Class of 2021

Pete Dawkins was born in Royal Oak in 1938. Overcoming polio as a youth, he was accepted at Yale but chose to enter the US Military Academy. While at Read More

Adolph McQueen was born in Saginaw in 1950. He enlisted in the Marine Corps before joining the US Army Reserve as a commissioned officer. McQueen’s Read More

Catherine Farrell was born in Dexter, Michigan, and joined the Army in 1987. A military policeman, she served at Ft. Bliss, Texas, and, after Read More

Suzanne Parish was born in New York City in 1922, the granddaughter of W.E. Upjohn, founder of Kalamazoo’s Upjohn Company. She earned her Private Read More

Jeff Stitzel was born in Royal Oak in 1969 and enlisted in the Army in 1987, shortly after graduating from high school. After completing basic Read More

Kathy White entered the US Army Reserve in 1988 as a law student. Her military service has spanned more than three decades. Assign-ments include Read More

LET IT BE KNOWN, that it is with great respect and admiration that we honor Brigadier General Lewis Cass, United States Army, upon his induction into Read More

Joe Gabelsberger was born in Detroit in 1940, the son of a World War I veteran. Due to his father’s death and his mother’s illness, Joe and his Read More

Thomas Haas was in 1951 and graduated from the Coast Guard Academy with honors in 1973. His first operational first assignment was aboard the Coast Read More

Mike Rogers was born in Howell in 1963. He earned a Bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice and Sociology from Adrian College in 1985. He was Read More

Dr. John “Joe” Schwarz was born in Chicago in 1937 and lives in Battle Creek. He earned a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan in 1959 Read More

Sid Taylor was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi in 1948. He enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1968 and completed a combat tour in Vietnam. Upon completion Read More