Dick Struss

16 APR 1931 - 22 OCT 1980



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1st Row: John M. Hamilton - Hasbrouck - Cheesborough - Hergenroeder - LaFrenz - Myers - St. Amour
2nd Row: Struss - Howie Stone - Bean - Malooley - Leventis
3rd Row: Mike Brown - Minich - Floyd
4th Row: Boyd - Jim Strickland - Peterson - Vandersea



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Dick Struss was one of my USMA Prep School pals. We were both USAF enliste men at the time. We had an easy rapport and both had an interest in language. Dick and I invented for our own use a made-up language called "speed talk." We would communicate with each other in rapid speech cutting off the ends of words - sometimes leaving whole words out of a sentence - and giving meaning to what we were saying by facial expressions as well. He was a very pleasant person to be around. I did not see a lot of him at West Point or after we graduated - and I am sorry for that. Jim Ryan December 20 - 2001

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USMA 1955 Roster

USMA 1955 Pictures