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JIM BANNISTER, Greenville SC, is an elected Water Com- missioner for the City of Greenville, proud that his City’s water was voted “Best of the Best” in water taste, but his interest in water doesn’t end with tasting it – he learned to Scuba dive in his mid-40s and often spends family spring breaks diving in the Florida Keys. Above water, Jim hunts grouse with his cocker spaniel Addy. JACOB W. BUCHDAHL, New York NY, is a former feder- al prosecutor who admits that the most impressive thing about him is that he is married to the Senior Rabbi of Central Synagogue in New York. DAN BURCHARD, Burlington VT, has played competi- tive hockey his whole life - pee-wees, high school, college and now adult recreational hockey. He competed in the over-50 USA Hockey National Championships in Tampa and hopes to do so again in the over-60 category next year. When the ice melts, he sails – on the Manicouagan Reservoir - an annular (circular) lake that was formed by a meteor that hit North- ern Quebec 214 million years ago. PATRICK CASEY, Scranton PA, was writing a book with his father, Lt. Gen. Aloy- sius Casey, about Gen. Je- rome O’Malley when they discovered that then Col. O’Malley had been accused of flying illegal and unau- thorized bombing missions into North Vietnam, leading to the demotion and forced retirement of his commander, General John D. Lavelle. Pat- rick and his father made FOIA requests to obtain declas- sified (formerly top-secret) Pentagon message traffic and White House recordings showing that Gen. Lavelle had actually been specifically authorized by President Nixon to order the air strikes. An application was made to correct inated Gen. Lavelle posthumously to have his four stars reinstated. The story is covered in Velocity: Speed With Di- rection: The Professional Career of Gen. Jerome F. O’Malley. MIKE CASH, Houston TX, the son of a Fire Chief, was the first in his family to go to college. As a high school quarterback, he threw seven interceptions in one game. As a lawyer, Mike simultaneously tried a case to five juries at the same time. AMANDA CIALKOWSKI, Minneapolis MN, grew up in Montana, where she learned in public school how to suck the venom out of snake bites and get away from bears. DERON DACUS, Tyler TX, is a CPA, a patent trial lawyer, and a charter member of the T. John Ward Inn of Court, despite TJ’s request that their names not be used in the same sentence. JAHMAL DAVIS, Walnut Creek CA, started a second ca- reer as a lifestyle print model during the pandemic. When he wasn’t busy enough with that and despite having abso- lutely no mechanical training he tore down and repaired his motorcycle. He also tore down and rebuilt a Toyo- ta Prius engine. \[The only thing we find odd about that is that someone who owns a motorcycle would own a Prius; but maybe the motorcycle is not a Harley . . . \] J. CHRISTOPHER DAVIS, Tulsa OK, has been wheelchair bound for the past forty years, but he hasn’t let having “half my body tied behind by back” hold him back. He spent two summers doing missionary work, one in South Africa under Apartheid with local churches active in the Zulu tribal community, another behind the Iron Curtain in Czechoslovakia, Poland, and East Germany. He played Division I wheelchair basketball. He became the first Oklahoma paraplegic to obtain a true motorcycle driver’s license and has driven his Can-Am Spyder all over the Black Hills, the Grand Tetons, Yellowstone National Park, and the deserts of Arizona. Gen. Lavelle’s military record, and President Obama nom- SUMMER 2023 JOURNAL 66