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T o all our Homecoming Alumni— welcome back to the banks of the Severn. Your Alumni Association joins with the Naval Academy in extending greetings and best wishes for a great weekend.

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The Naval Academy and Alumni Association have planned this weekend with your interest and enjoyment as the prime considerations. If you have any suggestions for future Homecoming schedules, please P.D.L. W e urge you to participate in all functions, particularly the Alumni Forum at which you will be informed of all the latest developments by the Superintendent and by the President of the Alumni Association.

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WELCOME ABOARD!

T h e Superintendent Reports

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Fort Severn

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Heritage Week in Historic Annapolis

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TEN GRAND AGAIN! COVER: Shipmate salutes R. Adm. Charles Leroy Melson, Superintendent of the Naval Academy and our for Homecoming Weekend.

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Published monthly by the United States Naval Academy Alumni Association, Inc., W. F. Fitzgerald, Jr., Executive Director. Membership dues (including Shipmate), $8.00 per year. Subscription rate, $8.00 per year. Canadian and Foreign subscriptions, $9.00. Single copies, $.75 each. Office of publication at 2601 Sisson Street, Baltimore 11, Md. Editorial Offices at Alumni House, Annapolis, Md. Entered as second class matter at the post office at Baltimore, Md., under the Act of March 3, 1879. Copyright 1958 by the United States Naval Academy Alumni Association, Inc. All picture! official Defense Department photos unless otherwise credited OCTOBER,

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This is getting to be a habit. Last year, for the first time in history, our membership passed the ten thousand mark.

W e are happy to report we have done it again. On 11 September, four months ahead of our last year's record, we signed u p member number 10,000—and the list is increasing daily.

Capt. Frederick A. Gunn had the distinction of becoming the "Ten Grand Man" on our list when we signed him u p as a Life Member. " P o p " Gunn is in the Class of '34 and presently is Assistant Chief of Staff for Logistics on the Staff of Commander Naval Forces Japan. T o Pop Gunn—a hearty welcome.

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THE SUPERINTENDENT REPORTS by REAR ADMIRAL CHARLES L. MELSON, USN Superintendent,

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H E Staff, Faculty, and Brigade of Midshipmen join me in welcoming the alumni back to the Naval Academy on this Ninth Annual Alumni Homecoming Weekend. W e are delighted to have you here and to see so many of you taking an active interest in the affairs of your Alma Mater. Unfortunately, many of the alumni, no less interested in the welfare of the Academy than those present here today, find themselves unable to attend this year's Homecoming. T o them, I extend the most cordial of greetings, knowing that they are with us in spirit and hoping that in the near future Homecoming Day will see them actually present here in Annapolis.

Homecoming Day at the Naval Academy, just as it is for colleges all over the United States, is an opportunity for graduates to shake hands with old friends and classmates, many of whom we have not seen for far too many years. Since graduation, we have been scattered far and wide, literally over the whole world, whether we are in the Navy or in civilian life.

Your presence here, and your continued interest in the Academy, are tangible evidence that you have not forgotten those days when as Midshipmen you met the friends and learned the lessons that have stood you in such good stead through the years. So, once, again, welcome home!

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Fortunately, the quality of the their new assignments seriously. They candidates admitted to the Academy know that our deployed fleets are on has been improving for some years. something other than a pleasure cruise This improvement has been the re- and that they must begin to produce sult of many factors, among them the minute they cross the quarterdeck. greater public awareness of the Naval Over a third of the class which will Academy and of the Navy as a career. graduate next June were on board Much of this awareness, I believe, ships of the Sixth Fleet during the stems from effective public relations Middle East crisis of this year. Many here at the Academy. F o r example, first classmen actually carried out imour many information programs, such portant duties which are normally as Letters to Parents, have provided assigned to commissioned officers. the public with new and interesting They have proved to the Sixth Fleet information about the Academy. In and to themselves that they have what addition, we have recently adopted the it takes. well known and widely used College There is a definite desire on the part Entrance Examination Board tests as the mental examination for appoint- of midshipmen, particularly of the ment. As a result of these and other first class, for increased responsibility. actions, we have had many more can- This is as it should be and we have didates from which to select the an- this problem in hand at the Naval nual input of about 1100 plebes. T h e Academy. W e must work on a conend product, we hope, will be even tinuing basis to keep Brigade morale high and to motivate the midshipmen finer officers and longer careers. strongly toward a career in the Navy.

None of this discussion of the need Above all else, we must strive to make for continued improvement in the each graduating class better than the caliber of our midshipmen reflects in one that preceded it. This obligation any way on the quality of our present is indeed a challenge and one that all graduates. These young men approach Academy graduates can share in.

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As alumni of the Naval Academy, you have a right to know what goes on within these four walls, and I feel that it is my duty as Superintendent to keep you so informed. Accordingly, in each issue of Shipmate, I plan to give you a brief report on the status of our many programs and our progress in carrying out our mission of educating and training the future offi- •r:,l cers of our Navy. I also feel quite strongly that as alumni you have an almost equal duty to let us have your opinions and suggestions. In particular, we want those of you who work directly with our graduates to assist us in our all-important task of continually improving the quality of the officers who graduate from the Naval Academy.

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those stationed here working by precept and example, and those elsewhere by their abiding interest in the Naval Academy.

This weekend we play our last varsity football game in Thompson Stadium. Next year at this time we plan to dedicate the new Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium and to play our first game of the '59 season in it. The construction of this stadium marks a significant achievement among alumni, sailors and marines in the Fleets, and friends of the Navy.

We now have all of the funds necessary to complete the stadium as originally planned. The fund drive to raise $2,000,000 (above the $1,000,000 contributed by N A A A ) is a task which many said could not be done. I am proud and happy to report that it has been done and the stadium now building will be a lasting tribute and memorial to the sailors and marines who have served or are now serving the Navy and Marine Corps. The full credit for the successful fund raising campaign which makes the stadium a reality belongs to my predecessor.

Rear Admiral Smedberg.

Contributions to the Memorial Stadium fund are still welcome and needed. There is plenty of room for additional memorial chairs, and an opportunity still exists for the purchase of memorial plaques and the dedication of gates. Any money received in excess of that needed for actual construction will be used for maintenance and improvements.

Many of you who have not seen the Naval Academy in recent years will be impressed by the rapidly changing shore line and the face lifting now in progress. W e are laying out two new wings to Bancroft Hall on Farragut Field. Housing about 1100 midshipmen, these new wings will ease the severely overcrowded conditions in Bancroft Hall and will provide a more dignified atmosphere for the midshipmen to live in. Although the construction of the wings will temporarily restrict the use of Farragut Field for drill and athletic purposes, this condition will be remedied within a year or two by the area now being reclaimed from the bay.

The land fill now in progress will provide some 53 acres of badly-needed space for recreation and drill purposes. In addition, it will provide space more conveniently located to Bancroft Hall. The fill includes a strip parallel to the Farragut Field seawall and extending from the R E I N A Pier to the Field House, and a second fill area from the R E I N A Pier to the Power Plant, including Dewey Basin.

Santee Basin will be left open to serve as a small boat shelter and mooring basin and will contain the cutter sheds. Work on the land fill should be completed by the summer of 1959, but it will be some time before we can actually use the new athletic fields.

High in our interest now is the beginning of the new academic year and another exciting football season. All indications point to a double success—

an excellent Brigade and an excellent football team to represent it. If Eddie Erdelatz's rebuilding efforts are successful, we should give Earl Blaik's boys a stirring battle next 29 November, which is a Navy man's polite way of saying that we hope to clobber 'em.

With every good wish, C. L.

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Highlights of the NAUTILUS' Recent Polar Cruise Cdr. William R. Anderson, USN, described the observance of ice formations overhead through the sub's periscope as "quite a fascinating sight. Like clouds going by extremely rapidly."

"During the time we made the [polar] transit, we had 24 hours of daylight," the Commander said. "We also had what I suppose is the first installation of a closed television network. Television cameras point directly upward and we were also able to observe the ice passing [above] by looking at the television," the Commander recalled.

Commander Anderson praised his navigators and credited them with what he called "the most remarkable job of ship navigation that has ever been done." He added, "Superb navigation equipment-— superb compasses—having [the] advanced inertial type navigation system, and by having such a complex of navigation equipment to check one thing against another—that we knew we were in business."

The polar transit was unmarred by accident, illness, or trouble. The performance of the crew and boat was described by their Captain as "superb."

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New Nuclear-Power School Opened A $1 million nuclear-power school, the first building in the U. S. Armed Forces constructed solely for instruction in nuclear propulsion, was officially opened 1 August ill New London, Conn.

V. Adm. H. Page Smith, Qiicf of Naval Personnel, speaking at the dedication of Cromwell Hall, said "the scientific and technical know-how received here is an important national resource.

"There is no other comparable institution in the United States," Admiral Smith continued, "such as we see here—a highly educational facility devoted exclusively to the highly specialized task of training personnel to supervise and operate nuclear power reactors." , Courses at the school are conducted by the Nuclear Department with a staff of 25 officer and 32 enlisted instructors, well qualified in their fields.

Cromwell Hall is named in honor of Capt. John P. Cromwell '24, USN, who, as a submarine wolf pack commander during World War II, chose to go dov/n with USS

LAND FILL IN PROGRESS for extension of Farragut Field. Note the outline of Foundations for the new wings of Bancroft Hall.

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Forerunner of United States Naval O B E R is an important month O CinTthe annals of the United States Naval Academy, for 113 years ago, 10 October 1845, the Academy (then known as the Naval School) was formally opened at Fort Severn, the old Army post at Annapolis.

Prior to that year there had been no organized system of education for the development of young men who entered the Navy to become officers.

True, there were schoolmasters and chaplains aboard the "line-of-battle" ships who were directed to teach the midshipmen the fundamentals appertaining to their profession, but the midshipmen who went to sea in vessels of any smaller class had to get what they might from the chaplains alone. During the administration of President Madison, the Secretary of the Navy saw need for improvement in the system of education and recommended that a naval academy be established with suitable professors for the instruction of subjects necessary to the professional career of the naval officer. This recommendation

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had in view a parallel for the Navy to the Army's Military Academy at West Point. However, while from time to time interest and argument were aroused in favor of a naval school ashore, it was not until the late 1830's that the necessity became apparent to our country at large. It was a young naval officer, Lieutenant Matthew Fontaine Maury, whose fluent and convincing articles in the Southern Literary Messenger exposed the true conditions in the Navy. His convincing pleas for the establishment of a worthwhile system of education eventually brought results.

The annual report of the Secretary of the Navy, Abel P. Upshur, in December 1842 truly revealed the influence of Lieutenant Maury. Three years later George Bancroft, the historian, was selected by President James K. Polk as Secretary of the Navy, and little time was lost in accomplishing the long anticipated goal. On 13 June 1845, the Secretary directed an advisory board of naval officers, meeting in Philadelphia, to

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make suggestions in regard to a naval school â&#x20AC;&#x201D; place of location, plan of studies, etc. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and on 25 June the board's official report stated that Fort Severn at Annapolis was the site in every way best adapted to the need.

The Secretary of W a r was willing to give up the old Army post; and in accordance with W a r Department General Order No. 40, dated 15 August 1845, Fort Severn was transferred to the Navy Department and placed in charge of Cdr. Franklin Buchanan who had been designated by the Secretary of the Navy to receive the same. Brevet Major J. L. Gardner, 4th Artillery, U. S. Army, the senior officer at the fort, was directed to proceed with his company to join the headquarters of his regiment at Fort Monroe, Va. Commander Buchanan, born in Baltimore in 1800, had already been selected by Secretary Bancroft to be the head of the Naval School. He had entered the Navy at the age of fifteen and had risen to the grade of commander with a high reputation for

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ability in his profession and as a skillful and energetic organizer.

The records of the Navy Department reveal that the formal opening of the Naval School at Fort Severn took place at eleven o'clock Friday morning, 10 October 1845. The Superintendent assembled the teaching staff and midshipmen and read to them Secretary Bancroft's letter outlining the views and purposes of the Navy Department in regard to the school. H e also read to them the Rules and Regulations which he had established for the government of the students; and—according to several newspaper accounts — he addressed them "impressively and feelingly."

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Now the question is often asked: "How did Fort Severn come into existence and why was the W a r Department willing to relinquish it?"

The archives of Maryland show that in January 1776 the Council of Safety petitioned the Convention of Maryland to appropriate sufficient funds for the erection of fortifications for the protection of Annapolis, an important port-of-entry at that time.

Nearly £6,000 were granted and within the year fortifications were erected at H o r n Point, Greenbury Point, Beaman's Point, and Windmill Point (Fort Severn) for the purpose of preventing men-of-war approaching the harbor. The historic old fort had its very b e ^ h n i n g in those turbulent days just prior to the American Revolution. No attack was made upon Annapolis during the ensuing conflict and there is reason to believe that the cautious measures of the Council of Safety — news of which doubtless reached the enemy—thwarted a possible encounter.

After the Revolution the need for fortifications at various ports-of-entry along the seaboard was realized and the War Department began fortifications at Annapolis in 1794, employing a French engineer, John Vermonnet. Two years later, according to American State Papers, another engineer superseding Vermonnet condemned the plan of the works at Windmill Point and the project was abandoned. Nothing further was done toward completing these defense works until 1808, although our representatives in Congress repeatedly urged the city's importance not only to the trade of the Chesapeake but because of its nearness to the seat of government in Washington. In March 1808 the Secretary of W a r invited bids for brick, foundation stone, and shell lime to be used in the fortification of Annapolis; and during that year the United States Government O C T O B E R ,

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bought nine acres of land from the city of Annapolis and the heirs of Walter Dulany, and proceeded to build a circular battery of masonwork.

This battery was destined, in later years, for unusual and colorful service.

President Thomas Jefferson, in his message to Congress in January 1809, explained in p a r t : "A circular battery of masonwork at Windmill Point, for the protection and defense of Annapolis is nearly completed—the cannon are mounted. Another battery on the bank of the Severn, below the town, is also nearly finished."

And on 19 December 1809 the Secretary of W a r in his report on Fortifications for the Defense of the Ports and Harbors of the United States included Fort Madison on the north shore of the Severn as well as the battery at Windmill Point which eventually became known as Fort Severn.

These guardians of Annapolis were well garrisoned and in their prime during the W a r of 1812, but with the close of the second war with Great Britain there came the usual lack of interest in maintaining an established means of defense. The U. S. Army Register of January 1819 indicates that, under the reduced Army, Capt.

James Reed was in command of both Forts Madison and Severn with an aggregate strength of only 108 men.

It is interesting to recall that the house occupied by the Commandant of Fort Severn, and which was occupied by the Superintendent of the Naval School after October 1845, was the same old mansion whose hospitality had been extended to General Washington when he was the guest of Daniel Dulany on 29 September 1771.

And not far distant was the former residence of Sir Robert Eden, the last Proprietary Governor of Maryland.

It was here that Washington, according to his diary, dined and lodged when visiting Annapolis in April, May, and September 1773 ; and it was this historic house that the Government purchased in 1866 with four acres of land for inclusion in the Naval Academy reservation. Sir Robert Eden's residence soon thereafter housed the Naval Academy Library.

In November 1817 an effort was made to have the President and Congress consider establishing a naval depot at Annapolis. It was pointed out that this city was more accessible from the Atlantic than any other port within a convenient distance from the capital at Washington. Ministers from foreign Countries invariably selected Annapolis as their place of disembarking and our own ambassadors chose it as the port of departure when journeying across the sea.

The ensuing years at Fort Severn were uneventful with the exception of rendering honors to some distinguished visitor from abroad or some potentate of state who happened to be visiting Annapolis. The Army was gradually being reduced, the small garrison dwindled and there were rumors of abandoning the post.

In 1845 a new hope was awakened.

A decision of the Navy Department was pending in regard to the selection of a site for the projected Naval School, and the old Army post. Fort Severn, guarding the harbor of Annapolis, suggested to many a most desirable location.

When negotiations were consummated between the Navy and W a r Departments, the buildings transferred to the Navy Department consisted of the fort, or circular battery, the commandant's house, residences used as quarters for officers, barracks for enlisted men, a hospital, a blacksmith's shop, and a bakery. The battery had but shortly before been repaired and refitted, and it was agreed that its armament and full equipment should remain in charge of Ordnance Sergeant John Mullan, who was permitted by the W a r Department to serve two terms of enlistment at the Naval School. So the cadets or midshipmen were exercised in great-gun practice in this coast defense battery with its old Army cannon mounted en barbette, and the battery was in time supplemented by a simulated ship's battery erected on the shore of the harbor south of the fort.

In April 1861 the W a r Department again assumed jurisdiction at the former Army post and Fort Severn took up its former role. Now destined to serve as a depot of debarkation for federal troops en route to Washington, and later as a hospital camp, it became an important military station and so remained throughout the W a r Between the States.

By 25 April 1861 the routine of the Naval School (by then officially designated as the Naval Academy) had been seriously disrupted, and Capt. George S. Blake, the Superintendent, was ordered to remove all hands with as much equipment as possible to Newport, R. I. There the Academy remained until Congress provided that it should be returned, before October 1865, to its former home on the Severn River, Annapolis.

Beginning with October 1865, Fort Severn itself underwent a decided change. The school-ship S A N T E E was fitted out for gunnery practice and the fort or circular battery was converted into a well appointed gymnasium. The following excerpt from

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in its fourth American and second British Empire edition with twenty-one total printings.

The Steel Cocoon, by Bentz Plagemann.

Viking Press, Inc., 256 pages, $3.75.

This moving and thoughtful novel by the author of This Is Goggle is probably the best story since The Caine Mutiny about men in the close confines of a small ship. It involves the personal relationships of the men on a United States destroyer in wartime—and of one man in particular, the medical chief petty officer, whose mysteriously twisted character leads to a major disaster. The action takes place entirely on the shakedown cruise of the AJAX early in World W a r II—from Norfolk to Newfoundland to Boston, then down to practice maneuvers at Guantanamo, and back to Norfolk, where the disaster occurs.

The crewmen, mostly under twenty-three, are a lively and attractive crowd, whether getting into scrapes aboard, shooting the breeze about girls back home and adventures in liberty ports, or learning the ropes in their exacting job at sea. Their officers, too, are a representative group combined of old Navy hands and wartime landsmen still unsure of their sea legs. Between them they go through the process of making the A J A X shipshape, and in the course of it the

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Soley's Historical Sketch of the Naval Academy (1876) describes the part played by the historic old fort in the life of midshipmen after the W a r Between the States: "At all times during recreation hours cadets have access to the pistol gallery and bowling alley and, with certain limitations to the gymnasium. T w o or three times a year the best gymnasts give an exhibition, with sparring and fencing matches and exercises with the rings, bars, clubs, and trapeze. On Saturday evenings the gymnasium is usually cleared, decorated, and opened for dancing, from half past seven o'clock till ten. On the night before holidays an entertainment is given, and dancing is prolonged to a later hour."

As the Naval Academy grew and the reservation expanded. Fort Severn bore witness to innumerable changes.

From time to time one building and then another gave way to more modern and more pretentious structures.

New quarters, new chapel, new armory, new library; but the old circular battery at Windmill Point continued to serve as the gymnasium and favorite ballroom until the completion of Macdonough Hall, a new gymnasium, in 1903. Six years later, 1909, the quaint battery was completely demolished — although there were many who urged its preservation as a landmark of the early nineteenth century. With the passing of Fort Severn the Naval Academy's last semblance to the old Army post was

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swept into oblivion. A stone, bearing the inscription " F o r t Severn, 18081909," in the wall of the fifth wing of Bancroft Hall, marks the site where for nearly one hundred years this circular battery served consecutively as fortification, naval battery, gymnasium, and ballroom.

On October I I , 1957, another marker was added to further identify this historic site. T h e National Society of the United States Daughters of 1812 presented a bronze plaque to the Naval Academy in memory of men who served at Fort Severn during the W a r of 1812.

BOOK REVIEWS

reader learns the mysteries of the sick bay and the problems of shipboard housekeeping as well as the order of practice drills and the drama of a submarine attack. To Navy veterans this is the real thing—not just the big moments of storm or battle but the man-to-man adjustments that make up life at sea.

Little by httle the men emerge as individuals, get shaken into shape, and take up their positions in the human scale as well as in the order of battle. It is movingly clear in the end what makes them a team, and why they can go on to earn a citation for valor in the sinking of a Nazi warship.

This is an honest, deeply felt, and often very funny novel, with special interest because of its Medical Corps background.

Bcntz Plagemann has had published, besides Goggle, a best seller and Reader's Digest Condensed Books selection, two previous novels and an autobiographical work. My Place to Stand, as well as many short stories and articles. He served in the Medical Corps of the Navy during World War II, and before that was a bookseller in Chicago, New York, and Cleveland.

The History of the British Navy. By Michael Lewis. Penguin Books, 1957. 274 pages. Index. Reviewed by Prof. E. E. Potter, USNA.

Marine Navigation, by Weems and Lee. Michael Lewis, one of the most readable Annapolis, Md.: Weems System of Navi- of Naval Historians, has produced another gation, 1958. 471 pp., $7.50. polished volume in The History of the This balanced and timely work by highly British Navy. Like his previous works, the qualified authors should meet the critical new book appeals to the mature and cultineed for an up-to-date standard text. The vated mind. What other writer in his field radical alterations in the 1958 Nautical would, or could, use the phrases of ShakeAlmanac, incidentally due to Weems' design speare to illuminate a tactical concept? of the original Air Almanac, together with Clarity and neatness are his hallmarks. One the development of radar and other new scarcely feels the lack of maps and diagrams methods, has outdated present navigation in his book, for with deft verbal strokes he provides the necessary settings and drives texts. to the heart of the tactical or strategic The meticulously prepared text is pro- problems, sloughing off all unnecessary defusely illustrated with 141 excellent cuts, of tail. Lewis's analyses, to be sure, tend to be which no less than SO are full page. Refer- a little neater than history itself; he is not ences are given by sections, and a 20-page above straining the facts ever so slightly to appendix gives the necessary Almanac ex- round out his categories. He is moreover an tracts to permit the solution of the included antiquarian, in love with the Age of Sail; problems. with the passing of the stately ship of the Altogether, this second edition of Marine line, his heart is clearly no longer in the Navigation, originally published in 1940, is story. But from the Armada to "Trafalgar a fitting companion to the standard Gold he weaves in memorable language a stirring Aledal text, Air Navigation by Weems, now and colorful tapestry of ideas and events.

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Colonial AnnapoliIt ERITAGE W E E K at Annapolis this H October will emphasize the 250th anniversary of the City Charter granted

Historic Annapolis. It stands at the end of winding Pinkney St. •— an unpainted frame building which is named for a cabinet maker who advertised his wares in the Annapolis in 1708.

Historic Annapolis, Inc., which is inter- Maryland Gazette in 1769. Architecturally ested in preserving the historic and cultural it is of the 17th century and is unique in its size. A fund raising drive to restore importance of the city, has focused its large this house is now in progress. interest this year on the fact that .Annapolis Another house will be the 18th century was once one of the great Chesapeake Bay 3}^-story building at the foot of Green St. ports. and Market Space. Its origin surrounded by The waterfront area is one of the most mystery, it stands on property once owned interesting sections of this colonial city; its by Amos Garrett, first Mayor of Annapolis, Photo by M. E. Warren, Annapolis very colorfulness serves as a facade which and later by Charles Carroll, chirurgeon.

ANNAPOLIS WATERFRONT — Stateobscures and distracts from its real sigThe third house is now a restaurant situ- house on right; St. Mary's Church on left. nificance. A half century before the Revolutionary War this was once the heart of a ated on the site of Middleton's Tavern, debusy little seaport; there are still chunky, scribed in the Historic American Building solid red brick buildings attesting to the Survey as an "Inn for Sea Faring Men." shipyards, ship carpenters, rope walks, block Colonial era when Lord Baltimore main- The tavern was on land once reserved for makers, sailmakers, and ship chandlers. tained a customs house here and the city the ships carpenter's yard in the port of Arthur Pierce Middleton notes in his rivaled Norfolk in repairing and refitting Annapolis. Mrs. Joseph M. P. Wright, one "Tobacco Coast" that the city's harbor was of the society's principal investigators in ships sailing here from the old world. this area, reports that this building pro- not deep enough for the largest vessels of Visitors here for the annual Heritage vided an important stopping place for early the late Colonial period but that its reputaWeek, October S-12th, will find the water- travelers and a meeting place for clubs and tion for supply and refitting was equal, if front encircled with businesses — grocery societies of Annapolis. Middleton's sailing not superior, to that of Norfolk until the and hardware stores, restaurants, and dry- ferries were as well known as his Inn. late 170O's.

When the British sent Zachariah Head cleaning establishments and a low-slung city Among the men who took passage from market square in the middle with its vege- there was Thomas Jefferson, who in 1783 to administer the Stamp Act, Annapolis not table counters and flower stalls. The new- noted that he gave Middleton passage money only would not allow him to land but ness, too, is in the dome of the Naval to Rock Hall across the bay. Tench Tilgh- hanged him in effigy. And, like the more -Academy's huge new fieldhouse—a reminder man made use of the ferries on his way to famous Boston Tea Party, the city staged Philadelphia with the message of Corn- its own and burned the brig, the PEGGY tliat Annapolis is a Navy city. wallis' surrender.

STEWART. During the Revolutionary War, A tour of the waterfront area includes numerous privateersmen were outfitted here.

Annapolis was a major pre-revolutionary not only the waterfront itself but magnifiPerry's flagship left for his trip to Japan cent old homes of Annapolis and some of port and, unlike Williamsburg to which this from Annapolis, and in 1898 captured Spanthe fine lovely small gardens. One will be Maryland capital is compared, was a port ish Naval officers had the freedom of the the Sheer Home recently purchased by on navigable water. The city maintained its town.

Eager to show the waterfront area and relate its history, guides from Historic Annapolis have planned a full three days for visitors. Open House tours are to be conducted on Sunday, 5 October, from 1:00 to 5 :0O p.m. and on Saturday and Sunday, 11 and 12 October, from 1:00 to 5:00 p.m.

Of equal interest to visitors will be the walking tours Monday through Friday, 6 to 10 October, from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., starting at Historic Annapolis' Headquarters, 64 State Circle. Trained and qualified guides will conduct visitors on a leisurely round of tree-shaded streets, visiting places of historic interest. Visitors will tour four great houses and visit some of the small city gardens.

On Thursday, there will be candlelight tours of three great houses: The ChaseLloyd, Hammond-Harwood and Brice. Refreshments will be served at Alumni House (formerly Ogle Hall) 10:30 to 1:30 every day except Wednesday in the drawing room. Lafayette once called the drawing room of Ogle Hall the most beautiful room in America.

The Alumni House of the Naval Academy was the home of three governors of Maryland: Samuel Ogle, Benjamin Ogle, his son, and Thomas George Pratt. Builder of the house was Dr. William Stevenson who died in 1739.

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Fifth. The effect of the above upon active military personnel cannot but be highly deleterious, particularly upon young personnel of superior competence who should be encouraged toward service careers.

Sixth. It has been officially stated that ". . . the official position of the Department of Defense in support of the pay bill contained a recommendation for omission of the current retired list from increased pay . . ." and that "The Department of Defense proposal . . . recommended that retired personnel should receive no increase in retired pay." It is believed that many in both Houses of Congress were opposed to setting up an "Inferior Retired List," but tlie Defense Department's position prevailed.

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Eighth. The conclusion is inescapable that many of the cream of our young active personnel will be deterred from Service careers by this demonstrated retirement insecurity. This makes the matter one of prime national importance.

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Visitors here will also see the Naval Academy, established in 1845, and St. John's College where the Carroll (the Barrister) House now stands. Donated to Historic Annapolis, this house was moved from its original site on Main Street to the college campus. The Chanceller Johnson House on St. John's campus will also be displayed.

During the week, tour participants will see the "Heritage Show" which is an exhibit of items covering the years of Annapolis history at the old Treasury Building on the State House grounds. In addition they will have an opportunity to visit many of the Historic Houses of Colonial Annapolis.

Visitors may find a full schedule and other information at Historic Annapolis' headquarters, a small white frame building on State Circle. *

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Note for Homecoming Visitors: Guides versed in the history of Colonial Annapolis are available for walking tours on Saturday, 27 September, at 10:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.

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The " I n f e r i o r

Retired"

(From a letter to the Editor, The Evening Star, Washington, D. C, 15 July 1958.)

The writer, a retired naval officer, served at sea in combat zones in World Wars I and II. The views herein are solely the writer's and do not necessarily conform with those of any Government agency.

There are several misconceptions in the press coverage of the recently enacted military pay revisions. As a matter of importance to our national interests, these misconceptions should be corrected.

First, the title "pay increases" is a misnomer, a serious one, which beclouds public understanding. Military personnel will now get more dollars, but smaller dollars than at the time of the last previous revision. A correct title would be "Readjustment of military pay to partly compensate for shrunken dollar value."

Second. The many pay readjustments during the past half-century, including the present one, have not effected increases in actual compensation (food, shelter, clothing) for most ranks, if any, except transitorily and for specialized groups. Upward dollar adjustments have not kept pace with the shrinking buying-power of the dollar.

Third. Retired pay for those retired before 1 June this year is now reduced relative to corresponding active ranks, and reduced relative to those retiring after that date. This is the first departure from the principle deemed essential up to now, of a direct and unchanging relationship between active and retired pay. It is tantamount to a breach of faith by our Government.

Fourth. There are now two military retired lists, the "Elite Retired List" (those retiring after 1 June 1958), and the "Inferior Retired List" (those retired before that date, including many who have had high commands in war and peace).

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" I n f e r i o r R e t i r e d " OfHcers Put into the legislative hopper during the last days of the 1958 session was a bill which deserves a favorable consideration when Congress reconvenes in January. This measure, sponsored by Senators Jackson of Washington, Goldwater of Arizona, Barrett of Wyoming and Thurmond of South Carolina, would correct an inequity in the Armed Services pay legislation enacted at this session. It is an inequity which creates what V. Adm. T. G. W. Settle, USN ( R e t ) , described in a recent letter to The Star as the "Inferior Retired List."

The new pay law departed from the traditional system of gearing retired pay to active-duty pay—but only in the case of military officers already retired. For those then on the retired list a flat 6 per cent increase was provided, instead of the larger increases granted active-duty officers of similar grade. But for officers retired after passage of the act the full benefits of the pay raise were granted. Thus, as Admiral Settle pointed out in his letter, there has been created two classes of retired officers of the Armed Services — the "inferior" group, consisting largely of those who have seeii active service in battle, and a new "Elite Retired List," made up of officers retiring after last 1 June.

With this precedent established, further departures from the traditional relationship between retired and active-duty pay are feared by military officers. Said Admiral Settle: "The conclusion is inescapable that many of the cream of our young active personnel will be deterred from service careers by this demonstrated retirement insecurity."

The amendment to the pay act proposed by the bipartisan group in the Senate would restore the balance between the pay scales of retired and active-duty officers and thus end the threat of insecurity. The next Congress should eliminate the discrimination between past and future retired officers, for neither group is inferior or elite in relation to the other. (Editorial—The Evening Star, Washington,D. C, Tuesday, 26 Aug., 1958.)

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H E R E is ample justification for this lyric, sung to the tune of "High Above Cayuga's Waters" by N P S students, half in self-praise and half in the self-abuse that men habitually use in attesting gruff admiration for a program that holds out tangible reward for success while demanding tough and consistent effort to win that success.

For a number of years, approximately one of every six men admitted to Annapolis and one of every fifteen men taken into the Regular N R O T C Program have attained this goal by way of the United States Naval Preparatory School, located at the U. S. Naval Training Center, Bainbridge, Md. From the venerable granite building that was once Tome School for Boys, and which now houses the Naval Preparatory School, between, three and five hundred young men each year receive the necessary stimulus that sends them to the Naval Academy or college and, upon successful graduation, a commission in the United States Navy.

The United States Naval Preparatory .School, or N P S , is justly proud of its tradition as the Navy's third senior educational institutionâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;senior not in rank, because it is for enlisted men, but senior in age. It is antedated by the United States Naval Academy and the United States Naval W a r College.

As established by the Bureau of Naval Personnel, the primary mission of the United States Naval Preparatory School is (during the Naval Academy Preparatory Session from September through May of each year) to provide intensive instruction for enlisted men of the Navy and Marine Corps selected to compete for appointments to the Naval Academy. And to provide the same instruction for personnel of any branch of the Armed Forces on active duty who hold Congressional or Presidential nominations to the Naval Academy. The secondary mission is to provide military training and indoctrination to mold character and engender integrity in the young officer candidates.

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During the Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps ( N R O T C ) Preparatory Session from June through July, the mission of the school is to provide for intensive training and administrative processing of Naval and Marine Corps personnel provisionally selected for the Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps and for evaluation of the candidates relative to their aptitude for the service.

The facilities of the school are available to all nominees for appointment to Midshipman, provided they are in the Armed Forces on active duty, and to active duty personnel of the Navy and Marine Corps authorized to compete for appointment to the United States Coast Guard Academy.

By the banks of the Susquehanna There's a bunch of chaps; They are called the Admiral Strikers; Because they go to JIPS! emy can be obtained by the service son from any of the following sources: Seventy-five Presidential appointments are given to the sons (and sons adopted prior to their fifteenth birthday) of officers and enlisted personnel of the Armed Forces. These candidates are required to take either the regular or substantiating entrance examination to the Academy. The seventy-five applicants passing with the highest marks receive the appointments. Applications for permission to compete for these appointments should be addressed to the Chief of Naval Personnel, Washington 25, D. C. Stepsons are not eligible.

Five midshipman appointments are allowed for the District of Columbia.

These are by the President, but selecN a v a l A c a d e m y Appointments Contrary to popular belief, it is not tion is performed by the Board of necessary to gain an appointment to Commissioners of the District of the Academy from purely political Columbia. sources, as from a Representative or The Vice President, each Senator, Senator. The service son has an Representative and Delegate in Conalmost unequaled opportunity for ad- gress are allowed a maximum of five mission. A well-timed plan and good midshipmen at the Academy at any advice on the part of the parent, one time. The Academy course is coupled with application and desire completed in four years, and since one on the part of the son, can gain for or more of the appointees may fail out, him the coveted position of an Annap- the number of appointments available olis man. Since the Korean conflict from this source varies from year to any service son who could qualify has year. These appointments and the had an easily available avenue for manner of selection of the candidates entry. Each year appointments are not are in the hands of each member of filled because of a lack of knowledge Congress. A large number, however, on the part of the parents concerning have their candidates compete for the method for obtaining them for their appointments by examinations their sons. conducted by the Civil Service ComAppointments to the Naval Acad- mission. Each may name a principal

LT. CDR. H. E. BAUMBERGER, Officer-in-Charge, and Mr. C. H. McGhee, Academic Director.

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appointee and up to five alternates.

One of the reqtiirements to hold a Congressional appointment is to be a legal resident of the district or state the member of Congress represents.

Accordingly, an applicant cannot hold appointments by members of Congfress from different districts or states. o

One htindred and sixty appointments each year are available to enlisted members of the Regular Navy and Marine Corps as appointees of the Secretary of the Navy. To be eligible the applicant must have enlisted on or before 1 July of the year preceding his admission to the Academy.

The mental and physical requirements are the same as for other midshipmen.

If recommended by his commanding officer, each enlisted applicant takes a fleet screening examination in early July to determine if he has sufficient educational background and aptitude for higher learning. Those standing highest are named as Fleet Candidates and are assigned to the United States Naval Preparatory School at Bainbridge, Md., which convenes in September. Only those assigned to the school can compete for the one hundred and sixty appointments by the Secretary of the Navy. The men having the highest marks on the Academy entrance examinations receive these appointments, whereas those failing the examinations are required to serve out their terms of enlistment. At present the minimum enlistment is four years, and the seven months spent at the Naval Preparatory School do not count as active duty for draft exemption purposes.

The Secretary of the Navy also has one hundred and sixty Naval Reserve appointments, competitive, for enlisted men of the Naval Reserve and Marine Corps Reserve. Candidates must be citizens of the United States, not more than twenty-two years of age and members of the Reserve for one year by 1 July of the year of entry to the Naval Academy. They must be members of a drilling unit, be recommended by their commanding officer, and have maintained efficiency in drill attendance. Like all candidates, they must fulfill the mental and physical requirements for entrance. The highest one hundred sixty on the Naval Academy entrance examinations are selected.

The minimum U S N R enlistment is six years. During this period the enlistee may expect a minimum tour of twenty-four months' active duty. As a member of an organized unit in the Reserves, satisfactorily participating in the scheduled drills and training periods, the enlistee is exempt from training and service by induction. But he shall not be exempt from registraO C T O B E R ,

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THE NPS DRILL TEAM performs in front of Tome Building. Note the various Armed Services represented.

tion unless on active duty. While on active duty, the enlistee is eligible to attend the U. S. Naval Preparatory School if competing for the Reserve Quota.

It is not possible to compete for both the Regular Navy Quota and the Reserve Quota simultaneously. In the event one of these quotas is not filled, the Secretary of the Navy may fill that quota from the excess of other quotas, on a merit basis.

Sons of deceased officers, soldiers, sailors and Marines of the World W a r s who were killed in action or who have died, under honorable conditions, because of service, may compete for forty appointments to be awarded by the President. The order of merit on the Academy entrance examinations will determine those selected. Whether the cause of death is service connected will be determined by the Veterans Administration.

Any son, who is otherwise eligible, has an automatic appointment to the Naval Academy if a parent holds a Medal of Honor for acts while in any of the Armed Services of the United States.

Finally, a law was passed in June 1950 which empowered the Secretary of the Navy to appoint from qualified alternates and competitors sufficient midshipmen to complete the overall quota for the Naval Academy class.

Those appointed under this bill are recommended by the Academic Board of the Academy on a best-qualified

basis. At least two-thirds of such appointments must come from alternate candidates of the Vice President, Congressmen, Delegates, Resident Commissioners, Commissioners of the District of Columbia and Governor of the Canal Zone. Special application for consideration is unnecessary.

N a v a l A c a d e m y P r e p a r a t o r y Session

The objective of the academic program is to assist men on active duty in the Armed Forces to prepare for the United States Naval Academy Entrance Examinations. The Preparatory School provides facilities for these men (many of whom by the very fact of their service have been away from formal schooling for at least a year, and in many cases two or more years) to review their academic studies.

Within the Preparatory School academic organization there are five departments: algebra, English, plane geometry, physics, and United States history. Students meet in each class daily, Monday through Friday. Instructors are Naval officers and Marine officers on active duty. A varying number are Naval Academy graduates v/ho are familiar with the academic methods of the Academy and the necessity for thorough educational preparation before entrance.

The curriculum differs from that of regular secondary schools in that each subject is intensivelv reviewed in approximately a seven-month period, whereas in the ordinary secondary 11

NPS Athletes in Action! 'school a course of comparable study would require a period of from one to three years, depending on the subject.

For example, the minimum amount of high school algebra with which a candidate can expect to pass the algebra entrance examination is three semesters. Actually four semesters (two full years) are preferable. At the Preparatory School, students review the essentials of a two-year course in approximately seven months. Similarly, the course given in English is a seven-month review of grammar, composition, and English and American literature—material normally covered in three or four years of secondary schooling.

Obviously the courses at the Preparatory School are rapid. Emphasis is placed on developing a thorough understanding of the fundamentals of the subjects taught and offering frequent drills on their principles. Candidates are expected to be of high mentality and moral character, capable of intense application, and receptive to the firmest of military discipline. Candidates should not expect courses taught at the Preparator\ School to give them a high school education. The purpose is to review what candidates should have learned.

This does not mean that a person without a good high school background cannot be successful. Under such circumstances, however, he should be of above-average mentality and possess the determination and self-discipline to apply himself with the strictest intensity and persistence to the problem of schooling.

Textbooks for all courses are of standard high school level, and students are issued all books arid mate12

rials required, with the exception of slanted to enable the student from the pen and pencil. While in attendance at Preparatory School to step into the the Preparatory School, candidates role of Midshipman with a feeling of receive pay normal to their rate in the familiarity and without the sense of confusion and change of characterisArmed Forces. tics common to the Midshipman from The requirements for entrance to civilian life. Throughout, a strong the Preparatory School are as follows : sense of personal integrity is stressed.

(1) Be a citizen of the United States.

A vigorous recreational program (2) Be unmarried and never have is available. From 1630 until 1930 been married. many students engage in organized (3) Be not less than 17 nor more than intramural sports—such as tourna22 years of age on 1 July of ments in touch football, basketball, the year entering the Naval and volley ball—while others spend their time with extracurricular activiAcademy. ties such as the school yearbook, the (4) Pass a rigid physical examination. school newspaper, preparation for (5) Be on active duty (not training school dances and participation in the duty only) in one of the Armed school drill team. On a varsity level, Forces. the Preparatory School fields teams (6) Have not previously attended the in football, basketball, cross country, Naval Preparatory School for wrestling, swimming, lacrosse, track one complete Naval Preparatory and tennis against other preparatory School session. schools, college freshmen and junior (7) Hold a principal appointment, colleges. alternate or be an authorized Only two regular leave periods are competitor. available to students during the Naval Requirements (1) through (4) are Preparatory Session—the first during identical with requirements for en- the Christmas holidays and the second trance to the Naval Academy, where- in April, after completion of the Naas requirements (5) through (7) are val Academy Entrance Examinations. peculiar to the Naval Preparatory After students have returned from leave in late April, a short course, School. known as the Post Examination SesOn arrival, students are formed into sion, is presented in the subjects the a battalion patterned after a Naval prospective Midshipmen will encounAcademy battalion. This organiza- ter during plebe year. During this tion continues throughout the year time students also are given final physand provides a basis for control, ical examinations for the Academy. supervision, and discipline of the stuWhen the results of the entrance dents. Commissioned officers function as Battalion and Company Officers examinations are made known by the exactly as their counterparts function Bureau of Naval Personnel in early at the Naval Academy. Administra- May, about 88 per cent from the Pretion, military drill, parades, inspec- paratory School will have passed. The tion, and other phases of the daily life school conducts a graduation week of the school are patterned after the which approximates June Week at the Naval Academy. Military discipline is Naval Academy, with a parade, presstrict, and the entire program is entation of athletic awards, and a

CAPT. K. P. LETTS, USN '32, Commanding Officer, Service School Command, Bainbridge, addresses the NPS graduating class.

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graduation dance. A series of awards has been instituted, led by the Naval Academy Class of 1939 award of $100 paid to the Fleet Quota candidate obtaining the highest average marks on the Naval Academy Entrance E x aminations. The Naval Academy Class of 1942 gives an award of $100 to that student maintaining the highest overall average for the year. The Hambsch Award, presented by Commander Philip Hambsch, U S N (Ret.) '09, is given to that student who has contributed most to the morale of the school. The award consists of a suitably inscribed watch.

Men who were not fortunate enough to pass their entrance examinations are made available to the Bureau of Naval Personnel for assignment to duty. Although they have not reached their goal of attending the Naval Academy, they have received an education that will be of lasting value to them in their service careers and in any further educational endeavor, civilian or military, to which they may afterwards aspire.

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Session

The Regular N R O T C Program was founded shortly after World W a r II as an established system for procuring well-trained junior officers to supplement the output of the United States Naval Academy. The plan in action has developed an integrated core of young officers to fill the needs of the naval service.

While the greatest number of these officers are procured from civilian sources, two hundred such appointments are offered annually to enlisted personnel on active duty in the Navy and Marine Corps, a quota that in recent years has been greater than the number of fully qualified candidates.

Enlisted reservists not on active duty are ineligible for this quota and must compete as civilian candidates. Also enHsted personnel on active duty undergoing instruction in an officer candidate program, with the exception of personnel in attendance at the Naval Preparatory School, are eligible to apply for the N R O T C as either enlisted or civilian candidates while retaining their officer candidate status.

An enlisted man, to be eligible for this program, must be able to pass a rigid physical examination of the type required for entrance to the Naval Academy, must be unmarried, a citizen of the United States, and must be recommended by his commanding officer as possessing necessary officer-like qualities. Also he must be not more than twenty-one years of age on 1 July of the year he enters the program, be serving an enlistment or extension of enlistment that will not OCTOBER

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expire prior to 1 September of the year of entry in the program and have completed high school or have the equivalent educational background for entry to an accredited college or university. The upper age limit may be waived one year for each one year of acceptable college credit a candidate may have, provided he will not have attained his twenty-fifth birthday by 1 July of the calendar year in which he will be graduated (without taking summer courses) and that he meet all other requirements for commissioned service.

All candidates must, in addition, successfully pass the Navy College Aptitude Test given in December of each year.

In general, the objective of the academic program at the Preparatory School during the N R O T C Preparatory Session is to provide a refresher course designed to return enlisted men to study habits and to provide preparation for college-level work. The course of study consists of a rapid and intensive review of fundamentals in mathematics, science, and English.

Instruction in the subjects taught is of various levels so that each student is academically placed so as to require his studying diligently and constantly.

As with the Naval Academy preparatory students, strict discipline is maintained, but during the later phases of the course the rigidity of the discipline is eased and every attempt is made to promote and develop initiative, a sense of responsibility, and a feeling of independence in order to

fit the student for b.is life in a college atmosphere which will require these attributes of him. Toward the end of the session he is required to appear before a final selection board. If he is selected by this board and has been successfully admitted to a college or university, he is ordered to one of the fifty-two colleges and universities having N R O T C units, where he is sworn in as a Midshipman.

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NPS GRAD W I N S CLASS OF 1942 MEMORIAL A W A R D

Midn. Frank R. Freemon, Fourth Class, was presented the annual Class of 1942 Memorial Award in a brief ceremony at Bancroft Hall Thursday, 7 August The award, a check for $100, was presented by Cdr. Marcy M. Dupre, U S N , as representative of the Class of 1942.

Midshipman Freemon was adjudged the outstanding graduate of the Preparatory School at Bainbridge. H e compiled an academic record while at N P S of 3.71 with an almost perfect conduct record of 3.92. Actual presentation of the award was contingent upon acceptance by and entrance into the Naval Academy.

The Class of 1942 Memorial Award was established in memory of those classmates who lost their lives in the service of their country and is awarded annually.

NPS GRAD wins Class of 1942 Memorial Award.

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MEMORIAL STADIUM ALUMNI GIVING

By Capt. Gene Fluckey, USN BREAKDOWN BY CLASSES—1 SEPTEMBER 1958 Class

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1927 ... .. 20,814* 47 .

1928 ... .. 2,645 .

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1929 ... .. 3,712 .

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1930 ... .. 3,731 .

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1931 ... .. 8,110 .

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1932 ... .. 7,490 .

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1933 ... .. 4,930 .

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1934 ... .. 14,781* 40 .

1935 ... .. 7,334 .

1936 ... .. 2,846 . .... 39 .

1937 ... .. 5,373 . .... 38 .

1938 .,. .. 5,749 . .... 37 .

1939 ... .. 8,227* .... 36 .

1940 ... .. 4,927 . .... 35 .

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1941 ... .. 2,762 .

1942 ... .. 5,266 . .... 33 .

1943 ... .. 5,039 . .... 32 .

1944 ... .. 4,199 . .... 31 .

1945 ... .. 3,982 . .... 30 .

1946 ... . . 20,092* .... 29 .

1947 ... .. 5,408 . .... 28 .

1948A .. .. 2,405 . .... 27 .

1948B .. .. 3,928 . .... 27 .

1949 ... .. 3,366 . .... 26 .

1950 ... .. 3,163 . .... 25 .

1951 ... .. 12,940 . .... 24 .

1952 ... .. 8,136 . .... 23 .

1953 ... .. 5,300** .... 22 .

1954 ... .. 6,586 . .... 21 .

1955 ... .. 6,652 . .... 20 .

1956 ... .. 5,129 . .... 19 .

1957 ... .. 5,202 . .... 18 .

1958 ... . . 7,743 ..... 18 .

1959 ... .. 6,687 . .... 18 .

1960 ... .. 6,166 . .... 18 .

1961 .. ... 9,086 . .... 18 . . - ^:.

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CAPT. GENE FLUCKEY gives the victory sign w^hen the Memorial Stadium fund goal was reached.

Stadium Fund Drive Goes Over the Top

The Naval Academy Athletic Association has announced that the goal to raise $3,000,000 in contributions to build a new Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium in Annapolis has been achieved.

The drive to raise the funds necessary for the construction of the badly needed athletic facility has been underway since January 1957. A count on 10 .\ugust showed that the drive had gone over the top, and that contributions were still coming in to the Memorial Stadium Fund.

Although the goal has been reached, contributions will continue to be welcomed.

This additional income will be placed into a continuing maintenance and improvement fund for the stadium.

The $3,000,000 goal, which was estabTotal $541,894 lished despite some opposition and early * Indicates class has pledged $15,000 for pessimism, was achieved through nationwide efforts to raise public subscriptions for a gate. a 29,000-seat memorial structure. Ground ** Indicates class pledge. was broken and work formally begun on 1 *** This is the "giving" quota of each March 1958. The stadium is due to be comalumnus. pleted in August 1959, and the opening game of Navy's 1959 football season, against •^ Class has reached its quota.

William & Mary, will be played at the new site.

Since the Congress does not provide funds for the construction of varsity athletic facilities at the Naval Academy, contributions were solicited from private sources, including the sailors and marines in the Navy and Marine Corps. The Naval Academy Athletic Association itself led off the drive with a contribution of $1,000,000, one-third of the established goal.

Response from the Fleets, shore stations and other Navy and Marine Corps personnel, both active and retired, was magnificent.

As of 29 August, contributions from shore stations, retired personnel and Reserve Training Units, totaled $226,000. Another $409,000 came from the forces afloat and overseas activities. Alumni of the Naval .\cademy, not included in the categories above, accounted for an additional $535,000, making the total contributions from Navy and Marine Corps personnel $1,170,000. The balance of about $930,000 was made up of personal contributions from industry, business, various organizations and individuals.

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The new stadium will be a double-decked structure with all seats located between the goal lines, thereby affording every spectator a clear view of the playing field. Adjoining parking areas, which are near four-lane access roads leading to dual highways to Baltimore and Washington, will accommodate 8200 cars. The new structure will represent the latest in stadium design.

The Navy and Marine Corps, the NAAA and the Naval Academy are grateful to all those who have made this long planned for and badly needed stadium a reality.

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A Commanding Officer Translates the Detailers' Gobbledygook FLEET-UP TO LIEUTENANT'S BILLETS—Senior ensign in department relieves lieutenant (jimior grade) who is being released to inactive duty.

NUMERICAL RELIEFS— New\y commissioned ensigns who are assigned to destroyers with the expectation of relieving anyone, including the skipper, within the next ten months.

GAP—Short interval in which captain operates without replacement who was due six months ago.

QUALIFIED RELIEF—Officer commissioned ten months ago who, after two years

on board, should be fully qualified to relieve are standing on the threshold of what is yet to be their greatest era of accomplishment an officer who left three years ago.

SPLIT TOUR—Ttrm describing that ac- and service. tion which moves you from one billet you I am very proud to have command of a have just mastered to a better billet about Norfolk based ship. I certainly have a very which you know nothing. Very good for special interest in the morale and general welfare of the 617 officers and enlisted men career purposes.

TOUR Z)^TE—Nebulous term utilized by that make up the ship's company. Most of detailers to confuse skippers and ship's offi- them are married, and have their families cers alike; normally denotes the month the here in the Norfolk area. I know that their officer may expect to be detached. It fur- living conditions are much improved over ther serves as a base for adding and sub- what they would have been in the days betracting months to provide for early detach- fore World War II. And this is due in ments to new construction, staffs, conver- large measure to the interest and efforts sions, and, of course, over-touring in present of progressive Norfolk citizens—of which you gentlemen are certainly a very repreship. sentative and outstanding group.

OVER-TOURING—lnteTva.1 during which A lot has also been done within the Servofficer writes BuPers requesting relief and detailers in BuPers search for qualified ices themselves during the last few years ensign who has been through appropriate to improve conditions and career incentive for all servicemen and their families—tofunctional schools. gether with a considerable amount of beneROTATORS—'Mavnl officers, who, while ficial personnel legislation that has been moving from Large Combatants or Am- enacted by the Congress. phibious type ships, are diverted to the Having myself worked closely with the Destroyer program for a period of intensive Congress on a number of these matters, I training. want to pay special tribute to your great NEEDS OF THE SERVICE—AW in- Representative, Porter Hardy. He is cerclusive phrase denoting assignment to a tainly one of the best informed and one o£ billet not located near your home of record. the very ablest members of the House Com—The Line Officer mittee on Armed Services. He has given strong support and leadership to every measure for increasing the effectiveness of the Armed Forces, and for improving the Porter Hardy, career incentives of service personnel. More than anyone else, he was responsible for the Norfolk and Hardy Act of 1956 which revolutionized The Navy and tremendously improved the entire sysBy Capt. David L. Martineau, USN '33, tem of Survivor Benefits and Social Sein a talk before ihe Norfolk, Va., Rotary curity for all service families. He played a leading part in writing the new Pay Bill Club.

Norfolk and the Navy have had much in that was passed by the Congress recently.

Porter Hardy is an outstanding public common through the years. Both have grown and developed in many ways to- servant and a great credit to your Congether. I am convinced that today, both gressional District.

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INSIDE THE MAIN GATE

by J. P. Haumont '59

By beginning November, Midshipmen will be using ten new YPs to practice piloting and boat handling. These new boats have increased maneuverability using twin rudders, which the old ones did not have.

They also have better training equipment and midshipmen will profit from these new additions to our fleet.

Farragut Field has changed a lot this summer. Indeed the foundations of the two new wings have been driven into the ground and all you can see now are people working with all kinds of big machines making a lot of noise. The fillings are also advancing quite rapidly, both in Dewey Basin and along Farragut Field.

Quite a few changes were made this summer in our regulations. One of these is a change in our schedule. The seventh period is no longer in existence. This permits the teams to take advantage of daylight for their practice instead of having to play under lights. Evening meal has been advanced half an hour, taps is twenty minutes earlier.

The principle that privileges are not a rate, but must be earned, is impressed upon the midshipmen. From now on anyone who is unsatisfactory in conduct, aptitude or academics will lose his class privileges and will enjoy (?) the privileges of the class directly below him. I know a few 3/c who are worried, but plebes are not too concernedâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;they don't know yet what privilege rneans.

make it even more attractive for Midshipmen, the new regulations state that it is lawful to wear Army jackets at the Academy. The Post Office will be busy around December processing all the packages coming from West Point.

Next time I am given a chance to send you news from our palace I'll talk a little more about the changes made this summer.

First, I have to understand and assimilate them myself.

Sports News Living on the second deck of the fifth wing, I watch the football team practice daily. They mean business and their opponents won't have any trouble recognizing that fact. Coach Erdelatz also put on pressure from the beginning and the result will be another excellent Navy team. Navy lost 17 lettermen from last year's team.

However, they still have a wealth of good players. To name but a few of them, we have Dick Dagampat, the captain, Jo Tranchini, Georges Fritzsinger, Jo Belino and Reifsnyder. As I was talking to Dick, he told me that every game is most important. However Army, Notre Dame and Maryland are probably the biggest ones.

Other teams are also preparing for their season: Cross Country, Soccer and Dinghy Sailing. I'll talk a little about the Soccer team now and next time will introduce you to the two other teams.

The Soccer team started their season a week after the start of the Academic year by playing an exhibition game in New York against CCNY, last year's champs. Their schedule includes fifteen games. During the month of October, they will have a game every four days, which is quite a heavy schedule. This, however, should prepare them well for their meeting with Army at West Point on 22 November. Seven lettermen are returning but Johnny Meehan, the captain, was hurt during cruise and it is doubtful that he'll be able to start the season. The team, however, feels confident and should have a good season. BEAT ARMY!

Midshipman Cruise For 280 Midshipmen first class of the U. S. Naval Academy a four-day visit to Naples was one of the highlights of their 1958 summer cruise. Shore leaves in Naples and tours to Capri, Sorrento, Pompeii and Rome . . . these were some of the features of their visit. The top social function was an evening tea dance at the Allied Officers' Club, AFSouth Post. Attended by 70 of the "mids," this affair was graced by debutante daughters of local military personnel.

The Annapolismen arrived at Naples IS August, aboard destroyers of Destroyer Squadron 10, a group of ships now starting a tour of Sixth Fleet duty.

After leaving Annapolis, they touched at Norfolk, Va., and San Juan, Puerto Rico.

A brief stay was made at Gibraltar before putting in to Naples. Shore leaves and recreation occupy by far the shorter periods on these cruises, however; and the greater part of their time is spent at rugged at-sea training and operations.

. A blazing sun welcomed the Midshipmen back for another year. While some mids had just returned from their cruise to the Mediterranean Sea, most were returning from leave and, as you can guess, feelings were mixed. Many 1/c did not mind reporting back, as in another nine months they will cross these last rivers. 2/c, however, didn't know if they should rejoice being in the top half of the Brigade or worry about their academics, which they were told were so fascinating. 3/c all were joyful, becoming upperclassmen, and did not wait long to prepare their dating schedules. No use to talk about the plebes, they don't rate feelings.

One of the first things we had to do was to find out who all our new officers were.

The fact that the Commandant changed three times this summer did not make things easier. This was nothing, though, compared to the new changes in the regulations book, which we had to get acquainted with in a hurry. Good thing I never knew the old ones too well, it will save me a lot of confusion. Who knows, perhaps it will take the OODs a while to absorb the new rules.

After reading all the preseason ratings and seeing their team at work, the Brigade is most optimistic about the 1958 football season. I anticipate a lot of happy returns for the team and the Cadets better hold on to their B-robes. We like trophies! To 16

FORREST SHERMAN . . . a mighty important name here in Naples," says Midshipman 1/c C. F. Tomajczyk of Grand Rapids, Mich., to two of his fellow classmen, R. W. Hunter (center) of Reno, Nev., and R. L. Forbes of Gary, Ind. (right).

Beyond them is the stern of the USS FORREST SHERMAN (DD-931). This ship is the flagship of Destroyer Squadron 10, the group of ships that brought the "mids" from the States to Naples. Coincidentally, this is the first visit to Naples of this ship named m honor of Adm. Forrest Sherman who, during 1951 while Chief of Naval Operations, played such a key role in establishing Allied Forces Southern Europe, whose headquarters are at Naples.

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ATHLETICS Navy 1957 Football Handbook Wins Award Navy's 1957 Football Handbook has been selected as the best sports booklet in national competition for the 1957-58 school year, the American College Public Relations Association has announced.

It marks the third time in four years the Navy handbook, a brochure of information about the Academy football team, has won the honor. The Navy book was not entered last year.

The handbook, published by the Naval Academy Athletic Association, is edited by John T. Cox, the Academy's Sports Information Director. It is prepared to assist the press, radio and television in its coverage of the Middle grid team during the season.

The ACPRA citation reads: "To the United States Naval Academy, for First Award—Sports Information Booklet in competition at the annual meeting of the Association."

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COVER of Navy's 1957 prize winning Football Handbook.

NAVY FOOTBALL SQUAD No. 30 62 79 27 89 66 71 49 60 72 86 40 44 88 75 54 76 63 36 81 84 15 18 70 87 38 11 22 68 51 56 47 21 64 58 83 67 85 61 74 69 25 73 16 82 52 33 77 24

Name Pos. Albershart, Thomas B FB Bannan, Edward K G Bartek, Louis R T Bellino, Joseph M HB Bezek, George M E Blockinger, Alvin F., J r G *Boyer, Larry A T *Brandquist, Roland HB *Chomicz, Donald J G Cooper, Jerry A T Cooper, Paul W., Jr E Correll, Robert D HB *Dagampat, Richard M. ( C ) . H B Dattilo, Frank III E Driscoll, Allen A T Dunn, James M., Jr C Erchul, Ronald E T *Fritzinger, George R G Hendren, Oliver T. I l l FB *Hyde, Thomas A E *Kanuch, John S E Livengood, John J QB Lukish, Thomas J QB MacDonald, Roderick L T Mankowich, Paul E Matalavage, Joseph A FB Maxfield, James G., Jr QB McConnell, Calvin R HB Michalski, John J G *Moncilovich, Milan C O'Connor, Paul D C Pariseau, Richard R HB Prichard, John L HB Reese, Evan P G *Reifsnyder, Robert H T Ross, Robert A E Sample, Robert W G *Shirreffs, John J E Solak, Thomas J G Sperling, Harris T Steele, Boyden T G TenBrook, James J FB Thomas, William E T *Tranchini, Joseph ...QB Van Nort, Peter S E Visted, Frank A C *Wellborn, Raymond B FB Williams, John R...

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Football Tuesday, 26 August, was the day that Eddie Erdelatz and his staff began their task of locating replacements for the seven starting positions on Navy's Cotton Bowl Champions which were wiped out by graduation.

The Middle coach, now in his ninth year at the Navy grid helm, has 13 letter-winners on hand from last season's outfit, but only four of them — All-America tackle Bob Reifsynder, guard George Fritzinger, center Milan Moncilovich and fullback Ray Wellborn — were starters in '57 when Navy won eight, lost one and tied one.

However, Erdelatz and his aides made big gains in their search during spring practice.

"Joe Tranchini has moved into the No. 1 quarterback spot in place of Tom Forrestal," the Navy mentor said. "He lived OCTOBER,

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up to expectations last spring and should do very well this fall." Larry Boyer, No. 2 right tackle in '57, has been switched to left tackle in a move termed "very successful"

by Erdelatz.

Three reserve halfbacks—Dick Zembrzuski, Roland Brandquist and Bob Correll— along with Captain-elect Dick Dagampat figure to fill the halfback gaps left by the graduation of Ned Oldham, Harry Hurst and Ronnie Brence.

"What we need most is game experience," Erdelatz explained. "Our first two units were very close throughout spring drills.

There was pressure at just about every position. That makes for a very healthy situation. We will be able to tell more about the personnel once we get a chance to see them under pressure," Erdelatz stated.

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Navy's plebe football squad will play a seven-game schedule this fall. The young Middies open their 1958 campaign 11 October against the George Washington freshmen, and close their season 22 November with Bullis School. In between those two dates the plebes will meet the freshmen elevens of Virginia, Pittsburgh, Penn State and Maryland plus Columbian Prep School.

Lt. Jim Carrington is head coach of the Navy freshman squad this season. He succeeded Cdr. Jack McQuary in this spot.

Navy's plebe football schedule for '58: 11 October, George Washington freshmen; 17, Virginia freshmen; 25, Pittsburgh freshmen; 31, Columbian Prep.

November 7, Penn State freshmen; 14, Maryland freshmen; 22, Bullis School.

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SWEEP-For Humanity's Sake-SWEEP

by V. Adm. Allan E. Smith, USN (Ret.) '15 T N C H O N had been won. Now, October and the section assigned to be swept by the â&#x20AC;˘*- 1950, fifty thousand U. S. Marine and Japanese. To complete the briefing, all lay Army troops were at sea in the Amphibious up on the bridge to see for themselves the Force en route from Inchon to make a buoys marking the various areas as shown landing on Wonsan Green and Yellow on the charts. Everyone satisfied, Mr. Beaches. . . . And there we were, in the Tamara and his sweepers were soon underapproaches to Wonsan with six small way and sweeping, but in late afternoon wooden minesweepers, and only seven days one of the Japanese sweepers managed to cross into a prohibited area, hit a mine, remaining before L (Landing) Day. blew up and disappeared. All were rescued Our sweepers had cleared a channel from except one Japanese, who was never sighted the hundred fathom mark to our present after the explosion. The Japanese ships had position on the thirty fathom mark, a 12- remote control to their engines, which mile stretch. We had paid a terrific price. accounts for the small loss of life. It would Our two larger steel sweepers had been have been greater in our sweepers, as ours sunk by enemy gunfire and mines, and many were not equipped with remote control of of their gallant crews had been lost. There the engines. Nevertheless, sweeping conremained to complete a swept channel to tinued until dark, and observations from the the Green and Yellow Beaches, seven long bridge and over the telephone confirmed and dangerous miles. satisfactory progress. As twilight shaded Wonsan Bay, from seaward, has the shape into darkness, one by one the small sweepof an old-fashioned keyhole, a wide "V" ers nestled alongside their mother ship for approach, a squeezed-in waist, then expand- the night, and began preparations for the ing rapidly into a large eight-mile circle, next day's sweep. The Captains reported across to the City of Wonsan with its sandy aboard the flagship with their detailed data, which the staff correlated, analyzed and beaches. wrote out the next day's instructions. By On that cold October day, I knew that 3 a.m., all was ready for the morning twibetween us and the beaches lay several light start of operations. I turned in, but thousand anchored contact mines, and worse, was awakened at 6 a.m. by one of the staff and more deadly, in the shallower waters speaking through the tired air. "The Japaon the bottom lay magnetic mines. These nese say they want to sweep where there were Russian mines and good ones, for the are no mines." "Ridiculous," I thought, "I Russian Navy has an impressive record of must be dreaming." But no, it was repeated, successful mine warfare; as the Russian Army has of successful artillery and rocket and I was sitting up. "Well, send for Mr. victories. The number of mines, the pres- Tamara, at once" was my reaction. In sure of time, the bitter North wind, the fifteen minutes, Mr. Tamara and I were choppy sea, the sporadic firing by the facing each other in the destroyer's small enemy from the islands in the bay, the very, chart room. very slow process of sweeping magnetic Without preliminaries, I began, "Mr. mines, and our exhausted crews, all these Tamara, what is the difficulty?" spoke up to demand a drastic change in the Mr. Tamara, five feet five, broad in the situation, if I was to succeed in meeting beam, serious, hissed and bowed from the L-day. waist. "Yes," he replied, "men want sweep I probed the minds of the staff, but found where no mines." no new ideas, though I did find hard deter"Well," I answered brusquely, "yours is mination there. And then that Napoleonic recollection struck me. Yes, that was it; not a good reason, and I will tell you why." those Japanese minesweepers, still sweep- And then and there I began and completed ing the Inland Sea for the mines planted an oration on the historical struggle of the there by our Army Air Corps and Navy in people of the United States of America in World War II. Those Japanese sweepers their fight for the freedom of the individual, could help; they could help, if I could get the fight for humanity itself. them.

"Mr. Tamara," I continued, "almost two Off went an urgent dispatch to Admiral centuries ago, we Americans fought the Joy in Tokyo, Commander of U. S. Naval British to free ourselves from domination, Forces in the Far East, information to from unfair taxes, a war fought for a betGeneral MacArthur, requesting some Japa- ter life for the individual." nese sweepers in this urgent situation. The Mr. Tamara hissed and bowed from the tedious time-consuming sweeping opera- waist. tions continued with no reply from Tokyo, "Then we fought the French in an undebut at the third morning twilight, five Japanese minesweepers and their mother clared war, because they began to oppress ship were led in from seaward by our us." guard ship, and were soon nested alongside Mr. Tamara hissed and bowed. of each other at a mooring buoy we had "In 1812 we fought the British again to anchored five hundred yards from my temporary destroyer flapship. The Japanese stop them from impressing our seamen. Do civilian in charge, Mr. Tamara, came aboard you understand, Mr. Tamara?"

Mr. Tamara understood, hissed and bowed to inform me that they were all under contract to the Japanese Government, that the from the waist. masters of the sweepers understood Eng"In mid-century we fought the Mexilish, and that they were ready to sweep cans." I hesitated and let the Mexican War mines. The briefing of Mr. Tamara and the go without further comment. masters of his ships began, covering all Anyway, Mr. Tamara hissed and bowed, phases of the sweeping operations by oral and written instructions and by furnishing as I hurried along. accurate colored charts showing areas "Then the Americans in North United swept, those to be swept, prohibited areas, States fought the South, for the freedom of 18

the individual, for humanity's sake. Do you follow me?"

Mr. Tamara followed, hissed and bowed.

"In 1917, we entered World War I to fight the Germans, and in that war Japan fought on our side. We were fighting for the individual's rights; to make the world safe for Democracy."

Mr. Tamara's eyes rounded, as he hissed and bowed.

"Then came World War II, and in that war we fought both the Germans and the Japanese. We knew we were fighting for freedom and for the individual. You know that is right, Mr. Tamara."

But Mr. Tamara had already drav^'n himself up to five feet seven, and announced, "Yes, I was an officer in the Japanese Imperial Navy."

I continued quickly. "Now here we are again, this time in Korea, fighting for the individual, for freedom, for all humanity.

Cannot you, Mr. Tamara, tell your crews all that I have said and that we are fighting for the Japanese, too, each of them? Those are the reasons why your crews should sweep where we want them to sweep, and they will be doing their part to win this war for freedom, when they sweep as I have directed, otherwise they might as well be back in Japan. Do you understand, Mr. Tamara?"

Mr. Tamara understood, gave a last hiss and a last bend at the waist. As I opened the door to let him out, I added in a firm and commanding voice, "Mr. Tamara, you have exactly twenty minutes to inform your crews and to get underway and start sweeping where your instructions and charts state." I glanced at my watch and Mr. Tamara departed with a quick step.

In the next fifteen minutes, I reviewed our plans of the day and assured myself that the Japanese were assigned a task well within tlieir capabilities. Then I went topside to the bridge. The bay was whitecapped as usual. Inshore were our six tiny sweepers in good tactical formation, but almost motionless as they towed their heavy gear across the bay. Beyond our tiny sweepers, now but a few miles away, were the graceful curving white beaches of Wonsan.

The city was framed by rolling green hills, all crowned by the distant snow-capped mountains. At any other time, this dramatic view would have stayed me, but I swung around to the port side, raised my binoculars to the Japanese sweeper nest. I could see Mr. Tamara, standing above the crews gathered around him, and as he was gesturing, the sun broke through, warming the entire scene and the situation. I glanced at my watch, nineteen minutes and the Japanese crews were dispersing and hopping over to their own craft. Twenty minutes now, and, yes, the Japanese were casting off.

First the leader, then the second sweeper, the third, the fourth, and last, the mother ship, all in the manner of well ordered ships.

They formed column with regular intervals between the sweepers, steamed past me on the port side of the destroyer; then the column turned right ninety degrees; then the column made another ninety degree turn toward the channel we had swept in from seaward, and the Japanese sweepers kept right on steaming five hundred miles back to Japan.

Soon I despatched another message to Admiral Joy, information to General MacArthur, stating that if they would insure that the Japanese were not paid and were never permitted to go to sea again, then I, as long as I lived, would never again make another speech in the cause of freedom, or for humanity's sake.

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THE U.S.N.A. ALUMNI ASSOC. Alumni House, Annapolis, Md. Here is my check for $ please send me . . . . copies of the 1958 edition of the Register of Alumni to:

BEWICK, James S BOURLAND, David L BURROW, James B., Jr COLEMAN, Garrett V KOCH, James P FELLING, James E RICHARDS, Gilbert H., Ill .

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so many articles which in my opinion are excellent that I feel I owe you a letter.

On the frontispiece, "Have More or Want Less" is philosophy which one does not expect in an alumni magazine.

The "Around the World Cruise" is interesting to anyone who has travelled the route.

"How Was Your Youngster Cruise?" is whimsey which is hard to beat.

"McCarty" is a wonderful description of tradition and discipline. Let us hope there will always be McCartys.

The "Mail Boat" letter on the Contingency Option Act is a fine example of the need to think.

Thank you for an outstanding issue!

JOSEPH F . QUILTER

Shipmate: I think that the fact that an officer retired for disability can charge off $100 per week to sick leave with pay on his income tax should be emphasized. I actually ran across one recently, who must have hundreds of dollars rebate coming, who had never heard of i t Although the details are not available yet, tlie new changes in the Social Security Act will be of benefit to many officers retired for disability making it possible to start drawing benefits between the ages of 50 and 65. I think that applies to me, being 60 and unemployed.

Many retired officers do not take Service papers and do not belong to the Retired Officers' Association but do get Shipmate.

It seems as if some do not even read the literature put out by the Naval districts or the Disbursing Office.

I'd like to read an article on the advisability of buying a house or lot in the area an officer expects to live in when retired and paying it off while on active duty. Lots of people do, of course. I think T. O. Cullins finished up owning five houses paid for by renters. I know one officer who bought a lot near here while on active duty expecting to build on it but when he retired he found that the neighborhood had grown up with $50-75,000 houses and had to sell.

However, he made about 700% on the deal.

Jack Frost should be able to turn out some factual data.

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Shipmate: Please give my warmest respects and rehave liked what you are doing but are gards to all your Staff of the Alumni Assocompletely inarticulate. ciation and Shipmate. The latter fills a very This, of course, has not been too helpful much needed spot in my naval life, so much to you and the other editors, but there is a of which has been spent either abroad or at great deal to the old maxim that silence sea away from the actual, intimate contact with classmates or Service friends. I think gives consent (approval) ! it is a marvelous magazine and consider that This comes to you with my best wishes your choice of articles that have appeared for your continued success. recently have been not only interesting but very instructive. "What's the Dope," of GORDON A. UEHLING course, is what I turn to first and read Capt., U S N '31 avidly from beginning almost to the end.

4912 Essex Ave., The "Capitol Hill" dope always is valuable Chevy Chase 15, Md. and instructive. My personal thanks for all Shiptnate: that is being done for us Alumni away from It is not my practice to write letters to home.

MORGAN SLAYTON '33 the editor but your August issue contained

Just ideas.

D. E.

CARLSON

Capt, U S N ( R e t ) '21 <lf Shipmate will welcome any information or articles on any of the above subjects.

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Shipmate: My original purpose in writing this letter was to ask you to change my mailing address.

I do want to let you know, as one of your satisfied customers in the field, that I think you and Adm. Hayes have done a mighty fine job on Shipmate and while I am unfamiliar with the gripes you may be getting, it may be helpful to realize that there are a lot of alumni like myself who O C T O B E R ,

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AFTER A COALING on the Round the World Cruise, USS VERMONT. Standing, left to right: Walter B. Tardy '98, Robert A. Dawes '04, Charles B. Lyman, Capt.

USMC, Bruce L. Canaga '05, Riley F. McConnell '07, Luther M. Overstreet '97, Ralph T. Hanson '07, Harry L. Brinser '99; seated, left to right: Louis F. Thibault '07, Jacob L. Hydrick '07, Patrick N. L. Bellinger '07, Herman E. Welte '07.

Our thanks to the following who replied to our query as to the identification of the above: Capt. Robert A. Dawes, USN (Ret.) '04, gave us our first complete list of names.

Capt. Bruce L. Canaga, USN (Ret.) 'OS, identified all men (he called to our attention the color of the faces of the Division Officersâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the color fixes the coaling station, from bow to stern) ; partial identifications, all confirming, came from Fit. Adm. Chester W. Nimitz '05, Adm. Kent Hewitt, U S N (Ret.) '07, and Capt. Frank D. Pryor, USN ( R e t ) '07.

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UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

SEA BREEZES B Y PAUL SCHRATZ '39

NEWPORT—A CASE OF BREAKING AND ENTERING

A L U M N I NEWS What's the Dope T h e Distaff C o r n e r B r a n c h Associations Branch Activities Classified Services Last C a l l

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OFFICERS President— V. ADM. W . W . SMITH, USN ( R e t ) '09 (3341), Washington, D. C. Vice President (Eastern Area)— CAPT. PAUL W . SIEGRIST, U S N R '24 (7639), New York, N. Y.

Vice President (Central Area)— CAPT. W . J. HARRISON, U S N R '21 (5722), New Orleans, La. Vice President (Western Area)— LT. ( J G ) B . B . CASSELS, USN (Ret.) '22 (6626), Seattle, Wash.

Executive Director— R. ADM. W . F . FITZGERALD, JR., USN (Ret.) '21 (5912), Annapolis

TRUSTEES Superintendent's Representative— CAPT. W . C . HALL, JR., U S N '37 (12624), Chief of Staff, U S N A A t Large

To serve until Spring Meeting 1959 CAPT. C . H . BENNETT, JR.,

L T . ( J G ) B . S . MARTIN,

USN ( R e t ) '23 (6863)

U S N ( R e t ) '46 (17519)

V. ADM. T . R . COOLEY,

V. ADM. J. W. ROPER,

U S N ( R e t ) '17 (4745)

U S N ( R e t ) '19 (5072)

To serve until Spring Meeting 1960 CAPT. S . D . CUTTER, U S N (12098)

CAPT. J. K. TAUSSIG, JR., U S N

ADM. H . W . HILL, U S N ( R e t ) '11 (3666)

( R e t ) '41 (14404) R. ADM. H . A. YEAGER, U S N '27

(9050) To serve until Spring Meeting 1961 R. ADM. W . H . BURACKER, U S N

( R e t ) '20 (5427)

V. ADM. I. N. KILAND, U S N

( R e t ) '17 (4657)

R. ADM. J. D. HAYES, U S N ( R e t )

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R. ADM. L . A. KNISKERN, U S N

(Ret.) '22 (6244) From Local Chapters

To serve until Spring Meeting 1959 V. ADM. GEORGE H . FORT, U S N

( R e t ) '12 (3902), Washington CAPT. E . K . ZITZEWITZ, U S N R '25

( R e t ) '14 (4276), Philadelphia MR. M . B . FLANDERS ( N '28),

( R e t ) '19 (5081), Los Angeles V. ADM. M . E . MURPHY, U S N CAPT. R . F . H A N S , U S N

(Ret)

'14 (8606), San Francisco

•46 (18517), San Diego

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CAPT. C . A. GRIFFITHS, U S N

(Ret.) '22 (6349), Peninsula

Boston L. CDR. C . V. WILHOIT, JR., U S N R

'22 (6601), New York

'27 (8916), Connecticut MR. D . C . WILKERSON ( N '20),

Detroit

(7966), Chicago V. ADM. J . H . BROWN, JR., U S N

CAPT. H . L . PARRY, U S N R

LT. J . F . HELLAUER, U S N R ( R e t )

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MR. E . T . BARKETT '38 (12839),

Pittsburgh

Thanks to a kind government and the farreaching hand of BuPers, I am taking the airs in Newport this season, thoroughly enjoying a sabbatical year in pursuit of learning at the Navy's Senior Officer School, the Naval W a r College.

For an outsider to crash Newport society has always been worse than breaking and entering. My first introduction to Newport came as a middle on a destroyer cruise in 1937. It was my good fortune to be designated a volunteer to escort the lovely daughter of the Army Commandant at Fort Adams—including a chauffeured visit to swank Bailey's Beach for a swim. Bailey's Beach is so exclusive that a member was once asked to leave for mentioning common stocks. To enter vi'ith a footman was heady wine for one just finishing a plebe year. I decided to show off a bit—to spring the diving board a few times before hurling my clean young government owned body into the surf. But, when I landed on the board, float and all toppled into the drink, complete with gold cigarette cases, lighters, cosmetic boxes, and—horrors—several of the 400's finest. Amid the violent shrieks and sputters, I couldn't even face the cold, steely stares peering through drenched hairdos. Great pride had quickly run its course.

And so I return to Newport—one wife, six children and two decades later. The magnificent homes and formal gardens, the glitter and tinsel of even those not too distant days are largely memories. High income taxes and disappearance of the serving class have been great equalizers. However, one can still greatly enjoy a stroll along Cliff Walk, the scenic four-mile path on the ocean front seaward of Bellevue Ave.'s great mansions. Much of Cliff Walk disappeared in the '38 hurricane; but in disrepair it seems only the more appropriate as a decaying symbol of a gone era.

Several monuments of bygone days have passed into legend. "Coogan's Folly," a mansion lying in ruins, for years was a must on every sightseer's route. Coogan had the temerity to try to crash the 400; when nobody came to his dinner party he, to spite his snobbish neighbors, abandoned the mansion and accelerated its path to ruin.

The site is now a playground surrounded by large houses full of naval officers and their families—apparently the only people who can afford to pay the heat bills and mail rent checks to absentee landlords.

Another lost institution is "Timmy the Woodhooker," who lived in a tiny clapboard house on Bellevue Ave. and existed by selling bundles of sticks for firewood or discarded remnants cadged from the big homes and unloaded on gullible antique shoppers from Providence. It's claimed by a native Newporter, who, as a youth, went to Arabia to seek his fortune, that Timmy was the only person "along the Avenue" who even knew the location of Saudi Arabia. Timmy died a few years ago and his shack is now weedgrown and abandoned.

Newport's early history produced two famous citizens, (Dliver Hazard Perry and Captain Kidd the pirate. I hear it took both to produce the present attitude toward the Navy. But it's a lovely city and I'll have to be convinced.

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NAVY BLUE AND GOLD MARCHES ON 1958 Graduates Who Are Sons of Alumni 1919

Marshall Raymond GREER, Jr., 21, son of V. Adm. ( U S N ) and Mrs. Marshall R. Greer of 1679 31st St., N.W., Washington, D. C. Ensign. USN. John B. G R I F F I T H S , 21, son of Capt (USN) and Mrs. C. A. Griffiths of 642 Moreno .\ve., Santa Monica, Calif. Ensign, USN. 1920 Frank E. B A S S E T T , 21, son of Adm. (USN Ret.) and Mrs. M. H. Bassett of 24 Cireenou^h Place, Newport, R. I. Ensign, USX. Robert K. F E A T H E R S T O N . 22. son of Col. (USA) and Mrs. Tohn H. Featherston of Box 307, # 5 , Charlottesville, Va. 2nd Lt, USMC. 1923 Samuel P. COMLY, 21, son of Capt.

(USN) and Airs. S. P. Comly of 2050 Spring Hill Ave., Mobile, Ala. Ensign, USN. F. Massie H U G H E S , Jr., 21, son of R. Adm. ( U S N ) and Mrs. F. M. Hughes of Virginia House, Naval Base, Norfolk, Va. Ensign, USN. William R. RING, 22, son of V. Adm. (USN) and Mrs. Stanhope C. Ring of 801 â&#x20AC;˘Tolita Ave., Coronado, Calif. Ensign, USN. 1925 James F. CALDWELL, 22, son of Capt.

(USN Ret.) and Mrs. R. S. Caldwell of 195 Hanover St., Annapolis, Aid. Ensign, USN. Aubrey W. CARSON, 23, son of R. Adm. ( U S N ) and Airs. Joseph AI. Carson of 35 North Royal Ave., Front Royal, Va. Ensign, U S N .

WiUiam Stamps H O W A R D , III, 22, son of Capt ( U S N Ret.) and Mrs. W. S. Howard, Jr., of 204 W. Park Ave., Tarboro, N. C. Ensign, USN. George J. KING, Jr., 25, son of R. Adm. (USN Ret.) George J. King of 1667 Winford Rd., Baltimore, Md., and Mrs. Isabella King of 1411 East 2nd S t , Long Beach, Calif. Ensign, USN. Josiah D. STRYKER, 21, son of R. Adm. (USN) and Mrs. Joe W. Stryker of 3108 Cameron Alills Rd., Alexandria, Va. Ensign, USN. 1926 August William B R E W E R , 22, son of R. Adm. ( U S N ) and Mrs. J. T. Brewer of Indian Pond Rd., R.F.D., Piermont, N. H. Ensign, USN. James G. B R E W E R , 22, son of R. Adm.

( U S N ) and Mrs. J. T. Brewer of Indian Pond Rd., R.F.D. Piermont, N. H. Ensign, USN. Chester A. KUNZ, Jr., 22, son of R. Adm. (USN Ret.) and Mrs. Chester A. Kunz of 11 South Chester Rd., Swarthmore, Pa. Ensign, USN. Eugene E. LINDSEY, Jr., 21, son of R. Adm. ( U S N ) and Mrs. E. W. Grenfell of 30 Alakalapa Dr., Honolulu, Hawaii.

Ensign, USN. Frank O'BEIRNE, Jr., 21, son of R. Adm. ( U S N ) and Airs. Frank O'Beirne of 1039 26th St., Arlington, Va. Ensign, USN. Edwin B. SMEDBERG, 23, son of R. .\dm. ( U S N ) and Airs. William R. Smedberg, III, of Crystal River, Fla. Ensign, USN. Brent Wrenn TAYLOR, 22, son of R. Adm. (USN Ret.) and Mrs. Ford N. Taylor of 3239 Klingle Rd., N.W., Washington, D. C. Ensign, USN. David G. W I L L I N G H A M , 21, son of R. Adm. (USN R e t ) and Mrs. S. David Willingham of 4022 Forest Lane, Falls Church, Va. Ensign, USN. 1927 Liles Walker CREIGHTON, Jr., 21, son of R. Adm. ( U S N ) and Mrs. L. W. Creighton of 16 Pleasant St., Houlton, Me. Ensign, USN. Thom B. GIAMBATTISTA, 21, son of Capt. ( U S N ) and Mrs. Frank D. Giambattista of 1401 Beechtree Lane, Falls Church, Va. 2nd L t , USAF. Reid B. PAIGE, 22, son of Maj. Gen. (USMC) and Airs. H. R. Paige of 5314 Truman Ave., Alexandria, Va. 2nd Lt., USMC. 1928 Robert T. S. K E I T H , Jr., 21, son of R. Adm. ( U S N ) and Mrs. R. T. S. Keith of 1322 Mallory Court, Norfolk, Va. Ensign, USN. 1929 Nickolas J. FRANK, III, 23, son of Capt. ( U S N ) and Mrs. Nickolas J. Frank, Jr., of 3728 4th S t , N., Arlington, Va. Ensign, USN. Carl Emil GIESE, Jr., 25, son of Capt. ( U S N ) and Mrs. Carl E. Giese of 807 Division St., Merrill, Wis. Ensign, USN. Carl J. P E T E R S O N , 21, son of Capt. ( U S N ) and Mrs. Carl A. Peterson of 388 Midland St., Bridgeport, Conn. Ensign, USN. 1930 David G. BURDEN, 22, son of Capt.

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( U S N ) and Mrs. Harvey P. Burden of Quarters M-3, N.A.S., Norfolk, Va. Ensign, USN. George B. C H A F E E , Jr., 22, son of Capt ( U S N ) and Mrs. George B. Chafee of 2024 Scroggins Rd., Alexandria, Va. Ensign, USN. Michael W. C H A P P L E , 22, son of Capt. ( U S N ) W. G. Chappie of 705 1st S t , Coronado, Calif., and Mrs. Grace Ford, II, of 1002 North SOth St., Billings, Mont.

Ensign, USN. John B. HULME, 22, son of Capt. ( U S N ) and Mrs. John Hulme of 5041 8th St. South, Arlington, Va. Ensign, USN. Frederick W. LAING, Jr., 21, son of Capt ( U S N ) and Mrs. F. W. Laing of 260 Bowen St., Providence, R. I. 2nd Lt., USAF. Martin L. McCULLOUGH, 22, son of Capt. ( U S N ) and Mrs. Montgomery L. McCullough, Jr., of 1925 N. Harvard St, Arlington, Va. Ensign, USN. Michael D. SALMON, 21, son of Brig.

Gen. (USMC) and Mrs. Ronald D. Salmon of Marine Corps Schools, Quantico, Va. 2nd L t , USMC. 1931 Alark R. J E N S E N , 22, son of Capt. ( U S N ) and Mrs. Marvin J. Jensen of Route 3, Annapolis, Md. 2nd Lt., USAF. Joseph N. LONGTON, 21, son of Capt. ( U S N ) and Mrs. Ernest W. Longton of Deferno Rd., Clayton, N. Y. Ensign, USN. Hylan B. LYON, Jr., 21, son of R. Adm. (USN R e t ) and Mrs. H. B. Lyon of 4120 Court Dr., Santa Cruz, Calif. Ensign, USN. John Sidney McCAIN, III, 21, son of Capt. ( U S N ) and Mrs. John S. McCain, Jr., of 300 First St., S.E., Vv^ashington, D. C. Ensign, USN. Michael G. O'CONNOR, II, 22, son of Capt ( U S N ) and Airs. Michael G. O'Connor of U. S. Naval Air Station, Atlantic City, N. J. Ensign, USN. Berton A. ROBBINS, III, 22, son of Capt ( U S N ) and Mrs. Berton A. Robbins, Jr., of SIS Monticello Blvd., Alexandria, Va. Ensign, USN. Whitmer B. SWAIN, 22, son of Capt. ( U S N ) Joseph B. Swain of ComNavFe, Tokyo, Japan. 2nd Lt., USAF. (Mother Guy b . VEASEY, 22, son of Capt. ( U S N ) and Mrs. A. C. Veasey of 3910 Washington St., Kensington, Md. Ensign, USN. Stephen T. W E B S T E R , 21, son of Capt. ( U S N ) and Mrs. John A. Webster of 1052 N. Shore Rd., Norfolk, Va. Ensign, USN. David A. WIER, 22, son of Capt. ( U S N ) and Mrs. H. R. Wier of 3443 Randolph St., Arlington, Va. 2nd Lt., USMC. 1932 James M. CLEMENT, Jr., 21, son of Capt. ( U S N ) and Mrs. James M. Clement of 946 Jamestown Crescent, Norfolk, Va. Ensign, USN. Richard P. GREENE, 22, son of Capt. ( U S N ) and Mrs. Richard O. Greene of Quarters A, NAS, Key West, Fla. Ensign, USN. Paul H. H A R R I N G T O N , Jr., 22, son of Capt ( U S N ) and Mrs. Paul H. Harrington of Quarters M-101, N.A.S., Norfolk, Va. 2nd Lt., USAF. Bruce McCANDLESS, II, 20, son of R. Adm. ( U S N ) and Mrs. Bruce McCandless of 1576 Tulane Rd., Claremont, Calif.

Ensign, USN. Theodore C. W H I T E , 23, son of Capt ( U S N ) and Mrs. T. H. White of 2121 Sacramento St., San Francisco, Calif. Ensign, USN. 1933 Henry Dixon STURR, Jr., 21, son of Capt. ( U S N ) and Mrs. H. D. Sturr of 4341 East Broadway, Long Beach, Calif. Ensign, USN. 23

the Atomic Energy Commission in Maryland, and Percy Warner of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and one daughter, Mrs. Lee Bohnert of Alexandria, Va. BABE AIONTGOMERY had an unusual experience last winter while on his way home from Florida. He stopped at a gas station in Charleston, S. C , to have an oil leak fixed and noticed a sign over the manager's desk which read "Murfin." Inquiry revealed that the manager said he had two relatives in the Navy: one a Rear Admiral and one was drowned. So Babe told him how S H O R T Y MURFIN had lost his life. Babe assumed that the relatives were his uncles.

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Sec'y. Capt. E. S. Jackson, U S N (Ret.) 455 Arlington Dr., Pasadena, Calif.

EDWIN HORACE DODD It is my sad duty to announce that another of our beloved classmates—EDWIN HORACE DODD—has gone. This makes two of our class within a month, both from heart failure!

Have just received an airmail letter from an old shipmate of "Doddy" and me (dated 3 Sept.) stating that Dodd's heart gave out while he was driving his car in Oakland.

(The car was brought to a stop by hitting a couple of cars.) Coroner diagnosed it as a "massive stroke." No more details—not even the date, which must have been after 31 August.

On 29 August he celebrated his 79th birthday. He had not been at all well for many years but finally managed to get back to active duty early in World War II, when he organized and took charge of the new Fleet Post Office at San Francisco. Later he became "Navy Postal Coordinator, Pacific Coast."

Both Doddy and "CHAUNCEY" DEF R E E S were on the old PHILADELPHIA in 1900. He served as Navigator (with me) on the ANNAPOLIS in 1907—San Francisco to Samoa—and then on the ADAMS on to Philadelphia. He had never done any duty as Navigator and was troubled with poor eyesight. I recall that when, on the A N N A P OLIS, we were due for our first landfall (Hawaii), he was worried since we had not picked up land and the sun had just set. I suggested some star sights, an idea he pooh-poohed, never having taken any.

Took several star sights and to his surprise and delight we got a splendid fix. After that he was all for the stars. But he couldn't take them on account of his eyes, and, as a result, FREDDY McNAIR and I took them regularly for him, dawn and evening, all the way round to Philadelphia!

He was a lovable shipmate and was most grateful to us for our help.

Most of his career was devoted to radio, communications and submarine and destroyer duty. He was a member of a board, with BALLARD, SAMMY BRYANT and H O O P E R , that organized the "Naval Radio Service" which later became "Naval Communication Service." During World War

I, he commanded the

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which he received the Navy Cross and a citation. He assisted a Navy contingent in fighting the great San Francisco fire in 1906.

Among his assignments were: Commander Submarine Flotilla, 1908-10; CO Pacific Torpedo Flotilla, 1913-15; Pacific Coast Communications, Supt., 1915-18; CO Destroyer Squadron 11, 1923-25.

Dodd is survived by his widow—nee S. Carolyn Johnston—living at 481 Jean St., Oakland 10, Calif.; a son Richard who has 24

been for many years a patient in a sanitarium in Florida; and a daughter Kate Novia, of 1020 Ramona St., Palo Alto, Calif.

EDWARD

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Sec'y, R. Adm. A. H. Van Kenren, U S N (Ret.) 8013 Aberdeen Rd., Bethesda 14, Md.

As a result of a poll conducted by classmate MILNE, VAN K E U R E N was elected President of the class of 1903 vice H E N R Y D. COOKE, deceased. Van Keuren will carry on as Secretary also.

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Sec'y, Capt. R. F. Frellsen, U S N (Ret.) 5 Sherwood Rd., Wardour, Annapolis, Md.

RALPH CUTLER NEEDHAM We regret to announce the death of R A L P H C. N E E D H A M on 10 Aueust 1958 at his home, 4489 Aukai Ave., Hawaii, T. H. Interment was in the Naval Academy Cemetery.

He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Rachel Blyth Needham; two daughters.

Airs. Langdon Pickering, Jr., also of the islands, and Mrs. George Battle, of Oak Ridge, Tenn., and six grandchildren.

MALLISON TO QUIT AT BELLE MEADE The following quote from the Nashville Tetinessean dated 9 August 1958 is of interest to the class: W. T. MALLISON of Nashville is retiring as city manager of the City of Belle Aleade after serving nearly 12 years, he announced yesterday.

In a letter to Mayor Sam Davis Bell, Mallison said, "I feel it is about time that I retire."

Mallison became city manager in February, 1947.

He asked his resignation to become effective at the "convenience" of the mayor, but not later than 31 January 1959. He explained he felt this would give Belle Aleade sufficient time to select a new city manager and time for him to assist the new manager in assuming the duties.

Mallison expressed his sincere appreciation for his appointment and for "the association, help and friendship that have been given me by both mayors, the commissioners, the chairman of the planning commission and board of zoning appeals, and all members of the commission and board, and the chief and police officers of our city."

He also expressed his gratitude for the cooperation and helpfulness extended him by the city attorney.

Mallison said he is not ready to announce his plans for the future. He and Mrs. MalHson live at 4402 Harding Place. They have two sons, W. T. Jr., who is employed by

D U T C H and Millie K E P P L E R are following their regular routine this year when they entertain Navy "files" at cocktails on the day the Midshipmen play football with Boston University. Among those expected are Leo Welch ('06), Taffinder ('06), and from our class MIKE CASSIDY and J O H N and Liz BARLEON. Here's how, Dutch and Millie.

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The undersigned led a safari of two to the wilds of Cape Cod in August, stopping en route for a most pleasant visit of ten days with Helen S L I N G L U F F in Jamestown.

There he uncovered a flock of 1908ers he was very glad to see and whose hospitality he acknowledges here. The KAUFMANs, the DONAVINs, the RED AIAGRUDERs in Jamestown and the DOUGLASes and AIECLEARYs in Newport. Interesting how happily integrated they were with members of other classes (of course of lesser importance!), such as Louie Davis '05, Leigh Noyes '06, Bill Amsden and Cap Bemis '07, Joel Bunkley, Jimmie Glennon and Stuart Brown '09, Frank Craven '11, Scot Umsted '15 (proud, and, I am told, justly so, of his planetarium at the University of Rhode Island, where he teaches astronomy) and lastly, the Commodore of the Yacht Club at Jamestown, Ralph Alexander '18. There probably were many more, but the underbrush is pretty thick in spots up there and I could have missed several.

We enjoyed luncheon at the Aleclearys before tennis and cocktails at the Douglases after. Also a delightful luncheon at Bailey's Beach with the BROWNs. All this in Newport. A supper in our honor at the Kauffmans and a bang-up cocktail party at the Alagruders—not to mention parties by our hostess and others. All of "our people" were well and going strong!

No game on Cape Cod, but an enjoyable ten days at the Snow Inn at Harwichport, where the K I N K A I D s relieved us, arriving the day we left. Not by pre-arrangement, I'm told! Some tuna fishing in Massachusetts Bay and revisits to old haunts, including well-remembered Provincetown, which has gone a bit "arty" since the days of the Fleet visits long ago. .'\n announcement of the marriage of LLOYD STARK'S daughter, which took place in Louisiana, Mo., on 6 September.

She and her fiance attended the Annapolis events of the Reunion.

The Washington Group will miss its pleasant association with JACK BEARDALL, who tells me they are moving to Winter Park, Fla., in October.

The September luncheon was attended by eight, which included Beardall and TOGO STALEY, the latter for the first time. A SHIPMATE

F R A N K and Marian S T E I N W A C H S The principal emphasis, however, was on fuller attendance is hoped for next month, when other members have straggled (I —Frank organized the 45th reunion for the coming SOth reunion of the class in 1960. didn't say "staggered") back from their which 1910ers are still grateful. In spite of All hands hope to attend. a recent robbery, they seem prosperous. vacations.

FLORENCE BROWN AND Frank, by superb sleuthing, recovered his GEORGE DICKSON I am engaged in getting out a bulletin on grandfather's watch and other items. the subject of allocating to deceased classmates a number of chairs in the Memorial F R A N K and Evelyn T R A Y N O R are 1 9 1 1 • Stadium which have been made available planning another trip. This time to Palm Sec'y, V. Adm. Robert M. Griffin, U S N (Ret.) to the class through pooling contributions of Beach and the Caribbean. They have done 3133 Connecticut Ave., N.W.. Washington 8, D. C. less than one hundred dollars. You should South America and Europe.

Capt. and Mrs. MORRIS D. GILMORE have it before you receive this.

F R A N K LUCKEL continues to serve as announce the birth of a new grandson, Airs. Ernest F. BUCK, whose husband Republican Rep. from San Diego and looks Laurence James Lackey, born to Lt. and Mrs. Harry A. Lackey, II. recently passed away, has changed her more like a U. S. Senator every year. address to 236 Nevada St., Nevada City, At the monthly class luncheon were T E D and Gerty LAN(j—Ted continues Calif. to shoo the deer away from his avocado Byrnes, Loftin, Cygon, and Chandler of FoY orchard which starts producing this year, Washington, and Brandt, Gilmore and Hill while the delightful colleen Gerty continues from Annapolis.

1909 • to prove she is Ireland's gift to Ted and H A R R Y H I L L and Margaret had just Sec'y. R. Adm. Harold C. Train. U S N (Ret.) 1910. returned from a motor tour of England and 1 St. Mary's St., Annapolis, Md. Scotland to as far north as Inverness, covGEORGE DICKSON spent two years in ering much the same ground as BOB and JIMAIY DOYLE. Jimmy and Ri have returned to Annapolis after a three years' Europe, nine months of it painting on Marion H I N C K L E Y did a little earlier. absence in Europe. They are living in their Alallorca. This year he paints in Mexico.

Bob and Marion also made a fiord trip old home at 60 Cornhill St. Clair KELLY (Mrs. Frank H . ) , a San from Bergen to Oslo, where they joined Xezu Captains. Three sons of classmates Diego girl by birth, couldn't resist the lure BERNARD and Elsie BIERI, who drove were selected for Captain by the Board that of Southern California and moved to Coro- them in their Volkswagon on a most interesting and enjoyable tour through Sweden met in August: James Goold H E D R I C K nado from Los Altos about a year ago.

Florence BROWN (Mrs. M. S.) after and Denmark. Bernard and Elsie were still '40, Scott L O T H R O P '40, and Burns having done Europe and Mexico each twice in Europe during August, visiting SwitzerWalling S P O R E '41. is off again on 27 August. This time land, but should be in Washington when Stadium. As of 1 September classmates through the canal and around South this is published. and widows have contributed $6008 to the America.

BOB E N G L I S H ' S daughter, Mrs. Navy-Marine Corps Alemorial Stadium.

Did the talk run on Lebanon and the Thomas D. Davies (Eloise E.), was one There are 22 Alemorial Chairs for classmates by name and 30 Alemorial Chairs for prospective speech of the President at the of the 48% of the applicants who passed all members of 1909 plus a Alemorial Plaque UN ? Not at all—one caught reminiscences the District of Columbia Bar examinations dedicated to a classmate by his widow. of the recapture of Guam from eye- in August. She graduated in law at Villawitnesses, Gus Gray, George Weyler, Ted nova while bringing up four children and Number of those contributing total 74. making a home for her husband, a Captain Lang and "Baldy" Pownall.

Data for Fiftieth Reunion Book. For those who have not as yet filled out the form for this book please send in to RAD AIOSES as soon as possible. It takes a lot of work and time to get this book ready for the printers.

HAROLD T R A I N

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The following notes were received from two enthusiastic 1910 members and are published with pleasure.

"Oh, we have a classmate, a classmate of fame, he came from Kentucky, the Swede is his name," etc. The world has been good to TOAI N I C H O L S O N and there is firm belief that if any 1910er gets in trouble (or wants to) Tom Nicholson and his charming wife Peggy "will be along in a minute."

They showed up on 12 August at the "mean point of impact" in La Jolla, with some charming friends from Oklahoma City, and immediately gave a cocktail party for 1910ers, their wives and widows who are always included.

The party was gay but some facts were developed which will be of interest.

DON and Mary BEARY were recently married, much to the delight and surprise of all their friends, and Don, after a serious leg operation, is comfortable and cheerful.

CHA.RLES and Mary P O W N A L L have a beautiful home and garden. They are surrounded by oriental reminders of a full and gracious life—I should never travel if I lived there.

GEORGE W E Y L E R by sheer nerve and the help of his daughter, Laura Christian, has conquered his severe stroke—a superb victory and example.

GUS and Elizabeth GRAY report no news except the most constructive possible, a large and very creditable family. But with two sons away in college, they seek a smaller house.

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The Winchester, Va., Evening Star of 2 August 1958 reports the dedication of the new Farmers & Merchants Bank to DICK BYRD. Alarie and three of their four children attended the ceremonies. FROGGIE F U L T O N , his roommate and strong right arm when he was a midshipman, unveiled the bronze tablet on the fagade of the new building.

Dorothy TISD.A.LE has dedicated a chair in the Memorial Stadium for T I P .

CAAI EDGAR has dedicated a chair in the Stadium to the memory of RED SOWELL. Nothing could be more appropriate. We all remember how Red played three-quarters of a winning Army-Navy Game, injured with what turned out to be a punctured lung.

Marian GREENMAN came north from her home in Marathon, Fla., and saw grandson Robert P. Greenman sworn in as a Plebe at the U S N A ; was with daughter Alary in New London when Marianne Rae was born (10th grandchild) and the next day saw son-in-law and proud Daddy take command of the submarine ANGLER. She also saw the TRITON launched and enjoyed a chat with Ray and LOUIS D E N F E L D .

In October she expects to return to her Florida home where she will welcome the 1912 nomads. One of those last winter was HAROLD SCOFIELD. She agrees with the other girls in thinking that "he is still very good looking."

Incidentally, J O S H V E N T E R recently dedicated a chair in the Stadium to the memory of BILL GREENMAN. BAD NEWS DEPARTMENT After being away for a month, I just learned that our D U K E RAMSEY has had a bad spell at the hospital at Bethesda, Md. While he is not on the critical or serious list, he is not seeing visitors for the present but I am sure would appreciate a cheery card or note from classmates.

Edythe, my own long-time helpmate and sparkplug, hurrying to make a luncheon engagement, slipped on a freshly waxed floor, fell and broke her hip. Prompt attention indicates a favorable prognosis. Betty McMorris, a patient in the same ward, with another ailment, having been through the same ordeal last year, was an encouraging example of how well they heal broken hips at Bethesda.

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The Washington luncheon of 13 August was devoted largely to discussing ways and means of Reunion. The Washington contingent were: Sleeper, Keisker, Doug Jones, Jakey Lee, Cochran, Abbott, McGuire and Helmick. We were glad to welcome Jupp and Hill from Annapolis, and Jakey Lee's son, Lt. J. A. Lee, Jr., Class of 1946.

Paul has received a letter from Barbara PICKERING, thanking the class for the flowers sent Langdon, and for the sympathy expressed. She is planning to make her home in Spain for a year, at Calle Sulud 154, Palma de Majorca, Spain. She hopes that any of the class coming that way will let her know.

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We are sorry to report that BOBBY GRAYSON and H A R T W E L L DAVIS have had a session in Bethesda. Bobbie made a quick get-away, but Hartwell is, at this writing, still in the toils of the medicos.

V A N D Y V A N D E R K L O O T writes that he has made a trip to Coronado, and had a most pleasant get-together with the J A S P E R W I L D S and the KIRK KIRKP.A.TRICKS. They are all "in the pink," but have had to give up plans for making the cruise to the East Coast for Reunion.

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Sec'y, Como. M. W . Hutchinson, J r . , U S N (Ret.) 6 Acton Place, Annapolis, Md. T r e a s . . Cdr. Claude C. Vickrey, U S N R (Ret.) 20 E. 74th St., New York 21, N. Y.

Your secretary and Heather are still plugging away at the rugged job of clearing out a fine old house and getting it ready to rent. They hope to return to Crabtown in time for Homecoming Weekend, but have had no time to work up a Class BiuUetin.

That will have to come later, and they hope the Hunky Dunks will rally around with some news of their doings.

Paul received a letter from N E I L G E I S E N H O F F , sympathizing with his eye Ibby H A Z L E T T writes that she and difficulties. Neil has a second cataract operation ahead of him, not behind, as reported S W E D E have bought a house in Washingpreviously. Paul's glasses give him excellent ton, at 8613 Melwood Rd., Bethesda 14, vision in the renovated eye, but he is still Md. Sw-ede does not get out very much, having trouble getting the two eyes to work but would be delighted to see any of his together. He is determined to get the prob- old friends. lem licked by Reunion, however. He is " H O R S E " P E N N O Y E R sends an intercheered by the many notes he has recived. esting clipping from the San Diego Evening W A L T E R SEIBERT, in sending in his Tribune, about ED IZAC, who with his check for~ Reunion, made a very substantial wife and son have been visiting in the West.

The clipping in full will be in our next contribution to the class fund.

Bulletin.

MEL and Lola P O W E R S visited Hutch 19 14 • and Heather recently at the Greenw'ood Sec'y, Cdr. Robert H. Maury, U S N (Ret.) Lake cottage, part of the estate they are 208 Prince George St., Annapolis, Md. settling. They revived sea-going days by West Coast Sec'y, R. Adm. O. O. Kessing going out in a canoe, and inspecting the 842 D Ave., Coronado, Calif. big lake in a speedboat. Mel may re-retire in the fall.

CARL HENRY JONES V. Adm. CARL H. J O N E S , USN S K E E T E R W O T H E R S P O O N writes (Ret.), died 1 September at the U. S. Naval that he and SCOTTY UAISTED went to Hospital, Annapolis, after a long illness.

R A F E B A T E S ' farewell re-retirement Admiral Jones was appointed to the Na- cocktail party in the President's House at val Academy from Jones Mills, Ala., in the War (Zollege. He said that V. Adm. 1910. After graduating near the top of his and Mrs. S. H. Ingersoll gave Rafe a most class in 1914, he was selected for post- beautiful reception. He enclosed a clipping graduate training, and became one of the from the Newport paper, which we will Navy's leading authorities in modern fire quote at length in the next Bulletin. Skeeter control. During his sea service he alter- also said that T I M and Lily BROWN nated submarine duties with surface ship stopped by to see them, en route from gunnery. He was a veteran of both World Florida to Vermont.

Wars. On four occasions he served in the SNOOKS PADDOCK writes that in battleship MARYLAND, and in 1943 was her Commanding Officer during an active pe- the same mail with his Shipmate he received riod in the South Pacific culminating in the a note from S T I T E S RAY with a signed capture of Tarawa atoll. For his service in application for tickets to the Navy-Michigan the Tarawa action he was decorated by the game. "That really is fast action!" he says.

Navy Department and advanced to the rank A recent letter from DICK RICHARDS of Rear Admiral. He was then assigned says that they have seen the STEPHANS as Sub Area Commander in the Southeast at a launching in Bath, and that Solange Pacific with headquarters at Tarawa.

CULBERT is to be a housemother at Smith In 1944 he was ordered to command the College this fall. Good for her! He sugNorfolk Navy Yard where he served until gests that we set a date for our 4Sth his retirement in 1946. Since that time he Reunion, and thinks it should be early in had resided at Aberdeen Creek, Annapolis, May, before the June Week crowding starts.

Aid., where his home, "Stockton," has Your secretary asked for opinions from the class about the time and location for our become a mecca for garden lovers.

45th, but Dick's and T E D BREED'S are He is survived by his widow, the former the only voices he has heard. Send in your Elizabeth Stockton Dorsey of Baltimore, comments now, so we can plan ahead. and by three brothers and one sister.

HUTCH Funeral services were held in St. Andrew's Chapel, U. S. Naval Academy, at 3 :00 p.m. Thursday, 5 September 1958. Interment was in the Naval Academy cemetery.

Plans for the memorial to AL ROOKS are shaping up nicely. The class will be informed by the committee as soon as the plans are completed.

In the next issue of Shipmate I will give you the latest dope regarding the class memorial chairs for the new Stadium.

In view of the fact that the majority of the class would like to have two reunions, one on the West Coast in May or June, and the principal one in Annapolis during Homecoming, SCRAPPY K E S S I N G has consented to take charge of things on the West Coast You will probably be hearing from him within the not-too-distant future.

BOB MAURY

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the "prize." It was a real contest with 19 1 6 • Alerrill and our COUNT GRASSIE going Sec.-Treas.. Capt. E. S. Earnhardt. USN (Ret.) right down to the wire neck to neck. Those 3900 Calverton Dr.. College Heights Estates attending: Wyse Benson, Duke Carrington, Hyattsville. Md. Bunny Cochrane, Merrill Comstock, Spike Corr. Sec'y. Capt. L. F. Brown, USNR Fahrion, Count Grassie, Ing Kiland, Joe 31 Maryland Ave.. Annapolis. Md. Loventhal, Sock McGinnis, Amos Root, West Coast Sec'y, Cdr. E. F. Cochrane. USN Shorty Sauer, Possum Webb, and Walter (Ret.), 4315 Avalon Blvd., San Diego 3, Calif. Webb.

JAKE L E N N O N has moved to 843 Pemberton Rd., Grosse Pointe Park, Alich.

He states that his daughter Jeannette and 1 9 1 7 • her five children will be only eight blocks Sec'y, Capt. J. G. M. Stone, USNR (Ret.) 248 King George St., Annapolis, Md. away, and also states that all 22 grandchildren are fine.

ROBERT GIBSON TOBIN Received a card from J O H N N Y CARIt is with sadness that Toby's passing is SON putting me straight as to where he was at the moment. The card was from reported. He died in Bethesda on 11 August, Paradise, Calif., where Johnny has been some three months after major brain survisiting "IKE" G E I S E N H O F F . He ex- gery. He seemed to improve for a while pects to go on to Eugene, Oreg., to visit and then his condition gradually worsened with the CRAIGS, and I assume that by until finally his suffering was over and we can only be glad for his and Caroline's now he is on his way there. sake.

EARL AIAJOR at last report was stayToby had a singularly happy and successing at the Basin Harbor Club, Vergennes, Vt, until 16 September, after which he ful career and life. He had a faculty for expected to come down to this area, par- being at the right place at the right time ticularly to have a repair job done at —witness his three Navy Crosses—and his Bethesda, and possibly to settle in the presence counted. He was very savvy and had his interests lay along those lines, he .Annapolis area. undoubtedly could have starred at the The Washington group skipped their .\cademy. Instead he was more interested August meeting, but we are hopeful that in helping others and making friends. He now that fall is upon us we will have was a splendid person. continuous good attendance.

Burial was in .Arlington with full miliWill try to give a full rundown on the tary honors. All the class in the AnnapolisHomecoming in the November issue to in- Washington area attended. clude our party at Carvel Hall.

In addition to his wife, Caroline, he leaves a son, R. G. Jr. To them goes the WEST COAST DOPE sympathy of the class and to Toby an affectionate farewell.

CDR. E . F . COCHRANE COLIN CAMPBELL writes from CazeA card from PABLO GOEN informs us novia, N. Y., that he is looking for a that he has moved to 5217 Hollywood Blvd., house or apartment in Annapolis where he Los Angeles 27. Also tells us, "Still promis- will be a welcome addition to the '17 coning myself to make one of your famous tingent. He and Peg are well and we are luncheon meetings." Will be mighty glad looking forward to seeing them at Hometo have you aboard, Pablo, so get underway ! coming. It seems a shame that more of the A card from Allene BORDEN tells us class do not take advantage of the calm that POSSUAI is recovering quickly and serenity of living in Annapolis. hoped to be back in La Jolla around the At Homecoming we expect the Austins, end of August. Possum has had a rather Bradys, Calhouns, Campbells, Deans, Len rough siege of it since before last Christ- Doughty, Elmer Duvall, Gregorys, Hanamas and his return to our activities will fees, Keilys, Nobles, Parks, Rogers, and be most welcome. They have been at Wai- Wordens. And the Stones will ply them kiki Beach since July. with beverage and viands. Other possible Through C O U N T G R A S S I E we have attendees are Adelaide Fullinwider, Erica learned that J A K E L E N N O N has sold the Alentz, Betty Murphy and Elise Skylstead. old homestead in Joliet, 111., and has bought With bait of tluit quality we should get a place in Grosse Isle, Mich. The address some fish.

Addresses : W A L T and S T O N E Y would is 843 Pemberton Dr. appreciate some more addresses of the class A card from J O H N N Y CARSON looks and if members will look in their Registers like he is looking for some of the gold that for those who have no addresses and supply the early settlers missed in the '49 Rush. them it will be a great help. This is parJ. says, "Enjoyed the class luncheon. Have ticularly true for bilgers. At the same time been lost in the wilds of S. F. and the High you can send in some news of yourselves.

Sierras with I K E G E I S E N H O F F (who It is difficult to make up clear notes out of hides out in Paradise, Calif.). Will give a cloudy brain. So do send in the dope. the Craigs your best when I see them."

JACK Nevvy and Naoni live in Eugene, Ore. Tex Settle '19 has turned over to King While we did not attend and therefore Dierdorff '19 a 1917 Lucky Bag which is cannot be too exact in reporting this affair, in good condition and is available through we do wish to let All Hands know that S T O N E and Dierdorff, Class Secretaries, the Gals of '16 who live in the S. D. area Ltd. got together for luncheon at the Admiral Kidd Club on 15 August. Prior to luncheon, they assembled at the home of Marguarite Root and considered plans to make the CHANGES OF ADDRESS affair a regular event. We think this is a fine idea and hope that the results will be The cost to t h e A l u m n i Association of a monthly event. Will try to report future r e l o c a t i n g m e m b e r s whose Shipmate is meetings more completely. r e t u r n e d w i t h " N o t a t this a d d r e s s " is a b o u t 25c p e r m e m b e r . Y o u miss The August class luncheon was held at y o u r Shipmates. Please send in y o u r the Admiral Kidd Club on the 15th. As changes of address b e f o r e d e t a c h m e n t usual, the mad scramble to pick up the or m o v i n g . check for the prelims took place with MERRILL COMSTOCK coming out with O C T O B E R ,

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Sec'y, R. Adm. E. E. Duvall, USN (Ret.) 4000 Cathedral Ave.. Washington 16. D. C. DONALD WOOD LOOMIS It is with the greatest regret that we announce the death of DON LOOMIS. .'\fter World War II service in the Mediterranean and in the Pacific, where he wound up as a Commodore and with the Legion of Merit medal with four stars and the Bronze Star medal as well, Don, in 1946, went to the University of North Carolina to head up its NROTC Unit. On retirement in 1949 he lived on in Chapel Hill enjoying the pleasant life of a university town—a few cronies, a little work, a little kibitzing. Rotary, his church, and lecturing for the University at its Zeiss planetarium; but most of all, with Esther's help, enjoying raising a fine Don junior, now nearing eighteen. In 1957, illness came on and it was truly a grim illness from the start requiring several extended visits to Bethesda. Here he was the most uncomplaining and cheerful of patients with his gift of the use of the fresh phrase, his cheerfulness and outgoing personality remained to the last—a delight to the staff and example to other patients. The few of us v/ho were fortunate to see him will remain grateful for a lesson in fortitude with grace.

He died at the Bethesda Naval Hospital on 4 August and was buried on 6 August in Arlington—a good bit of the salt of the earth returning to its native keep.

FORD LEE WILKINSON Dr. FORD L. W I L K I N S O N , president of Rose Polytechnic Institute, died on 1 September 1958.

Prior to coming to Rose Poly in 1949, he was academic dean of the Speed Scientific School at the University of Louisville, and head of the mechanical engineering department at the University of Tennessee.

Dr. Wilkinson was a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, of which he was vice-president from 1943 to 1945. He also was a member of the American Society for Engineering Education and Academy of Political Science.

He is survived by his widow Lois; daughter Walta; four brothers and a sister.

JULIAN D U B O I S

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R. Adm. J U L I A N DuBOIS W I L S O N , USN ( R e t ) , died on 1 September 1958 at the Chelsea Naval Hospital, Chelsea, Mass.

During World War II, Admiral Wilson participated in Atlantic convoy duty. From 1943 to 1944 he served in the Fleet Maintenance Division, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations.

In 1944 and 1945, Admiral Wilson commanded the battleship MARYLAND in the Pacific theater. He was awarded the Bronze Star Medal with combat insignia for his action during the battle of Okinawa.

From 1946 until 1949, Admiral Wilson again was stationed in Washington with the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations.

In 1949, he was named superintendent of the Massachusetts Maritime Academy.

After he retired from active duty on 30 June 1950 the Admiral remained as superintendent of the Academy.

For many of the years he served in Washington, Admiral Wilson lived at 3702 Harrison St., N.W. He is survived by his widow. Hazel, two sons, Lt. Henry H. Wilson, USN, of 7620 Maple Ave., Takoma 27

Park, Md., and John R. Wilson of Cambridge, Mass., a daughter, Mrs. Juliana Thompson of Dover, Mass., and a grandson.

Funeral services were held at the Fort Meyer chapel. Interment was in the Arlington National Cemetery.

As you noted in our last bulletin, dated 25 July, we are making our drive for a gate honoring our class and your help is needed. Therefore, will those who have not contributed thus far please send in your checks to E. C. ROGERS, our class treasurer, 3512 Albemarle St., N.W., Washington 8, D. C.; make your checks out in favor of the Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium Fund. The Class Committee is most anxious that as many as possible participate in this worthy effort.

pleasant exchange of East-West Coast gossip. All look well and, as loyal Californians, sought to convince me of the error of my ways in being a Crab. Despite their blandishments, I expect to be home with Dulany at 34 Randall St. about the middle of September when my month's sabbatical ends.

We'll see you at "Homecoming."

GEORGE DYER writes that he and Adaline had a very pleasant visit in New London, N. H., with Kaye H U G H E S .

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Capt. D. R. Osborn, U S N (Ret.) 7106 Arrowhead Rd., Bethesda, Md.

At our August class luncheon we had the pleasure of seeing LARRY H A U G E N who came up from Birmingham, Ala., on business. Counting Alabama and Pensacola together we have some ten classmates in that 19 19 • vicinity. Let us hope they all can come to Sec'y, R. Adm. R. A. Dierdorff, U S N (Ket.) our 40th reunion next year.

34 Randall St., Annapolis, Md. Ross Farm, R.F.D. No. 1, RED and Willy H E P B U R N announce Hillsboro, Oreg. the marriage of their daughter Elizabeth to I am writing this in the century-old farm- Richard James O'Brien of Longmeadow, house which my grandfather, the Rev. Mass., in Edinburgh, Scotland, on 24 July George Ross, bought soon after his arrival 1958. The bride and groom were students from Scotland in 1871. Here my Scottish- at Trinity College, Dublin, Eire, for their born mother has spent 82 of the 88 years junior year, Elizabeth from St. Lawrence she celebrated on 27 August. And in this University and Richard from Tufts. All of us wish the young couple lifelong happiness. very room I was born.

ANDY ANDERSON, in a nice newsy Mother is well and active (were she any more so I couldn't keep up with her). She letter, says that he and Viola are enjoying was very happy to have all three sons home retired life in their home at 1733 Hinman for her birthday and so were we. She and Ave., Evanston, 111., and that they freI have had a grand time looking over family quently see the FORRESTELs, the OLDS records, old plush-covered albums and talk- and the MAICHLEs and occasionally the ing of old times. Even the old reed organ in BRASHEARs, the BOB CUNNINGthe parlor by the what-not is quite playable. HAMS and the MOUREAUs. In July, Alother gave me my first music lessons on C H E S T E R and Evalyn BECK visited it. In the best Scottish Presbyterian tradi- Andy and Viola en route to Victoria and tion, the first musical composition I learned Vancouver. Andy says the welcome mat is always out to any classmate going through was the "Doxology."

Chicago.

En route here on 11 August, "GENERAL" L E E met me at Moffett Field and WEDDING I had a delightful visit with him and with Como. VIRGIL E B E N KORNS, U S N Amy in their very attractive home in the (Ret.), and Mrs. Korns of Chevy Chase, hills of Los Altos. Both are in the pink. Aid., announce the marriage of their daugh"General" is bubbling over with landscaping ter Brenda to Mr. Robert Arnold Cattell, plans and construction projects. As nearly son of Mr. and Mrs. Roscoe Arnold Cattell as I can follow them, he intends through the of Washington, D. C, on 28 August 1958 aid of gravity and a maze of pipes, valves in the Navy Chapel, Washington, D. C. The and conduits, to irrigate and run his reception was held in the Officers' Club, baronial two acres from a console in the Bethesda Naval Medical Center. The bride living room near the TV-set and the and groom are graduates of the College of cracked ice. As an old-time gardener my- William & Mary. self, I eagerly await his development of an electronic weed puller.

In the brief time I was there, General and Amy were able to round up ROSS and Peg IHRIG, P A U L and Sue TALBOT, CHARLEY and Helen R E N D and JO-JO and Marian A N D E R S O N for a very

THE NAVY WANTS YOUR STORY The Navy is looking for stories of factual incidents during war and peace which can be used in developing television programs, motion pictures, magazine articles and books. Human interest is the keynote. If you, or a friend of yours, were involved in an incident with an adventurous flavor, or one tiiat has a strong emotional appeal, send your idea to the Public Information Division, Office of Information, Navy Department, Washington 25, D. C. Be as specific as possible with respect to names, dates and places.

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throughout the country. A we were delighted to hear '21ers contacted en route wim, wigor, and witality.

AROUND SAN FRANCISCO BAY On 2 August the San Francisco Examiner carried the news that BOB BERRY had been appointed director of the Pacific Coast Activities of the National Security Industrial Association. We never found out what that was, for the office was moved from San Francisco to Los Angeles at the same time.

L O U I E E N T W I S T L E is a Montgomery St. baron with Dean Witter & Co. C H A R L I E W O O D S O N has quite realestating and goes back to teaching math when school opens in September.

Letters reaching the West infer that Oslo, Norway, was recently shaken when the OLSONs played host to the RODGER SIMPSONS. On 5 August in Greenbrae, Calif., the S C H W I E N s gathered people for cocktails and to meet DAVISes. There were the R. K. DAVISes of Menlo Park, the DALT O N DAVISes, MC, U S N ( R e t ) , of San Francisco, and the ALPHABET DAVISes who were on leave from Vicksburg, Miss. They said they were about to check up on classmates in the southern part of the state before heading back east. Other Navy present included: Bob and Betty Lewis, the Darrel Hoovers, A. B. Carlisle, the Ai. E. Thomases, Pat Sullivan, the George Russells, the Reisingers, the Frank Talbots, the Fish Ramseys, the Jimmy Harrises (he had a couple of new stories as usual), the Lew Johns (he said the legal business was good in the city), the van Deurs, the Johnny McQueens, G. H. L. Peet (first time I had seen him since 1920 I think). Ruf Thayer was missing but represented by his yotmger brother Bill ('23). Daddy and Martha Mcintosh ('22) came down from Vallejo (where Daddy runs the city busses) for the occasion and Ross and Adelaide Cooley ('17) were over from Russian Hill.

The J O H N N Y MADDENs reported that they had just divided two weeks between Disneyland and Las Vegas. He liked the former, had enough of the latter. Said he won $116; stayed at the Flamingo Hotel, and was quite impressed by the Alinsky show when one chick appeared wearing only a hat and a French poodle held in a strategic

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LELAND WAYNE MORROW Capt LELAND W. MORROW, USNR, died on 4 August 1958.

Before entering the Naval Academy, he was on destroyer duty in World War I. During both World War II and the Korean conflict he served in the Bureau of Ships.

He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Kathryn G. Morrow of 5810 Augusta Lane, Glen Park, Md.; a daughter, Mrs. Lois Shanks of 6500 Winnepeg Rd., Bethesda; and one grandchild.

Funeral services were held in Fort Myer (Thapel with interment in Arlington National Cemetery.

There is always someone who doesn't get the word—in this case the culprit is A L P H A B E T DAVIS, who apparently doesn't know there are now forty-nine states. At least that is the implication since we have received letters and cards from every state except Alaska describing Maude

ANNA AND RUF THAYER, the hosts.

Gypsje Coulter provided the lei.

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position. He added the incidental information that "Winifred's Personality Center had moved to a new location on 5th Street," but refused to translate the item.

On 16 August R U F and Anna T H A Y E R entertained with a luncheon in their fiveacre redwood grove on Nicasio Creek.

Weather was unusual: overcast, warm, but not hot. Beer and a bar kept people circulating till an excellent buffet appeared. Ruff topped off the feast with melons he had cooling in the creek that cuts through the property between the house and the road.

'21ers who gathered from all over the bay area for the occasion included: Piggy Schwien, Darrel Hoover, Johnny AIcQueen, Lew Johns, Johnny Aladden, Nick Coulter, Louie Entwistle, M. E. Thomas, R. K. Davis, Jim Riesinger (was late because of a sailing race), Jimmy Harris (he complained of swollen glands but they were only in his neck), P. G. Nichols, van Deurs.

The San Diego '21 contingent gathered at the AICRD Mess on the evening of IS August to welcome A L P H A B E T and Mrs. DAVIS, who were on a trip to the West Coast from their Vicksburg home. Others in attendance were the Acuffs, Bixbys, Courts, Curleys, Fewells, Grays, Haileys, Joneses, Alillers, Robertses, McHughs, Tailmans, Tarbucks, Tarbuttons, Wrays, along with Betty Scott, Joe Cronin and Alax Black (Pasadena).

The STOGI R O B E R T S are now living in Coronado after giving up their residence in Alilwaukee.

Among the absentees were the KELLOGs and the JUSTICES. Bill temporarily vvas in the hands of the medicos at the Naval Hospital and Dave is making a recovery from a recent operation.

The party arrangements were handled by TERRY A C U F F in his usual efficient manner.

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Last Call: Cocktails and Buffet Supper after the William & Mary game at the Commissioned Officers' Mess.

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GORDON MOSES It is with deep regret we announce the death of GORDON M O S E S at Concord Hospital, Concord, N. H., on Thursday, 30 July 1958.

He was the son of the late U. S. Sen. George H. Aloses. Surviving are his widow, Dorothy, of 24 Auburn St., Concord, N. H., a son, George H., of Monrovia, Calif., two daughters, Mrs. John E. Sturn of Northhampton, N. H., and Mrs. Joseph Delfino of Greenwood, R. I., and two grandchildren.

Congratulations: P E R R Y "Perk" F E N TON has been appointed Executive Vice President of Marine Office of America. The promotion necessitated transfer from Chicago to the company headquarters in New York City.

Felicitations: V. Adm. D E L B E R T S. CORNWELL, U S N ( R e t ) , and Mrs. Cornwell announce the engagement of their daughter, Frances Cornwell, to Lt. (jg) John Van Gundia Lockhart, USNR, son of R. Adm. Robert G. Lockhart U S N (Ret.), and Mrs. Lockhart, of Malibu, Calif.

Miss Cornwell, who is the granddaughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Jasper Pratt of Norfolk, is a graduate of the Helen Bush School, Seattle, Wash. She attended Sweet Briar College and was presented to society in 1954 at a ball given by the Norfolk (Serman Club.

Lieutenant Lockhart was graduated from St George's School, Newport, R. I., and in 1955 from Yale University. He is now serving with the Atlantic Fleet attached O C T O B E R ,

THE N E W COMMANDER of all American military forces in the Pacific, Adm. Harry D. Felt, USN '23 (right), making his first official call at the Pearl Harbor headquarters of the U. S. Pacific Fleet, examines a chart outlining naval power in the Pacific with Adm. Herbert G. Hopwood, USN, Commander in Chief, U. S. Pacific Fleet. Admiral Felt, who assumed the title of Commander in Chief Pacific on 31 July from retiring Adm. Felix B. Stiunp, USN, inherited from his predecessor the responsibility for the world's largest military command.

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"No gripes, no money problems, no grandchildren," says L E W COLEY while informing us that he is in his Sth season as Business Manager of the Oklahoma City Symphony Society. Estha and Lew went back home to Oklahoma from retirement in 1954, and we would think it quite a change from the Atlantic Reserve Fleet to the Symphony, but Lew calls the present activity most illuminating and interesting. Also, as a member of the Military Committee of the Chamber of Commerce, he is called upon to participate in all local military affairs, and, of course, was a "natural" as Parade Marshall on Armed Forces Day. Among classmates who have visited them Lew mentions JIM DANEY, TOM SISSON, BILL and Dore BAILEY. Son Lew Jr. is a Captain U S A F at nearby Tinker A F Base, while son Dan is doing a 5-year tour with the Navy as a Lieutenant USNR. Lew says he has been unbelievably busy since retirement, including work "around the house and yard," and has done none of the relaxing things he'd planned on retirement ; and the two weeks' vacation this year was the very first since retirement. The Coley address remains 4212 N. Harvey Parkway, Oklahoma City 18.

R A L P H MILLS says "I like this work" in referring to his investment securities post with Hornblower & Weeks in the Johnston Building at Charlotte 2, N. C. He and Elisabeth have their home at nearby Matthews, N. C , on Sharon View Rd., and daughter Sally is with them. Son Jimmy is completing his tour of Navy duty and will return to his regular post as a U P I reporter in New York.

We do not learn of all the individual Stadium contributions, and we know that all hands were cheered to read in the Augtist Shipmate of 1924 having exceeded its quota; at that time our total contributions were exceeded by only one other class. One very outstanding pledge that "put us over" was the $1,000 gift from R E P (L. I.) REPLOGLE. We are all grateful to Rep, whose gift assures that our class crest will live on one of the Stadium gates. Rep has long been active in Alumni affairs, and is globally known by his Replogle Globe Company in Chicago.

GUS W E L S F O R D writes he is "feeling as strong as a bull again," after the heart attack of last year. His Stadium contribution has memorialized "two classmates who gloriously won the admiration and respect of our class," W. D. (Doc) LEACH and J. B. (Josh) W R I G H T , Jr. Gus fought Doc for the 145 lb. class boxing championship and shared halfback positions with John in class football.

HAROLD TAYLOR is still a hotel representative in the Boston area. He is selecting a name from our list of classmates lost in W W II for memorializing by his Stadium contribution. Hal's new address is 154 Laurel Dr., Needham 92, Mass.

J O E DARLINGTON also adds to his contribution ("I gotta keep up with that guy Hurst"), and informs us that he is still skippering the S.S. AMERICAN PLANTER, although he was hospitalized a few weeks during the summer by an ailment which is traced back to his P O W term during W W II. Speaking of skippers, there is Skipper Lazell, the 19-year-oId son of Katee and JIM L.A.ZELL, who is already an outstanding herpetologist. Skipper has completed his second summer of collecting rare snakes and moths in the West Indies for the benefit of the Philadelphia Zoo. But the collecting apparently goes on also during his college year; and we are asking Katee and Jim to serialize for Shipmate their experience in transporting for Skipper, by car, one snake, five foot, from Sewanee University to Philadelphia.

GEORGE KING in late August was looking for a relief to take over a construction-and-management job he had started in Houston in his capacity as an engineer for Stone & Webster. Apparently it was taking him away from other jobs.

We passed the word for George in New York and Houston, and hope to learn he got his relief.

A New York Times August story on W A L L A C E BEAKLEY (VADM U S N ) may lack some interesting paragraphs to be generated by the new Chinese Communist assault on the Nationalist China off-shore islands. Beak had already said his official goodbyes at Formosa when the new trouble started, and his Seventh Fleet command was being further built up at this writing.

Most of us do not get a chance to see the new Navy tropical uniform worn, but a press photo shows it off well on BOB CAMPBELL (RADM U S N ) , Commander Service Force Pacific (who could model it better than Bob?) in a scene in which he and W A L L A C E S H O R T (RADM U S N ) , the latter in more conventional khaki, were congratulating a new winner of flag rank in the Service Force.

IRA N U N N (RADM U S N ) has been assigned as the senior member of the Military Armistice Commission of the United Nations Command in Seoul, Korea.

Twenty-seven classmates attended the class luncheon on Wednesday, 27 August.

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a talk by BILL COCHRAN. Bill was on a visit from his assignment in Sweden. We enjoyed his talk very, very much. Attending were: Bob Swart, J. I. Taylor, Sam Latimer, Mike Bradley, Bull Towner, Wallie Petersen, Howie Collins, Leonard Jaudon, Tex Norman, Tom Sisson, Ed Gminder, Bob Sutliff, Hank Duval, Angus Sinclair, Jerry Van Steenberg, Roy Hartwig, Brownie Temple, Don Ramsey, Charlie Hoffman, Bert Kalisch, George Robillard, Ed Clexton, Pres Mercer, Ed Rawlings. Bill Cochran, Bill Bullis, and Tom Dyer.

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J O H N C H I T W O O D , we understand, is entitled to be addressed as "Hizzoner, the Mayor," of Carmel, Calif.

Our humble apologies to BOB HOGABOOM, whom we failed to include in our three-star classmate listing last month.

Lt. Gen. Robert A. Hogaboom is Chief of Staff to the Commandant, U. S. Marine Corps.

BOB A S H T O N has retired (as a Rear Admiral) and is now with Aero-Jet General Corporation, working on the Polaris Missile Program. He and the missus would be glad to see any classmates and friends at 2125 Eastern Ave., Sacramento, Calif.

CHARLIE C H I L L I N G W O R T H has left the Washington area and can now be located at Wyndham Hills Corporation, 46 S. Duke St, York, Pa. J O H N N I E J O H N S , following a recent trip to New England, reports having seen F R E D D I E W A R D E R , ComSubLant; SAM SAMPSON, who is in the real estate and insurance business in New London ; BILL LENT, with Electric Boat; and DOC SCHONLAND, our sole Congressional Medal of Honor winner, who is teaching school.

GEORGE O ' K E E F E has joined the ranks of those entitled to expectorate to windward, following a trip around the Horn aboard the RANGER. Debarking at Acapulco, Mexico, he flew home to Washington, D. C , via Mexico City, where he had a visit with BILL K I R T E N , who is in the sporting goods business there.

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Sec'y, Cdr. H. A. Fravel, U S N (Bet.) 3410 15th St., North Arlington 1, Va.

R. Adm. J O H N B. McLEAN, U S N (Ret.), has been appointed to the Board of Directors of the Washington Planning Corporation of Maryland.

Congratulations to R. Adm. J A M E S E. L E E P E R , U S N ( R e t ) , on his appointment as Vice President of Philco Corporation. In his new position Admiral Leeper will coordinate Philco Activities in Washington and serve as a liaison between the company and the Government.

Capt. J O H N D. F A R N S W O R T H , USNR, reports he has seven grandchildren, five boys and two girls. His stepson, Lt. (jg) John F. Farnsworth, is currently attached to VA-126 at NAS, Miramar, Calif. Capttain and Mrs. Farnsworth are living at 339 Innisfail Dr., Webster Groves, Mo. The Class Cocktail-Buffet Party held on 16 August at the Officers' Club, Bethesda, Md., was attended by the following classmates and wives, Agnew, Armstrong,

Barker, Bernstein, Brown, Briner, Busey, Cochran, Dolan, Dow, Dudley, Dietrich, Fravel, Frost, Fryer, Graff, Greenacre, Greenslade, Groff, Hutchinson, Katz, Leeper, McClusky, McKee, Morrison, O'Connell, Russell, Scrymgeour, Shane, Simpson, Strain, Stroop, Ford Taylor, J. McNay Taylor and the following '26 widows, Mrs. Cecil Burnside, Mrs. Edith Farrow, Mrs. Ella Graff, Mrs. Dixie Corbin and Mrs. Sara LeHardy. I F YOU DIDN'T MAKE IT, YOU M I S S E D A GOOD TIME. , L t Col. E A R L S. DAVIS, USMC (Ret.), is now living at 203 Fairview Ave., Blacksburg, Va., and is teaching math at VPI. WEDDING R. Adm. R O B E R T BEAMAN ELLIS, USN, and Mrs. Ellis announce the marriage of their daughter, Elizabeth Ann, to Doctor Jesse Denny Hall, Jr., on Friday, 8 August 1958, at Roswell, Ga.

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GEOGRAPHICAL ITEM After 33 years, the no-longer-active members of 1925 have settled down over a goodly segment of the world. Two of us have elected to reside in Europe; three in Central America, and four in the Hawaiian Islands. Sunny California claims the largest group with 75; the District of Columbia area, 47; Florida, 22 ; New York, 19; Pennsylvania, 17; Maryland (not D. C. area), 13; Texas, 11; New Jersey and Illinois, 9 each; Connecticut, 8 ; Washington 6; and Georgia, S. Following Massachusetts, North Carolina, and Ohio with 4 each, we find nine states with 3 each, also nine with 2 each, eight with only 1 each, and, finally, eight states, plus Alaska, where none of us has chosen, as yet, to enjoy the passing years.

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Shipmate was late in September—the editor's face was red—the Railway Express Company's face was redder. They failed to deliver the wrappers on time— no wrappers, no mailing!

We apologize for the delay and trust Shipmate was worth waiting for.

R. ADM. R. H. SPECK, USN '27, with Sixth U. S. Army General Officers at the ceremony at the Presidio of San Francisco on the occasion of the retirement of Lieutenant General Lemuel Mathewson on 30 April 1958. R. Adm. Speck is the Deputy Maneuver Director to Lt. Gen. Charles D. Palmer, USA, for the joint ArmyNavy Amphibious Exercise "Rocky Shoals" to be held in California in the fall.

His permanent status is Commander Amphibious Training Command, Pacific Fleet, Coronado.

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WEDDINGS Aliss Barbara Ann Gordon, daughter of R. Adm. and Airs. H O W A R D W R I G H T GORDON, Jr., of Arlington, was married on Saturday, 6 September, to 2nd Lt. Robert -Andrew Crabtree, USMC, son of Mr. and Airs. Sidney B. Crabtree of Portsmouth, Va. The wedding took place at the Fort Myer Chapel with Chaplain Joseph Caplice officiating. A reception followed at the ArmyNavy Club.

Lieutenant Crabtree was graduated from Virginia Polytechnic Institute in 1956, and is now stationed with the 7th Marine Regiment, Camp Pendleton, Calif.

The couple will reside in Oceanside, Calif.

Capt R O B E R T McCUMBER B A R N E S USN (Ret.), and Mrs. Barnes of Washington, D. C , announce the marriage of their daughter Elizabeth Gore to Mr. Charles Van Arden Covell, Jr., son of the Reverend and Mrs. Charles Van Orden Covell of Christchurch, Va. The wedding took place Saturday, 23 August, in Saint Mary's Chapel in the Washington Cathedral. The Reverend Chas.

Van Orden Covell performed the ceremony.

A reception followed at the Army-Navy Club.

The bride was graduated from HoltonArms Junior College in 1956 and from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill this June. She was presented to society at a ball given by the Norfolk German Club and also at the Debutante Cotillion and Thanksgiving Ball here.

Mr. Covell was graduated from Episcopal High School in Alexandria, Va., and from the University of North Carolina.

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Washington 25, D. C.

There are no firm plans for the reunion.

We have some ideas along these lines which must be tested for feasibility : to be held the last weekend before the beginning of June Week with a program similar to that for the 2Sth reunion. This was Saturday lunch for the men in Bancroft Hall with the midshipmen while the wives had luncheon at Alumni House, attendance at an athletic event, a cocktail-dinner party (formal) at Annapolis Roads Club, Sunday Chapel and an afternoon sail with box lunches.

It is proposed to invite not only Academy graduates but also those who started with the class but left before graduation under honorable circumstances. And we propose to invite the unremarried widows of graduates.

All hands are urged to communicate with the Sec-Treas, tell your reaction to the proposals and indicate whether you are likely to attend (not a commitment). We need a mailing list for all those not on active duty, so please send in the addresses of all those you know about along with your own.

WEDDINGS Brig. Gen. W I L L I A M COLEMAN, USMC (Ret.), and Airs. Coleman announce the marriage of their daughter, Nancy Claudia, to Air. Richard Charles Mallorie on Saturday, 16 August 1958, at Woodburn, Oreg.

From the touring F R I T S C H M A N N s : "We are spending this whole year following retirement in traveling with a trailer.

We plan on circumnavigating the U. S. Have just completed the West Coast and On 3 August 1958 Miss Janet Thayer Canadian Rockies and are about to head for Winnepeg, Canada, via the Trans-Canada Jackson, daughter of Capt. ROY JACKSON, USN ( R e t ) , and Mrs. Jackson, of Highway ( # 1 ) . " Fort Wayne, Ind., was married to Ens. James C. Maxton, USN, son of Mrs. Robert Maxton and the late Mr. Maxton of 192 9 • Lansford, N. D., in the Church of Our Sec.-Treas.. Capt. E. A. Junghans Savior, Fort Wayne. The bride attended Industrial College of the Armed Forces Mills College, the University of California Fort McNair, Washington 25, D. C. at Berkeley, Georgetown University School Our class president, C. E. T R E S C O T T , of Foreign Service and was graduated from has written to us recently. We note from Purdue University. Ensign Maxton attended the letterhead that he is vice president and the University of Southern California and general manager of Zenith Plastics Com- Purdue University. He will be on tempopany, Gardena, Calif. Charlie has urged rary duty at Newport, R. I., and then report that the class make a determined effort to to the USS HELENA. meet its quota for the Memorial Stadium The bride's father is with Farnsworth by using a portion of our recent pay raise.

Electronics Company, and left a few days Second the motion. after the wedding for Seattle, where he will S P U D and Betty MARCY gave a barbe- represent that company with Boeing Aircue party at their beautiful country home craft. Mrs. Jackson and son Bill expect to in Manor Club Estates, Rockville, Md., on join him as soon as Bill completes his work 17 August a repetition of a party held last at the Summer Naval School at Culver. year. A lot of the local class hope it will become a habit. Guests present were the Baldaufs, Beardsleys, Bernets, Farrins, Franks, Frankels, Roy Johnsons, JungCHANGE OF ADDRESS hanses, Lucases, Remberts and Welshes, Send in your new address at least 30 and Kathryn Walker and Kay Van Voorhis. days before the date of issue it is to The Washington group of the class met take effect. on 20 August to decide whether we should Send your old address with new. have a 30th reunion and a SOth anniversary Postal forms are available book. It was decided that we would not for this purpose. have the book but that we would have a Send your change of address to: reunion at Annapolis provided that there was sufficient support for it. The final deAlumni House Annapolis, Md. cision will be made probably next January.

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LYNNE CLINE QUIGGLE R. Adm. L Y N N E C. QUIGGLE was lost overboard from U S S PRESIDENT CLEVELAND on 23 July 1958.

Anne Quiggle wishes to thank everyone who attended the memorial mass for Lynne.

She says, "I feel that Lynne was really a martyr to the Service. He was absolutely dedicated to it, and, in his illness, could see no other life than his beloved Navy."

Anne is living at 3712 Woodbine St., Chevy Chase, Md.

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Public Administration in 1956 and a Master's degree in Regional Planning in 1957.

He is presently associated with the Planning Division of the Port of New York Authority.

The couple will be at home at 230 Riverside Dr., New York City.

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Sec'y, Capt. J . R. Leeds, U S N 5411 Kirkwood Dr., W a s h i n g t o n 16, D . C. Corr. Sec'y, R. A d m . W . J . Catlett, U S N (Ret.) White Post, R t . 1, W a r r e n t o n , V a .

HARMON TISCHER UTTER Many of us were saddened to see the passing of another member of the class. Capt.

H A R M O N U T T E R , en route to Albuquerque, N. M., died suddenly of a heart attack in Erick, Okla. Mike Parish flew over from Norman, Okla., and escorted Georgianna back to Washington, D. C. Interment was in Arlington National Cemetery on 20 August, with pallbearers Len Frazer, Hank Munson, Bud Leeds, Jack Lamade, Sam Moncure and Buck James, and Escort Command, Andy Nisewaner.

A fine turnout of thirty-two classmates featured the 12 August luncheon in the Sabre Room of Wainwright Hall at Fort Myer. For R. Adms. RAMAGE and W E A T H E R W A X it was their last Washington luncheon for some time to come as they move to sea billets. GEORGE PECKThe Washington section continues to HAM, just returned from the Levant Coast have excellent luncheons with good attendand participation in the Lebanon landings, ance at the Army-Navy Club on the usual said the whole affair was like a training 2nd Tuesday of each month. The luncheon maneuver. FLOYD M Y H R E suggested scene shifts this fall to Blackie's House of timely planning for a 30th Reunion with Beef, 1217 22nd St., N.W. (free parking).

May 1961 as a target, but failed to stir Recent arrivals in the Washington area up much interest at this early stage. DOC SNYDER reported that Annapolis is crawl- are BURL BAILEY and RAY P I T T S ing with bulldozers, scrapers and cranes who reported in for duty on the new Joint with construction both at the Academy and Staff, FRANK N U E S S L E to Op-60, at Memorial Stadium. W A Y N E ADAMS J O H N GRIDER to Naval Security Sta(COL USAIC R E T ) attended for the first tion, DAVE K I N E R T to BuShips, P A U L time since his recent arrival in Washington H A R R I N G T O N to BuAer, MARC W I L with Sylvania Electric Products Company. LIAMSON is back from Paris, now on the JACK P A R H A M broke up the meeting staff of the Industrial College, DICK LAVERY to headquarters MSTS and by telling a story.

SPUD M U R P H Y to Staff of the ComH. D. (DOUG) MOULTON advises mander Potomac River Naval Command. that he is back in the U. S. Steel CorporaM. T. YOUNG looks like a million after tion main offices in Pittsburgh, and his his six-month vacation—it's nice to be a home address is 3 Von Lent Place. civilian and have your own business.

Apologies are due the Editorial Staff of Rumor has it that AL CROGHAN has Shipmate for the incomplete lists of deceased classmates, and those honored by moved to Chicago. memorial chairs. Your correspondent did Capt. E. P. ABRAHAMSON from not furnish those lists in the August issue. Quincy, Mass., retired as of 1 July 1958, Possibly some of 1931 and others may be as did the writer. Capt. V. B. McCREA interested to know that today was my first has requested retirement.

The following members of '32 are proday on the Retired List. Peggy and I plan a long but indefinite European trip followed fessors of Naval Sciences at the universities next year by a return to the schoolroom, indicated: William C. Johnson, Auburn; either as teacher or student or both. Our Charles M. Lyons, Brown; Anthony H. things are stored, our train trip to New Dropp, U S L A ; Aquilla A. Dibrell, ColumYork via Washington and Annapolis is mapped out. We hope to be in Europe by early October. There one of our objectives is several months in Spain learning the language. The rest of Europe is on the itinerary also. This looked like a good time to change occupations while both health and Washington finances were in good shape. No decision D.C. on a place to "settle" so far.

WEDDING Capt BERNARD F. McMAHON, USN and Mrs. McMahon announce the marriage of their daughter Helen Foley and Mr. Robert M. Leary on Saturday, 23 August 1958, in St. Matthew's Cathedral, Washington.

The bride was graduated from Manhattanville College of the Sacred Heart in Purchase, Westchester County, N. Y., and prior to her marriage was assistant to U. S. Rep. Kenneth B. Keating.

Mr. Leary is an alumnus of St. Bonaventure University and Cornell University where he received a Master's degree in 32

bia; Frederick N. Howe, Mississippi; John P. Roach, Penn State; Allen B. Adams, Princeton; Richard V. Gregory, Tulane; William B. Perkins, Virginia; and Thomas D. Langen, Washington.

A little clarification on the memorial chairs, I think, is indicated. All deceased members of the Class of '32 who graduated from the Naval Academy have been covered and probably there will be sufficient monies in the Naval Academy Memorial Stadium Fund in the class to cover a few more; however, no provision has been made to cover the remaining living members of the class.

Congratulations are due R A L P H JOHNSON and LOU KIRN. Your corresponding secretary has retired and moved to Warrenton and has accepted appointment to become the first Executive Director of the Navy League Sea Cadet Committee.

A note from R. M. H U M E S , "I am heading back to York for voluntary retirement effective 30 November. Expect to let my friends and classmates know of my whereabouts after the 'settling in' process."

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When Navy's 19S8 football captain, Dick Dagampat, first achieved stardom as a sophomore two years ago, he was referred to in the press as an Hawaiian.

The first to issue a complaint was the Mayor of Los Angeles who charged that "Dag" should be listed as a Californian since that is where he was born and raised as the son of a Los Angeles barber. Next came correspondence from the Philippine Embassy in Washington which put forth its claim on the Academy's rampaging fullback.

"Although Midshipman Dagampat's mother is Hawaiian, and although he was born in California, we hasten to point out that the young man's father, Claudio B. Dagampat, is a native of Manila in the PhiHppines. Therefore, we feel that we should share in the credit for Dick."

So, in an effort to please everyone.

Navy's 1958 Football Handbook Usts Midshipman Richard Manuola Dagampat as a "Californian-Hawaiian-Filipino."

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CARL T I E D E M A N has left Hawaii for a new assignment as Commanding Officer, Naval Reserve Officers' Training Corps Unit at the University of North Carolina.

Carl, until recently, has been Assistant Chief of Staff for Administration on the staff of the Commander-in-Chief, U. S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

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ENGAGEMENT Capt. and Airs. F R A N K L. P I N N E Y , Jr., announce the engagement of their daughter Alary Ellen to Air. Robert L. Harrington, son of Air. and Airs. Herbert Harrington of Aluncie, Ind. Aliss Pinney is a graduate of RandolphMacon Woman's College and is entered in the Graduate School of Rutgers University.

Air. Harrington graduated from Purdue University and is with the Atomic Energy Division of the Babcock and Wilcox Co.

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The Naval Air Technical Training Center got a new boss on 6 August when Capt.

ELBERT AI. S T E V E R read his orders to his staff and officially assumed the duties as Commanding Officer, N A T T C , at the Naval .'\ir Station, Memphis.

The new head of N A T T C reported aboard from the Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kans., where he had been Director of the Naval Section.

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WASHINGTON NEWS C H A R L I E M I N T E R took command of the USS ALBEMARLE on 4 August in Norfolk, Va., area.

FRED J A N N E Y reHeved DON BAER when he took command of the U S S FULTON at New London, Conn. T O M MILLER OCTOBER,

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CAPT. CARL TIEDMAN '33 sent the clipping of the Evening Day, a New London paper, which devoted nine column inches to the occasion plus a very nice picture showing Fred and Don at the moment of change of command.

DON W H I T E has written from his command the U S S SHASTA at Athens, Greece. It had been a fast operation when he took over. He reported to the ship on 15 June, took over command on the 16th, and one hour later got underway. Don reports that T E X LANDER just took command of the MARIAS

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homeported in Barcelona. Ruth and the children are living right near the new Stadium in Annapolis, 702 Melrose Ave. Oh yes, the class luncheon did take place on the second Friday, 8 August, with 24 present. S W E D E H A N S O N had just come to duty in Washington from Naples with his office in Pentagonia and his home 3603 N. Abingdon St., Arlington, Va. DICK BALL is a new arrival in the Washington area and came to the luncheon. DICK COLBERT had been in Washington sufficiently long to find a home at 6400 Brookville Rd., Chevy Chase, Md. He had just come down from the Naval War College where he had had charge of the foreign officer class.

BILL B R I N C K L O E was up from Annapolis and gave us the story on the arrangements for the Alumni Homecoming.

It promises to be a fine affair with the Recreation Building at the Experiment Station made available for our use on Saturday night after the football game.

Mark Jordan, Fred Schneider, Bill Mack, Ace Barton, Old Folks Taylor, Gene Rankin, Johnny Neilson, Bones Savage, Bill Stevens, Stretch Kelley, Ned Thomas, Syd Bottomley, Art Fisher, Jerry Hughes, Larry Brantley, Jimmy Denton, Dinty Aloore, Bunny Shupper, P. K. Taylor and John Johnston made up the rest of those present.

LARRY B R A N T L E Y recently accepted the position of Eastern Representative for the Taico Engineering Company of Arizona. Talco is the leading manufacturer ( U S ) of rocket catapults for aircraft ejection seats. Even though this job will call for a bit of travelling he is hopeful of attending the Homecoming and the luncheons.

The sons of 1937 are reaching that age of midshipmen aspirations. A R T F I S H E R and LOU T A M N Y have sons entering the Academy this year. DICK BALL's son was

a member of the Naval Reserve in boot camp during mid-August at Great Lakes.

The young boy is hopeful of being a member of USNA 1963.

Yesterday, 4 September, the Class of 1937 individually and collectively extended its sympathy to DINTY MOORE and his family and paid last respects to Alary Kay who was buried in Arlington Cemetery.

The eight pallbearers and two of the four ushers were classmates while most of those in the Washington area attended the services in Fort Myer Chapel. Contributions to the .'American Cancer Society are requested in lieu of other expressions of sympathy.

Letters and postcards, one each, have arrived inquiring about the Twenty Year Fix. The book is progressing because page proofs have been received and returned for a goodly section of the biographies. Complete pagination has been accomplished for the book with galley proofs returned for all but the last five pages at the end of the book. While it is not expected to be ready for Homecoming at the end of September, it should be ready before the end of October, if no more delaying factors enter the picture.

JACK WADLEIGH's postcard from Suda Bay, Crete, says that he had had command for about a month and brought her over to the Sixth Fleet. F R E N C H Y L I R E T T E ' s note from Oceanside, Calif., indicates that he is to take off for the Far East for a year or so and would like to know the latest. He will be with the Third Marine Division, c/o F P O San Francisco.

JACK MINGAY, glancing through the August issue of Shipmate, decided to send a little "fodder" for the article and many thanks go to him because it is a hungry article all the time. The quotation begins just to give the whole story and change from the "literary style" of the foregoing.

"A. J. STUART ( J E B ) (COL USMC) and I are fellow commuters into New York City from Westport, Conn. Jeb is on the Military Advisory Staff to the U. S. Members of the UN Security Council (this may not be the exact nomenclature) and he and his wife Angel and family have been settled in Westport for about a year. W e bumped into each other on the station platform one day and actually didn't recognize each other. This isn't too surprising for as well as I knew many in the picture of the

DR. M. ARENDT, TEACHER 45 YEARS Dr. Morton Arendt, eighty-one, an engineer who retired from Columbia University's School of Engineering in 1953 after more than forty-five years as a faculty member, died Saturday, 23 August 1958 at his home at 5355 Henry Hudson Parkway in the Riverdale section of the Bronx.

An electrical engineering graduate of Columbia's School of Mines in 1898, Dr. Arendt held more than fifty patents for welding, lighting and electrical equipment. In recent years he served as a consulting engineer.

Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Marie Mayer Arendt; a son, Capt. Morton Arendt, Jr., and three grandchildren.

Dr. Arendt was known, respected and loved by many Naval officers who were associated with him during P.G. tours at Columbia University or at the Submarine School in New London.

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Dave Bell party I must confess I had to identify some of them from the footnotes.

I showed the picture to Jeb this morning and his comment was that 'WALT S T E N CIL has sure put on a lot of weight'—that probably applies to most of us. Jeb and Angel came over recently and we had a nice sail and a swim in the Sound followed by a real clam bake and festivities on the beach til the small hours. " H E R B I E GLENNON, J E B STUART, A L E X M I C H E L S E N and I had lunch together not too long ago. We missed B L A N K E N S H I P who was tied up on some new project and Mountrey who was just returning from European business.

GLENNON, M O U N T R E Y and I seem to be the only '37ers around here in the steamship business. Bob is V.P. of Esso Tankers, Inc.; Herbie is Supt. Engineer for MooreMcCormack; and I am Ass't (jen. Mgr. of Texaco's Marine Dept. " P A U L H U E L S E N B E C K , Texaco's District Sales Mgr. in Philadelphia, was on his way over to the Alumni Assoc. Annual Banquet with K. C. ROBERTSON but got snowbound. We were joined by WILLY DYE whom we haven't seen for all these years.

"I'm looking forward to the 20 year book and hope I can make the homecoming in September although I have sort of agreed to sail up to Newport to watch the America Cup Races which start on 20 September; if I'm back in time I'll drive down."

Best regards.

JACK

If Jack can send in the news like that from his home, 35 Compo Beach Rd., Westport, Conn., so can the outlying classmates.

J O H N P. M.

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MEMORIAL STADIUM FUND There is still time to donate to the Memorial Stadium in case you have not done so. We are particularly proud and grateful to a classmate who prefers to remain anonymous for recently donating a hundred dollars for a chair to be used for a '38 purpose. His first suggestion was a chair for Admiral Sellers '94 as having come from our class. A quick letter to Gene Fluckey brought the response that a memorial chair for Admiral Sellers had not been designated and that it would be tentatively reserved for us. We are going ahaed with this but in case these plans fall through the chair will honor the whole group of '38 classmates who have been lost to us. For those who need reminding. Admiral Sellers was the Superintendent during our Academy days and was made an honorary member of our class. Mrs. Sellers was presented with a miniature of our ring. To me, this is a wonderful and inspiring gesture and most thoughtful of our anonymous classmate.

Many thanks.

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VISITING FIREMEN This has been a busy month for visitors.

HEYDON W E L L S took off for sea duty again so Muriel left Norfolk for a short visit with GRANT and Jean H E S T O N here in Washington. Heydon's sea trips are particularly happy occasions for me because I usually get the pleasure of escorting Muriel to the many festivities in her honor.

Jean Grant and I ended up the busy week with an invitation to the WELLSes for the Oyster Bowl (Navy vs. Tulane) weekend 18-19 October. JACK RAYMER writes that the Norfolk Group will have a repeat of last year's performance starting with cocktails and buffet at the Armed Forces Staff College on Friday, 17 October, at 1830 with Jack in charge. LES E U B A N K S is the Norfolk chairman and will be glad to make arrangements for anyone coming down to stay with classmates. Contact Jack at CinCLantFlt Staff, Box 100, Norfolk, Va., and Les at the Armed Forces Staff College. Having attended last year I can vouch that the Norfolk Group will arrange a weekend well worth your paying them a visit.

in OpNav getting briefed for his new job in the Naval Mission to Chile.

NEWS FROM ALL AROUND S K I P P A L M E R is being relieved by H A N K L A U E R M A N on CinCLantFlt Staff and will head for Newport to take Command of DesDiv 102. Skip is one of the few submariners to get command of both a submarine and a destroyer division.

J O E E L I O T will take command of DesDiv 362 in Norfolk as relief for TOM SUDD A T H . Joe has served on our Washington Committee and through his job in BuPers has been a big help to the class organization.

Good luck, Joe. We will miss you.

When we were happily celebrating our twentieth reunion a few short months ago, few of us were aware that we had also reached the first retirement plateau. I thought it might be interesting from time to time to list those who have taken advantage of retirement and in particular to wish them the greatest of success in their new careers. A quick call to J O E ELIO"!" in BuPers brought the first results. Willy Schlacks, Wells Felts, Vic Graff, Ken Brown, Jim Cooley, Bill Cranford and Abe Cohen retired in July. Ike Brooks, Charlie Gebhart and Phil Greenwood retired in August. I know I speak for the class in hoping sincerely that you will keep in touch and let us know your whereabouts and new successes and to each of you the very best of happiness and Godspeed.

JACK BOGLEY

H A N K JACKSON stopepd by from a vacation trip with his family en route back 1 9 3 9 • home to Pensacola where he is CO of the Corr. Sec'y, Capt. R. C. Benitez, USN Preflight School. Hank had a little difficulty 2313 N . Stuart St., Arlington, Va. with his heart recently and is up for a physical reevaluation this November. Lots "PINEAPPLE JUICE" of good luck, Hank. VANCE GORDON The Pearl Harbor contingent met for was flown back to Bethesda Hospital from lunch on 5 August with eleven regulars his job as the Naval Attache to the Hague present. We welcomed RAY ZOELLER, because of a mild heart attack. The physical newly arrived for duty with Staff, CinCPac. evaluation board decided to retire Vance CLAYTON ROSS, here with a Phib physically as of 1 September. However, the Group and having just relieved JACK Navy called him back to active duty and sent him back to the Hague until his relief, M A T H E W S , gave us some good dope BILL SPEARS, now at the Armed Forces about duty in London. I heard that JOHN Staff College, is available in a few months. PARKS, NavAirPac Staff, was here on his I had a nice chat with Vance before he left w-ay to WestPac. Whenever any of you and he looks happy and in fine spirits and '39ers travel try and plan your Hawaii stop intends to continue to enjoy life as only for the first Monday in the month and join Vance can do it. The very best to you us for lunch. Phone F R E D CLARKE, Vance and congratulations and a pleasant CinCPac Staff, for reservation. duty to Bill and Marie Spears in the Hague.

Mahalo to our President for his compreA recent check shows that the following hensive summary of the Class Gate and classmates have had chairs designated in BILL ROGERS flew in from San Diego Stadium situation. Now, will we sit back their honor: Van Landingham, Howard, where he is on the Staff of First Fleet. on our big fat complacencies and let the Leedy, Hamilton, Sooy, Spencer, Stearns, DAVE H A R R I S dropped in from Key other fellow carry the load? Or, will we Smith, Hayes, Wiseman, Berkeley, Owen, West where he is in Command of DesDiv back the class action and meet our pledge?

Blandin, Moore, Case, Hale, Starks, Peirce, 601. BOB C U T T S flew in from Long There must be quite a few of us who have Dalton, Cook, Danforth, Tate, Woodruff, Beach where he is on the Staff of Mine not gotten the word—the last official report Howell, Sbissa, Jonson and McDowell.

Pac. MAJOR ROBB reported to C H I N F O showed our per capita contributions to be for two weeks' training duty from Ft. about $13, a shade over our per capita Lauderdale, Fla., where he is working for quota of $36. Some day some of us will the County Gkavernment. J O H N N Y SAX- walk through the '39 Gate and sit in the T E N reported to the National War College Stadium that our dollars helped build and EVERY MEMBER so we are happy to have our class president we'll be proud and happy. What about you? around to guide our future movements.

By the time this is printed the selection GET A MEMBER J O H N BARTOL spent a few weeks here boards will have gone by many of us for 34

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the second time. Nearly 100 of our class face retirement. The big question is, "When?" I have done a Httle figuring from a pay angle only and my factors may work for some of you. Anyway, here is a table based on a family of five. You can easily adjust the factors to suit yourself.

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is in town for the summer. His relief has been down looking the ship over, but Bernie still doesn't have orders. Lib LOGAN assures us that she has a husband named JACK who is commanding BENHAM. Haven't seen him yet; he must be holding down the fort at sea for all of us. Somebody has to mind the store I S T E V E and Alyce A N A S T A S I O N are here; he works in HAWKINS. H A A I R I E S is just about to pass through en route Boston to San Diego. Carolyn is already on the West Coast awaiting HULL'S arrival.

JERRY EDWARD CLANCY Cdr. J E R R Y E D W A R D CLANCY, USNR, died on 12 July 1958 in California.

He had been home for three days following RETIRE? — WHEN? two surgeries and died in the ambulance 1959 1961 1963 1965 on the way to the hospital after throwing a blood clot in his lung. He was buried at My age 42 44 46 48 sea with full military honors on 23 July Children under 21. ..

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Years' service 20 22 24 26 "GEORGE and Helen DAVIS are here.

Jerry served in destroyers and an aircraft Active duty pay and George just got promoted from destroyer allowances 934 959 959 959 carrier before resigning in 1947. Most re- CO to the staff of ComDesFlot Two, but Less income t a x . . .

83 90 100 100 cently he was a planning engineer with he still hangs out at Pier 1. After all these North American Aviation Company. He years, finally ran into NICK and Gretchen Net _851 _869 _859 859 remained active in the Naval Reserve and R E V O T S K I E again. Nick is out of the was Administrative Officer for an antiNavy and is an M.D. in the Public Health Retirement pay 372 426 465 503 submarine squadron. The squadron had a Service in Boston. The Doc is specializing "fly-over" at the spot of committal and Civilian job* 605 569 530 492 dropped a wreath. in hearts. The same field he specialized in at U S N A !

Gross 977 995 995 995 Jerry is survived by his widow Fran, of "That is all, Al. My best to all in Less income tax . . 126 136 136 136 16658 Simonds St., Granada Hills, Calif., Washington." and four children.

JOE VOLONTE Net 851 859 859 859 JACK H U D S O N writes: "I arrived in Japan on 17 July with 'aka-san' Fran and • * This is the amount required to net what 1 9 4 3 three children: Jack 11, Bari 9, and Donald Sec'y, Cdr. A. L. Rasmussen, U S N we make before retiring.

7 from Washington, D. C , where I finished 3619 N . Vernon St., A r l i n g t o n , V a . .\ wise man said that one should start postgraduate work (M.B.A.) at George WILLIAM BURTON ALLEN a new career every twenty years. \Vashington University in Comptrollership.

Cdr. W I L L I A M B. ALLEN, USN, was GEORGE NETTS "I am assigned to the joint staff of the killed 19 August 1958 in an aircraft acciCommander U. S. Forces Japan, located at dent in the Mediterranean where he was 1940 • commanding officer of Fighter Squadron 11. Fuchee Air Station about 15 miles west of Sec'y, L t . C d r . Robert A . Malleck, U S N Tokyo, as Assistant Comptroller. The work P . O. Box 552, Riverside, Calif.

Following graduation he served on the shows promise of being very interesting and Corr. Sec'y. C d r . J a c o b V . H e i m a r k , U S N battleship NEVADA during World War II, educational in the tri-service aspects.

Staff. C o m P h i b P a c , S a n Diego 32, Calif. taking part in the Aleutians campaign and "Fran is about to go wild in her shopping The best comment I have heard on the the Normandy invasion. He became a Naval selection which we have so recently experi- Aviator in 1945. During the Korean con- expeditions with the 'fantastic and tremenenced was "we should have been born at flict he fought as a jet pilot with Fighter dous' bargains over Jiere. I'm having diffileast two years earlier." The pleasure ex- Squadron 22 based on the carrier LAKE culty holding her in check—and then I find myself taking the lead (and we've been perienced by those selected was certainly CHAMPLAIN. here only one month!) tempered by the fact that so many fine Commander Allen is survived by his friends of over 20 years' standing did not "We're going to enjoy the next two years make it. It is hoped that when next year's widow Mary Beth, of Jacksonville, Fla.; very much and, of course, we're in the Hst comes out, it will include many from two daughters, Celia Sharon and Ann Armed Forces telephone directory to all of Wayne, and his mother, Mrs. Eric C. Allen '40. our friends visiting the Far East and the of Santa Rosa Beach, Fla. Tokyo area."

VIC SCHRAGER was in San Diego the Funeral services were held at Fort Myer other day. He came here to pick up a 14year-old surplus Navy P B M Mariner which Chapel with interment in Arlington Na- BUAER BULGE he had contracted to fly to Portugal. On tional Cemetery.

The status of classmates on duty in Bu arrival there it will be put to use in pasFrom J O E LOVINGTON : T H I E L G E S Aer has recently changed in numbers from senger service between Lisbon and the and H A R D C A S T L E are busy chasing us fifteen to eleven with three known reportees Aladeira Islands. Vic reported that he was with their DDs to pick up the aviators we this summer: PADGET, K I R K L A N D , planning to go to Europe anyway so he try to keep from dropping in the drink. and L. G. SMITH. H O E N LOBDELL decided this job would be an interesting way Med cruises are fine but they are too far and BOB G R E E N W O O D have been deto do it. If the trip continued as it started from CONUS—Va. Beach in particular. tached from the Aircraft Division and have —with leaky oil lines and Coast Guard help For anybody who wants gray hairs or both headed west to CO VF-12 at Aloffett to keep afloat when the hull began leaking, ulcers I recommend "CVA-Air Dept." line and FasRon 120 in Japan, respectively. TAZ Vic had an interesting trip. Haven't heard 22 NavPers 765 A. and Jan S H E P A R D departed in May for whether the trip was completed, I only know Norfolk where Taz assumed command of Dear A!: that the plane is no longer sitting in San Heavy Attack Sqdn. 15. It is reported that Diego Bay. Vic spends most of his time in "Thought you might like to have some they didn't try to sell their house so it is Europe, the Belgian Congo, and South news of the Newport '43 contingent. Elea- assumed that they expect to return to .America but keeps a New York address nore and I have been here since June and Washington for another tour. As indicated (550 Fifth Ave.) where he can be reached. have had much more social contact with earlier, BUD CARTER and family deApparently he has lost none of his spirit classmates than I did on a period ten parted for the Hawaiian Islands. of adventure. times as long in Washington. There is Send news to BOB BEAVER. "G. G." WILLIAAiS reports that he is just something about a small Navy town.

"I have been relieved as CO of U S S J. P. settled in quarters at the Naval Amphibious Base at Norfolk and has volunteered to pass KENNEDY (DD-850), and I find myself on news from the Norfolk area—so if those among many other '43 DDCOs. C L I F F who are in or near Norfolk will give C O T E S is finishing up a tour in command "G. G." the word, it would be much appre- of CASSIN YOUNG and is headed for CinC ciated. Also, if we could have volunteers NELM. Cliff and Phyllis have been in from the other parts of the world where one Newport so long that much of our social or more of '40 are gathered together, our activity revolves around getting them dug class news will have much fuller coverage out and on the way overseas. DICK and Reggie B E L T are here. Dick has the than we have at present.

GATLING is currently in the Boston The only changes of duty I've seen are Shipyard. which L E F T Y LAVRAKA's ship /\RT B E R N D T S O N and ERIC PUR- DAVIS is in Boston too; Billye is in town, DON to Washington, M I L E S LIBBEY to but Lefty too old to come down more London and L O N N I E ROARK to CO of often than is Wednesdays and weekends! the NEPTUNE. B E R N I E F R E S E has the PERRY; Mary JAKE

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Another fine time was enjoyed by all of us who were lucky enough to attend the "Fifteen Year" Party at Annapolis. The only regret is the five years ahead before we can get together for the next big one in 1963—the "Twenty Year" Party. I want to extend appreciation from the class for the great job done by the Annapolis gang in working up the party.

GEORGE B E N N E T T , who is on the staff of ComOpDevFor, writes that his first daughter (third child) was born on 15 July.

I had a letter from Jacquelyn SCORZA. She has received her master's degree and is now teaching in the College of Medicine at the University of Iowa. Along with her children, Jacquelyn is living at 403 Alelrose Court, Iowa City, Iowa, where any Navy friends are welcome.

Although the drive for the new Stadium is over the top, it is not too late to make a contribution. There has been some talk of starting a drive for a Class of '44 memorial on the Academy grounds. This type of memorial is being discouraged, so it seems especially appropriate, instead, that we help out the Stadium fund.

The class bank account now stands at $800.16.

Received a letter from BOB N E T T I N G along with some interesting news from out West Bob's contribution follows.

bachelors, the only other one that comes to mind is GEORGE W A T K I N S . IBM has at least three classmates on their rolls: JIM KLAY, RUDY R U D I S I L L and GRAHAM CLARK. TOAI R H E E S works in Production Division of BuAer. H I L L E S H E R M A N is in the A N P Division of BuAer after a tour at ComNavAirPac. J O H N BURKE, who recently reported to BuShips, has made another contribution to the Stadium fund. RAY FORD is also in BuAer in Maintenance. DICK McMANUS, who started Plebe year with us but had to resign because of ill health, works for General Electric in Lynn, Mass. JACK C. A L E X A N D E R is Sales Manager for Hughes Aircraft in Newark.

1945

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Sec'y, Jack Wilhelm 424 Whitestone Rd., Silver Spring, Md.

"If this appears at all, it is because of the kindness of the Shipmate editor. I'm late with my draft this month for a number of reasons and, strangely enough, have considerable material to cover. I'll put it all in next month along with a little coverage of the social highlight of the Academy year, i.e., the annual class party of the Class of 1945. Hope I see you all at Homecoming."

JACK

WILHELM

Credit for Homecoming plans goes to Strat Wentworth, Charlie Stoke, Ed Mallick and John Beckett. They did a wonderful job and I thank each one of them.

It's not too early to show some spirit for the Big Blue Team. All the way from California comes the familiar word, BEAT ARMY. BOB NETTING

PASS THE WORD CLAUDE D E B U H R is now holding down the Security Office in BuOrd. Claude claims to be one of the few remaining 36

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ARMY-NAVY GAME PARTY Through the untiring efforts of HAL W I L L I A M S the Class of '46 has once again been able to secure the Yachtsman's Club for our "After the Game" party. The bar and dining room will be ours alone.

Here are the details: (1) Meet at the Bellevue Stratford Hotel after the game for the traditional cocktail party.

(2) At 2000 walk to the Yachtsman's Club, 1305-07 Walnut Street—only one block from the hotel.

(3) Steak Dinners will be served at the Yachtsman's Club at approximately 2030.

(4) The price is $5.00 per person.

(5) In order to determine approximately how many people will attend, and therefore how many people Hal can guarantee to the club, it is requested that reservations for yourself and guests—together with the correct amount of m.oney—be forwarded to GENE GRALLA, 290 West Essex Ave., Lansdowne, Pa., prior to 22 November.

Aloney will be refunded to those who make reservations but then are unfortunately unable to attend.

FRIDAY NIGHT EXTRA BOB and Mary K E N N E D Y have offered to host a Friday Night BYOB Party for the local group plus anyone who might be in town early for the Game. Their address is 9 Wyncroft Dr., Media 32, Penna, about 12 miles out from the center of the city.

Their telephone number is LOwell 6-8236.

"If interested parties could drop me a Hne I could have a map made which I could send to them showing my exact location.

This also would give Mary and me some idea as to how many might show up. I would expect to supply the set-ups, etc., if each couple could bring their own bottle.

Guests, of course, are welcome. We also have enough room so we could roll quite a few into the corner if they couldn't make it back into town that night."

HAMMOCK CLEWS Monterey, Calif.—Since departing D. C. 11 July we have put that cross-country mileage on the old speedometer, but we are now comfortably settled in one of BUD SALSIG's apartments in Carmel.

Arrived here the day ACE O'LEARY departed for duty with the Special Weapons U n i t North Island, but missed FRANK B I E W E R by a couple of days. Right now the only '44ers attached to the PG school are AL VAUGHN and myself. Al is now in his second year of mechanical engineering and I am in the six-month management course before going back to sea.

Coming across I made special effort to go through Jackson, Miss., to see the "South's Soft Drink King" — K E L T O N LOWRY. Had a fine evening with Old Kel, who is just as Rebel as ever. Even took $5 from him on the date and score of the '55 Sugar Bowl game—and that money went along to the Stadium fund.

For those of you in the new-car-buying mood, let me suggest you look over the Alercedes-Benz line. I bought a Type 180 before coming across and I give that car most hearty endorsement. Mine is only four cylinders but is most smooth to handle and extremely comfortable for a long drive.

Besides it is just about as economical as a Volkswagon.

1946

Corr. Sec'y, Lt. Cdr. C. V. Wilhoit. Jr.. USNR 3541 Lord St., San Diego 11, Calif.

MORE FROM PHILADELPHIA GENE GRALLA says: "I am now Director of the Integrated Data Processing Division at the Submarine Supply Office.

We will be installing a Burroughs Corporation Datatron 205 Computer in the next few months and I expect to be busier than ever."

J. CARL FERGUSON Mr. J. CARL FERGUSON has been appointed general sales manager of the Electrical Conductor Div., Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Corp.

In his new position at Chicago, Mr. Ferguson will direct the activities of the division's national field sales force with additional responsibility for aluminum conduit sales. Previously he had served as a salesman at Kansas City, Mo., assistant product manager, and most recently. Electrical Conductor product manager at Chicago.

Prior to joining Kaiser Aluminum in 1949, Mr. Ferguson held engineering and sales positions with Radio Corporation of America and Federal Telephone and Radio Corporation.

Mr. Ferguson lives in Northbrook, 111., a Chicago suburb, with his wife Anne and their four children.

DON CONOVER (Supply Corps) has received orders from tfSS HYADES ( A F 28), in Norfolk, to the Naval Air Material Center, Naval Base, Philadelphia.

H A L and Betty W I L L I A M S have recently moved to 120 Jefferson Ave., Haddonfield, N. J. STADIUM DRIVE CLEANUP A R D E BURKI, J O E SMALL and various other active members of the D. C. Group have volunteered to take over the responsibility for the final phase of the Stadium Drive for '46. Since we are over the top with the Class of '46 Gate, our objective will be to improve the percentage contributing in order that the Gate will more truly represent the class. This would appear to me to be the true measure of our Class Organization, rather than the amount of "dope" disseminated via this column every month as some classmates are prone to believe.

SHIPMATE

MORE FROM D. C. J O H N DUGGER has orders from O N I to CinCNELM. J.\CK and Doe TAYLOR have moved into 4221 Courser Court, McLean, Va. Jack is in the Officer Performance Branch of BuPers (Pers F-22) where he is in a good position to keep up with all his friends.

"The job is extremely interesting, contrary to my fears, and allows for some original thinking, at least. Our office deals with Non-Support, Debt, Paternity, request for detachment of officers, adverse fitness reports, poor performance cases and Congressional Correspondence concerning all the former and all under my supervision."

NEW LONDON STU CHAAIBERS and Aliss Dolores Cecilia Orlando of Groton, Conn., were married in New London, Conn., on 1 September 1958. Stu is CO of U S S SKYL.\RK

(ASR-20).

SAAI F R A N C I S has orders from CO USS

CORSAIR

(SS-435)

to

CO

USS

PIPER ( S S - 4 0 9 ) . Sam and Thelma live at

20 Wayne Rd., Groton, Conn.

NEWPORT BUZZ P E A R S O N writes: "I am winding up my tour as Executive Officer of the Fox late this summer and will report as Commanding Officer of the DANIEL A. JOY ( D E - 5 8 5 ) . Newport has given both Dorie and me a grand three years and we are very reluctant to leave. The JOY is a Naval Reserve Training D E and for your next tViO weeks of active duty I extend a cordial invitation to be my guest" {Sorry Buzz, no travel funds from 11 ND). Along with the letter came his pledge for the Stadium Gate. " . . . I might point out something that may not be readily known concerning the raising of funds for this Stadium.

Almost every ship in the Fleet, and particularly those of the Sixth Fleet, has had continuous drives for the past two years.

The Naval Academy officers have generally been called upon to lead these drives and in retrospect have done a fine job. In my ship, the M. C. Fox, we raised over sixteen hundred dollars this past tour with the Sixth Fleet. I am sure you realize that all of us have had to do our share in order to hold our heads up in the ships. . . ." / certainly do realize this and would like to see to it that we receive credit toward the Class Gate where it is possible to establish the amount of contributions in such cases. If you have contributed in your ship and paid by check so that it can be identified with you personally please send me the cancelled check. I will make a photostatic copy and send it to the Athletic Association and return the check to you. The Athletic Association cannot do this for individuals because they simply do not have the staff for it. The fact that they don't have simply means that most of the money collected went for building the Stadium instead of expenses. I'll gladly do the necessary work myself in order to give credit where credit is due.

Dept.: Ken Bauman, Jack Jones and Dick GILLIAM for his next assignment in Nav Rabe; Marine Eng. Dept.: Ken .Ackley and AirLant.

Bob Latham (civilians), and Stan Hutches; BOB L E D B E T T E R has received orders Math Dept.: Bob Pickrell and Bob Uhwat; English, History & Gov't. Dept.: Jim to U S S SALEM (CA-139) from Com 5, where he was Submarine Reserve Program Schoen.

Officer.

STAN and Lois H U T C H E S moved into PAUL S C H W E M L E Y will be detached Quarters J-1, Perry Circle with a new 8-weeks-old baby boy, joining three sisters from USS EATON (DDE-510) and report to U S S KLEINSMITH (APD-134) as CO. and one brother.

KEN and Mickey MORSE are living at SI SIMONS has reported to Naval 807 Taylor Ave., Annapolis.

Aviation Safety Center, NAS Norfolk.

DICK and Andree RABE live at Route SAN DIEGO 4, Old Annapolis Rd. " S H U E " and Edith S H U M A K E R are JIM and Felicia I R V I N E announce the back in their house at Route 1, Box 286, birth of Richard Karl Irvine on 2 July Gambrills, Md. 1958 in Arlington, Va. Ricky joins Janet, H E R B and Margie MOODY are in who is 10, Lucy, 8, and "Cag," 4 years.

-\nnapolis as civilians and are waiting to They have all moved into a new house at 30 Elm Court, Coronado Estates, Coronado move into a new house.

18, Calif., and Jim has reported for duty G R I F F MOODY, a bachelor, lives at 53 at NAS North Island.

Cornhill St. "BUCK" BUCHANAN has orders to QUONSET become CO USS PERCH ( A S S P - 3 1 3 ) , reJ O H N E R I C K S O N will report to Fleet maining in San Diego after a tour at Naval Weather Central with no classmates in the Training Center. The same for BILL area to greet him. DICK W I L S O N and KILLEFER, who will command USS I. R. W H I T E both have departed Air POMFRET (SS-391).

Antisubmarine Squadron 39. Dick will go BILL LONGTON has orders from Bu to Postgraduate School, Monterey, and Pers to U S S HENDERSON (DD-785) as "Whitey" will go to Naval Air Technical XO. Training Command, Memphis.

P A U L VOSBURGH has orders to PostH A N K E N G E L M A N N says : "Although graduate School, Monterey, from DesRon I have been attached to FasRon 2 for the 15. past year, my primary duty has been as ComNavAirLant Fleet Liaison Officer for MOFFETT FIELD—STANFORD the A4D Interim Rework Program, later JIM and Mary Jane T U R L E Y have expanded to include the P2V Program, at Quonset Point, R. I. But all good things moved to 1131 Pimento St., Sunnyvale, must come to an end, and I now have orders Calif. Jim has reported as Exec, of Fighter to report to the Chief of the Bureau of Squadron 152 at Moffett.

BILL and Jean P E R K I N S have moved Ordnance in Washington, detaching sometime this month (August). Probably be to 3833 Corina Way, Palo Alto, Calif., seeing a lot of classmates down that where they will be for the next two years while Bill attends Stanford Business School. way . . ."

NORFOLK ED CLAYTON has reported for duty on the Staff of Commander Second Fleet from Armed Forces Staff College. " D A V E " DAVISON has orders detaching him from N A S South Weymouth, Mass., and will be looking for GAIL

MARE ISLAND There are currently three Engineering Duty classmates on duty in the Mare Island Naval Shipyard. "ROCKY" H A R T is Ship Superintendent for the U S S GRAYBACK (SSG-574). They live at 77 Los Cerritos Dr., Vallejo. BOB P H I L -

J O H N D E V L I N has been ordered from the Naval Station, Bermuda, to the Public Works Center, Naval Base, Newport. He is in the Civil Engineer Corps.

ANNAPOLIS The new academic year finds seventeen classmates on duty at the Naval Academy.

Executive Dept.: Bill Faucett, Griff Aloody, "Red" Maginnis and Ken Morse; Aviation Dept.: "Free" Jones and Bill Pfefferkorn; Seamanship Dept.: Dick Vardy; Ord. & Gun Dept.: Gene Kenyon; Electrical Eng. OCTOBER,

1958

GREMLINS?—'SOUND COLLISION QUARTERS!"—The USS HASSAYAMPA, Pacific Fleet Service Force oiler, looks like she's about to be rammed "amidships" by the . . . USS HASSAYAMPA! It was a shocked photographer of the Navy's Patrol Squadron 22, based at Naval Air Station, Barber's Point, T. H., who developed this photograph. Actually, it was one of those jokes the Navy's photo-gremlins sometimes play on an unwary photographer. While taking aerial views of the big oiler, the cameraman's camera malfunctioned, causing the double exposure. It came out looking like a sure-fire collision until the hull numbers were checked—exposing the fact that both images were of the same ship.

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1947 ABOUT SHIPMATE AND THE ASSOCIATION

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Sec'y, Mr. Joseph P. Flanagan, Jr. 401 E. Mill Rd., Flourtown. Pa.

coming plans. You will be hearing from them later.

FOURTH COMPANY NEWS NORFOLK AREA

BY BOB & M A R T H A TURNAGE The class met out at Virginia Beach OffiPass the Gripes to Us, Assistance is requested on addresses for cers' Club on 23 August for swimming and the following: Pass the Good Word to Your a steak dinner. The rain held off until most CAINE, A R T H U R D I X O N : I sent a of us had our steaks hot off the grill.

Non-member Friends and Shipmates 2-way postcard to him addressed to the The group included: Betty and Ed O'Cal- Bureau Aeronautics Representative, Brumlaghan, Mikie and Bob Stone, Merle and man, Bethpage, Long Island. No word reKen Ekelund, Jane and Larry Hess, Mary ceived. Card not returned by post office L I P S is in the Planning Department, ex- Anne and Jim DiSanto, Fran and Jack as non-delivered. pecting a shift to another Department in Stevens, Shirley and Dick Beane and guest, CURTIS, H A R R Y LEROY, J r . : Sent the near future. BILL W E B E R has also Rosemary and Bob Enright, Ellen and reported and is Ship Superintendent for the Frank Hunter, Edie and Mac Balfe, Dot a 2-way postcard to 800 Mill Creek Rd., U S S SARGO ( S S N - 5 8 3 ) . The Phillipses live and Jack Arguelles, Nina and Jim Gardner, Ardmore, Pa. No word received. Card not in Quarters Q-12 and the Webers in Quar- Dottie and Jack Drago, Ellie and Buck returned by post office as non-delivered.

GOLDSBOROUGH, ROBT. R H E E M : ters Q-1.

Williams, Pat and Jim AIoss and guest, Sent 2-way postcard to 244 Thomas Ave., Mickey and John Wells.

Oxnard, Calif. Post office did return card, FAR A N D NEAR Afterwards, we all went over to Jane indicating non-delivery.

A L F O S T E R wrote to give me the and Larrv Hess's for coffee and dessert.

YATES, W A L L A C E N E I L : Sent 2address for R. B. Miller, whose name has The weather could have cooperated more way postcard to 315 Conwell St., Seaford, been on my "lost" list. If more people but we all managed to have fun.

Del. Post office returned it indicating nonwould take the time to do this I could MICKEY WELLS delivery and no known forwarding address. surely whittle that list down to nothing in The '47 class luncheon at the Breezy a hurry. BRUCE MILLER lives at 970 F R A N K E L , ALAN : No word.

Greenwood St., Akron 20, Ohio. ". . . Bruce Point O Club, NAS, Norfolk, on 29 August, I was in Washington 9 and 10 June. has crossed paths with me several times—• was attended by twelve classmates. Those the Academy, Submarine School and then present were: Hunter, Enright, Farley, Visited BOB D E P E W and HALEY Harvard Business School. . . . Only a few Drago, McKenzie, Wells, Ferry, DiSanto, ROGERS in the Arlington Annex, and weeks ago we returned from three weeks Buck Williams, Beane, Ekelund, and Stev- talked to C H A R L I E DARBY and TED in Maine and this past weekend I drove ens. Frank Hunter outlined his plans for W E L L I N G S on the phone. I also visited down to Virginia to return a tent to my a party after the Navy-Tulane game. The DICK LILLY in the Main Navy Building. brother. (Ours wasn't big enough for two party is scheduled for the Naval Base O JACK P A V E L L E will be in Washington kids and another on the way!) I stopped Club. Any out-of-towners coming to the for duty also in about 3 months. JIM at U S N A going down and back. T'aint the game are urged to contact Frank for de- FARLEY was skipper of an LST here in same anymore—construction is changing its tails. Jim DiSanto volunteered to undertake Charleston until it was deactivated. The whole face and the new buildings are not arrangements for the Christmas party EARLEYs were over to see us last Novemin the same style—no doubt an economy which indicates that the fall social season ber just prior to leaving town, so we haven't seen Mary Ellen as yet. measure. It was fun to run into some of the looks like a good one.

'Jimmylegs' I knew as a Mid. and also We were very pleased to have AL to find that dinner would be served to me WASHINGTON AREA NEWS MAYNARD to dinner last fall. Al's boat at the Officers' Club. I left in the firm The monthly class luncheon was held 14 was in the Charleston yard for repairs. Al belief that '46 was the last great class. . . ." August at the Gun Factory. The following is skipper of the MACKERAL ( S S T - 1 ) . I Al and Bev now are living at 55 North St., classmates were present: Tom Brenner learned upon a tour of the boat that the Rye, N. Y. (just reported to the area to attend Intelli- SST is somewhat smaller than a convengence School), Bruce Maxson, recently re- tional sub. Al told me that after he learned T E D and Mary L O N N Q U E S T an- ported in the area; Bill Doe just finished that he was to get the MACKERAL, the nounce the birth of their third child, John the Intelligence School course and is in Maynard family drove down to the pier in Clayton, on 3 May 1958 at Lakehurst. The O.N.I, for a regular tour of duty; Ely Key West to it. When it was pointed out first two are twins, boy and girl, 4'A. Edie Kirk, a new face also; Neil Thompson, to the girls, the latter said, "Oh, you mean YERBURY sent us a postcard from Eu- Duckett, Rogers, Brumbaugh, Eagle, Ma- that cute little boat?" rope where they were on "morale" leave rousek (the blushing betrothed). Bill PorJOE ADELMAN took command of the from the Azores. Says Bob has a new job ter (who is leaving for another postgradnow as Chief of Staff for Intelligence. Any uate course). Bill Rainnie, Walt Day (who CATFISH ( S S - 3 3 9 ) in mid-July. GEORGE classmates passing through the Azores will is back in the area after a stay in Tucson), F O W L E R is attending graduate school of be more than welcome. Bob's office phone Walter Morgan Johnson, Coerper, Kearney, business at Stanford. DAN HOLLIS has obtained his Master's in Physics. DICK is 5215 and their home phone is 4229.

Keating and Merrill.

LILLY is a civilian electronics man in Bu John Duckett, Bo Eagle, Walt Day and Ships. CLYDE M U S H O L T is plant manSTILL HAVEN'T FOUND 'EM Bruce Maxson are working on the home- ager for a carbide company. BOB PYLKAS Homer N. Allen, Maurice Auger, Malcolm Brown, Donald Conway, Jim Cunat, Robert Doran, George Frazier, A. W. Hampton, Charles Harman, Vaughan Hastings, Dewitt Hunter, W. A. Hutcheson, J. P. Jackson, John Kappock, John D. King, Arthur Kinneberg, Edward Lange, Donald Larson, Robert Looker, A. M. Masich, Bob McConnell, Clinton McGovern, R. G. Mclntyre, John McKnight, H. B. McWhorter, Robert Moore, Hubert Nicholson, Bill Northup, Sam Rae, Sherrill Rathbun, Paul Richards, Milton Sartain, Doug Rodgers, Norris Sills, James Reddock Smith, Jack Stickels, John Sutherland, Bob Swanson, Harwell Thompson, Richard Thompson, Clark Tinch, Harry Upthegrove, R. J. White, David Williamson, and Robert Wright. Chances are if you live in a large city such as Chicago, Cleveland, San Francisco, etc., some of these classmates can be found in your phone book.

Why not give it a try and help me locate these people. I'd surely like to be able to say CLASS OF 1947 IN NORFOLK AREA at Breezy Point Officers' Club luncheon 29 that I have the address of every '46er.

August 1958: top row (1. to r.): John Wells, Buck Williams, Bob Enright, Dick . . . and remember, Keep '46 Great— Beane, Jim Farley, Jim DiSanto; bottom row (1. to r.): Joe McKenzie, Jack Stevens, Pledge for the Gate!

"DAISY" Jack Drago, Ken Ekelund, Reg Ferry, Frank Hunter, HI. 38

S H I P M A T E

has recently finished formal training in New York with Alerrill, Lynch, Pierce, Fenner and Smith. Bob's office is in the Fisher Bldg., Detroit BOB S C H E N K is in the civil engineering business. JIAI W A T KINS, of course, is a medical doctor, as we learned in the company letter in 1956.

Have had a couple of nice letters from Doctor Jim. T E D W E L L S will leave for a 2-year stay in Japan in the near future.

MASE

WELLS

is

XO

of

the

CHARR

(SS-328). Has been in Mare Island yard recently. Alase and Les report the availability of an extra room if anyone passing through San Diego needs a place to stav.

JOHN W E L L S expects to be on the Staff CinCLantFlt another year. W O O D Y has recently left Bellaire, Tex. The members of the 4th Company will be pleased to know that a memorial chair has been donated on behalf of G. C. "CLIFF" S T E V E N S by "The Bums," ED "FROG" DERAAIEE, Treasurer. The good "Frog," writhig on behalf of "The Bums," lists his address as Box 547, Thibodaux, La. Although a memorial chair for little JACK has been taken care of, it would still be most desirable for 4th Company classmates to add their contributions to the Na\T-AIarine Corps Stadium Fund, so that all classmates can be remembered.

EIGHTH COMPANY NEWS Through the efforts of Anne K E I T H , the first 8th Company Newsletter is going to press. In Alarch she contacted E R N I E STACEY, and as a result they laid the groundwork for it.

Ernie writes: "Geographically, v/e seem to be spread out across the country with (California claiming seven of the Company at the present time. As of this writing replies have not been received from F R A N K AVERILL, J E R R Y L E N I H A N and DICK UAIBEL. In addition, addresses are lacking for J O E E V A N S , L E S J O H N SON and P H I L Z E N N E R . If anyone has any dope on the latter three, I would appreciate a postcard with their addresses. Fifteen of the Company are out of the service, while twelve of us are still in. There are seventy-two children in the Company.

In the July issue of Shipmate, page 53, there appeared an item concerning the presentation of the Memoirs of the Confederate submarine HUNLEY to the U S S NAUTILUS. The impression was

given that the memoirs were donated jointly by the United Daughters of the Confederacy and Mr. Henry C. Loughmiller. Actually, the papers, consisting of drawings, photostatic pictures and explanatory script, were written, assembled and donated by Mr. Eustace Williams of Van Nuys, Calif., who, unfortunately, was unable to attend the presentation ceremonies.

Our sincere apologies to Mr. Williams for this error.

Eleanor (Lea) 3. Dave has been with Lacede Gas Company (Natural Gas Public Utility) since resigning in 1949. He was called back to active duty in 1951 and spent two years traveling up and down the Atlantic Coast. Hopes anyone passing through St. Louis will give him a call.

"BOB G E O R G E : Boston Naval Shipyard, Boston, Mass. Bob is Technical Program Officer (one of 4) and is completing his first tour as an EDO. He had orders to Boston Shipyard sometime this summer. " K E I T H H A R T Z E L L : 245 32nd S t , Boulder, Colo. Emma Lee ( w ) , Martha Lee 7. Keith is president of a small consulting engineering firm. He is attempting to get some foreign work, such as a large dam or power plant. His firm has just finished their part of the consulting work on a project similar to Disneyland, which he said has been a great deal of fun in spite of panics and Hollywood approach to construction.

6j/2, Michael 4. Del is Operations Officer with VF-103, N A S Cecil Field, which has F8Us. He has 200 hours and expects to deploy this fall.

"BRUCE O L I V E R : 188 Summit Ave., Upper Montclair, N. J. Betty C. ( w ) , Cathleen 9, Wayne 7, Allison 5, Neil 3. Bruce is the Eastern Division Manager and Vice President of Everpure, Inc. (which manufactures water treatment equipment). After 4/4 years in Montclair, he is moving back to the home office in Illinois this fall, and would like to see any of the 8th Company that passes through.

"LES P O M E R O Y : 5512 JopHn S t , Springfield, Va. Constance H. ( w ) , David Ross 7, Anne 5, Cathy 4. Les is now assigned to Headquarters Armed Forces Special Weapons Projects as Aide to the Chief, A F S W P . He indicates his job is most interesting and they are enjoying the D. C. area.

"VERN R O S E : 285 Via Bregani, San Lorenzo, Calif. Kathleen (Kak) ( w ) , Vernon I I I 9, Martha 6, John 4. Vern is Aviation Safety Officer on the Staff of ComAirAlameda, and is looking forward to more news in Shipmate.

"LOREN R U S S E L L : 208 Santa Cruz Rd., Arcadia, Calif. Martha J. ( w ) , Kathy 8, David 5, Robert 3, Jeffrey 1 month. Russ is now a lawyer and partner in the firm of Hahn & Hahn, Pasadena. " E R N I E S T A C E Y : 45-221 Koa Kahiko St., Kaneohe, Oahu, T. H. Ann ( w ) , Julie 1. I have been assistant P W O at Kaneohe for the last two years and anticipate orders sometime this fall. We have enjoyed the Islands, particularly the weather and informality. " J O H N S T O N E : Box 192, Starkville, Miss. Mary Louise ( w ) , Susan 7, Miriam Anne 2. John is well entrenched in Alississippi and is District Representative for General Motors Acceptance Corporation. H e is located on Highway 82 and has invited anyone passing through to stop by. H e is also CO of the Naval Electronics Division in Starkville, so is in touch with the Navy. " P L A T T T A L C O T T : 5920 Hill Rd., Culver City, CaHf. Betty ( w ) . Bill 6. Piatt is a Project Engineer with Hughes Aircraft Company in Culver City, Calif. " J O H N T O W N E S : 16 Wheeler Park, Brunswick, Maine. Mary D. ( w ) , Marilyn Sue 10, John W. I l l 8J^, Barbara Ann 7, Patricia Maye 5, Mary Stuart 4. Jack is Maintenance Officer with VP-21 in Brunswick and at the time of our initial inquiry was deployed to Iceland.

"JIM W I N S T O N : 515 Wayland Ave., Providence, R. I. Gloria ( w ) , Samuel 7, Laurie 4, Theodore 2. Jim is Executive Vice President of the Paramount Line Greeting Card Publishers. Jim invites everyone to stop by if stationed or passing through the vicinity.

"BOB W H I T E G I V E R : 145 G Ave., Coronado, Calif. Shirley (w) Bobby, Bruce, Alelissa. Bob is on the Staff of ComNavAir Pac in Coronado.

"ERIC H O O P E R : Box 641, Apopka, Fla. Carolyn ( w ) , Linda 10, David 2yi.

"Hoop" is a farmer in Florida.

"DICK J O N E S : 58 High S t , Waterville, Maine. Thelma ( w ) , Ricky 8, Chuckle 6, Stevie 4, John S. 3, Susan 2. Dick is Acting Paper Mill Engineer of the Scott Paper Company, Waterville, Maine.

"Noteworthy recent developments are as "FRANK K E I T H : Box 981, Oak Harfollows: bor, Wash. Anne ( w ) , David 7, Peter 4, "BILL AICKLEN, 215 San Miguel Dr., Lucy 3. Frank is Operations Officer for Chula Vista, CaliL Margot ( w ) . Bill 7, VP-1, N A S Whidbey Island, Wash.

Bob 6, Andrew 5, Donald lyi. Bill is now " J I M L E H A Y E : 15 Village Dr., South, CO of the U S S DUVAL COUNTY ( L S T - Somers Point, N. J. Gloria ( w ) , Donald 758) and has orders to the Naval Academy. 10, Nancy 7, William 4. Jim is attached to He expected to report about 1 September VX-3 flying F8U-1 as a project pilot. He 1958. has flown in the new high altitude pressure "FRED B O U W M A N : VF-74 N A S suits. He had orders to AirLant in July Oceana. Ethel ( w ) , Sandra 4, Arthur 1. and expected to be assigned to a squadron Fred has just completed four years with in either JacksonviOe or Norfolk area.

VF-74 and had orders to T.P.T. Patuxent "DON L U T K E N : 1618 Pine Ridge PI., River in July.

Jackson, Miss. Melissa ( w ) , Melissa 10, "AL C A R P E N T E R : 13136 Dewey St., Isabel 9, Donald, Jr., 6, Lucie 3. Don is Los Angeles 66, Calif. Louise ( w ) , Carey Superintendent of Production for the Mis7, Emily 6. Al is a Research Engineer in sissippi Power and Light Company. Melissa had a bout with polio in 1955, but is OK Los Angeles. now. Don has invited all to drop in when "ED C A S E : 4510 Cheltenham Dr., passing through.

"ED W O O D : U S S SENNET (SS-408), Bethesda, Md. Rita ( w ) , Kathie 9, Connie " E M I L E M E I S E L : 466 Miramar PL, F P O New York. Joan ( w ) , Tom 6, Patty 8, Chris 7, Ed 5, Michael 4. Ed is a Nuclear Corpus Christi, Tex. Harriette ( w ) , Gary 4yi. Woodie is aboard the U S S SENNET Engineer with the Atomic Energy Commission in D. C. He has been with Admiral 5, Jody 3. "Meis" is a partner in the (SS-408) as Executive Officer, operating in the Atlantic."

Rickover for some time initially while in furniture business. " P A U L M I L L E R : 4969 Academy, San Aloha, service. He wrote that he "turned in the blue suit for the grey flannel suit in April Diego 9, Calif. Lucretia ( w ) , (jeorge, (s) ERNIE STACEY James 6, Randolph 2. Paul is an engineer 1957."

"DON E V E R E T T : 3912 Brookfield Rd., and has recently enjoyed visits from Stan MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION Ellen Campbell Stone was born on 8 Louisville, Ky. Ann ( w ) , Wynn 3. Don is Turner, Jim Stockdale, Wayne Warlick, Ed Case and Ace Adams.

July to "ROCK" and Joanne S T O N E , a Production and Methods Engineer.

"DEL N O R D B E R G : 5243 Poppy Dr., who now live at 1204 Long Hill Rd., "DAVE G A R D N E R : 7218 Maryland Ave., St. Louis 5, Mo. Anne ( w ) , Anne 5, Jacksonville 5, Fla. Jane W . ( w ) , Lynn Cheshire, Conn. Rock is teaching in the OCTOBER,

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N R O T C Unit at Yale and had to be on a summer cruise with his "boys" when the new baby arrived. This is the third girl for the Stones.

Received a change of address from Phyllis and "RED;' N I E D F E L D T . They now live at 2477 Winchester Ave., Apt. 109, Muskegon, Mich.

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C o r r . Sec'y, M a j . E . W . J a w o r s k i , USMC A p t . B-3, P e r r y Circle, Annapolis, Md.

The past month has been one of msmy changes in the class here in Norfolk.

F . W . BACON has received orders to Sturgeon Bay, Wise. His new job will be Naval Inspector at the civilian shipyard.

Bill and Kitty along with their three children planned to leave Norfolk early in September.

D. C. CARRUTH reports to VP-16 at Jacksonville to fly P2Vs. A. J. Y A T E S leaves this month for the Navy Test and Development Center at Johnsville, Pa. J E S S H O L S H A U S E R and ROGER GREGORY recently came to the area. Jess is based at Oceana and he, B. J. and their three children are living at Buckwood Gardens. Roger, Charlotte and their three children live at 6920 Forest View Dr. and Roger is at Breezy Point.

Many of us received an announcement of the 19 June wedding of F R A N K KNOCK to Carol La Chappelle of Portland, Ore. Our best wishes!

PARK RICHARD sends along the following letter from ALEX MARCHINI in Peru: Hi folks: "It might sound like a surprise to receive a note from Lima, Peru, with my name at the bottom of it, but being lazy and not having your address until a couple of days ago, I guess I did not get to write to my old buddies, R. P. and Jane and I imagine about half a dozen of Juniors and Janes together.

You might quote me, but since I left the U S N A and saw you last in Norfolk back in '48, I always have you as well as the rest of the old 20th Co. boys in my thoughts, and now that I have your address I decided to drop you a couple of lines and renew, at least for Xmas time, 'the old tales to be retold,' 'cause although the first of the year passed away already, I still have 11 more months to wish you, anyhow, a pleasant and very happy New Year, same for the whole Pritchard gang, from the item Marchinis.

We are four altogether, the last one (Charles) one year last week, was born in New London, a Yankee like you, so we call him 'chale,' slang for 'American,' where I come from.

"Since I saw you last, I have been back to the States three times, and to Spain and England, so no complaints about letting you know the world, but the utmost of my life happened over six years ago, when this citizen took bows with a Captain's daughter, now retired (the captain, that is) and blessed with two he-men wonderful boys.

Last time in the States was accompanied with the whole family, and being on submarines, it had to be to New London, where Letty (my wife), Alex, Jr., and Charlie enjoyed the company of Bill and Pat Rigot, on duty at the time at the Sub School; also had the opportunity of talking to Dan and Dotty Schockey on their way to Napoli, Italy, on duty, saw Bill and Audry Layman, and, of course, had the very 40

Greta and Susan have relocated at 413 Dewey Dr., Annapolis, and all are anxious to see any classmates passing through. Pete will be taking over the duties of corresponding secretary when he arrives and has high hopes of organizing news of the class by areas. I'll be assuming the duty as treasurer of our meager class fund.

It was nice to hear from WALT G R E C H A N I K in Mechanicsburg, Pa., and I appreciate his offer of helping locate other members of the 24th Co. Over Labor Day TOM GALBRAITH and DICK CROWLEY dropped in. Both "About the damn Navee, I imagine you are on N R O T C duty and were down at call her some times; have not been treated Quantico with their mids for six weeks of too bad at all, I haven't had a court-martial training. Dick is at Northwestern and Tom yet, and although we usually complain, we is at Penn State. Tom proudly announces just keep going, and making this tub sail the arrival of Susan born 31 July. Our like never did before, and so for my efforts Congrats to Tom and Ellie. (read it as you might imagine), I was JIM H A R R I S O N ( I I ) reports to the rewarded with L. Cdr. stripes, a couple of N. Y. Naval Shipyard for duty on the years ago.

INDEPENDENCE. Jim was formerly aboard "A few days ago, I run unto a March '57 the RAYMOND (DE-341) for 23 months as Shipmate, and saw your address, so here XO. He is now living at Fort Hamilton, I am, hoping to hear from you dropping Brooklyn, N. Y. into my ears the tales of Norfolk about the Pritchards and their doings : how is Syra• cuse nowadays, and the red hair, remember ? 1 9 4 8 - B E a s t Coast, "Well, Pritch, give my love to the whole L t . Bob Hanby, U S N 1720 Branchwood St., Norfolk 3, Va. family, best of luck and with my best W e s t Coast wishes."

pleasant time visiting with Nick and Jane Carter and their two wonderful children; we stayed more than a couple of times with them and although Jane and Letty had to talk to each other by sign language, they did all right. I guess when two women get together they can talk even if they don't open their mouth, same happened with Pat Rigot, and, of course, with Alex, Jr., and the Rigot and Carter children. Letty came back home very pleased with the acquaintances she made, and looks forward to meet all of you if we have a chance in the future.

We hope so.

ALEX

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L t . Gordon R. Engel, U S N 33 Ralston Dr., Monterey, Calif.

NORFOLK AREA Movements: We have to report that the following are still at sea: M I K E CHILDmand of the USS COATES ( D E - 6 8 5 ) for a RESS, JACK KAYS, S. K. MOORE, few training cruises prior to decommission- and DON ROSS, who are with the Aming her and placing her in the Reserve phibious Forces in the Eastern Med. Lost Training Program. Pete is on orders to again, but by no means forgotten, LEE the Academy and is due aboard early in E S T E S .

October for duty with the Seamo Dept.

We were happy to welcome back from Middie Cruise Bob Buechler, Nick Castruccio, Newt Key, Dan Nolen, and Karl Thiele. Harry Humphrey has gone back to North Carolina after a busy summer with FROM THE CHIEF the reserve midshipmen cruises.

OF NAVAL OPERATIONS Visitors: DAN N O L E N reports that he saw H U G H L O H E E D in the area briefly.

This column is intended to keep you Hugh had no dope for us from the Jackadvised about developments in our Navy sonville area. Why doesn't somebody write as it transits to the age of nuclear power from down there? and guided missiles.

My wife talked to Sally R I C E on the Views on areas that are particularly 'phone recently. She and the children are important or timely will be given. now located in Richmond. We hope to see As the weapon systems and equipment her soon. of our modern Navy grow more comOrders: JIM BRUNSON returned from plex, the problems of leadership also the Med., and, after leave in Alabama, he increase. In our new ships and aircraft, reported to the Staff, ComServLant in the men must still make decisions. They Plans Division here at Norfolk. DON must still act on these decisions. Only F O U L D S arrived on the West Coast with men can win battles. The efforts of the the RANGER to find orders awaiting him as men of the Navy must be directed by Exec of the CECIL ( D D R ) out of Norfolk. competent leaders from leading seamen The cruise around the horn must have been to the high command. great. Understand that while in Acapulco As any Navy, nuclear or conventional, Don caught a 100-pound sailfish. We surely will always depend upon its men, and should be hearing a lot of news from Key the men upon their leaders, we must West shortly. The group there will be enknow the qualities of good leadership. larged by two of our members: JACK I would like to stress one of these CONABLE and NICK NICHOLSON. qualities—integrity. This personal qualNick is going to the Aline Warfare Evaluaity of being honest, of having undivided tion Detachment down there. He had quite purpose and loyalty is a fundamental a trip from Norfolk to Key West—ask him requirement of any leader. Integrity is for details. expressed by adherence to principles— Stadium Fund: A well-deserved thanks and willingness to accept responsibility. to all hands, and most particularly to It is displayed by the leader who refuses GORDY ENGEL. We surpassed our class to "pass the buck." The leader who supgoal this summer and are assured of being ports direction and accepts responsibility able to dedicate chairs to our classmates. displays this vital quality.

Our hats are off to Gordy, who saw the Integrity is a must for all of us if we need and took on himself the job of conare or ever expect to be leaders. tacting all of us. He was the driving force ARLEIGH BURKE behind our fund. Many thanks, Gordy, and a big "Well Done."

BOB

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ANNAPOLIS AREA TOU and Swip W O O D S report the arrival of the third girl, Kimberly Reid, born 18 June. Tom and family are living at 8683 Elmtree Ave., Cincinnati 31, Ohio.

GORDY E N G E L reports from Alonterey that the Stadium fund goal for our class has been reached. We now have chairs for all the deceased classmates. Gordy will still be available to receive donations from those vvho still wish to send them in. The following is a Hst of deceased classmates for whom chairs have been obtained: Hugh Donald Adair, Ralph Wells Brown, Jr., John Doyle Caylor, Dewey Allen Ellis, Jr., John Asserson Fletcher, II, Ian Nairn Fraser, Hugh Hilton Goodwin, Jr., Harley Stafford Harris, Jr., William Harvey Keen, Robert Dale Reem, William Alexander Rogers, Jr., Richard Dana Schneider, Robert Howland Searle, Jack Royden Silvey, Don Richard Stevens, Charles Glasgow Strahley, James William Strother, Edward Paul Supancic, Robert AIcElfresh Tatum, David Randolph Thornhill. Robert Ernest Wainwright, Elbert Newman Wells, Stanwix Alayfield Williams, Harold Leo Robiner, Lawrence Hernandel, Jr. Contributions for the Stadium fund were received from: D. W. CuUivan, U S N , U S S CREV.\LLE (SS-291), SubBase, New London; J. DeGoede, 876 No. 1st, W. Oreno, Utah; J. B. Everngam, U S N , ComDesRon Two Staff, F P O N. Y.; Frank Fogarty, USN, 49 Boardsen Rd., Groton, Conn.; Bill Hintz, USN, R F D # 1 , S. Bartlett Rd., Quaker Hill, Conn.; E. A. Galium, U S N , VA 126, Det One, U S N A S No. Island, San Diego, Calif.; Clay Spaulding, 432 Lathrop Rd., Grosse Pt. 36, Alich.; George Leighton, USN, 144 Young S t , Ottawa, Ontario; Don Behrens, 13412 So. Raceland Rd., La Alirada, Calif.; Fred Nelson, U S N , 910 Cabrillo Ave., Coronado 18, Calif.; Harvey Rennacker, 3135 Asbury Ave., Arden Hills, Alinn.; Ed Sutter, 927 15th St, N.W., Wash. 5, D. C.; Richard T. Ambrogi, 237 Powell Lane, Upper Darby, Pa.; Frank Bowersox, 1221 East Ewing Ave,. South Bend 14, Ind.; Dean DeWitt, USN, 608 AlacArthur Dr., Colma, Calif.; Charles Fowler, Dept. of E E , USNA, Annapolis, Aid.; Dick Nicholson, U S N , 532 Fishermans Rd., Norfolk 3, Va.; Bill McClure, 509 College Ave., POBox 278, Alva, Okla.; C. L. Salum, 1033 S. Bradshawe Ave., Alonterey Park, Calif.

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Sec'y, Lt. Bruce I. Meader. U S N 5713 S. 2d St.. Arlington. Va.

FROM THE MAIL BAG F R A N K R E N T Z writes from Norfolk where he is Alain Propulsion .'\ssistant on the Alighty " I " ( U S S INTREPID, for the

benefit of you boys in blue). Peggy presented Frank with the first female addition to their family on 28 July; Alargaret Ann weighed in at 7 lbs. 12 oz. and joins brothers Chip (4) and Tommy ( 2 ) . Frank reports that he was shipmate with DANA E S T E S for about six months, but that Dana has now departed. Did he leave a change of address, Frank? All I have is a blank card for Dana and his reputed brood.

BOB COLEAIAN writes from Hamden, Conn., where he is an equipment engineer with the Southern New England Telephone Company. He has changed his local address to 81 Brown St. Bob and wife Pat have had frequent house guests in the persons of AL FINDLEY, his wife Sarah, and little .\llen, as they journey between Maine and Philadelphia. To bring you up to date, the Colemans have two daughters, Robin and Jennifer. Bob invites 5rers passing through to drop in.

ANY FLATTOP'S HOME ON A DARK NIGHT AL P H I L L I P S describes a recent meeting with BURT W E I S H E I T . I hope I don't embarrass Al, but the story is too good to remain untold. Seems as though Al found himself airborne one night out in WestPac, and being low on petrol and a long way from "mother hen," he felt fortunate on spying a roosting place through a break in the clouds. The landing strip Al spotted was the SHANGRI-LA, and he was

twice-blessed to have as his hospitable host (the L S O ) his friend and classmate Burt Weisheit!

EVERY MEMBER GET A MEMBER

If the above story wasn't meant to be published, I'm sure the quotation from Al's letter I'm about to give you wasn't either.

However, Al's words are so representative of the spirit of the Class of '51 which is sustaining our current Memorial Gate Drive that I hope Al will forgive me for quoting from a personal letter: ". . . Now I am in a better position to help a little, so I sent to the headquarters of the Memorial Stadium Drive a ten-dollar cash donation and a twenty-five dollar pledge for additional support. This, I believe, is my minimum, and I don't mind in the least curtailing a little liberty to be able to put into the fund a little more. . . . I hope the pangs of conscience that have plagued me all along will stir others of the procrastinators that have not yet committed themselves one way or the other."

The professor—JOHN F. McGREW— reports, among other things, his change of address to 1461 West Beverly Dr., Anaheim, Calif. John and Ann bundled up the children (Jeanie, 4, and Jim, 1) and traveled to Anaheim, which "is generally synonymous with Disneyland," where John has accepted the position of Boys' Vice Principal at Western High School.

FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE One of the more interesting-looking documents to pass my desk in recent weeks is the following from the wife of T E C SEASE, which I reprint in its entirety, not only for its content, but to show you what excellent chiefs-of-staff some of our wives are: "Dear Lt. Meader : "Please be advised that Lt. Hugh S. Sease, Jr., has changed his address from 5545 Fillmore Ave. Alexandria, Va. to 259 Brown's Lane Middletown, R. I. "He is executive Officer aboard the U S S HARTLEY (DE-1029).

"Very truly yours, / s / NANCY LEE SEASE"

Those attending Monterey at present are : GORDON R. ENGEL, 33 Ralston Dr., Monterey (1st year Aeronautical Eng.) ; HERB GATES, R t # 1 , 102 Oliver Rd., Mission Fields, Carmel (3rd year Aeronautical Eng.) ; R O B E R T E. M E L H O R N , 29 Via Contenta, POBox 365, Carmel Valley, Calif. (1st year Aerology).

"RED" M O R R O W is serving a tour with AIAG-Il in Atsugi, Japan. Barbara is still located at 1121 Leahy Rd., Alonterey.

Red received his Master's in Aeronautical Eng. prior to this new assignment.

PAUL

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The N E A L C L E M E N T S and Neal, Jr., Mack and Lisa are now stationed in Monterey, Calif., where Neal is attending the USNPGS (Nuclear Engineering). Their address is 3183 Vista Del Camino, Marina, Calif.

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N E W P O R T '51 CLAN GATHERS at the Portsmouth, R. I., home of Barbara and Joe Bircn for cocktails. Left to right they are (seated): Nina Hossfeld, Lil Eckert, Joe Biron; (standing): Joan and Jay Woodbury, Jim Hossfeld, Jane Howard, Darlyn Cruise, Dick Richardson, Charlotte and Mike lacona, Vic Wandres, Dick Eckert, and Barbara Biron. The young lady in the foreground (with back to camera) was not identified by photographer Ray Howard.

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St. Petersburg, Fla. On behalf of the class I extend our sincerest sympathy.

Lt. and Mrs. H A R R Y A. LACKEY II announce the birth of a son, Laurence James Lackey, on 17 August at Monterey, Calif. Harry and Betty have a daughter Valerie Ann, 4 ^ years of age. This is Harry's second year in the postgraduate school in the engineering department.

Mailbag: Full this month. First, a public apology to faithful readers who have expressed some concern over my health and welfare due to the fact that this column has CHANGES OF ADDRESS been rather skinny lo these past few months.

Aly only affliction is laziness ( I would like The following new addresses have come to plead overwork but my conscience forin with little or no additional news—largely bids).

I have letters from April which have as postscripts to the ballot postcards: gone unanswered, unmentioned, but not BOB MILLER, BuOrd S.P. 1151, Navy unopened. I'll tidy up my desk this month and keep current from now on (said the Department, Washington, D. C. navigator on the way to his court martial). , BASIL ORTOLIVO, Box 3793 A W S Anyway, I'm sorry and it won't happen Det 9, Oxnard AFB, CaHf. again. In rapid fire order, here's where SAM LATIMER, 734 Manzanita Ave., everyone is: DAN GARLAND sent along a $25 contribution to our gate from 4201 Sunnyvale, Calif.

Massachusetts Ave., N.W., Washington, ROSS W I L L I A M S , USS BARBEL (SS- D. C DICK HEDGES, starting his third 580), F P O New York. year of Aeronautical Engineering postSID B O W E N , U S S WALDO COUNTY graduate study, writes from Iowa State.

Dick, wife and two children will be living (LST-1163), F P O New York. at 3108 Story Ave., Ames, Iowa. BOB C H A R L I E DIERS, ECMl ( V Q l ) , H O L Z W A R T H (Reds), wife Dolly, sons F P O San Francisco.

Dick 3J^, Larry 2, and Steven 2 mos., are now living at 2000 E. Bataan Dr., Dayton, CHARLES KOSONON, Pepperrell Rd., Ohio. J O H N E S H M O R E , wife Mary and Kittery Point, Me. children, Steve 4J/2 and Cathy 2yi, are JIM (J. P.) MILLER, VA-196, F P O living at 1011 Halsey Dr., Monterey. John is attending the Gas Turbines course at the New York.

PG School. Incidentally, John enclosed a CHUCK RUSHING, 1241 Crescent Dr., $15 contribution to the Stadium fund. BOB Corpus Christi, Tex. H I L L (Lt. R. E.) writes from Box 6, ARCH CHURCH, Naval Mobile Con- Navy #116, F P O New York, enclosing struction Battalion 11, F P O San Francisco. a $25 check for the Memorial Stadium. Bob, as far as I know, is still a bachelor and NORM CARLSON, 1146 Dammert, I think his duty station is San Juan. MAC Lemay 25, Mo. MOSS wrote ages ago from California and T. P. (Tip) M O T T - S M I T H , 243 Ori- I can't remember if I mentioned it in a previous column or not, so to keep from noco St., Dayton 31, Ohio. overlooking anyone . . . Mac sought the F R A N K CONLON, BuOrd T.I.O., c/o "greener pastures" back in 1956 and is now Sperry Gyroscope Company, Marine Divi- working for the California Bank, 625 South sion, Garden City, N. Y. Spring St., Los Angeles 54, Calif. Mac, too, is a bachelor, one of the very few classBOB R E H W A L D T , 6369 Cherbourg mates remaining fancy free. TOM GRONRd., El Paso, Tex. LUND and wife Mimi announce the DON MOYER, Quarters R-94, San arrival of their second daughter, Laurie Francisco Naval Shipyard, San Francisco Elizabeth, on 4 July 1958. Tom is a civilian now, residing at 5031 N. Troy, Chicago 4, Calif.

25, 111. AL E N D E R L E writes from 14192 C H A R L I E NYQUIST, Box 2133, Ed- South Yorba St., Santa Ana, Calif., where wards AFB, Calif. he, wife Nancy, and the two boys are orange ranchers. Al resigned from the Air WHEREABOUTS UNKNOWN Force in 1954 and settled down to comThe count on returned newsletters has munity living, Kiwanis meetings, bowling, mounted to almost a hundred, including some which were remailed to the so-called "permanent address." If your address has changed, please let me know. Next time you see one of your classmates you haven't seen in years, ask him this question—"Did you let Bruce know?"

NEWS FROM GOTHAM For the past ten days your secretary has been in New York arranging the television coverage of the historic return of the NAUTILUS. While there, it was my privilege to work with many members of Admiral Wood's staff at ComThree, among which is BILL H E N N E S S Y who is aide to the Admiral. For almost a week Bill has been promising me a short biographical history of himself for inclusion in this column; look for it in the November issue.

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HARRY ALLEN PRIBBLE Once again it is my sad duty to report the death of a classmate and close personal friend, Capt. H A R R Y PRIBBLE, USMC. The F4D which he was piloting crashed shortly after takeoff on 28 June 1958 at the Marine Corps Air Station, Cherry Point, N. C. Harry's wife Clarada and four children (Karen, 5; Gwen, 2J/2; Janis, lyi; Robert Scott, 6 mos.) are living with Clarada's parents at 780 24th Ave. North, 42

etc., etc. Apparently is doing well . . . he sent along $15 for the Stadium. J I M D'ORSO, old buddy Jim, haven't heard from him for six years and all of a sudden I get a letter. Jim is in U S S BALAO (SS-

285) down Key West way. Jim and the Mrs., plus Mike Ayi, Kathy 3, and Christine 1 ^ , are settled at 40 Felton Rd., Key West, Fla. The $15 contribution to our Gate fund is on the way down to U S N A to join the other 7,000 bucks reposing there. HAVE YOU S E N T YOUR D O N A T I O N YET? DO I T N O W !

DICK P O H L I sends along $25 for the Stadium and informs us that he is now the Skipper

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rocking and rolling off the coast of Japan somewhere. You can reach him through the F P O San Francisco. BILL and Joyce SQUIER are recently arrived neighbors of ours. . . . Their new address: 4239 So. 32nd Rd., ArHngton, Va. H A N K and Nancy H A N N E G A N are the proud parents of a lovely little lady, Eleanor Carol, born on 10 July '58. Looks just like her mother, lucky girl. Seems Hke the baby season is upon us again. NICK and Alarian P O D A R A S announce the arrival of Nicholas Charles, Jr., on 1 June 1958. The Podaras clan is living at 613 Laura Dr., Falls Church, Va. "J. V." (2nd Company) and Ginny S M I T H welcomed Heather Ann in July, their second. J. V. is working for Westinghouse, Bettis Atomic Power Division, in Pittsburgh, and is Hving at 125 Slater Dr., Pittsburgh 36, Pa. Wedding Belts: Mr. and Mrs. Lyman Cox of Old Hickory, Tenn., have announced the marriage of their daughter, Emily Claire, to GEORGE P A T R I C K PAYNE, son of Mr. and Mrs. Redmon Payne of Franklin, Ky. The 4:30 P.M. ceremony took place on 20 September at the First Presbyterian Church in Old Hickory. The bride attended Bucknell University, was graduated from the University of Tennessee, and has been teaching for the past year in Orlando, Fla. Since his release from active duty, the bridegroom has been an engineer with General Electric Co. in Louisville, Ky., where the couple will make their home. Recognize that boy? Why, that's ol' "Gup" P A Y N E . . . H E DONE went and got hitched. I remember the "Gup" as the poor man's Early Morning Drag over W R N V . Congrats, George!

Washington-Baltimore-Annapolis: JAKE BROWN is skipper of the Reserve Training Submarine in Baltimore and I understand he's SOPA around Baltimore harbor.

J O H N DOL.A.N just arrived down at U S N A to teach math to the mids next year. The H A N N E G A N s , DOLANs and GURNEYs got together the other evening (and part of the following morning, as a matter of fact) to lay plans for Homecoming. While I'm on the subject of homecoming, I'll get ahead of myself for a change : I predict that this year's homecoming wa.s a huge success and largely due to the efforts of a small group of "professors" who organized and planned the whole affair for '52. Fred Kraft, Curt Wakeman, Vic Vine, George Brown and others have stirred up a good deal of interest in class activity and have provided a spark for our sputtering class organization. The letters you all got in the mail last month were entirely due to the efforts of the Annapolis crowd and BILL S H E E H A N . Bill assembled all the addresses for over 800 classmates (no small task, let me tell you) while CURT W A K E M A N and company addressed all the envelopes. W e are so close to the class Memorial Gate. . . . The margin of success over failure is simply two minutes of your time. Sit down right now and answer that letter, won't you?

SHIPMATE

Request Time: This seems Hke a good time to mention the business of corresponding secretary. I've had it now for almost V/i years, for over lyi years as a matter of fact, and I figure it's time to give someone else a chance. I make no excuses for what I didn't do . . . particularly in the area of class organization. I had hoped to start our class newsletter, trigger off a formal organization and boost subscription to this medium of class information . . .

Shipmate. None of the above has been done for one reason or another. This column reaches less than one classmate out of five.

Of the number it actually reaches I hear from less than one in ten. Using my battered old log log decitrig I compute that the interest level is about one in fifty or two per cent! That's such a familiar figure. . . .

I remember the two per cent who never got the word. The difference is that now it's the two per cent who get the word. I don't mean to propose that we give up the column and the attempts at organization and the other lofty projects simply because we can't get any support. . . . Even if this column only reached one-tenth of a per cent, that portion has a right to interesting, complete and timely information. . . . Only one trouble! Space in this magazine is allocated according to how many classmates subscribe. This is exactly as it should be and the Editors have been very kind to the Class of '52, permitting us more than our "rated" space on many occasions in an effort to stimulate circulation . . . no dice.

When an investment continues to draw diminishing return you invest elsewhere. I mention this because our subscribtion rate is very, very low. I keep telling the Editors that I've got tremendous circulation (I've even suggested that perhaps many of our classmates are borrowers so that for every subscriber there are actually three readers).

They are unimpressed and I can't really blame them. I'm not sure myself where the solution lies, if any. In the absence of any formal nominating agency or class organization, I throw the nomination for corresponding secretary up for grabs. There are two particularly able candidates I mention for consideration: W. F. S H E E H A N , who is on duty here in the Bureau of Naval Personnel and who has worked long and hard to compile our address file which is right up to date as of the moment; J A K E KERAIES, who is retired from the Navy and living in Annapolis where he represents the United Services Life Insurance Company and where has has been a staunch supporter of any and all class projects as well as enthusiastic contributor to this column. I believe that our class secretary should be in the Washington-BaltimoreArmapoHs area and that the job should be passed along as classmates are ordered in and out of the area. Take my word for it, being close to Alumni House with all its records and helpful people makes a big difference. I figure my term runs through December this year, after which time, and based upon your comments, I'll give some other chap a go at it. So, as they say on the TV . . . send in your postcard, no boxtop necessary.

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YOUR NON-MEMBER CLASSMATE can become a MEMBER and receive

SHIPMATE

by sending annual dues—$8.00—to Alumni House, Annapolis, Md.

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Sec'y, Lt. (jg) Joseph Malec, U S N Attack Squadron 12, FPO New York

GALVESTON CONTINGENT RAY H I N E and LEN D U F F Y both send in a report for the GALVESTON ( C L G 3), which is presently in the Philadelphia Shipyard. The roster of officers includes a good number of'55crs. ST./>kN S K O R U P SKI, Radio Officer (still a bachelor); BILL SYMPSON, Gunnery Fire Control Officer; LEN DUFFY, 1st Division Officer; JACK M U R P H Y , 2nd Division Officer (another bachelor) ; RAY H I N E , 3rd Division Officer. Bill, Marge, and son John Sympson, along with Len, Naomi, and son Tom Duffy, plus Ray and Judy Hine, are all living at Oakwood Manor, Evergreen S t , Woodbury, N. J. Anyone in the area is vifelcome to drop in to Oakwood Manor any time.

DICK P E T E R S O N , a recent New London grad, has just reported to the USS SARDA (SS-488) in the yard at Philly.

SONNY P E T E R S O N is living in Pittsburgh till their brand new home in Groton, Conn., is finished.

TOM P O T T E R is in Norfolk occasionally while attached to ComCruLant staff.

Thanks to Judy S T E M B E L for the news of the MIT group from the Class of 1955.

(Most of the material appeared in the August issue.) Judy says the wives of the MIT group are getting together and should be quite an active bunch. Keep sending material for the column as you get it, gals.

The Stembels' address is 27 Mott St., Arlington 74, Mass.

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represented by four '55ers. DOUG AIcCRIMMON is with VA-104 flying ADs; P A U L R I V I E R E is with VF-102 (F4D) ; J O E MALEC is with VA-12 (A4D) ; and F R E D CAMPBELL is with VAAW33 ( A D 5 N ) . Since DAVE S T E M B E L left the FORRESTAL, there are no classmates in the ship's company.

A new addition to the W I L L I A M S ' household announced by Lee and Percy is a 7 lb. 4 oz. boy, born on 2 August. John R. Williams covers the name. The Williamses are currently holding forth at 8816 Clint wood Ln., Lynnhaven, Va.

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Navy D a / — 2 7 October "U. S. Navy—Symbol of Diplomacy, Strength and Freedom," has been approved

by SecNav as the theme for this year's observance of Navy Day. In 1949 SecDef established Armed Forces Day in lieu of a day of observation dedicated to each service, but the internal observance of Navy Day is still retained within the Navy.

OpNav Instruction 5060.8 outlines policy for Navy Day observances.

In the past, the Navy League, Naval Reserve Association, and other community organizations have sponsored Navy Day activities. Naval personnel may accept invitations to speak and to be present in uniform at those activities. However, the use of bands, troops, equipment or aircraft in parades or ceremonies in the civilian domain is not permitted in connection with the observance of Navy Day. Fittingly, the Centennial Anniversary of the birth of Theodore Roosevelt will be observed in conjunction with this year's Navy Day activities.

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East Coast Pres.. Lt. (jg) M. F. Collier, U S N USS J. C. OWENS (DD-776), FPO New York West Coast Sec'y, Lt. (jg) W. S. Hull, U S N 103 Corona Ave., Long Beach 3, Calif.

T E D and Mona SHULTZ announce the birth of their daughter Laurel Elizabeth on 19 August at Seaside Memorial Hospital in Long Beach. They are living at 134 Gaviota Ave., Long Beach, and Ted is presently serving as the Executive Officer of

the

LAMOURE

COUNTY

(LST-883).

BYRON and Joan CYR are now in Gales Ferry, Conn., while Byron is attending Sub school and their address is Box #118, RFD # 3 .

BEN and Diane T H O M P S O N Hve at 5447 Sorrento Dr. in Long Beach; Ben is Chief Engineer aboard the EVANS. JIM and Ruth O W E N S are in the Belmont Shores Area, too, and their address is 34 Nieto Ave., Long Beach 3.

P O P P Y MILLER is attending Sub school; he and Janie are living at 72 Little Court, Groton, Conn.

CHARLIE COKER is serving in Korea with the Air Force. His present address is: Det # 2 , 588th TMG, APO 970, San Francisco.

FRANK GRAHAM is serving with VA-75 on the RANDOLPH. KEN COSTIL O W and A S H E R S I P E S are aboard the carrier, too. Frank and Doris have a baby boy, Scott Matthew, and they live on 615 Pacific Ave., Virginia Beach, Va. CHUCK K N E T T L E S and the former Carol Yates were married in May 1957; they are living on 110 Ranger, Apt. 232, Kingsville, Tex., while Chuck is finishing flight training with the Marine Corps.

JIM DICKEY has just left the Goss (DE-444) and is attending school in New York. From there he'll go to Sanford, Fla., where he'll be the Navy Exchange Officer at the Naval Air Station.

RAY S C H R E I N E R is flying S-2-Fs out of Quonset Point, R. I. F R E D LIND is in the same squadron; J O H N KIRKP A T R I C K is in VU-2 and V E R N O N BUSH is in an attack squadron.

JACK W A G N E R is aboard the U S S HANCOCK (CVA-19) serving in the Gunnery Department.

DON OGRAM has left Sub school and is now aboard the ALBACORE at Portsmouth, N. H .

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Corr. Sec'y, Lt. Roy F . Arnold, USMC H&S Co, 2Bn (Reinf), FOXTROT FPO New York

Your secretary wishes to thank all of you who have written letters. The incoming volume has been most encouraging and I regret that I have been unable to credit the source of the news I print. However, I think you will find most of your info spread throughout the column. Keep up the good work and try to get your buddies to renew their membership in the Association.

The next six months will find me back with the Navy in the Med, a circumstance which may cause a little delay in the appearance of some news in the column. If you will address your correspondence to me, 2/Lt Roy F. Arnold H&S Co, 2Bn (Reinf), F O X T R O T FPO, New York, N.Y I'll do my best to get it in on time.

ROY

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AIR FORCE NEWS Goodfellow Air Force Base: BILL H O D G E has orders to report to Brooks A F B at San Antonio where he will go to work in a C-131 hospital evacuation transport FLOYD S T U A R T will be flying an air-evac out of McGuire AFB, N. J. . . .

A R C H I E H E C K L E R will report to Randolph AFB in San Antonio on 9 October for three months of KC-97 training. Following that, Archie will be permanently stationed at Westover A F B . . . . Following nine weeks of advance training in SA-16s, G E N E DURBIN will be off to see his Alarine classmates on Okinawa. He'll be hanging out around the Naha BOQ if anybody is around. . . . DON CLARK is headed for a C-124 out over Dover AFB, Del. Don will have nine weeks of advanced training at West Palm prior to reporting to his permanent station. . . . J O H N R U S S E L L is headed for 17 days of survival training at Stead AFB near Reno, to be followed by five months at Helicopter school.

Laredo Air Force Base: 3 September was the day several of our classmates were scheduled to get their wings. Included were Wayne Smiley, Red Thomas, Johnny Worrell, Tom Timothy, George Thompson, Carmen Swenson, Roger Rothwell, Fred Federrici, and Doug Roysdon. . . . Roger Williamson, Dick Lally and Stan Bass are finishing up at Vance AFB, Okla. . . .

J. J. KELLY and P A T DOYLE are at Webb A F B , Tex. . . . DAN McGURL and GEORGE D E M P S E Y left the flying program, and went to OSI, George to Chicago and Dan to Bedford, Mass. . . . BILL M U R P H Y left the program and is attending the Weather School at Texas A&M, along with N E I L BATES. Neil, who transferred from Florida State University, married Miss Melinda Marshall while he was in Tallahassee. . . .

SHAWN S T E I N K E finished the Weather School at F S U and got married in Jacksonville, Fla., in June. . . . J O E K S Y C E W S K I left the flight program and is at Tullahoma, Tenn., in the Research and Development section.

BOB ROSENBERG, who is at Forbes AFB, Kan., just returned with his wife Margie from 21 days' leave in Honolulu.

Bob will report to Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, Ala., in January. Until January, Bob and Margie will be living at 1303 West 19th, Topeka, Kan. . . . J O E D O H E R T Y is now in Okinawa and his wife Ruth is waiting to go over in December. . . . J O H N and Lynn F U N K H A U S E R are in Sioux City, Iowa. They are expecting an addition in December. . . . T E R R Y and Ellie HOBBS are at Wright-Patterson in Dayton, Ohio. They are also expecting this fall. . . . BOB and Joyce PATRICK have moved into government quarters in Vv'^iesbaden, Germany. Their number is 67 Westfalenstrasse, mailing address, Hq. U S A F E , DCS/Intel, A P O 633, New York. . . . J O H N W R I G H T is also in Germany, being assigned to the 497th Reconn. Tech.

Sq., A P O 633, New York. P A U L HAMI L T O N is now at Wright-Patterson AFB, and is still single.

MARINE CORPS NEWS Sorry we don't have any info on which of our classmates made the Lebanon landings, nor about which ones may be involved in Formosa. Maybe that info will filter back later. . . . DICK SARGENT, JIM McGINN, TOM H A V E N S and J I M N O R T O N are now undergoing training at Pensacola. . . . BILL and Pat T I R S C H F I E L D and daughter Judith Lynn are now at Camp Pendleton. Bill played tennis for Quantico this past season and was quite successful. He says he would like to hear 44

from a bunch of the boys. Bill's address is Joyce and BOB P A T R I C K announce Box 6172, San Diego, Calif. . . . BILL that Sarah Elizabeth Patrick reported J E S S U P , who also played tennis for aboard on 3 August 1958.

Quantico, is now in Pensacola for flight ROY F . ARNOLD training. . . . T O N Y W A T E R B U R Y recently left for fourteen months on Oki- 1 9 5 8 â&#x20AC;˘ nawa. . . . BILL RODENBACH, BOB EAST COAST COCKELL and DICK C H E N A U L T are Pres., Ens. Charles R. Larson, U S N all at Camp Pendleton working with the BOQ, Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Fla. artillery. . . . When the trouble started WEST COAST in Lebanon, P E T E VASQUEZ, GEORGE Sec'y, Ens. John L. Higgins, Jr., U S N ROBILLARD and BUZZY B E A N S were Naval Air Basic Training, Pensacola, Fla. all rushed down to Camp Lejeune. . . .

J O H N BAER, J O E BYRNES, and ROY September is here, our graduation leave ARNOLD are on the Med Cruise which is over, and the Class of 1958 is reporting will be operating with the NELM forces to duty stations all over the world. The until sometime next March. fifty-two men on the Plebe Summer Detail at the Academy have just wound up what NAVY NEWS all hands termed "a very beneficial and TOMMY SAWYER is the DCA on the enjoyable summer." The work was very USS KEPPLER (DDE-765). Tom and Mary rewarding, and the Class of 1962 is ready Lee invite any of '57 to drop in and see to join our ranks. them at 2 Gibbs Ave., Newport, R. I. Tom Since the great number of graduation and just finished three months at DesLant June weddings, several more men have Afloat Engineering Officers' School. . . . taken the marriage vows. JACK SHAFER K E I T H H A S T I E , JIM BUCKNER, and Carol Smith were married 14 August DAVE COOPER and P E T E DIDIER at St. Mark's Episcopal Church in Cheywere also in the DesLant School. . . . After Wyo. Jack and Carol will be living ten months as a "snipe" on the ROANOKE, enne, BILL PALMER is now in Pre-flight in Pensacola, Fla., where Jack is underSchool in Pensacola. . . . K E N M E N E K E going his basic flight training. was 2nd Div. Off. and P E T E BAKER DAVE B E R T K E and Shirley Woodus Navigator on the ROANOKE, but they both of Edgewater, Md., were married in the left and went to Sub School. . . . J O H N Naval Academy Chapel on 16 August in a STACEY is boiler officer on the HELENA. beautiful two o'clock ceremony.

AL H A W O R T H is now at Pensacola. . . . " P E T E " W I E D E M A N N and Alice RON P R U E T T has returned to civilization, from Bikini, and is currently at Trone of Elkton, Md., were married at Waikiki. . . . DICK STOBER is now a the Naval Academy Chapel on 3 August. fully qualified "snipe" aboard the MACON. "Pete," who was supposed to be one of the . . . The last word we received on H A L confirmed bachelors of the Plebe Summer BULLOCK had him spending Christmas Detail, will be joining his ship, the USS down in Ethiopia. Does anyone know if he GREGORY, in WestPac. ever got back? . . . DAVE S M I T H is 2nd We have also heard from BARRY Div. Off. on the ANDERSON (DD-786).

"B. J." H O W A R D and six of our other Others in DesDiv 12 include PAUL Air Force classmates who are in Wichita P E T E R S O N on the ROGERS (DDR-876), Falls, Tex. Several of the bachelors there DAN R O U D E B U S H on DD-826, and FRED BRADLEY on the BAUSELL ( D D - have a quiet little home at 3905 Cynthia 845). . . . W A Y N E FRITZ is now Chief Lane.

Now that we are scattered to the four Engineer on the SWENSON (DD-729). . . .

DICK VOSSELER is gun boss on the winds, I know that we would like to keep DD-687. . . . RANDY and Mimi BROWN track of each other. Drop us a line now and have left Pearl for Sub School at New then and let us know about you and your London. . . . W I L L I E W E A V E R , J I M families so all of us can keep posted.

REID, and BOB LUKE are in the VA SILAS CLARK K A U G H E R T Y IV program at Corpus Christie. . . . GEORGE and Roberta Ann Hall were married in ANDERSON, BRUCE MECHLING, and ArHngton, Va., on 4 August.

JACK F I N L E Y are in the V F program.

Lupfor, Al Swanson, George Segelbacher . . . BRUCE GOBI and DAVE N O R T H and Larry Kauffman are doing very well are at Kingsville in the V F program. with the football team here at the Naval Air Station. One more piece of news, W A Y N E P U L L I N G and Carol Alcorn WEDDING BELLS were married in the N.^S Chapel, PensaCarolyn Wolfe and K E N N E T H HAR- cola, 5 September.

RISON were married last March at the U. S. Naval Academy Chapel. . . . Artis McCrum and BOB P R U E S S were married in August. . . . Miss Sylvia O'Neal became When the U S S NAUTILUS made her Mrs. W A Y N E SMILEY at a wedding in historical voyage from Pearl Harbor to Tampa on 6 September.

Europe via the North Pole, establishing a potential "Northwest Passage," staNEW MEMBERS isticians came up with the following Nancy and J I M GALLAGHER are the figures : proud parents of a baby son born 4 Via June 1958 and named Timothy Alichael Normal North Miles Gallagher.

Route Distance Pole Saved London-Tokyo 11,200 6,300 4,900 Lt. and Mrs. ROBERT B. MORROW, Jr., announce the birth of their first child, Seattle-Oslo 9,300 6,000 3,300 a son, Kenneth Robert. The baby was born Edinburghon 27 July.

Vancouver 9,100 6,000 3,100 Mary Lee and TOM SAWYER were Quebec-Tokyo 10,700 8,700 2,000 blessed by a happy event on 15 April.

Hamburg-Taiwan 10,100 8,100 2,000 Name: Stephen Daniel Sawyer.

These figures conclusively demonstrate Kendra and BILL PALMER have a the advantage of submarine polar routes baby daughter, born 10 April. Kendra Anne in future use by both Navy and comPalmer, 7 lbs. 6 oz., was born in Long mercial traffic.

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NAVAL MEDICAL CENTER'S BIRTHDAY TEA

Over one hundred ladies, both Junior and Senior, donned their summer finery and made their way to Quarters A, National Naval Aledical Center, Wednesday, 13 August 1958, to pay tribute to the Naval Hospital JANGOs on their first birthday.

Those who were undeterred by the warm day were charmed by the tea held from three to five. It was truly lovely.

Mrs. Bartholomew Hogan, wife of the Navy's Surgeon General, who graciously lent her home and garden for the occasion, welcomed everyone as she stood at the head of a receiving Hne which included Mrs. Curtis LeAIay, Airs. Arleigh Burke, and Airs. Frank Gilmore, Airs. William Druckemiller and Airs. E. Richard King. The last two mentioned ladies are past and present chairmen of the JANGO Nurses Aid Training Program at the Naval Hospital.

While Navy musicians played background melodies, photographers snapped pictures, and those assembled chatted until four o'clock when the band struck up "Happy Birthday." Aliss Pat Hanavan, daughter of L t Cdr. and Airs. R. J. Hanavan, and president of the Junior JANGOs, cut the cake with Admiral Hogan's sword. The sword and cake were decorated with JANGO and Navy colors. Floral arrangements in the same tones were centerpieces for the refreshment tables where fruit punch and canapes were served.

Twenty-three trainees have been capped at the Naval Medical Center in the past year. These girls, with a few who have transferred from Doctor's Hospital Guild, have put in a total of 5,359 hours, an excellent record. A new class of twenty girls, ages 14-21, will start their training 27 September 1958 under Mrs. E. Richard King, Mrs. John Jones, and Mrs. James Young.

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club. Mrs. Andrews will replace Airs.

Harry D. Johnston who has acted in that capacity for the past sixteen months.

W a s h i n g t o n , D. C.

The Naval Officers' Wives Club will hold its first meeting of the season Thursday, 2 October, at the .'Vrmy-Navy Country Club.

Coffee will be served at 10:30 A.AI. and at 11 :45 the National Millinery Institute will present a hat show using eight of the members as models. Their presentation is to be built around traveling with hats for every occasion. Hostesses will be DCNO (Operations) wives with Mrs. Thomas S. Combs, wife of V. Adm. T. S. Combs, U S N '20, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations, as senior hostess. This initial meeting will give all members of the N O W Club an opportunity to join any of the various activity groups, such as the United Nations Study group, and the art gallery tours.

The November luncheon will be held at the Shoreham Hotel on the sixth.

Norfolk,

Va.

A Silver Tea on Thursday, 25 September, at 3 P.M., at the home of Mrs. F. Massie Hughes ('24), wife of the Commandant of Fifth Naval District, marked the opening of the Fifth Naval District Officers' Wives Club for the 1958 fall season. Among those greeting guests, along with Mrs. Hughes who is President of the club, were Mrs. A. J. Fay, Chairman ; Mrs. Russell Klingenmeier. Temporary Co-Chairman; Mrs. Hugh H. Lewis, Hospitality Chairman; Airs. Robert B. Conaughty, Treasurer; Mrs. Harold F. Crist, Secretary; and Mrs. Dana B. Gushing, Publicity Chairman.

Many new members were welcomed and plans made for another successful year.

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Mr. Emmet Daly, Assistant Attorney General, State of (lalifornia, was guest speaker at the regular luncheon meeting of the Naval Officers' Wives Club held on Wednesday, 7 September, at the Commissioned Officers' Aless, Treasure Island.

Mr. Daly's subject was: "Juvenile Delinquency. What You and I Can Do About It." Mr. Daly is a recognized authority on alcoholism, narcotic addiction and juvenile delinquency.

Mrs. Maurice E. Curts, wife of V. Adm. M. E. Curts, USN, is chairman of the group of Western Sea Frontier officers' wives who were hostesses for the luncheon. R. ADM. GEORGE L. RUSSELL '21, ComSocial hour began at noon; luncheon at mandant of the Twelfth Naval District, awards a special pin to Mrs. Earl B. Hunt, one o'clock. an honorary member of the Naval Officers' Mrs. John R. Redman, club president, Wives Club, Treasure Island, San Franhas announced that Mrs. Richard S. An- cisco. The award was made to honor Mrs. drews, wife of Capt. R. S. Andrews, USN, Commanding Officer of the U. S. Naval Hunt on the completion of six hundred Station, Treasure Island, has accepted the hours of volunteer work on behalf of Navy Relief. appointment as Program Chairman for the O C T O B E R ,

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A N A V Y WIFE'S LETTER TO HER HUSBAND

One of the first operations of the Civil War was an amphibious expedition involving 23 warships and 54 transports and supply vessels with 14,000 troops embarked, in October 1861 this expedition sailed from New York and Annapolis to seize an anchorage for a naval base on the South Atlantic Coast.

A few weeks later, on 7 November 1861, this force under the command of Flag Officer Du Pont, USN, reduced the forts at the entrance of Port Royal harbor, S. C. The naval part of the expedition sailed from New York. Two weeks before this.

Airs. Du Pont joined the Flag Officer for a last few days together. When the squadron sailed she felt as do all Navy wives vdio have seen and still see their men sail away. It is hardly possible, however, that any have ever expressed this feeling with the earnest warmth of this letter which was recently found among the Admiral Du Pont papers in the Longwood Library at Kennett Square, Pa. Wednesday night Oct'r 16th 1861 My beloved husband . . . You know I had left all my packing" to do after you went, purposely and that obliged me to be very busy till it was time to go. Charley told me if we went at 1 oclock we might see the WABASH sail!

This had never occurred to me! And if it had, I would probably have thought that it would be only painful. But after you were gone, the thought of at least seeing your abode, seemed a comfort I was eager for,, and we accordingly got ready to go at that hour. . . .

When we got on board the steamboat, we saw the WABASH had her anchor in,

and

was ready to move. It was a perfectly" beautiful sight to see all the gunboats and other ships, and I was so glad we had come, it cheered me so to think I was looking at your ship and sharing in what was then interesting you.

Charley asked the Capt. of the steamboat if he thought we should see the WABASH: better when we got underway. He said "Oh yes," and he thought of taking the outer passage, where we could have a fine view of the ships. Charles told him the Commodore's wife was on board and he thought she would be much gratified if he did so.

There were others on board of the same mind, Mary Goldsborough among them, and whether on our account or his own the Capt did take the outward passage. I went on the upper deck with Charley, and we had the most splendid view of the bay, with your ship going out, the others following.

We passed so close to the FLORIDA that Alary Goldsborough recognized her husband.

The salute from the fort we saw, and were just coming opposite the WABASIT when she returned the salute. You can't think how beautiful she looked, or how fine the effect of the salute was where we stood. It was a great gratification to me tosee it and know just what was occupyingyou all on board.

I watched the ship for an hour and felt as if you were not gone, while ever I could see those masts along the horizonâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;but when the last dark speck had sunk, and left unbroken the long leaden line of sky and sea.

I would have given a good deal to take a good cry. Still, dear husband, it did me much good, this seeing you off. I felt how good our heavenly Father, to have given me this comfort so unexpectedly. . . .

Ever yr own Sophie 45

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ASSOCIATIOI iSwic^ A64ccia;Uc*u

AKRON

CLEVELAND

LOS ANGELES

President, Mr. Arthur Blough '24, Salway Rd., North Canton 20, Ohio.

Secretary, Mr. Carlton B. Coen '34, 1419 Yale Ave., N.W., Canton 3, Ohio.

President, Mr. Raymond G. Herzberger, Jr. '42, 15315 Lorain Ave., Cleveland 11, Ohio.

Secretary, Mr. Harry C. Hummer '32, 15123 Esther Ave., Lakewood 7, Ohio.

President, Cdr. H. Knox Perrill, USN ( R e t ) '26, 359 S. Westgate Ave., Los Angeles 49, Calif.

Secretary, Lt. Donald L. Shield '47, 454 North Camden Dr., Beverly Hills, Calif.

COLORADO President, Mr. Joseph J. Schmidt '43, 723 Fillmore, Denver, Colo.

Secretary, Mr. Joseph Shoemaker '48A, Holland & Hart, Equitable Bldg., Denver 2, Colo.

MIAMI

ANNAPOLIS President, Capt. Warren C. Hall, USN, Chief of Staff, USNA, AnnapoHs, Md. Secretary, Capt. A. J. Greenacre, U S N (Ret.) '26, 92 Duke of Gloucester St., Annapolis, Md.

ATLANTA President, Capt. D. C. Redgrave, Jr., U S N (Ret.) '20, 2677 Ellwood Dr., N.E., Atlanta, Ga. Secretary (Acting), R. Adm. Francis J. Alee, U S N (Ret.) '22, Apt. 81, 210 North Ave., N.W., Atlanta, Ga.

President, Capt Curtis A. Myers, USN (Ret.) '27, 901 S. Miami Ave., Miami, Fla. Fla. Secretary, Cdr. Elmer C. Powell, USNR '27, 3622 Lejeune Rd., Coral Gables 34, Fla.

MILWAUKEE

CONNECTICUT

President, Mr. Mark N. Camp '46, 208 E. Wisconsin Ave., Milwaukee 2, Wise.

Secretary, Mr. James H. Wheeler, 5906 N. Port Washington Rd., Milwaukee 17, Wise.

BALTIMORE NEW ORLEANS President, R. Adm. J. R. Johannesen, President, R. Adm. Thomas J. Ryan, Jr., U S N (Ret.) '23, 309 Dixie Dr., Towson 4, DETROIT USN (Ret.) '21, 701 Exposition Blvd., New Md. President Lt. Cdr. Norman O. Wynkoop, Orleans 18, La. Secretary, Mr. E. C. Olson '46, 102 U S N R '41, 5440 Brookdale St., BirmingSecretary, Mr. David P. Levy '45, 5016 Meadowvale Rd., Lutherville, Md. Warrington Dr., New Orleans, La. ham, Mich.

Secretary, Mr. Philip B. Fairman, 20259 NEWPORT BOSTON President, R. Adm. William H. Buracker, Weyher Ave., Livonia, Mich.

President, Cdr. Benjamin B. McCormick, U S N (Ret.) '20, 600 Park Square Bldg., HAMPTON ROADS USN (Ret.) '92, Wellington Ave., NewBoston, Mass. port, R. I. President, Capt. G. E. T. Parsons, USN Secretary, Lt. Cdr. Horace P. Rounds, Secretary, R. Adm. Thomas M. Shock, '34, 474 Pocohantas St., U. S. Naval Base, U S N R '32, 112 Needham St., Newton USN (Ret.) '13, 6 Greenough Place, NewNorfolk 11, Va. _ Highlands, Mass.

Secretary, Lt. (jg) Joseph L. Greenwood, port, R. I. CHARLESTON Jr., USN ( S C ) , BOQ A-S2, Room 212, NEW YORK President, Lt. R. T. Perry, USN (Ret.) Naval Base, Norfolk 11, Va. President, Henry L. Parry, USNR '50, The News and Courier, 134 Columbus (Ret.) '22, 423 E. Shore Rd., Great Neck, HOUSTON St., Charleston, S. C. L. I., N. Y. President, Mr. J. R. McGonigle '39, 2025 Secretary, Mr. Spencer A. Barrow '50, CHICAGO Banks, Houston, Tex. H. Barrow Co., 24 Moore St., New York President, R. Adm. Henry W. Goodall, Secretary, Lt. J. A. Lee, USN '46, Navy 4, N. Y. U S N (Ret.) '24, c/o Mississippi Valley Recruiting Station, Houston, Tex. Assoc, 28 East Jackson Blvd., Chicago 4, NORTH TEXAS 111.

President, Cdr. Wm. A. Taylor, USNR INDIANAPOLIS Secretary, Lt. (jg) Lewis B. Herrington, President, — .— .— —. '28, 1st FL, Magnolia Bldg., Dallas 2, Tex. Jr., U S N (Ret.) '24, 209 South LaSalle Secretary, Mr. Robert C. Binnion '50, Secretary, Mr. Robert McMurray '22, 725 St., Chicago 4, 111. c/o The Trane Co., 2511 N. Haskell, E. 57th S t , Indianapolis, Ind. Dallas 4, Tex. CINCINNATI PENINSULA President, Cdr. Anthony Talerico, Jr., KANSAS CITY President, R. Adm. C. J. Wheeler, USN President, Mr. Edwin M. Chapline '48, U S N (Ret.) '35, 3442 Zumstein, Cincinnati 3414 W. 73rd Terrace, Kansas City 15, Mo. (Ret.) '16, 1850 Oakdell, Menlo Park, Calif.

8, Ohio.

Secretary, Mr. B. D. Arthur '41, 1646 Secretary, Mr. D. W. Gilmore '35, 1250 Secretary, Cdr. V. E. Gex, U S N R '40, West 61st Terrace, Kansas City, Mo. Davis St., Apt. 16, San Jose 16, Calif.

68 Reilly Rd., Cincinnati 15, Ohio.

President (Acting), Lt. Joseph F. Hellauer, U S N R '27, POBox 202, Newton, Conn.

Secretary, Lt. (jg) William L. Shea, U S N R '48A, 15 Glendale Rd., Thompsonville. Conn.

MEETINGS AKRON: Diimer meetings held on the 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 mouth at the Commissioned Officers' Mess of the Naval Air Station, Atlanta, at 1930.

BALTIMORE: Meetings held on the Third Tuesday of each month at the Hotel Stafford, Baltimore, Md., at 5:30 p.m.

BOSTON: Meetings held first Tuesday of each month, September through May, except September and January on second Tuesday. 1215. Navy Building Officers' Club, D Street, South Boston, Mass.

CHICAGO: Regular monthly dinner meetings held on First Friday of each month at 6:30 p.m. at Naval Armory, Randolph St. CLEVELAND: Meetings held at 12:00 Noon at the Hickory Grill, Second Floor, 929 Chester Ave., Cleveland, Ohio, on the Third Monday of each month.

COLORADO: Meetings held at irregular intervals in Denver. For information call Keystone 4-4151, Ext. 8488 or West 5-6164.

CONNECTICUT: Chapter meetings are held quarterly at prearranged places around the State. Members are notified by mail 2 wceka prior to the meeting.

DETROIT: Meetings held quarterly at the Naval Armory.

HAMPTON ROADS: Meetings are held on the Third Thursday of each month at Commissioned Officers' Mess (Open), Naval Station, Norfolk, Va. HOUSTON: Luncheons held on the First Tuesday of each month at the Ben Milam Hotel.

KANSAS CITY: Irregular dinner meetings. Contact Mr. Pat L. Humphrey, "29, 3616 63rd St., Kansas City 13, Mo. LOS ANGELES: Dinner meetings held on First Wednesday of each month, 6:30 p.m., at locations selected by entertainment committee. Phone: NROTC University of Southern California. Richmond 8-2311 Ext. 226.

MIAMI: Regular luncheon meeting held on Last Friday of each month at 12:15 p.m. on 3rd Floor, Walgreens, 200 East Flagler St., Miami. Dinner dances held as announced. Touring Alumni always welcome. Contact secretary.

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MILWAUKEE: Meetings held quarterly. For information contact Lt. Cdr. L. B. Knudsen, SC, USN, Phone: BRoadway 2-5901.

NEW ORLEANS: Noon, Second Tuesday, International House. Contact John W. Sharp. Canal 1303.

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. I. NEW YORK: Luncheon meetings on the Third Tuesday at 12:30 p.m In November, January, April and June in the Marine Room, Lawyers' Club, 115 Broadway; in December, February and May in the Butler Room, Columbia University Club, 4 W. 43rd St., New York.

NORTH TEXAS: Luncheon meeting. Second Thursday of each month, 12:30 p.m.; RONS Club (above Emmett's Restaurant), 3817 Lemmon Ave., Dallas, Texas.

PHILADELPHIA: Dinner meetings are usually held on the Second Friday of each month at the Officers' Mess, Naval Base.

PITTSBURGH: Regular monthly meetings of the Chapter are held on the evening ot the Third Friday of each month, except July and August, in the Sherwyn Hotel, Pittsburgh, Pa. RICHMOND: Quarterly dinner meetings held on the First Friday Nights of October, December, February and April. Contact J. L. Gammon, 369 Lexington Rd. ROCHESTER: Regular luncheon meeting at 12:15 p.m. on Second Monday of each month at Chamber of Commerce.

SAN DIEGO: Regular dinner meetings held one each quarter in Coronado or Sau 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.

SEATTLE: Meetings held on the First Wednesday of each month at 6:00 p.m.; COM. (Open) Naval Station, Pier 91, Seattle, No meetings during July and August.

WASHINGTON, D.C: Monthly luncheons held the Third Thursday in the month, 12:30 p.m.. Army and Navy Club, Farragut Square & Eye St., N.W., Washington 6.

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB: Meetings held the Third Friday of each month at Officers' Mess, Wright-Patterson AFB.

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PHILADELPHIA President, Capt. T. M. Dell (Ret.) '21, Wynnewood Plaza, Apt. 203, Wynnewood, Pa. Secretary, William B. Cooly '19, A p t 17-C, Wissahickon Ave. & Manheim St., Philadelphia 44, Pa. PITTSBURGH President, Capt. E. C. Rook, U S N (Ret.) 74, 1301 Alurray Ave., Pittsburgh 17, Pa. Secretary, Cdr. William C. Richardson (SC) U S N '42, Box 107, Pittsburgh 30, Pa.

BRANCH TWIN CITIES

After an inactive period of about 10 years, the Twin City Alumni Association is being reformed, according to an announcement from Robert D. Cousins ('43). At a Reactivation Committee luncheon on 25 August, tentative plans were discussed and arrangements made RICHMOND for the first official meeting of the new President, Cdr. J. P . Moncure, U S N group on 25 September at the U. S. (Ret.) '20, 203 Nottingham Rd., Windsor Naval Air Station, MinneapoHs. Farms. Richmond 21, Va. The Reactivation Committee, consistSecretary, Lt. Cdr. Joe L. Gammon, USN ing of Thomas L. CarHn ('44), Richard (Ret.) "43, 369 Lexington Rd., Richmond Gehring ('47), Rosser H. Matson ('25), 26, Va. Donald W. McCarthy ('44), WilHam F. Jacobs ('43), and Harvey E. Rennacker ROCHESTER ('48-B), elected Robert Cousins tempoPresident, Cdr. William Carpenter, U S N rary Chairman and Harvey Rennacker '40, NROTC Unit, University of Rochester, Acting Secretary.

Rochester 20, N. Y. A roster of approximately 75 names Secretary, Lt. Henry B. Nix, U S N '51, of Academy graduates thought to be NROTC Unit, University of Rochester, residing in the Twin City area was Rochester 20, N. Y. scanned and then divided among the members of the committee for contact SM4 DIEGO President, Air. C V. Wilhoit '46, 3541 purposes. All individuals will be called by the committee in preparation for the Lord St., San Diego 10, Calif.

25 September meeting. It will feature a Secretary, L t Joseph J. Devlin '43, 5043 social hour and dinner, starting at 6 :00 Milton S t , San Diego 10, Calif. p.m. Future plans include an ArmyNavy T V party and special quarterly SMI FRANCISCO meetings.

President, Capt. David D. Wight '24, Tom Carlin was asked to handle the 3 Sequoia Way, Redwood City, Calif. arrangements and publicity for the 25 Secretary, L t ( j g ) Ray Dix, USN ( R e t ) September kick-off meeting.

'45. 95 Lancaster, Kentfield, Calif.

SEATTLE President, Mr. J. T. Bradshaw '27, 12759 Palatine Ave., Seattle 33, Wash.

Secretary, Capt S. J. Major, 2607 West Galen S t , G-5, Seattle 99, Wash.

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB President, Maj. Charles F. Merz, U S A F '43, 71 (Tircle Dr., Fairborn, Ohio.

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meeting be changed to a day meeting at the regular time at International House and the above mentioned party substitute for the November ladies' night.

An entertaining speech was made by Cdr. E. B. Arroyo, U S N (Ret.), on his recent visit to Europe.

The members present expressed their appreciation to Commander Arroyo for his speech. By unanimous vote the meeting was adjourned.

DAVID P. LEVY '45

Secretary SAN DIEGO The San Diego chapter held a dinner meeting for members and wives at the Admiral Kidd Commissioned Officers' Mess on Friday, 1 August, with 88 members and ladies present.

Dinner was served in the main dining room where, in addition to the regular dance band, entertainment was provided by the Naval Training Center Choir, an outstanding vocal group which rendered a medley of sea chanteys and, of course, included "Navy Blue and Gold."

Later in the evening the documentary film "The Annapolis Story" was shown in the Bamboo Room. Judging by the reception to this mixed meeting, many future meetings will be held with wives attending.

With 1,275 names on our maiHng list, many on active duty, it is not feasible to prepare annual rosters similar to those excellent booklets prepared by the Los Angeles and Detroit chapters. The San Diego chapter, however, is providing each member with a sheet of Navy and Academy decals.

LOS ANGELES

The following is the report of the September meeting of the Los Angeles chapter of the Alumni Association: The Los Angeles chapter of the U. S. ST. LOUIS Naval Academy Alumni Association met Vice President, Mr. Robert W . Murch at the Nikabob Restaurant in Los An'42, Murch-Jarvis Construction Co., 718 geles on the 3rd of September 1958 for a social hour at 1830 followed by dinner at Locust St., St. Louis 1, Mo. Secretary, Lt. Cdr. Robert F. Deibel, Jr., 1930. After dinner a very interesting talk was given by Reverend Robert E. (Bob) '39, 900 Crescent Dr., Clayton 5, Mo. Richards, Minister-at-large, Church of the Brethren, on Observations on Russia and ST. LOUIS MIDSHIPMEN Athletics. The meeting was attended by 47 DAD'S CLUB members and their guests.

Chairman, Mr. A. L. Hunt, 7611 North Any alumni arriving in the Los Angeles Sunset Dr., Normandy 21, Mo. area are urged to contact the President of Vice Chairman, Mr. E. R. Kretschmar, the local group, Cdr. H. Knox Perrill '26, 42 Oak Park Estates, St. Louis 24, Mo. at STanley 7-3826 or the Secretary, D. L. Shield '47, at CRestview 5-6181.

WASHINGTON, D. C. President, V. Adm. George H. Fort, USN ( R e t ) '12, 3537 Edmunds St., N.W., Washington 7, D. C. Secretary, R. Adm. S. P. Smith, U S N (Ret.) '25, Room 615 Investment Bldg., 1511 K S t , N.W., Washington 5, D. C.

ACTIVITIES

NEW ORLEANS Minutes of meeting held on 4 September 1958: Hardy B. Fowler, Chairman of Entertainment Committee, reported that the October meeting was tentatively scheduled to be a joint meeting with the West Point Group at the St. Charles Hotel.

A motion was made and seconded and was unanimously approved that the joint Naval and West Point Associations gathering to witness the Army-Navy game on television be held at Alvin-Callender Field Officers' Club.

An expression was tendered by the members present that there be no outside guests other than Alumni and their lady guests at the above mentioined affair.

The motion was made and seconded and unanimously approved that the November

SAN FRANCISCO There is an informal lunch meeting for Academy graduates at the Canterbury Hotel, 750 Sutter St., San Francisco, at noon on the last Monday of each month.

This is a get-together of members who work in San Francisco. Some attend the alumni meetings in San Francisco and others attend the Mid-Peninsula group. We have been getting together for about four months with about ten people in attendance, most of them graduates within the past IS years.

NEIL D . CHAITIN 'SO

ARTICLES WANTED If you have a good idea burning inside of you.

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Why not Write It Up For SHIPMATE Honorariums paid at about two cents per word, depending on merit.

Limit on length, 3,000 words The editors are particularly anxious to have such material from Active Duty Officers

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^^>^^ HOUSING A N N A P O L I S , Md. For sale, almost new split level. 3 bdrms., lg. closets, 1% baths. Panelled recreation room. Oil hot air heat. Screened porch.

Over acre beautiful wooded lot. Privacy. Pendennis Mount near Academy and all bus lines.

Fair asking price. Mrs. Hugh B. McLean ('24).

CO 8-1546. (VII)

A N N A P O L I S , Md. For Sale. 3 bdrms, liv rm, dining rm, kitchen, 2 baths, lovely sun porch, jalousied windows, hardwood floors, Venetian blinds, screens and storm windows, 2 fireplaces.

Lot 100' X 200'. Brick front, stucco. Located 10 min from Annapolis, schools and shopping within easy reach. Fine neighborhood. Available 30 days from sale. $18,500. Mrs. George H. Lyttle, 1966 Fairfax Kd. (VII)

A N N A P O L I S , Md. For Sale. Admiral Heights, three bdrms, 1% baths, split level. Liv rm with fireplace, dining rm, kitchen, pine paneled rec rm, util rm, garage. Near school and Naval Academy. Lt. Cdr. John C. Hufft. 103 Simms Dr., Tel. c o l o n i a l 8-1408. (VII)

F A L L S CHURCH, Va. Completely air-conditioned 5-yr-old antique brick Cape Code for sale.

2 bdrms 1 bath main floor. Lge bdrm and bath upstairs. Full basement completely tiled. Lot 50' X 241'. Quiet wonderful backyard, maple tree, apple tree etc. % block to buses to new Fairfax County Elem School or High School. Public buses to DC 1 block. 5 min to new 7 Corners Shopping Ctr. SO min to Main Navy. $18,500. Can assume my 25-yr 4^/^% in service loan. Available 1 Oct. Cdr. W. S. Brown, 202 E. Woodlawn Ave. Phone J E 3-9570. (VIII)

MONTEREY, Calif. For Rent. Available 1 July through 1 October. 3 bdrm ly^ bath unfurnished house. Mission Fields, Carmel. Cdr. D. M. Miller, 1427 6th, Coronado, Phone HEmpstead 5-8786 or Monterey FRontier 5-5223. (VIII)

NORFOLK — Colonial place. For sale — comfortable 4 bdrm, 1% bath, living rm with fireplace, separate dining rm, music rm, library, kitchen, pantry, basement and storage attic.

Newly decorated, new modern heating system, Venetian blinds and awnings throughout. Fenced and landscaped yd, city utilities. Conv to Norfolk's best parochial and public, elem and high schools. Excellent shops nearby and conv to CinCLantFlt HQ, Staff College and Naval Base with no traffic problem. Price $12,500, low down payment. Available July. Capt. P. R. Schratz, 710 W. 37th St., Norfolk.

NORFOLK, Va. House for rent furnished for tlie period 1 Sept. '58 to 1 March '59 (will adjust to accommodate Armed Forces Staff College Course). Forest Park, located on lg wooded lot.

Split level, living rm, dining area, kitchen on middle level; three bdrms, 1% baths on upper level, large den, utility rm, % bath, garage and porch on lower level. (Completely furnished.

Faciities will include dish washer, disposal, washing machine, irrigation pump for lawn, power lawn mower, 2 TVs. Rent $176. Rentor to assume billing for all utilities. Lt. Cdr. G. H. Gardner, Jr., U S N , 8344 Woody Ct., Norfolk 3, Va. (VII)

NORFOLK, Va. For Sale. Larrymore Lawns— 4 bdrms, Zyi baths, split level; air-conditioned master bdrm 20x13 with two closets, one 6 ft walk-in. Rec rm 20x13; kitchen has built-in range and oven ; living and dining rms carpeted ; curtains, drapes throughout; utility rm and attached garage with lots of storage. Nice yard ; house in excellent condition, 2 ^ yrs old. In <iuiet, established neighborhood with civic league, churches, parochial and public schools. Close to siiopping centers. 20 minutes to N A S , NOB Little Creek, CinCLantFlt compound. Staff College.

Available about 15 Oct. $4200 and assume FHA in service loan. Cdr. J. W. Newsom, 6953 Doummar Drive, Norfolk 3. (IX)

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. Wanted to rent on the beach, year around rent. Require 3 bdrms and garage. Desire occupancy 16 July. Address replies to Lt. Cdr. Gail Gilliam, USN, NavAirLant, Norfolk, Va. (VII) 48

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. For rent, furnished, 9 to 12 months from 1 Sept., charming brick frame house on lovely point on Linkhorn Bay. 3 bdrms, 2 baths, lg living rm with fireplace, dining rm, electric kitchen, maid's rm with hath, 2-car garage. Beautifully furnished. $150 per month. Capt. R. G. Pennoyer, 209 Kingfisher Ct., Virginia Beach, Va. Phone, Garden 8-1896 (VII) WILLOW GROVE, Pa. For sale. Split level convenient to N A S D Philadelphia, N A S Willow Grove and NADC Johnsville. 3 bdrms, 2 tile baths, kitchen with wall oven and table top range, living rm-dining rm, recreation rm with powder rm, and garage on fully landscaped wooded lot approx. 70' x 160'. Storm windows, screens, all irnprovements. Convenient to grade school, new high school and Willow Grove shopping area.

Contact Lt. H. F. Butler, 180 Cowbell Rd., Willow Grove, Pa., or ASO, Philadelphia 11, Pa. Tel. W. G. 4266W. (VII) WILLAMETTE VALLEY, Ore. For Sale. Farm with established business to go with it. 50 acres all irrigated, adequate bldgs and equipment. Purchased to raise registered herefords. Land now rented out. Est business supplying only to major triple-A accounts and operated as hobby. Present income approx $6000 annually. Offered complete $4600, part terms. For further info contact H. R. Leonard '14, Box 387, McMinnville, Ore. (VIII)

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MISCELLANEOUS MATHEMATICS PROFESSOR. The Marion Institute, one of the oldest and most highly respected jr colleges in the U.S., has need for a math prof for the school yr commencing 10 Sept 1958. Besides character recommendations, this teacher must have a Master's with a major or minor in math. He must also have 12 hrs credit in Prof Ed and will be expected to teach in prep school dept and in jr college. We would prefer a ret Army, Navy or Air Force officer. Cato D. Glover, Adm. U S N (Ret.), President, The Marion Institute. (VIII) — NATIONAL — FOREIGN Positions Available for TOP MEN ONLY Engineers and Executives Resumes Requested SERVICES ASSOCIATES AGENCY 108 East Ocean Blvd.

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TEACHING POSITIONS AVAILABLE. The Pennsylvania State University has a number of faculty positions open, ideal for retired naval officers. No formal teaching experience required, but applicants should have backgrounds in physics, chemistry, mathematics, or industrial, civil, electrical, and mechanical engineering. Teaching assignments at 12 off-campus centers in technicalterminal program, salaries open. Contact T. J. Rung, Gen. Ext., The Pennsylvania State TJniversity. University Park, Pa. POSITIONS AVAILABLE. The City of Los A n geles is about to set up an arrangement whereby retired military people with adequate educational requirements may be employed to teach in the City's school system. Persons interested sliould write to Dr. Wm. B. Brown, Asst. Supt., 450 N. Grand Ave., Los Angeles 12. Calif. (II) EXCELLENT POSITION available near Great Lakes Naval Station. Some openings in other states. Must be self-starter, able to operate as his own boss and like meeting people. Applicant will be thoroughly investigated and given aptitude test. Thorough training given to men selected.

Send personal information background. The majority of our personnel are ex-service, from Chiefs to Admirals. Write D. O. Van Ness '35, Route 1, Box 263, Mundelein, 111. (VII) INSTRUCTORS in electronics, instrumentation, nuclear physics, reactor theory and operation, chemistry, radiochemistry, health physics, thermodynamics and other subjects pertaining to operation and maintenance of nuclear power stations. Some practical experience desired. Positions are permanent in a Nuclear Power Stations Training Program located in Western Pennsylvania. Applicants write to Mr. G. M. Oldham P. O. Box 57, Shippingport, Penn. (IX) WANTED—Copy of 1945 Centennial number of U.S.N.A. Alumni "Register." Please write Col. Jesse L. Perkins, 3228 Elliott St., San Diego 6.

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"SKIPPER OF THE THREE R's' An article in Coronet Magazine (Aug. '57) describes our international program.

With our free texts, readers help non-readers at home.

Copies of the article are free. Write:

GOOD SAMARITANS FOR THE THREE R's Ion Pursell '18. Director Frankfurt. Ky.

Hast Call (See Class Columns) WILLIAM BURTON ALLEN (CDR USN) '43 JERRY EDWARD CLANCY (CDR USNR) '41 EDWIN HORACE DODD (CAPT USN RET) '00 (TARL HENRY JONES (VADM USN RET) '14 DONALD WOOD LOOMIS (RADM USN RET) '18 LELAND WAYNE MORROW (CDR USNR) '21 GORDON MOSES '22 RALPH CUTLER NEEDHAM (CAPT USN RET) '07 HARRY ALLEN PRIBBLE (CAPT USMC) '52 LYNN CLINE QUIGGLE (RADM USN) '30 ROBERT GIBSON TOBIN (RADM USN RET) '17 HARMON TISCHER UTTER (CAPT USN) '32 FORD LEE WILKINSON '18 JULIAN Du BOIS WILSON (RADM USN RET) '18 S H I P M A T E

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Set No. 1 Sets of one dozen dinner plates in Staffordshire Blue are priced at $30.00 per set, delivered to your home. The Naval Academy scenes in this set are: T H E CHAPEL OLD MAIN GATE—1869-1932 OLD FORT SEVERN—1851 OLD MIDSHIPMEN QUARTERS—1868-1905 NAVAL ACADEMY HOP—1869 DRESS PARADE

BIRDSEYE VIEW OF NAVAL ACADEMY—1858 MAHAN HALL DAHLGREN HALL AIR VIEW FROM EAST POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL SAILBOAT DRILL

Set No, 2 — New Scenes New scenes have been added to our line of beautiful dinner plates. You can now obtain a set of six plates in Blue or Mulberry at $18.00 per set delivered to your home. Set 2 includes one each of the following: CHAPEL ALTAR MAIN ENTRANCE BANCROFT HALL MIDSHIPMEN'S COLOR GUARD

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ORDERS FOR SETS ONLY CAN BE ACCEPTED Individual Plates In addition to the above sets of dinner plates, four scenes are available in individual plates in Blue or Mulberry at $3.00 per plate, plus packing and shipping charges: 1. CHAPEL 2. OLD MAIN GATE

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FROM THE SNOVIfS OF FUJIYAMA TO THE SANDS OF FLORIDA The Lockheed C-130 HERCULES, now in

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pounds) landed on sand and stopped in 947 feet. Take-offs from sand, with the same load, averaged only 1,500 feet.

This famous aerial "strongman" can carry 90% of all types of missiles now operational with, and under development for, the U.S. Armed Forces. The C-130 HERCULES is now in world-wide service, or scheduled for delivery t o : USAF's Tactical Air Command, U.S. Air Forces-Europe, Pacific Air Force, Air Photo and Charting Service, other branches of the U.S. Armed Forces, and the Royal Australian Air Force.

In snow landing and take-off tests at Bemidji, Minnesota, the "Ski-130" HERCULES performed prodigious feats of strength and power. At 124,000 pounds gross take-off weight the ski-equipped HERCULES was airborne in 2,100 feet.

Carrying the same payload it landed and stopped in only 1,200 feet.

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