USAFA Class Heritage Class of 1963

Retired Lt Col Air Force 70: P:

D: 30 June 2018;

03-14: Branch Manager Automated Telecom Inc MO;

96-03: AcctEx OctelComm StLouis MO;

73-79: MO ANG;

70: Mkt Rep IBM St Louis MO: Air CSC: SOS;

67-70: Pit 6SRSq Eielson AFB/82ARefSq Kadena AB;

65-67: Pit 924ARefSq Castle AFB;

63-64: PltTng Reese AFB;

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35th Reunion (1998): Tony “Chief” Nacrelli graduated from St. James High School in Chester, PA. His post graduate work was done early by attending Bullis Prep School for a year prior to entering the Academy in June 1959. He was assigned to the 33rd Summer Cadet Squadron for basic training and the 11th and later the 16th Cadet squadron. After graduation Lt. Nacrelli entered UPT with the class of 65B at Reese AFB, TX. Upon completion of UPT his crew training and permanent duty assignments were at Castle AFB, CA in KC-135s until August 1967. His next assignment was in the RC-135 at Eilson AFB, Alaska followed by his departure from active duty in February 1970. He served in the Missouri Air Guard as a support pilot and communications officer from 1971 until 1989. He joined IBM in Data Processing Sales in 1970 and held numerous field and headquarters sales positions until early retirement from IBM in 1992. Since then he has been a Regional Sales Manager with Octel Communications, which was purchased by Lucent Technologies in September 1997. Blissfully married to Barbara Rick (Loretto Heights Class of ‘64) for 34 years, they have lived in St. Louis, MO since 1970 and have three sons—Tony, a CPA in Jupiter, FL—Mike, an environmental engineer in Portland, OR, and Dan, a senior at the University of Missouri, spending his senior year at the University of Manchester in England. Barbara keeps busy with part time work in a small CPA firm, tending her garden, playing tennis, and working out on our treadmill. Chief is working hard at golf, but for every step forward there’s at least one step backward. Tennis isn’t much better, but he keeps at that also as well as the treadmill. {Ed. note: Don’t put any money on a golf or tennis game with these two ; they’re both in great shape, playing a couple times a week, and deadly at the net!} Barb and Chief do like traveling and get to Portland and Florida annually, as well as visiting classmates like Jack and JoAnn McTasney and Tom and Peg Derieg.