With our new Class Board in place, a new Class of ’79 Gift Selection Committee has been convened. This committee and the Gift Fundraising Committee are open to any classmate interested in serving on them, will operate per Class Board direction to finalize gift selections, and will conduct giving campaigns to meet class goals. There are two aspects to our class giving strategy – a Class Gift, which may consist of one or more "Focus" gifts, as well as giving by class members to the Academy for other purposes. Our intent is to leverage the work done to date, which has been to identify and qualify five Focus gift ideas. While we strongly recommend that every class member make an effort to give back something to the Academy, the intent of the Gift Selection Committee is to finalize a selection of one or more specific Focus gifts as a "unified gift" from our Class to West Point.

March 17th 2010

Dear Army 79 Classmate,

Top of the Line!  What a great 30^th Reunion.  Well done, AJ.  Thanks to all of our classmates for stepping up to serve on the class board.  We will continue to push forward with activities and opportunities for our class to participate and grow.

Highlights for 2010 and beyond: 

On Jan 13th 2010, our classmate, Rick Hyde, sent an e-mail to the class challenging us to "man up" and donate $50 or more to the charity of our choice to support relief efforts in Haiti. Rick also asked classmates to sound off with a loud "HOOAH" e-mail when they had contributed. As of 10AM on Sat, Jan 16th, 83 members of the class of 1979 have contributed $50 or more. However, the effort continues and we'd like to reach Rick's goal of 400 HOOAHs and over $20,000 as quickly as possible.

To help us keep track of our class' effort, you can enter your donation amount and who you donated to on an interactive spreadsheet by clicking here. It's very easy to use - just scroll down to the first empty row, enter the next number in the first column (so we can keep track of the number of classmates donating), who you donated to in the second column and the amount in the third column (don't worry about entering the dollar sign, this is done automatically). The total donations to date will be calculated automatically. After you have entered your donation, you can either click the Close button in the upper right corner of the webpage or just close the tab or your browser.

Please help the Class of 1979 show that it is truly the "Top of the Line" by helping out the desperate people in Haiti!!

Rick Hoff still has a number of class coins available for classmates interested in purchasing some.
Click here to see a picture of the Class of 1979 coin.
Click here to order Class of 1979 coins.