Reunion Booklet
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Class of 1957 60th Reunion APRIL 27-30, 2017 1 1 USMA Class of 1957 60th Reunion West Point, New York elcome to the 60th Reunion of the Class of 1957. This booklet provides an W update to changes regarding facilities at our alma mater since we graduated. We all appreciate how fortunate we are to be associated with such an outstanding and historic institution as this—“Our” United States Military Academy. In this booklet you will find a copy of our Reunion schedule, photos and information about new and modernized facilities on our West Point “campus” and a map showing the location of these facilities. For those visiting the West Point Cemetery we have included a diagram of the Cemetery and a list of our classmates and family members buried there. Again—WELCOME to OUR 60th REUNION. We look forward to seeing you and hope you have a grand time. We have enjoyed planning this opportunity to once again get together and visit with you. REUNION SCHEDULE 2017 (as of 4/17/17) Thursday, April 27, 2017 4:30-7:30 pm Reunion Check-in and Hap Arnold Room, Thayer Hotel Come As You Are Memorabilia Pick-up 6:00-9:00 pm Welcome Reception, Buffet Thayer Hotel Come As You Are Dinner Friday, April 28, 2017 8:00-9:15 am Reunion Check-in and Hap Arnold Room, Thayer Hotel Business Casual Memorabilia Pick-up 9:30 am Bus to Memorial Service Picks up at the front entrance of the Thayer Hotel and drops off in Business Casual Bring your Reunion Guide Book the parking lot behind the cemetery 10:00 am Memorial Service Old Cadet Chapel Business Casual 10:40 am Class Business Meeting Old Cadet Chapel Business Casual 11:00 am Cemetery Visit West Point Cemetery Business Casual 11:30 am Bus to Kimsey and Holleder Picks up in the parking lot behind the cemetery and drops off Business Casual Centers and Michie Stadium at the Kimsey Center 11:45 am-1:15 pm Reunion Check-in 4th Floor, Kimsey Athletic Center Business Casual 11:45 am-1:15 pm Lunch 4th Floor Ballroom, Kimsey Athletic Center Business Casual 1:30-2:45 pm Academy and WPAOG 4th Floor Ballroom, Kimsey Athletic Center Business Casual Update Brief 1:30-4:00 pm For those not attending the Picks up at Kimsey Center and stops at Trophy Point, Library Corner, Business Casual Update Brief–Bus Shuttle Visitors’ Center/Museum, Thayer Hotel, and Herbert Hall around West Point 3:00-4:30 pm Windshield Tour of West Point Picks up at Kimsey Center, travels around West Point and ends at Business Casual Bring your Reunion Guide Book Thayer Hotel 4:30 pm Last bus returns to Hotel Final pick up from Herbert Hall, Kimsey Center, Trophy Point, Library Business Casual Corner, and Visitor's Center/Museum, and drops off at Thayer Hotel 5:30-7:00 pm Reunion Check-in and Hap Arnold Room, Thayer Hotel Business Casual Memorabilia Pick-up 6:00-7:00 pm Class Reception Thayer Hotel Business Casual 6:45 pm Special Entertainment Thayer Hotel Business Casual 7:00-9:00 pm Class Dinner–Open Seating Thayer Hotel Business Casual Saturday, April 29, 2017 ~8:30 am Weather Call for Call 845.938.7000: If parade is cancelled, photo will be taken in Casual Cadet Review Cadet Mess Hall—Buses will depart at 12:00 pm 9:00-10:15 am Reunion Check-in and Hap Arnold Room, Thayer Hotel Casual [10:45-11:45 am]* Memorabilia Pick-up *If parade is cancelled, time or location changes are in [ ] where applicable 1 REUNION SCHEDULE 2017 (as of 4/17/17) Saturday, April 29, 2017, continued 10:30 am Buses to Cadet Review Pick up at Thayer Hotel and drops off behind the Review Stands [12:00 pm]* 11:00 am Alumni Assemble First 4 rows of Sections I and J, Review Stands Graduates: dark blue/navy blazer, light shirt, class or 11:30 am-12:20 pm Cadet Review The Plain academy tie, tan trousers, ball Grads - in front of Sections I and J cap, retro badge Guests - Sections I and J, Review Stands Guests: casual 12:20 pm Group Photo Sections I and J, Review Stands 12:30-1:30 pm Lunch Cadet Mess Hall, Mural Wing 1:45 pm Bus returns to Thayer Hotel Bus picks up near MacArthur’s Statue and drops off at the Casual from Central Area Thayer Hotel 2:00 pm Buses depart for Off Post Tours Buses pick up near MacArthur’s Statue Casual 2:30-4:30 pm Storm King Art Center Tour New Windsor, NY Casual and Visit 2:30-4:30 pm Boscobel House Tour and Garrison, NY Casual Garden Visit 2:30-4:30 pm Bus returns to Thayer Hotel Bus picks up behind the Review Stands and drops off at the Casual from Central Area Thayer Hotel 5:30-6:45 pm Final Reunion Check-in and Hap Arnold Room, Thayer Hotel Casual Memorabilia Pick-up 6:00-7:00 pm Class Reception Thayer Hotel Men: coat and tie; 7:00-10:30 pm Class Dinner Thayer Hotel Women: dress, dressy skirt and seating by cadet company and top or dressy separates individual placecards at the tables Sunday, April 30, 2017 7:00-9:30 am Breakfast MacArthur’s Riverview Restaurant, Thayer Hotel Casual 9:30 am-12:30 pm Brunch Cadet Mess Hall Casual transportation is on your own 10:00 am DC Area Bus departs from departs from the front entrance of the Thayer Hotel Casual Thayer Hotel for Five Star Inn 10:15 am DC Area Bus departs for DC departs from the Five Star Inn Casual 10:30 am-2:30 pm Sunday Champagne MacArthur’s Riverview Restaurant, Thayer Hotel Casual Brunch To make a reservation, call 845.446.4731 x7929 11:00 am Museum Tour and Lunch The Stadium Sports Bar Restaurant and Museum Casual Travel on Your Own Departures General Patton's Tavern and Zulu Time Rooftop Bar & Lounge, both at the Thayer Hotel, are open every afternoon and evening of our reunion. 2 West Point WINDSHIELD TOUR Arvin Cadet Physical Development Center action just a week before the end of hostilities in World War II. He The Arvin Cadet Physical Development Center is named in honor was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for valor in action. of CPT Carl Robert Arvin ’65, who was a USCC First Captain, Captain of the Wrestling Team, and a Rhodes Scholarship finalist. Quarters 100 CPT Arvin was killed in action during his second tour in Vietnam, One of the oldest buildings on post, Quarters 100 is designated for and was awarded two Silver Stars for gallantry. The original the Superintendent and his family. Previous occupants include gymnasiums were constructed in 1910. The Theater was added in Robert E. Lee, 1829; Douglas MacArthur, 1903; Maxwell D. Taylor 1935, Crandall Pool in 1971, and Old South Wing in 1976. The ’22JUN, William C. Westmoreland ’36, and Willard W. Scott ’48. latest addition to West Point’s gymnasium complex was completed in 2005. Providing 300,000 square feet of program space, the new Cadet Chapel facility houses multiple pools, racquet sports courts, combative Built in the “military Gothic” style, the Cadet Chapel was dedicated sports rooms, a climbing wall, locker rooms, a sport medicine suite, on June 12, 1910. The stained glass windows were dedicated to space for 49 instructors, and other administrative spaces. The graduating classes, ranging from 1803 to 1976. While serving the building’s main architectural feature is an interior atrium spine that needs of several Protestant religions, the chapel is also noted for serves as an organizing element. The atrium rises 125 feet from the having the largest church organ in the world. The organ consists of basement floor to the skylight, spans 25 feet in width and extends more than 25,000 pipes. 230 feet. Catholic Chapel Hayes Gymnasium The Catholic Chapel of the Most Holy Trinity was designed Hayes Gymnasium, formerly the East Gym, is named in honor of by Heins and LaFarge in the Norman Gothic style. It was built CPT Thomas J. Hayes IV ’66, who was the Brigade Adjutant, in 1899 and enlarged in 1959 under the direction of Robert Chairman of the Honor Committee, and a player on the Corps Robbins, making it the oldest house of worship of continuous Squad Soccer and Fencing Teams. CPT Hayes was killed in action use at the Academy. Its 22 stained glass windows depict soldiers in Vietnam, and was awarded two Silver Stars for valor in action. and saints from early, middle, and modern Christian history and memorialize Catholic graduates of the Academy killed in the Crandall Pool service of their country. This chapel offers a full schedule of Masses Crandall Pool is named in honor of MAJ Robert W. Crandall ’39, a and programs for all Catholic members of the Corps of Cadets and former Captain of the Swimming Team. MAJ Crandall was killed in the community. Arvin Cadet Physical Development Center Quarters 100 Cadet Chapel Hayes Gymnasium Catholic Chapel 3 Reconciliation Plaza Thayer Walk Mahan Hall Jewish Chapel Constitution Corner Honor Plaza Bicentennial Forum Jewish Chapel reality, each committing $1 million. Each class then memorialized The completion of the Jewish Chapel in 1984 culminated a 20-year its own section of the walk. The renovation not only restores the undertaking. The organization responsible for the project was the historic nature of Central Area, but it also provides a clear West Point Jewish Chapel Fund, a private, non-profit civilian separation between vehicular and pedestrian traffic.