1962-January Shipmate

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W. F. FITZGERALD, JR., '21 RAdm. USN (Ret.)

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January, 1962

Editor PSYCHOLOGY AND THE ROLES OF NAVAL PSYCHOLOGISTS

by U. H. J. Connery, MSC USN, and Cdr. J. M. Laudenslager, MSC USNR

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The combined choirs from Hood College and USNA sing Handel's "Messiah" at the Naval Academy Chapel on December 17, 1961.

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S Y C H O L O G Y A S A S C I E N C E and a profession is the study of man's behavior and experience in relation to his environment. The psychologist has invested from two to five years in formal postgraduate study in this area of specialization. His training is not in medicine, and he is not a physician ( M . D . ) . The Navy psychologist, wherever he may be assigned, deals with behavioral reactions and adjustments within the various and specific demands of naval service.

A part of the psychologist's daily routine is generally devoted to the counsel and guidance role. Officers and enlisted personnel who voluntarily consult the psychologist may seek to learn more about themselves and their own behavior in order to increase their effectiveness in the use of their talents and abilities. They seek to learn more about dynamics of behavior which may help them better understand the behavior of others and improve their versatility in human relations, not only as leaders, but also as followers.

But more often there are individuals who visit the psychologist, or are referred to him, to discuss specific behavior difficulties they are experiencing in their attempts to relate successfully with certain juniors, peers, or seniors.

Generally these difficulties include some evidence of inadequate communication between people. For one or any number of reasons, somebody is not "getting across" or "through" to another. There may be marked differences apparent in the ways different people are perceiving the "same" situation. Distinct lines of organization-chart authority, responsibility, and communication may not be so distinct in the everyday practices of incumbent personalities. Situational circumstances may so restrict the demonstrations of individuality that little opportunity is afforded personnel to experience feelings of accomplishment or of organizational worth to their presence and contributions within their commands. Apparent disregard for the appropriate utilization of talents, skills, or abilities may create individual or generalized discontent with its "waste of time" and "short timer" reactions. Over-staffing may reduce privilege and status normally accorded to rank or rate to the extent that individuals may feel trapped in billet assignments and lose sight of importance attached to their work. Large portions of time and effort may be required to manage a small percentage of marginal personnel at the expense of attention to those who perform adequately, or to contend with never-ending paperwork which deters one from doing "his real job." Individual difficulties encountered in counseling are numerous, and as different as the people presenting them.

The source of the difficulty may rest with the individual himself, with the other person or people involved, within the circumstances of the situation, or in combinations of all these. Appropriate solution to the difficulty may rest within the individual, or it may not, but chances are that at least partial solution rests with the individual in his ability to demonstrate effective behavior appropriate to the situation. At the time, however, the individual may appear at a loss to supply a satisfactory explanation or solution to himself.

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H E P S Y C H O L O G I S T seeks to serve as a catalyst with whom the difficulty may be more clearly identified and defined. As the individual defines and describes his problems from his viewpoint, some of his expressed attitudes, values, or beliefs may be explored by the psychologist. In response, the individual defends, re-evaluates, perhaps even questions his own position. H e considers different alternatives and viewpoints, suggested by his own speculations and by the psychologist. Sometimes the mere J A N U A R Y

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process of hearing himself talk about the problem may be sufficient to stimulate his own new ideas and approaches.

He may vent anger which he may not be able to do elsewhere. H e may verbalize freely the emotional overtones of his intellectual position in reference to the problem. H e has full opportunity "to speak his piece," to speak freely and frankly of the difficulties to one who will listen. W h a t ever the difficulty might be, with or for the individual, it is still his problem, and the psychologist "hears him out."

The talking-out process provides a therapeutic release, and generally enables the individual to face his difficulties in clearer perspective. From this new vantage point, he is then able to make more valid and self-acceptable decisions in determining his own courses of action. Thus the psychologist seeks to assist the individual in solving his own difficulties for himself.

The individual may present his same problem to any number of others, and obtain many forms of direct, "if I were you . . ." advice in terms of what to do, when, or how. In some situations this type of counseling is quite appropriate, but it is not the approach generally utilized by the psychologist in his counseling role. To accept and react to direct advice amounts to the acceptance of another's solution for the problem. The psychologist attempts to provide an atmosphere in the counseling relationship wherein the individual may experience growth in such areas as maturity, judgment, and initiative through exercising his own decisions and in being responsible for them.

Leadership is an area of common interest to psychologists. Almost anyone will readily define leadership and

1961 Fund Raising Campaign LITERATURE CONCERNING our second annual Fund Raising Campaign has been forw a r d e d to our entire mailing list. In the event your copy of this mailing has gone astray, the information contained therein is repeated on the following two pages.

Early returns are most gratifying and reflect an excellent condition of willingness on the part of our alumni to support our Alumni Association and the Naval Academy to which we all owe allegiance. In one instance, a donor who requests anonymity contributed approximately $5,000.00 in the form of 101 shares of Standard O i l of New Jersey Capital Stock. Monsanto Chemical Stock also has been received. Another alumnus has forwarded $500.00, and several contributions of $100.00 or above have been received.

M a n y , many alumni daily are contributing other amounts.

W e are most grateful for all donations, large or small. W e greatly appreciate the splendid attitude of the active duty alumnus who forwarded two dollars with the statement " I wish this could be larger—but unfortunately I am also the sole contributor to the (Blank) Foundation for 5 needy (Blank) children."

If you have not already participated in the 1961 Fund Raising Campaign, we would appreciate your consideration at this time. Checks should be made payable to the U. S. Naval Academy Alumni Association, Alumni House, Annapolis, M a r y l a n d . See tear sheet below.

The 1961 Annual Fund Raising Committee MEMBERSHIP IN the Alumni Association approximates fifty per cent active duty officers with the balance rather evenly divided betv/een retired officers and alumni who resigned from the Naval Service. These groups are represented on the Fund Raising Committee by an outstanding alumnus in each category: i ADMIRAL ARLEIGH A. BURKE, U. S. Navy (Retired), is a former Chief of Naval Operations who served a record-breaking three terms in the Navy's highest assignment. He is now o

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The Association is ever alert to make this gala week-end more and more enjoyable, interesting and informative.

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H E ENTERPRISE A N D J A P A N E S E bells sounded out a repeat story of last year's victory over Army in the waning light of Sunday following the Army-Navy game.

It was a rare privilege for Ann and me to witness decisive wins over Army in soccer, ISO-lb. football and varsity football for the second consecutive year. W e both have been wearing broad smiles since the big day in Philadelphia on 2 December and are finding it difficult to settle back to earth after our wonderful tour in the clouds.

In retrospect I attribute our continuing success over Army to the determination and team spirit of "The 3800."

Whether in basketball, football, or any other team endeavor, the team and the Brigade have joined as one. This has become stiff opposition for any school and is making a superb record of wins over Army. This great spirit coupled with the skillful coaching and leadership of Wayne Hardin and his staff are truly a winning combination.

When I had the privilege of escorting President Kennedy to our side of the field at half time and we were greeted by a resounding "Welcome home," from the Brigade, I could not help but feel that the Brigade was indeed the cream of the Nation's crop of young men.

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H E CLASS O F '62 launched Operation Information on 16 December when forty-nine members of the class set out to make television appearances and address various civic groups in their home areas. Operation Information is growing in popularity with the midshipmen and this year this public relations venture for the first class is being conducted by a record number. I hope that many of you had the opportunity to hear one of our first classmen during the holiday season.

With the start of the new year I think it is appropriate to bring you up to date on the status of the construction projects going on in the Yard. The new wings of Bancroft Hall are complete as are the new Assembly Hall and Library Annex, which are located between the new wings. Wings 4 and 6 are in the process of being completely renovated and at the time of this writing 163 rooms in Wing 6 are scheduled to be ready for occupancy this month. The new addition to the Museum Building is progressing slowly But should be completed by March.

The new lighting system on Dewey and Farragut Fields is about complete and the midshipmen now have space available for outdoor athletics even though it is dark when

SUPERINTENDENT'S " N " AWARDS DINNER at Quarters, 9 Dec. From left to right: Mid'n John Hewitt, Mrs. Davidson, Miss Lorraine Korpy and RAdm. J. F. Davidson.

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they finish their last class. I will keep you posted periodically on the new construction projects during the year.

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H R I S T M A S I N T H E Y A R D this year was again an inspiring time. The Hood College Choir joined our Chapel Choir and four professional soloists in rendering Handel's "Messiah" on the Saturday night and Sunday before the midshipmen left for Christmas. The Chapel was filled to overflowing both times and on Wednesday evening the Brigade gathered at the Chapel for the traditional caroling. There were two big lighted trees at the Chapel entrance and in that setting the midshipmen with their families and friends were indeed an inspiring sight.

Ann joins me in wishing for each of you a New Year blessed with good health and happiness.

A NAVY STORY M A N Y Y E A R S A G O the battleship T E X A S , the original T E X A S that won honors in the Battle of Santiago in 1898, spent most of a summer in the snug harbor of Rockland, Maine.

Among other vessels attached to the squadron of which T E X A S was flagship were four destroyers of that era which were so similar in appearance that the experienced eyes of veteran quartermasters could not tell one from another at any distance. To facilitate identification each destroyer wore a different shape on its foremast, one a cone, another a sphere and so on.

One of the destroyers had a huge dog for a mascot, a shaggy Newfoundland, thereby bearing out an old Navy saying that the smaller the ship, the bigger its pet.

Newfoundlands are a breed that is not afraid of the water. On the contrary, when the impulse moves, they do not hesitate to plunge into the water and go for long swims.

The destroyer pet was no exception to this canine trait, and long since he had acquired the habit of ship visiting, furnishing his own transportation by the simple expedient of plumping into the water and swimming to whichever ship his fancy happened to dictate.

The T E X A S , perhaps because it was the largest ship in port, was often visited by the Newfoundland. He would swim to the foot of the gangway, and as he was unable to climb onto its lower platform, he would yelp and patiently paddle around until a bluejacket went to his assistance and hauled him out of the water. The helper had to be nimble and quickly get out of the way to escape the shower of water thrown from the dog's thick coat of hair when he began a series of vigorous shakes.

The dog would then amble up on deck, seek out his friends and such delicacies as he could wheedle. In due course he would plop back into the water and swim home.

But before he took the plunge he would carefully scan the harbor and pick out his destroyer. Ships swinging to tide and wind when at anchor constantly alter their relative positions, but the dog never made a mistake in his selection.

Occasionally the destroyers would leave port for exercises while the dog was ship-visiting. If he then decided to go home, but found his ship absent, he would lie down on the quarterdeck and wait patiently, getting up to scrutinize every incoming craft.

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MIDSHIPMAN EDWARD P. BARKER, of Washington, D. C. (right), turns over command of the Brigade of Midshipmen to John Albert Knubel, of Scotch Plains, New Jersey. Knubel will hold command of the Brigade through March 22, 1962.

If the "peas-in-a-pod" appearing destroyers returned to port one by one, as they often did, the dog would look them over in turn, indicating his rejection of a ship not his own by lying down again. All this when the destroyer was entirely too far away for him to recognize faces or familiar smells.

When his destroyer did loom up, he would wag his tail, hop into the water and swim toward the approaching ship.

How he was able to identify his own ship at a distance was never determined. It seemed almost incredible that he could distinguish between the identifying shapes the destroyers wore, but apparently he did. There seemed no other explanation.

Captain F. L. OLIVER, U S N (Ret.) '01

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STEPHEN BLEECKER LUCE (1827-1917)

by John D. Hayes '24 C T E P H E N B. LUCE has been made the '•-' subject of this first of a series of character sketches because I believe him to be one of the greatest figures that our Navy has produced. Another and perhaps more controlling reason is that he forms the link between the two great periods of our naval history—that of the sail Navy in the days of wooden ships and iron men with its revolution during the Civil War and the steam and steel Navy which did not have its beginnings until twenty years after that war. He, almost alone, preserved and carried forward the spirit and tone of the old Navy through those barren twenty years and infused it into the modern Navy of today. He did so by insisting that men were as important as weapons and machines and by constantly pointing out that, no matter how remote the possibility, the purpose of a navy is war and the duty of officers is to study it and to train their men for it.

Fate did not grant to Luce the fortune of a major command in war, the opportunity by which a place in history is usually gained in the military profession. Instead it destined him to serve, as a young but seasoned officer, through the greatest of American wars and to see first hand, as an impressionable man, the purposes of a Navy in war and the needs of the men who make it. He never afterwards allowed himself or those who followed him to forget these two foundation stones of their profession. His enthusiasm and acumen through the next fifty years were to bring about a revolution in naval thought, education and administration that has had its im-

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pact to this day, not only in our own Navy but through it to the navies of the world. ' T ' H E C O N T R I B U T I O N S of Stephen B. -*- Luce to his profession cannot well be measured in tangible terms. He taught the Navy to think of itself as a whole. He saw strategy as clearly as others see a weapon or a ship. He defined better than anyone has since the relations that should exist between a government and the officers of its armed services. Nevertheless his concrete accomplishments were many. They include the following.

1. He prepared the first textbook on Seamanship. It was first published in 1863 and went through several editions before it was replaced by the present Knight's Modern Seamanship in 1900.

2. He was Commandant of Midshipmen in the Naval Academy's most dynamic years just after the Civil War while David D. Porter was Superintendent.

3. He pioneered the concept of training for merchant marine officers and established the first Maritime Academy for the State of New York in 1875.

4. He started the naval training system which today prepares our recruits for life aboard ship.

5. He saved most of the sea chanties of the days of sail by his book of Naval Songs, first published in 1883.

6. He wrote the first article published by the U. S. Naval Institute and was president of that institution for eleven years from 1887 to 1898.

7. He is best known for establishing the Naval War College in 1886. What is not so well known is that he spent the next twentyfive years saving it.

8. He gave Alfred T. Mahan his great opportunity by asking him to lecture at the new college and this evolved into Mahan's famous books on Sea Power. It is interesting to note that the title of the series of lectures given was not The Influence of Sea Power on History but "The Influence of Naval Power on the Growth of Nations."

9. Finally, Luce was the leader of a group of forward-looking officers who, after a thirty-year fight, finally succeeded in properly organizing the Navy Department by the establishment of the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations.

LUCE'S CAREER

Luce was born in Albany, New York, in 1827 and entered the Navy in 1841. He spent only his last year as a midshipman at the Naval Academy. One of his early cruises was under the War of 1812 hero, Commodore James Biddle, in the 74-gun line-ofbattleship COLUMBUS, which made a voyage around the world and visited Japan several years before Perry. During the Civil War Luce served in the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, first as a watch officer in the flagship WABASH, later in command of a monitor and finally in command of a blockading gunboat. In the latter he had a contact with General William T. Sherman, which he himself claimed started him in the study of the art of war.

Sherman in January 1865 was at Savannah, Ga., after his March to the Sea. It was Luce's job to cover the army's initial movements by water on the march north. Almost forty years later Luce, in a lecture at the War College, told the story of his meeting with Sherman. "On reporting to headquarters, General Sherman indicated in a few short pithy sentences and by the aid of a map his plan for the campaign from Savannah north. . . . And he added in the pleasant style of banter with which he was accustomed to talk to naval officers : 'You navy fellows have been hammering away at Charleston for the past three years. . . . I will cut her communications and Charleston will fall into your hands like a ripe pear.' And that is just what actually came to pass."

Luce continued: "After hearing General Sherman's clear exposition of the military situation, the scales seemed to fall from my eyes. 'Here,' I said to myself, 'is a soldier who knows his business!' It dawned on me that there were certain fundamental principles underlying military operations, . . . principles of general application whether the operations were on land or at sea."

The prime of Luce's life, from the ages of forty to sixty, was spent in the period when the U. S. Navy was at the nadir of its history. The eyes of the American people after the Civil War were turned inward to the development of their heartland and away from the seas and overseas which had been the pre-war outlook. The Navy and the merchant marine were neglected, forgotten.

Senior naval officers seemed content to reflect in the glories of Civil War days and even Luce's contemporaries chose to look backward rather than ahead. Luce's thoughts,

With this issue. Shipmate commences a series of short biographies or character sketches of distinguished men who have been connected with the Navy. An equal distribution will be made between those who lived in the first part of the XlXth century and those in the later XlXth and early XXth centuries. Effort will be made to portray the differences as well as the similarities in these men which will tend to show the complexities of the naval profession and those who make it up.

Famous officers for whom good published biographies are available, like John Paul Jones and Farragut, will not be included nor will any living person or those recently deceased. Distinguished civilians who were graduates of the Naval Academy or who otherivise had been connected it/ith the Navy will be included as will Oscar IV. Farenholt, the first enlisted seaman to reach flag rank.

The character sketch this month is that <of Stephen B. Luce. This will be followed next month by one of Gustavus V. Fox, the former naval officer who performed the role of Chief of Naval Operations during the Civil War, and in March by one of Joseph M. Reeves who pioneered the carrier task force concept.

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however, were kept focused on the future, on war and on the potentialities of war's handmaiden, strategy. His happy enthusiasm was able to transmit this ardent and unselfish professionalism to the young men who were to create the Navy of the future:â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Sampson, Evans, Chadwick, Taylor, Sims and Gleaves.

Although best known for his establishment of the Naval W a r College, Luce's greatest monument should be the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations. The organization he thereby brought to the Navy Department has survived two wars and is essentially the same today. Luce was assisted in this work

by Mahan; Henry C. Taylor, third president of the W a r College; Bradley Fiske; William S. Sims ; and Dudley W. Knox. On the civilian side were President Theodore Roosevelt, through Sims then his naval aide; Secretary of the Navy Meyer in President Taft's administration; and Congressman Richmond P. Hobson '89, who introduced the legislation. These civilians however were only agents. It was the line officers, sparked by Luce, who were the positive, dynamic driving force for reform. This was in contrast to the Army reorganizational improvement which was largely the work of Elihu Root, Secretary of W a r in Theodore Roosevelt's administration. It is in contrast to the situation today.

Luce's impact was not alone on the line officers. He made efforts to start a school of naval architecture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology a generation before it was finally established. He encouraged the study of naval engineering but was opposed to the amalgamation of the Engineer Corps with the line. The man who brought it about, George W . Melville, finally came to agree with Luce that it was a mistake. Luce introduced the word "logistics," created by Jomini, into naval terminology and from there it has gone into the military language of the Free World.

LUCE'S METHODS

Luce to a large extent accomplished what he did through persistent letter writing,

mostly to people in influential positions both in government and outside, as his papers, now preserved by the Naval Historical Foundation in the Library of Congress, indicate.

He was always prolific with his suggestions and persistent in his demands. He was not hesitant about giving advice to those in high places, a service not always appreciated.

It was with his writings, however, that he made his great imprint on naval thought.

They were mainly in the form of periodical articles, many of them in the Proceedings of the U. S. Naval Institute. They covered many subjects in the fields of warfare, naval history and administration, military ethics, officer education and enlisted training. Thirtysix of them, written between 1874 and 1911, have been summarized in an article in Military Affairs, Winter 1955, under the title of ' T h e Writings of Stephen B. Luce." Many of the concepts expressed therein are as pertinent today as when Luce stated them.

They have become so ingrained into our naval administrative system that we take them for granted. If they were known better in the abstract by naval officers, they might have been applied with some benefit to the present day Department of Defense whose organizational problems are strikingly similar to those of the Navy in Luce's day.

Luce also wrote for many of the general periodicals of his day such as the Galaxy, North American Review, Harpers and Youth's Companion and for several encyclopedias. However, he never took the time to compose his thoughts into books, as Mahan did, and for this reason his writings remain unknown while Mahan's are gaining in popularity each year.

Luce's learning was outstanding even in a day when anti-intellectualism was less prevalent in the service than it is today and when officers were not ashamed to quote Shakespeare to each other. Researching the references in his articles is a liberal education in itself.

His familiarity with foreign languages enabled him to know firsthand the French military writing in the XlXth century when it was at its best. Luce had a much better

LUCE WHEN PRESIDENT OF THE NAVAL WAR COLLEGE, 1886.

knowledge of the French navy and French naval strategy than did Mahan.

His devotion to his profession kept Luce a poor man all his life, unable even to give a college education to his son. On active duty he always preferred posts of usefulness to posts of honor. H e was blessed with good health and he lived to be ninety. An active mind, never devoted to self, no doubt contributed to this long life.

The last act of his career was a hallmark of the man. .Asked to address the War College in 1911 at the age of 84, he might have reminisced. Instead he chose to make a fighting speech. He was frankly worried because there was so much interest in the then new postgraduate school of engineering and stillso little in the Naval W a r College.

"Your profession is the art of war and nature will be avenged if you violate one of its laws in undertaking to make a part greater than the whole."

LUCE'S CHARACTER

Luce's character is best described by his contemporaries.

Admiral Porter wrote of him in 1866 to Assistant Secretary of the Navy F o x : "He is a straightforward fellow and nature has not given him the soft manners possessed by some people who are all smiles to your face and abuse you behind your back."

LUCE AS A REAR ADMIRAL IN 1907.

John S. Barnes who served with Luce in the WABASH and at the Naval Academy but

who resigned to pursue a successful legal and business career: "Stephen B. Luce, all through his distinguished career, was one of the most capable officers in our or any other navy. Besides his professional accomplishments which were great, his scientific and literary knowledge, increased by constant study and reading, made him an ideal naval officer, fitted to fill any office with dignity and power within the scope of government action. My intercourse with him, then and later, I regard as one of the most fortunate intimacies of my life."

Robley D. Evans: "That master of his trade."

Albert Gleaves: "To such as he, there is no successor."

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Naval Hospital for Long Beach, Calif., planned for starting in 1963. There is a heavy military population in this area, including active duty personnel, dependents and retired people, and insufficient hospital and other medical facilities to serve this population.

There is certain to be heavy controversy on this subject in Congress in 1962.

What The Defense Department is Considering

Here's what the department is considering: Reduce per diem allowances, depending on the area and circumstances, as whether or not a Government mess is available.

Stop transportation of private cars overseas at Government expense.

Charge $1.00 to dependents for each visit to a military hospital or facility for treatment. This charge, authorized in the Medicare Act, was designed only to prevent "nuisance" visits. But if effective it could prove a hardship to large families.

Ask officers to pay a surcharge for eating in an enlisted mess. Enlisted men's subsistence rate, $1.09 per day. Officer's rate, $1.59.

The Defense Department is considering means of limiting family travel overseas at Government expense on a permanent basis.

At this writing, no decision has been made.

The October limitation on such travel was imposed primarily because troop movements

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crowded transportation facilities. However, the outflow of U. S. dollars to Europe is still gaining on the inflow, and the U. S. gold supply supporting our currency is threatened.

Furthermore, the department believes money can be saved by limiting dependent travel.

A complete ban on family travel is not the issue. It is rather a means of limiting travel to some percentage of families. Other ideas are (1) Reduce the number of troops overseas ; and (2) send Army and Air Force men overseas on short tours, as of six months, and in battalion size.

Military commanders in Europe are reported as opposing the last two suggestions, but they also do not like a further ban on dependent travel.

One wonders if the Defense Department will give more than lip service to some of the pending personnel legislation which would cost money. Speaking of legislation, the department has issued an order placing military representation before Congress entirely in the hands of the Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Legislative Affairs. No longer is it "mandatory" for the individual Services to have legislation liaison offices on Capitol Hill. No longer does the department's legislative director have to work through the Service Secretaries in arranging for testimony before Congressional committees.

Obviously, this means that the department will pick officer witnesses who agree to go

INSIDE THE MAIN GATE

By Mid'n. W . S. Williamson '62

SERVICE SELECTION TIME NEAR FOR FIRST CLASS

The culmination of one's .Academy career is, of course, his qualification for commissioning and assignment to duty with the operating forces of the fleet. Today's first class Midshipmen have all of the assistance possible in selecting the career pattern they will follow. Our Navy provides an almost unlimited number of opportunities for duty exactly suited to the abilities and interests of the individual.

At one time. Academy graduates went to sea as passed-Midshipmen, to return to Annapolis for a commissioning examination at the end of two years of seasoning in the fleet. Later graduates drew lots t o s e e which man would have his choice of ship or duty assignment during his first commissioned tour. First-classmen now make their selections on the basis of class standing at the end of the third academic year. This practice has increased underclass awareness of the importance of doing their best at all times, reminiscent of the days when only those in the upper portion of a graduating class could ever hope for a service career. Exceptions to the case of selection based on straight class standing will be the choice of candidates for the United States Marine Corps, Army, and Air Force, where selection will conform to the academic and physical profile of the entire graduating class. Not more than 7j/2% of the graduating class, now 792 strong, may enter the Marine Corps, and the 1 2 ^ % of our class being commissioned in other services not under the control of the Secretary of the Navy must present as a group the same physical and academic profile as the total class. Specifically, a maximum of fifty-nine men may become Marines, and the .'^ir Force and .4rmy will receive a maximum of ninety-nine Naval .'Academy graduates.

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Five candidates for the Advanced Science and Engineering (Burke) Program will be selected by the Superintendent; their first year will be spent at sea in operational units of the fleet, preferably destroyers.

One hundred candidates for the Nuclear Power Program will be nominated. They will be interviewed by a board composed of representatives of the Naval Academy, the Division of Reactor Development, Atomic Energy Commission, and the Bureau of Naval Personnel. Those selected will receive a personal interview with Admiral Rickover and his staff. Completion of selection is planned prior to the start of the second academic term, so that the selected Midshipmen may take elective subjects best suited for Nuclear Power School. Although many of these men will become atomic submarine officers, an additional one hundred men will be accepted for conventional submarine training at New London this July, again based on class standing.

All volunteers physically qualified will be assigned to one of twelve classes for naval flight training. In addition, not more than ten men will be assigned to the Naval Aviation Officer (observer) program. Certain men reporting to flight training and observer classes convening in September or nuclear propulsion classes in October will serve in the Plebe Summer Supervisor)' Detail.

Those midshipmen who are not physically qualified for the unrestricted line but who are otherwise qualified for a commission in the staff corps will be assigned to Civil Engineering Corps or the Supply Corps in the regular Navy.

Those men joining surface units of the fleet have a complete selection of ship types and home ports from which to make their selection. General headings this year are as follows : DD types (six types of ships, twelve home ports) ; MSO's (eight billets, four per

along with its viewpoints on legislation. And the Services will have an increasingly difficult time placing other views, or views on other matters, before Congress.

European Duty

Naval officers and enlisted men taken from sea duty and assigned to European duty are going to have a tough time if they are married. The Defense Department has refused to approve a request that European duty for Navy men who must leave their wives at home be reduced from 24 months to 13 months.

This European duty is considered shore duty. From shore duty, men usually return to sea duty.

There is little in the way of Government quarters in Europe for Navy men. They will have to live in towns, some in hotels. Wives who want to accompany their husbands will have to go as U. S. tourists, paying their own way.

Well, this is a lot of dreary stuff to wish on you at the start of a new year. Perhaps that's what much of it will turn out to be . . . only stuff. Anyway . . . Happy New Year! coast) ; cruisers and carriers (eight types, twelve home ports) ; and amphibious ships (six types, four home ports). The individual's preference will be accommodated in order of class standing.

A board of eleven Naval Academy project officers now serves in matters of service selection. The members of the board advise Midshipmen and Company Officers in service selection matters, obtain specific information for the area in which they are project officer, arrange and coordinate various service seminars held for the information of prospective candidates, and serve as a liaison agency with the fleet and concerned services.

Early in October, the Bureau of Personnel provided an excellent career counselling presentation for our class. Later in the month, complete information as to basis of selection, physical requirements, and available billets in all fields was provided for the class's consideration. From October through November, each man underwent a commissioning physical and was assigned one of eight physical designations with associated eligibilities for planning purposes.

During November and December, seminars were held by project officers, providing answers to specific questions posed by Midshipmen. Since a Midshipmen of any class may attend any or all of these seminars, they serve as an authentic source of information and are an excellent aid in making plans.

During December, an unofficial poll of tentative service choices allowed each man to make six choices for duty. Compiled lists of the results gave each Midshipman information as to which duty he might be assigned on this basis and his position on the list of supernumeraries for fully subscribed choices.

With nuclear power and Burke selections in January, service selection will be entirely completed in February. During March and April, Midshipmen will receive their individual orders.

It is good to know that the start of one's career is based on his own achievement to date and with the complete cooperation of qualified representatives of his chosen service. Although service selection began when we first became Midshipmen, this year's program will aid us in one of the more important decisions of our lifetime.

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The Mail Boat Shipmate: August Shipmate included a letter in "The Mail Boat" referring to some 75 ex-sailors and Marines who came to Newport Naval Training Station sometime after World W a r I (Jan. 1920) to try for the U. S. Naval Academy. I believe "Anonymous" was talking about the Naval Academy Preparatory Class of 1920. With the help of the signatures on the back of an old picture of the class (May 1920) and the Alumni Register I was able to put together quite a bit of information about the "Goat Islanders of 1920." Perhaps other readers can identify more members.

All of us didn't make it, but out of the 55 who entered the Naval Academy in the summer of 1920 via USS REINA MERCEDES,

33 graduated in 1924 and two in 1925. Nine made flag rank in the Navy or Marine Corps.

Two famous members of N A P C who did not graduate were Wilburt S. Brown who returned to his beloved Marine Corps and retired a B.Gen. and Bertram Kalisch who ended up in the Army and retired a Colonel.

The age limits for entrance to the Naval Academy in 1920 were "at least 16 years and not more than 20 by 1 April." An examination of birth dates available in the Alumni Register reveals that 31 of these prospective midshipmen ranged in age from 16^/2 years to 19 years 11 months. Half were over 19 years and several pretty close to the limit.

One of the group had four years' service by August 1920 and shipped over the day before he was sworn in as a midshipman. That paid the entrance fee! But the majority of the NAPC were short timers with I j ^ to 2

years' service. The big problem in the N A P C of 1920 was cramming into four months the knowledge that had been missed since the boys had been in school. Our instructors were three chaplains and three junior line officers. The discipline side was taken care of by CQM Spence.

Ex-enlisted midshipmen are not new to the Naval Academy. According to the Register there were two 1869 graduates appointed from "Navy Apprentice Boy," six in the Class of '70, two in '71 and three in '72.

These men probably received no schooling for the Naval Academy as we know it today.

This year a class of 299 sea service enlisted (237 are Navy and 62 Marines) has been picked for assignment to the Naval Preparatory School at Bainbridge to compete for SecNav appointments to the Naval Academy next July. A far cry from the small class of 75 sailors and Marines in the 1920 NAPC, the first one to receive formal preparation by the old Bureau of Navigation.

W. N. MANSFIELD '24 (ex-enlisted)

Naval Academy Preparatory Class, 1920, who entered U. S. Naval Academy June 1920 Alumni Number 7612 Axtell, Alan Wylie, Cdr. U S N R 7210 Bearce, Herbert Porter, Lt. U S N R (Ret.) Becker, Herbert Peter, BGen. USMC 7243 (Ret.) Bedell, Stanley White

7469 Bliesner, Arthur George, Maj. USMC (Ret.) Brown, Wilburt Scott, MGen. USMC (Ret.) Bryant, Cecil Rhodes 7755 Burling, Donald Oscar 7645 Caples, John Richard, Cdr. USNR Carter, Hampton Victor 7679 Colburn, Richard Castle 7447 *Cullen, Carl Edward, Capt. U S N Cullen, John Manley 7267 Day, Leonard William, Cdr. USNR 7303 Darlington, John Joseph, LCdr. USNR 7616 *Doggett, Burton Lee, LCdr. U S N 8131 *Durnell, Frank Lenox, Capt. USN (Ret.) 7355 Falge, Francis Marion, Capt. USNR (Ret.) 7687 *Flynn, James Martin, Lt. (jg) USN (Ret.) Glenn, Thomas Albert 7457 *Harvey, Warren Wallace, LCdr. USN Hatch, Andrew William (N-grad '25) 7428 Hayes, John Daniel, RAdm. U S N (Ret.) 7576 Heddens, Francis Marion 7462 Hoffman, Charles Monroe E., RAdm. USN (Ret.) 7565 Hogle, James Bernhardt, RAdm. USN (Ret.) 7244 Hunt, Alan Thornton, LCol. USMCR (Ret.) Kalisch, Bertram, Col. USAR (Ret.)

CAN YOU supply the missing names? First row, I. to r.: Kalisch, , Flynn, Murphy, Schenck, , Mansfield, Father Ryan?, Ens. Severyns '20, LCdr. McNair (in charge), , Ens. Kerr '20, Sail, , Carter, Waller, Kolb, Martin, Wisner, Lloyd. Second row: Willis, Hogle, Burling, , Rhinehordt, Hayes, J. D., Leban, , Bryant, C. R., Colburn, R. C , Axtell, Kenney, 14

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7314 Kennaday, John Martin, RAdm USN (Ret.) Kenny, John Michael, Jr. King, Herbert Thomas Kolb, Stanley Denmead Leban, Phillip 7253 *Lloyd, David James, Capt. U S N R 7207 Mansfield, William Noel, Capt. USNR (Ret.) 7638 Martin, Hugh Jack, RAdm. USN (Ret.) McCoy, William, Jr. Mead, James Albin Mills, Milton Alexander, Jr., LCdr. U S N R (Ret.) 7698 *Murphy, Elbert Mason 7438 *Palmer, Elbert Alonzo, Jr., Ens. U S N 7403 Rhamstine, John Rufus Roberts, Lester Willard 7311 Robillard, George Nelson, Capt. U S N (Ret.) Ryan, Joseph James, Jr. 7414 Sail, Herman * Schenck, Charles Alexander, Jr. 7361 Sinclair, George Angus, R.A.dm. U S N (Ret.) 7302 Smith, Perry Kenny, BGen. USMC (Ret.) Steel, Harry Van L. M. 7304 Stoddard, Gordon Millard, Capt. U S N (Ret.) 7185 *Waller, George Washington Doane, Jr., LCdr. U S N R (Ret.) 7607 Waller, Raymond Randolph, RAdm. USN (Ret.) 7534 *Willis, Donald Goss 1/Lt. USMC Wisner, Andrew Paul * Deceased Dear Classmates and Shipmates: I am a native of Gloucester, Massachusetts.

In my pre-Naval Academy youth units of

the fleet visited Gloucester harbor, and neighboring Rockport harbor frequently during the summer. Not every Gloucester boy has a boat, nor a means of visiting Uncle Sam's ships anchored out in the harbor. I didn't, and had to content myself looking longingly at these symbols of romance and adventure from the distant seawall. It was during these years of my youth that the fleet changed to gray paint. Often, in my dreams, I still see my home town harbor crowded with more naval vessels than it ever had together in reality.

I wanted to be a Marine or a sailor. At last I had an opportunity one day to go with my school class to visit the old NEBRASKA, anchored in Rockport Harbor. That did it. From that day, I never ceased to dream of the Navy.

In April of 1917 my Congressman held competitive examinations for additional appointments to the Naval Academy—the Class of '21 was to be enlarged. My cramming and my prayers brought success and a principal's appointment. Then followed another cramming period at Wilmer and Chew's School in Crabtown—five weeks of it—then the entrance examinations—an anxious wait—and —then the glorious news. I had made it. I and many others of '21 were sworn in in July 1917—was it in the Supe's office?

I can still smell the marking ink with which my gear was adorned during Plebe summer—and whenever I smell that particular kind of ink a flood of memories engulfs me. Plebe summer is remembered for infantry drill—at which I was pretty good for a Plebe—for our high school had a crack Cadet corps. But, at 16, I was not very heavily muscled—and boat drill and gym had bad moments for me, as much as I was thrilled to be a part of it all. Plebe summer is also marked in my memory by several times around the drill field at the double to pay for the watermelon rind throwing of some of our classmates. Remember that?

.A.cademics didn't both me too much—I worked hard at them—and for a high school sophomore stood up pretty well during Plebe and Youngster years.

After Larry (L. W.) Emerson, my Youngster year roommate, resigned late in 1918, I was left alone, and intrigued by his securing an Army commission—and later going to work in Chile, I began to dream of a more romantic life outside the walls.

I persuaded my father that this was the best thing for me—the war was over—all wars were probably over—outside some big company would offer me a fine job. I resigned.

The Commandant or one of his assistants interviewed me at the time—but apparently he didn't try to dissuade me very much—• or I was exceptionally hard-headed for so young a twerp. The resignation went through, and one day with mixed feelings I heard it read off at formation. I left on or about April 20 of 1919, and when I passed through those gates outbound—I had a premonition of the regret I was to feel for all of the rest of my life.

I wasn't out of the Academy nine months until I had enlisted in the Marine Corps— served at Quantico, and in Port au Prince, Haiti—a two-year enlistment—rising to the exalted rank of Sergeant, Topographer. They sent me to Officer Candidate School at Marine Barracks Washington in July 1921— thus "cheating" me out of a Second Lieutenant's commission in the Gendarmerie d'Haiti to which I was about to be appointed.

I chucked up a chance to be a Second Lieutenant of the Marine Corps because the Washington conference and disarmament in 1921 seemed to have done away with the need for Marines, at least in the eyes of a young idiot who thought destiny awaited him in the outside world.

But—as the twig's inclined the tree is bent —and after a two-year "career" in insurance I was in the Army as a Second Lieutenant of Field Artillery—having passed the entrance examinations for direct appointment.

Bliesner, Hunt, Cullen, J. M., Rhamstine, Caples, Sinclair, Dornell, Day, L. W., Cullen, C. E., Mills, M. Third row: Glen, T., — , Darlington, J. L., Bearce, Heddens, F. M., Smith, P. K., Bedell, Hoffman, C. M. E., , Stoddard, , Steel, H. V., Ryan, J. J., Jr., , Rossborough, Robillard, Waller, R. R., - , Harvey, Doggett, B. L., J A N U A R Y ,

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I learned to ride a horse and how to wear Squair's French Grammar—the latter has a my spurs—I reported for duty with them slip pasted in it: worn upside-down. It took me many months F R E N C H SECTION 42, Room 22 to get out of the habit of saying "Aye, Aye, Maury Hall, 2nd Hour Sir" to my Battery Commander, and I think Bayley, A. H. my sea-going Marine campaign hat annoyed Coloney, P. R. hell out of him.

Dodds, S. B. They finally transformed me from a sailorFollansbee, C. G. marine to a soldier and I went from station Harrison, W. J. to station and from duty to duty. In Panama Lamdin, G. R. in 1930 to 1932 I saw a little of the Navy McElroy, W. C. but mostly men I had never known—out of Madden, J. F. '24 or later classes.

Mauger, G. L. Moise, W. L. In 1948 I returned to Haiti as Military Peters, H. Attache, and there I came in regular and Saye, J. R. frequent contact with the Navy—my first and Sweeney, R. D. F. most enduring love. I greeted all visiting Wilson, B. B. ships at Port au Prince, and got a big bang out of going out with the pilot and climbing These two books are pretty well beat up—I up a rope ladder—or the more conventional having used them in re-learning French in ladder up the side of the destroyers, cruisers, Haiti in 1920—1948-51—1954. transports and aircraft carriers which came into port. I took the C.O.'s and occasional flag officers to visit the Ambassador and to Shipmate: make courtesy call on the Chief of Staff of That ferocious looking "triphibious" Mathe Haitian Armed Forces. My wife and I rine on the November cover clearly is strong entertained the visiting Navy brass—and on combat tactics but weak on Greek. Amphi were royally treated aboard ship in return— is the Greek prefix meaning "both." Biosis many a wonderful Sunday dinner is fondly . = "way of life." Amphibious thus means, in remembered with real Navy service and real effect, "at home in two elements." Boost our Navy ice cream in a land of quite inferior Marine into the air as well and he then beice cream. I really enjoyed that tour of duty—and my contacts with the Navy were comes tribioiis.

KEMP TOLLEY one of the most pleasant features of my job.

RAdm. USN (Ret.) '29 Again—in Panama in 1952-53 I had many contacts with the Navy, until the 5 and 30 law got me and I retired to return to Haiti for a job running Le Perchoir—a boite de MISCELLANY nuit located 3500 feet above Port au Prince in a breathtakingly beautiful spot. My son's illness ended that adventure and I came CHARLES A. COPP '68 back to the United States with no idea of FIRST ENLISTED MAN TO GRADUATE where or how to find a job. I ended up So far as the records show, the first former selling life insurance—went into civil defense enlisted man to graduate from the Naval work—did some topographical mapping—and Academy was Charles Albert Copp, Class of now am embarked upon another career as 1878. His graduation number is 897. Copp, a Chamber of Commerce Manager, here in born in New York, entered on 5 Nov. 1864 Winchester, Va. at the age of seventeen. He was one of five Married in 1926 to Marcia My Ikes of Bur- enlisted boys appointed but research has not lington, Vermont, we have three sons—one yet disclosed from what ship he came. The of whom graduated from the Point—and is four others appointed, E. E. Bladen, John now on furlough without pay for four years F. Fuller, Elwood H. Hippie and Frederick W. Rawdon, all failed to graduate. Bladen while he studies medicine at Cornell! is not listed in the USNA Alumni Register My heart is always with the Navy. I have among the non-graduates of 1878. a strong affection for the Academy which Legislation providing appointments to the I attended for some 21 months. It has been Naval Academy for the sons of officers and pleasant to receive Shipmate magazine—and for deserving enlisted boys was enacted in I read each issue—even the notes of other 1862 and orders went out to the squadrons classes—particularly the old-timers. at that time to make enlisted recommendaGood luck to you all—and to W. F. Fitz- tions. However, no enlisted candidates are gerald, Jr., with whom I served when we recorded as entering before 1864 although took the Army and Navy Staff School Course several sons of officers entered in 1863. together. May there always be a Naval Copp's career was tragically cut off as an Academy—and may it always turn out guys ensign when he was lost on 24 Jan. 1870 in like those who have run the Navy from 1845 the sinking of the sloop of war ONEIDA after until today. I am proud to have been a part a collision in Tokyo Bay, Japan. of the Navy—for so brief a period.

I have re-discovered this letter which I intended finishing months ago. Land-locked close to the Blue Ridge, I long for the sight and sounds of the sea and of the Navy. When the opportunity presents itself, here is one frustrated naval aspirant who will move closer to salt water where he grew up—and closer perhaps to the Academy where memory turns fondly and yearningly.

Best wishes to all of 1921.

C. G. FOLLANSBEE

Colonel, U. S. Army, Retired.

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StA BRESZES

by Paul R. Schratz '39 THE GENTLE ART OF RELAXATION

The new physical fitness program is in full swing and my men spend countless hours rolling around the decks and charging up and down the docks in pursuit of sylph-control. There's lots of good fun about it but there's also new zest to the old saw that life begins at 40 when physical requirements taper off. From a relatively safe refuge in the "over 40" category I'm probably not alone in finding time spent contemplating the 84 attitudes of Yoga more stimulating and much less tiring.

Don't get me wrong; physical fitness is great and we're all for it—the directive says so. Just last week I snaggled a load of railroad ties and sawed them up for firewood and then discovered they'd been fireproofed.

But two major problems which the program doesn't seem to reach are weight and worry.

Requirements tough enough to force ruthless weight reduction in our suet-side squads would probably produce a fair count of coronaries. Anything less hardly achieves the purpose. I'm not about to take sides, but the problem of worry, or nervous tension in the sophisticated lingo, is one to worry about, particularly as our responsibilities increase with age and seniority.

Physicians say the biggest health problem among executives, the major cause of ulcers, heart disease and nervous tension, is the inability to relax. Far too few seem to really know the gentle art of relaxation. Far too many slug away at the job to the point of exhaustion and then try a quick recharge through the cocktail shaker. Far too few have a sideline demanding enough to compete with the job. Some we know just can't relax off the job or even while sitting idle waiting for an appointment. Others "relax" completely in a fast game of tennis or golf which taxes every muscle in the body.

The man who can relax is the man who has a change of pace. If you're getting near the pale, stale, male stage, try a new hobby.

The requirements are simple—choose something which you enjoy doing, which breaks the normal routine, and which provides physical or mental stimulus as best suits your needs. And don't overlook just plain resting for relaxation.

Many flight surgeons find that 20 minutes "passive relaxation" in a legs-up position immediately after flight renews the vitality and makes our birdmen feel good as new. Pilots are better able to perform hazardous maneuvers like flying; they perceive dangers and react more quickly after such a 20minute break. The same technique is widely used by big league baseball players and by movie and TV actors, to restore both the vitality and timing so essential in the entertainment world.

For years I've invested spare time playing a fiddle, mainly because I thought I was too stubborn to give it up. But now I find it more and more an ideal change of pace.

It drives away neighbors as well as nervous tension but it's also an entree to a stimulating new world. And sometimes I've even got to relax in my job or the fiddle will drive me to the K T shaker.

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UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

Nominating Committee Slate And Call for Nominations

By Petitions In compliance with .Article VI, Section 1, of the By-Laws of the U. S. Naval Academy Alumni .Association, Inc., the Nominating Committee has submitted the following slate of candidates for offices of vice presidents and trustees-at-large which have been approved by the Board of Trustees.

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*For Eastern Area Vice President (two-year term) Capt. Royce N. Flippin, U S N R '26 (New York Chapter) RAdm. Dwight H. Day, U S N (Ret.) '23 (Richmond Chapter)

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OFFICERS President— ADM. JERAULD WRIGHT, U S N (Ret.) '18 (4915), Washington, D. C. Vice President (Eastern Area)— ADM. B . HALL HANLON, U S N (Ret.) '21 (5953), Washington, D. C. Vice President (Central Area)— CAPT. JOHN K . HYATT, U S N R '24 (7548), St. Louis, Mo;

Vice President (Western Area)— V. ADM I. N. KILAND, U S N (Ret.) '17 (4657), Coronado, Calif.

Past President— V. ADM. GEORGE C. DYER, U S N (Ret.) '19 (5127), Annapolis, Md. Executive Director— R. ADM. W . F . FITZGERALD, U S N (Ret.) '21 (5912), Annapolis, Md.

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 1962) R. ADM. E . M . ELLER, R. ADM. F . V. H. HILLES,

LT. GEN. C. C. JEROME,

CAPT. W . S . BUSIK,

USMC (Ret.) '22 (6451)

U S N '43 (15752)

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

R. ADM. E . B . FLUCKEY,

U S N (Ret.) '36 (12227) U S N '35 (11861) (To serve until Spring Meeting 1964) MR. HANSON W . BALDWIN,

R. ADM. H . D . MOULTON,

U S N R (Ret.) '31 (10026)

'24 (7405) V. ADM. E . W . CLEXTON,

CAPT. WALTER L . SMALL,

U S N '38 (13017)

U S N (Ret.) '24 (7181)

From Local Chapters

(To serve until Spring Meeting 1962) CAPT. E . K . ZITZEWITZ,

USNR '25 (7966), Chicago R. ADM. W . H . BURACKER,

U S N (Ret.) '20 (5427), Boston R. ADM. F . L . TEDDER, U S N

(Ret.) '26 (8433), Central, Fla. CDR. THOMAS I. MILLER, U S N R

(Ret.) '37 (12528), Connecticut COMO. C. C. BAUGHMAN, U S N

RADM. LOGAN MCKEE, U S N '21

(6093), Los Angeles CAPT. PAUL W . SIEGRIST,

USNR '24 (7369), New York CAPT. WALTER F . SEEDLOCK, U S N R

'41 (14292), Peninsula CAPT. THOMAS M . DELL, JR., U S N

(Ret.) '21 (6087). Philadelphia CAPT. EMORY D . STANLEY, JR. ( S C )

(Ret.) '07 (3107), Coronado

U S N '35 (11894), Seattle

MR. DANIEL C. WILKERSON, '20

V. ADM. GEORGE H . FORT, U S N

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Notes:

*One to be elected in each area. **The Nominating Committee and the Board of Trustees recommend that members vote for one nominee in each of the four groupings.

U S N (Ret.) '26 (8204) MR. EDWARD W . REBARD,

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

JANUARY,

**Four Trustees-at-large (three-year term) .A^tlantic Fleet .A^rea: LCdr. Joseph Metcalf, U S N '51 LCdr. Harry D. Train, U S N '49 Pacific Fleet .Area: LCdr. J. W. Hamilton, U S N '51 Maj. R. J. Perrich, USMC '47 Washington .A.rea: Capt. C. E. Bell, U S N '39 Capt. W . B. Parham, U S N '36 Continuity (Past trustee) RAdm. E. M. Eller, U S N (Ret.) '25 (Annapolis) Capt. E. K . Zitzewitz, U S N R '25 (Chicago)

R. ADM. PHILIP NIEKUM, JR.,

U S N (Ret.) '25 (7738)

Detroit

*For Western Area Vice President (two-year term) William Leo Keady '16 (San Francisco Chapter) Cdr. Claude L. Weigle, U S N (Ret.) '27 (Los Angeles Chapter)

(Ret.) '12 (3902), Wash., D. C.

From The Association By-Laws As soon as practicable after 1 June and in any event before 1 July each year the President shall appoint a Nominating Committee of seven members, representing as equably as possible the Eastern, Central, and Western Areas. Two members shall be Trustees-at-large. The remainder shall be regular members of the Association, not more than one of whom may be a Trustee from a local Association. It shall be the duty of the Nominating Committee to submit to the Board of Trustees, not later than December 10, a slate of candidates for the offices of President, Vice President, and Trustees-at-large, sufficient in number to fill all prospective vacancies. The nominations shall be published in the January issue of the official publication of the Association.

Nominations by petition may be submitted to the Board of Trustees not later than February 15. A petition for a nomination to any office must be signed by at least fifty members. (Italics added.)

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USS IDAHO ASSOCIATION PLANS FIFTH ANNUAL REUNION

For the fifth consecutive year, the 5th annual reunion of officers and men who served in the battleship IDAHO from 1919-1947 will be held at Norfolk, Va. The date for the reunion has been set for 20-22 July 1962.

The reunion will be held in Norfolk's new Golden Triangle Hotel, according to David C. Graham, the Chairman.

More detailed information concerning the reunion plans will be disseminated to all members of the Roster at the first of the year. It is the goal of the Association to contact EVERY living soul who served in IDAHO. The Roster now numbers some 1,200 names and addresses from EVERY state in the union. Whether you plan to attend the reunion or not, it is important to the Association that you contact them at the address (below) if you ever served in IDAHO. Dues for membership in the IDAHO Assn. are $2.00 per year. For further details please write t o : U S S

IDAHO Assn., P . O. Box

8048, Norfolk 3, Va. The fourth reunion which was held in Norfolk last July saw some 300 people in attendance from twenty-three (23) states.

The reunions are getting to be more popular with the members as they come to know about these wonderful gatherings.

MASQUERADERS—1962 MEN IN "BILLY BUDD," SEA DRAMA FROM MELVILLE NOVEL, HAD REAL ORIGINS

In Herman Melville's novelette, Billy Budd, from which Louis Coxe and Robert Chapman have adapted the drama coming to Mahan Hall, USNA, on February 2, 3, 9 and 10, there is a suggestion that Billy, himself, the "handsome sailor," and John Claggart, the evil master-at-arms, are of 18

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higher lineage than their lowly stations in His Majesty's Navy would suggest. But the actual heredity of these embodiments of innocence and wickedness is humble enough.

Their prototypes may be found in WhiteJacket, the book which Melville compiled from his experiences on board the frigate UNITED STATES, in 1943-44, eked out to a

very large extent by his readings of the books on naval life which were popular at the time, and by his powerful imagination.

The Billy Budd whom Mid'n John White will portray in the Masqueraders' forthcoming presentation is clearly derived from John J. Chase, captain of the maintop on the UNITED STATES. A S Jack Chase, he fig-

ures largely in White-Jacket, and to him Billy Budd was dedicated. Jack Chase, unlike guileless Billy, was no epitome of goodness ; he had his little vanities and minor tyrannies, and he had deserted from UNITED STATES to serve in the Peruvian Navy.

Melville describes him as "Tall and wellknit, with a clear open eye, a fine broad brow, and an abounding nut-brown beard," and recalls that he "was loved by the seamen and admired by the officers." Although his rank was far down in the scale of petty officers, he was influential among the crew and acted as their spokesman to the officers.

Jack Chase is known to have been a real person; some of the anecdotes about him which Melville relates are known to have occurred and while he was no saint in a bluejacket, he was a "handsome sailor," a "fighting peacemaker," and thus a likely candidate for transfiguration into Billy Budd.

As to the genealogy of John Claggart, the role to be played here by Mid'n David Oliver, Melville draws a very dark picture of the master-at-arms on the UNITED STATES,

whom he calls Bland. As the ship's policeman, charged with ferreting out olTenders among the hard-bitten, polyglot seamen who manned the ships of those days, he was hated for his office.

There are evident preliminary sketches of the character of Claggart in the author's description of Bland as souless—"an organic and irreclaimable scoundrel," who carried himself boldly despite the hatred of his shipmates and their threats against his life.

He was so detested for his cruelty that the sailors literally believed him in league with the devil. Although corporal punish-

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ment was, by law, vested in the captain alone, Bland carried a length of rope—with which he flogged the people on his own authority, sometimes later reporting them to the first lieutenant so they could receive a formal dose of the cat-o-nine-tails at the hands of the boatswain's mate. Jimmy Legs, as the masterat-arms was traditionally known, was often beaten by outraged seamen, and once, on shore, was terribly mutilated. This undoubted sadist is quite probably the source from which Claggart was derived.

CHESTER VI. NIMITZ JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL, TULSA, OKLAHOMA

On 27 October 1961, which is still remembered by many as Navy Day, Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz was at Tulsa, Oklahoma, where the Chester W. Nimitz Junior High School was dedicated. Admiral Nimitz was, of course, the guest of honor.

Not only was the dedication of this school a great honor to him personally but it was also an honor to the great Navy in which he served so faithfully and ably.

Fleet Admiral Nimitz's message to the students of this school w a s : To the Students of Nimitz Junior High School of Tulsa, Oklahoma: The future safety and well-being of our beloved country will be in the hands of the young people who are now passing through the Nation's schools like NIMITZ J U N I O R H I G H .

Keen and disciplined minds in healthy bodies will always be needed to keep our United States strong and to preserve the freedoms we now enjoy as citizens.

You boys and girls have in this beautiful modern school with its trained and experienced faculty the basic essentials to help you meet your adult responsibilities to your community and to your country.

The rest is up to you!

C. W.

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Fleet Admiral, U S N In addition to this school in Tulsa, a similar Junior High School in San Antonio, Texas, and a Grammar School in Sunnyvale, California, have been dedicated to Fleet Admiral Nimitz, SHIPMATE

All photos by Royce Craig, Tulsa FLEET ADMIRAL A N D MRS. NIMITZ looking at a color reproduction of Admiral Nimitz done by Adrian Lamb.

FLEET ADMIRAL NIMITZ with some of the students.

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l a s t Call BREEDON, ALBERT W I L L I A M (MAJ USAFR) ' 3 3 , 14 A u g . ' 6 1 BUTTLES, W I L L I A M STEVENS ' 2 1 CARROLL, PENN LEARY (COMO USN RET) ' 0 9 , 10 Dec. ' 6 1 — M o n t e r r e y , M e x i c o DESSEZ, J O H N HARRISON SEMMES, SR. (CAPT USN RET) ' 0 9 , 12 Dec. ' 6 1 — W a s h i n g t o n , D. C. EARLE, J O H N BAYLISS (CAPT USN RET) ' 0 7 , 10 Dec. ' 6 1 — U S N H , San D i e g o , Calif.

GRIFFIN, MARTIN (CDR USN RET) ' 1 4 , 3 Dec. ' 6 1 — U S N H , Charleston, S. C.

BoRiE from June '35 to Dec. '36. He also served at the Naval Academy, two tours in the Navy Department, and the Naval War College before going to the Norfolk area in 1937.

DICK McCULLOUGH has moved east.

His new address is S3 Rockview Ave., North Plainfield, New Jersey.

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Sec'y, Capt. R. 0 . Parker, U S N (Ret.) 5706 Bradley Blvd., Bethesda, Md.

REUBEN ROBERT SMITH

MAKOSKY, W I L L I A M EUGENE (CDR USN RET) ' 2 1 , 7 Dec. ' 6 1 — C h e s t e r t o w n , M d .

Capt. S M I T H , who had been ailing for about three years, had a heart attack on 19 November, was taken to the San Diego Naval Hospital, and died on 25 Nov. A funeral service was held at Benbough's Mortuary, followed by cremation. His widow, Hilda, remains at 6165 Mary Lane Drive, San Diego, for the present, but expects to move into an apartment.

McCARLEY, HENRY HARRIS (RADM USN RET) ' 3 2 , 13 Dec. ' 6 1 — S e a t t l e , W a s h .

J O H N BAYLISS EARLE

J O R D O N , ENOCH POPE, JR. ' 3 5 , 10 June ' 6 0 —California KINCAID, EARLE HILL (CAPT USN RET) ' 1 9 , 13 Dec. ' 6 1 — U S N H , Bethesda, M d .

SAVAGE, LOWELL CROSBY (CAPT USN) ' 4 1 , 17 DEC. ' 6 1 — A l e x a n d r i a , V a .

Capt. EARLE, who had long been fighting a kidney tumor, died at San Diego Naval Hospital on 10 Dec. There was no military funeral and no pallbearers; but a memorial service was held at the Episcopal Church on 13 Dec, followed by cremation. All three of his children were present. His widow, Grace Helen, will be at their home, 911 5th St., Coronado, for awhile before going to her daughter in Michigan and then returning to Coronado.

SMITH, REUBEN ROBERT (CAPT USN RET) ' 0 7 , 25 N o v . ' 6 1 — U S N H , San D i e g o , Calif.

FRANK DAVIS PRYOR

MONTGOMERY, ALFRED EUGENE ( V A D M USN RET) ' 1 2 , 15 Dec. ' 6 1 — U S N H , B r e m e r t o n , Wash.

MURPHY, CHARLTON LEWIS, JR. (RADM USN RET) ' 3 2 , 5 Dec. ' 6 1 — P h i l a d e l p h i a , Pa. PRYOR, FRANK DAVIS (CAPT USN RET) ' 0 7 , 5 Dec. ' 6 1 — C h a r l e s t o n , S. C.

SMITH, ROBERT LEE (1/LT USAF) ' 5 3 , 16 J a n .

'58 TREADWELL, LAWRENCE PENFIELD (CAPT USN RET) ' 0 4 , 11 Dec. ' 6 1 — U S N H , Portsmouth, Va.

A note from Mrs. George Logan tells of the death on 6 December of Capt. PRYOR at his home, 5 King St., Charleston, S. C. He had been very ill for over a year. The funeral at Connelly's Chapel was a small one and conducted by a Christian Scientist.

George Logan was the only classmate able

to attend. Frank is survived by his widow, Alice, by three sons, all in the U S A F or Army, by six grandchildren, and by a sister, Mrs. D. H. Murray of Pacific Grove, Calif.

GEORGE LOGAN is far from well himself; hence Daisy Logan writes for him. In which connection, a note from Martha H U M P H R E Y , down at New Smyrna Beach, Fla., says that "CHURCH'S" hands are too crippled by arthritis for writing at present, but holds out the hope that it will pass and permit him to speak for himself. .Anything from that almost legendary figure should be full of interest.

J O H N H O O V E R had been keeping an eagle eye on our Main Gate at the Naval ,A.cademy, and reports that the authorities there have at least done some much-needed work on 1907's bronze plaque which it bears.

With luck, some one of us may yet live to see his great-grandson strutting thru that gate, in uniform.

Sec'y. RAdm. Edward J. Foy, USN (Ret.) Sheraton Park Hotel, Washington 8, D. C. CLASS FUND

Since my last report, contributions have been received for the Class Fund from: Badt, Brereton, Payne and Pickering. There is still room for more in the bank. In spite of STICHEY's and JAB's contributions, the P A Y N E s are taking off for Florida within a few days for a stay of several weeks and the PICKERINGS for a cruise to South America, which only goes to show that both can be done without dire results in most FOOTBALL GRIPE

Beginning with plebe year, we have always looked with admiration and envy as our seniors treked and limped down the long steps of the stadium stands to their "status"

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The accompanying picture of RAdm. W I L LIAM RUSSELL W H I T E , USN ( R e t ) , was taken during June Week, 1961. Recently Adm. White underwent an operation which was entirely successful. He is now at his home in New Hope, Pa., pursuing his many interests as a citizen of his community and country.

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Sec'y, Capt. Allen B. Reed, U S N (Ret.), 3101 Woodley Rd., N . W .

Washington 8, D. C.

LAWRENCE PENFIELD TREADWELL

I regret to report that we have lost another friend and classmate. Capt. LAWRENCE T R E A D W E L L died in the Portsmouth, Virginia Naval Hospital on 11 Dec. '61, after a short illness. The funeral service was held at the (Jalilee Episcopal Church in Norfolk, and he was buried in Arlington Cemetery with an impressive service at the grave.

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RADM. WILLIAM RUSSELL WHITE '97 poses on the 1897 Seat during June Week, 1961.

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seats in the first two or three rows and wondered about the time when we would achieve such great distinction. As we progressed downward, however, and so had a closer look, we observed that the distinction was, indeed, a questionable one. In the first place there was the paradox of the "best" seats becoming the least desirable as the close plays were shut off from view by a solid curtain of the "squad" which always "rose to the occasion." This is commendable, of course, but it doesn't do much for those who have finally "become officers." .\nd then the long trek down to the front and the slow, and sometimes painful, climb back up between the halves and at game's end. I've seen some of our contemporaries and even older friends practically hoisted bodily up the steps.

I suppose that "status" must be purchased in some way, but I contend that if the older alumni were assigned seats higher up and near the exits, they could see more of the game and could come and go with much more facility. This gripe is offered gratuitously, but I believe it has merit. .\t the last several games I have envied窶馬ot those in the front row, but those in the fifteenth!

deadline. A complete writeup will be in the following issue.)

CLASS LUNCHEON

Twenty-two were present at the .\nnual Washington Ladies Luncheon on 21 November at the .Army-Navy Club: the Braisteds, Campbell, Chapline, the Comans, Justine Dresel, Harrison Dessez and daughter Sally Miller, McCauley, Martha Okie, the Platts, the Robertsons, the Poco Smiths, the Trains, the Wrights and .Admiral Tarrant '98.

M a r i o n DAVIS

A note from Marion says she expects to make a trip this February to Japan, Hong Kong and Thailand. Last year she says she rode a camel in Egypt and this next year will probably ride an elephant in Thailand.

J I M M Y DOYLE

Jimmy and Rie are still in Europe. No word as to when they will return to Annapolis. Address: La Carabela, Torremolinos, Malaga, Spain.

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HAPPY N E W YEAR

You can't imagine what a relief it is to write one of these notes without having to report the illness or passing of some good and old friend! Here's hoping that there will be no such sad reporting in 1962!

Sec'y, RAdm. Harold C. T r a i n , U S N (Ret.) 1 St. Mary's St., Annapolis, Md. PENN LEARY CARROLL

It is with great sadness that I report that PENN died of a heart attack at Monterey, Mexico, on 10 December. Funeral services were held at the Southern Presbyterian Church, Frankfort, Ky., on 15 December.

JOHN HARRISON SEMMES DESSEZ

I deeply regret to report H.ARRISON's death of a heart attack in his home, 3115 Jennifer St., N.W., Washington, D. C , on 12 December. Funeral services were held at the Fort Myer Chapel on 14 December followed by burial in the .Arlington National Cemetery.

(Note: It was too late to get more information for this issue of Shipmate, due to

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

Present at the class luncheon on 11 Dec. were: Meigs, Chandler, Loftin, Reynolds, Bieri, Cygon, Zimmerman and Griffin. A get well card was sent to N O E L PERLEY, who had a cataract operation at Bethesda on 5 December.

BOB H I N C K L E Y was unable to attend because of a repeat term of jury duty. He must have distinguished himself the first time!

R.AY McCLUNG and Margaret returned to Washington in December from his assignment by the State Department to South Viet Nam. He was able to assist in the industrial, particularly electrical, progress of the country and was instrumental in effecting the wider distribution of radio receivers among the populace, thus making more effective the output of the radio stations. Both were able to visit India and Japan in the course of their travels.

CARLOS BAILEY and MORT DEYO were in town, Carlos briefly and Mort busy with grandchildren, so we saw little of either.

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

ALFRED EUGENE MONTGOMERY

Another of our distinguished classmates passed on when "MONTY" died at the Naval Hospital at Bremerton, Wash., of a heart attack on 15 Dec. "Monty" was a pioneer in both submarines and aviation. He first served in E-boats, commanded an F-boat in W W I and later R and S-boats.

He became a naval aviator in 1922 and had a long and distinguished career in aviation.

When W W II started he was Chief of Staff for Com.AirLant. He commanded the RANGER, the Naval .Air Training Command at Corpus Christi and after promotion to Flag rank various Task Groups in the Pacific. After W W II he commanded AirPac, the First Fleet, with the rank of Vice Admiral and was then made commandant of the 16th Naval District in .Alaska.

He was one of our most decorated classmates, having been awarded the Navy Cross, the Distinguished Service Medal three times, the Legion of Merit twice and the Presidential Unit Citation five times. However, he remained modest and unassuming.

Funeral arrangements had not been completed on going to press.

Our heartfelt sympathy is extended to .Alice Claire and the family.

The following "old reliable" classmates were on hand at the Army-Navy game to root the Navy to our well earned victory: Lawrence Bischoff, "Jig-Jig" Brown, "Froggy" Fulton, Louis Denfeld, "Red" Whiting and "Mammy" Weems. Not bad, considering the fact that the T.V. is so good (and inexpensive) nowadays. They say our seats are finally getting to be good, being about ten rows behind the President this year.

"MIKE" MORRISSEY writes from the PRESIDENT POLK in the Med., that Helen and

he are well and enjoying their World Cruise.

They plan to be home by mid-February.

Evelyn PATRICK, Harry's widow, has been an invalid and bed patient at the Waverly Sanitarium in Rockville, Md., for a number of years. However, she is mentally alert

THE 1912-13 UNDEFEATED Naval Academy Basketball Team. This team was not only the champions of the South, but defeated the Intercollegiate champion of that year. The Navy team was not permitted to play away from home in those years and therefore was not declared intercollegiate champions. Left to right: L. J. Wiltse '14, G. W. Nelson '14, G. B. Davis '13, W . Cochran '13, F. W . McKee '13, J. L. Hall '13, L. Wild '13, C. J. McReavy '14, J. C. Cook '15, L. P. Wenzell '12, and C. C. Vickrey '15.

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and has an excellent memory and I am sure would enjoy hearing from some of her old friends.

S T E V E ROBINSON was thoughtful and generous enough to send flowers in the name of the class for F O R R E S T LAKE. Gretchen D A S H I E L L has sold her La Jolla home and has leased a home in Pasadena at 663 Arbor St. GEORGE FORT

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Corr. Sec'y, Paul D. Sleeper 4545 Connecticut Ave., N.W. Washington 8, D. C.

We had fine turnouts for our D.C. Nov. and Dec. luncheons. Those attending one or both were: Abbott, Glenn Davis, Helmick, Hill, Jupp, "Doug" Jones, "Jakey" Lee, Palmer, Rodes, Shine, Woodside, and Sleeper. We were particularly delighted to see "Pete" Rodes from Louisville and "Woody" Woods from New Haven; and it is always fine to have with us our Annapolis group of Hill, Jupp, Palmer, and Shine. We wish more "out-of-town" classmates could get to our D.C. luncheons. If you will be in D.C. even not for a regular luncheon, let me know ahead when, and I will get some of us together for a special luncheon for you.

Change of address for J. L. HALL—"We leave early in Dec. for Ellinor Village, Ormond Beach, Fla., to return about mid-April.

Best of luck to all of '13."

P. A. STEVENS—"All flemished down for the winter now at Balboa, Calif. Have fun."

"BURT" ANNIN—from Billings, Mont., tells me, "Wish I could make some of the D.C. luncheons, but give my best to all."

AUSTIN—"All is roses here—I am shot with luck. Marjorie doing good deeds and me dodging justice. Too bad we have to wait for our 50th until 1963, but it'll be fun."

BABBITT—"Merry Xmas to all. What's left of me, not too spry, but gaining after car collision." (Good luck, and an easy and quick recovery, Leman.)

BRIGGS—"Living quietly, fine in summer but not so good in winter altho' it is more moderate than on adjacent mainland. Haven't seen a classmate for years. Sorry I couldn't get to see LLOYD GRAY some time ago.

A few Army files live here, and a lot of folks retired from almost every occupation or profession."

BROWNELL—"Sorry not be at D.C. class luncheon, but my best to all everywhere."

CAS SARD—"Regret I can't be at luncheon, but my best to all."

CLARKE—"I just wish I could be on hand at the luncheon to wish all a good Xmas, and fine New Year. Please do it for me."

CLARKSON—"Sorry not to be at D.C. luncheon, looking forward to our 50th. Regards to all."

DOUGLAS—"Hope to be in Washington some time for one of the D.C. luncheons."

DuBOSE—"I hope to make one of the D.C. luncheons before too long."

GRAY—"Hope to come East for 1912's 50th, just an excuse to break in our new car and renew acquaintances. BUT W I L L surely be at our 50th in '63."

GRAYSON—"Too cold for me in Washington's December. See you in '63, if not sooner."

HATCH—"Regret I can't get to D.C. class luncheon in Dec. Regards to all."

HAZELTINE—"Leave for So. Pacific in Dec, return in Feb. Regards to all and best wishes for New Year."

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HUDSON—"Was in Brevard, N. C , in Also received cards or short notes from Nov. and distressed because LIGON and Dillingham, Donahue, Doyle, Henderson, Loynachan, Meek, Miller, Stevens, ThursHelen ARD were not home. I see so few classmates here, but think of them all often." ton, Todd, and Fay and Reggie Venable. All HUNT—"Dec. 14th is my birthday, and sent their best to all of '13 everywhere, as did I can't risk missing it here. Guess I'll have all of those above. to miss the Dec. luncheon. We'll probably I hope you all received your up-to-date have several feet of snow here then anyway."

Class Address List and report on our Class "BUCK" JONES—"Saw only DONA- Fund. In many cases I did not know the name H U E , J U N K I N , and S E I B E R T at T H E of your wife. Please send it to me, as I am GAME. My best to all." (Tough luck Army; just getting ready for OUR 50th.

Starting for our Jan., 1962, D.C. luncheon I feel sorry for the K-dets who have not played in an Army win over Navy. Guess you have received a new arrangement of the most of us prefer to "bend an elbow" and "Return Postcards." I know a lot of you can rarely get here, BUT you can send in look at TV.) MASEK—"So sorry; no can be there 13 N E W S about yourself. It will be published Dec. Would like to hear about our class- monthly in Shipmate. Please use it. Howmates. Not many left here." (Not sure. Bill, ever, N E W S must reach me by the 10th of if you belong to Alumni Assn. and get their the month to be in time for the issue of monthly Shipmate in which class news of all Shipmate for the following month, about six classes appears. It costs too much of our weeks after I send it to the Alumni Assn.

Class Fund to get out an "All Hands" Bul- under Class News. BUT send it in—all of letin every month for about only 10 or 12 us are interested in YOU. men in our class who do not get Shipmate.)

TOO BAD, A R M Y ! ! ! (Now they think McCAWLEY—"Gary and Louise Jones a new coach will do i t ! ! ! ) Frances and I, and all of the D.C. and and Margaret and I celebrated Thanksgiving together. All our kids were away. Had a fine Annapolis '13'ers hope the New Year will time. Merry Xmas and a fine New Year to be a wonderful one for You and YOURS. all."

McGUIRE—"Hope to find an apartment Sec'y, Cdr. Robert H. Maury, USN (Ret.) soon and get to real living once again. Best 208 Prince George St., Annapolis, Md. to all."

West Coast Corr. Sec'y. RAdm. O. O. Kessing, 842 D Ave., Coronado, Calif.

PARMELEE—"My real regrets that I can't be at the Dec. D.C. luncheon."

MARTIN GRIFFIN RITCHEL—"You asked me. After gradIt is with much regret that I have to anuating West Point, 1915, I retired as Col., USA, 1946. Then located in Louisville and nounce the death of our fine classmate MARowned and managed a corporation for ten T I N G R I F F I N whose passing occurred at years and did quite well. Am enjoying re- the Naval Hospital, Charleston, S. C, on 3 tired life. Last year toured Mexico, and December after a long illness. After he reusually motor to Florida or somewhere each tired in 1945 he joined the Port of New winter. I like to keep in touch with 1913 York Authority Aviation Department as government liaison representative until 1958 USNA." when he retired to make his home in CharlesROBINSON—"Plan to go to Honolulu ton. Funeral services were held at the Arfor Xmas. My best to all." lington National Cemetery on Tuesday, 5 RODES—"Enjoyed being at D.C. Nov. December, and was attended by as many lunch. It's great to get together with men classmates as were available in that area. you have known over 50 years."

He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Charlotte RUBLE—"Sorry can't be there. Will be Campbell Griffin. A wreath of flowers was sent by the class for the funeral, and a telethinking of all of you." gram of sympathy from the class was sent SEIBERT—"Best wishes and regards to to Mrs. (jriffin upon receipt of the death all." notice.

SEILLER, Mrs. Henry A.—"I certainly hope to be at 1913's 50th, with guest. Please reserve two single rooms. Was at a party BOB GARY and his better half Jane arafter A & N game and met a lot of old rived in this neck of the woods from their friends." home in Toledo, Ohio, the latter part of SHOCK—"Thebe and Babs here for lunch October. The primary reason for this trip recently, they both look like a million. Merry was to have Jane admitted to the Naval HosXmas to all and the Happiest of New Years." pital at Bethesda, Md., for a very serious heart operation. I am very happy to state THEBAUD—"Hope to be in D.C. latter that the operation was a complete success. part of Dec, before Xmas, as our daughter After several weeks in the hospital she is there. Just returned from driving back to visited their daughter, son-in-law and grandour summer place at Murray Bay. Hello to children in Annapolis for a few days before all." returning to Toledo. Their daughter Jane TIMBERLAKE—"Flying to Mexico City is married to Captain Walter L. Small, USN 30 Nov., where we have an apartment for '38, who is Director of Science and Engithe winter. My son lives there where he is neering at the Naval Academy. Jane was connected with Corn Products Corp. Will be in such perfect shape that the Smalls invited glad to see any classmates passing that way." the MAURYs and Miriam SLINGLUFF to come over and help celebrate the occasion, WALL.ACE—"Sorry now, but hope to be which we all did. A toast was given, not only at a D.C. luncheon before long. My son has for Jane's successful battle at Bethesda, but just been ordered to the Navy Dept., D. C, also for the Maurys who had recently been for shore duty there. These children surely "guests" at the Naval Hospital here and grow up." fully recovered. I will now play with that.

WOODSIDE—"It was great to see the I am very sorry that 1914 "Dope" for '13 group at the Nov. D.C. lunch. Best re- Shipmate (November and December) was gards to all." neglected; however Hazel did a fine job for ZEMKE—"Sorry I can't make the Dec. me, by submitting my plight to you in the luncheon. Everyone OK here. My best to November issue. "The news, as you will noall." tice in Shipmate, has to be submitted by the

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fi"eenth of the month in order to be mcluded in the following month's issue. As is usually the case I was waiting until the fifteenth of October before submitting our dope to the Editor. Unfortunately for me I "went to sleep" on the evening of 12th October, and was discovered by Hazel who found me at the foot of the stairway leading to my school office. I was kept at the Naval Hospital in .Annapolis urtil the afternoon of 25 October when the doctors decided I had been "sleeping" long enough in Annapolis so they had me carted by ambulance forty miles away to Bethesda to see what they could do to wake me up. .After about five days there my peaceful sleeping ended somewhat and I began receiving news, both past and present, the most important being that my better half, Hazel, had just recovered from pneumonia which I did not know she had. She had been admitted to the Naval Hospital in Annapolis on 21 October and although in the same hospital with me she was not permitted to see me due to her serious condition and I would not have taken it in anyway! However, all is well that ends well and on 24 November Hazel was able to drive up to Bethesda and bring me back home, fully recovered. While at Bethesda all members of the class in that area came by to see me which I appreciated very much.

They were Calvert Carey, Hale, Perry, Redman and Spanagel; also Bob Cary who came in quite often as Jane was also at Bethesda at the time as mentioned earlier.

While in the hospital I received a very fine letter from "Horse" Pennoyer (Class of 1915) praising our marvelous classmate " P I N K I E " P O W E R S . It seems as though Pennoyer's wife had to undergo the operation on her vocal cords which was the same ailment as "Pinkie's." After her operation "Pinkie" immediately offered his help and I understand from a lengthy praising letter I received from "Horse" that "Pinkie" has been doing a wonderful and successful job towards helping Mrs. Pennoyer in her difficulty.

I received a letter from D O N ROYCE recently giving me the names of those members of the class who were seen at the ArmyNavy game: Royce, Conolly, Mittendorf, Rosendahl, Downey, Wills, and the Beards.

Betty Boak was seen several rows down the line. Don said that the conspicuous absentees (those who rarely miss a game) were Babe BROWN, "Fats" MECUM and Dutch SPANAGEL. Kelly BEARD said that he had seen thirty-eight Army-Navy games and witnessed another one from his window at the Naval Hospital in Philadelphia last year.

Can anyone match that record? Answers from any U S N A class, including the 1890's, are invited to challenge this.

H A R V E Y M I T T E N D O R F has changed his address to 245 East Northfield Rd., Livingston, N. J. I received a letter from him in September stating that they have a gathering of the class in the New York area every once in a while. He gave me a list of those attending the last gathering which took place early in September at DON ROYCE's home in Riverside, Conn. In addition to the wives who attended with their husbands the following guests were present. Ralston's daughter and three of Don's daughters. Classmates who attended this gala affair (others in that general area were invited but could not come) were Royce, Ralston, Wills, Burrough, Conolly and Mittendorf. If there should be other gatherings of the class in any of our areas please let me know so that the news can be given to Shipmate. I understand that the SW.AINs had one recently at their home in La Mesa, Calif., but do not know the details.

JANUARY,

1962

Anne W I L S O N has returned to her home in Washington after a delightful trip to Honolulu and California. Her address is 5918 Broad Branch Rd., N.W., Washington 15, D. C. W A R N E R BAYLEY informs me that he and BILL POPH.AM are the only Fourteeners living in his area of the country now since M A R T I N G R I F F I N has passed away.

The Bayleys live at Whitehall Point, Beaufort, S. C , and the Pophams are still at their home 129 Tradd St., Charleston, S. C. Gerena M A C G O W . A N has just written giving me the good news that Shorty is holding his own. He reports to Letterman Hospital once every three weeks. She says that it is wonderful what his assortment of pills of various sizes and colors can do, plus eye drops.

R-ALPH D.AVIS wrote me about a month ago saying that Dorothy was a patient at the Naval Hospital in Portsmouth, Va. We all hope, Ralph, that she has fully recovered and that her recovery will give both of you a very happy Yuletide Season.

Here's hoping that the New Year will be such that we can cheerfully continue to G I V E A T O A S T TO T H E BEST O F T H E M ALL, F O U R T E E N .

notice, five Fifteeners saw this year's ArmyNavy football game. T E D B R E E D with a man friend from Philadelphia, C L A U D E VICKREY with a girl friend from New York, and R I P S T R U B L E were there. After the game your class secretary saw S T U A R T and Elizabeth CLARK who had given their tickets to the grandchildren and then had bemoaned their fate when the weather was so fine. Both Stu and Elizabeth were looking splendid.

Hortense CL.ARK from Portsmouth, Va., and Dot E L D R E D G E from Nashville, Tenn., visited Washington in November to see Kay KICKS who was returning from Europe to California. It was a very pleasant get-together and all the girls were sparkling. Dot was in Europe this summer. Her son is in a bank in Nashville and she expects to remain there.

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

SAM J E N K I N S writes from Torremolinos-Malaga-Spain that N A T and ARCH H O W A R D had written about the Bulletin and he wanted a copy sent to him. La Bulletin va a Malaga. Sam mentions Torremolinos most favorably as a place to visit and hopes that any friends coming that way will stop by and see them. Living room, liquor, and meals will be provided. More of Sam's fine letter will be in the Bulletin. They expect to return to Los Angeles about July first for about four months. Sam says that healthwise he and Hazel are OK at the moment but not yet in H O K E SMITH'S class.

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Sec.-Treas., Capt. E. S. Earnhardt, U S N (Ret.), 3900 Calverton Dr., Colleee Heights Estates, Hyattsville. Md. Corr. Sec'y, Mrs. Leon F. Brown 20 Sonthgate Avenue Annapolis. Maryland West Coast Sec'y. Cdr. E. F. Cochrane, U S N (Ret.), 4315 Avalon Blvd.

San Diego 3, Calif.

Yours truly wishes to correct an error in the Shipmate you received in November with the write-up and picture of the Reunion of '16. I listed BRO.A.DFOOT in the back row of the picture of the class, and it should have been LARRY DOYLE. The November class luncheon held in the Army-Navy Club, Washington, D. C , was attended by Durgin, Earnhardt, Fechteler, Hawthorne, Merwin, and Steele. CAL DURGIN was a surprise and welcome visitor.

He gave an interesting account of his life on some acreage at Dogue, King George County, Va.; however his status remains retired rather than a farmer.

The class luncheons are held after the deadline for Shipmate, therefore late.

Had such a nice letter from Helen H A L P I N E thanking the class for the beautiful flowers at GREHAM's funeral.

GEORGE CH-A,PLINE expects to take off for an air trip to Lisbon about 22 Dec.; after arrival he will take a deluxe tour of Spain, both in the south and western area, including Madrid, and expects to be back early in January. Have a wonderful time, George, and give us a glowing account of the trip.

LEON and Marj. F I S K E left their Kailua, Oahu, Hawaii, home on S November, and flew to Pasadena where they visited Leon's parents for a week. Then they flew to .Albuquerque and spent three-weeks-plus as house guests of Marion and Dean Douglas '17, and renewed acquaintance with many old Navy and civilian friends whom they had met on their previous visit two years ago, including the VYTLACILS, and Cap and Molly Ward of Santa Fe. Saw the A & N game in .Mbuquerque, and played in their first snow in several years—snow on the ground, yet, not just on the distant mountain tops. They flew back on 4 Dec, to see what was left of their beach home which had been left to the tender mercies of their three children, two grandchildren, parrot and police dog. No report yet on what they found.

Nino Gregory gave me the following article from a newspaper: "The Captain of U S S THOMAS A. EDISON, Polaris submarine, is

Capt. Charles M. Young '42. Old timers who were in Coco Solo when he was born will remember that Ted liked to call him Charlie Yong." Nino remembers this as he was in Coco Solo at that time.

WEST COAST ACTIVITIES

It is with pleasure that we welcomed J E S S E and Lorna K E N W O R T H Y to the California Southland in October. Their new address is: 1381 Crest Drive, Encinitas, Calif.

CHUCK and Trudy EMERSON are celebrating the selection to Captain of their son, Arthur T., Jr., '43. Congratulation, Art, Jr. I K E and Peg G E I S E N H O F F journeyed down from Paradise near the northern fringes of California and spent a few days around Thanksgiving with their daughter and son-in-law, Harriet and Frank Rile '38, and the grandchildren, in Coronado. They also played in the Contract Bridge Tournament at the Coronado Hotel.

The November San Diego '16-'17er luncheon held on the 16th at the Admiral Kidd Club arrived on the tail-end of a whopper and chilly "Santa Ana." It not only cooled off our usually balmy days, but spawned a 24

full-grown sand storm which slowed down traffic for several hours north and east of here. Much to our surprise the attendance record for our luncheon was broken with 23 stalwarts arriving. Other surprises followed : Jesse and Lorna Kenworthy arrived, their first visit with our compatriots, and even the turbulent prelims were forgotten for quite some time. Ward Davis '17 checked in and was warmly greeted by All Hands.

Kay and Ward left their Warrenton fireside to visit with their daughter, now a teacher in the Coronado schools. GLOOM BATEMAN was the next to blow in. He had successfully negotiated the existing turbulent atmospheric disturbances enroute from San Clemente to participate in the day's hectic fracus. GLOOM RUTLEDGE, who unfortunately for us is not able to attend regularly, blew in and the turmoil was general.

Finally, with time slipping by entirely too fast, the perplexing prelims got underway.

The action was fast and furious. Gloom Bateman, who had successfully avoided catching a prize in previous encounters, got smacked with the initial citation—no tender jolt!—and while the boys were consoling Gloom, PARSON RICHARDS, the faithful, got caught behind the line for the second citation—another sizeable document! With chow about to be piped down, our LIL H E R N D O N came through to absorb the final ticket of the day. He didn't even bat an eye. Rumor has it that Lil had picked the bank on his recent trip to Las Vegas and returned home with a pot full. Being Smorgasbord Day, the boys teed off on the fare which was extra good. With the serious business of taking on provisions secured, B. COCHR.A.NE presented his guest. Bob Stockton of Mission Hills, to the conclave.

Ward Davis was next presented. He expressed his pleasure at being with us and particularly with his failure of being caught in those prelims I From his subsequent comments it appears that he and Kay may decide to settle down in the area, a decision all of us would welcome. Jesse was then presented and expressed his pleasure in being in the area and with us.

Several of our regulars couldn't make the affair: CHUCK EMERSON and JACK T E R H U N E were busily engaged in their Education Center, POSSUM W E B B in bed with a flu bug, DORSEY P R I C E still on the medico's list, and FRED H A E B E R L E just not up to snuff that day.

Thus, with the shadows growing long and a very pleasant day under our belts, off we zoomed to our shelters to wait the call for our Christmas Party.

Attending not already listed: Bennett, Benson, Carrington, Fahrion, Grassie, Holmes, Jenkins, Kiland, Loventhal, McGinnis, Rogers, Sauer, Warren, Walter Webb, and Wessell.

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Sec'y, Capt. J. G. M. Stone. USNR (Ret.) 248 King George St., Annapolis. Md.

WARDEN—Red and Elna returned to Crabtown from Europe on 30 Nov. They had a delightful trip.

DAVIS—WARD and Kay recently gave a party for their daughter, Dorothea, to announce her engagement. S P I K E F A H R I O N sends in this news—says Ward and Kay are looking fine. The party was in Coronado.

A distinguished trio consisting of N I N O GREGORY, CHUCK KELLY, and your yeoman went in to Bancroft to witness the welcome home to our splendid Navy team on 3 Dec. It was a rousing welcome.

PAIiK—POSSUM and Marion have left for Arizona. It seems there is a new sheriff around Port Haywood, but he says he left because of the cold weather.

REUNION—We are now making plans to hold our 45th after Homecoming when we have a game at the stadium. We shall reserve about 50 rooms and will ask the class to write individually and take them off our hands. Carvel has picked up considerably under Athletic Ass'n ownership. We plan dinner Friday, luncheon and dinner Saturday, and a despidida given by the Stones at '48 King George St., after Chapel Sunday.

That seems to be about all we can stand up to—and we hope all who can will attend.

Any changes will appear in Shipmate as will final plans.

NOBLE—CHUCK and Madeline are off to Cleveland to see children and grandchildren over Christmas.

A very Happy New Year to all of you wherever you may be.

With love and good cheer, JACK

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

EARLE HILL KINCAID

His many friends will be saddened by the death of E A R L E KINCAID on 13 Dec. Stricken by a cerebral hemorrhage that evening at Washington's Army & Navy Club, he died about midnight at Bethesda.

Funeral services were held at .Arlington with full military honors on 18 Dec. The crowded Chapel at Ft. Myer testified to his wide and warm friendships. Honorary pallbearers included his former Yangtse Patrol Commander, RAdm. John D. Wainwright 'GO, MGen. R. VanBrunt, USMA '25, commanding the Army's Second Corps Area, VAdm. L. P. Lovette '18 and RAdm. J. A. Briggs '23. Dyer, Settle, Thurber, Fink and Dierdorff represented the class. Earle's rector, the Rev. Dr. Lord, assisted at the Chapel and read the Committal Service. Its somber beauty was enhanced by the sun which had broken through the wintry clouds shortly before.

Earle's enthusiasms and experiences were so many and varied as to render it difficult adequately to touch upon them. He developed into a talented painter, was a lover (and writer) of poetry and one of '19s staunchest supporters. A onetime class secretary, he was a valued member of our Executive Committee. Most of all he was a lover of the life he had lived so fully.

His honors included the Legion of Merit for services in command of five Advanced Bases in the Solomons, an Army Bronze Star for his command at Bougainville and both the Navy and Marine Corps Medal and the Treasury's Silver Lifesaving Medal for his heroism in saving a 3-year-old child and two adults stranded at Prices Neck, R. I., during the 1938 hurricane.

In the early '20s while Navigator of the KiTTERY, his observations in spotting storms through radio static led to his development and patenting of the Navy's "Static Recorder," a forerunner of radar. In 1924 he conceived and prepared a "Pilot Chart of the Upper Atmosphere," the first of its kind.

During this period he qualified in Lighterthan-Air and was Navigator of the SHENANDOAH that wild night she broke away from her mooring mast.

He taught navigation at the Naval Academy in the early '30s. His extensive Asiatic duty included service as Chief Staff Officer, S H I P M A T E

Conmiander, Yangtse Patrol (.Admiral Wainwright J, command of the SMITH-THOMPSON and duty with .\dm. Harry E. Yarnell on the flagship .AUGUSTA. Indeed he had been a guest in Boston about a week before his death, at the launching of the USS YARNELL. He was on convoy duty in WW I. During W W II his -Advanced Base duties ranged from Chief of Staff, .Argentia, Newfoundland and Deputy Chief of Staff, .Allied Forces, -Aruba-Curacao .Area to his commands in the South Pacific.

Earle was a founding member of the .Army & Navy Country Club, a member of Washington's -Army-Navy CTlub, of the .American Military Engineers, the National and International Research Council and of St. Francis Episcopal Church, Potomac, Md. He was on the Board of Directors of the Bankers Security Life Insurance .Association. His and Virginia's home, "Kinmor," is at 7913 Deepwell Drive, Washington 14, D. C. We e.xtend heartfelt sympathy to Virginia, their daughter, Mrs. Ralph Huschke, their two grandchildren and the family. Flarle will be greatly missed.

Dorothy -ATKINS visited the Washington.Annapolis area in mid-November. Unfortunately a mixup in our schedules resulted in our missing her kind call. But -Adaline DYER and Miriam BRY.ANT had the pleasure of seeing her. TOMMY is still busy with his Tacoma banking duties. In addition to their apartment there, the -Atkins have a Sound view summer place where they expect to settle permanently upon Tommy's retirement.

LEON and Louise W I S E N B A K E R enjoyed a pleasant trip recently to their native Georgia. Leon intends to retire from his Bureau of Ships duties on Feb. 17, 1962.

Insofar as we know, he is the last classmate working actively for the Navy. Shortly afterward, he and Louise plan to move to Georgia.

We will miss them in the W'ashington area but wish them a happy retirement.

D U K E WHITT.AKER is a Civil Engineer at the Veterans .Administration Hospital, Lebanon, Pa. In a note forwarding dues he writes: "I wish I could get down to see you and old sights (sites) of .Annapolis." Why not, Duke? That Stanley Steamer must still be a good car. But don't call me an "old sight of .Annapolis." I got a new front tooth from Christmas.

L-AURENCE and Etheljane S C H E T K Y were in the Washington area in December.

They had Thanksgiving dinner in York, Pa., with the Malcolm Schetkys. (LCdr. Malcolm is on duty there. I saw him, Lois and their two fine sons at the Virginia game.) Etheljane had some additional surgery on her right wrist on 5 Dec. They expected to be back in Rhode Island by (Zhristmas.

It will be remembered that N I N O P O S T suffered a heart attack last spring on the operating table just before the surgeons started. He had recovered sufficiently this fall to allow the doctors to proceed. His welcome mid-December card reports : "I am doing well since I came out of St. .Albans and haven't felt better in years."

HARRY and Kathryn GOODWIN returned late in November from an interesting two-month cruise in the CAROXI.\ to the Black Sea. While behind the Iron Curtain they visited Constanta, Rumania and Yalta.

In addition to calls at Constantinople, they touched at numerous Mediterranean ports.

'19's Memorial Stadium Gate is one of the two flanking the east stands. Under the Class J A N U A R Y ,

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A RECENT SNAPSHOT of Earl and Virginia Kincaid ('19) in tjieir garden at "Kinmor."

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Seal on its handsome bronze plaque is the inscription: IN MEMORY O F CAPTAIN JAMES EUGENE KIERNAN U N I T E D S T A T E S N.AVY A N D IN H O N O R O F T H E CL.ASS O F 1919 U N I T E D S T A T E S N.AVAL ACADEMY This gate is the most generous gift of Mrs. James Eugene KIERN.AN. Writing under her maiden and professional name of Patricia Murphy, her very interesting autobiography, Glon' of Candlelight, has just been published by Prentice-Hall. There are 8 full color photographs and an excellent picture of Captain Kiernan. Personally autographed copies may be obtained by sending $3.95 to Patricia Murphy, Candelight Restaurant, Central Park Ave., Yonkers, N. A'.

The title derives from such fabulously successful Candlelight Restaurants as those in Bahia Mar, Florida, and Yonkers, N. Y. The story tells vividly how she brought them into being. It is a feminine Horatio .Alger tale of how a 19-year-old Irish girl from Placentia, Newfoundland, arrived in New A'ork in 1929, intent on a musical career and with but $60. The Candlelights are a tribute to her courage, skill and determination and to our "Rosie's" able assistance.

-A special section of the book is devoted to recipes for the famous dishes most asked for by her patrons. -A third section covers gardening advice and descriptions of her beautiful homes and restaurants. -All who were present when the Stadium and Memorial Gate were dedicated in 1959 will remember the profusion of orchids and the flaconettes of Patricia Murphy perfume which she had flown down for the occasion. -And the book mirrors vividly her devotion to her and our "Rosie."

'19 was well represented at the .ArmyNavy game on 2 Dec. The Dyers, Willenbuchers. Lambs, Greers, Steins, Goodwins, Joneses, Dierdorffs, Whitey Whitehead, Dutch Schildhauer, Dick Crawford and Laurence Schetky (with son, LCdr. Malcolm) brought our total to 20. -A beautiful dav and a fine game. None enjoyed it more than HARRY GOODWIN who in 1916 made the only Navy score, a touchdown, against -Army while '19 were Midshipmen.

Erica Samouce writes that her husband, Col. "Sammy" Samouce, USM.A '22 didn't enjoy the game as much as did we.

F R E D BELTZ's cheery Bradenton, Fla., Christmas letter reports : "I suspect at times I am getting my second wind as I am spreading a little propaganda for an expedition across the state to Cape Canaveral to kibitz our rocket and missile program. Of course Sara will have to wheel-chair me up to the knotholes. That will give me a chance to christen my wheel-chair that I have had standing by for over six years and have not even sat in." Why not test it out in orbit, Freddy, against our 45th Reunion in 1963?

Thaddeese R H O T O N ' s new address is 6125 Dinwiddle, .Apt. J-1, Springfield, Va. Eleven filled the round table nicely at our 5 Dec. luncheon. They were Rochester, Willenbucher, Read, Cochran, King, Schildhauer, Dyer, Schoeffel, Jones, Schetky and Dierdorff. But we can always fit in more!

Sec'y. Capt. John F. Crowe, Jr., U S N (Ret.). 4431 Volta PI.. N.W. Washington 7, D. C. CHARLES D I X O N EDMUNDS

SHORTY suffered a stroke on 26 -August and died at Oak Knoll on 18 November. Interment was at Golden Gate National Cemetery. The following classmates and old shipmates acted as honorary pallbearers: Bonney D. Harrison, Haven, Ketcham, Morse, and Parker of '20 and Nichols and Russel of '21.

Shorty spent a large fraction of his naval career, both ashore and afloat, with the submarine outfit. He loved the boats and was one of the best operators. In 1930-31 the S-29, under his command, won the Battle Efficiency Pennant. He later commanded the BASS. During W W II he commanded, at different times, two submarine divisions, two submarine squadrons, and the Submarine Base at Pearl Harbor.

We have lost a good classmate, a good shipmate and a good friend. Shorty is survived by his widow, Mary, whom many of us know; a daughter, Mrs. G. E. O'Hara, of Vallejo; a son, C. D. Jr., of Honolulu; and a son, LCdr. P. H. Edmunds '52, currently serving as flag lieutenant to ComSoLant. Mary's address is 2039 West F St., Napa, Calif.

The following attended the class luncheon on 8 December at the -Army-Navy Club: Bassett, Browder, Bryan, Christmas, Crowe, 25

Curts, Daggett, Dettmann, Fitz, Hague, Holsinger, Martin, MuUinix, Nibecker, Osborn, Pearson, Robbins, Sabalot, Wachtler, and Wilkerson. Tommy Robbins brought us up to date on current happenings in the active Navy.

CARROLL BONNEY continues to look after our interests in the San Francisco Bay area and sends in the news. Aside from doing all he can in visiting and assisting ill classmates and shipmates and working full time, Carroll also has time for politics, American Legion meetings and social gatherings.

Keep up the good work, Carroll.

H O P P Y H O P W O O D and Jean are now living at 68 Tennyson Drive, Short Hills, N. J. Hoppy is Vice-President, W. R. Grace Lines, New York Operations Div. He was about to leave on a survey of the Caribbean area. Hoppy and Jean have become grandparents for the second time. Elizabeth Jean was born in June—the daughter of their eldest son, Herbert, Jr., and Elizabeth. Herbert, Jr., is a Navy doctor on duty at the Naval Hospital Great Lakes, in a residency in Gynecology and Obstetrics. Hoppy and Jean send fondest regards to all hands. Hoppy also enclosed a generous contribution for the class fund.

GERMANY and Nina CURTS recently returned from a one month's European trip, business for Germany and pleasure for Nina.

Germany, in his capacity of Director of Telecommunications Policy in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, visited various Defense Department Communications Installations in Europe. They stopped at Madrid, Naples, where they stayed with the Cat Browns '21, at Villa Niki, Pompeii, Capri, Rome, the Riviera, Heidelberg, Paris, Orleans, The Hague, Amsterdam, and London.

They had the opportunity of visiting their son's family at Cap Ferrat; he is attached to the Sixth Fleet. Germany and Nina also saw their granddaughter, who is in school at Dampierre near Brieux Air Force Base.

•While in London, they spent a weekend with the Page Smiths '25, at Romney.

The CROWEs traveled to Fort Knox, Ky., in November to visit their Army Captain son (USMA '51) and family. Fort Knox is the Headquarters of the Armor Force and probably the largest the Army has in this country from the point of view of manpower. A large number of officer and enlisted trainees are undergoing training in connection with the current Army build-up.

We had a look at the gold storage vault from a respectful distance but were unable to get close enough to investigate the reported slow leak therefrom.

SAVVY H A R R I S O N advises that W . G. (Little Bill) INGRAM recently moved to California from St. Louis; his new address is 3851 Holland Drive, Santa Rosa, Calif.

Savvy and Little Bill were roommates as midshipmen for the entire course and curiously both have lived in St. Louis for the past few years. Savvy is Vice-President of McDonnel Aircraft. The Harrisons' younger boy is a plebe. At the Naval Academy's Parents Weekend at the end of last summer.

Savvy was pleasantly surprised by Wesley Hague tapping him on the shoulder. It developed that Wesley was there with a grandson plebe.

OBIE and Corliss LAIRD moved into their new house (designed by Obie) last June and sent this address : P. O. Box 173, Portsmouth, R. I. Since then, Obie has worked like a beaver to get a lawn started and also as a carpenter to correct the builder's miscues. He is now resting on his oars for the winter and come spring he will learn if his grass can compete with the 26

vigorous weeds and crab grass of the island of Aquidneck; also, whether the 28 trees he had planted survive the winter gales. The Lairds are very happy in their new house which is 100 feet from the water and one and three quarters miles to the far shore; the view is beautiful and the surroundings lovely. They send their best to all hands and invite classmates traveling northbound on Route 138 to drop in for a snifter; as you pass the Portsmouth, R. I. Town Hall and see a sign "Lawrence Farm," turn in and that's his place.

Obie saw DICK H A R T U N G recently at the N. A. Graduates Dinner and found him ready and willing, active and able. Dick spends six months in Newport and six months abroad.

SABBY SABALOT, JACK T E N EYCK, and SLIM H A U G E N recently voyaged from Annapolis to Daytona via the inland waterway aboard the luxuriously furnished 75-foot yacht VARAMISTA. They played bridge up to their ears and in general lived it up.

We are glad to learn from A L F BERGESEN that H U G H TAYLOR has been released from the hospital and is now home in Millenbeck, Lancaster County, Va. We hope Hugh continues to have a satisfactory recovery.

The BILL S W A N S T O N s returned from Spain a few months ago and are back in their home on the Eastern Shore, Oxford, Md. They recently spent a weekend with the BAILEY CONNELLYS at Clifton, Va., and expect to spend the winter in Florida.

was navigator of U S S CAPELLA, and subsequently commanded the U S S (CHARLESTON.

During W W II "Mac" served ashore in the Mediterranean at Oran. He was retired in '46.

He is survived by his widow, Annette, whose address is P. O. Box 420, Chestertown, Md.,—on the Eastern Shore. The class sent flowers and was represented at the graveside by Ferris, Hamilton, McCollum, McDowell, and Purves.

CLASS LUNCHEON

The regular November class luncheon was held at the Army and Navy Club, Washington. Present were: Biggs, Billingsly, Brumbaugh, Condon, Eimers, Ferris, Giles, James, Hamilton, Jamison, Country Moore, Noble, Purves, and Al, Charlie, and Don Smith.

EAST COAST NOTES

The -VyAYNE McDOWELLs spent Thanksgiving in the mid-west, Ohio mostly, visiting relatives. H A L and Vera HOUSER went to California to visit the DARRYL HOOVERs. Gail Morgan, while in Ft. Lauderdale recently, checked in with MAX W E L L B O R N and LEO FARRELL. The ED GRAVESes, COUNTRY MOORE states, are in Houston at present writing, visiting the JACOMINIs. SYD and Vivian B U N T I N G will spend Christmas at The Homestead. Shortly after Washington got its first inch or so of snow, CHARLIE S M I T H took off for Florida.

WEST COAST NOTES

GEORGE and Lucy P E E T invited the Marin County contingent in for dinner and to view George's slides taken at the 40th reunion at Annapolis. H A N K and Billie DIVOLL gave a buffet supper at their attracWILLIAM JOHN MURPHY tive Los Altos home. HARRY and Evelyn BILL M U R P H Y passed away on 23 No- G U T H R I E similarly entertained in their new vember at the National Naval Medical Center San Mateo apartment. Between the DivoU at Bethesda after a long illness. and the Guthrie parties, the entire class in Upon completion of the Naval Postgradu- the Bay Area was out in force. Some made ate course at Annapolis, he went to Massa- both parties. The hospitality was traditional chusetts Institute of Technology where he and the food and drink abundant. On 2 Dec, received his Master's Degree in Naval "P.G." and Ruth NICHOLS had all hands Architecture in 1926. As a naval constructor in to view and celebrate the Army-Navy he served for three years as Manager of the game. Action commenced at 0930 our time.

Peruvian Naval Shipyard at Callao, Peru, Four T V sets going simultaneously in four for which he was decorated by the Peruvian different rooms and two bars were in constant operation. After the final gun a sumpgovernment.

In 1944 Captain Murphy married Helen tuous repast was served and a huge cake Essary, a syndicated columnist for the Wash- with the final score iced in properly celeington Times-Herald, who died in 1951. In brated the Navy victory. J I M and Vera H A R R I S had a few friends and neighbors 1952 he married Anna F. Distler. in for a buffet style supper featuring Jim's He leaves his widow, Mrs. Anna Murphy, especially aged roast beef. Good news from of 2101 Connecticut Ave., N.W., Washing- the Southland: P E T E R and Bunny WRAY ton ; a sister, Mrs. Paul Shay of Milwaukee; planning to spend the holidays in the San and two brothers, RAdm. (Tharles H. Mur- Francisco area. T I M O'BRIEN flew from phy, U S N (Ret.), of Los Angeles, and San Diego to his daughter's home in Renton, Frank J. Murphy of Sacramento, Calif. The Wash., for the holidays. Connie has five Class of 1921 extends their deep sympathy children, and Tim hadn't yet become acto his family. quainted with the youngest, John Michael.

The interment in Arlington National GEORGE V A N D E U R S writes from Cemetery was with military honors. Among the honorary pallbearers were the following Spain: F I S H MOEBUS has four attractive members of his Naval Academy class: Ham- grandchildren in Naples. No, not Italians, ilton, Bolger, Brumbaugh, Purves, and their father, Maj. Bill Cook, USAF, is on duty there. San Francisco heard, last year, Thorp. that CAT BROWN was made an honorary citizen of Rhodes, and that he thus JDecame WILLIAM EUGENE MAKOSKY one of three living men to hold that island's With deep regret, the death of Cdr. W . E. gold medal (King Paul of Greece and Tito MAKOSKY, U S N (Ret.), is hereby re- being the others). Last June the Italian govported. After a long illness. Bill died at his ernment made Cat a Knight of the Grand home near Chestertown, Md., on 7 Dec, and Cross of the Order of Merit, and our diswas given military honors in Arlington Na- tinguished classmate is the only foreign tional Cemetery on 12 Dec. officer ever to be given this award. In NoAs a midshipman. Bill got his first taste vember, at Athens, King Paul gave the Grand Cross of King George I to Cat, and of the sea in the U S S OHIO. Essentially a destroyer sailor and a China hand, he later it is said that Queen Elizabeth is the only

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Sec'y, RAdm. Floyd F. Ferris, U S N (Ret.) 4201 Cathedral Ave.. N.W., Apt. 414W Washington 16, D . C.

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other foreigner to hold that high category of the order.

The 1921 annual tithe of $2.00 is now due.

No bills are sent out, but your two bucks are requested. Please send to James Costello, P. O. Box 21, Annapolis, Md.

presenting the top industrial award to STREUBY L. DRUMM, President of the West Penn Power Co. Streuby was honored as "Western Pennsylvania's Outstanding Industrialist of 1961" by the Western Pennsylvania Chapter of the Society of Industrial Realtors.

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STATISTICS ON THE FORTIETH REUNION Sec'y. Gerald A. Stacey, Golden Propeller F a r m . R2 Box 146, Mercersbarx, P a .

ENGAGEMENT

Captain H E N R Y ALLISON INGRAM, USN ( R e t ) , and Mrs. Ingram of Hingham, Mass., have announced the engagement of their daughter, Eleanor Bell, to M. Paul Henri Gavin. He is the son of Mme. Henri Gavin and the late M. Gavin of Beau-Lac, PuUy-Lausanne, Switzerland.

Miss Ingram was graduated from Northfield School and attended Goucher College.

At present she is attending the Nursing School at "La Source" of Lausanne and Geneva and will receive her diploma in May 1963.

M. Gavin is a graduate of the Ecole Polytechnique of the University of Lausanne. He is now affiliated with the Swiss Atomic Research Program.

In an envelope decorated with admonitions to "Beat Army" together with the three scores, 6-0, 7-0 & 7-0, we witnessed as Midshipmen, ROGER MURRAY forwarded a third of a page of the Chattanooga Times devoted to H U G H DAYTON H U F F A K E R .

The two 14-inch columns were beneath a 3j/2x6 picture of the subject. Early in Hugh's life his father had impressed upon him that a man making a living in a community should "carry his part of the load" in making it a better place for all to live. How well Hugh has responded to that precept is evidenced by the fact that he has served on unnumbered committees in a wide variety of leadership posts over the yearsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;all aimed in one way or another in improving Chattanooga and vicinity.

Shortly after 'WW I he became commodore of Sea Scouts when that nautical branch of scouting was first organized. He bought and made good use of the first sailboat on that section of the Tennessee Riverâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;long before the TVA dams were dreamed of. He served with the Scouts for over 20 years, and was rewarded with its rare and coveted Silver Beaver.

He served as campaign chairman for the Community Chest shortly before it became the United Fund; then as president of the United Fund. Hugh says that Chattanooga can be justifiably proud of the fact that year after year that community reaches and surpasses its campaign goals in good times and bad, while often her sister cities fall short of theirs.

He is a member of the Rotary Club, Mountain City Club, an elder in the First Presbyterian Church, past president of the Council of Community Forces, member of the boards of Goodwill Industries, Community Concerts Association and of the McCallie School.

With all of this Hugh has had time to devote his efforts to his insurance business, raise a family of three sons; take up golf and give it up when his game did not irnprove. Now his hobby is working on his lawn, participation in which he can be observed doing every Saturday that weather permits. Nice going, Hugh D. From his new post with Worthington in Harrison, N. J., BILL F I N N sent us a clipping from the Pittsburgh Post-Gasette. The picture shows Mr. John A. Mayer, President of the Mellon National Bank & Trust Co., JANUARY,

1962

Preference (definites and probables) Homecoming 160 May 46 Prospective attendance: Homecoming May Definite ( D ) 88 55 Probable ( P ) 101 70 Uncertain ( U ) 61 65 Impossible or no mention 71 131 Totals 321 321 Estimated attendance (classmates only) D -1- ^ P + /4U = 153 at Homecoming 106 in May Number desiring info on room reservations Definite (D) 70 Probable ( P ) 96 Uncertain ( U ) 66 Probable number of rooms required: D -F J^P -1- J4U = 134 (approx. 140) The figures are those of a math shark, namely Chairman FRANK. Mostest of the bestest, ABE

Thirty attended the December luncheon in Washington. The prime subject was the 40th Reunion. Larded with invigorating and salubrious comments, and contributions from our celebrated raconteurs, it was a most interesting and well attended pow-wow. BEANY J A R R E T sat at the head of the table and dextrously alloted equal time. Also present were: Red Anderson, Lowe Bibby, Harry Butler, Bev Coleman, Jimmy Clay, Owen Comp, Hubie Chanler, George Cooper, Tommy Dugan, Ed Gardner, Ralph Hudson, Beau Fink, I)unk (the proud new grandfather of H. E. Dunkleberger, H I ) , Jerry Jerome, Johnny Johnson, Fred Lott, Alan McCracken, Omer Kneeland, Red Marston, Pete Neimo, Eddie Pierce, Doc Pratt, Fred Riddle, Harry Stevens, Murray Stokes, Johnny Schultz (back from the Islands), Bud Thompson, Al Toney, and Oliver Walker.

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Corr. Sec'y. R A d m . A r t h u r A. Ageton.

U S N ( R e t . ) , 1025 Connecticut Ave., N . W .

W a s h i n g t o n 6. D. C. Sec'y. Capt. Charles B e a u m o n t , U S N (Ret.) 37 Maryland Ave. Annapolis. Md.

A fine class turnout this year for that very satisfactory Army-Navy game victory. If the Class of '63 can come thru, we'll have that "4-strate" we looked for in '22.

Your secretary's compilation is proceeding.

If any of the class grads, non-grads, and widows wish to appear on the class roster, receive class communications, etc., and they have perchance not received the card asking their choice of dates for reunion, or did not answer, then we have no verified address and they will not receive mail. Addressograph plates will be prepared and their use will be available for all class mailings.

The plea for dope to me for Shipmate has been meager, except from the Washington environs groups. Preparations for our 40th reunion, needed in advance, have been made.

Contributions for the Class Fund are needed! .As a non-profit organization, such contributions should be deductible! I would be delighted to receive yours and turn it over to the Fund. Make checks payable to "1923 Class Fund."

WARMED OVER CHESTNUTS Many of the Chestnuts of the old Navy are lost in antiquity, victims of the blight that took mulligan, the ash-whip, and the copper coffee pot.

That all may not be lost, we propose that a few of the most stale be picked over and salvaged for edible remnants spared by the mould of time.

Accordingly, all "Warmed Over Chestnuts" which are preserved in Shipmate will bring the contributor a by-line.

PERSONAL MAGNETISM

The USS CASTINE was leading a convoy into the Mediterranean.

She had just swung ship and the compass was as accurate as the sun itself. But on the first watch she drew steadily off the convoy's set course.

Exhaustive search for loose magnets, pocketknives and screw drivers revealed nothing.

The Doctor ambled on the bridge and solved the problem: "I just gave that helmsman a large dose of iron and quinine."

JERAULD

WRIGHT

ROUGH GOING

The old Chief was holding forth to a squad of Boots. On his sleeve and coat were emblems of Navy years service and many war patrols as "Chief of the Boat."

"It was back in the days of the China station. The USS E-1, finest sub in any Navy, was headed for Tsing-Tao to avoid the typhoons of Cavite.

"In the middle of the China Sea we ran smack into the worst typhoon of the season.

"Every roll took our periscope under.

The Old Man decided to try it out at 80 feet. But down there it was just as rough as on the surface. There was nothing to do about it so all hands turned in in their hammocks.

"During the night she rolled so far she rolled clean over. But the funny thing is nobody knew it until the next morning when it was discovered that all hands had a turn on their hammock clews."

JERAULD

WRIGHT

USS CASTINE

It was shortly after No. 99.

General

Order

The USS CASTINE was at sea at last,

the Captain much relieved to know that nothing had been smuggled over the gangway during the weekend.

"There was a loney sand spit in the ocean.

The boatswain said: "Sir, the sand locker is empty. Permission to take the dinghy and get a coupla coal bags full?"

Such unprecedented initiative by the boatswain drew quick approval. So the ship lay to while he and one hand lowered away the dinghy and disappeared behind the sand spit.

After an interminable delay they reappeared, the hand at the oars, the boatswain at the tiller. The zig zag course of the dinghy and the uncertain seat of the boatswain were sources of much shipboard conjecture until they were hoisted aboard with no sand and both occupants crocked to the gills.

Said the Captain at mast: ".All I want to know is: Where did you get it ?"

Said the boatswain: "Sir, I got liquor buried all over the world."

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Sec'y. Mr. Paul Siegrist, c/o Standard & Poor's, 345 Hudson St. New York 14, N. Y.

HAL KAY W I L S O N

We regret to have to report the loss of another classmate: H.AL W I L S O N passed away on 15 October, at Hamburg, N. Y., due to a heart attack which came as he was planning a Florida vacation trip. Not many of us had seen Hal in the years since graduation, when he resigned. For many years he was with Bethlehem Steel Corp., and at the time of death was a plant superintendent for that company at Lackawanna, N. Y. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Marion Organ Wilson, a daughter and a son.

"I like Washington, but I like better Remo, Va., where my retirement dwelling is (17 miles from Tides Inn) down on Chesapeake Bay, the land of pleasant living. . . ." The speaker is GENE ROOK, who reminds us that he is still with Blaw-Knox, and the present business address is 1000 Connecticut Ave., N.W. He also brings us up-to-date on TOM RAGAN and Peggy, whom he chanced to meet in Washington one day. The Ragans have a permanent retirement home now at Pinehurst, N. C. (no street number).

BILL M A N S F I E L D writes in to his four classmates who are currently on the Board of Trustees of the .Alumni .Ass'n and makes a very constructive suggestion: why not have coffee served at -Alumni House, just as they do on any good ship? We hope "steps will be taken" ; and on reflection we are wondering why the recommendation was not made, and fulfilled, earlier.

LOUIS ( S H O R T Y ) G W I N N (F. Y.), our current "Father of the Year" and present holder of the Cup, is going into his 4th career, and just look at his new address: Exeter Farm, Jimbaicumbene, via Braidwood, New South Wales, .Australia (if driving, just take the north road out of Canberra and drive north for about 35 miles). How this comes about Lou reports in a letter : "We usually make a trip to .Australia every two years, so last January I took sabbatical leave and went to Kangaroo Land. The purpose of this trip was to make a decision about the family businesses. Tom, my father-in-law, was doing a report for the United Nations, so for a time I was quite happy to play golf.

I made several feeble attempts with the accountants and lawyers, and at last told Old Tom that the time had come to load the canoe for the home trip. The old boy was quick on the draw, said 'Let's have a drink. The whole thing is settled. The station has been deeded to Owen and Tom (Shorty's sons) and the corporation papers name you as manager.' Exeter Farm is a beautiful place. It has been in my wife's family for ISO years; the rambling old house is 125 years old, but is now completely modern without loss of the old charm. The station is highly developed, 3 families and some casuals live on the property, so I will go a bit slow as to say when to let go the bow hook. Most of the time we will live in Sydney. The boys are already enrolled in school, starting in February. Denise compromised, agreed to move to Australia provided she could live in the city." In the meantime, Lou has completed a six-month extension course at the Agricultural College of the U. of California, and says "now, let's see if the cows and sheep give me a passing mark."

Headline: "Morale Crisis 窶年avy has Smoother Sailing." -A newspaper series dealing with the current "crisis build-up" tells how smoothly the reserves are getting along at Great Lakes in a long story from which 28

W M . R. COCHRAN, JR., '24, Minister Consul General Sao Paulo, Brazil, and wife, Marjorie, departing Sao Paulo incident to voluntary retirement in September, 1961.

we quote: "RAdm. IR.A H. NUNN runs the Great Lakes Station and also heads up the 9th Naval District. . . . -A small, Southern gentleman type, he was a terror in W W II as a destroyer leader, winning the Navy Cross and other medals for valor. . . ." Yes, it appears Ira is doing all right with the Reserves at Great Lakes.

The BRERETONs are doing extensive traveling again. They left their Easton, Conn. (41 Sherwood Rd.), home 1 Nov., and mailed Christmas cards from Hong Kong, which they reached after a leisurely trip via Manila. They spent Christmas at Bangkok, where they planned to remain until 1 Feb.; then they will be at Hotel Gloucester in Hong Kong until 17 Feb. They plan to start home, via San Francisco, on the latter date, to reach Easton again in mid-March.

DON (DEACON) CAMERON spent a few weeks at the Newark, N. J., Pabst plant on an assignment he thought might run for a year. But he was called back to Milwaukee headquarters in Dec. He is a consultant for the Pabst Breweries.

In New York, the 10 Nov. Dinner-Dance of the N. A. Association brought out only 4 couples from '24, the GEORGE KINGs, MATTUCCis, M C L A U G H L I N S , and S I E G -

RISTs. In this area we seem to do better in the engineering-scientific activities, for it is reported that at the November meetings of "SNAME" 1924 was represented by this imposing group: Bednar, Collins, Cooke, Graesser, J. A. Hayes, Kraft, Lovejoy, Mattucci, Morgan, Nesser, and R. E. Wilson.

Also in Nov., BILL COCHRAN arrived in time for our NAANY lunch meeting, where he was welcomed by: Furth, Graesser, Siegrist, and Waller. MILT (GOAT) ROTHs arrived in town later in the month, enroute to the game, and reported in to your secretary by telephone.

As for attendance at the Army-Navy game, it seems "our group" was pretty much scattered in the stands, but the following were sighted: Abrahams, Cochran, Graesser, Grant, McLean, Miller, Roths, Singer, Sylvester, Thomas, and Witmer (with grape juice!). If "you were there, Charley," we're sorry we missed seeing you!

The D. C. group of the class held its regular fourth Wednesday of the month luncheon

at the Army and Navy Club on 22 November.

Those present were: L. A. Bachman, M. M. Bradley, W. F. Bullis, S. E. Bush, W. E. Cleaves, E. A. Cunningham, G. R. Hartwig, Bert Kalisch, P. V. Mercer, C. J. Nesser, E. T. Neale, H. R. Robinson, E. C. Rook, G. Reith, G. H. VanSteenbergh, T. U. Sisson, T. C. Southerland, C. J. Stuart, H. M. Sylvester, and J. M. Wright.

ROY HARTWIG, Chairman, announced that the condition of DINTY FRANCIS in Bethesda Naval Hospital remained serious.

It was also reported that both WIGGLES W E E D O N and his wife had recently been hospitalized at Bethesda.

Roy Hartwig gave a very interesting and informative talk on the radiation hazards of nuclear detonations and means of protection against them.

In comment, BILL BULLIS reported that during his recent west European travels he found much less concern about the Russians and no noticeable interest or activity regarding Civil Defense or fallout shelters. BACHMAN suggested that in view of the almost total lack of protection against nuclear radiation afforded by glass that new construction, particularly of schools and public buildings, might eliminate the very fiigh percent of exterior glass which is now the fashion.

W I L L I A M and Marjorie COCHRAN have departed from Sao Paulo, Brazil. Bill has retired as Minister Consul General, Sao Paulo after two years in the post. During that time the Cochrans were very active in the community of Americans as well as with Brazilians and the other diplomatic circles.

They have both done a magnificent job for our country and they will be greatly missed in Brazil.

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Sec'y, RAdm. J. W. Stryker, USN (Ret.) 3108 Camermon Mills Road Alexandria, Virginia

President J O H N BROWN and Pat saw the great Navy victory in Philly this year and reported seeing the following in the flesh: the Walkers, Tee Bensons, Johns, Paul Crosleys, Joe Nevins, Shayne Kings, Red Eye Colemans, Mouse Iveys, Hurds, Hamp Mitchells, and Von Kleecks. The folS H I P M A T E

lowing "loners" were seen: Bill Turney, Pop Landers, Bill Gardner, Bill Hickey, Peggy 0 Neil and perhaps a few others that I couldn't figure out from his writing.

G E O R G E P U R M O N T says that news from the S.F. area is as scarce as a hole-inone but did send in a bit.

"Many San Franciscans of 1925 and their wives were guests of J.ACZK and Marge CH.ARLSON for the thrilling Navy victory over .Army.

"CHERRY and Hanna Q U I N N returned in early December to their home in Gualala, Calif., after a six-week tour of Japan.

"Minerva L U D W I G spent Thanksgiving with VIC and Virginia LONG in Coronado and was with BUTCH and Betty P.ARKER for Christmas." .A late report on the BELTON CLEL.ANDs. Belton writes: "If anyone should ask about us, Thelma and I are still verj' much living in the ocean-front home we designed and built here (4124 South Fletcher Ave., Fernandina Beach, Fla.) in 1954, after 1 had recovered my health enough following a physical retirement to be able to put in a ten-hour day doing a day laborer's work six or seven days a week. For the past few years I have been very busily engaged as a staff engineer with Container Corporation of America, and have little spare time for anything except taking care of maintenance work around the house and digging into my hobby of the past few yearsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the study of sailing yacht design. Our younger daughter, Mary, is now 15 and a high school sophomore.

Ann (Mrs. Wm. O. Fenner) is living at Winter Garden, Fla., where Bill teaches physics. Their 15-month-old Kathleen Thelma, our only grandchild, is a living doll. Our place is on Florida, A l A , just a few miles east of US 17, US 1, and US 301, and it's always a pleasure to see our friends."

-Another newsy letter from Florida.

GEORGE BAINS writes: ".After homecoming Rebec and I stopped by to have dinner with CLINT and Helen SIGEL in their very attractive home in New Rochelle, N. Y., prior to our visit with relatives in Greenwich, Conn. One of our classmates who was a very good friend of mine and with whom I had lost touch was CLANTON ( S H O R T Y ) AUSTIN from Danbury, Conn. While in Greenwich I put in a call for him and was lucky enough to locate him. Rebec and I went up to spend the day with him and his beautiful (I am not kidding) wife Mary.

They had a regular Thanksgiving dinner with turkey and all. They are retired except that Shorty has a farm and orchard in his backyard that produces more crops than most people can get out of several acres of fertile soil. They go south to Florida when the snow comes and fish down in the Keys. They have promised to stop by to see us on their next trip south. Shorty is in good health, looks young and agile and seems to be enjoying life.

"Rebec and I went up to Lake Placid for a few days before heading south. W e stopped in Tarboro, N. C , and had a nice visit with BILL and S T A M P S H O W A R D . Bill is the energetic city manager of Tarboro and we enjoyed visiting in his office and talking to some of the city employees who say he is doing a fine job. Stamps is taking things easy as he is nursing a bad heart and unable to work. He was in good spirits and we talked of our times together as roommates

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We all had a good time at lunch together before we headed south again.

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Gelzer seems to be getting along fine and it was a pleasure to see him in such fine spirits. All classmates passing through (Drangeburg should stop and visit Gelzer as he is confined to his home and cannot get out to see others.

"While in Savannah, Ga., recently I called up W A L T E R H. STRONG who got out of the Navy on graduation and has done quite well as a contractor and builder. We had a short visit together while I was there and he seemed much like he did when we were midshipmen together.

"Let us hear from you or any of our classmates and tell them to give me a ring when they get to Jacksonville for we have time, a well stocked cellar, a good golf course and the real desire to see fellow classmates whenever possible." George, you are the perfect travelling salesman to sell memories of '25.

How well I remember and liked old W. I T C H STRONG! J O H N C H I T W O O D sends in a lot of dope from Carmel, Calif. He reports: " H A P and Margaret LYON have built a new home in Pebble Beach, Calif., and had those of '25 in the Monterey area to a wonderful dinner and housewarming. Present were IRA and Mary HOBBS, T I N Y and Helen SCHULTZ, CLAUDE and Margaret DILLAVOU, myself and wife Jean, and most important of all our host and hostess. Hap and Margaret. Hap's house is architecturally very attractive and the garden is interestingly landscaped. The 'Lyon' motif is cleverly carried out by sculptures of lion heads and lions couchant placed in and on the masonry walls.

"Claude and Tiny are happily situated as instructors in the Robert Louis Stevenson school at Pebble Beach. Ira is busy on a citizens' committee to save historic Monterey from overpowering freeway structures. The Hobbs have purchased a lot in Pebble Beach and are busy completing the plans for their new home. Hap has his insurance office in Monterey and for myself, I am serving as a councilman in Carmel.

"The only other news is the occasional visit of J O H N and Louise M U R P H Y to Carmel. Murph is a math 'Prof in a San Diego High School and is very happy in the teaching field."

The November luncheon of the Washington group was the best attended in months. In addition to George Todd who dropped in from Denver, we had Wright, Gill, Elliott, Van Metre, Karns, Newton, Goetz, Latrobe, Cash, Fitzgerald, Pefley, Stryker, Loomis, Hurd, Johns, McFarlane, Goulette, Wellings, and Cronin. Hamp Mitchell dropped in to say hello from a business luncheon he was attending.

F R A N K M U N R O E comes through with the following from the Great Northwest: " L E E S U G N E T was in the Naval Hospital Bremerton, having been operated on for a diverticulo-something on 29 November. I saw him the following day and again on the 2nd and he felt like HELL, but Martha and I saw him on the 5th and found him up and about and feeling quite chipper.

"BRUCE and Betty KELLEY are about to take off on another trip. This time they are leaving shortly after the first of the year to the Canal Zone by a French Line freighter; after a week there they go by ship down the west coast of South America, by train to B. A., then by air up the east coast to Mexico and home."

Frank also reported a bit of news of interest to many in the Navy. The Rt. Rev. Msgr. Joseph Cammerman (Father Joe) of Bremerton suffered a rather severe stroke recently but is now recovering nicely. He is at St. Joseph's Hospital in Tacoma. "Father Joe" is T H E leading citizen of Bremerton, is loved by thousands of all faiths, and he has been the fishing or hunting companion of a good many hundred officers during their stays in Bremerton.

Also Frank and Martha's daughter, Joan, will be married 29 December in Raynor Chapel of Annie Wright Seminary in Ta-

coma to David A. Beall, now attending Officers Candidate School in Newport.

Several of us will well remember taking part in the wedding of the Kelleys at that same chapel 36 years ago last November.

VIC LONG reports from the San Diego area: " J O H N HAMMOCK came out of his Bermott, Ark., hideaway long enough to visit with MARVIN and Maude W E S T in their San Diego hacienda recently. John has joined the ranks of the authors, we hear, having published a book on the Civil War. While he was here, H U N T E R and Dorothy WOOD had a group of classmates in to welcome the Arkansas Traveller.

"Just about the time that TOMMY and Jean B U R R O W E S had become comfortably settled in their new Coronado home, a prospective employer came along, and now Tommy is back in Washington, presumably hard at work. So it's pull up stakes for the rest of the family shortly after the first of the year, for one more move across country.

"Frankie Keyser (Key LONG's sister and practically a member of '25 in her own right) jetted out from Washington in November to visit her brother in San Diego, and her many friends in the area. After a whirlwind visit, she is now back at the old grind in the Bureau of Standards.

"JIMMY and Pat D O W D E N ARE NOW PROUD GRANDPARENTSâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;for the first time."

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Sec'y, Cdr. H. A. Fravel, USN (Ret.) 3410 15th St., North Arlington 1, Va. Corr. Sec'y, VAdm. W. R. Smedberg, lU Qtn. B, 2300 E St., N.W. Washineton 7, D. C.

The class luncheon on 12 December was attended by Armstrong, Barker, Bernstein, Brady, Briner. Brownfield, Claiborne, Cox, Dow, Dudley, Fravel, Greenslade, Katz, Kelley, Leeper, Livdahl, Lovett, McCorkle, McKee, McQuillen, Bill Miller, Morrison, Nel-

J. O. MESS, USS NEVADA, 1926. (All 1925 except as noted.) Front row, left to right: W. J. Marshall, J. M. Smith, P. H. Fitzgerald, E. S. VonKleeck, A. S. Moore, Morgan Redfield '26. Rear row: C. A. Printup, F. K. Loomis, W. K. Gcodney, B. May, F. I . Busey '26, F. P. Tibbitts, T. W. Rimer '26 and C. W. Truxall.

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sympathy and the hope for a speedy and complete recovery.

J. A. " R E D " S T R O T H E R , who is now Vice-President for New Products of PitneyBowes, Inc., writes that he and Mrs. Strother are going to be in Honolulu from the 8th to the 11th of January. Mrs. Strother is the sister of the late Cdr. T. B. Oakley, Jr., who was lost as the commanding officer of the submarine GROWLER during the war. C L I F F DUERFELDT, who is the Commander of the Pacific Barrier and also acting Commander Hawaiian Sea Frontier until CHARL I E BUCHANAN arrives in late January, will see to it that the Strothers get a look at the Naval Base and see the street there which is named after her brother. The visit to Honolulu is part of the holiday the Strothers are taking, which will include a flight around the world.

From Coronado comes word that the K E N N Y CRAIGs have been visiting the MAX LESLIES and, naturally, have been golfing daily. Incidentally, Max had his third hole-on-one in the last four years on the Coronado course during a big wind and rain Sara L E H A R D Y reports that she now has storm. He is now Coronado's hole-in-one six grandchildren. The most recent arrival leader. It is reported that Max has now is Louis Marcel LeHardy, born 26 Nov., had a total of five holes-in-one during his in Tokyo, Japan. The parents are Lt. and golfing career. For those of us who are still looking for our first one, that is pretty disMrs. 'Ward Morehouse LeHardy. couraging.

C H A R L I E LYMAN has recently underJACK G R E E N S L A D E reports that he gone a serious abdominal operation but he reports that he has recovered, with colors and Rosemary have returned to Washington waving briskly, and is home. The dolorous after a two months' absence, visiting on the fact remains that he must continue under West Coast. He also got in some golf with medical observation for a few months, neces- Max Leslie. Jack's account of Max's latest sitating his relinquishing command of the hole-in-one contains the interesting bit that Destroyer Force, Atlantic Fleet, and moving Max was in the process of taking out insurto Bethesda, Md. Charlie says that this frac- ance against a fifth hole-in-one, with the tures his heart into little shattered pieces, contract lying on his desk unsigned, when which we can readily understand, but that his 140-yard tee shot dropped into the cup his chin is up and that he'll welcome a rest for his fifth ace. while he gets back to battery. He and Marge The Corresponding Secretary and his are taking an apartment at the Parkside at spouse take this opportunity to wish all hands 10600 Kenilworth Ave. in Bethesda during and their ladies, children and grandchildren his convalescence. The class extends deepest the best new year they have ever had.

son, Pirie, Smedberg, Stroop, Sylvester, and Ford Taylor.

The next luncheon will be held on Friday, 26 January 1962, at the Naval Weapons Plant.

VAdm. R. B. P I R I E , DCNO (Air), received the American Legion Air Service Post 501's (New York City) 22nd annual Frank M. Hawks Memorial Award at the Lotos Club dinner on 7 D e c , for his outstanding contributions to the development of aviation. Previous recipients have included such Service officers as Generals 'White, Pate, and Vandenberg; and such prominent citizens as Wayne Parrish, Leroy R. Grumman, Henry Luce, Ogden Reid, DeWitt Wallace, Thomas K. Finletter, Robert B. Anderson, William R. Hearst, Sr., John S. Knight, Igor Sikorsky, Roy Howard, and Fiorello LaGuardia. The award was made in recognition of Bob's contributions to both military and civil aviation over the period of his long service in naval aviation, and particularly in the three and one-half years during which he has been Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Air.

WEDDING

Wedding vows were exchanged on 4 November at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in San Rafael, Calif., when Miss Danelle H a r t Miller became the bride of Donald Henry Farias. The bride is the daughter of RAdm. D A N I E L BYRD MILLER, U S N (Ret.), and Mrs. Miller of Corvallis, Ore., and the bridegroom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Louis Farias of Aptos, Calif.

The bride is an alumna of Oregon State University and the University of North Carolina. The bridegroom is an alumnus of San Jose State. The newlyweds are making their home in San Francisco.

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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.

WEDDINGS

At Grace Methodist Church, St. Augustine, Fla., 24 November, Miss Sybil Neat Mathis became the bride of Mr. Alex McLeod Patterson, Jr. The bride is the daughter of Judge and Mrs. Charles C. Mathis, Jr., St. Augustine, and the bridegroom is the son of RAdm. A. M. P A T T E R S O N , U S N (Ret.), and Mrs. Patterson, Raleigh, N. C. A graduate of St. Mary's Junior College and the University of North Carolina, the bride also received her Master's Degree from the University and is a teacher in North Durham High School. The bridegroom is a graduate of the Mercersburg Academy and is a student of North Carolina. The couple reside in Chapel Hill, N. C. On 4 Nov. Mrs. Alfred Pace Randolph of Virginia Beach, Va., widow of the late Capt. Randolph '24, and RAdm. M A R T I N PERRY H O T T E L , U S N (Ret.), were married in the Chapel of St. Margaret's Episcopal Church in Washington, D. C. Miss Clare Louise Guenveur was married to Robert N. Downes, Jr., on 21 October

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ADM. ANDERSON '27 joins the '27 wives at NOW club luncheon. Seated: Dot Gordon, Joonie Maher (daughter of Joe Maher '27), Kay McCoy, Mary Lee Anderson, Helen Everett, Olive Giambatista. Standing: Ruth Maher, Alice Nllon, Adm. Anderson, Bert Quackenbush and Kay Lange.

1961, at St. Joseph's-on-the-Brandywine R. C. Church, Wilmington, Del. The bride is the daughter of Mrs. J. LaPenne Guenveur of Wilmington, and the late Mr. Guenveur. Mr. Downes' parents are Capt. ROBERT N. D O W N E S , USN ( R e t ) , and Mrs. Downes of Newark Del. Capt. t)ownes, who served as best man for his son, is Director of Civil Defense for the State of Delaware.

The bride, a graduate of the Univ. of Delaware, is associated with the Bank of Delaware. Mr. Downes, also an alumnus of the same university, is with the Wilmington

Savings Fund Society. Following their wedding trip to New "Y^ork, the young couple established their residence in Wilmington.

RAdm. J O H N W. BAYS, U S N (Ret.), has been named secretary of the Board of Directors of the Culver Educational Foundation, Culver, Ind. Adm. Bays will continue in his dual role as deputy for administration for Culver Military Academy and as director of the Culver Summer Schools.

A member of the Culver staff since 1949, Adm. Bays taught mathematics before being appointed business manager in 1950. He per-

formed the duties of business manager, which at the time included personnel, purchasing, and management of the physical plant, for six years until he was named deputy for administration.

Adm. and Mrs. Bays reside at North Terrace, Culver. Their son, Carter, is a student at Purdue University.

On Saturday, December 2, a repeat performance of last year's Army-Navy game reunion was held at Georgia House, Norfolk. A dozen classmates with wives were on hand to guarantee a Navy win. "Pete" Boyer kept scoreboard.

VADM. WILLIAM A. SCHOECH '28, Commander Seventh Fleet, joins in a salute to Republic of China Naval Cadets.

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S H I P M A T E

, Among those in the area unable to make it were Charlie Bergin, Otts Taylor and Biscuit Wev. Before the break-up, "Spike" Hottel dropped in with his lovely bride, formerly Lucy Randolph, for us to meet and toast her.

P.S. "Dutch" Deutermann won the pool (see photo).

RAdm. W . \ L T E R PRICE, who is CofS at U. S. Forces, Japan, writes that Tokyo is becoming a hideaway for members of the Class of '27. At one function, when DON G R I F F I N was being awarded the Japanese Order of the Double-Rays of the Rising Sun

by Mr. Fudieda, Director General of the Japanese Defense .Agency, incident to his being relieved of the Seventh Fleet, there were 4 classmates thereâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;DON, JIMMY TH.^CH, STICK SUTHERL.'^ND, and W A L T E R PRICE. '27 is still winning honors, too, for at a golf match where 6 Japanese .Admirals opposed 6 U. S. .Admirals, Don Griffin and Stick Sutherland tied for first place and had to roll dice to see who won the cup. Don's ill-spent youth was revealed and he won with his tricky handling of the cubes.

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We didn't have many representatives out of the 100,000 at the .A^rmy-Navy game but sighted there were: Weakleys, Petersons, Strahorns, Bernets, Brandleys, Eastons, Shutes, Triebels, and last but not least down in front with the Commander-in-Chief, the Davidsons.

Sec'y, RAdm. R. K. James. U S N Chief BnShips, Washington 25, D. C.

VITAL STATISTICS

HARRY and Gladys SEARS report the arrival of a grandson, Scott Kilham Sears, on 24 November at the National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Md. Scott is the son of Lt. (jg) and Mrs. G. Joseph Sears. Lt. Sears is stationed at the Naval Intelligence Center, Anacostia, Md.

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BILL AND EMILY Burgette, Nancy and Chris Engleman, 1930.

Sec'y, RAdm. Charles O. Triebel, U S N Rm. 4BS48 Pentagon Bldg.

Washington 25, D. C.

Received the following report from RED M O R S E : "I received my M.A. in Sociology from the University of Notre Dame in June of this year, and I am now teaching Sociology at Rosary College, River Forest, 111.

Still single, and of course each year nails the situation down a little tighter. Best regards to all the class."

We were saddened to hear that Sophie S T O N E passed away in California early this month. Steamy's boys. Bill and Perry, were both able to be with him to give him some support during the initial hard days.

Sec'y, Capt. Christian L. Engleman Kanati Falls Ranch Box 504, Route # 2 , Washongal, Washington

Sincerest sympathy from all classmates is extended to " R E D " A I L E S whose wife, Edith, passed away after a long illness. Funeral services were held on 11 Dec, at the Naval Security Station Chapel in Washington, D. C, and burial was in .Arlington Cemetery. Red, until recently Naval Inspector General, will have command of Destroyer Flotilla 6, Charleston, S. C. JACK DORSEY writes from Charleston that he and C H A R L I E MAURO have been holding the '30 fort down that way, but soon he will be heading for the Naval Base, Newport, R. I. Jack says that Red .Ailes will he the third consecutive classmate to command DesFlot Six. FR.A.NK J O H N S O N started the chain in '59, then Jack in '60.

ALLAN ROBY reports from Birmingham, Mich., 678 Covington Rd., that Allan Roby, III, arrived on 5 October, in Hartford, Conn., and put his hat in the ring for a spot in the Plebe Class to be entering U S N A with the Class of '79. He says the proud grandparents were leaving soon to visit their new grandson and big sister, age 2.

TOP ROW: Tim, Rickey and Mike Burgette. Bottom row: Mark, Eric and Kathrine Engleman ('30).

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The parents, Allan, Jr., and the former Patricia Speltz of Memphis, Tenn., have resided in Hartford for 3 years where Allan is an Acturial Associate with Connecticut General Life. v Your secretary and his family had a most delightful visit recently with BILL BURG E T T E and his charming wife, Emily, in El Paso, Texas. Bill looks wonderfully slim and fit and holds the position of Professor of Math at Texas Western College. He and Emily have 3 sons, Tim, Rickey, and Mike, and live in a lovely rambling home at the foot of Mt. Fanklin on the outskirts of El Paso. The Burgettes say they usually roll out the red carpet for visitors, but for us they rolled out the white one! What a blizzard with 6-inches of snow with 4-foot drifts.

Emily's brother is Capt. Ed Robie '43, on duty in Naples, and her cousin, Capt. Bill Robie '42, is on duty in Washington.

T O M and Charlotte T H O R N H I L L very kindly sent me some pictures which he had taken during our visit in Houston recently, and I am pleased to include them in this report. Again, Tom and Charlotte, many thanks for a wonderful visit in Houston.

SI P E R K I N S has recently become associated with W. C. Niekum and Sons, the naval architects, and is living at 624-Sth Ave., West, Seattle 99, Wash. His wife, Polly, and son, Jeff, are remaining in Prescott, Ariz., 208 S. Summit St., until the school term ends. Good luck. Si, in your new venture!

Many thanks to J O H N K I N E R T who reported the following news from the West Coast group.

"AL L.AMPE is bravely fighting a battle with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis in Ward 7-D-l of the Veterans Administration Hospital on Junipero Serra in Palo .A.lto." We're all pulling for you, Al. John also reports that the Bay Area group of the Class of '30 gathered at the Commissioned Officers' Mess (Open) at Treasure Island on 28 October for cocktails and dinner. Attending were: Bill and Betty Drane, Red and Helen Earl, John and Julie Gragg, Paul and Margery Hanlin, Ned and Frances Harrell, Dave and Anne Hawkins, Alicia Huff ('29), Cy and Margo Johnson ('29), Al and Jane Kohlhas, Abe and Dee Lincoln, Warren and Betty McClain, John and Undine McGregor, Benny and Helen Mott, Joe and Mary .Ann Robbins, Betty Robinson, Dixie and Betty Sutton, Doc and Gee Strohbehn, and Bill and Helen Thomas. The Bettys and Helens almost had a controlling interest in the meeting. We were all happy to welcome the charming Mary .Ann Robbins to her first appearance with the group.

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ner with his extensive repertoire at the piano but got only part time support from the many talented voices that hadn't done their home work on the words. We hope everyone planning to be in the area will mark his calendar for the next party to be held on Saturday, March 17. PAUL H A N L I N has agreed to put this one on and has promised to provide adequate support for honoring St. Patrick and to make available words for a good list of songs. Please come! Paul's address is 276 Glorietta Blvd., Orinda, Calif.

The new Committee for the Class of '30 in the Washington area is as follows: Sandy Heyward, Chairman; Chris Engleman, Secretary ; Harry Smith, Entertainment; Bill Nelson, Luncheons; and Pete Brady, Roving Reporter. Your secretary, as you will note above, was reelected for another year but in December submitted his resignation to Sandy Heyward. He felt this would be desirable inasmuch as he would no longer be in the Washington area. It is understood from E D D I E W A G N E R and SANDY H E Y W A R D that F I S H SALMON will probably assume the job. He will do a fine one and if he accepts, we wish him good sailing I And in the meantime, if ever any of you pass the way of your retiring secretary, do come visit Kanati Falls Ranch, Route 2, Box 504, Washougal, Wash. Our home is at the bend of the beautiful Washougal River where the trout and steelhead are abundant and the hunting is superb. It's been fun being '30 reporter for the last several years and thanks for giving me the opportunity!

Incidentally, as a final remark, some of you may have wondered why the copy each month was ended "That's '30' until next time."

"30" in Landline Morse is (...—.—) (Same as VA in International Morse (...—.—) ) and means "end of transmission." As a result of seeing this expression at the end of copy, newspaper and radio broadcast personnel have borrowed it and say "that's 30" when they come to the "end of copy." Therefore, I say that's "30" for Engleman covering the news of '30! Vaya Con Dios.

Received from DICK H U N T was this message, "Tell the 1930 column in Shipmate that I am here. See you all at Gettysburg, also the President of the United States in July 1963."

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TOMMY THORNHILL '30 31 ST ANNIVERSARY YEARBOOK

The new Yearbook project has been launched and the early responses are most gratifying. Our deadline was 1 Dec, but this has been extended to 1 Feb. It is hoped that everyone will return his questionnaire at the earliest possible date. Those who have not already sent in pictures are encouraged to do so. We will return them if it is so requested. And speaking of pictures, the staff would very much like to have pictures other than just self and family if they have a class interest—such as reunions, etc.

One of the most immediate problems the editors have is in locating people. Many letters have been returned with the postmaster's mark, "Unknown," "Moved-Notice of change expired," etc. We had a 97% record for our 25th Anniversary Yearbook, and we want to make this one a 100%. Everyone can help on this by sending in what information he has or is willing to develop to track down the lost classmate or widow.

The following addresses are presently needed: WIDOWS—Mrs. S. W. (Anna) Rutherford (Gene Lytle), Mrs. Frederick D.

Sec'y, Capt. Oscar E. Hagberg, U S N , Staff Com 4, Naval Base, Philadelphia, Pa. Corr. Sec'y, Capt. S. W. Betts, U S N Dir. Naval Weather Service, Naval Station, Washington 25, D . C.

The November get-together for the Washington group produced an exceptionally fine evening at the exclusive Motion Picture Association Studio in town to watch a preview of Bob Hope's latest, "Bachelor in Paradise," along with proper refreshment and a sumptuous buffet. Those present: Bill and Helen Leverton, Mike and Katherine Gaasterland, Johnny and Gwen Crumpacker (and son, Pete), Doc and Cecilia MacDonald, Tommy and Evie Rogers, Johnny and Virginia Webster, Carl and Cel Lucas, Bill and Ruth Braun, Bill and Verna Williams, Dick and Cesca Steere, Red and Barbara Ramage, Bill and Carlotta Williams, Sammy and Cuchita Taxis, Jim and Gene Davis, ISasy and Audrey Stewart, Mendy and Fran Ryon, Ray and Frances Hunter, Dick and Mary Anderson, Dick and Lois Crane, George and Marie Peckham, Roy and Sally Coffin, "JB" and Grace Colwell, Sherry and Ruth Betts, Cy and Mary Merkle, Bob and Lois Fitch, Floyd and Bobby Myhre, Earl and Caro Gallaher, Johnny and Betsy (jannon, Biddy and Annelise Fitzgerald, "AB" and Lynn Metsger, and Ward Shields.

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(Rosemary) Livingston (Ward Bronson), Mrs. Warren E. (Marion) Berg (J. A. Murphy), Mrs. R. H. (Katie) Larrey (Bennie Ghetzler), Mrs. S. E. (Audralice) Nelson (Samuel E. Nelson), and Mrs. H. M. (Licky) Erricsson (Walter C. Bailey).

CLASSMATES—Richard W. Adams, James W. Hodge, Philip K. Livingston, James E. Sweet, George S. Wilson, Ralph M. Drew, Zeb L. White, Nat. Warman, Webster W. Copithorn, Neilson Lewis, Robert M. White, Herbert H. Kaull, John R. P. Wilson, James E. Mallonee, Francis Hoye, Jr., Karl A. Axelson, and Frank F. Walker.

No matter how vague the lead may be to the address, send it in. No matter how fragmentary the dope may be on the activities of any of the above, let us have it. Address of the Yearbook Committee is Box 9865, Chevy Chase, Md.

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Sec'y, Capt. J. S. Fahy, U S N BnPers, Navy Dept., Washington 25, D. C. Corr. Sec'y, Capt. T. A. Nisewaner, USN Joint Staff, Pentagon, Washington 25, D. C.

CHARLETON LEWIS MURPHY, JR.

We were shocked to learn of the sudden death on 5 Dec, of RAdm. CHARLTON L. MURPHY, JR., U S N (Ret.), of carcinoma of the esophagus at the U. S. Naval Hospital, Philadelphia, Pa. Memorial services were held at the Naval Base Chapel, Philadelphia Naval Shipyard on 6 Dec, and interment was in the little cemetery of the Old Donation Church, Bavside, Va., alongside his beloved Babs on 7 Dec. Spud is survived by his two lovely daughters, Barbara, now Mrs. John H. Archard of Arlington,, Va., and Priscilla, now the wife of Lt. (jg) Robert A. Dropp '60, and residing in Long Beach, Calif. Lt. Dropp, incidentally, is the son of TONY and Margaret D R O P P .

Spud, known in his undergraduate days as a member of the Log Staff and the editor of Reef Points in our first class year, gravitated to submarine duty shortly after graduation and during W W II. As a submarine commander he was twice decorated with the Navy Cross and credited with sinking 34,000 tons of Japanese shipping. After his retirement in 1959, he lived for a time in the Bayside area near Norfolk and then moved to his old home town of Philadelphia. There in October, only six weeks before his untimely death, he was happily remarried to the charming Mrs. Catherine L. Wickwier of 235 Righter's Mill Rd., Penn Valley, Narberth, Pa. To his widow we extend the heartfelt condolences of the class.

HENRY HARRIS McCARLEY

RADM. W. H. RAYMOND; USN (RET.) '32

I regret to announce the death in Seattle, Wash., on 13 Dec, of our esteemed classmate, H E N R Y H A R R I S McCARLEY, of internal complications after a short illness.

Always known for his friendly, gregarious manner, our Third Battalion shipmate had an interesting career in destroyers before finally shifting over to communications in which he served his last two tours of active duty. First as Force Communications Officer on the staff of Commander Naval Forces Marianas and finishing off as Communication Officer on the staff of Commander Western Sea Frontier before retiring in late 1959.

After retiring, Mac moved with his family to Seattle where he became associated with the Boeing Company in the communications security section on the Minuteman program.

Mac is survived by his widow, Marion; his mother; three sons, Henry Harris, Jr., Theodore and Jack; two daughters, Marion and Margarette; and one granddaughter.

Marion and the three younger children live SHIPMATE

at 436 168th Ave., S.E., Bellevue, Washington.

Funeral services were held in Bellevue on Saturday, 16 December, followed by cremation and eventual burial at sea. Most of the class m the area were present for the services including Finney, Gold, Harwood, Hitchcock, Langen, Colley, Porter, Lewis, Flenniken, and Knoertzer.

CLASS LUNCHEON

The December class luncheon at the ArmyNavy Country Club on 5 December followed close on the heels of the Big Game in Philadelphia but still saw a fine turn-out of some 22 members. One of the pleasant surprises of the day was the visit of Colonel "Bob" Greenlee, USMA '35, who with his brother, Bob, started out as members of the Class of '32 but left along the way and finished up at West Point. Others in attendance for the affair were Win Bailey, Harry Reiter, Willie Williamson, Joe Tschirgi, Jake Lark, Andy Nisewaner, Floyd Schultz, Bob Leonard, Sammy Moncure, Francis Foley, John Chittenden, Bob Maulsby, Cowboy 'Weston, Bull Dreany, Dick Lavery Toots Blaisdell, Charlie Odend'hal, and Jerry Miller.

CLASS ELECTIONS

J O H N N Y C H I T T E N D E N who relieved J.ACK L A M A D E as custodian of the ballots for the semi-annual class election of officers took the occasion of the monthly luncheon to announce the results of the last election.

No recent ballots had been received and the results were considered final Pres.—CORKY W A R D : Sec—JERRY M I L L E R ; Treas.— BOB LEONARD, and for Class Council— .ANDY NISEW.ANER (also Vice-Pres.), SAMMY MONCURE, F R A N C I S FOLEY, BRUCE McCANDLESS, and W I L L I A M WILLIAMSON. HERE A N D THERE

LOU BRYAN, our traveling ambassador of good will, reports that his Task Group has finally finished Operation U N I T A S II, a combined A S W training exercise which took his ships down the west coast of South America, through the Chilean inland passage to the .Atlantic, and then up the east coast of South America to finally arrive at Newport, R. I., on 1 Dec. In all they were gone 116 days and conducted A S W exercises with 8 South .American countries.

RED RICE and Rosa slipped quietly out of town last month after Red was relieved of his command at the Naval Air Station,

Anacostia, and drove down to Pensacola for a long visit with her family. After this sojourn they expect to drive north and settle in New Hampshire where Red expects to go into business with his brother.

From the Hawaiian Islands M O E ARCHER writes in that they don't see many '32 out there any more. COUNT R U C K N E R passed through and BILL W Y L I E , FLOYD SCHULTZ, and DAN CARROLL are others they have seen in transit, but if they want a reunion, they have to invite 1 Coast Guard and 3 West Point '32. He further reports that the kids are all out of college and scattered so they have plenty of room if any one comes Hawaii way.

JIM S M I T H writes in from 624 Canyon Place, Solana Beach, Calif., that he can't make the 30th reunion—too fer-a-piece and his ponies are getting tired—but at the scheduled time he will hoist doublet and drain the draught to the Class of '32.

BOB DENIG advises us, after a long delay in hearing from his quarter, that he retired a little over two years ago and joined Aerojet General at the Sacramento plant about six months ago. No other '32ers around insofar as he knows, but he said to please say hello to the lads and that he hopes to make the 30th reunion. Bob'a address is: 7746 Greenridge Way, Fair Oaks, Calif.

From -AL COPE at his new address: Box 919, Rancho Sante Fe, Calif., comes word that he is Manager of the Rancho Santa Fe Association Office on the Gold course and will be glad to have any of '32 drop by for a swim, horseback ride, or a bit of farming.

How lucky can you get?

The latest news out of Stockton Group of the Pacific Reserve Fleet is that DOC W I L S O N is Commander of that group and will finish out his time in the area. He occasionally gets to see BUD W I L L A R D and some of the others in the San Francisco area.

We always knew that there were no good seats at the Municipal Stadium in Philadelphia for the Army-Navy game, but FLOYD SCHULTZ comes up with a prize letter to the N.A.A.A. telling of a new tale of woe that bears repeating: "Dear Sirs: I am sure you have heard all kinds of complaints about seats at the Army-Navy game, but I wonder if you have heard one like mine. My ticket stub, which is enclosed, entitled me to Seat 22 in Row 27 of Section EM. However, neither the ushers nor anyone in the vicinity could find such a seat number—there was

seat number 21 on one side of the aisle and a number 23 on the other, but no number 22.

I asked the usher to get me a soap box or a chair, but he could not produce anything.

Next, I asked my venerable classmates to crowd up a bit to make some room for me, but they have broadened so over the years that this was not possible. Fortunately, the game was good and excitement was such that I had to stand to see much of the time anyhow, but I must say that 'sitting on infinity' at the age of fifty-one is not an easy task. Very truly yours," (signed) Floyd Schultz.

WEST COAST

P A U L EMRICK writes in from the Bay area that, using the inspection trip of DICK M A T T E R to the area as an excuse, 35 members, wives, and widows of '32 in the San Francisco IBay area gathered at the Commissioned Officers' Mess, Treasure Island, on 16 November for cocktails, dinner, and dancing. Out of 28 of our classmates known to be on duty or retired and living in the area, 17 were present. The enclosed group picture disclosed many familiar faces.

Word also reaches us that the following '32ers are still on active duty in the San Francisco area: Bud Willard, CofS to ComWesSeaFron; Mai Munger, CofS to ComTwelve; Brute Dale, CO Naval Air Station, Moffett Field; and Tallula Wilson, CO Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory, San Francisco.

From DON T H O M A S down San Diego way comes word that MARK D E N N E T T and Mrs. Juanita Peterson of Los Angeles, Calif., were married on Thanksgiving Day, 23 Nov. The Dennetts will reside at Mark's lovely new home at 732 Adella Way, Coronado, Calif.

Don also reports that a recent visitor to San Diego was W I L L "EYE" BULL who is Vice-President in charge of Military Operations at Hoffman Radio Corp.

RAdm. W. H. RAYMOND, U S N (Ret.), has joined the western regional office of the Univac Military Department, 6363 Wilshire Blvd., Los .Angeles, as western regional representative.

In his new post, Adm. Raymond is in charge of all Univac Military Department accounts with major aircraft companies in the western region.

Adm. Raymond, his wife and two daughters reside at 1142 Highland Oaks Drive, .Arcadia, Calif.

'32 CLASS PARTY, TREASURE ISLAND, ^6 NOVEMBER. Standing, left to right: Henry Delong, Paul Emrick, Garry Jewett, Bud W i l l a r d , Hinton Owens, Danny Goodman, Bill Tagg, Dottie Witherow, Joe Witherow, Bob Denig, Dick Matter, Dick Adams, Bob Beer, Jean Beer, Wally Short, Hank Kretz, Mai Munger, Doc Wilson, Elizabeth Wilson, Talully Wilson, Bill Kunzig (USMA '31). Kneeling: Jeannett DeLong, Loraine Emrich, Aileen Jewett, Pot W i l l a r d , Dorothey Owens, June Goodman, Mary Denig, Lorrie Adams, Ingeborg Short, Eloise Major, Sara Ann Munger, Eleanor Tagg, Eddie Ramey and Vivian Kunzig.

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Continuing a very pleasant and convivial custom established a few years ago, members of the U. S. Military Academy and U. S. Naval Academy, Class of '33, stationed in the Washington area, joined forces at the Commissioned Officers' Mess, Arlington Hall, for their Pre-Army-Navy game luncheon on 30 November. It was a fine get-together, with 33 Army files making an appearance and 26 of our Navy shipmates on hand.

Representing the USMA were: Col. Cleveland, Col. Pritchard, BGen. Darnell, BGen. Carver, MGen. Montgomery, BGen. Summerfelt, BGen. Blandford, MGen. Breit, BGen. DeGavre, BGen. Coleman, Col. Ferris, BGen. Fuqua, Col. Kaiser, BGen. Ryan, B(jen. Solomon, MGen. Evans, Col. Meintz, Col. Hine, BGen. Beck, Mr. Flynn, BGen. Gee, MGen. Gray, Col. Fuller, Col. Bodeau, Col. Parker, BGen. Calhoun, Col. King, BGen. Lane, Col. Schull, MGen. Senter, Col. Bellican, Col. Downing, and Col. Turner.

For the Navy: Capt. Barnes, RAdm. Blouin, RAdm. Bowen, Cdr. Caldwell, Capt.

Bill Davis, Capt. Dawson, Capt. Fredericks, Capt. King, RAdm. Kuehl, RAdm. Long, Capt. MacPherson, Capt. McCampbell, Capt.

McMullen, Mr. McRae, Capt. Mayberry, Capt. Meyer, Capt. Ruble, Capt. Santmyers, Capt. Scfiade, Capt. Searcy, Capt. Shellabarger, Capt. Spahr, Capt. Taylor, Capt.

Travis, RAdm. Tyree, and Capt. Koenig.

Both the Class Committee Chairman, TAD DUNCAN, and the Secretary, MORGAN SLAYTON, were unable to be present, so SHELLY SHELLABARGER did his usual fine, efficient job and handled the Navy's end of the affair. Tad, unfortunately, had to be out of town on business for the AVCO Corporation, and I was presiding over a personal appearance case before the Naval Physical Disability Review Board. Other classmates who had hoped to be present but couldn't make it were: Joe Enright, Steve Mandarich, Ed Miller, Bill Mott, Tom Morton, OB O'Brien, Ralph Styles, and Ray Thompson.

BOB M A C P H E R S O N passes the following notes from a letter written to him by GARY COLEMAN in Hawaii: "See by Shipmate that there is still an active '33 group around Washington. Give my best to the gang at the next luncheon. We just had a '33 get-together out here at B A X T E R RUSSELL's quarters at Lualualei; present were the Hardmans, Dodsons, Bewicks, Quen Drustrup, End Cobb, and the Colemans. ED and Vi METZGER were away on leave and there was sickness in the BURKS family.

Fun was had by allâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;we try to make these a monthly affair." Good to hear the news from the aloha isles, how about a picture for the next issue, Gary?

A very warm and welcome letter from H A Y D E N LEON, Commanding Officer of the Navy Air Development Center, Johnsville. Pa., commenting most favorably on the increased news coverage of '33 in Shipmate, adding how good it was "to hear about all my friends that have scattered to the four winds." He says that son Hayden, Jr., is a Lt. (jg), U S N A '59, now in Sub School, Ann is in Penn State, while Peter and Gordon are at home and attending high and grammar schools. This is his 3rd year as CO of the Center and he loves it. He and Virginia enjoy living in a 200-year-old farm house in Bucks County with their 4 ducks, 2 cats, a lamb, and a dog! He says the 36

pheasant hunting has been wonderful with young Peter the best shot in the family; they're all looking forward to snow-skiing season now that it is too cold for waterskiing. They don't sound like the "soft" Americans that President Kennedy is concerned about, do they? He sends best to all hands.

A couple of classmates have passed through Washington very briefly and brought me up to date on their activities: Capt. H O W A R D D U F F , Deputy Chief of Staff for Naval Reserve Affairs, 13th Naval District, came east for a conference and was fortunate enough to be able to join his son, newly selected Lt. Karl M. Duff, USN, and the latter's bride, nee Gretchen Raddatz of La Jolla, at the Army-Navy game in Philadelphia.

Young Karl is presently on duty at MIT, taking the 3-year PG course for EDO, and his dad is very proud of him. Howard, his lovely wife, Pauline, the two younger children, Larry 14 and Margie 12, are currently living at 19105 Olympic View Drive, Edmonds, Wash, (telephone: P R 6-7409). Any classmates getting out thataway, be sure to give them a call. Pauline, in her "spare" time, is assisting in teaching the Braille System of reading for the blind; daughter, Eleanor, graduated from Stanford in '61.

JOBO DENNY, having the same job in the 5th Naval District that Howard has in the 13th, came here for the same conference, but we didn't meet so I couldn't get any word from him as to the Denny family's fortunes.

Capt. J. G. "BEN" FRANKLIN, USN, came east from San Diego, where he has been on duty with the Commandant, 11th Naval District, to present his case before the Navy Physical Disability Review Board prior to his retirement, expected sometime in December. His new address is: Kings Bay Lodge, Crystal River, Fla. (telephone: SW 5-2850). His first wife, Peggy, died about 3% years ago and on 28 June 1959 he married Mrs. Teri Hart, whose naval aviator husband had died about the same time Peggy did. He says that all classmates will always be welcome in their home and urges them to consider Crystal Springs as the ideal place to retire in!

P E T E and Ginny GALANTIN are announcing the engagement of their daughter, Joy (Mary Joy), to Lt. (jg) Sidney Edwin Veazey, U S N '59, the son of Mrs. SalHe H. Veazey and the late Mr. Veazey of Wilmington, N. C. The wedding is planned for January 1962. Joy attended the University of Geneva, Switzerland, and spent two years attending the Alliance Francaise in Europe.

After being detached from duty aboard USS HAWKINS, Lt. Veazey was assigned to the Junior Line Officers' Advanced Scientific Educational Program at Duke University, studying for his Ph.D. in Nuclear Physics.

Another affair which has become a successively brighter annual event is the '33 Washington, D. C , contingent's Christmas Party. The 1961 dinner-dance was held in the Lee Room of the C.O.M., Arlington Hall, on Saturday, 9 Dec. Lisa DRAKE, Chairman of the '33 'Wives Club, was general factotum and planner for the whole lovely affair, ably abetted and assisted by Virginia E N R I G H T , Lee F U S S E L M A N and Betty SHELLABARGER. The Club itself had decorated the room beautifully for the Christmas Season and the girls had embellished each table with festive arrangements of evergreens and pine cones and all the glitter that makes this time of the year so sparkly. A R C H I E W R I G H T , Chief of Staff for the Commandant, Potomac River Command, most graciously made his Navy Combo available to provide the music

for the evening. These fine young musicians made a terrific hit, not only for their excellent music but for their appearance and deportment throughout the evening. All those present were very proud of this excellent and highly representative group of young Navy men, immaculate in military appearance, courteous in deportment, and highly skilled in their ability to "give out" with a tune. On behalf of '33, I am writing a note of appreciation to the Commandant for the highly gratifying appearance and performance of this talented group.

Those attending the Christmas frolic were: Stan and Helen Barnes, Jim and Dottie Bethea (all the way up from Newport News for the occasion). Champ and Rosalie Blouin, Swifty and Bobbie Caldwell, Fuzzy and Lisa Drake, Tad and Nan Duncan, Joe and Virginia Enright, Eddie and Maudie Fredericks, Ray and Lee Fusselman, Pete and Ginny Galantin, Ed and Ernie Grimm, Pickles and Dee Heinz, Chick King, Jimmy and Betty Ogden, Donn and Betty Macintosh, Bob and Marney MacPherson, Arnie and Becky Schade, Pete and Peg Searcy, Shelly and Betty Shellabarger, Ralph and Fran Shifley, Otto and Pat Spahr, Jolin and Marge Tyree, and Bruce and Pearl Wiggin. Couples who hoped to attend, but were prevented at the last minute, were Bill and Jean Dawson, Bill and Bettie MacDonald and Lud and Betty Stahl. Between my job as Deputy Director, Navy Council of Personnel Boards and studying for my M.A. in International Relations and Organization at the American University, I seem to have been very anti-social the past few months; now that the comprehensive exams are over and done with (I hope), I expect to do much better in '33 participation, but do regret having to miss what was considered the best get-together the class has had here in the Washington area.

Christmas will be gone by the time this appears in print but all of us here will be thinking about all our friends and classmates and their families throughout the New Year.

We sincerely hope that each of you has experienced the joys and happiness that this particularly Holy Season should impart to all men of good will.

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Sec'y, Cdr. Robert P. Harbold, Jr., USNR 129 Spa View Ave., Annapolis, Md.

In the rush to get the notes out for December issue and being without the regular reference file failed to report the 17 October luncheon at the Army-Navy Country Club which turned out 30 members for a record representation, and even caught CLAUDE KIRKPATRICK, who was in the area on a selection board. M I K E SELLARS verbally advanced the proposal for a class picnic at N W L Dahlgren; however, the consensus has moved the date of the affair to mid-June.

You will all get further advance notice when plans are firmed up.

On 16 November U S N A 1934 was host to USMA 1934 at the Army-Navy Country Club. The outstanding feature of this luncheon, which has become an annual affair, was appropriate vocal renditions by the Sea Chanters of the U. S. Navy Band. A genial exchange of reminiscences topped off the meeting. Our thanks to FRANK U P H A M for taking over while BILL HASTINGS was on the binnacle list. The following faithful turned out: Frank Arnold, Ed Batcheller, Brad Bradley, Bill Buse, Bob (Zhandler, Ernie Christensen, Chick Clarey, Ed Fahy, Bob Fairweather, Art Gralla, Butch Harbold, Bill Hastings, Fid Murray, John Nichols, Dick O'Kane, Gene Rider, Bill SHIPMATE

Stevenson, Keith Taylor, Jake Updegrove, Clyde Van Arsdall, Paul Van Leunan, George Welch and Frank Upham.

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S e c y & C o r r . Sec'y, Capt. Thomas S. B a s k e t t , U S N , Staff, I n d u s t r i a l College of t h e A r m e d Forces ( I C A F ) , W a s h i n g t o n 25, D . C.

Replies to the annual circular letter are bringing us some very welcome up-to-date addresses and odd bits of news, such as the fact that ROGER NEEDH.A.M is working in Monrovia, Liberia. He is a civil engineer on construction of a radio relay base for the U. S. Information Agency. (Address: Voice of America, American Embassy, Monrovia, Liberia, State Dept., Washington 25, D. C.) Katherine and their youngest (Chuck, 9) are with them; the two older children are at school in the states.

DALE C O C H R A N E is on Com 12 staff, living in San Francisco (120 Upper Terrace) and intending to stay there, Navy willing. .A. son is a junior at U. of Cal., and a daughter is at Lowell High School.

B E E P K I N S L E Y retired in '60 and is living at 20 Vassar Rd., Marblehead, Mass.

He has added the following to his 1935 USNA diploma: an unlimited merchant marine Master's ticket, any ocean, any tonnage; LL.B. from Suffolk Law School; and membership in Massachusetts Bar. He is now looking for employment worthy of this broad spectrum of talents.

CY COLE is now ComSubFlt Two at Charleston after two years in LaSpezia, Italy.

He and Marjorie expect to be unpacked in time to pack up and move next summer. After two years in Italy he gets no sympathy from this department.

NEV S H A F F E R seems to have left town just long enough to get relieved as a member of the Class Council. He is back in a flag billet as A S W Readiness Exec.

DOC MURDOCK writes that he has been Postmaster at Covington, Ky., for the past three years, and would certainly like to see any classmates passing through the Cincinnati area.

Sec'y, Capt. K. C. Lovell, U S N 3948 Garrison St., N . W .

Washington, D. C. Corr. Sec'y, Capt. W m . A. Ellis, U S N 4029 Downing St. Annandale, Va.

A Happy, Happy New Year to you all!

And how did you like the results of that game on 2 Dec? ELLIS Stadium was really rocking and a roaring, and if you don't think so, you should hear the tape recording to prove it. With an evenly distributed Army and Navy contingent present we lacked only the cold wide open spaces of the Philadelphia stadium to place us right in the game. Of course, the TV would have to kick up, but nevertheless it was truly a Navy Day in Annandale. So next year, let it be BE.A.T ARMY again!

JOE and Claudiana RICE and J. T. and Nancy R E E D hosted the braver '36ers before and after the game respectively. No reports at this writing on the get-together, but if it was anything at all like the turnout at 4029 Downing, I'm sure a good time was had by all. Sorry Ede and I couldn't make it to Philly, but maybe we'll get there ne.xt year.

No news to report around these parts, and right now it is the 14th of Dec.—my deadline is the 15th—and Ede is saying, "Shipmate, Smitnape be danged, come help me with these (Thristmas cards!" At the same time Ramar is saying, "Me-ow, me-ow-ow-ow."

All of which means, "Open the door and let JANUARY,

1962

'61, Jensen Engineering is headed by GEORGE ROUZEE. . . . Jensen Eng. employs 15 people, . . . and expects to double its staff within the next six months." Good luck to George Rouzee.

There was a class luncheon on 9 Nov. at the customary Army & Navy Country (Tlub.

Fourteen were present of the good congenial group: Hubie Reece, Dick Ball, Don Baer, Jack Carroll, Wes Steesy, Stretch Kelley, Fil Gilkeson, Larry Brantley, Jimmy Denton, John Johnston, Mort Lytle, Hank Rowe, Jerry Hughes, and Swampy Lajaunie.

If you received the annual ballot for directors of the U. S. Naval Institute Proceedings, you would have noted that three of '37 were candidates: C H A R L I E MINTER, JACK OBERMEYER, and S N E E D SCHMIDT. E D D I E A R E N T Z E N recently received the Joseph H. Linnard Award of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers for the best paper in 1960, "Naval Architecture Aspects of Submarine Design." Eddie, as you know, is on duty at MIT, Cambridge, Mass. He and Marcia are living at 179 Lewis Rd., Belmont, Mass. CHUCK S T E I N has moved from United Research, Inc. where he was Vice-Pres. to AVCO Corp; the title of the new job I don't know. Chuck is now living in Lexington, Mass. LOU R U P P is another Boston area classmate now a VicePres. and Gen'l Mgr. of IONICS, a firm specializing in converting brackish water into fresh. W Y M A N H O W A R D is in the same area working for Sylvania. ARD GRANT H A M is in the Boston Shipyard. BOB W E S C O T T , as you remember, is Senior Engineer of the Harvard University and lives in Hingham, Mass. A wonderful batch of news and information, and all because Eddie was kind enough to call me on a recent visit of his to Washington where he stayed with his brother, a Navy doctor living in Alexandria.

me out of here." So here goes with the few bits of news I have.

Today found the local male contingent back on course again having veered from the usual luncheon schedule to take care of the Reunion in Sept. Eighteen turned out at Patton Hall, Fort Myer, to kick off the new season and to discuss the annual '36 U S N A - U S M A luncheon get-together, presently set for the 20th of March. So circle your calendars, or have your secretary do it, and plan to be present, particularly if you are an out-oftowner and are contemplating a TAD visit to Washington. We need a big turnout to offset the glare from all those stars. Incidentally, CASEY plans additionally for luncheons on 18 January, 15 February, 19 April, 17 May, 14 June, and 19 July. So mark all these dates at the same time you circle 20 March and drop me or Casey a line if you can be present. Future issues of this column will keep you posted if there are any changes.

A note from Bunny COMBS says '36 is well represented in the Norfolk area. She and V I N C E are enjoying the life of quarters on the base. She also reports they have a new grandson, Mark Cotton Combs, whom she hopes to see very shortly when she visits the West Coast when Vince goes to sea. Our congratulations to the newest members of the grandparents club.

JACK NOEL, skipper of the SPRINGFIELD, was recently host to Representatives Robert T. Stafford and Samuel S. Stratton, both members of the House Armed Services Committee, while they were doing their ACTRADU on the staff of ComSixFleet.

How are we doing Jack ? Will we get a raise in our quarters allowance?

My '36 barometer predicts fair weather ahead for '62; so best wishes to you all for a healthy, prosperous, wealthy New Year.

This is fogey year, so plan ahead now for the '62 reunion. See you next month.

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Any classmate who will act as area representative for the twenty-fifth anniversary round-up please send me his name. The maximum latest addresses of classmates will be needed to send out the information, when the time comes.

Corr. Sec'y, L t . Cdr. J . P . M. Johnston, U S N ( R e t . ) , 5439 41st St., N . W .

W a s h i n g t o n 15, D . C.

WASHINGTON

LARRY B R A N T L E Y of Giannini Controls Corp. has sent a clipping from the Electronic News, dated 6 November 1961. It says, " J E N S E N P L A N S R E L O C A T I O N T O LARGER FACILITY—Palo Alto, Calif. Jensen Engineering, Inc., a four-monthold space communication firm, here, expects to move into a 7,500 sq. foot plant in the Mountain View area. . . . Formed in July

Corr. Sec'y, Capt. John A . Bogley, U S N 3900 W a t s o n P L , N.W., W a s h i n g t o n , D . C.

Our monthly luncheon was a joint meeting with the West Point Class of '38 very ably arranged by our leader ED CONRAD. Present were 21 Army-Air Force and 25 Navy-

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'38 CLASSMATES MEET for lunch at the OfRcers' Club, Naval Base, Charleston, S. C. Left to right: John Hausman, Planning Officer Naval Shipyard, Phil Beshany, ComSubRon Four, Jack Bogley, Industrial College of the Armed Forces, Ken Rock, Deputy Chief of StofF for Naval Reserve, Com 6, and Art Johnson, ComDesRon Eight.

Marines. Upholding the Navy were: Dalton, Dwyer, Leonard, Bartol, Lovelace, Red Mason, Alford, Washington, Ed Conrad, Jones, Michael, Harris, Dick, Bowers, Boozer, McManus, Leydon, Schroeder, Norris, Dick Church, Kleiss, Trickey, and Yours Truly.

The program consisted of a statistical recap of each class which I pass along to you.

Our class started in '34 with 607 new plebes and 5 turnbacks for a total of 612. Four years later 438 of us graduated with 388 being commissioned in the Navy and 26 in the Marine corps. 1961 finds us with only 221 remaining on active duty broken down (ha-ha) as follows: 136 line captains, including 48 submariners, 2 line commanders, 40 aviation captains, 13 ED captains, 1 ORD captain, 5 AED captains, 1 Communicator captain, 13 Supply captains, 2 CEC captains, 3 Marine aviation colonels, 1 Marine Supply colonel, and 6 Marine Ground colonels.

71 classmates are deceased with deaths attributed as follows: 18 lost in aircraft thru

enemy action and 19 from operational flights, 9 lost in submarines by enemy action and 1 operational, 7 lost in destroyers by enemy action and 3 operational, 2 lost in cruisers by enemy action, 3 in carriers by enemy action, 1 in oilers by enemy action, 1 in Marine ground enemy action, 1 POW, 3 non service, 2 at Pearl Harbor, and 1 in operational lighter-than-air.

Of those in civilian pursuits we have 1 minister, 1 missionary, 2 pharmaceutical, 8 in education, 7 own their own business, 3 in investment firms, 5 in oil companies, 1 working for the world health organization of the U. N., 4 lawyers, 2 with airlines, 1 in Phihppine Army, 1 archeologist, 1 writing comic strips, and the many others in industries, primarily in the defense-industrial complex.

West Point '38 started out in 1934 and graduated 301 of which 174 are now on active duty. 131 are in the Army and 43 in the Air Force. In the Army, 123 are full colonels, of whom 7 have been selected for brigadier, 4

are already brigadiers and 4 are It. colonels.

In the Air Force 26 are colonels, 12 brigadiers, 3 major generals, 2 It. generals, and 1 retired maj. general. 55 of the class are deceased with death attributed to 26 killed in enemy action (8 in P O W ships, 6 in POW camps, 2 executed, 4 in air missions, 6 in ground actions), 17 in peace time air crashes, 3 in auto accidents, 1 murdered, and 8 by sickness. All in all these figures show that the classes of '38 have given a good account of themselves in the past and the future looks bright.

ANNAPOLIS NEWS

RED COWARD always has more to do than time will permit, but he always takes time to help me out with news for the column.

He arranged to have as many of the midshipman sons of '38 as could be available for a picture which I hope the editor will be kind enough to include in this issue. Thanks, Red.

Photo by Stu Whelan A GROUP OF MIDSHIPMEN whose fathers graduated in the Class of 1938. Left to right: Norman D. Mosterson, Frederick M. Berthrong, Robbins E. Brown, William J. Tate, I I I , John W. Beordsley, Robert G. Nickerson, Rob J. Sharer, Walter L. Ogle, William M. Laughlin, Asbury Coward, IV, Bruce Frederick Brown. Missing when the picture was taken were: Frank R. Whalen, Jerry M. Sullivan, and Charles A. Morrison.

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NOROLK NEWS

M O N R O E KELLY, our able Norfolk correspondent, writes that despite the unhappiness over Navy's poor showing at the Uyster Bowl against Duke, we had a very nice and spirited post game cocktail party in the Chesapeake Room of the Naval Station 2^S^i^?x£'"''- ^ E S E U B A N K S , I R V SUP E R F I N E and KG R O B I N S O N were the committee who made the arrangements and were responsible for the success of the affair.

16 classmates attended the party: Jane Reinhart, without George who has his ship in Guantanamo, Dick and lona Cooper, Les and Anne Eubanks, John and Win Haines, the Inghams, Bill and Norma Glennon, Mac and Mary McGivern, Bill and Barron Hunnicutt, Art Johnson up from Mayport, Fla., Monroe and Marge Kelly, Charlie and Bobby Morrison down from Newport, Steve and Jeanne Mann, Harry and Rosemary Stott, Joe and Dotty Tucker, Walt and Jane Small down from Annapolis, Irv and Marge Superfine, and KG and Bou Robinson. Rab and Mary Irvine were seen at the game. Harry Stott leaves soon for Rio where he will relieve Jack Hamilton in the Naval Mission. Thanks for the fine news, Monroe.

CHARLESTON N E W S

My last National Security Seminar was in Charleston, so I picked up some class news in my spare time. H E Y D O N and Muriel W E L L S took fine care of me for the weekend and speaking of weekends, Heydon was recovering from a bout with the medics having his rusty pipes cleaned. P H I L and Gigi B E S H A N Y had my teammates and me to their home on East Bay Street for cocktails, dinner on the tender and a tour of one of the submarines in Phil's squadron. A R T J O H N SON, P H I L B E S H A N Y , K E N ROCK, and J O H N H A U S M A N joined me for lunch at the Officers' Club at the Naval Base. Phil's photographer snapped a picture which I also hope the editor will include in this issue.

K E N ROCK is retiring in February and heading for Florida to set up camp at Doctor's Inlet in Orange Park. I also saw GRABA H O L T who is assistant chief of staff for Logistics Com 6.

MEMORIAL STADIUM

I asked D O N B R O W N to give me a rundown on our Memorial Stadium drive and I quote here his reply!

"This is a short run-down of the '38 project to insure Memorial Chairs for those in the Class of '38, who by premature demise, left us prior to the dedication of the NavyMarine Corps Stadium on 26 September 59.

"Collecting contributions has been most rewarding to me because the mails have brought me about 70 notes or letters from classmates from whom I had not heard in a long time. Needless to say, they generally stated a firm position that we should complete the Memorial Chair project as soon as possible.

"The project plea consisted of about 250 notes mailed asking for about $10.00 each on the assumption that all would respond.

Receipts amounted t o : a. Total contributors 119 b. Total contributions $2,022.36 c. Average contribution 17.00 "We thought we needed $2,461.00, but 'Red' Coward dug up the fact that the contribution from the Class Fund, as noted by all of you, had not been lumped with the personal contributions by the class. As a result, we have oversubscribed our much delayed plan. With what I hope is the permission of the class, am placing the balance back in our rather small Class Fund as a base for the J A N U A R Y ,

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next project we might choose to undertake.

Will, as was done back in October '52, have the accounts audited by three classmates.

"Recently on a visit to the Academy, found some classmates who did not realize that the substantial marble plaque high and to the rear of the altar inscribed ETERNAL FATHER STRONG TO SAVE is the other project which '38 leaves behind them at the old school. 'EL' BALDRIDGE and other class boosters were responsible for arousing us to this project. Have overheard remarks that indicate there are many contributions of this order in nearly as good but no better taste than ours."

Most sincerely, (signed) DON BROWN

Thanks Don, and I think we can all take pride in this achievement and hope you invest

Photo by Hessler Studio ROAUN V. MROZINSKI '39

It was announced on 6 December in Rochester, N. Y., that ROMAN V. MROZINSKI had been appointed Director, Government Relations for the General Railway Signal Company. Mr. Mrozinski is located in Washington and represents the recently expanded group of GRS companies in their dealings with government agencies.

Sec'y, Capt. E. Mnhlenfeld, USN, Joint Staff, JOS, Room 2B867, Pentaeon Washineton 25, D. C. Corr. Sec'y, LCol. G. G. Williams, USMC 565 Brandon Rd., Bay Colony Vireinia Beach, Va.

BRUCE K. LLOYD was presented with the Distinguished Flying Cross by Admiral Anderson for flying an HSS-2 Helicopter to three world speed records.

As we get ready to go to press, the preChristmas rush is on and it's worth your life to drive downtown in Washington. We've had our first measurable snow, one inch, 9 Dec, which brought on the usual rash of fender bumps and traffic snarls. We had our first Christmas card of the season, the other day, from J O N S E and Florence H U G H E S .

They allow as how they really love that Florida living.

SCOTT GOODFELLOW, CO U S S PAUL REVERE ( A P A - 2 4 8 ) , has been sojourn-

ing in Long Beach, but expected as of 15 December to return to San Diego on completion of overhaul, Scott's local address is 300 6th St., Coronado, Calif.

F R A N K GRAZIANO phoned to say he is in the process of moving to New York, where he will be with Continental Copper and Steel Industries, at 100 East 42nd St. BILL WILLIAMSON, now Ballistic Missile System Branch Manager at Vitro Labs, rode the GEORGE WASHINGTON on the occa-

sion of the first two Polaris missile firings on 20 July 60. Bill and Ramie are now living at 12021 Livingston, Silver Spring, Md. J A K E PLUMMER writes from 8809 Lawndell Rd., Richmond 29, Va., where he is now District Sales Manager for Nationwide Insurance Companies, that "Mary is fast becoming a Richmonder in spite of her Yankee blood—I'm enjoying life and telling more sea stories than six people ought to.

Hope anyone who passes by will stop off and visit."

W A R R E N SMALZEL is Executive VicePresident of Cabot, Cabot & Forbes Associates, Inc., and is living at 35 Pond St., Cohasset, Mass.

These classmates have all done something about the 20-year book . . . how about you ? ? ?

If you haven't, make your New Year's Resolution to do so NOW—before January gets away from us.

M I K E H A N L E Y was the Major Domo for the final Washington area class luncheon of '61, standing in for BILL CASPARI who was caught in a last minute flap. Although the list of cancellations indicated that more than a few shared Bill's fate, there were still nearly thirty stalwarts gathered for sea stories, good cheer, and excellent lamb chops.

Plans are afoot for a class party after the holidays—more about that as the plot develops.

Hope you all had a Merry Christmas, and that the New Year will be happy and prosperous.

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Sec'y, Mr. Tally Shelley, Jr. 69A West Road New Canaan, Conn.

J O E W H E E L E R expects his retirement for physical disability to be effective 31 Dec. He is enrolling in the Graduate School of Florida State University to get his Master's degree in mathematics with intentions of teaching in one of the new junior colleges in Florida. His address until about July is Capt. J. C. Wheeler, 13 Azalea Rd., Wappoo Heights, Charleston, S. C. CHARLES DELLER, recently retired, will join the State Civil Service as a civil defense specialist in Harrisburg, Pa. He is living at 1708 Chatham Rd., Camp Hill, Pa. Seen among happy Navy rooters at the Army-Navy game were Edwards, Nolte, Norton, Pierce, Richardson, Rieve, Ruble, and Shelley.

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Sec'y, Cdr. Arthur F. Rawson, Jr., U S N , 445 Areyle Dr., Alexandria 7, Va. LCol. Walter W. Stegemerten, USMC 6106 Dorchester St., Sprinefield, Va.

SCOREBOOK

This is an urgent appeal to get behind the 20-year Scorebook. There are 505 members on our mailing list. We need responses from 400 to get the project underway. As of 7 Dec, 216 classmates had sent in their sketch, snapshot and 5 dollars. We still need 184 to get the project underway. Obviously the deadline has been extended until the requisite number of replies have been received. Failure to meet the deadline has caused one casualty already. BOB T O W E R has received orders to Iceland, and will have to turn over management of the project to someone else. He had hoped to have the book well underway before he left, but this is now not possible.

If you want the Scorebook—let's hear from you as soon as possible. It would be nice to have the book in time for the 1962 reunion.

This brings up another reminder. It is not too early to make your plans for the 1962 reunion in Annapolis. Address all requests for reservations or information to Capt. W. L. NYBURG, 325 Mansion Dr., Alexandria, Va. LOST A N D FOUND

TOM GARRETTSON sent in his vote for the yearbook from 315 Saville Rd., Mineola, N. Y. Tom spent 4 years with the Marine Corps after leaving the NA in 1941.

He has had his own business as a manufacturers' representative for several years.

One of the many classmates he has seen is JACK HEBRON, now sales manager in N. Y. for Loral Electronics Corp. RAY SWANBECK wrote from Vienna, Austria, where he is continuing his studies at the university. They will be there until next summer, after which plans are not firm whether to remain in Europe, or return to the States.

However Ray and Babe can be contacted through Bold Stream Farm, Middlebrook, Va. BOB ARMSTEAD, returning from a tour in the Far East, is now stationed at MARTD, NAS, NY, Brooklyn 34, N. Y. RAY HERZBERGER brags that the Chevy business is terrific in Cleveland, and wanted to know about the anniversary party in Washington. JIM and Lois L E I P P E R now reside at 8 South Oak, Hinsdale, 111. Jim is with the Western-Knapp Engineering Co., in Chicago. BOB L O W E L L is XO of the Purdue NROTC unit. Bob's present plans are to enter the academic field of work when he retires in June '62. He has nailed down the planks at 2229 Huron Rd., West Lafay40

"FROM CRABTOWN TO TIMBUCKTOO" and at t a Rochelle, France the Day Navy Beat Army with a genuine synthetic Bill to harass the Army are Jack Logan '43, Bob Mercer '48 and John Lindbeck '42.

ette, Ind., and plans to be there for the next three years at least.

SAN DIEGO

BILL ROBIE checked in from the San Diego area with an invitation to the 20th anniversary celebration which he, BILL MORGAN, and MILT S T E W A R T arranged. DON H E N N I N G S sent his current address as 1153 Sapphire St., San Diego 9, Calif.

NORFOLK

November was a busy month in Norfolk.

JUD and Jane DOYLE hosted a gala gathering after the Oyster Bowl, which 45 classmates attended. ART and Betty RAWSON did a fine job of representing the Washington group. NORM and Muff N A S H were absent because of a prior commitment to help with the Mid'n. Hop sponsored by the Shriners.

The November luncheon was another co-ed affair and the wives brightened the occasion considerably. DICK SEW ALL, OinC N A T SF, Philadelphia, put in a surprise appearance as a guest of W A L T BRANDON, the new XO of NAS. FRANK D U N H A M is leaving the USS CONY to become XO, USS OKINAWA. Thus '42 has the first black shoe Exec. To insure that the occasion was a gala affair, MARK WOODS assigned an OpTevFor Project. No. to the Norfolk anniversary party. MAX O S T R A N D E R reported that he is still at 180, Commodore Dr., Norfolk 3, Va. Max claims that the "Homecoming" trip broke them, but Arlene is getting them solvent with her bridge game.

SECRETARY'S NOTES

If you want the information, we must have your current address. ART RA^ySON would sure like to keep everyone advised of the reunion plans and the Scorebook score.

The mailing address is: Class of 1942, USNA, Box 6042 Shirlington Station, Arlington, Va. Remember this when you get that change of duty.

Having had the good fortune to graduate during the holiday season, it has become custom throughout the world, where "42" gathers, to have a combination Christmas and anniversary party. The deadline for submission of material did not permit reporting on these parties in this issue; however, I will get a full report in next month's issue.

We need your replies on the Scorebook ; don't delay in making plans for the "42"— "62" reunion.

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Corr. Sec'y, Cdr. Frank F. Clifford, Jr., USN 3854 Colombia Pike, Arlineton 4, Va.

Rather a slim input this month—for any number of reasons, including the basic one— not much mail.

The Virginia game (Family Day) afforded another opportunity for '45 to get together and we saw many "tigers" manning the stands.

The Army game was an extremely pleasant affair, both football and weather wise.

Quite a few of the gang celebrated our 17th year of commissioned service on the goal line (we should be in the Naval Shipyard next year), including AL S H E P A R D who spent most of the last quarter trying to see the game over the heads of a sea of shutter bugs who kept him involved for some minutes. We trust Al got a rundown on the game from the papers.

SOCIAL NOTES

CHARLIE JARVIS, who is the class dentist (as far as we know), reports in from San Marcos, Texas, where he doubles in brass as a public speaker.

T. W. J O H N S T O N checks his address as: CPO Box 977, Tokyo, Japan, and offers sake-on-the-rocks, a bowl of rice, and a sack to all '45ers passing through.

FRANK CORREIA is on ComBarForLant Staff as Plans Officer. Frank provides the following vital statistics for the "20 Years After" book: Attainment of a M.S. and a Ph.D. in Mathematics. Well done, you savoir; that really shows ambition.

BOB POLK writes in from Wisconsin State College, Oshkosh, Wis. BOB LAUER brings his status of an active forty-fiver up to date and says, "Perhaps some '45ers would be interested, or amused, to learn that we have added to our family our 7th child (4th boy), Peter James, born 6 Sept. Bob and Phyllis et al. are residing at 3409 Wyckliffe Parkway, Toledo, Ohio, and all hands are invited to stop in and visit." " P I N K Y " GILMORE swept into town and reported his location with frau Ruby at Pensacola where Pinky is in ANTIETAM. Some new faces at the last luncheon, 5 D e c : Bill Traynor (on TAD from San Diego), Hub Davidson, Willie Rand (O.K., Bill, so your face isn't new at luncheons— but we like to see you anyway), Bob "DogS H I P M A T E

1), and will be back in .\pril. They like ing Command for pilot training. In December 1950 he was designated a naval aviator and the Northwest.

WALLY RIGGS has orders to the Joint ordered to report to VF-112 as it regrouped for a return to the Korean action.

•\lternate Command Element in D. C. from .\n emergency leave in December '51, just XO of U S S H A W K I N S (DDR-873) in Mayport. S.A.NDY S . \ N D E F O R D has orders prior to the deployment of VF-112, resulted in a transfer to VF-121. In 1952, while V F to command U S S JAMES MONROE ( S S B N 121 was operating from the U S S ORISKANV 622). (I'd say it's about time to read the near the coast of Korea, John was one of doctrine again!)

LARRY ST.'VHL has orders from Armed the three pilots who engaged in the Navy's Forces Staff College to Strategic Target only "dogfight" with Russian built M I G IS's. He was later awarded the Silver Star ADMINISTRATIVE SECTION Planning, Offutt AFB, Omaha, Neb. JACK Medal for his part in the action, which inBailey, Banks has put the crests in the and Do T . \ Y L O R give their Christmas card mail and by the time this is printed, crests address as 5350 Edgewater Dr., Ewa, Ha- cluded shooting down one MIG-15. Another result was a trip through South Korea in should be adorning many '45 walls—excuse, waii. (I'll see you all in February.) bulkheads. The final bill, when adjusted, After five years in BuWeps, BOB W E R T - the middle of winter to relate the incident should provide a small repeat small, refund. H E I M has finally reported to N O T S China first hand to President-Elect Eisenhower.

Some months later John was awarded the Don't call us—we'll call you!

Lake. Bob, Barb, and two boys live at 708 Navy Commendation Medal for bombing and Well, that's all we can crank out at this A Kearsarge St. Barb says: ". . . Life on deadline. Let us hear from you—it keeps up the desert is a far cry from the big city, but destroying a major ammunition dump near Wonsan Harbor. the cheer as we sit in front of the wood we really appreciate the lack of commuting stove in our little editorial center. Makes and parking problems. There are no other Upon the return of VF-121 to San Diego, '46ers here, but there is a cold martini and John was detailed to the newly formed Fleet even the crackers taste better! a warm bed for any visiting classmates at All-Weather Training Unit Detachment at the Wertheims."

N.AS San Diego, serving as Personnel OffiH A N K W I L S O N has orders from Second cer and Instrument Flight Instructor.

Sec'y, LCdr. C. V . Wilhoit, J r . , U S N In May '54, he was ordered to the Naval Fleet to N R O T C Unit, Dartmouth College, USS WISEMAN (DE-667) .\ir Basic Training Command. A year's duty Hanover, N. H. FPO, San Francisco, Calif.

Congratulations to the twenty Commander- as a Primary Flight Instructor at N A A W Material is scarce this month as it appears Strikers who answered the bell for the second Whiting Field was followed by a year and that not very many classmates are receiving round in October. Some people will be com- a half as Administrative Services Officer in orders. .A.s a matter of fact, time is a coming up for 20-year retirements before long the N A S Pensacola Overhaul and Repair modity in rather short supply also. WISEMAN Department. A stint as N A S Disciplinary deployed on 6 Jan.; then your roving '46 re- and the class will enter another new phase. Officer was terminated in August '57 when porter will make a tour of the far-flung '46 Oh well, it'll be interesting!

John entered General Line School at MonSee you in WestPac Don't forget to write terey, Calif. Graduating in June 1958, he rePacific domain. Should be interesting after a seven-and-one-half-year tour of shore duty! me in care of U S S WISEMAN (DE-667). ported to V.A.-44 for replacement pilot train"DAISY" ing. Upon designation as a nuclear weapons I think it worthy of note that when the delivery pilot. John reported to V.\-86, then ship needed some yard work done they sent CHANGE OF C O M M A N D FIGHTING FIFTY-THREE aboard U S S RANDOLPH in the Mediterranean this WISE-MAN to Bethlehem (in San Pedro, On 9 December in an impressive ceremony Sea. -As Operations Officer of V-'A-86, he parthat is). SAM and Porter B.4SSETT record a new address of 34 Robinhood Rd., held aboard the U S S TICONDEROGA (CV.A.- ticipated in the shakedown cruise of the Winchester, Mass. Same city, different house. 14), Cdr. N. J. Smith, I I I , USN, was re- U S S INDEPENDENCE ( C V A - 6 2 ) , and various Sam is Section Chief at AVCO, Research lieved by Cdr. J. H. BURH.A.NS, USN, as fleet exercises conducted during '59 and '60.

Commanding Officer. and Advanced Development Division.

In .August 1960, John reported for duty The "Blue Knights" of Fighting Fifty- on the staff of Commander Naval Air Force, .^L B E T T I S has received orders from San Three are presently deployed to WesPac Francisco Naval Shipyard to BuShips.

Atlantic Fleet, as Attack Training Officer.

PAUL BOYD goes from command of USS flying the McDonnel F3fl "Demon."

His primary duty concerned the training and HAMMERBERG (DE-1015) to command of readiness of attack squadrons operating the USS WARRINGTON (DD-843). KIRK MIL.\D-6 Skyraider, A4D Skyhawk, and the Corr. Sec'y, LCdr. J. E. Patton, U S N 7719 Bristow Dr., Annandale, Va. LER recently left there as XO. I believe soon-to-be introduced .A2F Intruder.

U S N A Class of '49 both ships are Newport based; so Paul and P. O. Box 2651, Wash. 13, D. C. In December '49, John married the former Joan will continue to live at 50 .\dmiral Ann Morgan, of Birmingham, .Ala. Patricia, Following a short "wait" aboard the USS 9; John, Jr., 6; and Linda. 3, complete the Kalbfus St., Newport.

Middleton family, now residing at 700 CrosJ O H N CARL has orders from Heavy CABOT, John reported to the Naval .Air Trainby Rd., Lynnhaven, Va. Attack Squadron 9 in Sanford to BuWeps.

CARL DUBERG has orders to .A.rmed Forces Staff College, Norfolk, from Taipei, W A S H I N G T O N AREA NEWS where he has been OinC of the Naval SeNineteen classmates attended the December curity Group Detachment. BILL F U L L E R luncheon at O'Donnell's Restaurant on 6 has orders to Carrier Division 2 from AtDec FRANK SCHLOSSER. RUDY tack Squadron 43 in Oceana.

D'AMBRA, and J.ACK E N G L I S H gave I'm glad we're still on the JACOBS' mailbrief outlines of their careers since graduing list as it is so nice to be brought up to ation. .Arrangements were discussed for the date each Christmas via the Jacobs Journal.

Xmas Party which was held at the Weapons Hal no longer wears a brace and only has Plant 23 Dec. This was to be the final a stiff ankle left over from his accident of luncheon held at O'Donnell's. The restaurant six years ago—says eventually the stiffness is being remodeled and the room normallv may be worked out. H e became a permanent assigned for '49 luncheon is being eliminated.

USN Retired as of 1 July 61. Still with the Future luncheon arrangements will be anlaw firm of Cooper and Gary in Columbia. nounced.

Jackie finally has her M.S. in Biology and The first annual revision to the '49 Class is looking around for new worlds to conDirectory was mailed on 11 Dec. .Anyone quer, I'll bet. Their address is still 5854 desiring a copy of the Directory can obtain Woodvine Rd., Columbia, S. C. one from the class secretary.

JACK K E A R N S has orders to BuWeps BOB W.ALTERS, E.xecutive Vice Presifrom Carrier Division 2. H A R V E Y LYON dent, reports that memorial chairs have been has orders to command U S S POLLACK obtained in the Navy-Marine Corps Me(SSN-603) under construction at New York morial Stadium for all deceased classmates.

Shipbuilding Corp., Camden, N. J. " L E O " Pftch" Davis (a recent returnee ( ? ) to Washrngton area), and Don Hill who is house hunting—to represent Garrett Corp., m Washington.

This propaganda center just received a very nice Xmas card from J I M and Peg BR.A.DLEY out California way with a very nice compliment on the column. TSK, Bradleys, it helps to be remembered in this lonely fraternity of scribes.

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RY (SSBN-599). Revell R A D L O F F writes on her Christmas card from 8024 Roosevelt Way, Seattle, that F R I T Z is on Operation Deepfreeze in U S S BURTON ISLAND ( A C B J A N U A R Y ,

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OTHER AREA NEWS '49ER OF THE MONTH. LCDR. JOHN

D. MIDDLETON

J O H N M I D D L E T O N reports that even though we lost the Oyster Bowl game to Duke, the '49er party after the game was a 41

success. Around 65 people attended. H U G H ALBERS did an outstanding job of arranging for the party and even had the party announced during the game.

John also reports that Jean SCOTT and children have joined the European "gypsies" while J I M is deployed in the Med. Congratulations to LCdr. E D W A R D J. M E S S E R E recently ordered to command the U S S W I N D H A M COUNTY

(LST-1170).

A reminder to '49ers—please send all newsworthy items to the class secretary.

There was only one letter received during the month of Dec

Corr. Sec'y, LCdr. John S. Holmes, USN 502 Sharon Court, McLean, Va. NEW ARRIVALS

TOM and Pat MULLIGAN welcomed a baby girl, Carolyn Michelle (their firstborn), on 3 November. We wish them the best and many more.

W I L F R E D and Janet CURLEY announce the arrival of a baby girl, Janet Ellen, on 21 Nov. She is really a rose among five thorns. Bill and Janet have five other children, all boys: Bernard (9), Kevin (7), Brian (6), Sean (4), and Barry ( 3 ) . The baby girl will certainly have plenty of protection when she gets older.

FRANK and Dottie F A H L A N D have a son, Frank Christopher, born on 21 Nov. This is ICHIBAN for them, and we wish them many more.

MONTEREY AREA

P A P P H E L P S reports the new arrivals and their curricula at Monterey are as follows : George Armstrong — management school, Don Elliott—weapons systems, Len Greene—operations analysis, Tom Rogers— operations analysis, Marsh Treado—weapons systems, and Bob Watson—nuclear engineering. Marsh and Bob bring the Marine Corps contingent up to four joining Bob Oliver in his second year and Stan Herman in his third year. The remainder of the naval types at PG school are Larry Stapp, Fish Whaley, Pete Young, Frank Featherston, and Pap Phelps. In orders to officers published 27 Nov., it was noted that Wayne Jensen has orders to Monterey to bring the PG school group up to a total of fourteen.

10-YEAR BOOK

So far on the 10-Year Book project we have accounted for a mere 287 classmates (40%) and it must be admitted that things are at a virtual standstill. We have scheduled another questionnaire mailing for the holiday season in the hope that the spirit of the times will carry us up to the 80-90% mark considered necessary for publication.

In addition, during the holiday season, an information flyer accompanied by a list of all of our delinquent classmates will reach all those who have responded so far. It is hoped that each will review this absentee list and, in keeping with a true Christmas tradition, write an appeal to "ex-wives" and other fond friends of Academy days appearing on the list with an appeal to get in touch with CURLEY. We strongly feel that after the labor pains involved with the birth and publication each classmate will have a book to be treasured. BILL CURLEY's address is 2305 Afton, S.E., Washington 21, D. C. NAVY-DUKE GAME

RED M E E K reports that although the Navy-Duke game at Norfolk was terrible, the aftergame festivities at BILL and Shirley 42

KIEHL's were terrific. Red stayed overnight with the Kiehls (in their bar) and from the looks of him when he got back to Washington, the place was jumping all night, presumably caused by the arrival of a strong "Class of '57" contingent. The highlights of the night were provided by a "Limbo" dancing contest and other exhibitions of strength in preparation for the new physical fitness program. Those at the party were: Don and Barbara Albright, Pete Block, Gene and Joyce Dunaway, Bill and Sye Grigg, Ward and Mary Lasley, Rod and Sue Radcliffe, Austin and Charlon Shartel, Wayne and Liz Smith, Ed Smith, Collins and Joanna Snyder, Dick and Mary Lou Thurston, J. L. VanKleeck, and Red Meek with Miss Joyce Grice. J. W. Olson and his wife, Class of '50 from Georgia Tech, and George Halperin and Bill Matson, both batching it.

tion. Earl says that J I M V O S S E L L E R is also associated with the Mitre Corp.

Red brought back a complete list of the Class of 1950 in the Norfolk area. I will publish it for those who might be interested.

It will be in sections due to lack of space: Don and Barbara Albright, 278 Hill Prince Rd., Carolanne Farms; W. W. and Libby Anderson, 26 Westover Rd., Newport News, Va.; Bob and Beverly Babcock, 409 Poplar Halls Circle, Poplar Halls; Edward and Dot Bronars, 1617 Ara St.; F. E. and Nancy Beck, 5518 Brookville Dr., Poplar Halls; L. and Gloria Bendall (no address) ; Peter F. Block, 3761 Giles Circle; R. P. and Jan Cunningham, 8439 Friden Ave., Larrymore Acres; Gene and Joyce Dunaway, 1643 Springmeadow Blvd.; Bill and Jackie Diehl, 10 Riverdale Dr., Hampton, Va.; Thomas R. Eagye (no address) ; C. B. and Kathy Goodiehl, 7417 Patrician Rd.; Bill and Sye Grigg, 1541 Baychester Ave., Ocean View; C. D. and Ursula Hopkins, 8344 Norristown Dr., Roosevelt Gardens; and George and Jeanine Irish, 8319 Quincy, Forest Park.

The incoming news was rather sparse this month as we go to press just prior to the Christmas season. If some one from every group would report on all those holiday gatherings, there should be plenty of new material for the rest of the spring (which we hope is not far behind winter this year).

A R M Y - N A V Y GAME

TOM M C L A U G H L I N , one of those real operating type bachelors, reports that he "strolled" through three different get-togethers after the Army-Navy game and met, or saw, the following classmates. At the Officers' Club were: Bill and Sally Hardy, the Bob Binnions, Collins and Joanne Snyder, Bill and Janey Matson, and Rod Eyster with a lovely date whom Tom failed to meet.

Later, "Tom with Washington's "Tinker Bell" visited the Bellevue Stratford where they saw Bill and Shirley Kiehl, Phil and Debbie Smith, and Dick Whitehead. Finally late in the evening they visited "the Pub," New Jersey's newest night club, and saw Ken Bixby.

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DAVID L. TOBIN, a member of the Class of '50 who did not complete his studies at the NA, is now associated with Tobin, Rubin, Salmon, and Tobin, attorneys-at-law, in Miami, Fla. WASHINGTON

FRANK F A H L A N D momentarily saw BILL MILLER at Washington National Airport on 2 Dec. Bill is Weapons Officer on the U S S

ABRAHAM

LINCOLN.

The Washington group met at Hogate's for luncheon on 6 Dec. Those at the luncheon were: Frank Fahland, Red Meek, Bill Curley, Frank McGraw, 'Tom McLaughlin, Dick Whitehead, John Holmes, Fred Edwards, and Earl Halpern. Fred is living at 616 Bayview Dr., Annapolis, Md., on the South River. He hopes that if anyone is passing through, they will stop in for a visit. Earl Halpern is presently residing at the River House in Washington. Earl is now associated with the Mitre Corp., a non-profit research organiza-

CHRISTMAS PHOTOS

By the time you receive this issue of Shipmate, Christmas and New Year's will be over and all of the holiday photographs will have been returned from the developers. Please, if you are interested, send me the negatives or the prints of any get-tOgethers with classmates, whether they number 2 or 52, and I will be most happy to publish them.

A late but most sincere Merry Christmas and prosperous New Year.

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HERE A N D THERE

BOB L A I G H T O N is Assistant Plans Officer-Logistics on the Staff, CoMinLant.

Prior to this duty he was operations officer for ComDesRonFOUR and participated in the early Project Mercury test including the MR-2 recovery of Ham, the chimp.

VIC W A N D R E S has settled down to a tour of duty at the Pentagon, having reported to the Joint Staff. He and Eleanor with their two girls (aged 4 years and 20 months) reside at 875 N. Lebanon St., Arlington 5, Va. Vic came from command of SENECA

(ATF-91).

CHARLES DIERS has reported to BuWeps and been assigned to the space surveillance program. Residence will be at 1105 Echols St., S.E., Washington, D. C. The current address of J O H N McGAVACK is 23 Margaret Lane, Glastonbury, Conn. John has completed his third year as a physics instructor at Glastonbury High School, is also the Curriculum Assistant for Science in the Glastonbury school system, and is working toward a master's degree in physics at Trinity College and an M.A. at Wesleyan University. He and Virginia, the OAO of ten years ago, report they are always glad to greet fellow 'Slers.

UNITED K I N G D O M

For the news from London in Merry England we quote from a letter from LCdr. R I C H A R D CHILDS, Box 49, Navy #100, c/o F P O , New York: "Since 21 July I have been totin' the ludicrously long title of Assistant Naval Attache and Assistant Naval Attache for Air around through an anglicized version of smog here in the office of ALUSNA, London . . . Asst. N.A. for Fog would perhaps be more accurate. The much publicized gilded eagle atop our working spaces in the ultra-modern U. S. Embassy here is highly overrated . . . most of the time he (or she, or it) isn't visible enough to be controversial. The family is here, too, and for those gypsy-like '51ers who may find themselves wandering around in this corner of the world, the latch is always out at 68 Wood Vale, Highgate, London, N.IO, Tel. HIGhgate Wood 9744 . . . # 3 son ambled into our house . . . in Feb. . . . Haven't seen any 'Slers in a long spell, . . . although I understand FLOYD H O L L O W AY had a liberty call at Portsmouth recently. Had occasion to talk by phone briefly with TOM T R O U T in Madrid, too, but the only 'Sler S H I P M A T E

'52 CUSS REUNION AT FORT TAYLOR Officers' Club, Key West, Florida. Front row, left to right: John Derr, Les Banghart, Whitey Piatt, Fred Hollick, Toxey CalifF, Bill Reed, Bob Costigan, and Bob Morris. Second row: Dottie Derr, Helen Banghart, Peggy Piatt, Jeanne Hollick, Martha Callff, Bob Caulk, Betty Caulk, Tut Reed, Mel Meltzer, Frieda Meltzer, and Jan Costigan.

I've seen in the flesh over here was DICK BALTZ, U S A F , stationed at Wright-Pat in Dayton and on a brief continental junket " Bobbye and I were very disappointed at having to miss the lOth reunion in Crabtown this fall, but it would have been a long swim.

Looking forward to making the 13th or so and as many thereafter as possible.

WILLIAM O. BANKS of Cheyenne, Wyo., has received his Master of Science degree in aeronautics and astronautics from MIT this fall. His thesis topic was "Statistical Study of Solar Weather Relationships."

Mr. Banks also received his Master of Science Degree in meteorology.

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Lt. Peter J. Vogelbereer. Jr., USN 1204 Kinesberry Ave., Pascaeonia, Miss.

ANNAPOLIS AREA

EARL W H I P P L E This deadline finds everyone at the Academy in the midst of feverish plans for the on-rushing holiday season. It seems that we've barely had time to recover from the Big Win, nevertheless the "jolly old elf" himself has sprinted nimbly over the horizon â&#x20AC;&#x201D;maybe "raced" is a better word for it.

Talking about recovering, have you been having "twist" parties out there? ROD and Pat C R A W F O R D had a party after the Virginia game, and somewhat aged muscles (where have T H E S E muscles been all this time) of those '54ers present found activity in this new craze. BOB and Mary Sue W I L MER had a party after the Army game featuring this really fascinating dance. So far, it looks as if P A U L and Marguerite SKARLATOS are the champions of the area. If my frame ever stops twitching long enough, I'm going to learn fiow to do it. The Big Blue team really came through this season, and the final win was extremely gratifying. The next few years should be J A N U A R Y ,

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exciting ones for Navy football fans. Most of this year's team will be back, and the Plebes had a really big, mobile team this year. J O N D I L W E G worked with the Plebe team this year, and can be proud of the job he did. Watching them play this season, it seemed that there were many gents on the roster that are going to be big names in Navy football for the next few years. Watch for Donnelly, Staubach, Freeman, and Hill, especially. Well, now that football is over (and isn't Army having its troubles on all sports fronts with Navy?), most of us here are preparing for Christmas and exams which follow so closely behind. Every semester the exams seem to creep up more quickly. Before that, however, are all the Christmas activities that make this season especially pleasant for those of us here at the Academy. In particular, the Xmas Hop and the annual presentation of "The Messiah" appear on the social calendar. Well enough of this rambling on a crisp December day.

BOB ROGERS deserves the congratulations of the class on a really fine job of coaching the Navy 150-lb. football team. Bob was an assistant coach last year, and was elevated to the Head Coaching job this fall.

Bob's team was extremely well drilled and scored heavy victories over most of its opponents despite playing most of their games in heavy rain. "The ISO's had one tie, with Cornell, which they played in a steady downpour at Ithaca. But the big game was played in brilliant sunshine in our stadium, and the ISO's scored a win in a come-from-behind thriller over Army, 15-7. Many '54ers were there to see Bob's charges drive an inspired, hard-charging Army team down to defeat.

The ISO's were league champions as a result of this victory. So, Congrats, Bob, and a tip of the '54 chapeau to you; those of us here at the Academy can vouch for the fine job of coaching you did with your team.

DICK BRUBAKER stopped by to see the old school while on a short stay in Washington. Dick is in the .Air Force, of course.

and graduated from Stanford University in June '61 with a Master of Science degree in E.E. He is now in the Applied Research in Communications division at Headquarters, Electronics Systems Division of the Air Force Systems Command. This is the new name for what was known as the Air Research and Development Command. Dick expects this to be a four-year tour. He now lives with his wife, Shirley, and their three children at 21 Mohegan Rd., West Acton, Mass. Before his two years of graduate study at Stanford, Dick flew B-47's in SAC at Forbes AFB, Kansas. I wrangled out of him the admission that he was awarded the Air Medal for his duties with this squadron, but he was too modest to elaborate. Your tour sounds extremely interesting, Dick, and congratulations on your Master's degree.

Heard via the grapevine that C H A R L I E McLEAN is on his way to graduate school at the Air Force Institute at Wright-Patterson AFB in Dayton, Ohio. Charlie has been in Bermuda where he was one of the Air Force Hurricane Hunter types. Sorry that this info is so sketchy, but understand that he is planning to stop by in Annapolis to visit his parents in December on his way to Dayton, so it is hoped that more news about him might be forthcoming.

Received the following letter from J O BRENDEL: "It is already 1020 and I have wasted most of this Sunday morning. There are projects which must be completed in our new home, and the mornings are not to be spent in idle conversationâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;so to the point.We have actually just bought our first home, and are really quite pleased e.xcept for the cost of housing here in Los Angeles. BILL H O O V E R lives within walking distance from us, too. I finished at the University of Chicago on 1 September, and got an MBA in R&D Management in an accelerated program at Chicago. We have been assigned to the Space Systems Division here in Inglewood. I am working with the Satellite Re43

covery Division, and the work looks as if it will be interesting. Bill also has a good job in secondary propulsion. He has been here about a year after finishing at the Institute of Technology at Dayton. Some other names of classmates in the vicinity a r e : Luin Ricks, Dick Boverie, Lee Haygood, Jim Hicks, Dale Hamly, "Ted Graves, Bill Shuler, Pete Koops, George Brown, and Jerry Mackey. Believe it or not, I plan to play lacrosse with one of the six amateur lacrosse clubs here in Los Angeles. I have been planning on doing this ever since I heard about them while I was at Edwards 18 months ago, but it was too inconvenient then.

I tried to get Bill Hoover interested, but he has been very busy with basketball.

I stopped and spent two days with BILL " L U M P - L U M P " HARGRAVES in Albuquerque on our way west. He is living very sumptuously in Capehart ( A F ) housing at Kirtland AFB. They now have four children â&#x20AC;&#x201D;including one set of twins. Our family stands at two children, but are looking forward to one more at least."

D W I G H T AGNEW reports the following classmates in the Norfolk area. He also says that SHELBY CLARK is the coordinator for the Norfolk area and can be contacted for any further info. Dwight is the CO of the U S S SENECA (ATF-91), and started

out his new command with a Gitmo deployment. Here's the list he sent: Dick Aleer, Marine detachment, Yorktown, Va., Dick .Anderson, Staff ComServLant, Ed Anglim, CHB-1, Williamsburs, Va., Tom Baird.

NAD, Yorktown, Norm Bissell, U S S HYADES

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Ted

Casimes,

VA-42,

Shelby Clark. Staff, ComServLant, Penn Colvin, NAMS, Little Creek. Pete Easton, VA-43, Ted Fekula, Ass't S.O. Staff, ComPhibLant, Basil Gray, Staff, ComDesRon 22, Bob Brewin, NSC (Provisions), Jerry Hamilton (resigned), Hampton, Va., Al Hochmuth, NNSY, Ned Kellog, U S S SHARK, Mike McCaffree, ComPTEurFor, Jim Mc-

GEORGE and Diana VOLK, together with son David ( 1 ^ ) , are living at 625 Fairview Rd., Swarthmore, Pa. George is district sales engineer in Philadelphia for Ajax Magnethermic Corp.

GEORGE and June A T K I N S are living ford, U S S CARP, Ray Alvardo, U S S DEWEY. in Olney, Pa., Rt. 73. They have two youngThank you very much, Dwight, for this com- sters. Lance (5) and Jennifer ( 3 ) . prehensive listing. With so many classmates J O H N and Mary ANDERSON, with the down in Norfolk, we would like to hear three little Andersons are residing at 1058 more about your activities.

Academy Ave., Glenolden, Pa. John is a Well, that's about it for this month from design engineer. Missile and Space Vehicle the old school. As this is reaching you after Dept., General Electric Co. the holiday season, it is hoped that you had BOB STUCKEY has been detached from a wonderful swinging time, and that the New Year holds great promise for each and the Army Artillery School at Ft. Sill, Texas, everyone of you. Let's make a resolution to and is not enroute to Camp Lejeune.

J O H N LONG is now attached to F A E drop a line to Shipmate so that we can keep TuLant at Norfolk. He, Eileen and daughter in touch.

EDWARD G. S T E V E N S , JR. of 31-C are living at 1305 Curling Rd., Bayside, Va. STAN KOLB is now stationed in NewShaler Lane, Cambridge, Mass., has received his Master of Science degree in nuclear engi- port as instructor at OCS. He, Barbara, and neering from the M I T last fall. His thesis their four children should be settled down topic was "Design of a D2O Moderated by now, so how about an address, Stan I Miniature Lattice Facility for the M I T ReDICK and Sunny P E T E R S O N have sent actor 12" Beam Port." along a very informative letter concerning the latest goings on in the New London area.

"We in the New London area had a gettogether on 6 Oct. at the Submarine Base Officers' Club. Several wives planned the Sec'y, Joseph Malec, Jr. affair and were pleased to find 39 in attend81st and Cass St., Omaha, Neb. ance. There are many more in the area that NEWS FROM ANNAPOLIS were unable to attend for one reason or BOB RULE another. The following is a brief resume of some of the 'SSers in the area.

Some of the 'SSers seen at the yearly romp over Army were Tip Kindel, Ed Grant, Bob "DON and Millie AVEN and three chilStuckey, Al Vail, Wally Christmas, Ed. Wardwell, Larry Wigley, Joe .Armstrong, dren, David (5), Kathy Sue (4) and Rusty (3) are living in Aijean Heights, Gales George Volk, George Atkins, John Long, Ferry. Don is aboard the TENCH ( S S - 4 1 7 ) .

Jim DeGroff, Red McLaughlin, Si Ulcickas, BILL McCARRON and LARRY WIGLEY and Gordon Guimond, Bob Rule, Jack Garare in SKIPJACK (SSN-585). Larry and row, Jack Smith, Paul Slack, and Paul Suzie and two children. Ducky and Larry, Sutherland of the Annapolis contingent. Unlive on Oak Drive in Gales Ferry. doubtedly many others were present that I did not encounter and to them my apologies "DICK and Sunny P E T E R S O N are befor omitting their names from the above list. ginning their fifth year in the area. Dickie

Kenzie, Lynnhaven, Don Meyer, OinC, Guided Missile School, Hal Nagel, PhibGru 4, Bill Robinson, 420 W. Brute St., Norfolk, Rufus Rose, NSC (Material), Pete Schoeffel, VA-66, Tom Sisson, U S S SHARK, Frank Steele, P I O , Staff, CinCLantFlt, Don Wil-

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C H A R L I E BAGGS reported to BuYards & Docks in May 1961 as Manager, Military Training Branch. Charlie and his wife, Claudette, live at 204 Sideburn Rd., Fairfax, Va. with Susan, 43^2 and Scott, 1. He was kind enough to provide the following list of his CEC cohorts: Paul Bradtmiller, USN MCB-7, F P O , New York; Bob Quinn, USN MCB-11, F P O , San Francisco; Darrell port to the BARB. "Here from M I T attending Sub School Jones, P W C Navy 128, F P O , San Francisco; Freddie Flack, U S N Missile Center, Pt. is J O H N T H U N E . John, Betsy, Lars (4) and Eric (3) are living at the MOQ on Mugu, Calif.; Bob McHugh, NAS Oceana, the base. CHUCK MASALIN, Cynthia, Va.; Malcomb MacDonald, U S N ROTC, Steven (3) and Peter (1) are also at the University of Illinois, Urbana, 111.; John MOQ while Chuck is at Sub School. Also Shanley, Staff ComCBLant, CB Center, East in school is STAN SKORUPSKIâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;at the Greenwich, Davisville, R. I . ; R. A. Schade, M.AG Box C, Navy 150, FPO, San FranAdvanced Nuclear Power School. cisco; Jim Whelan, USN ROTC, Princeton "Classmates on staff duty in the area in- University, Princeton, N. J . ; E. J. Mcclude DOUG JORDAN, P A T TAYLOR Portent, Public Works Center, Naval Staand DON A L E C X I H . Pat and Karen have tion, Newport, R. I . ; R. B. Morris NAMC, three children, Pam ( 4 ) , Terry (2j^) and Philadelphia, Pa. Cary (1J4). Don and Sue Alecxih live on CLARK BULLIS, who is now known as Harvard Terrace in Gales Ferry and have three children, Donald ( 4 ) , Mike (3) and Bill, is now teaching at Bullis Prep. H e and his wife, Ann, are living at 8207 Cedar St., Bruce ( 2 ) .

Silver Spring, Md. "Leading us all to a not too successful An address from ROG LYLE at last: picture taking session at the party were MARSH SLAYTON and E D W A R D - Capt. Roger Lyle, 291S0A c/o U S A F SecWELL. Ed and Joan are living in Christy tion, JBUSMC, A P O 676, New York. H e Hill Estates, Gales Ferry. P a t Slayton was is making good use of the beach in Rio while on a trip to her home with the two children waiting for classes to start. It has been said an old flame from mid'n cruise recognized Jane (314) and Tom ( 2 ^ ) .

Rog at the hotel, and slipped a note under "Three children in a family is a popular his door. Wife Margaret got a large bang number. JIM and Kathy S N O W have Dan- out of it! ny Joe (S), Anita (3) and Jimmy (iyi).

W. J. "DIXIE" H O W E L L sends this JERRY and Ann H O L L A N D have Bill ( 3 ) , address: 2751 Stevenson Dr., Pebble Beach, Peter (1%) and Peggy (6 mos.).

"ED and Ginger K I N S T O N have John Calif.

Also JIM MURTLAND's current address (Ij^) and new baby Blair (4 weeks). J O H N and Gail LILLY have Lisa, who is 2 months is U S S BOXER ( L P H - 4 ) , F P O New York. old, \yhile D E N N I S and Kathy CURTIS' This letter arrived from LEROY COLLisa is 2 years old."

LINS: "After just watching the Big Blue Team Many thanks to Sunny for sending along (on T V ) drub the Black Knights from the the New London dope and let's have another Hudson for the 3rd straight year, I felt letter soon.

CHUCK and Pat GERNAN are stationed so blue and gold that I thought I would drop in England where Chuck is an exchange a note to the column.

"For the past year I have been with ONI P.G. student. Their address is Float 7, Brayfield House, Olney Bucks, England. Mail can in Washington; just to make shore duty exbe sent to them at Box 84, Navy 100, F P O , citing I am attending night law school at New York, N. Y. The Gernans have a daugh- Georgetown. On 11 November Jane brought forth our firstborn, Carol Jane, named for ter, Martha Ann, born on Sept. 23. the mother.

"I deem it well worth mentioning that the classmates at U S N A deserve a tremendous amount of credit for a job well done on the P. O. Box 1926 Homecoming activities associated with our Annapolis, Maryland 5th Reunion. There was a highly creditable Box 1926 is ready and waiting for any representation, and we even 'had a few' for news concerning the Class of '56. The one those of you at sea and in faraway places." letter received this month (Dec.) wasn't enough to pay the rent.

E A S T COAST L t . M. D . Giambattista, U S N Rumor has it that GEORGE CONNOLU S S T U S K (SS-426), FPO, New York LEY is throwing a party for all classmates W E S T COAST stationed in Japan on 5 Feb. George, will L t . R . L . Madousc, U S N Box 1148, U S N P o s t g r a d u a t e School you write and tell us about those attending?

Monterey, Calif.

TED SCHULTZ, who is now stationed at BuPers, has given our forthcoming Class The Trident Room at the PG school was Directory a big boost by volunteering to the scene of a '57 gathering to see Navy beat check out many of the duty addresses for .Army. The happy group included Don and line officers. The Class Executive Commit- Ann Brown, Dale and Nada Hollabaugh, tee still hopes to have the Directory informa- Roy and Winnie Brenner, Hal and Ginger tion to the printer sometime in February. Reichart, John and Monica Shewmaker, Dick It is apparent the Directory will be missing and LaRue Madouse, Kent Larabee and Joan many of the addresses for classmates who Morasco, Dick McCracken, Bill Crowe, Ben are now out of the service. Addresses re- Katz, and Dan Rousebush. On the night beceived by 1 Feb. will be included. fore the game, a group of us took full adBack in July DON and Joan SACAROB vantage of the inviting presence of two Army had an addition to their family. Susan Lynn installations in the Monterey area, and staged successful attack on Fort Ord and was born 17 July in .Arlington, Va. Harvey athevery Presidio. The Army got our message, is her big brother. but due to lack of spirit didn't retaliate.

It is reported that J.ACK B I N N S will I want to add to the comments made by be coming to Washington to join the DiploM I K E G I A M B A T T I S T A and M I K E matic Corps.

is now two years old. Dick and D O N S H E L T O N are aboard NAUTILUS ( S S N 571). Don and Marion have three children, Phyliss, Donald Jr. and new baby daughter Leigh Gabrielle. D E N N Y and Margy SULLIVAN and three children, John (2}4), Theresa (V/i) and baby Dennis, are leaving soon for Pascagoula, Miss. Denny will re-

T R I M P E R T concerning the memorial chair for JIM M.AGUIRE. It shouldn't be necessary for them to make up the difference.

Those of us from the 18th company alone should be able to raise the necessary funds, and quickly. .Address your donations t o : 1/Lt. M. J. Trimpert, USAF, 3565th Nav Tng Wing, James Connally AFB, Te.xas.

As your new West Coast correspondent, I look forward to receiving the information from each of you that will keep our column full each month. Please keep me busy.

Finally, LaRue and I have a new addition to the family, a brother Rick for Debbie.

RICHARD MADOUSE

The shoe is now on the other foot. Your derelict correspondent finally realized that there were just a few good letters that had been accumulating unnecessarily on a seldom used desk. .At the behest of DAVE M I T C H ELL and initiative of W E N D Y L U E K E R and H U G H McCAULEY who not only followed DICK MADOUSE's volunteering for West Coast correspondent but in addition have contributed some excellent copy.

Lt. and Mrs. J A K E W O O L M A N announce the birth of their first child, Thomas Cooper, on 22 July. The Woolmans moved to Charleston in May when Jake reported as X O in U S S SWERVE ( M S O - 4 9 5 ) . Their ad-

dress is 1630 Robinhood Drive, Sherwood Forest, Charleston, S. C. AL PANGANI writes: "I'm taking time out to brag about the first addition to the Pagani family. Judi gave birth to a daughter, Penni, on 25 July. I've been stationed in the Louisiana bayous at Chennault .AFB for the past two years, but I anticipate orders to flight training. At present I am an instructor navigator on a select B-47 crew. The select rating has given me a spot promotion to the grade of Captain which I have held since the beginning of the year ('61). Although the swamp land here has little eye appeal, S.AC has been kind enough to send me off to Europe for a month out of every four. Most of the time has been spent on alert, but I've managed to see most of England, Copenhagen, Paris, Spain, Germany, and Austria.

Stationed here are Don Phlugrath '54 and T E D MALYNN. I would certainly like to hear from TOMMY SIMS. Let me know if

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anyone has a line on him. Anyone who happens near Lake Charles on their way to Houston or Mardi Gras is welcome at 3514 McKinley St." From Miramar comes the following from H U G H McCAULEY: "In answer to your 'plea' and with certain selfish undertones, I would be most happy to write the West Coast column. Selfish because I sort of figure this is the best way to keep in touch with the class out in my neck of the woods and have had little luck in this respect. It seems that the bachelors are a rapidly fading species so the only people I have been able to keep up with are the very few remaining bachelor aviators. I occasionally see a black-shoe or two in the Mexican Village in Coronado but that's about it. If I can get a few of those guys writing to me, I might get back into the crowd; not to mention a few home cooked meals from some of the married types.

I received a letter from BOB S T E E L N A C K from Japan. He's in VF-191 aboard the USS BoN HOMME RICHARD. F R A N K W O O D S is

the only other member of the class that I can think of in the same air group. Bob, by the way, is one of those few remaining fly-boy playboys I mentioned. It seems that there is little else in our class now except submarine and aviation types. CHARLIE BEASLEY is the only surface sailor I think I've seen in the past year. Oh yes, MOORE S T U A R T is back at the Academy teaching.

We hated to lose him out here in the wild and wooly West. He was our stalwart partytype but decided to give up this flying kick and do some work for a change . . . so they wouldn't allow him to stay in California. My regards to all in the East."

W E N D Y L U E K E R writes that he and Diana joined their daughter Christine (2yi) in welcoming the arrival of a baby boy, John Howard, on 25 Sept. Wendy is presently

studying for a Master's degree at UCLA as part of the PG program. Wendy was taken on a guided tour of one of the new destroyer type carriers O'BRIEN

(DD-725),

by her

Gunnery Officer, J I M COX. After leaving Monterey, Jim, Val and daughters, Laura and Stephanie, stayed briefly in San Diego and San Francisco before moving to their present residence at 4275 Ostrom Ave., Long Beach.

W E S and Anne S W E A T have announced the birth of a daughter, Karen Lynn, born 7 Oct. The proud parents are at home in Kiey West where Wes is attached to TIRANTE (SS-420). PG school must be getting easier.

Rumor has it that a highly disorganized bridge group of GARRY and Edie LOWE, DALE and Nada HOLLABAUGH, DICK and Shirley CHANSLOR, H A L and Ginger REICHART, DAVE and Mimi COOPER, and DON and Ann BROWN is in full operation. H A Z E BOYCE is presently attending school in Port Hueneme briefly prior to his and Ann's departure for duty at Subic Bay, P. I. New arrivals: a daughter, Elizabeth Hale, for JACK and Di COOK; and boys for BRINK and Jean T R A M M E L and H A L and Shelby MOONEY. The THOMAS EDISON (SSBN-610) seems

to have been taken over by the First Company. CLEVE LOMAN is in the Blue crew, and DICK E N K E B O L L is Gold. Besides Cleve and Dick, both JANs and boys (five altogether), New London is home for DICK and Betty DOLLIVER. Dick and AL BROOKES are serving in ENTEMEDOR ( S S 340). W E S and Sandy H E W I T T have also recently moved to the area when Wes was assigned to SKATE

(SSN-578).

BOB and Kay MORROW are presently residing in Dayton at 5772 Rosebury Dr.

Bob is at Wright-Patterson A F B , attending the Institute of Technology while completing work on his Master's degree in nuclear engineering. Kay writes that they have two additions since they last wrote Shipmate.

Children now number three: Kenneth ( 3 ) , Gregory (2), and Virginia (4 months).

That about does it. I seem to reach an imbalance from time to time, when at my literary peak窶馬o material; plenty of material窶馬o time, less talent. Many thanks to you all for contributing, keep it going.

EAST COAST Pres., Lt. (jg) Frank Donovan, U S N USS THE S U L L I V A N S (DD-537) FPO, New York WEST COAST Sec'y, Lt. (je) George Brainerd, U S N USS STERLET (SS-392) FPO, San Francisco

On 2 December at St. Brigid's Church in West Hartford, Conn., Judith Kearns became the bride of J O H N McCABE. John is presently assigned to the USS CORSAIR ( A G S S -

435) operating out of New London.

Pres., Lt. (jg) H. A. Lawinski Chase Field, Texas Sec'y, Lt. (jg) J. Chavez, Supply Dept.

USS FORRESTAL CVA-59 c/o FPO, New York ENGAGEMENTS

Mrs. Theodore G. Patterson of Cambridge, Mass., and Mr. Stanley B. Hunt of New York City announce the engagement of their daughter. Miss Valerie Anne Hunt, to Lt. (jg) J O H N A. SCHMIDT. John is presently attending Sub School at Groton, Conn.

Miss Hunt is a senior at Skidmore College.

She and John are planning a summer wedding.

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HERE AND THERE

Seems that some of the wives of our classmates have taken over the letter-writing task for their husbands, at least that was the case with the following notes : Mrs. BOB P A T T E R S O N sends us an Army report. She and Bob are stationed in Berlin where Bob is with the 20th Engineer Battalion. A little boy, Robert Steven, was born to them on 26 August 1961. Also in Germany (Munich) are 1st Lt. and Mrs. JIM H O U S E H O L D E R , where Jim is with the 3rd Engineer Battalion. They too have a baby, a girl, born to them on 19 July 1961.

Mrs. BOB W A L T E R S sends us a note to bring us up-to-date on her little family, to which an addition was made on 18 April 1961. Her name is Susan Marie, and who should be her godfather? None other than GEORGE GOULD. Bob has been at the Reactor Engineering School at Pittsburgh since June 1961, but will be sent back to his old job at the Naval Reactors Division in Washington, D. C , for two and one-half years, and they have put out the welcome mat at their place on 1621 Euclid St., N.W. "SHAG" WEBB, who is DCA on the

ray and Phyllis Witcher. Over at the BOQ where the stalwarts live a r e : Perry Benson, Ron Babcock, Dusty Craver, Hugh Crow, Jerry Geller, Larry Helms, Frank Hunt, Tom Hutt, Doug Johnston, Al Jordan, Lou Longton, Bob Lowe, Rex Ressler, Bernie Roeder, Larry Ryan, Al Ryder, John Schmidt, Earle Schweizer, Norm Slezak,Tom Teal, Duane Tollaksen, Ed Von Fischer, Doug Williams, and Bill Lewis. But the stalwart few are becoming fewer by the month, for a toll after the holidays was less three: DOUG J O H N S O N who got engaged, and T O M H U T T and ED V O N FISCHER, who got married on Christmas.

Some of our classmates are already drifting in for the next sub school class (118). .Among them were L E W POWELL, who made it in time for the big wetting down party, and ROD FRIEDMAN, who came from the West Coast.

On 26 Nov., W A Y N E BRATSCHI took Leslie Boro as a bride. Leslie is from Annapolis. The reception was held at Carvel Hall.

Patricia Ann Barry of Kansas City, Kansas was the bride of K E V I N G R O W N E Y on 30 Dec. at Kansas City.

BOB F E N I C K married Mary Beth Longo of New York City on 25 Nov. in New York.

R A E S E writes: "We had an Army-Navy party the night before the game. Quite a blast! JACK McQUADE was MC in white works Charlie. J O E MATALAVAGE bought some southern belle an expensive pooch for Christmasâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;looks like this might be it for Joe. J E R R Y O'DONNEL splurged and bought a 1962 Impala sport coupe. T O D BARNES got engaged to Mary Jane Stevens â&#x20AC;&#x201D;she loves his (Dorvette."

GIBBS DIBRELL writes from the foothills of the Rockies at Lowry AFB, Col., CARL B R U N T L E T T married the former that GEORGE P O D R A S K I arrived at Miss Nancy Jane Campbell of Tyler, Texas, Lowry in August after completing procureon 24 November. Carl and Nancy are now ment school in Texas and works for base residing at 900 N. St. Marys St. in Beeville, procurement. George has been attending night law classes at the University of Denver.

Texas.

SCOTT BOYD graduated from A F Supply USS J. W. W E E K S (DD-701), wrote to us TOM H U T T and Miss Neil Norton were School arriving at Lowry in Sept. He is last August about some of our classmates in DesDivs 222 and 221. He tells us that married in Butler, Pa., on 23 December. Tom assistant supply officer for the Headquarters FRANK D U F F Y is E M O on the U S S is now attending Sub School with class 117. Squadron. Afternoons find Scott coaching ED V O N F I S C H E R married the former wrestling at one of the local high schools.

HAYNSWORTH and D A V E C R I S T E is the Miss Katherine Wunsch from Houston, 1st Lt. on the U S S K E I T H , which is with Gibbs is still in Nuclear Weapons School DesDiv 221. They were on their way to the Texas. and graduates on Jan. 18. His first assignMed last August, so we wonder if they are Happy to be in California, and wearing their ment is somewhere in Europe. Gibbs is still still out there. Sorry, "Shag," we misplaced wings of gold, are classmates Bob Bengston, your letter.

Ed. Clexton, Glen Barton, Henry Lawinski pursuing his favorite sport. Judo, and is working for the Secretary of the Armed Up at New London, Conn., they really and Denny Moore. All except Denny are Forces Judo Association as correspondence attached to RAG U F 121 where they are must have had a wetting down party on 8 secretary.

December, with so many of our classmates getting checked out in the F3H Demon. Bob Bengston, however, is to fly the Navy's newT E D MOSS writes that D A N H O U L in Class 117 at Sub School. BILL L E W I S sent us a list of the '60ers now up there. est and hottest all-weather fighter, the F4H T O N in the U S S FORREST SHERMAN ( D D The married types include: Jim and Ann Phantom II. Denny Moore is flying F8U 931), G E O R G E GIBBY in the U S S S U F Crusaders in RAG U F 24. Home-based in FOLK COUNTY ( L S T - 1 1 7 3 ) and he are curAllen, Bill and Marion Ballard, Dave and NAS Miramar, thev expect to remain in the rently spreading some of the famous Navy Kathleen Banner, John and Judith Birchett, good will in Africa, under the auspices of Dave and Virginia Bolden, Frank and Mar- area until 1965.

ComSoLant. The cruise departed 18 Sept. garet Braun, Don and Beverly Broadfield, and expects to return CONUS in the early Dave and Jane Chew, Hank and Katherine Pres., Ens. James R. Traa, U S N part of '62. Ted, on the U S S MEREDITH Chiles, Mike and Arlen Colley, Andy and USN Nuclear Power School (DD-890), says that Capetown is the most.

Mare Island Naval Shipyard Jonda Cotterman, Bill and Donna Council, Vallejo, Calif.

Denis and Berit Crawford, Tom and MarCorr. Sec'y, Ens. Ken. Craig, U S N RAdm. Rhodam Yarrott McElroy, U S N garet Curtis, Ken and Phoebe Folta, Pete USS RICHARD B . ANDERSON '35, and Mrs. McElroy of the Naval Base, FPO San Francisco and Phyllis Garfield, Terry and Linda HubKey West, Fla., announce the engagement bard, Joe and Rowena Jaap, Rick and Sue I just received the latest on the gang that of their daughter, Mary Jane Eslick, to Ens. Johnson, Girard and Annette Lew, Jim and Joan Lippold, Bill and Sandra Manning, went to Supply School from R A E S E S I M P - L A W R E N C E H O W E PRICE. Ens. Price is the son of RAdm. Walter H. Price, U S N Randy and Margaret McHenry, Bob and SON. First off are some marriages.

Elizabeth Meyer, Murray and Barbara NixRANDY T O T T E N married Nancy Strong '27, and Mrs. Price and is currently underon, Bob and Laura Steele, Ed and Sue Wag- of Pennington, N. J., on 23 December at going flight training at Saufley Field, Penner, John and Mary Jane Whelan, and Mursacola, Fla. A December wedding is planned.

Pennington.

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in working together, and few organizations have made greater application of this staff principle than modern-day military organizations. Today we see a multitude of scientific disciplines working side by side in their efforts to provide the military leader with the best possible service or product.

Whether individual difficulties are personal or administrative, if they are primarily centered about behavior, the psychologist may have a contribution worthy of consideration. Any data provided by the psychologist which represents new or different approaches, when added to that data available, enhances one's probability for more valid decision-making in reference to general or specific JANUARY,

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problems. The individual's usage of his newly acquired data does not stop here. H e has gained new knowledge which will be of general value to him in the future. H i s exchange with the psychologist is not one-sided by any means, for in the sharing of knowledge and experience with others, the psychologist also learns and keeps informed.

The naval service has historically demonstrated the teamapproach concept as a functioning unity of effort. In fulfilling their respective group roles, leader-follower members are becoming increasingly aware of the psychologist's contributions which focus their attention on the dynamics of behavior. As the psychologist functions in his role, he contributes his service in the same manner as his teammates with whom he is afforded the same challenging opportunity and commensurate professional freedom to make the fullest use of his skills.

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ALUMNI CHAPTER NEWS BALTIMORE 19 December was the final meeting for the year. Planned as a "Family Night"—wives, sons and daughters, prospective middies, or all those interested in U.S.N.A. were invited.

Mid'n J. A. MacGregor, 1/c USN, was the guest speaker for the evening.

BOSTON On 14 November at the Commissioned Officers' Mess, Boston Naval Shipyard, a total of 77 alumni and guests were present to view a documentary film on Cdr. Alan Shepard's flight. They were: A. S. Kibbee '03, F. G. Coburn '04, C. J. H. ICeppler '07, J. S. Barleon '07, J. C. Hunsaker '08, O. M. Read '11, H. R. Keller '11, M. Cole '16, W. E. Miller '20, W. H. Buracker '20, P. M. Money '21, H. deRivera '21, W. E. Haycock '22, S. PuUen '22, E. H. Eaker '22, H. A. Ingram '22, C. F. Espe '22, H. G. Brousseau '24, G. E. Peterson '24, H. L. Collins '24, T. T. Craven, Jr., '25, J. A. Click '26, V. Harvard, Jr., '26, A. W. Johnston '27, T. Donohue '27, M. B. Flanders '28, B. Mitchel '29, H. E. Duryea '30, F. T. Williamson '31, C. M. Keyes '32, C. Brewer '32, C. Y. Palmer '32, T. B. Hurley '32, G. B. Grady '33, R. B. Allen '34, A. C. Smith '34, W. A. Brockett '34, L. E. Paradis '34, R. H. Westcott '37, T. M. Peterson '37, L. A. Rupp '37, J. B. Glennon, Jr., '39, J. B. Pitch, Jr. '39, L. E. Larson, Jr. '41, R. E. Leonard '42, J. D. Watson '43, G. Schilchte '43, R. E. Peet '43, M. L. Ogden '43, C. W. Smyers, Jr. '43, J. E. Tingle '44, A. R. Olson, Jr. '45, F. J. Barber '45, R. B. Brumsted '46, G. S. Grove '47, J. M. Carpenter '49, R. J. Silvestrini '51, D. F. Kiecleel '52, W. J. Palmer, Jr. '52, and M. E. Shank '60.

CENTRAL FLORIDA Again the U S N A Alumni were able to conduct their monthly meeting in unusual and interesting atmosphere on 4 November.

Capt. G. M. Boyd '38, Skipper of the USS OBSERVATION

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Executive Offic-r, Cdr. R. W. Phipps '43, invited the Central Florida chapter alumni and their wives aboard the EAG 154 and presented an exciting rundown on the Polaris FBM Weapon System along with a tour of the ship. Special guest for the occasion was RAdm. Levering Smith. A total of 71 were present among whom were the following alumni: F. L. Riefkohl '11, C. Q. Wright '11, H. G. Gamble '18, D. C. Cook '18, R. W. Dole '22, E. R. Sperry '23, O. P. Smoot '26, R. R. Johnson '26, J. F. Way '27, E. J. Sullivan '27, G. M. Holley '30, Levering Smith '32, G. M. Boyd '38, D. N. Inbusch '38, R. E. Lawrence '39, R. W. Phipps '43, W. C. Bergstedt '44, C. W. Meshier '44, W. L. Graham '45, G. A. Herbert '48A, B. W. Bodager '49, W. H. Flint '50, L. A. Stockdale '51, R. R. Howell '52, J. L. Russell '53, C. C. Starnes 'S3, D. Spencer 'S3, D. A. Conrady '53, C. S. Rowley '54, R. M. Hemings '54, J. R. Johnson 'SS, A. A. Piske '56, P. J. Wilson '56, and W. A. Simmons '58.

The Annual Army-Navy Party was held 2 December, the day of the game, at the Patrick AFB Officers' Open Mess. Arrangements were made for open buffet and bar 48

until the end of the half time—and the losers to pay the tab! Army, we appreciate it!

There were 53 Navy rooters versus 46 Army types in the beautiful Atlantic Room which was divided into sides with a TV set for each. A wonderful time was had by the following hoarse cheerers: C. F. Lamb '18, O. P. Smoot '26, R. R. Johnson '26, E. J. Sullivan '27, D. N. Inbusch '38, H. Surface '38, R. E. Lawrence '39, A. C. Benjes '40, H. W. Calhoun '41, T. Turner '41, B. W. Bodager '49, W. H. Flint 'SO, L. A. Stockdale '51, R. L. Howell '52, F. M. Smith '52, H. M. J. Lewis '52, D. Spencer '53, R. M. Westmoreland '53, C. C. Starnes '53, J. L. Russell '53, T. Windle '54, D. A. Conrady '54, E. W. Land '54, P. D. Stroop '54, A. Piske '56, P. J. Wilson '56, and R. M. Brand '61 (Merchant Marine Academy).

CONNECTICUT The fall meeting was held at the Sub Base, New London on 25 October. It was a joint meeting with the Navy League in celebration of Navy Day. An interesting talk was given

by Capt. Gage, Commanding Officer of the Base, entitled "The Look of the New Navy."

Following the speaker of the evening a short business meeting produced the following elected officers : President—Richard Neuendorffer '45 ; Vice-President — Josiah Venter '12; Secretary-Treasurer—Walter Strang, Jr. '46; and Trustee—A. L. Dunning '27. Councilmen: A. A. Corwin '07, E. J. Monsport '44, D. W. B. Kelley '38, J. T. Hellauer '27, A. W. Avery '47, T. W. Benedict '42, and R. S. Froude '42.

CORONADO Sixty-one members and guests attended the chapter's dinner on 30 November held in the Neptune Room, Naval Air Station.

Our President, Como. C. C. Baughman '07, invited all West Point Alumni in Coronado as our guests. Those able to attend were: MGen. J. A. Woodruff '99, Col. W. Kelly '99, LGen. W. D. Styer '16, BGen. G. A. Counts '17, and Col. A. G. Kirby '19. Outof-town guests were: Ward Davis '17, Bud Harper '22, and Kenny Craig '26.

RAdm. Nels C. Johnson, Commander Amphibious Group Three, was the speaker. His last tour of duty was Chief-of-Staff, Commander Seventh Fleet. His talk on '"The Seventh Fleet Today" was thoroughly enjoyed by all hands. A short question period followed.

NEWPORT The following slate of officers was elected for 1962: President—G. H. Bowdey '07; 1st Vice-President—T. M. Shock '13; 2nd Vice-President—L. F. Welch '06; Treasurer —F. L. Robbins '23 ; Secretary—C. M. Winslow '24; and Member of the Council—B. B. McCormick '92.

The election took place during the regular November meeting on 28 November in the Destroyer Room of the Officers' Club, Naval Base, Newport, Rhode Island. Present were: R. W. Bates '15, G. H. Bowdey '07, C. A. Buchanan '26, Daniel Carlson '29, J. D. Collett '32, R. Dees '17, H. J. Greene '39

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Captain Howard J. Greene, USN, of the Naval War College gave a very interesting talk on West Germany and its people from his experience in living in their midst.

NEW YORK The group met on 21 November at the Lawyers Club, in New York City. Capt.

Paul W. Siegrist '24 presided over the meeting. Following the roll call of classes, he introduced the guest speaker, the Hon. Philip M. Klutznick, U. S. Representative, U. N. Economic and Social Council.

Speaking on the topic, "United Nations Development Decade—A Challenge to Free Enterprise," the speaker gave a very illuminating talk on a topic of the utmost importance to all hands. He stressed the necessity of the understanding by the .American public of the goals and methods of the United Nations. This body has been characterized by many as being "in a mess" but, in reality, this is no more than a reflection of the unsettled conditions and problems that exist throughout the world. If nothing else, the U. N. serves as a forum where nations that dislike each other have a place to "get things off their chest."

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PENINSULA On 2 December the Peninsula chapter held its annual Army-Navy Game Meeting at the Caravan Inn in Mountain View. The meeting was hosted by the Class of '47. Some 90 alumni and their guests. West Point alumni, gathered to cheer the Navy on to a rousing victory over the Black Knights.

The class span at the gathering was 40 years with the presence of Julian Wheeler '16 and Pete Bennett '56.

Among those present were: Arthur '41, Bennett '56, Burrill '36, Bly '34, Carlson '21, Christopherson '45, Cogswell '28, Deakin '34, Frederick '26, Gruner '35, Hasler '38, Huey '46, Hansen '52, Hawley '47, Haynes '55, Joste '47, Joy '47, Knock, '48, Maynard '34, Mullen '28, Seedlock '41, Scott '48, Smith '25, Snead '45, Stockdale '47, Pierce '38, Pillsbury '49, Pearson '36, Roane '24, Tate '54, Tagg '32, Wheeler '16, Wheeler '35, Wright '34, and Vandermade '46.

SEATTLE On 1 November at the Commissioned Officers' Mess, U. S. Naval Supply Depot, Seattle, these members were present for their meeting: J. B. Anderson, Jr. '39, E. L. Barr '11, B. H. Bieri, Jr. '37, J. L. Brown '23, J. B. Burrow '33, E. E. Carlsten '39, O. E. Cartmel '23, B. B. Cassels '22, N. P. Chokas '46, C. R. Dudley '27, H. C. Duff '33, G. A. Duncan '08, C. D. Emory '21, T. C. Fauntz '27, E. F. Ferguson '31, J. A. Flenniken '32, P. H. Fox '36, R. R. Fox, Jr. '22. C. F. Greber '21, J. A. Haley '27, W. J. Jenkins, Jr. '45, D. F. Krick '30, D. R. Lee '13, R. L. Lowe '42, F. B. McFarland '40, H. M. McLellan '23, R. E. Perkins '30, E. D. Poole '21, J. G. Ross '37, N. E. Smith '31, F. A. Strohecker '24, F. M. Strohecker '53, A. G. Thalhamer '44, W. Thompson '28, G. C. Towner '24, F. T. Watkins '22, F. M. Welch '39, D. E. White '33, and J. M. Wyatt '58.

AW hands enjoyed viewing a film, "Army Research and Development, Project No. 2."