Ralph Koo, ’89, recently returned from two months in the Donbas region of Ukraine, volunteering at a front-line hospital as an emergency physician, treating civilian and military causalities during the Russian invasion.

April 15, 2024

Matt Halter, '91, won a special election for Summerville Town Council District 3 on April 2. https://www.postandcourier.com/news/halter-beats-chellis-summerville-special-election/article_af130a28-f1c4-11ee-8032-c3849a59a653.html

On April 13, 1970, Apollo 13, four-fifths of the way to the moon, was crippled when a tank containing liquid oxygen burst. While there were several teams tasked with calculating the final trajectory of the Apollo 13 capsule, the late Donald Small, '56, and his team made the closest projection of where the capsule would land in the Pacific Ocean. The late E. Stokes Fishburne III, '57, working as a scientist for Grumman Aerospace Corporation, developed, with his partner, the algorithms for bringing the astronauts aboard Apollo 13 safely back to Earth. Alumni also working on the moon landing or at NASA at that time were: Bryan Respess, ’50 James Hiers, ’53 Albert Spears, ’54 Francis Casey, ’56 Robert Mann, ‘56 James Robertson, ’56 William Milligan, ’56 Gordon Knight, ’57 Richard Guerreri, ’59 James Raybourne, ’63 David Woods, ’64

April 12, 2024

Today is the 116th anniversary of the birth of MAJ Thomas Dry Howie, USA, The Citadel Class of 1929, The Major of St. Lô.

April 11, 2024: Today's view from the Alumni Office with Lake Hagood in the distance

April 11, 2019: First Lieutenant Herman L. Falk, Jr., USA, '50, was buried with military honors at Arlington National Cemetery nearly 70 years after he went missing near Changboing-ni, Korea, in 1951 while serving with Company B, 38th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division, on operations against the Chinese People's Volunteer Forces.

April 10, 2024