Mike Meuth

Mike entered military service in 1963 and received assignment to Hawaii, later volunteering for assignment to Vietnam. He returned to Washington in 1966 and began three and a half years as aide-de-camp to the CG of the Medical Research and Development Command. He then went to Fort Sam Houston for advanced school and the training to become an ADPS officer; assignments followed at Fort Detrick, Fort Sam Houston, and the Surgeon General’s Office. He received promotion to major in 1971 and then resigned in 1978 to join his wife’s family business. In 1991 he became president of Grisier Roos Insurance Agency, Inc, and continued there until 2002, when he sold the business. In Mike’s words he was “kicked upstairs to serve as window dressing” and now only has the responsibility for life and health insurance sales.

Mike is married to Kay; they have a son, a daughter, and three grandchildren. Mike and Kay like to spend each February in Key West, Florida, and some summer weeks on Mackinac Island, Michigan. They presently reside in Wauseon, Ohio.

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Bill Mize

Bill was the commander of the Company B-3 Pershing Rifles in 1961-62. He graduated from Western in 1962 and immediately received a commission as a second lieutenant in the Army. His initial assignment was to Headquarters Company, 11th Transportation Command in Germany. Next he transferred to the Quartermasters Corp in the Eighth Army where he served as the director of supply and transportation, ASCOM Depot, Bupyong, Korea. He then returned in 1968 to Germany to command the HHC, Seventh Army Inventory Control Center. In 1969 he received assignment as operations officer, VII Corps Support Command’s Material Management Center. In early 1970 he went to Vietnam for a brief assignment to Headquarters, U. S. Army Vietnam, where he served as chief, Direct and General Support Supply Operations, G-4, and then to Hawaii for a staff assignment in the Directorate for Logistics. He returned to Korea in 1975 to activate and command the 2nd Infantry Division’s Material Management Center. After a short stint as S2/S3 of the Division Support Command for the 101st Airborne at Fort Campbell, he returned to Korea and later to Fort Campbell, where he completed his second tour as chief, AMC Logistic Assistance Office. He retired from the Army as a lieutenant colonel in 1990.

Bill’s awards include the Legion of Merit, Bronze Star with oak leaf cluster, the Meritorious Service Medal with two oak leaf clusters, and the Army Commendation Medal with three oak leaf clusters. It is also worth mentioning that Bill authored a change to remove from the Foreign Assistance Act the portion restricting the President’s power to wage war by requiring him to seek congressional approval before release of war reserves to U. S. forces or allies. Although President George H. W. Bush did not mention Bill by name, he did state in his book that operation Desert Storm would have been delayed several months if that change had not been approved by Congress years earlier.

Bill now lives with his wife, Cyndi, in Cadiz, Kentucky. He keeps busy farming.

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Wayne Moore

Wayne left Western and went to Fort Knox to armor school and then to Korea, after which he received assignment to Fort Hood, Texas. He left the Army in 1965 and moved to Glasgow, Kentucky, where he worked for a time as an agriculture loan officer at PCA. After several years in the feed, grain, and fertilizer business, which he entered in 1974, he moved to Tuscumbia, Alabama, where he ran farm coop stores.

In 1991 Wayne moved back to Glasgow and is now involved in the real estate business. He and his wife, Janice, have two children and four grandchildren.

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Ellis Morrow

Ellis graduated from Western, entered the military, and served in the infantry for four years, reaching the rank of captain. After military service he worked for Allied Mills of Chicago from 1968 until 1971, when he began work for the United States Department of Agriculture Soil Conservation Service, his present employment. His work took him to many locations, such as Flemingsburg, Hickman, and Murray, Kentucky, and then to Walterboro and Columbia, South Carolina, where he presently lives. He is now retired after a career of forty years.

Ellis divorced in 1986 and is now married to Donna, whom he describes as “the sweetest person and the love of my life.”

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Ron Osburn

Ron earned a bachelor’s degree in chemistry and biology from Western, after which he received his commission and served two years in the Army at Fort Hood, Texas. The next step in his career was in Atlanta, Georgia, where he taught science for six years. Ron then worked for a major oil company for eight years, at which time he bought his own business, which he operated for the next twelve years.

Ron now spends much of his time boating. He is the treasurer of District 26 of the United States Power Squadrons, a national organization that is America’s Boating Club, which is dedicated to teaching safe boating to the public. He is one of several instructors in the South Carolina area. Apparently Ron’s interest in boating stems from age sixteen, when he won a boat, motor, and trailer in a raffle; he says he has been hooked on boating ever since. Ron also enjoys acting in local community theatres.

Ron and his wife, Barbara, who live near Lake Hartwell, Georgia, have five children and eight grandchildren.