HWS Veterans'Committee Members
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.
John E. Norvell ’66, P’99, P’02, 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.
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.
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.
Dr. Katherine T. Platoni ’74 Col. (USA, Ret.)
Col. Kathy Platoni has been a practicing clinical psychologist for 41 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.
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.
Michael J. Hanna ’68, P’99, HON ’04
Mike Hanna enlisted in the U.S. Army immediately after graduating from Hobart in 1968 and served until his return from Vietnam in May 1971. Following Engineer OCS, Hanna served in the 18th Airborne Corps as a military intelligence officer at Ft. Bragg, NC. He was initially assigned to the 199th Light Infantry Brigade in Vietnam before serving most of the tour as a MACV advisor in the CIA’s Phoenix Program. Following his Army stint, Hanna enjoyed coaching stops at Johns Hopkins, the Naval Academy, and Princeton before being named Director of Hobart Athletics, which he held from 1981 until his retirement in 2018.
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.