Volume 4, Issue 4 • December 2022
Alumni Association President Update I lied to you all! In the last issue of Reveille, I said last year was my final year serving you on the MMA Alumni Association Board of Directors. It was my full intention to leave having served my year as president, but sometimes things happen. No matter who may be president, we all have hoped to leave the board in a stronger and better position than when we began. It was my vision to rewrite our bylaws to bring more stability and continuity by extending term limits to two years for the president and removing term limits for other officers to the BOD as I said my farewell. As the saying goes, no good deed goes unpunished. The voting members of the BOD, followed by the president of MMA, asked for me to serve one more year, and so you have me for one more. With that said, I do have a few more ideas up my sleeve to improve and strengthen alumni relations with one another and Old MMA. They include getting access to online purchases for MMA and Alumni Association logoed items, building even stronger relationships with Kemper and Wentworth alumni
IN THIS ISSUE Alumni Association President Update by Gregg Center ’91 Power of the Brotherhood by Rob Silbaugh
and a couple other projects that are just in the idea stage. (I’m always open to ideas from alumni, so don’t hesitate to reach out.) This year’s Alumni Weekend was one for the history books. It was one of the best. We may not have had a football or soccer game, but we had one heck of a softball game between the alumni and cadets where we dedicated Brad Calvert ’79 field. Although the alumni might have taught the cadets a lesson last year, they returned the favor this year by shutting us out 2-0 and winning the Golden Bat. This is unacceptable and will be remedied next year. We also inducted some very deserving alumni into the Alumni Hall of Fame. (Click here for how to nominate a deserving candidate.) We have a strong board of directors that serves all alumni from all over the world. It takes more than just the voting members as well. Volunteers give so much of their time, talent and treasure to the association. We have men from Mexico, Portugal and China doing amazing things. We also have a new branch within
Volume 4, Issue 4 • December 2022
History of the Wentworth Honor Guard by Mark W. Mullenioux MMA Celebrates Homecoming the BOD — the auxiliary. These wives, friends, former faculty and more love MMA as much as us and give us their softer but more creative touches to much of what we are doing. I invite anyone interested to give some of their time and talent to the Alumni Association Board of Directors. Your ideas matter and can be of great importance to growing our Alumni Association as we get more involved with MMA than we have ever been in the past. Please reach out to me or any other voting member to learn more about what we do behind the scenes. I will once again do my best serving you as your president and look forward to what the year has in store for each and every one of us. Go Colonels! In love and loyalty, Gregg Center ’91
Alumni Awards: 2022 Recognitions Annual MO Tri-Military Shootout – Trap Shoot FOREver MMA 2022 – Colonels on Par by Steve McDavid ’97 Revival of Homecoming by Ross Fernstrum ’47 Alumni Flotilla Invade Gasconade River by Chris Schafer ’89 Cadets in Need? by Rob Silbaugh From the Archives 65265 Riders Slay the Dragon by Chris Schafer ’89 Strike Up the Band by Venustiano Reyes ’88 Passion Projects by Chris Schafer ’89 Thank You Stribling Statue Sponsors Alumni BOD Contact Information Alumni BOD International Alumni Committee by Rick Uriegas ’91