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Class Years 1945 - 1994

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Larry "Mike" Davis '74
Mike Davis passed away 21 January 2012. Please to visit his site IN MEMORY page for funeral information (Thursday, 26 January) and to share comments and memories about Mike.

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Anet 345 - One landmark near Ft. Benning goes up in 2011 ... another comes down .....

Jonnie Melillo Clasen - Anet editor since November 2009

Editor's Note: Thank you to John Helms, public affairs photographer at Ft. Benning, for the impressive image of the new "Fort Benning Gateway" in south Columbus. The "Gateway" joins the National Infantry Museum as draws to south Columbus. Revitalization of south Columbus, which probably has one of the highest concentrations of WW II veterans in the nation, is a top priority with the current city administration. And thank you to all the Baker High School graduates who emailed to let us know you are a Ranger, alongwith Baker graduates who told us your father or grandfather is a Ranger and to graduates who responded with other Ranger family connections. Our informal request for Baker High graduates with Ranger connections was by word-of-mouth and the Baker website. I'm sure there are more of you out there, and I apologize if your name isn't included. The numbers following names of Baker students are their graduation years -- NOT their ages. Thank you for the biographical information and photos some of you shared. We learned that two Baker graduates who are Rangers are also West Point graduates, Thomas "Tom" M. Schroeder and Steven Guthrie. (Note Added: Also, Baker graduate Ranger: Victor Aviles). Several Baker faculty members were West Point graduates. The father, Kenneth Walter Hall, of Baker graduate Carolyn Hall Tidd is a 1950 West Point graduate. Hall, who was killed in action in Vietnam in 1968, was posthumously awarded the Silver Star for Valor. Baker graduate and Ranger Hall of Fame inductee "Dick" Stewart, who died last year, left his legs in Vietnam. Unfortunately space limitations prevented us from listing the many honors earned by Rangers in this Anet. Some names listed below are of deceased individuals, however some of the Rangers mentioned in this Anet are still "leading the way" in their 90s.

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- THIS DAY IN HISTORY -

Chrysler Building ( 1930 ) With the completion of the Chrysler Building in New York which is the tallest building in the world at 78 stories and dwarfs the 56 story Woolworths building and is even taller than the Eiffel Tower in Paris, this is at a cost of some $15,000,000 investment by Mr Chrysler and shows the world that the American Auto industry is the best in the world. Just 12 months later the Empire State Building is completed which is taller.

Pancho Villa Dead or Alive
28th January ( 1917 ) : US forces give up searching for Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa after nearly one year, following his massacre of 16 U.S. citizens at Santa Isabel in northern Mexico and 17 American Citizens in Columbus, New Mexico President Wilson had sent US forces into Mexico with orders to capture Villa dead or alive.

Elvis Presley
28th January ( 1956 ) : The young country rock singer Elvis Presley makes his first ever television appearance on Television in the musical variety program Stage Show singing "Heartbreak Hotel".
VIDEO ON OUR FULL THIS DAY IN HISTORY PAGE

Challenger Explodes 28th January ( 1986 ) The space shuttle Challenger explodes just after liftoff , killing the seven astronauts aboard, this was the 10th trip for Challenger and included a teacher from New Hampshire, Christa MacAuliffe, among the astronauts, as part of a new Teacher in Space project. The Launch was shown live on CNN and many schools set up televisions for children to watch due to the involvement of a teacher in the shuttle. Other crew members aboard the Challenger ship included Michael J. Smith, Dick Scobee, and Ronald McNair, as well as Ellison Onizuka, Christa McAuliffe, Gregory Jarvis, and Judith Resnik. A warning was ignored that certain equipment on the ship was vulnerable at new temperatures.

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