RETIRED

Music career
POLAND -- Army M/Sgt. Cathy A. Ogram, formerly of Poland, will retire this summer after 22 years as a clarinetist with Army bands.
Ogram, a 1975 graduate of Poland High School and a 1979 graduate of Youngstown State University's Dana School of Music, enlisted in the Army in 1980. After basic training, she attended the Armed Forces School of Music in Norfolk, Va. She then became principal clarinetist and featured soloist with the 1st Army Band, Fort Meade, Md., and with the 2nd Infantry Division Band, Camp Casey, Korea. She is assigned to the Army Field Band at Fort Meade, considered the premier musical organization in the Army.
As a member of the Field Band, Ogram has toured nationally and internationally, and was a clinician, a frequent performer on the Chamber Music Series, a soloist in 1994 and 1997, and a founding member of the educational outreach woodwind quintet. She has participated in international competition three times, winning second place in 1998.
In addition to her musical accomplishments, Ogram received some 30 fitness awards and was her unit's physical training noncommissioned officer.
Ogram is a master's degree candidate in music at the University of Maryland; records with Omega Recording Studio's Washington Winds; performs with the American Clarinet Choir, Howard County Ballet Orchestra and several chamber music ensembles. She is building a teaching studio and free-lance music career in the Baltimore-Washington, D.C., area, and is also training to be a court reporter.
Ogram lives in Laurel, Md., with her fiance, Gerald Long.
PROMOTIONS
Training school grad
Air Force 2nd Lt. Michael E. List was promoted to his present rank upon graduation from the 12-week Officer Training School at Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala. List is a pilot assigned to Moody Air Force Base, Ga.
He is the son of Dr. Daryl W. and Ellen J. List of West Middlesex, Pa. List graduated in 1998 from West Middlesex High School, and received a bachelor's degree in 2002 from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University-Prescott, Ariz.
Assigned at Vienna
Air Force 2nd Lt. Brian R. Hodor was commissioned after graduating from the 12-week Officer Training School at Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala. Hodor is a pilot assigned to the 757th Flying Squadron, part of the 910th Airlift Wing, at Youngstown Air Reserve Station in Vienna.
He is the son of Richard J. and Bernadette S. Hodor of Boardman. He graduated in 1996 from Boardman High School, and received a bachelor's degree in 2001 from Kent State University.
DEPLOYED
To Kyrgyzstan
Air Force Reserve Tech. Sgt. David A. Elonen, son of Einie Elonen of Cortland, is deployed to Manas Air Base, Kyrgyzstan, a former Soviet bomber base in Bishkek, as a communications and navigation systems technician supporting the work of 40 coalition nations in Afghanistan. Elonen is a 1970 graduate of Conneaut High School.
With aviation regiment
Army Pvt. 2 Charles W. Broadwater, son of Denise K. Broadwater of Ellwood City, Pa., is in Iraq as a member of the 2nd Battalion of the 501st Aviation Regiment that flies UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters out of Baghdad International Airport. He is a 2002 graduate of Riverside High School.
ADVANCED TRAINING
Ranger School grad
Army Spec. Paul J. White graduated from the 61-day Army Ranger School at Fort Benning, Ga. He is an infantryman assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment, Fort Lewis, Wash. White is the son of Jim and Theresa White of Warren, and a 2001 graduate of John F. Kennedy High School, Warren.
Communications repair
Army Pfc. James A. White III graduated from the radio and communications security repairer advanced individual training course at Fort Gordon, Ga.
White is the son of Rosemarie and James A. White of Pulaski, Pa., and is a 1998 graduate of New Wilmington, Pa., High School.
BASIC GRADS
Army: Pvt. Zachary T. Campbell (Carroll County High School, Hillsville, Va., '03), son of Stephanie Easter of Cana, Va., and Dennis Campbell of Warren; Pvt. Brandy A. Donaldson (Warren G. Harding High School, Warren, '93), daughter of Dolores Collins of Warren.
REUNIONS
USS Boxer (CV/CVA/CVS21/LPH4/LHD4): October 2004, Memphis Tenn. Contact Lane Wletschak, 6367 N. 106th St., Milwaukee 53225.
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