Air Training Officer
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The first classes of cadets had no upperclassmen, so junior officers, called Air Training Officers (ATOs) served as substitutes.
The first class of cadets with women lived in separate quarters in the CS-01 area of Vandenberg Hall. Because there were no upperclass women cadets, junior women officers, also called Air Training Officers, again served as substitutes.
[edit] Air Training Officers, 1954-57
| William Adams | Alfred Atwell | Alexander Bache | Thomas Barnett | Sam Barrett |
| Kimbrough Bassett | Benjamin Battle | Peter Bent | Anthony Biernacki | Elmer Biersack |
| Jack Blomgren | Charles Bowman | John Bowser | Richard Boyce | Peter Brambir |
| John Calvert | William Carr | Colven Caudell | Roger Clemens | James Clendenen |
| James Cobb | Charles Cole | James Collins | Richard Coon | Herschel Coulter |
| Gary Crane | William Dalton | Richard Day | Reese Dengler | John Doran |
| Charles Doud | Charles Emmons | John Englehart | Rocco Falotico | Nicholas Fenney |
| Samuel Fields | John Flynn | Zachary Fortescue | Merlyn Fratt | George Frederick |
| William Fredlund | Gustav Freyer | Harold Gabby | George Garey | Herman Gilster |
| William Glover | Lester Goldsmith | Harry Gornto | Eugene Gosse | James Gravette |
| George Greaves | Herbert Haight | Allen Hall | Arthur Harre | Loyal Hastings |
| Billy Hatley | Guy Hecker | Charles Hennessey | Robert Hess | Ernest Hill |
| Russell Hixon | Leslie Holst | Roger Jacobsen | Allen Jennings | Daniel Kavanaugh |
| Thomas Keesling | Cornelius Kelly | George Kerr | Robert King | Edwin Koch |
| Keith Kuester | James Lavery | Joseph Loper | James Lorigan | Matthew Loufek |
| John Malanaphy | Matt Mattson | Edward McFarlan | John McFaull | Howard McKenzie |
| William McVeigh | Martin Mechling | Earl Michler | Francis Moore | William Moorehead |
| Billie Morrison | Francis Mosler | Robert Newcomer | George Nial | John O’Donnell |
| John O’Hare | Jerome O’Malley | Kenneth Oliver | Modesto Ortiz-Benitez | Beverly Parrish |
| John Payne | John Pedjoe | Dale Peloquin | Charles Penola | Carl Petersen |
| Bruce Prince | Eugene Procknal | Edgar Puryear | Albert Roberts | Wiliam Sagmoen |
| Ned Sanders | Dorrence Sandfort | James Schmierer | Robert Sciarroni | James Selbe |
| David Seyer | Robert Shiver | Doss Smith | John Snook | Charles Steward |
| Robert Stewart | Robert Strain | Eugene Tatro | Charles Taylor | Russell Thoburn |
| Jerald Till | George Van Blyenburgh | Edward Vigee | W. Robert Walker | Morris Warner |
| Emery Wetzel | Frank Wilkerson | Alan Wilson | Malcolm Winter | Thomas Wood |
| Donald Yager | Clement Yannacone | Joseph Yeager |
[edit] Air Training Officers, 1975-77
| Rhoda Sweitzer (Danforth) | Shirley Popper (Eadline) | Terry Walter (Gabreski) |
| Charlotte Greene | Yardley Hoyes (Nelson) | Kathryn Sheridan (Newton) |
| Virginia Hartmann (Procino) | Irene Graf (Rathburn) | Dawn Reed |
| Rebecca Ritchey | Paula Gathright (Roderick) | Ronda Rozell |
| Bonnie Stephan (Stephan) | Elizabeth Stout | Susan Hamilton (Wright) |
