From a letter received in Dec. 05:

Dianne and I would like to extend our best wishes to you
for a Joyous Holiday Season and a Happy New Year!

        As Dianne and I reflect on the year, we can't help but be
thankful for the many blessings that we have enjoyed. 
We are blessed with a wonderfully supportive family, good friends,
 and purposeful work.  For my part, I am particularly thankful for
a splendid complement of subordinate commanders; a marvelously
gifted staff that works tirelessly on behalf of the command; and Officers,
Non-Commissioned Officers, and Soldiers that selflessly, courageously,
and competently serve here on "Freedom's Frontier".

        These wonderful Soldiers have accomplished much in the past year. 
Most notably, we have successfully deterred agression from the north,
sustained peace on the peninsula, and maintained stability in the region. 
We have done so by achieving and sustaining the levels of warfighting r
eadiness that are required in this "fight tonight" environment. 

        Other achievements include reducing the strength of 8th Army 
by more than 8,000 Soldiers over the last 16 months.  Relatedly, 8th Army
 deactivated nine major units and redeployed to the United States nine others. 
We also have consoldiated our stationing "footprint" by closing 16 major camps. 
Moreover we reorganized the 2d Infantry Division into the "modular structures" of the "transformed Army"; transformed three aviation brigades into a single
multi-functional aviation brigade; converted the Theater Support Command
into a Sustainment Command - Expeditionary; reorganized the Theater
Personnel Command and Finance Command; and received, staged,
and integrated an Air Defense Brigade from Fort Bliss, Texas.

        During this period of time 8th Army led the Army in
reenlistment (the only MACOM to meet/exceed retention
objectives in all categories; had the Army's lowest first-term
attrition rate; rendered the Army's best safety performance;
had 13,000 Soldiers extend there tour of duty in Korea in the
last 22 months; and received numerous Department of the Army
Awards for Excellence in Supply, Maintenance, Food Service
Operations, and Deployment Operations.

        Sadly, 8th Army also experienced the tragic loss of
68 of our comrades from the 2d Brigade, 2d Infantry Division
who were killed in action in Operation Iraqi Freedom.  A day does not
go by that Dianne and I don't pray for the families of these great
Soldiers and for all those who serve in harm's way doing our Nation's bidding.

        Dianne is grateful for her many friends here in Korea who
have worked with her so selflessly on behalf of our Soldiers, Sailors,
 Airmen, and Marines and their families.  These dedicated spouses
truly have a "servant's heart".  They tirelessly work - - commonly
without accolade or acclaim - - to make this a special community
where families can live, work, recreate, worship, and grow in every
dimension of their lives.

        On a personal note - - the Senate confirmed my nomination
to serve as the Deputy Commander/Chief of Staff of U.S. Army Forces
Command in Atlanta, Georgia.  I will remain in Korea long enough to
 facilitate the transition between GEN Laporte (outgoing commander
who will depart on 1 Feb) and GEN Bell (incoming commander). 
 I expect that we will depart Korea sometime in April after the
completion of the Theater Exercise that the command will
conduct in the latter part of March.

        Dianne and I are excited about joining the FORSCOM Team
and look forward to the opportunity to continue to serve the Nation. 
 Though this assigment has been broadening, rewarding, and
fullfilling, after 3 1/2 years Dianne is looking forward to returning
 to the United States to be closer to family and friends.  She has
certainly taken advantage of the unique opportunities that service
 in Korea provides.  She has travelled widely and often to China,
 Hong Kong, Macau, Thailand, Japan, Okinawa, and Viet  Nam - - and our furnishings/appointments reflect her new found interest in things - Asian.

        I would imagine that by late Spring or early Summer we
will be settled in our Quarters on Staff Row at Fort McPherson. 
Dianne and I extend an open invitation to visit!       
God Bless you!          "HONDO" CAMPBELL         LTG, USA 

Jay Millard at the Christo show NYC
 

Robert Sumners, Fritz Lockhart, Ann Gateley & Fred Seaman.   David Barnett & Virginia Shepperd Hamilton

Re: Deborah Roettinger:
Dear Deborah,  I have been trying to track
you down for years now.  I finally got an old
email for you and since it was an Australian address,
 I googled you and, low and behold, I find you are a
famous artist!
 

Goats are great. Someone recommended I get a goat to
keep our grass cut.....we have 5 acres of land and Michael
is constantly trying to keep it mowed cause of the fire
season upon us now. We are in a bad drought at the moment.
Australians are praying for rain now. The old Global warming,
ya know, is upon us here, mate. My husband Michael is so cool
and still gorgeous, even with his now silver hair. I still thank my
 lucky stars for him - my brother Alan calls him Saint Michael
for dealing with me. He does and still loves me - he just walked in
and told me to tell you that. Actually, he said to say that the word
is "adores" me. Wow. Can't get much better than that, I reckon.
 Whenever I think of Kathy, I have to chuckle. She was so funny.

I think about you guys often and wonder what you must look
like at our age now. I am loving getting older and wiser.
You just don't take things so seriously as much, except your
contentment and that is a priority for me. Australians are much
more laid back I reckon. Of course, it is a problem when you
 want to get something done - ha! Like trying to get the local
builders to finish your renovations or just plain take an
 interest in doing it right. Ahhhh....Australians. Ya gotta love em.
They are presently preoccupied in getting to the finals in the
World Cup. As you probably remember, I am not a sporting gal.
However, I have become a great fan of Cricket. Now, one might
think that it is a boring sport, but I have found it a fascinating
game played by the most honourable and gentlemanly players
 I have ever known. By the construction of that last sentence,
one might never know that I went to a private school - alas......
I love living is this big island country. They have places in
this big country that rival the wonders of the world and you go
 there and there is not a sole around. They have the same problems
 as the USA - a Prime Minister being a GW Bush fan and the
pollies arent quite sure if they want to respect the plight o
 refugees and they don't quite know what to do about the
Aboriginals (sorta the way the American indians were
traded their land for whiskey and then expected to
live a decent life.....aghh!) The Aussies still rally
together in times of crisis and will always help a
mate in trouble - they re-built a whole town after
 the hurricane in four months. They are certainly tough
 buggers! During the big invasion of Iraq, the news
was totally focused on the attack, etc.
 Then one day, our news took a turn 'cause during
a camping trip, a father of four was attacked by a
huge crocodile in the night that crept up into their
campsite. In the middle of the screaming and
yelling, the grandmother jumped onto the croc
 and starting beating on it with her fists and the
old croc let go of the guy. Well, it took an Aussie
grandma beating up a 10 foot croc to relieve us of
the horrors of the US invasion. Aussies, 'ya gotta love em.!!

Hey! post away, darling girl! Maybe someone with some
cash will want to buy one and then I can really come to the reunion.

Link to Deborah Roettinger's Website
 

Bill Newman wrote: I guess our 40th is coming up soon.  Very hard to believe.  I'll try very hard to come, and of course get Fritz to come to.  Seems like reunions are always on Texas-Oklahoma weekend, and I usually go to the game.  I could certainly skip it this year.  All is very well here.  I haven't been working for about a year.  My dad died and left the family a business in Texas, oil and gas, and my older sister and I have been running it.  Not too much work, except at tax time, and the income is very good.  So I've been taking it pretty easy.  Thinking of going back to work in the Fayetteville, Ark area, which is reallly booming, but just part time.  The kids are doing well.  The youngest (26) is in Raleigh, NC going to school to be a nurse anesthetist.  One girl is in Norman, Okla, works as an engineer for a drug company.  The oldest girl is in Denver, works for a software company, doing very well.  4 grandkids, probably at least 2 more coming.  Much more fun than kids.  Any news from your direction.  I really miss Texas, and definitely consider moving back.  My mother lives here now, but I have a sister in Houston.  My middle sister recently died of breast cancer.  Would not go to a doctor until the last week!!    Very frustrating for me, but her decision I guess.  Any news you could forward would be appreciated.  I'll start working on Fritz.  Bill N.

06/17/06.......It's a little early for me to 
confirm for the reunion at this point, 
but I do want to say Happy Father's 
Day to all the dads and thank 
the moms for putting up with the dads.  
We are enjoying the U.S. Open just a 
couple of miles down the road from the 
house this week.  Nancy volunteered 
and I walked around and watched.  
We have to get through our 
youngest son's wedding next month 
in Rockport, Maine.  He and a woman 
he met in law school are finally 
getting married on July 22nd.  
After that we can start to plan 
for October and see what happens.  
Best to all.   Louis Buck

Helen (Candy) 

It was good to hear from you 
- I appreciate the effort 
you are putting
forth.  It would be fun
to see everyone again. 
Envy you living in the hill country - 
we have friends there and visit often.
I lost my yearbooks over 30 
years ago, so I had not seen those 
pictures in a
long time. Thanks.   Haven't been 
called Wolfie in a long time.
Not a lot to report - Shalmir (my wife) 
and I live in Colleyville (suburb of
Ft Worth) Still retailing Ethan Allen, 
not sure I will ever retire but will
probably slow down in the next few years. 
Have one grandchild and one on 
the way - photo attached - Lauren with
"poppie".Thanks again for the updates
 - will try and be at the reunion....Wolf Benner

From Janet Youens Wolters  - 40 years ago I was at University of Texas.  I was spending the summer in Blanton, one of the buildings that Charles Whitman hit with a couple of random shots from the Tower.  I remember a friend of Kathy MacMillian’s had been injured. While the shooting was being filmed live, I was the only student on the floor to have a television set, so everyone crawled from our ground positions and scrambled face-down in my room to hear the craziness happening in front of our eyes and to see it simultaneously on the tube. We could hear the shot live and immediately see and hear an echo of the same shot on the black-and-white TV .We felt a rash of juxtaposing emotions.  We were feeling the adrenalin pumping yet while at the same time frozen in fear. I have always remembered that fateful afternoon and the unnecessary end of lives. (Note:  That summer Kathy MacMillian, Marilyn Millpaugh, and I all took the same Psychology 301 class. There may have been another SSS student….do either of you remember?)
Sometime during my stint at UT, I saw Andy Wright right after he pledged Phi Delta.For a semester my childhood friend moved into the White House, a division of the Hardin House.  She called to tell me her roommate was Lynn Johnson.  Small world even back then….there was only 50,000 students then.  So that year Lynn had some stationery printed which read, “LBJ from the White House”………we were so cool back then! 
Our freshman year at UT, Lynn and I attended the sad funeral of Dick Moran.  He and Lynn had always loving referred to the Winnie the Pooh series our senior year at SSS.
Freshmen year in college and can be scary.  Apparently Dick was one of the unfortunate ones that succumbed to taking his own life. We so much wished we could have stopped him and told him what great things lie ahead. We wanted to be happy even though it was an impossible task. We proudly wore red to his funeral to mourn the loss of a beloved friend and classmate.
As a junior at UT, I married and had two children in the next ten years. John Hansford White III, age 35 and Molly Chittim White, age 30.  Lynn Johnson as a bridesmaid will always be my savior. I could not find Carol Dunagan that summer; I tell her she was busy and unreachable being a hippie with Tommy, the first original hippie at UT and still her husband after all of these years.  My oldest friend, Becky Witmer (Kincaid ’66) was supposed to serve as my maid of honor, however, she was so infatuated with her boyfriend of the time, Riley Osborn from Fredericksburg, she totally neglected her duties She was always off with him practicing for his organ solo for the church or somewhere else….LBJ just took over the reins and completely won my enduring devotion for a lifetime friend that Sept.20, 1969.  Actually everyone who attended stills remembers my unfortunate rainy wedding, an outdoor extravaganza at my home just outside Columbus, Texas.  It rained 7 to 20 inches that night.  As we were walking in to the reception, first the huge pellets of rain began to cover the sidewalk.  Insert Picture.

Later on after my crying several bullet loads full of tears, guests and wedding party began to don hats over their watered-spoiled coiffures, find clothes from my closet in my bedroom in they got too wet……Insert picture of Lynn and Jock…………..I began to believe I was in la la land.  I could all my clothes that I left at my parents being fashioned as if were a fashion show from Janet’s off season clothes.  Some pretty strange looking gathering of cloth over body wandered around looking for the 3-piece trio or quartet from the Houston Symphony who had driven to the quiet country town for the downfall. The Helen Corbett of the Houston wedding planners has outdone herself with twelve ten-foot chandeliers of lights and flowers to hang in the front yard 150-yr. Old pecan trees which provide a blanket of green much like an outdoor tent over the entire 2-acre front yard. They were all ruined or had to be taken down……My new husband and I left as soon as we could.  Everyone told me later they had fun.  I was too deactivated.  I decided that meant I was destined to be rich if the saying is correct. Johnny and I went on our way.
We eventually learned to laugh about it but quit talking about it all   eight years later.  Being one of the exaggerated devotees of the first degree of the “me” generation, I divorced and went back to get a degree in English and Political Science.
At one point, I saw Jo Ann Knox and her UT geography professor.  He turned her on to geography at UT and lots more because they later married. I have often wondered where they ended up teaching and how they are doing.  
I thought   I should be a lawyer since I did not have the doctor stuff…….Well, again I was lifted off my life plan and married Beth Wolters’ brother, Bob.  Actually Bob is Robert W. Wolters, M.D., an ophpthalmogist just like my daddy.  (Nothing there .......yeah!)  He even had an opportunity to teach Ann Gateley in a class at UTHSC –San Antonio.  
One telephone to the state of Texas to get a DBA name for an appliquéing business I had for a brief period.  I made ultra suede longhorns in a frame and sold through Texas-Exes.  When I made the call I spoke to Robert Summers and he told me he had a child that attended St. Stephens at the time.  I also had seen Robert when he returned to UT after spending a year at Williams College. He had to start all over at UT and I assume he did.
He and I have two children:  Jacob (Jake) Youens Wolters and Anna Elizabeth (Annabeth) Wolters.  Jake is 25, graduated from UT in Austin and has worked for Dell Computers for almost two years. He recently took the plunge and married a girl from our hometown, Haley Rhodes, on April Fools’ Day of this year.  I have enclosed some wedding photos.
  Annabeth graduated from St. Mary’s Hall in 2005 currently just completed her first year at SMU. She loves it.She will also be a counselor at Camp Mystic this summer (this is her 12^th year there, first as a camper, then counselorette and now a full-fledged counselor.)
During my stint in San Antonio society, I had visits with Jackie Beretta, Ellen McCamish, Johnny Musselman, and Jace (how do you spell it?) Phillips, older brother of Chris Phillips ’65. Probably more in all those years but that is all I can remember now.
  Fred Stiles’ brother taught my nephew math in the 9^th grade at TMI.   Fred Stiles was somehow kind to my uncle in law …the same one that heralds the famous conservatist writer and journalist,
I talked to Darryl Hause Tanner some years ago when my daughter, Molly White, was Queen of the Order of the Alamo.  She has a sister that is really into all that stuff.  It was not my cup of tea but my daughters are into it. My youngest daughter, Annabeth, was a Symphony Belle her senior year at St. Mary’s Hall in San Antonio.   I think that was my “swan lake”……………tired of  spending money for “The good cause” that seems to only feel other people feel better. And it does not get over at this young age or ever because of a short time as a page (two of them), etc. etc.)It never gets better, just never any different.
Retired, Bob and I live in San Antonio (house on the market)….Lynn just came over to lunch last Friday.  Carol Donavan could not make it this time but we three try to have an annual lunch somewhere in the middle of our triangle map in which we live.  Lynn is in Berkeley as many of you know and Carol Donavan Husbands lives on a ranch near San Marcos. Have one of our two houses on the market in Port O’Connor, Texas and have a mountain home at 9,200 ft. in Angel Fire, New Mexico. Four houses for four years has almost completed my “final mental crack-up” but there is a chance for regained sanity if we can unload two of them and find a third permanent-type residence somewhere in the hill country.  We just cannot quite figure out where we wish to relocate and do not have to worry about it until two of our houses sell.  
And now one of the best experiences known to me is being a grandmother.  I am Nana (he was trying to say Janet and it sounded first  Nanet...then  into eventually Nana….   I have inserted some   of my family pictures of this past Easter Egg Hunt at my house.

Enough said……..I would love to sit and visit with each and every one of you….Janet 

 I love words.  I adore the acuity of adjectives, the activity of adverbs, and the symphony of alliteration.      I bask in the bravado of brevity, the boisterous ballad, and the banter of bouncing barrage.       I cherish the connection of conjunctions, the curling of commas, and the complexity of the clauses.       I delight in the directness of the nominative case, the declension of personal pronouns, and the definitive of the demonstrative.       I enjoy the excitement of exclamations, the erudition of essays, and the duplicity of double-entendres.       I fancy the fabrication of fables, the fancifulness of fiction, and the fanfare of fantasy.       I greet the grouping of genres, the nitty-gritty of grammar, and the impetuousness of iambs.       I hail the habituation of homonyms, the harvest of the interjection “heigh-ho”, and the h silent in honor requiring an rather than an a.     
 I idolize the idiosyncrasy of idioms, the illumination of imagery, and the impetuosity of iambs.       I judiciously bow to the jargon of journalists, jawbreakers of words, and the jeu d’espirit of juicy jigs.       I am kindled by the kit and caboodle of mental kinks, the kudos or koo doos or dudus as akin, and the kit of keywords.       I love the allure of literature, the literacy of linguistics, and the liquidity of language.       I marvel at the mandate of motifs, the manifestations of metaphors, and the mastery of mannerisms.       I know the nourishment of novels, the nascence of the narrative, and the nobleness of the noun.          I offer adoration to the odes to objects, the ode to the owed, and the object in the objective case.        I ponder the pertness of puns, the presumption of the preposition, and the playfulness of poetry.       I affirm the quizzicalness of the question, the copy write of the quotation, and the quality of the qualifier.       I relish the resonance of the rhythm, the reanimation of the rhyme, and the readiness of the writing.       I savor the  “like”ness of similes, the sagacity of semantics, and the symmetry of syllables.       I taste the texture of texts, the timelessness of themes, and the plot that thickens.       I eulogize the unity of clauses, the unanimous union of the Teutonic and Germanic into the English language, and the unique universal language of love.       I venerate the vivaciousness of verbs, the valiancy of the verbalist, and the verity of verse.       I worship the  what’s what of words, the whereto fore of whimsy, and the well-made plot.       I yearn for the spinning of a good yarn, the yardstick of the “yesses” of yesteryear, and the yo-yoing of a yuletide tale.          I zest for the zigzag of the interwoven plots, the syllabic sound of syncopation, and the zenith of it all.

Kathy McMillan Young is a counselor living in Austin.

Fred Seaman is a retired botany professor

 Lynn Johnson is still in Wimberley, swearing that she is really going to start taking it a little easier, but who knows......she still lives on the family ranch, has a 20-year old son, maintains ties with quite a few of our old classmates and fellow alums.

Virginia Shepperd Hamilton is in Austin, still writing documentation for software and working on various gardening projects.

Stroud Kelly is in Prague working on major oil contracts for various governments all over Asia, Africa and Europe.  his two children have now graduated from SSS.

Robert Sumners is still working for the State of Texas in the corporate compliance office. His daughter has also graduated from SSS.

Ann Gateley is still at UNM but covering many miles with her running and globetrotting as much as possible......going to Prague soon and likelyl hook up with Stroud......can we get a photo please???