Greeting 456ers and Friends,
Thanks for attending our 7th, absolutely wonderful
reunion in Colorado Springs!
Your attendance made this a very special event for
everyone and especially our special guests. Erv Smalley was an excellent
host and even arranged for great weather (it was cold and snowing in the
mountains after we left). Thanks to Lavern Bruhn for
coordinating the ball caps. We sold 75 of them and donated 25 to the CAM
gift shop. A very special thanks to Gail Whalen and the Docents at the
Pete Museum for an extraordinary tour and support. And last but not least,
thanks to the "Old Sarge" , Jim Gier, and Sandy for making all the beautiful
clock awards.
We really missed Bob & Polly Justus but Steve
Keesey, Sandy Tom and Frank Dixon dropped by their home in Columbus,
OH and presented Bob with the plaque awards. Bob is our resident
photographer and I was not able to get as many pictures as he usually does, so
if you want to email me some of yours, I will get them loaded on the
Internet so everyone can see them early and send Bob a CD copy for the
456th web site.
Thanks to your raffle participation and some
individual donations we were able to pay all the bills, donate $335 to
Peterson Museum and we have just over $600 left to send to Castle Air
Museum. Crew Chief Dean Rager of Modesto, CA has agreed to
coordinate a mini-reunion at CAM in 2011... or maybe a full reunion - it's
up to him. He already has some new ideas that I think you'll really like
and we have DRAFTED him into the 456th FIS Alumni Committee. Dean has not
missed a reunion in 10 years and as you all know from your USAF experience, no
good deed goes unpunished! ;-) THANKS DEAN!
Finally, I can't tell you how much Judy & I
have enjoyed helping with the reunions over the past 10 years. We will
always be here to help keep the 456th FIS alive and well and having fun wherever
we meet.
God Bless you all,
Pat & Judy
Here are the 8 picture album links on my
WebShots site with about 275 pictures. I have a CD ready to send to Bob
Justus. The pictures always look better on his 456th site but I wanted to
give you time to send me some more to put on his CD.
These links will take you to a slide show page for
each album. If you want to download a picture, do the
following
1- Click on "Full Size" in the upper right corner
of the page
2- When the full size picture pops up, do a right
click on your mouse and select "Save Picture As"
3- When the Save Picture dialog box pops up, give
the picture a new name of your choosing and save it to your
desktop.
Album 1
Album 2
Album 3
Album 4
Album 5
Album 6
Album 7
Album 8