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General Electric engineers and research scientists have contributed greatly to this progress.

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ROM the test tubes of industry have come many of the jobs that keep America busy.

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To Help and Serve To some of us, the tang of the sea fills our nosrrils; to others, the din of the streets about us reverberates throughout the air; to still others of us, the freshness of the country air drifts gently across the meadows to us; however, in ALL OF US, those days of yesterday spent within the bounds of our ALMA MATER bring a yearning to return to those wonderful days. For this reason, in the hope that happiness and fond recolleaion may be brought to you, our Alumni, this publication, SHIPMATE, comes into existence to H E L P and SERVE its members. If this. Volume 1 No. 1, brings ro you any of the purport and desire of those who are responsible for its being, then that work and effort is not in vain.

Outside The transition from naval officer to civilian is a difficult one. You begin abruptly by taking off your uniform and leaving behind you the service discipline and traditions and your old companions.

There is, of course, the matter of your personal emotions, but you do not become sentimental, either before or after, lest you find yourself in the position of the British ex-naval officer, ace broadcaster of spectacular events, who was sent last year back to his old ship to give the world through a microphone a thrilling report of the British fleet as it got under way. Now a civilian, he took his position in the foretop which years before had been his battle station, and there he witnessed the great pageant that had been scheduled; but the radio audience heard nothing, for he found himself unable to speak.

Wholly apart from sentiment, however, there is a great practical difficulty in becoming a civilian which is often bewildering in the extreme, and that is in

understanding the method that is commonly employed in the civil world to get results. In the Navy it is the direct method; in civil life it is more often the indirect method.

A friend of mine who had resigned six months earlier remarked that he had never realized while he was in the Navy that on the outside it is dog eat dog.

There is norhing very indirect about that process, but when it becomes a rule of conduct hidden behind a genial and charming exterior, it is a little baffling at first to the man who has spent his formative and later years in a service where people are taught that the shortest distance between two points is a straight line.

The reaction of the newly resigned officer to the civilian world is often somewhat the same as that he would have experienced while still in the Navy if, while Officer of the Deck, he had carefully followed a well-marked main channel into a busy port, only to have the red and black buoys take him treacherously onto the rocks; or if he had suddenly discovered during gunnery exercises that another turret was firing at his own instead of at his target; or if he were given a score at the end of the practice on the basis of whom he knew on the selection board rather than on the basis of hits per gun per minute.

The personal integriry of the direct method is found on every hand in rhe Navy, and it can be as great an asset on the outside as it is a necessity on the inside.

But bitter is the medicine prescribed by experience for the former naval officer who assumes that the civil world is as open and direct as the service, and who is offended at the assumption of most civilians that since he, too, is a civilian he is quite probably, in the absence of convincing proof to the contrary, some kind of a confidence man.

Charles Henry Hatteras

meetings, and some very few have sent in their proxies.

The outstanding development in connection with the affairs of the Association in the last few years has been the formation of the branches, or groups, affiliated with the parent institution and scattered in a dozen cities throughout the country.

The help the parent organization has had dents went into civil life and some of from these groups has encouraged—and those who had not graduated from the enabled us to carry on—and to all of these Academy became very helpful to the branches we owe a deep debt of gratitude.

Graduates Association.

The foregoing brief history of the The Board of Governors, therefore, deGraduates Association or the Alumni cided early in 1931 that it would be wise Association, as it now stands, omits a to form a new organization which should most important fact. The Association has embrace in its membership some nonbeen kept alive by the initiative, loyalty, graduates as well as graduates. and down-right hard work of our very Consequently, in May, 1931, the U. S. busy President, Captain W. H. Stayton, Naval Academy Alumni Association was who has given freely of his funds, service, incorporated under the laws of the Disand time. With Captain Stayton it has trict of Columbia. It is a non-stock, nonbeen a labor of love. profit corporation, formed "to promote That the Association would have lankindly feeling and social intercourse among its members, to foster the mem- quished and died without him goes withories of the U. S. Naval Academy, to pre- out saying, as many of us so well know. serve the records of graduares and stu- With his usual modesty he has refrained dents of that Academy, and to make from any menrion of his own efforts in such records available for the use of the the foregoing paragraphs. The Trustees accordingly present to our Alumni this country . . . " The Trustees endeavored to arrange attest of his devotion without which it ro get out a bulletin, but money was not would be scarcely a history of rhe Associaavailable, and old debts were still not rion at all.

S o m e notes on the history of the Naval Academy Graduates Association and its successor, the Naval Academy Alumni Association Early in 1886, Lt. Commander Charles Belknap, of the class of '67, got together a number of officers (most of them then on duty at Annapolis) and formed the U. S. Naval Academy Graduates Association.

The group originally consisted of twelve, of whom John S. Barnes, of '54, was the senior member, and Charles Briggs, of 1870, was the junior member.

The first dinner was held during June Week, 1886, and thereafter meetings were held and rosters issued almost every year for over forty years.

In the course of time, when D. M. Garrison ('95) went back to the Academy as an instrucror, he became Secretary and Treasurer of the Association, and from that time until his death in 1927, he gave a great part of his time to the affairs of the Association, for which he had devoted affection.

When Garrison died, Caprain George V. Stewart (Jeb) volunteered to take over the work, and he carried on, devoring himself unsparingly to the work of the organization just as Dan Garrison had done. By that time, however, the graduating classes were becoming so large that it was impracticable for an officer to run the affairs of the Association if he had other duties to perform.

The Board of Governors, therefore, arranged with R. S. Robertson, jr.

(1909) to take over the work. Only those of us who actually saw Robertson at the work will ever realize rhe devotion he gave to it. There was no money on hand, and Robertson physically wrote the cards himself, ultimately preparing by hand the cards for about ten thousand graduates. To the work he gave his days and his nights.

The income of the organization had been precarious, and when Jeb Stewart took over the work, there were printing bills and some other debts to be paid.

Efforts to raise money through the payment of dues proved unsuccessful, for members felt that the two or three dollars they had contributed at graduation made them life members and entitled them to the rosters in perpetuity.

Meantime, the depression came on, and Navy pay was inadequate. At about the same time, an increasing number of stu-

wholly paid off.

For some years, Therefore, the officers of the Association—which means a President, a Secretary-Treasurer and a Board of eleven Trustees—have endeavored to get the Association in such financial condition as would enable it to get out some periodical which would help to closer bind the ties between the friends of the Academy.

The debts have all been paid; we have no existing obligations. An endowment fund of nearly $5,000 was raised through rhe generosity principally of members of rhe New York and Los Angeles groups or branches.

Besides the endowment fund, the organization has on hand about $4,000 which we hope will enable it to issue "SHIPMATE."

Practically every year we have a midday luncheon through the courtesy of the Officers' Club, and so members of the Association and their families get together and seem thoroughly to enjoy the occasions.

Every year we have rried to have a business meeting, and have given the necessary notices, and those who wish to attend have attended, but the days have been busy, and, generally speaking, only a small group has rurned up at the

The Annual Meeting The annual meeting of the U. S. Naval Academy Alumni Association will be held at Mahan Hall, U. S. Naval Academy, at 11:30 a.m. for the transaction of such business as may come before it.

At this meeting, the election of officers and trustees for the coming year will be held, as required by the constitution and by-laws.

There is enclosed in each copy of a proxy form for the convenience of members. Those who cannot attend the meeting are requested to indicate someone who will attend the meeting to represent them at this meeting.

The form lisrs certain members who will attend the meeting. However, those names are merely suggestive. Any graduate of the Naval Academy, who has subscribed to the constitution and bylaws, is a member and entitled to vote.

In the event any member is unable to attend the meeting, he can designate any other member as he may desire as his authorized agent to act in his place.

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The present officers and trustees urgenrly request that every member cast his vote, in person if possible, or by proxy.

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and held her there until the end of the war. After the War, I was ordered to the U. S. S. Juniata, under the command of Captain John J. Almy, and in 1866 made a voyage to Africa and back. After that cruise I was ordered to the Naval Academy as an instructor in English. In 1875, I was retired for physical disability.

When the Spanish-American War broke out, I was ordered to active duty and placed in command of the Naval Reserves at Chicago. Later I was ordered to take charge of the Trans-Mississippi International Exposition at Omaha, Neb. Later, I was again placed on the retired list, having been relieved of active duty."

The U. S. Naval Academy Alumni Association sent the Commander a telegram of congratulations on March 21, 1938, the occasion of his ninety-third birthday, for which he wishes to express his gratitude through SHIPMATE.

Six Oldest Living Alumni A check in the Record Section of the Bureau of Navigation shows that the following named alumni are, in order, the senior members of the Association, with respect to age:

Commander Edward Marshall Stedman, U. S. N., retired. The above picture shows Commander Stedman in his living-room at Norwood, Nelson County, with two of his "best friends." In the inset at the top\.of the picture the commander is shown as he appeared at the age of 16, when.he entered the Academy.

Commander R. G. Peck, USN (Ret.), Class of 1870. Born July 12,1849. Now living at The Wyoming, Columbia Road and California St., N. W., Washington, D. C. Rear Admiral N. E. Mason, USN (Ret.), Class of 1869. Born Ocrober 14, 1850. Now living at P. O. Box 313, Coronado, Calif.

Academy, the Academy was moved to Newport, R. I., because of the outbreak of the Civil War. When I became a Battleship Oregon Marine first Classman, I was given my first comPark mand, the Yacht America. Upon graduarion, in 1864, I reported to the U. S. S. The Honorable Charles H. Martin, Constitution, under the command of Governor of the State of Oregon, has Captain Bell. About six months later, I recently announced that, with the conwas transferred to the U. S. S. Susque- sent and support of the citizens of that hanna and was doing duty on her when State, the old Oregon is to be monushe drove the Confederate Ironclad Stone- mented in a permanent location in Portwall into the harbor at Savannah, Georgia, land on a site to be known as "Battle-

Oldest Living Our oldest living Alumnus is Commander Edward Marshall Stedman, USN (Ret.), Class of 1864. He was born on March 21, 1845, in Boston, Mass., appointed to the Naval Academy from that State in 1861, and graduated in 1864. He now lives in Norwood, Va., wirh his daughter, Mrs. J. L. Gray, and is in excellent health, considering his age. Commander Sredman relates the following concerning his Service in rhe Navy: "Shortly after entering the Naval MAY,

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Commander E. M. Stedman, USN (Ret.), Class of 1864. Born March 21, 1845. Now living at Norwood, Va. Rear Admiral J. H. Dayton, USN (Ret.), Class of 1866. Born October 25, 1846. Now living at 1005 E. LaSalle Ave., South Bend, Ind. Riear Admiral Perry Garst, USN (Ret.), Class of 1868. Born July 11, 1848. Now living at Bradenton, Fla. Rear Admiral A. G. Berry, USN (Ret.), Class of 1869. Born September 16, 1848. Now living at 580 A Ave., Coronado, Calif.

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ship Oregon Marine Park." The necessary expense for dredging, construaion of a permanent pier, concrete anchors, etc., is estimated at $53,000. The funds for this project are to be raised by private subscription. The names of those donors who subscribe one dollar or more to this worthy monument will be entered in a bound volume to be called "The Battleship Oregon Roll of Honor," and will be preserved aboard the ship.

The Secretary of the Navy recently approved this project of preserving one of the most historic ships of the Navy in a permanent berth, in a letter addressed to the Naval Service.

It is particularly fitting at this time to note that Governor Martin graduated from the U. S. Military Academy in 1887.

He was commissioned a Brigadier General in August 1917 and promoted to the rank of Major General in 1925. He retired in 1927.

The United States Naval Academy Alumni Association heartily approves this worthy projea and suggests those of the Alumni who so desire make their contributions to Mr. Paul S. Dick, President of the U. S. National Bank of Portland, Oregon, who is Treasurer of the "Battleship Oregon Committee."

in Naval Academy men. It is a little too early to forecast results, thus building up false hopes. However, in several instances up to the time of going to press, replies indicate a desire and an interest on the part of the companies so contacted to consider our members.

The present plan is, in general, to have members, who so desire, fill in an employment form and send to the SecretaryTreasurer. The Secretary-Treasurer, by the authoriry vested in him by the Trustees, contacts such companies with whom an agreement has been reached, sending the applicant's completed form to the proper official for his consideration. Then, upon the expressed desire of that official, an appointment is arranged. This enables the prospective employee to have carefully considered the applicant prior to the appointment and assures the applicant a prompt and favorable reception, thereby saving time and money to both.

The Secretary-Treasurer also gives such

additional information as is authorized by the applicant to the employer. As said before, it is too early to forecast results at this time. However, the general situation is considered favorable, particularly in view of the economic conditions which exist at this time.

The aim of the Association, its Officers, and its Trustees, is, as it always has been, one of H E L P and SERVICE to the members. Those members who are now employed are requested to advise the Secrerary-Treasurer, if the company with which they are now associated, would consider applications from the members.

In that way, a real SERVICE can be rendered to the members, by the members, for the members.

Branch Associations, as well as individual members, may obrain application forms and specific information by communicating with the Secretary-Treasurer, 3916 Navy Department, Washington, D. C.

T h o s e W h o Speak the L a n g u a g e LELAND P . LOVETTE

Lt. Commander, U. S. Navy

Employment

SHIPMATE should have a particular appeal "To those who speak the language." The latter expression in its Naval Academy connotation embraces so very much in its scope that it is difficult of exact definition. But in its best accepted sense, "those who speak the language" is a generic designation to express the brorherhood of Naval Academy men united by virtue of their common inherirance of the traditions of the Service.

An implied duty resrs on this body to carry on rhe best customs, the finer traditions, and the correa language of the sea.

The USNA Alumni Association has for some years maintained an Employment Service. Many of those who read this article in SHIPMATE will realize that their present position was obtained through the efforts of the Association, particularly the efforts of the Officers and Trustees. In the past years, the expense of that service, as well as any other expense incurred for the Association, was borne by a comparatively few whose generous contributions made those services possible. In more recent years, particularTo know the history of naval customs, ly since 1935, funds have been raised through advertising in the REGISTER OF the origin of great traditions and the GRADUATES. This, too, has been due to philology of our sea language requires the untiring efforts of the Officers and effort and observation, but when a speaking acquaintance has been gained with Trustees of the Association.

The Trustees of the Association have its rich lore, there is derived a backrecently launched a revised program in ground that is of inestimable value to all which EMPLOYMENT is one of the main who follow the sea, with a cultural value issues. The medium of SHIPMATE makes for those who retain an abiding interest possible an excellent method of pro- in the Navy.

A gracious ease and fine distinction mulgating useful information to the members throughout the world and thus marks personable men of all walks of life affords a real service to the members, who know their profession, the history hitherto a difficult if not an impossible of rheir profession, and the place of their profession in the scheme of things. But problem.

The Trustees are contacting many how definitely marked this may be when Companies in an attempt to interest them found perfected in the sea officer with a

distinct language passed on from the great thalassocries of the past and the inheritors of the traditions of a Service rhat contributed its share of glory and success to a nation.

A splendid inheritance has been entrusted to the fidelity and the courage of our sea officers and men. It, of course, carries back to early Anglo-Saxon and Durch tradition, but commenced for a distinct American Service with the War of the Revolution and has been steadily enriched through the years. It is an enduring and precious thing that should be passed on untarnished. No man can gainsay the vital power that the deeds of yester years exert on the spirit of the Navy of today. For although the leaders of other days have passed on with their hopes, disappointments and successes, their outstanding achievements will never die in the memory of "those who speak the language." They gave not words but deeds; few excuses but many victories.

Conrad, who expressed the language of the sea with superlative skill, said: "And now the old ships and their men are gone; the new ships and the new men, many of them bearing the old, auspicious names, have taken up their watch on the SHIPMATE

stern and impartial sea, which offers no opportunities but to those who know how to grasp them with a ready hand and an undaunted heart."

FOR SHIPMATE—"bon voyage."

Lt. Commander L. P. Lovette. USN, is considered to be one of the foremost authorities on Naval Traditions. Customs, and Usages. His book, "NAVAL CUSTOMS. TRADITIONS. A N D USAGES" has been published by the U. S. Naval Instimte. Annapolis, Md., and has received wide acclaim. Commander Lovette is now working on his second book which will pertain to Naval Officers in Diplomacy.

Lt. F. J. Bell. USN. Class of •24, will release the second edition of his book. " R O O M T O T H R O W A C A T , " on April 27. The first edition of this book has been sold out. Longmans-Green Co.. of N e w York are the publishers. SHIPMATE will carry a short review of this second edition of his book in the J U N E issue.

Denver Flash The Denver Branch is not active at this time, according to George Tarbox, 1925, of Denver. George writes that there is an organization in Denver known as the " W A R D R O O M C L U B " which is composed of anyone who holds, or ever has held, a commission in the Navy. He represents the Association at their meetings when necessary. He also reporrs that there are a number of oiu: members in and around Denver, including LesKe Bratton, '07; G. W. Faller, '98; George Todd, '25; Bert Montagriff, '25; Bill Agnew, '25; and Joe Raichle, '18.

with an infection, the result of being spiked in the Dartmouth game.

The game, despite the presence of football weather and a shattered Navy Team, was a close one until the ninth when the Harvard boys pushed over three runs to put the game on ice, and no foolin'. Joe Elliott, B Team pitcher, hurled a good game and deserved a better fate than was accorded him. Harvard, despite their five errors, played snappy ball and deserved to win. They clicked in the pinches, turning in three fast double plays to cut the Middies down and finally scuttle the Navy. Bob Gannett, Harvard's stellar centerfielder, turned in the best catch of the game or, for that matter, the best of this season when he highballed it across about half the outer garden to snag Elliott's smash that looked to everyone as if it had one of those labels on it. The crowd, securely housed in their blankers by that time, unfurled their impediments to give Bob a real hand.

All hands are pulling for Max Bishop, our new coach. He has had some tough breaks since taking over, but, to date, has not uttered one word resembling an alibi. Here's pulling for you. Max! Also for the boys who are on the 'Tree" in the hopes they will soon pull "Sat" and get out there on the diamond.

Latest Sport Flashes APRIL 9TH.

June Week Events

Baseball—Rained Out. Tennis: HARVARD-6. NAVY-0.

LaCrosse: N A V Y - 1 3 . HARVARD-2.

Fencing: N A V Y - 2 0 . SALUS A.C.-7.

Sunday, May 29 10.45 a.m. Baccalaureate Sermon.

8.30 p.m. Midshipmen Glee Club and Orchestra Recital.

S-wamped!

Rather stout Polar Atlantic airs, in the words of the Aerologists, moved in from the North to chiU the ardor of the Navy's Nine on Lawrence Field, Wednesday, April 6, resulting in the boys of Fair Harvard copping the Bunting, 7-4, and then trotting off to the more heated climes of Bancroft Hall. The game, in one way, was a comedy of errors — each team charged with five bobbles; however, those bobbles in praaically each instance, can be excused because of the "unusual" low temperatures which prevailed. The Midshipmen began the game with three leading slabsmen missing and every infield position except first base held down by a substitute. This was due to several of the regulars having hit the "Tree," another, Jerry Bruckel, laid up with a severe cold, and McGuiness, star guardian of the keystone sack, in the hospital MAY,

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Monday, May 30 9.45 a.m. Presentation of Colors.

•^ Rehearsal) 12.30 p.m. Presentation of Athletic Awards.

Eveni ng. Superintendent's Garden Party to First Class.

Ring Dance (Second Class) Hop. Third Class.

Tuesday, May 3 1 10.00 a.m. Practical Drills.

3.30 p.m. Band Concert.

5.00 p.m. Dress Parade. Presentation of Colors.

9.00 p.m. "N" Dance.

9.00 p.m. Hop. First Class.

Wednesday, J u n e 1 10.00 a.m. Aquatic Events and Seamanship Drills.

3.30 p.m. Band Concert.

5.00 p.m. Dress Parade. Presentation of Prizes and Awards.

7.30 p.m. Band Concert.

9.00 p.m. Farewell Ball.

Thursday, J u n e 2 11.00 a.m. Graduation.

4.30 p.m. Band Concert.

THE DOPE Philip Seymour, '08, reports that he is busy trying to break into the oil business.

He says it is no trouble to be a big oil man if you have lots of money or lots of land on which oil is discovered, but it requires lots of money and matching of wits to get into that game successfully if you don't have those assets. He is in the Siesmographic Supply Co., of 201 Perdido Bldg., New Orleans. He also sent other dope on members whom he has run across in that part of the country recently.

F. G. Tupper, '04, is in New Orleans and recently sold his agency for general insurance.

J. F. Welch, '01, is in Pass Christian, Texas, and pays occassional visits to New Orleans.

J. S. Watters, '16, is in New Orleans, working hard with an agency for General Insurance.

• J. F. Woods, '23, is Sales Manager for International Radio in New Orleans and is reported to be very successful.

A. R. Wurtele, '15, has a 4,000 acre plantation in Pointe Coupee Parish at Mix, La.; he has a very up-to-date plantation with power (Diesel) machinery.

He comes to town frequently where his headquarters are at the Louisiana Club.

P. C. Cook, '34, is located with one of the seismograph crews of the Texas Co.

Dean Causey, '06, has a large plantation near Baton Rouge and is doing fine.

R. B. Hale, '35, is with the Gulf Oil Co., in one of the seismograph crews.

J. J. Fitzpatrick, '01, is a Big Shot in the Federal Shipping Board in New Orleans.

The Trustees desire that more of our members will send in THE DOPE for SHIPMATE.

Army-Navy Competition The recent decision reached berween rhe authoriries of the Military and Naval Academy, whereby the Army and Navy will meet on a home and home basis in pracrically all sports, is most welcome news. The additional sports in which Army and Navy games are now ro be played are: Swimming, Tennis, Soccer, Golf, and Gym. Since 1935, Gym Teams of the two institutions have met at the time of Eastern Intercollegiate Championships, Navy winning 1935 and 1937, tying 1936 and Army winning the 1938 meet. In 1923 and 1924, their Tennis Teams mer. However, under the new agreemenr, regularly scheduled home and home games will be played in the sports listed above as in other sports already arranged. The complete list is now: Baseball—first game played in 1901; won by Army. Baskerball—first game played in I92O; won by Navy. Cross Country—first met in 1937; won by Navy. Fencing— first met in 1907; won by Navy. Football—first met in 1890; won by Navy.

Gym—firsr met in 1935; won by Navy.

Golf—no previous competition. Lacrosse —first met in 1924; won by Navy.

Soccer—no previous competition. Swimming—no previous competition. Tennis —1923 and 1924; won by Navy. T r a c k since 1923; won by Army. As the POINT has no Crew or Rifle Team, and the Academy does not have one in Hockey or Polo, the only sports in which both Academies have reams and do not meet each other will be Boxing and Wrestling.

New Graduate Manager of Athletics SHIPMATE has just learned rhat Commander Andrew C. "Andy," McFall, '16, is to be relieved by Ward P. Davis, '17, in June as graduare Manager of Athletics at the Academy. All hands are sorry to see him go—SHIPMATE wishes "Andy" a Bon Voyage and continued success in his new duty.

Ward Davis, '17, needs no introduction to our members. The Alumni Association, through SHIPMATE, extends to Ward—hearty welcome to this important position so close to the members of the Association. The Dope will carry the news on this change in the June issue.

New Coaches Captain E. W. McKee, USN, Director of Athletics at the Naval Academy, recently announced the addition of two well known professional coaches to the Naval Academy Coaching Staff — Max Bishop and Keith Molesworth.

Max Bishop was the star second baseman of the Athletics managed by the Old Fox, Connie Mack. He was a member of the team from 1924 to 1933, during which time the A's won three American League Pennants and two World's Championships. Max is in charge of all baseball ar rhe Academy and has Keith Molesworth as his assistant, who looks out for the Plebes. Max is concentrating his efforts on the Varsiry and it looks like the team will produce real results this year. It is interesting to note that the Head Baseball Coach at West Point, also for his first year, is none orher rhan Walter French, a former teammate of Max while on the A's.

Keith (Moley) Molesworth has assumed the duties of a backfield coach in Football and Head Coach of Plebe Basketball and Baseball. Moley graduated from Monmourh College in Illinois where he won rwelve major letters. He won four in Football, four in Basketball, two in Track and two in Baseball. He turned professional after graduation, going to the Chicago Bears where he was a star half back and quarterback for seven years. While a member of the Bears, they won two World's Championships and three Western Division Championships.

Moley also played professional basketball with Portsmouth, Ohio. In his professional Baseball career, he played third base and shortstop with the Orioles, of

Balrimore, Oakland of the Pacific Coast League, and Syracuse of rhe International League.

SHIPMATE welcomes these two newcomers to our family and wishes them all possible success.

Rifle Squad. 1938 The outdoor Rifle Squad started pracrice on the fourth of April, after completion of the indoor contests which culminated on Saturday with the Regional Shoot for the National Championship. Our boys came in fifth, having tied with Ohio State's score of 1357, ren points below the winners, George Washington University.

Midshipman H. J. Weiler, Jr., is Captain of the Team. The squad has excellent material in Giffen, Pace, Sriles, Henderson, McCoy, and Cease. The Squad is coached by Lt. B. S. Anderson '22, and assisted by Lt. W. R. Thayer, '23. and Lt. A. H. Hood, '29.

Sport Results The Navy Gymnast's won two intercollegiate Championships at the League's Individual Championships held at the Naval Academy on March 28th. Midshipman Butler became King of the flying rings, and Midshipman Louis DeCamp became King of the Rope Climbers. In this event, he won only after a climb-off with his teammate. Midshipman Ellison.

In the tie, both boys equaled the Academy record of 4 seconds, set by DeCamp against Princeton.

However,—Army won the League Championship and, in the Army-Navy Dual Meet, they also won by a score of 29-25. This marked the first loss for the Navy against the Army.

In the Individual Championships Joseph Hewlett, Temple University, won the All-around Title. A total of 60 athletes competed coming from Army, Dart{Please turn to page 10) SHIPMATE

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f GREETINGS TO THE A L U M N I !

By courtesy of the OFFICERS' CLUB we have for the past few years held our Alumni Luncheon at the Club in the Academy Grounds. Each such Occasion has been a delightful one, and, it seems, more successful than its predecessor.

The Luncheon is to be repeated this year ar Noon, Saturday, May 28th— the day of the Army-Navy Track Meet and Baseball Game. The Officers and Trustees of the Association desire that all Alumni, who can come to Annapolis that day, come and bring rheir families and guests.

Forget your troubles! Meet your Classmates and friends at the Luncheon!

Sincerely, W.

H.

STAYTON,

President, U.S.N.A. Alumni Association.

M Y DEAR CAPTAIN STAYTON:

I am pleased to learn that a new publication to be christened SHIPMATE will soon be launched by and for the Naval Academy Alumni Association.

The name of the publication is a happy choice for "shipmate" has a connotation of special significance for rhose who have lived in ships. The edirorial aim of SHIPMA.TE ro reach all graduares and non-graduates afloat and ashore with alumni and service news is praiseworthy.

As I look back upon my years afloat, I keenly realize rhat some of our most lasting friendships were formed wirh shipmates. The term "good shipmate" epitomizes in terse nautical language so many of the admirable qualities of human relations.

SHIPMATE, apart from its usefulness as a medium for the dissemination of general alumni business, will render a needed service if it will carry news to those in active service of the whereabouts and the businesses of the graduates and non-graduares in civil life. In many instances our courses separated years ago, but the mere mention of old classmates and old shipmates will evoke many memories and recollections.

I am confident that SHIPMATE will prosper if it secures reasonable support from the living graduates and non-graduates of the Naval Academy.

The idea is an excellent one. SHIPMATE deserves a fair wind and I wish for it a full measure of success.

Very sincerely yours, W I L L I A M D . LEAHY.

Dispatch from Admiral Bloch to Captain W. H. Stayton, President of the U. S. Naval Academy Alumni Association—"Quote" this magazine sponsored by the Naval Academy Alumni Association will fill a long felt need and deserves support from all hands. I send my best wishes for success and prosperity of our Shipmate. ' CLAUDE C. BLOCK.

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MY DEAR C A P T A I N STAYTON:

I have just been informed that the United States Naval Academy Alumni Association is to begin a publication known as "SHIPMATE." This certainly will be received as good news by all members of the Association. In my opinion the title is most fitting and appropriare.

The word "shipmate" is an all-inclusive term, particularly applying to those of us who follow the sea and who live in close association with brorher ofiicers and men on board ship. There is no better way of knowing a man intiniately and finding out his salient characteristics than to be his shipmate.

"Shipmate' has a further, more disrinctive meaning, in that it implies that when we know a man as a shipmate we not only feel friendly towards him, bur, following an unwrirten law which has come down through the ages of sea-faring men, we will stand by him and help him in every possible way.

He belongs, in other words, to our own family.

This publication, therefore, has been well named. It will give not only the news in which we are all interested, but will be of great assistance to all those aaive, retired and resigned officers in their diflferent endeavors no matter in what work they may be engaged.

May I congratulate the Alumni Association upon starting this publication and wish for it every possible success. I can assure you that the Chief of the Bureau of Navigation stands ready at all times to help in a truly SHIPMATE fashion. .. • ^ , Very sincerely yours, ADOLPHUS ANDREWS.

M Y DEAR CAPTAIN STAYTON:

I wish to take this opportunity to congrarulare you, and through you, the Alumni Association, U. S. Naval Academy, on the publication of your new magazine, "Shipmate."

While I am not an alumnus of the Naval Academy, it was my pleasure as a very young marine ofiicer ro serve at Annapolis; and for thirty-eight years I have been "shipmates" with the alumni. The Naval Academy has, since 1915, been the principal source from which our officer personnel has been obtained.

Before that date many of our mosr prominent officers, in particular your own classmates, were graduates of the Naval Academy. Therefore the Marine Corps feels that it has an interest in the Naval Academy, second only to that of the line of the Navy itself.

Very sincerely yours.

T. HOLCOMB.

M Y D E A R C A P T A I N STAYTON :

If we think of the Navy as a living entity, beginning with the Revolution, destined to live we hope for centuries to come as a continuing sea bulwark for the Nation and part of whose life blood we have been for a brief period of time, it is natural that those of us who began our Naval service at Annapolis should find a return to the Academy an event of great interest. We are reminded of our own youth and the youth of those who have gone before us by association with the midshipmen of today. In their character and zeal we find assurance for the Navy of tomorrow.

It is well that the bonds that have drawn us together in rhe past should be treasured and perpetuated by an active national Alumni Association.

With my kind personal wishes to you and the Association— W I L S O N BROWN.

ATHLETICS (Continued from page 6) assisting Coach Molesworth with the mouth. Navy, M. I. T., and Temple. plebe team. In starting the right system The winners in the Individual during the plebe year, it is believed the Championships were: Navy will gradually be able to produce Horizontal Bar—Hewlert, Temple. baseball teams that will hold their own Side Horse—Whalen, Army. with any college in the country.

Parallel Bars—Sears, Army.

At the present time there are seven Flying Rings—Butler, Navy. midshipmen from the third class on the Tumbling—Pavilonis, Temple. varsiry squad and it is expected they will Rope Climb—DeCamp, Navy. improve enough so that all of them will be regulars by next year. Wooding, a first baseman, and pitcher Niles look the best of the seven youngsters at the present Sport Comment time.

The results of the National Indoor Pitcher Bruckel of the second class Rifle Comperitions, which were held re- should be the number one pitcher and gionally in various parrs of the country it is expected he will start the Navy off on Saturday, April 2, show that the on the right foot. competition was very keen and closely Captain Ingram, who plays the outcontested. In two cases, in the firsr ten, field, is one of the best players and should the scores were tied. The rules govern- help considerably, not only as a good ing in such cases are that the Team with leader, but in the field and at the bat. the higher score on the Standing Contest Ralph Mann, a second classman, who is declared the winner. Borh fourth also plays the outfield, is another fine perplace and seventh place were decided in former. He plays well in the field, has that manner. The following are the plenty of power at the plate, and will be scores of the first ten teams: Navy's clean-up hitter.

Short stop Thompson of the second Score class is a fine little fielder and looks good 1. George Washington Uniat the plate. Although he played second versiry 1367 base last year, it is believed that shorr 2. Minnesota University 1360 stop is his position.

3. University of Pittsburgh . . . . 1359 Lem Cooke, pitcher and third base4. Ohio State Universiry 1357 man; Pete Powell, firsr baseman and outStanding score 406 fielder; and Andy Anderson, are also ex5. U. S. Naval Academy 1357 pected to play good ball this season.

Standing score 399 6. Maryland University 1351 7. University of Nebraska . . . . 1346 Navy Crew—1938 Standing score 408 After getting an early start. Navy 8. Universiry of lUinois 1343 crews have been forced to resume work Standing score 399 on the indoor rowing machines due to 9. Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute 1337 the usually bad early spring weather.

Rigid training started on March 14 and with it the racing squad of 3 varsity Navy Baseball—1938 boats and 1 plebe boat began to eat at On Saturday, March 26th, the Navy the training table.

The squad is being captained for the baseball team opened its season in a game with the University of Vermont. second consecutive year by Midshipman A. B. Yeates, of Norfolk, Virginia, who Vermont won the game 1 to 0.

Mr. Max Bishop, in starting his first has the honor of being the first Navy year as baseball coach, does not expect crew captain to hold that position for too much of his team, however he does more than one year. During the three feel they will improve as the season prog- years in which Yeates has been on the resses. He is faced with the hardest base- crew squad. Navy crews have beaten ball schedule that a Navy team has had forty-nine opposing crews while losing in many years and is hoping that a team to only four in short distance races, which will develop which will give a creditable is by far rhe best record of any crew squad in Navy's rowing history. account of itself.

No effort has been made to date to Lieutenants Gentner and Lawrence are 10

pick a varsity crew for this 1938 season, but there has been much concentration . on form and the development of each individual oarsman. There is keen rivalry for each place in the boat with the major battle being waged over the stroke seat between T. J. Walker (Florida) and V. E. Schumacher (Michigan). Both of these men weigh 172 pounds and are approximately the same age. The No. 7 job seems to lie between N. Almgren (New Hampshire) and L. P. Spear (Pennsylvania). G. A. Whiteside (Oklahoma) is recovering from an illness; this will enable him to compete with T. H. Sudduth (Georgia) for the No. 6 seat. The No. 4 and No. 2 jobs are being soughr by G. C. Bullard (New York), F. W. Kittler (Michigan), and F. W. Brown (New -York). The bow and No. 3 jobs are berween I. G. Peters (Minnesora) and P. G. Schultz (New Mexico). Captain Yeates will undoubtedly regain his No. 5 sear without opposition unless a back injury susrained last December prevents him. Peters, incidenrally, is rhe only member of last year's Plebe crew who seems to have a chance in the big boat. H. V. Lee, who stroked last year's plebe boat should be a varsity contender but through uncertainty in academics has been unable to get fully started to date. The coxswain seat will undoubtedly be handled by E. L. Knapp (Michigan) who last year was coxswain of rhe successful Junior Varsiry crew.

The season opens a week earlier rhan usual this year with Princeron racing ar Annapolis on April 16. One week larer the crew rravels ro New York to race Columbia. On April 30 the Cornell and Syracuse crews will meet the Navy on the Severn. The lasr race of the short distance season will be rowed on May 21 ar Annapolis between Harvard, Pennsylvania, and Navy for the Adams Cup. Navy has been the winner of rhis cup for the past two seasons.

In the past few years crew has gone along with other sports in organizing Bartalion competition. These battalion crews will be called out for practice early in April by Prof. W. H. Farrell, '08, and much interest is being built in this intramural activity.

Mr. Charles S. ("Buck") Walsh is serving his seventh year as head coach of rowing at the Naval Academy. A former Navy oarsman and a graduate of the SHIPMATE

Academy in 1923, he returned to Annap- will be played the third game on the olis as assistant crew coach in 1924. In schedule. The Tigers have a senior team 1926 he was named coach of the fresh- from goal to in-home, with plenty of man crew, and was appointed head crew prep school and college experience and coach in 1932. "Buck" is being assisted will be backed by strong reserves several this season by Ensign M. H. Austin, of whom, the Princeton coach expects, U.S.N. Midshipman W. J. Tate, Jr., is the will replace the veterans. manager of crew.

The game with Maryland should be a toss-up. The Terps have lost two valuable men in Neilson and Ellinger.

Army has suffered severe losses from Navy Lacrosse—1938 the great ten they had last year, but have While Navy lost a nimiber of out- a good nucleus of veterans around which standing players by graduation last year, to build. Navy is pointing all guns toprospects for a good team seem bright ward the Hudson and has high hopes of returning wirh the honors. at this time.

Mr. W. H. "Dinty" Moore is rhe coach Nat James, at goal, proved last year that he has had few peers in the history of Navy Lacrosse. Midshipman H. 1.

Mandel is rhe manager of the team. of ten-man lacrosse.

The defense will be composed of a number of new men. Welch, who played Tennis in a few games lasr year, and Carey, who has not played since his plebe year, look The 1938 Navy Tennis Team's opener like cerrainries on rhe close defense. Both against Yale on Saturday April 2 ran inro are second classmen and are good stick- the elements and the result was "No handlers. The third close defense posi- game—Rain." It was a great disappointtion, for which Ray DuBois, football cap- ment as the Yale Team is conceded to tain and veteran of last year, has rhe lead be a particularly strong array and an is being hotly contested for by Heb upset was expected by the wearers of rhe Player, whose size and speed force him Blue and Gold. The following eight ro be well considered. Al Bergner is ex- weeks of competition will include meets pected to enter competition for one of with the best teams of the East, and will rhe posts. Of the other candidates, Min- culminate in the Army-Navy match at vielle looks best in a group which in- West Point on May 28. cludes Hardy, Mason, Gilmore, Soballe, At the present time, it appears that Spector and Hamilton. the Navy team will be composed of Jack Captain Frank Case leads a group of Mathews, Dave Bill, and Capt. Brink fasr but not too experienced midfielders. Bass, veterans of last season; Bob Laney, Fred Green and George Muse are ex- a newcomer; Dave Marks and Andy Lyperienced and dependable. New men man, No. 1 and 2 plebe players of last who will be certain to see action are year. Other members of the squad who Rhythm Moore and Bill Ruhe, second will most likely see action this season are classmen; and Frankenberger, a young- Maxie Berns, Jack Ready, and Art Esch. srer. Munson, Raguet, Hauck, Shaffer, The team is being coached by Mr. and Phillips are likewise contenders.

George A. Gaudet. Lieut. J. M. WorthAt close artack four tried and true men ington is assisting Mr. Gaudet. are available in Bowers, who scored three times against Army last year; Rindskopf, Track Miller and Mann. Good prospects have been found in Charlie Hendrix, midget Nearly 100 candidates answered the speed king; youngster Hedrick, a tall left- first call for track on March 14 and were hander; and Simmons, a second classman immediately assigned by groups to their left-hander up from the B Squad. Fields, various coaches. The Academy is forO'Neill and Refo, another youngster, will tunate in having several of Coach Thombe used. BuMnch will be Nat James' re- son's former track srars at the P. G. lief at goal.

School who are available for coaching This year's team should be faster than duties. Among them are Lieuts. R. R. last season's which was rated an excellent Briner and R. W. Johnson. The former team and which lost in the last minutes held the Academy record in the 440 for of play 5-6 to a veteran Army team which several years while the latter was a sprinwas considered the best in the history of ter. Lieut. Edward Young will handle the distance men. the Point.

Only three men were lost from last The team will be less experienced, however, and will be ar a disadvantage year's team which defeated Army 68-58, against Princeton's veteran team which —Scofield, Isely, and Rich. Frank Blaha, MAY.

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Vincent Healy, and Dick Shaffer appear ro be capable replacements for these graduates.

The team is captained by Jack Dalton, one of a long line of better than average sprinters Navy has had. Jack showed his versatility last spring by twice winning the quarter mile run, first against Maryland and then against Army. He may see considerable duty there this spring as Leon Chabot, youngster, seems to be the best short sprinter in the Academy at present. He showed himself to be the best college sprinter in this section at 60 and 70 yards this past winter, winning those races in the Southern Conference meet at North Carolina and the University of Maryland-Fifth Regiment games in Baltimore, respectively. Chabot will have Bob Morgan and Harry Holovak as running mares in the 100, and Dalton in the 220.

Oldfield and James Smith in the mile should do well. The former ran a 4:27 mile in rhe Army meet for third place and has just "found" himself. Smith was bothered with bad legs last year and failed to develop as he gave promise of doing his plebe year.

Cecil Bolam, cross country captain last fall, may well prove to be one of our greatest two milers. It takes him some time to get in shape, being rarher bulky, but once he arrives he is almost unbeatable. Ralph Weymouth, third in the Army meer, Carl Dwyer and one or two others should prove good running mates.

It is rather hard to tell much about the high hurdles at this date. George Dalton

Midshipmen's Informal Hops Saturday, 16 April Saturday, 23 April Saturday, 30 April

Officers' Hops Sarurday, 23 April from 9:30 to midnight

Musical Club Shows Saturday, 16 April Saturday, 23 April 9:00 p. m.—Mahan Hall

Moving Pictures Sunday, 17 April Sunday, 24 April at 3:00 p. m.

Sunday, 24 April at 7:45 and 9:45 p. m.

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sprained his ankle while running in the finals in the Baltimore indoor meet and will be laid up for some time. He definitely will not be right for the first meet on April 23. Sam Forter, youngster, has a long road ahead of him before he can be counred on for many points. Dick Shaffer, another youngster, looked good last year and should be the number one man by rhe middle of May. Undefeated in five races last season in the low hurdles evenr, George Newton looks forward to a good year. His competition will be tougher, but he has worked hard this winter and should be one of the best in the East. Harry Howell, Eli Vinock and a couple of youngsters should make this one of Navy's strongest events. Howell was a very close third in the Army meet.

Navy will be better fixed this year in the three weight events than they ever have been. Frank Lynch, regimental five striper, holds both the shot and discus records and has just begun to know something about them. Irwin Fike has thrown the discus over 160 feet in practice and the shot close to 47. Both boys broke the Academy record in the platter throw last Spring. Lynch did so in winning the Army meet. Fike is also Navy's best in the Javelin, having a mark of 197 feet. Tom McGrath threw 184 as a plebe last year, while Vinock and Karl should do berter than 180 this spring.

Andy Gardner can be classed as a six foot high jumper, but he will need to add a few inches yet as the competition this spring will be very strong. Don Baughman. Spear, and Lirtle should improve.

Bill McCrory almost made 13 feet in the pole vault in the Army meet last year and should make the grade this spring.

Besides him. Navy will have a couple of very promising lads in Pete Shumway and Don Brewington. Both boys "found" themselves this winter and the latter may be the best Navy has ever had before he finishes up next year. He won the indoor meet at Baltimore and Shumway was second.

Dick Neal showed himself a great competitor last year when he clinched the Army meet by winning the broad jump on his last trial. Twenty-two feet eight inches is not a record by any means, but when it was done under pressure and when he had never beaten 21 feet until the week before, it is easily seen where the boy might still have a foot or two left in his system. He did that in his youngster year and has worked on the sprints all winter. Frank Blaha was a letter winner last year in the long jump and one or two others will help out here.

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From this lineup it will be seen that Navy, while having few outstanding men in the group, will have a fairly well rounded delegation and that is what it takes to win track meets. It is rather a tough assignment to turn back a team that can score in one to three places all afternoon and that is what Navy hopes to do in the dual meets.

One of the finest of schedules confronts the squad this spring. Beginning on April 23 and conrinuing straight through for six Sarurdays in a row, the boys will meet Columbia and Princeton in a triangular meet at Princeton, the cream of the East at the Penn Relays, Duke University, North Carolina, Virginia, and Army. The firsr test will be the stiffest. Columbia, winner of the indoor Intercollegiates the past two winters and runner up by a half point to Pittsburgh for rhe ourdoor championship last spring, will be rough to head off. Should the boys in Blue and Gold get by this hurdle, the chances are good that they will have little trouble the balance of the year.

Duke won the Southern Conference crown this winter, but has not the balance they have had in former years. Norrh Carolina is in much rhe same boar. All in all rhings look bright ahead, if the squad runs inro little tough luck and has few bad breaks.

The coach of track is Mr. E. J. Thomson. Midshipman R. B. Nelson is rhe manager of rhe ream.

Curt Vossler—all second classmen. The schedule lists six intercollegiate matches besides University of Virginia's, last season's undefeated Southern Conference Championships, — Princeton, Georgetown, Pennsylvania, and Washington and Lee. The Team is coached by Bob Williams, Pro of the Naval Academy Golf Club, and the intercollegiate matches at the Naval Academy are played on the course of the Annapolis Roads Club.

45th Annual ICFA Meet

The 1938 Intercollegiate Fencing Championships will be held in the Grand BaUroom, Hotel Astor, New York City, on April 15th and l6th. This meeting will mark the 45th meeting of the Association. The Navy first competed in 1900 and tied with Harvard with 23 points each for first place. Other teams who competed were: Cornell, 21; Columbia, 20; and Yale, 4. The Navy team was composed of: C. R. Train, M. Tamure, J. C. Kress, and L. B. McBride.

The Navy fencers have not lost a meet this year and it looks very favorable for anorher Championship for the Navy.

Also, as the Army competes in this meet, the chances look equally favorable for anorher Navy victory with more N STARS to come to the Academy. Teams which will compete in this coming meet are: Army; C. C. N. Y.; Columbia; Cornell; Hamilton; Harvard; M. I. T.; Navy; N. Y. U.; Penn; Princeton, and Yale.

Golf Those Navy followers who are in New The 1938 Golf season opens on April York will undoubtedly turn out to see this 16 with the Universiry of Virginia meet- meet and root for the Navy. ing the Midshipmen at the Naval Academy. There is greatly increased enthusiasm in this sport because of the recenr The Right Startl announcement that in 1939 they will meet the Army. The largest squad of Coach William H. "Dinty" Moore's candidates to ever rurn out for this the Navy Stick Team opened their 1938 seaNavy's youngest sport have reported to son on Saturday, April 2 at Worden Field Coach Bob Williams. Competition is by turning back Dartmouth's Big Green therefore very keen. The prospecrs, ac- Team by the score of 11-4. The feature cording to Bob, do not appear very bright of the victory was the fact that nine Navy since only two members of lasr year's players were able to score goals during squad remain. Larry Geis and Jack Pye the game. The Dartmouth squad, which are both consistent golfers, having carded is highly rated this season by the experts, a number of the best medal scores last is largely composed of members of last year, and, with experience behind them, season's truly great Football Team. They should be ready for a big year. Both are played a hard-riding game but not as second classmen and have two seasons of hard or as smoothly as did the Navy's competition behind them. Among last Ten. Frank Case is the Navy captain and year's replacements who show promise his team is rated high among the College are: Frank Jones, Frank Quady, Harry Tens. The Navy team is rated an excelHelfrich, Bud Schumann, Jim Ray, Russ lent chance to "cop the bunting" this Dell, Eddie Micka, Bobby Startzell, and season.

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TRUSTEES • There have already been some inquiries from members of the Association regarding the subscription cost of SHIPMATE. Tlie Trustees have decided that for the time being there will not be any charge. They have made available funds to cover the cost of publishing, mailing, etc., for rhe firsr three issues, at least.

These funds were derived from the profits of the 1937 REGISTER OF GRADUATES and contributions which come in from time to time. It is also hoped that commercial advertising will be obtained which will reduce the costs. Until those costs can be correctly gauged, and until the majoriry of the membership have indicated their desire and interesr in SHIPMATE, the Trustees desire to continue their policy of free circulation. Later on, the Board of Trustees may ask for voluntary contributions.

• SHIPMATE wishes to publish class news, feeling that various classes would appreciate using this medium of getting the dope to their classmates. It is requested that those individuals who desire to write news for their particular class, communicate with their class secretary, or if he is not known to the individual, to the Secretary-Treasurer, who will communicate with the right person. Material for SHIPMATE should come from the Class Secretary or his authorized agent.

Due consideration should be given to the present facilities of SHIPMATE and the limited space that can be made available for them.

Several requests have been received for advertising space in SHIPMATE from members who wish ro use that medium for lerting their friends know what business they are in and where.

SHIPMATE will be glad to render this service to members at a special rate that will permit such advertising at practically cost. The Trustees have not authorized any member advertising in this issue because of the fact that this is the first issue and but few of our members knew of its proposed establishment and, thus, could not avail themselves of the opportunity afforded. Those who desire may write to the Secretary-Treasurer who will quote prices when they have been established.

SHIPMATE has been mailed to every member whose address is known. If any member did not get his copy, it is because his address is not known. If you know of

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any member who has not received his copy, either graduate or non-graduate member, please communicate with the Secretary-Treasurer. The Officers of many of the Branch Associations have sent addresses of members in their particular Association to the Secretary-Treasurer.

This procedure insures that individuals will receive rheir copies.

SHIPMATE wishes to feature the Class of 1888 in the JUNE issue, on their 50th Anniversary. Will any of the surviving members of rhat Class communicate with Admiral S. S. Robinson, USN (Ret.), at the Admiral Farragut Academy, Toms River, N . J., and indicate the names and addresses of those non-graduate members srill surviving.

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the means of promulgating useful information, will provide a means of informing all members of what is being accomplished and what it is hoped to accomplish along the lines of our Mission.

SHIPMATE is an endearing word. It expresses much to the men of the Navy, —of kindness, of good fellowship, of trust, of devotion, of reverence. There is no word which so completely expresses our finer emotions. The officers of the Alumni Association hope that SHIPMATE will be useful to the Alumni of the Academy, and wish the unselfish support of all.

Zi^t lagt Call FIELD, W I L E Y M . R., Commander USN

(Ret.), '82. Died on January 30,1938, of pneumonia in Towson, Md. HoGGATT, W I L F O R D BACON, '84. Died on February 26, 1938, afrer a prolonged illness at the U. S. Veterans' Hospital in New York, N . Y. He was Governor of Alaska from 1906 to 1909.

• "The particular business and objects of the Association shall be to promote kindly feeling and social intercourse among its members, to foster the memories of the U. S. Naval Academy, to preserve the records of graduates and students of that Academy, and to make such V A N ANTWERP, WILLLAM CLARKSON, '87. Died on February 17, 1938, after records available for the use of the couna prolonged illness at his home in San try. It shall be a fixed purpose of the Francisco, Calif. Formerly a newsAssociation to uphold the moral tone, the paper man, he became a partner in intellectual standards, rhe traditions and E. F. Hutton & Co., of New York, and the esprit of the Naval Academy and of was for years a governor of the New the U. S. Navy, and to exert its influence York Stock Exchange. to prevent the decline of the Academy and the decadence of its graduates and PEARSON, HENRY ALLEN, Commander USN (Ret.), '93. Died on March 6, students."

1938 of pneumonia at the Naval HosThe above is quoted from the Certifipital, Brooklyn, N . Y. cate of Incorporation of the U. S. Naval Academy Alumni Association. It should PROCTOR, ANDRE MORTON, Captain USN (Ret.), '93. Died on March 23, be elaborated upon as time passes. Any1938 of thrombosis at the Naval Hosthing that is found to further the objects pital, Brooklyn, N . Y. of the Association deserves our united support. There is no question that many KIMBERLY, VICTOR ASHFIELD, Captain things can be done to promote the peaceUSN (Ret.), '99. Died on February time welfare of the Alumni of the U. S. 28, 1938 of arreriosclerosis at the NaNaval Academy and in so doing we will val Hospital, Mare Island, Calif. at the same time place the Association MCALLISTER, FRANK CHAMBERS, Lieuin a position to be of maximum service tenant (jg) USN, '31. Drowned ar to our country in time of national Pearl Harbor, T. H., on February 6, emergency.

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In the furtherance of the aims of the CRANE, L E O L., Lieutenant (jg) USN, Alumni Association, the regular publi'31. Killed in a plane crash near the cation of SHIPMATE is being undertaken.

Island of Oahu, T. H., on March 29, The ofiicers of the Association for a num1938. ber of years have realized the need for regular communication with the membership. Now that the Association has Please send in all information been worked out of the red, it is possible concerning vital statistics to Shipmate. to go ahead on an expanding program.

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The Branch Associations are requested to send in their information to the SecretaryTreasurer, Annapolis, Md., by the 5th of each month in order to insure it making the press.

Chicago Branch as well as officers on duty in that vicinity.

Regular meetings are held the last Friday evening of each month at which a dinner is scheduled. These dinners have been held in AKRON, OHIO the Ward Room of the Naval Reserve Armory for the past two years, at which the regular H. P. Harbold, '34 business is transaaed followed by an inforSecretary-Treasurer mal talk from a guest of honor. The last 81 Edgerton Road. meeting was held on 25 March at which Meeti ngs—I ndefinite.

Colonel Henry A. Allen of the Class of 1887 BALTIMORE, MD. « was guest of honor. Colonel Allen spoke informally on affairs in the Far East, a subject Officers: which has engaged his attention through H. O. Dunn, '77, Honorary Pres. many years of personal experience and study.

F. D. Karns, '95, Pres.

Anyone desiring information concerning J. T. Waldhauser, Jr., "23, 1st Vice Pres. the Naval Academy Alumni Association of K. P. 'Weikel, '33, 2nd Vice Pres.

Chicago should communicate with G. W. C. A. Russell, '06, Treas.

Fitzgerald, the President, at the Illinois Bell W. B. Bristor, '27, Sec. Telephone Company, 520 South Federal St., Directors: or the Secretary, Kenneth McCracken, 153 C. C. Slayton, '07 South La Salle St., Chicago. Also, those dropF. M. Price, '23 ping into Chicago, can obtain information L. D. Pickering, '13 concerning the names and addresses of the D. J. Fitzgerald, '26 members of the Association and the officers Dr. M. M. Whitehurst, Hon. Member Meetings—Monthly Dinners at the Staf- on duty in the locality. ford Hotel. Next meeting, 17 May.

BOSTON, MASS. E. M. Major, '16, Pres.

F. S. Hatch, '11, Vice Pres.

W. E. Haycock, '22, Secretary-Treasurer Directors: A. S. Kibbe, '05 H. A. Ellis, '10 F. B. Craven, '16 K. Dunwoody, '17 H. Burrough, '20 T. L. Johnson, '98 C. C. Soule, '04 Meetings—Round Table Luncheon on the first Wednesday of each month at Patten's Restaurant, Court Street.

A dinner meeting was held on 25 March with an attendance of 48. J. W. Powell, '97, gave a first-hand account of the sinking of the MERRIMAC. Admiral Gherardi, '95, made the introduaory remarks and told of supplying the MERRIMAC'S crew with toast and sausage before getting underway on that memorable voyage. C. A. Abele, '94, gave a humorous talk on what the plebes thought of the Speaker as a ratey youngster.

CHICAGO, ILL. Officers: G. W. Fitzgerald, Jr., '27, Pres.

H. A. Hutchins, '18, Vice Pres.

Kenneth McCracken, '23, Sec.-Treas.

Directors: Hubert Burnham, '05 J. T. Metcalf, '17 C. McA. Evans, '24 Informal— Meetings — Every Wednesday noon at "Navy Headquarters," La Salle Hotel.

Luncheons will be held in the Blue Fountain Room at the La Salle Hotel. The Association announce that arrangements are being completed by which the La Salle Hotel, located at Madison and La Salle Streets, in the Loop, will become "Navy Headquarters" in Chicago. It is also planned to keep available at the desk a roster of the members of the

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CINCINTVATI, OHIO

Harold T. Dawson,'22, 2333 Kemper Lane Meetings—Indefinite.

CLEVELAND, OHIO Meetings. Informal. Every Monday noon at a Round Table Luncheon at the Army and Navy Club, Hollenden Hotel.

Officers: A. Ray Staudt, '19, Pres. and Treas.

W. T. Lee, "21, Secretary, 4500 Euclid Ave.

DENTER, COLO. G. E. Tarbox, Jr., '25, 1729 Araphoe St. Indefinite.

DETROIT, MICH, D. C. Wilkerson, General Motors Bldg.

Meetings. Indefinite.

FORT WORTH, TEX. W. C. Fowler, '23, 2025 Huntington Lane Meetings. Indefinite.

HOUSTON,

TEX.

J. B. Spangler, '23, President T. G. Schirmeyer, '27, Secretary, Cotton Exchange Bldg.

Meeting. Indefinite.

J. B. Spangler, '23, Ex. Officio Pres.

T. G. Schirmeyer, '27, Ex. Officio Sec. Meeting. Indefinite.

The Ex-Officio Secretary, T. G. Schirmeyer, informs SHIPMATE that .the Houston Branch does not have an active Branch. He also reports that Charlie Whiteford, '21, recently established his home in Houston and is in the air conditioning busines. He recently had a serious operation on his back, but is doing nicely now.

WIS.

Kavanaugh C. Downey, "17, Secretary, 3328 North Bartlett Ave. Meetings—First Saturday of each month at 1.00 p. m. at the Hotel Pfister.

NEW ORLEANS, LA. Philip Seymour, '08, 822 Perdido St. Meeting. Indefinite.

MEW YORK, IS. Y. Officers: W. H. Standley, '95, Pres.

C. C. Vickery, '15, Vice Pres.

P. W. Siegrist, '24, Treas.

C. J. Lamb, '18, Secretary, 501 5th Ave. Executive Committee: H. G. Smith, '91 Logan Cresap, '05 A. Y. Lamphier, '10 A. A. Bigelow, '17 C. A. L. Sundberg, '21 H. C. Garrison, '22 R. N. Flippin, '26 A. A. Denton, '31

OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLA. T. A. Nicholson, '10, Cotton Exchange Bldg.

Meeting. Indefinite.

PHILADELPHIA, PA. Officers: J. R. Hughes, '21, Pres.

E. C. Kline, '21, Vice Pres.

Shane H. King, '25, Secretary, Gulf Oil Company C. F. Markoe, '23, Treas.

Directors: R. M. Watt, '91 G. W. Eyre, '87 L. E. Fagan, '10 W. Van C. Brandt,'11 G. B. Junkin, '13 Blackwell Newhall, '23 E. A. Seay, '24 J. E. Walsh, Jr., '33 Meeting. The next meeting will be held at a location to be announced on Friday, 22 April. Admiral Cluverius, Commandant of the Navy Yard, Philadelphia, will be the speaker. The committee to handle the arrangements for the Army and Navy football game will be appointed.

PITTSBURGH, PA. Officers: Howard V. Clark, '21, Pres.

John W. Marts, '20, Vice Pres.

C. E. Briner, '26, Sec.-Treas., 4733 Center Ave. Meetings—To be announced later.

The Pittsburgh Branch is now putting on an intensive drive to develop a complete list of all Alumni in their distria. Alumni are requested to send their address to the Secretary-Treasurer in the event you have not already done so.

RICHMOND, VA. W. D. Whitehead, '19, 703 Grace St. Meeting. Indefinite.

INDIANAPOLIS, USD. J. E. Fleming, 1015 Architeas Bldg.

Meeting. Indefinite.

LOS ANGELES, CAL. Valentine Wood, '13

SAN DIEGO, CAL. Officers: H. P. Perrill, '97, Pres.

J. M. Schelling, '07, Vice Pres.

A. J. Gray, '21, Sec.-Treas., P. O. Box 396 SHIPMATE

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T h e "Buckeyes" from Ohio State paid a visit t o the Naval Academy on Wednes" W. H. STAYTON, 1881, President day, March 26, with t h e intention of . E. F. COCHRANE, 1916, Secretary-Treasurer meeting t h e N a v y nine on Lawrence BOARD O F TRUSTEES H. G. Gillmor 1891 Field that afternoon. However, M r . J. D. F. Sellers 1894 Pluvius, Master Rain-maker, got in some W. H. Standley 1895 of his best work with t h e result that t h e E. J. Sadler 1899 aforesaid "Buckeyes" were lucky enough -G. V. Stewart 1905 to return t o t h e shores of Columbus not "Bryson Bruce 1907 M. D. Gilmore 1911 having been trampled by the Middies.

G. B . Junkin 1913 G. W. Daisley 1923 W. B. Brisror 1927 J. H. Howard 1930 Indians Scalpedl Address all communications to: The Secretary-Treasurer, T h e p e p and zip of the Middies 1938 U. S. Naval Academy Alumni Association, nine broke out, particularly, in t h e fifth Annapolis, Maryland. inning of t h e affray with t h e Dartmouth Advertising office: Indians on Saturday, April 2 when J o e 3916 Navy Department Pyrtek, Indian hurler, was driven t o t h e Washington, D. C. showers while t h e Navy rocked and HONORARY MEMBERS socked five runs across t h e platter. T h e The following named officers are Honorary final score was 7-2 in favor of the pamMembers of the Association: T. Holcomb, Major General Commandant, pered pets of Uncle Sam, and did Max Bishop grin! T h e game was played in U. S. Marine Corps Commodore N. M. Terry, (Math.) USN a drizzle and t h e field was soggy.

(Ret.) Captain T. W . Johnson, (Math.) USN (Ret.)

Our Advertisers] Directors: T. J. Senn, '91 S. W. Wallace, '06 J. F. Moloney, '14 Meeting—The next meeting will be held at the San Diego Club on 29 April.

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Officers: J. S. Graham, '98, Pres.

R. C. Ryan, Sec, 909 Hyde St.

ST. LOUIS, MO.

POSITIONS WANTED

H. J. Elson, '98, 208 N. Broadway Meeting. Indefinite.

NAVAL ACADEMY GRADUATE, Class of 1934,

WASHINGTON, D. C. Officers: Chester Wells, '93, Pres.

J. N. Johnson, '22, Vice Pres.

W. F. Bullis, '24, Secretary, Silver Spring, Md. R. D. Stinson, '23, Treasurer Council: H. G. Gillmor, '91 V. J. Gallagher, '22 J. E. Sullivan, '24 R. L. Stevens, '27 E. V. Burt, '31 Meetings—First Friday of each month at the Army and Navy Club at 8 p. m. Informal meetings are held every Thursday at the Old King Cole Room at the Claridge Hotel, Connecticut Ave., berween H and I Sts. There is always a group of members and out of town alumni present at these enjoyable meetings.

At the Annual Meeting in May, the annual elettion of officers will be held. There will also be a prominent speaker and other entertainment.

MAY, 1 9 3 8

desires employment with an Engineering Company or an Oil Company. Willing to travel or go anywhere. Refer to W-211.

NAVAL ACADEMY GRADUATE, Class of 1927,

desires conneaion with an Engineering Company. Has had considerable experience in Radio. East, or middle west location preferable. Refer to M-111.

NAVAL ACADEIVIY GRADUATE, Class of 1920,

desires connettion with a Munitions Plant, or Aviation Company. Refer to C-55.

NAVAL ACADEMY GRADUATE, Class of 1930,

desires conneCTion with Engineering Company. Willing to travel. No particular locality preferred. Refer to L-79.

NON-GRADUATE NAVAL ACADEMY, Class of

1910, resigned in 1909, desires position as office executive with company in or near Washington, D. C. Refer to R-94.

NON-GRADUATE NAVAL ACADEMY, Class of

NAVY ATHLETIC SCHEDULES FOR 1938 Football—1938 Sept. 24 OCT. 1 Oct. 8 OCT. 15 OCT.

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William and Mary College Virginia Military Insritute University of Virginia Yale University (at New Haven, Conn.)

Princeton University (at Baltimore, Md.) University of Pennsylvania (at Philadelphia, Pa.) University of Notre Dame (at Baltimore, Md.) Columbia University (at New York City) U. S. Military Academy (at Philadelphia, Pa.)

Plebe Football—1938 Sept. 24 OCT. 1 OCT. 8 OCT. 15 Oct. 29 Nov. 12

Georgetown Univ. Freshmen Massanutten Military Academy Valley Forge Military Academy Bordentown Alilitary Institute Kiskiminetas Springs School The Hun School

B Squad Football—1938 OCT. 15 Yale Univ. B Squad (at New Haven, Conn.)

OCT. 21 Princeton Univ. B Squad Nov. 12 Univ. of Pennsylvania B Squad Nov. 24 Univ. of Pittsburgh B Squad

Soccer—1938 OCT. 12 Lafayette College OCT. 21 Yale University OCT. 26 Lehigh University Nov. 5 Pennsylvania State College (at State College, Pa.) Nov. 9 Gettysburg College Nov. 19 Cornell University Nov. 23 U. S. Military Academy (at West Point, N . Y.)

Plebe Soccer—1938 OCT. 26 Catonsville High School Nov. 9 Sparrows Point High School Nov. 23 Baltimore City College

Cross Country—1938 OCT. 14 Universiry of Pittsburgh OCT. 22 Quadrangular Meet (U. S. Military Academy, Princeton University, Columbia University, U. S. Naval Academy) (at New York City) Nov. 4 University of North Carolina Nov. 12 University of Maryland

Plebe Cross Country-1938 OCT. 28 University of Virginia Freshmen Nov. 4 Mercersburg Academy Nov. 12 Univ. of Maryland Freshmen

1938, resigned in 1938 desires to be em(All contests to be held at the Naval Acadployed in an Engineering Company. Refer to R-95. emy, unless otherwise noted) 1.5

SPECIAL NOTICE TO MEMBERS The following article is published in the interest of the members who may attend the Army-Navy Baseball game.

The following invitation is published in the interest of the members who may attend the Alumni Luncheon.

On May 28, 1938, on Lawrence Field at the U. S. Naval Academy, the baseball teams of West Point and Annapolis will meet for rheir annual game. On the same day the track teams will compete in Thompson Stadium at the U. S. Naval Academy.

While these athletic events do not have the tremendous appeal of the annual Army-Navy football game there is always packed inro rhem a lot of interest and excitement.

The baseball game always is a "sell out."

The Navy Athletic Association having responsibility, under the Superintendent for rhe handling of this game, has distributed ticket applications, a reprinr of the front of which is given below.

If any alumnus expects to be near Annapolis on the day of this game he'd better get his ticket (s) in advance or he'll probably find the June Week visitors have crowded him out of the stands.

Here's the way to do it.

Office of the Superintendent UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY March 23, 1938.

Dear Captain Stayton: It will be a very great pleasure for everyone now at the Naval Academy to welcome the Alumni to the Naval Academy on May 28.

The privileges of the Club are cordially extended to all of the Alumni Association for that day and a special luncheon will be served ar rhe Club before the Army-Navy baseball game.

We will be ever so glad to see you all.

Sincerely yours, WILSON BROWN. Captain W. H. Stayton, National Press Building, Washington, D. C. NAVAL

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