I-2 Wives
Plebe: Charlie Berg, Al Munsch, Chuck Roades, Bill Roth
Yearling: Charlie Berg, Cliff Fralen, Chuck Roades
Cow: Cliff Fralen and Chuck Roades
Firstie: Regiment - Dave Burroughs and Chuck Roades
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Charles Walton Roades
Charles Walton Roades was born on 3 March 1931 in Indiana. He was appointed to West Point from the 3rd Congressional District of Colorado and entered on 3 July 1951. He was in Company I2, played squash for four years and tennis for four years, and was a Cadet Captain and Regimental Adjutant his first class year. He graduated on 7 June 1955 and was commissioned in the US Air Force.
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Date sent: Mon, 21 APR 2008 20:59:25,0500
To: SQ 'usma1955-c1@west-point.org', Business Net 'usma55bus@west-point.org"
From: -w 'wwelter@cox.net"
Subject: usma1955-c1: Quarterly Report, USMA Class of 1955
At 04:59 PM 4/21/2008, Carl H McNair 'cmcnair2@csc.com' wrote:
KUDOS: Seems there is seldom a day that goes by that someone in our class expands their 'CLAIM TO FAME', and the EXCOM is advised that broad recognition should be given , NOW!!!! SO,-
Tom Sims, For his extraordinary efforts in assembling a world class website of 1955 Photos, absolutely unmatched and unparalleled
Bill Welter, Patience and perseverance, discipline and diligence in keeping our class nets up and running
Dan Ludwig, Quietly working behind the scenes preserving the class history and archives, an excellent two pager for the mini-reunion 'Class of 1955, 53 Years Later', read it and remember nostalgically
Chuck Roades, Faithful and fearless scribe, writing six major reports per annum and keeping the class rosters [living and deceased] current and cogent
Charlie Johnson, Faithful Secretary, official '55 liaison to USMA AOG (his son is the Deputy Commandant of Cadets, would you believe, no more quill for Charlie, and no more B-aches to the Comm?)
Jack Campbell, Chairman and trail boss for the Biggest Mini Reunion yet
Grip Hands,
CARL
Carl H. McNair, Jr.
President, Class of 1955
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CHARLES W. ROADES
Former Senior DOD Representative
and Vice Chairman, National HUMINT
Requirements Tasking Center
SES-5 Ret
Mr. Roades was born in Evansville, Indiana, on 3 March 1931. He was appointed to the United States Military Academy from the State of Colorado in July of 1951 and was graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Military Engineering in 1955, with a commission as a 2nd LT in the U.S. Air Force. He served in operational flying assignments after completing Pilot Training. In 1963, after graduate study, he was awarded a Master of Arts degree in English Literature by the University of Washington, Seattle. He is a graduate of the Air Force Command and Staff College [1966] and Distinguished Graduate of the Air War College [1973]. He was awarded a Master of Science degree in Counseling Psychology by Troy State University, Alabama, in 1973. He is a graduate of the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, of the NATO [SHAPE] Senior Officers' Course and the Federal Executive Institute [1987] in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Mr. Roades early military service included two years Enlisted service in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve and 3 years Enlisted service in the Air Force. He completed the Russian language course at the Army Language School [now the Defense Language Institute] in Monterey, Califomia, and served in the newly organized Air Force Security Service, with duty in Korea during the early months of the Korean conflict. He retumed from Korea to enter the U.S. Military Academy in 1951 and entered the Air Force upon graduation from West Point. His early commissioned assignments included completion of pilot training and subsequent operational postings in airlift and troop carrier organizations through 1961. In 1963, after graduate study in Seattle, then Captain Roades was assigned to the Department of English at the U.S. Air Force Academy, where he served for 5 years as both Assistant and Associate Professor.
He was then assigned to special operations duty in Thailand during his Southeast Asia tour. On return, he was assigned to the Air Defense Command Staff in Colorado Springs in 1969 in the Plans Directorate. Following promotion to Lieutenant Colonel in 1972, he attended the Air War College in Alabama, where he was a Distinguished Graduate. His next assignment was as Chief of the North America Branch, JCS, J-5, with responsibilities for Canadian US military relationships and attendant NATO issues. Upon promotion to Colonel in 1976, he was selected to serve as the Air Force Attache' in the USDAO, Moscow, USSR. That tour extended from 1977 to 1979, following completion of Attache' and language refresher training, given by the Defense Intelligence Agency.
From 1979 to 1984, Colonel Roades served as Special Assistant and subsequently Executive Officer to the Chief of Staff, SHAPE Hq., Mons, Belgium. In 1984 he retumed to the Defense Intelligence Agency as Special Assistant to the Director of Attaches for HUMINT matters. He retired from active duty in July 1985 after 34 years of active military service. Mr. Roades became a member of the Defense Intelligence Senior Executive Service [DISES] in December of 1985 in the Directorate of Attaches and Operations. In April of 1987 he assumed the position of Deputy Director, in which he served until June of 1992, when he was selected by the Director, DIA, for a position with the National HUMINT Requirements Tasking Center, with duty at Headquarters, CIA. Mr. Roades served in the grade of SES-5 until his retirement in June of 1997.
Mr. Roades' military flying experience of more that 7000 hours includes multi-engine and single reciprocating engine aircraft and single and multi-engine jet aircraft. His military awards and decorations include awards for service, achievement and foreign service. His civilian awards include the Intelligence Community Distinguished Service Medal and the Director's Medal from the Defense Intelligence Agency, certificates of achievement and bonuses for outstanding executive performance. He was a life member of the Daedalians Society, an organization devoted to flying and the promotion of the military's posture in the flying mission.
Mr. Roades and his wife, Viviane, who died in 2003, resided in McLean, VA. Since 2005, Mr. Roades has relocated to a retirement community, Leisure World, near the city of Leesburg, VA. His son, Charles W. Roades, Jr., is a Graduate of UVA and the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a former Air Force Officer. He lives in Vienna, VA, with his wife Sara and their four children, and is employed by the Advisory Board, Management Consultants to the medical profession. Mr. Roades has another son, Christopher, who is a practicing architect in Los Angeles, CA; his wife, Mina, is also a practicing Landscape architect.
Chuck Roades
FEB 2008
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Viviane 'Vicki' (Tanton) Roades
Viviane 'Vicki' (Tanton) Roades, 77, an executive assistant who worked for the Defense and State departments in this country and abroad, died Feb. 18 at National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda. She had leukemia.
Mrs. Roades, who lived in McLean, was born in Fort Worth, Tex. She attended the University of Colorado.
She began her 35-year government career during World War II, as a secretary for the Army in New York and California. She was assigned to Japan after the war and worked for flag officers at the Pentagon in the 1950s and 1970s.
In the 1960s, she was secretary to the chief of staff of the Air Defense Command in Colorado. She was executive assistant to the U.S. defense attache in Moscow at the end of the 1970s and then was assistant to the senior State Department representative and a senior British general at NATO military headquarters in Belgium. She retired in 1985.
Mrs. Roades volunteered with the Association of Graduates of West Point.
Her marriage to Al Goldfarb ended in divorce.
Survivors include her husband of 35 years, retired Air Force Col. Charles W. Roades of McLean; a son from her second marriage, Charles W. Roades Jr. of Vienna; a stepson, Christopher S. Roades of Raleigh, N.C.; and four grandchildren.
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Charles W. Roades
Air Force, Defense Officer
Charles W. Roades, 79, a retired Air Force colonel who later served with the Defense Intelligence Agency as a human intelligence expert, died of cardiac arrest April 26 [2010] at his home in Colorado Springs.
He was a Washington area resident for many years until retiring to Colorado in 2005.
In the late 1940s, Col. Roades enlisted in the Air Force and was trained as a Russian linguist. He later served for a few months in Korea before attending the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., where he graduated in 1955 with a degree in military engineering. He was trained as a pilot and accumulated more than 7,000 hours of flight time, specializing in heavy-lift aircraft.
After a short stint teaching in the English department at the Air Force Academy, Col. Roades served as a pilot in Thailand and Vietnam and was selected for intelligence training.
From 1977 to 1979, he served as an Air Force attach? in Moscow, where he earned commendations for saving classified documents from destruction after a fire gutted the U.S. Embassy.
He retired from the Air Force in 1985 as the special assistant to the director of attaches at the Defense Intelligence Agency. Then, as a civilian with the DIA, he joined the Senior Executive Service and served as a human intelligence collection expert. He retired again in 1997.
Charles Walton Roades was born in Evansville, Ind. He received a master's degree in English literature from the University of Washington in 1963 and a master's degree in counseling psychology in 1973 from what is now Troy University in Alabama.
His marriages to Dorothy Roades and Margaret Lowe Roades ended in divorce. His third wife, Viviane Tanton Roades, died in 2003.
Survivors include a son from his second marriage, Christopher Roades of Long Beach, Calif.; a son from his third marriage, Charles W. Roades Jr. of Vienna; a brother; and five grandchildren.
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