USAFA Class Heritage Class of 1963

Resigned Capt Air Force: P: 

01: President Emeritus Intercontinental Asset Management San Antonio TX; 

78-01: ExDirN-Pres (President)/ExVPres/Pres (President)&CEO (Chief Executive Officer) USAA/nvestmentMgtCo San Antonio TX;

75-78: TrustlnvestmentO CorpusChristiNationa/Bank: 

78: CharterFinAnlst;

72-75: PortfolioMgrStNat/Bank E/PasoTX;

71-72: SysPgmMgrASD WPAFB;

70-71: PltWC-135 56WxRcnSq Yokota AB JA: 

       MS RDSM USC;

67-68: Pit (Pilot) 609ACmdoSq Nakhon Phanom AB TH;

65-67: Pit (Pilot) 908ARefSq Kincheloe AFB;

63-64: PltTng (Pilot Training) Williams AFB; 

1SSM-8DFC (Distinguished Flying Cross)-20AM (Air Medal)-1AFCM (Air Force Commendation Medal)

35th Reunion (1998): There were two things that totally fascinated me when I was a kid. One was airplanes. The other was the E. F. Hutton office in El Paso to which my father occasionally took me. I yearned to fly, but I had only the haziest notion what E. F. Hutton did. Still I wanted to be part of that, whatever it was. Flying came to me with some difficulty. I made it through UPT into KC-135s. I found SAC to be dreadfully dull and managed my way out of it by arranging a slot on the USAFA faculty in psychology. But I needed a SEA Tour. I managed my way into the Air Force’s lone A-26 squadron. I spent a year at Nakhon Phanom RTAFB, on the cutting edge of 1944 technology, flying a wonderful airplane. Then I reported to the University of Southern California to get that psychology degree. But surprise! The Air Force had enrolled me in the Graduate School of Business. No one at USAFA knew why, but the Professor of Psychology said, “It'll be okay. We’ll get you extra psych courses.” I never would have chosen business, but I loved it. After I graduated my assignment to USAFA was canceled and not long after I separated from the Air Force. I went to my home in El Paso and visited the Chairman of the State National Bank. The first words I said to him were, “Mr. Matkin, I don’t want to work for a bank, but I want to show you my resume’.” He directed me to the Trust department where the chief executive told me, “We’re looking for someone in investments, but you’re not qualified.” A week later he came back to me and said, “If you’re interested, we think you can learn something.” I have loved investments. I managed money in El Paso, Corpus Christi and now at USAA. I got to run mutual funds and be the major player in the preferred stock market. I had to learn to love managing investment people, and now I do. Life is still full of challenge, and Jutta and I are enjoying it immensely.