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T h e new F8U-2N Crusader shows how "growth potential" in fighter design makes sense. This all-weather fighter developed fast. Its basic engineering had been estabhshed and refined by the 500-plus Crusaders already with the Fleet. Their reliability and availability - proved by 250,000 hours of flight time and 25,000 catapult shots — accrued to the F8U-2N. And with this fighter, the flexible Crusader design once again "grew" to incorporate an advanced engine, improved accessory systems . . . new all-weather power for the Fleet.

The F8U-2N is a product of Chance Vought's Aeronautics Division, developers of missiles, aircraft, ASW equipment and other products for atmospheric defense.

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Starting with standard fork-lift trucks, these towers were designed and built in our own shops, like so many of Newport News advanced tools.

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Result, more men work more continuously on cleaning, painting, inspection and repair. Big overhead cranes, that once did this work-positioning job far less efficiently, are freed to handle heavy duty repairs. Up goes overall overhaul speed. And your ship is often ready to go back into profitable service days sooner.

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POLARIS—NOT JUST ANOTHER MISSILE

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POLARIS -- Not Just Another Missile

by Rear Admiral W . F. Raborn, USN '28

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H E N T H E N U C L E A R powered Fleet Ballistic Missile Submarine, U S S GEORGE W A S H I N G T O N , shoves off some day before the end of the year and heads for her first operational deployment, the Navy will reach a new and portentous milestone in history. It may well be that this event will prove to be the most significant and revolutionary of all the technical advances in our Navy's long assignment as the principal instrument of our sea power.

For, on that occasion, the Navy enters into a wholly new area of strategic usage, and opens up a new concept of the world's oceans, as the largest, most practical and most secure ambush for offensive military action against any spot on earth. The Navy has the responsibility for development of this new potential force for the security of our country. W e also have the responsibility for bringing this story to our fellow citizens to help them understand what this milestone means to all of us in the era of long range missilery.

Every Naval Officer knows, of course, that in our new Fleet Ballistic Missile System, P O L A R I S , we have performed a unique and imaginative marriage between the ballistic missile and the nuclear powered submarine to provide a weapons system that utilizes both the speed and

distance of the outer space missile, and the great mobility, endurance and concealment of the ingenious and complex mechanical fish. It is writing an entire new Rule Book for naval operations in the ocean depths.

Little needs to be said here about the performance of the nuclear submarine which has brought worldwide recognition to the Navy's designers and technicians. It has captured the imagination of the general public as few items of military hardware of any category have been able to do.

There is no one in the Navy, certainly not among the readers of Shipmate, who would minimize the tremendous impact of the nuclear propulsion on the entire concept and application of sea power in the years to come. That our own Navy was first in this field is a source of pride to us all. The nuclear powered submarine has already proved its complete suitability as an ideal vehicle for providing a fast, highly mobile, virtually self-supporting, and concealable missile-launching base.

However, the question that is asked most frequently of the officers assigned to the P O L A R I S Program deals with the missile itself. In the simplest of terms, this question is, will it work?

To that question, I can now answer, and with a great deal of assurance . . . Yes. While to date no P O L A R I S missile has been launched from a submerged submarine under operational conditions, tests indicate beyond any question that the designing has been sound, and that every component will fulfill its assigned mission.

Thus far many test shots of one sort or another have been fired, from Cape Canaveral, from the ocean bottom launcher in the Pacific, and from the test surface ship. Of some fifty major test launches, two missile flights might be labeled as failures, and about twenty as partial successes. The balance have been successful shots in that they accomplished their primary objectives. Some have been long range shorts which delivered a degree of accuracy far beyond our original expectations, and the same might be said of the dependability record, which has also exceeded our estimates. I have every confidence that the final tests will continue to demonstrate that we have a wholly practical weapons system in P O L A R I S .

I should like to mention here, incidentally, that the date now set for placing the first F B M Submarine into operational service is some three years earlier than our original schedule called for.

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OW, I S H O U L D L I K E to discuss, briefly, what impact the ballistic missile-nuclear submarine combination will have on our deterrent capabilities, and what place this weapons system may be expected to occupy in our over-all structure of defense.

I should like to point out, too, that in a period when the controversial so-called missile gap is taking up so much space in the press and over the air waves that in this field of missile development . . . the seaborne ballistic missile S H I P M A T E

Rear Admiral William F. Raborn, Jr., USN, was born in Decatur, Texas, 8 June 1905. He attended the Marlow Oklahoma High School before entering the Naval Academy with the Class of 1928. Following graduation he served in battleships, destroyers and aircraft carriers until 1940. In 1934 he was designated a Naval Aviator.

Just prior to World War II he established the U. S. Naval Aviation Gunnery School at Barber's Point, Pearl Harbor.

During the war he served as Executive Officer, USS H A N COCK, in Fast Carrier Task Forces, Pacific and as Chief of Staff to ComTaskForce 58 and ComCarDiv 2. Following a tour of duty in the Bureau of Ordnance he took command of the USS BAIROKO. He returned to Washington for a tour of duty as Deputy Director, Guided Missiles Division, Chief of Naval Operations. In 1954 he took command of the USS B E N N I N G T O N and later became Assistant Chief of Staff of Commander, U. S. Atlantic Fleet. He became the first Director of the Navy's Fleet Ballistic Missile Program, POLARIS, in 1955.

Admiral Raborn has been awarded the Silver Star, Bronze Star with Gold Star in lieu of second award.

Secretary of the Navy Commendation with Gold Star and the Navy Unit Citation. He was recently awarded the Rear Admiral William S. Parsons Award for Scientific and Technical Progress for 1958.

"Red" Raborn lives with his wife, Mildred (a retired Commander, Nurse Corps, U S N ) , at 4121 North Randolph Street, Arlington, Va.

weapon . . . we can justifiably claim a substantial missile lead. "Nobody, but nobody" has topped or even matched our country in this area.

POLARIS was designed to be launched from below the surface of the sea so that it can attack from positions unknown to an enemy and virtually secure from detection.

All of us are fully aware that the nuclear powered submarine can hide about as effectively as any device ever developed by man's ingenuity.

While the range of POLARIS—1200 miles to begin with and later 1500 miles—places this missile in the IRBM category, its strategic use is that of an ICBM. The submarine acts as a very versatile, intelligent first stage to the missile which can be recalled if need be! Thus, like an ICBM it can bring almost any military target on earth under direct attack.

With a globe and a pair of compasses anyone can determine for himself that there are few spots on our planet (and certainly few of any real military significance) beyond the range of a 1500 mile missile, launched from submerged positions at sea. I might add here that study is being given to increasing the range of P O L A R I S very substantially towards 2500 nautical miles at a later date, so that an even greater choice of attack positions would be offered the operational forces.

As an element of our arsenal of deterrent weapons, POLARIS will insure retaliation to any aggressor, no matter where, how, or when he might decide to strike.

This is one of the weapon systems which cannot be "zeroed-in" for destruction and elimination as a part of an initial, all-out surprise attack. This fact should augment tremendously its deterrent value. While it may tie possible that one or two POLARIS-equipped submarines could be located and even destroyed—an exceedingly diffiJ U N E - J U L Y ,

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cult job, as all of us realize—a P O L A R I S weapon system, with many submarines on a global basis, provides a high degree of invulnerability.

One basic reason for this is very simple. P O L A R I S provides a curtain of secrecy—the vast, almost limitless ocean depths—^far more effective and dependable than any "Iron Curtain," "Bamboo Curtain," or other man-made barrier, resting on fences, machine gun posts, or edicts of dictatorship. When it comes to democracies, especially our own, it is almost impossible to conceal what we have, where we have it or how much of it we have in respect to any kind of military hardware—especially anything as large and conspicuous as a ballistic missile. But, P O L A R I S can hide.

So, P O L A R I S occupies a place of its own in our measures of war prevention, and would occupy an equally unique position should the tragedy of nuclear warfare threaten the existence of civilization as we know it. It should be remembered that the object of a deterrent is to deter war and emphasis is placed on this characteristic. Should deterrence fail, P O L A R I S , operating deep beneath the surface, would be unaffected by fall-out, by the shambles of missile attack, or by the dislocation and destruction of the first nuclear interchange. It would be an instrument of retaliation that could be used at the most effective time, whether at once or later, as circumstances might dictate. It would be an instrument of firepower which might prove highly decisive in the post-nuclear-exchange, political and military vacuum, when both major contestants might be staggering under the initial blows struck. It might well provide the most usable instrument for enforcing a cease-fire by the very threat of its existence. But, once again, if its true value as a deterrent is appreciated by an enemy, it should deter war rather than become a weapon of retaliation.

Polaris Puts the Navy into a New and Greater League None of us, in the Navy or on the outside, carry a dependable crystal ball that could tell us what might happen once the horror of nuclear warfare is begun. But it is obvious that the existence, in fully operating condition, of a striking force as powerfid, mobile and flexible as P O L A R I S would have a tremendous role to play in any type of nuclear warfare that could be envisioned.

The main job, however, for which P O L A R I S has been designed and developed is to add to our deterrent power.

It is to prevent war. It is, especially, to prevent an accidental war. P O L A R I S does not need to be launched immediately to make sure that it can be launched at all. It can allow time for mature decision, for complete appraisal of the significance of an attack, for reprisal when there is no doubt about enemy intentions. Simply stated, P O L A R I S is designed to keep an enemy's finger off the trigger!

" P O R T H E B E N E F I T of those who have not had op-•- portunity to keep abreast of the development of P O L A R I S beyond what they read in the press and hear over the airwaves, I would like to give a quick rundown of the program as it stands today.

As most people realize, P O L A R I S is really "step two" in the Fleet Ballistic Missile development. Our original assignment by the national leadership was to adapt the Army's liquid fuel ballistic missile, then in early design stage and later named J U P I T E R , to use afloat. This assignment to get a ballistic missile in surface ships and submarines was given to the Navy in 1955 and was assigned number one priority, along with the missile development programs allocated to the Army and the Air Force.

Our specific job was to design ships, launching equipment, fire control and accurate sea positioning devices and introduce "sailors blood" into J U P I T E R missiles to be provided by the Army.

Although our collaboration with Army technicians and scientists was both fruitful and harmonious, it soon became evident that the Navy needed a highly specialized kind of missile for use afloat, especially if it was to be fired from a submerged submarine. After about four months the Navy was given the mandate to design its own "bird" as well as all the equipment required to handle it, launch and guide it in flight. Then P O L A R I S , as such, was made a development project independent of any other missile program, and assigned to the Navy, as one might say, from scratch.

It was obvious that the nuclear powered submarine offered so many advantages as a launching vehicle that it should be given priority over any other types of vessels.

Three major advances—technical breakthroughs—were required before a truly practical missile could be developed for underwater launching. These technical breakthroughs involved three major elements. First, the development of a solid propellant fuel which could be stowed and handled safely on board a submerged submarine. The Navy, happily, was able to produce a solid propellant fuel that is as safe to handle, chemically stable and as ready for immediate firing as rockets then currently in use aboard ships. In this development project the Navy worked with AerojetGeneral Corporation. The resultant fuel has met every test for thrust, dependability in firing and—most important— controllability in flight. It is a Navy first in which we can all take pride.

The second technical breakthrough required dealt with dimensions. To load enough P O L A R I S missiles into a sub-

marine to justify that vessel's deployment as a major threat, the missiles had to be much smaller than their land-launched counterparts, or the submarine had to be much larger than conventional submarine designs, with a resultant loss in maneuverability and concealment potential. Of the two alternatives the former was chosen as the development target, and a missile was designed which is very much smaller, lighter and more compact than any of commensurate striking power previously developed. It is so compact, as finally developed, that sixteen P O L A R I S missiles can be carried by each of the Fleet Ballistic Missile Submarines with acceptable increase in the size of the latter.

P O L A R I S is equipped with a nuclear warhead. A boatload of these missiles has been computed to be equal or greater in T N T equivalent to all the bombs dropped by . both sides in World W a r I I !

The third technical breakthrough required to make P O L A R I S a practical weapons system was the development of a dependable underwater launching system. This problem, too, has been resolved through a rather ingenious step-by-step program of developing first a launching device for ejecting the missile on land, then a special underwater ^ installation for test launchings beneath the surface, and finally a third device that simulates the motions of a ship under way and permits testing under those conditions, which are quite different from any encountered on land.

All of these devices have been used in tests, and have demonstrated that missiles can be launched from beneath the surface and from launching tubes in motion. The press, television and news-reels have shown dramatic shots of test missiles coming up from the depths at the Navy's test launcher near San Clemente Island (a device, incidentally, known as the "Pop-Up").

For making tests from a ship underway at sea, a Mariner Type Cargo Hull was converted into a P O L A I I I S missile testing ship, and test firings with dummy and live missiles from this ship at sea have been carried out successfully.

One problem quite different from any facing the landlaunched missile developers was that of positioning the firing ship accurately at the time of firing. This called for a new approach to navigational problems for the FBM Submarines to determine where they were. They had to know—and know with extreme accuracy—their exact position at all times, even though they might be deeply submerged for weeks at a stretch.

The new Ship's Inertial Navigation System proved to be the answer, not alone to the P O L A R I S navigating problem, but to accurate ship positioning of any type. The epic Polar Voyages of the N A U T I L U S and SKATE and the long-submerged cruises of all of our nuclear-powered submarines bear witness to the reliability and effectiveness of this system. _ The P O L A R I S development project called for activities in more areas of effort than the technical field of designing and building of a weapons system. It called for setting up the various support facilities required—in part: test installations on shore and afloat, tenders, training and logistic facilities.

The launching complex at Cape Canaveral has been reported so much in the press that it hardly needs discussion here. Other launching facilities have been set up at Pt. Mugu, in the sea near San Clemente and on board the test ship, U S S OBSERVATION ISLAND, which has been in commission for about a year. All of these facilities have been used in testing one or another type of test missiles, and all of them will be used throughout the entire period of SHIPMATE

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the test program. They have proved entirely practical in terms of providing utmost technical data at the lowest expenditure of the public's tax dollars.

Another Mariner type conversion, the U S S COMPASS ISLAND, has been at sea for over three years as a test ship for navigation and fire control equipment, and has proved to be a sound investment.

It must be remembered that in the missile league a single test shot can well run into hundreds of thousands of dollars, so that every launching is a very substantial financial venture as well as a technical operation, and every test must have highly specific objectives to attain and data to produce.

Training operations have been under way for the P O L A R I S Submarine Crews for nearly two years, providing about a year and a half of pre-commissioning training for each boat. The first two, the U S S GEORGE W A S H I N G T O N and U S S PATRICK H E N R Y , are already in commission and have shown in their program of sea trials that they more than meet the specifications to which they were built.

Since nuclear powered submarines can cruise submerged almost indefinitely, the limiting factor is not fuel nor air supply, but the human endurance of the crews themselves.

For this reason the "two platoon" system is being employed, with two complete crews (blue and gold) for each submarine. The submarines can remain on station until technical overhaul, rather than crew relief or replenishment of fuel or supplies, requires their return to a base or tender.

This plan permits the F B M Submarine crews to have a reasonable amount of home life without sacrificing the operational usefulness of the boat itself and should prove a major boost to morale and recruiting factors.

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E F O R E G E T T I N G I N T O the broader phases of the significance of P O L A R I S to us, as a Navy, and to our country and the Free World, I would like to point out the high order of teamwork and collaboration between all the various groups whose work has made P O L A R I S possible. First, the Navy itself has in a most cooperative way honored the first priority assignment to this project.

The Navy has had tangible, constructive help from many able technicians engaged in other space and rocket projects, both military and purely scientific. The Navy has had the cooperation of. technicians in such leading industrial organizations as Aerojet-General, Lockheed, Westinghouse, General Electric, Sperry, General Dynamics and a host of others.

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ally hundreds of contractors, large and small, all of whom can rightfully claim a share in lopping off nearly three years from the original time table of production. There are more than 6000 contractors through second tier level.

In a matter of a few months, the first firings from an operational launching tube fitted into an actual submarine will take place. There will be a number of stages to these tests. First, the ejection of a test missile and its self-ignition as it breaks the surface and the rocket picks up frorn the original impetus of the compressed air. Later tests will be full-scale guided tests at various distances and from various depths. By the latter part of this year, the first two FBM Submarines, the U S S GEORGE W A S H I N G T O N and the USS PATRICK H E N R Y , are due to take up their stations as active elements in our deterrent forces.

I believe wholly and sincerely that we will make that schedule with dependable, operational missile systems, and that the submarines to follow at intervals will be equally supplied with weapons of increasing ranges as these are developed and tested. Growth potential within the launcher tube has been allowed.

The shift of the P O L A R I S Program from a development status to an operational reality will open up wide some major questions in which everyone in the Navy has a definite stake.

There will be questions which will pose major decisions to the national leadership; questions which will surely generate discussions and differences of viewpoint in both legislative and defense circles; and, questions in which the public will take active interest.

A weapons system which can prowl for months below the surface of the sea, move quickly from one area to another, hold the threat of delivering massive destruction onto a pinpointed target a thousand miles or more distant without ever leaving the ocean depths, is certain to be the subject of close scrutiny from various positions of direct concern.

This weapons system has opened within the Navy definite new areas; strategic thinking, operational integration into the over-all Navy Program, allocation of both money and effort. It is a job in which everyone in the Navy will be participating (as it will most likely continue as a national deterrent with a number one priority assigned for support).

A dependable operational P O L A R I S will open wide the question of the relative merits of existing military hardware.

It will certainly open wide the question of how many weapons systems the national interest calls for, in terms of the degree to which the world situation calls for defense measures available at that time. It is the age old armament question, as technology advances, of "the bird in hand" versus the possibly better "bird in the bush." Fortunately, the P O L A R I S system has great growth potential and the Navy is quite alert to this.

What is beyond question, however, is that a proved, dependable Fleet Ballistic Missile System will have a tremendous impact on our military thinking in the ballistic missile age.

From the standpoint of concealment there is no hiding place as vast as the ocean depths. Some two hundred million cubic miles of free real estate (under the jurisdiction of no nation) form a continuous blanket of water in which a nuclear powered submarine can move from any part of the earth to any other part of the earth without crossing a boundary, skirting a coastline, or even being seen in the open sea. From the standpoint of concealment, even the space satellite observation posts under discussion will be limited to monitoring movements on the surface of the seas, not in the depths.

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In practical terms of operatmg area within reach of potential enemy targets, each POLARIS-armed submarine would have an area the size of the state of Texas to itself.

Anyone who has flown across Texas can imagine how much of a job it would be to locate these submarines, even if they were in plain view on the surface, and remained stationary.

Bury them underwater, and let them move around freely and you get an idea of what the search would be.

Now, suppose one of those submarines were in the area of New York and could fire a nuclear warhead at Denver without coming to the surface, then, a few minutes later, other warheads at New Orleans, Miami and Omaha. That gives some idea of the threat that this new weapons system presents to a leadership of those seeking to eliminate it.

No major military device so far invented has the capability of sustained hiding to the degree possessed by the nuclear-powered submarine, nor so much space in which to hide. It is greatly to our interest that we, as a nation, should take utmost advantage of our headstart in developing, building and operating nuclear submarines, because we are not going to be alone in this field indefinitely.

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T R A T E G I C A L L Y , throughout all history, the seas have been a great and formidable barrier. They have had to be crossed to reach an enemy. Even the narrow English Channel helped block both Napoleon and Hitler.

Our own two oceans gave us protection in two great wars, saving our cities from the destruction meted out to their counterparts abroad. The seas, in effect, have been a medium of defense. The British Empire looked upon its dominant Navy to defend the Empire lifelines from attack or severance.

The new combination of the ballistic missile and the nuclear powered submarine, or, as one officer graphically expressed it, "mounting a gigantic throwing arm onto a mechanical fish," converts the world's oceans into a gigantic offensive medium from which any spot on earth will soon be vulnerable to direct attack and quick destruction.

Many people still have difficulty in grasping the strategic significance of a major weapons system that can simply disappear into the vast unknown of the ocean depths . . . move to a location thousands of miles distant and there to threaten complete devastation to almost any target, anywhere, and slide back to its home base without ever having emerged from its curtain of secrecy.

Possibly no weapons system in our entire arsenal puts a potential aggressor over a barrel to the degree that a globally deployed P O L A R I S system would do. Such a deterrent-retaliatory system offers an aggressor two equally unwelcome alternatives. If he takes either he invites his own destruction. One alternative is to try to seek out and destroy the menace of P O L A R I S before he unleashes his surprise attack. T o do this—if it could be done at all— would be to stage a search operation that could not be kept secret. It would involve combing millions of cubic miles of ocean with every instrument of detection known. It would plainly and unmistakably telegraph the aggressor's intentions, robbing him of the element of complete surprise so vital to aggression by long-range missiles. As one officer expressed it: " P O L A R I S has a built-in early warning system which might very well justify the entire cost of the program all of itself." Plainly, this emphasizes the deferent quality—which is what we want it to do!

Even with a search and destructive operation, the potential aggressor could never be certain that he had destroyed all the missile-carrying submarines, each one of which could destroy multiple major targets on the aggressor's own soil.

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his surprise attack, knowing full well that—sooner or later — P O L A R I S launched missiles would exact their toll in retaliation, and would destroy much if not most of the aggressor's war-making capabilities.

With a global P O L A R I S missile system in being we would hold in our hands serious destruction for ariy aggressor, no matter where, how or when he might strike. That, I believe, is the fundamental significance of this new concept of naval weaponry. It should assist in creating a foolproof deterrent to major aggression.

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H I L E I AM, quite naturally, thoroughly sold on the strategic impact of P O L A R I S on our future defense thinking, I realize fully that P O L A R I S and all the other weapons in our deterrent arsenal occupy only one sector of our over-all defense needs. P O L A R I S in itself is not the whole answer to our major war defense posture. We should not put all our eggs in one basket.

Never before has the Navy had so much responsibility assigned to it, of so varied a character, in so many and such widely separated places, to meet so diverse a threat.

These responsibilities are well known to all of us, and we need A L L of our Navy to carry them out.

There are two facets of the problem of the Navy's worldwide responsibilities that I would like to touch on in their relationship to the P O L A R I S concept; facets which I find that relatively few people appear to see.

One is that the nuclear submarine has opened up a wholly new sea frontier that we have to consider seriously— both offensively and defensively.

That sea frontier is the five thousand mile stretch of ice-bound coast of northern Eurasia, a coast that historically has always been closed to shipping of any kind. The technology of nuclear propulsion has made the Polar Ice Cap a new avenue for deploying our striking power along the northern flank of a potential enemy. It is an avenue offering the greatest possible opportunity for concealment and stealth. It has, however, given potential enemies the same opportunity to base their own nuclear underseas fleet along this same frontier, and gives them new avenues of access to the open sea and to our coastlines.

The second new sea frontier that we have to consider is the great open ocean sweep from Dakar around Africa to Aden, and from Aden around India to Malaya. These oceans may well become frontiers of new trouble spots.

W e have already seen the aggression in Tibet, and the* nibblings at India's northern boundaries. W e are daily coming to realize that the disturbances in Africa may call for a new look at that continent as a factor in our structure of Free World security, and in the geography of our deployment of forces.

Here we see some twelve thousand miles of coastline facing open ocean. Here we see a situation wholly different from those eastern and v^restern arcs of Soviet-Sino land area where we have set up our complex of bases. To the west of that land area we have Europe, with its dense population, with great industrial resources and skilled manpower, and its military establishment. Geographically, this is mostly land, with some water. Thus, our forces are mostly ground and air forces, with our Sixth Fleet and NATO Allies to project our sea power.

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Nor are the geographic or political or industrial factors in our favor for establishing the kind of base complex we have in Western Europe and in the Western Pacific. So, mobile bases—in short, the Navy striking forces—take on significance, no matter what kind or degree of trouble might erupt.

All of us in the Navy must revise our basic arithmetic about submarines. W e must think in new dimensions of underwater speed and sustained underwater cruising radius.

W e must revise our thinking in respect to numbers of weapons and numbers of targets. Most of all, we have to revise our thinking in respect to the kinds of targets against which our submarines will threaten in the nuclear and missile era; These targets are primarily two. They are quite different from the targets assigned to our submarines ever since underwater warfare joined the forces of destruction. One is the enemy's own nuclear underseas force, against which anti-submarine submarines are posed. The other is his vital war-making capability as represented by his military installations, his forces of every kind wherever they might be deployed. This is the target category against which our P O L A R I S missile will be posed.

A submarine that can wipe out six or more major strategic targets, wherever situated, in a matter of a half hour or so, calls for a new rule book for the use of naval power.

By the P O L A R I S weapons system I do not mean one, or two, or a few submarines equipped with hardware that can launch missiles at inland targets. I mean a global system that can surround the land mass of a potential enemy with a constant, day in and day out, threat of annihilation which insures beyond any doubt in his mind that attack by him on the Free World and suicide are synonymous terms. It is a Navy responsibility, one which touches every officer in uniform, to make certain that people realize that such a weapon system—if it is adequate in numbers—may well provide the decisive edge of deterrent that would prevent nuclear war from breaking out.

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stalemate of long range missile delivery systems is, I firmly believe, the basic mission of P O L A R I S , and is its logical place in our entire concept of changing over to missiles as the primary vehicle of nuclear delivery.

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O D I S C U S S I O N O F the P O L A R I S program would be complete without touching on the eventual capability of the Communist technicians to provide their leaders with the same type of a weapons system.

Unquestionably they, too, will develop a P O L A R I S type missile capability to threaten our installations and cities. And, to counter such a menace we will eventually be facing the same incredibly difficult problems of detection and defense which the nuclear submarine-missile combination creates. No one who has studied these problems—or has been assigned responsibility in their solution—can minimize their significance.

P O L A R I S , however, as a type of ballistic missile weapons system, is far better suited to the job of defense, of deterrence, of retaliation, than it is suited to the purposes of the aggressor. It is best suited to the interest of the side which must answer attack with unpreventable and massive counter-attack. It is least suited to the interest of the side which presses the button first.

The deterring side, on the other hand, has everything to gain by providing a mobile, concealed and instantly ready counter threat as a major element in his retaliatory capability. Such a threat can't be zeroed-in even if its position at any given time were knov/n, because it is constantly on the move. The aggressor cannot know how many such launching sites are within range of his targets, nor even what targets have been singled out.

It is the responsibility of all of us who wear the Navy uniform to make certain that the realities of this basically new role of sea power are understood and that P O L A R I S is not regarded as merely "another missile project." For P O L A R I S is not "another" anything. It is an entirely new combination of striking power, mobility, self-sufficiency and concealment calling for an inevitable revision of both offensive and defensive strategies at all levels of planning.

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As a companion article to "Red" Raborn's feature in this issue, the following is quoted from Navy Department releases. Numbered paragraphs 1-10 inclusive are from CNO Shop Talk of 23 May, and numbered paragraphs 11-14 from an earlier release. N A P R C urges all alumni to read this carefully and spread the true story whenever P O L i \ R I S or parallel deterrent retahatory systems are discussed.

1. Detractor—The Navy claims P O L A R I S is a 1200 mile missile, yet firings to date have been at a much shorter range.

Fact—Early test vehicles in the development program contained heavy instrumentation. Initial operational P O L A R I S missiles will have a range of 1200 miles—followed soon thereafter by 1500 mile missiles. By 1965, P O L A R I S range is expected to be 2500 miles.

2. Detractor—The P O L A R I S Circular Error Probable (C.E.P.) is very large—much more so than for other missiles.

Fact—The P O L A R I S C.E.P. is as good or better than that of any known missile today.

3. Detractor—Even if the P O L A R I S missile does have a small C.E.P., the submarine's navigational error is likely to be ven,' large.

F a c t — P O L A R I S submarines have a Ship's Inertial Navigation System ( S I N S ) installed. This precision device continuously measures and records the submarine's geographical coordinates with respect to the earth's surface. All movements of the submarine, whether due to waves, currents, tides or other influence are sensed and recorded by S I N S . In addition, accurate navigational fixes can be obtained periodically by optical or radar observation of celestial bodies, by electromagnetic navigation systems, or by navigation satellites such as TRANSIT. 4. Detractor—An I C B M in an underground "hardened" site is just as invulnerable as P O L A R I S .

Fact—Hardening of missile sites is feasible and reasonably effective against missiles of low accuracy and low yields. However, with the improvements in accuracy that appear imminent, and with feasible missile yields, the benefits of hardening are seriously degraded. Hardening is not practical as a means of protecting airbases and bombers. Any site with a fixed address is more vulnerable to ballistic missiles than a mobile site.

5. Detractor—The P O L A R I S submarine is very noisy. Soviets will keep them under continuous surveillance.

Fact—False. At the slow speeds which the F B M submarine will use on patrol, it is no noisier than conventional submarines. A glance at a globe and a brief map exercise will reveal the enormous A S W problem facing the Soviets. The great majority of potential targets are concentrated in Western Russia. Select any appropriate target in that area and swing a 1500 mile arc to seaward. Within that arc, there is a vast three dimensional area in which to operate. Whatever geopolitical advantages the Soviets may derive from their dominant position on the Eurasian land mass, geography is not helpful to them in their defense against the P O L A R I S .

Their lack of a friendly coastline contiguous to P O L A R I S submarine operating areas greatly limits their - operations.

6. Detractor—It is farcical to think about putting P O L A R I S on surface ships. It couldn't be fired while the ship was rolling.

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Fact—False. The Navy has been firing from rolling platforms for years. This is no new problem. P O L A R I S can be fired regardless of ship's motion. They have already been fired successfully from the OBSERVATION ISLAND.

7. Detractor—Solid propellant missiles mounted on moving freight cars will be a much better system than POLARIS. Fact—Certainly a missile capable of being moved from place to place is less vulnerable than any fixed launching site. However, freight car missiles will be subject to both espionage and simple sabotage. The P O L A R I S system will have continuous mobility—and will be hidden. P O L A R I S missiles can be fired at any time. Freight car missiles can be fired only from pre-surveyed launching positions.

8. Detractor—POLARIS submarines are unable to communicate while submerged.

Fact—False. W e can communicate with a submerged submarine in any foreseeable launching area—including under the Polar ice.

9. Detractor—Only about one-third of the P O L A R I S submarines can be kept on station. The remainder will be vulnerable in part.

Fact—By the use of two crews for each submarine, we will be able to keep more than 50% of these submarines at sea on patrol continuously. In an emergency, all submarines in port, except those in major overhaul, could immediately put to sea.

10. Detractor—POLARIS is such a small missile its warhead doesn't carry much power.

Fact—The fire power of one P O L A R I S submarine is far greater than all the bombs—including the two atomic bombs—dropped in World W a r II. 11. Detractor—POLARIS submarines have no defense and will be easy targets for enemy submarines once detected.

F a c t — P O L A R I S has detection equipment and A S W torpedoes for protection just like any other submarine, and other U. S. submarines will be operating in the same areas.

12. Detractor—Even if P O L A R I S is a 1200 mile system it will be unable to reach many important targets in Russia.

Fact—A glance at a globe and a brief map exercise will show that the majority of potential targets, which are concentrated in Western Russia, can be reached by a 1200 mile missile.

13. Detractor—The operating areas available to P O L A R I S submarines, with its missiles only having a 1200 mile range, are so small that enemy A S W submarines will easily be able to locate and destroy them.

Fact—Our own experience has shown that to find a nuclear submarine that is attempting to avoid detection is an extremely difficult task. Our F B M submarines will have a possible launching area several times the size of the United States. Later, longer range missiles will more than double this area. The nature of their mission dictates that they remain undetected rather than conducting normal submarine attack operations which give away the submarine location. Other submarines will be operating in the same areas. How will the enemy know which one is the F B M submarine?

14. Detractor—The P O L A R I S missile will require much maintenance and won't always be ready at sea.

Fact—A solid propellant missile requires less maintenance than a liquid propelled missile. Maintenance of P O L A R I S can be accomplished by forces afloat. It is anticipated that the shelf life of this missile will be measured in years.

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by RAdm. Arthur A. Ageton, USN (Ret.)

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FOREIGN DUTY On foreign duty, good public relations are vitally important. Thoughtless and irresponsible conduct by either officers or enlisted men is offensive to the local people and can be very damaging to our relations with the local government. An officer must take prompt action to prevent any breach of good manners and discipline.

Bars, bistros, and nightclubs may have their place on liberty or 48-hour pass, but seek out as well the features of special historical and cultural interest. Meet the people, not only in the hotel lobbies and country clubs, but also in the markets, in the workers' sections, and in the country lanes. Get to know some of the more influential citizens, military officers, officials of the government, members of the Press.

But this article is directed primarily to the officer and his family living ashore in a foreign country. Since you will be traveling under orders with a Special Passport you will probably have little difficulty with local customs or immigration authorities. The Embassy or your Mission will assign a representative to meet you and to help you get settled.

HOUSING If assigned to a base or station, you will probably have Government housing, either in B O Q or in married quarters. If you have to find a house in the city, seek the advice of those who have lived with the problem. Often you will discover that the best quarters you can find are much more expensive and less desirable than you had expected. Obtain the best housing you can for your family and then do the best you can with what you have. Take particular pains to investigate the potability of the water and the adequacy of disposal facilities.

to what you can live with and what to avoid. Guard against insect-borne and enteric diseases. Keep up your immunizations. Pasteurize or boil the local raw milk or use milk powder. Have your water tested and boil your drinking water, if your supply is polluted. Avoid raw vegetables and fruits. Make your own ice with boiled water or buy from a locally certified dealer.

Know your restaurants, for sanitation and (hopefully) for infection-free eating.

Keep tab on your servants. Be sure they are clean and free of disease. Thoroughly check to see that they observe necessary sanitary precautions. Be sure that they properly preserve foods and don't serve you spoiled or overripe fruits and vegetables.

MEET THE PEOPLE Remember that you are all representatives of the American people. The Department of State advises its people abroad, "Don't stay in the capital, though it may be more comfortable and attractive. Get to know the country by traveling widely. There is something of interest in every corner of the world."

In line of duty, your wife and you will certainly get to know military officials, military attaches and members of the Diplomatic Corps and the capital society. Make the extra effort necessary to meet a wide cross-section of your hosts窶馬ot only those pleasant, cultured, sophisticated persons you encounter at the Club, Embassy receptions, formal dinners, and mission entertainment, but also the merchants, the lower government officials, the merchant sailors, and the workers.

Get out in the country and to other cities and rural localities as often as you can, even if the trips take on the nature of a safari. Travel widely in the country and in neighboring countries.

By association with the children of the country, both your younger and your older children will learn the value of difference, and acquire a sounder basis for democratic tolerance.

See not only the conventional sights, but also what makes the country lag behind or thrive. Are natural resources available? Why aren't they being developed? Why are there so many poor, a few rich, and none in between?

Is the cause poor management or lack of opportunity or education? Such knowledge of the country and its people will be valuable to your seniors in your reports. It may some day be of tremendous importance to you, personally.

Remember that the governments of many countries are organized differently from our own. Accept the idea that people of other nations have different problems and may develop different political solutions. They will not welcome advice on running their country, any more than we would.

As a resident in another country, always be conscious of the fact that you are contributing to the impression that the other people will form about all Americans. Strive at all times to reflect credit upon yourself, upon your government, and upon the people of the United States.

SANITATION Sanitation may not be up to the standard to which you have been accustomed. Find out from your medical officer the local sanitary situation and ask him to advise you as

PROTOCOL You will find that your associates in the American Embassy and in the Diplomatic Corps place great importance on protocol. This should not be surprising to you, for

SCHOOLING Inquire carefully into the facilities available. If your child will be with you two years or more, for the first year seek out a school that teaches in English, or better, half in English and half in the language of the country; then, put him in a local school to perfect himself in the language.

If your child is of high school age, put him in a school teaching in the language of the country. H e will lose something in English grammar and American history, but his gain in mastery of the language of the country will overbalance this loss. The second year, send him home to boarding school.

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the rules of protocol are designed to eliminate possible disagreements and unintentional slights to national prestige. Internationally recognized, the rules of protocol establish the generally accepted procedures governing the relationships and precedence, both official and social, of members of the diplomatic corps and of government officials.

Many other organizations also abide by formal customs, which establish the rules for giving special honors or deference to individuals on the basis of the positions they hold or of their seniority. I n your life overseas, you will be associating with individuals who, as representatives of sovereign nations, may have policies and ideologies in conflict with those of their associates. Rules of protocol make it possible for them, and for you, to establish a basis upon which you can enjoy amicable relationships.

For the officer going to overseas duty, the Office of Naval Intelligence has published Social Usage and Protocol, the work principally of Miss Ruth Tarrant. Also useful is the Naval Institute publication. Service Etiquette, and the Department of State pamphlet. Social Usage in the Foreign Service.

CALLS

Diplomatic, civil, and military customs require the usual exchange of social calls. Their protocol and social importance on overseas duty is much greater. The above mentioned books give complete information. The following notes accent their advice: Do make the required calls.

Do consult your protocol officer or the protocol officer of the Embassy.

Do make calls promptly (within a week of arrival).

Do see that your wife makes her required calls.

Do promptly drop cards, where that is the custom.

Do have proper calling cards for all occasions.

Do return calls made on you (within a week).

Do not consider calls a bore. Use them to advance your acquaintance.

Do not stay long, particularly on first calls.

Do not neglect appropriate formality in dress and conduct.

Do not neglect protocol as to which person calls first.

SOCIAL INTERCOURSE

Too many Americans on foreign station tend to herd together, as if for mutual protection. By so doing, you would not only miss a great opportunity to acquire new outlooks and a new understanding but you would also severely limit your ability to accomplish your mission.

In most foreign countries, the local people like Americans. They take for granted that Americans like them.

You will observe that they are eager to understand your initially poor attempts at their language and to be helpful.

If you treat your new acquaintances as you would other Americans, you will get along with them well. A good rule for a pleasant life in any country is to relax and avoid impatience.

MANNERS

Most foreigners set a greater store upon gentlemanly manners and inherent politeness than do Americans. Before coming to business matters, make inquiry about the health of your visitor, his wife, and family, or studiously avoid mention of any female of the family, depending upon the local custom. Be prepared to shake hands frequently, as many as a dozen times a day with the same person.

Avoid a crushing gripâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;most other people dislike a firm grip and a vigorous pumping action. Avoid back slapping.

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Let your pleasure and geniality show in your face and in your conversation. Some races resent touching or handling, consider it an offense to be struck or jostled. On the other hand, the abraso is an established and warmly friendly greeting in many Latin countries.

Learn a variety of polite phrases of greeting, good wishes, and farewell. Such courtesy will please your associates and promote friendship. Do not expect your contacts with women and girls to be more than formal. Until you have been formally introduced, it may be a serious mistake to try to engage a woman in conversation, even at an embassy reception. Do not be surprised, in some societies, if you are not introduced to wives and daughters in the homes which you visit. Respect the privacy of women still wearing the veil.

The welcoming gesture to a guest in many a country is the serving of coffee. Tea or coffee, rather than an alcoholic drink, is the usual social beverage when people get together for visits, discussion, or good fellowship. Many officials of local governments and business houses make a great ceremony of coffee or tea. Learn to sit patiently through this ceremony, before trying to talk business with your host. Be prepared to serve coffee or tea to your visitors promptly upon their arrival and to make polite Smalltalk during the serving and drinking. Flattery and flowery compliments are more common in other world languages, but a friendly spirit and sincerity are pretty generally as much appreciated as among Americans.

Avoid impatience, preoccupation with other affairs, or appearance of undue haste. Paciencia is an honored virtue in the Latin countries. In many other countries, impatience is regarded as a sign of bad manners or lack of selfconfidence.

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Learn about the etiquette on dinners. In Latin countries, dinner is late and it is considered gracious by your hostess to make a compliment on her table and to linger on far into the night. In other areas, guests do not stay on, as they do in the West. After an early dinner, coffee (and perhaps liqueurs), the guests take immediate and flowery leave of their hosts.

RELIGION You will encounter many different religions. Whether your new neighbors be Moslem, Jewish, Catholic, Protestant, Buddhist, or any other religion, respect their faith.

For example, it is courteous, during the Moslem holy month of Ramadhan, not to eat, drink, or smoke in the presence of those who are fasting. Never show undue curiosity or lack of respect when people are in the act of praying.

Learn to recognize how religion enters into the field of politics and government. In some countries, you will discover that the patriarch of the church sits as a full member of the council of state. Rialers have been overthrown and cabinet ministers caused to resign when in conflict with established religions. People are often sensitive when foreigners, coming into their country, try to convert them to another religion. To challenge or ridicule their religious beliefs will lead to serious misunderstanding. It is wise to avoid religion as a topic of conversation.

Give the same respect to their temples and shrines that you would give to your churches at home. If the custom is to cover the head or remove the shoes before entering a temple, observe it. Inquire before entering a church or templeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;sometimes entry is forbidden during services. Picture taking in some mosques and temples is tabu. It is always bad manners to photograph worshipers at prayer.

Do not smoke or talk loudly in a place of worship.

ENTERTAINMENT Entertain modestly and within your means but entertain as frequently as you can afford. Try to repay all of your social obligations, if with no more than an occasional small reception. But pay special attention to any social event you give to make it interesting and pleasant. The outgiving warmth of the hospitaHty of the host and hostess are much more important than ostentatious display. Try to bring together in your living room or at your table a group of people who will discover matters of common interest.

Your personal and official funds will be limited. Count as wasted any time or money you spend on entertainment where a goodly representation of the people of the country is not present. If you are isolated in an American community on a military base or naval station, this can be difficult, but it can be arranged.

All of the previously mentioned books will be helpful to you in extending proper formal and informal entertainment on duty overseas.

YOUR ASSOCIATES OF THE COUNTRY TEAM At most overseas posts, you will be associating, perhaps for the first time, with members of the other military services. At many Foreign Service posts, there are attaches of all services and, quite often. Army, Navy, and Air Force or Joint Missions. Your association with the members of these military missions will not be markedly different than in the United States, except that you will be with them a great deal more.

THE FOREIGN SERVICE A new experience will be your association on a business and social basis with members of the American Foreign 16

Service. A branch of the Department of State, it is a career corps of men and women who are specially selected and trained to carry out the foreign policy of the United States in day-to-day relations with other countries. Their specialty is diplomacy, the art and practice of conducting negotiations between nations.

The mission of the Foreign Service is to protect and promote the welfare and interests of the United States and of the American people. Members of this Service have important responsibilities in negotiating agreements relating to mutual defense, cooperation in the peaceful uses of atomic energy, regulation of narcotic drugs, trade and tariffs, protection of the fishing resources of the seas, disposal of surplus agricultural commodities, and the rights of commercial planes to land on foreign soil.

The Captain of your Country Team is the Ambassador. â&#x20AC;˘ Appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, he is accredited to the Chief of State of the host country.

There are several classes of personnel. Foreign Service officers are members of the Foreign Service Corps, the career professionals who perform the principal work of the Service. Foreign Service Reserve officers are specialists in some skill required by the Service, recruited to serve from two to five years. Foreign Service Staff officers and em- j ployees are the administrative officers, clerks, typists, code | clerks, secretaries, and others, who have technical, administrative, or custodial responsibilities. Local employees are foreign nationals, who give clerical, janitorial, or chauffeur service to the post.

UNITED STATES INFORMATION AGENCY The Public Affairs Officer of an embassy is the representative of U S I A on the staff of the Ambassador as Captain of the Country Team. H e heads the Information Section of the Embassy and is responsible for the day-to-day dissemination of information and news in support of policies of the United States. H e is in charge of subordinate U S I S offices in the capital and other cities and supervises the operation of cultural or binational centers in the country.

Many foreign observers consider that the binational center activity is our finest governmental operation in foreign countries. T o be successful, cultural centers require the interest and working support of all Americans in the country. Officers and their families will find enthusiastic par- '^ ticipation in the management and work of these centers infinitely interesting and rewarding.

INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION ADMINISTRATION As a separate agency under the Department of State, the International Cooperation Administration is responsible for our foreign economic aid program. I C A operates through United States Operations Missions in many countries of the Free World. The U S O M is a separate entity from the Embassy but is firmly under the policy direction and control of the Ambassador as Captain of the Country Team. The military officer overseas can contribute to our economic objectives in a country only if he thoroughly understands our policies and what our economic aid is designed to accomplish. You should arrange to be briefed on these subjects before going overseas by the Department of State and ICA. The U S O M in a country is managed by a Director, with a Deputy Director and central office staff. Other activities, such as agriculture, education, and public health missions, are usually organized on a binational basis in services, with an American Director and a local citizen as his principal assistant. Large numbers of technicians and technical SHIPMATE

Neptune, the mythological ruler of the deep, had all the waters of the earth as his domain.

Triton, his son, was assigned the vital task of communicating his father's commands to subordinates in all parts of the ocean.

The U. S. Navy has need of a counterpart for Triton. RCA is now assisting in this role through development of a communication link to our

new nuclear powered Polaris-carrjang submarines, anywhere on the seven seas.

RCA, in addition to its Polaris developments, is also working on many new Undersea Warfare systems such as detection, classification and destruction of enemy submarines as well as coordination of our friendly air, surface, and subsurface effort.

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advisors are recruited in the United States for a specific period or a special project.

Other agencies of our government from time to time assign representatives to our embassies. Frequently included are attaches from the Department of Agriculture, Commerce, and Labor, the National Aeronautic and Space Agency, and others.

THE COUNTRY TEAM SPIRIT Under the Country Team concept, every American governmental employee, whether he be the chief of another mission or a minor technician or clerk, takes his direction from the Ambassador as Captain of the Team, and is responsible through his chief of mission to the Ambassador for all of his actions and activities. While the chiefs of other missions are responsible directly to their Washington agencies, they are also responsible to the Ambassador, who, in turn, is responsible to all branches of our government, through the Department of State, for the operation of the country team under his charge. Should any person get out of line, the Ambassador has authority to have him removed from post.

W i t h the country team functioning in this manner, there can be no question that the policies of our government will be violated or vitiated by the ill-considered actions of representatives of other agencies. The United States will present but one front, show but one face in its dealings with the officials and people of the host country.

Obviously, no Ambassador can fully comprehend all the ramifications of the duties of the members of his country team. To arrive at sound decisions, he must receive frank and full information, advice and counsel from the members of his staff from other missions. As with any executive, he cannot live to himself alone.

Like the captain of a ship or a general in command of troops an Ambassador is never off duty. In his office, in conference with the President or Foreign Minister, at an official reception or dinner party, in visits to outlying areas of the country, he carries with him his responsibility as the personal representative of our President. H e must keep himself well informed on the instructions and policies pro-

mulgated to him and also on those issued to all of the missions. H e cannot procrastinate or be indecisive.

But no Ambassador can personally perform every function where a United States responsibility is involved. To operate the involved complex of activities which modern diplomacy requires, the Ambassador must delegate his authority to members of his country team. But he must also have the effective support and complete loyalty of each member of his team.

If these tenets of good leadership and administration sound familiar, even more important is good followership on the part of subordinates in every mission which makes up the country team. As a good officer, you will naturally give unstinting support to your own chief of mission. But on overseas duty, you must extend yourself even further.

You must give loyal and effective support to the Captain of your country team.

The Ambassador and his wife will constantly need assistance in all fieldsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;official, social, transportation, representation, and many others. They will rarely ask for assistance. Both you and your wife should be always on the lookout for opportunities to be helpful in any way possible.

Your contribution may be as complicated as acting as interpreter and guide for a visiting V I P or his wife, or as simple as carving a tenderloin of beef or turkey for the Independence Day reception, which your wife roasted in her own oven the day before. You may be able to take a part in an American Community play for the benefit of charity or do a variety act for an Embassy party. If the bar boy fails to show up for an Embassy function, get behind the bar until the situation clears up. It will require a nice sense of judgment and timing to recognize the need and to fill it promptly and effectively.

In carrying out his burdensome duties, the Ambassador must lean heavily upon his political, economic, information, and military officers. If they unite to cooperate loyally as efficient members of the country team. United States representation will be effective in that country. This is your opportunity and your principal responsibility in your tour of duty overseas.

THE MILITARY ATTACHES and their wives participate actively in Embassy social events. The Army Attache and fwo Naval Attaches v/ith their wives form a part of the receiving line with the Ambassador and his wife.

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Diplomatic and Consular Rank and Title The Foreign Service Officer holds a title determined by his assignment, as well as by his class. It is his title which establishes his status at his post, whereas his class establishes his relative seniority for internal purposes.

TITLES AND ADDRESS

Diplomatic Ambassador Minister Counselor First Secretary Second Secretary Third Secretary Attache

How Address Mr. Ambassador Mr. Minister Mr. Harbison same same same same

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The principal officer at a diplomatic post is the Chief of Mission. His principal assistant and Charge d'affaires ad interim, sometimes temporarily in charge of the diplomatic post in the absence of the Chief of Mission, is the Deputy Chief of Mission.

The title of attache is assigned to an officer performing a specialized function, such as labor, agricultural, and commercial attaches, and, from the Armed Services, Army, Naval or Air Attaches.

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Minister Counselor or Counselor of Embassy for Political Affairs

Deputy Chief of Mission and Chief of the Political Section (Supervises political reporting)

Foreign Service Officer Class 2 to 4

Economic Counselor, First or Second Secretary

Economic Officer (Responsible for reporting on economic affairs

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Foreign Service Officer Class 1

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Principal Officer at a consulate general

Foreign Service Officer Class 3

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Foreign Service Officer Class 6 to 8

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H I S I S W R I T T E N just before we begin the busy days of June Week. It is hardly necessary to say that I join the midshipmen and their parents in looking forward to its heartwarming and inspiring events. June Week, with its traditions so meaningful to Navy men, is part of the Naval Academy heritage so vital in the hearts of graduates.

Perhaps a few serious words on the traditional role of the Naval Academy are appropriate in this, my last report to alumni. I have heard the fear expressed that the recent changes in the curriculum will result in graduates who are "technicians"â&#x20AC;&#x201D;that the new graduate will be more familiar with machines than with men. This disturbs me. I feel it can only result from lack of information, or from misinformation. Briefly, these are the facts.

At the root of changes in the basic curriculum is an effort to teach enduring principles instead of transitory techniques, and to develop sound thinking as well as to impart facts and skills. This is not to say that we are slighting factual knowledge; nor is it to say that we are ignoring professional skills in shiphandling, weaponry, operations, and engineering. The point is that we are endeavoring to do less of training the technician and more of educating the naval leader, diametrically the reverse of the fears expressed above.

The electives program affords an opportunity for midshipmen to broaden and enrich their education. It also offers them the chance to seek depth in fields in which they are especially interested and talented. A careful examination of the electives taught this year will reveal their nature as sound and basic to the naval profession.

Validation has proved so successful and logical that a few days ago the Academic Board determined to permit validation of Third Class as well as Fourth Class subjects.

The Board further determined to open electives to Fourth Classmen during the second term. Participation in electives grew from 230 midshipmen in 16 courses the first term to almost 300 midshipmen in 21 courses the second term. Next fall certain electives will be scheduled during the six-period day, so that these courses will be available for all varsity athletes.

The success of the Academy's molding process depends greatly on the raw material. To admit candidates with the best potential as naval officers, we now supplement the scholastic measure of potential indicated in entrance examination scores with the best evaluation of character, competitive spirit, and initiative which our information allows, in every case where this additional evaluation is permitted by law. W e encourage Congressmen to let us evaluate their nominees on this basis, and this year we were authorized to so evaluate 26% of congressional candi20

dates, more than double the number of last year. Clearly the result will be entering midshipmen with better overall potential.

The new mission which I reported to you in the last issue aims to make clear the Naval Academy's objective of preparing well-rounded career line officers. A major aim was to remove any question that the Academy might be emphasizing technical specialties or junior officer techniques.

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U R P H Y S I C A L E D U C A T I O N program has received less publicity recently than the academic program, but this does not mean it is receiving less emphasis than in the past. The Academy intercollegiate competition and sports (intramural) program combined with physical education drills comprise what to my knowledge is the best and most comprehensive physical education program in the country. Not only have this year's varsity teams completed very successful seasons, but the records compiled by our plebe squads portend even better results to come. This spring, for example, plebe teams had a won/lost percentage of .850, a remarkable record.

That part of the Naval Academy mission of developing character and moral responsibility in midshipmen also continues without fanfare. Maintaining the Academy's high standards and ideals has been our most important single objective. Recent steps have been taken to improve the Sponsor Program, Operation Information, and the Brigade Competition. To my mind, the Commandant of Midshipmen, the officers of the Executive Department, and the midshipman officers deserve a hearty Well Done for the effective manner in which they have carried out their responsibilities as leaders this year.

Not only are the academic changes compatible with practices and trends in modern education, but they are in step with measures taken at our sister service academies.

They have had the full support of responsible naval officers and civilian leaders who are in a position to examine them in the light of the professional needs of today's and tomorrow's line officers. From all reports, the changes have been enthusiastically received by the vast majority of alumni. I feel confident that as the objective of giving our graduates the soundest and fullest professional education possible becomes understood, our program will have the united support of all hands.

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S MY T O U R comes to a close, I would like to express my appreciation for your interest in all aspects of the Naval Academy, and for your wonderful support.

It has been a privilege to give you my slant in Shipmate each month on the many happenings of the past two yearsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;new construction and facilities, the "clean sweep" SHIPMATE

over Army, and other unforgettable individual and team efforts: steps to enhance the faculty; fine public performances by such groups as the glee club, masqueraders, and debating team: our many distinguished visitors (as well as our 300,000 annual sightseers, who are distinguished visitors in their own right) ; the feeling of pride that rises from my many contacts with the Brigade of Midshipmen; and the splendid performance of our dedicated officers and civilian faculty. Fond memories mellow the prospect of departing, as I prepare to pass the conn into lohnny Davidson's capable hands.

Warmest regards to you all.

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H E N T H E R E P O R T was received at Alumni House that Rear Admiral Charles L. Melson, U S N '27, had been named to take over the First Fleet and get his third star the immediate remark heard v/as, "It couldn't happen to a nicer guy."

He is a nice guy but there is more to it than that. Anyone who has observed what has happened at the Naval Academy tmder his aegis as Superintendent for the past two years knows that it couldn't have beeen accomplished just by being nice. It takes more than that. It takes a lot of ability.

Anyone who takes the time to analyze what makes Charlie "tick" is bound to arrive at the conclusion that here is a man who can get things done quickly, quietly and smoothly. H e has the ability to recognize the problem, enlist the support he needs to solve it and get the job done without a fanfare of trumpets and huge clouds of dust marking his pathway.

One of the senior officers on his staff put it this way.

"The admiral always knows what he wants and how he wants it done. There is never any doubt about this and the staff is never left trying to second guess the old man.

He listens to and encourages suggestions. He refuses to tilt windmills and once he has put his stamp of approval on a project you can be sure that it won't be lost in the shuffle of the day-by-day minor crises which are bound to occur in a place concerned with the care and feeding of 3600 young hard-chargers."

Another officer put it this way. "There isn't a day that the admiral doesn't get into the black Chevy and drive himself around the yard. And there isn't a day that he doesn't spot something that needs to be done . . . something the rest of us should have spotted but didn't."

Another officer spoke of an added facet. "The admiral ought to have a sign on his desk reading 'nothing is impossible for a _ man with good assistants.' H e has that wonderful ability in picking the right man for the job.

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then getting him to put out 100% every day. H e is no jumping jack that runs hot and cold and he keeps both his enthusiasm and temper in proper check."

It is no wonder then that the short, quiet, good-looking lad from Richmond, Va., has been marked throughout his naval career as an officer who would make good. His opportunities, his duty assignments and his promotions up to flag rank have not been greatly different from those of his classmates in the Class of '27, but he has always given the job that vital extra something.

Follov/ing graduation he remained at the Academy for the summer course in aviation, and in August of that year joined the U S S T R E N T O N , operating on the East Coast and the West Coast and finally on the Asiatic Station. H e continued Asiatic duty, serving in the U S S P E N G U I N (February-May 1929); the U S S N A P A ; the U S S M C CORMICK (August 1929-January 1931) ; and the U S S PITTSBURGH. In August 1931 he reported on board the U S S DuPONT, attached to the Scouting Force, and for two months, October-December 1932, was an Instructor N A P C , Naval Operating Base, Norfolk, Virginia.

In December 1932 he joined the U S S DICKERSON as Engineer Officer and in June 1933 transferred to the U S S NORTHAMPTON to serve as Division Officer until June 1934. Following instruction in naval engineering at the Postgraduate School, Annapolis, Md., he reported in June 1936 on board the U S S PENNSYLVANIA. Detached from that battleship in June 1937, he next served as Engineer Officer in the U S S PATTERSON and in June 1940 was assigned to the Division of Fleet Training, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, Navy Department, Washington, D. C. After the United States' entry into World W a r II, December 8, 1941, he transferred (December 28, 1941) to Headquarters of the Commander in Chief, United States Fleet, Navy Department, and in March 1942, he assumed command of the U S S C H A M P L I N , and for outstanding serv21

mander Seventh Fleet, and as Commander Task Group 70.1 during operations against enemy aggressor forces in Korea from April 8 to July 27, 1953 . . •" he was awarded a Gold Star in lieu of the Third Legion of Merit, with Combat " V . "

ices in that command during operations against enemy forces in the Mediterranean and Atlantic W a r Areas was awarded a Gold Star in lieu of a Second Legion of Merit with Combat " V , " and also received two Letters of Commendation, with authorization to wear the Commendation Ribbon and Bronze Star (each with Combat " V " ) , from the Secretary of the Navy and the Commander Eighth Fleet, respectively.

Detached from command of the C H A M P L I N , he reported in January 1944 as Commander Destroyer Division Thirty, Two, U S S BOYLE, flagship. For meritorious duty in this ' assignment he was awarded two Letters of Commendation, with Bronze Stars in lieu of the Ribbon, from the Commander in Chief, U . S. Atlantic Fleet, the Legion of Merit, each with Combat "V," and the Silver Star Medal.

H e reported in September 1945 as Chief of Staff to Commander Battleship Division Five, U S S T E X A S , flagship, and in December of that year was assigned to the Sixteenth Fleet (Atlantic Reserve Fleet) as Operations and Plans Officer. From July 1947 to May 1948 he attended the Senior Course at the Naval W a r College, Newport, R. I., and after completing his instruction remained there for duty on the staff until July 1949. H e v/as next in command of Destroyer Squadron Twenty, U S S BARTON, flagship, and in July 1950 became Administrative Aide to the Superintendent of the U . S. Naval Academy.

In October 1952 he assumed command of the U S S N E W JERSEY, and for "exceptionally meritorious conduct . . . as Commanding Officer of (that battleship). Flagship of Com, > , . . « . . , „

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tive duty officers, revisions of the Officer Personnel Act dealing with promotion, retention and retirement for Regulars and career Reserves.

One of the purposes of this legislation will be to obtain more uniformity in the application of these laws to officers of the various Services.

The general story of this project is contained in the letter announcing it, sent by Deputy Secretary of Defense James H. Douglas to Assistant Secretary of Defense Charles C. Finucane, in charge of manpower and personnel; the department's General Counsel, J. Vincent Burke, Jr.; and the Secretaries of the Services. The letter reads as follows: "It has become increasingly apparent in the light of current trends, changed conditions, and the passage of time, that a comprehensive study of the Officer Personnel Act of 1947 would be in the best interest.

"This Act has been in efifect for over 12 years with no substantial change, except for codification. It appears now, however, that certain revisions may be necessary in order to maintain an officer career management pattern in the military Services which is equitable and effective.

"In this respect, it is considered that any revisions should involve all Services and be applicable to all with the greatest possible uniformity. A strong feeling has developed in recent years both within the Administration and Congress that there should be greater uniformity among the promotion laws of the several military Services.

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On 21 June he was relieved by Rear Admiral John F. Davidson, U S N , and as he departed for the coast he left much evidence of accomplishment and took with him the satisfaction that goes with doing the job right.

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"This reflects the views that the differences which presently prevail are not fully justified by differences in Service organization and missions.

"To the extent that disparities do exist among the Services in such fundamental areas of officer career management as promotion, retention and retirement, it is believed that many advantages would accrue from a realistic review at this time of the differing laws and policies affecting officer personnel with a view to achieving greater uniformity.

"Accordingly, I propose to establish an ad hoc committee to study the basic laws and regulations pertaining to the career management pattern of officer personnel and recommend legislation as appropriate to achieve substantial uniformity among the military Services in this area.

"It is desired that the Committee membership consist of two retired flag or general officers from each Service, such officers preferably knowledgeable in the area of officer personnel management. An appropriate working staff comprised of highly qualified representatives from each Service will be assigned to the Committee.

"With the above plan in mind, it is requested that the military Services submit within 30 days their nomination for membership of the ad hoc committee, indicating nominee qualifications and availability to serve. Information concerning working staff designees, space allocations, and other pertinent data will be promulgated at a later date.''

The Officer Grade Limitation Act, which has been imposing burdens of various kinds upon the Services, will also be studied, ac-

cording to an order of Assistant Secretary Finucane.

Revisions of both these laws have often been proposed and discussed in recent years.

Numerous bills dealing with these laws have been introduced in each Congress. The Defense Department has been promising revisions of the Officer Personnel Act, and this time the department really means business.

The study is expected to get underway early in fiscal 1961 and legislation may be introduced early in the calendar year 1961.

The Navy expects to benefit from revisions of the Officer Personnel Act, department officials said. The Navy Department has been trying to have this law revised to meet some of its own needs, but the Budget Bureau disapproved the bills which were introduced on the ground that Navy changes would have to await general changes.

Among other things, the Navy would like: Certain Promotion Speedups: A threeyear minimum of service as Commander, instead of the present five years, for promotion to Captain. With a three-year minimum between Commander and Captain and a threeyear minimum between Captain and Rear Admiral, it would be possible to reach Rear Admiral after 25 years of service.

More Flexibility in Running-Mate System:

There is increasing variation between staff corps groups and unrestricted line groups to which the former are tied. Currently some staff corps promotions are being made under executive order, without regard to the running mate principle.

More Flag Officers: Under a limitation imposed not by law but primarily by Senator John Stennis (Dem., Miss.), head of a Senate Armed Services Subcommittee dealing with personnel, the Navy is limited to 287 flag officers. Its legal limit is 306. Judging from reports, the Navy could use more than 306 flag officers. About 25 per cent of Navy flag officers currently are- assigned to other than Navy duties. In the Army, 19 per cent S H I P M A T E

this relationship between retired pay and tired for more than two years. Yet all these active duty pay until 1922. In that year a retired officers were slandered by inferences pay raise was granted to all personnel ex- that they used undue influence in obtaining cept those officers who were retired prior to contracts, primarily because of some hold (also inferred) they had on the active duty the passage of the pay legislation.

"In 1926 the Congress reconsidered the officers with whom they came in contact. provisions of the 1922 law, which applied to Enactment of this bill would be of special retired officers, and reestablished the tradi- benefit to retired Navy and Marine Corps tional retired pay-active duty pay relation- officers, since it would repeal a lifetime ban ship. This principle of basing retired pay on on their selling to the Navy Department. active duty pay was maintained until 1949, The latest official explanation of "selling" when recommendations of the Hook Commis- under this bill was furnished by Representasion resulted in a revision of the entire dis- tive Carl Vinson (Dem., Ga.), chairman of ability-retirement system. the House Armed Services Committee, who Two I m p o r t a n t Bills "At that time, retired personnel, principally interpreted selling to the Services as a "perProponents of the retirement pay recom- those retired for disability whose disability sonal contact between the seller and the putation bill, H. R. 11318, and the retired percentage ratings were not sufficient to give buyer, and the person must come in contact officer employment of conflict-of-interests bill, them higher pay under the Career Compen- with someone in authority in the Department H. R. 10959, are hopeful that both these bills sation Act, remained under the Pay Re- who has the authority to make a contract." will become law in this session of Congress. adjustment Act of 1942, as amended. RecomIn the past year the Comptroller General Both bills were passed by the House. A putation of retired pay was authorized for has issued rulings in various cases involving hearing on the employment bill was held June all other retired persons retired for disability. sales by retired Navy officers of products to 2. Discussing the pay bill. Senator Russell "In 1942 a 4 per cent pay raise was author- the Navy Department. In some of these (Dem., Ga.), chairman of the Senate Armed for all personnel, active duty and re- cases the officers were engaged more in Services Committee, said that "some Senators ized Again in 1955 another pay raise was public relations activities then in selling. who had previously opposed the legislation tired.

Rep. Vinson's definition would counteract the enacted with recomputation of retired pay have changed their minds." Senator Salton- for Career Comptroller General's ruling and make such Compensation Act retirees or a stall (Rep., Mass.), minority leader of the 6 per cent increase, and a 6 per cent increase activities entirely legal. committee, said the outlook for the pay bill for those paid under the 1942 Pay Act. is "pretty good." Senator John Stennis CARL V I N S O N "With the passage of the Pay Act of 1958, (Dem., Miss.), chairman of the Senate subcommittee on military pay and personnel, has a 6 per cent increase was authorized for all O N SELECTION That great American, Mr. Carl Vinson, been the primary opponent of the pay bill, retired personnel. As a result, there were and has said that if the bill comes to his retired persons today who draw their retire- has given permission to publish this story committee, the subject matter will be broad- ment pay under three different pay scales: told by one of our Alumni: ened to include an investigation of contribu- The Pay Readjustment Act of 1942; the CaIn the 1930's when I was a lieutenant comtary retirement pay. It has been suggested reer Compensation Act of 1949, as amended; mander appearing before Mr. Vinson's Naval that Senator Stennis accept the pay "recom- and the Military Pay Act of 1958."

Affairs Committee and testifying on a rather putation" or "equalization" bill in exchange While this bill would help 11,034 Navy involved section of a personnel bill advocated for support of a broad investigation of re- officers, it would not benefit more than 5,000 by the Navy Department, my testimony was tirement procedures and pay in 1961. others, unless its provisions were changed in interrupted by a young Congressman who had only recently been appointed. He turned The 86th Session of Congress is expected the Senate.

The table below gives all the details of in- to Mr. Vinson and said: to adjourn July 2. But the Senate can act "Mr. Chairman, this appears to be a very very fast when it wants to. On various occa- creases in pay by grades and numbers of recomplicated matter and I do not understand sions a Senate committee has held hearings tired officers. this business of selection." on a House-approved bill one day and the Senate passed the bill within the next two The Employment Bill To which Mr. Vinson replied: or three days.

H. R. 10959, the employment bill, probably "Young man, the first thing you have to is well known to readers interested in it. It understand about selection is that those who Pay Bill W o u l d H e l p M a n y has been discussed and cussed, in print and are selected like it and those who aren't H. R. 11318 would enable personnel en- orally, for many months. In the House this don't." titled to retired pay or retainer pay under bill caused what could be classed as a "tempthe Career Compensation Act of 1949, re- est in a teapot." The great majority of retired prior to June 1, 1958, to recompute tired officers employed by defense contracPLEASE KEEP US INFORMED their pay on the rates of basic pay provided tors, which includes manufacturers selling OF CHANGES in the Military Pay Act of 1958. Personnel consumer-type goods to the Defense DepartSee f o r m on inside back cover retired prior to Jtme 1, 1958, and paid under ment and the Services, could not possibly be the Career Compensation Act of 1949, were affected by the bill because they had been regiven only a six per cent increase in pay.

The bill would increase the pay of 11,034 Total retired commissioned Navy officers, of a personnel total of 16,175 retired career officers. It Number Average Additional under would increase the pay of 1,424 retired comCareer retired Increase, receiving average Retired Rank Compen- 'pay as of pay missioned Marine Corps officers, of a total June 1, increase annual sation Act May SI, 1958 (H.R. increase grade of 2,204 such officers. The bill as passed by retired he1958 11318) the House did not provide for increases in fore .June 1, 19B8 retired pay for persons retired under the Pay Readjustment Act of 1942 who did not NAVY subsequently choose to come under the CaChief of Naval Operations and Chairman, O-IO reer Compensation Act of 1949.

S9,688 $2,489 6 $4,698 Joint Chiefs of Staff 6 9,688 2,489 12 3,088 Admiral 12 O-IO The following quotes from the House 0-9 9,631 1,541 47 2,233 Vice admiral 47 Armed Services Committee report help to 0 - 8 9,313 559 189 1,979 Rear admiral (upper half) 189 7,883 473 144 1,338 Rear admiral (lower half) 144 0-7 explain the situation: 363 2,848 959 6,049 Captam 2,848 0-6 "There has been a mounting concern from 0 - 5 4,609 277 2,242 486 Commander 2,242 4,300 258 4,647 135 Lieutenant commander 4,658 many quarters as to the wisdom and the 0 - 4 3,692 222 492 109 Lieutenant 4,243 eventual effect on the armed services of the 0-.3 164 446 40 2,741 Lieutenant (junior grade) 1,369 departure from traditional retirement pay 0O--2l 137 1 25 2,290 Ensign 417 procedures that was embodied in the 1958 MARINE CORPS act. To clarify the extent of this departure, 2 $9,688 S2,489 $3,125 Commandant, Marme Corps 2 it is well to consider the historical back- O-IO 9,657 1,545 10 2,710 Lieutenant general 10 0-9 9,442 567 43 2,028 Major general 43 ground.

0-8 494 56 1,521 8,236 Brigadier general 56 "The first retirement law for the armed 00 -- 67 .375 343 986 6,244 Colonel 34.'^ 4,720 283 336 469 Lieutenant colonel 336 services was passed in 1861. It established 0-.5 4,422 265 432 57 Major 432 retired pay as a specific percentage of the 0 - 4 3,537 212 155 96 Captain 507 0-3 active duty pay of the grade in which an 0 - 2 2,856 171 147 84 1st lieutenant 373 143 2,389 2d heutenant 102 officer retired. There was no departure from O - l

of general officers have non-Army duties; and in the Air Force, the corresponding percentage is 15.

The Navy could have more three- and fourstar admirals on active duty if it could abandon its current method of basing the number of these officers on the total number of unrestricted line flag officers, and instead base the number on the total number of all flag officers. The Army and the Air Force use the number of all general officers as the base for determination of the number of threeand four-star officers.

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The Mail Boat Shipmate: "A Faulty Intelligence Estimate," by Rear Admiral Hayes in the April issue, was most interesting, particularly to me since I am now checking galley proofs of my new novel.

Sea Road To Yorktotmi, to be published by Doubleday in the fall. However, there is an important situation in the Yorktown campaign that Admiral Hayes does not mention; Sir George Rodney was not charged with conducting the' naval campaign against America. He commanded only on the Leeward Island Station. He had no authority over the admiral commanding on the American coast, Thomas Graves, at that juncture. Rodney did not even direct naval forces in all of the Caribbean. He could not give orders to the admiral on the Jamaican Station. Rodney could only give them his estimate of a situation and his plan, and ask for their cooperation—which he seldom got. And of course there was no radio or air communication; a campaign, even a war, could be won or lost while one admiral was dissenting with another. Parenthetically, the generous share of prize money that a fleet or squadron commander got from captures by any ship of his command probably accounted for much of this divided authority and reluctance to unite under the senior officer.

De Grasse, on the other hand, was in complete command in the Western Atlantic. The French minister of marine, writing to General Rochambeau, said, in part, ". . . M. de Grasse, who commands in America, will advise you of the time when he will visit your waters. He commands twenty vessels, he will find ten in the islands (West Indies), you will have eight more to give him. (The squadron already on the American coast.)

Then, master of his movements to unite or separate his forces, I hope that in due time he will be master of the coast of America.

If Rodney could have issued orders to Graves off New York and to Parker at Jamaica to unite their forces with Hood at a designated rendezvous, when, because of ill health it became necessary for Rodney to go home for refit, things might have been quite different.

Therefore the big lesson, it seems to me, is the need for a theatre commander with clearly defined responsibilities, such as de Grasse had, and the authority to order execution of his plans.

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Captain, U S N (Ret.) '11 U. S. Naval Activities Cartagena F P O 533, c/o Postmaster, N. Y., N. Y. 16 April 1960 Shipmate: I need your help. Communication with the outside world is the greatest deficiency of my activities here. As an example, I have during this past week received two letters—• one of these letters called for action prior to 1 April 1960; the second required answers to be in the hands of a command in the U. S. 24

prior to 15 April 1960 or that no answer should be sent. Obviously I was not able to comply properly with either of these requests.

Can you please have published in Shipmate or in any other publication you may have access to, that many times it takes over a month for a letter to reach me from the U. S. and that it has taken as long as three months for an official piece of correspondence to reach me? If it is necessary for me to act, may I receive my request for action prior to the action date? If a piece of correspondence is of no value after a certain date, may it please be sent airmail? If correspondence which has no value after a certain date cannot be sent to reach me prior to that date, may I please be excluded from the mailing list?

I will greatly appreciate the widest dissemination for the above information. Thank you for your help.

BENNETT OELHEIM '36

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Oelheim's best address is: U. S. Naval Activities, Apartado 533, Cartagena, Espana.

A Proposition shipmate: Seeing Commander Andrews' picture on the cover of the April Shipmate reminds me of the several discussions I have had with him concerning the midshipmen's education.

He has his ideas, and I have mine and no doubt there are as many different suggestions and ideas as there are people interested.

After some study on my part, I would like to put forth for discussion the proposition that the course at the Naval Academy should be increased to five years. This would be accomplished in the following manner: The first two years' instruction would be given entirely at sea on some sort of an atomic powered merchant ship with a certain minimum amount of military appurtenances. I have a ship like the SS SAVANNAH in mind.

This ship would be a floating classroom accenting atomic sciences. It would cruise around the world during which period it would not only serve as a school ship but would "show the flag" and would also help to point out to the midshipmen the adventure, travel and breadth of view that only service in the Navy can give.

The fourth and fifth years would be back at the Academy, again with the same curriculum as now exists, modified of course by what was accomplished during the cruise.

After the fourth year, some administrative procedure could be effected allowing midshipmen to be designated "passed midshipman" or perhaps "junior ensign" with attending rules and regulations modified accordingly. Date of rank would originate at this time.

What are the advantages of this proposition? First and foremost is the placing of the midshipman in a learning environment devoted to the sea and to science and engi-

neering matters. Secondly, present programs (including sports) will not be affected after the initial third year operation. Granted this group will be out of competition for a year, but upon return all members will be available for another two years. And they will be infinitely wiser and more learned and should make even better athletes.

Visualize, dear reader, a system allowing one to go to school while traveling around the world, visiting such places as Quebec, Copenhagen, Oslo, Hamburg, London, Seville, Casablanca, Nice, Genoa, Naples, etc.

One could honestly say, "The Olde Navy was never like this."

Cdr. L. M. CULJAT, USN

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Staff, NATO NAS Patuxent River, Md. Shipmate:

The article "Civilian Point of View'' in the April 1960 Shipmate is interesting and informative. It is understandable and not the least detractive, but it is very disappointing to learn that so many Naval Academy graduates have left the service voluntarily.

One of the earliest and most vivid recollections of a desirable service attitude that I have came from listening to a bantering to which an old chief master-at-arms was being subjected. He had expressed an intention to retire after forty years or so in harness.

One listener piped up, "He'll never get out until they throw him out." That impressed me as one of the finest compliments that could ever be paid to a man in uniform.

Sophisticates of the Rickover school of thought doubtless think that football rallies and snake dances are childish. They feel that greater emphasis should be placed on erudition notwithstanding the fact that one isn't required to know how to design a weapon in order to use it. If we follow the famous advice of a noted graduate of the sidewalks of New York and "look at the record" we'll find ample evidence that the "wooden" sections of Academy classes have produced many of our finest officers.

In .these ominous days of nuclear threat it is most important that we bolster fighting spirit. The Apache chieftains had no college education but they fully appreciated the value of the frenzy induced by their war dance.

Picture what would have happened if the admirable warriors of the Rising Sun had had even a fourth of our resources.

With our soft way of life it is doubtful if our morale curve could ever approach the cult of Bushido or the dedication of the kamikazi. However that doesn't alter our desperate requirement for converts to the Faith! Pay only matters insofar as it should be adequate to free an officer reasonably from financial burdens that might hamper his ability to perform his assignment. Promotion should only be relevant to the job to be done.

If we are to survive, the most crying need of our day is for leaders who can inspire military fanaticism and "gung-ho" zealotry.

P H I L I P W H I T E '25

Shipmate: Kindly clear up a factual point raised by the following extracted statement from "Inside the Main Gate," May, 1960.

Since the end of Spring Leave, first classmen have been permitted to keep their cars luithin the seven-mile limit.

Where do the plebes keep their cars?

W.

H.

OSGOOD '12

Ed. Note: In escrow for three years!

SHIPMATE

Shipmate: Captain Haidler "50 rebuts at length 1/Lt. Manley's statements on Air Force Personnel Policies, submitting his personal experience as witness to the assertion that "No Service has ever done more to insure the proper placement of Academy graduates than has the United States Air Force."

Actuallv Air Force policy is to assign officers where they are needed. To my knowledge. Air Force makes little use of aptitude tests: I have taken no such tests, and I don't know of any classmates who have taken any.

Captain Haidler's narrative of his experience with the personnel officers that call directly to the Pentagon to secure suitable assignments describes, I believe, an atypical event.

The ratio of Regular Officers to Reserves that prevailed during the early and middle 1950s would probably appear disproportionate to most of our Naval colleagues. For example, when I was commissioned in 1956, there were less than 30,000 Reg-ular Officers of a total officer strength of about 130,000.

The ratio was probably more disparate when Captain Haidler joined the Air Force. Programs of augmentation and integration have brought Air Force Regulars now to about 50,000. However, the relative scarcity of Regular Officers during the '50s gave them considerable opportunity to secure promising assignments. Assignmentwise Air Force treats Academy grads as Regular Officers, not as a separate category.

Opportunities for Academy grads to get post-graduate work and assignment to challenging jobs are excellent in Air Force. A graduate training program in dozens of fields honors a service Academy degree as full prerequisite for almost all courses. Assignments after grad school are in the field of study for a H Q U S A F directed number of years.

In his zeal to rebut Lieutenant Manley's case, I feel Captain Haidler has overdone the Air Force on its personnel policies. Indeed I must conclude after hashing the issues out with many Navy classmates that although Air Force career opportunities are fine, that for a sound and smooth working officer personnel system, Navy outpoints Air Force by a fair margin.

DuNDAS I. F L A H E R T Y '56

Shipmate:

Captain Schratz's article, "A Frank Discussion of the Contingency Option Act," was excellent. His explanation of it, and the discussion on the various ways it may be used, was one of the clearest I have seen on the subject. I hadn't intended to use it at all. He has convinced me I can't aft'ord to pass it by.

I do have one criticism of the article, however. His paragraph three under "And to Recapitulate" is of limited validity. I would advise anyone planning his estate to do the best he could with the funds available prior to considering COA. After he has done this, I would advise him to fill in the gaps with COA; i.e., don't make COA the keystone of estate planning. What Congress gives.

Congress can take aivay! COA is guaranteed and guarantees income to your wife and children only as long as Congress desires.

Lest someone accuse me of jousting windmills, I would refer them to the past history of fringe benefitsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;especially the brief history of the $10,000 "free insurance." I know I was not the only one whose estate planning was seriously disrupted when this was discontinuedâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;after I had surrendered my NSLI policies in an effort to use these payments to augment my estate with some commercial insurance.

To repeat, I would advise doing the best possible as though COA did not exist and then augment as necessary with COA. In this way, if COA is discontinued when you have reached an age where you are unable, physically or financially, to provide additional protection for your survivors, you won't be hurt quite as badly.

Sincerely yours, A. G. OPITZ

'48A

LCdr. U S N Shipmate: Some comments on Captain Schratz's discussion of COA. He stated that the average age of widowhood is 56 years and three-fourths of this group have a further life expectancy of over 20 years. My actuarial table indicates that the life expectancy of a 56-year-old widow is 24.01 years.

The last article in the Naval Institute Proceedings, explaining selection, indicated, for a constant line strength, the selection

IDE THE MAIN GATE

by Bob Kennedy '60 A LMOST a memory is this past year at - ^ Annapolis; by 1100 this morning (June 1st) every first classman had finished the weapons final, the final final, and the "Last River." It was something of a neglected exam, following, unluckily, the long Memorial Day weekend; but certainly not neglected was the "No More Rivers" ceremony held, this year, in the field house. The biggest innovation in the annual performance was a temperamental jazz band combo type thing, which sometimes played well, but often awful. Jay Blanke was the super-casual master of ceremonies, and recruited some to the more talented first classmen to take part in the utter mockery. The show was centered around a certain '60 lad who didn't belong here at all. It seems he had been visiting Annapolis with one of the myriad Gray Line Tours, and while feeding peanuts to one marching section had been slugged, undressed, and then clad in his assailant's white works, said assailant undoubtedly fleeJUNE-JULY,

1960

ing to civilization. Dal Boggs is this unfortunate mid-kid, and he spends the next hour foundering about Bancroft Hall, in search of his beloved Gray Line Tour. He comes first upon the controversial Doc Hightower (Jack Shawkey) who as expected only complicates his dilemma. He then visits in turn the First, Second, and Third Battalion offices and is received with mixed, and of course unstable emotions. But his tragedy would not be complete without a day of classes, and a view of his redoubtable profs is enough to provoke the sympathy of even the most diligent student. Nat Heuberger as the eccentric and unbearable old Bull prof was tremendous, while Tom Mariano was the biggest sensation of the day as our lovable, German-boy wonder, phys-ed prof. In fact, we understand that Tom will be back in the P.T. department shortly on the basis of his performance.

Well, as the show ended, our Gray Line renegade was still a member of the brigade.

percentages should be about 80% to each grade except flag rank. This means an average expectation of commissioned service of eighteen years; if other attrition is included, the expectation is fifteen years. If a yes COA election is to be made, it should be made as soon as possible.

Captain Schratz states that his Figure 1 (page 9, May 1960, Shipmate) is similar to one published by the Navy Mutual Aid Association. The NMA stated that one should allow 3% per annum as a projected rate of inflation. The charts of each have failed to make such allowance; neither has made any allowance for improved living standards.

Official U. S. data indicates that per capita personal consumption expenditures have increased at a rate of 5% compounded annually, during the past decade. It would appear to be a matter of prudence to use at least this figure as a future projection of the combined effects of inflation and improving living standards. In other words, the wife of 31 should anticipate a need of $970 a month as a widow, aged 65, in lieu of the charted $300; i.e., if she wished to live in the same relative economic status.

Several years ago, I suggested to the NMA that officers became insured for the benefit of their beneficiaries and, accordingly, there should be no limit to the amount of insurance that an insured wished to carry and, in addition, that his beneficiary should be allowed to purchase at any time after the death of the insured with single premiums such additional annuities as were desired.

It appears to me that the proper place to make up for the deficiencies of the COA is through our own efforts via the NMA. Some changes are due; a policy of $7,500 amounted to something when the NMA was organized in 1879 but today a widow would be lucky to stretch the benefit over the first two years of her widowhood.

When it is desirable to publish a discussion of this type in Shipmate, it indicates a lack of training in personal economics. During the years I was on active duty, the Navy's approach was essentially negative; i.e., taking appropriate action on failure to pay just debts. The obvious place to give such instruction is at the U S N A before marriage; it is being done at the USMA. C. J. BALLREICH

'20

Capt. U S N Ret. realizing now that the only way out would be to graduate; so let's all wait a few days.

Walking away with the colors this year was the very competent Thirteenth Company.

With a very devoted following, John Dirksen was relentless in compiling one of the finest records seen in the Color competition. Congratulations to you all.

Deserving honorable mention for their best showing in four years is the well-known 19th company. The whole world is watching Capt. Lane Rogers and his scrappers for the next season. Best of Luck, Gang.

As part of a nationwide testing program, the first class were given a Graduate Record examination after regular exams were over.

Ostensibly to provide a guide for any possible postgraduate selection boards, the exam will undoubtedly be used in a comparison of the products of this country's colleges and universities.

It appears that this is my last message from behind the Main Gate, for I'll soon be another wondering alumnus. The past year has been an enjoyable one, and I'm grateful to Shipmate for the opportunity to write about the Naval Academy each month. Now I can look forward to reading about these things myself.

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by Paul Schratz '39 The Pop Bottle and Naval Research

A L U M N I NEWS WHAT'S THE DOPE LAST CALL NAVAL ACADEMY FOUNDATION WITH A ROUND TURN DISTAFF CORNER CLASSIFIED SERVICES

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OFFICERS President— V. ADM. GEORGE C . DYER, U S N (Ret.) '19 (5127), Annapolis, Md. Vice President (Eastern Area) ADM. B . HALL HANLON, U S N (Ret.) '21 (5953), Washington, D. C. Vice President (Central Area) MR. ROBERT G . WALDRON '19 (5059), Detroit, Mich.

Vice President (Western Area) R. ADM. O . O . KESSING, U S N (Ret.) '14 (4269), Coronado, Calif.

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

TRUSTEES Superintendent's Representative— CAPT. C . K . MILLER, U S N '39 (13484), Chief of Staff, U S N A At Large

(To serve until Spring Meeting 1961) R. ADM. W . H . BURACKER,

V. ADM. I. N. KILAND,

U S N ( R e t ) '20 (5427)

U S N (Ret.) '17 (4657)

R. ADM. J. D. HAYES,

R . ADM. L . A. KNISKERN,

U S N (Ret.) '24 (7428) U S N (Ret.) '22 (6244) (To serve until Spring Meeting 1962) CAPT. L . F . BROWN,

R . A D M . P H I L I P N I E K U M , JR.,

U S N R '16 (4626)

U S N (Ret.) '26 (8204)

R. ADM. F . V. H. HILLES,

M R . EDWARD W . REBARD

U S N '30 (9620) '41 (14475) (To serve until Spring Meeting 1963) CDR.

W . S . BUSIK,

M A J . G E N . C . C . JEROME,

U S N '43 (15752)

USMC (Ret.) '22 (6451)

CAPT. E . B . FLUCKEY,

R . ADM. C . W . NIMITZ, JR.

U S N '35 (11861)

U S N (Ret.) '36 (12227) From Local Chapters

(To serve'until

Spring Meeting 1961)

CAPT. ROBERT H . WESCOTT, JR.,

U S N R '2>7 (12754), Boston CAPT. E . K . ZITZEWITZ,

U S N R '25 (7966), Chicago CDR.

THOMAS L . MILLER, U S N R

(Ret.) 'i7 (12528), Connecticut CAPT. JOSEPH. T . TALBERT, U S N

(Ret.) '20 (5494), Coronado MR.

DANIEL C . WILKERSON, '20

Detroit

U S N R '24 (7369), New York V. ADM. J O H N H . BROWN, JR.,

U S N (Ret.) '14 (4276), Phila.

MR.

WALTER F . SEEDLOCK '41

(14292), Peninsula CAPT. HAROLD H . CONNELLEY, U S N

(Ret.) '23 (6976), San Diego

U S N R '23 (7140), Los Angeles 1 9 6 0

Once before in the history of the Navy a pop bottle held a major role in solving a scientific problem. Just a little more than a hundred years ago—my memory of facts versus pop bottles is not necessarily complete—another smart Navy scientist. Admiral Dahlgren, was stationed at the Naval Gun Factory in Washington. One day while enjoying a picnic with his large family he watched the youngsters "pop" the old fashioned, round soda bottles of that era and the idea came to him that a gun built in the same shape, with graduated strength along the bore, would not burst. Suffice to say, the Dahlgren gun, a smooth bore, familiarly known as "the soda water bottle," was used for the first time in battle in both the MONITOR and the MERRIMAC. Since the

MONITOR had the earlier 7-pounder and the MERRIMAC the new 9-pounder, the gun be-

came the decisive factor in the success of the northern iron-clad, and the battle itself opened a new era in shipbuilding.

CAPT. EMORY D . STANLEY, JR.

(SC), U S N '35 (11894), Seattle

CAPT. HERBERT HEZLEP, JR.,

JUNE-JULY,

CAPT. P A U L W . SIEGRIST,

For at least the second time in history the homely old pop bottle has helped solve a major scientific problem facing our experts in naval research.

Last month the Navy missileers at Point Mugu announced that they are planning to launch huge intercontinental missiles from the ocean by floating them like soda pop bottles. The idea was evolved by a smart young Navy scientist who has the rare quality of keeping his mind in motion even while he's idling. While staring out the window of his Point Mugu office he watched a soft drink bottle floating in the adjacent lagoon.

The partially filled bottle, though bobbing in the waves, always returned to an upright position with the axis of the bottle always in direct line with the center of the earth.

To test his theory that a missile could be aligned with the center of the earth in the same way, the young man—who didn't rate even getting his name in the papers—• got permission to try to launch some old telephone poles into the air from the base lagoon by equipping them with small rocket engines. So successful were the lagoon launchings—although there is no hint that a phone pole is actually in orbit—the Chief of Naval Research gave the green light on a full fledged program.

The new technique already shows promise of removing one of the most expensive elements in the rocket field and will also provide a relatively inexpensive means for launching super powerful rockets for future deep space probes. Rockets too heavy to stand upright on a launching pad can be towed to sea, cut loose to bob upright with only the nose cone above the surface, and fired by remote control at the instant they reach alignment with the center of the earth.

ADM.

W . M . FECHTELER, I J S N

(Ret.) '16 (4481), Wash., D. C.

I suppose the moral of this tale is that when an idea pops into your head, don't keep it bottled up.

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What's The Dope WHENEVER

CARTER, JAMES LOWELL—Class of

1870

We are indebted to Capt. J. D. Zimmerman, (ChC) USN, District Chaplain, Potomac River Naval Command, for the following biographical information which was recorded in the back flyleaf of a copy of Infantry Tactics by Brig. Gen. Silas Casey, U. S. Army, Vol. I, Van Nostrand 1862: Carter, James Lowell 1860—entered Englewood Mil. Academy.

Grades, Corpl., Sergt., Sergt. Maj., and 2nd Lt. Entered Highland Mil. Academy. Grades, Corpl.

Entered 19th Mass. Vol. Inf. 2nd Div. 2nd Army Corps. Grades, 2nd Lt. Mustered out July 4, 1865.

Reed commission from U. S. as 1st Lt. 184th USCT. Reported to regt. July 25, 1865 at Beaufort, S. C. Commanded Co. " H " at Battery "Burnside" Aug. & Sept. Sent to Hospital at Hilton Hd. Sept. 20 '65.

Mustered out of service Feb. 5, '66 at Mt. Pleasant, S. C. Applied for appointment as Midn US Navy in March '66.

Rosewell Hart, MC appointed me from the 28th Dist of N.Y. Sworn in July 25, 1866.

A midshipman's life must have been dull to one who had served through the Civil War as an officer !

The book is the property of the National War College Library, Washington, D. C. WELCOME ABOARD TO N E W ASSOCIATIONS

The following encouraging letters . have been received concerning the establishment of new alumni organizations. All alumni in the Syracuse area and in Puerto Rico are urged to contact the local officers if you have not already signed up.

Dear Admiral: The Syracuse Chapter of the U S N A Alumni Association was launched with a very successful luncheon at the University Club of Syracuse on 4 May 1960. The following attended: L. G. Appell '52, J. B. Crosby '35, R. P. Davis '47, W. E. Forsthoflf '47, R. M. Freeman 'SO, E. H. Gibbons 28

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'44, R. L. Hartwell '50, E. F. Hayward '39, R. I. Hicks '23, G. D. Prestwich '44, D. C. Reed '59, P. Shumway '39, R. B. Southwell '47, S. H. Stearns '38, W. O. Steele '52, W. R. Stewart '27, O. N. Spain '35 and P. A. Wells '22.

The following were unable to attend but indicated an interest in being listed as Charter Members: J. P. Brody '40, W. P. Finos '46, C. L. Atkinson '22, L. M. Berberian '48B, J. H. Boop '46, O. M. Edwards '46, W. W. Rothmann '51, C. Sayres '24 and W. C. Moore '39.

Pete Shumway was appointed pro-tem Chairman until elections to be held at the next meeting. The following committees were named: Organization and Charter: O. N. Spain, Chairman, W. E. Forsthoff and R. M. Freeman. Nominations: S. H. Stearns, Chairman, R. B. Southwell and R. L. Hartwell.

Discussion of a Charter and election of offices will be conducted at the next meeting which will be held on Wednesday, 8 June.

I think that with such an enthusiastic launching, the Syracuse Chapter will flourish.

I have listed some 66 alumni in the general area and hope for an increased interest and membership as those as yet unreported "get the word."

Many thanks for the useful that you provided.

Sincerely, Cdr.

information

PETER SHUMWAY, U S N

(Ret).

General Electric Co. Defense Systems Department 300 S. Geddes St. Syracuse, N. Y. Dear Sir: Thank you very much for your words of encouragement and the material sent with your letter of 4 May 1960. This will be very valuable in developing our organization.

The first meeting of our Local Federal Academies Alumni Association will be held next Friday and we are very enthusiastic about grouping all graduates in one organization of this kind.

Sincerely yours, FELIX R .

CARR

Branch Manager IBM Corporation Santurce, Puerto Rico

MEET"

5509 Grove St., Chevy Chase IS, Md. 14 May 1960 Dear Fitz, As I pay my bill for our 50th Anniversary party at Alumni House, I seize the opportunity to thank you and all your staff for the generous help and many kindnesses to me in organizing and putting on our Reunion. Your suggestions and advice were invaluable and your courtesies will not be forgotten. The 1910 pennant was a crowning achievement.

Best wishes for you all, Sincerely yours, CHARLES J.

MOORE

NEW CHANCELLOR FOR COLLEGES OF W I L L I A M A N D MARY

The board of governors of the Colleges of William and Mary have appointed VAdm. Alvin Duke Chandler, U S N (Ret.) '23, to the office of chancellor to be effective 1 July.

In making the appointment of Admiral Chandler to the job of chief administrator to the five-school complex which will comprise the Colleges of William and Mary in Virginia, the board did not name any person to replace him as president of the Williamsburg_ institution, but it is expected that an appointment will be made in the near future.

There have been only 18 chancellors in William and Mary's history. Of these, only 5 Americans—including 2 presidents—have ever held the office since 1776. George Washington held the office for 11 years during the time he was also president of the United States.

John Tyler, 10th president of the United States, was the next chancellor to be appointed, in 1859. Two Virginia newspaper publishers were appointed to the office, Hugh Blair Grisby, 1871-1881, and John Stewart Bryan, 1942-44. The last chancellor prior to Admiral Chandler was Virginia Governor Colgate W. Darden, Jr., who held the post in 1946 and 1947.

The appointment of Admiral Chandler to the post follows on the heels of a recommendation adopted by the 1960 General Assembly which called for a major revamping of the S H I P M A T E

William and Mary administrative setup and expansion of current education facilities in Tidewater.

The purpose of the change is to relieve Admiral Chandler of a sizeable burden, by appointing a separate head of William and Mary in Williamsburg. The chancellor will receive reports from all 5 presidents and answer directly to the board of visitors.

Admiral Chandler is the son of the 19th president of W'illiam and Mary, Dr. J. A. C. Chandler. Following graduation from the Xaval Academy he entered upon a naval career that carried him to several key combat commands during the second World War. Following the war, he served in various administrative positions. He was director of logistical plans for the chief of naval operations in 1951 when he was selected as president of William and Mary.

la^t Call

^^.^' BAGLEY, DAVID W O R T H ( A D M USN RET) ' 0 4 , Baltimore, M d . — 2 5 M a y '60

APPOINTED MISSIONARY

The Rev. John David Zimmerman. Capt.

USN, an American Episcopal Chaplain, has been appointed ^lissionary to serve on the staff of the Most Rev. Angus Campbell MacInnes, Archbishop in Jerusalem and Metropolitan. The Chaplain, who retires from active duty in June, will assume his responsibilities in Jerusalem this coming September.

Aptly suited to his new position, the Chaplain has a command of seven languages, including both Biblical and modern Hebrew. .•\.fter attending Heidelberg College, Tiffin, Ohio, and the U. S. Naval Academy (Class of 1929), he was graduated from Kenyon College in 1929 with both Bachelor of Divinity, cum laiide, and Bachelor of Philosophy degrees. His seminary majors were Hebrew, Old Testament, and Church History. He did graduate work in Old Testament History and archaeology before going on to Johns Hopkins where he was graduated Master of Arts. His thesis was based on Habakkuk,

BISPHAM, HARRISON AUGUSTUS (CAPT USN RET) ' 8 5 , P h i l a d e l p h i a , P a . — 2 4 A p r . ' 6 0 BLACKBURN, CHARLES TALLEY wood, N. J.—9 M a y '60 CHAPLAIN JOHN

D. ZIMMERMAN, USN

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Chapter III. He also earned his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins, his dissertation being an expansion and continuation of his master's thesis.

In his new capacity. Chaplain Zimmerman will act as a liaison between the Archbishop and the Episcopal Church in the United States. He will also conduct some of the English services at the Collegiate Church of St. George in Jerusalem, do missionary work, teach, and travel throughout the entire See which also includes Iran, Egypt, Libya, the Sudan, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria and Israel.

'07,

Ridge-

BURHANS, ARTHUR DAVID (RADM USN RET) ' 1 6 , V A H , Battle C r e e k , M i c h . — 2 9 M a y ' 6 0 CURRAN, PAUL MICHAEL (CAPT USN RET) ' 2 6 , U S N H , Bethesda, M d . — 3 June ' 6 0 DEPEW, PAUL STUART (LT USN RET) ' 2 7 , U S N H , San D i e g o , C a l i f . — 6 A p r . ' 6 0 FETTERER, GEORGE GEORGE (2/LT USAF) ' 5 5 , Puerto Rico—1 Feb. ' 6 0 FISHER, J O H N THOMAS ' 2 1 , C o l u m b i a , Tenn.

— 1 0 Jan. '60 GINGRICH, J O H N EDWARD ( A D M USN RET) '20, New York, N. Y . — 2 6 M a y '60 G O U I N , MARCEL EMILE ALCAN ( V A D M USN RET) ' 2 4 , Chelsea, M a s s . — 1 7 M a y ' 6 0 H A V I L A N D , JAMES W I L L I A M , III (RADM USN RET) ' 2 5 , USNAS, N o r t h I s l a n d , C a l i f . — 2 0 M a y '60 HIBBS, W I L L I A M (CAPT USN RET) ' 2 0 , USNHS H a v e n , Long Beach, C a l i f . — 1 1 M a y ' 6 0 H O W A R D , HENRY PEYTON ' 2 4 , W a s h i n g t o n D. C . — 2 2 M a y ' 6 0 LACKEY, HARRY ALFRED, II (LT USN) AFB in Banana R i v e r — 1 8 M a y ' 6 0

'52,

LANG, CHARLES JONAS (CDR USN RET) ' 9 3 , California—14 May '60 M A R I O N , PAUL HENRY ' 0 9 , N e u i l l y , F r a n c e — 2 4 Sept. ' 5 9 MEREDITH, ELISHA EDWARD Calif.—20 Jan. '60

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Fresno,

NICHOLS, N E W T O N LORD (CAPT USN '07, Baltimore, M d . — 2 6 Apr. '60

RET]

ORVILLE, H O W A R D THOMAS (CAPT USN RET) '25, Baltimore, M d . — 2 4 M a y '60 POWELSON, WILFRID V A N NEST (LCDR USN RET) ' 9 3 , Ft. L a u d e r d a l e , F l a . — 2 0 M a y ' 6 0 SCHWEFEL, W I L L I A M GEORGE ' 5 0 , B a b y l o n , N . Y . — 1 0 Feb. ' 6 0 STIRLING, CEDRIC WARREN (CAPT USN) ' 3 4 , U S N H , Pensacola, F l a . — 1 5 M a y ' 6 0 TILSON, W I L L I A M THOMAS (1/LT USAF) ' 5 7 , A i r c r a f t accident n e a r F a r m e r , W a s h . — 1 3 Apr. '60

Photo by M. E. Warren THE 1960 LUCKY BAG is added to the Alumni Association library. Midshipman M. W. Gorman ' 6 0 , Sports Editor, presented a deluxe edition of the '60 Lucky Bag to Rear Admiral W. F. Fitzgerald, Jr., Executive Director of the Alumni Association in a brief ceremony at Alumni House on Wednesday, 1 June 1960.

J U N E - J U L Y ,

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WARRACK, ROBERT CRAWFORD (CAPT USN RET) ' 2 0 , U S N H , San D i e g o , C a l i f . — 5 A p r .

'60 WORRELL, MALCOLM LEE (CAPT USNR RET) '14, Miami, Fla.—4 May '60 WYLIE, W I L L I A M NAYLOR (RADM USN RET) ' 3 0 , Brevard, N. C.—10 M a y '60 29

Sec'y, E. Adm. A. H. Van Keuren, USN (Ret.), 8013 Aberdeen Ed. Bethesda 14, Md. Correction—in the May issue of Shipmate in describing the new honor recently bestowed on BETTY STARK, I stated that in 1957 Betty donated a Science Hall to Wilkes College which was named Stark Hall. Betty tells me he wishes he were that affluent, but the Science Hall was given by a group of his friends who requested that it be named Stark Hall.

From the lack of news from other classmates I judge they are all well and happy.

M I K E ROBINSON and your Secretary are invited to the celebration of the 20th anniversary of the founding of the Bureau of Ships, in which they played a not inconspicuous part. They were the first and second Chiefs of that Bureau. The celebration takes place on IS June.

Sec'y, V. Adm. Alexander Sharp, USN (Ret.), 6306 Bannockburn Dr. Bethesda, Md. WALTER BOARDMAN

DECKER

Our classmate Cdr. W A L T E R BOARDMAN DECKER, U S N (Ret.), died at the Naval Hospital at Portsmouth, Va., on 17 Apr. 1960. Funeral services were held at Ft. Myer Chapel with interment in Arlington National Cemetery on 21 April.

Walter was an athlete of distinction at the Academy, an outstanding track and football man. He served on a long line of ships and after his retirement in 1934 was called to active duty in W W I I at headquarters 5th Naval District.

He is survived by his widow, Edna Vivian Rosasco Decker of 7650 Maury Arch, Norfolk 5, Va., and by 2 daughters: Barbara, the wife of RAdm. William E. Ellis, USN, and Suzanne, the wife of Cdr. H. A. I. Sugg, USN.

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Sec'y, Capt. R. P. Frellsen, USN (Ret.) 5 Sherwood Ed., Wardonr, Annapolis, Md.

N E W T O N LORD NICHOLS CHARLES TALLEY BLACKBURN

We are sad to record 2 recent deaths in t h e c l a s s — N E W T N I C H O L S and SQUIDGE BLACKBURN. Both died suddenly. Newt at his home in Baltimore on 26 April, and Squidge at his home in Ridgewood, N. J. on 9 May. Newt was buried at Annapolis after services at the Academy Chapel. Among his many friends who were present at his burial were the following classmates from Washington: Sunny Jim Parker, Johnnie Hoover, Putty Read and Cap Bemis, and Bryson Bruce from Annapolis. Others living in Annapolis were unable to attend, being variously incapacitated— Giflen, Frellsen, (julliver and Robinson.

Newt was known by his classmates and his many friends for his kindness and his consideration of everyone. You will remember he was art editor of the Lucky Bag. He is survived by his devoted widow, Vinnie, his daughter Eleanor Nichols Meeker of Baltimore, 3 granddaughters and 1 great grandchild. All of us extend our sympathy to them.

Squidge Blackburn resigned from the Navy after the first World War and for many years had lived at Ridgewood, N. J. except for the summers which he and his charming wife Dorothy would spend at Lake Placid.

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Squidge was one of the "Functions" of 1907, having entered the Academy 6 May 1903.

He was devoted to his Alma Mater and enjoyed seeing the old familiar sights, and some not so familiar, at the dedication of the new Stadium last fall. Graveside services were held on 13 May at Arhngton Cemetery with a number of classmates and other friends present. He is survived by his widow, Dorothy, and their daughters, Mary Worthington and Annie Talley (Mrs. J. Kirk Hopper).

With an assist from LOUIS GULLIVER and for RAY FRELLSEN, both of whom have been in the hospital recently for repairs, BRYSON BRUCE is preparing these notes. Ray was at Annapolis and Louis at Bethesda. It is nice to report that both are now at their homes here in Crabtown and making rapid recoveries.

Louis reports that late in April at Bethesda, 4 members of the class had an impromptu reunion — men only — RANDALL JACOBS, DEAC CUMMINGS, P A T BELLINGER and himself, with SUNNY JIM PARKER the only well man in the bunch.

He says that all are rated as excellent risks, even though Jake is running on a replacement, as well as without parts he had in the beginning. Pat Bellinger's hair is still black and his cheeks are ruddy. Deac Cummings is as brave as they come and he does make out pretty fine too.

You will be interested to learn that the bright boy of the class. LOUIS McKEEHAN, was married at Mountain Lakes, N. J., on 24 April to Mrs. Ada W. Wilson. Louis had known Mrs. Wilson since 1911 when Mr. Wilson was a fellow physicist at the Cavendish Laboratory of Cambridge University.

You guess where they are going to live.

Louis has a house in Jamestown, R. I., and the bride has one in Brewster, Mass. They are living in an apartment in New Haven.

The Class of '07 wishes them many, many happy days.

SKOW CORWIN and Natalie recently stopped for the night at one of our good motels on their way south. Skow took a trip last fall to the Mediterranean for about 6 weeks—just had to go to sea. Louise and I had the pleasure of an evening with them.

Both are looking fine and going strong.

DUTCH and Ramona H E I M have abandoned the West Coast long enough to greet many of their friends in Washington and vicinity. It would please a lot of people around here if they would decide to stay in the East for keeps.

I have mentioned, among the local boys, that, Ray and Louis have been up for repairs. Well, our good friend M I K E ROBINSON had the hard luck to fall on the ice in March and break his left hip. He is at home now and doing OK. A hip is always a long haul. I K E GIFFEN has a little trouble navigating but can play poker as well as ever, which is pretty good.

FUZZY FARQUHAR and Charlotte were recently in Utica, N. Y. visiting and greeting a new grandchild. DAVE HOWARD, who lives at nearby New Hartford, is planning to have a cataract removed from each eye at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, 243 Charles St., Boston, about 22 June. Dave has his garden planted and we hope will recover quickly to enjoy it.

Let me close these notes with this. You fellows like news, and I am sure Ray will see that it is circulated via Shipmate if you will shoot it in, either about yourself or the other fellow. News from or of wives and widows would be thankfully received. Also, we always send flowers or, if requested, a donation to charity from the class if we find

out in time when a member of '07 passes on.

Either notify Ray or me.

ALLAN and Charlotte F A R Q U H A R have returned to their home in Jacksonville, Fla. (17 Apr. 1960), from Fort Benning, Ga., where they visited their daughter Anne and her husband, Lt. Daniel Malone, USA, administrative officer of the Rangers Department.

Sec'y, R. Adm. Edward J. Foy, USN (Ret.) Sheraton Park Hotel, Washineton 8. D. C. P A T D O N A V I N wrote the following letter to your class secretary from Carmel, Calif., on 7 Apr. 1960: "At the suggestion of my fellow townsman, R. KELLY TURNER, I am passing along to you a social note concerning the luncheon given by J. McCREDIE I R I S H at Pine Inn, this city, today.

"After a double huckleberry smash in the bar, the above named sat down to luncheon with A. M. RULAND A L L E N and the undersigned K. H A R R Y DONAVIN, and a very good time was had by all. During the conversations, numerous anecdotes of a not too complimentary nature were bandied about, accompanied by loud and raucous guffaws.

Even you, Ned, came in for your dubious part in the scenario of time.

"The luncheon meeting was the first of what we believe will be a continuing function about every 4 or 5 weeks, until such time as it is the writer's day to pick up the tab.

"Except for the few aches and pains attendant upon reaching the seventies, I have to report that all of us are in pretty good shape.

"Hoping you are the same.''

Secretary's note: Those California huckleberries !

At the class luncheon the day this is written, I saw a letter to BILL W I L L E from E V A N R I N E H A R T . Never have I seen such a calendar of serious ailments as are afflicting both of the Rineharts and never such courage in coping with them! The Rineharts are at their home in Lutherville, Md., near Baltimore.

A letter, also to Wille, from DAN DENNY in Clearwater, Fla., reports them in good shape.

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It is with deep regret that I report Frenchy's death on 24 Sept. 1959, in a nursing home in Neuilly, France, near Paris, after a long illness. He died of cancer of the lungs. He had been ill for 2 years and had the finest of care at the American Hospital in Neuilly, where he underwent cobalt treatment for the cancer. Three months before his death he had to be removed to a nursing home in the country. His wife nursed him during his illness until complete exhaustion and had a very serious breakdown and, at the time of writing to me the middle of April, was just beginning to be herself again.

Frenchy was buried in the American Legion Mausoleum in Neuilly Cemetery.

Frenchy was a native of Annapolis. His father was Professor Henri Marion, who taught Foreign Languages at the Naval Academy for many years. He started in the Class of 1908 and graduated in the Class of 1909. After graduation he served in the following ships: FRANKLIN, COLORADO, STEWART, VICKSBURG, MISSISSIPPI, PADUCAH

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SAN FRANCISCO. He left the Naval Service 16 Dec. 1914. H e volunteered in France for one year's service in the American Ambulance Corps (Ypres and Nieuport, front line). In 1916 he went with the Aetna Explosive Co., a powder plant in Emporium, Pa. He was then commissioned a Captain in the Army Ordnance Corps and spent 2 years in France in W W L In 1919 he went with the Federal Shipbuilding Co. In 1921 he re-

turned to France and started an ImportExport business.

In W W I I illness prevented his return to the United States and he spent the entire war in a small town 25 miles north of Paris, where he and his wife were forced to stay under continual bombardment day and night.

He returned to Paris after the war.

Frenchy had been in poor health for a long time. He had no children. He is survived by his widow, who will continue to live at 16 Rue Gabriel Peri, Lavallois-Perret, Seine, France, where they had lived for many years.

Frenchy was 74 years old at the time of his death and had been married for 32 years.

His widow writes that he always used to talk about his time in the Navy and his classmates and his youth spent in Annapolis.

He talked about returning to the States for a visit, but could never make it.

CLASS LUNCHEON

The April class luncheon was held on the 19th at the Army-Navy Club with the largest attendance in years. The 20 who attended were Benson, Braisted, Chapline, Dessez, Glennon, Hatcher, Hustvedt, Manahan, McCauley, Bill Porter, Robertson, Sampson, Poco Smith, Stuart, Train, Wright, Williams, Bowman, Bye and Carroll.

have cured the trouble. He had been having very serious trouble with that eye.

NICK GOULARD has sold his business interests and on 1 May he and his wife moved from the NE-CA Farm in Skillman, N. J., to 48 Spruce St., Princeton, N. J. His son is a practicing physician in Ocala, Fla., and his daughter lives in Palos Verdes, Calif.

BILL H A W T H O R N writes that he is now spending 8 months of the year at his Florida address, 8935 Fronde Ave., Surfside 54, and the balance of the year, June, July, Aug. and Sept., in New York City. He would be very happy to have any classmates drop in on him at his Florida address when down that way.

PERCY N O R T H C R O F T informs me that he was in the hospital last summer in June and July with an ulcer, and in March had some slight trouble with his heart and again had to be hospitalized. He is home now and getting along nicely.

ED and Helen RAGUET's granddaughter, Diane Raguet Davidson, is to graduate this June from Randolph Macon Woman's College.

HAROLD TRAIN

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS

J O H N BORLAND writes that he hopes to retire next year.

BUB COMFORT writes that 2 perfectly splendid Navy eye specialists performed 3 delicate operations on one of his eyes and

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FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY REUNION UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY

CLASS OF 1910 The place: A n n a p o l i s , M d .

The d a t e s : F r i d a y , S a t u r d a y

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A p r i l 2 9 t h , 3 0 t h a n d M a y 1st.

The SOth Anniversary Reunion of the Class of 1910 has come and gone. Now we can look forward to our S5th, 60th and 7Sth! It was great fun and Baldy Pownall will tell you about it.

The group photograph is really good. That is Baldy hiding behind Mary Smith and the little person peeking over Mary Beary's shoulder is Gladys Clay. In the other picture are the shortstop and the pitcher of the plebe team posing with the gentlemen who played the same positions for the Navy in 1910. There is no need of saying who they are.

In listing below the faithful who attended the Reunion, I want to express the regret of all of those who were present for the absence of those too ill to come and those classmates and classmates' wives who didn't come for reasons best known to themselves. Those listed attended at least one of the scheduled events.

Here they are and where they came from.

Pug and Katinka Ainsworth, Washington; Don and Mary Beary, Coronado, Calif.; Sid and Hilda Berry, Long Beach, Calif.; Ducky Blandin, Akron, Ohio; Dan and Pauline Borden, Washington; Tookus and Burton Bright, Annapolis; Spike Brown, Brattleboro, Vt.; Squarehead Brown, Pocotello, Idaho; Tim and Dorothy Byrne, Kilmarnock, Va.; Henry and Gladys Clay, Shepherdstown, W. Va; Savvy and Louise Cooke, Sonoma, Calif.; Pete Cygon, Washington; Carolyn (Mrs. Lyal) Davidson, Washington; Stumps and Cecil Edgerly, Atlanta, Ga.; Louie and Evelyn Fagan, Palo Alto, Calif.; Pat Flanigan, Geneva, Switzerland; Pop and Irene Gillam, Washington; Elmer and Mildred Langworthy, Annapolis; Al Lanpher, New York City; Chink Lewis, Palo Alto, Calif.; Skip and Margo Merrill, Washington; Tubby and Margaret Meyer, El Paso, Tex.; Charlie and Anna Louise Moore, Washington; Tom Moran, Washington; Bill and Barbara Nicholas, Tucson, Ariz.; Tom and Peggy Nicholson, Oklahoma City, Okla.; Swifty Norfleet, Cape May Point, N. J.; Lota (Mrs. Frenchy) O'Brien, Washington; Edith (Mrs. Russ) Osmun, Washington; Baldy and Mary Pownall, La Jolla, Calif.; Red and Nan Reinicke, New York City; Fanny (Mrs. Ted) Sherman, San Diego, Calif.; Jack and Virginia Smith, Rosemont, Pa.; Mary (Mrs. Cam) Smith, Newport, R. I.; Dorsey Thomas, Kokomo, Ind.; Gretchen T. Tiedeman (Dorsey's daughter), Wayne, N. J.; Webb Trammell, Istanbul, Turkey; Coots and Eleanor Will, Albuquerque, N. M.; Buster and Margaret Williams, Charlottesville, Va.; Mack and Genevieve Young, New York City.

My dear Classmates—• The photographs and the list of participants showing from whence they came have been provided by Charlie Moore. They alone constitute an accurate and impressive mental picture of this memorable occasion. It is to be noted that in some cases continents and even oceans were crossed in order to attend.

This brief report attempts to provide some of the details.

The Maryland Treadway Inn proved to be a convenient and hospitable headquarters for the Reunion. It is the old Maryland Hotel on Church Circle, modernized, redecorated and refurnished. Classmates began to gather there on Thursday, and throughout the weekend informal visits from room to room, gatherings in the public lounge, the dining rooms and the bar provided pleasant opportunities to renew old friendships. In Charlie Moore's suite, where the participants registered, were pictures and mementos of Naval Academy days of SO years ago and a handsomely illuminated scroll presenting a resolution of the Assembly of the State of California congratulating and commending the Class of 1910 on the occasion of its SOth anniversary of graduation from the Naval Academy. This was provided through the thoughtfulness of Frank Luckel, who unfortunately was not present at the Reunion. To make things more convenient for those arriving in Annapolis by automobile, the Governor of Maryland, in a personal letter to each such traveler, offered the privilege of the State of Maryland parking lot near the Inn. The "kickofjf" of the Reunion occurred over the flowing bowl at Hubbard Hall on Friday afternoon. Hubbard Hall is the "new" boathouse on College Creek where the shells of the great Navy crews are kept. It was here that all participants met for the first time, and the greetings were warm and prolonged. To avoid mistakes and possible embarrassment we were provided with name badges. While most of us had attended the 40th and 4Sth anniversary reunions on the

East and West Coasts, this was the first time since long before the second war that our East and West Coast classmates had had on opportunity to assemble. Hence, the name badges were a wise provision. Through the courtesy of the Commandant of Midshipmen, two Midshipmen were allowed to accept the invitation of the class to this initial party.

One was the grandson of Cam and Mary Smith and the other was the son of Elmer and Mildred Langworthy. They seemed fully qualified to carry on the tradtitions of their parents and their hosts.

Following this initial gathering the ladies were transported enmasse to the Maryland Treadway Inn where they dined on Maryland fried chicken and then amused themselves until the return of the men from the traditional stag dinner.

This was the feature event of the Reunion.

The dinner was held in the beautiful "N" Room above the boathouse where bronze tablets list the names of those who were awarded their "N" while at the Academy.

Here we dined on roast beef, toasted everyone, listened to the remarks of each of us, chatted, sang and—laughed! Charlie Moore read messages from some of those unable to attend and explained the absence of others.

He introduced the capable and devoted Pat Flanigan as toastmaster who gracefully called on each of us for a few words. These remarks disclosed the characteristics of the individual as truly as the remarks he might have made fifty years ago. Some were emotional, some were reminiscent, some were deeply thoughtful. All warmed the heart and, in reflection and recollection, it was evident that for us of 1910, friendship and loyalties have not dimmed due to age or years of separation. Instead, these traits mature with us more and more, year by year. Considerable mention was made favoring a 60th and even a 7Sth anniversary reunion. The hue and cry was that if any class was on its feet for such a reunion, it would be the Class of 1910. There were many expressions of appreciation for the planning and execution of the Reunion by Carl Moore and it was true that the Reunion progressed from event to event like a well greased Naval operation. Hence, Carl Moore was enthusiastically awarded a "Well Done" by "All Hands." No less praise was bestowed on Tom Moran for his faithful and painstaking work in the preparation of our Class Bulletins. Only

Before turning the floor over to Baldy, I want to thank all of you for coming and for your cheerful cooperation which made the affair a success. By other means I have tried to tell so many people in the Naval Academy, the Alumni Association and Annapolis how much I appreciate their help.

These many kindnesses gave me an extra degree of pleasure shared by no one else.

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TWO OF 1910's BASEBALL TEAM with corresponding players on this year's Plebe Tean S H I P M A T E

1910 REUNION

sympathy and understanding met his apologies for the delay in getting out the 1959 Bulletin.

We shall not forget the gracious courtesy extended to us by the Superintendent and the Commandant of Midshipmen who greeted us when we assembled on the steps of Bancroft Hall at noon on Saturday. We witnessed meal formation and then had our pictures taken on the same spot w'here the class was photographed as plebes. The Midshipmen's Drum and Bugle Corps formed directly in front of us and it was an impressive sight to witness the seemingly endless ranks of Midshipmen march by us to the stirring music of the "Hell Cats." The Midshipmen enrollment is over three times what it was in our day. The five striper is now a six striper.

And Midshipmen do not talk in ranks!

(There can't be any more Fats Roesches!)

It was at this time that Squarehead Brown remarked—^"Imagine in our day, the Class of 1860 holding its SOth anniversary reunion!"

After luncheon at the Officers' Club we were taken on a bus ride around the Academy grounds and an officer guide explained the new construction and the enormous areas of newly made ground. Then we were taken to see the Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium, about one mile from Bancroft Hall.

Comment on the Stadium was mixed. Some liked it. Some did not. All approved of the 1910 Memorial Gate, the 1910 Plaque, and considered that our Memorial Chairs had an excellent location on the 50 yard line under cover of the upper tier of the Stadium.

The party at Alumni House Saturday night was a great success. Food was excellent, spirits were high and the singing, led by the Langworthys and accompanied by an expert accordion player, was superb. We had the pleasure of having as our guests the members of the classes of 1909 and 1911 and their wives residing in Annapolis.

The weather remained ideal until a light drizzle greeted us on Sunday morning. Nevertheless, most of us appeared in front of the Chapel at ten o'clock to see the Midshipmen march in to the music of the Naval Academy JUNE-JULY,

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band. The brilliance of the picture was dimmed somewhat—for the Midshipmen it was "Uniform Rainclothes." However, by the time Chapel was over, the sun was shining brightly. We were ushered into the Chapel after the Midshipmen had entered and seated together in a special section. The service was impressive, the music beautiful and the flag ceremony most inspiring. All of us were deeply touched. The Chapel program contained the following: "We are privileged this morning to have as members of the congregation, members of the Naval Academy Class of 1910 who are celebrating their SOth anniversary. Since it would hardly seem appropriate to say 'welcome aboard' to those who have served for half a century, we would say in all humility and sincerity that it is our prayer that we can serve as long and as well the country we all love so dearly."

The Chapel Service ended the scheduled events of the Reunion in Annapolis but the Ainsworths' party at the Chevy Chase Club in Washington's suburbs was to follow so, except for those who could not attend, farewells were delayed until Stinday evening.

There was much regret, though, at leaving the Inn where we had been so happy and at breaking up our wonderful Reunion.

It is hard for your recorder to do justice to the Ainsworths' party. The setting was beautiful. The table floral decoration, designed by Pug, was a blue 1910 on a field of gold. As was to be expected the food and drink were most ample and most delicious.

However, the occasion was more than just a party. We can classify it as a special Reunion for Pug and Katinka had been unable to go to Annapolis. Pug is convalescing at the Naval Hospital in Bethesda after a major operation. On this occasion, at considerable physical effort, he was on hand to greet us and he stayed until the affair was over.

In spite of the physical strain the old fire was in his eye and the strength of his friendly handshake was as strong as ever.

We each took the opportunity to sit beside

him for a short chat. Katinka was most gracious and Gardiner Ainsworth and Kit Ainsworth Semmes with their respective "spouses" helped their mother make us most welcome. We can sum up the matter in a few words: We know that Pug and Katinka are truly great. We say God Bless them. We all say for the record that we had a wonderful time.

There is so much that could be told about the Reunion—but it is hoped that this brief description will give those who could not be present an idea of what a grand Reunion it was.

BALDY POWNALL

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Sec'y, V. Adm. R. M. Griffin, U S N (Ret.), 3133 Connecticut Ave., N.W., Wasliington 8, D . C.

W E L L S COMSTOCK, not to be outranked by his classmates, recently became a grandfather. His son Craig is the father, and is a junior grade lieutenant now teaching Math at the PG School at Monterey.

Wells is the volunteer Civil Defense Director at Norristown, Pa., a job he does not recommend as a sinecure! His address is 2300 Old Arch Rd., Norristown.

HARRY HILL, one of the Directors of Historic Annapolis, Inc., has been appointed to the Governor's Committee for the Civil War Centennial. Harry should be back about 7 June from the trip he and Margaret are making to the Orient, and will resume the work with the Annapolis group planning for the SOth Reunion in May 1961.

In the Central Florida Chapter of the Alumni Association, C. Q. W R I G H T ( C A P T U S N R R E T ) is the class representative of the 1890-1920 classes and T. Starr King, Jr. ( C A P T U S N ) '36 is the representative for the 1931-1940 group.

Tommy King commands the USS OBSERVATION ISLAND based in the Cape Canaveral area. Both C. Q. and Tommy were well known football players in their midshipman days.

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J O H N N Y and Betty MEIGS recently spent a few weeks in Washington baby sitting with grandchildren while son Charles and wife were on a trip to Europe. Charlie, a captain in the Navy, had just resigned to accept a job in Philadelphia working on rockets and similar defense projects.

At the 11 April class luncheon pictures from the 1910 Midshipmen's cruise to Europe were passed around and created much amusement. It was suggested that those attending the reunion this fall bring snapshots with them so that we can all see how we looked SO years ago.

BOB H I N C K L E Y has become a Junior Warden at Christ Church in Georgetown, where D W I G H T CHANDLER, DOC BYRNES, T O M K I N K E A D and other Navy files are parishioners. The Chandlers' son Bill, William D., I l l , '48B, and his charming Barbara are building a home in the suburbs of Washington, D. C , convenient to his new job with the Lockheed Company.

While walking my granddaughter (Bobby's daughter) in the zoo I ran into Mary BRUNS on a similar mission with 2 children of her son Bill who have been visiting her while their parents prepared to depart for Manila. Bill is with the State Department, and is taking his family to the Philippines where he will be First Secretary. My son Bob has 2 children, a daughter 2>^ and a son of 6 months. Bob has recently come to Washington to be with the American Institute of Planners, after having spent 2 years in High Point, N. C , as the City Planner.

Also, I learned that the Bruns-Chandler grandchild contest waxes hot, with Mary claiming the lead. Her daughter Kathleen, wife of Capt. F. T. (Bud) Cooper, USN, has given birth to her 9th baby, Steven.

This makes Mary's 18th grandchild, and may give her a temporary ( ? ) lead over the Chandlers!

When HAROLD K E L L E R retires from his Civil Service position in early June, he and Bunny are leaving for Europe, where they will visit the Hague, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Scotland and England. Upon their return on 2S July they will go to their summer home in Wolfboro, N. H. Other travelers are the BOB HINCKLEYs who are off again on a trip that will take them to the Dalmatian Coast, Greece, Austria, Italy and Portugal, They leave 25 Aug. and return 25 Oct., and ALEX MACOMB and Edna who are making the rounds in France, Italy, Switzerland, England and Ireland.

BILLY HICKS, who has been visiting in Altadena, Calif, says that his daughter who is at Pearl Harbor, while strolling on the beach, "bumped into Harry Hill enroute to Japan." As Billy says, "small world." Billy plans to attend the SOth Reunion. Harry and Margaret have returned to Annapolis and report they found old shipmates and brothersin-arms at every port.

The White House announced on 15 May that the President accorded the personal rank of Ambassador to PAUL F O S T E R during his tenure of assignment as the representative of the U. S. to the International Atomic Energy Agency.

Robert M. Hinckley, III, qualified for entrance to the Naval Academy via the Presidential, the Hawaiian, and the NROTC examinations I Chandler's grandson, Qiarles Chandler Krulak, will also be a member of the 1964 class.

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GRANNY and Frances COBB have a new grandson, Robert Watson Cobb, son of Calvin H. Cobb, Jr. We regret to report the loss, in an airplane accident, of MORRIS GILMORE's stepson, Lt. Harry A. Lackey, II '52.

GLEN H O W E L L , in Boise, Idaho, continues his regular broadcasting and hasn't missed his routine broadcast in 3 years. He is President of the Community Council, and is a member of the Governors Conference on the Aging and a member of its Executive Committee. He may be in Washington in Jan. to take an active part in a conference on this subject. He expects to attend the SOth. Betty Molten's address for some time will be Buckingham Hotel, St. Augustine, Fla., where she is visiting her mother. The Molten grandchildren now number 12. In the fall, Betty expects to visit briefly her daughter Lalor, whose husband, J. B. Earle, Jr., an oflScer in the Supply Corps, is on duty in Puerto Rico.

H O W A R D KINGMAN'S stepdaughter named her baby girl, born in March, Carol Kingman Brittain.

Of the first 33 replies regarding the SOth Reumon, 27 believe they can make it, 3 are uncertain, and 3 cannot, principally because of physical disability.

Addresses differing from those in the 18451960 Register of Alumni, published by the Alumni Association, are: Comstock, 2300 Old Arch Rd., Norristown, Pa.; McMillin, 4242 Linden Ave., Long Beach 7, Calif.; Cheek, P. O. Box 952, Ross, Calif.; Bates, P. O. Box 357, Del Mar, Calif.; Perley, P. O. Box 463, Dalton, Ga.; and Churubusco Newton, Jr., 142 Waveland Beach, Bay St. Louis, Miss.

Anyone having information of SOLON E Z E L L R O S E , please send it in, as he has

not been heard of for many years, and his address is unknown.

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Corr. Sec'y, V. Adm. G. H. Fort, U S N (Ret.). 3537 Edmunds St. Washineton 7, D. C.

Dorothy GREENE

The Virginia Beach community was shocked and saddened by the sudden passing of Dorothy Greene, wife of our classmate, Capt. CHARLES F. GREENE, U S N (Ret.), on 25 May, after a short illness at the Portsmouth Naval Hospital. Services were held at the Galilee Episcopal Church of Virginia Beach on 30 May with graveside services at Arlington on 31 May. In addition to being a devoted wife and mother, Dorothy was a leader in her community. She was the president of her sorority in college and was a past president of the Princess Anne Garden Club as well as an active member of the Junior League. At our 4Sth Reunion at Annapolis, she and "Casey" were among the gayest there and it was her account of what transpired at that memorable gathering which appeared in Shipmate.

In addition to her husband, she is survived by a daughter, Mrs. James Greene Satterfield of Panama, P.R.; 2 grandchildren; a sister, Mrs. Frances de A^alin of New Orleans ; and 2 brothers, Eli T. Watson of New York City and Leslie Watson of New Orleans. Our heartfelt sympathy is extended to Casey and the family.

"CY" W A K E M A N has recently retired for the third time, the last from the California Dept. of Employment. This time he thinks it will stick. He at least wants to be able to travel a bit before taking on another job. The responsibility of keeping

up a house and garden tied them down so they have sold their house and moved to an apartment, where their new address is 380 Curtner Ave., Apt. 10, Palo Alto, Calif.

I received a very short but eloquent communication from LIGON ARD. It was a check for our C31ass Fund. Ligon, although graduating with '13, always remembers his old classmates of '12.

The J O H N FALGES have returned to San Francisco from their annual tour of New Mexico and Central America. He reports that "OSSIE" and Ruth OSGOOD had checked in at S.F. while trying out their new station wagon and that both were relaxed and happy.

John also sent word that S T E V E and Rita R O B I N S O N had been in the Bay area, having driven their new Olds up from Coronado to visit his brother. Steve tried fishing the Truckee River but he had no luck because he insisted on using flies when any small boy could have told him that trout bite only on worms when the river is high. " S T I T C H E Y " a n d Mary P A Y N E have returned from another 3 month trip to Hawaii and the Orient.

As soon as the RAY W A K E M A N s were settled in their new apartment in Palo Alto they started studying maps, preparatory to a trip East to vist friends and relatives in New York and perhaps continuing on to Europe.

Why can't you West Coasters stay home once in a while?

W A L T E R D E L A N Y and Lou recently gave a beautiful reception at the Army-Navy Club of Washington. Noted among the guests were several classmates and 1912 widows.

Instead of their usual trip south at Eastertime, J O S H and Dorothy V E N T E R took their youngsters up to Vermont for skiing.

They were planning to leave on 18 June with their boys to drive to California, combining sightseeing in the West and visits to relatives.

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Corr. Sec'y, P a n ! D . Sleeper 7120 Fairfax Rd., Bethesda 14, Md.

Elizabeth A l l e n HULL

I regret to report the death in California early m May of Mrs. Elizabeth Allen Hull, widow of our classmate C. T. "SHORTY" HULL. After cremation I understand she was buried in Arlington Cemetery, Va., with graveside ceremonies at her husband's resting place. I believe she leaves 2 children and all of '13 send deepest sympathy.

We were particularly delighted to have BUCK" J O N E S from Philadelphia and LEVOY H I L L from Annapolis at our D. C. April luncheon. This is "Buck's" first for a long time and LeVoy has been away from Annapohs for several months. Others present were Abbott, Craven, Helmick, "Doug" Jones, "Jakey" Lee and Sleeper.

Fine contributions to our Class Fund were received from ARD and W H I T E . Thanks.

CHANGE OF ADDRESS

T W. McGUIRE, Rockville, Md.

13316 Keating St.,

E. H. QUINLAN, c/o U. S. Naval Attache, .American Embassy, Mexico, D. F., until June or July.

L. H. T H E B A U D , Pointe au Pic, PQ, Canada until about end of September.

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MISCELLANEOUS NEWS FROM HERE AND THERE

. \ U S T I N writes, "Just back from wonderful trip down Mississippi, Cincinnati to Orleans. 4 days in Natdiez. Had grand visit with Pete and Janet Rodes '14, in Louisville."

CASS.\RD says, "Please give my best regards to all classmates." '^ D O N . \ H U E tells me, "Left hospital in early April and doing fine at home. My best to all."

DUDLEY informs that tliey "returned home 4 Apr. via Miami from Mexico and enjoyed a fine winter as well as seeing HUGH and BiUie W H I T E in Miami."

GAYHART says, "It was a real pleasure visiting the Jim Halls in Florida this winter."

HELMICK and wife left about IS Apr. for several months in Europe, where their daughter's husband is on Army duty. A note received 27 Apr. from on board the RoxTERDJVM says: "This trip reminds me of one made as midshipmen as we just passed Plymouth, but accommodations are a 'little' better and larger tlian on the old INDI.-^NAâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; no hammocks or a bucket of water per day, but I miss 'Man the ash whip.' " "Buck" J O N E S writes, "It was great being with the D. C. '13ers at the 13 .Apr. lunch, and I want to express my real appreciation for all of the generous hospitality."

JUNKIN sent word that he couldn't be with us in April, "as I will be in France then."

McCAWLEY tells me, "Our children all got together and gave me a 70th birthday surprise party, with about 60 children, grandchildren and old friends present, just before we left on 13 Apr. for a European trip on the SS SxATENDi^M. It was a grand party."

PILLSBURY and wife again planned to come East and we all in Annapolis and D. C. now, on 27 April, hope to see them both.

From Mexico Q U I N L A N writes, "Saludos to all '13ers. I had hoped to see Dudley down here for some golf. My cabin in Nederland, Colo., will welcome '13ers this summer, as always."

RODES says, "CHUB and Marjorie A U S TIN were here and it was grand to see them.

My best to all."

RUBLE, from San Francisco, is the only one who paid any attention to my request in .\pril Shipmate for more news from and about all of '13's fine group in the West.

"Red" says, "I have just finished April Shipmate, and I am impressed that 1913 is uncomfortably near the head of the older classes listed. It does seem to me too that there is not enough news about our West Coast residents. As for me, I now have a green light from two MDs to return to golf after 4 months. However, we haven't had good weather so I didn't miss much anyway.

We had hoped to visit Portland, Seattle and Vancouver but have called it off for the present. Possibly we can go South and if we do I will certainly try to see classmates in Carmel, and elsewhere, and W A L K E R COCHRAN in Santa Cruz." (Again, I wish that someone on the West Coast would gather news of our classmates and send it to me or direct to Shipmate. If you don't want the job, please send me news about yourself.

We are all interested. PDS.) SHOCK writes, "Some day I will coordinate my southern trips better and get to D. C. for one of the monthly luncheons. W e were all saddened by Vandy's passing."

T I M B E R L A K E tells me, "Am leaving 8 April to visit my son and family in Brussels where he lives. I always enjoy news of our classmates, and do hope to get to a D. C. luncheon some of these days."

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Mrs. V A N D E R K L O O T writes, "My daughter and I wish to thank the Naval Academy Class of 1913 for the beautiful wreath of flowers sent to Fort Rosecrans for the graveside service for 'V.\NDY' and for the expressions of sympathy."

W H I T E says, "We enjoyed seeing the Dudleys here in Miami, and they both looked in the best of health. I have a few aches but am not convinced I am much older."

In addition to the above the following also sent best regards and short notes: Dillingham, Enright, Hudson, Hunt, Leighton, Powell, Seibert, Thebaud and Woodside.

Changes of address: A. H. D O N A H U E , The Thomas Wynne, 200 N. Wynn wood Ave., Wynnwood, Pa.; R. H. GR.AYSON (8 June to 8 Oct), "Just plain 'Highlands, N. C after 9 consecutive summers"; H. W A T T S PILLSBURY, c/o Thomas Cook & Son, 45 Berkley St., London W 1, England.

CLASS FUND

Thanks to MERRICK TISD.ALE for a fine contribution to our Class Fund. He

writes: "Having absorbed all of the many reports of our class which you and H E L MICK have sent to Shipmate I want to extend my sincere thanks. Herewith is my contribution to our Class Fund. This is sent with pleasure. Keep up the good work and perhaps when you least expect it I will get down again to one of the monthly luncheons of the D.C. group.'' (Come soon, Merrick. We'd all like to see you.)

13 OF CLASS OF '13 MEET ON 13TH

That was the heading over a picture in the Washington Post of 14 May 1960. Below, it read "12 members of the 1913 graduating class of the Naval Academy and 1 from the same class at West Point met for lunch yesterday at the Army-Navy Club. They always meet on the 13th and were not unhappy about yesterday being Friday the 13th. Those present were Capt. H. L. .A.bbott, Capt. J. E. Brenner, Commissioner T. A. M. Craven of the Federal Communications Dept., Col. William Cooper Foote (the Army man of 1913 West Point), Adm. J. L. Hall, Cdr. Levoy {Continued on page 38)

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U. S. Naval Academy Foundation T

H E W O R K of the U. S. Naval Academy Foundation deserves the gratitude and support of all alumni and friends of the Naval Academy. It is not generally known how much effort is devoted by the Foundation to the location and encouragement of promising candidates.

The Foundation was incorporated in 1944 as an independent educational and charitable organization. It is staffed by outstanding Naval Academy graduates, both military and civilian, who are keenly interested in spreading the word about the Naval Academy and attracting capable young men of high leadership potential to our program. One of the great objectives of the Foundation is to inform high school youngsters in all parts of the country and in all walks of life where the faulty impression may exist that it is almost impossible to enter the Naval Academy and follow a career as an officer in the Navy.

During the coming year the Foundation will answer some three hundred inquiries on a great variety of problems concerning scholastic and physical qualifications, nominations, and the Naval Academy and naval career in general.

The charitable activities of the Foundation, through grants to the scholarship funds of preparatory schools, make it possible for a limited number of young men each year to improve their secondary school preparation to the point where they can successfully undertake the curriculum of the Naval Academy. The preparatory schools to which grants are made require a better than average school record, excellent health, high motivation, superior moral character, indications of leadership, satisfactory background.

and give consideration to participation in extracurricular activities such as student council, honor societies, class offices, athletics, school publications, band, dramatics, Boy Scouts, religious organizations and U. S. Naval Reserve.

A scholarship for a year at such a preparatory school is often of critical assistance to a young man who, although having fine native talent, may have suffered the disadvantages of mediocre schooling or below average financial circumstances. The results of the Foundation's program have been excellent, bringing to the Naval Academy young men who have made distinguished recordsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;in leadership, academics and athletics.

The Naval Academy Foundation is actively interested in enlarging its program so that a greater number of young men may receive the benefit of the information, guidance and assistance which it so ably provides. The ability of the Foundation to expand its activities is dependent upon adequate financial support. The Foundation can receive corporation and individual donations which entitle the donor to the usual tax deductions for gifts to educational and charitable organizations.

The U. S. Naval Academy Foundation is located at One Dupont Circle, N.W., Washington 6, D. C. Mr. H . McCoy Jones is its dynamic and devoted Chairman. I know that he will welcome your support of the Foundation's important program.

C. L.

MELSON

Rear Admiral, U. S. Navy Superintendent, U. S. Naval Academy

The Navy's Polaris: from nowhere toilanywhere

WITH A ROUND TURN

by John D. Hayes '24 THAT HARDY PERENNIAL, "THE OLD SCHOOL TIE"

The service press recently carried the story of a letter from four lieutenants, junior grade which charged "glaring discrimination by selection boards against non-Naval Academy people."' The Bureau of Naval Personnel, it was reported, receives quite a few such letters. This one evoked a public reply from the Chief of Naval Operations. (See Army, Maw, Air Force Journal, 23 April 1960, p. 1.)

Seasoned regular olficers, whatever their source, know that such charges are not true.

The record proves it with such cases as Oscar W. Farenholt who served in every grade, enlisted and commissioned from seaman to rear admiral; Nehemiah M. Dyer, Captain of the cruiser BALTIMORE at the battle of Manila Bay; Charles O'Neil and George W. Melville who became Chiefs of the Bureaus of Ordnance and Engineering; and in the memory of most of us. Admiral Alfred M. Pride; Vice Admiral Richard Whitehead and Rear Admiral Louis Dreller.

The naval aviation cadets of the 1930's still comprise a big increment of non-Naval Academy olficers on the active list and those who have survived war and selection are now approaching flag rank. Following World War II, an expanded Navy went not to the Xaval Academy but to civilian

colleges and universities for its additional career officers. Nevertheless, fifteen years later the malignant notion of Naval Academy preference still persists.

We Alumni rightfully resent the allegations of favoritism but we have not stopped them. The reason, I believe, is because we have not been brave enough to state the raw truth—that all else being equal, a graduate of the Naval Academy has a better chance of achieving success in his profession than if he did not have its preparations. This was the purpose for which the Naval Academy was founded and if it were not the case, the place should have been closed up before now.

Men like Farenholt and Melville, Pride and Whitehead had better stuff in them to start with than anything the Naval Academy could have given them. Nothing in the post war demobilization left senior officers with a greater feeling of sadness than to see able young reserve officers, natural leaders with a priceless equity of years of war service, turn down a promising naval career to enter the civilian life that most of them had never known. And God knows and we know that some awful bums have entered the commissioned ranks from the Navy School.

Nevertheless, for the average man the Naval Academy training is superb preparation for life. The fact that. so many who

leave the service do so well attests to this.

Should it therefore be unusual that those who remain do that best for which they were prepared? We should be both grateful and humble but that does not mean being apologetic or afraid to hold our heads up high.

W h e r e W i l l W e Get Our Junior Officers

Can we afford to answer false charges with the obvious truth? Will not this truth keep out college men and thereby dry up this junior officer source? That depends. It will certainly keep out the marginal types, the kind that advance "the old school tie" excuse for failure. It will, however, challenge the able college man who likes and wants a Navy career. The Navy needs him and will give him as it always has, every opportunity to use his powers to serve his fellow man and reach the top of his chosen profession.

As for filling junior officer requirements, a radical suggestion to this end was made in the January 1958 Shipmate. Briefly it was that the Navy get junior officers from its own source—promising enlisted men prepared for the officer role with two years at a "Little Naval Academy." This would allow more Oscar Farenholts and Dick Whiteheads to reach the officer grade where they belong.

Erupting from the ocean that blankets most of the earth, the Navy's Polaris missile will have the range to reach any strategic target. It will be launched from mobile bases that are safe from surprise attack—nuclear-powered submarines that cruise fast and deep for weeks on end, each carrying 16 Polaris missiles. This is the Navy's Fleet Ballistic Missile system. It becomes operational this year. Lockheed is prime contractor and system manager for the Polaris missile.

MISSILES & SPACE DIVISION

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Photo by Schultz THIRTEEN FROM '13 meet for lunch on Friday the 13th. Seated left to right: Jim Hall, Cooper Foote, USMA '13, Doug Jones, V/atts Pillsbury, Jakey Lee, Bill Jupp, Paul Sleeper, Henry Abbott, Jim Brenner, Levoy Hill, John Palmer. Standing: Mac Miller and Tunis Craven.

W H A r S THE DOPE (Continued from page 35) Hill, Capt. J. D. Jones, Cdr. J. A. Lee, Capt.

W. B. Jupp, Cdr. J. McC. Miller, Como.

J. R. Palmer, Capt. H. Watts Pillsbury and Paul D. Sleeper."

Recently West Point celebrated the 100th, yes the one hundredth, birthday of one of their distinguished generals. (I believe he is almost the only one now living of either West Point or Naval Academy graduates who has reached 100 good years.) The general was brought to West Point for the party.

I sent him a congratulatory telegram from U S N A '13. His replyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;from his son, "Such an unexpected and delightful message added greatly to the happiness of the day."

M I K E D O N A H U E tells me he's fine; " H A R P " McGUIRE is doing OK. WALLY D U N N has been laid up. Good luck and best wishes to you from '13.

JIM B R E N N E R and wife arrived just in time so "Soph" could be at our D.C. luncheon.

W A T T S PILLSBURY had improved so much that he and his wife decided to follow through with their European trip. The J U P P S gave a party for the Pillsburys for the Annapolis '13 group as Watts and wife were staying near there. It was grand to see both the Brenners and the Pillsburys, and also to have MAC MILLER come to our D.C. luncheon.

SAMMY MOORE's sister Margaret reports she and her sister Edith enjoyed seeing the picture in the paper of the '13 lunch on 13 May. Also, that Edith is just getting over her first cataract operation and is Uored because of the time it takes. Good luck, Edith.

ARD writes "All the best to all hands."

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will do this summerâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;may go to New England. Will expect to see you all in Washington as we are going or returning."

GRAYSON writes, "We expect to be in Highlands, N. C. all summer and get a rest from a strenuous season in Sarasota this winter; then to Lexington, Ky. for the fall racing season, as we usually do."

SHOCK tells me, "Saw AUSTIN, POWELL and T H E B A U D on recent trip to New York. They are all in the pink. It kept this hayseed humping to keep up with them."

Chub Austin also adds, "The '13 N.Y. contingent are all in full bloom. Theb is up and out for a walk with his dog every A.M. at 0600; GEORGE W O L F is enjoying the swimming at Westport, T I S D A L E is bird watching, CASSARD as usual is making it hard for us goodlooking lads, FRED DILLINGHAM is now the 'Archduke of Brooklyn,' and Powell had T H E birthday . it was so good I've even forgotten the date."

TOM SEARLES is now President, Federal Yeast Corp., Phila., Pa., from note just received.

WALLY VAILL writes, "Just learned of Vandy's death from Shipmate. It's a real shame. When I knew him at Annapolis he always was such a clean decent lad who got a real joy out of living. I was glad to get news of P E T E VANVALSAH, though sorry he has been laid up. I remember well seeing him and wife when they visited Niagara Falls."

All above and the following sent notes or cards and their best to '13ers everywhere; Brownell, Dillingham, Dudley, Enright, Gayhart, Hudson, Hunt, Buck Jones, McGuire, Seibert and Thebaud, as I do. Hope more of you will come to D. C. P,^UL

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Sec'y, Cdr. Robert H. Maury, U S N (Ret.) 208 Prince Georee St., Annapolis, Md. West Coast Corr. Sec'y, R. Adm. 0 . 0 .

Kessins, 842 D Ave., Coronado, Calif.

MALCOLM LEE WORRELL

It is with much regret that I have to announce the distressing news that "DOGGIE" W O R R E L L passed away suddenly in Miami, Fla. on 4 May. Funeral services were held at Fort Myer Chapel. He was buried with full military honors in Arlington Cemetery. The following classmates were present: Baker, Carey, Maury, Perry, Redman and Spanagel.

We will always remember our second class cruise when Doggie distinguished himself by standing by the throttle of the old MISSISSIPPI at the time of a steam explosion and saved the ship from what might have been a very serious accident. He received a commendatory letter from the Secretary of the Navy for his courage and presence of mind. For his services during World War II Doggie received Commendation Ribbons from both the Army and Navy. He was retired as Captain, USNR. He is survived by his widow, Ailene, whose address is Mount Dora, Fla. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS

R A L P H P E N N O Y E R writes that he and May are still in their winter quarters at Pensacola, Fla. but expect to return to their summer home in Virginia Beach about 15 June. He said that they had a delightful winter in Florida, which was not the case in most sections of the country.

Ralph also gave me the news that B E R E S F O R D W A L L E R and Agnes had spent a few days in Pensacola in March enroute from the West Coast to their home in Manchester, Mass. Beresford brought S H I P M A T E

them, the Pennoyers, up to date on the West Coasters. Ralph went on to say that KELLY and Mary Stuart BEARD have recently taken a cottage at Pensacola Beach for a month. He said that botli of them are in the pink, and to look at Kelly you would never believe he had had such a serious accident.

Received a card from P H I L Y E . \ T M A N dated 7 April (Naples) saying that he and Elizabeth were mid-point on an 8 weeks holiday in the Mediterranean, and that their health and spirits were fine. They are visiting Spain, Portugal, Sicily, Greece, Italy and France. After they have completed the Mediterranean visits they expect to go on from there to Holland and tlien to England.

GORDON N E L S O N has just given me the interesting news that he and Lucile are planning to go to Spain and northern Italy next September. They hope to see the A L BERRYs while in Spain. W e hope, Gordon, that you and Lucile will have a wonderful trip, but we will be missing you during the Homecoming Weekend.

BYRON R . \ L S T O N has had quite a rough time of it during the past 2 years, one illness after another, but seems to be somewhat on the mend at the present. During that time he has had 7 major operations.

He still has his chin up as he always has.

They are living at 159 Cor lies Ave., Pelham, N. Y. \fter many ups and downs I am happy to report that " F R E N C H I E " J A L B E R T is now well on the road to recovery and is now back at his home on Maryland Ave. Since I heard from Ralph Pennoyer I have received a picture post card from Kelly Beard saying that they are still at Pensacola Beach and will remain there during the month of May. On their way back home to Philadelphia they hope to stop by Annapolis to see the .\rmy-Navy baseball game on 4 June.

Apparently, he has fully recovered from the terrible automobile accident last fall.

ALFRED and Agnes T A W R E S E Y were in Annapolis the latter part of April to be present while their daughter, Mary Hall Cassidy, went through a very serious operation. I am happy to report that the operation was a complete success. As mentioned in a previous issue of Shipmate, their daughter is the wife of Capt. John J. Cassidy, (CEC) U S N who is in charge of Public Works, USNA. It was a great pleasure to me a short time ago to receive a surprise visit from R.A.LPH DAVIS who was in Annapolis for the weekend. He hopes we will all put our shoulders to the wheel and urge our Senators to pass the Equalization Pay Bill. As you perhaps all know, the measure passed the House without any opposition whatever, and at the present time (26 May) is in the lap of the Senate Committee.

An air mail letter came from A L BERRY yesterday (25 May) saying the ELLSBERGs had just been with them and that they had a delightful time talking over old times.

While there the 4 of them made a trip to Cadiz and apparently had a wonderful time. .\1 tells me that Ned is the first classmate he has seen in many years. H e would be delighted to have any of us who might be in that area at any time to get in touch with him. Although they have just built a house and are now living in it his mailing address is still Hotel El Pinar, Torremolinos, Malaga, Spain.

DON ROYCE has just sent me a picture post card from Kristianstad dated 20 May telling me that he, Mabel and their daughter had just completed a tour of Sweden by car making overnight stops in 8 cities, inJUNE-JULY,

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eluding Stockholm. They departed from Sweden for Denmark that night. He and Mabel will return home about 7 June; their daughter will remain in Copenhagen where she has been living for some time.

W'e had the great pleasure of seeing Margaret GEARING not long ago; she was in Annapolis visiting Miriam S L I N G L U F F on Hanover Street.

I received a letter from Peggy T H O M A S some time ago in which she wished to express her appreciation to those classmates whose donations made it possible for a Memorial chair to be designated for FR.A.NK in the Stadium.

Since writing the article regarding Doggie Worrell I have received a very nice note from .Ailene thanking the class for the flowers which were sent on the occasion of the funeral.

DEAC H A N S arrived in Annapolis recently and will be here for a while. Glad to have you with us, Deac.

CLASS MEMORIAL

The Superintendent of the Naval Academy has approved the design of the 1914 Class Memorial, which is to be dedicated to HAROLD ROOKS. H e has also designated the site for it, which will be in a very conspicuous location. As mentioned before it will be a drinking fountain made of granite and will consist of 4 spouts (bubblers). The monument part of the memorial has 4 sides, on each of which will be a plaque with pertinent information. Before you receive this issue of Shipmate you will have received a bulletin from me giving more details than are mentioned here.

It is hoped that this will be a one hundred percent contribution from the class. The

names and amounts donated will be known only to DON ROYCE unless permission is obtained from the donor to let it be known.

Edith Rooks gave her permission; the amount is $1000!

We are now planning on having the dedication take place on either Friday or Saturday of the 1960 Homecoming Weekend and it is hoped that as many as possible will be able to attend.

My next letter to the class will contain more details concerning this; you have already received this letter—I hope.

"To old Fourteen once more."

BOB

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Sec'y, Adm. Arthur D. Struble, U S N (Ret.) 4017 Oliver St., Chevy Chase, Md. Asst. Sec'y, LGen. P. A . del Vallc, USMC (Ret.), 41 Cornhill St., Annapolis, Md.

Thirty-one classmates, most of them accompanied by their charming ladies, attended the 45th Reunion.

The opening event was a cocktail party for all hands at the del VALLEs' on the evening of Friday, 13 May. Next day at the Maryland Treadway Inn at a pre-stag luncheon business meeting, the class elected the above two to relieve F R E D R I C H A R D S who had graciously taken charge upon the demise of MYRON H U T C H I N S O N , as there was no machinery for providing a successor.

Under DICK RICHARDS able and genial guidance the reunion was organized and carried out. Our distinguished Treasurer CLAUDE VICKERY^ was voted an assistant, to be selected by himself. Other business was transacted, all of which will be duly reported in the next bulletin. After the meeting at the stag luncheon, RAdm. W. F.

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Fitzgerald, Director of the Alumni Association, gave a talk of great interest.

The ladies were entertained at luncheon

by Mrs. Richards at their beautiful colonial home known as the Ridout House.

Buses took all hands after lunch to see the goat, the lacrosse game, the Memorial Stadium, and thence to a cocktail party at the H E N N I N G s ' delightful country place. Then, back at the Inn, the grand finale, the class dinner, with all hands present. In a gay mood the celebrants, inspired by IRV CHAMBERS' remarks, sang the good old Ballyhoo Massy.

Present and more or less accounted for were R. N. S. Baker, R. W. Bates, Blair, T. G. Brown, Chambers, del Valle, Fischer, Gamble, Godfrey, Henning, Horn, Howard, Jenkins, Kneip, C. E. Lewis, J. E. Maher, R. M. Nelson, Overesch, Peyton, Powers, Quynn, Ramsey, Richards, Ritchie, J. H. Rockwell, Small, Sperry, Stephan, Vickery, Winslow and Grot Wood. Telegrams of regret were received from the Walkers, the Fortsons and the Steve Rockwells.

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Sec.-Treas., Capt. E. S. Earnhardt, U S N (Ret.), 3900 Calverton Dr., Colleee Heiehts Estates, Hyattsville, Md. Corr. Sec'y, Capt. L. F. Brown, USNR 31 Maryland Ave., Annapolis, Md. West Coast Sec'y, Cdr. E. F. Cochrane, U S N (Ret.), 4316 Ayalon Blvd.

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ARTHUR DAVID BURHANS

As we go to press word has just reached me of the death of A R T H U R DAVID B U R H A N S at, I believe. Battle Creek, Mich. He was buried at Arlington. Further information will be sent out in the next issue.

We are endeavoring to line up the situation on memorial chairs at the Navy-Marine Corps Stadium to be sure that all who should be so recognized are included. Anyone with ideas should write "Mick" or me.

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS FROM HERE AND THERE

Dot F O R R E S T E L is very anxious to get one of the pictures taken at our '51 Class Reunion in which BILL can be seen. I do -not have one. If any of you do have one, would you mail it to Mrs. W. J. Forrestel, :2969 Manoa Rd., Honolulu, Hawaii, and let -me know that you have done so.

R U S S E L L HITCHCOCK writes that they took a 3 months' trip to England, returning early in May. His letter came from Torquay.

"CRUNCH" K L E I N was in Washington, having spent several days there, but I believe has now returned to the Coast.

ANDY McFALL dropped in on me during the last month. They are_ on their way ^o Florida, but we hope we will see more of â&#x20AC;˘them from now on, as Andy's son is Flag .Secretary and Aide to the Superintendent.

BILL H A W T H O R N E is back in Washington and currently staying at the ArmyNavy Club, although he is considering tak-ing another trip. He spent 5 months in Europe, most of it in Italy and France, although he did wander around a bit to other -parts of the Continent. He spent some time in Nice, which brought back memories of â&#x20AC;˘our 1914 cruise.

Received a letter from D U T C H W Y N K O O P . Florence and he have been down jRt St. Croix for an extended period and have J u s t returned to Pleasantville.

JIO

CLASS LUNCHEON

Our luncheons combined with '17 continue at the Army-Navy Club on the 2nd Thursday of each month. There were 13 at the April meeting divided 8 '16 and S '17.

WEST COAST

BUNNY C O C H R A N E Message from RED KEADY, "These are closing weeks for the planning part of the year. Our stockholders' meeting is 8 April and then there will be a vacuum. I expect to go East, probably the 10th, for an undetermined stay, a few things to do and then perhaps a little rest. Whatever I do, I shall be back with all work cleaned up by June, and still hope that we might have as many classmates as could come to my house for lunch some Saturday, or if that wouldn't do, for a buffet supper after the baseball game.

I suggest that you might pick out a date that would be satisfactory to whomever in the San Diego area could come." Thanks, Red. As soon as we know, will advise.

From H E N R Y W H I T E , "I've been wondering whether there's another get-together planned for the rapidly dwindling members of our class in the relatively near future.

Can you inform me?- Kathleen and I have been sticking so close to home (Carmel, Calif.) for so long that we're strongly considering a short trip to San Diego and a possible purchasing trip to Tijuana if, indeed, that den of iniquity is still worth visiting.

Anyway, I'd like to know whether there's a class luncheon or dinner coming, and when."

Plans are now underway for a San Diego '16er-'17er dinner in June or July. Will advise All Hands re the affair in tiie near future. We stage a monthly luncheon around the 16th-19th of each month, depending upon days that the clubs are open. Visiting firemen are most welcome! In addition, we promise an interesting event!

April the 19th found the San Diego '16ers'17ers moored to the dock at the Admiral Kidd Club engrossed in another enjoyable sortie. As per our unalterable plan of attack the opening skirmishes, known as the Prelims, were most enthusiastically executed and with loud acclaim! And, again, the top trophy of the day was gathered in by M. Comstock, an ardent enthusiast of '17 fame, who is fast becoming the most skillful of the top competitors. However, to give credit where credit is due, we must agree the COUNT (GRASSIE) gave Merrill a real run for the money! Our lesser contestants who also "struggled," besides Count, were DORSEY P R I C E and POSSUM BORDEN. Our guest of honor was Saunders Bullard '11, now a resident of Coronado. All Hands were glad to have Saunders aboard.

The matter of a Class '16-'17 dinner was discussed. It was decided to stage a cocktaildinner affair in San Diego at one of the clubs, to be selected either late in June or July. All '16ers and '17ers near and far are invited. Of course the wives are included!

How else could we get out?

With the sun well along on its westward trek, we wandered homeward to await the May call to arms. The AOLS were our 2 professors at State College, CHUCK E M E R S O N and JACK T E R H U N E , who were busily engaged in presenting their theorems to their students. D U K E CARR I N G T O N and Ing Kiland '17 were just plain AWOL. Besides those already noted, the following engaged in the affair: Benson, Cochrane, Fahrion '17, Holmes, Jenkins, Loventhal, McGinnis, Rogers '17, Root, Sauer, R. E. and W. W. Webb and Fritz Wessell.

Information regarding the coming cocktail-dinner event will appear in the near future. Hope we have your correct address so that you will get your notice.

Adios, Amigos!

I have had no word except from the Washington crowd as to who or how many will be coming to Homecoming this year, 1960.

At a discussion in Washington, we decided that we would have our usual party at Carvel Hall and the room has been reserved but, of course, between now and September I must know approximately how many will be present for that meeting, so if you propose coming to the Homecoming in 1960 please drop me a line. If you want reservations, it would be wise for you to send a deposit down here, as many are doing for the 4Sth Reunion in 1961, and I will endeavor to get the kind of reservations you desire.

I have had numerous inquiries regarding SOLBERG, and I regret that there is nothing much encouraging to report. He is still in the hospital, but is in no condition to receive visitors.

On 24 May the Bristol (R.I.) Phoenix published the following: "Today's news bears three items related to members of the Hoover family, each in recognition of service rendered. Admiral H O O V E R is named to a post in the American Red Cross national fund organization. Mrs. Hoover is named Gray Lady of the Year in Newport and daughter Katherine is elected president of a dramatic society at R.I.C.E." 45TH REUNION

On the 45th Reunion in 1961, 39 classmates have already signed up and indicate there will be 32 wives, bringing the total up to 71 already counted in. This number does not include the Annapolis and part of the Washington contingent. There are a number of classmates yet to be heard from, and incidentally we have only heard from one widow. It is possible that the widows didn't get Mick's letter, although they are all on the mailing list so far as I know. If any of them seeing this did not get the word concerning the 4Sth Reunion, I will send them full information if they will drop me a line.

So far as the class celebrations are concerned, they should understand that they are the guests of the class, and have only to take care of their transportation and lodgings.

Those of you who have not already sent in the Dope Sheet regarding the Reunion should do so in the near future, as accommodations are bound to be in short supply.

CLASS LUNCHEON DATE

Our luncheons in Washington have dropped off in attendance, due primarily I think to the fact that people forget to mark the date.

They take place on the 2nd Thursday of each month at the Army-Navy Club at 1200.

'17 is supposed to join us at these luncheons, so my remarks regarding '16 apply equally SHIPMATE

MORE WEST COAST DOPE

BUNNY C O C H R A N E The San Diego '16ers-'17ers have selected Saturday, 6 Aug. as this year's cocktaildinner outing to be held at the Marine Officers' Club. Recruit Depot. Dress informal— ETO 6:30 p.m.—-usual tempting liquids as fashioned by those Marines, followed by the Club's famous roast beef at eight. All '16ers'17ers and their wives are cordially invited to join with us in this relaxing event.

It is with deep regret that we announce the sudden death of Benjamin B. Anthony on 5 May 1960. Over the past years Ben has been a welcome guest at our S. D. '16'17 luncheons. In the years gone by Ben was well known and admired by many Naval officers who knew him on the China Station.

We will miss him. He is survived by his widow Helen, to whom our heartfelt sympathies are extended.

CHUCK and Trudy E M E R S O N are about to abandon ship (temporarily we are thankful) and head east on a long tour. They get underway shortly after the closing of S. D. State about the middle of June. They expect to spend several months on their foray.

We sure have a traveler in our midst!

We have just learned that RED K E A D Y is in London again (23 May) and will be back in SFC the following week for a director's and security analyst meeting before leaving via Denver for Dick's (youngest son) graduation at Amherst. Then off to Honolulu for the opening ceremonies of his new plant. By the end of June he should be back home! We are expecting Red and the rest of the '16ers in the Bay area to help us survive that 6 Aug. fracas.

MAY CLASS LUNCHEON

The S.D. '16-'17ers May luncheon, as per schedule, met at the Admiral Kidd Club, Tuesday 17 May. As eagerly anticipated, the prelims were most hotly contested in quest of those cherished replicas that go to the victors. Minor replicas were picked up by B. COCHRANE, A. R O O T and DORSEY PRICE, but the grand replica of the day went to no other than our most consistent winner, M. COMSTOCK. Merrill is certainly consistent and was loudly acclaimed in this singular victory especially by those less fortunate participants! We must admit there is no stopping him with the skill he so nonchalantly displays! Also, as is normal, the Club's very capable manager. Cliff Hancock, and his adept crew, prepared and served a fine luncheon.

The important item of business before the gathering was that of our annual party. It was decided to hold it on 6 Aug. as noted elsewhere in this issue of Shipmate. All Hands cordially extend an invitation to all '16-'17ers and their wives to join us at this party. The committee: Grassie, Kiland, McGinnis, Root and Cochrane.

We were happy to welcome one of San Clemente's distinguished citizens, GLOOM BATEMAN, to our luncheon. Gloom journeys over 100 miles to sit in with us and we are very appreciative of his efforts. Thanks, Gloom, and come as often as you can. Gloom looked very fit and seemed fully recovered from that serious operation last fall.

Besides those already reported at this session, the following contestants participated: Benson, Fahrion, Grassie (who carries a rabbit foot in his rear pocket), Kiland, Loventhal, McGinnis, Sauer, Possum Webb and Wessell. Hasta luego, amigos.

JUNE-JULY,

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Sec'y, Capt. J . G. M. Stone, U S N R (Ret.) 248 Kinir Georee St., A n n a p o l i s , Md

H E A D L E E — C O L I N and Elsie are now settled at 138 Charles St., Crabtown. This news was in tlie May issue except for address. In this respect the Shipmate deadline is the first week of the month preceding the month of issue. So, if you want to get born, die, get married or hanged (or any other involuntary act that happens to a man), get the news in early.

CALHOUN — W A L T reports that S T O N Y GOVER was in Washington recently and on his way to Crabtown to look for a place to live. No report that he found anything.

FLAGG—ALLAN'S son, Henry V. Butler Flagg, is entering tlie Academy with the new Plebe class. Some of us have them out of college 20 years I CAMPBELL—COLIN and Peg have returned to Crabtown and are at 5 Maryland Ave. They intend to make it headquarters.

CLASS LUNCHEON

At the '16-'17 A-N Club April luncheon were: Brownie, Mick, Earny, Bill Fechteler, Pete Merwin, Walt Calhoun, Frank Dean and Hot Hanafee. The Annapolis crowd was too feeble to make it.

HOMECOMING

Remember Homecoming and to put in for tickets for the football game on that Saturday. There will be open house for the class at 248 King George from 1800 following the game. There you will find light refreshment, cooling beverages, pretty girls (bring your own) and, of course, a warm welcome from your genial host (somebody had to say i t ) .

J O H N N Y M A P L E S is in Crabtown again. Your reporter was passing 194 King George and, as he cast a bleary eye upward, there was Johnny. He didn't say how long he'd be in town.

L E N D O U G H T Y has been back in the hospital but the C O . says it is not serious and his stay was brief.

CHUCK N O B L E came to town on 7 June to present a prize to one of the 1st classmen. Both he and Madeline looked well and had luncheon at 248 after the ceremony.

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Sec'y R. Adm. E . E . Duvall, U S N (Ret.) A p t . 755-B, The Westchester, W a s h i n g t o n 16, D. C.

We have had the following message from LEON L O V E T T E which was written on a postcard view of the Nile Hotel, the socalled "Jewel of Egypt" in Cairo: "Here on a special 'Veterans of Foreign Wars' work. On to Athens, Istanbul, Tehran, Lebanon, Jerusalem, Rome, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco and Portugal." When Leon returns we hope to have more news of this trip to those fascinating places.

F I N L E Y FRANCE, who has been touring Italy with wife Ruth, sister-in-law (Taroline Cobb and a mutual friend, Mrs. Clifton Bell, has been referring to himself consequently as "The Sheik of Amberley." In a recent card from Florence to his brotherin-law. King Dierdorff, he writes: "Have you ever tried riding herd on 3 gals who go barging off in different directions? I now have a system. I stand in the middle of a square and bellow like a mating bull. It works. Tried it here yesterday and got back my 3 plus 9 others."

CLASS LUNCHEON

Those classmates who attended our regular Wednesday luncheon meeting on 6 April were as follows: Buddy Loomis, Dobyns, Bob Mitten, Ralph Alexander, Vince Murphy, Creesy, Harry Hoffman, Kennedy and Duvall. On this occasion A N D R E W E. CREESY told us that he was leaving Washington to live in New England where his address will be Box 433, Durham, N. H. We are very grateful to J. G. H U N T O O N for writing in his latest news. Jay, who joined the Naval Reserve and retired with the rank of Captain, has been working in an engineering capacity for the Iowa-Illinois Gas and Electric Co. and will retire next March after 35 years service with that company. He hopes to move south and settle in the Orlando, Fla. area late next spring; his plans call for a trip there in September to complete arrangements. Jay writes further as follows, "We have been spending vacation times traveling, mostly out of the country, except for several visits to Hawaii.

We recently celebrated our 40th wedding anniversary in Palma, Mallorca. We have 1 daughter and 4 grandchildren. Our address for the remainder of the year will be 1505 28th St., Rock Island, 111."

WELCOME ABOARD When you receive orcJers to Annapolis, you will recall from your Academy days the beauty of the background scenery which you are soon to face. Coming back as an officer, you will find many friends both old and new, within and without the walls. We sincerely hope that we can be numbered among the new friends who will serve you.

In the field of banking, we offer every facility and we strive to maintain a friendly atmosphere. Write ahead if you wish and set up your account with us. If you should need help outside of banking, perhaps Captain Charles D. Beaumont, USN Ret., one of our Directors can assist you.

We hope your tour here will be a happy one and in the words of the traditional Navy greeting, "Welcome Aboard."

COUNTY TRUST COMPANY OF MARYLAND ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND

Downtown Office CHURCH CSRCLE AND GLOUCESTER

Drive-In Branch 1700 WEST STREET 41

"'Discipline and faith go together. Admiral Holloway said, 'the discipline to accomplish and the faith to bring the breakthrough into space, which is far greater than Columbus' discovery of America.

"Admiral Holloway, who is also a former superintendent of the Naval Academy, was one of two speakers to address some 200 chaplains attending an annual convention here."

Undersecretary of the Treasury Fred C Scribner, Jr., was the other speaker referred to. JIMMY has recently been named Assistant Treasurer of the Navy League of the United States, succeeding the late Adm. Arthur S. Carpender '08.

K E N and Marguerite MUIR spent about 2 months in the South this winter during which they enjoyed a visit with the FRED BELTZs in Bradenton, Fla. Both Fred and Sara are reported to be looking well. Ken, who went to the PENNSYLVANIA with J O H N NEAL upon graduation, very kindly wrote to John's mother (as requested in the March Shipmate) giving her such details of John's last days as he could recall.

Maud CRICHTON's welcome card of 26 April stating that she would be at the Reunion read: "I am in Minneapolis with son and family to welcome a new granddaughter.

She was born 14 April and is my 8th grandchild." That puts you even with me, Maud.

Would you like to have a copy of my book, "The Care and Feeding of Grandparents"?

In a letter from San Francisco, CARL J. LAMB reports that he and Emma are on their way to Japan; they drove out to the West Coast from Eau (jallie, Fla. in 8 days. Before leaving there they spent a pleasant evening in the company of T E D and Gail GIBB at a party given by RAdm. Fritz Riefkohl '11. At Ocala they stopped briefly to see DOC COOK. On 10 May those classmates in the environs of Washington, D. C were hosts at a cocktail party held at the Army-Navy Club honoring Adm. and Mrs. J E R A U L D W R I G H T . In addition to Jerry and Phyllis, the following were present: the Alexanders, Mrs. Oscar Badger, Ballentines, Colonel Barnes, Barringers, the Dobyns, Duvall, Gibsons, the Haines, Hoffmans, Kendalls, Kennedy, the Hon. and Mrs. David Key (Mrs. Key is Jerry's sister), Kincaids, Buddy Loomis, Lovettes, Mary McCartin Marshall and Mr. Marshall, McDowells, Bea Moore, Murphys, Richardsons, Riggs, the Elbert Rogers, Sullivans, the Perry Taylors, Wades, the Warlicks and Jimmy Whitfield. VICT O R BARRINGER and his committee had arranged for a spacious room in the Club with an enticing buffet placed strategically in the center; there was therefore enough room to mingle with ease, reminisce freely, and get full enj oyment out of the event.

Also, on the following Saturday, R A L P H and Catherine RIGGS gave a reception in honor of Jerry and Phyllis at their home, "Riggs Woods" (out on the River Road, beyond Potomac, Md), the entry to which is through a lovely grove of trees. In addition to the classmates who attended the aforementioned party at the Club, we were happy to see Adm. and Mrs. J. J. CLARK. Riggs' house and terrace both overlook the Potomac.

The river, swollen by recent rains, made an impressive sight, far below, as it boiled along through another fine stand of trees. Some few drops of rain fell during the party but this failed to detract from the pleasure of the occasion for which we are all indebted to Ralph and Catherine.

In further regard to Jerry, we have learned that additional honors have come to him as follows: he has been voted an honorary member of the class of 1960 of the Air Force Academy; and from the Netherlands he has received the very important and highly cherished decoration â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the Grand Order of Orange-Nassau.

At the regular luncheon gathering on Wednesday, 4 May, the following were present : Barringer, Dobyns, Duvall, Elbert Rogers, Westphal and Jerry Wright. We are hopeful that classmates visiting Washington will remember these "first Wednesday" meetings at the Army-Navy Club and will, like "DUTCH" W E S T P H A L , here on a brief visit from Oklahoma, plan to be with us whenever possible.

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Sec'y, R. Adm. R. A. Dierdorff, U S N (Ret.), 34 Randall St., Annapolis, Md.

When GEORGE DYER commanded the ASTORIA, the "Mighty Ninety," off Okinawa in the spring of '45 he had kamikazes to contend with. Returning there in '52 and '53, it was typhoons. Naturally the Dyers' ship, the STEEL FLYER, would manage to carry 1200 tons of Air Force cargo for this delightful Pacific spa. "This time may the true virtues of Okinawa be more apparent," writes George. From Okinawa the STEEL FLYER was to go to Manila via Subic Bay and from thence to Saigon and Bangkok.

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CLASS GIFTS

REPLICA of Thorwaldsen's Statue "Come unto me."

Presented to U. S. Naval Academy Chapel in memory of Vice Admiral Leslie Clark Stevens, Class of 1919, by his widow, Mrs. Leslie Clark Stevens.

During the Dyers' stay in the San Francisco area, George talked on the phone to BILL HILBERT. The latter, though running under a slow bell, was in good spirits and sends his best. JACK REDMAN couldn't be located at the time. As noted in May's Shipmate, "GENERAL" L E E was in the East at this time and the Dyers missed Amy. H A L CHALLENGER is teaching Business and Finance at Menlo College and enjoys both the work and the surroundings. He hopes to make the SOth Reunion, "as do we all" adds George. At a Palo Alto party the Dyers met the ANDERSONs and the RENDs and "had a wonderful talkathon."

And the day before George's newsy letter, "The steward served an appropriately decorated cake for Adaline's and my 39th wedding anniversary."

Under the headline, "Admiral Holloway, Undersecretary of Treasury, Addresses Chaplains," the Annapolis Evening Capital of 27 April reports: "A former Chief of Personnel for the Navy told military chaplains last night that they can play an important role in the attempt to break through into space.

"Retired Adm. James L. Holloway spoke of the necessity for strong loyalty among the armed forces in this endeavor. He said chaplains could be the leaven to bring this about.

Two noteworthy class gifts are described in the '19 column for Nov. 1959, covering the dedication of the Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium last Sept. 26th. The first of these is the 1919 Memorial Gate given

by Mrs. James E. Kiernan in memory of Capt. J A M E S E. K I E R N A N and in honor of the class. The other, the result of individual gifts plus a collective class effort, is the provision of a Memorial chair for each '19 graduate in good standing.

It is now my pleasant duty to record 3 more class gifts, all installed shortly before June Week. The following description of them is quoted from the Chapel Bulletin of 29 May 1960. "You may have noted already that there are several beautiful additions to our Chapel. In the niche in the balcony, behind the Antiphonal Chair and below the Votive ship, is a beautiful hand carved figure of the (Christ. It is a copy of the statue, 'Come Unto Me,' by Thorwaldsen, that stands in the Protestant Cathedral in (Copenhagen, Denmark.

"The inspiration for Thorwaldsen's great work was St. Matthew 11:28, 'Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.'

"Our copy was carved in Oberanimergau, Germany, where the internationally famous Passion Play is produced. The town has long been famous for the beautiful wood carving which is done there.

"This statue was given by Mrs. Leslie Clark Stevens in memory of her husband.

Vice Admiral S T E V E N S . He was a distinguished author, inventive leader in Naval Air Craft Carrier and Naval Air Craft development and design. He served as Assistant Naval Attache, London, and as Naval and Naval Air Attache to the Soviet Union.

"The three chairs inside the communion rail in the sanctuary have been refinished and re-upholstered. They have been done in blue and gold needlepoint and blue velvet with gold fringe and rope. We invite you to come up into the chancel following this service and see these beautiful chairs.

S H I P M A T E

Memorial Window fittingly complements the beauty of the window itself.

CLASS REUNION

Slightly to garble Herodotus and/or the U. S. Post Office Dept., "Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor deer can stay the swift completion of '19ers appointed rounds to a Class Reunion." Enroute from Shenandoah, Va. to Crabtown on 14 May for our annual Fish Fry, "ABE" S T E I N rammed a whitetail near Luray. The impact benefited neither the deer nor the Chewy. Fortunately Abe arrived unscathed but sans venison. Aside from this contretemps and the Class Secretary's trick front tooth coming unglued, the proceedings were a distinct social success.

The 55 attending were greeted by '19's numerals on the new flagstaff of the Alumni House. Entering, they received beautiful corsages or boutonnieres, generously provided by the H A R R Y GOODWINs. Then, in accordance with CHAUNCEY CAM P's operating instructions, the first round was "on" the rotund Sage of Hattiesburg, Miss., who promised to raise his glass to '19 at 1300. Whether his failure to designate the time zone was deliberate or accidental is uncertain.

NEEDLEPOINT BACK, Bishop's Choir, Main Chapel, U. S. Naval Academy. Made by Mrs. John L. Reynolds, wife of Captain John L. Reynolds, USN (Ret.) '19.

"Mrs. John L. Reynolds of Towson, Md. made the needlepoint tapestry back for the Bishop's Chair. This represents hours of painstaking work which she contributed to the Chapel for which we are all deeply grateful.

"In St. Andrew's Chapel, workmen have been laboring to complete installation of a new stained glass window before June Week begins. This new^ wdndow is a gift of the Naval Academy Class of 1919. The amount of light can be varied with a rheostat control.

"The inspiration for the new window was the Navy Hymn, 'Eternal Father, Strong to Save.' Throughout this hymn there are evidences of peace and faith that come through surrender to the Holy Spirit. This window portrays the idea that peace and faith, that is, peace of mind and spirit and faith in self, friends, neighbors, country and God Almighty, will sustain a person in the midst of adversity.

"The left lancet shows Moses with the Ten Commandments. Under Moses there is a small medallion showing him parting the seas, evidence of Moses' faith.

"The center lancet pictures the Christ with a small medallion portraying His saving power through faith.

"The right lancet shows Peter with his symbol of the key. Under the large figure, again, is a medallion showing Peter's faith in the Lord when he was asked to walk on the waters.

"The window was produced by Whittemore Associates, Inc., Boston, Mass."

Our sincere thanks are extended to all those classmates, class wives and class widows whose warm generosity thus serves to keep green the memory of '19. And in connection with the last 3 gifts, I would also offer the clash's sincere thanks to the Superintendent, RAdm. Charles L. Melson, and to Capt. Fred D. Bennett, Ch.C, for their J U N E - J U L Y ,

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active interest in and staunch support of the projects involved. Our thanks also to the Public Works Dept. of the Academy for the fine work which they did for us on a Special Deposit basis. The handsome casing of the

MALCOLM S C H O E F F E L was our efficient MC at the luncheon and subsequent business meeting. In addition to regular class business, M. McCOY J O N E S strongly urged support for the U. S. Naval Academy Alumni Foundation to which he devotes so much time and effort. And FRANZ W I L L E N B U C H E R reported that H.R. 11318, which would rectify inequities in Retired Pay, had passed the House and was in the hands of the Senate. Franz did not, however, have his crystal ball along.

Nell Stevens' very much appreciated "At Home" at 213 King George St. was cohosted by the SCOTT LAMBs. The delicious and abundant refreshments were nicely com-

CLASS OF '19 Memorial Window. St. Andrew's Chapel, U. S. Naval Academy.

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plemented by the floral decorations. Nell and the Lambs have the sincere thanks of '19 for this happy affair.

Attending were the Adams, Ansels, Miriam Bryant, the Cochrans, Coneys, Maud Crichton, the Demarests, Finks, Jean Herrmann, the Jennings, Jones, Kings, Jean Kirkland, the Lambs (and daughter, Mrs. John Tillson), the McGurls, Elizabeth Metzel, the Pelzmans, Reads, Reynolds, Roberts, Rochesters, Schaeffers, Schildhauers, Malcolm Schoeffel, the Settles, Alexandra Staudt, Morris Stein, Nell Stevens, the Tarbuttons, Willenbuchers and Wynkoops.

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS FROM HERE A N D THERE

In declining the 14 May Reunion, H I S H E R R I T T , well-known Richmond flagmaker, gave as his reason that "50 star flags are chasing me."

The DAN McGURLS are now located in Apt. F-1, Merion Manor, Merion Station, Pa. It was good to see them after their long tour in Turkey.

And the DON KINGS are in the Berkshire Apts., 4201 Massachusetts Ave. N.W., Washington, D. C In regretting their absence from the Reunion, HARRY GOODWIN writes, "We are leaving the latter part of May for Japan and Hongkong. We are taking a leisurely cruise and will be on tour for 3 months."

We extend the sympathy of the class to W A L T E R W H I T E H E A D upon the death of his father, the late Cdr. Walter E. Whitehead, USN, who passed away at St. Petersburg, Fla. on 23 Feb. 1960. His long and honorable career saw the Navy go from sail as auxiliary power to nuclear propulsion.

GEORGE DYER's searching article, "Logistical Readiness" in May's U. S. Naval Institute Proceedings, complements his comprehensive 3S0 page volume, Naval Logistics just published by them. Of it, the Institute says that Vice Admiral Dyer's book "will probably become the standard Navy textbook on logistics." After extensive logistical experience in the Mediterranean as Admiral Connoly's Chief of Staff (until George was wounded at Salerno), his initial assignment as a Flag Officer in 1945 was as Chief of Logistic Plans in the Office of CNO. And in 1951-52 as Commander, United Nations, Blockade and Escort Force during the Korean War, he had the logistic problems of supporting the naval contingents from 9 different countries represented by its 115 ships. He includes in the volume's acknowledgements, one to "my wife, Mary Adaline, who put up with me while I wrote."

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Sec'y, Capt. D. R. Osborn, U S N (Ret.) 710S Arrowhead Rd., Bethesda, Md.

RUSSELL KEITH

It is with deep regret that we report the death of RUSSELL K E I T H in New York on 9 Apr. 1960. He was buried in Arlington on 14 April and a large representation of the local group of classmates paid their final respects at the graveside services.

Russ had 3 stripes at the Academy on the Regimental Staff; he was also a member of the Honor Committee and the Class Crest and Hop Committees. He was one of our well liked and popular classmates and those of us who made the Navy our career were sorry to lose him as a shipmate when he resigned as a young officer. He entered the insurance business where he became highly successful.

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Russ reentered the Service during the war and rose to the rank of Captain USNR. He performed excellent duty in the Bureau of Ships and was retired for physical disability after the war, when he returned to his insurance activities.

Russ is survived by his widow, Harriett, of the home address, 171 Davis Ave., White Plains, N. Y.; 2 sons, Russell M. and Ronald B. Keith, and a brother. Dr. Rockwood Keith of Scarsdale, N. Y. The class extends its heartfelt sympathy to his family at this time of their loss.

W I L L I A M HIBBS .

We were greatly saddened to learn of the death of BILL HIBBS on 11 May 1960 of pneumonia on board the U. S. Naval Hospital ship HAVEN in Long Beach harbor, Calif.

He is survived by his widow, Renee, of 224 Roycroft Ave., Long Beach, a son and a daughter.

Bill was a handsome, likeable classmate from Montana who made a name for himself Plebe year by breaking the Academy 100 yard dash record. He was captain of our track team in his First Class year and a Battalion C.P.O. His assignment upon graduation was the USS N E W YORK. Then came Pacific Fleet destroyers and later gunnery duties. He had the USS

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outbreak of the war and then served on the staff of Service Squadron Seven and in Logistic Plans for C.N.O. His last command was the heavy cruiser WICHITA at the war's end and he retired as Chief of Staff to Commander Eastern Sea Frontier with so many of us in 1949. Bill was a splendid shipmate and officer, a kindly, gracious gentleman and friend. We grieve at his loss and extend our deepest sympathy to his surviving family.

J O H N EDWARD GINGRICH

The class will be very sad to hear of J O H N N Y GINGRICH'S death of cancer in New York on 26 May. He had been ill for some time. He was buried with the full military honors of his rank of Admiral in Arlington Cemetery on 31 May. He is survived by his wife Vanetta, a daughter and a son.

We remember Johnny for his quiet ways and winning smile, his ever ready helpfulness and wise counsel. Although he had a little difficulty with the math profs at the Academy, yet he worked out one of the

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early short systems of navigation on a subsequent tour in the Navigation Department.

Following the usual duties in battleships and cruisers he later became aide to Secretary Forrestal. Subsequently he commanded the heavy cruiser PITTSBURGH during the war, in which he towed the burning carrier FRANKLIN to safety after attack. Shortly afterwards he took the PITTSBURGH back to the West Coast after that ship lost her bow in the typhoon of June 1945.

With promotion to flag rank, Johnny did a fine job as director of security and intelligence for the Atomic Energy Commission, as Commander of the Korean Blockade, as Chief of Staff to CinCPac, as Deputy CNO for Administration and as Chief of Naval Materiel. He retired from this last post in 1954 and has been a vice president of International Telephone and Telegraph Co. ever since.

The class has lost one of its outstanding officers and shipmates and we extend our heartfelt sympathy to the surviving members of his family in this time of grief.

Laddie WILKES

We are very sorry to report the sudden death of Laddie \yilkes, wife of CHARLES W I L K E S , at their home in Washington on 23 May. A few hours before, at a small gathering of friends, Laddie seemed to be in the best of health and spirits. She was stricken with a heart attack while watching TV later in the evening.

Burial was in Arlington Cemetery at a beautiful site close by the grave of RAdm. Charles Wilkes, the great grandfather of her husband.

Laddie had the art of making everyone with whom she came in contact feel her warmth and affection. She will be greatly missed by those who knew her. We extend our deepest sympathy to Charles and their 2 married daughters, and to Laddie's mother, Mrs. May H. Moore, of Washington, D. C. CLASS LUNCHEON

The April class luncheon in Washington was enlivened by the presence of Slim Cowdrey and Jennings Dow from New York, Slim Deringer from the Eastern Shore, Del Fahrney from Philadelphia and Dan Wilkerson from Detroit. In all there were 21 classmates present who had a most enjoyable time. We were sorry to hear from COWDREY that RUMMY H I L L is quite ill and that J O H N N Y GINGRICH is not well. The local group for some time has been visiting W A L L A C E SYLVESTER who is in Bethesda Hospital and we are all so sorry that he is ill again.

MEAD and Mary PEARSON, during a recent vacation in Florida, had a nice visit with the B R I T T A I N s and, on their return, went off the beaten path a little way to find the MALLARDS in Lena, S. C , who were delighted to see them and hear class news.

We are glad to have ALLEN and Fay HOBBS back with us again after spending the winter in Ft. Lauderdale, and MARION ' CRIST writes from Miami that he is having fun as the Senior Member of 2 appraisal firms and is past president of the American Society of Appraisers.

Closer by we learn that the BOCKIUS' daughter, Anna Wetherill, was married 10 Mar. 1960 in Towson, Md. to Mr. Leonard Paul Sasso of Pittsburgh and Philadelphia.

She is a graduate of the Garrison Forest School and was presented at the Bachelors Cotillion in Baltimore.

It is also interesting to know that "B. J." KELLEY, now Judge of the Court of CoraS H I P M A T E

inon Pleas, No. 6, in Philadelphia was a classmate of Senator Joseph S. Clark of Pennsylvania in law school and that B. J. served under Mr. Clark, then Mayor of Philadelphia, as First Deputv Managing Director of the City. .\ most interesting letter from CARROLL TYLER at 1801 Bannie Lane, Las Vegas, Nev., describes his 4 years as general manager for Skidmore, Owings and Merrill in building the Air Force Academy at Colorado Springs, and his relationships with various secretaries of the Air Force. Carroll is now Vice President of Reynolds Electrical & Engineering Co. and Project Manager for their maintenance and construction at the AEC Test Site.

This is the last column to be submitted by your present scribe as he has asked the nominating committee for this coming year's class officers not to present his name for the election to be held (as of the date of this present writing, 1 May 1960) by the Washington-Annapolis group at the class luncheon on 27 May. Much to his regret, he has found that the increasing demands of full time employment together with family considerations require that outside activities be curtailed. He has greatly enjoyed doing this work and hopes that the class will feel that he is entitled to a relief after 8 years of faithful service and that a new Secretary will be found who will carry on to the increasing pleasure and comradeship of all hands.

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ROGER MURRAY, who is practicing law at Jackson, Tenn., advised us of the death on 10 Jan. 1960 of our classmate. Col. J O H N T. FISHER. Colonel Fisher died on 10 Jan. 1960, following complications suffered from a fall in his home at Columbia, Tenn. He had been associated for many years with the Columbia Military Academy at Columbia, Tenn., and at the time of his death was Business Manager of that institution.

Colonel Fisher is survived by his widow, the former Miss LeMyra Harlan, and a son, John T. (Buddy) Fisher, Jr., of Jacksonville, Fla., and 2 grandchildren.

Notice has also been received of the death on 20 Jan. 1960 of E L I S H A E. ( T E D ) MEREDITH at Fresno, Calif. He is survived by his widow, Marguaretta Meredith, of .Fresno, Calif.

do if I knew where they were. Last report they were in orbit toward Alabama. Any more recent contact reports will be appreciated, and Piggy's report forwarded forthwith.

April 23rd was celebrated by the Submarine people up at Mare Island as the 60th birthday of the Submarine Service (19001960). Attending the liquidation period, dinner and dance were Jim and Vera Harris, John and Bobbie Madden, Phil and Ruth Nichols and Tommy and Cathy Thomas. All of these "bow and arrow" submariners, as GEORGE RUSSEL referred to them (George and Katherine were at the head table), shared a table with CAROL and Peg BONNEY and C H E S T E R S M I T H and his wife.

Next day John and Bobbie got a closeup dockside view of the Polaris submarine ROOSEVELT (Theodore). Shades of the O, R and S boats, what a monster. It was a real good party and Jim Harris by now has a full locker of new stories.

This seems to be the only outing of record.

Interest is stirring with respect SYD B U N T ING'S letter relative to the 40-year reunion next year. Several of the local group have expressed interest in attending and it is hoped that we may send back a full delegation.

been done under the energetic leadership of our chairman, SYD BUNTING. DON S M I T H announced the invitation to the class for a barbecue to be held at his historic place on the Patuxent River known as Charles Gift, for the Sunday following the 40th Anniversary week at Annapolis. This is to be a joint project by the Don Smiths of Charles Gift, Md., and the J I M M I E R O B E R T S O N S of Augusta, Ga. Several classmates in this vicinity have been privileged to attend functions at Don and Sophia Smith's place on the Patu.xent River, and they all agree that the class is fortunate to be able to add to our 40th Anniversary a get-together at this historic and beautiful place. Don has a wonderful barbecue pit capable of roasting 3 or 4 sheep at one time and we are grateful for this addition to our Anniversary activities. You will be hearing more of this in Syd Bunting's Information Bulletin to you on the general setup of the Anniversary.

GEORGE VAN D E U R S gave us a fleeting review of the West Coast activities.

However, George indicated he was saving his broadside news for the next issue of Shipmate. George is doing an excellent job keeping us informed as to the activities of the West Coast group, all the way from Mexico to Canada. It is much appreciated by all classmates not privileged to enjoy the atmospheric irregularities of the Pacific Coast.

S P O T QUINBY gave an insight into some of the joy and pleasure of being a martyr to the hardships in the real old Down Eastern fashion. Spot lives in the New England States, slopping over into all of them at times.

After the luncheon several of the boys went over to the hospital to visit FLOYD F E R R I S who underwent a recent, not too serious operation. It is too early to tell whether the visit was beneficial to Floyd, to the group or to the assembled nurses.

REPORT TO ' 2 1 I N THE WEST

Classmates still survive in the East. In New York D A S H MADEIRA said he sometimes saw legal-eagle VIC CHERBONNIER, and recently toured the guts of the Neiv York Times plant with STRANG, who has been Chief Engineer there for some 25 years. Dash recently judged hats at the Park Lane Easter Parade. Pug Jeffers' daughter talked him into it. When the PA system quit. Dash's best foghorn voice kept the show going and got him the offer of an announcer's job at Yankee Stadium. He declined and went back to Wall Street. He could kid about his ulcer and a whole year of dentist's dates, but not about the Mutual Funds he represents ( N O T peddles, damnit).

He really believes in them.

In Crabtown DOLLY FITZGERALD had Alumni House ready for inspection while he sat in a crisis conference. All his hired help was leaving town because the gals' husbands were being transferred.

At Washington lunched with T H U G W A T T E R S who, for 10 years, had been covering the globe for the AEC. Another day, same club, found Allison Engine's

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Corinne R E I S I N G E R sent along PIGGY and Batty S C H W I E N ' s letter from the south of Spain. This is the one where they became eligible to refer to Gibraltar as "Gib" by reason of having interviewed the apes or something of the sort. Corinne asked that I forward this copy to GEORGE and Ann VAN D E U R S which I would be glad to

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The regular monthly class luncheon took place Wednesday, 27 Apr. 1960, at the ArmyNavy Club with attendance as follows: Lew Brown, Reds Condon, Joe Bolger, Happy Bowman, Tom Dell, Jim Dudley, Homer Eimers, Ed Fullinwider, Jimmie Hamilton, Reds Hanlon, Harold Houser, Ralph Hunt, Red Jamison, Tom Kelly, Blackie Loker, Wayne McDowell, Country Moore, Gale Morgan, Ken Noble, Stew Purves, Don Smith, Pinkie Thorp, Spot Quinby and George Van Deurs.

The next class luncheon was scheduled for Wednesday, 25 May, at the Army-Navy Club.

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J O H N N Y P I X T O N just_ back from leave and talking wistfully of retiring to his native Florida—someday.

On 27 April went to see why Shipmate's reports of '21 in Washington have been mere lists. It appeared that Secretary EIMERS, who looked young enough to belong to '51, was so busy that he had no time for notes.

He was boosting class spirit, counting noses, and recounting cash, when TOM KELLY asked H O U S E R to explain the status of the retired pay legislation. Lawyer Houser made no charge, not even fifty bucks, for his comprehensive answer. Homer was counting over again when S P O T QUINBY told how he had been trying to get his ulcer home to Maine ever since he had attended the October luncheon. So far he had been delayed in Seattle (by a G R E B E R ) , Menlo Park and Florida, but still expected to find Maine. F U L L I N W I D E R and LOKER admitted that they had kept very quiet on recent trips to the Bay Area.

Homer was looking for a missing ten bucks when COUNTRY MOORE told how he had disposed of some of Bolger's wild ducks. J O E BOLGER, still on Grumman's payroll, was recovering from 3 weeks of fishing in Scotland. Claimed a 28 pound salmon and 10 others.

It was said: that FLOYD F E R R I S was recovering from surgical repairs in nearby hospital; that HOG MURRAY objected to his nickname because he had a congressman brother; that J O H N N Y MADDEN was living it up in a high-priced San Francisco apartment waiting for his house to be rebuilt; that PIGGY S C H W I E N planned to besiege Vicksburg to celebrate the 4th of July.

Also sighted at the '21 luncheon were: Broker Bowman, Marine Brown, Dudley, Jimrny Hamilton under a crewcut, Red Hanlon of 'Charleston, Philadelphia Tommy Dell from Drexel Institute, R. B. Hunt, Red Jamison, Plastiman McDowell, Gail Morgan, Ken Noble, Stew Purvis and Pinky Thorp.

RED CONDON and DON S M I T H explained so many interesting' arrangements for our 40th Reunion that I ducked out of the luncheon, went to Annapolis, and made reservations for F I S H MOEBUS and VAN DEURS. Homer was still looking for the $10 when I left.

In the recent 14th Annual United States Junior Badminton Championships held at Manhattan Beach, Calif., on 8-9-10-11 Apr. 1960, Stanton Hales, son of Mr. and Mrs. R A L E I G H S. HALES, 1106 Arden Rd., Pasadena, Calif., successfully defended his Singles and Boys Doubles Championships won at Baltimore, Md., in 1959 and also won the Mixed Doubles. His Boys Doubles partner this year was Pat Armendariz of Burbank, Calif., and his Mixed Doubles partner was Helen Carter of San Marino, Calif.

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The regular monthly meeting of the Class of '21 was held on Wednesday, 25 May 1960 at the Army-Navy Club, with attendance as follows: Joe Bolger, Happy Bowman, Lou Brown, Heber Brumbaugh, Homer Eimers, Floyd Ferris, Ed Fullinwider, Jimmy Hamilton, Ralph Hunt, Red Jamison, Wayne McDowell, Country Moore, Gale Morgan, Ken Noble, John Pixton, Stu Purves, Charles Smith, HerJD Tellman, Pinkie Thorp, Tom Wattles and A. B. Carlyle.

A B I E CARLYLE gave theiuncheon members a quick and interesting rundown on the activities of classmates in the San Francisco Bay area.

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MISCELLANEOUS NEWS

A B I E COOK writes from Cucamonga, Calif, about the doings of '21 out there and said that the group including Tom Murrell, Larry Grannis, Logan McKee, Lloyd Lafot and Raleigh Halls was planning periodic meetings so that we can expect more '21 news from that area in the future.

SAM AVEY wrote from Philadelphia that he was completing lecture training at the Naval Boiler and Turbine Laboratory.

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My agents report that the wandering VAN D E U R S are off to South America or some equally distant destination, so I had best file a report regarding the action here in the Bay area. Not too much to report actually, things being relatively quiet. A bit of unseasonable weather—low fog (visitors from out of town are apt to confuse this sort of thing with rain, but any native will quickly explain that it simply does not rain in San Francisco between May Day and 1 Oct.) — and blustery winds. This last is an item because JIM R E I S I N G E R had been sailing his Division Nine Rascal to second place in the Vallejo race a week or two back and last w^eek, on corrected time, Skipper Jim and crew came in in first place. If you do not think this sort of thing takes some doing that is because you do not know how variable and tricky the wind currents around this Bay can be. Ask the outfielders at Candlestick Park, they will tell you, of that you may be sure. Incidentally, it must be placed on the record that JIM and Vera H A R R I S with CHARLIE and Tram ROLAND have checked out Candlestick Park by attending a Giant vs. somebody or other game a week or so ago. The committee rendered a unanimous report that it is quite a ballyard and they are in favor of it. As far as the Harris faction is concerned this may not be a reversal of form, but in the case- of the ROLANDs, who voted against the bond issue or whatever got the program off the ground, it definitely is.

Learned that BOB and Betty L E W I S are back in the Washington-Virginia area for a month or so and are expected to return to the local scene about 1 July. Should you see them give them a big hello from us homefolks out here.

Construction on J O H N and Bobbie MADDEN's rebuilt home has commenced on the old foundations; completion scheduled for Labor Day. In the meantime they will depart from the Broadway address here in the city on 1 June to a summer address in Marin County. If you are over that way you may find them at 4575 Paradise Drive (GEneva 5-1174). Their mailing address however remains as before at 80 Seafirth Rd., Tiburon, Calif.

BILL KELLOGG make a quick trip up from the southland to attend a Reserve Officers' convention (I think that is correct; STOGI ROBERTS please verify this item) of which Bill is a vice president and just before becomine the number one guy.

Sorry to hear that L O W D E N J E S S U P was back in Letterman Army hospital for something not too serious we all hope.

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Sec'y, Gerald A. Stacey, Golden Propeller Farm, R2 Box 146, Mercersbure. Pa. Corr. Sec'y, Lt. Cdr. H. L. Jennings, USN (Ret.), c/o Gen. Motors Corp., 802 Cafritz Bldg., Washington 6, D. C.

A note from the former Sally Hogan brought the glad tidings that she is now Mrs. Henry Burton Lowe. Sally and Mr.

Lowe were married on 26 Feb. 1960 m Chnst Episcopal Church, Manhasset, L. 1. Mr. Lowe, of Port Washington, L. I., and Dover Plains, N. Y., is a vice president of Reinhold Publishing Corp., N. Y. Mrs. Lowe, the widow of Dr. H O W A R D HOGAN, is the former Sara Lapsley and the daughter of the late Reverend Dr. Robert Lapsley and Mrs. Lapsley of Richmond, Va. The couple plan to live in Manhasset.

A note of change of office address has been received from C STRIBLING SNODGRASS. It is now 65 Grosvenor St., London, W.l. Tel: MAYfair 4872-4. Despite the above, if I know Strib, you are apt to run into him in Washington, New York or San Francisco just as well as in dear ol' Lunnon.

A R T BRYAN, formerly of Annapolis and now living in Baltimore, Md., together with his charming wife. Midge, flew to Palo Alto, Calif., to spend the Easter holiday with his daughter Mimi and the grandchildren. Come June these 2 globe trotters fly to Paris and London, then up to the Land of the Midnight Sun, spending a month touring Norway, Sweden and Denmark.

Maybe the Bryans will run into ALAN and Lillian McCRACKEN who are also making a trip to the northern European countries.

Hadn't heard from SAVVY H U F F M A N for ages, then suddenly he broke his silence with a note enclosing 3 clippings. One concerned the retirement of VAdm. R U T H V E N E. LIBBY, who has been commander of the First Fleet since 4 Aug. 1958. No word on future plans except that he and Suzie will go to Arhngton, Va., as a starter.

Next was a photo of TOM B E A T T I E holding a golf trophy the size of the Wash-, ington Monument. Tom was 61 on 16 March.

Four days later he and his partner won a best-ball-of-partners golf tournament. Tom very modestly ascribed his success to the fine playing of his partner, who oddly enough told the same story. Tom's current handicap is 7.

Last but not least was the news that DALE QUARTON has returned to the Pacific slopes. He has been appointed Manager of Production Scheduling by the National Steel and Shipbuilding Co., who are building ships for American E.xport Line. Dale is residing in San Diego.

Mostest of the bestest, ABE

CLASS LUNCHEON

Those attending the monthly luncheon at the Army-Navy Club on 10 May were Dunkelberger, Whitgrove, Fink, Kneeland, Jerome, Toney, D. H. Johnston, O. M. Walker, J. N. Johnson, H. L. Jennings, Butler, Malstrom, Bakar, Jarrett, Brice, McCracken, Lott and H. F. Stevens.

WEDDING

RAdm. CHARLES CLAYTON PHLEGER, USN, and Mrs. Phleger announce the marriage of their son, Lt. Charles Phillip Phleger, USN, to Miss Carol Lee Moriarty, daughter of Mr. C Leo Moriarty and the late Mrs. Moriarty on 21 May 1960 at Our Lady of Mercy Church, Belmont, Mass.

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Sec'y, Capt. Claade H. Bennett, Jr., USN (Ret.), 732 Sprine Ln., Philadelphia 28, Pa. Corr. Sec'y, Capt. Emmett Sprung, USN (Ret.), 6623 KnoUwood Rd. Washington 16, D. C.

WAL-TER GINN, who was "Bevo" to his prohibitionist classmates or "the Little Iron Man" (of fencing fame), writes to say that '23 has had a warm, sunny reunion in the Far South—i.e., Miami, Fla. S H I P M A T E

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CNO and Mrs. A R L E I G H BURKE cordially invite all members of the Class of '23 and their wives, and the widows of the class to a reception at the Naval Observatory on 9 July.

Please pass the word to all classmates in the event mail has gone astray and they haven't got the word.

"MELVILLE G R O S V E N O R and his lovely wife Ann were the visitors; so we had to have a reunion,'' writes Walter.

"BILL M . \ N L E Y provided steaks 4 inches thick. AUDLEY W A R B U R T O N and his 'drag' Mrs. Earl V. 'Gladys' Wilson brought celery and carrots and refreshments; TOM and Betty BOYCE brought a bottle of colorless fluid; Mel and Ann added a Scotch accent ; the Ginns used some limes from their owTi tree and besides the charcoal was burned in their hand-made grill in their own backyard."

It was not only a reunion, it celebrated the starting of Walter's third career. While the charcoal w-as reaching the right temperature, Mrs. Martha ^Magruder of Magruder Realty Co. stopped by to welcome Walter into their firm. The company received notice earlier that day that ^^'alter was now a fully licensed real estate salesman. He had taken the e.xaminations and now all the red tape was complete. Walter is retiring from the Prudential.

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The class luncheon for April was held as planned. Present were Holderness, Van Dusen, Cofer, Sprung, Beaumont, Edwards, !Murdaugh, Mclsaac, Von Dreele, Socek, Barrett, King, Stimson, Mendenhall, Haas, Stephens, Morrison, Leavitt, Woods, Wenger and Hudson.

A committee, headed by GEORGE HOLDERNESS, was named to nominate officers of this chapter for the coming year. Names were to be available at the May luncheon and voted on at that time.

At the Irmcheon several reported that they had had cards or letters from the MEX KEITHS and the TOMMY TUCKERs. They made the M S T S ship in March to the Med and are now seeing several places in Europe.

A letter has been received from Capt.

PAUL JACKSON, U S N (Ret.), 67 Portuguese Bend Rd., Rolling Hill, Calif., giving general information about himself and asking to be put on our mailing list, which will be done.

Plans were made for a K T party for the chapter to be held in June as the last event of the spring.

The class luncheon was held at the Officers' Club, Naval Weapons Plant on 26 May as scheduled.

SPEED E D W A R D S , in the chair, brought up the matter of the closing of the Naval Weapons Plant and suggested that all extraneous naval activities in the Washington area be moved to this most valuable acreage.

M E N D E N H A L L made some remarks on the current status of the Plant.

Edwards introduced Lt. Tom Mclsaac, '55, now on duty at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, guest of his father, T O N Y McISAAC The nominating committee under the Chairmanship of H O L D E R N E S S , with D A I S LEY and L E A V I T T as the other members, presented a slate of officers for the coming year, which was unanimously elected: President, Mclsaac; Vice President, Beaumont; J U N E - J U L Y ,

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the next year and the following nominating committee was appointed to present names at the May meeting: E. E. Gminder, Chairman; A. M. Morgan; J. M. P. Wright.

At the same time Admiral Swart, who is Vice-Chief of Naval Material, also announced that he is making plans to retire from active duty with the United States Navy on or about 1 July 1960, and suggested that the nominating committee should give first consideration to nomina:ting a Class Chairman and Secretary from among those who would still be on active duty next year.

A lengthy discussion took place in connection with the bills that are now up before Congress concerning the right of regular Navy retired officers to be employed by industry. Nearly everyone present agreed that the present bills offered very little incentive for young men to seek a career as a regular Naval Officer in view of the adverse employment features they would have upon retirement.

Secretary, .\geton; Asst. Secretary, Stimson ; Treasurer, Hudson; .\sst. Treasurer, Stephens.

Beaumont reported that he heard from F R E D W A L T O N , teaching at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Dorothy and he are enjoying their tour of duty and invite all classmates to stop by for a visit.

Daisley recently saw DOC and Janet D I E T R I C K in Charleston, S. C, where Doc is a member of the Charleston Development Board. They send greetings to all classmates.

ART AGETON was recently elected Delegate to the Republican State Convention from Anne Arundel County and was nominated as a candidate for Delegate to the Republican National Committee from the Fifth Congressional District.

Recently elected to Chapter Commanders of their respective Chapters of the Military Order of the "World Wars were three classmates: B E A U M O N T in Annapolis, LEV A S S E U R in Baltimore, and LAMSONSCRIBNER in Easton.

Currently touring in Europe are MAX K E I T H and TOMMY TUCKER and their wives; the Tuckers soon will return to their farm near Annapolis.

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS

T E D L I N T H I C U M is living at 210 North Ave., Atlanta, Ga., where for the past S years he has been teaching in the Engineering Mechanics Dept. of Georgia Tech. Mrs. Linthicum is the former Ruth Lohmann. Ted says there are not very many classmates in the area, but there is an active chapter of the N. A. Alumni Association. One classmate is J. W. ( S H O R T Y ) ADAMS, who is also a colleague on the staff of Georgia Tech; home address 4912 Carol Lane, N.W., Atlanta 5.

MIN MILLER made a first class address before the Naval Academy Association of New York on 19 April, his subject being "The Jet Age." The speech was so well received that there was an unusually long period of questions following, all well taken care of by the speaker, who is Director of Public Relations for Pan American Airways.

Among those listening were Caples, Day, Furth, Gerry, Kalisch, Krook, Lynch, Mills, Shively, Siegrist and Singer.

COLBY RUCKER is one who gives thought to and has ideas concerning the utilization of our Memorial Fund. You will recall that he made a strong case for a stained glass window in the Chapel a few months ago. Now, he says, "I see by Shipmate that they don't want stained glass windows," and he has been thinking of alternatives. One solution would be to simply turn the funds over to the Superintendent, which he considers unwise, and which would be likely to cut off additional contributions so long as no definite project were specified. He then continues : "the thought comes to my mind that we have directed all our thinking to giving

WEDDING

On Saturday, 7 May Joyce Ann Johnson, daughter of RAdm. H E N R Y C J O H N SON, JR., U S N ( R e t ) , and Mrs. Johnson, Baltimore, Md. was married to Fred Eugene Adams, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Vester Adams, Wink, Texas, in the Chapel of the First Presbyterian Church, Towson, Md. The young couple are at home in the Donnybrook Apts., Towson.

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CLASS LUNCHEON

The monthly luncheon of the Class of '24 was held at the Army-Navy Club, Washington, D. C, on 27 Apr. 1960. Twenty-two members residing in the District of Columbia area attended as follows: S. G. Barchet, W. M. Beakley, M. M. Bradley, W. F. Bullis, S. E. Bush, W. H. Duvall, E. E. Gminder, G. R. Hartwig, C. M. E. Hoffman, S. E. Latimer, J. N. Lewis, Jr., P. V. Mercer, A. M. Morgan, E. T. Neale, D. J. Ramsey, G. Reith, T. C Southerland, R. C Sutliff, H. MacT. Sylvester, R. L. Swart, G. H. Van Steenbergh and J. M. P. Wright.

The Class Chairman, RAdm. R. L. Swart, announced that it was again time to consider the appointment of class officers for

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it to the Naval Academy, which institution, it now appears, cannot use our money profitably, the laws and regulations being what they are. But must we give our money to the Academy ? It seems to me that, things being as they are, we might make a grand gesture and give our money to Annapolis, which is nearly as close to us as is the Academy. No class has ever done so; we could be the first, and a good propaganda gesture it would be. . . . Annapolis has 'Historic Annapolis, Inc.,' an outfit trying to save the real old colonial homes. A couple of years ago they bought and saved the old Carroll house. Currently they have bought and are saving the old Custom House on the waterfront. We might help them. . . . What do you tliink?" These remarks from. Colby were not made for publication, but we think they should be presented here as of real interest, and they may bring forth other thoughts that will lead to progress in our eventually arriving at a suitable memorial expression. You too may have an idea!

And another idea comes from GEORGE ROBILLARD, this one on the subject of reunion in 1964: "Where's the 40th Reunion going to be? I still vote for the PG School at Monterey—^we have Homecoming at Annapolis every year." Well, George has attended all of ours, and ran the last one you'll recall, with J O H N H A Y E S . He also mentions having had a long talk with F R A N K FALGE's brother Ray, who reports that Frank is acquiring real estate in Monterey; "maybe he'll build a motel for the fortieth!"

ERIC L A N K E N A U and Fern are living in the San Diego area at La Jolla, 7855 Calle Juela, but when queried by one of our reporters he had nothing to report, "nothing of note has happened." He did say that the San Diego group is very good in keeping in touch with each other, but he neglected to say that the Lankenaus, the E D D I E EDGARS and O O F T I E GREGOR were the hosts for the latest party in the area, very successfully held on 19 March at the Marine Corps Club. Most of "our group" were there, with wives, including T. C. Cameron, Carroll, Deam, Dickie, Ekstrom, Fish, Garfield, Graf, Hays, Magly, D. F. McLean, Opie, Shultz, Tiemroth, Wolowsky, Young; also Mrs. Al Handly and Mrs. B. L. Rutt.

Also from San Diego, we learn from the Hursts that P E T E D U N N made a rapid recovery from a stroke in March, and he and Leila have been on a long trip northward "to see their offspring." The J O E LILLARDs are in Europe for the summer.

In a postscript W I L L I E H U R S T explains that "Bess has laryngitis and can't talk— all she does is pen me notes, do this, do that! The silence is terrific!"

D E N M E A D KOLB attended the BILL DAVIS retirement ceremonies and wrote glowingly of it in a letter from which we will quote: "Last week I journeyed to Norfolk to see and hear Bill Davis read his final orders. Never in my life have I seen so much brass assembled in any one spot. . . .

The ceremonies were held on a hangar deck. . . . I thought I was at one of the services of my Episcopal church from the number of times I stood up as the various dignitaries were welcomed with the traditional flourishes.

Promptly at 10 :30 VAdm. William V. Davis, Jr., USN, entered. . . . Bill read his orders ancl he was at his best. . . . While the cannon boomed the Admiral's 15-gun salute, my mind flashed back over a period of 40 years to a June day when Bill Davis, BERT KAL I S C H and I took up quarters as Plebe roommates on the 4th deck of Bancroft. In this brief period of 40 years we have seen 48

wars and changes this world has never witnessed before, and it just seemed to me as I sat there in that huge carrier that an era was passing on. How appropriate it was that Bill should be terminating his career upon such a mighty ship that certainly embodied many of his ideas and efforts, for Bill's record has been outstanding. He has contributed much to the development of aviation, as well as many other practical ideas that have advanced the efficiency of our Navy.

I recall when, just a few years out of the Academy, Bill with Art Gobel flew the Pacific non-stop from Hawaii, reaching their destination only through the ingenuity _ of Bill to tear down and put together with improvised parts the radio which had conked out. . . . Like many of us, he will now adjust to a civilian way of life, and I am confident that his second career will be just as brilliant."

missioned in the U. S. 181S. He is a member of flower Descendants and Landed Gentry (1937 Quantico, Va.

ART BARNES is making good progress^ "I feel fine, but I just can't walk." But he is learning to walk again, and has been assured that at his present rate of progress he'll be "as good as ever" in 6 months. He spends part of each day now at his office at Memorial Center, 444 E. 68th St., New York 21, TR 9-3000.

WASHINGTON LUNCHEON NOTE

1924 NAMES IN THE NEWS

E P H McLEAN has been elected a director of Piasecki Aircraft Corp. ABE VOSS ELLER looks out for Lockheed in Paris, in what "has become a busier and more frantic rat race, but it is very interesting."

The JACK ENGEMAN books continue: Air Line Hostess now in printing, soon to be followed by First Days at School.

SQUIRREL H E R R I N G T O N gets around a lot on his latest project. We saw him in New York, after his trip through the northern part of the state where he visited TOMMIE G R I F F I T H and GORDON K E N T .

In Baltimore he contacted BILL CLEAVES and CHARLIE H O F F M A N , and to the New Yorkers he brought news of our longlost E D D I E W I L K I N S O N who disappeared weeks ago and is now getting mail at 24 E. 25th St., Baltimore. C H E T D A N I E L is in the Birmingham area, engaged in generating power for Southern Company.

Congratulations to ROLLO W I L S O N (VADM U S N ) , who has been nominated by the President to be a member of the Federal Maritime Board! The appointment is for a 4-year term, and carries with it the post of Maritime Administrator. In accepting this important post, Rollo intends to retire from active duty 30 June.

WEDDINGS

RAdm. and Mrs. R A L P H E. MILLS have announced the marriage of their daughter, Sarah Ann, to Theodore Glenn Hartsock, Jr., on Saturday, 7 May 1960, at Charlotte, N. C Capt. and Mrs. GEORCSE N. ROBILLARD announce the marriage on 23 Apr. 1960 of their daughter, Colette Ann, to Mr. Francis Xavier Kelly, at Washington, D. C On Saurday, 21 May, Miss Glenda May Johnston, Marcia Court, Centerport, Long Island, was married to Lt. Earned Vesely Bearce, USMC, son of Mr. and Mrs. HERBERT P. BEARCE, Evanston, 111., at the Presbyterian Old First Church, Huntington, Long Island. A reception was held at Centerport Yacht Club.

Mrs. Bearce graduated from Alleghany College, Meadville, Penn. Her husband was graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1959 and was one of the first West Pointers to be com-

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Marine Corps since the Society of Mayis listed in Burke s Edition). Station:

Sec'y, R. Adm. S. P. Smith, U S N (Ret.), 3225 Klingle Rd., N.W., Washington 8, D. C.

35TH QUIVER NOTICE

Despite the best efforts of all concerned (meaning K E N T L O O M I S ) , we understand that one—(and possibly another) — copy of the 3Sth Quiver was mailed out with the pages in improper order. If yours came through in such a state please return it to Kent and he will replace it with one that makes sense!

Our 26 April luncheon—the last before the Reunion—brought out the following 20 classmates: Delaney (up from Crabtown), Dufek (just back from a trip to Florida), Eller, Gill, Goetz, Hoffner, Hull, Hurd, Johns, Latrobe, Loomis, E. N. Parker, Pefley, Shahan, S. P. Smith, Stryker, Tuzo (up from Florida), Van Metre, Wellings, and E. C Wright.

DAVE H U L L is retiring from his job as Vice President of Raytheon. "Scuttlebutt" has it that by the time you get back from your summer vacation he may be President of another well-known company in the electronics industry. Continued success and Good Luck, Dave!

J O E and Ruth N E V I N S are passing the word of "the arrival of our Sth grandchild, Anne Heminway, on 24 April at Georgetown Hospital. The proud parents are Mr. and Mrs. Joseph H. Nevins, III. The other 4 grandchildren, 2 boys and 2 girls, are equally divided as to sex and number between Rude and Maude De France and Ward and Judy LeHardy. The former foursome will be welcomed home in Sept. after 3 years in Germany with the 14th A. C Regiment. The latter will be bidden 'au revoir' in June when they depart for a tour of Army Staff duty in Japan." Joe writes, from Villanova University, that the Nevinses will be unable to attend the 35th Reunion but that they look forward to those "in the future." (Hope we'll see you there, Joe.) BILL G O U L E T T and Elizabeth have decided to try the northern latitudes. They are now enjoying the cool Canadian climate at "Woodridge," Rural Rte # 1 , Chamcook, Charlotte City, New Brunswick, Canada.

Hope you will find inspiration for the great American novel. Bill!

DAVE T Y R E E is back from his chores in the Antarctic but missed the last Washington luncheon. Hope to see you soon, Dave, and have you fill us in where George Dufek left off in songs of praise for the "wide icy spaces."

Your secretary got a fleeting glimpse of L E W P A R K S at Bethesda Naval Hospital a couple of weeks ago, but my elevator pulled up before I could say "Hi." Understand Lew was up from Panama for a physical checkup and was in town for only a quickie visit.

TOMMY and Jean B U R R O W E S recently visited D. C to look over their old haunts.

We understand they may make Norfolk their permanent stamping grounds when Tommy retires later on this year.

"SQUEAK" and Sis TUZO also paid Washington a recent visit, venturing all the way up from Florida to see one of their boys married.

SHIPMATE

SWAN S O N G

.\s the ballots for class officer elections come in and yours truly bows out as class Secretary, this would seem to be a good spot to pass along a couple of comments.

First, I wish to thank those classmates (and wives) who have furnished items for publication in this column, as it is after all our only forum where information as to activities of classmates and their families can be made known to other classmates and, incidentally, to those other thousands of alumni who read Shipmate. Second, I wish to ask those of you '25ers who might have something of interest to us all, to dig up the necessary 3 cents to buy a postcard and send along the item to your next Secretary. It might be published!

SEE YOU AT THE NEXT REUNION! ENGAGEMENTS

RAdm. and Mrs. F R E D E R I C K B. WARDER have announced the engagement of their daughter. Miss Susan Blue Warder, to Mr. Pierre Savard of Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. A June wedding is planned in the Baltimore Cathedral of Mary Our Queen.

Admiral Warder is Commandant of the Eighth Naval District and formerly was Commander of the U. S. Atlantic Fleet Submarine Force.

A 1956 graduate of the Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School of Washington, D. C. Miss Warder, who will graduate from the College of Notre Dame, Baltimore in June, has been elected to the national scholastic honor societies Delta Epsilon Sigma and Kappa Gamma Pi, and Who's Who Among American Colleges and Universities.

She is President of the Notre Dame Resident Student Association and the Phi Chapter of the National French Honor Society, Pi Delta Phi. Mrs. Richard H. Gingras of 33 Franklin St., Annapolis, Md., has announced the engagement of her daughter. Miss Mary Elizabeth Gingras, to Dion Shea. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Stephens Shea of New London, Conn.

Miss Gingras, who is the daughter of the late Commander GINGRAS, graduated from Pembroke College in 1959.

A September wedding is planned.

Sec'y, Cdr. H. A. Frayel, U S N (Ret.) 3410 15th St.. North Arlington 1. Va. Corr. Sec'y, VAdm. W. R. Smedberg, III, Qtrs. B, 2300 E St., N.W., Washington 7, D. C.

RAdm. CHARLES W I L L I A M MOSES, (USN R E T . ) , has been appointed sales coordinator for the Endicott Johnson Corp., one of the nation's foremost distributors of safety shoes. Admiral Moses will assist in the administration of sales, merchandising and customer services program of the corporation. He lives with his wife at 3146 Liberty St., Allentown, Pa. CLASS LUNCHEON

At the '26 class luncheon in Washington on Tuesday, 26 April, there were 34 members present as follows: Agnew, Armstrong, Barker, Briner, Brown, Claiborne, Cochran, Dietrich, Dolan, Dow, Fravel, Fryer, Gano, Grenfell, Greenslade, Gunther, Hill, Hutchinson, Katz, Leeper, Livdahl, Lovett, McCorkle, McKee, McQuillen, Morgan, Morrison, Nelson, Prime, Purvis, Russell, Shane, Smedberg and Strain.

Acting as a committee for the class, this group decided on 5, 6 and 7 May 1961 as the dates for the 35th reunion at the Naval J U N E - J U L Y ,

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.Academy. The Boathouse has been reserved for our dinner on Saturday night, 6 May, after an afternoon of sports which will include lacrosse with Duke University, a triangle track meet against Georgetown and Maryland and a triangle crew race on 7 May against Cornell and Syracuse.

The class luncheon was enlivened by the generous gift of the wine during our meal which had been planted, nurtured, grown, harvested, pressed, processed and bottled by our own H E N R I DE B . CLAIBORNE on his estate "Small Hall" at Center Cross, near Tappahannock, Va. The group elected unanimously JACK G R E E N S L A D E as class Treasurer to replace BILL DOLAN, whose impending orders to command the Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, Wash., caused him to withdraw his acceptance of our previous election of him as treasurer. The class also elected a Finance Committee consisting of BERT BROWN, HAM D O W and C H A R L I E STRAIN with the idea that a portion of the class fund should be invested, rather than sit in a checking account, drawing no interest, and not keeping pace with the inflation of our times.

Jack Greenslade announced that he had mailed out more than 500 letters and questionnaires concerning the 35 Years After class book. These went to classmates and widows for whom we have addresses and those associate members who started with the class but did not graduate for whom we have been able to procure an address.

It is earnestly suggested that each of you complete the questionnaire and mail it with your check for $10 to John F. Greenslade, 5020 Millwood Lane, N.W., Washington 16, D. C Do it now, because the longer you put it off the more difficult it will be to do it and the more it will cost us as a class to keep after you until you produce your share.

The more members of the Class of '26 who contribute to this publication, the more interesting it will be to all of us. I suggest that you return the questionnaire and your checks now and send a photograph in later.

Do not wait until you have the photograph before returning the questionnaire.

Jack Greenslade and his committee have gone carefully into costs involved in producing the book. The group at the luncheon

on 26 April felt that their estimate of between $9 and $10 was a very fair and reasonable one. Any excess will go into the class fund.

RAdm. H E R M A N REICH, USNR, was in Washington during the month of May sitting in with the Naval Reserve Policy Board one week and as a member of the Secretary of Defense's Reserve PoHcy Board the next. He has been active in the Naval Reserve for many years. Herman reports that he retired from business in 1955, got tired of doing nothing, went with General Electric from 1956 to 1959 and is now with Hughes Aircraft in Los Angeles working on Navy undersea warfare equipments. His daughter is in college but is in Europe for the summer and his son has just graduated from Dartmouth with a major in International Relations. He was a brilliant student and a recipient of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship.

Judge O. B O W I E D U C K E T T has just won a 15-year term on the Fifth Circuit bench from Anne Arundel County, Md. Bowie won both the Democratic and Republican nominations to make his election automatic in November.

As a result of the photograph in the May issue of Shipmate of one of our associates, C G. McMULLAN, there has been some incidental intelligence concerning another one of our associates, ROBERT E. BROWN, JR., who is presently Director of the Advertising Department, Aetna Casualty and Surety Co. of Hartford, Conn. We hope that through this '26 column we will be able to recover more and more addresses of our non-graduate associate members.

RED and Sperry CLARKE report that they have recently been blessed with 3 grandchildren within a period of 3 months. Their oldest daughter, Frances Macaulay, had a daughter, Mary Kay, on 26 Oct. in Guam.

Her husband, Johnny, is in the Operations Dept., PANAM. Their youngest daughter, Ann Bell, had twin daughters, Sperry Ann and Karen Rickman, the day after Christmas in Springfield, Tenn. Frances, Johnny and Mary Kay spent the month of March with the Clarkes in Naples.

E. F. "MIKE" MAY is manager of the South Baldwin Chamber of Commerce at Foley, Ala. Mike reports that Alabama's Gulf Coast fishing and beaches are excellent and offers V I P treatment for all naval personnel.

ENGAGEMENT

Mrs. Joseph A. Sprague, Orange, N. J., announced the engagement of her daughter, Susan Georgianna, to Ens. Upton Slingluff Brady, III, USNR, son of Capt. U P T O N S L I N G L U F F BRADY, JR., U S N ( R e t ) , and Mrs. Brady, Washington, D. C Miss Sprague, daughter of the late Mr. Sprague, is a graduate of Skidmore College. Her fiance, a graduate of The Choate School and Yale University, is serving in the USS TOPEKA.

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Sec'y, Cdr. Howard C. Adams. USNR Pacific Far East Line, Inc., 918 16th St. N.W., Washington 6, D. C.

RAdm. E U G E N E B. McKINNEY, Commander Military Sea Transportation Service, Pacific Area, and Mrs. McKinney held a delightful reception at their quarters on Yerba Buena Island in San Francisco Bay on 30 Apr. 1960. The following members and their wives of the Class of '27 residing in the San Francisco Bay Area were present : Ethan Aliens, Charles Beasleys, Ernest Blakes, Raymond Boyds, Robert Braddys, 49

'27 NORFOLK GROUP Party at Bill Irvin's quarters on the Naval Base.

in the passing of his son, Lt. Joel A. Robinson '55, who was an honor student at the PG School at Monterey when he suddenly died in class.

"DUTCH" D E U T E R M A N N sent in the accompanying photo and reported on the fine reunion of classmates in the Norfolk area at the quarters of BILL IRVIN, ComOpTevFor, on the Naval Base. About thirty joined the party and a rousing good time was had. J O H N CLARK, ComCarDiv 16, was the star of the evening having extemporaneously recited a long "Poem" he composed for the occasion. He was forthwith elected permanent poet laureate of the class.

Arnold Cassadays, Howell Dysons, John Ewings, Robert Fords, Emmanuel Goyettes, William Gulletts, Thomas Hamiltons, Wilton Healds, Leroy Honsingers, Ross Kellermans, Eugene Lugibihls, Francis McAlisters, Eugene McDaniels, James McKinstrys, Gill Richardsons, Marshall Smith, John Tracys, Alfred Truslows, David Walshes, Frank Wickhorsts, Mrs. Gerald Dyson and Mr'^, John O. R. Coll.

ALVIN ROBINSON is retiring from active duty and will be associated with the Marine Office of America, in their Admiralty Law section of the U. S! P. & I. division.

Robby has settled back in Brooklyn with his wife Sally, and their daughter Ann is a junior at the University of Maryland.

WEDDING

The New York 1927 Alumni Association offered their heartfelt condolences to Robby

On Saturday, 23 April Miss Sara Loring Shook, daughter of Capt. LORING OS-

WALD SHOOK, U S N ( R e t ) , and Mrs. Shook, Severna Park, Md., was married to Mr. Edmund Steele Pendleton, son of Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Smith Pendleton, Jr., Baltimore, Md., in the Naval Academy Chapel.

Capt. Fred D. Bennett, CC USN, and the Rev. Warren C Shipp performed the ceremony. A reception followed at the Officers' Club.

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Sec'y R. Adm. R. K. James, U S N Chief BuShips, Washington 25, D. C.

Nineteen "gay, young blades" of the class in the Washington area met for lunch at the Naval Weapons plant on 26 April. Shown in the accompanying photograph are: stand-

'28 LUNCHEON at Naval Weapons Plant.

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ing, left to right, Mike Flaherty, Swede Norgaard, Bill Howard, Zeke Peden, Red Raborn, T. C Roberts, George Collins, Francois Jordan, Al Momm, Norm Ball, De Logsdon, Owsley Stanley. Seated, left to right, Guy Stringer, Petey Anderson, Bob Archer, Will Schoech, Harry Sears, George Fritschmann, and Bob Watts.

M . \ T T R.\DOM has been selected to head a national study on employment of the physically handicapped. His services were requested by Industrial Relations Counselors.

"This organization was ^elected by the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation of the U. S. Department of Health, Welfare and Education to present a plan to study the experience of U. S. employers with selection, placement and performance of physically handicapped persons in all kinds of occupations.

Matt is located at the I.R.C office at 1270 Avenue of the Americas, New York City.

WILLIAM "AL" T . \ Y L O R was married on Friday, 20 May to Mrs. Dorothy Thompson in the Lovers' Lane Methodist Church, Dallas, Texas. The former Mrs. Thompson is the mother of A. K. Thompson, graduating number O N E in the Class of I960,-and a six striper. The Taylors were in Annapolis for June Week.

In a letter to your secretary, Pattie R A N S FORD reported on the activities of the Ransford family as follows: "Shag and I took a trip to Mexico in January—spent a week in Phoenix and ended the trip with some time in Palm Springs. I guess we're just not hardy pioneers because we did N O T enjoy the 3 weeks we spent in Mexico. We entered from Nogales and found bad roads, poor accommodations, poor food, poor E V E R Y T H I N G except for 5 days spent in Mazatlan where we stayed at the Posada Colonial and could eat. I was the one who gave up when we spent a day and night at Jocotopec at the Ranja Azul and upon pushing aside the batter on fried fish I found pale blue eyes staring up at me and suddenly realized, hungry as I had been, that I had eaten the other fish intact! W e were both ill and it cost $85 upon returning home for doctor, drug and laboratory fees, to get rid of whatever bugs we had picked up. We've heard that entering from Laredo or Brownsville is better.

"Next January we plan a trip back to Charleston, New Orleans, the New England states, Canada and Minnesota, taking advantage of the good weather in the various places. It might be we will also be in Annapolis. I do have a yearning to sit in the chair with the name of R A N S F O R D which is in the stadium!

"Outside of trips we are doing just what we like—enjoying our home with the comfortable patio and going to the San Francisco Giants games occasionally. What more could you ask of retirement? We're happy and content. Anyone who happens to be in this vicinity, stop in—we have plenty of ice cubes and 'antagonized water.' " WEDDINGS

Capt. P H I L I P F. W A K E M A N , U S N ( R e t ) , and Mrs. Wakeman announce the marriage of their daughter, Helen Marr, to Ensign Robert E. Johannesen, USN '60, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward W. Johannesen of North Platte, Neb. and the marriage of their daughter, Deborah Susan, to Ensign John F. Ruhsenberger, U S N '60, son of Capt. John R. Ruhsenberger, U S N (Ret.) '24, and Mrs. Ruhsenberger of Wichita, Kan., in the Naval Academy Chapel on Friday, 10 June.

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this summer and during June will be occupied with closing a purchase of their home and preparing to move. From San Diego, H A R R Y V E R H O Y E writes that he will be in Europe during June, July and August.

From Sunnyvale, Calif., J O E ROBBINS tells us he is just starting in a new position and is unable to get away at this time. His new address is Rose Crest Apts., 515 Bernardo St., Sunnyvale, Calif. From Seattle, E D D I E and Sugar R E N F R O wrote that they would certainly be with us in spirit.

FRED W E I S S wrote from Baltimore that he would be out of the country the first week in June. However, he said he would try and return in time for some of the Saturday activities on 4 June.

What a wonderful experience—old friends gathering together from near and far to be with one another in celebration of our 30th Reunion. Coming back again to the Naval Academy where we graduated so many years ago gives one a feeling of wonderful nostalgia. As the time approaches when most of our number will be retired, we pause to ponder a little about the past and realize more than ever how very fortunate we are to have been afforded the opportunity to be educated at the U. S. Naval Academy and, further, to have been able to use this education to serve this wonderful country of ours.

So, to all and from all, a very Happy Thirtieth, and may we look forward to many many more such gatherings in the years to come.

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Sec'y, Capt. Christian L. Engleman, USN (Ret.), 2480 16th St., N.W. Washineton 9, D. C.

Since last month we have heard from several of our classmates who have recently had a change of address. GIFFORD and Kate SCULL left Athens for New York early in June to go through the retirement process. Gifford has been the U. S. Naval Attache at the Embassy in Athens. They will reside at 27-34 164th St., Flushing, temporarily.

G. T. A T K I N S retired on 1 May and his address is now 3 Oak Rd., Newark, Del. He is now associated with the Thiokol Chemical Corp. at their Elkton, Md., plant.

JACK H U M E S is now residing in Medomak, Me. J O H N , P I R I E is Vice President and Associate General Counsel of Pan American World Airways, 135 E. 42nd St., New York City.

We hear from R. W. J O H N S O N that he expects to retire 1 July.

ENGAGEMENTS

Capt. ALBERT K E N N E T H ROMBERG, U S N ( R e t ) , and Mrs. Romberg of Coronado, Calif., announce the engagement of their daughter. Miss Anne Romberg, to John Howard Willis, Jr., son of RAdm. John Howard Willis, U S N (Ret.) '21, and Mrs. Willis of Churchland, Va. The bride-elect is a graduate of Duke University where she was a member of Alpha Delti Pi Sorority. She is now teaching school in Coronado.

Mr. Willis, an alumnus of the University of Virginia, served as a lieutenant (jg) in the Navy. He received an M.A. degree in English from Columbia University where he is now a doctoral candidate. He is a member of the faculty at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va., where the couple plan to make their home. A July wedding is planned.

Cdr. John S. Eversole, USN, and Mrs. Eversole, Virginia Beach, Va., have announced the engagement of their daughter, Susan Dorn, to Ens. Carleton Edgar Mott, Jr., U S N '60, son of Capt. CARLETON EDGAR MOTT, USN, and Mrs. Mott, Annapolis, Md. Miss Eversole is a graduate of Ashley Hall, Charleston, S. C. Ens. Mott attended Severn School before entering the Naval Academy. A summer wedding is planned.

SOTH REUNION

Regrets from several of our classmates that they probably would be unable to attend our Reunion: From Green Cove Springs, Fla., D. A. H A R R I S says he will be retiring

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< '31 LUNCHEON ON BOARD USS moy/Ay

The Western Pacific chapter of '31 met for lunch in Flag Mess of U S S YORKTOWN on 9 March as guests of RAdm. Dean Black, Commander Carrier Division Seventeen.

The meeting followed change of command ceremonies for Commander Seventh Fleet on U S S MIDWAY. Attending the luncheon

and shown in the accompanying photograph were, front row: Mesdames Holtzworth, Vredenburgh, Veasey, Wilbur, Meola and, standing: Johnny Gannon, Craig Veasey, Dean Black, Jim Meola, Jim Vredenburgh, Don Wilbur and Andy Hill.

Sec'y, Capt. T. A. Christopher, U S N Room 1841 Arlington A n n e x , U . S. Navy D e p a r t m e n t , Washington 25, D . C

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Sec'y, Cdr. Robert P . Harbold, Jr., U S N R 129 Spa View Ave., Annapolis, Md.

CEDRIC WARREN STIRLING

CEDRIC W A R R E N STIRLING (CAPT U S N ) passed away suddenly on Sunday, 15 May at Pensacola, Fla., and was interred in the Arlington National Cemetery on Thursday 19 May, with classmates as honorary pallbearers and as escort commander, following a memorial service in the Fort Myer Chapel. He is survived by his widow, Ruth, a daughter, Susan, and a son, James.

The sympathy of his classmates and their wives was extended to Ruth and the children.

RAdm. LELAND P. KIMBALL, JR., SC USN, has been named as new Commanding Officer, Naval Supply Center, Oakland, Calif. Under present plans he will report to this new duty about 1 Aug. 1960.

For the past 2 years Admiral Kimball has been Deputy Chief, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts in Washington.

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Admiral Kimball is married to the former Miss Helen D. Werner of Baltimore, Md., which is his official address.

WEDDING

Mrs. Denis Sweeny of Fairlawn, N. J., announces the marriage of her daughter, Terry McDermott, to Lt. Joseph Francis Enright, Jr., USA. Lieutenant Enright is a 1959 graduate of the U. S. Military Academy and is now stationed at Fort Devons, Mass. with the 60th Infantry. He is the son of Capt. and Mrs. J O S E P H F. E N R I G H T , USN. 52

RADM. LELAND P. KIMBALL, JR., USN '33

A note was received from GEORGE WALKER, 80 Pompton Pike, Riverdale, N. J., advising us of a good Class of '34 turnout at the March meeting of the New York chapter, U S N A Alumni Association.

Those present were Dutch Lundfelt, Alex Cloud, Shelton Fisher, John Waybright, Bob Milbrath, Campbell Pilcher, Beppo Kleppinger. Alex lost his good standing in the home office back in 1957—have been unable to get through to him—the silent type or the wrong address.

Also word from CARL COEN, visiting with his son, USMA '59, in Honolulu, reporting the birth of his 1st grandchild, David Russell Coen—time of launching uncertain, but early in April. Passing through San Francisco he had the opportunity to see DICK BLY and BOB CRISWELL, another lad who is the silent type, resulting in poor standing at this end of the line. While in the Islands he also had the opportunity to talk with K E N CASEY and GORDON CHUNG-HOON, whose address is 906 Pueo St., Honolulu IS. Carl's letter included the belated news that Betty Chung-Hoon passed away on 26 Apr. at Tripler Army Hospital.

To Gordon, we, his classmates and friends and our wives, extend our sympathies in his loss. The class has made a contribution to the Oahu Unit, American Cancer Society in memory of Betty.

Enjoying the last luncheon of the season at the A-N Country Club on Thursday, 12 May were a few of the faithful. They were Chick Clarey, Charlie Coley, Ed Fagan, Butch Harbold, Al Kilmartin, Jack Mackenzie, Homer Nielson, Bill Robbins and B. J. Semmes. Jack needs a relief as chief of telephone callers, he who arranges the monthly luncheons. Any volunteers? It was suggested that more effort be made toward organizing driving pools to assist in increasing the turnout for luncheons when they resume in September.

By the Deep 26 and 10 sons of the Class of '34 graduate in the Class of 1960. Strangely enough, 5 of this group carry their fathers' SHIPMATE

names as junior, seconds and even a fourth, and 3 others are identified with the same given name as their father. A salute to Bob Bengston, Charlie Fischer II, George Brossman, Bob Pearce. Jack Phelps, II, Mickey Reeves, II, Bob Sellars, Jr., Roy Smith, IV and Stuart Stevenson. Congratulations to both fathers and sons.

ENGAGEMENT

Capt. and Mrs. E D W A R D J. FAHY, USN, announce the engagement of their daughter Elizabeth Cryan, to Midn. George Roland Weeks '60. Miss Fahy was graduated from Williams Memorial Institute in New London, Conn., and attended St. Joseph's College, Emmitsburg, Md. and Dominican College of San Rafael, Calif. Captain Fahy is Assistant Chief of the Bureau of Ships for Research and Development.

Midshipman Weeks is the son of Mrs. Martin Jay Lawrence, wife of RAdm. Martin Jay Lawrence, U S N '27, Assistant Chief of the Bureau of Ships, Washington, D. C, and the late Col. George Roland Weeks, USMC.

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Sec'y, Capt. A. H. Bowker, U S N , OpNav (Op-56B). N D . Washington 25, D. C.

CLASS LUNCHEON

The regular class luncheon was held the 3rd Thursday of April at the "O" Club of the Naval Weapons Plant under the able management of F L E T C H E R LAMKIN, who replaced T E D N E Y M A N after his retirement on 1 April. Ted's new address is 3245 Patterson St., N.W., Washington IS, D. C. In addition to those in the WashingtonArmapolis area, the luncheon was attended

by P E T E PAR_\DIS, all the way from his home in Scituate, Mass. Pete and Florence were chaperons for a group of 14 Sea Mariner Scouts, all girls 17-18 years old, who were visiting Washington to see the sights.

Their itinerary also included Annapolis, where they were the guests of BOBO THOMSON and N E D D O U G H E R T Y .

Pete looked well and has been functioning much better on one kidney for the past 25 years or so than most of us with two. In addition to his love of hiking, Pete is also a skiing enthusiast. It was good to see him again, although most of us missed seeing Florence who was out sightseeing with the girls during the luncheon.

Other out-of-towners included P A T F I N NIGAN, who was down on leave from his post as Naval Attache, Ottawa.

The class luncheons will be discontinued during the summer months and resume the 3rd Thursday in September.

Eleanor DODGE was interviewed at lihe Fort Myer Officers' Club during lunch with a few of her friends on 28 April. She advised that she has been a grandmother for a year now, although she looked like a June bride. She is looking forward to going to El Segundo, Calif., in July, where W O O D Y is to assume the post of BuWeps Rep. Madeline Campbell is assisting Penny Paddock in planning the next '35 wives' luncheon to be held at the Anchorage in Alexandria on 5 May. By the time you read this column it will be history. BLAIR CAMPBELL is with the FAA and PADDY with BuWeps.

The Class Council, under the chairmanship of H E R S H GOLDBERG, who recently relieved P A T M c I N T E E , unanimously decided to invest 40% of the Scholarship Fund in Washington Mutual Investers Fund in JUNE-JULY,

1960

order to increase the revenue. 7000 shares at $9.99 per share were purchased in April.

The company declared a $.60 per share dividend 25 April, which amounted to $420, almost enough to pay for one scholarship.

There are 2 scholarship applications now pending. The Council is preparing its annual leport to the class, which should be forthcoming in the near future. Included in the report will be an up-to-date listing of names and addresses of all classmates.

2STH REUNION

Requests for room reservations for the 25 Year Reunion at Annapolis 23-24 Sept., the weekend of the Navy-Villanova game, continue to roll in, so if you require accommodations for the event, notify your Secretary and include a check payable to the Class (General Fund '35. Room with double bed, $12.36 per night, and twin beds $13.39. Thus far the following have applied: D-B, Joe Lyle, Steve Sherwood, Ron Irving, Pat Mclntee, Fletcher Lamkin, Kirk Kirkpatrick, Jim Scott, Ross Freeman, Bill Kear, Johnny Bottoms, French Wampler, and Red Bowker.

T-B : Bill Clark, Jack Fee, Red McQuilkin, Spurge Sharrocks, Hersh Goldberg, Mike Gardner, Tony Parry, Blair Campbell, Skeets Gallagher, Pete Paradis, Al Weldon and Bob Wordall.

On Saturday, 16 April, Miss Marcia Eugenia Gambacorta, daughter of Capt. FRANCIS M. GAMBACORTA, USN (Ret.), and Mrs. Gambacorta, Annapolis, Md., was married to Ens. David Kent Shiverdecker, U S N '59, son of Mr. and Mrs. D. K. Shiverdecker, Greenville, Ohio, in the Naval Academy Chapel. The bride attended Sullins College, Bristol, Va. Ensign Shiverdecker studied at the University of Cincinnati before entering the Naval Academy. Station: Pensacola, Fla. ENGAGEMENT

Capt. G. S. HIGGINBOTHAM, USN, and Mrs. Higginbotham, Honolulu, Hawaii, have announced the engagement of their daughter, Christine Grace, to Lieut, (jg) Kenneth S. Utter, Jr., USN, son of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth S. Utter, Minneapolis, Minn.

Miss Higginbotham attended Hood College and is now enrolled at the University of Hawaii. Her fiance studied at MacAlester College and the University of Minnesota.

He is stationed at Pearl Harbor. A fall wedding is planned.

Sec'y, Capt. D . G. Gumz, U S N , 3016 N . Florida St., Arlington, Va. Corr. Sec'y, Capt. Wm. A. Ellis, U S N 1013 Downing St., Rt. 4, Box 575C Annandale, Va.

Here I am again. Sorry about last month, but a fast duty shuffle and a dearth of news caught me short while the May issue deadline passed by before I knew it had come and gone.

Two luncheons have occurred since last report, the first on 10 March amid one of our biggest snow storms of the year. Fourteen stalwarts showed up at Ft. McNair to discuss a joint '36 Army, Navy, Air Force luncheon in April, a report on funds, a report on the West Coast contingent, and the reading of an article from the Brunswick, Ga. News concerning the street signs going up at NAS Glynco, Ga. This was the first, and indeed wonderful, luncheon sponsored by our newly elected officers, BON A M M E and DON GUMZ. The 2nd luncheon held 19 April, also at McNair, was a huge success. It was the joint '36 affair. We may have been outranked by the Army/Air Force contingent, but we held our own in numbers. Against their 20

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we had 14 present including CHUCK P H I L L I P S who dropped in from Great Lakes.

Don Gumz, in the absence of Bon Amme, made the Navy response—he had no alternative since his boss was the West Point '36 chairman. He had to say something to the opening salvo which recalled the muddy '34 Army-Navy game, but said nothing about the '59 game except a few remarks about the coaches and the teams. All I can say is for my money in '60 it's again BEAT A R M Y ! ! ! Present for '36 Navy were Sanford. Pratt, Chenault, Alford, Heywood, Fowler, Dabney, Rothwell, Phillips, Gumz, Turner, Caldwell, Woodville and yours truly.

A good time was had by all, and the wheels were put in motion for a June formal.

The Brunswick News article provided by AL F U R E R was good news, showing the results of Al's efforts over a period of 23^ years. Eight streets at NAS Glynco have been named in honor of '36ers. Those honored are Roy Krogh, Ralph Embree, Porter Maxwell, Jack Moore, Dick Bull, Sully Vogel, Dave Connole and Jack Daub. It is particularly interesting to note that 2 of those so honored—CONNOLE and DAUB—are non-aviators. Thus all elements of the Navy are represented, air, sub-surface, and surface, in the honor paid to our '36 heroes. Our congratulations, Al, in obtaining this recognition so well deserved.

A note from BECKY T H A C H E R states that when the TALLADEGA passed through Pearl he and J A M I E SEMMES, P A U L S T I M S O N and SHERM W R I G H T got together for lunch. He regretted that circumstances prevented Lederer, Stark, Mann, Parham and Nohrden from joining them in spinning old yarns and swapping sea chanties. Becky promises more news from Japan when TALLADEGA touches port there.

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JIMMY R U T T E R reported that 8 were present at a '36 get-together at North Island in April. Present were McCauley, Samuel, Furer, Preston, Crawford, Merker, Ryan and Jimmy. M A R S H T H O M P S O N , BILL K A U F M A N and BOB N O R T O N were at sea. Jimmy is trying to organize '36 events in the San Diego area and asks that all putting in or living there contact him. Jimmy is with PhibGru 3 and not with PhibRon 3 as previously reported. All '36ers please note. E D H O F F M A N was expected to join the San Diego clan in late May upon his return from Australia.

A note from BOB W I L L I A M S also called my attention to the streets in Glynco. He got his dope from the April issue of Naval Aviation News. Thanks Bob for the reminder and the double check.

Also had a long interesting letter from BEN O E L H E I M written Easter Sunday and reporting on his family now with him at NavActs Cartagena, Spain. At writing Val was cooking a turkey while the rest of the family were engrossed listening to a new shipment of American records. Says Ben, "We could not be any happier—we have returned from our Base Chapel where a Spanish Protestant minister, educated at Princeton, preached a most important sermon for me—Russ and I have kept out of the way for 2 hours watching the number 7 termis player of Spain take our local champ 6-0, 6-1—and our new French poodle Giselle delivered while we were at church and is breaking up the house." NavActs Cartagena was commissioned 15 Jan. 1959 and has been receiving and discharging ammunition to ships in the Med ever since. The Oelheims don't have quarters yet but hoped to move into same during May. Continues Ben, "We are way off the beaten track, we don't like receiving mail from 1 to 3 months after being sent (see Mailboat, June-July Shipmate), and we can be reached promptly by air mail.

Better yet—come see us!" So who goofed ?

I wrote Ben and sent it regular mail. Oh well, forgive me Ben, and thanks for your newsy letter. Keep 'em coming, and best of luck to you all.

A most unexpected pleasure was a long letter from the GEORGE W H I T I N G s reporting another new member of the '36 clan.

George Harris Whiting was born 3 Feb. 1960. From us all, congratulations. The cup, r e c e n t l y received from t h e R A N D Y MEADEs, is on its way to the others and should catch up with you soon. The Whitings now have 4 children: Galen born Jan. '49, Scott Stone, April '50, Renn Harris, May '55 and George Harris. A wonderful family.

They have lived in Norfolk for 9 years since Staff College days and now George gets a SubRon based in Norfolk. So they have bought a home in Norfolk. Look up the Whitings. They are fast becoming FFVs like the Ellises. Thanks, Janice, for all the news.

If you are confused about my whereabouts and all the orders, don't worry. I'm still here. My original orders were cancelled suddenly, but I still report to OpNav and am now at NavSecGru Headquarters, Nebraska Ave. Much closer to home, and a lot less mileage on the "doodle buggy" which covered 24,300 miles in the 14 months I was at Ft. Meade.

Recent duty changes: Otis Cole to Deputy Chief of Staff for Projects and Operations ComOpDevFor; George Whiting to ComSubRon 6; M. J. Smith to CO U S S GEN.

MisRange; Marshall Thompson to OpNav; Renfro Turner to ComFltAir Wing 11; John Holcomb to O S D ; Fred Bennett to CO NEWPORT NEWS ; Ed King to National W a r

"I also met R E D H E S S E L and his wife Ann. Red was most happy about his orders which were to take him off his oiler and to a carrier. S T R E T C H KELLY, who has the

College; George Winne to ComSanDiego Group PacResFlt; W. W . Boyd to InsMat Cleveland; Becky Thacher to BuWeps; Don Willman to ComDesRon 20; Gil Slonim to ComDesRon 28; Harlan Kirkpatrick to ComPhilaGroup; John Alford to Chief of Staff and Aide ComAntiSubDefForPac; Bon Amme to BuWeps; and Dick Pratt to CO NOR-

him in Japan. I imagine that Stretch is just as pleased with his orders to a DesRon as Red was with his to a carrier.

"Mary Cunningham was also out in Japan, but I did not have a chance to see either Mary or Tom. I did, however, see JOHN

FOLK. Congratulations

H A R T M A N who is on 7th Fleet Staff,

to all on your

new

and very important assignments.

That's all for now. See you again in the August issue, and best wishes for a successful career to all of those in the 1960 class.

The eventful day for you recalls fond memories of June 1936 for all of us who look forward to your joining the ranks. Regards to all.

BILL ELLIS WEDDING

CACAPON

(AO-52),

also had his wife with

M O R S E who has the HASSAYAMPA,

PAUL

R O L L O R O S S who has the PICKAWAY and

J. D. R E E S E who was M S T S Yokohama and is going to the SEMINOLE. T O the best

of my knowledge about the only classmates in the area that I did not see were TOM C U N N I N G H A M and CURT KELLY, who has an oiler.

"About the middle of my inspection trip I had to make a quick trip to Hong Kong to inspect BOB FARRINGTON's ship, the SALISBURY SOUND. Bob and Rear

Admiral

Garrison were co-hosts at a most enjoyable dinner party at the Royal Hong Kong Club and aboard the SALISBURY MCELROY ENTLER, JR., USN (Ret), Yacht SOUND. J I M G U S T I N and his wife were and Mrs. Entler of Annapolis, Md., was also guests at the dinner party. Jim is Ecomarried to Ens. Frederick Potts Mclntyre, nomic Attache at the Consulate in Hong USN, son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Fred Kong.

Meching Mclntyre in St. Anne's Church, "John, this has been written in snatches Annapolis. The Rev. James Madison officiated. A reception followed at Alumni House. aboard one airplane or another while flyThe couple will be stationed in Pensacola, ing from San Francisco to Los Angeles, and from San Diego to Albuquerque. I was Fla. 'weathered' out of the Los Angeles to San Diego flight last night and ended up travelCorr. Sec'y, L t . C d r . J . P . M . J o h n s t o n , ling by bus. As a result of that and the U S N (Ret.), 6439 41st St., N.W. prospect that the San Diego airport would Washineton 15, D . C. be shut down again tonight, my stay in San The 2nd Friday of April was the day of Diego was cut short and I was unable to the class luncheon, but as I was on leave contact any classmates there. and out of town assisting in the building of "Soon I will be landing in Albuquerque a country house, I have nothing to report and this letter will start on its way to you. on the news of the luncheon.

This is not much of a letter, John, but I will H-^wever, from time to time, good souls try to keep you informed of '37ers I run such as W A L T PHALER, writing with a across in my travels. Incidentally, LARRY return address of 2208 22nd Dr., Sandia J U L I H N is in Albuquerque now, but is no Base, Albuquerque, N. M., send lengthy news longer working for Lytle. H e is working for a California firm and expects to move to letters. I t shall be quoted in full.

"This is the start of a travelogue, John. the Rancho Santa Fe area near San Diego On 28 Feb. I left Albuquerque for an inspec- this winter. His wife has made a spectacular tion trip of ships in the Western Pacific. recovery and is most active again.

The trip is almost complete as I am now "Please remember us to the gang in Washenroute from San Francisco to San Diego ington." before returning to Albuquerque.

Thanks, many thanks, Walt, for the "The first stop on the inspection was splendid rundown of the class around the Hawaii, but it was little more than a whistle globe. Only one on such an inspection trip stop. I did manage to talk with ED SPRU- could have done it and you recognized the A N C E and P E T E M O L T E N I . They were opportunity and remembered the interest of both with CinCPacFlt Staff, but Ed was classmates wherever they are. leaving to take command of the PONCHATOULA and Pete was shifting over to Ops WIVES' LUNCHEON Office Com Hawaiian Sea Frontier. Jesse Robinson, Walt Reid, Jerry Joyce, Joe All have seen the little Japanese paper Dalton, Gene Rankin and John Neal were parasols about three inches in size. Well, also in the area but I was not able to contact seventeen '37 wives saw them as place cards them in the very limited time available. at their luncheon this month. Each handle "While in the Japan area I ran into sev- carried a pennant with the name emblazoned eral classmates. I had the pleasure of lunch- thereon. Bea Brantley and Peggy Taylor ing with S I D BOTTOMLY while inspect- were co-hostesses for the gathering at Miss Allison's Little Tea House in Arlington. ing the BoM HOMME RICHARD (his ship) in Sasebo. Sid also hosted a very enjoyable Those present were Marcia Arentzen, dinner party. Also ran into J I M CRUSE in Curly Adams, D. J. Bottomley, Gwen DeSasebo. Jim, like myself, was a visitor in Vane, Margaret Fisher, Jean Gardes, Betty Sasebo as he is head of the Tactical Air Johnson, Betty Lake, Joan Obermeyer, Anne Control Groups in the Pacific.

Pond, Cynthia Pridmore, Marion Schneider, "Most of '37 met in Japan were in Yoko- Bess Slaughter, Lois Reece and Peggy Carsuka. D U K E FERRARA was in the hospital roll. Some news items floated to the top, such there. Duke had a ruptured and protruding as that D. J. B O T T O M L E Y will go to the W . A. M A N N ; Willie Groner to CO NavTorpSta Keyport; Fred Seyford to Third disk which required quite an operation. The West Coast after the school year is over— NavDist; Bill Kaufmann to ComDesRon 2 ; operation was successful and Duke was ready the SLAUGHTERS are about to become to go back to his ship, the BAYFIELD, the day Tom Kimmel to CO MISSISSINEWA ; Al grandparents—OLD F O L K S TAYLOR has Faust to ComSubRon 8; Joe Barker to Pac- after I left Japan (2 April). applied for retirement.

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On Saturday, April 23, Miss Dawn Elizabeth Ann Entler, daughter of Cdr. D A N I E L

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S H I P M A T E

CHARLESTON GROUP, Class of '38, luncheon In May aboard USS EVERGLADES. Left to right: Capt. Howard DeLaureal, ComDesDiv 42, Capt. Freeland Garde, ComSubDiv 4 1 , Capt. Tom Suddath, CO USS EVERGLADES (AD-24), Capt. Ray Alexander, CO USS HOWARD W. GILMORE (AS-16), Capt. John Hausman, Planning Officer, Charleston Naval Shipyard.

Sec'y, Capt. C. D. Brown, U S N 5440 Argall Crescent. Norfolk 8. Va. Corr. Sec'y, Cdr. John A. Bogley, U S N 3900 Watson Place, N.W. Washington, D. C. W A S H I N G T O N NEWS

C H A R L I E A K E R S was our speaker at the April luncheon. Charlie is in OpNav's Personnel Plans Division and his opening statement was that 95% of the people in the Navy are expert personnel planners. The reception Charlie's fine talk received proved that point conclusively.

J O H N O W E N from Grand Rapids, Mich., was in town for the luncheon. John is manager of the Instrumentation and Control Division of Cleveland Pneumatic Industries and lives at 2425 Breton Rd. Since his business brings him this way at times, we hope to see him more often.

The girls had their luncheon this month at the A-N Country Club. Gigi Beshany, Becky Akers and Betty McQuiston were hostesses.

Orders still come through at a fast pace and 4 more classmates are due to leave the area: VIC DYBDAL leaves to go as CofS & Aide to ComCarDiv 15; H A N K H A S E L T O N to ComNavActy ROTA, Spain; C H A R L I E M A R I N K E to CO USS V U L CAN; and L U K E McDONALLD to CO USS

NOBLE.

FAR WEST

At the time of this writing our ablest correspondent, JACK BOGLEY, is about to be relieved and start the trek back to D. C. I'm sure he has tossed the torch to someone else to keep the dope coming this way. In the meantime, many orders to report out that way: Paul Lovelace from Staff, CinC PacFlt to OpNav; Walt Small CO USS SPERRY to U S N A ; Bill Rogers from CofS & Aide ComCarDiv 15 to CO USS D I X I E ; Bill Finn 56

from FleTraGru SDiego to CO USS PRAIRIE : Swede Olson from ComCruDesPac's staff to CO USS PAUL REVERE; Bill Collum from Staff CinCPacFh to CO USS CALVERT; and Freeland Carde from ComSubDiv 41 to CO USS H. W. GILMORE. OTHER PLACES

I previously reported the H E Y D O N WELLESes moving to Charleston, but didn't tell you that they're building a house. They plan to move into it in June.

A flock of other orders : K. G. Robinson from Staff CinCUSNavEur to CO USS NEOSHO; RUSS Hedgecock from DesLant's Staff to NavInSurv NavSta Washington, D. C.; Bill Leonard from CO USS SALAMONIE to ACofS for Readiness ComNavAirLant : Don Ramage from ComHatWg One to, CO USS

SALISBURY SOUND; Ed Conrad,

now CO USS ROCKBRIDGE to OpNav; Buck Miller CO AMPHION to Portsmouth NavShipYd; Mike Rindskopf from OIC NavSubScot to CO USS FULTON; Unk Alford from

CDD

202 to CO USS

YOSEMITE;

Charhe Morrison from CofS & Aide ComCarDiv 20 to CO USS SHENANDOAH ; Randy Moore from NavWarCol Newport to CO USS SPIEGAL GROVE; Mac McGivern from

CO USS BusHNELL to Staff, ComAntiSubDefLant; Ray Dubois from ComSubDevGru 2 to Staff ComSubLant; and Henry Delaureal from CDD 42 to NavWarCol Newport DUINS. MORE W A S H I N G T O N NEWS

At the class luncheon in May, ED CHASE gave a talk that was of interest to everybody. Ed is now with the Dept. of Labor in the Legislative Liaison section and his talk was on employment opportunities in the future by age group and by profession. There was no lack of questions at the conclusion.

J O H N B U R K H A R D T came up from

Annapolis for the lunch and kindly offered the use of his quarters for a class get together Alumni weekend. After all the trouble they and the CASSIDYs went to last year I think that's real generous. Another newcomer, but only for one time, was RAY GEORGE. Ray is doing what a number of the class dream about. He spent the winter sailing down south, is entered in the Newport-Bermuda race and follows that up with a race to Sweden. No wonder he looks relaxed !

JACK BOGLEY is back in town and I must say it was good to see him (and not just because he's going to take over the Shipmate duty). He's bought an apartment at 3900 Watson Place N.W., Washington, D. C. We gave a brunch to welcome Jack and to say goodby to some of those who are leaving. Jack, of course, is bearing up well under the welcome routine â&#x20AC;&#x201D; he gets to sleep in.

P H I L B E S H A N Y took the ICAF tour to South America last month and had a bangup time. In Buenos Aires, EL BALDRIDGE had a dinner for the group including most of the local VI Ps. MAX MULLER, now V P of Esso Argentina, had Phil, El and C H A R L I E D E H O R I T Y out to his beautiful home for dinner and a small class reunion. In Rio, Phil saw JACK HILTON who is DepChiefNavMission and now relaxes, with a 36 ft. cruiser. Sounds like it was quite a trip.

Three more orders are in for the area: C H A R L I E A K E R S leaves OpNav to go as CO USS MANATEE; BOB CARTER from BuSandA to SupOff MCAS Cherry P t ; and C H A R L I E R O B E R T S O N from OpNav to CO NROTCU Purdue University.

MORE FROM THE FAR WEST

AL CHURCH dropped by from Pearl Harbor several weeks ago with several items.

S H I P M A T E

VAL UTGOFF's tour at Dahlgren has been extended through the summer, which will give him more opportunity to use his anty, Cdr. U S N , X O U S S CANBERRA (CAG-2) c/o F P O New York, home ad- sailboat. His son and my boys will return dress: 7800 Michael Dr., Norfolk, Va. All to Camp Frye's Leap on Lake Sebago, Me., three of the CANBERRA'S execs have been this summer—highly recommended for boys '39ers of, as Ray says, varying vintage—• from 10 years up who like water sports and JERRY NORTON, T O M W E S C H L E R boating. and Ray. The ship is starting an interesting BILL GENTRY expects to return statecruise from San Diego during which he will side from Brussels this June, and may end take part in the Coral Sea Celebration in up on the staff of the Armed Forces Staff Australia, operate with the First Fleet and College in Norfolk. the Seventh Fleet, then sail through the Suez Canal to join the Sixth Fleet in the Medi- NEAPOLITAN BREEZES terranean. Maybe your roster will reach you In order to make something good of Frithere, Ray. day, 13 May, a Class of '39 luncheon was held at the Officers' Club at Bagnoli. Present NEWS OF RETIREES J O H N MILLER now works on a com- were Johnny Weatherwax and Al Barbee munication satellite project for Bendix at from AFSouth, Dick Pratt from DepCom.A.nn Arbor, Mich., and is building a home StrikForSouth, Bud Schumann, CO U S S at 3828 Curlew Lane, Lock Alpine, Ann RiGEL who was in port, John Rice from ComNavActs Italy, Frank Perry and Jack Young Arbor. from ComFairElm, and Pete Powell, CO BILL ALFORD retired 1 Apr. 1960 and N A F Naples.

Radiation Lab to CO U S S COMPASS ISLAND; Johnny Haines from CO U S S NEREUS to gave his future address as Slate Hill Farm, The usual good time was had by all, with Middletown, R. I. S T E V E O'ROURKE Staff ComSecondFlt; Bill Kitch from CO USS TALUGA to OpNav; Otis Wesche from now works for Raytheon and lives at 71 some good sea stories and jokes thrown in.

CO BEXAR to CO NavPropellant Plant, In- Merton Rd., Newport, and H A R V E Y NY- Question was raised as to who, if anyone, LUND works for Commissioned Officers had made grandfather yet. Pete told about dian Head. M d ; and Ed Westbrook from Underwriters, still living at 36 Woodlawn his new Mercedes Benz.

12th NavDist to CO U S S M.ARKAB. Rd., East Greenwich, R. I. J O H N ("RED") Al Barbee leaves for CONUS the end of A N D E R S O N sends in his retired address ROUND UP the month followed soon after by Pete Powas P. O. Box 145, Bellevue, Wash. ell, Johnny Weatherwax, Frank Perry and Received a nice letter from LOUIS D E TOMMY B E N N E T T sent in some wel- John Rice. That will reduce the class repreCAMP who is now a short timer as CofS ComCarDiv 16. Louis has been operating come news of retirees in the California area. sentation to only 2 in the Naples area, but BOB DASTEEL's address is 355 McCarty both will be available to greet and assist any out of Norfolk and commuting to Alexandria Court, Beverly Hills. P I N K Y P A L U S is classmates passing through. to see the family when he could. On the way to Yokosuka. where he will take command living in Saratoga Calif., just south of San of the JUPITER, they plan to see the GRELLS. Jose and is in no hurry to get back to work. MORE SHORE BREEZES TED is now CO N A F China Lake. Have GUS W O L F plans to retire on 30 June; he The Greater Washington Spaghetti Shufis now in the Navy Recruiting business in a good trip Louis.

San Francisco. VERN S T E V E N S O N lives fle on 21 May was a glowing success from Orders again: Charlie Moffett from CO in Los Altos and owns shoe stores in all viewpoints. Sobriety, stamina and stimuNAAS Whiting Field to ARLangScol Palo Alto and in San Jose. N O R T O N lants all expired simultaneously. Major credit Presidio of Monterey, Monterey D U I N S ; CROFT is with Allis-Chalmers in San Fran- is owing to SORRY and Jeanne S I M P S O N Vince Schumacher from CO U S S ALTAIR cisco and lives at 887 W. Hillsdale Blvd., who masterminded the affair with the aid of NEAL and Cindy ALMGREN and J I M to CO NROTCU Univ. of Louisville; Ray San Mateo. and Sue WALLACE. The SHUMWAYs Alexander from CO U S S H . W . GILMORE SAM FOSTER'S address is Oban Farm, to Ofc of Info NavDept; Carl Dwyer from Arnold, Md. C H E S T E R F I N K is with flew down from Skaneateles, the MADISONs dropped by from Memphis, the DURAL Canadian Nat'l DefCol to Op N a v ; and Sylvania in Buffalo.

A D A M S came up from Roanoke, and BOB Ralph Weymouth to CO U S S LAKE C H A M LAWRENCE, travehng on Westinghouse PLAIN. NEWS OF ACTIVE OFFICERS orders from Mystic, Conn, to Cape CaClassmates who have orders, besides those FINAL naveral, joined the throng. The LAIRDs listed last month, a r e : W. D. Bonvillian, sent the following telegram from Sioux Falls, When I first took over the chore of writ- CO N A S New York (Floyd Bennett); C. S. D. to "Classmates of '39: couldn't take ing this column, I thought it was going to M. Cassel, Foreign Service Inst. (Arlington be just that—a chore. As a matter of fact Towers) ; F. B. Clarke, CO U S S SPERRY off because of foul weather. Keep us on the call list and if we can't make the next one it's been fun, but only because so many (AS-12) ; J. W. Dolan, BuShips; S. P. we'll see you all at Homecoming in Sept. classmates made it easy by keeping the news Gantz, ComFlAct Ryukyus; J. M. Gore, Thanks for thinking of us. W e miss you. coming. For that and for your patience with Maintenance Supply Service Agency, Paris; Have fun." We think we did, Ray and Nellie, my errors and omissions, my heartfelt thanks. J. W. Hough, ComNavPhil (ACOS for but can't be sure. Other characters in the P l a n s ) ; B. C. Jarvis, Staff, ComFirstFlt; case were Bells, Bergs, Bryces, Fairchilds, GRANT HESTON M. L. Lowe, CO AirTransRon Seven; E. C. Fairfaxs, Fargos, Fishers (Ellis), Fidels, Lindon, AFSC, Norfolk; W. A. McGuinness, Helfrichs, Hitchinses, Mannings, McDaniels, CO U S S NEREUS; C . D . Nace, CO U S S Merritts, Mrozinskis, Petersons, Radels, ReiPICKAWAY; J. D. Ramage, CO U S S SALIS< 11 Sec'y, Capt. J . N . Renfro, U S N , garts, Renfros, Shirleys, Spencers, Vannoys I I l l Quarters Q3, Naval Weapons Plant, BURY SOUND; J. M. Robertson, CO U S S and Warners.

U U Washington 25, D . C. MAGOFFIN ; E. L. Schwab, CofS ComCarDiv 20; P . N. Shamer, CofS ComCarDiv "FUZZY" M E R R I T T took candid shots LARRY LOVIG, attached to ComServ16; J. J. Vandergrift, Staff, CinCLantFlt, of everything and everyone he could get Pac Staff at Pearl Harbor, is having a diffiwithout a wide angle lens. Neither the camcult time these days trying to keep his shirt and T. R. Weschler, BuWeps. buttoned. Young Larry recently was desigGEORGE C A T T E R M O L E will be leav- era nor anything else was in focus, but if nated an "honorary merit scholar" in a na- ing his present assignment the end of May; anyone happened to be at infinity, which is tionwide contest in which students from no orders, but he hopes and expects to be where the camera was set, and which is a 14,500 high schools participated. This came headed for the 49th State. (Class luncheons distinct possibility, there may be pictures in this issue. as no surprise to his friends in Honolulu. are the 1st Tuesday of each month, George.)

Larry I I I leads his Punahou class scholasti- A R T C H I L T O N is at the C-E Laboratory, C H A R L I E McCALL sent in a fine piccally, and is well known as a leader of many Port Hueneme, Cahf., C H A R L I E CHAND- ture (obviously professional) of a fine group campus activities.

L E R has reported in to Fleet Training of upright '39ers, Norfolk type, taken at Group, Pearl, BOB B R E N T is now with their dinner party, 6 May, at the Naval Base SHORE BREEZES BuWeps, and E L M O R E _ ("SQUIRE") Club, probably right after coffee. Since nothSeveral more donations to the class "kitty" H I G G I N S has sailed with his bride of seving was said about the festivities, I can only eral months for ComNavForces, Korea for mailing bulletins and rosters have been give the attendees: Red Balch, Andersons ( A P O 301). received. Our thanks to Bill Worden, J. F. (Flip), Arringtons, Bobczynskis, Clausners, Miller, J. J. Madison, Herb Kriloff, J. R. SONNY T O U L O N gives his home ad- Gibsons, Gores, Higgs, Klines, McCalls, Tenanty and Curtis Spencer. dress as 460 Argyle Dr., Alexandria, Va. Ruddens, Schreithers and Shamers.

In April they gave a luncheon for some of our class at the National War College passing through on a trip, namely: DON BROWN, J O H N M E Y E R S and RAY CALHOON. FRED D I E R M A N has checked in and joined the group.

Jack brought back news of the '38 22nd reunion party held by the San Diego group, complete with picture. If I met the printingdeadline, the picture is probably in this issue.

(Ed. Note: Sorry—Photo was too fuzzy for good reproduction.)

JAKE and Elaine B L . \ N D gave an all event cocktail party in their Coronado ranch home celebrating the return of L E S O'BRIEN home from WestPac, Jack Bogley departing for Washington and Jim and Key P A Y N E in for a flying visit from Yokosuka.

Orders this month include: Chris Johnson from CofS/Aide ComCruDiv One to JStaff CinCPac; Bob Irvine from OIC LivermoreDivFld COMD DASA Lawrence

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There seems to be a little competition for the youngest baby in the class, strangely enough. The E M M E T T COMPTONs had a girl, Mary Alice, on 5 May in Washington, and the GEORGE SCOTTs had their 3rd son, Neil Christian, the next day in Madrid, Spain. They should check delivery times because with the time difference it could be close. Chris Scott says the baby is named for N E I L H A R K L E R O A D , who has 4 lovely daughters. Isn't it a little early for matchmaking? Mary Alice is nearer his age anyway. When is number 8 due, Paul?

Other news from Madrid comes from S K E E T BEMIS on the staff of the Chief JUSMG there ( A P O 285). During an MSTS conference there in April, they had a small reunion including H E R M and Ursie S P E C T O R from London, H A R R Y and Jane DAVEY from Bremerhaven, and ED and Rita R Y E from Leghorn. Davey and Rye hold down M S T S jobs. George Scott's address is USNavShipLo, A P O 285, and they live at 39 Concha Espina.

Skeet says they showed Means and the J O H N S T O N family a bit of Spain as they passed through on the way home from Naples and that by the time they left Means was speaking Spanish with an Italian accent with strong Mississippi overtones. Skeet and I both hope his example will stimulate other classmates to shoot in some dope on what they are doing.

J O H N D. P. H O D A P P , JR. reports that he is on the retired list and is "establishing what I hope will be a new lay profession in the church. I started work as administrative assistant to the Dean of St. Mark's Cathedral (Episcopal) the 1st of this month (May)." He contributed to the class fund and gave his home address as 1723 26th Ave., North, Seattle 2, Washington, and his office address as 10th at Galer, Seattle 2, Washington.

J E F F DAVIS writes in from San Diego giving a corrected roster of the area. The only differences from the Master Roster are the addition of Capt. J. P. Coleman, CO FADTC, Capt. R. C. Dexter ( S C ) , NAS North Island; Cdr. R. J. Duryea ( R e t ) , Convair, 808 Adella Ave., Coronado; Cdr. R. I. Moss USMC, 456 Alameda St., Coronado; Cdr. C. J. Ross (Ret.), Convair,

Austin, 848 "J" Ave., Coronado; Mr. S. White, American Airlines, 8803 Robinhood Lane, LaJoUa. New addresses are L. E. Harris, 851 Cabrillo Ave., Coronado; J. E. Henderson, 5327 Valley Vista, LaMesa; LCdr. E. D. Mattson (Ret.), Apt. 12, 819 W. Huntington Dr., Arcadia; Capt. W. A. McGuinness, CO U S S NEREUS, 125 "G" Ave., Coronado;

W. L. Poindexter, 541 Country Club Lane, Coronado; W. G. Wright, 748 Cedar St., Chula Vista.

Names to be deleted are Chandler, Eddy and Shifflette.

CLASS LUNCHEONS

Class luncheons are held the 1st Wednesday of each month at the "O" Club, North Island, and a 21 Years After party was planned to be held there on 1 June.

BOB CLARK, who is now chairman of the combined '38-'39 group in the Newport area, reports the attendance of the May luncheon as follows: '39ers present were E. P. Bonner, H. A. Cassidy, R. W. Clark, F. W. Corle, R. K. Gould, J. D. McBrayer, P. R. Schratz, G.' F. Sharp, W. T. Alford, E. L. Beach and J. J. Vandergrift.

NED BEACH gave the group a short but very informative rundown of his now famous trip around the world in the TRITON. The group planned a picnic for 12 June which will be reported in a later issue.

Bob Clark is OinC of the Officer Candidate School which he finds to be a challenging job, and his wife Robie is President of the Newport Base Wives' Club. AL REGI S T E R is a newcomer in the area but not for long, since ComDesFlt 6, for whom he is Chief of Staff, will be moving to Charleston, S. C. shortly. Bob concludes with an invitation for all classmates visiting the area to stop in at quarters NB2 on the Naval Base. Thanks, Bob. Try to give us as much lead time on your planned parties as possible so they will appear in print before the event.

Back to Ned Beach, of whose recent exploits we are all proud. He dashed off a note to my predecessor thanking him for the roster which arrived the morning TRITON

got underway. He also dashed off a check for the class fund. Said Ned, "Unfortunately you'll see neither this letter nor the enclosed check for some months, since TRITON is well on her way to being the first ship to steam non-stop around the world submerged. We're following Magellan's route as nearly as we can, and will hold several records by the time we get home. Highest SOA on record for a world cruise, for example. The ship is behaving wonderfullyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;her two reactors just cook along, no sweat." I wonder if "cook" will replace "steam" as a verb to describe motion of an atomic ship. Maybe we need a new verb like "atomate." Ned had stated in an earlier letter that he didn't expect to set any records because SKIPJACK, SKATE, SEAWOLF and

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well wiped everything possible off the boards.

Add Ned's address to your roster: 29 Gravel St., Mystic, Conn.

Recent orders to classmates: J. L. Abbot, CO U S S VALCOUR; J. L. Arrington, US

Regional Organization, NorLant & Med Area, Paris, France; R. C. Barnes, CO NASWpnFac, Kirtland A F B ; C. R. Clark, CO USS TIDEWATER; D . Cone, CO USS

CAPRICORNIS; I. D. Dewey, Staff, ComPhibGru T W O ; T . R . Eddy, BuWeps; W. W. Gentry, AFSC Norfolk; R. G. Gillette, CO USS BEXAR; H . J. Greene, CO U S S F T .

SNELLING; L . E . Harris, Staff ComNavAirPac; E. B . Henry, CO U S S ARCADIA; J. B.

Howland, Staff CinCUSNavEur; H. G. Reaves, CO U S S SEVERN; J. C. Spencer, CO NROTCU, Univ. of N. C.; W . K. Stow, Jr., J Staff Wash; J. B. Wallace, CO USS U N I O N ; R . W . Warner, CofS ComFairQuonset; J. C. Weatherwax, CO USS CIMARRON.

H A R R Y H E L F R I C H did the honors for the class and did the class proud in presenting the 1939 Memorial Award, a watch, to that graduating student of the U. S. Naval Preparatory School who stood highest in the Naval Academy entrance examination.

This year's winner was Elbert S. Allison, Jr., SA, U S N . This was the 13th anniversary of the Memorial established in honor of the 67 classmates who gave their lives for their country during World W a r II. Thanks for contributions to the class fund go to A. A. P E T E R S O N and J. G. SPEN-

'39 DINNER PARTY. Norfolk Naval Base, 6 May '60. Standing (Left to Right): Sig Bobczynski Dorothy McCall, Preston Shamer, Bud end Emily Gore, Red Belch, Spike Clausner, Ed Gibson, Flip Anderson, John Arrington, Rip Kline, Charlie McCall, Tom Rudden, Ernie Schreiter. Seated (Left to Right): Jane Bobczynski, Betsy Shamer, Aida Clausner, Jane Gibson, Betty Rudden, Cherrie Arrington, Miriam Schreiter, Tibbie Kline. Present but not in picture: Harry and Mickey HIggs and Carolyn Anderson.

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CER, besides those mentioned elsewhere.

Pete, you should give up those banana splits, anyway. Curtis is looking forward to leaving the seclusion of the Chesapeake Bay Annex of NRL for the hustle and bustle of college life at Chapel Hill. Did you get J O H N ANDERSON'S address? It's P.O. Box 145, Bellevue, Wash. BILL ALFORD's correct address is 1186 E. Main Rd., Middletown, R. I. Like I said, he's retired and working for Raytheon. W. M. S H I F L E T T E ' s address is 6739 Monlaco Rd., Long Beach 8, Calif.

Do some of you F O U R T H B A T T E R S (hats off!) remember BOB C O N D I T who spooked out somewhere along the line? DOG MIKE P A T T E R S O N spotted him in Washington traffic on the way home from the last class luncheon and was able to exchange yells to get his hotel. I called later and found that he has spent the last 10 years in South America, but married no senorita. He is now the personnel manager for Anaconda Co., which deals with copper, not snake, importing, at 25 Broadway, N. Y. and lives in an apartment at 40 E. 65th St. and he is anxious to hear of and from any of his former acquaintances in the class.

Back to London. A note from the Spectors indicates the whole family had a vacation tour in Ireland, where they viewed the ruins of the old family castle, in addition to their junket to Madrid. Others in the London area are Don O'Meara and Bill Dawson in the Naval Attache's office, John Splain (COL U S A F ) , in the Air .Attache's office, and Ronny Stultz and Kd Blonts.

Murray Frazee is stationed in Portsmouth.

W. R. BLOMKER (Bob) writes in to say he is a traffic coordinator for G.E. in (mostly out of) the Fort Wayne office. His address is 2326 Indian Village Blvd., Fort Wayne, Ind. That about clears the books for this time, which means I have no material for next month. Let's have some experiences of some of you retirees, and also advice. P E T E SHUMWAY and BOB L A W R E N C E both seemed quite happy with their jobs, although it was a little trying for their host and hostess to have G.E. and Westinghouse reps in adjoining rooms. At one point in the evening they were sitting in opposite corners muttering "Progress, etc." and "You can be sure, etc." respectively, but not very respectfully.

Bob has been away from the family since 17 Feb. but hopes to move them to Coco, Fla., when he gets established.

ENGAGEMENT

Cdr. J O H N S. E V E R S O L E , USN, and Mrs. Eversole, Virginia Beach, Va., have announced the engagement of their daughter, Susan Dorn, to Ens. Carleton Edgar Mott, Jr., USN '60, son of Capt. Carleton Edgar Mott, USN, and Mrs. Mott, Annapolis, Md. Miss Eversole is a graduate of Ashley Hall, Charleston, S. C. Ens. Mott attended Severn School before entering the Naval Academy.

A summer wedding is planned.

JUNE-JULY,

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Sec'y, Capt. Ward W. Witter, U S N BuOrd, Navy Dept., Washington 25, D . C. Corr. Sec'y, Lt. Col. G. G. Williams, USMC LFTU, U. S. Naval Amphibious Base, Little Creek, Va.

The Washington contingent of '40 had their spring dinner-dance at the Naval Weapons Plant (ex-Naval Gun Factory) Officers' Club on 22 April. As there were 108 attendees, I will not attempt to list all of those present. We almost hit the 50% attendance mark with 55 classmates attending out of the 117 now living in the Washington area. The party chairman, IKE P E T E R S , also acted as master of ceremonies for some excellent entertainment by ED and Claire H A Y E S and BILL and Penny BRYAN. I K E and Pat CLANCY capped the proceedings with some fast patter. It is noted for the record that A S H L I T T L E did an outstanding job as "OinC Spotlight."

Homecoming weekend and our 20th Reunion is well up on the horizon. Be sure and plan for this gala event, 23-25 Sept.

BILL BRYAN is off to a terrific start on plans and you should have received two mailings on this. If you haven't, please contact Capt. W. C. Bryan, BuWeps (CD-2), Navy Dept., Rm. 3807 Main Navy, Washington 25, D. C , right away.

A R T B E R N D T S O N is hard at work on the 20-year book, but is handicapped by those who haven't answered his questionnaire.

If by chance you didn't get the dope or have mislaid it, contact Capt. A. H. Berndtson, BuPers (Pers C2), Navy Annex, Rm. 3075, Navy Dept., Washington 25, D. C. We still need mailing addresses for the following graduates who are now out of the service: Harold D. Hansen, Thaddeus A. Herrick, Louis E. Holtzman, Clary L. John, Paul E. McArthur, Edward V. Mendenhall, Donald N. Neddo, John M. Preston, and Anthony R. Schubert.

Please send any information on the above to Capt. W. W. Witter, BuWeps ( F W A A ) , Main Navy, Rm. 4215, Navy Dept., Washington 25, D. C.

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Sec'y, Capt. J. K. Taussie, Jr., U S N (Ret.) Sherwood Rd., Wardour, Annapolis, Md.

H O W I E SCHOENBAUM checked in from 275 S. High St., Columbus, Ohio, with a note that he and his wife, Mickey, will be with us at the 20th Reunion in '61. He has spoken for first choice at the Charterhouse Motel in Annapolis! We now have 55 double rooms left! Howie says he saw J A K E B E A T T Y last fall, but he neglected to say where Jake is living.

H A R R Y V I N C E N T threw a party in April in honor of the SHELLEYs. As usual, things got kind of complicated because it was P A U L BACKUS's wedding anniversary, but somehow the cake got marked "TULLY and Maggie." When last seen, Tully was heading out the back door licking his sticky fingers. A good time was had by all, particularly those who found their way into Harry's basement, and played all sorts of games such as blow-ball, ping pong, and table hockey. The only known casualty was Hetty Hoot-Bug Houghton, who sprained his index finger plinking a ping pong ball when he should have been blowing it. Tully Shelley, not to be outdone in the childrenguessing game which seems to be a feature at our class parties, checked in with news of a small reunion held in New York. Pud Hawkins, Jack Kennedy, Wally Richardson, Ted Roderick and Bob Searle had left a startling 2.83 kids at home (average, of

course), to take over the kiddie championship from the Washington contingent. Featured during the dinner held in conjunction with the annual Alumni Dinner was the old "Scoutmaster" himself, RAdm. Roy Graham.

C H A R L I E CARR, J O E TAUSSIG and TOM B L O U N T held an impromptu reunion on the USS INDEPENDENCE during a short cruise off Norfolk. Charlie was squiring 15 SAC pilots, showing them how the other half lives. Tom and Joe were SecNav guests, Tom spending his time checking up on the modern aviator and how easy it all is now, while Joe was showing the brownshoe Navy how the old battleship sailors played acey-deucey. Blount showed his true colors by letting Taussig win game after game "for free," and then suggesting a httle side bet on future outcomes. Having set the sucker up, Joe went home poorer, while Blount has a new pair of brown shoes to show for his trouble. Charlie is heading for a new duty station in London after a fine tour at SAC Headquarters in Omaha as the Navy Liaison Officer. It was evident from the rapport he enjoyed with the SAC pilots that he has done a first rate job in educating the B-52 jockeys. In fact, Charlie had such faith in the pilots that he signed them all up for A3D hops.

Incidentally, H U T C H COOPER was the first Exec on INDEPENDENCE, and we can be proud that he got the ship off to a good start. "The Latest and the Greatest," as the gangway ladder banner proclaims, exhibited high morale and a very understanding crew.

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Sec'y, Cdr. William Thomas Peach III, U S N (SC), Naval Supply Corps School, Athens, Ga. Corr. Sec'y, Cdr. Harry C. Sipe, Jr., U S N , 5002 Smoot Dr., McLean, Va.

H A R R Y C. SIPE, JR., writes: "Of recent interest is news about 2 of our many classmates in industry; GEORGE S P A U L D ING and W A L L A C E PONDER. George, who is Autolite Director of Research, has been named to head up a new division in the Electric Autolite Co. called the Special Products and Research and Development Division. Wally has been appointed to the position of Associate District Manager for the Great Lakes District of the McGrawHill Publishing Company. His headquarters will be in Detroit. Congratulations to both."

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Sec.-Treas., Dale V . Ness 1331 BarEcr Dr., Falls Church, V a .

V A N C E COX, President of the Washington chapter, has launched our drive for funds for a Class Memorial. Letters from Vance have gone to classmates in each_ of the most active Navy areas soliciting assistance in this campaign.

Originally it was our intention to dedicate a memorial on the occasion of our 20th year after graduation. After a call on the Naval Academy and many discussions locally, the committee for a Class Memorial decided to aim for a dedication date of June 1961. Of major consideration in reaching this decision was the fact that the Academy cannot reserve memorials or locations. It is necessary to have the money in hand before firm plans can be made by the Academy officials.

There are several possible memorials but since this is a sort of "chicken and egg" deal we have not settled on one. Any original ideas and recommendations are welcome.

Weighing the cost of several possibilities against what can reasonably be raised it was decided to establish a fund goal of $2000.

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As BOB B A L D W I N reported to you in the last issue of Shipmate, he completed his stint as Corresponding Secretary with the May column. For his work in that capacity and as President of the national chapter he certainly deserves a vote of thanks from all of us.

On 5 April the local chapter elected a new group of officers for the national organization consisting of : President, Bill Strong; Vice President, Tom Utegaard; Secretary, Sherm Blandin; Treasurer, Lyle Cox, Board, Al Blackburn, Cal Cobb and Frank Ewald.

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Contributions will be received immediately.

Checks should be made payable to "USNA Class of 1944 Memorial" and mailed to me.

Checks will be deposited in our class account in Annapolis. Records will be kept of all contributions. Please include your latest address.

CLASS OUTING

On Friday, 6 May, the class had another enjoyable baseball outing at Griffith Stadium.

TOM R H E E S again handled the affair which was not dampened by the poor showing of the hometown Senators. A summer ball is planned for 10 June at the Naval Weapons Plant.

CLASS PARTY

T E N N Y FORD, who is CO of the USS COLLETT ( D D - 7 3 0 ) , writes from Long Beach, where he has just settled down in a new home at 873 Lees Ave. Tenny and Dorothy, along with FRED and Sue ANDERSON, drove down to San Diego to attend a class party which was held at the Officers' Club of the North Island Naval Air Station Besides the Fords and Andersons, Bob and Jenny Methvin, Ray and Ramona Burke, Bob and Betty Lee Netting, Barbara Bogan, Art and Roz Battson, Brat and Mickie Wentworth. Kit and Kathy Carson, Bill and Carol Sherwood, Art and Debbie Osgood, Gladys Nelson, Del and Shirlee Cummins, Stan and Mary Henderson and Dick and Bobby Mears attended.

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS

CARL W. BURROWS, JR., has been appointed director of headquarters sales at Stromberg-Carlson Div. of General Dynamics Corp. While he was on active duty with the Navy, Mr. Burrows served as an instructor at the U. S. Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, Calif., in communications and anti-submarine warfare.

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Sec'y, Cdr. S h e r m a n W . Blandin, J r . , 5209 Ravensworth Rd., Springfield, V a .

Corr. Sec'y, Cdr. Lyle A. Cox, 2717 S. J u n e St., Arlington, V a .

A couple of nights later the old slate of officers got together with the new slate at dinner at the Army-Navy Town Club to turn over the reins of the organization. During the course of this meeting the information was casually revealed that the job of turning out the class notes for Shipmate is not assigned ex officio to any of the elected class officers; therefore, a volunteer was needed for the position of Corresponding Secretary. One "volunteer" was duly appointed. AL BLACKBURN had a copy of H A N K SEARLS' latest book The Crowded Sky which was passed around the table amid considerable interest and admiration. After dinner the conversation turned to long range plans including some discussion of Homecoming next fall. JACK W I L H E L M took this opportunity to re-state his opinion that at our state of maturity (age) we should absolutely not throw chow in the mess hall.

LES BUCK agreed with this position in principle, although the presence of the Class of '44 inevitably presents him with more temptation than he is able to resist.

Incidentally, I visited Les and JACK BARRON in their Litton offices in the Cafritz Building and learned that each of them had the ultimate status symbol, a key to the gentlemen's room.

A dinner meeting for the new officers and their wives was scheduled a few nights later at TOM and Audrey UTEGAARD's for the purpose of socializing and planning. Only LYLE and Jane COX and BILL and Jane STRONG were able to attend, so business was minimized and the group centered its attention on Tom's grilled hamburgers and gin and tonics. Jane Strong was still wearing a cast on her broken ankle, suffered as a result of a sledding accident on their Fairfax County farm.

FRANK EWALD, who is currently serving in the Avionics Division of BuWeps, managed to get out of the "W" building for an interesting tour of temporary duty in Europe. Frank attended T I D E (Technical Information Data Exchange) and NATO conferences in London and Paris. Although he worked hard to solve his electronics problems in the allotted time, it just wasn't possible to take care of everything in 3 weeks.

So he just may be forced to go back in the fall. Frank reported no visual contact with BUD G E N E S T E while in Paris.

BILL S T E W A R T , also of the Avionics Division of BuWeps, has a well written article (and distinguished looking photograph) in the April 1960 issue of Approach which tells the aspiring special weapons delivery pilot how to fly the loft maneuver with minimum thought, effort and anxiety.

JIG JIG KING visited Washington for a few days in connection with his continuing efforts to increase his oil domain which already extends over a considerable portion of northern Alaska and threatens to dis-

place J. Paul Getty from the top of the oil kingdom.

The advice and consent of the U. S. Senate was finally obtained on last fall's promotion list with the result that '45ers are now rapidly being promoted to the rank of Commander.

AL B E R G E S E N and S T E V E McCLINTIC were present at the May class luncheon. Both are now with the State Department. Steve says that his Navy background stands him in good stead since he has been assigned to an office which handles international shipping problems.

J O H N H I L L reports from San Diego that he is deploying to WestPac once again, this time with Air Group 14 as operations officer.

DON H I L L will take over the San Diego chapter. John has kept the Washington chapter well informed of San Diego activities; we will expect Don to continue in the established tradition.

P A T GOWAN is working on a Master's degree in personnel accounting at San Diego State and has recently joined Convair Astronautics where he is working for WALKER BENNETT. ED B E H M has returned to beautiful Hawaii after a brief visit to Washington and reports the following from Honolulu and points west: "GEORGE P E E D has relieved SAM BUSSEY at GMU 10. CHUCK P R I E S T is deployed in WestPac with the , GROWLER. STU N E L S O N reported to CinCPac a few weeks ago as Flag Lieutenant to Admiral Felt. JACK McADAMS joined the new Staff organization of ASDeForPac. SID W Y N N is still here at DirPacDocks.

BOB McCRARY reported in to ServPac Staff recently and joins P H I L CROSBY there. MAX T H O M P S O N , BOB HERRICK and I hold the fort on CinCPacFlt Staff. J O H N S M I T H is at the Supply Center. BOB B A R N H A R D was reheved a few days ago as CO of NEWELL and is now

on his way back to OpNav. P H I L JOHNSTON has been around here awhile as skipper of VANCE. J O H N K U R F E S S is now deployed with a V P squadron and his lucky Mrs. is going to join him out there for a short vacation. W A L T DEDRICK is a newcomer out here and has the new SSN HALIBUT. Right now Walt is underway with HALIBUT for New Zealand and Australia— some shakedown cruise. When I was in the Philippines a week ago, I saw R E D STOUT and J O H N COX. We had a fast evening together. Red is with VP-40 at Sangley and should be stateside bound soon. John is a newcomer to the Philippines having just joined NavPhil's Staff."

Send me some dope.

LYLE COX

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Sec'y, L t . C d r . C. V . Wilhoit, J r . , U S N R , 3541 Lord St., San Diego 11, Calif.

From Long Beach BOB GORTON writes: "BILL CROSBY has relieved LCdr. Andy Nelson '49 as CO U S S CONSTANT (MSO-

427). His ship is in the same division and we see a lot of each other. He, Evelyn and 2 children reside at 8111 Bestal St., Garden Grove, Cahf.

"GORDON R O B I N S O N has received orders as CO U S S INTERCEPTOR out of San

Francisco. His house is up for sale now."

MONTEREY AREA

In March the '46ers gathered at the Fort Ord Officers' Club for dinner and dancing.

The newlyweds, P A U L and Rosalie VOSBURGH, were presented with a gift. Those present were John and Marion Blake, Joe and Jane Campbell, Jack and Nancy CulS H I P M A T E

.'Architects and Marine Engineers, entitled "Submarine Fram Program â&#x20AC;&#x201D; What and Why." Well done, LeRoy, for the obvious good you have accomplished for yourself and your community!

And now for the biggest news item: AL DAVIS was awarded the Legion of Merit on 23 April for successfully carrying out a mission of great value to the United States while Commanding Officer of the submarine USS GREENFISPI (SS-351). The award was presented by RAdm. Roy S. Benson, USN, Commander Submarine Force, U. S. Pacific Fleet, for the President of the United States, in ceremonies held at 10:00 a.m. on board the GREENFISH.

LCDR. JOHN A. DAVIS, USN '46, receives the Legion of Merit from Rear Admiral Roy S. Benson, USN. See '46 class column.

well, Jim and !Mary Alice Cummings, Doc and Ruth Johnson, Jack and Judy 3Ietschl, Roy and Caroline Sindell, Joe and Maria Sullivan, Bob and Nancy Tisdale and Dick and Pat Wilson.

In April Ruth Johnson, acting as hostess, selected the Outrigger for the wives' luncheon. Those attending were Marion Blake, Nancy Culwell, Mary Alice Cummings, Maria Sullivan and Edie Yerbury.

L U T H E R E. MAYES and family are now in Washington, D. C. L. L E R O Y JACKSON with wife Sally and 5 children will depart in June for duty at the David Taylor Model Basin.

The CHARLES E. WOODs and J O H N A. DAVISes leave soon for Newport, R. I., where they will attend Naval War College.

A few short news items before getting to the really big news. V E R N ROUX had the lead in "Blithe Spirit" in April, proNEWPORT AREA April was a restful period for the New- duced by the Sub Base Players. I underporters, probably due to the various activities stand that it was very successful.

Miriam Horner has just returned from planned for May and June. There have been 2 more sets of orders issued. H A N K a terrific 3-week vacation in Japan, where GLINDEMAN is going to OpNav and she saw quite a bit of Sue Hart and Ellen BOB H.A.NKS is going as XO of the U S S Jones. The latter two, with husbands, are FLOYD B . PARKS (DD-884). Whereas Hank enjoying their tour in Japan very much.

GHndeman can take an overnight trip to his Two new baby arrivals! A girl was born new duty station by car. Bob Hanks will to the C H R I S T E N S E N s on 30 Jan. 1960. travel nearly 10,000 miles to WesPac to She is # 3 , and named Kelly Diane. MORjoin his new home.

RIS played it smart as he is now deployed The following '46ers were active on the in WestPac for the next 5 months. A boy, Naval W a r College Play, "The Global also # 3 , was born to the Davises on 2 April.

Gaieties," which was a tremendous success: He is named Arthur B. Hank and Jackie Glindeman, GLEN and H A R M O N C. P E N N Y took command of Kathy MACON and Helen Cantwell. the U S S JENKINS (DDE-447) on 16 April.

A "Bring the Whole Family'' party was LeRoy Jackson, as mentioned previously, planned for 29 May as a final class gathering will be leaving the islands soon after having before all went their separate ways. various duties here totalling six years. LeRoy is an excellent example for us all for he has HONOLULU AREA taken an active part in community life to It is with pleasure that I can again give the betterment of that community, and the you some news from Honolulu. Since I am resulting good relationship between the servable to send in news only when there is some ice and civilians. He has served as cubmaster news to write, I again urge everyone with for the local pack, as a committeeman for newsworthy items to contact me at 219 "C" the local Boy Scout Troop, president of the Ave., Hale Moku, Honolulu 18, Hawaii. I local P.-T.A., established a liaison between would especially like to hear from those who the P.-T.A. and neighborhood Little League, are entering our area, either just passing and developed the awareness of the need for through or on permanent duty. designating recreational areas wthin the rapidNew arrivals in the area are TROY G. ly expanding subdivisions. DON BURNS and RAY with wife Mary and 2 sons, Kevin D A V E W A L K E R both served with him as and Keith, for duty CinCPacFlt as Assist- members of his executive board. LeRoy also ant Personnel Officer for Readiness and joined the local Toastmaster Club and served one term as president of that organization.

Training.

Departures from the area: J A M E S B. Worthy of mention, too, is his article which BURTON was transferred to the Naval appears in the May issue of the monthly journal published by the Society of Naval Electronics Laboratory in San Diego.

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Under his command the GREENFISH won the coveted " E " battle efficiency award for 1959, and has also been commended for her performance on numerous occasions by Admiral Arleigh Burke, Chief of Naval Operations ; Adm. H. G. Hopwood, Commander in Chief, U. S. Pacific Fleet; and the former Submarine Force Commander, RAdm. W. E. Ferrall, USN. According to the citation accompanying the Legion of Merit award, Al "exercised a high degree of leadership and professional ability . . and was eminently successful in carrying out a mission of great value to the Government of the United States. His sound judgment, initiative and zealous devotion to duty in the face of difficult circumstances were in keeping with the highest traditions of the Naval Service."

Speaking for all your classmates, Al, may I add our "well-done" and congratulations to those already received. And may you have continued success in the future.

BOSTON

AREA

We in the Boston area have been unduly quiet. (It must be the influence of the proper Bostonians.) W e finally did get the ball rolling again, however, and held a party at the Charlestown Officers' Club on 5 Feb. 1960.

Among those present were Fred and Phyl Eble, John Crehan, Dick and Liz Dana, "Jig Jig" and Marian Dougherty, Norm and Ruth Ann Geer, Jack and Pat Lyons, Bill and Pat Lyster, Steve and Fran Rowan, Bill and Jay VanderWolk, Bob and Marge Baylis and Joe and Gin Dolan. Another party was planned to be held in May and a committee was formed to start making plans for our 15th Reunion. Tentatively, we plan to have a group from this area go down to Annapolis for Homecoming Weekend. What plans (if any) are there for our ISth? Who in our class should I write to in the Annapolis area for more specific details ?

JOE

DOLAN

SAN DIEGO AREA

BRUCE and Marilynn A L T H O F F have settled at 425 10 St., Coronado, after a tour in D . C. where Bruce was Small Craft Detail Officer in BuPers. Bruce will report as XO in U S S RICHARD S . EDWARDS (DD-9S0)

as soon as the ship returns from WestPac. "BUCK" B U C H A N A N is presently CO of U S S CAIMAN ( S S - 3 2 3 )

but has received

orders to Marine Corps School, Quantico.

Buck and Annette live at 600 1st St., Coronado.

"DAGWOOD" and Bev BUMSTEAD have moved to 3620 Dixie Lee Rd., Santa Maria, Calif., where Dagwood is the Convair-Astronautics Technical Representative in the First Missile Division Headquarters at Vandenberg Air Force Base.

"BING" and Eve CROSBY have moved to Long Beach where Bing is CO of USS CONSTANT (MSO-427).

DICK and Eleanor D U N N I N G have moved to 3318 Poe St., San Diego 6, Calif., 61

dant. H e was cited for duty from 1956 to 1959 as Knools Atomic Power Laboratory Officer and Project Officer for the nuclear propulsion plants and land prototypes of the nuclear submarine TRITON and the nuclear powered frigate BAINBRIDGE. Dave is now on duty at Mare Island Naval Shipyard.

JACK L I T T L E has orders to USS VALCOUR ( A V P - 5 5 ) in Norfolk, from duty in the Hydrographic Office in Washington.

The VALCOUR rotates with other ships of the Middle East Force.

E R N I E L O W E N has orders to OpNav

where Dick has reported to Naval Electronics Laboratory for duty.

W I L S E N G E L reported in May as Repair Officer

of U S S TIDEWATER

(AD-31),

now

in the Med. Sally and the children plan to drive to Norfolk as soon as school is out in San Diego.

• • F. E. Field has reported as X O of U S S SOMERS ( D D - 9 4 7 ) in West Pac, after a tour on the Staff, Seventh Fleet.

"ROCKY" H A R T has reported to U S S NEREUS

(AS-17)

as Repair

Officer. The

ship is presently in the Long Beach Naval Shipyard being modified and modernized for the capability to repair and tend nuclear submarines. Rocky and Peggy live at 3221 Larkdale PI., San Diego 11.

JACK L O W E L L has arrived in the area as XO of U S S PARSONS

Navy.

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ED T R E A C E Y has orders to cbmmjind USS CAPITAINE (SS-366) but will ha,ve to travel a long way to get here. His ;prfesent duty is with the Joint Military Aid "Group, Athens, Greece.

J E S S W A T T , on duty with the Naval Nuclear Ordnance Evaluation Unit, Albuquerque, N. M., has orders to TraPac. A picture of " Z I P " Z E N N I with RAdm. Enrique Carrera Alomia of the Mexican Navy recently appeared in the San Diego Union following a 2,600 mile goodwill tour down the west coast of Mexico of Zip's ship, U S S McMoRRis (DE-1036).

Due to lingering illness. Dot Morton has passed the San Diego column back to me.

Thanks for the help, Dot, and we hope you're over the illness by the time you read this.

DAISY'S CORNER

COURTLAND A S H L E Y has had a change of duty from Officer in Charge, LSM Traffic Team, 13th NavDist., to Naval Station Seattle.

BOB BOLAND goes from command of TORO

(SS-422)

in New

London

to

Stanford University for duty under instruction.

TOM BOOKER has orders to American University, Washington, D. C , from Pearl Harbor, where he was CO USS HARVESON (DER-316).

When PAUL BOYD assumes command of U S S HAMMERBERG (DE-IOIS) in Newport he will be taking over from classmate D E N I S DOWNEY. Have received no word on Denis' orders as yet.

JACK BUCKNUM reports the birth of twins. Grant Alan and (jregg Scott, on 5 Apr. 1960 at St. John's Hospital, Oxnard, Calif.

GEORGE CALDWELL has orders to the Army Language School, the Presidio of Monterey, Calif., from Air Transport Squadron 22 in Norfolk.

Had a nice letter recently from L E W CUTTER, General Manager of the Ft. Worth Corrugated Plant of the Container Corp. of America. ". . . During the past Zyi years we have made the transition from Philadelphia to the Southwest without a hitch and like it as much as we ever liked the E^st. Same 4 children, only a little more grownup. .Mary. Jane, has taken.up golf .and plays almost as poorly as I do. Hi-Fi and a 62

CO

USS

SUFFOLK

COUNTY ( L S T -

1173) in Norfolk.

TOBY LYON has orders from the N R O T C Unit, University of Wisconsin, to U S S SAINT PAUL ( C A - 7 5 ) in Long Beach.

JACK M E T S C H L has completed the postgraduate course in Mechanical Engineering at Monterey and has orders to command

(DD-949).

L E E M A R T I N has reported to the Fleet Sonar School from the Staff, DesRon 17.

Lee and Gretchen live at 8781 Haveteur Way, San Diego 11.

BILL ROBINSON has orders to command U S S SPINAX (SS-489) after a tour as temporary CO of U S S MAPIRO (SS-376), which has been delivered to the Turkish

USS

from

U S S LOCATOR ( A G R - 6 ) , an early warning

"DODY" SINCLAIR '46, newly-elected President of The Outlet Company, Rhode Island's largest store.

martini still are our loves. Saw both S T U W H I T E and ED BRADY briefly last summer in New York City while on vacation.

Live next door to the Texas Christian University campus but somehow seem to miss Rev. TOM CONNELLAN more than when he lived in Richardson, Tex. Am, of course, a member of the Fort Worth Council of the Navy League, and have been talked into being the CO this past year of our Navy League Cadet Ship, U S S GALVESTON. This is a program jointly sponsored by the Navy Department and the Navy League but financed by the latter. W e have some fortyeight 12- to 14-year-old boys whom we instruct in the ways of the Navy. Have 2 exCPOs and 2 ex-lieutenants (one Navy, one Air Force) to help. W e know the kids love it, and we think we do a pretty good job.

Have at least 2 interested in USNA. Time will tell!"

G E N E D E N T E has orders to the PG School, Monterey, from the Naval Training Devices Center, Sands Point, Port Washington, L. I. JIM EVANS has orders from the NROTC Unit, University of Texas, to Operational Test and Evaluation Force, Norfolk Detachment.

BOB FARLEY has orders from the Public Works Dept. of NAS Los Alamitos to the Public Works Center, Naval Base, Guantanamo.

SAM H O L L I E R has orders to Force Troops, Fleet Marine Force, Pacific, from the NROTC Unit, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.

"DOC" J O H N S O N has orders to Patrol Squadron 8 in Quonset Point from the PG School, Monterey, where he was taking the Nuclear Effects course.

BOYD MUNCIE, who ^yas taking the same course, has orders to Air Development Squadron 5 in China Lake, Calif.

CLETE and Ann K E N N E L L Y have announced the arrival of their first child, Kathleen Ann, on 8 Feb. 1960.

GENE KENYON has orders to U S S ZELLARS (DD-777) in Norfolk from U S N A Dept. of Ordnance and Gunnery.

"LEGS" LEGARE has orders from CO U S S BECUNA

(SS-319)

in New London to

Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, N. H .

D A V E L E I G H T O N has been awarded the Commendation Ribbon with Metal Pen-

Tfi fl3.r oiclcct L E W M I L L S A P S has orders from the Data Processing section of BuPers to OpNav. K E N M O R S E has orders from USNA Command Dept. to R.P.I., Troy, N. Y., for duty under instruction.

BILL P F E F F E R K O R N has orders from U S N A to USS ESSEX (CVS-9) at Quonset.

"PICK" P I C K E R E L L has orders to be XO U S S EVERETT F . LARSON (DD-830) in

Long Beach from USNA. H A L L I E and Ginny R I C E and 5 children recently spent 2 weeks in Key West while Hallie was there on his 2 weeks Reserve active duty for training.

H. G. ROGERS has orders from Air Anti-Submarine Squadron 36 in Norfolk to George Washington University, Washington, D. C , for duty under instruction.

JIM SCHOEN has orders from USNA to Third Marine Division.

ED and Rosemary S H E E H Y announce the arrival of their 7th child, 2nd daughter, Irene, on 20 Oct. 1959. (My records show 8 families with 7 children.) Also, Ed has resigned from the Navy and will become a civilian about 1 June, having accepted a position with the Hercules Powder Co. in the field of rocket research and development. Ed was an Engineering Duty Officer with postgraduate training in Ordnance Engineering and, until his resignation, was on duty in BuWeps (Guided Missile Propulsion).

"DODY" SINCLAIR was elected President of the Outlet Co. on 20 April at the annual meeting of stockholders. The Outlet Co. is Rhode Island's largest store and is licensee of WJAR-AM and WJAR-TV, of which Dody is Manager. Congratulations, Dody.

ROY S I N D E L L has orders to OpNav from PG School, Monterey, where he was enrolled in the Communications course.

J O E SKOOG writes from Idaho Falls, Idaho, "I've received orders to be detached about 13 May and to report in Pearl as CO SARGO this fall, with temporary duty this summer at Naval Reactors in Washington.

Since leaving command of the ENTEMEDOR in New London in Nov. '57, I put in 6 months at Naval Reactors and then reported as CO of the Nuclear Power Training Unit here.

It's been a challenging job to supervise the operational training of submariners at the NAUTILUS prototype plant and surface ship personnel at the CVAN prototype plant.

There are more than 600 men and officers here now and I only recently got an Exec.

We've enjoyed living in Idaho Falls. The fishing and hunting are out of this world and the local people are very pleasant. ClassS H I P M A T E

mates Fagan, Griffiths, Lyons, Grojean and Russel have been here for training as well as many other fine submariners from earl-er and later classes."

"SULLY" S U L L I V A N and Elinor are leaving Baltimore for awhile. The Martin Co. is sending Sully to California for several months, then to Pensacola and after about a year back to Baltimore.

MARV S W A N B E R G has orders from USS TACONIC (AGC-17) where he is Operations Officer, to Navy-Marine Corps Reserve Training Center, Gary, Ind., as CO. J.A.CK TAYLOR has orders to the P G School, Management Course, from BuPers.

DICK VARDY has orders to the Patrol Squadron 24 from U S N A .

"BUD" W I L L E T T has orders to BuPers

folk this summer. Don't keep your new address a secret I

from

H A L and Betty W I L L I A M S of 120 Jefferson Ave., Haddonfield, N. J., announce the arrival of Jan Hedger, born 22 Apr. 1960, 4th child, joining Brad 12, Joyce 10 and Bonnie 6.

CO

USS

JALLAO

(SS-363),

LONG BEACH AREA

A fine spring party was held at BILL and Eve CROSLEY's house in Garden Grove. Attending were the following from Long Beach and nearby towns: Fred and Rita Furland, Bill and Eve Crosby, Bob and Marigold Gorton, John and Olive Renn, George and Alice Ferch, Ray and Pat Larson, Floyd and Jean Avey, John and Jean Floryan, Luke and Jessie Maples and Jean Hall, Walt at sea. A beach party is planned for 23 July. Anyone in the entire metropolitan area interested, contact me please.

BOB GORTON NEW ARRIVAL

New

London.

JOE and Gerrie W I N S L O W announce the arrival of their 3rd child, 2nd son, Dan, on 16 Nov. 1959. Joe has his own business, a trailer park and trailer sales place. Their address is Box 427, Rte. 5, Alexandria, Va. LCDR. JAMES B. STOCKDALE, USN '47 DAN and Roberta W A L K E R announce the arrival of their 6th child, 4th daughter, Margaret Ann, on 7 Jan. 1960. Dan is with Plans were made for a potluck supper to the law firm of Hopkins, Sutter, Halls & be held 13 May at BOB and Bettie McMulroy in Chicago. Dan and Roberta live ELROY's. The class gathering was a huge at 1158 Wincanton Rd., Deerfield, 111. success and we are all indebted to Bob and Hope you'll forgive me for letting the Bettie for their graciousness. Present were months of April and May go by in Shipmate. the Adams, Albrights, Beyers, Bowens, FinMy new billet in the Reserve as X O of U S S lays, Gibbs, Gilliams, Laytons, Lavelles, WISEMAN ( D E - 6 6 7 ) Reserve Crew threw Lichtenbergs, Maginnis, Palettis, Savages, a temporary overload and when I got down Scotts, Sueurs, Waddells, Doris Wilcox, to the wire there was just no time remaining. Taylors, Evelyn Dise and Fousts.

"DAISY" On 24 May Sybil Lowen held a coffee NORFOLK AREA and present were Evelyn Dise, Bettie McA class coffee was held on 28 April at Elroy, Norma Armstrong, Delly Bowen, Bettie McElroy's. Those present were Sid- Doris Wilcox, Betty Maginnis, Jane Johnney Savage, Doris Wilcox, Olive Baird, son, Liz Schmidt and Pris Foust.

We are looking forward to the arrival of Mary Beyer, Norma Armstrong, Sybil many classmates scheduled to come to NorLowen, Evelyn Dise and Pris Foust.

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

LCdr. JAMES B. STOCKDALE is the first pilot to complete 1000 hours of accident free flying in the Chance Vought F8U-2 Crusader, a supersonic carrier based fighter, and his feat is even more remarkable for the following reasons. He first flew the F8U at Patuxent River in September 1956 and in the interim has completed 2 WestPac deployments with the U S S MIDWAY and has

logged over 200 arrested landings in the airplane.

Fighter Squadron Twenty-Four (formerly V F - 2 1 1 ) , the first West Coast squadron to be assigned F8Us, recently returned from WestPac and is presently based at N A S Alameda. The squadron flew over 2500 hours and logged 946 arrested landings on the last

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cruise without an accident. LCdr. Stockdale has been with the squadron since the F8U was first assigned and has served as maintenance officer, operations officer and most recently as executive officer.

NEWPORT '47ers

The accompanying photo taken at a recent Class of 1947 gathering in Newport shows the following: (husbands and wives are together for the picture) Back two rows, left to right: Fos and Inger Schuler, Matty and Rosemary Matthews, Ward and Lil Cummings, Larry and Nadine Curtin, Jack and Fran Stevens, Al and Margaretta Pickert ; Front two rows, left to right: Walt and Pat Meginnis, Joe and Ninon Williams, Doc and Bess Jex, Wes and Norma McDonald, Swoose and Bette Snead, and Mickey Wells (John was there but was cut out of the picture). Please notice not a glass in sight!

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Corr. Sec'y, Ray Lochner. 1221 Van Buren Dr., Annapolis, Md.

ANNAPOLIS

Now is the time to be thinking of this year's Homecoming. In order to do any planning, it is necessary that each one let his intentions be known. As you know, the Class of '48 ended up with a surplus from last year's party. BILL BARNES and I are administering this fund until it is expended on a '48 Homecoming party.

If you expect to attend the Homecoming festivities this year, drop me a postcard or letter in care of the Alumni House or my home address, and I'll put you on the list as "those who expect to attend."

Let's make this year the best ever.

And remember, if you don't send me the news, I can't write it.

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after with 1948-B" to all who ordered from him at $2.00 a copy.

Those who failed to place an order are really missing something. It is a great book and we hope that you will all rush your order to Frank at 57 Revere Pkwy., Pittsfield, Mass.

Just a few statistics from the book: 51% are still on active duty, with 2 in the Air Force and 1 in the Army. Answers were received from 363 of our classmates, leaving 22 unheard of or from at printing time.

There are many other interesting facts outlined in the book, but you will have to buy your own to find them out.

To Frank, his wife and the clerical help, I say once again many many thanks from the class.

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Sec'y, LCdr. R. M. Machell, U S N , 5308 Juliet St., North Springfield, Va.

STAN MAYFIELD writes, "Joyce, the 3 children and I left Pearl Harbor after 'several' happy years of Hawaiian living, in February. Arrived in Washington amongst the March snow to househunt prior to reporting for duty in OpNav (OP-311). We're almost settled now and look forward to seeing the many classmates in the Washington area."

FORTY-NINER OF THE M O N T H LCDR. L. F. V O G T , JR., USN

Sec'y, LCdr. Robert W. Hanby. Apt. J4, Perry Circle, USNA, Annapolis, Md. West Coast—Lt. Cdr. Gordon R. Engel, USN, 33 Ralston Dr., Monterey, Calif.

ANNAPOLIS

P A U L and Betty BRYANT announce the arrival of Christopher Glen Bryant at 0050, 22 Apr. 1960 at the U. S. Naval Hospital.

This makes 5 for the Bryants and all boys !

Congratulations, Betty.

MONTEREY

GORDON E N G L E sends the following information on the West Coast group.

Peter M E L H O R N arrived on 2 Apr. 1960.

Congrats to BOB and Ruthie and the other little Melhorns. Bob is finishing his Master's at PG School.

H E R B GATES will report to Whidbey Island in June.

BILL SALLADA, GEORGE MARSH and WALLY GABRIEL will continue at PG for at least another year.

JACK KAYS reports to Monterey this summer for Aeronautics, while JIM MYRICK and W A L T E R ALT report for the Ordnance course.

J E F F W H I T E reports that after finishing his Master's in Ordnance at MIT he is reporting as Ordnance Officer, New York Shipbuilding Corp., Camden, N. J. Gordy himself is leaving Monterey in July and will go to Princeton University to complete his Master's in Aeronautics. We hope to see the Engles down this way, now that they will be back on the East Coast.

PITTSFIELD, MASS.

F R A N K ORR has delivered the "Years 64

Name: M I K E VOGT. Claim to fame: Test Pilot, Attack Branch, Service Test Div., Naval Air Test Center. Only '49 aviator now at NATO. Life story (since 1949) : Mike spent the summer after graduation indoctrinating plebes at the Naval Academy. In the fall of 1949 he went to Pensacola for flight training and finished up in multi-engine aircraft in late 1950. A tour in VR-5 flying R5Ds and R6Ds out of Moffett Field followed next. In August 1952 Mike went to Monterey as one of the first '49ers in the Aeronautical Engineering postgraduate course. After 2 years in Monterey and a B.S. in Aero. Engineering, he finished his 3rd year of PG work at Princeton, receiving a M.S. degree in Aero.

Engineering.

When Mike left Princeton in 1955 he reversed his field in the flying game and chalked up a 4 year sea duty tour in carrierbased attack aircraft. First it was AD-6s in VA-42 out of Oceana, including a WestPac cruise on the BENNINGTON, and then A4D-2s in VA-86 for 2 years, including a Med cruise on the RANDOLPH. Mike was then selected for Test Pilot School and reported to the Naval Air Test Center, Patuxent River, Md. last summer. After completion of T P S he was assigned to the Attack Branch, Service Test Div., where he is now working on various attack aircraft projects including the A4D-2N, and later on the A2F. So far as we know, Mike is the 3rd '49er to go through T P S and the only '49 aviator now at NATC. Mike and his wife Nancy live at 111 Roper Rd., Town Creek Manor, Lexington Park, Md. They now have 4 children, Michael 10, Patricia 6, Christopher 4 and Mary Jane 2.

NORFOLK NEWS

M I K E McCREIGHT ( L T U S N ) sent in a real jewel of a letter with numerous news items. Seems they had a big '49 party on 23 April at the house of BOB and Janie F E L L O W E S (LCDR U S N ) .

The news part of Mike's letter was so easy to read that I will quote it directly: " W A D E CLARK has left the NORTHAMPTON for a job with OpTevFor. H O W I E EDW A R D S due for a shift this summer to SPCC, Mechanicsburg. (Not sure of this.) J O H N GREEN due to move west to Livermore, Calif, this summer. GERRY J O N E S will be leaving in July for a monumental trek with family all the way to Yokosuka-Yokohama area for duty as Chief Engineer in the ST. PAUL which is homeported there. ANDY O W E N S finally got out of NorVa for a stint at Pearl. H U G H ALBERS recently was selected for AEDO (Aerology). BUD YINGLING has just reported for TAD with DesRon 36 for preXO assignment to an as yet unidentified Norfolk DD—will move his family up from Charleston after school closes for the summer. Saw BOB N E L S O N and FRANK M E S S E N G E R down in San Juan during Springboard. Also a chance meeting with AL J E N K S , Chief Engineer on the MACON. "A reminder for Norfolk newcomers might be in order—get in touch with JOHN GREEN at J U 7-4989 or CinCLantFh Staff, K E N KNOIZEN at U L 3-7030 or aboard BOXER, JACK H U E N E R B E R G at GA 84637 or NAS Oceana Navy Exchange."

Mike also mentioned that the '49 wives have an active group in the Norfolk area, with bridge and coffees about once a month.

The present wives' organization is chaired

by Frances Reiher, J U 7-4765.

Right now Mike is sweating out his remaining sea duty requirements for LCDR. Expects it to come through about August.

Thanks for the dope, Mike.

LCdr. DON TRUEBLOOD, USN (CEC), has recently reported in as Staff Civil Engineer, Fleet Marine Force, Atlantic Fleet. Previously Don was Operations Officer of Mobile Const. Battalion Six for 2 years, a tour which included deployments to Puerto Rico and Spain. Don and his wife Cecile and their 2 boys David and Michael are now living at 5468 Bayberry Dr., Norfolk.

W A S H I N G T O N NEWS

At the April luncheon LCdr. STAN COUNTS, USN, was elected to the class executive committee replacing MORT NEELY. Stan is in the Supporting Programs Div. (Op-74) under DCNO (Development).

S H I P M A T E

The membership of the executive committee is now: Ric Taylor, President; Chuck Swanson, Executive A'ice President; Reg Machell, Executive Sec'y; Ric Claytor, Executive Treas.; Eli \^enning, Member ; Tom Linton, Member; Stan Counts, Member.

The past few issues have included rundowns of submariners and destroyer men.

Here is a listing of the desk drivers and proficiency flyers in the BuShips/BuWeps area.

BuShips: Ric Claytor, NuClear Propulsion; Nort Harding, Electronics Warfare Systems; George Morgan, N T D S Project; Bill Alartin, Nuclear Propulsion; Merv Sacarob, Damage Control; Chuck Swanson, Submarine Type Desk; Tom Walters, Nuclear Propulsion; Jim Webber, Nuclear Propulsion.

BuWeps: Coleman Brown. Long Range Missile Control; Sid Cox, Expendable Powered Targets; John Dobson, Polaris Program; Jim Dughi, "E^gle"' Missile Project; Russ Goodacre, Polaris Program; Mick Gussow, Long Range Missile Control; Jack Hoganson. Aircraft Power Plant Installations ; Bob Kennedy, Ship Aeronautics Div.; Hugh Longino. Lightweight Torpedo Project Officer; Reg Machell, F8U-2N Project Officer; Chuck Meyrick, "Sparrow I I I " Missile Project.

Related activities : Roy Grayson, N A E S U ; John L. Greene, Experimental Diving Unit; Eli Venning, David Taylor Model Basin.

Next month will cover OpNav, BuPers and HQ, USMC. MAIL BAG

After RIC TAYLOR's letter to all classmates requesting information for the class directory, there has been a substantial increase in the mail to 5308 Juliet.

Congratulations to ED W I L L I A M S , the first to answer the request for up-to-date addresses. As we reported last month Ed has command of the U S S MACKEREL in Submarine Squadron Twelve, Key West.

DON W E I R has left General Electric and moved from Cincinnati recently. His address is now 725 Morningside Dr., Towson 4, Md. The new home address for L O R E E ( R I P ) COLLINS is 19 Essex Rd., Summit, N. J. Rip is now Vice President of the John Wood Co. in New York.

Now practicing law in Lebanon, Ind., JOHN W. D O N A L D S O N reports his address as 108>4 N. Lebanon Street. John is married to the former Sara Jane Rudolph.

The Donaldsons now have 2 little girls.

Carmen Jane 5 and Cathy Ann 11 months.

JIM F E R R E R O has been promoted recently to Head, Anti-Submarine Warfare, Advanced Programs Development, Hughes Aircraft Co. in Los Angeles. Jim and Pag and their 2 daughters have moved to a new house at 200 Via Las Vegas, Palos Verdes Estates, Calif, and "all '49ers are welcome."

W. M. F U L T O N reported a change of address to 309 E. Chapel, Santa Maria, Calif. _ BILL CALLAGHAN has been detached from the Naval Air Turbine Test Station in Trenton, N. J. and will soon be reporting in to VS-21 in San Diego. Bill is in the process of transitioning from 1510 to 1310.

BILL D U K E is now an engineer with the Chesapeake anl Potomac Tel. Co. of Va. Bill and his wife and 2 young daughters live at 1407 Severn Rd., Richmond, Va. GENE S H I N E is now CCA Officer on the "latest and the greatest"â&#x20AC;&#x201D;USS INDEPENDENCE (CVA-62). To go back a few years, Gene served aboard a minesweeper, J U N E - J U L Y ,

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flew jet fighters in Korea, attended PG school in Monterey, then spent 2 years at Pt. Mugu in the Sparrow I & II project.

Other '49ers on the INDEPENDENCE are GEORGE K A P P , also in ship's company, J O H N BARROW, as OinC of the VFP-62 photo detachment, J O H N M I D D L E T O N in VA-86 flying A4Ds, and C. R. S M I T H in VAH-1 flying A3Ds. Gene and C. R. Smith will be leaving for War College in July.

LOU DILLMAN is Assistant CIC Officer on the USS

TICONDEROGA

(CVA-14),

now on a WestPac cruise. Lou is one of the few remaining bachelors in the class. He expects to be transferred about Dec, hopefully to a squadron on the west coast.

F R A N K S C H L O S S E R is now with the BuWeps representative at the Lockheed Missile Systems Div., Sunnyvale, Calif. Frank was XO of the A S P R O before coming to shore duty in the Polaris program.

HAM STROMBERG is assigned to the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard as Asst. Planning and Estimating Superintendent for Submarines. Ham and his wife Alya now have 3 children, 2 girls and a boy.

Apparently we missed at least one '49er in SubLant in our rundown last month.

J O H N H O F F O R D is presently XO of the USS CLAMAGORE -(55-343). John and his wife Grace are now living at 1078 Northbridge Dr., Rte. 8, Charleston, S. C. PAUL S M I T H reports that the AnnapoHs contingent of the class will be cut in half this summer unless more '49ers are ordered in. When Paul leaves for PG School and K. E. T U R N E R leaves for Marine Corps Schools in Quantico, the only two '49ers on duty at U S N A will be JACK SCOVILLE, 14th Company Officer, and JIM E D M U N D S O N in the Weapons Dept.

CLASS DIRECTORY

The first version of the class directory, which most of you received last month or so was based on the latest information available. In some cases, however, this information was 11 years old. At the moment we have about 50 people who are lost. If anyone knows the whereabouts of any of these people will you please jot your secret on a postcard and mail it in to me. The missing are R. D. Adams, R. 5. Agnew, W. J. Balko, J. F. Burke, E. A. Chevalier, D. Clement, J. M. Dalrymple, B. N. Downes, R. E. Finnigan, H. P. Fishman, N. L. Gribson, J. R. Haughey, T. N. Johnsen, J. M. Johnson, H. J. Kindl, B. P. Murphy, W. A. Myers, C. A. Palmer, J. C. Peters, H. O. Purnell, T. B. Risser, W. N. Rutledge, P. J. Sarris, E. O. Speckart, G. G. Stewart, C. E. Swecker, F. Troescher, J. R. Wallace, R. P. Williams, D. W. Wittschiebe, E. E. Woods, R. L. Faricy, J. E. Inskeep, C. W. Lamb, T. G. Landers, K. B. Schniebolk, J. P. Howe, R. F. Frost, W. C. Hall, E. S. Ince, W. C. Doby, J. E. McEnearney, G. S. Brooks, R. W. Sheppe, G. G. Roberts, T. E. Lide, R. W. Goodman, P. R. Tolbert, O. E. Olsen, P. C. Brannon.

Also if there is anyone who has not sent in his corrected address (and 2 bucks) please do so. Here is the minimum we would like to have for the directory: name, permanent address and present duty assignment and address. For supplementary information we would like to have your wife's name and the names and ages of your kids, plus whatever background dope you think would be of interest for this column. For those whose data is incomplete we'll probably be sending you a postcard questionnaire before the summer is out.

Thanks for the letters. Please keep them coming.

Corr. Sec'y, Lt. R. T. Shultz, U S N 1201 Seaton Lane, Falls Church, Va. N E W ARRIVAL

Mr. and Mrs. E F R A I M M E R I N O V A L E N C I A announce the birth of a son, Prentiss Ingraham, 13 Mar. 1960. Mrs. Merino-Valencia is the former Mary Ann Ingraham of Easton, Md. Their address is 330 W. Springfield Ave., Chestnut Hill, Phila. 18, Pa. Our congratulations !

ALOHA

Family additions in the islands have been keeping pace with the world as I believe a record has been set out our way. GROVER and Pat R E E S are the leaders with 8 children reported on board. If any classmate can top this, we shall reluctantly pass the championship on. Three new voters for the SOth State have reported aboard: Stan Schultz, Ben Farrell and Ann Dorsey now have the diaper brigade on the move.

The difficulty involved in getting classmates back to Annapolis for the 10th Reunion has called for action. Not wishing to steal the thunder from Crabtown, we will gather in Hawaii on that day and toast the big affair at Annapolis in proper fashion.

Hope to read about the Class of 1950 swamping Crabtown in September.

WASHINGTON

The Washington group had their spring party Friday, 22 April. Eighteen couples gathered for an extremely enjoyable evening of cocktails, buffet dinner, and after dinner, drinks. Those in attendance with their wives were Builta, May, Moll, Hoffman (R.D.), Frudden, Irish, Speaker, Hardy, Shultz, Hanson, Taylor (W.S.), Hammett, Halperin, Barber, Nolan, Treado and McClaran.

In attendance with date was Red Meek escorting Peggy Dashiell. Of the above the out-of-towners were Steve and Patty McClaran up from Annapolis (Steve has orders to the Naval War College, Newport this summer) and Ken and Barbara Moll here from Palo Alto, Calif. Ken has been in town for a couple of months on a project for Stanford Research Inst., and Barbara took a 2 week vacation away from their 3 boys to see Washington.

MEDITERRANEAN

Four letters have come from classmates in the Med in the past month. From NORM T H O M : "While in Athens I had lunch with MIDGE and Helen SMITH, who have been stationed there since Dec. 1958. Midge is the Assistant Naval Attache, and does the majority of V I P flying for the various service headquarters located in Athens. I understand DAVIS L. W E B B is also stationed there in Athens, in a supply activity. However, I didn't get to see him. " P H I L RYAN, who is presently flying with VAH-5 aboard the FORRESTAL, had just recently stopped in for a short visit with the Smiths. BILL DEMERS, who is XO of one of the DDs operating with our carrier, also was in Athens at the same time.

"Presently on board the ROOSEVELT there are 3 from '50â&#x20AC;&#x201D;LARRY S T A P P , RON H A Y E S and myself. Larry is OinC of a Crusader detachment from VFP-62 and presently has orders to PG School. Ron is the Air Group (CVG-1) LSO and will leave for the Naval War College in July.

I am presently attached to VAH-11, and am expecting orders at the completion of our present Med cruise.

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"Glady is joining me in Zurich, Switzerland, in mid-April and will be over in Europe for 2 months. We plan on doing some skiing uo in Germany and then seeing the Med together.

"I ran into ROLLO L O F T I S at Cape Canaveral in April '58—he was project officer there on the BOMARC missile."

From P H I L R Y A N : "Since leaving Pensacola in June I have done considerable shuffling around. From Pensacola I went to J T T U at Olathe, VA-44 in Jax, and to Minnesota on a brief leave prior to reporting to the Heavy Attack Program in Sanford, Fla. I joined VAH-5 after completing CarQuals on the INDEPENDENCE. We departed for the Med on the FORRESTAL on 25 January.

"In the course of my travels I have run across several classmates; J I M and Gladys LISANBY arrived in Pensacola just after we left Jim was to be M P A on the ANTIE-

TAM. J I M O B E R H O L T Z E R and BILL T H O M P S O N were at J T T U . While at NAS Minneapolis enroute back to Olathe I ran into V E R N E STANCE. Verne was heading west to Edwards AFB, I believe.

BOB FOLEY, enroute to VA-36, and T. O. T H O M P S O N were at VA-44. We also saw J O H N and Hoot BRICK while in Jax. John was on CAG-10 staff aboard the ESSEX. On arrival at Sanford I found NORM T H O M VAH-11, BOB S A T R E VAH-1 and DON JARRELL and GEORGE J E S SEN in VAH-3. I have talked with W A L T F L I N T over at Cape Canaveral and BILL S C H W I N D who is residing in Orlando.

"We had the pleasure of a visit with Shirley W A L L E R who was enroute to the Jax area. Ernie is in the Air Group on the SARATOGA along with ALEX GROSVENOR. LARRY S T A P P was aboard for lunch while we were in Golfa de Palma but left before I got to see him. While in Athens we managed to gather '50ers of the area for dinner on the FORRESTAL : John MacKenzie Phil Johnson, Tom King, Dick Dollinger, K. C. Spayde, Phil Ryan and Bob Mandeville. W e were sorry that Midge and Helen Smith and BOB H A R R I S could not be with us. Bob is Aide to ComCarDiv 4. Both were directly involved in the social activities for the visit and were therefore unable to attend. Bob's relief has been ordered in so he will not be with us for long. On the INDEPENDENCE I saw RON

ANDRESEN

and BUDDY BURT. Ron is reporting to VF-101 as an instructor and Buddy had the Hangar Deck. He is now headed for Naval War College.

"Has there been any interest expressed in a 10-year permanent and current address booklet of any kind? Those of us here — Ryan, Spayde, Mandeville, Harris and Johnson, have all expressed an interest."

From P H I L J O H N S O N : "We have just arrived in Beirut, Lebanon (30 Mar.). The weather is fine here, swimming weather.

This is my second Med cruise as a ship's company type. I'm looking forward to orders for July and returning to the states before this cruise is out for some long awaited squadron duty. My billets have been in CIC and Air Operations; presently I'm CCA officer. This tour has been very interesting and informative and I highly recommend an Operations billet for a thorough shipboard experience.

"It was a real pleasure to welcome Phil, Mandy and K. C. aboard as members of the Air (Jroup. Bob Harris, as Phil said, has been with CarDiv almost a year. It seems like old times—Bob, Mandy and I had duty on the CORAL SEA together soon after graduation.

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"In addition to those classmates mentioned by Phil and Mandy, I have met up with DICK MOBERLY and F R A N K CRAMBLETT. Frank, who was flying Banshees at Glynco when I was in CIC School in 1958, is now with CruDiv 2. Dick, whom I had last seen at N A S Memphis in 1957, is now in intelligence at Port Lyautey. He mentioned that KELLY CARR is with him there."

From BOB M A N D E V I L L E : "Phil asked me to send in a few 'I've seens,' so here goes.

At Princeton for my 3rd year in PG School, my neighbor in Levittown, Pa., was successful Philadelphia stockbroker P H I L S M I T H (married with a couple of kids—right happy).

"My next stop, VA-44, at Oceana for the A4D RAG Program and was with BILL KELLY, an F l l F instructor in the RAG. Saw TOM ROSS now with NavAirLant and of course many of the troops at the Oyster Bowl Game.

"Graduated from the RAG just in time to hop aboard for the Med cruise (Lucky Pierre) and so far it hasn't been bad. (The first 2 months are always the short ones— huh?)

"That's about it except that we just had our 3rd girl which I immediately called 'Quits'."

MONTEREY AREA

About half of the class here at PG School celebrated the end of the 3rd academic term with cocktails, dinner and dancing at the Del Monte Lodge in Pebble Beach. A fine time was had by those who threw off the engineering sack cloth and ashes long enough to attend.

Orders for those leaving in June are rolling in off and on D U F F ARNOLD is heading for VA-12S at Moffett Field, Calif. T O M L E D E W has his orders to FlWeaCen (juam and FRED DUGGAN has his to FlWeaCen Kodiak. Fred is looking forward to the great game hunting available in Alaska, while his wife Nancy seems to be facing the prospect of igloo housekeeping with great calm.

J O H N S P I L L E R is ordered to duty in PICKEREL (SS-524). The 2 vanishing Americans (i.e., surface line officers), BILL L A S LEY and GEORGE FERGUSON, are still languishing in expectation of what BuPers will send their way. Secretary's note: see below for big surprise.

ORDERS

George Ferguson to be XO CABILDO (LSD-16) homeported in Long Beach. Bill Lasley to be XO SHASTA

(AE-6)

home-

ported in Norfolk. SAM H O F F M A N from PhibRon 4 staff to be CO BULWARK ( M S O 425). GEORGE I R I S H from the Naval Security Station, Washington, D. C. to FREMONT (APA-44). CHUCK MULL, who was originally ordered to Annapolis, has just been selected for change of designator to Engineering Duty, and it looks as though he'll go to Long Beach Naval Shipyard to be a Ship Superintendent.

On 16 May Mrs. Delbert L. Nail wrote, "Please express my sincere appreciation to the members of the Class of 1950 for their expression of sympathy in the death of LCdr. D E L B E R T L. NALL, my husband."

PLEASE KEEP US INFORMED OF CHANGES See form

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Sec'y, Lt. L. P . Treadwell, U S N , 522 Meadow Lane, Falls Church, V a .

A N N U A L CLASS MEETING

The 4th Annual Corporation Meeting of the Association of the Class of '51 was held in Washington at the Army-Navy Town Club on Saturday night, 7 May 1960. Sad to say only 24 members of our class were present for the business portion. Well done to E P P Y CLARK who made it all the way from Dayton, Ohio. Two proxy votes were made. Class business was followed by dinner and dancing. Primary items of class business discussed were The Ten Year Book, contributions for the Air Force Academy Stadium, and Homecoming 23-24 Sept. 1960 at the Yard Officers' Club. Details will follow in the annual report which will be mailed about 7 July.

The following new class officers were elected: Executive Vice President, Joe Metcalf; Treasurer, Don Kinney (reelected); Board members, Tom Hutchins, Jerry Connor and Jim Hunt; Secretary, Larry Treadwell.

CHANGE OF ADDRESS/ORDERS

D A V E F E R R E E reports he is now at 68 Ashley Ave., Charleston, S. C. A new address for D O N GRIESMER is HQ SQ SECT AFSWC, Kirtland AFB, N. M. F R A N K H I E H L E is enroute from Arlington Towers (and Chinfo) to USS COMPASS ISLAND

(EAG-153).

J O H N SMELTZER has orders to the USS

PAWCATUCK

(AO-108), F P O , New

York, as XO. DICK DALLAMURA ordered to command MSO 449 in PacFlt. NORM B U S S E on board U S S PRICHETT (DD-561), F P O , San Francisco.

Now living at 25 W. Glebe Rd., Apt. C-18, Alexandria, Va. is H E N R Y ADAMS. BASIL ORTOLIVO's new address is Box 744, 42 TacRequon Sqdn., A P O 243, N. Y. ART SUNDRY gave us a break with his new address which is 4108 Blackpool Rd., Rockville, Md. MARINES

The P E T E H I L G A R T N E R s are living at 4675 Ebonwood Lane, Beaumont, Tex. Pete is "I&I" for the 33rd Rifle Co. USMCR and expects a 2 year tour.

W E S and Donna H A M M O N are living in Triangle, Va., 27 Lummus Lane. Wes writes that James Wesley, I I I weighed in at 7-11 on 9 Apr. 1960. # 1 son is a 2/Lt. USMC with date of rank June 1981. Congratulations.

FLORIDA

Finding Florida living most pleasant are the L O W E L L STOCKDKALEs. Lowell is with General Electric at Patrick AFB. Current address, 309 Glenwood Ave., Eau Gallie.

HAMPTON

ROADS

BEN BENJOVSKY, up from Hampton, Va. for the annual meeting, is interested in getting the Norfolk group together. His local address is 137 Lynnhaven Drive, LY 6-9175.

SAN FRANCISCO

M A T T B R E E N writes that he is in San Francisco aboard the U S S KOINER ( D E R 331). His home address is 18 Palmdale Ave., Daly City, Calif.

S H I P M A T E

EUROPEAN VACATION

Capt. and Mrs. G E R R Y , CONNOR, USAF, are enjoying leave in Europe thanks to MATS. Their Rockville, Md. address is 4100 Heathfield Rd., English Manor.

WORLD CRUISE

Congratulations to BOB B R O D I E who helped engineer U S S TRITON (SSRN-586) on her submerged voyage of 84 days around the world.

FUTURE

If in the area please give me a call at home or at BuPers. The class wants to hear your news.

My orders are to keep the records current. All news and pictures will be welcome.

Any energy expended in posting a correct address will be appreciated. Amen.

Watch for the Annual Report and plan to be at Homecoming. In closing, the class extends sincere thanks to the outgoing officers, Bill Holmberg, John Smeltzer, Sam Ginder, Steve Schoen, Bob Miller and to Don Kinney who is carrying on, for their thoroughly excellent contributions during the past year.

il

Class of 1952, U S N A P.O. Box 225, Annapolis, Md.

HARRY ALFRED LACKEY, II

With deep regret I report the death of LT. HARRY A L F R E D LACKEY, II, USN, in an aircraft accident near Orlando, Florida on May 18, 1960. Harry was on duty with HATRon-5 at N A S Sanford, Fla. He is survived by his wife, Betty; his children, Valerie, Laurence, and Roy; and his mother Mrs. Anna Lackey Gilmore. Betty may be reached through Mrs. Anna Lackey Gilmore, Box 332, R F D 3, Annapolis, Md. Harry was interred at Kutz Cemetery, Carlisle, Penna., on May 25, 1960.

WASHINGTON, D. C.

In response to several inquiries regarding WHIT and Katie H A N S E N , the most recent information I have is from Christmas

time. D E N N Y O'CONNOR, the source, said they were then in Mare Island. Whit is engineer aboard the U S S THEODORE ROOSEVELT (SSBN-600).

W O O D Y RAMSEY (E.G. Jr.) and Gwen are at 3091 South Dalia, Denver 22, Colo, with their 3 daughters plus whatever was due to arrive a couple of months ago. Woody is with the Martin Co. H E R B and Kay N A C H T R A B with son Herbie, 6, and daughter Kathy, 5, are at 62 Joseph Rd., Saxonville, Mass. Herb is working for Itek.

DICK and Susie LAULOR are in Norwood, Mass., with their 2 daughters, 6 and 4. Dick is with Lee Higgenson, investments, in Boston. Dick is a recent graduate of Harvard Business School.

CLASS PARTY

On 25 March we had a joint cocktaildinner party at Arlington Hall Station with '51. Present were the Dykers, Hartleys, Meads, Melchors, Nyvolds, Bob Morris, O'Connors, Pearsons, Troutmans, and Sayers and from out of town Tob Feely, who was passing through enroute to the U S S TANNER (AGC-15) out of New York. From NAS Patuxent were Jim and Marilyn Lovell, Bill and Vernice Knutson, John McWilliam and Gus and Dee Eggert. (At this point I must challenge P E T E S T A R K s statistics. The EGGERTs are the parents of 6 as of last December.) From Philadelphia came DICK and Jane GROUSE. Dick is a project engineer at G.E.'s Missile and Space Vehicle Dept. They are living with their 3 children in their new home in Valley Forge.

I understand that GEORGE KUBAL, USAF, is now at AEC, but have not heard from him as to a home address.

Also coming into this area are P.D. S I E R E R and his wife, Harriet. He will be with BuShips. They have been house hunting while staying with J O H N and Liz P E A R S O N . Seems as if John did a great public relations job for the Submarine Service while at M I T in that the other three from '52 at MIT, GEORGE CHARBONNEAU, V I N C E ARGIRO and LELAND

M I T C H E L L all went from M I T to Sub School.

Just a few weeks ago, Bill picked up the change of command orders for DICK P O H L I while in Yokosuka and he hunted up Dick and his lovely wife. They are also heading for Washington.

The DYKERs became parents of a daughter on 20 April, their 1st child.

Our baby is due the middle of June and as soon thereafter as possible I will head for the West Coast and join Bill in San Diego.

JOY SQUIER

The Alumni Association has commended our class for initiating the idea ( P E T E S T E P H E N S ) of sponsoring a non-member from our class to a year's dues to the Alumni Association. Checks for a year's dues have been received by this column from some of our class members along with the name of a classmate they want to sponsor. We are looking forward to receiving more checks to sponsor a non-member classmate, especially one from the guy who initiated the idea.

ENGAGEMENT

Mr. and Mrs. Augustus Riggs, VI of Woodbine, Md., have announced the engagement of her daughter. Miss Melissa Merle MacNeille, to Lt. RODION CANTACUZENE, USN, son of Prince Michael Cantacuzene, Wadsworth, 111., and the late Clarissa Curtis Cantacuzene.

The bride-elect is a graduate of Foxcroft School. Lt. Cantacuzene is stationed at the Pentagon. The wedding is planned for September.

NEW YORK

Seeing the Class of '52 column picking up in the latest Shipmate, I thought I'd add my two cents and fill you in on some of our classmates I have come across in my travels.

I am now working for the W. L. Maxson Corp. as their New England Sales Representative calling on the Air Force and prime defense contractors in that area. In that capacity I have run into several of the boys ir blue now off flying status and manning mahogany desks. BO BARTLEY and CED CONNOVER are presently with the Na-

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tional Surveillance Center, known affectionately as Space Tract, at Hanscom Field, Bedford, Mass. Bo should have the title as father of the year, as he now has seven little ones including one set of twins. Ced has two children and one on the way. Also saw my old roomie GEORGE DIM ON at Rome, N. Y. He has been there for about a year and is completely settled down with his lovely wife and two children. ED P A S T O R I N O has recently had his second little girl and is practically my next door neighbor. We have had several good blowouts recently and if anyone who reads this arrives in the New York area, we are both in the Nassau County phone book. Ed is still with Reeves Instrument on Long Island. J O E CARBONE is with Grumman and has a tremendous place right on the water on Quoque, Long Island. GENE GILLIGAN and GERRY MALLAMENT are also fellow Long Islanders and are both working for Sperry at Great Neck, L. I. ACE LYONS is XO of a reserve destroyer out of Boston and he and Renee are living in Marblehead.

Other Navy types in the Boston area include DICK BURNS, supply officer of the M I T SCHER ; TOM MULLANE, missile officer on the DEWEY; GERRY SYLVESTER and G E N E AV A L O N E at MIT and B. B. SAYER, OPS officer of the MITSCHER. Hope to see you all at homecoming.

PETE BARRY KEY WEST

Would like to bring everyone up to date on '52 activity down Key West way. A small gathering was arranged by HUGO and Anne SCHULTER on 5 April in honor of BOB and Gwen NYVOLD, and GEORGE and Janet W E E K S at the Schulter's quarters on the Naval Station. Among those assembled, amid the tropic palms and force 5 wind cook-out, were Petey and BISCUIT W E V ; and LES and Helen BANGHART. Bob and George were students at the Fleet Sonar School where Hugo, Les, and Biscuit are instructors. Bob, a content (relatively) civilian, was attending the basic two week reserve officer ASW course.

George, on temporary duty between stations, was a student in the P C O / P X O A S W Tactical course No. 550. Inasmuch as there seemed to be a sudden surge in numbers of '52 in the area, we decided to have a larger get-together on 9 Apr. at the Fort Taylor Officers Club for cocktails, dinner, and dancing. In addition to those at the cook-out, also attending were DICK and Lois GRANT, MARTY and Monique KUNZE, BOB and Betty CAULK, and SCOTT and Joan GRAY. Biscuit has orders to the USS

SEA

LEOPARD

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The engagement of Miss Myrna Fahey to McKENZIE MOSS, II has, been announced by her mother, Mrs. Olevia Fahey of Beverly Hills, Calif. Miss Fahey is a native of Southwest Harbor, Maine and attended Pasadena Playhouse and the University of California. Now active in motion pictures and television, she has just completed her first co-starring role with Vincent Price in Poe's "The Fall of The House of Usher.'^ Mr. Moss is the son of McKenzie Moss and is now an officer with the California Bank and is doing graduate work in finance at Los Angeles State College. An early winter wedding is planned.

MARRIED

Some classmates journeyed to Charleroi, Pa. to attend the wedding of E D D I E PALUS O but the column has none of the details as yet.

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Corr. Sec'y, Lt. E. J. Christensen, Exec. Dept., USNA, Annapolis, Md.

ANNAPOLIS AREA

BILL and Carol LAWLER announce the birth of James Patrick Lawler on 20 Feb. 1960, their 4th child. Bill is assigned to the Math Department at the Naval Academy and has 1 year remaining in this assignment.

EDWARD J. DOYLE of Owego, N. Y., has been appointed marketing representative in the Marketing Manager's Office at the Owego facility of IBM's Federal Systems Division. Mr. Doyle joined the corporation in Dec. 1958 as a staff assistant in the office of the manager of Advanced Systems Research where he fulfilled engineering administration duties. During World War II he served as an F86F and FIOOD pilot in the USAF. Mr. and Mrs. Doyle and their daughter Kim reside at 10 Courtly Circle, Owego.

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and expects to depart this land and sun and fun in early June. Petey and the three girls will certainly find it exhilarating to experience such things as department stores, hills, trains, snow and the like after 6 years at this southern end of US # 1 . All this year round water, coral, and beautiful weather gets to be a drag; but only after 6 years.

Believe it or not; Bis is even beginning to look like a conch shell. BOATS SCHULT E R is still instructing at the Fleet Sonar School and any classmates passing through enroute to Dry Tortugas, please give Boats a call for pot luck and a gin and tonic or three. Anne and the two children are soaking up the sun but are looking forward to July 1961 when Dad goes back to sea. Bis would appreciate a card from JIM SNYDER, BOB CURRAN, and HI GURN E Y letting him know where they are now stationed. In the meantime, see you around the gunshed. BOATS & BIS.

NED and Helen SNYDER had visitors from Pensacola, Fla. last month. ED and Ann MOORE stopped on their way through on leave. Ned and Ed are old squadron mates so I know they had many old tales to relive.

CURT MILLERâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;we understand that you are now on exchange duty with Canada so how about dropping us a line?

JIM CHESLEY has received orders for the Intelligence School in Washington. Jim and Marie will still be residing in Annapolis, however.

BILL STURGEON reports that plans for this year's Homecoming are pretty well worked out by now. It will be a buffet dinner, cocktails and dancing, held at the National Guard Armory at Annapolis. It's a wonderful location, easy to get to, plenty of room and plenty of parking. Make your plans early and by all means let Bill know as soon as you can if you plan to attend.

Write to Bill at the Foreign Languages Dept.

It was a real pleasure to see CHUCK BOWLING and family and L E E and Ann H A R S H F I E L D at the picnic. We hope to see more of them. Chuck is stationed at Homestead AFB and Lee is nearby in Washington. Chuck says it's really great right down there on the beach!

MONTEREY

DAVE F U D G E sends us a most welcome and "newsy" letter from Monterey: "Our '53 organization here has also had a recent election of officers. G E N E VAN HOOF relieved me as president. A R T BARKE was elected vice president to succeed PETE KRUSI. BILL B R I T T O N took over from C. D. HAMM as secretary and GEORGE B A R T H E L E N G H I replaces BILL ALBERS as treasurer.

"We have just sent out information brochures to 17 classmates who will be coming in this summer to the PG School. The following is a hst of those whom we expect: Ron Adler, Forrest Anderson, Bill Bentley, Dick Brummage, Larry Collier, Pete Conrad, Paul Dudley, Don Felt, Joe Frick, Watson Goldsmith, Al Hinman, George Matais, Charles McCarty, Bill Monroe, John Paulk, Bill Shirley and Hal Shrewsbury.

"As far as we know the above is a complete list of those in the Navy who are coming. We have no information about our classmates in the Marines whto may have similar orders.

"Two of the people whom you listed under whereabouts unknown in the May column are here at the school. BOB KARCHER IS at 134 Brownell Circle, and BILL ALLEN IS at 1225 Leahy Road. I sent DUKE SNYDER a list of the people here in Nov. of last year.

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A 'S3 picnic was held at Sandy Point State Park on Monday 23 May in spite of threatening rain and I must say a good time was had by all, especially the kiddies. Many future Naval Academy prospects and charming future drags were really kicking up their heels around the picnic area.

Once again it's time for receiving orders and we at the Naval Academy hate to see BILL and Jane L E F T W I C H leave Annapolis. Bill has received orders for Camp.

Lejeune and we bid them a fond farewell.

Bill has had his boys in the 21st Company knocking on the door for the colors for 2 years running now, standing 2nd in the final tally for 2 years in a row.

"This problem of finding addresses will be a long way toward a solution if each classmate will include the Alumni AssociaS H I P M A T E

tion on their list of those to whom to send change of address cards on change of duty.

This should be brought to the attention of members and non-members."

ALBANY, GA.

JACK G R E E N E from old 2Sth Company way writes, "I'm now stationed at Marine Corps Supply Center, Albany, Ga. D A V E HEERING is also here.

"Announcing the birth of our 3rd son, Thomas Patrick. Also have 2 daughters.

Other names are Frank, Dorothea, Richard and Ellen. My wife Virginia is doing fine."

It's good to hear from you Jack and thanks for dropping us a line. The next issue will be a big one so let's have some more CEC IN '53

AARON A G E E is with the Naval Air Material Center, Phila. He, Sally and their twins live in Drexel Hill.

DAVE BIGELOW is Public Works Officer at the Ordnance Plant in Forest Park, 111. While striving for his Master's degree in his spare time, he, his wife and son live in quarters.

HARVEY FALK just joined the Inspector General of Bureau of Yards and Docks. Although this means much traveling, Marge and their 2 children can be found in Springfield, Va. CARL H O F F N E R recently reported to Port Hueneme, Calif, after he and his family returned from Guam.

H. B. J O N E S , JR. is with the Antarctic Support Activities at Davisville, R. I. CHUCK MERICA, Bella, and 3 little girls are also in Davisville. Chuck is on staff of Commander, Naval Construction Forces, Atlantic.

TOM M I T C H E L L is at the Bureau of Yards and Docks as aide and special assistant to the Chief of Civil Engineers, RAdm. E. J. Peltier. He, Lois and 2 children have an Arlington, Va. address.

R-\Y P A U L S E N has duty at the Naval Propellant Plant, Indian Head, Md. JOE TRUNZ keeps Navy Air running in Naples, Italy. Joan and the 3 young Trunzes keep busy living Italiano style.

TAK Y O S H I H A R A recently left Lake Mead for Master's degree study at the Univ. of Illinois. Elva and the 2 boys are there to help.

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Lt. Peter J. Vogelberger, Jr., USN 56 Jerome Ave., Bloomfield, Conn.

_ On 12 Apr. 1960 J A M I E D E U E L wrote: "Several times I've noted with interest that submarines have been fortunate enough (depending on your class loyalty) to have 3 classmates serving together. Now NAUTILUS fits into that category with the arrival of CHARLIE GREENE, a former ISth Company mate of mine. However, LARRY BURKHARDT, Charlie and I don't even come close to approaching a controlling interest of the 14 officers below the position of Captain and Exec. It's a comforting feeling to have 3 members of the Academy's best class on the Navy's best ship." This seems to be the year for controversial statements.

"Away back around Christmas time when I had the opportunity of revisiting Geneva (home of the Hobart 'Statesmen') Herr Captaine-Professeur ( E . H . & G.) EARL W H I P P L E and his lovely wife Betty had JUNE-JULY,

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a nice evening together with the F O R E S T E R S , also there on leave, and Deuels at a local bowling alley. As usual 'Whip' was at a loss for words.

"Last February, the JACK R I E S T E R S had, as Jane put it, 'finally a girl! 1!' to be known hereafter as Betsy Ann. As usual she was a 'sickly' Riester child weighing in at only 9 lbs. 1)4 ozs. Take good care of her, Jack.

"Many classmates have been in and out of the Portsmouth area since I last noted anyone's presence. 'Bud' Hankins was here on the SABLEFISH, 'exec-ing' for a while, but

I talked to him on the phone only once.

R A L P H CHIDLEY of GROUPER is here now and was scheduled to leave about the same time as NAUTILUS, but I don't like to discourage anyone that much. However, our permanent 'Man in Portsmouth,' besides us on the '71 boat,' is Capt. AL CASEY out at Pease Air Base ( S A C ) . Mena and I had the wonderful fortune of being out to sample one of Miz Casey's dinners, and Pat is an excellent cook. I frequently run into Aloysius at the handball courts where many of our 'eagles' guard our country while on Alert.

"Both of our classmates on the BARBEL

have orders to PG School this summer, as does P A U L ' H A P ' H A P P E R S E T T down in Key West. ED H E N E F I N is taking up oceanography and A L DWORSKY will be an electronics expert when he finishes.

"I've really been interested in seeing the coverage that LARRY S H U M A K E R and DON W A L S H of TRIESTE fame have been getting. From one of the herd, congratulations.

"Last week I accidentally bumped into P H I L B A Y N E working in the ABRAHAM LINCOLN office with the first contingent of the Blue Crew. To my great surprise I learned that he and his wife have moved into a house not 5 doors from us here in Rye, N. H . It was as much a surprise as when in San Diego a few years ago we learned that R O N and Betsy T H U N M A N lived as close, but had- been there for over 6 months.

"Two of our illustrious classmates are now holding down instructors' jobs at nuclear prototypes, H A L GLOVIER at Arco, Idaho, and P E T E VOGELBERGER at West Milton, Conn. And I almost forgot F R A N K S L A T T E R Y instructing at the Nuclear Power School in New London.

"We have seen many of the Navy types here in New Hampshire during the past year, J A M I E D E U E L off the NAUTILUS and

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among several others.

"KEN S T A N L E Y flew in last weekend from his home base of Ellsworth near Rapid City, S. C. "One of our perennial bachelors is due to fall this month when 'civilian' JACK S O U T H W O R T H will be married.

"After leaving the Natator Missile work in Florida I went through the training command 'pipeline' and am now a navigatorbombardier on the B-47 here at Pease. We live on base and are always glad to see classmates passing this way."

ANNAPOLIS AREA

EARL W H I P P L E The Annapolis area class officers were elected at our luncheon meeting in May. DICK M U R P H Y was elected President, BOB W I L M E R was elected Secretary and yours truly (by virtue of my assignment, in the Dept. of E. H. & G.) was tabbed for corresponding Secretary for our area. If you have any news at all, we would like very much to put it into our Shipmate column.

Please send any and all news about yourself and classmates to Capt. Earl F. Whipple, USMC, Dept. of English, History and Government, USNA, Annapolis, Md. HOMECOMING

Also discussed at the May luncheon were plans for Homecoming the weekend of 24-25 Sept. We have planned a class party on 24 Sept. and have reserved Paul's Restaurant on South River for this occasion. Cocktails from 1900-2030 and this will be followed by a roast beef dinner. Price for everythingâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; $8.00 per couple. We would appreciate it very much if anyone who can make it would drop a line to DICK M U R P H Y , BOB W I L M E R or myself. Also, everyone on duty here has room for at least one couple for the weekend, so if you could let us know arrangements can be made to avoid any housing problems. Last year many more classmates than were expected showed up, and we had a grand evening meeting old friends. Why not plan to come to Homecoming and renew old acquaintances and see some of the great changes being made at the old school?

The local '54 wives have elected new offi"The advance planning for the Homecom- cers for the coming year. Lorry Pastalaniec ing game this fall and our get-together is President, Charlene Kurth is Treasurer, sound excellent, if for no other reason than and Jeanne Rogers is Secretary. it's advance, and we can all start thinking On Saturday, 14 May, about 24 of us about it and make tentative plans. Keep up gathered in the K U R T H s ' backyard for our the publicity and good work, Annapolis first summer The keg of beer lasted group. I'd like to go on record at this time until Sunday picnic. afternoon. (I'm told!) and say we'd better include a business meetBOB BRINER stopped by a few weekends ing in our plan for the reunion to clear up several outstanding class problems we have ago and stayed with the Whipples. It was as alumni. As I have indicated before my really great seeing him again, and he was personal feelings are that our alumni organ- very enthusiastic about the Navy as usual, and in particular about his new assignment. ization is, to generalize, 'shaky.' " He is a Flag Lieutenant in Norfolk, and I regret to say that despite all the talking NEW ARRIVAL that was done, more information about his Lt. T H O M A S V. B A N F I E L D , II, USN, recent activities was not recorded. However, and Mrs. Banfield announce the birth of a here is his address: 1001 Little Bay Ave., son, Eric Charles Thomas, on 22 Mar. 1960 Apt. A-5, Norfolk, Va. in New London, Conn.

Also returned to the area are T I M and On 1 May from Pease AFB, N. H., Capt. Bunny W A L S H . Tim has been assigned to ALOYSIUS G. CASEY wrote: "Lost track duty in Washington involving Special Projof Shipmate after moving too much and too ects P O L A R I S . It was good to see the often but now that I am in SAC moves are Walshes again. They have a new daughter. a thing of the past.

Amy, born 25 Oct. 1959 at San Diego. Short"Patricia and I have 2 sturdy boys. Matt ly thereafter Tim left for WestPac. While and Joe, 4 and 3 years old. About mid-May there, Tim received his orders to Washington. Amy joins 2 brothers, Tommie 3j4 and we are expecting our first girl.

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Mike 2. Tim and Bunny say that they are really tired of living out of suitcases (familiar, eh?) and are looking forward to 15 June when they will move to 206 North Grenada, Arlington, Va. The only new arrival at the Academy I know definitely about is DICK DEAN. H e will be coming from Parris Island, S. C. during July. W e are expecting quite a few more classmates during the summer and information on them will be published in the next issue. That's all for now from the Annapolis area. Hope to see many of you during Homecoming Weekend.

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Pres., L t . (jg) M. F . Collier, U S N 756 Falls Dr., Idaho Falls, Idaho Corr. Sec'y, L t . (jg) Richard J . M a n n , U S N 116 S. J o r d a n St., Alexandria, V a .

Corr. Sec'y, L t . ( j g ) W . S. Hull, U S N 150 Mitchell St., Groton, Conn.

NEW ARRIVALS

On 8 March Michael was born to H A N K and Georgia JORDAN. Hank is presently serving aboard U S S TARO (SS-422).

J O E and Mary DOEBLER are the parents of a son, Carl Jay, born in New London, Conn., on 12 March. The DOEBLERS are living in New London on 36 Greenway Road.

Joe is aboard U S S TURK

(SS-426).

From Quonset Point, R. L., comes the news of the arrival of Susan Rebecca on 20 March. SID and Sue DAVIS are the parents.

PERRY and Nancy S T O N E announce the birth of their son, Lowell Gregory, who was born 23 Nov. 1959 at the Whidbey Island Hospital ( N A S ) near Seattle, Wash.

Perry is flying in a patrol squadron, VP-50.

MARK O'HARA writes from California, "The most important event in Joanne's and my life since I last wrote Shipmate .was the birth of Suzanne Kathleen, who was a year old on 16 Feb. Mark I I I is now almost 2 ^ years old and is rapidly developing into a left-handed pitcher. I will receive my Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in June and will then be assigned to the U S A F Cambridge Research Center, 15 miles west of Boston, where I expect to be for the next 3 to 5 years." Mark and Joanne are living at 3040 Emerson St. in Palo Alto, Calif.

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS

GLENN GOOD reports that after finishing up his tour of duty as an instructor at Pensacola he was seesawed" through 3 duty stations in 5 months, but he is now on tour with VS-36 flying the Grumman S2F out of Norfolk. Glenn and Barbara are getting settled in their new home at 8021 Pace Rd., Camellia Gardens, just outside of the Amphib Base and invite all of the 'S6ers to stop by. BILL F L I G H T and T O M BENSON are also flying with VS-36.

DON K E N N E D Y has been selected to go aboard the TRITON. This makes him one of the very few submariner-supply corps officers in the fleet. Congratulations!

JIM W H I T E and Margaret are on their way to Gitmo for duty.

J A N and Betty P R O K O P are off to some foreign shore duty with the Naval Mission at Caracas, Venezuela.

F R A N K and Biz S M I T H are heading for the rolling hills of Ft. Lee, Va., where Frank will attend the 16-week Army Petroleum Management Course.

GEORGE BILES is serving as FlagSec on SouLant staff at Trinidad, B W I . Must be tough to take, eh George?

JIM ORANGE has resigned his commission in the Supply Corps and will be entering civilian life.

BILL and Marie DILLON, plus William Gregory, 2>^, have found the duty on Okinawa so much to their liking that they have extended for an additional 7 months, but they expect to be in the states about the end of May 1961. The Dillons can be reached at this address: 1/Lt. William M. Dillon 29049A, 44th Tactical Fighter Squadron, A P O 239, San Francisco, Calif. Bill has requested that the following information be passed along to all members of '56. "JIM BARKER, 18th Company, was killed on 2 Oct. 1959 at Misawa Air Base, Japan, while flying an F-lOO on an overwater flight. Jim's wife, Mimi, is presently living with her folks in New York with the 3 children, Paul, Meg and Theresa."

Bill has arranged with the Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium Committee to dedicate a chair to Jim in the name of the entire class. Jim's devotion to football during his M I K E and Dolores MILLER announce 4 years at the Academy makes this memorial the birth of their daughter, Jeanette Lucille, a worthy tribute to his memory. Bill rewho was born on 16 April. Mike is attend- quests that all contributions be made payable ing the Nuclear Power School in New to the Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium London.

Fund. Please enter a note on the check that V I N C E and Robbie R O P E R announce the contribution is for the Barker Memorial. the birth of their first child, Stephanie Ann, The following letter was received from on 18 Jan. at the Fort Ord Army Hospital, Monterey, Calif. Vince graduates from PG M I K E G R E E N E : "I notice a distinct lack of news in the '56 column lately, and I guess School in June.

I've been as guilty as anyone for not adding D A V E and Becky LLOYD announce the to it. Maybe you can use some of this letter. birth of their 2nd child, Elizabeth Rebecca, "We are at Spangdahlem, Germany, where on 4 Feb. in Vallejo, Calif. Their son Pat is I j ^ . Dave is presently finishing the 2nd we've been since August of last year after phase of the nuclear sub program at New •a move from Etain, France. I'm flying London, Conn., and in about 6 months expects F-lOOs, as are a bunch of our classmates to be ordered to one of the FBM subs. around the world. Some of these I've seen Dave and Becky are living at South Main recently are SAM ARMSTRONG, who was here at Spang for a month with the 356th St., East Granby, Conn. from Myrtle Beach, JACK COLLINS, who was at Moron, Spain, with a rotational outfit WEDDING from George Air Force Base and BOB Lt. (jg) EDMUND C. MORTIMER and CECIL, who is with the same outfit.

Miss Margaret Luanne Harrison, daughter JERRY J O H N S T O N is at Wethersfield, of Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Harrison of England—we get together at Wheelus, Libya, Norfolk, Va., were married in Miles Me- for gunnery every few months. CHARLIE morial Methodist Church, Norfolk, on 19 CURTIS is at Bitburg, just a few miles Mar. 1960. At present Lt. Mortimer is serv- down the road. J I M KAUTZ is at George. ing aboard the U S S CLAUD JONES ( D E LARRY BERGER is at Rome, New York, 1033) out of Key West, Fla. Beginning 1 getting ready to check out in the B-S2 and June he will attend Webb Inst, of Naval DAN F L A H E R T Y (whom I tracked all over Architecture, Glen Cove, L. I. Europe and never found) was at Aviano, 70

Italy, for a while. I understand Dan is practicing civilian life now, and going to school.

"Some of the 'Beetle Cruncher' types: GORT N E L S O N was with a Radar outfit at Wheelus, Libya. D A V E MAIO was with a weather outfit in London, but I never got over to see him. C L I F F S C H O E P and LEO S H E E H A N are at Hahn, Germany. Seems the Big First Company has good control in this .part of the world.

"Cherie and I have 2 children now: Kathy, who is 3 now, and Bobby, who was born on 14 Dec. 1959. We're eager to hear from you. Buzz, and all of the crew of '56. How about it?

"P.S. Almost forgot the one Navy type I've heard from. JACK J A N E T A T O S was on a Sub here in the Mediterranean. Jack and Mary are living in Charleston, S. C." J O E H A R R I S O N has resigned his commission in the Intelligence Branch of the Navy. Joe, Ann and daughter. Holly Ann, are moving to 504 East Pike, Attica, Ind., where Joe will take over as Ass't Production Mgr. with the Harrison Steel Castings Co. Joe has been on duty at the Pentagon ever since graduation. Good luck in your new job.

That's all for this time, gang, keep those letters coming.

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Sec'y, 1st L t . Roy F . Arnold, USMC 231 Eastwood Ave., Jacksonville, N . C. Corr. Sec'y, Lt. (jg) M. D . Giambattista, USS BARRACUDA (SST-3), FPO N e w York

On 18 Apr. 1960 Mrs. B. W. Parkinson wrote: "The time has come. . . . After continually picking up Shipmate and turning to devour the class news of '57— siempre nada —I have decided to divulge some of the class secrets.

"I shall start with the Parkinsons. BRAD is now working toward his M.S. at M.I.T. We have 2 children, Leslie Jacqueline, 2, and Bradford Wells, II, 1 month. JERRY and Edie A N D E R S O N and MORT and Kathy MARKS are also here and attending the same school for the same degree. Mort and Kathy are expecting on 7 May. JACK and Toni McMORRIS, with John Allen, III, age 2, and Catherine, 6 months, are coming to attend the same as above during May of this year. M.I.T. is getting to be quite the meeting place. " S T E V E and Joan P O W E R S are in Houston, Texas waiting for Steve to finish his M.A. at Rice—from there they go to Notre Dame for his Ph.D. "BART and Dottie CAMPBELL are temporarily apart—due to the Air Force.

Bart is stationed in Iceland on remote duty, and Dottie is in Maryland with their 16month-old son, Joseph.

"FRANK and Bert BARNES have just bought a house in Norfolk, Va. They also have a son. Brent Wallace, about 6 or 8 months—I think! There is also a confirmed (by Bert) rumor that the name, 'Stick' has fallen by the way—due to a pound here or there.

"AL KOSTER, who is stationed at New London Sub School, has grown a most dashing beard and mustache which, I must add, completely baffled our 2-year-old.

"DEL S N I D E R spent a couple of days with us last December. He's stationed at Grifiss A F B in New York. MONTY K N A P P will marry Marica Custer of Los Gatos, Calif, sometime in April.

"Well—fini—please excuse all grammatical errors, as I'm sure they're plentiful."

SHIPMATE

D . W E and Ann T H O M . \ S announce the birth of their third child, third son, Gregory Robert, who was born 6 May 1960, at the U. S. Naval Hospital, Portsmouth, Va. Greg's brothers are Mike, who was 2 in .\pril, and Chuck, who was 1 in April. Dave is serving in

the

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out of Norfolk.

It has been quite some time since I have taken pen in hand to give out with some information concerning our class or its members.

However, I have just received my orders which amount to a ticket stateside after 13 long months on the island of Okinawa.

M-\URY B R O W N E and BUCK ROGERS also received orders along with me. By the time you read this I will have joined my wife, Barbara, and two children after 16 months of separation. George, Jr., is 13 months old and I have yet to lay my eyes on him. My orders read Headquarters Battalion. Headquarters, U. S. Marine Corps, Washington 25, D. C. At present I have no idea where my residence will be, but if anyone desires to contact me use the aforementioned address. Buck Rogers is going to Officer Selection Duty in Philadelphia and ilaury Browne is going to Marine Corps Base, Cherry Point, N. C. We are all presently members of the 2nd Bn, 1st Marines, the second of the Marine Corps Transplacement Battalions to spend a 13 month tour on Okinawa. In recent months I have seen FRANK BAULCH, still in Hawaii, D A V E SECOR and J O H N McMORRIS, both going to MIT for PG schooling, and T O M DONNELLY who recently reported aboard the U S S P R I N C E T O N ( L P H 5) for duty. Two

weeks after reporting aboard Tom bought, in Hong Kong, a fantastic "Chinese Junk" which he intends to put in the water in the Long Beach area. Stand by for the "Oriental look" and many good parties. I have seen ART W R I G H T on a couple of occasions and also understand that J E R R Y SECOR is in the area.

I received word some time ago that J I M and Marian O'CONNELL are the proud parents of a daughter, Elaine, born on 23 October, 1959 at Hoag Memorial Hospital, Newport Beach, Calif. Jim is presently stationed aboard the U S S TRATHEN ( D D 530). That is about the extent of my gossip, however, there are a couple of other matters that I would like to discuss before turning the remainder of this column over to ROY . • \ R N 0 L D who has kept it alive for the past three years.

The first item concerns this magazine, the one that you are presently reading. Our class participation in the Alumni Association has been just about average for the past three years. Certainly "average" is not going to be the label put on our class after four spirited, successful years spent behind those big grey walls !!

During the year 1962 our class will elect a class president to serve for a five year term as provided for in the Class Constitution. Yes, we do have a Constitution which each of you voted on and received a copy of prior to graduation—just in time to file it with all of the rest of your Naval Academy papers, or else in the well known circular file. Beginning in 1962 this Constitution also calls for the selection of an Executive Committee composed of members of our class who are on duty or who reside in the Annapolis, Washington and Baltimore area, to handle the affairs and finances of the class.

This may or may not sound important to you at the present time, but the truth of the matter is that the future of our Class Organization will depend on the support and inJ U N E - J U L Y ,

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terest given by each one of you. Action can only be initiated when somebody comes through with a suggestion and it is anticipated that Shipmate will become the official voice of the Class Organization, except in special cases. Candidates for the office of President of the class will have to make their views known through the medium of this magazine. Election reports and all other items of interest and importance will appear on these pages. To be informed it is imperative that you support your Alumni Association by joining now I Before this year is out I will also give a financial report on our class funds and the legal status of our Class Organization with regards to Uncle Sam and his Bureau of Internal Revenue. I hope that I have made it quite clear that to he "in the know" in the affairs of our class it is necessary that you join the Alumni Association and receive Shipmate. Of course, only those who are presently members will be reading a*ll this, so how about giving a prod to some of our more reluctant classmates— let's get with the program!

My last subject concerns joining another organization which is of particular interest to members of the Naval Service. I am speaking, of course, of the U. S. Naval Institute.

This is a professional organization for professional Naval Officers and other special classes of personnel. Its mission, simply stated, is to provide a means by which we can discuss ideas, old and new, that would tend to improve our service and give to its members more knowledge of their profession.

It accomplishes this through the publication of a professional magazine. The Naval Institute Proceedings. In order for this, or any other, organization to accomplish its stated mission it needs your support—both in membership and active participation in its affairs. .A.t present, less than one third of the regular officers in the Naval Service are supporting this organization. Get in out of the rain and become a member by paying your dues and taking an active interest in the affairs of this organization.

I received a letter from Maj. R. J. Perrich, USMC who is presently serving with Staff, ComStrikeForSouth, Navy No. 510, F P O New York. All this means is that the Major is presently in Naples, Italy and enjoying life with his family in Europe.

I would like to take this opportunity as Class President, to express our sincere appreciation to Adm. Walter F. Boone, who recently retired from active duty. Among the many other accomplishments of his career, he provided the Class of 1957 with a year and a half of outstanding leadership and example while serving as our Superintendent during our youngster and 2nd class years at the Naval Academy. Smooth sailing in the years ahead, Adm. Boone and take the best wishes of the Class of 1957 with you.

OKAY, OKAY, I H E A R Y O U ! ! It's all yours, Roy. GEORGE F . WARREN

East Coast Pres., Lt. (jg) Charles R. Larson, U S N VA-44, U. S. Naval Air Station, Jacksonville, Fla. West Coast Sec'y, Ens. John L. Higgins, Jr., U S N USS Noble, A P A 218 FPO San Francisco NEWS I N GENERAL

I received a letter from M I K E MORAN who is presently at Suffolk County AFB, N. Y., after an 18-month tour at James Connally AFB, Waco, Tex. Mike is a radar

intercept officer, flying in the rear seat of the FIOIB. He and his wife Carol have a son, Stephen Matthew, born 11 June 1959.

Their address is Box 1302, SCAFB, Westhampton Beach, N. Y. Three ex-roommates from the 20th company got together the 2nd week in April with their families at the home of T O M and Mary Jo MALONEY in Groton, Conn.

Tom and Mary Jo and Tom, Jr. are living in Groton where Tom is on the USS SAILFISH, GEORGE and Joanne McALEER and their son, George III, were enroute to Portsmouth, N. LL, where George is stationed and DICK and Penny RODGERS and their son Ricky are living in New London, where Dick is in sub school. The only roommate missing was BRUCE W I L HELMY who was finishing up his jet training at NAAS Chase Field in Beeville, Tex. NEW ARRIVAL

PAUL and Peggy BROOKS are the parents of a daughter, Jennifer Ellyn, born on 28 Apr. 1960. Paul, who was recently the 1000th sutdent to complete Advanced Training Unit 611 in Corpus Christi, Tex., is finishing his flight training at NAS Corpus Christi.

ENGAGEMENT

S T E V E " W H I T E Y " EDWARDS, who has returned from a long Med cruise on the USS BENHAM (DD-796) and has orders to the USS LUCE ( D L G - 7 ) being built in

Quincy, Mass., will be married to Miss Lois Randall on 9 July 1960 in Freeport, Me. Chaplain Fred D. Bennett will perform the ceremony.

EAST COAST ,„„ Pres.. Ens. Frank Donovan, U S N , U S S The Sullivans (DD-537), FPO N e w York Sec'y, Ens. George Brainerd, U S N USS Waller (DDE-446), FPO New York, N . Y. WEST COAST Corr. Sec'y. Ens. Bill Garrett, U S N , U S S Cunningham (DD-752), FPO San Francisco N A V Y JUNIORS

DICK and Sally BALDWIN (13th Co.) are the parents of a daughter, Ann Elizabeth, born 19 Mar. 1960. Dick is in flight training. He and Sally now reside at 1320 Magda Village, Whiting Field, Milton, Fla. BOB and Pat W I L E Y are the parents of a baby girl. Amy Lynne, born at the Portsmouth Naval Hospital, Portsmouth, Va., on 21 April, 1960.

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TOM and Nancy BOND recently returned to Norfolk from Key West where Tom completed the A S W Officers' course at the Fleet Sonar School. Also in Tom's class, graduating on 22 April, were J. P. Jackson, Bob Williams, Bill Kelly, Gary Smith, Phil Chamberlain, John Hilt, John Furman, J. P. Morgan, and Harvey Huetter.

Two 'S9ers are in the class which graduated on 13 May, Don Babcock and John Paine.

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J O E and Diane McGLINCHEY announce the birth of a son, Joseph Robert, on 3 April.

Joe is on TDY attending Guidance Control Officers' School for the Atlas Missile at Keesler AFB, Biloxi, Miss. 'S9ers in the same group are Wayne Messner, Ron Hearst, Don Gromer, Paul O'Connor, Dale Minard, Frank Navratil, Ray Howell, George Fritzinger and Jase Morrow. Joe writes, "We are enjoying the Mississippi sunshine and making good use of the Biloxi beach. George and Jase have already finished their school71

ing and the rest of us are about halfway through the course."

On 20 April, graduation exercises were held from the Navigation School at James Connally AFB, Waco, Tex. The following members of the Class of 1959 received their wings as rated navigators: Russell Anderson, Hardy Gregory, Tim Kensinger, Bill Molnar and Bill Palmer. All 5 proceeded to Keesler AFB for further schooling.

Also stationed at James Connally were the ARNOLD RICCIs and the BARRY PACKARDs. The Packards became the parents of a daughter in March.

On Saturday, 16 April, Miss Marcia Eugenia Gambacorta, daughter of Capt. and Mrs. Francis M. Gambacorta, USN (Ret.)

'35, Annapolis, Md., was married to Ens. DAVID K E N T SHIVERDECKER, USN, son of Mr. and Mrs. D. K. Shiverdecker, Greenville, Ohio, in the Naval Academy Chapel. The bride attended Sullins College, Bristol, Va. Ensign Shiverdecker studied at the University of Cincinnati before entering the Naval Academy. Station: Pensacola, Fla. Russell Anderson, Hardy Gregory, John Kensinger, William Molnar and WiUiam Palmer are graduates of the Navigator Training School at James Connally Air Force Base, Waco, Texas. The graduation address was delivered by Major General Alvord V. P. Anderson. All have now been assigned to Electronics Warfare School at Keesler Air Force Base, Biloxi, Miss.

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The Society of Sponsors of, the United States Navy held its annual meeting May 4 and 5 at the Mayflower Hotel. The highlight of the session was the luncheon on Thursday, with Secretary of the Navy William B. Franke as the speaker.

On Wednesday afternoon, Mrs. Armand Morgan, the president, was hostess for tea at Woodlawn Plantation, after a tour of the grounds.

The Society is composed of women who have christened combatant ships of the United States Navy, and includes over 700 members.

The organization's special project is providing scholarships at preparatory schools for sons of deceased Navy and Marine Corps personnel, who plan to enter the Naval Academy.

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The Naval Officers' Wives Club met on Thursday, May 12, for luncheon in the Blue Room of the Shoreham Hotel. The newly organized W A V E S Choral Group provided a musical interlude. Vice Admiral John T. Hayward, USN, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Development, was the guest speaker. The incoming officers for next season were installed in this last meeting before the summer recess.

Fifty-one new Junior JANGOS, twenty of them Navy daughters, members of Doctors Hospital Guild, were capped as nurses Aides at graduation ceremonies held on Tuesday, 17 May, at the Medical Society of D. C. These girls, aged 14 through 17, have each given a minimum of 100 hours work at Doctors Hospital during the past year.

JANGO, an organization of service wives.

Captain Aubry Ford, U.S.M.C. (Ret.) Western Division Traffic Expediter Anchorase, Alaska • Alexandria, V a . • Chicago • Dayton, O h i o • Detroit • H o n o l u l u • Las Vegas • Long Beach, Calif. • Los Angeles • Melrose Park, III • Memphis • M e n l o Park, Calif. • N e w a r k , N . J . • N e w York • N o r f o l k , V a . • O a k l a n d , Calif. • Portsmouth, Va. • Salt Lake City • San Bernardino, Calif. • San Diego • San Francisco • Santa A n a , Calif. • Secaucus, N . J . • Washington, D. C. OVERSEAS OFFICES: England, France, Germany, Guam, Italy, Japan, Korea, O k i n a w a , Panama, Philippine Islands, Puerto Rico, Spain.

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S2400 down. Assume $99/mo paymnts on $14,000 FHA 5%% loan. Capt. W. B. Stockdale, 398 Chaucer Ed., Dayton 31, Ohio. Tel CL 6-0553.

(VI-VII) LANCASTER CO., Va. For sale, wooded acre on waterfront. Ranch type house. Lge liv rm, din area, windows and closets, 3 bdrms, 1% baths, built-in elec range, wall oven, dishwasher, oil ht.

Screened porch overlooking water, flagstone terrace, sports Ashing, oysters, crabs, duck & auail shooting avail by permission local farmers, pier and 14' boat with outbd motor. Direct from owner $22,000. Write Cdr. H. M. Taylor, Millenbeck, Va. (V) MONTEREY, Calif. For sale. Lovely 3 bdrm 2 bath 2 yr old home in exc neighborhood on culde-sac. Central location for PG schl, commissary, pub schls. Over 1500 sa ft inc ent foyer, raised fireplace, double garage, rugs, drapes, built-in stove and oven, Ige kitch, fenced and landscaped, many extras. Assume 5%% FHA (in service) loan.

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MEW LONDON, Conn. For sale. 26 mi fm New London nr Conn. Turnpike. Yr rnd custom built Log Cabin on 60 acres. Modn kitch, adjoining lge brkfst rm, din rm, lge liv rm with stone flreplace.

Screened porch, stone terrace in rear, also lge outdoor barbecue pit & fireplace. 3 bdrms, rm for 1 more, 1% baths, lge bsmnt. Tel, elec, 4 car garage with plenty of storage space. House situated on knoll with view of 3 ponds fed by springs. Exc fishing. Beautiful setting. Nr town with good schls. Many possibilities for income. Price $38,500.

Appraised at $50,000. No agents. Col. A. L. Smith, 238 Sumner Rd., Annapolis, Md. COlonial 8-2588.

(V) NEW LONDON, Conn. 2 story 4 bdrm house avail in June. Extra lge master bdrm with fireplace.

Liv rm fireplace. Mahogany paneled 1st flr. Builtin oven and range. 1 full and 2 half baths. Attached car port and sun deck. Easy access to schl and shops. $21,000. LCdr. R. I. Boland, Jr., USS TORO (SS-422), FPO, New York, N. Y. (V) NORFOLK, Va. For rent. 1864 Branchwood St. (Wedgewood). Attractive 3 bdrm ranch, 1% baths, liv rm, separate din rm, kit & attached gar. Stove and refrig included. Washer & dryer connections.

Enclosed back yd. Pub grammar schl and par schl, shop ctr nearby. Conv to Little Creek, NOB and NAS. Contact Robert F. Ripley, Realtor, MA 2-1864 locally or write LCdr. Robert W. Hanby, Apt. J-4, Perry Circle, USNA, Annapolis, Md. (VI-VII) NORFOLK, Va. Wanted to rent 20 June. Minimum 3 bdrms, 1% baths. Desire Larchmont, River Point, Belaire, Meadowbrook Forest areas. LCdr R. H. Gormley, 1 James St., Middletown, R. I. (V) NORFOLK, Va. For sale, Larchmont area, 1307 Rockbridge Ave. 4 bdrms, 2 baths, plus playrm used as 5th bdrm. Exc location nr Larchmont Schl, Wm & Mary Col., quiet neighborhood, conv to base. A comfortable older house, oil HW ht, fireplace, garage. $13,000. Contact E. N. Badran, JU 3-1844 locally, or write Capt. D. E. Willman, CO USS YOSEMITE. (V) PATUXENT RIVER, Md. For sale. 3 bdrm, 2 bath, spl lev. Fireplace, finished rec rm, lge screened porch. 220 in kitch and util rm. 1 acre wooded lot in best residential area. Nr new elem schl 5 mi from NAS. 4%% loan, $20,000 full price, will take 2nd. Avail abt 1 August. Write LCdr. F. H. Baughman, 419 Town Creek Dr., Town Creek Manor, Lexington Park, Md. (V) SPRINGFIELD, Va. For rent 1 July. Brick Rambler. 3 bdrms, 1% baths, liv rm, separate din rm, fireplace, util rm, lge brick patio & kitch with refrig, stove, dishwasher, exhaust fan, garbage disposal. 2 yr lease at $130. In lovely N. Springfield. Write Mr. G. G. Knoble, at 7419 Chatham St., Springfield, Va. (V) WASHINGTON, D. C. Wanted to rent beginning Aueust. 3-4 bdrm unfurnished house nr Jr-hi and elem schls. Prefer Chevy Chase-Bethesda area.

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