Official Academy Box

Letter from Superintendent to parents just before Christmas Break 1972.

Letter sent to parents advising of a SNAFU (“slippage”) with the new reporting system for grades. No further editorial comment.

Contributed by Steve Stockdale, CS-39 Download or open the Parents Handbook as a PDF. Contents

To Parents from the AOC, Captain Robert C. Miller, CS-31. Also attached (I believe) was a two-page attachment with local Parents Clubs around the country.  

Attached to the Superintendent’s letter to parents in July 1972 was this profile of the new incoming class.

Contributed by Steve Stockdale, CS-39 Two weeks into BCT, Academy Superintendent General Clark sent his first of periodic letters to the Spirit of ’76 parents. Maybe the most interesting part of the mailing wasn’t the letter itself but the one-page attachment, “Profile of the Class of 1976” (last page). The profile is also located here … Read more

The 1972-1973 Catalog is available as six text-searchable PDF files. CONTENTS Part 1 Officers of Administration Superintendent’s Letter Calendar 1972-1973 History Facilities The Academy Mission Summary of the Core Curriculum Open/Download Part 1 (42mb) Part 2 The Academy Curriculum Cadet Academic Program Academic Instruction Seiler Research Laboratory Air Force Academy Library Cadet Leadership and Military … Read more

I received this set of posters from my football recruiter, Captain Neal Starkey (see here for more about him). For about 40 years I kept them in the mailing tube, hardly ever taking them out to look at them. I’ve cropped a 2-3″ white surrounding border from the actual posters which included a caption and … Read more

Contributed by Kurt Klingenberger, CS-39 Covers for the 1971-72 Catalog and the 1972 Cadet Decorum Handbook.