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United States Air Force Academy

COLORADO PARENTS' CLUB

MONTHLY UPDATE


DECEMBER 2019 ISSUE
UPCOMING EVENTS

  • 9 Feb 2020 Valentine's Goodie Bag Assembly Day. Please sign up HERE and join the fun! We can't do this without you!

  • 28 Feb 2020 Colorado Night This will be the 2nd year that our club has hosted a state night. We need lots of volunteers (you can reach out to our Colorado Night Committee Chair to volunteer). We are also still seeking donations for this event. You can easily donate online here.

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From the Co-Presidents
Hello CPC families!

It's hard to believe we are down to the final couple of days of 2019!

This past weekend we attended the Colorado All Service Academy Ball with many other CPC families. It was a great opportunity to celebrate our cadets and always fun to spend time with our CPC friends in a beautiful, festive setting. Thank you, Marne Trujillo, for being our USAFA representative on the USNA-chaired committee. We are so grateful for the time you invested!

Next year, the US Coast Guard Academy and US Merchant Marine Academy Colorado parent clubs will be co-leading the event. If you'd like to get involved, now's the time to step forward. We'd love to have a strong USAFA presence on the joint committee. Believe it or not, the 2020 CASAB committee will start planning the event in just a few weeks! Please send us an email if you'd like to get involved.

By the way, USAFA will be hosting the ball in 2021...If event planning is something you enjoy, please get involved this upcoming year, so you'll get a taste for what's involved when its our turn to host again!

Speaking of getting involved, don't forget these opportunities below:

  • Valentine's Goodie Bag Assembly will be here before we know it - sign up information can be found through the link on the side bar

  • 2nd Annual Colorado Night - this event will serve over 500 cadets and we can use your help now as planning is already underway. Please reach out via the link on the side bar to our Colorado Night Chairs, Jim and Nathalie Flannery

  • We need a 2022 or 2023 family to work along side Dan and Denise Bruder to coordinate the details for the Colorado Parents' Club End of Year Celebration. This fun event will be held in April and will honor our seniors and celebrate all that our club has done over the past year. Please reach out to the Bruders if you'd like to help!

Wishing you all the very best in the upcoming year!

-Steve and Carrie Clancy, Co-Presidents
Colorado Cadets in Action
This is the place to see the great things our Colorado Cadets are doing!
We'd love to share the adventures and successes of our Colorado cadets with our members. Please send photos and details of your cadets living their best lives at USAFA to our co-presidents.

If your cadet is involved in a USAFA Club or Extracurricular Activity (Choir/Theater, WOG/WOB, Sandhurst, Drum & Bugle Corps, Color Guard, Drill Team, etc.), please send us pictures of them doing their thing for future newsletters!
Congratulations USAFA Falcons, 2019 Cheez-It Bowl Champs! What a way for our very own Colorado Cadet, C/1C Connor Vikupitz to wrap up his football career! Well done, Connor!
COLORADO ALL SERVICE ACADEMY BALL FUN!

USAFA was well represented at the 2019 Colorado All Service Academy Ball! It was a great evening to celebrate all of the young men and women of Colorado attending one of our nation's service academies. Our future looks bright! Enjoy the photos below, captured on cell phones by our CPC families!
Above: USAFA Colorado Cadets before the evening kicked off, and all Colorado Cadets and Midshipmen after individual introductions.
Welcome to "The Danger Zone," the Top Gun theme (thanks to the Navy hosts) for this year's CASAB.
The Broadmoor Resort has so many beautiful locations for photo opportunities! Cadets Leonard, Holley and Johnson having fun posing with champagne glasses!
The joint color guard (trained by our own Ken Rivera). USAFA was well represented by C/2C Jeffrey Ditlevson, Jr.
C/4C Michael Prater did double duty representing USAFA as a member of the POW/MIA ceremony and in his family!
The Shaw Family with their cadets, C/3C Brandon Van Norman and C/3C Garhett Shaw
C/2C Spencer Rohlwing and C/2C Ryan Clancy representing Colorado and CS16!
C/2C Ryan Clancy and CPC Co-Presidents, Steve and Carrie Clancy
Each Cadet and Midshipmen was introduced individually as the events kicked off. Pictured here, C/2C Jeffrey Ditlevson, Jr.
From Tailgates to Tuxes, Chef Jeff Ditlevson, (pictured here with his son, C/2C Jeffrey Ditlevson, Jr.) and Chef Michael Leonard (pictured below with his son, C/2C Michael Leonard, and his beautiful family) do it all!
It's always fun to see the party shirts! Above, C/4C Michael Prater and below, C2/C Jacqueline Mace and C/2C Ryan Clancy
Love these smiles! C/2C Michael Leonard, C/2C Natalie Holley, C/2C Scott Johnson, and C/4C Ryan Johnson
Former CPC Co-Presidents Mical and DeVita Bruce with C/1C Micala Bruce and 2Lt Chas Bruce ('18)...the ultimate Air Force Family!
The adorable Judah Shaw
C/2C Natalie Holley and her parents, Andy and Sonya.
Former high school classmates, each pursuing military service! C/2C Jacqueline Mace, Texas A&M Cadet Harrison Mace, and C/2C Ryan Clancy
USMC and USAF represented in this beautiful photo of C/2C Jacqueline Mace with her parents, Brian and Jessica, and her brother Harrison.
The best of Bailey, CO...C3/C Andrew Puseman and C/2C Jeffrey Ditlevson
One of the best parts of the evening was seeing so many generations of military service in several families. USAF and US Army courtesy of the Prater Family!
The Sponaugle family is doubly blessed with two USAFA sons!
A real life band of brothers! On the left: Maj Graydon Sponaugle ('08) with his wife, Kristin Pictured on the right: C/1C John Sponaugle and his date, Lauren.
COLORADO PARENTS' CLUB 
2019-20 EXECUTIVE BOARD

CO-PRESIDENTS | Steve and Carrie Clancy ('21)
CO-VICE-PRESIDENTS |Paul and Kathy Puseman ('22)
CO-SECRETARIES| Mark and Christina Coffey ('23)
CO-TREASURERS | Derek and Lisa de Bastos ('22)
CO-EVENT COORDINATORS | Jim and Nathalie Flannery ('21)
CO-FUNDRAISING CHAIRS | Joe Bajek ('21) and Donna Bajek ('21)
USAFA Colorado Parents' Club| [website]