April 17, 2024

Class of 2024 Parents, Family and Friends, you have 17 days left to purchase a Life Membership for your cadet at the discounted $400.00 price, saving you and your cadet $300.00 off the regular rate. Commencement day is the deadline for this price. To purchase, visit citadelalumni.org/product-category/membership/ and choose the New Life Membership (Current Student) $ 400.00 option. Memberships purchased this close to Commencement will not allow your cadet to be announced as a Life Member during Commencement; that deadline has passed. A Life Membership in The Citadel Alumni Association makes a great Graduation gift for your current cadet. The membership must be paid in full to receive this discounted price. Class of 2025 parents may also purchase at the $400.00 rate now until 2025's commencement day.

South Carolina Alumni: The CAA Legislative Barbecue is in ONE WEEK. Tickets are currently still available at citadelalumni.org/bbq. On Tuesday, April 23, 2024, at 6:30 p.m., The Citadel Alumni Association will host the 47th annual Citadel Alumni Legislative Barbecue in the Goodman Building at the State Fairgrounds in Columbia. To ensure success in future generations, The Citadel needs your continued support. We strongly urge you to sign on as a barbecue sponsor and to make a contribution to the Governmental Affairs Committee. Support from the legislature is always critical with the numerous issues facing The Citadel. The barbecue provides alumni and friends of The Citadel an opportunity to express appreciation to the members of the South Carolina General Assembly, the State Constitutional Officers and the Judiciary for their support of the college. The barbecue is a means to foster a heightened interest in The Citadel with these state leaders in an atmosphere of fellowship and goodwill. It allows us to celebrate a very rich heritage of service by alumni to the State of South Carolina and to the nation. The barbecue is totally funded by ticket sales and donations by alumni and friends; no college funds or taxpayer money is expended to host this event.

April 16, 2024

Ralph Koo, ’89, recently returned from two months in the Donbas region of Ukraine, volunteering at a front-line hospital as an emergency physician, treating civilian and military causalities during the Russian invasion.

April 15, 2024

Matt Halter, '91, won a special election for Summerville Town Council District 3 on April 2. https://www.postandcourier.com/news/halter-beats-chellis-summerville-special-election/article_af130a28-f1c4-11ee-8032-c3849a59a653.html

On April 13, 1970, Apollo 13, four-fifths of the way to the moon, was crippled when a tank containing liquid oxygen burst. While there were several teams tasked with calculating the final trajectory of the Apollo 13 capsule, the late Donald Small, '56, and his team made the closest projection of where the capsule would land in the Pacific Ocean. The late E. Stokes Fishburne III, '57, working as a scientist for Grumman Aerospace Corporation, developed, with his partner, the algorithms for bringing the astronauts aboard Apollo 13 safely back to Earth. Alumni also working on the moon landing or at NASA at that time were: Bryan Respess, ’50 James Hiers, ’53 Albert Spears, ’54 Francis Casey, ’56 Robert Mann, ‘56 James Robertson, ’56 William Milligan, ’56 Gordon Knight, ’57 Richard Guerreri, ’59 James Raybourne, ’63 David Woods, ’64

April 12, 2024