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ton University Press, $3.50) Sub-titled "A History of the Applied Psychology Panel of the National Defense Research Committee," Professor Bray's book is not written for laymen, but is presented with such clarity that any non-psychologist interested in improving the operation of equipment through personnel work, training, or design of the equipment itself will find it an invaluable source of information.

No single outstanding victories can be claimed by military psychology; its eflFect was diffuse and inconspicuous, but the gradual and continuing increase in the proficiency of the men who operated complicated weapons on the battlefield or aboard ship was a notable contribution of military psychology to victory.

This book is the official history of the Applied Psychology Panel of the National Defense Research Committee, of which Professor Bray was at first technical aide, and later chief. It is not simply a list of accomplishments; successes with gun crews, night lookouts, radar operators, and other personnel are presented as examples to show what can be done elsewhere in the military. The same lessons can be applied to many complicated problems of equipment and personnel in industry.

MY FLAG IS D O W N by James Maresca

(E. P. Dutton, $2.50) James Maresca is New York City taxi driver No. 36791. As anyone who has ever visited that city can surmise, the gentry who drive cabs at night along the Great White Way see a lot of life, and along with it, a lot of characters. Most of them dismiss their experiences with a shrug of the shoulders and by the time they are home in bed in Greenpoint each morning have minds as free as the untroubled breeze.

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Miscellaneous Cargo—By LeRoy W. Vance

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The Navy on Capitol Hill—By Fred Lardner

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The P a n a m a Question—By Comdr.

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Our cover this month shows the USS MISSOURI BB 63 snapped from the air as she goes through the Panama Canal, C. Z., en route from tlie Pacific to New York for Navy Day. The "Big Mo" approaches the Miraflores Locks. Official Photograph.

MANAGING EDITOR—C. E. CONEY, '19

Published monthly on the rwenty-fifth of the month preceding the date of issue, at twenty cents a copy. Annual subscription, $2.00. Canadian and foreign subscription, $3.00. Published by the Alumni Association of the United States Naval Academy; D. S. Walker, President; Samuel D . Foster, A. Arnold Brand, Fred W. Pierce, Vice-Presidents; C. E. Coney, Executive Director. Printed at Fleet-McGinley, Inc., 109 Market Place, Baltimore ( 2 ) , Maryland. Editorial office. Alumni House, Annapolis. Maryland. Entered as second-class mail maner at the post office at Annapolis, Maryland. Copyright, 1948, by the United States Naval Academy Alumni Association, Inc.

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Importance of the Navy— Big Submarine War — Transport Needs — The Merchant Marine Armed Services' Functions — Reserve Legislation — Rotation of Naval Aviators — No Pay Hike This Year— Disability Legislation.

By Fred Lardner the time this is read legislative BYaction on draft, universal military training, and other bills to place the Armed Services on a more adequate footing will be much further along. Some bills will have become law. If expressions of the Armed Services Committees are representative of Congressional thinking, and it would seem they are, Congress is willing to meet requests of the Army, Navy and Air Force, and in some instances go further. The House Armed Services Committee, for instance, favors a draft bill which would bring Navy and Marine Corps strength about equal to the total authorized strength of 664,000 ofi&cers and men. This is a proposed increase of about 180,000, more than double the request for 74,000 officers and men presented by Secretary of the Navy John L. Sullivan and Secretary of Defense Forrestal.

If Congress goes along with the House Armed Services Committee, some 20,000 additional Navy and Marine Corps officers will be required.

It has not been explained as yet where the Navy and the Marine Corps, the Navy in particular, would get this additional officer strength. The House committee draft bill calls for putting men between 19 and 25, not specifically exempted, into the Regular or the Reserve armed forces. Almost all veterans, "necessary" men, men with dependents, and the physically and mentally unfit would be exempt from the draft. Presumably many or most of the additional Naval officers required would have to be obtained from the ranks of those who served in World War II. The draft bill, as finally determined, will depend largely on what the Armed Services think it should be. But even with a smaller increase in the Navy than that proposed by the House committee, a problem may be presented in obtaining the necessary quota of Naval officers.

Importance Of The Navy In testimony before the House Armed Services Committee, Secretary Sullivan outlined the importance of the Navy in a possible conflict with Russia.

"Unfortunately, the regular Navy is at present far below the strength which the Congress authorized," he said.

"Counting a small number of reserves on extended active duty, the regular Navy has 44,922 oflficers and 352,185 enlisted men, while the Regular Marine Corps has 8,876 officers and 72,783 enlisted men—a total of 478,766. This is 185,000 short of our authorized strength and permits the manning in the Fleet of only 277 combatant vessels and 488 minor and auxiliary vessels. Of these ships in the active Fleet, 179 are now immobilized or in a reduced operational status because of personnel deficiencies. The Navy urges that its personnel be increased to provide full peacetime crews to man the active, operational Fleet, to provide two air groups for each carrier, and to supplement glaringly deficient numbers of personnel in certain critical activities."

The increases requested by Secretary Sullivan would, he said, provide: First: Better balanced forces deployed in the two critical areas of the world— Europe and the Far East.

Second: Forces on each coast—the Atlantic and the Pacific—to support our units in Europe and the Far East, and to be better prepared to execute those operations which the Joint Chiefs of Staff have agreed are of utmost urgency in an emergency.

Third: A better balanced Fleet, including its naval planes, with emphasis on quick oflfensive capabilities, and a capacity to expand more rapidly to full wartime strength upon mobilization.

"Such a Navy would provide more operational ships and aircraft with which to combat our most serious menace— submarines and aircraft—and to protect our shipping on the vital sea lines of communications. It would bolster an amphibious force, with Marines, in each ocean, in instant readiness to protect strategic positions. It would include submarines to operate ofifensively against the submarines and shipping of any enemy and to give warning of any air and naval operations."

Secretary Sullivan mentioned manganese, tungsten, tin, lead, zinc, copper,

iron ore and oil as basic materials the foreign sources of which the Navy would be called upon to protect.

Big Submarine War Secretary Sullivan inferred that a conflict with Russia would bring a far greater threat from enemy submarines than ever before.

"The Soviets obtained 10 new German submarines of which four are of the latest type XXI German design," he explained. "This type embodies both the Schnorkel and high submerged speed.

This speed, combined with its deep submergence characteristics, makes it extremely efifective in submarine warfare and most difficult to detect and counterattack. The Russians now control four large German shipbuilding yards, which mass-produced German submarines during World War II, and which have on hand all the blueprints and pre-fabricated parts for many more Type XXI submarines. The Soviets are using expert German submarine designers, engineers and technicians.

"At the beginning of World War II the Germans had less than 50 operating submarines and yet they very nearly won the Battle of the Atlantic. The Russians now have more than 250 operating submarines and undoubtedly are capable of producing on short notice a large number of the latest design.

"We have not yet entirely perfected countermeasures against the latest type submarines which remain a serious threat to our relatively slow-moving but vital dry cargo ships and tankers. Exhaustive research indicates that the solution will be most diflScult."

The Navy immediately requires 4,000 additional pilots and 30,000 additional enlisted aviation ratings for the naval planes which constitute the nucleus of the naval attacking power, the Secretary said. The Naval Aviation flight training program, therefore, must be expanded to produce a minimum of 2,300 Naval aviators a year. The Navy will also need additional Naval Reserve aviators returning voluntarily to active duty.

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and the Marine Corps requires that some 1,300,000 reservists be available in a matter of days if an emergency arises.

Secretary Sullivan said. The Naval Reserve is now short 320*000 enlisted men, and the Marine Corps Reserve is short 41,000 enlisted men, he added. Universal Militar}^ Training would be required to produce the number of men and the skills required.

Transport Needs Much has been said of a proposed "70 air group program," envisaged by the Presidents Air Policy Commission. This really means 131 air groupsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;70 regular Air Force, 27 National Guard, and 34 Air Reserve, a total of 20,599 planes, of which 8,158 would be in reserve.

Some members of Congress and others, including some Air Force people, believe that the larger the Air Force, the less need for big increases in other arms.

Here is what Secretary of Defense Forrestal said on the subject to the Senate Armed Services Committee: "To enable the most effective projection and offensive use of our increased Air Force, there should also be an enlargement of the Naval arm. Sea-air power has an important mission relative to Naval operations. Naval aviation personnel, facilities, and equipment should be enlarged accordingly. To support the sea-air arm, and to enable the safe transportation across great sea areas to distant bases of airplanes, air crews, ground air personnel, gasoline, supplies, equipment.

Army combat forces and anti-aircraft units. Army service troops, food, weapons, ammunition, and all the other paraphernalia of modern war, would require a larger Naval establishmentâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;in men, in carriers, in cruisers, in submarines, and in other vessels for protective and amphibious operations.

"Some increase would be necessary in the number of fast tankers and other ships to be provided by the Maritime Commission."

The Merchant Marine There is a serious shortage of passenger-carrying ships to meet military requirements for movement of personnel in event of war. Secretary Sullivan recently told Congress. Assuming another emergency of the proportions of World War II, the reconversion of all existing passenger and passenger-cargo ships, together with the utilization of the 70 transports now held by the Armed Services, would meet only half the total requirements for passenger-carrying vessels. About 50 such ships, having troopcarrying capacity of 2,000 to 10,000 each, are the minimum additional needs.

The Navy has 86 tankers, and the government could lay its hands on 600 if MAY.

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necessary. But 11 per cent of these ships are more than 20 years old, and the standard T-2, the best, makes a maximum speed of I41/2 knots. Thirty tankers are now building in this country and 126 in other countries, all T-2 equivalents. The great need. Secretary Sullivan said, is for development of a tanker capable of making 20 knots.

"Unless tanker and combination-passenger ship building is supplemented at some future date by a program for the construction of high speed, high quality cargo vessels to replace our war-built tonnage, we will not have the balanced merchant fleet which national security demands," the Secretary said.

The Maritime Commission has issued bids for the construction of seven combination passenger-cargo ships, two for the account of the American-Export Line and five for the American President Line. The United President Lines has completed designs for a large fast passenger liner proposed for the TransAtlantic service.

We might have headed this section, "The Case Of The Merchant Marine," for it constitutes a problem which must be solved. Secretary Sullivan said that President Truman will ask $100,000,000 for new ship construction in the fiscal year beginning 1 July, as compared to S39.500.000 previously requested. But $100,000,000 is only a drop in the bucket. Merely to increase the speed of new tankers from 14l^ knots to 20 knots would cost $2,500,000 each. The domestic industry has been loathe to engage in new construction, because of the uncertainties of permanent foreign trade, the advantages enjoyed by foreign merchant marines in the matter of low wages and subsidies, and the attitude of the State Department, which seemingly prefers transportation of United States goods in foreign bottoms.

How to solve the problem of the merchant marine? Well, for one thing. Con,eress will have to loosen up. And, if war should come, the Navy should be authorized to take it over. The merchant marine and the stevedore unions, particularly the CIO unions, are honeycombed by men with Red cards hidden away.

With spies ashore and afloat, and with hundreds of Russian submarines off our shores, our waterfronts and our ships would require a lot of policing.

Armed Services' Functions Following a meeting at Key West, Florida, of the Nation's top military and naval leaders. Secretary of Defense Forrestal issued a new order regarding the functions of the various services. The new order resolves most of the controversies between the services, as between the Navy and the Air Force and the Marine Corps and the Army.

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Concerning the Marine Corps, the order states, "The Marine Corps will not build up a second land Army." The Corp's primary function would be to develop techniques and equipment for amphibious operations. According to reports, there was talk at the conference of limiting the Corps to four divisions.

Its current active strength is about five divisions.

The Navy was given jurisdiction over anti-submarine warfare. It was made responsible for developing doctrines, procedures and equipment for amphibious operations, and training other forces which join in joint amphibious operations. As regards Naval aviation, it was authorized to engage in almost all operations except strategic air warfare, believed to include atomic bombing. Many authorities contend, however, that a Navy carrier task force, with its mobile base, would constitute an ideal atomic bombing unit in many possible instances, so the assumption that atomic bombing is the province of the Air Force may be wrong.

The Navy is authorized to conduct air operations "necessary to the accomplishment of objectives in a naval campaign," and to conduct "such land operations as may be essential to the prosecution of a (Continued on page 27)

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Impossible? It was done by television, when RCA demonstrated —to a congress of surgeons—how effective this medium can be in teaching surgery.

In a New York hospital, above an operating table, a supersensitive RCA Image Orthicon television camera televised a series of operations. Lighting was normal.

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line-of-sight beam . . . As the pictures were seen the operating surgeons were heard explaining their techniques . . .

The beam was picked u p at a midtown hotel — carried to RCA Victor television receivers. And on the video screens, visiting surgeons followed each delicate step of surgical procedure. Action was sharp and clear. E a c h surgeon was as "close-up" as if h e were actually beside the operating table.

Said a prominent surgeon: "Television as a way of teaching surgery sur-

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a century ago, when Turkey HALF was front page news quite frequendy, we heard a great deal about "The Eastern Question." Today "The Panama Question" poses a problem much more vital to us, and one regarding which there has been so much loose talk and so little comprehension that some clarification seems in order.

The Western Hemisphere interposed a solid mass between ports of the Atlantic and those of the Pacific. The advantage to all shipping of canals, by affording short cuts to desired objectives, finally awoke the French to aaion, and without fuUy realizing what they were doing, they undertook in 1882 to cut the Western Hemisphere in two. The story of their great workâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;herodc yet tragicâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; the recital of the chicanery and mistakes which eventually wrecked the French effort, need not be retold here. Neither need the American experience, which resulted in completing the Panama Canal and putting it in operation in 1914. We have always rather fancied ourselves for doing that tremendous job. It was an accomplishment. But American engineers have always conveniently minimized or overlooked the fact that, except for Gorgas's conquest of the fever that was such a grim nuisance, we merely enlarged upon and completed what the brilliant French had imagined, planned with uncanny skill and carried far toward completion before we thought anything about it in a practical way.

Both nations, however, made one serious mistake which today faces us as something to be rectified if the Panama Canal is to function to its greatest advantage. Ships are not made of rubber, and the man has yet to be born who can MAY,

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Culebra Cut as seen from the USS SANGAMON. Official U. S. Navy Photograph.

tritmiph over the often incalculable, and always gigantic, forces of Nature unless he knows the precise answers before he begins fighting. Explorers, diplomats, engineers and businessmen dreamed out the canal. Engineers planned it. Engineers and contractors built it. From the purely engineering standpoint they did a magnificent job and created an Eighth Wonder of the world. But ask the man who has to conn an unwieldly tanker through the Gaillard Cut, with sharp rock ledges on each bank, and your vocabulary will probably be considerably extended, and intensified to richness. No advice on design, so far as the writer knows, was ever sought from the men most capable of giving it: the men who take the ships through. As a consequence, the canal in certain aspects is far from satisfactory; it presents unjustifiable hazards; its rec-

ord of casualties is greater than is generally realized. And now on top of this comes a plan to make those hazards still more prominent by increasing the proportion of the canal subject to danger.

As a matter of plain statement, the Panama Canal Question which has assumed major proportions since the end of the war, is far from being what it is generally considered to be. Public Law 280 of the 79th Congress, which provided for an examination of the facts and for recommendations for the improvement of the canal, is a curiously worded document, especially in differentiating between "interoceanic commerce" and "security" with reference to the "national defense." What inference must the layman inevitably draw from such blundering statements? The function and sole reason for the existence of the canal is

wish to use the canal for its own purposes, or keep it functioning for the sake of its moral effect upon our neighbors.

Altogether, the atom bomb in itself seems negligible as a serious factor in any remodeling or new construction. The Governor in his Report to Congress evidently has misconstrued the law, and instead of suggesting the best operational canal that can be economically achieved, recommended something that not even faulty interpretation of a mischievously worded law can legitimize.

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the transit of vessels of every sort from ocearr to ocean as quickly, as safely and as easily as possible. The needs of commerce cannot be considered as apart from the national defense because they are one and the same. The only practical solution of the commercial problem, solves the defense problem automatically.

The atomic bomb scaremongers are frightening nobody but themselves, and their panic has led them into arguments indefensible at best. Closely analyzed, attack by atomic missiles would affect both types of canal equally in two main respects, prove more serious in two others to the sea level artery, and be approximately the same for both in the case of damage to locks and dams, with the balance a little to the worse for the sea level type. Governor Mehaffey frankly admitted the complete vulnerability of the sea level or any canal in his testimony on 20 January 1948, before the Subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee, in the words: ". . . whatever kind of canal you have, you must have adequate defenses." This demolishes authoritatively the argument in his own report that the sea level type affords a greater degree of security than the high level lake type, and shows the inconsistency in the thinking of the sea level advocates.

If we consider "security" in detail, the first item to stand forth is the restricted channel in each type of canal. Even a near-sighted bomber could hardly fail to note that the thirty miles of channel blasted through the terrain at sea level is a bigger and far more obvious target than the seven miles of Gaillard Cut. Argument on that score is impossible.

No modern bomber could possibly miss either one, and robot missiles, unless brought down out at sea, would have four times more likelihood of damaging the sea level channel than of striking in

Gaillard Cut. Radiological contamination of the water of the high level lake would be serious, but against that we can foresee a more extensive land contamination all along the edges of the sea level ditch. At either side of the Isthmus the principal harbors and foci of population —Panama, Balboa, Cristobal and Colon — would suffer equally regardless of canal types.

When control of the Chagres river freshets is considered, the sea level canal is far more vulnerable than the high lake type because of the length, size, instability and greater number of its control structures, including the spillways.

Moreover, since the sea level type requires a tidal lock or gate, that fact makes its structures as vulnerable as the high level lake type, with the added feature that the reconstruction and replacing of the enormous gates would be a time consuming job, especially during war time.

While it was going on—assuming that the channel itself was not damaged, which seems unlikely in the circumstances—vessels could safely use the canal only during the short period immediately before, during and immediately after slack water. In the high level, the draining of Gatun Lake by breaching its dams would leave the locks empty until the lake could be refilled. In either case, admitting radiation, the availability of labor to do the dangerous work of repairing war damage, constitutes a grave and unanswerable problem.

The bomb scare experts who recommend the sea level canal, moreover, avoid pointedly the entirely reasonable assumption that if the canal has any strategic values to us, it has the same values to any foe capable of defeating us. No power is likely to attack it seriously— neither Germany nor Japan did so during the war despite ample opportunity —for the excellent reason that it might

Besides the atomic bomb nonsense, there is the much graver matter of misleading engineering generalities to be considered in the Digest of the Governor's Report, which affords insufficient basic or essential engineering data. The plates illustrating it are all mere onedimensional sketches. If anything ever called for detailed four-dimensional studies of the most meticulous accurac)', this is surely it, and no attempt to discuss the plans without such data would be anything but wasted time. But the Report's omissions are as significant as its vagueness. It completely fails to mention the disasters attending the construction of the great dams at Fort Peck on the Missouri and Belle Fourche in South Dakota, to cite only two of several examples.

In both cases the best engineering ex perience and skill had worked out what were considered almost perfect structures under material conditions as nearly completely homogeneous as are ever likely to be encountered. Yet at Forr Peck, while construction was going on, more than five million cubic yards of material suddenly rolled down into the reservoir, so swiftly that men were caught up in it and perished before their companions' eyes. The whole disaster was over* in ten minutes. The foundations of betonite and shale had simply sheared off, and the collapse was the result. Belle Fourche failed because a very dry season had lowered the water level, and about five or six hundred feet of the upstream side gave way and slid into the reservoir.

Since such failures have been repeated in what might be regarded as ideally conceived and planned structures, what can we possibly expect from the tremendous structures at Panama? What about attempting subaqueous excavation to depths as great as 147 feet? What about many miles of control embankments of earth and rock to be built in swamp and water between 70 and 80 feet in depth, and later dewatered on tht canal side? Will not the equilibrium of the geological strata be immediately disturbed all the way from Gatun to Miraflores, just as it was at Belle Fourche?

The final catastrophe might easily occur when the rapid unwatering, from a plus

85 feet, the present lake level, to sea level, is undertaken. Removing the tremendous pressure of that depth and weight of water will unbalance the valley floor between canal and embankments, and large scale movements of the different strata are practically a certainty in consequence. Belle Fourche was merely the primary example, on a small scale. The Panama affair would be colossal.

During the 27 years between 1914 and 1941 the Panama Canal more than fulfilled its designed purpose of permitting the passage of any vessel—except for the two giant Cunarders, meant only for the North Atlantic runs and an occasional cruise—between the two oceans. N o n e but a few experts thought of studying the published records to learn exactly how well it was performing its function, and what accidents had, for one reason or another, occurred. T h e n came the war, larger armed vessels, a tremendous growth of both manufacturing and international trade, and Congress foresaw the present canal would probably be inadequate to the steadily increasing traffic at some period in the not distant future. The alternatives before the lawmakers were apparently simple: improve and enlarge rhe present canal, or dig a bigger one.

At this point the new school philosophy of disregarding cost entirely when governmental activities are concerned thrust up its ugly head and intruded upon the scene. "The argument it advanced was, boiled down to its fundamentals, that we destroy the existing canal, dig and

BIOGR.4PHICAL NOTE Arthur Stanley Riggs, who contributes to SHIPMATE for the first time in this issue, is an archaeologist, art critic of distinction, historian, and accomplished lecturer specializing in the Spanish and Italian fields. His lifetime of travel, residence and research in Europe, Africa and the Far East, his long study of canals and their problems, and his service afloat and ashore in the Navy, in which he holds the rank of Commander in the Reserve, preeminently qualify him to treat simply and forthrightly the great issues now facing the country in the improvement of the Panama Canal.

Outstanding among Commander Riggs's historical and biographical books are "The Spanish Pageant," "The Romance of Human Progress" (just going into a new Spanish edition in Buenos Aires); "Titian the Magnificent" and "Velazquez: Painter of Truth," all published by the Bobbs Merrill Company. The two lives of the great painters, though new in 1946 and 194", have already been hailed as the standard biographies of their subjects.

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Proposed Sea Level Canal. build a bigger one and forget both the billions of dollars and the increased taxes it would cost, the indeterminate time it would take to complete the project. A great task for a great people; a monumental achievement! It may be unkind to suggest such a thing, but to the man who thinks things through, the proposition smells very much like either boondoggling on a titanic scale or the grossest attempt ever made to raid the Treasury annually for years by the men who devised the scheme and would p u t it into effect for the benefit of the contractors who excavate the ditch, build the dams, and provide the heavy machinery.

As always happens when a national undertaking of the importance of the canal is being considered, besides the inevitable opposition suggestion, there springs up a crop of weird fancies so absurd they dismiss themselves from serious consideration. Certain self-styled experts urge that we tunnel through the Continental Divide for miles, lay a railway twenty tracks—more than 100 feet — w i d e , hoist our 50,000-ton battleships and monster carriers u p on huge flatcars, and shoot them through from sea to sea. Other experts carry their flights of fancy even further, and assure us that they can lay a railroad that will climb across the Divide on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, and make our largest and heaviest craft scoot over with all the ease of the "daring young man on the flying trapeze." N o t so fantastic but presenting numberless difficulties and all but incalculable cost in time and money are the schemes for interoceanic canals in several other locations.

O n e vital factor overlooked by all these dreamers is the cold table of statistics issued by the Panama Canal of the tonnage floated through, the cash

receipts from it, the costs of operation, and the showing of a profit only by juggling the figures, when in reality the deficit caused by the canal's operation runs to millions annually. Cut that revenue by building another canal, anywhere, and we shall have two deficitproducing liabilities instead of one, two vulnerable points of attack should an enemy be tempted, and a capacity so much more than adequate for any foreseeable emergency or normal g r o w h than an extra canal assumes the proportions of a meretricious display of our power and wealth. W a r is concentrated waste, but it is understandable that the national requirements in time of war sometimes make it necessary to forget all about cost for the sake of production.

T h e pernicious notion that we can go on forever spending fabulous sums on futile whimsies such as the sea level canal, the inter-American highway and the Canol project, and paying interest without amortizing the debt appreciably, in the end spells ruin.

That there is nothing academic about this is given startling confirmation by a comparison of the figures for excavation of the sea level canal over the ten years estimated necessary for its construction, with the actual excavated yardage of the present canal. T h e figures are most effective—and shocking—when tabulated— I 9 O 6 - I 9 I 6 : Total excavations, including slides—267,000,000 cu. yds.

1949-1959: Ditto for sea level, not including slides—1,069,000,000 cu. yds.

In a word, the Governor's Report urges us to try to excavate four times as much material, three-fourths of it solid rock, in the same length of time as was required for the existing channel, notwithstanding the strong probability of greater stratigraphic disturbances than (Continued on page 2 3 ) 9

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Statement to the Board of Visitors by the Superintendent The crowded condition of the Naval Academy is the most pressing problem facing the academy, Rear Admiral James L. Holloway, Jr., superintendent, told the Board of Visitors which convened Monday morning, 12 April, for the annual four day visit of inspection.

Speaking to the 11 members of the 18 member board who arrived the first day, the superintendent said that academy enrollment is expected to level off at 3,500 and that crowding will have to continue until additional buildings are erected.

He said that the capacity of Bancroft Hall had been increased from 2,500 to 2,800 by efficient use of space and that "by accepting highly undesirable conditions of crowding, the berthing and messing facilities of Bancroft Hall can accommodate about 3,400 midshipmen."

The need for additional classroom space will be solved by conversion of various rooms now used for other purposes to classrooms.

Acquisition of a first rate air field Admiral Holloway said he considered "to be of the highest priority in the development of additional facilities." The program of aviation is not a specialization, he emphasized, but is essential indoctrination in such training as seamanship, navigation, guimery and marine engineering.

He cited the report of the Board of Visitors of 1946 recognizing "the urgent need for acquisition of suitable property in the immediate vicinity of the Naval Academy for the construction of an airfield."

Again in 1947 the board gave its opinion "couched in even stronger terms," that "the acquisition without delay of" property for an airfield "is recognized as the most pressing need of the Naval Academy at this time."

"Naval aviation is a vital element of modern sea power," he said, adding that its "methods of operation must be understood by all naval officers."

The superintendent cited the advance made in providing for the well-being of enlisted personnel of the Severn River Naval Command and said he hoped the board would visit the new village for married enlisted personnel.

For the faculty at the academy Admiral Holloway said the goal is a distribution of civilian and officer instructors ranging from 100 per cent ofiicer in10

on Worden Field, Thursday, 8 April, at Rear Admiral fotu: o'clock. The review was "taken" James L. Holloway, Jr., USN, by the Commandant of Midshipmen, Superintendent structors in such departments as Aviation; Seamanship, and Navigation and Ordnance and Gunnery through approximately equal ratios of civilians and officers in such departments as Electrical Engineering to those almost completely composed of civilian personnel such as English, History and Government.

"There are now some 220 officer instructors and 180 civilians in the faculty of the academy," he said.

The superintendent's statement covered the curriculum and academic organization and described the formal course given in leadership which the academy has pioneered. He described the academy as "distinctly a 'naval college' the four-year undergraduate college of the great "naval university'" and said the undergraduate pattern was a determining factor in the evolution of the HoUoway Plan which supplements graduates with those of 52 NROTC instimtions.

Following the appointment of committees the board witnessed the noon meal formation of the Brigade of Midshipmen and were guests at a reception at the superintendent's quarters. In the evening a dinner was given in their honor at the North Severn Officers Mess.

Tuesday, 13 April, they lunched aboard the destroyer MACKENZIE specially ordered to the academy for the visit. In the evening dinners were given in their honor by the midshipmen "after dinner speaking" groups in Bancroft Hall.

The members attending the five day inspection were Dr. James P. Baxter, III, Rev. John J. Cavanaugh, CSC; Mr. Richardson Dilworth; Hon. William Preston Lane, Jr.; Dr. Frederick A. Middlebush, Mr. Joseph W. Powell, Dr. Rufus B. von KleinSmid; Rep. Willis W. Bradley, Capt., USN (Ret.); Rep. Omar Burleson; Rep. Katharine St. George; and Rep. Hugh D. Scott, Jr.

Captain Frank T. Ward, on the occasion of the first parade.

On the 15 th of April the Superintendent, Rear Admiral James-L. Holloway, Jr., "took" the honors with the 1948 Board of Visitors.

The Brigade of Midshipmen mmnbering approximately 2800 is organized into two regiments, six battalions, and twenty-fotur companies. The winning color company last June was the twentythird. During the next two months competitions wiU be held to determine the color company for June week 1948.

The company commander of the winning company chooses the color girl for June Week.

Officers W h o Have Reported and Officers W h o Have Been Detached Recently Captain Kenneth Craig has reported for duty as Head of the Department of Aviation. Captain Craig comes from duty as Chief of Staff and Aide to the Commander, Fleet Air Quonset. He relieves Captain Robert B. Pirie who will report for duty as Commanding Officer of the USS SICILY (CVE

118).

Commander Charles W. Travis has reported at the Naval Postgraduate School for duty as an instructor. Commander Travis was in command of the USS DOUGLAS H . F O X ( D D 779) prior to his arrival at Annapolis.

Commander James M. Wolfe, Jr., has recently been detached from duty at the Naval Postgraduate School, and will report for duty as Commanding Officer of the USS GYATT ( D D

712).

Major Harold A. Harwood, U. S. Marine Corps, of the Department of Aviation, has been detached, and has been assigned duty at the Marine Corps Air Station, Quantico, Va. Major Harwood has been relieved by Major Robert C. Hammond, Jr., U. S. Marine Corps, who was attached to Aircraft, Fleet Marine Force, Atlantic.

Brigade of Midshipmen to Parade Lieutenant Joseph W. Robinson has Each Thursday Afternoon On recently reported for duty in the DepartWorden Field ment of Marine Engineering. Lieutenant The Brigade of Midshipmen held their Robinson comes from duty on board the first outdoor parade of the spring season U S S L A T O N A ( A F 3 5 ) .

Lieutenant Albert C Carson, who has been on the staff of the Commander Cruiser Division Twelve, has reported at the Naval Station for duty.

Lieutenant Charles H. Iley, Chaplain Corps, has also reported for duty at the Naval Station. Chaplain Iley comes from duty at the Naval Air Station, Roosevelt Roads, P. R. Other officers who have recently reported are as follows: Lieutenant (jg) Robert F. Roemer frorfi Fighting Squadron Thirteen Able, who is at present on duty in Bancroft Hall; Ensign Leonard V. Rohrer from Fighting Squadron Thirteen Able, who is attached to the Superintendent's Office; and Ensign Wirt C. Thayer from the USS MISSOURI (BB 63), who has reported for duty in the Executive Department.

Lieutenant (jg) Thomas W. Green, Medical Corps Reserve, who has been on duty at the Naval Hospital, has been released from active duty.

Radio Electrician James H. Lazenby has been detached from duty at the Naval Air Facility, and has reported for duty under instruction at the Naval Air Technical Training Center, Memphis, Tenn.

Frederick D. Jackson, Class of I948B, of Durham, N. H.

Professor Potter Addresses Navy Civilian Orientation Group at Pensacola

Whipple Recently Interviewed William A. Whipple, yeoman second class, USN, who is attached to the Machine Records Office at the Naval Academy, was the Guest-of-the-Week on a recent "Who's Here at the Naval Academy" program which was broadcast from Mahan Hall.

Round the world in four years with Uncle Sam's Navy and never on a shipâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; this is the extraordinary story of Bill Whipple.

Assigned to the 20th Army Bomber Command as a Navy Liaison man, he made it half way around the globe when he was flown to his first assignment in India via the Middle East. Stationed 200 miles North of Calcutta, Whipple's main job was the sifting of restricted information between the Army and Navy.

Although he was the only Navy man amongst all those Army "Joes" Whipple filled what little spare time he had with flights over the Himalayas and trips to Calcutta and other parts of India.

From India to China and then to Okinawa with the 8th Air Force went Bdl Whipple as he made his way back to the States and completed his voyage around the world . . . a trip which took almost four years and during which he was assigned to Army groups all the time.

Station WANN, Annapolis, carried the interview which was conducted by Miss Helen Hall to local receivers while Station WCBM, Baltimore, broadcast it on a nation-wide hook-up.

Professor Elmer B. Potter of the Department of English, History and Government, addressed the Navy Civilian Orientation Group which convened at U. S. Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Fla., from 22 March to 1 April. His subject was "Naval History,and Traditions."

Representatives of the press and industry from all over the United States and as far away as Anchorage, Alaska, attended this meeting at the invitation of the Secretary of the Navy, John L. Sullivan. A similar meeting was held at Columbia University, New York City, last year, and the group was addressed at that time by Rear Admiral James L. Holloway, Jr., Superintendent of the Naval Academy.

Rear Admiral Frank D. Wagner, Chief of Naval Air Training, conducted the course for the Secretary of the Navy.

Others assisting were Captain William Sinton, USN, Commander Naval Air Training Bases, Pensacola; Captain WarNaval Academy Choir Sings at ren K. Berner, USN, Commanding OffiWashington Cathedral and cer, USS W R I G H T ( C V L - 4 9 ) ; and Captain Wendell F. Kline, USN, Public InWhite House The Naval Academy Choir, 120 voices formation Officer, Staff of Chief of Naval strong, travelled to Washington on Sun- Air Training. day, 4 April, to sing at the Vesper Service at the Washington Cathedral and following that gave a concert at the Senator Wiley of Wisconsin, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, welcomes White House for President Truman and members of the First Class of the Naval Academy when they visit the Capitol as part of the Educational Tours of Washington being conducted this Spring for all midshipmen of his family and their guests from 6:30 to the first class. Official U. S. Navy Photograph. seven o'clock.

Accompanying the midshipmen were the Superintendent of the Naval Academy, Rear Admiral James L. Holloway, Jr., and Mrs. Holloway; the Commandant of Midshipmen, Captain Frank T. Ward and Mrs. Ward; Chaplain and Mrs. Everett P. Wuebbens; Commander J. Edward Pace, Executive Department, and Mrs. Pace; and Assistant Professor Donald C. Gilley, Director of the Choir, and Mrs. Gilley.

At the Cathedral, the choir sang Lotti's "Cruxifixus," Noble's "Go to Dark Gesthemene," and "Now Let Every Tongue Adore Thee" by Bach, closing with the Halleluja Chorus from Handel's "Messiah" in combination with the Cathedral Choir.

At the White House, in addition to the above selections, a group of solos were sung by Midshipman Calvin C. Norman, Class of 1949, of Miami, Fla., and the program closed with "May Now Thy Spirit" by Schuetky and "The King of Love My Shepherd Is" by Shelley instead of the Halleluja Chorus.

Midshipman in charge of the choir is

singer and Home at the quarterback position."

In discussing the line, Mr. Sauer added, "At the center position, Lawrence and Weir are waging quite a battle for the number one spot. The guards from last year's squad who are moving along fast are Hissom, Cooper, and Beeler.

Scott Emerson, our other Co-Captain, has been transferred from guard to left tackle and is rapidly becoming adjusted to that position." He went on to say that the tackle position was very hard hit by graduation, and at the preseiit time is the big worry.

He continued, "In addition to Emerson, we have Hunt, Jones, and Renneman making strong bids for their spots. On paper, the end position seems better fortified with Ryan, Frazier, and McEIroy, returning from last year's squad."

Coach Sauer was interviewed by Miss Helen Hall on the weekly program, "Who's Here at the Naval Academy."

C o m m a n d e r Eleanor Grant Rigby, first woman guest of Midshipmen's After D i n n e r Speaking G r o u p in the 35 years of its existence. Comdr. Rigby's subject was ''Never underestimate the Power of a W o m a n . " Official U. S. Navy Photograph.

The U. S. Naval Academy Band under The dinner, which was devoted to the the baton of Lt. Alexander Cecil Morris discussion of various phases of the supplied the musical portion of the Navy's Public Relations program, was in charge of Midshipman Robert S. program.

Chew, Jr., son of Captain (SC, Ret.) and Mrs. Robert S. Chew, of Jamestown, Rhode Island. Associate Professor Allan Wave Officer Addresses Midship- B. Cook acted as toastmaster. Other men's After Dinner Speaking guests present were Instructor Walter Group M. Bastian, Jr., of the Department of English, History and Government, and For the first time in the 35 years of Lieutenant Marie Kelleher, Wave officer its existence, the Midshipmen's After on duty at the Academy.

Dinner Speaking Group entertained lady guests recently when Commander Eleanor Grant Rigby of the Office of Civil Relations in the Navy Department addressed them on the subject "Never New Head Football Coach at Naval Underestimate the Power of a Woman."

Academy Interviewed Commander Rigby who is the liaison Coach George Sauer, new Head Coach officer for women's organizations pointed out that there are more than 250,000 of Football at the Naval Academy, in an chartered women's organizations in the interview over the Mutual Broadcasting United States today and that the mid- System on Tuesday, 23 March, when shipmen as future Naval officers would asked the qualifications for a good footbe constantly in contact with these or- ball player said, "I look for the followganizations. She advocated inviting ing qualifications in this order: spirit, groups aboard ships and shore stations speed, stamina, and size." He went on because "women have a natural curios- to say, "They must have a burning deity and are very much interested in the sire to improve from day to day and to excel in all departments of the game."

Navy."

Questioned about the backfield. Coach Commander Rigby also pointed out that women control a very large per- Sauer stated, "The backfield has quite a centage of the wealth and purchasing bit of speed, but we do lack height and power in the country today and that weight. Our passing game is improving more women than men are eligible to with every workout and I believe that we vote. She concluded, "Almost every de- will have a fair amount of success in that cision a man makes is influenced by department. Some of the more promissome womanâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;mother, wife, sister or ing backfield men at this time are Hawdaughter. So I repeat, "Never underesti- kins and Kennedy at fullback; McCully, Arnold, and Green at halfback; and Baymate the power of a woman'."

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Winner of Colonial Daughters of the Seventeenth Century Prize Announced Midshipman Howard Norman Kay, First Class, whose home address is 726 East Beaumont Avenue, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, has been declared the winner of the Colonial Daughters of the Seventeenth Century Prize for 1948.

This prize consists of a "Life Membership in the U. S. Naval Instimte" and is presented by the Colonial Daughters of the Seventeenth Century to that midshipman of the graduating class who excels in history.

Midshipman Kay is Director of the U. S. Naval Academy Midshipmen's Public Relations Committee of 134 members which assists in all matters pertaining to athletics and extra-curricular activities within the Brigade.

Golf Representative Announced Captain Kenneth Craig, Head of the Department of Aviation, has been designated as the assistant to the Head of the Department of Physical Training for Golf. This is in addition to his present duties.

Captain Craig, a native of Galesburg, Illinois, is a graduate of the Class of 1926. He reported to the Academy from duty as Chief of Staff, Fleet Air. Quonset, Rhode Island.

Commander Murray Named Assistant for Football The Superintendent of the Naval Academy, has appointed Commander Hugh Q. Murray, USN, as assistant of the Head of the Department of Physical Training for football.

Commander Murray is the son of Mr. {Continued on page 25)

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By C. William Duncan of "The Philadelphia Inquirer"

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COUPLE of classmates from the A Naval Academy, whose friendship I have been happy to maintain down through the years, told me at a 1921 class luncheon in Washington recently how the Navy was realizing the importance of public relations. Officers were attending schools on the subject at Carlisle Barracks. Top ranking Naval officers were appreciating, more and more, what it means to the Navy to do a fine selling job to the public of the U.S.A. Great! Let's hope this is only the beginning.

If you'll pardon a personal reference, I'm in my 25th year in the newspaper business, 21 in the metropolitan field and four on small town papers. I've been a baseball writer, football writer, editorial writer, interviewer of prominent people for a twelve year stretch, rewrite man, features, publicity man for a college on the side, traveling public speaker into 40 States, etc. Navy experienceâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;bilger from 1921 in plebe year; seaman 2/c and QM2/c at sea in 1918; Lt. Comdr., USNR, in 1943 and 1944.

Need I state that public relations, especially in the last 20 years, has become an art all its own? Nearly every large outfit in American has what used to be known as a "publicity man" or "press agent" and is now, in more dignified terms, called a "director of public relations." Regardless of title, his job is to maintain pleasant relations between his company and the public, call on legislators at the National and State capitols to look out for the interests of his company, help sell the product of his company to the public and, above all, maintain close contact with newspapermen and people of the radio and television world.

Every time I think of what a public relation? or selling job could do, my favorite Eastern railroad comes to mind.

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We'll call it Railroad X. Railroad X tries to compete with Railroad Y, a larger and more powerful road which has faster and more frequent trains but whose employees are less courteous and whose cars are dirtier. Railroad X has many things to sell. It could have representatives speak before service dubs and other organizations, showing movie films of the beautiful country through which it travels; its spic and span diners; its delicious meals; its courteous employees; its comfortable chair cars, sleepers and coaches; its opportunities for shippers.

I've lived in Philadelphia for 24 years.

I've never heard one speech lauding Railroad X as a conveyer of passengers or freight. Railroad X goes along in the same old way, taking what comes. Railroad Y, big and powerful and on the job, gets the lion's share of the business.

On the positive side may I give an illustration of a real public relations job?

The Philadelphia Inquirer is now the only morning newspaper in the third largest population area in the United States. Its morning circulation is over 700,000 and its Sunday circulation over 1,000,000, second largest morning circulation of any standard size newspaper in America. The Chicago Tribune is first.

Here is a real chance to go to sleep, to become complacent. However, The Inquirer never lets the people of Philadelphia, Eastern and Central Pennsylvania, Central and Southern New Jersey, Delaware and Northern Maryland forget it.

Billboards tell the story to automobile drivers. Train ads blare forth to commuters that "Philadelphia Prefers The Inquirer" An annual musical carnival in Municipal Stadium, conducted by Inquirer Charities, Inc., draws around 70,000 people. The September football game between the Philadelphia Eagles and Green Bay Packers or Chicago Bears attracts around 95,000. The Inquirer

Charities, Inc. holds an annual golf tournament, boxing tournament, fashion show, frequent luncheons to which noted authors are invited; and numerous other events to let the public know the paper is alive.

Yes, every year public relations become increasingly important.

You know what I'd like to see? I'd like to see the Navy give practical experience to its officers in public relations.

Regular Naval officers are experts on ships, experts in gunnery, navigation and ordnance. Some of xi\e. officers are graduates of law schools, fully qualified for duties in the JAG's office.

For the Navy public relations of the future I'd like to see Lt. (jg) John Doe, on his two years shore stretch, work iti a newspaper office in Washington or San Francisco. A few years later it would be fine for Lt. Doe to have a job in a radio station in New York or Los Angeles.

Still later Lt. Comdr. John Doe could go back on a newspaper in Seattle, Chicago or Philadelphia, or perhaps enter the television field or work for a big public relations outfit. Details on procuring such jobs could be worked out with sympathetic newspapers and guilds.

Years later when Captain Doe or Rear Admiral Doe was high up in Navy public relations, he'd know the newspaper, radio and television field. He'd know the slant on life of the newspaperman. Scattered around the United States, in key spots would be men with whom John worked twenty years ago. They'd be his pals. They'd go all out for John and the Navy. That's human nature.

My 1921 classmates also told me that more and more Naval officers were taking courses in public speaking. That's a good sign too. A battleship skipper can't be expected to be a William Jennings Bryan but it does help when he's not lost on his feet.

Friends, the American people, as a whole, are mighty receptive to the United States Navy. The Navy really has something to sell. Don't hide your talents.

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immt Lt. Comdr. H. B. Seim, USN, '40 you can recall those cold PERHAPS winter mornings when you, as a mid-

taking the regular course are enabled to communicate in simple phraseology in Spanish, French, German, Pormguese, Russian, or Italian and to understand the nature of the people whose tongue they study. Those midshipmen taking the advanced course in French or Spanish are provided with a general working knowledge of the language, permitting them to discuss, with assurance, subjects embraced within their professional knowledge and in pertinent international affairs. The final criterion is usefulness.

Does the midshipman benefit from the time and effort spent in language smdy?

it was necessary to communicate with them solely through interpreters imtil he was placed in charge. His command of Spanish, though "rusty," was nevertheless good enough after two and a half years of absence from smdy to enable him within a few days to take almost all of the burden of instruaing from the hard-worked interpreters, obviously resulting in a considerable saving of time and work.

Another example of the value and usefulness of the language instruaion given at the Naval Academy is reported

by Mr. H. Allen Wright, Class of 1944.

While Lieutenant Edwards' experience shows the application in the military field, Mr. Wright has found his knowledge of Spanish learned at the Naval Academy of tremendous worth in civilian life. Quoting from his letter: " . . . my position and success in the business world I attribute to the Spanish I learned as a midshipman." Mr. Wright states that upon his retirement Trom the Marine Corps in September 1945 he was employed by a textile exporting house as Assistant Export Manager, solely because of the fact that he knew Spanish. Within two months he had advanced to the position of Export Manager, which he still holds. He adds that people fi-om Spain and all over Latin America have (Continued on page 24)

shipman, trudged through the icy blasts sweeping the Severn to that Tower of Babel known as Luce HaU. And you probably wondered, as most midshipmen at one time or another do, why you had to learn to say "Como esta?" or "Wie geht's?" when all of the girls you met in fsreign lands on the cruise easily understeod your "Hi, Babel". Yet you completed the required cotirse in foreign languages and chances are that you have had some occasion since graduating to employ yoior knowledge to good advantage. The Naval Academy curriculimn does nor contain foreign languages withNFORMAL reports from recent gradout reason. Even the manner in which uates in the form of letters to the the language is presented to the midship- Head of the Department of Foreign man is the result of mamre deliberation Languages testify to the usefulness and and meticulous planning. value of the instruction in foreign For example, in the presentation of a languages at the Naval Academy. The foreign language, should reading ability experience of Second Lieutenant Roy J. be emphasized, or oral fluency? Should .Edwards, USMC, Class of 1947, provides a technical vocabulary be obtained at the an illustration of the application of the expense of a knowledge of literature or' knowledge of a foreign language in the history? Should the midshipman upon performance of his military duties. Last completion of the course be able to carry fall Lieutenant Edwards was placed in on an everyday conversation in the for- charge of a detail of eleven Venezuelan eign tongue or is it sufiftcient that he be Marines, who reported to the Second able to translate a treatise on naval ma- Marine Division at Camp Lejeune, North chinery? Here the answer is a com- Carolina, for instruction in small unit promise. The curriculum presentation land warfare. Edwards writes that the must be flexible and easily modified in men as a group did not speak English, so the light of new advances in educational methods or changes in the specific objectives to be attained. Though some particular phases of the language study may be emphasized, it is usually not possible New York Yacht Club or advisable to eliminate any one part.

37 West 44th Street The current program of language presNew York 18, N. Y. entation in the Department of Foreign 22 March 1948 Languages adheres to this principle. Oral Editor SHIPMATE fluency and ability to carry on an everyAlumni House day conversation in the foreign language Annapolis, Md. are stressed but so also is knowledge of the countries and people whose language Referring to the article on USS M A I N E , in the March issue of SHIPMATE. I was is smdied. Some familiarity with a promuch interested particularly since I was personally connected with her final sinking fessional vocabulary is likewise attained. in 1912. It was arranged that the towing of the hulk to sea and her sinking was to The objective of the Department of Forbe done by a naval force consisting of the USS N O R T H CAROLINA (armored eign Languages is to qualify every midcruiser) and BIRMINGHAM (light cruiser). Capt. C. Marsh of N. C, S.O.P. I hapshipman in the fundamental structure pened to be navigator and temporary Executive Officer of the NORTH CAROLINA of one foreign language and in a knowland fell heir to the job of arranging for the Naval part of the final burial. edge of the area, the civilization, the cusWe received on board 69 lead coffins of the M A I N E dead and after ceremonies toms and the history of the people whose on the N O R T H CAROLINA quarter deck and a funeral address by Father Chidwick, language is being studied. Midshipmen who was Chaplain on the M A I N E at time of her blowing up, the hulk of the after 14

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ORTY years ago, in 1908, a fleet of sixteen battleships of the United States Navy made a cruise around the world. When they were all in a port, and large numbers of men were allowed to go ashore on liberty, shore patrols, consisting of officers and petty officers, were sent ashore to assist the local police in maintaining order, and to handle the cases where Navy personnel were involved, the same system which is in use today.

The gun-boat YANKTON, a converted yacht, went with the Fleet as a tender.

When the Fleet sailed from a port the Y A N K T O N remained behind to pick up stragglers and bring them on to the next port of call.

An American citizen had a job as a Steward on a British passenger liner which phed regularly between Auckland, New Zealand, and Sydney, Australia.

When the Fleet was in Auckland this steamer was in Sydney and on its return run to Auckland it met, at sea, the Fleet which was then on its way to Sydney.

The passenger liner turned around at Auckland and reached Sydney the day before the Fleet was due to sail from Sydney to Melbourne.

The Steward promptly went ashore in Sydney to mingle with his fellow Americans and celebrate with them. It happened that he fell in with a Bandsman and the two of them wound up that night in a pub where the Steward was known and where he had been accustomed to stay, in a bed-room upstairs.

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when he was ashore overnight. After they had had all the drinks they could carry they went to bed in this bed-room.

The next morning, when the Steward awoke, he was alone in the room. The Bandsman had gone and he had taken the Steward's clothes, and what money there was left, if any, but had left his own Bandsman's uniform. The two men were about the same size. The Steward, who had a hang-over from his drinks of the night before, decided that the only thing he could do was to dress in the uniform and go out and try to find the Bandsman.

This he did, but before leaving the pub, where his credit was good, he fortified himself with a few more drinks.

As soon as he appeared on the street he was grabbed by the Y A N K T O N ' S patrol. He tried to protest and, had he been sober, his protests might have been heeded, but, as he was drunk, the patrol replied "Shut up you darned Dago" and rushed him down to the YANKTON. As many of the bandsmen in the Navy are Italians a man in a bandsman's uniform is a "Dago" even though he be a big Dutchman who pounds the bass drum.

When he arrived on the Y A N K T O N his protests were ignored and he received the same reply. He had sense enough to know that he must sober up in order to get anyone to listen to him so he found a place to lie down and went to sleep.

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part of the M A I N E was towed to sea due north of Morro Castle. I had our chief quartermaster send to the M A I N E our largest ensign and this was hoisted on a small staff.

The funeral cortege proceeded with the N O R T H CAROLINA and BIRMINGHAM and many local vessels to the point of sinking. Looking at the chart 1 noticed the figures 660 fathoms depth 6 miles due north of Morro and decided that this was an appropriate location and accordingly caused signal to be made. The vessels lined up in hollow square, salutes were fired and valves on hulk opened. She sank gracefully and slowly and appeared to make a final bow as she sank beneath the water.

Then we noticed that the flag had detached itself and was floating. A whale boat was sent to pick it up. It accompanied the coffins which were covered with lovely floral decorations made of crockery which had been sent by the Cubans. The NORTH CAROLINA then proceeded to Hampton Roads where the coffins with the flowers were transferred to the BIRMINGHAM to be taken to Arlington for final burial.

With best wishes and very sincerely, H. C. Dinger, Capt. USN (Ret.) Class of 1898.

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was at sea on her way to Melbourne. It is a short run between the two cities.

Melbourne is situated on a large bay, Port St. Phillip, with a very narrow entrance, and the bay is so large that it gets very rough at times. There is a small enclosed, artificial, harbor called Williamstown, and the Y A N K T O N went in there and tied up to a dock. The Steward watched for a chance and managed to get ashore and make his way into Melbourne. By this time his clothes were dirty, he needed a shave, and was generally unkempt. In Melbourne he was spotted by the patrol and promptly locked up for the night.

The next morning the patrol officer was checking off his prisoners for return to their ships. When he came to the Steward who, in the bandsman's uniform, wore no cap ribbon, he asked him to which ship he belonged. The Steward, entirely sober by this time, said, "I don't belong on any of your ships and if you will listen to me for a few minutes I will tell you why I am here and in this uniform." He proceeded to tell his story to the patrol officer who was so amazed that he decided this was a case to be handled by the Commander-in-Chief. He sent the Steward to the Flagship, the CONNECTICUT, with a note to the Chief of Staff.

When the Chief of Staff heard his story the following conversation ensued: C. of S.: "This is an amazing story but I do not know what we can do."

Steward: "Well you have got to do something. You shanghaied me. I have lost my ship. I have lost my job. I have lost my money. I have lost my clothes.

All I have is this uniform and it is not mine. You must do something."

C. of S.: "You say you are an American citizen."

Steward: "Yes, and this is no way to treat an American."

C. of S.: "And you are a seaman?"

Steward: "Yes, of course I am."

C. of S.: "Then why don't you join the Navy of your country?"

Steward: "May 1 join up?"

C. of S.: "Yes, we will enlist you."

Steward: "All right, I will."

This was a complicated way of obtaining a recruit but it was a simple way of solving a vexatious problem.

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I^u^ieau ajf Revision of General Stores Load Lists for Vessels the war the Bureau of SupDURING plies and Accounts, together with Outfitting Supply Activities under its direction, prepared General Stores Load Lists (Lead Lists) for all vessels operating directly under the General Supply System. Their preparation was based on usage data compiled from records of vessels then in commission. The Load List was primarily designed to be used for the uniform ordering of GSK material by vessels being fitted out and to eliminate the wastefid ordering of unsuitable and unnecessary stocks of such material.

Since the General Stores Load Lists were used so successfully during the war. the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts has recently undertaken the task of revising these lists and at the same time changing the format so as to include vessels of the Reserve Fleets. The individual General Stores Load Lists, when revised, may be used by all ships operating directly under the General Supply System as an "allowance" list and an inventory check-off list, and further may be used by Reserve Fleet vessels and new construction as a requisition and deficiency list. Eventually, according to plans, the General Stores Load Lists will be prepared to include those vessels operating indirectly under the General Supply System.

The Bureau of Supplies and Accounts has forwarded to the Bureau of Ships for concurrence, and to the office of the Chief of Naval Operations for approval, a plan whereby the General Stores Load Lists incorporate the present Bureau of Ships' Allowance Lists for Consumable Supplies (Part III) and that the latter lists, as they are revised, be reduced to include only those items of general stores peculiar to an individual ship, such as special fuses and bearings, and general stores items used as spare parts for machinery components. This procedure, if approved, will provide for a well-rounded list of general stores for the ships and will reduce duplication of work both ashore and afloat.

A comparison of the Bureau of Ships' Master Allowance Lists of Consumable Supplies (Part III) and the General Stores Load Lists shows, in most cases, a duplication of items. Invariably the quantities appearing in the General Stores Load Lists are larger than in the Bureau of Ships' Allowance Lists. The number

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and kept-up-to-date. In this connection it is hoped that supply activities both afloat and ashore will review these lists from time to time and submit their comof items carried in the General Stores ments and recommendations for their Load Lists is also much greater, provid- over-all improvement. ing a well-rounded stock of stores. This Catalog Operations at Ships Parts is accounted for by the fact that the BuControl Center Naval Supply reau of Ships' Lists are intended primarDepot, Mechanicsburg, Pa. ily as commissioning requirements and as operating guides, whereas those preThe Ships Parts Control Center, Napared by the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts from usage data obtained from val Supply Depot, Mechanicsburg, Pa., vessels, are intended as lists of general commenced catalog operations in April 1946 with a mission to prepare that porstores required for a 90-day stock.

Under existing directives, vessels of tion of the Bureau of Ships Seaion of the Reserve Fleets are required to pre- the Catalog of Navy Material which pare deficiency lists and requisitions for would include all huU and machinery deficiencies in the Bureau of Ships' Al- and internal combustion engine equiplowance Lists (Part III), and also must ments under cognizance of the Bureau prepare requisitions for deficiencies of of Ships.

That mission was recently broadened items carried in general stores. Incorporation of Part III into the General to include searchlights, navigational inStores Load Lists would eliminate this struments, Gyro Compass, and Motion Picture Projector equipment. The Gyro duplication.

The Bureau of Supplies and Accounts and Motion Picture Projector operations anticipates that the revised load lists for are currently underway at the Brooklyn CV's, CVL's and CVE's will be ready for Naval Shipyard, New York, the work distribution within the next sixty days. being performed by civilian contractor Distribution of these lists, when revised, personnel under the technical direction will be automatic to vessels of the Re- of SPCC The catalog is being prepared in style serve Fleets. Complete and detailed instructions for their use will be forwarded and format approved by the Chief of to Reserve Fleet Commanders for Naval Operations embodying features which make it a type of publication flexpromulgation to Group Commanders.

The Bureau wishes to emphasize that, ible and understandable to all field peralthough the load lists will be forwarded sonnel. It includes component, accessory, to the Reserve Fleets without being re- and wearable or replaceable parts lists, quested, this action is not to be con- together with indicated stocking policies, strued to mean that the lists are not avail- cross-referenced to Navy Stock Number able to vessels of the Active Fleets upon and alternate or manufacturer part numindividual request. However, load lists ber indices, and other pertinent inare primarily intended to serve as a formation. requisition for vessels of the Reserve Approximately 350 personnel, the maFleets and for fitting out new construc- jority of whom are engineers and techtion and do not serve that function for nical specialists, make up the SPCC vessels of the Active Fleets. Vessels al- Catalog Department. Catalog research ready in commission requesting a load operations were originally performed by list for their particular type must con- civilian contractor personnel. A Civil sider the list only as a general guide and Service organization has recendy been a source of information. established replacing all contractual serThe General Stores Load Lists, when vices with the exception of a small group (Continued on page 24) revised, will be reviewed periodically by Chief of

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HE mission of the Naval Gun Factory, which is the largest ordnance plant under the cognizance of the Bureau of Ordnance, is to supply the Navy with the best fighting equipment in the world. To accomplish this, the Gun Factory must not only have the skilled craftsmen necessary to carry on its own program of design, development and manufacture of naval ordnance, but it must also groom certain of its key personnel to pass on this knowledge to the many contractors who are selected by the Bureau of Ordnance to take on the huge task of quantity manufacmre in time of emergency.

To insure that it will always have these skilled workers available, "The Naval Gun Factory carries on a progressive and effective apprentice training program. The standard of training, both in shop and in theory, is one of the highest in the United States. This is evidenced by the fact that the program is the first in this area to be approved by the District of Columbia Board of Education as qualifying its graduates for a certificate equivalent to a vocational high school diploma. On 16 March, 70 graduates received these certificates from L. J. Cantrell, Associate Superintendent in charge of Junior and Vocational High Schools.

Distria of Columbia.

While several of the graduates had a year or more of college before entering apprentice training, 32 of the class had not previously completed their high school education. Thus the apprentice training program has not only taught them the manipulative skills of all around craftsman but has permitted them to continue their interrupted education.

The apprentices, selected by civil service examination, serve four yearsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; a total of 7,312 hours. In the case of veterans, the age limit for entrance is waived. A non-veteran must be between the ages of 16 to 20 to be eligible. All but one of the recent graduates were veterans.

The trainees go to school one week out of every four. They smdy English, history, mathematics, science, mechanical drawing and trade theory under instructors whose qualifications are approved by the Board of Education.

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Chief of Bureau the apprentice receives practical instruction in all fundamentals of the trade.

The master mechanic of each shop designates a training supervisor to administer the training in his shop. It is the duty of the supervisors to see that the curriculum is followed and that the apprentice instructors teach each student all of the elements involved. At no time during the training is the apprentice left to his own devices. His entire training in school is supervised by classroom instructors and when he is in the shop, he

is under the direct guidance of a shop supervisor or an apprentice instructor.

Apprentice training was first introduced at the Naval Gun Factory in 1892.

The apprentice then earned 63c for a nine-hour day. Today he earns $6.56 for an eight-hour day at the beginning, and by the time he completes the course he is earning $9.44 a day.

It is recognized that from the apprentices of today must come the supervisors and master mechanics of tomorrow. Of the 24 master mechanics heading the shops of the Naval Gun Factory at this time, 14 began their careers there as apprentices.

C. L. Chulick, of Washington, D. C, who ranked first in the class in both theory and shop practice, delivering the valedictory speech accepting the vocational high school certificates on behalf of the class at graduation exercises held in the sail loft at the Gun Factory on 17 March 1948. Seated behind Chulick are, left to right, Master Mechanic G. A. Henderson, Rear Admiral Theodore D. Ruddock, Jr., USN, Superintendent of the Naval Gun Factory; Captain C. A. Printup, USN, Director of Industrial Relations, Giui Factory; and Mr. L. J. Cantrell, Associate Superintendent in Charge of Junior and Vocational High Schools of the District of Columbia, who presented the diplomas to the 70 graduates. Sixty-nine of the graduates are ex-G.I.'s. The U. S. Navy Band is in the background. Official U. S. Navy Photograph.

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HE postgraduate medical training program of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery has been in effect since 1920.

An added impetus was given to the Training Program in 1946 when nine Naval Hospitals were approved for residency training in the various specialties.

A recent survey of the number of Medical officers in training indicates that there are now 265 medical officers under approved residency training in the nine continental Naval Hospitals which have been approved in the various specialties by the Council on Medical Education and Hospitals of the American Medical Association, with concurrence of the American Specialty Boards. The hospitals which have been approved for residency training are the Naval Hospitals at Chelsea, Mass., Great Lakes, 111., Long Beach, Calif., Oakland, Calif., Philadelphia, Penn., St. Albans, L. I., N. Y., San Diego, Calif., Portsmouth, Va., and at the National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Md. In addition to those under residency training in Naval Hospitals, the Professional Division of the Bureau points out that there are 134 medical officers of the Navy in training in approved civilian medical centers throughout the country.

Plans are now being developed by the Professional Division of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery for a program of three-year residency training in general practice at Naval Hospitals. This program may be established in the near future.

The Professional Division further reports that there are, at present, a total of 139 medical officers of the Regular Navy certified by American specialty boards in Dermatology and Syphilology ( 2 ) , Internal Medicine ( 3 1 ) , Obstetrics and Gynecology ( 1 1 ) , Ophthalmology ( 9 ) , Orthopedic Surgery ( 1 ) , Otolaryngology ( 1 9 ) , Pathology ( 8 ) , Pediatrics ( 8 ) , Plastic Surgery ( 1 ) , Psychiatry and Neurology ( 1 7 ) , Radiology ( 1 9 ) , Surgery ( 7 ) , and Urology ( 6 ) . 205 medical officers completed postgraduate training courses of 6 months to 1 year duration in various specialties during 1947.

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trained in civilian instimtions and 118 in naval hospitals. Additional medical officers of the Navy will be eligible for examinations by the specialty boards within the next few months. * * * Queen Helen of Rumania, accompanied by her lady-in-waiting, Madam Nelly Catargy, and Dr. Antoinette Popovici, her personal physician, was a visitor at the National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Md., on Wednesday, 31 March.

Following a tour of the Center, Queen Helen was a luncheon guest of Rear Admiral T. C. Anderson, MC, USN, Medical Officer in Command of the Naval Medical Center. * # # The Bureau of Medicine and Surgery is contemplating a staff conference to be held in Washington during the last week in May. It is planned to invite all Medical Officers in Command of Naval Hospitals and Dispensaries and all Senior Medical and Dental Commands within the continental U. S. to attend this conference. * * * Rear Admiral Clifford A. Swanson, MC, USN, Surgeon General and Chief of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, presented a Certificate of Appreciation to Dr. Julius Lempert, of New York City, on Thursday, March 25th. An outstanding otologist of international reputation.

Dr. Lempert perfected the fenestration operation for otosclerosis. The certificate was awarded in recognition of his meritorious and outstanding service which was voluntarily rendered in connection with the instruction and training of medical officers of the Navy in temporal bone surgery during the period of 'World War II. * * * Rear Admiral Joel T. Boone, MC, USN, on duty in Washington as the Executive Secretary of the Committee on

Medical and Hospital Services for the Armed Forces, delivered the commencement address at the Centennial Commencement of the Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital of Philadelphia, which was held in the Philadelphia Academy of Music on 18 March 1948.

Following his address, the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws was conferred upon Admiral Boone who is a graduate of the Hahnemann Medical College, Class of 1913. The admiral accepted an appointment in the Navy Medical Corps immediately following his internship at the Hahnemann Hospital in 1914. Doctor Edward L. Bortz, President of the American Medical Association, and Thomas B. McCabe, newly appointed Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, were also awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws, and the Honorable James H. Duff, Governor of Pennsylvania, received the honorary degree of Doctor of Civil Law. At the alumni banquet which preceded the commencement. Admiral Boone talked on the subject of "Preparedness." Admiral Boone expressed his belief that the lamentably too rapid demobilization of military forces which was enforced on the Army and Navy, following World War 11, was a grave mistake. He pointed out that, in keeping with the present world situation, this country must have a strong military force as the most potent faaor in the promotion of peace in a world in which regrettably only force is recognized. He also stated that, in his opinion, if an adequate military structure had been maintained in the United States, this country would not now be in its present critical situation, and that it is the direct responsibility of the American people to see that the authorized strength of the Armed Forces is maintained.

Commander W. K. Lawlor, (MSC) LTSN, of the Sanitation and Health Branch of the Preventive Medicine Division of the Bureau, addressed the Midshipmen at the Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, on Friday evening, 19 March. His subject was "Sanitation in the Field." * * # The Dental Research Activities of the Naval Medical Research Institute and the National Institute of Health have jointly undertaken a study of the "Epidemiology of Oral Fusospirochetosis" (Vincents Infection). The preliminary portion of this projea is being accomplished by the Dental Department of the Great Lakes Naval Training Center.

It is planned to divide this study into several related phases, each of which will be undertaken at large Naval activities.

The entire project is expected to require a period of from 5 to 8 years for completion. It is expected that this study will

supplement the present inadequate knowledge regarding the cause, possible transmission and control of oral fusospirochetosis.

Lieutenant Commander J. C. Owens, D. C, U. S. Navy is completing a report of his studies made during recent Araic and Antaraic naval operations. A smdy on the effea of these frigid conditions on certain dental medicines has been made

by Lieutenant (jg) J. E. Gajewski of the Pharmacy and Toxicology Facility of the Naval Medical Research Institute. The Dental Research Seaion of the National Bureau of Standards has conducted tests to determine the effects of extreme cold on dental filling materials such as cements and silver amalgams. Engineers at the Brooklyn Naval Supply Depot are testing Naval dental equipment and instriunents that were exposed to frigid temperatures on the operations.

The Harvard School of Dental Medicine has submitted a proposal for a Navy supported research projea to be conduaed at that school on the subject of "Changes in Glycogen Metabolism of the Oral Mucous Membranes Associated with Precancerous Lesions." This is a smdy of lesions which occur in the mouth that often develop into cancer.

The need for research in this field is obvious from the fact that approximately 7500 persons die annually in the United States from oral malignancies. This proposal is now being considered for support by the Office of Naval Research. * * * Colonel Elgin M. Wansbrough, Director General of the Dental Service of the Canadian Army, Navy, and Air Force, devoted last Friday to a smdy of the curriculum, teaching methods and facilities of the U. S. Naval Dental School, National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland. He evidenced keen interest in establishing a similar type of postgraduate training for officers of the Canadian dental officer to the next General Postgraduate Course of Instruction at the U. S. Naval Dental School. * * * Rear Admiral J. C. Adams, MC, USN, was recently honored by his appointment to Honorary Commander of the Military Division of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. Admiral Adams' new distinction expresses the British Empire's recognition of his contribution to the allied war effort while serving as Chief of the Division of Aviation Medicine. Admiral Adams was cited for "the care and medical supervision which was afforded to flying personnel by his service, and his contribution to the advance of aviation medicine which was of very great value to the allied cause." The citation states "he freely placed the results of researches at the disposal of the British services and will(Continued on page 27)

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HE period 4 May to 6 June, in commemoration of the battles of the Coral Sea and Midway, has been selected as the period during which the Navy Relief Society will issue its annual call for contributions from all members of the Naval Service, afloat and ashore. In anticipation of this period the Society desires to state again its purpose and to report briefly upon the work accomplished in 1947.

The sole purpose of the Society is to assist either financially or with other services the officers and enlisted men of the regular Navy and Marine Corps, the Reserve components thereof when on regular active duty, the dependents of such personnel as well as the dependents of deceased personnel of the Naval Service.

The general scope within which financial assistance can be expected includes the relief or contributing to the relief of abnormal rion-recurring situations in which Naval personnel or their dependents find themselves and which they cannot reasonably meet from their own resources. Among such situations are included the following: medical and dental care, funeral expenses, non-receipt of dependency allowances, emergency transportation, delayed payment of government benefits and insurance to dependents of deceased personnel.

Real need is a controlling factor and funds are not available for mere convenience, financing leave or liberty (except in unusual circumstances), business venmres, or purchase of non-essentials, or to maintain a standard of living incommensurate with the resources of the individual. All cases, however, are given careful consideration and attempt is made to solve them on the side of liberality.

A serviceman or his dependents may request assistance by applying in person to any one of the 38 Auxiliaries or, if there is no Auxiliary in the immediate vicinity, by communicating directly with the Navy Relief Society, Navy Department, Washington 25, D. C. Financial assistance during 1947 was given as follows: Total Total Number Amount Gratuities (outright gifts) 4,282 $ 218,588 Loans without interest 24,681 1,418,037 Loans canceled 9,333 376,538 Grand Total 38,296 $2,013,163

During the period April to December, inclusive, 1947 financial assistance was given in 5,377 cases amounting to $286,004 due to non-receipt of dependency allowances (family allowances) and voluntary allotments.

The Society's assistance is by no means limited to providing financial help. Socalled service cases during 1947 amounted to more than 70,000 as against 38,296 financial cases. Broadly, service cases include the services of the Navy Relief Nurse, "Navy Neighbors," assistance with arrangements for transportation, housing, personal problems and other related matters. The Society is deeply indebted to volunteer women, mostly wives of Naval officers, for their work in performing a great part of these services; however, in recent years the Society has been able to supplement their work by the employment, in limited numbers, of professional social workers and registered nurses. In the larger Auxiliaries also, due to the necessary withdrawal of service personnel formerly assigned and in order to maintain the standard of service, the Society has been forced to provide clerical help from civilian sources. The salaries and expenses of the professional workers (16 social workers and 20 nurses) amounted to $103,988 in 1947; for the 48 clerical workers and office expense the figure was $133,206. In the case of the professional workers, particularly the nurses by virtue of the gratuitous work which they perform, the expense involved is considered in the nature of a gratuity.

The annual call for contributions will not appeal for any specific amount from any individual. The goal is the maximum number of contributions. Although intimately identified with the Naval Service, the Navy Relief Society is a private agency supported entirely by private funds, chiefly contributions from officers and enlisted men and civilian friends of the Navy. No government funds whatsoever are utilized in carrying on its work. Its financial assistance is not considered charity in the ordinary sense of that word. It is, rather, assistance in time of need by one member of a large Naval family to another.

The demands upon the Society have decreased since the war but the decrease has not been in the same proportion as the reduction in number of Naval personnel. Costs of service and administra(Continued on page 26) 19

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LAG rank orders for March were as Ffollows:

Admiral Charles M. Cooke, Jr., USN, will retire on 1 May. Vice Admiral John L. HaU, Jr., USN, was ordered detached as Com 14 and ComHawSeaFron to report as Commander, Armed Forces Staff College, Norfolk, Va. Vice Admiral Bernhard H. Bieri, USN, was ordered to duty as Com 11 and CO, NavBase, San Diego, Calif.

Vice Admiral Walter S. Delany, USN, was ordered detached as ComBatCruPac to report as Com 3Rear Admiral Clifford E. Van Hook, USN, will retire on 1 May. Rear Admiral John W. Reeves, USN, was ordered detached as Chief, NATS, to report as Chief, Naval Air "Training, Pensacola, with additional duty as Chief, NavAir Basic Training.

Rear Admiral Laurance T. DuBose, USN, was ordered detached as Com 6 to report as ComBatCruPac. Rear Admiral Arthur D. Struble, USN, was ordered detached as ComPhibPac to report as DCNO (Operations).

Rear Admiral Robert W. Hayler, USN, was ordered detached as Senior Member, Board of Decorations and Medals, to report as Com 14 and ComHawSeaFron.

Rear Admiral Bertram J. Rodgers, USN, was ordered detached as ComPhibCru 1 with additional duty as ComTransRon 1 to report as ComPhibPac. Rear Admiral Peter K. Fischler, USN, was ordered detached as ComPhibTraPac to report as ComPhibGru 1 with additional duty as ComTransRon 1.

Rear Admiral Clifton A. F. Sprague, USN, was ordered detached as NavAirVanTraSubComd, Corpus Christi, to report as ComCarDiv 6.

Rear Admiral William K. Phillips, USN, was ordered detached as ComDesLant to report as CO, NOB, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Rear Admiral John Perry, USN, was ordered detached as ComCarDiv 6 to report as ComFairWing 2.

Rear Admiral William G. Tomlinson, USN, was ordered detached as Chief Air Readiness Section, Naval Operations, to report as Naval Attache and Naval Attache for Air, London.

Rear Admiral John H. Carson, USN, was ordered detached as ComCruDiv 15 20

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Rear Admiral James H. Doyle, USN, reported as ComPhibTraPac. Rear Admiral Clarence E. Olsen, USN, was ordered detached as CO, Naval Administrative Command, CIC, to report as CO, NavBase, Norfolk, Va. Rear Admiral Lucian A. Moebus, USN, was ordered detached from duties at Maxwell Field, Montgomery, Ala., to report to CNO for duty.

Rear Admiral Robert F. Hickey, USN, was ordered detached as Deputy Director of Public Relations to report as ComFairWing 5.

Rear Admiral Herbert E. Regan, USN, reported as member of the General Board.

Rear Admiral Daniel Hunt, MC, USN, was ordered detached as General Inspector, BuMed, to report as inspector of Medical Corps activities. Pacific Coast.

Rear Admiral Joel T. Boone, MC, USN, was ordered detached as inspector of Medical Corps activities. Pacific Coast, to report as General Inspector, BuMed. Rear Admiral William J. C. Agnew, MC, TISN, was ordered detached as Distria Medical Officer, 11th N D , to report as District Medical Officer, I4th ND. Cnmmodore Thomas T. Keliher. Jr., USN, was ordered detached as ComServRon 3 to report to Naval Hospital, Long Beach, Calif., for treatment.

Pay increases for Navy and other uniformed services, now under study by a civilian committee whose primary concern is the welfare of service personnel, probably will not be laid before Congress before the present session ends.

When completed, the committee's intensive study will have taken in "every significant phase of a sound system of compensation" according to the exea:tive secretary of the board, Mr. John L. Hoen, who recently completed five years of Navy service.

In addition to the executive secretary.

the commission is composed of four prominent civilian executives from manufacturing, public utilities and educational fields. More than 100 service personnel compile reports and make smdies for the commission.

The commission's recommendations will be submitted to the Defense secretariat as a basis for proposing legislation to Congress providing new pay scales for the armed forces and the Coast Guard, Public Health Service, and the Coast and Geodetic Survey.

Special studies cover four fields: industrial wage comparisons, retirement, special pay, and history and tradition.

Other factors being considered are the relation of insurance, retirement pay and survivor benefits to active duty pay; the value of special benefits such as tax exemptions and commissary privileges; the question of extra pay for hazardous duty and special skills; and elimination of inequalities of pay between the services.

A career which had spanned three wars and witnessed the most important evolutionary phases of the U. S. Navy came to an end with the death of Adm. Joseph M. Reeves, USN (Ret.), former CincFlt and once the Navy's general board chairman. Admiral Reeves died at the age of 75 in NavMedCen, Bethesda, Md., on25 March.

After having been retired in 1937 prior to which he already had served a full career, the admiral was recalled to duty in 1940 with SecNav as lend-lease liaison officer, senior member and chairman of several munitions boards. Following his recall to active duty in World War II as a rear admiral, he was rapidly advanced to vice-admiral and then to full admiral in 1942.

Admiral Reeves, although not an aviator, was considered a supporter of naval air power and became a qualified aviation observer. Attributable to his efforts was success of the fast carrier task forces of 'WW II which eventually spearheaded the offensive against the Japanese.

The admiral graduated from the U. S. Naval Academy in 1894 where he was a star football player. He later became the academy's head football coach, from 1906 to 1908.

During the Spanish-American war.

Admiral Reeves served aboard the USS OREGON. In April-1913 Admiral Reeves

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assumed command of the USS JUPITER, the first elearically propelled vessel of the Na\y. Subsequently he served aboard auisers and battleships, in World War I, commanding the USS M A I N E . Among his assignments after "WWI was that of naval attache in Rome.

Coveted Rhodes scholarships for attendance at Oxford University in England have been awarded to two graduates of the LT. S. Naval Academy.

Members of the 1946 class. Ensign Harry A. Watson, USN, and William E. Slesnick, who resigned his commission last year, will enter Oxford in October.

Selection as a Rhodes scholar is considered one of the highest scholastic achievements.

At the present time three Naval officers are attending the university as Rhodes scholars while five more are on aaive duzy. The Naval Academy holds the distinaion of having had the highest percentage of Rhodes scholars chosen from any one school in any one year when, in 1930, six out of the 32 selected were from the academy. * * * The 150 officers of the Navy, Army and Air Force who comprise the current class at the Armed Forces Staff College, Norfolk, Va., have managed to keep busy participating in "Operations Combine II" ar Greenville Air Force Base, S. C , and Forr Benning, Ga. "Operations Combine II" is the term applied to the coordinated demonstrations of air and ground forces which have been occupying the attention of the officers. A typical week saw the class shuttling by air between the two Southern military installations, witnessing the most recent advances in air-ground operations.

Actual field conditions were simidated.

Control facilities of a combattactical air force was the principal feamre at Greenville which included a joint operations and tactical center. Demonstrations were given in the various types of aircraft and air borne equipment.loadings while latest developments in infantry weapons and firing power of an infantry battalion were shown the officer-smdents at Fort Benning.

Another phase of instruction featured landing of airborne troops utilizing C82s, FF80s, C-47s, P-51s, gliders and helicopters from the Ninth Air Force. * # * Resulting from inclusion of pharmacists as commissioned officers in the Medical Service Corps, the name of "Chief Pharmacists and Pharmacists" has been changed to "Chief Warrant Officers and Warrant Officers, Hospital Corps."

This is the first time in U. S. Navy history that specialty names have been eliminated from warrant designations.

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HE Civil Engineer Corps paid homage to one of its most distinguished officers on 6 April, when traditional graveside services were held in Arlington National Cemetery to commemorate the 39th anniversary of the discovery of the North Pole by Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary, CEC, USN. This year, for the first time, the Admiral Robert E. Peary Ship, Post No. 427, of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, joined in the services. In previous years separate ceremonies were conducted.

Speakers paid tribute to Admiral Peary as a man of "courage, vision, and devotion to purpose," and contrasted the difficulties encountered by the explorer in reaching the Pole by dog sled with the ease of present-day air travel to the Arctic in stressing the greatness of Admiral Peary's achievement.

Mrs. Stafford, the late Admiral's daughter, born in Greenland on one of her father's expeditions, was out of town and unable to attend the ceremony. Mr. Edward Stafford was present.

Admiral Peary reached the North Pole in 1909, after 23 years of exploring the Arctic region and smdying its Eskimo inhabitants. Today he is venerated almost as much for his prophecy as for his exploration. The Admiral was one of the first to predict the future importance of aviation, and his statement that "when trans-polar traffic comes, it wiU come with a rush" is being proved true now. He made the statement in

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Down at the other end of the axis, Ensign C. W. Mallory, CEC, USN, learned the answer to some questions about motorized equipment in antarctic weather last winter. Ensign Mallory was in charge of a detachment of 13 Seabees on the Navy's 1947-48 Antarctic Expedition, known formally as the Second Antarctic Development Project, which was a follow-up to the previous winter's "Operation Highjump."

One purpose of this return voyage was to study the condition of equipment purposely abandoned by the previous expedition. Ensign Mallory's detachment tested one piece of each type of equipment and found no appreciable damage.

In spite of winter temperatures as low as —60° and 100 mile-an-hour winds the vehicles had suffered nothing more serious than being buried in snow drifts.

No rust had formed due to the moistureless atmosphere of the region.

After a Weasel had been dug out of ten feet of snow it started with the fuel, lubrication and storage battery which had been in it since the previous year.

Two types of tractors, two small generators and a jeep were also operated effectively. The motors had to be heated for an hour before starting them, but that is necessary with all motors in polar temperatures.

This year's expedition was much smaller than "Operation Highjump," consisting of two Ice-Breakers, the USS BURTON ISLAND and

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These sister-ships travelled halfway around the antarctic continent before heading back home. * * * * The change in the Navy's enlisted rating structure which went into effect 2 April has reduced the number of Seabee wartime and postwar rates from approximately 21 to 7.

Only Regular Navy personnel and the few Volunteer Reservists in active duty status will be effected by the change.

Other Naval Reservists will retain their emergency service ratings.

As far as active duty personnel are concerned, the previous specialized emergency service rating system will be shelved during peacetime but will be restored upon declaration of a national emergency.

New Seabee ratings and abbreviations are: Surveyor, SV; Construction Electrician's Mate, C E ; Driver, CD; Mechanic, CM; Builder, BU; Steelworker, SW; and Utilities Man, UT. In addition Fireman (FN) and Fireman's Apprentice (FA) ratings will be continued for personnel attending the three-month primary training course at the Training (Continued on page 28) 21

and the paths through them are given to the mariner through the Hydrogfaphic Bulletin.

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p R O B A B L Y die most unique of all -•^ newspapers is published by the U. S. Hydrographic Office. Under the tide of the Hydrographic Bulletin, its masthead proclaims that its objea is to publish items of timely interest to mariners and to promote an agency for the dissemination of information relating to navigation, oceanography and other scientific phenomena. Its circulation is worldwide for it is found on the bridge of each ocean-going American vessel and in addition it is distributed to the foreign vessels that touch our shores. The reporters for this seagoing newspaper are the mariners of all nationalities, who by radio, letter, and formal report constandy forward to the Hydrographic Office a stream of information on the happenings at sea.

Far different from the conventional newspaper, which merely chronicles the prosaic doings of man, is this newspaper of the sea. Here is recorded the birth pains and last moments of the islands which appear and disappear from time to time. Other phenomena, which only those who travel the broad waters are privileged to see, are faithfully reported.

In the Bulletin are found accounts of mirages, St. Elmos Fire, phosphorescence, and the myriad other wonders of namre constantly found at sea. Typical of this type of report is the following: "In approximately lat. 18°20' N., Ion. 104°13' W., the bridge and other lookouts reported having seen a peculiar light resembling a light bulb with a dim Iimiinous appearance which traveled along, and at a slight angle above the horizon, from the beam to the bow and back again with an unsteady velocity and then dimmed out.

"From an advantageous position on the wing of the bridge, the ball of light again appeared approximately one point abaft the beam moving slowly, and gaining momentum, rather jerkily. The light was estimated to have been 2 to 3 miles away from the vessel and from 10 to 30 22

feet in diameter. It appeared to be much larger on nearing the bow and caused concern that it might hit the vessel.

However, it made another circle dead ahead and commenced traveling aft again, to the beam. It then circled again and, rising in elevation slighdy, resumed its flight toward the bow. The light then gradually faded out entirely about two points across the bow. The total elapsed time for this second appearance was 2 minutes."

Another type of news recorded in the Bulletin is that relating to the unmarked drifting dangers that lurk in the path of shipping. Each week there appears in geographical order the latest reports of drifting mines, derelia vessels, and other dangers along the ocean routes. As to the amount of this type of danger the following figures are significant: For a six months' period covering the North Pacific Ocean 1,089 obstruaions were reported along the shipping lanes.

Of this total 717 were drifting mines; the remaining 372 being miscellaneous objeas such as derelicts; liferafts, pontoons, huge logs, drifting buoys and other flotsam and jetsam.

In the Spring of each year an additional danger appears in the North Atlantic Ocean. 'This is the procession of icebergs which drift down along the eastern edge of the Grand Banks and menace the shipping lanes to Europe.

The Hydrographic Bulletin keeps the mariner advised as to the location of all bergs reported and the track he should follow to stay clear of danger.

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HERE is another danger confronting the mariner at the present time.

This one is man-made and results from the late war. It is the minefields which still exist in Japanese and European waters. While efforts are being made to remove them, they are so extensive, that in many cases the only approach to certain ports is through swept channels.

The latest intelligence on these fields.

Another feamre of the Bulletin is the "Questions and Answers" department.

Many interesting inquiries come to the Hydrographic Office which are of interest to mariners generally and the answers are therefore publicized in the Bulletin. Did you know that the deepest spot in the oceans is the Emden Deep, where a sounding of 35,400 feet has been obtained? Or that the spot most remote from any land lies in the South Pacific Ocean in approximately 49°00' S., 125°00' W. and is 1,500 miles from the nearest land? Were you aware that prior to 1884 there was no law that required you to carry running lights? These are samples of the type of question to be found in this interesting coltunn.

Mariners in the course of their careers, pick up many tricks of the trade.

These are feamred in another department of the Bulletin called "Navigational Hints." One officer discovers that the steel grommet in his hat causes the magnetic compass to behave erratically when he approaches. He therefore recommends that you remove your hat when in the presence of a compass. Another officer devises a scheme of attaching threads to the compass bowl when his ship is anchored with two chains down, so that the mrns in the chains are graphically shown if the ship swings at her moorings. In order that other mariners may have the benefit of his experience, the author of such ingenious schemes forwards them to the Hydrographic Office, where eventually they are printed in the columns of the Bulletin.

Many other useful feamres will be found in this seagoing newspaper. Although it does not list the radio programs that a mariner can ttme in to, it carries the schedules of the stations broadcasting weather, time, and hydrographic information. It shows where charts and hydrographic publications may be bought, and where the Branch Hydrograph Offices are located. We even have an obituary column which records the passing of persons who have contributed to our knowledge of the sea.

While the Bulletin does not contain the familiar want ads of the daily newspaper, occasionally one finds appeals to mariners from scientific organizations for information on a particular fireball or accounts of meteors. Our seagoing reporters, with their knowledge of the heavens, ready access to a chronometer, and unobstructed horizons are in an ideal position to make accurate observations.

The curator of a natural history museum is anxious to know more about the whale shark, a creature rarely seen at sea. The appeal goes out through the Bulletin, and a wealth of information comes in

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through our seagoing reporting service.

Probably the most important aspea of the Bulletin is the f a a that it is the one weekly direa communication to the Navy, our merchant marine and the maritime community of the world, whereby the United States government is afforded the oppormnity of giving the mariner the latest information of general interest to him. Thus the Coast Guard, the Federal Communications Commission, the Weather Bureau, and other agencies of the government concerned with shipping, when they wish to contaa the mariner, do so through the columns of the Bulletin. Recendy the National Bureau of Standards, which operates a time signal heard throughout the world, changed its operating schedtile. The Bulletin enabled that department to quickly notify the world of the faa.

For almost sixty years, its first issue being dated September 1889, the Bulletin has been going weekly to the mariner.

Its format has remained unchanged, a single sheet of newspaper size, printed on one side, convenient to post for ready reference. Its old issues chronicle the progress of safety on the seaâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the establishment of trans-Adantic sea lanes; the fiirst Navy radio stations; the beginning of hydrographic broadcasting; the development of the echo sounding machine and the coming of the other electronic aids that are further safeguarding the mariner. It is significant to note the dedine in the number of derelia vessels reported in the Bulletin with the passing of the years.

The value of the Bulletin is dependent in a great measure upon the friendly and informal contaa between the Hydrographic Office and its cooperating observers. Shipmates who are still going to sea are invited to become reporters and submit material that will be of benefit to their fellow mariners.

The Panama Question (Continued from, page 9) occurred before. All this, we are asked to believe, could be accomplished without interfering with the routine operation of the present waterway. How many of the engineers who have had acmal working experience on the Isthmus would endorse such a dream?

The Panama Question before the country today is in one sense simplicity itself. W e know that some fifteen years hence we shall need greater capacity if the world and commerce continue their usual growths. The obvious thing is to increase the capacity of the present canal, if possible without interfering with its daily operation or hazarding its existence. This is the thrifty, the safe and the businesslike thing to do. The drawMAY,

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back to it is that the amount of acmal work â&#x20AC;&#x201D; excavation, construction, supplies, special machinery, etc. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; is relatively small, the length of time the work would require to complete equally short, and the total bill, even under inflation, not only an amount we can safely pay, but which will not add dangerously to the tolls charged for ship transits.

Contrast that with the beautiful dream of the men who say we must have a sea level canal. This means the practical destruction of considerable parts of the existing canal and the abandonment of the rest for ship transit; the excavation of a yardage still incalculable because nobody can determine what the final effects of dismrbing the unstable strata would be; the laborious building up of many miles of the enormous dams already mentioned; the creation of special machinery for deep subaqueous dredging, and the building of special repair shops where that machinery can be kept in fair working condition most of the time; the thousands of skilled and day laborers, expert machinists, foremen, surveyors, clerks, cooks, supply staff, doctors, nurses, pharmacists and all the rest who would make up an army of size; and the time, estimated at from five to twenty years, for which the bill as now seen attains the modest total of somewhere between the minimum of two and a half billions as published in the Digest of the Governor's Report, and the probable maximum of ten to fifteen billions of dollars. To any sane layman who considers the problem as he would an individual investment, on the basis of wise use of money for the sake of accomplishing a given purpose at a cost within the means available, there seems only one possible answer.

That answer, so far as any solution has been developed to the present time, seems to be the terminal lake plan. Without the slightest interference with the operation of the canal, the terminal lake solves the very embarrassing present lack of terminal-lake anchorage facilities at the Pacific end of the canal, and by so doing increases its capacity to the point where we need have no anxiety about any demands we can foresee. The sea level plan, which would make an entirely new waterway, might easily prove after it was begun, to be impossible to complete because of the namre of the terrain and its reactions to vast excavation and sudden unwatering. Against doubt, certainty is preferable; against vast expendimre over many years, reasonable expense for a short and determinable time, meets the requirements.

Very few Americans have any idea of the defects that, almost as much as the exigencies of increasing traffic, make it necessary to improve the canal, and the generally docile acceptance by the public

of anything the government says is good has contributed to a wide spread indifference and the assumption that everything at Panama is exactly as we all would have it. Unfortunately this is far from the case. To begin with, when the canal was taken over from the French, its practical operation was not considered. The engineers thought that water deep enough to float vessels with a few extra feet to spare, and wide enough to permit two craft to pass in even the narrowest parts, assured safe navigation.

Shipping men were not consulted, and the opinions of the pilots who handle vessels in transit were not demanded. In consequence, a number of serious errors was incorporated in the design. Ever since the canal was opened these have been causing delay, inconvenience and accidents.

Briefly stated, the outstanding defects are the entire lack of any high level anchorage at the Pacific end of the canal; the creation of a bottleneck at the Pedro Miguel lock which delays traffic severely; lockage surges in Gaillard Cut which complicate navigation and make passage through the rocky Cut more hazardous. In addition to these and other things, Gaillard Cut is affected by fog on the average of one night in three during every year. These land fogs may descend early in the evening and remain until after daylight. While they are present it is impossible to move any vessels because the reduced visibility throughout the entire seven miles of the rock-bound Cut makes navigation too dangerous. It may be observed in passing that the sea level cut asked for would be thirty miles long, and the water surface more than 85 feet lower, with the inevitable consequence that the fog area would be far greater and its dissipation under the rays of the sun probably slower because of the greater depth of the cut and the increased height of the surrounding banks, thus multiplying the obstacle many times over.

The terminal lake plan, already mentioned, is the only project for improvement which has taken all these and other facts into full consideration. Today vessels which have to wait to enter the canal from the Pacific are obliged to moor at Balboa or lie to outside. To obviate this disadvantage, the terminal lake plan provides in the simplest possible manner for berthing inside the canal area itself, with moorings for twenty to thirty vessels. As normal traffic during nocturnal fogs is well within the capacity of this proposed anchorage at the Pacific end, it is clear that this scheme affords shelter for both present and anticipated traffic.

Creation of this Pacific terminal lake at high level balances the canal perfectly, as it provides at Gamn Lake level an anchorage at the Pacific end correspond23

ing to that already existing at the Atlantic end of the canal. Moreover, it does so as an incident to its major task of removing the bad botdeneck at Pedro Miguel. As everyone knows, the Pacific locks are divided into two sets, with a single stage at Pedro Miguel, then a mile or so of Miraflores Lake, and then the double stage Miraflores locks to sea level.

By clearing this obstruction across the south end of Gaillard Cut with the removal of Pedro Miguel lock, placing all three stages together in a new location at Miraflores, and throwing a dam across the present Miraflores two-stage locks, the canal is made open and clear for traffic all the way from Gatun to Miraflores, the dangerous surges cease to exist, and water now going to waste will flow into the new Miraflores Lake, thus supplementing the Gatun Lake watershed by thirty-five square miles, and improving navigation from the most practical angle. The added feature that the canal will continue in use during the remodeling except for the relatively few hours required to shift from one traffic lane to another, contrasts sharply with the sea level operations, which might close the canal to all traffic for an indeterminate period. Best of all, estimates made by even the proponents of the sea level canal show that the terminal lake plan at the wildest outside guesses of its opponents can not cost more than a fraction as much as the sea level. Besides its much lower cost, its advocates assert that it can be completed in four to six years without interfering with traffic, as contrasted with five to twenty years for the rival proposition.

When the terminal lake plan is completed, it will work. No human being can tell whether it is even possible to complete the sea level canal, if started, and he would be rash indeed who would say that for safety, facility and capacity it could ever approach what experience has already shown us is practical in the present canal. We are approaching the fork in the road today. When Congress takes the canal matter up for decision there will be a bitter battle, a triple fight to decide the level of the waterway, to confuse the issue by windy arguments combining the national security and commercial utility, and to set in motion a job to last probably twenty years and provide lifetime occupation for an army of dependents.

Should this proposal become law, the tax payer will have to foot the tremendous resulting bill for something of less value than we now possess. It is all very well to say that it will merely be added to the national debt. It will, but the ship owners and operators who have to pay the greatly increased tolls such a canal would require, are certainly not going to suffer. They will naturally pass on the

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added charges to the public. The tiltimate consumer pays the bill every time, either directly or indirectly, generally without the slightest notion of what he is paying for, or why he pays.

The whole thing boils down to the perfectly clear issue of whether we are going to serve ourselves with a practical utility or a case of almost perpemal headaches and bills.

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The information produced through catalog research will also be of great value to Planning personnel at Naval Shipyards to facilitate advance determination of repair part requirements incident to scheduling ship overhauls. These data will facilitate the Industrial Shops determination of the repair parts most likely to be in need of replacement or repair in connection with the breakdown and overhaul of various pieces of comA Foreign Language ponent machinery. In other words, cata(Continued from page 14) log research is determining all of the parts which will be required for the been very complimentary with regard to normal maintenance of component mahis accent, grammar, fluency, etc., for chinery during its estimated service which Mr. Wright credits the excellent lifetime. instruction he received at the Naval Academy.

Number Consolidation Since neither of these men possessed any particular language qualifications The first savings made evident in catabeyond those of a typical graduate, their log research was the consolidation of experiences could be easily duplicated numerous part and drawing numbers to (and probably are) by any of the graduates of the Naval Academy. Many oth- a single Navy Stock Number. Thousands er examples of the application in both of examples of this type of consolidation military and civil life of the knowledge have been effected. There is estimated to of a foreign language learned at the Na- be 50,000,000 part and drawing numbers val Academy could be cited, but these in existence in the Ships Parts Supply two illustrations were given because System. Conceivably this figure reprethey are typical, because they deal with sents 50,000,000 different parts. To date recent graduates and permit an assess- catalog research has covered 5,000,000 ment of the current language course at of the 50,000,000 numbers and deterthe Academy, and because the men in- mined that only 637,500 of the 5,000,000 volved have depended solely upon the numbers apply to replaceable parts. Of the 637,500, it has been found that only instruaion received at the Academy.

25,000 different items are represented.

Thus, a reduction of 5,000,000 part and drawing numbers to 25,000 Navy Stock Supplies and Accounts Numbers has taken place.

(Continued from page 16) of contractor technicians retained for specialized duties.

Distribution of Catalog The catalog is being distributed to all ships' parts stocking activities, including naval shipyards, and to repair ships and tenders. It is not considered advisable to place the complete catalog on board all vessels for the reason that each vessel is interested in only those equipments actually installed on board the vessel concerned. Further, the catalog will eventually exceed 1,000 components or subsections, which will represent many volumes requiring considerable storage space.

For the purpose of furnishing vessels with the information contained in the catalog, a program is currently under way at all type Naval Shipyards to revise all vessels' BuShips Allowance Lists to reflect the nomenclature and stock numbers of allowed repair parts. Thus, the revised Allowance Lists will double in purpose by serving as a catalog of parts installed on each individual vessel.

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Many items were formerly procured with the belief that the part in question was the only part made for the use intended. Further, many items were formerly procured from the company which manufactured the basic equipment at prices often many times over the cost if purchased from the company which originally manufactured the part. Consider a bearing liner assembly that was procured from six suppliers at prices ranging from $12.00 to $63.00. Interchangeability studies established the six assemblies to be identical to one another as well as to one supplied by a prime manufacturer priced at $9.06 each.

General Stores and Fabrication The analysis of components does not end with number consolidation and the indication of prime manufacturers or suppliers. Catalog research has determined that a majority of commonplace items, such as gaskets, pins, packing, and others, need not be procured in their finished form, but rather in most instances,

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the basic material from which the items are made is available in bulk form, often in general stores, from which the finished items may be fabricated by naval personnel.

An example of savings through fabrication is a case where a $2.75 packing assembly was found to be worth approximately AV2 cents when fabricated from General Stores Stock 33-P-3851.

Coundess examples have been found where the Navy formerly procured common bolts, nuts, screws, washers, etc., from manufacnurers in the belief that such items were peculiar to specific components of manufacnurers. This procurement curtain has been drawn aside and exposed such pseudo-peculiar items as being available in the general stores system. An example is a case where one simple screw used in Company "C's" component known by part numbers 339 and 550 was procured at a cost of 5 cents and 10 cents respeaively. In the future the screw will be procured from General Stores Stock at a cost of approximately % cent each.

Cost and Savings The cost of producing the Catalog has been estimated at approximately $7,000,000.00 and will require five years to complete, or until about June 1951.

It is believed that the increase in efficiency of operations which will result by all activities speaking the same language when procuring, stocking, and issuing ships' pans alone wiU substantiate the considerable outlay of funds and time necessary to complete the program. In addition, dollar-wise, it has been estimated the resultant net savings in personnel, procurement, and inventory, over a ten year period at NSD's Clearfield and Mechanicsburg alone, will approximate $26,000,000.00. Because of lack of basic statistics, no estimate of savings was made for operations at other Naval activities, however, it is safe to assume the overall savings for the ten year period will at least double the above estimate.

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In 1942 and '43, Commander Murray was on duty at the Naval Academy.

Tennis T e a m Captain Elected at Academy The Commandant of Midshipmen, Captain Frank T. Ward, USN, has approved the election of Midshipman Leonard F. Vogt, Jr., Class of 1949, as Captain of the Tennis Team for the 1948 season. He is the son of Leonard F. Vogt of 4997 Glenway Ave., Cincinnati, Ohio.

Captain Raines, MC, to Address Mid'n on Mental Hygiene Captain George N. Raines, MC, USN, National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Md., delivered a lecmre, as a part of the course in Hygiene, to the Second Class in Mahan Hall, 26 March, at eight o'clock p.m.

The subject of his lecmre was "Mental Hygiene—Life Adjustment and Maladjustment; Modern Concepts of Human Behavior; Personality Strucmre; Mental Mechanisms."

Midshipmen Visit Martin Aircraft in Baltimore The Mechanical Engineering Club of the U. S. Naval Academy travelled to Baltimore recently to visit the Glenn L. Martin Aircraft Factory.

Midshipman Milton C. MacFarland, Class of 1948B, son of Reverend Ira Jay MacFarland of Bellingham, Wash., is President of the Club. 75 Midshipmen

made the trip. They were accompanied

by Lt. Comdr. Ellis J. Fisher, USN, Department of Mechanical Engineering.

Community Center Recreation Lounge Opens Rear Admiral James L. Holloway, Jr., Commandant of the Severn River Naval Command, expressed great satisfaction with the new enlisted men's Recreation Lounge and the progress being made on the new commissary store after his inspection on 5 April. Accompanying Admiral Holloway in his inspection of the new Community Center were Captain W. F. Petersen, Commanding Officer of the Naval Station; Captain J. R. Wallace, Chief of Staff to Admiral Holloway; Captain J. R. Perry, O-in-C of Public Works; and Commander D. I. Thomas, Executive Officer of the Naval Station.

The opening of the Community Center Recreation Lounge in the North Severn Enlisted Men's Homoja Village was celebrated by the residents of the Village at an informal party in the lounge Friday, 2 April. Informal dancing to the music of the Naval Academy Orchestra was enjoyed from 8:30 until 12:00.

With the opening of the new Community Center, which is located on the second deck of the Ship's Service Store at the head of Catalpa Road, the Ship's Service Soda Fountain will be open during the following hours: 11:00 to 1:00, 2:00 to 5:00, 6:00 to 10:00 o'clock.

The Community Center will be open daily from 9:00 a.m. until 10:30 p.m.

Naval Academy Instructors to Attend American Physical Society Meetings The Naval Academy sent four instructors from the Department of Electrical Engineering to the spring meeting of the Southeast Section of the American Physical Society held the weekend of 10 April, at the atomic energy plant of the former Manhattan project at Oak Ridge, Tenn. This is the first time that 25

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Those in attendance included Assistant Professor Howard E. Carr and Instructors Walter C. Connolly, Robert E. Trusk and John R. Smithson, all instructors in Physics at the Academy.

Numerous representatives of the Departments of Electrical Engineering and Mathematics at the Naval Academy attended the spring meeting of the Washington Chapter of the American Association of Physics Teachers held at the University of Maryland at College Park.

Among the papers presented was one on "The Teaching Process at the Naval Academy by Senior Professor Earl W. Thomson of the Department of Electrical Engineering. It was illustrated by numerous slides of scenes in the classrooms and laboratories of all the academic departments of the Academy. Associate Professor Ralph A. Goodwin is talking in the morning on "The Project Experiment in the Physics Laboratory."

Professor Thomson is the President of the Washington Chapter, Asst. Prof.

G. M. Koehl of George Washington University is Secretary, and Prof. Raymond Morgan, head of the Department of Physics at the University of Maryland is Chairman of the Program Committee for the current meeting.

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the decorations presented in that area were made to these former members of the Boy Scouts.

It was recently revealed by Rear Adm. Commander Gurnette is on duty at Charles W. Styer, Assistant Chief of Nathe Naval Academy as Aide and Flag val Operations, that an American subLieutenant to the Superintendent. marine had remained under water off New England for a "couple of weeks" The REINA MERCEDES and could have stayed there much longer.

Moves Again The ship was equipped with a snorkel, or breather tube, copied from German The USS R E I N A MERCEDES, "Fastest subs. ship in the Navy," (tied fast to the It was also recently announced by the dock) moved around to a new berth at British Admiralty that one of its sub- the Santee Dock on 17 March with the marines equipped with a similar device assistance of Navy mgs from the Naval Small Craft Facility. This was her first had submerged for several weeks.

Admiral Styer stated, "There's no trick move since September 1939 when she to staying down with a snorkel tube. The was towed to the Norfolk Navy Yard only limit on how long you can stay for inspection and repair. Also moving to the Santee Dock was the APL 31 down is the fuel supply."

The Internal Combustion Engine (popularly known as the Hotel Statler.)

Laboratory of the U. S. Naval Engineer- These moves have been made on a teming Experiment Station was depended porary basis in order to make necessary upon to test this Snorkel principle before repairs to the Reina Dock where they it was applied to the submarine in order have been tied up. to determine if it would be practicable The REINA is an old Spanish Cruiser for use with American engines. The first and one-time flagship of Admiral Juan attempts ever made to start and operate Cervera during the war with Spain. It American submarine diesel engines un- was salvaged by our Navy and has been der submerged conditions were success- station ship here since 1912. fully made in that laboratory two years ago.

Spring Term Series of Lectures A sixty-three foot water tower alongAnnounced side the laboratory, in effect, lifted a The Superintendent of the U. S. Naval section of the "ocean" up to a height corresponding to the submergence of the Postgraduate School has announced a submarine. The Snorkel mbe extends in- series of lecmres to be held in the audito the bottom of this tank and is torium of the U. S. Naval Postgraduate equipped with regular submarine out- School during the Spring Term, 22 board valves and operating controls. Op- March to 25 May. These lecmres will erating conditions encountered on ship- be held on Tuesdays from 10:30 to board can thus be simulated during 11:30 a.m. starting and running of the engine.

On 11 May, Mr. J. K. Richards, ExThe Director of the Experiment Sta- ecutive Director, Navy Industrial Assotion is Captain Wilson D. Leggett. ciation, will speak on "The Aims and Purposes of the Navy Industrial Association," and on 18 May Vice Admiral Commander Gurnette Named Robert B. Carney, USN, will discuss NaLiaison Officer to B o y val Logistics.

Scouts The Superintendent of the Naval Academy, Rear Admiral James L. Holloway, Jr., announced the appointment of Commander Byron L. Gurnette as liaison officer to the Boy Scouts for the Severn River Naval Command.

Liaison officers have been appointed all over the United States. They will endeavor to broaden the already good relationships which exist between the Navy and Boy Scout organizations in the local areas. The Navy will cooperate, whereever possible, by arranging visitations to yards, air stations, ships, bases, etc. as well as helping in any other way possible.

In an address before the 1947 Annual Meeting of the Boy Scouts of America, Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz stated that forty per cent of the men under his command in the Pacific had been Boy Scouts, and that sixty per cent of all

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The Society, with its office in Room 1504, Building T-3, Navy Department, Washington 25, D. C , will be pleased to accept contributions from those who consider its objectives worthy of support.

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Medicine and Surgery (Continued from page 19) ingly gave his assistance in other matters whenever it was required." A congratulatory letter from Lord Inverchapel, British Ambassador to the United States, accompanied the award. Admiral Adams is now the District Medical Officer of the Fifth Naval Distria, Norfolk, Virginia, where a large part of the Navy's flying is done. He continues to have an active interest in the support of aviation medicine.

Miscellaneous Cargo (Continued from page 3 ) to such human frailty himself. Now this just doesn't ring true, especially for a New York taxi driver. If Mr. Maresca would let his hair down and reveal an occasional smirk, the reader would be free to concentrate on the story instead of berating the author's smuggishness.

Incidents related include the Roxy chorus girl who did a change of cosmme while driving through Times Square, the matron who wanted her pet hound driven through Central Park for an evening's airing, the two women plotting to get rid of George, and the Wall Street Banker whose wife packed his lunch in a paper bag for him.

Naval Personnel (Continued from page 21) warrant carpenter and so forthâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;remain unchanged. * * * All reserve officers, including staff corps, are eligible for full-time active duty in the Naval Air Reserve Training program, BuPers Circ. Ltr. 54-48 (NDB, 31 March) points out in clarifying a previous directive.

The clarification was made not as an indication that numerous full-time active duty billets exist in the NAResTra program but to reaffirm a previously obscure point that staff corps and other reMAY,

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serve officers without aviation training may apply. The directive cancels BuPers Circ. Ltr. 279-46 (AS&SL, July-Dec. 1946).

The latest letter established procedures for such officers to submit requests for active duty. Requests for recall to, an active duty stams are to be addressed to Chief, BuPers (Attn: Pers3116) via cognizant commands.

A permanent selection board will consider all applications. The board will determine qualifications of applicants for certain types of billets existing in the NAResTra. Names of officers selected by the board are to be placed on file for reference and consideration when vacancies occur.

From the list of eligible applications, any existing vacancies will be filled for billets in the 22 air stations comprising the current NAResTra. Officers making such requests must fall in the following categories: Aviation Organized Reserve and those issued by CNAResTra a letter authorizing them to be associated with the air reserve program.

Volunteer Reserve officers.

Reserve officers on active duty with the operating force.

The following information must be contained in the letters of request.

Full name, rank, classification and file number.

Address where applicant may readily be reached by mail or telegram.

Specific request for assignment to active duty in connection with NAResTra. Complete resume of qualifications including age, education (both naval training course completed and civilian education), duty stations assigned and a list of primary and collateral duties performed.

Statement of preferences of duty stations in the air reserve program or a statement of "no preference."

The directive adds that selected officers who are placed on active duty may be transferred to other activities within the program.

Correspondence Course Offered

By War College

* A revised edition of the Naval War College's correspondence course in strategy and tactics is now available to lieutenants (junior grade) and above.

Consisting of eight installments with supplemental reading, the course may be had by applying through official channels to the President, Naval War College, Newport, R. I. "It is to the advantage of all line officers to complete this course before reaching the grade of lieutenant commander."

BuPers Circ. Ltr. 46-48 (NDB, 15 March) notes in announcing the instruction.

Other than Navy officers of rank corresponding to lieutenant (junior grade) and above also may apply for the instruction, which is offered free of charge.

The Naval War College awards a certificate establishing satisfactory completion. Each of the eight installments requires an average of one to two months to complete.

Navy On Capitol Hill (Continued from page 5) naval campaign." The Navy would have charge of all mine laying, including the "air aspects thereof."

The Marine Corps is given "primary interest in the development of those landing force tactics, technique, and equipment which are of common interest to the Army and the Marine Corps."

Secretary Forrestal stated after the conference that the Navy would be permitted to attack any targets, inland or otherwise, destruction of which is necessary to the accomplishment of a Naval mission. This agreement does not appear in the order.

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would then know more about what to expect from the Army in a ground-air campaign and what to expect from the Navy in a sea-air campaign. Incidentally, they would then be better able to recognize U. S. soldiers and U. S. vessels.

The fallibility of the board's argument is all too apparent when one realizes that the Navy wants aviators in positions of high command. But such commandusually means command of or in a ship, as an aircraft carrier, not in an airplane.

And the officer holding such command must know surface vessels and surface operations. The U. S. Navy has always been noted for the well-rounded experience of its officers, and it is imperative Rotation Of Naval Aviators that Naval aviators know more than The Congressional Air Policy Board aviation. That is the answer of Navy has criticized the Navy for the practice people to the Congressional board. of rotating the duties of* Naval aviators.

No Pay Hike This Year "The Navy's strucmre of careers and duties should be overhauled and modThere is no longer even a possibility ernized in the interest of encouragement for high competence," the board that pay legislation can be prepared and stated. "Prior to World War II, naval enaaed in this session of Congress. Even aircraft were considered by the Navy Secretary of Defense Forrestal said in a high command as the eyes of the Navy. recent press conference the legislation Today the batdeship is obsolete and naval will have to be delayed until 1949. Fortask forces are built around aircraft car- restal said the Service Pay Commission riers. However, the Naval aviator in would not be able to render a report on many cases is still required to do 'deck the subject until September or Oaober. duty' in order to qualify for promotion Preparation of legislation for service pay in certain ranks.... The revision of these increases is more detailed and exaaing anachronisms will benefit the individuals than was preparation of legislation for affected and the naval service as a increases in pay of civilian government workers. Close to 150 people will soon whole."

It seems there is always some one or be working on the smdy. group ready to tell the Navy how to run Disability Legislation its business. The Navy is in the insurance business; it insures the United Legislation governing disability reStates against attack. This Congressional group recommended elimination of tirement payments may be introduced "training and duties that are not essen- before this is read. A House Armed Sertial." The board overlooks several vices subcommittee has conduded hearthings. There is too much assumption ings on the subject, and is awaiting a bill among the Air Force and air-minded from the office of Secretary of Defense legislators that all there is to military Forrestal. The bill, according to present aviation is aviation. It might be said that plans, will embody the foUowing prinAir Force aviators could profitably spend ciples: 1. Benefits for physical disability time as Army and Navy officers; they

on terms of draft and universal military training legislation, bills to strengthen the Reserves have been approved. H. R. 2744, for instance, establishes a system of retirement pay for all Reserve components, in addition to setting up a retirement system for regular Army- and Air Force officers. This bill has passed the House and is now before the Senate.

Another bill â&#x20AC;&#x201D; S. 1174 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; recendy signed by the President and now law, authorizes inactive duty training pay to Army and Air Force Reserves, on the same basis as pay to the National Guard and the Naval Reserves.

SPECIALIZING in SALES RENTALS MANAGEMENT INSURANCE FINANCING

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should be related to the percentage of acmal incapacity for duty.

2. Tax exemption, if applied at all, shoidd be applicable only to payments representing benefits for acmal physical disability, on the percentage referred to above.

3. Physical disability benefits should be applied to all Armed Services personnel, enlisted men as well as officers, reserves as well as regulars.

4. All persons retired since 1939 should be re-examined, and should take periodic re-examinations to determine whether or not they have recovered from the disability which caused their retirement.

This does not mean that all these principles will be included in the bill enaaed by Congress. The Reserve Officers Association and other groups are pressing for legislation which would not dismrb the financial stams of officers already retired, except for cases of acmal maladministration.

Yards and Docks (Continued from page 21) and Distribution Center, Port Hueneme, California, and for Seabees in the field striking for specialty ratings.

One major change in the rating structure is the simplification of rating abbreviations, so that all rate abbreviations are composed of only two initials, with a suffix "C" to designate chief petty officers and numerals to indicate other grades. This should make the entire rating structure more easily understandable to everyone. * * * * The CEC has recendy received a fine gift from Mrs. James T. Mathews. It is the technical library of the late Rear Admiral Mathews, who died last December. Admiral Mathews was an Academy graduate, class of 1913.

The library has been forwarded to the CEC Officers School at Port Hueneme, Calif, for use by young officers entering the Corps.

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The ballroom was filled to capacity from the main floor to the two tiers of balconies.

There were one hundred and fifty-one tables for individual groups. Seated in three tiers on the dais were some of the officers of the two Alumni Associations and distinguished guests. Those w h o were seated on the first row of the dais were: Mr. W . Z. Ditmars President, Naval Academy Association of New York.

General J. Lawton Collins Deputy Chief of Staff, U. S. Army.

Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid, U.S.N. Commander, Eastern Sea Frontier.

Lt. General James H . Doolittle Admiral J. F. Farley, U.S.C.G. Commandant, U. S. Coast Guard.

General Carl A. Spaatz, U.S.A.F. Chief of Staff, U. S. Air Force.

Admiral Louis E. Denfeld, U.S.N. Chief of Naval Operations, U. S. Navy.

Mr. Donald S. Walker President, U. S. Naval Academy Alumni Association.

The Honorable James V. Forrestal The Secretary of Defense.

Colonel Chauncey L. Fenton, U.S.A. (Ret.) President, Association of Graduates, U. S. Military Academy.

Mr. Henry J. Taylor Toastmaster.

Lt. General Delos C. Emmons, U.S.A.F. Commandant, Armed Forces Staff College, P R E S I D I N G OFFICER. (Continued on page 54)

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The long anticipated and nationally publicized dinner in recognition of the unification of the Armed Forces of the Country was held in the grand ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria in New York City on the evening of 2 April as planned. It was a memorable and inspiring occasion which will have far-reaching effects in more closely cementing the cordial relations which have always existed among the components of our Armed Forces. It also is of special significance to the Alumni of West Point and the Naval Academy, the New York groups of whose Alumni Associations conceived the plan and followed through in its successful execution.

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S p i n d r i f t — B y Lee Shores

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Alumni House—A Report to Our Members—

By L. F. Brown

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O u r " T o m S a w y e r " P a r t y — B y Betty

T. Roberts

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T h e Last Call

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Local Association News

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The Ballot

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President T o serve u n t i l 1 J u l y D. S. W a l k e r , '24 Vice President (Eastern T o serve u n t i l 1 J u l y Samuel D. Foster, '39 Vice President (Central T o serve u n t i l 1 J u l y A. A r n o l d B r a n d , '14 Vice President (Western T o serve u n t i l 1 J u l y F r e d W . Pierce, '22

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1948 Area) 1948 Area) 1948 Area) 1948

Trustees T o serve until 1 J u l y 1948 A d m . William H . Standley, USN ( R e t . ) , '95 R. A d m . Sinclair G a n n o n , USN ( R e t . ) , '00 Fleet A d m . Chester W . Nimitz, USN, '05 V. A d m . R a n d a l l Jacobs, USN ( R e t . ) , '07 Cdr. C. M c K . Lynch, U S N ( R e t . ) , '07 Mr. George B. J u n k i n , '13 Mr. Lawrence R. Becht, '34

T R U S T E E S Mr. A r t h u r E. T a r a n t i n o R. A d m . Clark H. W o o d w a r d , USN ( R e t . ) , ' 9 9 (Washington) Cdr. W. Van C. Brandt, USNR, '11 (Philadelphia) Mr. E. F . M a r b o u r g , '17 (San Francisco) Mr. W. E. Ditmars, '19 (New Y o r k ) Capt. J. R. Wallace, USN, '22 (Naval Academy) T o serve until 1 J u l y 1949 A d m . D. F . Sellers, USN ( R e t . ) , '94 Capt. M. D. GUmore, USN ( R e t . ) , '11 Cdr. C. C. Vickrey, USNR, '15 R. A d m . O. S. Colclough, USN, '21 Mr. Hanson W. Baldwin, '24 Capt. W. R. Smedberg, 3rd, USN, '26 Capt. T. J. H a m i l t o n , USN, '27 Lt. Col. J o h n Saxton, USMC, '33 T o serve until 1 July 1950 Lt. Cdr. W . B. J u p p , USN ( R e t . ) , '13 Mr. H . McCoy Jones, '19 Mr. D. S. Walker, '24 Mr. H a r r y R. England, '27

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BULLETIN ^ « . ALIIMKI HOUSE BOARD OFFICIAL T was a time of royalty at the U. S. Naval Academy during the past month or so, what with the advent of His Royal Highness, Prince Charles of Belgium on 8 April, the visits of former King Michael of Rumania on 25 March and of Prince Baudouin, Duke de Brabant, son of the Kin§ of Belgians, on 24 March.

A burst of 21-guns and the traditional four ruffles and flourishes greeted Prince Charles upon his arrival. The Prince Regent, accompanied by his country's Prime Minister Paul Henri-Spaak and a number of top dignitaries, stood at attention during the salvo after which the Naval Academy Band played the Belgian National Anthem. The party reviewed the academy's marine color guard and toured the grounds, and then reviewed the brigade of midshipmen at the noon meal formation in front of Bancroft Hall.

The Prince Regent pinned decorations on his official host, Rear Admiral James L. Holloway, Jr., superintendent, who received the award of Grand Officer of the Order of Leopold II, and Capt. Frank Trenwith Ward, commandant of midshipmen, who received the emblem of Officer of the Order of Leopold.

A luncheon honored the party in the Superintendent's House, with Admiral and Mrs. Holloway entertaining for the Prince Regent, His Excellency Paul De Groote, Belgian Minister of Economic Coordination and National Re-Equipment; the Belgian Ambassador to the United States H. E. Baron Silvercruys; the United States Ambassador to Belgiimi, Admiral and Mrs. Alan C. Kirk, Brig. Gen. Burdette M. Fitch, USA; Brig. Gen. Burton M. Hovey, Jr., U. S. Air Force, aides to the Regent; Capt. Edward L. Woodyard, USN, naval aide; Col. J. Van Neron, aide-de-camp; Mr. Roger Ockrent, Belgian Secretary of the Cabinet; Mr. Andre de Staercke, private secretary, and Major Count Yvan Du Monceau de Bergendal, aide-de-camp.

And from Annapolis, Governor and Mrs. William Preston Lane, Jr., and Miss Dorothy Lane; Capt. and Mrs. Frank T. Ward, Capt. and Mrs. Jesse R. Wallace, Capt. and Mrs. Rupert M. Zimmerli, Capt. and Mrs. George P. Hunter, Capt. and Mrs. Richard F. Stout, Capt. and Mrs. Edmund B. Taylor, Comdr. and Mrs. Byron L. Gurnette, Comdr. and Mrs. Richard S. Craighill, Mrs. James Howard and Mrs. John B. Rich.

Former King Michael, accompanied by his aide-de-camp. Gen. Petere Lazar, Maj. Jacques Vergetti; Mr. Mircea lonnitziu, secretary, and Capt. Floyd Ferris of the Naval Department, were received by Admiral Holloway on their visit in March.

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The group was escorted on a tour of the grounds by Capt. Jesse R. Wallace, Capt. William G. Cooper, Comdr. Carleton P. Adams and Comdr. Byron L. Gurnette, after which they were stag luncheon guests in the Superintendent's House.

Michael is the third generation of his family to visit the Academy. His grandmother.

Queen Marie, paid a visit on 20 October, 1926, accompanied by his uncle. Prince Nicholas, and his aunt, Princess Ileana. He drove over from Washington where he had been visiting with his mother Queen Helen.

Prince Baudouin—Duke de Brabant, son of the King of the Belgians—set young hearts a'flutter. The 17-year-old Prince thought the Academy was "wonderful." He had visited West Point a few days earlier, and after his next birthday expects to attend the Belgian Military Academy in Brussels.

Old-line Naval officers will recollect a previous visit of Belgian royalty in Annapolis that won over the midshipmen. King Albert, grandfather of the Prince, reviewed the Regiment in 1919. While here, he exercised a regal privilege and asked that midshipmen then under punishment for infraction of rules be excused. It was done.

The Prince was completing an education tour of the Eastern United States and was accompanied by Viscount Gatien du Pare, his governor. They were guests of the Brigade in the Mess Hall at luncheon. With members of his family, the prince was imprisoned during the war in Saxony and Austria by the Germans . . . they were freed D-Day. ON THE RECORD June Week is just around the corner, and ensigns-to-be are counting the days. Saturday, 29 May, is the opening day with a Brigade parade on Worden Field at 11 a. m. starting things off.

The program of events is as follows: Saturday, 29 May 1:30 P. M. — Baseball, Army, Lawrence Field.

Golf, Army, Naval Academy Golf Course, North Severn.

3:00 P. M. — Track, Army, Thompson Stadium.

Crew, Cornell (Varsity, junior varsity, freshmen).

4:30 P. M.—Informal, all classes, Dahlgren Hall.

9:15 to 12 P. M.—Class of 1949 Ring Dance, Memorial Hall.

Sunday, 30 May 10:30 A. M.—Chapel

Services — Bacca-

laureate Sermon for First Class and guests.

2:00 P. M.—Picnic for First Class.

4:00 P. M.—Vesper Service for midshipmen and their guests. Chapel.

- 5:00 P. M.—Informal, all classes, Dahlgren Hall.

9:00 P. M.—Midshipmen's Orchestra and Glee Club Recital, all classes and guests, Mahan Hall.

Monday, 31 May 9:00 A. M.—Color company praaice for Presentation of Colors, Worden Field.

11:00 A. M.—Presentation of athletic and extra curricular awards, Thompson Stadium.

1:30 P. M.—Demonstration of Trick and Fancy Shootings, Farragut Field.

9:15 to 12 P. M.—"N" Dance for "N" winners, Hubbard Hall.

Hop, all classes, Dahlgren Hall.

Tuesday, 1 June 9:00 A. M.—Prize winners practice for Presentation of Prizes, Worden Field.

4:00 P. M.—Band Concert.

8:30 P. M.—"No More Rivers" Ceremony, Tecumseh Court.

9:15 to 12 P. M.—Hop, First Class, Memorial Hall.

Wednesday, 2 June 9:30 A. M.—Color Company practice for Presentation of Colors, Worden Field.

Drill events: Sailing, Gunnery, Engineering, Seamanship and Navigation.

11:00 A. M.—Air Show by Flight Exhibition Team, "Blue Angels."

5:30 P. M.—Brigade Parade, Worden Field, presentation of prizes.

8:00 P. M.—Motion Piaures, Second and Fourth Classes, Mahan Hall.

9:15 to 12 P. M.—Superintendent's Garden Party for Graduating Class.

Hop, Third Class, Macdonough Hall.

Thursday, 3 June 10:30 P. M.—Rehearsal of Graduation Exercises, First Class.

12:00 Noon—Air Show by Flight Exhibition Team.

5:30 P. M.—Brigade Parade, Worden Field —Presentation of Colors.

9:15 to 12 P. M.—Farewell Ball, Dahlgren Hall.

Friday, 4 June 11:00 A. M.—Graduation Exetcises, Dahlgren Hall.

Rear Admiral and Mrs. James L. Holloway, Jr., were at home to midshipmen of the Third Battalion on Tuesday, 6 April, in the Superintendent's Quarters. Midshipmen officers on hand were Richard E. Shimshak, First Regi-

ment Commander; Thomas Woods, Third Battalion Commander; John DeGoede, Ninth Company Commander; Frederick L. Nelson, Tenth; Robert L. Ghormley, Eleventh, and Hariey S. Harris, Jr., 12th Company Commander.

Assisting throughout the afternoon were Comdr. and Mrs. Fletcher Hale, Comdr. and Mrs. J. Edward Pace, Lt. Comdr. and Mrs. Lester S. Wall, Jr., Lt. Comdr. and Mrs. Claude B. Shaw, Lt. Comdr. and Mrs. John C. Lawrence, Lt. (jg) Edward Beasley, Maj. John E. Williams.

Lt. Comdr. and Mrs. Charles McCall, Inst, and Mrs. Peter A. Hall, Prof, and Mrs. John C. Reed, Inst, and Mrs. Kendall E. Lappin, Lt. (jg) and Mrs. Albert H. Dudley, Prof, and Mrs. Eugene J. Ziurys, Inst, and Mrs. John A. Tierney, Inst, and Mrs. Henry Ortland, and Lt. and Mrs. Charles V. Gardiner.

Young ladies from the Station and Annapolis assisted the hostess.

EDUCATIONAL Midshipman Robert K. Ripley, 2/c, of Helena, Montana, represented the Naval Academy in the Hearst Newspapers National Oratorical Contest, the Baltimore area eliminations which were held the 20th and 23rd of April.

From there, the speaker will compete in the Eastern Zone Eliminations to be held in Albany on 6 May, with the finals to be held in Chicago on 14 May. The national champion will receive a $1,000 prize, the Baltimore winner a S500 prize and all competitors in the Albany elimination $50 prizes.

Midshipman Ripley won the Trident Society Oratorical Contest last spring in competition with fourteen other middies. The elimination trials held at the Academy were judged

by State Senator Wilbur E. Dulin, States Attorney James Morton and former Delegate Clarence E. Tyler, all of Annapolis.

Midn. Jack Lee English, 2/c, of Long Beach, Calif., and Ambrose P. McCoy, 3/c, of Pawmcket, R. I., also qualified to represent the Academy by finishing second and third, respectively, took part in the Baltimore eliminations. All three are members of the recently organized Intercollegiate Forensic Society, of which Bob Ripley is vice-president.

The new group is a part of the Quarterdeck Society, founded in 1921 by Dr. Alfonzo Smith, head of the Department of English, History and Government. The name was suggested by Admiral Scales, Superintendent. The purpose of the Quarterdeck Society was to train midshipmen to be able to speak "on their feet"—to train future Naval Officers to capably answer rapid-fire questions of Senate committees, civil groups and diplomatic aggregations.

The Forensic Society members must also be members of the mother group. It was formed to handle the increasing task of participating in and scheduling intercollegiate debates—and has become so large that it has eclipsed other speech activities. This year, over forty dual debates or tournaments have been scheduled. So far, the Naval Academy has won twenty debates out of twenty-five.

They have met Georgetown, University of Virginia, Catholic University, Barnard College, Lenoir Rhone, New York University, Swarthmore, Temple, Villanova, George Washington, University of Pittsburgh, University of Vermont, Rutgers, Kalamazoo, Loyola and Johns Hopkins, and a number of tournaments.

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These tournaments include one held in Boston, with 16 schools entered—Navy placed third; Charlottsville, Va., Navy finished 6th and 7th out of twenty-two schools entered; at Hickory, N. C, in the Lenoir Rhone Tournament, Navy finished fourth out of twenty-five, and climaxing the year, in the Grand National Forensic Tournament at Mary Washington College, Fredericksburg, Va., Navy won the Grand National Championship finishing on top in a field of 63 schools, winning numerous other events besides the debating.

Midshipmen Howard M. Estes of Stockton, Calif, and Rodney E. Eyster of York, Pa. were named the Grand National Debating champions, defeating seven schools successively. In the individual discussion. Midshipmen Ernest C. Castle of Sioux Falls, S. D., won the National Championship, with Bob Ripley winning the Lexington Extempore contest and placing second in the Grand National contest.

The Maryland, District of Columbia and Virginia sections of the Mathematical Association of America will meet at the Naval Academy on Saturday, 8 May, for an all-day session. Capt. Rupert M. Zimmerli, USN, head of the Department of Mathematics, will give the address of welcome.

Papers will be read by several members of the Department, including those by Inst.

Robert C. Rand, Inst. Edward C. Watters, Jr., Prof. John Tyler and Asso. Prof. John P. Hoyt.

On Wednesday, 14 April, Rear Admiral Paul F. Lee, USN, Chief of Naval Research spoke to members of the First Class on "Future Influence of Research and Developments on Naval Material."

On the following Friday night, Dr. Bernard Brodie spoke on the "Impact of Atomic Energy on Warfare," in Memorial Hall.

Vice Admiral Edward L. Cochrane, USN (Ret.), head of the Department of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, MIT, addressed the First Class on "Wartime Mobilization of Shipbuilding" in Mahan Hall, on Wednesday, 21 April.

Friday, 23 April, Rear Admiral A. M. Pride, USN, Chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics, spoke on "What is New in the Air." "Petroleum—Its Influence on our National Economy and Wartime Strength" was the subject of Mr. Albert A. Curtice's talk on 28 April in Memorial Hall.

Three speakers are scheduled in May: On Wednesday the fifth, Mr. George W. Wolf will talk on "Steel—Its Influence on Our National Economy"; on Friday, the seventh.

Vice Admiral Robert B. Carney, USN, will talk on "Logistics," and on Wednesday, the twelfth, Mr. Charles E. Wilson will speak in Mahan Hall on "Wartime Mobilization of Industry." Mr. Wilson is President of Genetal Electric.

ENTERTAINMENT The Navy Relief Society presented "My Sister Eileen" on the nights of 9, 10, 16, 17 April in Mahan Hall, under the direction of Asst. Prof. William H. Berry, Department of Foreign Languages. The show was a complete success.

The lead role of Ruth was taken by Virginia Bays, wife of Rear Admiral John W. Bays, USN (Ret.) now with the State Department.

The characterization of the sensible older sister was capably taken by Mrs. Bays, who

started her theatrical career as a frog in a ballet in Buenos Aires at the age of six. She has had starring roles in three of the last four Navy Relief shows, and has appeared on stages in Los Angeles, Baltimore and Honolulu.

The role of the younger sister, Eileen, was taken by Mrs. Lee Pumphrey, a native Marylander. She was most convincing as the typical small town girl going to the Big City . . . and very pretty, too. Mrs. Pumphrey has been active in the King William Players, the St. John's College dramatic group.

Asst. Prof. Charles R. Michaud played the part of Mr. Appopolous, canny landlord, and he and Mrs. Bays provided the top hit scenes in the play. Prof. Michaud helped direct the French Theatre Program at Lafayette College, and since coming to Annapolis took part in several Navy Relief Shows, "Petticoat Fever," "You Can't Take It With You" and wrote some of the sketches in "Sea Legs."

Richard Poston as Frank Lippencott, the drugstore clerk, won his audience with his ease in falling down the steps—and his ease in acting. He is a newcomer to Annapolis, where he is radio announcer on WASL. During the war—when he was a B-17 pilot in the Fifth Wing of the Fifteenth Air Force— he was in two army shows, "Whaki Khaki," a musical, and "Our Town," the latter produced in the Flagella Theatre in Foggia, Italy.

In a cast generally capable. Pinkie Hood was a fine Southern Helen Wade; her man.

The Wreck (from Georgia Tech) Comdr.

William A. Brockene; Patsy Polyette as Violet Shelton (the wrong kind of woman); Mrs. Martha Cabaniss as the righteous Mrs. Wade —all took full share of honors.

The play was smooth, the direction backed up by a well-oiled stage management, the lighting and sound effects far better than usual. Capt. William G. Cooper, USN, was the able chairman of the Navy Relief play committee.

President of the Naval Academy Auxiliary of the Navy Relief Society is Rear Admiral James L. Holloway, Jr., with Chaplain Everett P. Wuebbens, executive vice-president and Chaplain Roy E. Bishop, executive secretary.

Treasurer is Comdr. R. S. Craighill and recording secretary, Mrs. H. A. Spanagel. Mrs. Holloway is chairman of the women volunteers.

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Class Reunions are the order of the day from now until June Week . . . and among them is that of the Class of 1923 which meets Saturday and Sunday, 15, 16 May. Starting off events is a golf match at 8:30 a. m., followed by a business meeting in Alumni House at 10:30 o'clock. A ladies luncheon will be held that noon in the House with about 100 expected to attend, while the men hold forth at lunch in the Mess Hall.

That afternoon, athletic events will be witnessed, and in the evening cocktails and a dinner-dance will be enjoyed in the North Severn Officers' Club. Sunday morning, the group will go in a body to Chapel services.

Homes of members living in this vicinity will be filled with guests, and among the outof-towners will be Capt. and Mis. Winston P. Folk, and children, and Capt. and Mrs. Alfred D. Chandler of Washington, the guests of

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NOT to our members in Civil life.

This month's page is addressed to Naval Academy Alumni still in the Service. It's b l u n t . . . again my neck's out a mile . . . but someone has to say it.

As a civilian . . . a boilermaker at t h a t . . . I realize there is a gulf between us. We grew up in the same family but you went in one profession—we went in another. Yet skip that,—1 want to take these next few seconds to tell you why this Alumni Association of yours and mine is a real thing . . . a worthwhile thing . . . for both . . . a place where our paths rejoin. Of the members registered since our increased activities forced us to go on a dues-paying basis, 6 5 % have been civilians. We are scattered all over . . . enjoy getting together . . . have a deep-seated love for the Naval Academy and the Naval Service. But you are of the 12,000 potential members still concentrated in the Service, and although you may have an even higher spirit of loyalty 1 feel you who haven't already joined must have a distorted picture of the Association.

Now let's pass over the deeper motives and get practical. You go into a town—recruiting for instance—there's a group of your classmates . . . classmates though now in advertising or superintendents or salesmen. You are there for two years—won't you feel better—ashore—by meeting them again as a fellow member of our Association? You will probably have used their local "Assistance Committee" to get yourself organized, wasn't this a service?

Sooner or later you will retire . . . the odds are that this will occur well before the age when you want to just sit and watch the tide.

The Association's Placement Service . . . and civilians who have been "out" for years, can give you real help in finding the right billet. Wouldn't you feel better talking about this as a fellow (member?

Let's take another tack. Without fanfare, the Association and the Alumni Foundation are already helping Junior Officers' fundless widows put their children through school. Forget the fraternity end . . . Alumni House . . . SHIPMATE . . . the social side, we have something here that is of worth and value to you.

There are many workers among the membership of the Association who are giving unstintingly of their time and funds in furthering the interests of our organization. The labor which is being expended by these spenders would if translated into cash amount to a good many thousands of dollars but that isn't the answer—nor can such last. It's not five men giving $5,000 each that builds for unity and permanency—it's 5,000 men paying dues of $5.00 each.

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brought him enough extra duty to discourage any further activity.

Spindrift

By Lee Shores

The following was penned by a third batt youngster who has since departed for the great beyond of civilian life: Thoughts

While Awaiting the Board's Decision

Academic

'They' can fry me, 'They' can bilge me.

But by the living God that willed me I will never, I will never say I'm through!

'They' can march me, 'They' can parch me.

That damn laundry even starch me, I will never, I will never say I'm through!

'They' ask, " H o w n o w ? " 'They' want " W h y ? " and "How." Can I tell them how it burns me.

How every thought returns 'me.

To the thing that e'er concerns me But by the living God that turns me I will never, I will never say I'm through!

'They' come.

'Tis done.

Who's won?

(Oh fainting heart that taunts me, Oh dreadful dream that haunts me!)

"You say, you say I a m ? " "A RE-EXAM?" Oh joy! Joy so pure and true That comes, whenever you will never. Ever say you're through!

W . R. L. One of the latest West Point exchange weekends almost ended in a hideous disaster.

A well-meaning, but uninitiated Midshipman asked if there was any housework he might perform around his Kaydet host's room. T h e Pointer replied that the hole needed dusting.

The Navy man, well versed in the art of lint removal, gazed around the room for a dust rag but was unable to locate one. N o t spotting any he happened to catch sight of an oldfashioned feather duster.

"Strange," he thought to himself, "That in the days of mechanized warfare the West Point Cadets still clean their room with these ancient feather dusters." His was not to reason why. His was but T.D.O.D. W h i l e his host was absent from the room, the middle brandished the feather duster and went about the job of attacking any unsuspecting dust which might rear its ugly head. H e ferreted out dust from the corners, under the radiator. In fact, he invaded spots that hadn't been touched since the days when Ulysses S. Grant had been a plebe dago bucket.

The Kaydet remrned to find the room spotless and the middle in the act of replacing the feather duster in its container. T h e whys and wherefores of feather dusters still bothered the latter and taking the now well-worn duster

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from the case he turned, and flaunting it high in the air, asked the Kaydet why they didn't dust with rags.

Only after the horrified grayleg regained his powers of speech was he able to moan something to the effect that the "feather duster" was actually the plume for his dress p-rade hat.

In just about one month '48B will have gone the way of all flesh. Hardly enough time left for a hasty sneeze. It is difficult to account for these last four years; they were here a minute ago. N o w , however, plebe year is just a memory, though an extremely vivid one.

It literally seems like only yesterday one of Lee's classmates walked into the batt office for the first time as a midshipman 4 / c , USN. H e was rigged out in Plebe Three-Day Routine Dress 'Zebra': One legging, a hat that flopped down over one ear, shooting jacket, and other assorted finery. As this was his first official appearance as a midshipman he was particularly desirous of making a favorable impression.

Unfortunately, in his haste to make good, he entered the door marked "Exit" and was properly chastised for his smpidity. T h e batt officer concluded his remarks by ordering the terrified plebe to leave the batt office, to read the sign outside the door so as to learn the proper procedure for entering the batt office, and then to perform the deed as it should be done.

T h e abashed ex-civilian departed and studied the sign assiduously.

"Enter the door marked 'Entrance!' Remove your cap, take three steps into the room. Face the Battalion Officer, Sound off, 'Midshipman Gish, fourth class.' " T h e plebe, determined to make good at this, his first naval assignment, studied the order and thoroughly committed it to memory.

W i t h chin held high, he entered the door marked 'Entrance,' removed his cap, took three steps into the batt office, faced the batt officer, and in a clear voice, sounded off, "Midshipman Gish, fourth class. Sir." A sure sign of spring at USNA Tech is the appearance of dozens of happy sightseers trampling one another in an attempt to see those red-blooded, clean-cut American Midshipmen at work and play. Some men swear by the white cap covers, others pledge by the band concerts, but Lee takes the guided tour as the certain evidence that Spring is, indeed, here at last.

Many anecdotes come to mind dealing with the general theme of Midshipman-Sightseer.

Lee thought he heard the ultimate after being told about the 6th batt youngster who, it seems, developed the habit of dropping his book or tripping over his slide rule every time he noticed a civilian leveling his camera at what otherwise would have been a very military formation. Eventually his efforts

But the fight goes on. A recent group of sightseers was browsing around Tecumseh Court the other day, busying themselves by crossing those white lines to conduct further investigation. It seems that a fourth batt, first classman, has recently done a little research in rubber mask construction. Imagine the visitors' amazement when they happened to glance u p at an open window and caught sight of a gorilla in midshipman's clothing, casually enjoying a between-classes cigarette and watching the passers-by amble on.

It grieves Lee something fierce to have to inform on one of his classmates. But to keep this yarn under wraps would be a breach of office.

The party of the first part in today's thriller is a member, tried and true of '48B, or more apropos in this case, '48Bb (Bull Bucket).

W h a t with the first class having to write a term paper this year for the Department of English, History and Government in lieu of taking a final term examination, the lad involved was, how the French so ably express it, "Pearched on zee hornz of zee deelema."

W h e n it came to bull, the first classman made one helluva good electrical engineer. As a matter of fact, he was running a poor 409 in the field of 4 0 9 in EHG. Hence, the mere mention of the words "term paper" were enough to agitate him into fits of violent spasms.

All was not lost. The first classman had a business associate w h o attended another Eastern university. T h e associate had long blonde hair, wore dresses, high-heel shoes, and lipstick (a girl, in case you have not already surmised as m u c h ) .

The first classman, weighted down with worry attendant with the term paper, took a weekend in order to forget his troubles. On the weekend he contacted his business associate and poured out his sad story into her sympathetic ear.

She, too, had undergone the trials of the term paper, and just happened to have an old thesis tucked away under the camisole.

The paper was produced for the first classman to see and from it possibly get some ideas for his own work.

The weekend having drifted by, the lad found himself in class Monday morning standing on his feet, facing the bull prof, and wishing fervently that he hadn't forgotten to complete his bull assignment, namely, turning in a proposed outline for his term paper.

Fortunately, the unprepared first classman remembered enough of his lady friend's paper which he had seen the night before. H e was able to give the prof a fairly complete outline, even to the extent of citing incidental facts and figures.

The prof was pleased, "Well done, Mr. Zilch. I can see that you have already put in quite a great deal of effort in your paper.

Now what about a bibliography? From what sources are you gathering most of your material?"

The lad gulped hard. H e had overlooked the fact that it was S.O.P., when quoting facts, to cite the books used. He was stumped. He could remember enough of the girl's paper, but damned if he could recall any of the volumes she had used. H e further remembered gazing rather disinterestedly at her list of

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By L. F. Brown

A s this goes to press we are planning our Deputy Chairman, House Committee x i . H o u s e Warming of Alumni House. Like the family that moves into their new home we have gone far enough so that all rooms are "usable" and now we want to have the neighbors come in.

The Program Neighbors like to hear all the whys and The problem that the committee was called wherefores so this is an effort to give those away from Annapolis some conception of the on to meet was one of the best little YOUstory. We also want to answer a few of those CAN'T-DO-IT challenges that could be given criticisms and questions that would come up to anyone. It presented the following obstacles (among many lesser ones) : if the faas are not fully known.

No money.

A disinterested membership.

The House Committee Quite a few antagonistic members.

Whisperers.

Disillusioned former enthusiasts.

Last July (1947) the Board of Trustees of the Association appointed Rear Admiral Sin- On the profit side we had: A small group of never-say-die enthusiasts. clair Gannon, USN-(Ret.), as chairman of the House Committee of Alumni House. His A large group of supporters. instruaions were very broad. Adm. Gannon The Class of'l 907. was to form his own committee and get the Mr. L. U. Noland of Biggs Antique Co. House furnished and running BUT he was and friend of the Navy. not to receive any funds from the Association.

The local group.

(Note: For the record it should be noted The Committee after some study decided that as of the date of those instruaions to on basic principles and procedure as follows: Adm. Gannon the "furnishings" in Alumni (a) That it would not attempt to use any House included the office equipment on the Association Funds or tap any normal source second and third floors, the Executive Direc- of income of the Association. (By this was tor's office furniture on the first floor and meant that bar and similar profits of Alumni the Taproom and its adjoining Game Room House were not to be used). in the basement. All other rooms were bare (b) That it would not commit such Assoof furniture and only one piece, a desk, of ciation funds or income. the present furnishings were in the House.) (c) That it would obtain furnimre, and

raise funds by special parties and by donations for this specific purpose. (d) That as much of the innumerable jobs involved as could be would be done by volunteer labor. (e) That every effort would be made to put Alumni House on a paying basis, instead of a losing one, by popularizing it and getting the crowd to use it habitually. (f) That the final furnishings must be of a type and quality consistent with the structure and the Association.

Comer of the Drawing Room (Memorial Room). This roooi is being completely furnished by the Class of 1907.

The reception hall, first floor. Mrs. A. D. A. Crawford, our hostess is at her desk in the background. To the right in the foreground is the door of the Lounge (BaU Room). The opposite door is the entrance to the Memorial Room (Drawing Room).

The hall is still to be properly furnished.

Rugs, lamps, furniture and lighting fixtures are badly needed. (g) That to carry out all the above it was necessary to get action by immediately furnishing the building on an "interim" (i.e. anything-for-nothing) plan.

Money?

It was obvious from the start that we had to have some cash. When one of our friends told us we could have a piece of furniture it didn't seem right to say something like "We'll take it if you'll pay for the delivery." Or if a piece of furniture was loaned or given to us and needed finishing and repair we were in no position to demand that the donor pay for the work.

Our first effort along these lines was to write the various chapters and ask for a onedollar "Tarpaulin muster." This "Tarpaulin mustet" gave us our first working fund and

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friends, visiting Annapolis, a Guest Card that entitles them to all the privileges.

So, to go back to our sub-subject, the local patrons of the House are enthusiasts who loyally support the place in the idea that they are helping provide a permanent gathering place for all Alumni and that they are helping reduce a burden of the Association.

On the other side we have hundreds of enthusiasts from outside Annapolis who visit the House, approve it, send us suggestions, money and furniture.

We are grateful to all of these!

What's Been Done

The Library (Board Room) is on the second floor directly over the Memorial Room.

The volumes in the book cases were the personal library of Vic and Mrs. Blakeslee and are a gift to the Alumni association. Lighting fixtures, permanent book cases and other furniture and furnishings are needed for this room and its annex (seen through the door at left). those who so generously came through can be assured their help carried us through our worst period. However, it was felt that this form of solicitation of funds might be confused with the more important Association solicitation, when, as and if, so we discontinued any follow through.

Likewise, appeals to individuals were avoided or dropped for the same reason, although there have been a number of spontaneous gifts of this type.

It was obvious that special parties, of various types, offered a means to get funds for the House Committee and at the same time boost the income of Alumni House—the House Committee to use the entrance fees or other special income but the Association to retain the extra income from the bar and other permanent facilities.

Hence we started special parties such as "bingo nights" weekly, a Reno night, old-fashioned dances and many others. These have been successful in two directions. They have brought an increasing niunber of regular member patrons and have brought in a fund sufficient to permit us to carry on our work.

At first, the extra-curricular funds were colleaed, expended and audited by the House Committee but later, on the instructions of the Executive Committee, these funds have been mrned in to the Association and expenditures made from there. It must be remembered, however, that up to the time of writing, no association funds other than those deposited in this way have been used or committed by the House Committee.

reserve. The cost, in proportion to the amount you use them, is no "greater than Alumni House, if as much.

Alumni House was conceived and built when use of these clubs was very restriaed and also when we had to have a place for a home office. The restrictions have been removed to where any local member of the Association may use the facilities of these clubs.

How about the visiting member from out of town? No, he can only use the Officers Clubs if he is sponsored by a local member.

But the Alumni House is his own! Further, on that clubhouse, he is privileged to get his

Remember, there was nothing furnished except the offices and taproom when we started.

Accompanying this article are a series of pictures of the various rooms and areas. It is unnecessary to go into detailed description but some of the side notes will be of interest.

Patio—This was used several times last fall.

The manual labor was carried out by about twenty volunteers from hereabouts. Most of the furniture and the present shrubbery was furnished by Comdr. and Mrs. Schamyl Cochran ('08). Another Alumnus, L. C. Stark, Class of 1908 and former Governor of Missouri, is sending us the remaining shrubbery, flowers and other landscaping aids.

Ballroom—Finished except for the lamps and knicknacks. Furniture and drapes are a gift by Mr. L. V. Noland, President of the Biggs Antique Co. The rug has been purchased by the House and is the only item on which there is an outstanding obligation. The radio is a gift of the Admiral Radio Corp. of Chicago.

The rug is a beautiful red and blended sarouk. The draperies are red and the furniture is upholstered in green, white and red.

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A portion of the Ball Room (Lounge). The furniture and drapes in this room are a gift to the Association of Mr. L. V. Nolan, president of the Biggs Antique Furniture Co. of Richmond, Va. The Classes of 1916 and 1919 appropriated most of the funds for the purchase of the chandelier.

Patronage Jt has been said by various unknown critics (You know: "I heard t h a t . . . " but you never can find out who from) that, "Why should I help maintain a club for that bunch in Annapolis?" Unfortunately, quite a few of "that bunch" feel the same way except they say "Why should we pull 'that bunch's' (the outsiders) irons out of the fire?"

Neither one is right!

Theie are, in Annapolis, two very fine Officers Clubs which are available generally to active and retired officers, both regular and

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TOM Pantif

By Betty T. Roberts

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LUMNI HOUSE is doing things. On . Saturday, 13 March, time was shoved backwards. Many dignified officers and their ladies gathered in the Tap Room of Alumni House garbed in clothes such as Tom Sawyer would have worn, or at any rate, reasonable facsimiles. The idea was to arrive in some sort of a painter's costume in order to carry out the theme, but we didn't frown on those who came otherwise. W e were mainly interested in a party, the proceeds of which would be spent in painting the halls, upper and lower, at Alumni House, and as much of the interior which is still unpainted, as the funds realized would permit. Price of admission was a paint brush, the minimum charge being $1.00 per person.

H m n â&#x20AC;&#x201D; t h a t ' s interesting.

W h a t D I D she say?

Our genial bar boys.

There were many attractions during the evening which made the party tres gay from the beginning until the end, which incidentally, didn't come until quite late, or should we say, early in the morning.

There were various forms of entertainment, professional and amateur. In the professional line, Mrs. Eleanor "Corky" Armstrong, accompanied by Miss Alice Crenshaw at the piano, enthralled her audience with her Spanish dance. Capt. Charles C. Slayton, USN( R e t . ) , the master of masters, intrigued the House with his slight of hand tricks. There is no denying that in his case the hand is quicker than the eye. Admiral Sinclair Gannon, U S N - ( R e t . ) , brought down the House with "ditties" on his harmonica. Capt. R. S. Quackenbush, Jr., USN, lent his talent to make up a trio which gave forth with some very good harmony and also some clever refrains. The old-fashioned square dancing, led and called by Capt. P. V. H. Weems, USN( R e t . ) , must not be overlooked. Music was very ably furnished by Lt. Morris and his troupe. It seems the older a thing gets, the more popular it becomes, and this is true of square dancing at Alumni House. It's surprising to discover just how many are so adept at it too.

All in all, the Tom Sawyer Party was a success. Every one had a good time and the purpose of the party was realized to a substantial extent. W e hope very soon to start painting on our halls which, upon completion, will make a vast difference in the interior appearance of your House.

This is just one of the many ways in which we are trying to keep up with the improvements which are so obviously needed. Give us your support in these functions and in return, you will benefit.

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A very lucky fellow.

Now listen h e r e .

T i m e out for a cigarette.

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Baseball Comes Into Its Oivn WRESTLING The Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Championships were held at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pa., on 12 and 13 March, 1948, and the U. S. Naval Academy took two eastern championships — Midshipman J. A. Fletcher in the 145-pound class, and Midshipman E. Newbold Smith in the heavyweight class.

Midshipman Fletcher was voted the outstanding wrestler of the eastern championships which was his second year for this honor— having been named the outstanding wrestler in 1947.

The following "were the team standings in the Eastern Championships: 1. Lehigh 25 points 2. Franklin & Marshall 18 points 3. Navy 16 points 4. Army 15 points In addition to his accomplishments in the Eastern championships. Midshipman Fletcher won second place in the National Collegiate Athletic Association championships in the 147.5 pound class.

RIFLE The U. S. Naval Academy small bore rifle team won the National Collegiate Rifle championship held on 20 March, 1948, defeating the defending champion. University of Maryland, 1405 to 1404.

The last year the Navy rifle teatn won the National Championship was in 1939.

GYMNASTICS Midshipman M. L. Schenker won the Eastern Intercollegiate Gymnastic rope climb event held at the U. S. Military Academy, West Point, N . Y., on 13 March 1948. Midshipman Schenker's time was 4.0 seconds.

His closest competitor was Linn of Penn State with 4.1 seconds.

FENCING The Naval Academy fencing team participated in the Eastern Intercollegiate championships at N e w York City on 19 and 20 March and took first place in Epee and Sabre, losing the foil event to C.C.N.Y. T h e three weapon standing of the championships was as follows: C.C.N.Y 62 points New York Univ 59 points Navy 58 points Army 49 points The National Collegiate Athletic Association fencing championships were held at the Naval Academy on 3 April, 1948 with thirty colleges representing the various N.C.A.A.

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Districts throughout the United States j>articipating. T h e Naval Academy won championships as follows: Midshipman J. C. Day, J r . — W o n national champ, in Sabre.

Midshipman W . L. Bryan—Won national champ, in Epee.

SPRING

SPORTS

BASEBALL Navy starts its campaign this year with at least one innovation, namely, that it is now a member of the Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League which embraces some ten teams, jelled for the most part from the bastions of the Ivy League. Navy, off its performance the last few years under the wily Bishop, will be earmarked as a nine to watch from the start, and the league title will be an objective, along with the Army game for the Middies to shoot for. T h e Middies won their first league game on 10 April with a 5-to-l decision over Columbia.

Following tradition, the Tars will again play host to two professional teams who will be returning to their own bailiwicks from their southern training camps. These teams are the Boston Braves and the Baltimore Orioles.

T h e same teams were played last year by the Midshipmen but the experience and hitting power of the pros were too much for the Middies to overcome.

Coach Bishop, who performed under the lovable old Connie Mack, feels that this should be a good year for his charges. In fact, Max, with a twinkle, indicated that this had better be the year, since most of his performers will be wearing an Ensign's strip at this time next year. However, Bishop will start the season without some of his power present, since Bill Hawkins, who should patrol leftfield regularly, is busy butting heads on the spring football field, as is Reaves Baysinger, who throws passes for George Sauer and who is expected to pitch for Max Bishop also. The pitching simation looks pretty strong as it stands, however, with Ronnie Burton, Lee Rensberger, and Lefry Thom all ready for the firing line. All are fast and experienced.

LACROSSE The Navy lacrosse team approaches one of its toughest schedules in history with Duke, Penn State, Princeton, Maryland, Mount Washington, Army, and Hopkins on the list.

W o r k i n g for a smooth attack, combination, steady defensive play, and a strong midfield, the Midshipmen's squad does not yet measure up to former pre-season standards. W i t h a long way to go for game perfection. Coach Dinty Moore and the team are slowly approaching the status of a highly trained outfit.

Captain Art Markel and Lee Chambers, both Ail-Americans, return from last year. On a basis of past performance, Bob Carson, Lee Bendell, "Dutch" Schultz, "Mole" Allen, "Red" Cobb, "Oops" Wall, Dick Seth, and Chuck Smith will probably see plenty of action.

Starting his 23rd season of lacrosse coaching, Dinty Moore hopes to produce once more a strong Navy combination capable of challenging any team on this coast. His assertions that Navy lacks finesse and experience seem to be overridden to some extent by his acclaim of the squad's fighting spirit.

In 1938, 1943, 1945, and 1946 his teams took 4 National titles. Last year Navy won 6 and lost 3 collegiate games. However, the 1948 season appears a lot tougher.

The Middies have played three games this season and have won all three of them handily, but from now on the competition will get stronger and stronger until it reaches the climax game with the Cadets of West Point on 29 May. The scores of the games played thus far are as follows:

Navy 13 13 14

Opponent ,

Dartmouth College Harvard University Syracuse University

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TENNIS

W i t h Leonard Vogt, Horace Fishman, and Thomas Tift the only letter men returning from the 1947 varsity. Coach Art Hendrix T h e scores of the games played thus far must rebuild his team from last year's varsity this season are as follows: and plebe squads. W i t h a "won 5, lost 8" 1947 Navy Opponent Oi"jp. Score season behind them, the team faces the longSpringfield College 4 5 est and toughest schedule in his history. Two 5.

Syracuse University 0 of the outstanding matches will be with Wil2 Trinity College 1 liam and Mary, 1947 National Champions, 2 West Chester Teachers 9 and Tulane, one of the best teams in the na-

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BliET-lPRIl 2 ARMY AND AIR FORCE PANAMA AREA WEST POINTERS ONE HUNDRED STRONG GRIP HANDS TONIGHT WITH SIXTY TWO PANAMA AREA NAVAL ACADEMY GRADUATES TO CELEBRATE ONE FOUR SIX A M l VERSARY AND STRENGTHEN THE BONDS OF UNIFICATION. WE FILL OUR GLASSES AT FORT WILLIAM D. DAVIS, CANAL ZONE AND EXTEND GREETINGS TO YOU ON THIS OCCASION. —WILLIS D. CRITTENBERGER.

General view of the diners assembled for the Unification Dinner in the Grand Ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, April 2.

MANY GENERATIONS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS ARE INDEBTED TO THE SERVICE ACADEMIES AT ANNAPOLIS AND WEST POINT FOR PROVIDING TRAINED LEADERSHIP FOR OUR NATIONAL DEFENSE FORCES IN PEACE AND WAR. ALUMNI OF THE NINTH NAVAL DISTRICT JOIN ME IN EXTENDING GREETINGS TO ALL GRADUATES AND CLASSMATES PRESENT. — J . CARY JONES, REAR ADMIRAL, USN, COMMANDANT NINTH NAVAL DISTRICT, GREAT LAKES, ILLINOIS.

UNDER PRESENT CIRCUMSTANCES IT WILL BE IMPOSSIBLE FOR ME TO ATTEND THE DINNER SPONSORED BY THE WEST POINT—ANNAPOLIS ALUMNI ASSOCIATIONS FRIDAY APRIL SECOND AT THE WALDORF-ASTORIA HOTEL. I CONGRATULATE COMMITTEE MEMBERS OF THE WEST POINT-ANNAPOLIS ALUMNI ASSOCIATIONS IN THEIR EFFORT TO FOSTER EVEN TO AN INCREASING DEGREE THE CLOSE RELATIONSHIP EXISTING BETWEEN GRADUATES OF OUR TWO ACADEMIES. THE NECESSITY FOR REALISTIC UNIFICATION IN OUR HEARTS AND MINDS HAS BEEN SINGULARLY IMPRESSED UPON ME AS DIRECTOR OF PLANS AND OPERATIONS DIVISION,.

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY. HEARTFELT GOOD WISHES TO ALL OF YOU FOR HAPPINESS AND CONTINUED SUCCESS. —LIEUTENANT GENERAL A. C. WEDEMEYER.

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ONE HUNDRED SEVENTY-FIVE LOYAL ALUMNI OF WEST POINT AND ANNAPOLIS GATHERED AT CHICAGO TO HONOR ALMA MATER AND THE UNIFICATION SEND GREETINGS AND WARMEST REGARDS, — G . HUMPHREY, '07

'HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO BOTH OF YOU" LOVE. ARMY AND NAVY RIO -MORRIS, 1911 AND LOVBTT, 1918

UNITED GRADUATES IN ALASKA JOIN WITH YOU TODAY IN JOINT CELEBRATION. HAPPY LANDING. —TWINING

V-30032 ALL GRADUATES AND FORMER CLASSMATES OF THE ACADEMIES AND ALL THOSE CLOSELY ASSOCIATED WITH WEST POINT AND ANNAPOLIS HERE IN EUROPE JOIN WITH ME AND THE EUROPEAN COMMAND IN EXTENDING GREETINGS UPON THIS OCCASION OF THE COMMEMORATION OF THE ANNIVERSARIES OF THE FOUNDATIONS OF WEST POINT AND ANNAPOLIS AND FOR THEIR SERVICES TO OUR COUNTRY. —CLAY

TO ALL THOSE PRESENT WE SEND OUR GREETINGS. WE ARE MET TOGETHER THIS EVENING TO DO HONOR BY TRADITION TO OUR BELOVED ACADEMIES, AND IN ADDITION TO CELEBRATE THE RECENT MERGER OF THE ARMED FORCES. WE THINK BACK WITH LOVE AND A CERTAIN NOSTALGIA TO OUR HAPPY ASSOCIATIONS AT WEST POINT AND ANNAPOLIS, AND WE CONTEMPLATE WITH THE GREATEST OF PRIDE THE PAST DEEDS AND CONTRIBUTIONS OF OUR FELLOW CADETS AND MIDSHIPMEN IN THE DEFENSE OF THIS FINE AND GREAT GREAT COUNTRY OF OURS. THE MERGER OF THE ARMED FORCES AT THIS TROUBLED POINT IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD TAKES ON A GREATER AND MORE VITAL SIGNIFICANCE, NOT ALONE FOR US BUT FOR ALL OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. WE MUST LIVE UP TO THE TRUST WHICH IS THUS CONFERRED UPON US. THIS MERGER MUST BE ONE OF THE HEART AND MIND AND NOT JUST ONE OF LEGAL STATUTE. NOW IS NOT THE TIME FOR US TO KEEP ALIVE PAST DIFFERENCES, AMBITIONS AND JEALOUSIES - RATHER, IT IS FOR US TO WORK FORWARD INTO THE FUTURE AS ONE, WITH CLARITY OF VISION, FIRMNESS OF PURPOSE AND CALMNESS OF MIND, KEEPING EVER BEFORE US THE HIGH IDEALS OF OUR TWO GREAT ACADEMIES, AS EXPRESSED IN THIER MOTTOS: "DUTY HONOR COUNTRY" AND "EX TRIDENS SCIENTIA." WE ARE WITH YOU IN SPIRIT IN THE FESTIVE GATHERING ON THIS ANNUAL OCCASION AND WE SEND OUR RESPECTS TO YOUR HONORED GUESTS. — W E S T POINT AND ANNAPOLIS SOCIETIES OF ST. LOUIS

ENTHUSIASTIC GREETINGS FROM WEST POINT ANNAPOLIS GROUPS IN SEATTLE. YOUR BANQUET IN KEEPING WITH BEST TRADITIONS OF THE SERVICES. EXPECT TO FOLLOW YOUR GOOD EXAMPLE ON APRIL 5 AT NAVAL STATION HERE. GENERAL E. P. DENSON, WEST POINT '09 B. B. CASSELS, ANNAPOLIS '22

BIRMINGHAM SOCIETY SENDS GREETINGS TO ALL ASSEMBLED IN COMMEMORATION OF THE FOUNDING OF THE US MILITARY ACADEMY AND THE US NAVAL ACADEMY MAY THESE GREAT INSTITUTIONS MAINTAIN THEIR PLACES SECURE IN HISTORY TO PROVIDE FOR THEIR COUNTRY LEADERS WISE IN PEACE UNCONQUERABLE IN WAR —MORROW 1906, MARTIN-1907, AND STEINER 1917,

JOINT DETROIT ARMY NAVY AT UNIFICATION BANQUET DINNER UNIVERSITY CLUB SEND GREETINGS REGRET CANCELLATION RADIO BROADCAST APPRECIATE YOUR SENDING TRANSCRIPT OF SPEECH. THROPE AND DAVIS MILITARY ACADEMY AND NAVAL ACADEMY ASSOCIATION. M A Y , 1948

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-^g were sorry to hear of the <leath of Capt. Gilmer's wife, Florence Piter^on, who died 18 March 1948 at the Mountain Sanitarium near Hendersonville, N. C. Capt. Gilmer writes: "I shall be leaving here soon. My permanent address is Care FidelityThiladelphia Trust Co., Philadelphia 9, Pa." 1Q00 *^'^*^ Secretary, CAPT. STANI07Z FORD E. MOSES, USN-Ret., 4''38 Vista Del Monte, Sherman Oaks, Calif.

LUKE McNAMEE, (Adm. USN-Ret.), has just been elected to the Presidency of the ~New York Marine Society, of which the distinguished members preserve the traditions of New York sailing ships. Adm. McNamee has been prominent in New York afiFairs since retiring in 1934.

BENJAMIN B. McCORMICK informs us â&#x20AC;˘of his new address, Wellington Ave., Newport, R. I. 1QQ7 Class Secretary, LT. COMDR. lOT/ JOHN W. MORSE, USN-Ret., "Wardman Park Hotel, Washington 8, D. C.

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gate Monongahela, presented by the Class ten years before. Among the buildings visited were the Chapel and Crypt, containing the tomb of John Paul Jones, Dahlgren Hall (Armory), Bancroft Hall including Memorial Hall and the Mess room (recently remodeled, and now capable of seating 3,000). On arrival at Bancroft Hall, the party was formally received by the three ranking officers of the Discipline Department and coffee was served.

The midshipman Brigade Commander was brought in and introduced. He wears six stripes and commands a brigade of two regiments, each containing four battalions. The entire brigade contains just under 2,800 midshipmen. Dinner formation was then witnessed from the steps of Bancroft Hall, and what with the size of the brigade, the smartness and precision of its movements, and the midshipman drum and bugle corps, was a most inspiring sight.

The class then repaired to Alumni House for liquid refreshments and lunch. By special inviation, Lieut. Comdr. Wolf remained for lunch, and remained at the service of the class throughout the day. Through the generosity of Loui Field, champagne was served with the lunch, and toasts were drunk to the class, to the absent ones, and to the memory of those departed. Stories were told, songs were sung and the class yell rendered.

After lunch, the party divided, some going to see Navy defeat Harvard at lacrosse and others going to see Navy defeat Trinity at baseball. During the latter game, the Superintendent remrned, and welcomed the class most heartily, and in remrn was thanked in the name of the class for the many attentions and courtesies he had arranged.

After the athletic events, the party repaired to the home of Florence Tardy, where she and Katrina Halligan had prepared a most delicious buffet supper. Immediately thereafter, the party broke up, some returning to their homes, and some remaining over-night at Carvel Hall to witness church formation and attend services in the chapel, the following day.

Simultaneously with the festivities in Annapolis, a class lunch was held at the Women's Club, Berkeley, Calif., attended by Johnnie Graham and Dick Huntington, and their

1 ftOJl During the forenoon of Samr' " ' " day, 3rd April, the Class assembled at Alu^nni House, in Annapolis. Those present were the following: Henry Williams, accompanied by two friends, Mr. Pye and Miss Pye. George Smith, wife and daughter.

Judy Wright and wife.

Henry Dinger and son, Henry, Jr. Dan Boone and wife.

Bill Tarrant and wife.

Major Schofield, wife and 8-year-old grand-daughter.

Jimmie Gilmer.

Loui Field and neice, Mrs. Wallen.

Katrina Halligan.

Florence Tardy.

Gertrude Evans.

Letters and cards from those unable to attend were reviewed. Lively conversation and reminiscences were participated in by all at the same time. On account of an acute heart ailment, Judy Wright dropped out and went to his son's house (Captain Joe Wright, USN), for a rest before returning to his home in Alexandria.

Lieut. Comdr. Wolf, USN, having been l O n n HUGO W. OSTERHAUS, (R. detailed by the Superintendent as Officer Es- I 7 U U Adm. USN-Ret.), gives his adcort, appeared, and escorted the party on a dress as Box 237A, Bonnie Brae Way, Saratour of the Academy grounds and buildings. toga, Calif.

The Superintendent was out of town, but the Acting Superintendent, Captain Zimmerli, met the patty at the Museum, and remained I Q H l BENYAURD B. WYGANT, with it throughout the forenoon. Among the I T U I (Capt. USN-Ret.), informs us many objects of inspiring interest inspeaed that his new address is Elgin Academy, Elgin, at the Museum was the painting of the Fri- 111.

1 Q(\d ^^^ Secretary, R. ADM. FRED I /UT E MCMILLEN, (SC) USN-Ret., El Cortez, San Diego, Calif.

HERBERT H. MICHAEL, (Capt. USNRet.-Deceased). We were sorry to hear of the death of Capt. Michael who died 17 Feb. 1948.

Mrs. Michael resides at 60 Grammercy Park, New York 10, N. Y. W. PARKER SEDGWICK, JR., (Lt. USNRet.), reports that his address is 80 Broad Street, Room 2900, New York, N. Y. H. E. KIMMEL, (R. Adm. USN-Ret.), writes that his address is Soaper Hotel, Henderson, Ky. R. Adm. and Mrs. Kimmel have a new grandson. Manning Marins Kimmel, born 31 March 1948, to Mr. and Mrs. Edward R. Kimmel of Cambridge, Mass. The grandson is named for his uncle, Lt. Comdr. Manning Marins Kimmel, who was killed in batde in the Pacific in July 1944.

1 Qf\C Class Secretary, COMDR. HUGO I 7U3 FRANKENBERGER, USN-Ret., 1308 Emerson Street, N. W., Washington 11 D.C. HUGO FRANKENBERGER, (Cdr. USN), is living at 1308 Emerson St., N.W., Washington 11, D. C. HUBERT BURNHAM informs us that his new address is 537 Jackson Blvd., Chicago 4, 111.

S. C. HOOPER, (R. Adm. USN-Ret.), gives his address as 4425 Garfield St., N.W., Washington 7, D. C. HALFORD R. GREENLEE, (Capt. USNRet.), writes that his address is 5211 Roosevelt St., Bethesda, Md. ARTHUR C. STOTT, (Capt. USN-Ret.), reports that his address is "The Croydon," 12 E. 86th St., New York 28, N. Y. CHESTER W. NIMITZ, (Fit. Adm), has been appointed to the Board of Advisors of the Admiral Farragut Academy. This fine prep school was founded by Adm. S. S. Robison, USNA, Class of 1888, following his retirement in 1931. Last December Adm. Robison turned the Presidency of the Academy over to Adm. Arthur S. Carpender, USNA, Class of 1908. lOrjZ. Class Secretary, CAPT. L. M. I 7UO ATKINS, USN-Ret., Franklin Street, Annapolis, Maryland.

WILLIAM L. CALHOON, (V. Adm. USNRet. ), is living at 111 John Street, New York, N. Y. D. W. FULLER, (Cdr. USN-Ret.), gives his new address as 1139 Windsor Ave., Piedmont, Calif.

1 Q(YJ Class Secretary, V. ADM. J. H. I 7U / HOOVER, USN, Bureau of Aeronautics, Bldg. 22, Potomac Annex, Navy Department, Washington 25, D. C. HARRY J. ABBETT, (Capt. USN), writes that his address is 840 Glorietta Blvd., Coronado, Calif.

CLAUD A. JONES, (R. Adm. USN), informs us that his address is 15 Grossoup Drive, Charleston 4, W. Va. JOHN M. SCHELLING, (Capt. USNRet.), is living at 484 Merritta Ave., Oakland 10, Calif.

REGINAL E. GILLMOR reports that his address is 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York 20, N. Y. WILLIS W. BRADLEY, JR. j(Capt. USN), a Member of Congress, has been named a

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Member of the Board of Visitors, U. S. Naval Academy, convening in April. Only one other Academy graduate in recent years has been so honored.

Members of the Class of 1907 and their wives will assemble in Alumni House for the dedication of the "Seven" Room at 1 p. m. on Wednesday, 19th May. This "Seven" Room is the first room to be furnished in Alumni House by any Academy Class.

Immediately following the formal dedication there will be some toasts and then luncheon, which will be served in the House.

Thereafter all hands will amuse themselves (there will be a baseball game. Navy vs. Penn State at 4 p. m.).

The Committee is considering a finale party the same afternoon, very likely a KT affair.

The "Seven" R<x>m is truly beautiful. Class members subscribed bountifully in funds and Bill Almy is to be credited with virtually all the detailed work. The Annapolis Committee of '07 intends that the Dedication will be in keeping with the Room.

L. J. G.

Class Secretary, V. ADM. H. W. HILL, USN National War College, Office of the Commandant, Washington 25, D. C. HOWARD S. KEEP writes that his address is 800 South 21st St., Arlington, Va. STANLEY MITCHELL informs us that his address is 1615 Lasuen Road, Santa Barbara, Calif.

J. F. MEIGS (Cdr. USN-Ret.), gives his address as 19 Revell St., Annapolis, Md. H. J. SHIELDS is living at 717 Pine St., Scranton 10, Pa. SCOTT G. LAMB, (Cdr. USN-Ret.), reports that his address is 427 E. Lancaster Ave., Wayne, Pa.

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Brandt. William V.. Jr., (Lt. Cdr. USN) . Communication School. Naval Amphibious Training Unit, Naval Amphibious Base, Little Creek, Va.

1Q10 Class Secretary, CDR. W. G. *r*^ GREENMAN, USN (Ret.), 207 Hanover St., Annapolis, Md. CHARLES P. MASON, (V. Adm. USNRet.), informs us that his address is 116 W. Blount St., Pensacola, Fla. GEORGE S. GILLESPIE, (Capt. USN1 QOfi ^'^^^ Secretary, COL. D. C. COR- Ret.), writes that his address is 3737 DivisaI 7UO DINER, USA-Ret., U. S. Soldiers dero, San Francisco, Calif.

EMORY P. ELDRIDGE, (Capt. USN), is Home, Washington, D. C. F. J. WILLE, (R. Adm. USN-Ret.), gives living at 54 Portsmouth Ave., Exeter, N. H. WALTER S. DELANY, (V. Adm. USN), his address as Campbell Apartment Hotel, Apt. 508, 130 Linden Ave., Long Beach 2, has been named Comdt. Third Naval District as the relief of R. Adm. Monroe Kelly (USNA Calif.

F. W. ROCKWELL, (R. Adm. USN), is 1908) on the latter's retirement next July. living at 3906 47th St., N.W., Washington 16, Adm. DeLany is currently Cdr. of Battleships and Cruisers, Pacific Fleet.

D. C. TIP MERRILL who is vacationing in Chile JOSEPH E. AUSTIN, (Cdr. USNR), informs us that his address is c/o De La Rama writes: Steamship Co., Manila, P. I. Camp Catsico PAUL L. HOLLAND writes that his adRio Token, Chile dress is Municipal Bldg., Baltimore, Md. March 31, 1948 RALPH G. WALLING, (Cdr. USN), re- D e a r S H I P M A T E — ports that his address is 313 William St., Since my retirement last November I have Key West, Fla. had so many inquiries as to where we Merrills have hibernated for the winter, that I 1 QAQ Class Secretary, R. ADM. H. C. am resorting to your Ships Loud Speaker DeI 7U7 TRAIN, USN-Ret., 81 Market partment to pass the word.

St., Annapolis, Md. Briefly, I was advised by Medicos to rest F. S. CARTER gives his mailing address and recreate for about one year. I accepted as Lewes, Dela. this advice with alacrity—and following an HORACE W. NORDYKE informs us that average quail season around our Home Port his address is Room 201, Indiana Terminal of Natchey, we boarded a Grace Line Steamer Warehouse, 31 East Georgia St., Indianap- for Chile. We are spending four months with olis 4, Ind. friends in their hunting and fishing camp on LUCIUS C. DUNN, (Capt. USN-Ret.), Rio Token in the South—where partridge is living at 1111 23rd Road South, Arling- and ducks are plentiful and the rainbow trout ton, Va. run big. Remrning in May we will stop off at HOWARD H. BENSON, (Cdr. USN), Tocapilla for ten days of marlin and broad writes that his new address is 114 Duke of gill sword fishing. On our return to the States Gloucester St., Annapolis, Md. we will wind up that tough year, salmon fishBENJAMIN T. TILLEY, (Cdr. USN-Ret.), ing in Canada. It is hoped that I will then informs us that his address is 718 E. Ocean be in proper physical condition to seek gainful employment—or if present trends conBlvd., Long Beach 2, Calif. tinue—to again "answer that case."

VanHook, Clifford E.. fR. Adm. U S N ) . Proceed home, relieved all active duty.

Between trips we are always at home to our old shipmates in Natchez, Mississippi.

101 n Class Secretary, R. ADM. Yours, ' ' ' U CHARLES J. MOORE, USNA. Stanton Merrill, Ret., 3325 Cleveland Ave., N. W., WashingV. Adm., USN (Ret.) '12 ton, D. C. WILLIAM E. FARRELL reports that his address is 21 Southgate Ave., Annapolis, Md. H. E. ROSSELL gives his address as Sheffield, Mass.

SAMUEL W. KING is living at Room 210, Hawaiian Trust Building, Honolulu 48, T. H. Cooke, Charles M., Jr.. (Adm. U S N ) . Proceed home, relieved all active duty.

MAY, 1948

DeLany, Walter S., ( V . Adm. U S N ) . Commandant, Third Naval District. New York, N . Y. Pace. Ernest M,, Jr., (R. Adm. U S N ) . Proceed home, relieved all active duty.

1 Ql O Class Secretary, MR. WALTER If 10 L. SEIBERT, Brighton Laundry, Pittsburgh, Penna.

NORMAN C. GILLETTE, (Commo.

USN), gives his address as U. S. Naval Ammunition Depot, Hawthorne, Nev. JAMES E. BRENNER, (Capt. USN-Ret.), reports that his address is School of Law, Stanford University, Stanford, Calif.

NEIL H. GEISENHOFF, (Cdr. USNRRet.), writes that his new address is 1422 Francisco St., San Francisco, Calif.

DuBose, Laurance T., (R, Adm. U S N ) , Commander, Battleship-Cruisers, Pacific Fleet.

Hall, John L., Jr., (V. Adm. U S N ) . Commandant.

Armed Forces Staff College, Norfolk, Va.

1 OIJ. Class Secretary, R. ADM. R. W. • ' '^ HAYLER, USN, Board of Decoration and Award, Room 4030, Arlington Annex, Navy Department, Washington 25, D.C. LLOYD J. WILTSE, (R. Adm. USN-Ret.), informs us that his address is 3170 Noela Drive, Honolulu 15, Hawaii.

SIMSON C. STENGEL, (Capt. USN (CEC)), is living at 6112 Harwood Ave., Oakland 11, Calif.

HENRY SAMSON, (R. Adm. USN-Ret.Deceased). We were sorry to hear of the death of R. Adm. Samson who died 25 March 1948 in the Lynn Hospital, Mass.

Hayler, Robert W., (R. Adm. U S N ) , Commandant, Fourteenth Naval District, and Commander, Hawaiian Sea Frontier.

1 01 K Class Secretary, R. ADM. R. O. I 7 ID GLOVER, USN, Hydrographic Office, Navy Department, Washington, D. C. FORREST K. LIBENOW, (Lt. Cdr. USNRet.), gives his address as Napa County, Oakville, Calif.

JAMES M. LEWIS, (Capt. USN), is living at 306 Nolle Bldg., Austin, Tex. MERRILL T. KINNE, (Capt. USNR), writes that his address is Jerusalem Road,, "Spoondrift," Cohasset, Mass.

HERBERT V. WILEY, (R. Adm. USNRet.) , reports that his address is 1447 Washington St., San Francisco 9, Calif.

Shoemaker, James M., (Lt. Cdr. U S N ) . Fleet Weather Central, Pearl Harbor, T. H. Struble. Arthur D.. (R. Adm. U S N ) . Deputy Chief of Naval Operation (Operations), Navy Dept.

Wheeler, Charles J., (Capt. U S N ) . Proceed home, relieved all active duty.

101A Class Secretary, CAPT. LAUI 7 IO RENCE F. STAFFORD, USN, Naval Communications Annex, Room 337— Bldg. 19, 3801 Nebraska Avenue, N. W., Washington 25, D.C. ROBERT C. BOURNE, (Capt. USNR), informs us that his address is 74 Passaic St., Newark 4, N. J. JAMES K. DAVIS, (R. Adm. USN-Ret.), is living at Tionesta, Forest County, Pa. C. JULIAN WHEELER, who on April first was placed on the inactive list of the United States Navy with the rank of Rear Admiral, has been appointed Director of Personnel of the State Mutual Life Assurance Company of Worcester, Mass.

Admiral Wheeler, a native of Mobile, Ala., is a graduate of the United States Naval Academy. His first association with the City of Worcester was in 1941 when he was made Commandant of the R.O.T.C. at Holy Cross College, later forming a similar unit at Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

In 1942 he was assigned to the command of the cruiser MOBILE which ship participated in many engagements while attached to the Pacific Fleet, among which were the Tarawa, Kwajalein, and Marianas operations.

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In 1944 Admiral Wheeler was assigned to duty as Liaison Officer on the staff of Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser, then in command of the British Fleet in the Pacific. He was present on the USS MISSOURI at the time of Japan's surrender. Shortly thereafter he was assigned, as a member of the United States Naval Mission, to duty in Rio de Janeiro as Senior Naval Adviser of the Brazilian Naval War College, in which duty he continued until a few weeks ago.

He is the recipient of several decorations, induding the Legion of Metit with Combat V, Bronze Star Medal, and Commendation Ribbon. He also holds the rank of Commander of the Order of the British Empire.

For State Mumal the position of Director of Personnel is a new one resulting from company growth. In assuming his duties. Admiral Wheeler will be responsible for the personnel policies of the company including the selection, training and organiaztion of personnel now numbering over five hundred employees.

Rodgers, Bertram J., (R. Adm. U S N ) . Commander, Amphibious Force, Pacific Fleet.

1 0 1 7 Class Secretary, CAPT. ROSS F. ' ' ' ' COLLINS, USNR, Cedarundel Farm, Route 3, Annapolis, Md. EARL W. MORRIS, (Capt. USN), gives his address as 1704 Brookwood Road, Brookwood Terrace, Jacksonville, Fla. FORD D. ROGERS, (Maj. Gen. USMCRet.), writes that his address is R.F.D. # 1 , Woodpack Farm, Gainesville, Va. JAMES F. KENNEDY, (Lt. Cdr. USNR), reports that his address is 229 Amabell St., Pittsburgh 11, Pa. KENNETH F. JONES infotms us that his address is 324 W. 87th St., N. Y., N. Y. BENJAMIN O. "WELLS, (Capt. USNRet. ), is living at 970 49th St., Los Alamos, N. Mex. EDWARD SPARROW, (Cdr. USN-Ret.), writes that his address is Box 60, Portage, Wash.

Fahrion, Frank G., (R. Adm. U S N ) . Superintendent, Naval Gun Factory, Washington, D . C.

1 Ql Q Class Secretary, CAPT. JOHN R. *' t o SULLIVAN, USN, Room 3069, Navy Department, Washington 25, D. C. ALBERT M. BLEDSOW, (R. Adm. USN), gives his duty address as Commander Support Group, Naval Forces Far East, c/o Fleet Post Office, San Francisco, Calif.

THOMAS G. BURKE, (Deceased). We were sorry to hear of the death of Mr. Burke who died Dec. 1947.

SAMUEL H. HURT, (Capt. USN), informs us that his address is Naval ROTC Unit, Charlottesville, Va. MORRIS A. JACOBS reports that his address is 1721 Jena St., New Orleans 15, La. WALTER L. TA'iTOR, (Capt. USN-Ret.), writes that his address is P. O. Box 161, Lake Helen, Fla. HAROLD BIESEMEIER, (R. Adm. USNRet.), is living at 501 Taylor St., San Francisco, Calif.

Jupp, Stanley D.. (Capt, U S N ) . Assistant Chief of Staff for Operations, Sixth Naval District, Charleston, S. C. Phillips, William K.. (R. Adm. U S N ) . Commander, Naval Operating Base, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Sullivan, John R., (Capt. U S N ) , Commanding Officer, Naval Receiving Station, Naval Base, Philadelphia, Pa. Johnson. Einar R., (Capt. U S N ) . Chief Staff Ofiicer, Florida Group, Atlantic Reserve Fleeet, Green Cove Springs, Fla.

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Fischler, Peter K,, (R. Adm. U S N ) . Commander, Amphibious Group ONE, and additional duty as Commander, Transport Squadron O N E .

1 0 1 0 Class Secretary, CAPT. R. A. 17 17 DIERDORFF, USN, 9 St. Johns Street, Annapolis, Maryland.

FRANK V. ALER, JR., (Cdr. USNR), reports that his address is 33 East End Ave., New York 28, N. Y. JIMMY GRAHAM, (Deceased). We were sorry to hear of the death of Mr. Graham who died 25 March 1948 at Long Beach Hospital.

CHARLES J. REND, (Capt. USN), informs us that his address is c/o The Walter Butler Co., 1300 Minnesota Bldg., St. Paul, Minn.

RUSSELL M. IHRIG (Commo. USNRet.), Superintendent, California Maritime Academy, Vallejo, was the guest speaker on 15 March 1948 before the National Defense Section of the Commonwealth Club at San Francisco. His subject was "Personnel Training from the Viewpoint of the Navy."

JAMES J. HUGHES, (Cdr. USN-Ret.), writes that his address is President Terminal Refrigerating & Warehouse Corp., Washington 4, D. C.

GEORGE B. CUNNINGHAM gives his address as 2250 Highland Ave., Birmingham 5, Ala. Forrestal, Emmet P., (R. Adm. U S N ) . Commander, Destroyers, Pacific Fleet.

Johnson, Felix L., (R. Adm. U S N ) . Commander, Destroyers, Atlantic Fleet Johnson, Douglas P., (Capt. U S N ) . Staff, Commander, Eastern Sea Frontier.

1 pOI THOMAS G. MURRELL (Capt. ' ' ^ ' USNR), general agent at San Francisco for the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company, has been eleaed to the board of directors of the company's Association of General Agents.

OSGOOD A. NICKERSON, (Lt. Col. USA), informs us that his address is Qrs. 4-6 Barry Rd., Governors Island, New York 4, N. Y. STYART S. PURVIS, (Cdr. USN-Ret.), is now on active duty in the role of liaison assistant for Selective Service in the office of -Maj. Gen. L. B. Hershey, Chief of that Service.

GEORGE H. L. PEET, (Cdr. USNR), reports that his address is now 3055 Baker St., San Francisco 23, Calif.

THOMAS G. MURRELL, (Capt. USNR), gives as his new address, 548 Mills Tower, 1 0 9 n Class Secretary, MR. JAMES A. San Francisco 4, Calif.

I 7ZU CROCKER, 3009â&#x20AC;&#x201D;44th Place, DON F. SMITH, (Capt. USN), writes that N. W., Washington 16, D. C. his address is now Commanding Officer, Naval E. P. SPEIGHT, (Capt. USN-Ret.), gives his addtess as 511 E. 20th St., New York 10, Air Station, Quonset Point, R. I. LAMAR M. WISE, (Lt. Cdr. USN), inN. Y. JOHN M. GREER, (Maj. USMC-Ret.), is forms us of a change of address, 5220 PitV St., New Orleans, La. living at 27 Murray Ave., Annapolis, Md. JOSEPH RODES, (Cdr. USN), gives his EDWARD D. BRYAN reports that his address is 926 Volunteer Bldg., Chattanooga 2, address as 1143 Alameda Blvd., Coronado, Calif.

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CHARLES W. ROLAND, (Capt. USN), FRANCIS B. STODDERT, (Capt. USNwrites that his mailing address is 1461 El Ret.), informs us that his address is 133 E. Camino Real, Burlingame, Calif.

73rd St., New York, N. Y. EUGENE B. OLIVER, (Cdr. USN-Ret.), LUNSFORD Y. MASON, (Capt. USN), is living at 7th Naval Dist. Hdqtrs., U.S.N.A.S., reports that his new address is 6237 Gulfport Blvd., St. Petersburg 7, Fla. Jacksonville, Fla. FRANCIS E. FAIRMAN, JR., informs us F. C. L. DETTMANN, (Capt. USN), gives his address as BuShips (330g) Navy Dept., that his address now is 2590 Ridgeway Rd., San Marino 9, Calif.

Washington 25, D. C. JOHN E. REZNER, (Capt. USN-Ret.), is RICHARD MORSE, (R. Adm. USN), informs us that his address is 2565 Poppy Drive, living at 552 Ocean Ave., New London, Conn.

Burlingame, Calif.

C. WILLIAM DUNCAN gives as his adSUMNER T. SCOTT reports from U. S. dress.

The Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Naval Academy Graduates Association of Southern Minnesota, Fairmont, Minn.: "We 1, Pa. PHILIP E. REDDING, (Lt. USNR), writes have established a small Naval Academy Alumni Association in this beautiful city of that his new address is 6 Peter Cooper Rd., Fairmont, Minn. We have a nucleus of New York 10, N. Y. four Naval Academy graduates here about Herbert W.. (Capt. U S N ) . Commander, which we have established our asso- Taylor, Naval Operating Base, Coco Solo, C. Z. ciation. They include Grant Rogers, '37; Hickey, Robert F.. (R. Adm. U S N ) . Commander, Fleet Air Wing FrVE. J. J. Heimark, '42; Bill Johnson, '45, and myself. We anticipate the formation of a Minneapolis-St. Paul Btanch of the Academy As- 1 0 0 0 Class Secretary, CDR. E. E. sociation with whom we shall affiliate. We ! 7Z.Z. MEYERS, USNR-Ret., c/o The shall be very happy if any Naval Academy Douglas School, Pebble Beach, Calif. graduates passing through Fairmont will conRUSSELL G. STURGES, (Capt. USN), tact us. We can arrange for a meeting of our writes that his address is U. S. Naval Ordnance branch with one-half hour's notice."

Plant, Macon, Ga. ROBERT F. PERRY is living at 22 Dudley, MILO R. WILLIAMS, (Capt. USN), re Reading, Mass. ports that his duty address is Staff, Comman SAMUEL W. CANAN, (Cdr. USN-Ret.), der Western Sea Frontier, Treasure Island informs us that his address is 506 Woodland San Francisco, Calif, Capt, Williams" home ad Terrace, Philadelphia 4, Pa. dre.ss is 806 Colford Ave., CoUingswood, N. J. L. T. HAUGEN, (Capt. USN-Ret.), reCHARLES J. McWHINNIE, (Capt ports that his new address is Stanolind Oil & USNR), gives as his address 435 Teresita Gas Co., Tulsa .2, Okla.

Blvd., San Francisco 16, Calif.

R. D. HILL, JR., (Cdr. USN-Ret.), writes THEODORE M. BRAUTIGAM is living that his address is 95 Christopher St., New on 244 East Pearson St., Chicago 11, 111.

York 14, N. Y. JAMES F. MORGAN, (Cdr. USNR), in-

forms us that his address is 350 Arborway, Jamaica Plain, Mass.

HARRY ST. JOHN BUTLER, (Capt.

USN-Ret.), announces the opening of his office for the general practice of law at 1624 Eye St., N.W., Washington 6, D. C. Capt. Butler went back on the retired list last year and has just completed a year's postgraduate work in law at the Georgetown School of Law, and he expects to receive his Master of Law Degree in June '48.

PAUL D. PARCELLS informs us that his address is 1216 MacArthur Blvd., Oakland 10, aiif.

BEN G. KOEHLER writes that his address is Geneva, Neb. ARTHUR E. PEW, JR., reports that his new address is 1500 Walnut St., (Room 505), Philadelphia 2, Pa. FRANK T. WATKINS, (Capt. USN), gives as his new address, Post-Graduate School, Monterey, Calif.

SWEDE MEYERS reports . . . "Courage and patience, gentlemen. The Roll Call is not out yet. . . neither is the Peace Treaty written yet either. Time also seems to be fleeting faster in this age of jet-propulsion. Jusr talked with Clyde King by long distance phone in his San Francisco office as he was preparing to shove off for Portland on a labor situation.

TeUs me the Editorial Staff selection has been fuzzed up by a couple of transfers among the Regulars and that a revision of personnel will be necessary. In the meantime, I trust some of you interested gentlemen have sent him ideas or samples for the type of questionnaire that you would like to see sent out . . . for the consideration of his informal East Bay committee. Also keep in mind that a snapshot will doubdess be asked for, so don't get caught short the last minute without a likeness of yourself and your love.

Do hope that everyone read and digested the "President's Page" in the March issue of SHIPMATE. The Alumni Association has been pulled erect from its staggering financial feet and it is now up to every man who ever walked past Tecumseh to pitch in with the folding stuff to keep it the proud and useful organization that it should and deserves to be.

All that is asked is a greenback portrait of Lincoln (FFVE BUCKS) every 12 months.

Most of us own second mortgages on a lot of nightclubs . . . now here is a chance to help pay off and HOLD a first mortgage on something really worthwhile. How about making 1922 the first 100 per cent gang??

Cheerio."

that his permanent address is 921-26th St., South Arlington, Va. PHILIP R. LEWIS reports that his address is Box 912, Newark, N. J. JOSEPH B. WILKINSON, (Col. USA), gives as his address 2205 Stenmore, Houston, Tex. J. B. SPANGLER writes that his new address is 5718 Nail Ave., Kansas City 3, Kans.

EDWARD REMBERT reports that his new address is 156 Abingdon Ave., Kenilworth, 111.

ELLIOTT B. STRAUSS, (Capt. USN), informs us that his address is 2209 Massachusetts Ave., Washington, D. C. The attendance score for the 25th Reunion of the Class of '23 as of 10 April is as follows: 70 classmates have accepted, and some 60 of them will bring their wives along. Total score, then, is 130. The Committee at Annapolis, however, is planning on 200 being present for it is believed that at least 35 more classmates and wives will be in attendance.

To those of you who have not yet sent in your questionnaires, there is still time to do so. Even if you can't come to the Reunion, how's to send the questionnaire in for the record? (Incidentally, there will be a Record.

Enough money has already been received to insure that.)

This is the last PRE-REUNION notice Think carefully before you toss your questionnaire into the circular file. It will be a long, long time before '23 has another Silver Jubilee.

Hume, John R., (Capt. U S N ) . Proceed home, relieved all active duty.

Whitaker, Francis H., (Capt. U S N ) . Staff, Commander, Pacific Reserve Fleet.

Stuart, Luther B., (Capt. U S N ) . Naval Operations, Navy Dept.

Comp. Charles O., (Capt. U S N ) . Chief of Staff and Aide, Staff, Commander, Alaskan Sea Frontier.

Clark. Sherman R., (Capt. U S N ) . Chief of Staff and Aide, Staff, Commander, Second Task Fleet.

Earle, Ralph, Jr., (Capt. U S N ) . Professor of Naval Science; conneaion Naval Reserve Ofiicers Training Corps Unit, Duke University, Durham, N . C. Thieme, Karl A., (Capt, U S N ) . Commanding Officer.

Naval Receiving Station, Washington, D. C.

Back Issues of SHIPMATE for Binding: June 1938 January 1939 February 1939 May 1939 to December 1941, inclusive June 1943 September 1943 June 1944 Also Back Issues of Bureau of Naval Personnel INFORMATION BULLETIN January 1944 November 1943 and prior 1944 Annual Cumulative Index W. B. Pape 428 Farmington Ave. Waterbury 57, Conn.

1QQQ Class Secretary, CAPT. LOUIS tfZO A. REINKEN, USN, Room 0036, Bureau of Ordnance, Navy Dept., Washington, D. C. WILLIAM G. POGUE, (Capt. USN), informs us that his address now is Navy Sub Board of Inspection and Survey, Naval Station, Norfolk 11, Va. NEIL K. DIETRICH, (Capt. USN), writes

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Keating, John N . , (Capt. U S N ) . Commanding Officer, Administrative Command, Naval Training Center. Great Lakes, 111.

Wadell, Robert P., (Capt. U S N ) . Commanding Officer, Office of Naval Research, Branch Ofiice, Chicago, 111.

Felt, Harry D., (Capt. U S N ) . Commanding Ofiicer USS MroWAY ( C V B - 4 1 ) .

Ring, Stanhope C . (Capt. U S N ) . Staff, Commandant, National War College, Washington. D, C. Ruble. Richard W,. (Capt. U S N ) . Member, Joint Chiefs of Staff ( P l a n s ) , Joint Staff, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Washington, D, C. Bell. Robert C , (Capt, U S N ) . Puget Sound Naval Shipyard. Bremerton, Wash.

Edwards, Frederick A., (Capt. U S N ) . New "iTork Naval Shipyard, Brooklyn, N , Y.

^QOA Class Secretary, MR. P. W. ' '-^T" SIEGRIST, Field Forgan Company, 40 Wall Street, New York, N. Y. JOHN K. HYATT, (Cdr. USN), gives his new address as Anheuser-Busch, Inc., St. Louis 18, Mo.

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R. P. CARLSON, (Capt. CEC-USN), gives his duty address as Hdqtrs. 17th Naval District, N.O.B., Kodiak, Alaska.

R. J. BELLERBY, (Qpt. USN), writes that his address is Chinese Training Group, Box 26, Navy 3913, Fleet Post Office, San Francisco, Calif.

MARSHALL S. LUTHRINGER informs us of a change of address, R.R. # 3, Lake Springfield, Springfield, 111.

STUYVESTANT FISH MORRIS III, (Deceased ). We were sorry to hear of the sudden death of Mr. Morris on 22 March 1948 in New York City.

JOHN D. HAYES, (Capt. USN), informs us that his duty address is U. S. Naval Station, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

B. B. NICHOL, (Capt. USN), writes that his address now is Aeronautical Board, Room 1057, T-7, Pentagon Bldg., Washington 25, D.C. S. J. SINGER, (Cdr. USNR), gives as his mailing address, 25 Central Park, West, New York 23, N. Y. The appointment of ARTHUR D. BARNES, retired naval officer of Greenwich, Conn., as administrative engineer of the Johns Hopkins Hospital has been announced by Dr. Edwin L. Crosby, Director. Mr. Barnes will be in overall charge of engineering and plant maintenance at the hospital.

Mr. Barnes, a native of Brooklyn, Iowa, graduated from the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis in 1924, and from 1926 until his retirement in 1941 he spent most of his time in submarine work. On his retiremenr as a Lieutenant Commander for physical disability, he joined the Electric Boat Company, a submarine construction company in New London, Conn., as personnel manager and subsequently as assistant to the general manager.

From 1945 to 1947 he served in an executive capacity in other war plants.

Ferriter, Charles A., (Capt. U S N ) . Staff, Commandant, Fifth Naval District, Norfolk, Va. Ruhsenberger, John R., (Capt. U S N ) . Naval Air Development Station, JohnsviUe, Pa, Clexton, Edward W., (Capt. U S N ) . Office of Budget and Reports, Navy Dept.

Martin, Hugh J., (Capt. U S N ) . Commanding Officer, USS O A K L A N D (CL 9 5 ) .

Bradley, Maurice M., (Capt. U S N ) . Chief Staff Officer, Staff, Chief of Naval Airship Training and Experimentation, Naval Station, Lakehurst, N , J. Hedding, Truman J., (Capt. U S N ) . Commanding Ofiicer USS VALLEY FORGE (CV-45 ) .

Hopkins, Howard V., (Capt. U S N ) . Commanding Officer, Naval Air Station, Agana, Guam, Marianas Islands.

Opie, John N . Ill, (Capt. U S N ) . Naval Operations, Navy Dept.

Francis, Dennis L., (Cdr. U S N ) . Inspector-Instructor. Naval Reserves, Reading, Pa. Wood. Chester C , (Capt. U S N ) , Joint Staff, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Washington. D. C, Parker, Elton C , (Capt. U S N ) . Commanding Officer, Naval Air Station, Atlanta, Ga,

100K Class Secretary, COMMO. ERI JZD NEST M. ELLER, USN, Room 0011, Navy Depattment, Washington 25, D.C. HARALSON F. SMITH writes that his address is 535 Spreckels Bldg., San Diego 1, Calif.

GEORGE GELLHORN, JR., (Cdr. USNRRet.), informs us that his address is c/o C. E. Halaby & Co. Ltd., Apartado Nacional 925, Barranquilla, Colombia, (S. A.).

GLENN M. COX, (Cdr. USN), informs us that his new address is 642 Eye Ave., Coronado, Calif.

RALPH A. SENTMAN, (Cdr. USN-Ret.), gives as his address 2809 Ridge Rd. Dr., Alexandria, Va.

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SAMUEL D . SIMPSON, (Cdr. U S N ) , writes that his address is Quarters # 15, U. S. Naval & Marine Corps Reserve Training Center, Omaha 1 1 , N e b .

EDWARD B. GARRIGUES, (Cdr. U S N R ) , reports that his new address is 29 E. Grant St., Woodstown, N . J. WILLIAM L. MESSMER, (Capt. U S N ) , has reported for duty in USS MANSFIELD, ( D D ^ 2 8 ) , FPO San Francisco, Calif.

A. D . K R A M E R gives as his address. Box 142, Princeton, Fla. Filippone, Saverio, (Cdr. U S N ) . Naval Operations, Navy Dept.

Eggers. Fremont B., (Capt. U S N ) , Commanding Officer. Office of Naval Research, Branch OfiSce, New York Naval Shipyard, Brooklyn, N . Y. Wallace, Lewis, (Capt. U S N ) . Commanding Ofiicer, USS

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Wheelock. Austin W., (Capt. U S N ) . Staff, Commander, Naval Forces, Mediterranean.

Leahey, George A,, Jr,, (Capt, U S N ) . Examination

by Naval Retiring Board and orders to home.

Dufek, George J., (Capt. U S N ) . Naval Operations.

Navy Dept.

Schieke, Herman E., (Capt. U S N ) , Commanding Officer. USS GENERAL WILLIAM MITCHELL (AP 1 1 4 ) .

Singer. Watson T., (Capt. U S N ) . Commander, Beach Party Battalion ONE. Stryker. Joe ^ ' . , (Capt. U S N ) . Commanding Officer, USS

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Fitzgerald. Phillip H., (Capt. U S N ) . Commander, Destroyer Squadron SIXTY. Sides. John H., (Capt. U S N ) , Naval Operations.

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Veeder. William S., (Capt. U S N ) . Naval Operations. Navy Dept.

Gill. Graham C . (Capt. U S N ) . Professor of Naval Science, connection Naval Reserve Officers Traininr: Corps Unit. University of Louisville, Louisville. Ky. Taylor, Edmund B., (Capt. U S N ) . Assistant Chief of Staff for Operations. Staff, Commander in Chief, Pacific Fleet.

1 QQL Class Secretary, MR. STEPHAN I T Z O E. RICE, JR., 161 Senate Office Bldg., Washington, D . C. K E N N E T H P. H O W A R D writes that his address is Moore-McCormick Lines, Inc., Pier Ft. 31st, Brooklyn, N . Y. EVERETT HALE STILL, (Capt. U S N Ret.-Deceased ) . W e were sorry to hear of the death of Capt. Still who died 20 Feb. 1948 in North Arlingron, Va. D A V I D B. MILLER, (Capt. U S N ) , informs us of his new address, 88 Culloden Park, CO C. F. "White, San Rafael, Calif.

WILLIAM W . RUTLEDGE, (Capt. CEU S A ) , gives as his address, P. O. Box 3448, San Francisco 19, Calif.

N O R M A N H O L T , (Capt. U S N - R e t . ) , is living at 2801 Jackson St., Apt. 2, San Francisco, Calif.

N. S. PRIME, (R. Adm. U S N - R e t . ) , writes that his address is San Juan Hotel, Orlando, Fla. F R A N K C A R M O D Y writes the following: Beth and I have added another boy to our establishment. Young Roger Ellis arrived at the McCornack General Hospital in Pasadena during the mid watch on the third of April. All hands bearing u p nicely, Sarah LeHardy, one of the staunch members of '26, reports from the Coronado area that her children. W a r d and Linda, are both getting along in their schoolwork and adds that they both look like Diz which was undoubtedly meant in a complimentary vein though I have a picture of him taken in his destroyer days out in China which would hardly be a come-on for his sophomore daughter in her ultimate nailing of a permanent boy friend.

Al Joyce (somehow the Rear Admiral, U S N , ( R e t . ) , designation still awes me when it is applied to lads I k n e w ) , has accepted a position teaching Engineering at Loyola Uni-

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versity next fall. H e is in San Diego now but is heading u p this way (in Redlands we feel anyone who gets inland even a few miles has become a neighbor) during the summer. ( H o w about giving 1380 Pacific St., Redlands, a call sometime, A l ? ) N a t Barker (another of those Admiral guys) has steadied down at 4524 Gilbert Drive in Shreveport, La., and is back, after a short lapse of 22 years, with his old roommate, Ed Jackson.

The senior member of the "Them Scrymgeours" is running for the office of Treasurer of Coronado. Since Arch Abell (onetime in '26) is Mayor, it would appear that that area is now safe from all evil influences.

H a m Dow and Ted Fredericks swapped ships which is merely gazetted dope but Ham's wife, Helen, is sick and bedded down in Pasadena. Don't let it get you down. Ham, the woods are full of us.

Rod and Eleanor Lovell are in Florida for a visit even though such a trip is just cause for ex-communication to true Californians.

Of course, I once set u p shop in that area but I have seen the light.

Miscellaneous routine data on Jim W a r d , .Tack Wells, W . R. Smedberg, Roy Gano, B. G. Lowrey, J. McN. Taylor, Karl Poehlman, and Joe Cochran, most of whom seem to be troubled with an inability to stay parked very long in one spot. I thought that, after the fracas was over, the boys were supposed to tie u p to the dock and take a blow. Seems I was wrong.

Bud King and his wife, Alice, will be heading for Rio in another month. H e is going to represent the local Rotary at the International Convention. There are still good rackets on the outside. I only wish I could get in on some of them. All we seem to do is build houses and have children. Come to think about it, though, I've had a lot of fun doing both.

I will still appreciate any letters or visits from you troops and wives. The address is 1380 Pacific St., Redlands, Calif.

Dow. Leonard J., (Capt. U S N ) . Commanding Officer, USS

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Frederick, Theodore R., (Capt. U S N ) . Commanding Officer. USS RENDOVA (CVE 1 1 4 ) .

Miller, Daniel B.. (Capt, U S N ) . Commanding Officer. USS

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Greytak. John J., (Cdr. U S N ) . Fleet Training Group, Chesapeake Bay and Underway Training Unit.

Taylor. John McNay. (Capt. U S N ) . Commanding Officer, USS GEORGE CLYMER ( APA 2 7 ) .

Biederman. Karl J,, (Capt. U S N ) . Commanding Officer, USS Y E L L O W S T O N E ( A D 2 7 ) , Greenacre, Alvord J., (Capt, U S N ) . Chief of Staff and Aide and Operations Officer, Staff, Commander, Cruiser Division T E N .

Schanze, Edwin S,, (Capt, U S N ) . Commanding Officer. USS CAMBRIA (APA 3 6 ) .

Frauke, Walter E.. (Capt, SC-USN). San Francisco Naval Shipyard, San Francisco, Calif, Fitzsimmons. John P,. (Capt, U S N ) . Aviation Officer. Staff, Commander, Amphibious Training Command, Pacific Fleet.

Cease, Lysle W., (Capt, U S N ) , Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, Navy Dept, Cochran. Joe B., (Capt, U S N ) . Commander. Destroyer Squadron SEVENTEEN. Foster, John G,. (Capt. U S N ) . Naval Operations.

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' ' ^ ' gives as his address W a r d 5-D, U. S. Naval Hospital, Bethesda 14, Md. I V A N A. SAGAL informs us that his address is 311 N . New St., Bethlehem, Pa. W E L T O N D. ROWLEY, (Capt. U S N ) , writes that his address is Industrial College, Armed Forces, Ft. Lesley J. McNair, Washington 25, D . C. EARL C. M E N D E N H A L L reports that his address is P. O. Box # 4 3 1 , Bandon, Ore.

A R N O L D H. CASSADY writes that his new address is 5 Parkside Dr., Piedmont 11, Calif.

ERNEST BLAKE, (Capt. U S N ) , and Mrs. Blake of 4 4 1 9 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 1 9 t h Road N . Arlington, Va., announce the birth of their second son, Kenneth Bissell, on 22 Match at Bethesda Naval Medical Center.

W . R. I G N A T I U S writes that his address is c/o Higgins, Inc., Industrial Canal, N e w Orleans, La. L. H. CHAPPELL, (Capt. U S N ) , informs us that he has reported for duty in USS NEREUS ( A S ) , San Diego, Calif.

HERBERT M. N E W H A U S reports that his new address is Fern Hall Hotel, E. 32nd & Euclid Ave., Cleveland, Ohio.

GEORGE A. LEWIS (Lt. Cdr. U S N ) , gives as his address, 1324 Emerson St., Beloit, Wis. RAY A. MITCHELL, (Capt. U S N ) , writes that his new address is Boston Naval Shipyard, Boston 29, Mass.

Schwarz, Alden D., (Capt. U S N ) . Staff, Commander, Carrier Division 14.

Organ. William H,, (Capt. U S N ) . Commanding Officer, USS M A R I A S ( A O 5 7 ) .

Mechling, Wallace B., (Capt. U S N ) . Commanding Officer. USS PINE ISLAND ( A V 1 2 ) .

Card, Paul W., (Cdr. U S N ) . Underway Training Unit, Narragansett Bay. Sullivan, Emmet: J,, (Capt. U S N ) . Senior U. S. Naval Advisor to the Brazilian Naval War College, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Anderson, George W., (Capt. U S N ) . Commanding Officer, USS MINDORO (CVE 1 2 0 ) .

Stone, Martin R,, (Capt. U S N ) . (Commanding Officer, USS SKAGIT (AKA 1 0 5 ) .

Chappell, Lucius H., (Capt. U S N ) . Naval Aide to the Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Navy Dept.

Chamberlin. Leonard C , ((2apt. U S N ) . Staff. Commander, U. S. Naval Forces. Western Pacific.

Horney, Harry R,, (Capt. U S N ) . Chief of Staff and Aide. Staff, Chief of Naval Air Technical Training, Naval Air Technical Training Center, Memphis, Tenn.

Heath, George L., (Capt. U S N ) . Commanding Officer. USS A L G O L ( A K A 5 4 ) .

Sutherland, William A.. Jr.. (Capt. U S N ) . Commanding Officer. Naval School (CIC Officers), Naval Air Station, Glenview, III. Nation, William M., (Capt. U S N ) . Naval Operations. Navy Dept.

McCormick, James R., (Capt. U S N ) . Commanding Officer. USS THUBAN (AKA 1 9 ) .

Malone, Louis T.. (Capt. U S N ) . Commanding Officer. USS U N I O N (AKA 1 0 6 ) .

Zern, Richard D., (Capt. U S N ) . Commanding Officer, USS CHIKASKIA ( A O 5 4 ) .

Willcox. George W., (Capt, U S N ) . Commanding Officer, USS CHEMUNG {AO 3 0 ) .

Gregg. Otis C , (Capt. U S N ) . Aviation Operations Officer, Staff. Commander in Chief. Atlantic and U. S, Atlantic Fleet.

Nickelson. William R, D.. Jr.. (Capt. U S N ) . Commanding Officer. USS WINSTON (AKA 9 4 ) .

Van Swearingen, Earl K.. (Capt. U S N ) , Officer in Charge. Naval Gunfire Support School. Naval Amphibious Training Unit. Naval Amphibious Base, Little Creek, Va, Dickey, George D . . (Capt, U S N ) , Commanding Officer. USS WYANDOT (AKA 9 2 ) .

Maher. Joseph B.. (Cdr. U S N ) , Bureau of Naval Personnel. Navy Dept, Temporary Duty.

1 00ft Class Secretary, CAPT. R. K. ' l*-0 JAMES, U S N , Naval Supply Center, Mechanicsburg, Pa. GALE E. G R I G G S , (Capt. U S N ) , reports that his address is Office of Chief Naval Oper ations, COP 30, Navy Dept., Washington 25 D.C. M A X L. C A T T E R T O N , (Cdr. U S N ) gives his address as 6523 Clarendon Rd. Bethesda, Md. H A R L O W J. CARPENTER, (Capt.USN) writes that his address is 1610 Fern PL, Valle jo, Calif.

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On 30:h March, the U S N A Class of 1928 in the Washmgton, D . C , area had a class luncheon at the Roger Smith Hotel. The class took the oppormnity to compliment and thank "Jesse" James for the fine job he did on the Twentieth Anniversary number of the T W E N T Y - E I G H T E R . He pointed out that he had a few additional copies available at S5.00 apiece, the money to go into the class fund. The meeting was highlighted by the appearance of "Bucky" Lee from Hawaii, en route to dutj- in Key West; Tommy Simmonds and Lex Black from Norfolk, and Freddie Hossfeld put in an appearance. "Swede" Norgaard put out the "dope" on the plans for the twentieth reunion to take place at Annapolis 22-23 May. There will be a buffet luncheon at the N o r t h Severn Club on Saturday, with a get-together at the Alumni House from 17001830, and a dinner dance that night at the North Severn Club. On Sunday, after a gettogether at chapel, there will be a farewell dinner at Carvel Hall at 1300. "Swede" has a more detailed schedule of all events.

The rest of the class present at the lunch were: Andy Ahroon, Petey Anderson, Bagdanovich, Jim Boyd, Max Catterton, Ed Dexter, Evan Fickling, "Shotgun" Johnson, Tom Kent, Gus King, "Logs" Logsdon, Al M o m m , John Quinn, Johnny Urquharr, Shags Ransford,

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Banister. Alan B,, (Capt, U S N ) . Commander, Submarine Squadron 4.

Bierer, James S., (Capt, SC-USN). Bureau of Supplies and Accounts. Navy Dept, Smith. Thurmond A., (Capt. U S N ) . Commanding Officer, USS WASHBURN (AKA 1 0 8 ) .

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Mrs. Benson is from Annapolis. " K I D " D E N N E T T wr'ites: "Left Guam with my family on 27 January, taking a trip to Tokyo, Tsingtao, Shanghai and Manila before heading for San Francisco. After leave my new duty will be O in C Naval Reserve activities in the Bridgeport, Conn., area. I certainly look forward to seeing the Army game this year and hope '29 can have a gettogether."

J, B. BERKLEY, (Capt. U S N ) , informs us that his new address is Quarters "V" Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, Calif.

H A R R I S F. B U N K E R reports that his address is Box 175, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico.

FREDERICK G. LIPPERT, (Cdr. U S N ) , writes that his address is R.R. 2, Valley Rd., New Canaan, Conn.

R I C H A R D Y. B A T T E R T O N gives as his address 1467 Dexter, Denver 7, Colo.

L. C. SIMPLER, (Capt. U S N ) , writes from Office of Public Relations, Navy Dept., Washington, D . C : "The Class of 1929 is assembling the information necessary to publish the class muster notes in the year 1949.

Only 40 replies to questionnaires have been received to date. All hands please expedite.

In addition, addresses are needed for the following persons: Kenneth Garrett, Samuel Lincoln, Clarence Moore, Charles Salisbury, Edgar Stayer, widow John Birmingham, widow Hank Twohy, widow Howard GarnWhite. Albert F,, (Cdr. U S N ) . Naval Station, Norfolk, Va. Stone, Lowell T.. (Capt, U S N ) , Commanding Officer. USS SPERRY (AS 1 2 ) .

Davison. John W., (Capt, USN) , Naval Operations, Navy Dept.

Giese, Carl E,, (Capt, U S N ) . Commander, Tactical Air Control Group T w o .

Bernet. Howard C , (Capt, U S N ) , Commanding Officer. USS T A L U G A ( A O 6 2 ) , Marcy, Clayton C , (Capt. U S N ) . Commanding Officer, Helicopter Utility Squadron TWO.

IQOn RICHARD S. CASS, (Cdr. IfJyJ U S N R ) , gives his address as 1617 South Denver, Tulsa 5, Okla.

W A L T E R T. J E N K I N S , (Cdr. U S N ) , writes that his duty address is USS WINSTON ( A K A - 9 4 ) , c/o Fleet Post Office, New York, N . Y. J O H N CORBUS, (Cdr. U S N ) , gives as his address, Pleasant Valley Road, Groton, Conn.

WILLIAM W . L O W R E Y reports that his address is 909 J Ave., Coronado, Calif.

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mforms us that his address is 260 Mangamat St., San Lorenzo Village, Calif.

EDWARD C. RENFRO, (Capt. USN), gives his new address as Com Nats Asia, Navy No. 943, c/o Fleet Post Office, San Francisco, Calif.

O. M. BOUIWE, JR., (Cdr. USN), reports that his address is Staff ComPhil Lant, USS TACONIE, Norfolk, Va.

RUDOLPH C. BAUER, (Cdr. USN), is living at 745 F Ave., Coronado, Calif.

W. ARTHUR ILLING, (Lt. Cdr USN), informs us that his address is U. S. Naval Receiving Station, BOQ, Washington 25, D. C. A. S. HEYWARD, (Capt. USN), writes that his new address is Naval War College, Newport, R. I. W. W. ROWNEY, (Capt. USN-Ret.), is living at Rolling Hills Ranch, Route 1, Alpine, Calif.

GEORGE Y. DOWNING gives his address as 162-21 95th St., Howard Beach, N. Y. Owen, Arthur E., (Cdr, U S N ) . USS A L D E B A R A N (AF 1 0 ) .

Ruff, Lawrence E., (Cdr. U S N ) . Destroyer Division THIRTY-TWO.

Corbus, John, (Cdr. U S N ) . Submarine School, Submarine Base, New London, Conn, Rigsbee, Everett O.. (Cdr. U S N ) , Naval Air Advanced Training Subordinate Command, Naval Air Station, Corpus Christi, Tex. Sharp, Raymond N . , (Cdr. U S N ) . USS MmWAY (CVB 4 1 ) .

Hindrelet, Albert F., (Cdr. U S N ) . USS CHARA (AKA 5 8 ) .

Heerbrandt. Paul F., (Cdr. U S N ) . First Naval District, Boston, Mass.

Peterson, Mell A., (Cdr. U S N ) . Joint Staff, Commander in Chief, Atlantic.

Chappie. Wreford G.. (Cdr. U S N ) . Naval Training Station, Newport, R. I.

IQOI CHARLES E. KIRKPATRICK, I'Oi (Lt. Cdr. USN-Ret.), reports that his address is 2 Elmwood Drive, East Greenbush, N. Y. B. T. HOLCOMB, JR., (Lt. Col. USMC), informs us that his address is Apt. 108, 2700 Wisconsin Ave. N.W., Washington 7, D. C. EDWARD S. BURNS, (Cdr. USN), writes that his new address is Com Nav Base, F. E. Tokyo Navy 01165, Fleet Post Office, San Francisco, Calif.

RONALD WOODAMAN, (Cdr. USN), gives his address as Comdr. W. Navy 100, Fleet Post Office, New York, N. Y. BAFFORD E. LEWELLEN, (Cdr. USN), is living at 2646 Front St., San Diego 3, Calif.

FREDERIC S. STEINKE, (Cdr. USN), informs us that his duty address is Comdr.

Mine Div. 6, USS MACOMB (DMS 23), Naval Base, Norfolk, Va. Lyon, Hylan B., (Cdr. U S N ) . USS EVERSOLE ( D D 789).

Gurnene, Byron L., (Cdr. U S N ) . USS C O L U M B U S .

•Volk, Louis F., (Cdr. U S N ) . LSM Division FORTYONE.

Wilber, Donald T., (Cdr. U S N ) . U. S. Naval Attache and U. S. Naval Attache for Air, Montevideo, Uruguay.

Ellsworth, Erne B., Jr., (Cdr. U S N ) . USS O A K L A N D (CL

95).

Head, Nelson M., (Cdr. U S N ) . Naval Operations, Navy Dept.

Seidel, Harry E., Jr., (Cdr. U S N ) . Examination by Naval Retiring Board and orders to home.

Mott, Carleton E., (Cdr. U S N ) . USS M A D D O X ( D D 731).

Jones, Ashton B., Jr., (Cdr. U S N ) . Staff, Commander, Service Force, Pacific Fleet.

Aldrieh, Charles W,, (Cdr. U S N ) . Staff, Commander, Transport Division TWENTY-ONE. McCain. John S.. Jr., (Cdr. U S N ) . Submarine Division THIRTY-TWO.

1 9 ^ 9 HARRIS C. LOCKWOOD, (Lt. ' /O'L USN), reports that his address is 10311 Cherry Tree Lane, Silver Spring, Md.

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MARK E. DENNETT, (Cdr. USN), writes that his address is NROTC Unit R.P.I., Troy, N. Y. JAMES A. THOMAS, (Cdr. USN), gives his address as 3302 Carolina Place, Alexandria, Va. H. C. HUMMER is living at 1260 Summit Ave., Lakewood, Ohio.

H. R. BRANNAON, (Lt. jg USN-Ret.), informs us that his address is 2005 Spruce, Boulder, Colo.

JAMES W. HUMRICHOUSE writes that his address is Old Line Road and Grakyn Lane, Philadelphia 28, Pa. D. F. SMITH, JR., (Cdr. USN), reports that his address is Box # 1 , Naval Air Station, Jacksonville, Fla. E. G. KONRAD, (Cdr. USN), gives his address as Staff CarDiv 3, c/o Fleet Post Office, San Francisco, Calif.

LYNN T. ELLIOTT is living at Route 12, Box 187, Houston, Tex. Schultz. Floyd B.. (Cdr. U S N ) . Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, Philadelphia, Pa, Montgomery, Thomas J., (Cdr. SC-USN). Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, Navy Dept.

Smith, Lawrence, (Cdr. SC-USN). Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, Navy Dept.

CoUett, James D., (Cdr. U S N ) , Staff, Commander, Amphibious Forces, Atlantic Fleet.

Parker. Alton E.. (Cdr. U S N ) . USS ROCHESTER (CA 1 2 4 ) .

1 QOO G E O R G E WENDELBURG, 1700 (Cdr. USN), informs us that his new address is 29-7 Kamanduskey, Pleasanton, Calif.

PAUL L. WEINTRAUB, JR., (Cdr. USN), reports that his address is 4225 So. 27th Road, Arlington, Va. GORDON B. WILLIAMS, (Cdr. USN), writes that his address is Apt. J-3, Perry Circle, U.S.N.A., Annapolis, Md. FRANK D. SCHWARTZ, (Cdr. USN), gives his address as 820 Northern Parkway, Baltimore 12, Md. WILLIAM R. KANE, (Cdr. USN), has reported for duty in USS TARAWA, c/o Fleet Post Office, San Francisco, Calif.

MICHAEL V. MACKENZIE, (Lt. USN), is living at 20 Dutton Circle, Medford 55, Mass.

JOHN W. STEWART, (Cdr. USNR), informs us that his new address is 1116 Longmont Ave., San Gabriel, Calif.

BENNETT M. DODSON, (Cdr. USN), writes that his duty address is USS lOWA, c/o Fleet Post Office, San Francisco, Calif.

Laughon, William R., (Cdr. U S N ) . Staff. Commander, Submarine Squadron FOUR. Haskins, Enrique D., (Cdr. U S N ) . USS BUCK ( D D 761).

Loughlin, Charles E., (Cdr, U S N ) , Submarine Division SiXTY-TWO. Linson, Ross G., (Cdr. U S N ) . Naval Station, New Orleans, La. Brittan, Theodore H., (Cdr. U S N ) . USS EUGENE A. GREENE ( D D 7 1 1 ) .

Coye. John S., Jr., (Cdr. U S N ) . Submatine Division FIFTY-TWO.

Davenport. Roy M., (Cdr, U S N ) . Submarine Squadron FIVE. Miner. John O., (Cdr, U S N ) , USS HELENA (CA75).

Monroe. Henry S.. (Cdr. U S N ) . Submarine Division TWENTY-ONE. Hartman, Irvin S.. (Cdr. U S N ) . Submarine Division FORTY-TWO. Williams, Joseph W . , Jr., (Cdr. U S N ) . Submarine Squadron T w o .

Wendt, Waldemar F. A., (Cdr. U S N ) . Naval Operations, Navy Deot.

Laitd, George H., Jr., (Cdr. U S N ) . Submarine Division 82.

Barker. Christopher S., Jr., (Cdr. U S N ) . USS BRISTOL ( D D 8 5 7 ) .

Miller, Clayton L.. (Cdr. U S N ) . Naval Air Station, Whidbey Island, Wash.

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P^f^NCIS D. BOYLE, (Cdr.

' '«^ • USN), gives his address as U. S. Naval School, General Line, U. S. Naval Base, Newport, R. I. ROBERT C. HOUSTON reports that his address is U. S. Naval School (General Line),.

Monterey, Calif.

DENIS H. BIWERSE, (Lt. Cdr. USN), is living at P. O. Box 1481, Palm Springs, Calif.

JAMES D. FULP, JR., (Cdr. USN), informs us that his duty address is Staff, Sub Ron 5, Sub. Base Navy 129, Pearl Harbor, T. H. WALTER T. GRIFFITH, (Cdr. USN), gives his address as Staff, General Line School, Newport, R. I. EDGAR S. POWELL, JR., (Cdr. USN), writes that his address is 442 Harvard St., Apt. 5, Norfolk, Va. WILLIAM F. CASSIDY, (Cdr. USN), reports that his address is 1306 Monroe St., N.W., Washington, D. C. ROBERT M. LEE, (Cdr. USN), informs us that his new address is 495 Sumner St., Boston 10, Mass.

JOHN M. PHELPS, (Cdr. USN), is living at 5604 N. 19th St., Arlington, Va. G. C. MERRICK, (Cdr. USN), gives his address as 4229 Via Pinzon, Palos Verdes Estates, California.

DAVID S. EDWARDS, (Cdr. USN), writes that his duty address as USS HYMAN (DD 732), c/o Fleet Post Office, New York, N. Y. JAMES C. BENTLEY, (Cdr. USN), informs us that his duty address is USS COLUMBUS, c/o Fleet Post Office, New York, N. Y. EDWARD WYGANT is living at 4615 Hinson Place, San Diego 5, Calif.

Ovram, Robert J., (Cdr. U S N ) . Staff, Commander, Destroyer Flotilla 1.

Savidge, Paul S., Jr., (Cdr. U S N ) . Naval Operations, Navy Dept.

Deragon, William N . , (Cdr. U S N ) . USS CHARLES H. ROAN ( D D 8 5 3 ) .

Latham, Richard C , (Cdr. U S N ) . USS ORION (AS 18).

Pittard, George F., (Cdr. U S N ) . Naval School (General Line), Newport, R. I. Staley. Joseph J., Jr., (Cdr. U S N ) . USS DENNIS J. BUCKLEY ( D D 8 0 8 ) .

Rider, Eugene C , (Cdr. U S N ) . USS M A C O N ( C A 75).

Henderson, Charles M., (Cdr. U S N ) . USS HOWARD W . GILMORE ( A S - 1 6 ) .

Schantz, Edwin H.. (Cdr. U S N ) . U. S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md. Rooney, Carl W., (Cdr. U S N ) . USS PRINCETON (CV 3 7 ) .

Smith. Hinton I.. (Cdr. U S N ) . Fleet Training Group, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Nauman. Hariey K., (Cdr. U S N ) . Submarine Squadron O N E .

Rutherford, Reginald, (Cdr. U S N ) . Naval Air Station, Anacostia, D. C. Crutcher, William R., (Cdr. U S N ) . Carrier Division 15.

Risser, Robert D., (Cdr. U S N ) . Staff. Commander, Submarine Force, Pacific Fleet.

Grant, Mark A., (Cdr, U S N ) . Sub-Group ONE. Bremerton Group, Pacific Reserve Fleet, Bremerton, Wash.

1 O^K *^^*" Secretary, CDR. STEPHEN I 7 0 3 SHERWOOD, (SC) USN, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, Navy Department, Washington 25, D. C. WILLIAM J. SAMPSON, (Cdr USN), reports that his duty address is USS BoxER, c/o Fleet Post Office, San Francisco, Calif.

RICHARD S. BRISTOL writes that his address is 62 Argonne St., Bridgeport 29, Conn.

HOLMAN LEE, JR., (Lt. jg USNR), is living at 707 Main St., Toms River, N. J. WILLIAM G. JACKSON, JR., (Cdr. USN), gives his address as Apt. B, 15067 Village Road, Parkway Village, Jamaica, N. Y. JAMES M. WOLFE, (Cdr. USN), informs

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us that his address is c/o J. Heyward Silcox, 36 Broad St., Chatleston, S. C. JAMES W. THOMSON, (Cdr. USN), writes that his duty address is USS PERKINS (DDR-877), c/o Fleet Post Office, San Francisco, Calif.

FREDERICK J. HARLFRINGER, (Cdr. USN), reports that his address is Section Base, Key West, Fla. B. F. BOYLE, (Cdr. USN), is living at Room 209. "G" St., N.W., Washington, D. C. RALPH L. RAMEY, (Cdr. USN), formerly Chief Military Government Officer on the Staff of Commandet, Marianas, and now Senior Instructor, School of Naval Administration, Stanford University, was the guest speaker on 30 March 1948, befote the Pacific Ocean Problems Section of the Commonwealth Club at San Francisco. His subject was, "Guam, a Displaced People's Problem of Our Own." JOSEPH M. LYLE, (Cdr. USN), gives his duty address as Com Air Pac Staff, c/o Fleet Post Ofiice, San Francisco, Calif.

EARL A. SNEERINGER, (Lt. Col. USMC), reports that his address is H. S. Bn. 1st Prov. Marine Brigade, c/o Fleet Post Office, San Francisco, Calif.

D. L. MOODY, (Cdr. USN), is living at 621 Beverley Drive, Alexandria, Va. SuUivan. William A., (Capt. U S N ) . Proceed home, relieved all active duty.

Winfield, Richard B., (Cdr. U S N ) . Staff, Prospective Deputy Commander, Military Air Transpor: Service, Washington, D. C. Lyndon. Dennis C , (Cdr. U S N ) , Panama Sector.

Caribbean Sea Frontier.

Heath, John A., (Cdr. U S N ) . USS FECHTELER (DD 870).

Gayler, Noel A. M., (Cdr. U S N ) . USS B A I R O K O (CVE 1 1 5 ) .

Wheeler, Frank B., (Cdr. U S N ) . Naval Operations, Navy Dept.

Parker, Edwm B., (Cdr. U S N ) . Naval Operations, Navy Dept.

Finnigan, Oliver D., Jr., (Cdr, U S N ) . Technical Observer as Staff Aerologist, Staff, Commander, Marianas.

Foster, Clifford S., Jr., (Cdr. U S N ) . USS VOGELGESANG ( D D 8 6 2 ) .

Oliver, Warren E., (Cdr. SC-USN). Naval Air Station, Seattle, Wash.

1 O^A ^^^^ Secretary, COMDR. O. G. I TOO SEXTON, USN, Staff, Commander, Air Force, Pacific Fleet, c/o F.P.O., San Francisco, Calif.

CARL M. FELLOWS, (Lt. Cdr. USNR), informs us that his address is 149 Ryefield Road, Fitchburg, Mass.

RICHARD R. BRADLEY, (Cdr. USN), writes that his address is 540-C Ave., Coronad". CuVf ALLEN R. FAUST, (Cdr. USN), reports that his address is USS SPINAX (SSR-489), U. S. Submarine Base, New London, Conn.

A. B. REED, JR., (Cdr. USN), gives his address as Naval Station, New Orleans, La. J. H. BARKER, JR., (Cdr. USN), is living at Apt. # 2 , 6427 Fairfax Road, Chevy Chase, 15, Md. HARRISON BRENT, JR., (Lt. Col. USMC), writes that his duty address is Hq. Sqd. M.A.G. 24, c/o Fleet Post Office, San Francisco, Calif.

WILLIAM H. SHEA, JR., (Cdr. USN), informs us that his address is Staff Commander, Mine Force Atlantic Fleet, Charleston, S. C. JOHN V. NOEL, JR., (Cdr. USN), gives his address as Stanford University, Palo Alto, Calif.

Holcombe. Charles M., (Cdr, U S N ) , USS CHEVALIER ( D D - 8 0 5 ) .

Millett, John R., (Cdr. U S N ) . USS ALBANY (CA 123).

MAY,

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Reed, Allen B.. Jr., (Cdr. U S N ) . Fleet Activities, Yokosuka, Japan.

Kelly, Robert F., (Cdr. U S N ) . U. S. Militaty Academy, West Point, N . Y. On. Ellis B., (Cdr. U S N ) . Naval School (General Line), Newport, R, 1.

1937

JO^N T. WETTACK, (De-

' '** * ceased). We were sorry to hear of the death of Mr. Wettack who died 9 May 1945 at Coffeyville, Kans.

ELLIS H. FRANK reports that his address is 9831 65th Road, Forest Hills, N. Y. GUY O'NEIL is living at 900 Linden Ave., Long Beach 2, Calif.

CHARLES L. BLANKINSHIP informs us that his address is c/o Military-Naval Club, 4 West 43rd St., New York 18, N. Y. Stein, Charles, Jr., (Cdr. SC-USN). Naval Supply Depot. Balboa, C. Z. EUerton, George C , Jr, (Cdr. U S N ) . Bureau of Ordnance, Navy Dept.

Rupp, Lewis A., (Cdr. U S N ) . Bureau of Ships, Navy Dept.

Shamer, Frank N . , (Cdr. U S N ) . Staff, Commander, Submarine Force, U. S. Pacific Fleet, Administration, Mare Island Naval Shipyard, VaUejo, Calif., and Commander, Mare Island Group, Pacific Reserve Fleet.

Slaughter, John S., (Cdr, U S N ) . USS SPRINGFIELD (CL 6 6 ) .

Bernard. Lawrence G., (Cdr. U S N ) . Naval Reserve Officers' Training Corps Unit, Iowa State College, Ames, Iowa.

I. J. SUPERFINE, (Lt. Cdr. USN), reports that his address is Apt. 516, The Parkhill, 1610 Park Road, N.W., Washington 10, D. C. Lt. Cdr. and Mrs. Superfine announce the birth of a daughter, Carol Ann, born on 8 March 1948, at U. S. Naval Hospital, Bethesda, Md. Adair, Jamie, (Cdr. U S N ) . U. S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md. Ela. Dennett K., (Cdr. U S N ) . Bureau of Ships, Navy Dept.

Cox. Robert D . , Jr., (Cdr. U S N ) . Bureau of Aeronautics, Navy Dept.

Manown, Edward S., (Cdr. U S N ) . Fleet Activities, Sasebo, Japan.

Dubois, Raymond F., (Cdr. U S N ) . USS REMORA (SS 4 8 7 ) .

Harris, David L., (Cdr. U S N ) . USS BEXAR (APA 237).

Eubanks, Leon S., (Cdr. U S N ) . USS B E C U N A (SS 319).

Hartigan. Charles C , Jr., (Cdr. U S N ) . U. S. Naval Mission to Venezuela. Caracas, Venezuela.

Moffett, Charles S., (Cdr. U S N ) . Naval Air FaciHty, San Juan, P. R. Dwyer, Carl R., (Cdr. U S N ) . USS REQUIN (SSR 481).

Miller. Herman E., (Cdr. U S N ) . USS FINBACK (SS 2 3 0 ) .

Whalen, Frank D., (Cdr. U S N ) . Staff, Commander, Marianas.

Refo. Miles P. Ill, (Cdr. U S N ) . USS GROUPER (SS 2 1 4 ) .

Bolam. Cecil A., (Cdr. U S N ) . Naval School (General Line), Newport, R. I.

1 0 0 0 ^^^^* Secretary, LT. CDR. E. L. 170 7 BEACH, USN, Navy Department, Washington, D. C. WILLIAM B. MARTIN reports that his address is 2626 Webster Ave., Long Beach 10, Calif.

GEORGE R. PALUS, (Lt. Cdr. USN), informs us of a new address. Quarters "E", N.A.S., Alameda, Calif.

PETER A. EHRMAN gives as his address, 2821 Jackson Ave., San Francisco, Calif.

R. F. OCKLEY, JR., (Lt. USN), writes that his address now is 442 Belknap Rd., Framingham Center, Mass.

R. A. GUTICK, JR., informs us that his new address is Room 2N46, Bureau of Aeronautics, Navy Dept., Washington, D. C. R. G. MERRITT, (Lt. Cdr. USN), reports that his mailing address is 3305 Woodley Rd., N.W., Washington, D. C. JAMES M. DUNFORD, (Lt. Cdr. USN), writes that his address is Atomic Energy Commission, 1901 Constitution Ave., Washington 25, D. C. "SHORE BREEZES" by Paul R. Schratz The following press release was made from the Bureau on 2 April 1948— "The Class of 1939, U. S. Naval Academy, has established a memorial for the members of that class who lost their lives in the war, in the form of an annual cash grant of $100 (the amount of the deposit required of each midshipman upon entrance to the U. S. Naval Academy, to be awarded to that enlisted man of the U. S. Navy or Marine Corps who stands highest in the competition for entrance to the Naval Academy under the Secretary of the Navy's quota (Fleet Quota), and who qualifies and is accepted for entrance to the Naval Academy.

"The first award will be made to a member of the class graduating this spring by a member of the Class of 1939, at the graduation exercises of the Naval School, Academy and College Preparatory, Bainbridge, Maryland,"

1 O^ft ^^^^^ Secretary, LT. COL. JOHN I TOO SAXTEN, USMC (Pres.), 2nd Marine Division, Camp Lejeune, N. C. HUGH M. ELWOOD, (Lt. USMC), writes that his address is M.A.D., U. S. Naval Air Station, St. Louis 21, Mo. FRED J. SCHROEDER, (Cdr. USN], reports that his address is 29 Stanton Road, Belmont 78, Mass.

"WILLIAM A. HASLER, (Cdr. USN), gives his address as 2571 I6th Ave., San Francisco, Calif.

WILLIAM J. SCHLACKS, JR., (Cdr. USN) , informs us that his address is 206 King George St., Annapolis, Md. JAMES D. LAWRENCE is living at 1523 East Jefferson, Apt. 410, Detroit 7, Mich.

F. W. MUIR, (Cdr. USN), reports that his address is 2809 Erie St., S.E., Washington 20, D. C. Cdr. and Mrs. Muir announce the birth of their second son at Bethesda Naval Hospital on 3 March 1948.

R. C. FLETCHER, (Lt. Cdr. USN), writes that his address is Underway Training Unit, San Diego, Calif. Lt. Cdr. and Mrs. Fletcher announce the birth of their first child, John Robert Pickering, 20 March 1948, U. S. Naval Hospital, San Diego.

F. W. SILK, (Cdr. USN), gives his address as A.F.S.C, Norfolk 11, Va. LOUIS E. DECAMP, (Cdr. USN), informs us that his address is Op 54 D3, Room 4906, Navy Dept., Washington 25, D. C. EDGAR J. S. KEMP, (Lt. Cdr. USNR), is living at 220 Jefferson St., Napa, Calif.

E. B. JARMAN, (Cdr. USN), reports that his address is 1410 So. Bentley Ave., Los Angeles 25, Calif.

JOHN R. MACLAGHAN, (Lt. Cdr. USN), informs us that his address is Box 351, Bristol Road, Churchville, Pa. A. MINIRELLE, (Cdr. USN), writes that his address is Armitage Field, U.S. NOTS, Chinalake, Calif.

R. H. BOWENS is living at 12 RockhiU St., W. Medford 55, Mass.

Rear Admiral Sprague, the Chief of Naval HARRY B. STOTT, (Cdr. USN), gives his address as c/o General Delivery, Coronado, Personnel, stated in part concerning the Calif. memorial—

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"I believe that this proposal is not only a highly fitting memorial to those officers from the Class of 1939 w h o died in the service of their country, but a tribute to those members of the Class of 1939 making the memorial possible. I highly commend the Class of 1939 for this a a i o n . " Rear Admiral Holloway, Superintendent at the Naval Academy, added the following— "My personal opinion is that the prize would be quite a practical one and certainly most acceptable to the winner.

"The proper occasion for the prize to be awarded would probably be at the ceremony in which the young man takes his Oath of Office as Midshipman, U S N .

"These ceremonies are held in Memorial Hall, and are conduaed by the Commandant of Midshipmen. Parents of candidates usually attend this function which receives a great deal of emphasis and attention, and is truly inspirational. Representatives of the Class are always available in Washington and at the Academy to make the presentation."

In the creation and perpemation of a memorial of this type, the class has endeavored to insure that the purpose of the proposal be clearly outlined. To this end the Executive Committee made the following statement: "It is not the intention merely to publicize the names of the individuals in whose memory this memorial has been established, since they will be adequately remembered by their families, classmates and friends. The intention behind the memorial is simply that since these men have lost their opportunity to contribute to the growth and improvement of the Navy, and in their stead, and in their memory, we

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have taken this oppormnity to make this contribution in their name."

T h e first presentation will be made on 27 May at the Naval School, Bainbridge, Maryland.

The dass b(X)klet will be off the presses on the first of June and, thanks to our hard-working editor B O A T W R I G H T , should be in the mail not too soon thereafter, which reminds me—what kind of an address does the address committee have on you, by the way?

Send corrected ones, old ones, bad ones or good ones in to Jimmy D U N F O R D , Class of 1939, Navy Department, Washington, D . C , but at least send something.

Here's the prospectus on the social front for the near future: 30 April at 1830, a combined West PointAnnapolis '39 K T at the Fort Myer Officers' Club for the price of $4.50 per couple.

15 May, a class picnic at Beach, Bay Ridge (same place as the last o n e ) . Popeye W O L F , Chuck LEIGH and Henry LANK are arranging this one and in advance I'd like to send a rousing note of thanks. If you haven't been to one of the previous ones, don't miss thi.s one; if you have, you won't. T h e price is only $3 a family and if you can't afford it, or don't think it's worth it, come as my guest.

P. S.—This article won't be signed.

I have a lot of social notes from all over but haven't space left this month, so the ALFORD'S, GILLS', RALSTON'S, DAVIS'S, PARK'S baby announcements will have to wait. There is one item, however, which is of such grave and far-reaching importance that it will not wait, however, so here goes—even though I probably should wait on this one

until after the fait accomph: I refer, of course, to the imptials of our fine friend, counsellor and classmate, one Roy Stanley ( P . B.) BENSON, '29, and the maid who finally roped and tied the most elusive of them all. Mrs. Vida Connole. Our most sincere congramlations and best wishes go with the happy couple, and we trust that 10 April will not change in any way the relationship with us who knew you then.

Enough people willing, there will be a 1939 class cocktail party at the H u n t e r s Point (San Francisco Naval Shipyard) Officers' Club on 21 June 1948, between the hours of 1830 and 2100. This date has been picked because it is anticipated that there will be an additional ten or twelve '39's here because of the N R O T C cruises.

All those interested are requested to write or phone: Lt. Cdr. J. D . P. Hodapp, Jr.. USN U. S. N.R.O.T.C. Unit University of California Berkeley 4, Calif.

Tel: Ashbury 3-6000, Extension 571 or 2290 N o r t h Point St. San Francisco 2 3 , Calif.

Tel: West 1-2814 Sharp. George F.. (Lt. Cdr. U S N K USS BLUEBACK (SS ^ 2 6 ) .

Frazee. Mutray B., Jr., ( Lt. Cdr. USN) USS Dl.^BLO (SS-479K Hoopet. Frederic A.. (Lt, Cdr. U S N K Staff, Commander. Mine Force. Atlantic Fleet.

Bell. Clarence E.. J t . . ( Lt. Cdt. U S N ) . USS DIODON (SS-349).

Clark. Charles R.. Jr.. (Lt, Cdr. U S N ) . USS QUILLBACK ( S S - 4 2 4 ) .

Forrest, Blake S.. (Lt. Cdr. U S N ) . Staff, Commandet, Amphibious Forces. Pacific Fleet.

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Dudley. John B.. (Lt. Cdt. U S N ) . USS CHIVO (SS 541).

Thomas. Charles S.. Jr.. (Lt. Cdr, U S N ) . Staff, Commander. Naval Forces. Western Pacific, Gibson. Edward I., (Lt. Cdt, U S N ) , USS BURDO (APD I . r i ) .

Gillette. Rober; C . (Lt. Cdr. USN ). USS POMODON (SS 4 8 6 ) .

Clarke, Frederic B.. (Lt. Cdt, U S N ) , USS CUSK (SSG ? 4 8 ) .

MiciiLi, Jonn ].. I Lt. Cdt. U S N ) . USS H A Y N E S WORTH ( D D " 0 0 ) .

DeLoach, William R„ (Lt. Cdr. U S N ) . USS C A B E ZON

(SS

114).

Lmdon. Elbei; C , (Lt. Cdr, U S N ) .

USS SEA LEOPARD ( SS 4 8 i ) .

Tucket. Ftedetick B., (Lt. Cdt, U S N ) . USS SPERRY (AS 1 2 ) , Ustick. Theodore M.. (Lt. Cdt. U S N ) . USS SEA POACHER (SS 4 0 6 ) .

ZuUinget, John R., (Lt. Cdt. U S N ) . USS ORION (AS I S ) .

Davey. Harr.- E.. Jr.. (Lt. Cdr, USN) . USS CUBERA ( SS ,14"' ) .

Frazee. Murray B.. Jr., (Lt. Cdr, U S N ) . Staff. Commander. Submarine Force. Pacific Fleet, Johnson, Alber: B.. ( Lt. Cdr, SC-USN), US? MACON (CA l . i 2 ) .

Fallon, Frederic C . (Lt, Cdr. U S N ) . USS LEARY

(DD s^g).

Higgs. Alfred H „ (Lt. Cdr. U S N ) . USS R E D F I S H (SS . i 9 5 ) .

Wallingford. John R.. (Lt, Cdr, U S N ) . Naval Engineering Experimenc Station, Annapolis, Md, Fotbes, George 'OC, Jr.. ( Lt. Cdr, U S N ) . USS TORSK (SS 4 2 3 ) .

Greene, Howard J.. (Lt. Cdr. U S N ) . USS FINBACK (SS 2 3 0 ) .

Jarvis. Beniamin C , ( Lt. Cdr. U S N ) . USS VOLADOR (SS 4 9 0 ) .

Simmons. George S, III. (Lt. Cdt. U S N ) . USS E N TEMEDOR

(SS

340).

Thompson, Howard A., (Lt. Cdr. U S N ) . USS TlLEFISH (SS 3 0 7 ) .

1 9 4 n RUSSELL A. B R O W N , (Lt. Cdr. • ' Tw U S N R ) , reports that his new address is 117 Flintlock Rd., Drexel Hill, Haverford Township, Pa. ROGER V. PARLETT, (Lt; Cdr. U S N ) , and Mrs. Parlett write: "Another boy, Douglas Conrad, arrived 29 October 1947, to join the Parlett family. W e are at present at N A O T S , Chincoteague, Va., still working on that PLG training. Jack Rair and Rex Rader are starioned here and it looks like a pleasant tour for us all. T h e latchstring is alwavs out."

WILLIAM M U H L E N F E L D informs us that his new address is 717 West Hills Park way, Baltimore 2 9 , Md. ALAN RAY, (Lt. Cdr. U S N ) , reports that his new address is N.O.T.S., Inyokern. Calif.

E D W A R D W . F O R T H . (Lt. Cdr. U S N ) , gives his address as 263 Zimmerman Blvd., Kenmore, N . Y. JACOB V. H E I M A R K , (Lt. Cdr. U S N ) , and Mrs. Heimark of 4 7 1 0 Chevy Chase Blvd., Chevy Chase, Md., announce the birth of a son, Andrew Bennett, on 22 March, at Bethesda Naval Medical Center. He is the grandson of Mr. and Mrs. O. J. Heimark of Clarkfield, Minn., and of Rear Adm. Andrew C. Bennett, USN-Ret., '12, and Mrs. Bennett, of Monterey, Calif.

Wood, Hugh. Jr.. (Lt. Cdr. U S N ) . Bureau of Aeronautics, Navy Dept.

Goodfellow, Ale S., Jr., (Lt. Cdr. U S N ) . Staff, Commander, Operational Development Force, Atlantic Fleet.

Dupzyk, Robert R., (Lt. Cdr. U S N ) . USS MARSH (DE 6 9 9 ) .

Trice, William W . . (Lt. Cdr. U S N ) . USS FECHTELER ( D D 8 7 0 ) .

Cook, Allen P., Jr., (Lt. Cdt, U S N ) . U. S. Military Academy, West Point, N . V.

l O d I ^ ' ^ ^ ^ S e c r e t a r y , LT. C D R . ' ' " • CHARLES W . STYER, JR., USN, 3903 Jocelyn St., N . W . , Washington, D.C. " 1 9 4 1 " W A S H I N G T O N NEWSLETTER News from the Washington-Annapolis area is in short supply this month. However, I have scraped u p a few items of interest.

Charlie Styer and family left from New York early this week via ocean liner for Paris.

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1948

France, where Charlie will have duty in the Embassy. John Newland has reported to the destroyer desk in the Bureau of Ships. John had hardly settled down in his new swivel chair when his wife presented him with a 9pound baby girl on 7 April.

"Grabba" Holdt arrived in Washington recently for duty at the Naval Ordnance Development Unit, Johns Hopkins U., Silver Spring, Md. Only two visitors from the class to Washington were spotted this past month: Charlie Styer reported having seen Jim Thompson on a visit from his assignment as Staff Communicator on the USS HUNTINGTON. "Hutch" Cooper dropped in from Pearl Harbor early this week for a few days, reporting he and his family are enjoying life in the Islands where "Hutch" is an Intelligence Officer on Com Pac Fit Staff.

I received a letter from Sandy Landreth recently; he's at N . R . O . T . C , U. of Nebraska.

Sandy put his stamp of approval on the "newsletter" as a means of getting the news around the class. W e would like to see other sections of the Navy instigate "newsletters" and get them published periodically in SHIPMATE. Bob Hoffmeister has volunteered to gather news from the civilians of the class, and I am furnishing him with names and all addresses I have of the civilians. I strongly urge all civilians of the class to write to Bob, giving him a brief outline of your present status. W e hope he can gather enough news to put a Newsletter in future SHIPMATE issues. Bob's address: Mr. R. L. Hoffmeister 642 Norman Place, Westfield, N . J. A class party in Annapolis has been suggested for May. Anyone outside the Washington-Annapolis area who would like to be informed of the definite time and place, drop me a post card. I'll see that you get a personal invitation to attend—and contribute, of course.

The only orders issued since the last report: Bitterman, Frank J.: to 5th Naval District.

Fonville, C. D., Jr.: to Office of Naval Re^^^'^'^^-

RICHARD E. FOSTER.

R. S. C R E N S H A W , JR., (Lt. Cdr. U S N ) , gives as his address 8 Brewster Rd., Boston 74, Mass.

E D W A R D W . REBARD writes that his address is 911 N . Sycamore, Los Angeles 38, Calif.

D A V I D P. POLATTY, JR., (Lt. Cdr. U S N ) , reports that his new address is Dept. of M.E., U. S, Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md. JACQUES B. HADLER, (Lt. Col. U S A ) , informs us that his present address is 4th and Tomlinson Sts., Bethesda 14, Md. J E R R Y E. CLANCY, (Lt. Cdr. U S N ) , gives his address as Naval Air Station, Floyd Bennett, N e w York, N . Y. G E O R G E E. B R A N D T , JR., (Lt. Cdr. U S N ) , reports that his new address is V. S. Ordnance Dept., Washington, D . C. Martin. Tom B,. Jr.. (Lt. Cdr. U S N ) . USS ROBERT L. WILSON ( D D 8 4 7 ) .

Rush. Charles W . , Jr.. (Lt. Cdr. U S N ) . USS C A R BONERO

(SS

337).

Andrews, Burton H., (Lt. Cdr. U S N ) . USS S P I N A X (SSR 4 8 9 ) .

1 0 ^ 0 ^'^^^ Secretary, LT. CDR. R. S. I / ^ ^ D A Y , USN, USS STERLET (SS 3 9 2 ) , c / o F.P.O., San Francisco, Calif.

A. G. H A M I L T O N , JR., (Lt. U S N ) , writes

that his present address is 490 Easley St., Silver Spring, Md. A. F. R A W S O N , (Lt. Cdr. U S N ) , informs us that he has reported for duty in USS CAIMAN (SS-323), FPO, San Francisco, Calif.

CHARLES B. BISHOP, (Lt. Cdr. U S N ) , and Mrs. Bishop announce the birth of a son, David Pierce, on 14 March 1948, at the U. S. Naval Hospital, Annapolis, Md. David is the third child, having been preceded by Peter and Kathleen. Lt. Cdr. Bishop is now stationed at P G S — U S N A , Electronics Engineering, Annapolis, Md. ROY W, F. W E R T H M U L L E R , (Lt. Cdr. U S N ) , has reported for duty in USS E N T E M E DOR (SS-340), c/o FPO, San Francisco, Calif.

G O R D O N S. WILEY, (Lt. Cdr. U S N ) , gives as his address, Naval Air Teh. Tr. Center, Memphis, Tenn.

R I C H A R D G. HUBER writes that his address is Law Commons, SUI, Iowa City, Iowa.

L, B. HESTER, (Lt. Cdr. U S N - R e t . ) , gives his presenr mailing address as 121 Broadway Ave., Montgomery 5, Ala. WILLIAM L. N E W T O N , ( Lt. Cdr. U S N ) , reports that his duty address is Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard, Pearl Harbor, T. H. L E O N A R D M. CULJAT, (Lt. Cdr. U S N ) , informs us that his new address is 105-A North Harding St., Margate City, N . J. STEPHEN J. R I O R D A N , JR., ( L r Cdr. U S N ) , writes that his duty address is VPHL3, NAS, Atlantic City, N . J. JAMES W . C O N G E R , ( L t U S N ) , gives his address as 5112 Columbia Pike # 9 , Arlington, Va. ALVIN S. B O G A R T , (Lt. U S N ) , reports that his address now is 16-23 Bellair Ave., Fair Lawn, N . J. Nash. Norman C , (Lt. Cdr. U S N ) . Staff, Commander, Submarine Squadron S E V E N .

Tabor. Travis O. Ill, (Lt, Cdr. U S N ) . Georgia School of Technology, Atlanta, Ga. Shear. Harold E., (Lt. Cdr. U S N ) , Staff, Commander.

Submarine Force, Pacific Fleet, Earnhardt, Eugene C. III. (Lt, Cdr, U S N ) . Submarine School, Submarine Base. New London, Conn.

Barnett. William, R.. (Lt. Cdr. U S N ) . USS FRANK KNOX

(DD

742).

Ducan, Ma>: C , (Lt, Cdr. U S N ) . Office of Naval Research. Navy Dept, Price. Waltei- W., Jr.. (Lt, Cdr, U S N ) , Staff. Commander. Submarine Force. Pacific Fleet, Minner. Donald A., (Lt, Cdr, U S N ) , Staff. Commander, Submarine Squadron EIGHT. Jones, Samuel G,, (Lt, Cdr, U S N ) . Staff, Commander, Amphibious Force, Pacific Fleet, Langlois, Robert I,, (Lt. Cdr, U S N ) . Submarine School. Submarine Base, New London. Conn.

Moore. Arthur. Jr., (Lt. Cdr. U S N ) . Naval Operations. Navy Dept.

1 0 d 7 ^'^^^ Secretary, MR. ROBERT l 7 t Q W . B E S C H , 120 Wesrern Dr., Short Hills, N . J. A. L. RASMUSSEN, (Lt. U S N ) , writes that his duty address is VP-MS 7, F A W - 2 , c/o FPO, San Francisco, Calif.

MILES R. FINLEY, (Lt. U S N ) , reports that his mailing address is 5173 Marlborough Dr., San Diego 4, Calif. Lt. Finley is now the Commanding Officer of the USS MUNSEE. W A L T E R J. T O N E R , (Lt. U S N R ) , informs us that his address is 14010 Monica, Apt. 2 1 , Detroit 4, Mich.

A N D R E W K. SIMMONS, (Lt. U S N ) , writes that his new address is N.A.T.B., Pensacola, Fla. D. A. MILLER, (Lt. U S N ) , reports that his present address is P. O. Box 5100, Sandia Base, Albuquerque, N . M. ERIC ISCHINGER, JR., (Lt. U S N ) , informs us that his address now is 7 Dogwood, Homoja Village, Annapolis, Md.

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tor shall be paid a subsistence allowance of $75.00 per month if without a dependent or dependents, or $105.00 per month if he has one dependent, or $120.00 per month if he has more than one dependent, including regular holidays and leave not exceeding thirty days in a calendar year. Effective date 1 April

By Ralph Sentman '25 1948.

Part-Time Institutional Training The Conference Committee of House and Senate Conferees have agreed on "a proporasked for all information on corporation tionate increase of the difference between the Just One Man's Opinion connections, other salaries and defense con- subsistence allowances for part-time trainees Thousands of Jobs Seen in Defense tract awards to former or present employ- and the increased allowances for full-time In the last several months the employment ers." training." This was adopted for those attendpicmre has taken a complete about-face and ing school on a part-time basis and trainees in Flow of European Recovery Program Aid currently the mobilization planning and proWithin the first week of taking office, Paul instimtional on-the-farm training. The Conduction of defense equipment as well as adG. Hoffman, newly appointed Administrator ference Report was adopted by the House and ministration of the various programs will the Senate is expected to approve. Measure unquestionably add many job opportunities of the Economic Cooperation Administration, will become effeaive 1 April 1948. started the flow of materials to the sixteen to the labor market.

On-the-job Training Ceilings It has been predicted the military agencies countries authorized to participate in the Conferees of the House and Senate on SenEconomic Cooperation Act. Within the first will need to hire anywhere between 50,000 to ate Bill S. 1393 for veterans in on-the-job 100,000 additional civilians if the President week five countries were given an authoriza- training have announced new ceilings. tion of immediate purchase of twenty-one gets approval on the three-billion-dollar deCeiling on income and allowance of a single million dollars worth of release supplies. So fense program. veteran will be $210.00 per month, instead of far it looks as though Hoffman will have a The tentative round figures scheduling the $175.00; for a veteran with one dependent, employment of new civilians could be broken free hand to organize and administer the $270.00 per month instead of $200.00, and program as he sees fit within the limits of down as follows: Department of Army— for a vereran with two or more dependents, 40,000; Department of Navy—30,000; De- its respective framework.

Much time has been saved by extensive $290.00 per month. The present two-year partment of Air Forces—20,000. This brings limit on on-the-job training was retained by to a total 90,000, however, should Congress preliminary planning by various agencies. It the conferees, but all overtime is excluded in authorize a seventy-group Air Force, it is be- is understood that members of the various determining the ceilings. Report was adopted lieved that the Air Force civilian needs would missions sent overseas to the sixteen coun- by the House and Senate; action is expected jump to 30,000 or 40,000 employees. In addi- tries included will be made up primarily of soon as it is proposed that tnis will become tion to the above, no one in Washington non-Qvil Service employees. Many of these law to be effective 1 April 1948. has been able to predict at this time how employees will be technicians and economists.

Did You Know many new employees will be hired at any Information on employment opportunities in specific place of employment. The exact num- the European Recovery Program will be made that the Selective Service and Training Act bers will depend on three unknowns, namely, available through the Alumni Association or of 1940 specifically stated under Seaion 3 (a) the amount of work to be let out to the NAVAL OFFICERS PLACEMENT that each man inducted into the Armed Forces under that law should—after the completion private contractors; (b) the final amount of SERVICE, INC., in Washington. of his period of training and service under Age Is An Asset monies appropriated for approved personSection 3 ( b ) , "be transferred to a reserve nel; (c) the availability of qualified personA year ago the employment market was nel who can be hired at this time. Since such that in the cases of former officers over component of the land or naval forces of the these will all be Civil Service positions, it forty, special placement programs had to be United States, and until he attains the age of should be remembered that certain existing developed. There were existing jobs for many 45, or until the expiration of a period of ten laws preclude retired officers from accepting but each case had to be handled individually. years after such transfer, or until he is discivil employment. There are, however, hun- In other words, each officer "had to be wrapped charged from such reserve component, whichdreds of alumni who are not in the retired in cellophane" and a special sales program ever occurs first, he shall be deemed to be a category who should be very much inter- built around his abilities. All of the larger member of such reserve component and shall be subject to such additional training and ested in these opportunities. corporations were seeking young men under service as may now or hereafter be presaibed thirty as student trainees and most of the European Recovery Program by law." This law as written here would indiBy the time you read this article, the Eu- companies who had existing oppormnities at cate that we should have a very large backlog ropean Recovery Program will have been the executive level would invariably take the of reserves available for immediate call at this launched. Congress recognized the fact that younger men when more than one candidate time. Apparently, for one reason or another, they would have difficulty in interesting top- was recommended. Within the last few weeks this is not the case and thus we now have flight business executives in the program the trend within i'ndustry to consider older pending in Congress legislation on U.M.T. without approving higher salaries than nor- men for employment has moved upward. This and limited draft. Let us think this over. Cermally paid Government employees. The Ad- can be attributed to possible passage of uni- tainly a few birds in the hand are better than ministrator's salary has been set at $20,000 per versal military training and limited draft, and lots in the bushes. year; his Deputy will receive $17,500 a the possibility of recall to active duty of the year, and it gave the Administrator authority younger reserve and retired personnel. They to pay salaries of $10,000 per year for 75 recognize the importance of maintaining a central corps of specialists who will be immune to Captain F. O. Willenbucher, USN employees and $15,000 for 25 more. recall to active duty. This information should (Ret.), the Executive Vice President Top-flight business advisers, however, be- prove interesting to many former officers in and Legal Counsel of the Retired Offilieve that it will be impossible to obtain the the upper age brackets and could be well used cers Association has appeared before type of civilian administration necessary to in planning their sales campaign. a committee of Congress and presented handle such a large financial venture for the a very detailed and studied statement Increase in Subsistence Allowance salaries listed. One group has suggested that urging the enactment of legislation to The following information should be of the procuring of dollar-a-year men is necescredit service as a cadet, midshipman or sary and have so advised the President. How- interest to all alumni who are either attending aviation cadet for pay, longevity and ever, the bill made no specific mention of full-time educational courses or who are antetirement purposes. Copies of this dollar-a-year men but did not prohibit their ticipating exercising certain rights and benestatement are available and may be use. The records indicate that President Tru- fits made available under the GI Bill of obtained from the Retired Officers Asman is opposed to their employment and on Rights. Public Law # 4 1 1 , 80th Congress, sociation, 1600 20th St., N. W„ Wash8 November 1941 as Chairman of the War provides that a veteran while enrolled in and ington 9, D. C. Investigating Committee he stated "Nobody pursuing a course of full-time institutional can live here on a dollar a year. We have training upon application to the Administta-

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Wanted—1000 In the last few months the daily mail continues to bring new and better job openings for former officers of the Naval Services. These openings indude everything from teaching assignments, positions with the Federal Government (INCLUDING JOB OPENINGS WITH THE EUROPEAN RECOVERY PROGRAM) to top job oppormnities in management and administrative assignments. Salaries range all the way from $50 per week to $20,000 per year.

The registrations with the NAVAL OFFICERS PLACEMENT SERVICE, INC., are constantly on the increase; however, the qualifications of those registered cannot begin to keep abreast of the job oppormnities.

Practically every one of our clients are now employed but are seeking an opportunity to better themselves financially and utilize to the fullest their education and experience. Our operation is unique but before we get into that, here are just a limited number of the now existing job oppormnities: 1307—^TEST ROOM SUPERVISOR—large East-

ern manufacmrer—5 years' test room experience—preferably in electrical engineering. Age not over 45. Salary open.

1308—HEAD OF ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT

—small Eastern college — wonderful oppormnity to develop department in industrial area—educarional and engineering experience—salary open.

1309—WRITER-EDITOR—established writing reputation—semi-technical subjects— salary $150 per week.

1310—ASSISTANT DIRECTOR BUILDINGS AND

GROUNDS—Eastern University — age 25-30—must be interested in maintenance work—salary $5000.

1311—ASSISTANT TRAFFICMANAGER—^large

chemical manufacturer—age 30-40— railroad, ship line or motor truck experience essential—salary $5-7500 pet annum.

Ex-Naval Officers — ^mmedlate/^ open.

1318—PLANT ENGINEER—to assume fuel reresponsibility for the operation of power plant as well as functioning of mechanical department—Eastern manufacturer—salary $10,000.

1319—MERCHANDISING TRAINEES—nation-

ally known concern—will lead to responsible management positions — salary open.

1320—AERONAUTICAL E N G I N E E R S — many

oppormnities.

1321—ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS—hundreds of openings to pick from.

Most of the above job openings will probably have been filled by the time you receive this issue of SHIPMATE but there will be many more similar positions available by the time we receive your registration.

We are a Unique Organization We believe that our organization is a unique one in the employment field. In the first place, we are sponsored by the United States Naval Academy Alumni Association and we operate nationally — in many cases internationally—and will assist a client located in San Francisco or Timbuktu just as readily as one in Washington, D. C. Since we represent men and women who were carefully screened in connection with their entry into the Naval Services, we feel that we sponsor a group of clients who occupy one of the topmost positions in the employee population. In this category there are individuals who possess the requisite qualifications for almost every known occupation in the professional, managerial and sales fields of employment. Unlike many other placement organizations, our employer contaas are located all over the country and include hundreds of both large and small industrial, manufacmring, distribution, transportation, and educational establishments. The number of these contacts is being constantly and vigorously expanded.

1312—FORMER CEC OFFICERS TO DO CON-

STRUCTION WORK IN PACIFIC—design of steel and concrete installations —salary $700 per month.

1313—STAFF MEMBER OF TRADE ASSOCIA-

TION—about 30—engineering background — writing and promotional work—salary $5000.

1314—HEAD O F ENGLISH DEPARTMENT-—

small Eastern college—graduate training in English—civilian teaching experience—salary $5000.

1315—MECHANICAL

ENGINEER

—

5-15

years' design experience in high-pressure chemical processing equipment —age 28-30—salary $4-10,000.

1316—TELEVISION ENGINEER—to be Chief

engineer of television broadcast station in mid-west—salary open.

1317—^TRAINEE—to learn elevator business-— E. E. graduate—must be interested in promotional work — young — salary

MAY, 1948

Our Method of Operation We know from past experience that our method of introducing our clients' qualifications in the employment market is one which brings results. This is basically effected by means of a background resume that we ourselves prepare and selectively distribute to prospective employers. In registering with us, our clients are first requested to supply us on our standard registration form with both general and occupational data on their backgrounds. This material is carefully analyzed and evaluated and a limited number of employment objectives are selected for the client.

Thereupon there is prepared and reproduced a background resume which contains in a succinct and readable form all of the important data which relate to the client's qualifications.

These resumes are written with great care and with all the knowledge which we have gained through our extensive experience in this phase

of operations. Each resume is given a file code number and contains no specific information which would disclose the exact identity of the client. In this manner we maintain in strict confidence all information relating to our registrants. The resume is then given an occupational coding and is matched with current appropriate employment openings. Copies are thereupon sent by first-class mail for the direct attention of employets having similar or comparable openings in their organizations.

If they are interested in an applicant's qualifications, they communicate with us and ask for the specific identity and address of the individual in question. 'We transmit to them in a confidential status such information, unless it is definitely inappropriate, and at the same time we inform the client of such action and send him any additional information that is available. From this point on it is the client's responsibility to be placed. Normally we continue to search for suitable employment oppormnities for our registrants until such time as they are satisfactorily employed. We are definitely not interested in placing our clientele in positions of a temporary namre or in those which are not suitable to the employee.

We have told you before but we tell you again — your registration with our Service guarantees you: 1. A carefully prepared and reproduced background resume which summarizes your qualifications in a readable and accurate form. • 2. The distribution by first-class mail of copies of this resume to the maximum number of specific employer contacts who are interested in people with your background.

3. Special contacts in your behalf with any reasonable number of employers not on our list whose names are indicated by you.

4. Prompt and efficient notification to you by first-class mail of the interest of employers in your qualifications.

5. Complete counsel and guidance on the best techniques to be used in contacting interested employers.

6. Continued efforts by us to find suitable employment for you regardless of any time limits.

7. Even though you have been placed by us, the assurance that we will notify you of any better positions for which you are qualified that may afterwards come to our attention.

8. The absolute assurance that any information supplied us by you will be kept in appropriate confidence.

Time and Opportunity Wait for No Man NOR DO GOOD JOB OPENINGS NOPS is the Tops, so write today to:— NAVAL OFFICERS PLACEMENT SERVICE, INC. Suite 427, 1129 Vermont Avenue Washington, D. C.

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|]. S. I L m m \ ASSOCIATIOI 3^ta^ Ai^oci^^i^ Secretary, Mr. A. Sidney Morton, '39, c/o LOUISVILLE Babcock & Wilcox Co., 1515 Guardian BuildMr. Churchill Humphry. '07, 4095 .Massier ing, Cleveland, Ohio.

Avenue, Louisville 7, Kentucky.

Chairman, Welcoming Committee, A. S. MILWAUKEE Morton, '39, c/o Babcock & Wilcox Co., 1515 President, Mr. W. F. Kurfess, '11, 2549 N. Guardian Bldg., Cleveland 14, Ohio.

Terrace Ave., Milwaukee 11, Wise.

Meetings held at 12:00 noon at the Hickory Secretary-Treasurer, Mr. Jim Wheeler, Jr., Grill, 929 Chester Ave., Cleveland, Ohio, on AKRON . '45, 744 N. 4th Street, Milwaukee, Wise.

President, Mr. Arthur K. Blough, "24, 731 the third Wednesday of each month.

Meetings held on the first Wednesday of Medill Avenue, Massillon, Ohio. each month at the Cudworth Post, 1756 N. COLORADO Secretary, Mr. Adolph Bednar, '24, 541 President, Mr. J. M. Lewis, '30, 827 Grant Prospect Avenue, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, at Malvern Road, Akron, Ohio.

6:30 P. M. Street, Denver 3, Colorado.

Dinner meetings held on the last ThursSecretary-Treasurer, Mr. E. F. Helmkamp, NEW YORK day of each month.

'20, 475 Garfield Sr., Denver, Colorado.

President, Mr. W. E. Ditmars, '19, c/o Chairman, Welcoming Committee, Mr. Gray Manufacmring Co., 230 Park Ave., New ANISAPOLIS President, Capt. Rollo N. Norgaard, USN, Arthur G. Stiles, '30, 324 Cooper Bldg., Den- York, N. Y. '28, 34 Upshur Rd., USNA, Annapolis, Md. ver, Colo.

Secretary, Mr. George F. Chapline, '16, c/o Meetings held on the fourth Tuesday of Ranger Aircraft Engine Div., Farmingdale, Secretary, Capt. Thomas N. Vinson, USN, '14, 211 Vinson Dr., Wardour, Annapolis, each month. The time varies as it is some- Long Island, N. Y. times a luncheon meeting and other times a Md. Assistant Secretary, Mr. John C. Barron, '45, Meetings held the second Wednesday of dinner meeting.

162 East 86th Street, New York 28, New each month at 8:00 P.M. at Alumni House, DALLAS York.

Annapolis.

Secretary, Mr. Brenton Field, '25, 7310 Meetings held at Schwartz's Restaurant, 54 Robin Rd., Dallas, Texas.

Broad St., New York, at 12:30 P. M. on the ATLANTA Meets on Wednesday or "family nights at second Tuesday of each month.

President, Mr. Thomas C. Scaffe, '20, 2355 the Dallas N.A.S.â&#x20AC;&#x201D;bar, buffet and bingo."

Dellwood Drive, N. W., Atlanta, Ga. PENSACOLA Secretary, Capt. E. T. Neale, USN, '24, DETROIT Chairman, Welcoming Committee, Mr. Naval Air Station, Atlanta, Georgia.

Will J. Davis, Chamber of Commerce, 37 E. President, Mr. Frank R. Davis, Ethyl Corp., Meetings held first Friday night of each Garden St., Pensacola, Fla. Research Laboratory, 1600 W. Eight Mile month. Officers' Club, Naval Air Station, PHILADELPHIA Road, Ferndale 20, Detroit, Mich.

Atlanta, Georgia.

President, Mr. Scott G. Lamb, '19, 1224 Secretary-Treasurer, Mr. John J. Brennan, BALTIMORE Arch St., Phila. 7, Penna.

'43, 2227 Baldwin Ave., Detroit, Mich.

President, Mr. Delano J. Fitzgerald, '27, Secretary, Mr. J. Ross Allen, Jr., '44, Box Regular meetings held the first Thursday 203 Taplow Road, Baltimore 12, Maryland. of each month.

Q, Devon, Penna.

Secretary, Mr. C. Ridgely Lamdin, '21, 4414 Dinner meetings held on the third Friday HAMPTON ROADS Roland Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland. of each month at the Officers Mess, Navy Meetings held on the Tuesday nearest the President, Capt. B. W. Chippendale, USN, Yard.

15th of each month at the Hotel Stafford, '15, 717 Raleigh Ave., Norfolk, Va. PITTSBURGH Baltimore, Maryland, at 7:00 P. M. Secretary-Treasurer, Mr. W. T. Hastings, President, Mr. Clarence J. Moore, '29, ElecJr., '29, 7218 Ralph St., Norfolk 5, Va. tric Storage Battery Co., 102 Frick Bldg., BIRMINGHAM Pittsburgh 19, Pa. Chairman, Mr. Leon Hamrick, '22, Steiner- HOUSTON Secretary, Capt. B. A. Hartt, '20, InspeaorRouse and Co., Brown Marx Bldg., 2008 President, Comdr. Charles A. Whiteford, Instructor, U. S. Naval Reserve, Old Post First Avenue North, Birmingham, Ala. USN-Ret., '21, 2242 Dryden Road, Houston Office Building, Pittsburgh 19, Pa. 5, Texas.

BOSTON Secretary-Treasurer, Mr. William E. Ford, ROCHESTER President, Mr. W. E. Haycock, '22, GenSecretary, Mr. Charles P. McCabe, '22, Otis eral Elearic Company, 140 Federal Street, '29, 2200 Gulf Building, Houston, Texas.

Elevator Company, 155 West Main St., Meetings held on call of Secretary.

Boston, Massachusetts.

Rochester 4, N. Y. Secretary, Mr. George C. King, '24, Boston INDIANAPOLIS Regular joint monthly meetings of U.S.M.A. Edison Company, 30 Boylston Street, Boston, Chairman, Capt. F. A. Graf, Naval Armory, and U.S.N.A. graduates are held at Rochester, Massachusetts.

30th and White River Indianapolis 8, Ind. New York. Graduates in the vicinity comLuncheon meetings held the first WednesMeetings held on the third Monday of municate by phone with Rochester, Main 8410. day of each month at the Boston City Club, each month. 12:15 at the Indianapolis AthSAN DIEGO 14 Somerset Street, Boston, Massachusetts. letic Club.

President, Comdr. Max I. Black, USN-Ret., CHICAGO '21, Room 301, Civic Center Building, CounKANSAS CITY President, Mr. Leicester N. Baker, '23, Post ty of San Diego, San Diego, Calif.

President, Mr. Ralph W. Holt, '12, 1714 Office Box 343, Chicago, Illinois.

Secretary-Treasurer, Mr. R. M. Daisley, '28, Secretary, Mr. Ray D. Sullivan, '22, 21 Im- W. 64th St., Kansas City 5, Mo. Secretary, Mr. J. E. Taylor, '37, 503 Dwight Box 215, Point Loma Station, San Diego 6, perial Street, Park Ridge, Illinois.

Calif.

Bldg., Kansas City 6, Mo. CINCINNATI Regular monthly dinner meetings held alChairman, Welcoming Committee, Mo., ternately in Coronado and San Diego. MemPresident, Mr. G. H. Bowman, '19, Box George R. Turner, '22, 1918 Baltimore, Kan- bers are notified by mail.

118, R. R. 4, Turkey Foot Road, Covington, sas City, Mo. Kenmcky.

Meetings held at noon on the second Mon- SAN FRANCISCO Secretary, Mr. W. H. MacConnell, '41, day of each month at the University Club.

President, Mr. Clyde W. King, '22, 448 4070 Egbert Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio.

Florence Avenue, Oakland 11, Calif.

Dinner meetings held the first Monday of LOS ANGELES Secretary, Mr. John H. Falge, '12, 1305 each month at the Cincinnati Club.

President, Mr. R. McC. Beanfield, '08, 619 Lombard Street, San Francisco 9, Calif.

CLEVELAND Chamber of Commerce, Los Angeles 15, Calif.

Dinner meetings held at the Commissioned Secretary, Mr. A. W. Buffington, '22, 1628 Officers Club, Treasure Island, at 6:30 P. M. President, Mr. G. A. Mattucci, '24, 14725 Camden Parkway, South Pasadena, Calif.

Lake Avenue, Lakewood 7, Ohio. on the first Wednesday of each month.

If'hett changes occur within the Itrauch Associations, such as officers or time and place of meetings, please inform the editors at Alumni House.

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SEATTLE President, Mr. B. B. Cassels, 2437 Lake Washington Blvd., No. Seattle 2, Wash.

Secretary, Mr. Ken Borgen, '24, 5334 West Lauder St., Seattle 6, Wash.

Chairmans, Welcoming Committee, B. B. Cassels, 2437 Lake Washington Blvd., No., Seanle, Washington, and Mr. R. R. Fox, '22, 12141 23rd Ave., No., Seattle, Wash.

Meetings held on the first Monday of each month at 6.00 P. M. B. O. Q., Naval Station, Pier 91, Seattle, Wash.

ST. LOUIS President, Mr. William P. Kellogg, '21, 4349 Westminster Lane, St. Louis 8, Mo. Secretary, Mr. William M. Holland, '49, 3841 Flora Place, St. Louis 10, Missouri.

Meetings held on the second Friday of each month.

TWIN CITIES AREA President, Cdr. Frank W. Lagerquist, '07, R.F.D. No. 4, Wayzata, Minn.

Secretary-Treasurer, Mr. Arnold P. Sorenson, '45, 6833 Logan Ave. South, Minneapolis 9, Minn.

Meetings will be held on the first Friday evening of every month at 1900 at the "O" Club, NAS, Minneapxslis.

What's the Dope (Continued from page 49) AMERICO P. 'VESCOVI, (Lt. USN), gives his duty address as Sq. VA 18A, NAS, Quonset Pt., R. I. ROBERT D. NORTON, (Lt. USN), writes that his presenr address is 408 Emerson Ave., Pirtsburgh 15, Pa. CLAYTON W. SMITH, (Lr. USN), has reported for duty in USS OAKLAND, c/o FPO, San Francisco, Calif.

A Class of '43 reunion was held on Saturday, 6 March, at the Officers' Club, NAS, San Diego. A total of twenty-two were present.

Arrangements were made by Max Harnish, Flag Lieutenant for ComFairWestCoast, and Bob Hawthorne of DesPac Staff. A fine dinner of chicken was bolstered by rhe presence of a portable bar.

After dinner, everyone gave out the dope, if they had any, on the whereabouts and doings of their former wiVts and other classmates not present. Those present were Max Harnish, Arch Kuntze, Bob Beyer, Bob Hawthorne, Lindy Lindstrom, Bernie Moulron, Bill Allen, Lee Fox, Gal Galvani, Martin Gastrock, Gardner Thomas, K. C. Wallace, Bill Kirkland, Lu Luberda, Hal Woodson, Leon Rathbun, Jim Donaldson, F. F. Smith, Ken Ruiz, Tom Boulton, and Bill Patterson, the only bachelor in the bunch. Dewey Struble was represented by "Mrs. Dewey Struble.

In the talk after dinner a suggestion was made to reorganize the class. Bill Busick, vicepresident, is the only class officer still on active service. A motion was made and carried that Bill become our president and that nominations be made for the offices of vice-president and secretary. I was elected "secretary pro rem," I guess, to bring this matter to your attention. For that reason, please drop me a line and any comments on the following: (1) Bill Busick for president.

MAY, 1948

Yes

No.

(2) If no above, your nomination for president.

(3) Nomination for vice-president and secretary.

W.

S. LUBERDA

Please send the above information to Lt. W. S. Luberda, VF-IA, NAS, San Diego, California. After tabulation, the above information will be disseminated through SHIPMATE and a final election held.

Another reunion for this area will be held in May. On the 19th of March our class had an unofficial reunion at the Severn River Officers' Club. All the fellows stationed in or near Crabtown who could possibly make it turned out in fine style for a staggering good time.

The married gents all brought their lovely commanding officers and rhere were quite a number of good-looking misses with the bachelors too. After a very pleasant cocktail hour from 1800 to 2000, some of the fellows left but the majority carried on through dinner into the wee morning hours of the 20th.

All of us got quite a charge out of seeing familiar faces even though most of us were embarrassed when it came to remembering the names that go with the physiognomies.

The embarrassment seemed to disappear with a few cocktails, however, and the atmosphere was filled with talk of the not-so-old times.

We certainly all hope that such events as these get-togethers reoccur soon in the near fumre. It is the intention of yours truly to try and organize reunions in such a way that notice will be given to as many class members as possible. With a month's notice we think that a greater turnout can easily be had. It's true when they say about reunions, "the more the merrier."

Those attending on the 19th were as follows. (All Lieutenants, Class 1943, except as otherwise designated) : Stationed at Annapolisâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;R. R. Dick Law, R. O. Bob Mink, R. U. Bob Stecher, A. M. Bud Carter, Jr., T. N. Ted Swain, C. J. Connie Flessner, H. H. Homer Hoisren, J. K. Hutch Hutchin, D. R. Doc Jones, D. W. Danny Wildfong, R. H. Bob Gillock, H. E. Jack VanNess, J. E. Joe Volonte, J. C. "J. C." Kemp, Jr., D. H. Dave Jennings, R, G. Ralph Leedy, E. Eric Ischinger, Jr., J. T. John Shepherd, J. E. Buck Rawls, R. J. Ray Clare, J. S. Joe Gardner, Capt., USMC; R. Y. Dick Dow, L. R. Lee Scherer, Jr., R. H. Bob Beaver, F. R. Mitch Mitchell, W. D. Cal Calhoun, R. L. Bob Jungklas, L. A. Franz, J. W. Jim Short, W. C. Walt Blattmann.

Out-of-townâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;R. E. Brega, Washington, A. H. McCain, Washington, D. M. Dan Karcher, Washington, T. F. Tom Smith, Washington, B. Bernie Bennett, Washington, civilian; E. R. Gene Flathmann, civilian, Annapolis; R. W. Bob Besch, civilian. Short Hills, N. J. I may be reached ar any time at the below address: R. W. Besch, Class Secretary, 120 Western Dr., Short Hills, N. J. 1QAA Class Secretary, LT. GENE I yfT GOUDIE, USN, VF-4B, Naval Air Station, Norfolk 11, Va. H. GORMAN, (Lt. USN), informs us that his address is 421 S.E. Baublits Ctr., Warrington, Fla. Lt. Gorman is now an instructor at NAS, Pensacola.

Checks for

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D. J. RIENSTRA, JR., (Lt. USN), gives as his address. Box 33, Woodville, Tex. A. E. PATCH, (Lt. USN), and Mrs. Patch wish to announce the birth of a daughter, Elaina Jean, on 12 February 1948, at the U. S. Naval Dispensary, Whidbey Island, Wash.

MAURICE I. GLAD, (Lt. USN), writes that his address is 1325 Third St., Coronado, Calif.

JAMES W. JUDY, (1st Lt. USMC), reports that his mailing address is COS, MCS, MB, Quantico, Va. ARTHUR C. KNOX, (Lt. USN), informs us that his address is VA-IB, NAAS, Oceana, Virginia Beach, Va. CARL J. ADAMS, (Lt. USN), gives his address as 507 Franklin St., Keokuk, Iowa.

JAMES H. ALDRICH, (Lt. jg USN), writes that his present address is 102 E. 53 St., Savannah, Ga. Davidson, John F,, (Caot, U S N ) , Officer, USS ORION (AS 1 8 ) .

Commanding

1 QAC Class Secretary, LT. (JG) SAMI 7 t 3 UEL G. GORSLINE, USN, 827 Bedford Road, Battle Creek, Michigan.

MORRIS A. PACKER, (Lt. jg USN), writes that his duty address is Blimpron IUSNAF, Weeksville, N. C. E. M. OSTROM, JR., (Lt. jg USN), informs us that he has reported for duty in USS MOCKING BiFD (AMS 27), c/o FPO, San Francisco, Calif.

DOUGLAS E. McINTYRE, (Lr. jg USN), reports that his new address is 141 Mohegan Ave., New London, Conn.

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CLIFFORD C. LOCKWOOD, (Lt. jg Diego, Calif. Grandparents are Capt. F. S. USN), gives as his address R.D. 1, Newburgh, Steinwachs, USN (Ret.) and Mrs. Steinwachs N.Y. of San Diego, and Mrs. Bennett Hooks of A. C. STRALEY, JR., (O.D.), writes from Kinston, N. C. Ens. Hooks is attached to the 107 N. Austin, Ranger, Tex.: "Would like to U. S. S. PHILIPPINE SEA (CV-47) now in hear from any of the old 11th Co. first class Mediterranean waters.

'45. Would especially like to hear from Hank WALTER C. WEAVER, (Ens. USN) inMayo and Duke Royalty." forms us that his address is 1420 "D" St., S. NICHOLAS BURDE, JR., reports from 173 E., Washington 3, D. C. Holmes St., Belleville, N. J., that he and ConTHOMAS A. BRYCE, (Ens. USN) and stance Hamilton were married in May, 1946. Mrs. Bryce announce the birth of a daughter, He resigned from the Navy, September, 1947, Beth Preston, Born at the Bethavia Hospital, and is now working in the Marine Dept. of Wichita Falls, Tex., on 1 March 1948.

Standard Oil (N. J . ) , 30 Rockefeller Plaza, L. W. DIENST, (Ens. USN) writes that New York. his address is 7619 Emden St., Philadelphia, E. S. RUETE, (Lt. jg SC-USN), informs Pa. us that his address now is Naval Aviation 1947 Supply Depot, Oxford Ave. and Martin's Mill MICHAEL S. BOYAR was married to Rd., Philadelphia 11, Pa. Miss Catherine Trihas at the Church of the CARL STRALEY, JR., (Dr.), writes that Annunciation at San Francisco on 14 March his new address is Box 101, Ranger, Tex. 1948.

STANLEY M. HIRSCH reports that his ^- °- BOWLER, JR., (Ens. SC, present address is 223 Prospect St., Bldg. # 5 , 1 9 4 7 • ' '' USN) informs us that his adApt. 2M, East Orange, N. J. WILUAM G. EATON, (Lt. jg USN), and dress is 87 Second Ave., Long Branch, N. J. A. A. BRADLEY writes that his address Mrs. Eaton wish to announce the birth of a daughter, Isabel Adele, on 9 March at the is Box 5941, Smyrna, Ga. T. L. HARTIGAN gives as his address, Mercy Hospital, San Diego. She is the granddaughter of Capt. Chauncey R. Crutcher, USN, 1324 Ruberta, Glendale, Calif.

Class of 1918, and Mrs. Crutcher, and Mrs. Class Secretary, ENS. Eaton and the late Cdr. William G. Eaton, 1 Q ^ f i f W ' ' " O \ l \ ) LEON C. BRAMLETT, USN, Class of 1921.

JOHN J. GLYNN, (Lt. jg USN), informs USN, 538 W. Second Street, Clarksdale, Miss. us that his address is BOQ, NAS, Pensacola, 1948 (A) WESLEY D. ENNIS, (Ens. USN) reports Fla. ROBERT B. ATWELL, (Lt. jg USN), that he is on duty in USS LEO (AKA 60), writes that his correct mailing address is 929 c/o FPO, San Francisco, Calif.

J. W. M. ADAMS, (Ens. USN) gives as Melrose St., National City, Calif. Lt. (jg) Atwell and Mrs. Atwell wish to announce the his address, BOQ, Treasure Island, San Franbirth of a son, Robert William, who was born cisco, Calif.

T. E. MURPHREE, (2nd Lt. USMC) and 12 March 1948.

Mrs. Murphree announce the birth of a son, MERTON D. VANORDEN, (Lt. jg USN), reports that his address is 14 Taylor St., Med- Theodore Sterling, on 16 March 1948. Mrs. Murphee is the former Janet Sterling, daughford 55, Mass.

A. COPELAND writes form 382 Longwood ter of T. W. Sterling, USNA Class of 1914.

Ave., Boston, Mass: "Having resigned from the Navy, I'm in my first year ar Harvard Law School. We have a small Naval Academy Alumni House Notes Alumni contingent in my class comprised of (Continued from page 29) 'Ship' Bryan, '45, one man out of '44, and three from '46, all now in civilian status."

The Honorable W. Stuart Symington The Secretary of the Air Force.

Rear Admiral James L. Holloway, Jr., ^QAL Class Secretary, ENS. BENJAU.S.N. I ytO MIN S. MARTIN, USN (Pres.), Superintendent, U. S. Naval Academy.

Executive Department, U. S. Naval Academy, Maj. Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor, U.S.A. Annapolis, Maryland.

Superintendent, U. S. Military Academy.

J. L. SKOOG, (Ens. USN) writes: "My General Omar N. Bradley, U.S.A. home address is now 539 North 80th St., Chief of Staff, U. S. Army.

Seattle 3, Wash. Nonie, whom I married durFleet Admiral William F. Halsey, U.S.N.ing leave between the NEW JERSEY and (Ret.) Submarine School a year ago last June, is Lt. General Hugh A. Drum, U.S.A. (Ret.) at home with Sherri Ann, our very new baby Commanding General, New York State girl. I've just seen Sam HoUier for the first National Guard. time since graduation, and hope to see my Admiral H. K. Hewitt, U.S.N. cousin. Perry Nelson, 48A, now at the AcadNaval Representative, United Nations. emy as a member of the Olympic basketball The Honorable Robert P. Patterson squad, before sailing for Turkey to transfer The Former Secretary of War. the BLUEBACK to that country. Would Colonel Meade Wildrick particularly like to hear from classmates of President, West Point Society of New the old 20th and 12th companies and hope York. to rejoin those who are in San Diego soon."

At a long table immediately in front of the PRESTON A. PEAK, (Ens. USN) reports dais were an equal number of Midshipmen that his mailing address is 7031 Boyer St., from the Naval Academy and Cadets from Philadelphia 19, Penn.

West Point. These young men made a decided BENNETT W. HOOKS, (Ens. USN) and contribution to the success of the dinner in the Mrs. Hooks have announced the birth of their excellent rendering of songs of the two Servfirst child, a boy, Bennett Watson, Jr. on 13 ice Academies and their handling of the color March 1948, at the Mercy Hospital, San detail.

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The program opened with a parade of colors into the ballroom, the detail consisting of two stands of National Colors, each accompanied by the colors of either the Military or Naval Academies and their own color guards. All hands joined in singing the first stanza of the National Anthem led by a portion of the Military Academy Band. The program which followed was interspersed with vocal numbers rendered by the Midshipmen and Cadets present and closed with the singing by all the guests of the last verse of "America."

The carefully chosen and splendidly executed program held the rapt attention of everyone present.

PROGRAM THE NATIONAL ANTHEM # # * INVOCATION # # * Presiding Officer Lt. Gen. Delos C. Emmons, '09, U.S.A.F. Commandant, Armed Forces Staff College Toastmaster Mr. Henry J. Taylor * # * Greetings by Mr. Donald S. Walker, '24 President, U. S. Naval Academy Alumni Association Col. Chauncey L. Fenton, '04 President, Association of Graduates United States Military Academy # « * PRESENTATION OF HONORED GUESTS * * # Addresses Maj. Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor, '22 Superintendent, U. S. Military Academy Rear Admiral James L. Holloway, Jr., '19 Superintendent, U. S. Naval Academy Hon. James V. Forrestal The Secretary of Defense Everyone who attended could not but have been inspired by the spirit of sincerity and desire to "Unite for Strength" which characterized this assemblage. Simultaneous dinners similar in their nature were held by at least twenty-five groups throughout the country and countless telegrams offering congratulations and expressions of good will poured in from groups and individuals throughout the world.

Elsewhere in this issue of SHIPMATE is published a gioup photograph which was taken just after the guests were seated and a few of the telegrams to which we have referred. Accounts of the dinners which were held by other groups will be published as received. It is hoped that in this tangible exptession of the united strength of our armed forces, a substantial contribution will have been made to the security of our country and to a lasting peace.

On the Bulletin Board (Continued from page 31) Rear Admiral and Mrs. Arthur A. Ageton, of Kent Road, Wardour.

In the Commandant's Quarters, as the guests of Capt. and Mrs. Frank T. Ward, will be Capt. and Mrs. George Holderness of Charleston, S. C.—the two men were roommates during midshipmen days—Capt. and Mrs. Charles Coe, Pensacola; Capt. and Mrs.

and Mrs. Jackson—the former Mary Waters Conard—of Annapolis; Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Gordon — Adelaide Conard -— and Mr. and Mrs. Maurice K. Brady—the former Charlotte Conard—all of Washington.

Mrs. Conard is a Navy Junior, the daughter of Paymaster Robert Allen, USN, and Mrs. Allen. The former Dora Allen was born in Yokohama, Japan, when her father was on duty there, and is a graduate of Wellesley College, Wellesley, Mass. She has written, dilected, and acted in innumerable plays—particularly in Navy Relief Show productions all over the world, from Japan to Honolulu and Annapolis. She has also been active in directing plays put on by the Washington Club and the Mary Washington Chapter, DAR, of which she is a member, and has written many poems and given play readings.

Admiral Conard was appointed an ensign in the U. S. Navy in 1898 following his graduation from Cornell University. In 1914 he was loaned by the Navy to the Army and was ordered to Vera Cruz as fiscal officer where he was credited with stabilizing the Mexican currency — which officials said "couldn't be done." He was then sent to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and there stabilized the currency for Haiti—which has been stable ever since.

Admiral Conard graduated from the Naval War College, Newport, then became Supply Officer at the Washington Navy Yard from I917-I9I9, when the Navy loaned him to the U. S. Shipping Board. In 1920 he became Supply Officer of the Navy Yard at Mare Island, Calif. From November 1922 to April 1925 he was appointed special assistant to the Director of the Budget, under President Coolidge.

From 1925 to 1928, the Admiral was Supply Officer at the United States Naval Academy, and then was appointed Inspector General of the Navy. From that post he went to Pearl Harbor as head of the Supply Department and from 1935 ro 1939 was appointed Paymaster General and Chief of tfie Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, U. S. Navy.

Following his retirement. Admiral and Mrs. Conard made their home in Washington. Upon the outbreak of World War II, the Admiral was recalled to active duty. It was his plan for payroll deductions to be used in the purchase of Bonds and Stamps that was approved by Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, and by President Roosevelt, that was used throughout the United States Government, and later adopted throughout the country.

It is of interest to bote that Admiral Conard was the first U. S. naval officer to have the privilege of swearing in his daughter in the WAVES. GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY Sincere congratulations are hereby extended A golden wedding anniversary will be cele- to Admiral and Mrs. Conard. brated by Rear Admiral and Mrs. Charles Conard on Monday, 3 May, in their new EXHIBIT apartment at 2311 Conneaicut Avenue, WashThe Naval Academy Museum sponsored a ington, D. C. Among the many friends who will be paying their respects to one of the Loan Exhibition in the foyer of the museum Navy's best known and respected couples will one week in April, planned and arranged by be their son and five daughters, and members Mr. James A. Coghlan, chief museum aide.

Those exhibiting were naval personnel of of their families.

Attending the occasion will be Lt. Comdr. the Severn River Naval Command, civil servCharles A. Conard—better known as "Peter" ice employees, and members of their families.

Mrs. A. G. Harrison entered modernistic —on duty in the Navy Department; Capt. and Mrs. Theodore G. Haff—she's the former Dor- water colors and Mrs. Victor Graff had several othy Conard; the captain is Chief of Staff at oils. Mrs. Clay Raney showed a self-portrait the Naval Air Station, Jacksonville; Lt. Bar- and Mrs. Caryl J. Hoffer, fashion illustrations.

Mr. W. F. McWilliams, foreman of the bara A. Conard, WAVE, on duty in Washington; Comdr. Elmer M. Jackson, Jr., USNR, Stonemason Department, Public Works, en-

Curtis Smiley, Brooklyn, N. Y., and Capt. and Mrs. T. B. Williamson, Norfolk.

Guests of Capt. and Mrs. Paul F. Dugan in their quartets at the U. S. Naval Communication Station, will be Capt and Mrs. Thomas .J. Casey of Washington and Mr. Carl G. Gesen, a member of the Class of '23, now secretary of the Fire Insurance Company in Concord, N. H. Members of the general committee working on the reunion are Capt. Louis A. Reinken, Capt. Arleigh A. Burke, Capt. A. C. Murdaugh, chairman of the Committee of Events; Capt. Winston P. Folk, and Capt. Paul Dugan, chairman of arrangements. Admiral A. A. Ageton is publicity chairman, and Capt. Wells Field, Annapolis, a member of the Events Committee.

The formal opening of the drawing room in Alumni House, furnished by the Class of 1907, is set for Wednesday, 19 May, with arrangements made by Capt. E. D. Almy, Capt.

C. C Slayton and Comdr. Louis J. Gulliver.

The Class of 1908 is meeting for cocktails in the House 29th May, with Col. C. C. Cordiner, USA, making the arrangements. About 100 guests are expeaed.

A luncheon is being given by the Class of 1913 on Saturday, 29th May, with Mr. Paul De Voe Sleeper of the Aetna Life Insurance Co., Washington, in charge.

On Saturday, 24 April, the Class of 1918 met for luncheon in the tap room, with 60 members attending. Capt. E. E. Duvall of Washington made arrangements.

The Class of 1919 will hold a luncheon meeting in the tap room on Saturday, 8 May, under the arrangement of Comdr. A. R. Staudt of Washington. Some 70 persons are expected to attend.

The Class of 1928 will meet for cocktails in the patio of the House on Samrday evening, 22 May, with Capt. Basil N. Rittenhouse in charge of arrangements.

Cocktails were served to 50 N2B members in the ballroom on Friday, 23 April, with Lt. Comdr. James Mercer and Lt. T. N. Swain in charge.

Down from New York City for the weekend of the 15th were Mr. and Mrs. Donald S. Walker, who were guesrs of Comdr. and Mrs. Louis J. Gulliver of Maryland Avenue.

Mrs. A. D. A. Crawford, the genial hostess of Alumni House, and Comdr. Crawford plan to attend the open house held Samrday, 1 May, at Massachusetts Instimte of Technology, Boston, where their son, Peter, is a member of the senior class.

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tered a small picmre of a sunrise over the bay with a small sailing ship, the focus of attention; from the Painters Department were entries of Mr. Ellis Bevin, Mr. Hamilton Jackson and Mr. Frank Green. From the Maintenance Department, Mr. H. W. Davey, foreman, had entries, still lifes and a collection of good copies of famous portraits.

Comdr. Reid P. Fiala has done oil portraits of all members of his family. Lt. Comdr. B. F. Haker and Comdr. Charles A. Hoffman had several showings. Other portraits entered were done by Mr. William Gantt of the Athletic Association.

Among the youngest exhibitors was Peter Eller, schoolboy son of Capt. and Mrs. E. M. Eller of Wardour.

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On Tuesday, 27 April, the Superintendent's Garden was open to visitors of the Maryland House and Garden Pilgrimage, with Admiral and Mrs. Holloway the hosts. On hand for the day-long tour were members of the Naval Academy Garden Club, of which Mrs. Frank Trenwith Ward is chairman.

Among those assisting throughout the day were Mrs. J. M. P. Wright, the club's program chairman; Mrs. Benjamin H. Adams, Mrs. Reid P. Fiala, Mrs. James Howard, Mrs. William G. Cooper, Mrs. James Smith and Mrs. Rupert Zimmerli.

The garden is entered through a small wooden gate or from the long stone steps which lead from the quarters. A wide gallery of the house overlooks the flowering shrubs and a white wooden fence with small cqjonial

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urns on the posts screens the service quarters from the garden itself. W h i l e the grounds are a part of the Academy and are cared for by its gardeners, the flower beds and choice of bulbs reflect the taste and planned design of the ladies of the Superintendent's House.

In the center of the garden is a huge bronze badger, surrounded by ivy, a gift to the academy by the battleship WISCONSIN. A pergola is at the end of the green swath of grass. To one side of the garden is the rose trellis. The rose garden, with Paul's Scarlet climber. Silver Moon and many other climbers, is bordered by boxwood and grown in a geometric pattern in the center. Here, too, are bulbs for early spring flowering, tulips, daffodils and hyaâ&#x20AC;˘cinths.

T h e shrubs give almost continuous bloom , . . forsythia, azaleas, lilacs, rhododendrons, and a number of fine evergreens. There are dwarf apple trees, dogwoods, and Chinese magnolias. Every season supplies some flowers, from the bulbs of early spring to the later roses and chrysanthemums.

On Tuesday, 20 April, the Garden Club met in the quarters of Mrs. Adams, when the program was "How to Make Hats with Live Flowers." Mrs. T. P. Lowndes presented the interesting program.

Purpose of the club is to furnish the grounds and Naval cemetery with various flowers and bulbs.

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The signing of the charter of the founding of the recently'formed Women's Club of the Naval Post Graduate School took place Thursday, 8 April, in the Officers' Town Club. Mrs. Aladuke Mewborn, chairman of the by-laws committee, was in charge.

Following the business meeting, when a nominating committee was elected, tea was served with Mrs. Herman A. Spanagel and Mrs. Charles V. O. Terwilliger pouring.

Assisting were Mrs. Earl Rottmayer, Mrs. "W. Conley Smirh, Mrs. Abraham Sheingold, Mrs. Charles C. Torrance, Mrs. George J. Stetka, Mrs. Charles Travis and Mrs. Allen Vivell.

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Mrs. J. M. P. Wright, Mrs. Thomas Carr and Mrs. S. K. Groseclose were speakers on a panel discussion at the meeting of the Women's Society for Christian Service of Calvary Methodist Church on Monday, 5 April, at 8 o'clock. Mrs. W . H. Bayliff, radio program chairman for the Anne Arundel League of W o m e n Voters, of which the speakers are members, conducted the discussion when the subject was "The European Recovery Program."

Mrs. J. Luther Neff, wife of the Rev, Dr. Neff, pastor of the church, is program chairman of the society.

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T h e final meetino; of the season of the Naval Academy W o m e n ' s Club will be held Tuesday, 4 May, when all activity groups will take I>art in the program. Mrs. Elmer M. Jackson.

Jr., program chairman, will acr as master of ceremonies. Following a report of the chairmen, the slate of officers for next year will be presented by a committee made up of Mrs. Orval Polk, Mrs. Paul Heineman, Mrs. Charles Travis, Mrs. Reid P. Fiala and Mrs. Karl H . Stefan.

At the April meeting, Mr. Howard Hughes of Baltimore, and Miss Miriam Parmenter, county home demonstration agent, were on the program. Their talks included tips on how to tell good furnimre and how to refinish antique pieces, and methods of saving time in Tceeping house. A luncheon preceded the meeting, held in the North Severn Officers' Club, and a tea concluded the afternoon.

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the Department ot Marine Engineering met for luncheon, preceded by cocktails.

In charge of arrangements were Mrs. Robert B. Kelly, Mrs. James B. Denny and Mrs. Alton E. Parkerâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;who also made the place cards carrying out the spring motif. Among the 49 guests were two visitors, Mrs. Everett A. Land of Norfolk, the guest of her son-in-law and daughter; Comdr. and Mrs. Frederick Wahlig, and Mrs. Mae McMillan of Long Beach, who is visiting her son-in-law and daughter, Comdr. and Mrs. Gordon Williams.

Among the local guests were Mrs. Cornelius S. Seabring, wife of Capt. Seabring, head of the department, and Mrs. Ian C. Eddy, wife of Comdr. Eddy, the executive officer.

WEDDING BELLS Benson-Connole The wedding of Mrs. Vida Connole and Capt. Roy Benson took place Saturday, 10 April, in rhe Naval Academy Chapel wirh Chaplain Everett P. Wuebbens officiating the 5 o'clock ceremony.

Mrs. Benson is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Reese W i m b r o w of Archwood Avenue, and the widow of Comdr. David Connole, USN, commander of the submarine USS "DllGGER, lost shortly before the end of the war in 1945.

Captain Benson is the son of Mr. Charles Benson of Concord, N . H., and the late Mrs. Benson. H e is a graduate of the U. S. Naval Academy, Class of 1929.

Matron of honor was the bride's sisrer, Mrs. Pearl Tomanio. Best man was Captain Benson's father. Attending the ceremony were two of his brothers, and their families, Mr. and Mrs. Conrad Benson, and daughter Barbara, of Concord, N . H., and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Benson and daughter, Eleanor, of Montreal, Canada.

For a number of years, Mrs. Benson was assistant librarian at the Annapolis Public Library and was in charge of a children's story book hour over Station W A N N .

Following a wedding trip to Bermuda, the couple is now at home in New London, Conn,, where Captain Benson is attached to the staff of the Commander of the Submarine Force, Atlantic Fleet.

Miss Mary Frances Dickinson became the bride of Dr. Edward Douglas Horning on Saturday, 10 April, in St. Anne's Church. The Rev. Dr. Addison Grant Noble, rector of St. John's Church, Williamstown, Mass., where he is chaplain of Williams College, officiated, assisted by the Rev. C. Edward Berger, rector of St. Anne's Church.

The bride is the daughter of Mrs. Charles Corwin Ross of Maryland Avenue, and Dr. Edward Homer Dickinson of Merion, Pa.

The bridegroom's parents are Mr. and Mrs. Edward Horning of Detroit.

Dr. Dickinson gave his daughter in marriage. She wore ivory silk satin, and antique rosepoint lace bordering her veil. She carried a prayer book covered with miniature gardenias and sprayed with lilies of the valley.

Mrs. Stanley Sherman Burns, Jr., of St. Louis, was matron of honor. Attendants were Miss Lorraine Graham Bacon, Washington, D . C ; Mrs. Gerald Ryan McGuire, New York; Mrs. James Tate Cockrill, Norfolk, and Mrs. John Hugh Norwood, of Rye, N . Y. Dr. Sterling Brownlee Brinkley of New Haven was best man, and ushers were Dr. Ronald Cooke, Windsor, Conn.; Dr. Armin Darmstaetter, Detroit; Mr. Berrien Eaton, Jr., and Mr. Donald Thurber, Grosse Pointe, Mich.; Mr. Stephen Barker, Garden City, and Mr. Schuyler Van Ingen, Yonkers, N . Y. The reception was held in Alumni House, with Captain and Mrs. Ross assisting in the hospitalities. Following a wedding trip to Bermuda, rhe couple will be at home in Rochester, Minn., where Dr. Horning is a fellow in neurosurgery at the Mayo Foundation.

BETROTHED From the West Coast comes word from Capt. Elwood M. Tillson, USN, and Mrs. Tillson of the engagement of their daughter, Susan, to Lt. Lewis William Metzger III, USN, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis W . Metzger, Jr., of Philadelphia. T h e announcement was made known at a small family dinner held in the Tillsons' quarters at Yerba Buena Island, where Capt. Tillson is in command of the receiving station. Until recently, they lived in Annapolis for many years.

Miss Tillson is a graduate of Mary Washington College of the University of Virginia, Fredericksburg, Va. In her senior year in 1946 she was selected May Queen. She was presidenr of the service sorority, Tau Omicron Phi, until moving to California, and last season had a leading role in the Navy Relief Show, "Blithe Spirit."

Lieut. Metzger is a graduate of the U. S. Naval Academy, Class of 1943. He is a naval aviator, at present stationed at Glenview, 111.

T h e wedding will take place early in June.

At a cocktail party held Saturday, 10 April, in the Carlton Hotel, Washington, D . C , Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Edward O'Toole announced the engagement of their daughter. Miss Katherine W o o d O'Toole, to Comdr. Carl Redmond Dwyer, U S N , the son of Mrs. Stephen L. Dwyer of Ponca City, Okla., and the late Mr. Dwyer.

T h e bride-elect attended the Convent of the Sacred Heart, Georgetown Visitation Convent and King-Smith Studio School in Washington, and Harcum Junior College in Bryn Mawr, Pa. Comdr. Dwyer was graduated from the U. S. Naval Academy, Class of 1938, and is now an instructor in the Department of Electrical Engineering. H e is officer representative for the cross-countty team. Before coming to Annapolis, he attended Oklahoma A. & M. College, Stillwater, Okla, During the war he was in the submarine service.

The wedding will take place 22 May at 3:30 P. M. in St. Matthews Cathedral, Washington.

Mr. and Mrs. Dallas H . Moore of Salisbury, Md., announce the engagement of their daugh-

ter, Doris Faye, to Lt. Frank Clyde D u n h a m , J r , U S N , the son of Capt. and Mrs. F. C. Dunham of Washington, D . C.

Mrs. Stout, and Capt. Basil N . Rittenhouse, executive officer, and Mrs. Rittenhouse.

Lt. D u n h a m is attached to the Executive Department of the Naval Academy and is officer in charge of the band. H e attended the Naval Academy, George Washington University and is a graduate of Harvard University, 1942. During the war he served aboard the USS ARKANSAS in both Atlantic and Pacific waters.

The wedding will take place in May in Salisbuty.

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GOINGS ON Reat Admiral Harvey E. Overesch, USN( R e t . ) , former commandant of midshipmen, and Mrs. Overesch will return from Florida the end of this month and will open their home on Hanover Street.

Capt. Petersen also cited a letter from rhe Chief of Naval Personnel complimenting the Naval Station on its high-grade educational services.

Lt. Comdr. Hoffman is Educational Services Officer and Head of the Naval Station's Training and Welfare Department.

Rear Admiral James L. Holloway, Jr., Commandant of the Severn River Naval Command, inspected rhe new enlisted men's Recreation Lounge and noted the progress made on rhe new commissary store. Accompanying him were Capt. Petersen, Capt. J. R. Wallace, Chief of Staff to Admiral Holloway; Capt.

J. R. Perry, officer in charge of Public Works, and Comdr. D . I. Thomas, execurive officer of the Naval Station.

T h e opening of the lounge in the North Severn Enlisred Men's Homoja Village was celebrated informally on the evening of 2 April, when informal dancing was enjoyed to the music of the Naval Academy orchestra.

On 2 April, the venerable coxswain and carpenter's mate ratings—Navy standbys for 151 years—passed out of existence, along with several others in the new rating strucmre. The change called for absorprion of 198 current ratings into 77. Others to disappear were the bugler, water tender, ship fitter and signalman. N e w ratings include engineman ( E N ) , damage controlman ( D C ) , and underwater mechanic ( U M ) .

Bureau of Personnel has announced that applications now are being accepted for a fouryear scholarship at Rensselaer Polytechnic Instimte, Troy, N . Y. Those applying must be sons of officers, warrant officers, petty officers or non-commissioned officers, active or retired, of the Navy or Marine Corps. Sons of deceased personnel also are eligible.

Mrs. Joseph Valiant was hostess at a luncheon on Thursday; 8 April, in Carvel Hall for Mrs. Edmund B. Taylor who is the guest of her son and daughter-in-law, Capt. and Mrs. Edmund B. Taylor, Jr., of Porter Road.

Guests included Mrs. Jesse R. Wallace, Mrs. Richard S. Craighill, Mrs. Robert Jones, Mrs. Byron L. Gurnette, Mrs. Wells Field, and Miss Jean Battelle.

Lt. Comdr. and Mrs. Roberr Penington were hosts at cocktails on Sunday, 17 April, in their Perry Circle quarters, for members of the varsity football staff and heads of the Athletic Department.

On deck were Capt. and Mrs. Edmund B. Taylor, Capt. and Mrs. Thomas J. Hamilton, Mr. and Mrs. Edgar E. Miller, Mr. and Mrs. George Sauer, Mr. and Mrs. Bob Ingalls, Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Swarrz, Mr. and Mrs. Vic Bradford and Ensign and Mrs. Ben Martin.

Capt. Arthur D . Condon, USN- ( R e t . ) , and Mrs. Condon of London-Town-Terrace on South River entertained at cocktails at the Statler Hotel in Washington the night of Samrday, 3 April, after which the party attended the dinner given by the W o m e n ' s National Press Club for President and Mrs. Truman. Mrs. Condon is a member of the club.

Guests of the Condons were Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court and Mrs. Stanley Reed, Senator and Mrs. Owen Brewster of Maine, Mr. Carroll Reece, chairman of the Republican National Committee, and Mrs. Reece; Mr. and Mrs. Alfons B. Landa, Mrs. Gouverneur Hoes and Mr. Graham Edwards. Mr. Landa is a law partner of former Ambassador Joseph E. Davies.

Mrs. H . B. Cutting of Essex Falls, N . Y., was a guest this month of her son and daughter-in-law. Prof, and Mrs. James R. Cutting of Southgate Avenue.

Guests for a fortnighr of Capt. and Mrs. R. S. Quackenbush, Jr., of Northwest Street, were Mrs. P. S. Harward and young daughter, who arrived from Blackfoot, Idaho. They are en route to Africa where they will join Lt. Harward, USN. Officers and instruaors in the Department of Seamanship and Navigation met for cocktails and dinner the ni^ht of Thursday, 8 April, in the North Severn Officers' Club.

Comdr. Ross E. Freeman, Comdr. F. D .

Michael and Comdr. K. I. C. Keepers were in charge of arrangements.

Specially invited guests were Rear Admiral and Mrs. James L. Holloway, Jr., Capt. Richard F. Stout, head of the department, and

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SEVERN

A letter of commendation has been extended to Lt. Comdr. Charles A. Hoffman, U S N R . by Capt. Wallis F. Petersen, USN, Commanding Officer of the Naval Station, for the improvement in the station newspaper, "Severn Soundings," and for the excellence of the educational services program in the operation of the station. The paper recently received commendation notice from the Ship's Editorial Association (SEA) in its recent issue of the "Sea Clipper."

A Report to the Members of t h e A l u m n i (Continued from page 35) W e have two-thirds of the amount necessary to purchase the beautiful and appropriate chandelier for this room. The Classes of '16 and '19 have contributed this amount.

Drawing Room—(also known as Memorial R o o m ) — E x c e p t for the beautiful secretary, this room has been furnished and finished in toto by the Class of 1907. The secretary is an indefinite loan by Capt. Henry T. Read, U S N - ( R e t . ) of California. T h e rug is a dark red and b l u e ' k e s h a n . Drapes are red and furniture is upholstered in red, green and white. Note the beautiful and appropriate chandelier.

Card Room—This is the room formerly occupied as the Executive Directors' office.

T h e fine card table is a loan gift from Bill

Strahley. The piano is a gift from "Spiv" Cunningham of '20. The beautiful large table is a loan from Mrs. Valiant. Other furniture in the room is "interim" furniture.

Library—(formerly known as the Board R o o m ) — T h e table is a rebuilt old table, the work being done by our own volunteer people.

The rug is a gift from Mrs. "Pal" Lamar Meadows ("Pal" was from 1 9 1 7 ) . The large and beautiful mahogany oak bookcase is a loan from "Hooley" Gearing. Mrs. "Vic" Blakeslee (widow of Vic of 1920) donated and marked the books and also donated numerous temporary bookcases. Other items in the room were purchased and, in the case of the chairs, refinished. This room is very comfortable and, aside from repainring and replacing the temporary bookcases, needs little to make it permanently satisfactory.

Library Annex—This room will be completed as a library annex and reading room, lr is planned when funds become available to install two large bookcases in this room and make it a comfortable place to read or wait.

The large square table was made from rhe residue of the library table. The clock is a gift from the estate of Commodore Lloyd of 1878.

An appropriate rug ( 9 ' by 12' or 12' by 15') is needed for this room and the card room below it. W e feel that with this and the two bookcases mentioned above we could make this room very usable and attractive.

Office—Recently the Executive Director and office staff were moved into the room over the Ballroom in the interests of greater efficiency and a more concenrrated operation.

Two other rooms on the second floor and a double room on the third are used for office purposes.

Hallway-Main (1st and 2d Floors)—Much is yet to be done on this area. W e have largely improvised, and borrowed from other parts of the house or from members to put in the furniture now there. The grandfather's clock is an indefinite loan from Sam Foster. T h e stair mirror we own. The Richmond sofa is a gift from Mrs. "Vic" Blakeslee. Other items have been loaned to us by Comdr. and Mrs'.

Schamyl Cochrane. W e need a "runner", hall furnimre, a desk for our hostess and a rug.

Galley—We have a small room off the Game Room designated as the Galley. It contained an ice box and we have recently bought an electric stove for it. W e are not yet able to prepare meals but this enables us at times to prepare sandwiches and coffee. At a later date we hope to improve this facility to a point where we may serve light meals and sandwiches.

The Score In the spirir of letting you know where you stand it is proper to say that the above represents an increase in the assets of the Association of between $15,000 and $20,000. For no expenditure of Association Funds or normal income. Don't let that slow your interest though, as we are about halfway to the goal line.

Thanks To all those who have responded to our tarpaulin muster.

T o all those who have sent in cash, furniture or orher gifts.

To all those who have helped us with manual labor of one sort or another.

To "Tommy Vinson" of '14 for many hours' work repairing chairs.

To all those who have loyally patronized and supporred Alumni House.

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brook, Long Island, N. Y., died suddenly on 22 March 1948 in New York City. He was an active member of the New York Produce Exchange with the firm of Movies and Davis (John Davis also of the Class of 1924).

He served throughout the past World War HERBERT HARLAN MICHAEL, '04, while his first tour of duty was as fitst officer (Capt. USN-Ret.). Died after a long illness on the USS WILLIAMSBURG in Iceland from at the U. S. Naval Hospital, Brooklyn, as the resvdt af a stroke. He was born in Maryland December 1941 until October 1942. Subsein 1881. He graduated from the United States quently, he convoyed in the Atlantic for duraNaval Academy in 1904. During World War tion of the war in command of the P. C. 595, I he served in the destroyer force. His last served as executive officer aboard the USS active duty before retirement in 1939 was MooRE and was in command of the USS FOWLER (DE 222) and also the J. FRED TALcommand of the cruiser PENSACOLA. BOT. At the end of the war he served as execA New York funeral service, conducted utive officer to Capt. Royal B. Stevens, USNR, by the Rev. Samuel Shoemaker, was held in who was in command of the Separation Center the Calvary Episcopal Church on 19 February. at 33 Pine St., New York City. After his disInterment was in the family plot at Perryman, charge in August 1946 he received training in Md., on Samrday, 21 February. Honorary pallthe firm which had been formed in 1939. bearers were Admiral William F. Halsey, Rear He is survived by his wife, and three sons Admiral Frederick E. McMillen, Supply Corps, USN; Capt. Paul P. Blackburn, USN, by a former marriage. and Capt. William Slattery, USN. Surviving Captain Michael are his wife, Jane, of 60 Grammercy Park West, New York City, and a son, 22, Peter Michael, of Chicago.

Spindrift Capt. Howard Michael, Medical Corps, USN(Ret.), is a brother of the deceased.

(Continued from, page 33) HENRY SAMSON, '14, (R. Adm. USNRet).

Died 25 March 1948 in the Lynn (Mass.) Hospital, of lobar pneumonia. source material, but try as he might, he could E'VERETT H. STILL, '26, (Capt. USN- not remember a single name which appeared Ret.). Died 20 February 1948 in North Ar- in her bibliography. lington, Va., of disease.

The silence grew more ominous. He could STUYVESANT FISH MORRIS III, '24, see the question forming on the prof's lips, (Lt. Cdr. USNR), of 185 Atlantic Ave., Syn- as to how he could present such a detailed

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description of his theme without listing a single authority. All seemed lost when one faint memory popped into his mind. Yes, by golly, he could recall one, but only one, name in the girl's bibliography.

A self-satisfied smirk crossed his face as he exclaimed in a loud and clear voice, "Well, Sir, I have taken most of my matetial from just one author, a Mr. Ibid."

Athletics (Continued from page 37) tion, and number-two team last year. Othet strong matches will be with Harvard, Yale, Cornell, North Carolina, and Army. Except for the Yale match at New Haven, the Colmnbia match at New York City, and the Army match at West Point, Navy will face all opponents on the Naval Academy courts.

The Middies have met three opponents this spring and the results are as follows: Navy 1

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TRACK The Naval Academy track team enters the spring season wirh almost no veterans returning. The past two graduations have taken

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their toll of the Navy squad. Such reliable men as BiU Kash, Art Bigley, and Bill Jesse are but a few of the stalwarts who helped the Navy team take so many meets in the past.

Dick Ambrogi, Jim Murray teaming up with newcomers Bob Schwoefferman and Smiley Dorris hope to bring victory in the dashes. The mile run will be handled by Jim Oberholtzer who showed up very well in this past indoor season'. Jim broke the existing record at the Norrh Carolina Invitational meet held at Chapel Hill this past February. In the hurdles we will see veterans Dean Ousterhout, Bob Berggren, and Chuck Braley. John Davis and Phil Brannon should do well in the high jump. George Siri, Newbold Smith, Bimbo Beeler, and John Barrow will wear the Blue and Gold in the field events. Graduates from last year's plebe squad, Frank Raab, Jim Kennedy and Buck Knapp should show promise.

The Middies opened their season on 10 April with a loss to Maryland by the score of 77 to 49. After this meet they will compete against Manhattan College, "Villanova, Duke, and North Carolina in dual competition, and participate in the Penn Relays and Heptagonal meet, before closing with Army at West Point on 29 May. GOLF With four matches already under their belt the Middle golfers are rounding into shape for the strong competition that will be coming up from now until the end of the season, which will include the Eastern Intercollepiate Championships.

The results of the matches played this spring are listed below: Navy Opponent 2 Cornell University 7 6V2 Cornell University IVi 6 Dartmouth College 2 8 Univ. of Virginia 1

Frank J. Coulter '39, Robert'P. Norton '44.

Any Alumnus residing in this area who does not now receive notices of our meetings may be included on our mailing list by phoning your Secretary, University 0757.

C. R. LAMDIN,

Secretary

COLORADO The arrival in Denver, Colorado of the "NAVY BLUES" basketball team together with the unheralded presence of Captain Tom Hamilton USN, was sufficient incentive to call a special meeting on short notice of the local Naval Academy Alumni Ass'n Chapter.

We had an interesting meeting. Captain Hamilton had asked to get together several of his old shipmates who were associated with him during World War II who are now engaged in civilian pursuits in this area, in order to have the alumni meet them.

Our meeting was at the Denver Naval Officers' Qub at the Park Lane Hotel. The guests present were: Captain Tom Hamilton USN (1947), Director of Athletics USNA; Mr. B. Carnevale, Coach of Basketball at USNA; Mr. Fritz Brennecke, Coach at Colo. School of Mines; Mr. C. H. Kellogp, Coach at Regis H. S. Denver; Mr. L. C. Butler, Coach at Colo. St. College; Mr. John H. Mason, Dave Cook Sporting Goods Co., Denver; Mr. J. J. Verlee, Veterans Administration, Denver; Mr. A. L. Place, Denver Schools; Mr. C. F. Barnhart, Reserve; Ensign H. R. Duden USN (1947), Member of "Navy Blues" B. B. Team; Ensign K. L. Shugart USN (1948a), Member of "Navy Blues" B. B. Team.

He touched upon the high standard of competition that the U. S. N. A. will continue to meet in football and urged that the local alumni become active in trying to obtain the best local talent interested in the Naval Academy in order to make a strong team worthy to represent the Navy against such strong and tough competition. He set Colorado's quota at two top-notch men a year and pointed out the selling points to give prospective and likely candidates.

Following Captain Hamilton's remarks there followed a short discussion; questions were asked about the organization of the Navy Athletic Association and its relation to the Alumni Association; why the two should not be amalgamated to reduce expense and permit the payment of one annual dues for both. This was suggested as the ideal way but doubt was expressed as to the feasibility of accomplishing the project. Captain Hamilton explained the formation and object of the U. S. N. A. Alumni Foundation and reasons for its being. He explained why there was a limitation on the membership in the Athletic Association. The entire meeting was enjoyed by all.

The meeting adjourned at 10:15 p.m.

ELMER F. HELMKAMP,

Secretary & Treasurer

DETROIT

The Detroit Branch, U.S.N.A.A.A. held its regular monthly dinner meeting 18 March.

The installation of the 1948 officers was the highlight of the evening. Mr. D. C. Wilkerson, '20, President, presided.

Final tabulation brought the following Members of Denver Alumni Chapter members into office: Frank R. Davis, '24, present: President; David C. Miller, '34, Vice PresiJ. M. Lewis (1930) Pres.; R. T. Zinn dent; John J. Brennan, '43, Secretary-Treas(1922) V. Pres.; R. N. Allen (1925); W. J. urer.

Bain (1934); H. R. Brannon (1932); W. Dan Wilkerson was given a rising vote of E. Dillon (1921); B. P. Montagriff (1926); thanks for his untiring efforts in holding the E. P. Miles (1926); J. L. Raichle (1921); group together during the war years. Plans P.V.Sullivan (1919); G. E. Tarbox (1925); for the Annual Dinner of the joint Alumni G. L. Todd (1925); A. L. Cohen (1944); Associations of West Point and Annapolis A. G. Stiles (1930); H. A. Berger (1924); were discussed.

E. F. Helmkamp (1920), Sec. & Treas.

On 2 April the Annual Dinner of the joint After a few preliminary remarks by our Alumni Associations of West Point and Anpresident and the introduction of our guests. napolis was held at the University Club in BALTIMORE Captain Hamilton gave us an interesting talk. Detroit. Dan Wilkerson reigned as Navy The regular monthly turnout of the Balti- He stressed the need for the outlying alumni Toastmaster while Darwin Ferguson served more Branch was held on 16 March at 1830, to sell the Navy locally, to explain what it in the same capacity for the Army. The evein the Stafford Hotel. Captain Freddie Bell, stands for and what it is; to get the Navy ning was accented with speeches from the U;S.N., (Ret.), who has recently come into more firmly rooted in all the states of the oldest graduates of each of the Institutions, our midst, we hope permanently, addressed Union. He pointed out that the effort of the Allen Rutter U.S.N.A., '11 and Col. J. F. the members present with some wartime Navy in getting this representative basketball Gohn, U.S.M.A., '98. Many old friendships reminiscences from the Pacific Theatre. Thank team from the entire service to compete for were renewed and it was generally agreed you Freddie, and may we often have the the Olympic berth was a forerunner of pre- that this was one of the finest meetings we've senting to the youth of the nation the nature held. pleasure of your company. and importance of athletics in building up The following Alumni attended; Allan A. Members present were: the nation and making it more attractive to Rutter, '11; Edward W. Wunch, '18; Fred (Guests) those who are interested in the U. S. N. A. W. Beltz, '19; Robert G. Waldron, '19; Mr. Craig E. Taylor, Cmdr. R. B. Cop- He indicated that the entire alumni organiza- Daniel C. Wilkerson, '20; Gerald W. Fauth, pinger, USNR, Cmdr. E. H. Cole, USNR, tion practically went out of being or their '21; Capt. C. E. Smith, '21; Capt. J. S. FitzMr. L. P. Kooken. activities were greatly curtailed during the gerald, '23; Donald W. Fairbairn, '24; Frank recent war and urged a strong comeback to R. Davis, '24; Capt. David G. Roberts, '25; (Alumni) Christopher A. Russell '06, M. A. Leahy build up our alumni into vital chapters in Capt. Clifford S. Cooper, '27; Raymond A. '08, M. D. Gilmore '11, C. R. Lamdin (secty) an effort to strengthen not only our Navy Black, '27; Donald H. Johnson, '27; Joseph A. Schulte, '30; Capt. W. T. Nelson, '30 '21, Clayton Demarest '19, J. S. Harrison '21, but our National security.

John T. Waldhauser '23, Roger Phillips '24, He indicated how, with a mutual under- Roy F. Leverenz, '33; Stuart P. Miller, '34 John Davis '24, J. R. Downs '24, F. t . Bell standing of each other's problems, our local David C. Miller, '34; Paul D. Richmond, '42 '24, D. J. Fitzgerald '27, H. R. England '27, Reserve officers could help and how we in John J. Brennan, '43; Walter J. Toner, '43 H. B. Atwood '27. W. B. Bristor '27, F. turn could assist them and expressed the hope Jos. L. Whiriey, '44; William A. Glaser, '46 G. Wagner '30, F. A. Weiss, Jr. '30, Edw. that the ties between us would grow stronger Leon J. Jacobi, '21.

G. EUenberger '34, Wm. M. Reindollar '39, and become more beneficial.

The next regular meeting will be held 6

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May, and we ate hoping for a large turnout.

Anyone who attended the Naval Academy, now residing in this vicinity, and not on our mailing list should contact any of the following officers: Frank R. Davis, 1600 W . 8 Mile Road (Ethyl C o r p . ) , David C. Miller, 20413 Stratford, or John J. Brennan, 2227 Baldwin Ave. J. J.

BRENNAN,

Secretary-Treasurer

DENVER The Denver Association of Grsduatfs of the U. S. Military Academy and the U. S. Naval Academy held a joint meeting to celebrate the unification of the Armed Forces.

It was a grand session. Dinner was served in the Crystal Room of the Cosmopolitan Hotel, Denver, Colo. The meeting was 9 9 % social, a short business session of the Army taking about 1 Cf of the time, during which it was suggested by the new U.S.M.A. President that we have not only an annual meeting but several joint sessions throughout the year in order to get better acquainted. The suggestion was unanimously adopted, the details to be left to the officers of the respeaive chapters.

Following a toast to the U. S. Naval Academy proposed by the oldest class representative present from West Point ( H . S. Kilbourne, '03 ) , which was matched by a similar toast to U. S. Military Academy proposed by Comdr. R. B, Horner, '07, of the Navy, the introduction of those present was made by classes as names were already printed on the menu.

A few remarks by the respective presidents were made. Maj. Gen. Leon W . Johnson, '26, was then personally introduced and he made a short informal talk on the present condition of training and work of the Air Force, particularly as it pertained to Alaska and the Polar regions.

It was a good get-together; new contacts were made and it was an excellent opportunity to discuss informally mutual problems.

During the dinner and throughout the course of the evening many incidents in past A.-N. football games were re-played and anecdotes re-hashed about "the good old days when. " etc.

A delightful time was had bv all and all hands are looking forward to our next joint session.

The spirit of friendship and congeniality that existed throughout the meeting showed that at least rhe D E N V E R chapters are getting together, and will weld a fine organization together.

LOS

ANGELES

The Los Angeles Chapter held its regular meeting on 3 March 1948, at Allen Center, Long Beach Naval Base, Calif.

Approximately 60 were in attendance.

Rear Adm. Paul Hendren, Class of 1913, Operating Base, Long Beach, our guest speaker of the evening, gave a very interesting talk on the operations of the Mediterranean Fleet under his command at Sicily and Salerno.

Capt. B. K. Culver, director of the R.O.T.C. at U.S.C, and Vice-President E. A. Teague discussed the award, which consisted of a very beautiful cup, displayed at this meeting.

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a brief case a n d / o r pen and pencil set be awarded annually to those who achieved the highest marks in the R O T C units in Naval Science and aptitude. The gold-plated cup was engraved with the academic seal and had the following inscription: "Presented by the L. A. Chapter of the U.S.N.A.A." to the outstanding midshipman of Naval R O T C unit whose name will be engraved on this cup. The cup will be in the possession of the University of So. California and U.C.L.A., alternating each year, and will be on display in their Trophy Rooms.

Attention was also directed to the Engineering Societies Personnel Service, Inc., I l l W . 7th St., Los Angeles, relative to contacts for employment or betterment change.

A steak dinner, with additional drinks on the house, was enjoyed; also the usual reminiscences and elbow bending at the sand bar.

Your letter of 8 March was received and we note we are entitled to only one trustee.

The selection of trustee by the Los Angeles Section was made at our February meeting, and you were so notified of the results of our selection in our letter of 12 February which was in answer to your wire of 9 February.

In the minutes of our meeting—the nomination of Robert Henderson, 1902, was made and on motion duly seconded, and carried unanimously. Mr. Henderson was chosen as trustee to serve as West Coast trustee from the Los Angeles Section.

Through the courtesy of the Commandant, two very excellent movies were shown which pave a vivid description of submarine operations in Oriental waters, also "Operations cross-roads," covering Bikini Atomic Bomb project.

Capt. Culver also discussed the Holloway plan and its relation to the N R O T C .

The subject of the Merchant Marine and its relationship to our Navy, in cooperation with the Calif. Maritime Academy, was discussed relative to our helping to obtain the proper type of candidates for merchant marine cadets.

R.

McC

BEANFIELD.

President

NEW

YORK

The monthly luncheon of the Association was held at Schwartz's Restaurant, 56 Broad Street, New York, N . Y., on Tuesday, 9 March 1948.

There were 119 members present at the luncheon which started at 12:35 P. M. During the course of the luncheon, the nominations of the Executive Committee for new officers and division leaders were presented and accepted by the members by unanimous vote.

The nominations being completed, the members were requested to vote—the following members of the Association were elected to office: President: Walter E. D i t m a r s — 1929. c/o Gray Manufacturing Co., 230 Park Ave., New York 17, N . Y. Vice President: Calvert Carey—1914, c/o Yale and Towne Manufacturing, 405 Lexington Ave., N e w York 17, N . Y. Treasurer: Fred C. Billing—1925, c/o J. P. Morgan Co., 23 Wall St., New York 5, N . Y. Secretary: Mr. George F. Chapline—1916, c/o Ranger Aircraft Engine Division, Farmingdale, Long Island, N . Y: Group Leader Division 1, all classes up to and including 1907: Mr. Logan Cresap—

1905, 71 Broadway, Room 305, New York b, N . Y. Group Leader Division 2, Classes 19081913, incl: Evan Rinehart—1908, c/o JohnsManville Corp., 22 East 40th St., New York, 16, N . Y. Group Leader Division 3, Classes 19141917, incl; C. C. Vickery—1915, 1 Cedar St., N e w York 5, N . Y. Group Leader Division 4, Classes 19181921, incl: Alexander C Kidd—1918, 150 East 50th St., New York, N . Y. Group Leader Division 5, Class of 1922: John Waidlich—1922, do American Telephone and Telegraph Co., 195 Broadway, New York - , N . Y. Group Leader Division 6, Classes 19231925, i n d : S. F. Morris—1924, 185 Atlantic Ave., Lynbrook, Long Island, N . Y. G r o u p Leader Division 7, Classes 19261933, incl: C. G. Summers—1926, c/o Leeds & Northrup Co., 60 East 42nd St., New York, N . Y. Group Leader Division 8, Classes 19341939, incl: H. C. Corbin—1934, do Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey, 26 Broadway, New York, N . Y. Group Leader Division 9, Class of 1940 and later: John C. Barron—1945, 162 East 86th St., N e w York 28, N . Y. In view of the fact that Mr. Chapline is located in Farmingdale, Long Island, Mr. John C. Barron is to remain on as Assistant Secretary. H e will continue to distribute and receive correspondence pertaining to the monthly luncheons, changes of address, etc.

Mr. J u p p extended his thanks to all members of the organization for their confidence and trust during his terms of office. He congratulated Mr. Ditmars on being elected to the office of President—^and then invited the newly-elected officers to take their places at the head table.

Mr. Ditmars took over the meeting and expressed his pleasure on being elected. He then introduced our guest st>eaker, Mr. Thomas J. Dodd.

Mr. Dodd's talk was very well received.

He gave his views on the First Nuernberg Trials and presented a first-hand account on the personalities of the defendants.

Those in attendance were: Class of ' 8 2 : Rear Adm. W . B. Fletcher; '86: Capt. George F. Cooper; ' 9 8 : Capt.

Charles Boone; ' 0 5 : Mr. Glenn O. Carter, Comdr. Logan Cresap, Capt. C. H. Shaw; '06: Capt. Henry Martin Jensen; ' 0 7 : Mr. C. A. Dunn; ' 0 8 : .Rear Adm. T. J. Keleher, Adm. Thomas C. Kinkaid. Evan Rinehart; ' 1 2 : Capt.

L. P. WenzeU; ' 1 3 : Lt. Comdr. W . B. Jupp; '14: Caot. M. L. Worrell, Mr. Calvert Carey; '15 : Mr. C. C. Vickrey, Commo. A. G. Quynn; '16: Capt. George F. Chapline; ' 1 7 : Lawrence Wainwright; ' 1 8 : Capt. F. S. Gibson, Mr. Alexander C. Kidd; ^19: Mr. William B. Cooley, Mr. Carl Lamb; ' 2 0 : Capt. Drayton Harrison, Mr. E. W . Mantel, Mr. Peyton K. Royal, Mr. B. Talbott; ' 2 1 : Capt. W . E.Sullivan; ' 2 2 : Comdr. Harrv G. Garrison; ' 2 3 : Mr. W . J. Price, Mr. A.' E. Moss; ' 2 4 : S. F. Morris, Mr. Boyd E. Wilson; '25 : Mr. Charles S. Silsbee, T. H. Mitchell, Fred C. Billing; '26: Clarence G. Summers; ' 3 0 : Mr. D. E. Dallman; ' 3 1 : Mr. Herbert Levenson, Lt. Cdr. A. A. Denton; ' 3 5 : Lt. Cdr. H. L. Muller; '36: Mr. Calvin H. Lawrence, Mr. Logan Cresap, Jr.; ' 3 9 ; Paul Krez; ' 4 1 : Mr. C. B. Wise; ' 4 3 : Mr. Wallace K e m p Ponder, Mr. A. K. Leichtman; ' 4 4 : H. B. Fowler; ' 4 5 : Mf. Stan-

ley Hirsch. John C. Barron; ' 4 6 ; Mr. Richard Geaney.

N o Class Listed; Comdr. J. B. Gilmer, Capt.

C. K. W i l d m a n , Mr. Douglas Hill, Mr. C. L. Anderman. Capt. P. R. Heineman, Commo. H .

W . Graf, H . C. W a s h b u r n , H . W . Haase, Lt. Cdr. C. K. Post, Mr. Auslander, Mr. S. M. Mead, Mr. Mac Sharan, Mr. Carey.

of over half of the members present, although not solicited by Adm. Coney.

W e of the Phila. Ass'n have a real responsibility to the Naval Academy and its Alumni, for Adm. Randall Jacobs, the present Gov. of the Naval Home, has revealed to us.

that the Naval H o m e located in Phila., was the first school for Midshipmen of the U. S. Navy for a number of years prior to the establishment of the Naval School at Ft. Severn, Annapolis. Consequently our prestige from this background in itself demands our

PHIL.4DELPHIA The Philadelphia Association held a meeting 19 March at the Naval Base, a lobster dinner no less. This gathering was marked by the presence of the Executive Director of our National Ass'n, none other than C. E. (Yen) Coney "19. H e favored us with directness in telling "The Facts of Life" about our National Ass'n's financial status and the Status Quo of the Alumni House.

W e were delighted to learn that of the 22,000 living graduates of our illustrious Alma Mater, that perhaps 7,000 were interested in the perpetuance of the Naval Academy Spirit in the form of an Alumni Ass'n. Does this mean that the remaining 15,000 consider their former associates; classmates, teammates and shipmates of so little consequence that they ignore the opportunity to join together on occasion to reclaim the spirit that was once ours at the Navy School?

I think N O T . it is the old human failing I'm afraid—Preoccupation (so called)—that is, everything that is not of the present is really nor worth the effort. Well Hell, all of us suffer from this malady, yet wouldn't our preoccupation take on a savory taste if we recaptured some of the true friends that have just been beyond the brow cf the hill? And recapture is only part, our school graduated men before and after us, certainly there is an opportunity to make new friends.

You Ask: " W h a t can the Alumni Ass'n do for me? ' A logical question, but havin" hinted at that, I prefer an interrogatory answer. W h a t can you do for the Navy and the Naval Academy if you aren't aware of its needs? W h y , for instance, do active duty Officers dot the most part) who wear the Blue and Gold avoid the Alumni Associations? Only a temporary stay, they sav, haven't time to get involved. W o w ! and yet the men out of service are sufficiently interested in what these men work at to come out in an effort to help. Help, you say, in what way? Truly an unenlightened question.

The Navy is a public servanr and yet the strongest public faction able to battle for the Navy are the Naval Academy alumni in private life, don't minimize their importance.

Another sample, close to our hearts, the Naval Academy football team. W e want a winning team you say—correct? Wf'll what have tfe done about it? N o t h i n s . W e now have another f.ne coach who will be in the same boat as any other coach, unless he has material. A few serious minded members of the Alumni Ass'n in th" past and at present are responsible for the introduction of vouna men to the distinct advantages of the Naval Academy education and tb<» Navsl career.

Can you be counted as one of those? I doubt it, there are only a handful, and yet they are doing the job of 22 000 livine graduates who annually sing the "Victory March " The need for a strong National Alumni Ass'n being apparent to those cf the Phila.

Ass'n in attendance at this meeting resulted in an on the spot payment of National dues

MAY,

1948

tHl BALLOT The by-laws require a secret ballot.

(1) Use this ballot. Indicate your preference by marking your choice with an "X" in the proper square.

(2) Place your ballot in an envelope and seal it.

For President n Donald S. Walker, '24, New Yorkj N.Y. For Vice-President (Eastern Area) (Vote for one) • Randall Jacobs, '07, Philadelphia, Pa. n William B. Jupp, '13, New York, N.Y. n H. McCoy Jones, '19, Washington, D.C. • Edgar T. Neale, '24, Atlanta, Georgia.

• George L. Powell, '35, Washington, D.C.

(3) Place this envelope inside an envelope addressed to Executive Director, USNA Alumni Association, Annapolis, Md. (4) On the back of this outer envelope, sign your name and class. Your name and class are absolutely necessary in order to verify the validity of the bal- For Vice-President (Central Area) lot enclosed. Unless this is done, the bal(Vote for one) lot will be thrown out. n A. Arnold Brand, '14, Chicago, 111.

(5) All members of the Naval Acad- • George A. Mattucci, '24, Cleveland, emy Alumni Association are entitled to Ohio. vote.

For Vice-President (Western Area) (6) Voting by proxy is prohibited.

(Vote for one) (7) Ballot must be in the office of • Robert Henderson, '02, Los Angeles, California. the Executive Director, USNA Alumni • John Falge, '12, San Francisco, Calif.

Association, by noon, 15 May 1948.

For Trustee at Large (Vote for four) • • • • • • n • • n • n • • • Q • • • n • •

Sinclair Gannon, '00, Annapolis, Maryland.

Robert Henderson, '02, Los Angeles, California.

Austin S. Kibbee, '03, Boston, Massachusetts.

Harold C. Train, '09, Annapolis, Maryland.

John Falge, '12, San Francisco, California.

A. Arnold Brand, '14, Chicago, Illinois.

Norman O. Wynkoop, '16, New York City, New York.

Edward F. Marbourg,'17, San Francisco, California.

Thomas L. Sprague,'18, Washington,D.C. Arthur S. Adams, '19, Ithaca, New York.

Walter E. Ditmars, '19, New York City, New York.

Robert G. Waldron, '19, Detroit, Michigan.

Daniel C. Wilkerson, '20, Detroit, Michigan.

Renwick S. Mclver, '21, Merion, Pennsylvania.

Francis M. Adams, '22, Atlanta, Georgia.

Clyde W. King, '22, San Francisco, California.

J. Pierre Bernard, '23, Annapolis, Maryland.

George A. Mattucci, '24, Cleveland, Ohio.

Harry N. Lyon, '25, San Francisco, California.

Henry H. Caldwell, '27, Staff, Atlantic Fleet.

Richard P. Wilkinson, '27, Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania.

Ben Martin, '46, Annapolis, Maryland.

Send ballot to: Executive Director, USNA Alumni Association, Annapolis, Md. 61

being the first and foremost in backing the National Alumni Ass'n, which is our intention.

Those in attendance at this meeting were: Randall Jacobs, '07, Scott G. Lamb, '19, C. E. Coney, '19, E. Friedman, '19, G. L. McEntee, '35, J. J. Ilseman, '24, R. N. S. Baker, '15, D. Royce, '14, B. P. Johnson, '20, J. B. Donnelly, '20, J. E. Boak, '14, J. E. Jackson, J. C. Snyder, '30, R. B. Parker, '18, G. Fulton, '12, A. M. Cohen, '07, T. M. Searles, '13, J. H. Hoffman, '13, H. N. Paul, '22, E. C. Kline, '21, C. Wm. Duncan, '21, W. C. Bobbitt, '21. W. Van C. Brandt, '13, H. C. Aller, '20, J. H. Hunter, '19, H. C. Transue, '37, J. H. Long, '25, E. B. Garrigues, •25, Welsford, '24, E. N. Leonard, '26, W. R. Leahy, '44, J. R. Allen, Jr., '44, T. M. Searles, Jr., '44, H. G. Carlson, '40, W. Walker, Jr., '40, T. C. A. Duncan, '33, C. L. John, '40, John Milburn, '27, R. P. Wilkinson, '27, M. J. Drury, '25, A. J. Fleming, '24, F. S. Peddle, '23, R. S. Mclver, '21.

The first President was Mr. H. W. Gartley of new Officers and Directors, the Associa'81 and Admiral Grant served as the first tion once more got under way on a schedule of secretary. The Admiral faithfully kept a log regular monthly dinner meetings during the of the proceedings of every meeting, and a year except during the summer months of record of those who attended, and woe it July and August. These meetings were held was to any Naval Academy man in Philadel- for a while at some hotel or restaurant in the phia who failed to attend the meetings with- central part of the city, but later they were out a good reason for his absence. transferred to the Officers Mess at the Naval The objectives of the Association adopted Base.

The monthly get together meetings have were as follows: (a) To foster and perpemate among all been of interest to a large percentage of our Naval Academy men in Philadelphia and Alumni living in Philadelphia and vicinity vincinity, the pleasant associations and mem- as it gives them an oppormnity to meet old ories incident to their common service in the friends and classmates, to renew old acquaintances and make new ones. But, one aaivity Navy. (b) To establish and maintain close and of our Philadelphia Association that has been cordial relations with the U.S.N.A. Graduates of interest and service to the Alumni in genAssociation and other U.S.N.A. Alumni As- eral and their friends has been the cocktail sociations. To this end, meetings shall be parties held each year after the Army-Navy Game. Many thousands of Naval Academy held at stated times.

Alumni and their friends from many sections (c) To promote the interests of the Naval of the country have been the welcome guests Academy and the Navy. of the Philadelphia alumni on these occasions. (d) To promote the welfare of the memThe Philadelphia Branch of the U. S. Naval J. R. ALLEN, JR., bers. Our Association has a committee which Secretary acts through the Secretary, the function of Academy Alumni Association has rightfully earned an enviable reputation in promoting which is to help unemployed men obtain the interests of the Naval Academy and the HISTORY OF positions. Those interested in this work should Navy.

And we pay our admiration and respect THE UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY communicate at once with the Secretary who to the men who pioneered and founded our ALUMNI ASSOCIATION keeps a file of available positions, also of those Association—most of them have reported to OF PHILADELPHIA men who wish to make a change. the Great Admiral on High. They were all (e) To keep a roster of names of the Naval imbued with that great "indefinable someBY W . V A N C. BRANDT, Academy men residing in Philadelphia and thing" that is inspired into the hearts and Comdr. USNR (Inactive) vicinity. beings of every loyal son who has been The keel for the Association of Naval Membership privileged to attend our Naval Academy, that Academy Alumni in Philadelphia was laid in (a) MEMBERS: Any person residing in "Navy Spirit" which once acquired is never November 1912 when a local group of alumni arranged for a dinner to which all Naval Philadelphia or vicinity, who having attended lost, and goes with one to his grave. They did Academy men living in and about Phila- the U. S. Naval Academy as a regularly ap- their bit to foster and perpemate among all delphia were invited. The dinner was held pointed Cadet or Midshipman, is in active Naval Academy Alumni in and around Philaat the University Club, and those responsible service or retired, or who has honorably delphia, the pleasant associations and memfor the affair were: Captain (later Rear severed his connections with the Navy, may ories incident to their common service in the Admiral) A. W. Grant '77, Mr. H. W. be an active member of this Association, ipso Navy. And we, who now carry on, can do no Gartley '81, Dr. G. C. Stout '83, Mr. Edward facto, and without election. better than to follow their lead.

Davis '84 and Mr. Joseph Powell '97. (b) HONORARY MEMBERS: Any perAbout seventy-five responded to the in- son who is generally known to the members viation and answered mess call, most of those of this Association because of his outstanding SAN FRANCISCO attending being officers on duty at the League service and devotion to the Naval Academy Our regular monthly stag dinner meeting, Island Navy Yard, as in those days there were and the U. S. Navy, may be proposed for relatively few Naval Academy men in civil Honorary Membership. There have been three with Clyde King, 1922, President, presiding, life. However, there were a few civilian honorary members elected to membership in was held on 7 April 1948 at the Commisalumni present and a good time was enjoyed the Association; Commander (now Rear Ad- sioned Officers' Club, U. S. Naval Station, by all. Captain Grant made the address of miral) William Behrens, USN; Mr. S. H. Treasure Island, with an attendance of 91, the evening and told the story of Tecumseh Chauenet and Lt. Comdr. E. H. Dickenson composed of 21 guests, and 70 Alumni. at the Naval Academy. Incidentally, it was the (M.C.) USNR. To celebrate topping the 100-mark in 1948 captain who was responsible for the setting Among the older members of the Associa- paid-up alumni regular members, California up of the original wooden figure at Annap- tion who contributed substantially of their burgundy wine was served. The paid-up regolis, and later it was through his efforts that time, efforts and funds to keep the Association ular members now number 111. The exa class fund was raised and the "God of the active during its earlier days were the follow- chequer is in splendid shape with a cash bal2.5" was duplicated in bronze. ance of $403.04 on hand. ing: Rear Admiral A. D. Grant, USN (Ret.) The 100th alumnus to pay 1948 dues was This 1912 dinner was the forerunner of James C. Van de Carr, '08, who has just purother similar affairs which were held from '77. chased a home at 1808 Silverado Trail, Napa, Mr. W. H. Gartley, '81. time to time, and it therefore marked the after retiring from 2 years' sea-going as master Mr. Edward Davis, '84. beginning of what is now the Philadelphia Captain H. A. Bispham, USN (Ret.) '85. of merchant tankers. His entire 'WW II naval Branch of the U. S. Naval Academy Alumni Comdr. George Breed, USNR (Ret.) '86. service was either at sea or on foreign duty.

Association.

Rear Admiral Elliott Snow, USN (Ret.) With their children married (four grandFollowing the World War I, monthly daughters), Jim and his wife Betty decided luncheons were inaugurated and these very '87.

Rear Admiral D. E. Dismukes, USN (Ret.) to take things easy, but reports say that Jim informal wardroom featherings were held for is working harder now than in twenty—no, several years without any official organization. '90.

The Association held regular monthly forty—years. Nevertheless, we look forward The original group of men were still artive.

Rear Admiral Grant having returned to luncheons or dinners with an annual banquet with pleasant anticipation to his cheery presPhiladelphia following his tour of duty dur- during the period of 1919 to early 1942 in- ence at our First Wednesday dinner meetings.

A toast to Michael S. Boyar, '46. our younging the war as Commander of the U. S. Sub- clusive. Then, due to so many of our memmarine Force. Mr. Gartley, Dr. Stout, Admiral bers going into active war service, the meetings est paid-up alumnus, was proposed by Clyde Grant, Mr. Davis or Capt. Bispham usually were suspended for the duration of World King. Michael was married to Miss Catherine Trihas at San Francisco on 14 March 1948.

War II. presided at the luncheons.

Our guest speaker of the evening was Major In early 1946, as a number of our absentees In 1927 the Association was formally General Thomas G. Hearn, USA-(Ret.), had returned from active service, an organizaorganized, a body of officers and directors USMA 1915, who served as wartime Chief were elected and a constimtion was adopted. tion meeting was held and with the election

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of Staff to General Stilwell in the ChinaBurma-India Theater. His subjea was "The W a r W o r k of General Stilwell in the Orient."

The large attendance bespeaks the interest in the subject matter of those who attended.

The subject was particularly timely, as the war diary of General Stilwell has just been published in the April issue of the Ladies Home Journal.

General Hearn presented the subject in straightforward fashion and held the interest of everyone throughout. Following the talk he answered questions in a highly satisfactory manner. The meeting was brought to a close by giving General Hearn a rising ovation.

The following alumni were present: George M. Baum '04, Roland Riggs '04, H . E. Kays ' 0 5 , C. W . Crosse '07, Ernest F. Buck '08, W . C. Koenig '09, Leo Lindley '09, Percy Northeroft '09, Howard B. Berry '10, Russell C. Ryan '10, E. L. Patch ' 1 1 , Harold Snow ' 1 1 , John Falge '12, George Gillespie '12, Neil Geisenhoff ' 1 3 , H . Watts Pillsbury '13, W . J. Ruble ' 1 3 , Eric Zemke ' 1 3 , C. D .

Swain '14, H . V. Wiley '15, D . Browne '17, Ned Marbourg '17, W . J. Morcott '17, E. M. Senn '17, L. W . Busbey '18, C. C. Carmine '19, Bayard H . Colyear '19, T. J. Griffin '19, A. S. Pitre '19, John R. Redman '19, G. Laurence Schetky '19, Giles E. Short '19, Paul H. Talbot '19, E. Ross Winckler '19, E. H . McMenemy '20, R. S. Morse '20, E. M. Tillson '20, James Coffee Harris ' 2 1 , P. E. Howell ' 2 1 , L. Jessup, Jr., ' 2 1 , L. Johns ' 2 1 , F. A. MacGurn ' 2 1 , C. J. Marshall ' 2 1 , C. J. MeWhinnie ' 2 1 , James Reisinger ' 2 1 , W . F. Ramsey ' 2 1 , Roger Simpson ' 2 1 , T. R. W i r t h ' 2 1 , Ray F. Yager ' 2 1 , H . L. Fudge '22, Clyde King '22, P. D . Parcells '22, Allen V. Bres '23, E. R. Duncan ' 2 3 , Charles Y. Latimer ' 2 3 , Frank Timberlake '25, Harold A. Henry '27, Don Gordon '28, Sam Harrison '28, H . S. Cone '29, A. W . Strahorn '29, Frank Robinson '30, Bill Stewart '30, John Matthews ' 3 1 , Fred Lincoln '36, W . R. Rawie '38, William H. Worden '39, R. A. Mallek '40, Ralph W .

Shearer ' 4 1 , Michael S. Boyar '46.

Our San Francisco stag dinner meetings are held monthly at the Commissioned Officers' Club, Treasure Island, on the first Wednesday of every month. All alumni of the Naval Academy and their friends are cordially invited to attend.

ST. LOUIS The February meeting of the local chapter was held, as usual, at the Mark Twain Hotel.

John Quillian was elected vice-president of our association. According to our by-laws, the council shall consist of eight members and nominations were made and seconded. T h e council now consists of W . P. Kellogg, C. P. Callahan, Jr., John Quillian, William M. Holland, Charles Ashley, Robert Murch, Robert Bentz and Charles L. LaBarge.

Honorary and associate members were voted into our chapter in accordance with the by-laws. Associate members voted on were: Capt. C. F. McNish, Capt. W . F. Veatch, Capt.

C. L. LaBarge, Lt. Col. Marks and Col. Van Ness. Those who were made honorary members were: J. J. Griffin, Col. Isaac Hedges, Joseph F. Holland and Capt. G. F. Schwartz.

Plans for future meetings were discussed and tentatively arranged. The March meeting was to be an evening affair with wives and guests in attendance. The April meeting will

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be a joint affair with the West Point Association in conjunction with joirijt meeting of the National Associations which will be held in N e w York. Capt. C. L. LaBarge has consented to our use of a Marine Chaser or an LCI for a river trip in May. A picnic will be held in J u n e to which wives and guests will be invited. Because of the St. Louis heat in summer months and the difficulty in having a large attendance at meetings there will be no meetings during July and August but the schedule will be resumed in October.

W e regret very much losing Col. Jess Cook who, we think, is the N o . 1 U. S. Marine. H e has been transferred to Washington and certainly their gain is our great loss. H e was very active in our local chapter and is one of those responsible for putting the chapter on its feet. From all of us to him and Mrs. Cook liie best of good fortune.

Comdr. Pat Callahan, Jr., entertained our new coach, George Sauers, when he was in town last month and speaks very highly of him. He seems to think Sauers is the answer to our grid prayers.

T h e St. Louis Chapter, U.S.N.A.A.A., held an extremely interesting dinner meeting at Garavelli's Restaurant in St. Louis. Captain Kellogg called this special meeting for members, their wives and guests when he learned that Capt. Tom J. Kelly, USN, ' 2 1 , was to be in town. Captain Kelly is Assistant Chief to the Chief of Logistics Plans Division of the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations and more recently Naval Liaison Officer to the Congressional Fact-Finding Committee assigned to investigate conditions in Europe and the Middle East.

servations in Germany, Austria, Greece and Turkey and other countries of the Middle East.

H e gave an excellent outline of the oil simation in the Middle East with many interesting anecdotes that amused the ladies.

Captain Kellogg announced plans for future meetings of the St. Louis Chapter as follows: 2 April—^Joint A-N Alumni Associations' meeting at the Officers Club, N A S , St. Louis.

June—a river outing for members and their wives.

July—no meeting.

August—no meeting.

September — a picnic for members and their wives.

It was also noted that the Navy Band will stage a performance in Kiel Auditorium in the near future. T h e last performance given by the band in St. Louis was an outstanding success.

Members, honorary members and their guests present at our 11 March meeting were: Comdr. and Mrs. C. F. Braught, U S N R ; Mr. and Mrs. Tallman; Capt. and Mrs. Ferguson, U S N - ( R e t . ) ; Capt. and Mrs. W . D .

Hoover, USN; Capt. and Mrs. W . P. Kellogg, U S N R - ( R e t . ) ; Capt. and Mrs. J. J. Kelly; Col. and Mrs. R. H . Mayer, AUS; Mr. and Mrs. Hanson; Lt. Cdr. and Mrs. R. Murch, U S N R ; Lt. Cdr. and Mrs. Hensley, U S N R ; Lt. and Mrs. R. F. Deibel, Jr.; Lt. Cdr. and Mrs. A. B. Orthwein, USNR; Lt. Cdr. R. C. Dailey, USN; Col. J. W . Quillian; Cdr. and Mrs. C. L. Stone, USNR; Col. and Mrs. C. P. VanNess, USMC; Mr. and Mrs. G. Sturgeon; Col. J. J. Griffin; Lt. Cdr. and Mrs. S. Wolfe, USNR.

Captain Kelly discussed at length his ob-

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Unification Dinner in Rio T h e graduates of the United States Military Academy and the United States Naval Academy serving in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, following the lead of similar groups in the United States, on the evening of 2 April 1948 held a dinner at the Itanhanga Golf Club, Rio, in celebration of the unification of the U. S. Armed Forces. In the past the graduates of each of the Service Academies normally held separate dinners or other social gatherings in celebration of the founding of their respective alma maters, but this year the newly won unification prompted the joint event.

T h e Rio dinner, a convivial and highly successful affair, was attended by all graduates of the two Academies serving in this area except one, who was unavoidably absent. In addition, one Military Academy graduate in transit was present. The program, which was arranged by Major Wendell P. Knowles, USMA 1941, consisted of cocktails, dinner, presentation of the graduates, and the singing of songs of the two schools. Lt. Col. Walter J. Bryde, USMA 1935, and ex-USNA 1933, was Master of Ceremonies. Talks were made by Maj. Gen. (retired) Walter H. Frank, USMA 1910, presently head of Sears. Roebuck and Co. in Brazil; Maj. Gen. William H. H. Morris, Jr., USMA 1911, Senior U. S. Member of the Joint Brazil-United States Military Commission; Rear Admiral (retired) Paulus P. Powell, U S N A 1913, presently heading Pan American World Airways in Brazil, and Rear Admiral L. P. Lovette, USNA 1918, Chief of the U. S. Naval Mission to Brazil.

The following other graduates of the two academies also participated in the dinner: Military Academy—Col. George D . Rogers, 1918; Lt. Col. Richard Steinbach, 1931; Lt. Cols. Robert B. Miller and Donald L. Durfee, 1934; Col. Fred M. Dean, 1938; Maj. Daniel Salinas, 1941, returning to the U. S. after duty in Ecuador; Lt. Col. Harvey W . C. Shelton, 1942; 1st Lt. Lindley C. Ellis, 1944.

Naval Academy graduates included Capr. W . C. Ansel, 1919; Capr M. H. Kernodle, 1921; Capt. W . R. Cooke, 1921; Capt. J. D. Greer, 1927; Capt. A. E. Fitzwilliam, 1927; Comdr. J. A. Adkins, 1930; C o m d r J. C. Toth, 1931; Comdr. A. A. Jones, 1931; Mr. Ralph Cullinan, 1931; Comdr. J. A. Obermeyer, 1937; Comdr. H. W . Howard, 1937, and Comdr. J. C. Houghton, 1941.

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THE TWIN CITIES AREA Dear Admiral Coney: With the list of alumni you sent me plus the list Capt. T. J. Hamilton sent me plus some tedious page-by-page combing of the Register, I assembled a mailing list and scheduled an organizational meeting. Ted L. Hasbrouck, '23, and Capt. Cameron Briggs, USN '25, Commanding Officer of NAS Minneapolis, cooperated 1009? on the arrangements and a large share of the success of the organization is due to their work.

On Friday evening, 2 April, we scheduled a dinner meeting at the "O" Club, NAS Minneapolis. By 1900 we had 34 alumni present. After a long remipiscing session in the bar we adjourned to the wardroom for a delicious T-bone steak dinner. In the business meeting which followed, it was decided to call the group THE TWIN QTIES AREA BRANCH ASSOCIATION. Election of officers followed with the following results: President, Cdr. Frank W. Lagerquist, USN, '07, R.F.D. No. 4, Wayzata, Minn.

Vice-President—Rear Adm. Walfrid Nyquist, USN-(Ret.), '21.

Secretary-Treasurer, Mr. Arnold P. Sorenson, '45, 6833 Logan Ave., South, Minneapolis 9, Minn.

Council Members—Capt. Cameron Briggs, USN, '25; Capt. Walter C. Holt, USN, '23; Ted L. Hasbrouck. '23; Sumner T. Scott, '20; Paul B. Wishart, '21.

Meetings will be held on the first Friday evening of every month at 1900 at the "O" Club, NAS, Minneapolis.

Captain Holt gave a short and interesting talk on the Holloway Plan and conducted a question-and-answer session which clarified many points of uncertainty relative to getting qualified candidates into the Naval Academy.

Credit is forthcoming to our out-of-town members who really planned on the meeting.

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Carl D. Hibbard, '11, drove down 130 miles from Cross Lake, Minn., in hopes of seeing Capt. George F. Jacobs, USN-(Ret.), his USNA roommate. Captain Jacobs was out of town on business and Carl says he'll try again next month. Sumner T. Scott, '20, and Grant H. Rogers, '39, drove in 120 miles from Fairmont, Minn., where they claim to have a 4-man Branch Association of our Branch Association. Joseph Leicht, '25, and Frederic Bell, '25, came up 100 miles from Winona, Minn. This is an example of the interest held by the Minnesota alumni in forming an active organization.

Captain Briggs showed a good color combat movie on Iwo Jima and the party broke up around 2300.

Those present are listed alphabetically: Leonard R. Agrell, '13; Capt. Cameron Briggs, USN, '25; Frederic Bell, '25; Edmund B. Caldwell, '17; Chuck Cox, '46; Capt. Philip S. Creasor, USN, '25; John C. Cumming, '30; George B. Donohue, '46; Robert D. Donaldson, '42; Otto Dougher, '22; Capt.

Harry A. Dunn, USN, '23; Addison Douglass, '45; Lt. Cdr. Frank L. Fuller, USNR, '39; Reginald B. Forster, '25; Ted L. Hasbrouck, '23; Jack J. Heimark, '44; Carl D. Hibbard, '11; Neville G. Holeman, '26; Capt.

Walter C. Holt, USN, '23; James M. Irvine, '39; Frank W. Lagerquist, '07; Joseph Leicht, '25; Comdr. Hyland B. Lyon, USN, '31; Rear Adm. Walfrid Nyquist, USN-(Ret.), '21; Rosser H. Matson, '25; Everett E. Pettee, '21; Emmett R. Quady, '43; Grant H. Rogers, '39; Commo. Charles J. Rend, USN(Ret.), '19; Arnold P. Sorenson, '45; Sumner T. Scott, '20; Edward C. Svendsen, '41; Paul B. Wishart, '21; Paul L. Zesbaugh, '14.

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WASHINGTON, D. C. The regular scheduled third - Thursday luncheon meeting of the Washington, D. C, Chapter of the U. S. Naval Academy Alumni

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Association was held 18 March 1948, 12:30 p. m., at the Roger Smith Hotel. "Min" Miller, President of the Chapter and Executive Director of the Congressional Aviation Policy Board, spoke on "Some Highlights of our National Aviation Policy."

Members present, in addition to many guests, were: Chapin, '92; C. H. Woodward, '99; W. S. Galbraith, '01; Leigh Noyes, '02; W. O. Spears, '05; P. N. L. Bellinger, '08; J. H. Carson, P. L. Mather, '16; H. A. Rochester, '19; W. T. Hart, '20; W. N. Mansfield, E. L. Woodyard, H. B. Miller, '24; L. S. Dukeshire, L. P. Fairlamb, M. W. Graybill, '27; N. T. Ball, '28; T. J. Hurd, Jr., E. P. Dorner, J. A. Hartman, '30; A. L. Mathers, "31; M. T. Young, J. S. Miller, '32; A. E. Tarintino, G. L. Powell, '35.

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