registration: 08 Barbara Whitfield 01 Woody Bretscher 09 Linda Barnes 01 Joseph Newell Saturday, February 1, 2020: 09 Sara Erickson 01 Wanda Worthington 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM 02 Lee Reiter 09 Gus Guenther Sunday, February 2, 2020: 03 James Meyers 10 Doris Frye 12:00 PM (Noon) - 4:00 PM 10 Sue Taylor 03 Estelle (Woopsie) Willis 11 Beverly Oliver 05 Marilyn Ledford Monday, February 3, 2020: 05 Peggy Newman 8:00 AM - 7:00 PM 11 Akemi Meyers 13 Louise Becknell PASSINGS SINCE LAST ISSUE 13 Joan Jackson 14 Jo Cape COL Doris Cobb 25 December 14 Larry Haworth Mrs. Aurora Halgunseth 19 January 14 Victor Prosper COL William Joyce 21 January Presidents’ Day is observed 15 Frances Post COL Judith Richtsmeier 21 January 16 Alfred Bates on Monday, 17 February. 16 Eleanor (Memo) Bjoring 16 Sandra Dixon 16 John P. Seawell 17 Marian Mottley 17 Wiley Taylor 18 Laurinda Elgin 18 James Rhone 19 Marvin Kipp 19 Mary Jean Mauney 19 Minton Newman 20 Paul J. (Jim) Martin 21 Terry Cairns 21 Christine Cassidy 21 Dian Sherrod 22 James Veltri 23 Nancy Elliott 23 Karen Wallace 24 Carol Heath 25 Bob Cairns The Bexar County Elections Department is located at 1103 South Frio, Suite 25 David Pitts 100, San Antonio, TX 78207. Phone: 210-335 -VOTE (8683). It has a 25 Kay Turley helpful website at: https://www.bexar.org/1568/Elections -Department. February 2020 The Eagle 3 A Conversation with the CEO Note: A Conversation with the CEO is an trouble with a military audience, or a large impromptu exchange between Eagle editor audience. He is a key local leader supporting Kevin Scott and CEO Steve Fuller. This Randolph Air Base. Of course, I would ask, conversation does not make official policy once it appears my fellow Residents have an announcements. Those are made through appetite for facts about the local off-campus Resident Updates. community. It would be an honor to host an event for Commissioner Calvert. Picking up the phone to call our Catering is easy. But it’s a challenge to introduce to Residents the types of issues Commissioners Court deals with. If there’s something there . SF: I understand there is a real estate developer interested in building a large-scale apartment complex near our community. KS: Yes! Interesting! The Commissioners Court Calendar is the driving force here. Eagle Luncheons are always the second Tuesday of the month. I will check the calendar on invite our County Commissioner, Tommy Calvert, to join us as early as April. There’ll be time to research the issue, for example, to see if there are any Homeowners Associations favoring or opposing an apartment complex near here. SF: What about our local U.S. Congressman? Do you have any thoughts here? KS: We are Texas 28, the incumbent is Henry Cuellar, and he has enough seniority to hold Steve Fuller: I’d like to start off with the key positions, like in appropriations. There observation that the 14 January luncheon was a recent (8 January) story regarding presentation by Bexar County Sheriff Javier Defense spending. It explained that a recent Salazar (above) set a new standard for events authorization included $50 million to provide in our community. The topic, the speaker, and local governments with grants for infrastructure the teamwork by Staff and Residents made this projects in communities with military bases. truly memorable. I don’t think you’ll argue with Historically, DOD does not consider the area me on this point. outside military bases as its responsibility. If this kind of stuff puts Residents to sleep, then Kevin Scott: Not hardly. Do you have any we’ll pass. If there is interest, I’ll contact Rep. preferences for future speakers? Cuellar’s office. SF: Why not build on the enthusiasm and I’d like to ask you some questions. success of Sheriff Salazar’s visit by inviting other civic leaders? Is this something you SF: Fire away. could do? KS: What is your strategic vision, the ideal KS: We’re Bexar County, and in District Four, future of the Army Residence Community? which is Tommy Calvert. He would have no 4 The Eagle February 2020 A Conversation with the CEO SF: The idea of Blue Zones interests me. This SF: One that jumps out is the Golden Diggers. has nothing to do with the current political color Most of the Blue Zone communities have some graphics of Red (Republican) and Blue interest in gardening. I notice on the Eagle (Democrat). Please underline that when you storyboard there is a ‘Save the Date’ for the format this page. Let me repeat, this has Garden Plot clean up on Thursday, 19 March, nothing to do with politics. from 9:30 to 11 AM. Is it a coincidence the A Blue Zone, described by author and Garden Plot clean-up is the first official day of researcher Dan Buettner, is where the people Spring? live measurably longer and happier. Maybe there’s another word instead of “happier,” but it KS: I’ve learned that nothing is a coincidence would be purposeful, satisfying, positive, at the ARC. What changes do you foresee? enjoyable. You get the picture. SF: First of all, this is a voluntary choice.
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