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Please feel free to attend. If you have a desired agenda item to discuss please let me know.

Rick

The festivities will begin on Friday evening, September 17^th with the Army Sports Hall of Fame Induction Banquet presented by Lockheed Martin at Eisenhower Hall. The elegant black-tie affair will showcase each of the honorees as they are officially inducted into the Army Sports Hall of Fame. Then on Saturday join us at Michie Stadium to watch Army battle North Texas with a halftime presentation to recognize the 2010 Hall of Fame class.

Tickets to the banquet and the Army football game can be purchased by calling the Army “A” Club at 845-938­-2322, online at www.goArMysports.com, or by emailing Amanda.Macedo@usma.edu. Banquet tickets are available for $150 per person or $1,250 for a table of 10. Tickets should be purchased no later than August 27, 2010.

Shotgun start begins promptly at 0800. Registration begins at 0715.

This year we have the unique opportunity to play The International in Bolton – one of the finest private golf courses in Massachusetts. Special thanks to the Weadock family for allowing us to play at a significantly reduced greens fee rate. Don’t miss this once in a lifetime opportunity!

Two-person teams will choose one of the following formats of play for their team:
A. Nine holes of scramble and nine holes of best ball, declared hole by hole by each team after all golfers in the foursome have hit their tee shots,

Best Ball for all 18 holes (team will be awarded bonus points), or Scramble for all 18 holes (team will have points deducted).

Notes:
1. Guests are welcome to play but Competition for the CHALLENGE TROPHY will be limited to teams consisting of graduates of the same academy.

2. The 2010 Service Academy INDIVIDUAL CHAMPION TROPHY will be awarded to the academy graduate scoring the most points playing the Best Ball format.

3. All other competition and recognition (2nd & 3rd place for trophies, longest drive & closest-to-pin) will be available to all golfers and teams.

Cost will be $105 for each player, which includes green fees, driving range, cart, prizes, and an issue Mulligan. Additional mulligans can be procured for $5 each (maximum of two). The club house has food and beverages available (no host).

Please RSVP via email NLT Friday July 30th to robert.g.cormier@mssb.com
Payment can be cash or check (made payable to “The International”) and will be collected at registration. Unfortunately we cannot accept credit cards.

Please understand all RSVPs will be considered final (and payment due) as we are under contract with the golf course. Unfortunately no refunds will be made available.

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On 18 May, 2010, Meghan Doherty, a junior at the Braintree High School in Massachusetts, will receive the 1^st Annual Sylvanus Thayer Leadership Award presented by the West Point Society of New England (WPSNE).  The award presenters will be:  Dale Kurtz, the President of the WPSNE, West Point class of 1973, and Al Barese, member of the WPSNE Leadership Award Committee, West Point class of 1979 and graduate of the Braintree High School.

The purpose of the Sylvanus Thayer Leadership Award is to recognize the outstanding leadership achievements of a secondary school student completing their junior year at Braintree High School.  In making this recognition, it is the intent of the WPSNE to further the ideals of the United States Military Academy as articulated in the Academy’s motto, “Duty, Honor, Country”.  Additionally, this recognition is intended to further those values ascribed to Brigadier General Sylvanus Thayer, the “Father of the Military Academy”, which are:  scholarly achievement, selfless service, high standards of discipline, and demonstrated leadership ability.

Sylvanus Thayer was born in Braintree, MA, on 9 June, 1785.  He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1807 before entering the United States Military Academy at West Point.  He graduated from West Point at the top of his class on 23 February, 1808.  Since he never married, he spent his later years living in Braintree with his sister, Livia, and her husband, Dr. Jonathan Wilde.  He died in Braintree on 7 September, 1872, at the age of eighty-seven.

West Point prepared Sylvanus Thayer for what would become a lifetime of military service.  He began his career as an engineering officer during the War of 1812, but is most famous for his work as the Superintendent of the United States Military Academy (1817-1833).  At West Point, Thayer improved all the academic departments, hired the best available educators, instituted strict disciplinary standards, promoted scholarly excellence and achieve-ment through challenging and frequent examinations, and established the first technological and engineering curriculum in the country.  Thayer’s outstanding work transformed the Academy into a leading educational institution and earned him the nickname “The Father of West Point”.

After leaving West Point, Thayer served as Chief Engineer for the construction of Forts Warren, Winthrop, and Independence in Boston Harbor before retiring from the Army on 1 June, 1863.  After initially refusing the commission he was entitled to by law for these works, Thayer reluctantly accepted a sizable amount and placed it on account for philanthropic works.  He founded the Thayer Public Library (opened 1874) and the Thayer Academy (opened 1877).  In 1867, he also founded and endowed the nation’s first graduate school of engineering, the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College.

Candidates for the Sylvanus Thayer Leadership Award were evaluated by the WPSNE Leadership Award Committee against a broad slate of criteria, based generally upon the ideals of West Point and those of BG Sylvanus Thayer.  These criteria included:  scholarly achievement, duty and selfless service, discipline and honor, leadership, and country.  The West Point Society of New England will annually recognize an individual for their overall leadership accomplish-ments to date, to inspire them to persevere in their pursuit of leadership excellence, and to provide a tangible award for inclusion in such things as college or employment applications.

The members of the Sylvanus Thayer Leadership Award Committee (STLAC) of the West Point Society of New England are:

• Bill Seymour      1976   WPSNE Thayer Leadership Award Chairman
• Al Barese             1979   WPSNE Thayer Leadership Award Vice-Chairman
• Shane Belvin      1999
• Erik Eriksen        1979
• Nicole Grace       Friend of West Point
• Dale Kurtz           1973
• Stefan Mationg  2002
• Tommy Meyer  1976   STLAC Book Coordinator
• Grant Rowland  2001

It is an honor, and no small feat, to be nominated by the Braintree High School for the Sylvanus Thayer Leadership Award.  All of the nominees were outstanding in academics, athletics, and community service. The nominees this year were:

• Lauren Attardo
• Jacqueline Baker
• Meghan Doherty
• Marissa Ducach
• Keira Flaherty
• Tyler Wojtasinski

The winner of the 2010 Sylvanus Thayer Leadership Award was Meghan Doherty.  She has been inducted into both the National Honor Society and the Spanish National Honor Society.  She attended the MassSTAR Youth Leadership Conference and will attend Girls State this June.  She has been on the Student Council for three years and been elected as her Class President for three years in a row.  In athletics, Meghan is on the Varsity Girls Basketball Team and the Girls Lacrosse Team.

Community service is a cornerstone of Meghan’s focus.  She participated in Freshman Orientation Day, Adopt-A-Family, the Junior Prom Committee, Clean Up Day, the Blood Bank, the Change for Haiti Fundraiser, and the March for Matt Walk-A-Thon.  She is a Thanksgiving Day server for Feed the Hungry.  She is a Team Captain for the annual Alzheimer’s Association Walk.

As the winner of the Sylvanus Thayer Leadership Award, Meghan Doherty will receive four classic books on leadership (some of which are authored by West Point graduates), a distinctive individual coin from the West Point Association of Graduates, a mounted miniature cadet saber engraved to reflect the Award, an Award certificate, and an Award recognition letter from the WPSNE President suitable for inclusion in college application packets or for similar purposes.

Erik Erickson ‘79

Congratulations

This award recognizes those Societies that have significantly supported West Point and its graduates over the last year.  To win the award, Societies must report points in a variety of programs and activities which range from hosting a Founders Day event to supporting Cadet teams and clubs that travel to the Society’s area.

For more details see www.westpointaog.org then click on “Societies”

Fellow Graduates:

The results are in!  At the Annual Meeting of the West Point Association of Graduates held on Wednesday, 21 October 2009, the following members were elected to positions on the Board of Directors and Advisory Council, and will serve their terms beginning 1 January 2010.

Chairman

Jodie K. Glore ‘69 – 2115 votes

Vice Chairman

Herman E. Bulls ‘78 – 2076 votes

(Chairman, Vice Chairman to serve until 31 December 2011.)

(Directors and Advisors to serve until 31 December 2012.)

There were nine people whose names were written in as candidates for Chairman. The highest number of votes for any of these individuals was 2.

There were fourteen people whose names were written in as candidates for Advisor at Large. The highest number of votes for any of these individuals was 1.

West Point for Thee!

Robert M. McClure ‘76
COL, USA (Retired)
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Trace Adkins and the West Point Cadet Glee Club, USMA, ACM 2009

Las Vegas, 5 April 2009. Trace Adkins sings Till the Last Shot’s Fired with the West Point Cadet Glee Club.