Subject: RE: hello from Greg Rushford
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 17:40:49 -0500
From: Ron Sandy
To: Greg Rushford; ALL

Greg, great to hear from you! Wish I could be at the reunion so we could catch up on old times - Ron

Ron Sandy, TSC

-----Original Message-----
From: Laraine Wessels [mailto:wessels@bwsys.net]
Sent: Monday, August 12, 2002 4:04 PM
To: ALL

Hello everyone:

I am looking forward to seeing you all at the reunion very much, and to hearing more about all the very intresting things you have been up to all these years.

For me, I had no idea when I wrote an editorial for the Peoria Central newspaper advocating student prices for movies -- which I think actually helped persuade some of the local theaters, if not the bus line, to do that -- I'd someday end up as a journalist in Washington, D.C. (a city I had never imagined visiting). Bob Jamison, who was a year ahead of us in high school, was already on his way to becoming a network television correspondent. He was working part time for one of the Peoria stations, and arranged for me to be interviewed on student prices.

I'm also thankful for being perhaps the only boy in senior class to take a year of typing. When I got to American University here in D.C., knowing how to type was the basic qualification for landing a part-time staff job with Sen. Charles Percy. That started me on a track as a congressional aide in the foreign affairs area. In 75-76 I was an investigator for the House Intelligence Committee. My specialty then was U.S. intelligence failures -- from Pearl Harbor to Tet in Vietnam and the 1973 Yom Kippur War -- which unfortunately was brought too much up-to-date on Sept. 11. After the intelligence committee, I somehow wound up in journalism (have published a little scandal sheet called the Rushford Report since 1995; just punch in my name on Yahoo and you'll see more than you probably want to know).

Anyway, you've already heard more than you want to. My wife Lucy is also looking forward to the reunion. She is a native of the Philippines and is now retired after 30 years with the World Bank here. I've spent more time in Asia (which began with military service in Korea in 1968) than any other part of the world.

Best wishes to all. I can't wait to catch up---Greg