Since our 40th Reunion, our Class
Fund has purchased memorial markers for our deceased  classmates
who are not interred at the USAFA Cemetery. (The Veterans' Administration
already pays for the markers of those who are interred at the cemetery.)
Over the course of the last 14 years, our Class Fund has paid, in whole
or in part, for several such markers. Often, the families of our deceased
Classmates have contributed to this memorialization; however, in those
instances where family participation has been unavailable or otherwise
insufficient to cover the entire cost of the marker, our Class Fund has
underwritten the purchase, which currently amounts to roughly $1,600 each.
Although our Class Fund has not found it necessary to make a marker disbursement
for the past few years, the fund balance has now been reduced to approximately
$12,000 - enough for only a few more markers before the fund is completely
depleted. Accordingly, our 55th Reunion Committee made this our Class
Gift Project and we have established a new fund with the Air Force Academy
Foundation - the "Class of '68 Marker Fund". This insures that
each and every one of our classmates eventually may be memorialized at
the USAFA Cemetery, regardless of where he may be actually interred. Click
here to view the Class of '68 Memorial
Markers. |
