Richard B. Schwartz - Accidental Soldier. A Reserve Officer at West Point in the Vietnam Era

LIEUTENANT ARTHUR ASHE won the Australian Open, the U.S. Open, and Wimbledon and was the top-ranked tennis player in the world in 1968 and 1975. He called attention to South Africas apartheid policies when he was denied a visa by the South Africa government and played a leadership role in advancing the cause of civil and human rights. Slowed by heart sur gery in 1979 he retired from competition in 1980, but he contracted HIV through the blood transfusions he had received in one of his surgeries. He finished the manuscript of his memoir less than a week before his death in 1993. After his death his body lay in state at the Governors Mansion in his home state of Virginia. The last time that that was done it was done for Stonewall Jackson. The city of Richmond honored him with a statue on Monument Avenue, a place traditionally reserved for key figures of the Confederacy. He was elected to the Tennis Hall of Fame in 1985.

DEAN ROBERT M. BOCK retired from the University of Wisconsin and the graduate deanship in 1989 and died in a tragic drowning accident on his farm outside Madison in 1991. The Biophysics and Molecular Biology Building (the construction committee for which he had chaired and the site of his own active lab for many years) was renamed the Robert M. Bock Laboratories after his death. In the early 1960s his lab was the first to crystallize a transfer RNA; the process which he developed is now widely adopted by crystallog raphers throughout the world. In 1997 the Robert M. Bock Professorship of Chemistry was inaugurated and awarded.

COLONEL JACK CAPPS served as a Visiting Professor at the University of Beirut in 1971-2 and succeeded Colonel Sutherland as Head of the WestPoint English Department in 1977, where he continued to pursue research on Emily Dickinson and William Faulkner. He retired in 1988 as a Brigadier General and currently resides in Kansas with his wife Marie.

MAJOR PETE DAWKINS continued his graduate studies at Princeton, served as a White House Fellow, rose to the rank of Brigadier General and retired from the Army in 1983. He moved to New York and was asked by the Vietnam Veterans to lead a fund drive to erect a memorial and provide vo cational and psychological counseling for veterans. With no organization or staff he completed this task in 14 weeks, raising $1.5M more than the original goal. He ran (unsuccessfully) for the senate from New Jersey in 1988, became a partner at Lehman Brothers, vice-chairman of Bain and Company, and, in 1991, chairman and CEO of Primerica Financial Services, Inc. He went on to hold senior positions at the Travelers Group and Citigroup. He received the Distinguished Graduate Award from West Point in 2002 and currently resides in New Jersey.

PROFESSOR AND ASSOCIATE DEAN MARV EBEL retired from the Department of Physics at Wisconsin. In 2004 he was honored as a Distin guished Faculty Fellow by the department, in recognition of his outstanding, productive career. At that time, as the department anticipated its move to a new building, the editor of the departmental newsletter, Mary Anne Clarke, solicited special recollections of the bombing of Sterling Hall.

MAJOR FRED FRANKS went from West Point to Vietnam, where he re ceived a silver star, two purple hearts and other decorations. After other com mands, including VII Corps in Operation Desert Shield and Storm, he retired a four-star general in 1994. He now serves as the chairman of the board of the VII Corps Desert Storm Veterans Association, which assists the veterans and next of kin of those who served with him during that engagement. He lectures widely on leadership, serves on corporate boards and is a member of the Board of Trustees of the United States Military Academy. In 2000 he received the Distinguished Graduate Award and has served as the Chair of the American Battle Monuments Commission. He lives in Alexandria, VA.

MAJOR TOM GARIGAN became the Chief of Public Information for the Army in Vietnam (where he was accredited as a combat correspondent), the Chief of Public Affairs at West Point, and the Chief of Public Relations, U.S. Army Europe. He retired in 1987 at the rank of Colonel and died of a brain tumor on October 18, 1991 at the age of 59. He rests in Arlington National Cemetery.

PROFESSOR ROYAL GETTMANN of the University of Illinois died on September 29, 1996. Though delicate in health, he enjoyed a life of 92 years. His work on Coleridge, Turgenev, Gissing and H. G. Wells still commands attention from scholars world-wide and his teaching continues to inspire those fortunate enough to have studied with him.

MAJOR RICHARD GRAVES received a Meritorious Service Medal for his work in career management and went from Washington to Vietnam, where he received a silver star and other decorations. He received a masters degree in political science from Indiana University and served in multiple capaci ties before retiring as a Lieutenant General in 1991. From March 1984 until June 1986 he commanded the 3rd Armored Division and, from 1988-91, III Corps. After retiring from the Army he served as a vice president for General Dynamics. He lives in San Antonio, TX.

PROFESSOR DONALD GREENE retired from the Bing chair at USC in 1985 and died on May 13, 1997 at the age of 82. He received honorary degrees from McMaster University and the University of London and was a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a senior fellow of the Canada Council. In 2004 a selection of his most important essays was published by the Bucknell University Press. His landmark works on Samuel Johnson are among the most important of the twentieth century and his work on Evelyn Waugh, Jane Austen and other figures continues to command the attention of scholars throughout the world.

COLONEL ALEXANDER HAIG retired a four-star general. He served as Secretary of State under President Reagan and White House Chief of Staff under Presidents Nixon and Ford. There was considerable (ultimately unfounded) speculation that he was Woodward and Bernsteins Deep Throat for their reportage on Watergate. He ran, unsuccessfully, for the 1988 Republican presidential nomination. He has hosted a television pro gram, World Business Review , is co-chairman of the American Committee for Peace in the Caucasus, and a founding Board Member of America On line. He received the Distinguished Graduate Award in 1996 and lives in McLean, VA.

COLONEL MARTIN TIGER HOWELL commanded the 14th Armored Cavalry Regiment in Fulda, Germany and then attended the Center for International Affairs at Harvard University, where he was made a Fellow. He retired from the Army in 1974 at the rank of Colonel and served in the Federal Energy Administration as secretary for management. In 1981 he was appointed Director of the Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance in the Agency for International Development. He lives in Alexandria, VA.

BRIGADIER GENERAL JOHN R. JANNARONE, the 1936 class valedicto rian of Nutley High School (NJ) was first in his class at USMA and served in combat in World War II before serving as Dean at West Point. He retired in 1973 and served as vice president for Consolidated Edison from 1974-9. He died in Montrose, NY on May 14, 1995. He was inducted, posthumously, into the Nutley Hall of Fame, where a scholarship bears his name.

MAJOR GENERAL SAMUEL W. KOSTER was forced to resign the su perintendency of West Point because of the actions at My Lai. The cadets marched in his honor, in part because he had been responsible for ending the excessive hazing that had for many years been a bitter part of cadet experi ence. He was reduced in rank to Brigadier General and stripped of his Distin guished Service Medal. He retired in 1973 and served as vice president and general manager for Koppers Inc. from 1974-85. He died of renal failure on January 23, 2006 at his home in Annapolis. He was 86.