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UNO's
Air Force ROTC program was established in 1951. The university was one of 62
institutions chosen from a field of up to 600 schools seeking the program. Chapter
membership also will include past coeds in Angel Flight, a support
association of the OU Arnold Society, the officer's club for the Air Force
ROTC.
The
alumni association currently has addressable records on nearly 600 ROTC
graduates and more than 300 Angel Flight members.
Funds for the ROTC chapter will be generated through the
association's UNO Annual Fund.
Donors to the UNO Annual Fund can designate 50 percent of their contribution
to the ROTC chapter while still receiving full benefits accorded all UNO
Annual Fund contributors.
Designations will defray the ROTC chapter's expenses
and fund initial efforts likely including the establishment of scholarships
for 470 cadets. The group also will host reunions and activities, tentatively
including a three-day reunion during UNO's centennial celebration kickoff in
October 2008.
Michael Kudlacz, a 1971 UNO graduate, will serve two
years as the chapter's inaugural president. Kudlacz served 31 years in the U.S.
Air Force, including a stint as the 55th wing commander at Offutt Air Force
Base. He retired as a major general in 2002. In 2006 he was the UNO Alumni
Association's chairman of the board. Other UNO graduate officers include
Harold Sage (1954), vice president; Syntha Judd Essex (1953; 1973),
secretary; and John Jeter (1954), treasurer.
Additional
chapter information will be provided on this site, in future issues of the
UNO Alum magazine and in the Detachment 470 newsletter Upper Echelon.
ROTC
alumni can register with the 470 Detachment and find additional information
on its chapter affiliate at the 470 website at http://www.unomaha.edu/afrotc/
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