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WINTER 2012 In This Issue: Women at West Point A Publication of the West Point Association of Graduates • Ft Meyer • Pentagon • Ft Belvoir • Walter Reed • Andrews AFB • Bolling AFB • Navy Yard • Quantico • Pax River • Ft Meade FRIENDS AND FAMILY PROGRAM Bethesda • • Langley AFB Langley AFB • • Bethesda Ft Meade • • Ft Meyer • Pax River • Pentagon Quantico • • Ft Belvoir DO YOU KNOW SOMEONE WHO IS MOVING? • Walter Reed Navy Yard • ACROSS TOWN... ACROSS COUNTRY... ANYWHERE AROUND THE WORLD ... CENTURY 21 NEW MILLENNIUM CAN HELP We know the experts in every market. • Bolling AFB Andrews AFB • WWW.C21NM.COM • Andrews AFB Bolling AFB • USMA’85 USMA’77 Todd Hetherington Jeff Hetherington CEO/Broker-Owner Branch Leader [email protected] [email protected] • Navy Yard Walter Reed • (703) 922-4010 (70 3) 818 - 0111 13 Locations in the DC Metro Area Ft Belvoir • • Quantico Pentagon SMARTER. BOLDER. FASTER. © Copyright 2011 CENTURY 21 New Millennium. Each Oce Is Independently Owned And Operated. Equal Housing Opportunity. Equal Housing Lender. • Ft Meyer • Pentagon • Ft Belvoir • Walter Reed • Andrews AFB • Bolling AFB • Navy Yard • Quantico • Pax River • Ft Meade FRIENDS AND FAMILY PROGRAM Bethesda • • Langley AFB Langley AFB • • Bethesda Ft Meade • • Ft Meyer • Pax River • Pentagon EST POIN W T Quantico • • Ft Belvoir A S Planned Giving S S E O T C A I U AT D • IO RA DO YOU KNOW SOMEONE WHO IS MOVING? “West Point MEAns so MUCH to ME.” N OF G Walter Reed Navy Yard • ACROSS TOWN... ACROSS COUNTRY... ANYWHERE AROUND THE WORLD ... CENTURY 21 NEW MILLENNIUM CAN HELP “I started giving to West Point because I had a Bob and his wife Joan have set up several legacy We know the experts in every market. little extra money and I didn’t want to see it go to gifts using a variety of planned giving tools that • Bolling AFB Andrews AFB • waste,” says Colonel Robert Beveridge ’53. “West will support West Point in perpetuity. These WWW.C21NM.COM Point means so much to me, and I couldn’t think gifts—several “laddered” charitable gift of a better way to spend it.” annuities and a charitable remainder trust—will also provide income tax benefits and annual • Andrews AFB Bolling AFB • income distributions to Bob and Joan for the USMA’85 USMA’77 duration of their lives. Todd Hetherington Jeff Hetherington “I chose to split the money between sports and CEO/Broker-Owner Branch Leader [email protected] [email protected] • academics, but leave it otherwise unrestricted, Navy Yard Walter Reed • (70 3) 818 - 0111 (703) 922-4010 because then it can be used for whatever the 13 Locations in the DC Metro Area greatest need is. It feels good to continually support Colonel Robert and Joan Beveridge, Class of 1953. such important programs,” said Bob. Ft Belvoir • • Quantico WEST POINT ASSOCIATION OF GRADUATES Pentagon SMARTER. BOLDER. FASTER. Phone: 845.446.1547 • [email protected] • WestPointAOG.org © Copyright 2011 CENTURY 21 New Millennium. Each Oce Is Independently Owned And Operated. Equal Housing Opportunity. Equal Housing Lender. WEST POINT | WINTER 2012 1 SECTIONLetters : TITLE As you read this issue of West Point magazine, Volume 2, issue 1 • winter 2011 remember that many members of the Long Gray Line currently are deployed in The mission of West Point magazine is to tell combat. We honor all those who served or are the West Point story and strengthen the grip serving and those who have fallen. of the Long Gray Line. PublisHer Dear Fellow Graduates and Friends: West Point Association of Graduates Robert L. McClure ’76, President & CEO I first want to thank all graduates for allowing me to serve a second two-year term as your Chairman of the West Point Association of Graduates (WPAOG). You’ve also Editor IN CHief/ADVertising elected a tremendously dedicated and talented Board of Directors, and we all pledge Norma Heim [email protected]/[email protected] to “promote the welfare of the United States Military Academy, and support and serve its graduates,” as stated in Article II of our bylaws. Many of us were forever Editorial ADVisory Group changed by our four-year journey through the Military Academy, and I look forward John Calabro ’68 Jim Johnston ’73 to working with you and the staff to ensure West Point creates leaders for the nation Kim McDermott ’87 in the future, as it has done for over 200 years. Julian M. Olejniczak ’61 Samantha Soper A key element in executing that purpose is being able to communicate effectively to all graduates and the Military Academy. And, as everyone knows, the world of Address Updates Tammy Flint communications and information technology seems to be changing constantly. 845.446.1642 As a result, your WPAOG has changed the way it communicates with graduates, [email protected] and this magazine is one element of the many dynamic changes we’ve made to keep Design you informed. I’ve often said that the world is at a fundamental inflection point in Marguerite Smith how everyone exchanges information, and I’ve asked the staff to ensure that we’re not left behind. To that end, you’re going to see much more emphasis on how WPAOG Opinions expressed in this magazine are those of the authors integrates social media, the internet, and print publications to engage all graduates and do not necessarily reflect the opinions, policy, or attitude to support West Point and today’s cadets. of the U.S. Army, United States Military Academy, West Point Association of Graduates, its officers, or the editorial staff. One recent initiative is the WPAOG online-calendar function that will be available The appearance of advertisements in this publication does soon. This feature will allow you to view where cadet teams and clubs will be not necessarily constitute an endorsement by the U.S. Army, travelling, as well as when Society, Class, and USMA events are occurring. If United States Military Academy, West Point Association of Graduates, its officers, or the editorial staff for the products something concerning West Point is happening near you, we want you aware! or services advertised. Another upcoming feature will be our Memorial webpage for classmates who pass away, where you will have the ability to post eulogies that will be forever archived POSTMASTER in the Cullum Files for future generations to see. Simply put, the technology exists If this magazine is addressed to a member of the military today that allows us to reach more graduates faster, with better information than services, no postage is necessary for forwarding (See Postal ever before, and we want to take full advantage of this capability. Manual, Section 159.225). If no forwarding address for this military member is available, send Form 3579 to West Point On a different note, you’ll notice that this issue ofWest Point magazine highlights the Association of Graduates, West Point, NY 10996-1607. role of women at the Military Academy, as well as the diversity of the Corps of Cadets West Point is published quarterly in Winter, Spring, Summer, and the more than 48,000 living members of the Long Gray Line. It was the genius of and Fall by the West Point Association of Graduates, 698 Mills President Jefferson that ensured young Americans nominated to attend West Point Road, West Point, NY 10996-1607. Periodicals postage paid would come from every state in the union and all walks of life. As you’ll see in these at West Point, NY 10996 and additional mailing offices. pages, that vibrancy of diversity is alive today in the Corps, whose members will Send address changes to Tammy Flint, West Point Association graduate to become our diverse Army’s future leaders. of Graduates, 698 Mills Road, West Point, NY 10996-1607. Go Army! West Point is printed by Dartmouth Printing Company Jodie Glore ’69 SUBSCRIPTIONS Chairman Subscriptions may be ordered for $35 online at WestPointAOG. West Point AOG Board of Directors org; by calling 800.BE.A.GRAD; or by sending a check to WPAOG, West Point magazine, 698 Mills Road, West Point, NY 10996-1607. EST POIN W T ON THE COVER Pallas Athena, Greek goddess of wisdom and warfare, dominates a wall of the 1964 library at West Point; just twelve years later, A S S women would be admitted to the Academy. S E O T C A IA U T I AD ON OF GR 2 WestPointAOG.org View the online version of this magazine at WestPointAOG.org/wpmag Army 18 Volleyball: Excitement at Gillis Minute for minute, an Army Volleyball match might be the most entertaining two hours at West Point. 14 Grand Opening of the West Point Center for Oral History COVER STORY 6 Documentary film producer Changing the Face of the Ken Burns was the guest U.S. Military Academy: speaker at the grand Women at West Point opening of the Center for Oral History in October that Thirty-five years ago, the first also introduced the film, “In women new cadets entered Harm’s Way,” and marked Beast Barracks and changed the debut of the Center’s the face of West Point forever. website, WestPointcoH.org. IN THIS ISSUE Departments 16 Diversity Leadership 30 “We have nothing to 40 2011 West Point 2 From the Chairman Conference 2011: fear but fear itself!” Sylvanus Thayer Award 4 From the Superintendent O Cultivating Leadership The West Point Combating As the 54th recipient of the Thayer A P and Inclusion for Service Terrorism Center Award, former Secretary of Defense MA 26 By the Numbers S A small, agile, privately-funded Robert M. Gates praised the men U to the Nation In addition to other noted speakers, organization located at West Point and women of our Armed Forces.