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LTC Ed Levy featured on cover of Security Magazine. LTC Ed Levy appears on the cover of the January Security Magazine and in an article within, Beyond the Box: Security That Works. To see the cover and read the story, click on the document pdf logo.
Congratulations are in order to Al Grande who was recently selected as one of the 2012 Living Legends of Alexandria, VA. Al, the founder of ASAP Printing & Mailing and the Alexandria Police Foundation, will be honored at the Patent and Trademark Office on March 22. The announcemment was published in the Burke Connection Newspaper (see the link below).
Pat Lowrey added the following plaudits:
Al, Congratulations to Claire and you for an honor so well deserved.
In terms of “donating time and resources,” not many are aware of how much time and resources the two of you devoted to the legacy and enduring success of the RMPO.
Some don't realize that for over three decades (1970’s, 80’s and 90’s), the RMPO functioned informally with a roster and an annual reunion. In 1998, these two separate activities expanded to four (4) adding a newsletter and homepage. At approximately the same time, the Roster was transformed from a typewritten list of a few hundred names and addresses to an electronic data base including a separate list of deceased RMPO “Family” members. You and Claire were an important element of that rich history.
The annual RMPO Reunions endured successfully for several decades, only because of the special role of ASAP Printing and Mailing. In early 1980’s, reunion attendance was generated primarily by individual hand typed invitations targeting officers and widows in our typewritten RMPO Roster. From the late 1980’s to late 1990’s, reunions were scheduled year to year -- by voice vote at the annual banquet. After the location of following year’s reunion was decided, the host – breathless and with shock in his eyes –realized he had one year and no $$$ to get organized and inform the RMPO of reunion plans for his affair in the following year.
Claire and you "fronted" (aka subsidized) reunion printing and mailing costs for the entire year until reimbursed (with no interest) by the Reunion Host -- after the reunion -- after paying the hotel and all of his reunion expense accounts. During that one year period, you took hand written or “typed draft” (I’m being kind) registration forms and reunion tour plans – finished them, printed them, and mailed them in a finished registration packet on behalf of the new host. In addition, a once a year brief “human interest” newsletter (written and “hand typed” by COL (Ret) Tom MacDonnell), was reproduced by Claire and you and distributed with the reunion invitation package – ostensibly from each host.
Somewhere in the future annals of the RMPO, let the record reveal that the RMPO -- as it exists today -- would not have been possible without the staunch, enduring support and un-heralded “donation of time and resources” by Claire and you -- not one, but two living legends !!!
Pat Lowrey
Footnote: I could include a short add-on relating to your significant contributions to the Digest -- in the days of truly "cut and Paste." but that will come next. Thanks for what you have done for our successes.
Russell Strand, retired CID special agent and current chief of the Family Advocacy Law Enforcement Training Division at USAMPS to receive national award. The news article from the Pulaski County, MO Daily is at the link below.
Death of Mrs Barbara Inch, wife of USAMPS Commandant, Fort Leonard Wood.
The RMPO notes with deep sadness the death of Mrs Barbara Inch, wife of Brig Gen Mark Inch,
Commandant of the US Army Military Police School at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. Heart felt
sympathies and condolences are extended to General Inch and the entire Inch Family.The schedule
for memorial services which will celebrate Barbara's life are Sunday (1800-2000): Viewing at
Waynesville Memorial Chapel, 202 Historic 66 W, Waynesville, MO 65583. Monday (1000): Memorial
Service, Main Post Chapel, Fort Leonard Wood, MO. Tuesday (1800-2000): Viewing at Pioneer
Chapel, Fort Leavenworth, KS. Wednesday (1300): Funeral at Pioneer Chapel, Fort Leavenworth, KS
followed by a committal service at the Fort Leavenworth cemetery. Notes of condolences may be sent
to Mrs Gayle Lincoln (Secretary to the Commandant), USAMPS; 401 MANSCEN Loop, Suite 1061,
Fort Leonard Wood, MO 65473. Donations in Barbara's memory may be made to the "Susan G. Komen
for the Cure." The link is can be found by clicking here.
To read a special rememberance of Barbara, click here.
Death of Mrs Mary Beth Oursler.
The RMPO is saddened to receive the report of the death of Mrs Mary Beth Oursler, wife of LTC (Ret) Robert C. (Bob) Oursler Jr. on Friday, 3 February 2012. Her husband, Bob, was Provost Marshal of several USA installations during the 1960’s and 1970’s and PM 5th USA in the 1980’s. She was a devoted wife, mother, friend, and teacher. She will be greatly missed.
