Pat Dillard

Pat entered the Army immediately after college and completed two tours in Vietnam and one in Europe, retiring from the military service in 1993 as a lieutenant colonel. Pat was a certified public accountant for the Arkansas state legislature for several years and is now retired.

Pat, who has four children and three grandchildren, lives in Little Rock, Arkansas.

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Ron Dillard

After Western, Ron went to Fort Benning, Georgia, for infantry officer basic training and then to helicopter school at Fort Wolters, Texas, and Hunter-Stewart, Georgia. He subsequently completed the Aviation Safety Officer Course at the University of Southern California and flew helicopters with the 1st Cavalry Division in Vietnam before completing a master’s degree at the University of Southern California.

Over the next few years Ron was involved in several enterprises, including a farm machinery business and a vintage airplane business. He then signed on with Sea Ray Boat Company in Knoxville, Tennessee, as a corporate pilot and now works in that capacity for the Anheuser-Busch Company in St. Louis, Missouri.

Ron married Carol Mays, a former Rebellette, with whom he has two children and three grandchildren. Ron continues to fly and, on the side, sells shares in vintage airplanes while Carol runs a legal nurse consulting business. They presently live in Ballwin, Missouri, but in 2008 they are anticipating retirement soon to their second home on Barren River Lake, east of Bowling Green, Kentucky.

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Mike Divine

Mike entered military service immediately after graduation and went to Fort Benning for training. He returned to Western in 1971, courtesy of the Army, and completed a master’s degree. In his words, he “finally figured out how to study the second time around.” He retired from the Army after thirty years with the rank of colonel and now lives in Franklin, Tennessee, with his wife, Nancy Jasper, a former Rebellette; they have two sons.

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Jerry Froedge

Jerry, after four years at Western, decided to enroll in the University of Louisville Medical School. After graduating medical school he did a year of internship in Dayton, Ohio, where he met his future wife, Sandra, an art teacher who, in his words, “could dance just like I did.” After his internship in Dayton, he and his wife Sandra moved to Edwards Air Force Base in California for a two-year stint in the Air Force. He then received orders to report for duty in Vietnam, but his base commander refused to allow him to leave because he was the only pediatrician on the base. The Froedges then moved to Houston, Texas, so that Jerry could complete his pediatric residency at Baylor Hospital. From there they moved to Hickory, North Carolina, where he has been in a group pediatric practice for the past thirty-two years.

According to Jerry, he plays tennis when he has the time and still loves to dance. The Froedges have two children who both live in Orlando, Florida.

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Jerry Fussell

Jerry completed one year at Western and then volunteered for a two-year enlistment in the Army, attending basic training at Fort Chaffee, Arkansas. After basic the Army assigned him to the 2nd Infantry Division, Company B, 23rd Battalion. He deployed to Beaumholder, Germany, in 1963 as a part of the 68th Armored Division, where he drove armored personnel carriers. He mustered out in Fort Benning, Georgia, and returned to his hometown of Erin, Tennessee.

Immediately upon arrival home from the Army, Jerry began work for his father at the Cross Roads Service Station in Erin. Since his father’s death in 1987, Jerry has owned and operated the family business.

Jerry and his wife, Wanda, have one daughter and three grandchildren. Jerry’s favorite hobbies are bass fishing, duck hunting, collecting archeological artifacts, and “piddling in my ‘senior citizen vegetable garden.’” He plans to retire in 2007 so that he can spend more time with family and friends and enjoy “life to the fullest.”

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Joe Galloway

Joe graduated from Western and started his military career at Fort Knox when, according to him, he “ran out of peanut butter and was unemployed.” He went to basic training at Fort Benning jump and jungle school and then returned to Fort Knox, where he conducted Vietnam training for the 54th Infantry. After serving one tour in Vietnam, he moved to Fort Lee, Virginia, where he served in G-3, commanded a company, and later went to the advanced course. In 1970 the Army sent him back to Western to earn a master’s degree, after which he took short courses at Forts Lee and Bragg and shipped out again to Vietnam in November 1971. Upon returning from Vietnam, he taught for four and a half years at the U. S. Military Academy in the leadership department. In July 1977 Joe went to C & GS at Fort Leavenworth and, from 1978 to 1980, became commander of a unit in Germany. After he won promotion to lieutenant colonel and went to Organizational Effectiveness Center and School at Fort Ord, he became the chief of course design. Command of the 7th S & T Battalion at Fort Ord followed, at which time he moved to the DAIG in the Pentagon as a logistics analyst. In 1989 he completed studies at the Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and then went back to Europe as the force modernization director for the Army Material Command Europe. Joe retired from the military after more than twenty-seven years and moved back to Reston, Virginia, where he worked evenings as a lecturer for Northern Virginia Community College and for a heating and air conditioning distributorship during the day. He moved to Danville, Kentucky, in 1998 and again works for a heating and air conditioning distributorship.

He married Maria in 1966 and has two sons. He is now divorced and living in Danville, Kentucky.