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 by itself.

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 Training Program
Leadership and Military Instruction
The Cadet Honor Code
Cadet Life

Open/Download Part 2 (58mb)

Part 3

Cadet Athletic Program
Physical Education Instruction
Intercollegiate Athletics
Career Information
Officer Career Areas
Authorized Cadet Strength
Cadet Admissions

Open/Download Part 3 (60mb)

Part 4

Candidate Preparation
The Academy Preparatory School
Guide to Appendix
Liaison Officer Coordinators
Physical Aptitude Examination Items
Medical History
Medical Qualifications
Application Formats

Open/Download Part 4 (35mb)

Part 5

Summary of Course Offerings
Academic Majors and Graduate Programs

Open/Download Part 5 (118mb)

Part 6

Personnel Directory
Prospective Candidate Information Cards
Cadet Uniform Insignia
Catalog Index
Academy Map

Open/Download Part 6 (71mb)

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 photo credits, which for the most part say Air Force Academy Photos with a 3-digit identifier such as 82L. There’s also a standard identification as U.S. Government Printing Office 1969-346-270/3. The full posters are about 22″ x 17″.

For display purposes, I’ve tried to size these to best fit desktop viewing. There are five portrait-oriented posters which I’ve grouped at the end of the landscape images. You’ll see that these five portrait images won’t fit without scrolling up/down, which is a limitation of the slideshow plugin I’m using. The tradeoff was a smaller image with less resolution.

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Contributed by Kurt Klingenberger, CS-39

Covers for the 1971-72 Catalog and the 1972 Cadet Decorum Handbook.