Looking forward to seeing you all on SundayAug. 20th
 12:30 p.m..meeting.  2890 SW Fairmont Dr., Corvallis
From Portland, South on I-5 (about 70 miles); or, from Roseburg, North on I-5
Exit onto OR-34, and go West for 12.1 miles. Turn left on SW 35th St and go South for 0.4 miles. Continue on SW Hilltop Dr and go Southwest for 0.2 miles. Continue (left) on SW Whiteside Dr and go South for 0.3 miles. Turn right on SW Fairhaven Dr and go Southwest for 0.4 miles. Turn right on SW Fairmont Dr and go South for 0.2 miles to 2890 SW Fairmont Dr (last house on the right), marked with + on map.

PLEASE NOTE: All Families bring your own beverage and meat to BBQ
(or a main dish);  A-K bring potluck salad; J-W dessert.  Anyone-chips.
Plates, napkins, cups, etc. (and a good time) will be provided.

**It will be time to congratulate the plebes who have made it through beast, and
the rest of the corps back to the academic year, so we are making BOODLE!**
Please be thinking of what you will bring or get to a member who is coming.    I'll put the number of items to bring on this page in early August.   Right now there's way too many of you not on our roster because you haven't renewed yet to get an accurate count.  Alumni parents please note: as we will be sending only to USMA cadets, please feel under no obligation to contribute to boodle (although you can if you like.  We just like having you come, and picking your brains! :)
You must be on our roster--your application/renewal sent in to treasurers, see http://www.west-point.org/parent/wppc-oregon/membershipform.html
by August 1 to have your cadet get this shipment of BOODLE.  Thank you.
Contact Patty or Al Klascius by e-mail <klascius @teleport.com> 
                                    (503) 695-2824, for questions or to suggest agenda items.

       Welcome USMA Class & Parents of '04
*We enjoyed meeting you and your family at our June 8th meeting (or before).   We hope the rest of you will join us at our August Picnic.  **

Indicates new members, all of whom we warmly welcome!
From Oregon:
*Daniel Adkins of Canby**
Amy Ashton of North Beach
*David Bunce of Tualatin
*Morgan Cox of West Linn
*Kenneth Doleac of Portland**
*Jordan Hoffmann of West Linn
John Kang of Beaverton
*Darren Kerr of Roseburg**
*Sarah Knutson of Noti**
Sean Ley of Tigard
Pete Rangsoon of Salem**
*Ariel Selko of Eugene**
*Mark Steinbock of Klamath Falls**
*Jesston Wagner of Fort Rock
*Alex Williamson of Salem**

and From Washington:
Jacob Boysen of Olympia
Patricia Crispin of Spokane
Bryan Fitzpatrick of Richland
Francesca Graham of Bellevue**
Mindy Hatcher of Harrington
Kevin Jaybush of Seattle
Brett Kobes of Sumner
Zachary Miller of Kennewick
Nathan Oren of Edgewood
Chris Passey of Everett**
Nathan Smith of Moses Lake
Diego Squires of Brier
Ian Strand of University Place
Sam Wilbourn of Pullman

List of Newsletter Articles:
West Point Tulip Order-at Aug. meeting
Minutes June 8th New Candidate Meeting
Plans for Oct. 14th Tour & Meeting--Ft. Lewis, WA
Comments from a Parent with children at OSU & USMA
Sports Page
Baseball Coach Named - Joe Sottolano
         2000 Revised Football Schedule
Fox Sports Televises Army
America the Beautiful
Topographical Map of West Point URL
845 replaces 914 as West Point's Area Code

West Point Tulips We will have the catalog to order West Point tulips at our August picnic.  If we order 100+ tulips as a group, we receive the wholesale price.   A volunteer will be needed to coordinate the order, and have the tulips ready at the October meeting to distribute to members who ordered.  If you want to order some, but are not at the meeting, the coordinator will send out a message to all club members of record at that time, so that you may also order.

                GENERAL MEETING MINUTES --June 8th, 2000
-The meeting was held in Lake Oswego.
-The minutes of the prior meeting were approved, without reading. (They have been available on web site for a month prior to this meeting).
-The financial report was distributed. We have approximately $705 in combined savings and checking.  This is the usual annual low, as membership dues/renewals are payable in June.
-Both the secretary and historian positions are currently vacant in
the club. All interested applicants are urged to contact any club officer.
-The group recited the Cadet Prayer, then recessed for dessert which the new candidates had cut into 5ths, 7ths, and 9ths, and visiting.
-The final order of business was the sharing of Cadet and Graduate news.
Respectively submitted,
Marilyn Fox (temporary stand-in for the secretary)

Plans for Lunch/Tour/Meeting October 14th

We have exciting plans in the works for our Saturday, October 14th meeting, so be sure and mark you calendars.  The Officers' Club, while not normally open then, has reserved the Rainier Lounge for us for lunch/meeting from 11:30a.m. - 2p.m..  We will have a "build-your-own-sandwich" w/iced tea - $6.00 per person, and will need a final "head" count before October 12th.  After lunch, we will have our own personally guided tour of the Ft. Lewis Military Museum from 2:30-4:00p.m. After that we may make contact with a few of our 1st and 2nd LTs who are currently stationed there, or you may tour the rest of the post on your own, as it is now an "open post".  For those of you coming a distance, nearby overnight accomodations are readily available.

      Notes from a Parent with children at OSU & USMA
    We went to Oregon State University for our son's college graduation last weekend. We are so proud of our new Mechanical Engineer who is NOT military.  But, at the beginning of that graduation ceremony a was moment in time  I will never forget. It was a small ceremony that had special meaning to us as USMA parents, and held meaning to all who where there as well.
    A few dozen of the 3000 graduates were asked to stand. They took off their black robes and caps, to reveal military uniforms from several branches of the service. They raised their right hand, and were commissioned as 2LT's by the ROTC officers there. The stands grew silent, as the crowd realized the importance of this moment.
     Those new 2LT's stood tall, and that moment was unforgettable. One need not attend USMA to make Mom, Dad, and an audience of about 12,000 people proud.

SPORTS PAGE
   SOTTOLANO NAMED ARMY BASEBALL COACH

WEST POINT, N.Y. -- The storybook spring authored by Army's Joe Sottolano was culminated today when Director of Athletics Rick Greenspan removed the interim label from Sottolano's job title and named him the Black Knights' head baseball coach.  He was chosen to serve as Army's interim head coach following the abrupt resignation of longtime Army mentor Dan Roberts on March 14.  He presided over an amazing turnaround, leading the upstart Black Knights to a 23-14-1 record, their second Patriot crown in four years and a first-ever NCAA Regional appearance.
   Greenspan conducted a national search to uncover the Black Knights' 16th head coach. "We were impressed with the pool of candidates that we were able to attract for this position. But as the search progressed, it became very obvious that Joe Sottolano was the best person for the job.
    After assuming interim head coaching duties in March, the "Cardiac Cadets" would register 18 come-from-behind victories during the spring, with an amazing 12 of those wins coming during Army's last at-bat. Included in the group was a riveting comeback win over Bucknell in the elimination game of the Patriot League Tournament, a triumph that propelled the Cadets into the conference's championship series against regular-season titlist and top seed Navy.  Despite falling behind in both games of the Patriot League Championship Series, Army swept the favored Mids in two straight games, sending the Black Knights to their first-ever NCAA Regional appearance.
   Prior to assuming the role as Army's interim head coach, Sottolano served as an assistant to Roberts for nine years, arriving at the Academy in January of 1992.   He graduated from Ithaca College in 1990 with a bachelor's degree in physical education, was a four-year varsity letterwinner as a left-handed pitcher and a member of Bomber squads which made four consecutive appearances at the NCAA Division III Regionals.   Voted "Most Outstanding Player" in the 1988 College World Series, he was one of 36 players nationwide invited to try out for Team USA that summer and remained one of the premier pitchers in the Hudson Valley Rookie League.
     Highly respected among Eastern baseball circles, Sottolano served as pitching coach at Drexel University in the spring of 1991, before returning to Ithaca as the Bombers' graduate assistant coach that fall.  He recently completed work on a master's degree in physical education and teaching from Ithaca.
         Sottolano and his wife Lori reside in nearby Highland Falls.                                       

2000 Army Football Schedule



9/4@ University of Cincinnati  (revised from Sept. 2nd, see article below)
9/9 * Boston College
9/16 @ University of Houston
9/23 * University of Memphis
10/7 @ New Mexico State University
10/14 @ East Carolina University
10/21 * Tulane University (Homecoming)
11/4 * United States Air Force Academy
11/11 @ University of Louisville
11/18 * University of Alabama at Birmingham
12/2 Navy (at Baltimore, MD)***tickets are on sale now, get before September***
* Home games
* All Times are TBA

                       FOX SPORTS NET TABS ARMY
        FOR ADDITIONAL TELEVISION APPEARANCES

WEST POINT, N.Y. - The Army football team's transition from an option-oriented wishbone attack to a multi-threat possession passing scheme will be well-publicized this fall with the release of Conference USA's preliminary television schedule for the 2000 campaign by Fox Sports Net earlier this week.
    Fox Sports Net announced it will televise the Black Knights' season opener at Cincinnati, shifting the game from Saturday, Sept. 2 to Monday, Sept. 4 (Labor Day) for a special holiday afternoon broadcast.  It will also televise Army's home contests against Boston College on Sept. 9 and Tulane on Oct. 21, with both battles slated for 12 p.m. kickoff times.
    While Army's annual season-ending clash with arch-rival Navy will once again be televised nationally by CBS Sports, the possibility remains that Fox Sports Net will opt to broadcast additional Black Knight contests as part of its national package with Conference USA.
    The C-USA football telecast package will appear on Fox Sports Net's 21 affiliates nation-wide, reaching over 70 million homes.
    "We are very pleased to have the opportunity to appear on national television four times this fall," stated Army Director of Athletics Rick Greenspan. "This added exposure will afford Army fans across the country the chance to follow our team as we continue to build a program of which our faithful can be proud."
     Tickets for all Army games, including the 101st Army-Navy Classic in Baltimore, Md., on Dec. 2, are currently available at the Army Ticket Office. Fans can order tickets by phone at 1-877-TIX-ARMY (1-977-849-2769).
Ed. Note:   It is better if you cadet can purchase your tickets at the Army Ticket Office at WP.  That way they will issue your cadet a ticket seated next to you.

America the Beautiful
The lyrics of "America the Beautiful",  which you are listening to, were inspired by the view from the top of Pike's Peak, Colorado, and authored by Katherine Lee Bates.   This 12+ foot high bronze plaque is located at the top, visited recently by your editor and cadet son #1 following his free fall school at the Air Force Academy.   He was impressed that we were higher (14,110') than he had been jumping out of Otters (the name of the airplane) from (approx. 11,000')!

Did you want to see that topographical map of West Point again?
http://topozone.com/map.asp?lat=41.3692&lon=-73.9667
There is a link to this on the club's home page now.  Click on "Home" under the PARENTS section in the above left gold column.

845 Replaces 914

Beginning July, 845 replaces 914 as Orange County, NY's area code. So when your cadets go back, they will have a new phone # area code at least, whether they scrambled or not. Note it now! There will be a "grace period", but by late fall, Bell Atlantic will no longer connect you using the old 914 area code

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                     2000 Oregon/SW Washington Club Officers

President: Al & Patty Klascius (Chad ‘01, Craig '02) klascius@teleport.com
V-President: Richard and Susan Adams (Matt '02) adams@proaxis.com
Secretary:
Treasurer: George & Evelyn Mears (Dwight ‘01) egmears@casco.net
Historian:
Newsletter: Al & Patty Klascius (Chad ‘01, Craig '02) as above
**Please feel free to contact any of the above with questions, suggestions, corrections or for "free" advice.  Your  newsletter editors regret any errors, and appreciate notification of such. Thank you. **

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