USMA Class of January 1943.
Belmonte Pasquale Cucolo was the first child born to Anthony A. Cucolo and Andreana Vacca Cucolo in Waterbury, Connecticut. His father owned West Shore Concrete in Suffern, New York, a company that specialized in highway and bridge construction. He learned the art of grading, drainage and paving at an early age. Many summers he was employed as a water boy for the construction crews when his father worked on the Storm King Highway, which runs up and across that mountain along the west bank of the Hudson River from West Point to Newburgh. He attended Kentucky Military Institute and graduated from The Manlius School in Manlius, New York, in 1938. He received an appointment to West Point from Senator John M. Mead of New York and entered the United States Military Academy on July 1, 1939. When he graduated in January 1943, he was commissioned as a second lieutenant and assigned as a chief advisor to the Philippine Army during World War II, providing training and logistical support to guerrilla units in the Mindanao and Sulu Islands. He designed and supervised the construction of several transportation routes, small seaports and the Army airfield in Demonte, Mindanao. In July 1943, after graduating West Point but prior to leaving for the Philippine Islands, he married his high school sweetheart, Eugenia Jacobs. Her father, Major James R. Jacobs, was head of the Military History and Spanish Departments at The Manlius School. After World War II, he resigned his commission as a Captain in the United States Army, returning to Suffern and joined the New York State Power Authority in 1956. Over his 25 year career, he became an authority on transmission lines and hydropower, attaining positions as senior policy advisor and chief licensing coordinator with the Power Authority. He was involved in the design and construction of the Quebec-to-Marcy 765-kv line; the first 345-kv line from Niagara to Edic in the state; the St. Lawrence (Robert Moses Niagara Power Plant/Dam) project, Niagara and the Bienheim-Gilboa hydropower project. In June 1983, he retired from the New York State Power Authority. In 1987, he and Jean moved to Pawleys Island, South Carolina. He served on the Georgetown Highway Commission and played in the men’s golf league at the Litchfield Country Club. He created a woodworking shop at home and made many pieces furniture. He was a licensed professional engineer in both New York and South Carolina. He was a member of the New York State Society of Professional Engineers, American Society of Civil Engineers and the United States Committee International Commission on Large Dams. Survivors incuded his wife, Jean of 62 years; two sons of Stony Point, New York and Laguna Niguel, California; one daughter of Washington, D.C.; four grandchildren; one brother, USMA Class of 1946 of Houston, Texas and one nephew, USMA Class of 1979 and several other nieces and nephews. He was predeceased by two sisters: Carmela Palomba and Gloria Albini of Waterbury, Connecticut. Services were held at the Pawleys Island Presbyterian Church on December 27, 2005 and interment was at West Point on May 15, 2006.
Source: United States Military Academy Association of Graduates memorial.
Belmonte Pasquale Cucolo was the first child born to Anthony A. Cucolo and Andreana Vacca Cucolo in Waterbury, Connecticut. His father owned West Shore Concrete in Suffern, New York, a company that specialized in highway and bridge construction. He learned the art of grading, drainage and paving at an early age. Many summers he was employed as a water boy for the construction crews when his father worked on the Storm King Highway, which runs up and across that mountain along the west bank of the Hudson River from West Point to Newburgh. He attended Kentucky Military Institute and graduated from The Manlius School in Manlius, New York, in 1938. He received an appointment to West Point from Senator John M. Mead of New York and entered the United States Military Academy on July 1, 1939. When he graduated in January 1943, he was commissioned as a second lieutenant and assigned as a chief advisor to the Philippine Army during World War II, providing training and logistical support to guerrilla units in the Mindanao and Sulu Islands. He designed and supervised the construction of several transportation routes, small seaports and the Army airfield in Demonte, Mindanao. In July 1943, after graduating West Point but prior to leaving for the Philippine Islands, he married his high school sweetheart, Eugenia Jacobs. Her father, Major James R. Jacobs, was head of the Military History and Spanish Departments at The Manlius School. After World War II, he resigned his commission as a Captain in the United States Army, returning to Suffern and joined the New York State Power Authority in 1956. Over his 25 year career, he became an authority on transmission lines and hydropower, attaining positions as senior policy advisor and chief licensing coordinator with the Power Authority. He was involved in the design and construction of the Quebec-to-Marcy 765-kv line; the first 345-kv line from Niagara to Edic in the state; the St. Lawrence (Robert Moses Niagara Power Plant/Dam) project, Niagara and the Bienheim-Gilboa hydropower project. In June 1983, he retired from the New York State Power Authority. In 1987, he and Jean moved to Pawleys Island, South Carolina. He served on the Georgetown Highway Commission and played in the men’s golf league at the Litchfield Country Club. He created a woodworking shop at home and made many pieces furniture. He was a licensed professional engineer in both New York and South Carolina. He was a member of the New York State Society of Professional Engineers, American Society of Civil Engineers and the United States Committee International Commission on Large Dams. Survivors incuded his wife, Jean of 62 years; two sons of Stony Point, New York and Laguna Niguel, California; one daughter of Washington, D.C.; four grandchildren; one brother, USMA Class of 1946 of Houston, Texas and one nephew, USMA Class of 1979 and several other nieces and nephews. He was predeceased by two sisters: Carmela Palomba and Gloria Albini of Waterbury, Connecticut. Services were held at the Pawleys Island Presbyterian Church on December 27, 2005 and interment was at West Point on May 15, 2006.
Source: United States Military Academy Association of Graduates memorial.
USMA Class of January 1943.
Belmonte Pasquale Cucolo was the first child born to Anthony A. Cucolo and Andreana Vacca Cucolo in Waterbury, Connecticut. His father owned West Shore Concrete in Suffern, New York, a company that specialized in highway and bridge construction. He learned the art of grading, drainage and paving at an early age. Many summers he was employed as a water boy for the construction crews when his father worked on the Storm King Highway, which runs up and across that mountain along the west bank of the Hudson River from West Point to Newburgh. He attended Kentucky Military Institute and graduated from The Manlius School in Manlius, New York, in 1938. He received an appointment to West Point from Senator John M. Mead of New York and entered the United States Military Academy on July 1, 1939. When he graduated in January 1943, he was commissioned as a second lieutenant and assigned as a chief advisor to the Philippine Army during World War II, providing training and logistical support to guerrilla units in the Mindanao and Sulu Islands. He designed and supervised the construction of several transportation routes, small seaports and the Army airfield in Demonte, Mindanao. In July 1943, after graduating West Point but prior to leaving for the Philippine Islands, he married his high school sweetheart, Eugenia Jacobs. Her father, Major James R. Jacobs, was head of the Military History and Spanish Departments at The Manlius School. After World War II, he resigned his commission as a Captain in the United States Army, returning to Suffern and joined the New York State Power Authority in 1956. Over his 25 year career, he became an authority on transmission lines and hydropower, attaining positions as senior policy advisor and chief licensing coordinator with the Power Authority. He was involved in the design and construction of the Quebec-to-Marcy 765-kv line; the first 345-kv line from Niagara to Edic in the state; the St. Lawrence (Robert Moses Niagara Power Plant/Dam) project, Niagara and the Bienheim-Gilboa hydropower project. In June 1983, he retired from the New York State Power Authority. In 1987, he and Jean moved to Pawleys Island, South Carolina. He served on the Georgetown Highway Commission and played in the men’s golf league at the Litchfield Country Club. He created a woodworking shop at home and made many pieces furniture. He was a licensed professional engineer in both New York and South Carolina. He was a member of the New York State Society of Professional Engineers, American Society of Civil Engineers and the United States Committee International Commission on Large Dams. Survivors incuded his wife, Jean of 62 years; two sons of Stony Point, New York and Laguna Niguel, California; one daughter of Washington, D.C.; four grandchildren; one brother, USMA Class of 1946 of Houston, Texas and one nephew, USMA Class of 1979 and several other nieces and nephews. He was predeceased by two sisters: Carmela Palomba and Gloria Albini of Waterbury, Connecticut. Services were held at the Pawleys Island Presbyterian Church on December 27, 2005 and interment was at West Point on May 15, 2006.
Source: United States Military Academy Association of Graduates memorial.
Belmonte Pasquale Cucolo was the first child born to Anthony A. Cucolo and Andreana Vacca Cucolo in Waterbury, Connecticut. His father owned West Shore Concrete in Suffern, New York, a company that specialized in highway and bridge construction. He learned the art of grading, drainage and paving at an early age. Many summers he was employed as a water boy for the construction crews when his father worked on the Storm King Highway, which runs up and across that mountain along the west bank of the Hudson River from West Point to Newburgh. He attended Kentucky Military Institute and graduated from The Manlius School in Manlius, New York, in 1938. He received an appointment to West Point from Senator John M. Mead of New York and entered the United States Military Academy on July 1, 1939. When he graduated in January 1943, he was commissioned as a second lieutenant and assigned as a chief advisor to the Philippine Army during World War II, providing training and logistical support to guerrilla units in the Mindanao and Sulu Islands. He designed and supervised the construction of several transportation routes, small seaports and the Army airfield in Demonte, Mindanao. In July 1943, after graduating West Point but prior to leaving for the Philippine Islands, he married his high school sweetheart, Eugenia Jacobs. Her father, Major James R. Jacobs, was head of the Military History and Spanish Departments at The Manlius School. After World War II, he resigned his commission as a Captain in the United States Army, returning to Suffern and joined the New York State Power Authority in 1956. Over his 25 year career, he became an authority on transmission lines and hydropower, attaining positions as senior policy advisor and chief licensing coordinator with the Power Authority. He was involved in the design and construction of the Quebec-to-Marcy 765-kv line; the first 345-kv line from Niagara to Edic in the state; the St. Lawrence (Robert Moses Niagara Power Plant/Dam) project, Niagara and the Bienheim-Gilboa hydropower project. In June 1983, he retired from the New York State Power Authority. In 1987, he and Jean moved to Pawleys Island, South Carolina. He served on the Georgetown Highway Commission and played in the men’s golf league at the Litchfield Country Club. He created a woodworking shop at home and made many pieces furniture. He was a licensed professional engineer in both New York and South Carolina. He was a member of the New York State Society of Professional Engineers, American Society of Civil Engineers and the United States Committee International Commission on Large Dams. Survivors incuded his wife, Jean of 62 years; two sons of Stony Point, New York and Laguna Niguel, California; one daughter of Washington, D.C.; four grandchildren; one brother, USMA Class of 1946 of Houston, Texas and one nephew, USMA Class of 1979 and several other nieces and nephews. He was predeceased by two sisters: Carmela Palomba and Gloria Albini of Waterbury, Connecticut. Services were held at the Pawleys Island Presbyterian Church on December 27, 2005 and interment was at West Point on May 15, 2006.
Source: United States Military Academy Association of Graduates memorial.
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