Although Dean’s Alzheimer’s is forecasts as they relate to our long- taking a toll on his mental abilities range budget, as well as tackling he remains mobile and walks arduous areas of operation such as unassisted. He is very comfortable identifying yearbooks currently and continues to comment on the available by years and quantities in natural beauty around us. I am the archives. Bob continues to thankful for our time together, analyze our fundamental necessities It is difficult for me to think about especially the funny things that as well as doing the forward thinking the Spring Edition of the Quarterly occur daily which provide required to digitize many of the when I look at the snow outside opportunities for us to have a good areas within our organization. Just covering my flower beds and see ice laugh. I enjoy my work as a recently Bob and Kelley Germaine on the lake. When I think about the caregiver on most days! met with Fred Stipes, Head, Digital onset of spring, I visualize tulips and Production Center UNC Library & daffodils, but they will not appear in I also enjoy the diverse projects that Information Technology, University Maine until late April—early May. are in progress by members of the of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. A What can I say? Down east during AOSHS board. Tom Smith has been wealth of information was addressed the winter is challenging! At this working diligently on the Million in their 3-hour meeting. time last year, we were in the middle Dollar Challenge that you will read of a blizzard that dumped over 14 about. Nancy Bresell is an excellent Linda Connelly works relentlessly inches of snow and created drifts secretary who captures information on increasing AOSHS membership. that were hazardous. Well we for minutes in a succinct manner! Recently she took a trip to Guam. survived and this year we have Nancy reviews all the articles for the She is famous for conducting vacillating temperatures that range Quarterly. She recently brought to membership meetings at social anywhere from 47 degrees one day our attention that the Berlin Wall has gatherings as well as in professional to 10 the next. It has been extremely been down as long as it was up! settings. Linda continues to do work cold at times and the wind has been Where were you when the Wall on the membership data base as unrelenting. If you like ice fishing, came down? Ron Harrison has well! Rebecca Dunn has been ice-skating, snowshoeing, cross- been working to develop our long- working on locating the origin of the country skiing, and snowmobiling, range budget with the help of Bob Gutenberg type set. We discovered it then you will enjoy Maine in Germaine and Doug Kelsey. Doug in our collections and wanted to the winter! evaluates and critiques budgetary Continued On Page 2 President’s Message-continued obtain as much information as the operation in the home office example, if you are 70 years old possible about it. She has also running smoothly. send $70. Some members have said, formed a working group to promote “Tell everyone to send $100 each AOSHS membership. We have an outstanding volunteer year!” However, send whatever you team of board members who work want, and I guarantee it will be used Chris Kyrios has the Thomas diligently as volunteers to keep the wisely! Some members have Drysdale Scholarship in place. The organization functioning. All of included AOSHS in their estate Brats have identified two students you, our members, are valuable planning; that is a viable option and in Puerto Rico to be the recipients. assets because you keep us we will appreciate your Dee Edwards has given the financially solvent as well as thoughtfulness and promise to use majority of her Memorial Program contributing in other ways. Please your donation in support of our (MP) issues to Monica Maack continue to send your donations to critical mission! Tiller. If anyone is interested in the our office especially at the time of position of MP chair, please notify your birthday. Some are sending the Whatever the case may be, you are our AOSHS office. Monica keeps amount that represents their age, for the best and I sincerely appreciate your continued support! DR. TOM SMITH, Vice President Have you ever given any thought to what you would do none of this will happen. if you were to win or be given a million dollars? Your Board of Directors has. Last year, they accepted a Over the last three years the Board has been working challenge to raise that amount to establish an endowment diligently to move our organization out of the “Mom and fund to provide a permanent financial base for AOSHS. Pop” mentality into a business mode that will be Our organization has been underfunded for several sustainable. They recognized that we have a collection years. We are pleased that some members have been that is unique in the world and that if the attitude did not donating money to support on-going programs but if we change, we would run out of money shortly. In that case are to grow in our efforts to support our Mission and stored items would never be used for the intent that our Goals, we must establish a financial base. It is wonderful founder, Dr. Tom Drysdale, envisioned—as an historical when we open the mail and find dues and donations of a resource treasured by those who lived and worked in our few dollars to $1,000 or more, but if we are to grow and overseas schools and a resource for historians to use for provide services to our members and those who wish to research. The Board recently agreed upon a 5-year use our donations for research, we will never reach our budget which takes into consideration all of our needs goals this way. We have thousands of donated items and based upon anticipated income. The Board also reworked documents that cannot be utilized unless we catalog and our Mission Statement and Goals. The Business Plan organize them. We must also be able to access archived Committee has been working to refine and better define items and distribute the results to those who need or who we are and what we need to do to meet our want access for research. We require an archivist, a objectives. However, everything that is forecast is based facility to carry on photographing and digitizing our upon our ability to find the money to do what we know is stored items, contemporary equipment that will allow us required. to record and preserve our wonderful treasures, and a place to display some of our memorabilia. But until we can get our organization on a firm financial footing, Continued On Page 3 2 -continued The Board plans to use the new Business Plan to guide us towards donors who see our vision as something important and desire to support our mission. How can you help? Continue with your donations and dues as you have in the past. In addition, if you are considering donating a large sum of money to an organization that will use it wisely by building an endowment fund, please choose AOSHS. The Board is committed to building this initial fund to $1,000,000. If you know an individual, an organization or a company that would be willing to donate $10,000 to $1,000,000 for this fund, please contact any board member or our office in Wichita with the name of a contact and we will follow up. 3 AOSHS is undertaking an initiative yearbooks in the AOSHS to collect a yearbook from each high archives. If you or if you know of school that has existed in DoDEA someone that might be able to and its former entities, such as, provide AOSHS these missing DoDDS and USDESEA. We have a yearbooks, you will be playing a considerable number of yearbooks major role in preserving the history already in our archives, but there are of the overseas schools. You are many years missing for many requested to contact Doug Kelsey to schools, both those that formerly make arrangements to provide existed and those still in AOSHS the missing copies or to operation. Although AOSHS would loan AOSHS a yearbook to be like a hard copy for the archives, we digitally copied. You may contact would accept a copy on loan to Doug by email at secure a digital copy. The yearbook [email protected] or you may would be returned after it is copied. call or text Doug at 404-664-9128. DOUG KELSEY, Please find a list of high schools and Any assistance you can provide Assistant Treasurer the year(s) there are no copies of would be greatly appreciated. AOSHS YEARBOOK INVENTORY NOTE: The “Prior to” dates and the “After “ dates have not been checked against the initial opening and final closing dates of those schools that are no longer in operation. YEARBOOKS NEEDED TO YEARBOOKS IN AOSHS COMPLETE AOSHS ARCHIVES COUNTRY / NAME OF SCHOOL ARCHIVES FROM THIS SCHOOL FOR THIS SCHOOL CODE: Not sure if these schools had a high school component. CODE: Not sure if these were DOD schools AUSTRIA Vienna Dependents School 1947, 1949 Prior to 1947, 1948, After 1949 BAHRAIN Prior to 1977, 1978 to 1993, After Bahrain School 1977,1994, 1995,1996 1996 BELGIUM Prior to 1976, 1977 to 1985, After Brussels American School 1976, 1986 1976 Prior to 1968, 1969, 1971, 1991, SHAPE American High School 1968, 1970, 1972 thru 1990, 1995, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, SHAPE American JH/HS 2000 1999, After 2000 Continued On Page 5 4 AOSHS YEARBOOK INVENTORY -continued BERMUDA Roger B.