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CONTENTS W e Are a Part of West Point

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Going Places . . . D o i n g Things . . . W i t h Our Alumni

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T h e Navy on Capitol Hill

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T h e United States Naval Academy

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Bureau of Naval Personnel

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N e w Robot Pilot Developed: Navy's First for Flat Tops

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Spindrift

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Navy Athletics

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Our Cover—The Cadet Chapel and quarters at the V. S. Military Academy, West Point, New York, as seen from "The Plain."

MANAGING EDITOR—C. E. CONEY, "19 T H O M A S O. W O O L F & S O N CO. 70 EAST 4 5 T H S T . , N E W YORK 17, N.

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Published monthly on the twenty-fifth of the month preceding the date of issue, at fifty cents a copy. Annual subscription, $5.00. Canadian and foreign subscription, $6.00. Published by the Alumni Association of the United States Naval Academy, Baltimore, Md., and Annapolis, Md., Louis E. Denfeld, President; H. McCoy Jones, Elmer K. Zitzewitz, F. W. Pierce, Vice-Presidents; C. E. Coney, Executive Director. Office of publication at 2601 Sisson St., Baltimore 11, Md. Editorial office. Alumni House, Annapolis, Md. Entered as second-class matter at the post office at Baltimore, Md., under the Act of March 3, 1879. Copyright 1952, by the United States Naval Academy Alumni Association, Inc.

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To the Alumni of the U. S. Naval Academy Alumni Day was reinaugurated at the Naval Academy on 5 October 1950, and proved to be so well received by all hands that the same general plan was followed again last yeaif. Judging from the increased attendance and the many enthusiastic reports received, the event was an unqualified success. It is planned, therefore, to follow the same schedule of events this year.

The date seleaed for Alumni Day this year is Friday, 10 Ortober. This is on the day preceding the Navy-William and Mary game which is scheduled to be played here in Thompson Stadium. T h e schedule of events is outlined as follows: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10 1000-1800—Registration at the Alumni House 1215—Brigade formation for noon meal 1220—Luncheon in Mess Hall with Brigade of Midshipmen for Alumni who are fathers of midshipmen.

1300-1630—Yard Patrol Craft (YP) tours of the Naval Academy waterfront from Santee pier Open House in Bancroft Hall, all Academic Departments, the Chapel, Museum, and USS REINA MERCEDES, with special guided tours commencing on the hour and at quarter hour intervals during this period at the following places: Ward Hall—Dept. of Ordnance and Gunnery Luce Hall—Dept. of Seamanmanship and Navigation Isherwood Hall—Dept. of Marine Engineering 1645—^Dress Parade on Worden Field 1800—Reception in Dahlgren Hall 2000—Informal Dinner in Mess Hall for Alumni and their ladies SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11 0900-1100—Open House as on Friday 1400—Football Game in Thompson Stadium—Navy vs. William and Mary The Naval Academy Alumni Association will send out application cards t o all members of the Association. Those w h o are not members may obtain cards either by writing to the Headquarters of the National Association here in Annapolis, (Continued

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WE I E 1 P I T OF WEST POUT

By Cdr. Louis Gulliver, Class of 1907 a West Point father came a son who graduated from the Naval Academy and went on to a place as one of the world's renowned naval strategists—R. Adm. Alfred T. Mahan's father was Dennis H. Mahan,* West Point, 1824, of whom it is recorded: "He was to do for ground power what his son, Alfred Thayer Mahan would later do for sea power."

Take note of still another tie that binds in the case of Mahan, pere and Mahan, fils: Alfred Thayer Mahan bears the middle name of the "father of West Point," Col. Sylvanus Thayer.

Inexplicable is the fact that almost no

of Harry A. Flint, U. S. Naval Academy, 1911, who resigned near the end of his plebe year to enter West Point graduating in 1912.

And now that so many gallant West Pointers are being solemnly remembered this month, we of the Naval Academy may well bear in mind Andrew Summers Rowan whose midshipman service came into important play in his small-boat experiences (from Jamaica to Cuba, from Cuba to Nassau), in April 1898, when in the role of a spy, he made his way through enemy country in quest of military information of Cuban troops and enemy forces—a oneman Army intelligence service, an exploit ever after spoken and written of as "The •pAR more than the Message to Garcia" role of an admir(from the President ing spectator is the of the United States, enduring part being which it was not). played by the U. S. The "message" was Naval Academy and written up as "a lether alumni in the ter in oil skin pouch, West Point observstrapped next the ance of the U. S. heart of Lieutenant Military Academy Rowan." sesquicentennial to The exploit, briefly be climaxed in the told, is this: Lieuseries of class retenant Rowan, age unions and gradua41, was known as the tion at West Point author of a book in June. The ties about Cuba, though that bind us of the he had never seen the Naval Academy to Island.

He was the men of West chosen by the then Point — though too Col. Arthur Wagner, little known, are ex12 days before the traordinarily strong.

Declaration of War These ties are rooted and told, "Go to as deep as is the Cuba, search o u t story of the two General Garcia, inAcademies t h e m surgent leader, and selves. They concern find out how many men whose careers troops he has, how under the Flag had much Army equiptheir initial foundament, also, how tion in both Acadmany Spanish solemies. diers and where they In the story that are.

Ascertain if follows, mention will Official u. S. Navy Photo Garcia will cooperate be made of midship- The plaque presented to the Corps of Cadets, U. S. M. A. by the Brigade of Midship- •^ii}^ us. Wear civil men at our Academy men U. S. N . A. commemorating the 150th anniversary of the founding of the j^n clothes. Go to who later became Military Academy.

Jamaica where you cadetsatWest Point. Some of these risked their lives gallantly in combat— mention has ever been made of the dual one, a colonel of infantry, was mortally education of both Major Andrew S. Rowwounded while leading his troops: Col. an, West Point, 1881, and of Col. Harry A. Paddy Flynn, ex-midshipman. West Point Flint, West Point, 1912. In the West Point graduate, was yards in front of his men Register of Graduates note is made only when he fell, back of the Normandy of Major Rowan's Army career and of his having "carried message to Garcia," while beaches, 1944.

There are other ties that bind the Naval in the Register of Graduates, U. S. Naval Academy to her sister Academy at West Academy there appears only this under Point. For example, there are those twin "non-graduates": "Andrew Summers Rowbrothers, one chose the U. S. Naval Acad- an, died . . . Presidio of San Francisco." emy, the other could see only West Point. Likewise in the numerous accounts of Then there are those sons of our graduates Rowan's so-called "message to Garcia" and and alumni who saw fit to enroll at West of his career, printed in Who's Who, his Point and go on to lives in the Army or Naval Academy service is not recorded.

Air Force.

The fact is that the distinguished Major Strange but true is the fact that from Rowan had as much as two years, possibly * Dennis H. Mahan, Class of 1824, was three years, in the Naval Academy before Professor of Engineering at West Point, being appointed to West Point in 1877.

1830-1871. He stood first in his class.

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will meet with Cuban insurgents."

Rowan did this on arrival in Jamaica: Drove 70 miles in a native "carriage" to a place on the coast where he embarked in a boat under sail and made Cuba, 100 miles distant in 36 hours, landing on the sand beach of Oriente Bay the very day war was declared. Then six days through jungle to the tent of the great Garcia (food for the journey in caches). One day was the total of the conference and then five days on a northerly course enroute home, with mission accomplished. Embarking on the north coast of Cuba in a boat with "gunny sack for sails," he landed on the island of Nassau, told a "story" to suspicious British and thence to Washington where he was given a meritorious promotion to Captain.

Captain Rowan's later rewards were slow in coming. He retired as a Major after thirty years' service. It was not until he reached 65 that the then War Department awarded him any medal and then only on the insistence of Senator Shortridge—the Distinguished Service Medal. At age 80, he was decorated by Cuba and at age 83, by the State of West Virginia.

With Harry A. Flint, U. S. Naval Academy 1911 (one year)—West Point 1912, outstanding hero on the battlefield (Cotentin Peninsula, back of the Normandy beaches, where his life ebbed out, July 1944)—it was different. Paddy, as his classmates spoke of and to him, said: "You can't kill an Irishman, you only make him mad." A Vermonter, born and reared, Harry Flint was first a midshipman, later a Cavalry officer "yellowleg," then in due time. Colonel commanding the 39th Regiment of Infantry. "You can't kill an Irishman," about the last words Paddy heard in this life—then he closed his eyes as German bullet wounds took their fatal toll.

In the Jayhawk Cemetery they buried Paddy Flint, close by Ste. Mere Eglise, as a lieutenant general, three major generals, two brigadier generals, and four colonels bowed their heads. "A soldier's resting place beneath a soldier's blow— at Peace in the hands of God, at Last," was what they all said.

Reminiscent of his life at Annapolis and West Point, Paddy named his regiment

In the Class of 1886 at the Naval Academy was Frank D. Webster. He resigned prior to June 1885 and was entered at West Point, graduating in the Military Class of 1889. He retired in 1930 with the rank of Brigadier General.

In the Naval Academy Class of 1889 was Warned by his officers not to go too far Marcus Butler Stokes. Prior to graduain front, Paddy answered: "Jerry ain't any tion, he resigned and entered the West hotter than we are"—his last words before Point Class of 1892. On graduation, he was a German pistoleer first shot through Pad- commissioned in the Infantry and was dy's pants, then, the fatal bullet. Said Gen. finally retired from active duty with the George Patton: "Those who go as brave Paddy did are fortunate." After the battle, rank of Brigadier General. His son, MarPaddy's soldiers had their own funeral for cus Butler Stokes Jr., graduated from West Point in ip24 and is now on active duty. him.

the AAA Bar O, which translates, "Anything, Anytime, Anywhere, Bar Nothing."

He added: "It is suicide for whoever bumps into us. . . . Those of us who don't come back will be in the hands of God, you will remember them with pride. I am humbly proud to be one of you."

Aside from those whose fortune it was to serve in humble ways, our Naval Academy can claim prior allegiance to the late Col. Everett Newton Bowman, Infantry, West Point, 1903. Had he continued on his midshipman service he would have graduated in January 1899. It was his fortune to fight in the Army through World War I. Only one West Pointer has enrolled in the Naval Academy following service as a cadet at West Point (so far as this writer can ascertain). He is Cdr. Leonard Doughty (Ret.), a graduate of the Naval Academy in the Class of 1917. He was recalled from retirement in World War II and served abroad.

Leonard Doughty was enrolled as a cadet at West Point in 1911 and two years later was sworn in as a midshipman.

Former Midn. Walter Bailey Craighead, Class of 1899, was later a West Pointer of the Class of 1900. Resigning from the Military Academy before graduation, he later rose to command of the S3rd Brigade of Infantry, New York National Guard.

Colonel of Field Artillery, Benjamin Franklin Miller, West Point, 1902 served as midshipman U. S. Naval Academy with the Class of 1900. He retired from active Army service in 1942.

Not readily classifiable is the late Col. Frederick Homer Sargent, U. S. Army, whose career in the service began with the Naval Academy Cla«s of 1885. His son, Frederick Homer Sargent, Jr., entered West Point as a member of the Class of 1919.

Howard N. Hartley served first as a midshipman at the Naval Academy, then as a cadet at West Point. He later was commissioned in the Supply Corps of the Navy and served until retired.

He was sworn in at the Naval Academy in 1909. Following his resignation, Howard Hartley was admitted as a cadet at West Point in 1912.

Both sentimental and unique is that kinship between the Naval Academy and West Point which is brought about through twin brothers of whom one graduated from the Naval Academy while the other graduated from West Point. Both in the Class of 1950—the Kenny Moll twins. Kenneth Lee Moll, now a Lieutenant in the Air Force, graduated from West Point just a few days before his identical twin, Kendall D. Moll, graduated from the Naval Academy. Their mother came on from California for the twin event and witnessed both graduations. Kendall Moll, midshipman, was an exact copy of Kenneth Moll, cadet, when they exchanged uniforms and slept in each other's Academy bed.

Another set of twihs, one a graduate of the Naval Academy, the other from West Point, is the Sherwood brothers—James Millaway Sherwood, USNA, 1945, now an officer in the Marine Corps. His brother, John W. Sherwood, Jr., of the same year at West Point, is now in the Air Force.

They are "Army brats."

Arthur S. Born, USNA, 1927, is the twin brother of Charles F. Bom, West Point, 1928.

Still another relationship, unique and sentimental as well, is exemplified by Rufus King, USNA, 1908. Both his father and his grandfather graduated from West Point. The first King (West Point) was Rufus King, Class of 1833, who became a renowned editor and fighter in the Civil War. His son, Charles King, Jr., West Point, 1866, was likewise a celebrated author of books on Army life.

Finally comes that invisible tie that binds: Those many Army brats who have seen fit to enroll at the Naval Academy while Navy juniors have declared, "The Long Grey Line for me." An example of this, the MacArthur brothers—Douglas MacArthur, West Point, 1903, and his older brother, Arthur MacArthur, Jr., late Commander, USN, U. S. Naval Academy, 1896.

Contributing transcendentally to the tie that binds are those West Point daughters who have married Annapolis men and those Official U. S. Navy Photo Navy junior girls who said: "I do," to the View of the Military Academy from the East Bank of the Hudson.

West Pointer of their choice.

S H I P M A T E

GOING PLACES . . . DOING THINGS . . . . WITH OUR ALUMNI

By Cdr. Louis Gulliver, USN (Ret.) A new bpok by Urban Tigner Holmes, Jr., Class of 1920, has been accorded unusually high praise by Orville Prescott, distinguished reviewer in the New York Times. The title of Mr. Holmes' work is "Daily Living in the Twelfth Century."

Says the Tim^s: "This distinguished volume of social history is a reconstruction of all the customs and paraphernalia of daily life in London and Paris in the second half of the twelfth century." (University of Wisconsin Press, 337 pages.) Mention is made in the review of the "monumental learning of the author, Mr. Holmes, who has gathered extensive information and a compendium of interesting facts about medieval architecture, costumes, saddles and harnesses. Also, shipping, street life, food and recipes; medicine and games; about trade and peasants; knights and barons; minstrels and sports plus superstitions."

Of note is the author's description of the interior decoration of a bedroom suitable for a gentleman of the twelfth century.

Urban Holmes, Jr. is the son of the late Cdr. Urban T. Holmes (Ret.), a native of Arkansas who retired in 1917 and died in 1940.

• • • From Athens, Greece: "King Paul and Queen Frederika entertained United States Adm. Robert B. Carney at dinner in the palace on March 14."

The N A T O commander in chief for southern Europe was accompanied by Mrs. Carney, members of his staff and the U. S. Ambassador and Mrs. John E. Peurifoy.

The King is to confer the Grand Cross of the Order of King Paul I on Admiral Carney—a high Greek decoration.

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From the Far East, V. Adm. C. Turner Joy has cabled: "The Communists are motivated simply and exclusively by selfinterest. They will stall as long as they believe it is to their advantage to stall. . ._.

The only real logic to the Communists is the imperative logic of military pressure.

"Until such time as we force them to come to terms, we can look forward to endless debates. . . ."

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A welcome of the warmest kind was extended by the citizens of Monterey and the Monterey Peninsula to R. Adm. E. E. Herrmann, Superintendent of the Postgraduate School, last month in token of the pride felt by one and all now that the school is in full running order on the Del Monte property, while new buildings are in the process of construction for the further expansion of the establishment on a scale that in due course of time will be equal to the best in the land.

Unprecedented was the luncheon which was organized by the service clubs and civic groups and which was attended by seven hundred including _ members of the Monterey Women's Civic Club.

Ranking officers of the Army at neighboring Fort Ord were guests.

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last month off the New London Submarine Base.

With Secretary Dan A. Kimball a member of her crew, the submarine FLYING F I S H logged her S,000th dive in Long Island Sound. The F I S H was described in the New York Times as an "Atom-Age monitor with a cheese box superstructure."

In command of the ship was Lt. Cdr. Richard W. Phipps, Class of 1943.

A guest of honor, and assigned as diving officer, was Capt. Glynn R. Donaho, Class of '27, who commissioned the F I S H shortly after Pearl Harbor. Since then the FLYING F I S H steamed 125,000 combat miles in the war subsequent to which time she has been on training duty and experimental service.

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Last month in San Francisco Naval Shipyard, two good and true ships were taken from mothballs and put back in full commission. First came the aviation repair ship CHOURRE. She was welcomed by R. Adm. Clarence E. Ekstrom, Chief of Staff, Air Force Pacific. Capt. Frank Gill, Class of '33, is her captain.

In a matter of hours, the commission pennant was broken at the masthead of the submarine tender BUSHNELL, as V. Adm. C. A. Lockwood (Ret.) said: "Glad to have you aboard." The commander of the BUSHNELL is Capt. Philip W. Garnett, '33.

Bossing the ceremonies, Capt. Angus M. Cohen, '21, a record holder in taking ships out of mothballs.

Major Rov^an and His Message to Garcia Some notes from Major Rowan's own story, written years after the event under the title, "How I Carried the Message to Garcia."

"Where," inquired President McKinley, speaking to the Head of the Bureau of Military Intelligence, "can I find a man who will carry a message to Garcia?" On being told that Lt. Rowan would carry it, the President answ^ered, "Send him." . . . Obviously no written orders were given Lieutenant Rowan and years later, he said he never knew that his Army superior had ever made official mention of the event. Officially, in the War Department, there was no message carried by Lieutenant Rowan to General Garcia of the Cuban Army, in Cuba.

Lieutenant Rowan writes of his awareness of the danger: (a) failure of his mission if apprehended by the British in Jamaica or in Nassau; (b) death if arrested by the Spanish Army.

A marvel of organization was the set of arrangements by the Cuban "insurrectos" for the transportation (carriage) of Lt. Rowan over seventy miles of semi-jungle roads in Jamaica to the beach where he waded out to the small fishing craft under sail that was his transportation across the Caribbean to the landing beach near Santiago, Cuba, a stone's throw from the rocks where later the defeated Spanish cruiser

COLON lay destroyed after the battle of Santiago. The crude signals contrived by the Cubans proved to be models of perfection.

As to the danger to Rowan, he writes: "Spanish troops mercilessly hunted down Cubans, small mercy was shown by Spanish General Weyler, known then as the 'butcher,' to men under arms . . . our route was a labyrinth of paths, known only to the Cubans. We were screened from each other, so thick was the jungle. . . .

Once we were within arm's length of Spanish cavalry."

As Lieutenant Rowan neared his rendezvous with Garcia, his armed escort numbered 200 Cuban cavalrymen. Their route was carved through the jungle by the leadCuban, brandishing a machete—100 miles of it and still no Garcia.

The meeting with Garcia: It came to light, first off, that two other U. S. Army officers had attempted in vain to carry "messages" similar to that carried by Rowan, to Garcia.

Rowan told the Cuban general that all information was wanted so that the Army in Washington could plan a campaign in Cuba against the Spanish Army, as well as having Garcia's suggestions for joint service against a common enemy.

At five that same afternoon with his mission achieved Rowan was on his way to the north coast of Cuba, enroute via sailboat to Nassau and then home. "After a real Latin embrace by Garcia, I broke away and mounted. I had delivered my message to Garcia."

The trip hack: "I was a spy within the enemy lines, now that war had been declared. Discovery meant death with one's face to the wall." In company with Rowan were three Cuban officers and a doctor familiar with Cuban diseases. "The very audacity of our undertaking was to be our salvation. We embarked in a boat, directly under the bristling guns of an enemy fort.

She was a cockeshell, 104 cubic feet capacity. Sails were gunny sacks sewed together.

Dried beef and water were our rations.

Nevertheless, we did sail in this craft over 150 miles of water patrolled by enemy 'lanchas' to the beach at Nassau. We on board totalled five.

"We were low in the water. At first we rowed the boat out of the anchorage until we had passed out of range of the guns on the fort. Our sailors were expert boatmen.

I went to sleep, sitting up, but soon a wave came close to filling our boat. From then on to safety in Nassau, we bailed, and bailed and bailed."

The first day in the Caribbean, the Rowan "flagship" saw Admiral Sampson's fleet enroute to Santiago (on first sight, they were taken to be the Spanish fleet).

On May 7 Rowan and his Cuban colleagues were locked up in an English jail on Nassau (Hog Island, famed as a yellow fever danger spot). It was the American consul there who arranged for their release.

In a few days they were safe on shore at Key West.

Later in Washington, Lieutenant Rowan was presented to President McKinley who thanked him and said: "Lieutenant Rowan, you have done a very brave deed." Lt. Gen. Nelson A. Miles recommended that Rowan be promoted to Lieutenant Colonel, however, the "jump" in rank from Lieutenant to Lieutenant Colonel was too great to expect in the Army of 1898, so Andrew S. Rowan was advanced to the rank of Captain, a fact of which he never made any mention.

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Retirement Ban 24,000 Demotions?

Appropriations Bill

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By Fred Lardner, '22

The House Appropriations Committee approved a rider to H.R. 7391, the armed services appropriations bill for fiscal year 1953, sponsored by Representative Glenn R. Davis (Rep., Wisconsin). The rider states that during the fiscal year 1953 no funds shall be available to pay commissioned officer personnel in excess of certain percentages of total military personnel of the department concerned.

Davis said the purpose of the legislation was to limit promotions in the higher ranks.

Da\-is observed that the Navy is a "more stabilized service," and the effect of the bill might be less on the Navy. But, he added, for example, the Na\-y has more upper-grade rear admirals than lowergrade rear admirals, and by the end of the next fiscal year will have 1,800 more commanders than they had on 31 October 1951.

Other legislators did not agree with Davis and the Appropriations Committee.

For instance. Representative Dewey Short (Rep., Mo.) said the bill would have little effect on the higher grades but would devastate the lower grades. In the Navy, he said, only four flag officers would be reduced, while 7,606 lieutenants would be reduced to junior grade lieutenants.

The following table shows Davis' idea of the effect of his bill on Navy officer personnel:

But why not let these top officers retire, if they want to? In view of the many recent Congressional claims that there are too many top officers in the services, continuation of the ban on retirements makes Congress look foolish.

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The House Appropriations Committee proposes to continue the ban on voluntary retirements of Regular officers of the - Army, Na\'y, Air Force and Marine Corps.

This ban was started in the armed service appropriations bill for fiscal year 1952, and will be continued, unless the Senate balks, in the current appropriations bill.

From 25 June 1950 to 31 July 1951 voluntary retirements of armed service officers—of flag rank, as we understand it— averaged 11 a month. Since then, because of the ban on these retirements in the 1952 appropriations bill, they have averaged only one a month. This data comes from Anna M. Rosenberg, Assistant Secretary of Defense.

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The big aircraft carrier is taking it on the chin once more.

Is there too much brass? Many members of Congress think so. Yet, in the appropriations bill for the fiscal year 1953, the House Appropriations Committee seeks to continue the ban on voluntary retirements and at the same time has approved a rider to the bill which allegedly would impose a ceiling on top officer grades. This rider would be devastating; it would force demotions for 20,000 or more officers.

While it imdoubtedly will be voted down on the House floor, we'll discuss it later just to show you how some legislators are thinking.

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Representative Short added tables of his own, and that below shows his idea of the effect of the bill on Navy officers, with reductions in grades that would follow: Navy Flag officer reductions 4 Captain to commander 192 Commander to lieutenant commander 1,518 Lieutenant commander to lieutenant 2,015 Lieutenant to lieutenant junior grade 7,606 Total

Carriers Need Publicity Academy Service Retirement Legislation

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Contradictions and discord mark current consideration of numerous bills. The House and the Senate have been rather far apart in their ideas on increases in service pay. Discord over unification, or lack of it, is increasing. Differing ideas on promotion and other practices are delaj'ing amendments to the Officer Personnel Act. Unions of civilian government workers, we have learned, surreptitiously oppose at least some benefits for ser\-ice personnel.

For instance, some of these unions have protested against legislation which would permit retired officers to be employed by the Federal government.

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As of this writing (mid-April), armed ser\'ice legislation is getting an increasing amount of attention. The pay bill is on its last lap; differences in the House and the Senate versions are being compromised, as much as possible, by a conference of certain members of the armed services committees.

The compromise bill won't be available before this issue goes to press.

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Representative Davis is an earnest, handsome j'oung man with a good record. He admitted his idea has imperfections, that he is no expert on military appropriations. In this case, apparently, he had what he thought was a hot idea, but it wouldn't stand the scrutiny of experts, the chaps who know the services, who contended it would force reductions in grade for 24,000 officers next July 1.

Probably there never was a bit of military legislation w-hich threw as big a scare into as many people.

A p p r o p r i a t i o n s Bill

The House decreased the 1953 appropriations bill $4.7 billion from the Presidential request and $6 billion from the expenditure planned by the Department of Defense.

The Appropriations Committee approved a Xa\T expenditure of $12,815,918,000, slightly more than $1 billion below the Presidential estimate, and $3,029,412,392 below the comparable 1952 appropriation to date.

The Xa\-)' expenditure approved bv the House totals $12,815,152,412, not much less than that approved by the committee.

The shipbuilding and conversion program took $432,368,000 of the $1 billion cut, including elimination of the proposed second super-carrier.

"The budget estimates and the bill," the House committee reported. "pro%-ide small increases in personnel strength up to totals of 835,875 officers and men for the Navy and 243,730 officers and men for the Marine Corps. These increased figures will permit manning of the active fleet ships to an average of 80 percent of the officers and 90 percent of the men required to man them in time of war, and will increase the Marine Corps units to full strength. The Chief of Naval Operations testified that these increases are essential to bring the forces to the minimum strength at which they can be regarded as ready for combat. ".\s to the active fleet, the number of commissioned vessels will reach 1,192 by 30 June 1952, and will be maintained a t . that level tliroughout fiscal year 1953. The" Naval Air arm will be increased from 14 to 16 carrier air groups with the necessary supporting elements.

"It should be made clear that if in any particular segment of the Navy budget the committee has introduced any demonstrable element of imbalance or deficiency in Navy programs it stands ready at the proper time in the future to give further consideration to the matter."

The fiscal year would begin with 83.500 Navy officers and end with 86,950, for an average of 84,044. The number of Marine Corps officers would increase from 20,389 to 21,024.

S H I P M A T E

The committee earmarked $21,074,000 for pay, subsistence, travel and clothing incident to officer candidate programs including operations at the Naval Academy, the Naval Reserve Officers' Training Corps, Naval Aviation Cadets, and Reserve Officer candidates.

Average number of candidates contemplated for 1953 is 24,667, an increase of 1,839 over 1952.

a highly defensible, highly self-sufficient airfield which can be moved at 40 miles per hour," a considerably greater speed than that quoted by Representative Allen.

It can operate and launch an attack, Fechteler says, from the international waters of the high seas, and no diplomacy, promises to foreign nations, treaty rights, or other international political activities are necessary to its operations.

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Carriers Neec^ Publicity

Since the big aircraft carrier is or will be the backbone of the Navy (according to experts), the following should be of interest to all naval officers.

"Who is there in this House," said Rep. Leo A. Allen (Rep., 111.), "who will say that enemy air pilots cannot hit a United States slow-traveling—18 knots per hour— supercarrier half a block wide and two or three blocks long—if our own Air Force pilots can knock out thousands of trucks, tanks, and locomotives within a limited area of a width of nine feet?

"They talk of the mobility of airplane carriers. They say, 'They can be here today and 500 miles away tomorrow.' Read what Drew Pearson tells of the direction in which the Mediterranean Fleet moved when they found out there was a shooting war in Korea."

Pearson says that the Mediterranean Fleet, when it received news of the Korean outbreak, "instead of rushing its carriers toward closer striking distance of Russia, hastily steamed in the opposite direction."

"The same is true in Korea," observed Pearson. "The Navy has been so preoccupied with safeguarding the fleet that it has pulled its carriers out of range of Russianbuilt MIG's. In other words, the Navy has left the air fighting almost entirely up to the Air Force. Only 16 times during the entire Korean war have carrier planes tangled with enemy planes. Navy pilots have shot down only three MIG's and damaged two others. The last encounter was more than a year ago. This total Navy record for the Korean war is often matched in one day by the Air Force."

But that is not, as Pearson says, the "total Navy record for the Korean war."

Judging from a Defense Department release of January 5, 1952, on the Navy's program of a year's sustained interdiction against Communist forces in Korea, and the Navy's other work, it probably isn't one-thousandth of Navy accomplishments.

Pearson goes on to discuss the efficiency and expense of a Navy carrier task force as compared to a B-50 Air Force group.

"Economically," he says, "the taxpayers will get more airpower out of an Air Force unit than an equivalent Navy carrier force."

The Navy force, he says, would cost more than $3 billion, as compared to a cost of $475,000,000 for the B-50 group.

Of course, a Navy task group built around the proposed big carriers, as the FORRESTAL, wouldn't cost $3 billion to put into operation, since many of the supporting units already exist.

The proposed second new big carrier would cost only $209,000,000.

David Lawrence, another newspaper columnist, has taken up arms in favor of the Navy, and makes points that Pearson conveniently ignores. For instance, Lawrence points to the current project, approaching a fiasco, of building Air Force land bases in North Africa.

Lawrence also quotes Adm. William A. Fechteler, Chief of Naval Operations. Fechteler says the "modern aircraft carrier is

Our Admiral Fechteler is a public relations department in himself^ We have copies of speeches made by him on December 6, January 24 and February 15, and probably we missed other recent speeches.

"The carrier is not, as is often supposed, particularly vulnerable to enemy attack," Fechteler said, perhaps on more than one occasion. "We operated 110 carriers of all types in World W a r II. They spent a total of 940 months—over 78 years—in combat areas, operating day and night, in all kinds of weather, and subject to every variety of enemy attack. Of these 110 carriers we lost only 11—an average loss of one carrier to every 85 months of combat operation.

"The atomic bomb in the hands of an enemy will not increase the vulnerability of carriers, nor indeed of any naval forces.

Dispersion and mobility are the best defenses against the atomic bomb. . "Our new and our modernized carriers are capable of delivering the atomic bomb, or many atomic bombs, from a point anywhere on the seventy percent of the earth's surface that is covered by water to a target within the radius of action of carrier-based planes, a distance of some 600 miles."

Such an attack can be launched from an unknown direction, without use of any previously prepared air bases, and would make enemy retaliation difficult.

It is this kind of talk that it getting under the skin of the Air Force and its supporters, that influenced Gen. Carl Spatz, former Air Force chief, to say: "A carrier can move right or left, or down."

There isn't much chance, as Fechteler pointed out, of a carrier moving down.

There is considerably more chance of a carrier being injured and removed far from the area of action.

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ten supercarriers are not nearly as vulnerable. It is the comparative invulnerability of the supercarriers that should be sold to the American public.

During World W a r II we had an argument with a British news correspondent.

We contended that American naval officers were superior in training and therefore in initiative to British officers. He replied in part by saying that American naval officers did not have enough sense to equip carriers with steel flight decks.

Since then we have wondered about steel flight decks, and also about protection from submarines. We didn't get a full answer until we read the sales talk on supercarriers given by Representative Edith Nourse Rogers (Rep. Mass.).

"In the Navy's existing carriers, particularly those of the ESSEX class, there is a wooden flight deck which is most susceptible to topside damage," she told the House.

"On the other hand, the MIDWAY class of carriers has a steel flight deck which is considered by the Navy to provide _ ample protection from topside damage. This type of flight deck will be installed on the new carriers of the FORRESTAL class. To install a steel flight deck on conversions of ESSEX

type carriers would be prohibitive both as to weight and cost.

"As regards underwater damage, there will be installed on the FORRESTAL class carriers one additional protection which the Navy is very sure can repel any known torpedo."

We presume that a good steel flight deck insures a carrier against damage from bombs. One naval officer told us this does not seem likely. We wish someone would give us the real dope on this, and also more about the proposed protection against submarines, if this latter information would not violate security regulations.

Curtailment of plans for a second supercarrier is only a temporary setback. T h e House committee says it will merely have to wait a little while. Keel for | h e new FORRESTAL will be laid 14 July 1952, R e cording to present plans.

Academy Service

The pay bill, H.R. 5715, as passed by the Senate includes a provision restoring to Naval Academy graduates appointed prior to 1913 full credit for Academy service.

The amendment was sponsored by Senator Hayden (Dem., Ariz.), and would provide retroactive pay for some 300 retired officers who graduated prior to 1913.

A decision of the Comptroller-General robbed them of credit for this service.

Senator Hayden's amendment should now be broadened to give all old-time Annapolis and West Point men proper credit for Academy service so it can be reflected in retirement compensation. The Defense Policy Personnel Board is supposed to be studying this subject.

Retirement Legislation

Retired commissioned officers of every service owe more than a little to the Retired Officers Association for its efforts to secure enactment of legislation which would benefit or protect them.

There are various bills related to retirement, and it is not easy to induce members of Congress to push them.

The working force of the Association, located at 1616 Eye Street, N.W., Washington 6, includes the following Navy men: Capt. Franz O. Willenbucher, executive vice president and coimsel; Cdr. Harold B .

Corwin, assistant counsel; and R. Adm. John D. Murphy, plans and projects officer.

Recently the Association testified on various bills, as follows: Physical Disability Retirement: H.R. 5996 and S. 2420. This bill would amend section 302 of the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944 to authorize review boards to determine the physical condition of officers as of the date relieved from active duty, and provides for return to active duty under certain circumstances. The Association recommended that the bill be amended to apply to all cases of serviceconnected disability and to make certain of court review of official decisions, if d e sired.

H.R. 2384 and S. 1198. "Section 1® of the Act of 13 July 1943 properly recognized! attendance at the service academies during: World W a r II as active military and naval! service for the purpose of laws administered by the Veterans Administration," the R O A told the Senate Committee on Finance.

"The principal result of this law was the granting of war-time rates of pensions and compensation to veterans and their survivors.

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MMl Vice Admiral Harry W . Hill, USN, '11 Superintendent Accompanying Admiral DuBose during his informal inspection of the Academy's curriculum and aptitude system were: R. Adm. Joseph F. Bolger, USN, Deputy Chief of Naval Personnel; R. Adm. Roland X. Smoot, USN, Assistant for Personnel Control; Capt. William M. Cole, Assistant for Plans; Captain Harry H. Henderson, USN, Director, Plans and Polic}' Control; Capt. William T. Kenny, USX, Director of Officer Personnel; Capt.

Harold O. Larson, USN, Assistant Chief of Education and Training; and Capt. Edgar T. Neale, Assistant Director of Training for Aviation.

Upon arriving from Washington, D. C , at 10:00 a.m., the risiting officers were Official U. S. Navy Photo greeted by Admiral Hill and members of his staff. They then assembled in the V. Adm. C Turner Joy Marine Engineering Department conference room with the heads of the various academic departments. Diu-ing a two-hour conference, the Bureau officers heard a Vice A d m i r a l Joy to presentation of the functions of the Executive Department and review of the citfBecome Superintendent riculimi. These were followed by a quesof N a v a l Academy tion period, and a tour of the laboratories The Na\-y has announced that V. Adm. of the Marine Engineering Department.

Charles Turner Joy is scheduled to relieve At 12 :25 p.m.. Admiral DuBose and his V. Adm. Harry W. Hill as Superintendent party received "March Past" during noon of the United States Naval Academy and formation, and were luncheon guests of the Commandant of the Severn River Naval Brigade in the mess hall.

Command during the coming summer.

During the afternoon they visited the When relieved of his duties. Admiral facilities of the Ordnance and Gimnery Hill will retire, having reached the statu- Department, a Combat Information Center tory retirement age. mock-up in the Seamanship and NavigaVice Admiral Joy is at present Com- tion Department, and attended the various mander Xaval Forces Far East and as athletic events. The latter included a varsuch commands the naval component of sity lacrosse game with Harvard UniverGeneral Ridgway's forces. He has served sity, which Navy won 8-7. in his present duty since the summer of 1949, somewhat longer than the normal • • • tour in such commands. ' Vice Admiral Hill has been Superin- Board of Visitors Convenes tendent of the Xaval Academy and ComThe annual session of the Board of Visimandant of the Severn River Xaval- Comtors to the Naval Academy began its fourmand since April 28, 1950. day program of meetings and inspection of the Academy and its supporting facilities, • • • on Tuesday, April 15.

Authorized by Public. Law 816 of the Bureau of N a v a l 80th Congress, the Board of Visitors conPersonnel a n d Academy sists of 15 members, six of whom are Officials Confer appointed by the President, three by the V. Adm. Laurance T. DuBose, USN, Deputy Chief of Xaval Operations for Personnel and Chief of Naval Personnel, and seven members of his staff, visited the Naval Academy on Saturday, April 4, for a presentation on the curriculum and aptitude system.

Admiral DuBose and key officers of his staff who are concerned with Naval Academy matters came to the Academy in response to an invitation by the Superintendent.

Vice President and four by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, in addition to the Chairman of the Senate and House Armed Services Committees, or their designees.

Four of the six Presidential appointees to this year's Board of Visitors are heads of colleges or universities, while the remaining two are newspaper editors.

The Presidential appointees a r e : Dr. Harry C. Byrd, President of the University of Maryland, College Park, Md.; Rev.

John J. Cavanaugh, C.S.C., President of the University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Ind.; Dr. Reuben G. Gustavson, Chancellor of the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Neb.; !Mr. Edward J. Lynett, Editor and Publisher of the Scranton Times, Scranton, Pa.; Dr. J. Paul Leonard, President of the San Francisco College, San Francisco, Calif.; and Mr. Millwee Owens, Editor of the Augusta Herald, Augusta, Gau Dr. Byrd and Mr. Lj-nett are newcomers to the Board of Visitors, while Father Cavanaugh has been a member since 1947.

Both Dr. Leonard and Mr. Owens were appointed in 1950 and Dr. Gustavson joined the Board last }-ear.

The members appointed by the Vice President a r e : Senator John L. McClellan of Arkansas, w-ho was a member of the Board of Visitors in 1945; Senator A. Willis Robertson of Virginia; and Senator Edward J. Thye of Minnesota.

Representatives Cleveland M. Bailey of the 3rd District of West \'irginia, James P. S. Devereaux of the 2nd District of Maryland, Errett P. Scri\-ner of the 2nd District of Kansas, and Sidney R. Yate of the 9th District of Illinois have been appointed by the Speaker of the House.

The Chairmen of the Senate and House of Representatives Armed Services Committees, both of whom are, by law, ex officio members of the Naval Academy's Board of Visitors, appointed as their designees for this year's session. Senator Harry F .

Bj'rd of Virginia, and Representative L. Mendel Rivers of the 1st District of South Carolina.

The Board of Visitors assembled for its first meeting of the year at 10:30 a.m., Tuesday, April 15, in the Board Room, Maury Hall. There the members were greeted by V. Adm. Harry W. Hill, USN, Academy Superintendent, who submitted his annual report. During the first meeting, the Board appointed a Chairman for the 1952 session, formulated plans for their four-day visit and appointed committees.

Follomng a luncheon with the Brigade in Bancroft Hall, the Board, during its first day conferred with Captain Buchanan, Commandant of Midshipmen, and inspected Bancroft Hall.

During its four-day session, the Board inquired into the state of morale and discipline, curriculum, instruction, physical equipment, fiscal affairs, academic methods, and other matters pertaining to the Academy. The Board is required to make a report with its recommendations direct to the President within 60 days.

Coincidental with the annual session of the Board of Visitors was the risit to the .•\cademy of the destroyer U S S ZELLARS (DD-777) and the submarine TIGRONE S H I P M A T E

(SSR-419). The presence of these two ships gave the Board members an opportimity to see two^of the Navy's latest underwater and surface vessels.

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Field M a r s h a l l Slim Visits A c a d e m y Field Marshal Sir William J. Slim, G.C.B., B.G.E., D.S.O., M.C., Chief of the Imperial General Staff of the British Army, and Lady Slim, arrived Friday afternoon, April 11, for a two-day visit to the Academy.

The veteran colonial field commander, who is equivalent to the U. S. Army's Chief of Staff, arrived from Washington, D. C, at Gate Two at 5:00 p.m., where he was greeted by the Superintendent and members of his staff.

Full military honors, consisting of a 17-gun salute, four ruffles and flourishes, the Admiral's March, and full Marine Honor Guard, were rendered to the British Army Chief upon his arrival.

Field Marshal and Lady Slim were the overnight guests of Admiral and Mrs. Hill.

The Superintendent and Field Marshal Slim have been old personal friends since the close of World War II, when Admiral Hill went to England to study the functions of the Royal Staff College, then headed by Field Marshal Slim. (The Royal Staff College is the counterpart of our National War College--in Washington, which Admiral Hill organized in June, 1946, and of which he was first Commandant.)

Saturday morning. Field Marshal Slim was accompanied by Admiral Hill on a tour of the Departments of Ordnance and Gunnery and Marine Engineering. At 11 :00 a.m. he took the re\'iew during a full dress parade in his honor by the Brigade on Worden Field. During the parade, departure honors were given to the visiting officer. The British "Union Jack" was broken on the Worden Field flagstaff during the gun salute.

During his visit, Admiral Nomy toured the Chapel, Museum and the various academic departments. He received "March Past" by the Brigade at noon formation.

Vice Admiral Hill, Superintendent, had a luncbeon at his quarters in honor of the French Naval Chief and members of his party.

sions held March 27, 28 and 29. They tackled such problems as, "The Organization and Administration of the Composition Course," "The Selection of Textbooks," and the "Teaching of English in Technical Colleges."

Professor Cook served as chairman of a panel in which three freshman composition programs were presented in panel discussions.

A feature of this year's general session was the frank appraisal by leading business men of what American industrial and business employers expect of college graduates in the way of English composition.

Midshipman Third Class Frederic H. M. Kinley of York, Pa., is the nephew of the visiting French Naval Chief. Midshipman Kinley's mother, Marie Antoinette Kinley, is Admiral Nomy's sister.

In the afternoon the Admiral reviewed a full dress parade in his honor by the Brigade. During the parade, full military hon• • • _ ors consisting of a 15-gun salute, three ruffles and flourishes and the Admiral's March were rendered to Admiral Nomy N e w Midshipmen Officers and the French National Ensign was brokA former enlisted Naval Reservist, Miden at the Worden Field flagstaff during shipman First Class Robert Rolend Wilson the gun salute. of Honolulu, T. H., has been appointed to the six-stripe rank of Midshipman Captain • • • with duties as Commander of the Brigade of Midshipmen.

Academy Represented a t As the new Brigade Commander, MidEducation Conference shipman Wilson will head the Academy's Brigade of 3,700 midshipmen until he gradin Cleveland uates on June 6 of this year.

The Naval Academy was represented at Second in command is Midshipman First the 1952 Conference on College Composi- Class John Ellsworth Ward, San Pedro, tion and Communication held March 28- Calif. Midshipman Ward will serve as the 29-30 at Cleveland, Ohio, by Professor Deputy Commander of the Brigade, with Allen Blow Cook, and five other members the five-stripe rank of Midshipman Comof the Department of English, History mander. and Government.

The appointment of the new midshipmen Associated with and sponsored by the officers was made by Capt. Charles A. BuNational Council of Teachers of English, chanan, Commandant of Midshipmen, and the CCCC has in recent years made defi- approved by Admiral Hill. nite progress in facing and solving probThe midshipmen are selected to serve as lems that confront the teachers of writing and speaking at the college level. More "stripers" on the basis of their individual than 2,000 college professors registered relative standing in aptitude for the Naval for the general session and panel discus- Service, leadership qualities, conduct and

At noon (Saturday, April 12) he witnessed the midshipmen's meal formation and received "March fast" on the steps of Bancroft Hall. He then addressed the Brigade assembled in the mess hall for luncheon.

He returned to Washington at approximately 3 :30 Saturday afternoon. ' The British Army Chief made a brief visit to the Xaval Academy with Admiral of the Fleet Lord Eraser of North Cape, the First Sea Lord and Chief of the British Naval Staff, on October 27, 1950, when both were in this country to confer on Atlantic Pact defenses.

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Chief of French N a v y Visits A c a d e m y The French Navy Chief of Staff, V. Adm. (d'Escadre) Henri L. J. M. Nomy, made a formal visit to the Naval Academy on April 2.

Admiral Nomy, who is equivalent to our Chief of Naval Operations, arrived from Washington at 11:30 a.m. Accompanying him were R. Adm. Georges Cabanier, French Naval Attache; Capt. Pierre Beret, French Naval Advisor to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( N A T O ) ; Cdr. Jean Sirouy, Assistant French Naval Attache; and Capt. Richard H. Phillips, USN, Escort Officer.

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FRENCH CHIEF OF NAVAL STAFF VISITS U. S. NAVAL ACADEMY V. Adm. Henri L. J. M. Nomy, French Naval Chief of Staff (center), is shown as V. Adm. Harry W. Hill, Superintendent of the N^val Academy (left), introduced him to Midn. Capt.

Robert R. Wilson of Honolulu, T. H., Brigade Commander, and Capt. Charles A. Buchanan, USN, Commandant of Midshipmen (right). Admiral Nomy toured the Naval Academy on Wednesday, April 2, and reviewed a full dress parade by the Brigade of Midshipmen in his honor.

academics. One-half of the First Class is eligible for selection as "stripers" from Naval Station Executive September to December of the academic Officer Relieved year, while the other half of the class is Cdr. William J. Carey, Jr., U S N , of eligible from December to March. During the final months, March to June, the mid- Normandy, Mo^, who graduated from the shipmen officers are selected from the en- Academy with the Class of 1939, relieved Cdr. Robert M. Hinckley, Jr., U S N , tire senior class of 787 midshipmen. as Executive Officer of the Annapolis NaMidshipman Zobel of Charleston, S. C , val Station on Monday, March 31. with five stripes and the rank of MidshipCommander Carey, the Commanding Ofman Commander, will command the First ficer of the U S S CONWAY (DDE-507) Regiment while Midshipman Charbonneau from April 1949 to February 1952, will of Manchester, N. H., will command the also serve as the Executive Officer of the Second Regiment. station ship U S S REINA• MERCEDES. MIDSHIPMEN LIEUTENANT COMMANDERS

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MOINES, the carrier SAIPAN, 10 de-

stroyers, four minelayers, three high speed transports and four oilers.

On the return voyage from Europe these ships will rendezvous at sea on July 17, and proceed to the Caribbean for gunnery exercises before visiting Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, from July 31 to August 2.

The second and third cruises will be exclusively for N R O T C students. The second cruise will leave Norfolk on July 18, with 1500 N R O T C midshipmen from 24 colleges and universities, and will return to Norfolk on September 5. Headed by the NEW JERSEY, the squadron will include the cruiser ROANOKE, six destroyers, a high speed transport and a tanker.

• • • The nine midshipmen selected to serve as "four stripers" with the rank of MidFirst Class Makes shipman Lieutenant Commander a r e : The third cruise will have 630 N R O T C Educational Visits to D.C. midshipmen aboard the cruiser PITTSMidshipman First Class Richard K. BURGH, four minesweepers and a high speed Gregory of Union Beach, N. J., who will The First Class began a series of educa- transport. These ships will sail from Norserve as t h ^ Brigade Operations Officer. tional visits to Washington, D. C , on folk on August 10, and return there SepMidshipman First Class James Kenneth April 1. The tours, regularly held each tember 5.

Nunneley of Tulsa, Okla., who will serve spring as part of the training for the midTen ships of the second cruise will renshipmen of the graduating class, included as the First Regiment Operations Officer. visits to the Naval Research Laboratory, dezvous in Caribbean waters with the _ Midshipman First Class Charles D. Man- the Capitol, National Geographic Society, six ships of the third cruise on August ring of Cleveland Heights, Ohio, who will Naval Observatory, the Naval Gun Fac- 26 for gunnery exercises, the Navy said. serve as the Second Regiment Operations tory and the Hydrographic Office.

R. Adm. James L. Holloway, USN, will Officer.

For these tours, the entire graduating command the entire Midshipmen's Cruising Midshipman First Class Robert P. Mac- class was divided into sevep groups of Force. H e will personally take charge of Donald of Inglewood, Calif., who will approximately 100 midshipmen each. They the first cruise with his flag in the M I S fserve as Commander of the First Battalion. were accompanied by two officers from the SOURI. Midshipman First Class Thomas George Executive Department and were met in the R. Adm. Harry R. Thurber, U S N , ComWeller, Jr. of Allentown, Pa., who will nation's capital city by an officer of the mander, Battleship Division Two, will comBureau of Naval Personnel who acted as serve as Commander of the Second Batmand the second cruise. His flag will be in escort officer during their visit. talion. the N E W JERSEY. R . Adm. Frank T. WatAt the Capitol the midshipmen were kins, Commander, Cruiser Division Two, Midshipman First Class James R. Bowser, Jr. of Oakmont, Pa., who will serve greeted and received a talk by a noted con- will command the third cruise. gressman. They were also given the opas Commander of the Third Battalion. portunity to call on the congressman from • • • Midshipman First Class Toxey Haas whom they received their appointment to Calif of Charleston, S. C , who will serve the Academy. as Commander of the Fourth Battalion.

Navy's Ordnance Chief Tours were held April 4, 8, 22, 25, and 29.

Midshipman First Class John Frederick The midshipmen departed from Annapolis Addresses Midshipmen Pearson, Jr. of Arlington, Va., who will in Academy buses at 7:30 a.m., and returned R. Adm. Malcolm F . Schoeffel, Chief of serve as Commander of the Fifth Battalion. at approximately 6 :00 p.m. While in Washthe Navy Bureau of Ordnance, addressed ington they attended luncheon at the ArmyMidshipman First Class Lloyd Milton the First Class on March 14, in Mahan Lambert, Jr. of Willits, Calif., who will Navy Country Club.

Hall, on "Weapons of Tomorrow's Navy." serve as Commander of the Sixth Battalion.

• • • A native of Rochester, N. Y., Admiral Schoeffel stood first in his cliss upon grad• • • uating from the Naval Academy in 1918.

Navy to Train 5100 Upon completion of flight training at Pen3,000 Take Academy Midshipmen in 1952 sacola, Fla., in December, 1921, he was Summer Cruise Program designated a naval aviator.

Entrance Exams Approximately 3,000 nominees throughout the country took the three-day entrance examinations to the Naval Academy on March 26, 27 and 28.

The first examination was the Academy's aptitude test, held at 9:00 a.m., and was followed in the afternoon by a 90-minute plane geometry test.

Thirty-five ships, including the battleships -USS

MISSOURI,

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NEW JERSEY, will visit European ports during the 1952 summer midshipmen training cruises.

Three summer practice cruises will be held. Midshipmen will get practical training to supplement classroom studies in engineering, gunnery, navigation, communiThe other exams included English, Al- cations and tactics. gebra and U. S. History.

On board ships of the three cruises will Nominees, who will have completed one be 5,100 Naval Academy and Naval Reyear at an accredited college or university serve Midshipmen. Major ships of the first

by June, were required to take only the two cruises will visit ports in western Euaptitude tests. rope and the British Isles. The third cruise Of those taking the exams, 1,100 will be will operate in the Caribbean. Ports will selected to enter the Academy as members be named when clearances are complete, the Navy said. of the plebe class this summer.

All examinations were conducted under the supervision of the U. S. Civil Service Commission Examining Board.

Nominees in the Annapolis area took their examinations at Griffin Hall. Tests were simultaneously held in Baltimore, Easton, Hagerstown and Salisbury, Md., in Washington, D. C , and in every state in the country, Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and the Canal Zone.

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First cruise will sail from Norfolk, Va., on June 9 and return there August S. In the 26 ships of this Practice Squadron will be 1900 First and Third Classmen from the Naval Academy and 1700 seniors and sophomores from Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps Units at 28 colleges and universities.

The squadron will include the MISSOURI and WISCONSIN, the cruisers MACON and

Admiral Schoeffel, who was appointed the Chief of the Bureau of Ordnance in December, 1950, is the first naval aviator to serve in that capacity.

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New Sailing Officer A new Sailing Oflficer is handling the tiller for yachting enthusiasts at the Naval Academy. He is Cdr. E. Arthur Shuman, Jr., of Boston, Mass., who relieved Cdr. Robert M. Hinckley, Jr., as Sailing Officer.

Ordered to sea to command the Pacific Fleet's Escort Squadron 11, Commander Hinckley has served as Sailing Officer since May, 1949. He was also Executive Officer of the Naval Station at North Severn.

No novice to wind-propelled vessels, Commander Shuman, in 1932, was a crew member of the 68-foot auxiliary sloop HIGHLAND LIGHT, which was victorious in

that year's Newport, R. I., to Bermuda yacht race. The HIGHLAND LIGHT'S record time of 71 hours and 35 minutes has never been beaten in that biennial classic.

Commander Shuman will be the skipper of S H I P M A T E

the HIGHLAND LIGHT, which was presented

to the Naval Academy in 1940, in this year's Bermuda race.

NROTC Midshipmen Visit Naval Academy

A graduate of Georgetown University, Washington, D. C. (Class of 1929), Commander Shuman is a member of the Corinthian Yacht Club and the Eastern Yacht Club of Marblehead, Mass., the Boston Yacht Club, and the Naval Academy Sailing Squadron.

Four midshipmen from the Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps unit at Dartmouth College, Hanover, N. H., visited the Naval Academy, for a four-day indoctrinational visit, April 2-6.

The Dartmouth midshipmen volunteered to spend part of their spring recess at the Naval Academy in order to better acquaint Commander Shuman is presently an in- themselves with Navy instruction methods. structor in the Academy's Department of While at the Academy, they were asSeamanship and Navigation. signed midshipmen-hosts, whose daily rouAs the Sailing Officer, Commander Shu- tine they followed during their visit. The man will supervise all midshipmen races, four days at the Academy included classincluding those for the DuBose, Holloway room instruction, military and athletic and Thompson Knockabout Trophies, and drills, attendance at the Musical Club's will be in liaison with local boat clubs in show "The Saint on Tin Pan Alley," and arranging overnight midshipmen cruises Sunday Chapel services. and competition for the McMillan Cup. He Unlike the Naval Academy midshipmen, is also charged with qualifying naval perwho will become career officers in the sonnel in boat handling.

Regular Navy, Air Force and Marine Commander Hinckley, skipper of the Corps, the N R O T C midshipmen will enter Academy's yawl SWIFT, took first place the reserve component of the Navy or honors among Class "C" yachts last sum- Marines and spend a minimum of two years mer in the third biennial Newport-Annap- on active duty, following their graduation olis Ocean Race with a time of 109 hours from Dartmouth. and 51 minutes. As skipper of the 89-foot The visiting midshipmen were Sherman auxiliary schooner FREEDOM, he also won first prize in the First Annual CHESAPEAKE D. Horton, Jr., Roland B. Leavens, John D. Musa, and John Tuck, Jr. Dartmouth is one SKIPPER Invitational Yacht Race. of the 52 American colleges and universities participating in the Naval Reserve • • • Officer Training program.

New Type Minesweeper Launched at Annapolis The U S S MSB-S, a new type S7-foot wooden-hulled diesel minesweeper, slid into the water after its christening at the yards of John Trumpy & Sons on March 18.

Mrs. Charles M. Cox broke the champagne bottle on the tiny minesweeper's bow. She is the wife of Cdr. Charles M. Cox, USNR, Supervisor of Naval Shipbuilding in Annapolis.

Among the guests attending the ceremonies were V. Adm. Harry W. Hill, USN, Commandant of the Severn River Naval Command; R. Adm. Harold D. Baker, U S N , Assistant Chief of Naval Operations for Ship Characteristics; R. Adm. Evander W. Sylvester, U S N , Assistant Chief of Ships in the Bureau of Ships; and Capt. William C. Latrobe, USN, Supervisor of Shipbuilding and Inspector of Naval Ordnance in Baltimore.

Designed for off-shore minesweeping, the USS MSB-S is the first of a new type of light motor minesweeper. She will be placed in service this October, and assigned to the Atlantic Fleet. The Navy has contracted for 48 of these vessels, of which the Trumpy boat yard is building 10. She was designed by Mr. John Trumpy to Navy specifications.

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Midshipman Jelley Elected Editor of "Trident" The results of the election of officers for the Trident magazine for the 1952-53 academic year have been announced by Capt.

Charles A. Buchanan, Commandant of Midshipmen.

Midshipman Second Class Phillip M. Jelley, son of R. Adm. and Mrs. Joseph F. Jelley, Washington, D. C , was elected editor-in-chief.

Midshipman Second Class Rufus J. Moore, son of Mr. and Mrs. Rufus F. Moore, Lafayette, La., was elected business manager.

The Trident magazine is a major activity of the Trident Society at the Academy.

Its objective is the development of naval literature within the Brigade, and the maintenance of naval traditions and spirit. The magazine is published monthly and presents the literary and artistic contributions of the Brigade, as well as works of modern naval authors. It,consistently ranks as one of the best undergraduate literary publications in the country.

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With facilities for a crew of six, the Library Presented Books boats are squat, but highly seaworthy and Mr. Harold F. Linder of New York are capable of approximately 10 knots.

Virtually unarmed, they will work in co- City has presented the Naval Academy Library with the valuable 54-volume ediordination with larger vessels. tion of the "Wisdom of Thirty Centuries," The Trumpy boatyard, in existence un- published in 1950. der various names since 1909, received its first Navy contract in 1917, when thirty The compilation of the 54 great books of 110-foot submarine chasers were built. Also the Western Worjii, is the result of eight in a World W a r I contract, the yard built years of preparation by men assembled by hulls for 200 Navy flying-boats. Recently the the University of Chicago and the Enyard was awarded a contract for a number cyclopaedia Britannica. Their recommendof 50-foot utility boats. In November 1950, ed list contained 443 works of 74 authors, Trumpy built the Navy's first all-welded exclusive df the Bible, which is already aluminum vessel, the motor torpedo boat accepted as one. of the greatest pieces of U S S PT-811.

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The Library has also received a copy of the "Laws of the Navy, and other Poems" by the late British Admiral Ronald Hopwood, R.N. The book was presented by Admiral Hopwood's widow, Mrs. Ronald Hopwood, of London, England.

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The photos were taken from elaborately reconstructed and authentic scenes of that famous battle, and depict the battle from beginning to end. The sinking of each ship, both American and Japanese, is accurately recorded.

Mr. Norman Bel-Geddes, of New York, was contracted by the Navy to produce the folio, which is one of three in existence.

The events concerned were reconstructed by placing detailed scale models against a background simulating the surface of the

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The original 171-year old document, in the form of a bill submitted to the Continental Congress by Jones, has been presented to the Museum by Mr. Hall Park McCullough of North Huntington, Vt. Written in Jones' meticulous hand, the bill requests back pay for the time he served in the Navy as senior First Lieutenant and later as Captain. The bill reads: "The Honorable Board of Admiralty of the United States of America . . . To the Chevalier Paul Jones, Dr., for pay in the navy as follow Viz.—To pay as senior first lieutenant of the navy a 20-dollars per month from the 7th of December 1775 to the 10 of May 1776. 5 months & 3 days, being then promoted by right of service and succession to the rank and command of captain in the Navy £ 39 "To pay as Captain in the Navy at 60 dollars per month from the 10th of May 1776 to the 26th of June 1781. 60 months and 15 days being then elected by Congress to command the AMERICA

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Pennsylvania currency ,£1400-5 Philadelphia 26th June 1781 The Chev. Paul-Jones" The total "Xi 1,400.5," equalling the $3,732.00 claimed, is entered at the bottom of the bill, followed by the signature "Chev. Paul-Jones." This would make "pound" in Pennsylvania currency then worth $2.07.

The bill was submitted to cover the total time that Jones served in the American Navy, advancing from the rank of Lieutenant to Captain.

During his five years of active service as a Captain, Jones many times subdued mutinous sailors aboard his vessels by paying them from his own pocket. He does not include this sum in his claim for back pay.

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Several times while serving in France, his sopranos, a group of men, many of whom own personal funds saved "face" for the sang in the choir when they were boys, sang the tenor, alto and bass parts during Americans. the concert.

It was during the period covered bj- this The St. Paul's Choir came to the Acadbill, that Jones gained world fame in winning the battle between the BOXHOMME emy at the inritation of Professor Donald RICHARD (secured from the French) and C. Gilley, Academy Organist and Choirthe British ship SERAPIS. His famous master. During the concert the public had words. "I have not yet begim to fight," the opportunity to hear the boys sing the shouted from the deck of his sinking ship, cantatji, "The Crucifixion." have long remained a stirring slogan in Following the concert, the choir boys our naval history, and a tribute to the courage of the hero who uttered them. For this were dinner guests of the Brigade. victory, Louis X\"I created him a Cheva• • •*: lier of the Legion of Honor, a title which Jones frequently used thereafter.

Following the famed SERAPIS-RICH.\RD battle, Jones was ordered back to the United States to take command of the new AMERICA, and it was then that he applied for his back pay. Upon arrival at Philadelphia, where the .\MERICJ\. was being built, he received a shocking bit of news.

He was never to sail aboard the AMERICA in any capacity. The Continental Congress had decided that the ship should go to France in repaj-ment for the rotting hulk, BoxHOMME RICHARD. This was a great blow to Jones, who had already experienced his full share of heartbresiks in his efforts to gain support and recognition for the infant Xa\-y.

Disillusioned, Jones then went to Russia and served as a Rear Admiral under Catherine the Great, but his heart was not in the work. He returned to Paris and waited two }"ears, hoping again to be commissioned by "his Xavy." The commission never came, and Jones died in Paris in 1792, a hero to the French, but penniless and almost forgotten by his countrjTuen. !Many years later his greatness was recognized by the Americans, and in 1905 a squadron of warships brought his body home to the United States. Today he lies in the Crypt of the Xaval Academy Chapel, a fitting resting place for John Paul Jones, who answered the hail to surrender with . . . "I have not yet begun to fight!"

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Spring Parades The weekly full dress parades of the Brigade of Midshipmen were resumed on Wednesday, March 26.

The parades will be held each Wednesday afternoon through May 21, weather permitting, on Worden Field. Grandstands have been erected for the use of visitors.

Parades begin at 3:15 p.m., jmd last approximately one hour. Thousands of visitors come to Annapolis each spring from the Baltimore and Washington areas to watch these colorful spectacles.

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The U. S. Ambassador to Yugoslavia, Mr. George V. Allen, who has served in that capacity since January, 1950, addressed the First Class midshipmen on "Yugoslavia" at 8:00 p.m., Thursday, April 10, in Mahan Hall.

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Rear A d m i r a l H. W a l l i n Annapolitans, who had been speculating Addresses Class of ' 5 2 about "Watch for the Saint!" signs in shop windows and bulletin boards about town, found the answer when the three-act allmidshipman musical comedy "The Saint on Tin Pan Alley" was presented in Mahan Hall on March 28-29, April 5-6.

Two hundred and forty midshipmen, members of the Musical Clubs, worked together to bring the Academy its first musical-with-a-plot in 25 years. Previous musical presentations have consisted of unrelated vaudeville acts or "re\-ues."

The storj', which centered around two unsuccessful Broadwa5' producers and a saintly Shakespearean character, was written by Midshipmen Michael J. Fogarty, Phillip M. Fox, and Donald F. McPadden, the show's producer.

A 20-midshipman chorus provided background effects, with the third act featuring •* • • the entire Glee Club of 65 voices, under the direction of Midshipman First Class James Final Cadet-Midshipman F. Link, of Dj^ersv-ille, Iowa.

Exchange Visit Music for the show included the popular Xinety-four Second Class midshipmen hits "C'est si Bon," "La Vie en Rose," were hosts for an equal number of Second "Make Believe" (from "Showboat"), and Class cadets from the Military Academy "Pretty Baby." The song "An Hour From at West Point, April 3-6, for the last Tomorrow" was performed before a public Cadet-Midshipman Exchange Weekend for audience for the first time. It was written the 1951-52 academic year. The cadets ar- by songwriter Harry Payne, who wrote "Whispering." The "Saint on Tin Pan rived Thursday evening, April 3.

Alley" score was played by the 20-piece Approximately 159 Second Class mid- Midshipman Dance Orchestra, conducted shipmen journeyed to AN'est Point, arriving by Midshipman First Class Laurence W. at the !NIilitary Academy about the same lannotti, of Xew Haven, Conn. time the cadets reached Annapolis.

Original sets for the musical were creThe visiting cadets were greeted in ated by Midshipman First Class John R. Smoke Hall by Midshipman Captain Ro- C. ^Mitchell of Xorth Quincy, Mass. bert R. Wilson, Commander of the Brigade Associate Professor Donald C. Gilley of Midshipmen. Following the reception, the cadets were introduced to their mid- acted as faculty advisor; Lt. Cdr. Jewett A. Baldridge, USN, was the officer repshipmen hosts. resentative.

The cadets accompanied their hosts to Only one female part, an old washerformations, classes, lectures, athletic events and Sunday's Chapel services. On Saturday woman, was cast for the musical, and was morning the cadets were given a complete played bj' Midshipman Fourth Class David tour of the Academy grounds and the vari- A. Reedy, of Detroit, Mich. ous academic departments. They also attended " Y P " drills with their hosts on Chesapeake Bay.

R. .\dm. Homer N. Wallin, USN, Chief of the Bureau of Ships, addressed the First Class on "Ships of Tomorrow's Navy" at 8:00 p.m., March 19, in Mahan Hall.

A native of Washburn, N. D., Admiral Wallin graduated from the Naval Academy in 1917. He was transferred to the Navy's Construction Corps in September, 1918, and was then ordered to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for a postgraduate course in Xaval Architecture.

He commanded the Xaval Shipyard at Philadelphia from Xovember, 1946 to January, 1949, and was then transferred to command the Xorfolk Xaval Shipyard at Portsmouth, \"a. In Januarj', 1951, he was appointed as the sixth Chief of the Biu-eau of Ships.

Following Sunday's noon meal in the St. Paul's Boys' Choir mess hall, the cadets returned to West Sings a t Academy Point.

• • • The Boys' Choir of Old St. Paul's Church of Baltimore presented a public concert at the Academy Chapel at 5:00 p.m., Sunday, March 30.

Directed by Mr. Edmund S. Ender, who is nationally known for his talent in training young voices, the St. Paul's Boys' Choir, which is composed of 35 men and boys, is considered to be one of the outstanding choirs of its kind in the East.

The boy sopranos range in age from nine to 15, and are all students of the St. Paul's School for boys. In addition to the young

Ambassador to Yugoslavia Addresses Midshipmen

M a y in M a r y l a n d

By HERMAN M A N N *

Again it's May in Maryland Again the world is young And Maryland is fairyland With loveliness farflung The Springtime wind so bland and kind Sweeps soft across the Bay .\s if it brought this precious thought "Here angels rest and pray." * Herman Mann is an alumnus of the United States Naval Academy Class of 1895. He is a well-known poet and has written for the Wall St. Journal.

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PROMOTIONS

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A Navy selection board, which convened January 22, 1952, announced the approval of 1,046 of the Medical Corps, Nurse Corps and Medical Service Corp Officers for promotion from Lieutenant, junior grade, to the grade of Lieutenant.

Officers who were considered by the board were those of the Regular Navy and Naval Reserve on active duty since. June 30, 1951 and earlier whose line running mates had dates of rank prior to July 1, 1949.

Of those selected 901 were Medical Corps Officers, 87 were in the Nurse Corps and 58 were in the Medical Service Corps.

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In Permanent oncf Temporary Grades The following are the junior officers in permanent and temporary grades, U. S. Navy, who have either been commissioned in, or have become due for promotion to the grades indicated.

LINE Permanent Temporary Rear Admiral Frederic S. Withington Henry C. Daniel Captain Frank D. Giambattista Joseph I. Manning Commander Robert R. Startzell Howard T. Schott Lieutenant Commander John W. Sedwick DeWitt W. Hazelton Lieutenant Walter S. DeLany, Jr. Harry E. Hanson MEDICAL CORPS Permanent Temporary Rear Admiral Leslie O. Stone Winfred P. Dana Captain Stephen M. Smith James G. Bulgrin Commander Frank D . Virginio Carl E. Wilbur Lieutenant Commander James R. McShane Robert H. Brown Lieutenant Donald R. Mundie George F. Elsasser, Jr. S t I P P L Y CORPS Permanent Temporary Rear Admiral George E. Yoran Joseph L. Herlihy Captain Carlos M. Chameco Lamar Lee, Jr. Commander John D. Carson Stuart A. MacCaffray Lieutenant Commander Wellington H. Lewis Juston G. Holton Lieutenant John W. Holmes Raymond O. Lewis C H A P L A I N CORPS Permanent Temporary Rear Admiral Stanton W. Salisbury Stanton W. Salisbury Captain Frederick W. Meehling John F. Hagen

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Commander John H. Shilling Mathew J. Bouterse, 2d Lieutenant Commander Loren M. Lindquist William J . Walsh Lieutenant Peter H. Brewerton Patrick A. Killeen CIVIL ENGINEER CORPS Permanent Temporary Rear Admiral Wm. O. Hiltabidle, Jr. Wm. O. Hiltabidle, Jr. Captain Henry G. Clark John A. Stelger Commander Luther S. Reynolds William T. Maley, Jr. Lieutenant Commander Alexander P. Zechella John F. Beaver Lieutenant Ralph G. Grahl, Jr. Harold B. Phelps, Jr. D E N T A L CORPS Permanent Temporary Rear Admiral Alfred R. Harris Herman P. Eiebe Captain Daryle S. McClung Commander Harold N . Siemer Frederick B. Lukins Lieutenant Commander Eugene C. Walter Justin F. Stolitsky Lieutenant William N . Grammer Carlo A. DeLaurentis Max A. Moon

MEDICAL SERVICE CORPS Permanent Temporary Commander Jasper E. Morgan Willard C. Calkins Lieutenant Commander Henry H. Laramore Robert S. Herrmann Lieutenant Ned B. Curtis Marion W. Long N U R S E CORPS Permanent Temporary Commander Clyde B. Pennington Bertha R. Evans Lieutenant Commander Estella K. Lange Ruth J. Mitchell Lieutenant Ethel M. Weik Mary E. Turner

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TRAINING Radioman School

April 7, 1952 is the opening day of classes in the Navy's newly-established school for training of personnel in the radioman rating at Bainbridge.

The new radioman school will be a component of the Service School Command and under the military command of the Commanding Officer, Service School Command and under the management control of the Chief of Naval Personnel.

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March 10 was the opening day of classes in the Navy's newly-established school for training of personnel in the torpedomen's rating at Coddington Point, U. S. Naval Training Station, Newport, R. I. The new torpedo training school will be a component of the U. S. Naval Training Station and will be under the military command of the commanding officer, U. S. • Naval Training Station, Newport, and under the management control of the Bureau of Naval Personnel.

The first class in the new thirty-week course in advanced training will be enrolled on March 31, with subsequent classes at four-week intervals, the first class in the beginners training for the torpedo rating will be convened on March 10 with subsequent classes at four-week intervals.

The torpedo school was previously located at Goat Island for many years before being moved to Coddington Point.

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ECONOMIC STABILIZATION

A correspondence course in Instruction in Economic Mobilization is available at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces to selected officers of the Regular Navy or Naval Reserve on active or inactive duty.

Officers must meet the following eligibility requirements for enrollment in the course: Must have a college education or equivalent; hold the rank of lieutenant commander or above (lower ranking officers who are unusually well qualified in other respects may submit their applications for consideration) ; officers on active duty should possess certain military occupational qualifications allied to the field of economics.

In addition. Reservists on-inactive duty should have one or more of the following qualifications: Must hold a responsible civilian position in or allied to the field of economics; have a mobilization assignment in a military organization or government agency in or allied to the field of economics ; have a baccalaureate degree in the field of economics and have completed the field economic mobilization course.

The course is designed to prepare officers for emergency service in command, staff, and planning assignments in the military establishment.

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The U. S. Navy Recruiting Service has been authorized to recruit qualified theological students for appointment as Ensigns in the Naval Reserve for inactive duty.

The previoiis regulation which required seminary students to be members of the Navy or Marine Corps Reserve before they were eligible for the Chaplain Corps has been cancelled. Young men who are 19 through 29 years of age inclusive and who are attending, or have been accepted for the next entering class in an approved theological seminary may be appointed as Ensign, USNR, and those interested should apply through their nearest office of Naval Officer Procurement.

All applicants must have had 120 semester hours of credit in undergraduate school.

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FRANCIS X.

MURPHY

(A Vantage Book, $3.00) "Fighting Admiral" is the record of Dan Callaghan's distinguished career in peacetime and in World War II. It is a record that should be an inspiration to every man who enters the service of our country.

This is a swift, brilliant, tempestuous story of naval life on the seas and those who sailed for their country upon them.

You can almost see mighty cruisers plowing through the churning sea, salt spray mingling with the smoke of belching eightinch guns, Dan Callaghan on deck, peering ahead into the terrifying darkness, hopelessly tryirig to distinguish friend from foe, praying for help, determined to direct the fire upon the mightiest of the embattled Japanese warships which surrounded them.

Dan Callaghan's whole career as a student arid officer of the United States Navy had prepared him for this moment. It was inevitable that at that hazardous time a man of intrepidity and with the character of Dan Callaghan should have been guiding the destinies of virtually the only effective naval force possessed by the United States in that area.

Gallantly Dan Callaghan 'gave his life for his country, but he will always be remembered as one of the Navy's greatest heroes.

"Fighting Admiral" was written by Father Francis X. Murphy, who was well knowm and well loved as the Catholic Chaplain at the United States Naval Academy from 19'44 to 1947.

Davis Amendment Passes

The following addition to the story on the Davis amendment was written a week after the above copy, after the House passed the junendment in slightly amended form.

The changes made by Representative Davis in his original estimates are very slight decreases in the number of officers in top grades, as percentages of total personnel, and very slight increases in the number of officers in lower grades, from captain down, as percentages of total personnel. The number of lieutenants remains the same.

Davis also requested that the amendment become effective beginning with the third quarter of the fiscal year 1953, or on April 1, 1953, instead of early in the year.

The followdng tables show, according to Davis, the intended result of his amendment, with the revised or new percentages for the Navy and the Marine Corps as compared with the old percentages, shown imder columns A and B in the Navy and Marine Corps tables.

This subject will be clarified when the Senate considers the appropriations bill.

According to a spokesman for the House Armed Services Committee, Davis' revised amendment might still result in some demotions. You will note that there is a considerable reduction in the number of Commanders as proposed by Davis as compared to the number proposed in the bill, from 7,558 to 7,104, and an increase in the number of lieutenant-commanders, from 10,666 to 10,866.

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(Continued from page 7) "These bills wotjld extend similar recognition to the cadets and midshipmen of World War I and the Spanish-American War. "There would appear to be no sound basis for withholding war-time service status from cadets and midshipmen who performed full-time active military service in any war when such status is accorded to numerous other classes of persons performing military service little different in nature and in many cases much less rigorous, as for example in basic training camps in the United States."

H.R. 2384 has passed the House.

Pension Limitations. H.R. 4387, which passed the House in 1951, would increase annual income limitations for death pensions and for disability from $1,000 to $1,800 for a veteran or a widow alone and from $2,500 to $3,000 for a veteran or widow with a child or children. However, the bill abolishes the exclusioit' of certain income, particularly from government insurance

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The Retired Officers Association favors the latter bill. The Association insists that life insurance payments from all soiu'ces should be excluded in computing income subject to hmitations.

Fiscal year 1963 budget June 30, 1963

Streamlined techniques are continually being developed to reduce the number of personnel needed for certain tasks. At the U. S. Navy Receiving Station, San Diego, alone, the number of operating personnel has been reduced by 25, without impairing eflSciency, through an exhaustive study by administrative experts.

Work which has been going on for years is of necessity needed for an organization as large as our modern Navy which must be operated like any big business, and by reducing numbers of billets, more qualified personnel are released for combat duty.

Study and development of personnel saving methods in the field are under the guidance of the Research Division of the Bureau of Naval Personnel in Washington, D. C. In January 1952, the Service School Command at the Naval Training Center, Bainbridge, Md., with the aid of technicians from the Bureau of Naval Personnel, revised procedures for processing students and for processing the paperwork involved in the routine work of handhng leave requests. As a result, a conservative estimate is that the revised procedures have saved more than one-third in man hours and dollars if the command had been operated in a routine maimer.

Among other Naval installations which have felt the effect of work analysis is the Administrative Command at the Great Lakes Training Center, Great Lakes, 111., which dropped eight uniformed personnel from the department as a result of work simplification studies; another is in the Western Sea Frontier where vdth the application of the Officer Job Classification System developed by the Research Division, the command has been able to reduce their staff mobilization billet requirements by 38 billets, or nine and four-tenths percent.

Studies in this direction are a continuing process and new and even more improved techniques that mean savings are constantly being uncovered, and they are being applied to all installations as rapidly as possible.

S. 2641 introduced by Senator George (Dem., Ga.) this past February, provides for the same increases in ceilings but authorizes exclusion, in computing income, of income from sources excluded by existing laws and regulations, and certain other income, as commercial life insurance.

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Naval installations, from Bainbridge, Md., to San Diego, (3alif. are realizing savings in money and manpower because detailed analyses of various work aspects have resulted in revised procedures in many cases that have saved as much as one-third in man hours and dollars.

payments, now allowed by law, in determining the individual's annual income.

Estimated, June 30, 1962

The work of U. S. Navy researchers— those technicians who analyze jobs and promote the use of improved management techniques—is paying off, afloat and ashore.

Each man will also be required to secure the Ecclesiastical Endorsement^ of his religious body.

Students who are commissioned as Ensigns in the Chaplain Corps of the U. S. Naval Reserve will be given the opportunity to accept a commission as a Lieutenant, junior grade, in the Navy Chaplain Corps upon graduation from seminary ordination.

Actual, Oct. 31, 1951

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I W ROBOT PILOT DEVELOPED: M m FIRST FOR FLAT TOPS The U. S. Navy has accepted its first automatic steering system for aircraft carriers, it was annoimced here today by the Sperry Gyroscope Co. The new robot helmsman, developed in the company's engineering laboratories, will be installed aboard the USS

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The new device is a tubeless version of the Sperry electronic automatic pilot developed to steer destroyer escorts controlled by radio from aircraft in a special project during the war.

A magnetic "brain" which anticipates steering motions replaces conventional electron tubes used to control earlier automatic pilots. The magnetic "brain" was developed especially for heavy duty naval use.

Without human aid, the robot will steer prescribed zig zags and follow course schedules computed by special navigation devices. It will also hold the ship precisely to straight gyro courses, despite disturbing forces of wind and sea. It is capable of turning the ship to a new course in the least possible time without overshooting the course.

Deck personnel can take over and steer the ship manually at any instant - simply by turning the manual steering wheel. They can also control the steering system from remote stations by means of a portable controller carried on a shoulder strap.

One use of the robot will be to steer the aircraft carrier into the wind during the launching and landing of aircraft. This operation requires keeping the wind a precise number of degrees off the port bow to neutralize the turbulent stream of air which flows around the ship's island. This course setting must be held within close tolerances.

desired course, the "brain" is able to calculate how much opposing rudder it must apply to stop the ship's turn exactly on the desired course. The "brain" also contains an integrator which compensates for wind effects and errors in settling onto the new course.

Submarine Used First Navy Robot

Although automatic pilots today are common devices aboard merchant vessels, the Navy has not yet made them standard gear aboard combat ships. At present, fewer than nine naval combat vessels carry them.

These have been installed for evaluation tests. The Sperry electronic robots now in service on destroyers and submarines are experimental predecessors of the new one developed for the ORISKANY.

SPECIAL AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING SERVICE The U. S. Naval Institute, at its annual meeting February 21, presented a plaque surmounted by its Gold Medal to the George Banta Publishing Company of Menasha, Wisconsin. The award was in recognition of thirty years of continuous and outstanding service to the Naval Institute by that company.

In 1922, when the Naval Institute and the George Banta Publishing Comipany established business relations, both organizations were small in size and activity.

Since then the Naval Institute has become an internationally known organization, and the George Banta Publishing Company has become one of the nation's largest printing houses.

The presentation of the plaque and Gold Medal was made by V. Adm. Harry W. Hill, vice president of the Naval Institute and was accepted by Mr. George Banta, Jr., chairman of the board of the George Banta Publishing Co. Mr. Cyril A. Peerenboom, first vice president, and Mr. Irwin H. Wensink, regional representative, accompanied Mr. Banta at the presentation.

PORTRAIT PRESENTED TO NAVY DEPARTMENT

First automatic pilots for ships, developed originally by Sperry, were used on merFriends and classmates of Adm. Frederick chant vessels beginning in 1921. The Navy C. Sherman will be interested to know that first used automatic steering in 1926 aboard a fine oil portrait of him, painted by Mrs. the submarine S-22. A dozen more ships— Robert K. Tiedeman, daughter of Dorsey submarines, destroyers, battleships, and O. Thomas, Class of 1910, has been given cruisers—^were equipped during the follow- to the Navy Department by Mr. Thomas. ing decade. These earlier ships were either The Secretary of the Navy has expressed lost during the war or decommissioned. appreciation for the gift which is a most Their robot pilots were not electronic and welcome addition to the Navy Department's did not contain anticipating rate devices or collection of portraits and is available for integrators. display on suitable occasions.

Will Aid Refueling at Sea

The robot can aid the carrier in its role as a tanker for refueling ships while under way at sea. Accurate steering of the carrier on a straight course is essential because the receiving ship must sail within a reasonably close distance alongside without being pulled against the carrier. More accurate steering on the carrier m^kes it easier for the receiving ship to keep station on the carrier.

Advantage of automatic steering is that it can hold the ship's heading accurately over long periods of time. In smooth weather an expert quartermaster can continue accurate steering for periods up to half an hour, then his control over the course begins to wander because of fatigue.

The robot can follow a prolonged rapid flow of course change commands, such as might be occasioned in automatic tracking of targets or automatic evasive maneuverings.

The new robot's magnetic "brain" anticipates the ship's steering motions by measuring the ship's rate of turn. By comparing this rate to the ship's departure from the M Ar

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NEW ROBOT PILOT, the Navy's first for air^iaU .amcrs, is demonstrated by development engineer in Sperry automatic steering laboratory. Dials show quartermaster the ship's course, rudder commands, and positions calculated by the robot's magnetic "brain" as it automatically directs the vessel to a new course. The "brain" is located beneath panel. Small ship's wheel is for manual steering.

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Since the station first went on the air in March of 1949 it has grown quite a bit.

The first transmitter was a surplus Army Signal Corps radio that was modified for broadcasting by the staff. This relic has since been replaced by a 250 watter that was given the station by the Armed Forces Radio Service. And plans are currently being made for the .construction of a bigger and better one that will eventually replace the 250 watter.

The FCC licenses the station to broadcast on a frequency of 640 kilocycles as a limited area outlet. Instead of using an antenna, which would carry the signal too far, the output is fed into the lighting circuit fdr the Hall.

On the air sixteen hours a day, the Voice of the Brigade of Midshipmen presents a variety of music designed to please all of the radio owners of the Brigade some of the time. Almost all of the music played is selected from some 35,000 pieces, mostly on A F R S transcriptions.

In the Collector's Corner we found thirdclassmen Tim Woods and Ken Ruggles with a pile of jazz recordings. Discs by Dixieland artists are the stock-in-trade of this pair, and the music they play every Tuesday night has a solid two beat rhythm.

Tim is the voice of the duo and Ken the hands that put the music on the turntable.

Ken is also about the hottest thing on the staff, having recently gotten across the output stage with a pair of pliers. They say smoke curled out of his ears for a week.

Nearby, Cousin Gup Payne and Uncle Buck Chisolm, the Bancroft Moonshiners, were gathering material for the fastest thirty minutes in radio. The Moonshiners have been a fixture since 1950, and on the usual Tuesday afternoon can't squeeze all their requests into a half hour show. Fortified with over three thousand hillbilly and western recordings and ardent fans, the boys are waging a desperate battle to save Bancroft from April Stevens.

In the same line of entertainment are the Severn River Playboys, whose spot is the only live show broadcast. The Playboys, led by Leroy Bennett and his steel guitar, are Ed Mortimer, who picks a mean 16

flat guitar, and Roy Ference, who fiddles a smoking hoedown. The boys play down in the Band Room in the Second Wing basement and are put on the air through WRNV's remote facilities. Sticking mostly to mountain music, with a few Hawaiian numbers for variety, the trio is • well received.

But not all the station's music is aimed at jazz fans and exponents of mountain music. All day long the transmitter automatically rebroadcasts, by permission, the almost commercial free music of Washington's Transit Radio, WWDC-FM. During study hour, a program of easy listening music, mostly symphonic pops, is provided for the two upper classes.

Each night the fifteen minutes before taps is devoted to Tucking in Time, an interlude of soft dreamy music designed to make sleep come. easy. The theme song, Alvino Rey's Nighty Night, is enough to make anyone start to yawn. Another fifteen-minute show precedes evening meal.

Patterns in Lace is a warning that time is growing short and offers popular music, the menu, and the dope on formation.

As we explored we saw Studio A, which is on the level of Mem Hall and is used for most of the special shows, a wellequipped workshop to maintain the gear in operating condition, the transmitter itself, which sits up in the attic in a dusty cubbyhole, and the only legal coffee mess for mids in* the Hall. All of the carpentry work, including the laying of decks and sound-proofing the area, was done by the staff.

The tour came to an abrupt halt a few minutes before 1845, when Don seated himself at the mike to let the troops know that it was about time to brush off the number fuzzies and head down for some strawberry pie.

We were escorting a fellow's maiden aunt a few weeks ago while her nephew marched off a few hours accumulated E.D. Somewhat at a loss for things to entertain the spry old lady, we started on a tour of the yard, beginning at Mem Hall. After looking at the various captured flags and Perry's flag, she decided she would like to look at the bay. While she stood taking in the scenery, a youngster and several civilians arrived on the balcony to look over the construction in Smoke Park. One of his guests pointed out over the railing and asked what body of water that was out there. The mid thought for a few seconds, and then calling to mind his youngster cruise, opined that the body of water was the Atlantic Ocean. We were a little stunned, but the knockout blow was the aunt's comment, in a murmur loud enough to hear in Mahan Hall, "Yes, sir. And that land over there is the coast of Ireland."

Maybe the Bull Department should substitute plain old geography for the short course in geo-politics.

Sometime ago, it being Sunday afternoon and funds being a little low, we conserved and took in the yard movie. While the viewers were absorbed in a helter-skelter Red Skelton dance routine, the sound failed, the picture stopped and the A O O W walked up on the stage amid murmurs about the impossibility of escape. The officer apologized for interrupting, but explained that the Irish ambassador was presenting a bust of John Barry and the sound of the movie was distracting. In the interest of Irish-American amity we waited as quietly as possible (for a group of midshipmen). In the crush of leaving the bust was forgotten, until a few days later_ when we made a special trip to look at it.

It arrests the view as soon as the front doors to Mahan Hall are opened showing a middled aged Barry with a pleasant but determined visage. Quite in keeping with its origin, the bronze bust is covered with a beautiful bright green patina.

When a mid wants some minor repair made to his room, all he has to do is trot down to the MAA shack and leave a note.

New lights, a leaky faucet and such things sometimes seem to take a long time to be repaired to the waiting midshipmen. Once in a while service is a little quicker than expected. One lad, desirous of saving his eyesight, turned in a request concerning the overhead lights in his room. Hardly had he sat down upon his return, when the MA burst into the room making strange noises and looking wildly about. An examination of the note showed ample reason for his excitement. Weakeyes had requested a "new ceiling replacement for the light."

That's almost as bad as the plebe at the dinner table who requested, very early last fall, permission for the Fourth Class to "come around." It was granted much to his classmates' chagrin.

Not one of those that looks forward to the Woo-Poo trip as a relief from academic endeavor, a Second Class cutter decided that if he brought his steam text to the Point he could minimize the loss of standing involved in two days away from class.

So after second period class he put the book right on top of his bag where he couldn't forget it and went off to eat chow.

Later at the Fort on the Hudson he broke out his Thermo text for a few hours' slashing. His gleeful chortles died with a gasp of horror as the Form W from that morning fluttered slowly to the deck. The next afternoon the MCBO got what was probably the first special delivery letter ever addressed to the "MCBO, First Battalion Office."

One dark and dreary evening not too long ago, a youngster sat writing a letter to his girl. Being in a reflective mood, he wrote about the long time it had been since he had been fried and that perhaps he should expect to be picked off before long by the law of probability. The ink of the period was still wet when the A O O W appeared in the door and strode purposefully to the pipe locker with which the room was blessed, opened it and started to take names. It just so happened that the officer had lived iii the same hole when he was a midiot and had suffered similarly after being raided by a duty officer that had kept his contrabrand there in the thirties. Sam Spade could probably trace the whole thing back to the first man that occupied the room. But how did the first OD know?

At the moment there is a company officer at large who is partial to seaboots.

We can't blame him since they are comfortable. One day as he sat in the Batt office going over the previous day's forms, S H I P M A X E

another company officer from the same Batt walked in for a few minutes gossip.

At length he noticed the half Wellingtons and remarked, "Commander . . . doesn't like sea boots." The other, being SOPA, looked up from his labors and quietly answered, "Suppose we don't tell the Commander, then." Exit, other, downstage, right.

"Night?" screamed the sleeper jumping to his feet. Then he collapsed in a defeated blob, and staring at the deck muttered, "I'd have never made it anyway."

One can get pretty soft on these regular hours. Almost forget how to dissipate properly, as it were.

On a train bound from Newark to Baltimore, carrying the second classmen returning from their weekend with the cadets, a group of mids were trying to talk the conductor into letting their girls into the Navy car. The conductor stood firm as a rock. No dice. More argument. Still no signs of weakening. Finally in desperation a mid committed a tactical error and blurted, "Why?"

an imagined illegal coffee mess. After trying several doors, he pushed one open and recognized the inhabitants.' After .sniffing a few times, he queried, "Are you making coffee in here?"

"No, sir," was the startled reply.

"No guts?" laughed the officer.

Not to be outdone, the occupant replied in kind, "No, sir. No coffee."

While searching for a nickel that would work the Coke machine in the first wing Lately at infantry drill there is much basement, we walked into the Lucky Bag talk of the impending infantry competition, office where we found Bob Maich surand a bull session produced a tale from last rounded by his merry crew putting the last year's try for points. One platoon of chronic bit of copy in shape for the official record bucketfeet was picked to be the one used of '52's stay at Navy. The situation when for the record run in platoon drill. Things we viewed it was almost in hand, with only were progressing a little better than exa few portions of what may be one of the executing "to the rear, The conductor drew himself up and al- pected imtil^while best Lucky Bags ever assembled still missmen collided and a cap was ing. While Bob was explaining what was lowed that he had his orders. The mid, march"—two lost in the scuffle. One of th? men deftly being done, someone slipped a glue pot in realizing he had lost, exclaimed, "From caught cap in his free right hand and our hands and we were soon all sticky with whom ? A litle monkey-faced man in a green marchedthe holding it. He'd have been rubber cement. We never did get a nickel, suit?" Having taken in about four or five fine exceptaway he let success go to his head. thinking it best to quietly slip away un- minutes of the playlet, the Marine Corps A few stepsthat later command to switch piped up, "That's right. From a little rifles from the leftthe noticed. H e has a lot of glue down there. to the right shoulder monkey-faced man in a green suit. They While on spring leave a first classman can't come in." The mid made himself so was given and the cap-bearer, evidently in search of excitement was visiting one inconspicuous for the rest of the ride he mistaking himself for Blackstone, tried to juggle the cap and his rifle. He almost of the noisier establishments in Philly. As was almost invisibly. made it until he was bumped from behind he stood slowly sipping his brew and obThen there was the fellow who was in and dropped everything, including his serving the quaint natives, a sudden hush fell over the crowd and a few seconds later the habit of taking an evening nap in the platoon to twenty-third place. a soldier sailed majestically over a table. hour before chow every night. Generally At this point even Lee Shores can find Things got rather hairy, so being a dis- his wife called him in time to leap into his no more yarns to spin. A cup of joe waits blues and dash o f | t o formation.

But watchcreet soul our traveler stepped into a comer for me outside yon gate, and if we wait too and stood calmly by imtil the affray sub- es came and his "Wife caught his turn on the long it will be cold. As the condemned sided. Then he moved toward the door and first deck. Sleeping Beauty corked off any- murderer said to the noose, "Stay loose." the anonymity of the street. Too late. The way and slept right through the call to shore patrol had come to the rescue and a formation. After a few minutes, the mate burly Chief stood in the door herding the woke him up and in a fit of cleverness the customers back inside. The weekender hesi- sleeper raced off to formation in his b-robe Navy Ships, Large and tated and was nodded back inside. At this and slippers. He barely beat the late bell, crucial moment a second classman arrived and instead of 15 and 3 for absence netted Small, in Korean Waters on the scene and, taking the situation in 5 and 1 for being out of uniform.

Little in the news, are the activities of with a glance, pushed his cap onto the back First class are wont to ride elevators of his head and approached the Chief. "Hav- and OOWs are eager to catch them riding, U. S. naval vessels in action in Korean waters. In the first days of January, one ing trouble with this fellow?" he asked. which is reasonable enough. Consequently notes this Communique: The Chief noted the two diagonal stripes one night after chow an astute A O O W "Elements of R. Adm. John Perry's Fast and said, "Well, not exactly. . . ." Pressing charged up to the third deck of the third Carrier Task Force 77 were in the forewing and stood by the elevator doors exthe advantage the segundo suggested that front as the Korean east coast was taken the now thoroughly worried first classman pectantly. A lot of first class came on deck under attack from the sea and air. Task be released in his custody. The Chief but they all arrived legally, via the ladder. Force 77 CORSAIRS, SKYRAIDERS, P A N thought it over for a few seconds and gave Finally the disgusted officer asked a pass- THERS and BANSHEES killed an estimated in, remarking something about he didn't ing senior why no one was riding the ele- 200 troops, destroyed twelve bridges, deknow what would come of all these short- vator. The nonplussed first classman replied molished forty-nine suspected supply sheds timers if it wasn't for the cooler heads of that the power seemed to be off. Muttering and blew up thirty-three railroad cars. . . . those with time in. You can never tell who something that sounded like bah, the officer took off on a rapid tour of the deck without "Another element in T.F. 77, the heavy your best friend will be next. any luck. cruiser ROCHESTER, destroyed 16 enemy Three lads left here together to spend Meanwhile, some juice cut had come bunkers and closed Red trenches in seven Spring Leave at the home of one of the along that knew how to run the machine. places with 8-inch gunfire in naval artiltrio. Their plans, though corresponding Much to the horror of the MOD he made lery support of U.N. troops in the line at roughly, were not arranged to include all a perfect landing and strolled away uncon- battlefront terminus." three of them on each sortie. So after a cernedly. Soon after, the officer returned Continuing, the Communique makes menwild Thursday night, a busy Friday and a to the shaft and found an empty elevator hectic Saturday, all hands were a little leering at him and not a soul in sight. This tion of the destroyers DEHAVEN, MARbeat but still game. Two of the lads had time he gave up and took his message to SHALL, MACKENZIE and the destroyer DOYLE. dinner dates while the third was to go to greener pastures. a party sometime during the evening. DurIt all seems to add up to "Well Done" This stuff of living up high has several Task Force 77. ing the afternoon the party-goer set the alarm and sacked out for a few hours to drawbacks. Not the least of which is that L. J. G. build himself up for the coming ordeal. all the officials seem to have an idea that • • • The others, after checking the alarm, tip- the third and fourth decks are filled with toed away and left him to sleep a little miscreants; some sword bearers always In March 1951, a shell for every minute make a tour of the same area each time in one week (10,080 min.) landed in the longer. they have the guard. One such was prowl- Communist port of Wonsan, North Korea..

Much later when they returned, in the ing around in the fourth wing looking for not so wee hours of the morning, and were • • • moving around the kitchen brewing a cup On April 30, 1798 the Navy Department of joe, they heard a light go on in the bedwas established and Benjamin Stoddert was room, a sudden clatter and the sleeper ap^appointed first Secretary of the Navy. peared on the scene.

"What time is it?" he yawned. Someone looked at a watch and replied, "Threethirty."

"Sure is dark," mumbled the first.

"Always is at this time of night."

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Though postponed once by Maryland's April showers, the Blue and Gold was finally off and left indications that the overall track picture at the Naval Academy this spring is pretty good. Cold weather in this annual pre-season meet slowed times and produced a few surprises as the midshipmen prepared to open their 1952 campaign against Duke April 12.

This year. Navy is counting on the services of 20 returning lettermen and a host of outstanding members of the last year's plebe team.

Captain Bob Allison can be coimted on quite heavily in the javelin department (he was fourth last year in national intercollegiate standing) and is ably backed up in this event by Gerry Helland. It is most likely in the sprints and short distances that Navy excells to the greatest degree.

Andrews, Branson, Kane, Czaja and others seem to have the short distances well in hand while O'Grady, Tacke, Cooke, and Woolley will look for their points from the distances.

The mile relay team (Czaja, Reedy, Swan, and Branson) has consistently done very well against indoor competition this winter.

Bob Gay and Frank Morelli look good ^ . T , . , T - I ^ I T . . - , , . ^ _ Official U. s. Navy Photo in the shot and pole vault, respectively. Bob ^^7^} Academy Track Coach Earl J. (Tommy) Thomson (left) and his 1952 captain and javelm ace. Bob Allison. Midshipman Allison set a new Academy record last season when he threw the javelin 225 feet, 10% inches.

Dettmer, Walt Maser, and Jean Smith together with a host of others will show opponents one of the strongest hurdles teams that Navy has had in some time.

Crew Team at Work Piling Up Mileage As First Race Nears By

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The Navy crew team is at work along with the other spring sports squads. Here is seen one of the Academy shells setting out for a practice rowing session on the Severn River. Coach Russell S. (Rusty) Callow is in his second year as mentor of the Blue and Gold oarsmen.

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Navy's head coach, Russell S t R u s t y ) Callow is beginning his second season at the Naval Academy. Callow coached the University of Washiiigton crews from 1922 S H I P M A T E

to 1927 during which time his shells won the Poughkeepsie Regattas of 1923, '24 and '26. He went to Pennsylvania in the fall of 1927 and was head rowing coach there for 23 years imtil he came to the Academy in 1951.

During the 1951 season Navy placed second against Princeton, and first against Cornell and Columbia. In the Adams Cup Regatta the midshipmen rowed a close second. The season ended with a series of mishaps which placed the Navy crew twelfth at the I.R.A. Regatta at Marietta, Ohio.

The 1952 schedule began on April 19 against Yale at New Haven. Princeton and Wisconsin were raced on successive weeks on the Severn. On May 10 the Adams Cup Regatta will be held in Philadelphia. A week later the Eastern Championships will be rowed at Princeton. On May 31 Boston University meets Navy at Annapolis. The I.R.A. Regatta will be at Syracuse June 21.

In addition to the Navy eights, quads and doubles are training for the Olympics.

Ens. Jack Kelly, holder of the Diamond Scull and National Scull championship, an Olympic contender himself, is coaching the midslupman boats.

Fourteen returning lettermen and a squad of experienced plebes from last year give Coach Callow a good fovindation for the 1952 season. Boatings have been completely juggled since last season. If good weather favors Navy in the early workouts, a better-than-average contender can be expected, for the season.

Academy Golfers Hope to Improve On 6-and-2 Record

By M I D N . P . C. CONRAD, 2 / C

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WEATHER

By MIDN. D I C K AVRIT,

Even though the weather was cold for pre-season practice, the Naval Academy tennis team settled down quickly and stressed fundamentals, which proved the keynote in winning their opener against Maine in straight sets and allowing their opponents only 28 games in the whole meet.

With five returning lettermen and several good players from last year's plebe team, the midshipmen should do well in their coming schedule.

The difficult positions to fill, left vacant by graduation of Hank Goelzer at No. 1 singles, and Goelzer and Don Haynsworth at No. 1 doubles, Eastern Intercollegiate champions last year, were capably occupied in the midshipmen's opener against Maine.

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Ray Messinger and Carl Hoffner, proving a dangerous pair, subdued their opposition in their first doubles match by straight sets. Ralph Carson, who replaced Hank Goelzer in the top singles spot, found <^ winning form against his opponent from Maine.

Team Captain Ernest Schultz breeze4 through his match 6-2, 6-0. The Salina, Kan., senior felt that the team lacked the individual standouts of the last two seasons but that it had gained depth in teamwork and determination of all the players.

The team's mentcc. Coach Art Hendrix, formally a nationally ranked professional, agreed with Schultz in expecting an even better record than last seasonâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;in which the midshipmen won 13 and lost only 3.

Wright have had no trouble in finding the enemies' goal an easy target thus far this season. Burch is an All-Amerrcan candidate and is currently leading the scoring closely followed by Deale and Wright. The three attackmen work well together and have assisted each other in most of the goals.

Don Kniss and Hubert Strange are the workhorses of the team and are doing a bang-up job at their midfield positions.

They have been using their speed to good advantage when bringing the ball downfield.

Washington and Dartmouth Colleges proved stubborn and determined opponents during the first half of the games, but Navy's speed and scoring punch proved too much and the opposition had to yield under this added pressure in the second half. Navy was never seriously threatened in either of the games. With Harvard, however, the team had to overcome a S-() lead to gain victory. It was a close and hard fought game, but Navy clinched the win when Burch scored the winning goal in Official U. S. Navy Photo the closing minutes of play.

Lt. John T. (Jack) Martin, USNR, a 1945 The hardest games of the season should graduate with the Class of '46, has been named an assistant on the Navy varsity be with Maryland, Virginia, Princeton and football staff headed by Eddie Erdelatz. Johns Hopkins.

Martin was an All-American center of the Academy elevens of 1943 and '44.

Out of cold storage and onto the links comes a Navy golf squad which has high hopes of bettering last season's record of six wins against two losses. Al Williams and Dick Fontaine, last year's Nos. 1 and 2 men, were lost in the graduation exodus.

However, the returning squad has five lettermen who, along with several standouts of last year's plebe team, should develop into a well-roimded squad.

Opening against perhaps their toughest opponent, Duke, on April 12, Navy goes on to play Penn, Pitt, Penn State, Maryland, Princeton, Georgetown and Army.

John Inman, of Wefib City, Mo., captain Navy Lacrosse Ten Opens Season With of the '52 team, is joined by returning lettermen Charles Gumey, of Washington; Three Straight Wins George Hall, of Hattiesburg, Miss.; Cliff Thomas, of West Port, Conn., and Bill

By MIDN. ROBERT MANUEL, 2 / C Thompson, of Sharon, Pa. George Hall Dr. William (Dinty) Moore, heading inwas burning up the Naval Academy course to his 16th season as head lacrosse coach at in pre-season play.

Navy, is fielding an evenly balanced and Outstanding in the pre-season trials were speedy group of charges this year. Though Kenneth Highfill, high school ace from San cold and rainy weather hampered many of Diego, Calif., and Bill Ball, of Washing- the pre-season practices, the team is curton, D. C. Curt Karvala, first classman rently riding the crest of a three-game winfrom Eveleth, Minn., is Navy's playing ning streak in as many starts. Washington manager.

College (12-7), Dartmouth College (12Bob Williams, Navy coach, came to the 3), and Harvard University (8-7), have Naval Academy from the Baltimore Coun- been left in the wake of the highly spirited try Club in 1928 and has coached every and fighting midshipmen. midshipman squad since golf became a Heading this year's squad is Captain major sport at the Academy. His teams are possessors of a unique recordâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;they Bob McDonald at his usual defensive posihave never lost a match to Army. This tion. Bob was Brigade captain during the year Coach Williams and the Academy past winter, and is as fine a leader and golf squad will be hosts for the Eastern aggressive on the playing field as he is in Intercollegiate Golf Championships to be the Brigade. held on the Naval Academy course May 10, Navy's one-two-three scoring punch of 11 and 12. attackmen Bob Burch, Bill Deale and Dick MAY.

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Spring Sports Scores to Date Varsity Baseball (2-1) Navy 8, Rutgers 4 Vermont 6, Navy 5 Navy 4, Bucknell 1 Plebe Baseball (3-0) Navy 17, Bladensburg H S 9 Navy 6, Calvert Hall 0 Navy 6, Western H S 2 Varsity Lacrosse (3-0) Navy 12, Washington College 7 Navy 12, Dartmouth 3 Navy 8, Harvard 7 Plebe Lacrosse (I-O) Navy 9, Towson H S 1 Varsity Tennis (2-1) Navy 9, Maine 0 Harvard 6, Navy 3 Navy 8, Maryland 1 Plebe Tennis Navy 8, Maryland Frosh 1 (Continued on page 48) 19

Control desk of electronic analog computer with two plotting tables on which the paths of the missile and target are plotted. Some of the panels containing thousands of electron tubes, in the background.

ArmTr/Electrotiie BralrT Solves €omplex

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X H E world's largest and most accurate analog computer—designed and built by RCA for the U. S. Navy Air Development Center, Johnsville, Pa.—solves complex mathematical problems in a matter of seconds. The computer's "thinking" processes, which can be compared to the operation of a slide nde, employ some 4000 tubes and 600 high-speed relays.

Scale model used to simulate the behavior of a guided missile under actual flight conditions.

In a typical guided missile design problem involving 250 additions, 67 multiplications, 30 integrations, and 20 aerodynamic functions, all carried on simultaneously with continuously variable factors— this giant "electronic brain" gave the so-

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lution for an infinite number of points in less than 60 seconds. A mathematician and an assistant would require 6 months to compute a solution for a required minimum number of points to give an approximate answer.

This electronic analog computer will permit the U. S. Navy to evaluate the performance of guided missiles, ships, airplanes and submarines. It is another example of RCA's research, development, applied engineering, and field service activities which are providing our armed forces, on land, sea and in the air with better military equipment.

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UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

T h e Association has recently received from the executors t)f the estate of one of our deceased members of the Class of 1925, the substantial sum of $5,000.00 which was thoughtfully bequeathed to us in his will. As far as our records show, this is the first bequest which has been made to the Alvunni Association.

In their various fund raising campaigns, often professionally managed, the great majority of alumni associations make a direct appeal to those of their members w h o can afford to do so to remember their alma mater when drawing u p their wills. This approach is generally productive of pledges which r u n into the hundreds of thousands which sums are eventually realized by the college or university concerned.

Directly or indirectly, these alumni associations benefit by these bequests since nearly all of them rely to a certain extent on their alma mater for financial support.

Our association is not faced with the problem of raising funds in support of the Naval Academy b u t by the same token neither can we expect to receive one cent of financial aid from this source. W e must, however, be constantly in search of ways and means to raise funds t o cover the operating expenses of our organization and in this respect our problem is even more serious than that of most alumni associations.

There are many among our Altunn i w h o are financially able to make to our Alumni Association a modest bequest and to these former naval cadets and midshipmen, the action taken by oux alumnus of the Class of 1925 should be an inspiration and a challenge.

Please give this important matter your serious consideration and when favorable action has been taken on this request, so notify the Alumni Association. W e shall be most grateful for your bequest in any amount.

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OFFICERS To serve until after the Spring meeting 1952 President—Louis E. DENFELD, '12 Westhorough, Vice-President (Eastern Area)— H. MCCOY JONES, '19

Vice-President

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Washington, D. C.

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Area)— CDR. E . K . ZITZEWITZ, USNR, '25 Evanston, III. Vice-President (Western Area)— F. W. PIERCE, '22 Los Angeles, Calif.

Executive Director—C. E. CONEY, '19

TRUSTEES To serve until after the Spring meeting 1952 CDR. J . PIERRE BERNARD,

USNR, '23

R. ADM. R . W . GARY, JR., USN,

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(Washington)

(Annapolis) LT. CDR. W . B . JUPP, USN (Ret.),

'13 (New York) N. O. WYNKOOP, '16 (New York)

CAPT. CHESLEY M . EVANS,

'24 (Chicago) ADM. JONAS H . INGRAM,

USNR USN

THOS. M . SEARLES, '13

(Ret.), '07 (San Diego)

(Philadelphia)

F. A. STROHECKER, '24

(Seattle)

CDR. S. G. LAMB, USN (Ret.), '19

(Philadelphia) GEO. N . POWELL, '31 (Pittsburgh) CARLTON B . COEN, '34 (Cleveland)

CDR. J . H . FALGE, USN (Ret.), '12

V. ADM. J . F . SHAFROTH, JR., USN

D. S. WALKER, '24

A. ARNOLD BRAND, '14 CAPT. H . H . CALDWELL, USN,

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, '27 (Naval Academy) (Ret.), '08 (Washington) CAPT. C . L . until MELSON, To serve after USN the Spring meeting 195S CDR. W . F . BULLIS, USNR, '24 R. ADM. T . J. KELEHER, USN (Ret.), '08 V. ADM. E . W . MILLS, USN (Ret.), '18 CAPT. R . B . PIRIE, USN,

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G. 0 . CARTER, '05 CRAWFORD, USNR

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R. ADM. H . C. TRAIN, USN (Ret.), '09 V. ADM. G. F . HUSSEY, JR., USN (Ret.), '16

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New Leaders of America's Merchant Fleet H e r e is the most important addition to America's M e r c h a n t M a r i n e since the W a r — the Maritime Administration's new Mariner Class cargo ships. Some of these vessels have already been launched . . . all thirty-five of the fleet will be afloat within the next t w e n t y months.

T h e Mariners will be the world's fastest dry cargo fleet, with a speed in excess of 20 knots. T h e y will also be among t h e largest general cargo vessels — 560' 10", LOA, with a molded b e a m of 7 6 ' and a deadweight capacity of 12,910 tons. Their geared-turbine drive will develop 17,500 shaft horsepower.

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BULLETIN at tUe BOARD Soon it will be another June Week, and already the annual spring flock of visitors is beginning to multiply in number, with row after row of buses parked bumper to bumper along College Avenue. For those of you who have had to park the car a mile away from wherever you wanted to go, it's good news that there's considerable more parking space near Worden Field with the removal of the old railroad tracks running alongside the Severn River near the service station.

ilUMNI HOUSE

Ambassador to Yugoslavia and Mrs. George P. Allen were dinner guests of Admiral and Mrs. Hill last month in their quarters, with the Ambassador later addressing the First Class in Mahan Hall.

V. Adm. Laurence T. DuBose, Chief of Naval Personnel, paid an informal inspection visit to the Academy on Saturday, 5 April. That night Admiral and Mrs. Hill entertained at dinner for Admiral and Mrs. DuBose, after which they attended the Musical Club Show in Mahan Hall.

Quite a stretch of roadway was cleared and widened—and speaking of a widened Guest in the Superintendent's quarters area, the front of Bancroft Hall is undergoing a face-lifting, with the Mess Hall for several days last month was Mrs. Stanbeing extended to the road with "alleys" ley Timberlake of Indianapolis. of grass left along both sides . . . to remind Admiral Hill was host at luncheon to one of Smoke Park, a thing of the past V. Adm. (d'Escadre) Henri L. J. M. The enlarging of the Mess Hall is in Nomy, the French Navy Chief of Staff, keeping with the march of time, with some when he visited the Academy on 2 April— 5000 future midshipmen to be seated com- . together with five high ranking French fortably in the T-shaped hall. It would be naval officials. interesting to know how many dish-washIn the party were R. Adm. Georges Caing units will be needed to care for this number of diners . . . just fancy doing even banier, French Naval Attache; Capt. Pierre the cups and saucers in one's own kitchen.... Beret, French Naval Advisor to N A T O ; Cdr. Jean Sirouy, Assistant French Naval A picture of Annapolis today brings out Attache, and Capt. Richard H. Phillips, the fact that a society for the preservation USN, escort officer. of historical Annapolis has been formed, The group toured the Academy's Chapel, and on the organizing committee of IS members is Mrs. J. M. P. Wright, wife Museum and various academic departments, of Captain Wright, U S N . On the extreme and took in review the full dress parade other side of the picture, however, is the that afternoon. dubious honor which this city received Admiral Hill made the launching adwhen Maryland's inspector of jails dubbed Anne Arundel County's the worst in the dress at the John Trumpy & Sons Shipyard in Annapolis, when the minesweeper State.

MSB-5 was launched, with Mrs. Charles Cox, wife of Lieutenant Commander Cox, OFFICIAL USN, breaking the traditional bottle of V. Adm. Harry W. Hill, Superintendent, champagne on her bow. Commander Cox and Mrs. Hill, entertained last month for is resident supervisor of Naval Ship Builda friend of the Admiral's, Field Marshal ing in Annapolis. • Sir William J. Slim, Chief of the Imperial Guests included R. Adm. E. W. SylGeneral Staff of the British Army, and Lady Slim, when they were accorded full vester, USN, Assistant Chief of the Bureau of Ships; Capt. W. C. Latrobe, USN, honors upon arrival from Washington.

Supervisor of Ship Building and Inspector The acquaintance with the veteran colon- of Naval Ordnance in the Baltimore area, ial field commander came about when Ad- who spoke briefly; and Mrs. Hill. miral Hill visited the Royal Staff College in England, which was headed by Field Among the many guests attending the reMarshal Slim, after the close of World ception at the Annapolis Yacht Club imWar II. Admiral Hill had organized the mediately following the launching were National War College—he was its first Capt. and Mrs. Charles L. Melson, Capt.

Commandant—and went to England to study and Mrs. Charles E. Loughlin, Capt. and methods at the Staff College.

Mrs. Fred W. Walton, Cdr. and Mrs. The Field Marshal and Lady Slim ar- William F. Bringle, and Cdr. and Mrs. rived at 5 o'clock in the evening, and were Cox, with the latter presented a gift by dinner guests in the Superintendent's quar- Mr. Trumpy, Jr. ters, also overnight guests. The following Earlier, Mrs. Trumpy had christened the morning, the British officer reviewed the minesweeper MSB-19, designed at the full dress parade by the Brigade of Mid- Trumpy Shipyards, in ceremonies held at shipmen at 11 a.m., witnessed the noon Newport Beach, Calif., when R. Adm. meal formation, and had luncheon with Charles D. Wheelock, USN, Inspector the Hills.

General, Western Sea Frontier, made the Following attendance at various ath- launching address. Guests of honor includletic events at the Academy, the guests re- ed R. Adm. and Mrs. John E. Gingrich turned to Washington. and Capt and Mrs. E. E. Sprung.

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ON THE RECORD

The first official party to be held in the newly decorated Commandant's quarters was that on 1 April when Capt. and Mrs. Charles Allen Buchanan entertained from the hours of 5 :30 to 7:30 p.m. for officers of the Executive Department, and their wives.

The Buchanans spent an earlier tour of duty in Annapolis, in 1933, when they made their home in Wardour with the officer attached to the Naval Postgraduate School. Since then, the family has lived in many far away places, including a fairly recent tour of duty in London when the officer was a member of the staff of Adm. Robert B. Carney, Commander-in-Chief of Naval Forces, Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean.

The Buchanan family includes four children, with Mary Gale, 18, attending the Madames of the Sacred Heart School; John Goodwin, 13, and brother Charles, attending the Landon School, near Washington ; and the baby of the family, Kathleen Thompson, at home.

And speaking of Admiral Carney, a daughter, Betty, is now in Annapolis with her husband and family, Cdr. Joseph K. Taussig, Jr., USN, Assistant to the Head of Academic Section, Executive Department, and children, Joey, 3d and Susan Commander Taussig is the son of Mrs. Taussig, Sr., of Washington, and the late Vice Admiral Taussig, TJSN. An interesting Navy wife, who is a frequent visitor in Annapolis, is Mrs. L. F. Safford, wife of Captain Safford, USN, who is on duty in Washington, whose most recent art exhibit was held at the Arts Club in D. C. A Washington paper spoke of her as "the leading painter of interiors in the country," with her difficult and unusual work mostly carried out in gouache, a form of painting perfected by Michael Angelo.

While in Annapolis, as the guest of Capt.

Charles Greham Halpine, U S N (Ret.), and Mrs. Halpine of Taney Avenue, Mrs. Safford—who paints under the name Ruth Perkins Safford—painted the Old Senate Chamber in historic State House, which was shown in the exhibit. Her work includes paintings of Hyde Park, the Lee Mansion, and Octagon House—a temporary White House^and her exhibits have been held on the West Coast, in New York and Boston.

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Conference on International Economic and Social Development held at the Shoreham Mrs. William L. Kitch will introduce the Hotel in Washington last month.

Governor, and during the afternoon Mrs. Mrs. Jasperson is national and internaErnest R. Barrett, wife of Lieutenant Bar- tional resource chairman of the League of rett, USN, of the Department of Marine Women Voters of Anne Arundel County.

Engineering, will sing. A luncheon in honor of Governor and Mrs. McKeldin will NAVY JUNIORS precede the meeting, and a tea will conIn honor of their midshipman son, Kenclude the day. neth F. Hutchinson, Cdr. Myron W. Hutchinson, Jr., USN (Ret.) and Mrs. HutchinNaval Academy Garden Club son of Acton Place entertained at a tea The annual spring flower show was held dance in Alumni House last month with in the Officers' Club on Tuesday, 15 April, approximately 100 midshipmen and their with members taking part in the various drags attending. flower arrangements with ribbons awarded.

Daffodils, forsythia and Easter favors Mrs. Francis R. Duborg is president of were used in decorations, and novelty the club, and Mrs. Jamie Adair, program dances were introduced* by the orchestra.

On hand was the big toy panda from the chairman. A tea followed the show.

Masquerader's show, "Dear Ruth."

Members of the club are taking part in The twin infants of Cdr. and Mrs. John the Maryland House and Garden Pilgrimage, with Mrs. Lavifrence E. Horras, chair- Richard Blackburn of Perry Circle were man, which will be held the first part of christened last month in St. Andrew's Chapel with Chaplain Robert N. Stretch May. officiating at the 4:30 o'clock ceremony.

Book Review Group, NAWC Born 16 September the children were Mrs. Richard West reviewed "The Ab- named John Richards, Jr. and Lisa Macbott Sisters," written by Mary Carter Kay. Godparents were Mr. and Mrs. WilRoberts of Riva, Md., at the April meeting liam R. Gorman of Baltimore. of the group, held at the home of Mrs. A reception followed in the Blackburn's J. R. Palmer of St. Margaret's. quarters when guests included Mrs. Edwin Co-hostesses were Mrs. Thomas Shine, Rocke, the maternal grandmother from Mrs. James T. Pole and Mrs. E. R. Hen- Charleston, West Va., and Capt. and Mrs. John Alderman, Cdr. and Mrs. Snowden ning.

Arthur and Mr. and Mrs. David Wood from Washington.

Class of 1946 Wives Lt. Cdr. and Mrs. Robert W. Murch of Wives of officers of '46 met for luncheon at Green Hill Farm on 23 April, with Mrs. Wardour held a christening for their son, John L. Taylor, chairman, assisted by Mrs. Roger Westlund, which was held last William E. Huddleston. Some 30 guests month in St. Andrew's Chapel. attended.

Godparents were Cdr. Hilary Rowe, USN, and Lt. Cdr. and Mrs. Richard M. Sewall. Among the • guests were Mrs. Class of 1942 Wives Murch's parents. Col. and Mrs. L. B. von Wives of officers of the Clas.s of 1942 Spach of Milwaukee, Wis. met for luncheon last month in the Senate Cdr. and Mrs. Morrow Decker, who dining room in Washington, and later atreturned home on 13 March from a twotended the session of the Senate. year stay in Turkey, announce the birth of a daughter, Christine Gary, born on 15 Hostess at Shower March in the Anne Arundel General HosMrs. Luther James Graves, wife of Lieu-. pital. tenant Graves, USN, of the Department of Commander Decker has been with the Seamanship and Navigation, was hostess Joint Military Mission for Aid to Turkey, at a surprise shower in Wardour for Miss and the family made their home at Golcuk, Anne Gaw whose wedding to Midn. Hugo near Istanbul. The officer is now attached Schluter, First Class, will take place 14 to the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard.

June at the Calvary Methodist Church.

Mrs. Decker and children will stay in Some 30 guests attended, mainly mem- Annapolis until May with her mother, Mrs. bers of Tau Omicron Phi service sorority, W. Taylor Smith, widow of the late Capof which Miss Gaw is president. tain Smith, USN, of Acton Place. In May, they will join Commander Decker in New Hampshire.

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business session the election of officers will take place.

son, of Wardour, and Mr. Willoughby Sharp, son of Capt. Walter Doyle Sharp, USN (Ret.), and Mrs. Sharp of Hanover Street, in St. Anne's Church. A reception followed at Alumni House. The bride is a graduate of Wellesley College, the bridegroom of Yale University. Home, Baltimore.

Saturday, 12 April, Miss Annemarie Jedwabrink of New York and Berlin, and Lt. J. H. McCalla, USN, Class of 1946, in St. Andrew's Chapel. A reception followed at Alumni House.

Saturday, 22 March, Miss Bayne Easton, daughter of Capt. William Thomas Easton, USN, and Mrs. Easton, of Newport, R. I., and Col. William Bowen Mickley, USAF, at the Newport Naval Chapel. A reception followed at the Officers' Club. Now in Newport, the couple will be in Washington , in July.

BETROTHED

R. Adm. and Mrs. Richard Morgan Watt, Jr. of Arlington, Va. announce the engagement of their daughter, Ruth, to Ernest Albert Rich, Jr., son of Mrs. Rich of Baltimore and the late Rev. Rich. The bride-elect was graduated from Wellesley College and Mr. Rich will graduate from the Virginia Theological Seminary.

Mr. and Mrs. Keith Crawford Spayde of Owings Mill announce the engagement of their daughter, Joan Claire, to Ens. Gordon Agassiz Prince, USN, son of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Chickering Prince of South Hamilton, Mass. The bride-elect attended Bryn Mawr and Goucher College and Ensign Prince was graduated from the Naval Academy, Class of 1950.

Mr. and Mrs. John Jackson Kidd of Baltimore announce the engagement of their daughter, Helene Frances, to Midn. Joe Carter Burgin, son of Mrs. Charles Stowe of Macon, Ga. Miss Kidd will graduate from Bryn Mawr School this spring, with Midshipman Burgin a member of this June's graduating class at the Naval Academy. * * * Mr. and Mrs. Clarence M. Washington of Annapolis announce the engagement of their daughter, Peggy Naomi, to Midn.

James Frederick Link, First Class, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Charles Link of Dyersville, Iowa.

GOINGS ON

Guest of Capt. Charles Greham Halpine, Mrs. Robert S. Mandelkorn, wife of TOP Picnic U S N (Ret.), and Mrs. Halpine of Taney Commander Mandelkorn, USN, who is on Members of T O P and their dates had Avenue last month was Virginia Lee Boyduty at the Pentagon, received a $50.00 a gala afternoon on Sunday, 20 April, er, daughter of Mr. William F. Boyer— . award for writing the best unpublished when each girl brought enough food for Class of 1916—and Mrs. Boyer, of Evansfeature article in a nation-wide contest two which was served informally on the ton, 111. sponsored by the National League of Amer- lawn of the home of Miss Pat McCormick, Miss Boyer is a well-known tennis ican Pen Women. daughter of Col. John W. McCormick, player, having played with the American USA (Ret.), and Mrs. McCormick of The award was presented at a dinner team at Wimbleton, and touring a number held in Washington during the convention Rogers Heights. of European countries. at the Statler Hotel. Mrs. Mandelkorn is Baseball, horseshoes and various sports Next month, the Halpine's son-in-law president of the Annapolis Branch of the were enjoyed. and daughter, (Tdr. and Mrs. J. S. Eversole, organization.

Last month, the girls sponsored a spring and three children, will leave the PhilipWith a group from Annapolis, she at- dance at Carvel Hall for benefit of a Eu- pines for the States, with a visit scheduled tended the reception held at the White ropean war orphan. Miss Shirley Hopkins for Annapolis.

House with Mrs. Harry S. Truman re- was general chairman. Miss Anne Gaw is Enroute home, they will stop in Honopresident of the sorority. ceiving convention guests. lulu for a visit with Mrs. Eversole's brother-in-law and sister, Lt. (jg) and WEDDING BELLS Delegate to Meet Mrs. E. R. Hill and two children. . . .

Saturday, 19 April, Miss Nancy Leith Mrs. Robert E. Jasperson, wife of CapThe occasion was her husband's birthday tain Jasperson, U S N ( R e t ) , of Ferry Patterson, daughter of Capt. George WarFarms, was a delegate to the National ren Patterson, Jr., USN, and Mrs. Patter- when Mrs. Arthur D. Condon entertained MAY,

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at dinner recently in historic London Town Terrace, their South River home.

Among the guests honoring Captain Condon, U S N (Ret.), now a Washington lawyer, were the Judge Advocate (General of the Navy and Mrs. George M. Russell, and Captain Condon's brother-in-law and sister, R. Adm. WiUiam G. Lalor, USN, a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Mrs. Lalor, from Washington.

Also Capt. and Mrs. John M. Waters, R. Adm. Kenneth H. Noble, U S N (Ret.), and Mrs. Noble, who have a summer home near Annapolis; Capt. Otis C. Gregg, USN, head of the Department of Aviation at the Academy, and Mrs. Gregg.

And Cdr. Kendall E. Read, USNR, and Mrs. Read, of Crab Creek; Mr. and Mrs. Vaughan Huse and former Judge and Mrs. William J. McWilliams of Annapolis.

Admirals Russell, Lalor and Noble, and Captain Waters are all classmates of the host, the Oass of 1921. Following dinner, the group enjoyed singing old favorites with Admiral Russell playing the banjo and Captain AVaters the piano.

Recently the Condons were guests of former Ambassador to Russia Joseph E. Davies, and Mrs. Davies, upon the occasion of the Jefferson-Jackson Dinner, in Washington. . . .

Officers of the Class of 1946, and their wives, will meet for cocktails, dinner, dancing and games in Alumni House on 10 May, with Mrs. Robert Schabacker in charge of arrangements. . . .

Naval personnel from the Annapolis area will attend in full force the Navy Relief Ball slated tor 23 May at the Sail Loft and the Officers' Club of the Naval Gun Factory, Washington—with the entertainment probably floating back and forth between the two points.

Mrs. John F. Floberg, wife of the Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Air, is chairman, with Capt. Walter Karig, USN, writing the script for the floor show. . . .

Mrs. H. A. Baldridge, widow of Rear Admiral Baldridge, USN, former Director of the Naval Academy Museum, has returned to her Wardour home after spending some time with her sister, Mrs. Laurie Allgood, in New York City. . . .

On leave after completing a training course at Lowery Field, Denver, Colo., was P. E. McDowell, Jr., U S A F , who was the guest of his parents, Capt. P. E. McDowell, USN, and Mrs. McDowell of Bywater Road.

He also visited his grandparents, C!apt. and Mrs. E. P. Huff of Annapolis, and a brother, Midn. A. W. K. McDowell. . . .

Mrs. Leslie M. Slack is now at home in Virginia Beach after visiting her mother, Mrs. Walton H. Hopkins. Commander Slack is attached to the U S S MISSISSIPPI....

Newcomers to Annapolis include R. Adm. Ralston B. Vanzant, U S N (Ret.), and Mrs. Vanzant, formerly of Baltimore, who have moved into their newly purchased home at St. Margaret's. . . .

Now at home at Wild Rose Shores are Capt. and Mrs. William Henry Stiles Jr....

Lt. Cdr. George Dewey Hilding, U S N (Ret.), and Mrs. Hilding of Wardour, spent two weeks in Florida last month. Enroute south they were weekend guests of Capt. and Mrs. Donald T. Giles in Atlanta.

The port of Wonsan, Korea had a peacetime population of 100,000 and served as an important highway and rail center on the Northeast coast. Under United Nations naval blockade, the city has ceased to function as a transportation center.

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THE RUSSIAN IMPERIAL FLEET

By Nicholas V. Onoprienko, Former Lt., I.R.N. (Dedicated to my tutorer of the Corps, the R. Adm. A. N. Zaev) I love the sea. . . . The still, calm sea, blinding under the blazing southern sun, and the stormy sea at cruises. . . . If you look down from the bridge of the dreadnaught at the escorting torpedo-boats waiting around, you feel weird. . . . They disappear somewhere into the abyss with their hulls and even their masts and then ascend again on the crests of the foaming waves.

You see the revealed propellers, you can almost feel the terrific counter-current of the propeller-shafts, the throb of the delicate mechanism and the repeated downfall into the dark abyss of the water. Work in these boats is difficult: the exhausting watches, forever drenched, and chilled; if you go below deck, you have no rest either; the sea throws you out of the berth and you cannot sit at the table—it throws you about in all directions; there is no warm food; the galley is secured.

Service on the dreadnaught is comfortable. The steel monster cleaves through the strongest wave, rolling and pitching slightly. . . .

The waves throw themselves upon it rabidly, helpless to lift up the powerful stem and, cut in half, break down with U mass of water on the anchor, the forepeak tank, the forecastle—and with millions of splashes and with foam pour over the multi-storied construction of the bridge.

However, the whole watch is sitting inside behind thick glass, warm and dry. . . .

The voyage on every boat has its own charms. I happened to sail once on the minelayer DUNAI. I skirted the shores of the Caucasus, looked into every little bay. . . . Virgin, primitive landscape, tropical greens, snow-capped mountains, ravines, marvelous beaches . . . charmed us even though we were natives of the south. . . .

How many amazing, unforgettable moments connected with ship-board life we experienced: the watches, gunnery, pulling races, sailing races, or, the lowering of the flag with ceremonies. . . .

At the hoisting of the signal "SHCHA," on the flagship everything came to life: from the bottom of the ship, the crew's quarters, the hammocks, the turrets, hurried on deck along the gangways musicians, buglers, drummers and the entire staff of the ship. . . .

All lined up on the quarter deck with the officers. . . .

Ceremonial silence. . . .

A crash of the guns from the flagship and slowly, under the beating of the drums and the notes of the bugles, under the swallow-like trill of the boatswain's pipe, the flags and jacks on all the ships were lowered.

The music started playing : "So glorious is our Lord in Sion that no tongue can express . . .

He is grand in Heaven on His throne and in the grain of dust, grand on earth. . . ."

And it seemed to me that these enchanting sounds were conceived not here—on the deck of the flagship, but someplace remote, boundlessly remote in the Far East, still somewhere on the banks of the Pacific Ocean, gradually reaching us, gliding over

the unbound space of the Russian Empire, along her icy fields, dreaming forests, impenetrable taigas, large mountain masses, quicksands, spacious steppes . . . it seemed that these sounds only became stronger here, and, here too, gradually dying down, were absorbed into the azure of the sea and the blue of the sky.

"Let us pray!"—Remove the servicecaps The voice of the elder bugler read: "Our Father who art in Heaven Hallowed be Thy name Thy kingdom come Thy will be done. . . ."

Amidst the dead silence and the majesty of nature, people jointly lifted up to the Universal Creator the great words of the prayer. . . .

All this happened in the wonderful past!

Now we are deprived of our Russia, of our Imperial fleet. . . . But we know. . . .

It is all passing. . . . The moment will come and the warrant officer's youthful, lively command will again ring out: "Hoist the flag, up the jack, to the top of the flagpoles. . . ."

And again the silky colors with a blue crosspiece will fly from the stern of our battleships, rejoicingly notifying all the world of the arrival of peace, order and lawfulness to Holy Russia and all the nations will again breathe freely. The times of arbitrary rule, violence and terror have passed for eternity. . . .

Thy will he done. . . .

TO THE ALUMNI (Continued from page 1) or by communicating with the secretaries of their class or local chapter who will be furnished with a supply of application cards.

In view of the apparent interest of the many alumni who have expressed themselves in regard to this year's homecoming weekend, it is expected that there will be an even larger attendance this year than last when 2500 attended the reception and dinner in the Mess Hall. N o deadline date for the receipt of applications is being established, but planning for the program can be greatly facilitated here at the Academy by an early knowledge of the number who desire to attend. The limited seating capacity of Thompson Stadium and the big demand for tickets which is expected also makes it important that applications for seats to the Navy-William and Mary football game be forwarded to the Naval Academy Athletic Association at an early date if it is desired to attend the homecoming game.

It is indeed a pleasure again to extend to each alumnus and his family a cordial invitation to visit the Naval Academy on this occasion.

H. W. HILL Vice Admiral, U. S. Navy Superintendent The battleship USS IOWA has 9^^ acres of decks and platforms, 800 miles of welding, and 250 miles of electric cable.

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D. P R A T T MANNIX, (R. Adm. USN, Ret.) states his address changed to 192 Conches Florissant, Geneva, Switzerland.

1901 Sec'y, R. Adm. J. A. Furer, USN-Ret. 2101 Connecticut Ave, N.W., Washineton 8, D. C.

1902 The ballots for the forthcoming election of officers and trustees of the Association, individually addressed to each regular member, were mailed from National Headquarters on 8 April. If yours has not yet been received, notify the Executive Director at once and a duplicate will be sent you. Polls close at noon, 15 May.

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1895 No Secretary

1896 Sec'y, Commo. Dndley W. Knox, USN-Ret., 2311 Connecticut Ave., N.W., Washington 8, D. C.

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Sec'y, Mr. Albert H. MacCartliy, Carvel Hall, Annapolis, Md.

LEIGH O. GARRETT, (Deceased. Ensign, U S N ) . Of interest to classmates and 1898 others is news of the decease of the disSec'y, R. Adm. Henry Williams, USN-Ret., tinguished Oliver H. P. Garrett, son of 1714 "Que" St., N.W., Wasliington 9, D. C. Ensign Garrett.

In the profession of writers for motion The class secretary writes as follows: pictures, Mr. Garrett had won the screen "Shipmate's account of the family of Adm. writing award of the Academy of Motion Lynde D. McCormick, so well known in Picture Arts and Sciences for the best Annapolis, cannot but take members of '98 original screen play, "Manhattan Melodra- in memory back to their undergraduate days at the Navy School when his father ma," 1934. was on duty there and he himself an infant.

He wrote "Moby Dick," "Dead Reckon- As first classmen, members of '98 enjoyed ing," "The Hurricane," "If I Had a Mil- the gracious hospitality of his father and lion," "Farewell to Arms" and many others. mother. Your class secretary as a member He wrote successful fiction. of the First Class Hop Committee was L. J. G. designated to invite one of the ladies to receive at the fore-Lent Washington Birthday Hop. He was fortunate in having Mrs. McCormick accept his invitation to do so.

1880 Unfortunately, however, the hop was called N o Secretary off because of the sinking of the MAINE in Havana Harbor and all thoughts turned to the impending war with Spain. The 1882 cancellation of the hop, however, saved Cadet Williams from a serious social error.

It was customary for the hop committee member to send the lady receiving with 1883 him, nine bouquets, and red roses were most favored. However, shortly before the date set he received, what was to him, a cryptic message, to the effect that Mrs. 1884 McCormick would wear a pink dressâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; No Secretary meaning of course that red roses would not do. Not understanding the import of the message, he did not change his order and red roses she would have worn, had not 1887 the Spaniards blown up the MAINE and No Secretary saved a lovely lady from wearing red roses with a pink dress."

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The class is planning a reunion dinner, for men only, at the Army and Navy Club in Washington, on May 2, 1952, the 50th anniversary of its graduation; and a luncheon, with the wives included, at the Officers' Club at the Naval Academy, on May 3, 1952. The widows of classmates, who are in the vicinity of Annapolis, at that time, will be invited to the luncheon as guests of the class.

1903 Sec'y, R. Adm. A. H. Van Keuren, USN-Ret., 2823 29th St., N.W., Washington 8, D. C.

1904 Sec'y, R. Adm. Fred E. McMillen, fSC) USN-Ret., El Cortez, San Diego 1, Calif.

S. L. H. HAZARD, (Cdr. U S N , Ret.) has notified Shipmate that he is now living on 1020 Georgia St., Key West, Fla. Mrs. Jennie Johnson Michael, widow of Capt. Herbert Harlan Michael, U S N , was married to Cdr. J O S E P H WALKER, USN, Ret., on 3 April at the Selden Chapel of Christ and St. Luke's Episcopal Church, Norfolk, Va.

1905 Sec'y, Cdr. Hugo Frankenberger, USN-Ret. 1308 Emerson St., N.W., Washington 11, D. C.

T U R N E R F. CALDWELL, (Capt.

USN, Ret. Deceased). W e are sorry to report the death of Captain Caldwell at Coronado, Calif, on 11 September 1951.

Burial took place in the National Cemetery at Fort Rosecrans in Point Loma, Calif.

K E N N E T H W H I T I N G , (Late Capt.

U S N ) . The memory of Captain Whiting, pioneer aviator is honored by a Navy carrier, the KENNETH

WHITING

(AV-14).

On shore, he is otherwise commemorated

by Whiting Field, Pensacola.

1906 Sec'y, Capt. L. M. Atkins, USN-Ret., 39 Franklin St., Annapolis, Md.

E D W A R D D. W A S H B U R N , JR., (Capt. USN, Ret.) and Mrs. Washburn are happy in announcing the birth of their first grandchild. The baby is Margaret Elizabeth Washburn and her parents are Mr. and Mrs. Edward Washburn of Cas1900 par, Wyo. where young Ted, a Stanford Sec'y, Mr. William R. Ferguson, graduate, is with Shell Oil. The baby arHotel Margaret, 99 Columbia Heights, rived in Caspar on 23 February. The senior Brooklyn 2, N . Y. Washburns make their home in Berkeley, E D W A R D S. JACKSON, (Capt. USN, Calif.

Ret.) gives his present mailing address as L. J. G. Sec'y, V. Adm. Clark H. Woodward, USN-Ret. Westchester Apts., 4000 Cathedral Ave., Washington 16. D. C.

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1907 Sec'y. Capt. R. F. Frellsen, USN-Ret., 5 Sherwood Rd., Wardour, Annapolis. Md.

R A L P H T. H A N S O N , (Capt. USN, Ret.) forwards his address to P. O. Box 35, Arden, N. C. J A M E S B. H O W E L L . We noted the following about Jimmie in the San Francisco society page: "Peripatetics, the James B. Howells are making the Beach Club at La Jolla their March headquarters.

Last week, Mr. Howell, the retiring mayor of Atherton, was paid high tribute and received an illuminated scroll at the Town Meeting."

L. J. G. F E L I X GYGAX, (R. Adm. USN, Ret.) sends his address as Mil Flores, Lago Lindo y el Montevideo, Rancho Santa Fe, Calif.

1908 Sec'y. Col. D . C. Cordiner. USA-Ret., U. S. Soldiers' Home. Washington. D . C.

H. R. Brookman, 1419 E. Mendocino St., Altadena, Calif, has a copy of the 1908 Lucky Bag and will be pleased to send it to anyone desiring it at no cost.

1909 Sec'y. R. Adm. H. C. Train. USN-Ret., 81 Market St., Annapolis, Md.

The following were present at the class Ivmcheon held at the Army and Navy Club, Washington, D. C. on 18 March: Carey, Chapline, Coman, Dessez, Dimn, Keep, Maddox, Manahan, McCjlasson, Rawls, Redman, Poco Smith, Percy Wright, Braisted.

A member of the class recently visited Bob Bennett at the V A Hospital, Castle Point, N. Y. Bob is fat and cheerful. Sends his regards to all of the class and hopes to attend a class luncheon in the late spring or early summer.

ALAN G. KIRK, (V. Adm. USN, Ret.) was the speaker at the famed Commonwealth Club in San Francisco early in March and related some episodes of life in Moscow as U. S. Ambassador. He warned that "a menace faces us and our

children and even our grandchildren for all of their lives," from Soviet Russia. .A.rnbassador Kirk met Stalin only once in private interview. He was "correct and courteous but never cordial. At the age of 69 he was in vigorous physical and mental health." "Later," said Admiral Kirk, "I saw him at the age of 72. You can discount stories of his failing health, and much younger than his years. The basis of abject slavery under which nearly all Russians live is the fact that the 'masses' (two hundred millions) are held in absolute thrall by members of the Communist Party (six millions)." He concluded, "We of the U. S. have two major assets in our struggle with the Russians, our religion and our freedom. We must keep our democracy bright and shining."

Lydia Kirk, wife of Admiral Kirk, writes in the Ladies Home Journal of her "Letters from Moscow." (First installment in the March Jourtval.) She speaks of Admiral Kirk as "Dad"; all is brilUantly written and is exciting and very pleasant reading, for example: Referring to the identification card all must carry on the street in Moscow, "Going without documents is worse than going without clothes."

The letters were addressed to her two daughters, married and with children, and to her son, Peter Kirk, a Princeton graduate.

L. J. G.

Lieutenant Commander Robinson graduated from the Naval Academy in the Class of 1942, and is now at the Naval War College, Newport. The couple is residing at Toad Hall, Wolcott Avenue, Newport, R. I. LOUIS E. D E N F E L D , (Adm. USN, Ret.) has made public his support of Senator Taft's candidacy for the Republican nomination (according to International News). He is likewise favorable to General MacArthur who "would do a great job, cleaning up in Washington and preserving the nation's security." The Admiral predicts that "only a fighter will be elected President."

L. J. G. H. H O O G E W E R F F , (Capt. USN, Ret.) states his address changed to 213 Hanover St., Annapolis, Md.

1913 Corresponding Sec'y, Mr. P. D. Sleeper, 3339 Investment Bldg., Washington 5, D. C. Members of the Class living in and near Washington, D. C , meet for lunch at the ArmyNavy Town Club, Washington, at 12:15 on the 13th of each month, unless the 13th is on Saturday, Sunday or holiday, when the luncheon is held on the first working day thereafter. AU members of the Class are urged to join the luncheon whenever they can be in Washington at this time.

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1910 Sec'y, R. Adm. Charles J. Moore, USN-Ret., 5509 Grove St., Chevy Chase 15, Md.

1911 Sec'y, V. Adm. Bernhard H. Bieri, USN-Ret., 6511 Connecticut Ave., Chevy Chase 15, Md.

1912 Sec'y, Capt. Joseph Y. Dreisonstok, USN-Ret., 5431 39th St., N.W., Washington, D. C.

The daughter of Capt. C H A R L E S F R A N K GREENE, U S N (Ret.), and Mrs. Greene, Miss Norma Tullis Greene, was married to Lt. Cdr. Walter Parker Robinson, Jr. at Galilee Church, Virginia Beach, Va. at 8 :30 p.m. February 23, 1952.

Sec'y, Capt. W. A. Heard, U S N , 4412 Edmonds St., N.W., Washington, D . C.

MARION Y. COHEN, (R. Adm. USN, Ret.) requests that his Shipmate be sent to 2258 St. Vincent St., Philadelphia, Pa. A L F R E D P. H. T A W R E S E Y , (Capt.

USN, Ret.) now resides at 937 Rockbridge Ave., Norfolk 8, Va. H. A. SPANAGEL, (R. Adm. USN, Ret.) advises us that his address has changed to 726 Jackson PL, N.W., Washington 6, D. C. E D W A R D L. COCHRANE, (V. Adm. USN, Ret.) has received an award of the Gold Medal by the Department of Commerce "for outstanding leadership and contributions to the American Merchant Marine and National Security." The citation attributed four major achievements to Admiral Cochrane: Starting the nation's first postwar, large scale shipbuilding program; meeting ship requirements for Korean fighting; the establishment and success of the National Shipping Authority; the placing of the Maritime Administration on a more efficient and economical basis.

L. J. K. BLADES, (Capt. U S N R ) now resides at 386 Fourth Ave., New York 16, N. Y.

1915 Sec'y, R. Adm. Morton L. Ring, (SC) U S N , Rm. 2008, Navy Dept., Washington 25, D. C.

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The "Supe" is still an athlete and can take his stairs three at a time fwithout puffing.

Left to right: Top row: Hamilton, Don Doughas, LaMountain, Finlaryson (coach).

Hill, Captain, Gilmore. Middle row: Ten Eyck, Robinson, W. Loder, Davidson.

Bottom row: Creighton, McKee, R. D. Moore, Ford, McDonnell, L. R. Gray, Wiltse.

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GLENN H. E A S T O N sends his address as 10410 E. Jefferson Ave., Detroit 14, Mich.

R O B E R T q . GLOVER, (R. Adm. USN, Ret.) is importantly associated with the administration of the Red Cross in Richmond, Va. MYRON J. WALKER, (Cdr. USN, Ret.). Announcement has been made of the marriage of Commander Walker to Mrs. Jennie Johnson Michael, widow of Capt.

Herbert Michael, USN, on 3 April at the Selden Chapel of Christ and St. Luke's Episcopal Church, Norfolk, Va. Adm. Lynde Dupuy McCormick, USN, Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic, and 29

gathering and five of them were present at the 35th anniversary party. Admiral Cooley was not in the Bay area five years ago.

1918 Sec'y. V . Adm. Earle W . Mills, USN-Ret., Apt. 2A, 1 Beekman Place, New York 22, N . Y.

F O R R E S T P. S H E R M A N , (Adm. USN, Deceased). A new destroyer (not yet commissioned) is named in honor of the late Admiral Sherman.

1919 Sec'y, R. Adm. John R. Redman, U S N , Director, Communications-Electronics, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Washington 25, D . C. Treasurer, Capt. Donald C. King, U S N R , 3717 Reservoir Rd., N.W., Washington, D . C.

A. R. S T A U D T has moved to 2500 Wisconsin Ave., N.W., Washington, D. C. MALCOLM F. S C H O E F F E L , (R. Adm. U S N ) is on duty in Washington as Chief of the Bureau of Ordnance.

H A R O L D M. M A R T I N , (V. Adm. U S N ) is shown in a recent wirephoto as he welcomes the Japanese Adm. Kichisaboruo Nomura on board the WISCONSIN on the occasion of change of command ceremonies. Admiral Nomura was special Japanese ambassador in Washington, immediately preceding Pearl Harbor. The relief of Admiral Martin is V. Adm. R. P .

Briscoe.

L. J. G. H E R B E R T S. W O O D M A N , (Cdr. USN, Ret., Deceased). We have received notice of the death of Commander Woodman who died 31 January 1951.

W I L L I A M M. CALLAGHAN, (V. Adm. U S N ) was the speaker at the launching of the new cruiser NORFOLK in January Class of 1917, West Coast Reunion. at Camden, N. J. His theme was "strength of arms will prevent war. Weakness will only invite disaster."

Other flag officers present were R. Adm. J O H N M. BLOOM, (Capt. U S N R ) is Commander in Chief Atlantic Fleet, was John H. Brown, Comdt. Philadelphia; R. living on Canon Drive, Los Gatos, Calif. best man for Commander Walker.

Adm. H. N. Wallin, Chief BuShips; and W I L L I A M W. SCHOTT, gives his R. Adm. L. A. Kiskem, Commander NaCommander and Mrs. Walker will be present mailing address as Box 730, A P O residing at 406 South Summit Street in val Shipyard, Philadelphia.

80, c/o F P O , New York, N. Y. Iowa City.

The Washington group of the Class of J O H N D. PRICE, (V. Adm. U S N ) 1919 held its monthly luncheon on 1 April "who flies his flag at Pensacola (the An- at the Army-Navy Country Club. Those 1916 napolis of the A i r ) , has the largest shore- present were: Cassady, Coney, Crichton, based command in the Navy. He has under Hughes, Jones, King, Schoeffel, Staudt, Sec'y, Capt. Laurence E. Safford, U S N , his direction the facilities of some thirty and Stevens.

Naval Communications Annex, Rm. 337, Bldg. 19, 3801 Nebraska Ave., N.W., naval air stations, fourteen training units SCOTT G. LAMB, (Cdr. USN, Ret.) Washington 25, D . C. and other schools operated by about 42,0(X) officers and men, who train 58,000 student states his address changed to BerwynR. S. BERKEY, (Adm. U S N , Ret.) pilots and technicians in schools and insti- Paoli Road, Berwyn, Pa. has moved to 9 Leland Court, Chevy tutions all over the country." (Quoted Chase 15, Md. from New York Times.)

1920 W I L L I A M M. F E C H T E L E R , (Adm. U S N ) states his address changed to AdSec'y, James A. Crocker, Capt., USN-Ret., 3009 44th Place, N.W., Washington 18, D . C. 1917 miral's House, Naval Observatory, Washington 25, D. C. Sec'y, Capt. Ross F. Collins, USNR, R. S. MORSE, (R. Adm. U S N , Ret.) Cedarundel Farm, Rt. 3, Annapolis, Md. H E R M A N J. R E D F I E L D , (R. Adm. is living on 2110 Geri Lane, Hillsborough USN, Ret.). Announcement has been Members of the San Francisco group of (P. O. Burlingame), Calif. made of the engagement of Ens. Malissa the U S N A Class of 1917 marked the 35th W. T. H A R T , JR., (Capt. U S N R ) M. Childs to Lt. Herman J. Redfield, Jr., anniversary of their graduation March 29 son of Adm. and Mrs. Herman J. Redfield at a dinner with their ladies at the Of- writes to us from 24140 Mound Rd., Center Line, Mich. of Charlottesville, Va. ficers' Club, Naval Station, Treasure IsG. D. MORRISON, (R. Adm. U S N , R O B E R T B. CARNEY, (Adm. U S N ) land. The six graduates present are shown Ret.) states his address changed to Apt. C. in C. allied forces, southern Europe, di- above, left to right, standing: Capt. Wil- 202, Alto Nido Apts., 6350 Franklin, Holrected the vast fleet maneuvers in March liam J. Morcott, USN (Ret.), Cdr. Daven- lywood, Calif. in the Mediterranean, while V. Adm. port Browne, U S N (Ret.), R. Adm. J O H N S. ENGS, JR., sends his address Matthias B. Gardner a fast carrier task Thomas R. Cooley, USN, Deputy Comforce from the Sixth Fleet. Three foreign mander Western Sea Frontier; kneeling: as 633 Coventry Road, Berkeley 7, Calif.

P H I L I P LEMLER, (Capt. USN, Ret.) fleets participated under Admiral Carney: Mr. Edgar F. (Ned) Marbourg, Lt. Cdr. A French Task Force under French Adm. T. D. Ross, USN (Ret.), and Lt. Cdr. advises us that his address has changed to Joseph Laurin; British and Italian Force, Laurence P. Sargent, U S N R (Ret.). The Todd Shipyards Corporation (San FranV. Adm. R. A. B. Edwards and Italian last reunion had been five years ago and cisco Div.), Foot of Main St., Alameda, Adm. Umberto Rousselle; and British the next will be five years hence, probably Calif.

Task Group, made up of the Home Fleet in Santa Barbara with Los Angeles classWM. L. EAGLETON, (Capt. U S N ) mates. Ten graduates attended the 1947 corrects his address to read Office of J A G and hunter-killer units.

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of Navy, Pentagon Bldg., Washington 25, M A R V I N H. GROVE, (Lt. USN, Ret.) requests that his address be changed to 6529 Hollis St., Emeryville 8, Calif.

E. L. B R A S H E A R S , (Lt. Cdr. U S N ) now resides at 484 Cedar St., Winnetka, 111.

R. H. CRUZEN, (R. Adm. U S N ) notifies us that his address has changed to Cdr. U. S. Naval Forces Philippines, c/o F P O , San Francisco, Calif.

H. R. B O O K M A N writes us, enclosing excerpts from a letter written to his mother in January, 1919, when he was a First Classman at the Academy, which refers to the fire in the town of Annapolis, thinking that this might be of interest to some of his contemporaries, recalling the fun they had that night.

"There is absolutely no news except one thing, so I'll tell about it: "Thursday night we were awakened by Fire Call at 1:50 a.m. Just one battalion was called but, as we live in their wing until ours is completed, our company got up and fell in ready for fire. There was a big fire out in town and one battalion of midshipmen was called out. Our company, as it was up, was held ready for relief duty. Well, another chap and myself got tired standing up in the hall doing nothing so decided to go. We went out the side door and started to go out First Class gate where we could have gotten out all right, but somebody said the Superintendent was there so we went down to the gob's gate by the football field. We fell in with four others and I leading, we went along the grass without a sound. The gate was open and no guard in sight so we all ran at once, hit the concrete making a lot of noise and started up the street. The guard came out and yelled 'Halt,' but we ran all the faster, and then he fired his revolver in the air to scare us. Well, he didâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;we made about 100 turns faster and hit the end of the street-fence. You should have seen us over that fence, through back yards and we all met on another street and went to the fire.

"Almost eversrthing burned from the Colonial Theater around to Strange and Whites. I figured we'd get ours and be on the ship for two months. Well, if it wasn't for the midshipmen, Annapolis would be bad off. We fought that fire on house tops, in attics, water up to our ankles, climbing ladders, chopping through walls and holding the hose from 2:15 until 6:15 when 'secure' went. We got back to the Academy at 6:30.

"We two came in with the battalion that was out and changed our clothes and went to breakfast all in. The Superintendent ordered that all midshipmen going to the fire (including those First Classmen that went without permission) should be excused from everything all day Friday. We were still afraid about that gate, but I guess the jimmy-legs thought it was too much of a disgrace to let six through without his getting one. Just as the shot was fired some other fellows were going over the Academy wall, and they were scared to death. It was worth a year of my life to go through there that way."

1921 Sec'y, R. Adm. T. J. KeUy, USN-Ret. Room 510 Shoreham Bldg., Washingrton 5, D. C.

L. J. H U F F M A N , (R. Adm. U S N ) advises us that his address has changed to Commander Amphibious Group Four, c/o F P O , New York, N. Y. MAY,

1952

Official U. S. Navy Photo

Four Admirals of the Class of 1919, photograph taken at the Officers' Club, Yokosuka, Japan at the time Admiral Briscoe relieved Admiral Martin as Commander Seventh Fleet. Left to right: R. Adm. Ralph A. Ofstie, Chief of Staff, ComNavFE; V. Adm. Harold M. Martin, former Commander Seventh Fleet, now Commander Air Forces, Pacific Fleet; V. Adm. Robert P. Briscoe, currently Commander Seventh Fleet; and R. Adm. George C. Dyer, Commander United Nations Blockade and Escort Forces.

H A R O L D A. CARLISLE, (R. Adm. craft number eight that patrol the chanUSN, Ret.) is associated with the Food nels and approaches to the harbor.

Machinery and Chemical Corporation in While in active service, he has been in San Jose, Calif. He was last on active the carrier RANGER (north African invaduty at the University of California, as sion) ; commander of a division of oilers, Professor of Naval Science and Tactics. invasion of the Philippines, also ammunition LUCIAN A. MOEBUS, (R. Adm. ships and destroyer escorts. Postwar, he U S N ) commands Naval Air Reserve aided in the de-militarization of Yokosuka naval base.

Training at Glenview, 111.

W I L L I A M D. J O H N S O N , (R. Adm. R. C. BROWN, (Capt. USN, Ret.) U S N ) is on duty at the Memphis Naval notifies us that his address has changed Air Station. This is the headquarters of to Qtrs. 7, MCM&T, Sault Ste. Marie, the technical training command for engi- I^ich. neers, technicians, and specialists in elecK. R. BELCH, (Capt. USN, Ret.) gives tronics. his present mailing address as 102 Melvin LAMAR M. W I S E states his address Ave., Wardour, Annapolis, Md. changed to 3935 Redding Road, Chamblee, W. V. H A M I L T O N , (R. Adm. USN, Ga. Ret.) is and has been employed with CarA P O L L O SOUCEK, (R. Adm. U S N ) bide and Carbon Chemicals Company, Oak is now in command of Carrier Division Ridge, Tenn. since last September. His Three as the relief of R. Adm. J. J. Clark â&#x20AC;˘present address is 410 Villanova Rd., Oak who is assigned to command the First Ridge, Tenn.

Fleet. Admiral Soucek recently returned M. E. SELBY reports a change of adfrom duty in London. dress to R. R. 4, Box 258, Tucson, Ariz.

W. P. KELLOGG, (Capt. USN, Ret.) requests that his address be changed to 4349 Westminster, St. Louis 8, Mo. 1922 STOGI and Mary R O B E R T S announce Sec'y, Gerald A. Stacey, 802 Grand View Drive, the marriage of their daughter, Mary Chase Alexandria, Va. (Molly), to Mr. Henry E. Niese of MontI G N A T I U S J. HALEY, (Capt. U S N R ) clair, N. J., on March 14 at St. Luke's Church, Montclair, N. J. The bride is a notifies us that he would like to have his graduate of Western College for Women, copies of Shipmate sent to 8 Welwyn Road, Oxford, Ohio, Class of 1950. Mr. Niese is Apt. 20, Great Neck, N. Y. a graduate of Cooper Institute of Art and DONALD R. ELDRIDGE, (Lt. USN, has studied at Au Grande Chaumiere.

Deceased). We are sorry to be informed of JEFFERSON D. BEARD, (Capt. the death of Lieutenant Eldridge who died U S N ) has been appointed to an industrial 21 March 1952 in Kansas City, Mo. Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Cathryne relations position in Pittsburgh in connection with a steel company. Until now, he Eldridge of 19 West 58th St., Kansas City, has been on duty as Supervisor of New Mo.; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles York harbor. His fleet of enforcement small Eldridge, Des Moines; a sister, Mrs. Glen 31

R O B E R T H. RODGERS, (Capt. U S N ) and Mrs. Rodgers announce the engagement of their daughter. Miss Joanna Ray Rodgers, to Ens. Edward P. Ellington of Fairfield, Ala. J O H N R. McKINNEY, (Capt. U S N ) reports a change of address to Commanding Officers' Quarters, Naval Ammunition and Net Depot, Seal Beach, Calif.

H O M E R B. H U D S O N , (Capt. U S N ) has been detached as Naval Attache, American Embassy, Stockholm, Sweden, and would appreciate it if we changed his address to 5535 Gates Ave., St. Louis 12, Mo. F R A N C I S M. H U G H E S , (R. Adm. U S N ) commands the Naval Air Basic Training at Pensacola, a twelve-month course, inclusive of the pre-flight school.

The course includes primary and acrobatic flying, instrument and night flying, formation flying, gunnery, cross-country navigation and carrier qualification.

F R A N K MONROE, JR., (Capt. U S N ) is on duty at the Naval Receiving Station, in Seattle. Captain Monroe's son, Frank A. Monroe, III, and Miss Mary Elizabeth Nelson of Portsmouth, N. H. were married at the home of Captain Monroe's father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. A. Monroe, in Annapolis, recently.

J. M. McISAAC, (Capt. U S N ) sends his address as Supervisor of New York Harbor, 17 Battery Place, New York 4, N. Y. J O H N B. MOSS, (R. Adm. U S N ) is on duty in the Bureau of Aeronautics in 1923 Washington as Assistant Chief of Bureau Sec'y, Capt. Claude H. Bennett, Jr.. USN-Ret., for Materials and Supplies.

19 Mary's Lane, Egypt, Mass.

A L B E R T C:. MURDAUGH, (Capt.

R O B E R T M. MORRIS, (Capt. U S N ) U S N ) states his address changed to Chief gives his present mailing address as 401 of Staff, ComNavGer, A P O 403, New York, N. Y. 52nd St., Virginia Beach, Va.

C. Biesemier, Winfield, Kan.; and a brother, Clifford Eldridge, Wichita.

A. K. M O R E H O U S E , (R. Adm. U S N ) is in command of advanced flight training at Corpus Christi Naval Air Station.

B. W. FINK, (Commo. U S N ) requests that his address be changed to R.F.D. 2, Box 60-A, Vienna, Va. H O W A R D E. OREM, (R. Adm. U S N ) states his address changed to ComNavForGer, A P O 403, c/o F P O , New York, N. Y. J O H N C. LESTER, (R. Adm. USN, Ret.) and Mrs. Lester of State College, Pa. annoimce the engagement of their daughter, Eugenia Potts Lester, to Mr. James Paul Hea, son of Mrs. Andre Maurice Femez of Paris, France and of the late Mr. Charles Winfield Hea of Buffalo, N. Y. Announcement has recently been made

by Brown University of the appointment of Capt. E. R. DURGIN. USN, as dean of students at Brown. Durgin, who h4» been commanding officer of the NROTC unit at the university since 1948, will retire from active duty on 30 June. Heartiest congratulations to Captain Durgin on his appointment to this highly responsible office.

R I C H A R D H U N T E R reports a change of address to 160 West Burton Place, Chicago 10, 111. •

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NAVAL ACADEMY RECEFVES S2,500 FOR CLASS OF '23 MEMORIAL. . . . Mr. Jean Pierre Bernard, President of the Annapolis Banking and Trust Co., and Treasurer of the Naval Academy's Class of 1923, is shown as he presented a check for S2,500 to V. Adm. Harry W. Hill, USN, Academy Superintendent. The check was presented to the Naval Academy for the reconstruaion of midshipmen's benches in Tecumseh Court which will serve as a memorial of the Class of 1923.

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The class has selected the replacement of the old First and Second Class benches in the Academy grounds and the furnishing and decorating of a room in the Alumni House as its Memorial project. Admiral Hill, on behalf of the Naval Academy, and the Alumni Association trustees have graciously accepted these gifts.

RAYMON H. T H O M P S O N now resides at 1418 N. Austin St., Seguin, Texas.

J A M E S H. P I E R S O N is living on 17 Bank Row, Greenfield, Mass.

Present at the last dinner at the ArmyNavy Club on 21 March 1952 were: R. Adm. John P. B. Barrett, USN, Cdr. Allen V. Bres, USN, Col. John E. Curry, USMC, Capt. Gordon W. Daisley, USN, Capt. George A. Dussault, USN, Mr. Archibald E. Gray, Capt. Beverly R. Harrison, R. Adm. Geo. A. Holdemess, (3apt. Frederick A. Edwards, Cdr. Raymond B. Leavitt, USN, Mr. Raymond D. Lewis, R. Adm. Wm. K. Mendenhall, USN, Mr. Edward P. Montgomery, R. Adm. John B. Moss, USN, C:apt. Wm. J. Mullins, USN, Capt John R. McKinney, USN, R. Adm. Warren S. Parr, USN, Capt. Valentine L. Pottle, USN, Gen. Wm. J. Scheyer, USMC, R. Adm. Roland D. Smoot, USN, Mr. Zeus Soucek,- Capt. Marvin M. Stephens, USN, Capt. Thayer T. Tucker, USN, R. Adm. Joseph N. Wenger, USN, R. Adm. Fred S. Withington, U S N .

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March Communique Our March luncheon meeting was well attended due perhaps to the fact that the election of a new treasurer was on the agenda.

We were very sorry to hear of the illness of Don MacMahan, Whitey McLaren, and Dick Stimson and hope by now that they are all well on the road to recovery.

Two new arrivals are reported: Bill Ammon, Director of Naval Communications, Room 4C679, Pentagon, X55982; home address, 137 Grafton St., Chevy Chase, Md., phone OL 5456; and Dick Ruble, Pentagon, Room 4E386, X71717; home address, 3620 Upton St., N.W., Washington. We hope to see them and welcome them to Washington at the next meeting.

Mac McKinney shoves off for the West Coast about the middle of next month. At the March meeting, as retiring secretarytreasurer, he was presented with a most well deserved testimonial of appreciation for the fine job he has done in getting us together for the monthly meetings and promotion of the class party last fall. He will be greatly missed and with him go our very best wishes.

It was voted at this meeting to separate the offices of secretary and treasurer and election to the two offices was held. Heavy Dana is your new secretary and Pablo Barrett your new treasurer. It was obvious that it would take two men to fill McKinney's shoes. If anyone in the Washington area hears of anything that is a matter of interest to the class or on which some action is indicated, please notify Dana, Main Navy, Extension 64344, and/or Barrett, Temple 0356.

Our April luncheon meeting will be at the Army-Navy Country Club on Wednesday, 23 April, at the usual time, i.e., assembly and refreshments available at 1200, luncheon served at 1245. The "locality groups" and the March Boosters are: Virginia, Maryland, Arlington Annex, Henderson Hall—Virmar group: Booster Parr, Barrett, Rhoads, Scheyer, Smoot, Walker.

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Main Navy, Building T-3—Navy group: Booster Rigler, Dana, Edwards, Moss, McLaren. Parsons, Holdemess, .\mmon.

Washington, D. C—Capitol group: Booster Bres, Grosvenor, Leavitt, Lewis, Pottle, Von Dreele, Wadbrook, Jecklin.

Washington, D. C.—District group: Booster Soucek, Daisley, Gray, Harrison, Montgomery, Stimson, Waters, Wenger.

Pentagon—Pent group : Booster Tucker, Dennison, Felt, Fields, Hoffheins, Mendenhall, McDowell, Neely, Ringle, Burke.

Pentagon—.-Vgon group: Booster Stephens, Curry, Dussault, Frybefger, Hensel, Mullins, MacMahan. Pearson, Withington, Ruble.

FINANCIAL ST.\TEMENT 21 March 1952 RECEIPTS

Carried fwd. from Feb. (See Feb. Communique) $ 74.38 Collected March luncheons (26 at $2 each) 52.00 Collected for drinks -(35 at 50c each) 17.50 Total Receipts

$143.88 $143.88

EXPENDITURES

March luncheons (26 at $1.50 each plus 5%) . . . . $ 40.95 Mixes for refreshments ($3.85 plus 57c) 4.05 Liquid refreshments purchased 11.05 Total Expenditures

$ 56.05 $ 56.05

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1924 Sec'y, Hr. Paul W. Siegrist, c/o Standard & Poor's, 345 Hodson St. New York 14, N. Y.

H A R O L D B. MILLER, (R. Adm. USN, Ret.) corrects his address to read 110 West 57 Street, New York 19, N. Y. C H E S T E R C. W O O D , (R. Adm. U S N ) forwards his address to Commander Destroyer Flotilla Four, c/o F P O , Norfolk 11, Va. ROBERT A. KEYER, JR. has moved to 114 S. Pine St., Natchez, Miss.

D E N N I S L. F R A N C I S , (Capt. U S N ) has been assigned to duty in command of the Auxiliary Repair Ship DIONYSUS at San Diego. He has been serving as Chief of Inspection for Military Sea Transportation, Atlantic area.

F R E D E R I C K J. I L S E M A N N , (Capt.

U S N ) states his address changed to Inspector General, Headquarters, Ninth Naval District, Great Lakes, 111.

J. M. K E N N A D A Y , (Capt. U S N ) reports a change of address to Staff Atlantic Reserve Fleet, 90 Church St., New York, N. Y. F. A. L. D A R T S C H sends his address as 34 Cedar St., Park Forest, Chicago Heights, 111.

H A N S O N W. B A L D W I N gives his business address as the New York Times, Room 1046, 229 W. 43rd St., New York 36, N. Y. Twenty-eight-year reunion? Well, the dinner dance planned by our Washington group could amount to that, in degree, if enough members of the class make the ef1952

past February Commander Moore's duty was changed to that of Head, BuAer Technical Information Branch.

The Washington group, Class 192S, held its monthly meeting at the Officers' Mess, Naval Gun Factory, 25 March 1952. Present : Tyree, Latrobe, Pyne, Sugnet, Hurd, R. H. Luke, Wellings, Rod Smith, Charles, Newton, Parks, Ford, Beiser, Williams, Long, Stryker, Hogaboom, Howeth, Taylor, Beard, Randolph, Henderson, and Al Moore.

As required by Section IX of our Class Constitution the following committee was selected for the purpose of nominating candidates for class officers and other members of the Executive Committee to take office on 1 July 1952: Nominating Committee, Chairman Hogaboom, Williams, and Kirten. The slate of candidates will be presented at our April meeting.

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fort and gather in Washington on Friday.

May 16, 1952. Rollo Wilson (R. .A.dm.

U S N ) is in charge of this party, which will be held at the Officers' Club, Naval Hospital, Bethesda, Md., May 16, beginning at 1900. The charge will be $5 per person, and will cover cocktails, dinner, and even dancing. The Washington group is inviting all classmates to join in the party— and the membership of the Washington area is now around 84. Last year 75 attended the spring party. There is still time to make your plans and secure your reservation by writing, and including check, to R. Adm. R. E. Wilson, Room 1002 Temporary 8, Navy Dept., Washington 25, D. C. This party will be as near a class reunion as can be arranged in the time given.

It was at the March luncheon of our Washington group that plans were made for the May 16 evening meeting, and although attendance at this luncheon was at less than half the number carried on the mailing list, the attendance was representative, including Bradley, Clexton, Collins, W. V. Davis, Furth, J. D. Hayes, Hartwig, Jaudon, Kalisch, Meints, Perkins, Rawlins, Roane, Ramsey, Robillard, Robinson, Sisson, Sylvester, Thomas, Tracy, Weeden, R. E. Wilson, and Woodyard. A very good talk was given by John D. Hayes on the Industrial College, its functions, including also its seminars held in various cities throughout the country, and its correspondence course division.

In New York the annual dinner meeting of Naval Academy Alumni was held on March 21. Our class was represented here

by John Cullen, Hyatt (with son, Midn.

John Kenneth Hyatt, J r . ) , Lovejoy, Mattucci, Mellon, Milton, Mills, Rhamstine, Singer, and Wilkinson.

1925 Sec'y, Capt. Wallace S. Newton, USN-Ret., 2817 Cathedral Ave., N.W., Washington 8, D. C.

W. SIHIER, (Capt. CEC, U S N ) has a new address at the Bureau of Yards and Docks, Navy Dept., Washington 25, D. C. E. L. BECK, (R. Adm. USN, Ret.) sends his address as Palm,Oaks, R.F.D. 2, Palmetto, Fla. WILLIAM C. LATROBE, (Capt.

U S N ) has been assigned as supervisor of shipbuilding and naval ordnance in Baltimore and as Assistant Industrial Manager there for the Fifth Naval District, serving as supervisor of contracts for repairs to naval vessels at Baltimore. He has been on duty in BuShips.

F R A N K L I N D. KARNS, (Capt. U S N ) gives his duty address as Bureau of Ordnance, Navy Dept., Washington, D. C. His home address is 2336 S. Nash St., Arlington, Va. E D M U N D B. TAYLOR, (Capt. U S N ) reports a change of address to 515 Duke St., Alexandria, Va. F R E D E R I C K K. LOOMIS, (Capt.

U S N ) requests that his address be changed to Naval Attache, American Legation, Tangier, Morocco, c/o Navy Bouch Section, Navy Dept., Washington 25, D. C. F. B. W A R D E R , (Capt. U S N ) states his address changed to Commander-inChief, U. S., Atlantic Fleet, U. S. Naval Base, Norfolk 11, Va. R A L P H A. S E N T M A N , (Cdr. USN, Ret.) is living on 200 Col wick Rd., Merchantville 9, N. J. ALVIN E. MOORE, (Cdr. U S N R ) advises us that his address has changed to "Pinemoor," Route One, Vienna, Va. This

do fde squeez/ng { • Do your squeezing the convenient way. Just open a bottle of tangy Rose's Lime Juice and pour away.

It's the natural whole juice of West Indies limes, tree-ripened for superb drink-mixing. No cutting, no waste, no time lost. Modestly priced at your quality food shop. Used in better bars. . . . no morning-after h e a d - l o c k s ! Keep your "A.M.'s" light and clear with Rose's Lime Juice.

It's wonderful for averting morning-after nip-ups and pangs. Send for our pamphlet "The Pathology of the Hangover." Explains all—and it's free!

ROSE'S LIME JUICE Both Unsweetened (Dry) and Sweetened (Cordial) Bottled in England by L. Rose & Co., Ltd. Agents: 'McLeer & McLeer, Inc. Dept. M-5 60 Hudson St., N.Y.C. (East and Midwest) Mailliard & Schmieden, San Francisco (West)

1928 Sec'y, Capt. R. K. James, U S N , U. S. Navy Shipbuilding Scheduling Activity, 1409 N . Broad St., Philadelphia 22, P a .

E D W I N B. D E X T E R , (Capt. U S N ) is on duty in New York as Operations Officer to the Commander of the Military Sea Transportation Force.

D A N I E L J. WAGNER, (Capt. U S N ) is a member of the First Class of the N A T O Defense College which is the school established by General Eisenhower in Paris to amalgamate the diverse elements in his command.

E U G E N E P. B U R T O N resides at 216 Arlington Ave., Berkeley 7, Calif.

M. P. BAGDANOVICH, (Capt. U S N ) states his address changed to Naval Auxiliary Air Station, Chincoteague, Va. Members of the Class of 1928 in the San Francisco area got together in U S S NORTON SOUND ( A V M - 1 ) , at the San Fran-

cisco Naval Shipyard on March I. Those present were: Jimmy Bierer, Gene Burton, Jerry Gerin, Chili and Geotgt Huff, Sam Harrison, Al Momm, Shag Ransford, Bill Thomas, and Dave Todd. It was regretted that Moon Mullins and Freddy Moore could not attend. Johnny McCue had just Official U. S. Navy Photo left the area.

Class of 1927, Naval Gun Factory Luncheon.

Enclosed herewith is photograph to mark the festive occasion. As indicated by the pictures on the bulkhead in the background, NORTON SOUND is a '28 ship, havand son, Lawrence Robbin Martin, of 7115 ing been commanded since it became a mis1926 Olivetas Avenue, Lajolla, Calif. Interment sile ship by Captains Andy Ahroon, John Sec'y, Cdr. H. A. Fravel, U S N , was at Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery. Quinn, Bags Bagdanovich, and Momm in Hdqtrs. Potomac River Naval Command, succession.

U. S. Naval Gun Factory, Washington 25, D . C.

ROY B. S T R A T T O N , (Cdr. USN, Ret.) reports a change of address to Box 297, St. Petersburg 1, Fla. J O H N H. ELLISON, (Capt. U S N ) now resides at 1122 22nd St., S. Arlington, Va. E. W. SNEDEKER, (Brig. Gen. USMC) has a new address at Qtrs. 376 Marine Corps Schools, Quantico, Va. K E N N E T H CRAIG, (Capt. U S N ) states his address changed to Air University, Maxwell Air Force Base, Montgomery, Ala. L O U I S L. VODILA, (Capt. USN, Ret.) notifies us that his address has changed to 597 Burke Ave., Los Altos, Calif.

S. G. N I C H O L S , (Capt. U S N ) sends his address as Room 401 Old Post Office Bldg., Pittsburgh 19, Pa. F I T Z H U G H L E E , (Capt. U S N ) informs us that he is with the U S S FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, c/o F P O , New York,

N. Y. C. L. C A R P E N T E R , (Capt. U S N ) requests that his Shipmate be sent to COMD E S T R O N 18, U S S BRAINE (DD-630), c/o F P O , New York, N. Y. F . P . P Y Z I C K now resides at Wells, Minn.

There will be a '26 Class Party, Saturday, June 14, 1952, from 1900-2400 at Officers' Mess, Gun Factory, Washington, D. C , cost $6.00 per person includes cocktails, buffet supper and dancing. Capt.

Charles E. Briner, Chairman, Room 3202 BuOrd, Navy Department, Washington, D. C. If you fail to receive a notice send reservations to "Charlie" as soon as you know you can attend.

L A W R E N C E H. MARTIN, (Capt.

U S N ) died U S N Hospital, San Diego Calif., February 16, 1952. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Ethel Robbin Martin, 34

1927 Sec'y, R. Adm. John W. Bays, USN-Ret. Culver Summer Naval School, Culver, Indiana

H. F. ECKBERG, (Capt. U S N ) informs us that he is with the U S S CAMBRIA (APA-36), c/o F P O , New York, N. Y. T. F. DONOHUE, (Capt. U S N ) sends his address as District Intelligence Officer, Third Naval District, 90 Church St., New York 7, N. Y. J. D. GREER, (Capt. U S N ) forwards his address to ComFairWing SIX, c/o FPO, San Francisco, Calif.

H E R B E R T D. RILEY, (Capt. U S N ) has been assigned to NATO. He is to be Assistant Chief of Staff for plans, policy and operations for the new North Atlantic Treaty Organization Naval Command. This appointment was made public by Adm. Lynde D. McCormick, Supreme Commander.

E D W A R D R. J O H N S O N , (Lt. Cdr. USN, Ret.) states his address changed to 55 Baylor Victory, c/o Williams Diamond & Co., 215 Market St., San Francisco, Calif.

HAROLD D. HANSEN, (Col. USMC) reports a change of address to Apt. B, 17-B-8, Camp Joseph H. Pendleton, Oceanside, Calif.

Members of Class of 1927 present at Naval Gun Factory luncheon, 28 February 1952: Howard C. Adams, H. C. Allan, Jr., W. H. Ashford, Jr., J. C. Atkeson, S. S. Bowling, W. H. Brockman, Joshua W. Cooper, W. R. Edsall, S. Gazze, O. C. Gregg, W. M. Gullett, R. A. Hinners, H. L. Hoerner, A. D. Hunter, Tom Cobb King, W. L. Knickerbocker, W. H. Organ, W. W. Outerbridge, Robie E. Palmer, E. K. Ponvert, R. H. Rice, Philip H. Ross, J. R. Rubins, Alan Shapley, Philip W. Snyder, W. A. Sutherland, Jr., B. Van Meter, and R. D. Zern.

1929 President, Capt. C. E . Trescott, U S N , Department of Marine Engineering, U S N A , Annapolis, Md.

President, Capt. C. E. Trescott, U S N .

Executive Committee: Capt. H. S. Persons, U S N ; Capt. C. E. Weakley, U S N ; and Capt. G. S. Patrick, U S N .

The Class Constitution has been approved; 110 for, 3 against. The present Executive Committee is shown above; Pat Patrick has recently relieved, as member and class treasurer, Frank Schwable upon his detachment.

As provided by the constitution, a nominating committee has prepared the following ballot: List of nomineesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Capt. Roy S. Benson, Col. Melvin G. Brown, *Lt. Cdr. Donald H. Dalton (Ret.), Capt. Carl A. Johnson, Capt. Goldsborough S. Patrick, *Capt. Leslie E. Richardson (Ret.), Capt.

Edward C. Stephan, Capt. William S. Stovall, Capt. George H. Wales, and Capt.

Philip A. Walker. (â&#x20AC;˘Vote for at least one of these two gentlemen on your slate.)

From the list of nominees given above fill in your choice for each one of the following billets: Chairman of the Executive Committee Vice Chairman, Executive Committee Secretary-Treasurer, Executive Committee Member of the Executive Committee Member of the Executive Committee

(Signature) S H I P M A T E

N O T E : This is a five-man committee which will serve for a period of one year in accordance with the provisions of the Class Constitution.

Please complete this ballot and return without delay to the incumbent Chairman of the Class Executive Committee: Capt.

H. S. Persons, USN, Room 2E973, Pentagon.

Please note the permanent official address of the class to which you must forward all inquiries, comments and recommendations: Chairman, Executive Committee, Class of 1929, U S N A , Navy Department, Washington, D. C. KID D E N N E T T writes that while skip-

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Garland at Bogota. Later on, Kid had the misfortune to wrench the same old knee and was hospitalized at Norfolk for a few weeks. Recently he has taken command of Sub Group Three, Charleston Group, Atlantic Reserve Fleet.

WILLIAM T. E A S T O N , (Capt. U S N ) advises us that his address has changed to Staff-Sixth Fleet Navy 214, c/o F P O , New York, N. Y. WILLIAM L. KABLER, (Capt. U S N ) informs us that he is with the U S S R E N DOVA (CVE-114), c/o F P O , San Francisco, Calif.

1930 Sec'y, R. Adm. C h a r l e s Brook, U S N , Ret. 4108 Chesterbrook Rd., Falls Church, V a .

H. R . Brookman, 1419 E. Mendocino Street, Altadena, C^lif. has a copy of the 1930 Lucky Bag and will be pleased to send it to anyone desiring it at no cost.

One of the midshipmen pictured on the cover of the February edition of Shipmate is J. J. NIX's son, Walter, now a third classman. He is shown wearing earphones, with another midshipman who is signalling.

The picture was taken on the cruise last summer.

GEORGE M. HOLLEY, (Capt. U S N ) writes to us from the U S S MAZAMA ( A E 9), FLT. T R A CTR, U. S. Naval Station, San Diego 36, Calif.

F. S. STICK, (Capt. U S N ) now resides at 1541 W. 51st St., Norfolk, Va. H E N R Y O. H A N S E N , (Capt. U S N ) .

Classmates will be pleased to know of the satisfactory progress being made by Captain Hansen from an accident. He has been on limited duty in San Francisco (court martial member) and with his family has made his home in Palo Alto.

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Class of 1928 Left to right, front row: Capt. H. F. Ransford, CEC; R. Adm. W. D. Thomas (Ret.); Capt. Albert O. Momm, USN; Charles P. Huff; Capt. M. R. Gerin, USN; back row: Capt. J. S. Bierer, USN; Capt. D. W. Todd, USN; Sam H. Harrison; Eugene P. Burton; George K. Huff. Pictures in rear, left to right: Captains T A. Ahroon, John Quinn, M. P. Bagdanovich, and Albert O. Momm, successive commanding officers of the USS N O R T O N SOUND (AVM-1).

Lewis on 26 February at St. Peter's Chapel, Mare Island, Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, Calif.

C H A R L E S E. P H I L L I P S , (Capt.

U S N ) and Mrs. Phillips announce the birth of a son, Charles Anthony Phillips, at 0205, 11 March 1952, at the U. S. Naval Hospital, NAS, San Diego, Calif. Captain Phillips is at present in command of DesDiv 72 and has orders to command the Service School Command at the Naval Training Center, San Diego, Calif.

W I L L I A M H. GROVERMAN, JR., (Capt. U S N ) is in command of four destroyers shoved off from Yokohama late in February for a cruise around the world "to show the flag." His ships, all Korean veterans, are the

H Y M A N , BEATTY, PURDY,

and BRISTOL, flying the pennant of Div. 122.

Ports of call: Hong Kong, Ceylon, Bahrien, Aden, Port Said, Naples, (Cannes, Gibraltar, the Azores, and Newport, R. I. The arrival home date was 30 April.

J O H N M. L I E T W I L E R , (Capt. U S N ) gives his new duty station as U. S. Naval Communication Station, Great Lakes, 111.

STEPHEN M. ARCHER, (Capt.

U S N ) who is on duty in Washington is L. D. M C G R E G O R , (Capt. U S N ) unofficial coach and advisor to Navy wresstates his address changed to OpNav 301 E, tlers in training for the Olympics.

Rm 4D568, Pentagon, Washington, D. C. U S N A 1932 and USMA 1932 have been getting together with regularity the past month. On March 6 there was a joint 1931 luncheon and on April 5 a ladies' night Sec'y, C a p t . O s c a r E . H a g b e r g , U S N , joint cocktail party was scheduled.

7500 A t l a n t i c Ave., V i r g i n i a Beach, V a .

The West Point Class of 1932 was host GEORGE G. M O L U M P H Y , (Capt. to the Naval Academy Class of 1932 at a U S N ) reports a change of address to luncheon in the Army-Navy Country Club, Bureau of Ships, Navy Dept., Washington Washington, on 6 March, where 19 of the Navy contingent sat with 32 of their breth25, D. C. F R A N C I S W. HOYE, (Cdr. USN, ren from the Point. Good times'and good Ret.) is living on 3285 Schust Rd., R.F.D. fellowship was reported by all, who indicated that the hosts had made provisions 7, West Side, Saginaw, Mich. for a truly "balanced" meal that went down well. Indicative of the spread of unification, many found they were meeting with op1932 posites of the other service with whom they Sec'y. C a p t . S. M. A r c h e r , U S N , have constant dealings. Most extreme of N a v a l O p e r a t i o n s (OP-315B), Room 4D 625 such cases, of course, is illustrated by Tom P e n t a g o n , N a v y Dept., W a s h i n g t o n , D. C. Warfield and Harvey Fischer, who work P O R T E R L E W I S , (Capt. U S N ) . An- in the same office, and by Rip Raring, who nouncement has been made of the marriage works bn the J L P G with Charley D'Orsa of Mrs. Lucille Moody Harper to Captain and Pinky Smith.

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1932 T W E N T I E T H R E U N I O N Plans are now complete for the twentieth reunion at Annapolis on Saturday, 24 May 1952.

1200—Register and luncheon at Alumni House. Buffet luncheon $2.00 per person. Buy your own drinks.

Army-Navy baseball game and track meet during the afternoon. Tickets will be required for the baseball game only and may be obtained from the NAA. Applications will be mailed out and when sent in should be marked "Class 1932" in large letters across the top to insure seating being together.

1700—Cocktail party at Officers' Club.

Liberal supply of food, liquor and sea stories. $3.00 per person.

Above will include name tags and favors.

Make out and mail checks t o : 1932 Class Committee Dept. of Electrical Engineering U. S. Naval Academy Please include note of: 1. What you will attend.

2. First name or nickname of self and wife.

3. What you want us to do for you.

Plan to come—a good party in store —send in your reservations not later than 12 May so definite arrangements can be made by the committee.

The only class business conducted at this meeting was acceptance by the Navy of an Army invitation to a "Ladies' Night" buffet, scheduled for April 5 at Fort Leslie J. McNair.

Present were the following: From the Navy, Frank Acker, Toots Blaisdell, T. J. Colley, Alex Coxe, Owen Fang, W. C. (Johnny) Jonson, Al Kaplan, Charley Lanman, Bob Maulsby, Jerry Miller, Mai Munger, John Munholland, Rip Raring, Al Slayden, John Spangler, Don Thomas, Tom Warfield, and Mel Young. From the Army, John Ackerman, Charley Baer, Frank Besson, John Bowen, Steve Brodie, Wally Brucker, Bugs Cairns, Lonie Campbell, Hugh Carey, Avery Cochrane, Char35

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ley D'Orsa, Chris Dreyer, Pop Duncan, Harvey Fischer, Al Gerhardt, Hunter Harris, Bob Hewitt, Ken Hobson, Bill Huber, Roscoe Huggings, Archie Lyon, Ash Manhart, Bill Means, Tom McDonald, Graham McFeely, Luke Morris, Mike Riley, Pinky Smith, Danny Sundt, Walt Tisdaly, and Lou Truman.

Bruce McCandless reports, with justifiable pride, that he is now a proud parent again. Maybe we aren't as old as we thought.

"Bruce McCandless (Capt. U S N ) and Mrs. McCandless announce the birth of a son, Douglas Montrose McCandless, on 14 February 1952 at the U. S. Naval Hospital, Annapolis, Md.

Frank Foley reported word from Bob Kern who is now a well positioned official in a large southern California public utility company. Bob and Eve's three children had recently been stricken with polio, but all were heartened to learn of their complete recovery.

1933 Sec'y, Cdr. J a m e s S. Bethea, U S N , Room 0423 Main Navy, Navy Dept., Washington 25, D. C.

A L B E R T H. CL.A.RK, (Late Cdr. U S N ) . Classmates will be interested to know of the success being made by his widow, Mrs. Mary Crane Clark, residing in Monterey, Calif.

Mrs. Clark is the publisher of a "shopping service for service shoppers," with the name of Gadabout and currently on number 10 of volume three. Gadabout is a six-page sheet on white paper in green ink and appropriately illustrated. The Clark service makes mention of a large number of shops and services all over the Monterey Peninsula.

L. J. G. N. W. GAMBLING, (Capt. U S N ) notifies us that his address has changed to Ind. Dept., U. S. Naval Station, San Diego, Calif.

J O S E P H P. COSTELLO, (Cdr. U S N ) now resides at 3307 N. Trinidad St., ArHngton, Va. CH.A.RLES E. LOUGHLIN, (Capt.

U S N ) received his promotion on 5 March.

He is now in command of the Naval Station, .Annapolis.

W I L L I A M A. SHERRILL, (Capt.

U S N ) in command of the Naval Auxiliary Air Station, Monterey, Calif., was honored recently by members of the Chief Petty Officers' Club there by the gift of an oil portrait of Captain Sherrill. It will hang in the C.P.O. Club on the Station.

H A R O L D F. CRIST, (Cdr. U S N ) gives his present mailing address as U. S. Fleet Air Defense Training Center, DamNeck, Virginia Beach, Va. C. S. BARKER, JR., (Capt. U S N ) sends his address as Commanding Officer,

"The child's grandparents are Commo. and Mrs. Byron McCandless, U S N (Ret.), 'OS of Reseda, Calif., and Capt. and Mrs. Willis W. Bradley, U S N (Ret.), '07 of Long Beach, Calif."

A poll is being conducted as to the advisability of changing the monthly luncheon date. So far no decision has been reached.

Send in any dope or items you'd like posted in Shipmate. We are always particularly anxious to hear from organized groups elsewhere. '32 is gradually coming ashore from DesDiv commands and taking over the training of the Navy. Most sea billets seem to be commands, A P A or AKA or tankers.

Remember May 24 the Twentieth Reunion. Let's all be there!

On Saturday, 5 April, '32 Navy joined forces with '32 West Point at the Officers' Club, Fort Leslie McNair for a delightful evening of cocktails and buffet. Navy was somewhat outnumbered by the West Point contingent but no ground was given on having a grand time and furthering the idea of unification. The writer was too busy enjoying the good company to keep notes on exactly who attended but by memory there were: Edie and Sheets Baker, Toots and Isaphene Blaisdell, Frank and Bianca Brumby, Jim and Peggy Collett, Dick and Virginia Craighill, Gary and Aileen Jewett, Charley and Linny Lanman, Bob and Barbara Maulsby, Jerry and Ruby Miller, Mai and Sara Ann Munger, Lloyd and Emily Mustin, Jack and Ruth Myers, Rip and CALOOSAHATCHEE (AO-98), c/o Kay Raring, John and Charlotte Spangler, U S S Don Thomas (Ann home sick wih measles), FPO, New York, N. Y. and Tom and Mona Warfield. Rosa Miller and Margaret Archer represented their 1934 respective spouses unavoidably absent. Rip Sec'y, L t . Cdr. Roy C. S m i t h . 111. U S N R .

Raring did a fine job of collaborating for 125 West Cameron Rd.. Falls Church, Va. Navy in arrangements. . F. D. P F O T E N H A U E R , (Cdr. U S N ) On Wednesday, April 9, the usual luncheon was held at the Gun Factory Of- corrects his address to read (Apt. 532A), ficers' Club. The following faithful were 5201 Sth Rd., South, Arlington, Va. present for the usual good lunch: Croghan, F R A N K A. NUSOM. (Cdr. U S N ) forBigler, Foley, Bull, W. C. Jonson, R. C. Johnson, Shinn, Coxe, Lanman, Colley, wards his address to VX2, Naval Auxiliary Shell, Brown, Fang, Charlie Smith, Talulie Air Station, Chincoteague, Va. J. P. HOBBS, (Cdr. SC, U S N ) has reWilson, Munholland, Slayden, Small, Cy Perkins, Craighill, Spangler, Archer, Jaap, ported to the Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Brumby and Jerry Miller. Chairman Jerry Portsmouth, Va. Miller banged on a glass for order and conG. P. CHUNG-HOON, (Cdr. U S N ) ducted a short meeting of interest to all. is now living at 3869 Nikolo St., Honolulu The monthly luncheon was kept by vote 15, T. H. on the second Wednesday of each month.

N O R M A N C. LECLERQ gives his Report was heard from Dick Williams who is gaining weight in a west coast hospital present mailing address as 5620 South and arguing with the medics over how Grand Blvd., St. Louis, Mo. sick he isn't.

A R D E N PACK.A.RD, (Cdr. U S N ) President Joe Jaap urged consideration states his address changed to Rt. 4, Box of two very worthy projects namely: A 298, Pensacola, Fla. pilot model of a 2S-year Lucky Bag done The Washington group held its monthly on a 20-year basis without elaborate re- lunch on Wednesday, 12 March, at the Nafinements, and a suitable class memorial. val Gun Factory with approximately 25 Dick Craighill briefed the group on classmates present. Ed Lee was on hand pending legislation of concern to the Navy. from Monterey, Dixon came up from AnM A Y,

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The secretary announced the results of the class election, in which the two constitutional amendments on membership and investment of class funds were overwhelmingly approved. The new class council will be: Jim Halligan, Dick Latham, Johnny Nichols, Red Adams, Reggie Rutherford, and Boney Close. Alternates, in order of succession, are: Luke Sample, Bob Townsend, Les Chambers, Ralph Rottet, Ed Powell, Henry Spicer, Harry Greer, Pierce Greenman, and Frank Bradley.

The new secretary-treasurer, to be elected by the council from its members, will publish to the class the election results, the revised constitution, and a financial statement following the investment of funds authorized by the approved constitutional amendment.

"To the Class of '34: "Brethren, it has been suggested by a few hearty and courageous souls that an attempt be made to revive or stimulate an added interest on the part of '34 in Naval Academy affairs in general—and in our own class in particular. Personally, I'm all for it magna cum laude (which to the uninitiated means all the way providing culture doesn't get too monetary). T'm sending a copy of this to Roy Smith in the hopes that it will get to the secret steering committee (not to be confused with Alcoholics Anonymous).

"Several fellows have called us while passing through this 'heaven on earth' spot in the past few months. Included are Gor-

don Chung Hoon. Francis Boyle and George Artz. George Ruffin is here at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot (Jack Weber was also at this same station but has recently gone East). Jack Arnold has gone back to Harvard for some additional 'know how.' John Foster and his lovely family are still with us.

"To all our classmates passing through this area—it won't take long to get reacquainted, so drop in when you can—until you can get to know the live ones. Then use your own judgm.snt as to how often you should drop in. Pretty slick, eh—although somewhat obtuse. Sic Gloria Transit Mundi, and I quote."

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"P. S. The business address is now— Head, Management Engineering (Code 141), U. S. Naval Station, San Diego 36, Calif."

1935 Sec'y, Cdr. J. M. Lyle, SC, USN, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, Room 2050, Arlington Annex, Navy Department, Washington 25, D. C. DONALD CLAY has been ordered to duty as the Executive Officer, USS R O CHESTER (CA-124), c/o F P O , San Francisco, Calif. Don's wife, Marion, and his son, Jesse, plan to settle in the Los Angeles-Long Beach area in early May.

J O H N p . S T E V E N S , (Cdr. U S N ) is on duty in command of the Naval Air Facility, Annapolis, Md. E. D. STANLEY, JR., (Cdr. SC, U S N ) corrects his address to read Supply Department, New York Naval Shipyard, Brooklyn, N. Y. P A G E K N I G H T , (Cdr. U S N ) writes to us from Naval Air Station, San Diego, Calif.

H O W A R D Z. S E N I F , (Cdr. U S N ) is living on 21 Monroe Place, Brooklyn 2, N. Y.

1936 Sec'y, Cdr. Richard K. Pratt. USN, U.S.S. Hank (DD 702), c/o Fleet Post Office, New York, N. Y. J A M E S C. S H X W , (Cdr. U S N ) notifies us that his address has changed to Box 8, R F D 3, Fairfax, Va. OVID M. B U T L E R gives his present mailing address as General Delivery, Oceana, Va.

1937 Corresponding Sec'y, Cdr. Robert H. Wescott.

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GEORGE E. MORRISEY, JR., ( L t U S N ) . Announcement has been made of the marriage of Lieutenant Morrisey to W A R R E N W. ARMSTRONG, (Cdr. Miss Mary H. Hutchinson on 19 February U S N ) was married to Mrs. Dorothy M. at St. Paul's Methodist Church, Houston, Pottinger at the North Chapel, Naval Texas.

E. W. H E S S E L , (Cdr. U S N ) sends his Training Center, San Diego, Calif., on 22 February. address as 424 S. Lee St., Alexandria, Va.

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E L B E R T C. LINDON, (Cdr. U S N ) is on duty as Executive Officer at the Command Service School, Naval Training Center, Great Lakes. He has been on sea duty in command of the submarine SEA

At the present time there are 95 class- LEOPARD. A R N O L D E. J A K E L requests that his IRVING D. DEWEY, (Cdr. U S N ) coraddress be changed to Dist. 763, Box 233, mates or former classmates located in the Washington area, with an attendance of rects his address to read 8009 Glenside Milwaukee, Wis. about 45 at the monthly luncheons held at J O H N A. S A X T E N , (Lt. Col. USMC) the Army-Navy Country Club. Recent new Drive, Takoma Park, Md. states his address changed to 1st Marine arrivals include John Ferriter, Tom SudJ O H N F. SPLAIN, (Col. U S A F ) may Division F M F , c/o F P O , San Francisco, dath, Pret Haines, Grant Heston and Bill be reached c/o Special Plans, Hqs. Calif.

CoUum; departures for duty elsewhere in- U S A F E , A P O 633, c/o F P O , New York, B. S. P I C K E T T , (Lt. Cdr. CEC, U S N ) clude Jim Boorman, Ray Calhoun, Otis N, Y. is living on 331 Gundry Drive, Falls Wesche, Jim Andrews, Cecil Johnson, Jim C. R. CHANDLER, (Cdr. U S N ) has Church, Va. Palmer and John Saxten. reported for duty aboard the U S S M C L J. S U P E R F I N E , (Cdr. U S N ) corDERMUT (DD-677), c/o F P O , San FranA gay dinner-dance at the Commissioned cisco, Calif. rects his- address to read Qtrs. B, U. S. Officers' Mess, Bethesda Naval Medical Naval Ordnance Plant, Forest Park, 111.

Center on 21 February was attended by =. CHARLES D. McCALL, (Cdr. U S N ) ROBERT K. I R V I N E , (Cdr. U S N ) a total of 103 classmates and their ladies. states his address changed to U S S JARVIS notifies us that his address has changed to The Bill Kitches and Harry Stotts jour- (DD-799), c/o F P O , New York, N. Y. 6815 27th St., North, Arlington 13, Va. neyed from Annapolis and the Jack RayCommander Irvine's duty station is being mers and Gid Boyds came up from Norfolk S H O R E BREEZES changed from Hunter-Killer Force, Atlan- to help make the evening a more pleasant

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Here's your class social calendar for the R A N D O L P H K L I P P E L , (Cdr. U S N ) ••• A few copies of the 10-year Lucky Bag next few weeks. and Mrs. Klippel of 137 Adria Drive, ConThe Annapolis group is sponsoring a piccord, Calif, proudly armounce the birth are still available and can be obtained by of a daughter, Wendy Jean, weighing 7 sending a check for $2.00 to Paul Schultz, nic at the Experiment Station on Saturday, lbs., 10 oz., on 27 March. This makes 3 c/o BuShips, NavDept, Washington 25, 24 May, at 1430, wives and kiddies welcome and the rate, I believe, is a very daughters for the Klippel household, sis- D. C. reasonable $3.00 per family. Undoubtedly ters are Karen 4 years and Janis 20 the theory is that a lot of children can't months old. consume near as much as the beer papa 1939 BRUCE P. H A Y D E N is with the Conwill put away if he has no kiddies to keep necticut General Life Insurance Company Sec'y* Cdr. James M. Hingson, U S N , him busy. If you are near Annapolis on of Hartford where he is assistant secretary Execntive Office of the Secretary, Room 4 D 717, the 24th, though, put the kiddies in the car Pentagon Bailding, Washington, D . C. of the Mortgage and Real Estate Departand come down to see what a fine day Jim ment.

J O H N C. M A T H E W S , (Cdr. U S N ) Wallace, George (formerly Harry Dog) ALAN J. H O L M E S , (Cdr. U S N ) . An- advises us that his address has changed to Forbes and the rest of the committee have in store—or in kegs, as appropriate. nouncement has been made of the mar- 904 Sth St., Coronado, Calif.

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On Saturday, 7 June, the Washington entertainment committee—Rip Kline, Mo Moore, Bing Gillette and Tom Murphy— has another fine party arranged at the Bethesda Officers' Club with plenty of good food, good drinks, good music and wonderful people. The price, at least for me, will be much less than the $61.00 the last one cost, but then my 50 dollar deductible won't be included in this one. For a fine evening started off with a thick steak dinner you can't beat it. If you want dope on arrangements, etc., drop me or Rip Kline a note—we're both in CNO (Op-3S).

The other class functions are the regular luncheons on the first Wednesday of each month at 1200 at the A-N Country Club in Washington and on the first Friday, monthly at 1200 in Annapolis.

I also have news of a class party in Norfolk on 7 May but with few details.

For those interested, call or drop a card to Ebbie Bell, Staff AFSC, Norfolk.

With the approach of summer and the end of the school year, many sets of orders "are in the mill. From the AFSC, George Ghesquirre is going to AirLant; Stinky Davis to Munitions Board, Washington; Dick Barry to DesLant; Bobo Bobczynski to CO BLACK; Blake Forrest to BuPers; Gordy Glaes to MAAG Formosa and Vadym Utgoff to ONR. George Palus is enroute BADOENG STRAIT to BuShips; J. V.

Wilson from E L DORADO to Field Comd A F S W Proj., Albuquerque; Fred Radel from CO GuRKE to OpNav; Bob McElroy from OpNav to Heavy Attack Unit I ; Dan Garrison from CO OBANNON to BuPers; Harry Harty from FDR to J AX; Gene Shirley from U S N A to CruDiv 5; Allen Register from CO STEINAKER to CO GYATT; Ed Rye from CO JARVIS to 0-in-C

Recruiting, Chicago; and George Duncan from N A S Pax River to AirPac. The Dave Breens and C. G. Mendenhalls have news in the stork parade recently, the Breens a Bethesda baby boy on March 19 and the Mendys a baby girl on January 22 at Inyokern. Mendy, by the way, left the sandflies behind for an enjoyable visit to town and the class luncheon this month.

Also visiting were Ebbie Bell and Charley Jenkins from Norfolk and Popeye Wolf from command of a DD now overhauling in Philly. # My final note for the month is one of sadness. ,A1 Gordon, lost in an air action in Korea, was reburied in Arlington Cemetery on 21 March. A class representation was on hand to pay our last respects at a sorrowful but deeply moving ceremony.

1940 Corresponding Sec'y, Mr. Charles A. Skinner, P. O. Box 454, Glendale, Ohio

F. J. KARCH, (Lt. Col. USMC) sends his address as 4th Battalion, 10th Marines, 2d Marine Division, Camp Lejeune, N. C. T. C. CURLEY has moved to 917 Chestnut St., Wilmette, 111.

M. C. OSBORNE, (Cdr. U S N ) forwards his address to BuOrd, Navy Dept., Washington 25, D. C.

Collins St., Melbourne, C. I., Victoria, death of Lieutenant Lee who was killed in an airplane crash at Corpus Christi, Texas, Australia.

24 February 1952.

W. R. REBARD gives his present mailHe is survived by his widow, Mrs. Maing address as 414 Prryallup, Tacoma 2, rion Frances Lee, of Kingsville, Texas, and Wash. his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Francis Lee of On Saturday, the Sth of March, the Ft. Scott, Kan. Washington group of the Class of '41 had Burial was at the Arlington National a dinner-dance at the Army-Navy Country Club. This affair, which is becoming an Cemetery, Washington, D. C. annual custom, had a successful turnout of GEORGE W. McFETRIDGE, (Lt. members and their wives. The following Cdr. U S N ) and Mrs. McFetridge are the is a list of those that were present: proud parents of a son, Robert Cook, born Tommy and Ann Blount (who, by the 24 February at the U. S. Naval Hospital, way, are back in Washington now; Tom is Portsmouth, Va. with Fairchild Camera and Instrument R O B E R T C. K N I G H T , (Lt. Cdr. Co.) ; Dave and Eloise Byrd; John and U S N ) and Mrs. Knight are proud to anJane Doherty; Jerry and Shirley Engle; nounce the birth of a son, Stephen Gould, Jack and Caryl Hadler; Tom and Mary born 22 February at the U. S. Naval HosHennessey; Vance and Helen Hudgins; pital, Portsmouth, Va. Archie and Rosemary Kelley; C. O. and T. E. GERBER, (Lt. Cdr. U S N ) forKack Marshall; Tommy and Mary Meehling (Tommy has thrown his hat—a derby wards his address to the Office of the Inyet—into Alexandria politics and is run- spector of Machinery U S N , General Elecning for councilman; good luck!) ; Rod tric Co., Schenectady, N. Y. and Ethel Middleton; Vic and Rowena D. ACKER, (Lt. Cdr. Moitoret; Steve and Clara Morrison; Dick U SGUILFORD N ) states his address changed to 4722 and Marie Pierce; Jack and Priscilla Attleboro St., Jacksonville, Fla. Reade; Dan and Kaye Reader; Gene and Gail Somers; Rusty and Helene Trudeau; J A M E S W. SALASSI, (Lt. Cdr. Mickey and Norma Weisner; Malcolm and U S N ) and Mrs. Salassi of SO Tunis Ave., Doris Whitaker; Whitey and Ginger With- Pleasantville, N. J. announce the birth of row; and Hoke Sisk (with a lovely date, James Warren Salassi, Jr. on 29 February of course). From nearby came the Taus- at the U. S. Naval Hospital, Philadelphia, sigs, now at Annapolis, the Chandlers from Pa. Patuxent, and the Klingamans from DahlMAINO D E S GRANGES, (Lt. Cdr. gren.

U S N ) has been assigned to command the The evening opened with cocktails around submarine ARCHERFISH which has recent7:00 o'clock, and except for a slight mis- ly been recommissioned on the West Coast. calculation (martini drinkers were out in force), everyone was spirited through a steak dinner and dancing afterwards. The 1943 suggestion that this group plan a square dance was made repeatedly throughout the Sec'y, Mr. Robert W. Besch, evening, and although the present recol120 Western Dr., Short Hills. N . J. lection is somewhat hazy, it is believed that efforts will be made to organize such an W I L L I A M W. CRADDOCK requests affair, the date, in late May, to be an- that his address be changed to 3015 Albenounced later. marle St., N.W., Washington 8, D. C. On the order of a postscript, it might W. T. T O N E R gives his business adinterest the readers of this column to know dress as Bethlehem Steel Co., 75 Federal that Sandy Landreth was in Washington St., Boston 10, Mass. for several weeks in February. At the R I C H A R D S. W H I T E , III, (Lt. Cdr. present time he is connected with an audience analysis organization in the field of U S N ) . .Announcement has been made of television. He resigned from the Navy the birth of a daughter to Lieutenant and several years ago and attended Pasadena Mrs. White on 20 February at the U. S. Playhouse, where he studied play and tele- Naval Hospital, Bethesda, Md. vision directing. Sandy is one of those BRYAN S. P I C K E T T , (Lt. Cdr. U S N ) rare finds that looks just as he did on graduation day, with the possible exception has been assigned to duty in BuPers following a tour as design superintendent at of lush southern California sideburns. the Naval Academy. He is a graduate of the submarine school and had submarine combat duty.

1942

Sec'y, Lt. Cdr. W. A. Arthur, U S N Box 6042, Shirlington Station Arlingrton. Va. Corresponding Sec'y. Lt. Cdr. T. L. Balis, U S N , P. O. Box 7153, Apex Station, Washinston 4, D. C.

J A M E S P. N E E N A N has moved to 629 West 58th St., Kansas City 2, Mo. W A L T E R P. ROBINSON, JR., (Lt. Cdr. U S N ) was married to Miss Norman Tullis Green on 23 February at Galilee Church, Virginia Beach, Va. 1941 Lieutenant Robinson is now at the Naval Sec'y, Lt. Cdr. Charles W. Styer. Jr.. USN, War College, Newport. The couple are 3903 Jocelyn St., N.W., Washineton. D. C. residing at Toad Hall, Wolcott Ave., Newport, R. I. J O H N W. NEWSOM, (Lt. Cdr. U S N ) is living on 1000 Wakefield Dr., Apt. C-1, GEORGE H. MAHLER, III, (Lt. Cdr. Belle View Apts., Alexandria, Va. U S N ) corrects his address to read V F R O B E R T D. MACKLIN, (Cdr. U S N ) 173, c/o F P O , New York, N. Y. notifies us that his address has changed to MARVIN G. LEE, (Lt. Cdr. USN, Office of the U. S. Naval Attache, 414 Deceased). We are sorry to report the 40

W. M. GOODE, (Lt. Cdr. U S N ) is now residing at 201 Sth Street, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

W A R R E N D. CALHOUN, (Lt. Cdr. U S N ) informs us that he is with the U S S WOODSON ( D E - 3 5 9 ) , C/O F P O ,

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N. Y. H E R B E R T L. BASLEE, JR., (Lt. Cdr. USN, Deceased). We are sorry to report the death of Commander Baslee who was killed in action in Korea March 1952 when his Panther jet fighter was hit by enemy anti-aircraft fire and crashed.

He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Sonia D. Baslee of 610 Tarento Dr., San Diego, Calif., and his daughter, Kathryn, four, and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Baslee of Mill Valley, CaHf. Memorial services were conducted at the Naval Air Chapel, North Island, San Diego.

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GRAYDON T. STOUT, (Lt. U S N ) notifies us that his address has changed Sec'y. Lt. Gene Gondie, U S N . to Patrol Squadron Forty Nine, c/o F P O , 25th & Panama Streets. Philadelphia 2. P a .

138, New York, N. Y. ROBERT A. HOGSED, (Lt. U S N ) H E N R Y A. E I M S T A D , (Lt. U S N ) gives his present mailing address as Apt. and Mrs. Hogsed are the proud parents of 124-A, Haddon Hills, Haddonfield, N. J. a son, Robert Addington, Jr., born 25 Mrs. Macy Mullen, wife of W A R R E N March at the USN Hospital, Portsmouth, (Moon) M U L L E N , writes the following: Va. "Thought some of Warren (Moon) MulB. W. DECKER, JR., (Lt. U S N ) now len's '44 friends would like to know of resides at 3046 Homer St., San Diego, the last four and one-half years.

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"He graduates from U. of Michigan Medical School this June; he was elected 1946 junior and senior class president; will intern at St. Mark's Hospital, Grand Rapids, Corr. Sec'y, Lt. Charles V. Wilhoit, Jr., U S N , Apt. A-3, Perry Circle, U. S. Naval Academy, Mich, next year; first national president Annapolis, Md. '51 of the newly formed Student American Medical Association; plus our 7;^-year-old R O B E R T J. BARNES, (Lt. U S N ) and daughter, Sue; we now have a 2j/4-year-old Mrs. Barnes are proud to announce the boy, Mike; he still keeps the same address arrival of a daughter, Joanna Lynn, born at 204 Steward Ave., Jackson, Mich."

17 February at the USA Hospital, Ft. Ord, CHARLES S. S W I F T , (Lt. U S N ) Calif. is one of the heavyweight wrestlers now ROCCO F. ICOBELLI, (Lt. U S N ) in training for a place on the Olympics team of wrestlers. He is in training at advises us that his address has changed to AnnapoHs. In the Academy Lieutenant U S N Postgraduate School, Monterey, Swift was intercollegiate heavyweight Calif. champion and later national champion.

W I L L A R D C. GIESEKE, (Lt. SC, J O H N B. McELROY, (Lt. U S N ) and U S N ) reports a change of address to the Mrs. McElroy take great pleasure in an- U S S DIXIE (AD-14), c/o F P O , San Frannouncing the birth of a daughter, Susan cisco, Calif.

Boyd, bom 10 March at the U S N Hospital, R O B E R T D. T H O M P S O N , (Lt. U S N ) Portsmouth, Va. forwards his address to 187 Eldorado St., FRANK K. D U E R S T , (Lt. U S N ) has Monterey, Calif. moved to 5445 N. Parmerton Ave., Temple ALVA M. BOWEN, JR., (Lt. U S N ) City, Calif. and Mrs. Bowen take great pleasure in R. L. B O T H W E L L notifies us that his announcing the birth of their second child, address has changed to 900 Second St., Gerald Manly Bowen, born 11 January at Coronado, Calif. the USN Hospital, Key West, Fla. R. A. BOSCOLE, (Lt. U S N ) states his He is the grandson of Prof, and Mrs. address changed to Navy Post Office 3423, C. H. Rawlins of Annapolis and Mr. and c/o FPO, San Francisco, Calif.

Mrs. A. M. Bowen of Newnan, Ga. A. G. T H A L H A M E R , (Lt. U S N ) corLieutenant Bowen is attached to Fleet rects his address to read 215 Burleigh Ave., Sonar School. His address is 4-1 PoinNorfolk, Va. ciana Place, Key West, Fla. K E L L E Y V. H O L B E R T , (Lt. U S N ) writes to us from the USS LIBRA ( A K A 1945 12), c/o F P O , New York, N. Y. Sec'y, Lt. Samnel G. Gorsline, U S N , E. GRALLA, (Lt. SC, U S N ) states his 1127 46th Place, S.E., Washingrton, D. C. address changed to Naval Station, Box 24, H. L. N O R T O N , (Lt. U S N ) has report- Navy 824, c/o F P O , San Francisco, CaHf. ed to the U S N Postgraduate School, Mon- The Navy Post Office number is that of Kwajalein. Lieutenant Gralla would be terey, Calif. very happy to have any member of the H O W A R D D. EARL, (Lt. U S N ) Class of '46 passing through Kwajalein to writes to us from the U S S LST 802, c/o drop in to say hello and have a tall cool FPO, San Francisco, Calif. one with Bev and himself in their quarters.

F R A N K P A R R I S H , JR. notifies us G. C. S H R O P S H I R E , (Lt. U S N R ) corrects his address to read Flag Officers' that his address has changed to 1404 Polk, Mess, U. S. Naval Amphibious Base, Little Wichita Falls, Texas.

Creek, Norfolk, Va. J O H N H. H A L E requests that his adLieutenant Shropshire is now Flag Lieu- dress be changed to 701 Dreams Landing, tenant to R. Adm. A. J. Wellings, USN, Annapolis, Md. K E I T H M. MESSENGER, (Lt. jg who is Commander Amphibious Training U S N R ) is living on 3206-A Robb Place, Command, U. S. Atlantic Fleet.

Corpus Christi, Texas.

C H A R L E S F. F A D E L E Y , (Lt. U S N ) .

R I C H A R D I. GULICK, (Lt. U S N ) Announcement has been made of the birth of a son, Stephen Malone, born to Lieuten- has moved to 4508 Bayne St., Wheaton ant and Mrs. Fadeley on 14 March at the City, Rockville, Md. N. A. J A N K O V S K Y , (Lt. U S N ) corUSN Hospital, Portsmouth, Va. rects his address to read Apt. M-6, U. S. F. A. S E E L A U S , (Lt. U S N ) advises Naval Academy, AnnapoHs, Md. us that his address has changed to 406 E. P A U L B. R I C H A R D S sends an adAllen's Lane, Philadelphia, Pa. dress at 2050 Watson Ave., Alliance, Ohio.

R O B E R T G. B A R N H A R T , (Lt. U S N ) The secretary writes the following: is living on 34 Engle Rd., Route 20, "A meeting was held at the Alumni Media, Pa. House on Tuesday evening 25 March to A L V I N L. M E I N T S , (Lt. U S N ) states discuss the Class of 1946 Foundation. The his address changed to 1146 Devisadero St., very lively but healthy arguments were held down to a mild roar by our very able Pacific Grove, Calif.

R O B E R T B. BEAR requests that his class president, Ben Martin. A better unaddress be changed to 7708 Third Ave., derstanding of the foundation was imparted by a rapid series of questions and answers Kenosha, Wis.

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lasting well over two hours. The following members of the class were present: "William R. Bonham, Paul C. Boyd, Theodore T. Culpepper, Philip A. Doherty, John J. Forrester, Robert J. Gorton, Luther J. Graves, Nicholas Grkovic, John H. Hale, Harold R. Hamberg, John A. Jandrall, John Kaufman, Francis M. Lavelle, Jerome A. Lee, Benjamin S. Martin, Corliss R. Nugent, Francis E. Pearson, III, Robert Schabacker, Harry E. Spoerl, John L. Taylor, Robert J. Trott, Robert W. Wesson, Joseph R. Winslow, Charles V. Wilhoit, Jr. "A message from the class president is being prepared and will be distributed in the near future. The problem of distribution is a large one and could be made considerably easier if more members would subscribe to Shipmate. Five dollars a year is all it takes and it makes you a member of the Naval Academy Alumni Association also.

"Incidentally, I've just been appointed corresponding secretary for our class by Ben Martin and would appreciate any info for 'What's the Dope?'

"Sincerely, " 'DAISY'

WILHOIT"

DIVISION OFFICER'S GUIDE There has long been a need for a book of this type and it is fortunate that the author, Cdr. John V. Noel, Jr., USN, is equipped with the experience, background, and special training which was necessary to make it a reality.

Since the days of "Ensigns in Training" are nearly a thing of the past this small volume will provide a large part of the knowledge and techniques formerly imparted to young officers during long periods of apprenticeship under seasoned officers.

In this concise, easy-to-read guide the inexperienced officer can learn the basic rudiments of organization, administration, training, discipline and inspections as they apply to his duties as a division officer.

Just as the Watch Officer's Guide has for years been a familiar fixture for officers on watch, the Division Officer's Guide will be useful to officers in their off-watch duties.

L T . C. V. WILHOIT, JR.,

USN

1947 Sec'y. Mr. Joseph P. Flanagran, Jr., Stenton Court Apt. C-1, 6625 Sprague St., Philadelphia 19, Pa.

GEORGE S. GROVE, (Lt. jg U S N ) informs us that he is with the U S S MONTEREY (CVL-26), c/o FPO, New York, N. Y. Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. Zissis of Honesdale, Pa. announce the marriage of their daughter, Athena Ann, to Lt. (jg) ROBERT H O L M E S S M I T H , USN, on Monday, March 10, in St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York, N. Y. Lieutenant Smith is the son of Mrs. Robert Holmes Smith of Annapolis and the late Capt. Robert Holmes Smith, U S N .

D. M W E L L S , (Lt. jg U S N ) sends his address as USS BEEGALL (SS-320), U. S. Naval Submarine Base, New London, Conn.

R. P. Y E A T M A N , (Lt. jg U S N ) and Mrs. Yeatman proudly announce the birth of a son, Robert Alan, born 22 March at the U. S. Naval Dispensary, NAS, Quonset Point, R. I. He is their second child, Richard, Jr. is now 17 months old.

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RAY E. DAVIS, (Lt. jg U S N ) was married to Miss Rowena Cimimings, at the Commimity Church, Great Neck, L. I., New York on 29 March.

A. GREGORY LANG, JR., (Lt. jg U S N ) advises us that his address has changed to U S S CORSAIR (435), c/o F P O , New York, N. Y.

1948-A

1948-B

Sec'y, 2nd Lt. Leon C. Bramlett, USMC. 538 W. Second St., Clarksdale, Miss.

Sec'y. Ens. R. W. Bates. U S N , 3405 13th Place. S.E., Washington 20, D. C.

Lieutenant and Mrs. Braley are now residing at their home, and new station, U. S. Naval Mine Depot, Yorktown, Va. J O H N A. F L E T C H E R , (Lt. jg U S N ) is a wrestling candidate for the Armed Services Olympics. He is training at Annapolis. Lieutenant Fletcher was a member of the 1948 Olympic team.

C H A R L E S MERTZ, (Lt. U S N ) and Mrs. Mertz are the parents of a son, Charles, IV, bom 5 March in Carmel, Calif.

L A U R E N S DORSEY, (Lt. jg U S N ) has reported to the Gunnery Officers' Ordnance School, N A V R E S C T A , Washington, D. C.

W A L T E R L. ALT, (Lt. jg U S N ) and Mrs. Alt announce the birth of Bruce Dwain's sister, Helene Allan, bom 29 February at Harkness Pavilion, New York.

E. F R O T H I N G H A M , (Lt. jg U S N ) is now at the U. S. Naval Submarine School, Sub Base, New London, Conn.

E. A. McCALLUM, JR., (Lt. jg U S N ) 1949 has been flying in Korea most of the time Sec'y, Lt. (jg) John C. Barrow, U S N , since 1950 and is looking forward to re121 B , 55th St., Virginia Beach, V a . turning to the States and seeing those familiar faces again.

P . \ U L H. S M I T H now resides at 31 Lieutenant McCallum's present address Washington, Monroe, Mich. is VF-54, c/o FPO, San Francisco, Calif.

R O B E R T K. R I P L E Y , (Lt. jg U S N ) J O H N D. C L I T H E R O , (Lt. jg U S N ) .

Announcement has been made by Lieuten- forwards his address to Apt. 415, Mayant and Mrs. Clithero of the birth of a son, flower Apts., \''irginia Beach, Va. L. H. DERBY, JR., (Lt. jg U S N ) reJohn Dickens, Jr., born at the U S N Hosquests that his address has changed to V F pital, Portsmouth, Va. on 27 February.

R. A. COCHRAN, (Lt. jg U S N ) and 31, NAAS, Sanford, Fla. D. A. GAIRING, (Lt. jg U S N ) inMrs. Cochran and their daughter are now living at 505 Timothy Ave., Norfolk 5, Va. forms us that he is with the U S S SENNET C. J. SHOOK, JR., (Lt. jg U S N ) cor- (SS-408), c/o F P O , New York, N. Y. U S S ALBANY (CA-123), c/o F P O , New rects his address to read U. S. Army CAL J. K I L L E E N , (1st Lt. USMC) York, N. Y. Waterwa3' Experiment Station, Vicksburg, corrects his address to 3602 41st Ave., Brentwood, Md. J O H N W. McADAMS, JR., (Lt. jg Miss.

R A L P H W. BROWN, JR., (Lt. jg U S N ) and Airs. McAdams are the proud DAVID L. W R I G H T , (Lt. jg U S N ) parents of twins, a daughter, Deborah forwards his address to 5202 E. Exeter USN. Deceased). We have recently received notice of the death of Lieutenant Jane, and a son, John David, bom 9 Feb- Blvd., Phoenix, Ariz. ruary at the USA Hospital, Fort Ord, J. I. MELLENCAMP, (Lt. jg U S N ) Brown who was killed while attempting to Calif. writes to us from the USS NOA (DD-841), land his F2H fighter plane on the aircraft carrier CORAL SEA in the West Indies on C H A R L E S S. EDMONDSON, (Lt. c/o F P O , New York, N. Y. 4 March 1952. jg U S N ) requests that his address be CHARLES G. STRAHLEY, (Lt. jg He is survived by his parents, former changed to Apt. 301, 3324 14th PI., S.E., USN, Deceased). We are sorry to report Washington, D. C. the death of Lieutenant Strahley who was Prince Georges Countv, Md., Chief of Police and Mrs. R. W. Bro\\-n of 6819 B U R T O N J. RAB, (Lt. jg U S N ) for- killed on 21 March 1952 as the result of New Hampshire Ave., Takoma Park, Md. enemy action in the Korean area.

He was wards his address to 225 Central Park LOUIS E. BRANCH. (1st Lt. U S A F ) the pilot of a Panther jet, from Squadron West, New York 24, N. Y. 52, attached to the VALLEY FORGE. His reports a change of address to Box P-37, R O B E R T S. J O N E S , (Lt. jg U S N ) home was 934 Aluirlands Drive, La Jolla, " 3300th T m g . Sqdn., Greenville AFB, Miss. and Mrs. Jones are the happy parents of a Calif.

R. P E T E W I L L I A M S , (Lt. jg U S N ) daughter, Pricelle Ellen, born 18 March F R A N K W. ORR, JR., (Lt. jg U S N ) writes to us' from the U S S D E S MOINES at the U S N Hospital, Portsmouth, Va. states his address changed to USS FRANK- (CA-134), c/o F P O , New York, N. Y. FPO, DAVID M. L A T H A M , (1st Lt. S T E W A R T H. McCLEAN, (Lt. jg LIN D. ROOSEVELT ( C V B - 4 2 ) , c/o U S A F ) states his address changed to 3551 U S N ) was married to Miss Mary Charlton New York, N. Y. Merrick on 27 March at the Shrine of the C. R. BRALEY, JR., (Lt. jg U S N ) T m g . Sqdn. (Mil), 3550 T m g . Wg., Sacred Heart, Baltimore, Md. and Mrs. Braley take great pleasure in Moody AFB, Ga. His home address is 36 WILLIAM J. McCABE, (Lt. jg announcing the birth of a daughter, Eliza- Hillcrest Apts., North Patterson St., ValU S N ) . Announcement has been made of beth Prince, born 29 February at the U. S. desta, Ga. S T E P H E N .A SKOMSKY, (Lt. jg the birth of a son, Thomas Francis, to Lieu- Army Hospital, Ft. Eustis, Va. Elizabeth tenant and Mrs. McCabe, 11 March, at the Prince joins her big brother. Chip, age 2]^, U S N ) and Mrs. Skomsky proudly an.years, who was born at Annapolis. nounce the arrival of a son, Stephen A. U S N Hospital, Portsmouth, Va. J A M E S B. SIZER, (Lt. jg U S N ) states his address changed to U S S W A X BILL (AMS-39), c/o F P O , San Francisco, Calif.

R O B E R T P . METZGER, (Lt. jg U S N ) . Miss Mary E. Rodes was married to Lieutenant Metzger on March 1 at the Cathedral Chapel, Los Angeles, Calif.

H A R O L D W. JESSE, (Lt. jg U S N ) notifies us that his address has changed to Patron Two, c/o F P O , San Francisco, Calif.

Lt. (jg) and Mrs. A R T H U R J. H O D DER. JR. annoimce the birth of their first son. Arthur James Hodder, III, on 6 February at the U. S. Naval Hospital, AtmapoHs, Md. Mrs. Hodder is the former Miss Joan Cunningham of Annapolis.

Lieutenant Hodder is now attending Advanced Gunnery School in Washington, D. C. He forwards his new address as

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Skomsky, Jr., born 25 February. Lieutenant Skomsky's present address is 4430 Cherry St., Corpus Christi, Texas.

EDGAR A. R A W S T H O R N E , (Lt. jg U S N ) notifies us that his address has changed to Fighter Squadron 92, USNA, Alameda, Calif.

D A N F O R T H C L E M E N T , (Lt. jg SC, U S N ) is now attached to the Supply Dept., Mare Island, Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, CaHf. His address is 44 Tang St., Vallejo, Calif.

M. R. P A N T L E , (Lt. jg U S N ) advises us that his address has changed to U S S M. R. N E W M A N

( D E - 4 1 6 ) , C/O F P O ,

San

Francisco, Calif.

J. H. L. C H A M B E R S , JR. (Lt. USMC) sends his address as 2nd ANGLICO, FMF, Force Troops, Camp Lejeune, N. C. STANLEY G. COOPER, (Lt. jg U S N ) has moved to 1852 Chalcedony St., San Diego, Calif.

STANLEY J. GRIEF, (Ens. U S N ) gives his mailing address as U S S IOWA (BB-61), c/o F P O , San Francisco, Calif.

JAY R. WALLACE, (Lt. U S A F ) writes that his mailing address is Route A, Box 67. APO 953, c/o F P O , San Francisco, Calif. His home address is 504-A Signer Blvd., Hickam Air Force Base, Honolulu, Hawaii. This home address is for '49ers who would like to drop in and see how the A'f Force half lives. Phone 412109.

EUGENE J. W I E L K I , (Lt. jg U S N ) would like to have his copies of Shipmate sent to U S S STAFF (AM-114), c/o F P O , New York, N. Y. On Saturday, February 23, Miss Bonnie Rink, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest L. Rink of Grosse Pointe, Mich., and Lt. (jg) EDWARD I. McQUISTON, JR. were married at Messiah Lutheran Church, Detroit. Lieutenant McQuiston, son of Capt. and Mrs. Edward McQuiston (USN, Ret.), is on duty at the Naval Air Station, Whidbey Island, Wash.

D. R. SCHMIDT, (Lt. jg U S N ) is Uving on 7314 Hampton Blvd., Apt. 6A, Norfolk, Va. Lieutenant Schmidt has been recently assigned as electronics officer of the USS

NEW

(DDE-818).

RICHARD A. PARKER, (Lt. U S A F ) forwards his address to 3304 Trng. Sqdn 5/0 B, Hondo Air Base, Hondo, Texas.

E D M U N D A. MILLER, (Lt. jg U S X ; corrects his address to read U S S HELENA (CA-75), c/o F P O , San Francisco, Calif.

J O H N A. J E P S O N , (Lt. jg U S N ) has moved to 34 River Drive, Bay Ridge, Annapolis, Md. CHARLES M. C. J O N E S , JR., (1st Lt. USMC) states his address changed to 1808 Brighton Ave., Okla. City, Okla.

F. D. HESLEY, JR., (Ens. U S N ) gives his present mailing address as 21462 Malibu Rd., Malibu, Calif.

J O H N F. D A N I S , (Lt. jg U S N ) has a new address aboard the U S S MANSFIELD (DD-728), c/o F P O , San Francisco, Calif.

W A Y N E D. S M I T H , (Lt. jg U S N ) is trying for the Armed Forces Olympics wrestling team. He is a former midshipman captain and an intercollegiate champion.

L U C I E N C A P O N E , JR., (Lt. j g U S N ) informs us that he is with the U S S KEPPLER (DDE-765), c/o F P O , New York, N. Y. R I C H A R D A. MERGL, (Lt. jg U S N ) advises us that his address has changed to VF-112 CV-47, c/o F P O , San Francisco, Calif.

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E. C. HIGGINS, (Lt. jg U S N ) now resides at 7614 Victory Drive, Norfolk, Va. Lieutenant Higgins is leaving the USS

E. A.

GREENE

( D D - 7 1 1 ) and

is

go-

ing to duty in the Norfolk Naval Shipyard at Portsmouth, Va. CARL R. S M I T H , JR., (Lt. jg U S N ) .

Announcement has been made of the marriage of Lieutenant Smith to Lt. (jg) Virginia Ann Dyer, USN, at St. John's Episcopal Church, Bethesda, Md., 29 March.

H O M E R L. S M I T H , (Lt. jg U S N ) states his address changed to 520 Knowles Ave., Winter Park, Fla. ROBERT L. VOLZ, (Lt. jg U S N ) requests that his address be changed to 1224 Spratley St., Portsmouth, Va.

1950 Sec'y, Ens. Aron L. Stapp, U S N , 2074 Oliver, Pacific Beach, Calif.

R O B E R T E. W I S E , (Ens. U S N ) reports a change of address to Box 7, Sub Base, New London, Conn.

E D W A R D A. GRUNWALD, (Ens. U S N ) gives his present mailing address as VA-175, Box 38, Jacksonville, Fla. ROY W. HIGHBERG, (Ens. U S N ) notifies us that his address has changed to 3520 Post Street, Apt. 4, Jacksonville, Fla. CLAUDE E. J E F F R I E S , (Ens. U S N ) is living on 2662 Merrimac Blvd., Toledo, Ohio.

W I L L I A M E. SIMONS, (1st Lt. U S A F ) advises us that his address has changed to Hq & Hq Sq, 575 Air Base Group, Selfridge Air Force Base, Mich.

T H O M A S S. ROGERS, JR., (Ens. U S N ) is temporarily living at 919 S. Minnesota St., Buccaneer Gardens, Corpus Christi, Texas.

DONALD K . ROBBINS, (Ens. U S N ) sends an address at 202 S. Pinewood Lane, Rt. 38, Pensacola, Fla. E D W I N GREENBERG, (Ens. U S N ) .

Announcement has been made of the birth of a daughter, Joyce Irene, born to Ensign and Mrs. Greenberg on 11 March at Annapolis. . S. B. NEANDER, (Ens. U S N ) requests that his address be changed to Box 3, Naval Submarine Base, New London, Conn.

F R E D E R I C K A. E D W A R D S , JR., (Ens. U S N ) and Mrs. Edwards are in a photo recently published, showing them sightseeing in Barcelona, Spain. His ship, the cruiser ROANOKE, was then in that port.

R O B E R T B. ENGLISH, (Lt. U S A F ) corrects his address to read Class 52-F, Vance AFB, Enid, Okla.

WM. J. RICCI, (Ens. U S N ) forwards his address to read BOQ 662, Rm. 163, NAS, Pensacola, Fla. F R A N K L. YOUNG, (1st Lt. U S A F ) states his address changed to 3916 Homan Ave., Waco, Texas.

W I L L I A M L. BERGER, (Lt. U S A F ) and Mrs. Berger proudly announce the birth of a daughter, Kathleen Lizbeth, on 25 February at the U S A F Hospital, Edwards AFB, Calif.

D. D. STONE, JR., (Ens. U S N ) would like to have his Shipmate sent to Com 7th Fit Staff, c/o F P O , San Francisco, Calif.

N O R M A N R. T H O M , (Ens. U S N ) now resides at 5259 Bay Crest Rd., Jacksonville, Fla. J O H N H. BRICK, (Ens. U S N ) writes to us from VA-175, Box 38, NAS, Jacksonville, Fla.

W A R R E N L. MORGAN, JR., (1st Lt. U S A F ) has moved to 5319 Pershing Ave., St. Louis 12, Mo. Lieutenant and Mrs. Morgan are the happy parents of a daughter, Mary Christine, born 3 March. His new duty assignment is 5th AF, Far East^ ern Air Force, 25 Armament Systems Officer.

K E N D A L L D. MOLL gives his present mailing address as Apt. 207-4, Stanford Village, Stanford, Calif.

GEORGE E. VON, (Ens. SC, U S N ) informs us that he is now with the USS TAYLOR (DDE-468), c/o FPO, San Francisco, Calif.

H A R R I S O. H I N N A N T , (1st Lt. U S A F ) notifies us that his address has changed to Box 369, Ellington AFB, Texas.

C . R . W H I P P L E , (Ens. U S N ) is living on 112 Mott Drive, Rensselaerwyck, Troy, N. Y. J O H N A. MURPHY, (Ens. U S N ) has reported to the Naval CIC Officers' School, Naval Air Station, Glenview, 111.

R. E. GOODSPEED, (Ens. U S N ) now resides at 725 Avenue "A," Kingsville, Texas.

F R A N K R. BONNER, (2nd Lt. U S A F ) sends an address MAO, NABTC, NAS, Pensacola, Fla. ALBERT L. REGISTER, 3rd, (Ens. U S N ) . Announcement has been made of the marriage of Miss Anne Mickle to Ensign Register on 24 March at the Chapel of the First Presbyterian Church, La Jolla, Calif.

Ensign and Mrs. Register are making their home at Dykton, Tuckerman Ave., Newport, R. 'I.

1951 No Secretary

L O W E L L A. STOCKDALE, (Ens. U S N ) and Mrs. Stockdale of 604 S. Second St., Warrington, Fla. take great pleasure in announcing the arrival of a son, Lowell Arthur Stockdale, Jr., weighing 6 pounds, 12j^ ounces at the United States Naval Hospital, Pensacola, Fla. Born 16 February.

J O S E P H T. GAROFALO, JR., (Lt. U S A F ) and Mrs. Garofalo are the proud parents of a baby boy born 7 March. Lieutenant Garofalo's present address is 31 Bridges Loop, Apt. 2, MacDill AFB, Fla. S T A N L E Y J. ANDERSON, (Ens. USN)

is

aboard the

USS

SAINT

PAUL

(CA-73), c/o FPO, San Francisco, Calif.

S. F. HIGHLEYMAN, (Ens. U S N ) states his address changed to BTU-1 S, NAAS, Whiting Field, Milton, Fla. RAYMOND H. ^ HOWARD, (Lt. U S A F ) forwards his address to OMS, Box 1080, Lowry AFB, Denver, Colo.

JAY N. DEWING, (Ens. U S N ) corrects his address to read USS GYATT ( D D 712), c/o FPO, New York, N. Y. A L E X A N D E R W. TODD, JR., (Ens. SC, U S N ) informs us that he is with the USS

OGLETHORPE (AKA-100), c/o

FPO,

New York, N. Y. J O H N W. H A M I L T O N , (Ens. U S N ) has moved to 308 Market St., Warren, Pa. A. J. BARTUSKA, (Ens. SC, U S N ) writes to us from the U S S WASHBURN (AKA-109), c/o F P O , San Francisco, Calif.

ROGER P. L E W I S , (Ens. U S N ) . Announcement has been made of the marriage of Miss Marilyn Ann Schenck to Ensign Lewis in the East Williston (Long Island) Church on 23 February.

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U. S. I L AllMI ISSOCUTIOH l^na^Aliociaiic^U When changes occur within th* Branch Association, such as officers or time and place of meetings, please inform the editors at Alumni House.

AKRON President, Mr. Carlton B. Coen, '34. 1419 Yale Ave., N.W., Canton, Ohio.

Secretary-Treasurer, Mr. Earl L. Coen, '47, 204 Willow Ave., N.E., Massillon, Ohio.

ANNAPOLIS President, Cdr. R. Y. McElroy, Jr., USN, '35, Qtrs. C-2, Perry Circle, U. S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md. Secretary, Cdr. F. J. Coulter, USN, '39, Apt. M-5, U. S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md. Treasurer, Lt. N. A. Jankovsky, USN, '46, Apt. MG, U. S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md. •

ATLANTA President, Dr. Edgar Grady, '39, Lawson V. A. Hospital, Chamblee, Ga. Secretary, Capt. Samuel M. Pickering, '27, U. S. Navy, Naval Air Station, Atlanta, Ga.

BALTIMORE President, O. Bowie Duckett, '26, 1208 Munsey Bldg., Baltimore 11, Md. Secretary, William S. Graham, '46, 122 Dumbarton Road, Baltimore 12, Md.

BIRMINGHAM Chairman, Welcoming Committee, Mr. Leon Hamrick, '22, Steiner-Rouse and Co., Brown Marx Bldg., 2008 First Avenue, North, Birmingham, Ala.

BOSTON President, Claude H. Bennett, Jr., 19 Mary's Lane, Egypt, Mass.

Secretary, Harold R. Keller, '11, 37 Shaffield Rd., Newtonville 60, Mass.

Secretary-Treasurer, Mr. Winston WilCHICAGO liams, '46, 10025 Stout St., Detroit 28, President, Lt. (jg) B. Herrington, Jr., Mich.

U N S (Ret.), '24, 209 So. La Salle St., DETROIT-ANNAPOLIS DADS CLUB Chicago 49, 111.

President, Mr. L. H. McQueston, 18S Secretary, C. A. Hertel, '47, 119 South Puritan Ave., Highland Park 3, Mich.

Wells, Chicago, 111.

Treasurer, Lt. Cdr. R. S. Tackaberry, GULF STREAM USN, '40, 1 N. LaSalle St., Rm. 825, ChiPresident, R. Adm. Richard B. Tuggle, cago 2, 111.

USN (Ret.), '19, 7730 S. W. Ave., Miami, Fla. Secretary-Treasurer, Cdr. Richard L. CINCINNATI President, Mr. George J. Shaw, '27, 9664 Poor, USNR, '33, 781 N. E. 73rd St., Miami, Fla. Daly Rd., Mt. Healthy, Cincinnati, Ohio.

Treasurer, Mr. John Twachtman, '22, HAMPTON ROADS R. R. No. 3, Box 72, Loveland, Ohio.

President, Cdr. R. S. Barrett, USN, '24, 7466 N. Shore Rd., Norfolk, Va. CLEVELAND Secretary-Treasurer, Lt. Cdr. E. R. President, Cdr. George R. Whitmyre, Blair, Jr., USN, '42, Fleet Athletic Officer, USNR, '36, 4625 West 227th St., Cleveland Service Force, U. S. Atlantic Fleet, Norfolk, Va. 26, Ohio.

Secretary, R. J. McGinness, '27, 10949 H O U S T O N Lorain Ave., Cleveland 11, Ohio.

President, Mr. Lynn T. Elliott, '32, 322 Treasurer, Mr. George W. Collins, '28, M & M Building, Houston, Texas.

3347 Braemar Rd., Shaker Hts. 20, Ohio.

Secretary-Treasurer, Edward R. Godwin, '46, 900 Rusk Building, Houston, Texas.

COLORADO President, A. G. Stiles, '29, 310 Cooper INDIANAPOLIS Bldg., Denver 2, Colo.

Chairman Welcoming Committee. Cdr. Secretary, Lt. (jg) H. R. Brannon, G. E. Marcus, Jr., USN, '35, U. S. Naval U S N ( R e t ) , '32, 745 Sixteenth St., Boul- Ordnance Plant. der, Colo.

Secretary, Mr. Robert McMurray, '22, Chairman, Welcoming Committee, Lt. Cdr. Milton J. Silverman, USN, '41, Office 725 E. 57th St., Indianapolis 20, Ind. of Naval Officer Procurement, New Custom KANSAS CITY House, Denver 2, Colo.

President, Patrick L. Humphrey, '29, Kansas City Life Ins. Co., Armour & Broadway, Kansas City, Mo. CONNECTICUT Secretary-Treasurer, Richard G. Brown, President, Mr. R. I. Coleman, '25, 21 '47, Marsh Steel Corporation, 101 East Nathan Court, Waterbury 29, Conn.

Vice-President, Lt. J. F. Hellauer, U S N Ninth St., North Kansas City, Mo. '27, P. O. Box 202, Newtown, Conn. • LOS ANGELES Secretary-Treasurer, Lt. E. J. Monsport, President, R. Adm. George McMillin, USN '44, 81 Silver Street, Meriden. Conn.

USN, Ret., '11, 5336 Harvey Way, Long Beach 8, Calif.

DETROIT Secretary, Joseph T. Thompson, '46, 2600 President, Paul Richmond, '42, 210 Mon- W. 43rd Place, Los Angeles 8, CaHf. (Continued on next page) terey Ave., Detroit 3, Mich.

MEETINGS AKRON: Dinner meetings held on tlie last Thursday of each month.

ANNAPOLIS: Meetings held the second Wednesday of each month at 8:00 P.M. at Alumni House, Annapolis, Md. ATLANTA: Meetings are held on the first Sunday of each month at the Commissioned Officers' Mess of the Naval Air Statien, Atlanta, at 1930.

BALTIMORE: Meetings held on the third Thursday of each month at the Hotel Stafford, Baltimore, Md., at 7:00 P.M. BIRMINGHAM: No information regarding meetings.

BOSTON: Luncheon meetings held first Wednesday of each month, 12:30 P.M. at the Boston Yacht Club, 5 Rowes Wharf, Boston.

CHICAGO: Regular monthly dinner meetings held on 1st Fri. at 6:30 PM at Naval Armory, Randolph St. CINCINNATI: Regular monthly dinner meetings at 6:30 P.M. on the second Tuesday of each month at the Army-Navy Club.

CLEVELAND: Meetings held at 12:00 noon at the Hickory Grill, 929 Chester Ave., Cleveland, Ohio, on the third Wednesday of each month.

COLORADO: Meetings held on the fourth Tuesday of each month. The time varies as it is sometimes a luncheon meeting and other times a dinner meeting.

CONNECTICUT: Chapter meetings are held quarterly at prearranged places around the State. Members are notified by mail 2 weeks prior to the meeting.

DETROIT: Meetings held quarterly at the Naval Armory.

HAMPTON ROADS: Meetings held on the first Tuesday of each month except for the months of July and August.

HOUSTON: Luncheons held on the first Tuesday of each month at the Ben Milan Hotel.

INDIANAPOLIS: Meetings held on the third Monday of each month at 12:15 P.M at the Indianapolis Athletic Club.

KANSAS CITY: Regular luncheon meetings are held at the University Club at 12:15 P.M. on the second Wednesday of each month.

LOS ANGELES: Dinner meetings held first Wednesday of each month, 6:30 P.M., at locations selected by entertamment committee.

LOUISVILLE: No information regarding meetings.

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GULF STREAM: No information regarding meetings.

MILVIfAUKEE: Meetings held on the first Wednesday of each month at the Cudworth Post, 1756 N. Prospect Ave., Milwaukee, Wise, at 6:30 P.M. NEWPORT: Meetings usually held at 6:30 P.M. on the last Tuesday of each month at the Commissioned Officers* Mess, U. S. Naval Training Station, Newport, R. L NEW YORK: Luncheon meetings on the third Tuesday of each month save for March, July and August, at 12:30 P.M., Maritime Room—21st Floor, The Lawyer's Club, 115 Broadway, N. Y. PHILADELPHIA: Dinner meetings are usually held on the second Friday of each month at the Officers' Mess, Naval Base.

PITTSBURGH: Regular dinner meetings held at 6:00 P.M. on the third Friday of each month at Dutch Henry's, Diamond St., Pittsburgh, Penna. Informal luncheons held at the Roosevelt Hotel grillroom every Friday.

RICHMOND: Quarterly dinner meetings held on the second Friday in February, May, August and November.

ROCHESTER: Regular joint monthly meetings of U.S.M.A. and U.S.N.A. graduates are held at Rochester, N. Y. Graduates in the vicinity communicate by phone with Rochester, Main 84l0.

SAN DIEGO: Regular monthly dinner meetings held one each quarter in Coronado and San Diego. Members are notified by mail.

SAN FRANCISCO: Dinner meetings held at the Commissioned Officers' Club, Treasure Island, at 6:30 P.M. on the first Wednesday of each month.

SCHENECTADY: No information regarding meetings.

SEATTLE: 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: Meetings held once every four months.

TAMPA: No information regarding meetings.

TWIN CITIES AREA: Meetings held once a month at NAS Minneapolis Commissioned Officers' Mess. Members notified by Secretary.

WASHINGTON, D. C : Monthly luncheons held the third Thursday in the monthj 12:30 P.M., Army and Navy Club, Farragut Square & Eye St., N.W., Washington 6.

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LOUISVILLE Mr. Churchill Humphrey, '07. 4095 Massier Avenue, Louisville 7, Ky.

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MILWAUKEE President, James H. Wheeler, Jr., '45, 4132-A North Larkin St., Milwaukee 11, Wis. Secretary-Treasurer, Edward F. Pionkowski, '40, 5335 N. Shoreland Ave., Milwaukee 11, Wis.

ANNAPOLIS

The March meeting of the Annapolis local branch of the U S N A Alumni Association was held at the Alumni House on Wednesday evening, March 12.

The Board meeting was followed by a NEWPORT short business meeting.

President, V. Adm. S. A. Taffinder, After a ten-minute recess, about twenty USN, Ret., 20 Seaview Ave., Newport, R. I. of the ladies joined the group, which was Secretary, Capt. J. T. G. Stapler, USN, addressed by Capt. Charles A. Buchanan, Ret., 86 Rhode Island Ave., Newport, R. I. the new Commandant of Midshipmen at the USNA. He gave a very interesting NEW YORK talk on "Personalities That Make Up Our President, Cdr. Royce N. Flippin, Naval Allies in the Mediterranean and USNR, '26, Smith, Barney & Company, 14 Middle East."

Wall St., New York 5, N. Y. Among those present were: W. E. Hall, Secretary, Lt. Cdr. Arthur A. Denton, '06; Bryson Bruce and C. R. Robinson, USNR, '32, 27 Sylvan Ct., W. Islip, N. Y. '07 ; T. J. Keleher, '08; W. E. Farrell, '09; J. R. Palmer, '13; H. H. Jalbert and R. H. Maury, '14; M. W. Hutchinson, Jr. and PHILADELPHIA Chester E. Lewis, '15; L. F. Brown, '16; President, Daniel M. McGurl, U S N E. H. Bryant and C. E. Coney, '19; A. D. (Ret.), '19, 708 Sussex Road, Wynnewood, A. Crawford and T. G. Haff, '20; A. A. Pa. Ageton and C. D. Beaumont, '23; C. A. Secretary, R. Adm. Joseph W. Ludewig, Buchanan and H. E. Strange, '26; O. C. U S N (Ret.), '25, Middle Road, Glenshaw, Gregg and P. H. Ross, '27; R. T. S. Keith, '28; J. F. Davidson, '29; J. D. Collett, '32; Pa. H. C. Rowe, '33; O. D. Finnegan, '35; J. M. Callender, S. H. Fletcher and R. W. PITTSBURGH Murch, '42; J. A. Baldridge, '43; W. B. President, D. W. B. Kelly, '38, 6748 Huckenpoehler and L. J. Kiernan, '45; Juniata Place, Pittsburgh 8, Pa. R. J. Gorton, N. A. Jankovsky, F. E. PearSecretary, Cdr. J. F. Kennedy, USNR, '17, Old Post Office Bldg., Pittsburgh 19, Pa.

RICHMOND President: Capt. W. C. Wickham, USN, Ret., '09, R F D 2, Ashland, Va. Secretary-Treasurer: E. Neil Rogers, '40, Lane & Rogers, Attorneys, 1 North 6th St., Richmond 19, Va. Chairman, Welcoming Committee, Mr. E. Neil Rogers, '40, 303 Sunset Drive, Westham, Richmond, Va.

son, R. Y. Scott and C. V. Wilhoit, Jr., '46; and J. N. Galloway, R. S. Callow and Anthony R. Cosgrove, associate members. Refreshments were served after the meeting.

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The Annapolis Chapter of the N. A. Alumni Association held their regular monthly meeting at the Alumni House on Tuesday, 9 April 1952.

At the business meeting, the election of officers for the coming year, 1952-53, was held, with the following results: President, R. Y. McElroy, '35; vice president, C. V. Wilhoit, Jr., '46; secretary, F. J. Coulter, '39; treasurer, N. A. Jankovsky, '46; council, J. M. Callender, '42 and L. F. Brown, '16; and national trustee, M. D. Gilmore, '11. These officers take over immediately and will serve for one year, with the exception of the vice president, \who was elected to fill a vacancy, and will serve until September 1952. Council members who were held over are: W. E. Farrell, '09; J. R. Palmer, '13; and R. W. Murch, '42.

Two excellent combat movies from Fort Meade were shown after the business meeting, which was followed by refreshments.

Among those present were: R. F. Frellsen, '07; T. J. Keleher, '08; W. E. Farrell, '09; M. D. Gilmore, ' 1 1 ; J. R. Palmer, '13; M. W. Hutchinson, '15; C. E. Lewis, '15; L. F. Brown, '16; C. E. Coney, '19; P. R. Heineman, '20; A. D. A. Crawford, '20; T. G. Haff, '21; S. K. Groseclose, '22; Secretary, E. D. Poole, '21, 1132 Har- C. D. Beaumont, '23; P. H. Ross, '27; vard North, Seattle 21, Wash.

H. C. Rowe, '33; R. Y. McElroy, '35; Chairmen, Welcoming Committee, B. B. F. J. Coulter, '39; C. W. Smalzel, '40; Cassels, 2437 Lake Washington Blvd., No., J. M. Callender, '42; R. W. Murch, '42; Seattle, Wash., and R. R. Fox, '22, 2040 W. B. Huckenpoehler, '45; R. G. Gorton, '46; N. A. Jankovsky, '46; F. M. Lavelle, 23rd Ave., North., Seattle, Wash.

'46; and C. V. Wilhoit, Jr., '46.

ST. LOUIS

BALTIMORE

President, Capt. William P. Kellogg, USNR-Ret., '21, 4526 Olive St., St. Louis 8, Mo. Corresponding Secretary, Mr. William M. Holland, '49, 3841 Flora Place, St. Louis 10, Mo.

The second meeting of the year proved most successful and a large turnout was on hand to enjoy a most excellent program.

Our speaker, for the evening, was V. Adm. Harry W. Hill, Superintendent of the Naval Academy. Admiral Hill gave a splendid talk on just what was going on, and what was planned for the Academy today. His remarks were informative, interesting and TAMPA most encouraging. Accompanying Admiral SAN DIEGO President, Edward L. Beck, '25, USN, Hill was Capt. Charles Buchanan, ComPresident, Adm. Jonas H. Ingram, U S N - Ret., Palm Oaks, R.F.D. 2, Palmetto, Fla. mandant of Midshipmen.

Ret., '06, 330 8th St., Coronado, Calif.

Among those present were: O. B. DuckSecretary-Treasurer, Ens. L. C. HernanSecretary, Capt. Joseph T. Talbert, USN, ett, '26; W. S. Graham, '46; J. J. McGuire, dez, USN, '48-B, Columbia Restaurant, Ret., '20, 506 First St., Coronado, Calif.

'45; A. H. Kinsey, Jr.; W. Romizer, '27; Ybor City, Tampa, Fla. C. A. Russell, '06; R. E. Miller; A. Sharp, SAN FRANCISCO '31; John Davis, '24; V. Adm. H. W. Hill, '11; W. E. Perdue, '27; R. B. Vanzant, President, Capt. G. C. Miller, U S N , Ret., TWIN CITIES AREA '21; G. W. Baker, Jr.; W. B. Bristor, '27; 7 1 , 17 Kingston Rd., Berkeley, Calif.

President, Mr. Sumner T. Scott, '20, C. Erdman; O. B. Wight; J. H. Forshaw, Secretary-Treasurer, Lt. (jg) J. R. Rior- Fairmont, Minn.

'17; D. Ford and R. N. Gardner, '25; R. dan, USN, Ret., '44. 14 Sierra Vista PI., Secretary-Treasurer, Mr. Ted L. Has- B. Williams; C. Demarest, '19; J. T. WaldDanville, Calif. brouck, '23, R. F. D. 265, White Bear hauser, '23; Capt. C. Buchanan, '26; R. B. Goldman, '26; F. A. Weiss, Jr., '30; A. D. Lake, Minn.

SCHENECTADY Barnes, '24; M. A. Leahy, '08; G. P. President, Capt. J. S. Evans, USN-Ret., Brewster, '16; A. A. Lyness, Jr.; S. D. Kolb, '24; P. L. Holland, '08; J. J. Brown, '07, 742 De Camp Ave., Schenectady 3, WASHINGTON, D. C. N.Y. President, V. Adm. John F. Shafroth, '12; M. D. Gilmore, ' 1 1 ; E. Clusman, B. Secretary, Mr. D. L. WyckofT, '44, 112 USN-Ret., Kennedy-Warren Apts., 3133 Embrey and M. S. Shropshire.

Dartmouth St., Schenectady, N. Y. Connecticut Ave., N.W., Washington, CHICAGO D. C. SEATTLE The meeting of March 7 was held at the Secretary, Cdr. A. E. Lampe, USNR, President, Hughbert M. McLellan, '23, '30, 5516 Huntington Parkway, Bethesda, Naval Armory at the foot of Randolph Street, Chicago, 111.

Md. 2206 Crescent Drive, Seattle, Wash.

ROCHESTER President, Capt. Alf. O. Bergesen, U S N (Ret.), '45, 113 Commonwealth Road, Rochester 18, N. Y. Secretary, George E. Lawrence, '39, 62 Park Lane, Rochester 10, N .Y.

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Capt. George B. Laird. Jr.. '31, Executive Officer of the U. S. Naval Ordnance Plant in Forest Park, 111. was the principal speaker. His complete and interesting discussion of the subject "Electric Torpedoes and Submarine Warfare" was a substantial contributicm to the Naval education of all present.

The following guests were present: Mr. Russel Kutz of Chicago, Mr. W. W. Williams of Chicago and Mr. Ross Simpson.

The following alumni were present: C. C. Anderson, '20; J. B. Azer. '30; K. S. Axelson, ' 3 1 ; P. K. Bryant, '24; G. Buchanan. '22; J. E. Deyo, '24; R. L. Downing, '39; E. H. Enright, '21; D. Goldenson, '25; N. Hall, ' 3 1 ; L. B. Herrington, '24; C. A. Hertel. '47; J. Howland, '22; J. H. P. Hughart '21; E. R. Jeeter, '34; J. L. Kane, '23: F. J. Kelly. '46; C. R. Linker, '45; J. Mallach. '26; E. C. McLean, '35; H. R. Moon, '49; D. J. Nankervis, '46; E. A. R\-an. '22; H. W. Sadler. '40; F. L. Sheahan, '45; H. Stebner, '45; R. S. Tackaberry, '40; and G. Trippe, '14.

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The regular monthlj- meeting of the U. S. Naval Academy Alumni Association of Chicago w^as held April 4, 1952 at the Naval Armory at the foot of Randolph Street.

Capt. Gerald D. Zurmuehlen. '26, Professor of Naval Science at Northwestern University was the principal speaker. His detailed narrative of the "all navy" landing at Inchon was one of the highlights of Chicago Alumni activity. In addition, he told of his current work at Northwestern University and important facts of our Naval Reserve Training Program in colleges. He also related his rather trying experience with an Arabian Emir which resulted in a few hours ashore for his fleet tanker crew.

The following guests were present: Mr. Robert Baker of Chicago, Mr. James Hurwith of E%-anston and Mr. K. W. Osborne of Chicago.

The following alimini were present: P. K. Bryant, '24; G. Buchanan, '22; H. Burnham. '05; E. T. Eskilson, '26; D. Goldenson. '25; N. Hall, '31; L. B. Herrington. '24; C. A. Hertel, '47; J. H. P. Hughart, '21; F. J. Kelly, '46; H. C. Kirchner, '43; M. M. Matthews, '27; T. W. Miller. '22; H. R. Moon, '49; C. L. Richards. '20; E. A. Ruth, '26; E. A. Ryan, '22; H. W. Sadler. '40; R. P. Smith, '43; R. S. Tackaberry, '40; and E. K. Zitzewitz, •25.

LOS ANGELES The Los Angeles Chapter of the U. S. Naval Academy Alumni Association held its monthly dinner meeting on Wednesday, 5 March 1952 at the Mona Lisa Restaurant; Los Angeles, Calif.

Our speaker w-as Capt N. A. Draim, USN, '22, who had just returned from two years behind the Iron Curtain as Naval Attache for Air in Moscow. His observations were quite interesting and all hands had many questions ready at the close of his address.

Members in attendance were: J. G. Church, '00; G. P. Brown and Robert Henderson, '02; R. F. Gross, '07; R. McC. Beanfield, '08; A. B. Miller, '09; H. F. Kingman, E. B. Lapham, G. J. McMilhn and G. A. Rood, '11; C. H. Want, '13; R. P. Luker, '14; P. S. Goen, '16; C. N. Perkins and P. W. Warren, '17; C. Dithers, '18; C. B. H u n t '19; J. B. Carter, K. C. Hawkins and W. A. Rice, '20; Max I. Black, B. K. Culver, G. S. Dalkowitz, L. C. Grannis, R. S. Hales, T. MurreU, J. L. Thompson and E. H. Webb, ' 2 1 ; A. W. Buffington, R. W. Burleigh, J. Y. Dannenberg, N. A. Draim, G. D. Fitzhugh, W. G. Jones, M. V. Pew, F. W. Pierce, M. Redfield. S. Silverman, H. D. Smith, and ^^'. B. Terrell, '22; B. E. Dodson, '23; A. A. Griese, '24; R. R. Dewolf and H. K. Perrill, '26: C. C. Coffin, S. Trafton, Jr. and R. H. Zahm, '27; W. C. Brennan, '28; E. W. Friess, J. J^IcB. Hezlep and E. A. Teague, '29; F. C. Bradman and F. G. Wagner, '30; H. H. Head. '32; V. Turner, '33; J. F. Kennev, '34; A. S. Fuhrman, '37; D. C. Kline and R. H. Mathew, '41; and J. T. Thompson, '46.

It was our pri\'ilege to have nine guests present at this meeting as well as this excellent turnout of alumni.

NEWPORT

The results of the elections of officers for the coming year were also announced at the dinner.

President—Ro}xe N. Flippin, 1926.

Vice President—Paulus P. Powell, 1913.

Group Leaders: Group 1, Classes up to 1907, H. M. Jensen, 1906; Group 3, Oasses from 1914 to 1917. R. C. Bourne, 1916; Group 5, Class of 1922, H. L. Parry, 1922; Group 7, Oasses 1926-1933, S. S. Yeaton, 1930; and Group 9, Qasses 1940 and up, J. A. Carroll, 1945.

Confirmed reservations and seating arrangement at the Annual Dinner: Dias—E. Mills. '18: W. Anderson, '03; G. O. Carter, '05; R. Flippin, '26; F. Overfelt, '27; E. E. Miller and F. Reinicke.

Table 1—L. Blades, '14; G. Wolf, '13; W. Jupp, '13; J. Richards, '12; H. Glennon. '11; L. Fagan, '10; guest; G. Struble, '08; C. Shaw, '05; and J. Fremont, '01.

Table 2—H- Taylor, '20; R. Graham, '20; W. Hepburn, '20; T. Wynkoop, '19; W. Ditmars, '19; A. Kidd, '18; guest; E. Brady, '17; G. Chapline, '16; and C. Vickrey, '15.

Table 3—S. Singer, '24; J. Rhamstine, '24; C. Nager, '23; P. Redding, ' 2 1 ; L. McKee, '21; guest; O. Colvin, ' 2 1 ; E. Walsh, '20; and E. Mantel, '20.

Table 4—J. Waidlich, '22; H. Parry, '22; J. Krecek, '22; A. Kastner, '22; H. Jones, '22; W. Hohn, '22; R. HoUis; J. Ely, '22; T. Dunstan, '22; and C Atkinson, '22.

Table 5—D. Allen, '22; H. Shenier, '22; C. Snedeker, '22; N. Welsh, '22; C. Wood, '22; Quinn, '22; Nald, '22; Haley, "22; Malonaphy, '22; and Schmidt, '22.

Table 6—W. McMillan. '34; S. Yeaton, '30; D. Stretch, '30; J. Rodgers, '30; R. De Graff, '30; guest; D. Dallman, '30; T. Stansbury, '27; M. Powell, '25; and E. Wilkinson, '24.

Table 7—E. Perryman, '45; J. Barron, '45; guest; C. Blankinship, '37; L. Cresap, '36; and guest

The thirt\--second meeting of the chapter was held on Tuesday, 25 March 1952, at the Commissioned Officers' Mess (Open), U. S. Naval Base, Newport R. I. Those present were: K. G. Castleman, PHILADELPHIA '96; H. E. Yarnell, '97; E. C. Kalbfus, A dinner meeting was held in the Of'99; J. T. G. Stapler. '06; H. K. Hewitt, ficers' at the Naval Base, Philadel'07; J. W. Rankin. '08; A. H. Dresel, '09; phia, onMess March 14. Capt William J. Suits, M. L. Hersey, '09; C. D. Peirce, '10; R. Commander Phila.

Group Reserve Fleet, W. Bates. 'IS; R. E. Dees, '17; W. S. was our speaker of the evening. Present at Denham, '29. the meeting were: I. C. Shute, '06; R. After dinner the vice president of the Jacobs, '07; J. H. Smith, '10; P. C. Maychapter presided at a brief business meet- field, '11; W. VanC. Brandt ' H ; P. S. ing at which the next meeting was set for Theiss. '12: E. F. Enright, '13; J. H. HoffTuesday, 22 April 1952, at the Commis- man, '13; T. M. Searles, '13: J. E. Boak, COLORADO sioned Officers' Mess (Open), U. S. Naval '14; W. B. Cooley, '19; S. G. Lamb, '19; D. M. McGuri, '19; H. C. Aller, '20; J. B. The March meeting of the Colorado Base, Newport, R. I. Chapter of the USNAA.A. was a dinner There followed an informal talk by the Donnelly. '20; J. P. Graff, '20; J. V. Mcdance held at the Aviation Country Club. guest speaker, Capt. R. E. Baker, M.C., Elduff, '20; B. F. Brandt, ' 2 1 ; W. Craig, !March 28. Cocktails were served at 7:00 Senior Medical Officer in Charge Naval '21; R. W. Dole, '22; M. C. Jackson, '22; p.m. and dinner at 8:30.

Infirmary, Naval Training Station, New- V. E. McGuinness, '22; H. W. Pierce, '22; The following members and their gruests port, R. I., on his recent Korean ex- H. R. Stevens, '22: W. J. Suits, '22; P . H. Weidom, '22; A. Kennedy. Jr., '23; J. D. were present: E. F. Helmkamp, '20; J. M. periences.

Lazell, '24; S. Sanders. Jr., '24; A. J. Lewis, '30; A. G. Stiles, '30; C. J. McFleming, Jr., '24: M. J. Druo'. '25; W. H. Whinnie, '22; C. C. Kirby, '33; H. O. Rhodes, '25; W. L. Aiken, '33; R. G. Caperton, '32; R. A. Hildebrand, '51; H. NEW YORK Shoaf, Jr.. '39; B. W. Chandler, '40; W. J. Ward, '27; H. A. Berger, '24; M. J. I am writing to inform you the members Walker. Jr., '40; T. M. Searies. Jr., '44; Silverman. '41; J. J. Hobson, '50; G. C. Smith, '50; T. A. Debacker, '50; K. J. of the Naval Academy Association of New H. S. Bancroft, '46; F. H. Williams, '46; Schlagheck, '51; E. P. Clark. ' 5 1 : W. M. York, Inc. held their Annual Dinner at J. P. Gaffigan, '48; and D. P. Osterhout Drake, ' 5 1 : R. W. Muth, '51: B. S. Mor- the Belmont Plaza Hotel, Lexington Ave- (guest). gan, ' 5 1 ; T. C. Rook, ' 5 1 ; C. Hurd, '51; nue and 49th Street New York, N. Y., on Friday, March 21, 1952. and H. R. Brannon, '32.

PITTSBURGH The turnout was excellent and all conA fine time was had by all and it was The regular meeting of the Pittsburgh especially nice to have the opportunity to cerned had a wonderful time. The feature get acquainted with many of our younger attraction was the monies of the Army- Chapter. U S N A Alumni Association, was members. Suggestions were made that we Na^7 game of the past year along with held on 15 February 1952 at Dutch Henry's. have a repeat performance soon, possibly our guest from the Naval Athletic AssoPresent: .Archibald. '22: Baur, '38; E. T. ciation, Mr. E. E. "Rip" Miller. in May. Barrett '38; Evry, '45; Kelley, '38; Ken46

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nedy, '17; Koenig, '46; Ludewig. '25; Neal, ' 3 1 ; Miller, '22; and Powell, '31. â&#x20AC;˘ Two alternatives as to the amount of dues to be assessed were submitted by the Council because of the evenly divided opinions respecting each method. In view of the estimated budget required to defray the known operating expense of the chapter, it is apparent that the dues for the coming year must be increased over the dues assessed heretofore. Accordingly it was determined that the annual dues be fixed at either a flat amount of $7.00, or on a graduated scale according to Naval Academy classes as follows: Members of classes prior to and including 1920â&#x20AC;&#x201D;dues. $10.00; 1921-1930, $7.00; 1931-1940. $5.00; subsequent of 1940, $3.00.

Since the Midshipmen's Christmas Party has attained the proportions of a major project. Bill Koenig, '45, was appointed chairman for the '52 party to insure sufficient advance plaiming.

The meeting was adjourned at 2210, but was followed by a lively bull session, lasting until after midnight.

SAN DIEGO The San Diego Chapter was in the news here in the Sunday edition of the San Diego Union, in a special feature article by Rembert James, former war correspondent, on March 2, 1952.

Photographs and stories on Admirals Wilham H. Standley, '91, Richard H. Jackson and Thomas Washington of '87, Frederick J. Home. '99, Jesse B. Oldendorf. '09; Jonas H. Ingram, '07; and Frederick C. Sherman, '10; Vice Adrnirals William S. Pye, '01, and Frank L. Lowe, '14; Major General Archie F. Howard, '15, and Rear Admirals Paul F. Dugan, '23. Peter W. Hord, '25, and David B. Coleman, '27. were given. The names of all flag and general officers living in the San Diego County area were given and the article stated that there were 100 retired Navy officers of flag rank and 30 Marine generals making their homes here. Incidentally, it appears that the San Diego area has nearly 300 graduates or nongraduates of the Naval Academy who are eligible for membership in the local chapter of the Naval Academy Alumni. About 200 of these eligible members have taken advantage of the opportunities offered by the recent successful meetings to get up to date on the war in Korea from the lips of the naval and Marine leaders who have returned from the front. Eligible members newly arriving in this area, or those who have not yet made themselves known to the chapter, are urged to give their addresses to the secretary, Capt. Joseph T. Talbert, USN (Ret.), '20, 506 First St., Coronado, so that they may receive timely notice of the next meeting. The San Diego papers, the Union and the Evening Tribune, usually carry notices of meetings.

SAN FRANCISCO The regular monthly meeting of the San Francisco Branch was held at the Commissioned Officers' Mess, Treasure Island, on March 5, 1952. Our guest speaker was R. Adm. T. Earle Hipp, USN, Commanding Officer, Naval Supply Center, Oakland, Calif.

The Admiral gave an excellent talk on the general structure of the Supply Corps, as organized at present to care for the global needs of the Fleet, both in the Korean and European theaters. Great credMAY,

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it for this present organization was given to the late Secretary of the Navy, James V. Forrestal, based on the lessons learned in World War II. The Supply Corps, at present, frowns on big, expensive, overseas bases, and is leaning more to the mobile type of support for Fleet operations. So far, they have been very successful, handicapped mainly by the problem of transferring materials at sea. If they succeed in this, the main objective of keeping ships at sea for longer periods will have been accomplished.

The Admiral, at the conclusion of his speech, opened himself to questions from the audience. The main concern seemed to be the coordination and integration of Arrny, Navy, and Air Force supply organizations, and just how successfully it was being carried out, particularly in the light of recent criticism and charges being leveled at all three services on the basis of specific purchases of common items of equipment.

Our president, G. C. Miller, '21, brought attention to the new pay bill before Congress, and pointed out the poor prospects offered for increases on behalf of retired personnel. Several members also arose to contribute a few thoughts and additions to the discussion. The excellent work of the National Alumni Association in the interests of retired personnel was also noted.

A total of 59 members and guests attended. The following members were present: A. B. Court, '05; H. E. Kays, '05; E. D. Washburn, '06; J. M. Schelling, '07; Leo Lindley. '09: P. D. -Northcroft '09; John Falge, '12; J. L. Hall, Jr., '13; R. F. Hans, '14; T. D. Ruddock, '14; Ned Marbourg, '17; C. C. Miller, '18; H. W. Need, '18; G. W. Mead, '20; F. H. Callahan, '21; W. D. Hoover, ' 2 1 ; F. A. MacGurn, '21; G. C. Miller, '21; Dan O. Root, '21; G. T. Boldizsar, '22; P. D. Parcells, '22; C. W. King, '22; C. Adair, '24; E. E. Berthold, '24; R. S. Bertschy, '24; E. N. W. Hunter, '24; D. D. Wight, '24; C. W. Butler, '25; Hap Lyon, '25; J. MacDonald Smith, '25; J. C. Bernet '27; D. B. Hilton, '27; E. P. Burton, '28; Sam Harrison, '28; D. W. Todd, Jr., '28; Frank Robinson, '30; Frank Gill, '32; T. P. O'Connell, '33; J. G. O'Handley, '35; R. F. Parker, '37; H. Spector, '39; J. W. Gilpin, '41; Merle E. Weedlum, '43; J. J. Heimark, '44; J. R. Riordan, '44; H. L. Culbreath. '45; L. B. Knudsen, '45; F. S. Rawls, '45; and S. J. Evans, '47.

SEATTLE The regular meeting of the Seattle chapter of the Naval Academy Alumni Association was held at the Commissioned Officers' Mess, Pier 91, on February 6, 1952.

The meeting was a social meeting attended by members, their wives and guests. No business was conducted. The entertainment was provided through Mr. and Mrs. Joe Danhoff. It consisted of a magic show by Ernie Hilsenberg who mystified and amused all present with an excellent repertoire of tricks.

In attendance were: Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Early. Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Rowe, Mr. and Mrs. Dale Harris, Mr. and Mrs. B. B. Cassels, Mr. and Mrs. Nick Carter, Mr. and Mrs. Hubert M. McLellan, Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Poole, Mr. and Mrs. Frank A. Strohecker, Mr. and Mrs. Ken Bergen, Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. O'Neill, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Danhoff, Mr. and Mrs. Roy O. Gilbert. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Ayrault, Mr. and Mrs. J. Barney Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Frank A. Munroe, Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Carlisle Thompson, Mr. and Mrs. Ted Fauntz, Mr. and Mrs. M. W. Graybill, E. F. Fer-

guson, C. D. Emory, Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Blanchard, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Nuber.

The regular meeting of the Seattle Chapter of the Naval Academy Alumni Association was held at the Commissioned Officers' Mess, Naval Air Station, Seattle, on March 5, 1952.

The meeting was called to order by President Hugh McLellan. The minutes of the January meeting were read and accepted.

President McLellan distributed copies of a letter from Admiral Coney urging that the members write their Congressmen and Senators in support of the ten percent raise in pay allowances.

Contributions for the Naval Historical Society were taken. Adm. G. A. Duncan explained the purpose and circumstances of the society. It was suggested that contributions be Collected at each meeting.

President Hugh McLellan reported on the proposed change in the National Association by-laws, which changes would be submitted to the members for vote in the near future. The changes involve the possible creation of a nominating committee to nominate director candidates and the authorizing of voting by proxy. A discussion of the proposed changes followed.

Captain Greber gave a report on a recent trip to Washington and news on the persons he had seen there.

It was announced by Captain Munroe that the Navy Relief Carnival would be held at the Naval Air Station, Seattle, on May 16-17. It was urged that all N.avy personnel on the east side of Puget Sound support it in that this would be the only activity to raise Navy Relief funds for both Pier 91 and the Naval Air Station.

Harry A. Downes, '23, head of the Boeing Field Weather Bureau, gave a short lecture on the factors which produce Seattle's weather and illustrated his talk with charts of the area for some of the periods of weather extremes.

Capt. George Kosco showed colored movies of the Japanese surrender on the MISSOURI and of the' Arctic expedition "Nanook." He also showed colored slide photographs of Alaskan scenes. The pictures were excellent and very much enjoj-ed by all present.

In attendance were: G. A. Duncan, '08; Ralph Hoover, '08; C. F. Greber, '21; C. D. Emory, '21; B. B. Cassels, '22; Robert R. Fox, Jr., '22; Harry A. Downes, '23; Hubert M. McLellan, '23; John W. Brady, '24; Ken Bergen, '24; Frank Strohecker, '24; F. A. Munroe, Jr., '25; T. C. Fauntz, '27; J. B. Danhoff, '27; G. F. Kosco, '30; R. C. Gilbert '31; E. F. Ferguson, '31; Robert A. O'Neill, '38: Frank Welch, '39; J. F. Driscoll, '44; Frank Barrett, '44; H. V. M. Richardson, '44; and G. H , Rosette, '51.

WASHINGTON The Naval Academy Association of Washington held its regular third Thursday luncheon at the Army and Navy Club on March 20. George V. Allen, our Ambassador to Yugoslavia, gave us a most interesting talk about that country. Accompanying Mr. Allen were R. C. Patterson, our Ambassador to Switzerland, and Mr. Marcey of the State Department.

Among those present were: A. S. Carpender, '08; L. Noyes, '06; A. E. Lampe, '30; R. Chappell. '94; W. Phillips, '18; H. Jones, '19; G. Mclver, '17; T. A. Solberg, 47

'16; A. B. Cook, ' 2 1 ; R. L. Bowman, '21 A. L. Mathers, ' 3 1 ; M. S. Tisdale. '12 R. A. Lavender, '12; R. C. Conrad. '25 W. Newton, '25; J. A. Lee, ' 1 3 ; J. O. Gawne. '05: J. C. Byrnes, '11; W . Chandler, ' 1 1 ; A. Zimmerman, ' 1 1 : H. Greenlee, '05; C. Summers, '02; D. Cordiner, '08; W . Furlong, '05; H . Frankenberger, '05; A. E. Tarantino, '35: C. Woodward, '99; C. L. Green, '21; C. H . Cobb. Jr., '45; R. M. Hincklev. '11; R. B. Parker. '18; J. Shafroth, 'O'S; A. Crawford. '20; G. Powell. '35 : B. Bullis. '24; F. Thomas. '12; C. Moore '10; C. Stillman, '27; M. Torlinski, '07; R. Parker. '07; A. VanKeuren, '03; W . VanAuken, '03; L. P. Davis, '05; V. Coman. '05; W . Spears, '05; P. Foster, '11; Maddox. '09; A. Claude, '04; and R. Ghormley, '06.

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Navy Baseball By }kIiDX. DAVID A. FUDGE, 2/c

Though Coach Max Bishop opened the 1952 season with six returning lettermen, he is again depending on the services of several youngsters. These j-oungsters moved up from a plebe team of last year that lost only one of sixteen games.

Among the returning lettermen is one first classman, the captain. Bob Zastrow.

Though better known for his accomplishments on the football field, Zastrow letGuests: Messrs. Rose, Tipton. McCart- tered both youngster and Second Class year.

He won his first monogram at third base ney, Fuede, Ainsmith and ^^'heeler. and was then moved into the outfield.

Zastrow was replaced at third by Jim Van Scoyoc, another returning letterman, who follows him into the outfield this year WHAT'S THE DOPE to be replaced by a youngster. Matt Pasztalaniec. of Philadelphia. \ ' a n Scoyoc led (Contintted from page 43) the Na\w team in batting last year with a W. R. L I T T L E , (Ens. SC. U S N ) re- .407 average, and was second only to Gene quests his address changed to L'SS COR- Savior in stolen bases.

REGIDOR (TCVE-58), c/o FPO, New York, The returning pitchers are Don Metz, N. Y. who took seven games while letting three T H O M A S W. GILLEN, (Ens. U S N ) slip by last season, and Art Potter, who reports a change of address to U S S E L - won two while losing three. The pitching DORADO (AGC-11), c/o F P O , San Fran- staff is filled out bv voungsters Dick Murphy (2-0), Gerrj- Klein (3-0), Don White cisco, CaUf.

(3-1), and Bill McKay who played in the outfield last year.

Frank Chace and Rod Hegarty complete the list of veterans. Both return to their 1951 positions—Chase at first and Rod at second.

Probably the most able man to move up to the varsity from the plebe team is Ed Dawson. H e replaces last year's captain, Pat Corrigan, at shortstop. Ed led the plebes last year with a batting average of .491.

The backstop position left vacant by the resignation of Joe Moretti will be filled by the only plebe on this year's \-arsity squad.

Ken McCally. Ken has wasted no time; he has already obtained a letter for his performance with the basketball team this winter.

The team was hampered by lack of outside practice, but opened its season with an 8-4 win over Rutgers, its first over the Scarlet in several seasons.

Against \"ermont the boys seemed a little too eager, and after a rally in the ninth thej' came out on the short end of a 6-5 score. Navy had a bad day with four errors and a passed ball to help the Vermont nine win.

R. L. MILLER, (Lt. jg U S N ) notifies us that his address has changed to VJ-61, Scholarships Available NAAS, :Miramar, San Diego, Calif. to Naval Aspirants DONALD J. SOMMER, (Ens. U S N ) .

Annoimcement has been made of the marMrs. William S. Pye, national president riage of INIiss Kathleen Anne Palmer to Ensign Sommer on 16 February in the of the Society of Sponsors of the United H E R B E R T L. BASLEE, JR., '43, ( L t Roman Catholic Church of the Immaculate States Na\-y> announced recently that ap- Cdr. U S N ) . Died March 1952 in Korea. plications for scholarships are now being Conception in Irvington-on-the-Hudson.

T U R N E R F. CALDWELL. '05, (Capt accepted from young men preparing to enGEORGE K. DERBY, (Ens. U S N )ter the United States Naval Academy.

USN, R e t ) . Died 11 September 1951 in gives his present mailing address as U S S Coronado, Calif.

The primary interest of the Society of HEXRICO (APA-4S), c/o F P O , San FranSponsors, according to !Mrs. Pj'e, who is DONALD ELDRIDGE, '22. Died 21 cisco, Calif. the wife of Vice Admiral Pye, is the March 1952 in Kansas City, Mo. D. A. MARANGIELLO, (Ens. U S N ) awarding of scholarships to sons of deAL N . GORDON, '39. Died in Korea requests that his address be changed to ceased Na\'y and Marine Corps personnel the U S S SAMUEL MOORE (DD-747), c/o who wish to prepare for entrance to the about a year ago—1951.

FPO, San Francisco, Calif.

MARVIN G. L E E , '42, ( L t Cdr. Naval Academy. Scholarships are given one year in a naval preparatory school U S N ) . Died 24 February 1952 at Corpus J O S E P H A. FITZPATRICK, (Ens. for the recipient's choice either as a board- Christi, Texas.

U S N ) advises us that his address has of or day student. Awards are based on W R E N C E H . MARTIN, "26, (Capt changed t o . U S S MIDWAY (CVB-41), c/o ing financial need, scholastic standing, aptitude U SLNA ) .

Died 16 February 1952 at San FPO, New York, N. Y. and character.

Diego, Calif.

A L E X \ y A S I L E W S K I , JR., (Ens. Applications may be made through the C H A R L E S G. S T R A H L E Y , '48B, ( L t U S N ) is li\nng on 1-B Holmes Drive, Na\'y Relief Society, or its auxiliaries, or jg U S N ) . Died 21 March 1952 in Korea.

Navy Point, Pensacola, Fla. to the chairman of the Sponsors scholarH E R B E R T S. WOODMAN, '19, (Cdr. ship committee. Mrs. Jennings Bailey, Jr., USN, Ret.). Died 21 January 1951.

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