Q12: Which of the following are most important to maintaining ties important to you?

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The following table shows the method that is ranked as the most important means for maintaining ties. Classmates, especially through e-mail, are clearly the most important.  We acknowledge the fact that the survey sample was taken entirely from the 12,000 or so graduates that are internet-capable, and realize that there may be bias in this and the following question.  However, conversing with classmates is one of the most common ways for grads to maintain ties and e-mail is only making this important communication easier and more accessible.  The second column denotes the percentage of respondents that use that mean of maintaining ties, regardless of its rank.  
 
Number
Method 
Percentage 
of Respondents 
Ranking this #1
Percentage 
of Respondents 
Using this Means
134
[Blank]
2.60%
 
3481
Classmate or Grad by E-Mail
67.49%
90.77%
559
AOG
10.84%
75.20%
489
West-Point.Org
9.48%
68.94%
224
Local Society
4.34%
59.02%
95
Class President/Leader
1.84%
46.06%
60
Local Class Representative
1.16%
38.91%
116
Other
2.25%
5.58%
Total Processed: 5158  
The survey included an area where respondents could provide additional means of maintaining ties.  Of the 360 entries, the following general categories were determined:
 
General Category Number
Percentage
of Comments
Class Related Projects/Reunions
83
23%
Assembly
74
21%
Other Graduates
54
15%
Web Sites
38
11%
Friends/Relations at West Point
37
10%
Army Athletics
21
6%
Public Media
13
4%
Register of Graduates
6
2%
Parents Club
5
1%
US Army
1
1%
Not Categorized
17
5%
Total Comments:
360
 
 
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The following are the raw comments collected for this survey question.  The numbers serve only to identify the comment for this question and do not serve any other identification purpose:

[001]  1977 home page -- I believe this is part pf west poin t org, but not sure.

[002]  -son and daughter who are cadets -classmates on staff by telephone and visits

[003]  Assembly and Register

[004]  Assembly

[005]  Glee Club, which I was in with for three years.

[006]  Ocasional reunions

[007]  I am at the Wharton Business School, and the Veterans Club here is very active. I frequently receive information about USMA, as well as the other service academies, from it.

[008]  My son is USMA '99

[009]  Classmates by mail and telephone

[010]  e-mail

[011]  I just hired a Grad through the local society and added one to my board of directors.

[012]  Founder's Day dinner

[013]  (XXXXX XXXXX) & Class paper

[014]  email with a young cadet I've know for 10 years

[015]  I have a son in class of 84 and another in class of 96 and have thereby spent an extra 8 years visiting West Point frequently. And I keep up with them and their classmates.

[016]  Telephone

[017]  West Point Parents Club

[018]

[019]  Assembly

[020]  Class secretary does a poor job on reporting activities

[021]  THE CLASS OF 1987 FORMED A NEWS LETTER. SEVERAL OF OUR CLASSMATES USE THIS LETTER OR POCs FROM THIS LETTER TO COMMUNICATE. (gradates XXXX and XXXX) ARE THE FOUNDERS OF THE NEWSLETTER.

[022]  Assembly

[023]  Website

[024]  Letters and telephone calls

[025]  Classmates and other graduates by phone and mail(remember old fashioned US Postal Service)

[026]  My classmates are the most important tie I have to West Point, but they are also on the outside looking for news from within. I am the unofficial scribe for classmates from my company I-2 '89

[027]  Class web page

[028]  Other classmates and friends by word-of-mouth.

[029]  Annual Army/Navy Game get-together in PDX

[030]  Local Admissions Organization Local colleagues on and off the jobs

[031]  I am part of the MALO program

[032]  Public media-must be taken with a grain of salt. If it had not been for Hallums article, I would not have known of details and sad state of affairs at Academy and AOG

[033]  I personally maintain ties with those I wish to maintain ties with. I do not maintain ties with others.

[034]  1 Assembly

[035]  Assembly Magazine

[036]  Relatives who are graduates/spouses

[037]  e-mail/newsgroup

[038]  USMA Homepage

[039]  I do not use West-Point.Org however I use the class of 1988 website and related e-mail links extensively

[040]  Class Information Book (bio data)

[041]  the Assembly

[042]  Company/Class Home Page

[043]  Assembly

[044]  Assembly

[045]  The local class organization provide the most important ties

[046]  Army Athletic Association

[047]  Class updates in ASSEMBLY.

[048]  telephone

[049]  Telephone and US mail with classmates and other graduates.

[050]  4 - West Point Parents Club

[051]  Assembly

[052]  Visits & calls from classmates

[053]  I am currently stationed at West Point. By virtue of being here at USMA -- call it geographically centralized to those who care about USMA -- I maintain important ties w/ others

[054]  Class meetings. NOTE: NOT POSSIBLE TO RANK IN ORDER!

[055]  west point home page and home page on athletics

[056]  class scribe via EMail

[057]  telephone

[058]  Class Scribe: (grad XXXXXX) '62 does an outstanding job. I've been reading Assembly class columns for about 50 years and Dave's are consistantly the most informative and entertaining that I've ever read.

[059]  AAA newsletter

[060]  USAR duty at West Point

[061]  USMA Home Page

[062]  personal contacts with Cadets at USMA

[063]  Supe's E-mail or letter at USMA website

[064]  Classmates without e-mail

[065]  Ilive close to WP & visit at least once/week. I used to work at the AOG & maintain close ties with the staff.

[066]  Coach Jack Hecker Army Football Staff sends out daily email on the Army Team

[067]  Assembly

[068]  Assembly

[069]  I am a LT in the U.S. Navy stationed at NAF Atsugi Japan. I keep in touch with other USMA grads in the Navy over here and get information through them.

[070]  most of my contact was through classmates until recently... new primary will become electronic mediums (aog /westpoint.org / class homepage)

[071]  Assembly Class Article

[072]  Associates in workplace. (There are serveral West Point graduates in my organization.)

[073]  Mini Class Reunions

[074]  Assembly magazine

[075]  Assembly!

[076]  I don't really use any of the others listed. The nearest Local Society is 4+hrs away. to far to attend meetings.

[077]  Class executive committee, non-email

[078]  Assembly Magazine with letters, columns and class notes.

[079]  Telephone.

[080]  Assembly/Register

[081]  e-mail site

[082]  Assembly Magazine

[083]  Believe that a expansion of relationships: AUSA, other service academy AOG's, USAA-anything that provides a Joint effort for military academies and the military.

[084]  Class organization in D.C. area

[085]  Assembly

[086]  Word of mouth - I meet many here in LV due to conventions and travels. Great meeting place.

[087]  Friends & Associates on Staff & Faculty of USMA

[088]  Personal contacts

[089]  Assembly

[090]  Assembly Magazine

[091]  other alumni (not my Class), alumni relatives

[092]  Annual Class newsletter and Assembly magazine.

[093]  Publications other than those directly sponsored or sourced from the USMA.

[094]  2. Classmates by personal snail mail.

[095]  Personal Contact

[096]  3: Misc mailings by class standing committee. Also Assembly.

[097]  I don't understand the question...sorry. It looks a little messed up.

[098]  4. Son on staff @ USMA

[099]  Brother -- Currently a cadet.

[100]  Regular mail

[101]  phone, and letters

[102]  Admissions Program Support and Information

[103]  I read Assembly regularly. Class notes, obits, and deaths regularly.

[104]  USMA AP group here in Puget Sound Region, dealing with local honcho, (XXXXX), and Far West Admissions Officer at USMA, currently (XXXXX).

[105]  Wash. Area class activities

[106]  N/A

[107]  Graduate from another class

[108]  West Point Home Page Links

[109]  2. West Point admissions Office

[110]  1--Roommate here in town.

[111]  Other grads who are in my Graduate degree program (MBA), as well as those who live and work in my area.

[112]  phone, mail

[113]  About the only info I receive re: West Point is from "Assembly." I attempted to contact six classmates by e-mail, but received only one reply.

[114]  Army Times

[115]  Personal contact with classmates in local area

[116]  Assembly

[117]  I only use 1 source: classmates and the Assembly.

[118]  Assembly

[119]  Assembly

[120]  Again...my main efforts locally are in support of USMA Admissions. In doing this volunteer work, I need to stay in close contact with schools, ROTC units, Recruiting Command, Ft Bliss, WPS, WPPC, USMA Admissions, and, of corse, applicants, cadets and graduates from my Admissions area. So, my 1, 2, 3 & 4 choices above are all most important!!!

[121]  Assembly magazine class notes and annual USMA Register

[122]  Local media blurbs about upcoming events.

[123]  My parents or brother and sister who were both grads

[124]  west point home page

[125]  Assembly

[126]  local class functions

[127]  Reading the Assembly

[128]  2. Personal Correspondence

[129]  Personal visits to USMA

[130]  Friend teaches at WP

[131]  Unaware of a "local class rep"

[132]  Note: I would be a member of a local society if there were really a local one. But for SW Connecticut grads, you choose between NYC, "CT" (which is really central CT), and WP.

[133]  Note: I would be a member of a local society if there were really a local one. But for SW Connecticut grads, you choose between NYC, "CT" (which is really central CT), and WP.

[134]  Assembly

[135]  Assembly, if it not included within the relm of AOG.

[136]  Basketball Program

[137]  1a. Assembly Magazine(and why isn't it an answer to Q.12?) 1b. Yearly Register of Graduates (and why isn't it an answer to Q.12?)

[138]  Admissons - MALO Program

[139]  Daughter is a cadet. Patricia seymour '01

[140]  Personal interaction with classmates via phone, visits, etc.

[141]  "Assembly"

[142]

[143]  AOG Sports Newsletter Jack Hecker's football email messages

[144]  I'm not aware of any local USMA society, class representative, or class president/leader in this area.

[145]  Class Homepage

[146]  AAA News /Wrestling Team News ("Cauliflower Ear")

[147]  1. classmates by snailmail or telephone

[148]  Assembly

[149]  Word of mouth.

[150]  USMA web site

[151]  I checked local society because I would make use of it if there were one in Baltimore. Any plans to create one? Any assistance required, I would be able to help.

[152]  Assembly

[153]  Personal contact with classmates

[154]  Assembly

[155]  USMA Assembly magazine

[156]  Classmate forwards West-Point.org material to all of us on e-mail.

[157]  Mail

[158]  Assembly Register

[159]  Assembly

[160]  Faculty Newsletter (former faculty member)

[161]  Friends in Class by phone

[162]  Assembly

[163]  Atheletic department; admissions department

[164]  Army Soccer Coach

[165]  4--interactions with fellow graduates, not necessarily classmates, in person.

[166]  Admissions Office

[167]  Press and news programs

[168]  Record of Graduates and Former Cadets

[169]  Class of '45 business and social activities

[170]  Class meetings

[171]  Son, Class of '74 and his roommates on Post

[172]  Assembly

[173]  Local classmates and other graduates socially Other classmates and graduates by snail mail and telephone and an occasional visit.

[174]  ASSEMBLY

[175]  The use of West-Point.Org is new to me, but will probably be more inportant in the future as our class is using it for e-mail

[176]  West Point Parents Group of Greater Houston

[177]  Assembly

[178]  classmates or other grads living locally i person

[179]  personal communications - mail or phone

[180]  periodicals newspapers

[181]  1,2 & 5 are closely linked and work together.

[182]  1-Telephone calls 2-Regular mail 3-Visits

[183]  Brother works at West Point...Also he is USMA '88

[184]  letters to classmates

[185]  4- class scribe in Assembly is a major coordinator

[186]  Freed Lowrey's "Pooper Scooper"

[187]  VBisits to West Point

[188]  Assembly

[189]  Grew up there also. Mostly maintain what few ties I do through family.

[190]  Assembly Magazine - very informative

[191]  5 West Point ForumThere's a break in the numbering because the last two are of much lesser importance to me at this time. Especially since I consider the AOG to be appologists for past actions, and the WP forum asa means for recent, inexperienced and uninitiatedgraduates to justify their experiences (whichdiffer significantly from mine) without respecting the wisdom that us older grads can bring to an issue. There is, in my mind, a significant gap between pre-1980 graduates and those of us who came before.

[192]  1.a. West Point periodicals (Pointer View post newspaper, USMA WWW homepage, West Point weekly bulletin) 1.b. Various USMA staff meetings. 1.c. E-mail from friends and colleages at USMA.

[193]  class home page

[194]  I2 1990 "Mooseletter" (mail)

[195]  other is West Point internet homepage

[196]  Class notes in the Assembly

[197]  Class Notes Articles

[198]  Quarterly Class 67 Breakfasts in Wash.D.C. area

[199]  cards,phone, reunions

[200]  Classmates located at same installation

[201]  Monthly Class Luncheon in the Secretary of the Army's Dining Room in the Pentagon. Class officers and interested grads attend.

[202]  1- Personal Contacts

[203]  Active group of classmates, about 20 live in the area.

[204]  Classmate with email distribution list

[205]  telephone

[206]  Admissions Office mail-outs and Field Force net.

[207]  2 - Assembly Magazine

[208]  Assembly

[209]  Class of '47 has extensive e-mail participation. Assembly

[210]  Other societies. How handy that wp.org is listed considering that the AOG at-large hasn't approved it?

[211]  Assembly

[212]  Assembly

[213]  Minority Outreach Committee

[214]  Department of Social Sciences

[215]  Local class meetings

[216]  On USMA staff so these apply very little to me

[217]  Telephone to selected classmstes

[218]  Info received from USMA via WWW. (This may be covered under WP.org but I do not use that system -- I use my class home page thru USMA.EDU

[219]  USMA Web Site

[220]  My older son is in the Class of '98 and my younger son is in the Class of 2001.

[221]  Column by class scribe in Assembly Annual class gathering at Army-Navy game Class reunions

[222]  Assume thathe AOG entry also includes the AOG web page

[223]  Reunions and other correspondence from the Department of Social Sciences, where I served on the faculty.

[224]  USMA -- USMA Homepage, Supe's Corner, etc.

[225]  Friends of Army Swimming

[226]  Periodic class breakfast in DC area

[227]  Other Grads not categorized above

[228]  Assembly

[229]  No West Point Society that I know of in USAREUR

[230]  1977 class email distribution list & homepage

[231]  Football Season Ticket holder for the past 5 years.

[232]  Dept. of Engineering, USMA / (XXXXX) (BOTH as a Dept of Engring former faculty AND for current professional communications)

[233]  Army Athletic Association

[234]  Captains or coaches of the rifle or pistol teams,OICs of the various things I was interested in while there (soccer, physics dept, etc.).

[235]  Sons who are graduates, and classmates via telephone and regular mail

[236]  telephone calls and letters with classmates and other graduates

[237]  USMA

[238]  Assembly magazine

[239]  The survey from Question 18 on is garbled.

[240]  We have a strong class organization in the DC area that keeps me posted.

[241]  Class reunions(we just had our 35th, and it was wonderful)

[242]  Media

[243]  US mail

[244]  Army Magazine

[245]  4 - Visit once or twice annually to see home football games and usually sponsor some friend or business acquaintance to the game. See and talk to cadets during the visit.

[246]  DIRECT FROM SUPE, COM, DEAN, ODIA, DIR ADMISSIOS

[247]  1. Classmate E- mail

[248]  1970 USMA Golf Tour

[249]  Personal contact with classmates and other graduates who are personal friends.

[250]  I talk frequently to friends and classmates serving on the staff and faculty.

[251]  NETWORK '61

[252]  West Point Parents Club of Georgia

[253]  Personal contacts with classmates and others

[254]  1. Classmates thru regular meetings (local Cl '65 -- 30 to 50 attendees) and thru annual get-togethers for the Army-Navy game as well as every reunion starting with the 10th.

[255]  N/A

[256]  Assembly

[257]  ASSEMBLY News/Press reports

[258]  Assembly

[259]  Class Reunion Committee

[260]  Press/News

[261]  Assembly

[262]  Ward's book

[263]  USMA:55 E-Mail

[264]  Newsletter and e-mail from the Football office.

[265]  class football reunion

[266]  classmates/other grads by phone or in person

[267]  Assembly Class Letters Class Friends Annual founder's day guest speakers

[268]  class web

[269]  current members of USMA staff & faculty

[270]  Personal contact with classmates via telephone

[271]  Class of 46 Engineer Branch "Mini Reunions" Class of 46 5-year reunions

[272]  I must admit I have not been very good at staying in touch at all since I left active service. Something I need to correct

[273]  My class president is dead - Spencer Dodge

[274]  Class reunions

[275]  Class reunions

[276]  I did not know I had a local class representative. I am also unsure exactly what this question is asking. I checked the boxes ranking how I received information about USMA and AOG. I'm not sure that is what you want.

[277]  (XXXXX) is doing a great job of keeping me informed by email and through his 1972 column in Assembly.

[278]  Classmate or other graduates in person

[279]  Other graduates that I work with in my company, Johnson & Johnson (Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc.), of which there are a multitude of graduates from classes all around my own.

[280]  Media

[281]  Phone classmates

[282]  Visits from current cadets, staff and faculty and AOG personnel.

[283]  My working with the admissions staff at USMA and current cadets returning home on leave or CPRC tours.

[284]  Phone and Letters

[285]  Classmates, other grads by phone, mail, visits, etc.

[286]  Department of Law Newsletter to former Instructors

[287]  SUPERINTENDENT'S UPDATES VIA THE NET

[288]  Phone & letters

[289]  snail mail communications from class

[290]  Personal contact with the Coaching and Support Staff for the Army Football Team.

[291]  Association with USMA Admissions as part of my reserve assignment.

[292]  Assembly

[293]  Internet with classmates and other graduates/former cadets

[294]  Football Tailgate Class 1950 luncheons

[295]  Class website

[296]  Assembly

[297]  Assembly year group column

[298]  telephone

[299]  Public image of USMA

[300]  strong '69 DC group

[301]  By "AOG" I mean "Assembly"

[302]  direct phone conversations, letters, reunions, etc.

[303]  Local Class Luncheons

[304]  U.S. Army

[305]  Assembly

[306]  The Army at large. I see West pointers in my work.

[307]  Personal contaact with other classmates or other graduates

[308]  Monthly Class Luncheons

[309]  WP Parents' Club of MA

[310]  Real mail Assembly

[311]  Real mail
 

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