| CAPER Company K-8 |
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| National Headquarters |
CAPER Company K-8 was located at Seton Hall University in South Orange, New Jersey. I remember that CAPER Company K-8 was chartered, but it was not included in any lists, probably because they were chartered after the last Pershing Rifleman yearbook was published in 1969. If any alumni know a closer time, please let us know.
I found this picture on the Pershing Rifles Company K-8 Alumni website. Vickie (Mezza) Quinn contributed this picture that was from 1969 or 1970. The names of most of the CAPERS are from the K-8 Alumni Website and the two National Commanders are from the Pershing Angels history. If I got the names wrong, please let me know. (Vickie, this is as large as I can get the picture, but if you send it to me directly, I can probably make the picture larger. If you have any others, send them to me, too.)
The National Headquarters was moved to Seton Hall University in 1981 according to the history we received from Pershing Angels. Typical to many of the Headquarters locations, the history says that the headquarters was closed due to lack of enough member sometime between 1983 and 1984. This was during the period after the Pershing Rifles Constitution was changed to allow "civilian" members and sent an order to all Pershing Rifles Companies to take their CAPERS into their PR company (1980). There were quite a few CAPER companies that kept going during the 1980's because their PR company wouldn't follow the order, so the National Headquarters continued. Today there are 5 former CAPER companies that are Pershing Rifles companies, so the effort keeping the headquarters going did make a difference.
This page was created to give a place where the Alumni of Company K-8 can find people and share their memories. Here are some links to make this page better:
Add more names to the alumni list.
Add your contact information (NOTE: You information won't be published here. We will contact you if someone wants to get in touch with you. The choice to contact them will be yours)
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| First Name | Maiden Name | Married Name | Pledge Year | Highest Rank | Highest Position |
| Cheryl | Beers | Cullen | BG | National Commander, 1979-80 | |
| Sharon | Sanders | BG | National Commander, 1981-81 | ||
| Shirley | Jones | BG | National Commander, 1982-83 | ||
| Vicki | Mezzo | Quinn | 1969 | ||
| Lois | Attala | Alexander | 1969 | ||
| Donna | Poplawski | ||||
| Dee | Hoover | ||||
| Elaine | Eng | Mellon | 1975 | ||
| Barbara | Fleming | Dougherty | 1969 | ||
| Patrice | Thoms | Cappello | |||
| Lorraine | Girsch | Hughes | |||
| Peggy | Burke | Hogan | |||
| Donna | Hudah | Company Commander | |||
| Jeanne | Breighweiser | Newman | |||
| Jayne | Turpin | ||||
| Lois | Alexander | ||||
The creator of this website, Linda Grissette (the 1970-71 CAPER National Commander) is not asking for any money to help support this project. Her reward will be finding people she remembers and learning about other former members memories. If you appreciate the effort, please use her for all of real estate needs. If you aren't in the St. Louis area where she works, she can find a great agent in your area and will receive a small referral fee. Contact Linda about real estate. See Linda's main real estate website.