Greetings! This page intended to provide Fishburne Alumni with the opportunity to converse, share stories, and offer the FMS community updates. Please make sure to comment frequently and let us know what’s happening in your life!
Greetings! This page intended to provide Fishburne Alumni with the opportunity to converse, share stories, and offer the FMS community updates. Please make sure to comment frequently and let us know what’s happening in your life!
10 Comments
August 3, 2009 at 10:21 pm
Interesting. When did this start?
August 4, 2009 at 1:19 pm
Hey Gene! The School’s blog site is just getting started. I’ll let everyone know when it’s in a little better shape. Let me know any time you want to post a story or article.
August 14, 2009 at 9:42 pm
You need to do a mass e-mail to all alumni to introduce this site ASAP!
August 20, 2009 at 7:52 pm
How about promoting the Official FMS Alumni Website here as well?
http://www.fmsalumni.com
August 20, 2009 at 8:37 pm
Derrick- If you want to write a piece for the blog I’ll post it on the main page, or copy for the Alumni Forum. I just learned very recently about the FMS Alumni Web site. I’ll also create a link from http://www.fishburne.org if you’ll write something about the Alumni site. Give me a ring 540-946-7709!
Thanks,
Ryan
November 25, 2009 at 3:30 pm
Happy thanksgiving to my FMS family!
Josh Maisel FMS’88
December 9, 2009 at 4:28 pm
Two weeks ago, I participated in a warrant round up and search warrant detail in the Rimrock, Arizona area. Our goal was to disrupt the Hell’s Angels organization and their criminal enterprises. We were succesful!
As a member of the Arizona State Police and then assigned to the GIITEM unit ( State anti-gang task force), we often work with members of other police departments on large details such as this one.
I had the chance to meet a police offficer from Lake Havasua, Arizona. He had a familiar ‘twang’ in his speech. He was surprised when I asked him about what part of Virginia he was from. He related he was from Roanoke and knew of the Cranwell family. He asked me how it was I knew Virginia so well. I told him I had the pleasure of attending Fishburne. I won’t recount his exact words, but he did say he knew Fishburne to be a great school. Once he learned of my attending Fishburne, he went to explain to the rest of the men in our squad what kind of school Fishburne is, where it was and the product it produces. All this from a man who never attended!
As the night came to a close after the mandatory briefings, he approached the boss and asked we be placed on the same unit because he knew a Fishburne man would take care of his teammates especially in this particularly dangerous endeavor.
I graduated in 1985 and am currently 43 years old. I never imagined, when I first crossed the Breezeway on a warm August day in 1982, that I would enjoy speaking of and benifit from, Fishburne’s reputation in Rimrock, Arizona some two and a half decades later.
February 15, 2010 at 10:20 pm
So how did you capture the 1%rs?
February 16, 2010 at 12:35 am
It was a co-ordinated effort troughout the state, multiple targets on Rimrock, Kingman and other places. Our suspects left home early and were street jumped by Highway Patrol units. We served a high risk warrant on the house and scared the dickens out of a 10 year old dog and not much more.
May 2, 2010 at 12:51 am
Gordon: It is great to hear of your exploits! What is your brother doing now? How are your parents?
I remember well what great supporters they were of the school. It would be good to see you back here someday if you promise not to arrest me!
Your old friend, JB