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West Point Parents' Club of Oregon & SW Washington Newsletter - May '02
Directions for Saturday, June 15th Meeting, West Linn, Oregon

SUNSET FIRE HALL,  2215 Long St.

Directions from the I-205 (coming from either direction):
Take the West Linn/Lake Oswego Exit #8.  At the traffic light at the end of the off ramp, turn towards Oregon City (not Lake Oswego). It will be signed at the end of the off ramp. (If you are coming from the South, you will turn right. If coming from the North, turn left.)  Get in the right-hand lane. (Do not continue to follow the sign to Oregon City because that would send you over the bridge and that would be wrong.)   From the right lane you will curve to the right, then curve slightly left and go up the hill.  This lane will "Y" off and turn into Willamette Falls Drive--stay in the right lane.  This lane will "Y" off (you are in the right lane) and turn into Sunset Ave. Take a right onto Exeter.  Take the next right onto Long Street.  The Fire Hall is on the left, a 2-story brick & white building (pictured above) at the end of Sunset Park.

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List of Newsletter Articles:
Notice of June 15th Meeting (above)
Minutes of April 6th meeting (Note future meeting dates contained within)
Welcome members of the Class of '06
2002 Football Schedule
An interesting article on change of top brass can be read at:
http://www.msnbc.com/news/737108.asp#BODY
Official Bicentennial Website:  http://www.usma.edu/Bicentennial/

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Minutes of Meeting on April 6, 2002 at McLean House in West Linn, Oregon

     Families represented at this meeting were Adams, Adkins, Campbell, Cox Doyle, Hoffmann, Kerr and Lushenko.   The meeting was called to order at 1:00 pm by Al Hoffmann, President.  Jill Hoffmann lead the reading of The Cadet Prayer. Treasurers Report: Savings - $557.33, Checking - $1,629.39, Total - $2,186.72.

Review of Upcoming Meetings:
June 15 - NEW CANDIDATES BAR-B-QUE, Sunset Fire Hall, 2215 Long Street, West Linn, Oregon
Directions provided (in this newsletter, above).  Please mark your calendars for the June 15 meeting. This is an important meeting as we welcome the New Candidates and their families.

August 24 - SALEM, OREGON, SUMMER PICNIC.   Put together Boodle Bags for our Cadets.
Details and Location to be announced.

October 5 - VANCOUVER, WASHINGTON, probably at Fort Vancouver
Details and Location to be announced.

January 18 - MCLEAN HOUSE, WEST LINN, OREGON.   Put together Boodle Bags for our Cadets.

The Portland Society of Graduates' Founder's Day Dinner & Meeting, March 23, 2002 was attended by John, Christine & Heather Doyle and Al & Jordan Hoffmann. They reported that the meeting was interesting and well attended. Our Cadets, Heather and Jordan, answered questions from the Candidates in attendance.

Presidents Al and Jill Hoffmann will be attending the Presidents Conference at West Point, April 18-20conference. More details will follow in their report after the event. This will be a very busy 3 days with a great deal of information provided.

We honored our Graduating Firstie Parents, Richard and Susan Adams, celebrating with a
delicious cake in West Point colors. Their Cadet, Matthew has been awarded the Gates
Scholarship and will be attending Cambridge University in England for his Masters Degree in
Wireless Communication. And, we look forward to honoring Al and Patty Klascius who are
also Graduating Firstie Parents. They could not attend this meeting but we will to hear about
their Cadet, Craig, at the meeting in June. Congratulations to all!!

The meeting adjourned at 4:00. Minutes respectfully submitted by Carole Cox, Secretary

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Welcome USMA Class of '06

From Oregon:
(List should be available after May 1)

From SW Washington
Kristin Loyd of Vancouver
Austin Luher of Vancouver (Austin's brother, Gavin, is a '00 grad.  Al & Gaylen were active in our club during those four years)

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2002 Army Football schedule

September 7, 2002 Holy Cross (Home game)
September 14, 2002 Rutgers (Away game)
September 21, 2002 Louisville (Home game)
September 28, 2002 Southern Mississippi (Home game)
October 5, 2002 East Carolina University (Away game)
October 12, 2002 Texas Christian University (Home game)
October 19, 2002 Houston (Away game)
October 26, 2002 University of Alabama/Birmingham (Home game)
November 9, 2002 Air Force Academy (Home game)
November 16, 2002 Tulane (Away game)
November 23, 2002 Memphis (Away game)
December 7, 2002 Army/Navy - East Rutherford, NJ (Giants Stadium at the Meadowlands)

2001 Oregon/SW Washington Club Officers

Liaison Officers-OR & Newsletter Editors/Listserv Moderators:
Al & Patty Klascius (Chad ‘01, Craig '02)  klascius@teleport.com

Ring Weekend, 2002
http://www.west-point.org/service/candidates/

L.O.-WA: David & Mary Graham (Doug '01, Franchesca '04) merovin@halcyon.com

http://www.west-point.org/service/candidates/

**Please feel free to contact any of the above with questions, suggestions,  corrections, or for "free" advice.  Your  newsletter editor regrets any errors, and appreciates notification of such. Thank you.

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