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S there any correlation between academic ability as indicated by class standing at the Naval Academy and subsequent success in the Service.'' Do the qualities of leadership in a 21-year-oId, as evidenced by his appointment as a midshipman ofScerin the undergraduate organization, carry over to Service success? And what about athletics? Can we state that prowess on the playing fields at Annapolis gives any assurance that the athlete will outdistance his non-athletic contemporaries in the ultimate competition for responsibility in the Fleet?

These are, of course, questions which have been bandied about wardrooms for years, usually generating more heat than light. In a larger sense, even if in a slightly different way, those are questions which have been asked repeatedly by a significant segment of the public, particularly at college reunion times.

For the most part the issue has boiled down to the more general question of whether or not undergraduate success foretells success in the greater game of life. The tale that seems to delight most is the one which takes place at the 25th reunion •of the class where the golden boy of undergraduate days, the one voted "most likely to succeed," turns up as a relative nothing in a nondescript job, while the colorless nobody of 25 years ago arrives as Mr. Big. Does this reversal of form happen often enough for us to conclude that we are not looking at the right factors to predict future success, or that perhaps there is nothing really measurable that will stand up under statistical analysis? Or are there some reliable factors after all?

This small study, confined to one Naval Academy Class, suggests some interesting relationships. The Class of 1941 came to Annapolis in the summer of 1937, almost 600 strong, and graduated in February 1941, with one-third of its number having dropped out for academic or other cause during the four-year undergraduate period. The Great Depression was still very real when this Class entered the Academy and college scholarships were few. As it had for years, a Naval Academy education was prized for itself as well as for the fact that it opened the doors to a pleasant yet exciting and rewarding career in the Fleet. Upon graduation the Class took its place in the peace-time officer corps of a Navy gradually changing to a war-time footing. Ten months to the day following Mi's graduation the nation was plunged into World War II at Pearl Harbor.

During the next four years members of the Class served in every theater of war, on land, and in, on, and over the sea.

Most saw combat, and about one out of every eight was killed.

At the war's end accelerated promotions had brought the Class to the rank of lieutenant commander.

While early promotion was a distinct motivating factor for a career officer, this was offset to a large degree by the climate of demobilization. "Everybody" was getting out of the service.

"Anybody" who had any ability was returning to civilian life, and only those who couldn't compete and make a living on the outside were staying in. The man who stayed could look

forward only to years of stagnation in grade in a service a large percentage of the population wanted to forget, or at least, to ignore. So the reasoning went in a great many minds.

Whether this reasoning or some other had a prime efEect, the result was a peak in the number of resignations from members of the Class in 1947, the majority of them coming from the bottom half of the Class. Despite this period of uncertainty, the members of the Class were essentially service career oriented, for only 15% of the total resigned between graduation and the day twenty years later in 1961 when they could legally retire.

By the time these twenty years had passed the Class had reached the grade of captain in a Navy which had been on a quasi war-footing ever since the Korean War in the early 50's. Promotion to lieutenant commander had been practically universal because of the requirements of World War II. Promotion beyond this rank became more highly competitive because the Navy had shrunk and there were more candidates —swelled by large numbers of non-Naval Academy officers who had been integrated into the regular Navy—than there were vacancies. This was brought home acutely when the Class came up for captain, "and the Selection Board was allowed to pick only 45% of those commanders in the regular zone for promotion.

At the time of this study (1964) we may conclude that every class member destined for promotion to captain had been promoted to this rank (41% of total graduates), and we may also assume that no one of the group had yet been seriously considered for admiral. We define success then, for the purposes of this study, as reaching the grade of captain (or colonel) on the active regular list. The term "greater success" probably conveys a truer feeling for what is meant. An officer may obviously have a successful naval career even though his progress in rank stops below that of captain.

Academic Achievement—To go back to the question posed initially, is success related to undergraduate academic achievement? Table 1 of this study suggests a definite "Yes," for twice as many captains came from the first quarter of the Class as came from the fourth, and the numbers coming from the second and third quarters fell on a straight-line between the extremes. Parenthetically, it should be understood that although class standing at graduation was based in part on marks in leadership and conduct it was essentially an academic ranking.

Regardless of whether one looks at the raw score only (i.e., number in quarter vs. number who made captain) or takes into consideration items such as death, early retirement, and the like, it will be noted from Table 1 that relative results remain the same; success is more likely to be achieved by those in first academic quarter than by those in the second, and so on down the line.

Leadership—While the selection by the officer faculty of those midshipmen who would lead their fellow midshipmen SHIPMATE

tests, stand the test of more than twenty years of subsequent commissioned service? Here, apparendy, is an even better predictor of success than academic standing, for the stripers had the lowest resignation rate of any group in the Class and the highest rate of selection to captain (17 out of 18).

Varsity Athletics—Emphasis on physical fitness has been traditional at Annapolis, and according to some definitions every graduate of the Academy might be considered an athlete.

For this study, however, we use the word "athlete" to denote one who has won the varsity "N" for successful participation in at least one intercollegiate sport. Included in the definition are non-playing managers, but excluded are some very fine specimens who may have competed at the varsity or intramural levels but did not win the "N." Some 23% of the graduating Class were varsity "N" winners.

By and large these athletes came from a cross-section of the Class, with almost equal numbers coming from each academic quarter (but fewer in the first quarter). The ratio also held among the stripers, for 24% of them were "N" men. Sta-

in the undergraduate regimental organization was not haphazard, it was by no means a precise operation either. Subjective evaluation and intuition undoubtedly played a large part in determining a midshipman's "Aptitude for the Service" or "Grease" mark, as it was more popularly known among the undergraduates. Whatever the factors an individual faculty member considered—be they military bearing, apparent intelligence, or something else—the implication was that those who stood highest in "Aptitude for the Service" would probably be more successful in later service life. Largely on the basis of this aptitude mark, approximately 7% of the Class were appointed "three-stripers" or above—company commanders and higher in the military organization known as the Regiment of Midshipmen. Theoretically, "Aptitude for the Service" was independent of academic ability, but as a practical matter it will be noted from Table 2 that the majority of the stripers came from the first quarter of the Class.

How did this more or less intuitive selection of young leaders in their early twenties, made before the age of the computer and of the personality and occupational aptitude

TABLE 1 Academic Achievement A

B

C

D

E

F

G

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Academic Qtr.

Nimiber

No. Commission

Died

Hon. Dischg.

Retired Under 20 Yrs.

AvaU. For 20-Yr. Career

Resigned

Active 20 Yrs.

Made Capt.

% J/F

% J/M

1 2 3 4 Totals % Total Grad. Class

100 100 100 99 399 100%

2 0 1 1 4 1%

11 19 15 10 55 14%

2 1 3 5 11 3%

5 2 5 3 15 4%

80 78 76 80 314 79%

14 11 15 19 59 15%

66 67 61 61 255 64%

54 45 37 28 164 41%

67% 58% 49% 35% 52%

82% 67% 61% 46% 64%

TABLE 2 Leadership Midshipman Company Commanders (3-Stripers) and Above A

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D

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F

G

H

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Number

No. Commission

Died

Hon. Dischg.

Retired Under 20 Yrs.

Avail.

For 20-Yr. Career

Resigned

Active 20 Yrs.

Made Capt.

% J/F

% J/M

1 2 3 4 Totals

18 5 4 2 29

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3 2 0 0 5

1 0 0 0 1

1 1 0 0 2

13 2 4 1 20

1 0 1 0 2

12 2 3 1 18

12 2 2 1 17

% Total Stripers

100%

3%

7%

69%

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62%

59%

3%

17%

92% 100% 100% 100% 67% 50% 100% 100% 85% 94% % "N" Me n Among Stripers = 24% (Same as Class Avg.)

TABLE 3 Athletics Winners of the Varsity " N "

Academic Qtr. 1 2 3 4 Totals % Total Lettermen

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D

E

F

G

H

J

K

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Number

No. Commission

Died

Hon. Dischg.

Retired Under 20 Yrs.

Avail.

For 20-Yr. Career

Resigned

Active 20 Yrs.

Made Capt.

% J/F

% J/M

13 16 20 20 69 76%

4 4 5 4 17 19%

9 12 15 16 52 57%

6 8 6 8 28 31%

46% 50% 30% 40% 40%

67% 67% 40% 50% 54%

19 23 25 24 91 100%

4 7 4 2 17 19% ITOTE:

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2 3 % of G r a d u a t i n g Class were Varsity " N " W i n n e r s .

3 N o n - G r a d u a t e s of Class were also " N " Winners.

TABLE 4 Summary Raw Score — Class Total

Entire Class Stripers Academic 1st 2nd 3rd 4th

Qtr. Qtr. Qtr. Qtr.

Athletes

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B

C

D

E

F

G

Total Number

Made Capt.

% Made Capt.

Avg.

Deviation From Average

% Dev. From Average

No. Capts.

Per 100 Selected

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59%

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100 100 100 99

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tistically, then, the athletes as undergraduates were indistinguishable as a group from the average of the Class.

Did the athletes continue to run with the average of the Class when they moved into the competitive environment in the Fleet.'' No, they did not, as indicated in Table 3. Success among the athletes was far less than the average, some 22% below, among those who were available for a 20-year career.

Comparing athletes as a group with academic quarters as groups, we find the athletes running with or slightly above the fourth academic quarter in both selection and resignation areas. It is interesting to note that less than 5% of the entering class were varsity athletes who reached the rank of captain.

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33 27 23 17 100

-no% -10% -32% Total -24%

Age on Entry—Some 73% of the graduating Class passed their 19th (or older) birthday during 1937, the year of their entry to the Academy. It is probably true to say, then, that three-quarters of the Class which graduated did not come to Annapolis directly from high school but had further study or work experience beyond that level. Tables 7A and 7B indicate the interesting fact that the over-19's did not do as well academically as their younger classmates, but that once in the Fleet they reversed the general trend (indicated in Table I that success in the Fleet is directly related to academic success) and ended up as a group essentially where they started on entry to the Academy. 71% of those making captain came from

TABLE 5 Summary Those Available for 20-Yr. Career

Entire Class Stripers Academic 1st 2nd 3rd 4th

Qtr. Qtr. Qtr. Qtr.

Athletes At the Academy Chuck Merdinger was an athlete (3 block Ns), a star man all four years and a three-striper first class year. He graduated in the top 15 per cent of the class of 1941 and went to sea in battleships where he spent most of the war. In 1944 he embarked on a program of graduate work which led to the degrees of B.C.E. and M.C.E. at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a Ph.D. at Oxford University where he was a Rhodes Scholar 1947-49. While at RPI he transferred to the Civil Engineer Corps of the Navy. Captain Merdinger, now on duty at the Naval Academy, has the distinction of being the first CEC officer to be the Head of the Department of English, History and Government.

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C

D

E

F

Total Number

Made Capt.

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Avg.

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Deviation From Average

% Dev. From Average

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164

52%

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17

85%

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80 78 76 80

54 45 37 28

67% 58% 49% 35%

42 41 40 42

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28

41%

36

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4-10% -7% -33%

TABLE 6 Summary Those Who Made 20-Yr. Career

Entire Class Stripers Academic 1st 2nd 3rd 4th Athletes

Qtr. Qtr. Qtr. Qtr.

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B

C

D

E

F

Total Niunber

Made Capt.

% Made Capt.

Avg.

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Deviation From Average

% Dev. From Average

255

164

64%

18

17

90%

12

4-5

4-42%

66 67 61 61

54 45 37 28

82% 67% 61% 46%

42 43 39 39

4-12 4-2 -2 -11

4-29% 4-5% -5% -28%

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TABLE 7A Age at Entrance (1) Entry Age ->Yrs.

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19

18

17

16

Totals

Made Capt.

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15

19

17

2

0

54

Did Not

0

10

21

13

1

1

46

Made Capt.

0

16

15

12

2

0

45

Did Not

1

22

16

10

6

0

55

Made Capt.

1

15

12

8

1

0

37

Did Not

1

24

23

11

4

0

63

Made Capt.

1

12

9

5

1

0

28

Did Not

2

26

29

11

3

0

71

Total

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7

140

144

87

20

1

399

Made Capt.

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3

58

55

42

6

0

164

Academic Qtr. t

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2

3

4

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TABLE 7B Age at Entrance (2) A

B

C

D

E

F

Academic Qtr.

Total Over 19

Total Under 19

Made Capt.

Over 19

Made Capt.

Under 19

Made Capt.

Total

% C/E

1 2 3 4 Totals

66 70 76 79 291

34 30 24 20 108

35 31 28 22 16

19 14 9 6 48

54 45 37 28 164

65% 69% 76% 79% 71%

the over-19-year-old group. Conversely, the poorest record in the Fleet was made by those who had entered the Academy below the age of 18. The record suggests that some element of maturity gained by midshipmen prior to their entry to the Academy had a positive effect on their performance in the long haul after graduation.

Service Choices—The Navy of 1941 offered the fledgling officer few, if any, opportunities to specialize. Apart from those who chose the Marines, a handful who entered the Army because of visual difficulties, and a few others who chose other paths for administrative reasons, the Class on graduation went to sea as line officers. And here they remained, for the most part, for the remainder of the war.

Despite the emphasis on service in the line stressed at the Academy and bolstered by the immediate needs of the Navy in World War II, we find that nearly one-quarter of the Class pursued some other course than that of the unrestricted line naval officer. Most gready affected were those in the first quarter of the Class, one-third of whom became specialists—most of them technical (engineering duty officers, civil engineers, DECEMBER,

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TABLE 8 Summary of Service Choices by Academic Quarter Academic Qtr. 1 2 3 4 Totals

Number

Unrestricted Line

Technical Specialists

NonTechnical Specialists

100 100 100 99 399

67 81 89 77 314

28 8 2 0 38

3 11 8 21 43

Other 2 0 1 1 4

etc.). The fourth quarter produced the next largest number of specialists, but these could generally be classed as non-technical (supply, other services). The bulk of the imrestricted line officers, then, came from the two middle quarters of the Class (Table 8).

Generally speaking, the technical specialists had the best promotion record as a group, followed by the line officers, with the non-technical specialists bringing up the rear (Table 9).

TABLE 9 Service Choices

TjTe

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B

C

D

E

Number

No Commission

Died

Hon. Dischg.

Retired Under 20 Yrs.

206 108 27 5 6 1 8 25 4 4 1 4 399

1100 1310 EDO CEC SDO(T) SDO(NT) SC Marines Army Air Force Coast Gd. Other Totals

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55

29 21

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Avail.

For 20-Yr. Resigned Career

J

K

Active 20 Yrs.

Made Capt.

J/F

J/N

G/F

45% 56% 60% 100% 83% 0 43% 52% 0 75%

61% 69% 71% 100% 83% 0 43% 59% 0 75%

22% 19% 16% 0 0

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121 70 21 5 6 0 7 17 4 (2)2

74 48 15 5 5 0 3 11 0 3

15

314

59

255

164

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Definitions: 1100—Surface Line Ofiicer 1310—^Aviation Line Officer EDO—Engineering Duty Specialist (Ship Constructor) CEC—Civil Engineer Corps

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%

%

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0 19% 0 0

SDO(T)—Special Duty—Technical SDO (NT)—Special Duty—Non-Technical SC—Supply Corps NOTE: Air Force (2) indicates 2 Colonels killed prior to 20-Yrs. Active Duty.

If resignation rate is a criterion, the specialists—both technical and non-technical—seemed to have a greater motivation for a service career, for their resignation rates were well below those of the line (Marines excepted).

Resignations—More than half of the total of the 1 5 % w h o were to resign (Table 1) had done so by the end of 1947, over six years after graduation. T h e heavy majority of this group came from the bottom half of the Class. After this point the tide reversed and the top half contributed most of the resignees in a trickle until it stopped altogether fifteen years after graduation.

Retirement—The greatest exodus from active duty in any one year ( 1 4 % of graduates) came in 1961, the year in which the Class completed twenty years of commissioned service and became eligible for regular retirement for the first time.

Almost all retiring at this time were those who had failed of selection for captain. Interestingly, there was a tendency for more of those from the bottom quarter than from the top to remain on active duty even though practically all hope of further promotion was gone. This reversed the tendency of pre-retirement years when more of the resignations came from this lower segment of the Class.

In keeping with this reversal is the trend of retirement among those who have reached the rank of captain. Within a year from this writing the trend may be obscured because of an administrative action which will force a number to retire

early involuntarily. But at the moment indications are that voluntary retirements are coming largely from the top portion of the Class. As a matter of fact, there have been nearly three times as many retirements from captains in the first quarter as from all the other three quarters combined.

Future Success—^Up to this point oin: definition of "success" as reaching the grade of captain has been reasonably valid.

T h e Academy sought to produce competent career-motivated naval officers. In this it succeeded extremely well as evidenced by the fact that only 15% of the Class had resigned in the twenty years following graduation and most had reached positions of real authority and responsibility. Despite the large number of retirements at the end of the twentieth year we still find that over half the living graduates were still on acdve duty after the 22-year mark, but retirements of captains were now taking place. T h e trend of the past three years indicates that some retirements will take place every year until the Class has disappeared from the active list. It is tempting to conclude —and statutes affecting retirement appear to bear this out— that in this day and age twenty years of service do constitute a "naval career," and that service much beyond this point is rendered by relatively few.

Given these facts, it is doubtful whether we can ever again define "success" for this Class with as much assurance. The homogeneity of the Class continues to break down with each additional retirement. "Success" now can no longer be meas-

TABLE lOA Service Choices by Academic Quarter 1st Quarter

T)T)e 1100 1310 SDO(T) EDO CEC Marines Others Totals 10

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

J

Number

No Commission

Died

Hon. Dischg.

Retired Under 20 Yrs.

Avail.

For 20-Yr. Career

Resigned

Active 20 Yrs.

Made Capt.

7 4 0 0 0 0

1 0 0 1 0 0

4 0 0 1 0 0

35 16 5 16 5 3

8 3 0 3 0 0

27 13 5 13 5 3

22 10 4 10 5 3

11

2

5

80

14

66

54

47 20 5 18 5 3 2 100

2 2

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TABLE lOB Service Choices by Academic Quarter 2nd Quarter A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

J

Type

Nimjber

No Coramission

Died

Hon. Dischg.

Retired Under 20 Yrs.

Avail.

For 20-Yr. Career

Resigned

Active 20 Yrs.

Made Capt.

1100 1310 SDO(T) EDO SC Marines Army Air Force*

55 26 1 7 2 7 1 1 100

13 6 0 0 0 0 0 (1) 19

1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1

2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2

39 20 1 7 2 7 1 (1) 78

6 3 0 1 0 1 0 0 11

33 17 1 6 2 6 1 (1) 67

21 14 1 3 1 4 0 1 45

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* Died as Col. prior 20-Yrs.

TABLE IOC Service Choices by Academic Quarter 3rd Quarter A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

J

Type

Number

No Commission

Died

Hon. Dischg.

Retired Under 20 Yrs.

Avail.

For 20-Yr. Career

Resigned

Active 20 Yrs.

Made Capt.

1100 1310 SDO(NT) EDO SC Marines Army Air Force* Coast Gd. Other Totals

53 36 1 2 1 3 1 1 1 1 100

5 8 0 0 0 2 0 (1) 0

2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1

5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

41 28 1 2 1 1 1 (1) 0

10 4 1 0 0 0 0 0

31 24 0 2 1 1 1 (1)

16 16 0 2 1 1 0 1

15

3

5

76

15

61

37

1 1

* Died as Col. prior 20-Yrs.

TABLE lOD Service Choices by Academic Quarter 4th Quarter

Type 1100 1310 SC Marines Army Air Force Other

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

J

Number

No Commission

Died

Hon. Dischg.

Retired Under 20 Yrs.

Avail.

For 20-Yr. Career

Resigned

Active 20 Yrs.

Made Capt.

4 3 1 2 0 0

5 0 0 0 0 0

2 1 0 0 0 0

40 22 4 10 2 2

10 6 0 3 0 0

30 16 4 7 2 2

15 8 1 3 0 1

10

5

3

80

19

61

28

51 26 5 12 2 2 1 99

1 1

ured by rank in the Navy, for each individual will set his own goal. For some it may be financial gain, for others a position of influence in the community, and for still others a quiet, contemplative life. Whatever the goal, it will be for the majority in a second career outside of the service.

Based on the statistical results in the Class to date, we had every reason to expect the first quarter to produce more DECEMBER,

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admirals than any other quarter. That likelihood will certainly grow dimmer if the present retirement pattern continues, for few of the first quarter will still be in the Navy when the Class is seriously considered for promotion. In other words, a large number of our front runners statistically won't even be in the race at its climax but will have moved over to civilian life. And who will judge "success" in that larger arena.?

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Some Reflections—^We have here a relatively controlled experimental situation involving 400 people over a period of some 25 years, a situation highly unlikely to be duplicated very often, if at all. While the study concentrated on the Navy, it would seem that a portion of it might have some relevance to success outside the service. One factor, at least, appears to be significant. Academic achievement seems definitely linked to later success, even though the environment in which the career is subsequently developed may not always be in the intellectual world alone. Here the matter seems to rest. Few colleges have the medium for selecting student leaders on the basis of their potential for future success as does the Naval Academy, so the portion of this study dealing with leadership may have limited value outside of the service.

The negative correlation between varsity athletic prowess and service success is an interesting relationship which may be difficult to compare with civilian life.

But perhaps this study can stimulate our thoughts in a number of areas insofar as the service is concerned. Surely at this time where retention of personnel in the Fleet is an acute problem and the signals of change are being hoisted everywhere at the Academy as its curriculum is being revised, the quality of the faculty is being raised, and old methods are being challenged, we should have as clear an idea as possible as to the sort of graduate the Academy aims to produce. And, to help us shape our thoughts about this graduate, we should know something about his predecessor—as factual as possible.

In attempting to provide a bit of this information in a relatively small area, this study probably raises more questions than it answers. Let us start with admission to the Academy.

In view of the long-term success of those who entered with some advanced study or work after high school and the relatively poor showing of those entering under 18 years of age, should we encourage candidates to come directly from high school.'' Are we on the right track in lowering the entrance age as some in the recent past have been urging us to do.?

Has the Naval Academy become, or is it in the process of becoming, just another college.?

Since service success and academic achievement seem linked, have we the best tools to determine which of the candidates are most likely to do well academically.? Has our country-wide search for candidates generally concentrated on the top athlete who is also academically inclined, or upon the top student who is also athletically inclined.? And are we getting a desirable share of the best students in the country.? Do we do as well in this respect as we did a generation or more ago.? Intellectually, does our entering class measure up to the same class entering Harvard or RPI.? Should it.? Is it in the country's best interests to have uniformed intellectuals or is this an area better left to the civilian element in the Pentagon.? Do our friends all know that we are actively seeking the best possible candidates throughout the country.? Is our recruiting effort for the Academy as good as it can be? Does the Navy compete with itself to its own ultimate disadvantage by luring Academy prospects into the NROTC, where their service retention has been demonstrably lower than that of Academy graduates.? If today's NROTC midshipmen perform better on summer cruise than Academy midshipmen—and this has been reported by more than one interested observer—is this related to the difference in their education, to the difference between plebe indoctrination and freshman induction, or to the difference in caliber of the individuals, irrespective of their training. In short, does the Academy get the best men.? Can it.?

Once they come to Annapolis are we correct in emphasizing in every aspect of life at the Academy—in the curriculum and in the indoctrination areas—that our purpose is to produce line officers only, and that any other product is at best an afterthought.? If a class of a generation ago, before specialties, had 12

nearly one quarter of its number become something other than straight line naval officers, what is the future course of tomorrow's class which graduates into a much more complex technological Navy.? Is every midshipman who resigns of low over-all potential anyway, or do an appreciable number of good men resign—or never even enter the Academy—because they feel that they can develop no real love for a whole career at sea and consider, therefore, that there is nowhere in the Navy their talents can be used.? For that matter, how much of an all-consuming love of the sea do we engender in our young men; how many of our retired officers seek out the merchant marine for a second career.? Will the Navy lose in the long run if we state that our purpose at the Academy is to produce career-motivated officers, line or specialists, and encourage pursuit of such special interests that develop within reasonable bounds.?

Is our attitude toward athletics in proper perspective.? With the day of the cutlass and boarding party long past, superseded by the electronic beam and computer-controlled missile, do we give the proper relative weight to physical ability and mental agility.? When less than 5% of an entering class is composed of varsity athletes who rose to captain, and when the athletes achieved perceptively less success in the service than their non-athletic contemporaries, can we justify varsity athletics on the grounds that they provide a great training ground for future leadership.? Or are varsity athletics better justified on the grounds that they aid recruiting; if so, where does MIT get its high caliber candidates.? Or shall we simply consider that the program is a healthy oudet for the participants and a grand medium of entertainment for the spectators and applaud the morale derived therefrom.?

In our search for midshipman leaders, is the old intuitive approach good enough or do we have better methods available to us.? Are we in danger of becoming so fascinated by these modern electronic tools that we are neglecting some of our past methods which appear to have worked well.? Is there some way we can utilize the apparent fact that top leaders can be recognized in their early twenties, and thus channel them into accelerated paths of responsibility soon after they enter the Fleet.? Would this be desirable from the Navy's overall point of view.?

Since the bottom quarter of the class had a higher resignation rate and a lower success rate than the rest of the class, has this any meaning for us in our treatment of midshipmen who are marginal academically.? Have we the intellectual toughness to get rid of those on the borderline, regardless of over-all attrition rates.? And, in like manner, can we systematically weed out all the low aptitude cases even though the administrative hurdles loom large.?

Once they have graduated, have we any guidelines to tell us whether a 15% resignation rate in 20 years is normally to be expected from most classes.? If not, what has the public the right to expect.? Why was this Class motivated to continue in the service despite the discouraging years of demobilization?

Was it something that happened before, during, or after midshipman days.? Where the emphasis during undergraduate and immediate postgraduate years was on service as a line officer, what ingredients made the specialists more service-career oriented—i.e., lower resignation rate—than their line classmates.? Does this indicate that further specialization in the officer corps might increase career satisfaction, raise retention rates, and increase the effectiveness of the Navy.?

Do 20 years of commissioned service, in fact, constitute a naval career.? If so, do our training, assignment, and promotion policies recognize this, or do we subscribe to a 30-year career pattern which exists for only a small percentage.? Does the fact that no one resigned within five years of retirement suggest SHIPMATE

that a possible spur to retention might include some modest form of retirement benefits at the 15 or even 10-year mark?

Why do we see a reversal in form whereby more resignations during the first 20 years came from the lower part of the Class, but since the twenty-year mark, more voluntary retirements have come from among captains in the top portion of the Class.? Does this indicate that those with a greater probability of success move to the area of greatest competition and vice versa? Would this number have stayed in for 20 years if there were no retirement benefits at this time.? What factors are present which cause these top men to move out of the Navy in their mid-forties, at the height of their faculties, to an entirely new environment.? Is it pay and the problem of college-age children.? Is it the probability that they will only be allowed to serve in the Navy a few more years anyway and that they must, for financial or other reasons, embark on a satisfactory second career while they are still in the age bracket to be marketable.? Is there a disillusionment with what high command posts really involve.? Has the emergence of a heavy layer of civilian decision-markers in the Defense Establishment diminished the prestige and desirability of flag rank appreciably.? How can we encourage our best prospects to stay in the Navy so that they will be in the running when flag selections are made.?

And so the questions continue, sparking, in turn, further questions. Let us not sputter over them as leading or impertinent or even irrelevant, but let us recognize that they have been or will be asked by others outside of, as well as inside, the service. The Navy's cause can be helped if those of us who are vitally interested in the Navy have well-informed opinions on these matters, and recognize that we should ask ourselves periodically where we stand on them, even though we may have answered these questions a dozen times before.

Obviously a study of this limited nature will not give us any conclusive answers. Undoubtedly some inaccuracies have crept into our figures (USNA Alumni Register of 1964 was used as the prime source), and in many cases, the sample has been too small to have much validity. It would have been helpful in studying the Class to know many more things about these individuals who have been reduced to statistics. A knowledge of our subjects' backgrounds before entering the Academy, a record of their duty assignments including postgraduate work, a review of their fitness reports among other things, might have clarified much more for us. But at least we have something.

Admitting our limited knowledge, we do have some statistics which appear to have some meaning. They have particular meaning if this is a typical class. Is it, or can it be.? Perhaps no class is "typical" because of depression, prosperity, war, peace, or some other Act of God. The only way we will ever know, of course, is to have a similar kind of study made for a large number of classes. Until the results of such a study are forthcoming, however, we must treat with caution the old mariners' tales and wishful opinions, and give due weight to the experience of the Class of 1941 in shaping our views on the relationship between undergraduate performance at the Naval Academy and ultimate success in the Navy. Obviously, a more profund knowledge of this relationship is needed, for it can be of inestimable value to us as we mold our Navy of the future. The time was never more ripe than now for the Navy to initiate such a study.

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13

LIBERALS AND CONSERVATIVES WAR AND PEACE

by Eugene E. Wilson

THE AUTHOR flying a Boeing Carrier Bomber In 1928.

"Hotv Nature altvays does contrive That every boy and every gal That's born into this tvorld alive Is either a little Liberal Or else a little Conservative."

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A C K in 1882, when Gilbert wrote these amusing lines and he and Sullivan set the world to roaring with laughter over their light operas, their authors could scarcely have anticipated that, four score years thereafter, their silly verses would prove equally apt in a wholly different environment. Yet, today, party labels are identical, issues are similar and, of course, their underlying principles remain immutable. Hence, it is possible for one whose lifespan encompasses much of the interval to compare the records in peace and war of two diverse political philosophies under wholly different circumstances.

Back in the Gay Nineties, when lolanthe was playing to overflow audiences, public speakers proclaimed their confidence in the perfectability of civilization and the survival of mankind.

Today, their counterparts forecast the destruction of civilization and the doom of mankind. What, then, has come over the world.?

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Well, for one thing, fourscore years ago, there were no aircraft, nor nuclear submarines, nor rocketing spacecraft. Then the world basked in the glow of that century of limited warfare called Vax Britannica. But, now that Science has pried the lid off Pandora's Box, we've been caught up in a half-century of total war following close on the heels of the Wrights' first flight sixty-one years ago this month. Hence, it would appear that to follow the political fortunes of the airplane is to trace the political thinking, Liberal and Conservative, which during the first half of the 20th century brought about a social revolution and a state of near-anarchy.

For, when the airplane freed Man from his earthly shackles, and catapulted him into wholly new dimensions of communication and transportation, it brought diverse cultures once isolated and remote into bodily contact on new frontiers where there is no common law of God & Man. In so doing, the airplane confronted Man with the greatest single challenge since life on earth emerged from the sea: a choice between the airplane as an argosy of peace and a chariot of war.

T o appraise the significance of this fateful event, and to assess its political and social consequences, it is appropriate to commence with an outline review of the impact of the S H I P M A T E

airplane on the contemporary history of its birthplace, the United States of N o r t h America. Unfortunately the task is complicated by the secrecy and deceit which has surrounded political decisions during the past fifty years. However, since technological decisions stem from political decisions, and since the record in the first instance is singularly complete and accurate, it is not necessary to pore over dusty archives nor to speculate as to the motives of pioneer aeronautical engineers to get at the truth.

When the Wrights were flying their "fantastic contraption" at Kitty H a w k , memories of the Spanish American W a r were still fresh. William McKinley, a Conservative President, and a man of peace, had felt obligated to take u p arms to free Cuba from the yoke of Spanish tyranny. Inspired by the North American Frontier Spirit, as set forth in the Preamble to the Constitution, "to secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity," and convinced that the Americas could not exist half-slave and half-free, this Conservative initiated a war of liberation, i.e., a just war.

Naturally, his Progressive successor, Theodore Roosevelt, a Conservationist (in the sense of one dedicated to the wise use of natural resources), aspired to extend the ideal of liberty throughout the remainder of the world. Guided by the maritime doctrine, "Freedom of the Seas," a basic principle of Western Civilization well founded in international law extending at least as far back as the early history of the Greeks, this Conservative created a strong Navy and dedicated it to the maintainance of Law and Order.

On discovering that Japan conspired to conquer East Asia, Theodore Roosevelt dispatched " T h e Great White Fleet" on a world cruise designed to serve notice that no such breach of the peace would be tolerated. Furthermore, he brought the Fleet home via the Mediterranean in a show of force designed to support the British Fleet which, almost single-handed, had guaranteed freedom around the world from the close of the Napoleonic wars to the promulgation of the Monroe Doctrine which had stabilized "Pax Britannica," more properly, perhaps.

Pax Americana.

For, by 1908, the German Kaiser had already begun to assemble his " H i g h Seas Fleet" fashioned to upset the balance of power and, indeed, to pave the way for the conquest of Europe. However, Theodore Roosevelt's "wise use" of maritime power not only postponed the Japanese conquest of Asia for thirty years but also delayed the first German attempt at conquest until a Liberal U. S. government replaced a Conservative administration.

Then the winds of change blew strong in American politics.

Woodrow Wilson, but recently elected on a promise to keep the nation out of war, rejected Roosevelt's slogan, "Speak softly and carry a big stick," and adopted a posture of neutrality. However, by failing to provide the military backup necessary to give credibility to any political posture, he spoke loudly, clearly and eloquently but to little effect, and therefore failed to avert World W a r I. In August, 1944, the German Kaiser, persuaded that "Der T a g " had arrived, violated Belgian neutrality with impunity and struck directly at France while holding the British Fleet at bay. Deliberately disregarding the humanitarian rules of civilized warfare, he tossed limited warfare into the discard and launched total war for total conquest exploiting the principle of surprise.

W h e n Britain retaliated by imposing a naval blockade designed to starve the German population, war between America and Great Britain loomed for a time. Fortunately it was averted when the Kaiser retaliated with unrestricted submarine warfare directed against world shipping, enemy and neutral alike, and brought America in on the side of the Allies.

Meanwhile, despite the fact that World W a r I had been in DECEMBER,

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progress over two and one-half years, the United States was still unprepared when the Liberal American government declared war against Germany in April 1917. T h e President, forced to improvise, cried out for a miracle and summoned private industry to Washington to produce 25,000 airplanes to "darken the sky over Europe."

Just what else he hoped to accomplish by this miracle he did not announce at the time, but his action had the desired political effect of shifting responsibility for his own lack of foresight onto the shoulders of private industry. T h a n k s to the flexibility of the unique American philosophy of automotive production—large volume, high quality, repetitive machinetooled manufacture—private industry performed sheer magic.

D u r i n g the brief eighteen months which remained before the Armistice was signed—a mere fraction of today's lead-time for a comparable development—private industry delivered substantial quantities of superior aircraft powerplants.

However, thanks to the earlier political indecision, this gigantic effort proved too little and came too late to exercise a significant influence on the outcome of the war. Since the government had sunk just short of a billion dollars in an abortive effort, it cast about for some way to shift responsibility back to private industry. Claiming to have won a war to end war, the government cancelled outstanding contracts without just compensation and comffounded the indignity by charging industrial management with "warmongering" and "profiteering."

Since private industry had consistently opposed American entry into the war, and since it had actually suffered capital losses amounting to about one-half its apparent net worth— then estimated at two billion dollars—it licked its wounds and returned to private business vowing "never again." This left further development in aeronautics in the hands of a thorougly demoralized and hastily demobilized military establishment, and a handful of disillusioned pioneer aircraft manufacturers.

For, almost before the ink had dried on the Armistice Agreement, the Liberal government had made its additional bid for public favor by promising to get the boys out of the trenches before Christmas. This political decision triggered the disorderly demobilization of the armed forces which had reduced the A.E.F. almost overnight to virtual impotence, and thereby hamstrung American diplomacy at Versailles.

Following the American example, our European Allies first disarmed their enemies and then promptly disarmed themselves.

A quarter-century later. Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin stepped

Eugene E. Wilson graduated from the Naval Academy in 1908 and became a naval aviator in 1926.

From 1924 until his resignation in 1930 he held assignments as Chief of Engine Development in the Bureau of Aeronautics, Chief of the Design Section, and Chief of Staff Aircraft Squadrons Battle Fleet and finally Aide to the Commander-inChief, Batde Fleet. Gene Wilson's many activities as a civilian have included President of the Hamilton Standard Propeller Corp., the Chance Vought Corp., Sikorsky Aviation Corp. and United Aircraft Corp. He was Chairman of the Board of Governors, Aircraft Industries Assn. of America, Inc. from 1944 to 1949. A prolific writer, among his publications are Airpower for Peace, Slipstream, Wings of the Dawn, Kitty Hawk to Sputnik to Polaris. The present article is not his first contribution to Shipmate.

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into the resultant vacuum to rearm with impunity as a prelude to World War II. Meanwhile, the victory, if any, had been won as usual, on the sea. Yet, during the early 1920s, Liberal Western governments hastened to cutback the very navies which had conserved their freedoms—and with little regard for the consequences.

American Liberals set the pattern by scrapping new construction and retaining war-weary bottoms—an example which Japanese Conservatives neglected to follow. Indeed, this conciliatory gesture may have encouraged the Japanese to revive the ambitions which Theodore Roosevelt had dampened.

Fortunately, however. Rear Admiral William A. Moffett, U. S. Navy, a South Carolinian Conservative, managed almost single-handed to salvage two battlecruisers, LEXINGTON and SARATOGA, previously consigned to the junk pile by the Washington Limitation of Arms Treaty, for conversion to aircraft carriers—a novel weapon-system but recendy introduced by the British Navy. For, American naval observers in the British Grand Fleet, aware of the presence there of Japanese observers, and alive to their Pacific ambitions, as well as the significance of the new weapon system, had foreseen the events which were to transpire twenty years later and made the creation of an American Carrier Force their personal business.

Fortunately, about that time, a Conservative Administration returned to power in Washington. During the mid-1920s, when a lively controversy raged around the world regarding the role of the airplane in a civilized society, pitting Navies against Armies on philosophical grounds implicit in the very nature of their different beings, Calvin Coolidge stepped into the breach. In order to resolve the unseemly conflict in a truly

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Foremost among the Committee's carefully selected members were Dwight Morrow, a distinguished industrial statesman, Carl Vinson, a Conservative Democratic Congressman, and Dr. William F. Durand, Dean Emeritus in Engineering at Stanford University and a graduate of the Naval Academy in the Class of 1880. The Committee held public hearings and studied the already voluminous record of previous investigations. Its proceedings were widely publicized by the press.

The Navy case was admirably presented by Rear Admiral William A. Moffett, USN, Chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics.

The Committee Report rejected a currendy popular proposal to centralize military, naval and commercial aviation in a single, independent military executive department, on the ground that it failed to conform to traditional American defense policy. It adopted instead a decentralized proposal offered by Admiral Moffett which lodged direction in three existing executive departments. War, Navy and Commerce, to be coordinated through the existing independent yet representative agency reporting directly to the President, The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. Thus, in principle, the Committee endorsed the principle of decentralized authority and responsibility under unified direction.

The public accepted and the Congress adopted the Committee Report in the Air Corps Act of 1926 which it implemented shortly thereafter in the Vinson-Trammel Act. The latter act authorized a five-year continuing program of research, development and procurement for which the Congress appropriated funds from time to time. At the close of the first term Congress extended the authorization for a second period of five years which carried the program safely through the depression which followed the stockmarket crisis of 1929 into the Liberal Administration of the 1930s.

However, this practical solution had side-stepped the basic philosophical issue of the day. This ran so deep that few were even aware of its existence. Of these, fewer still could state it. It had been posed prior to World War I and brought to the fore when German aircraft dropped bombs on open cities in deliberate defiance of the humanitarian rules of war in international law. Yet, it was never brought into the open until 1949 when Navy witnesses before the House Armed Services Committee pointed out that the tactic was both militarily inept and morally indefensible.

Meanwhile, however, the Conservative American Air Doctrine had given the Navy the autonomy without which it could never have developed the Carrier Task Force Doctrine.

And, since the Japanese had long since embarked on this course, the lack of such autonomy could have proved fatal to the Free World during the 1940s, as, indeed, it did prove to the British Empire.

As it was. Rear Admiral Joseph M. Reeves succeeded in devising the American Carrier Task Force Doctrine in 1929.

The Japanese scouted American operations and adopted the identical philosophy. However, the Japanese Conservative government, unlike the American Liberal government, recognized the political and social significance and consequence of this technological revolution and exploited it to attain their object.

For, the Washington Limitation of Arms Treaty had played into their hands.

The principle of arms limitation in International Law which outlaws the use of armed force directly against persons, as distinguished from weapons, incorporates a built-in limitation as to size. However, when total war displaces limited war, that political decision repudiates a basic principle of Western Civilization.

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Hence, when Western statesmen neglected to exploit their victory in World W a r I to reaffirm that humanitarian principle, the Washington Treaty merely resurrected a discredited empiric materialistic formula called "Limitation as to Size". T h e irrational tonnage limitations embodied in the Washington Treaty over-emphasized power-per-unit-of weight as the criterion of military superiority and thereby accelerated technological development to the point where it was impossible for governments to control its acceleration.

D u r i n g the 1930s, when a Liberal Administration returned to power in the United States, its first political decision was to repudiate the Conservative American Air Doctrine which had given the United States unquestioned world air supremacy.

By cancelling air mail contracts awarded private industry after open competitive bidding, by seizing commercial airlines, and by turning them over to the military, the Liberal Administration moved in the direction of centralization. And it might have nationalized American aviation save for the fact that a series of fatal air crashes cost so many military pilots their lives that public opinion forced restoration of the lines to their rightful owners.

T a k i n g a leaf from the book of the previous Liberal government twenty years earlier, the new one covered its embarrassment by charging airline industry leaders with such high crimes and misdemeanors as "collusion"â&#x20AC;&#x201D;attendance at a meeting called by the Postmaster General of the predecessor Conservative Administration as directed by law. Hence, the perennial political conflict between Liberals and Conservatives which had flared into the open in 1925 became renewed ten years later in another Donnybrook which caught private enterprise squarely in the middle and unable to defend itself against partisan political reprisal.

Neutrality Act, the Liberal Administration conducted active negotiations between French and British purchasing agents and leading American aircraft manufacturers, calling for largescale production and enormous plant expansion.

American manufacturers, who had been maligned publicly during the so-call "air mail scandals," must be pardoned if they appeared a bit gun-shy during this bit of "collusion." Unschooled in the niceties of partisan political competition, it appeared to them at times as though preoccupation with the absorbing game of politics tended to compromise national security. As whipping boys for political blunders, the more competent among them shunned politics like a plague.

Having long since planned for just such an emergency under the creative American Air Doctrine and developed a unique flexibility in large scale production, the aircraft industry took this expansion in stride. Foreign orders refilled empty pipelines while aircraft manufacturers mobilized practically the entire productive capacity of the United States in what became the "Arsenal of Democracy." W h e n President Roosevelt turned a fireside chat into a call for fifty-thousand airplanesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;thereby doubling President Wilson's anteâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the aircraft industry called in the automotive industry then on the point of shutting down.

By midsummer of 1943, when the outcome of the war still remained in doubt, and its end was not yet in sight, it had become clear to conservationists within the Liberal government, such as Secretary of the Navy Forrestal, that the time had arrived to cutback overproduction. Short of some such courageous action, the disorderly demobilization and reconversion of World War I would recur immediately following a cease

Reviewing the history of the 20th century to this date, we observe two complete cycles in a political and social phenomenon of grave significance and consequence. Beginning with Theodore Roosevelt, and running through Woodrow Wilson and Calvin Coolidge to Franklin Roosevelt, we observe a Gilbert and Sullivan Act involving national security in a manner more ironical than humorous.

Significantly enough, the American Liberal Administration's return to power in the mid-1930s coincided with the advent of a new and potentially decisive force in the Pacific Theatre: Japanese Naval Air Power. On the record, the Liberal Administration failed to deter the Japanese from pursuing an ambidon which Theodore Roosevelt had checked thirty years earlier. Again, the Liberal Administration of the mid-1930s came to power just as Hitler had begun to rearm Germany for another attempt at the conquest of Europe. And again it failed to duplicate the performance of its Conservative predecessor.

For, among other things, even as war clouds were gathering over Europe, the Liberal Administration was neglecting to extend the Vinson authorization for a third term. Indeed, at a moment when such action was mandatory, and the leaders of the armed forces had urged it, the administration took a page from Woodrow Wilson's book and passed a Neutrality Act. This political decision, as administered through the State Department by withholding export licenses, cut off foreign sales of military and commercial aircraft to friend and foe alike, even as domestic sales dried up. W i t h a number of key enterprises threatened with early shutdowns and dispersal of indispensable technical supervisors, utter disaster was averted only when H i d e r invaded Poland in 1939.

T h e n France and England, foremost among air powers at the close of World W a r I but since reduced to impotence by nationalization or over-centralization, turned in desperation to American private industry. Without pausing to repeal the D E C E M B E R ,

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ADMIRAL JOSEPH MASON REEVES at the time he was Commander Squadrons. From a portrait by his son Joseph M. Reeves.

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fire order. In that event, the United States would suffer the postwar depression, then deemed inevitable, and internal disorder such that it might fall like a ripe plum into the lap of Communism.

In this crisis, the Secretary of the Navy turned to leaders among the aircraft manufacturers for help. They in turn called on the Congress for legislation looking to orderly reconversion from wartime to peacetime production with the emphasis on research and development in air transportation. Encouraged by the Speaker of the House, Sam Rayburn, to enlist public support for the appointment of a new Presidential Advisory Committee to recommend adherence to the established American Air Doctrine, industry leaders offered a comprehensive plan to this end.

Congress adopted the industry program and passed legislation calling for a joint Congressional inquiry intended to hasten executive action along this line. Unfortunately, President T r u m a n deferred action until after the atomic bomb had dropped on Hiroshima. W i t h that the industry program "Air Power For Peace" flew out the window.

Following the blockade of Berlin, the President appointed his own advisory committee. Ignoring all industry recommendations, this Liberal Committee went overboard on total war, making strategic bombardment the foundation of domestic and foreign policy. And, while this action did avert the anticipated postwar depression, and triggered instead the boom in weapons which continues to this day, it still left unresolved the crucial question of the age: what can be done to avert destruction of Man and Civilization.?

A breakthrough of sorts occurred in 1961 when Sir Charles Percy Snow, the British novelist who writes convincingly of the lives and problems of responsible professional men, academics, bureaucrats, politicans, and scientists, revealed the true origin of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in the secret British political decision of 1942 to launch a strategic air offensive against German working class houses. In his magazine article "Whether W e Live or Die," and his book Science & Government, Sir Charles pinned responsibility not on the military but on a British scientist.

In closing, Sir Charles confessed to a nagging suspicion that this fateful political decision might have lacked the gift of foresight. Later that year, in his review of the Appeasement, Snow admitted to a growing conviction that Western political decisions of the past half-century had proven "almost onehundred per cent wrong."

T o military men, accustomed to subordinating their views to the opinions of civilians in government. Liberal, Conservative or what have you, Snow's conviction will occasion little surprise. After all, the Official British War History, The Strategic Air Offensive Against Germany, 1939-1945, confirmed convictions they had held for years. W h a t concerns the military m a n , who has sworn to defend the Constitution of the United States, is, just how does the civilian reconcile his oath with the execution of political decisions whose constitutional validity is clearly open to question? T h e fate of Secretary of the Navy Forrestal suggests that he cannot.

to a recent article by Captain Robert Macintyre, R.N. (Retired): "Point of N o Return." This distinguished British authority, speaking from the standpoint of intimate personal experience, ascribed the swift decline of the British Society from its status as a world power, to the political decision taken during World W a r I centralizing its air power. On the other hand, the Captain ascribed the concurrent rapid rise of the United States to World pre-eminence to refusal to centralize air power.

"Those Americans," wrote Captain Macintyre, "who during the 1920s fought off political pressure and misinformed public opinion centralizing their air power may have saved the Free

World."

This trenchant conclusion pretty well sums u p the political history of U. S. Naval Aviation to date. W h a t the future holds rests on succeeding generations. Meanwhile, the U. S. Navy can take satisfaction in the fact that time has proved its decision correct.

T h a n k s to circumstances largely beyond my control, and, for the most part contrary to my inclination, I chanced to occupy ring-side seats while wearing different hats during this epic controversy. Accordingly, I decided some twenty years ago to devote the remainder of my career to a study of the political significance of my somewhat unique experience.

T o this end, I made arrangements with the Alumni Association with the advice and consent of the Superintendent of the Academy to deposit my collection of documents in the Library and to make it available to midshipmen engaged in research for term papers as well as scholars working on doctoral theses. Thanks to Professor Tate, the Librarian, and to Admiral Filer, Director of History, Office of Naval Operations, this project has been completed in time to commemorate the sixty-first anniversary of the inception of powered-flight.

Pondering this experience, I discover that I am in accord with several other pioneer aeronautical engineers who have taken public stands on the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. For example, Igor Sikorsky, Father of the Helicopter, summed up the case as follows: "If the world is to be governed by spiritually dead men, it is as if an unconscious crew were placed at the controls of an air liner."

Orville Wright identified the particular variety of dead men in his statement in a letter that "ambitious rulers will sacrifice the property and lives of their people to gain a little fame."

Charles Lindbergh concluded in Of Flight & Life that, "Our salvation and our only salvation lies in controlling the arm of western science by the mind of western philosophy guided by the eternal truths of God." In my book Slipstream, now out of print for sixteen years, I agreed that while the hand on the throtde is the hand of man, " T h e H a n d on the Stick is T h e H a n d of God." But now I discover that Gilbert and Sullivan had scooped us all by observing "Hotv Nature altvays does contrive That every boy and every gal, That's born into this tvorld alive Is either a little Liberal, Or else a little Conservative."

Meanwhile, for an informed appraisal of the conduct of American naval officers in the case under review, we can turn

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USS CLAUDE V. RICKETTS AND THE MIXED MANNING DEMONSTRATION

by Commander Thomas E. Fortson, USN

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H E O R I G I N of the seven-nation mixed manning demonstration now underway in USS CLAUDE V . RICKETTS can

be traced back to December 1960. At that time Secretary of State Christian Herter introduced the concept of the Multilateral Force ( M L F ) to our allies at a meeting of the N A T O Council. His proposal of a jointly controlled and jointly shared fleet armed with nuclear missiles was designed to prevent the proliferation of national nuclear deterrents within N A T O ; to satisfy the desires of members of the Alliance for fuller participation in the nuclear affairs of N A T O ; and to strengthen the Alliance itself through an important joint undertaking.

Interest in the M L F was expressed by the governments of West Germany, Belgium, T h e Netherlands, United Kingdom, Turkey, Italy and Greece. A working group in Paris and various sub-groups are currently discussing its political and military feasibility.

One of the major features of the proposed M L F is that each of the 25 merchant-type ships (which would be armed with 8 Polaris missiles) would be mixed manned throughout with personnel from at least three participating nations. T h e principle of mixed manning, of course, is not a recent one.

Merchant ships are frequently manned by personnel of varying nationalities. Even Lord Nelson's flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar, H M S VICTORY, numbered some seven nationalities among the crev/. Although the mixed m a n n i n g of the M L F was considered to be completely feasible, it seemed a useful idea to the v/orking groups to gain some practical experience in the mixed manning of a modern, complex warship which might be helpful in M L F planning. Accordingly, the late President Kennedy offered to provide a U . S. Guided Missile destroyer for a Mixed-Manning Demonstration. T h e governments of West Germany, T h e Netherlands, United Kingdom, Turkey, Greece and Italy indicated that they would be interested in participating in such a demonstration with us.

T h e guided missile destroyer type was selected for several reasons. First of all, it has weapons systems of comparable complexity to the Polaris system and could provide useful criteria for the M L F . In addition, the versatility of this type would enable the ship to participate in many different types of operations, both with the U . S. Navy and allied forces.

A sub-group of naval officers from the interested countries met in Washington during the last months of 1963 to work out the details of the demonstration. A Memorandum of U n derstanding signed by these officers in February 1964, and subsequently approved by the National governments, set forth basic conmiitments, policies and procedures. T h e Memorandum emphasized that the Demonstration was in no way a test of the feasibility of the M L F and that participation in the demonstration did not involve a commitment for any country to participate in the M L F . It was understood also that the designated ship would remain a unit of the U . S. Fleet throughout the period of mixed-manning, which would commence around June 1, 1964 and terminate on December 1, 1965. T h e Memorandum provides for participating navies to bear the expense of transportation to and from the CLAUDE V . RICKETTS, training prior to reporting, and pay and subsistence for their personnel assigned to the demonstration. Further, English was designated as the spoken language in the ship. Also resolved were questions concerning billets, discipline, pay, cultural and ethnic differences. A t the outset it was emphasized that there were important differences between the Mixed-Manning Demonstration and the proposed M L F .

D E C E M B E R ,

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COMMANDER THOMAS E. FORTSON, U. S. Navy, Commanding Officer of the USS CLAUDE V. RICKETTS, discusses on operational problem with Lt. Uwe Marxen, Federal German Navy, Engineer Officer of the ship.

Captain Fortson is a member of the USNA class of 1947. He has served in various assignments ashore and at sea which have included duty in destroyers, an LSD and two cruisers. In November 1963 he assumed command of the USS BIDDLE, the ship which in July 1964 became the CLAUDE V. RICKEHS.

On February 26, 1964, Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara publicly announced details concerning the MixedManning Demonstration. H e also stated that the ship selected for the Demonstration was USS CLAUDE V . RICKETTS (then USS BIDDLE). CLAUDE V. RICKETTS was designated primarily

because its yard overhaul would not fall within the time frame of the Demonstration, June 1964 through December 1965. In 1964, the ship returned to the United States from an extended deployment with the Sixth Fleet and began m a k i n g preparations for mixed-manning.

CLAUDE V. RICKETTS was originally commissioned in 1962

and incorporates the new features of the ships of her class Armament consists of Tartar surface-to-air missiles with a twin launcher, an ASROC anti-submarine rocket launcher, two triple tube anti-submarine torpedo launchers, and two 5 " 54 caliber gun mounts. H e r superstructure is of aluminum, and her air-conditioned living spaces represent advanced Navy concepts of habitability. T h e ship displaces 4500 tons when fully loaded and has a normal complement of 330 enlisted and 24 officers.

T h e Memorandum of Understanding provides that approximately 5 0 % of the crew of RICKETTS will be non-U. S. Because of the ship's status as a unit of the U . S. Navy, C o m m a n d i n g Officer, Executive Officer, Operations Officer, Supply Officers, Electronic Material Officer and the Communication Officer billets remain U . S. T h e following table summarizes national complements on board:

West Germany Italy Greece United Kingdom T h e Netherlands Turkey United States

Officers 2 2 2 2 1 1 10

Enlisted 47 30 24 24 17 IQ 164

Some idea of the degree of mixed-manning on the ship can be obtained from noting the foreign officer billets: Missile Officer and Engineering Officer (West G e r m a n y ) ; C I C Officer and 1st Lieutenant (United K i n g d o m ) ; Weapons Officer and Assistant C I C Officer (Italy); Damage Control Assistant and 21

THE COMMANDING OFFICER, Commander Fortson, accompanied by Lt. Bruno Lipori, I N , inspect personnel of the ship's Operations Department. The first four bluejackets from the left represent the Federal German Navy, the U. S. Navy, the Royal Navy and the Royal Hellenic Navy.

Fire Control Officer (Greece); A S W Officer ( T h e Netherlands); Navigator ( T u r k e y ) . Over 5 0 % of the billets in Combat Information Center under both G Q and normal conditions are non-U. S. As still another example, a typical underway watch on the bridge features Italian O O D , a Dutch J O O D , a German helmsman, a British Boatswain Mate of the Watch.

RICKETTS is scheduled to become completely mixed-manned by January 1965.

Before reporting on board, many of the foreign personnel received special training both in their own countries and in U. S. Navy service schools. Some were indoctrinated about the life they could expect in a U. S. Navy ship. In accordance with the job for which they have been designated, many of the foreign officers and men are sent to service schools in the United States ranging from a few days to four months.

In early June of this year, Lt. William M. Kelly, R N , the prospective CIC Officer, commenced the mixed-manning demonstration when he reported aboard for duty. As a matter of policy, a foreign officer precedes the enlisted complement from his country to assist them in adjusting to their new life. After the non-U. S. personnel have reported aboard, there are normally several weeks of overlap with their American counterparts for on-the-job training and orderly turn-over.

By November the ship was roughly 9 5 % mixed-manned and had at least one representative from each country participating in the demonstration.

Life on board RICKETTS is a completely new experience for the entire crew. Personnel are not berthed according to nationality but according to the ship's department to which they are assigned. T h u s , many living spaces contain representatives from all seven of the participating nations. T h e menu is much more varied than that normally found in any other ship. German, Italian, British and Dutch cooks assist in preparing national dishes from all of the countries represented on board.

T h e ship's library features books and periodicals from all

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participating countries, giving the ship an impressive scope of reading material for all hands. It is anticipated that native talents may enable RICKETTS to field the U. S. Navy's best soccer team.

All personnel on board are paid in U. S. dollars at augmented rates of pay established by their own navies. It is worth noting in this regard that the British sailors receive an extra three and one half cents a day to compensate for the spirits allowance which they would receive in their own navy but cannot have in a U. S. Navy ship.

Disciplinary problems are handled by the Commanding Officer in conjunction with the Senior National Officer on board. Minor offenses are dealt with in a manner similar to what the offender could expect in his own navy, insofar as this is possible. In the unlikely instance that a major disciplinary problem should arise, the offender would be returned to his own national authorities for appropriate action.

Since the beginning of the Mixed-Manning Demonstration, RICKETTS has conducted routine training for ships of her type.

This training will become intensified in the fall with missile firings and naval gunfire support exercises in the Roosevelt Roads Operations Area. In 1965 the ship will come under the operational control of the Second Fleet and will participate in fleet operations scheduled by Commander Second Fleet.

Further, after the first of the year, RICKETTS is scheduled to deploy to the Mediterranean for operations with the Sixth Fleet and possibly with N A T O forces. D u r i n g this extended overseas deployment RICKETTS will visit ports in all of the participating nations. W h e n the demonstration is terminated on December 1, 1965, all foreign personnel will return to their parent navies, and the ship will resume her normal status and activity in the Adantic Fleet with a full U. S. crew.

(Editor's note: For an account of the ceremony in which the

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Sept./Oct. 1964 issue of

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CAPITOL HILL

by Fred Lardner

A BIG question hovers menacingly over the -^^ country. Where during the next few years will the Johnson Administration obtain the money to finance the various projects of the "Great Society" and also maintain a proper national defense posture. And will there be sufficient funds to carry out the promises of President Johnson concerning improvements in Service living.''

Currently, and for the next fiscal year, the overall budget of the Federal Government is about $100 billion, and the defense budget is $50 billion. The Administration hopes to finance the "Great Society" projects, most of them originated in New Frontier and Fair Deal years of former Democratic Administration, from decreases in the defense budget and increases in general tax revenues.

"I do not interpret the election as a mandate to any reckless, novel, dangerous or unique course," said President Johnson. On another occasion, he said: "Our society will never be great until our cities are great."

Here are the primary projects the Administration has in mind: 1. Subsidize urban development: rebuild downtown sections; improve city transit; finance housing.

2. Stream polludon: require and help finance industrial waste plants and sewage disposal plants.

3. River development: finance navigation, flood control and recreation development.

4. Anti-poverty program: the start of the Job Corps has been announced, with 1000 to 2000 youth undergoing vocational training and remedial education at Camp Gary, San Marcos, Texas. This program is estimated to cost about $4500 a year per trainee.

5. Regional development: economic development of the Appalachian area, and possibly of the mining areas of Michigan and Minnesota.

6. Development of fresh water from salt water, for use on a broad scale.

7. Education: additional financial help for schools and colleges and students.

8. Civil rights: This could be a cosdy program if the Federal Government employs a special police force.

9. Medical care for the elderly: this program would begin with hospital care for those 65 years of age or older. But this would be only a beginning, and a complete medical care program for the elderly only could be very expensive.

The reader can judge for himself the logic of and the need for these programs. All we say is that they pose a threat to the Federal budget and an increase in the national debt. They are a real threat now, for President Johnson is more likely to influence Congress to pass legislation than any President of the past two decades. The recent election brings to Congress a sufficient number of liberal Congressmen and Senators to give the President more help than he had in the 88th Congress.

"The military career today—in all the Services —demands a new order of talent and training and imagination and versatility. This we must have. This we Americans can provide so long as we look ahead while maintaining the highest standards of the past and reward excellence among those who are following a military career.

"I am not unmindful of the sacrifices being made by American servicemen and their families.

Whatever can be done to ease their burdens and to compensate their sacrifices must be done. I want our uniformed citizens to be first-class in every respect, and I want their families to know only first-class lives. To this end, the Secretary of Defense is working with me to take whatever steps are required to enhance the standing and morale of those who defend us, and their families."

I m p r o v e m e n t s In Service Life

The man who will be primarily responsible for the success of personnel legislation in the 89th Congress is Representative L. Mendel Rivers (D.-S.C), new chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. Mr. Rivers recendy said, "We are going to have to pay the members of our Armed Forces from the 'whole man' viewpoint.

"That means quarters allowances, subsistence allowances, medical care, housing, post exchanges and base pay," Mr. Rivers said. "Military personnel should have salaries sufficient to provide them with a standard of living at least equivalent to the standard of living they are protecting."

General Wallace M. Greene, Jr., Commandant of the Marine Corps, made one of the best presentations for improvement in Service morale recendy in a speech before the Union League in Philadelphia.

"It becomes increasingly difficult for the average Service man to provide his family with the basic necessities," General Greene said, in part.

"He is in an almost impossible position, when an attempt is made to invest savings in a rapidly expanding economy or to enjoy possessions of quality—clothing, furniture, homes.

"Those who began their service in World War II are facing the day when they want to send their children to college. They note with increasing discomfort the swifdy widening gap between themselves and their civilian contemporaries when it comes to sharing the good things of life.

"Secretary of Defense McNamara is well aware of this serious problem, and has said that the recent modest increase is merely the first step in a new policy designed to keep military pay moving along with increases in prices and wages in the civilian economy.

"Medical care for dependents of active duty personnel is the difference between solvency and insolvency for many military families. It permits dependents to receive needed care they could not otherwise afford.

"The fact that his wife and family can receive the care they want is a positive morale factor to the man who is deployed overseas without his family. Certainly it is a factor in the reenlistment rate of our trained and skilled married personnel.

This care is far more than a fringe benefit—it is a good investment and one we cannot do without.

At the recent convention of the Association of the United States Army, the President reiterated, by statement, a promise he made during a speech in August. The statement read, in part:

"Our active duty personnel have always assumed that this same care would be available following retirement. This problem has now grown to the point where it has reached serious

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proportions as our retired rolls increase. The Congress has taken notice of the requirement for improved medicare and hospital facilities for these families, both active and retired. A subcommittee of the House Armed Services Committee conducted a lengthy study of the problem and concluded that the Government does have an obligation to continue to provide medical care for dependents of each category."

H o w Much M o r e Pay?

Representative Rivers has stated that a military pay increase of some $1 billion is needed in order to increase military pay to about the same levels as civilian pay. The Defense Department has abandoned ideas to limit the next pay hike to cost-of-living indices mentioned in a Congressional hearing early this year by Secretary of Defense McNamara. The increases in the indices would provide a pay increase of some $200,000,000.

Recendy the Military Pay Study Group within the Defense Department made a report rejecting the use of gross pay, a combination of basic pay and some allowances, and also proposed in-step increases in pay. The group also advocated increases in subsistence allowances.

You would have to say that the Defense Department is committed to a pay increase, and the only question is how high it might go. Some authorities guess at an overall increase between $400 million and $600 million. We may not get any idea of the department's intention until the budget for fiscal year 1966 is submitted early next year.

M e d i c a l A n d D e n t a l Care

The Defense Department may also be considered as obligated to sponsor a medical care bill, which would concern dependents as well as retirees and their dependents. The Defense Department's Study Group on Health Care for Retired Personnel and their Dependents issued a report in June 1964 oudining plans for a medical care bill.

The Department of the Army agrees in general with the primary recommendation of the Defense Study Group, that is, that retirees and their dependents be authorized to be treated in military hospitals, and that the Dependents Medical Act be extended to include retiree groups. Beds earmarked for retirees in new hospitals would be increased to 10 per cent of total beds in regular hospitals and to 20 per cent of total beds in teaching hospitals. The Medical Care Act, as applied to retiree groups, would be modified to provide for treatment necessary for older people.

The Army also recommended the consideration of out-patient and domiciliary care in civilian facilities for retiree groups.

"A definite advantage of the plan," the Army said in reference to treatment in civilian hospitals, "compensating for the small charge to retired personnel hospitalized in civilian facilities, is the severing of location ties. With access to hospitalization in any community, post-retirement location need no longer be determined by availability of military installations."

As for care of dependents, an effort will be made to require that more of them be treated in military facilities.

A program of dental care insurance has been under discussion for three years or more. Recendy S H I P M A T E

the Surgeon Generals of the various services advocated a dental care plan. Currendy many Service members have to borrow money to provide dental care for their dependents. During 1963, the Navy Relief Society reported, $275,000 was spent by it on dental care of dependents of Navy and Marine Corps members. Army Emergency Relief spent some $363,000 to meet medical and dental bills of Army personnel. The Air Force Aid Society paid $100,000 to meet medical bills and $43,000 to meet dental bills.

Dual Compensation

Employment

The Civil Service Commission has announced that retired Regular commissioned and warrant officers now employed by the Federal Government in civilian positions must determine by March 1, 1965, whether they wish to continue under employment laws which have been applicable to them or come under the provisions of the Dual Compensation Act of 1964. The various departmental finance centers will mail to these employees around the first of December a form which must be filled out and returned by March 1.

Under the laws in effect prior to December 1, the effective date of the 1964 act, the combined military retirement-civilian employment pay can not exceed $10,000 for retired Regular officers.

Under the new law employees can accept the pay plus 50 per cent of the remainder of their retirement pay.

"Officers presendy exempt from limitations on their compensation (that is, retired regular warrant officers, regular officers retired because of combat disability, and officers working for nonappropriated fund activities of the military departments) probably will find it advantageous to elect to stay exempt under the old law," the Commission stated.

"The problem may be more complex for an officer subject to the 1932 act whose combined salary and retired pay is less than $10,000. If he elects to come under the new act he will lose money immediately if his retired pay exceeds $2,000. However, he will undoubtedly want to consider the prospects for increases in both his civilian salary and retired pay in deciding upon his election. In each case, this is a personal judgment that the officer concerned will have to make for himself on the basis of the best available information."

W o r k i n g For The

Government

Testimony on the bill which became the Dual Compensation Act reveals that of the 385,000

on retired rolls as of late 1963, some 15 per cent were 65 years of age or older and are not believed to be seeking employment. Of the remaining 85 per cent, 70 per cent are employed, most of them in full-time positions. Of the remaining 30 per cent, or about 100,000, it is believed that fewer than 50,000 might be considered employable under the new law.

The rate of retirement is 50,000 to 55,000 annually. Of this number, about 5,000 are Regular officers retiring for reasons other than disability. The others are enlisted personnel and Reserve officers, not covered by this new law.

The number of retired military personnel employed in a year is between 1,500 and 2,000. On December 31, 1963, the total number of retirees in the Departments of the Army, the Navy and the Air Force was 24,278, including 4,532 commissioned officers, 1,884 warrant officers, and 17,862 enlisted personnel. This 24,278 retirees employed by Army, Navy and Air Force is only 2.2 per cent of the total number of retirees.

The total number of retirees employed by the Government as a whole may be much larger, in relation to the number of total retirees. The Defense Department's Study Group on medical care, reporting also on the personal economics of military retirees, stated that 20 per cent of the number answering their questionnaire were employed by the Federal Government, not including Federal hospitals.

However, there are many positions open, some almost constandy open, in Federal civilian employment. As of Dec. 31, 1962, the Army had 1,055 vacancies, and as of July 1, 1963, the Navy had 1,144 vacancies and tlie Air Force 470 vacancies. These are hard-to-fill positions primarily, and probably as of this date the numbers are about the same, or more.

The best way to find out what positions are open in Federal civilian work is to obtain from a Civil Service regional office or from the U. S. Civil Service Commission, Washington, D. C. 20415, the forms AN 2280 and AN 2279, published bi-monthly. AN 2280 is a list of "Local and Regional Civil Service Examinations Offering the Best Job Opportunities," and AN 2279 lists "Current Federal Examination Announcements."

Closing of N a v a l Facilities

Some closings or curtailment of naval facilities ordered by Secretary of Defense McNamara in late November may be controversial, the Secretary admits, but he doubts that any pressures

resulting therefrom may change the department's decisions.

Among the actions affecting naval operations are the following: San Francisco: Naval Shipyard and Mare Island to be merged under a single commander during fiscal year 1965.

Monterey, Calif. Airfield support activities at Naval Air Facility to be consolidated with the Postgraduate School, and the Naval .\ir Facility reduced to an auxiliary field by July 1965.

Macon, Ga. Naval Ordnance Plant will be made available for sale to private industry for continued support of Navy requirements while expanding and diversifying its operations.

Great Lakes, 111. Disestablish the Naval Supply Depot, Great I.akes, by July 1966.

Fallon, Nevada. Naval Aerial Gunnery to be consolidated at other available ranges and the Sahways Gunnery Range closed by January 1966.

Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Portsmouth Naval Shipyard to be gradually phased out prior to fiscal year 1975.

Brooklyn, N. Y. Close New York Naval Shipyard except for the Applied Science Laboratory.

Norfolk, Virginia. Shipping operations at Hampton Roads Army Terminal to be relocated to Norfolk Navy Supply Center and local commercial facilities. The Army Terminal to be returned to the Maritime Commission by July 1965.

Secretary McNamara said the department had closed or curtailed 574 bases previously and had not been influenced by political pressure to keep them. The new changes, he said, will be carried out "unless some new evidence is brought to our attention and the chances of that are damn small."

To explain his political impartiality, Mr. McNamara said, the Brooklyn shipyard was ordered closed despite the protests of the new Democratic Senator of New York, Robert F. Kennedy, while the Philadelphia shipyard, in a state full of prominent Republicans, will remain open.

Secretary McNamara said the Navy needs five of the existing 11 bases for minimum wartime and peacetime uses. Some of the other six were needed for geographical reasons or because they had special facilities. An analysis showed that Portsmouth would be missed the least and Philadelphia the most. Then there was a choice between Boston and Brooklyn, and Boston was chosen to stay because of its better location and facilities.

The shipyard closings will make possible annual savings of $42.8 million, he said.

WITH A ROUND TURN CHRISTMAS THOUGHTS O N NUCLEAR " W E A P O N S "

The opinions expressed below are, indeed, not those of the Navy Department or the USNAAA or anybody else in this world but the author who has formed them during a decade of military contemplation.

In 1939, scientist Albert Einstein, in a letter to President Roosevelt, referred to the possibility of a uranium bomb of tremendous power. Since 1945, nuclear energy in explosive form has both fascinated and frightened Americans to a degree that may bring wonderment to future historians.

It still does but happily not so much since the Cuban crisis. Statesmen, at last, seem to have acquired the courage to examine and reject the invalid assumptions that were made so quickly, at first, regarding the nuclear bomb and the military profession which so roundly embraced it; they now find they have weaponed themselves into impotence.

American nuclear strategy has gone through D E C E M B E R ,

1 9 6 4

one agonizing reappraisal after another. The latest verbiage that passes for strategy is "Counter Force" which in artillerymen's terms is nothing more than nuclear counter battery. A French military writer, using the example of Dien Bien Phu and a few simple figures, has recently revealed it to be nothing more than a geometrical progression to absurdity.* The expression, "tactical nuclear weapons," is also military semantic nonsense. Nuclear bombs, shells, or "22s" are not military weapons. Their capacity for destruction and world opinion regarding them make them political instruments like the armed forces themselves. Statesmen had better retain command of both of them no matter what may have been the "conclusions" reached at Operation Desert Strike. The tragedy of World War I, when statesmen lost control of

generals and generals lost control of their weapons, so warns us.

Twenty years of failure in trying to squeeze the bomb into a military strategy should have made evident the fact that nuclear energy in explosive form and the armed services are two different breeds of cat. As political instruments, they operate in almost diametrically opposite manners.

The purpose of v/ar is to correct conditions of unacceptable peace, to obtain a new peace on the victor's terms when it cannot be achieved in any other way. Herein lies the function of the armed services. The function of nuclear energy in explosive form, on the other hand, is that of check, forcing restriction on the use of violence and an extension of the diplomatic process. Statesmen use force as a threat or deterrent; military men use it as a means.

* M. E. Geneste, "U. S. 'Strategies' and Continental Europe," U. S. Naval Institute Proceedings, Oct. 1964.

The existence of nuclear explosives has already, on several occasions, forced continued diplomacy in international situations that appeared hopeless 25

of solution. They have kept wars that did break out limited geographically and to the political objectives that caused them.

This negative beneficent effect should be all we have a right to expect. The role of nuclear explosives lies not in their possession, even as a deterrent, but in their existence as a restraint on other forms of political violence.

It is indeed a benign contradiction that we cannot afford to abolish them—or dare to use them.

SHIP'S NEWSPAPER COPIES W A N T E D

"ASTORIAN"

Through my friend and old shipmate. Father Walter A. Mahler, Captain, ChC (Ret.), I have had the good fortune to see again the JanuaryFebruary 1942 copies of the USS ASTORIA weekly.

Reading them made me feel so nostalgic that I cannot help repeating some of the "corny" stuff that made the ship's company feel good in those early hectic days of World War II. Moreover I hope ASTORIA sailors who read this will search old sea chests for booriegged copies of this once uncensorable and restricted sheet: CROSSING THE LINE OR M A N ' S I N H U M A N I T Y TO

MAN

Slogan for all Pollywogs: "Hair today and gone tomorrow"—The Paymaster going so fast across the fantail that he was a cinch to make the following destroyer until someone thoughtfully shoved No. 3 turret in his way—Lt. Comdr.

Truesdell swears he is going to have his Shellback certificate tatooed on his chest—Mr. Isham pleaded "Not guilty" to his charge, he later stated definitely it was the wrong answer—Apt simile: "As cold-hearted as a Shellback on zero latitude."

SPECHUL!

SPECHUL!

Commander-in-Chief, Pacific Fleet announces that the Royal Hawaiian Hotel has been rented by the Navy for rest and recreational purposes.

Special allotments of rooms by ships, groups or forces will be made from time to time. Ten per cent of the space allotted may be for officers.

Spaces shall be assigned to individuals on a daily twenty-four-hour basis with meals during any portion of the period allotted. An advance charge of one dollar a day for officers and twentyfive cents for enlisted men is required.

First Endorsement: "Oh Boy. It's a pretty good war!"

UGHH!

Chaplain (at baptism of sailor's son): "His name, please." Proud Mother: "John Paul Jones Decatur Porter Dewey McGoof." Chaplain (to assistant): "A litde more water, please."

JOHN D . HAYES '24

LUCKY BAG OF BOOKS & ARTICLES Being an intermittent and subjective listing of hooks published in recent months of special interest to nautical readers.

BRAVE SHIP, BRAVE MEN. By Lt. Comdr.

Arnold Lott, USN (Ret.), Bobbs Merrill, $4.

A great Navy book is coming out on 11 January 1965. Look for it—and it might be worthwhile to delay giving Christmas presents until then so you can give your friends a real gift.

Brave Ship, Brave Men is the story of destroyer AARON WARD'S half hour batde with ten Kamikazes at Okinawa, six of which hit the ship; of the 42 men in her who died during that second dog watch of a bright May day so that their country might remain supreme upon the seas; and of their surviving shipmates who honored them by saving the crippled ship that had been their home, and bringing her back to the United States 26

on one engine, still proudly carrying her batde scars.

The book is more than that. It is also a detailed account of the ship's last day, watch by watch; and through a flashback technique, which the author ably uses, of her whole short life and of the men who made her a living thing as only sailors know a ship to be. Only a sailor could have written this book.

The U. S. Navy, despite a twenty-fold expansion, throughout World War II never lost its tone. Lott catches this tone in words as he makes us feel the lasting impress that a man-of-war makes upon a man-of-warsman. The men of the AARON WARD have gone many ways but a bond still holds them, a bond of a year shared together giving life to their ship. The half hour they fought her remains supreme in their lives.

It has been some months since I read Lott's manuscript but I remember the poignant story of the last resting place of the ship's anchor and his description of making coffee on the bridge for the midwatch. "Officers don't slap enlisted men on the back and they don't borrow money from each other but nothing in the Navy Regs says they can't drink coffee together."

NOW HEAR THIS. By Rear Admiral Daniel V. Gallery, USN (Ret.), W. W. Norton & Co. This book is also being published in January and it promises to be in the same class as Lott's.

It will be reviewed next month but perhaps it need only be announced for everyone knows that anything from the pen of the one and only Dan Gallery is bound to be good. But here is what Arthur Godfrey says about it: "How Dan, who sported so much scrambled eggs on his cap for so many years, learned so many intimate details of life below in the fo'c's'le remains forever a mystery. Nevertheless, he knows and he tells all."

A CONCISE HISTORY OF WORLD WAR I and A CONCISE HISTORY OF WORLD WAR II. Separate volumes prepared for the Encyclopedia Americana under the advisory editorship of Brig. Gen. Vincent J. Esposito, USA (Ret.).

Praeger. Paperback, $2.95; hardback, $6.95.

Do you mind if a plug is inserted here instead of a review. In the World War I book I wrote Chapter 13, "The War at Sea" and in the World War II volume. Chapter 10, "The War in the Central Pacific" and Chapter 12, "Developments in Naval Warfare." Chapter 10 above includes the Pacific submarine war, the dropping of the atomic bombs and the Japanese surrender. Developments in Naval Warfare were treated under four categories: (1) carrier operations, (2) amphibious operations, (3) mobile logistics, and (4) antisubmarine warfare including the Battle of the Adantic.

Incidentally, if you are in the market for an encyclopedia and are undecided which set to get, compare the treatment of any naval subject in the Encyclopedia Americana with that in any of the other modern sets and base your appraisal of the rest of the material in them accordingly.

MILITARY POSTURES. Fourteen Issues before Congress, 1964. By John H. McBridge and John I. H. Eales. The Center For Strategic Studies, Georgetown Univ., Wash., D. C , 1964.

From January to August 1964 the Congress held hearings and debated military posture for the fiscal year 1965. This volume presents material from seven volumes of testimony at hearings, from committee reports and from floor debate.

Subjects include Air and Sea Lift, Nuclear Power for Ships, Antisubmarine Warfare, Employment of TFX Aircraft, Nuclear Strategy and others of interest to Navy men. A very valuable book.

Also worthy of notice are two pictorial volumes: CLEAR FOR ACTION, The Photographic Story of Modern Naval Combat, 1898-1964, by Foster Hailey and Milton Lancelot, Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1964, $12.50; and REVOLUTION IN THE SKY, Those Fabulous Lockheeds: The Pilots Who Flew Them, by Richard Sanders Allen, The Stephen Greene Press, Brattleboro, Vt., 1964, $9.95.

THE BEDFORD INCIDENT. A novel by Mark Rascovich, New York, Atheneum, 1963, $5.95.

The novel form in literature, having been deprived of the hero by the news media, has turned to the psychologically unbalanced for their character studies. When authors start using that excellent stage setting for a novel, the tight litde world of a ship of war, and pervert the sacred trust of command for their purposes, I resent it.

JOHN D . HAYES '24

The Mail Boat shipmate:

This June, about the 6th, when I learned about the 20th Anniversary of Normandy via TV, I was much surprised that though I subscribe to service publications, my first information thereon came after the fact. At Normandy, being only a Commander, I was not a wheel in Overlord; but as Assault Group Commander, Green Beach, Utah, under RAdm. Don P. Moon, I accounted myself at least a cog, and I thought I should have been accorded the opportunity to attend.

When I read Johnny Hayes' article in Shipmate and the account of Admiral John Hall, Jr's. talks to the New York Chapter, I was flabbergasted to learn that he apparently was not even invited.

And Admiral Hall was a wheel.

Is our Army as hidebound, unimaginative and lacking in vision as was the pre-war Jap Army?

It was they who caused our conflict—not the Jap Navy and populace who had better sense.

The Army seemed to like us in the summer of '44 when we were of use. How about the Air Force? Were their ex-step-brothers invited?

It becomes evident that our super-government •—the DOD—with its cadres of assistant and under secretaries may have unified our shoe laces and skivvies, but not the spirit that prevailed in the summer of '44 when the chips were down and each service was too proud to let the other down.

A. L. WARBURTON '24

S/i/pmote: The articles by Laurence Stallings in the November Shipmate were, indeed, reminiscent of the old Marine Corps. His contributions to the Alumni magazine should be read in light of the effort it took to make them. Colonel Stallings was severely wounded at Belleau Wood and eventually lost his leg. Recendy—fortunately after he had finished his epic tribute to the American Expeditionary Force — "The Doughboys" — a thrombosis necessitated the amputation of his other leg. Mr. Stallings was still in bed, groggy from the after-effects of medication and sedatives, when he tape-recorded his tribute to Captain John Andrew Minnis, class of 1915, and sent to Shipmate his moving piece about his own commissioning in 1917. Few contributors have exerted themselves so much. Mr. Stallings is a fine writer, but more important he epitomizes the indomitability of the "Old Breed" of Marine veteran. Incidentally, the photograph accompanying the article shows BrigGen. Merian C. Cooper, USAF (Ret.), standing beside Mr. Stallings. General Cooper, motion picture producer, writer, man of many parts, was a member of the Naval Academy class of 1915, and a staunch friend of all the services. He wrote recendy: "My wife and I go to visit Louise and Laurence Stallings nearly every Sunday afternoon. What gallant people they both are! If I give credit to MacArthur for Genius in Command I want to put both the Stallings at the top of the list for gay gallantry and courage."

I am sure that Shipmate readers will echo this sentiment.

HANSON W . BALDWIN '24 S H I P M A T E

UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

SU BREEZiS

OFFICERS President— A D M . W A L T E R F . BOONE, U S N (Ret.) ' 2 1 ( 5 7 3 5 ) , W a s h i n g t o n , D . C .

Vice President (Eastern Area) — M R . H A N S O N W . B A L D W I N '24 ( 7 4 0 5 ) , N e w York, N . Y. Vice President (Central Area)— R A D M . L E O N J. JACOBI, U S N R (Ret.) ' 2 1 ( 5 7 8 6 ) , Detroit, Mich.

Vice President (Western Area)— R A D M . M A R S H A L L W . W H I T E , U S N '34 ( 1 1 5 4 8 ) , S a n Diego, Calif.

Past President— A D M . JERAULD W R I G H T , U S N (Ret.) ' 1 8 ( 4 9 1 5 ) , T a i w a n Executive Director— R A D M . W . F . FITZGERALD, U S N (Ret.) ' 2 1 ( 5 9 1 2 ) , A n n a p o l i s , M d .

b y Paul R. Schratz ' 3 9 SUBMARINING ON LAKE GENEVA T h e h i g h l i g h t of t h e 1964 Swiss Exposition at L a u s a n n e w a s t h e w o r l d ' s first tourist subm a r i n e or " m e s o s c a p h , " built by Jacques Piccard.

N a m e d for his m o r e famous father, A u g u s t e , both a r e well r e m e m b e r e d for t h e bathyscaph T R I E S T E used in t h e deep w a t e r salvage operation following the tragic loss of t h e U S S T H R E S H E R . As t h e senior a n d only U S s u b m a r i n e officer in S w i t z e r l a n d , I w a s honored to be a guest for a mesoscaph cruise to t h e bottom of Lake Geneva.

TRUSTEES Superintendent's Representative— C A P T . R O Y B . C O W D R E Y , U S N "40 ( 1 6 1 1 8 ) , Executive Assist. & Aide, U S N A

O n t h e m e m o r a b l e d a y , son Pete a n d I drove a l o n g t h e beautiful lake shore, t h e familiar farms, villages a n d villas m i r r o r e d in t h e glassy calm waters, t h e magnificent M t . Blanc massif rising above t h e m o r n i n g h a z e beyond. A t t h e E x p o w e were given a private ride o n t h e Monorail t h r o u g h flower-laden g r o u n d s to the tiny harbor w h e r e t h e g l e a m i n g w h i t e , 93-foot, 163-ton

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M A J . R . J. P E R R I C H , U S M C '47

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RADM. H . B . MILLER, USN

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C A P T . W M . A. SULLIVAN, U S N

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Editor, Richard B. Derickson, Alumni House, Annapolis, M d .

Business Manager, W . F . Fitzgerald, J r . , Alumni House, Annapolis, Md. 2. The owner i s : U . S. Naval Academy Alumni Association, I n c . , Alumni House, Annapolis, M d .

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moorings.

" W e i g h i n g i n " a n d ballast compensation, divi n g officers please note, a r e d o n e electronically, but this was only t h e b e g i n n i n g . T h e world's best-looking deck w a t c h , a c h a r m i n g y o u n g stewardess, escorted us aboard for o u r choice of 40 comfortable lounge-type, swivel seats. T h e pastel interior looked m u c h like a parlor car. A large p o r t h o l e — I almost said w i n d o w — b y each seat offered a view, if it can be called a view, into t h e subsurface waters a n d from a d o z e n or so closed circuit T V repeaters, w e s a w t h e u n d e r w a y preparations topside a n d piloting to the area. W i t h seat belt adjusted by t h e stewardess (in anticipation of six-knot surface a n d t w o - k n o t s u b m e r g e d speeds), I was distracted only l o n g e n o u g h to note t h e r e m a i n d e r of t h e c r e w — t h e C O , pilot a n d e l e c t r i c i a n / h a n d y m a n .

In t h e d i v i n g area, n o " D i v e , d i v e , " n o raucous Klaxons spread t h e a l a r m of s l a m - b a n g submergence. Mon commandante m a d e a last sweep t h r o u g h " o u r " superb z o o m lens TV-periscope, a n d , with Swiss colors flying, w e slowly sank beneath the waves. T e n meters, 2 0 , 3 0 — t h e waters d a r k e n e d to a deep green a n d almost inky black w h e n w e finally touched b o t t o m a t 2 4 5 feet. Beautiful Lake Geneva at this angle is n o fairyland b u t the floods illuminated a flat eerie world outside, m u c h like a closeup of the m o o n .

T h e occasional fish or spider crab is t h e subject of intense curiosity.

W i t h a leisurely look o n all sides, w e r e t u r n e d to t h e surface after t h e "all clear" via T V . T h e skipper burnished his sideburns, added a bit m o r e rake to his c a p a n d , w h e n t h e s u n h a d dried t h e bridge, g r a n d l y proceeded topside to conn o u r r e t u r n . In m y soft chair, m u n c h i n g a p e p p e r m i n t also t h r o u g h t h e courtesy of t h e chic a n d charmante " m a t e , " t h e pigboat navy of m y youth seemed a long w a y off.

T h e Fair is n o w over; been sold a n d will soon w h e r e you m a y see for folks; m y chit is in for

A U G U S T E PICCARD h a s appear o n t h e Riviera yourself. C o m e try it commandante.

Editor

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 1st day of December 1964.

BARBARA B . FAIRLAMB

(My commission expires May 3, 1965.)

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SHIPMATE COPY

Issue January, 1965 February, 1965 March, 1965

MEMORANDUM To: Class Officers Subj: Class Funds

Class funds vary from appreciable in amount all the way down the scale to zero. There are those classes which, over the years, have built up sizable bank accounts and there are those which prefer to operate on a pay-as-you-go basis.

It is to the former group primarily that this memo is addressed.

The Naval Academy Alumni Association maintains files, records and mailing plates for all members, graduates and nongraduates, of all classes. The Association is the only organization which can supply information on all ex-plebes whether they be active duty officers, retired officers or resigned alumni. No other agency in the entire world attempts such a complete program for Naval Academy alumni.

Complete class lists are available at all times to class officers. The Register of Alumni is published annually and contains a wealth of information on all classes. Shipmate devotes over half its pages to current information about classmates of the several classes. In conjunction with the Naval Academy the Alumni Association administers Homecoming—a gala event for all classes.

Assistance is gladly rendered by the Association to those classes holding reunions. Clerical work is performed free of charge by the Association for the class holding its 50th reunion and at basic cost for all others.

These Alumni Association operations in the interest of the classes and classmates require the expenditure of much time, effort and money.

It would then seem appropriate to suggest that when surplus class funds become available, or when class organizations dissolve, the U. S. Naval Academy Alumni Association Endowment Fund be designated as the recipient of such funds without restriction. Assistance of this kind to your Alumni Association enhances the Association's ability better to serve the Academy and to benefit today's classes and the classes yet to come.

W.

F. FITZGERALD, JR.

Executive Director WINNERS

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Congratulations are in order for Capt. George W. Grider '36, USN (Ret.), and Capt. William R. Anderson '43, USN (Ret.), who were elected to the United States House of Representatives in the November elections. Both are Democrats from Tennessee with Grider representing the ninth district and Anderson the sixth.

Congressman Grider, an at large member of the Board of Trustees of the Alumni Association, is a prominent Memphis attorney. Congressman Anderson of Bakerville was skipper of the atomic submarine NAUTILUS during her historic passage over the Pole. He defeated Army CIol. Cecil Hill of Clarksville to gain his Washington post.

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CHRISTMAS

DEADLINES

Date December 14 January 15 February 15

ICa^t Call

by James

AUSTIN, JOSEPH ELIOT (CDR USNR RET ' 0 8 ) , 2 6 Oct. ' 6 4 , G e t t y s b u r g , Pa. BUTLER, JAMES K I N G , N ' 3 6 , 7 Oct. ' 6 4 , Jackson, Miss.

Whitcomb

Riley

A word of Godspeed and good cheer To all on earth, or far or near, Or friend or foe, or thine or mine— In echo of the voice divine, Heard when the star bloomed forth and lit The World's face, with God's smile on it.

ADVANCED

A R V I N , GEORGE SIMEON (LCDR USN RET ' 1 4 ) , 5 Oct. ' 6 4 , Long Beach, Calif.

GREETING

DEGREES

Three Naval Academy graduates were among the 83 students to receive advanced degrees from Princeton University in June. Theye were: Cdr. William James Crowe, Jr. '47, USN, who received the Master of Arts in Politics, and Lt. Alvin Venable Skiles, III '58, USN, and Lt. Jan Wilson Cook '58, USN, who received the Master of Science in Engineering in Civil Engineering.

CLARK, CLAYTON SMITH (CDR USN RET ' 3 4 ) , 6 Sept. ' 6 4 , L a c k a w a n n a , Pa. CRIST, LeMERTON EDSON, JR. (CAPT USN RET ' 2 3 ) , 2 7 Oct. ' 6 4 , USNH, Bethesda, M d .

FREEMAN, THEODORE CORDY (CAPT ' 5 3 ) , 3 1 Oct. ' 6 4 , AA Texas.

USAF

FRY, FREDERICK RONALD (LT SC USN ' 5 8 ) , 17 Oct. ' 6 4 , USNSH, Rota, Spain.

LOSS

The country is a bit the poorer because of the recent death of the Rev. Charles Wesley Shreiner.

Mr. Shreiner was a member of the Naval Academy class of 1909 and an interesting brief of his career may be found in the '09 section of "What's the Dope."

FULTZ, J O H N M O R T O N , III (Lt JG USN ' 6 2 ) , 2 7 Oct. ' 6 4 , AA a t sea.

GARRISON, CHARLES FORD (CAPT USN ' 3 3 ) , 10 N o v . ' 6 4 , Falls Church, V a .

RET

HOWARD, WILLIAM Atlanta, Ga.

'64,

REX ' 4 6 , 2 9 Sept.

Jessie McBride

JACKSON, CHARLES (CAPT USN RET ' 2 6 ) , 17 Oct. ' 6 4 , Seaside, O r e .

J O H N S O N , PAUL CONDIT (CDR USNR N ' 2 2 ) , 3 1 A u g . ' 6 4 , Cincinnati, O.

RET

KITTS, WILLARD AUGUSTUS, III ( V A D M USN RET ' 1 6 ) , 2 1 N o v . ' 6 4 , U S N H , Bethesda, M d .

L O G A N , GEORGE CHRISTIAN (CAPT USN RET ' 0 7 ) , 2 4 Oct. ' 6 4 , Charleston, S. C. MARSHALL, HARVEY N I X O N (LCDR USN RET ' 2 5 ) , 21 Oct. ' 6 4 , San P e d r o , Calif.

M c C A I N , GEORGE HOLMES (LTCOL MC USAF RET), N ' 3 2 , 2 4 Sept. ' 6 4 , Tallahassee, Fla. NEWELL, JAMES HAROLD, JR. (ENS USN ' 6 3 ) , 6 N o v . ' 6 4 , O k l a h o m a City, O k l a .

NEWSOME, JAMES HILLMAN (CAPT USN RET ' 3 0 ) , 21 N o v . ' 6 4 , W a s h i n g t o n , D. C. SEAMAN, ROY ELLSWORTH (LT USN ' 5 7 ) , 2 8 Oct. ' 6 4 , AA NAS, P a t u x e n t River, M d .

SHREINER, CHARLES WESLEY, Rev. D.D., N ' 0 9 , 2 8 Oct. ' 6 4 , W e s t Chester, Pa. V A N AUKEN, FREDERIC TABOR (CAPT RET ' 0 8 ) , 2 Oct. ' 6 4 , Concord, N . H.

Sec'y, LCdr. John T. Bnrwell, USNR (Ret.) Millwood, Va.

USN

YATES, CHARLES M O U L D I N G (COMO USN RET ' 0 8 ) , 14 N o v . ' 6 4 , C o r o n a d o , Calif.

WALSH

Mrs. Jessie McBride Walsh, 87, widow of the late Cdr. John H. Walsh, USN (Ret.) '01, died in Memorial Hospital, Gulfport, Miss, on 30 Sept. after a month's illness. Interment was in Life Oak Cemetery, Pass Christian, Miss.

Cdr. and Mrs. Walsh had been residents of Pass Christian for many years.

Sec'y, RAdm. A. H. Van Keuren, USN (Ret.), 8013 Aberdeen Rd. Bethesda 14, Md. As a result of sending Admiral Holloway's Army-Navy Museum letter to classmates and asking them for news, I have garnered the following: ROBINSON, S. M.—Mike has moved from his long-time address in Houston to 4614 Laurel St., Bellaire, Tex. to be near the younger members of his family.

ANDERSON, W. S.—Andy writes that he and Virginia recently celebrated their 55th wedding anniversary. Their son, W. Stratton Anderson, has retired from the Foreign Service and is now a vice-president of General Telephone and Electronics in Washington.

S H I P M A T E

FRIEDRICK, Ernest—Freddy gives the address of his non-graduate roommate, Hugh J. CLIFFORD, as Rt. 1, Box 96, Savasota, Tex. Hugh was with the El Paso Gas and Electric Co. for many years but is now retired and living on a ranch.

He would be glad to see or hear from any of the class. Incidentally Freddy sent me some interesting John Birch literature.

GATEWOOD, R. D.—Our most energetic and physically fit Dune, still playing tennis, will soon depart for his Riviera haunts for the winter season and, on his return, will go fishing for landlocked salmon in Maine.

STARK, H. R.—Betty and Kit have dug in for the winter in Washington.

HOLMES, R. S.—Sherlock and Rachel are still living at the Huntington Sheraton, Pasadena.

Their daughter, Sally Camp, has sold her house in Washington and moved back to Montecita (Santa Barbara) to live. Her children, Sally Ann and Andrew, are in the east and Peter is at the University of California.

TAYLOR, T. H.—The Taylors spent the summer at the Inn, Buck Hill Falls, Pa. Their favorite outing in New York is to walk a few blocks to Central Park and sit in the sun. They are opera fans and take in all the Saturday matinees at the Met. Several of the class are complaining of old age infirmities, some having been hospitalized for a time, but with becoming modesty they request no publicity. Your secretary, however, keeps tabs on them.

VAN KEUREN, A. H.—Van has three granddaughters in college, one (married) at Swarthmore, one at Smith and one at Vassar. .\1I seem to enjoy their work and recreations. As for himself, he offers a word of advice to those who, like him, live alone: make friends with the neighbors' children and you'll never have a dull moment.

Kids are always interesting, sometimes mischievous and often amusing, intentionally or unconsciously.

As an example of the latter, litde Francie dashed over breathlessly one morning to announce, "We've got a new baby in our house." "Fine," said. I, "What is it, boy or girl?" "A boy," she replied. "Great," said I. "With three girls in the family, you must have wanted a boy." "No," said Francie, "I wanted a girl—but it's too late now!"

On the distaff side, nice letters were received from Elinor Cooke, Henrietta Rowan and Clara Radford, all of whom are well and keeping up with current events and naval affairs, in particular.

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CHARLES MOULDING YATES Sec'y, Capt. R. C. Parker, USN (Ret.) 5706 Bradley Blvd., Bethesda, Md.

GEORGE C. LOGAN Capt. George C. Logan, USN (Ret.), died on 24 Oct. at a Charleston, S. C. hospital. Funeral services were held at St. Michael's Episcopal Church, of which he was a member, with interment in the Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston.

Honorary pallbearers included RAdm. Alfred G. Howe and RAdm. Robert B. Simons, classmates, and Capt. W. E. P. Bellinger.

Born in Charleston and graduating from the Naval Academy in '07, he served aboard more than a dozen ships during his naval career. He made the famous cruise around the world with the batdeship fleet in 1907-09. In World War I he commanded destroyers on convoy and escort duty and was subsequendy awarded the Navy Cross. Later he commanded the vessels of the South China Patrol. A qualified submariner, he headed the Submarine School at New London and attended the Naval War College and the Army War College in Washington.

In March 1939, he took command of the batdeship MARYLAND. In March 1941 he commissioned, organized and commanded the Naval Ammunition Depot at Charleston and was also war plans officer for the Sixth and Seventh Naval Districts.

He retired from active duty in July 1946.

George was a member of the South Carolina Society, the Society of Colonial Wars, the St. Cecilia Society, the University and Army and Navy Clubs of New Y'ork, and the South Carolina Rose Society as v/ell as of several other civic and patriotic organizations.

Surviving are his widow, Rachel Small Logan; a daughter, Mrs. Logan Wright of New York; two grandsons, LCdr. Richard T. Wright, USN, and Mr. George C. L. Wright, and two greatgrandsons.

A pleasant occurrence on 22 Oct. was a lunch at the Army and Navy Club here, occasioned by the presence in the area of Harry J. "Jocko" Abbett, who had pried himself loose from sunny Coronado to do a litde visiting in the east.

Present were Bemis, Dyer, Hoover, Parker and Windson. Schuyler, to his regret, had a previous engagement. Class affairs were discussed briefly but nothing earthshaking was decided. Nowadays it seems much more important to match yarns of this and that incident of fifty or more years ago!

Capt. Lonis P. Davis, USN (Ret.) Dresden Apartment 2126 Connecticut Ave., N.W. Washington, D. C. LAURANCE NORTH McNAIR Services for RAdm. Laurance North McNair, USN (Ret.), 80, were held Wednesday, 28 Oct. at Christ Episcopal Church, Coronado, Calif. Interment was in Ft. Rosecrans National Cemetery.

Admiral McNair died 8 Oct. at Torrejon Air Base Hospital in Madrid, Spain. He maintained a home in Coronado but had been living with his daughter, Miss Jane McNair, secretary to the U. S. ambassador to Spain, for two years. He was a native of Warsaw, N. Y. Admiral McNair retired from active duty in 1946 after heading a U. S. Naval mission to Peru for four years. The Peruvian government had appointed him chief of the naval general staff and inspector general of the Peruvian Navy.

He served as naval attache to Italy from 193336 and again from 1941-42.

Also surviving are two grandchildren.

Sec'y, RAdm. Edward J. Foy, USN (Ret.) Sheraton Park Hotel, Wash., D. C. 20008 JOSEPH E. AUSTIN It is my sad duty to report the death of our friend and classmate "Jane" Austin, at his hometown of Fairfield, Pa., on 26 Oct., following long and recurrent illnesses over a period of several years. His death occurred within a day or two of the third anniversary of that of his wife. Both of the Austins spent considerable time in the Naval Hospital, Bethesda, in recent years and I recall having mentioned before the many kindnesses tendered them by their good friends, the R. G. Thomases, whenever they came to Washington or to the hospital. Burial was in Arlington National Cemetery on 28 Oct. Survivors are a son, Joseph E., Jr., a grandson, the third of the name, and a granddaughter, Judy, all of whom reside in Baltimore.

MERRY CHRISTMAS DECEMBER,

1964

I regret to report that I have just received word of the death of Charles M. (Buck) Yates, Commodore, USN (Ret.), which occurred early the morning of 14 Nov. in the Navy Section of the Coronado Hospital. The message was phoned to me by F. P. "Goat" Conger to whom I am indebted. Conger will represent the class at the funeral ceremonies. Burial will be in the Golden Gate Cemetery near San Francisco, alongside his wife, whose death occurred several years ago.

Buck had been seriously ill for a long time.

His survivors are two daughters: Ann, the wife of Capt. Charles R. Chandler, USN, son of Dwight (1911) and Amy Chandler of Washington, and Mrs. E. H. Collander of San Marino, Calif. There are several grandchildren.

In a much more pleasant vein, I report the good news to those of us who live nearby, that Haller BELT and his wife have moved east to Alexandria, Va., where their address is "5000 Fairbanks Ave." The move was made from San Francisco (where they had lived for many years) in order to be near their daughter who is married to a retired captain, now vice president of the First and Citizens National Bank of Alexandria.

I hope that most of the class received Alex CHARLTON'S most interesting, printed "Midyear Catchup 1964," a copy of which came to me while I was in the hospital last summer. It is crowded with interesting news of their goings-on: life in Mexico with its culinary problems complicated by language difficulties and all; what is referred to as probably their last visit to Europe, with its changes (both good and bad) since last time; Paris, a dream to cherish, with its buildings cleaned of centuries of grime; three spirit-lifting weeks in Switzerland; a gay time in Lisbon; a disappointing one in London (rain); finally a stop in Bermuda and then back to San Miguel which they found packed with "beatnicky and Beadey" summer students from the U. S. They are both doing a lot of civic work and enjoying it. More power to them!

Two days before this is being written I was driven over to the Naval Academy by Harry Badt and his Missus to talk with the superintendent and some of his staff about the use to put the class fund. I am still anything but agile in getting around by myself. I asked several others to go along, but they couldn't for various reasons of disability of their own or their families. This kindness of Badt (who is not too well himself) confirmed what I have noticed since I became class secretary, namely that he is a truly loyal member of the class, ready at all times to put aside other matters, no matter at what inconvenience, to do a favor for a classmate or for the class as a whole. A bulletin which I am now preparing and which, I hope, you will receive before reading this, will go into the story of just what use to make of the 1908 Fund.

If you have not visited the Academy for some years (as I hadn't), you would be amazed at the great changes, both physical and academic, that have taken place. For one thing, Bancroft Hall, which we thought was enormous when we placed it in commission, is now four or five times as large. Plans are now being made to erect a big science building; to increase the size of the main library so as to take in what we knew as the auditorium. A new and much enlarged auditorium is planned. A beautiful library known as the Brigade Library has been built into one of the many new wings of Bancroft Hall, and is much used by the members of the Brigade; it's really something to see. Don't fail to go down there should you be in the vicinity. It is nothing short of astonishing to an old hand after a long absence. I found the present superintendent to be a delightful gentleman, well suited to the handling of his very large responsibility and, I would say, a fine example of the Navy's best to the members of the Brigade."

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'09 HONORS HAROLD TRAIN HAROLD AND MAY TRAIN AND POCO SMITH.

Sec'y, RAdm. Harold C. Train, USN (Ret.) 1 St. Mary's St., Annapolis, Md. From Poco SMITH comes word direct to Alumni House of a very special party: Harold and May Train were guests of honor at an Army-Navy Club luncheon given by the class in celebration of its 55th anniversary of graduation. Classmates and their wives, residing within reasonable distance from the Washington Club, were present, as was VAdm. W. T. Tarrant, honorary classmate who graduated in 1898, eleven years earlier.

Guests included widows of classmates and members of Harold's and May's immediate family: Marianne Train Hathaway and husband, Capt.

Amos T. Hathaway (1935); Cecil Train Wilson, widow of LCdr. David Spencer Wilson (1940); Jane Train Flynn and husband, John R. Flynn of Rochester, N. Y.; and Cdr. Harry D. Train, II (1949) and wife Catharine, Ruth Brandt, widow of classmate E. S. R., journeyed from Newport; Ralph Spalding from Florida; Hasell and Mrs. Dick from South Carolina; and Chet and Helen Roberts from Philadelphia.

At the conclusion of the luncheon, the class presented Harold with an engraved silver tray in recognition and appreciation of his many years of devoted service to the class as its secretary, treasurer and president. Harold, incidentally, has given the alumni another class president in the form of his son, Harry, who is president of the class of 1949.

May Train was presented with a handsome silver pitcher for use with the tray. The presentations were made by Poco Smith, chairman of the class executive committee.

Forty-eight attended the luncheon and 68 classmates and widows, including non-graduates, contributed to make the presentation a success.

Although widows were invited as special guests and were not expected to contribute, 32 did make contributions.

Admiral Smith told the gathering, "the contributions were more than four times the amount set as our goal. In fairness to those who contributed but were unable to attend the ceremony, classmates at the luncheon paid for their lunches and for those of their wives. The balance after all expenses, a considerable balance, has been turned over to the treasurer of the class fund."

Among others attending were two of Harold's oldest and best civilian friends from Columbia Country Club, Max R. Beck and Dr. Tom Webb.

In the picture above you will see many of those who attended the luncheon: front row, left to right, Ellie Glennon, Ralph Spaulding, Ruth Brandt, Fay Stuart, Bobbie Robertson, Dorothy Dunn; second row, Margaret Braisted, Alice Manahan. Heck Campbell, Justine Dresel, Ann Farrell, 30

Florence Wright, Harry Train, Ruth Roberts, Catharine Train (hidden), and Olie Hustvedt; third row, Betty Smith, Dr. Tom Webb, Skeets Piatt, Martha Okie (hidden), Jimmie Glennon, Amos Hathaway; rear, Spec Manahan, Hazel Coman, Tracy McCauley, Jane Train Flynn, Harold Train, Cecil Train Wilson, Chester Roberts, May Train, Poco Smith and Marianne Train Hathaway.

Attending, but not shown in the picture, were Lucile Campbell, Raleigh Williams, May Moses, Bob Piatt, Bill Farrell, Max Beck, Percy Wright, Pamelia Robertson, John Flynn, Irene Hustvedt and Jimmie Doyle.

Widows attending were Hazel Ckiman, May Moses, Martha Okie, Justine Dresel, Dorothy Dunn, Fay Stuart and Ruth Brandt.

CHARLES WESLEY SHREINER Thousands will be saddened to learn of Charly's death in the Chester County Hospital, West Chester, Pa., on 28 Aug., at the age of 82. Funeral services were held in the Chapel of the Church Farm School, Glenloch, Pa. He is survived by his widow, the former Mary D. Cardwell (whom Charly married in 1916); a daughter, Mary (Mrs. Thomas D. Brown); a son, Charles W. Jr.; a brother, Walter J., and four grandchildren.

Charly was born in Mt. Joy, Pa., graduated from the Yeates School, Lancaster, and then won an appointment to the Naval Academy, entering in 1905 with the class of 1909 (while at the Academy, he was affectionately knovvn as "Pop").

Before entering the Naval Academy he became a crack quarterback and expert drop-kicker. He

resigned from the Naval Service on 23 Oct. 1906 because of poor eyesight. After he left the .Academy, he took a job as inspector at the Lukens Steel Mill, Coatesville, Pa. In his spare time he organized a "Boys' Brigade" whose activities centered around camping, hiking, and wholesome living. Gradually he came to realize that helping boys was his special talent. He felt a call to enter the Protestant Episcopal ministry and to spend the rest of his life helping fatherless boys.

Charly was graduated from the Philadelphia Divinity School in 1911. As soon as he was ordained, he went to the bishop for permission to open a school for boys. The bishop said, "NO." He told him to take a parish first. Charly agreed to spend seven years in parish work, but at the end of that time he felt it would be God's wish for him to found this school. He was minister in charge of the Episcopal Church of Atonement in Philadelphia from 1911 to 1912, and rector of the church from 1912 to 1918. It was a large and active church in west Philadelphia and he had a most cooperative congregation. Yet Charly still felt God had other plans for him. So in 1918 he left the security and comfort of an urban rectory and moved into an old barn on a 125-acre dairy farm and founded the Church Farm School at Glenloch. He said he moved into this old barn because it was the only building whose roof didn't leak. To even hold tide to the farm, however, was quite a feat since he had started with no capital, but a friendly real estate man and others helped him out in the beginning.

The growth and continued existence of the Church Farm School has been a kind of moral and financial miracle. Tuition, room and board have never come even close to covering the cost of operation, much less growth and development.

Yet the school has not only weathered many a financial crisis but somehow managed to help more and more boys and their mothers. Today the school stands as a monument to faith and a visible proof of God's goodness and generosity to those who believe.

In 1927 when the school seemed hopelessly in debt, the Philadelphia Electric Co. offered a large sum to string power lines across the property and again in the thirties and forties, no less than four huge pipe lines paid for the privilege of crossing the farm. During the depression the school received a sizable grant from his church diocese, but in the early forties he requested that this grant be reduced by $3,000 a year until it was zero.

Now the school operates without diocesan funds but voluntary gifts continue to increase. A foundation has given him money, friends of the school have built a gymnasium. An industrial leader has given money for vocational training shop and so on.

SHIPMATE

Each year Charly sent out a special Christmas appeal to individual contributors. The wonderful response to this appeal is the awe of professional °'f«"-'"ail fund raisers. To each donor Charly sent back a Christmas package containing a pound of country sausage and a pound of scrapple made at the school. These Christmas packages are symbolic of the spirit of Charly. He couldn't receive anything without wanting to give in return. When he was a young fatherless boy, many people helped him. All his adult life he has been trying to "give back" by "passing on" help to generations of deserving young boys.

The school now spreads over some 1700 acres, has 35 buildings and 150 boys. It started with only 25 boys and is building up to 200. Charly has been gradually handing over the administration of the school to his son, "Mr. Charles" as the boys call him. The faculty and boys called Charly "The Colonel."

Charly held honorary degrees from the University of Pennsylvania, Temple University and the Philadelphia Divinity School. In 1962 he was presented with the first annual Owen J. Roberts Memorial Award for distinguished and outstanding service to the church and community.

Charly was one of the great humanitarians of this age and he will be sorely missed. After he left the Naval Academy he found his niche in helping boys from broken homes. He was a completely dedicated man in this work. He deserves to be ranked high among our distinguished alumni who left the service either before or after graduation and made an outstanding success in civilian life.

(Author's note: May and I spent a weekend with Charly and his wife in June 1961. He showed us all over the .school; we saw his rose acre just in front of his residence, the peonia hill, all parts of the school, the boys' homes and the beautiful chapel. Before leaving on Sunday morning we attended chapel services conducted by him. He told us during our stay that his working hours were from 5:30 A.M. to 11:00 at night.

Pop was featured in an article in the Saturday Evening Post, 24 April 1954, entided "The School that Came from Nothing." It told how he became a clergyman and without a dollar founded the Church Farm School for boys from broken homes.

Another article in the Readers' Digest last August

by Ben Hibbs, a former editor of the Saturday Evening Post, again tells of the great humanitarian work done by Pop. Everyone should read it.)

Eleanor FAY writes that she fractured her hip last February and has to get around on crutches.

She says that her son, Francis Anderson Fay, teaches at Goddard College in Plainfield, Vt. He and his wife Nancy have three children, Jonathan, Deborah and Eleanor. They love living in Vermont, but as he is also a trustee of the college he often has to come to Boston and works in a visit with her.

CLASS LUNCHEON

."Vnother good attendance at the October luncheon on the 20th. Present: Benson, Braisted, Hasell Dick, Farrell, Hedrick, Hustvedt, Manahan, McCauley, Piatt, Robertson, Smith and Train.

HAROLD

Sec'y, RAdm. Charles J. Moore, USN (Ret.), 5509 Grove St. Chevy Chase 15, Md. Corr. Sec'y, Mr. Dorsey O. Thomas 725 West Bonlevard, Kokomo, Ind. Agnes ROSSELL

We have expressed our sincere sympathy to Cdr. Henry E. Rossell on the death of his beloved wife, -•\gnes, on 4 Nov. at their winter residence, 220 W. Howry St., Deland, Fla. Burial was at Sheffield, Mass., which is their summer home.

She passed away after an illness of less than two weeks. She is survived by two sons, 10 grandchildren and two brothers, besides our highly esteemed classmate.

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HAROLD KELLER reports: "At the October meeting of the Boston branch of the USNA Alumni Assn., Mort Deyo gave a very interesting talk on 'Naval Guns at Normandy.' All of 1911 around Boston who could get there were present, including Fred Hatch, Ames Loder, Monk Read and Harold Keller. This was the largest representation from any class, large or small, ancient or recent." Thanks for the help Harold, I wish others would contribute.

The National Society of the Colonial Dames of America elected Adelaide Bledsoe Kingman third vice president at their 35th Biennial Council held in Washington this fall. Susan Zimermann was an alternate delegate to the Cxjuncil from the Commonwealth of Virginia Society.

Friends of Starr and Ann KING will be glad to hear that Ann, for the first time since returning from the hospital in early September, was able to come downstairs on 20 Oct. Starr is hopeful that this is the prelude to more and more activity.

12 USS DAVIDSON (DE 1045) Is christened by Mrs. Lyal A. Davidson (Carolyn) on 2 Oct. as the ship was launched at the Avondale Shipyards, Nev/ Orleans, La.

Word from Peg NICHOLSON (Mrs. T. A.) is that she is a very busy lady around Oklahoma City, running bazaars for the Episcopal Cathedral, trips to Mexico, etc.

A very interesting letter from old friend Fred Kurfess ('11) told of the excitement of the big fire around Santa Barbara last month. Fred was on the edge of the evacuation area. Spent his 75th birthday with his son, who commands a squadron enroute to Okinawa.

"Baldy" POWNALL (VAdm. C. A.) checks in with a report of having seen George WEYLER (VAdm. G. L.) at the Naval Hospital. George's legs are bothering him a bit. The GRAY's KT party was well represented by 'lOers.

The week of 12 Oct. was a festive one for 1910 in Washington. Two "visiting firemen" were in town—Fanny Sherman and your reporter.

The Moores, the Merrills, Carolyn Davidson, Irene and Pop Gillam, and Katinka Ainsworth were very much in evidence. Katinka is very proud that a son-in-law of 1910 (her's) is now Chief of Naval Personnel—VAdm. B. J. Semmes '34.

Aren't we all.'

Your reporter had a unique experience in hosting and escorting his granddaughter, Trudi Tiedeman, to the Navy-Michigan game on 3 Oct. She is a junior in journalism there—her father's Alma Mater. At the Navy reception at Dearborn Inn they encountered Jack WELLBROCK's daughter, Polly, who took them in tow. Polly is Mrs. Oscar Dodson, and wife of RAdm. Dodson '27.

The admiral is curator of a rare coin museum for one of the large Detroit banks.

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

Dwight and Amy CHANDLER have become great grandparents! Congratulations from us all.

Amy Victoria Krulak was born 10/11/64 at Camp Pendleton, Calif, to Lt. William M. Krulak '62, USMC, and Mrs. Krulak. She is the granddaughter of Lt. Gen. Victor H. Krulak, USMC and Amy Chandler Krulak.

Nor is that all. Classmates, friends and relatives of the Chandlers gathered at the Naval Academy Chapel on 25 Nov. to attend the wedding of the Chandlers' granddaughter, Dee (daughter of Capt. and Mrs. John Moulton Reigart, USN) to Grant Richard Telfer. The colorful wedding was followed by a reception at the Officers' Club.

Sec'y, Como. R. S. Wentworth, USN (Ret.) P. O. Box 803, Annapolis, Md.

Strat WENTWORTH continues to improve at the USNH, Annapolis, where he is confined following a fall in Baltimore when he suffered a broken hip and shoulder.

Mammy WEEMS and Bob Maury '14, after a visit with him, reported that he looks fine but that Strat said he "wished he felt as well as he looks." He is now taking exercises in physiotherapy and expected to walk in a walker by the end of November. His shoulder has healed.

A constant stream of friends and family visit him in the hospital, so time does not hang too heavy. His daughter Barbara and her family (Capt. Charles Morrison, Jr. '38, USN, and two daughters of Falls Church, Va.) and son Bill (Maj. USMC '49) and his wife are weekly visitors. A grandson, Charles Morrison, III stops in frequently since he is quartered in Bancroft Hall as a first classman. Last week Strat's sister from Boston was a welcome visitor.

Another Annapolitan who sees much of nearby members of her family is Mrs. Robert A. Hall of 217 Hanover St. The late Capt. Hall formerly was head of the English dept., USNA. Classmates will remember that he stood No. 1 in English as a midshipman.

Margaret's daughter Jane, and her husband, Capt. Harold W. McDonald '35, USN (Ret.), are living at nearby 214 King George St. Another daughter, Ruth, lives with her husband, RAdm. Edward J. O'Donnell, USN, in Washington, D. C. Class members will be interested to know that Fred ELDER's son, Sam, is following in his father's footsteps in teaching in the science department, USNA. Bob ELMER of DuBarry, Fla. has sent word that he wants to come back to Annapolis to live and desires a spot within five miles of the city.

Mammy Weems said that he and Margaret entertained some 300 guests at a party in honor of their granddaughter. Miss Thackery Weems Dodds, and Miss Beatrice Stephens of New York, on Sunday, 1 Nov. at Alumni House.

The party which honored these young ladies started off with a tea dance attended by young people, followed by their presentation to older members of Annapolis society.

Thackery is the daughter of Capt. Charles R. Dodds '37, USN (Ret.), and Mrs. Dodds of St. Margaret's, Md. Beatrice is the granddaughter of the late Dr. and Mrs. Albert A. Michelson. Dr. Michelson, class of 1873, a noted scientist, formerly taught in the physics department at the Naval Academy. He is known as the man who first successfully measured the speed of light.

Mammy, when asked about his athletic activities, says he plays water polo every Sunday following chapel services.

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Exec. V.P., Paul D. Sleeper 4545 Connecticut Ave., N.W. Washington 8, D. C.

A very sad occasion for our Washington group was our "Reggie" Venable's interment in Arlington National Cemetery on 26 Oct. with graveside services by a Navy chaplain. His widow and son, Reggie, Jr., were accompanied by relatives and friends from California, Detroit and New York.

Our class was represented by the Abbotts, Davises, Sleepers, and by Dunn, Hall, Helmick, Miller and Mrs. H. B. (Frances) Page, Mrs. B. H. (Marie) Lingo and Mrs. Leigh Noyes (the former Mrs. Blandy). Class flowers were sent.

Since his obituary in the November Shipmate, I have learned that he was a Mason and a Shriner. He was also a member of the Bohemian Club of San Francisco and captain of his camp, "Interlude," at Bohemian Grove. Our late fine classmate, Jim Brenner, was a member of this camp. After the services his widow. Fay, invited all of '13 to her hotel suite so that she and her son could greet them individually. His death was a great shock to all of us who were at our 50th Reunion in Sept., 1963, when we thought he looked just about the youngest and healthiest of us all. We will miss him and our whole class sends their deepest sympathy to his widow and his son in their bereavement. I have received notes of sorrow from many classmates, too numerous to mention individually.

At either or both our D. C. Sept. and Oct. luncheons those present were: Abbott, Craven, Glenn Davis, Dudley, Helmick, "Doug" Jones, "Jake" Lee, Thurston and Sleeper. We were glad to have a visit with Dudley and Thurston both from out of town. We were also delighted to have with us Col. W. C. Foote and Maj. Gen. H. C. Davidson bodi A '13, and Col. G. R. Ashley, USAF. Generous help with our class fund has recendy been received from Ard, Dudley and Mrs. H. C. (Dorothy) Davis who states it is to honor her deceased husband's birthday on 31 Oct. The thanks of all classmates goes to these folks.

NEWS FROM CLASSMATES BABBITT—"Thanks for the get-well card from the D. C. luncheon group. Am now on strict diet to help cure what is diagnosed as a stomach ulcer.

My best to all."

DONAHUE—"Just back from vacation on Lake Champlain. The foliage was beautiful and fishing good."

GRAY—"Just back (Sept.) from cruising 700 miles of northwest inland waters out of Seattle.

We had five grownups and five grandchildren and really had a ball!!"

HATCH—"Robbie and I and wives were entertained recendy in S. F. by Red and Millie Ruble at the Yacht Club. It was a most enjoyable gettogether."

HUDSON—"The longer we live the greater value we put on the association and friendships of classmates."

LEIGHTON—"To remind classmates that Stuart, Fla., is on the beaten path to South Florida's east coast; either US Rt. 1 or limited access express highway US 95. Please phone if near us."

NEWELL—"Made trip to Hawaii to find place to retire, but it didn't take. Glad to get home in S. F." O'NEAL—"Last summer made trip to west coast and enjoyed having dinner with Hatch and Robinson."

QUINLAN—"Capt. Busik and his USNA group gave our local alumni dinner gang most delightful talks at the Long Beach Naval Shipyard, 14 Oct." RODES—"Went to Germany in Sept. for visit with our grandchildren. Expect to be east for Xmas, and hope to se the DC group then." (We hope so too, Pete. I.et us know when.)

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STEVENS—"All is peace again in our Michigan 'Water Wonderland' after summerizing with 20 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

Can any '13ers beat these numbers?"

THEBAUD—"Had to call off our European trip because of most lubberly developing real tooth trouble at the wrong time. Will be at 1838 Connecticut Ave., N.W., Washington, D. C. for November and December and hope to be at the DC luncheons."

I also received notes or cards from Douglas, DuBose, Gayhart, Briggs, Clarke, Clarkson, "Buck" Jones, Robinson, Ruble, Timberlake, Tisdale and White. All sent their best to all '13ers everywhere, as I do.

PAUL

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Sec'y, Cdr. Robert H. Maury, USN (Ret.) 208 Prince George St., Annapolis, Md. Corr. Sec'y, Capt. Charles D. Swain, USN (Ret.), 10231 Vivera Dr. La Mesa, Calif.

GEORGE SIMEON ARVIN I am very sorry to announce the death of another classmate. George Arvin died suddenly at his home in Long Beach, Calif., on 5 Oct. and was buried in Rosecrans Cemetery on the 7th. A donation to the Heart Fund was sent by the class in his memory.

During his active career most of his duties were on battleships although he had some service on board cruisers and the transport USS HENDERSON. He is survived by his widow, Mabelle.

By the time you receive this copy of Shipmate the Ralph PENNOYERs will have returned to their winter home in Pensacola after having completed a pleasure trip in Europe.

Ned and Lucy ELLSBERG have returned to their winter home at St. Petersburg Beach, Fla., after a cruise through the West Indies.

Our class fund has recently received donations from die following: EARLE, HAYLOR and TRUESDELL. The one from the Truesdells was in three figures!

I still have a number of class reunion photographs on hand. By the time you receive this issue of Shipmate Christmas will be just around the corner. Why not enrich someone by adding this to your Christmas list. But above all, at that time, do not forget to drink: A TOAST TO THE BEST OF THEM ALL, FOURTEEN! BOB

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

Our old classmate John McCREA is now the traveling vice-president of John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co. Even more "traveling" than the traveling HUNTOONS! England in July, the state fairs of Iowa and Nebraska during the summer—and John includes a great compliment to the 4-H groups participating in these fine events. No beatniks, male or female. Also four days in Anchorage, Alaska—shades of 1920 when John was Adm. Hugh Rodman's aide and I was exec of the MEYER. We took Secretary Josephus Daniels to Alaska in the destroyers and set a speed record from Seattle to Juneau.

Claude VICKREY answered the 50th reunion questionnaire a second time. I guess he wanted to be sure we knew he was coming. His new address—196 East 75th St., New York, N. Y. I002I. News is scarce. Now that the election is over why not drop a line or a gripe to the class sec.

HAPPY NEW YEAR

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

San Diego 3, Calif.

MERRY CHRISTfvlAS FROM COAST TO ALL HANDS.

THE

EAST

WEST COAST NEWS The San Diego '16-'I7ers wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Trudy and Chuck EMERSON took off for Hawaii and the Far East—ETR mid-January. . . . Jo and Bobby WALKER of Tequesta Estates, Jupiter, Fla., journeyed to Berkeley, Calif., to visit their three grandsons, hope they can find San Diego before they return home. . . . Coming attractions for the SD '16-'17ers are the '65 kick-off luncheon scheduled for 16 Jan. at the North Island "O" Club and the Valentine party at which the wives and widows will be our guests on 16 Feb., location still to be decided. A hearty welcome is accorded to any of our compatriots who might be in the area at that time. Details will be given in the coming issue of Shipmate. . . . We are very sorry to report that Possum WEBB is in the USNH SD suffering from a heart disorder. We hope that he will be out soon and rejoin our activities. . . . We learned with regret and concern that Bill KITTS is in the USNH Berfiesda, in serious condition. All hands hope that his condition will improve quickly and that he will soon be back in Schenectady.

This report covers the SD '16-'I7ers luncheons held at the Admiral Kidd Club on 17 Sept. and 15 Oct. The feature of our Sept. session was our guests. Pat Donavin '08, over from the Phoenix area where he is planning to spend the winter, came aboard with B. Ckjchrane. Most of us knew Pat back in our NA days and we are always glad to have him aboard. Don Curtis '18 dropped by to bring us up-to-date on the developments at Singing Hills. Stan Strong '29, who resides in one of those shelters that make Inspiration Drive so beautiful, came along with his neighbor, George Chapline. Stan was stroke of the Navy crew while at the USNA and another welcome guest at our gatherings. . . . The Oct. meeting was our annual election gathering at which the propositions, initiatives and candidates are considered. We were honored to have two of our distinguished non-partisan local officials speak on those initiatives and propositions which require the skill of a Philadelphia lawyer to interpret. The ballot this year had an average of some 40-odd spaces on which the voter could exercise his right —a real batde! Mr. Don Keller, SD DA, and Mr. Bert McLees, county counselor, did a magnificent job for which all hands were most grateful. With so much discussion, the hour was late when we broke up. Several of our regulars—Spike Fahrion, Merrill Comstock and Phil Warren—had taken off for SF and the Navy-Cal game but 19 attended this informative afternoon. Hasta Luego, Amigos. . . .

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

COVER—Stoney was in Crabtown in early November for a few days. He is looking for a place to settle down. Hope he found it.

NOBLE—Chuck and Madeline were in Annapolis early November. They were enroute White Sulphur Springs for a week of eating and golf.

WARD—Cap writes that he recendy heard from a relative of Jay K. ALLEN that Fats had died "10 or 15 years ago, presumably at Bethesda." Only news the class has about it is that letters to him on 40th and 45th reunions were not answered and not returned to sender.

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Cap said it had become too cold to swim in Santa Fe—he didn't mention fishing.

PARK—Pie and Marion intended to come up for the Duke game but it was deemed inadvisable.

Marion is home again after a short sojourn in USNH Norfolk.

A '16-'17 class party was given at 248 King George following the Duke game. At this writing (12 Nov.) it is impossible to say who attended —or who would win the game. We seem to have a flair for throwing them away this year.

As 1964 closes a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year is wished for all of '17 wherever you may be.

With love & good cheer, Jack.

Sec'y, RAdm. E. E. Dnvall, USN (Ret.) Apt. 755-B, The Westchester Washington 16, D. C. FRANCIS STEPHENSON GIBSON Capt. Francis Stephenson Gibson, USNR (Ret.), died on 8 Oct. in Annapolis. On the 10th, services were held in the Naval Academy Chapel and on the 12th, Monte, as our esteemed classmate was known affectionately to all of us, was laid to rest in Arlington National Cemetery. Your secretary, to name but one, was favored with Monte's friendship since Naval Academy days; his unfailing good humor, his gende manner, and cheery smile will all be gready missed. He was associated with the Pittsburgh Coal Cx). from Jan. 1923 until recalled to active duty in 1941.

In WW II, Monte served in the RIXEY as navigator and later as executive officer. As CO of the fleet oiler PLATTE he did a fine job in servicing the fleet in the far Pacific. Command of the destroyer tender PRAIRIE at Ulithi was his next assignment and after the treaty was signed he took the PRAIRIE to Yokosuka, Japan before returning home to become district sales manager with Consolidation Coal Cx)., and in 1955, eastern sales manager. He is survived by his widow, Marie, of 115 CxDnduit St., Annapolis; a daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth W. Cobb of Mt. Vernon, N . Y.; a sister, Mrs. Virginia Williams of Clarksburg, W. Va., and four grandchildren.

Virginia and Cy PERKINS have recendy returned from an extensive trip through Europe during which they put some 11,000 miles on the Volkswagen they purchased over there. The journey started last June from their home in San Diego, then to New York where they embarked in the SS UNITED STATES for La Harve. Then on

to Paris, but finding that fascinating city too crowded they entrained to Bremerhaven where they picked up their VW and took off for Kobenhavn, stopping at the student-operated Hotel Solbakken.

Their journeys took them through Amsterdam, Antwerp, Brussels, Ghent and then on to England. In reflecting on their travels through the lovely English countryside, they were most impressed by the beautiful White Cliffs of Dover and the view of the big Dover Casde (to which we are bold to add: "and that wonderful Dover sole"). Crossing to Calais, they traveled through France and into Spain where they spent a whole day seeing the art treasures of El Prado in Madrid. Then over the mountains to France, Switzerland, and Germany where they embarked in the USNS BucKNER for the return voyage home. We are grateful to have Cy's letter of which the above is only a brief resume of his trip abroad which culminated in a journey through Canada and then back to San Diego.

This fall Leon LOVETTE also made a European trip devoted mainly to historical research and writing which took him to Oxford, France, and Italy. On his return he and Charmian journeyed southward and visited Herbert and Marguerite STONE at their home, "Rotherwood," on the bend of the Holston river near Kingsport, Tenn. Quoting from Leon's letter, "Rotherwood, a 130-year-old mansion with river and mountain DECEMBER,

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scenery, surrounded by ancient oaks and boxwoods, has few equals in this country. Herb may sit in his wheel chair and survey part of a 1500-acre tract where catde are fatted for shipment to Italy. . . . Herb never forgets his 'first love,' the Navy, and would like to hear from any of the class."

Those attending Homecoming festivities were: the Barringers, Dot Cummins, Duvall, the Frances, Gibsons, Kennedy, Charmian Lovette, Richardsons, Sullivans, Murphys, and Warlicks. At dress parade on a sparklingly clear day we watched 39 companies of midshipmen pass in review. (As Dick Richardson pointed out, in our day there were only 16 companies.) The review was very impressive and against the backdrop of the Severn with sailing craft maneuvering about it made a very handsome sight. The reception and dinner were, as always, great successes.

All are urged to attend Homecomings whenever possible and especially in 1967 when our class will be holding our 50th Reunion.

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Sec'y, RAdm. R. A. Dierdorff, USN (Ret.) 34 Randall St., Annapolis, Md. Acting Sec'y, Capt. W. R. Read, USN (Ret.), 210 S. Cherry Grove Ave. Annapolis, Md.

It has now been six months since King suffered his very serious stroke. While the doctor's prognosis is guarded, we can still hope for the best.

It is passed on with regret that Shorty MILLS has been seriously ill since the middle of October.

The class sends its best wishes for a speedy recovery.

Marcia and Red SCHOEFFEL have been in Naples, Fla. for the past few weeks enjoying their new home. They will return to Alexandria for the Christmas holidays.

Helen and Charlie REND were in Washington recently following a most enjoyable European trip. During their stay, they entertained for many of their old friends and shipmates at the ArmyNavy Club.

Charlie recendy disposed of his business.

George DYER reports a rewarding day recendy at the Laurel race track, hitting the daily double as a preliminary to having Kelso on the nose for a goodish bet in the International Stakes.

A short note has been received from Tommy ATKINS, enclosing a check for dues and reporting everything well with them in Washington State.

Joe BUCHALTER writes interestingly of his current trip in a Dutch freighter enroute Amsterdam to Capetown via Port Said and calling at 12 East African ports.

He was particularly impressed by Zanzibar and its still exotic atmosphere in spite of the revolution and massacre of Arabs some months ago.

Joe is laying over in Capetown until early January, returning to Amsterdam via Las Palmas.

CALLAGHAN, DYER, STEIN and TARBUTTON, among 40,000 odiers, recendy had the thrill of seeing Navy go ahead of Maryland in the last few minutes of play, 22-21, only to watch a Maryland kick-off return of 102 yards on the next play.

Boys, you are too far along to experience any such stirring moments.

All hands are reminded that the annual bulletin, directory and dues list goes to press on I Feb. Letters and items of general class interest are invited.

Our treasurer suggests that this is an excellent time to get into the black as regards dues which are still $3 per year, 30 June to 30 June.

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Sec'y, Capt. John F. Crowe, Jr., USN (Ret.), 4431 Volta PI., N.W. Washington 7, D. C.

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW •YEAR.

The following 23 classmates attended the class lunch on 30 Oct. at the Army and Navy Club: Beck, Browder, Bryan, Christmas, Daggett, De Weese, Artie Doyle, Fahrney, Fitz, Greer, Holsinger, Korns, Lyon, Mead, Nibecker, Osborn, Page, Pearson, Robbins, Robinson, Shope, Ten Eyck, and Wachder. It was good to have several out-of-towners with us—Chester Beck from New York, Artie Doyle from Pensacola, and Del Fahrney from Chadds Ford, Pa. All contributed to the occasion. Virgie Korns gave us a rundown on the Korns' recent three-month trip to San Diego and Mexico.

From Sun Cit>', Calif, comes word of the marriage of Capt. W. H. GALBR-\ITH, USN (Ret.), and Mrs. Helen M. Evans also of Sun City, which took place 1 Nov. at Winterhaven, Calif.

In the words of the bridegroom—"With both of us being fond of the sort of life offered by this retirement center, we propose to remain living here." Their home is at 28171 Winged Foot Dr. Congratulations and the best wishes of the entire class!

HARVEY WILSON AND PAUL SCHUBERT AT PAUL'S RANCH. Harvey WILSON, whose address is P. O. Box 3, Redding Ridge, Conn., has written me a most interesting letter of his doings since retiring from Babcock and Wilcox. I quote it in full: "Your plea for news at the end of the column in Sept.-Oct. Shipmate is herein granted in part.

"About me: my widowerhood (is there such a word.') ceased, as many of you know, 28 Sept.

1963; at the end of '63 I retired from B&W (sketch & describe) and began to 'go where I choose—do as I please' as in that old U of P Mask & Wig Club song 'I live the life I love.'

Wonderful. My wife's name is Bright—she was a Johnson—now, of course, Wilson. During a recent junket to Wyoming we stopped off to visit Paul and Frances SCHUBERT at dieir P.F.S. ranch in Shell, Wyo. From the enclosed snapshots you can see that Paul is hale, hearty and ruddy—they live the life they love, that's for sure.

We had a grand visit, with chow and refreshments, and we reminisced. We hadn't seen each other for years—so the business of OUR being mistaken for each other by our classmates was discussed. The enclosed shots should help this situation in the future. You tell me who is who.

Of course, Paul's the more handsome!

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"An item of interest, the Schuberts mentioned a previous visit to their ranch by Tom and Flora Cox. Apparendy that was another stand-out occasion. I understand that Tom coined some new words (?) and Flora excelled in target shooting.

I'm hoping to get together with Tom and Flora here at 'Wils-on-Rocks' soon. Marion and Johnny Greer stopped by not too long ago and we bumped a glass or two with them at their hostess' home, nearby. It was fun. 'Book Booker' and I have a tete-a-tete sort of regularly. He's the Wall Street giant that keeps me informed of how B&W is doing on the big board (they feed Bright and me now, you know). We plan to go to 'The Game' on November 28th and hope to see you and many more of our gang at that time. Meantimeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;best regards to all this 'blurp' reaches.

Sincerely, HARVEY

"P.S. Bright and I will be most happy to host any of our gang who come along this way; Connecticut is a beautiful state. Phone 203-9382760. 5 Points Corner, Redding Ridge, Conn."

Bernard KELLEY, who is quite occupied with his duties as a judge in the Court of Common Pleas, Philadelphia, has sent me a newsy letter from which I quote: "I am glad to report that Jim Donnelly of our class has resumed his duties on the faculty of the Engineering School of Villanova University, after suffering during the summer with an infected elbow.

"As for myself, Agnes (Mrs. Kelley) and I had a restful and enjoyable vacation during the month of August when we visited Ireland and England. We made the eastbound crossing in the AMERICA and

returned in

the

UNITED

STATES.

On our trip over we were happy to meet RAdm. B. M. Rittenhouse, Jr., USN (Ret.) (class of 1928), and his charming wife and I found that the purser and I were shipmates during World War II. On our return trip while at the captain's table I learned that the skipper, RAdm. Alexanderson, USNR, and I had many mutual friends in the Navy. Incidentally, my son Ens. Bernard J. Kelley, Jr., USNA '63, and his wife Jo presented us with a grandson, Bernard J. Kelley, III, during the year. My son is presendy located at Pensacola."

Artie and Jamie DOYLE were in Washington for the last three weeks of October. Artie was working hard at the Goldwater headquarters as assistant finance chairman. Prior to his coming to Washington, he had made a trip to the Far East where he was a guest aboard the flagship of the Commander Seventh Fleet during operations; he visited his old stamping grounds in Formosa, Japan and on the west coast.

Virgie and Willy KORNS returned to Washington after a three-month trip to San Diego and Mexico. They spent six weeks in San Diego. The Korns' daughter, Martha, and her husband and children were in San Diet^o on a month's vacation from Anchorage, Alaska, so Virgie and Willy renewed acquaintances with them. They also took the opportunity of seeing several of our classmates in San Diego, Dick Cruzen, Ducky Binford, Chick Hartman, Benny Decker, Murray Smith and Elmer Stoker. They spent 21 days in Mexico; after driving from San Diego to Nogales, they headed for Mexico City, stopping enroute at Hermosilla, Guayamas (3 days), Navajoa, Mazadan, Tapic, Chapala (5 days) and Morelia.

Wap THOMPSON advised us that he would be married on Thanksgiving Day at Grace Episcopal Church, Philadelphia to Mrs. Claude H. Bennett, widow of Claude Bennett '23.

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

See '59 column for news of the wedding of Dolly and Marge FITZGERALD's son, Michael.

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from Tennessee, Howdy Hubbell from St. Louis, Joe Newsome from Santa Fe, Dal Emory and Shorty Poole from Seatde, and Terry Acuff, Ralph Butterfield, T. G. CuUins, Syd Dodds, Casey Green, Raleigh Hales, Early Lowell, Bris McHugh, Ivan Miller, Logan McKee, Gordie Parks, Ells Roth, Sabe Sabin and Bunny Wray, all from Southern California.

On Sunday, the day after the game, R. K. and Marjorie DAVIS entertained a group of the visitors at brunch and on Monday night the Ab CARLISLEs gathered up the few who had stayed over for dinner.

CHARLIE

ROLAND, DODIE HOOVER, DARRELL HOOVER AND TAM ROLAND.

These classmates met for the October luncheon at the Army and Navy Club in Washington: Barbaro, Biggs, Billingsley, Bolger, Brumbaugh, Bunting, Allen Blow Cook, Costello, Dell (from Philadelphia), Elmers, Ferris, Fullinwider, Gains, Juvenal, Loker, Moore, Purves, Russell, Sherwood Smith and Thorpe. We were particularly glad to see and hear from Bill JUVENAL, who with his wife flew east for a visit with a married daughter in nearby Maryland.

Clarence ALDRICH advises us that he spotted the following '21ers at the Navy-Georgia Tech game: Fort Callahan, Bill Fitzgerald, Jimmy Robertson, Walt Schindler, Snack Snackenberg and Windy Switzer. At the Navy-Notre Dame game Bert Kern reports that he sat behind the Tommy Dells.

A postcard from Slats and Kay MOORE postmarked Venice stated that they flew to Munich for the October festival. After renting a car in Italy they spent a couple of weeks in Yugoslavia, stopping at Split, Dubrovnik, Mostar, Belgrade and Zagreb.

"It is all as the travel books say," he wrote.

"Wild, savage and magnificent. We had another long week in Venice and drove to Lake Garda and other Italian lakes. Next, Berlin for 3 days and a week in Paris before flying home via Montreal."

WEST COAST

Stogi ROBERTS advises that "Eleven '2lets attended the monthly luncheon at the MarCorps Recruit Depot, San Diego, in October: Acuff, Butterfield, Dodds, Miller, O'Brien, Purdue, Roberts, Rockwell, Stafford, Tarbuck and Wray.

Quite a few from this area attended the NavyCal game and all were lavish in their praise of the arrangements made by WIRTH, THOMAS and CARLISLE of the Bay area group.

"Recent visitors to the SD area include Dal EMORY of Seatde, who drove down after the game; Rodger and Grace SIMPSON of Torremolinos, Spain, and Tom and Bert DELL of Philadelphia."

SAN FRANCISCO NOTES

In spite of the disappointment over the outcome of the Navy-Cal game, '21ers from this area, plus quite an aggregation from other places, had a wonderful time. Early that morning they converged on the Treasure Island Club for a continental breakfast while they waited for the loading of the 3 busses bound for the stadium.

Seats were assigned alphabetically. Cheer leaders were provided by the Berkeley High School and we all did our best to respond as we did in ye olden days.

The weatherman served up his choicest dish, such a beautiful day that upon the return to T.I. cocktails were dispensed on the club lawn.

Always the case with the class of '21, friends who had not met for many years took up right where they had left off. Dinner was served in the Treasure Room for well over a hundred, all of whom expressed gratitude to our committee for a well-planned and executed affair. In addition to nearly all of the Bay area contingent the out-of-towners, plus wives and other guests were: Walt Keller from Connecticut, Van Hamilton

Bob and Betty LEWIS are home after a sixmonth tour of Europe. Bob writes: "On 12 Feb. we flew to Spain for a visit with Rodger and Grace SIMPSON in their home in Arroyo de la Miel. Stayed there until mid-April, helping them pack from their trip to the States. During that time I took my regular golf licking from Rodger while Betty took hers in canasta from Grace, and of course there were lots of parties to lend variety.

"After the Simpsons left, we ran into Bob and Virginia HICKY at Torremolinos where I introduced him to the golf course. We made a side trip to Morocco then went by car to Portugal, spending a night at Sagres where Hinn, the navigator, gave Cblumbus his dope. From Sagres we drove to Lisbon, a truly beautiful city. On the island of Berlanga off the Portuguese coast we stayed at an old fortress now run by the government as a pousada. The water is as clear as Lake Tahoe and we had 3 kinds of fish at every meal. We drove up through Portugal and back into northern Spain. Near Bilboa we landed by accident in a 3rd class hotel in a smugglers' cove where we had one of the best dinners of our entire trip. We entered France at Biarritz, but kept on going as we didn't like the prices at all, and on into Switzerland, visiting Lausanne and Zurich before continuing to West Germany. We'd heard of Army accommodations at Stuttgart and found them by following a U. S. Army car.

Driving north, we spent a night at Godesburg am Rhein at the same hotel where in 1938 Chamberlain and Hitler signed for 'Peace in our time!'

"Next we drove to Rotterdam, then from the Hook of Holland, car and all, we went over to Harwich, England, and drove up to Ripon in Yorkshire to see a cousin. Returned to the contingent by the same route and on to Denmark via Bremerhaven. We had 4 days in Oipenhagen â&#x20AC;&#x201D;a must for everyone. Also saw Hans Christian Anderson's home in Odense. Back in Holland we stayed with friends until we sailed for home on 29 August on the Holland-America Line. It was a great trip, but it is also great to be home."

R. K. "Dave" DAVIS writes: "My first thought on retirement was to capitalize on my Navy experience in law which included a law degree. I enrolled in a refresher course at Hastings (University of California Law School), but after a few weeks I found that my eyes would not stand the strain. Shordy thereafter, looking for something less demanding on eyesight, I became an agent for Government Personnel Mutual Life Insurance Co. which allowed work on a part-time basis. I stayed with this for about 10 years.

"Although maintenance of an acre of garden and orchard and a house requires considerable effort in time it becomes slighdy boring. I have become more and more involved with civic work, first with the San Mateo County Town Hall Assn. and also presendy with the Citizens' Advisory Committee for drafting a new master plan for the growth and development of Menio Park.

I am a director of Town Hall Assn., also their representative to the Government Research Council, and alternate representative on the zoning committee and the county greater highway committee. I have found this work most stimulating and beneficial because of the many interesting personal contacts and the valuable information derived relative to local and county problems.

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The knowledge gained provides a much more intelligent grasp of these problems when they are finally presented to the voters. Marjorie takes an active interest in this work and has been of great help in preparing information for mailing to the membership. Through the years she has also been very active in the local Audubon Society and in garden and reading clubs.

"For the past 2 years I have been a member of the Commonwealth Club of California which I have found helpful in my civic work, as well as in understanding state and national affairs."

M. E. "Duke" SELBY has re-retired, this time from United Services Life Insurance Co. Duke has represented that outfit in the San Francisco Bay area for the past 3 and a half years. He and Marge are returning to Tucson, Ariz., where they plan to reside permanently and devote their time to travel, golf and bridge.

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Sec'y, Gerald A. Stacey, Golden Propeller Farm, R2 Box 146, Mercersbnrg, Pa.

Marion MURPHY advises us that "Father Time finally caught up with me and I had to retire on 31 Aug. from Lockheed Missiles and Space Co., Sunnyvale, Calif. I had worked there for seven years on the Polaris Missile Project and found it an interesting and rewarding second career. It is the longest time Ruth and I had ever spent in one place.

"Now, on my second retirement, we have moved to San Diego, where our two sons live—Garry and Jack—and where we have had a house for a number of years. Presently I'm working for my wife (at starvation wages), helping her modernize our 33-year-old Mediterranean-type house, dream kitchen and all. So far I'm not bored.

"We will miss the Bay area, but San Diego is a Navy town and we have family, classmates, and other friends we will enjoy."

Fred PIERCE writes: "The class of '22 was fairly well represented at the Cal-Navy football game and at the cocktail-buffet held thereafter at the Commissioned Officers' Mess at Treasure Island. The LIBBYs were up from San Diego, the DANNENBERGs from Garden Grove, die WHITGROVEs from Ojai and the PIERCEs from Los Angeles.

"Down from Tacoma came the AGNEWs and BUTTERFIELDs. And joining the fun from San Francisco area were the KINGs, NEELEYs, the Bruce ADELLs, die FUDGEs, die Ben GOODWINS, COGSWELLS, AKERs, WATKINSes, Eddie DUNCAN and Joe GRAHAM. Perhaps we overlooked some.

"The Pierces and Butterfields were houseguests of the Cogswells at Los Altos. Except for the score, the entire weekend was a tremendous success."

Howard E. OREM was recendy elected chairman of the board of Valley Metallurgical Processing Co. The company's production plants are in Essex, Conn, and Stockton, Calif.

Valley Metallurgical specializes in the production of a wide range of finely powdered metals, such as are used by the government primarily in the manufacture of rocket fuels and illuminated flares. Howard is also a member of the board of directors of Canadian Javelin, Ltd. and the Norwalk Powder Metals Co.

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Sec'y and Recorder, Capt. Charles Beaumont, USN (Ret.) 37 Maryland Ave., Annapolis, Md.

LeMERTON EDSON CRIST, JR.

Regretfully, we announce the loss of LeMerton Crist (Capt. USN Ret.) of a heart attack on 27 Oct. at the Naval Hospital, Bethesda. His home was at La Plata, Md. Interment was in Arlington National Cemetery.

D E C E M B E R ,

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M a r i e P l a n e BRIGGS

Mrs. Marie Plane Briggs, wife of R.^dm.

Josephus Asa Briggs, USN (Ret.), of 1600 River House, Arlington, Va., died 25 Sept. Interment was in Arlington National Cemetery. She was the mother of two sons, Josephus Asa Briggs, Jr. and Robert Plane Briggs.

DUES

Dues, 1963-68 as authorized at the class meeting in '63, have been mailed to all members. If yours did not reach you, please send in your $10 check, made out to the 1923 class treasurer and sent to the class secretary. Include current addresses for the basis of a new roster, soon to follow.

Mrs. Claude Bennett announced that she would wed "Wap" Thompson '20, on 27 Nov. in Philadelphia. "They will live in Washington, D. C. Word from the McCUTCHENs indicates they are back at Florence, Italy for the winter, and ready to serve you.

Ray LEAVITT has retired from the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co. after 40 years.

He will divide his time between wintering in Florida and summering at his farm near Rockville.

A short note from Clif MARKOE, and one from Dom TORTORICH, states all is well with them. John W. KING announces his association with the Alexandria office of W. E. Hutton Co. M A C K E R R A C H E R wants to know if anyone else has a grandson in '68.

Louie BRENDEL decries the flight of time now that he has retired from active business effort.

The Paul JACKSONs are sailing to Panama and will come back by car. That should be mighty interesting. Hope he tells us about it. G. G. WESTON'S note sends regards to all. The AGNEWs are still both very active in affairs around Tacoma. If you are expecting to take a trip using the East Coast Inland Waterways, do not regard it as a sheltered trip. It can be a trial.

Early returns on the dues request indicate some confusion, which I will attempt to resolve. A CONTRIBUTION was solicited at the class meeting to cover a deficit developed as a result of the REUNION activities. This was separate and voluntary, whereas the dues request originated in a motion duly passed and is therefore an obligation. It is for this latter purpose that the dues requests have been mailed out.

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

RICHARD CASTLE COLBURN

With much regret we learn of the death of Dick Colburn in an automobile accident in the San Francisco area last January. Burial was in a National Cemetery in that area; we regret that we have no further details at this time. Dick was really out of contact with most of his classmates for many years, and we have not had his address.

He last reported on himself in our 1936 Cruise: "In 1932-33 navigated a 65-foot schooner yacht to Tahiti and other South Sea Islands, on adventure cruise. The depression is tough on a good many civilian members, including 'yours truly,' and the Navy sure looks good. Am part of the California National Guard and saw duty last summer at the San Francisco waterfront during the strike." We best remember Dick for his art work (sketches) at the Naval Academy.

Frances Russell BURRIS

It is our sad duty also to record the passing on 26 Oct. of Mrs. Frances Russell Burris, widow of Harry Burris, at Haddonfield, N. J. A native of California, "Muffle" was married to Harry in 1924, and had lived in New Jersey since Harry's death. Surviving are her mother, Mrs. H. K.

Casey; son Casey, and daughter Judith, all of Haddonfield. Muffie enjoyed our gatherings at Homecoming and reunions, and was in attendance at the 40th last spring. Burial was at Arlington National Cemetery.

Rebecca K e e n e HARVEY

Sadly, we announce the death on 25 Oct. of Mrs. Rebecca Keene Harvey, widow of W. W. (Sid) Harvey, at Coronado, Calif. Becky was closely identified with the social activities of our Coronado-San Diego group, having lived there since Sid's death. Originally from Indiana, she had been a buyer for Kippy's Department Store since 1957. Earlier she had been personnel director of Liberty House in Hawaii, and was termed the first woman fashionist in the U. S., with Shusters of Milwaukee. A brother, two married daughters and four grandchildren survive.

"Now that I am back in Washington after a summer spent in the corn country, I hope to provide you with nev/s," writes Joe "THEW as he lists the following in attendance at the Washington October luncheon meeting (4th Wednesday) : Adams, Cranberry, Hoffman, Kalisch, Longfellow, Mercer, Nesser, Norman, Petersen, Purple, Robillard, Rook, Sinclair, Sisson, Thew, 'C^an Steenbergh and Wright. "Alphabet" Adams is new in this group, being a student at U. of Md. Tex Norman brought his USN son, just back from a destroyer command tour in the Far East; and Gene Rook introduced Mr. Eisenruth, a Blaw-Knox business associate.

There were three more classmates present (total 20) at the 5 Nov. quarterly meeting of the San Diego-Coronado group than at the Washington lunch mentioned above. The Frank DEAMs and Pete DUNNs arranged this one with a steak dinner in which they were joined by Mrs. Jackie Anderson (with daughter and husband), Doro and Bill Bailey, Alice and Jack Bellerby, Easley and Cowboy Cameron, Ruth and Chet Carroll, Esther and A. B. Dickie, Jan and Gus Fish (newlyweds), Ann and Paul Graf (from Claremont, with Ann's sister Mildred), Florence and Bill Hickey (also from Claremont), Babe Handly, Margaret and Minor Heine (from Long Beach), Polly and Nat Hudnall, Bess and Willie Hurst, Fern and Eric Lankenau, Reah and Loe Lillard, Lloyd and Don McLean, Evelyn and Dutch Shultz, Evelyn and Hal Ticmroth, Mrs. Jessie Rutt, Ethel and Count Wolowsky, Betty and Rufus Young. With this group, absenteeism is a serious offense, and everyone is wondering: where, on 8 Nov., were the Dancys, Edgars, Ekstroms, Garfields and Ooftie Gregor.?

In his continuing search for "lost" classmates.

Bob KEYER comes up with three connections: Alan Axtell at 11704 Montana, West Los Angeles, Calif.; Jimmie (J. F.) Hangs is at 290 N. Jackson St., Bartow, Fla.; and A. B. Harmon writes in from 234 N. Mississippi Blvd., St. Paul, Minn.: "Here in the frozen north is the widest temperature variation in the U. S.—from 30 below to 100 or so above. It's what makes all us native Minnesotans slighdy wacky. Regards to you, to Staubach, and BEAT ARMY!" But Bob Keyer has a discouraging block in his search for C. B. (Beeny) Reese. A note from the mayor of Angola, Ind., where some of Beeny's relatives still reside, states that they believe him "to be deceased, but this is not official."

The lead to Axtell came thru Ken BORGEN, who saw a good deal of Ax in years right after the war, in Seatde. Ken has had sinus trouble, and the Seatde climate was so beneficial to him that he stayed on out there after his WW II duty ended. We quote further from Ken's letter: "I feel better than ever. . . . I purchased a 20-ft. self-contained trailer this summer and have made four trips. One was down the Oregon coast and two to Sun Lakes in eastern Washington, and 35

one a local trip to a state park. In January I hope to go to California, Arizona and New Mexico.

I see Bull Towner and Chief Topper quite often and both are keeping busy. Was up to Bellingham early in the summer and saw Jim Brady. Dick Penny .was out to the house a few months back.

Red Ruhsenberger was here last summer after trailering all over the country for 18 months.

That's for me when the last two kids are through school."

We can forgive Crutch ADAIR for referring to our 1964 reunion as our "35th" as he ouriines his present status: "wife and 2 daughters are fine, and one granddaughter. I am director of the planetarium here in Santa Barbara and also teach four different classes in astronomy. Every two years we take a long trip to some foreign country."

John RHAMSTINE entertained a group of classmates in New York at the University Club on Navy Day, in honor of his USNA roommate Alan H U N T (once we called him Mike), who was in the east on a "sentimental journey," looking up the areas where his ancestors had lived.

The group included Caples, John Cullen, Mellon, Milt Mills and Siegrist; and the conversation reviewed not only Naval Academy days and since, but principally pre-Naval Academy events, since most of the group, including the host and guest, had been in the service and attended prep classes together prior to June, 1920. We thought Alan looks as though he is enjoying retirement at Santa Barbara.

a member of Advisory Team One in Viet Nam, while son Sandy (10) is planning for USNA class of 1974. A third son, Patrick (12), plans an electronic engineering career.

Willie HURST reports that he and Bess had a call made on them in October by Kitty and Preston MERCER. Their conversations and whatnot led Willie and Pres to telephone Bill COCHRAN at 11:30 P.M. (what time would that be in Asheville.?). The Mercers were returning home from Honolulu, where they attended a meeting of Navy League Board of Directors. Well, says Willie, Bill didn't seem to be the slightest upset by the late call. That's patience! Bill, by the way, is teaching in the local college again, and has been asked to organize a forum on American Foreign Policy, for the public, which will run from mid-April to May 31, one night a week.

The Cochrans report as fall visitors the Weary WILKINS, and also a call by Ralph MILLS, who was reporting in to the head office of his brokerage organization at Asheville.

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Sec'y, EAdm. F. K. Loomis, USN (Ret.) 3055 Foxhall Road, Washington 16, D. C.

HARVEY NIXON MARSHALL It is with great regret that we learned of the death of Harvey Marshall. He suffered a heart attack at the bridge table in his home at San Pedro, Calif, on 21 Oct.

We don't hear much currendy about Irv DUKE, except what we read in the Stratford Journal, being in the nature of a diary at the Robert E. Lee Memorial Foundation, from which we quote an entry: "October 22nd. Same pleasant weather. Disced Jenkins Field. Mr. Keller took burned-out Mansion motor to Richmond for rewinding. Mr. Patton took down two pine trees dangerously leaning over Cabin 20. Sealing leak in roof of Oklahoma Cabin. Admiral and Mrs. Duke went to Dahlgren for ceremonies in connection with dedication of new Computation and Analysis Building. Picked apples from trees in West Garden for use at Dining Room. Set out hollyhock plants at Uncle Wes' Cabin. Mulched leaves around Oval and at Administration Building. October attendance (visitors) 1964—3,183; 1963—2,782."

Sam SINGER is v/on over to taking a full month of vacation each year, after his great month in Spain, from which he returned really enthused. He caught Boney CLOSE briefly on the phone at Madrid as Boney was moving out on a trip, and found Bob WAID not at his place of business in Madrid. But he enjoyed visiting with Dee and Page SMITH at Hotel Alphonse in Seville. We've learned of some satisfaction Sam got out of a "good turn" he was able to do for an old friend. The latter was being held on a murder charge, no less; and Sam called at the jail, not to be his lawyer, but to help him get a criminal law specialist. Gathering a few facts and putting everything together, he was able to point out to the authorities that there really was "no case" against the incarcerated one, and actually took him "right out of the jailhouse." Even though the latter was innocent, he might well have lain in the jail for months, but for Sam's interest and action.

"Please throw a penny to Tecumseh for me," writes Lou GWINN from his Australian base, reporting a shot of luck on his Exeter Farm. It seems he "put away" an unusual 18,000 bales of hay, which enabled him to feed more catde; and he managed to market his beef at around 36 £ per head, while his neighbors chose a different time for marketing and got an average of only 25 ;£ a head.

Herb BEARCE has accepted appointment with General Services Admin, at Dallas, Tex., as a construction management engineer. His son, Capt.

Lamed Bearce, USMC (West Point '59), is now 36

Oct. He has our best wishes for a speedy recovery. . . . A recent visitor to Washington was Bull WRIGHT. Bull was lured out of the heart of Texas to attend a MOWW convention and stopped by for a nice visit on his way home. His stock of stories is as good as ever. . . . Bill VEEDER has sold his place in Nokesville, Virginia and they have moved into a Washington apartment. . . . Now maybe Bill will make a class luncheon once in a while. . . . At our October luncheon Tommy TONSETH was with us. He announced that they are refugees from the Vermont winter. They have sold their place there and are touring around until they find a place they like that doesn't have so much winter.

Henry FORD announces that plans for our 40th reunion are shaping up nicely. On Friday, 8 Oct. 1965, we will attend the alumni reception, followed by dinner in the mess hall. On Saturday, we start off at 0845 with a picture to be taken on the chapel steps, followed by a class meeting at 0900 in the blue room. A class luncheon will be served in the Elks Club (adjacent to the stadium), followed by the football game. That evening we have Hubbard Hall assigned to us for a class dinner. Sunday morning the class will have a reserved section in the chapel for the 1030 service. Henry again advises that each classmate is on his own for hotel and motel accommodations and tickets to the game. (Alumni House will assist you, if desired.)

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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, III 8405 Burdette Rd. Bethesda, Md. 20014

CHARLES JACKSON It is with regret that we report the passing of our classmate, Charles Jackson, Capt., USN (Ret.), on 17 Oct. at Seaside, Ore. Cremation was held at Portland Memorial.

Charles is survived by his widow, Ruth; two daughters, Margaret of New York City and Barbara of San Francisco, and two sons, Don of Veronia and Charles Benbow of Seaside. The class extends deepest sympathy to his family.

In a message from Ruth, she wrote: "Our home at 2557 Queen St., Seaside, was destroyed by the Good Friday tidal wave, so we moved into this house which Charlie was very busy renovating up to the day of his death."

Four lines from a poem Charlie once wrote seem particularly appropriate right here: The Universe is my temple.

The earth is my hearth, The Lord's Prayer is my creed And formula in time of need.

FRANK G. HALEY '25

Frank G. HALEY has retired from the Continental Insurance Co. after 40 years with that firm and a vice president for the past seven years.

He and his wife will make their home in Beach Haven, N. J. Alice Jean Reppy, daughter of John REPPY, is serving as a Peace Corps volunteer in Makeni, Sierra Leone, West Africa. She is teaching geography, history, mathematics and literature in the St. Joseph's School. She graduated from the University of Connecticut last June, trained for 10 weeks at University and State Teacher's College of Indiana. She left the States 6 Sept. for a twoyear tour.

Hunter W(X)D was taken to the hospital in Coronado, Calif, with a heart condition on 23

October saw a large gathering of '26 wives in Annapolis as guests of Sara L E H A R D Y , on Wednesday the 21st. Those attending were: Kitty Adair, Thelma Agnew, Alice Barker, Jean Brown, Kathleen Buchanan, Phyllis Cochran, Dixie Corbin, Bay McCk)rkle, Rita Willingham Conway, Helen Dow, Claire Duckett, Grayce Fravel, Louise Frost, Rosemary Greenslade, Francine Greenacre, Tince Hamberger, May Jones, Bea Katz, Clava Logan, Helen Nelson, Jean Strange, Virginia Stiegler, Frankie Sweeney and Tika Taylor. Sara had a cake to celebrate the additional fact of Tince Bamberger's birthday.

News is scarce this month; the corresponding secretary doesn't make it, he only reports what he receives or can glean. In the latter category is a move and new address for Charlie and Kathleen BUCHANAN who have bought a house and moved into 10820 AUoway Dr., Potomac Falls, Md. Their settling has been somewhat interrupted by trips to Indiana, Newport and New York during the past couple of months.

It isn't too early to start thinking about our 40th reunion which will arrive a lot sooner than SHIPMATE

we realize, and perhaps before many have made definite plans to be there. 1965 is almost upon us; 1966 is the year of our 40th.

A committee will be appointed from among those willing to work in the Washington-Annapolis area and the decision will have to be made as to whether the reunion weekend should be in May, as we have done on previous occasions, or in the fall at the time of the homecoming football game.

In the fall a class is pretty much swallowed up by the several thousand other alumni, and facilities are hard to get. Hence a date in May seems to the CS to be preferable. However, if you have a definite feeling, one way or another, please write your corresponding secretary and express it â&#x20AC;&#x201D;and incidentally, pass along some news about yourself and family.

The class luncheon on 15 Dec. in Washington will probably have been held before diis Shipmate arrives, but put the date of 26 Jan. on your calendar for the next one which probably will be a joint USNA-West Point '26 affairâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;stag, of course. We ought to have a good turnout for that one.

When the CS took over his new job in the Navy Relief, he sat down at a desk; but not Roy GANO! As a VP of die Moore-McCormack Lines, he had to take a familiarization trip! He and Harriet sailed on 13 Nov. from New York in SS BRAZIL for a month's cruise, during which they will visit Brazil, Uruquay, the Argentine, and of course, the Virgin Islands, Barbados and San Juan. That's a good note on which to end!!

LOS ANGELES '27 GET-TOGETHER

Mary Elizabeth BORN

"From the noise generated it appeared that everyone had a good time. The group led by Lewis Knight and Dutch Woelfel was particularly noticeable for the quiet, dignified conversation group that they sparked.

"Standing left to right in the snap are Weigle, Kern, Ewing, Scoles, Mechling, Eckelmeyer, Leatherman, Mye, Knight and Woelfel.

"Seated are (left to right) Marge Woelfel, Florence Mye, Billie Knight, Thelma Weigle, Irene Scoles, Karin Eckelmeyer, Mary Kern, Fran Cooper, Florence Leatherman and Helen Mechling."

Mrs. Mary Elizabeth S. Born, wife of RAdm. Ardiur S. (Ben) BORN, passed away 30 Oct. following a long illness. Funeral services were held at Turner Chapel, Cedar Rapids, la., with interment at Fort Lincoln Cemetery, Washington, D. C. She is survived by her husband.

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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.

Adm. Charles D. GRIFFIN, USN, Commander in Chief, U. S. Naval Forces, Europe, and Mrs. Marion Hopkins Schaefer of 4531 Dexter St., N.W., Washington, D. C , were married on 21 Nov. The wedding, which took place at noon at St. Alban's Episcopal Church, was a small family affair, followed by a reception at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Channing S. Walker of 5070 Millwood Lane.

The Griffins will reside in London, where the admiral's headquarters are located.

Herb ECKBERG and Steve Brodie have been celebrating the results of a long friendship.

Herb's daughter, Elenita, and Steve's son, David, were married in August. Elenita is completing her work for a Master's Degree at the School of Advanced International Studies, and Dave, a recent graduate of the School of Business Administration at American University, is with Government Employees Insurance Co. They are now living in Chevy Chase, Md. Here is a short notice of a '27 gathering in the Los Angeles area, sent in by W. B. MECHLING: "On Sunday, 1 Nov., we gave a brunch at our home in Canoga Park for a group from the class of '27 and their wives. Fran Cooper, the widow of Glenn Cooper '27, now living in San Diego, was a weekend guest and was also present. We were particularly pleased to see Buck and Janet Ewing, who came down from NOTS China Lake, and Bill and Mary Kern from Corona Del Mar. Bill has just moved to California from Ohio and is Field Secretary for Southwest USA for the Automotive Services Industry.

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Sec'y, RAdm. R. K. James, USN (Ret.) Apt. B611, River Honse South, 1600 S. Joyce St., Arlington, Va.

At the recent Cal-Navy game several '28ers were in the stands, including George and Greta FRITCHMAN, back from an extended visit to British Columbia. George reports he will be supplying additional information on his travels for the benefit of readers of Shipmate.

Also in the stands, looking very jaunty in his Hollywood-style outfit, was Spud MONAHAN with Bea. Jimmy and Virginia JAMES, visiting in California from Washington, were also present, as was W. D. THOMAS. Needless to say, the class reunion was more enjoyable to them than the outcome of the game.

While in (3alif., your secretary tracked E. E. FICKLING's new address to the ground. Fick left Ojai, Calif., to return to his home state and his new address is Possum Point II, Frograore, S. C. While in San Francisco your secretary talked with Ginny and Bill SEARLES. Bill is back in Oak Knoll Hospital suffering from impairment of locomotion. He sounded real cheerful, in fact, whimsical, over the phone. He noted that when he first reported aboard ship as an ensign in '28 he scarcely thought he would be making potholders as an admiral, as part of his physical therapy. Bill can be reached at 283 Summit Ave., Mill Valley, Calif.

After Labor Day we started our trek southward.

In Seatde we had KTs and dinner with Wells and Grace THOMPSON, Henry and Eleanor Marshall and Paul and Marge Dudley, both men '27. Wells is still teaching at U. W. Through Wells we first heard the sad news of Carpenter's death in March.

A few days in Tacoma renewing old acquaintances from our 1946-9 tour of duty as CO NavSta, then on to Portland for a weekend cruising on the Oilumbia River.

A planned month at Smith River salmon fishing was foreshortened by a week in order to arrive at San Francisco in time for the NavyCalifornia game. Although the game was a disappointment, the pre-game and post-game festivities were most enjoyable. Unfortunately the San Francisco and Peninsula chapters of the Alumni Association went their separate ways in planned activities so if you went to one you missed out on the other. We took in the activities at Treasure Island so missed out on seeing many of the Peninsula crowd.

Classmates seen at the game and at T. I. were Bill and Betty THOMAS of S. F., Spud and Bea MONAHAN up from Hollywood and Jimmy and Ginny JAMES all the way from Washington, D. C. Also at the game but not seen were Moon MULLEN and D. K. SMITH. Visited Bill SEARLES in Oak Knoll Hospital where he has been since early September following a flare-up of the multiple-sclerosis which forced his retirement in 1954. Ginny Searles hopes to have Bill at home again shortly. Contacted Elizabeth CARPENTER, who has setded in an apartment at Park Merced.

In the Peninsula area had KTs and dinner witii By and Betty BEYERLY and Nick and Margo DOUKAS '35. Phone-tacted Slim QUIETER who was heading for Washington on business and D. K. SMITH who was about to pilot a night flight to Houston. Then southward via a weekend in Morro Bay with Red and Helen Stoner '32.

Now we are back at Willow Trailer Park in Long Beach. After the holidays we hope to spend a few weeks each in Palm Springs and along the Colorado River.

WEST COAST George and Greta FRITSCHMANN are back in Southern California again for the holidays with their children and grandchildren and report as follows: We spent the summer at Campbell River on Vancouver Island as planned. The weather was delightful even though cooler and windier than normal and the salmon fishing was fair.

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Sec'y, RAdm. E. J. O'Donnell, USN Weapons System Evaluation GroDp, OSD Pentagon, Washington 25, D. C.

A class luncheon was held at the old Naval Gun Factory Officers' Club on 22 Oct. Present were Allen, Easton, Johansen, O'Donnell, Osborn, 37

Ray, Tolley, Triebel and Waterhouse. The added attraction was Don WEISS who came with Chuck Triebel. Don and Charlotte have been on a trip around the world from their home in Hawaii.

Don looked very fit although he said he had gained a litde weight eating rich food on the trip.

In a note from Whitey BEARDSLEY, he asked me to send him an appropriate list of classmates who might help Marge RICKETTS assemble material for a biography of Claude. I am, of course, complying with Whitey's request but I think that anyone who has any pertinent material, anecdotes or experiences which could be of interest, should send them along to Marge who has taken an apartment at 1100 ArmyNavy Dr., Arlington, Va. As most of you have probably read, the mixed manned destroyer which was the BIDDLE has been renamed the USS CLAUDE V. RICKETTS. The

ship visited Washington recendy, with a good deal of publicity because of the novelty of having a man-of-war with a crew made up from several countries.

You will recall that last month I mentioned Al STRAHORN was being transferred from Taiwan to a new assignment in the Adas Chemical Industries, Inc. A copy of a press release from this company indicates that Al will return to Wilmington for another assignment in the Adas international division. We would like for Al to get his new address in so that we can keep in touch.

Another communication which indicates the splendid progress of classmates in industry is one from the United Financial Corp. of California which announces the election of Elwood A. (Woody) TEAGUE as president and chairman of the board. In the announcement the outgoing chairman of the board stated: "We are most gratified and pleased with Mr. Teague's decision to join United Financial Corporation. He brings to the company many years of practical, working experience as a successful and accomplished real estate and financial management executive. We look forward to continued growth and accomplishment under Mr. Teague's able leadership."

I have recendy returned from a ten-day trip to England, France, Germany and Spain. I come back with the impression that for those who have the leisure to do so the possibilities for reasonable cost, enjoyable travel still exist with the possible exception of Paris. Even there it seems to me that the reports about exorbitant prices are overdone, although it is distincdy more expensive than the other places. I haven't been to Germany since 1952, we lived in Heidelberg from 1950-52, and the enormous economic strides that have been made there have, of course, been amply publicized, however, it is still something to behold.

No class luncheon is scheduled for November; a combined November and December lunch will be held on 10 D e c , probably at Roy BENSON's quarters. Classmates visiting Washington are most cordially invited. Just give me a call.

Sec'y, BGen. Ronald D. Salmon, USMC (Ret.), 640 Oakland Ter., Alexandria, Va. Corr Sec'y, RAdm. Parke H. Brady, USN (Ret.), 1801 Foxhall Rd., Wash. 7, D. C. SOUTHWEST AREA CLASS GROUP

Capt. and Mrs. Roy A. Newton announce the marriage of her daughter, Eleanore Diane Gaulin, to Lt. Larry Rex Lamb, USN, on 25 April at Yuma, Ariz. Diane's father was the late Lt. Victor S. Gaulin, USN, class of 1930. They are now at Corpus Christi, Tex. where Lt. Lamb is serving on the staff of Admiral Brandley, and Mrs. Lamb is teaching.

We returned to San Diego via Albuquerque and visited with Elie's nephew and wife, Capt. and Mrs. Dennis Ditmars, (MSC) USA. While there I talked with but did not see Emmet Obeirne, who is top boss at Sandia Base. Emmet said that he expects to retire on 1 Dec. and take 38

up residence in Florida. I also talked with Pablo De Vos. At present Pablo is enjoying an inactive retired life. I understand that Johnny Bristol is also residing in Albuquerque but did not have the opportunity to talk to him.

On Saturday, 10 Oct., the Southwest group gathered at the Officers' Club, U. S. Naval Air Station, North Island for another enjoyable and fun-filled evening. A total of 43 classmates, wives, classmates' widows, and guests were present for cocktails, dinner, and harmonizing with Eddie Sanders and Fred Bradman providing excellent music from an old upright piano.

Present were the Herb Andrews, Jay and Bunny Bowen, Fred Bradman (Else is on a tour of Europe with Kay Hindrelet and Louise Lynch), Ed and Ralphia Brumby, Harvey and Evelyn Burden, Soupy and Dottie Campbell, Mary Chappie, Bernie and Estelle Fuetsch, Mary Alice Hahn, Herschel and Anita House, Bob and Marjorie Jennings, Johnny and Betty Kinert (now located in Los Angeles), Bill and Helen Lowrey, Bob and Margaret Lynch, Marjorie Massey, Bowen and Madeline McLeod, Jack and Stuart Moreno, Foxy and Grace Newsome, Roy and Eleanore Newton, Foo and Marie Rutter, Eddie and Peggy Sanders, Willie and Betsy Wilbourne, and Sparky Woodruff who was in town from Denver visiting his parents.

When the nominating committee was unable to present a slate of officers for 1964-65, Roy Newton, who has been president of the southwest area contingent of the class since June 1963, nominated the following and they were elected unanimously: Bernie Fuetsch, president; Fred Bradman, vice president and Ed Brumby, secretary treasurer.

Since our last report on class activities in this area, it is our sad duty to report that Eileen Verhoye passed away in Seatde in mid-August while she and Harry were enroute to the east coast to visit their son and his family. We sent Harry a telegram and made an appropriate contribution to the Cancer Society in memory of Eileen.

From VAdm. V. L. LOWRANCE comes this word: "I recendy reported for duty in Norfolk as Commander Submarine Force, Atlantic Fleet.

We are comfortably setded in the West Virginia House, Naval Base, and the latch-string is always out to any of the class of '30 who happen to pass this way. With warm personal regards."

The following interesting item was furnished by none other than Charlie BROOK who manages to keep tabs on his distinguished classmates: UNDER THE DOUBLE EAGLE Harold Yokes has received orders for retirement on 1 Jan. 1965 with the rank of Captain, USNR. He had served in the Army Transportation Service as Ckilonel, USA, and was retired with that rank. So far as we know, this gives Harold the distinction of being the only man in history to wear the eagles of both services, a great honor for Harold and for the class of 1930.

I received the following letter from Bill BUTLER of Cove Cottage, Star Rt. 1, Box 250, Belfair, Wash., but it went astray for several months: "As I sit here looking out over the Hood Canal at a beautiful sunset over the Olympic Mountains, I am moved to write to you as our Shipmate 'contact man' in order to publicize this area where we have our new home. Frankly, I don't believe that the Navy has as yet 'discovered' the Hood Canal, and we (Madeleine and I) want to share our blessings—we don't want all this beauty just for ourselves! We would like to see some more Navy friends around. Incidentally, we are right on the water which is an inlet of Puget Sound.

We have a modest litde boat of 8 /4 feet which is a triple-threat job—it can be sailed, rowed, or be driven by an outboard motor of up to the tremendous rating of 3 HP. But don't get me wrong, there is plenty of room in the Canal for any size, any speed boat and they are here. There are oysters and clams in our 'front yard' and there is fishing, swimming and water skiing.

"So here is an open invitation to all to come visit us and draw your own conclusions while we swap a few sea stories. And, by the way, I am not selling real estate! During this past year I have found teaching at Olympic Ck)llege, a junior college in Bremerton, to be very rewarding. I plan to continue this coming school year and am currendy going to summer school at U. W. "During June we had the great pleasure of a visit by Fred and Else Bradman; he was in charge of a convention in Seatde at the time. Of course it had to rain a bit on the day they were here— but how else would we get all these beautiful trees and flowers.'

"Others I see from time to time are: Oscar Browne who teaches at U. W., Don Krick, who works at Boeing, and Floyd Schultz '32, who is Shipyard Commander at Bremerton. Come visit us—we have a guest room ready."

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Sec'y, Capt. Oscar E. Hagberg, USN (Ret.) 1109 Grove St., N.E. Albuquerque, N. M. Corr. Sec'y, Capt. S. W. Betts, USN Atmospheric Sciences Program National Science Foundation Washington 25, D. C.

Bob HUDSON reports from Vista, C^alif., "Margo and I find life well worth living among our avocado trees here in Vista. It really is a pretty spot, and the weather is exceptionally good. Being near Pendleton and afforded the use of their swimming pools has been a life saver for me. I enjoy it, as well as its being much needed therapy.

"We enjoy seeing the classmates in this area, and thought we would send you a few items for Shipmate.

"Peri LOCKWOOD, showing championship form, came from behind to win in his flight in a recent golf tournament at Rancho Santa Fe. Trailing his opponent three down and four to go.

Peri tied it up on the 18th and went on to win on the 19th. Peri and Nancy are both enjoying life in Del Mar at 352 13th St. Nancy says she is not a good golfer, but she wins turkeys, golf bags, and such, so figure it out for yourselves.

"Art and Mary Lou CUMBERLEDGE returned to their Coronado home at 727 G Ave. after an extended summer trip to Colorado to inspect Mary Lou's recently inherited gold claim. From there they went to visit in Carmel, San Francisco, and the Bay area.

"Vic and Helen KING sold their home in La Jolla, and have moved to a charming smaller home at Rancho Bernado, a retirement community near Escondido.

"Ernie and Fran ELLSWORTH planned a repeat of last year's wonderful '31 class party at their attractive La Jolla home. This was cancelled in deference to Bob Fable who died in early October. We were all saddened by this loss.

Marion plans to remain in the San Diego area at present.

"Elliot and Elynor BROWN recendy purchased a lovely home in Coronado. Brownie is still teaching college math.

"The class of '31 wives in San Diego county are great promoters of class spirit. Their bimonthly luncheons are always well attended."

Also heard from Jack WULFF: "Just returned to Hollywood, Fla. after a quick trip to Illinois to vote and to attend to farm matters. Enroute we stopped in Jacksonville to see the NavyGeorgia Tech game (a minor disaster.) At the alumni party given at NAS Jax on 8 Oct., Mildred and I ran into Beans CORLISS and wife returning to their home in Stuart, Fla., from a vacation in the mountains in North Carolina where they had purchased some ground to build a summer cabin. On our return trip we stopped to visit Rudy FABIAN in Port Charlotte, Fla. He is enjoying the life. Is on the water with a boat and can get to the good fishing in about 10 minutes. Looks wonderful. Bert was in Alabama on a visit to her Mother.

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"Oh yes, we went thru Lake City, Fla. and I tried to reach Red CONE by telephone, but there was no answer. Appears that some '31ers are migrating to Florida. I can strongly recommend Hollywood for urban living, close to good fishing, excellent golf and near to a metropolitan city that's growing—Miami.

"How about our 35th anniversary coming up in 1966.' Has anybody started the planning for this get-together.' Appears to me that we might decide on the dates—i.e., graduation or homecoming as the date now and get some space blocked in town and at the Academy for the various functions. I'd like to make a reservation for a room now if I knew the dates. How about seeing if you can get the ball rolling. Joe Thornton and I will be there for two people!"

Needless to say, plans are in the making and while it appears that there is some preference for pre-June Week, now is the time to get your vote into Sherry Betts.

Bill LEVERTON has amplified his situation a bit: "My convalescence has been made easier by the kindness of everybody here in Norfolk from Adm. Page SMITH on down. But good things have to come to an end—so Helen and I moved on the first of Oct. to 1300 Sussex Place in the Larchmont area of Norfolk. We intend to ride out the winter there, living in a litde house that won't take so much of our time that we can't enjoy some trips, playing golf all winter and finishing up the recuperation. Next spring, everything being as anticipated, we will move back to our home in Washington. We are looking forward to seeing our hometown folks and those who have made it their home since retirement.

It will be a problem leaving our good friends here—Charlie BROOKS who went through this same routine before me, and who babysits me on the golf course for our 4 or 5 holes each day; Bud NEEDHAM, who has been a real friend.

Rusty WILLIAMS, Junior McCAIN, Les WOOD, and Jerry SOUTH, who spend a lot of time on the road. We see less frequently but often Joe TOTH, Mike WOOD, Bob GADROW. Maybe if they twist our arms hard enough we might not even move up there at all. Norfolk isn't the same place we remember from our JO days—the Navy is not only accepted—it is taken in as a fullfledged member of the community. It is no news around here but might surprise some.

"Helen and I certainly appreciate all the kind messages of various kinds that came to me while I was in the hospital. It would be impossible to answer them all personally, so I take this means.

Right now I am not interested in taking a job.

There isn't enough money to get me into the cutthroat end of industry—or to get me out of the Washington-Norfolk axis."

Our long-range forecast re Weenie WERTS was naturally correct. He and Margaret are now home at 5104 Allan Rd., Washington, D. C. 20016; ph. 657-4353. Weenie has decided to take retirement seriously.

"This report is from Albuquerque in the "Land of Enchantment," but we had to travel all the way to California to get it. Betty and I boarded a TWA super-jet in Albuquerque on the Thursday of the Navy-California game weekend, landed in Las Vegas long enough to feed a couple dollars into the slots, then on to San Francisco by 1830.

Fanny and Dick ANDREWS greeted us at International Airport and the magic weekend was underway. Andrews, my old roommate of 1338 Bancroft Hall, had made all sorts of arrangements for us, so after splicing the main brace, he and Fanny drove us on to Berkeley. We found that Betty and Ransome PIERCE live only 3 blocks from the Claremont Hotel, and had lunch at their beautiful home before the football game.

The Pierces have lived in Berkeley for 14 years; Ran helps manage the water department of East Bay area; they have a daughter attending UCLA and a son at University of Nevada.

The Bears won the football game as they played their best game of the year, and Navy DECEMBER,

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looked good in spots. At the game in our vicinity we saw Algv BECKM.\NN, Mac McKEE, and Chick CHANDLER. After the game we attended the Naval Academy Alumni Assn. party at the Officers' Club, Treasure Island. The San Francisco alumni really went all out on this one and it was a wonderful affair. Among others we saw Eileen and Sine WRIGHT. The circumstances are a litde hazy, but we ended up at a delightful class of '30 dinner party with Dave Hawkins and his crew.

On Sunday we journeyed down the Peninsula to that same RAdm. Dick Andrews' palatial new home for a luncheon party (in our honor, no less) and there was assembled all of the class of 1931, San Francisco Bay area who could get there. In this distinguished company were: Red Adair, Ed Burns, Levi Farrington, Max Firth, Ed Foster, Billy Giles, Sam Lief, Dick Peterson, Tom Phifer, Paul Schoeni, Ran Pierce, Ed Steffanides, Nick Tripi, Craig Veasey, Jack White and Foo Weir. And all of their lovely wives were in the party. Giffle Clementson '32, who lives right around the next hill, also was a guest.

This was royal entertainment among so many old friendsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;we concluded that Andrews must be the Squire of Hill No. 300 in Hillsborough.

Had RAdm. John Gannon been able to make it he would have been the only classmate on active duty, but Johnny was in the process of moving to Moffett Field for his new assignment.

Anyway the party was still going on, nobody had fallen into the new swimming pool, as we sadly took our departure for the afternoon plane back to New Mexico.

We will have to do this more often says yours truly."

HERE A N D THERE W I T H

'32

From the Washington Star we learn that William B. B. LYONS (our own "Beau") has been named by Adantic Research Corp. as corporate representative, with specific assignment to NASA, FAA, AEC, the U. S. Weather Bureau and the Naval Oceanographic Office. He has been with ARC for 11 years, and before that was with Hoffman Electronics.

Chmn, Mr. Turner A. Duncan AVCO Corp., 1701 K St., N.W. Washington 6, D. C. Corr. Sec'y, Capt. Dale Mayberry, USN (Ret.), U. S. Naval Academy Museum Annapolis, Md. CHARLES FORD GARRISON W. B. B. LYONS '32

OSCAR HAGBERG

After some time in the investment business in San Francisco, Bob HEILIG has moved to La Jolla. He will continue in the investment field in the San Diego area. Bob and Gimpie will reside at 8906 Cliffridge Ave., La Jolla, Calif., in the kinder latitudes of that state.

Jack DORSETT and Louise stopped the night with the Hagbergs on their way to Menlo Park, Calif., on 5 Nov. Jack has left his billet with BcK)Z, Allen Research, Inc. at Bethesda, and will work with Stanford Research Associates in California. To discuss this situation thoroughly, Ed and Angeline Engel, Jim O'Toole, Wes and Lucy Connor (Wes' mother also came along to maintain order and discipline) dropped by for the evening. Naturally the discussion was not only thorough but quite lively.

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Sec'y, Mr. John Stanley Miller 5809 Namakagan Road Washington 16, D. C.

GEORGE HOLMES McCAIN

Your secretary regrets to report the passing of George Holmes McCain, Lt.Col., (MC) USAF, who died of a coronary occlusion on 24 Sept. at Tallahassee, Fla. He is survived by his widow.

Pearly L. McCain, of 2323 Phillips Rd., Tallahassee. After he left our ranks in plebe year, George went on to make his mark in uniform as a medico, a career foreshortened by his early retirement for a heart condition in 1952. We who knew him are proud that he never forgot the Navy. We will not forget him.

The only business transacted was the off-year election of Dimi DIMITRIJEVIC as chapter chairman for the year 1965, and the continuation in office of Bob ("Soft Touch") LEONARD as secretary-treasurer. Wives say they want an evening gala soon, so this is being planned for a postholiday affair.

Present were: Lindsay and Ruth Williamson, Peg and Jim Collett, George and Mary Pierce, Bob and Teeny Leonard, Corky and Nona Ward, Swede and Peg Eastwold, Kitty Fawkes (Emer's plane didn't meet the noon ETA), Al and Muriel Wellings, Sam and Jane Moncure, Ennis and Gerry Taylor, Mel and Marie Young, Ray and Diana Pitts, Harry and Dorothy Reiter, Beau Lyons, and Dick and Virginia Craighill.

Lem and Mary SMALL attended the festivities as part of their swing around the country which included a visit with their daughter in Billings, Mont., stops in San Francisco and San Diego, thence home to Virginia.

The Denigs are kept close to the Sacramento area. Bob says, by his "new career" as manager of value engineering with Aerojet's Rocket Operations. He and Mary have managed a trip in which they visited with Al and Esther COPE and had lunch with Charlie PHILLIPS before flying to Guyamas, Mex., for fishing.

As a footnote to the passing of Mary Jane Grider, we are pleased to report that the Naval Communicators' Wives have donated a pingpong table and memorial plaque to the Soldiers, Sailors, Marines and Airmen's Club, thus keeping her memory alive in one of her many charities.

The memorial was formally dedicated at the semiannual meeting of the club's directors this fall.

We read that Lou KIRN has orders detaching him from ComKWestFor to Deputy Director Joint Staff, JCS. Ski SOSNOSKI is held in Philadelphia by Piasecki, so Polly will come east to rejoin him at Thanksgiving as guests of Bob and Teeny LEONARD. Jack MYERS is now working with Philco in Philadelphia, but Ruth is keeping the home fires burning in their new home in Alexandria.

Linny Lanman Saul is beaming over a new grandson, Joe Kenary, Jr., recently born to daughter Mary Lou. W A S H I N G T O N CHAPTER ' 3 2 NOVEMBER LUNCHEON

It was "32 for '32" when Washington chapter alumni met with their wives on 6 Nov. for luncheon in the ballroom at Fort McNair. Despite the juggling of dates and pressure of business, there was a good turnout and an abundance of good cheer.

Classmates will be saddened to learn that Charlie Garrison died on 10 Nov. of a heart ailment at the Naval Hospital in Bethesda, Md. Graveside services with simple military honors were held on Friday, 13 Nov. at Arlington National Cemetery. The class extends deepest sympathy to Charlie's widow, Elizabeth, who resides at 1318 Fiddler's Green, Falls Church, Va. An interesting letter and photo have been received from Tom Christopher. The letter is quoted in part: "Sid Wade was through here recendy, and the accompanying photo prompted me to get off the barrel and do something. The date was 23 Sept. and occasion, Sid's swing through WestPac. The location, entrance to Commander Naval Forces Marianas headquarters. The caption might be 'â&#x20AC;&#x201D;come into my parlor said the spider to the fly' with some apprehension registered on Sid's part. It was good to see him but we had but a short visit and a brief chance to break bread together.

"Time is running out on me. Dale, and I'm expecting Dick Bird to relieve me on 9 Nov. '33 has had this job locked in for some time. Wally Wendt, Jack Coye, myself and Dick next.

"The past two years, lacking a month, have gone past swifdy. Everyone busily engaged in restoration after Jack Coye's big blow, Karen, in Nov. '62. I'm sure Jack will lay no claim to her as she was a messy climax to Jack and Betty's tour out here. We have enjoyed the island and parting will not be without its pangs of regret.

SACRAMENTO AREA

Twelve Navy couples chartered a bus from Sacramento to take in the Navy-California game on 17 Oct. This was the occasion for a substantial '32 reunion at the Treasure Island Club for an after-game party, as reported by Bob DENIG. He and Mary were joined by Mai and Sara Ann Munger, Joe and Dottie Witherow, Dick and Lorene Adams, Bob and Jean Beer, and Lem and Mary Small. Bob Denig and Mai Munger are sparking a class party in the San Francisco area. The project should be at a full boil by the time this is in print.

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MAJ. GEN. S. S. WADE, USMC, and RAdm. T. A. Christopher at Commander Naval Forces Marianas Headquarters.

S H I P M A T E

HOMECOMING this year was '34's 30 years after.

It amply merits the sobriquet as 'Cross Roads of the Pacific,' and many have been the friends and mutual acquaintances that have passed through here. As you probably have noted, I'm headed for Key West, Fla. The agony of packing and getting ready to move is the same old nightmare."

The annual joint luncheon with members of the West Point class of 1933 was held at the Army-Navy Town Club on Tuesday, 10 Nov. As many know, this luncheon has been a most important function for the Washington group of the class. Annually, a bet is made on the outcome of the Army/Navy football game and for the last five years the proceeds from this bet have been the most reliable source of income for the treasurer. The bet was made again this year, amid much speculation and many predictions.

Present, and representing the Navy were: Blouin, Cobb, Curtze, Derickson, Duncan, Jones, Kefauver. King, Mandarich, McMullen, Mayberry, Mott, Selby, Stocker, Thompson, Travis, Curtis, Davis and Dawson. Representing the .^rmy were: Baumer, Beck, Clarke, Downing, Ferris, Fuqua, Gallagher, Gibbs, Giffin, Hartel, Kaiser, King, Neely, Otto, Pope, Ryan, Solomon, Summerfelt, Vidal, Watters, Whipple and White.

Listed below are a few more names, addresses, and current employment of classmates gleaned from data submitted for the "Thirty Years After" book: Bill OVERTON, who retired in July 1962, is now logistic planning analyst with Lockheed Missile & Space Co., at their Sunnyvale, Calif, plant. Bill and wife, Margaret, are living at 1174 Pimento Ave. in Sunnyvale.

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Jay PALMER retired from the Navy in August 1957, and is now an engineer with the New York Shipbuilding Corp. in Camden, N. J. He and his wife, Emma, reside at 1607 Ravenswood Way, Cherry Hill Township, Haddonfield.

Johnny OREN was recendy selected for the rank of rear admiral, USCG. He is now assigned as Chief of Engineering for the Coast Guard at Washington Headquarters. He and his wife, Virginia, live at the Windsor Towers, Apt. 215-A, 5539 Columbia Pike, Arlington, Va. Sam PATTIE, who retired as a captain in 1955, is now teaching math at Brewer High School in Texas. He and his wife, Nelda, live at 7037 Willis Ave., Fort Worth, Tex. Tay Pay O'CONNELL, who retired has dropped anchor with Carol at the Country Ranch, Rt. No. 8, Tucson, hopes soon to go into the real estate business for himself.

in 1958, Captain's Ariz. He brokerage

Jim OGDEN retired in 1960. He is math instructor and also coaches lacrosse at Severn School.

He and Betty are living at 101 Avondale Circle, Severna Park, Md. Gavin and Dorothy MUIRHEAD reside at 1415 Lincoln, Beatrice, Neb. Gavin is a pharmacist there with Lowell Beer Apothecary.

The book, incidentally, is in the final stages of preparation. Charlie Travis expects that by the time this issue of Shipmate is published it will be in the hands of the printer. Publication will require about 14 weeks, after which the copies will be mailed to individual subscribers.

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Sec'y, Cdr. Robert P. Harbold, Jr., USNR Parkside Apts., 10630 Kenilworth Ave. Apt. 204, Bethesda 14, Md.

30TH REUNION H O M E C O M I N G WEEKEND

1964

Thirty-four and thirty-after muster list: Alexander, Spencer Adams, Allen, Bourke, Baumberger, Wendell Bailey, Bengston, Bradley, Chandler, Coen, Allyn Cole, Christensen, Crutcher, Paul Cook, Bart Day, Doss, Dutton, Dry, Joe Dickey, Eberle, Fink Fischer, Fairweather, Fleck, Guthrie, Green, Hoffman, Horton, Heerde, Hommel, Hyland, Hyde, Hardy, Harbold, Irvine, Frank Johnson, Nels Johnson, Klunk, Kleppinger, Keller, Lawson, Dave Miller, Grayson Merrill, Mumma, Milbrath, Bill Martin, Nienstedt, Ray Ours, Peddy, Pinney, Powers, Pittard, Pegelow, Ramsey, Rosenberg, Roy Smith, Hi Smith, Victor Smith, Schnable, Shepard, Schuiz, Semmes, Sample, Sheffield, Turrentine, Upham, Van Arsdall, George Walker, Waybright, John White, and Westholm. We also had Ellen Bradbard, Dorothy Pilcher, and Col. Martin Ray, class of 1914, USMA, as our guests. Many others were invited but could not attend.

Suffice to let the pictures tell the story, thanks to Clyde Van Arsdall (except as noted), and the above list to help you identify those who were in attendance.

The many thanks and expressions of appreciation for the time and effort that resulted in such a wonderful party have been frequent, both verbal and written. Perhaps the following brief note may sum up all of your feelings: 41

"Helen and I want to thank you for all you did to make homecoming and our class reunion such an outstanding success. We are aware of the time and effort required and are very grateful that '34 has a Butch Harbold who contributes so generously to the class welfare. We are now back at home in Tripoli and will welcome any classmate who is passing through this booming oil metropolis. Sincerely, s/Paul (COOK)."

Again you are all most sincerely welcome and it is truly my pleasure to do so litde for so many that are appreciative of this time and effort.

For those who have been wondering what happened to J. D. FULP.' J. D. was appointed northwest regional operations manager for SeaLand Service, Inc., and will handle sales and operations for this inter-coastal truckship transportation company in the newly-opened Kodiak, Alaska, office.

Also a note from Butch ROBBINS, temporarily located at 1520 5th St., Coronado, Calif. He has converted to a civil servant for BuWeps west coast representative and loves it. After 1 Dec. he will begin to get paid.

Our heartfelt sympathy and affection to Jim and Emilie NEWELL for the sudden passing of their son Jim Jr., class of 1963.

Sec'y, Capt. F. G. Law, USN 1142 N. Illinois St. Arlington, Va. Corr. Sec'y, Capt. Wm. A. Ellis, USN 4029 Downing St. Annandale, Va. 22003 JAMES K. BUTLER

It is with deep regret that I report the sudden death of our former classmate and friend Jim Butler. Visiting at his mother's home in Jackson, Miss., Jim suffered a heart attack and passed away on 7 Oct. Jim, as you will remember, was Gordon Fowler's roommate for two years at the Academy, but was forced to resign because of a sight deficiency. He entered and ultimately graduated in 1937 from Washington & Lee University, subsequendy joining the staff of W. R. Grace & Co. in New York. He was transferred the same year to South America and for eight years held the position of Superintendent of Stations for Panagra, a Grace affiliate, in Peru and Argentina, being appointed in 1957 as regional manager of the airline with headquarters in Lima, Peru. This was the position he held at the time of his death.

Jim was not only very active in civic affairs, but in 1960 was awarded the insignia of the Order of Merit for Distinguished Services by the Government of Peru. Interment was in the New British Cemetery, Bellavista, in Lima on 14 Oct. He is survived by his widow Lucy; three children, James M., Lucy E., and Margaret, and his mother.

To Lucy, the children, and Mrs. Burier, all of us in '36 express our deepest sympathy. Friends may write to Lucy at Javier Prado 1465, San Isidro, Lima, Peru, S. A. Our expression of sympathy also goes to Jeanne King whose mother passed away in September.

The '36 wives' luncheon on 21 Oct., the first of a new series, was held at the Jockey Club in Washington and was a huge success. Present were 22 of our gals—they outdid us guys at our first luncheon—among whom were Barbara Hoffman, Frances Slonim, Helen Turner, Martha Tom Manning, Cissy Kaufman, Nancy Kimmel, Rosa Law, Georgia Odening, Margot and Ann Phillips, Jean Willman, Carol Holman, Blanche Baumeister, Nancy Bennett, Katie Chenault, Vera Dockum, Ede Ellis, Dixie Gillette, Claudiana Rice, Kathleen Ryder, Edna Sanford, and Frankie Brown. Barbara Schelch, Ann Teel, Polly Masters and Beverly Price unfortunately were not able to attend at the last minute.

The stag luncheon, held 15 Oct. at Fort Myer Officers' Mess, while not strong in attendance was nevertheless a success—at least it got the ball rolling with regard to a decision on the 30th reunion. Present were: Bill Kaufman, Warfield Bennett, Brown, Ryder, Bjarncson, Masters, Price, 42

MARACAIBO launching

Davenport, Rice, Willman, Woodville, Hugh Caldwell, Baumeister, Oseth, Jack Turner, Law and Ellis. We were all glad to see Hugh Caldwell who had flown in from the west coast, timing his Washington business to coincide with the luncheon. Hugh hasn't changed a bit and looked every bit like the successful industrialist.

Primary discussion centered around Vince COMBS' suggestion that we celebrate our 30th reunion in the 30th year, i.e., 1965, in lieu of 1966 when most of us will have retired. The suggestion was unanimously accepted, and as a result Vince was elected—that's what he gets for being absent—as chairman to get things rolling.

Dav DAVENPORT volunteered to be his Annapolis representative, and Frank LAW to be the backstop for both. On this note the meeting adjourned until the next luncheon in December to be held at the Officers' Club, Navy Yard Annex, NavSta Washington.

Vince hasn't let any grass grow under his feet cither! He reports that he has 25 rooms reserved at Holiday Inn (10 doubles and 15 singles) for homecoming weekend next September as well as the Coral Sea Room at the Officers' Club for a party. He and Frank will be getting out a "flyer" very shordy; so put down the date now and get your reservations in early for a big time in '65.

Our appreciation goes to Emily and Paul STIMSON for carrying on the tradition set by the Rices and the Reeds, and for sending out the flyer that invited all those attending the Notre Dame and Army games to accept their hospitality by making their quarters the '36 headquarters. I'm sure that all those who availed themselves of this invitation had a marvelous time. To Emily and Paul, thanks from all!

Edna and Sandy SANFORD joined the grandparents' clan with the birth of a granddaughter, Anne Louise Barca, to their son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. L. Barca, Jr., in the Canal Zone, on 28 Aug. From us all, congratulations!

It's late, and there's no more news. Only wish I knew the outcome of the A&N game, but I know it will be good! So until next month, a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all of you wherever you may be.

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Mrs. John I. Mingay, center front above, wife of Cdr. MINGAY, USNR '37 (behind and to her right), recendy launched the 90,000-ton Texaco

MARACAIBO, the largest tanker to be built in British shipyards. Cdr. Mingay is vice-president and general manager of the Domestic Sales Dept. of Texaco, Inc. At the spofisor's left is Dr. Dennis Rebbeck, managing director of the Harland and Wolfe Shipbuilding Co., which built this largest vessel in the worldwide Texaco/Regent fleet. Mr. Charles C. Dunn '26 is managing director of the Regent Oil Co., Ltd., London.

Sec'y, Capt. J. A. Bogley, USN 3900 Watson Place, Apt. 7B Washington, D. C. 20016 '38

UNION

The closeness of our class as a group has always been a source of pride and pleasure. To learn that this spirit has passed on to our offspring in even a more pronounced manner reflects much credit on the older generation. So I am happy to report that Grace and Skip GIFFIN announce the engagement of their daughter, Miss Dagmar Hodgeman Giffen, to Ens. Asbury Coward, IV, son of Jean and Red COV/ARD. We wish Dagmar and Sandy good health, happiness and Godspeed. And congratulations to the proud parents for a truly great "first" in the class. (See '64 "Dope.")

WASHINGTON

GROUP

The monthly luncheons continue to be well attended with many new faces showing up each time. Present for the last gathering were: Alford, Andrews, Auraund, Bolam, Bogley, Al Church, Coward, Carter, DeCamp, Ferriter, Foley, Hansen, Hunnicutt, Heston, Irvine, Red Johnson, Art Johnson, Vern Johnson, Hank Jackson, Mansfield, Melvin, Morgan, Muse, Mclntyre, Owens, Olsen, Jim Payne, Charlie Robertson, Ben Pickett, Small, Spears, Silk and Vinock. As you can see, we had a quorum of the Johnsons. Ben PICKETT came up from Yorktown where he is CO of the Weapons Depot. Eli VINOCK is a new arrival and has been assigned to the Inter-American Defense Board. John FERRITER and Frank SILK are assigned to OpNav. The wives gathered this month for an enjoyable luncheon at Collingwood Inn on the Potomac with Jeanne MANN and Connie JACKSON as hostesses. It was decided not to have a luncheon during December in view of the planned class formal dinner-dance and other holiday activities.

It was announced that Ruth and Gid BOYD would be arriving in Washington soon for duty in OpNav. Also that Gigi and Phil BESHANY would spend a few days in Washington enroute to their new duty on the staff CinCAFMed. S H I P M A T E

V I S I T I N G FIREMEN

Anita and Bill DIMMICK flew into town to begin a trip that sounds much like a second honeymoon. They visited New York, Newport and Boston; spent a weekend in San Juan; stopped

by Jamaica to rest and recoup before hitting New Orleans on the way back home to Whittier, Calif.

Bill has bought a boat, appropriately named it the NEET-SEA and proudly refers to it as his first command.

Hank D E L A U R E A L came up from Norfolk where he has the schools command under ComPhibTraLant. Hank has also taken over the chairmanship of the Norfolk group and reports the last class luncheon was attended by John HAINES, CinCLant Staff; Red MASON, Chief of Staff ComSubLant; Vince SHUMACKER, Chief of Staff ComSerLant and Bob SINNOTT, TraLant. A Christmas party is in the planning stage and will probably be held in one of those lucky classmate's quarters.

George D.'\LTON flew in from Pearl on news that his mother had taken sick and was hospitalized at Bethesda. George is Chief of Staff to ComASWForPac. It is always nice to see our visiting classmates and get the news from their areas. It also gives me a chance to encourage them to write me the news when they return home.

NEWS FROM ALL A R O U N D

Connie and Fran HARTIGAN not only showered me with hospitality while in Yokosuka but took care of some unfinished shopping. In reporting completion of the mission, Connie included the fact that he and Fran had flipped and climbed Mt. Fuji, counting each 12,393 feet.

This could be a first for the class and should be duly noted in our 30-year book.

Norm FRYER checks in from Baltimore, and reports on his recent activities. After Norm retired in June 1960 (Captain, USN), he went to work for ."Mrcraft Armaments, Inc., as the Asst. chief of procurement; he is still there in that capacity. He also resumed his project of studying law, which had been interrupted by transfer to sea duty in 1950 while stationed in Washington, D. C. Now Norm gives us a progress report.

On 5 June 1964, he was admitted to practice as a member of the Bar of the Court of Appeals of Maryland. Ceremonies were held in the Court of Appeals Building at Annapolis. Norm received his LL.B. degree from the University of Maryland School of Law in June 1963, and passed the examinations given in March 1964 by the State Board of Law Examiners. Norm has also been admitted to practice as a member of the Bar of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City, and the Bar of Baltimore County. Congratulations Norm but it sounds like you are spending lots of time in bars these days.

In a recent Newsweek article on ambulances, it was interesting to note some quoted comments on the subject by our classmate, the Rev. John Stevens, rector of St. Timothy's Church in Houston, Tex. John has been a long-time campaigner for better ambulance service. In that portion of the article indicating more than half of the ambulances in service were operated by undertakers and have been accused of competing for funeral business, John cites cases in which ambulances have left live accident victims on the street and run off with the dead ones. Good work John. Glad somebody is worrying about us.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you all.

Sec'y, Capt. John N. Renfro, USN 5030 35th St., N. Arlington 7, Va. Since John RITCH has done such a good job of getting out "The Book," he has been volunteered to catch from me the sputtering torch of eternal information-gathering and deadline-meeting for this column when I leave for the NATO International Staff in Paris in December.

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Mark LOWE, Professor of Naval Science and Tactics at Oklahoma University, and Elmer WARING, who has the same post at University of Missouri, v/iW get together at the Missouri and Oklahoma football game, for a small local reunion.

The November class luncheon brought few surprises including election results. John PARKS attended for the first time in a long time—he had just joined BuWeps. Ebbie BELL is back in town but he had to cancel out at the last minute due to his increased responsibilities. Paul SCHRATZ assumed his rightful duties as leader of the local league and told us about his experiences during a year of TAD at Geneva. These affairs are now held at the Officers' Club, Navy Yard Annex (ex Gun Factory) the 1st Wednesday of each month.

Plus 25 has met with enthusiastic response and universal approval. Comments range from "Good show!" to "It's better than a class reunion since it affords an opportunity really to follow the careers and understand the motivations of our classmates." Ed MATTSON sent in the latter comment from Brainard, Mo. John MILLINGTON, Sacramento, says it is fascinating to contemplate how the nature of our country and the nature of our Navy have changed since '39. As a for instance, he cites the following: he is a programmer for Aerojet General, and uses among other things a Naval Electric Laboratory International Algorithmic Compiler (NELIAC). In '39 we didn't even have EDP (Electronic Data Processing).

Herm SPECTOR put it this way: Dear Johnny Ritch and Staff (this includes each better-half): Collective ears aren't supposed to burn Or white-thatched heads be prone to turn, But here is something you should know That ought to give your hearts a glow: At Classmates' gatherings in the West There's talk of religion, politics and all the rest.

But one topic brings resounding praise Quite loud enough the roof to raise.

The object of this happy fuss: The elegant production—25 with a Plus.

'39ers here all join as one To salute you with a strong "Well Done!"

—HERM

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Sec'y, Capt. Edward Mnhlenfeld, USN OpNav (Op-91C), Room 4A686, The Pentagon Washington 25, D. C. Corr. Sec'y, G. G. Williams, c/o J. C. Wheat & Co., 15 Selden Arcade, Norfolk, Va.

W A S H I N G T O N REPORT

About 15 couples from the class had a bang-up time in the customary behind-the-goal-line seats at the Navy-Maryland game.

Among the recent new faces noted on the Washington scene are Bill BAKER, Herman KLARE and Snuffy SMITH. Herman, just back from a year's tour in Paris v/ith the NATO International Staff, was featured speaker at the November luncheon. He gave an interesting account of the joys and problems of living in the local economy, fortified with a three-week cram course in the French language.

Faced with competition from the naval aviators' luncheon, we had the smallest turnout of the year to date, but hope to get back to size again next month. Those present were Bowell, Baker, Block, Blough, Berndtson, Boehm, Cochrane, Erekson, Hechler, Henry, Klare, Muhlenfeld, O'Neill, Orser, Scott, Sims, Stanwick, Taylor, Trice, Vickery and White. Honors for coming from furthest away went to Rue O'Neill, in from St. Louis.

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to no one) A few extra copies of the book are available from John. These will be priced at f5 for repeat copies and $7.50 for an original order. Walt McGUINESS, in congratulating the staff on the product of their time and effort, asked about class dues. The book was a self-sustaining effort and may even add a little money to the treasury. We no longer collect dues; the interest on our government bonds provides the money with which we purchase the gold watch, send telegrams and flowers and handle the other small business arrangements of the class. Lee GOOLSBY has been our treasurer for several years now and has been outstanding; his financial statement in Plus 25 gives the general picture and shows that contributions, while not solicited, are ever welcome.

We are starting to get fired up for the big TWENTY-FIFTH reunion next year. As plans progress you will be advised by mail. This means we need up-to-date addresses. Ed MUHLENFELD holds the last set of home addresses, contained in the 20-year book records. Please send him any changes so we can keep our mailing list current and make sure everybody gets the word.

Bill ALFORD states that the fourth annual joint '38-'39 New England fall party held on 24 Oct. at his house in Middleton, R. I., was well attended: '38ers . . . O'Bryans, Bowers, Dave Hulls, Frank Lynches, Ropers; and '39ers . . .

Alfords, Brents, Pratts, O'Rourkes, Ceases, Dudleys, Gillettes, McCoys, Vandergrifts, Zoellers, Willie Denton, Jeff Davis and Helen Tenanty.

Jeff DAVIS just went to work with Electric Boat Company. Willie DENTON, Bill ALFORD, and Johnny CEASE brought saxophones and a fine time was had. Bill sponsors these semi-annual affairs; guests chip in for catering and bring their own liquid refreshments.

Harvey VOGEL reports that he is now with Booz-Allen Applied Research Inc., in Silver Spring.

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Warren SMALZEL (Captain, USN, Ret.) writes from Sachems Head, Guilford, Conn., to

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report an active few months for the family in Connecticut. The summer started and ended with moving to another house. In between, Margaret brought the Smalzel children population to five, with baby Steve, and Warren changed jobs, becoming MIT's Institute Secretary for Corporations. In December the Smalzels will move again, back to Cohasset which is 25 miles south of Boston.

Bill LAFFEY (Cdr, USN, Ret.) is now with the Reeves-Hoffman Division of Dynamics Corp. of America in Carlisle, Pa. His home address is given as "The Cairn, Boiling Springs, Pa."

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Sec'y, Cdr. R. S. Day, USN (Ret.) P. O. Box 6042, Shirlington Station Arlington, Va. 22206

Drafting the Christmas edition in the middle of a November heat wave takes a bit of doing, but perhaps headlining the year-end parties may help.

Ran into Ed ROSENBERG in the Pentagon ERing, where he was doing some leg-work for his ComlstFlt boss, and he advised that the San Diego gathering at North Island would be 19 Dec. This also implies that 300 9th St., Coronado, might make a good point of contact. Russ FLYNN, who relieved Jud DOYLE as CO NavComSta Norfolk in June, is the head "rosterkeeper" for that area. Both Russ and Norm NASH expect great things of Harry ALLENDORFER's Christmas dance committee, but the only date suggested is New Year's Eve. Last year's gathering, also under Harry's leadership, was a huge success, and anyone in or around the Norfolk area should check with Norm, Russ or Harry as to the exact date.

The Washington area "anniversary" dance will probably be in February, so it will be possible to make all three gatherings if you have the proper connections, funds, or inclination, or any proper combination of all three.

The Norfolk roster shows 19 on active duty in the area, and Bill KIGERL, Chick MARTIN, H. P. McNEAL, Bob McGRATH, and Bill VOSE retired and working in the area. A note from Joe TULLY (NEOSHO) reports Ruth also living in Norfolk while he fuels the 6th. Joe wound up his stint at the National War College by taking a Master's in International Affairs at GW, which was completed on 24 July and then hotfooted it to Norfolk to assume command. Altho Joe has hit Athens, Istanbul, Rhodes and Naples, he has seen only one '42er, Jim SCHREMP. The latter was driving MAZAMA around behind the ROOSEVELT.

Lou JULLIEN is now executive officer, NROTC Unit, Illinois Institute of Technology after serving a stint in Washington, D. C , and I pass along one phrase from his letter: "If people in Washington think living is expensive, they should come to the Chicago area!" This may or may not ease the burden of year-end bills somewhat, but it's a nice thought.

Steve WALSH has turned up in Puerto Rico, where he has landed a job as technical associate to the director, Puerto Rico Nuclear Center, Mayaguey, following retirement in June of this year. Among other things he has charge of their research vessel, SHIMADA, SO keeps a hand on the wheel. He and Inez would welcome visitors, so if you are headed that way, it's Box 168, Cabo Rojo, PR. Dick AREY, who has joined the ranks of the teaching profession (Hargrave Military Academy), is now executive secretary of the Chatham (Virginia) Chamber of Commerce. His principal concern is in inveigling industry to locate in that area and he would be pleased to hear from any in plant management or economic development (state or local) who might have suggestions which would make his job a bit easier.

Jerry SCOTT checked in from Sunnyvale, Calif., to report receipt of Scorebook and to report on a certain hoarseness following the Cal44

Navy game. He had had the support of the George McFETRIDGEs, Barney GIEBLERs, Bill HOSEYs and Max MUNKs—unfortunately to no avail. No report of a Bay Area gathering for December, but they have been active other years, so may be holding a quiet gathering to celebrate the 23rd.

Bob PALMER changes his address to 491 Beverly Place, Lake Forest, III. He is now general manager of Lindberg/Hevi-Duty Marketing Services, a division of Metallurgical Group of Basic Products Corp.

Had a nice note from Bill YEAGER's widow, Betsy. She is living at 4510 Woodlawn Dr., Pinesville, La. 71360.

As of the moment plans for the 25th anniversary homecoming are still in the talking stages.

We have decided on September 1966 and Charley BISHOP is putting together a group of volunteers to work on it. This does not necessarily mean that Charley will actually run the show (altho it is a good indicator). I would suggest that any who have an interest in where and how —particularly those outside the Washington area —drop Charley a line and let him know how you feel. His address is 3380 N. Dickerson St., Arlington, Va. And, finally, as we wind up this wonderful year of 1964, the Washington area committee wishes each and everyone of you a wonderful Christmas season and the very best in 1965.

At the regular monthly dinner meeting of the Seatde chapter of the NA Alumni Assn., Willie Nyburg was the guest speaker when he reflected on the world situation and his three years of duty on the staff of the joint chiefs.

In attendance were Ced Bergquist and Leo Culjat. Absent but in Seattle are Bruce Robb, Jim Burton and Art Tagland.

Willie's ship, the HALEAKALA, is at the Puget Sound Bridge and Drydock Yard for some major work. Seatde's '42ers wish all a Merry Christmas.

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Sec'y, Cdr. William T. Peach, III, USN (SC), 10 Roberts Court Moraga, Calif.

Wash. Area Sec'y, Cdr. Frederic T. Hansen, USN (Ret.), 1403 Cavalier Corridor Falls Church, Va.

The following from Bob STEWART: "During our four days in Coronado, we were royally entertained by old friends, especially classmates Dick LAW (Commander DesDiv 213) and Julie, and Eric ISCHINGER (commanding officer, USS PAUL REVERE) and Peg. Also saw

Jan TUTTLE (Louis is away as CO of Mr. M C KINLEY), Larry CANEY (recendy fleeted up to ACOS, Ops, Staff ComCruDesPac) and Robbie ROBINSON (on his way to command a deep draft amphibious force ship) and Barbara.

"Since joining the 'pineapple fleet' and my becoming Commander DesDiv 112, we have been hosted by Pat McGANN (Ckimmander DesDiv 252) and Jan, and Sam WATSON (CO of destroyer tender ISLE ROYALE) who, after five months outstanding services to us small boys, has returned to Long Beach and Iris.

"At the McGanns' were the Joe GOULDs (of CinCPacFIt Staff) celebrating Joe's 39th(?) birthday; the Ed CUMMINGs (staff of ComASWForPac), Mark HARNISH (deployed as CO of fleet oiler CHIPOLA), and the Art EMERSONs and Gordon FACERs of CinCPacFIt staff. In addition to seeing some of the foregoing again at Sam WATSON'S aloha, also ran into Al MAY of SubPac staff. He is a short-timer and soon on his way back to commanding officer of a San Diego sub-tender. Understand J. W. NEWLAND and Bryant PICKETT are locally employed on staffs of CinCPacFIt and CinCPac, respectively, but haven't seen them.

"Dick Law brought his division through Pearl on the way to western Pacific waters as a part of an ASW task group. The locals did their best to ply him with pineapple juice and other more

potent beverages before letting him proceed on duty assigned.

"The Stuarts should be moving into their quarters at Makalapa about mid-November after which, in conformance with local custom recendy observed first hand, the aloha mat will be out full time. Meanwhile, we've been roughing it at Waikiki Beach where the space has been limited but the joint has been jumping.

"P.S. Just the other evening I saw Dave ST.ANLEY across a crowded room. He's a 14th Naval District and Hawaiian Sea Frontier security officer—RWS." Cdr. Laughlin "Buzz" BARKER, who retired on 1 July, returned to the Defense Atomic Support Agency field command at Sandia, N. M., to receive the Joint Service Medal for services while assigned to the office of the Inspector General of the joint command. Laughlin is now working in real estate in his hometown, Santa Fe, N. M. Bill NEWLON reports that life with Honeywell in California is wonderful. Plans for a simple house on a small lot went awry. Their multi-bedroom house on a small ranch with swimming pool is located at 1824 Highland Oaks Dr., Arcadia, Calif.

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Class Sec'y, Mr. D. V. Ness 1331 Barger Dr., Falls Church, Va. Corr. Sec'y, Capt. James C. Van Pelt, SC, USN, 2428 North Potomac St. Arlington, Va.

The Washington area chapter of '44ers had a real swinging luncheon on 5 Nov. at the Gun Club. All our gals attended to make it a festive occasion. Interesting (.') statistics were collected.

For example: the following attendees had been married 21 years—Hills, Godfreys, Hayens, Gardiners. Honours, Red Smiths, Burns, Kings, Landons and Munnikhuysens. One classmate had been married 22 years, but we recommend the name be withheld. The prize for number of kids (5) went to Walters, Honour and Buder. One character, who seems to be getting more than his share of space recently, reminded us that '44 is the only class in which every member graduated with honor (Walt Honour, that is).

Ralph FRAME is now on duty with the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. Hope we get a pay raise before you put us out of business, Ralph.

Doug MUNNIKHUYSEN advises that son, Jay, is a NOB at the Citadel. Guess the Navy influence is holding up to some extent since Jay is on the sailing team.

Bill ULLRICH says he is working for the Allison Division of General Motors. Home address: 3314 Prague Rd., Indianapolis, Ind. Classmates — HELP — As you can see from above, news was scarce this month. I can only submit what you send me. So please feed in the dope to Jim Van Pelt (address above).

From Harlie L. MIZE, D.D.S., comes this word: "My sister, Roselena Mize Warfield, better known as 'Fifi' died in Saratoga, Calif, on 22 June after a long illness. My beloved sister was married to Donald Warfield, class of '44. Besides. her husband she is survived by three daughters.

"Fifi was a graduate of Akron University, Akron, O. and was a graduate nurse of Garfield Memorial Hospital, Washington, D. C. She met Don when Al Gross ('44, deceased) got Don for her as a blind date while she was visiting me when I was a plebe."

Harlie said that he finally obtained his doctorate in dentistry, after five more years of college—that is, one year of pre-dental and four years of dental school. He graduated in 1963 and has been in private practice in Willow Grove, Pa. since graduation, and also is teaching part-time at Temple Dental School. He wrote: "I fired up my commission again and am now a weekend warrior once a month out at the Willow Grove Air Station, serving as assistant dental officer for AWS 93L." SHIPMATE

of the recently retireds: Curt Bessette, Rhode Island Junior College; Dick Kessler, McGuffie School for Girls, Springfield, Mass.

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A cocktail gathering on 10 Oct. marked the start of fall activities for '45. Duffy and Hank Anson, Louise and George Asman, Anna aad Tiny Atkinson, Clarine and Bill Barnes, Gwen and Bill Benson, Elizabeth and Al Dame, Julie and John Degrazier, Layne and Jack Gambrill, Sal and Jim Hamburg, Dee and Art Heinze, Sue and Johnnie Johnson, Hilda and Mace Milliken, Pat and Greg Panawek, Edie and Chan Swallow.

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Thanks to Carl FERGUSON for die pictures and spark in leading the get-together after the California-Navy game. We hope that the social gathering will expand to a continuous chapter with all the pleasures of frequent meetings.

As shown in the picture, those attending were (from left to right) front row: Martin Snead, Ed Christofferson, Hal Lawrence, Tom Price, Bill Kisder, Garren Rea. Second row: Jack Daly, C. E. Kridle, Davy Landreth, George Hamilton, John Forrest, Johnny Johnson, Lou Chrysler.

Standing: Al Larkins, George Erickson, Bill Mayer, Bob Corley, Tom Reynolds, Bob Williams, Bill Gray, Ed Gilmore, Doc Cranny, Roe Johnson.

Not shown were Bob Curtis, Carl Ferguson (photographer), George Steele, John Kurfess, George Gatter. Adm. Talbott, Cdr. Hubbell, and Cdr. Ritzon, all who were on duty at the Academy in '42-'44, dropped in to say hello. If you wonder why the paucity of wives, guess 'twas the time of day.

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Sec'y, Cdr. A. R. Olsen, Jr., USN 5806 N. 19th St. Arlington, Va. Corr. Sec'y, Cdr. John B. Haines USN 6441 Hibbling Ave. Springfield, Va.

Having had the privilege of being one of the 28,000 spectators watching Navy take Duke, I can easily predict that the Army-Navy game (which is now history) was a wonderful game to watch. One of the remarkable happenstances of football life happened to our family going to the game. Not having tickets in advance, I went early to the stadium, talked to the agent about various combinations of odd seats, and at the last minute picked up four seats just turned in on a swap. Where were they.' Right in the middle of the class of 45!! Thanks to the anonymous benefactor.

NEWPORT

The Narragansett Bay Club met with the following men of New England braving the Indian Summer pre-election climate: Bill Hayler, Don Curran, Bob Herrick, Bill Van Oss, Jerry Patton, Bob Ewing, Jack Peters, Jim Wiggins, Gene Hunter, Tom Sulick. Of interest on the list, though not attending, were the addresses of some

All the personal letters from classmates are being saved until the next issue. We'll start the new year with comments from near and far.

Until then and over the holiday season, our thanks to you sailors on active duty (Marines, too), for the struggles and hardships, for the separations on these meaningful days, and for the strong decisions when guidance is weak. We appreciate your service. And for the rest of us, we will continue to show our support in meaningful ways. HAPPY HOLIDAYS, and may the Good Lord bless us all in the central year of the most challenging decade of our lives.

The early rush of retirements has slowed to a trickle. C. B. Stephenson and E. S. Rawls made the move of 1 Sept., and Lyie Cox and Craig Randall on 1 Oct. A note from Gil Gayler who is teaching school in San Diego. George Asman and Jim Hamberg are commuting from San Diego to Los Angeles; George with Honeywell, and Jim with Aerojet General.

LUNCHEONS

The November gathering of the Washington chapter heard a briefing by Bill Busick on the future of Navy football (this season). Enjoyed by all especially when the afternoon of the 14th confirmed all predictions. Present and being counted were: John Chappell, Don and John Hill, Don Alderton, Al Rentschler, Ed Hastings, Bob Baldwin, I. H . Knudson, Dave Saunders, Bob Shaw, Tate Cockrill, Bill Fannin, Z. Loftin, Bob Hogsed, John Eakin, Will Crenshaw, Bob Kasten, Max Rush, L. S. Edmonds, Bob Fortson, Paul Nuschke, Randy Prothro, Jim Braun, Bob Eidson, Joe Henson, J. Barron, Al Olsen, Ed Beasley, Tom Bush, Bill Rand, Dick Dzikowski, John Swank, Sam Gorsline.

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Sec'y, Cdr. C. V. Wilhoit, Jr., USNR 3016 Santa Clara Ave. Alameda, Calif.

'46 KICK-OFF for 20th anniversary activities. Class President Swede Hansen, left, and Vice President Harry Watson, right, present the class plaque to the Alumni Association for display in Alumni House.

RAdm. Fitzgerald, Executive Director, accepted the plaque for the Association.

In the last issue of Shipmate we reported the broad outline of activities proposed by the '46 Washington alumni chapter for the 20th Anniversary Year. These included a '46 grand ball in Washington in June, homecoming at Annapolis in September and the Army-Navy game in Philadelphia in November. We have checked this broad program out with our class president Ben MARTIN and he not only gave his blessing but has promised enthusiastic support. We have also been in contact with Daisy WILHOIT who is similarly enthusiastic about the venture and has offered to make a major contribution with his files and personal help. For the Anniversary Year, the '46 Washington alumni chapter officers will assume temporary executive positions as class officers to permit centralized coordination of anniversary functions.

Plans for the 20th Anniversary Grand '46 Ball are being rapidly formulated. The special sea detail is set and we're getting underway! Swede HANSEN as executive president has the conn and has gathered together a steering committee of competent navigators to make the 20th celebration not only a first class affair but truly a Weekend to Remember!

The dates for the weekend are set—4 through 6 June. The grand ball date is set—it's Saturday June 5. The ballroom is reserved—the magnificent Cotillion Room of the Sheraton Park Hotel in Washington, D. C. The Washington chapter will take care of the local details which I will relay to you via this column. However, there are two things we want you to do. First, plan to attend the grand celebration yourself. Second, help us get the word out to all classmates so they can attend.

The following sub-committees are being formed and should be in full swing by the time you read this: A financial committee responsible for handling all the funds that will "ensure a dollar's value for every dollar spent" and make sure we don't go into the red. A physical arrangements committee that will take care of ballroom and cocktail party decorations, menu, bars and first class service. The special arrangements committee will provide hotel/motel accommodations, locator of classmates attending, flowers for our ladies, ballroom seating, and coordinate other class weekend activities. The entertainment committee will arrange the grand ball program including the orchestra, and special performances, look after our invited VIPs and the head table, and make sure we all have a real "ball" at our 20th ball. Finally, a promotion and publicity committee charged with getting the word out to every classmate about this 20th anniversary weekend, help promote other class activities for the weekend, design and print the ball program and, in general, inject a Madison Avenue oomph 46

to the entire affair. The chairman of each of these committees is a member of the steering committee whose chairman is Swede HANSEN. Now you have an idea of how we are getting organized and let me stress that this organization is not limited to the men—our ladies are right in there hard at work.

In subsequent issues of Shipmate, I will keep you advised of the progress of the various committees and firm plans for the weekend. But right now, I want you to help us get the word out. I am writing to all '46 alumni chapters. We went them to start a positive campaign to spread the word within their territory and urge all classmates to talk up the 20th celebration plans we are making for the class in Washington, D. C. As you run into classmates or in your correspondence with them, let them know about this big weekend affair. Ask them to pass the word along too.

The alumni chapters are a vital link in the promotion and publicity effort we have planned.

Not only do we want them to spread the word, we want them to organize and sponsor efforts to bring their chapter to Washington. A '46 bus, a '46 railroad car, even a '46 charter plane would add to the fun and help cut the costs to the individual. Look ahead to your business schedule, TAD trips, proficiency flying and the like and arrange to bring the wife for the big weekend, 4-6 June. For some of you, this will also mark your 20th wedding anniversary. What better way can you celebrate than to return to old stomping grounds and friends! And we assure you, this will be a gala celebration. As you make these plans, let us know about them. We will crank them into the committees and help make all your arrangements in the Washington area. We are thinking big and want you to think big, too.

Although we must have some semblance of a responsible organization, and we do have one, this 20th celebration is a major class effort. We welcome your suggestions and need your help.

We in Washington will do everything in our power to make this a memorable occasion. Your active support will guarantee it.

Incidentally, Daisy will continue to prepare class "dope" for Shipmate. I have been asked to chair the promotion and publicity committee.

Daisy will send his dope to me and 1 will include it in my progress coverage on the anniversary year program in Shipmate. So continue to send your dope input to Daisy. Any correspondence specifically related to the anniversary year should be sent to either Swede HANSEN or me. Swede's in Room 4E569 and I am in Room 4C563, both in the Pentagon. We will see that it gets into proper hands for action. So with that we are OFF! GET ABOARD! A L KuLiK

Pres., Cdr. E. S. Fritz, USN 91 Maplewood Drive East Greenwich, R. I. 02818 Sec'y, Cdr. Jack M. Stevens, USN 36 Lafayette Dr. East Greenwich, R. I. 62818

Greetings from the Mediterranean where Prexy Ernie and I are still busily chasing submarines and/or practically anything else that is available.

We are still scheduled to return to CONUS before Christmas so perhaps the mail bag will be a litde more productive in the way of class news.

Our thanks to JEEP for lending a valuable assist during our time of need. In the meantime, here are some more addresses believed to be current:

Photo by Raytheon JAMES R. COLLIER '47, new manager of Domestic Product Planning on the corporate staff of Raytheon Co.

FERD A. GRAHAM, JR., '47 has been named Export Manager of the Votator Division of Chemetron Corp., Louisville, Ky. S H I P M A T E

Donald W. HAGGERTY (Mary Carol plus five) is a furniture manufacturer's representative at the Merchandise Mart in Chicago and lists his home address as 1805 Meadow Lane, Deerfield, 111.

Wayne HARBARGER (Jean plus four boys) is an electronics engineer with Goodyear Atomic Corp. and lists his home at 379 E. Main St., Jackson, O. Paul N. HEWETT (Peggy plus three) says he is a sales engineer with JohnsManville Co., San Francisco and is living at 274 Hillside Ave., Mill Valley, Calif. Paul is also XO of the USS A. C. COCKRELL.

Robert R. HORNER (Laura plus two) lists his occupation as general commercial manager, C. & P. Telephone Co. of Richmond, Va., and his home at 805 Forest Ave., Richmond. Charles R. JEFFS (Carol plus three) is now an engineering executive residing at 212 20th St., Santa Monica, Calif. On his card he invites classmates to stop by whenever in the area.

Edward F. KASKA (Rose Mary plus three) is a sales engineer in AUentown, Pa. and lives at 1010 Harris Dr., Emmaus, Pa. Donald C. LUTKEN (Melissa plus five) is living at 1618 Pine Ridge Place, Jackson, Miss., where he is the assistant chief engineer for Mississippi Power and Light Co. Dale W. McCORMICK (Rose Ann plus three) reports that he is part of a very active alumni group in Denver. Dale is a missile engineer with Martin Co. and his address is 880 Oakwood Ave., Littleton, Col. Heyward E. McDONALD (Sylvia plus three) is an attorney living at 4827 Devereaux Rd., Columbia, S. C. His card says he was elected to the South Carolina House of Representatives in November 1962. He ran for the first time, as a Democrat, and led a ticket of nine other Democratic candidates and 10 Republicans. . . . This is submitted without 1964 results available so we hope the situation is still the same. Robert H. McDOUGAL (Priscilla plus four) is a Cdr. USNR-R and is CO of CB Division 1-2, Portsmouth, N. H. Bob lives at Hanson's Ridge, Springvale, Me., where he is an orchardist.

Robert H. McKINNEY (Arlene plus four) is a lawyer in Indianapolis residing at 7770 N. Pennsylvania St., Indianapolis. Arthur W. MOESTA, JR. (Mary plus three) lives at 1170 North Oxford Rd., Grosse Pointe Woods, Mich.

48236, where he is an auto sales engineer. Josh R. MORRISS, JR. (Martiia plus three) is now an insurance agent living at 2924 Pine St., Texarkana, Tex. The mail bag did bring a nice note from Robbie BRADY: "I recendy took a business trip to Lima, Peru and looked up one of my oldest and dearest friends, Arturo Calisto. Art is much the same—true, a litde older, a litde stouter, but just as nice and the father of five lovely children.

He is a Captain de Navio and director of design and shipbuilding at the Naval Base in C^Uao. After a pleasant evening in his house, I was quite surprised to see Carl OTTO and his wife, Gloria—he is there as manager of the Tudor Engineering Office in South America; also Don McVEY is our distinguished Naval Attache in Lima. Naturally, we had quite a reunion. . . . The R. C. BRADYs, plus seven, will shordy be transferred to Washington. More about this when we all get established."

May I extend personal congratulations to Bill DONALDSON since according to the Sept./Oct. Shipmate his son Bill, Jr. is a member of the class of 1968. Must add that my baby boy has received his appointment as principal for next summer which pleases the Stevens family a great deal. In this business it pays to produce and train your own relief! Since this is the Christmas issue may I take the opportunity to send sincere best wishes to all for a fine holiday season and can we pledge a little more effort in passing the word along via Shipmate in 1965.

WASHINGTON AREA NEWS The "dope" received by your DECEMBER,

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correspondent this season has been meager indeed. Remember, output depends on input . . . from YOU, that is!

The Washington monthly luncheon has been changed to the first Wednesday of each month vice Friday. An Internal Revenue Service ruling concerning maximum gross intake from service to non-members has forced us to leave the ArmyNavy Country Club. Presendy, we are meeting at the O Club at the Navy Yard, Washington. At the last luncheon, on 4 Nov., the following were present: Frank Korb, Redge Clubb, Bill Johnson, Lou Renz, Jim Hill, Roy Atkinson, Dick Yeatman, Bill Aicklen, Bob Groover, Bo Heininger, Art Holfield, Jack FLnneran, Stu Evans, Matty Matthews, Arch Updike, Ray Schuler, Slip Haizlip, John Crane and Jeep Donaldson.

Recendy, Slip HAIZLIP and Humph BRYAN have been bachelors for a spell while their wives were hospitalized. First Page Haizlip and then Eva Bryan had the same major surgery at Bethesda. We are happy to report that both of the ladies are completely recovered.

Bo HEININGER heads up a Christmas party committee. He, Pat MARCH and Matty MATTHEWS are arranging for a gala affair during the week before Christmas, so keep your calendar open.

Drop us a note from time to time. A postcard will do nicely. MERRY CHRISTMAS to all!

CHESTER G. DAVIS '49

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Corr. Sec'y, Cdr. R. A. Hoffman, USN MOQ 920B, NATC, Patuxent River, Md. EAST COAST Sec'y, LCdr. Robert W. Hanby, USN 20 Moore Ave., Brunswick, Maine

I am happy to announce that this column will be written in the future by Dick Hoffman. It is with pleasure that I turn over the files, old fourcent stamps, three-cent postcards and Shipmate writing instructions. Now that I have made the corresponding secretary's task sound like a sack, I do want to thank all of you who have submitted dope for the column in the past.

During the past five-plus years, I have probably had the pleasure of receiving letters from more classmates than any single person in the class. It is a feeling that cannot be explained, except to say thanks. Now that we are all progressing along we seem to be drawn even closer together—I back the statement up by the continued large turn-outs at our class functions.

Dick reported to Norfolk on 20 Nov. for six weeks TAD before returning to Pax River. So those of you in the Norfolk area should look him up and give him some fresh dope for copy.

See you all at Homecoming.

Chet resigned his commission in June 1954 to accept a position in industrial sales with Sun Oil Co. at Buffalo, N. Y. and later New York City.

In April 1958 he joined Socony Mobil Oil Co. Research Dept. as senior fuels technologist.

In June 1949 Chet married the former Ella W. Grim of Valley Stream, N. Y. They presendy live at 38 Spring Hollow Rd., Centerport, Long Island. Home is on the water and only a short distance from the beach and local (ienterport Yacht Club so the whole family is actively engaged in water sports. All four of the older girls Susan (14), Martha (13), Patricia (10) and Kathy (7) are enthusiastic swimmers on the yacht club swim team. Amy who joined the scene 16 Sept. will undoubtedly be an aquatic star also.

Chet has continued to take honors in sailing since graduation and has built numerous boats of his own. Susan and dad are presently sailing a new Star and Patty is an enthusiastic Blue Jay sailor.

RAY LOCHNER

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Sec'y, Cdr. J. H. Demyttenaere P. O. Box 2651 Washington, D. C. 20013

FORTY-NINER OF THE MONTH After graduation Chet reported to USS OzBOURN at San Diego as assistant engineering officer. Having been in submarines as an enlisted man, Chet applied for submarine training and left OzBOURN in June 1950 to report to Submarine School at New London. In January 1951 he was ordered to the commissioning detail, USS GRENADIER at Boston Naval Shipyard. During the following 23 months he filled the billets of assistant engineer and torpedo and gunnery officer before being detached in Nov. 1952, and ordered to the recommissioning detail of Guppy IIA conversion of USS TRUTTA at Charleston Naval Shipyard. Operating out of Key West, Chet served as electronics officer and in due course as engineer, torpedo and gunnery officer, communications, commissary and supply officer while making the usual fleet exercises, trips to Gitmo and to the Med.

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PEOPLE O N THE G O

Mr. Ellison C. Shute, manager of the Atomic Energy (Commission's San Francisco Operations Office, announced in August the appointment of Thomas A. NEMZEK as deputy manager. Tom who has been assistant manager for technical operations in the Commission's Chicago operations office reported for duty in Berkeley early in October after attending the United Nations Third International Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy in Geneva, Switzerland, as an official AEC observer. As deputy manager he is concerned with administration of nuclear energy research and development programs totalling about $217 million, including weapons development, biology and medicine, physics, chemistry, reactor development, controlled thermonuclear research, and civilian uses of nuclear explosives.

Upon joining the AEC in 1957, Tom successively held positions as acting director, deputy director, and director of the Reactor Engineering Division in Chicago.

After graduation, Tom was commissioned in the Air Force. He completed pilot training and was an instructor pilot until 1951. He then attended North Carolina State and in 1953 earned a Master of Science degree in nuclear engineering.

He was then assigned by the Air Force to the Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion Project at Lockland, O., where he remained until joining the AEC. Tom is married to the former Margaret C. Peters of Moorhead, Minn. They have four children-â&#x20AC;&#x201D;-Paula (14), Alexandra (12), Thomas (10), and Michael (5).

Congratulations Tom. H . R. (Tom) THURBER, JR. was recendy named sales manager of business jets division of Pan American World Airways. Tom joined Business Jets from 10 years as a sales representative, sales analyst and engineer in the aerospace industry. Following graduation he spent nine years on active duty as a naval aviator. During the Korean conflict, he received five combat decorations. In 1954 he was medically discharged and joined Sikorsky Aircraft as an engineer; since 1959 he had worked for United Aircraft International as sales representative for helicopters.

Tom holds an FAA private pilot's license and is a member of the American Helicopter Society.

His present address is 525 East 86th St., New York City. Congratulations Tom. W A S H I N G T O N NEWS

The Washington area chapter is planning a semiformal dinner-dance to celebrate the Christmas season at the Army and Navy Town Club on 12 Dec. Cocktails will be served, starting at 7 P.M., followed by dinner at 8 P.M. If you are going to be in Washington on the 12th be sure to put the party on your agenda.

New arrivals in Washington are Harry W. MORGAN, JR., who is reporting into OpNav and Charles E. REID, JR., who is reporting into BuWeps.

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Howdy! Jim LINK took a number of pictures during the homecoming party at Alumni House, with several of these forwarded for publication, but space limitations prevented their publication except for a few. But here are some more.

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'52 CLASS PARTY At Alumni House, Homecoming Weekend.

Once again comes word from Earl CHINN and the Newport group: "The '52 get-together was held at the Main Officers' Club in Newport on Friday, 16 Oct., when we had the pleasure of seeing several faces we hadn't seen for a little over 12 years.

"The evening started off with two hours of wine tasting, and believe me wine tasting is a hazardous occupation. Over dinner, plans were started for a beer party the afternoon of the Army game.

"Due to the Jamestown ferry schedule, Curt and Velma Wakeman and Dan and Marilyn Kershaw had to leave after dinner but the rest of the crowd moved on to the main bar to engage in tall-tale telling.

"Curt said tiiat Bob CAULK, VS-39; Joe TOMBARI, CO of MCB-6; Gelzer SIMS and Grady ROBY in USS ESSEX are all living in Quonset. Unfortunately none of them could

make it over due to previous commitments. Joe Tombari is leaving for Antarctica soon but hope the others can join us next time.

"Even though Dick Smith and John Langford are out at sea, Jim and Muffy Nunneley talked Lois Smith and Helen Langford into gracing our company with their presence. In addition to those mentioned above the following attended: Gil and Mona Smith, Bill and Tut Reed, Chuck and Barbara Lavin, Frank and Susan Kovarick, Jack O'Malley, Joe and Rita Stanley, and Eleanor and myself.

"Would certainly like to hear from anyone else in the area that I haven't mentioned. Also if you know anyone with orders into the area, please have them give me a call (I'm in the phone book) so we can include them in our next get-together." Keep up the good work. Earl!

Heard also from Fred GRIMES and the group at Monterey: S H I P M A T E

"This is just a short note with some information which I hope will be useful for Shipmate.

"The '52ers here at Monterey doing postgrad work resurrected the ghost of the class which had been here earlier. We had a luncheon on 15 Oct. at the O club here at school. We rounded up the known classmates in the area and had a nice get-together. The eight classmates who are here, and their course of study, are: "Dick DeWinter, operations analysis; Pete Maloney, operations analysis; Fred Grimes, data management; Tom Goslin, management; Al Headley, science curriculum; Harry Bixby, staff â&#x20AC;&#x201D;meteorology; Larry Chambers, staffâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;meteorology, and Sheldon Drews, ASW warfare.

"No firm future plans as yet other than a gettogether for lunch the second Thursday of each month. If anyone happens to be nearby at the time we would like to have them join us."

Thanks Fred, keep us posted!

Vince ARGIRO reported in after the NavyNotre Dame game at Philadelphia. There wasn't much to cheer about with Navy being on the short end of a 40-0 score. At least there were a few classmates to talk with. Ed -Pastorino, who is with Reeves Instrument Co. in New York; Pete Barry, who I believe is with Sperry in Long Island; Paul Blackadar who is CO of the USS THREADFIN, and Vince Argiro who is stationed at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard were all there.

Late in October Peggy and Whitey PLATT came by for a visit. They had taken some leave and gone to the World's Fair in New York, and were visiting Whitey's folks in Washington, D. C. when they decided on a side jaunt to Annapolis.

Whitey is presendy assigned to the staff at Jacksonville, Fla. as the submarine liaison officer.

Imagine that lonely "sewer-piper" with all those fly boys and without submarine pay too! Whitey has promised to give us a run-down on class activities in the Jacksonville area.

Gil SMITH was in Annapolis on 19 Oct. but we never did get to see each other. Apparendy he was down on a business trip to Washington, D. C. A note about Shipmate, our alumni magazine.

Often times it seems difficult to justify shelling out the 10 dollars for the annual stipend. As a result not too many of us receive it. Shipmate does provide an excellent resume of legislation and its status in Congress. On a number of occasions it has published some timely articles. What I'm asking for is some support for the publication.

The class had to resort to the annual newsletter as a means of getting the word out, because of the poor response to the class column in Shipmate. If you who are reading this can each get someone to join we could double our class readers. Try the lifetime membership for $125, and then no more annual mental conflicts. With a life expectancy of some 30 or more years think of how much you will be saving.

The class recendy had an opportunity to nominate a member of the class to the 1965 Board of Trustees, USNA Alumni Assn. With only a brief period available to make the selection, and a desire to keep the representative in the Washington-Annapolis area, the executive committee chose LCdr. Richard W. CASE. Dick is stationed at the Naval Academy in the Science Department.

Having just reported he will be here for another two and a half years, and should be available for the meetings which are held periodically at the Alumni House in Annapolis.

The Washington area group met for luncheon at the Navy Yard Annex on 22 Oct. Plans were made for a Christmas party at the Bethesda Officers' Club on 12 Dec. The announced price is four dollars per person, for dinner and a "Dutch treat" bar. The party last year was really quite a turn-out and lots of fun, so why not try to make this one if you're in the area?

Newcomers to the Washington area attending the luncheon for the first time were Hork Dimon, Ernie Schultz, Bob Sudey, and Earl Bailey. Pete DECEMBER

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The Officer in Charge, White Beach, for Commander Fleet Activities, Ryukyu Islands, LCdr. Joseph D. CUMMINGS of Playa Del Rey, was awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Medal by RAdm. Paul E. Hartmann, Commander Naval Air Base, Japan, for heroism involving an incident on 20 Dec. 1963.

LCdr. Cummings, returning home to Playa Del Rey after a total of five years isolated duty, accepted the medal and accompanying commendation. The medal is the highest peacetime award for heroism that the Navy gives, on behalf of the President of the United States.

During the last two years of his duty in the isolated areas of the Pacific, the young submariner was presented with two other commendations for courageous and timely action and 17 other commendations for outstanding professionalism and performance of duty.

The bullet that could have been the climax to his (then lieutenant) career was fired five days prior to Christmas Day, 20 Dec. 1963.

At 8:25 that evening, Cummings received a call from the Petty Officer of the Watch, that a crazed man had broken into a gun locker, threatened to kill several people and fired the pistol into the air.

Immediately Lt. Cummings proceeded to the scene. Upon arrival he discovered the man holding several other men at bay, including a senior officer (the Shore Patrol officer), with threatening words, gestures, and a loaded .45 caliber pistol to back up his threats.

At the risk of his own life, Lt. Cummings, although completely unarmed, walked cautiously but in a determined manner toward the man, despite threats to kill.

The man, realizing that the officer was not going to stop advancing, attempted to fire the weapon at him. When he did not succeed, he recocked the weapon and told Lt. Cummings to stay right where he was, but to no avail.

The crazed man, evidendy shocked by the lieutenant's overwhelming courage, collapsed physically and emotionally, into the arms of Lt. Cummings and was then disarmed.

Barry and Ed Pastorino came from Long Island and Doug Lockwood from New Jersey. The next Washington area luncheon was tentatively set for the fourth Thursday in February. Ace LYONS is handling arrangements for the Christmas party at Bethesda.

On Thanksgiving Day, Red STEIN was to be married to Miss Lonnie Milburn of Birmingham, Ala., at the Fort Myer Chapel at 3:30 P.M. Remember to send your change of address cards to Shipmate.

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RAdm. W. H. Price, Commander of Naval Forces, Japan, had this to say upon reviewing the case: "The record of statements by eyewitnesses bears eloquent testimony of Lt. Cummings' act of courage of heroic proportions, rarely matched in peacetime military annals."

Annapolis Rep; LCdr. Terry Sutherland, USN Science Dept., USNA Annapolis. Md.

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HEROISM

The big news for this month was the defeat of Duke at the hands of Navy 27-14 in Memorial Stadium. The Navy has never lost a varsity game there. Those attending the almost complete sellout were (besides the Annapolis regulars) Buster and Mary Kay Bilyeu, Phil and Marcia Livingston, Fred and Marge Franco, Phil Fredericks, Bill Boggess, Carl and Bobbie Drenkard, Lou and Alice Reasonover and Bill Alter.

Sorry if I didn't get it all, folks; had one eye on Roger the Dodger. Phil LIVINGSTON is with Headquarters, DASA and he and Marcia live at 5535 Fillmore Ave., Alexandria, Va., with Caren Robbin (4) and Catherine Jean (6 mos.).

NEWPORT

Jerry CARTER was omitted from a previously published list of those attending War College in Newport. Sorry, Jerry.

CLASS CREST

Mrs. Robert D. Doelling of 262 Pelican Dr., Groton, Conn. 06340, was kind enough to send in a '54 class crest she found in her driveway in Nautilus Park. The initials on the crest are J.L.H. Not everyone, believe it or not, takes Shipmate so please pass the word and help find the owner. The owner may obtain the pin by writing to me at the Annapolis address.

LCDR. J. D. CUMMINGS

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Lt. Cummings has on many other occasions in the past few years demonstrated completely all other assets that are valued in a naval officer, as is illustrated in the following quotes by officials.

Capt. Thomas L. Andrews, Jr., CO U. S. Naval Air Facility, at Naha, Okinawa, also the Commander Fleet Activities, Ryukyus, had this to say about him: "Your ready response and effective actions, in all probability saved many thousands of dollars in government property.". . . . This was in regard to certain aspects of the rather demanding job of being: Navy Port Services Officer Okinawa, and Officer in Charge White Beach.

The officers and men of LCU division 12 said this about him: "We would like to thank you for the outstanding cooperation and aid you have afforded our division during your stay here at White Beach, Okinawa."

Flag-rank officers from around the Pacific area had many fine comments for Lt. Cummings upon meeting him. Some of them are: "Your sincere interest, cooperative spirit, and enthusiasm have contributed gready to a mutual understanding of Navy and Marine Corps problems."

"Lt. Cummings, you have always been ready to do more than was required, and much more than might reasonably be expected of you, in scheduling facilities and personnel at your disposal and in making appropriate requests where communications with other commands is necessary."

LCdr. Cummings, born in Missoula, Mont, in 1932 and a graduate of USNA '54, has been home for only five days during the past five years.

Several years ago, he served on board a Venezuelan submarine in order to effectively train the Venezuelan crew.

From there he went on to New London, Conn, for a 2!4-year cruise in the USS ARCHERFISH. Upon conclusion of this, he took leave to Perth, Western Australia, to marry the beautiful Carla Visschedyk, whom he had met eight months before, upon the visit of the ship to Australia.

He then reported to San Francisco, for further transfer to the isolated duty on Okinawa, as the Officer-in-Charge, White Beach, and Port Services Officer, Okinawa.

Upon his return shordy to Los Angeles (Playa Del Rey), Cummings will take time out for a peaceful and certainly well-earned vacation, before he is off again to new duty in the USS SPINAX. WRITERS NEEDED

If you think this column is too short, why not do something about it.' Even Christmas letters are welcome.

DECEMBER CLASSMATE LCDR. BENNETT GARDNER

After graduation Ben went to USS CORRY and served out a two-year term as a deck division officer, initially, and then fire control officer. In 1955

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basis of outstanding gunnery, for which Ben received a commendation. From that ship he shifted to the division flagship as Ops officer for ComDesDiv 262, where he remained one year.

Ben entered sub school in July, but his stay there was abbreviated by a finding of "not qualified for sub duty by reason of deficient color vision," so after two months in New London he headed west via assorted schools in San Diego to catch Los ANGELES in Okinawa. He served in LA until June 1959 as REGULUS guidance officer, assistant CIC officer, air control supervisor and, eventually, CIC officer. In between the three WestPac tours while in LA, Ben met, courted and married a lovely Swedish visitor to Long Beach, Miss Ulla Munther.

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LCDR. BENNETT GARDNER '54

In the middle of this tour in Los ANGELES some astute functionary in BuMed noted that color vision deficiency was just as disqualifying for the line as for the submarine service, and he was invited to become a Porkchop. This initiated a running battle between the Bureau and Ben which eventually resulted in a SecNav waiver, preserving his line status. During this same tour of duty a commendation was received for participation in successful REGULUS guidance developmental tests.

Leaving LA in WestPac he returned to California for a tour of shore duty at the Navy Electronics Lab. in San Diego where he was an instructor of NTDS computer programming. The first born, Steven, arrived during this stay in San Diego. The stay at NEL was a short one and, in August '60, Ben reported to the precommissioning crew of USS KING at San Diego as operations officer. The ship was commissioned in November and went through the usual flails of newly commissioned vessels.

After the shakedown training KING returned to Bremerton for the installation of the NTDS equipment, then participated in the OpTevFor evaluation of the system and finally deployed to WestPac. In her first year in commission KING won the CruDesFlot Three "E," which was a bit unusual since we belonged to CruDesFlot Seven, and the Ops officer got in on the spoils for another commendation. On return of KING to CONUS Ben was detached and headed back east for shore duty at Fleet Computer Programming Center at Dam Neck, Va. Ulla had returned to Sweden for a visit for the period of the WestPac cruise and remained there while he was in transit to bear this young daughter, Susanne, the two young ladies and son Stevie rejoining in Virginia Beach in March '63. The Dam Neck tour was cut short by selection to attend the Naval War College and the Gardners have been in Newport since August this year.

Their address is: 12 Dudley Ave. North, Middletown, R. I., Tel. 846-3819. They cordially invite any of the class passing through to drop in.

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Sec'y, Lt. W. G. A. Sympson Dept. of Mathematics, USNA Annapolis, Md.

There's joy in Crabtown today, as I write our monthly letter, since the mighty Staubach had another good day against Duke. Jack ADAMS, who came to the game with a group of Jaycees from Greensburg, N. C. and sat on

the Duke side, didn't mind a bit after the game, as he collected his winnings. Jack is presendy employed by the Trane Co., so if you need an air conditioner, look him up.

During football season we have seen quite a few classmates. John SNYDER is the construction engineer for Carl Freeman of Americana Apartments. Washington, D. C. being homeport, we find John and his lovely wife Elsie at many N.A. events. Hank FRENCH, who is presendy aid to VAdm. Lee, also has made several games.

Tom EMERY has been here and was the weekend guest of Jim and Lynne THEARLE, after the Duke game.

Following the Maryland game, John and Priscilla McLAUGHLIN gave a delightful cocktail party. However, John won't be in the area much longer since they plan to move to Clearwater, Fla. in the near future.

Brent STREIT wrote from the West Coast that they had their own homecoming at the NavyCal game. About 15 classmates attended.

If in the San Rafael area of California and in need of legal assistance, Joseph A. FORREST is presendy with the firm of Riede and Elliot in the Albert Bldg.

Classmates in the Austin area have an invitation from Van Collier TIPTON. He hoped to enter law school this fall. Van's wife is working on her Ph.D. in physical chemistry, which is giving him sort of a complex.

An interesting report came in from Tony BRACKEN who, until last June, was stationed in Moscow. At present he is recovering from an injured Achilles' tendon before reporting aboard the USS RANDOLPH out of Norfolk.

Two more of our classmates have recently been assigned as executive officers. Larry WIGLEY will be XO of USS GUARDFISH in January, and Glenn BATES will be XO of USS ARCHERFISH. This ship has the distinction of being the only ship in the Navy with an all-bachelor crew.

We heard that Matt MLEKUSH is in Bremerton, Wash., assigned to the CEC office of the District Commandant.

Those of you still interested in class crests will have to save up a few more pennies. The price has been raised slighdy, to $18.

We have received thank-you letters here at the Alumni Assn. office from the families of Dick Echard and Robbie Robinson. Both Shirley Echard and Anne Robinson wish to acknowledge the kindnesses shown them at the time of their husbands' deaths.

We are going to mail out copies of the proposed new class constitution and want your comments, so please read through it and let us hear from you all.

Congratulations are in order for all who will be adding a half-stripe soon. In the next issue of Shipmate we should have some good pictures taken at those wetting-down parties.

Sec'y, Capt. E. E. Hansen, USAF P. O. Box 1926 Annapolis, Md. "On New Year's Day some years ago I swore off alcohol; And one year later I gave up Pipes, cigarettes, and all.

The next I quit profanity As something not too nice.

And then abandoned slot machines.

Card games, roulette, and dice.

Thus curing faults each year I reached A state of such perfection That I have not a single flaw Now calling for correction.

But New Year's Day is now for me A ruined institution; For what is New Year's Day without A New Year's Resolution.?"

ANONYMOUS

SHIPMATE

I can say that Barbara and Sean lived in Seatde —I seemed to spend most of my time away from home.

"1 finally got to the Antarctic—you may remember the desire to go there that I expressed first class year. Well, I got my wish—six years late, but I got it. It was an interesting and challenging trip. Operations there are completely different from those anywhere else. We spent the major part of our deployment searching for a site for a new base in the middle of the trip when I was assigned as an exchange officer with the Chilean Antarctic Task Group (Dago finally paid off).

"After three months, spent mosdy in overhaul after the south trip, the ship deployed to the Arctic and carried out operations to the north and west of Point Barrow, Alaska. After the last two years I've had enough snow, cold feet and ice to last me for a good many years.

"As a result of the deployments and the outof-the-way homeport I'm out of touch with where people are and what they are doing so I don't have much news along those lines. I did see Carl NELSON last summer. He had just come back from a WestPac trip as CO of the COCOPA.

JOE DUKE EDWARDS '56 JOE DUKE EDWARDS Joe is the CO of the USS TAWASA, homeport

San Diego. He completed his Master's degree at George Washington University while serving three years at the Academy in the Weapons Dept. Prior to his Academy assignment he had been gunnery officer and navigator in the USS BUCK during 1959-61. Earlier he'd been XO and navigator in the USS EUNICE during 1958-59. Other assignments were flight school and a tour as 1st Lt. in the USS MANSFIELD. Joe and Dorothy have two boys, Jefferey Joe and Gregory William, to keep their household jumping. To get in touch with Joe you'll have to write in care of the FPO, San Francisco.

WASHINGTON-ANNAPOLIS AREA I always like to start off with a litde poetry— it gives our column a touch of culture the others lack. Well, being situated near the Pentagon (that Military Mecca), I'm in a position to get odd bits of news from all those passing through and out of the area. Joe POPE ran into George MUSHALKO at the Arnold Engineering Development Center at Tullahoma, Tenn. George has a one-year-old daughter and a four-year-old boy named Dan to keep his wife Barbara busy. Al HADDAD is also at the Development Center according to George. We'd like to hear from Al; he is one of those people we've had difficulty keeping track of. Does anyone know where Bob VASELENKO is.? Any information leading to his whereabouts will be rewarded with a picture of Bob Vaselenko. He retired from the Air Force at Chanute AFB, 111., better than a year ago. A month later he was seen in an O Club bar at Tucson, Ariz., and said he was heading west via Las Vegas. This man is in a dangerous condition—he's unmarried!

Walt DENHAM is in the area and working in Air Force Intelligence. Mai MALLOY passed through the area heading for New London to give a briefing. I received a letter from Mai which preceded him in which he said: "I thought it was about time to announce our return from the Pacific Northwest and the nether reaches of the world. I'm now with ElectWarULant and living in Poplar Halls— 5527 Barnhollow Rd. "Impending maternity held us back from the homecoming festivities this time—our second child, a daughter, Keavey Elin, was born 3 Oct. at Norfolk General Hospital.

"I've spent the past two years aboard USS STATEN ISLAND homeported in Seatde. At least DECEMBER,

1964

"I don't have much else to say, so I might as well let you get on with the other letters. I'm looking forward to having some free time in D. C. during the next couple months and hope to make it to USNA to see the changes there.

"See you."

L T . M . A.

MALLOY,

USN

ElectWarULant Norfolk, Va. 23511 MONTEREY The beautiful cool air of the Monterey Peninsula has continued its well-known attraction for all kinds of visitors.

Among them recendy were Ed and Rosemary COVEY who stopped briefly enroute to their new duty station at the FBM "Training Command in Pearl Harbor.

Visiting in a more permanent fashion are two new '56 arrivals: to Pete and Sandy FITZWILLIAM, an 8 lbs. 7 oz. baby boy, John William, born 14 Oct., and to Dick and Margaret MOZIER, a 7 lb. baby girl, Lynda Ann, born 24 Oct. The Monterey chapter congramlates all of the recent LCdr. selectee classmates and a special well-done to those who were picked a year early.

We hope that this arrives in time to greet all the readers during the Holiday Season and we trust that the New Year will bring to each of you its own special blessing.

A NOTE FROM THE CHARM SCHOOL "The same old charitable lie Repeated as the years scoot by Perpetually makes a hit— 'You really haven't changed a bit.' " FiSHBACK

Well, have the best Christmas you can manage wherever you are. I hope most of you will be able to be with your families, but this isn't always the case. I remember my Christmas Eve in Korea; it was the night my pet rat bit me. So cheer up if you're sitting on some bucket or beach thousands of miles away from home. Find a classmate or two and have a friendly brew.

Think about the poor guy at home who's paid ten bucks for a Christmas tree and all the needles fell off and his dog was electrocuted biting into the Christmas lights and his wife sat on the box with all the Christmas balls and Public Health just quarantined his house because his kid has whooping cough so they won't deliver any liquor. Cheer up—you're lucky to be away.

(While you're at it, have a Happy New Year.)

ACKNOWLEDGMENT TO THE CLASS OF '56 The family of William Austin Everett acknowledges with grateful appreciation your kind expression of sympathy.

DON BROWN '56 DON BROWN Don is our Monterey man-of-the-month, mainly because he sent in his questionnaire and picture, which we deeply appreciate. Don is now studying electrical engineering at USNPGS. His past assignments have been: Staff, U. S. Naval Forces Japan, 1956-59; Dept. of Defense (NSA), Washington, D. C , 1959-62; and ITJSLOG Det 28 in Turkey 1962-63. He and Angela are the proud parents of two girls, Barbara, age 2 i4, and a brand new baby, Deborah, born on 1 Oct. They reside at 1030 Spruance Rd. in Monterey. Don wrote that the Monterey group has been reduced quite a bit and their activities have revolved around beer and conversation luncheons. Well, Monterey's loss has been Washington's gain with such people as Bill FLIGHT, Angus McEACHEN, and many others who have made their way back east to Mecca from Monterey.

SON OF THE SOARING SIXTIES Ken and Barbara 29di Ave., Bellevue, BOY—a big one, 8 was given the name

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GODSTREY, of 1011 W. Neb., had their FOURTH lbs. 8 oz.—on 1 Oct. He of Michael Douglas.

EAST COAST Lt. Stephen B. Sloane, USN Box 60, Route 2 Arnold, Md. 21012 WEST COAST Sec'y, Lt. Harry M. S. Gimber, USN Box 1918, USNPG School Monterey, Calif.

Lt. James Quinn, a classmate and former squadron mate, wrote the following obituary: ROY ELLSWORTH SEAMAN It is my sad duty to inform you of the death of Roy Seaman on 28 Oct., who was killed while conducting a test flight of the A-4 aircraft. He was a member of the Service Test Division of the Naval Air Test Center at Patuxent River at the time of his death and had been a test pilot since the fall of 1962. Prior to diat he served in VS-23.

The class extends deepest sympathies to his widow, Mary Grace, and the three youngsters.

His loss leaves an emptiness in all who had the good fortune to know him.

A memorial chair will be dedicated in Roy's honor. Jim Quinn has offered to accept contributions. His address is Box 1720, USNPGS Monterey, Calif.

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WEST COAST First and foremost in this month's news go our most sincere congratulations to the new lieutenant commander selectees: Jack COOK, Ron MARRYOTT, John McHUGH, Dan COOPER and Al FADES. The class of '57 is justiy proud of them.

About 20 couples from the PG School journeyed to Berkeley for the Cal game. It was a disappointing afternoon but there's no doubt by the time you read this Navy will have made up for it with a big win in Philadelphia. A few familiar faces at the game included Wendy LEUKER who is at Nuclear Power School at Mare Island, and Niel NIELSON, a ship's superintendent at Hunter's Point.

Jan STRICKLAND is stationed at die Defense Language Institute at Monterey. Both he and Elinor are studying Japanese in preparation for embassy duty in Tokyo next summer. Their address is 318 Ardennes Circle, Ft. Ord, Calif.

I heard that big game hunters John BARTOCCI and Mike McHUGH again tried their luck duck hunting. John got the limit while Mike figured the day a success since he didn't fall in as he did last year.

CATFISH, with Shannon HEYWARD on board, paid a short visit to Monterey recendy. Shannon and Margaret Ann are setded at 220 El Chico Lane, Coronado, and invite one and all in for a visit.

Bailey, Banks and Biddle has been contacted regarding a class plaque. At present Urb LAMAY is negotiating for a slighdy larger and more solid looking plaque than the one they presendy offer for sale. If interested contract URB at Box 1499 USNPGS. The price for a mounted plaque will be close to $20.

EAST COAST On 9 Sept., the class of '57 in the Norfolk area got together at NAS Oceana for a cocktail party honoring Tyler BROWN and Joyce Beale, who were married 12 Sept. at the Naval Hospital Chapel in Portsmouth. Ty is now in Hawaii where he is with ComSubPac. The send-off-and-reunion was very successful.

About 50 people gathered, including a few here on TAD or passing through. Those attending from Norfolk area were: Bob and Ann Atwell, Jim and Pat Beans, Bill Bryant, Tom and Judy Cook, Ned and Doris Dixon, Dick and Betty Dolliver, Clarence Fong, Bob and Bev Foss, Jim and Lynda Googe, Duane and Neenie Greenhoe, John and Nancy Hamilton, Dave and Clare Isquith, Pete and Jane Junghans, Ed and Mary Mahon, Howie and Fran Miniter, Don and Robin Mitchell, George O'Brien, Bill and Kendra Palmer, Ginger Reichart (Hal was at sea), John and Gil Stacey and Moore Stuart. Up from Charleston for a few days were Jim Bender and wife, and from Dam Neck came Chuck and B. J. Andrews, John Jerome and Wayne Fritz. Also in attendance were Dick and Sally Jensen '56, who were close friends of Tyler.

A list has been compiled of all '57ers and a local directory sent out. It is hoped to have another get-together for the holidays. Anyone reporting to the area or passing through on TAB who would like to be included, please contact Robert F. Atwell.

Don and Robin MITCHELL proudly announce the arrival of Roxanne Annette, at the Portsmouth Naval Hospital on 11 Sept.

Jerry COURT has been named assistant manager of one of Mutual of New York's life and health insurance agencies in New York City. He worked as an electrical engineer prior to entering the insurance business. The Courts have a threeyear-old son, and reside in Brooklyn.

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WEST COAST Sec'y, Lt. W. N. Moore, USN Box 2014, USN Postgraduate School Monterey, Calif.

FREDERICK RONALD FRY It is with deep regret that I announce the untimely death of Fred Fry on 17 Oct. in Rota, Spain. Fred, who was Supply Officer for VQ-2, succumbed after a brief illness. The class extends its most sincere condolences to his wife Joanne, and their two children.

Funeral services and burial were held at Arlington National Cemetery on 20 Oct. Flowers were sent by the class.

WEST COAST Here is the first installment on corrected or new addresses for the class directory. These will be more abbreviated than the ones appearing in the directory in order to get as many in the space allotted as possible.

Lt. Marcos I. Alvarez, USN, Staff, ComDesRon Nine, FPO, San Francisco, Calif.; Lt. Clifton E. Banta, USN, Box 1383, USNPS, Monterey, Calif.; Lt. Russell N. Blatt, USN, Box 1622, USNPS, Monterey; Lt. Edward L. Borden, USN, 39 Revere, Monterey; Lt. Walter A. Booriakin, USN, 1448 Riverfront Dr., Charleston, S. C ; Capt. Richard L. Brinegar, USMC, 32 Berdia St., Pordand, Me.; Lt. Paul E. Brooks, USN, 801 Arbor PI., Monterey; Capt. Edward R. Browne, USMC, 724 Casanova Ave. # 8 , Monterey; Lt. Paul L. Brown, USN, 14 Pelican Dr., Groton, Conn.; Lt. Stanley E. Bump, USN, USN NPTU, Idaho Falls, Ida.; Lt. Keith M. Bunting, USN, 30 Teal La., Groton, Conn.; Lt. Frank W. Butterwordi, USN, Staff, USN NPTU, Idaho Falls; Capt. William E. Cartwright, USAF, Arnold Eng. Devel. Center, Tullahoma, Tenn.; Theodore C. Cheney, 828 Wildwood PI., Oconomowoc. Wis.; Lt. William C. Christenson, USN, Box 2156, USNPS, Monterey; Lt. Edward M. Clune, USN, Box 2171, USNPS, Monterey; Lt. Samuel P. Comly, USN, Navy Group A34, MACV, APO 143, San Francisco; Lt. Jan W. Cook, USN, DirNorWestDivDocks, Seatde, Wash.; Capt.

Matthew T. Cooper, USMC, MOQ 3303, Camp Lejeune, N. C ; Lt. George K. Coyne, USN, Box 2191, USNPS, Monterey; Bruce L. Craig, 2399 Hillside Dr., Norristown, Pa.; Lt. George C. Creighton, USN, Box 2205, USNPS, Monterey; Lt. Paul Z. Cummins, USN, Dept. Naval Science, USNA, Annapolis; Lt. Richard E. Davies, 130 Brownell, Monterey; Lt. James V. Davis, USN, 139 Brownell, Monterey; Lt. William H. Dawson, USN, 1035 Norman Dr., Apt. 201, Annapolis; George L. Denny, 653 Winslow Ave., Long Beach; Lt. John J. Dittrick, USN, Box 2337, USNPS, Monterey; Lt. Marion T. Doss, USN, 14 Melrob Ct., Apt. 1, Forest Hills Apts., Annapolis; Lt. Theodore F. Driggers, USN, USS PERKINS (DD-877), c/o FPO, San Francisco; Lt. William R. Drury, USN, NROTC Unit, Kansas U., Lawrence, Kan.; Lt. Steven H. Edwards, USN, USS HAMMERBERG (DE-1015), c/o FPO,

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FPO, San Francisco; Lt. Richard C. Freeman, USN, USN Recruiting Station, 2121 8th Ave., N., Birmingham, Ala.; Lt. Gran F. Fuller, USN, 30 Revere, Monterey, and Lt. Robert H. Fuller, USN, USNavNucPwrScl, Bainbridge, Md. STORK NEWS The following Navy Juniors reported aboard in Monterey recendy: John Joseph CARRETTA, adopted by Felicia and Al on 14 Oct.; Susan Lynn MANAHAN, born to Harlow and Jean on 9 Sept.; Robert James PRATHER, III, born to Bob and Pat on 14 Sept.

EAST COAST Sec'y. Lt. Ralph W. Christy, USN 1055 Norman Dr., Annapolis, Md. WEST COAST Sec'y. Lt. George Brainerd, USN NavNucPwrScol MINS Vallejo, Calif.

EAST COAST Karl and Elaine MOELLMER and daughter stopped by Annapolis on their way out to San Diego. Karl had just completed sub school and is reporting to the USS PERMIT after a short course at SINS school, Georgia. Jerry EGAN (also 20th C O . ) and his family were also in Annapolis this past month, stopping by to visit Lloyd and Dee ADAMS for a short time.

'59ers in the Baltimore, Washington, D. C , and Annapolis area congregated at the North Severn recreational area for a few hours of socializing after the Duke game. Lloyd Adams was chief planner and organizer.

The large group of '59ers at Monterey and those of us in Annapolis/Washington are trying to get our mailing lists up to date. Please take a few moments to send us your address and those of any other classmates you know—especially the civilian types. Write to either Jack NOURIE, Box 1801, or Al BOYLE, Box 1868, USNPGS, Monterey, Calif, on the west coast or to Lloyd ADAMS, Executive Department, USNA, Annapolis, Md. on the east coast.

Lloyd Adams will be taking over this column from me with the next issue of Shipmate as the newly elected secretary for the Association. Send your news to him at his address above or continue to send the mail to the Alumni House and it will reach him there.

WEST COAST NEWS The Monterey chapter sponsored the 5th reunion (West Coast) of the class of '59 which was held at the Naval Postgraduate School from 4 to 7 Sept. The activities got underway with a cocktail party Friday night and continued on through golf and bowling tournaments, a swim party and a dinner-dance.

'59ers attending were: Ted and Ann Alexander, Dave and Barbara Ascher, John and Pat Bainbridge, Robin Battaglini, Vern and Helen Block, Al and Marilyn Boyle, Joe Brantuas, Mike and Karen Brown, Kent Clark, Tom and Jackie Clift, Pete Crumpacker, John and Martha Dachos, Hugh and Joyce Davis, Dave and Deidre Dyke, Bill and Linda Edgerton, Ernie and Joanne Ehlers, John and Rosalie Ekstrom, Charles and Ann Ferris, Jack and Francis Flikeid, Pat and Mary Ford, Tom and Jolene Gainer, Larry and Pat Gosen, Wayne Haley, Griff and Kathy Hamilton, Jack and Susan Hawthorne, John and Shirley Heiges, Bud and Jeanne Heyden, Ed and Betty Hill, Don and Beth Holmes, Bud and Dolores Hydinger, Ron and Paula Jesberg, Don and Joyce Katz, John Kanuch, Joe Kinch, Bob and Hope Kihune, Dave LaCagnina, Denny and Jean Laferty, Wally and Valerie Logan, Tom Long, Bob and Elaine Logic, Jerry and Judy Loveless, Wally and Jolene Marshall, John Mascali. Hank and Peggy Mauz, Mike and Jan Maynard, Steve and Joyce McGanka, Bob Michael, Bob and Carol Mulrooney, Jack and Annette Nourie, Fred and Linda Olds, Dick and Peggy Pagnillo, John Paine, Larry and Joyce Permenter, Larry and Sue Pizinger, Jim and Pinkie Poole, Gayle and Charlotte Rees, Grant and Shirley Rees, Jim and Judy Regan, Herb and Bev Richter, Al Ruth, Chuck and Emily Schoneman, Jim and Dinah Seeley, Dean and Sue Simmons, Steve and Nancy Snyder, Dave and Joan Sullivan, Ron and Kathy Trossback, Ona Truax, Jim and Shirley Wallace, Ed and Brenda Webster, Bill and Monica Wheaton, Charlie and Katie Witt, Grant and Nancy Wright, Ray and Pat Yenchko, Fred Frickmann, Larry Weaver, Rick Zacheile and Dave Billingham.

Prizes, presented by chapter president Ron Jesberg, were awarded as follows: golf, low gross.

Hank Mauz; low net. Griff Hamilton. Bowling, SHIPMATE

high game, John Paine; high series. Herb Richter; high team, Ron Jesberg and Pat Gosen.

Class spirit, Ona (Mrs. Dan) Truax, whose husband was deployed to WestPac and longest distance traveled, Jim and Shirley Wallace.

Jack Flikeid was the MC and Bill Wheaton, Hank Mauz, Dave Ascher, Hugh Davis and Jack Nourie were in charge of arrangements.

The Monterey chapter has recently organized with the following officers: Men, Ron Jesberg, president; Steve McGanka, vice-president; Jack Flikeid, secretary, and Bill Wheaton, treasurer.

Women officers are Annette Nourie, Pat Gosen, and Dolores Hydinger.

In other '59er news for the Monterey area: Hank Mauz is the new PG School golf champ; Jack Langford's wife, Barbara, was elected recording secretary of the PG School Navy Wives Club; Bill Wheaton's wife, Monica, was elected co-chairman of the PG School Catholic Chapel Guild.

The Navy-Cal game was the prime mover behind a get-together of over 40 '59ers and their wives in Berkeley, Calif., the night of 17 Oct. Herb Richter was in charge of arrangements and a good time was had by all.

Michael FITZGERALD and Miss Ursula Doerr of Bernstadt, West Germany, were married in the Navy Chapel at Pt. Hueneme, Calif, on 5 Dec. After a honeymoon which includes a trip to the east coast for the Christmas holidays, the couple will remrn to 276 Homer Ave., Ventura, Calif. where they will make their home while Mike is on his SQAT assignment.

Pres., Lt. H. A. Lawinski, VF-162 NAS, Miramar, Calif.

Sec'y, Lt. Chico Chavez, NSD Guam, Navy 926, c/o FPO S.F. 96635 N E W ARRIVAL

Kenny and Eileen M A C L E O D are happy to announce that they are the proud parents of another boy, born 20 Oct. in NorVa, and who was named Roderick Grant.

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Dave HARDEN says that it's taken him 4 years to come up with something he considers newsworthy, and it is. He married the former Miss Robbie Jean Nelson on 26 Sept. in Newport, Va. Dave and Robbie met last winter in Virginia Beach, where she was teaching school, and where they are happily residing now. After graduation Dave went straight to the Training Command, then upon completion of flight training was ordered to the west coast to an A-4 squadron.

In Sept. '63, after one cruise to WestPac in the USS CONSTELLATION, he reported to VA-75 at NAS Oceana, Va., where the first A-6A "Intruder" squadron was being formed. In VA-75, the class of '60 was very much in evidence by the presence of such notables as Phil Rognlien, Dan Affourtit, Joel Febel, Dave Gilbreath, and Don Boecker. Finally Dave hopefully says the next big event in his life will not take 4 more years.

Mike MIDAS pried himself away from his nuclear power studies at the G.E. operated prototype in West Milton, N . Y. to give us a run-down on his goings-on these days. With him in the same class are John Woodward, Chris Poindexter, Howie Sipple, Pat Cecil, Jack Shaw, and Jack Herbein; they hope to become qualified sometime in January, when they will then be assigned to one of the nuclear power ships. Mike and Agnes, along with their brood of 3 boys— Michael III, Stephen, and Matthew—are living in Saratoga Springs, really enjoying the beautiful weather and an occasional good catch in those abundant trout and bass waters nearby. Mike would like to know the whereabouts of Bob RENNER. D E C E M B E R ,

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They say Guam is good, but on the second day when I met the chaplain and told him I was single and here for 18 months, he just smiled and said, "what a pity." And the favorite slogan of another of my chaplain friends is: "Guam is good, but hell is better." One consolation is that I'm back in the supply business, and one of my many odd duties is that of meeting the ships that come in port. There's one rather humorous incident in connection with this job that I can't pass up. The supply officer of a DD that came in recendy indicated to me, while we were at the pier, that he wanted to exchange money, then without waiting for an answer turned and asked a Guamanian stevedore what Guamanian money looked like. The man just stared at him but very obligingly reached into his pocket and showed him. And the first week of Nov. the USS INFLICT came in with John DIRKSEN on board as the executive officer. The INFLICT was headed back to the States—a 2-month trip, I believe— however John already has orders to the USS WARBLER as commanding officer and will be headed back to Sasebo to take over his first command. He seems very pleased, particularly since he will be able to bring his family to Japan.

He tells us that Doug MENIKHEIM is another MSO sailor, who's presendy in the USS PEACOCK. John is the only classmate I've seen in Guam thus far.

Eileen MACLEOD in her letter telling me about their new baby also mentioned that she's back at Annapolis with litde Butch and baby Rod, while Kenny is taking part in Operation Steel Pike, Spain.

Our class treasurer, Mike MIDAS wanted me to pass the word to the class about our class funds, which to date amount to $6611.81 and are safely deposited with the Navy Federal Credit Union.

One last note—we consider any news about any classmate newsworthy, so don't hesitate to send us the info. If possible, mail all correspondence to me via air mail, as the column is now being written from Guam, and first class mail service out here is very slow.

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR.

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Pres., Lt. (je) James R. Traa, USN USS HADDO (SSN-604) FPO New York Corr. Sec'y, Lt. (Jg) K. G. Craig, USN 122 Saratoga, Apt. 54 Kingsville, Texas

By now Tom and Joan are setded in Bainbridge, Md. where he is scheduled for the November class in Nuclear Power School.

Bill EMMERICH filled us in on the whereabouts of several other classmates. After spending the past three years in BLUE, homeported in Yokosuka, Japan, Bill received orders and is now teaching navigation and naval operations to juniors in the NROTC unit at the University of Virginia.

Prior to reporting to the university he attended a two-week orientation conference at Marquette University in Milwaukee. While there he found that several other '61ers had received similar orders: J. A. DUGAN to Penn State; J. A. DUNN to Villanova; W. H. FREDICK to Dartmouth; K. G. KLINK to University of Illinois, and E. J. O'BRIEN to Holy Cross. In addition to these there were USNA graduates from other classes.

"Varsity Vic" VINE is also at U. of Va. teaching seniors.

Since Bill is now close to home and the Academy, he is looking forward to seeing his first Army-Navy game since graduation. He attended the homecoming game and had a very enjoyable bull session with Bob SHUPE. They went over to Cliff DUNNING's apartment where his litde daughter entertained them by singing the Marine Corps Hymn. Bill extends an open invitation to anyone in the area to drop in at 101 Woodrow St., Apt. 8, Charlottesville, Va. Other news from Bill includes a surprise for the boys in the 5th Co. John Adams, who left in '59, is now going to U. of Va. and came in to see Bill. J. P. DECKER received orders .to assume duties as executive officer in POLK COUNTY out of San Diego.

By the time this goes to press, Jim JOYNER will be in VT 23 here in Kingsville. I am in VT 21. Our new address is 122 Saratoga, Apt. 54, Kingsville, Tex. Keep the news coming in.

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Brunswick, Me. was the scene of the wedding of Miss Elizabeth Anne Savell, daughter of Mrs. Walter Lee Savell, Jr. and the late Mr. Savell, and Lt. (jg) Edward Phillips BARKER, on 7 June.

Even with numerous address changes and the ensuing mixups, two very informative letters managed to filter through to us during the month of October. Joan Eckert held up the fort for you gals with news of a shipwreck alumni party that she and Tom hosted for '61ers in the Norfolk area on 9 Oct. She reports that despite Navy's defeat by Georgia Tech, spirits were quite high.

Ken and Carol VAN SICKLE wore terrific costumes, we hear. Besides the foregoing those attending were: Andy and Lorraine Anderson, Ray and Joanne Sanders, Wayne and Leslie Bratschi, George and Linda Theroux, Dennis and Carolyn Nichols, Joe and Sandra Matalavaze, Lew and Rosemary Bryan, Tony and Lynn Esau, Howard Wight, Mike and Susan Sullivan, Nancy and Allen Stewart.

And John Quarterman, Jim and Deanie Bourne, Bob and Bobbie Seyfarth, Bill and Susan Cadett, Ward and Greta Cann, Jay and Barbara Bower, Skip and Phyllis Bailey, John Bence, Pem Thorell.

John Quarterman's wife could not come since she was home with the new baby, their second child—but the first boy! Also, Pem Thorell braved it alone because Scott is at sea. Chris Seelbach called from D. C. to say that he would be unable to come. Several others couldn't make the party either, but it sounds like quite a success just as it was.

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Dave Goebel, Craig Stratton and Leighton Smith were in the wedding party. Ed is now enrolled at Harvard where he is studying for a Ph.D. in applied physics. The couple is living in the Boston area.

Two other classmates were married during the past few months. Bob BEER and Miss Constance Jane Markey were married on 7 Nov. in San Francisco, and Wells DOTY and Miss Sandra Gayle Ruffin were married on 31 July at Newport, R. I. Mrs. Donald W. James of Granville, O., has announced the birth of a son, Donald Michael James, on 1 Sept. in Columbus, O. The baby is the son of the late Lt. (jg) Donald W. James, USN '62, who was killed 14 April in a helicopter accident aboard the USS ENTERPRISE in the Bay of Naples.

Mary Jane and son are now living at 415 E. Broadway, Granville. She would enjoy hearing from Don's classmates.

Ron and Valerie BELL announce the birth of a daughter, Vicki Loring, on Labor Day. Last year Ron was stationed in Pensacola where he played football for the "Gashawks." On the same team was Dick FITZGERALD. Ron then went to Justice School and is now stationed in Argentia, Newfoundland where he is first navigator with VW-11. He says that '62 is well represented there with the presence of Chris and Val SHARP, Bunny and John MAHEU and Don M A C C R A E .

AIR FORCE I received a nice letter from Wayne LARABEE who is now stationed at Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio. After graduation he entered the University of Pittsburgh graduate school and this year received his Master of Science degree in industrial engineering. Presently he is a.ssigned to the Foreign Technology Division of the Air Force Systems Command and is hoping to receive flight training in the near future.

Al FULTON writes that he finished his graduate work at North Carolina State in June and was married on 8 Aug. to Miss Susanne Simmons in Raleigh, N. C. Ushers at the wedding included Brooks MANCINI, Bob GILES and Bill CHAVANNE who flew in from Iceland.

Al said that he saw Irv TEASDALE in Annapolis, who was in the process of being transferred into the Air Force. The Fultons are now stationed at Patrick AFB, Cape Kennedy where Al is working as a contract navigator buying electronic gear. There is a very active USNA alumni association in Cape Kennedy where recently 84 husbands and wives attended an " O " Club party.

Other news of our Air Force cla.ssmates has it that Bill THURSBY is at Hanscan Field outside Boston. Bob DEMARCO and his family are at Lowry AFB in Denver. Bob received his Master's in engineering this summer. Ken DUCKWORTH is flying B-49s for SAC out of Portsmouth, N. H. Bob DI A l s o received his Master's in civil engineering at N.Y.U. and he and his family are now at Topeka, Kan. where he is working in the missile field.

I recently received a letter from Adm. fames L. Holloway, Jr., chairman of the Army-Navy Museum Fund, informing our class of the formation of a memorial museum to be built in Philadelphia at the reconstructed Pemberton House.

The museum is to house articles and dioramas of Army-Navy history between 1775-1815, a period in which we saw the birth of our Navy.

The project is a national one. Individual contributions are respectfully solicited in any amount.

Checks should be made out to the Navy League of the United States (Army-Navy Museum) and sent to the national treasurer, Mr. James M. Large, Chairman of the Board, Provident Tradesmen's Bank and Trust Co., Philadelphia, Pa. 19101.

NAVY LINE I have the word on our class contingent in the Newport area, thanks to Jerry BLESCH. Present 54

in Class 9 at Destroyer School are bachelors John Poe and John Kelly. Married couples include Pete and Pat Huchthausen, Walt and Cindy Martin, Pete and Gail Labyak, Steve and Maureen Chadwick, Dick and Karen Tripp, Bill and Martha Story and Bill and Lynn Brennan.

Jerry and his wife Karen announce the birth of a son, David Morgan, on 30 July. The Tripps have a son named Keith and the Storys a daughter named Jessica. Jerry says that Paul and Nancy Hurst are in Newport where he is the chief engineer in USS ZELLARS. Newly arrived for Class 10 is Joe Procopio, with wife Joanne.

It is quite an honor when one of our classmates is awarded a medal for saving the life of another individual. Such is the case of Lt. (jg) Bill BRENNAN who was presented the NavyMarine Corps Medal—the highest award given for bravery in peacetime, for his heroic rescue of a crew member of USS RANDOLPH, Bill's ship.

USS HOLDER was acting as plane guard one night when RANDOLPH lost her elevator, throwing men into the sea. High seas fouled an attempt to lower a boat so HOLDER'S CO prepared to make a destroyer rescue. Her crew was able to pull two men aboard, but Bill spotted a third man floating face down. He dived into the choppy waters, swam to the victim and towed him back to the ship. We are extremely proud of Bill and his heroic deed.

NAVY AIR I heard from Bob KENNELLY recently, who is stationed at NAS Quonset Point where he and John ARTHUR are attached to VS-28. They do their flying aboard USS WASP when she goes to sea. Bill BENTON is in VS-34 where he holds down the billet of asst. admin, officer. Bill flies from USS ESSEX. Bob TIDBALL is aboard a ship homeported in Naples, Italy. Jack HANLEY is navigator aboard a C-130 for VT-6, also based at Quonset. He presently deploys in the Antarctic and close by to the good liberty in New Zealand.

From Jacksonville comes word from John HADDICK. He and his wife Nancy and daughter are living there while he is attached to PatRon 5, flying the old reliable P2Vs. In the area are Bing KALLUS, flight line division officer, and Roger and Marcia VINSON. Dick Martinson (wife Kathy) and Bob Bates (wife Eloise) have also joined the squadron.

John has just returned from a six-week detachment in Cuba and is planning to leave for Sicily in February. Also in the area are Chuck KNOCHEL with VA-176 and Dutch DEMSHAR attached to a VP RAG. Rog Kisiel, Bob DePuty and John Baehr—what a trio!—are at Cecil Field. VP-30 has its share of '62ers including Dave (and Mimi) Lencses, Don (and Chris) Lundquist, Mike (and Ann) Nash and Lindsey Trax, and family.

Another large contingent of our class is aboard USS TICONDEROGA. Dave BOURLAND informs me that Bill COVINGTON and Jim DELESIE are both A4E pilots and Dick HASTINGS and Dave are flying F8E's in VG-53. Rounding out the group is Jim DONAHUE, in VA-52 flying AD-6s.

Tom HITCHCOCK is a P2V pilot stationed at Swakuni, Japan, while Marty FARBER is in a similar squadron at Nala, Okinawa. Dave has also seen Cal DUNLAP and Phil HENDERSON who are stationed in Topeka, and Frank EGAN who is in a Marine Recon Batn. Living in the Philippines are Dave BELTON and family while he is attached to USS PERCH.

STAFF CORPS Those of our class who went CEC arc usually buried under with work but one finally emerged from the depths to shed a litde light on matters.

Don STURMER writes that he and Bill HEINE are in their second year at Purdue working for their Master's in construction engineering. Both Don and Bill are married and their families are

enjoying the beautiful country of West Lafayette, Ind. From all indications both of the boys are doing exceptionally well in the academics—which was always expected of them.

Our illustrious tennis champion classmate Tom QUINN writes that he just finished a very interesting tour of WestPac as the supply officer aboard USS EVERSOLE. While in Japan he had the opportunity to .see his parents, RAdm. and Mrs. John Quinn who were visiting in the Far East. Tom says he is planning to be married in December to Miss Jenifer Jones of Washington, D. C. Included in DesDiv 232 are many other friends.

Aboard EVERSOLE with Tom are Jim Barnes and Dave Hutchinson. Myron Fleming is in USS BENNER; Gary Blegstag and Gene McPhail are in USS CUNNINGHAM aboard USS O'BRIEN.

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HERE AND THERE Word comes from Cap BEYER who is stationed at Twenty-nine Palms, Calif, with a missile battalion. He just finished counter-guerilla warfare school and is now back at the base. He says his wife Margy and son Cap Jr. really enjoy the southern California area.

It is very encouraging to note the number of classmates who have already gained their Master degrees in a myriad of subjects and also those who are taking night courses building up educational credits. One of the best programs offered by the Navy in the postgraduate field is the Burke Program and we now have three classmates in this field. Craig STRATTON writes that he is at Princeton pursuing a Ph.D. in mathematics; Dave GOEBEL is studying at M.I.T. for his Ph.D. in nuclear engineering and Ed BARKER is at Harvard working on his Ph.D. in applied physics.

Before they entered their respective schools Ed and Dave both sailed submarines and earned their dolphins while Craig qualified as a fleet OOD aboard USS LAWRENCE. Craig heard from his old roommates, Jim Sloat and Jim Hitchborn, who are flying A4Es out of I.emoore, Calif.

Good luck to these friends who are involved in an interesting and challenging educational endeavor.

Lorrie Hewitt writes from Honolulu that she and John are the parents of their second baby girl, named Deborah Elizabeth, on 14 July. Many of our classmates are stationed in Hawaii and I plan to do a feature article on that area in the near future. Among those the Hewitts have seen are Mel Chang, Dave Copeley, Ed Danber, Jim Lavangie, Tom Uber, Dick Vopelak, Simon Theriot, Bill Clift, Don Christie and Gordy Valentine.

After a long silence Ken YUFER finally wrote that he and his wife Judie and son Scott Howard are living in Long Beach. Their next door neighbors are Joe and Kathy KINGER. The Yufers keep up a close correspondence with their friends in the 8th Co. and report that Ron and Mary BAKER are in San Francisco and are the parents of a daughter born 2 Aug. Fred and Jane FELLOWS also had a daughter, born 1 Aug. Jim and Irma BAGBY and daughter are living in Maryland where Jim is a.ssigned to Patuxent River Naval Air Station. Joe BROZ was married to Miss Nancy Zuccarini in La Jolla on 25 April. Lew GLENN was married to Miss Julia Meeks on 4 April in Anderson, S. C. They are in Long Beach.

Joe and Corinne O'BRIEN are living in Seatde where Joe is attached to VP-2, Whidby Island.

The Yufers and Bakers are interested in starting round-robin letters. Their addresses are: 510 Pleasant St. # 7 , Long Beach, Calif. 90805 for the Yufers and 335 " B " Easy St., Cherry Lane .•\pts.. Mountain View, Calif, for the Bakers.

Anyone interested in getting in on this endeavor just drop them a line.

SHIPMATE

Ron and Sue SCHOWALTER and new son Todd celebrated the fact that Ron recendy received his wings; Ron was to head for a VP squadron in Jax and P2V's. Bruce WEBB recendy started flying S2F's in VT-31 at Corpus. Jim and Maryanne RICHARDS were due at Corpus; Jim had to ditch his T-28 after his engine froze.

The plane was demolished but he came away with only a sore backside.

Mike, Jan and Meghan McDERMOTT and After the Navy-Cal game at Berkeley I saw a Phil, Chris and Jennie GUBBINS were enjoying number of our classmates at the Treasure Island the luxurious living in Corpus. Mike and Phil Officers' Club. Among them were Pat GRAFTON were in VT-30 learning to fly AD-6's. They exfrom Long Beach; Bob BYRNE, chief engineer pect to get their wings in December and head aboard USS HANSON, and Don WOODFORD, for the west coast. recently married, who is studying for his Master's Phil also sent along news of other members in civil engineering. of '63. Dick and Carol KANE recendy had a Newsworthy, interesting pictures of individson, Richard E., III. Dick is in VT-27 flying uals, groups or class functions are always wanted. S2Fs and has hopes of going VP. Ralph and Please send me a black and white glossy print Sheila STOWELL were married 14 Aug. and of anything of interest to our class and it will were living next door to Jim, Gil and Angela be printed in this column.

FIELDS. Also in the AD program are Gene Dehnert, Nick Daramuses, Bill Oatway, Carl I'm still interested in learning your suggestions Doughtie and Brev Moore. and opinions as to the formation of a memorial Also down Corpus way are George, Jan and fund to pay for flowers to be sent to families of Tommy Howell: John, Joy and Christian Calande; classmates, when one is lost. Another suggestion Scott and Patty Wilson; Bill and Jennie McClelwas that of setting up area correspondents for lan; John and Marty Stone; Bob and Liz Polich, our column in Shipmate. Don't keep silent on and Eli and Eileen Dabich. Chuck and Joanne these or any other subjects which interest you.

Donovan became the proud parents of a daughter, Jot them down and send them along to me with Elizabeth Ann, on 9 Oct. your address so I can begin to assemble a card index file on our class.

Al and Kathy BREEN sent along word that they are the happy parents of a daughter, Lisa Now that we are beginning to dispense around Marie, on 2 Oct. the globe and assume our important part in the Navy, it is essential that we keep in touch as Ken and Lois RAMSEY are presendy living in a class.

San Diego while he finishes out his tour of sea duty in the ORISKANV. He is due for a MidPac Not another Shipmate should appear that cruise in Jan. '65. doesn't include word of our class, but I need your assistance. So classmates, wives, families and Allan and Linda SMELLEY, who have a new friends—WRITE. daughter, Cheryl Lynne, born 1 July, sent along more word of other '63ers: Ed HOWARD and the former Miss Mary Steward were married at the Kaneohe base chapel on 4 July. Ed is with n n Sec'y. 2nd Lt. John L. Newton, USMC D Co., 1st Bn., 4th Marines, Kaneohe, Oahu, U < K Co., 3rd Bn. Hawaii. Dave and Deedee SHUTE returned from 11 11 2nd Mar. Regt., 2nd Mar. Div. U U Camp Lejeune, N. C. WestPac with a few less coins but heavily ornamented from the Orient. Dave is in the NICHOLAS. Phil GUBBINS wrote about some of the 17th A\ KEY spent a week with the Smelleys on his Co. '63ers. First, from the black shoe navy— way to WestPac. He is in the HOOPER. Bob HARPER was married to the former Miss Jim PATTERSON and Paul LOVE recendy Carol Hudsick; Jack and Anne McDONALD departed Pearl Harbor for Pensacola, Jim for NAO are in Honolulu while he is stationed in the and Paul for flight school. Cliff BARNEY and WALKER and Harlan ULLMAN is traveling with family were due to setde in San Diego area in the BROUGH these days, wishing that he were in mid-Nov., while Cliff is stationed at North Island nuc school. with VS-25. Denny TOMLIN would like for Bart and Foa WAIDE were at last report in Joe WARSHAW to write him at M Co., 3rd Bn., Newport. Mike OBSITNIC was in a mine 4th Marines, Kaneohe, Oahu, Hawaii. sweeper out of San Diego, soon to travel to I have been asked by Adm. James L. HolloCongoville. Duke and Marie HYLAND and son way, Jr., USN (Ret.), to pass along a request Christopher are headed for New London where for support and interest by Naval Academy Duke will soon be starting sub school. Rick alumni in raising enough funds to match the WAKEFIELD was in communications school in Army's share in support of the reconstruction of Norfolk.

Pemberton House in Philadelphia to house the From the Marine segment, Butch and Kitty Army-Navy Museum (1775-1815). See the Aug. WHITWORTH and daughter Theresa Anne '64 issue of Shipmate for information concerning were down around Whiting Field where he was the museum. in VT-3. From the Supply Corps, Fred and Ann Send your contributions to the national treasLee DAVIS are in Texas City helping the reurer, Mr. James M. Large, Chairman of the serves. Jim and Kathy McCLURE were married Board, Provident Tradesmen's Bank and Trust on 27 Aug. Max RICKETTS, still single, is in Co., Philadelphia, Pa. 19101.

Saigon, living it up. Mike SMITH, also single,

Minor CARTER wrote a very informative letter giving the whereabouts of many of our cla.ssmates. Minor and his wife Susanne and daughter Paige are living in Japan. He is navigator in VQ-L at NAS Atsugi. Pete GOLWAS is living at Virginia Beach and serving in USS GREENE. John RIPLEY is married and stationed at Camp Lejeune, and Steve TODD is flying S2Fs in San Diego while Paul HARVEY is flying P2Vs out of Iwakiemi, Japan.

is in the D E MOTO out of Norfolk.

In mentioning the USA and USAF contingent Phil said that Moose McGRATH has vanished, probably down to the bottom of a silo. Ralph KIMBERLINE is a project engineer at Elgin AFB and has purchased a home and land with intentions of staying a while. Phil assumed that Larry POLONIS was still around Detroit waiting for his Studebaker stock to go up again.

Phil wrote that he had saved the best for last, Navy .\ir. I have my doubts as the best is never last. Just a slight ribbing, Phil. Travis BEARD is in VT-3 and Liz is still at Vassar. Tex FOREMAN and his new wife Myra are at Chase Field where he is in advanced jet training.

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Dambaugh. Tom reports that he had been to the wedding of Buzz and Susan FADDIS who are presently in Newport for precom of the BELKAMP. Later, Tom, Ernie Bertolotti, Bob Milheiser, Jeff Millner and Bryan and Mrs. Arndt went to Reading, Pa for Bart and I5etsy CORGNATI's wedding. Bart recendy finished pre-flight in Pensacola. After just missing Gary ZECH's wedding but arriving in time for the reception, Tom said diat he saw Barry WALTERSDORFF who left us second class year.

Nick PRESS writes from Pensacola that the FBI has captured one of our illustrious classmates.

It seems, however, that the whole seventh company is planning a reunion for the wedding of former FBI agent. Miss Dolores Gamba, and Doug (Pete) PETERSON who is presendy taking jet training in Meridian. For details of this 27 Dec. union and reunion, write Nick at NAAS Whiting in Milton, Fla. Marshall BUGGE brings us news from USS ROBINSON in WestPac where he is being tutored for a 1st Lt. billet and Bill DIENER is M Division Officer. After boarding the ROBINSON in Guam at the end of August, Marsh and Bill were treated to a tour of the Far East where they ran into Jack GERAGHTY, Steve LAABS, and Al (Grub) COULSON.

ASBURY COWARD AND DAGMAR GIFFEN

The lovely lady you see in the picture is Miss Dagmar Hodgeman Giffen, daughter of Capt. and Mrs. Robert C. Giffen, Jr., and the lucky young man you will recognize as a classmate and also the son of Capt. and Mrs. Asbury Coward, III. Asbury COWARD, IV, and Miss Giffen had this picture taken at the time of their recent engagement. Asbury is presendy at Pensacola.

Ray Jones, Jerry McGuire, Phil LaBatte, Charley Moore, Bill Carson, Phil Becnel, Dick Cecil, George Christian, Joe Cappalonga, Bob Lawrence, and Al Smith are leading the merry lives of bachelors in the New London-Groton area. Dick Foley has spent some time in St. Alban's Hospital since the beginning of October with an ankle injury he received in sub school touch football. .A.1 also tells of a combined militaryPolish ceremony and celebration as Lennie WASS and Audrey Kosowski were married in Chicago.

Joe NEAL from Norfolk, Mike MURRY from .A.thens, and M acted as ushers.

John KLEIN writes that all is going well in Pensacola. John says that Henry (H^) CLARK With one year to go until we add a stripe, our reported for duty in the flight class behind him. class has been well spread over the world. Some\ letter from jerry DUNNE to John told of how many of our classmates have managed to missing Ed MELLA in Manila and Al COULSON return to Annapolis and the news letters are be- in Hong Kong—both times he went to their coming more frequent. ship and they came to his.

Tom TOCZEK writes from sunny Key West Our most ardent reporter, Thomas J. SWARTZ, where he is in ASW School with Ed Conant, Esq., has recently acquired a new address, Naval Ernie Coppola, Frank Davis, Al Gaston, Frank Nuclear Power School, Mare Island Naval ShipHiestand, George Mayfield, John Tweel, Mo Tackyard. Vallejo, Calif. Double-E is taking its toll ney, Russ Harrison, Dean Arrington and John but it appears that everyone will make it at NPS 55

Mare Island. Joe Navoy, Mike Mitchel, Bill Sheehan, Denny Hoffman, Don Ellis, John Palombi, John Marshall, Joe Ince, Chuck Welty, and Bill Sabermeyer are among the many who are fighting the battle. Fred CRAWFORD is on the cross country team and Jere MACKIN is in missile school. Bob CEPEK got engaged before he left for WestPac and will soon be among the ranks of the married. Ray FREY is campaigning for destroyers since his return from WestPac. He had planned to try for UDT but went back to destroyers when his Scuba gear was taken from his car. Mike COLLINS and Tom ELSASSER and his wife have recently been to see T. J. in California.

An announcement which I overlooked for the last issue gives the details of the wedding of Mike CAPUTO and Miss Susan Luoma on 1 Sept. in

St. Andrew's Chapel. It was a small wedding with Ken MIDDLETON serving as best man and Rick HARRIS and Dave CAREY were "official photographers."

Bill M C D O N A L D ,

B . J. H A Y N E S , and Walt

KESLER were all at College Park for the Maryland heartbreaker.

Eric CARLSON and Jim TOLBERT checked out the first week in Nov., leaving only Phil JACOBS and me as executive department representatives of the class of 1964. Jim and Nancy left for Pensacola after their extended honevmoon at USNA. Bob GLENNON stopped by with his fiancee, Casey Ferguson. They will be married 22 Dec. in the chapel with Marsh EVANS, Frank JOHNSON, and Pete TAYLOR acting as ushers.

Ken BOONE also dropped into USNA as did Rocky WIRSCHING and Barry RELINGER. Gerry HAUSMAN took advantage of the slack time between pre-flight and ground school to return to Annapolis to become engaged.

Charlie DUREPO and Miss Sue Busik were married in the Naval Academy Chapel on 22 Nov. Tom Lynch, Gary Kellner, Dick Earnest, Al Krekich, Steve Moore, Jim Campbell, Dave Sjuggerud, and Bob Orlosky acted as ushers.

The reception was held at Carvel Hall.

This is all for another month. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all of you from the class officers of 1964. Best of luck to Corky GRAHAM, John DALTON, and MYSELF who will be going to Rhodes Scholarships the third week in December !!!

ALUMNI CHAPTER NEWS

ANNAPOLIS The second and third meetings of the Annapolis chapter were held 14 Oct. and 11 Nov. at Alumni House. At the October meeting Mr. Ward P. Allen of the Department of State gave a very interesting talk on "Democracy and Communism in Latin America." At the November meeting 1st Lt. Harry Deitz, USMC '61, assistant varsity football coach at the Naval Academy, gave a pre-Army game presentation with films of recent games. Both programs were well attended and were followed by a social hour.

The chapter held a Christmas cocktail party at Alumni House on Wednesday, 9 Dec. Capt.

Alvord J. Greenacre '26 is president, and Capt.

Philip R. Osborn '29 is secretary for the 1964-65 season.

BALTIMORE Mr. Paul Hope, local representative of the Taylor Wine Co., spoke on the subject of winemaking, with samples available, at the 17 Nov. dinner meeting held at Bernie Lee's Penn Hotel.

The nominating committee presented a slate of officers to serve in 1965: president, Murray Blank '58; first vice president, John Davis '24; second vice president, Ed Kane '55, and secretarytreasurer. Bill Perdue '27.

Plans were made to invite prospective Naval Academy candidates from the area to the December meeting. Also, ladies were invited to attend.

BOSTON The monthly meeting was held as usual at the Officers' Mess, Boston Naval Shipyard, Charlestown, Mass. on 10 Nov. with a good turnout of 37 members and guests.

We were all disappointed that our scheduled speaker, Mr. Chandler Hovey, was not able to honor us. Mr. Hovey broke his hip in an unfortunate fall but hopes to tell us of some of his experiences in racing under sail at some future meeting. His subject was to have been America's Cup Racing.

Our good president Walter Toner, however, filled in with a very interesting talk and slides showing damage from the latest earthquake in Alaska.

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We were pleased to have a number of officers stationed temporarily in this area and hope they will continue to attend our luncheon meetings and get-together with old friends.

Those attending were: O. M. Read '11, M. L. Deyo '11, F. P. Mitchell '29, Stanley PuUen '22, Monty Eggers '25, H. P. Rounds '32, L. D. Paradis '35, T. F. Donohue '27, F. C. Jones '38, H. E. Duryea '30, J. C. Hunsaker '08, R. B. Weaver '46, W. H. Buracker '20, R. P. Norton '44, A. K. Tyree '36, M. DuffiU '27, G. A. Buccola '54, W. D. Coleman '32, E. A. Livingstone '44, Hank Brousseau '24, C. A. Marinke '38, W. W. VanderWolk '42, H. R. Keller '11, F. G. Coburn '04, Alvan Fisher '22, Ames Loder '11, Walter Toner '43, T. T. Craven '25, Lee A. Ellis '31, G. E. Peterson '24, John S. Barleon '07, Alfred C. Edwards '40, and John F. Crehan '46.

CHARLESTON About 30 members of the Charleston chapter were on hand to hear a brief but excellent speech

by Charleston Mayor J. Palmer Gaillard on 15 Oct. The mayor, who was introduced by John C. Wilson '49, spoke on the problemsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;both serious and humorousâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;that confront the political leader of an area growing as rapidly as the Charleston complex of residential and industrial sites. Response was by RAdm. E. H. Batcheller '34, commandant of the Charleston Naval Shipyard and president of the local chapter.

The meeting was held at the U. S, Naval Base Officers' Club.

CORONADO The Coronado chapter met for dinner at the Officers' Club, Naval Air Station, North Island, on 12 Nov. About a hundred attended, including many visitors from the boondocks.

The new ComEleven, RAdm. Walter H. Price, addressed the group in a double-barrel speech, part on his present job and the rest on his last duty in Japan, where he was Commander Naval Forces.

He said that the Japanese are concerned about the recent atomic explosion in Red China and may feel the urge to soup up their defenses (now restricted by treaty). They may even develop

their own atomic bomb or turn to us for nuclear weapons.

The speaker explained that post-war disgrace prevented the wearing of their military uniforms in public, but that today more and more are in evidence. We have supplied their "local defense force" (term Imperial Navy not allowed) with small ships to patrol their coast and help fishing industry. Now they are building their own in replacement. Our use of Japanese naval bases (Sasebo and Yokosuka) saves us millions of dollars, for they would have to be replaced by a hundred more ships in service forces.

The chairman, VAdm. Ing Kiland, introduced the Coronado Army contingent, deanship by Lt.Gen. Delp Styer, West Point '16, who were guests of the alumni.

Next comes the annual meeting at the same place on 14 Jan. All east coast stragglers are cordially invited.

DETROIT A luncheon meeting was held at 12 noon on Thursday, 19 Nov. at the Harmonic Club, 267 Grand River Ave., Detroit.

Plans were made for the Army-Navy game get-together at the Brodhead Naval Armory on Saturday, 28 Nov.

KITTYHAWK (Dayton, O.J RAdm. Wellington T. Hines, USN '30, Bureau of Naval Weapons Fleet Readiness representative (Central), was the guest speaker at the 29 Oct. meeting of the chapter at the Wright-Patterson AFB Officers' Club. His informal talk was on "Professionalism." Some 28 members were present, with A. Ward Knisley '21 representing the most senior class.

Meetings of the chapter are as scheduled by the president. This summer Roger Staubach and his parents and Bill Studt were guests of honor at a meeting, when Staubach spoke briefly. The BEAT ARMY TV party on 28 Nov. was also held at the WPAFB Officers' Club.

New arrivals in the Dayton area are urged to contact Mr. James M. Gallagher '57, 220 Goldengate Dr., Centerville, O. 45459 for membership information.

SHIPMATE

O u r plans for the Navy-Cal g a m e were a success, t h o u g h the g a m e was a t o u g h affair. W e had about 900 on busses from T . I. to Berkeley and back and over 600 at o u r cocktail party.

N e x t year it is N a v y at Stanford, and we'll put on the same s h o w , t h o u g h the football team will also p u t o n a different o n e !

REESE G. BELK ' 5 1 , president of the Kittyhawk chapter; Roger Staubach, guest speaker; Richard C. Dutnell '55; and Ward Knisley '21 at summer chapter meeting.

SEATTLE

NEWPORT Cdr. C. D . G r o j e a n , U S N , c o m m a n d i n g officer of USS T H O M A S A. EDISON, was guest speaker at the 27 Oct. m e e t i n g of the N e w p o r t chapter.

The regular September m e e t i n g was held in die Fleet R o o m of the Officers' C l u b , N a v a l Base, with the following a t t e n d i n g : G. H . Bowdey '07, M. O. Carlson '16, J. E . D o u g h e r t y ' 3 5 , R. R. H a r m n g '20, M . L. Hersey '09, S. H . IngersoU '21, R. K i n g ' 0 8 , O . C. Laird '20, J. T . Lay ' 3 1 , B. B. M c C o r m i c k ' 9 2 , L . W . McKeehan '07, G. Morgan '16, F. E. Nuessle ' 3 2 , F. L. Robbins ' 2 3 , S. A. Taffinder '06, A. H . T a y l o r ' 2 7 , S. U m s t e d '15, L. F . Welch '06, D . W . Olney '30, H . B. Heneberger ' 2 5 , Capt. M. M . Cloukey, Col. Carl B. H e r n d o n , U S A ( R e t . ) , a n d Capt. E. J. T i e r n a n .

After dinner V A d m . Charles L. Melson, president of the N a v a l W a r College, gave an excellent discussion of the political situation on T a i w a n .

NEW YORK T h e T o u c h d o w n C l u b A r m e d Forces luncheon was scheduled to be held 25 N o v . in the W i n d s o r Suite, C o m m o d o r e H o t e l .

Guests of h o n o r included R A d m . C. S. Minter, USN, Maj.Gen. J. B. L a m p e r t , U S A , R A d m .

W. J. Smith, U S C G , a n d R A d m . G. McLintock, USMS, superintendents of their respective academies.

Jimmy Jemail '17 is president of the T o u c h -

d o w n C l u b and urged all a l u m n i to attend meeting.

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SYRACUSE T h e Syracuse chapter held a fall luncheon at the University C l u b of Syracuse on 4 N o v . If the attendance was small, the enthusiasm m a d e u p for it. W e were h a p p y to greet two a l u m n i n o w on the faculty of Oswego State College: H o l m a n Lee '35 and Bob Sloan '47. Others in attendance included " P e t e " Atkinson '22, Ed Shanklin '24, O m a r Spain ' 3 5 , S h e r m Stearns '38, Pete S h u m way '39 and Dick Davis '47. Plans w e r e discussed to support the IRA Regatta Committee and the Congressional selection of U S N A appointees.

T h e present officers—elected last s p r i n g — a r e Pete S h u m w a y , president and Peter Coope '46, secretary-treasurer.

Meetings are held o n an "on call" basis. All a l u m n i n e w to the area are requested to contact L C d r . Coope at the I N M office in Syracuse.

SAN FRANCISCO Brig.Gen. Charles R. " M o n k " Meyer, U S M A '37, Chief of Staff, Sixth U . S. A r m y , a n d a great ail-American football player and all-around athlete at West Point, was our guest speaker for the N o v e m b e r meeting. H e regaled us with anecdotes from b o t h the football field and battlefield (his Purple H e a r t w i t h oak leaf cluster attests to the fact he was t h e r e ) . H e is welcome back anytime.

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Capt. W . L . N y b e r g , U S N , Commanding Officer, USS H.ALESKALA, spoke on the operations of the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the 4 N o v . m e e t i n g of the chapter at the Commissioned Officers' Mess, N S D . His last duty was on the staff of the Joint Chiefs w h e r e he participated in the develo p m e n t of the Polaris Missile P r o g r a m .

At the October m e e t i n g , w h i c h consisted of cocktails, d i n n e r , and a business h o u r and p r o g r a m , Jack Colley '32 presided. L y n n W a t t s introduced Jack Barrow, the Blue and Gold officer in the area, w h o works at the Occupational G u i d a n c e Center in Seatde. T h o s e a t t e n d i n g w e r e : H . A. Abel '42, J. Barros (B&G), M. G. Barrels '58, N . H . B e d n a r d k '59, C. B. Bergquist •42, K. R. Borgen '24, D . C. B r o w n '26, E . E .

Carlsten '39, O. E. Cartmel ' 2 3 , B. B. Cassels '22, B. B. Cassels, Jr. ' 6 1 , T . J. Colley '32, L. M .

Culjat '42, F . R. D o n o v a n '59, H . A. D o w n s ' 2 3 , C. R. Dudley '27, J. Elsom '39, C. D . E m o r y ' 2 1 , E. P. Finney '32, J. A. Flenniken '32, P. H . Fox 36, R. R. Fox, Jr. '22, C. F . Greber ' 2 1 , P. H a r rington ' 3 2 , F . L. Hetter '27, H . R. H o r n e y '27, F. W . H o y e ' 3 1 , F . S. l a q u i n t a , H . M . Jackson and L . W . Jones, guests; R. E . Jones, Jr. '44, G. W . K n i g h t o n ' 5 3 , W . F. K r a m e r 36, D . F .

Krick '30, D . Lacourse, guest; T . D . F . L a n g e n •32, H . L. Lasell '39, J. M . L e V a n e '37, W . E .

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