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KMI "All Class" Reunion Venice, May 14-17, 2009
CLICK HERE FOR PICTURES & REPORT: 
The oldest cadets in attendance at this year's reunion,
Fred Lippucci, KMI '34 and Pat Eddie, KMI '37

Next KMI "all class" Reunion scheduled for June 9-12 of 2011 in Louisville.

"TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF EVENTS and HOTEL"
(as of 08/04/2010)
REFLECTIONS: 
A Portrait - Biography of the Kentucky Military Institute  (1845 - 1971)
by James Darwin Stephens
Copyright © 1991
Alumni Newsletter Page:
(CLICK ON THE ABOVE LINK TO SEE THIS WEBPAGE))

KMI ALUMNI DATABASE IS NOW "ON LINE"!
(Click on the above link - Registration required!)

I have made the effort to learn how to create a webpage to access the current KMI Alumni database kept by Jim Burrows, '53.  You now have the ability, on this website, to display the roster of all "registered" alumni for any class between 1929 and 1975.  You can now display the contact information for all KMI alumni living in any state, sorted by class year.  Lastly, you can now search and display the last names of all the alumni in the database with at least three letters in their last name.  There are also a few "hidden gems" you can display but that's for you to discover!  
As always, please email me (jim@kmialumni.org) or Jim Burrows (N4LRM@BELLSOUTH.NET) if you find any errors or omissions in the data.  Jim Burrows will provide www.kmialumni.org with updates of the entire database from time to time.  ENJOY . . .
Col. Donald A. Seibert - KMI Staff 1953-55
The Regulars, is a detailed account of extraordinary career of a life in the military, through three of the biggest conflicts of our time, as experienced from one member of its ranks. Colonel Seibert had an incredible career spanning 32 years, and his accounts of combat, heroism, and day to day life in the military are great reading for all. The details of the friendships made, the inner politics and leadership issues, are an insightful and interesting narrative of military life. His assignments in the Pacific, Korea, the Pentagon, Ft. Hood, Germany, Vietnam, take the reader to places and activities that few have witnessed. Although written at the end of his military career, as a tribute to the Regulars of the Armed Forces of the United States, of which he proudly served, one can't help but feel the pride that this highly decorated veteran, who served with distinction, felt as he climbed the hierarchy of the military.

The Regulars: An account of the military career of Colonel Donald A. Seibert, USA Ret. [Paperback] <<<---Amazon.com link <<<<<

Published in The Courier-Journal on July 1, 2010
   
SIMPSON, DIANE RICHMOND, 80, passed away in the presence of her family at Baptist Hospital East on June 29, 2010.
Diane was the granddaughter of Lincoln Dixon, a U.S. Congressman from Indiana, and the daughter of her beloved parents, Colonel Charles Blair Richmond and Dorothy Dixon Richmond.   Colonel Richmond was president of Kentucky Military Institute in Lyndon, KY and Venice, FL, one of the oldest private military preparatory schools in the country. Diane was an honorary member of the KMI cadet corps, and met her future husband, William Taylor Simpson, when he joined the KMI faculty. She was a fixture on the bench for countless KMI basketball games coached by her husband and was called for a technical foul on at least one occasion. Diane was also director of the Country Day Camp at KMI for many years, which provided summer activities for young campers and employment for Louisville area teenagers.   Diane was a graduate of the Louisville Collegiate School and many of her Collegiate classmates remained her dear friends for life. She received a B.S. degree in religion from Sweetbriar College in Virginia.   Diane was active in community affairs, including the Junior League of Louisville and the Metro United Way, and served on the Board of Directors at Camp Piomingo. She was a member of, and authored the visitor guide for, the Children's Hospital Auxiliary, and was a regular volunteer at Kosair Children's Hospital, where she cared for premature babies in the neonatal unit.   Diane, a devout Episcopalian, was a communicant at St. Francis in the Fields for over 40 years, where she taught church school, served on the Vestry, and completed a three-year ministry course. More recently she joined St. Matthews Episcopal Church, which she found to be a spiritually fulfilling environment for the last five years of her life.  Diane is survived by Bill, her husband of 58 years, her sons, Kennedy (Sara), Richmond (Susan) and Taylor (Melinda); and the grandchildren she adored, Tierney, Storey, Blair, Will, Palmer, Maclin, Ryan and Darcy Simpson.  
For class roster updates - (Revised)
use browser "Find" on roster change date (xx/xx/xxxx) when you display the class roster page. . .
  1. Highlight and copy the date that you want to find in the roster on the "What's New Page"
    Click and hold the left mouse button and move over the date to highlight it.
    Next, click and hold down both the control key and the c key.  This will copy the date to your clipboard.
  2. Click the link to the class roster.
  3. Log into the "Alumni Only" webpages.
  4. Click and hold down both the control key and the f key.  This will open a find box on your browser.
  5. Paste the date that you copied on to your clipboard into the find box.
    Click and hold down both the control key and the v key.
  6. This will take you to the new, updated information on the Class Roster Page.
8/30/2010
8/22/2010
8/17/2010
8/16/2010
8/9/2010
8/5/2010
7/25/2010
 7/23/2010
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7/19/2010
 WILLIAMS, ANNE HODGIN, 75, passed away Friday, July 9, 2010.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Col. and Mrs. Charles E. Hodgin, Jr.
"Alex's sister. He called me today." (Leon Hirsh, '68)
Capt. Alex Hodgin -  alhodgin@insightbb.com



7/9/2010
 7/7/2010
 6/30/2010
 6/27/2010
  • Updated the Class of '60 roster with new information. (Registration required!)
  • I was just wondering if a 1942 KMI –Venice year book has surfaced.  I know the Venice Archives needed one, that is the year my Grandpa Edmund Charles Mogford Graduated, I’m hoping to find a picture.  Thank you for any help!
Casey Milford
Sales and Customer Service Manager
Heritage Shower Doors, Inc.
1200 Ogden Rd. Ste:5
Venice, FL 34285
Phone: 941-488-0263  Fax: 941-484-7720
email:  caseym@heritageglassinc.comi

6/22/2010
 6/14/2010
 6/09/2010
5/25/2010
 5/20/2010
 5/13/2010
 5/07/2010
 5/06/2010
 05/03/2010
 4/28/2010
 4/26/2010
 4/15/2010
 4/13/2010
 4/05/2010
  • Updated the Class of '71 Roster with new information. (Registration required!)
    "LOST CADET - Found!"
3/26/2010
 3/19/2010
 3/17/2010
 2/28/2010
 2/25/2010
 1/20/2010
  • (staff 53-55 ) SEIBERT, Col. Donald A.
    The service at Arlington is scheduled for Monday April 19th, at 3:00 pm.  They are requesting that you arrive at 2:30, to be sure to be on time.  We will be holding a reception after, exact location to be determined, but probably at the Westin at National Harbor Md.  We will have room rates and information forthcoming.  It would be appreciated if those that will be attending the reception please rsvp to this email so we can get a head count.  Please remind any friends or associates that may hear this to give you their count as well.
         
          Thank You
          Paul Facella
              PaulF38@aol.com
1/18/2010
  • Steve Wander, LMI '69 - Obit on the Class of 1969 webpage.

  • Margaret Marquard

    Died peacefully at her home in Lexington, KY on Jan 15, 2010 at the age of 90. Born and raised in Louisville, KY, she was granddaughter of the city's chief of police and daughter of the first woman to drive an automobile there. At the beginning of World War II, while working as the assistant to the general manager of the Westinghouse Electric plant in Louisville, Margaret met and later married William A. Marquard, to whom she remained a devoted wife for 64 years until his death in 2006. As her husband rose through the ranks of industry, eventually becoming chairman and CEO of the former American Standard Companies, Margaret provided him unfailing support while they lived in 28 different homes in the United States, Jamaica and Mexico and traveled the world. Known to all for her immaculate and elegant style and grace, Margaret was an excellent ballroom dancer (having taught numerous Kentucky Military Institute cadets their proper steps)





  • San Marco Building Condo Apartments - EXPOSED!
  • Updated the Class of '47 roster with new information. (Registration required!)
    LOST CADET - FOUND!
1/16/2010
  • (staff 53-55 ) SEIBERT, Col. Donald A.

    SEIBERT DONALD A. SEIBERT (Age 89) Colonel, U.S. Army (Ret.) Retired Col. Donald A. Seibert, a 32 year veteran of the Army, died on January 15, 2010 at Inova Fairfax Hospital. A native of Long Island, NY, Col. Seibert graduated from the New York University and from George Washington University, where he earned a Master''s Degree in International Affairs. He served as an Infantry Platoon Leader in the Pacific during WWII, and was awarded the Combat Infantryman Badge on Okinawa. After tours with the 82nd Airborne Division and the 508th Airborne Infantry Regimental Combat Team, he earned the second award of the Combat Infantryman Badge as a Rifle Company Commander with the 9th Infantry Regiment in Korea. An assignment as an ROTC instructor was followed by duty on the Army General Staff in the Pentagon. After a tour of duty in Germany, Col. Seibert commanded the Fifth Battalion, 6th Infantry at Ft. Hood, TX, followed by service on the Joint Staff in the Pentagon. He had two extended tours of duty in Vietnam, as advisor to Vietnamese Army units, commander of the First Brigade of the Ninth Infantry Division, G-3 of First Field Forces, Vietnam and Chief of Staff of the 101st Airborne Division. During the four years he served in Vietnam, Col. Seibert earned the Third Award of the Combat Infantryman Badge, one of less than 300 Infantryman who achieved this distinction. Col. Seibert attended The Infantry School at Fort Benning, The Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, and the Army War College at Carlisle Barracks. He was qualified as a Master Parachutist and a Ranger. During his career Col. Seibert was awarded the Silver Star on two occasions, the Legion of Merit with Five Oak Leaf Clusters, other US awards for valor and merit and numerous foreign decorations. He retired from the Army in 1974 at Ft. Bragg, while serving as the President of the Airborne, Communications and Electronics Board. After retirement, Col. Seibert established the Ft. Bragg Residence Center of Embry Riddle Aeronautical University, and administered it for some time. For many years he was active in volunteer efforts. He moved to The Fairfax Lifecare Community in 1989. Col. Seibert is survived by his two sisters, Margaret Facella and Arlene Grau of Long Island, NY and numerous nieces and nephews. After a private cremation, Col. Seibert''s ashes will be placed in the Columbarium at Arlington National Cemetery at a date to be determined. The family suggests that in lieu of flowers, expressions of sympathy be in the form of contributions to the Lorton Volunteer Fire Department, Inc. 7701 Armistead Rd., Lorton, VA 22079

1/04/2010
 1/01/2010   -  HAPPY NEW YEAR
 12/30/2009
  •   John Fitch
    John Cooper Fitch (born August 4, 1917)KMI '35? He was the first American to race automobiles successfully in Europe in the postwar era.  Fitch attended Kentucky Military Institute, then studied civil engineering at Lehigh University. He was the first racing team manager for Corvette (in 1956 and 1957) and he was the first general manager of the Lime Rock race course. John Fitch is well known as a true pioneer in Corvette racing, and is considered racer extraordinaire. He was the Sports Car Club of America's first national champion; he won the second Sebring 12-hour race in 1953, and in the same year was declared "Driver of the Year" by Speed Age Magazine. Fitch was the only American ever to drive for the Mercedes-Benz factory team, and also raced the Corvette "SS" and the test mule, which later became the Sting Ray Racer. He was the first manager of Connecticut's Lime Rock Park Raceway, and is noted as one of the prime movers behind the project's beginning, and is still involved with the raceway's operations.

    After retiring from racing, Fitch became a successful specialty car builder and safety engineer, and developed the "Fitch Barriers", the familiar yellow crash barrels we see on highways and racetracks, which have saved the lives of many motorists. Fitch was also responsible for conducting the world's first Advanced Driving School. (Corvette Hall of Fame)


KMI Alumni Board of Directors
Bill Victor, class of 1969 - President
Bill Morrison, class of 1949; Dave Price, class of 1959; Tommy Young, class of 1959; Jim Flora, class of 1962; Leon Hirsh, class of 1968; Greg Rohrer, class 1969


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