Bernard Ira Weltman, 75, was born on December 30, 1931 and passed away on August 7, 2007. Graduating from high school in Rochester, Buzz then attended both Harvard and Northwestern. He enlisted in the Navy and soon found himself in school again, namely the Hospital Corps School. Still searching for greater things, he went to NAPS and thence to the Academy. A top debater since Plebe year, a staff operator for WRNV, as well as a singer in the Glee Club and Antiphonal Choir. Ira went into the Air Force Ground service upon graduation. According to information on his gravestone in Arlington Cemetery, he served as a Colonel in Vietnam and Korea.