From Mike Rogers: Class Chairman Letter for Class of 1970

I hope this letter finds my classmates enjoying life to its fullest as we face various challenges as we age. Whenever I have the opportunity to address cadets, I always emphasize the importance of the relationships we have made from our common experiences at The Citadel. These friendships endure much like our beloved college that continues to excel in many categories in this state, region and nationally. We are now ranked the. #1 College up to a masters degree, in the Southeast Region and #5 Best Value. What our alumni support yearly is the backbone of this success, along with the hard work of staff and faculty. This is why your support to the various entities on campus is so critical because The Citadel is not resting on its laurels but aiming higher every year.

This brings me to the purpose of this Spring letter which is to solicit your continuing generosity. The cadets and their families continue to struggle with the rising costs of this college and approximately 70% receive scholarship money provided by alumni individuals and classes. A total of 83% receive financial aid from various sources. Our Class of 1970 Scholarship supported a junior cadet this year that is pursuing a major and two minor degrees. I intend to fulfill my pledge from last year of $1,000 a year for five years. Although The Citadel has kept tuition cost as low as possible, we need keep feeding that scholarship as costs rise every year. Please help our class help a cadet realize their dreams.

Like I pointed out last year, I know many of you have different programs you like to support, and I encourage you to continue. Personally, I support the Summerall Chapel Fund, TCBF, Cadet Mentoring Fund, and a few others. It all counts as our class giving which makes our participation rate 50% or better.

Tomorrow is Giving Day, March 20th, and it is a great way for our class to participate and help The Citadel reach 2,025 donors in a 24hr period, in honor of the senior class. Feel free to give online or call 843.953.GIVE (4483) to make your gift.

Wishing you and yours the very best,
Mike

The Class of 70 Monthly HAPPY HOUR

The Class of 70 is hosting a monthly Happy Hour to give our brothers another opportunity to get together in a casual social setting. We will meeting on the First Tuesday of the Month at T- Bones- West Ashley... meeting time is 4 PM to 6:30 PM.

The Class of '70 Friday Lunch Bunch- Meeting Every Third Friday of the Month

Several members of our class have started regular meetings on the third Friday of each month to have lunch, tell lies, and renew old friendships. All classmates are invited to attend. If you are visiting Charleston (or moving to the area) during the time for any of these meetings, please feel free to come. Just send an email to Glen Avinger at glenmav AT hotmail.com, and he will give you the current location. Old meeting minutes, which are no longer kept, can be found at Charleston Tricounty Lunch Bunch.

Classmates: Our Reunion Committee has worked all these past 54 years to help keep us all together after we walked out the Front Gate in 1970. They worked hard trying to give us the best reunions possible for the best use of our money. They tireless hauled tons of beer, whiskey, and food for our hospitality suites, our tent cities, night time extravaganzas, and roof top stadium parties. All those extras we took for granted were hard earned. We all owe them a million thanks.

Members of the Reunion Committee are (left to right) Mickey Thompson, Stan Townsend, John Moore, Tom Cothrane, Jim Pinson, Kevin Campbell, Ken Webb, Bill Sudyk, John Peeples, Glen Avinger, and Bubba Kennedy

Not pictured

Bill Bates

Coty Cuttino

Charlie Fox

Quinto McKenna

Mike Schwartz

NO picture- Jack McCormack

Emory "Earl" Toops, III, L Company- Class of 1970, presented the paper "Regime Change in Vietnam: Issues of the Provisional Revolutionary Government and Restoration of Postal Services in the Defeated South" at the third Istituto di Studi Storici Postali "Aldo Cecchi" held in June in Prato, Italy.

If anybody does want to see the presentation, they can type in "2022 Winton M. Blount Postal History Symposium" and it should come up under "stamps.org." Click on the 2024 symposium and scroll down until you find past "symposia." Click on the 2022 symposium and scroll down to the third day at 1300

Rhett Wolfe ('70) Memorial Tennis Scholarship

The Citadel needs $25,000 to establish an athletic scholarship. As of 5 August 2015, we have raised $ 15,000. You can help this alumni-wide effort to honor our classmate. Make your check out to The Citadel Brigadier Foundation. Please ensure you put the Rhett Wolfe ('70) Memorial Tennis Scholarship on the memo line of your check. Send it to The Rhett Wolfe ('70) Memorial Tennis Scholarship, c/o The Citadel Brigadier Foundation, 171 Moultrie St., Charleston, SC 2949. Thank you.