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January 2025
Dear Houston Parents,
We hope this finds you making the most of the final days of your cadet's Christmas leave. Whether it is just hanging out at home resting and eating snacks or off on trips. Many of our athlete and club cadets spent part of their vacations on exciting events and competitions. We hope to hear more about all that after the break!
As we go into the New Year, we wanted to go over what is coming up in 2025 in terms of your new Board, position chairs, events, volunteer opportunities and links to West Point information.
We also want to thank you for your involvement in our Club and for working together to make it a Club that is of useful service to parents, cadets, and West Point. What is useful service? Perhaps that can be best described in our Club objectives from our bylaws (below). Thank you for participating in all these objectives with warmth and caring for our fellow families. Whatever level of participation you are able to have, we so appreciate you!
Article II – Objectives
The objectives of the organization shall be:
1. To act as a recognized vehicle for the dissemination of information to parents, guardians, and relatives of cadets of The United States Military Academy at West Point, The United States Military Academy Preparatory School and West Point Association of Graduates sponsored Civil Preparatory schools; hereafter referred to as West Point.
2. To provide support and encouragement to cadets and their families.
3. To facilitate recruiting of prospective candidates for West Point from the Greater Houston area.
4. To promote a favorable attitude toward West Point and its goals and purposes in the Houston area and the community at large.
As far as upcoming 2025 events (see attachment), we know many of you are planning for Plebe-parent weekend (class of 2028), ordering rings/pendants (class of 2026), or just trying to figure out anything else. Please don't hesitate to contact us or any of the Class Reps with questions. Even if you are not a member, please feel free to reach out - we are here to serve all our Houston cadets.
And of course no Club email would be complete without letting you know we still need volunteers for:
We MUST have a T3 Chair as it is our biggest annual event. Please contact us if you are willing to Chair. Also email if you can lead a sub-team (these are TBD but we will be looking for perhaps 4 leads for things like merchandise, food, logistics, fundraising etc...) or simply volunteer. We recognize T3 is a big job so we are considering how to ensure the Chair does not have such a heavy burden. If your situation does not allow for being the Chair but you could lead a portion we would appreciate hearing from you asap. Knowing there are many hands willing to pitch in would certainly be an encouragement to anyone who might step up to Chair. If those of you who volunteered last year have recommendations or advice from your experience we welcome it! If you did not volunteer but have recommendations, we welcome those too.
Warm wishes from your 2024 Board and incoming 2025 Board
GO Army, BEAT Navy!
2025 Board
President
David Barrero and Alaide Zavala
(Gabriel ’27)
Vice President
Clay and Lynn Lassiter
(Lance ’28)
Treasurer
William Wu
(Colin ’28)
Secretary
Mike and Dee Turner
( Malek and Mason ’27)
Club Positions
2025 Class Representative
Sharon Wilson
(Jack ’25)
2026 Class Representative
Ginny Garriques
(Sebastian Witteveld ’26)
2027 Class Representative
Claudia Galey
(Sara Peters ’27)
2028 Class Representative
Theresa Berend
(Evie ’28)
Hospitality Chair
Theresa Brewster
(John Gonzalez ’28)
Membership Chair
Laura Mayer
(Wyatt Cyprow ’26)
Webmaster
Rob Van Benthuysen
(Jacob ’26)
Competitive Sport/Club Rep
Danica Johnston
(Cash ’28)
Spanish Speaking Parents Outreach Chair
Marcie Lee
(Tyler ’27)
Members expressing interest:
Theresa Brewster,
Janie Terrones (David ’27),
Blanca Correa (Brianna ’25),
Irma Aguilar (Matthew ’25)
2025 JSAMB Chair
Mike and Margie Painter
(John Wyatt ’27)
New Cadet Picnic Chair
Grace Chao
(Austin ’28)
2026 Hail and Farewell Chair
OPEN
We need YOU!
Monique Wiltz, 2025 Chair
Fundraising Chair
OPEN POSITIONS - We need YOU!
T3 Chair -OPEN - We need YOU!
2025 Events and Happenings (may not be all inclusive, we will add events and dates as they are published)
Board-only meetings
1st Tuesday of each month
If any Club member would like for the Board to address an issue please reach out at any time to any Board member.
General membership meetings
2025 dates TBD - every other month, starting Feb’25
Virtual or in-person
Class meetings
TBD
As determined by class rep and class parents
Spring AIM
March – TBD
Arranged by Houston West Point Society. Parents Club supports with parent attendance/snacks.
Plebe-Parent Weekend
March 14-16
A must do if you can. Visit your cadet in the barracks, go to a class, tour the uniform factory, etc.
Founder’s Day Dinner
March-28
Hosted by Houston West Point Society. West Point Commandant will be the keynote speaker (note – changed from Supe)
Spring Club Social
March – TBD
(tentatively 29th)
Meet each other and greet new families
Spring Boodle Box Event
April – TBD
If possible, we try to coincide the box arrivals a week or 2 before TEEs
Hail and Farewell
May – TBD
New Cadet Picnic
June – TBD
New Cadet Ruck/Dinner
June – TBD
R-Day (class of ’29)
June-30
A-Day
TBD – Aug-10 possibly
T3
Sep or Oct – TBD
We will try to get a date as soon as the football schedule is issued so families can make plans
Family Weekend
October
Usually the 3rd weekend but has not been published yet
Fall Boodle Box Event
Nov or Dec – TBD
Army-Navy
December 13
In Baltimore!
Links:
West Point Parents Website (official by West Point)
West Point Calendar 24-25 (pdf attached)
West Point Parents Club of Greater Houston