Hobart and William Smith Colleges

The HWS Veterans’ Committee

Richard Anderegg ’67, Col (USAF, Ret.) - Chair
Col. Dick Anderegg was a career USAF fighter pilot having flown the F-4 Phantom II and the F-15 Eagle. He is a Vietnam Veteran with 170 combat missions. He is also the former Director of Air Force History and Museums at the Pentagon. He is also the recipient of the Hobart Alumni Association’s 2021 Medal of Excellence.

Jean Sutherland Anderegg ’67
Jean Sutherland Anderegg, WS ‘67, is the granddaughter, daughter, wife, sister, mother and grandmother of service veterans.  She is a retired fund raiser and lifelong advocate for military families. She is the former chair of the Air Force Arlington Ladies committee having served at hundreds of Air Force funerals at Arlington National Cemetery.

J. M. (Andy) Anderson ’66, Lt. Col. (USAF, Ret.)
Andy Anderson served as an intelligence officer in the USAF for 20 years. Anderson retired from the Air Force to accompany his wife, an Air Force colonel at the time, to take a position as the Defense and Air Attaché in Hungary (1988-91), from where they watched the disintegration of the iron curtain and the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact. He spent the last 30 years with the Puyallup Historical Society in Puyallup, WA.

HM2 (FMF) Giorgi Bekauri '25, USN
Giorgi is from Geneva, NY and a proud graduate of Geneva High School. His time in service preceeded his time at HWS, with him serving as a Hospital Corpsman in the US Navy from 2015 until 2022. During his time in service, he worked in the ICU and Med Surg units of Fort Belvoir Hospital, before receiving orders to 3rd Battalion, 4th Marines in 29 Palms, California. With 3/4, Giorgi served as a Platoon Corpsman, Senior Line Corpsman, and Scout Swimmer for Kilo Company. After deploying with the 31st MEU, he was promoted to his Battalion Training Petty Officer and focused on training junior medics. At HWS, Giorgi studied International Relations and Russian Area Studies, with his academics taking him overseas to Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan. He now works in Admissions, finding the next generation of Statesmen and Herons.

Carmen J. Cimini ’10
Carmen was born and raised in Newport Beach, California. At Hobart College he was a Varsity Crew Team Captain and majored in Environmental Studies and Biology. He began his professional career in the environmental sector where he worked as a Natural Resource Advisor and Wildlife Biologist. Carmen entered the U.S. Army in 2015 beginning a rigorous qualification process at Fort Bragg to become a Green Beret. He earned the Special Forces Tab—a distinction held by less than 1% of enlisted personnel—and graduated from the Special Operations Combat Medic Course, Combat Dive Qualification Course, Dive Medical Technician School, Military Freefall Course, Jungle School and others. Following his military service, Carmen pivoted to the financial sector, earning his MBA from the USC Marshall School of Business in 2024. He began his banking career as a Public Finance Associate at Stifel.

Commander Jackie Lamme '99, USN (Ret)
Jackie Lamme served in the Navy as an gynecologic surgeon and obstetrician. She joined the Navy in 2001 when she started medical school at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. After graduation she competed an internship in family medicine then went to flight surgeon training. After earning her wings she joined her first Navy squadron at Whidbey Island, WA where she completed her first deployments to Turkey, Qatar and South America. After five years as a flight surgeon she accepted a residency in gynecological surgery and obstetrics. She then completed a fellowship in complex family planning and is the first military physician to complete that fellowship.

Jay McCoy ’23
Jay McCoy graduated from Hobart and William Smith in 2023 and immediately began public service as an EMT in Boston, MA. In 2025, he enlisted in the United States Coast Guard and graduated from basic training as a Seaman, earning the Leadership and Physical Fitness Awards. His first assignment is aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Thunder Bay, homeported in Rockland, Maine.

John E. Norvell ’66, P’99, P’02, LHD' 24 Lt. Col. (USAF, Ret.) 
John Norvell, after graduate school, entered active duty in 1968. He later went to navigator training and then to the backseat of the F-4 where he flew combat missions over Cambodia. He also served as an assistant professor of military history at the Air Force Academy and retired in 1989. From 1993-2002, he served as the Director of the Alumni Office at Hobart.

Dr. Katherine T. Platoni ’74 Col. (USA, Ret.)
Col. Kathy Platoni has been a practicing clinical psychologist for 44 years. A nationally recognized expert in the treatment of trauma, she is a combat Veteran of 4 wartime deployments and the former Chief Psychologist of the Army Reserve. She currently provides direct services to 40 police departments and 7 fire departments in three states. She is a member of the Ohio Veterans Hall of Fame, the Greene County Veterans Hall of Fame, an active member of Dayton SWAT, and serves as the editor of Combat Stress Magazine.

Richard (Toby) Pugh ’67
Toby Pugh served as an electronic warfare officer aboard B-52s and flew more than 100 combat missions in the Vietnam War.  After leaving the AF he entered a career as an architect ultimately at Walt Disney Imagineering where he was a key member of teams building parks in Anaheim, Hong Kong and Shanghai. Recently he was elected a fellow in the American Institute of Architects.

Schuyler T. Van Horn ’68
Sky Van Horn served in the US Army from 1968 to 1972. Following graduation from Engineer OCS and being commissioned in Military Intelligence, he served in the US and Vietnam. Stationed in An Loc, Vietnam, Sky ran a provincial Phoenix team with the MACV Advisor Team 47. After leaving the Army, he went to law school and practiced in Geneva for 42 years.

Colonel Bret Wood ‘98, (USAF Reserve)
Colonel Bret Wood brings over 24 years of distinguished service in the Air National Guard and U.S. Air Force Reserve. As a dual-qualified flight surgeon and emergency physician, he specializes in patient evacuation (including critical care air transport and MEDEVAC operations) and austere/special operations medicine. He has completed multiple combat deployments in support of Operations Iraqi Freedom, Enduring Freedom, and Inherent Resolve. His global service also includes missions in both the Arctic and Antarctic regions, along with numerous other locations worldwide.

John L. Woodward, Jr. ’68, Lt. Gen. (USAF, Ret.)
Jack Woodward was commissioned through Hobart’s AFROTC program and served in the Air Force as a communications officer ultimately rising to the top of his career field and retiring after 35 years of service as a three-star general. He was a two-time winner of the prestigious McClelland Award for best group in the USAF communications arena and recognized as the number one Comm Group Commander in the USAF.