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United States Air Force Academy

COLORADO PARENTS' CLUB

MONTHLY UPDATE


APRIL 2020 ISSUE
UPCOMING EVENTS - please read closely for cancellations and modifications.


  • 18 April 2020, 11am - Class of 2020 Graduation!

  • 26 April 2020, 3-5 pm - Spring General Membership Meeting/Elections Zoom Meeting. Due to social distancing requirements, lack of base access and the availability to reserve a meeting room off-base, our Spring General Membership Meeting will still take place, but over Zoom from the comfort of your own home. All who RSVP will be sent a Zoom Meeting Link and will be able to participate online from a personal computer, laptop, or phone. Keep in mind that new security precautions set by Zoom will require our participants to register ahead of time. Please RSVP for this meeting below.

  • 13 June 2020 - New Appointee Luncheon @ WhirlyBall

  • 25 June 2020 - I-day Picnic

  • 4-6 Sep 2020 - Parents' Weekend Festivities

  • 5 Sep 2020 - Tailgate #1
Please join us at the Spring General Membership Meeting!
LOCATION
Zoom Meeting - join us from home!

DATE AND TIME
04/26/20 3:00pm - 04/26/20 5:00pm

RSVP to join us for our meeting where we'll elect our new CPC Board, appoint committee chairs and share our 2020/2021 calendar of events.
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IMPORTANT INFORMATION FROM THE
USAFA PARENT LIAISON
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Have you moved since you joined CPC? Please update your address with our secretaries so you can continue to receive CPC communication!

IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR CLASS OF 2020 FAMILIES
Target in Sight!
Congratulations Class of 2020!
From the Co-Presidents
Hello CPC families!

I don't think any of us anticipated all of the changes that have been dealt to us the past couple of weeks. We've enjoyed some of the #silverlinings of this shelter in place order: family game nights, maximizing every opportunity to get outside for a walk/hike, connecting with friends and family across the globe through virtual happy hours (why haven't we done this sooner?), and of course shameless netflix binging. But our hearts also ache for everyone impacted by cancelled graduations, suspended sport seasons, postponed weddings, and especially for those personally touched by COVID-19. We know so many of you have been dealt several of these cards, and we share your disappointment and frustration.

USAFA leadership, and more importantly the amazing cadets of the Class of 2020, have shown great resilience and optimism as they shift into overdrive to create a graduation celebration that reflects years of tradition, honors the accomplishment of these past four years, and also takes into careful consideration the measures needed to protect the health and safety of all during this pandemic. They've handled every curve ball sent their way during this uncertain time with class and grace. We will be toasting the class of 2020 virtually on 18 April and know many of you will as well. Well done Class of 2020!

Keeping everyone in our prayers.

-Steve and Carrie Clancy, Co-Presidents
From the Cadet Wing Commander:

To the Graduate Community and USAFA Parents,

Preface: Having dealt with a myriad of uncertainty over the past two weeks, I asked General Silveria if I could draft a letter to both parents and grads, to let them know the cadet mindset and truth of our current situation.

We are immensely grateful for your love and support over the past four years. We could not have made it this far alone, and we will continue to rely on your words of encouragement throughout these trying times.

With that being said, we would like to address something that has unfortunately become a problem in light of recent events, and that is the proliferation of rumors and negative, or otherwise harmful, posts and comments on the parent’s pages and grad sites. Not only is this spread of false information in direct conflict with the dissemination of real-time, accurate updates, but detrimental to the mental and emotional health of the Cadet Wing.

As the cadet and permanent party leadership team exhausts all efforts to take care of the Wing, our jobs have been made more difficult combatting rumors and dealing with the aftereffects of hasty social media posts.

In the next two weeks leading up to graduation, we would like to ask for your trust in our leadership team and trust that all decisions are made with the safety and wellbeing of the cadets as a driving factor. Now, more than ever, we need support and thoughtful comments from all parties.

We have done everything in our power to keep the threat of COVID-19 at a bare minimum. Rest assured that cadets and faculty alike are working together to develop the best solutions in this fluid environment caused by an ever-changing virus, while also taking into account the tragedy of losing two of our own.

As we balance the pressures of COVID-19 and the current state of the Wing, we have decided to expedite the class of 2020’s graduation, pushing the date up by six weeks to 18 April. The reason behind an early graduation is to commission our class while we are still healthy; this will also open up the door to future options with the completion of our mission.

Please keep our safety in mind as the date draws closer. Families traveling to Colorado Springs, in hopes of seeing their new Lts, could result in our entire community falling sick.

In short, we ask you to stand behind us as the Class of 2020. Our target is finally in sight, and we will be home soon.

Cadet 1st Class Haeley M. Deeney
Cadet Wing Commander
THANK YOU!

We were overwhelmed by the response from all those who donated their Spring Finals Goodie Bag purchase towards the Class of 2020 Graduation Gift Bag. As a result of your generosity, the Colorado Parents's club provided our drawstring bags, gift cards and the donated goodie bag sales towards this special effort.

We are so happy that we were still able to deliver a goodie bag of sorts, and help build morale for the Class of 2020.

A huge thanks also goes out to the Goodie Bag Committee who spent countless hours brainstorming alternatives and coordinating this effort!
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.

Class of 2021/2022/2023 Families: Send us pictures of your cadets doing their on-line courses and keeping up with their USAFA commitments remotely!

Class of 2020 families, please share photos of your virtual graduation celebrations so we can share with our CPC family! We are in this together-
WHERE ARE THEY NOW?
Catching up with our USAFA grads
We're excited to introduce a new section of our newsletter where we catch up with some of our USAFA Colorado grads. Sustaining members...this is where we'd like to hear from you! Please reach out with photos of your USAFA grad and let us know what they're doing!
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)
FUNDRAISING CHAIR | Donna Bajek ('21)
USAFA Colorado Parents' Club| [website]