5-21-06  Searching:  Anybody stationed at Châteauroux with this group. 
[jpnote:  Isaac sent many photos of the 44th Stat Services Sq reunion these past few years. He also told me that Richard "Smitty" Smith had passed away in April 2004.]

[2-17-07 jpnote:  I emld Isaac for an update on all these missing guys from this squadron which have attended reunions in the past and any news of a 2006 reunion and perhaps some photos.]

L-Harold Weinbender & Ike Hunt at the 2005 Reunion

MAKANT, Kenneth (Ken) - 44th Stat Services Sq.  
@ Chas: 1957-1958
Ellijay, GA 

12/23/2002 John Johnsen and George Feugimotto [Fujimoto?] (spelling might be wrong) were my roommates we were housed in the barracks that was started in WW1 and completed after WW2. John is from St. Cloud, MN and George is from Hawaii. I would like to hear from them.

RUGANI, Al 
44th Stat Services Sq

Photo Left:  Al (with the hood) and unknown buddy

SMITH, Richard " Smitty" - 44th Stat Services Sq Chas memoriam
@ Chas: 1951-1955
Roswell, GA

TANNER, Verne  - 44th Statistical Services    
@ Chas:  1952-55
Osage, IA

05-14-06  Searching:  Jim Rusk who  served during the same time as I did

  Verne & his wife, Donna, at the 2005 Reunion

THORSHEIM, Duane
44th Stat Services Sq  
@ Chas:  1952-55
Montana
5-18-06  - Signed In

44TH Statistical Service Sq - Reunions

Reunion - September 8-10, 2000 - Erlanger, KY

Lester Bottorff - Jeffersonville, IN
Isaac Hunt - Springfield, IL
Jim "Jake" Jacobs - Germantown, TN
Ernest Jeanmard - Gulf Shore, AL
Richard Laskey - Canton, OH
George Pawlak - Beaver Dam, WI
William "Jeek" Remblake - Chicago, IL
Al Rugani - Staten Island, NY
Silla Gigi Tomasi - Utica, MI
Harold Weinbender - Bella Vista, AR
Leo "Red" Weska - Niles, IL

Reunion - September 6-8, 2002 - Erlanger, KY

LR Standing: Houston Rogers - Duane Thorsheim - George Jackson -Silla Tomasi - ID Hunt - Lester Bottroff - Dick Olmstead - Al Rugani.
Seated in Front: Richard Smith*

"What a feeling to see guys for the first time in 50 Years. I saw 19-20-year-old guys going on 70. True friendship never leaves you. It is hard to describe the comradeship."
[Richard Smith]

Lester Bottorff - Jeffersonville, IN
Isaac Hunt - Springfield, IL
George Jackson & wife, Mary Jo
Richard Laskey - Canton, OH
Houston Rogers - Trotwood, OH
Al Ragani - Staten Island, NY
Verne Tanner - Osage, IA
Silla  Gigi Tomasi - Utica, MI