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AS we read over the proofs on this isl \ . sue, it seems that a number of the articles are devoted to groups for whom World War II is not yet over.

First of all, there are the wounded, the convalescents. This number of SHIPMATE is dedicated specifically to Naval Medicine, and it is to the wounded that the progress of Naval Medicine is most important. Exclusively for us. Admiral Ross T. Mclntire, Surgeon General of the Navy, has Written his own summary of the status of his Bureau. He not only recapitulates its record during the war years, but reveals his plans for maintaining skilled medical men and continuing to progress in methods and techniques during the coming years.

ANOTHER group to whom the war -i*. is still a daily reality are the relatives of those on the "missing" list. Here, for the first time, is a full and intensely interesting account of how the Navy's Casualty Office handles its records of missing men, how it searches for them, how it determines when further search is hopeless. there are millions in the THIRDLY, world to whom the war was most important because it was the cause of the famine that is today destroying their bodies and debilitating their minds. And as one highlight of how UNRRA supplies are reaching the starving hordes of China, we include in this issue an interesting pictorial record of the cruise of a number of landing craft up the Yangtze, delivering cargoes of mercy.

AS you will see, one of the most elab-'*• orate features of the issue is our coverage of the June Week activities at the Academy. It is the most ambitious thing of the kind we have attempted since our story of the Centennial Celebration—and we sincerely hope it will meet with an equally enthusiastic reception from you, our readers.

ALMOST unique among the reams of • ^ unformnate written material on the general subject of Regular-Reserve relationships is the article, "A Reserve Looks at the Regulars," in this issue. Written by a Reserve, it reaches rhe astonishing conclusion that Academy graduates are not so bad after all!

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EXT month: Naval Aviation. It's a big number, featuring some distinguished professional writing and lots of good picmres. So save some reading time for us in August.

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Miscellaneous Cargo The Navy on Capitol Hill—By Fred Lardner W i t h Sights Set. High—By Vice Admiral Mclntire,

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in his subordinates. Norman, by refusing to quake in his awe-inspiring presence, earns his temporar}' respea and thus the whole-hearted support of Kimberly, himself a fearful respecter of Evans.

On a trip to Hollywood to secure an option on the services of a second-rate radio comedian whom Evans thinks is terrific, Norman meets Kay Dorrance.

Kay is thirty-two, has a husband overseas T H E HUCKSTERS, hy Frederick Wake- and two children. They fall in love and man (Rinehart, S2.50) Norman's matter-of-fact world suddenly T H E HUCKSTERS is a satire of the ra- becomes compUcated.

Mr. Wakeman, for the first eleven dio advertising business. Written by the same man who authored Shore Leave, it chapters of T H E HUCKSTERS, reminds one of Sinclair Lewis. At that point the promises to be an even bigger success.

Vic Norman, the central figure of the same thing happens to Vic Norman that story, is a former OWI man who arrives happens to many characters who are in New York looking for a job. On his "squeezed" into a "plot" noveL The old way to his first interview with exactly Vic Norman vanishes; in his place apforty dollars in his pocket, he pauses to pears somebody else of the same name buy a thirty-five dollar tie because, to who might have been the brainchild of him, it is sufficiently "sincere looking" to Kathleen Norris or Edna Ferber. The impress a possible employer. This little author vainly attempts to disguise his episode is die key to Norman's character; obvious purpose of having a socially ache never makes a move until he is con- ceptable end to his story with an attempt vinced he is "sincere." Employed by the to convince the reader that Vic Norman's big radio advenising fijrm of Kimberly conversion is due to the influence of a and Maag as a $35,000 a year account ex- woman. One suspects T H E HUCKSTERS ecutive, he soon proves his worth. Old was written with one eye on Hollywood. man Evans, president of the Beautee Soap If so, the attempt was eminently successCompany, is a 512,000,000 client who ful to the mne of a reported 5200,000 in sadistically uses his money to inspire fear movie rights.

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Mr. Wakeman has demonstrated that he can write realistically in an absorbing and authentic manner. As a satirist, he is as convincing as Sinclair Lewis but not as subtle. He can become a great writer. bv Ernie Pyle (Henr\' Holt Co. $2.50)' In February 1945, Ernie Pyle left San Francisco to get a first hand look at the war in the Pacific. Two months later, on the little island of le Shima, off Okinawa, a Japanese bullet killed America's greatest and best-loved correspondent. In that short time, Ernie Pyle had written of the B-29 bases on Guam, the first great carrier attack on Tokyo and the invasion of Okinawa. LAST CHAPTER, in a hundred and fifty pages, teUs the story of those two months.

When the Navy asked Pyle what type of ship he wanted to ride on, he requested a small carrier because, "Jap planes always went for the big carriers first rather than the little ones." He quickly adds, Turther investigation revealed this to be pure fiction!" At any rate, Ernie Pyle did his usual wonderful job of reporting the litde everyday things in a fighting man's life. His descripdon of carrier life {Continued on page 26) LAST CHAPTER,

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AS SHIPMATE goes to press, it is appar-**- parent that Congress will have to determine the scope of the proposed ArmyNavy merger. Secretary of War Patterson and Secretary of Navy Forrestal have reported to the President that they are unable to reach an agreement on a merger plan. The deadlock revolves around these three subjects: Merger of the War and Navy Departments into a single department of national defense, headed by one Cabinet member; the future stams of naval aviation; the place of the Marine Corps in the military establishment.

Army chiefs were reported to have been willing to drop demands for a single department, if the Navy would give up all its land-based aviation, retaining only ship-based aviation, flying boats, and land-based training and administtadon planes, and permit some change in the stams of the Marine Corps.

Top-ranking Army generals say they would not reduce the Marine Corps to the status of a ceremonial guard unit, as charged by the Navy. They also say the Nadon can not have "two amphibious armies." It may well be, as sometimes said, that the Army is jealous of the record built up by the Marine Corps, particularly in areas where both the Marine Corps and the Army operated.

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promise" with Secretary Patterson in conflict with their views.

"Congress will not approve a single department plan," they told Mr. Forrestal, through the newspapers as well as by letter.

Then the Democratic whips of the Senate and the House—Senator Lister Hill and Representative John J. Sparkman, both of Alabama—told the press it was "presumptuous" of the Naval Affairs Committee chairmen to advise Mr. Forrestal against any merger compromise.

In brief, that is the picmre of one of the two most important subjects ever influencing the Navy in peacetime. The other subject, the atomic bomb, will not gready affect the Navy until several months after the atomic tests in July.

Thus, the merger battle is already joined in Congress, where it will be decided in spite of statements that, since the President is Commander-in-Chief, neither Congress nor the Navy should resist his suggestions.

Congressional Lineup On Merger ERE are the possibilities of legH islative action on an Army-Navy merger. First, passage of S. 2044 as it stands, with the Navy Secretary, and the Army Secretary, being five or six administrative layers below a supreme Secretary of Common Defense; with the Army, in effect, taking over the Marines and naval shore-based aviation; and with dangerous powers concentrated in the hands of one man, a civilian, who probably would know more about the Army than the Navy, but all too little about either; and with a single military officer in charge of all the armed forces. It is probably a thousand-to-one that such a bill could pass. Second, passage of S. 2044 so amended as to be practically a new bill, less objectionable to the Navy.

Third, passage of a new bill, probably originating in the Senate Naval Affairs Committee. Senator Walsh has said, however, that he does not intend to introduce a bill, at least not in the near fumre.

ERE is the merger picmre as of the end of May. The merger bill—S. 2044—born of pro-Army minds in the Senate Mihtary Affairs Committee was referred to the Senate Naval Affairs Committee for consideration. The Naval Affairs Committee held a number of hearings, during which feamres of the bill objeaionable to the Navy and its supporters were emphasized. President Truman, apparendy convinced that the merger plan proposed by the Army and embodied in the bill might do more harm than good, requested Secretaries Forrestal and Patterson to settle their unificarion differences and report to him by May 31. Then Senator Walsh and RepThere is yet another approach to this resentadve Vinson, Naval Affairs Com- problem. That is, by making provision mittee chairmen, publicly asked Secretary for an independent Army Air Force, with Forrestal not to enter into "any com- a chief of cabinet status, the present

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Army-Navy merger plans would die. The Air Force boys are reported to have started this campaign to belittle the Navy (which is all it amounts to). Apparently they really believe they could win a major war aU by themselves, and they do not like to see the Navy getting appropriations for what they call "obsolete methods of warfare." It is probable that they would say the same about the Army, if it were not for the fact that they are in the Army, bossed by men who believe in ground fighting as well as air fighting.

Wisely enough, Navy spokesmen suggested the separate Army Air Force as a compromise. Now several influential legislators, some of whom helped write the merger bill, say they would support such a compromise.

In attempting to weigh the statement of Messrs. Walsh and Vinson against those of Messrs. Hill and Sparkman, the principal consideration is that they are all Democrats. It is probable that a majority of Republicans—possibly a large majority—would vote against submerging the Navy as proposed in S. 2044. If the Democrats were split on the proposal, and they are likely to be, the vote would be against the measure.

Objections To S. 2044

their letter to Secretary Forrestal, INSenator Walsh and Representative

Vinson raised the following objections to the bill: 1. It fails to differentiate between democratic and authoritative methods and procedures. By creating one secretary of common defense, and one chief ot staff of common defense, the bill would concentrate too much power in the hands of too few men. It would establish authoritative controls similar to those associated with dictatorships and other totalitarian forms of government.

One-man control over the strategic planning of a nation's armed forces has, in the past, always resulted in military defeat.

2. It fails to differentiate between the functions of planning and the execution of a plan. The bill would relegate the Joint Chiefs of Staff to the posidon of an advisory body only. It would substimte for the joint decisions of this body (Continued on page 26)

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By Vice-Admiral Ross T. Mclntire, Surgeon General, United States Navy The war-won proficiency of Naval Medicine will not be lost in the present peace

T is the mission of the Medical DeImany partment of the Navyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;"To keep as men at as many guns as many days as possible."

The fact that better than 97.8% of the Navy's battle casualties in World War II survived their ordeal is ample proof that this mission was successfully fulfilled. In addition to the care and restoration of the casualties of warfare, rhe general health cf Naval personnel was maintained at a level higher than it was believed possible to attain for so large a body of men under the conditions imposed by world-wide operations.

Without any hesitation it can be said that the personnel, officers and enlisted, of all branches of the Medical Department can be justifiably proud of their contribution to our victory.

Now that hostilities have ceased, the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery and its component departments can direct all energies and efforts towards the more purposeful ends of medical science. For medical science should not be primarily concerned with the mending of the wounds and injuries inflicted by man upon man in the selfish endeavor of one group to dominate or control the other, but rather does its chief concern lay in

the selfless endeavor to improve the welfare of mankind generally and without qualification.

While the first and foremost purpose of the Medical Department of the Navy is to safeguard, maintain and improve the health standards of the Navy and its personnel, it is inevitable that in so doing mankind the world over will derive benefits from the work of the Navy's doctors and its scientists in medical fields.

During the war years the Regular Navy Medical Corps was supplemented by a large number of Reserve Officers, many of whom were outstanding specialists in the various fields of medicine and the medical sciences. These officers brought to the Navy professional knowledge and skill which contributed significantly towards increasing the standards of the Medical Department. Now, a large number of these men have remrned to civilian life and the pursuit of their professions. In the near future virmally all of those remaining will have returned to their civilian status.

The Navy, however, in addition to providing the necessary medical care and protection for personnel afloat and ashore at home and abroad, still has the problem of giving the proper medical care to the

more than 43,000 patients in naval hospitals. Then too, the very large problem of providing medical care for the countless number of dependents of service personnel in dispensaries across the nation imposes an added burden to our facilities.

The scarcity of doctors was rapidly developing into the acute stage. In order to forestall such a simation it recently became necessary to require those medical officers now on duty as well as medical smdents still in training who received all or part of their medical education at government expense, under the V-12 program, to serve a period of two years as commissioned officers on active duty.

Under rhe circumstances, it is felt, in all quarters, that such action is entirely justified. In so doing, the Navy will immediately be provided with approximately 1,700 medical officers and, in due time, an additional 400 others who are still in training.. Thus, it is believed, that the simation will be considerably alleviated in the foreseeable fumre.

One of the principal and present challenges to be met by the Medical Department of the Navy is the maintenance of the high level of medical standards established during the recent war years. As has been previously stated, many of the doc-

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tors who contributed so greatly in setting those standards were reserve officers; men of mature years, possessing extensive knowledge of their respective specialties and financially attractive practices in civilian lifeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a fitting reward for their earlier struggles.

To meet the challenge arising from such circumstances and to make the profession of naval medicine more appealing to well qualified young doctors, the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery has instituted a post-graduate training program for its medical officers. ' I ^HIS program, in addition to increasâ&#x20AC;˘'- ing the professional proficiency and improving the standards of medical practice, is designed to afford Naval Medical Officers the oppormnity to train in specialties and thereby to become qualified for American Board certification, Fellow-

ship in one of the American Colleges and other marks of distinction in the same manner as doctors engaged in civilian practice.

At the present time sixteen outstanding specialists in their respective fields have been appointed to a Reserve Consultants Board to the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery for the purpose of advancing the program. With but a single exception, all of the consultants are members of the Naval Medical Reserve Corps, four of whom are still on active duty. Through their combination of professional skill and knowledge gained in civilian life and their experiences in naval medicine during their service throughout the war, these doctors possess a keen insight into the problems of military medicine and are singularly qualified for their positions.

As members of the Consultants Board,

Great strides were made during war in first aid to wounded while st:ll at sea. This man is being transferred to a hospital ship.

it will be their duty to meet and confer at the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, visit and survey U. S. Naval Hospitals in respect to the graduate training program, confer and advise with the Medical Officers in Command and with the Chiefs of Services and assist in the choice of Reserve Consultants to the staffs of Naval hospitals.

Residency training programs have already been established in nine Naval hospitals and several outstanding civilian instimtions. Courses in such highly specialized fields as: neuro-psychiatry, dermatology and syphilology, radiology, anesthesiology, internal medicine, urology, obstetrics, orthopedic surgery and pathology are being offered. As the program develops, it is planned to introduce courses in other specialties and at other Naval hospitals and civilian instimtions.

This program is, as can be clearly seen, aimed at making available the oppormnity for Naval Medical Officers to advance their medical skills and knowledge and gain professional prestige in the fields of their choice. During the war years, for the most part, such oppormnities were not so readily afforded because of service requirements.

Through this graduate program and the opportunities it provides the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery hopes, under long range planning, to make the career of a Naval Medical Officer as attractive to the young, fully qualified medical school graduate as is possible. The professional careers of these men will be encouraged, fostered and developed at every opportunity so that they may pursue their careers in the Navy Medical Corps with the confidence derived from the knowledge that their professional abilities are on a par or surpass their counterparts in civilian life.

While the prime function of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery is to provide and maintain the standards of health and physical well-being for naval personnel, its objectives are projected far beyond that goal. ofttimes fraught OURwithexperiences, anxiety, during the years of

World War II, certainly served to drive home most forcibly the importance of research in every single field of scientific endeavor. Research is and always has been of preeminent importance in the field of medicine. It has been said that the ultimate goal of the medical profest sion is to destroy itself through the development of preventive medicine. That is no idle statement and the Navy is doing its utmost to that end.

At the National Naval Medical Center located at Bethesda, Maryland, our medical men and medical scientists are and have been continuously engaged in study, research and the development of ways and means to improve the physical

standards of all mankind. Through the work performed at Bethesda and the efforts of naval medical units working in the field in remote corners of the earth, there have resulted the cure for man's age-old enemy—cholera, the development of insect and mite repellants that put chiggers, mites and mosquitoes, to mendon a few of the pests, absolutely on the defensive. The cure for malaria no longer presents the blank wall it formerly did. Measures are now at hand to control relapsing fever—the scourge of military forces ever since man began to conquer man through force. Continuous work is being carried on in the development of better and more improved protheses for the service amputees and those whose sight has been lost. Again, while this work and its results are directed primarily towards the betterment of naval padents, the good derived therefrom becomes the knowledge of the medical profession and benefits all those who have suffered loss of limbs or eyes, for it must be remembered that the efforts of the truly professional medical man are hindered by neither race, creed, color, nadonal nor international boundaries.

These efforts are resolved in the purely altmisdc motive of man helping his fellow man.

Paralleling the same kind of undertaking as that at Bethesda, the Navy but recently commissioned a new hospital at Dublin, Georgia. While, in the overall scope of operations at the U. S. Naval Hospital at Dublin are those of a general hospital, it is primarily intended to serve as a center for the smdy of the cause, prevention and cure of rheumatic fever.

Since the beginning of time rheumatic fever has ranked high among those diseases that disable for life and too often prove fatal to juveniles. It has been termed as, "the disease that licks the joints and gnaws the hearts," and today approximately one million persons— mosdy children and teen-agers — are among its victims.

You may ask, "Why is or why should the Navy be so concerned about such a childhood or teen-age disease?" On the surface, a justifiable question to which a justifiable explanation is readily available.

The physical examination records gathered under the Selective Service System have evidenced the fact that an appalling number of the men examined were not physically qualified to serve their country in time or war. Those examined, it should be borne in mind, were supposed to be, as they say, "the cream of our young manhood"; young men who were yet in the course of reaching their physical and mental prime. Yet, a distressing number were rejected because of faulty heart action, due, in a far dispropordonate number of cases, to rheumatic fever.

enough time has not yet WHILE elapsed to permit a thorough examination of all the records, it is reasonably safe to say at this stage that the majority of all such heart conditions in those young men can be traced to rheumatic fever in childhood or adolescence.

On the part of the Navy, special provisions for this disease was necessitated when an unduly large number of such cases occurred in three widely separated recruit training stations. The health records indicated that the majority of rheumatic fever patients had had a recent history of streptococcus infection or scarlet fever. Because of the known prevalence of the fever among those of juvenile age, it is safe to assume that many of the young sailors would have become infected even had they remained civilians.

However, the fact remained that these youngsters were the problem of the Navy

Medical Department to which they looked for a cure of their illness.

By bringing all such cases together in one center it was believed that better conditions could be obtained for finding a solution to the problem. Because of the insidious namre of rheumatic fever and the relatively short time since the establishment of the hospital at Dublin, Georgia, it is, at the present time, a bit premature to make any broad predictions regarding a definite cure. However, it can be said that from the results thus far obtained, it can be stated that we shall, in the not too distant fumre, be able to chalk up another victory against a longstanding enemy of mankind.

The Navy also recently established a Medical Center on the island of Guam, in the Marianas. This Center will consist of a Naval hospital to care for personnel {Continued on page 21)

Hub of naval medicine is the famous Medical Center at Bethesda, where these nurses are shown at regular drlling during training period.

The freaks of fate and the worries of relatives combine to make

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HE war is well over for most of the Navy, the principal job being that of picking up the pieces. But in the Casualty Section of the Bureau of Naval Personnel the war with all its tragedies is still a vivid and living thing. For here the families of men who have been reported missing in action bring their queries, their troubles, their complaints.

Commander H. B. Atkinson, USNR, head of the section, and Commander W. J. McNichol, USNR, who until just recendy bore the burden and heat of the struggle with him, have presided over an endless panorama of the tragedies and comedies that afflict the human race while engaged in war.

Anything in the public prints, the comic strips or the moving pictures that touches on the subject of missing men will bring in an avalanche of letters and

telegrams to the office. Families of naval personnel watch the Pacific with eagle eyes. No one from the Navy was killed in the big typhoon on Okinawa, but the Casualty Section got 300 anxious telegrams anyway.

Though thousands of men originally on the missing lists, sometimes only for a day or so, have been accounted for among the living, the Navy has up to 29 March 1946, had to change the stams of 29,772 men from missing to dead.

In many cases direct evidence has been obtained of death through talks with prisoners of war or through the searches conducted by the Army, Navy, and Air Force all over the world, now almost completed. In other cases, because of the circumstances of naval deaths in action which indude sunken ships, submarines lost without a trace, airplanes which van-

The wartime job of these people is only now nearing completion, for this is the Navv Casnaltv Office. In these files are the records of all the missins men.

ished and all the usual hazards of war which affect the fate of men, very litde information is obtained. The stamtory time passes, the men are gone but no one can say where they lie. A finding of presumptive death is made. In May the Navy announced that the number still listed as missing in action has been cut to less than 1,000. The announcement was also made that the search of the Pacific Islands lying within the jurisdiaion of the Commander-in-Chief of the Pacific Ocean area has been completed.

These statements herald the approaching completion of a job that has been carried on with much dogged plugging amid tragedy, comedy, reveladon of terrible war crimes, stories of men's endurance and heroism, and all the stories of suffering and death that come to light as die hidden tales are revealed. The office

He came bark from the 'hnissing." Lt. B. C. Gibson, rescued after tw^o months.

mm malty Section's job a tough one.

where much of this drama has been played out to the close will be busy for some time however, for not only do relatives of men who were never found continue to hope and write letters, but the office also has to setde the death claims after the stams of a man has been resolved.

All sons of headaches arise in this phase of the problem. Men with too many widows; divorce decrees that were not final at the time of the legal death of a Navy man; separated parents; daims of foster parents who had never completed adoption formalities â&#x20AC;&#x201D; complications are sometimes almost unbelievable. The great common man often didn't lead a simple life. He got himself all snarled up, and if he died or vanished during the "War, the services have to untangle the confusion.

In addition to these difficulties in private lives that death revealed, the Casual-

By Beryl Dill Kneen

ty Office is queried by folks who want to know why the Navy doesn't find and raise the 40 submarines that vanished without a clue to their whereabouts. Fuel is added to the flames that keep the office on the hot seat by careless acquaintances, who tell families that they are sure they saw Tom leaning out of a skyscraper window in San Francisco or driving a water buffalo in Bombay. When the giver of such information is queried it usually turns out that it wasn't Tom after all, but some fancied resemblance noted at some distance. The well-known fact that ten people can see one incident and give contradictory accounts of it often doesn't assist in getting facts.

Well up front among the missing who will never be found are the submarine men. For when a submarine h?s failed to return, weeks have often lapsed since the

time it was last reported. Undersea work is simply like that. Close up to the enemy and often in danger, the vessel might go weeks before it got to a point where it could make its presence known to the Navy.

One of the luckiest of the submariners is Clifford W. Kuykendall, Gunner's Mate, 2nd class, of St. Joe, Texas, only survivor of the TULLIBEE. Kuykendall was in the conning tower of the submarine when it was suddenly hit by the enemy. The submarine went down, but Kuykendall was blown from his post into the water. A Japanese destroyer found him floating and strafed him, wounding him in six places. He was picked up, however, and when V-J day arrived he was found working in a Japanese mine.

He reported to the Bureau of Personnel {Continued on page 22)

-\lthough many a flier found his way back from a crash after being listed as "missing," few of those so designated today have a chance to be alive. This whole crew survived, however. They spent weeks in the jungle in the South Pacific after their Flying Fortress was lost.

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. a certain amount of 'ring clicking' in the presence of Reserves."

T won't be long now. In another two Iloved months I expect to fold up my beblues and lay them away in the attic trunk. The next time I put them on, I hope it will be for a veteran's parade or a smnmer cruise or maybe just to show my kids how their daddy looked in the war.

For more than three years I have been anticipating the day when I could check out for good. In wardrooms and officers' dubs, in my room and on watch I have discussed the joys of inactive duty with scores of other reserve officers. "When I get out of this lashup . . ." the conversation always began. If all the hours we spent during the war years, cursing the military in general and the Navy in particular, were laid end to end they would stretch from Shanghai to Bizerte and back again.

A good percentage of our most vituperative invective was reserved for officers who were graduated from the Naval Academyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the Regulars.

By the time I had finished Midshipmen's School I was convinced that no one ever spoke of an officer of the so-called professional Navy as a "Regular." He was to be called a "Damiuegular" in much the same manner as some South12

arbitrary condemnation, but like countless thousands of other reserve officers, I accepted the phenomena without question. In later years I often asked fdlow officers, who were imequivocally denouncing Regulars as a class, what was wrong with them. I never received a satisfactory answer to my queryâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;only an uncomprehending expression of disbelief.

I am now convinced that this attitude of animosity toward Academy graduates was a vogue, developed early in the war and carried through to the end without rhyme or reason. The same situation existed to a certain extent with regard to the attimde of the majority of American servicemen toward the British. Soldiers and sailors who spent the entire war in the States or in the Padfic Theater without coming within a htmdred miles of an authentic Englishman, were often prone to denounce the "ducking teadrinking Limeys" as parasitical slackers. As the vogue for condemning Regulars gained momentum and was passed along from the old hands to the new arrivals, it was

The Regulars had their faults, says the author, but most of the f

erners speak of their neighbors to the north as "Damnyankees."

After we received our commissions I went to Washington for a short course of instruction at the Bomb Disposal School. From there I went almost immediately to an amphibious base in a remote section of 'Wales, where every officer from the skipper on down, with the exception of a few warrant officers, wrote "USNR" after his name. The result was that after spending more than a year in the naval service, I had not had a single contact, not even a casual conversation, with a graduate of the Naval Academy.

And yet I never hesitated to condemn the Regulars on the slightest provocation.

Nor was my attitude unlike that of the other junior officers in my outfit. Many of them were on their first or second tour of duty and although I was the undisputed junior ensign among them, their experience had been just about as limited as my own. Still, we all gave the Regulars holy hell.

I could see no obvious basis for this

never questioned. Yoimg reserve officers accepted the tendency as a custom, and I suspect if the war had lasted much longer it would have assumed the proporriwis of a tradition.

How did this feeling of animosity begin?

There were several reasons, some real, some imaginary. The first and most important was a psychological one. The original reserve officers came from a civilian life, almost entirely free from regimentation, into a mihtary organization, which was of necessity connolled by sttingent regulations. 'The novices did not like to take orders; to do so was contrary to everything they had known on the outside. In the begirming those orders were given almost exdusivdy by the Regulars and it was the Regulars who were charged with enforcing the Naval regulations. The reaction by the Reserves was a namral one. In lusty American style they rebelled, not in open mutiny, but in gripe sessions in the barracks and BOQs. They had to direct their com-

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plaints against someone and the Regulars were the most available and obvious targets. And so the verbal abuse began.

The simation was aggravated to a certain extent by the early Navy system of awards and decorations. Theoretically, a fighting ship is a team, composed of men and machines, and that team is directed, in the final analysis, by one man—the skipper. Whether the ship survives or perishes in an engagement depends to a great degree on his judgment and ability.

It is not illogical then, that the commanding officer should be commended for the success of his ship. In the early days of the war practically all skippers were Regulars and they were the officers who were decorated, an anomaly which many hardworking Reservists wore like a hair shirt.

There were other practices which farmed the first flames of antagonism. It cannot be denied that a certain amount of "ring clicking" has always marked the behavior of the Academy men in the presence of Reserves. Tight litde diques flourished in the wardrooms and officers' dubs and the Reserves righdy

"In some instances, 'ancient mariners' were placed in charge of shore establishments

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By Lieut. H. B. Upton, USNR

bm leveled at them was biased and unjustified.

felt the indignation of outsiders looking m.

As the Navy grew and expanded, the numerical superiority of the Reservists increased so gready that most of the new officers had little or no contact with the Regulars. Many of the Reserves were specialists of one sort or another and their activities were often far removed from those of the Academy graduates.

But the vogue had been started and it was nurmred in buU sessions all over the world. By the end of 1942, criticism of the Regulars Was definitely "the thing to do."

On my last tour of foreign duty I went to Japan on an Army transport operated by the Merchant Marine. All the passengers, including one hundred and twenty officers, were Naval personnel.

This combination of Navy people on a sea-going vessel under the supervision of Army officers, plus a long trip and almost intolerable living conditions provided fertile soil for the seeds of discontent. When we found ourselves still JULY,

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aboard six weeks after embarkation, nerves were beginning to wear pretty thin. "The officer in charge of the passengers was a lieutenant commander of the line, a Regular who had been called back in from retirement. I have never observed an officer who worked so hard and so conscientiously, ever solicitous of the welfare of the men under his charge.

Under those conditions, however. Admiral Nimitz himself could not have made the cruise much more bearable.

Griping was a namral reaction. The Army fell heir to its share of the complaints but it was disconcerting to note that no small amount of the criticism was leveled at the "mucking Regular in charge." It is only fair to add that the loudest howls came from the officers and men who had never been outside the Continental limits prior to this voyage.

This habit we fell into of summarily condemning Regular Naval officers as a class was an arbitrary one, wholly unjustified. True, I have encountered among the ranks of the Academy graduates certain

officers who have exhibited unreasonable, unpleasant, uncompromising personalities. I now attribute their attimde to the fact that these officers were in positions ol grave and continuing responsibility— and to the law of averages. Among any given group of men there will be a certain number of equine posteriors; to indict the entire group because of the attimde of a few is to make an unfair judgment.

As I look back in retrospect over the years I have spent in the Navy, certain observations with regard to the Regulars stand out clearly in my mind.

First of ail, I have not seen or heard of a single Regular who did not—to use the colloquialism—have guts. That is not saying there were no men among the ranks of the Academy graduates who failed to display personal courage under conditions of combat. There undoubtedly were—the law of averages again. I merely make the observation that I have not seen, nor have I heard of, a single Regular who lacked fortitude. In countless bull sessions I have listened to every other conceivable criticism dragged out and heaped on the shoulders of the Academy men; this is one indictment they escaped. {Continued on page 25) 13

"Operation Mercy" it might be called â&#x20AC;&#x201D; this transporting of UMIRA supplies by Navy craft.

N these days when the fate of the starvIattention ing world occupies so much of the of statesmen and ordinary citizens alike, few people realize that the Navy has materially aided the UNRRA in alleviating a measure of that starvation.

Of all the nations needing food, China .Ajnphibions craft as they carried L>iRRA supplies to Hankow. China, from Shanghai.

LCFs and an LSM were chosen to navigate the Yangtze because of their shallow draft and narrow beam. To the right of LCI 517, flagship of the group, is a Chinese passenger junk.

Here, in Soochow Creek, at Shanghai. China, U N R R A supplies are piled high aboard Chinese barges. These boxes contain heavy equipmentâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;tractors and plows.

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At Hankow, the LCFs dwarf the frail river sampans and junks tied up alongside. In carrying in mainly farm machinery rather than food, the craft aid in a primary policy

is probably the most destitute. In the clutches of an all-pervading black market which has reduced millions to keeping body and soul together with weeds and clay, this wartime ally of the U. S. deserves all the aid which can be rushed to her.

It is appropriate, then that the craft which helped liberate China should help in supplying her with desperately needed grain and farm equipment. The types which have been found most useful in traversing rivers and harbors have been landing craft—LSM's and LCI's predominantly. Shown here are a few photos snapped of the amphibs in their new, merciful role. of UNRRA—to provide for food next year and year after rather than waste the same space on edibles which will be quickly consumed — or even black-marketed.

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At the going prices in China, the food these native laborers are handling would set them up for life. For this reason, the unloading operations are carried on under watchful eyes.

Chinese spectators take an immense interest in the LSM 155, beached for reloading operations. Although the Navy has patrolled the Yangtze for years, back before World War 11, this is the first time these citizens have ever seen amphibious craft.

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By Nixon Smiley Marine Corps Correspondent

Eyeballing and reconstruction are the two main activities on this island.

ALTHOUGH 20 June marked a year •^ *• since the fighting stopped on Okinawa, this colorful but war-scarred Ryukyus island has lost none of its appeal to sightseers. Despite the island commands attempt to discourage unofficial driving and hitch-hiking, sight-seeing—or "eyebaUing" as it is known here —is still the favorite pastime. Sunday always finds the ample highway system alive with jeeps, weapon carriers, and ducks loaded with eager-eyed officers and enlisted men. As you ride past an intersection, scores of thimibs wiggle in your direction. Stop your vehide and instantly the air is filled with arms and legs of men climbing aboard.

Acmally, the island command has done nothing to discourage pleasiure driving, but there has been a strong ef-

fort to bring all driving under control, making it difficult to obtain and operate a vehide at will. Vehides must be registered, drivers must have licenses and trip dispatches, and the 30-mile-an-hour speed Hmit must be observed. Marine Corps mihtary police, operating radio jeeps, enforce traffic regulations. Anyone regularly operating a vehicle can expect to be stopped once or t\^'ice a week for a check-up by MPs. One Sunday recendy more than 400 drivers received tickets when MPs established road blocks. Military units are required to report disdphnary action taken in the case of any man given a ticket.

The campaign against unofficial driving has resulted in a heavy decline in "private" jeeps and weapon carriers. At one time it was a simple matter to keep

Okinawa civilians pick up sweet potatoes from a community pile, in a Government area.

a personal vehide, obtain a plentiftd supply of gasoline, and drive about the island without fear of molestadoa To leave a vehide unlocked was an invitation to even the most timid thief. Widi die hundreds of jeeps and weapon carriers on the island, there was not one chance in a thousand of the vehide ever getting back to the outfit that owned it, after it received a new paint job and had a fictitious number stenciled on it When the First and Sixth Marine Divisions left Okinawa for China, scores of vehides were left undaimed at their campsites.

Until so many thousands of men returned to the States for discharge, there was an endless string of ttaffic every hour of the day on all highways. In dry weather a pall of yellow dust hung low over many places, setthng upon the green ttopical vegetation and giving it a ghostlike appearance. Even as late as November, before the Seabees and Army engineers had completed the excellent network of roads, many routes were litde more than trails by our standards, and hour-long traffic jams were commoa A long wait could be expected at every oneway bridge.

As with driving, until recendy there was no restriction against roaming over the island afoot, except in the northern half from which the mihtary government, in carrying out a sttict non-fraternizadon policy, harmed all personnd not on official business. Eyeballers wandered over heavily mined battlefields and crawled deep into the dark, damp caves, litde concerned about the danger of booby traps, in rabid search for souvenirs. The majority of men roaming through the woods were armed, and it was dangerous to venture into many areas. Ihe many accidents that followed resulted in an island order banning the unauthorized firing of weapons. A recent order makes it a court martial offense to cany a weapon without official sanction. After the island was secured last June, arms were carried as protection against Japanese suspected of holding out in caves

or in the mountain jungles, but the wild firing that resulted from so many persons carrying weapons made your friends more dangerous than your enemy.

I came to Okinawa last September with all the curiosity of a newspaperman, and, joining the throng of eyeballers and souvenir hunters, spent every day off duty exploring new territory. One day it would be the fastness of a mountain jungle, another time it woidd be the hundreds of miles of caves at the southern part of the island, or prying through the ruins of a village. In most villages and caves there was a strong stench from decaying bodies of Japanese soldiers and, civihans. Thousands of civilians, believing Japanese stories of cruel treatment to all who fell into the hands of Americans, smck dosely to the Japanese, even so dosdy that at times operations were hindered. A prisoner of war told me that when he was fighting near Itoman, south of Naha, the civilians filled the tombs, caves and foxholes, and when the soldiers sought cover there was nothing left except a stone wall or the shellchipped trunk of a wild rubber tree.

It was in a small village at the south end of the island that I received a valuable lesson in Japanese psychologyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;but which added as much to my confusement as to my enlightetmnent Tlie Okinawans build walls around their homes with a yellow limestone rock that in the Pacific is miscalled "coral." These walls are about four feet high and two feet wide.

About the walls the Okinawans plant mbber ttees, or strangler figs as they are known in South Florida, whose roots intwine themselves over the walls in fantastic shapes, sometimes extending their long, wry fingers into neighboring yards.

The ttees are planted as windbreaks against the many typhoons that sweep yearly through the Ryukyus islands on their way to Japan and to the China coast In this village the Japanese had hurriedly attempted to build shelters from artillery and naval shelling by erecting frail, rock-covered lean-tos against whatever walls that were left standing. First, they leaned pine saplings against the the walls, placed a layer of rock upon the saphngs and covered the rock with yellow earth. The result: When a piece of shrapnel stmck the walls the heavy shelter would mmble upon the occupants.

These make-shift shelters proved to be deadfalls for more than a hundred Japanese soldiers and civilians in this one village. It was common to see several feet or heads or arms protruding from the edge of a pde of rock.

Such trips into ruined villages and to old battlegrounds not only have been banned, but military police have been assigned to discourage reckless eyeballing.

A couple of Sundays ago another Marine Corps correspondent. Staff Sergeant Paul JULY,

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In this new village on Okinawa, school call is thumped on a drum by the local teacher.

Smrges, of Los Angeles, and I drove our jeep off a highway and followed a narrow road into a valley that was littered with the carcasses of knocked-out tanks.

One tan.'", cocked over on its side, bore the painting of a bathing beauty with the name "Miss Atlantic City," and also two small Japanese flags and the words "Leyte" and "Guam." We bounced along in our jeep until we came to a road block and a sign which read: "ROAD HEAVILY MINED BEYOND THIS POINT." As we surveyed the area we noticed that we had been followed by another jeep, occupied by a single Army MP. He pulled off to one side, cut off his engine and sat there watching us. He volunteered no words, nor did we. After several minutes we mrned our vehicle around and drove away. The MP still said nothing, but when we looked back he was following us. He kept behind us for several miles, until we lost him when we turned off on another road.

The natives here, with the generous assistance of a sympathetic military government, are making a staunch effort to rebuild their destroyed homes and reconstruct their economy. When the fighting was over last June there was hardly a building left standing in the southern half of the island. Except in rare instances, nothing is left of homes but piles of red tile and stone, while in poorer villages the awry thatched huts, broken rock fences and ever-present shattered rubber trees greet the curious with grim silence. Construction experts believe fifteen to twenty years will be need-

ed to rebuild the island. In the meantinie, MG is beset by countless problems in rehabilitating the industrious people.

So much of the island best suited for habitation and agriculture is still occupied by the military. Sprawling camps occupy rich areas once green with sweet potatoes or sugar cane, while huge warehouses and miscellaneous buildings stretch out in all directions from the center of once populous Naha. Towns and potato fields alike yielded to the thundering bulldozer when the half dozen airstrips were constructed. But quickly as a campsite is abandonedâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and scores of them have been abandoned since VJ dayâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the natives move in. Using discarded tenting and salvaged lumber, they erect shelter and begin anew their simple existence.

As the battle for Okinawa progressed and the towns and cities were engulfed

by Army and Marine forces, the frightened natives were herded into compounds, the better known of which is Ishikawa whose population for several months was counted in an undetermined number of thousands. Here the natives lived in crowded, unsanitary conditions, and would have starved had not the military government supplemented their meager supply of sweet potatoes and rice with military rations. Since the end of the war MG has worked hard with its rehabilitation program, and the onetime trickle of natives from the guarded compounds has grown until now it is an endless stream of hopeful humanity seeking {Continued on page 24) 17

By Rear Adm. R. K. Dickson, DSO, RN An intimate view into the British equivalent of our own Navy Department during war years. once hearing the late 1 REMEMBER Lord Craigavon, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, talk about the British Government system. He said, "I'd like to make a law that no politician could reach Cabinet rank unless he'd served a term in the Admiralty." I asked him why, and he replied, "because at the Admiralty in peace time you can get immediate decision, day or night. Besides, it's the matiest of all Government Departments.

It's like a ship," he said, "all sorts of people rub along happily together." I think that's true. Certainly in war-time there's no doubt about the quick decisions. Do you remember that day in February 1940, when the whole world was thrilled by the story of the ALTMARK? Well, this is what happened.

The Fleet Auxiliary ALTMARK was slipping down the Norwegian coast on her way to Germany. She was inside territorial waters, but we'd every reason to believe that sh^ was carrying 400 British merchant seamen battened under hatches â&#x20AC;&#x201D;victims of the pocket battleship GRAF SPEE in the South Adantic. Our destroyers were at sea, and the man on the spot was Captain Philip Vian, in the COSSACK. He had the simation well in hand, till suddenly the ALTMARK entered Josing Fiord with the British destroyers glaring at her on one side and the Norwegian men-of-war on the other. It was apparent to the Admiralty that a simation had arisen which no naval officer could be expected to handle. It needed the inunediate intervention of a Minister, ready to take any responsibility, because the landslide of the nations of Europe had not yet begun, and the significance of Norwegian neutrality could only be fully appreciated in London.

At 5 o'clock the First Lord, Mr. Churchill, came down to the War Room, and he dictated a signal to Vian that he was to get those prisoners at all costs.

"Get that cyphered up," he said, "and be quick about it! I've told the Secretary of State that those orders are going at quarter ro six unless we hear to the contrary."

He walked up and down, chewing his cigar, and we all waited. At 5.20 he sud18

denly turned to me (I was the Duty Captain on watch that afternoon) and he said, "I can't wait. Get me Lord Halifax."

I got him the Foreign Secretary in a few moments, and he sat down in the little green armchair which used to stand alongside the Duty Captain's desk. He talked to the Foreign Secretary for about a minute. Then he rang for the Duty Signal Officer and he said, "Add this to the signal. "Suggest to the Norwegian destroyers that honor is served by submitting to superior force.' Now get that off at once," he said, and he lounged off upstairs to carry on with his papers. But at the door of the War Room he stopped, and he said to all of us, "that was big of Halifax." The signal was made a few minutes later and so the CossACK went into the fiord.

That story was the start of Vian's great career at sea in this war, but I've always thought of it also as a personal triumph for the man who became Prime Minister three months later, when Mr. Alexander relieved him as First Lord. The landslide of the nations had then indeed begun, and the Admiralty now settled down for five years to bear a strain such as it had never known in all its long history.

I commanded a ship for two years in the middle of the war; but otherwise I served the whole of it in the Admiralty, and it's always struck me as curious that even the Navy itself knows so little about what we do there. Until I was a Commander I'd hardly ever been inside the placeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;or wanted to, because I always thought of it as something even more mysterious and dreadful than the headmaster's smdy at my prep school.

The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty are the governing body of the Navy, which exists by virme of the Royal Prerogative. Acmally, the Admiralty is still the office of the Lord High Admiral.

Although his office has been in commission for cenmries the red flag with the yellow anchor still flies over the Admiralty building, and it's never hauled down.

The Board consists of the First Lord, who's a Cabinet Minister; the several Sea Lords who are Admirals; two or more junior Ministers and the Secretary of the

Admiralty; and, in wartime, a Controller of Merchant Shipbuilding and Repairs.

That's been so, more or less, ever since the delightful person Mr. Samuel Pepys reorganized the Royal Navy in the time of Charles II. And I'm sure even Sir Henry Markham, the present holder of that office, will agree with me when I say that Samuel Pepys was the best Secretary of the Admiralty we ever had.

Each member of the Board superintends a share of the Admiralty business delegated to him by the First Sea Lord, but personal responsibility for operations falls on the shoulders of the First Sea Lord, now Admiral of the Fleet Sir Andrew Cunningham; because as First Sea Lord he is also the Chief Naval Adviser to the Government. The Admiralty has become the only Ministry which is also a great operational headquarters. On the administrative side the Navy to a large extent creates and maintains itself, and the Admiralty is in fact a Supply as well as a Service Department. All this means a great diversity of function for the First Lord, who is "responsible to Crown and Parliament for all the business of the Admiralty."

It sounds pretty complicated, but we've had a good many wars to test the working of the system. It depends for its success on the blending of political and naval considerations and on the smooth working of the Civil Service machine. Mr. Alexander, the present First Lord, is the only man except one who's ever held that office three times. But he'd be the first to admit that he must look to his professional advisers, and they in mrn trust him to support them in Parliament.

There was a good example of that in March 1943. The late Admiral of the Fleet, Sir Dudley Pound had been severely criticized in certain quarters; but Mr. Alexander stood up in the House of Commons, and roundly said, "Thank God for the First Sea Lord. He has pulled us through a simation without precedent in the country's history."

I've seen many famous actions at sea, both in this war and the last, when history is being made before one's eyes and {Continued on page 25)

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IS name was "Red Spike." Maybe it that everyone concerned got the word— as a result of my snappy orders, and the still is for that matter. I don't know life buoy watch, signalmen, quarter- life boat's crew were ready to be lowered if he is still in the Service or not. If he master, boatswain's mates, life boat crew, away (life jackets tied snugly—all "tieengineroom . . . boy, would / show him! ties"), when the Captain and Exec is, any similarity is . . . etc.

Anyway, he was an Admiral of fear- I could picture our skipper calling me reached the bridge and took charge.

It was a beautiful, calm day. The some reputation in the middle nineteen to his cabin that evening, and, over a cup thirties when I was a line Ensign post- of coffee and a good cigar, praising me Captain beamed as the stop watch times of various phases of the drill were reponing my evenmal transfer to the Sup- for bringing glory to his command. ply Corps by memorizing eye charts.

Sure enough, about ten minutes after ported to him—"man (Herman the His reputation preceded his presence I had relieved the watch, the Admiral dummy) picked up"—"first buoy picked aboard our previously happy cruiser came up on the bridge. After returning up"—"lifeboat hooked on" . . . Surely this was record time or when we were apclose to it! The drill prised of his forthcomhad proceeded smoothing arrival for duty as ly and without a hitch.

Comblankblank. The The Captain swelled pressure was immediperceptibly as he lookately applied from the ed around at the Adtop and reached crushmiral for his "well i n g proportions at done." junior officer levels. It was said that a pencil T h i s gentleman, projecting from an ofhowever, wasn't havficer's pocket just oneing any. His face was eighth of an inch crimson and he was would touch off an shaking with unconhour's tirade on the troUable indignation. subject "Naval Officers Pointing a shaking are not derks!" Crew finger in the direction members who rememof the lifeboat: "Capbered his previous tour t a i n — Captain," he of duty aboard moanshouted, "what is that ed, wailed, and flooded man doing in dungathe Exec's office with rees!!?" requests for uansfer to Alas, alack, and woe "any ship, any station." was us—the lifeboat's To top off the numerous engineer had done us gruesome anecdotes wrong. Instead of bethat were recalled about ing in the uniform of him, it was rememthe day as prescribed bered that he was reby Ship's Order Umpty puted to have a parUmp, the cad was inticular hatred for our d e e d in dungarees.

CL since the time his Very improper being appearance in a newsengineer of a motor reel had been roundly whaleboat and puttbooed by the ship's putting around in duncompany. garees while rescuing people.

We found the cold What the O.O.D. reality of the Admirlater received from the al's presence aboard Captain, while smokonly slighdy less uning hot, was not a cigar. pleasant than the anNow I know why he suggested his wife come in that outfit —Lt.Cdr.H.L Muller, ticipation.

That it {SC),USN,'55. was less unpleasant was Says an old Ex-Chief Boatswain, who due principally to his staff which was my salute he waited until I had turned composed of pretty decent gents who and was scanning the horizon to come up vividly recalls a nice time on the beach in tried to atone for his unwelcome pres- behind me and say in a low conversa- Havana the night before the Maine blew ence. tional tone of voice: "You have a man up, "Darned if I can bring myself to go along with this current "accent on youth' One lovely day enroute from Pearl to overboard . . ."

The words weren't all out of his mouth not only in the Navy but in every line Panama, I was tipped off that there would be a man overboard drill pulled sometime before 1 had my hand on the siren con- of endeavor. From the goings on you'd during my watch. After the first chill of trol under which I "chanced" to be. think a guy over 50 years old was just apprehension, 1 set about with vim, vigor, Franklin life buoys hit the water—the shadow boxing with the knob on the (Continued on page 26) and excited anticipation making sure ship had practically lost all headway JULY,

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By Lt. Comdr. V. V. Utgoff, USN and Lt. (jg) Darwin Day, USNR

Part Seven

TENDER DUTY HEN we completed our tour of Wduty playing Cat and mouse with the Nips we were given a new job. We were sent to a seaplane tender to resume daylight patrols and conduct air-sea rescue operations—dumbo duty.

The tender, we discovered immediately upon arrival, had been designed by a confirmed misanthropist who drew his inspiration from the Black Hole of Cal-

"And sweat it out we did ..." cutta. We were crowded into compartments located in the hot bowels of the ship, assigned to bunks stacked in dizzy tiers extending from the deck to the overhead, given life jackets, and told to sweat it out.

And sweat it out we did. It was so hot on that ship that we got second degree burns if we accidentally touched the bulkheads. We couldn't sleep at night, but lay in a sort of smpor, watching the 20

steam rise from our limp bodies; and we drank so much water and swallowed so many salt tablets we wondered why they didn't simply pour sea-water down our throats and condense the steam, instead of using their evaporators.

Normally ir took us a good forty-five minutes to find our way back topside in the morning, and at quarters for muster there were usually two or three absentees who were presumably still wandering around passageways and up and down ladders trying to grope their way up to sunlight and fresh air. There was even a rumor that men had been lost below decks for years and years, and finally developed eyes like lemurs and grew antennae from their foreheads to find their way around. W e didn't doubt it. We ourselves were growing a hard, horn-like substance on the fore part of our shins, resulting from frequent and intimate contact with various strucmral parts of the ship.

The tender was so crowded that meals were served in shifts; .sometimes as many as three per meal. These were advertised over the ship's general announcing system by the boatswain's mate on watch, who proclaimed in a nasty voice that "First lunch is now being served in the Wardroom."

Generally the food was good, but now and then we were inclined to paraphrase the boatswain's mate's proclamation to "First lunch is now being spurned in the Wardroom." And one evening we were startled to learn that "The last supper is now being served in the Wardroom."

The ship's company wasn't too well pleased with our advent They considered us interlopers who were sent aboard for the sole purpose of disorganizing their routine, fouling up their ship, crowding them out of their staterooms

and choice seats at the movies, and eating up all their good States-side food. As far as they were concerned we were "damn' airedales" and didn't have sense enough to keep our cigarette butts off their gleaming decks or tell port from starboard. (Of course, an aircraft tender isn't designed to tend aircraft, and it isn't supposed to feed and quarter aviators, and doesn't really have any reason to exist anyway.)

But the Army liked us. One of our new jobs, conceived by those fiendish ancestors of Edgar Allen Poe who sit around in dank, musty, cells and think up new uses for Catalinas and their bug-eyed pilots, was dumbo duty. The Army decided that our Cats were ideal for squashing down in sundry harbors and bays—all enemy—and picking up such of their pilots as may have taken up swimming or rubber boat sailing as a

. . up and down ladders.' hobby. We accepted the new assignment with aU the eagerness of a tired old sow.

So we bounced our Cats in every bay and stretch of open water that was bounceable, and we picked up everything

" . . . the Japs weren't so elated.'

diat was floatable, from B-24 crews to bewildered natives out trying to catch their evening meal. W e picked up so many Army pilots that after a while they

"Sometimes the sea was a litde rough . . . "

began to prefer bailing out at sea rather than over the jungle, and we began to suspect them of doing it just to see if they could find a place where a Cat

vainly trying to navigate their way around the Bismarck Sea in a rubber boat. The pilot felt pretty good about his two prisoners, but the Japs weren't so elated.

Sometimes the sea was a little rough.

The Navy, of course, never calls it rough unless there is a tidal wave. There are smooth seas, slight seas, and moderate seas; and as far as our Intelligence Officer was concerned, they were all moderate.

There may have been great green combers riding herd before a thirty knot gale like a bunch of wild stallions, thundering waves crashing against our Cats' thin hulls like gigantic trip-hammers, but they were still moderate. After a while we just let it go at that What if we did bounce fifty feet straight up on landing, and what if the rivets did pop like a string of Chinese firecrackers and the water did squirt in the navigator's face? We had bilge pumps—we had rubber boats—and the tender could hoist our planes aboard—so we were fat Sometimes, too, the Aussies or the

time they asked us to ferry a nurse.

The Aussies were even worse. One day we received orders to pick up a party of thirty-five natives, complete with clubs, spears, charms, and amulets, fly them over the mountains of New Guinea, and set them down on a jungle stream behind a strong enemy base. We dispatched four planes for the task, but when they arrived at the pick-up point they found the party had increased to fifty-two natives and three Aussies—not counting the eight native policemen who would go along to pacify our passengers in rough air.

This time we refused.

In addition to dumbo duty and special missions we also had to fly negative patrols. This time they weren't so negative, though, because the Nips were doing the same thing and we edged around like strange dogs every time we passed each other. But the boys were still bored after the excitement of night work. They began to strafe everything they could lay eyes on, and there wasn't a reef or atoll safe from .50 calibre bullets anywhere in the Pacific. I guess we were getting jungle-jolly.

We'd been using our Cats for every kind of flying that was ever done in this or the last war, and now we've reached the stage where we think nothing is impossible for a Cat. We used to worry about being seen at night, but now we worry about not seeing anything in the daytime. If this keeps up some of the boys are going to try to take the Philippines single-handed. General MacArthur wouldn't like rhat

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couldn't sit down. They never found one, but it wasn't for lack of trying.

We finally became so carried away wirh our new role of humanitarians that one day our Maintenance Officer landed and picked up two stray Japs who were

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Army wanted a Cat for a special mission.

We didn't mind, but we felt somebody ought to take the Army aside in a secluded corner and carefully explain that in spite of their fixed belief to the contrary, there were limitations to what a Cat could do. Transporting a company of rangers fully equipped with arms, ammunition, and provisions was one of them. And landing in a mountain brook twenty feet wide which twisted and writhed like an intoxicated snake was another.

But nobody took the Army aside, or if they did, the Army didn't listen to them, for we continued going on special missions. We picked up wounded from beachheads and dropped food to stranded aviators, we carried majors on survey trips and second lieutenants on joy rides, we landed scouting parties near enemy beaches at dusk and picked them up -at dawn. And our only reward was the one

(Continued from, page 9) serving in the Pacific areas; an Institute of Tropical Diseases, to conduct studies and research directed towards the prevention and cure of the diseases endemic to the inhabitants of that part of the world; the Guam Memorial Hospital, which will care for the natives; a school for training native nurses and a school for the training of native practitioners.

As this project develops and expands, it is intended that the inhabitants of our outlying possessions will be so trained that they will be well along the way towards caring for their own basic physical well-being.

The present and planned activities, but briefly described herein, represent only some of the undertakings of the Navy Medical Department. In carrying through the post-war program we shall set our sights high in aiming at the further progress and development of naval medicine in the peacetime years ahead.

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The Enigma of Missing Men (Continued from page 11) and went on leave after teUing what he could of the loss of the TULLIBEE and thereby dearing up the stams of the men who went down with her.

Not so formnate was Fred Louis Brown, fireman, 2nd d., only sur%ivor of the cruiser ASHEVILLE, who died in prison camp. Like many others who died, however. Brown thought of his lost comrades and was able to leave some information behind him that helped reveal the story of the ASHEVILLE and her crew.

The ingenuity and care with which men in prison camps were able to preser\'e recordsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;lists of names of men who had died or who had escaped death and were moved to other campsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;is a tribute to the thoughtfulness of men for their fellows. When the principal camps of Java were finally opened, Lt Comdr. (now Captain) Thomas Alton Donovan, USN, came out with records so complete and carefully compiled that the Navy can say with confidence that it is uiJikely that any of its missing are alive in Java. Donovan was one of the survivors of the USS LANGLEY, which was sunk by the Japanese whde bringing P-40's and supplies to the Army fighter pilots who were helping make the last stand in Java. Some Allied prisoners may yet be found in the more distant spots of the Dutch East Indies, but Commander Donovan had looked after the records of the U. S. Navy personnel. Allied searches are still in progress in these troubled islands.

News of the H O U S T O N survivors was brought out to the Navy by devious ways through men who escaped from the camps where they were held. Long before the dramatic announcement in the newspapers that 300 of the HOUSTON'S crew had been found, the Navy Bureau of Personnel had notified next of kin that the men were alive and in prison.

When the war closed, the real search of the Pacific area began for missing men. fm 11 islands were surveyed first for wreckage or signs of life from the air.

Crews were then put ashore to hunt.

This search of the Pacific islands was an arduous task, for the mangrove trees and jungle undergrowth makes many of the small uninhabited islands impenetrable.

On such islands after the aerial search, boats circled the shores and called to men to come out. The loudspeakers booming over these tiny atolls, the circling planes and boats would have revealed anyone living. This method was used only on small islands and partiodarly on those so choked with growth that penetration would be difficult. Two planes were found during these searches, one Navy, one Armyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;but the Japanese, following their usual inexplicable custom, had re22

moved all ttaces of identification.

In the Indies, French Indo-China and New Guinea, our AUies, chiefly the Australians, have conducted the searches.

Some of these searches are still proceeding. In China the Army Graves Registration Service has been at work and the Army Air Forces are putting in some teams similar to those that have been searching in Europe for lost fliers. Already though the search in China has not proceeded very far, several graves of Navy fliers lost in sttikes from the carriers have been found.

The Casualty Section of the Bureau of Personnel has taken quite a beating during the war years, but is still standing up under it. Trying to meet the namral demands of relatives to know all that can be known about missing and killed men, they have been assailed both by demands that men be dedared dead before the evidence warranted it and by demands that the Navy admit that the man should be declared alive and that he could be found if someone would look for him.

Commander Atkinson and his staff are keerdy sympathetic with the desires of relatives, fiancees and friends to learn all that can be learned about missing men.

At the same time they have had to stand firm at times about demands that caimot be met.

It is not often that relatives ask to have a man declared dead, but during the war there was occasionally a wife overanxious to remarry who sought to have a finding of presumptive death made. Refused by the sers'ices, some married anyway, one of the most flagrant cases marrying twice more before her first husband arrived from prison camp. Caught with too many husbands, the wife loudly claimed in the papers that she had been falsely informed of her husband's death.

Acmally the service had refused her demand in spite of repeated pressure. Such pressure has come in some cases from high government authorities who had yielded to impormnities and had been persuaded that the Navy was doing an alleged widow wrong. In a number of these cases the husband returned and the Bureau of Personnel could have said, "I told you so," if they hadn't been too busy explaining to someone else why they were positive another husband was really dead.

One of the misconceptions of the public is that the services can declare a man legally dead. Ordy a finding of "presumptive death" can be made after due lapse of time and strong evidence. The legal death of anyone rests with the laws of the states and these vary.

The fact that a few unusual escapes from death have been reported arouses hope among stttvivors that some exceptional event may bring the lost one home.

One Navy flier from the H O R N E T crashed into the ocean. The planes with him circled over the oil slick where his plane

burned. N o one saw any sign of his escape and he was reported killed in action Y'et when the Japanese prison camps opened up, the pdot appeared. Also, famdies harbor the idea that many men appear suddeidy without the services knowing anything about it or notifying the family. Though there has been an occasional case of this kind, the number is extremely few. The Army Air Forces, which had the largest number of missing of Army personnel, had oidy a handful of such cases; the Navy almost none.

One of the distressing features of the search for missing men is the loss of other men in the search. One Army ttansport plane carrying a group of radio and radar men along the shore of New Guinea disappeared. The Air Forces couldn't believe the plane was not down safely somewhere. Two planes were sent out in succession to search and both were lost The problem of whether to risk more lives in a difficult search or to give up is often a hard one to decide. Searches in difficult mountain and jimgle territorj' made since the dose of war have enabled the ser\'ices to confirm deaths, but have not residted in finding anyone alive. There are still cases adjacent to the continental United States where lost planes engaged in civil flying have never yet been found. In places Hke Burma, over the Hump, and in some areas on the Asiatic mainland where local insurrections and fighting bet\^'een bandits are going on, the risk to the life of a search party is considerable. A recent loss of a naval plane flying between Kodiak and Seatde has never been solved. The presumption is that it must have gone in the water along one part of the route.

With the return of the prisoners of war, many cases of missing men were deared up. These ref>orts of remrned prisoners have also brought stories of some of the worst of the war crimes.

One of the terrible stories thus revealed was that of the wanton crudty of the Japanese at the Puerto Princesa prison camp on Palawan. In December, 1944, the Na\7 sent a task force past Palawan to attack Mindoro. This or the passage over the camp of some P-38's may have touched off die Japanese slaughter. It is thought that the Japanese believed an attack was coming on Puerto Princesa and for some reason only a student of the Japanese twisted psychology could determine, decided to dispose of the prisoners.

Ilie Japanese ordered the prisoners into air-raid trenches when the planes appeared over the camp. There were three of these, open at both ends, with the approximately 140 men of the camp distributed between them. Suddenly the men in the end trench saw the Japanese rush the first shelter with machine guns, torches and gasoline. The group in the trench nearest die fence began frantical-

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iy o'lgging tneir way out when they saw what was happening. Some 20 or 30 got out One of these was Joseph Barta, Radioman 2nd cl. (now chief R.M.) of San Diego, Two others were Marines: Sergeant Douglas William Bogue, USMC, of Los Angeles, and Glenn Wendell Dole, PFC, USMC, of Des Moines, Iowa.

Only 11 of the 20 or 30 who got out of the endosure escaped and succeeded in swimming across the bay to the other shore, where they hid in the jungle. The rest were burned, machine-gunned to death, or drowned in the bay. Barta, in making his report to the Bureau of Personnel, was able to remember the first part of his long swim to freedom, but his mind is a blank on the last half of the six miles. After the escaped men were found by Fdipino guerillas, a PBY made its way to them and took them out.

Whde the frightful tale of the death of the men at Puerto Princesa is one of the worst of the horror stories of the war, many ttagic tales came to light as remrning men were interviewed to try to discover dues to the fate of missing men.

The Casualty section is often in a dilemma about how much to tell the next of kin. In general the members of a man's family are harassed by a desire to know all that can be known. Yet the officers in charge of obtaining details of the fate of lost men often hesitate to

gratify die demands to know all, lest the complete truth only haunt the survivor with the horror of the death of a son or husband.

Sometimes in spite of all evidence to the contrary, families refuse to give up hope that a man will return. This situation has been made troublesome by the fact that the Army is fairly positive that some few men have gone AWOL and don't want the Army or their families to locate them. The Navy records indicate there are no such cases in its files. The idea of amnesia popular in movies and novels, is also popular with relatives of missing men. But every man in the service hospitals is known. The dream of a man being cared for somewhere with no one knowing him is only a dream.

Some of the happier moments of the Casualty office personnel have been when they could send word that the missing had been found alive. When the first big group of missing men was located alive.

Commander Atkinson got on long distance. He wanted to be able to tell the relatives of the men directly, and not trust to the impersonal delivery of a telegram.

Sometimes a query comes in that startles even Commander Atkinson and his staff, accustomed as they are to the vivid imagination of "next-of-kin." One of these was a query from a man who

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And that is beyond the power of anyone. For those who remain "missing" now are almost certainly missing forever.

A Reserve Looks At Regulars . {Continued from page 13) The Regulars took their jobs seriously and the vast majority of them were obviously aware of the responsibility they carried. For the most part it was the Academy men who were in command of the major fighting ships and in the final analysis it was they who made the important decisions which could spell life or death for the men under them. We might have disagreed with them on such

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matters as whether blues should be worn on liberty, but when the chips were down, it was damned reassuring to have a man on the bridge who had been drilled in the science of naval tactics. The Regulars were often tagged with an "eager" label. For this they can be partially forgiven. The Navy is their profession and if on occasion they displayed a certain eagerness with regard to their job, it is understandable. Other professional men, doctors and lawyers for example, are not given simdar criticism for manifesting exuberance in their chosen field.

I occasionally felt that USN officers were acting a part. They usually appeared to be self-assured and confident, a role they were forced to adopt if they were to maintain their position of authority. All officers, if they are to be successful, must "keep up a good front"' under any and all conditions. There are times when, in the face of a problem that apparendy defies solution, it is a temptation to say, "To hell with i t I don't know the answer." The Reserves could rarely afford to take such a defeatist attimdeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; the Regidars almost never. Under the constant scrutiny of the crew and the Reservists, many of whom were waiting to pounce on the shghtest indication of indecision by the Regulars, the Academy men found it necessary to maintain uncensurable mditary aplomb at all times.

They did a pretty fair job of it.

The strict mditary ttaining the Regulars experienced during the four years at the Academy resulted in a form of mental regimentation which was later reflected in their relations with the Reservists.

They seemed to have a cut-and-dried attimde which worked two ways. On the one hand. Naval commanders (Academy men for the most part) exhibited a singleness of purpose which sometimes made them appear psychic. Working in task groups or in other joint operations, they were able to predict with uncanny accuracy what one of their colleagues would do in a given simation and alter their own plans accordingly. This phenomenon can be explained on the assumption that since they were all cut from the same pattern, the reactions of each would be practically the same.

On the other hand, we occasionally detected various narrow, unwavering concepts, not necessarily associated with military matters, which would appear to be the namral outgrowth of a regimented scholastic background. This attimde was best exemplified by the reluctance of certain Regulars in the higher echelons to readily accept tradition-breaking technical innovations such as radar, improved communications equipment, and many aspects of carrier warfare. A friend of mine who served on a destroyer in the Pacific has told me how on at least one occasion, the skipper refused to accept the reading on the radar screen indicat24

ing the location of the task group which they were screening and insisted on using his "seaman's eye" in an attempt to direct his ship to position, a decision which resulted in the vessel steaming for more than an hour in the wrong direction, during a critical operation.

Another illusttation of this narrowness, which can perhaps best be described as a lack of imagination, concerns the administtation of many Navy shore bases by "ancient mariners." In some instances old veterans of the sea who, because of their age or physical infirmity, were excluded from assuming a shipside command, were placed in charge of shore establishments. Acknowledged to be capable, efficient officers on the bridge, they fouled up in the administration of their land-locked commands ostensibly because they refused to concede that a Naval station cannot be operated by the same ndes required for the successftd operation of a ship. The answers to most of the difficulties that arise on a shore station are not in the "books"; they presented a challenge to the imagination of the officer in charge and I am consttained to reporr that many of the Regulars in command of shore estabhshments were lacking in this quahty.

This is not a blanket condemnation, however. It is now a matter of history that many of our Regular Naval commanders, particularly those in the Pacific Theater, displayed rare imagination in planning campaigns and in devising new sttategems.

The so - called '"Thach Weave," a new defensive air maneuver conceived early in the war by Captain "Jimmy" Thach, USN, as America's answer to the Jap Zero, was one of hundreds of intricate combat sttategies devised by Navy fliers during the war to meet the changing enemy tactics. The fast carrier task force, the most powerful Naval sttiking weapon in the world, revolutionized the traditional concepts of Naval warfare; its conception is generally atttibuted to such imaginative Regulars as Admirals Halsey and Spruance.

The most admirable attribute of the Academy graduates is their thorough, down-the-line efficiency. They had been well ttained and prepared for the problems inherent to naval functions. Injured feelings and scathing abuse often hobbled in their determined wake as they steamed through routine difficulties, but in the end, they got the job done. It is one of the dilemmas of military life that an officer cannot always be a "good fellow" and at the same time carry out his orders with thoroughness. I noted that on the occasions where the Regidars faced these alternatives, they almost always elected to do the job first. This attimde does not normally foster congenial relationshipsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;but it does win wars.

The Naval Academy graduates earned some of the verbal brickbats that were

hurled in their direction; they were pummeled with many more than they deserved. All things considered, they acquitted themselves well during the recent war and more than justified the confidence the American people placed in their abdity. As a citizen sailor I am proud to have served with them.

Letter from Okinawa {Continued from page 17) for old homes among the ruins.

The most noticeable progress in rehabilitation is being made at Itoman, south of Naha, and second largest of Okinawa's pre-war towns. Most of the military establishments in that area have been abandoned, and that entire pan of the island is being returned to its former owners. The few of Itoman's homes that could be repaired, with a new side, or, perhaps a tarpauHn to cover a gaping shell hole in the roof, were occupied immediately. Tents were put up for those who had to rebudd from the ground up.

Where homes are rebudt the natives stick to their ancient but reliable method of tonguing and grooving all joints, a type of construction which almost always offers successftd resistance to the sttongest of typhoons. The typhoon last Oaober which left our camps here a jumble of debris failed to harm the native stmcmres that were left standing by the war.

In the absence of a money economy, the Okinawans are hving under a kind of communism. Work is done on a volunteer basis, and food and dothing are carefully rationed. Even the postman receives no pay, and island mad requires no stamps. The Okinawa weekly newspaper is free, the editors and pubhshers having salvaged the ancient press from the wreckage of Shuri. In the newly planted sweet potato fidds or in the tiny rice paddies, it is common to see a couple of hundred women working together, covering patch after patch in their ancient manner of cultivationâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;using lean brown fingers to pull weeds and to freshen the earth around the growing plants.

The men remain behind in the villages to build or to go out on the highways and hunt needed bedding, cooking utensils and building materials abandoned by the military. Crowds of men and boys gather at trash dumps. Many Okinawans are not adverse to eating soured garbage.

Last November when my outfit was getting ready to move from Chimu to Yonabaru, the Okinawans harvesting potatoes in nearby fields were permitted to approach the edge of the campsite to pick up discarded material. Among them was a pretty teen-aged girl who would have been quite ataactive if her ragged garments had been ttaded for a State-side duress. She caught the attention of sev-

eral Marines who exchanged favorable comments about her—^until she suddenly dived for a garbage can and came out with a piece of stinking meat which she began to eat as any of the Marines would a leg of fried chicken. Somehow she didn't have much appeal after that.

The principal thing about the Okinawans that chills the average American is the powerful smell that is always present in their villages and in their fields.

Modern sanitation in the United States has made the American's nostrils very easy to offend, and the Okinawan method of fertdizing with human manure oftentimes fills the island with a disagreeable odor. I have no doubt that when Admiral Perry visited Okinawa the same odors were noticed very little by the sailors and Marines of Perry's ships, since our cities in America at that time were just as full of stench. Without the odor the American today would find Okinawa as romantic as Perry's men did. The rustic, thatch-covered towns of the northern end of the island, with beautiful lush green mountains in the background, differ very litde from the same ""romantic" villages of the South Sea Islands.

wearing almost any kind of uniform, except in certain units where local rules are strict. A flier, who lost his last headgear during a trip to China, wore a green Japanese army visor cap for several days, until an enlisted man traded him a regulation cap for it. Nowhere was the officer challenged for wearing the odd headgear. Although enlisted men have been cautioned to salute officers, few outfits enforce the regulation except in the case of high ranking officers. In Army and Marine military police units, however, regulations are strictly observed, a tendency which can be noted in other outfits as Okinawa settles down on a noncombative status.

The Admiralty In War {Continued from page 18)

one is conscious of it. But sometimes I feel that the greatest scenes in the drama of the British Empire are not those played in the face of the enemy. Often the stage is a small room in Whitehall, and there's Okinawa probably is still the most un- no audience except the few people who GI island capmred in the Pacific fighting. are there to help the big men in some Although island regulations are becom- smaU way. ing tighter all the time, one can get by I've been in that audience more than

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The Admiralty had its fair share of bombs. Three direct hits on the night of April 16. 1941, damaged the lovely old Board Room, and they cut a great slice out of the south front facing the Horse Guard Parade. The most serious consequence was the interruption of communications by the flooding of the basement But that was the last time we suffered badly. Scon afterwards there arose at the corner of the Mall and St. James' Park an exttaordinarv object like a mud fort. It's a wonderful place inside, and for the last four years it has been the verj' heatt of the Navies of the Empire.

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Wardroom Stuff {Continued from page 19) mor_gue door with no more pep than you'll find in a wardrom salt shaker. Well, damned if I've ever seen a formula that could provide experience without also acquiring age along with it.

—Col. Harvey L. Miller. USMCR. Old Bill Kessel, the likes of whom are not around any more, recalls, "The time I really got in the most trouble in ofer thirty years' service vos during the Phdippine campaign in 1900. I shot at a lieutenant commender. I vos a seaman on the baby betdeship PETREL. Dis lieutenant commender vos on the BOSTON. Ve vere ashore imder cenves. I had outpost Nummer 'Von, vid strict orders to let no vun trough vidout the pess vord. On Monday vos the pess vord "Tuesday." on Tuesday vos the pess vord "Vednesday'; ulvays the pessvord vos the name of the next day. Trough the conga gress comes dis lieutenant commender. He don't likes me ennyhow undt I don't likes him too.

I sing oudt, "Hult!' N o enswer. I sing oudt, 'Hult' again. N o enswer. I say, "Vunce more, on my bended knees like a ladder, hult and gif the pessvord or I fire!' The lieutenant commender sings out, "Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, "Vednesday, Thursday, Friday, Setterday!' Und I fired!!!"

—Col. Harvey L. Miller. USMCR.

abolish the Mcrine Corps ouuight or to divest it of most of its vital functions.

5. It permits, without prior reference to Congress, the executive branch of the government to ttansfer vital naval aviation functions to the Army Air Corps.

6. It permits the national defense organization to become unbalanced. Centtalized control of the budget would make it possible to deny the equitable disttibution of funds among the different branches of the armed forces.

7. It violates soimd administrative procedures in many respects. It reduces the Secretary of War and the Seaetary of the Navy to minor positions in which they woidd be concerned, apparendy, only with propaganda, and places over them seven other civdian officials. It takes the Army and Navy out of the Cabinet The Naval Affairs Committee chairmen emphasized that the bid accenmates the differences between the Army and the Navy. It would be much better, they daim, to proceed toward some plan of unification on the basis of points of agreement Testimony indicates that the services are in agreement on: 1. Organized means for the integration of foreign and military policy. This factor can not be overemphasized; at present the State Department belitdes mihtary policy.

2. Organizations in being for direaing industtial mobihzation and for reconciling such mobilization with natural resources.

3. An organization to insure both sound Sttategic planning and unified command in operations.

4. A more efficient organization for the translation of sttategic requirements into requirements for material and personnel.

5. Adequate means for the ehmination of waste and duplication in and between the military departments in the procurement and distribution of materials and personnel.

6. An efficient coordinated intelligence organization serving ad government departments and agencies.

7. An organizational means for fostering scientific research and devdopment within the military departments and among civilian organizations.

8. A possibly closer integration of military education and training.

9. Full oppormnity of each branch of the military services to develop its specialty and at the same time faciUtate interservice ttaining and operational unity when employed joindy.

The Naval Affairs Committee is reported to have dropped plans for a fight after a survey indicated that House sentiment was against them.

It could stand a siege. If you went down there at this moment you'd find 80 girls working teleprinters to aU the naval headquarters in Britain and the Continent You'd see the Admiralty private telephone exchange, you'd find naval ratings manning fifteen or twenty lines of direct high-speed transmission to naval wireless stations all over the world.

There's a section dealing with what are called Concession Telegrams—by which naval officers and men abroad can communicate with their friends by naval wireless. The complexity of modern warfare is a thing few people understand, Miscellaneous Cargo and nowhere is it more truly reflected than in our naval communication system. ( Continued from page 4 ) That Citadel is just a maze of machinery and conveyor belts. In one week, in secret is so authentic and complete that it will messages alone, the Admiralty handled make you wonder how any man, previously unacquainted with the Navy, over 1,300,000 groups of naval cypher. could have done such a wonderful job.

I've hardly mentioned the admiiustta- As usual, he talked mosdy with enlisted tive departments which deal with per- men. Boilermakers, bakers, seamen, sonnel and material and the rest. But I as- quartermasters, are represented among sure you that all this great war organiza- those he interviewed. tion was not built up without blood, toil, LAST CHAPTER is the third and final tears and sweat. If I went back to sea book of Ernie Pyle's writings. All three tomorrow I suppose I should remrn to together will stand as one of the most London in a year or two and find things vital and interesting records of World much as they were in peace time. Then War II. I think my memories of the Admiralty in war would be less of the great occasions, and more of the men and women Navy On Capitol Hill who have loyally helped us with a very (Continued from page 5) big job. I should remember the hundreds of temporary junior officers and the decisions of one man who would civil servants—^mostly young girls—who have the authority not only to dictate a queued up somewhere everyday for their plan but also to direct how the plan lunch and fought their way home in the should be carried out. black-out, or who trudged back home 3. It reduces civilian control and Convery tired after a 14-hour night watch. gressional control over the military esI should think of this line of New- tablishments. bolt's:— 4. It permits the executive branch of A CTION to merge the Army and Navy ""They passed content, leaving to us the government, without prior reference to or approval by the Congress, either to •^*- approached a dimax in June when the pride of lives obscurely great."

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President Truman issued a directive outlining merger plans directed at compromising, as nearly as possible, ArmyNavy differences regarding the merger.

Since the Army and the Army Air Forces started this controversy with the presumption that they should, in effect, direct the next war, if it comes; should have control of aU combat aviation except that based on vessels or on water; and should direct all amphibious warfare, the Army will gain more than it will lose if Congress enacts a law embodying the President's suggestions.

"The Navy, however, won some important points. Briefly, it won control of the U. S. Marines and direction of amphibious warfare necessary to a naval campaign. It won its point for coordinated direction of a war, which would be centered in the proposed Joint Chiefs of Staff, instead of in a single chief cf staff. It won its point for some integration of our foreign and military pohcies, which would be accomplished through a Council of National Defense, to consist of the Secretary of State, the Secretary of National Defense, the Secretaries for War, Navy and the Air Force, and the chairman of the proposed National Security Resources Board.

The Navy lost several points, principally its request for retention of shorebased aviation. It wanted three separate mditary departments as an alternative to one, but the President ruled for a single Department of National Defense. Within this department, however, the Navy retains its organization and presumably most of its autonomy. The Navy lost out on its recommendation for Cabinet stams for the Secretary of the Navy.

Both the Army and the Navy urged elimination of the four assistant secretaries of national defense—for research, intelhgence, procurement and training— suggested in original legislation, and won their point New Defense Establishment In a letter to the military and naval committees of Congress, the President outlined his suggestions for a national

defense establishment. There should be a Department of National Defense, he said, with a Secretary of National Defense in the Cabinet. There would also be a Council of National Defense which, although including the Secretary of State, would operate within this department. There would be a National Security Resources Board, to establish policies and programs for maximum use of the Nation's resources in support of national security, operating under the Council of National Defense.

Within the Department of National Defense would be three co-ordinated but independent services operating on a parity basis—Army, Navy and Air Force, headed by three Secretaries. While these Secretaries would not have Cabinet status, they would have direct access to the President Within the department would be a centtal intelligence agency, an agency for procurement and supply, research agencies, and an agency to study and integrate education and training.

The Joint Chiefs of Staff would formulate strategic plans, assign logistic responsibilities to the services in support thereof, integrate the military programs, make recommendations for the integration of the military budget, and provide for the strategic direction of the military forces. Since this body probably would contain more Army than Navy men, the Navy might be handicapped in securing its usual share of the overall military appropriation and of maintaining its usual prominence in the military setup.

The Matter Of Aviation Here is the Navy Department's view of aviation: ""The Navy has no desire either to compete with or dictate to the Army Air Forces. On the other hand, the Navy feels that its experience entitles it to judge its own aviation needs.

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of long-range reconnaissance can be effectively fiUed by rhe Air Force. As regards antisubmarine warfare, it is the view of the War Department that the experience of the Army Air Forces in the last war adequately justifies the belief that land-based planes operated by the Air Force can meet this requirement."

"The President said: "Land-based planes for naval recormaissance, antisubmarine warfare and protection of shipping can and should be manned by Air Force persotmel. If the three ser\'ices are to work as a team there must be close cooperation, with interchange of personnel and special training for specific duties."

Many {people (including members of Congress and professional observers) say, in effect: The Air Force is convinced it can win the next war practically by itself. It wants superbombers for long range duty. How interested would it be in maintaining shore-based craft to protect shipping and naval vessels? Would its aviators be able to recognize an American naval vessel? An American submarine from, say, a Russian submarine?

If the Navy should call for Air Force support from land-based planes, would the request be honored? If so, how soon?

Would the request have to go through Washington?

FinaUy, with an entirely separate Air Force, wouldn't there be greater possibiht)' that both Na^T and Army would be on the receiving end of Air Force bombs and machine guns intended for use against the enemy?

Formnately for the Nav)', the Marine Corps wiU retain its own air arm.

port for the Holloway Plan for training naval officers was manifest The purpose of this legislation is to estabhsh an officer procurement and training program for the Na\7 and Marine Corps to supplement the Naval Academy, self-financed Naval Reser\e Officers' Training Corps, and the Aviation Cadet Program as sources of officers.

Under its terms a large proportion of the Naval Reser\'e Officers Training Corps members would receive their education at Government expense and would be entided to the same comt>ensation as midshipmen at the Naval Academy.

Provision is made for the eidistment of high-school graduates, or equivalent and for the flight training of these persons after t\vo years of coUege traiiung at Navy expense. In addition to those furnished coUege education by the Navy, sdected smdents from any accredited coUege would also be eligible for flight training after rwo years of college. Oppormnity is provided for selected graduates of any accredited coUege to be commissioned in the Regidar service ujxjn graduation.

Pay Raise Tor Officers

By the time this is read Congress may have acted on a final service pay biU induding pay increases for officers. Ar this writing the House has passed a bid induding such increases, but the Senate limited the increases to eidisted men only.

A conference of members of the House and the Senate Mditars' Affairs Committees must compromise this difference of opinion. It is expected that the House members wiU vote for pay increases for officers. If ordy a ver)' few Senators vote Congress Will Decide likewise, higher pay for commissioned In spite of President Truman's attempt persotmel woidd become effective.

Pacific Coast Postgraduate School to pre-empt the prerogative of Congress in writing Army-Na\'y merger legislaLegislation appropriating 528,750,000 tion, and his mandate against testimony for construction of a naval postgraduate

by Nav)' oflScers unfavorable to his pro- school at Monterey, California, has been fKJsals, Congress wiU decide what form introduced in the House and the Senate. the merger wiU take. It is doubtful if The school is intended to place coUege such action wdl be taken this year. Con- graduates on an equal footing with Naval gress has much legislation to consider be- Academy graduates as naval officers. tween now an 1 July, and intends to take ""A graduate of the Universiry of Calia vacation about mid-July. It is doubt- fornia or Princeton can be quite as valuful if Congress would reconvene before able to the N a w as a graduate of the 1947.

Naval Academy," said Admiral Nimitz, testifying before the Senate Naval Affairs Officer Education And Training Committee on the biU. The House Naval Affairs Committee Naval Academy Expansion has completed hearings on H. R. 5426, The Na\7 has abandoned efforts to a bill to supplement existing methods of naval officer education and training. purchase the St Johns CoUege property On 23 May the House Rules Committee in Annapolis, and instead wiU expand was asked to give the bid a rule so that the Naval Academy through purchase of it could be considered on the House floor, city property and land along the Severn but reports indicate that certain members River. An area containing three city of the Rules Committee have been block- blocks and numerous old and historic homes, adjoining the main academy ing the request.

The Senate Naval Affairs Committee gates, wiU be razed. Removal of the posthas held hearings on a companion bill, graduate school wiU provide additional S. 2304. At both hearings general sup- space.

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House Approves Navy Budget aaion on the 1947 Navy ai^roIATE â&#x20AC;˘^ priations biU resulted in House approval of a Navy budget of $4,639,718,000, which compares with $4^24,000^000 recommended by the Budget Bnteaa and $6,325,000,000 recommended hf the Navy. AUotments for researdi weie increased to $250,000,000, and for die Naval Reser\'e training program to $133,800,000. The proposed bdl would provide: 1. An average enlisted strengdi of 500,000, with the estimated 950,000 moi on 1 July 1946, being reduced to 437,000 by 1 July 1947.

2. An average officer suength of 58,000, with the estimate of 105,000 on 1 July 1946 being reduced to 57,800 by 1 July 1947.

3. 965 major combatant vessels, widi 291 in active fleets, 42 in the ready reser\'e, and 632 in inactive status, and 941 amphibious craft and auxiliaries.

4. 6,000 active operating planes, half shore-based and half carrier-based, and 2,400 spare planes.

5. A Marine Corps of 7,000 officers and 100,000 enlisted men, the maximum strength authorized by the new law, Pubhc No. 347.

6. An Organized Reserve of 21,600 officers and 176,752 enlisted men, with 167,806 in surface and submarine components and 32,546 in air components, and 64,400 in the Volunteer Reserve, and 60,000 in the Marine Corps Reserve.

7. 134 Naval Air Stations, with 80 located inside the United States and 54 outside, and with 95 to be dedared surplus.

8. A SeaBee orgaiuzation of 7,000, under the Bureau of Yards and Docks, and a Wave organization of 5,500.

The biU, it is believed, wiU provide ample funds under present drcumstances for the N a \ 7 Office of Research and Inventions, now a one-year-old organization.

In reporting the bill, the House Appropriations Committee said: "If it were possible to look into the hourglass of the future and predia the shape of things to come, the lot of the committee in shouldering its responsibility to provide funds for the operarion of the United States Navy would be made a comparatively easy one.

"If it were possible to know at this moment what effect for example, the atomic bomb may have on future modes and methods of warfare, a hne of approach could be devised that would provide the necessary men and fadhties to serv'e the pattern of the new era. Unfortimately, no standards exist for diviiung this fumre picmre. Decisions must be made upon facts as they exist, plus reasonable expectancy of future needs."

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By Captain E. John Long, USNR, '22 ANOTHER June week has come and gone, trailing memories X\. of dances and balls, garden parties and parades, moonlight, roses, weddings and all those traditionally pleasant things that have been associated with the Academy's most glamorous interlude for many a year.

For five days little ol' Crabtown was jammed. With wartime travel restrictions lifted, the narrow winding streets of the quaint Maryland capital and the green expanses of the Yard seethed with midshipmen and officers in white uniforms, girls in gay summer dresses, proud parents and relatives, old grads, beribboned heroes of the war, and scores of sightseers in general. Food was scarce and housing scarcer. There were queues in front of every restaurant and even many of the shops. But everyone was in good humor and took inconveniences and shortages in stride. , For was not this the first peacetime graduation in five years, and an occasion for rejoicing and general good feeling?

June Week 1946 was historic in many ways. It not only graduated the largest class of midshipmen in peacetime history, but it also marked the end of the shortened war course of three years.

From now on four years will be required for a commission. It is appropriate to note here, too, that the Class of 1947- (fiftytwo per cent of which entered Annapolis with previous wartime service) was the most mature ever to receive diplomas, the average being over 22 years. And by no means the least of the unique aspects of June Week 1946 were the first peacetime weddings for graduates for many years.

"Why is June Week?" the casual visitor to Annapolis is likely to ask. The simplest answer might be that June Week is a series of events and traditions which have grown up around the awarding of diplomas to the graduating class. Some of these traditions are quite old; that of the Color Girl, for instance, going back to 1871. Others, such as the Ring Dance and the "N" Dance are of comparatively recent origin.

The beginnings of "No More Rivers," and of the cap throwing or anchor-man tossing during graduation exercises are still matters of debate among historians and old residents alike. And could there be any truth in the legend that the Yard possesses a spedal type of rose which comes into flower the dawn of the first day of June Week and fades as the middies and their "drags" leave Annapolis on Graduation Day? However, it can be confirmed that the Chaplain Department has apparently such a perfea "working arrangement" with Jupiter Pluvius that only one presentation of the colors has had to be held indoors in twentyseven years!

June Week is many things. There are, of course, the parties, balls, sports and parades,â&#x20AC;&#x201D;all the well-deserved funmaking that should follow long gruelling weeks crowded with study, examinations, and drills. But there comes also, to every man who has experienced June Week, the sober realization that it marks the end of his midshipman probational period and the beginning of the serious business of becoming a commissioned officer. June Week, therefore, may be said to be both the Alpha and Omega of a pro-

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fessional navy man's mareer, for with it he closes the books on his fledgling days and takes on those grave responsibilities for the safety and efficiency of the Fleet that will be with him as long as he wears the uniform of the Navy of the United States.

This year's graduating class had every good reason to enjoy to the full its brief period of gaity, because, unlike the lower classmen who received a month's leave, the new ensigns of 1947 were ordered to proceed at once to their duty stations.

As professional Navy men they will have to share the many new and serious problems now confronting their fellow naval officers. For, in addition to the trying daily routine that must be faced by anyone assuming naval responsibility, there are today momentous questions of the merits and demerits of armynavy merger plans, atomic bomb tests, surface versus air power, etc., etc. So none could deny nor begrudge the Class of 1947 a graduation fling. The photographs that accompany this article, the most complete pictorial coverage of June Week ever attempted, indicate that they had a thoroughly enjoyable time, departing fit and eager to do their duty.

In compliance with a request from Vice Admiral Fitch to the Chief of Naval Operations a crew of expert cameramen were sent to Annapolis from the Photo Science Laboratory at Anacostia. These men recorded for posterity all the events of June Week in natural color movies. This material will be welded into a short feature film, available to theatres and alumni groups about the first of the year. It is tentatively titled "No More Rivers." The excellent Official Navy photographs accompanying this account were taken under the personal direction of Commander C. R. Burke, USNR, by Chief Photographers Mate Charles W. Anderson, USN, and three official navy cameramen.

Here is a day by day account of the principal activities and events of June Week 1946: Friday, 31 May 1946 Following an afternoon of sports the first June Week ceremony got under way in Tecumseh Court promptly at 6:30 Friday evening. As the Brigade stood at attention two groups of midshipmen marched into the Court from opposite sides. One group was dressed in service blues; the other wore pull-over sweaters in place of regular jackets. Each of the latter proudly displayed a big gold "N," signifying that he had won his letter in athletics, and a few had had the coveted star that indicated a victory over Army.

Admiral Fitch spoke briefly, pointing out the importance of both athletic and extra-curricular activities, and praised the records of the Varsity teams as well as the accomplishments of the Musical Clubs, the Masqueraders, the "Log," "Trident," "Lucky Bag," etc. The Captains of the 18 sport activities at the Academy were then called to the rostrum and personally congriatulated by Vice Admiral Fitch, Rear Admiral Ingersoll, and Captain Humphreys, the latter the retiring Director of Athletics.

After evening chow, members of the graduating class returned to Tecumseh Court to celebrate the traditional "No More Rivers." Like many another venerable Academy custom no one seems to know just when or how "No More Rivers" (which means "no more exams") started. For many years it was a spontaneous outbreak of zany skits and snake dances, generally held around the hook-nosed, stony-eyed figure of Tecumseh.

"No More Rivers," however has become less and less spontaneous, and more a controlled production, with a master of

ceremonies, stage lighting and props, and introductory remarks by the Commandant of Midshipmen. But the skits retain much of their old flavor, ribbing the faculty and the officers of the Executive Department, and satirizing the trials and tribulations of Academy life.

This year a tableaux, set to music, burlesqued the long rugged career of midshipmen, from Plebe summer through the Youngster cruises and exams, to the dubious joys of being First Classmen.

Duty officers haunt their dreams, placing them on the pap list for putting bananas in the refrigerator, and similar breaches of good conduct and discipline. This year the faculty and executive department got off lightly, with good-natured "cuts" that could only be termed near misses. The music was good, especially the rendering of the theme, "No More Rivers,"—a home-grown blend of "Life on the Bounding Main," "Auld Lang Syne" and "The Mermaid."

Later that night the most exclusive of June Week parties—the "N" dance—was held in Hubbard Hall, the Varsity boat house on the banks of winding Dorsey Creek. Only those who have the right to wear the U. S. Naval Academy " N " and their drags could attend this gay and colorful function. Tables were set on floats, while overhead strings of Chinese lanterns threw patches of color on the rippling surface of the water.

In this romantic setting, the l 6 t h of these annual affairs was held, for the " N " dance is a tradition of comparatively recent origin. Until 1930 stag dinners celebrated the winning of the coveted sports letter. Those who danced at this year's celebration, and looked out over the night magic of Dorsey Creek, could not help hoping that plans to fill this picturesque waterway, in order to provide more land for an expanding Academy, might somehow be altered, for Dorsey, or College, Creek with its bordering trees and grassy banks is one of the Academy's loveliest spots, recalling the "backs" at Cambridge, or the Isis at Oxford.

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Saturday, 1 June 1946 An extra added attraction, not on the June Week program, was the arrival of the President of the United States, Harry S. Truman, in Annapolis Saturday, on his return from a visit to the Eastern Shore of Maryland. He halted only long enough, however, to receive the greetings of Admiral and Mrs. Fitch.

For those restless, ambitious souls who cannot stay abed, Saturday morning offered a variety of drill events; sailing, gunnery, engineering, physical training, seamanship and navigation.

Visitors and old grads alike learned "how we do things these days," and although the latter were seen to shake their heads skeptically once or twice, there was a look of pride in their eyes, too. There must be change if there is to be progress, and without progress our Navy would never have won the uphill fight against the combined underseas fleet of the Germans and the (for many months) numerically superior Jap Navy.

Sailing, the oldest phase of naval training, attracted the most interest, as whaleboats, half-raters, stars, catboats and other small craft blossomed scores of white sails against the blue Severn.

More baseball and tennis in the afternoon, and then the most romantic of the week's social events, the Junior Prom of Annapolis, the Ring Dance. To no event do the "drags" look forward with greater anticipation, and little wonder. This is the time of times when dreams may come true. It is the men, of course, who get the rings, but there is absolutely no regulation that prevents

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slipping an engagement replica, or miniature, on the finger of one's partner at the same time.

This year's Ring Dance was held in stately Memorial Hall.

Before the couples entered the room, through an enormous reproduction of the class ring ten feet high, the girls, who had worn throughout dinner their escorts' rings on ribbons around their necks, dipped the rings into a binnacle containing water flown to the Academy from the Seven Seas.

The Ring Dance is somewhat like any college Junior Prom until the fourth dance. The girl then removes the ring from her neck and places it on her thimib. As the music slows the lights grow dimmer and dimmer. There is a moment of blackout, and, when the lights come on again, the midshipman wears his ring, and many a drag has a replica on the finger that means engagement! It is truly a thrill of thrills, and a memory to be cherished a lifetime.

Smoke Hall, just below Memorial Hall, was decorated like a cruise ship, with backdrops showing the harbor and skyline of New York. Here the celebrants sipped punch and had pictures taken. Each "drag" was given at dinner in Smoke Park a bracelet inscribed with the class crest, motto and "Ring Dance 1948A." At the same time (almost unnoriced) the First Class held its annual June Week hop in Macdonough Hall. N o ceremony attends it, but, for that matter, the Ring Dance is also a somewhat new tradition. Class Rings date from 1869, but the first Ring Dance was held only twenty-one years ago, to replace a custom whereby the new donor of a ring was thrown into Dewey Basin with his clothes on. This was halted when a midshipman of the Class of 1924 was drowned, and since then class rings have been distributed at dances.

Sunday, 2 June 1946 On the official program the Sunday that falls in the middle of June Week is listed under the sedate title of Baccalaureate. But to Midshipmen and old residents of Crabtown (as Annapolis is familiarly and affectionately known to all who live there) it is Sob Sunday.

In the old day crocodile tears flowed freely in Chapel on this occasion as plebes pretended intense sorrow at the impending departure of the first classmen. Each year the tears flowed more freely and the sobs became more audible. Towels and even bedsheets were concealed beneath uniforms and brought out at appropriate moments. Finally, in 1921, Sob Sunday got completely out of hand, and an order went out forbidding any more such demonstrations within the sacred walls of the Chapel. The name, however, has stuck, but that is all, much to the relief of all those who knew the original racuous Sob Sunday, and would just as soon have it buried for keeps. However, two traditions connected with Sob Sunday have deservedly been preserved. Then only does the midshipman choir sing Kipling's "Recessional," and, at the end, after "Eternal Father, Strong to Save," the entire First Class joins in "Navy Blue and Gold," and "The Star Spangled Banner."

Sunday evening, in Mahan Hall, the Midshipmen's Orchestra and the Glee Club gave a combined recital.

Monday, 3 June 1946 Promptly at 5:30 p. m., with Worden Field surrounded by thousands of spectators, the entire Brigade marched down Club Road to the accompaniment of one of the Academy band's most stirring marches. Moving into position, the long line of men

stood at attention while forty-six midshipmen were called forward to receive fifty-eight prizes for excellence in academic and athletic work during the scholastic year, and for the course.

The complete list of prize winners and their awards will be found elsewhere in this issue. Following the presentations the brigade,—wearing blue shirts, white trousers and white caps,— paraded smartly by the reviewing stand, where the seven senior professors of the faculty as well as heads of departments took the salute. Department heads included: Captain F. L. Riddle, Captain Ralph Earle, Jr., Captain T. M. Stokes, Captain R. B. Pirie, Captain R. M. Zinomerh, Captain W . L. Field, Captain S. R. Clark, Captain W . G. Michlet, Captain J. B. Pollard, Captain C O. Humphreys, Captain H. A. Baldridge, Captain C. L. Austin, Captain K. J. Christoph, Captain J. R. Perry, and Commander E. P. Wuebbens. Senior professors: A. F. Westcott, G. Beneze, J. M. Purdie, W . B. Norris, L. T. Wilson, and E. W . Thomson.

Two events were scheduled for the evening, the Superintendent's Garden Party for members of the graduating class, their "drags" and families, and the Third Class Hop in Memorial Hall. The Garden Party, always one of the most picturesque of all June Week activities, was held in the beautiful garden that lies just back of the Superintendent's quarters and within the shadow of the great dome of the Chapel. Guests strolled along rose-bowered walks, draped with gay Chinese lanterns, and sat at tables under the trees, where refreshments were served to the more than 3,000 persons who attended. Admiral Fitch and his gracious lady received the guests on the terrace veranda that overlooked a veritable fairyland of gay lights and animated groups in the garden below.

Tuesday, 4 June 1946 Nothing is ever placed on the calendar of the next to the last day of June Week until late afternoon. Perhaps this is a wise arrangement, allowing everyone a chance to catch a breath, a beauty sleep, and a good start on a large afternoon and evening.

For this is the day of the principal parade and the biggest dance.

For many, too, it is the last afternoon and evening in Annapolis, because the exodus begins promptly after graduation.

Townsmen and others who skipped Monday's parade and the awarding of prizes were all on hand at Worden Field on Tuesday afternoon at 5:30. For this is the parade of parades of June Week, climaxed by the presentation of colors to the midshipman company with the best record. The Academy band, in full strength, and the midshipmen's own bugle corps (the famous "Hell Cats") "trooped the line" as thousands cheered and waved to friends and sweethearts in the swinging columns that marched swiftly onto the field, bayonets glistening in the golden afternoon sunlight. From the Brigade flag fluttered the decoration conferred on the Academy last year by Brazil.

There was a moment of silence after the companies were formed. Then the bugles sounded "retreat," and the band crashed into "The Star Spangled Banner." As one the audience rose to attention, the military coming quickly to salute.

As the strains of the national anthem died away the 24th Company was ordered to advance to the front of the brigade. The color guard of the 1 Sth company, which won the honors last year, joined the group, carrying the national and academy emblems.

Vice Admiral Fitch then walked from the reviewing platform, escorting Miss Dorothy Hargrove, of New York, fiancee of Midshipman James B. Wilson of North Carolina, commanding

Presentation of Awards—Worden Field.

Senator Walsh Gives His Own Prize.

Senior Professors Take the Salute.

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Color Girl, June Week, 1926.

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A Glimpse of the Farewell Ball.

officer of the winning company. The Annapolis Evening Capital described Miss Hargrove's attire: "a flowing champagne colored gown of nylon marquisette, fashioned with a fitted bodice and offshoulder eSect. Her picture hat, with an open crown, was of wine, and darker velvet streamers. She wore long gloves of a deep peach color and white slippers."

With Admiral Fitch's gallant assistance Miss Hargrove took the heavy flags from the color guard of the 18th company and passed them to Midshipman Wilson. He transferred them to the color guard of his own company, which will be entitled to carry a blue and gold guidon at drills and parades during the next academic year. Three times the midshipmen of the 24th company raised their caps and cheered the color girl. Then, like a giant echo, the entire brigade did the same, their caps rising and falling like white wave crests up and down the line.

Presentation of the colors, it is generally agreed, is one of the oldest of June Week ceremonies. The first record of feminine participation is 1871, and the tradition seems to have been carried on without a break since. Living within the Yard today, and a witness of the 1946 ceremonies, is Mrs. R. B. Pirie, wife of the head of the Aviation Department, and Color Girl of 1926. In view of the widespread interest in this ceremony Captain H. A. Baldridge, Curator of the Naval Academy Museum, is collecting photographs of the various Color Girls of the Academy for a special permanent display in the Museum.

Although a report of absentees was demanded shortly after the Brigade was assembled on Tuesday afternoon, regimental commanders made the traditional (but inaccurate) reply: "Ninteen men absent, sir," the first regiment shouted.

"Forty-eight able men absent, sir," the second reported.

The reports, of course, spelled out "1948A," the year of the new first class. It was the departing midshipmen's own way of paying tribute to their comrades left behind at the last parade.

A ripple of cheering passed down the line and old grads smiled, as nostalgically they recalled their days in the ranks.

Early in the evening Admiral and Mrs. Fitch carried out ananother long-standing tradition by giving a dinner for the midshipmen members of the Second Class Committee for the First Class Hop. Eleven midshipmen and their ladies enjoyed the hospitality of the Superintendent's quarters.

No word can describe the Farewell Ball except "colossal." To it members of every class, even the lowly Plebes, may bring their "drags" and relatives, and the entire lower deck of Dahlgren Hall is cleared for dancing. From the balcony the vast armory, whose deck is larger than a football field presents a kaleidoscopic scene, like some super-movie set, as thousands of couples in colorful uniforms and dresses sway to the music of the Navy band. To the Plebe this is the social event of the season, in fact just about all the social life he has known in a year, and for the first time he may "drag" to an Academy dance. To the First Classmen it is the end of midshipman fun, for tomorrow he must embark on the cruise of real life.

Wednesday, 5 June 1946 Finally, came that day of daysâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Graduation. Again the skies threatened, but as the morning sped along the sun came out clear and bright, and to the unconcealed joy of all (particularly cameramen recording the historic event) the day became one of those proverbially perfect ones June poets sing about.

The crowd filed into the reserved seat sections of Dahlgren Hall early. Colored cards admitted parents and friends of the graduates to special areas close to the central section, where the members of the Class of 1947 would spend their last hour as midshipmen.

Those who were in their seats at ten saw the first of the day's events—a radio broadcast from the rostrum. Helen Hall, of Baltimore's WCBM, interviewed the "Color Girl" of the Class of 1947, Miss Dorothy A. Hargrove.

A few minutes before eleven, with all guests and midshipmen in their places, the distinguished visitors, who would occupy seats on the rostrum, walked into the flag-draped hall. For the first time the Academy was able to welcome four Fleet Admirals —^Nimitz, Leahy, King and Halsey,—who took places of honor in the first row with Vice Admiral Fitch. Behind them sat five Admirals, ten Vice Admirals and nine Rear Admirals.

Following a brief pause to coordinate the ceremonies with radio network time, the program proceeded flawlessly, from the Invocation by the Chaplain at eleven o'clock until the exit of the Graduating Class a little after noon. The speeches were few, brief, and very much to the point. Admiral Fitch, in his introduction, directed attention to the increased responsibilities 1947 assumed, adding: "With these responsibilities you have been given certain added freedoms which you deserved and have earned." The new method of presenting diplomas in bundles to company commanders saved many weary moments for those eager to be away on leave, or to be married, or to experience the thrill of wearing the shoulder boards of a commissioned line officer of the United States Navy.

Admiral Nimitz, in the principal address, declared he would not be the first to break the ancient custom of June Week speakers who give "wholesome advice to graduates." But he leavened his counsel with humorous anecdotes and the great hall was filled with laughter. In fact, good cheer and inspiration pervaded his whole speech, reflecting the feelings of midshipmen and visitors on this first peacetime Graduation in five years.

Illustrating a point, the Chief of Naval Operations, described an incident "that came within my purview at this Academy many years ago." Two candidates for admission to the Academy, he recalled, celebrating at a Washington restaurant the night before their induction, suddenly discovered that they had missed all transportation to Annapolis. Hiring a dog cart they drove all night in the cold to report on time at the Commandant's office, only to discover a sign on the closed door postponing the hour of reporting. Admiral Nimitz went on to add that each of these candidates eventually attained flag rank in the Navy, and that "both are on this platform" today.

The Admiral did not reveal the identity of the two men, but it can now be told that one of them was Admiral Nimitz himself, and the other was Rear Admiral Albert T. Church, USN ( R e t ) , the latter, until recently, serving as the Secretary of the U. S. Naval Institute. Further, it can be revealed that the dinner took place in the Old Harvey's Restaurant on Pennsylvania avenue, and because the two candidates had only enough money to pay for their meal at the time, a considerable amount of "scurrying around" at a late hour of the night was necessary before the amount demanded by the driver of the dog cart could be raised.

Another innovation, and an impressive one, was the mass swearing-in of the Class of 1947 during the Graduation exercises.

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Halsey Administering the Oath of Office.

New Ensigns Sing "Navy Blue and Gold."

Venezuelan Among Graduates.

Alumni House Scene of '38 Gathering.

'01 Begins 45th Anniversary in Tap Room.

"No More Plebes"—Herndon Monument.

In that deep solemn voice his shipmates in many a turbulent Pacific campaign learned to love and respea Fleet Admiral Halsey called for a raising of hands as he read the oath of office that finally transmuted midshipmen into full-fledged naval officers.

As the rafters of Dahlgren Hall rang with the cheers of the Brigade "For those about to leave us," followed by the Graduating class's cheers "For those we leave behind us," the air suddenly filled with white cap, flying in all directions, as the graduates gave exhultant vent to their emancipation from midshipman life.

A wild scramble for the souvenirs ensued, particularly among the girls in the audience, for the caps not only contained the name and address of the former owner, but many also enclosed notes inviting correspondence, exchange of photographs, etc., at new duty stations. One young lady, clasping a sliding cap, landed squarely at the feet of the departing Admiral Nimitz.

Graduation exercises were over, but two traditional ceremonies had still to be carried out. In one, members of the Plebe class, their caps backward, streaked for the Herndon monument, near the Chapel, with a snakedance detour via the hitherto forbidden Lover's Lane. Over a pyramid of shoulders one of the celebrants was hoisted to the crest of the monmnent, while his classmates chanted the swansong of their lowly estate: "Tain't N o More Plebes!"

The other ceremony took place near the famous Japanese bell, brought back by Commodore Perry when he opened Japan to the outside world. Here scores of new ensigns received their shoulder boards from proud parents and excited sweethearts.

News cameras clicked and whirred as this ceremony, too, was sealed with the traditional embrace.

But soon the snowy-white uniform of the yard began to disappear as midshipmen and new ensigns alike returned to Bancroft Hall, presently to emerge, suitcases in hand, dressed in the slate grays they would wear while traveling on leave or to new duty stations. Midshipmen had a month to relax before they embarked on simamer cruises. The new ensigns, however, were not so fortunate, because most of them had to proceed at once to duty at the air training command, Jacksonville.

By midafternoon the Yard was deserted, except for animated little knots of people around the doors and terraces of the Chapel —wedding parties awaited their turn to have the ceremony performed in the traditional Navy way. So many there were this year, however, it was "assembly line," but no one seemed to care, least of all the starry-eyed principles! After the customary crossed-sword photograph had been taken on the Chapel steps the wedding party adjourned to the Officer's Club, Alimini House, or to private homes for receptions and refreshments, and the next wedding group quickly took its place.

Another Jime Week has come and gone, another Class launched on naval careers. The yard has returned to its accustomed routine. But the rattle and clatter of B & G's cleanup squads, folding grandstands and other equipment, scarcely died away before the shuffle of feet was heard again on the buff bricks of Tecumseh Court. It was the vanguard of the Class of 1950,— sailors, marines, soldiers and civilians now, a mixed and motley group. Ahead of them stretch "four long hard years, a sleep and a butt," before they, too, become monarchs of all they survey in their own June Week.

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Greetings of Vice Admiral Aubrey W. Fitch, USN, to the Members of the United Nations Military Staflf Committee, 2 9 May 1 9 4 6 .

As Superintendent of the Naval Academy it is a pleasure to welcome so distinguished a group of officers to Annapolis. You gentlemen, members of the United Nations Military Staflf Committee, have done us a signal honor in coming here today. It is our sincere desire that this visit will prove to be as interesting and unique to you as it is to us. We

have arranged to have you witness the formation of the Brigade of Midshipmen, to have you join us at luncheon, after which there will be an opportunity to see the functioning of the Academy in general. If any of you wish to see any particular part of this institution not included on the scheduled program, you have only to mention it to a member of

my staflf, who will be glad to escort you. Later in the afternoon there will be a review of the Brigade of Midshipmen in your honor, following which Mrs. Fitch and I are looking forward to entertaining you at the Superintendent's quarters.

Gentlemen, we appreciate having you with us.

Message of Department of Georgia President, American Legion Auxiliary, Memorial Day Exercises, 3 0 May 1 9 4 6 , United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland.

Officials of the United States Naval Academy, Distinguished Guests and Friends: In 1918 an odd incident inspired the late Miss Moina Michael, the Poppy Lady, of Athens, Georgia, to launch a memorial Poppy Anchor to pay this annual tribute to all men who went down at sea.

Miss Moina sat at her desk in New York, sobbing over a picrure of flowers being cast on the waves forming the word Kitchener, a British officer of World War I, whom she admired.

A lirrle woman dressed in black came into her office. Miss Michael greeted her and showed her the picture. Both sobbed.

The htde woman, gaining composure, told the story of her son, Tom, who had joined the army at her insistence, because she felt that if anything should happen to him, she would at least have his grave to visit and put flowers on, and that his country would mark his grave and put a flag on it.

In the Navy, if he went down, there, would be no flowers nor grave. But Tom went down on a transport.

Miss Moina promised that Tom should have his flowers as well as all others who went down at sea. She kept that promise.

Every year since 1919, and until her passing in 1944, she fashioned with her own hands, a huge Poppy Anchor to be launched in memory of all men who have gone down at sea.

Originally the anchor was launched with Naval ceremonies at Savannah, Georgia, but in 1930 the United States Naval Academy authorities took over the tribiite. Since that time, it has become a twin ceremony to the event in Arlington at the tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

This year, for the first time, the Department of Georgia, American Legion Auxiliary, is sponsoring the Memorial Poppy Anchor. It was dedicated at Lexington, Georgia, on April 26, 1946, Southern Memorial Day. This Poppy Anchor, which the Department of Georgia, American Legion Auxiliary, is presenting to the Naval Academy to be used at this Memorial Day exercise is of poppies made by disabled veterans in the Veterans' Hospitals in Atlanta and Augusta, Georgia.

The Department of Georgia, American Legion Auxiliary, is deeply grateful to the Naval Academy for allowing us a part in this Memorial Day service. In the words of our beloved Poppy Lady, "It provides us means to keep faith with our 'Comrades of the Mist'."

REMARKS BY MIDSHIPMAN RAYMOND W. HARGROVE, JR., OF AUGUSTA, GEORGIA It is a great honor to be selected as the representative of the Brigade of Midshipmen in the launching of the Moina Michael Memorial

Poppy Anchor. I wish to express our appreciation for this opportunity of honoring those valiant men of the Navy who so bravely fought and died for the freedom of mankind.

At this moment, in Arlington Cemetery, the President of the United States is placing a wreath on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

It is fitting and proper that we of the Navy should also honor our gallant heroes.

Let us not forget the price they paid for freedom.

REMARKS BY MISS MARION WEST, OF ATHENS, GEORGIA As a member of the Junior Auxiliary of the Allen R. Fleming Unit of the American Legion, of Athens, Georgia, I am grateful for the oppormnity to take part in the ceremony of launching a poppy anchor honoring the heroes who have lost their lives at sea.

Throughout its history, the Navy has played an important part in protecting our country and in making our nation a great one.

On this day each year, the United States pauses to pay tribute to the men who have given their lives that this country might endure.

It is in keeping with the solemn spirit of Memorial Day that this poppy anchor is launched, commemorating the men of the Navyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and all menâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;who have lost their lives at sea in the service of their country.

Address At Presentation of Athletic and Extra-Curricular Awards Ceremony, 3 1 May 1 9 4 6 , by Vice Admiral Aubrey W. Fitch, U.S.N., Tecumseh Court.

As Superintendent of the Naval Academy . I want to thank the entire Brigade for its excellent cooperation with the Athletic Association and the Department of Physical Training. I feel that the Academy's sport and athletic program, as well as the excellent schedule of other extra-curricular activities, have been most successful, and this success is solely due to your enthusiastic interest and response.

JULY, 1946

To those of you receiving Varsity Athletic awards, I offer my heartiest congratulations.

Your teams have been leaders in many sports, and right at the top in others. And I cannot pass this point without a word of gratitude to those valiant members of the scrub teams, and other habimes of "Misery Hall," who keep the Varsities on their toes.

During the war years all collegiate sports

suffered to some extent, but, partly due to the efforts of the service academies and military training stations, national athletic competition was kept on a high level, gaining the respect and the gratitude of the entire sports world.

Those of you who are graduating will be very much missed. To those remaining, I can truthfully say that competition will be keener as colleges restore their pre-war athletic pro-

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grams. West Point, it is safe to assume, will grow no weaker.

Your Academy days have given you a sound foundation of physical health, and instilled that spirit of team play so essential to carrying out your duties as a naval officer and as a leader in your profession. To those of you who have won certificates in extra-curricular activities I offer my sincere congratulations, with the desire that your successors carry on these extremely worthwhile and imponant en-

deavors. How dull indeed would Academy life be without the satisfaction, humor, or inspiration of such activities as the "Log" and the "Trident," the "Lucky Bag," and the musical clubs, â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the Masqueraders, the Art Club, and many others. Participation in these things helps to make a well balanced, well rounded naval officer.

As you graduates go forth to begin your naval careers remember that sports and recreation, which have played such an important

part in yotir training hete, may be continued to your advantage and pleasure wherever your duties may take you. Above all remember that your physical health will be an extremely valuable "weapon" as you cope with the problems of daily life and with any possible enemies to your country.

On behalf of all the officers connected with these activities, I give you a "Well Done!"

Good luck to all of you!

Baccalaureate Sermon by Chaplain Everett P. Wuebbens, Commander (ChC), USN, in U. S. Naval Academy Chapel on 2 June 1946.

II Corinthiansâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;8:5 HE GAVE HIMSELF It would be presumptuous of the speaker to imagine that he might somehow be adequate to this great occasion, even as it was presumpmous of you to ask him to say something that you may remember when your minds are already loaded to the gunwales. After a three year diet of the concentrate of each instruaor's specialty, there just can not be room for any last minute dessert. And your hearts? Why, many of them are not even present. They are not down there with you, nor up here with me, but farther back in the chapel in one of those other pews. And yet, in this last undergraduate hour of worship for the class of 1947 there must be a few things worth saying and thinking about.

Since you do not have a dass mono, here is a personal thought around which you may want to weave the pattern of your lives. It is taken from the description of a remarkable group of men and women. They were just ordinary folks, but like so many ordinary people they did what they could and by so doing they seemed to be doing more than they could. Living unusually difficult lives, they nevertheless made the lives of others easier; not particularly gifted, they still inspired; and although they themselves were poor, they made others rich.

They were a small group of Greek Christians and in II Corinthians 8:5, we are told the secret of their greamess: "First they gave their own selves unto the Lord." Everything else they did was acceptable and splendid because they first gave themselves.

Change that to the singular and you have a target for a young man to shoot at and an epitaph for an old man to be proud of. HE GAVE HIMSELF. If we want to have that said of us, two things are important. First we ourselves must be someone worth giving away and then we must have a cause worthy of our best selves.

I First we must strive to be someone worth giving to a cause outside ourselves. Some of you have read Fosdick's book "On Being a Real Person." Written some years ago it remains timely, because it is always far more important to be a real person than to be an important personage. As first classmen you have come to be fairly important personages and the plebes, among others, have been properly impressed; but the real question is: What kind of a person are you? Are you the giving or the taking kind?

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The men whose ranks you will join are going to ask not merely, what does he look like? Or what can he do? and How much does he know?

They are going to ask what kind of a man is he? What kind of a shipmate? Is he going to tell us how to run the ship or has he come to give us a hand? Is he going to be another passenger who thinks that the ship was built for him, or will he be a working member of the ship's company? In a hundred little ways they will watch you, even as to how you behave toward the steward's mates at breakfast, and to your table manners, but not so much to find out whether you know Emily Post as to discover whether you are the grabbing or the passing kind of man.

There is perhaps no other profession in which what we are counts for so much more than what we have, even though we should have a great deal in such excellent terms as youth and personality or knowledge and authority. In themselves none of these things can make our lives worth the living or the giving in an age which no longer accepts the tyranny of mere things and no longer believes in the inherent virme of things. Our fathers may have thought, for instance, that they believed it, but we do not even pretend to believe that a man can be made clean by giving him a bathmb or that a gentleman can be created by an act of Congress.

It is what we are that counts and the responsibility for that is largely our own.

Heredity, environment, education and the "inscrutable ways of God" do things to us, but the content and conduct of our lives are determined by what we make of these externalsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; and internal, too. Dr. Hathaway has put it well, when he says that "the effects of personality upon glands is easier to illustrate than the effect of glands upon personality." The responsibility then is our own, and, if we have sense enough to keep that fact in the present tense, the future will take care of itself. You have visions of being captains and admirals someday. The vision is fine, provided you do not get visionary about it. Our profession is perhaps no more hazardous than most others, but it has its own peculiar reefs and shoals.

There is almost no limit to the responsibilities which may come to you, but no one can guarantee that any of you will ever get near what we call the top. There is one thing, however, that you can guarantee yourselves. If you have given yourself to your work as a midshipman, you stand a fair chance of being a good ensign. And if during the next few years you will be so busy trying to be just a good ensign that you do not have time to think or

even to care too much about what else you are going to be someday, you will stand a fair chance of making a good lieutenant. That is the way it will be with every other rung of the ladder you may be permitted to climb.

And it would be that way in every other walk of life. It is simply a law of hfe that happiness and success are seldom found by those who spend their lives looking for them.

People like that become grabbers and grubbers who lose even their own souls. It is the men who give themselves to their small tasks who, frequently to their own surprise, are trusted with greater tasks. They give and lose themselves in service, and in so doing develop into real persons whose lives become worth living and worth giving even though they should not be appreciated and rewarded.

II Lives like that should be given to great causes. In fact it takes great causes to make great hves. One of the causes in your hfe is the Navy itself. Three years ago you were sure that it is the happiest and best service in the world. A good many of us are still sure of that after somewhat more than three years. There is something about it that gets into a man's blood. It is the call of the sea, "the deep call and the wild call that will not be denied"; it is the excited going away to the mystery of distant places, the disappointment after we get there and the luxury of coming home again to the warmth of our loved ones; it is the hardness of long watches and the sofmess of a night at anchor in the tropics; it is a strange mixwre of independence of others and dependence on others; it is work and pleasure, vocation and avocation, service and self satisfaction, all in one. It is a cause to believe in, a task worth giving ourselves to.

But there are greater causes; One of these was suggested a few weeks ago when a ranking officer in the allegedly heartless Executive Department said quite spontaneously: "We tell ourselves and we have to tell every man in the Brigade that his future is in our hands; but the real truth is that our fumre is in their hands.

The Academy's, the Navy's the whole countr)''s fumre is in their hands. If they let us down, we are all sunk." In that simple remark is an element of respect and reverence for you as individuals and as a class that may surprise and should please you. But let us not miss the real point. A man can not say something like that unless he sincerely believes in his fellowman.

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and values, there is a cause to which any man Those early Christians "first gave their own may well give himself. It was the main issue selves unto the Lord." Do you know why they in the war and it will be one of the big issues did it? They did it because they had heard and in the new world and the new Navy. It may be believed the message of Christmas, of Good that you will receive more of this personal re- Friday and of Easter. They gave themselves spect than your predecessors from ranks who unto the Lord because they knew that He had are senior to you in authorit>' and from ratings given Himself to them, and they accepted that who are senior to you in experience. That divine gift. The world has never been the same will be fine; but this is finer and more im- since. It has tried to forget the God who gave portant: that you show your men a fine sense Himself and to go back to cheaper gods; to the of respect and reverence. Without that all your worship of things, of pleasure, of clan and intelligence, abilit>', skill and effort will hardly race; to the pursuit of self instead of others, and make a leader out of you. With it they will of cruel might instead of love. But when it follow you anywhere and, even though you comes time to pick up the debris of wrecked mrn out to be a strict disciplinarian before lives and homes and nations, the manger, the whom offenders tremble, there won't be much cross and the open grave still stand to tell us talk of a caste system in your ship. anew of the God who gave Himself to us and After all that was Hitler's greatest mistake. to ask wistfully: How can you help giving He did not believe in his fellowmen, not even yourself to a God like that? in his own people. And is it not true that he Gentlemen, may I remind you once more of really could not believe in man, because he the Admiral whose heroic courage is memorialchose not to believe in God, for when a man ized in this window? Most of us remember does not believe in God he soon finds that he only what he is reported to have said about the can not believe in much of anything or any- torpedoes. But before that crucial battle Adone else.

miral Farragut read his well-marked Bible and prayed God for help and guidance. When he was sure that he would have it, he wrote his wife a potential farewell letter and told her: "If God is my leader, as I hope He is, 1 am going into Mobile Bay in the morning, and in Him I put my trust." God was his leader— lashed to that masthead as well as to the mast of his ship, he was sure that he was right and dared to spurn everything that the enemy had to offer.

Gentlemen, I challenge you to lash your lives to that masthead; I challenge you to take God as your Leader and to firmly resolve that whatever you do and say musr first be right in His sight. I challenge you to make Him the one great cause, to whom you will give the strength and splendor of your young lives, so that you too may know what course to steer to victory over all that time and eternity may pit against you.

Class of 1947, may God bless and keep you.

Amen.

Program of Midshipman^s Orchestra and Glee Club Recital, Mahan Hall, 2 J u n e 1 9 4 6 .

The Midshipman Orchestra and Glee Club of the U. S. Naval Academy presented a combined recital at 9:00 p. m. on 2 June 1946 in Mahan Hall. A varied program ranging from A Minor Piano Concerto by Grieg to the popular "I Dream of You" was offered.

The Midshipman Orchestra was under the direction of Midshipman Russell J. Herron, 2nd Class, of 229 'Wood Court, Wihnette, Illinois. Midshipman Robert J. Laws, 1st Class, 1328 N. W. 29th Terrace, Miami, Florida, direaed the Glee Club.

Included in the recital program were:

Selections by the Orchestra: "Entry of the Gladiator" Fucik "Marche Slav" Tschaikowsy "Ramparts We Watch" Beecher Selections by the Glee Club: "Brothers Sing On" Grieg "I Dream of You" Osser "Jonah" Waring Piano Duet by Midshipman Eugene W. Mulligan, III, 2nd Class, of 119 Park Place, Kingston, Penn., and Midshipman Norman L. Gibson, 4th Class, of 4352 Oregon Street, San Diego 4, California.

"Adagio from Concerto in C Minor" . . Grieg "Night and Day" Porter Selections by the Orchestra: "Rhapsody in Blue" "American Patrol" "Warsaw Concerto"

Gershwin Beecham Adinsell

Selections by the Glee Club: "Waters Ripple and Flow" . . Czechoslovakian Folk Song "Sea Fever" Masefield and Andrews "Sky Anchors" Waring

Presentations at Dress Parade, Worden Field, 3 J u n e 1 9 4 6 .

1. The Navy Department awards a trophy to that midshipman of each graduating class who has demonstrated outstanding proficiency in the use of the service carbine, and also a trophy to the foremost pistol shot of each graduating class. These trophies are designated, respectively, as the "Secretary of the Navy's Carbine Trophy" and the "Secretary of the Navy's Pistol Trophy."

Recipients: Carbine trophy—Midshipman John Bartley Jones, Jr., 1st Class. Pistol trophy —Midshipman Jose Constantino Seijas, 1st Class.

2. The Naval Academy presents gold, silver, and bronze medals, respectively, to the midshipmen of the second class who stand first, second, and third in excellence in small-arms target practice.

Recipients: First Prize (Gold Medal) Midshipman Nicholas Ernest Davis, 2nd Class.

Second Prize (Silver Medal; Midshipman James Carl Ruehrmund, 2nd Class. Third

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Prize (Bronze Medal) Midshipman Joseph shipman William Gardiner Ridgway, 1st Henry Clasgens, II, 2nd Class.

Class; Midshipman James Burnett Wilson, 1st 3. The Superintendent addresses letters of Class; Midshipman Carl Warren Otto, 1st commendation to those midshipmen of the Class. graduating class who have demonstrated out4. The Class of 1871, United States Naval standing officer-like qualities, and who have Academy, provides a fund for the purchase contributed most by precept and example to of a dress sword by that midshipman of the the development of these qualities within the graduating class who is declared most profiBrigade. cient in practical and theoretical ordnance and Recipients: Midshipman Stansfield Turner, gunnery. Recipient: Midshipman William 1st Class; Midshipman Ralph Emerson Moon, Robert Porter, 1st Class.

Jr., 1st Class; Midshipman William Wilson 5. The Class of 1897, United States Naval Barron, 1st Class; Midshipman Joseph Patrick Academy, presents a sword to that midshipFlanagan, Jr., 1st Class; Midshipman Charles man of the graduating class who has conAnthony Kiser, 1st Class; Midshipman Oscar tributed most by his officerlike qualities and Greene, Jr., 1st Class; Midshipman Walter positive character to the development of naval James Krstich, 1st Class; Midshipman Edmund spirit and loyalty within the Brigade. The William O'Callaghan, 1st Class; Midshipman name of the midshipman to whom the sword Oliver Sawyer Hallett, 1st Class; Midshipman is awarded is inscribed on the Class of 1897 Henry Richard Duden, Jr., 1st Class; Midship- Cup, which remains at the Naval Academy. man Donald Boone Whitmire, 1st Class; Mid- Recipient: Midshipman William Wilson Barshipman James Robert Collier, 1st Class; Mid- ron, 1st Class.

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6. T h e Class of 1912, United States Naval Academy, presents a gold watch to that midshipman of the graduating class who stands highest for the course in English. Recipient: Midshipman Howard Allen Weiss, 1st Class. ~. T h e Class of 1924, United States Naval Academy, presents a Victory Bond in the amount of one hundred dollars (S 100.00) to that midshipman of the graduating class who stands highest for the course in the Department of Marine Engineering. Recipient: Midshipman William Robert Porter, 1st Class.

8. T h e Class of 1928, United States Naval Academy, presents V i a o r y Bonds in the amount of seventy-five dollars ($"'5.00) to that midshipman of the graduating class who, by his spirit and charaaer while serving on the Junior Varsity Squad, has done the most to promote football at the Naval Academy. Recipient: Midshipman Hexter Amos Williams, Ist Class.

9. T h e General Society Sons of the Revolution has presented to the Naval Academy a Cup, on which each year is engraved the name of the midshipman of the graduaring dass most proficient in practical ordnance and gunnery. R e d p i e n t : Midshipman WiUiam Robert Porter, 1st Class.

10. The National Sodety Daughters of the American Revolution presents a V i a o r y Bond in the amount of one hundred dollars ($100.00) to that midshipman of the graduating dass who excels in seamanship. Two midshipmen of the graduating class tied for the award this year and it was decided to present a V i a o r y Bond to each.

Redpients: Midshipman Robert Joseph Perrich, 1st Class, and Midshipman WiUiam Robert Porter, 1st Class.

11. T h e Unired Daughrers of the Confederacy presents a Viaorj- Bond in the amount of one hundred dollars ( $ 1 0 0 . 0 0 ) , known as the "Maury Prize," to that midshipman of the third dass who excels in physics. R e d p ient: Midshipman Patrick Paul BiUingsley, 3rd Class.

It was also decided to award a V i a o r y Bond to that midshipman of the second class who excels in physics. R e d p i e n t : Midshipman James Wilson Hawtherne, 2nd Class.

12. T h e Military Order of Foreign W a r s presents a Viaor}' Bond in the amount of fifty doUars ( $ 5 0 . 0 0 ; to that midshipman of the graduating dass who stands highest for the course in the Department of Mathematics. Recipient: Midshipman James Donavon Andrews, 1st Class.

13. T h e National Society United States Daughters of 1812 presents a "Life Membership in the U. S. Naval Instimte" to that midshipman of the graduating class who attains the highest standing for the elecuical courses in the Department of Elearical Engineering during the First Class year, and who accepts a commission in any branch of the naval service.

Recipient: Midshipman William Robert Porter, 1st Class.

14. T h e Colonial Daughters of the Seventeenth Cenmry presents a "Life Membership in the U. S. Naval Institute" to that midshipman of the graduating dass who excels in history. Recipient: Midshipman Howard Allen Weiss, 1st Class.

15. T h e National W o m a n ' s Relief Corps, Auxihary to the Grand Army of the Republic, presents a Victory Bond in the amount of one hundred dollars ( $ 1 0 0 . 0 0 ) to that midshipm a n of the graduating dass who is most pro-

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ficient in "Rules of the Road." R e d p i e n t : Midshipman Andrew Jackson Peacock, Jr., 1st Class.

16. T h e Naval Order of the United States presents prizes, as enumerated, to the three midshipmen who in a competitive examination show the broadest knowledge and most thorough understanding of world history of the present day: ( a ) SENIOR CONTEST (open to midshipmen of the first, second and third d a s s e s ) .

First Prize: A V i a o r y Bond in the amount of fifty dollars ( $ 5 0 . 0 0 ) . R e d p i e n t : Midshipman Howard Norman Kay, 3rd Class.

Second Prize: A lener of commendation from the Naval Order of the United States and a two years' subscription to a news magazine seleaed by the examining board. R e d p ient: Midshipman Jonathan Robert W a r r e n , 2nd Class. ( b ) J U N I O R CONTEST (open to midshipman of the fourth d a s s ) .

Prize: A lener of commendation from the Naval Order of the United States and a rwo years' subsaiption to a news magazine selected by the examining board. R e d p i e n t : Midshipman Harry Joseph Donahue, 4th Qass.

17. T h e American Legion National Organization presents a V i a o r y Bond in the amount of one hundred dollars ($100.00) to that midshipman of the second dass who stands first for the course in Naval History. Recipient: Midshipman Robert Craig Olson, 2nd Class.

18. The National Encampment of the Veterans of Foreign W a r s of the United States presents a V i a o r y Bond in the amount of one hundred dollars ($100.00) to that midshipman who graduates at the head of his dass for the course. Recipient: Midshipman James Robert CoUier, 1st Qass.

19. The Ladies Auxihary to the Veterans of Foreign Wars presents a V i a o r y Bond in the amount of one hundred doUars ($100.00) to that midshipman of the graduating dass who shows the greatest improvement in weighted average mark for the course over that of Fourth Class Year. Recipient: Midshipman Thomas CarroU Williams, 1st Class.

20. The Military Order of the World W a r s presents a Victory Bond in the amount of fifty dollars ($50.00) to that midshipman of the graduating dass who shows the greatest improvement in weighted average mark of the last year of the course over that of the combined first rwo years of the course. Recipient: Midshipman WiUiam Childs Patton, 1st Class.

21. The Fleet Reserve Association presents a Victorv Bond in the amount of fifty dollars ($50.00) to that midshipman of the graduating dass who stands highest for the course in conduCT and aptimde. R e d p i e n t : Midshipman Eugene Marion Henry, 1st Class.

22. T h e National Societ>' Daughters of Founders and Patriots of America presents a Victory Bond in the amount of fifty dollars (S50.00) to that midshipman of the graduating class who proves himself most proficient in praaical and theoretical navigation. Recipient: Midshipman Isham Wiseman Linder, 1st Class.

23. T h e Regular Veterans Association presents a V i a o r y Bond in the amount of fifty dollars ($50.00) to that midshipman of the graduating class designated as Midshipman Brigade Captain in the final seleaion of

brigade officers. R e d p i e n t : Midshipman Stansfield Turner, 1st Class.

2 4 . T h e Trident Sodety, United States Naval Academy, presents a V i a o r y Bond in the amount of fifty dollars ($50.00) to that midshipman who is adjudged the winner of a public speaking contest held under the auspices of that Society. R e d p i e n t : Midshipman Jack DelUs Jones, 2nd Class.

25. T h e Honorable David I. Walsh, Chairm a n of the Senate Committee on Naval Affairs, presents V i a o r y Bonds in the amount of seventy-five doUars ( $ 7 5 . 0 0 ) to that midshipman of the graduating dass who stands first for the course in mihtary law. Redpient: Midshipman Larry Cedl McGuire, 1st Class.

26. T h e late Colonel Robert M. Thompson, Qass of 1868, U.SJ>Jj\.., presents a navigating sextant to that midshipman of the graduating class who proves himself most profident in praaical and theoretical navigation. Redpient: Midshipman Isham Wiseman Linder, 1st Class.

27. T h e heirs of the late Lieutenant Commander Gardner L Caskey present a gold watch to that midshipman who graduates at the head of his dass for the course. Redpient: Midshipman James Robert CoUier, 1st Class.

28. Mrs. James Edward Palmer presents a wrist watch, known as the "Commander James Edward Palmer Prize," to that midshipman of the graduating dass who shows the greatest improvement in the engineering course in the Department of Marine Engineering. Recipient: Midshipman Robert Edwin Turnage, I s : Class.

29. T h e late S. Garret Roach has provided funds for the awarding of a prize in memory of his grandfather, the late John Roach, shipbuilder, to that midshipman of the graduating dass who shows the greatest improvement in weighted average mark for First Class year over that of Third Class year. The prize for this year consists of a V i a o r y Bond in the amount of one hundred doUars ( $ 1 0 0 . 0 0 ) .

R e d p i e n t : MUdshipman W U h a m ChUds Patton, Isr Class.

30. T h e United States Lines presents a Victory Bond in the amount of one hundred dollars (S 100.00) to the graduating midshipman who stands highest for the course in the Department of Foreign Languages. Redpient: Midshipman Rafael Hipolito Cevallos, 1st Class.

31. T h e American Bureau of Shipping presents a V i a o r y Bond in the amount of one hundred dollars (.$100.00) to the graduating midshipman who stands highest for the mechanical drawing and desaiptive geometry courses in the Department of Marine Engineering. Recipient: Midshipman Robert Louis von Gerichten, 1st Class.

32. T h e Admiral DuBose Trophy, on which is inscribed annually the name of the midshipman most profident in the handling of yawls and designated as the winning yawl commander. R e d p i e n t : Midshipman Bernabe Sanchez, 1st Qass.

ATHLETIC A W A R D S T h e Navy Athletic Association offers the following awards: 33. A pair of marine binoculars to that midshipman who has personally exceUed in athletics during his years of varsity competition. Recipient: Midshipman Henry Richard Duden, Jr., 1st Class.

34. A Cup on which is inscribed the name

of the company winning the Inter-Company Athletic Competition of the current academic year. The presentation of this award is made to the midshipman company commander of the winning company. Recipient: Sth Company. Midshipman John Hamilton Stone, Jr., 1st Class.

35. A Cup, known as the Stuart Oxnard Miller Memorial Lacrosse Cup, on which is insaibed annually the name of the member of the Naval Academy Lacrosse Squad who is deemed to have contributed most to the success of the team. Redpient: Midshipman Edgar Guest Hanson, 1st Class.

36. A Cup, known as the Crenshaw Memorial Cup for Coxswains, on which is inscribed annually the name of the coxswain of that eight-oared crew which wins the greatest number of races during the year. Recipient: Midshipman William Wayne Rhoads, 1st Class.

37. A Watch, presented by an alumnus of the Naval Academy, to the lineman who contributed outstandingly to the 1945 Football Team. Recipient: Midshipman Edmond Leon Deramee, Jr., 1st Class.

The late Colonel Robert M. Thompson, Class of 1868, United States Naval Academy, has provided funds for the following awards:

38. A Cup, known as the Thompson Trophy Cup, on which is inscribed annually the name of the midshipman who does most to promote athletics. A small replica of this cup is presented to the midshipman receiving the award.

Recipient: Midshipman Donald Boone Whitmire, 1st Class.

39. Binoculars for first place in inter-class sailing. Recipient: Midshipman Harry Peter Jefferson, 2nd Class.

40. Spyglass for second place in inter-class sailing. Recipient: Midshipman Harvey Conover, Jr., 4th Class.

Invocation by Comdr. Everett P . Wuebbens, Chaplain, U. S. Naval Academy, At Graduation Exercises, 1 1 0 0 , 5 J u n e 1 9 4 6 .

Heavenly Father, without whose mercy and kindness, this glad hour in our lives would not have been possible, accept our heartfelt thanks for all Thy servants, our parents, teachers, leaders and friends, by whose love and guidance we have come into our inheritance

of health and truth, of work and piety. Help us to guard faithfully the sacred trust committed to us, to use it wisely and kindly, and loyally to pass it on to those who come after us.

Forgive us our sins, O Father, and give us wisdom to recognize and strength to resist our

many temptations. Help us to be pure in our thoughts, just in our deed, diligent in our duty and honest in our love.

Grant Thy world a righteous peace and help us always to love and serve our nation and Thee, our God, with a quiet mind. Through Jesus Christ, our Lord and Saviour. Amen.

Introductory Remarks at Graduation Exercises, J u n e 5, 1 9 4 6 , by Vice Admiral Aubrey W. Fitch, USN, Superintendent of the U. S. Naval Academy.

You have measured up as leaders in the Brigadeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;I salute these accomplishments.

It has been the endeavor of all the officers and instructors at the Academy to give you an Today I greet the members of the Class of 1947 for the last time as midshipmen. I share understanding of the entire naval service. I with your families, relatives and friends gath- have mentioned your assumption of responered here, their pride in you and I congratulate sibility. Your acceptance of this has brought to you a sense of realization of the nucleus you on a job well done. you are to be in our Navy. Your attitude Our tour of duty together has been a short formed here, based on tradition and training, one but during these few months I have had has given you an appreciation of the service the oppormniry to observe you in many ways. as a whole, because the organization of the It has been said that the measure of a man is Brigade, particularly as regards sense and perthe responsibility he can and will assume. You have been given certain responsibilities that formance of duty, is patterned on that of the no previous dass has had. With these respon- Fleet. You have been examined, you have sibiUties you have been given cenain added not been found wanting and we believe you freedoms which you deserved and have earned. have the smff that makes for good naval offiYou have taken your added duties with will- cers. The responsibility to evaluate and use ingness and have shown capabilities for proper the training you have received here is yours as administration and delegation of authority. every man's future is his own, and the opporAdmiral Nimitz, Distinguished Guests, Midshipmen of the Graduating Class, Ladies and Gendemen:

mnity for service to our nation is open to aU. It is the hope and desire of every officer and instructor at the Academy that you make the most of this opportunity throughout the naval career which you are in reality now entering.

I wish you all good luck and God bless you.

The officer who is to address you needs no introduction to any member of this audience.

Since the day he took the helm of the Pacific Fleet, shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, and throughout the long, and at times painfully slow progress of our victorious fleet across the Pacific, he shouldered one of the heaviest responsibilities any Navy man has ever been asked to accept. To him the responsibility was an opportunity for service. The record shows he made the most of it.

It is a privilege and an honor to present the Chief of Naval Operations, Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz.

Address by Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, U. S. N., Before Graduating Class, United States Naval Academy, 5 J u n e 1 9 4 6 .

Admiral Fitch, Distinguished Guests and Members of the Brigade of Midshipmen: On behalf of the officers and men of the Navy and Marine Corps, I welcome the Graduating Class in their new stams as commissioned officers of the United States Navy and

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the United States Marine Corps. In 1943, when you entered the Naval Academy, you started from scratch and after three years of intense and arduous competition you have established your relative ranks on a precedence list which will, to a certain extent, affect your

future assignments.

Today when you receive your diploma you will have reached one of the high peaks in your career. When you join your ship or station, it will be to start again at the bottom of the ladder. You will probably find that

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no one wiU know who you are, wnere you stood in your dass, whether you were a great athlete, president of the class, on the hop conmiittee, or dragged the prettiest girls.

So again you start from scratch. Regardless of your dass standing, you have in your own hands the making of your future reputation.

Your superior officers wiU pay far more attention to your performance of duty than to your relative position on the list. I mention this not only to keep the savoirs on their toes, but also to give encouragement to the anchor men to keep trying. As one former anchor man once said, "It takes more real abihty to stand anchor man than it does first, for if you miss first you come out second, but if you miss anchor you come out a dvilian." The experience of the war just ended shows that low dass standing is no bar to advancement to the highest echelons of command.

It is customary on this day for speakers to give wholesome advice to graduates. I do not propose to be the first to break that andent custom. It is not necessary to desaibe the kind of life you wiU lead nor the kind of people with whom you are going to associate. Many of you came from the services you will rejoin, and aU of you have had the experience of practice anises. Furthermore, most of you, only three short years ago, left your associates in dvihan hfe, and when you go into active service you will be surrounded by the same kind of men you left at home—aU fine, healthy specimens of American manhood who have voluntarUy agreed to serve our great country.

Incidentally, I advise you not only to keep your dvilian contacts, but to inaease them in the course of your ttavels. By so doing both you and the Navy wiU profit.

There wiU be required of you the same quaUties of leadership that make for success in aU walks of civU life. First of all—in order to lead successfuUy you must know your job so well that you can be a good teacher—because the Navy is a huge training organization.

At the top of the list of desirable attributes I would place patience, tolerance and sympathetic understanding. Your conuol of men will be greatly facilitated by precept and the example you set.

The greatest asset you take away from this instimtion is your good health—and in making this statement I have taken into account the educational advantages you have received here. It should be unnecessary to warn you to safeguard your health, but my long experience and my personal observations in the Navy warrant such a warning. True enough— good health alone does not ensure a successful naval career—but bad health can very weU— and usually does—stand in the way of optimum development of your oppormnities.

I estimate that worry—usually about things that never happen—is at the bottom of many failures in health. You can keep your stomach ulcers at a minimum if you will exert your utmost efforts in matters which are subjea to your influence but cease worry about all the others.

At the time I graduated I was convinced that a man's head was like a bucket—it would hold just so much. The Navy quickly revealed to me that the more I live and learn the more I find there is to learn.

Your education never ceases, and rightly so. Inspiration comes seldom to the ignorant.

So often timely inspiration—which some call genius—marks the successful leader, but in reality this inspiration or genius is the result

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of lessons weU learned or experience properly exploited.

I am the last person in the world to advise you to be innospective, but I suggest an occasional period of self analysis—panicularly about the time your Captain marks up your fitness report. Using that same fitness report form as a check off, try to evaluate your services to your organization or ship. It is more than likely that your Captain wiU give you a higher aedit than you gave yourself, perhaps because he hopes you can live up to his estimates.

Again let me remind you that the race goes not necessarily to the swift nor to the briUiant. There are many atnibutes that make for success. Formnately, all men are not cast in the same mold. Defidencies in some respeas can be overcome by other qualities.

This reminds me of an incident that came within my purview at this Academy many years ago.

Two candidates, having learned that they had successfully passed the entrance requirements, planned a celebration in Washington on the eve of their induction into the Academy. FoUowing their arrival in the dry by steam nain—which incidentaUy was the only means of rapid transportation out of Annapolis in those days—they were soon enjoying a fine dinner with aU the ttimmings and with friends at a famous restaurant—and with no greater concern over the future than to report in accordance with orders for induction at the office of the Commandant of Midshipmen at nine the following morning.

In the midst of the dinner, which was to be foUowed by the theatte, one of the more responsible friends brought up the subjea of plans for the remrn to Annapolis, and stated that to the best of his knowledge the next train from Washington would not leave before midforenoon of the next day, and would not get the candidates back to Annapohs until eleven a. m.—too late to carry out their orders.

An immediate check of timetables—which these young men should have done before leaving Annapolis—verified the faa that unless something drastic was done at once, the candidates would fail to carry out their first mihtary orders—to report for induction at 9:00 a.m.

The hilarious dinner party changed at once into a serious planning group and in a remarkably short time our candidates found themselves on the road to Annapolis in a very uncomfortable one horse vehicle called a dog cart which was the best the pooled resources of the party could finance at a nearby livery stable.

It was an exceptionally cool September night and the candidates were thinly clad. The driver, who sat on a thwartship seat facing forward, did not know the complicated road net between Washington and Annapolis, and lost himself many times. The candidates shivering with the cold, sat facing aft and occasionally munched on the remains of the elaborate dinner—which now became their lunch. There was ample time for reflection and meditation before they reached their destination—just in time to carry out their orders.

What is not recorded is their remarks when they reached the office of the Commandant of Midshipmen. Instead of finding a long line of fellow candidates as they had expected, they were puzzled—and chagrined— to see a printed sign on the closed office door which read "Hour of reporting candidates

changed from 9:00 a. m. to 1:00 p. m."

This inddent is worthy of further examination in the light of the subsequent careers of these two candidates. Both eventuaUy attained flag rank in their chosen profession, after running the usual gauntlet of selection boards.

I have no doubt but that certain traits of character evidenced that night helped them on their way. Certainly they were suffidently adaptable and their minds suffidendy flexible to meet prompdy a totaUy unexpeaed aisis —and certainly their sense of responsibihty and duty was not found wanting.

Yet, in spite of their commendable action, they unsuccessfuUy ttied to keep their adventure a deep secrer during their time at the Academy—being apprehensive no doubt of the ridicule of their feUow midshipmen. In the telhng of this story I almost forgot to say that these t\^'o flag officers are present today in this haU to wimess these graduation exerdses. In faa—both are on this platform.

The Navy, from its long experience in such matters, has a good estimate of what it can expect of you, and you are entitled to have some idea of what you can expea from the Navy. In the first place you are already a beneficiary of the Navy's ttaining system as a result of your Naval Academy experience.

Perhaps a similar period spent in some other educationa' instimtion might have given you greater personal benefit, but for the service in the Navy for which you voluntarily applied, the ttaining you have received here caimot be equalled anywhere. In return for this ttaining the Navy righrfully feels that it has a prior right to your service—at least until the peace and stability of the world are assured.

As to the stabihty and permanence of the Navy itself, you can be sure that never, since the early days of our country's history, have our citizens been so conscious of the part played by seapower as in the winning of the last war—and the Navy with its aviation and submarines, was the cutting edge of that seapower. It is reasonable to expea that no matter what kind of international organization survives, the United States will have a leading part in that organization, and that we wiU maintain a snong Navy to ensure not only our own proteaion, but also to aid in the cause of world peace.

What we cannot forecast with accuracy is the form and organization of our Navy of the future. You can be sure that so long as our commerce moves on the seas our Navy will have ships—but that the design and charaaeristics of these ships wiU be determined largely by the results of experimentation and scientific research. Your Navy wiU consist primarily of a group of men—and women, too, if Congress approves our recommendation to continue the WAVES—who wiU be alert to the changes required by the development of new weapons. Ours must be a forward looking Navj', ever alert to projea with maximum effea and at maximum distances from our shores—our seapower.

You will find in the Navj' an honored and an honorable profession where you will gain great satisfaction in duty well performed. You will not grow rich in worldly goods but your life can be full of dignity and enriched by a sttong bond of brotherhood with those who serve with you. You will find, as I have, what a grand and glorious privilege it is to serve your country's flag.

I wish for each and every one of you aU success and God speed.

Sbipioak

Oath of Oflace Administered to Members of Graduating Class by Fleet Admiral William F. Halsey, U. S. Navy, on 5 J u n e 1 9 4 6 : "Do you solemnly swear (or affirm) that you will support and defend the constitution of the United States against all enemies, for-

eign and domestic; that you will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that you take this obligation freely, without any mental

reservation or purpose of evasion; and that you will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which you are about to enter: so help you God?"

Graduation Address Delivered by Captain H e r m a n A. Spanagel, USN, at Postgraduate School, 8 June 1 9 4 6 .

Admiral Fitch; Members of the Postgraduate School; Distinguished Guests: It is with the deepest regret that I will not have the privUege of inttodudng the Honorable James Forrestal, the Seaetary of the Navy, as the guest speaker this morning. The press of other more important duties prevents his attending these ceremonies. He has been constandy and deeply interested in all matters pertaining to the Postgraduate School and I know that he would have been with us had conditions permitted. In the vernacular of the basebaU diamond, Capt. Spanagel batting for Sec Forrestal.

Today marks a unique occasion in the history of the Postgraduate School. First, it marks the graduation of the First General Line Class of its kind in our history. This particular group, drawn from aU forms of naval experience, formed a pilot group to determine what instruction was needed to provide a well rounded naval education. And secondly, today also is a form of commencement day for a gentleman who has been with us for many years and who now has completed our longest and most arduous course.

This gentleman came to the Naval Academy as a Professor of Mathematics and Mechanics in 1913, after having served in similar capadties at the Universities of Iowa and Missouri. In 1914 he became a Professor of Mathematics and Mechanics at the Postgraduate School and from that date to this has directed the progress of that department. During his 33 years tenure we have been proud of his aaive leadership and his merited recognition in national educational circles. For 33 years we have benefited by his good judgment and his wise counsel.

On the eve of his retirement from the active staff of this instimtion I would like to express

to Senior Professor Ralph E. Root the appreciation of the Postgraduate School and of the Navy for his long, loyal and distinguished service to this institution.

During the years to come, his absence will be deeply felt. In parting, we all wish him aU the fruits of his well earned retirement, and ttust that he may enjoy the pleasures of a full and interesting life.

To the smdent officers who are completing their postgraduate work today, you too are entering a new and more responsible phase of life. A few will be remrning to dvil life where the problems you will encounter will, perhaps bear little relation to those you have experienced in the past few years. The instruction and training you have received probably will not benefit you directly but I am certain that you wiU find that the work you have done here will not be wasted effort. You will profit more than you expect. The others who are remrning to active duty assignments are on the threshhold of new experiences with greater responsibilities. You will go forth better prepared to carry on and perform the manifold duties which become the lot of an officer following the Naval Profession. However, do not rest on your laurels. What you have learned here is only the beginning. You must continue promoting your professional knowledge and keep abreast of the current developments. In any engineering profession, the individual never reaches the end of his tasks.

Fundamentally the Naval profession in all its forms is an engineering profession. You have received a firm foundation on which to build a successful naval career. Keep the foundation in good repair and gradually add the super-strucmre as you go along. The fumre will take care of itself.

be expected of you than from others who have not had the benefits of this special training. You will be looked upon somewhat in the light of an expert. Guard that prestige jealously. Furthermore, as representatives of this school your actions in the service will greatly influence the reputation of the School and of the Navy.

In general, all of you, wherever you go, will carry with you certain impressions concerning the Navy, and its traditions. I do not think you will ever go far astray if you live up to those traditions of the service. That is a personal responsibility of each and every one.

There is another responsibility resting upon those who have served in the Navy, a responsibility which is infrequently recognized. It becomes your duty to enlighten the people of this country as to the needs of the Navy and the national need for its continuance. The average American does not Bave full understanding of the significance of sea and air power. Do not let present trends influence your viewpoint and your enthusiasm for the service. There will always be a Navy. The more efficient it is, the more it will demand attention, and support. By your individual character and actions, the whole service will be judged. One tiny microbe can spoil the broth. Likewise a bad impression created by one individual can impair the good name of the service as a whole. Individually and collectively, you who will be the leaders of the future are responsible for the security of our Navy and of our country.

On behalf of the Postgraduate School, I wish to extend to each and every one of you, our best wishes for a brilliant fumre. May you experience every success in your chosen As a graduate of this institution, more will profession.

SPORTS EVENTS DURING JUNE WEEK Friday, 31 May Baseball—^Navy vs. Iowa Pre-Flight School of Iowa City, Iowa, Lawrence Field. Score: Navy 12, Iowa 11.

Tennis—^Navy vs. Dartmouth College, Hanover, N. H., Varsity Courts. Score: Navy 5, Dartmouth 4.

Saturday, 1 June Baseball—^Navy vs. Columbia University of New York, N . Y., Lawrence Field. Score: Navy 13, Columbia 0.

Tennis—Navy vs. Princeton University, of Princeton, N. J. Varsity Courts. Score: Navy 5, Princeton, 4.

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President Truman Pays Surprise Visit to Annapolis, June 1, Enroute to Washington from Eastern Shore.

Bross-Blair Nuptials, Chapel, June 5. Ensign Blair was appointed to .\cademy by Admiral Fitch when both were in Espiritu Santo.

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Alumni News The Alumni House assumed a festive air immediately following June Week when it was the scene of wedding receptions for the newly commissioned ensigns.

A class reception for 1947 was held ia the new Tap Room on graduation day.

Class parties seem to be the order of the day at the Alumni House and we would like to see more of them.

This month the class of 1934 and 1938 had a get together in the House.

Something Old . . . At the U. S. Naval Academy Museum —By Captain H. A. Baldridge, USN (Ret.)

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The Searchlight

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The Tap Room is the coolest spot in town. Come in these hot summer nights and bring your friends.

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R. A D M . H . E . K I M M E L , '04 M R . HUBERT B U R N H A M ,

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T R U S T E E S FLEET ADM. C . W . N I M I T Z , '05 V. ADM. R . W I L L S O N , '06 R. A D M . BRYSON BRUCE, '07 R. A D M . R . JACOBS, '07 CDR. C . M C K . L Y N C H , '07

Rx-Gov. L. C. STARK, '08 CAPT. M . D . GILMORE, '11 MR. GEORGE B . J U N K I N , '13 CDR. C . C . VICKREY, '15 CAPT. V. F. BLAKESLEE, '20 CAPT. W . R . SMEDBERG, '26 CAPT. T . J. HAMILTON, '27 MR. LAWRENCE R . B E C H T , '34 CDR. ARTHUR E . TARANTINO,

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Silver Pitcher Memento Of Frigate "VSS ANNAPOUS"

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SOMETHIK M W . . . " At the U. S. Naval Academy Museum CAPTAIN H .

A. BALDRIDGE, U. S. Navy {Retired)

Curator

At a sp)ecial ceremony in the Superintendent's office, 17 June, representatives of Annapolis Lodge N o . 6 2 2 , B.P.O. Elks presented a beautiful silver water pitcher to the Academy for permanent display in the Museum.

The pitcher has unusual local interest because it is insaibed to the frigate "XJSS ANNAPOLIS," and intended for use aboard. The " A N N A P O L I S , " however, was recendy decommissioned, so the Lodge decided to give the memento to the Museum, to be induded among other historic naval silver pieces, including the complete service of the battleship "USS

Midshipman Art Exhibit Attracts Record Crowds The Museum, in recenr months, has sponsored half a dozen art exhibits, induding the splendid work of the official combat artists of the Nav\', as well as that of numerous war correspondent artists, and a collection of historical masterpieces.

But none of these exhibits has excited interest or drawn attendance equal to that of a small loan exhibition of art work done by nine midshipmen emrolled at the Academy. The exhibit, opening 31 May as the Museum's contribution to the celebration of June Week, was originally scheduled to close 8 June. It was so enthusiastically received, both by the general public and the press, however, that the Curator decided to retain it until 20 June, and might have left it hanging longer had not a previous conunitment been made for the foyer exhibit space.

Vice Admiral Aubrey W . Fitch, Superintendent of the Naval Academy, in a foreword to the official program of the exhibit said: "The Naval Academy is pleased to present, through the cooperation of the Commandant of Midshipmen, a representative selection of the paintings, drawings, pencil sketches, pastels and other art work prepared by the Art Club of the Academy. All of the exhibits were done by Midshipmen in their spare time, and the caliber and scope of the various subjects speak well for the talents of the members of the club."

Subjea matter depiaed by the midshipmen artists ranged from oil portraits and landscapes, to watercolors, charcoal drawings, and even cartoons. Many original drawings used in the "Log," "Trident" and "Lucky Bag" were displayed, including an amusing caricamre of Gainsborough's "Blue Boy,"— complete with midshipman's cap and battle ribbons! A group of Mexican subjects attracted favorable notice from Latin American visitors. There were also rhree exceptionally well drawn nudes.

The Washington Post, commenting on the display, stated: "Some of the art pieces are technical—ships and naval equipment—but others show a wide range of interest among the young artists. The exhibition is a bright and cheerful one, with well lighted oils, water colors and pastels predominating."

The Annapolis Evening Capital stated: "The exhibition of 60 paintings, drawings and sketches by midshipmen, the first of its kind, now on display at the Naval Academy Museum, is further proof of the Navy's belief

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that it takes more than regulations and disciphne to make a well rounded naval officer . . . If art represents a man's subconscious, there is no indication in the works of the midshipmen at the Naval Academy Museum that years of intensive discipline have made automatons of them. In faa, few liberal arts colleges can boast of similar exhibitions unless they have specialized art schools."

In the opinion of the Curator there has never before been a more important or interesting exhibition held here, for the Naval Academy Museum is primarily for the benefit of the midshipmen of the brigade.

Midshipmen artists partidparing were as follows: C. W . Cummings, first class, of Porterville, California; W . G. Granat, first dass, of Washington, D . C ; W . Wegner, third class, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin; F. S. Glendinning, fourth dass, of Denver, Colorado; S. K. Moore, third dass, of Washington, D. C ; B. W . Bevis, third class, of Wenatchee, Washington; R. E. Schwartz, first dass, of St. Louis, Missouri; H . B. Lee, second dass, of Salt Lake City, Utah; and W . F. Wagner, second class, of Falls Church, Va.

N E W YORK."

Judge Lin wood L. Q a r k , Exalted Ruler of the Lodge, made the presentation sp)eech and the pitcher was accepted in behalf of the Academy by Rear Admiral Stuart H . Ingersoll, U S N , Commandant of midshipmen.

Mayor William U. McCready, of Annapolis, said that at the time of the commissioning of the USS A N N A P O L I S a silver punch bowl was also given to the ship, and he hoped the punch bowl would also eventually reach the museum.

The USS A N N A P O L I S was built at Loraine, Ohio, birthplace of Fleet Admiral E. J. King, and was commissioned 4 December 1943. The presentation was arranged by Wilham H. French, chairman of the gift committee of the Lodge.

Wife of Secretary Presents Silver

Vase

Another important acquisition of the Museum during June was a handsome silver vase, presented by Mrs. James V. Forrestal, wife of the Seaetary of the Navy. The vase was given to Mrs. Forrestal by the Brazilian Minister of Marine and fiis wife when Mrs. Forrestal accompanied her husband on an official M i d s h i p m e n S. K. M o o r e , W . G. Granat, and B . W . Bevis, discnss their entry at the exhibit.

visit to Rio de Janiero, Brazil, in the fall of 1944.

The vase, which is about two and a half feet high, bears the following inscription: A Sera J. Forrestal do Ministro do Marinho do Brasil H. A. Guilhem e Senhora Rio de Janiero Novbro 1944.

Mrs. Forrestal sent the vase to the Curator on 5 June.

Cigarette Box Placed On Loan From VSS NASSAV June might be termed "Silver Month" for the Museum, because a third historic item of this predous metal was placed in our custody.

It was a fine silver dgarette box, formerly used in the wardroom of the USS NASSAU. When the ship was recently decommissioned, the box was sent to the U. S. Naval Academy for safe keeping, until the NASSAU is returned to commissioned stams again. The box is exceptionally noteworthy because it was presented to the ship by the Duke and Duchess of Windsor from Goverimient House, Nassau, Bahamas, 20 September 1942.

Terra Cotta Bust Of Fleet Admiral Leahy An exttemely valuable addition to the Museum colleaion of stames and busts of noted naval leaders is the new life-size terra cotta bust of Fleet Admiral WiUiam D. Leahy, USN, Chief of Staff to the Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy. Admiral Leahy is depiaed in dress uniform, and the bust is a remarkably good hkeness.

In a letter to the Curator, Captain H. A. Baldridge, USN (Ret), Admiral Leahy explained: "Yesterday, on the latest of my increasingly frequent birthdays and anniversaries, I received from Mr. Felix de Weldon, sculptor, a terra cotta bust of myself in dress uniform, hfe size. It is too big for a place in my small house and I wonder if you would like to have it . . ."

The bust has been placed on display in the foyer of the Museum, near the bronze replica of the head of Vice Admiral Aubrey W. Fitch, USN, Superintendent of the Naval Academy,

by Lieutenant Thomas T. K. Frelinghuysen, USNR.

Color Girl Photographs Desired for Collection The Curator has been asked to make a collecuon of photographs of the various Color Girls who have participated in the annual June Week "Presentation of the Colors" ceremony. Apparently no such collection has ever been attempted, because the Academy files have no photographs other than that for the current year. Mrs. R. B. Pirie, wife of the head of the Aviation Department of the Academy, who was Color Girl in 1926, has loaned the Museum a photograph of herself and Midshipman (now Captain) Pirie. Others are desired in order that a special permanent exhibit may be on display at the Museum.

Color Girls" of previous years who will lend the Curator photographs of themselves, will have them promptly and safely remrned after copying. Address: "The Curator, Museum, U. S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md."

J U L Y , 1946

Spindrift

By Lee Shores

AFTER having been able once again to give the "ac" departments the slip, Lee is punching out this column more than one thousand miles from the place where Spindrift is usually sired. As a matter of fact, we almost wish we were back in the hallowed halls of Bancroft, but only long enough to finish this writing. It's awfully distracting to have to pound a typewriter while a beautiful girl is fordng a mint julep down your throat. Besides the sand on the beach is always fouling up the typewriter. As a result something has to suffer. . . . Time out for a hasty sip and dip.

See what we mean? At least in Bancroft it's not too difficult to concentrate on the task at hand, what with only the bells and an occasional ohdee breaking our train of thought, but here, there is the ever pres (low whisde. . . .WOW, what a bathing suit.)

With things like that walking around, maybe we'll get a column written, and maybe we won't.

June Week this year had every bit of its pre-war trappings and splendor. It was estimated that there were over 6,000 visitors who made the annual pilgrimage to the sacred city on the banks of the Severn. Rooms just weren't to be had for either love or nylons and food was almost as scarce. A shortage of bread curtailed plans for picnics to some extent, but as eating was never a very important item on the agenda of midshipman outings, this didn't prove to be a very distressing point.

The weather man outdid himself, and other than the traditional Ring Dance rainstorm, Annapolis enjoyed golden sunshine during the days and a star-flecked, full-mooned sky glittered overhead in the evenings.

The souvenir shops did a land office business selling everything from Navy goats to model five-inch guns. The entrepreneur who merits the silver sea bag is the imaginative Maryland Avenue shop-keeper who sold "The genuine bricks used in Academy bricking partiesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;only 50c." They looked suspiciously like those found by the millions in the streets, but this didn't phase the drags or parents.

'48-A went all out in the preparation for its Ring Dance. Without fear of censure, Lee can honestly say that it was probably one of the finest dances ever presented by any college. The settings, decorations, and music were enough to shame Billy Rose. The Hop committee started out by giving the Department of Buildings and Grounds a very rough sketch of approximately what was wanted, and within just a very few days the plan took very definite oudines. Smoke Park was dotted with Japanese lanterns and a white picket fence bordered all the walks. The backdrop for the bandstand was a tremendous royal blue satin curtain which extended up the entire wall of Mem Hall. Smoke Hall, in what was almost

a miracle of construction fantasy, was transformed into the hold of a ship, and with just a minimum of imagination it was possible to feel the swells of the ocean underfoot.

Memorial Hall, scene of the dance, was lighted just enough to keep the affair within the realm of propriety, but certainly not enough to be able to tell the color of the rings which went from girl to boy during the fourth dance. It was at this time that the already negligible illumination was further reduced to about one-eighth lumen. Lee understands that one couple continued to dance, but we haven't run across them yet.

Outside, in Smoke Park, a string ensemble played and added to the general atmosphere of L'AMOUR. What with the music, the moon, and the mood seemingly allied, it would appear that the chapel is in for a hum of activity next graduation. It took a strong man to keep from popping the question.

Lee would like to recount one inddent that took place on the balcony during the dance.

It seems the Admiral having a yen for a smoke, stepped outside and struck a match. With the lighting as we have described it, the flash stood out like a beacon in the dark. Hidden away somewhere in the deep, mysterious archives which govern Bancroft is the commandment, "Thou Shalt not smoke on the balcony of Mem Hall." One of the executive department's pride and joys spotted the flame and struck out forthwith to apprehend the culprit.

The Admiral's back was mrned, and in the darkness it was almost impossible to tell an admiral from a second-class man. The cigarette continued to burn defiandy as the exec rushed up, tapped the admiral on the shoulder and asked harshly, "What's your na GULP GOOD EVENING ADMIRAL CERTAINLY IS DARK IN HERE MIGHTY FINE DANCE ER. .UH THINK I HEAR MY WIFE CALLING...

GOOD EVENING SIR." Another item that added to the furor of June Week this year was the unbelievably close race for color company honors. The battle was not decided until literally the final minute of competition at which time, after a detailed examination of the records, the 24th company was declared the winner over the 20th by the infinitesimal margin of 12Vi points. Both company commanders were praaically reduced to a state of frenzied imbecility during the final torrid stages of the race when the lead changed hands every time a new set of points was recorded.

The tally that clinched viaory was garnered from first place in company smartness, the last to be recorded. In this event the 24th won out over their rivals by a fraction of a point after a protest by the 20th was disal{Continued on page 70)

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NAVY

AUtUiici Seoson Summanes BASEBALL

The Summaries:

NAVY VS. MARYLAND

Singles The Middie baseball team defeated a strong Fisher, Navy, defeated Peck, 6-0, 6-2 University of Maryland baseball team 3 to 1, Doyle, Navy, defeated Grossman, 3-6, 7-5, 6-0 and continued on its undefeated way since the Tilles, Navy, defeated Slater, 6-2, 6-3 early season loss to the University of North Jagoe, Navy, defeated Soisson, 6-2, 6-2 Carolina.

Sadler, Navy, defeated Dudley, 7-5, 6-3 Andy Frahler pitched for the Middies and Fishman, Navy, defeated Wills, 6-1, 6-3 allowed Maryland four hits, got four strikeouts, and allowed two bases on balls.

Doubles Hal Curry, Navy third baseman, was the big gun at bat with four hits for the afternoon. Fisher and Vogt, Navy, defeated Peck and The Summaries: Myers, 6-0, 6-2 Soisson and Wills, Penn, defeated Ennis and Maryland Ab R H O A Jagoe, 6-8, 8-6, 8-6 Crapster, If 1 0 0 1 0 Fishman and Tift, Navy, defeated Newman Besley, ss 1 0 0 1 1 and Beckman, 6-4, 6-2 IWilson 1 0 0 0 0 Sunier, 3b 0 0 0 0 0 Andrus, cf 4 0 1 4 0 BASEBALL Plate, lb 4 0 0 7 0 Gleaser, c 4 0 1 4 2 The Naval Academy baseball team defeated Boothe, ss-lf 3 1 1 2 1 the Iowa Pre-Flight team by the score of 12 to Cesky, rf 4 0 0 2 0 11 after trailing the visitors for 7 innings.

Flynn, 2b 3 0 1 2 2 Bill St. George got a single in the Navy's Turki, 3b-ss 1 0 0 1 3 half of the seventh and scored on Duke Keene, p 2 0 0 0 0 Duquette's double. Bill Dougherty got a hit Crouthamel, p . . . .

1 0 0 0 3 and Wir Thayer walked. Both scored when Bruce Smith drove a single to center field, givTotals 29 1 4 24 12 ing the Middies a total of three runs for the inning and knotting the count 11 all. Jim Navy Ab R H O A Eisenman doubled in the eighth and came Curry, 3b 5 1 4 0 3 home when Duden doubled.

Thayer, cf 4 0 1 3 0 The Summaries: McKie, ss 2 0 0 0 2 Smith, ss 0 0 0 0 0 Ab R H O A Hill, lb 3 0 0 13 0 Iowa Pre-Flight 5 1 4 1 0 Duden, If 4 0 1 2 0 Satterwait, rf . . . .

4 2 0 2 3 Searle, rf 3 0 0 0 0 Heles, ss Bauer, 2b 5 1 1 2 3 Armstrong, 2b . . .

4 1 3 5 7 6 4 3 1 0 Woods, c 1 1 0 4 1 Dalhnar, If 4 1 2 10 0 Duquette, c 0 0 0 0 0 Klumper, lb 1 2 0 1 1 Frahler, p 3 0 0 0 1 Sullivan, rf Sellers, 3b 2 0 0 3 1 4 0 1 4 0 Totals 29 3 9 27 14 Caldwell, c Simcox, p 3 0 0 0 2 Baudoin, p 1 0 0 0 1 IBatted for Besley in eighth.

1 0 1 0 0 Maryland 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0—1 IMdeski 0 0 0 0 0 Navy 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 x—3 2Panther

TENMS NAVY VS. PENNSYLVANIA The Navy tennis team defeated the University of Pennsylvania 8 to 1. Navy made a dean sweep in the singles competition and dropped one of the doubles' matches.

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TENNIS The Middie tennis team defeated Danmouth College 5 to 4 in an Eastern Intercollegiate League match.

Dartmouth and Navy both took three singles' matches, but the Middies took two of the three doubles' matches.

The Summaries: Singles Gooding, Dartmouth, defeated Fisher, 6-4, 2-6, 6-2 Doyle, Navy, defeated Caruthers, 6-0, 6-4 Campbdl, Dart., defeated TiUes, 6-4, 1-6, 6-1 Jagoe, Navy, defeated Rodman, 6-0, 6-8, 6-1 Kenworthy, Dart., defeated Sadler 6-1, 6-3 Fishman, Navy, defeated Bates 6-2, 8-10, 12-10 Doubles Gooding and Caruthers, Dart., defeated Fisher and Vogt, 6-4, 2-6, 6-4 Doyle and Tilles, Navy, defeated Rodman and Jacobs, 7-5, 6-8, 6-3 Pate and Sadler, Navy, defeated Bates and Kenworthy 6-1, 6-2

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The Naval Academy baseball team dosed its very successful season (losing one interA collegiate game and that to the University of 3 North Carolina the early part of the season) 0 by defeating Columbia Universit)' 13 to 0.

0 The Navy batters nipped the Columbia 9 pitchers for 16 hits, while Columbia was only

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collecting 5 from Baysinger and Burton, the Middie pitchers.

The Summaries:

The Summaries: Columbia Boryle, 3b Hickman, rf Allison, ss Hakanson, lb . . .

Swacki, c Karas, 2b Will, rf Monahan, If . . . .

Bulik, p Lorensen, p Rosencrans, p . . . .

Totals Navy Wdlons, 3b Curry, 3b Thayer, cf McKie, ss Smith, ss Hill, lb Frahler, If Esenman, If Duden, rf Armstrong, 2b . . .

St. George, 2b Woods, c Duquette, c Burton, p Baysinger, p Totals Columbia Navy

collecting 3 hits each and with Duden getting a home run with rwo men on bases.

Ab 4

R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

1 0 1 0 1 0

H 3 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0

O A 1 1 0 0 1 3 10 0 5 0 2 4 1 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0

Navy Wellons, 3b . .

Thayer, cf . . . .

McKie, ss (C) Hill, lb Searle, rf Duden, If Armstrong, 2b Woods, c Frahler, p

Army Davis, cf Richmond, 2b .

IChabot, If . . .

Simmons, lb . .

Robinson, rf . .

Arnold, 3b . . .

Moses, ss Cairns, c Kinney, p (C) 2Crowley 3Howe, If 4Poole 5Conover, p . .

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10

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R 3 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 2 2 0 1 0 1 0

H 1 0 4 1 0 0 2 0 2 2 0 3 1 0 0

O 1 0 3 1 2 12 1 0 0 2 1 4 0 0 0

A 1 1 0 2 0 2 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 3 0

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ISwitched to 3b in last of 7th 2Ran for Simmons in 9th 3Substimted for Arnold in 1st of 7th— played If 4Pinch hitter for Kinney in 7th 5Relieved Kinney in last of 7th Navy Army

matches and tieing 1. The middies won all of the four-ball matches held in the morning, and won three and tied rwo of the individual matches held during the afternoon.

ARMY VS. NAVY The Naval Academy lacrosse team made the trip to West Point on 25 May and defeated the Army by the score of 12 to 10, which also at the same time gave the middies the National Collegiate Lacrosse Championship.

During the second quarter of the game Army had the Navy by the score of 8 to 2, but despite this terrific lead Dinty Moore's squad came back srrong to overcome the odds and to sew the game up in the last quarter by scoring 4 points to the Army's 1.

The Summaries: Navy Seth Carson Schultz Markel Carrington Hanson (C) Houck Chambers McLean Kirk

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Army . . . . . Rust . . . . Fuson McEnery . Bresnahan . . . Walker Devens(C) Hadley Scott Haussmann Montague

Scoring NAVY: Chambers ( 4 ) ; Kirk ( 3 ) ; Carrington ( 2 ) ; Hanson ( 1 ) ; Houck ( 1 ) ; Hunt ( 1 ) .

ARMY: Devens ( 4 ) ; Hadley ( 3 ) ; Haussmann ( 2 ) ; Walker ( 1 ) .

Navy 1 0 4 0 0 2 0 4 x—11 Army 0 0 1 3 0 0 1 0 0—5

Score by Periods 2 4 5 3

2 1

4—12 1—10

TRACK

NAVY VS. PRINCETON TENNIS ARMY VS. NAVY ARMY VS. NAVY The Princeton netmen defeated the Naval The Navy track team defeated Army in a The Army defeated the Navy in tennis at Academy in a League match 5-4 which closed dual meet, held in conjunction with the I. C. West Point, N. Y., 5 to 4 after a very close the season for the midshipmen.

4. A. Championships, at Annapolis on 25 May and hard fought match.

Navy split the singles Princeton took four of the six singles, and by the score of 70-1/3 to 55-2/3. Navy took matches with Army by taking 3 matches, but one of the three doubles matches. first places in the following events: the Army went out in front by taking 2 of the The Summaries: 120 Yard High Hurdles 3 doubles matches.

Discus Throw Singles The Summaries: Pole Vault Watson, Princeton, defeated Doyle, 6-3, 6-4 440 Yard Run Fisher, Navy, defeated Johnson, 6-3, 7-9, 6-1 Singles 100 Yard Dash Scheerer, Princeton, defeated Pate, 1-6, 6-3, Oliver, Army, defeated Fisher, 6-1, 6-0 220 Yard Low Hurdles 6-2 Doyle, Navy, defeated Dougherty, 6-4, 6-3 220 Yard Dash Parmelee, Princeton, defeated Jagoe, 6-4, 6-4 Wellborn, Army, defeated Tilles, 6-0, 7-5 Midshipman Kash's time for the 440 Yard Sadler, Navy, defeated Taylor, 4-6, 9-7, 6-2 Turner, Army, defeated Jagoe, 10-8, 6-2 Run which was clocked at 0:48.6 established Chapman, Princeton, defeated Fishman, 1-6, Sadler, Navy, defeated Scheinost, 6-4, 6-0 a new Army-Navy dual meet record. The old 8-6, 8-6 Fishman, Navy, defeated Callaway, 6-1, 6-4 record was 0:48.8.

Doubles The Naval Academy track team also won Doubles Taylor and Scheerer, Princeton, defeated Fish- Oliver and McMuUen, Army, defeated Fisher the I. C. 4. A. Championship at Annapolis on 25 May with 33 teams competing. The first er and Vogt, 7-5, 6-1 and Gower, 6-2, 6-0 Doyle and Tilles, Navy, defeated Watson and Dougherty and Wellborn, Army, defeated five scores in the championships are as follows: Parmelee, 6-4, 3-6, 6-3 Doyle and Vogt, 6-8, 6-2, 8-6 36-5/28 Sadler and Pate, Navy, defeated Johnson and Sadler and Pate, Navy, defeated Scheinost and 1. Navy 2.

Army 33-1/7 Buckndl, 1-6, 6-2, 7-5 Callaway, 6-3, 6-1 3. Dartmouth 24-1/7 4. Michigan State 21-1/2 BASEBALL GOLF 5 New York Univ 20 ARMY VS. NAVY ARMY VS. NAVY The Middie golf team kept its slate clean The following midshipmen have been The Naval Academy baseball team defeated the Army team in their annual game at in its series of matches with the Army by de- elected as Captains and Managers of the NaAnnapolis by the score of 11 to 5. The mid- feating the West Pointers 7 to 2 over the val Academy athletic teams during the spring die batters were too much for the West Point Naval Academy golf course on 25 May. Navy season of 1947: pitchers with Frahler and Armstrong both has met the Army 8 times in golf—winning 7 (Continued on page 71)

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What's the Dope Marine and Xaval Orders from June 1ft07 JOHN W. MORSE, (Lt. Cdr. lO// USN-ret). Malvern F. Morse, son of Lt Cdr. and Mrs. Morse was married to Patrida P. Needham on 14 May in Beverley HiUs, Calif.

1 ftOO JOHN W. GREENSLADE, (V. ' Oi/ Adm. USN-ret) is living at 226 Greenwood Heights, Bellevue, Ohio.

CHAUNCEY SHACKFORD, (Capt.

USN-ret) and Mrs. Shackford are the proud grandparents of a new boy born to their daughter, Mrs. Walter F. Brown.

Kalbfus, Edward C , (Adm. USN-ret). Proceed home; relieved all active duty.

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*^^^^^^T S- HOWARD, (R.

• '*'• Adm. USN) has been presented with the Legion of Merit.

Baum, George M., (Capt. USN-ret). 12th Na\'al District, San Francisco, Calif, for duty in connection with a Court Martial.

Baughman, Cortlandt C , (Commo. U S N ) . Proceed home; relieved all active duty.

Father, William S., (V. Adm. U S N ) . Proceed home; relieved all active duty.

Heim. Schuyler F., (Commo. U S N ) . Examination

by Naval Retiring Bc^rd and orders to home.

Parker, Ralph C , (CapL USN-ret). Naval Operations, Navy Dept.

Read, Albert C , (R. Adm. U S N ) . Proceed home; relieved all active duty.

1 QCif^ ARTHUR S. CARPENDER, (V. ' /vO Adm. USN) has assumed duties as coordinator of public relations for the Navy, a new post created by order of SecNav. WORRALL R. CARTER, USN) has been awarded a DSM.

(Commo.

HARRY A. BADT, (Commo. USN-ret) gives his new address as 1620 Allison Street, N. W., Washington 11, D. C. Cutts, Elwin F., (Capt. U S N ) . 1st Naval District, Boston, Mass. for duty in connection with a general Court Martial.

Kauffman, James L., (V. Adm. U S N ) . Commandant, 4th Naval District, Philadelphia, Pa. Taylor, Henry G., (R. Adm. USN, CEC). Proceed home; relieved all active duty.

IQAC CHESTER W. NIMITZ, (Fit. VANCE D. CHAPLINE, (R. • 'W3 Adm. USN) received an honor- l O n O Adm., USN) and Mrs. Chaphne ary degree of Doaor of Law from Notre I 7 U / announce the engagement of the latter's Dame on 15 May. daughter. Miss Frances Pilsbry Morgan to Cox, Ormond L., (R. Adm. U S N ) . Proceed home; Comdr. Charles C. Hartigan, Jr. relieved all active duty.

Stewart, George V., (Capt. USN-ret). Proceed home; relieved all active duty.

JAMES B. GLENNON, (Capt. USN-ret) has recently been awarded the Legion of 1Q(\L EDWARD D. WASHBURN, Merit.

• /vO JR., (Capt. USN-ret) has recently been remrned to inactive duty and gives WILLIAM W. SMITH, (V. Adm. USN) his permanent address as 15 Alvarado Road, has been appointed a member of the Maritime Berkeley 5, Calif.

Commission by President Truman.

HARRY L. PENCE, (Capt. USN-ret) gives his new address as 7694 Exchange Place, La Jolla, Calif.

JOHN H. TOWERS has been made a permanent Vice Admiral.

HENRY M. JENSEN, (Capt. USN) has been awarded a Legion of Merit.

Alexander, George home; relieved all Bonvillian. Claude home; lelieved all

A., (Capt. USN-ret). aaive duty.

A., (Capt. U S N ) . active duty.

Proceed Proceed

IQfYJ WILLIAM L. BECK, (Capt.

ITU/ USN) gives his address as The "Ditty Box," R. F. D. Glen Mills, Pa. HAROLD M. BEMIS has been promoted to the rank of Rear Admiral.

JOHN B. EARLE, (Capt. USN) gives his address as R. F. D. No. 2, Box 350, Annapolis, Md.

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Braisted, Frank A., (R. Adm. U S N ) . President, Board of Inspection and Survey, Na\'y Dept.

Chapline, Vance D., (R. Adm. U S N ) . Proceed home; relieved all active duty.

Coman. Robert G., (Commo. U S N ) . Proceed home; relieved all active duty.

Gillette. Qaude S., (R. Adm. U S N ) . Proceed home; relieved all active duty.

Oldendorf, Jesse B., (V. Adm. U S N ) . Commandant. U. S. Naval Base, San Diego, Calif.—additional duty.

Poner. Henry H., (Comdr. USN-ret). Proceed home; relieved all active duty.

Smith, William W., (R. Adm. U S N ) . Proceed home; relieved all aaive duty.

Van Hook, Clifford E., (R. Adm. U S N ) . General Inspector 19th Fleet, additional duty.

1 9 i n CHARLES J. MOORE, (Capt. ' * lyj USN) has been awarded the Legion of Merit and Distinguished Service Medal for outstanding services to the Government as Chief of Staff to the Commander, 5th Flee:.

Gibson, home; Weyler, home;

Edward relieved George relieved

B., (Capt. USN-ret). all active duty.

L., (R. Adm. U S N ) . all active duty.

Proceed Proceed

I 7 I I FROM RICHARD S. FIELD ". . . any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankinde; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee." (John Doime, 15731631.)

Although the list may not be complete, from what knowledge I have, the followine sons of the United States Naval Academy Class of 1911 were killed in Worid War U— Lt. Charles S. Borden, AAC. Lt. Fearn Field, FA, U. S. Army.

Lt. Morris D. Gilmore, Jr., U. S. Navy.

Capt. John P. Hyman, Jr., AAC. Lt. Russell Keller, U. S. Navy.

Lt. Hugh D. Leidd, U.S Jkl.C.R. Lt. Col. Montgomery C. Meigs, U. S. Army.

Lt. John W. Reeves, III, U. S. Navy.

We are fortunate in having Harry Hill carrying the ball on this Qass Memorial project During the past three years I have written to nearly everyone in the dass asking for nothing but a little news about themsdves. Many of them did not answer. Harry comes along and writes to them all and asks for money and they not only answer him but send the dineio prompdy!

Captain Oscar William Leidel is under treatment at the Brooklyn Naval Hospital. His three sons took a very active part in the last war. One of them, Hugh, was among diose who did not come back. The oldest, Lt .O. William Leidel, Jr., SC, USN, served in the carrier HLANCCX3C in the western Pacific and Philippines campaigns. Lt. Comdr. John S. Leidel, '41, served most of the war in the Padfic in a destroyer mindayer which was destroyed in battle. Afterwards in the TENNESSEE he took part in the Iwo Jima, Okinawa and Philippines batdes. The youngest, Hugh D. Leidel, a marine lieutenant, was mortally wovmded 22 Nov., 1943, in the taking of Betio-Tarawa and died the same day after being taken aboard a Navy transport. He had previously been wounded in the Guadalcanal campaign. He recdved the Silver Star—"gallantry and intrepidity in action," two presidential citations and the Purple Heart twice.

Mrs. Harry L. Merring, who is something of a Seattiite, herself, has given me a dipping from the Times of that dty with a picture of Captain Frauds S. Craven receiving the Bronze Star medal.

Mrs. Harry R. Bogusch is at 668 H Ave., Coronado, CaUf. Some of those whose addresses I have recendy learned from Harry Hill's correspondence and have not previously been given in this column are: Lapham, 2600 Union St., San Frandsco; Patch, Supt. of Shipbuilding, Bay City, Mich.; Periey, 3202 Ernst St., Omaha, Nebr.; Peterson, 215 Westminster Ave., Merchantville, N. J.; Phillips, "Pickwick," 423 Long Beach Rd., Oceanside, N. Y.; Sessions, Rt. 1, Box 72, Victoria Rd., Alpine, Calif.; James H. Taylor, RFD 1, Los Gatos, Calif.; Ardiur M. Tschirgi, 517 19th St., SE, Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Awtrey, BluSton, S. C ; Baughman, 819 J Ave., Coronado, Calif.; George C. Fuller, 4406 Swiss Ave., Dallas, Tex.; Gordon, 433 West North Ave., Westfield, N. J.; Haislip, 164 N. Woodburn Dr., Los Angdes 24; Hammond, 381 So. Sierra Bonita Ave., Pasadena; and Fred S. Hatch, who stood number one, 20 Jefferson Rd., Winchester, Mass.

The Class Reunion—^Thirtv-five Years After

a;iDinaiP

—promises to be a success. It will be a few days after SHIPMMATE'S deadline and, although Harry England offered to hold the press if possible, I will not cover the story until the July issue when I hope to have a photograph with it.

Now goes forward July installment and separately a report on 1 9 i r s 35th Reunion will go with next issue.

Recentiy the War Department announced the posthumous award of the Silver Star to 1st Lt. Fearn Field, FA, for gallantry in action.

Anderson, Milton H., (Capt. U S N R ) . Aide for Gvil Administration, Office of the Naval Governor of Guam—additional duty.

Hinckley, Robert M., (Capt. U S N ) . Proceed home; relieved all active duty.

Melendy, Franz B., (Comdr. USN-ret). Proceed home; relieved all active duty.

Nielson, Joseph L., (Capt. U S N ) . Proceed home; relieved all active duty.

Rodgers, James L., (Capt. U S N ) . Officer in Charge, Berthing Area Aaivity, Portland, Oregon.

Wood, Ralph F., (R. Adm. U S N ) . Proceed home; relieved all active duty.

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THOMAS L. GATCH, (V. Adm.

i q i r JOHN L. McCREA, (Capt. and has been promoted to the rank of Rear I 7 I «/ USN) gives his duty address as Admiral. c/o Chief of Naval Operations, Navy Dept., Washington 25, D.C. EARLE W. MILLS, (V. Adm. USN) and Mrs. Mills announce the engagement of their HOMER W. GRAF, (Commo. USN) daughter, Shirley Marion, to Lt. Chester C. gives his address as Supervisor of N. Y. Har- Sargent, USA. bor, 17 Battery Place, N. Y. C. Brown, James P., (Capt. USN). Proceed home; relieved all aaive duty.

Chambers, Irving R., (Capt. USN). General Inspeaor, 16th Fleet—additional duty.

101 A WILLARD A. KI'iTS, III, (R. I 7 IO Adm. USN) has been detached from BuOrd and gives his duty address as Comdr. Task Force 74, USS Los ANGELES, c/o FPO, San Frandsco, Calif.

HENRY B. BROADFOOT, (Capt. USN) gives his address as 5912 St. Charles Ave., New Orleans 15, La. ROBERT B. CARNEY, has been promoted to the rank of Vice Admiral.

Bailey, Watson O., (Capt. U S N ) . Chief of Staff and Aide, Training Command, Amphibious Forces, Pacific, Coronado, Calif.

Connell, Francis B., (Comdr. U S N R ) . Commanding Officer, Naval Air Base, Kobler Field, Saipan, Marianas.

Fischler, Peter K., Jr., (R. Adm. U S N ) . Deputy Commander, 19th Fleet.

Harrison, Peyton, (Capt. U S N R ) . Naval Aide to the Governor, 'Territory of Hawaii.

Lanier, Berwick B., (Capt. U S N R ) . District Legal Officer, 3rd Naval District, New York, N . Y. Mitten, Robert L., (Comdr. USN-ret). Proceed home; relieved all active duty.

Riggs, Ralph S., (R. Adm. U S N ) . Bureau of Naval Personpel, Navy Dept.^—temporary duty, Tomiinson, Daniel W., (Capt. U S N R ) . Proceed home; relieved all active duty.

1 0 1 0 GEORGE C. DYER, (R. Adm. 1717 USN). Miss Mary Elizabeth Dyer, daughter of Adm. and Mrs. Dyer, was married on 18 May to Major Brownlee S. Corrin, AUS.

I 7 * 'tl USN) and Mrs. Gatch announce GEORGE D. PRICE, (Capt. USN-ret) the engagement of their daughter, Nancy gives his new address as c/o George Estes, Weems, to Lt. Cdr. Hendrik Svien, MC, Lilbourn, Mo. ERNEST H. VON HEIMBURG, (Capt.

USNR. USN) gives his duty address as Hdqtrs. 9th BERTRAM J. RODGERS, (R. Adm. Naval District, Great Lakes, 111.

DEWITT C. RAMSEY, has been made a USN) has been awarded a DSM. FRED W. BELTZ, gives his address as permanent V. Admiral.

Broadfoot, Henry B., (Capt. U S N ) . Proceed home; 2412 Buhl Building, Detroit 26, Mich. relieved all active duty.

FRED K. ELDER, (Capt. USN-ret), has been appointed assistant to Adm. Norman M. Smith, '06, President of the University of South Carohna in Columbia, S. C. Buckmaster, Elliott, (R. Adm. U S N ) . Proceed home; relieved all aaive duty.

Dodd, Harold, (Commo. U S N ) . Naval Operations, Navy Dept. temporary duty pending further assign-

Davison, Ralph E., (R. Adm. U S N ) . Commandant, 7th Naval District, Jacksonville, Fla., with additional duty as Chief of Naval Air Advanced Training, Naval Air Station, Jacksonville, Fla. Fiske, Leon S.. (Commo. U S N ) . I l t h Naval District, San Diego, Calif, for temporary duty in connection with a (jeneral Court Martial.

Joy, Charles T., (R. Adm. U S N ) . Commanding Officer, Naval Proving Ground, Dahlgren, Va.

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^' T>EAN DOUGLAS, (Capt.

• ' ' ' USN). James S. Douglas, son of Capt. and Mrs. Douglas, became engaged to Miss Jeanne M. Dupre recendy.

1 Q1 O GLENN B. DAVIS, (R. Adm. I 7 IO USN) has taken over as superCHARLES M. JONES, has been made V. intendent of the Naval Gun Factory.

President in Charge of Public and Industrial relations in the John A. Roebling's Sons ComEARL F. ENRIGHT, (Capt. USN-ret). pany of Trenton, N. J. Ens. Robert E. Enright, son of Capt. and Mrs. HOUSTON L. MAPLES, (R. Adm. USN) Enright, has recentiy become engaged to has been awarded a Legion of Merit.

Rosemary Patricia Sheehan.

Andrews, George A., (Comdr. U S N R ) . Naval Personnel Separation Cinter (Officer), Washington, D. C. for temporary duty in connection with separation processing.

Gayhart, Everett L., (Capt. USN-ret). Proceed home; relieved all aaive duty.

Grayson, Robert H., (Capt. U S N ) . 1st Naval Distria, Boston, Mass. for duty in connection with a General Court Martial.

Ingraham, Charles N . , (Capt. USN-ret). Proceed home; relieved all active duty.

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THOMAS N. VINSON, (Capt.

' ' ' • USN-ret) gives his new address as Glenwood Rd., Annapolis, Md. Berry, Albert G., Jr., (Comdr. U S N R ) . Proceed home; relieved all active duty.

Burrough, Edmund W., ( R . Adm. U S N ) . Commander, Cruiser Division 12, Atlantic Fleet.

Callahan, Malcohn W., (Comdr. USN-ret). Bureau of Naval Personnel, Navy Dept. temporary duty pending funher assignment.

Larson, William J., (Capt. U S N ) . Examination by Naval Retiring Board and orders to home.

Macgowan, Charles A., (Capt. U S N - r e t ) . Proceed home; relieved all active duty.

Meyer, John G., (Commo. U S N ) . Assistant Chief of Staff for Personnel, Western Sea Frontier.

Popham, William S., Jr., (Capt. U S N ) . Proceed home; relieved all active duty.

Rosendahl, Charles E., (R. Adm. U S N ) . Examination by Naval Retiring Board and orders to home.

Starkey, Robert C , (Capt. U S N ) . 12th Naval Distria, San Francisco, Calif, for duty in connection with a General Court Martial.

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1946

Dees, Randall E., (Commo. U S N ) . Bureau of Naval Personnel, Navy Dept. for temporary duty pending further assignment.

Gregory, Joseph W., (Capt. U S N ) . Examination

by Naval Retiring Board and orders to home.

Heffernan. John B., (Capt. U S N ) . Chief of Staff and Aide. 15 th Naval District, Balboa, Canal Zone.

Knowles, Herbert B., (Capt. U S N ) . Port Director, Boston, Mass. and Commanding Officer, Port Director Office, Boston, Mass. with additional duty on the Staff of the Commandant, U. S. Naval Base, Boston, Mass. and with additional duty as Distria Routing and Transportation Officer, 1st Naval District, Boston, Mass.

Richmond, John O., (Comdr. USN-ret). Proceed home; relieved all active duty.

Shepard, Andrew G., (Capt. U S N ) . Commander, Mine Craft, Pacific.

Spencer. Douglas A., (Capt. U S N ) . General Inspector, 15 th Naval Distria, Balboa, Canal Zone.

JOHN REDMAN, (Capt. USN). Miss Betty Redman, daughter of Capt. and Mrs. Redman, was married on 11 May. CHARLES K. POST, (Lt. Cdr. USNR) gives his address as Bayport, L. I., New York, Andrews, Charles L., Jr., (Capt. U S N ) . Staff—^Naval War College, Newport, R. I. Crawford, David S., (Capt. U S N ) . Nearest Naval District for temporary duty pending further assignment.

Dyer, George C , (R. Adm. U S N ) . Chief of General Planning Group, Naval Operations, Navy Dept.

Herrmann, Ernest, ( O p t . U S N ) . Chief of Logistic Plans, Naval (Operations, Navy Department.

Hilbert, William E., (Capt. U S N ) . 13th Naval District, Seattle, Wash, for duty as Distria Legal Officer.

Runquist, Elmer R., (Capt. U S N ) . I l t h Naval District, San Diego, Calif, for duty in conneaion with a General Court Martial.

Sayre, Frank N . , (Comdr. U S N ) . 12th Naval Disuict, San Francisco, Calif, for duty in connection with a General Court Martial.

lOOn WINFIELD S. CUNNINGI7ZU HAM, (Capt. USN) is receiving further radar training in Boston and Philadelphia prior to taking command of the USS CURTiss, seaplane tender, which is based in China and Japan.

CHARLES B. MOMSEN, (R. Adm. USN) has received a gold star in lieu of a third Legion of Merit.

ALLAN D. BLACKLEDGE, (Capt. USN) IQIft JOHN W. ROGERS, (Comdr. is on duty at the U. S. Navy Gun Faaory, I7 IO USN-ret) gives his address as Washington, D. C. Sweerwater Manor, Route No. 1, Box 532C, FRED B. AVERY, (Comdr. USN-ret) National City, Calif. gives his address as 501 Woodland St., HousCHAUNCEY R. CRUTCHER, (Capt. ton, Texas.

USN) and Mrs. Crutcher became grandparGEORGE F. PRESTWICH, (Capt. USNR) ents when a son was born to Lt. and Mrs. has remrned to civilian life and resides at 613 Eaton.

Park Avenue, Collingswood, N. J. GEORGE W. JOHNSON has been placed CARROLL L. TYLER, (Capt. USN) gives on the retired list due to physical disability

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his new address as C. T. D. 13, N. A. S., San Diego 32, Calif.

Bonney, Carroll T., (Capt. U S N ) . Professor of Naval Science and Tactics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. for duty in connection with the Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps Unit.

Brantley, Neill D., (Capt. U S N ) . Administrative Aide to the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations (Logistics), Naval Operations, Navy Dept, Champion, Carleton C , Jr., (Capt. U S N ) . Proceed home; relieved all active duty.

Christmas, Walter F., (Capt. U S N ) .

Superintendent, Mechanical Division, The Panama Canal, Balboa Heights, C. Z. Doolin, Edward H., (Comdr. USN-ret). Proceed home; relieved all active duty.

Gearing, Hilyer F. (Capt. U S N ) . Naval Ammunition Depot, Dover (Lake Denmark), N . J. Goode, Jesse B. ( C a p t . ) . Proceed home; relieved all active duty.

Hillenkoetter, Roscoe H., (Capt. U S N ) . Naval Operations, Navy Dept., temporary duty.

Hobbs, Allen, (Capt. U S N ) . Naval Operations, Navy Dept.

Mansfield, Brook S., (Capt. U S N ) . Assistant Port Director, New York, N . Y. Mason, Lunsford Y., Jr., (Capt. U S N ) . Chief of Staff and Aide, 7th Naval District, Miami, Fla. Page, Dudley M., (Comdr. USN-ret). Proceed home; relieved all active duty.

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CHARLES

D.

WHEELOCK,

• I ^ ' (Capt. U S N ) was decorated with t h e L e g i o n of M e r i t .

D O N A L D T. GILES, (Capt. U S N ) was p r e s e n t e d t h e B r o n z e S t a r M e d a l for h i s serv i c e d u r i n g t h e i n v a s i o n of G u a m .

EDWIN G. FULLINWIDER, (Capt.

U S N ) was married to Carol Citron on 27 April.

T h o s e a t t e n d i n g t h e i n i t i a l c o u r s e of t h e National W a r College in Washingron which b e g i n s o n 3 S e p t e m b e r f r o m t h e class of 1 9 2 1 are W A L T E R G. S C H I N D L E R and E D W A R D M. T H O M P S O N .

T H O M A S L. W A T T L E S , ( C a p t . U S N ) g i v e s h i s d u t y a d d r e s s as R m . 2 0 6 6 , B u r e a u of N a v a l P e r s o n n e l , N a v y D e p t . , W a s h i n g t o n , D . C. O S W A L D S. C O L C L O U G H , ( R . A d m .

U S N ) was recently presented the A r m y C o m mendation Ribbon.

A L B E R T V . D . S M I T H , is l i v i n g at W o o d l a w n Rd., Baltimore 10, M d .

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W I L L I A M G. E A T O N , (Comdr. U S N deceased). W i l l i a m G. Eaton, III, grandson of t h e l a t e C o m d r . E a t o n a n d M r s . E a t o n , w a s born on 31 March.

W I L L I A M R. C O O K E , JR., (Capt. U S N ) g i v e s h i s a d d r e s s as A . P . O . 6 7 6 , M i a m i , Fla. Anderson, Bern, (Capt. U S N ) . Commander, Transport Division 23.

Bowman, Roscoe L., (Capt. U S N ) . Naval Operations, Navy Dept. for duty in connection with Declassification of Combat Records.

Brown, Robert C , (Capt. U S N ) . 6th Naval District, Charleston, S. C , for temporary duty pending further assignment.

Coulter, Howard N . , (Capt. U S N ) . Bureau of Naval Personnel, Navy Dept., temporary duty pending further assignment. .,„,,, „„ CuUins, Thomas O., Jr., (Capt. U S N ) . Office of the Supervising Inspector of Naval Material, Houston, Texas, with additional duty as Inspector of Naval Material, Houston, Texas.

Curley, John J., Jr., (Capt. U S N ) . 12th Naval District, San Francisco, California, temporary duty pending further assignment.

Erck, Charles F., (Capt. U S N ) . Bureau of Naval Personnel, Navy Dept., temporary duty pending further assignment. . „ Gardner, Kinloch N . , (Comdr. U S N - r e t ) . Proceed home; relieved all active duty.

Hailey, Benjamin L., (Comdr. USN-ret). Proceed home; relieved all active duty. „,, „ Hamilton, William V., (Capt. U S N ) . Bureau of Naval Personnel, Navy Dept., temporary duty pending further assignment.

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Jones, John G., (Capt. U S N ) . Inspector of Naval Recruiting and Induction, 6th Joint Induction Area, Chicago, 111.

Loker, Alex M., (Capt. U S N ) . Bureau of Ships, Navy Dept.

Milner, Edward J,, (Comdr. U S N ) . Proceed home; relieved all active duty.

Money, Peter M., (Capt. U S N ) . Commanding Officer, USS A T L A N T A , CL

104.

Nyquist, Walfrid, (Capt. U S N ) . Nearest Naval District for temporary duty pending further assignment.

Pollock, James C , (Capt. U S N ) . Proceed home; relieved all active duty.

Ramsey, William F., (Comdr. U S N ) . Examination

by Naval Retiring Board and orders to home.

Roberts, James A., (Capt. U S N ) . Legal Officer on the staff of the Commander, Marianas.

Rhodes, Charles W., (Capt. U S N R ) . Nearest Naval District for temporary duty in connection with separation processing.

Sanders, Carl H., (Capt. U S N ) . Proceed home; relieved all active duty.

Scott, Lucius K., (Comdr. USN-ret). Proceed home; relieved all active duty.

Sherman, Eugene P. (Capt. U S N ) . Proceed home; relieved all active duty.

Smith, Donald F., (Capt. U S N ) . Island Commander, Saipan Island, Marianas Islands with additional duty as Commander, Naval Air Base, Saipan Island, Marianas Islands and Commandant, Naval Operating Base, Saipan Island, Marianas Islands.

Talbot, Frank R., (Capt. U S N ) . Staff—6th Army, U. S. Army.

Tellman, Herbert A., (Comdr. USN-ret). Proceed home; relieved all active duty.

Todd, Carlton R., (Capt. U S N ) . Naval operations.

Navy Dept.

Wirth. Theodore R.. (Capt. U S N ) . Commanding Officer, USS F A L L R I V E R , CA

131.

1 0 0 0 Those attending the National ' 7 X X yffi,t College course w h i c h beg i n s in S e p t e m b e r f r o m t h e class of 1 9 2 2 a r e L O W E H . B I B B Y , R O B E R T E. B L I C K , J R . , E D G A R A . C R U I S E , H E R B E R T S. D U C K W O R T H , H U G H H. G O O D W I N , MARCEL E. A . G O U I N , a n d H O W A R D E. O R E M .

P A L M E R K . L E B E R M A N gives h i s address as B r y a n t A v e n u e , R o s l y n , L. I., N . Y .

W I L F R E D J. H O L M E S , ( C a p t . U S N - r e t ) has been awarded a D S M .

T h e Class of 1 9 2 2 h e l d t h e J u n e l u n c h e o n at B a c h e l o r Officers' Q u a r t e r s , A n a c o s t i a N a v a l A i r S t a t i o n , as t h e g u e s t s of C a p t a i n R o b e r t W . M o r s e , U . S . N . , C o m m a n d i n g Officer. T h e following were present: C a p t a i n A . I. M a l s t r o m , C a p t a i n L e o n Huffm a n , C a p t a i n W . R . T e r r e l l , Lt. C o m d r . R . L. Lewis, Captain V e r n o n H u b e r , Captain H a r o l d R . S t e v e n s , Lt. C o m d r . F. S. L o t t , C a p t a i n J . Y . D a n n e n b e r g , C a p t . R . L. J o h n s o n , C a p t a i n W . F. R i g g s , J r . , M r . H . L. J e n n i n g s , J r . , M r . Oliver M. Walker, Captain Robert W .

Morse.

Adell, Bruce B., (Capt. U S N ) . Chief of Staff and Aide. Sth Fleet.

Clark, Sherman R., (Capt. U S N ) . Commander, Destroyer Flotilla 3.

Cogswell, Wilson P., (Capt. U S N ) . Commanding Officer, USS SHANGRI-LA, CV 38.

Harrigan, Daniel W., (Capt. U S N ) . Commanding Officer, USS ORISKANY, CV 34.

Hill, Tom B., (Capt. U S N ) . Commanding Officer, USS M I S S O U R I , BB

63.

Hunter, George P., (Capt. U S N ) . U. S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md. Johnson, Francis B., (Capt. U S N ) . Deputy Commandant, 17th Naval District, Kodiak, Alaska and as Commander, Naval Air Bases, 17th Naval District, Kodiak, Alaska.

Johnston, Donald H., (Capt, U S N ) . Bureau of Naval Personnel, Navy Dept., temporary duty pending further assignment.

Nelson, Roger E., (Commo. U S N ) . Professor of Naval Science and Tactics, Dartmouth University, Hanover, N . H. Ragonnet, Lucien, (Capt. U S N ) . Staff — Service Force, Pacific Fleet.

Sutherland, Orson R., (Comdr. U S N ) . Examination

by Naval Retiring Board and orders to home.

Wallace, Jesse R., (Caot. U S N ) . Administrative Officer and Aide, U. S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md. and Chief of Staff and Aide, Severn River Naval Command, Annapolis, Md. Whitney, John P., (Commo. U S N ) . Commanding Officer, USS MIDWAY, CVB 4 1 .

Zimmerman, Walter E., (Capt. U S N ) . Commanding Officer, USS MACON, CA 132.

I Q Q O I R A L. K I M E S , ( B r i g . G e n .

I 7 Z 0 U S M C ) . Miss T h d m a J. Kimes, d a u g h t e r of G e n e r a l a n d M r s . K i m e s , was m a r r i e d t o Lt. D a v i d A . C l e m e n t , U S M C , o n

8 June.

WILLIAM T. RASSIEUR, (Capt. USN) has received the Legion of Merit.

LEMERTON E. CRIST, JR., (Capt. USN) has assumed command of the SPOKANE which was commissioned on 17 May in Brooklyn.

Those attending the National War College Course from the dass of 1923 are WILLIAM B. AMMON, KARL G. HENSEL, STANLEY LEITH, WILLIAM K. MENDENHALL, JR., STANHOPE C. RING, RICH W. RUBLE, AARON P. STOORS, III, JAMES H. THACH, JR., and FRANK H. LAMSONSCRIBNER. Blair, Leon N . , (Capt. U S N ) . District Intelligence Officer, 5 th Naval District, Norfolk, Va. Comly, Samuel P., Jr., (Capt. U S N ) . Naval Operations, Navy Dept.

Fuqua, Samuel G., (Capt. U S N ) . Chief of Staff Officer, Columbia River Group. 19th Fleet, Astoria, Oregon.

Ginder, John K. B., (Capt. U S N ) . Commanding Officer, Naval Anamunition Depot, Bremerton, Wash.

Hamblin, Francis D., (Capt. U S N ) . Commander, Fleet Trainirig Group, Newport, R. I. and Commanding Officer, Fleet Training Center, Newport, R. I. with additional duty as Commanding Officer, Large Ship Pre-Commissioning Training Center, Fleet Training Group, Newport; R. I. Hamilton, William H., (Capt. U S N ) . Commanding Officer, USS R A N D O L P H , CV 15.

Harrison, Beverley R., Jr., (Capt. U S N ) . Office of the Minister of Marine, Argentine Navy Dept., Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Higgins, Ronald D., (Capt. U S N R ) . Bureau of Naval Personnel, Navy Dept. for temporary duty pending further assignment.

Hudson, Homer B., (Capt. U S N ) . District Intelligence Officer, 1st Naval District, Boston, Mass.

King, John W., (Capt. U S N ) . Piloted Aircraft Division, Bureau of Aeronautics, Navy Dept.

Jenkins, Philip H., (Capt. U S N ) . Administrative Officer, Charleston Naval Shipyard, Navy Yard, S. C. Laurent, Francis W., (Capt. USN-ret). Proceed home; relieved all active duty.

Moran, Henry G., (Capt. U S N ) . Staff—^Naval War College, Newport, R. I. Olney, Alfred C , Jr., (Capt. U S N ) . Aide and Chief of Staff, Commander, Fleet Air Wing 18.

Parrott, John H., (Comdr. USN-ret). Proceed home; relieved all active duty.

Ridout, Horatio, (Capt. U S N ) . 1st Naval District, San Francisco, Calif, for temporary duty pending further assignment.

Rigler, Frank V., (Comdr. USN-ret). Proceed home; relieved all active duty.

Rodgers, Robert H., (Capt. U S N ) . Naval Operations, Navy Dept. for temporary duty pending further assignment.

Smellow, Morris, (Capt. U S N ) . Supply Officer in Command, Naval Supply Depot, Seattle, Wash.

Wilson, Balch B., Jr., (Capt. U S N ) . Officer in Charge, Communications School, Naval Amphibious Base, Little Creek, Va.

1 0 0 4 BERNARD L, AUSTIN, WALI 1^^ LACE M. BEAKLEY, ALLEN P. CALVERT, and CHARLES W. WILKINS will be attending the National War College in September.

HENRY T. READ, (Capt. USN) gives his new address as P. O. Box 585, Navy Yard, S. C. Bailey, Samuel M., (Capt. U S N ) . Deputy Field Commissioner for Philippines and Western Pacific, Office of the Foreign Liquidation Commissioner, Manila, P. I. Callaghan, Joseph A., (Capt. U S N ) . Commanding Officer, USS ONEIDA, APA 2 2 1 .

Coley, Lewis E., (Capt. U S N ) . Commander, Destroyer Squadron 10 with additional duty as Commander, Destroyer Division 1 0 1 .

Domer, William S., (Comdr, USN-ret). Proceed home; relieved all active duty.

Garnet, Wayne N . , (Capt. U S N ) . Nearest Naval District for temporary duty pending further assignment.

Gardner, Francis H., (Capt. U S N ) . Commander Destroyer Squadron 15 with additional duty as Commander, Destroyer Division 152.

Hays, William S., (Comdr. U S N - r e t ) . Proceed home; relieved all aaive duty.

Heine, Minor C , (Capt. U S N ) . District Intelligence Officer, 12th Naval District, San Francisco, Calif.

Hopkins, Howard V., (Capt. U S N ) . Naval Air Technical Training, Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Florida for temporary duty pending further assignment.

Hurst, Adrian M., (Capt. U S N ) . District Intelligence Officer, 11 th Naval District, San Diego, Calif.

Johnson, Leon W . , (Capt. U S N ) . Aviation Officer, Sth Fleet.

King, Sidney, (Comdr. U S N ) . Bureau of Naval Personnel, Navy Dept.

Laidlaw, James S., (Capt. U S N ) . Commanding Officer, Naval Ordnance Plant, Canton, Ohio.

Lee, Charles L., (Capt. U S N ) . Naval Operations, Navy Dept.

Leslie, Harold K,, (Comdr, U S N R ) . Naval Personnel Separation Center (Officer), Washington, D. C. for temporary duty in connection with separation processing.

Ruhsenberger, John R., (Capt. U S N ) . Commander, Anti-Submarine Development Squadron 1, with additional duty as Commander, Anti-Submarine Development Detachment, Atlantic.

Tiemroth, Harold H., (Capt. U S N ) . Office of the Judge Advocate General, Navy Dept, Warren, John T., (Capt. U S N ) . Administrative Commander, USS APL 24 and USS APL 2 5 .

igQC EDMUND B. TAYLOR, (Capt.

• 7it3 USN) has been awarded a Silver Star Medal.

WENDELL M. BRADBURY, (Lt. Cdr. USNR) gives his new address as 2409 N. Broom St., Wilmington, Del. HARRY H. HENDERSON, and GEORGE C. WRIGHT are to be among those attending EDWARD N. LEONARD, (Comdr. the initial course at the National War College, USNR) gives his address as 3439 Midvale Washington, D. C. Avenue, Philadelphia, Pa. Banks, James O., (Capt. U S N ) . Commanding Officer, USS TAPPAHAJSTNOCK, AO

43.

Blackwell, Cecil L., (Capt. U S N ) . Operations Officer, Naval Operating Base, Newport, R. I. Carrington, James H., (Capt. U S N ) . I l t h Naval District, San Diego, Calif, for temporary duty pending further assignment.

Caldwell, Rex S., (Capt. U S N ) . Assistant Planning, Estimating and Design Superintendent Diesel, New York Naval Shipyard, Brooklyn, N .

Y. ChiUingworth, Charles F., Jr., (Capt. U S N ) . Chief of Staff and Aide, U. S. Naval Base, Norfolk, Va. (j)wie, Terrance R., (Capt. U S N ) . 12th Naval District, San Francisco, CaVii. for duty in connection with a General Court Martial.

Dufek, George J., (Capt. U S N ) . Chief Staff Officer, Task Force 6 8 .

HavUand, James W., Ill, (Capt. U S N ) . Complements Officer, I l t h Naval District, San Diego, Calif.

Larson, Harold O., (Capt. U S N ) . Commander, Destroyer Squadron 17 with additional duty as Commander, Destroyer Division 1 7 1 .

Lyons, Raymond R., (Capt. U S N ) . District Intelligence Officer, 14th Naval District, Pearl Harbor, T, H. McCall, Francis B., (C:omdr. U S N ) . Proceed home, relieved all active duty.

Petross, Lynn C , (Capt. U S N ) . 19th Fleet.

Quinn, Arthur R., (Comdr. U S N ) . Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, Philadelphia, Pa. Rorschach, Anthony L., (Capt. U S N ) . Staff—7th Fleet.

Seabury, Claire C , (Capt. USN, C E C ) . Naval Operations, Navy Dept.

SpiUer, John H., (Capt. U S N ) . Staff—7th Fleet.

Truxall, Charles W., (Comdr. U S N ) . San Francisco, Naval Shipyard, San Francisco, Calif.

Warder, Frederick B., (Capt. U S N ) , C o m m a n d e r , Submarine Squadron 3 with additional duty as Commander, Submarine Division 3 1 .

HARRY D. ROZENDAL, (Capt. USN) has been awarded a Gold Star in lieu of a second Legion of Merit.

MARCY M. DUPR£, JR., (Capt. USN) and Mrs. Dupre announce the engagement of their daughter, Jeanne Marie, to Capt. James RALPH E. PATTERSON, (Lt. Cdr. S. Douglas, USA. USN) gives his dury address as Base Operations Office, Naval Base, Norfolk, Va. ALAN SHAPLEY, (Col. USMC) is attending the course at the National War ColEUGENE F. MAY, (Capt. USN) is on lege in Washington which begins on 3 Sepduty at the Naval War College in Newport, tember.

R. I. DAVID B. OVERFIELD, (Lt. Cdr. USN)

100A CHARLES A. BUCHANAN, • '-^O (Capt. USN) has been awarded a Navy Cross.

Anderson, William L., (Capt. U S N ) . Chief of Staff and Aide, Naval Base, Philadelphia, Pa, Carpenter, Charles L,, (Capt. U S N ) . Commanding Officer, USS BURLESON, APA 67.

Clark, Murray W., (Capt. USN-ret). Proceed home; relieved all active duty.

Clement, Chester L., (Capt. U S N ) . Chief Staff Officer, Transport Squadron 1, Craig, Kenneth, (Capt, U S N ) , Chief of Staff and Aide, Fleet Air, Quonset Point, R. I. Evenson, Marvin P., (Capt, U S N ) . Staff—National War College, Washington, D. C, Halloran, Thomas F,, (Capt. U S N ) . District Communication Officer, 6th Naval District, Charleston, S. C. with additional duty as Commanding Officer of the Naval Radio Stations, Supplementary Radio Stations and Activities within the 6th Naval District, Helfrich, Norman A„ (Capt, USN, S C ) . Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, Navy Dept, Mills, Donald L,, (Capt. U S N ) . Air Force, Atlantic, Norfolk, Va. for temporary duty pending further assignment.

Simpson, John H,, (Capt, U S N ) . Naval Inspector of Ordnance, Northern Pump Company, Minneapolis, Minn, Stefanac, Joseph B,, (Capt, U S N ) , District Intelligence Officer, 9th Naval District, Great Lakes, 111, Ward, James H., (Capt. U S N ) . Commander, Destroyer Squadron 1 and additional duty as Commander, Destroyer Division 1 1 .

FREDERICK C. STELTER, (Capt. USN) is living at Quarters K, Puget Sound, Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, Washington.

1 0 0 7 JOSEPH T. HAZEN, (Capt.

I7Z / USN) has left for his new assignment of duty in Yokohama, Japan.

JOHN P. FITZSIMMONS, (Capt. USN) gives his new duty address as Naval War College, Newport, R. I.

MARTIN J. LAWRENCE, (Capt. USN) has been awarded a Legion of Merit.

CALVIN E. WAKEMAN, (Capt. USN) is WALLACE J. MILLER, (Capt. USN) has serving in the USS HOLLANDIA, (CVE 97) been awarded a Navy Commendation Ribbon. c/o 19th Fleet—Naval Station, Seattie, Wash.

JULY, 1946

JOHN C. WOELFEL, (Capt. USN) has been assigned to duty in Egypt as technical representative for the Navy Dept. throughout the Middle East.

is serving in the USS SHANGRI-LA, C/O FPO,

San Francisco, Calif.

PAUL H. RAMSEY, (Capt. USN) has left the USS ATTU, and gives his new address as 536 J. Avenue, Coronado, Calif.

RANDOLPH M. SMITH, (USA-ret) writes from the Park Plaza Hotel, St. Louis, Mo. "I'm out of the service now and am engaged as a consultant by this hotel on its refrigeration and air conditioning problems."

Bergeson, Andrew H., (Capt. U S N ) . Bureau of Aeronautics, Navy Dept.

Chilton, William P., (Capt. U S N ) . Bureau of Ordnance, Navy Dept.

Evans, Myron T., (Comdr, U S N ) , Bureau of Aeronautics Representative, New York, N . Y. Ford, Robert S., (Capt. U S N ) . Chief Staff Officer, Naval Operating Base, Newport, R. I. Graybill, Myron W., (Comdr. U S N ) . Staff—Naval School (Intelligence), Naval Receiving Station, Anacostia, Washington, D. C. Hamley, Joseph R,, (Capt, U S N ) . Executive Officer, Naval Station, Orange, Texas with additional duty as Commanding Officer, Naval Barracks, Orange, Texas, Hinners, Robert A,, (Capt. U S N ) , David W. Taylor Model Basin, Carderook, Md, Hubbard, Miles H., (Capt, U S N ) , Bureau of Ordnance, Navy Dept, Ignatius, William R,. (Capt. U S N ) , Office of the Director, U. S, Naval Engineering Experiment Station, Annapolis, Md, Jones, Francis R , (Comdr, U S N ) . Submarine Group Commander, Norfolk Group, 16th Fleet, Norfolk, Va. Knowles, Kenneth A., (Clapt. USN-ret), Proceed home; relieved all active dury,

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legwen, Glenn W., Jr„ (Capt. U S N ) . District Communications Officer, 10th Naval District, San Juan, P. R, Mcllhenny, Harry H „ (Capt, U S N ) . Staff—Naval War College, Newport, R. I. Myers, Richard E., (Capt. U S N ) . Staff—Operational Development Force.

Powell, Elmer C , (Comdr. U S N R ) . Commanding Officer, USS B A R N W E L L , APA 132 with additional duty as Executive Officer.

Ramsey, Paul H., (Capt. U S N ) . Commanding Officer, Night Development Squadron, Pacific, Specht, William C , (Capt. U S N ) . Naval Ordnance Plant, Pocatello, Idaho—Executive Officer.

Stilhnan, Carl F., (Capt, U S N ) . Staff 16th Fleet, Woelfel, John C , (Capt. U S N ) . U. S, Naval Technical Officer, Cairo, Egypt,

gives his new address as Director Naval Reserves, Bldg. 4, Naval Base, Philadelphia, Pa. WILLIAM Y. ALLEN, (Capt. USN) has been assigned duty as commanding officer of the Ammunition Depot on Guam.

KEN GENTRY, (Capt. USN) and CHRIS ENGLEMAN, (Capt. USN) are to be in on Crossroads: Capt. Gentry, Operations for Communications and Electronics on the USS MT. MCKINLEY, and Capt. Engleman, Electronics Coordinating Officer, Joint Task 100ft ^- ^ - NORGAARD, (Capt. Force One, embarked on Electronics InstruI 7ZO USN) and his family have mentation Ship, USS AVERY ISLAND. moved to Annapolis where Capt. Norgaard Jack, (Comdr. USN, S C ) , Supply Officer, is affiliated with the Language Department of Agnew, Naval Repair Base, San Diego, Calif. the Naval Academy. Their address is 34 Up- Brumby, Edward, (Capt. U S N ) . Commander, Destroyer Division 42. shur Road.

NORMAN F. GARTON, (Capt. USN) gives his new address as Bureau of Aeronautics' Representative, McDonnell Aircraft Company, St. Louis, Mo..

Bierer, James S,, (Capt, USN, S C ) . Staff—Naval War College, Newport, R. I, Fritschmann, George, (Capt, U S N ) . 7th Fleet for temporary duty pending further assignment as Chief of Staff and Aide to R. Adm. Thomas G. W .

Setde.

Kendall, Charles H., (Capt. U S N ) . Commander, Destroyer Division 1 5 1 .

Moore, Frederick E., (Comdr. U S N ) . Office of the Assistant Seaetary of the Navy, Material Division, Navy Dept.

Pope, Earl H., (Comdr. U S N ) . Commanding Officer, USS Z E L I M A N , AF

49.

Quinn, John, (Capt. U S N ) , Naval Operations, Navy Dept.

Todd, David W., Jr., (Capt. U S N ) . Ordnance Officer, Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Portsmouth, Va, Urquhart, John G,, Jr,, (Comdr, U S N ) , Bureau of Ships, Navy Dept,

Caillouet, Jean L., Jr., (Comdr. U S N R ) . Naval Personnel Separation Center (Officer), Washington, D. C. for temporary duty in connection with separation processing.

Conn, Richard J. H., (Capt. U S N ) . Bureau of Aeronautics, Navy Dept.

Dodge, Harry B., (Capt. U S N ) . Commanding Officer, USS N E R B U S , A S 17.

Gladney, Donald W., Jr., (Capt. U S N ) . Naval Operations, Navy Dept.

Konigsberg, Albert, (Capt. USN, S C ) . Director, Material Redistribution and Disposal Administration, New York, N . Y. Lawver, Rowland C . (Capt. U S N ) . Staff — 7th Fleet.

Lidstone, Nicholas A., (Capt. U S N ) . Commanding Officer, Fleet Training Center, San Diego, Calif.

Lucker, Nicholas N . , Jr., (Capt. U S N ) . Office of the Chief of Research and Inventions, Navy Dept.

Lynch, Robert F., (Comdr. U S N R ) . Commanding Officer, USS M I N N E A P O L I S , CA 36 with additional duty as Executive Officer.

Nutting, Kelvin L., (Capt. U S N ) . Staff, 7th Fleet.

Renfro, Edward C , (Capt. U S N ) . Commanding Officer, Naval Auxiliary Air Station, Whiting Field, Pensacola, Fla.

-IQOI LOUIS F. VOLK, (Comdr.

I /O I USN) and Mrs. Volk are the par1 0 0 0 KNIGHT P R Y O R , (Capt. ents of a son, John Pierce, born on 19 May *»'^* USN) gives his address as Navy at Washington, D. C. Post Office, No. 100, c/o FPO, New York, LESTER O. WOOD, (Comdr. USN) is N. Y. now on duty at the Naval Academy, AnnapWILLIAM L. KABLER, (Capt. USN) olis, Md. gives his address as 8263 Simons Drive, NorWILLIAM B. BRAUN, (Comdr. USN) is folk 5, Va. living at 950 G. Avenue, Coronado, Calif.

Colonds MANLY L. CURRY and FRANK Robbins W., (Comdr. U S N ) . Executive OffiH. SCHWABLE are to take the course begin- Allen, cer, USS K E A R S A R G E , C V 3 3 . ning on 3 September at the National War Beckmann, Alcorn G., (Comdr, U S N ) . Executive Officer, Naval Ordnance Test Station, Inyokern, College.

Calif.

USNA Class of 1929 had its monthly Bellis, Louis J., (Comdr. U S N ) . Navigating Officer, USS O R E G O N CITY, CA 122—additional duty. luncheon at Army & Navy Club, Washing- Biglow, James O., ((Zomdr. U S N ) . Research and ton, D. C , on 18 June. The following were Development Group, Bureau of Aeronautics, Navy Dept. present: Byng, John W., (Comdr. U S N ) . Executive Officer, Naval Air Station, Patuxent River, Md. Butts, Frankel, Duborg, Welsh, Tolley, Fox, John A., (Comdr. U S N ) . Staff—SubEaston, Shute, Ashford, Ballinger, Duval, Ben- Fitzgerald, marine Squadron 3. son, Keeler, McCoy, Beardsley, Brandley, Hale, Henry H., (Comdr. U S N ) . Naval Ordnance Test Station, Inyokern, Calif.

Berkley, Johnson, Eller, Bernet, Dye, and Cof- Heilig, Robert D., (Comdr. U S N ) . Commanding Officer, USS ROGERS, D D 876. fin.

Galbraith, William J., (Capt, U S N ) . Commanding Officer, USS ALLAGASH, AO 97.

Garland, Guy P., (Capt. U S N ) . Staff—10th Naval District, San Juan, P. R. Huelskamp, Wilfred J., (Comdr. U S N ) . Commander, Naval Training Center, Gulfport, Miss.

Loomis, Almon E., (Capt. U S N ) . Air Officer, Training Command, Amphibious Forces, Pacific Fleet, San Diego, Calif, with additional dury as Commander, Air Support Units and Commanding Officer, Air Support Training School, Training Command, Amphibious Forces, Pacific Fleet, Amphibious "Training Base, Coronado, Calif.

Roughton, Emery, (Comdr. U S N ) . Staff—Training Command, Amphibious Forces, Pacific, Coronado, Calif,

lO^n SCARRITT ADAMS, (Capt.

I70U USN) and Miss Beatrice M. Agnew were married on 6 July.

FRANCIS M. CARTER,

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(Capt. USN)

LeFavour, William R., (Comdr, U S N ) . Naval Ammunition Depot, Crane, Ind. Mothersill, Philip W,. Jr„ (Comdr, U S N ) , Commanding Officer, USS STRIBLING. D D 867.

Parsons, William K., (Comdr. U S N ) . Commanding Officer, USS South Dakota, BB 57 with additional duty as Executive Officer, Pearce, Hepburn A,, (Comdr, U S N ) . Executive Officer, Naval Ammunition Depot, St, Juliens Creek, Portsmouth. Va. Roscoe, David L., Jr., (Comdr. U S N ) . Executive Officer, Naval Personnel Separation Center, Naval Air Station, New Orleans, La. Smith, Julius E., Jr,, (Comdr, U S N ) , Navigating Officer, USS Los A N G E L E S , CA 135, Weiler, James B„ (Comdr. U S N ) . Bureau of Naval Personnel, Navy Dept. temporary dury pending further assignment.

Williams, Lowell W., (Comdr. U S N ) . Naval Operations, Navy Dept, Wright, Edward A., (Comdr. U S N ) . Charleston Naval Shipyard, Navy Yard, S. C.

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"^^^ Class of '32 put on a real family party at the Commissioned

Officers' Mess, U. S. Naval Gun Factory, on Friday evening, 17 May. A total of 112 were in attendance, as fifty-six Classmates (fiftyfour with their wives) gathered for a cocktail and supper party that did credit to the Party Committee headed by Dave Scott.

Name tags, prepared in advance, proved to be a wrinkle that bridged many a gap in memory over the years. The ladies, God bless 'em, each received a white carnation as well as a name tag. First names came easy, even to those newly met, and the party was a success from the "remember when" aspect, too.

Several got to the party despite the handicap of distance: "Andy" Nisewaner only tarried before returning to the Pacific Coast.

Magruder Hill Tuttie and his wife were up from Pamxent, and L. A. "Bat-eye" Arthur left the USS TARAWA at Norfolk to bring his wife, "Ridey."

Flashbacks from the Party: The "Navy" songsmiths, solid senders all.

Among them were: Charlie and Irene Gold, Tate Simpson, the Eddie Bakers and Betty Schmidt, widow of our own "Max." P. C. "Casey" Holt, back in civvies, but not far from the Navy in his Budget Bureau job. The bald and the gray debating relative evidences of age, then settling all cases contrary to the evidence. Phil Cann, wondering why plain old white service should make a man conspicuous. The chow-hounds lining up for a third run at that so-good roast. The sudden realization that even a party that breaks up at ten can be a swell evening's entertainment.

Present at the Class Party on 17 May were: Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Anderson, Comdr. and Mrs. L. A. Arthur, Comdr. and Mrs. B. L. Bailey, Comdr. and Mrs. H. E. Baker, Comdr. and Mrs. T. K. Bowers, Comdr. and Mrs. S. W. Brown, Comdr. and Mrs. W. W. Brown, Comdr. and Mrs. F. H. Brumby, Comdr. and Mrs. L. A. Bryan, Comdr. and Mrs. W. I. Bull, Comdr. and Mrs. P. W. Cann, Comdr. and Mrs. J. D. Collett, Comdr. and Mrs. J. G. Craig, Commo. and Mrs. H. H. Dreany, Comdr. and Mrs. R. L. Evans, Comdr. and Mrs. E. E. Fawkes, Comdr. and Mrs. C. L. Frazer, Comdr. and Mrs. C. C. Gold, Comdr. and Mrs. R. O. Greene, Comdr. and Mrs. J. M. Grider, Mr. and Mrs. P. C. Holt, Comdr. and Mrs. G. W. Jewett, Comdr. and Mrs. R. C, Johnson, Comdr. and Mrs. W. E. Kenna, Comdr. and Mrs. J. D. Lamade, Comdr. and Mrs. R. H. Lambert, Comdr. and Mrs. C. B. Lanman, Comdr. and Mrs. J. R. Leeds, Comdr. and Mrs. R. C. Leonard, Comdr. and Mrs. A. R Matter, Comdr. and Mrs. A. S. Major, Comdr. and Mrs. L. H. McAlpine, Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Miller, Comdr. and Mrs. G. H. Mitchell, Comdr. and Mrs. T. J. Montgomery, Comdr. and Mrs. R. B. Moore, Comdr. and Mrs. J. H. Morse, Comdr. and Mrs. L. H. Mustin, Comdr. T. A. Nisewaner, Comdr. and Mrs. F. E. Nuessle, Comdr. and Mrs. C. J. Odend'hal, Comdr. and Mrs. J. Roudebush, Comdr. and Mrs. F. B. Schultz, Comdr. and Mrs. D. D. Scott, Comdr. and Mrs. J. W. Seager, Comdr. and Mrs. H. W. Seely, Comdr. and Mrs. W. C. Short, Comdr. and Mrs. R. T. Simpson, Comdr. and Mrs. M. H. Tutde, Comdr. and Mrs. J. R. Van Evera, Comdr. and Mrs. A. G. Ward, Comdr. and Mrs. T. G. Warfield, Comdr. and Mrs. C S. Willard, Comdr. and Mrs. J. F. Witherow, Comdr. E. C Woodward, Comdr. and Mrs. J. C. Wylie, Mrs. M. G. (Betty) Schmidt, Mrs. Kathryn Early,

ALTON E. PARKER, (Comdr. U S N ) has been awarded the Navy Cross.

Schroeder, WiUiam P., (Comdr. USN). Commanding Officer, USS HOGG ATT BAY, CVE 75, with additional duty as Executive Officer.

Stuart, William A,, (Comdr. USN). Executive Offi-

H A R R Y S. COOK, (Lt. Cdr. U S N R ) gives his address as Route N o . 1, Box 292, Pasco, Washington.

Sunderland, Morton, (Comdr, USN). U. S. Naval Attache and Naval Attache for Air, American Embassy, Athens, Greece.

GLENN A. MILLIREN, JR., gives his address as c/o Butler Brothers, Randolph Street, Chicago, 111.

i g q O G E O R G E P. UNMACHT, ' ' ^ ^ (Comdr. U S N ) has been awarded a Silver Star Medal.

FREDERICK O. V A U G H A N , (Comdr.

USN, S C ) , has been awarded the Legion of Merit.

Comdr. and Mrs. R. H . Dale ("Brute" and Lylia to intimates) are proud parents of twin daughters, Ruth Loretta and Diana Carol, born 9 May 1946 at Columbia Hospital, Washington, D . C. T h e young ladies, their parents' first, came near arriving on a wedding anniversary of 10 May. "Brute" now reports Lylia is doing fine and the infants are thriving.

The Washington Chapter of the U.S.N.A. Gass of 1932 Alumni .had forty in attendance at its monthly luncheon, held 13 J u n e at the Officers Q u b , U. S. Naval G u n Factory. Arrangements were ably handled by Bob Leonard and Floyd Schultz, so that classmates had sustenance for body and mind.

Fortified by good food, the assemblage adopted without major change the By-Laws proposed for the Chapter in the April meeting. Only other business on the Agenda was discussion of the proposed Class of 1932 Memorial. Lou Bryan was to have appeared in support of a scholarship fund, to be raised by subscription within the Class, but illness in his family kept him away. His prepared outline was read, however, and drew some lively comment from Len Fraser, Gil Mitchell, Chuck Lanman, Firpo Anderson, Bill Brown, Whitey Moore, and Floyd Schultz. Chairman Al Major cut short an i n d p i e n t debate by appointing a committee to report on the various debatable points at a later meeting.

Speakers for the day were Whitey Moore, who talked on the Personnel Operating Force Plan, and Charley Odend'hal, who gave the group some inside dope on the Army-Navy merger.

Flashbacks:

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MERRILL K. CLEMENTSON, (Comdr.

U S N ) and Miss Lucy G. Hutchinson were married on 18 May in Greenwicn. Conn.

Bellinger, William C. P,, Jr., (Comdr, USN), Senior Naval Instructor in the Naval Science Dept,, Maine Maritime Academy, Castine, Maine, Chase, Jay V,, (Comdr. USN). Navigating Officer, USS VICKSBURG, CL 86—additional duty.

DeMaria, Matthew, (Comdr. USN). Executive Officer, USS LOS ANGELES, CA

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Ferguson, Glover T., (Comdr, USN). Executive Of-

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Mayberry, Dale, (Comdr, USN). Staff—Naval War College, Newport, R. I. Miller, Clayton L., (Comdr. USN). Executive Offi-

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Neville, Lawrence R., (Comdr. USN). Staff—Naval School (Intelligence) Naval Receiving Station, Anacostia, Washington, D. C. Ogle, John N., (Comdr. USN). Nearest Fleet Air Command—temporary duty pending further assignment.

Slayton, Morgan, (Comdr. USN). Bureau of Naval Personnel, Navy Dept. for temporary duty pending further assignment.

Wahlig, Frederick H., (Comdr. USN). U, S, Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md, 1 0 ^ 4 THOMAS W. SOUTH, II, ' / O " (Comdr. U S N ) and Mrs. Pauline C Walsh were married in Las Vegas, Nevada on 27 April. They are now living in Coronado, Calif.

ERIC L. BARR, JR., (Comdr. U S N ) gives his address as 1539 N o r t h Falkland Lane, Apartment 317, Silver Spring, Md. FRANCIS W . S C A N L A N D , JR., (Comdr.

U S N ) is on duty at the U. S. Naval Sub Base, Key West, Fla. Ambrose, Dennison C , (Comdr. USN, SC). Fiscal Officer, Boston Naval Shipyard, Boston, Mass.

Bruchez, Ernest V., (Comdr. USN). Commanding Officer, USS CHEVALIER, DD 805.

Dickinson, Clarence E., (Comdr. USN). Commanding Officer, USS FRANKLIN, CV 13 with additional duty as Executive Officer.

Fuller, Harold D., (Comdr. USN). Landing Craft School, Litde Creek, Va. Gebelin, Albert L., (Comdr. USN). Executive Officer, USS MOUNT MCKINLEY, AGC

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Four new faces this time: "Squeegee" Osier and Dave Kinert now in town on duty, and H. O. Caperton here at the Interior Department, where "Cape" is a Reclamation Operator. Warren McKenney was just passing through, however, fresh from a tour of duty in Belgium with the W a r Shipping Administration and now enroute to Naples for similar duty there. Chuck Gold recalling experience in "jeep carriers" while "Squeegee" Osier and Dick Mandelkorn indulged in a litde inter-Bureau exchange on weight compensation. Len Frazer stated his remarkable views on the need for physical fitness.

Staley, Joseph J., Jr., (Comdr. USN). Staff—Naval War College, Newport, R. I, Thompson, Harry L,, Jr., (Comdr. USN). Naval (Dperation, Navy Dept.

Van Leunen, Paul, Jr., (Comdr. USN). Commanding Officer, USS DUNCAN, DD 874.

Wheeler, Robert E., (Comdr. USN). Administrative Conmiand, Naval Training Center, Naval Base, Norfolk, Va.

Acker, Frank C , (Comdr. USN). Naval War College Staff, Newport, R. I. Blair, Richard H., (Comdr. USN). Bureau of Naval Personnel, Navy Dept.

Coleman, Walter D., (Comdr. USN). Bureau of Ordnance, Navy Dept.

Evans, Robert L.. (Comdr. USN). Staff—Air Force, Atlantic Fleet.

Goodman, Daniel C , (Comdr. USN). Staff—Carrier Division 5.

Johnson, Ralph C , (Comdr, USN), Naval Mine Depot, Yorktown, Va. Mc(:rea, Victor B., (Comdr. USN), Staff—Submarine Squadron 1.

Quirk, Philip D., (Comdr, USN), Staff—Submarine Squadron 3.

1 QOC Members of the Class of 1935 ' / J 3 and their families held a picnic at the Skeet Club, U S N A , on 15 May, attended by the following: Becker, Wolfe, J. H .

Brown, West, Morrison, Gillmer, Heath, W i l son, Barham, Barnes, Hathaway, Talerico, Schutt, S. M. Decker, jr.. Wesson, Hauck, Kail, Dinwiddie, Stiesberg, Nixdorif, Doukas, Conkey, Nash, Michel, R. E. Freeman, McEntee.

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Gunn, Frederick A., (Comdr. USN). Commanding Officer, USS STAFF, AKA 67.

House, Arthur C , Jr., (Comdr. USN). Officer in Charge, Navy Recruiting Station, Seattle, Wash.

Jones, Edwin K., (Comdr. USN). Executive Officer, Receiving Station, San Diego, Calif.

Powell, Edgar S„ (Comdr. USN). Personnel Officer, Potomac River Naval Command, Washington, D. C. Smyth, William A., (Comdr, USN). Executive Of-

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Members of the Class of 1935 and their wives held a cocktail party at the Commissioned Officers' Mess, U S N A , following the Army-Navy baseball game on 25 May, attended by the following: Talerico, Wilson, Wolfe, Barnes, Morrison, Kail, Stiesberg, Conkey, Wesson, Hauck, West, Hathaway, NixdorflF, Michel, Barham, J. H . Brown, Becker, Doukas, McEntee, R. A. PhiUips, S. M. Decker, Jr., Dinwiddie, R. E. Freeman, Baranowski, Gardner, Keats, CJabbert, Stanley, Doll, Bakuds, Brooks, McDonald, O'ConneU, A. B. Moody, Cosgrove, Hird, A. T. Decker, Westin, Klein, Brooks, Weede, J. Scott, 2nd, Stever, J. D . Parker, Riera, Finnegan, A. F. Johnston, Lasker, Spain, Prickett, G. L. Powell, W . G. Jackson, Purdy, Badger, Reich, Campbell, W i n g , Islev-Petersen, and Heath.

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H A R O L D ISLEV-PETERSEN, (Comdr.

U S N ) gives his duty address as U. S. Naval Mission, Peru, c/o American Embassy, Lima, Peru, S. A. D O Y E N KLEIN, (Comdr. U S N ) gives his address as Office of Naval Operations (Special W e a p o n s ) Navy Department, Rm. 4 7 0 3 , Washington, D . C. JAMES H . B R O W N , (Comdr. U S N ) was awarded a Navy Cross, Silver Star Medal and the Legion of Merit during the war.

Baird, Leonard J., (Comdr. USN), Commanding Officer, USS OREGON CITY, CA 122—additional duty.

Barleon, John S., Jr,, (Comdr. USN). Commanding Officer, USS KWAJALEIN, CVE 98 with additional duty as Executive Officer,

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Flachsenhar. John J., (Comdr. U S N ) . Commanding Officer, USS CARP, SS 338.

Gardner, Earle G., Jr., (Comdr. U S N ) . Navigating Officer, USS CHICAGO, CA 136.

Hack, John A., (Comdr. U S N ) . I l t h Na\-al District, San Diego, Calif, for duty in connection with the Naval Reserve.

Harden, Hubert B., (Comdr. U S N ) . Air Officer, USS S A I P A N , CVL

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Holmes, Robert H., (Comdr. U S N ) . U. S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md. KeUy, Robert B., (Comdr. U S N ) . U. S, Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md. McGrath, Thomas D,. (Comdr, U S N ) . Surface Division, Anti-Submarine Development Detachment, Atlantic Frontier Base. Key West, Fla. Wallis, WiUiam R., (Comdr. U S N ) . Staff—Fleet Air, Seattle, Wash.

Ward, Wibley L., Jr., (Comdr. U S N ) . Commanding Officer, USS WEST VlRGINLA, BB 48, and Executive Officer, Wood, Burris D., Jr,, (Comdr, U S N ) . Naval Operating Base, Guam Island, Marianas Islands.

lO^A DAVID R. CONNOLE, 1700 (Comdr. USN-deceased) has been awarded the Bronze Star Medal posthumously.

"YER DERN TOOTIN' "

BY G E N E RIEWE

First of all my apologies for failing to get together a few lines for the June, issue particularly when it should have been a tenth anniversary issue offering. Somehow I didn't plan and organize my time properly. I'm sorry that I didn't get in the fine material that was at hand. But here is two months' dope in one writing.

First of all, from Santiago, Chile, comes a fine letter from Porter Bedell, '33, in reply to niy request in the February issue for more information on the death of Roy Krogh.

Porter has this to say, "Roy was killed at Exmouth Gulf on the northwest rip of Australia while remrning from a combat patrol in the Timor Sea. I don't remember the exaa date but it was about August of 1942. He was flying a PBY and on landing in extremely rough warer at Exmouth Gulf the plane was swamped and sank immediately. Roy was hit by a propeller while attempting to escape.

All others in the crew were saved.

"I knew Roy quite well, as we were in the same squadron for almost a year. I considered him about as good as they come, both professionally and personally. In those days we were all a lirde jittery, but I never once saw Roy lose his temper or get excited, nor did I ever hear anything but complimentary remarks connected with his name from the oflicers and also from the enlisted men. And that's pretty good!

"He was buried in the military cemetery in Perth, Western Australia."

Thanks, Porter, for the information and the gracious tribute to a classmate who was universally liked and respected. As we remember you, you used to cut quite a figure on the basketball court in our day; captaining the five in '33, if our memory serves us correctly. We wish you every success in your duties as a member of the U. S. Naval Mission to Chile. Porter's address, incidentally, is Casilla 2''D, Santiago, Chile.

Once again, Ruckey Dickson's mother, Mrs. Rene Smdler comes to our rescue with some fine dope rhat is appreciated by all of us. She writes, "I noticed in the March SHIPMATE that you asked for information about Mark Eslick's dut>' before his death. He took over VB-18, Harlan's squadron, in February '44. I have at hand his record as its commanding officer which I shall quote: "Awards—Silver Star; awards recommended—Navy Cross; Record—

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flew 12 bombing and strafing missions against Palau, the Philippines, Nansli Shoto, and Formosa; led a 700-mile attack which destroyed 55,000 tons of merchant shipping; led 6 unescorted bombers in a devastating attack on harbor installations in the principal port of Northern Formosa."

Then she continues, "The Huxtables called on us early in February. They are stationed in Norfolk. We frequently see the Phinneys."

Again our great thanks to you, Mrs. Smdler, for your unfailing interest in keeping us supplied with information which we all want and you always seem to supply us with. One of these days I'll finally get around to keeping my promise to myself to write you the nice long newsy letter which you've had coming for so many months now.

From Logan Cresap's dad also a copy of a very fine notice of Logan's and Laura's wedding which was sent to the Army and Navy Journal. As England also has a copy, I expea to see it reprinted in the June SHIPMATE. If it isn't, I'll include it in a later issue.

From Bob Bonin's dad comes the news, "Bob's wife and the two children are making their home with me for the time being. Jean Marie is six and young Bob is one and onehalf. They are very fine and we have a lot of joy with them. All of us are in good health.

If any of the class of '36 should be in this part of the country, I sure would be glad to see them and certainly would show off with the children."

Hope that any of you who might get up Milwaukee way will drop in on Mr. Bonin at 1229 S. 24th St. And thanks for keeping us posted, Mr. Bonin. We certainly do appreciate it.

Fred Lincoln, our old faithful reporter on the West Coast, keeps us posted with the following, "Want to report a most pleasant '36 get-together on Samrday, 25 May, at the home of Audrey and Randy Meade. They have a lovely home at 2430 Roosevelt Drive, Alameda, Calif., and are a grand hostess and host.

Randy says they have an extra room available for any classmate passing through the Bay area. Their two lovely daughters and 'Sassy' their well-trained Schnauzer, held considerable of the limelight.

"The party began at 1700 with sundry refreshments and gay chatter. Scrappy and Dotty Crawford (USS BLUEBACK), Dave and Mary Ellen Brown (USS HARRY E. HUBBARD), Charlie and Lurhne Eisenbach (USS SAN PABLO), Gordy Fowler (Comnats Pac Staff, USNAS OAKLAND ), Onion and Margo Phillips (Staff Comdr. 3rd Fleet), Burt and Marian Orr (USS SEA C A T ) , Jack and Helen Turner (USS MERO), Von Burkhart (USS OKLAHOMA CITY), Rosalyn Neyman and Bob's sister (wife of good old George Lee, '35), made up a congenial group of twenty.

(Bob Neyman is at sea as skipper of the USS HARWOOD but he and Rosalyn live at 5 Corte Del Sal, Benicia, Calif). Audrey had a tasty dinner for us and the festivity rolled smoothly along. Caroline and I had to leave early since we were unable to get a late sitter for our three active boys. Randy says that the part)' was closed up in a picturesque manner— tall Gordy strolling out into the night with little Van under his wing—or was it vice versa?"

Johnny Oseth (Staff Com Mine Pac), sent his regrets. His wife Margaret and daughter Janice Margaret, aged six, are living in Kansas He is scouring the Bay area for a house

to rent. John Preston had shoved off for Washington and Del Quackenbush was still in Long Beach so they couldn't make it.

All is well with Caroline and the boys. Am painting the outside of the house and staining the roof. Dave Brown gave me a hand on Samrday, 1 June. He is a whirlwind with a paint brush (Note by Gene—I'm signing you up for a repeat performance when you get out here on the East Coast, Dave!) I had four days off over the hohday and am really mckered out from a good taste of manual labor.

Saw H. P. Mclntyre the other day. He is skipper of the BARTON and the same swell gent as ever. Bill Kramer is now overseas. His wife lives in their new home at 1520 Cypress, San Mateo, Calif."

You're doing a swell job, Fred, on keeping the West Coast happenings of '36 before us.

Keep up the super job. Regarding the revised Class Directory you proposed, the Washington boys are already at work as you'll find out a litde later in this offering. Incidentally, the house that Fred is painting is at 40 Walnut Street, Lafayette, Cahf. If in the vicinity, drop by and give it your inspection and let me know if Dave Brown is all Fred claims he is. I want to know before I hire him!

On Palm Sunday we were most agreeably surprised when the Mayhews dropped in on us for a few minutes in the evening.' It was grand to see both Ray and Lucile again and to get acquainted with litde Mike, who is quite a boy! We made arrangements to get together again a few weeks later, but it had to be called off when our David came down with chicken pox. Later Jon had them and now David is getting over measles, so we still haven't managed the meeting. But we hope to very soon now.

Also had the pleasure of visiting briefly with Ed Kyte at Princeton last Sunday. He's busy as a bee with examination time coming up. He's been keeping bachelor's hall recently as Louise and Bos'n are down in Norfolk visiting with her folks. We hope to get together with them, too, as soon as Louise and Bos'n are back and my family gets over its troubles.

And now for the news of the WashingtonAnnapolis delegation. The boys down that way have been very active and thanks to them, particularly Ralph Arndt, Bill Blenman, Jim Rutter the Jack Bolands and the Ray Thompsons, we've had some fine activity and news from down there.

First of all we have Bill Blenman's memo advising us of a Class Luncheon on 16 April.

As a result of this, a nice letter from Ralph Arndt arrived with the following, "Our dass luncheon has just been adjourned and I am carrying out a dut)' for which I was nominated. Twent>-four were present as follows: Millett, Ray Thompson, Noel, Ware, Dockum, Blenman, O'Grady, McCauley, Boland, Troth, McGrath, Rice, Samuel, Lawrence, Gumz, Arndt, Ellis, Stark, Hunter, Houston, Huxtable, Alford, Rutter, and Purer. It was an excellent get-together in every respea.

"At the discussion following the luncheon it was brought out that after last month's meeting, where everj-one voted to keep the piesent name of the class column, a good many people have been thinking of a more appropriate title. No names were submitted to a vote, although a" couple were suggested— 'Newsy bits from thirrj'-six' and 'Riewe's Ravings.' However, everj-one agreed they would try to evolve a new name before the next meet-

ing. The fact they will give thought to the matter is not that there is a universal dislike for the present name, but merely a classwide interest in the column and a name which may be more indicative of the contents of the same.

"It was decided that I should suggest that in the absence of the new name that you head the column for the 10th anniversary number merely with a large '1936' and a by line for you (Note from Gene—My apologies, Ralph, to all of you for failing to get a column out at all for the June or 10th anniversary issue).

"The class fund of about SIOOO was also discussed. Many suggestions were made, but all were tabled until the next meeting. The memorial of all classmates lost since graduation was quite well received. Regarding the dependents of deceased dassmates, a scholarship was suggested, but believed too expensive. Financial aid to any dependents needing Left to Right: Hartigan, Stott, Wesche, Dierman, McDonald, Manown, Cassidy, Allison, same would be heartily subscribed to.

Saxten, Managhan, Mansfield, Johnson, O'Neill, Layden, Newton, Boyd, Jarman. Sitting: Raymer, Dacey, Bourland.

"We had a few new faces present today. Bill Blenman was chairman, and deserves a big Next month we should have a fine report in stone to crown the beauty of our sanctuary. vote of thanks for the fine manner in which the arrangements were made and executed. on the 10th anniversary affair. Be seeing you It is a privilege to accept this very appropriate gift and to thank the donors for their thoughtWhen are you coming down to one of our then! ful kindness. get-togethers with Cal Lawrence?"

Blitch, John D., (Comdr. U S N ) . Operations Officer, "Let us pray: Naval Air Station, Pamxent River, Md. Thanks for the fine reporting job, Ralph.

Charles R., (Comdr. U S N ) . Bureau of "Eternal Father strong to save. Who from Thirty-six spirit is really showing itself down Eisenbach, Naval Personnel, Navy Dept.

Houston, Charles E,, (Comdr. U S N ) . Commanding time beyond memory hast put into the heart your way.

Officer, USS VX 3.

Then we have another memo from Bill Kircher, John J., (Comdr, U S N ) . Post-Graduate of man a desire to beautify Thy House, regard with favor this gift of Thy servants School, U. S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md. regarding a luncheon which was to be held on Link, Everett M., Jr., (Comdr. U S N ) . Naval Op- which is offered unto Thee in grateful remem29 May. Again we regret being unable to aterations, Navy Dept.

Charles S., Jr., (Comdr. U S N ) . Com- brance of hallowed moments spent within tend. In addition to the subjeas previously Manning, mandant, Naval Operating Base, Iceland, discussed at the 16 April meeting. The Tenth Phaler, Walter L,, (Comdr. U S N ) . Nearest Naval these walls by them and their departed classDistrict, temporary duty pending further assign- mates. In Thy Name we accept it and pray Anniversary Dinner-Dance arrangemenrs were ment. to get a going over. They apparendy did be- Price, William N , , (Comdr, U S N ) . Puget Sound that with Thy continual blessings Thou wilt bless the givers. May all our lives be conseNaval Shipyard, Bremerton, Wash. cause a few days later we received a fine comMcCormack, Vincent F., (Comdr. U S N ) . U. S. Na- crated unto Thy service and be built together munication giving all the details except the val Academy, Annapolis, Md. date (which inddentally had been mentioned Quackenbush, Delmer F,, Jr., (Comdr, U S N ) . Navi- into that temple which is not made by hands gating Officer, USS TOLEDO, CA 133. but abideth forever, in Jesus' Name. Amen." in a previous memo). But McGrath being Sanford, Merrill M,, (Comdr. U S N ) . Training ComA small bronze plaque is being installed in mand, Amphibious Forces, Pacific Fleet, San Diego, very much on his toes, needled the committee Calif. the Chapel by the Naval Academy to indicate into sending out an addenda which now sup- Whiting, George H,, (Comdr, U S N ) . Naval Subthe ashlar as follows: marine Base, New London, Conn. plies us with full and complete details. Jack Ashlar over Altar Window Boland, Ray Thompson, and Jim Rutter are the committee in charge but we believe that CLASS OF 1938 PRESENTS ASHLAR "ETERNAL FATHER STRONG TO SAVE' Amanda Boland and Alice Thompson are doTO CHAPEL Presented by the Class of 1938 ing a lot of the work so we wish to give due

By JOHN DACEY Admiral Sellers and Chaplain Thomas were credit to them also. especially invited to attend the dedication, but The party is to be held at the Army-Navy On Sunday, 26 May, 1946, the class of both regretted they were unable to be present Country Club at Arlington, Va., on 15 June. 1938 fulfilled a long-cherished aspiration in because of previous engagements. The SuperAssembly is at 1900 with dinner at 2015 and presenting to the Naval Academy Chapel a intendent, Vice Admiral Fitch, and many othdancing until 0030. We hope that all within marble ashlar designed by the New York firm ers were impressed by the befitting character reach will be there. I'm hoping to make it of Black, Starr and Gorham, and inscribed of the gift, and expressed their appreciation. but at the moment I can't make any promises "Eternal Father Strong to Save." Suggested After the chapel service members of the because I'm tied up at home. by a classmate early in the war, and subscribed class assembled at the new and lovely Alumni Accompanying the arrangements was a fine by donations from members of the class, the House on College Avenue and King George direaory of those class members known to be plan was realized rhrough the efforts of the Street for a renewal of old friendships. in the area. It included 63 names and a sheet class president John Saxten, Elward BaldAmong members of the class with their requesting additional pertinent information. ridge, George Bourland, and others serving in wives attending the chapel dedication service Jack Boland apparendy is in charge and it the Washington-Annapolis area. The ashlar and reception were Alan McFarland, Joe Caslooks as if we'll soon have a fine up-to- was installed over the Porter window and al- sidy, Zeke Jarman, George Newton, Jack Raydate directory of the class. It will help Jack a tar, where it can easily be viewed from all mer, Vic Graff, Jack Mansfield, Bob Managgreat deal if you will send him the following parts of the chapel. han, John Leydon, Otis Wesche, Eddie Mainformation from wherever you are: (1) MarIn the presence of the Superintendent and nown, Luke McDonald, Harry Stott, Red ried or not and if so, wife's maiden name and other Academy officials, midshipmen and Johnson, Bob O'Neill, Red Mason, John Saxnickname; (2) Children if any, listing names, guests, classmates and their wives and parents, ten, and George Bourland. ages and sex; (3) Business and home addresses Chaplain Everett P. Wuebbens dedicated the Among the "temporary" and "permanent" and phone numbers at each location. Send gift during the 1030 divine services with the bachelors were Connie Hartigan, Axel Allison, the desired info to Jack at 1302 Martha Custis following expression of acceptance: Fred Dierman, and John Dacey.

Drive, Parkfairfax, or if in Washington, "The congregation worshipping this morn"TO ALL HANDS IN '38— phone it to TEmple 1811. If all cooperate, the ing is the first to view above the altar window

By GEORGE BOURLAND new direaory will go over with a bang. a beautiful marble ashlar presented by the "Elsewhere in SHIPMATE you have read So much for what's come in. And because members of the class of 1938 in appreciation John Dacey's account of the chapel exercises this is already rather lengthy we'll refrain this of those rich and sacred memories associated during which the ashlar (a sixty-four dollar time from reviewing the decorations, changes with this Academy. 'Eternal Father Strong to word for a marble stone) was accepted. This of station, etc., as listed in the April and May Save'—that prayer, written in our hearts and note is to cover a few things not appropriate symbolic of our deepest faith, is now engraved for inclusion in John's article. issues of SHIPMATE.

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tributions. A couple of other classes are considering endowment funds for scholarships, which seems a pretty good idea, but all members will be polled before any acrion towards a class memorial is undertaken."

ALL 38-ERS—

By JOHN SAXTEN I have just received your replies to my original letter on the subjects of the Chapel Gift and a Memorial Fund. Your enthusiastic support of the Chapel Gift, as shown by your letters and contributions, is very gratifying.

George Bourland deserves a "Well Done" for nursing this project along.

Your letters show wholehearted acceptance of the idea of establishing a suitable class memorial for classmates who have given their lives in the service of our country. A number of excellent suggestions have been received. A Memorial Committee will be appointed in the near future from classmates in the Washington-Annapolis area. This committee will investigate the possibilities for appropriate memorials and submit their findings to all members of the class for consideration.

I appreciate the personal notes accompanying some of the replies. One of these days I hope to acknowledge them in kind.

Class of 1938 Ashlar In Place, Chapel.

"The first thing is finances. At this time we have received 1802.00 in contributions from 144 members of the class. T h e bill from Black, Starr & Gorham for 1900.00 (originally estimated at $1100) has been received, and one from the Alumni Association for $75.00 is due (this was estimated to be $ 1 5 0 ) . Because of rapid address changes, we have learned that many classmates never received letters describing the project and soliciting contributions. Also, the failing of all us mortals to put things off has probably delayed many contributions, but in order that we may clear u p our accounts as soon as possible, all hands who have not yet sent in contributions are urged to do so right away.

"Secondly, it would be very unfair to wind up this project without telling all the class of the help we have had in completing it. The Superintendent, and under him the chaplains, past and present, and the Public Works Officers of the Naval Academy have been very cooperative and helpful. W h e n the ashlar was received, the Public Works Office rushed the installation so that the acceptance exercises could be held before June Week. Black, Starr & Gorham did a bang-up job of design and cutting, and knocked a sizable portion off their original estimate before submitting the bill.

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"But the organization that did the most was the Alumni Association. They handled the mailing of solicitations at a time when maintenance of addresses was almost impossible, they maintained files and records, they received and deposited contributions, they acknowledged these contributions, and finally on the day of acceptance, Sunday, May 26th, the Alumni House was turned over to '38 to hold a get-together after the ceremony. Chow was 'on the house,' and the get-together would have been almost impossible without the Alumni House facilities. And this brings u p another matter of contribution. All of you have received solicitations for contributions toward purchase, remodeling, and maintenance of the Alumni House. Many of you may have held back, awaiting further word on the merit of such a contribution. If so, hold back no more. The help, so willingly given by Harry England on behalf of the Association and Alumni House, more than proves their merit.

They provided facilities which could not have been obtained elsewhere, and did so for only the cost of material and postage involved.

"Finally, there is the question of a class memorial to our members lost during the war.

John Saxton is now studying recommendations forwarded by class members with their con-

A class letter, covering the activities of each member of the class since leaving the Academy, is planned to be started shordy. John Dacey, w h o goes to P.G. School at the Academy on 15 July, has consented to undertake the project. H e will need the assistance and cooperation of all hands though, if the job is to be completed satisfactorily. T h e prindpal difficulty will be that of contacting each member of the dass for the necessary information.

All of you can start helping right now by sending an address to the Alumni Association through which John can reach you in the next few months with the "dope" questionnaire.

W e hope the class letter can be complete, including an accurate list of deceased classmates along with the details of their deaths.

Blandin, Eugene R., (Comdr. USN). Air Force, Pacific Fleet.

Blasdel, William G., (Comdr. USN Sc). Nearest Naval District, temporary duty pending further assignment.

Bogley, John A., (Comdr. USN). Bureau of Naval Personnel, Navy Dept.—temporary duty pending turther assignment.

Carter, Robert W,, (Comdr. USN SC). Issuing Agent and Certifying Officer for Savings Bonds and Accounting Officer, Ilth Naval District, San Diego.

Calif, with additional duty as Accounting Officer, Naval Operating Base, San Diego, Calif.

Coward, Asbury, (Comdr, USN). Executive Officer, USS WICHITA, CA 45—additional duty.

Eubanks, Leon S., (Comdr. USN). Iowa State College of Agricultural and Mechanical Arts, Iowa fot duty in connection with the Naval Reserve Training Corps Unit.

Graves, Herbert S., (Comdr, USN). Naval Air Station, Lakehurst, N. J. Haselton, Henry T., (Comdr. USN). Commanding Officer, Patrol Bombing Squadron 107.

Huff, Emery H., (Comdr. USN). Naval Operations, Navy Dept.

Ingham, Thomas R., (Comdr. USN). Electronics Division, Bureau of Aeronautics, Navy Dept.

Johnson, Charles R., (Comdr, USN). Bureau of Naval Personnel, Navy Dept.

Krol, Herman T., (Comdr. USN). Commanding Officer, Air Transport Squadron 1, MacDonald, Charles M., (Comdr. USN). Gunnery Officer, USS WYOMING, AG 17.

Mann, Stephen S., Jr., (Comdr. USN). U. S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md, McCrory, Woodrow W., (Comdr. USN). Naval Operations, Navy Dept.

McGivern, Charles R., (Comdr. USN). Commanding Officer, USS RONCADOR SS 301, McQuiston, Lionel T , (Comdr, USN), Staff of the Commanding Officer, Naval School, (General

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Line) Naval Operating Base, Newport, R, I. Middleton, Robett L,, (Comdr, USN). Commanding Officer, USS MONTEREY, CVL 26 with additional duty as Executive Officer.

Miller. Herman E., (Comdr. USN). Commanding Officer, USS FLOUNDER, SS 251.

Moffett, Charles S,, (Comdr. USN). Naval Operations, Navy Dept., Temporary duty pending further assignment.

Muse, George R., (Comdr. USN). Nearest Naval District for temporary duty pending further assignment.

Norris, Charles R., Jr., (Comdr. USN). Commanding Officer, USS N E W ORLEANS, CA 32 with additional duty as Executive Officer.

Ramage, Donald B., (Comdr. USN). Staff—Navy War College, Newport, R. I. Spears, William O., Jr., (Comdr. USN). U. S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md. Wells, Heydon F., (Comdr. USN). Bureau of Naral Personnel, Navy Dept.

iQOQ FRANK L. FULLER, (Lt. ' / ^ ' USNR) has been commended by the Secretary of the Navy.

wind, and a questionnaire will also be sent out, subject matter srill not definite. For one thing, apparently a vote is requested to determine the number of us who desire both a headstone and footstone when we get planted over on the hill.

The next luncheon will be 19 June, approximately, at the Country Club at 1200. Come one, come all for the most enjoyable time you've had since Snuffy and Beanie went back to sea.

Visitors passing through town this month included Jamie WALLACE from Philly, BONVILIAN, Grant ROGERS, who dropped in from Cape May to appear before a Reriring Board, Willie DENTON, Jack EVERSOLE and Carl BALLINGER. After about four false starts from New London, our own Bobby GILLETTE finally made the big town, all but mired down in a welter of pre-marital entanglements. Yes, fellows, he's almost ready to set out on a career of Bliss Connubia, but that's next month's story . . . see you then.

J. D. P. HODAPP, JR., (Lt. Cdr. USN), •upon reading the announcement of an addition to his family wrote the following: "Say, you! Better wear your armored vest next rime we meet up. Twasn't me and my frau who JOHN A. MICHEL, (Comdr. USN) and had offspring. My stalwart sire and his lovely Miss Kathryn E. Schlesinger were married on wife are the ones who have increased the pop1 June in New York. ulation. So how's to give credit where credit is due. The Hodapp juniors have received so WILLIAM T. SAWYER, (Lt. Cdr. USN) many congratulations that it has become emgives his new address as Eidgenossische Techbarrassing." Apologies, sir. Comdr. Hodapp nische Hochschule, Zurich, Switzerland, c/o has been transferred from the USS HALL to U. S. Naval Attache, American Embassy, the USS LOFBERG as commanding officer.

Paris, France and writes: "As far as I know, I have the unique position of being the first BILL GOODRUM writes: "After a brief U. S. naval officer ever to be ordered to perbout with unavailability of merchandise in a manent duty in Switzerland. I am now in a venture of my own, I am accepting a job with position to really appreciate the standing joke the Woodbury Co. of Pordand which is a dis- about serving with the Swiss Navy—which by tributor of heavy hardware and industrial the way, acmally did exist during the war." equipment. I haven't seen many of the lads recendy with the exception of DICK ROGER V. PARLETT, JR., '40, BROWN, and BENNY STEINKULLER who 1 QA(\ (Lt. Cdr. U S N ) : were here a few days ago. They were on their I T T T U "Samrday night, 27 April, we managed to way to Bikini to be in on the Big Noise." Mr. (Soodrum's address is 282 N . W. Macleay get a fairly good representation of 1940 together at the Officers' Club, Bremerton.

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BLAINE and MIKE LIBBY were there with their lovely wives, Blaine down from Whidby "SHORESIDE BREEZES" Island where he skippers a squadron and Mike from his duty at the Yard. Also present and

BY PAUL R . SCHRATZ on duty at the Yard were SMOKEY and Mrs. One of the most enjoyable meetings yet KARL. -WILLY (now Tony) SCHUBERT held in the Washington area came off at the is at the Yard, too, but had to be absent on Downtown A-N Club on Wednesday, 22 May, business. BLOODY and Mrs. RODGERS ably parridpated in by about 45 of our clan. made the long trip from Whidby, and ABE The price of the luncheon was necessarily in- LINCOLN was scheduled to appear from the aeased, however, to cover the entertainment same place only to be disappointed by car fee for the Homeric oration provided by the trouble. Abe is married now and a brand Horse (our own) Collar Harris. Crusader new Daddy.

Harris really swung into his campaign to swell "The mothball fleet at Tacoma furnished a the dass treasury, first by a fat original dona- good deal of talent with SANDY and Mrs. tion and yearly contriburion from all '39ers, M A C G R E G O R , the KANAGAS, and SWEDE iater by a series of lotteries, cock-fights, CARLSON as well as myself and the Mrs. sharked loans, etc., until we had amassed real SI WALLINE showed up from the Vella Gulf wealth in our coffers. The purpose of estab- with his lady fair, and PANCHO HUNKER lishing this huge treasury wasn't fully ex- was stagging it for the evening^his wife beplained by the Horse inasmuch as pages 31 ing at home in San Diego with the two youngand 32 of his notes smck together and nobody sters. JOE MILLER and SULLY SULLIVAN noticed the omission, especially since all hands have been in these parts lately but are now "were concentrating mainly on making cutting gone. side remarks anyway. Apparendy, though, we "LOWERRE and His Mrs. came from the don't get big enough head stones in Arlington MARYLAND and GEORGE and Mrs. Cemetery any more and they also crowd you.

HAWES from the SANTE FE. BILL BRAWith our evenmal financial solidity, we won't LEY, married only a couple of weeks, was have any more of that. unfortunate in having the duty on the COLOThe Execurive Committee put out some RADO. JOHN STRAKER and wife were in dope on plans for the fumre at this meering, the area but unable to attend. Likewise, notice of which will be sent to all members of FERBER and FARRION who were sojournthe class in the next few days. An election— ing at the local hospital. VIC and Mrs. MA•or reelection—of a class President is in the TUSEK were present and the HEBEISENS

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dropped in for a while. All in all it was a most successful gathering, reminiscent on a smaller scale of the New Year's Eve party at New Orleans in 1942-43.

"I flew up to Whidby with M A C G R E G O R yesterday and ran into Bloody and Abe again.

I saw BOB WEATHERUP for the first time in many moons. Bob, Bloody and I all have vague hopes of PG-ing soon by the Severn."

JOHN B. NELSON, (Lt. Cdr. USN) recently received the Bronze Star Medal for his service as mrret and division officer on board the HOUSTON during aaion against the Japanese.

JAMES H. PARTRIDGE, III, (Lt. Col. USMC) has remrned from Japan and is at present living in Annapolis, Md.

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RICHARD D. LAZENBY, (It. USN) reEDWARD C. HINES, JR., (Lt. Cdr. USN) gives his address as 208 North 17th cendy became engaged to Miss Elizabeth J. Pender.

Street, Wilmington, N. C. NORMAN L. WILKY, (Lt. USN) gives 1 0 4 0 ^^^ " • FLETCHER, ( a p t . his address as 60" W. E. Baubhtz Dr., Navy I '"-^ USMC) and Mrs. Fletcher an- Point, Warrington, Fla. nounce the birth of a son. ^LARK W. WOODS, (Lt. Cdr. USN) and Miss Marjorie Jane Wilhams were married en 20 May in Honolulu.

W. LAWRENCE NEWTON, (Lt. Cdr. USN) and Mrs. Newton announce the birth of a son, Carlton Raymond, on 6 May. ARMISTEAD DENNET, (Lt. Cdr. USN) and Miss Mary Louise Howard were married on 1 June at Severna Park.

JAMES A. NOON, writes: "Last July, I married the former Eleanor D. Nelson of Buffalo and shordy afrer decided to retire from a seafaring hfe. I am now associated with the Marine Sales Department of the Socony Vacuum Oil Company and live here in New York." Mr. Noon would hke ro hear from some of his old dass mates.

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RICHARD L. S U L L I V A N , (Capt. USMC) is serving in the

ARNOLD P. SORENSON, (Lt. jg USN) writes: "JO HUMES and wife are here and have a baby girl just recendy arrived.

BEN LAMPERT went back to sea and was headed China-way. JIM FLAVOR LAUER is married and conning a big oak desk in connection with his duties aboard die USS SAN JAONTO in Alameda. T. W. JOHNSON and CHAN SWALLOW and MAC McGALLIARD and GENE PRYOR are here in Basic Instrument Stage. PEEWEE HUNTER, JACK WOOTEN and I are finishing up Primary'. BOB WATSON and new wife Nancy stopped by enroute to San Diego where Watso is attached to the USS BOARFISH. Last we heard JACK ^LANHERZ was skipper of LSM 333 in Japan and eager to come home.

TED ASHLEY wrore from New York where the Ashleys and baby are enjoying port duty on the USS JACK. WALT GODSHALL and DICK HARDY are farther along in flight training in Corpus Christi. We would Uke to hear from TOM LYNCH and JIM KELLEY and BUD LUCAS. Write Apt. 7, 304 Palo Alto St, Corpus Christi, Texas.

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1 0 4 4 *^LUE B. ADAMS, (Lt. USN) ' ' • ' and Mrs. Adams armounce the JACK E. TINGLE, (Lt. USN) gives his birth of a daughter, Sandra Gail, on 8 Febduty address as USS LST 1120, c/o FPO, San ruary at New London, Conn.

Francisco, Calif, and says, "My new berth as commanding officer of a new LST in the post BASIL D. SLAYMAKER, (Lt USN) is JAMES H. DEAN, (Lt. USNR SC) gives war fleer is a good one. FRED STOUT, my his address as 316 East Essex Ave., Lansdowne, former roommate, is skipper of the LST serving in the USS BRUSH, (DD 745) c/o FPO, San Francisco, Calif.

Pa. 1102."

Kaofmao, Roben K., (Comdr. U S N ) . USS RAZORBACK, SS 394.

1 9 4 1 DAVID M. RUBEL, (Lt. USN) • ' ~ ' gives his new address as 56 Forresrer, S. W., Anacostia, D. C. JACQUES B. HADLER, (Lr. Cdr. USNR) and Mrs. Hadler announce the birth of a son, James Loggins, born on 6 April.

ALAN RAY, (Lr. Cdr. USN) has left die USS HENRY R . KENYON and gives his new

address as c/o FPO, San Francisco, CaUf. ERNEST W. HOLLOWAY, (Lr. USN) gives his address as 1 Edgement Rd., Scarsdale, N. Y. THOMAS O. McWHORTER, (Lr. Cdr. USN) and Miss Nancy Coke were married in Dallas, Texas, on 15 May. Their address is 3320 S. MacGregor Way, Houston, Texas.

JAMES E. PICKENS, JR., (Lt. USN-ret) writes from Unit II, SOQ 2, U. S. Naval Hospital, Corona, Calif. "Since 1 November, 1945, I have been on the retired inactive list due to total physical disability caused by mberculosis. After a series of operations, (thoracoplasties) I am now well on the road to recovery but still in the hospital regaining my strength and weight. I will be here for quite a few more months because I had such a close call from the "old man."

"Ever since my hospitalization I have had only sporadic informarion about my ex-roommates, plebes, etc., and would appreciate getting the dope on all of them. And if any of you are in the vicinity of Los Angeles and have time for a visit, call me at the hospital and I'll tell you how to get here.

"Mary Ann has established a haven in Riverside where I shall retreat when released from the hospital. Then after a few months, we'll go to Fairport, N. Y. to establish our home."

DAVID H. BAGLEY, (Lt USN) has finished the gunnery school in Washington and is heading for sea duty again and the USS FORREST B . ROYAL, c/o FPO, New York,

N. Y. GAGE L. BAKER, (Lt. USN) is serving in the USS EvERSOLE, c o FPO, San Francisco, Calif.

SHANNON D. CRAMER, JR., (Lt USN) and Mrs. Cramer announce the arrival of a boy on 20 May, 1946.

CHARLES E. HAMUN. (Lr. USN) gives his new address as "^544 Ellis Avenue, Maplewood 1~, Missouri. Lt and Mrs. Hamlin are the parenrs of a daughter, Cathy Elaine, born on 14 March in St. Louis.

RAGNWALD MULLER, (Lt. USN) gives his address as VB 4, North Whiting OWEN F. KEELER, JR., (Lr. USN) is Field, Milton, Fla. ROBERT M. STRIETER, (Lt. Cdr. USN) serving in the USS LEONARD F. MASON, c/o assumed command of Patrol Squadron 142, FPO. New York, N. Y. 104^ ROBERT B. WII,LIAMS, (Lt on 4 June. His squadron is composed of PV-2 ' ' " 3 jg USN) and Miss Margaret aircraft, "harpoons."

HOWARD E. CLARK, (Lt. USN) is on Adams were married recently in Corpus Christi.

WILSON E. HUNT, (Maj. USMC) until duty at Cuddihy Field, Corpus Christi. recendy has been serving with the 4th MaMARSH K. ECKHARDT, (Lt. USN) rines in Yokosuka. He is at present stationed ROBERT D. STEELE, (Lt jg USN) in Quantico, Va., and is enjoying some time gives his new dut>' address as Naval Training writes: "I am still on the GERGALL with School, M. I. T., Cambridge, Mass.

WALLY WAHLIN, '42, and we are bodi trywith his wife and two children.

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ing to get out famiUes out here in Honolulu as soon as the housing opens up a bit. Betty Lou and I are the proud parents of a fine seven pound, four ounce son, born on the 12th day of March."

ARNOLD J. HIRSCH, (Lt jg USN) gives his duty address as Class 05-46C N. A. T. B., Corpus Christi, Texas.

RALPH E. ELLENBRAND, (Lt. jg USN) and Verna M. Kenyon were married on 12 May at Carlsbad, Calif.

JACK LONDON, (Lt jg USN) gives his address as 522 Hancock Ave., Apt. C, Corpus Christi, Texas.

WILLIAM G. EATON, JR., (Lt jg USN) and Mrs. Eaton announce the birth of a son, WiUiam Guy, III, on 31 March in San Francisco, Calif.

WALKJER G. BENNETT, II, (Lt. jg USN) and Mrs. Bennett announce the birth of a son. Walker Gardiner, III, on 7 April.

PALMER H. RIXEY, (1st Lt USMC) has been in Tsingtao since fall and is now attached to the 3rd Marine Brigade. He and Mrs. Rixey are the parents of a son, Richard Tyler, born on 9 November.

and Miss Constance W. Marshall were mar' ' ~ ' and Miss Arlene Mae Bross were ried in Annapolis on 5 June. married on 5 June in Annapolis.

JOHN P. DOOLITTLE, (Lt. USMC) and ARTHUR G. BUTLER, JR., (Ens. USN) Miss Priscilla A. Johnson were married in and Miss Marie L. Devos were married on 5 Washington on 5 June.

June in Annapolis.

WARREN R. COBEAN, JR., (Ens. USN) and Miss Jean L. Beaumont were married on 5 June in Annapolis.

ROBERT E. ENRIGHT, (Ens. USN) and Miss Rosemary Patricia Sheehan became engaged recentiy.

JAMES R. COLLIER, (Ens. USN) and Miss Claire J. Schindler were married on 5 June in Annapolis.

NOAH W. GOKEY, 111, (Ens. USN) and Miss Anne Hubbard Mitchell were married in the Fort Myer Chapel on 6 June.

JAMES H. DOYLE, (Ens. USN) and Miss Jeannette E. Blair were married on 5 June in Washington, D. C.

ROBERT R. GOLDSBOROUGH, (Ens. USN) and Miss Anita Booth were married in Annapolis on 5 June.

RICHARD F. BRECHMACHER, JR., (Ens. USN) and Miss Charlotte R. Call were married on 8 June in Washington, D. C.

LOUIS H. GUESTIN, (Ens. USN) and Miss Virginia R. Murray were married in Annapolis on 5 June.

WILLIAM J. COOK, (Ens. USN) and Miss Betty Parfin were married on 5 June in New York.

JOHN T. HARRIS, (Ens. USN) and Miss Dorothy Cooper Colclough were married in Alexandria on 5 June.

DONALD R. JEX, (Ens. USN) and Miss HOWARD DALTON, (Ens. USN) and Miss Nancy E. Sears were married on 6 June Dorothy Mary Fryer were married on 5 June in Annapolis. in Annapolis.

JAMES B. DAVIDSON, (Ens. USN) and WARREN B. JOHNSON, (Ens. USN) Miss Bonita L. Williams were married on 5 and Miss Emilie Barbara Merle were married 104A JOSEPH S. SINCLAIR, (Ens. in Annapolis on 6 June.

I ' T O USN) is on duty at the U. S. June in Annapolis.

Naval Supply Depot, Bayonne, N. J. WILLIAM I. DONALDSON, (Ens. USN) WILLIAM W. LAMPMAN, (Ens. USN) JAMES F. IRVINE, JR., (Ens. USN) and Miss FeUsia Raab were married in Boston on 14 April, 1946.

THONLAS E. DAVIS, (Ens. USN) is serving in die USS LSMR 409, c/o FPO, San Francisco, CaUf.

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RICHARD A. DUNNING, (Ens. USN) gives his address as c/o Mr. A. H. Hauber, 5503 Whitby Avenue, Philadelphia 43, Penna.

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CHARLES T. WESTCOTT, (2nd Lt. USMC) joined the 2nd Marine Division on 10 March, 1946, and has since had command of a detachment in Miyakonojo, Kyushu—the assault platoon of the 1st Batt, 2nd Regiment.

He writes: "It was the day I arrived in Japan thar 1 received word that my son, Charles T. Wescort, Jr. was born at rhe Massachusetts Memorial Hospital, Boston, 28 February."

Congratulations to Lt. and Mrs. Wescott.

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WILLIAM D. CLARK, JR., (Ens. USN) gives his address as Box No. 19, N. R. T. S. St Simon's Island.

JOHN R. BAYLIS, (Ens. USN) is serving in the USS HARRY E. HUBBARD, C/O

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FRANK E. DONNER, (2nd Lt USMC) gives his address as 610 Highwood Ave., Greencastle, Indiana.

ROBERT L. LEDBETTER, JR., (Ens. USN) is serving aboard the USS DEVASTATOR, c/o FPO, San Francisco, Calif.

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ROBERT H. WERTHEIM, (Ens. USN) gives his dury address as USS BORDELON, c/o FPO, San Francisco, Calif.

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WILLIAM M. RUSSELL, (Ens. USN) HARRY W. STEPHENSON. '09 and Miss Jessica McCuUar were married on 5 HORACE W. NORDYKE, '09 ISRAEL E. MCLAREN, '09 June in Annapolis.

J O H N E . SLOAN,'10 WESLEY L. M C D O N A L D , (Ens. U S N ) LUTHER B. SISSON, (Ens. USN) and LESLIE L.JORDON,'10 and Miss Norma Joy were married on 5 June Miss Helen BouneUs were married on 5 June WALTER E. BROWN, '10 in Annapolis.

EARL W.SPENCER,'10 in Annapolis.

DONALD B. BEARY, '10 KENNETH A. MURRAY, (Ens. USN) JAMES B. STAGG, (Ens. USN) and Miss ROMAN B. HAMMES, '10 and Miss Marda Guyette Manewal, II, were Dorothy Ann Meadows were married on 5 WALKER S. DAVIDSON, '11 married on 5 June in Atmapolis.

WILLLAM M. QUIGLEY, '11 June in Chevy Chase, Md. ROY T. GALLEMORE, '12 LEROY F. NICHALSON, (Ens. USN) and GEORGE G. STROTT, (Ens. USN) and MAHLON S. TISDALE, '12 Miss Barbara Lou Stackpole were married on Miss Margaret Jeanne Lantz Kolb were mar- HANS ERTZ, '12 6 June in Baltimore. ried on 7 June in Salisbury, Md. WILLLAM S. HOGG, '12 BENJAMIN PERLMAN, '12 ROBERT F. WENKE, (Ens. USN) and CHARLES A. M A C G O W A N , '14 SAMUEL B. OGDEN, JR., (Ens. USN) and Miss Sara Amelia HiU were married on Miss Murid Jean Davies were married on 18 GEORGE MARVELL, '14 June, in Seatde, Washington.

CHARLES H. MECUM, '14 7 June in Plainfield, N. J. PHILIP R. WEAVER, '14 SHIPMATE has received and wants to WILLARD A. KITTS, UI, '16 JOHN ORTUTAY, JR., (Ens. USN) and acknowledge subscriptions, contributions or ERNEST E. HERRMANN, '18 Miss Mildred Viola Baldwin were married on other communications from the following STALEY H. GAMBRILL, '18 5 June in Annapolis.

Alumni: EDWIN H. PRICE, "18 ERNEST H. VON HEIMBURG, '19 BRUCE SMITH, (Ens. USN) and Miss WILLLAM B. FLETCHER, '82 GEORGE F. PRESTWICH, '20 Caiolyr. C. Otto were married on 5 June in FREDERIC B. BASSETT, '88 FRED B. AVERY, '20 JOHN V. KLEMANN, '95 AnuapoUs. ERNEST E. STEVENS, '20 WILLLAM R. WHITE, '97 PERLEY E. PENDLETON, '20 LEWIS F. OZIMEK, (Ens. USN) and WILHELM L. FRIEDELL, '05 EDWARD J. WALSH, '20 Miss Eleanor Judith Janis were married on 6 EDWARD D. WASHBURN, JR., '06 ROBERT P. LEWIS,'21 CARL T. OSBURN, '06 June in Irvington, N. J. GEORGE D. DYON, '21 SCHUYLER F. HEIM, '07 LORHSrZ SEMPLE, JR., '21 JOHN M. PERKINS, (Ens. USN) and GUY C. BARNES, '08 WILLIAM R. COOKE, JR., '21 Miss Patrida W . Rosicki became engaged re- LLOYD C STARK, '08 RENWICK S. MCTVER, '21 JAMES B. GLENNON, '09 cently. and EUzabeth Griggs Meigs were marrieo on 5 June in AnnapoUs.

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ARTYN L. MAIN,'21 EDWARD E. WILLKIE, '21 WILLIAM SAUNDERS, '21 HALLOCK G. DAVIS, '22 JOSEPH SPIEVOGEL, '22 HUGH H. GOODWIN, '22 BRUCE K. MUIR, '22 ROBERT P. WADELL, '23 BALCH B. WILSON, JR., '23 JOSEPH L. KANE,'23 LEMERTON CRIST, JR., '23 ALLAN C. DAVIS, '23 WALTER C. HOLT, '23 MELVILLE B. GROSVENOR, '23 BERNARD C. DUNCAN, '24 HAROLD B. MILLER, '24 LLOYD H. THOMAS, '24 HAL K. WILSON, '24 JAMES B. RICKETTS, '24 ARTHUR D. BARNES, '24 EDWIN R. WILKINSON, '24 C. F. CHILLINGWORTH, "25 ROBERT N. MCFARLANE, '25 WILLIAM P. McGIRR, '25 MURRAY W. CLARK, '26 WILLIAM WHITE, '26 EDWARD N. LEONARD, '26 FREDERICK C. STELTER, '26 WALTER E. FRATZKE, '26 DONALD G. ALBERTSON, '26 FIELDER A. JONES, '26 CLARENCE E. BOYD, '27 CALVIN E. WAKEMAN, '27 RANDOLPH M. SMITH, '27 WILLLAM E. PERDUE, '27 GEORGE W. ANDERSON, JR., '27 MARTIN P. HOTTEL, *27 WILLIAM H. STEWART, '27 WILLIAM M. GULLETT, '27 THOMAS J. MALONEY, '27 GERALD R. DYSON, '27 THOMAS J. HAMILTON, '27 FRANCIS S. KIRK, '27 HOWELL J. DYSON, '27 HARRY E. SEARS, '28 W. D. KENNEDY, '28 WILLLAM J. RICHTER, '29 WARREN H. MCCLAIN, '30 WILLLAM F. DURAND, '30 JOSEPH C. CLIFTON, '30 JAMES T. WILBUR, '30 FRANCIS M. CARTER, '30 WILLIAM B. BRAUN, '31 EDWIN A. MCDONALD, '31 WILLIAM K. JONES, '32 HARRY H. DREANY, '32 HORACE P. BUSH, '32 GLENN A. MILLIREN, JR., '32 HARRY S. COOK, '32 EDGAR M. DAVENPORT, '33 WALDEMAR F. WENDT, '33 GEORGE K. HUDSON, '33 JAMES ROCKWELL, '33 LAURENCE A. WHITE, '33 STATTON R. OURS, JR., '34 HELIODORE A. MARCOUX, '34 IVAN P. THOMPSON, '34 FRANCIS O. C. FLETCHER, JR., '34 CHARLES R. STEPHAN, '34 DONALD W. FRASER, '34 FORREST M. PRICE, '34 ROBERT D. RISSER, '34 CURTIS A. PAYNTOR, '34 WILLIAM C. MURPHY, '34 ROBERT S. BURDICK, '35 WALTER J. EAST, J R : , ' 3 5 HAROLD ISLEV-PETERSON, '35 WILLFAM F. PETROVIC, '35 FREDERICK N. PHILLIPS, JR., '35

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JOEB.BROWDER,'35 FRANK E. HAYLER, '36 HARRISON BRENT, JR., '36 PALT. H. BYARNASON, '36 JOSEPH B. ICENHOWER, '36 WILLIAM A. ELLIS, '36 HENRY D. SIPPLE,'37 MICHAEL C. WILSON, '37 ROBERT L. SAVAGE, JR., '37 FRANK W. TAYLOR, '37 EDWARD S. MANOWN, '38 LAUREN E. JOHNSON, '38 H. K. ROCK, '38 WILTON G. BOURLAND, '38 JOHN A. FIDEL, '39 J. C. BIDWELL, '39 JAMES M. DUNFORD, '39 TAMES H. DEAN, '40 CLARY L. JOHN, '40 EDWARD C. HINES, JR., '41 NORMAN O. WYNKOOP, JR., '41 MALCOLM W. CAGLE, '41 RICHARD G. SHUTT, '41 L. C. MCCARTY, '42 JOHN E. SHEDAKER, JR., '42 STANLEY M. SHERWEN, JR., '42 CHARLES E. WOOD, JR., '42 ROBERT S. FROUDE, '42 JOSEPH B. SULLIVAN, '43 HOWARD E. CLARK, '43

JEWETT A. BALDRIDGE, '43 JOSEPH S. GARDNER, '43 CHARLES E. HAMLIN, '44 OLLIE B. ADAMS, '44 DAVID M. RONEY, JR., '44 KIRK L. BURNS, '44 WILLIAM W. GRANT, '44 BASIL D. SLAYMAKER, '44 THOMAS H. BROWN, '44 GEORGE D. PRESTWICH, '44 JACK LANDON, JR., '45 WALKER G. BENNETT, 11, '45 R. M. KNOWLES, '45 FRANKBRUK,JR.,'45 ROBERT D. YOUNG, '45 ROBERT J. FABRIZIO, '45 JOHN D. MURCHISON, '45 JOHN C. COLE, JR., '45 JAMES F. IRVINE, '46 CARL N. DUBERG, '46 TED S. BLY, '46 JAMES H. CRONANDER, '46 THOMAS F. CARROLL, '46 HARWELL B. THOMPSON, '46 THOMAS E. DAVIS, '46 FRANK E. DONNER, '46 WILLIAM D. CLARK, JR., '46 JOSEPH S. SINCLAIR, '46 RICHARD A. DUNNING, '46 FRED F. FROEHLICH, '46

We WaUlHf Wlf*U —IMPLEMENTATION—

"pART of the passing scene which is going on so quietly as to almost escape observation, is the tremendous enrollments of the veterans in the universities and colleges.

If you happen to pass a college campus you will notice that the place swarms with students.

Whereas a year ago male students were very young, now they are considerably older. The huge entry of men taking advantage of the G-I educational right has college trustees and boards awestruck.

Instead of the exuberant expressions of youngsters that came from high schools, looking on college as the next adventure in a healthy rollicking life, there is a determined look on the faces you see on buses and trolleys.

Because these men are allowed to pick any university they wish to attend, provided they can qualify, the bigger and more well known schools have received the largest number of applications. There is a feeling that if their tuition is to be paid, they might as well select the best they can. In some instances the biggest is not the best by any means, but the well publicized names make it appear that way.

In addition to the student veterans enrolling, there is another class of student, or rather rwo more. There is quite a large enrollment of ex-war workers, many of them in their late twenties, who held down war plant jobs when and because the pay was good, but put away sizeable chunks for the time when they could get that education they wanted. Many of these men would never have gotten to a university in normal times. Their desire for more and better training would have been prevented by financial stringencies. The third group is the

one you normally expect to see as college students. They are the boys who were too young to go to war, but were growing up right along.

These three groups are competing for the available seats in the classroom.

To solve the problem of who is eligible, and of those, who can be accommodated, most of the big schools are allotting half of their student quota to their own veterans. That is, to men who had to leave for war in the middle of their courses. The other half of the quota is filled by veterans not previously enrolled and the incoming prep and high school graduates. The latter group would fill all the normal vacancies, and must be taken care of just as if there were no G-I and war worker candidates, because as one university provost said "It is the accident of age, not choice, that prevented these boys from serving, and to refuse them entry now in favor of the veteran would merely pile up another backlog of men in the same position and fail to solve anything."

Once in college, the student veterans have created an entirely new atmosphere. They are there to get everything they can, and the faculties know there is a difference between pre-war and post-war students. For one thing there is the choice of subjects students are selecting, with economics and government standing first and natural sciences second.

Logic and Greek and Latin are neglected for crowded classes in International relations.

Furthermore the class sleepers are a vanishing race. The instructors find that their students have been around, and thus have acquired an amazing amount of information.

And they want more, presented in a way that will do them some good after graduation.

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Cije Hast Call HAROLD W . BOYNTON, '08, (Cdr. USN-Ret.)

died of heart disease at his home, 3125 Huelani Place, Honolulu, T. H. J O H N R . BRADY, '93, (Cdr. USN)

died 7

April 1946, at his home, 1746 North Cherokee Avenue, Hollywood, California.

EDWARD HAMILTON D O O L I N , '20,

(Cdr.

FRANK D . L A T I A , '32, (Cdr. U S N ) .

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dally determined to be MISSING IN ACTION as of 24 May 1945, having been serving aboard the USS LAGARTO, when that submarine failed to return from a war patrol in the South China Sea. In compliance with Secrion 5 of Public Law 490, as amended, death is presumed to have occurred on the 25th day of May 1946.

WAITING WIVES (Continued from page 69) The professor who may have been droning along for years with the same old lecture fin<k himself brought up short by the questions and thinking of the new student. These new students are better than fifty percent ex-officen.

The average age is rwenty-three, although some ten percent are from twenty-five to rwenty-eight. These last are usually men who dropped schoohng some years before they went to war and in many cases took mediocre jobs without too much future. But in the process of war elimination they often proved to be good leaders, and made records that startled them into realizing that with more schoohng they could have a better future, and the G-I education provided the oppormnity they thought lost.

USN-Ret.), died on 27 May 1946, at the ANDREW T. LONG, '87, (Rear Adm. USNConsequendy they are very serious about Ret.) died on 22 May 1946, at St. AugusPhiladelphia Navy Yard. the selection of their courses and "dnch and tine, Florida. fruit" dasses have many vacant seats.

Money is a factor here too. The $400 dolHARRINGTON M . DRAKE, ' 3 1 , (Cdr. U S N ) .

CALVIN H . M A N N , '23, (Lt. USN-Ret.) died lar tuition that is paid for them covers most Offidally reported to be MISSING IN AC23 April 1946, of cirrhosis liver atrophic school expenses, but the $65 a month for a TION as of 1 May 1945, having been atat USN Hospital, Bremerton, Washington. single man and the $95 for a married veteran tached to the Staff, Fleet Air Wing, SEVdoesn't allow for any lingering and foohshENTEEN, when the plane in which he was flying, failed to rerurn from an armed W I L L I A M H . MENDENHALL, '42, (Lt. U S N ) . ness with board and room what it is today.

Officially determined to be MISSING IN Many can find jobs, but with the tremendous reconnaissance mission over Haiman IsACTION as of 24 May 1945, having been enrollment there are not always enough to land, China. In comphance with Section 5 serving aboard the USS LAGARTO, when go around, and few of the smdents are getting of Pubhc Law 490, as amended, death is that submarine failed to return from a war additional help from home. presumed to have occurred on the 2nd day patrol in the South China Sea. In comphThese men feel that from three tofiveyears of May 1946. ance with Section 5 of Public Law 490, as are gone out of their hves, and they have got amended, death is presumed to have oc- to work fast to make up for it. Most men who curred on the 25th day of May 1946.

I U L P H A . EMBREE, '36, (Cdr. U S N ) . Offihave gotten the job and the home they want dally reponed to be MISSING IN ACwill insist that the years from rwenty-five to TION as of 12 May 1945, when the plane NORMAN MILLER, '31, (Capt. USN) died of thirty-five are the most important, what they in which he was flying, a unit of Bombing were able to do and learn then makes a lifeTuberculosis in Corona, Cahfornia.

Squadron TWELVE, was hit by enemy rime of difference. anti-aircraft fire and he was forced to paraTherefore the difference hes, not only in the ROBERT T . RUBLE, '43, (Lt. U S N ) . Offichure over enemy held territory on Okicially determined to be MISSING IN AC- way these men look and act, but in the way nawa Jima, Nansei Shoto. In compliance TION as of 24 May 1945, having been they think. There is litde of the Rah-Rah colwith Section 5 of Public Law 490, as serving aboard the USS LAGARTO, when lege spirir, and some but not an overwhelming amended, death is presumed to have octhat submarine failed ro return from a war amount of interest in sports. Most pre-war colcurred on the 13 th day of May 1946. patrol in the South China Sea. In compli- lege boys, exposed to new books and freer ance with Section 5 of Public Law 490, as thinking instructors than high school providamended, death is presumed to have oc- ed, go through a "change the world, tear it WiLLLAM S. FARREL, '41, (Lt USN). Offidown, and start over period," but evenmally curred on the 25th day of May 1946. dally determined to be MISSING IN ACrecover and graduate without more than a job TION as of 5 May 1945, having been servas their next and most pressing need. The ing aboard the USS SNOOK when that sub- VINCENT M . SIM, '38, (Lt. Cdr. USN) died snident veterans, so the colleges have found, marine failed to rerurn from a war patrol 6 May 1946, when his plane crashed into have been around enough to know that things in the South China Sea. In compliance the Chesapeake Bay in the vicinity of Smith can't be torn down and changed, but that in with Section 5 of PubUc Law 490, as Island. most ways the existing systems are pretty amended, death is presumed to have ocgood, if they could be made to work in a simcurred on the 6th day of May 1946.

PFAEFFLE SIMPSON, JR., '44, (Lt. USN), pler form. They think that a university edudied 9 May 1946, from injuries received cation will help them understand the world, when his plane crashed ten miles from U. and implement them to live in it.

DONALD W . HALL, '45, (Ens. U S N ) . OffiS. Naval Air Station, Jacksonville, Florida. dally reported to be MISSING IN ACTION as of 4 May 1945, having been Spendrift serving aboard the USS MORRISON, when HAROLD J. SMITH, '44, (Lr. USN) died 13 {Continued from page 53) May 1946, when his plane crashed in mid that ship was damaged by enemy planes and air, fourteen miles from U. S. Naval Air lowed. During a company inspection the last sank in the vicinity of Okinawa Jima, platoon of the 19th was inspected in lieu of the Station, Miami.

Nansei Shoto. In compliance with Section first platoon of the 20th. According to the stal5 of Public Law 490, as amended, death is presumed to have occurred on the 5th day HOWARD L. VICKERY, '15, (V. Adm. USN- warrs of the 20th, this was enough to lower Ret.) died 21 March 1946, of coronary oc- their average suffidendy to lose the victory. of May 1946.

It was all very involved and for a while ir was clusion at Palm Springs, California. thought that Washington might have to send ARTHUR H . KEENEY, JR., '42, (Lt. U S N ) . J O H N F . WALLING, '35, (Cdr. U S N ) . Offi- down the House Naval Affairs Committee to Offidally determined to be MISSING IN cially determined to be MISSING IN AC- setde the issue.

ACTION as of 24 May 1945, having been TION as of 5 May 1945, having been serv- â&#x20AC;˘ We don't like to be one of those "I told ing aboard the USS SNOOK when that sub- you so-ers" but Lee long ago went on record serving aboard the USS LAGARTO, when marine failed to return from a war patrol as saying that the 24th looked like the outthat submarine failed to return from a war in the South China Sea. In compliance with fit to beat. Here are a few of the reasons we patrol in the South China Sea. In compliSection 5 of Public Law 490, as amended, gave for latching on to the 24th bandwagon. ance with Section 5 of Pubhc Law 490, as death is presumed to have occurred on the For three weeks preceding infantry competiamended, death is presumed to have oc6th day of May 1946. tion it was the law of the land in 24th rooms curred on the 25th day of May 1946.

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June 1946, at Oscar's Oldelmonico, 56 Beaver Street, New York City, Our guest speaker was Admiral Thomas C, Kinkaid, USNA 1908, hero of the Battle of Leyte Gulf and one of the Navy's outstanding Commanders of World War II. Admiral Kinkaid in a very forceful and interesting manner told some of his experiAthletics ences in the various campaigns in which he {Continued from page 55) participated.

Other distinguished guests were: Admiral Sport Captain Manager Richmond K. Turner, the speaker of the previBaseball A. L. Frahler, 2/c R. S. Jones, 1/c ous month. Rear Admiral Kelly, Rear AdCrew K. K. Larson, 1/c B. W. Bevis, 2/c miral Keleher, Rear Admiral Ballentine, Rear Admiral Belknap, and Rear Admiral Dunn.

Golf R. C. Eaton, 2/c W. E. Conway, There will be no luncheons during the 1/c Lacrosse R. P. Metzger, 1/c H. J. Johnson, 1/c months of July and August. The next regularly scheduled luncheon will be held on 10 Saihng H. P. Jefferson, 1/cJ. D. Langston, 1/c September at Oscar's Oldelmonico. All Naval Tennis W. H. Jagoe, 1/c R. E. Durfos, 1/c Academy men in and around New York are Track A. C. Bigley, 1/c R. A. Litke, 1/c cordially invited to attend. Please contact Royce N, Flippin, 110 William St,, New The Navy Athletic Association binoculars York 7, N, Y. (in lieu of the sword) were presented to MidThe following were present at the Naval shipman H, R, Duden, Jr., dass of 1947, for Academy Luncheon 11 June: the season of 1945-46, A pair of binoculars Mr. Hanson W. Baldwin, 1924, Rear Adm. are presented at the end of each Academic J. J. Ballentine, 1918, Comdr. W. W. Bayley, Year by the Navy Athletic Assodation to the 1914, Mr. R. L. Beall, 1917, Rear Adm. R. R. midshipman who is considered to have perBelknap, 1891, Capt. H. E. Berger, 1922, Capt. sonally excelled in general athletics.

W. A. Bowers, Mr. Lewis H, Brendel, 1923, On the Thompson Trophy Cup is inscribed Mr, H. P. Bush, Mr, G, G. Breed, 1918, Mr, annually the name of the midshipman who Calvert Carey, 1914, Cat)r. I. R. Chambers, has done most during the year for the promo- Comdr. P, M, Clark, 1925", Mr, E, H, Connor, tion of athletics at the Naval Academy, and a 1908, Comdr, Logan Cresap, 1905, Comdr. small replica of this cup is presented to the Logan Cresap, Jr., 1936, Mr. Neal R. Curtin, midshipman receiving the award. Midship- Lt. Donald A, Dean, 1937, Rear Adm. Dunn, man D. B. Whirmire was the recipient for the Mr. Wilson D. I. Domer, 1918, Mr. year of 1945-46.

R. E. Erbentraut, 1939, Mr. Earle Farwell, 1905, Mr. R. N. Flippin, 1926, Comdr. H. C. Garrison, 1922, Capr. S. Gazze, 1927, Capt. D. Harrison, Capt. P. R. Heineman, Mr. L. W. Herring, 1920, Mr. Henry H. Hemenway, 1936, Mr. T. A. Hoppe, 1918, Comdr. John Kenneth Hyatt, 1924, Capt.

Henry Martin Jensen, 1906, Lt. Comdr. W. B. Jupp, 1913, Mr. Russell Keith, 1920, Rear Adm. T. J. Keleher, 1908.

What did the boys of the 24th do? Sack out?

Read magazines? Stupid questions. . . . They merely drilled in the corridors for those sixty minutes.

Brother, rhev couldn't lose.

SEARCHUGHT •pVERY month we publish a list of wives' •^ names, whose addresses we do not have, but must have, to complete our files. A few of the requested addresses have been received by us, but we are still missing those of the following: Cook, Mrs. A. B., wife Comdr. '15 Griswold, Mrs. W. A., wife Comdr., "21 Harenburger, Mrs. C. H., wife Lr. Hawes, Mrs. R. R., wife Lt., (SC) Kenny, Mrs. E. T., wife Lt. Marrin, Mrs. Edwin P., wife Lr. Comdr. '29 Overand, Barbara, daughter of Lt. Comdr., USN (SC) Quirm, Mrs. Lawrence A., widow Lt. Col., USMC Rogozienski, Mrs. Frank, wife Ens., USNACR Troxell, Mrs. Charles E., wife Ens. Wilson, Mrs. John M., widow Lt., '34 Wilson, Mrs. Ronald L., wife Comdr., '32

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that all hands would display the LFM on their desks alongside the reg book. When a man had nothing to do he was to go over all infantry drills. Heaven help the poor underclassman if he were gazing absent-mindedly out of the window, or sacked our and a first dassman entered the room. Throughout the month written quizzes were given on infantry procedure by all platoon commanders.

When the lads were victorious on the fields of friendly strife the first comments they heard upon their return to Bancroft were not "nice game!" or "who made our goals?" but rather "how many points will that bring?" There was street dancing and fireworks lasting far into the night when they won the CIC competition and its whopping 900 points.

Other litde items cropped up such as the Saturday when the regular infantry drill was rained out and smdy hour was substimted in its place. In most quarters this news would have been greeted with a lusty "huzzah" but not in the sixth batt. Down to the batt office stomped the four company commanders and pleaded with the officers to allow them to hold the drill in the armory, a request which was dumbfoundedly granred.

As if all this were not enough to make us confident that the 24th was in, the clincher was provided the morning during which company infantry drill was held. The 24th was slated to take the field at 0845. A hasty check disclosed that there was an entire hour remaining prior to the company's taking the field.

JULY, 1946

MARYLAISD

The Naval Academy Alumni Association of Maryland met on 14 June 1946, at the Stafford Hotel in Baltimore. The Alumni group extends its thanks to the Naval Recruiting Office, Baltimore, for two films and for the courtesies of Yeo. 2/c Harley D. Randolph and SK 1/c Robert E. Schaefer in showing these films. The films depicted the Okinawa Campaign and illustrated that a powerful U. S. Navy is imperative for national security.

Those present were: Lt. Comdr. W. E. Medford, USNR, C. Demaresr, Jr., '19, Leonard Power, USNR, Captain D. W. Hardin, '22, Rear Adm. Sinclair Gannon, '00, Captain F. D. Karns, '95, J. H. Waldhauser, '23, Captain C A. Russell, •06, Lt. Col. F. G. Wagner, '30, Captain J. C. Lester, '22, Captain M. A. Leahy, '08, D. J. Fitzgerald, '27, Captain Yates Sterling, 111, '26, Captain N. S. B'rady, '27, N. Beverly Bristor, '27, Mr. M. A. Young (Guest), Lt. Comdr. C. R. Lamdin, '21, Lt. Comdr. "C Y" Latimer, "23, and Oliver B. Wight.

For information about meetings, write to Oliver N. Fowler, 1001 Sr, Paul St., Baltimore 2, Md,

NEW YORK The June meeting of the Naval Academy Alumni Association of New York was held 11

Rear Adm. M. Kelly, 1909, Comdr. Ralph Kiely, 1915, Adm. Thos. C. Kinkaid, 1908, Comdr. A. Y. Lanphier, 1910, Mr. John H, Lofland, 1904, Comdr, W. J. McCafferry, 1923, Comdr. E. A, Mclntyre, 1910, Comdr, Robert J. C. Maulsby, 1932, Comdr. States M. Mead, 1937, Mr. T. H. Mitchell, 1925, Mr. Alfred P. Moran, Jr., 1918, Mr. K. L. Moses, 1923, Comdr. F. W. Osburn, 1902, Mr. Robert B. Parker, 1918, Mr. M. G, Patrick, 1927, Mr. N. W. Pickering, 1908, Capt.

D. C, Patterson, 1908, Lt, Comdr, C, K, Post, Mr. W. J. Price, 1923, Capt, W, L, Patten, 1924, Commodore A. G, Quinn, Mr. W. P. Sedgwick, 1904, Mr. C. R. Smith, 1919, Mr. Paul W. Siegriest, 1924, Mr, S. J, Singer, 1924, Mr, Clifford V, Smirh, 1908, Mr. Gerrish Smith, 1891, Capt. R. B. Stevens, 1924, Capt, C. F, StiUman, 1927, Mr, David A, Stretch, 1930, Capt. J, W. Styker, 1925, Mr, A. P. Tingle, 1927, Adm. Richmond K. Turner, 1908, Mr. Wilham W. Turner, 1908, Comdr. J. G, Venter, 1912, Mr. C. C. Vickrey, 1915, Capt. G, B. Vroom, 1911, Comdr.

B. G. Wade, 1935, Mr. A. A. C. Walden, Capt. L. P, Wenzeil, 1912, Mr, J, J, Whalen, 1924, Comdr, A, E. Wills, 1914, Lt, Comdr.

C. M. Winslow, Jr., 1924, Mr. C, R, Wise, 1941, Capt, M, L, Worrell, 1914, Mr, Norman W, Welsh, 1922, and Lt. Comdr, F. Zotti, Jr., 1922.

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vember. All U.S.N.A. Alumni in Philadelphia and vidnity are invited to attend. For The U.S.N.A. Alumni of Philadelphia met information communicate with Wm. Van C. or, 14 June at Kugler's Restaurant for dinner. Brandt, Secretary. Tel. GE 8-6479, 652 W. Hon. Hugh Scott, a Republican candidate to Phil-Ellena Streer. Philadelphia 19, Pa. regain his sear in Congress was the guest speaker. Having served as a Commander in the Naval Reserve during the war he gave a ROCHESTER most interesting talk on the merger proposal, The Rochester Branch is unique in that it is also on national and international affairs. a combination West Point-Annapolis Branch Commander John P, (Packy) Graff, USN —one of the few such Alumni Branches in the (Ret,) '20, who served as Exec, and CO of the country, we believe. For the current year its Navy Preflight School at Chapel Hill, N, C, officers are: President, John E. "Jerry" O'Conand as Beach Master during three landings in neU, USNA '26; Vice-President, Luke E. Europe and two in the Padfic gave a brief White, USNA '28; and Secretary-Treasurer, and most interesting account of his war experi- Lawrence R. Grims, USMA, '33. A re-organiences. "Packy" has recendy been awarded his zational meering held at The Town Tavern recendy was well artended and plans were third Bronze Star medal.

Another most interesting talk was given by made for the ensuing year. Regular meetings one of our Navy Experts, Captain F. B. Kauff- are scheduled for the first Monday in each man, USN, '20, on the development of super- month and special observances will be made of Naval Academy Founders Day, Military chargers and jet propulsion for planes, A partial list of those presenr were the fol- Academy Founders Day, the Army-Navy lowing: Rear Adm, Bryson Bruce, USN, '07, Game and a dinner dance will replace the A, M, Cohen, '07, M, L, Brown, '11, W, Van July meeting. It was voted that we make an C, Brandt, '11, Paul Mayfield, '11, Urey W, annual award of a wrist watch to the outstandConway, '11, Jos, H, Hoffman, '13, Rear Adm, ing graduate of rhe NROTC Unit of the UniDonald Royce, '14, W. K, Beard, '14, T, W. versity of Rochester, selection to he limited to Sterling, '14, S, G, Rockwell, '15, Capt, Robert those officers going on active dut)' with the Lee Porter, '17, Dwighr Cook, '18, Comdr. Navy after graduation. Any alumnus of either John P. Graff, '20, Capt. F. B. Kauffman, '20, Academy in the vicinity of Rochester or who R S. Mdver, '21, Comdr, L. P, Pawley, '22, anticipates being in that vicinity may receive A, L, Tyler, '22, Lt, Comdr, F. R. Davis, '24, up to date information as to membership and Capt. T. C. Thomas. '25, A. J. Fleming, "25, activities of the Branch by contacting the Vice J, P. Raugh, '26, C. Y. Sommers, '26, D. G. President at 27 Rodessa Road, Rochester 12, Burt, '27, Capt. Alan B. Banister, '28, Geo. New York.

R. Fink, '32, J. W. Humrichouse, '32, Comdr.

In addition to the officers the following J. J. Tomaichd, '33, W. L. Aiken, '33, Comdr. alumni were present: Col. Carlos Stolbrand, C H. McCarthy, Jr. (SC) USN, '35, Lt, Col. Ret., USMA, '05; Maj. Robert Bullock, W. K, Davenport, Jr., USMC, '36, Harold G. USMA, '28; "Phil" McCabe, USNA, '22; Etchen, '37, W, J, Holt, '39, J. Z. Miller, '39, "Nick" Carter, USNA, '22; Francis Cooke, John W. Gilpin, '41, J. R. Allen, '44, Bill USNA, '23; Henr\' Dutcher, USNA, '23; Capt.

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George C. Towner, USN, USNA, '24; Earl The next meeting will be held 27 Septem- J. Ashton, USNA, '26; Charles C. Dunn, ber and later meetings 25 Oaober and 22 No- USNA, '26; Carl A. Day. USNA, '31; Comdr.

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Robert H. Soher, USNA, '33; Comdr. WendeU H. Frohng, USNA, '34; Jerome J. Bruckel, USNA, '39; Jack. D. Harby, USNA," '39; George E Lawrence, USNA, '39; Lt. H E Walters, USN, USNA, '44.

SAN FRANCISCO Our regular monthly stag dinner meeting was held on 5 June at the Officers' Qub, Treasure Island, with an anendance of 73.

John Falge, 1912, presided.

The Guest Speaker was Colonel W. R. Peers, AUS, now artached to the Headquarters Staff, 6th Army, Presidio of San Frandsco.

His subject was "The OSS in Burma."

During World War II Col. Peers served as CO, Detachment 101, familiarly known as the "American Kachin Rangers." General Stilwell granted him wide authority, and Col. Peers not only did a superb organizing job in creating a highly effective force, but also led with distinction this fabulous force which operated behind the Japanese Unes in Burma from its creation until it very successfully completed its harassing mission two years later.

Guests present were as follows: CoL Wm, R. Peers, GSC, UCLA, '37, Guest Speaker; Lt, Col, T, N, Arnett; Geo. L. Bandy; Ernest A. Barlow, USMA, '25; W. L. Brown; Edwin T. Burk, N. Y. World-Tdegram, N, Y, C; Richard W, Cassady; C, T. Chapman, Jr.; Jos. V, Cosrello; Charles E. Coughlin; Ralph Duncan; Edwin M. Eddy, Yale '99; Col. H. H. Gallien, Georgetown Law 12, CO, Presidio of SF; Lr, Col, B. D, Goodwin, USMC; John J, Hayes; Maj. W. Kunz; Maj, Gen, Henry L, Larsen, USMC, Commanding General, Dept. of Padfic; Comdr. James C, Luce, MC, USN, UC(Med) '37, ex-Amer, Kachin Ranger; R. H. MacGillivray; Cadet Midshipman Larry Marbourg; W. P. McDonald; W. H. Orion; H. W. Osterhaus, Jr.; Empey Robertson, Yale •08; Lt. Col. H. K. Schmid; Frank Shaughnessy; Henry R. Sievers; G. P. SmaUman; Allen L. Stanley; Col, W, G. Turnbull; Herbert D. Walter, Stanford, '00; Comdr. B. V. WUson, RN, Dartmouth (England) '16.

Members present were, as follows: John S, Graham, '98; A, F, Huntington, '98; H, M. Gleason, '99; H. W. Osterhaus, '00; W. H. Shea, USNA, '00 and USCG, '02; H. E. Kays, •05; E, D, Washburn, Jr., "06; R. S. Edwards, •07; James L. Hall, '07; L. L. Lindley, '09; C G. McCord, '11; John Falge, '12; Neil H. Geisenhoff, '13; H. W. PiUsbury, '13; W. J. Ruble, '13; R. W. Cary, '14; W. J. Larson, '14; Ned Marbourg, '17; R. H. Henkle, '18; ProCTor Thornton, '18; E. R. Windder. '19; Stanley J. Michael, '20; F. A. MacGurn, '21; W. S, Price, '21; Elmer E. Meyers, '22; P. D. ParceUs, '22; W, B. TerreU, "22; A. L. Toney, '22; R. A. Casson, '23; E. R. Duncan, '23; Philip D. Lohmann, '23; T. F. Fowler, '25; H. E, Schonland, '25; Ray KimbeU, '26; John C. Bernet, '27; MarshaU Smidi, "27; Wilham H. Stewart, '30; V, J. Meola, '31; F. U. Weir, '31; C. B. Paine, Jr., '34; Fred I. Lincoln, '36.

Our San Francisco stag dinner meetings are held monthly at the Commissioned Officers Club, Treasure Island, on the first Wednesday of every montii. All alumni of die Naval Academy and their friends are cordially invited to attend.

For information, please communicate with Haller Bdt, '08, Room 1001, 593 Market Street, San Francisco 5, Calif. Tdephone: GArfidd 0695.

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For the first time in our history the United States is a part of a world organization working for peace. This new program for our country gives every citizen an opportunity to contribute to world unity.

Confucius said : " T h e men of old, when they wished their virtues to shine throughout the land, first had to govern their states well. To govern their states well, they first had to establish harmony in their families. T o establish harmony in their families, they first had to discipline themselves. T o discipline themselves, they first had to set their minds in order. T o set their minds in order, they first had to make their purpose sincere. T o make their purpose sincere, they first had to extend their knowledge to the utmost. Such knowledge is acquired through a careful investigation of things. For with things investigated knowledge becomes complete. W i t h knowledge complete the purpose becomes sincere. W i t h the purpose sincere the mind is set in order. W i t h the mind set in order there is real self-discipline. W i t h real self-discipline the family achieves harmony. W i t h harmony in the family the state becomes well governed. W i t h the state well governed there is peace throughout the land."

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